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So last night, TNT just

went onto the floor of

the arena, and there was no game that was played.

And they decided just to talk about Kobe Bryan.

Yeah, which is kind of a cool thing.

As you mentioned, the Clippers and Lake were supposed to play.

The game got canceled.

and they decided to just talk about it.

You know, of course, one of the people on the broadcast is Shaquille O'Neal.

And Shaq,

it was interesting to hear him talk about it because it's been well known for a very long time that they butted heads a lot.

Shaq and Kobe.

They were teammates, won three straight championships, wound up, you know, kind of at each other's throats at times.

At least that was the public perception of everything.

So here he is talking about Shaquille O'Neal, talking about Kobe and the way we all live our lives.

We up here, we work a lot.

And I think a lot of times we take stuff for granted.

Like I don't talk to you guys as much as I much as I need to.

The fact that

we're not going to be able to

joke at his Hall of Fame ceremony.

We're not going to be able to say, ha, I got five, you got four.

The fact that we're not going to be able to say, if we would stay together, we could have got 10.

Those are the things that you can't get back.

And

with the loss of my father, my sister, and my thing, that's the only man I wish I could just say something to him.

Again, last time I talked to him was when we were here and I asked him to give 50 and he got 60.

That's the last time I spoke to him.

And I just wish I could have,

you know, so.

It definitely changes me.

I have to, because I work a lot.

You guys know what I do.

I work probably more than the average guy, but I just really have to now just take time and just

call and say, I love you.

Rick Fox finally called me.

He said, Man, I love you.

B.

Shaw called me.

So

I'm going to try to do a better job of just reaching out and just talking to the people rather than always procrastinating.

Because you never know.

Life was too short.

I never,

I could never imagine nothing like this.

I can't relate to Kobe Bryant because I never watched him.

I'm not a basketball fan.

I'm not a sports fan.

And so I didn't relate to this at all on

Monday.

And the closest thing I could come to it is my weird response to Don Imus.

Don Imus was a guy that I respected because I listened to him.

Long before I knew Don, I listened to him.

And he was a

he was a giant and he was he was

he was an innovator.

The thing I've learned about Kobe Bryant is his relentless dedication to excellence.

He wasn't trying to play a good basketball dance.

He was trying to play a perfect game.

and in today's world, you don't see that

in today's world.

You

see somebody in sports, from my perspective,

you're watching from afar, and you don't really know the, and all you know is

this guy was accused of rape in 2003,

but you don't know how

he really appeared to completely completely turn his life around.

You don't see his devotion to his family and his daughters.

I wanted to play that clip today because I thought it was really important.

I'm glad I said all the things I did to Don Imus.

I'm glad I said the things I did to my dad.

I've been thinking about my aunt Joanne every day for

I don't even know

months, months,

and I feel guilty because I haven't called her.

And every time I call her, it's like a holiday or something like that.

And I literally have been thinking about her every day.

And there's that stupid thing: I'll call her tomorrow.

And it's getting worse and worse and worse.

And I hate it.

And I know that it's wrong.

And

I've lived this before.

And I don't know why.

But I just

got a call

because I'll live the rest of my life

should she die, God forbid.

And I don't know why we do this, and I don't know why we don't recognize.

I guess it's because they're just always there.

Yesterday,

there was

a bright spot in the Twitter world.

Can you even say that?

Less hellish than usual.

But the number one trend last night was hashtag girl dad.

And in a world where everyone has said,

oh, guys don't matter.

Guys don't matter.

Men don't matter.

Women don't need men.

Girl power, girl power, girl power.

Yeah, in this environment, I kind of assumed girl dad was just like, girls could be dads too.

That's kind of what I mean.

That's where I thought they were going to go with it.

Right.

It wasn't.

And it was inspired by Kobe and his daughter and how much he loved his daughter.

You know,

he was asked recently in an interview because she was a basketball player.

How many times do you go out and practice a week?

And he looked at the interviewer kind of like he was from another planet and he laughed and he said, every day, seven days a week, we're out every night.

We practice every night.

And when I heard that, I thought, what do I do every night with my kids?

I mean, I consider myself a pretty good dad.

I made mistakes

the first time around, big mistakes.

But I've done really hard work to try to turn that around.

And I've done it with my younger kids.

I love,

I love cooking with my daughter Hannah or doing something in art with my daughter Hannah.

She is a.

She's a brilliant mind.

She's...

She knows how to write.

She knows how to edit.

She knows how to

do design.

She really is an amazing cook, and she is also somebody who

does her own homework and researches things and then knows what she believes and why she believes it.

And I love that.

I love just hanging out with her, and I don't do it enough.

I love just hanging out with my daughter Mary, and I don't do it enough.

My daughter Mary is one of the

spiritual giants in my life.

I don't know anybody else who is like this.

She has such clarity on things.

And sometimes it's hard to get to because she had strokes, and so she has a hard time with language.

And so it's

for a dad.

Especially now you have four kids.

I have four kids.

I don't know how to be a good dad and give everyone the time they need, plus do all of the work.

I don't know how to do it.

But it takes, there's no such thing as quality time.

It's just time.

My daughter, Cheyenne, oh my gosh, she's funny.

She's Lucille Ball.

She's just this funny, funny girl and just full of joy.

She wants to be an actress.

I'm doing everything I can to say no.

Every night I read her stories about

Weinstein.

I don't know if that's a good thing or not, but

and there's something different about being a dad of a girl.

There is a

I don't know.

It's a

it's just a different bond.

And I see Kobe

and I see all that he did with his kids, and I see how he he left

the court

and just he didn't

center his life on business, he didn't center his life, he had the luxury

of not having to do that.

But how many of us are lost in other things?

Or we say we're going to do it tomorrow.

Or we're just too tired.

Life is so precious.

And the one thing that maybe

somebody like me who's

who didn't grow up looking at sports figures

that you can take from Kobe Bryan is

relentless,

relentless pursuit of excellence,

not just in his job,

but in his family,

and especially with his children.

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Look at this live shot from Los Angeles or this shot from Los Angeles where,

you know, the tribute is happening for Kobe Bryant and there's, I mean, there's, you know, a minute of silence around, you know, different communities.

They're doing all kinds of stuff.

I haven't seen this

maybe since Michael Jackson, Elvis, but what sports figure do you recall getting this kind of

adulation and

ending?

I mean, I think this might be the first sports figure that I've seen that has had kind of that pop,

you know, king of pop, king of rock and roll, Princess Princess Diana kind of send-off or reaction.

I think, yeah, there's two factors there.

One, I think, is the tragic death, right?

It's not the, it's not, you know, the old age or disease or even, like, it's a tragic, sudden thing where people still sort of, he hadn't disappeared from the public eye, right?

I mean, he was,

that's one.

I think, two, is L.A.

I mean, you know, was it last year or the year before Roy Halliday, who I know you're a huge fan of, Glenn?

Love Roy,

died.

Loved him.

Now, he was like one of my all-time favorite players.

How old was he?

43,

something like that.

He was a great pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays, later for the Phillies.

One of the most underrated pitchers of all time, Hall of Famer, like unbelievable.

And he died in a plane crash.

And there was like, there was kind of what you would almost expect, right?

Like, ESPN noted it was very sad.

And it was, you know, it hit me hard because it was one of my favorite players, but, you know, it wasn't like this.

This is L.A.

He's a massive superstar.

And certainly he's a bigger, you know, is a bigger figure.

So, you know, that's that's seemingly it.

And he was, he was so beloved by LA.

I mean, he really was.

And of course, this is where so much of the media is.

So I think, you know, that's what's the outweigh the bigger impact of that.

You know, I mean, and it's just seemed like a good guy.

Like, you got to that point where you really started rooting for him, even if you hated him as a player.

I was not a huge fan of those Lakers championship teams,

but he won people over

over a long time.

And that was shocking.

So go back to this.

Is this the first kind of

king of rock and roll, king of pop kind of

sports figures?

Back in the day, there was probably like Thurman Munson, right?

Like you'd go back way back and you could find some that were.

The guy from the Munsters?

Yes, the guy from the Munsters.

All right.

Why would the guy's last name, if it was Munson, be the guy from the Munsters?

That was an investigation.

It wasn't based on a real story.

I don't know.

There's lots of different reasons.

Yeah, there's been a few of these things.

I mean,

there's...

But I mean, I can't think of anything.

Like black and white days, right?

Yeah, you're going with Blue guy.

And Pat, you should be able to.

Anything that you can think of on this level?

I mean, I'm sure I'm missing something.

I mean, like, you think of O.J.

Simpson, right, in a totally different way.

That was people on the bridge just going, hey, slice another throat.

That one

was in our history moment.

But, I mean, that one was, oh, my gosh, this guy who is beloved, superstar on the same level as Kobe,

who, you know, his life blew up in front of our eyes while he was still kind of, again, in the public eye, doing commercials, you know, doing movies.

You know, Kobe just won.

Was it an Oscar or a Grammy?

No, yeah, we're both.

I don't know, something.

I think he won an Oscar and a Grammy.

Was it both?

I know an Oscar was for a short film.

Yeah.

I mean, he was very much in the public eye still.

So that just shocking end on just some random day that you don't expect it is like incredible.

Yeah, I can't think of anybody at this magnitude

in sports.

No, I don't think so.

I think it's a first.

Yeah, I think it's a first.

All right.

So let me switch to people who are not excelling for excellence, and that's anybody in Washington, D.C.,

especially those members of Congress and the Senate.

Yesterday, the House impeachment trial,

the Republicans finished their closing arguments, so now we're in this really cool place where anything can happen.

It's anything can happen day,

where the senators get to now submit questions to both sides and say, you said this.

What about this?

I have a question about this.

They can't speak, which is a blessing.

I wish that was a blanket on all of them at all times.

Every day.

Every day.

But they can't speak,

at least while the quote-unquote court is in session.

John Roberts reads all the questions.

Reads all the questions and gives them the answers.

But also, now comes the time where they decide on additional witnesses.

Mitch McConnell said last night he doesn't have the votes to stop new new witnesses, which I think is actually a good thing because I think it makes John Bolton's book worthless.

Everybody in Seaman and Schuster, I'm sure, like, oh no, he can't testify.

He can't testify because his book will be old news.

And what's better is

he will have said it.

It will have been questioned thoroughly.

You know,

the Trump lawyers are not going to let him just say those things like CNN would let him say those things.

They They will ask real tough questions.

So it will be questioned the way it should be, and it will be old news.

And by the way, it will be followed by almost definitely an acquittal.

Right.

So like you have the charges get brought up.

You have an acquittal.

It's going to be very easy.

Again, this is just another strategy, but like I'd much rather have him up there, let him get questioned by actual attorneys instead of like

reasoning media tour.

Correct.

And then it's over.

You have an acquittal.

You have an end to the process.

You can all say, look, this was already litigated.

He's already been acquitted on these charges.

It doesn't matter.

And if he adds anything new, then he looks like a liar.

I mean, why didn't you say that in court?

From a purely strategy standpoint, I would want to.

And think about it from the opposite side, too.

If you're a Democrat, let's say they block him, right?

You're able to say, first of all,

they're blocking all our witnesses.

They don't even let this guy talk.

I can't believe it.

They weren't looking for truth.

Right.

Then the thing's over, so you get to complain about process process the whole time.

Then the book comes out anyway.

The story comes out anyway.

Then they all get to go on a fawning media tour where every single claim he makes is taken without any questioning.

And it winds up going into the public anyway.

And what's the point of this?

They're not looking to get a conviction and removal.

They're looking to get political points scored.

And they're going to get a lot more of them with the book later on.

So now here's the question.

Who do you want?

And they say, you know, Chuck Schumer said, there's no negotiation.

Really?

Because you don't have the votes.

You don't have the votes to stop negotiation.

If you get one, I think America would feel it's only right the other side gets one.

And I want to hear from really two people: one, the whistleblower, and two, Hunter Biden.

But Hunter Biden may actually backfire, not because he doesn't have something to say, but he is such a pathetic, pathetic human in his life right now, where he's just, everybody knows how screwed up he is.

They know all of this.

But he might be able to pull off some sort of a sympathy thing where it could backfire.

The one that really can't, because he's a god-like figure to us now, is the whistleblower.

And there's a lot the whistleblower can tell us.

Except for the fact is, nobody knows who he is.

No one knows his name.

Really?

No one knows Eric Sharmilla's name.

Nobody.

It's really weird that Eric Sharmilla has been so,

you know, ambiguous, so

invisible

so out there yet not I wish we knew Eric Carmella's name

but we don't we don't that's sad that's sad wasn't it printed it was not in it redacted in forms and released by these committees it was in the Mueller report but I mean we know we know who he is I don't see how it could be we know who he is and there's a reason that

Adam Schiff said at the beginning, we have to hear from him.

We have to hear from him.

And then once it was realized, oh, crap, we can knit him together on a hundred different things, then he didn't even know who it was.

I've never even met him.

I don't even know the guy.

I don't know who he is.

Amazing.

So who do you want?

I think I'd rather have the whistleblower as well because

it's going to be hard to get anything

worse

out of Hunter Biden.

Like you can get him to answer some questions, but the people's perception, even on the left, basically their argument is, well, Biden wasn't trying to help him, but yeah, he was a dirtbag.

Like, that's the left's argument on him.

So, what are you going to get out of him?

Everyone kind of knows he was corrupt.

Everyone kind of knows he has massive problems.

And he may very well, I mean, he's an educated guy.

He's done media interviews before where he hasn't looked terrible.

He may come off better than the actual perception of Hunter Biden at this point.

Still, though,

I still like, again, like from a person who wants the truth perspective,

I want to know the truth, so I want him up there because I want these questions asked.

But from a strategic perspective, it may be better to go the other way.

See, I want both because one, the whistleblower will tie in the State Department, the intelligence community, and the whole corruption of Adam Schiff.

I mean, that will

testify truthfully under oath, which I'm not sure he will.

I'm sure he won't.

Yeah.

But

I mean, you can make a very strong case on all of the stuff that we have made.

I I mean, it's an open and shut case.

The documents prove who this whistleblower is and what axe he has to grind.

I'd like to see him.

I'd like to see not just Hunter, but Joe, middle-class Joe, on the other hand.

Do you think that's Joe?

Yeah.

And put under oath, both of those guys put under oath.

Not to mention, I think I'd call Adam Schiff and find out what he knew and when he knew it and whether or not he worked with Eric Sharamilla.

Well, is it a concoctus?

Isn't that interesting?

Or the aides, at least the aides of Adam Schiff, right?

Like who supposedly talked to him?

Yep.

I mean, Adam Schiff would then have an opportunity to question himself.

Well, yeah, that would be weird.

Of course, he would.

It's weird because, you know, Ken Starr was the one who did the investigation, and he went under oath.

He had to answer questions.

Why isn't this guy having to answer questions?

Right.

He should.

And under oath.

So if you're going to lie about it, there's going to be consequences once this comes out.

Are there consequences?

Are there?

Yeah.

Are there?

Are there probably not consequences?

No.

No.

Probably.

But in fantasyland, there are consequences.

Yes.

In the America that we used to have.

Yes, there would have been some consequences.

By the way, in our previous conversation,

Dale Earnhardt would probably fall for this.

Dale Earnhardt.

That's a good question.

Look who's checking their social media or email.

People are calling in.

They're emailing.

They're tweeting.

Yes.

Dale Earnhart.

Dale Earhart is one on that level.

I'm not a car guy guy.

I mean, he's car guy, but still.

That was huge.

That was a huge one.

I mean, there's been a few of them, but it's pretty rare that you get to this

level.

It really is.

Yeah.

So

that's the one that we were able to come up with from the listeners.

Okay.

When do they actually start talking about...

They start to submit questions now, right?

Today and tomorrow.

Today and tomorrow.

When do they actually vote?

Friday.

Friday.

For witnesses, for witnesses.

Okay.

And that can just take as long.

We think that could take up to two to three weeks, right?

And then it's over.

Once the witnesses are done,

it's over.

Then is he guilty or is he convicted or not?

You wouldn't believe what the mainstream media is.

Well, yes, you would.

Yes, you would.

Let me just give you this on what they're saying.

What happens next?

This is good.

What happens next if the Senate acquits?

Well,

Trump is unchanged.

Unchained.

Everything we know about Trump's behavior suggests that he will view acquittal as a vindication of his strongman tactics.

Yeah.

Foreign actors get ready to be asked for political favor.

That's what they called Mule Mar Gaddafi.

I know, a strong man.

A strongman.

Yeah, yeah.

And if Trump wins re-election in November,

Democrats won't have any means left to restrain him, having already exhausted their most powerful check on presidential power.

Only the slow-moving judicial system will stand in his way now.

The Constitution will be changed, they say.

Trump's defense could set a precedent that abuse of power isn't enough to impeach a president.

It never has been.

It never has been.

They accused George Washington of abuse of power.

They accused Adams and Jefferson and John Quincy Adams and Abraham Lincoln.

And Abraham Lincoln and most of the presidents, Wilson, which I would agree with, but they never could impeach.

Why?

Because it sets up a parliamentary system.

You can't have somebody unless he breaks a law, you can't have abuse of power because that just sets up if you have a Congress and a Senate that is on the other side, they just vote for

impeachment and he's out.

It sets up going through presidents like Britain goes through prime ministers.

And our founders did not want that.

So you have to have a crime,

and it has to be a political crime.

Now,

you can disagree with the political side of it because that's our argument with perjury.

It wasn't a political crime.

And we said

lying to the American people matters.

But they didn't think so then.

But that was an actual crime.

There's no crime here.

What they're saying is we don't like this president.

We don't agree with what he did.

Well, that's tough.

You have to let the people decide that.

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So what was the story coming out of Virginia last week?

Oh my gosh, we just narrowly avoided disaster.

If they wouldn't have put all those fences up, if they wouldn't have had a police presence out there, it would have been blood in the streets is what we would have, is what we would have read.

Thank goodness the progressive Republican or the progressive Democratic governor rushed to the aid to make sure that no harm befell the great state capitol or anybody else in Virginia.

Unfortunately, there's something called freedom of the press.

And according to the FBI's own court filings,

There's a different story to tell, one in which white extremists stumbled from one surveillance trap to another

without any awareness of what was really going on.

The FBI had this small group of three people under surveillance the entire time.

But as if that's not enough, the New York Times, the Associated Press, and BuzzFeed centered around the arrest of three men: William Bilborough,

Brian Lemley,

and Canadian national Patrick Matthews.

They're all members of what's called the Base.

Now, this is a white supremacist organization that interacts mostly online, aims to create a white ethno-state.

Now,

the media implied the group was arrested while planning an attack at the Virginia Rally.

And that's definitely how the stories read.

That was the deal.

That was really what they did.

Yeah.

Yeah.

According to the FBI documents that were submitted to court, no, that's not what happened.

At first, now it's three guys.

It's three guys.

Three.

And first, they decided not to go to the rally.

They were going to go to the rally, and then they said no.

And the FBI has all of this.

They decided no.

They're not going to start any violence.

They were just going to wait in Delaware for the race riots to begin.

And as soon as the race war began, they would be prepared.

So, during the rally, they were going to a shooting range in Delaware where they could practice their skills and make sure they were ready for the race war that they were sure was right around the corner.

And then they would watch it and see who was participating in it and who those three could join.

Records show police were long in position to prevent prevent these men from successfully attacking anyone.

The FBI had been tracking their movements since September 2019 and installed video and audio recording devices inside their Delaware home.

Here's the plan

as spoken from the leader to another one in the group, all on tape.

Now listen to this and see if anything jumps out.

So this, so like this plan of mine, it was like, this is like an Adderall idea.

I mean, I really, it didn't click until I took an Adderall.

And then I was like, oh, crap, I got a plan.

So this is what I'm thinking.

First of all, does that sound like a scary guy?

Does that sound like a guy who could pull off anything?

Okay.

Instead of going to Richmond,

listen up.

Why don't we like take a look at a map and find a gun range that's like in, you know, an outer county or a campground.

We'll spend the weekend training and camping.

And while we pay

close attention to the news and live streams, and that way, if it's go time, we're already in position, and we can then watch and then link up with, you know, our whatever, our national socialist forces that happen to be there on the scene.

Did you.

Did you notice the words national socialists?

Huh.

Did you?

Huh, what does that mean?

There's no candidate in the race here that's saying that they're a socialist, are they?

There's no.

No.

Okay, good.

If they were, I will tell you this, on the Republican side, I'll tell you that much.

Yeah, of course they are.

The Republican socialists is a big thing these days.

Yeah, big, big, big.

Well, base members did talk in vague terms about attacking the demonstration.

Attacking the demonstration.

Now, why would you attack the demonstration?

You're attacking the people that were in trouble were not inside the Capitol.

The people that were in trouble were the ones standing for the Constitution.

That bothered the white nationalists.

Strange how that works.

Yeah.

By the way, it's nice that

the state government disarmed all those people.

So if they were attacked, they couldn't do anything.

They couldn't do a darn thing.

So Matthews and Lemley traveled to and from a Maryland gun range where they intended to camp out during the rally,

returning to their Delaware residence and being arrested.

Early on the morning of January 16, federal agents executed federal arrest warrants for Lemley and Matthews at the Delaware residence before Lemley and Matthews submitted to the agents.

However, they both smashed their cell phones and dumped them into the trash can.

Their activity was fully captured on video and audio surveillance installed in their home.

That

is why the governor declared a state of emergency.

Incredible.

Incredible.

I mean, that's nothing.

It's nothing.

And it was all under control.

And not only was the FBI all over it, had them under constant surveillance, not only that, they were national socialists that were going to attack the rallygoers.

You'll notice that the governor wasn't talking about protecting the rallygoers.

He was talking about protecting the capital and protecting the people inside of the Capitol.

He didn't give a flying crap that the evidence showed that the real target was the rallygoers.

That is, I mean, how long is this going to last?

How long is this going to last before the people finally just rise up and say, enough is enough?

I mean, I think that there is a real chance that they lose Virginia, that Virginia goes to Trump hard.

Really?

I mean, it just went big to the Democrats in 2018.

Right.

But that's because the Republicans didn't, the Republicans failed.

They didn't put up enough people that were good.

They didn't have anybody that was really representing them.

And I have to tell you, I know I'm really active as a constitutionalist.

I know there's nothing that's going to stop me from voting.

Because I know what I'm up against.

If I'm in Virginia with this kind of stuff going on, are you not going out to the polls?

A lot of this stuff moves reflexively as well.

You know, if you are in a state where you're seeing massive pushback against your rights as far as the Second Amendment goes,

a lot of times those elections bounce back the other way quickly.

We saw that in Colorado over the past few years where they passed a lot of big gun restrictions and then elected some Republicans afterwards.

You see that a decent amount where it just snaps right back.

So that could be something.

I mean, Virginia has had some close elections lately.

Some Republicans have almost won in that state.

You know, it wasn't really a borderline state in the presidential election, but you could see that as a, I mean, look, you not only have a guy who's dressing, you know, putting blackface on and somehow surviving the scandal as your governor, he's the guy who's saying abortion after birth is something we should consider.

He's a guy with all sorts of Second Amendment restrictions.

He's doing the Bernie Sanders playbook, right?

He's going down that road.

Not as far as Bernie would go, but he is on that road.

On that road.

Yes.

And so there could be a big pushback against it.

Look at it.

You had the governor saying last week, these people are not coming for a peaceful protest.

They're coming to intimidate and to cause harm.

He said that about the rallygoers.

He said, everybody that's coming is just nothing but white nationalists.

The governor knew because of the FBI, he knew that there were only three people, three, that were targeting the rallygoers.

And so what does he do?

He declares a state of emergency, which the FBI

would not have given him the indication, I'm sure, based on three people, that, oh, yeah, you need a state of emergency, gave him all kinds of power.

Then

he comes out and he says they're here to intimidate and cause harm.

No, they were there to intimidate and cause harm to the constitutionalists because they were national

socialists.

They were not against you, brother.

GQ claimed bloodshed, great and heavy and perhaps unprecedented on on American soil, was narrowly averted.

Oh, yeah.

Was it?

Unprecedented.

In Virginia, American bloodshed?

On Virginia soil, unprecedented, at a rally?

I think that's a hard one to make, but maybe that's just me.

A little history work that needs to be done on that one.

I know you don't go past, you know,

1970, but maybe go back

110 years.

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All right, so.

Let's look at the polls.

Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.

Joe Biden yesterday came out and said, you know,

it's important on who you pick as a vice president, but my pick for vice president really has to be carefully chosen because I'm old.

I don't think this guy wants to win.

It doesn't seem like it's a double.

Look, there's a lot of people saying that I'm corrupt.

And hey, who knows?

Could be.

But vote for me.

I mean,

it's weird.

It's an odd approach.

I will say maybe it's smart to lean into it, you know, and just say, look, yeah, I mean, I got to make sure I pick up somebody because I am old.

I mean,

everyone's everyone's thinking it.

What are you going to do?

Hide it?

You know, the information is out there that he's 712 years old.

So you might as well leave it.

Only people are thinking that.

Like, you do think of Bernie Sanders as old, but you look at him as a guy who's just like, I don't know what.

I mean, I don't know what he's taken.

Maybe he's got that Nazi, you know, super soldier drug that just keeps him going.

He's been dead for 15 years, but he's just keep going.

I mean, he seems like he's just,

a heart attack didn't slow him down.

Yeah, no, no.

Donald Trump, he's

old, but he doesn't seem old at all.

Only people are thinking it is because, look at him.

And it's his performance level, really, more than anything else.

It just doesn't seem like he's as sharp as he needs to be.

Right.

It's not, I don't mean look at him like, look at him.

He's got gray hair.

Yeah, look at me.

Yeah.

But I mean, like, he's in his 70s, and you think, oh, well, he might not be healthy.

It's not like he's, you know,

it doesn't mean like you're like, oh, he's, he's going to have a heart attack and collapse.

It's more of like, is he mentally

doing it?

Yeah.

And he's made such a rapid decline in four years.

It's a little scary.

What are the next four years going to be like?

One thing I wanted to talk about here, we had these new polls have come out, and they come out in Iowa all the time.

They're kind of all over the board, and it's so hard to make sense of what they mean.

Why?

Is it just because polls suck?

Like a legitimate question?

Or is it just that they're asking all different people?

How does this work?

And there's a great example that just came out over the past couple of days.

Two different polls.

One poll showed, I think, Bernie Sanders up by seven or nine

over Joe Biden.

And another poll coming out today that shows Joe Biden leading by two.

They're like right next to each other.

They're both asking people in Iowa, what's the problem here?

What's the flaw?

And this is why a lot of times you see these polls with like wildly different results.

And it's easy to just kind of think, well, they just don't know what the heck they're doing, right?

They're just asking people and they're screwing this up.

that's kind of like how i used to feel about it there's a great example here of why that happens so it comes down to basically what the likely voter screen they're trying to figure out these pollsters who's likely to vote so if you went and you asked someone uh hey who are you gonna vote for they said bernie sanders and then you said how old are you i'm seven

you'd know not to include that right like that's an easy likely voter screen they're not likely to vote they're not 18 right but it gets more complicated so these two polls listen to the difference way in which way would you answer this?

I don't even know.

So one poll asked, are you going to caucus?

Are you likely to go caucus?

And the person said yes.

Do you include those people in the poll?

Yes.

You'd think yes, right?

The other poll also asked, are you likely to caucus?

But then followed up with a screen to try to figure out whether they were telling the truth or not.

Okay.

So the telling the truth, here are the levels.

They had to fail all of these tests to not be included.

It was.

Are you going to the caucus?

Are you going to the caucus was the first one.

Then you have.

Hold on, I'm scrolling down.

Here we go.

So did you vote in 2018?

Did you vote in 2016?

Did you,

let's see, where's the other one?

Did you, if you fail one of those, so like if I had, if I voted 2016, but I didn't vote in 2018,

you only have have to get one of them.

You only have to get one.

You have to answer no on all of these.

And it was, did you caucus in one of the years?

And

I think it was where you registered in one of the other years.

Okay.

So again, you might say, well,

this person didn't vote in 2016, one of the biggest presidential election years.

They didn't vote this last time.

They didn't caucus in 2016.

This person's not likely to vote.

So one pollster says, we're not going to include them.

So the people who say, we're not going to include those voters who didn't vote in those previous elections, that poll shows it very close with Joe Biden leading.

The other poll that does include people who never voted before, didn't caucus before, but say they're going to caucus this time, that one shows a big lead for Bernie Sanders.

Okay, so now that makes sense on both ways.

Yeah.

Because Bernie Sanders people probably didn't do any of that stuff before because they didn't believe in it or they didn't think that they had the right candidate or they weren't old enough.

Right.

So

it could be that they just just got excited by Bernie.

It could be that

there's a million different reasons why they might come out to correct.

However,

they are not reliable voters, probably, right?

They're people that didn't bother to show up two years ago in a very highly publicized election.

They didn't caucus.

They didn't go in 2016.

Some of them might have been under 18, so that would explain it.

But some of them also might just not have been that interested in it.

Are they going to be interested to go out and caucus this time?

And it's a fascinating thing to see because these pollsters actually have to make really difficult decisions like that all the time.

Right, well, but you had to make the same Bernie Sanders, in many ways, is the Donald Trump of the left.

He's bringing in new voters, people who haven't voted for a long time, people who have been disgusted by the system, people that have wanted a change.

Those voters, yes, they are unreliable, but not if the candidate is strong enough to really make them believe he'll do these things.

And Bernie Sanders is like Donald Trump.

He will do those things.

Yeah, I pulled an ad from, I think it was like Reddit the other day, and it was an ad to people to support Bernie Sanders.

And it was titled as like, we've never had someone like this.

It's true.

This close to the presidency.

They've never, I mean, this totally, when they were, the way this is written, Glenn, reminded me exactly of these James O'Keefe videos that keep coming out, of these people who are in the campaign, who have never seen the possibility of a socialist in their entire lives to be president.

And this guy is this close.

And that if he loses,

God only knows what these people are going to do.

Imagine a

libertarian, a real libertarian president who could be the nominee of the GOP.

Do you know how the libertarians are not staying at home and they may not have voted in 10 years or their whole life, but they would not stay home.

I think the same thing is true with Bernie Sanders.

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