 Welcome to the Knuckleheads of Liberty. I tell you, we've been noticing this since the lockdowns. People just fleeing both New York and California. In fact, can we get the visual up there? It's funny, Kurt Russell is a libertarian. He kind of prophesied this, I guess, with his movies. New York is a walled maximum security prison. Breaking out is impossible. Breaking in is insane. And we're seeing some... That's my campaign slogan. Like I said, California isn't spared. The U-Haul trucks only go in one direction. That's where you can see their license plate heading away. We actually had a problem here in New York State to where there weren't enough U-Haul trucks and people were actually having to rent them from Pennsylvania. So it was actually cheaper to go to Pennsylvania, rent the truck, and then drive it to New York to drive down to Florida. Yes. Then they had a second problem, which was there weren't enough U-Haul trucks coming back from Florida. So they had to raise the rate so they could pay to bring the U-Haul trucks back to New York from Florida, because enough weren't coming back. That's a real thing. I'm not making that up. That's a real thing. So California and New York politics great for business for U-Haul. U-Haul is like, go, Huckle, go, Huckle, go. They're loving it. They're loving it. It would be interesting to see if she's getting some funds under the table for U-Haul. If I was in the market, I'd be all about her. I'd be buying ads, the whole thing. Absolutely, 100%. I'd be buying ads, making a killing. Absolutely. Is this still an issue, Larry? I mean, we've been hearing about it for the last couple of years. It's been an issue since 2009 or 10, right? After the crash of 2008 and 2009, what most people don't know is that that's when things got really bad the first time. And the reason is, after that crash, there was really no recovery except inside the cities. Outside the cities, there was no recovery. So they still haven't recovered from 2009, right? They're still broken. So when that happened, people rushed back to cities because I think 80% of all new jobs since the crash were in 20 U.S. cities. That is how much it was just stuck to come into the city. So people rushed to the cities because of that. And because of that, the outskirts were just devastated, right? Just devastated. People weren't showing up. You look in many of these communities and there's always one big thing that runs. Like there's a big Walmart or a college or a prison or something big that most people work for. And then everything else is either somehow getting a government check in some way, disabled, social security, a public assistance, or they work for a franchise. Some type of franchise association in some way she performed, right? Whether it's a fast food place or a franchise lube shop or something like that they work for a franchise. So it's government franchise, the big thing. That's how so many happen. So that's why so many states have trouble because you had to go to places where they would give you opportunity. New York state used to be a place that so much opportunity. You didn't mind the oppression because the opportunity was so great you put up with it, right? There was so much opportunity you'd put up with it. But once the opportunity goes away, why do you stay? We've lost about two to two and a half million people since 2010. So much that we've lost the congressperson and it's just getting worse. In fact, now we're losing about two to 300,000 people per year now packing and leaving. And I warned people about this two years ago. I said, actually three years ago when COVID hit, I said it's going to get so bad that people are just going to pack up and leave. They're not going to care about rent. They're not going to care about mortgage. They're just going to leave their house and go. And right now, if you go to the New York state government website, we'll find the thing called zombie houses. It's that. It's that common the government acknowledges it. That there are houses that just, they just walked away. Like people go, does everyone live there anymore? They haven't cut the lawn in like six weeks. I don't even know. And they go there and like, no one's there. They just walked away with a mortgage or with rent and Lisa said, I don't care. Come get me. I guess. Cause I'm broke. So I'm out of here. I don't care. I guess I'll see you in court. If you can drag me back to New York state, I guess I'll see you in court. They literally pack up and walk away. That's how bad it is in New York state. Is this, is this, is this phenomenon growing these zombie houses? Is this a growing phenomenon in New York right now? Yes, it is. I warned people. I said that when they do the lockdowns, that the lockdowns would crush, would exacerbate all the pain in New York state. And it'll be much worse. And I also said that, and I'm on record saying this, New York city will go below eight million and never come back. It will never come back to eight million again. And the reason is finance was already leaving New York state. In fact, the biggest, um, the biggest lobby in New York state used to be finance. Now it's real estate. So finance already leave me because back in the day, some of you who know, know this who've been this world. Finance. I'm sorry. Tech used to follow finance. Right. You know that. They used to follow finance. Yeah. Those days are over. Now finance follows tech. Yeah. Tech now dominates so much now that finance follows tech. Literally the New York stock exchange threatened to go to Dallas, though, Austin. That's how bad it was. Wow. Yes. Goldman Sachs threatened to go to Miami. That was the only reason why Cuomo did not do his transaction tax he was going to do because if he had done that, they'd have packed him and left. James, can I get a visual real quick while Larry's talking because this, this sort of shows that there's, there's a real cost here. I mean, aside from the, uh, aside from the social turbulence, I, you know, it says this article from center square in New York says New York loses $19.5 billion in population exodus. Yep. That's from the IRS. So this is nuts. Yeah. And all, and all the people in New York say is tax the wealthy. What wealthy? They're leaving. Can't tax them. They're going to be in Florida. They're going to be in Texas. I mean, Tennessee, those are three big states they're going to. And what's the common denominator in Texas, Florida and Tennessee? No state income tax. That's correct. No state income tax. They're all running over that. There's no tomorrow. Nashville is booming. Miami is booming. Austin Dallas. They're, everyone's going over there. Even San Antonio. They're all running over there as fast as they possibly can. More Californians go to Texas than Florida and more New Yorkers go to Florida than Texas, but they're going to those two states left and right. And there's a mix to people going to Nashville, Memphis in Tennessee. But that's what's happening. And you're correct. That's a big problem. And here's the worst part. New York state, its budget now is $220 billion. $220 billion. Only 19 countries and California have a bigger budget than New York state. Florida has more people than we have and has half our budget. Yeah. Now, when it comes to all of these states, you might think California spends the most. No California. We got you beat. New York is that California. We're number one on when it comes to being terrible. So, yes, we actually, with the exception of Alaska, now Alaska is an exception because Alaska literally writes checks to its people from its oil fund, right? Except for Alaska, we spend the most per person in the country. The most per person. And in every way you want to measure us, we always rank in the bottom 25. Always. When it comes to schools, we rank between 37 and 44 depending upon what you use. We're the highest when it comes to schools. We drop $29,000 per kid per school. So, the argument I get all the time is if you just fund it, we're not underfunded $220 billion from 180, 190 when I ran last time. $30 billion explosion and population going down and billionaires leaving. You know, this is not a good trend. And if you ask anybody what they're going to do, the Republicans go, this is a Republican answer. More cops. That's his answer. More cops. That's his answer for everything. What's a Democratic answer? More money from the feds. That's it. Democrats want more money from the feds. Republicans want more cops. Neither of them will solve this problem in any way, shape, or form. So, everything you said, you are correct. Larry, you know, I mean, you're the leaders, the political leaders of leaders. They're blind leaders. Exactly. They're leaders. Yeah. Political leaders of leaders in quotes of the state of New York cannot be blind to what is obvious. Of course. You're right. Okay. No, you're right. I mean, are they taking, are they doing anything at all to stem the tide of this obvious problem? Not at all. They are grifting while the grifting is good. They are raking in all they can before Rome burns. That's all they're worried about. They're doing nothing of any value whatsoever. You cannot find a policy that makes any sense if there even is a policy. All they do is just take more money. They are grifting like there's no tomorrow. Democratic Party has just all it does is give out more government jobs. We are making it to a New York state is going to be, I might even exaggerate when I say this, it's going to be 30% government jobs eventually. That's a socialist state that we're already about one in six. We're moving towards one in three. That's the move is keep making government jobs. If you count jobs that are not government jobs, but government contracted jobs, we're already about one in five. So we're already going down to that road where government just pays for everything. So it's really impossible. Now the Republicans, all they do is go, this is the year. That's all they ever do. And they yell, they've been yelling Democrats bad for 20 years. Sadly, suckering all the Republicans giving them tons of money. They spent $12 million in donor funds this year. And they're going to be beat by at least 15 points. The most recent poll has Republican down by 20. 20 points down. Why? Because the state's a blue state. It's not a purple state. Literally Cuomo said in 2014, I think his words, there is no room for conservatives in New York. Yeah, I remember that. Yes. He said go and conservatives said, okay, thank you. And they left in droves. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness always and forever.