01 27 25 Win Jason Aldean Tx! and AGAIN ... I am NOT a crypto dealer!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He Misschieur kellenn Ash. I don't know why I feel

(00:03):
so European. Suddenly, Tomorrow show today. Tomorrow will be Tuesday,
the twenty eighth of January.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yes it is. And the fact that the weather is
getting warm. Yes, I love that we're moving in the
right direction. Spring is just around the corner.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
I can feel it.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
You're excited about the winning tomorrow morning. We have more
tickets to Jason al Dean when he comes. This will
be at the end of the summer. It's a Saturday night,
September twenty seventh, down at the Credit One Stadium on
Daniel Island.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Headed back to Daniel Island.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's going to be rocking.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
I wonder if Daniel Island is ever in jeopardy of capsizing.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
That you know, those are types of questions that Georgia
Congressman ask Hey, South Carolina Congressman, don't ask that questions.
If you haven't looked up was it guam capsize?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
That's a just do a Google's Churchill Guam capsize? Watch
about an eight minute video. It's the best video ever
captured on the Internet.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
We still salute the US Navy.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Was he remember what his title was? For a long
time I knew his name. I just can't believe how
this man held it together during that.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
We certainly don't anticipate that happening.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Sir, questioning by Hank Johnson, House member from Georgia, who
will win that seat until he dies? I do not understand.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
His basic theory was that every year the US military
adds more military personnel to the island of Guam, and
are we concerned that that one point we might have
too many there and it would capsize? Treating the island
much like you could treat a pool float.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
That even beats out When the House member asked NASA
to take the rover over the shore of where we
planted the planted the American flag on Mars.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
On Mars, is the flag still there? Is it?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Take me over to way we planted the flag on Mars.
That we've got to get the apparatus at least when
we go back to Mars. I know that Trump said
we're going to send them a human to Mars. If
you've ever seen the movie Passengers, that's a pretty good movie.
There's a that's going to be a long flight. But
at minimum, if we send another rover, we've got to

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have the flag outside of the rover where it can
just stick one in the ground.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
I'm surprised we didn't do that the first time. Could
we could we launch a flag? You know, maybe just
fire one from here and it would hit and then
we claim it. That's our claim it, that's ours, that's ours.
We got it. Besides this hour, that's ours. Now flags
we claim it. Well, you know what, maybe we'll just
stick with the political theme for a second, because you

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mentioned all these names and and one of the names
that's being thrown around here is Elon Musk. He is
headed up something called Doze, and Doze is trying to
save Americans money. As well as trying to Elon Musk
is also trying to get us to MARS.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
A Department of Governmental Efficiency. This is a dream come
true for me.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
And they've I mean, I'm not gonna break down everything.
They were already figured out ways to save billions of
dollars and that's fantastic, but they've come up with us.
One of the suggestions that he posted about was it
currently costs the federal government about three cents to make
each penny that they make, and he said, so we

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spent or we went the wrong way, in addition to
whatever you get for the value of the penny, which
is a penny. We lost one hundred and seventy nine
million dollars last year printing pennies. And again that's not
going to make or break the US government, but it's
indicative of the problem. He's saying, we need to do
one of a couple of different things. One would be

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figure out a way to make a penny for a
penny or less. And he points to twenty sixteen when
it was only one and a half cents per penny
and twenty sixteen, which still was a bad deal, but
now it's more than doubled in just the last eight years,
where now this year it's going to be three point

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seven cents to make a penny. He's saying, either figure
out a way to use cheaper materials to make it,
or just stop printing them. We're not saying take them
out of circulation. If you have a penny, keep a penny.
Most Americans at this point are not actually paying with
the pennies. Most of the pennies that we put into

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circulation end up in somebody's jar. They're not actually in circulation.
So we could just you know, you're writing a check,
you're using that, you're using your debit cards, you're using
your visa card. He's not suggesting ending the penny per se,
just maybe to stop printing them. You say, the smartest
man in the world is the dumbest man in the world.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
I didn't say that we need to print the penny.
Kelly's been waiting for this day. When I now am
on the other side of the argument from the smartest
man on the planet. I know that because my dad
tells me that. My dad's a huge Elon Musk fan.
Here's the problem, and I get it. When you work
that much money, you probably don't walk into the convenience

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store and pay your hard earned money. And the problem
is is that you go into the convenience store or
whatever it is you're buying with cash. As Kelly says,
we're not going to do away with a digital penny.
But the digital penny will be affected by this because
retailers are smart. Their job is to get the money

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out of your pocket. They know how to do it.
You're going to lose at your total financial exposure could
be up to four cents per transaction because if they
if I go into a convenience store, and it's three
dollars and seventy one cents. If I don't have the

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availability of paying with the cash, for instance, they're not
going to round that down to three seventy It's going
to be rounded up the three seventy five. So the
end user ends up paying more in the absence of
a penny. I don't understand why they. I do understand
why they don't think about it because everybody in Washington
or any of the twenty zip codes surrounding Washington makes

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so much money they don't know what to do with it.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
See now, I'm going to push back on that and
say that what we're not factoring in here is sales tax,
which is different in every state and oftentimes different in
every county. And so if I set the price as
the manufacturer at say whatever you said, it was three
point eighty nine for the item or whatever it was,

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there's still sales tax involved.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Well, if it's three eighty three and you get a
nine percent sales tax in Richland County, now you're at
three ninety.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
One, and there you go. And if it's so, why
would they? And then it's different in Lexington County and
is there, so you can't set a price that would
eliminate the penny.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
They get a software that tells you how to do that.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Well, they would have to charge different prices than in
every county in America, which they already do.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
That because they are already give you a dis kind
of price in some stories if you use cash.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
If you use cash, but I'm saying that the MSRP
does not change, it's still the same. So they can
buy a butterfinger bar in Richland, it's different than if
I buy it in Lexington, but the price is still
the same. What I pay is different, and so they're
not going to It would cost them millions of dollars
to try to figure out how to change it for
each county.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
If social media is smart enough to figure out how
to push videos that Kelly loves, in particular midget spinning
plates on sticks, then they certainly know how to go
in to adjust the software at the point point of purchase.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well, okay, but I'll give you another example twenty eighteen.
Economic Analysis of Canada twenty twelve, Canada outlawed the penny,
so they actually did away with it. It's not available
as a digital currency in Canada.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Don't get the Canadian penny anymore.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
It doesn't exist. It's been banned, it's gone. Now. According
to the economic analysis for all of Canada, this is
an underwhelming increase in prices. It went up three point
twenty seven million dollars is what they spent extra at
the grocery store over what they should have expected to

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pay had they had pennies. Now you're talking about roughly
forty million people spending so this is like an average
of like eight dollars a year extra. Now' I'm not
like Nancy Pelosi poo pooing that, but what I'm saying
is their government is saved something like thirty million dollars

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since they've outlawed the penny. So they got a huge
return on their investment in Canada. Now, as a as
the end user, you might not like it. Yeah, but again,
three point twenty seven million dollars extra over the year
spread amongst forty million people really a minimal amount of costs.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well, just like the the last question on your tax return,
would you like to donate a dollar to the presidential
election fund? My answer is no. Of course, is there
an opportunity for me to check a box to reclaim
my eight dollars that I lost at the point of
purchase over the course of the year.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well and again just to be to separate us from Canada.
We're not out they're not suggesting that you outlaw the penny.
They're just saying don't print it. So it's still available.
You can still use it if you've got one. And again,
as they pointed out, like ninety eight percent of all
pennies printed or in somebody's jar, right.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
It would pull out millions of dollars right now in pennies.
Because I know a guy's got like three of those
five gallon water things, you know this, Oh yeah, yeah, oh,
they're filled with pity.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
He's probably got like three four dollars. You can't pick
the damn thing up.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
It's gotten so heavy.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
It's it's an I like the idea, Jonathan doesn't like
the idea. We'll find out if you like the idea
of getting rid of pennies tomorrow. Other things that we're
talking about, maybe not going to talk about this, but
just so you know about it. If you go to
the Morning Rest Blog ninety seventy five WCOS dot com,
you'll see that our old pal Gwyneth Paltrow has come
out with her Valentine's Day gift list. Now Valentine's Day

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is just a couple of weeks away.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
That's kind of like a heads up, guys, we already
got the candy at all the grocery stores.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
You know it's coming. Yeah, you got You gotta get
going on this. So perhaps you want to take some
of Gwyneth Paltrow's suggestions on things that you could buy,
most of which seem to be things I can't even
recommend in a podcast. I mean it was the Joe
Rogan podcast. Yes I could recommend these things, but her
list seems to be very adult natured and by adult youth.

(10:58):
I think you know what I'm referencing. I'm curious, but
there's also items in here that just seem absolutely insane.
I don't know how this would be considered a Valentine's
Day gift. Rocko the super Smart Fridge. Now you're buying
a mini fridge for Valentine's Day gift, and she says,
who doesn't want a smart fridge for Valentine's Day? You

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can use the app on your phone to control the
fridge's temperature. You can use it's got the glass door
so you can turn the lights on and see what's
inside it without actually opening it up to see what's inside.
And all of this for just twenty four hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Wow, what a bargain.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Why would And I'm trying to think I got yelled at.
Was it a week or two ago? We were talking
about something and I was suggest Oh, I was saying
I bought my wife a coffee maker that she specifically
wanted for Christmas, And some lady called in here and
said appliances aren't romantic gifts. I'm like, well, my wife
would argue differently, but it was that gift. It wasn't

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like I bought her a crock pot, right. I can't
imagine most women would find this even useful. Like this
refrigerator does nothing other than a regular mini fridge that
you buy at Costco for one hundred dollars, other than
it has a special app that you can use your
light to turn it on and control the temperature, make

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it cooler without having to open a door and turn
that switch. There.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
It is environmentally friendly that I can pull out my smartphone,
I can open up the app, I can turn the
light on and then look inside, because if I just
opened the door, I'm wasting energy, So hooray.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Other gifts would include buying the can of caviar for
one thousand and three dollars and eighty nine cents. I
had caviar once, now again I was younger. Yeah, so
I mean maybe my taste buds have changed since I
was in my early twenties. I thought it tasted like crap.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
So you're like Tom Hanks and big.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Called, yeah you have to Why would people like that?
I don't even know. But uh, she's also got a
cararity and I'm just trying to think if you bought
your wife any kind of cook wear for Valentine's Day,
that almost is an immediate uh fight cold shoulder for
a week.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Soundly shopping for pans right now. But she's not saying
this would be a great Valentine's gift. Those words never
came out of her mouth.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Gwyneth Paltrow says everything tastes better when cooked in a
heart shaped pot. Right, so I can get this mini
heart shaped pot for three hundred and ninety eight dollars.
So do you think that everything does taste better? If
you know it'll taste better than that when you're living
in the doghouse because you just gave your wife a
pot for Valentine's Day. He said, get in there, make

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me something.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
These are these are some of the craziest gift I
but maybe we could talk about some of your favorite
gifts that you've given or received on Valentine's Day. And
do guys get Valentine's Day gifts? That's another one of
those questions where I don't remember getting really a Valentine's
Day gift. I've gotten cards. I sometimes I'll get like
the cards like this entitles you to a free BackRub.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Yeah. I don't think anything that would be a typical
gift would would have been something I would remember.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
They don't get you like satin underwear. No, you remember
we were talking about that for Christmas? Is that a gift?
Getting lingerie for your wife or girlfriend? Is that that's
not a gift?

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Gally's never given me a pair of satin speedos.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Gosh, I would love to see that. That would be fantastic. Finally,
we were talking about Jason al Dean coming to the
Daniel Island Credit One Stadium in September. I believe the
word is pronounced garuless gu ruless g a r r
u l o u s. And this is and you

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know what, You and I have made a living out
of being garuless. We are garuless.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
We are we are the definition of the morning wash
is garuless. That's what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
And I'm sure that they usually use this in a
negative connotation, but I'll tell you it pays well if
you know how to do it.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
I'm just gonna make a guess here. This is chatty
for no reason.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Excessively talkative about trivial matters.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
I was close.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
I was excessively talkative about trivial matters. We don't really
tend to get into things that are going to change
your lives too much. Here maybe the penny will change
your life, whether or not it exists or not, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
But we talk about things people are most comfortable talking about.
I mean, you're not going to sit around talking to
Eli Musk about the value of the penny argument. I mean,
I wouldn't want to get into that conversation with him
about it. I think I can make a pretty good case,
but he's just gonna laugh at me. So, but we
talk about things. People look comfortable talking, So that's what

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that's why people love them.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
How often do you shower? Do you do you want?
I was thinking about the morning rush over the weekend
I had. I had to wash a pair of my
blue jeans, and I remembered the discussion that we had
had where Anderson Cooper never has washed his jeans, any
pair of jeans that he has, he never washes. He
brush him down like a horse, That's what he suggests.

(16:31):
So just know, if you're touching Anderson Drooper's Anderson Cooper's
blue jeans for any reason, they have never been washed.
I would not tap him on the leg.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
No, our carpets more than he cleans his blue jeans,
for God's sake. And you put people you have a lap.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
They gotta Smell've gotta smell.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
I don't how many people real fans want to smell
Anderson Cooper's jeans.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
I'm sure there's some out there, huh, maybe not listening
to this podcast, But in this country, there are a
number of people who would love to smell Anderson Cooper's
blue jeans. Whose blue jeans would you like to smell?
Maybe that's kind of a topic we'll get into mow.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Now we're talking.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
We're sniffing jeans on the morning Rush. Back to the
word garulas, Hey, what's happening in your neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
We should be talking about you and I'll reach out
to us on social media. And by the way, social
media again, I am not a crypto dealer.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
They can't reach out to you on Facebook.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Sally got a text message from one of her friends,
who I think was one click away from giving away
some a bank account information because she was going to
invest with me with crypto and I made yet another plea.
This time I've pleaded. I have begged Facebook, the help
desk at Facebook, I have pleaded and begged. Look, I

(17:47):
want the Jonathan Rush page back. I would love to
have access again to the Jonathan Rush Morning Rush page
and I want it back. But I beg of you
for the users of your own platform who are being suckered,
possibly by a person claiming to be a crypto dealer
under my name. Please slow down enough to block this

(18:11):
guy's access, and I would appreciate consideration of giving me
access to that page again.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Even if you don't just delete it, just delete it,
I mean, because like you said, there are people I
heard from one guy about what two weeks ago now,
who was on the verge of investing. I think he said,
twenty thousand dollars with you. And so when I look
at like the most recent post that was put up,
I think Friday or Saturday, it's a picture of a woman.

(18:39):
She's holding up two pieces of paper. One says, thank you, Jonathan,
I'm truly amazed by your platform. You're a life changer.
And the other one says, three hundred and sixty eight
thousand dollars earned Bitcoin made it all possible. And she says,
or you say allegedly because it's posted as Jonathan Rush

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I've always said, when you commit to something bigger than yourself,
your life can become truly extraordinary. So why is it
so tough? Many investors struggle because they lack the perseverance
to face the challenges in that market presents. They often
find it hard to maintain the discipline needed to look
beyond the fluctuating news, both positive and negative, to recognize
the potential for equity growth. If you're interested in learning

(19:21):
more about cryptocurrency, feel free to reach out. I'm here
to help you on your journey. That sounds maybe not
quite in the tone that Jonathan Rush would use on something,
but it sounds very encouraging, it sounds very trusting. And
you know, I'm just sending you a message. How many
people are sending you messages right now that are going
to some probably some Russian or Chinese hacker and they're

(19:44):
just like, I would like them more. And then they'll
probably give them a couple of steps to do and
then just click on this website and we'll get you started.
And next thing you know, they're investing twenty thirty forty
thousand dollars. They're investing it in nothing. They're investing it
in this person. They're just stealing money.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
And that's Sally was able to text her back, don't
do it. He's been hacked, and she was like, thankfully,
I thought right before I transmitted my information, maybe I
should double check with Sally and make sure that this
is only up and up.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
And if you go back on Jonathan's page to January eighth,
that's his last post that was really Jonathan Rush January
eighth was here's your answer to win Cam Brown concert tickets.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
I'm coming up in a month being blocked out of
my own Well, it's not even my page. It belongs iHeartMedia.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Well, the personal one is yours, the other one is
the other one is yeah no, the other one is Iheart's.
But you can't access the other one if you don't
have access to this one. And so January eighth you
posted about winning Kane Brown, and then January fifteenth, there's
a post in there that shows I mean, this thing

(20:53):
looks so legit. It's a certificate with your name on it,
and it's your cryptocurrency certification, and you're thrilled to share
that you've achieved a major milestone. And he goes on
talking about how you've always dreamt of being able to
help families and now you're in a position to do it.
And people are fourteen comments. You know I should read
the comments. Congratulations. Somebody named Craig Met says congratulations, Alan Lindler,

(21:19):
Congratulations on your incredible achievement. So these people are just
trying to celebrate with you. Most people are just saying congratulations.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
I was talking to a family member Saturday and they said,
tell me about your crypto business. I said, that's not real,
and they said it looks real.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
It's not.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
I know. They said, well, come on, doesn't sound like
something you wouldn't do. I'm like, okay, I get that. Well.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
And the pictures of all the families that are being
quote unquote helped and I put quote unquote because I
don't know who these people are. I don't know if
they're actors or if they actually were helped by something.
And then they just changed the signs to make it
look like they're thanking Jonathan Rush for helping him. They're
able to get out of debt. They about promotional announcements

(22:04):
about three weeks ago. It ran all weekend as I
am not a crypto dealer. Yeah, but I mean, you
know how social media is. People who never listen to
WCS or this podcast follow you on social media. This
is so sad. That's just social media. So they could
have these people could be high school friends of yours

(22:25):
that never listen to Country Knows It.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
It would be funny to find out who it is.
Probably somebody works in another radio station.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Or you're saying, who hacked it? Yeah, oh, I'm thinking
it's a Chinese or Russian operata or something. But I mean,
but on social media, we've got I mean, you can
only have five thousand friends, so you're like five thousand friends,
and of those five thousand, I would venture more than
half never listen to WCS. So they're never going to

(22:53):
hear this podcast. Are never going to so, and then
there's no way for you to actually tell them on
social media that that's not you.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
I should create a new social media platform where all
we do is you're allowed to post that your other
social media platform has been hacked. Let's see verify. Oh.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
I don't know who Gene Jessup is, but she commented
on the most recent one, stay smart. I don't know
what that means. Is that a warning to other people?

Speaker 1 (23:23):
I hope?

Speaker 2 (23:23):
So I don't know what stay smart means. But this
is when you are helping the Williams family to financial freedom.
They paid off one hundred and seventy two thousand dollars
in debt.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Hey, how am I doing with that mortgage deal? Because
I was a mortgage broker.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Oh, you're still that same guy, according to this year,
the president of mortgage services and the owner at Fairway
Independent Mortgage. Now that guy, when you run the NMLS
number is actually based in Austin, Texas. And then you're
also the vice president of loan operations at Palmetto State
Home Mortgage.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
I am killing it.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
You're the director of mortgage Banking at Tabor Mortgage Group, LLC,
which is in Charleston. But then they still have you
as the owner and host of The Morning Rush. You
went to King Academy, you studied at the University of
South Carolina. You live in Columbia, You're married. All your

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pictures are still up. I mean, there's a Facebook.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Just help me out, Just help me out.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
I wonder what percentage of Facebook pages are actually hacked.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
I'm sure it went to an email account that's got
seven thousand emails yesterday and nobody ever actually reads them.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Well, I don't know what to say. I mean, I
lost my Twitter account years ago. I got hacked by
somebody and iHeart couldn't help, and nobody could help. And
then when they finally said that we're we're just shutting
it down, and I reapplied for my Twitter account, and

(24:58):
it was the most bizarre thing because it was like
within an hour of them saying we're shutting it down
that I reapplied and it was already taken. And when
I went and looked, it was a radio and television broadcaster.
Her name is Kelly Nash and she's way more famous
than me now. But when she took over that account,

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they said they had closed it, but they kept all
of my followers. And I had built that page up.
That was a very popular page for my standards. It
was a huge page for me. I had like ten
thousand followers on that and I think now it's probably
she's probably close to a million or something by now,
but those ten thousand I worked very hard to get
those ten thousand followers. And I'm like, she's got all

(25:40):
my followers and then like a card and I could
see people commenting on her posts like, bro, you're looking
hot these days. I'm like, those are my followers?

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Great?

Speaker 2 (25:54):
I don't know, maybe you got hack?

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Did Facebook help you? Who? Did you email a Facebook
some help? Hey? Tomorrow morning as well? We start talking,
you start talking, he used to saying, remember you want
to start winning the satoh three ninety seven eight nine
two sixty seven aight O three ninety seven eight w
cos on the morning Rush