Hello to the listeners of the Victor Davis Hansen show and welcome to the Friday edition

where we do our news round up for the week.

We are podcasting on Thursday and the president has just given his state of the union address.

Ukraine is at war, China is on the sidelines and Iran is in the boilerplate and we will

get to these things and more after these messages.

Welcome back Victor, I know I ask you how you're doing all the time but this time I'm curious

if you're up for all of this international discussion.

I know that you seem as I talk to you these days to want to retreat to your Volterian

gardens sometimes.

I do have a big garden that's an acre inside a wall I built and to wall off the world at

one time in my life.

But I'm very upbeat, not about the world scene but we're going to expect a March rain

tomorrow and the next day I always believe in the last five years of March miracles and

I was growing up here.

The rain and snow came in December and January.

We were all said it doesn't do that as much anymore but it does come in March sometimes.

So we are very lucky.

I should tell you I've got a lot of emails.

Sam and people say who is Sammy?

I've just told him that you're not that I'm West Limbaugh or you're both snurdly but you

sort of the snurdly producer to the show and then at one point you have all beyond producing

it to the interviewer.

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