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Episode Date: April 7, 2022Glenn explains why Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s announcement about busing illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C., is “all hat and no cattle.” Grand Forks, North Dakota, resident Ben Grzadzielewski... joins to explain why he’s fighting a proposed Chinese-owned corn-milling plant in his small town. Will the government nationalize Major League Baseball? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Let me start with Joe Scarborough.
Joe Scarborough yesterday came out and was very upset that the Biden story, the laptop story,
had been suppressed by Twitter and Facebook.
He was very upset yesterday.
Thought it was shameful.
Here he is.
Post comes out with it.
They're the only one that comes out with it.
And then it is banned on social media.
That's bad.
Yeah.
It's horrific.
That's bad.
Because, again, it is, I think we have to, you know, you have to say it's a real, it's a real story.
Oh, wow, that is big of you.
Thank you, Dan Abrams, for pointing that it is a real story.
And you have to say that.
And it was horrific what Facebook and Twitter did, according to Joe Scarborough.
Now let me take you back into the time tunnel, tunnel, tunnel, tunnel, tunnel, tunnel, tunnel.
To a time when Joe Scarborough's memory has been wiped clean.
Here's a super classic from the same guy who said it was horrific.
That's what conservatives think they can lie through their teeth.
These right-wingers think at Wall Street Journal editorial pacing, they can lie through their teeth and talk about Facebook having problems and Twitter having problems with a story that even the New York Post knew was a lie.
They knew it was such a lie.
We'll get to this.
that they put a woman's name on the story
reportedly that didn't even know her name was going to be on the story.
The man who wrote that story knew it was such a lie.
The New York Post knew it was such a lie
that he refused to put his name on that story.
They published a series of lies
penned them by Rudy Giuliani who admitted that nobody else would take it,
but Rupert Murdoch's New York Post.
Okay.
Because.
All right.
Thank you, Joe.
It's weird.
It's almost like what you were saying there is horrific.
Is that the same person?
You're saying that the first clip and the second clip, the same person?
Well, it's the same person, but he's kind of a chameleon.
He goes wherever the winds are going.
You know what I mean?
I'm a conservative.
I hate conservatives.
I love conservatives.
I hate conservatives.
You know, that's true.
That's not true.
That's definitely not true.
It's horrific.
It's an outrage.
You should go to jail.
That seems to be totally true.
That's Joe Scarborough.
Those two clips are almost like a person who believes they can say absolutely anything and no one will ever notice.
Yes.
They just completely disagree with themselves.
And you know what?
It's true because no one watches MSNBC.
Okay.
It's good reasoning then.
Let me show you something that I was really kind of excited about.
when I first heard, I thought, yeah.
And I'll tell you how it ends in a second.
But first, here is cut eight.
Governor Greg Abbott from the great state of Texas.
To help local officials whose communities are being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigrants
who are being dropped off by the Biden administration,
Texas is providing charter buses to send these illegal immigrants who have been dropped off by the Biden administration
to Washington, D.C.
Wow.
We are sending them to the United States Capitol
where the Biden administration
will be able to more immediately address
the needs of the people
that they are allowing to come across our border.
Oh, it's done with such compassion,
such...
I mean, it was almost a little Rondesantis, wasn't it?
And when I say a little,
I mean, maybe like his pinky,
I mean, on his foot.
And I think you can walk without a pinky.
I think you could lose the pinky.
on your hands and your feet and you're fine.
So when I say a little Ron Descendis,
I mean the appendages that you could lose
and still not notice.
That's how much of Ron DeSantis he was.
Okay.
Why is that?
Because what he said,
now listen carefully,
listen very carefully
to what the governor said
because it was revealed later.
But he knows,
because listen to what he's saying.
Played again.
To help local officials.
Help local officials.
Those communities are being overwhelmed by hordes of illegal immigrants who are being dropped
off by the Biden administration.
Texas is providing charter buses.
Providing.
To send these illegal immigrants who have been dropped off by the Biden administration.
Okay.
So that sounds what's wrong with that?
What's wrong with that?
That sounds great, doesn't it?
The key word here is providing.
Providing.
We're providing tour buses.
Okay.
What are you upset about paying for?
No, no, no.
No, no.
These illegal immigrants need to volunteer to get on to the buses.
Texas is providing to send them to the hellhole of Washington, D.C.
Now, I mean, even if you don't speak a word of English, you hear
Washington D.C.
as they're pointing to a bus,
I don't get on that bus.
I don't understand, though.
I've been told that illegal immigrants
are treated terribly by Texas
and wonderfully by Washington, D.C.
Yeah, no, we're just...
Why wouldn't they want to go to Washington, D.C.,
immediately?
What?
Wouldn't that be their priority?
Because even if you're not in America,
you don't want to go to Washington, D.C.
I don't understand.
We're told over and over again by the media,
the people who treat illegal immigrants fairly
are the people in the blue states
in the blue communities who are embracing them and giving them all these programs.
Why wouldn't they want to go to Washington, D.C.?
I don't understand.
So now Ron Desan, Rick, Rick, Ron.
Ron DeSantis.
You're so well-versed in this story.
You almost know his name now.
We're getting to the point where we think by the, well, I do know what it is.
By 2024.
Yeah.
Election night.
Yeah.
Ron DeSantis wins the presidency.
I call him.
You're going to.
President DeSantis.
There you go.
That's, that's, that's.
That's how we solve this.
You're never going to get the Rick and Ron thing.
Yeah, I've never.
But eventually, if he becomes president, you can say that.
You know what you should do.
Governor DeSantis.
Governor DeSantis.
There you go.
Governor DeSantis.
So anyway, Governor R. DeSantis.
Governor, I don't know.
I don't know why you have a hang up on this one.
I think it's Rick Santorum.
I don't know why.
I mean, I never think of Rick Santorum, but that's the only thing I can.
Well, every time that you get this name wrong, I think.
of one specific thing.
Yeah. Go ahead. Say it.
And there you have it. Another
example of why Glenn Beck
is in the Radio Hall of Fame.
There it is. There it is. There it is. You're
exactly right. Exactly right.
Do you get his name wrong?
I don't get his name wrong. Are you in the Hall of Fame?
I am not in the Hall of Fame. Enough said.
Anyway,
Anyway, Governor DeSantis,
you know, he said that he was
going to send people up to Delaware and it was great. He didn't because he tied it to those
ghost planes in the middle of the night. And he said, we don't know when they're coming in.
We would have to be prepared to meet them at the airport. So I don't know if that was a loophole
that helped him get out of it or not. But he did say, when these ghost planes land, we are going to
bust them and send them to Delaware. All right. If the
The United States government can take illegals and just dump them into our border towns.
These towns do not have the capability of doing it.
I, for one, as a Texan, am sick and tired of what this government, U.S. government is doing to Texas.
They are intentionally doing this to Texas.
And the entire country, don't get me wrong.
Because they're hitting every state.
They're hitting every state.
So they're doing it to all of our communities.
But I really, really don't understand why we can't take people who the feds just dumped into a city, have no connection to that city.
I don't know why we can't pick them up, put them in a bus, and feed them well, treat them well.
They can all be singing the Flintstone songs along with John Candy and Steve Martin as they take their train, plane, or automobile.
other place, a blue state.
That does seem logical to me.
Though I will say the legal aspects of this are always an issue, right?
Like then don't say, don't toy.
Don't dance around it.
Then say, then the governor shouldn't come out and say, we're providing and then reveal the details.
And oh, by the way, are the details?
Right.
But like, is Ron DeSantis doing this by force?
No.
So it might be.
No, I know that.
know that. But don't be a used car salesman. You're saying that you didn't read the fine print.
Right. You're saying that he's, the way he's announcing it, obviously, I think the average person would hear
that announcement and say he's, when he finds an illegal immigrant, he's going to put them on a bus
and ship them to Washington, D.C. When in reality, he finds them, not when he finds them.
They're being dropped off at city. I don't know if you've seen the interviews with the mayors of
these border towns. Oh, they can't believe. And a lot of them are Democrats, by the way. And they are
pulling their the United States government is pulling these buses up and then just dumping them
into these towns okay the town there are more illegals in these towns than there are townsfolk
okay right I don't understand why the state can't say yeah this is out of control you're going
over here and we're going to dump you at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue logically I obviously agree
with you on this but I mean I remember the Arizona case where Arizona not
not just had an announcement by the governor,
but passed a law that was going to enforce immigration law,
and it got overturned in the Supreme Court.
Yeah, well.
So I don't, I don't, maybe there's just no way to do that.
I'm sorry, but this, the Constitution is not a suicide pact.
No, I know.
But you-
When the government does not abide by the laws itself,
when the government is, is abusing the rights,
it was set up to protect.
I don't, I'm sorry.
I'm not.
leaving America. Joe Biden's America left me. I'm still in America. I still believe in the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I believe in equal justice. I believe in the rule of law.
Joe Biden's administration and Joe Biden's America and the left, they don't. So I'm still holding
old glory. I'm still here with my pocket constitution and declaration of independence. And I still
abide by all of that, but the government doesn't. When is it going to be enough for states and
governors just to say, I'm sorry, but you're not going to collapse my state and me just sit here
and take it? The good news, though, is if Greg Abbott were to lose, we can, I'm sure Beto will
handle this more appropriately. Oh, yeah. He'll nail it. Oh, no. It'll be fantastic. It'll be fantastic.
It'll be fantastic. And by the way, even, even
if they do say, oh, you can't do that, Supreme Court, how many buses could we get to Washington, D.C., before
the court case and an injunction? I think we could get a lot. So let's load up a lot of them.
And then we just let them go in Washington, D.C. They'll have their smart phones so you can track them.
And then, you know, when the federal government says, hey, you can't do that. Okay. All right.
Well, tell us where they are with their smartphone and we'll ask them to come back on the bus.
We'll give them optional buses to come back.
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All right, you sick, twisted freak.
Now, I want to make sure that this is not twisted around into something like, you know, fear of the Chinese.
You're just Chinapobic.
No, no, I'm not.
And I don't think the guy.
who is standing up and trying to fight against this plant in North Dakota, in North Dakota is either.
It's Ben Gradulesky.
Is that right?
Yes, that's correct.
Oh, my gosh, you have way too many letters in your name.
Ben, first of all, let me just ask you a couple of quick questions, just so I know where you're coming from and we're really clear on it.
Okay.
You don't have a problem with foreigners.
No.
Okay.
You're not, you're not, uh, Asia phobic.
You're not like Chinese people.
I don't trust them.
Oh, no, not at all.
Okay, good.
Uh, because that, that, you know, I'm sure is being said or could be said.
And, uh, I'd like to not repeat the, uh, 1940s.
Hey, let's round up the Japanese.
Um, the people are different than the, uh, than the, uh, than the,
country. All right. So we've established that. So there is this plant being built. And as I understand it,
the community was not consulted by this. It's just going through the city council and they're trying
to shut people up who are against it, right? It appears to be that way, yes. Okay. Tell me what's
happening. Well, so apparently the city leader,
have been working on bringing this project to town for somewhere around two years before they even brought it into the public eye.
And it came into the public eye late last fall, early winter.
And then since then they've just been pushing it through.
There was never any, you know, question to the citizens of the town, hey, do we want this manufacturing plant?
Is this something we want to put our tax dollars towards to entice to come here?
There was never anything like that.
And there just seems to be a lot of issues with it that are coming along with this plant and we don't have a say in it.
So let's go through some of the issues.
I would have to say, even though I ask those first two questions, I do believe this is different.
Is this a, I mean, I'm sure it is, a communist party owned or at least partially owned company from China?
Well, they say it that it is not.
They assure us it is not.
I don't know.
But however, there's been studies done that show otherwise by independent analysis.
Okay.
Analyst, rather, you know, so.
Okay.
I guess the people trying to sell us, the plants assure us that everything is a-okay, though.
Yeah, there's no such thing as that in the communist country.
All right.
So tell me what the other.
problems are. You're putting out
taxes, I assume this is going to cost you guys
in tax base?
So there's
close to $100 million
worth of taxpayer
and there is a 20-year payback
program from this company.
That is what they are telling us how it's going to be.
So, you know, theoretically
at the end of the day, if everything works out
in 20 years, the company paid back,
you know, and then some.
And the property task.
I would assume that it's going to create
jobs? How many jobs is it going to create? They're talking 233 or something indirect jobs. Okay.
Is what they're saying. All right. You know, and the average wage on the direct jobs is not that high. I mean, it's 50.
It's across the board. So, you know, when you start getting your executives and top high dollar earners in there, I don't think at the end of the day they're going to be real high paying quality jobs.
And then you have a problem because of the,
well,
not you,
but the people who are standing up,
you had a water problem recently,
and they're using,
this plant will use more water than the entire town in a day?
It will use slightly less.
We use about seven and a half million gallons a day on average as a city.
They're going to use about six and a half million gallons a day.
Okay.
And do you have the water?
According to their studies, yes.
But last summer they were requesting that the citizens reduce their water usage because we were running out of water.
And I have found several different reasons why, and I've got several different answers as to why that was last summer.
But they don't all really necessarily line up with each other.
So that's kind of a big red flag for me.
What are the other problems?
Well, there's pollution, smell.
Smell is a big concern for a lot of people.
They're situating this plant on the north, kind of north, northwest side of town,
and that's where the prevailing winds come from around here.
So anything that they produce, exhaust or dust or any of that will all be blowing right across town.
Okay.
So what's happening?
You're putting a petition out because you,
You're just asking for people to vote on it.
Don't leave this up to the city council, right?
That's exactly right.
We went around, we needed about 3,617 signatures to get it to a vote.
It was 15% of the last voting population, last gubernatorial election.
And we collected 5,318, I believe it was, and turned them in to which the city leaders,
the city attorney and the city leaders immediately went to work.
to, as I said earlier, it seems like they are trying their hardest to disqualify the whole thing.
And how are they doing that?
Well, they, first off, they have a police detective, had a police detective, uh, calling around,
calling petitioners, calling the signers with a, with a couple different questionnaires,
depending on who they were talking to with a list of, I don't even 10, 10 questions each or something.
Um, you know, just trying to ascertain exactly what they were shown, how they were asked,
if they were pressured.
It's kind of bizarre.
It feels like they're going way above and beyond
what they actually need to do to verify signatures.
See, I think this is where people always get in trouble.
I mean, if there's nothing unseemly about it,
just let the people know,
just give them all the information.
Trust the people.
But, I mean, even apparently in Grand Forks,
how big is Grand Forks?
it's about 60,000 people
60,000 people
and they don't trust the community
evidently not
it sure is not looking that way
I don't know
maybe there's a
ulterior motive here
it's strange though I mean we've had petitions
done in this town in the past
and they have never used police
police detectives anything like that
I mean sure the city
city auditor has called
folks, you know, randomly to check. But I think a phone call from a city auditor is much different
than a phone call from a police detective. So if the petition, when will you know if the petition
is going to be deemed valid or not? That's a little up in the air. They had said at the last
city council meeting that they were hoping to have it done by tomorrow, hoping to have us an
answer by tomorrow. And if it is valid, then it goes for the election? It should go to the June
The June election, yes.
Okay. And if it's, if it's not, then what do you do? If they say it's not valid?
Honestly, don't know the answer that. I know if it's thrown out based on invalid signatures.
You know, if they cross off too many signatures, we will have seven days to go get those signatures rectified.
Yeah. And get them returned in. If it's, if it's due to invalid paperwork, which is what they were indicating at the city council meeting, I don't know if we have a recourse.
I'm not sure, honestly.
So how can we help you?
Well, we can use all the support we could get on our Facebook group,
which is Grand Forks Community Awareness of Fufung.
Of F-Fung?
Yes, it's actually spelled F-U-F-E-N-G, but it's pronounced F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-E with an E.
Okay, Grand Forks Community Awareness of F-F-F-F-F-E, but it's pronounced F-Fong.
Fong project.
Yes.
Yes.
Just rolls right off the tongue.
All right.
Well, best of luck.
Is this surprising?
Ben, how long have you lived in Grand Forks?
Most of my life.
I spent about a year and a half elsewhere, but 37 years.
And is this surprising that this is happening in your small town like this?
Absolutely.
You know, back to the petitions.
We've had petitions in the past that were done on the wrong paperwork, and the city attorney
actually helped them to get it to.
vote. And now it seems like we are going in 100% the opposite direction here. So yeah, it's very
disappointing that they're trying to suppress the citizens having a say. It sounds very un-American.
Please let us know what happens and hopefully there will be a little ground shake in your town.
Appreciate it. We appreciate it. You have an us on. Thank you very much. You bet. Again, you can find
of Facebook, Grand Forks Community Awareness of Fuf Fing, Fufeng, Fufung project.
You know, the only reason why I have this is such a small community and such a local thing
that, why would you be interested?
I mean, we have debated this story in our production meetings and our, with a meeting
with the producers.
For a few weeks, we've been talking about it.
And it just keeps coming up because of a couple of reasons.
I think it's important because you don't know what's happening in your own town.
You really don't.
And people, it's so easy for people to say, oh, well, it's not happening here.
It probably is.
It probably is.
You would be surprised at the size of the towns that are part of the Agenda 2030 project from the United Nations, which falls right into the Great Reset.
You'd be surprised.
Money doesn't talk.
It screams.
and there's been a lot of these towns that are roped into it now,
and you would have no idea the things that are going on in our schools.
You think that it couldn't happen here.
It's not being taught.
It is.
It is.
And the people who you think are really good people, and they probably are,
but they are part of it.
They are part of it.
Doesn't make them a bad person.
It just makes them wrong.
And a lot of those people are teachers,
no matter what a teacher says to you,
I firmly believe if you are in the teacher's union
and you know what's going on,
you are part of the problem.
You're part of the problem
because you are funding the group of people
and the union that is trying to sever us from our children.
It is happening.
It's happening everywhere in America.
even a small town that now seems to have something funky going on with this Chinese plant that is coming in.
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Stu, I read something today that I thought, no, this can't be true.
And then as I read it, I thought definitely can't be true.
And then by the time I finished, I thought, I'm pretty sure this is actual.
Oh, no.
Okay.
This is a New York Times editorial today.
Okay.
Opening day of Major League Baseball season, which falls on Thursday after being delayed for a week by labor dispute,
is as good of an occasion as any for fans of the game to come to terms with certain hard facts.
I'm talking, of course, about the inevitable future in which professional baseball is what?
The inevitable future that baseball is,
um, gosh, uh, woke, um, that it's, uh, nationalized.
The inevitable truth that baseball is nationalized and put under some authority of some federal entity.
Why, why on earth would that occur?
attendance of the games have declined steadily since 2008 and viewership figures are almost hilariously bleak.
An ordinary national primetime MLB broadcast such as ESPN Sunday Night Baseball attracts some 1.5 million pairs of eyes each week,
which is to say roughly the number that are likely to be watching a heavily censored version of Goodfellas on basic cable movie channel at the same time in the same time slot.
even the World Series
attracts smaller audiences than the average
Thursday night football broadcast
the dregs of the National Football League's
weekly schedule.
In 1975, the World Series had an average of
36 million viewers per game.
In 2021, it barely
attracts 12 million per game.
Wait, we're going to
Okay, 12 million a game.
We're going to nationalize
Oh, he hasn't started yet.
Okay.
Casual observers may assume that
Despite the lack of popularity, baseball is still somehow insanely valuable.
This illusion, Major League Baseball generated around $11 billion in revenue in 2019,
but this figure does not accurately reflect the demand for its product.
Mike Trout's $426 million contract is effectively being paid by millions of grandparents
who just want to tune in to Anderson Cooper or the Antiques Roadshow.
Oh, stop.
As that audience dies off in younger generations of cord cutters,
take their place, baseball's revenue will plummet.
Culturally, the game is increasingly irrelevant.
The average age of a person watching baseball on television, 57,
and one shutters to think what the comparable figure is for radio broadcasts.
Typical American 10-year-olds are as likely to recognize Jorge Soler, Solair,
who was named the most valuable player of last year's World Series
as they are their local congressional representative.
college athletes drafted by
That's a ridiculous point
In some parts of the country
Participation in Little League is decreased
by nearly 50% in the past decade and a half
When my wife and I signed up our five and six year old daughters
For t-ball a few weeks ago
We did so partly out of the grim sense of obligation
We might have been Irish parents
Enrolling our children in step dancing classes
This is your heritage
And you're going to learn it and you're going to love it
Oh, I don't think I'm like super bullish on the future of baseball as compared to maybe some other sports.
I love baseball.
But I mean, this is a ridiculous piece that you're taking out a guy from the MLB MVP who, yes, he wouldn't be highly recognized.
But like there are a lot of players in baseball who would be.
And those are the guys that win the MVP for the entire season.
I think it's worth being honest up front about what nationalizing baseball would,
tale. While I'd like to think
that the Biden administration could just take
all the 30 teams and dissolve
the league by executive Fiat
citing language.
Who wrote this? This is pathetic.
Who wrote this? This is
written by Matthew Walther.
He's an editor of the lamp, a Catholic
literary journal.
He writes frequently about sports.
He should stop writing frequently about sports.
I don't think he's ever heard of sports.
So listen to this.
It's more realistic to assume Congress would have
be involved. Legislation would authorize purchasing the teams at their current, although absurdly
inflated market valuation. Players, coaches, and other staff members would become federal employees.
General manager would be appointed. Blah, blah, blah. I mean, this has got to be a joke, right?
It's okay. Was it April 1st that it was posted? No, I think this, I just got this today in my show prep.
So, no, April 7th was today. Maybe he's just late by six days. Maybe.
Come on. Why would we, first of all,
We shouldn't nationalize it even if it collapses.
This can't be true.
It is not, we should not be involved in that in any way, anyway.
We should not nationalize anything.
I would also note that one of the teams plays in Canada,
so I don't know why, how you'd be nationalizing the Toronto Blue Jays.
That would be an interesting trick.
No, we came out April 6th.
April 6th.
That is one of the guest essay opinion, New York Times, April 6th.
Now, they've been writing these pieces about how the sport is done.
dying for so many years.
I can't even count them.
They've been doing it since I was a kid.
And look, it has dropped in attendance a little bit.
Now, you look at last year, obviously, it was a COVID year.
I mean, some of these parks weren't even open at the beginning of the year.
So it was down last year.
But, I mean, you know, their numbers are fine.
If you can't build a business around 68 million people in the parks in 2019,
68 million, you can't build a bit.
You need to be nationalized.
Forget it.
Not to mention the TV and the digital.
deals on top of the merchandise and all the other crap that goes on.
Yes, at times these teams spend so much money that they can get themselves into trouble.
And there's some issues with income inequality between the Los Angeles Dodgers and every other
team in the league. But still, there's no reason. There's not even an argument that it would
fail, let alone be nationalized. It's completely ridiculous. I find it interesting that he says,
the average age of people watching it on TV is 57.
What's the average person of people that are watching TV?
Right.
I mean, the cable news average audience is like 72.
Right.
But they would think about nationalizing that.
They would probably nationalize that.
I guarantee you.
Yeah, you're right.
The TV average age is, I mean, people are watching digital.
And then they shudder to think what it is on radio.
Well, most likely it's on AM radio.
And unless you're,
a conservative, you don't even know where a, what AM radio even means.
Yes.
There's just, there's just AM, there's news talk radio and sports radio.
Yeah, that's it.
That's all AM is.
So, I mean, this is just, you know, this is none.
This is like basically the, uh, we're going to have 700 million people get displaced by,
by global warming next year.
Like, it's like one of those type of pieces.
I don't want to be like there's people that are, are, are, uh, uh,
posting on Instagram and Facebook and stuff.
My apology to George Soros.
Yes.
Last April fools.
Okay.
And they're like,
Gladbeck sold out.
He apologized.
I called him.
I have sincerely apologized to Mr.
Pepperoni eyes.
Does that sound like a sincere apology for the love of Pete?
People are so stupid.
But I don't want to be one of those people.
When I read this,
I'm like,
I don't know anymore.
I don't know anymore.
I don't know.
Is this guy serious or not?
Does he really?
It's probably, I guess it's serious.
The only reason I think it's serious is because this type of piece has been written for a long time,
minus the nationalization.
That's a new wrinkle.
Like, the baseball is going to fail.
It's not our national pastime anymore.
It's well behind football and basketball now.
And there's truth to some of that for sure.
I mean, certainly football is the number one sport.
But still, this is a pretty freaking healthy business.
Hang on.
Maybe he's being sarcastic and he's actually writing a pro baseball piece.
Okay.
Saying, oh, you know, yeah, it's so bad.
It's horrible.
It's horrible.
Maybe that's it.
We got to get him on the phone.
And if he doesn't come on the show, we know.
We know.
