1 00:00:01,520 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: Luck and Load Michael Verie Show is on the air. 2 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 2: The question is what is the future of democratic leadership? 3 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: Who is going to be effective? 4 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 2: But we have dynamic, young new leaders where some of 5 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 2: the Chris Murphy is a top leader, and Cory Booker 6 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 2: is a dynamic leader. Brian Schatz is a dynamic leader. 7 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 2: I mean Elizabeth Warren, someone who's ideology I appreciate. 8 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 3: Now. We said we are anchoring ourselves in the moral traditions. 9 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 3: When we came out here over ten hours ago, Hakima 10 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,520 Speaker 3: and I said, this is a bigger moment than politics. 11 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 3: This is a moral moment in America. And we were gonna. 12 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: Sit here for a long time. 13 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 3: I didn't know we'd be sitting for ten hours. But 14 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:51,519 Speaker 3: it's ten hours and we're still going, and we got 15 00:00:51,560 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 3: some great people here. 16 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 4: This is who I grew up believing with my brothers. 17 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 4: This is our family's story. My apology is an apology 18 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 4: for not having been more sensitive about tribal citizenship and 19 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 4: tribal sovereignty. I really want to underline the point tribes 20 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 4: and only tribes determine tribal citizenship. It is an issue 21 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 4: of tribal sovereignty. 22 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 5: And this shutdown hurt. 23 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 6: It did, But unfortunately, I don't think there is a 24 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 6: way to save this country, to save our democracy without 25 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 6: there being some difficult, hard moments along the way. 26 00:02:58,240 --> 00:02:59,880 Speaker 7: I got the eyes. 27 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: Some good ball over the weekend. 28 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,519 Speaker 8: Congratulations to the Texas A and m Aggie's for the 29 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 8: biggest comeback in Aggie history. Boy, they just about blew it. 30 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 8: I mean there they were in the big time, everybody watching, 31 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 8: and I thought they were going to blow it like 32 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 8: Kim Kardashian. 33 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 1: But they didn't. Pulled it out. 34 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 8: Marcel Reid, their quarterback, tweeting after the game, sorry about 35 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 8: the first half. 36 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: I like a good sense of humor in an athlete. 37 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 8: Well played, Marcel, well played, Texas A and m holding 38 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 8: on to the number three spot. 39 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: I think they're better in Indiana. I'll tell you that. 40 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 8: Oklahoma beating Alabama, throwing the playoff picture into quite the flux. 41 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 8: The number four Alabama Crimson Tide, having recovered from an 42 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 8: early loss and then marching back and looking like maybe 43 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 8: they weren't the Alabama of Nick saban Old, but they're solid. 44 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: They're going to be there at the end. Oklahoma twenty 45 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: three to twenty one. With the win. 46 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 8: All ut had to do was win Saturday evening and 47 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,720 Speaker 8: hopefully they beat Arkansas. That's that's not given. And then 48 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 8: you've got the big matchup UT in A and N 49 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 8: the last game of the season, the storied rivalry that 50 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 8: had been ended because A and M went to the 51 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 8: SEC and then finally Texas back in the SEC. So 52 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 8: you've got that big game and for Texans, that is 53 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 8: the rivalry that is. 54 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:42,159 Speaker 1: The Civil War, the Oregon State, that is the. 55 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 8: Auburn Alabama, that is Ohio State, Michigan. I mean, this 56 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 8: is one of these This is one of these rivalries 57 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 8: that you just loved to see and UT did blow it. 58 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 8: They absolutely blew it to a very good Georgia team. 59 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,040 Speaker 8: Now it's because they have been in the past, but 60 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 8: a very good one. Michigan barely held on against Northwestern Northwestern. 61 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 8: Always like Arkansas or Kentucky, pops somebody per year that 62 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 8: they're not supposed to be USC beating Iowa, Georgia Tech 63 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,560 Speaker 8: beat Boston College, Clemson beat Louisville. 64 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 1: Boy, how far they've fallen. 65 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 8: Davo says he's not going to play in the portal, 66 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 8: and it looks like it's going to cost him. Harvard 67 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,799 Speaker 8: beat Penn in case you were wondering about the IVY League, 68 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 8: and yeah, that'll be good enough for now. I will 69 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 8: say I'm fascinated by the coaching carousel. The idea of 70 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 8: Nick Saban coaching again is very intriguing. Where Lane Kiffin 71 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 8: will go very intriguing. These are what make college football 72 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:53,040 Speaker 8: so darn much fun. But let's talk about real life 73 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 8: and government and policy in America, in the country we're 74 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 8: going to leave to our children, because that too, has 75 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 8: devolved into pure entertainment. When Donald Trump was elected, the 76 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 8: Democrats had to knock him off his game because Trump 77 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 8: came in this second time a different man. On the 78 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 8: first day, he was issuing executive orders. He wasn't waiting 79 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 8: around shaking hands, trying to play nice. He knew he 80 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 8: had to strike while the iron's hot. He started in 81 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 8: on illegals on day one, and he caught everybody's attention. 82 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 8: And the Democrats didn't know what hit him. It was 83 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,039 Speaker 8: a blitzkreak. They had no idea and they were on 84 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 8: their heels. But slowly but surely, they said, hey, we've 85 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 8: got to do something. He's going to be the most 86 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 8: popular president of American history. Despite everything we've done to him. 87 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 8: We tried to kill him, we shot him, we dragged 88 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 8: him through thirty four indictments, we tried to bankrupt him. 89 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: We've accused him of rape, we've accused him of. 90 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 8: Tax cheating, which, by the way, now Eric Swaalwell turns 91 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 8: out he is allegedly a mortgage sheet as well. 92 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: Who knew. 93 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:05,679 Speaker 8: Well, you got to think the hypocrisy when these stories 94 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 8: were playing in the news every day, Big Tish in 95 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 8: New York and Eric Swalwell and these others who are 96 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 8: allegedly committing real mortgage crimes wagging their finger at Donald Trump, 97 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 8: you have to think, right, It'll be like a guy 98 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 8: who's got thirty mistresses said, hey, have you. 99 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: Seen this Tiger Woods story? 100 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 8: Turns out he's messing around with a bunch of girls 101 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 8: and his wife Elin knocked him in the head with 102 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 8: his own golf club and he crashed his car. Well, 103 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 8: the Democrats tried to take Trump down and couldn't, and 104 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 8: they've tried everything, and the latest was that he was 105 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 8: a king. And then after that when they couldn't prove it, well, 106 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 8: he's a king. We don't want a king. The next 107 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 8: week everybody said, we kind of do want a king, 108 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 8: want a king who'll feed us, give. 109 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: Us free food? 110 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 8: And they said, well, now he's trying to starve you. 111 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 8: The king's trying to starve you. Well, the newest is 112 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 8: the Epstein allegations. And that won't hold up either. But 113 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 8: that's the newest in a long line. Don't just keep trying. 114 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 8: They're gonna throw it against. 115 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 7: The wall aside like a fish. 116 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: Whoever didn't hide, didn't? I find you're gonna rainy next. 117 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 7: Keep me up in. 118 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 5: Sow it down, picking old time. 119 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: I gotta keep roll of those of winds. See the 120 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: winders stepping out of tempo, keeping breving bedom with the 121 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,960 Speaker 1: song on the radio. I gotta keep road. 122 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,679 Speaker 3: I'm trying to love a way. 123 00:08:55,720 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: Look at all that away, Oh me Eddy Rabbit. 124 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 8: Today Elvis Presley background singers made good day. President Trump 125 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 8: is pushing House Republicans to vote on releasing the Epstein files, 126 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,439 Speaker 8: saying he has nothing to hide. He's not the only 127 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 8: one who says he has nothing to hide. Do you 128 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 8: remember when NBC News hosted a panel of Epstein victims 129 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 8: and then asked them if President Trump was involved. They said, no, 130 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:33,320 Speaker 8: he wasn't involved. 131 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 9: I do have to ask, and I know, and it's 132 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 9: just something that I think were compelled to at this 133 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 9: moment with the attention on President Trump, with these questions 134 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 9: are out a part in did anybody see or hear 135 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 9: of the President himself doing anything inappropriate as a related 136 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 9: to Jeffrey Epstein. 137 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 8: Nothing these people say is honest, Nothing they do is decent. 138 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: Tell you what. Rather than the New York Post. 139 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 8: An objective source that they would call conservative, let's go 140 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:10,600 Speaker 8: to the Washington Post as liberal as it gets right headline. 141 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:12,559 Speaker 1: Three days ago Friday. 142 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 8: Epstein texted with House democrat during Cohen hearing. Document show 143 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:24,079 Speaker 8: newly released documents from the convicted sex offender's estate include 144 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 8: text messages from him at Epstein that appear to influence 145 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 8: the lawmaker's questions to Trump's personal attorney at a twenty 146 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 8: nineteen congressional hearing. The newly released documents from Jeffrey Epstein's 147 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 8: estate show that the convicted sex offender texted with a 148 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 8: Democrat Member of Congress, Stacey Plaskett of the US Virgin Islands. 149 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: She's technically a delegate, but she's considered a congressman. 150 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 8: During a congressional hearing with Michael Cohen and that those 151 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 8: text messages may have influenced the congressman's questions of Cohen, 152 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 8: President Trump's former personal attorney. In the texts, Epstein appeared 153 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 8: to be watching the February twenty nineteen hearing in real time, 154 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 8: and at one point informed Plaskett, whose name is redacted 155 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 8: from the documents, that Cohen had brought up former Trump 156 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 8: executive assistant Rona Graff in his testimony. 157 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: At the time, Cohen was. 158 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 8: Testifying before the House Oversight Committee against his former boss, 159 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 8: alleging that Trump was racist, manipulated financial records, and directed 160 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 8: hush money payments to cover up his extra marital affairs, 161 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 8: allegations Trump denied. The president said on social media that 162 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 8: Cohen was lying. Before testimony began, Cohen brought up rona 163 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 8: keeper of the seats, Epstein texted, misspelling Graft's first name, Ronas. 164 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,199 Speaker 8: Plasket responded quick, I'm up next. Is that an acronym? 165 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:14,600 Speaker 8: She added, suggesting she would question Cohen soon. That's his assistant, 166 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 8: Epstein replied. The copies of the text messages were included 167 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 8: in a trove of thousands of pages of documents containing 168 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 8: Epstein's emails and other communications released Wednesday by the House 169 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 8: Oversight Committee. The messages show Epstein was invested in what 170 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 8: Cohen was sharing about Trump, the financier's former friend, during 171 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 8: his testimony. Trump has provided different accounts about why he 172 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 8: ended his decades long relationship with Epstein and has tried 173 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 8: to distance himself from the deceased sex offender, But he 174 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 8: has previously denied knowing about Epstein's abuse. So you know 175 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 8: what's interesting about this means means that Epstein was trying 176 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 8: to influence the public's opinion of Donald Trump. He was 177 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 8: trying to bring harm on Donald Trump. That is not 178 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,440 Speaker 8: in dispute. You can tell that from the text messages, 179 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 8: but that is very telling. Think about this, Why is 180 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 8: Jeffrey Epstein trying to bring harm to Donald Trump? Epstein 181 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:33,360 Speaker 8: is in prison at the time. Let me correct that 182 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,599 Speaker 8: you are not taken to prison until you are sentenced. 183 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 8: You are taken to jail or a detention center. You're 184 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:46,960 Speaker 8: not being incarcerated at that point. I mean, you wouldn't 185 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 8: know the difference. You're inside steel bars and they're giving 186 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 8: you bad food, and you're wearing an orange jumpsuit, but 187 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 8: you are not yet serving a sentence. You are detained 188 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:03,439 Speaker 8: in a detention or as often called a jail. 189 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 1: So it was in. 190 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 8: July July sixth that Epstein was arrested on federal charges 191 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 8: of sex trafficking minors in New York and Florida. We 192 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 8: know that he had been arrested about a decade earlier 193 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 8: and did a kind of a little game where they 194 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 8: pretended he was in jail, but he could basically come and. 195 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 1: Go as he pleased. 196 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 8: He was arrested July sixth, and he died August tenth. 197 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 8: You could argue that he committed suicide, but I've never 198 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 8: met a reasonable person with any knowledge of the case 199 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 8: who believes he committed suicide. Not one, not one. And 200 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 8: if you do, then I suspect you also think that 201 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 8: j Simpson was innocent, that Fauci had nothing to do 202 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 8: with the COVID shot. There are probably a few other 203 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 8: things that you think, but I don't know anybody that 204 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 8: feels that way. So why is Epstein trying to influence 205 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 8: the case against Trump, who at the time as a 206 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 8: sitting president. This is being missed because this is a 207 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 8: very important point. People are saying that Epstein was Trump's friend. 208 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 8: I think at one point they were collegial with each other, 209 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 8: Trump was very, very social. He made it his business 210 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 8: to know people, including powerful people and famous people. That's 211 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 8: how he became very famous. He interacted with other famous people. 212 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 8: But if Epstein is his friend, he wouldn't try to 213 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 8: take him down because think about about this. If he 214 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 8: expects that he's going to be given a pardon, he 215 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 8: would not want harm to come to Trump. How does 216 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 8: he know he's not going to get a pardon. If 217 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 8: Trump had anything to hide, he would do exactly what 218 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 8: Joe Biden did with his son Hunter. 219 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: Of course he had plenty to hide. 220 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 8: He would give him a pardon under the agreement that 221 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 8: he never talked, but he was letting the system go 222 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 8: after him, and Epstein knew it. 223 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 1: That's not the sign of a guilty man. 224 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 8: If you're Donald Trump, here is he up and over 225 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 8: that four foot ditch and Michael Very show the Evil 226 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 8: can Evil stunt cycle rum ideal. 227 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 6: Len amazing. 228 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 8: Let's go back in the way back time machine to 229 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:07,640 Speaker 8: January twenty twenty. 230 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: It is an election year. 231 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 8: Sorry, take that back, Yeah, yeah, January twenty twenty. 232 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 1: That's right. 233 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:22,159 Speaker 8: So the fact that Trump runs for president three different 234 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 8: times throws me off, and the fact that he won 235 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 8: three different times is amazing, but we'll leave that alone 236 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:32,199 Speaker 8: for now. It's January twenty twenty. We've just begun the 237 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 8: fourth and final year of Donald Trump's first term as president. 238 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:42,919 Speaker 8: Things are looking good in the country. He has a 239 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:47,879 Speaker 8: plan in place to get us out of Afghanistan. I 240 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 8: am surprised how many people don't recognize how popular that was. 241 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 8: And then when Joe Biden office, they bungled. 242 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:04,399 Speaker 1: The exit. 243 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:11,959 Speaker 8: They absolutely bungled the exit. August twenty sixth, twenty twenty one, 244 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:18,440 Speaker 8: at cobbles Abbey Gate Airport, thirteen US service members were 245 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 8: killed and about one hundred and sixty Afghan civilians, ending 246 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:32,399 Speaker 8: a war that resulted in over seventy six thousand deaths, 247 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 8: including twenty four hundred and twenty American service members. The 248 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 8: Biden administration bungled halfway through their first year what Donald 249 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 8: Trump had accomplished. And this is the nature of the 250 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 8: fact that we don't have kings or presidents or dictators 251 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:58,439 Speaker 8: for twenty years, so the lack of continuity can be 252 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:06,200 Speaker 8: a real challenge. FDR was the president who got us 253 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 8: into World War Two, but it befell Harry Truman to 254 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 8: make the decision to drop the bombs that ended the 255 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,880 Speaker 8: final peace of that war, which would have been far 256 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:22,919 Speaker 8: more bloody had those bombs not been dropped, something that 257 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:27,719 Speaker 8: is not discussed enough when the America is awful crowd 258 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 8: who've had enough to say, they've said enough, they've. 259 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: Had their moment. 260 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 8: The number of lives that would have been lost on 261 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:39,639 Speaker 8: both sides, But I only care about the American lives 262 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:43,679 Speaker 8: when I say America first, That's what I mean. The 263 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 8: number of American lives that would have been lost in 264 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:50,359 Speaker 8: the continued fighting had we not dropped those bombs is significant. 265 00:19:51,119 --> 00:20:00,680 Speaker 8: The Japanese were a fierce, brave, heroic, proud, talented warrior 266 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:06,919 Speaker 8: with good equipment and good training, and the war was 267 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 8: a fae to complete. It was going against the Japanese. 268 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 8: But the Japanese are a unique culture. They weren't simply 269 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 8: going to say, well, if we project this out, we're 270 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 8: going to lose. They were willing to fight to the death. 271 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 8: That's the kind of people they are. They are very, 272 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:34,640 Speaker 8: very proud people. They're proud of their traditions. In fact, 273 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,480 Speaker 8: I don't know of a people more proud of their 274 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 8: heritage and their traditions than the Japanese. Even the Chinese 275 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:46,199 Speaker 8: and Indians, in my opinion don't compare. I don't know 276 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:48,920 Speaker 8: why I said my opinion. Everything has my opinion, don't 277 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 8: need to say that. So the continuity was broken. Biden 278 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 8: comes in in bungles, a beautiful thing that Trump had 279 00:20:56,520 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 8: accomplished getting us out of the forever War. The Dan Crenshaw's, 280 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 8: the Lindsey Grahams, the Dick Cheneyese. They love forever wars. 281 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,199 Speaker 8: They love to send your sins to your sons to 282 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 8: war for decades because it makes a lot of money 283 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 8: for the people who pay their bills. And they love disaber, 284 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 8: rattle and sound tough. And the rest of us are 285 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,040 Speaker 8: weak if we don't support their forever wars, and the 286 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,480 Speaker 8: rest of us don't understand the threat. We have to 287 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 8: fight them over there, otherwise we have to fight them here. 288 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 8: But while we're fighting them over there, we end up 289 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 8: owing so many of them for helping our service members 290 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 8: while they're there, that we bring all those people here, 291 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 8: and then so many of them end up being rapists, 292 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:43,159 Speaker 8: con men, fraudsters. How about we leave the rest of 293 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 8: the world to the rest of the world and stop 294 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 8: trying to put our nose in everything. If you want 295 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 8: to make a payment to the big defense contractors. Just 296 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:53,880 Speaker 8: make a direct payment. We don't have to waste all 297 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:58,199 Speaker 8: the American lives of good young men in order to 298 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:03,400 Speaker 8: do that. So it's January twenty twenty. Things are going 299 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 8: well in the country, foreign affairs, domestic affairs, the economy's booming. 300 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,520 Speaker 8: It is an era of good feeling. And it was 301 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 8: widely believed that Trump will not be able to be 302 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:18,639 Speaker 8: defeated in his second term in his reelection, and the 303 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,159 Speaker 8: Democrats didn't have a good stable of candidates. So the 304 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 8: Democrats didn't have a good candidate waiting, and it was 305 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 8: believed it would be Biden, about whom Barack Obama, he 306 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 8: had been Obama's vice president, about whom Obama said, well, 307 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:40,480 Speaker 8: if anyone can f it up, it's Joe Biden. Even 308 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 8: the one guy that should have something nice to say 309 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:46,120 Speaker 8: about Joe Biden says he's a bubbling idiot. 310 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: And he is he. 311 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 8: Always has been. So the Democrats don't have a strong candidate. 312 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 8: They don't have a charismatic candidate. They've got a group 313 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 8: of also rans, one guy who was the mayor of 314 00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 8: a little town who's claimed to fame. As he puts 315 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 8: his butt up in the air, an angry but unknown, 316 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 8: ugly senator from Minnesota named Amy Klobuchar, Pocahontas, a socialist, 317 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 8: whiny old white woman Bernie Sanders, also a socialist, which 318 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:22,639 Speaker 8: is why they fought, because they're fighting over the same 319 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 8: votes with a crooked finger who looks like a crazy 320 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 8: old man. And then you had the intersectionality candidate, the 321 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 8: half black, half Asian half this half that what Rush 322 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 8: Limball called Willie Brown's mattress. And that left the only 323 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,679 Speaker 8: thing the establishment thought they could win with was a 324 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 8: decrepit old white guy. So that's how they picked Biden. 325 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,680 Speaker 8: These are good times in America. This is good times. 326 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 8: Trump's going to give us four more solid years. 327 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 1: And what happened. 328 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 8: They unleash COVID lockdowns, mail votes. They create the environment, 329 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,879 Speaker 8: they lay the predicate. It's all a process. They create 330 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,359 Speaker 8: the environment for the fraud in voting. 331 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: And then a. 332 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,920 Speaker 8: Random case things like this happen all the time. Some 333 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,400 Speaker 8: black guy in Minneapolis on the run from Houston where 334 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 8: he was a felon, in the middle of committing a felony, 335 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,720 Speaker 8: drops fentonel down his throat, chokes to death as he 336 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,639 Speaker 8: had almost done thirty days earlier. They blamed it on 337 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,879 Speaker 8: the cops. The cops are bad. Trump represents the cops. 338 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,679 Speaker 1: You create a race war, the combination of all of that, 339 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: and they steal the election. 340 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 8: So what you're seeing with all this Epstein talk, and 341 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 8: Trump's an Epstein guy. They called him the King. Nobody 342 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 8: bought it. They said he was starving people out. They 343 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 8: were the ones doing it. They said he cause World 344 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:04,120 Speaker 8: War three? Look at the peace deals? Was it ten now? 345 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 8: So now they're in a rough situation. They have to 346 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 8: try something desperate. So that's why you're hearing about Epstein now, 347 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:15,959 Speaker 8: not because they believe it. If they believed it, they 348 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:17,719 Speaker 8: had four years in power. They could have stopped it. 349 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 8: If they believed that Trump was involved with Epstein. They 350 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,679 Speaker 8: had power for four years. You don't think that pit 351 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 8: him to the wall. Well, Michael, they didn't want to 352 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 8: get the Clintons involved. They would sacrifice the Clintons to 353 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 8: burn Trump. Make no mistake about that. They didn't prosecute 354 00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,640 Speaker 8: Trump because they didn't have anything on Trump. And if 355 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,320 Speaker 8: you're in power and you prosecute somebody, then you look bad. 356 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 8: But they're out of power now, so they just hurl 357 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 8: things at the Wall three. 358 00:25:52,800 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 1: Michael Bay did show on Bull Plump Changing Everyon. 359 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 8: Over the weekend, President Trump went on truth Social and 360 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:55,679 Speaker 8: called the whole controversy a Democrat hopes, saying it's a 361 00:26:55,720 --> 00:27:01,880 Speaker 8: distraction from what he sees as recent Republican wins even 362 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,760 Speaker 8: pointed back to comminents he made aboard Air Force One 363 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,200 Speaker 8: telling Republicans or telling reporters that Republicans should go ahead 364 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,879 Speaker 8: and release everything. Get it out there, Just get it 365 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 8: out there. You'll never shut the Democrats up because this 366 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,879 Speaker 8: is what they do. They're still claiming racism for everything, 367 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:27,160 Speaker 8: but at least get it out there so the people 368 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 8: who are paying attention, who are reasonable, who wonder, can 369 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 8: rest assured. So here we are talking about the Epstein files. 370 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 8: To put out this fire and go to the next 371 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 8: one they create. While Trump has to do this, he's 372 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,119 Speaker 8: trying to also do great things for America, which is 373 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 8: where our energy should be focused. I have never been 374 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 8: a Steven A. 375 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,159 Speaker 1: Smith fan. I realize some people are. I'm not. 376 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 8: I think he's a bluffer. I think his whole delivery, 377 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 8: in his style is all. 378 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:01,919 Speaker 3: You know. 379 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:06,120 Speaker 8: When Obama does his black preacher thing, that's not really him. 380 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 8: I think that Steven A. Smith talks in some way 381 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:14,880 Speaker 8: and got himself trapped into this talk of being an athlete, 382 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 8: which he tries to pretend he is a more of 383 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 8: an athlete than I am, but he's not on par 384 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 8: with the players. 385 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: He wants to palle around with. Enough bad about Steven A. Smith. 386 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 8: He actually has some pretty good perspectives. Now it's all 387 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,880 Speaker 8: a question of expectations. He's got some really stupid perspectives too, 388 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 8: and he's too quick to use race in everything. But 389 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 8: when he says something that sounds reasonable, it cuts through, 390 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 8: kind of like Bill Maher, because that's not what you 391 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:49,520 Speaker 8: expected him to say. So he had something to say 392 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 8: that I think was more intellectually honest than anything the 393 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 8: Democrats have said about this issue. He says, the Democrats, 394 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 8: and there's sudden interest in the Epstein files they had 395 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 8: four years if they actually legitimately cared. 396 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 1: The thing about it is, if the Democrats. 397 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 8: Ever actually believed any of what they say, it might 398 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 8: be worth us having a real conversation. 399 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: But they don't. Here's what he said. 400 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,719 Speaker 7: Ladies and gentlemen, keep in mind that the Epstein files 401 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 7: were in existence and free to have been opened during 402 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 7: the Biden administration. You were there for four years. How 403 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 7: come you didn't open it as a Democratic party? 404 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 8: Then? 405 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,200 Speaker 1: What am I missing? I'm not saying. 406 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 7: I know it's a legitimate question. Maybe I don't remember 407 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 7: the answer. Maybe my extraordinary producers should be able to 408 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 7: help me. 409 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: Doing a commercial break. 410 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 7: But from my understanding, the same files that will open 411 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 7: for being open now, with the two hundred and twenty 412 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 7: pages of documents or whatever it is, with various emails 413 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:06,280 Speaker 7: that could have been done when Biden was in office, Well, 414 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:10,640 Speaker 7: why didn't you do it? If it's so important? Now, 415 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 7: what would the Democrat doing at that particular moment in time. See, 416 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 7: this is the kind of stuff that smells, because my 417 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:28,719 Speaker 7: attitude is just deducing how much they despised Trump. 418 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 1: Is if there was some real bot. 419 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,959 Speaker 7: Dirt on him, since you went after him with the 420 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,720 Speaker 7: thirty four felony convictions, which essentially was deduced to him 421 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 7: paying hush money to Stormy Daniel's, a poorn. 422 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: Star, just so she would have revealed. 423 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 7: Their happenings with one another leading up to the election 424 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 7: in twenty sixteen. Okay, if you had something like that 425 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 7: that you were willing to parade him through the streets 426 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 7: with of course, if you had. 427 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 1: Something on him about Epstein, you to. 428 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,400 Speaker 7: Let it go earlier to make sure he didn't become 429 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 7: the forty seventh president. 430 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 8: That's just my thinking from a logical perspective. 431 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:08,520 Speaker 1: But what do I know? 432 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:15,360 Speaker 8: The all shucks kind of works there partially because when 433 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 8: you are a commentator, you have an anticipation of what 434 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 8: people are going to say. 435 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 3: Steven A. 436 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 8: Smith has made a name for himself as primarily a 437 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 8: basketball commentator, but a sports commentator. He is a big asset, 438 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 8: a big property for ESPN. He makes them a lot 439 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 8: of money and he makes a lot of money himself 440 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 8: in the process. And so for him to start offering 441 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 8: political opinions, he is very well aware that there will 442 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 8: be people who will say, what do you know, You're 443 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 8: just a sports guy, And so if someone disagrees with 444 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,960 Speaker 8: what he's saying, that's what they'll say. I know, because 445 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 8: if people disagree with something I say about sports, they'll say, 446 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:58,239 Speaker 8: stick to politics. And it doesn't matter whether I'm right 447 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 8: or wrong, or whether my reasoning is sounded. People want 448 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 8: a way to diminish what you're saying, so they don't. 449 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 8: It's an ad hominem attack that way, they don't have 450 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 8: to address the merit of your point. People get very 451 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 8: upset that I am in favor of NIL and the portal. 452 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 8: I feel as a fan myself, my fan experience. I 453 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 8: might like vanilla and you like chocolate or strawberry or whatever. 454 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 8: For me, the fan experience this year is better than 455 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 8: years past, and that is directly attributable to NIL and 456 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 8: the Portal. You are also seeing teams that do not 457 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,720 Speaker 8: typically compete prior to the last few years on the 458 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:56,680 Speaker 8: national scale in the top five Indiana, A, and M. 459 00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 8: You're seeing teams that were dominant Penn State, Oregon that 460 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,959 Speaker 8: are not able to dominate the way they did Alabama. 461 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,560 Speaker 8: I think you're seeing a greater degree of parody. You're 462 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:14,920 Speaker 8: seeing more upsets. You're seeing teams and programs that couldn't 463 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 8: compete before now competing on the highest level Texas Tech. 464 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,720 Speaker 8: To me, that's exciting. Which either way it doesn't matter. 465 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,480 Speaker 8: I don't take it personally. I have opinions on a 466 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:36,880 Speaker 8: lot of things. What is and isn't a sandwich was 467 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:40,400 Speaker 8: a raging discussion this morning. I love the conversation. I 468 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,520 Speaker 8: find value in the conversation. Some people don't, So we'll 469 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 8: get angry because they can't figure out how to express themselves. 470 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 8: They can't structure an argument. They don't have the data, 471 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 8: the experience, the knowledge, the analysis. So they will say, 472 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:02,800 Speaker 8: what do you know? Sports a stick to politics? Well, 473 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,080 Speaker 8: I know at least as much as you, because you're 474 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,759 Speaker 8: a sports fan. If you're going to say that a 475 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,040 Speaker 8: sports broadcaster has more knowledge than the rest of us. 476 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,080 Speaker 8: So what he's saying there is I know what you're 477 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,719 Speaker 8: going to say, Well, why does he know that? 478 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,600 Speaker 1: People are going to say that? Where do you think 479 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:20,439 Speaker 1: that's going to come from? 480 00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,399 Speaker 8: When he says Democrats had four years ago after Donald 481 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,839 Speaker 8: Trump when they were in power, and they didn't, he's 482 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,840 Speaker 8: not talking to Republicans. He's talking to black sports fans 483 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:37,160 Speaker 8: because that's who's going and white liberal sports fans because 484 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,000 Speaker 8: that's who's going to tell him shut up and dribble 485 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:42,000 Speaker 8: focus on sports. 486 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:43,400 Speaker 1: What do you know? 487 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,160 Speaker 8: Because when Steven Ah Smith finishes a statement cocky as 488 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,880 Speaker 8: he is, not only is he cocky, he tries to 489 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,759 Speaker 8: project the image of being cocky because that's part of 490 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,960 Speaker 8: his persona, the swagger. When he says that it makes 491 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,879 Speaker 8: no sense they could have done this, But what do 492 00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:01,400 Speaker 8: I know? He is trying to cut off at the past, 493 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,440 Speaker 8: what he knows they're going to say about him, because 494 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:04,719 Speaker 8: they know