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Ships Registry Bahamas. Bobby and Tulsi. That sounds like a sitcom, does it not? I want to watch Bobby and Tulsi tonight. RFK Jr. gets out a committee, Senate Finance Committee, voted 1413 along party lines to advance Kennedy's nomination to the full Senate. Now, this was dicey because Senator Bill Cassidy from Louisiana, a physician, doesn't like Kennedy at all.

And I was threatening not to vote for Kennedy, but as what happened in Pete Heggsett's case, magically, Senator Cassidy changed his mind at the last minute. And that's because of Donald Trump. Every Republican in this country fears the president, and that is the truth. You go against him, okay. Now, in a world without fear, Cassidy Neville would have okay. RFK, and his nomination would have blown up. Now, RFK has a good chance.

Not a lock, but a good chance can pass by the Senate. Okay? And Cassie put a statement on Twitter, but I, I'm not going to read it because, okay, you voted, Senator. I'm not criticizing your vote, by the way. I'm not. I just know the circumstances, and you don't trust this guy, Kennedy, at all. I know that.

Everybody knows that. Okay, Tulsi Gabbard. This is a little bit easier. So 9-8, she comes out of the Senate intel committee into the full Senate for a vote. She heard herself by failing to condemn it, which, no, didn't we all know that. But that's easier to overlook, in my opinion, than Robert F. Kennedy's history of being anti-vaccin conspiratoric. At least for me, I try to put myself in the Senate. What would I do? I would probably vote to confirm Tulsa Gabbard. No way, RFK Jr. Okay. Now, it's clear to me, and the most important

part of this story is that Donald Trump right now, after two weeks in office, we're into his third week now, is the most powerful president in our country's history at this point in his term, in the second term. I mean, you look at Lincoln, Washington, very powerful, but you didn't have a lot to do, and we'll get that at the end of the program. With Trump, was he powerful? Now, maybe FDR and his third and fourth terms, but as I said, nobody wants to go up on the Republican side against Donald Trump. Now, the Talking Points memo is on the tariff war latest. We covered this yesterday. Great to tell. The Democrats in the left are hysterical about the tariffs, but Trump's winning most of these skirmishes. And here are the facts. So Canada has agreed to spend $900 million

dollars beefing up the border with the United States to try to prevent fentanyl and other narcotics for being smuggled down here. You have to remember, we don't have that big a migrant problem coming from Canada into the USA. That's all Mexico. But there is a big drug problem because these drugs are sent to the Pacific Coast, Vancouver, specifically very lax on narcotics in Vancouver. And then they come across into the USA.

We're talking heroin and fentanyl all in earth. Vancouver is a beautiful town. go there. It's been ruined by drug addicts. Absolutely destroyed. Because they let these people do whatever they wanted to. All right, I've been there, I've seen it. All right. Now, Trudeau, who's on his way out, says, oh, we don't want the tariff, the 25%. So whatever you want, President Trump will give you, and he did. That's what Trump wants. He wants more stringent enforcement at the northern border to stop the narcotics. Now, it's a 30-day pause. now on the tariff. Trump wants a better trade deal with the Canadians, and he'll get it.

And he's going to get whatever he wants from them. Because again, the 25% tariff on Canadian goods, their economy blows up. Simple as that. Same thing with Mexico, we went over Mexico yesterday. So Shinebaum folded in less than an hour and said, okay, yeah, I'll put 100,000 troops on the southern border. Well, why do you do that six months ago, lady? You knew what was going on, you knew it was destructive not only to the United States, but to your own country. You have these drug cartels amassing billions of dollars, so you can't control them. Why don't you do it six months ago? This is how politics works.

Trump had to threaten her to get anything done. Biden didn't care. Absolutely did not care about any of this. And that's why he was an awful, awful president. Man, I didn't have a president for four years who didn't care. about fentanyl or unsupervised migrants, didn't care at all. Can you imagine that's what that was? Okay, so Trump's got Canada, he's got Mexico, and the tariffs were on pause.

Trump will get what he wants. China, nah, that's hard, as I said yesterday. Well, China says, all right, you're going to slap a 10% tariff on our goods coming into the USA. So we're going to put a 15% tariff on you, on all natural gas and coal and whatever else you're sitting in us as far as energy is concerned. We're slapping 15% on it. And that means the Chinese people won't buy it. They'll buy Iranian oil.

All right. They'll buy other stuff. Okay. That's what they're going to do. Now, I assume there'll be deals worked out between Trump and Xi. But there's no lock there because China's economic power is on a par with the United States. We can hurt them, but they can hurt us. And they can also be bellicose in other areas like propin up Putin.

So Trump, that's the big thing for Trump, all right? It's China. Can't predict it. Denmark says green ends, not for sale. Fine. What we need is a lease. Let us get the lithium and other energy that's beneath the permafrost. Let's harvest it.

We'll pay you, Copenhagen, and that deal will happen. I'm pretty sure. And then when we get the lease, we can put U.S. military up to protect our security up there, which is what Trump wants to blunt Putin in the Arctic. Okay. I believe that Denmark deal will come. Today, Donald Trump was with Netanyahu and a lot of the Israeli delegation, D.C. I don't know exactly the minutia of it, but it's about Gaza and Iran.

And then late in the afternoon, the president signed a bunch of executive orders. The most important of which is he basically said, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. and if you do come up with one, that we're going to, and this is a quote from the executive order, obliterate you. And Trump would. And I always know it. Now, I don't know how that's going to play out. I do know that Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, which is excellent, has people inside

around watching this nuke thing. So the intel is pretty good. But Trump signed that and said, look, I'm warning you. If we get intel that you have a nuclear weapon, we're going to obliterate your whole country. And that wouldn't take much. Iranians are very, very vulnerable. I'm hoping that the Iranian people just overthrow these mullahs. I mean, how much more can they take?

These Persian people, these are sophisticated people over there. And also, there were a bunch of executive orders signed by the president today that cutting back funding to the United Nations, which Trump hates. He's not going to pull out, he's not going to kick a lot of money in. I just mailchimp my marketing. You mailchimped your what? I mailchimped my marketing with AI to create an effective marketing campaign in minutes. No, mailchimp and way. Yes, mailchimp in way.

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named Najib Bukele, okay, and he's very pro-American guy. He built the biggest prison in Central America. It holds 40,000 inmates because he had to round up MS-13, which, like Mexico, they were trying to take over the Salvadoran government, MS-13. Cartels took over the Mexican government. But this guy, Buckela, said, no, we're not going to let that happen. And he suspended all due process. So he's rounding them up.

And the idiot MS-13 people have tattoos that say they're MS-13, you had a tattoo, you're in jail. That's what happened down there. So now El Salvador needs money. They always need money. So nobody goes there. It's beautiful beaches, beautiful black sand beaches. Mountains is a really lovely country.

All right. But nobody goes because there's chaos. So, they have offered El Salvador to take not only criminal migrants that are being deported from the USA, but violent American convicts. They'll take them for money. The U.S. will pay them and El Salvador warehouse them. Now, I hate to break it to the Trump administration if they're thinking about this, but that's unconstitutional.

You can't do that. You can't convict an American and send them over it. to a foreign nation to serve a sentence, unless that person also was convicted in El Salvador. Okay, that violates due process. We still have that here. Don't have it in El Salvador, but we have it here. Okay.

But we can send criminal migrants, for example, Cuba, Cuban people who commit crimes here. Well, Cuba's not taking them back. We can send them in El Salvador. Now, all of this basically sent a message to all the gangbangers, all over the world, you come here, there's a good chance you're going to wind up in a prison in El Salvador, which you don't want to be there. Not like an American prison. An American prison is a bad. But El Salvador in prisons? You can imagine. All right. The White House has begun

a migrant flights to Guantanamo Bay this week. Can't get an exact number, but it's about 20. 20 migrants are sent over to Guantanamo Bay. And that's allowed because it's U.S. territory. We lease it. And it began in 1903. I went over this with you. I've been there twice. That's not a bad place to be incarcerated, Guantanamo Bay. Lovely view of, lovely, beautiful view of the Atlantic. Food is good. Orderly, the Navy runs it. So if you got a choice between to go on San Salvador or Guantanamo Bay. I know where I'm going. Anyway, they're flying criminal migrants to Guantanamo Bay. And Trump says he might put 30,000 of them out there. That'd be pretty excessive. Bringing a guy who knows a Kennedy family very well. His name is David Nassau.

He is an emeritus professor of history at the City University of New York. And other of the book, The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, the patriarch of the Kennedy family. All right, Professor. I know the family. You know the family. We know their history. I wrote a book called Killing Kennedy. Robert Kennedy, Jr. I agree with him on nutrition. I agree with him that the health system in America is corrupted by big food companies and others. I agree a big change needs to be made. Kennedy is on board with all of that. But Kennedy is a conspiracy guy who cannot back up what he says, and I think that disqualifies him.

What say you? I couldn't agree more. Bobby Kennedy, Jr., look, we got a, I'm a biographer, not a psychoanalyst. So I look at the facts that in there. He was nine when his uncle was assassinated. He was 14 when his father was assassinated. He was a poll bearer at his father's funeral.

He began heroin a year later. That's what he tells us. This is the problem. You put together trauma with overwhelming confidence because he's at Kennedy. Went to Harvard. And you combined those two with his sense that he has a destiny.

He's got to fulfill his father's promise. He's got to be a great man. And you put those three together, and it just doesn't work. Well, let me play devil's advocate here. It can work. I mean, to try to top your father and do good in public service, that's a motivator. That would be great, yeah.

Yeah. So where is the divergence of him into the dark zone, in your opinion? Okay, it's a great question. I think what happens is that when his father and his uncle are killed, he begins not to trust anything he's heard. He doesn't trust the Warren Commission, and he says his father didn't trust the Warren Commission. He doesn't trust anything that he hears from the media. from politicians, from Washington about what happened to uncle and what happened to daddy. And then that distrust, that disbelief is transformed into the sense that somehow the media and the

government are keeping quiet because they had something to do with it. He's got no evidence in your killing Kennedy and you're killing Kennedy you say Oswald you know that we don't know everything but it looks but you don't

invent out of thin air conspiracy no it's a fact based book Oswald did it there's no question he did it whether there is somebody helping them or something we'll see but here's my point about Kennedy Kennedy is as

very cleverly. He made done two things. He made a deal with Trump. And to Trump's, I think, credit, Trump honors the deals. He could have thrown Kennedy overboard. I don't think he's got a lot of emotion invested in RFK. If RFK goes down, Trump will have somebody else. But he made a deal. You get out, you endorse me. I'll get you into the health department because that's where you want to be. That's number one. Number two, Kennedy tapped into the anti-vax movement, which is big in America. It's not just Kennedy who doesn't trust the government. It's millions of Americans who don't trust it, correct? Absolutely. Absolutely. But what worries me,

what worries me is that Kennedy says we need good science. Well, on some things we don't have good science, on fluoride in the drinking water. There's this controversy. That has to be looked into. But on the polio vaccine, he says that the polio vaccine killed more people than polio did. On the COVID vaccine, on the measles vaccine, I mean, he is going to do irreparable harm. I mean, there are already fewer parents getting measles, mumps, chickenpox vaccines for their kids. And, I mean, that is dangerous. That is really dangerous. But I don't think he's going to have the kind of power to do anything unilaterally

because the White House is going to run everything. Kennedy does do what he's told. And he said as much. Kennedy said as much in the hearing. Whatever they tell me to do, I'm going to do. Right. He's been very clear on that. Right.

But the, my posture is that if you're a president, you get the best. Yeah, okay, Trump wasn't run everything for the white. White House, and that's what he's going to do. But you get the best to administrate what you want. And I just don't see RFK as the best. Last word. He's not the best. He doesn't have the experience. He doesn't have the temperament. He doesn't have the skill set. There are, you know, there are lots of people who could carry out the Trump agenda and do it with less hysteria. with less pushback than Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

I made a suggestion. I said it was a mistake. Right. But I would, if I were Trump and I had made that deal with Kennedy, and I understand why Trump did it and was a smart deal to make, I would appoint Kennedy the nutrition czar.

So he just goes around and tells people how to get healthier with no cabinet position as a need to be confirmed by the Senate. You wouldn't object at that, would you? No, it would have made perfect sense. Yeah, that's fine. Give him the nutrition because

he's right about that. All right, Professor, pleasure to talk with you. And thanks for reading, Killing Kennedy. I appreciate you reading a book and we'll talk again soon, I hope. Kennedy should be up or down this week. Tulsi Gabbard, up or down this

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That's out. I've never heard anything like that. All right. The migrant controversy among Christians. This is a fascinating story. So, as you know, I'm a Roman Catholic, all right? And you might also know that I admire Pope Francis. I think he is a good man.

I know what happened to him in Argentina when he was Archbishop there, and the fascist government brutalized. The man almost killed him. I understand his liberation theology. I got Pope Francis. I met him. I think he's a good person. But he's naive, in my opinion.

All right? He doesn't understand how the migrant situation is negatively impacting so many people. This is just my opinion. Then a Pope has a book out, brand new book, it's on a best seller list, and my book's been there for five months so that I follow that. The book is called Hope, The Autobiography by Pope Francis. In the book, he basically lays out how people should conduct themselves. Earlier, he said this on August 28, 2024, quote,

brothers and sisters, we can all agree on one thing, migrants should not be in those seas and in the lethal deserts. But it's not through more restrictive laws. It is not with the militarization of borders. It's not with the rejection that we will obtain this result. Instead, we will obtain it by extending safe and legal access routes for migrants, providing refuge for those who flee from war, violence, persecution and variance disasters.

We will obtain it by promoting in every way a global governance of migration based on justice, fraternity, and solidarity." Unquote. Well, it sounds good, but it's impossible. Because mass migration negatively impacts the countries where it is out of control. And a pub should know that.

Adjoining us now is Dr. Edward Faser. He is a professor of philosophy at Pasadena City College in Los Angeles. He is a Roman Catholic. So where am I going wrong here in my analysis, first of all, of the Pope? I don't think you are going wrong, Bill. I think you're correct. The Pope and other churchmen, bishops and priests and Catholic writers and so on,

rightly emphasize that the Catholic tradition has always said that we need to welcome migrants, especially those fleeing war and terrible economic conditions and so on. But there's another aspect of the church's teaching, and it's still represented in the catechism of the Catholicism, Catholic Church. You see it represented in statements from Pope John Paul II and Bennett the 16th and so on that notes that this need to welcome the migrant is not absolute that there are conditions on it. In particular, as the catechism says, the governments of countries that migrants want to enter have a right to put conditions on immigration. And migrants have

the responsibility also to follow the laws of whatever country it is that they want to migrate too. These are aspects of the church's teaching that are longstanding, but that often go unmentioned in contemporary discussion of this issue. That's because there's a disagreement, though. That's because there's an internal disagreement, not only in a Catholic church, but Protestant sex as well, about how to handle migraine. So the politics of it, Doctor, has almost overwhelmed the theological aspect of it, Because there are Catholic priests and bishops who understand that you have to render to Caesar in a sense that you have to obey the established law of the country unless it's a law that goes against human nature, which immigration law, if it's spelled out, doesn't. But it seems to me that this is almost more a political debate within the Catholic Church than a theological debate.

I think it's degenerated into that. And I think the motivations for it are several. And it depends on who we're talking about here. With some people, I think there's an honest disagreement within Catholic circles about how to apply the relevant theological principles. And there are those who would say, hey, we recognize that migrants have the duty to obey the law. We recognize that you can't take everybody in and so on. But we simply think we can take in more than, say, the Trump administration thinks.

Okay, so there are people who are looking at it from that point of view. There are some people who are looking at it from a more hard, progressive political point of view and masquerade, which really a personal political opinion under the guise of Catholic theology and pretend that they're simply implementing what the church requires every Catholic to go along with. And that's not correct. And there are yet others, I think, were motivated by something else that even the most conservative churchmen often feel tremendous pressure because in their public statement, on matters of doctrine, they always have to come across as, quote, the bad guy from the point

of view of the mainstream media when they're talking about questions about abortion or sexual morality or what have you. So there's a very strong temptation wherever they can to try to say something that's progressive. And issues like migration give them an opportunity to do that. They give them an opportunity to say something that, you know, at long last, sounds like it's acceptable to the mainstream. And again, the problem is that this temptation gives a way to presenting a one-sided statement and presentation of the church's teaching. Do you think that Pope Francis and the bishops in America understand the backlash from people who want immigration law upheld and understand the destruction that the Biden

administration reaped by the open border? Do you think the Pope Francis in the Vatican understands a tremendous backlash against Catholic charities, for example, and other liberal institutions, and you pile that on the priest scandals, and you have the church weakening here in America in a very significant way. Do you think the Pope recognizes that? I would suspect he does not. I think there's a tendency for the Pope and other churchmen to think in terms of longstanding clichés that exist in their mind about what those in the other side. are motivated by. And so there's kind of a reflexive tendency just to dismiss concerns about immigration

as if they could only be motivated by racism, say, and not to hear out the actual arguments, the actual views of those. Well, there's suffering, there are people suffering because of the open border. And they're never mentioned by the Catholic Church. Now, let's extend it into the evangelical. Look, the Protestants are all over the place. You've got the Unitarians and wherever it goes and they're, you know, let everybody in and, you know, and then you got Episcopals, a very left wing. I'm generalizing now. But the evangelicals are conservative. They're conservative Christians. And it doesn't seem that these churches get a lot of publicity. It's all around the Catholics, because the Catholic Charities does administer to migrants

and gets a million and a half, which is nothing, public funding to do so. But where do you think the Protestants come down on this? Well, it varies. It varies from Protestant to Protestant. But even outside the old mainline liberal churches, you do find those in the evangelical realm who are, say, critical of Trump administration policy.

And there, too, I think, at least part of the motivation is, as I said, was true of I think a lot of Catholic churchmen, is that they're so often perceived as the bad guy by... I know. They want to moderate it. But, you know, even evangelicals went heavy for Trump. I mean, they went heavy for him. So I'll have to do a little more study because I'm much more familiar with the Pope

and the battle inside the Catholic Church. And it is a very troubling question. I'm going to tell you one more thing that a few years ago, Cardinal Dolan, the most powerful cleric in America, came to me and said, I got a big problem with migrants because some of them are here illegally, some of them aren't, but most of them, almost all of them are poor, and we have an opportunity to buy housing for them in Brooklyn. Can you help? And I did, big time. And I did it not for any political reason whatsoever. I did it because that's my mandate. to help. And I didn't ask how many illegals do you have, how many, you know, I didn't ask any of those questions. And I'm happy I help. I don't regret that. Last word. Well, I think what you're doing is implementing in your own personal life the way we all are supposed to, the church's moral principles governing immigration. But the thing is, the problem with this issue is that there are two elements to balance on the one hand the right the need to welcome migrants but also

the need to follow the law and protect the borders of our country we've had so much irresponsibility now for four years the people pouring over that it's no surprise that any remedy is going to seem excessive even if it's really just trying to to remedy the chaos of the last four years and so what i think churchmen need to recognize is that there is room for reasonable disagreement here among Well, and I wish somebody in a Vatican would step up and say there is another side to this because they don't. Hey, doctor, we appreciate it very much. Thanks for helping us out today. USAID.

So for years, those of us who study the federal government understood the billions and billions of dollars that have been wasted by sending money. overseas to ridiculous countries doing ridiculous things. Sorry, that's the truth. These are tax dollars with a 37 trillion dollar debt, and we're sending billions of dollars to countries to do stupid stuff. Much of that money has stolen, one word, Haiti. All right. $40 billion under Biden's last year was given to you.

US 8, 40 billion. Now Trump says it's going to stop and he's putting almost every employee of that agency on leave. The only ones that aren't getting booted are the mission critical staff, whatever that is. It's about 10,000 bureaucrats work for US 8. 10,000. For what? So Trump is just dismantling. He can't ban the agency. Congress has to do that, but he can make it impossible for the agency to function, which is what is happening. Now let me give you three examples of where our tax money goes. The first one is helping hand for relief. It's a Muslim charity based in Michigan, okay? And it got more than a hundred thousand dollars in tax money. And some of it, according to the Washington Examiner,

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Look at it on the map. Nobody knows where it is. Okay, one million so that some Tajik's who have disabilities can become, quote, unquote, climate leaders. You think I'm making it sounds like a Saturday Night Live skit, right? I'm not making it up. So Trump goes in and goes, we got to stop this. And I'm saying my remarks now are for you, liberal people out there. Do you object to that?

Do you object to $40 million of taxpayer money being sent? God knows where for nothing? I object to it. Do you? Oh, my God. All right. Back home. Super Bowl week.

I'll make my prediction tomorrow. I didn't go because I knew it was going to be a zoo in New Orleans. New Orleans is one of my favorite towns, although it's very corrupt and very poor and very dangerous. There are a lot of miscreans running around on town. But that's not why I didn't go. I knew that the logistics were going to be impossible. And now Trump's going. I don't even know how you're going to get into the Superdome there.

for the game. Anyway, Roger Godell is the commissioner of the National Football League, and he held a press conference this week, and it was all about DEI. Go. We got into diversity efforts because we felt it was the right thing for the National Football League, and we're going to continue to those efforts because we've not only convinced ourselves, I think we've proven ourselves that it does make the NFL better. So we're not in this because it's a trend to get into or a trend to get out of it. Our efforts are fundamental in trying to attract the best possible talent into the National Football League, both on and off the field, as I said previously. And we see that. Okay, so I wrote a message of the day on Bill O'Reilly.com. Again, we hope you go there

every morning. It's free. You don't have to sign up for anything. And I said, look, there really isn't any DEI in the national footballing. So the only rule they have is called a Rooney rule where a team has an opening for the head coach, they have to interview an African-American candidate. They don't have to hire the person, except to interview them. Seems reasonable to me, all right?

But on the field, the woke DEI stuff means nothing. Because if you can't perform, you're gone. You know, no, no, no matter what your color is. 53% of all the players are African-American. Okay, they deserve to be there. Because believe me, those teams aren't putting people on a field because they're woke. And another interesting thing that since 2021 in the end zone, there's been a big message on the turf end racism. Well, it's gone.

So Goodell is moving that out. He's going to replace it with choose love, and it takes all of us. Look, that doesn't bother me. None of this bothers me. What did bother me was annealing. That was disrespectful to the country, to the fans, and it made the United States look bad all over the world. Goodell knocked that out behind the scenes.

He'll never tell you that, but I know it to be true. Smart life. So Donald Trump, I mean, the guy, talking all, doesn't even come close. We're into now week three of his administration, and he's picking fights with everybody, including the Bank of America, the huge Bank of America. Roll the tape. I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives because many conservatives complain that the banks are not allowing them to do business within the bank,

and that included a place called Bank of America. this conservative they don't take conservative business no that's a little overstated but the bank of america is a very liberal outfit and i don't care i don't bank at the bank of america um and it doesn't i don't care what their political philosophy is but there have been times when particularly gun owners um when a bank has a credit card and sees that somebody purchases is a firearm, all right? And then it reports it. No. Now, I'm not accusing Bank of America doing that because I don't know, but that has happened. So a friend of mine is involved with Old Glory Bank. Old Glory Bank. Now, we did a segment on this with Larry Elder, the commentator,

about a year ago, maybe a little bit longer. So Old Glory Bank is run by conservative Americans. It's out of Oklahoma. The website is you get a hold of them, old glorybank.com. It's in Durant, Oklahoma. Executives from that bank are in D.C. today testifying in front of something. I don't even know what it is because I don't really care. What I'm doing in this segment is in the smart life segment is giving you another option. That's what I do many times.

in smart life. Not telling you to do anything, buy anything, go anywhere. It doesn't matter to me. You're smart enough to know where you're putting your money. But if you're dissatisfied with your bank, if you feel there is a political component to it, check out old glorybank.com. And let me know how it goes. Okay, two years ago, I was at the Super Bowl, Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City Chiefs, Kansas City One. What a fabulous. this game that was in Glendale, Arizona, at great seats. What a good time. I didn't go down in New Orleans because I knew it was going to be crazy and now that Trump is going, insanity will rule. Just didn't want to be crowded and, oh boy, I might go next year. Anyway, here's my

prediction. I think the Eagles are going to win. Do not bet the game. One fumble, one screw up. That's enough. The teams are so close. But I think that the Philadelphia offense, okay, with Saquan, Sequin Barclay, will wear down the Kansas City defense. And that'll be the difference. Mahomes is genius. He'll do well. And the Philadelphia offensive line and 800-pound guys. But so I think Philly is going to squeak it out. But I would not bet the game and we don't take any betting advertising here i wanted to clarify that i told you that yesterday we don't take pot we don't take betting we don't take pop-ups and the reason on the betting is you can get addicted to that pretty damn fast all right if you keep it friendly

10 bucks here 20 bucks okay boy that's an easy addiction and i just don't want to be particularly for younger people all right just my preference we're not in this for the money you know we have to make money to generate and pay our people and all that but i have a higher calling than that okay that is it for us today i have a new column for you on sunday haven't decided exactly what i'm going to do yet um and we very much appreciate you watching and listening to the no spin news we'll see again on monday