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About Tiger Woods and how news came out that he had a couple of hydrocodones in his pocket

when he rolled his vehicle the other day, and I was saying, is that the thing Rush Limbaugh

was on?

Dr. Friend of mine texted me, uh, oxycodone is what?

Rush was on oxy.

I didn't know this.

Oh, oxy is ten times stronger than hydrocodone.

Now that you mentioned it, yeah, hydro is the one I had after some time.

I didn't know that they weren't even close to the same strength.

I had hydrocodone.

I think when I had cancer, I had to take one once, but I don't think I've ever taken

oxy.

That's interesting.

Now, remember when we, I love the way we go, we swing so far one direction on the other.

Remember when we had six figures worth of people dying from these things because pharmacies

around the country were just giving them to anybody randomly.

Sure.

And it was just, it was just out of control.

Well, now we went so far the other direction.

My son is on one drug that could be addictive and you just cannot, you can get 30 days

at a time and you have to wait until the full 30 days are up until you can get the next

prescription.

Can't overlap by a day and then sometimes they're busy and you can't get it and Michael,

what are you supposed to do?

You can't skip a day, but they're just going to strike rules because you can get addicted.

And just so unreasonably far the other direction.

Why can't we manage things in any sensible way?

Government does two things.

Nothing and overreact.

Correct.

I remember you saying that many years ago and that is a hundred percent true.

So I've been complaining a lot about the media coverage of the war.

I think it's by far the biggest story in the world.

And like Sunday out, face the nation.

They didn't get to it for 18 minutes to start face the nation.

They talked about TSA lines and they talked about shutdown and they talked about some

other thing I didn't care about before they got to the war.

Like seriously, John Stuart on the Daily Show thinks it's ridiculous that the media isn't

getting to the war more often and treating it with more seriousness.

Also, his conclusion about the war is different than mine, but the coverage has got the same

point of view.

What else is being blocked?

It's getting harder to get food that comes with pistachios.

But you can't make to buy chocolate bars.

Oh no.

What will our influencers stand in line to pretend to eat?

And buy chocolate by God that's been an American staple for tens of days.

I can't believe how the news has to frame world events to try and make Americans care.

The whole region is being flattened.

Innocent people are dying.

Their food and fuel are in total chaos.

And our news is like, if this goes on any longer, say goodbye to your stuffed crust pizza.

I agree with that.

I agree with that.

I don't agree with his thought on the war, but they do.

They have to come up with these gas is expensive.

So that's why you should get, there's a freaking war going on that could go any direction

at any point.

Anyway, John Stuart goes on.

It turns out there is another key material being affected by the war in Iran, fertilizer.

There could be helium shortages.

Yes, the gas that's used in party balloons.

What the f**k?

Helium is a fundamental gas used in the production of advanced chip technology.

You don't have to dumb it down to make us, oh, this war could be even bad for your prom

puzzles.

Like, come on.

I agree.

Wow, that is shocking.

That is, I mean, I thought I was cynical enough.

The same gas that's used to build party balloons, yeah, we know, hey, we know, B, that's

not the problem at all.

Helium is incredibly important to high tech production of chips at center, as he mentioned.

Well, all those things he mentioned, though, including to me, the price of gas, if, if,

if, if chocolate bars go away and gas gets way more expensive than we'd like, the wars

either a good idea or it's not, let's discuss it on the, on the merits of being at war

with another major country or not.

Yeah, how about the whole major malevolent power exporting jihad around the world, killing

more of our soldiers than any other country?

And I mean, we'll get to the chocolate and the party balloons if you want to.

But can we take a look at that picture first?

That is astonishingly, I'd say it's condescending, but maybe they just know where their viewers

are.

Trying desperately, I'm guessing that, and I'm surprised CBS face the nation.

That's Barry Weiss, I'm sure she cares about the war.

Maybe they've got data that says, hey, people just don't care.

Well, either that or she just hasn't gotten to face the nation because nobody watches

it.

The, um, we get several texts of, oh, my God, you guys are talking about a ran again.

I ignore them because I think it's a really, really important story, but some of you feel

that way.

Oh, fine.

Good.

Some of them are dressing up as furry animals and having sex and maybe they need conversion

therapy.

Oh, so my transition to, I know, I just, I'm beyond helping Michael, I might need the

paddles.

Go out to lobby.

Get the paddles again, my already on Tuesday, usually we're not to bring up the paddles

to like Thursday or Friday.

My will to live has gone solo.

I'm going to need clear.

All right, here's the story.

Oh, my God.

This is not going to help me at all.

The Supreme Court made an absolutely fantastic ruling eight to one.

I'll explain why I'm struggling with this in a moment, saying that a Christian counselor

in Colorado who challenged a ban on mental health counseling for either transgender, confused

kids or in some cases gay kids or whatever, that you can't restrict that for first amendment

reasons.

It's, it's the lost sensor speech based on viewpoint.

Just as Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion, Colorado may regard its policy as essential

to public health and safety, certainly, since serious governments throughout history

have believed the same.

But the first amendment stands as shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy and thought

or speech in this country.

Just as Kagan wrote a concurring opinion, she went at it a little bit differently from

a legal point of view.

It was eight to one.

Katanji Brown Marxist was against, as she wrote the only dissent, her dissent was longer

than the court's opinion and Kagan's concurrence combined.

Well, even the other liberal justices have to be rolled in their eyes at her behind

the scenes, don't they?

Right.

And I scanned her reasoning and essentially, and oh my god, you want to talk about a slippery

slope.

This is, this is, you know, I don't know, one of those old playground slides covered

with K. Y. Shelley.

I mean, it is a slippery slope.

She said, well, because the state has an interest in regulating medical professionals,

then they can regulate speech medical professionals and like, oh, forgot to say, the state regulates

freaking everything at this point.

So barbers can be barred from, you know, speaking out against Democrats by your insane post-modernist

reasoning.

Anyway, here's the reason I was not completely enthusiastic about bringing you this story.

Oh my god, I expected it out of the New York Times.

Oops, it closed for some reason.

Here we go.

The Supreme Court on, oh, oh, sorry, you need to know this.

This case is about the gender-bending madness, especially for kids.

These kids who are autistic or they are victims of sexual abuse or they are merely misfits.

They want to be somebody else.

They're not comfortable in their own skin.

They have the sort of angst that adolescents always have, always have some more than others.

God bless them.

And as the dad of an autistic kid, I can tell you that angst is suffocating at times.

These counselors say, hey, before we start feeding you hormones or talk about surgeries or transitioning,

let's talk about what's going on in your life.

Let's talk about what's going on in your heart and mind for a while before we go down

that road.

Would that be okay?

That's what this counseling is and it's being called conversion counseling by the transgender

activists because they want people to think of that like fundamentalist religious thing

where you would tell a gay boy, you can't be gay because that's against God.

Here's a woman.

Get with a woman.

You can't be gay.

When those are two very different things, although they're both protected by the first

amendment in my mind or in my opinion, okay?

So that's what the counseling is.

Let's talk about what some of the other problems might be in your life and we'll get to the

transgender thing.

Here's how it's characterized in the New York Times.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a Christian therapist rejecting a Colorado law that prohibited

mental health professionals from trying to change the sexual orientation or gender identity

of LGBTQ minors.

They characterized that caring, patient actually looking at underlying problems as quote unquote,

trying to change the sexual orientation of minors.

And then I look at the Wall Street Journal.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a Christian counselor who challenged a ban on mental

health counseling that seeks to change young people's sexual orientation or gender identity.

The New York Times written by Anne E. Merimo, who is a died in the world progressive in the

Wall Street Journal, handed this assignment over to James Rossamer, who apparently is

of the same ilk or because big time journalists exist in a journalistic bubble too, you wouldn't

think they would.

That's what they think this is.

They just don't know.

The Colorado Colorado law targets what is colloquially known as conversion therapy.

No, it's called conversion therapy by transgender activists, James, a jackass.

Do you call it conversion therapy when the teacher's counselors at school are trying to

convince your little girl, she's a boy.

And then tell her, let's not tell your parents, they don't need to know about this.

That's not conversion therapy.

Excellent point.

Oh my God.

Justice Katansky Brown Jackson dissented in this eight to one or, I mean, for God's sake,

you'd think the journalists in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times would say,

holy crap, eight to one, maybe I ought to look into this, right?

Why was it nearly unanimous, but I could see you writing that headline if it was a five

four you didn't agree with, maybe, but it's eight, one, you got to think, well, okay,

I must be missing something here.

If you have the point of view of your headline, KJB warned of the broader implications for

medical care.

She said could be catastrophic if states cannot regulate some kinds of speech by license

professionals.

And I quote, this decision might make speech only therapies and other medical treatments

involving practitioner speech effectively unregulatable.

She wrote criticizing her eight colleagues for having made quote, this momentous decision

without adequately grappling with the potential long term and disastrous implications.

Hey, I always said something disparaging.

Why would I do that?

I'm a grown man.

Hey, Justice Jackson, you don't get to regulate speech based on what you perceive to be long

term implications.

You fundamentally misunderstand the first amendment.

It exists to protect speech.

You think we'll lead to people thinking the wrong thing.

That's why it exists.

Well, one eight won the right direction.

Yeah, it did.

God, you cannot hate the media enough.

End of rant.

There is a mass exodus out of LA County, California in generally, but specific LA County.

Among things we can talk about, if you can stick around, oh, new ratings out, Trump's got

the lowest approval rating he's had of this term.

Is it because of the war?

I think it's the economy.

Well, it's both in the war is feeding into the economy.

Sure.

Of course it is.

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The FBI says that that terror attack on the Detroit synagogue was inspired by Hezbollah

that their propaganda is believed to be what fueled I'm in Muhammad Ghazali to search

for quote, the largest gathering of Israelis in Michigan to purchase fireworks approximately

300 bullets and an AR 15 sending a video to his sister just 10 minutes before the attack

saying he would quote, kill as many of them as I possibly can.

It's just luck that we still aren't as a country talking about this every single day because

that guy went in there and killed 50 little Jewish kids because that was his intent.

There is a candidate for the Senate in Michigan who was, I've got that somewhere.

Yeah.

He said on a conference call with his media people, look, I can't condemn that shooting.

It'd be dangerous for me because he got to get, he's a Muslim and he wants the Muslim

vote.

So I will just if anybody brings it up, I'm going to say Trump is just trying to distract

from the Epstein files.

So here's a Muslim candidate who couldn't bring himself to condemn the near mass murder

of little children.

What does that tell you?

And by the way, as is pointed out often, that's what globalize the intifada is.

And we have college kids chanting that around the country and we just let that go.

I mean, you have to let it go.

It's free speech, but don't critique it really.

That's globalizing the intifada.

Right.

Right.

You know what?

I'm sorry, I conflated two stories.

This Abdul El Sayed said he couldn't comment on the death of the Ayatollah because a

lot of people are sad.

So I'll just change it to pedophile president decides he doesn't like the front page news.

And there was a different story about a similar fellow saying, I can't condemn that.

I got to be careful.

I'll bring you the facts on that eventually.

So some of the story break yesterday didn't read about it and it normally only matters

if you drive around LA much or you're ever going to be there on vacation, they're going

to build this $24 billion high speed tunnel underneath the 405 freeway that could change

commutes drastically around LA from the way they've been for many, many decades and project

will probably cost twice as much, three times, five times as much as supposed to and take

forever to finish.

But it gets done.

It could really change LA traffic.

Many that that's happening at the same time that the population is shrinking, shrinking

in LA County, though, tens of thousands of residents are fleeing LA County.

The region recorded the largest population drop of any in the nation over the last year

of US census data, about 54,000 residents left the county during that one year period.

Continuation of a steady slide for the biggest most populated county in America.

It's home to more than 10 million people in 2020.

It's now 9.7 million yellows, 300,000 people, your commutes going to get better.

Yeah.

Maybe I want to hold off on that tunnel and see if you end up with you just don't need

it anymore.

So is it going to be like an express tunnel, just no entrances and exits.

It's just if you're going downtown, that's our thing.

I didn't read up on it, but it's interesting that probably never exists like the bullet

tree.

You'd think to be more attention paid to why is our population shrinking for the first

time ever for the state of California and for LA County in particular.

Los Angeles, probably a thousand costs, that's it, that's it.

I found the facts about that Michigan Democrat thing.

I will back up what I said.

It sounded outrageous.

Didn't it?

It was true.

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Find the good folks at the Babylon B when California Liberals get invited to a Texas

backyard BTQ.

Thanks so much for inviting us.

We've never been to a real backyard barbecue before.

You need to meet the host.

Oh yeah.

What?

Oh, this is clay.

Hey, how you doing?

I'm Tiffany.

She, her.

Steve, he, him.

So I heard you guys move back to California, actually, is that true?

Oh, we did.

But when we got there, the squatters were in our homes and by state law, we can't

evict them for months.

So we moved back.

We had no real right to the house anyways.

It being on the traditional and unseated homelands of the Tongva, Shumash and Kich peoples.

Huh.

Well, we are about to eat.

So we're going to say a few words.

Oh, a land use acknowledgement.

Uh, grace.

I don't get it.

Pray.

Oh, like the emoji.

It's hard.

All right, everybody.

Why don't you guys come on over?

Let's take care.

Take our hats off.

Bow our heads now.

Lord God, Heavenly Father or Mother, we just pray, bless this meat we are about to eat

in the name of Jesus, who was a person of color.

Everybody said, you know, the same things.

We're going to say a few words before we eat.

Oh, a land use acknowledgement.

Oh, my God.

Where did I read one of those just yesterday?

Where was I?

Anyway, and I was screaming, it has lost its mind with that stuff.

I was screaming at this plaque, yeah, who had it before them?

I guarantee you, somebody had it before this tribe, you just mentioned.

Guaranteed.

And this tribe on the plaque probably took it by force.

Or if they didn't, it's really immaterial anyway.

So what do you mean, can it has lost their mind on that?

Oh, the whole land acknowledgement thing, the whole woke is something.

It is still 2022 in Canada.

And maybe worse.

Well, we'll talk about that another time, but although we do have some very amusing audio

from Canada's new democratic party, which is some ascendant lefty party, they met their

meeting, hilarious.

More later.

So I know this makes me a pain in the ass, and I'll keep this short.

But just because it's, I'm looking up at CNN right now, gas hits $4 per gallon for

the first time since 2022.

And it is just flat out, not true in reality because of inflation.

We've had so much inflation that $4 today is $358 in 2022 dollars just 2022, not 1972.

No, yeah, yeah, 1992 or any distance to you.

No, just a couple of years ago.

So for it to hit $4 for the first time in 2022 dollars, which you're claiming it is.

I mean, that's what you're stating.

It's got to get to $4.47, which I think it probably will in a couple of weeks.

But you know, it's just, it's just inaccurate and it drives me crazy since you're making

a big deal out of plus everybody should be aware of how much inflation we've had in the

last half dozen years.

You were jokingly referring to yourself as Captain pedantic earlier, but no, I think

it's an excellent point.

So not only is the news item just misleading, it's fundamentally misleading.

Also, papers over for reasons I can't imagine the insidious effects of inflation and how

government fiscal policy, monetary policy causes inflation, which is like a massive tax

on your savings and your pay.

You'd think people would want to know that.

You used to need an inflation calculator app or whatever, but now all your, all your

chats can do it.

All your chat app thingies, your, your, what are they called, AIs, all your AIs can do it.

So just do it.

And this is depressing, it is depressing and I don't know when you're in the mood to

be depressed.

Yeah, but it's, it's disillusioning in a positive way.

It's informative, but like if you have in your mind what a million dollars is based on

like, I don't know, 1995, a check and see what it is now just help you realize what you've

actually got in your, you know, the value of your home or your 401k or whatever.

Just use the numbers just to keep it simple like the ones you're bandying about.

So $4 gasoline is actually, what did you say it is?

358.

Okay.

So my $400,000 in investments is now worth $358,000.

In four years, it's worth declined that much because, you know, and both parties are absolutely

complicit, but mostly because of the Biden gigantic trillions of dollars of infusion

currency during COVID, they stole that money from you.

And for whatever reason journalists are too dumb or incurious or ignorant or something

to point that out to you.

It's just frustrating.

I don't want to bring everybody down.

Oh my God, the next thing I was about to do is even more depressing, you'll change

tack here.

Got a couple of sports notes I want to get to maybe next segment, how the whole robot

umpire thing is going.

Little LeBron with another first, he seems to have one like weekly, and this is last

couple of months of his career.

Hey, here's a, here's a little uh, on air meeting of us and everybody listening.

This is the sort of thing in the modern world nobody wants, and yet probably because

of lawyers, nobody can do anything about.

Here's this Orlando Florida hospital.

Got some woman in room 373.

She was in the hospital for a medical treatment.

Well, that's a good reason to be admitted to hospital as reasons go.

But anyway, ranks around on October the sixth, it was determined she no longer needed

acute care services, and they told her you're discharged.

You can go now and she's like, no, not leaving, I like it here.

This was October of last year, and they can't make her go.

The hospital is repeatedly made efforts to coordinate her departure with family members

offered transportation, uh, to obtain necessary identification, whatever.

And the lady keeps saying, no, I like it here, I'm saying this is going to keep feeding

me and the rest of it.

And instead of heaving her out on her ass, having a couple of big burly orderlies, pick her

up by the elbows and dump her out the front door, they feel like they can't do anything

about it.

Wow.

And that's costing somebody tens of thousands dollars a day, I would guess.

Well, especially because the lawyers are now involved, the, the, the telehassy memorial

healthcare is now sued the patient, saying she's refused to depart her hospital room.

I can't believe, I can't believe that there's not some sort of thing you sign all that

paperwork when you get in, that includes, when we determine you're better, you got to

get out.

It, well, right, right.

And she says, yeah, I don't have an attorney.

I'm representing myself and, uh, no, I'm not going to sign those papers.

No, I'm not even going to even respond to them.

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.

According to a federal agency, hospitals can be investigated by the feds for violations

of, uh, treating patients when they need it.

The patient can be discharged when the clinicians have determined any further care it can be provided

as an outpatient blah, blah, blah.

But there's nothing about it, but if she won't leave you any evil ass out, I'm telling

you.

That's a, I, I, I really was kind of a semi amusing story, but

that isn't that a symptoms being a medical care of terrible dysfunction.

Absolutely.

And the joke in the Babylon B bit about, well, there's squatters in our home and we can't

get rid of them for many months.

So, so we move back.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Namaste.

All right.

Just to prove I didn't, uh, make up something as incredibly outrageous as what I said.

If I lost it again, here it is, hang on a second stand by a Michigan Democrat campaigning

for a US Senate seat opened up about how it was a risk for him to condemn the local attack

on a synagogues full of small children, but he did anyway, it was a risk.

He said all of our team was really worried about saying something, but leadership is

willing to say the thing if you believe it to be true, that nobody else is going to

say.

So, and, and Nellie Bolts of the free press makes a point, which is a nice point about leadership,

I guess, but can we go back to that part where everybody was worried about you condemning

an attempted mass casualty event on children to understand how fast the rhetoric is shifted

toward mass murder of American Jews.

This is what counts as a brave stance now.

So this Abdul Al Sayed, who's actually, there's a very funny story about him too.

He wouldn't comment on the death of the Ayatollah because many of his constituents or would

be constituents were sad, and he felt like it was a real act of courage to condemn a

near mass casualty of little children because he's a Muslim and his voters are Muslims.

Folks, does that not kind of wake you up a little bit or make you think, wait a minute,

it's not a good place to be.

Oh, it's terrible.

It's absolutely terrible on a lighter note because everything's a lighter note.

Hundreds of protesters swarmed a proposed New York men's homeless shelter site, physically

blocking the construction beginning.

It's a pretty Asian neighborhood and they say, no, they're going to be all sorts of junkies

and, and, and weirdos and drunks and perverts around here and we don't want them in our

neighborhood.

Do it wherever you want them, Donnie, but don't do it here.

We have more of the homeless person that clip we open to show with.

We have more of that.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, where is that?

It's actually, it's a report on a junky vils in LA, LA's bums and junkies and trying

to clear them out.

Why don't we, yeah, let's do 40 and we'll do 41 COA feel about it.

But 41st Michael Mattes, you see door for Fox 11.

It's dangerous, hidden in plain sight along the LA River.

You can see the calip of a needle right here, that's where they put the mess in.

Signs of illegal drug use, stolen property, and what some describe as gang activity.

Some of these gang members, you know, they carry backpacks with tools and ghost guns and

a lot of narcotics, dangerous, very.

And then he, uh, he goes on to interview some of the bums and bombets.

Steps from a busy trail near Griffith Park, dozens live in fortified shelters, tents,

and even storm drains with murky water below.

How long have you been out here?

13 years.

A place time.

Stand still.

Uh, over 10 years.

10 years.

Yeah.

Over 10, 20 years up.

That I know.

Do they try to offer you help?

Um, yes.

If I've been offered housing, why not take those resources?

Um, I did.

It's just right.

This is not for me.

I just always come back out to this and I just like it.

She is really a glasses half full sort of homeless crack at it.

Uh, yeah.

She's got again, single, uh, 10, uh, or 20.

I don't know.

I don't remember.

As far as I know, everything's great.

Well, uh, single digit teeth, by the way, on this, uh, little cow, uh, I need to turn

this, uh, sad and serious.

That plucky, positive, agreeable attitude is how a lot of women on the street avoid getting

like beat up or, or they get allies to help them not get raped by being very friendly

and agreeable.

It's a survival strategy.

Oof.

Yeah.

Oof.

But she's, and, and she didn't come off as like, I've been at it for 10 years or 20.

What?

As far as I know.

Or 20.

Well, if you don't know who does, uh, yeah, yeah, craziness, um, let's hear the next

clip.

Sort of a place for people who have been forgotten or who want to be forgotten.

Dirty sites, many who use the trail have grown numb too.

You get used to it, yeah, yeah, it's like seeing a goose or like, just seeing something

else.

Or don't want to talk about, I'm just asking about the homelessness side, you know,

that's exactly.

I don't think that's, I don't want to, I don't want to comment on that.

Why not?

I mean, I don't want to talk to every day.

Thanks.

Okay.

They put on the blinders, honestly, they look on their phones, they focus on their workout

on the bike.

I don't want to deal with it because homelessness is everywhere.

Well, bums and junkies are everywhere.

I want to deal with it.

I don't know how to, but I didn't want, I want to deal with it.

I want to get them out of there.

My tax money paid for, yeah, because I have the similar thing in my town, the bike path,

though we got to ride our bikes past the homeless junkie and hope you don't get stabbed.

Right.

Right.

Uh, I, I see the description of this next clip and I'm intrigued.

Go ahead, Michael.

And a statement to Fox 11 council member in my oral candidate, Nithya Roman calls homelessness

along the LA river a unique challenge, adding steep concrete slopes, culverts, and hard

to reach areas, make these encampments among the most difficult to address in the city.

The only lasting solution is to bring people inside and we are pursuing that solution with

urgency.

Boy, there was nonsense followed by bad policy in that person's statement.

Okay.

See a neat challenge because of the steep culverts.

It makes it harder to do, to do what?

So got a couple of sports notes for you and then Katie's got a story about these bugs

that are going around up, uh, stinging people's eyeballs, pardon me, they're eye stinging

bugs that are apparently a problem.

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So LeBron James, he played more NBA games than anybody ever scored more points than

anybody ever.

He's got all kinds of more than anybody ever for a variety of reasons.

How long he's played and how good he is, but he had the first ever father son, something

the other day because they've had a couple of them assistant shot or all of you or whatever.

But his son's playing on the Lakers and they, which is just amazing.

Remember, old producer Scott said that was what was keeping LeBron hanging around?

Because he wanted to play with his son on an NBA team and he is.

That's got to be a really weird feeling and kind of fun, unimaginable that anybody will

ever do that again.

I mean, because just the ages will be really hard to pull off and everything else, but

Lakers are a three seed, by the way, currently they on a tear.

In baseball, checking after the first week, roughly of baseball, still about 50% of the

time, the robot is right versus the umpire.

So it's averaging like two or three times per game that people are trying this, hey, I

don't think that was a ball.

I think it was a strike or vice versa.

And it's about 50, 50.

So anything to conclude from that, I don't know.

I suppose I suppose you know, you can look at it two ways, but those close calls where

you thought the umpire was wrong, well, half the time you were right.

The umpire was wrong.

Hey, yeah, and it's a lot harder to call balls and strikes and you think it is.

I don't know how anybody does it.

Yeah.

And I certainly don't know how anybody does it watching on TV.

I've never understood that.

I don't have an eye for it, but I've never stood sitting in the sands a hundred yards

away.

Oh, come on.

I just never understood that because I can't do it as an umpire, buddy of mine has put it

to there's a reason we don't position the home plate umpire 14 rows back a hundred yards

that way.

Yeah.

Interesting.

And the also commented umpires are expected to learn a new strike zone without any visible

references without any training in the machine that majorly baseball uses the measure has

a calibration error and a measurement error, but they hold the umpire at one tenth of an

inch for the accuracy of their ball strike decisions.

Yeah.

I don't like where it's going, but I guess a lot of baseball purists do so whatever.

Katie, tell us about the bugs that are eating people's eyeballs.

All right.

The mosquito and vector control district says that the San Gabriel Valley in California

is seeing a surging population of tiny eyeball biting flies.

Well, this won't haunt my dreams.

They said just a new flyers.

It always been around.

No, it's been around, but last year at this time, guys, fly traps for these little guys

were catching just in the single digits.

This year, the number of these flies caught has been in the hundreds.

Oh, they bite your eyeball specifically.

Yeah.

Parents are saying apparently it's because of the unusually warm weather from earlier

this month, but the tiny black flies, common in the foothills are so small, they're actually

hard to see.

They are known to bite people's eyeballs and necks.

My neck is fine, but eyeball that does it hurt?

I can't feel free good, not seasoned and being bitten in the eyeball jacks on the idea.

This is a biblical plague.

I mean, clearly it's probably because of all the sodomy.

It's got to be the sodomy.

Gavin Newsom is going to have to answer for this eyeball eating flies on your watch.

Yeah.

Yeah, I just know why I think I have for the grace of God, four hours of this every day,

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