Welcome to the McCarthy Report, the podcast where I, Rich Lauer, discuss with the Andy McCarthy, the latest legal and national security issues. This week, what else? The latest on the Iran War and Anthropic versus the Pentagon. For some reason, you're not already following us on streaming service, by the way. You can find us everywhere from Spotify to Apple Podcasts. And please give this podcast and Andy McCarthy the glowing, indeed gushing, five-star reviews that they deserve wherever you listen to your podcasts. And now, without further ado, I welcome to this very podcast through the miracle of Riverside,

none other than Andy McCarthy.

Rich, how are you?

Good, Andy. How are you?

I'm much less nervous now that the Italians came through for us and beat Mexico.

So despite our coach not knowing whether we're in or out, the U.S. is actually

in the final round of the World Baseball Classic.

Yeah, you didn't reply when we were texting whether you found my explanation compelling that

the U.S. didn't lose Italy. We just ran out of outs.

Actually, I thought that was good, but I did respond to it, but I didn't respond to that point

because I'm still hurting about the front end. I hear what you're saying about the back end,

but my guy, Nolan McLean was the starting pitcher and got the loss.

And he looked like a world beater in the first inning.

But in the second inning, they hit a couple of bombs off him.

And he never really looked that good.

Yeah.

You know, it's like this happens in the regular season all the time.

You're losing to the White Sox or the Rockies.

And you're coming back.

And you know, if you just had three outs or six more outs, you'd win, maybe handily,

but you just run out a runway.

Yeah, but it was, that was depressing.

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