WEBVTT - I Never Eat Vegetables 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:06.240 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:10.840 Washington Broadcast Center, jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:22.480 and Jackie and he Armstrong and Eddy. You know, that 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:26.560 whole mommy party daddy party thing is a pretty decent 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:34.120 like shorthand for describing Republicans versus Democrats a lot. And uh, 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:38.839 you know, sometimes I hate the being the eat your 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:41.960 vegetables person because that's not like who I am in 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:46.160 real life. I never eat vegetables, but uh, just dealing 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:49.080 with you know, the realities of life and things you 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.159 gotta do and that sort of thing. But that's a 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:52.800 little bit of what this segment is going to be. 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:58.920 So there's a Bricks conference going on in in Russia. 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:04.520 So the Bricks Group, back before we realized Putin was 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:08.480 completely evil, and definitely before we realized China was evil 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.360 or were admitted to ourselves that China was evil, people 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:18.080 started talking about the bricks countries, the emerging economies and 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:19.800 countries that were going to play a big role in 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:25.160 the world stage. Brazil, Russia, India, China. It was just brick. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.399 And now they've added South Africa to make it bricks. 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:31.319 And now they've actually gone plus where they add in 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:36.520 a couple of other countries, including Iran. Now many of 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.480 these countries are enemies of the United States, but they're meeting. 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:43.080 They're having their big conference, kind of trying to offset 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.560 the g seventh Summit, which is like, you know, the 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.080 United States and Britain and France and people like that. 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.600 This bricks thing is in Russia. So this whole idea 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.840 that Putin was going to become a pariah and isolated 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.920 on the world stage and their economy was going to 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.520 tank and no country would want to do business with them, 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:07.200 not so much. No, they started their own club. They 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:11.560 started their own club, and leaders of enough countries to 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.480 add up to well more than half the world's population 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.519 are meeting Putin in Russia. And guess who's gonna be 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:24.040 there with them. The General Secretary of the UN unbelievable. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.480 That guy's a monster. He is a piece of crap. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:32.320 So he lectures Israel about committing a genocide or whatever, 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.680 but goes to Russia to meet with Putin and she 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.200 for the Brick Summit. Here's a little news story about 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.760 what Putin is doing in Ukraine right now. 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.680 This is the safest way out of Bahmut, but not 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.919 really safe at all. Video obtained by CNN of the 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:54.080 view from a Ukrainian armored vehicle shows the wasteland the 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.680 city has become. And it was in a vehicle like 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:02.520 this that Marina and Yevhenia escaped from Bahmut. Their building 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.240 was hid in a bombardment last Thursday, killing three among them. 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:12.320 You have Hennia's thirty three year old grandson. I had 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:17.680 to help him, she recalls, but I couldn't do anything. 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.080 They waited in their ruined homes with the dead for 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.560 three days before the army could rescue them. Marina's daughter 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:32.000 was married to Ye have Henya's grandson. What will I 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.960 tell my daughter? Cries Medina. She and my grandchildren are 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:41.440 in Poland. The shelter nearby, chase Yare, provides them some 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.880 comfort and warmth, but they're still not out of danger. 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:54.640 So Putin continues to bomb these little towns, just completely indiscriminately. 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:56.480 In fact, if it's a hospital or a school, that's 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.640 a better target. Just one more. This is a very 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:00.480 short clip of what Than's doing. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.560 This town is well within range of Russian guns, and 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:08.000 since the battle for Bahmut began seven months ago, it 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:15.040 has regularly come under shelling. On this day, the Russians 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:19.400 were firing incendiary munitions over the city designed to cause 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.560 fires when resident showed a suspent capsule from the rocket. 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:30.880 So, how in the world can there be any public 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:38.520 opinion criticizing Israel for defending itself against Hamas and Iran 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.960 while being okay with Russia doing what they're doing in Ukraine. 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.479 I mean, how do you possibly square that circle? 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:52.600 Because most appeals to morality or principle, whether in domestic 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:57.440 politics or in international politics, are completely false. They are 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.440 a cover they are accustom for naked self interest. 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:05.679 So your theory is they don't believe the crap they're saying, 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.640 almost never at that level. So at the college kid level, 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:11.880 they believe it, but they're just ignorant of the reality 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:16.919 of the world. They were focused on the Israeli Palestinian 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:20.000 thing by professors and just don't have this on their radar, 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.520 the fact of what Russia is doing to Ukraine and 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.839 over half the world's meeting there right now and slapping 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.440 backs and drinking fine wine and discussing finding a way 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.600 to be able to do this more often rather than 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:33.159 less often. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.560 Yeah, the kids, the college kids were indoctrinated successfully by 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.360 the very people who I'm talking about, who again will 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.080 use principle or morality occasionally as an argument, but they 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.039 don't mean it for a second. It's all about the 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:49.960 raw exercise and accumulation of power that it's horrifying. 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.920 The whole world could look like bach Moot if Russia 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.880 and China get their way, and they're working on it, 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.320 where they just take whatever they want and they kill 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.080 whoever they want the whole I was listening to a 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:06.039 story today about how Israel bombed another hospital. It's funny, 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.200 you know, I live in an area not that much 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.600 different than the size of Gaza. We have like two hospitals. 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.080 They seem to have a hospital on every block in Gaza. 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:16.719 It's always a hospital. They claim everything in the hospital, 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:23.640 but they actually bomb standalone hospitals. Russia does, and China 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.880 would do the same thing, and there's nothing. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.200 Going on at those hospitals except the care of patients, 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:34.400 in contrast to in the various Islamist sections of Lebanon 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:35.040 or Kaza. 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.880 And if you don't think Russia would do that to 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.880 the hospital near you and your town in wherever you 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:42.640 live in the United States or China would do the 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.080 same thing, or Iran would do the same thing. You're 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:49.400 just you're delusional. Yeah, it's a little tiring. 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.960 The Western world, in short and ato if you want, 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:58.839 was born of necessity and a recognition of cold reality, 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.640 and through the yers of success and affluence, we have 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:11.000 descended into a incredibly self indulgent, self congratulatory illusion that 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.680 everything is about principle and morality. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.560 It's not, it's not. It is until the moment that 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:18.880 it's not. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.240 The moment somebody is willing to challenge that with the 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.960 raw exercise of power, it gets back to being about 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:26.360 power period. 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.360 I mean, it'd be horrifying that these countries are getting 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.200 together with Putin. Well, Putin can't go anywhere, he'd get 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.120 taken out or arrested by us. But the fact that 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.440 these countries are meeting Putin in Russia is unbelievable and 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.680 there should be protests in the street. Whether you care 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:47.240 about genocides or the environment, is the environment you think? 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:50.040 These are the biggest polluters in the world, representing over 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.280 the half country. They don't give a crap about solar 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:57.360 and wind and recycling plastics and electric cars. 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:00.920 Other than if it helps out their economy. Are you nuts? Yeah, 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:02.840 I agree with you one hundred percent. My only quibbal 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.360 is that it's completely unsurprising that these people are meeting 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.800 with Putin in Russia if you understand the way the 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.800 world really works. The part that is astounding and you 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.760 want to slap people is that second half of what 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.360 you're saying, that people conveniently ignore it when the very 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.200 principles they screeched at the top of their lungs, with 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:25.360 their eyes aflame and spittle falling on Jewish students, they 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.480 conveniently forget about the next week. If it isn't Israel 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:32.880 they're screaming about, it's just utterly moronic. 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:37.240 Iran, China and Russia getting together for a conference, and 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.920 then these other countries perfectly willing. I mean, India is 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:42.920 not evil, but they're perfectly willing to meet with these 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.640 people if it helps them out business wise. They're willing 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.520 to turn a blind eye to whatever China and Russia 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.040 does if it's a better business idea. 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.800 Power and self interest run the world. I always have, 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.160 always will correct well when we do it. This is 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.480 my favorite thing that Henry Kissinger would always say, countries 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.360 are it's okay for a country to look out for 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:09.320 its self interest, including the United States, but how many 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.000 ever includes the United States. Other countries can look out 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.240 for their self interest, but not the United States. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:15.840 When we do it, it's somehow awful. 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.640 Well, yeah, according to Howard Zinn and our entire educational 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.440 system and what we've been teaching our kids for generations. 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:24.559 I'm sorry, I don't mean to just depress the crap 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:29.800 out of everybody, but we have. We are the limousine 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:34.800 liberals of the globe. The United States is that rich, 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:40.240 entitled person who has completely forgotten about how Grandpa built 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.640 the wealth of the family two generations ago and the 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:48.080 work in the hard scrabble of reality, and now indulges 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:52.480 themselves in these you know, it gives it generously to 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.000 the opera in the art museum, and gush is on 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.719 and on about liberal values because that gets them cachet 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.920 among their fans friends. But if they lost their wealth 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.720 and their limousine and were put out on the streets 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:07.880 and had to make a living and live in the 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:13.160 real world, they would fail immediately. They have completely lost survivability. 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.319 I feel that way about our country sometimes. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:17.680 Yeah, I just wanted to bring up that bricks conference 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.760 just so if you end up in a situation where 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.040 you're talking with or arguing with people who are all 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.960 about the awful things Israel's doing. When you got the 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.520 UN Secretary General showing up to meet Putin and she 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:33.240 and the leaders of Iran in Russia, I've got some 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.439 perfect example of what I was drawning on about. Coming 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.880 up next after a quick break has to do with 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.960 China and their infiltration of the United States. There is 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:47.000 a Chinese agent within ten miles of you if you 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:51.360 live anywhere but like farm country. Wow guaranteed. And Liz 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.920 Cheney actually brought up an interesting thing opposite direction of 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.280 what she was in intending about who you would let 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.559 babysit your kids. I want to ask that questions. See 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.800 what Joe's answered, Michael's answer, Katie's answers. I know what 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:05.400 my answers, So we'll see what your answer is at home. 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:06.959 You can scream it at your radio. Stay here. 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:13.800 Mastrongyoc asked election workers to go door to door to 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.760 interrupt Sunday's Philly Eagles game to encourage them to vote. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.840 It's part of a new assisted suicide campaign. 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:29.800 Yeah, bother much of Eagles fans, Philly fans watch their 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:30.400 favorite teams. 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.720 Is that a sports joke, That's that's the point they're 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:37.559 intense fans. Jeck, Okay, gotcha, Yeah, that's the nature of 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:37.880 the joke. 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:41.360 So ranting earlier about how the United States and the 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.120 Western world has to a large extent become like an 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:50.360 aging limousine liberal our. The hard scrabble generations are years 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.160 in the past, and we've become very, very comfortable, and 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:57.800 we go from you know, wealthy person soiree to soaree 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:02.359 spouting you know, progressive valueues because we've built. 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:03.320 Such a secure and. 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.360 Prosperous world through the opposite of those values, that we 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.720 have the luxury to do that. And I worry that 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:15.000 that's just the natural trajectory of empires, and that we've 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.960 completely lost touch of what Jack and I were discussing 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:23.040 last segment, which is, in the real world, nothing matters 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:26.959 but power and self interest. If you can use your 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.880 power and self interest to get yourself a certain amount 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.840 of security, then you can indulge those better angels of 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:40.120 your nature, to paraphrase Lincoln. But once you lose lose 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:44.560 sight of the fact that the quest for power around 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.800 the world is an utterly practical one and is not 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.000 all flowery and filled with principle. Once you lose sight 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.920 of that, you're in serious danger. Anyway, I've referenced this 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.520 story many times because it's so instructive. And this was 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:02.679 a number of years ago that a certain federal counterintelligence 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:09.199 agency went to a certain major American university that may 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:13.760 or may not rhyme with the Bouniversity of Ballifornia at Bavis. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.360 I think enough years have passed that I can be 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.839 a little more specific than I used to be. And 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.240 they were alerting the university president that there were a 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:31.040 large number of Chinese nationals on the campus, many of 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.560 whom were their in official capacities, that had close ties 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.760 to the Chinese Communist Party and had a pattern of 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:42.560 contacts that was highly suspicious, to say the least. The 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.880 response to that American university president, getting back to my 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:51.440 aging limousine liberal metaphor, the response to that president was 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:57.439 get off my campus, euracists. So some of the most 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:01.600 practical people in America saying, hey, we've got foreign agents, 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.800 in all likelihood operating on your campus. The response was 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:09.400 go away, you racists. Because even to bring that up 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.680 was somehow racist. If that is not a triumph of 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.480 self indulgent principle over practicality. 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.080 I can't think of a better example, because I would 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:23.600 assume that university president believes we spy on other countries. Well, 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.400 of course we do, right, But they don't believe China 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.840 would spy on us, what out of the goodness of 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:29.600 their hearts or what? 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.600 To even alleged it is racist? Yeah, which is so 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:37.480 effing stupid. I want to slap them like a cartoon character. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.160 And a wackon awacon. Although I don't. 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:41.880 Think that person has been in charge for a number 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.440 of years, but their successors, I'm sure I have similar attitudes. 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.120 But which brings us to this story from the Wall 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.680 Street Journal how Beijing recruited New York China towns for 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:56.720 its influence campaigns, and a congresswoman's link to a Communist 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:00.920 Party initiative ran through one of these local hometowns associations. 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:02.880 I will spell it out for you. 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.760 In April of nineteen, a representative of Grace Meng was 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.720 launching into a busy legislative week on Capitol Hill. The 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.760 same day, in the central Chinese province of Henan, two 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:14.560 Meng associates were. 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:15.960 Delivering a letter of. 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:21.880 Appreciation from her to the chief of an international influence 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:26.560 operation managed by the Chinese Communist Party. She was sending 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.960 him a thank you note. A common denominator in both 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:33.120 the China trip and in Meng's political rises in New 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.320 York association of Chinese Americans. 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:35.800 Like her. 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.920 The two travelers to China were leaders of the Heenan 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:43.200 Association of Eastern America, a fixture of Congresswoman Meng's life 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.920 for decades, including the over fifteen years the Democrat has 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.120 represented one of New York's chinatowns. 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:50.520 The association is. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:54.600 Central to bombshell federal allegations that Beijing had a mole. 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:56.640 You may remember the story in the New. 0:15:56.600 --> 0:16:02.000 York Governor's office, and the congresswoman is now distancing herself 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.120 from a group that for years described her as its 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:11.160 vice chair. The idea is these hometown associations, because their 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.520 members hail from the same place in Communist China, are 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.760 best known across the US for promoting lunar New Year parades. 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.360 And dragon dances and that sort of thing. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.600 But the same year Meng was elected to Congress, Shijinping 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.640 took power in Beijing. And breathed new life into a 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:29.120 Communist Party instrument known as the United Front Work Department, 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:35.560 which operates through these hometown associations. They're all across America 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:40.880 spreading pro Communist information, rooting out dissenters. You remember those 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:46.360 secret jails we've talked about. We are absolutely infested with 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.240 Chinese intelligence agents and spies. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:56.120 Would you let Trump babiesit your kids? Is a question 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:01.920 Liz Cheney asked yesterday, and I think she thought the 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:05.480 obvious answer would be no. Anyway, that and other stuff 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:12.600 on the way, stay tuned, arms strong, and getty. That's right. 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.320 It's gonna be the Yankees versus the Los Angeles Dodgers 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.560 in the World Series, and tickets are already going for 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:21.400 over one thousand dollars by Game three. The only people 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.240 who'll be able to afford tickets will be the players. 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.119 New York and LA are both great cities, but of 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.239 course they each have some danger. I mean, in LA 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:34.359 there's wildfires, flooding, mud slides, earthquakes, extreme heat, and in 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:35.680 New York there's Times Square. 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:41.399 Do you think this will get huge ratings in the 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.120 back in the day, I mean, it's been forty years 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.240 since this has happened. But back in the day, a 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.240 Yankees Dodgers series would get huge, huge ratings. But I 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.640 don't know if that's the baseball is the same way anymore. 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:57.119 Well for the modern era, for the present day, they 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.879 couldn't do better. I don't think will it equal the 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:05.200 ratings in you know, nineteen seventy eight, No as percentages, 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.800 But I think this is going to be a great series. 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.800 But will people outside of LA and New York watch 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:15.399 because I just think so. I've been following this for 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:19.560 a couple of years. It's baseball more than the other sports. 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.040 For some reason, It's become so regional and people watch 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.439 if their local team is in and just don't have 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.040 much interest. As opposed to the NFL. People will watch, 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:29.560 you know, a Monday night football game with two teams 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:31.320 that are very far away from them. They just like 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:33.679 the NFL. But it's not the same him for Major 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.359 League Baseball for some reason, that's true. 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.840 But this is as good as it gets with Sho 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.399 Hey o Tani and Aaron Judge and there are other stars. 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.040 If you're a baseball fan, you know their names, but 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:44.879 this is a great great. 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:48.919 Sure, you got Billy Martin and Tommy Lussorda and Reggie 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:53.119 Jackson and Ron Say and maybe you ought to hit 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:57.640 refresh there on your Internet. A couple of dumb things 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:01.399 I've come up with around the election. There is actually 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:06.200 something you can refer to as Trump derangement syndrome, where 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.880 it makes people so crazy with their dislike of him 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.080 that they, well, they get crazy. I think there's all 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.040 kinds of reasons you can not want Trump to be 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.520 president of the United States, and on some of them 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:22.000 I would agree with you, But the he's going to 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:26.000 become a dictator or whateverything I just find nutty. Like, 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:30.119 for instance, Liz Cheney yesterday when she was campaigning with 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.359 Kamala Harris, and I don't quite get that. I get 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:36.560 being against Trump. I don't get if you're a staunch 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.439 conservative standing up with the person that is a one 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.520 hundred and eighty degrees from you onlike every other topic 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:46.200 that you care about, seems weird to me. But it's bizarre, 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:51.040 it's indefensible, she said. One of our things she said 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:54.320 on stage, Liz Cheney said, was if you wouldn't trust 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:57.240 a person to babysit your kids, how can you trust 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:00.280 them with our foreign policy, and I thought, it's to 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.800 me that you're taking that as a given you can 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:06.720 in a Kamala Harris rally, I think, but I think 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:08.679 Trump's all kinds of a whack job, But I'd be 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:11.200 fine with him watching my kids. Wouldn't bother me a bit? 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:16.280 Oh number before I dignify that notion with a response, 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:16.800 and I will. 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:20.359 That's an idiotic framing of a foreign. 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.280 Please discussion exactly, so hell are you talking about? 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:25.760 I did see some responses to it by I don't 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:28.000 know if I'd let Winston Churchill maybe sit my kids, 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:30.160 but I'm glad he was, you know, running England during 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:33.560 World War Two. It's not the way I choose my leaders. 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:35.719 I was going to offer up a different one, but 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:37.160 that one's better. Yeah. 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:39.919 In fact, I would definitely not trust Winston Churchill with 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:44.439 my children, not even close. On the other hand, as 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:48.959 foreign policy was spot on, that is an absolutely idiotic framing. 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:53.480 Having said that, even Hillary Clinton back in the day 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:58.639 famously that twenty sixteen debate question, say something nice about 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:02.000 the other candidate, and Hillary said he's done a great 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:06.199 job with his kids, his kids are terrific. So idiotic 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:09.680 question and the opposite answer of what you intended, Liz, 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:13.359 other than that, thanks for your contribution to the National Conversation. 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:14.920 Well, the reason I brought it up is the whole 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:18.959 Trump derangement syndrome where she hates him so much that 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:22.800 she just assumes there's giants swathes of America that think 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:25.840 he's not capable of watching kids because he's so deranged. 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:28.960 And I just okay, And for what it's worth, I 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.080 would I would be delighted to have Kamala Harris take 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:33.600 care of my kids when they were kids, like Lady 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:37.600 Joe Biden hope but but nice or Joe Biden prior 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:39.919 to his dementia. I wouldn't now because he might, you know, 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:42.919 forget what he's doing. And I'd have to warn my kids. 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:47.159 Look, he's gonna sniff your hair a lot, all right, 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:48.800 just don't let it go beyond that. 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:50.720 I wouldn't want to come home and they're sitting in 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:54.600 dirty diapers and haven't been feding three meals. Uh what 0:21:54.600 --> 0:22:00.280 what damn it? Look it that's not a joke. And 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:02.840 I would warn my kids reach in the pool and 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:06.119 rub my leg down. Joe was trained and watched the 0:22:06.160 --> 0:22:09.200 hair come back up again. That's right. 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:10.960 He When I would tell my kids, look, if you 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:14.719 feel a little sick and doctor Jill offers to treat you, 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:16.240 she's not a real doctor. 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:19.639 He would regale them with some interesting tales, none of 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:22.040 which are true, but they would be very entertaining stories. 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:25.199 Any kids, you ever leave the switch playing out on 0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:28.159 the rain barrel, we get it all rusty, all right, 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:30.600 we're not having Joe and Jill you bang them on 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:34.840 the no no, and you're not baby singing our kids anymore. 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:36.320 Right. I'd come home and the kids would tell he 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:37.919 told us this great story about how he got a 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:39.600 chain fight at the pool with this guy. 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:44.200 If you around your head, if you bend your knife 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:46.679 and make it rusty, it leaves a jagged wound in 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:50.280 your enemies. Daddy, Okay, that's the last time you stay 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:53.680 at the bidens. So the other Trump arrangement thing before 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:56.320 we get to an ad that is the other side. 0:22:56.400 --> 0:22:58.760 Just make him crap up so it happens all the 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:04.199 way around. Quit acting like the Republicans have cornered the 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:09.800 market on deceptive ads or crazy talk or appealing to 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:11.200 the lowest common denominator. 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:14.119 Quit acting that way. That's what bothers me y'all do 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:20.560 it anyway. Here's an article in Politico this is new 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:24.639 the very real scenario where Trump loses power but takes 0:23:24.680 --> 0:23:30.280 power anyway, on how Trump could lose the election but 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:34.320 end up just taking the presidency. The very real scenario 0:23:34.600 --> 0:23:41.280 says politically not, it's not not in the least reel. 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:45.640 So why would you put that again? Trump arrangement syndrome. 0:23:45.920 --> 0:23:49.119 You think you have tons of readers that, yeah, that 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:51.879 could happen where he loses, but he just you know, 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:54.840