Hello and welcome in the Bullard Podcast. I'm Tim Miller. We've got a big day today. On the back end we'll have Ben Wittis just fresh off his being sanctioned by the Russian Federation. Very happy for Ben on that achievement. But first we've got Bill Crystal much to discuss

bill how you doing not sanctioned but congratulations to Ben yeah unsanctioned

you're free to take a Tucker Carlson-esque trip to check out the local grocery chains and anywhere else that you want to go still in Russia.

You hate to even joke about it, right? It's so horrible. And then people treating this election is if it were a real election.

It is horrible, it is horrible.

And speaking of this election as if it was a real election,

I don't know if you saw this over the weekend.

Well, I know you saw it actually, so I don't want to pretend like I don't know.

The former president had a pretty interesting introduction to his speech in Ohio.

Let's take a lesson. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the horribly and unfairly treated January 6th hostages.

Oh, say, can you see?

Okay, that's enough.

We had Trump saluting during that whole time, like he was Gaddafi or something, like a weird, you know, Libyan dictator. I don't know. What were your thoughts about the hostages in that new intro with kind of the

world wrestling federation mixed with Gaddafi mixed with, you know, releasing General Radick from Air Force One.

You know, I'm, as I said in Morning Shass this morning, I thought I was inured to Trump and all of his horrors and I've kind of told myself over and over as you have to, I'm sure, you know,

gotta just blood pressure, keep calm, you know, keep calm and carry out and all that.

I felt physically sick, I've got to say,

listening to that and watching that.

I mean, these are the people who violently stormed the Capitol.

Trump's responsible for in the large measure,

but they obviously made the choice to do it.

They've been convicted, duly convicted and fair trial, fair trials in courts of law and they're now

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