Your dedicated duo returns, full of hope but hearts nonetheless going out to many of our fellow Americans as they deal with an economy that is seeing broadening trends towards layoffs and weakening workforce participation altogether.

While AI can be a positive tool, the seemingly haphazard, solely profit-driven approach to developing this potentially across-the-board game-changing technology has been poorly communicated. This of course adds insult to the injuries of environmental blight and the aforementioned employment-related issues.

War with Iran in concert with the State of Israel combined with worsening domestic political violence make for a dreary backdrop for the upcoming World Cup, not to mention America's own 250th birthday as a Nation.

We appreciate you welcoming us back into your lives each time out, and we hope to be of source of both good, credible information and discourse as well as a point of encouragement. There are honest folks out there in the media, who want to discuss the truth, to have those discussions in a thoughtful, respectful yet surgical way, as well as to hold our leaders accountable. And on that point, there is much to discuss in terms of the accounting.