Hi, everybody. Welcome to Hot Mike. I'm your co-host, Bill Whittle. Hot Mike can't be here this morning.

Got a good excuse this time, however, he's still wrapping up final shooting on the set of Zoolander 3.

He's playing the Archvill, and it looks like Will Ferrell was asking for too much money, but

he's on his final day of shooting, so we hope to have him back later in the week.

Well, I have been talking

for a long time about this cycle of history idea that's espoused in the fourth turning.

The theory basically says that every 80 years, there's an existential crisis that sort of resets

the clock on stupidity. And the further away we get from that existential crisis, the dumber we get because we have one

generation, two generations, three generations, and finally a fourth generation that's so far removed

from any existential threat to the society that they begin to think that things like prosperity

and security are just automatic and start acting accordingly,

and we've certainly seen our share of that. So I've been talking a lot about this and talked about

a new set of episodes for a series called Things to Come in which I was going to look at the coming

existential crisis that America is facing. But on election night, I had a thought that shook me up so much

that it actually made me crying, like a little girl,

because it occurred to me that what if the existential crisis wasn't about to happen?

What if the existential crisis wasn't about to happen? What if the existential crisis was the last four years?

What if the Biden administration, starting with the sneak attack that was like the opening

of opening fire on Fort Sumter or the attack on Pearl Harbor, the stopping of counting election results on the election night

of 2020, and then suddenly waking up the next day and finding out, oh, no, they've been counting

all night and guess what, you lost? What if all of that was the war? It just hit me like a ton of bricks. Now there's an important thing to talk about here

because the title of this show is, what if we won the war in 24? And immediately people will think,

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