All right, everybody, very excited to bring in a guy that I think you're going to know,

and if you don't, welcome to Planet Earth. You need to make sure and try the hamburgers.

Mr. Ben Shapiro, Editor Emeritus, all the acclates author. I just, number one, we're excited to

have you in, man, and good to see you guys. Good to see you guys. Talk to you, and we're excited

about football season being here. We, you know, really, I'm trying not to lose my mind in a good way.

So calm down, trust me, trust me, trust me, trust me. You good.

Trust me. Captain Planet, right?

Captain Earth. Yeah, all right. We understand that. But, you know, Ben, it's great that football

seasons here, but there is some stuff on the periphery that, you know, kind of blends the

politics and the sports, and obviously we don't touch it unless those two touch, and one of the

things I wanted to start out with today, and something that, you know, is a sport that we're all

very passionate about, maybe me and you more than anybody else who has major league baseball.

And if you've noticed, it's come out now. We've seen stories. They've run some analytics on who

major league baseball has backed in the political spectrum. You see now that they're backing gender

transition for childrens. It seems to me, whether it was Manfred taking the All-Star game because

of voting ID rights and taking it from Atlanta and moving it to Colorado that has, guess what?

Voter ID laws. Sure. You got to show your ID. Why is it a sport that is trying to grow,

that is struggling to grow, wants to cut off half of the fans in the United States. We know the

votes. You can see how many people voted. Why is it that major league baseball keeps chopping

themselves in half at every point? So I think that the MLB is trying to mirror what the NBA has done.

So because the NBA is directed at an ethnic minority base, I mean, that is the audience that

they are seeking to grab this disproportionate share of black Americans watch the NBA and black

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