Well, hi, everybody. Welcome to Hot Mike. I'm your co-host, Bill Whittle. Hot Mike can't be here today,

unfortunately. He was dabbling in the dark arts, trying to find a bitch in Halloween costume,

and he accidentally opened a portal into hell, so he's currently trying to dog paddle his way

across a lake of burning fire. We expect to have him back by the weekend. So let's go over the

garbage train. There's some lighthearted parts to this news, but there's something really kind of serious in there.

There's a message that's getting lost in all the noise, and I think people need to be made aware of it.

So let's start with the lighthearted stuff first.

And to back up, let's just go over what exactly happened.

So a comedian named Tony Hinchcliffe is an insult comic, basically, Was asked to speak and throw some barbs at the Madison Square Garden rally for Trump a couple

of days ago and was pretty funny, but made an unforced error when he referred to Puerto Rico

as a floating island of garbage. Now, it turned out that that unforced era would bring huge

dividends, but nevertheless, the fact of the matter is it was a mistake.

This should have been vetted.

There's really no excuse for that happening in the first place.

It hurt us.

Mostly it hurt us because it took away all of the drama of there being a Madison Square Garden event in the first place.

The narrative for the first

24 hours, 48 hours after that was that this comedian in his hateful rhetoric goes to show that

there really are Nazis in Madison Square Garden. And I don't understand how you don't vet a guy like

that. Listen, I'm not trying to inhibit his freedom of speech. He can say whatever he wants to. He's

actually a very funny guy. He wants to go to the comedy store. He can say whatever he wants to. He's actually a very funny guy.

He wants to go to the comedy store. He can say whatever he wants to. But if he's, if I'm hiring him to do an event, I think I have a right to hear the routine and say, you know what?

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