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Episode One Hundred Seven: Trump Can't Lose and The Death Of College Football · The Death Of Journalism

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  Welcome to episode number one hundred and seven of the Death of Journalism podcast.
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  My name is John Zigler. I'm your host on today's show. Is the
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  rest of the world waking up from wokeness? More good news for Trump and
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  the presidential race, and what the end of college football as we know it
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  break we did at the Zigler household. We missed an episode because of Thanksgiving
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  last week, so that means we have a lot to cover in this episode
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  of the podcast, and I want to begin with a narrative that is starting
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  to form, especially on the right. The left is trying its best to
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  ignore it about what's happening in the world, and specifically when it comes to
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  issues like wokeness and political correctness and illegal immigration or immigration in general. And
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  I'm usually loathe to participate in two things that are inherent in this story.
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  One connect data points that really aren't all that related and come up with a
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  narrative for what's happening in the bigger scheme of things. I think that's a
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  dangerous thing to do. And also I think it's all it's very tenuous to
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  try to claim that that's what's going to happen or is happening in the United
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  States of America. But I will be the first to acknowledge that over the
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  last few weeks and months, there are a lot of very interesting data points
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  and this is definitely becoming a narrative in the right wing media. We saw
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  the election results in Argentina where a very Trump like libertarian figure, probably more
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  Trump like than the real Trump one. In Argentina, we had similar results
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  in Switzerland just this past week. The Netherlands saw a massive victory for GERTT.
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  Wilders, who is a well known figure in conservative circles in the United
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  States, a stunning victory there. Looks like he's going to be the next
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  Prime Minister of the Netherlands. We've seen signs of hope for election reform and
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  going away from the left in both Canada and France and upcoming elections. We've
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  seen situations happen in Sweden and Finland when it comes to fighting back against this
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  issue of immigration. In Ireland, there are some remarkable things going on.
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  Connor McGregor, the UFC fighter, is currently being investigated by the Irish police
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  for hate speech violations or hate crime violations because of comments he made after the
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  stabbing of several school children by an illegal immigrant in Ireland. And the response,
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  at least so far as far as I can tell, has been very
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  much pro McGregor, and it feels like the Irish authorities are way overplaying their
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  hand here and they may have created a galvanizing moment for those who are against
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  illegal immigration in Ireland and there have been protests and riots involved in that story.
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  And as I said, Sweden and Finland in similar situations. All this
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  is happening mostly in Europe, and it is remarkable what is occurring. And
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  I'm most interested because there is a six degrees of John Zigler connection. There
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  almost always is to every story. We joke about this on the podcast,
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  but what happened in the Netherlands was particularly interesting to me because while I've never
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  met Garrett Wylders, I know of him quite well because, for one thing,
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  he attended the premiere of my documentary film Media Male Practice How Obama Got
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  Elected at Seaback in Washington, d C. Now, I wasn't even aware
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  that he was there when the premiere happened. There were a lot of people
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  there. And the only reason I know is because the person who brought him
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  to the premiere of my movie was a woman who I had previously had a
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  romantic dalliance with. She was a pretty fairly prominent person at that time in
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  the conservative movement movement, and I was curious as to why she was there,
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  and she had told me she was coming and that she was bringing Garrett
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  Wilders, who now appears to be the next Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
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  Now, I don't know whether or not their connection was romantic. I have
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  suspicions that it was. But it's quite possible that Geert Wilders and I have
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  a woman in common in our history, but I can't say that for sure.
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  But he was very well known even way back then in the United States
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  as being someone who was trying to hold the line against illegal immigration. And
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  now all these years later, it appears as if he has become very,
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  very successful and is going to be the leader of the Netherlands. Now,
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  all of this, as I've already suggested, may or may not, have
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  an impact or an influence or maybe a precursor for what's happening in the United
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  States. I am skeptical of that for a couple of reasons. One because
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  I've always felt like our culture was at least somewhat unique, and also too
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  because I'm thinking we may be too far gone for this kind of massive reaction
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  against wokeness. If you look at the countries that I stated, Argentina,
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  Switzerland, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, to a lesser degree
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  of France and Canada, which hasn't even happened yet. But I'm hopeful that
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  there's going to be some reform there when it comes to the next elections based
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  upon how the opposition candidates are currently doing. But if you look at all
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  those countries they are, well, they're not as homogeneous as they used to
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  be. That's part of why they're reacting the way that they are. They're
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  generally pretty homogeneous, and because of that, I think that there is time
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  for them to react in a way that can be very dramatic and effective.
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  If you wait too long, then the people that are reacting to this,
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  if they're too slow to react, they lose the power to react, they
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  lose the incentive to react. They might be fearful to react. They It's
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  a little bit like a cancer taking over a body. At a certain point,
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  the cancer cannot be combated. You can't get rid of the cancer because
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  you'll kill the host. And I fear that that may be already where we
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  are in the United States as usual. I use California as the example.
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  California, I believe, is the precursor to almost everything that's gonna happen unfortunately
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  in the rest of the United States, and this has already happened in California
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  to a dramatic degree. Multiculturalism has already been embedded in the politics and the
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  culture and the law effectively in California. Now this is all you know.
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  This is where you know Colin McGregor, Connor McGregor gets accused somehow of hate
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  speech because in the left's minds, where you're talking about here is somehow racist.
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  No, it's not Racist's about your culture. It's about things like legal
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  immigration, about what you stand for as a country. That doesn't mean what
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  the color of your skin is. But that's what the left has done to
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  try to nip this movement in the bud and they were very, very effective
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  at doing that in California. Decades ago, California had a pivotal moment.
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  It was maybe the suminal moment, not just in the state, but in
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  the bigger picture might have been in the United States of America. California passed
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  what was called Proposition one seven. Effectively, it banned any government benefits for
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  illegal immigrants, and it passed, but then the California courts basically just disregarded
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  it, eviscerated it. And once that happened, it was Katie bar the
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  door. The floodgates were opened, and it was all over for California.
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  Because eventually the people who believed in the traditional culture of California no longer had
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  the power. They lost the power, they no longer had enough of the
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  electorate in order to be able to combat this, this effort to destroy what
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  their culture had been in many ways destroy what citizenship even means. And so
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  that was the moment when California lost it forever, and it's been a downhill
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  slide ever since. Now does that mean the entire United States of America is
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  in that same position, No, not yet, but I fear that we're
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  darn close. And it's interesting that much of the rest of the world seems
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  to be already learning from this. They're learning that if you don't act now,
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  you're going to lose the power, use it, or lose it.
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  And well, I'm always loath to be optimistic. I do think that there's
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  some reasons to be optimistic in what we're seeing around the rest of the world.
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  I'm just not convinced yet that it's gonna happen in the United States,
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  because if it was going to happen in the United States, our last midterm
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  elections would have been completely different. Twenty twenty two would have been a red
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  wave instead of a red puddle. That's what would have happened. So that's
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  why I'm not on this movement. I'm not on the ship that says,
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  hey, this is an awesome situation that's happening around the world, and it's
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  going to come to the United States. And of course, most of the
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  people promoting this narrative are Trump fans, because they believe that this is a
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  precursor, this is foreshadowing for what's going to happen to the twenty twenty four
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  election, and that Donald Trump is gonna run to victory, just like what
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  happened in Argentina and the Netherlands and maybe happening socially and culturally and these other
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  European nations. I'm not nearly as convinced of that, but I do know
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  that it will become a self fulfilling prophecy when it comes to the Republican primary
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  process, because everything is continuing to further this notion that Trump is not just
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  a possible winning candidate in twenty twenty four. In the Trump supporter's minds,
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  it's a done deal. There's no possible way he's going to lose to Biden.
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  And what's happening around the world is furthering this idea this narrative. It
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  seems like almost everything that happens in some way, shape or form plays to
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  Donald Trump's advantage all throughout twenty twenty three, even when he's getting indicted for
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  federal crimes, it plays to his advantage bizarrely, at least on the Republican
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  side of the equation. And this is yet another example of this. And
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  I have to tell you, as I've been documenting on this podcast, slowly
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  but surely, the polling data seems to indicate that Trump has a legitimate chance
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  to beat Biden. Of course, anybody would have a very legitimate chance to
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  beat an extremely weak Joe Biden. Nicky Haley on paper, and I realize
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  she has not been nearly as attacked as she would be if she ever became
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  the Republican nominee, which is not going to happen. But Nicky Haley kicks
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  the living crap out of Joe Biden far more dramatically than Donald Trump does.
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  But the last as of this taping, the last ten national polls that qualified
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  for the Real Clear Politics average, which is generally accepted in the political industry
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  as the gold standard. The last ten national polls have all shown Donald Trump
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  beating Joe Biden nationally. Now, that's not how we determine elections. We
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  do it by the electoral college, and it's possible, it's possible that we
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  may could have an inverse situation of what happened in twenty sixteen, where Trump
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  lost the popular vote but one the electoral college vote. It's maybe the electoral
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  college is in the advantage of Democrats, although you could counter argue that by
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  saying that because of the last Census, Republicans actually picked up a few electoral
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  college votes in their states. So that's really we don't really know that,
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  and we certainly don't know yet how RFK Junior and other third or fourth party
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  candidates might impact the race. So there's a lot of unknown But perception often
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  is reality in politics, and the perception right now, and it's not based
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  on a fantasy, is that Trump would beat Biden. He's beating him by
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  over two points in the national average, and that's probably only going to go
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  up because of the way this average is done, at least in the next
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  couple of weeks. And that's really remarkable because that is way ahead of where
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  Trump was against Biden at this point in twenty nineteen when he was the incumbent
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  president. Of course, Joe Biden wasn't dementia Joe quite yet. Then the
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  perception of him is that he is too old to be president. He just
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  turned eighty one. The vast majority of the country knows correctly that there's absolutely
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  no positive way he could possibly serve five more years as president. It's just
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  not even it's not even theoretically in the realm of possibility that five years from
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  now Joe Biden would be physically capable of being president of the United States.
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  And well over seventy percent of the American people understand this. That is a
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  lethal threat to a presidential candidacy, especially when your vice presidential now many is
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  Kamala Harris, who nobody likes now. I have said continually that I am
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  skeptical of this idea that when it all came down to it, rubber meets
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  the road a year from now, that the media wouldn't be able to carry
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  Joe Biden over the line against Donald Trump. I still think that's possible.
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  One of the reasons I have said that you should be careful about overinterpreting these
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  polls a year out is because I think that there's gonna be a Taylor Swift
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  phenomenon. The Taylor Swift phenomenon, which some people mock me for when I
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  first mentioned it months ago, but now has been already vindicated by other commentators
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  mentioning the same thing, is that Taylor Swift clearly is a liberal. She
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  is in charge of the largest cult of certainly generally independent or unmotivated voters maybe
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  in the history of the country, young women who are not generally a voting
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  block that can be relied on to show up even in the male in voting
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  era. But if Taylor Swift snaps her fingers and says vote against Donald Trump,
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  he's evil, They're gonna do it because they're a cult. And that's
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  a phenomenon that cannot possibly be being picked up in the current polling. Now
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  how big that is, I don't know, but it's big enough in close
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  states to be the difference places like North Carolina or Arizona or Nevada, Wisconsin,
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  Pennsylvania, Michigan, that type of thing. There's no question that in
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  close states that could make the difference. Well, when Joe Biden was pardoning
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  the Thanksgiving Turkey, he tried to make a joke about how difficult it is
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  to get tickets to a Taylor Swift concert, and it could not have gone
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  worse in every possible way. I mean, if you had said, zig
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  Biden's going to try to make a joke about a Taylor Swift concert, what's
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  the worst that could possibly happen for him? It would have been difficult for
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  me to come up with a scenario that was worse than what happened, because
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  it wasn't even one hundred percent sure unless you understood, you know, what
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  was going on with Taylor Swift, that he was even talking about Taylor Swift.
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  But he clearly was, because he was talking about the difficulty of getting
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  tickets and how hot it was in Brazil, which is where she had just
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  canceled. They concerted the previous weekend. But as you'll hear in a moment,
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  he doesn't even say the name Taylor Swift. He says the name Britney,
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  as in Britney Spears, and he misidentifies the Era's tour as the Renaissance
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  Tour, which is the name of the Beyonce tour, which has been over
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  for months. You can't make this stuff up, folks, So here it
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  is the President of the United States, in my view, in a rational
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  world, potentially fumbling away his greatest opportunity to win the election at twenty twenty
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  four by dissing Taylor, Swift and the almost worst way possible. Now,
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  just to get here, Liberty and Bell had to beat some tough odds the
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  competition. They had to work hard to show patience and be willing to travel
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  over one thousand miles. You could say, even this harder than getting a
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  ticket to the Renaissance Tour or Repritnaness tour. She's down in It's kind of
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  warm in Brazil right now. I mean, that's just pathetic. It's pathetic
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  at every level. It's pathetic from the standpoint if he doesn't know what the
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  hell's going on. It's pathetic from the level of here he is trying to
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  do something he's not capable of. It's pathetic and showing how out of touch
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  he is where he's botching and mixing up Brittany Taylor and Beyonce. And then
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  it's really pathetic if you're a Biden political advisor, because they have to be
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  thinking the same thing I am, and they're going, oh my god,
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  did we just blow it? With the Swifties now, partially because the Trump
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  people are incompetent and worried about you know, ninety one criminal indictments and attacking
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  Ron De Santis. They were not on the ball here. If I had
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  been God forbid on the Trump campaign, I would have made sure that this
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  was all over Twitter, all over TikTok, targeting Swift bands, making sure
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  this went viral in Swift world, because there's no question at all that this
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  is going to become an issue in the twenty twenty four campaign. The Taylor
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  Swift is going to be the cavalry for Joe Biden, and if you're the
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  Trump campaign, you need to do everything you possibly can to mitigate that,
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  to cut it off at its knees, and showing Joe Biden not just as
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  being out of touch, having no real idea who Taylor Swift is, but
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  also being so clueless is to mix up all these people and in such the
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  throes of clear and obvious, whether you call it dementia or something else,
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  early Alzheimer's, whatever it is, he's eighty one years old. This is
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  not the guy that you know, Swift fans ought to be going to the
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  mat for to be president of the United States. I know this sounds incredibly
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  ridiculous, but this is the world in which we now live. This kind
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  of stuff matters, and so I don't have faith that the Trump team will
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  use this effectively. Obviously, they're going to have this clip for when this
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  happens, and you know, maybe they'll use it. Maybe they won't be
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  smart enough to use it. I'd have no idea, but that was a
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  disastrous moment. It reminded me a lot of what happened a couple of years
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  ago at Christmas, where Joe Biden was tricked by a caller on Christmas Eve
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  into saying, let's go Brandon, which is a euphemism for you know,
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  fuck Joe Biden. And he had no idea what he was doing. And
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  I realized that that was Christmas Eve and it wasn't going to get nearly the
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  attention that it would otherwise. But the media completely censored that the mainstream media
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  did to this day, I would bet the ninety nine percent of independent voters
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  have no idea that even happened. In a rational world, if this had
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  happened in reverse, if Donald Trump had done the same thing, every American
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  would know about it. And would effectively be the end of his presidency.
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  But that did not happen, with Biden as saying let's go Brandon, partially
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  because it was Christmas, partially because the news media is completely in the tank
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  for him. But here we have a situation that's very similar. This was
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  just before Thanksgiving. The media has absolutely no incentive at all to make this
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  highly publicized. Now, if he had pulled off a decent joke about Taylor
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  Swift, the media would have rejoiced in this because it would have been an
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  opportunity to bring in Swift fans to their newscasts. But that didn't happen.
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  They knew this was really, really, really bad for Joe Biden, so
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  they ignored it. But this issue is not going away, Taylor Swift.
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  It's going to be part of the twenty twenty four election cycle, assuming that
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  if things go even close to the way they appear to be going as far
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  as Trump is concerned. Unfortunately, as I have stated for many, many
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  months, and have declared months ago that the race is over, everything continues
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  to go very much in his favor, and yet he continues and his supporters
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  continue to act not like people who were going to glide to the nomination Trump
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  instead of trying to consolidate the Republican Party and unite the Republican already and get
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  ready for a general election. If he really is as clear cut the heavy
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  favorite to win the nomination is, I think that he is, and almost
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  everybody else thinks that he is, and that he thinks that he is.
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  Why the hell is he's spending time and resources and political capital capital going after
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  Kim Reynolds, the governor of Iowa, who just endorsed rond De Santis,
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  going after her viciously. Why is Roger Stone, a long time Trump confidant,
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  former campaign manager, going after Casey DeSantis, Ronda Santis's wife? Uh?
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  In it just a horrendous, horrible way. Why is popular Trump fanatic
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  Laura Lumer opening openly rooting for Gavin Newsom to defeat Ronda Santis in their debate
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  scheduled for later this week on Fox News Channel. I mean, this is
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  this is just insanity. I mean, if you're really which I think they
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  are, by a very formidable amount, I mean, the national polling is
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  just a blood bath right now. I mean Trump is winning some national polls
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  by fifty points, and I realize that's not how we pick a nominee.
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  But in this day and age that matters. People aren't going to suddenly change
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  their minds. Even if some miracle happens in Iowa, which I don't think
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  it is because Trump is currently winning there by thirty points. I've never believed
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  this idea that somehow, magically the Republican Party's going to wake up from a
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  eight year coma because Ron De Santis somehow wins Iowa. I mean, it
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  would certainly get people to maybe rethink the race and get you in the ballgame,
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  but it's not going to do the deed. And so even if you
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  weren't headed for certain victory, why the hell would you do these things?
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  If you're Donald Trump, you only do them because you're a narcissistic asshole and
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  it's all about revenge. And you look at yourself as a mob boss,
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  and Ronda Santis is a captain who betrayed you, and he must be destroyed
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  and you're not going to stop until he's completely and totally destroyed. And so
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  you're happy when your supporters, your prominent supporters, go after Casey De Santas
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  and root for Gavin Newsom over Ronda Santis and by the way, online all
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  the Trump supporters, of course, are very supportive of both of these efforts
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  really exposing what the Trump campaign really is all about and why it should be
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  stopped and why it won't be stopped. And you know, it's just sad.
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  It's also stupid because you know how much of the Republican Party really strongly
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  supports Ronda Santis. It's hard to say right now. The national polling indicates
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  it might be as little as ten percent, but let's just say it's ten
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  percent. Let's say ten percent of the Republican Party are hardcore Ronda Santis supporters.
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  That matters in a close general election. And why would you do anything
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  to even give those people the idea that, well, you know what,
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  maybe I'll just sit this one out, Maybe I'll i won't vote for Trump,
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  maybe I'll vote for a third party candidate, or I mean, you
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  know, it's certainly not insane for a RHN de Santis supporter who really liked
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  him because of COVID to vote for RFK Junior. I would never do that,
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  but I can at least see it as being somewhat rational because of RFK
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  Junior's views on COVID in the vaccines and what have you. So it's just
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  dumb politically. But this is one of the many, many problems with Donald
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  Trump. Completely undisciplined, totally narcissistic, completely selfish, doesn't give a shit
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  about the party, may not even really care that much about winning. He
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  just wants to be remain viable as a candidate through his trials because I believe
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  that that is going to be instrumental in making sure that any Trump fans on
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  those juries stay by him. And so it's just all so incredibly frustrating and
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  also unfortunately rather predictable. On the Desanta side, it's really looking terrible.
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  I mean, there's chaos now at Never back Down, the DeSantis' primary political
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  action committee, one that my friend Steve Cortels used to work for no longer
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  does and has not commented on publicly, is leaving from Never Back Down.
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  Although Steve and I have communicated that perhaps my last interview on this podcast before
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  we ended, either in the end of January or sometime in February of next
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  year, will be with him talking about his experience with Never Back Down,
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  So I'll save that for when that happens. But all sorts of crazy things
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  going on there, people leaving, and this is obviously the sign of a
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  campaign that is in a death spiral, horrendous pulling for DeSantis nationally, and
• 28:10
  I really do think that that's not because of anything DeSantis has done. I
• 28:14
  think it's because the perception that Trump will beat Biden has now become almost cemented
• 28:21
  within the mainstream of the Republican Party. So you know, I've said this
• 28:26
  many many times before, almost from the beginning of this process. If you
• 28:30
  take the total support for Trump and you add the total support for DeSantis,
• 28:37
  it has almost always come to basically the same number, which is seventy to
• 28:42
  seventy five percent. And so what's really happened over time this erosion from DeSantis
• 28:52
  to Trump has largely been about, Okay, can Trump pull this off?
• 28:59
  Can Trump be thee and can he beat Joe Biden? Because there was understandably
• 29:03
  an awful lot of concern about that, even among I would call them Trump
• 29:08
  light cult members, or maybe not even cult members, just people that like
• 29:12
  Donald Trump, but they were certainly open to moving on, especially after the
• 29:18
  disappointments of the twenty two twenty twenty two midterm elections. Well over time,
• 29:23
  very slowly, but surely, the perception has become embedded in the Republican Party
• 29:30
  because of these polls. Ironically enough, since Trump supporters don't believe even in
• 29:33
  election day polls, but this is the strange world in which we now live.
• 29:37
  These polls have continually shown that not only does Trump have a chance,
• 29:41
  but you might even at least on paper, be able to call him the
• 29:45
  favorite at this point. Well, if if you're someone who likes Donald Trump
• 29:51
  and you become convinced that he's going to beat Joe Biden, especially as weak
• 29:55
  as Biden appears to be, then it's very understand animal to see why,
• 30:00
  especially with the perception that the DeSantis campaign is failing, why you would abandon
• 30:07
  DeSantis and go back to Trump. It's the same percentage of people, but
• 30:11
  it actually makes a little bit of sense. Even I who loads Donald Trump
• 30:17
  and is a huge fan of Ron de Santis, I mean, it's hard
• 30:21
  for me to argue if you really do believe that Trump will beat Biden and
• 30:27
  he can only serve one term, right, I mean, this is a
• 30:30
  rationalization, but I'm sure a lot of people are making this calculation. Well,
• 30:33
  he serves one term, You know, he blows up all the boxes,
• 30:37
  gets retribution. We show the Liberals they can't get away with this,
• 30:41
  and then DeSantis is there in twenty twenty eight to take over. That's not
• 30:45
  going to happen, but in their minds, it's at least a theoretical scenario.
• 30:51
  So you know, it's I think that's the number one reason why,
• 30:56
  even though Desantas keeps doing well in these debates and continues to do well as
• 31:00
  governor of Florida and continues to I think, get better on the campaign trail,
• 31:04
  that his support continues to erode because it's not about him. It's all
• 31:10
  about Trump. This campaign has always been all about Trump, and it is
• 31:17
  very clear that within the Republican Party and the conservative media, the narrative is
• 31:22
  Trump can pull this off. So therefore, you know, we can have
• 31:29
  a pinball machine of awesome victories by electing Donald Trump and can get our revenge
• 31:36
  on the left. We can erase the twenty twenty election show that that was
• 31:41
  rigged, you know, and Trump can have four years to correct all of
• 31:47
  the mistakes of the Biden administration make America great again. He'll be unleashed without
• 31:52
  having to worry about reelection. I mean, all this is bullshit, almost
• 31:56
  bullshit, but this is the narrative, and unfortunately, at this point,
• 32:00
  I don't think there's any possible way that that narrative can be combated, and
• 32:06
  it's going to turn out unfortunately, exactly as I have been predicting all along.
• 32:10
  Now when it came to Thanksgiving, I want to shift gears here to
• 32:17
  the issue of climate change, global warming, which is something I talk a
• 32:22
  lot about on this podcast. But you know, I've often said that basically
• 32:28
  what we have with climate change global warming is that it has replaced COVID,
• 32:32
  And in so many ways this is true, and one of them is,
• 32:37
  you know, for the years of COVID, whenever we had a holiday,
• 32:43
  the news meeting narrative was about how COVID had changed how we celebrated, right
• 32:49
  remember twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, even to the twenty twenty two.
• 32:52
  All these ridiculous rules, especially here in California, for how you're supposed to
• 32:58
  celebrate, for instance, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Are you even allowed to sing
• 33:02
  Christmas carols? We had all sorts of just insane stuff. And I have
• 33:07
  to share the worst example of this, the most hilarious example of this that
• 33:13
  occurred in the mainstream news media this past Thanksgiving. This is from ABC News.
• 33:19
  ABC News owned by Disney. They tweeted out, Thanksgiving could soon become
• 33:25
  another victim of climate change. By the way, what are the other victims
• 33:30
  of climate change? What are they? I mean, these things are just
• 33:35
  said as if they're factual. We just accept them now in the media without
• 33:39
  any evidence. Okay, another victim of climate change as rising temperatures threaten the
• 33:46
  abundance the quality of the ingredients used to make some traditional dishes. A photograph
• 33:55
  of a traditional Thanksgiving with the headline climate change could soon make these staple Thanksgiving
• 34:04
  dishes more scarce. And of course all of this is absurd. I mean,
• 34:08
  the levels of insanity here are almost too numerous to mention. I mean
• 34:15
  you have to go through. Okay, is this real? And what would
• 34:20
  be the impact? And by the way, if it's getting hotter, then
• 34:25
  you know that means that areas that would not be a fertile ground are going
• 34:30
  to become fertile ground. We're going to have a longer growing season. So,
• 34:35
  I mean, everything has a pro and a con a given a take.
• 34:38
  So if some areas are are getting hotter. Okay, maybe I'm just
• 34:44
  gonna buy their religious fantasy for a second. You know, somehow they're not
• 34:50
  going to be in as good a position for Thanksgiving dishes to be created.
• 34:54
  There's going to be other areas that will get a different climate that is more
• 35:00
  suitable to this. So I've never understood this logic. Of course, no
• 35:04
  one has ever told me what it is the year that we're trying to duplicate
• 35:07
  forever and ever. You know, what climate year is the target? Tell
• 35:12
  me what's the perfect climate? What year did that occur? Because I can
• 35:15
  guarant damnta something really bad happened in that year. And and by the way,
• 35:20
  how do we know we're not gonna, you know, turn the clock
• 35:22
  back too far? If we really have control over this, which is insane,
• 35:27
  how do we know we're not going to turn back the clocks too far
• 35:30
  and make it too cold. I mean, it's just it's just hilarious.
• 35:35
  And it is just like what happened with COVID because here, you know,
• 35:40
  we can't do the COVID card anymore to influence how people, you know,
• 35:45
  celebrate the holidays, or what we can scare people with regarding the holidays,
• 35:51
  so now we have to go and move to climate change. However, because
• 35:54
  I watch these things very carefully, I do think there's been a shift of
• 36:00
  it in the strategy. And maybe I'm being overly optimistic, and whenever I
• 36:05
  think I'm being optimistic, I get the hebgb's I think I might be wrong.
• 36:08
  But I'm beginning to think that there could be a slight and very interesting
• 36:15
  and telling shift in strategy among the climate change religion cult alarmist crowd. And
• 36:23
  I want to use an article that came out a few days ago in the
• 36:29
  New York Times by their Climate Calmness to God in the name of David Gillies
• 36:35
  and Gillies interesting thing about David Gillies and this issue of climate change. He's
• 36:39
  their climate Calmness of the New York freaking Times. And when I saw that
• 36:45
  he wrote the article that I'm about to share parts of it with you,
• 36:50
  I went to his Twitter page and again, climate is maybe the biggest on
• 36:55
  the left. It's the biggest issue in the world, the greatest threat to
• 37:00
  humanity. Right we're told that the left considers this to be everything, This
• 37:07
  is all they really care about. It's the number one issue of our time.
• 37:10
  And yet when I looked at his tweets, he had like zero engagement,
• 37:15
  like no retweets, hardly any likes. I mean, this is the
• 37:21
  New York Times climate columnist on Twitter, and no one cares about what he's
• 37:28
  writing. Nobody. It's really quite remarkable and I think rather telling. But
• 37:34
  so is what he wrote. Because I could be wrong, but I'm sensing
• 37:38
  a shift here in the left wing narrative on climate change global warming. So
• 37:45
  he writes, there is no shortage of reasons to be alarmed by climate change
• 37:50
  these days. This year is almost certain to be the hottest and recorded history.
• 37:54
  We don't know that, not even close. Extreme weather is wreaking havoc
• 38:00
  around the globe. When hasn't it And where's the evidence that it's doing more
• 38:05
  so now than it ever has before? I see none of that. Fossil
• 38:09
  fuel production and emissions are still rising, and world leaders are not moving fast
• 38:15
  enough. But take a moment to imagine what if we actually succeed in addressing
• 38:22
  the climate crisis and emerge into a new, more bountiful, more prosperous future.
• 38:29
  While there's plenty of bad news to go around, it's not unreasonable to
• 38:32
  imagine that enduring progress is within reach. That's right, it's within reach,
• 38:42
  folks. We have hope. Practically every day there are encouraging new signs that,
• 38:47
  after decades of dithering, the world is finally getting more serious about tackling
• 38:53
  climate change. Wind and solar power are cheaper than ever and are being built
• 39:00
  a record rates around the globe. Advances in critical new technologies, from carbon
• 39:05
  captured to fuse in power are occurring with startling speed. Sales of electric vehicles
• 39:10
  are booming, and badly needed charging stations are being built. Emissions from China,
• 39:17
  the world's largest polluter, will peak within the next couple of years.
• 39:22
  Many researchers believe in the United States, the transition to clean power is happening
• 39:28
  faster than many realize. Those two countries just agreed to accelerate their efforts to
• 39:34
  reduce emissions, delivering a much needed jolt of ambition ahead of climate talks in
• 39:38
  Dubai this month. By the way, they didn't do anything about the volcanoes
• 39:44
  that just burped more carbon gas into the atmosphere than we could ever possibly dream
• 39:50
  of saving in the next several years. But okay, fine, whatever efforts
• 39:53
  to crack down on emissions of methane, a potent but often overlooked green house
• 40:00
  gas are ramping up. Brazil, Indonesia and other countries are taking serious steps
• 40:06
  to reduce deforestation. That's right, deforestation. Youth activists are using protests and
• 40:14
  lawsuits to take on the fossil fuel industry, and in a powerful message that
• 40:19
  could be a sign of things to come, Ecuador voted this year to leave
• 40:22
  some oil in the ground. Good for Ecuador. It's going to completely change
• 40:28
  the world the fact that they decided to leave some oil in the ground.
• 40:32
  These are the kind of developments large and small, from governments and the private
• 40:37
  sector that together will determine just how hot our planet becomes. And then the
• 40:45
  rest of the article goes on to talk about the optimism and how much hope
• 40:52
  there is, and how much progress there is, and how we might be
• 40:55
  on the verge of tackling this problem. I want to determine just unbelievable to
• 41:02
  me, well, determine how hot our planet becomes. Imagine really believing that
• 41:07
  human actions that are fairly small could, with any level of certainty, determine
• 41:15
  how hot our planet becomes in the short run. Just imagine the audacity of
• 41:21
  that. And again, I'll say it for the one hundredth time. If
• 41:23
  that's really the case, then how do we know we're not going to overdo
• 41:27
  it? How do we know if we can make it cooler? How do
• 41:30
  we know we're not going to make it too cool? I mean, it's
• 41:34
  insanity, it's a fallacy. It's a religious cult like belief. It's not
• 41:38
  based in reality or logic or science. But how do we know, if
• 41:43
  I accept your premise, how do we know this? But here's my major
• 41:46
  point of this. It's not just the silliness the insanity of this, the
• 41:52
  fact that The New York Times is beyond off the deep end on this entire
• 41:55
  topic, and that they are absolutely using this issue, just as they did
• 42:00
  with COVID, to try to dictate how we run our lives in ways that
• 42:04
  are maybe even more dramatic in the long run than COVID was. Here's where
• 42:07
  I'm hoping I'm seeing a change in the narrative this because I've seen it on
• 42:13
  a couple of different other examples, some of which I've shared on the podcast.
• 42:16
  Why are they being more optimistic now? Now? I've never know how
• 42:22
  much credit to give these people because they're inherently not that smart unless they're completely
• 42:29
  making this up, which is possible. But I do believe that they at
• 42:32
  least at some level, really do believe this crap. So they're not that
• 42:37
  smart. So I'm always hesitant to give them too much credit. But I
• 42:43
  think, and I believe for a while that the climate change global warming people
• 42:46
  were going to have a problem. And the problem is that they have beenjuicing
• 42:52
  the global temperature number for so long now and in so many different ways they
• 42:59
  kind of like with steroids, Eventually the effect of the steroids was going to
• 43:04
  wear off, and that eventually the data was not going to support the idea
• 43:10
  that we were having catastrophic warming globe wide, because they've already juiced it in
• 43:19
  every way they possibly can. And so in the coming years, we're going
• 43:24
  to see, in my opinion, a leveling off, and they need to
• 43:30
  explain that leveling off. And the best way to explain that leveling off is
• 43:37
  we did it. Look at all the progress we've made. We pulled it
• 43:42
  off, folks. We told you we could do this. And for the
• 43:45
  last you know, ten years or whatever, we've seen there has been a
• 43:49
  leveling of the global temperature and the real danger of that again, so much
• 43:55
  like COVID, the real danger of that. Oh, look, mass mandates
• 43:59
  work because a COVID went down in the spring like it always did. No,
• 44:04
  that's not what happened. It wasn't mask band dates. It was the
• 44:08
  cyclical nature of the virus. Well, in this particular case, it's the
• 44:13
  cyclical nature of climate and the data. And they're going to try to claim
• 44:17
  victory here. They're going to try to claim that all this bullshit that they
• 44:22
  did actually influenced the global temperature. That's my prediction, and it's a little
• 44:29
  bit ingenious, and it's a lot evil, but it's something that we need
• 44:34
  to be aware of because it's a trick. It's not based in reality.
• 44:39
  It's all a farce. It's a hoax. It's a scam. And I
• 44:44
  just I really wish I would I would be able to discern how much they
• 44:49
  understand about this, how much of this is premeditated, how much of this
• 44:52
  just is happening by accident, and how much of it is an actual strategy.
• 44:59
  But I'm pretty I'm pretty confident that that's where things are going with the
• 45:02
  climate change, global warming narrative in the next five to ten years, by
• 45:07
  the way, speaking of climate change, global warming, and just how in
• 45:13
  the tank the media is. I'm sure you're aware of Greta Thunberg, the
• 45:19
  the media darling who became world famous as a teenager for expressing outrage about climate
• 45:25
  change, global warming. I mean, she's been spending the last couple of
• 45:30
  years getting fake arrested around the globe trying to promote herself. You know,
• 45:35
  it's basically she's become addicted to all this attention she got worldwide for being the
• 45:40
  voice of outrage of her generation when it came to climate change, global warming.
• 45:45
  Well, she was videotaped over the last few days and it's gone viral
• 45:50
  online, but of course no major media coverage that I have seen of it
• 45:53
  at a pro Hamas rally chanting crush Zionism. This is who this woman really
• 46:01
  is, this heroine of the left. I mean, there is nobody in
• 46:06
  her age group that has gotten more worldwide positive media coverage than Greta Thunberg.
• 46:12
  And here she is revealing herself and this is not the first time this has
• 46:15
  happened, but maybe the most dramatic episode where she is absolutely pro hamas,
• 46:23
  not just anti Israel, but seemingly anti Semitic. That's who she really is,
• 46:29
  and the mainstream news media is largely not totally silent on this issue.
• 46:32
  Can you imagine if she was not somebody, if she was a figure of
• 46:37
  the right instead of a figure of the left who is protected as if she's
• 46:43
  in the mafia, Although this might get her kicked out of the mafia.
• 46:46
  They're protecting her on this now, but I think we might be seeing a
• 46:51
  lot less of Gretath Thunberg in the not too distant future. When it comes
• 46:55
  to the mainstream news media, they're going to be very conflicted about what to
• 46:59
  do with her now, similar to what's happened with the media and the issue
• 47:05
  of climate change. Global warming is the issue of equity, and we've even
• 47:10
  documented on the show how bizarrely the left has tried to connect the issues of
• 47:15
  global warming, climate change, equity, and race relations. As insane as
• 47:21
  that is, but it's all a religion, so it doesn't matter. Logic
• 47:24
  doesn't matter to the left. These are all their pet causes. These are
• 47:29
  the most important things in the world. These are the things that make them
• 47:31
  feel good, even though they have no basis or almost no basis in reality
• 47:37
  and in the issue of race. There have been several episodes and examples recently
• 47:43
  that I want to share with you about how insane things have gotten in the
• 47:46
  media and how overwhelming equity has become instead of equality, which was the concept
• 47:55
  on which this country was based, equality of opportunity, not equity of outcome,
• 48:00
  and the massive double standards that the mainstream media, especially the left wing
• 48:06
  media, has when it comes to issues of race. Let me just give
• 48:09
  you a couple examples real quick, without you know, wasting too much of
• 48:13
  your time on them. Vice, a very left wing quote unquote news organization.
• 48:17
  They recently tweeted out in an article one hundred ways white people can make
• 48:22
  life less frustrating for people of color. One hundred ways white people can make
• 48:30
  life less frustrating for people of color. Now, you know, this is
• 48:36
  absurd on its face, it's obviously hypocritical, it's obviously racist. And on
• 48:40
  the bright side, this tweet that I just referred to got ratioed in a
• 48:46
  massive way. As of this taping, the tweet itself has eleven million views.
• 48:54
  Eleven million views, but less than six hundred life That's impossible. I
• 49:02
  mean, I'm not one that I have disdained for the fact that social media
• 49:07
  is all about popularity, and the whole concept of ratio to me is often
• 49:14
  irrelevant because I've been ratio many times when I was one hundred percent right.
• 49:16
  But in this particular case, I'll allow it because that is one of the
• 49:20
  worst ratios I've ever seen. Eleven million views, less than six hundred likes
• 49:27
  for Vice's headline one hundred ways white people can make life less frustrating for people
• 49:32
  of color. This follows a recent article from Forbes, a less left wing
• 49:39
  news outlet, which had the title three Ways to dissenter Whiteness in your workplace.
• 49:47
  Three Ways to dissenter whiteness in your workplace, written by a woman by
• 49:52
  the name of doctor Janis Glassom, who shockingly is a diversity equity and inclusion
• 50:01
  consultant. DEI those were those that those letters should be well known to you.
• 50:08
  Di. That's the future of America right there, Diversity, equity and
• 50:13
  inclusion. That's her job. She's adi consultant, and she writes an article
• 50:20
  in Forbes three ways to dissenter whiteness. By the way, basically what she
• 50:24
  says in the article is one of the ways to do that is to hire
• 50:29
  DEI consultants in your workplace. Gee, I wonder how that came about.
• 50:37
  And Forbes actually published this pile of crap Three ways to dessenter whiteness in your
• 50:42
  workplace, you got to hire more DEI consultants, written by a DEI consultant.
• 50:47
  But this is and again Forbes not a far left media organization. All
• 50:53
  this happening in the same basic time period when the Pentagon. The Pentagon are
• 51:00
  military, formerly one of the least PC entities in the entire United States government,
• 51:07
  is asking for one hundred and fourteen million dollars for diversity, equity,
• 51:14
  inclusion, and accessibility. One hundred and fourteen million dollars. Now, I
• 51:17
  realize when it comes to the Pentagon, any ask is going to be in
• 51:21
  the many millions of dollars. But what the hell are you gonna do with
• 51:24
  one hundred and fourteen million dollars to promote diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility
• 51:30
  in the military the military? This is this is literally a matter of life
• 51:36
  and death. This is this is not some trivial organization or entity of the
• 51:42
  US government. This is the Pentagon. And if decisions are being made based
• 51:47
  upon diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. We're screwed. We're basically
• 51:53
  screwed. But this is what's happening. It's happening all over the place.
• 51:58
  I've been warning about this since the beginning of this podcast. Where if you
• 52:02
  change as the Left has been trying to do, and they've been successfully able
• 52:06
  to do ever since. Really the George Floyd fiasco, I mean that that
• 52:12
  was the moment. They've been wanting to do this for a while, but
• 52:14
  that was the opportunity they saw when we were down on our knees during COVID
• 52:17
  and the George Floyd Floyd thing happened and got increasingly it becomes obvious that what
• 52:24
  happened there was an injustice. I'll talk more about that in future episodes of
• 52:29
  the podcast, but you know, the George Floyd thing happened, and that
• 52:32
  opened the floodgates. The Left took advantage of that and they changed the definition
• 52:38
  or the essence the DNA of the country from equality of opportunity to divert to
• 52:45
  equity of outcome. I cannot say that enough. I cannot say it enough.
• 52:50
  The quality of opportunity became equity of outcome. Those are two completely and
• 52:55
  totally different concepts. One, the quality of opportunity is the essence of America.
• 53:02
  Equity of outcome is the death of America. And yet they sound alike
• 53:07
  to most people, they probably seem like the same thing. And it's the
• 53:12
  most insidious change. I mean, there's been many insidious changes in the definition
• 53:15
  of words and the meanings of concepts in my lifetime, but this is the
• 53:21
  most in citious, this is the most damaging. This is the most dangerous,
• 53:23
  the most threatening to the essence of America, and they have been the
• 53:27
  most effective at it. It has happened in an incredibly short amount of time
• 53:32
  and with hardly anybody noticing. That's what the most remarkable thing is. It's
• 53:37
  down has becoming accepted, so much so that the Pentagon could ask for one
• 53:43
  hundred and fourteen million dollars for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility and
• 53:46
  it not even become a major news story. And yet continually there is evidence
• 53:52
  that equity doesn't really sell. Americans aren't buying it. I mentioned how that
• 54:00
  Vice tweet did when it came to ratio, but the Walt Disney Corporation continues
• 54:07
  to fail. They did so again this past weekend with a movie that they
• 54:12
  had high hopes for, an animated film called Wish, which had wokeness written
• 54:17
  all over it. The stene of wokeness was all over Wish. I've not
• 54:22
  seen it, but even my kids, my eleven and six year old daughters,
• 54:27
  they can smell wokeness from a mile away now. And it's not because
• 54:30
  of me. I realized that I might have some influence on, you know,
• 54:34
  whatever political beliefs they have, not much. I don't influence them very
• 54:37
  much in many ways, but I will absolutely accept that that's a possibility.
• 54:44
  But I didn't even talk to them about this, and they've seen commercials for
• 54:46
  Wish, and they have no interest in seeing this movie at all. And
• 54:52
  there was nothing really even that overt about it. It's just all the buzz
• 54:57
  signals are there that make it obvious that this is a sacrifice, another Disney
• 55:04
  sacrifice to the gods of wokeness and equity and diversity. And the movie bombed
• 55:12
  over the weekend. And this was supposed to save Disney's year at the box
• 55:16
  office, and that's not going to happen. And Disney's stock continues to suffer,
• 55:22
  and they don't you know, there's been some signs of a reversal,
• 55:25
  of course, but nothing rather dramatic. But on the bright side of this,
• 55:31
  there does seem to be continual evidence than Americans when really, when it
• 55:37
  really comes down to it, the majority of Americans don't support this. I
• 55:42
  would suggest even most minority groups don't support this if you ask them in the
• 55:47
  proper way. Most black people probably don't even support this entire concept, and
• 55:53
  the evidence of that continues to be rather overwhelming. But the media doesn't care,
• 55:58
  and Disney doesn't seem to care very much at all. Now I want
• 56:00
  to shift gears again, although there is a Disney connection to the next story
• 56:06
  that I want to tackle, and I want to begin this new topic with
• 56:10
  a thought about how it is that I select what I'm going to talk about
• 56:15
  on this podcast. You know, I try to be as newsy as possible,
• 56:22
  but I also refrain from talking about subjects that I don't have a great
• 56:27
  deal of knowledge on or I don't have a unique take on. You may
• 56:30
  have noticed that I have not talked as much recently about the entire Hamas Israel's
• 56:37
  situation, because, in my view, the conservative perspective on that is being
• 56:45
  widely dissemined disseminated on conservative media, and I don't have anything all that unique
• 56:50
  to say about this. I would just be echoing what most other conservatives are
• 56:54
  saying, which is the media is ridiculously biased towards some Amas, and in
• 57:00
  large part, Israel is right in that conflict. And we just saw most
• 57:06
  recently with how the hostage situation has been covered and how that has come to
• 57:10
  fruition all of that. I mean, I could go through that in every
• 57:14
  episode of the podcast, but I would just be repeating what other people say.
• 57:17
  So I tend to talk about things that I feel like one I have
• 57:22
  at least a strong level of knowledge, and two, most importantly, I
• 57:27
  have a unique and or important take. I have something to say that you
• 57:32
  probably haven't heard elsewhere before. And that is certainly the way that I look
• 57:37
  at this next topic, because it's not something that is certainly political, but
• 57:44
  I think that it does have a political angle to it, and I think
• 57:46
  it says an awful lot about America and our media. And what I'm referring
• 57:52
  to is the state of college football, and this past weekend we saw basically
• 58:00
  is the beginning of college football's last hurrah. Now I've been a college football
• 58:06
  fan since i was a very little kid. I've never played a down of
• 58:08
  organized football in my life, although I've coached at coach football in two different
• 58:13
  states at the high school level. My high school did not have a football
• 58:16
  team. My college, Georgetown University, only played Division III football, so
• 58:22
  I broadcasted the games, but they're not really college football. But I've covered
• 58:27
  college football as a broadcaster, and I've followed it very carefully my whole life.
• 58:34
  And this year really is the last year of the sport as we know
• 58:39
  it now. It's really not even the sport that I grew up with today,
• 58:44
  but at least it's a reasonable fact simile. That will not be the
• 58:49
  case next year. Next year, it will be so different that even the
• 58:54
  moronic sports media is largely acknowledging this reality. They like to play pretend that
• 59:01
  well, these are only slight changes. Were not. Really, We're not
• 59:05
  really going to change the DNA of college football, but you know there'll be
• 59:07
  some changes. Now, even not all, but even some major media commentators
• 59:15
  are acknowledging, you know what, this really is the end here, this
• 59:17
  is We're going to have a completely different beast next year, and We're not
• 59:22
  getting too deeply in the details because I don't like to talk inside sports too
• 59:27
  much, because I realized the audience of this podcast is not sports related.
• 59:30
  But this is I've been a long time in coming, and in recent years
• 59:36
  there have been dramatic shifts in college football in particular, college sports in general,
• 59:40
  but football in particular thanks to NIL money, which is name, image
• 59:45
  and likeness, which by the way, has been far more corrosive and far
• 59:52
  worse than most people expected, although almost exactly as I predicted as would happened.
• 59:58
  I mean, there were people when NIL first came around, especially in
• 1:00:01
  the moronics sports media, that we're cheering this, that this is just going
• 1:00:06
  to be you know, very innocent and a small part part of the whole
• 1:00:09
  equation. And you know, players who were getting ripped off are finally going
• 1:00:14
  to get paid money, and this is this is all going to be good,
• 1:00:16
  This is going to be awesome, and it was. It was sold
• 1:00:20
  largely as a civil rights issue. That's the political part of this. That
• 1:00:23
  if if the majority of college football players were not black, I don't believe
• 1:00:30
  this would have ever happened. If the that majority of college basketball and college
• 1:00:34
  football players where the money is made in college athletics. We're not black.
• 1:00:37
  I don't believe that NIL money ever would have been approved. I believe that
• 1:00:44
  would have remained largely amateur. Now, to be clear, college sports has
• 1:00:49
  always had corruption. I want to make that very obvious. I'm not a
• 1:00:53
  knafe, I'm not naive college football. College sports has never been perfect.
• 1:00:59
  There's always been corruption. But now it's it's literally not just accepted. It's
• 1:01:07
  part of the program, it's part of the rules, it's being promoted,
• 1:01:10
  and there's no end in sight. I mean, this is going to be
• 1:01:14
  an arms race that has no end. People aren't only just now realizing that
• 1:01:19
  there are no rules. That it's the wild, wild West. And by
• 1:01:22
  the way, it should be noted that Gavin Newsom, the governor of California,
• 1:01:27
  played a huge role in why the NCAA had to fold on nil.
• 1:01:32
  He played at least an indirect role in almost everything that has happened with regard
• 1:01:37
  to college sports and college football. I mean, he's, by in my
• 1:01:42
  opinion, the most underrated force in all of this is Gavin Newsom, which
• 1:01:46
  is one of a hundred reasons why I believe him to be evil. And
• 1:01:52
  it's also important to note that when it comes to the destruction of college football
• 1:01:55
  and why this is the last year, it's a little bit stop me if
• 1:01:59
  you're heard me say this before, a little bit like COVID, where one
• 1:02:02
  thing leads to another. If they hadn't gotten away with one thing, they
• 1:02:05
  wouldn't have tried to get away with the next. But we have this combination
• 1:02:08
  of nil money instant transfers, and then you get this Radical Conference realignment.
• 1:02:15
  It's not a perfect analogy, but it's kind of like if they hadn't gotten
• 1:02:19
  away with mask mandates, they never would have tried to get away with vaccine
• 1:02:22
  mandates. This is the way it works. Well, if you didn't have
• 1:02:28
  the nil money and the transfer rules, I honestly don't think you would have
• 1:02:31
  even needed the Radical Conference realignment because part of what's driving the Radical Conference realignment
• 1:02:38
  is the need for more money. It's always all about money, but you
• 1:02:44
  know this money has to come from somewhere, and so the schools and the
• 1:02:49
  TV networks they needed growth, and they decided that the best way to get
• 1:02:54
  growth was to create playoff games. And then once you had the playoff games
• 1:03:01
  and the new system starting next year with twelve teams making the national playoffs.
• 1:03:07
  That changed all the incentive structures, and the PAC twelve exploded and the Big
• 1:03:13
  ten. Production said, the PAC twelve imploded, and the Big Ten exploded
• 1:03:17
  into many, many more teams than they've ever had before, and all the
• 1:03:23
  landscape of college football is going to be completely different next year. Now,
• 1:03:29
  look, change, I get it. I get change, And I realize
• 1:03:35
  I'm an old man now at fifty six and going on seventy six, and
• 1:03:39
  that my view is in the minority. I'm well well aware. This is
• 1:03:45
  a little bit like being an anti Trump conservative. Being an anti change college
• 1:03:52
  football fan is a little bit like being an anti Trump conservative. I mean,
• 1:03:55
  there's not that many of us. We're probably in the right, and
• 1:04:00
  we know we're gonna lose, and we've been losing all along and we're going
• 1:04:02
  to continue to lose. But that doesn't mean that there's not an important principle
• 1:04:08
  at stake here. And there's a lot going on when it comes to this
• 1:04:13
  radical change in college football, and in my view, the sport is dead
• 1:04:19
  starting next year. Now, does that mean that it's gonna be instantly dead,
• 1:04:25
  No, No, it's gonna have terminal cancer. Now how long it's
• 1:04:29
  gonna take for that to actually take hold, I don't know. It may
• 1:04:31
  take a lot longer than even I realized. I've been using the ten year
• 1:04:38
  number. It might be closer to twenty years, but it's somewhere between ten
• 1:04:41
  and twenty years in my view that we will not have college football in any
• 1:04:46
  way, shape or form remotely close to what made it great to begin with.
• 1:04:53
  And since I'm using a flurry of analogies here, it's a lot like
• 1:04:57
  what happened with Disney, the Disney corporate. This is how I see what's
• 1:05:00
  going on with college sports in general, but specifically college football. Disney most
• 1:05:06
  successful media entertainment company of its kind of all time, based upon hardcore principles.
• 1:05:14
  They're selling that wasn't always real, but they're selling the essence of who
• 1:05:19
  they are. They're selling a brand that was based in things that were seen
• 1:05:25
  as wholesome and that worked for sixty seventy years. It worked tremendously well,
• 1:05:32
  made Disney what it was allowed Disney to buy all these other companies, including
• 1:05:38
  ESPN, which is why this analogy is actually pretty good because ESPN plays a
• 1:05:42
  huge role in what went down here, So essentially that's Disney, and then
• 1:05:46
  all of a sudden, Disney decides, you know what, that really worked
• 1:05:49
  well for us for sixty seventy years. Fuck it, Let's change everything for
• 1:05:56
  what reason? Well, they did it largely for political reasons. I don't
• 1:06:00
  think they did it unless they were really stupid for purely economic reasons. It
• 1:06:04
  certainly hasn't helped them in any way, shape or form. Their stock price
• 1:06:09
  proves that. But for whatever reason, they completely changed their philosophy. They
• 1:06:13
  gave up who they actually are, and it has harmed them now. It
• 1:06:17
  hasn't harmed them as much as I personally would like to see it be the
• 1:06:21
  case. I mean, I'm living in a family with three women, my
• 1:06:26
  wife and two daughters that love Disney. We don't even go to Disneyland hardly
• 1:06:30
  anymore. We used to be seasoned pass holders, largely because they've lost their
• 1:06:34
  way. We don't trust Disney anymore. We used to be able to turn
• 1:06:38
  on a Disney movie you know exactly what you were getting. Now you've got
• 1:06:41
  to be super careful. That's a fundamental change. Well, college football is
• 1:06:45
  the same thing, and I mentioned ESPN, and boy, I have so
• 1:06:48
  much disdain for ESPN because this all happened on their watch. They are the
• 1:06:56
  caretaker of college sports, in genial college football in particular, and so therefore
• 1:07:03
  either directly or indirectly, there to blame for everything that happens. They're the
• 1:07:09
  driver of this. And there's been so many moments that have been surreal where
• 1:07:14
  you've had ESPN commentators and reporters talking about events that are being dictated by their
• 1:07:20
  own bosses, which has absolutely had a massive impact on the content and the
• 1:07:30
  news coverage of this because they're not going to make their own bosses look bad.
• 1:07:34
  They're going to go along with it because they need to protect the gig.
• 1:07:38
  And we've seen this so often. I talked about this last January without
• 1:07:43
  ESPN was covering the last real Rose Bawl here in southern California, one of
• 1:07:47
  the great college football traditions. They had the tiptoe around the reality that ESPN,
• 1:07:55
  the parent company, had killed the rose Ball killed it just by the
• 1:07:59
  way, just exactly as I had told the head of the Rose Bawl about
• 1:08:02
  twenty years earlier, it was going to happen if they let this thing go
• 1:08:05
  down the path they were going on. Seemingly happens in my life all the
• 1:08:10
  time where I warned people they're doomed, they don't listen to me, and
• 1:08:13
  then ten twenty years later, that's exactly what happens. Well, you know,
• 1:08:17
  ESPN simultaneously has been telling us how incredibly great and important the rose ball
• 1:08:24
  is, but they're the ones that actually killed it. It's no longer going
• 1:08:27
  to be the rose ball going forward. That tradition is dead, it's over,
• 1:08:30
  it's gone. They're never going to fully admit to it. They're going
• 1:08:33
  to try to pretend that it hasn't been killed or that they didn't do the
• 1:08:38
  murder, but that doesn't change the reality of it. And ESPN when they
• 1:08:45
  this is remarkable how fast this has happened. Just a few years ago it
• 1:08:49
  was one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of college football, which really wasn't because the
• 1:08:55
  beginning of college football was not college football as we know it. One of
• 1:08:58
  the more interesting things about this history of college football, and I think this
• 1:09:00
  goes to what's happened with America, is that college football began as a way
• 1:09:06
  for the IVY leagues, the IVY League schools, which were incredibly conservative at
• 1:09:14
  the time, to test the manhood of their student bodies, can you imagine,
• 1:09:20
  right, And this was the case up until like one hundred years ago.
• 1:09:25
  The IVY Leagues dominated college football. It began with the IVY Leagues and
• 1:09:31
  it was largely you know, it'd be hard to determine the definition of conservative,
• 1:09:39
  but in my mind, it was conservative values and principles that were behind
• 1:09:43
  this. They wanted to make men boys and de men and to test their
• 1:09:47
  manhood against other schools. That's what the IVY Leagues were. And now here
• 1:09:53
  we are in twenty twenty three, the IVY Leagues are the most liberal,
• 1:09:58
  woke institutions on the planet. They don't even give a shit about football,
• 1:10:01
  which is not, you know, coincidental. They didn't even play football during
• 1:10:05
  COVID, the only major league that didn't play football at all during COVID.
• 1:10:11
  Not a coincidence. And so that's how college football began. But the one
• 1:10:16
  hundred and fifty the anniversary, ESPN did dozens and dozens of documentaries on the
• 1:10:24
  history of the sport and they all did exactly the same thing. They talked
• 1:10:29
  about what made the sport great, and it was all about history and tradition
• 1:10:34
  and rivalries and things like the Rose Bowl, and they waxed poetic about how
• 1:10:40
  awesome all that is, and then in the few years, like three or
• 1:10:45
  four years since then, five years since then, they've done nothing but destroy
• 1:10:49
  everything that they claim was supposedly the essence of what made college football great to
• 1:10:55
  begin with. It's really a remarkable thing. And again, I really do
• 1:11:01
  believe ESPN and indirectly Gavin Newsom have their fingerprints on all of this in various
• 1:11:10
  ways. Now to understand, if you're not a college football fan, to
• 1:11:15
  understand what I'm talking about here, I think it's important to comprehend the unique
• 1:11:21
  nature of college football. College football, and if I had to wrap up
• 1:11:27
  what's going on here in a very short sentence, I would describe it this
• 1:11:30
  way. College football is a regional sport that is being forced to go national
• 1:11:38
  because the television networks think that that is a better way to make more money.
• 1:11:46
  And the magic for them is the word playoff that if they can get
• 1:11:50
  eleven playoff games and four conference championship games, this ensures that there will be
• 1:11:58
  fifteen games every year in December and January that people nationally will really care about.
• 1:12:06
  That's what they're banking on now. They may or may not be right
• 1:12:10
  from an economic standpoint, because this is not my area of expertise. I
• 1:12:14
  have suspicions that in the long run they will not be right, kind of
• 1:12:17
  like what happened with Disney, But as possible, especially in the short run,
• 1:12:21
  they may be dead right about this that we're going to sell off everything
• 1:12:26
  in order to make sure that there are these fifteen games that have the word
• 1:12:31
  championship or playoff next to them, and therefore we're going to get a larger
• 1:12:36
  national audience. But in exchange for that, we're going to give up in
• 1:12:43
  what my view, in the view of many hardcore college football fans, was
• 1:12:47
  the essence of the actual sport, which is regionalism and the reason why regionalism
• 1:12:55
  matters. And this is something I'm gonna say that or talk about that I've
• 1:12:59
  never heard anybody else talk about in any realm of media at all, because
• 1:13:04
  I think it's too deep for the moronics sports media to fully comprehend. But
• 1:13:10
  regionalism is that the essence of what made college football great. The reason is
• 1:13:15
  because the nature of the sport itself, football as it has been configured,
• 1:13:21
  although that is changing as we become more and more wissified and come closer to
• 1:13:27
  flag football. But football is the one game where you can play one contest
• 1:13:34
  once a year and make a legitimate claim that your town or your state is
• 1:13:43
  better than the other guys, and that you can claim that the way you
• 1:13:48
  can even claim the way you are raising your men is better than the other
• 1:13:56
  town or the other school within your state, or the state that borders you,
• 1:14:00
  like Ohio State Michigan, Ohio State Michigan. That is the essence of
• 1:14:06
  the rivalry which just played probably the last real version of that game, and
• 1:14:14
  certainly the most significant version of that game in recent years, maybe ever.
• 1:14:18
  I'm going to get to more of that in a second, but the essence
• 1:14:21
  of Ohio State Michigan. I covered Ohio State when I was a TV sportscaster
• 1:14:25
  in Steubenville, Ohio. The essence of Ohio State Michigan is that when Ohio
• 1:14:31
  State beats Michigan, the people of Ohio, not just people associated with the
• 1:14:38
  school, but obviously that creates a stronger connection, but the people of Ohio,
• 1:14:43
  people who are Ohio State fans, can reasonably argue and believe that that
• 1:14:49
  year their men were better than the men produced by the State of Michigan.
• 1:14:58
  Now you can argue with that is real, But that's a plausible thing to
• 1:15:02
  believe, especially given the nature of football, not just because one game actually
• 1:15:10
  means something. You can't do it in baseball. You need seven game series
• 1:15:13
  to determine the erenthaly of the better team. In baseball. You can't do
• 1:15:15
  it in basketball. Hell, in college basketball, the rivals play each other
• 1:15:20
  at least twice a year, often three times a year, theoretically even four
• 1:15:25
  times a year. Anybody can beat anybody in basketball if you've got one player
• 1:15:29
  gets hot in a three point situation and you only play five guys at the
• 1:15:33
  time. The essence of football is that it measures qualities that no other sport
• 1:15:42
  does. Teamwork, determination, toughness, courage, strength, strategy, speed,
• 1:15:54
  you know, all sorts of different thing, a very diverse of qualities.
• 1:16:00
  By the way, one of the things that makes football great is it
• 1:16:04
  because of these diverse array of qualities that are required for a team to do
• 1:16:11
  well. It also, naturally, under the right circumstances, causes there to
• 1:16:16
  be a great amount of racial diversity among the teams. Now that's changing as
• 1:16:24
  speed has become more and more important in football. When it becomes a track
• 1:16:28
  meet, like, for instance, you know, there are other sports where
• 1:16:32
  you really cannot claim that your dominance means anything about your society. Like Jamaica
• 1:16:40
  doesn't claim to be a great country because they have the best track athletes,
• 1:16:44
  although there's arguments that they cheat anyway, but Jamaica has all sorts of problems
• 1:16:47
  as a country. Nobody believes Jamaica is a great country because they have great
• 1:16:53
  track athletes. Track athletes are largely born not made well. Football is not
• 1:16:59
  that way, or at least traditionally, has not been that way football.
• 1:17:04
  For you to have a great football team, you've got to work at it
• 1:17:08
  three hundred and fifty five days a year. How much a team wants it,
• 1:17:11
  how much they work in the weight room, how much I mean resources
• 1:17:15
  they put into the program, the tradition that they have. The tradition is
• 1:17:20
  what dictates, at least until NIL came around, who decides to go there
• 1:17:26
  in the first place. That's what is the touchstone to the past. Your
• 1:17:30
  tradition is why you have the players you currently have. Again, prior to
• 1:17:35
  NIL money and instant transfers, that's what was making the sport great because there
• 1:17:41
  was always that inherent connection to the past. The players we have now are
• 1:17:45
  literally there because of what we did in the past, our history, our
• 1:17:50
  tradition, what we stand for. All of this builds year by year,
• 1:17:57
  and so you know, I mean, hell Alabama wins games this year and
• 1:18:03
  when they have a fairly mediocre team for them, not because of what happened
• 1:18:08
  on the field in twenty twenty three, but because of the last twenty twenty
• 1:18:12
  five years of history that caused all those players to go there. So that
• 1:18:17
  maintains the connection to the school and to the team, and it enables the
• 1:18:26
  fan base of that team to make the argument that when they win that one
• 1:18:30
  game that's played one time and one time only that year, hey we're better
• 1:18:35
  than you, and we're better than you for the next three hundred and sixty
• 1:18:40
  five days until we play each other again the next year. That's the essence
• 1:18:45
  of it. That's what makes Ohio State Michigan so great. That's what makes
• 1:18:49
  Alabama Auburn so great, even when they don't have crazy games like what happened
• 1:18:54
  over the weekend where Alabama somehow won in the last play of the game and
• 1:18:57
  that absolute miracle. That's the essence of it. And if you take that
• 1:19:03
  away in my view, eventually you're killing the golden goose. It's it because
• 1:19:10
  you're taking away the rivalries, the regional nature of it, and you're doing
• 1:19:16
  so in a way that most people don't even understand it's happening. And again
• 1:19:19
  I hesitate to get into all the details of it, but the essence of
• 1:19:24
  this is that this new configuration, for instance, Ohio State Michigan. I
• 1:19:29
  talked about this in the last episode of the podcast Ohio State Michigan. Under
• 1:19:32
  the exact same circumstances, the exact same circumstances that occurred this year, if
• 1:19:38
  they occurred next year, the game would go from being the most important game
• 1:19:42
  of the year for both schools by far to literally being meaningless because they would
• 1:19:46
  be playing back to back weeks, and the first time they played on campus
• 1:19:53
  would be a game that you wouldn't even want to win, You wouldn't even
• 1:19:56
  want to play your starters in, because you'd already have qualified for the conference
• 1:20:00
  championship game the next week, and you'd already qualified for this twelve team playoff.
• 1:20:04
  And I honestly don't know whether not the people that created this new system
• 1:20:09
  are so stupid that they didn't realize that this is what they're doing, or
• 1:20:12
  they just don't give a fuck and they just realize, you know what,
• 1:20:15
  I don't care because we're gonna make more money this way. And maybe they
• 1:20:18
  think the fans are so stupid that they're not going to realize it, and
• 1:20:23
  you know what, they might be right about that. I think it's quite
• 1:20:26
  possible. And there's there's another Trump analogy we've made here, and there's also
• 1:20:31
  there's a different I'm gonna stay away from another Trump analogy. I'm gonna give
• 1:20:35
  you analogy with my eleven year old daughter, Grace. I have talked many
• 1:20:41
  times about Grace, who's in the fifth grade. She and I have had
• 1:20:45
  a long even what you would call it. I've gone through an ordeal with
• 1:20:51
  my daughter for years over the issue of Santa Claus, and I've talked about
• 1:20:57
  on this podcast and very emotional ways. And for years I've been waiting for
• 1:21:03
  Grace to finally realize, hopefully on her own, that Santa Claus doesn't exist.
• 1:21:09
  And last Christmas, it was a long ordeal in many phases, but
• 1:21:14
  I thought I had finally ended this issue and she and I had had to
• 1:21:17
  talk and I made it very very clear to her that Santa Claus does not
• 1:21:23
  exist as a human being. I talked about the spirit of Christmas. I
• 1:21:26
  tried to keep something alive for her. I thought I handled it pretty well
• 1:21:30
  the best I could under the circumstances, and I thought it was done with.
• 1:21:34
  I thought we were completely done, and that she was going to be
• 1:21:36
  the guardian for her young sister Diana to protect the magic of Christmas. I
• 1:21:45
  really felt pretty good about the whole thing. So now we're already starting the
• 1:21:48
  Christmas season and grace fully acknowledges that intellectually she knows there's no Santa Claus,
• 1:21:56
  but she's still pretending like there is because she still wants to believe. She
• 1:22:00
  still wants to feel that magic. And I see this as exactly the same
• 1:22:04
  thing that's gonna happen with college football fans. Even those that intellectually understand what
• 1:22:10
  they have just done to your sport is destroy it, are, for at
• 1:22:14
  least a short period of time, gonna still want to pretend that it's the
• 1:22:17
  exact same thing you fell in love with. So I fully acknowledge that at
• 1:22:23
  least in the short run, whether that's five years, ten years, I
• 1:22:26
  don't know what's gonna happen with college football is going to be very, very
• 1:22:29
  popular. Of Course, the media is going to be deeply invested in selling
• 1:22:32
  it, so they're gonna pretend it's awesome even if it's not. And they
• 1:22:38
  may fully understand and expect that they can dupe fans because afdraw, they've actually
• 1:22:44
  duped some in the media itself with this new system. And there was a
• 1:22:47
  moment prior to the Ohio State Michigan game that illustrated this better than I could
• 1:22:53
  possibly have ever imagined. I was sitting at home watching wondering, is anybody
• 1:22:59
  gonna mention what I have been screaming at the top of my lungs about on
• 1:23:03
  Twitter and in this podcast, that Hello, we're on the verge of killing
• 1:23:11
  Ohio State Michigan under the new system, because if they're playing the last game
• 1:23:15
  of the year and they've both clinched a spot in the playoffs and in the
• 1:23:19
  conference championship game, no one's gonna give a fuck about this. You're gonna
• 1:23:24
  take the best thing that there is in college football, something the media reveres
• 1:23:28
  and promotes in extreme fashion, and you're gonna kill it. Is No one
• 1:23:33
  at least gonna mention this. Well, someone did mention this on the Fox
• 1:23:38
  pregame show. Now, Fox was carrying the Ohio State Michigan game, and
• 1:23:42
  they have a prognosticator expert, a guy that goes by the name the Bear,
• 1:23:49
  and he was talking with Rob Stone, the host. He's a terrible
• 1:23:54
  host, but he's the host of their inane pregame show on Fox. And
• 1:24:00
  so the voice you're going to hear here is the Bear making the exact argument
• 1:24:03
  that I have been making because he actually knows college football, and he's basically
• 1:24:08
  saying, hey, look, we really need to savor this last go round
• 1:24:12
  because we're not going to have this anymore in the future. And Rob Stone
• 1:24:16
  comes in and says one of the dumbest things I think I've ever heard in
• 1:24:20
  the history of sportscasting, which is really saying something. And here's what that
• 1:24:25
  sounded like on the Fox pregame show before the Michigan Ohio State games. By
• 1:24:30
  fans and everybody out there to enjoy and savor the game because it's really the
• 1:24:33
  end of college football. As we know that with all the conference re alignment
• 1:24:38
  that's going on, we may never see a situation, you know, with
• 1:24:41
  the states as high as they are for Ohio State. Vision, if this
• 1:24:44
  one next year, both Kings would be in the playoff and both teams would
• 1:24:46
  be headed to the potent championship game next year, so the states would not
• 1:24:49
  be as high as they are this year. Michigan's next time regular season conference
• 1:24:54
  home game is against USC Washington's next regular season home game is against Northwestern.
• 1:24:59
  So enjoy day and appreciate everything we have, but also be excited for the
• 1:25:02
  future things. Absolutely, we're talking Michigan Ohio State potentially back to that weekend.
• 1:25:08
  Yeah, I'll take that. I'll take that any season bare Thanks,
• 1:25:11
  We'll talk to you a little bit later now. I wish I could say
• 1:25:14
  when I saw that that I really couldn't believe it. But I wasn't surprised
• 1:25:18
  at all, because either Robstone is just that dumb that he doesn't understand that
• 1:25:25
  if you play these two games back to back under those circumstances, no one's
• 1:25:29
  gonna care about the first game, or maybe he does realize it and he's
• 1:25:33
  already shilling for his corporate bosses because he knows he's gonna have to sell that
• 1:25:40
  this is somehow an awesome thing that's happening. No, no, no,
• 1:25:43
  you know this lobotomy, we're giving you, this castration operation you're undergoing.
• 1:25:46
  This is actually gonna be very very good for you. Just trust us.
• 1:25:49
  It's gonna be very very good for you because we're gonna get two Ohio State
• 1:25:54
  Michigan games in a row. So either he's an idiot or maybe both,
• 1:26:02
  or he's just already chilling for the corporate masters, trying to sell the unsellable.
• 1:26:09
  But the reality is that the bear is right. This is it.
• 1:26:13
  This is the end, because we're never going to see this again. And
• 1:26:16
  you might be thinking, well, what's the big deal, John, You
• 1:26:20
  know what, It's a shame. It's a tradition that's going to go by
• 1:26:23
  the wayside. Well, I'm sorry. Going back to that Disney analogy,
• 1:26:30
  this is what made people care about college football. I care about it.
• 1:26:35
  Not even have any connection to Ohio State Michigan other than the fact that thirty
• 1:26:40
  years ago I briefly covered Ohio State football. I have no connection, But
• 1:26:44
  I care about it because I know, one it's important from a national perspective,
• 1:26:48
  but two, I know how important it is to the people of Ohio
• 1:26:51
  and the people of Michigan. That's interesting to me. They have real,
• 1:26:57
  true passion about this. So I find that compelling from a human standpoint.
• 1:27:02
  Well, if that's gone, why am I gonna give a crap? We're
• 1:27:08
  gonna replace that with you know, some playoff games between the tenth ranked team
• 1:27:14
  in the nation and the eighth ranked team in the nation that I don't even
• 1:27:17
  give a damn about it. They don't care about each other. There's nothing
• 1:27:21
  that's gonna change the lives and the people who are associated with those schools depending
• 1:27:26
  on who wins that game. But it does matter in Ohio State, Michigan
• 1:27:30
  because those people live with each other all the time, and so it's gonna
• 1:27:34
  matter in their lives or at least for the next year. Regionalism is at
• 1:27:40
  the heart of what made this great. Let me give you another example.
• 1:27:45
  This is not even college football, but I think it in a weird way
• 1:27:47
  it proves my point. Look what's happening with the New York Giants football team
• 1:27:51
  right now. They suck, They have no chance of going anywhere this year,
• 1:27:57
  but their entire season is being saved because of third string quarterback by the
• 1:28:00
  name of Tommy DeVito is now suddenly their starter. And the reason why the
• 1:28:06
  Giants fans are so excited about this is because he's from northern New Jersey and
• 1:28:13
  he's Italian and his family's very Italian, and so they have a connection to
• 1:28:19
  him. He lives grew up near the stadium in northern New Jersey where the
• 1:28:25
  Giants play. That is why people are passionate about it. It's literally saving
• 1:28:30
  the season of a crappy football team all because this third string quarterback who may
• 1:28:34
  never play again starting next year, happens to be an Italian guy from northern
• 1:28:41
  New Jersey who they can relate to. That's the connection that makes people care.
• 1:28:47
  And you're gonna kill that like you're gonna kill the Golden Goose. You're
• 1:28:51
  gonna kill Ohio State Michigan. By the way, Alabama Auburn would have been
• 1:28:56
  in a somewhat similar situation by far the most magical moment of this entire year,
• 1:29:01
  under the exact same circumstances next year, Alabama would not have had that
• 1:29:08
  much at stake in this game. Of course, it's Auburn, so they'll
• 1:29:11
  always care. It's their rival. That's what everyone says, But I'm not
• 1:29:15
  sure i'd buy this whole concept of well, Alabama Auburn will always be a
• 1:29:20
  game people care about, regardless of the circumstances. Well, I don't know
• 1:29:26
  ten twenty years from now, once the institutional memory that I always talk about
• 1:29:30
  has faded away because the old guard has died or is no longer relevant.
• 1:29:35
  And for the last ten to fifteen years, Alabama Auburn hasn't even been one
• 1:29:42
  of the top six games Alabama plays in any particular year because they've been playing
• 1:29:47
  a conference championship game in four or five playoff games. I mean, that's
• 1:29:53
  what we're going here with. I mean, so if Auburn is their sixth
• 1:29:57
  most important game of the year for an extended period of time, then why
• 1:30:03
  would anyone care that much? Yeah, it's interstate rival. But I'm someone
• 1:30:09
  who believes that times are changing very fast, and that memories are very short,
• 1:30:14
  and that traditions are more vulnerable than ever, especially because of the nature
• 1:30:19
  of our media. The media is more than willing to praise these traditions one
• 1:30:23
  second and then kill them the next the moment that they think it's in their
• 1:30:26
  financial best interest to do so. But regionalism is what made college football great,
• 1:30:32
  and now it's going national, it's going antiseptic, it's going to kill
• 1:30:39
  the essence of all this, and when you combine that with the fact that
• 1:30:43
  the reason why the players are going to those schools is no longer what it
• 1:30:47
  used to be. I want to go back to what I said before about
• 1:30:50
  Ohio State Michigan. We're raising our young men better than you're raising your young
• 1:30:55
  men. Oh Way. That's the essence of high school football in states like
• 1:31:00
  Ohio and Pennsylvania and in the Deep South. Our town is better than your
• 1:31:04
  town because our kids work harder, they're tougher, they're more courageous, they're
• 1:31:09
  stronger, they're faster. Our strategy is better, our program is better,
• 1:31:13
  our coaching is better. Well, that's no longer the case in the NIL
• 1:31:17
  era. Why did you go to Michigan? Well, I went to Michigan
• 1:31:21
  because I was a fan of Michigan. My dad went there, my uncle
• 1:31:25
  went there. I liked Boschen Beckler, I like the tradition, I liked
• 1:31:30
  the uniforms. That was the former answer. Now the answer is, well,
• 1:31:32
  they offered me the most money and I thought I could get the most
• 1:31:36
  playing time. Or I transferred there because the first place I went didn't let
• 1:31:41
  me play right away, so I decided to transfer instantly, I didn't like
• 1:31:45
  the coach. The coach was mean to me, so I laughed, and
• 1:31:46
  that was the best place for me to go. That's not a real connection,
• 1:31:50
  and that's not over time once people figure this out. That's not a
• 1:31:55
  situation where you can make the argument that the winner of the Ohio State Michigan
• 1:32:00
  game indicates anything about your school, or your state, or your culture or
• 1:32:04
  your community being better than the other guys, because then it's just it's just
• 1:32:10
  who you paid to be there. And the more the game becomes wilsified,
• 1:32:14
  the more it becomes a track meet, it more becomes more like well praising
• 1:32:17
  Jamaica for having the best track athletes who cares. And Tom Brady, by
• 1:32:24
  the way, made a great statement about that in the past week, you
• 1:32:29
  know, which is ironic since he probably benefited more from the wissification of pro
• 1:32:33
  football than anybody else, but I think actually gives him more credibility. Tom
• 1:32:38
  Brady said that the current brand of pro football is very mediocre. It's become
• 1:32:44
  too soft. These are my words describing what he said, but that it's
• 1:32:47
  completely changed any things that needs to go back to its roots, which I
• 1:32:51
  completely agree with, and it's I want to make this clear because when I
• 1:32:56
  talk about the wussification of football, I don't want to see people injured.
• 1:33:00
  I don't like necessarily the brutality of the former version of the game. But
• 1:33:05
  my concern is, you're the more you make football like basketball, which I
• 1:33:11
  used to love, you know, the more you make it like basketball,
• 1:33:15
  where there's no contact and you're you're taking away that the entire idea that what
• 1:33:25
  you're testing as a team can be elevated to this idea of we're better than
• 1:33:30
  you. You can't do that in basketball for a bunch of reasons because of
• 1:33:35
  the nature of the sport. And you're if you take away toughness and you
• 1:33:40
  tough take away strength, and you take away courage and dealing with fear and
• 1:33:45
  intimidation and all those things, then it's a different sport. And by the
• 1:33:48
  way, that's going to continue to happen more and more because it's in the
• 1:33:53
  best interest of the TV networks because the more games they play, you know,
• 1:33:58
  you need the stars to play, you need there to be less injuries.
• 1:34:01
  I mean, my god, there's college football teams that might be playing
• 1:34:04
  seventeen games next year with the last five or six of them all being championship
• 1:34:11
  or playoff games. You know, in short order, with very little rest,
• 1:34:16
  injuries are gonna become a major, major problem. Well that gets alleviated
• 1:34:20
  if you make the game more like basketball with pads, because basketball can do
• 1:34:26
  that. That's what the whole NCAA basketball tournament is about. They can play
• 1:34:30
  two games on a weekend for three straight weeks. That's the whole NCAA Basketball
• 1:34:35
  tournament, which is, you know, the regular season is now completely meaningless
• 1:34:40
  in college basketball, which is what's gonna happen in college football. But the
• 1:34:43
  tournament is still a big money maker, and it's all about money here,
• 1:34:47
  it's not about the principles that made all this great to begin with. So
• 1:34:54
  look, I'm not naive they're gonna be people that are gonna love this new
• 1:34:57
  system. They're gonna love it. I mean, it'll be artificially exciting,
• 1:35:02
  much like high scoring football games are artificially exciting. But I really think,
• 1:35:06
  eventually, eventually, I don't know how long it's gonna take, you're gonna
• 1:35:12
  see a killing of that golden goose, and you're gonna see the sport radically
• 1:35:16
  altered into something that is not even a fact simile of what it was before,
• 1:35:21
  and so this past weekend really felt like a goodbye, and that was
• 1:35:26
  the only positive part of this. I don't know why I'm so into closure.
• 1:35:30
  I think it's partially because my mother was killed in a car accident in
• 1:35:33
  nineteen ninety four, and the way that I found out about it provided me
• 1:35:36
  no ability for closure at all, and so subconsciously I think that's why I'm
• 1:35:42
  really in the closure. I also don't like playing pretend. So if we're
• 1:35:45
  gonna end something, let's just admit it. Let's just admit what we're doing.
• 1:35:49
  I feel that way about America, and there's a lot of parallels to
• 1:35:54
  America and California and this whole college football situation. I mean, part of
• 1:35:59
  what made college football vulnerable to this, just like what made California vulnerable and
• 1:36:04
  America itself vulnerable to destruction, is that they were so great. They were
• 1:36:11
  so awesome that we could do things to them that would eventually destroy them.
• 1:36:19
  But it would take too long for people to realize that those things were mortal
• 1:36:25
  threats because there were so many great things about college football and America and California
• 1:36:32
  to keep it afloat for at least a while. I hope that point was
• 1:36:41
  decently articulated, because it's an important one. Our great vulnerability is a country,
• 1:36:45
  and California is a great example of this, and I think college football
• 1:36:48
  is a great example of this is really our greatness itself. If you aren't
• 1:36:56
  that great, if you don't have so much going for you, you take
• 1:37:00
  to be much more protective of what you have. But when you have a
• 1:37:04
  large jess of awesomeness, you go, well, okay, I can give
• 1:37:09
  this up. It's no big deal. It's not gonna hurt me all that
• 1:37:11
  much. And then over time, eventually you're going to get into a situation
• 1:37:16
  where you've killed the golden goose, You've killed the essence of it, and
• 1:37:21
  it's probably going to be too late before you realize what's happened. And my
• 1:37:27
  guess is that even when this does happen in college football, whether it's ten,
• 1:37:30
  fifteen, twenty years from now, they're going to blame something else.
• 1:37:34
  I mean, because over time, you know, you can always blame whatever
• 1:37:40
  the hell you want, because lots of other things happen in the interim.
• 1:37:43
  But this will be the moment, This will be the endgame. This is
• 1:37:47
  where things, you know, forever leave the gravitational pull of the rational earth.
• 1:37:55
  And I see a lot of similarities between college football and America and California.
• 1:38:03
  California. If we didn't have so much going for us in this state,
• 1:38:08
  we never would have allowed the things to happen over the last couple decades
• 1:38:13
  that have occurred. I mentioned earlier in this podcast episode prop one eighty seven
• 1:38:16
  if we were a poor state. If we were a poor state, I
• 1:38:21
  doubt the public would have allowed the courts to eviscerate Prop one eighty seven,
• 1:38:27
  or at least it would have been put back on the ballot in a different,
• 1:38:30
  different way and been passed again. But there wasn't the urgency because everyone
• 1:38:36
  looked around and went, Wow, things are really still great. We're making
• 1:38:40
  lots of money, The weather's awesome, beaches are great. You know,
• 1:38:44
  life hasn't changed all that much. Maybe we can deal with a little bit
• 1:38:46
  of illegal immigration and have illegal immigrants get government benefits as if they're citizens.
• 1:38:55
  Ah, no big deal, We can deal with this. But over time,
• 1:39:00
  over time, like a cancer, it becomes more and more corrupting and
• 1:39:06
  as a greater and greater burden, and by the time people realize it.
• 1:39:11
  It's too late, and it's going to be too late with college football because
• 1:39:15
  you can't go back. You could theoretically, but you can't go back to
• 1:39:19
  what made college football great to begin with. There's no turning back at this
• 1:39:26
  point in my view. And what's really frustrating to me about this is that
• 1:39:32
  we were so close to having the perfect system. And I've had this happen
• 1:39:36
  in my life many times. It's a little bit like the jfk assassination,
• 1:39:42
  which I'm going to get to in a moment. But I was a big
• 1:39:45
  believer in the so called plus one system, which would have had a national
• 1:39:49
  championship game after the Bowl system, the old Bowl system, which was the
• 1:39:56
  really glory days of college football the sixties, the seventies, the eighties,
• 1:39:59
  and then nineties, in early two thousands, I mean, the BCS system
• 1:40:02
  wasn't perfect. It was so close to the perfect system, which would have
• 1:40:08
  been that plus one. But instead of going towards the plus one, they
• 1:40:11
  went in the other direction. They thought that's where the money was in the
• 1:40:15
  playoff. They went to the four team playoff. Now they're going to the
• 1:40:17
  twelve team playoff. They allowed nil money because it became a civil rights issue
• 1:40:21
  and instant transfers, because I think that was a civil rights issue to some
• 1:40:27
  extent as well. And now it's a completely different sport than it never was
• 1:40:30
  before. And I think we're going to see, and they're not too distant
• 1:40:34
  future, that what I'm saying is correct. Whether or not anyone's ever going
• 1:40:40
  to admit that they were wrong, I have my doubts, because no one
• 1:40:43
  ever admits they're wrong about anything, and no one is ever willing to reverse
• 1:40:46
  course. And it seems like when it comes to all these sports that once
• 1:40:53
  you expand playoffs, you never go in the other direction. I mean,
• 1:40:57
  we've seen what happened with baseball and NFL basketball. I mean they've all gone
• 1:41:02
  in one direction because playoffs are magic, I guess to stupid people, we
• 1:41:09
  love the word playoffs, and we will sell our souls for playoffs, and
• 1:41:14
  so in exchange for getting eleven playoff games and four conference championship games, college
• 1:41:20
  football has given up virtually everything that made it great, and so that to
• 1:41:28
  me is an important point to be made. I just want to admit what
• 1:41:32
  has happened. I don't like playing pretend, and I'm glad that at least
• 1:41:38
  we have this funeral of the twenty twenty three college football season. And this
• 1:41:42
  past weekend was a hell of a funeral. It was as awesome a college
• 1:41:45
  football weekend as I can ever remember, but it was also tinged with sadness
• 1:41:50
  because as I was watching it, I realized, We're never going to see
• 1:41:55
  anything like this again. And it's a real shame because man has an amazing
• 1:42:00
  to destroy what is ever great, whatever is great. It's a remarkable phenomenon.
• 1:42:08
  It's almost the psychosis that humanity seems to have a compulsion to need to
• 1:42:14
  destroy whatever they have created that is great. And the greatest sport America ever
• 1:42:19
  created was college football, and now America, led by Gavin Newso and others
• 1:42:25
  like him and ESPN, have effectively destroyed it. And the funeral will be
• 1:42:30
  continuing through now till the end of the season, which will be in early
• 1:42:34
  January with the National Championship Game. Now, I referenced that much like the
• 1:42:39
  Kennedy assassination, I believe I've had the solution to the problem for many decades,
• 1:42:44
  and unfortunately no one bothered to listen to me, which is pretty much
• 1:42:46
  the story of my life. The Kennedy assassination had its sixtieth anniversary over the
• 1:42:53
  last week, just after our last episode of the podcast, and I wanted
• 1:42:57
  to provide a brief update of a couple things that occurred related to that.
• 1:43:00
  Since I've talked a lot about my theory of what really happened logistically when it
• 1:43:05
  came to the Kennedy assassination. If you've not heard me talk about that,
• 1:43:09
  I urge you to check out episode seventy one of the podcast, as well
• 1:43:13
  as episode number one hundred and five of the podcast, where I interviewed Gerald
• 1:43:16
  Posner, unfortunately briefly, but I think importantly. He's the author of the
• 1:43:23
  book Case Closed, and he and I agree on a lot about the assassination,
• 1:43:27
  including the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald effectively acted alone. We just disagree
• 1:43:32
  in it for the most part, not totally about the logistics of how it
• 1:43:38
  happened. And in case you've somehow missed me discussed this, my theory has
• 1:43:42
  always been that the single bullet theory did not happen. It's not necessary for
• 1:43:47
  there to be a magic bullet for Lee Harvey Oswald to be a loan shooter.
• 1:43:50
  Then. Instead, what happened was that the first shot hit Kennedy in
• 1:43:54
  the back, fell out at some point. I always thought it was a
• 1:43:57
  Parkland hospital, But thanks to a new witness, Paul Landis, who was
• 1:44:01
  a Secret Service agent at the time, who was right there, he says
• 1:44:05
  he picked up that so called magic bullet in the back of the limo where
• 1:44:10
  Kennedy was seated, therefore theoretically not coming out of the body of John Connolly,
• 1:44:15
  which had always been thought to be the case. I always had suspicions
• 1:44:18
  that that wasn't true, and that was really at the heart of my theory
• 1:44:23
  here. But the second shot would then miss Kennedy, hit Connolly, and
• 1:44:27
  then the third shot would hit Kennedy in the head and kill him. That
• 1:44:30
  was my theory. And as part of the sixtieth anniversary of the assassination,
• 1:44:36
  Paul Landis did an interview with a newspaper in Columbus, Ohio, because he's
• 1:44:44
  from that area, and he said some things that I found to be very
• 1:44:47
  interesting. Now I've not read his book, i've seen him do interviews.
• 1:44:51
  One of the things about Landis that I find to be credible is that he
• 1:44:56
  doesn't seem to know that much about the assassination, and he's not a conspiracy
• 1:45:01
  theorist. If he was doing this to try to promote some lucrative conspiracy theory,
• 1:45:09
  and conspiracy theories on this topic, unfortunately are far more lucrative than the
• 1:45:12
  truth, then I would be much more suspicious of him. But this is
• 1:45:15
  the article where Landis gives this interview. Landis believes that was the bullet that
• 1:45:24
  hit Kennedy in the back, the one that he picked up in the back
• 1:45:28
  of the limousine, But it didn't go through him and into Connolly, as
• 1:45:32
  the Warren Commission concluded. Rather, it made a shallow wound in the President's
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  back and fell backward onto the top of the backseat of the limousine. This
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  again, this is according to Secret Service agent Paul Landis. Quote, there
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  is no way that bullet would have done all that damage and ended up back
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  there where it started behind Kennedy, where top of the back seat met the
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  metal trunk. Landis said, that's just impossible. Anybody that would know anything
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  about ballistics anything, that's just impossible that that could be the same bullet.
• 1:46:25
  The bullet he found didn't penetrate and brushed out onto the seat behind him.
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  Landis said, Now, I apologize for the way I read that, but
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  I hope you got the essence of it, which is that's Landis theorizing about
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  the bullet that he found in the back of the limousine. There's just no
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  way in his view that that could have come from Connolly, which is something
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  that General Posner tries to claim in my interview with him in episode number one
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  hundred and five, which I said at the time sounded very, very employed,
• 1:47:00
  causible, and almost desperate. Well, Landis strongly believes, as I
• 1:47:03
  do, that that bullet that he found just simply fell out of Kennedy's back.
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  I still have questions as to how the hell it would have fallen out
• 1:47:13
  of his back and gotten through the shirt and the jacket, because in theory,
• 1:47:17
  if it falls out of his back, it would go down to his
• 1:47:20
  belt line, and I don't know how it would get to where Landis founded.
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  We did have a listener to this podcast theorized I thought, interestingly that
• 1:47:30
  when they lifted Kennedy out of the limousine, they would have picked him up
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  by his armpits, therefore raising his shirt out of his pants and beyond the
• 1:47:40
  belt line, and then the bullet could have fallen out at that point,
• 1:47:44
  and then Landis puts it on JFK stretcher at Parkland Hospital, and then it
• 1:47:48
  somehow gets misidentified, I believe because Arlo Inspector wanted it to be misidentified as
• 1:47:55
  having been found on John Connolly's stretcher. Well, all that is rather a
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  complic if you're not a student of the ken of the assassination. But I
• 1:48:02
  did find it interesting that Landis is seemingly coming to basically the same conclusion that
• 1:48:10
  I have. That doesn't mean it's right. I am more than willing to
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  be wrong about this. In fact, somewhat like my experience with the Jerry
• 1:48:18
  Sandusky case, I would love for someone to prove me wrong. I was
• 1:48:21
  disappointed that Gerald Posner was not able to even close come close to doing that
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  in episode number one hundred and five, and even more disappointed that Gerald Posner
• 1:48:31
  has not taken my offer to do a second interview on this subject. And
• 1:48:35
  that situation has now become frankly bizarre to me because I theorized in the last
• 1:48:42
  episode that Posner is docking me because he knows how much I know about the
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  assassination and he doesn't have any good answers to defend the single bullet theory,
• 1:48:53
  and it's just not worth it to him, and I thought maybe I would
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  never hear from him again, even though I made it very very clear that
• 1:49:00
  was even the understanding before we did the interview that we would try to do
• 1:49:02
  a second interview, because I knew we only had thirty minutes was not going
• 1:49:05
  to be nearly enough time to get into this in any significant detail. Well,
• 1:49:12
  I still have not heard from Posner at all, and now presume I
• 1:49:15
  will never hear from Posner about doing that second interview, which is very disappointing
• 1:49:19
  and I think rather telling. But on the day of the anniversary itself,
• 1:49:24
  he and I were involved in a couple of different threads on Twitter where we
• 1:49:30
  were commenting on each other's statements in very polite, respectful, and even complimentary
• 1:49:36
  fashion, liking each other's tweets, and so there doesn't appear to be any
• 1:49:42
  sort of personal animosity. I think at one point I even referenced that I
• 1:49:46
  really hope that Gerald will do a second interview with me, and I think
• 1:49:51
  even like that tweet, and yet I've not heard any response from him in
• 1:49:56
  actually scheduling such an interview. So I am completely flummixed and perplexed and frustrated
• 1:50:02
  by why it appears as if that second interview with Gerald Posner is not going
• 1:50:06
  to happen. You can decide for yourself as to what that means as far
• 1:50:11
  as the substance of this matter. But at this point I'm left with the
• 1:50:16
  reality that I have this theory that's backed up by Paul Landis in a very
• 1:50:21
  significant way where I think the preponderance of the evidence is very much on my
• 1:50:27
  side, and the other side is unwilling to debunk my theory or even have
• 1:50:30
  a reasonable conversation with me about it, which leads me to believe that I'm
• 1:50:34
  probably right. I'm still very open to being wrong. I just want to
• 1:50:40
  find out what the truth is. That's always that's always my bottom line,
• 1:50:44
  what's the truth here? And it's very, very frustrating that now that the
• 1:50:47
  sixtieth anniversary has passed, that we're never going to get to the truth of
• 1:50:50
  this. We've got Rob Reiner talking about crazy conspiracy theories and new documentaries about
• 1:50:57
  Parkland doctors and what they call which makes no goddamn sense. And the reality
• 1:51:02
  is that these conspiracy theories are not helpful, They're not true, they're easily
• 1:51:08
  debunked, and what really happened is not that complicated. But unfortunately, the
• 1:51:13
  way this all went down, largely because of media and competence, and because
• 1:51:17
  conspiracy theories sell, the conventional wisdom is never going to accept the truth of
• 1:51:24
  what really happened in the Kennedy assassination. And I do think it's a very
• 1:51:28
  strong indication of just how dead journalism and the truth really are. So that'll
• 1:51:32
  do it for this episode of the Death of Journalism Podcast is always the case.
• 1:51:35
  Thanks so much for listening. We'll be back again with episode number one
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  hundred and eight on Thursday morning. Until then, my name is John Zigler,
• 1:51:44
  and this has been the Death of Journalism Podcast