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And we'll do the White House the next day. We'll just have some fun. We have medals for you guys, and we have to. I must tell you, we're gonna have to bring the woman's team. You do know that? I do believe I probably would be okay. President being funny there, saying he's also got to bring the women's team. Having some fun with the guys and. Yeah, look, it's. It's just. It's just a great moment. You can really feel, I think, already a little bit of the growing excitement for the 250th anniversary of America coming up. Pretty darn cool. And for that to happen under this president again, not everything has to be political, but a lot of things are political. Can you imagine the 250th celebration with Joe Biden as the president? Would there even really be a celebration? It would actually probably turn into some kind of, like, confession therapy session about indigenous, like, Indigenous Peoples Day or something. It's like, We've been here 250 years. We still have not yet made amends for all the indigenous and first nations people that, you know, you know how it would go. Instead, it's going to be America. Heck, yeah. And it's going to be great. So congrats again to that team. I have to say, you know, this is. This is just the truth of my own situation. I never played helmet sports, and it's because my head was always too big for the helmets. I guess I should have had an adult helmet, and it always gave me headaches. I tried ice hockey for one year, one season, when I was maybe in the first grade. And I was terrible, but my head hurt all the time because my head's too darn big for the helmet. But having seen this guy lose his front teeth by getting hit with the stick and his, like, bloody, shattered front tooth, I'm okay with not playing hockey. I got to tell you, I'm okay with missing that one. I was a. I was a soccer, basketball, and tennis guy. And that's okay because, man, that is. That is some tough stuff. Tooth stuff, man. Ooh, you get. Ooh, that's a. Is a badass photo, though, that guy. It was a badass photo. It was pretty cool. I have to give them all credit. So a great moment for men's national team hockey, for sure. A great moment for the country. All right, look, Israel continues to be in the news. You saw there was a big interview that just happened over there recently with Ambassador Huckabee. But there are so many opinions and emotions surrounding that part of the world because we as a nation care about the Israeli population. For those in this audience that regularly refer to the Bible, you know the phrase from the book of Abraham, I will bless those who bless you. It reminds every Christian to look after those of the Jewish faith, and you will be blessed for doing so. And today, with anti Semitism rising around the world, that calling is more urgent than ever. 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I do recommend you buy Manufacturing Delusion so that we can get ahead of Gavin Newsom's book. That would thank you for helping me defeat Meacham's book. By the way, we smoked Meacham's book, which was fun because it was at one of the brick and mortar bookstores that shall not be named, but that is the most famous one after Amazon, which is online and not brick and mortar. There were Meacham books everywhere, and people had to, like, beg for my book and they had to go in some back room or something to see if they had it, even though my book was greatly outselling Meacham's book. That's kind of weird, isn't it? Wouldn't you want to just have the book out that you're selling? Isn't that what bookstores do? No, not if the, if the, you know, they, them selling you the books has, like, plugs in they, their ears and, and a big nose ring and purple hair, then they prefer to push the Meacham book. Not a surprise, but yeah. So Gavin's got a book coming out which I'm quite sure he did not write probably a word of. He probably sat down for a couple of quick interviews with the ghostwriter to give some, like, stories from his life, and then it was left to the ghostwriter to do everything. So again. And you could say, oh, that's all fine. I know, but as someone who actually sat down and wrote a whole book, I got to tell you, these people that are like, I wrote a book and they actually just sat and did an interview for 40 minutes and then let someone else write the whole book, people can say it's the same thing. It's not the same thing. So it's very straightforward. People could say, oh, that's writing a book. No, it's not. It's kind of dictating a few stories to somebody who then writes a book for you. So. And I understand that that's very common practice for a lot of people, particularly politicians and everything else. Okay. I'm not necessarily casting judgment or aspersions on it. Maybe I am. But it's just not the same thing. Right. I, I, I can say that. I, you know, or like, like our, like our Secretary of War, Pete hexeth, he lifted 315 pounds. He lifted 315 pounds. This is impressive. If he paid someone else to lift 315 pounds in his place, he didn't lift 315 pounds. Right. This is actually very straightforward. But people seem to get in the, in the publishing industry. Didn't we get confused by this? Anyway, Gavin Newsom. Oh, Gavin, he's out there. He's doing his thing. He's making some noise, trying to get some attention for his book. Why? Because this is the I'm running for president book. This is his dreams from my father. This is his. I don't know, what are the other, like, presidential books. No one reads these books. People buy these books because it gives them an opportunity to tell people that they bought it and then to put it in some conspicuous place. It's not a coffee table book, but they want to put it on the coffee table so that when anyone comes over, or maybe they'll put it in the bookshelf. That's like near the front doors. People will see. It tells everybody. I'm a person who buys Democrat presidential memoirs. That's really what this is. I know that there are people that. That's not necessarily the case. Ok, fine, this is a diversion, but I'm weaving. I also thought this was really interesting. You know, they're finding out that all these kids. I'm going to get back to Gavin Newsom and the dumb things that he said. I promise you, put a pin in that. It just as part of my prep for this morning, I was reading through and they're finding that this huge effort to turn schools from books like textbooks and just, you know, old school books to laptops and tablets, there's more evidence now than ever that this is a really bad idea and that their standardized testing is going down in general. I mean, I'm kind of unsurprised by this, although I couldn't even tell you why. There's just something about an actual physical book that is tough to beat. I think it's a technology that will never be replaced. I am also. I use my Kindle at night before I go to sleep. That's how I fall asleep. I read every night before I go to bed. So good habit. By the way, I'll recommend it to you. And the Kindle is nice because you can set the lighting on it so that it's very. It's pretty dim and so it won't overstimulate your eyes. And so it's pretty easy to fall asleep. But I basically fall asleep reading every night and I can't. I couldn't do that with my reading light because then it would be a little too bright. It's hard to fall asleep. So I think the Kindle has. Has a use for that. It also obviously can hold a lot of books in one place. But at the end of the day, I mean, I'm sitting here in my studio and I've just got a book, I've got bookshelves, I got piles of Books. I don't even have room for the shelves anymore. There's something about books. They've done studies that families that just have books on shelves in the home with children, the children tend to do better in school just having books. Now, I'm not saying there's something magic like the book, through some kind of osmosis or some, some telekinesis is able to impart its knowledge upon you, but I just think it's a reminder. I think it's a. A. You know how people have those things in their offices that are like, be a team player today. You know, what are those? I don't even know what are those called? You know, they're not memes. They're like meme posters, though they're bigger back in like the early 2000s. They don't really do that as much now, but they would have these things. It's like a classic of, of boring corporate Americas. They would have, you know, get more done today than you did yesterday. Now, does that work or not? I'll leave that up to you. But having books in your house is like a reminder that there are these things called books and that you should read them and that books matter and they're important. So actual physical books make a difference. And they're finding us in education now, which is the case. All right, now, Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom, he is trying to sell his book and he was at a place in Georgia, the Rialto center for the Arts, yesterday. I want you to hear. This is a largely black audience according to all the news reports. I want you to hear how Gavin Newsom speaks to this audience. This is cut five. Listen in. I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy. And you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone. You know, trying to act all there. If you got 940, but literally a 960sat guy. I cannot. You've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech. Maybe the wrong business to be in. I'm. This is the quote. I am like you. I'm a 960 SAT guy. What percentile is a 960 SAT? Just by curiosity. That is in the 34th percentile. That is a really rough SAT score. I'm just going to tell you that is not a strong SAT score. Now, Gavin Newsom choosing to share that. And I will tell you I am not shocked that that is. That that is the case. But Gavin Newsom sharing that he got a 960 on the SAT to me, is indicative of a few things here. One is he thinks, well, the part of this that's getting so much attention is that Gavin Newsom speaks to a crowd that is mostly African American and says, I am like you, and then says he got a very low SAT score. People are looking at that, and they're saying, not a great look, Gavin. Not really. Not really the way you want to go with this one. And then he also says, I can't read. Now he's saying that he suffers from dyslexia. And I think actually this came up recently because was it Senator Ted Cruz said that he's historically illiterate, and then Gavin Newsom was like, how dare you, making fun of dyslexia. And it's like, that's not what historically illiterate means. But Gavin didn't know that either. We are ruled by morons, my friends. In many cases. You have to remember that certainly if you live in California, you are. There are very, very dumb people who can rise to the absolute heights of. Of power. I mean, Joe Biden, for example, even before he had dementia, Joe Biden was. He's cunning and good at playing this game of charming politician. Not that he's actually charming, but he's good at putting on the face and the handshake and everything else. And he's ruthless insofar as he'll do. He has no ethics to defend or protect, so he'll do anything. He'll say whatever. But he's not a smart man. There's a lot of these people in politics who are not smart. And this is unsurprising, I know, to all of you, but for Gavin Newsom to be. I'm a 960sat guy. I can't read. As a means of trying to use that to become closer to this audience of mostly black listeners. That is. That is quite a moment for a Democrat. Now, I'm going to tell you something else, though. People who are saying that this is disqualifying, that Newsom is done, that this will haunt him, they're wrong. It won't. It won't. Because the great power that Democrats really have is as long as they have the right policy, which means the Democrat policy, as long as they will do what the Democrat Party wants them to, there are no consequences for stuff like this. Do you remember what Joe Biden said about Barack Obama before Obama was president? I don't remember the exact quote, but it was, you know, he. I believe he referred to him as. Well, I'll pull up the quote, but. Because I don't want. I don't want to get it wrong. But Joe Biden said something that I think for a lot of people, more than just raised eyebrows, it didn't matter. He's a Democrat. And the system around these people will just make sure that this is not remembered, this is not used against them. This is not a big thing. But ultimately, also, I think that if you're a politician in America today and you're going to get 90% of the black vote and the black community believes that you are serving their interests as a politician, racism is not going to get you in trouble. Not really. I mean, it would have to be really, really bad, or even I should. This isn't even. This is more just sort of bumbling insensitivity. I wouldn't even say this is racism. I'm not trying to be the racism police here. But Gavin Newsom said something. He's trying to. He's trying to seem like he's, you know, trying to seem like he's just. Just one of the guys, you know, just like everybody else. And so immediately he goes into, I did terribly in the SATs and obviously was not a good student. And he said, I can't read, which I'm assuming is not really true. But he has some level of dyslexia. And this is how he thinks he's going to seek common ground with people. This is how he's going to find it. Victim status of some kind as a Democrat is necessary. You have to. Even if it means that you're a white person who just says, I'm ashamed of my whiteness. Like, whatever it is as a Democrat in politics today, you have to find the place where you get to claim that you, too, are a victim. And if that means you're a victim of your own whiteness, then that works. But you have to find that with some. You have to find that common ground with somebody. You have to find that. That shared experience. And Gavin Newsom is an absolutely shameless Charlatan. Say that 10 times fast. Shameless charlatan. He is, though. I also am very confident he will be the next Democrat nominee for President of the United States. I don't think anyone else is even gonna come close. I could be wrong on this one. A lot can change between now and then. But something about this guy. This is what the Democrats want. They want someone who is just stands for nothing and will give them everything. Homeowners when was the last time you had your roof inspected? You know the part of your home that protects the rest of it? Well, look, I live in South Florida, so roofs are a really big deal, as is their maintenance. So if you wait too long, you've got bigger problems than just a roof replacement. Get your roof inspected by Erie Home, America's largest privately owned residential roofing company. With 50 years of experience, Erie Home will inspect your roof free of charge with a 25 point inspection. Get that free inspection before you have a serious problem. 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