Hello ladies, hello gentlemen. This is the Victor Davis Hansen show. I'm Jack Fowler, the host and the star in the name's sake is

Victor Davis Hansen and he is the Martin E. Leanderson senior fellow with the Hoover institution and the Wayne and Marsha busky distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale College. This is a special. This is one of the first of four that we are recording based on questions submitted from our listeners and we have three questions before you start Jack. I got a email last week. Yes, one of our listeners and he had heard me on the YouTube channel. I'm going to be

to have something said Victor when you are introduced I noticed two things that are quite frequent. People use your middle name as David. And you and Sammy don't do this. So I'm telling you I did it once in front of the general palent to go ahead and then the other thing is they always say institute for institution and institution. I think means it's got a kind of poly

interest. It goes across disciplines where an institute just studies one particular discipline. Nevertheless, this guy said I'm so tired of seeing you introduce is Victor David Hansen and from the Hoover Institute and the fact that you never correct people.

Which brings up the questions in my I'm going to reply to this question because that's what we're thematically focused on today. I never correct people. I feel that it's rude. I've had people the only time I've corrected somebody I got introduced. I would at a university that hated my guts and they said.

This is professor Hansen from Fresno State College. It's actually Cal State University Fresno that just me a little bit of shred of dignity. And he is a colleague of Jerry Tarcanian who had an idea there because of NCA cheating the basketball coach and he's the towel the towel chair the towel chair.

And he is a raisin farmer and here he is. That was my introduction. Raisin farmer Fresno State College and colleague of Jerry Tarcanian.

I actually I said I actually have done somewhat more than that but I'm very honored that I'm a raisin farmer because there are a great bunch of people.

Yeah. I mean your product always found its way into my little lunch bag and at St. Barnett School. Oh good. Maybe you can give me some money after Sunday went broke in 1983 and confiscated $88,000 of our capital we'd take from our family.

Well, we have I don't want to correct you but we've heard that story. I apologize if I called the Hoover Institute. I thought I'd do institution but I never know it is the institution. It's Hoover institution. Yeah.

But I know you've always got you've always got both right. Okay. Good. And I do try to occasionally let our listeners know that through my Bronx accent. It's hand son. Not hand send.

We need to swing this and I always say I always say the same thing. It's tired is another person told me that's a stale joke professor Hanson I don't want to hear anymore that is weed is a dain with his brains blown out.

Okay. Well, I'm trying to get new material. I'm not going to be a creature of habit. I'm not in a rut.

I prepare for these things. I read two or three hours on the news every morning and every morning. Yeah. Every morning. We will we will on one of these episodes where someone asks which not this one but someone asked you about how you write your habits of writing.

We can at the same time repeat that your habits of gleaning. Yeah, we've done that one day. I'm a big advantage of power line. I really like those guys.

There are many new listeners that have come in since then. So we maybe should regale them. But yeah, but Victor, we have to. You know, we have to do it at the beginning of the of the pockets. We have to we have to let listeners know we're going to get to that questions right after these important messages.

Okay. We're back with the special edition of the Victor Davis Hansen show. I do want to let our new listeners know that there Victor has a website official website the blade of per ses Victor Hansen dot com not Victor David Hansen.

Victor Hansen dot com. We'll talk about that a little bit. So Victor knowing ahead of time that you were going to be away for a part of June and July. You're going to be with Hillsdale on sailing the Mary Cs. We put out through this podcast and through the great Facebook group.

Victor Davis Hansen fan club requests for questions. We got many of them. So here are some will do three questions on each show. Here's the first one for this particular program.

And it's from Dave in San Juan Puerto Rico when he writes.

My dad and both grandfathers were career naval officers and all three graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis as a Navy brat.

I was born in Annapolis and lived a large part of my childhood there by the time I was ready for college, the allure having lived near and observed the midshipman for attending the US Naval Academy and my grades and desire to drink beer smoke pot and chase coeds resulted in attending the University of Maryland.

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