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All right. It looks like my guest has entered the green room. And let me make sure I'm going to accept him. Boom. You will be accepted. And then can I make you appear? Nope. Oh, there you are. Hey, Chris.

"Hey, can you hear me? Okay, Scott."

I can. Let's make sure the audience can hear. This is Chris McKenna, Freedom Press, the maker of, can you believe it, the amazing Dilbert calendar. And we're going to ask him some questions about making calendars in the United States. So I'll be looking at your comments, but where are you located? What part of the country? You can be general.

"Yeah, just north of Dallas."

Just north of Dallas. So you're American and you did the calendar last year, correct?

"Did. Yeah."

So as far as I know this is the only daily desk calendar that's being made in mass in the United States of America. If you go to Barnes & Noble, and I have, I'm obsessed with this product. When you look at where all of those are made, they're almost always made in Asia, actually. So if you're wondering at home, how hard is it to manufacture one of these? Think about the design alone. Just the design alone because you need this outside box, right? So you've got to get all these specifications. And of course there's things like, well, everything. You've got to make sure you've got everything on the box. It's got to be the right size. And then you've got to figure out, in our case, the calendar pages have a comic on the front and the back, which is also new because the cheap calendar companies don't do that. So we had to figure out how to do that. You have to have the right kind of paper. It's really difficult to get the binding just right.

"Yeah. No, that's right, Scott. So I think the biggest improvement from last year's calendar is the binder. And so last year we were a little afraid to make the binding too tight because we know a lot, most of the customers like to tear through as they go through the year. However, we also found out that some don't like to tear through as they go through the year and some like to actually keep it as a collectible item and never open it at all. Right. And so I think we learned some lessons from last year. So thank you everyone for your patience on that. And so we do think the binder is better. It's still not so tight to where you can't tear through. I'm very happy with this year's calendar. I think the perf lines on the top are easier to tear than last year's, too, which were also a challenge. And so, yeah. Yeah, we're really happy with this year's product."

Now, where's the only place you can buy it this year?

"The only place you can buy it this year is Amazon.com. And if you type in the 2026 Dilbert desk calendar, this will come up. So make sure that you find this one. And so on Amazon, one of the challenges on Amazon is there are fakes and Scott and I are battling those on a weekly basis, but with how well the sales are going, thanks to you all, the fakes are being left in the dust. So I really don't think it's going to be a big problem. But just make sure and I'm sure Scott will link it in the show notes and it's also available in his background on this X page as well."

So yeah, it's easy to find if you just do Dilbert 2026 calendar and it'll pop up. Just make sure it's the orange one and has my name. If it has Dilbert spelled wrong, that's the wrong calendar. And as funny as that sounds, that's how they do it. So they would spell Dilbert with a space in the word where there's no space and that would be enough for the...

"Yeah, it's kind of like a phishing exercise with all the trainings. If somebody's in it, there's just always one little thing off that they do to try to get away with it and so be careful of that."

All right, so I've got some really nerdy questions. How many specialty machines does it take to make this one calendar? Like there's something that cuts, there's something that... Yeah. Just run through like how many machines are there? There's special...

"Yeah. So I would say off the top of my head around eight. Right. This is a very complex calendar. And so the daily desk calendar just from the sheer number of pages alone in the middle is a big challenge. And that's why it's hard to be made in the United States. And then you add in the cover, the wraparound cover with the perf lines on top or there has to be the lines to help you tear through. That also requires a commercial bindery piece, right? And that we use multiple web presses that are roll-fed as well as an offset press as well and an inkjet. And so just off the top of my head around eight. Probably the coolest thing that I think would be the easel that we've done. And so in the past it had been a black plastic easel and those are almost always sourced overseas. And once again, we were trying to make this 100% in the United States. I went on a tour looking for a plastic manufacturer in the Dallas area. And I actually found one where the black plastic easels could be made, but the cost was a little bit prohibitive. We're trying to keep the calendar within reason. And then just the timing of how long it would take to make those because they had to order a new mold. And so we came up with an alternative solution of chipboard. So using chipboard. So this is 48 point chipboard. And as you can see with 'Made in America' stamp on the back here, which we're proud of. And so it's just as sturdy as the plastic. Obviously, it's more environmentally friendly for those that that's important too."

And we're proud of that. And so I'd like to get some video of that being made. And so we have a partner on that. And so one of the other points that people might not know would be no printer can make this on their own, right? And they might pretend they can, we don't. And we were always honest with Scott about that. And so we have a couple partners locally as well that help us with this that are always just as grateful and just as excited now to get the Dilbert calendar. And so one of them is Performance Specialty. I'll go ahead and name them in Dallas. And so they convert both the easel as well as the box. And so the box is actually printed on a flat sheet as well. I believe four to eight up. I forget exactly. And then that is trimmed and then converted as well. Just like the easels. So there's a lot of work that goes into these. And it really just illustrates American craftsmanship, you know, to a T. And so we're really proud about that.

All right, Chris. Mostly we want people just to know that it's available now and they can go to Amazon, they can buy it, and it was made in America and you're the genius behind it. And I'm not entirely sure if I'd tried to do this with somebody else, they could have gotten it done 'cause as I watched the complexity of this and you watched you chug through all the problems like, "All right, got this problem. I'll fix it. Got a problem, we'll fix it." It was just endless little problems that you figured out how to fix. So you're like the ultimate fixer.

So yeah, I appreciate that.

So I don't want to keep you too long. Some of the audience cares deeply about the calendar and some of them want to move on.

So just notice there. So just go to Amazon, go to the 2026 Dilbert calendar. You'll find it easily. And I'll talk to you later, Chris.

"Yeah, I appreciate Scott if you don't mind one more thing. I do want to tell the audience, and I'm sure they know this, but my favorite question to get that I get asked when people know I do these calendars is what does Scott like to work with? And he's been unbelievable. And so he's been so supportive. It feels like we're on one team and we're truly grateful for that, Scott. And I always enjoy our calls. We always have a few laughs and we always do. We grind through all the problems together and I just want to thank you for the opportunity and then just thank all the fans for the support as well. So thank you."

Thank you. Great seeing you again.

"You too. We'll talk soon. Catch up to you later."

All right, we're back to me. Boom. All right, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for that little diversion. We'll go back to the news. Back to the news.

Anyway, let's see. We talked about Trump calling somebody piggy. Or maybe he didn't. I haven't heard his explanation. Has anybody heard Trump's explanation of why he seems to have called somebody piggy? Does he even have an explanation? Does he just say that didn't happen? I don't know. We'll wait for that.

All right. Apparently the SNAP program, where the government helps people buy groceries, was just massively fraudulent. I saw a post by Nick Sortor on X. I guess Secretary Rollins was out there saying they're going to have to deconstruct the entire thing. So how big is it? I had no idea that SNAP was this enormous program that had become more enormous by fraud. So now they'll all be required to reapply, which seems like a good idea. But I do ask myself this question: of the subset of Americans who couldn't figure out how to feed themselves without the government, are they going to be able to reapply? I did reply in the, how do they apply in the first place? Applying for stuff isn't easy. You've got to fill out a bunch of forms. You've got to know where to go, where to send them, where to email them. I don't know. I'm not entirely sure people will know how to sign up for SNAP. But not my problem. Not my problem.

And I didn't say the number, but it's like some god-awful number of the total SNAP recipients were frauds and duplicates. Just an enormous number. Unbelievable.

I saw Tucker Carlson. He was at some event and he was sort of wondering aloud why Jeffrey Epstein is capturing our anger. Have you thought about that? Have you thought why is this one person getting all our attention? And is that telling us anything that one person is getting all this attention? Well, I saw Wall Street Apes do a post about this. And so this is what Tucker said. We'll see if you agree with this and I'll have some comments.

What is it about Jeffrey Epstein that's so infuriating to people? So infuriating it's actually causing seismic political problems. What is it? I'll tell you what it is. Tucker says it's the frustration of normal people watching a certain class of people get away with everything every single time. That's what it is. We've had enough.

Now, does that remind you of a Norm Macdonald joke about Bill Cosby? You know the Norm Macdonald joke about Bill Cosby, don't you? Where he's talking about somebody said that the worst thing about the Bill Cosby situation is the hypocrisy. And then Norm's punchline is, you know, I don't think it's the hypocrisy that's the worst part. I'm thinking it's all the raping.

Now, don't you get that same vibe from this? Do you think that what is infuriating people is that they're watching a certain class of people get away with everything every single time? Or could it be thousands of rapes? If you're going to be infuriated, I think thousands of rapes systematically run through one island and a few other properties. Ah, that's sort of the problem more than the gosh, rich people seem to be getting away with a lot. How many of you are sitting here just thinking, man, those rich people getting away with stuff? That's the problem. Not the thousands of sex crimes. No. Well, it was the sex crimes I'm here to tell you, but also it's a story about sex and money and Trump and attractive females and underage people and it just has everything that a story that's going to make you angry would have. So there's not much of a mystery about that.

So Red Wave Press, we're showing this clip on X. The word implicated is going to start taking some extra meaning lately. Implicated because I've got a feeling that some people don't know the difference between implicated and indicted, which is kind of convenient if you want to accuse somebody of something. Well, he was implicated. What do you mean he was implicated? Well, his name was on the documents. I don't see his name on the documents. Well, it was redacted, but we're pretty sure it's there under those redactions. Implicated.

Anyway, Abby Phillip on CNN was saying if Trump has nothing to hide and he's totally intending to say that and to believe that he should be clamoring for these documents, this is before he said everybody could have them, I guess. Then Scott Jennings did a Scott Jennings which is he goes so you believe after 10 years of this of him Trump being on the public stage that if there was something to know we wouldn't know it by now.

Now if you watch Scott Jennings a lot and I recommend you do because he's got a lot of game in the persuasion world. It's so powerful to put this in the form of a question because it makes the person stop and think how they would answer the question and it makes the people listening at home wonder how they would answer the question. So it's a very engaging form of persuasion rather than just making a statement. All right? So you believe that?

Now, usually I mock people for putting so at the end of a sentence, but he didn't use it in the wrong way. He used it just to introduce his point, which is fine. And the