Illegal Prosecutor, Hegseth War-Crime Probe, Venezuela Threat, MRI Chaos

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It was another wild Monday Fallout and this one came loaded. I walk into the week staring at another illegal prosecutor ruling and the entire justice system feels like it is shaking from the impact. I break down what this kind of appointment really means and why it keeps happening.

Then I move into the disturbing questions surrounding Pete Hegseth and the allegation tied to a deadly military operation. This is one of those moments where the politics fall away and the seriousness hits you in the chest. I take you through why this matters for the country and for anyone who believes in basic standards of conduct.

I also look at the rising tension with Venezuela as Trump turns up the threats and the rhetoric starts pushing the world closer to a line nobody wants crossed. I talk about the players involved and how a foreign crisis like this can spin fast.

And yes I get into Trump’s MRI moment and why it raises more questions than answers. Not the medical details but what it reveals about who is really in control and how we are supposed to take this administration seriously when things like this keep happening.

On top of all that I talk about the financial pressure Americans are feeling and why credit card delinquencies are now the highest they have been in years. I walk through what this says about the real state of the economy beyond the talking points.

And I conclude with the reality of retailers cutting holiday hours for their employees.

This episode covers the full picture of a country stretched thin politically, economically, morally, and emotionally. I connect every story to the bigger theme of what it feels like to live in a nation that keeps insisting everything is normal even as the chaos gets louder.

If you want a deep look at the weekend’s fallout and how all these threads connect to the larger crisis we are living through, this one breaks it all down.

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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
This is a World Call Mat.

SPEAKER_01 (00:04):
This is a World Call Mad This is the World Gone Man.
I'm Jeff Fallon Wolf.
Another Monday Fallout where theweekend's lies meet Monday's
reality.
December 1st, 2025.
Welcome to December.
Alright, let's talk about whathappened in the last 48 hours.

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No BS.
No spin.
No fake talking points.
This is going to be a longerepisode, everyone.
So if you're jogging, do alonger jog.
If you're at home, get a bigsnack and a drink.
Okay?
Here we go.
Former Trump personal lawyerAlina Haba is unlawfully serving

(00:49):
as the U.S.
attorney for New Jersey andappeals court rules.
This is the part of the moviewhere the audience looks around
and says, are we all seeing thesame thing?
Or did somebody slip somethinginto the mashed potatoes at
Thanksgiving?
A federal appeals court justruled that Alina Haba, the woman

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who made a whole second careerout of losing cases for Donald
Trump, has somehow beenfunctioning as the top federal
prosecutor for the entire stateof New Jersey.
Not legally, not properlyappointed, just kind of showing
up and doing the job.
It's like she wandered in, founda badge on a desk, tried it on,

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and the government said, sure,that that looks fine.
The same Alina Haba who went ontelevision bragging about
evidence that never existed.
The same Alina Haba who keptgetting smacked around in court
for filings that looked likethey were drafted during a Red
Bull crash.

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And now she's running an entireUnited States Attorney's Office.
Not as a joke, not as a dare,actually doing it.
And here's the part thatconnects the whole circus.
This comes right after theSupreme Court ruled that Lindsay
Halligan was also illegallyinstalled.

(02:14):
We talked about a few episodesback.
Two for two, back to back, toptwo federal prosecutors tied to
Trump both declared unlawfulappointments.
This isn't a coincidence.
This is a pattern.
This is a presidentialadministration treating federal
law enforcement like a personalstaffing agency.

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Hey, if you ever went ontelevision and said something
nice about Trump,congratulations, you now run a
United States Attorney's Office.
The Halligan ruling already setoff alarms because it meant
every case she touched waslegally tainted.
Now the HABA ruling drops, andsuddenly half the Eastern
Seaboard is wondering if theirfederal prosecutions were

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handled by people who legallyhad the authority of a mall
security guard.
Imagine being a real prosecutorin New Jersey who trained for
years, passed the bar, workedviolent crime, financial crime,
you know, all the big stuff, andsuddenly your new boss is Alina
Haba.
The woman famous for losingcases on television with the

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confidence of someone whoabsolutely shouldn't have that
confidence.
The court basically said none ofthis was legal.
Everything she did is now inquestion.
Every indictment, everydecision, every investigation,
it's like putting a blindfold onsomeone, spinning them around
ten times, handing them thecontrols of a jumbo jet, and

(03:44):
then acting surprised when itnosedives into the tarmac.
And the administration pretendsthis is normal.
They look into the camera, sayeverything's fine, everything's
routine, nothing to see here.
Which is exactly what you'd saywhen everything's absolutely not
fine, and you're hoping thepublic's too tired from

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Thanksgiving leftovers to noticethat the two of your top federal
prosecutors were illegallyinstalled.
This is what happens when DonaldTrump treats government like a
personal clubhouse.
You don't pick qualifiedprosecutors, you pick the people
who said the nicest things aboutyou on cable news.

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You pick the people who defendedyou, you pick your own legal
entourage, and then you handthem the keys to federal law
enforcement like you're tossingsomeone the remote control.
Two rulings from the courts intwo weeks, Halligan and now
Haba.
Two separate courts looking attwo Trump installed prosecutors
from years ago and saying thesame thing.

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None of this was legal, none ofthis was valid.
These appointments were unlawfulfrom the start.
What's next?
The White House landscaperrunning the FBI?
The guy who changes the toner inthe West Wing printer taking
over Homeland Security?
At this rate, Trump will appointhis dentist to the Supreme Court

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because at least the dentistonce said something flattering
about Donald Smile.
This isn't a glitch.
This is the system under Trump.
Loyalty over law, chaos overcompetence, and you wonder why
the courts are now stepping inlike exhausted parents saying,
enough.
Stop touching the stove.

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We told you this was illegal.
Moving through the circus tent.
Lawmakers are calling for aprobe of alleged orders by Pete
Hegseth to kill survivors of aU.S.
strike on a drug smuggling boatraising questions of war crimes.
Hopefully a lot of you saw this.

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Let me tell you something.
When you read a headline likethis, you stop chewing your
food, the room goes quiet, yourbrain freezes because this isn't
politics.
This isn't left versus right.
This is something ancient andprimal inside you saying, What
the hell did I just read?
We're talking about a sittingcabinet member, the Secretary of

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Defense, allegedly giving anorder to kill survivors of a
U.S.
military strike.
Survivors, not armed fighters,not combatants shooting back,
human beings floating in thewater after an attack and an
explosion.
And the allegation is that PeteHex, as Secretary of Defense,

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told U.S.
forces to go back and finishthem off.
Supposedly, kill everyone.
That isn't tough on crime.
That isn't securing the border.
That's straight up war criminalterritory.
That's the stuff dictators dowhen they want to send a
message.
Leave no witnesses.

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And now lawmakers are callingfor a probe.
A probe?
As if this is a parking ticketdispute.
As if the question here iswhether someone filed the wrong
form.
No, this isn't a paperworkproblem.
This is a moral catastrophe.
This is a do not pass go, do notcollect$200.

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Go directly to the Hague kind ofheadline.
Imagine being the surfacemembers who got this alleged
order.
You sign up to defend thecountry.
You train for combat.
You train for danger.
You don't train for murderingpeople or already dying in the
water.
You don't sign up to be thetrigger finger for some cable

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news tough guy like Heggseth whothinks war crimes are a branding
opportunity.
And if this order was actuallygiven, imagine the psychological
scar of that.
Imagine carrying that for therest of your life because your
boss, Heggseth, wanted to looklike a badass on television.
And the White House wants us tobelieve everything's normal.

(08:03):
They want us to think this isjust another day in the
administration.
Little paperwork, little policy,a little alleged extrajudicial
murder.
They stand in front of cameraswith their practice faces and
say this under review.
This is under review?
Damn it, if the allegations istrue, it's not under review.

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It's under arrest.
This is the part where everyAmerican should stop and ask,
how far we're going to let thisslide?
How numb have we become that thewords alleged order to kill
survivors can flash across ascreen and people shrug.
This isn't patriotism.

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This isn't partisan.
This isn't ideological.
This is human.
It's wrong at a level thatdoesn't need debate.
If this happened, it's evil.
Full stop.
And the idea that someone in theUnited States government would
use the immense power of the USmilitary to commit something
that even the most hardenedgenerals in history would call

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barbaric should make everyperson in this country furious.
If this allegation is true, thisisn't just a scandal.
This isn't even just a crime.
This is a betrayal of theuniform, a betrayal of the
country, a betrayal of everymoral boundary civilized nations
are supposed to honor, even inwar.
And if proven true, PeteHeggseth shouldn't just lose his

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job.
He should lose his passport, hisfreedom, and his ability to ever
speak about patriotism again.
And the circus continues.
Trump's threats bring war withVenezuela closer as
contradictions and legal fearsmount.
Now there's a moment where youread the news and think, wow,

(09:55):
we're actually doing it.
We've speed running the greatesthits of every corrupt empire
from the past 500 years.
We're threatening war withVenezuela, a country sitting on
one of the largest oil reserveson the planet.
And we're supposed to pretend wedon't see the neon sign blinking
above Trump's head saying puppetgovernment for sale, inquire

(10:19):
within.
Trump is out there rattlingsabers like a man who just
discovered military power louderthan all his lawsuits combined.
He's threatening force, hintingat intervention, talking about
Maduro, like he's picking outdrapes for a country he's
already planning to rearrange.
And while Trump runs his mouth,U.S.

(10:41):
Navy ships are already parkedoff that coastline, close enough
that one stupid order can ignitean actual shooting conflict.
And all the contradictions startflying.
One day Donald says he respectssovereignty.
The next day, Donald's basicallyauditioning to be a colonial
governor from the 1800s.

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And the legal fears start pilingup as you can't threaten war as
a distraction from your criminalexposure.
You can't use the United Statesmilitary as your personal legal
pressure washer.
But here's the real kicker,listeners.
You dig one inch below thesurface, what do you find?
Venezuela has the largest provenoil reserves in the world.

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Not second, not top five, numberone, more than Saudi Arabia,
more than anyone.
And suddenly the sameadministration that couldn't
find Venezuela on map last monthis now making noises about
liberating it.
Please, give me a break.
This is Halliburton andExxonMobil rubbing their hands

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together like they just foundout Santa Claus is real.
And don't think for a second theplan stops at war.
The plan's very simple.
You threaten military action,you destabilize the region, you
create chaos, then you install anice, friendly puppet government
that smiles for the cameras,signs whatever you put in front

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of them, and says, sure, takeour oil, we insist.
And then boom, ExxonMobil gets abackstage pass to the biggest
oil jackpot on earth.
It's the same playbook used overand over, again in places that

have things America wants: uranium, lithium, pipelines, and (12:30):
undefined
now oil so plentiful it makesTexas look like a kiddie pool.
And Trump's acting like this isabout the democracy, about
justice, about freedom.
No, it's about barrels.
It's about crude.

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It's about installing agovernment that'll answer the
phone when Exxon calls insteadof telling them to go to hell.
And the really sick part is howcasual they are about it.
Like risking American lives andVenezuelan lives is just another
Tuesday.
Like the Pentagon's a vendingmachine where you press B7, it

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out pops a regime change.
Meanwhile, Maduro's sittingthere with Russian advisors,
Chinese advisors, Iranianadvisors, and we're supposed to
ignore the fact that thisbecomes a global powder keg if
anyone sneezes wrong.
And Trump doesn't care becausefor him, conflict's a
distraction, it's noise, it'sspectacle.

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And if the end results a countrycracking open its oil reserves
like a pinata at Exxon'sbirthday party, Trump will call
it a victory.
If this isn't the clearestexample yet of corruption,
wrapped in nationalism andwrapped in oil soaked greed,
then I don't know what is.

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And if Trump pushes this anyfurther, we're not talking about
threats anymore.
We're talking about a presidentwalking right up to the edge of
starting a resource war forbusiness partners who don't even
hide their excitement.
And another powder keg ready toblow.

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And even more crazy circus stufffrom Donald the Delusional one.
Trump's willing to release hisMRI results, but says, quote, I
have no idea which part of mybody was examined.
There are moments in politicswhere you stop and say, wait a
second, is this real life or didI accidentally wander into a

(14:38):
deleted scene from idiocracy?
And this one right here is atthe top of the list.
Donald Trump stood in front ofreporters, proudly announced
he's willing to release his MRIresults, but he has no idea what
part of his body the MRI wasactually for.
Think about that.
This man is the president of theUnited States.

(14:58):
He has the nuclear codes, he hascontrol of the military, he
oversees a global superpower,the leader of the free world,
and Donald cannot tell you whatpart of his own body a giant
space age medical machine justscanned.
An MRI is not subtle.
It's not a whisper.
It's not something youaccidentally walk into like a

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revolving door.
The listeners who've had thisknow this.
You know when you're in an MRI,they shove you in a tube the
size of a cannoli.
The machine makes noises like arobot having a panic attack.
And Trump says he has no idea.
Was it your brain?
Was it your spine?
Was it your hip?

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Your knee?
Your left ankle?
Your ego?
How do you not know?
Did Donald think the MRI was acarnival ride?
Did he think he won a prize atthe end?
A stuffed animal and a cleanbill of health?
Okay, look, I got scanned forsomething, but honestly, your

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guess is as good as mine, Donaldsays.
And the best part is Trump saysit's like it's normal.
Like everybody forgets what partof their body the doctors were
checking.
No, Donald, normal people knowwhy they went to get an MRI.
If a doctor says we're scanningyour knee, you don't come out
afterwards saying, I have noidea what just happened, but I'm

(16:25):
sure it's perfect and it's fine.
What makes this even more absurdis that Donald thinks releasing
this mystery MRI is some kind oftransparency.
It's not transparency.
If even you don't know what thehell the scam was for.
That's like handing over a blankpiece of paper and calling it

(16:45):
evidence.
Here you go, America, a medicaldocument about absolutely
nothing.
Let's be clear.
This isn't a small slip.
This isn't a senior moment.
This is a man who's bragginghe's the healthiest president in
history, perfect MRI, somehowforgetting what part of his body
his doctors were worried enoughabout to shove into a

(17:06):
million-dollar machine.
That's not strength, that's notconfidence, that's not
stability.
That's someone who clearlywasn't told the truth, or didn't
listen, or didn't understand, orall three at once.
And if Trump really doesn't knowwhy the MRI was taken, then

(17:28):
somebody else is making medicaldecisions for Donald.
Someone else is managing hishealth.
Someone else has information hedoesn't.
And that should terrify everysingle person in this country,
regardless of politics.
Because if you can't keep trackof your own body, you shouldn't
be in charge of this country.

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A new report shows credit carddelinquencies climbing to the
highest level since 2012.
And it should scare the hell outof anyone who lives in the real
world.
Because this isn't just astatistic, everyone.
This isn't some abstracteconomic footnote.
This is Americans falling behindon their bills, falling behind a

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guest, falling behind agroceries, falling behind on
life.
And it's happening while we havea president standing in front of
the cameras pretendingeverything's fine.
Fine for who?
People who own yachts, peoplewho buy real estate and cash,
people who treat$30,000 likeit's pocket lint.
For everyone else, it's adisaster.

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Prices keep going up, paychecksaren't keeping up, rent is
insane, food is insane,insurance is insane.
And now credit cards are theonly way people can stay afloat.
And even that is collapsing.
When delinquencies spike likethis, it means people aren't
buying TVs or vacations.
It means they're buying cereal,frozen food, diapers, medicine.

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And they can't pay it backbecause interest rates are so
high, the balance grows fasterthan the bills.
Faster than the bills can beopened.
And it gets worse.
This isn't happening slowly.
It's happening fast.
This is what an economy lookslike when the middle class is
falling through the floor.
This is what it looks like whena president gives tax breaks to

(19:19):
billionaires and pretends thatsomehow trickles down to
families trying to buy a gallonof milk without taking out a
small loan.
And here's the truth nobody onthe right wants to say out loud.
People aren't falling behindbecause they're irresponsible.
They're falling behind becauseeverything costs more and wages
haven't moved.

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People are drowning.
People are scared.
And the president is tellingthem the water is fine.
If you're behind on payments,you aren't alone.
You aren't a failure.
You're living in an economybuilt to squeeze you, punish
you, and then blame you forcollapsing under the pressure.
And it's only going to get worseas we head into 2026 unless

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something changes at the top.
But with Donald the delusionalone in charge, nothing will.
Not for the people who need itmost.
And here's more of Trump'snever-ending circus.
Retailers are quietly cuttingstaff after Black Friday, and

(20:20):
somehow nobody's talking aboutit.
This should be front page news.
This should be the lead storyeverywhere.
Instead, it is buried underholiday ads for peppermint
candles and flat screen TVs.
Major stores like Target,Macy's, Best Buy, and Coles
brought in all these seasonalworkers for the holidays.
And then the second Black Fridayended, they cut their hours down

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to nothing.
People were getting 25 to 30hours a week.
Now they're getting 8 to 12.
8 to 12 people.
That isn't a schedule.
That's a punishment.
That's a suggestion.
That says, hey, show up if youfeel like it, because either
way, we aren't paying you enoughto matter.
And here's the absurdity.

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This is happening in December,the one month of the year when
people desperately need money.
People depend on these hours topay rent, to pay car payments,
to buy gifts for their kids, tonot fall behind before the new
year.
And the companies know that.
They know people are counting onthis money and they still cut
the hours like they're trimmingwrapping paper.

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We live in a country where thecorporations tell you to spend,
spend, spend.
But the second you need money tosurvive, they vanish like a
cheap department store Santa ona smoke break.
It's unbelievable.
They lure people in with thepromise of holiday work,
schedule them heavy for oneweekend to survive the Black
Friday apocalypse, then slashtheir hours to the point where

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the workers would actually makemore money collecting loose
change from a parking lot.
And the worst part is there's nocoverage, no headlines, no
outrage at mainstream media.
Millions of people just lostmore than half their income
overnight, and the media is busytalking about gingerbread
trends.

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This is real life for realpeople, people who don't have
savings, people who don't havefallbacks, people who needed
those hours just to keep thelights on in December.
And the companies doing it willbrag about their holiday profits
in January, while the workersthey used are trying to figure
out how to stretch eight hoursof pay into a month of bills.

And here's the reality (22:27):
if Donald Trump's economy was
actually strong, companieswouldn't be slicing ours to the
bone.
They'd be expanding shifts,begging for workers, and
desperately trying to keep upwith demand.
Seasonal workers wouldn't betold, sorry, we don't need you.
They'd be called in forovertime.
When the middle class can'tafford to shop, businesses

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shrink.
When wages don't keep up,spending collapses.
And when a president breaks theeconomy and calls it success,
this is exactly what tricklesdown.
Pain for the workers and profitsfor the corporations.
And finally, let's close thetent on Donald's Circus of

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Chaos, at least for thisepisode.
Here's something everyone shouldneed to know.
Shipping delays are startingearlier than normal this year,
and of course they are, becausenothing says Christmas in
America like panic sweating overa package that absolutely nobody
asked for, but you're sending itanyway out of guilt and social

(23:32):
obligation.
UPS and FedEx are alreadywarning retailers they're
hitting capacity limits, andit's barely December, not
mid-December, not the week ofChristmas.
Nope, right now.
Before half of you have evenfound the box of ornaments you
swore you put in the hallcloset.
Here's why it matters, everyone.
If you don't order your gifts byDecember 10th through 12th, they

(23:55):
may not show up on time.
That means if you have a cousin,an aunt, a nephew, or some
random coworker you barely know,but somehow feel obligated to
buy a scented candle for, you'dbetter start clicking now.
Because in a few days thatpackage won't be arriving for
Christmas.
It'll be arriving sometimearound Valentine's Day when

(24:17):
everyone's already forgotten whogave them what.
Let's be honest, half the stuffwe're shipping doesn't need to
be shipped.
We're out here mailing peoplesweaters they'll never wear,
gadgets they'll never open, andgift baskets filled with food
they're allergic to.
We're paying$20 to overnightsomething that's going to live

(24:38):
in a drawer until the end oftime.
But we do it because it's theholidays and nothing says love
like sending someone anobligation they now have to
pretend to be excited about.
So here's the bottom line,everyone.
If you care about someone, getthat gift early.
If you don't care about them,but you're afraid of looking

(24:58):
like a jerk, still get the giftearly.
And if you're thinking maybe Ishouldn't buy anyone anything
this year, congratulations! Youjust became the healthiest
person emotionally andfinancially in America.
Order now or expect Christmas toarrive fashionably late.

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Very late.
Okay, that's your Mondayfallout, a little bit longer
episode.
Hope you enjoyed.
You know how to reach me.
I've given you my email address,my toll-free number, multiple
times.
It's up to you to use them.
If you'd like to comment aboutanything I've talked about in
this episode, or just give meyour opinion.
Or just if you would like to sayhello.

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That would be nice to hear fromsome of you.
I could use some love.
Okay?
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I'm Jeff Allen Wolf.
I'll be back Wednesday.
Until then, Wolfpack listeners,remain skeptical, stay focused,

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but most of all, stay hopeful.

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There is chaos in the world.

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And we need to stand up and preserve our democracy.
This is a world contain.