And welcome to the Bill Bennett show. Welcome back to many of you. Welcome for the first time to some of you. We're growing.

We definitely are. Getting a lot of emails that says, hey, just found the podcast two weeks ago.

We try to do thoughtful conversation about the news of the day and address existential threats to America.

Joining me today is Brett Baer of Fox News. I want to do this because I'm a kind of a grant student, Ulysses S. Grant.

And Brett wrote a book called to rescue the Republic Ulysses S. Grant, the fragile union. I'm a crisis of 1876 read the book.

We're going to talk about it. There's some lessons for today. Believe me. I'd like to talk a little bit about a couple things going on.

Sports and social policy. But first, I'd like you to read this email to very nice email, very thoughtful email from Marilyn.

Yeah, absolutely. I just wanted you to read it and we'll respond to it. I'll respond right right away.

And we encourage people to write the show. Absolutely. How do you write the show? How do you write a show?

Bill Bennett podcast and Gmail.com will get to it. You'll get to it. Absolutely. Yes, we'll get to it.

Let's roll. All right. So Marilyn says, still Mr. Radio Show, but love the podcast. We missed the radio show.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Some of it. I don't miss 3 30.

3 30 wake up calls Monday through Friday. No, no. A couple of things I do miss about the show. If I could just hear this before we read the

the email. The first thing I miss about the show is the fact that we would order Ben's chili bowl pizza and chili dogs.

Right. Four o'clock in the morning. Right. And then pizza from another place. Right. Right.

Exactly. Oh, yeah, Mario. Yeah. Yeah. So that's one thing. The other thing I miss, especially around this time, we would.

There were times where we would do a show of things giving morning. We'd come in. We'd call up. See what folks are doing on Thanksgiving.

Everyone's called an engine with a cooking and what they're thankful for. Yeah. That's a, you know, another thing I miss.

And then another thing that I miss is that, you know, we would get these six and a half minute breaks at the top of the hour.

That's a radio term. And oftentimes we'd get on the other beta. You and I would walk around the building. We would take turns.

It would either be you and Chris Beach, you and David Willisolo, you're myself. We walk around the building. Walk around and just get a quick exercise in other times.

I took six and a half minutes. Naps. Right. We're five minutes and 45 seconds. Correct. Naps. Do you remember? I can actually do that.

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