What Hungary Just Did to Conservatives Is a STARK Warning for America | Guests: Salena Zito & Marissa Streit | 9/17/26

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In Hungary, there is a purge going on, a purge of conservatives. And that is a big warning for all of us here in the United States. I want to get into that. I also want to show you how that is happening already here in America. And we're also going to talk about the economy, Canada joining the EU and so much more all this hour. It's a big show today. We're also going to talk to Salena Zito, a little bit about what's happening in Butler, Pennsylvania, because now we had the shooter from Butler, and now we have an Islamic terror plot foiled by the FBI in Butler. What's happening in Butler? I'm going to talk to her about that. She went yesterday to Butler to track that story down. We're going to talk to her in a little while as well. But first, let me tell you about Chapter. Your Medicare plan does not have to get worse.

It's not probably the right plan for you. Maybe it is, maybe it is. But your life changes. Maybe you have a different doctor now. Maybe you have prescriptions that have changed. Maybe your health has changed. Your budget has changed, whatever. Things that you actually need from your coverage are different than they were last time that you made the decision. That's why Chapter is here because sometimes it gets worse. Sometimes you have the wrong one. You might be in exactly the right plan, but let Chapter, the only people that can cover all of the Medicare, all of the options, nobody else does that. Most advisors are paid by a company to steer you one way or another. That's not Chapter. So have a conversation about Medicare. If you are on Medicare or you have friends or family on Medicare, make sure they go to Chapter and look at everything. It's honest advice. Pound 250 Pound 250, say the key word Chapter. Pound 250 Chapter. Find out what you actually have.

I want to start with something personal.

I'm not personal to me. I think it's happening to all of us. One out of every two Americans is lonely, like really lonely, not sad, lonely, and the measurable kind. The Surgeon General, what was it? Couple of years ago, put a price on it. He said, social disconnection raises your risk of premature death as much as a daily cigarette habit. It's tied to higher rates of dementia, stroke, heart disease. Loneliness is not a mood, it's a medical condition, and it has now a body count in America. And it's worse among men. In 1995, 55% of American men said they had at least six close friends. Today, that number is 27 It's cut in half. The men with no close friends at all, none, zero, went from 3% to 15 That's five times as many say, I have no friends.

What a lonely world.

15% have no friends. Now, hold that up against your phone.

You might have 900 friends, 1400 friends on your phone. You've heard from 9 people before lunch. You know what your cousin ate in Nashville. You know your old roommate, how they voted. You know what a guy you've never met thinks about the war in the Middle East. You're in touch with more human beings before breakfast than your great-grandfather met in his lifetime.

So, how is it we are starving at this buffet?

You want a job? If you think you're down on your job, wait until I tell you about this guy's job. At Oxford, there's a guy who spent his entire career watching monkeys pick through each other's fur.

What he was studying is the glue. That's not idle behavior. Grooming is the glue. It's how the troop stays a troop. And the bigger the troop, the more of the day the grooming eats. Some species spend close to half of their waking hours doing nothing but maintaining friendships one animal at a time.