Hello to the listeners of the Victor Davis Hansen show. Victor is an author, scholar, columnist,

essayist, political and cultural critic. And I know that a lot of our listeners come because

Victor is sober, judicious and dispassionate in his analysis. And I know that he doesn't

like those, but we're making those into giving a good name to sober and judicious these

days here at victorhansen.com and on his podcast. So welcome everybody. Victor, welcome to the show

as well. I guess I should welcome you. Your namesake. How are you doing today?

I'm recovering from my bout with a minuscule wasp, but defeated 190 pound adult and sent me to the

emergency room for the day and injected me a little bastard wasp. So I'm at it the wasp.

All right. Then I'm going to I'm going to you sound great. So what's that? You sound great. So I

haven't been here. I feel good. I like the idea that you you use the word sober and judicious. When

I was a graduate student, I had a wonderful professor from England, written Mark Edwards. He was

an American scholar. He worked in type scenes and formula and he taught first year graduate

week composition. You had to have three three classes in it and I took one and I they took

dictation, which is very hard to have an Englishman speak English English as opposed to American.

Then after to write that in Greek, but my point is that I did that once and he wrote on my paper,

very sober and judicious performance, Mr. Hansen. And every time I saw him, I'd say, you know,

when you're that age, you're winding and I'd say, you know what? I am really tired of taking

these exams and writing Greek and Latin and all that and he said, but you're very sober and judicious

and that's important. Press on lab. So sober and judicious. I never knew that was a compliment. I thought

it was, you know, it is coming from me and it is coming from your professor. It sounds like

well, Victor, let's go ahead and take a break and then come back and and I was hoping once again,

like we've been doing, we could do the good news at the beginning of the show. So everybody

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