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We do not support or enable those kinds of activities. Seen the reports, don't really have any information to provide other than what I've seen in the press. And so I'd have to refer you to the Ukrainians on that. That's the assassination of a Russian general in Moscow by a Ukrainian. And there's not a chance in hell that that answer means anything, means anything at all. We might not have had anything to do with it. We might have been 90% of it, and we wouldn't say and nobody will find out for 25 years. Might have given them a ride. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. Hired him a. An Uber. That was a pretty damn sophisticated operation, though. Whoever was behind it, Ian Bremmer, called it a major escalation in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. It's got to make Putin kind of worried, maybe not about himself personally, although, again, it would get your attention. They got a bomb to a general in Moscow. Okay. Yeah, yeah. At some point. Speaking of foreign lands, I would love to get to the story about the first year of Javier Milae's being in charge of Argentina. The libertarian fire brand with long hair and clone dogs and the rest of his wackiness. But who said, hey, this socialist crap is ruining this country. We're going to take it back. It's going to hurt for a while, but we're going to bring down this rampant inflation, make this stuff, make Argentina work again after year one. He's doing great. Did you listen to him on the Lex Friedman podcast a couple of weeks ago? I did not. Oh, it's really good. He's. He's one of the more interesting people on earth right now. Yeah, Yeah, I would agree. And also coming up, a year in review, kind of a glance through a bunch of news stories that have happened this year. It's. It's worth doing, partly because it. Well, just for historical purposes, but partly because it reminds you of how many things are made a huge deal over, but they're really not that big a Deal at all. I'm going. That's hardly discussed. I'm going to make my boldest New Year's resolution of my life this year. I'm almost a little frightened to do it. We'll talk about it later. I know you were, you were claiming you might match it, but we'll discuss that later. Yeah, maybe so. Anyway, all of that to come. I wanted to get to this real quickly. This is just to set up a joke. This headline. Neanderthals and humans made it more recently than previously thought. Once you've had Neanderthals, sapiens won't do it all. Okay, I, Joe Getty, famously in the 99th percentile for Neanderthal genes among modern man and proud of it. I got the big head, I got the brow, I got the broad jaw. I am ready to take the jawbone of some beast and beat you down with it if necessary. This is my culture. Anyway, actually they think that Neanderthals were not at all dumb beasts or anything that was based on ridiculous. Had bigger brains, quite possibly smarter, but maybe didn't have the ability for abstract thought which we talked about a couple of years weeks ago based on the book Sapiens, which is really fascinating. I do tend towards single mindedness and missing the obvious, so who knows? Who knows? Maybe that's part of it. Anyway, I wanted to get this in because I think it's so. So. Well, it's just really, really good. The Caitlin Clark thing we were talking about yesterday, how she has become a superstar, got a tremendous amount of attention. The WNBA is making way more money, selling way more tickets. They've had to rebook games in bigger stadiums. I mean a sea change. Everybody's going to start to make money, more money. She's the time. As if anybody cares about this athlete of the year. And the backlash has been severe because she's a white girl and she's straight. And we, we brought you a lot of the quotes from the various players and owners about how it's clearly race and blah blah and clearly you'd be better off if people continued to not talk about the WNBA and it continued to be an obscure sport with hardly any following. Much better. Paul Nonamus writes. Jack mentioned the desire for a parallel universe experience where a black Caitlin Clark excelled in a mostly white league. Maybe there is one. Tiger woods dominated a mostly white game, turned pro in 96 at the age of 20 97. He won the Masters by 12 strokes, was number one the Official Golf rankings. I recall his undeniable talent being universally celebrated by the world of golf in all sports media. You're absolutely correct. Absolutely right. That's not actually what I said because I wanted a parallel universe where a black player is exactly like Caitlin Clark, only black. The league is the same. Just to see how much of the attraction hubbub, bigger crowds is, you know, you could attribute to Caitlin Clark being white. I don't actually know. Well, and my answer to that was if indeed it turned out that a predominantly white country reacted with more enthusias to Caitlin Clark becoming a huge, incredibly exciting star, more on that more than a young black girl with same credentials, that would tell you something about humanity. And if that is true, even among WNBA fans who do not exactly tend to swing way right, then that just tells you something about humanity and you accept it and you go from there as a league and you market and everybody makes more money and it just is what it is. That's, you know, one of the great tenets of conservatism is that human nature has not changed in many, many thousands of years. We are still essentially the same animal we were 20,000 years ago. But the left constantly thinks it can change humanity and human nature away from the way we're clearly made to be. You can't. They're wasting their time and they oppress people and they hurt people and they waste money trying to do it. That emailer might be onto something though. Maybe it's the opposite race of what the sport normally has and it doesn't have anything to do with you being black or white. It's just the other race. I'm thinking about the, the Williams sisters in tennis, which was generally a white chick sport then. Then, you know, a couple black chicks come out along and dominate. It's just, you know, we're heroes. Everybody loves it for some reason. Interesting. Yeah, not everybody. Obviously with any high profile athlete there's crap that takes place, but yeah, and, and then there are black guys in a predominantly black sport, the AW or the NBA, who get tremendous acclaim and stardom. And on that tack I will continue. This is a note from. We'll just call her Anonymous. The quoted statement on Monday's show. Clark's race is a huge reason for her popularity should be seen for what it is. Other players, jealousy of Caitlin's success and the need to rationalize it as something other than her objectively obvious talent. I'm going to stop there and tell you I, I let the left do it again. This became a trial, if you will, a forum, a question of whether Caitlin Clark was being unjustifiably and for racial reasons, elevated above other players. This ought to be a trial about the people who are accusing her of that and what's going on with them. I will elucidate, illuminate. According to her critic, she was only the rookie of the year because she was white and now athlete of the year for the same reason. But the facts shout for themselves. She is in fact the best women's collegiate basketball player ever, by the numbers. She has broken the records of former players, including Pete Maravich and Lynette Woodard, and set the NCAA all time scoring record. She's a marvel at threes, she's quick af, as the young people say, and a champion in assists. Assists matter their credit for helping other players do well in all caps. She has said, I love passing the ball. If you're great at something and better than most, plus you support your team, you get recognized. Can't we all just concede that she's great and moved on? It's not Caitlyn's job to appease the jealousy or frustrations of other players or to endure their harassment attempts to hurt her. And there's more on that and I think it's very good. Well, if her critics want to prove that the great rise in viewership in the WNBA is because she's white, then once they can perform as well as she does, they can test their theory. But the point is actually, and it's, it's great and it's well made by any objective standard, really, any objective standard. Of course she's going to be the biggest star in the game out of college. Who, what sort of person would make this about race given the objective standards of who's a great basketball player? They keep stats. It's not like musicians. The indictment is going in the wrong way. Well said. I hate that sort of thing. I do too. I do too. I, I. And I hate most of all that the hardcore really ugly activists have, have sucked along unsuspecting people of good conscience who think they're doing the right thing by racializing everything. It sucks for Caitlin Clark that she has to deal with that. I remember in the Larry Bird documentary, the one they had, I think it was hbo, Larry versus Magic, really interesting documentary if you're into that whole story. But Larry Bird, when he was league MVP three times in a row, Isaiah Thomas, black player, Detroit Pistons, made some comments about it's because he's white. And Larry Bird talked about how that really hurt him, that actually hurt him because he cared so much about being a good player and being respected for his game and having some player that he had respect for. Saying it's just because you're white that you're getting all attention was really painful for him. Yeah, it would be. I mean, this is what you care about more than anything in your life. And you, you're saying I'm not good. It's just because I'm white, I'm not as good. Yeah, that would, that would bother you. Sure. It's devastating. Yeah. Well, and the flip side of that coin is affirmative action programs and DEI programs. Right. Because now anybody who does achieve is automatically looked upon as well. And they didn't earn it. As people say about dei. That's why it's so insidious. Anyway, I wish I was in charge, folks. I'd straighten everything out. I straightened everything out in a hurry. I want to tell you about our friends and sponsors. If I was in charge of everything, I'd get everything fixed right away. By the end of the day. They never would have bad mouth Caitlin Clark when I was in office. Anyway, make your holidays bigger and brighter with Prize Picks. The best place to get real money action while watching your favorite sports. You now win up to a thousand times your money on Prize Picks. Great way to get the action on sports. And it's so simple. You just pick over or under on at least two player projections. Could not be simpler. Fun, easy now. Join now because this holiday season Prize Picks is giving away two free picks in December and they're giving away 30 plus million million dollars in rewards during Pixmas. Download the app today. Price Picks also offers weekly promotions that lead to big payouts. And sign up today. You get fifty dollars instantly when you play just five dollars. You don't need to win. It's a fifty dollar bonus just for playing five dollars. 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The as long as they didn't deny it publicly and talk about it openly privately. As long as they didn't lecture us about inequality and inequity being the biggest scourge in America and all that sort of stuff. Oh good lord. Lot on the way. Stay here. Armstrong and Gettysburg. You wake up, put on your Ray Ban Meta glasses. Classic style, innovative tech. You're living all in. You realize you need coffee desperately, so you say hey Meta, how do I make a latte? To make a latte, brew two shots of espresso. After Meta AI gets you caffeinated, you start walking to work and you need a soundtrack. Hey Meta. Play hip hop music with the built in camera, you snap a pic of a dope mural on the side of a building that you think is worth sharing. Hey Meta, Text my last photo to Eva. Sending message after work you head to meet some friends. Hey nice glasses. Ray Ban Meta Glasses. The next generation of AI glasses. Just say hey Meta. To harness the power of Meta AI. 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These Guys are stupid. Then you start knocking on these doors. You know what? People come to the door with their phone in their hand. The mainstream has become fringe, and the fringe has become mainstream. There are platforms. There are people out there that are getting 14 million streams and we're on cable news getting 1 or 2 million. And so there is a whole world out there. Kellyanne Conway, I hate to agree with her, but I do a lot of times Donald Trump understood that and we didn't. It's so obviously true. Yeah, yeah, I'll hear the next one. Then I have a comment about the whole thing. Guys, can we cut it out? Donald Trump is not an idiot. Donald Trump. Let me just be very clear. Donald Trump is smarter than me, you and all critics. You know why we know? Because he has the White House, the Senate, the House. Totally agree. For the popular vote. He has a massive media ecosystem, bigger than the mainstream, built around him and for him, and a religiously religious fervor in a political movement around him. And he is best buddy is the richest person in the history of the world and the most relevant. Kennedy is with him. He. This dude is. Is a phenomenal. He is the most powerful human on earth and in our lifetime. And we're still saying, well, how was this? God, we look like idiots to or. You're totally right. Do not listen to Van Jones. Democrats, do not listen. He's wrong. He's maga. He switched sides. He's probably a white guy. I. We continue to have multi human panels on CNN discussing doing it exactly the same way. Next time around. Do that, Democrats. Yeah, Keep listening to the folks at that panel. It was a flawless campaign. Kamala lost because of misogyny. That's the only reason. Yes. Keep believing. Keep signing up people to knock on doors and bring snow shovels to their houses in Iowa for the caucuses and that stuff that was popular in the 70s. Boy, I love the way he put that. We'd go knocking on the door. You know what? People come to the door with their phone in their hand. Yeah, well, and. And he talked about, you know, platforms that have millions of listeners. Meanwhile, we're getting 1 or 2 million on cable news. Van, when was the last TIME There are 2 million people watching CNN? Come on. You're. If you're talking about Fox News, maybe. Yeah, yeah, he could have said. And we're getting 600,000 people watching us on CNN across the entire country as opposed to Joe Rogan. Whoa. Oh, my God. How in the hell are there not more Democrats saying Kamala Harris didn't go on Joe Rogan. She deserved to lose. He wanted her to come on. She doesn't have the ability. He wanted her to come on. She would have reached 60 million people in immediately and she didn't. The end. Yeah. Yeah, well, and. And she was right to not go on there. That's uncomfortable truth. Yeah. Because she's a. She would have been exposed. I mean, it was like Biden at the debate. 76% of Americans thought he's a senile old husk of a man. And then he removed all doubt. If Kamala had gone on Rogan, it would have been precisely the same result. The year in review coming up next. Oh my God. So here's my. How much time I got. Michael. 30 is not. Well, I'm going to say it real quick. I'm going to make the biggest New Year's Eve resolution New Year's resolution of my life. I'm going to forego all baked goods for as long as I can. I don't even believe I can do it for the whole year, but I'm going to see how long I can do it. Like bread for sandwiches. Doesn't count, stuff like that. But donuts, rolls, cakes, pies, all of that, cookies. It's like. It's like pornography. It's tough to define, but I know it when I see it. I don't know how long I can pull it off, but I'm going to trying. 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It's the year that was a new the news in review of the news that was review in review. I just thought it might be fun and Katie, jump on if you wanna. Just let's run through just a loose and. And we've got the clips of the year show. Heck, we haven't been promoting that Clips of the year show is on Friday in which we run through tons and tons of of news clips and. And end of the year listicles that we don't really have to work on the last show of the year and we can hit the bottle. Sobriety optional. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, January began on January 1st with an earthquake in Japan. 2024. Japan. Here's some devastation, but we won't talk about that because that's Japan. It was the next day, the second that Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard. A momentary small victory for the anti woke America that we represent. What was that all about? Was that the whole the hearing where she said calling for the genocide of Jews might not. Depends on the context. This is the second day of the year. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Then same day a top Hamas leader was killed, the first of many in Beirut. The S&P 500 hit a record that now seems quaint. Although I was reminded yesterday that the Dow industrials fell for the ninth consecutive day which was the longest slide since 1977 or something. Really? I did not even hear that. Yeah, it just was kind of ticking down bit by bit by bit by bit. But you expect it to tick up at some point. Here I am spending money like I got it and the Dow is crashing. Oh ye you fools. January 26th, Trump was hit with the penalty of more than $83 million in damages for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. Right. Saying she fabricated the sexual assault allegations. Easy to forget and it shouldn't be. January 28th, US troops killed in Israel. Hamas war. Three US service members are killed, more than 40 injured in an Iran backed militias drone strike on a base in Jordan. Officials say maybe this is coming up but remember that whole period where it was like that's now 100 times we've been attacked without doing anything back. Exactly. Oh, and there's a headline I think it might have been the Journal. I don't recall. Israel is contemplating. Well, they're essentially saying, who's next? Having beaten the hell out of Hamas and Hezbollah. Now Assad is out of power in Syria. The Houthi rebels, rebels that have been siding with Iran and spreading death and destruction, are about to get a hell of a whooping, according to rumors out of Israeli defense Anyway, those troops killed under Joe Biden's watch as he did nothing after strike, after strike. No, he said in the. He said specifically in the debate, no troops died under. In his administration, remember? And none were in a combat zone. Remember that? Good Lord. January 29th, US UN staff was linked to the Hamas attack. About 10% of its Gaza staff have links to militant groups and many of them participate in. October 7th. Oh, let's see. US retaliatory airstrikes. I'm scrolling frantically through this. February 8th, a Biden report, a Biden administration report calls him an elderly man with a poor memory, which turned out to be soft pedaling it, even though it was attacked by all the left media as just outrageous to say that. Right, right. Greeted with derision, indignation. How dare you state that which is clearly obvious to everyone. So that was February 8th. Remember that beginning of February. February 11th, my birthday. Chiefs win the super bowl again, beating my beloved 49ers in overtime. God, that was. Damn you. Damn you. That was not a good game. It was an awful game anyway, by all definitions, an exciting game. February 13th, cabinet impeachment. Alejandro Mayorkas, the border is secure. Became the first sitting cabinet official to be impeached by the House. And I didn't remember that. Which shows you how meaningless that was. Was quickly defeated in the. The Democrat Senate. February 14, Kansas City parade shooting. You remember that? Oh, right. That was horrifying. Personal beef, young people with guns, etc. February 16, New York judge rules. Donald Trump and his business should pay more than $350 million for misrepresenting his wealth for financial gain. That was the infamous. This has never ever been charged in history. Everybody's happy with this deal case. Yeah. So that was that period of time where Trump was getting it like it seemed like on a daily basis. A new charge, a new fine, a new whatever. A different court case. Three different court cases he's got to show up to this week. That whole thing which helped get him elected for one thing, ironically. Yeah. And have you been following the news? Number of people have pointed this out in the last couple of days. So. So George Stephanopoulos and ABC had to pay Trump $15 million. Well, actually, they give him $15 million for his library. I love this line. Trump's gonna build a presidential library, and the dominant media is gonna pay for it, which is what's happening. But ABC got hit with undervaluing their corporation in an attempt to pay less in their fine. And CNN did the same thing in a lawsuit they're involved in. Yeah, everybody tries to hold down their value as much as possible in these sorts of things. It's. It's the way people do business, except when it benefits them, then they puff it up as much as is reasonable. Yeah. Unbelievable. February 16th, Alexei Navalny dies in a Siberian prison colony. What was the date of that? Yeah, February 16th. Part of the reason that I enjoy doing this is, I don't know, it somehow helps put the passage of time in more perspective or something like that. If you'd asked me when Navalny died, I would have said six months ago. I mean, I wouldn't have been off by a lot, obviously. But that was toward the beginning of the year. A bunch of international stuff nobody cares about. February 28, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he will step down from his leadership role because he's old as hell. Did he freeze up again the other day? Was that real or not? I saw a video that was horrifying, but I didn't know if it was AI. It didn't make the news. Have you. Do you know, Katie, he took a spill. He fell. I know he fell, but there was. There was a. I just saw a video where he was asked something about his role in something or other. Oh, running for reelection or something like that. And he locked up. And then his handler said, are you okay? One of those deals. But I couldn't tell if it was AI or real, and I haven't seen it on the news. It was in March, this, for our Californian listeners, that the gigantic blizzard dumped more than 60 inches of snow over parts of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Sweden joined NATO in May. May 7th. Uh, let's see. The idea of banning TikTok was voted on and passed in the House and Senate. It's breaking right now. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a First Amendment case about whether they. We can ban TikTok or not. Which. Which got me thinking during the commercial break. If it's a social media platform, period, then obviously they're protected by the First Amendment. But then I started to think, well, wait a minute. If I, as a Chinese Communist agent, am busted for espionage and say, well, wait a minute, I Reported back to my superiors, verbally, I was speaking. I have freedom of speech. The First Amendment protects me because TikTok is really a surveillance tool and a propaganda tool. Masquerading is a social media platform. I, I'm not smart enough to understand how this is going to turn out. What do you think the Supreme Court's going to do on that? I think, and thank God for Trump's appointees, I think they're going to say, look, to the extent that is a social media platform with an opinion, we can't do anything about it. It. But there are unquestionable ties to a hostile foreign power. But I don't, I don't know. That's. That's my very short answer. I would love to hear, you know. Well, I'd love to hear the decision and I think we'll hear the arguments very quickly. Well, I know. I believe Tim, our friend Tim the lawyer and some of our, you know, more free speech advocate friends are saying you can't be banning news organizations just because you don't like the news they put out. It's a great question. Anyway, it was in the middle of March that the realtors came to that nationwide settlement of claims against price fixing, essentially, and brought actually less certainty and a little chaos to who pays what commission to whom. And that's still being worked out. Let's see. Oh, March 22nd, terrorist attack on a concert hall in Moscow suburbs. Killed at least 145 people. Islamic State claimed responsibility. And we stopped one of those in the United States. Remember that? That's probably coming up. Yeah, yeah. March 26th was the big bridge collapse in Baltimore. Oh, yeah. This year when the guy crashed the big ship into the bridge. I forgot all about that. They were losing power. Yeah, yeah. I would have said that was last year or something. I don't know why. I don't know. March 28th, Sam Bankman Fried, sentenced to 25 years in prison. Him and his hair. His. His FTX fraud. His hair was sentenced concurrently. And his mousy little girlfriend. Yeah, yeah. Let's see. That's boring. Nobody cares. April 7, Caitlin Clark in the national championship game, becoming a superstar even though she lost and became a loser. Let's see, we just gotta go with it with big ones. Trump's hush money trial began in April. The hush money trial. Oh, yeah, yeah. Another ridiculous lawfare trial. I want that one to go to the appeals court. Judge Merchan has just announced that. No, we're just gonna put it in the freezer here and not do anything about it till the guy's out of office. Yeah, yeah, we're not gonna do anything with it at all. Like let it go to the appeals court where they'll say you suck as a judge. The jury only convicted because you misled them about the law. Get rid of this. And by the way, turn in your robe on the way out. Let's see, what else? Oh, the big campus protests pro Hamas, up with terrorism was in late April. So that's when Columbia students locked down that building and had that whole thing. Exactly, yeah. And you know, look, this list includes things like April 28, inflation lingers, things lingering does not count. When did things happen? Uh, let's see. Cornell's President resigned in May 9. Same reason. Anti Semitism, protests against Israel. And the fact that you could protest anything in the world you wanted and do anything you wanted as long as Jews were on the receiving end and as long as it wasn't a conservative. Just trying to have Ben Shapiro do a 30 minute talk. That is the problem. That's not very important. The Dow hit 4,000. President of Iran killed in the copter crash. May. May 19th. That was tragic. You remember that, Jack? Terrible. And the next day, a one, two punch that America barely endured. Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy because there are too many fat people. That took advantage of the all you could eat shrimp deal. That was part of it, which is one of the funniest things in business history. And they caught painting their brown lobsters red. And debate last day, Trump convicted in New York. All 34 counts in the so called hush money trial. Absolutely ridiculous. Wow. And half the country thought that was the end of Trump and it helped get him elected. Yeah, yeah. June 1st woman to lead Mexico. Hostage hostage rescue in Gaza. I remember. That was so dramatic. Hunter Biden convicted in Delaware of the gun charge. And the president campaigning for reelection swore he would not pardon his son. I'll be darned. It was in the middle of June that the high court threw out the ban on bump stocks. Oh, right, right, right, yeah, yeah. Let's see. Celtics won the NBA crown. It's a, it's a culture, not a costume. And it's pronounced Celtics. Let's see, what else do we have? Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. Oh, Julian Assange cut that plea deal. Oh. June 27, Biden's disastrous debate four months after the her report said, look, he's a senile old bastard. That was the middle of June. That's not that long ago. Drops out less than a month later. Although it's worth pointing out it took Almost a month for him to drop out. Right. That was one of the wildest months obviously in, in U.S. history. I, I'm hoping that debate factors into the clips of the year show on Friday. I mean, and then we killed Medicare. Hey, I mean, some of the things he said in that debate. I saw a couple of clips the other day. I was reminded because, I mean, we all kind of remember the general outline of the thing. Oh, that's right. He came off as pretty senile. 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