Now, let me go to the mailbag because we've got a lot to get to. We still have the the the always impressive cringe cringe on Pierre.

We did receive a question for the mailbag by mail by us mail with four stamps. Great stamp, special delivery and William Shakespeare stamp, a Walt Disney stamp and great stuff. The spirit of independence.

stamp, the printing press from Tom Stone, Tom Stone in Cockiesville, mailed it to the the radio station W mail.

And the mailbag question is does Kamala Harris have a brain?

Does Kamala Harris have a brain? You know, that's a question that we've been asking for a long time. I ran into her at the correspondence dinner in Washington the other night.

And I was tempted to ask her that. I just asked her if today would be yesterday by tomorrow and and she didn't know what to say because she's very easily confused.

What would you do with the brain if you had one?

Does Kamala Harris have a brain? Technically, I think that God gave her a brain, but she doesn't know what to do with it.

She puts it in a bowl when she gets home and adds vinegar and spices. She does Kamala Harris have a brain. I think that's I, you know, Tom, I'm going to take that as a rhetorical question because I think we all know the answer to that, don't we?

I like the stamps too. Good good stamp collection stuff from Connor Owens. What's the most important advice you receive from your mother and stepfather regarding the news business?

Don't go into the news business. Don't go into the news business. Whatever you do. And of course, being an obstinate young person, I ignored them and foolishly made the mistake of going into the news business.

What is the, you know, from my, my, my mother was in the news business and in the radio and television business. She was in the radio business with her father from the time she was seven years old on the radio in New York City, New York with her father, Patrick Henry Barnes, who I mentioned earlier.

The world war one veteran who has all stand for the national anthem and my mother, my mother was just all about the truth and she was just a truth teller and she really, she really drummed that into me the truth and she caught me one time telling her an untruth. I still remember it very vividly and she shamed me and I was in fourth or fifth grade and I told her an untruth.

And she dressed me down and it was no yelling. It was, but she was curt stern and some finger wagging and I think she brought me into the front hallway and had me stand there and she sat down in the steps and she challenged me and I eventually confessed that I told her an untruth.

And, and she told me how much she un, she, she dislikes untruths and people that she used the word liars and cheats. She said liars and cheats and she drummed it into me at a very early age and I've never been a liar.

I'm just, I've never been a liar. I just ask my best girl. Sometimes it's, it's sometimes you just shouldn't speak, but I just, I tell the truth.

And it's, it's almost a fault of mine that I'm sometimes too truthful. So my mother taught me that and my stepfather billplant of CBS news.

My grandfather also taught me a lot of very great lessons in my very early childhood. We lived after my father died, my mother and my three older brothers and I moved in with my grandparents, Patrick Henry Burns and Eleanor Burns and my grandfather taught me many great lessons that are part of my life, my life every day, every day.

I still thank him often actually out loud for some of the lessons each time. And my stepfather CBS news reporter, he just the facts, he's just, you know, on the one hand on the other hand, I mean, you could ask him about anything about when I was a child, for example, the Nazis marching in Skokie, Illinois, where there was a very high concentration of Holocaust survivors and Jewish people and I was a kid living in the area in the general vicinity.

And he would always give me on the one hand and on the other, I wanted to go down and throw rocks because, you know, my, my father, who died when I was a baby, killed Nazis in World War II.

And I thought, hey, there's a chance to go down throw rocks at him and stuff. And, and my stepfather was, listen, on the one hand, on the other hand, he was always, well, there's this and here's the other perspective.

And it's, and it's, you know, homeless people, mentally old people on the street, he was always on the one hand and on the other hand, here's the kid like, you know, he started law school, he did about one year of law school, I think.

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