Bias and Balderdash: Accents, Gifts, Refugees and Islamofascism

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Victor, I guess I'd like to start by getting your take on John Fetterman, who is in the crosshairs of the Democratic Party.

It's kind of like a Joe Biden-ish, oh, well, he really had these problems, you know, coming out after the fact, let's tell the truth after the fact, staffers who are now hanging him out to dry.

He's a complicated complicated character, victim, a victor.

Maybe he's a victim also.

What's your take on the recent news?

There's two considerations.

There's the actual health of him, and then

there's the hypocrisy which each side accuses the other.

But the barometer of which side is accurate depends on the course of his illness.

So when he was in the primaries, and then in the gym,

he won, and then he had

a stroke, a major stroke.

So that was evident when he was debating Dr.

Oz.

He didn't really follow the questions.

He did an interview where he was non-composmentes.

I think an accurate diagnosis would be that he was in more severe cognitive decline than was Joe Biden during that race.

But unlike Joe Biden, he had a potential for recovery because he was still young.

And that was a stroke.

It wasn't a permanent

Alzheimer's dementia.

So here was the reaction to that by the Democrats was, he's fine, he's all right.

How dare you pick on the elder?

You're picking on the handicap.

And that was a very effective campaign trope, especially with Dr.

Oz, who they said, you're a doctor, you should know better.

So he won, squeaked by, you know, one or two points, I think it was three points.

So then he started to improve, as everybody knew he would.

And they were happy with him.

He was their model for the swing state man of the people.

The way he looked,

you know, even though he he was from a rich family, his dad was an insurance company person.

He kind of floated around.

He married a left-wing, I think, Brazilian or Latin American.

They loved him.

Then came October 7th,

and he was not just outraged at Hamas, but he was fanatically pro-Israel in the fashion that older Democrats had been, including Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, etc.

And he even went on top of his house.

Remember, Jack?

And he waved flags and he shouted at protesters.

So then

he met with Donald Trump.

He said that although he voted against Pete Hegseth, he could imagine voting for him.

Put that all together, and that was, he was an apostate.

So then the narrative changed from he made a fantastic recovery, which he made a fantastic recovery to he was demented and he should be removed.

But it was obvious that the grounds for removal were not medical.

They were

unorthodox left-wing views.

The Republicans were pretty consistent.

They said that when he was debilitated, he shouldn't be senator.

And then, even though he was left-wing senator, let's say prior to October 7th, there were no Republicans that said he should be removed because he's demented.

In other words, they said, well, he had a bad...

a bad primary,

excuse me,

a bad election against Oz, and then he went in for depression, got treated.

But then, you know, we just left him alone.

He was just a typical Democrat.

He seemed fine.

He dressed eccentrically, but he was okay.

So they were consistent.

And now the Democrats,

it's very, I think somebody wrote about that.

It's very similar to what the Soviet Union did with Sarkov and

others.

They would say, you know,

they said social nitsin, these people were, they're wonderful people, but they are completely insane now.

And they have to be hospitalized.

That's what the Democratic left does.

So they turned on him.

And they're going to primary him, probably.

Do you remember the reporter from NBC, a woman?

I don't remember her name, but she asked him about, she had the temerity to ask him about his health during the campaign and how the rest of the media just beat the crap out of her.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They got really angry, and of course,

AOC hates his guts.

The problem that Democrats have with him is you can make the argument that at least in a general election, he better reflects the views of the majority of Pennsylvanians.

The $64,000 question is, does he reflect a majority view of the Democrats?

So

he will win a general election against, unless it's a good Republican, but he will not win a primary if the Pennsylvania Democratic Party is loony.

And I hope it is or not.

I think it is, Victor.

I saw some poll just by

happenstance.

Josh Shapiro, the governor, the Democrat governor, has I think 82% approval rating, and I'm pretty sure Feddermans is under 50%.

This is among Democrats.

Yeah, so I think he's going to have, he'll be like, he's like Manchin, Joe Manchin, and he's like Cinema in Arizona.

And once they cross that line, the Democratic Party sends out the word to its subordinates.

So the media then just stops giving them favorable coverage.

The media stops giving them softball interviews.

The big donor class is ordered not to give them any money.

The state Republican caucuses are told not to endorse him.

They find a primary candidate and they can get rid of him.

That's what they do.

And

just like they created Joe Biden in 2020, they got rid of Sanders.

They got rid of Warren.

They got rid of Buttigig.

They coronated him.

And then when he was no longer useful, they got rid of Biden.

That's what they do.

They mask it by saying they're the party of democracy.

They're not.

They're the party of the inside cabal.

I don't see how the we've talked about this, Victor.

You've shared your thoughts.

I just don't see at what point they make a U-turn where they hit bottom, where they stop radicalizing and say this is not working.

They have to be beaten.

Remember that after Watergate, so 68 was a very close election.

Humphrey was a centrist.

Another week, he probably would have he was closing fast.

He probably would have beat Nixon.

But then Nixon had a spectacular

first term economically and China.

And so he the reaction to the loss of Humphrey was this radical McGovern.

He was saying, we're going to cut down carrier groups by half.

We're going to give everybody guaranteed income.

We're going to slash the defense budget by a third.

And that was the beginning of the, I guess you'd call them the neoconservative defection.

That was when Norman Portowitz and those people started.

They didn't really, I don't think they voted for McGovern.

They weren't Reaganites yet.

Carter was what finished them off.

But my point is, that party went really left-wing.

So then they got together and they decided they had to go back to the winning,

the winning paradigm, and that was a Southern Democrat, Southern accented person like LBJ, who was a liberal, but he's from the South, so people said he's not crazy.

So then they went and nominated Jimmy Carter, who won.

Then they went back to the failed paradigm.

They nominated Mondale, who lost.

The liberal northeasterner or centra northerner always will lose because he's a force multiplier of liberalism.

Then they nominated Mike Dukakis.

He kind of ran a stealth campaign, too.

He said, it's not about ideology, it's about competence.

And he kind of talked like a technocrat, and he lost.

Then they got smart and said, 92, we're going to go back to the LBJ Jimmy Carter paradigm.

And

they doubled down.

They got two.

Two liberals who had southern accents from the south, Tennessee and Arkansas, Clinton and Gore, and they won the popular,

excuse me, they won the popular vote.

They didn't win a majority in either election because of the candidacy of Ross Perot, but they won in 92 and 96.

Then they ran another Southerner, and he won the popular vote, Al Gore in 2000.

And then they went back to the old paradigm, John Kerry, Northern Liberal, and they lost.

So then they said, well,

we can't nominate Southerners anymore because they're racist just to win.

That's what Jasmine Crockett said the other day.

They're going to nominate a bunch of white boys.

So they got to get a new paradigm, and the new paradigm was Barack Obama.

And then the Republicans helped them out because the Republicans said, we're never going to play dirty or win ugly with Lee Atwater tactics.

So we're a new party of Marcus of Queensbury rules.

And John McCain, if I hear, remember that that rally where he was introduced?

And John McCain is going to, that talk show host said, he's going to beat Barack Hussein Obama.

And then McCain said something to the effect, I don't like that.

I think he's Barack Obama.

I understand what you're saying, but I'd rather you not do it.

And then Mitt Romney was, you know, Marcus of Queensbury Park.

And then they lost.

They lost.

They lost.

So that's what each party does.

When the Republicans get a fine, upstanding gentleman who is a rhino and has no strong conservative beliefs, and they think they're going to capture independence.

Whatever independence they capture, they lose the base.

Eight or ten million people stay home.

And when the Democrats get a northern liberal, they're going to lose, unless he's got some cachet or he's a rhetorician, black, and a rhetorician like Obama.

By the way, Obama left office

very brilliantly.

He was down, he was at 40% approval, and then he just turned the show over to Hillary and Trump, played golf, smiled.

And the more people didn't see him, the more they liked the idea of him.

But they hated the reality of him.

He lost 1,000 local and state seats.

Yeah.

Yeah, Republicans, I think, control more legislatures totally with governors than ever before,

thanks to Barack.

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Victor, I dared to mention accent.

I know there are a number of listeners or viewers of this show that have a thing about Bronx accents, but you know, to quote Lady Gaga, I was born that way.

There's an article,

and we'll just go through this quickly because there are other big stories to get your take on.

The University of Edinburgh, which is one of the most woke institutions in the Western world, has begun training for accent bias training.

Here's a piece from Unheard, which is a great website.

So, perhaps it comes as no surprise that this institution has become the first in the UK to introduce accent bias training for staff.

According to Vice Principal Professor Colm Harmon, the university will embed Scottishness into the curriculum to counter a culture of snobbery and prejudice against students from north of the border.

End quote.

You know, I don't know what is not useful to the left for discrimination purposes, but border still Hadrian's Wall that they guess so.

Isn't it like you can walk over?

Can you jump over it?

The thing about England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, it is true that its class system is deeply embedded.

And one way you find out where a person's from, and British linguists are brilliant.

They can listen to a person for one minute and tell you within a 50-mile radius where they were, and probably within income level.

Pygmalion, right?

Oh, yeah.

Pygmalion, and my fair lady, and Cockney.

I guess Cockney is at the bottom.

And that's why one of the reasons they hate Australians, not just because they were originally a penal colony, but because their accent

evolved from the lower classes of England, unlike the Canadians, who were a different type of immigration pattern.

There was a linguist when I got to UC Santa Cruz, and he was a really good guy, and he could spot, he was an American linguist.

And

so I was only 18.

I said, you can't tell where I'm from because I have no accent whatsoever.

And so he asked me to say about 15 words.

And he said, you're from Fresno County.

Serious?

Wow.

I said, how do you know?

And he said,

it's a mixture of Northern European immigrants that came from Scandinavia and England and Ireland, and they have a tinge of the Oklahoma diaspora that changed it.

And so I said, how did you know know that?

And he said, I was at C-O-W-E-L-L College of UC Santa Cowell.

And he said, say it.

I said, I'm from Cowell College.

He said, it's not C-A-L-L.

Yeah.

And he said, it's one syllable.

Right.

Yeah, you said, you one-syllabalized these.

And he was very brilliant, but that's nothing compared to how Britain identifies people.

Accent.

And you know where you really see it are Indian immigrants into Britain and from Africa and the degree to which they take instructions on the Queen's English and the accent of the London elite, British, they feel that they have much more success in business and government everywhere by their accent.

It's not just class or race, it's the accent really.

And here in America, we just, all we do is kind of favor a flat, no-accented anchor woman or man.

But I guess you would say that

in what we do is we are prejudiced against southern accents.

I feel people are prejudiced against them, especially the Oklahoma-Arkansas diaspora that came out for the

land rush from the dispossessed white classes after the Civil War.

Appalachia also, yeah.

Yes, and Appalachia.

And then the Mississippi, Louisiana, Deep Georgia, Florida, Upper,

that is okay.

And then the Tidewater, you know, North Carolina,

Virginia is considered the acceptable southern accent.

I'm talking by the northern establishment snobbish group.

And

they,

I think their epitome is, isn't it Massachusetts or something like that?

Connecticut, Massachusetts.

Every time I go to Hillsdale, and I just got back, that area near eastern Michigan and Minnesota was all settled by Scandinavians.

And

they have that Fargo accent, you know.

Why you know what I mean?

Because

Swedish has a pitch accent, it's not necessarily a stress accent, it's like Chinese.

Yeah, you know,

where you change the pitch of your voice to accentuate rather than pause on a syllable a long time.

I'm always amazed by people when I go to Minnesota by two things.

They're Scandinavians, they sounded like my relatives, and then the second thing, they're not conservative.

I thought all the conservative, downtrodden that were farming rocks in Sweden came here and then they became

rock-ribbed Republicans.

No, they became farmer, labor, communists.

Hey, Victor, let's get a little, well,

let's get a little serious.

A topic in the press the last few days and is creating a lot of heat.

The plane, the donation of a $400 million plane to Donald Trump, a new Air Force one from Gutter or Qatar, however one might say it.

I was watching Guttfeld last night and we were recording again on Tuesday the 13th, so Monday the 12th, and it was a topic.

Oh my gosh,

it required genuflection

because this was a good thing, but why?

$400

million saves the government.

But I don't know, it's just an uneasy feeling for me.

This is such a horrid regime.

I wouldn't take water from them in the desert personally, but who cares what I think?

What do you think about this, Victor?

It's kind of a complex issue because Gutter or Qatar, whatever we want to call it, it's positioned in that strategically ideal place for the Middle East, and it looks right across the Gulf at Iran.

And it's a very weak, corrupt government, as many of those governments are.

But its way of handling tensions is not like Saudi Arabia or Kuwait or the Emirates.

And they tend to be pro-European, pro-Western.

They get the technology and the investment from the West.

They sell the oil.

And then the British and American militaries, to a lesser extent, French, protect them.

And who do they protect them from?

Their Shia populations and Iran.

But Gutter

has a different position.

Says to everybody in the West, we have Hamas people here that are terrorist.

We have a dialogue with Hezbollah.

We're pro-Iranian.

And we have this Al Jazeera hate the West media outlet.

But we like you.

So what we're going to do is be, what they're trying to be is Geneva, Switzerland, right?

The place in the Middle East that you go to do diplomatic deals.

Now, as far as the plane, so Trump left and he said

you get for the 747, I think it was 82 or 83, it's decrepit.

They don't make them anymore, so they're kind of rare.

And they're the biggest airliner in, you know, it's the biggest airliner except for the new Airbus.

And it's ideally suited for the communication and navigation and security equipment necessary for the first family, and it's comfortable, and you can bring your whole staff.

You've got super sophisticated, and it was old, so the airframe was dangerous.

So, when Trump left office, he negotiated a deal, bragged about it, got a great deal.

Boeing said they would do it in four years, and then two things happened.

Number one, Boeing said, ah, we didn't make as we didn't gouge the government as much as we want.

We're just going to slow down.

And then Biden thought, those were Trump's planes.

I'm not going to, I'm not going to job on them.

So they didn't do anything.

And they just kind of lollygagged around.

And then Trump came back and he said, hey, this is the same plane that I used five years ago.

And it was already 50 years old or 45 years old.

I want a new one.

And then Bowie, he called Boeing in.

He yelled at them.

And they said, we'll have one after you're out of office.

And Trump said, you mean I'm not going to have a safe new airframe that's customized.

And he got mad.

So then Gutter said, we'll give you one because

we're going to get a new one ourselves.

And you took a look at the pictures of it.

My gosh,

it looked like a Viking cruise ship or something.

You know, it was just beautiful.

It looked like the Titanic inside.

So anyway, the problem is

Gutter does that and gives, Gutter doesn't give anything for free.

And so the left didn't say anything, and then they felt that this was a wedge issue.

So they made the point that he violated the Emolimans Clause by accepting in the Constitution a gift from a foreign country.

But he had gotten around 90%

of that because he said, it's not for me, it's for the U.S.

Air Force, and it's not permanent.

It's just to tide us over with a safe 747 to

the other ones come due.

So far,

mostly good.

I would mind everybody that's angry about it that Gutter

right before the Gulf War built a billion-dollar base and they wanted the United States there.

And then they announced the United States could have it without even a lease and do whatever it wanted.

You could put a B-1 there, you could put a B-2 there, you could attack another Arab.

Just come here so that the Saudis and everybody doesn't

push us around for being pro-Iranian and the Iranians don't take advantage of us because we're pro-Iranian.

So we did.

It was a billion-dollar gift to the U.S.

military.

I was very suspicious about that.

And then, and then, I think right before COVID, the United States said, well, you know, we want these two 12,000-foot

runways, and we want this.

And so they did a kind of a ballad, as, you know, we had redone.

But they paid for it.

So then the Qataris came in and said, please don't leave.

We want to be Geneva, Switzerland, where everybody comes, and we can't do it unless you're here to protect us from our neighbors and our friends.

And so we negotiated.

And they said, we'll spend a billion and a half dollars and make it so nice, kind of like the plane.

And the U.S.

military said yes.

So that was a gift to the U.S.

government.

And that was $2.5 billion for the original, beautiful base.

I went there on the way back.

And so anyway, my point is, so far, so good.

Do presidents ever, then after the end of their tenure, do they get the plane?

Well, if you go to the Ronald Reagan Museum, you see a 747.

But the catch is that while it's valuable as a historical piece and it enhances the

library, museum, da-da-da, all of those Southern California installations that honor Reagan, it doesn't work.

So then here's where he got in trouble.

He said, well, what do we do with it after the gift?

And it would have been fine.

Nobody would have, the left would have had no ammunition.

They would have tried, because they'll try anything, but they wouldn't be successful if the Trump administration just modulates it a little bit.

They said, we love this beautiful plane, and

it has the same status as the military base that they gave us.

and we appreciate that we're under no obligation diplomatically to favor or to punish them however

when these two 747s come online it could be five more years we will give this plane back to gutter and if they say well we don't want it well you it'll be valuable you can have it

I think there was some people mentioned, well, Victor, why would you do that?

Because Gutter will turn around and give it to somebody like the Russians or the Chinese.

It's valuable.

It's a billion-dollar plane almost.

It's got everything on it.

So, after we enhance it, and they're going to go through it and retrofit it, retrofit it a little bit, make sure it doesn't have any spy devices, beef up the security, it's very valuable.

So, then the next question was: once Trump uses it for four years, and probably the next president will use it for a year or two because these Boeing things are lagging, then what do you do with it?

And they said, the Trump Foundation can have it.

Well, then

I would get out of it the following.

I would say the Trump Foundation can have it as a museum piece, or it could use it for Trump conferences, you know, just park it and have a conference in it.

Or you could, but I would not

give it to Donald Trump's personal use, and I don't think he would want it anyway.

It's so darn expensive to run, right, compared to a 757.

So that's where we are.

The left is exaggerated, but you do not want to get a gift from a foreign government to the U.S.

government, use it, and then when it's no longer needed, give it to the president for his private use after he leaves office.

It would be good if it was, it's okay to give it to the foundation like Reagan got, but don't use it.

Either don't use it yourself or use it for the foundation or have it as a display.

And he'll have no problem.

Unless you feel that we've already violated under the two Bush administrations and the Clinton administration, we violated the emoluments clause by accepting a $2.5 billion original gift and retrofit that was given to the U.S.

military and therefore affected our attitude to Qatar.

But the problem to finish this rant is the university people, the academics that are ranting and raving, they've been, Gutter and Communist China have given them $60 billion the last 40 years.

And they have not reported it.

There's a big Stanford Review article about Chinese gifting and espionage at Stanford University.

They were fined by the first Trump Administration Education Department.

They had a People's Liberation Army, I think she was a colonel in intelligence posing as a neurophysicist on the faculty of Stanford, visiting faculty member.

So the left can't say anything.

They take all the kind of money they can get from hostels, and then they claim that they're not affected by it, and there's no quid pro quo.

You know, I've had a lot of people

in the past, I have no influence or anything, but I've had people who have come up to me and said things like, do you play golf?

No.

Oh, well, I'll fly you to my

course or and you can just, I'll teach, we'll have a guy teach you and then

by the way.

Yeah, but there's always something.

You know what I mean?

There's always a quid pro quo.

Do you know this person?

Do you know I want to fast track this foreign national?

Can you talk to somebody?

As a general rule, anytime someone wants to give you something, there's going to be in the business context.

I have friends that are very generous, but they never ask for a quid pro quo.

And I've been generous with my time and stuff for people, and I've never asked for a quid pro quo.

But when you get into business and very wealthy people and somebody writes you a personal check, I've only had one or two people who's who've never said do this, you know, if they've wanted to donate to the the program I run.

The strings attached.

It's really weird.

I raise a lot of money for Hoover, but usually the people who ask for something in exchange are usually the smallest donors.

Somebody can write a check for $500,000 to the Hoover Institution and never call, you never want anything.

And then another person can give you $3,000 for Hoover, and they'll say, by the way,

I have a friend who has a Rotary Club in Dayton, Ohio.

Could you fly out there and speak for free for him?

Nothing wrong with Dayton, Ohio?

As a classicist, you know.

I was just picking up for the day.

Yeah, I know.

As a classicist, you know.

It's got a beautiful, I think it has a beautiful Air Force Museum.

I spent a day there.

I spoke at the University of City.

Isn't there a that's where they keep the UFOs?

Isn't Dayton?

Isn't the University of Dayton a Catholic university?

Yeah.

Yeah,

I went there once.

I shouldn't say one, I got snowed in there for three days.

And you still came out of it a Protestant.

I also blew my head casket driving to,

I blew the head casket driving to an old Mazda 626

in 2001 going to the Naval Academy.

How many miles did that car have?

You wouldn't believe it.

It was only like 31,000 miles.

The Mazda 626s in the early part of the century were a piece of junk.

Junk kick.

And I just talked to somebody about a Mazda version of the CR-V, you know,

and they said it's the most beautiful car.

It's got a Toyota engine.

It runs wonderfully.

So they've really upped their game, I guess.

Well, Victor, beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Thank you.

We've got a couple of other things to get your opinion on.

I guess maybe we should start off with

crickets and then talk about the Episcopal Church and its

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I was glad that you mentioned at this early hour in California Virgil's Aeneid when you said, I fear Greeks bearing gifts.

It's from Virgil's Aeneid.

Remember the Laoquan, that famous Hellenistic statue has snakes around the green.

The snakes, yeah.

He was the prophet, remember, in the Aeneid says, well, i it the

that part of the epic cycle is missing, so and you only have two of the eight epic poems, Iliad and the Odyssey, but Virgil had access to the whole.

So when he redid it in the Aeneid, he's they're the ones, I fear

Greeks bearing gifts, and that's the gift of the wooden horse.

Horse, yeah.

Victor, let's go a little bit on crickets, just because it's so bizarre.

You know, we last year everyone's heard about oh, the World Economic Forum, Davos, there are people there talking about how too much meat, you know, cows and methane, and what we need to do is eat crickets and bugs because they have protein.

They probably had as many ribeyes as they could get their hands on,

Two-fisted pork chops.

But believe it or not, there was a funded

edible cricket farm project in Canada.

Well, it just went bust, but Canadian taxpayers, their money subsidized this.

So there really was an effort to come up with some new

line of eating to eat bugs, leftist bunkers.

That's exactly right.

They believe that a cow, a

heifer, cow, steer, eats too much food, emits too much methane gas, and in a cost-to-benefit analysis, does not give you the protein that you need versus the damage to the environment.

But a cricket does.

Little cricket, you know, he comes around your house, he eats dead bugs, he eats dirty crumbs on the floor, he crawls out of your septic tank.

He's a natural forager, and you don't have to pay anything.

So they probably just feed garbage to them, right?

And then you put them on a frying pan.

When I was a little kid,

you ever go to those Christmas parties where people give gag gifts?

Yeah.

Yeah, well, my parents used to go to

a little group of

friends in this little tiny ag town.

They'd always give it.

And so one day my dad came home and somebody gave him a tin.

It looked like a...

tin of sardines and it was fried crickets and grasshoppers too and I liked the the grasshoppers better than the crickets.

But it was a joke.

And you can see where they're all going.

These Davos grandees are sitting at the top of the

cone of the

top of the pyramid, top capstone.

And they're looking down at all of us and they're saying, see these stupid, ugly, dumb people?

They think they should eat meat.

That's for us.

We need the protein.

We need the taste.

We need.

So we're going to protect our taste buds, but they're going to eat crickets.

And you can know that's true because there's two things going on in our food industry.

There's this emphasis on getting insects or, you know what I mean,

sources other than beef or even vegetables, certain types of, you know, vegetarian dairy and stuff to replace meat.

But at the very top, we've never had more high-end cuisine restaurants.

We've never had more food magazines.

We've never had more wine appreciation.

We've never had more

snobbishness about food.

We've never had more exotic food channels for the very wealthy.

We've never had more people who tell me where

I once said that I won't mention my colleagues, but most of the people at Stanford University that are academics can tell you what the best restaurant is in

Paris.

or let's say London or Rome, but they don't know.

I asked them once, well, what's the best restaurant in Fresno and Bakersfield?

And the guy said, what the?

And I said, well, wait a minute.

You're telling me that you know a restaurant 3,000 miles away in a foreign country and you don't know your own people's restaurant just 200 miles away?

Yeah.

Well, I've never been there.

Why the blank, blank, blank would I go there?

And so that's the attitude.

They love food for themselves, and that's really a cachet to say, you know, this restaurant, you eat this type of food.

Well, I love the movie Soil and Green because they do, the elite have the food and everybody else is eating Soil and Green.

And I won't spoil it for you if you haven't seen the movie.

Escort on a wise approach.

Yeah, well.

Hey, Victor,

more elites, religious elites.

Episcopal Church headline, Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, ends partnership with the U.S.

government in a striking move that ends a nearly four decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church.

The denomination announced on Monday this week, May 12th, that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Donald Trump's administration.

As we've discussed in some past episodes, Victor, farmers, white South African farmers are being murdered, their land being taken from them.

And Donald Trump, who I think has South African roots, doesn't he?

Isn't he a part of his family heritage?

Trump is a German-derived name, yeah.

Trump.

P-T-R-U-M-P-I-N-F-P or P-H.

Well,

whether he does or doesn't, this is British's father was Germanic.

But

they've been there nine generations, nine from the 17th century.

And they came from the Netherlands and parts of Germany.

They're only 7% now left of the population.

But they're angry because what keeps South Africa a magnet for for immigration and why it has still, even after 40 years of mismanagement and corruption after the apartheid government, which was racist government, it still is the biggest food producer in Africa.

And half of the land still belongs to this

so-called white population, which is 7 to 10% depending on whether it's

Afrikaner or English.

They passed a law when Mandela came in that they would give compensation, and they paid out two or three billion dollars and they bought a lot of land.

And of course, the land didn't was not farmed as it had the Rhodesia model, Zimbabwe Rhodesia, where

you take the land from the white people and then you turn it over to the indigenous people without the expertise to run it, and then it goes fallow and nobody has any food, and you have to import food.

And they understand that now in South Africa.

But now they haven't, this new government is going to confiscate land without compensation.

And almost every one of those Afrikaner families has a member of their family who is shot or killed in the last 30 years in these race wars.

And I don't think many of them will come.

But all Trump was saying is: if you look at the standard of refugee status, most of the people coming across the southern border from China or India or the Middle East or Mexico don't qualify.

They're not in existential danger.

But these people are because they're killed.

So he offered that, and everybody went crazy, The view, all these people said he was a racist.

So they're the racists because ever since Teddy Kennedy changed the immigration law, you know, in the early 60s, the whole point of the Democratic Party was to exclude European white people and Western white people and bring in non-white people who would be poor without the education and skills, and then they would be constituents of the Democratic Party.

And that's what they did.

I don't know if they're going to continue to do that because, as we said earlier, the Rasmussen

poll sold 62% of Hispanics are for Trump.

39% of African Americans are.

But anyway, I don't think a lot of people are going to come.

They're going to stick it out.

They've been there for 100 and 200 years.

They've been there longer than some of the black people who migrated into South Africa.

Well, can I, I'm going to interrupt.

I would like to say you have probably a greater sensitivity to this than most people.

I mean, you're a person of the land, what, fifth generation of that?

That came up to me a lot when I was at Cal State Fresno because in the 80s there was a really strong La Raza department.

And then when I built Mexifornia, I came to school one day and the Daily Collegian had my face with a

bullseye on it, you know, like a target.

And I went over there and talked to the advisor, which basically was his family, was doing it.

And then I went to the president and said, this is inflammatory.

You know what I mean?

I'm walking across campus.

And if they're disseminating this voice of Otsalon to all the students, and I have a big bullseye to shoot me, what are you going to do about it?

You know what he said?

I won't mention his name, but he basically said, you shouldn't have written the book.

The book, by the way, Mexico, is a call for integration, intermarriage, assimilation, and not to downplay race on all people's side and to limit immigration so that we can fully absorb people in the American civic tradition.

Okay.

Wasn't very radical at all.

But the point I'm making is that

so then I would go, I gave a talk at the Fresno County Library, and a woman came up, started screaming and yelling at me about indigenous people.

You know, you're not an indigenous person, you're a colonizer.

And I said, could I ask you a question?

When did you come here?

When did you come to California?

I've been here.

My mother came here from Oaxaca.

I said, yes.

So you've been here 30 years, your family?

I've been here since 1870 when my maternal great-great-grandmother came here with her three sons and there was nobody here.

There was no railroad, there was nothing.

And they bought actually there was a trunk line being built.

It was right after the Transcontinental Railroad they built trunk lines and anybody who came here could buy from the railroad the section that they were given by the federal government with the stipulation that they had I think 20 years to improve it.

And when they didn't, the railroad tried to confiscate it as we know from Frank Norris's octopus and the muscle slough tragedy.

It's just six miles from myself.

We had a running gun battle from farmers and Pinkerton railroad agents that were trying to reconfiscate the land, even though it had been improved.

So my point is, I was telling this young protester at the talk, do you know how many people of Mexican heritage were in California about 1845 when Jedediah Smith and other people, Fremont, started to come here for the first time?

About 15,000.

And

where did they get the land from?

They got

the land from Spain after the Mexican Revolution

and the first Mexican Revolution.

And where did the Mexicans get the land?

They got the land from indigenous peoples.

And where did the indigenous peoples get the land?

They got it from another indigenous peoples tribe.

So

in that sense,

that was a racist argument.

She thought just because I was a white person, that I was an interloper.

That's the word she used.

Interloper.

You're an interloper, all you white people.

It was a big la raza, turn all the land back to Mexico.

Then

I got in a bigger trouble because I quoted a Pew International poll, and I'm doing this by memory.

Gosh, that was in.

2001, right before 9-11.

So then I said, there is a Pew International poll, and can you please tell me how to reconcile these these polls?

On the one hand, 70, I think it was 60 percent of Mexican nationals said they wanted 60 percent of Mexican nationals said they felt the southwest of the United States should have been kept by Mexico and should return to Mexico.

Okay, a slightly greater percentage, 67 percent, said if given the chance, they would migrate to the United States.

So I asked her, Would you explain this to me?

That a vast majority of Mexican citizens feel that Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas should be part of Mexico.

And if it were part of Mexico, then 67, a greater percentage would want to leave.

So you tell me what that is.

I had a guy I went to high school with, and I said to him, I haven't seen you since high school.

And he said, yeah, I was here.

He was a Mexican national.

He was trying to get a citizen.

citizenship.

And he said, I'm leaving to Oregon because your community has been taken over by illegals.

And that's what I left Mexico for.

And then I said, well, where are you going to go?

He goes, I'm going to go to Oregon.

He did.

He said, when Oregon is taken over, I'll go to Washington.

Yeah.

He may have left by now

if he moved to Portland.

So I was asking him, he turned to me kind of angry and he said, Victor, why do you think millions of people are leaving Mexico?

Is it because they hate the weather?

Is it because there's no good farmland?

Why is it?

And I said, you tell me.

He said, because it's corrupt and it's racist and they treat indigenous people like dirt.

And in that book,

I was in the waiting room of a doctor who was a really wonderful doctor, Dr.

Sorenson.

He was like a country doctor, but he was really a good doctor.

He kept me going for 30 years.

And I was in the waiting room, and I was talking to a guy from Mexico, and he was so happy to be here.

He'd been here about five years.

I said, why did you come?

Because I was kind of researching for this book.

And I said, why did you come to the United States?

And I thought he was going to say the money and the safety.

And he said, because they treat me with dignity.

And I said, what do you mean?

He said,

the doctor in there, he calls me sir.

Yes, sir.

Can I help you, sir?

He goes, that had never happened to me in my life in Mexico.

I was an indigenous, just I was an Indian.

They just treated me like dirt, people from Mexico City.

Here in the United States, they call me sir, no matter what.

So I like dignity.

And you tell that to a leftist person, they would think you were crazy.

But that's a lot of it, that people come from the poorest sections of the world and they're treated with dignity when they get here compared to how they've been treated in their own country.

Yeah.

I think most Americans are probably ignorant of that sharp class system.

Same thing with India.

I've talked to people from India and I've had other people from India tell me that that person that you're talking to is quasi-untouchable.

He would be nobody in India.

He had no land, he had no connections, and here he is thinking, puffing himself up like he's a Sikh landowner or a Punjabi aristocrat.

He's not, Victor.

Look at him.

So that whole baggage from Europe, from Asia, that's not here.

This is why this country was different.

And they do treat people with dignity.

They even treat Jasmine Crockett with dignity, who doesn't, you know, hasn't earned the dignity.

Right, gosh.

Hey, Victor, quick before we go to the final break, and we'll have one more question for you.

But La Raza

seems, has it dissipated?

Not totally, but

it has the Hispanic community has the largest, I think it's right with Asians, it's about 30%

of first-generation, second-generation Hispanics marry outside the Hispanic community.

That's a joke in California

where there's two jokes in California.

When you go to the bank or something, the person who waits on you is called Taylor Lopez or Randy Contreras, number one.

And then, number two,

say a so-called white woman marries a Hispanic and she's in academia and all of a sudden she

put it the other way

a white guy marries a Mexican woman and now she's

Mary Smith, but she's always Mary Lopez Urisha Smith.

Everybody, what I'm getting at is linguistics really shows you the degree of prejudice.

When I was growing up, if you

were Mexican-American and you felt there were prejudice, you were never called Jorge or

you were George or you never said you were Juan, you were John.

So I had all those friends.

Then when the system came neutral, nobody cared.

And then when it reversed and became racist in the other way, all these people that I knew growing up, all of a sudden I'd see them in their 40s.

I'd say, hey, John, no, I'm Juan.

And then you would say,

Juan Lopez, I remember you.

No, I'm Juan Lopez Jurica.

And then they would have accent accent marks covered their whole name, and they were trilling, and they were doing everything.

And

so

what I'm getting at is that when there was white prejudice against Hispanics, Hispanics, like any minority, would try to become less Hispanic.

And when there was prejudice, reverse discrimination against white, then Hispanics would try to become more Hispanic than they were to make the diff to make the distinction.

Well, that's fascinating, Victor.

We're going to come back and talk about Islamo-fascism on the rise, and maybe we have time for a very short take on shower heads, toilets, and washing machines.

We'll do that when we come back from these final important messages.

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You know, Victor, I just met mocking shower heads, etc.

But these are the things that are most intimate with our lives, in our lives, our appliances.

And we all know how badly our appliances have become over the years because of government regulations.

And Donald Trump on earlier this week, I call it Appliance Freedom Day, he issued a new executive order.

He is from

the Washington Free Beacon.

As part of the Department of Energy's sweeping action on Veil Monday, it will rescind dozens of energy efficiency regulations targeting common household appliances that the Biden administration issued as part of its climate agenda.

That includes rules restricting sales of certain types of gas-powered stoves and ovens in addition to microwaves, clothes washers, dishwashers, faucets, showerheads, dehumidifiers.

Victor, I want to add that Blaine Biden here, but I do remember it was in the Bush administration where they started the effort to get rid of the light bulb and replace it with the curly mercury-filled things.

So this has been a passion for federal government for a couple of decades.

You just can't let the market adjudicate.

I mean, people would have got rid of the incandescent light when they did the simple math about new types of light bulbs that were more expensive but saved them money, and they would find out that by trial and error.

But

I live in California, so when I go on Amazon to order things, about a quarter of them I can't get, I can't get a gas, any gas engine will not, I can't buy a chainsaw, I can't buy a blower, they won't ship it to California, I can't buy bullets for guns, I can't, although I was surprised I bought pellets for a pellet gun the other day to shoot these birds that are defecating over everything.

And that's a timely comment.

In 1990, Jack, I bought a, I have a really tiny little laundry room from this ancient house.

And I bought it, you know, those stacked washer dryers from GE?

That was the nicest thing that had.

It had like a button on, a little dial, high-low, and then one for washer, high-low.

And that was it.

That thing, I bought it in 1991, and it went out in 2001.

It was still working, but it was loud, and the tumbler had got, the bearings were out.

I just got rid of it.

So I wanted to get one just like it.

And they do have one the same dimensions.

And it is still made in China and labeled GE.

And I couldn't figure it out.

It had so many buttons and it's all energy saving, right?

And it has an automatic anti-tumbler.

If we put tennis shoes in, it will shut.

It has everything on it.

It blew up the other day.

And the guy came out yesterday and put a new circuit board in it.

And I asked him, I said, how often do these things last?

He said, that's a long time for these new ones, five years.

And he said, they go out.

I said, I had one for 20.

He said, yeah, if you can get one, those are better.

Find one.

And then but he said, and then I had a pool pump, quarter horsepower electric motors, two for the clean one for the pump, one for the cleaner.

I had it for I got it from ninety one to two thousand.

Excuse me, ninety-one to two thousand ten.

And then all of a sudden the pool service, it went out.

I would just take the motor out, take it in to the electric motor shop.

They would redo the

the wiring and I'd put it back in and it ran forever.

And then they came and said, no, you can't do that anymore.

We have to have energy-efficient, these new pump engines.

They go out every two years.

I love my 30-year-old dishwasher.

There's no way I'm getting rid of it.

Don't trade it in.

Hey,

last topic, Victor.

You know, personally,

the last meeting National Review had when I was publisher and Bill Buckley was still alive after the meeting, you know, quarterly or biannual board meeting.

The meeting was over, and he said, now, listen, all,

I want us to concentrate from here on in on Islamo-fascism.

I must say, I never had heard the word, but I knew exactly what he meant when he said it.

And

we continue, I think, to have a,

we just don't focus on it.

We just don't, and it's ripe and it's rampant.

And so Elon Musk on X posted the other day

He owns it.

He can do whatever he wants.

We're going to see widespread slaughter in Europe.

You're clearly seeing a massive increase in the number of attacks in Europe.

And the legacy media downplays these attacks.

But the attacks, the terrorism, the killing of innocent people is rising.

Every week, there's more.

That is the trend.

If you simply extrapolate the trend, it leads to the slaughter of Europe.

Very frightening, Victor.

And so many people in media, including right or center, do not give this the attention it deserves, not only in Europe, but here in America too.

Any thoughts on this?

Well,

after October 7th, we had open protest in a couple of towns in Michigan that was anti-American and pro-Hamas.

And these Columbia people who were arrested the other day, they were just shouting openly

anti-American.

They wanted to rename this library to a Hamas hero.

So

I mean, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.

We have thousands of people who have come over here on visas.

Some of them may be citizens who do not like the United States and feel that

Islamism is the future of the West and

they're not going to assimilate.

They're not going to integrate.

And they're mostly in university.

They're students.

Marco Rubio has been fantastic.

He just keeps reiterating the same thing when he's asked.

When he sees these demonstrations that are violent, when they go in during during

finals and they disrupt a library where there's hundreds of students who are obeying the rules and just want a place to study, they are endangering their ability to get a dividend from their hard-paid, hard-won tuition dollars.

And these kids come over here from these wealthy Arab countries and Muslim countries and they disrupt, disrupt, disrupt.

Rubio just says the same thing.

He just says, we know who they are, and they're going to be notified that the invitation has been revoked.

And I think the left just goes crazy, but they don't understand that it's not,

you're a guest.

You don't have to argue.

You can just say, I don't like the way you comb your hair.

I'm not going to give you a visa if you want.

If you want.

So it's a privilege to come to the United States.

You don't have to you have no right to say I have a right to go into the United States and they're not citizens.

It's true that they're subject if you're a resident, you're subject to the same laws, but that doesn't that doesn't involve your original original invitation.

It has a shelf life on it.

And you don't have to renew it or you can revoke it for whatever reasons that you think.

And some of the reasons are spelled explicitly in statute, that you feel that you're not, this person does not advance the diplomatic agendas of the United States or its values.

Go out.

And they used to, the left used to always go after, and I agreed with them.

They went after former prison guards.

Remember from Germany when we were growing up?

It would be like every single day, some Ukrainians, some Lithuanian, some Estonian, some Pole that had collaborated with the Nazi regime and was a death camp, or even a concentration camp guard.

He snuck in in 46 or 48, he changed his name, and then somebody saw him and ratted him out, and they brought him up, and they had an immigration, and they deported those guys.

Still in active office in the Department of Justice, by the way.

And should be.

They'll be 100 years old now, but

that's what they do.

I can tell you that something has happened at Stanford University because the new president did not sign the Harvard

solidarity letter.

And at the same time, he didn't sign it.

The Stanford Review has a damning long article, chapter line and verse, about Chinese students who are engaged in espionage at Stanford in Silicon Valley and money that has been given to Stanford that has not been reported.

And Stanford knows.

All these people know what they do.

They know what they do, and that's why they're angry.

Because when that Supreme Court ruling came out in 2022 against Harvard, University of North Carolina, and reiterated the 18th Amendment and the civil rights statutes and superseded that awful Weasley thing, remember that Supreme Court

decision by a lot of rhinos that said that, well,

you can use race in some cases.

It'll be over in 20 years, that stuff.

Sandra Day O'Connell signed that.

So, anyway, my point is they know what they're doing, and when Stanford puts on their website that they let in 9% white males who make up 33%,

they know if the federal government goes and looks at those applications and they see test scores in GPAs, they know that they are being systematically discriminated, as were Asians.

They know that.

And they knowingly violated the Supreme Court ruling, ruling, and they thought they could get away with it.

When they have separate graduations and they say they're just auxiliary, they know that that's not true, that they are there for a particular racial.

And if anybody who is European of a descent said, we're going to have a white

European auxiliary, everybody would say, rightly so, that's racist.

Same thing with the dorms.

Oh, it's just a theme house.

No, it's not.

Those theme houses are 99.9% ethnically dominated.

This is from the left who talks about proportion.

So they have so much culpability.

And when you add in there that they have raised a rate of tuition much higher than the annual rate of inflation given these 1.7 trillion, or you add in there that they are gouging the federal government 40 to 60 percent overhead surcharges on grants, which you know, they don't do the same for private money from foundations that come in.

So my point is they have so much culpability that Stanford does not want to pick a fight with the Trump administration.

Harvard would be very wise to say, you know, and I haven't even touched the anti-Semitism, which was epidemic.

We had a 900-page report at Stanford written by four, I think, several professors, and they said it was systemic, widespread, vetted.

It was everywhere.

Harvard knows all that, and yet

they're not going to change unless they're forced to, and

they're going to be forced to.

And one final thing, everybody says Harvard's got $50 billion and Stanford's got $30 billion and you take 5% of Stanford and it's $6 billion

or you get

10%.

30 would be $3 million

and

they get about half of that, 5%.

So they get a billion and a half and Harvard probably gets, I don't know, 7%.

They get about $3.5 billion on their endowment.

That seems like a lot.

Usually their annual budget is twice that.

And

they can only get it through three other sources.

They can get it through annual giving, which is way down.

They can get it on tuition.

And they can get it from the federal government.

The federal government, it's going to cost Stanford about $180 million more to charge only 15% overhead on their individual grant.

getters and the

annual giving is down especially at the law school And the tuition will not cover it.

And when you look at the endowment interest,

all these places have, as you know, Jack, targeted endowment funds.

So somebody says, oh, you know, I just love the new Green Deal.

I'm willing to give $20 billion to Yale, but I can only do it for if you'll set up a new Green Deal recycled sewage lab.

Okay, we'll take the money.

I studied cuneiform, and when I I was an undergraduate, we don't have a cuneiform professor.

I want a professor of cuneiform.

I will give you eight million.

They're all targeted.

There's not very much money of those endowments that cover the operating budget.

Not enough, at least.

So, and, you know, Wall Street Journal claims there are 16,000 undergraduate and graduate students at Stanford, and there's 15,000 staffers of administrative sort.

So they have a lot of fat that they can cut.

But they're going to lose this battle.

And I don't want them to lose.

I think universities do well.

I think what Trump's doing is excellent because he's trying to save them from themselves.

He's trying to say to them, don't be racist.

Don't cut your administrative staff.

Don't gouge the government.

Don't gouge the students with excessive tuition.

Don't suppress free speech.

Invite in speakers from different points of view.

Let somebody make the case against transgendered men in sports.

Bring in a Christian pro-lifer who believes that a million abortions are wrong just for the difference of opinion and then listen politely.

But they won't do that because the faculty has inculcated these students in a progressive Marxist ideology.

You know, the Columbia, and we'll end on this, Victor, which you were mentioning, the riots before.

I think there were 80 arrests made last week, and 61 of them were women.

And a number of them, they're not all from Gaza or wherever.

A lot of them are homegrown lefties,

red diaper baby grandchildren, etc.

But the proportion of women involved in this rallying for

these types of religions and faiths and governments that despise women is just, well, it's not shocking.

I think it's a myth when we said the gender gap and all this, and if you look at the number of women who are receiving BAs, I think it's up to 56%.

And you look in some fields like art history and English, it's like 60%

of graduate degrees.

And according to the left, they gave us these terms overrepresented, disparate impact,

proportional representation.

Remember about the left, all the rules do not apply to themselves.

So if you were to apply the left's rules, you would have to start systematically

discriminating against women and say, you know what, you're proportionally dis it's a disparate impact on men and you don't reflect the demography of the United States.

So you women,

we're going to have to start refusing you until you get down to 51%.

Sorry, that's just the way it is.

They would never do that.

I think finally to conclude all this, there is a,

you know, I don't think Van Jones was right calling it a white lash, but it's not just white people, it's everybody is sick of it.

They're sick of the Jasmine Crocketts, they're sick of the squad, they're sick of all these performers, they're sick of AOC, they're sick of all this stuff.

And what is the common denominator?

Very privileged, elite, entitled people.

Because they feel they're not white, therefore they have exemption to blast the history of the country, the traditions of the country, the nature of the Constitution,

even though they're the beneficiaries of it, and they feel they're exempt from charges of racism because they are a victim.

And then they cannot be a victimizer.

They cannot be a race.

But they are racist.

And they're rich racist.

And they're entitled racist.

and they're racist against people who don't have what they have.

And we're talking about the working classes of all different nationalities.

Right.

And so I think people who wouldn't have attended the Met Gala a few weeks ago.

AOC, you can trill your R's and you can play up your Hispanic, but you've got to tell us why 62% of Hispanics just polled that they're for Trump.

And Jasmine Crockett, before you start talking about, as you did the other day, quote, white boys, or before you're Ilian Omar, as a tape resurfaced from a few,

when you said white men are the terrorists, you should ask yourself why 39% of African Americans are happy with Trump.

And

that should tell you something.

They're not happy with you outside your district.

Well, even within the district.

They know what you're up to.

They saw BLM and all of that divisive

hateful records.

They saw what happened to Professor Kindy in his fake research center.

They blew through $50 million

of

Boston University, and they're sick of all of it.

And they don't, you don't, you don't, you, all of you ethnic racial activists don't do anything for your own constituents except pose as you're that they're the defender and the horrible white person is their enemy.

And it's so old and tired that people are sick of it.

And they're interested in a new paradigm, and it's called economics.

They're going to vote for the people who lower the price of gas, of electricity, of insurance, of buying a home across the board, regardless of race.

And they feel that Donald Trump will do that better than Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or Barack Obama now.

They really do.

Amen, brother.

Hey, we're almost out of time here, Victor.

You've been terrific.

I have a couple of comments I want to read from viewers and listeners.

And as I've mentioned in the last few podcasts,

we are on YouTube, we're on Rumble,

and the numbers are striking, and the comments are voluminous, hundreds and hundreds for every episode.

So, thank those who take the time to leave comments.

We try to go through them.

I found a few that I think are quite interesting.

I'm going to read three.

One is from The Briar Wolf, and he writes, I'm going to start working Professor Hansen's lectures into my homeschool classes.

This man's knowledge is incredibly valuable.

If anyone ever interviewed tutors, they know exactly what I mean.

He has an amazing amount of generosity with his knowledge.

Thank you.

That's really cool.

Then there's one from R Graceful One.

The writer, historian, and gifted intellectual VDH captivates me in so many ways, but when he changes gears and becomes the man, the person VDH, it truly touches me deep down.

How can this one man be so deep and normal?

It really makes me want to work at being something more.

Victor, you know, that was very nice.

That's really.

When I came home, I think I mentioned it to you, I was 25.

I just got my PhD.

I didn't even go to the graduation ceremony.

So I came home and he goes, well, what's the deal now?

We haven't seen you in almost nine years.

I never lived at home after I was 18.

I was in Greece two years.

I was undergraduate.

I just took three months off and went from getting a BA right into the graduate PhD program in classics.

But anyway, I said, I don't think there's a lot of jobs for people like me.

And my dad said, well, I have a job for you.

And he said, now there's a raisin dehydrator up there in the hill, and there's a guy working on it.

And you're going to go up there and put a roof on it with him.

And then you and he are going to figure out how to wire it.

How's that?

I said, I don't remember teaching me.

Well, you'll find out.

Just remember, 220 is a little bit more dangerous than 110.

And then I said, well, he said, how did you do?

Did you do okay?

I said, yeah, I did really well.

And my thesis, what was your thesis on?

And I told him, he said, oh, okay.

It's good.

My mother was very different.

She was all very worried, you know, all that education, now you're farming.

It's so sad.

But my dad was, he said, well, they didn't teach it a final thing.

He said, remember, they didn't teach it a wire up there.

And then my older brother, who was very brilliant, but kind of could be cynical, he later said, as I told you, you're like, he was quoting Samuel Johnson, paraphrasing, you're like a dog

that dances on two legs.

It's quite your knowledge of Greek, it's quite impressive, but we want to know qui bono.

What's it for?

It's the purpose.

But if you write Greek and you cannot do the roof on the dehydrator, we don't need you.

Yeah, I happen to know a lot of people like that.

I got one more comment, Victor.

I think it's sweet and funny and cool.

It's from Rio Rosie956.

Professor Hansen, please stop describing yourself as as Skeletor.

I watch your podcast every morning with my eight-month-old granddaughter Lillian sitting next to me.

When she sees your face, she smiles and waves her arms.

Lillian is a superb judge.

You obviously have a kind face and a soothing voice.

I assume Lillian is absorbing your wisdom, even though she's too small to say so.

Keep up the good work.

That is really, really sweet.

That's nice.

I only got Skeletor because

some left-wing people, when they saw the five-minute videos I was doing, there was a little exchange, whether it was Skeletor or Freddy Krueger.

I had a hat on.

So, anyway.

Thank you.

Well, Rio Rossi,

that was great.

Hey, as for me, quickly, Jack Fowler, I write civil thoughts free, free, weekly, every Friday, email newsletter from the Center for Civil Society.

And why do I do that?

Well, I want to put together 14 recommended readings just because I think great articles I've come across the previous week that I think people will like.

There's no fee, there's we're not selling your name.

I think you'll enjoy it.

Check it out.

How do you do that?

Go to civil thoughts.com, sign up, put your email in.

That's it.

Sweet and simple.

Again, Victor's website, TheBlade of Perseus, VictorHanson.com.

I think

a gift of that to dad would make a great Father's Day gift that's coming up in a month.

So, Victor, you've been terrific.

I have five minutes to jump.

I just got back from Hillsdale and I'm jumping in the pickup.

And

South and I are driving 240 miles to Newport to speak to the Hoover Institution.

Hitting the road in my automobile.

Go ahead, man.

And then we've got to get back here the next day.

All right.

Well, safe traveling.

Everybody.

Yeah.

All right.

Thanks, Victor.

You've been great.

Okay.

Thanks.

Thanks, folks.

God bless.

Bye.

Bye-bye.