a spy hunter. Now I assume he lost his job immediately but who knows. So that's all we know about that. So beware all the undercover people who think that they're doing what's good for the world. I think this guy actually believed he was doing the right thing which is scary. It's really scary if he thought that was the right thing.

All right the inauguration is coming up and it's been announced a number of entertainers but the interesting ones that are non obvious. I mean Kid Rock is obvious but the Village People said yes. Now I love that the Village People said yes. Not only because Trump basically made them rich because I'm pretty sure he popularized the song again I don't know 30 years or 40 years after it was an original. And since the public in general assumes that they're all gay and that that's actually part of the fun you know the whole YMCA thing it's kind of a gay anthem but it's weird that they say no we're not gay but to the public it's the gayest group in the world but not in a bad way. So the beauty of what Trump did was he wasn't mocking them. He was accepting them exactly as they wanted to be accepted as really good music that we like to dance to and it's unusually fun because it breaks out of that hetero only way of being. So you know even watching Trump enjoy the pleasure of breaking out of that hetero only you know you can't act like you're enjoying that music or something. It's wonderful. And they're paying him back or maybe paying themselves. Either way it works for me by taking the chance. They're taking a chance on him. I love that. So good job Village People.

Carrie Underwood is performing. That's the one that surprised me. Why in the world would a really well established singing star want to associate with Trump if she hasn't already? Because isn't that going to cut her future revenue in half forever? It might. So both the Village People and Carrie Underwood seem to be more of an indication that Trump has been at least a little bit established as okay to say you support him now. If you're getting the entertainment people to say that you've really penetrated a whole new category because you already got the tech people saying whoa whoa whoa wait a minute the fine people hoax wasn't real. So the tech people have all caught on that it was just this major brainwashing operation. So once they found out it was all brainwashing they could see all the other brainwashing and then their vision cleared and then they just made the rational choice. But to get it into the entertainment world as deeply as Carrie Underwood is impressive. So all respect to Carrie Underwood for taking what is clearly a risk. But if she doesn't get as much push back as would end her career then I would say she's part of the solution. If you're trying to unite the country you're going to need some people who go first and take the arrows in the back. And this to me seems really brave for Carrie Underwood. I'm very impressed. I've seen her in concert by the way. I've only ever been to a few concerts in my whole life but maybe three concerts in my life but she was one of them. It was a good show.

Michelle Obama is not coming to the inauguration but Barack is. That would make two events in recent weeks that Barack went to and Michelle didn't where you would expect that normally she would. The other was the Carter funeral. Now unless she has a medical problem which I wouldn't rule out just maybe something she doesn't need to get into with the public it would suggest there's marital problems. Now I've heard the rumors. I don't think there's direct evidence to support that and you never know what's going on in somebody's relationship but it's a little hard to understand weeks apart you know same thing. It's sort of built into what you expect that they would do as a couple Barack and Michelle. So I would say the possibility of either a medical situation that doesn't resolve very quickly which could be very bad and it might be just that or there's something else going on. And so there may be an early signal of that.

Meanwhile Costco has responded to criticisms about its DEI programs by saying they're planning to keep them. So they like their DEI. They have a DEI manager I guess and they're going to keep their DEI because it's worked for them they say. At Costco Robbie Starbuck who's the activist who's had huge success getting companies to eliminate their DEI notes that Costco is not high on his list because it would be a hard one and it makes sense to do the ones you know you can get because it creates momentum to get the hard ones later. So Starbuck is telling us yeah that's not on the top of the list right now. Get to that one later maybe. But here's what I want to point out. Costco is 72 percent of top Costco managers were men and 81 percent were white. Let me remind you that I have been grossly discriminated in my life for my gender and my race. You all know the stories. I worked for a bank. They said I couldn't be promoted because I was a white male. I left. I went to the phone company. Eventually they said you can't be promoted because you're a white male. I created a TV show that lost its slot on Monday which ends up being a death blow to a show to lose your time slot because I was a white male and I had a comic about a white guy and they decided it was going to be an all African American comedy night. And of course I lost my entire publishing and syndication career because I said something that you would only be punished for if you're a white man. And people didn't even disagree with me. It wasn't even like I said something people didn't disagree with. Once they actually heard what it was in context nobody disagreed. I've never heard a single person disagree with it but I was canceled worldwide. Now here's what you need to know. Every one of those who canceled me was a white guy. All of them. They were all white guys protecting their own asses because they knew they were in that position where there should have been more diversity in their own job. But as long as they could force people like me