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The Trish Regan Show
We Have Gotten Ourselves Into Quite a Little Mess Here...
"Have gotten ourselves into quite a little mess here. Have we not? We should have used sanctions. We should have used diplomacy. We should have used every tool. We had in the books to ward off Putin, but nope, the B team was involved. Blinken and Biden. Two not very smart people. And now we're in a proxy war. Why aren't we sanctioning China more? I mean, I thought the deal was if you do business with Russia, then you don't get to do business with the USA. So much for that. Team Biden has no clue how to use its financial tools. To address this aggression, if the Biden administration had ever known what it was doing at all, you know what it never would have tried to shut down the U.S. fossil fuel industry ride ahead of the Ukraine situation. I mean, how dumb can you really get? This is a game of chess. On the world stage, unless you need to anticipate your opponents every single move. And this one frankly was obvious. Russia was the largest supplier of Nat gas to Germany, and therefore plays a huge role in energy prices globally. So logical person, any logical person, anyone that understands economics would get that, you know, hey, maybe it's not such a good idea to discourage U.S. energy drillers just ahead of Russia going up against Ukraine.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
The Media and Confirmation Bias
"You cite a lot of problems. Geographic bias, you talk about lack of introspection, coaching us with power. My favorite part is the laziness and incompetence versus conspiracy theory. And I want to illustrate it this way. How many interviews have you done thus far about uncovered? Probably 20, 25 or so. Of the 20 to 25, how many people have read the book? There have been definitely a couple. I will say, it's very clear there's been a couple. But no, certainly not a very large portion, I would say. I put this down to laziness and why have an author on unless you're willing to read the book and engage with the text and come prepared to ask questions and to read about Eric wemple talking about this thing or the darkness and in the guilt and the purges. I just don't think news people are very curious anymore. They've lost that I'm not going to go talk to Steve Crocker unless I've read uncovered because that will be a terrible conversation. Don't you find that frustrating? I do. And I have to say, I really do appreciate you tweeting out your live tweeting your reading of it over the weekend and this week I really do appreciate that. No, I think it's great. The lack of curiosity. I'm going to talk about incompetence and laziness. Those are bad, but journalists of all occupations should be the most curious people. And I would actually go a step further. I think they should be nosy. I think you should be almost disliked. You should be like a Nat. You should be annoying to the people in power. And yet so often now it's the opposite. And for a lot of factors, I think Twitter is one of them. The incentive structure of Twitter is you want to be like, do you want to get more followers and more likes? And that can lead to contracts and book deals. And so I get that there's this push pull right now. But the job of a journalist is to be curious. The job of a journalist is to be the most curious person in the room and want to find out every secret and every detail to the detriment of your own sort of personal standing. Your social standing. The cozier with power that journalists get that live in New York and D.C. almost entirely when it comes to these corporate media jobs. That's a real problem. And it honestly took me moving to Dallas and moving outside of it, and frankly, you know, stepping back over these last couple of years and writing this to kind of try to see the big picture and say, you know, what really went wrong because something serious went wrong over the last few years. That was not there, even though there was valid criticism of the press from for decades, something major changed in the last few years.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Matt Damon's Huge Missed Payday
"Back in the day, Matt Damon was supposed to be in the first avatar movie. But he couldn't make it work because he was going to shoot the final Jason Bourne film. Now listen to the kind of money that's out there in Hollywood. And you wonder how these people, you go, why is this person still like, how did he still have a big, beautiful house? They haven't worked in 23 years, but there's this mansion they've been, well, here's an example of that. Matt Damon's gotta turn down the gig because I gotta do my Jason Bourne film. But the payout that Matt Damon was set to make on this film. You ready for this? Okay, avatar went on to make more than $2 billion. And at one of our Matt Damon, a payday in the hundreds of millions because he had 10% on the back end. Okay? Unbelievable. And since the sequel avatar the way of water is out now, Cameron is now busy doing all the press about what it was like to make the movie and he's thanking himself for representing women. So amazingly, so during the rounds of the press junkets, he was asked about Matt Damon's joke that he'll go down in history as the actor who turned down the most money in the world and it's true, but James Cameron's like, Matt, get over it. You're doing fine. But Nat was originally supposed to star that 2009 movie. And as part of his deal, he would have made 10% of the movie's profits, which would have been around 250 million back then. And like Matt said, it's true. He will go down in history, you will never meet an actor who turned down more money than Matt Damon when he had to beg off avatar and finish Jason Bourne.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Danielle and Editor at Newsweek, Josh Hammer, Unpack a New Poll
"I'm delighted to welcome our guest today, Josh hammer. Josh hammer is the opinion editor at newsweek. Joss is a constitutional attorney by training. He hosts the Josh hammer show and newsweek podcasts and co hosts the Edmund Burke foundation's Nat con squad podcast. Josh, thanks for joining us. In a recent economist YouGov poll, 94% of respondents said, jobs in the economy was important to them. The topping, every other concern, except inflation, which scored the same. According to an average of polls compiled by RealClearPolitics, 59% of Americans disapprove of Biden's handling of the economy. We've also seen that critical Senate races in Pennsylvania Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona appear to be shifting in favor of Republicans. So what do you think about this lead we have so far up to November? And do you think that there could be some October surprises of the sleeves of the Democrats until then? Well, Daniel, thanks for having me. Great to be with you as always. So I mean, what you just read those polls kind of remind me of something that I have been saying on my own podcast on radio TV. You name it for many months now, actually, which is, you know, back in July, I think a lot of us in the right leaning commentary of punditry space were predicting a big red wave, the red wave was kind of like the phrase that I think a lot of us in folks last summer. Then around August, maybe it's early September, really kind of the month of August, so I think a lot of people start to get a little skittish. And just a little bit and there was like that'd be so called backlash to the Supreme Court. Abortion case might have been having an effect, but around that time that some people, especially on our side, were starting to get a little more cautious, pessimistic and skittish. I kind of took upon myself, I'm not the only one. A lot of others did. And I reminded folks like the fundamentals, the basic kind of bare bones, political fundamentals of this midterm election, still heavily favored Republicans.
WTOP
"nats" Discussed on WTOP
"Hit this morning with mister Steve dresner. We'll start with baseball this season finale for the Nats as they were beaten by the New York mets 9 to two, Eric fetty started the game for Washington going two and a third innings. He allowed 9 runs 9 hits, struck out one and walked two. After the game Nats manager, Davey Mauritius, on his starting pitcher. He's got a live arm here, you know, when he's on, he's really good, but it's consistency with him. He's got he's got to start getting consistent every 5 days. Then ads finish with the worst record in the majors at 55 and one O 7. American League action Baltimore is split a double header with the blue cheese. They took game one 5 to four, but fell to Toronto in game two, the final 5 to one. And NHL preseason action where the camps down Detroit four to two, they improved a three one and one, and they'll host Columbus on Saturday night. And the Big Ten coaches and media polls are out in women's college basketball, Maryland is picked to finish fourth and terps guard, diamond Miller was voted to the Big Ten all conference team. Steve dresner, WTO sports. Steve is always concerned good morning. It is the midnight hour, October 6th, 1216 to be exact on WTO feed. Under the top stories we're following for you this midnight hour Thursday morning on WTO P, D.C.'s epidemia for public safety and justice is accused this week of assault after a Saturday afternoon argument outside a gym in Arlington over a car door. Chris geldart is on personal leave right now pending an investigation. I don't know where the Virginia NAACP leader was shot dead while vacationing in the Turks and Caicos Islands, but at least say this warning that Kent Carter was killed Sunday over the weekend when gang members apparently opened fire on a van in which he was riding. North Korea launching two short-range ballistic missiles this week toward the eastern waters on Thursday after the U.S. redeployed an aircraft carrier near the Korean Peninsula in response to poin gang's previous launch of a nuclear capable missile over Japan. For more on these developing stories and just minutes, Thursday morning where the time now is 1217. Good morning. Dozens of firefighters and paramedics along with doctors from our area are now more than a thousand miles away helping the victims of hurricane Ian. Maryland task force won the urban search and rescue team hosted by Montgomery county fire and rescue has been in Florida since Saturday. We've been approached by people that say that they have lost everything. But talion chief chase fabricio is head of the task force. He says sometimes it's not just digging through rubble, it's connecting people with the local services to at least get the initial concerns off their shoulders. They don't have to worry about food and water and shelter, they can now focus on the other aspects and moving on their lives and starting the recovery process. Virginia task force one headed by fairfax county is also in Florida. On this October 6th, Thursday morning glad you with this 1218 in the morning on WTO case. I think in whether all of the aids is checking out with rich under this morning to the WTO traffic
AP News Radio
Mets sweep 2 games from Nats but eliminated in NL East race
"The mets completed the double header sweep of the nationals with an 8 nothing victory and picked up their 100th win of the year but New York was eliminated from the NL east race as the braves beat the Marlins in the middle of the second game It marked just the fourth time in the franchise's history that the mets had won a hundred games in a season Still the mets will now have to go through the Padres or Phillies in the wild card series after leading the division for a 175 days New York's Brendan imo tried to remain positive as he reflected on the day You know it's a good thing to win a hundred games here So we're very very proud of that and we should be The nationals are now three and 9 over their last 12 games Krishna Arnold New York
AP News Radio
Schwarber hits 2 of Phils' 5 HRs to salvage split with Nats
"Kyle schwarber hit two of the Phillies 5 home runs off Tommy Romero as Philadelphia beat the nationals 8 to two to earn a split of their day night double header Noah syndergaard pitched 5 and two thirds innings for the win after getting blown out 13 four in game one schwarber liked the bounce back Obviously the First Amendment goes the way that we wanted to go You know that was kind of the biggest messages There's still a game to be played tonight and we got to enjoy it We gotta have fun The win allowed the Phillies to take a one game lead over the brewers in the race for the final wild card spot in the national league with four games to play Craig heist Washington
AP News Radio
CJ Abrams hits walk-off single as Nationals defeat Braves 3-2
"CJ Abrams single home Alex call in the bottom of the tenth inning is the nationals beat the braves three to two The loss dropped the braves one game behind the mets for the lead in the NL east The braves and mets started a three game series Friday in Atlanta Braves manager Brian snicker is looking forward to it We'll be fine I mean that's kind of why you play And it'll be a great series I mean it's just two really good teams obviously going at it and see what happens Matt Olson hit his 30th home run of the year for Atlanta while Luke Voight drove in two runs for the Nats Craig
AP News Radio
Wright wins 19th, Riley and Rosario homer, Braves beat Nats
"Kyle Wright won for a major league leading 19th time propelling the braves past the nationals 5 two Wright gave up two runs in 6 innings of work striking out 7 Iraq execution was fine but was able to go 6 Got the win so I really can't complain too much The braves offense got homers from Austin Riley and Eddie Rosario and clean up hitter Matt Olsen ended an over 22 slump with two hits as they won their 9th straight at home The wind kept the braves within one game of the mets for the NL east lead Jim Hart Atlanta
AP News Radio
Wainwright, Molina tie battery record in Cards' loss to Nats
"Alex call goes four for 5 with a home run at 5 RBIs in the nationals eat Levi to 6 win over the Cardinals the left Fielder was not in the nets original starting lineup It is a fun one No doubt about it You know David tapped me on the shoulder and said hey you're in play left today And I was like sweet So obviously it wasn't in the lineup But I was prepared and ready to go I think Louis pitcher Adam Wainwright and Kentucky out of your Molina make their 324th career start as battery mates to tie the MLB record melina hits two homers and drives in three Mike Reeves St. Louis
AP News Radio
Flaherty solid in return to Cardinals; Sánchez, Nats win 6-0
"Animal Sanchez pitched 5 scoreless innings in CJ Abrams went four for 5 as the Washington Nationals beat the Saint Louis Cardinals three nothing Monday afternoon Jack flirty allowed one run on 6 hits and 5 innings for St. Louis and his first start since June 26th It was where this did the position that the team has put us in to be in the spot that we're at and the chance that we have going forward to make a run at this thing In fun watching me it's more fun to be a part of it St. Louis leads Milwaukee by 7 and a half games in the NL central David Solomon St. Louis
AP News Radio
Hernández, Nats again beat NL East-leading Mets by 7-1 score
"The Washington Nationals made a two or three against the mets after a 7 to one win on Sunday the mets lead in the national league east over Atlanta is down to one game Then that's knocked out met starter Carlos Carrasco with four runs in the third inning Eric fetty tossed 6 innings for the win He was pleased to knock off the contending mets We're going to play a lot of teams that are in playoff hunts here coming up and it's our job to play spoiler and continue to play good baseball So it's a lot of fun doing that The mets have dropped two straight and sit at 85 and 50 Mike mancuso New York
AP News Radio
Kirby starts with record 24 straight strikes; Nats top M's
"George Kirby's early accuracy couldn't stop the Mariners from absorbing a three one loss to the nationals Kirby became the first major league hurler to open a game with 24 consecutive strikes I wasn't scared to put it on the plate too Just strikes good things happen usually He allowed a run in 8 hits while striking out 9 over 7 innings but he left the game trailing one zero El tomorrow Vargas broke a one one tie with a two out two run Homer in the 9th off loser Paul C Walt It came in inning after rookie Julio Rodriguez belted his 20th home run I'm Dave fairy
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Soto gets 2 hits, standing ovation as Padres beat Nats 10-5
"The Padres scored 7 times in the 5th inning and went on to beat the nationals ten to 5 Trent Grisham had a three run Homer in the frame Manny Machado had two hits and two RBI and scored twice Brandon drury also drove in a pair manager bob Melvin likes what his offense is doing Up and down the lineup whether it's drawing walks you know making guys throw pitches Good situations good counts to hit in and taking advantage of The Padres Fernando Tatís Jr. was suspended 80 games without pay for violating Major League Baseball substance abuse policy Craig heist Washington
AP News Radio
Gibson perfect thru 6, Schwarber's HR lifts Phils over Nats
"Kyle Gibson pitched the gym for the affiliates as they would on to a 7 two win over the nationals Gifts of a child of the first 18 battles he faced he lost his perfect game bid when he had Victor robles in the top of the 7th that he had been ended a battle later on in Luis Garcia single gives an improved his record the 7 and four All the starts here for me and all of us at the end of the year are going to be with the same goal in mind Put up a couple zeros give the offense a chance to get a lead And then when it's time to give away the bullpen let the bullpen shut it down The Phillips took the leafs going four runs on three home runs in the bottom of the first Michael luongo Philadelphia
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DeGrom dazzles in return, bullpen costs Mets in loss to Nats
"Jacob de Grom allowed one run over 5 innings and struck out 6 in his return to the mets but New York had its 7 game winning streak snapped losing to the nationals 5 to one De Grom had not pitched in nearly 13 months Felt good You know definitely had some nerves early on but you know like I said it's been years since I've been out there year plus So definitely exciting to be back out there The mets bullpen allowed four runs Luis Garcia drove in three with a double and a two run Homer the Nats hit three home runs on the day that they traded Juan Soto and Josh bell to San Diego Craig heist Washington
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Mets win 7th in a row; Soto homers in possible Nats swansong
"Pete Alonso and Francisco Lindor homered and Max Scherzer pitched into the 7th inning to improve his record to 7 and two as the mets meet the national 7 to three Alonzo blasted his 7th home run in the third off starter and lose her Patrick Corbin and Lindor hit a three run shot in the 6th as the mets won their 7th straight What makes me the happiest is our ability to hit with two strikes and then after we're done with that we come to dugout we talk about it You know we help each other out Juan Soto Homer didn't walk three times in what could be his last game with the nationals as the trade deadline comes up on Tuesday Craig heist Washington
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Paul DeJong homers again after promotion, Cards top Nats
"Andre Ponte and Paul de young led the Cardinals to a 5 zero win over the nationals Poland scattered 5 hits over 8 plus innings for his first road victory He struck out 8 walked one and helped the red birds finish four and four on their road trip coming out of the all star break De young homered for the second straight day since ending the minor league demotion this weekend Corey Dickerson also Homer for St. Louis which broke it open with a three run forth against losing pitcher Josiah gray Washington finished 6th and 19 in July of mid rumors that Nats are ready to part with Juan Soto and Josh bell I'm Dave fairy
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Gorman, Nootbaar homer as Cards beat Nats 6-2; Soto 1 for 4
"Nolan Gorman in Lars nubar hit back to back homers in the 6th inning of the Cardinals 6 two win over the nationals The redbirds led three to one until Gorman smacked the two run Homer off loser Annabel Sanchez Newt Barr's blast chase Sanchez St. Louis scored three in the third on a pair of ground outs in a wild pitch Miles Michael is allowed two runs in 7 innings for the cards who have their first winning streak in 13 days Then that's hit a pair of sacrifice flies but were zero for 9 with runners in scoring position I'm Dave ferry
Rear Vision
"nats" Discussed on Rear Vision
"I think that tells against them. In February 2018, barnaby Joyce resigned the party leadership in disgrace after acknowledging that he was in a relationship and expecting a child with a former staffer. But after a second challenge to lead a Michael McCormick in June this year, he returned as party leader and Australia's deputy prime minister. So one of the things to understand about the country party in the national party is that they have had the most stable leadership of political parties in Australia. Incredibly. Long, long periods of leadership by political giants, really ill Paige, John mcewen, dug into the and so on. And even though the time frame of leaders has diminished, the leadership transitions have generally been handled quite well. So the barnaby Joyce turbulence is very unusual for the nationals and very unusual for them to be so much in the news. Normally, they're a bit of a side note in media. His restoration represents another particular aspect of the national party. It's very important politically for the nationals to be seen as fighting the good fight and standing up to the liberals and standing up for rural areas. And that's what barnaby represents. He is a master of the populist rhetoric. Sometimes it's quite hard to actually work out what it is he's saying, but the way he speaks speaks to his audience, the audience that he has. What are the future for the nationals? Representation in federal parliament has come back from the low point in the 80s and 90s when it got down to around 12 seats. They now back up to what I would consider to be round about their geographic limits at the national level. You know, that's round about the 16 seats that touch above 10% of seats. And that they achieve with a roundabout 6 and a half, 7% of the national vote. But they seem to me to be at their limit. It's very hard to see what additional seats they could win back with the possible exception of something like bob catas seat. If he ever chose to retire and there was no family successor, for example, to his seat, they could win back Kennedy right up in north Queensland. But at the same time, the seats they still hold in northern New South Wales will be eroded over time by demographic change. So it's very hard to see that they would achieve much. Its demise has been predicted since 1922. So it's a very brave person who says that the national party is not going to survive. But I think we're beginning to see more farm groups being outspoken on climate change. We are also beginning to see a lot more connection being made between the national party and the non agricultural rural activities like the coal industry, for example. We've seen some very effective rural independence in the past. And I think we're beginning to see more of that. So I'm not prepared to predict their demise, but I think they're probably facing a few more challenges now than they were several decades ago. I think it will continue on in some shape or form. But I think unless it starts moving with the times, it's really going to be just a little rump in the parliament. Political parties are very careful about what their membership is. They don't trumpet it. But the farmers for climate action now has 6000 farmer members. And 20,000 supporters of farmers for climate action. Now that I would gather is way more than the national party membership. I be happy to be proven wrong if someone wants to come out and confirm their membership. But that is a significant chunk of support of people who are backing action on climate change in order to make farmers jobs a little easier and a bit more seamless in terms of the way we knit with global policy. And if the national party is a fraction of that will, what does it say for where the original constituency lies? I think that they've got to answer these questions as they move forward. Otherwise, it just becomes a sort of personality rebel. Gabriel Chan, the author of rusted off, why country Australia is fed up. Thanks to her and my other guests, Linda bottle and Jeff cockfield, the editors of the national party, prospects for the great survivors, and Frank Bond journal head of the history department at the Australian national university. Isabella tropiano is the sound engineer for this revision, I'm from Kerry Phillips. You've been listening to an ABC podcast, discover more great ABC podcasts, live radio and exclusives on the ABC listen app..
Rear Vision
"nats" Discussed on Rear Vision
"That we can get down to level terms with those competitors I just mentioned. During the 1980s, Australia was hit by the neo liberal economic wave that swept through the western world. Australia's economy was transformed by deregulation, especially under the hawk Keating government, which stripped away old forms of protection. That speaker was Ian McLaughlin, president of the national farmers federation, addressing a rally of 45,000 farmers who marched through Canberra on the first day of bob hawke's tax summit in July 1985, and it wasn't just farmers who were under financial pressure. In the 1950s and 60s, industries established in country towns had blossomed behind Australia's tariff walls, but these would not survive the opening up of Australia's economy. Or country towns had many industries, food processing was a classic example of country town capitalism, soft drink manufacturer would be another. But even things like white Woods manufacture often took off in regional centers. So Australia had a booming consumer economy of the 1950s and 60s. And of course, the country towns of Australia were doing very well. But they were very dependent in many instances at least on government support. Deregulation agenda that really began with the hawk paid in government. Received pretty hard pushback from rural areas. You saw the rationalization and privatization of services and you saw a breaking down of what country people would regard as a contract between metropolitan and rural places and people. But there was this sense because it was a labor government conducting the policy reform. There was this sense of holding our collective breaths, if you like that, oh, maybe on the other side of this, the coalition will ride in and re in state restore some of the policy settings. But of course, John Howard and his government and Tim Fischer really doubled down on the deregulation agenda. And brought about their own changes in rural areas. And I don't think it's an accident that in the Howard government is when you're starting to see more rural independence pop up. So there's this sense that this isn't the coalition that we remember from pre poor Keating days. This is a very different coalition and what is it doing to the pillars that we considered to be the basic tenants of rural policy? And so I think that breakdown of what rural people would see as an agreement between metropolitan and country Australia, really starts the breakdown of the national party center of identity. The method may be unsophisticated, but the premier undaunted by criticisms from within the national party has begun the march to Canberra in earnest. Policy is vintage Joe. Today at Bethany, the talk was of eliminating the AC TU, the Labor Party in the Democrats, and he said he was not concerned with any effect that Joe movement was having on the coalition. I've seen it for the last three years. I've had all this business of working and working and working for other parties who can't perform who can't win. So I said, on the principle, if you want a job well done do it yourself, let's just exactly what I'm doing. We can't leave the 1980s behind without mentioning one of the most curious episodes in Australian politics, the attempt by Queensland national party premier sir Jo berki Peterson to become prime minister of Australia in 1987. We're really supporting the myth of Queensland being different here, but it is particularly in relation to the coalition because the country party and then the national party from the 1920s was the dominant non Labor Party in the state. And the liberals and their forerunners were the minor party. And that was particularly continued through the 1980s. In other states that the national level, the country party was always very clearly a small party relative to the liberals. But in Queensland, it was different. And I think you had a particular style of party organization and leadership in the Joe era. One might say a sort of messianic kind of thinking started to take hold. And Joe, of course, was a big antisocialist and he was really pushing the idea for many years from rights from the whitlam era through to the hawk era that the horror of the Labor Party and its socialist leadings needed to be combated and really the federal Liberal Party are just not doing enough for that. What we need is real leadership. And he really got sufficient support within the party in Queensland to run this idea, which was initially Joe for p.m., but became Joe for Canberra as the campaign moved on. And then it was sort of watered down and then suddenly abandoned. And of course many including John Howard himself attribute that to the loss of the 1987 election where the coalition thought they had a very good chance. It split the coalition because essentially it forced the federal nationals to at least temporarily split and it led to Ian Sinclair losing the leadership as well. Despite their decline in influence since the high water mark of the 1950s and 60s, the nets remain an important part of the political landscape in Australia, although there are an anomaly when you consider what's happened to the other agrarian parties that emerged elsewhere in the early 20th century. In the early 20th century, quite a lot of countries had clearly agrarian parties, and particularly I guess a good comparator is probably the Nordic countries. You could see them in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark. It were quite influential. They either die out or they change their identity to some extent. And for example, it's quite telling that in the Nordic countries, they are labeled some version of center parties and they do seek to sort of get between, I guess, social Democrats on one hand and liberals on the other hand. And they do their take on green things. So they are agrarian, moderate and green. And regional, of course, I should have mentioned that. So I think the nationals have retained the agrarian origins, but they are original party. Most of their candidates now are not farmers. But people who have worked in regional areas in some degree or other and probably have agricultural roots of some sort, but their original party and they definitely have not taken on green thinking, even though, of course, they would make claim to the idea that farmers the original conservationists and so on, you do hear that quite a bit. And the nets are an anomaly in another way. They're essentially in a permanent coalition with a Liberal Party. In fact, even on the rare occasions that the liberals win enough states to govern alone, they choose to remain in coalition with the gnats. Absolutely. Because what the national party does is it allows the non labor side of government to capture a whole range of different values and different political perspectives. And it allows them to capture some of the vote on perhaps the slightly more extreme right end of the spectrum who would probably go elsewhere if the party was just the Liberal Party. So the nationals allow for a separate identity to attract those different sets of values, but in a sense corrals them into a two party system. And it serves the party very well, because again, as a minor party, it would never have had the level of influencing cabinet that it has as a member of an almost permanent coalition. So from the party's point of view, with only a handful of seats, it gets very key cabinet portfolios. The coalition is a very, very unusual political arrangement. Hardly ever, do you see such a long-term permanent coalition in operation in multi party democracies in Europe? What you see is elections are held and then people negotiate around coalitions, but an enduring coalition is extremely unusual and an enduring coalition in which there are only two parties is extremely unusual as well. The pluses for the nationals that you get a seat at the table and particularly you get the agricultural portfolio and you get the regional development portfolio. And up until 1980s, you got the trade portfolio as well. When in government. And of course, they have been in government quite a bit. So you can see the potential advantages there. The counter to that is they have sold out. They join the liberals and they've become like liberals and they're giving to the liberals. That's the kind of critical thing that comes from the bush areas and comes from people who are political opponents or competing minor party candidates will be saying. People who take up portfolios are bound by cabinet solidarity. So once the decision is taken, nationals ministers either resign or they go along with whatever has been decided. And this contributes to the impression that that kind of lep dogs over the liberals. And it's very hard to get credit for holding back the tide as they did in the deregulatory period in the 1990s. They certainly were successful in getting lots and lots of concessions. But if your farmers and you see your commodity board disappearing or you see your bush services disappearing, your bush post office clothes and so on. You're not very open to the idea that someone has been defending you stoutly and you're annoyed at the loss of.
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"nats" Discussed on Online Mesdita Radio Vicianum
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"Coalition with the nats. Absolutely because what the national party does is it allows the non-labor side of government to catch a whole range of different values and different political perspectives and it allows them to capture some of the votes on perhaps the slightly more extreme right end of the spectrum who would probably go elsewhere if the party was just the liberal party so the nationals allow for a separate identity to attract those different sets of values but in a sense corrales them into a two party system and it serves the party very well because again is a minor party would never have had the level of influencing cabinet that it has as a member of an almost permanent coalition. So from the party's point of view with on your hands live sates. It gets very key cabinet. Portfolios the coalition is a very very unusual political arrangement hardly ever. Do you see such a long term. Permanent coalition operation in multi-party democracies in europe. What you see is elections held and then people negotiate around coalitions but an enduring coalition is extremely unusual and an enduring coalition in which there are only. Two parties is extremely unusual as well the pluses for the nationals. That you get a seat at the table and particularly you get the agricultural portfolio and you get the regional development portfolio and up until you know ninety nineties s you got the trade. Portfolios will win in government and of course they have been in government quite a bit so you can see the potential advantages. The the counter to that is they have sold up. They joined the liberals and they've become likely liberals and i give into the liberals that's the kind of critical thing that comes from the bush areas and comes from people who political opponents or competing minor party candidates will be sighing people who take up portfolios bound by cabinet solidarity so once the decision is taken nationals ministers either resign or they go along with whatever has been decided and this contributes to the impression but that kind of lapdogs over the liberals and it's very hard to get credit for holding back the tide as they did in the deregulatory period of the nineteen nineties. They certainly were successful in getting lots and lots of concessions but if your farm was a new c. Your commodity board disappearing. Or you. See your bush services disappearing. You'll bush post office clothes and so on. You don't very open to the idea that someone has been defending stoutly. And you're annoyed at the loss of things. And i think that tells against them in february twenty eighteen barnaby. Joyce resigned the party leadership in disgrace after acknowledging that he was in a relationship and expecting a child with a former staffer. But after a second challenge to lead a michael mccormack in june this year he returned as party leader and australia's deputy prime minister. The one of the things to understand about the country party in the national party is that they have had the most stable leadership of political parties in australia. Incredibly long long periods of leadership by political giants really l. page john mccain and doug anthony and so on and even though the timeframe of leaders has diminished the leadership transitions of generally being handled quite well so the barnaby joyce turbulence is very unusual for the nationals and very unusual for them to be so much in the news. Normally you know. They're a bit of a side note in media. His restoration represents another particular aspect of the national. Party is very important politically for the nationals. To be seen as fighting the good fight and standing up to the liberals and standing up foot rural areas and that's what barnaby represents. He is a master of the populist rhetoric. Sometimes it's quite hard to actually work at what it is. He signed but the way he speaks speaks to. He's audience the audience that he has. What are the future for. The nationals representation in federal parliament has come back from the low point in the eighties and ninety s. When it got down to around twelve seats they are now back up to what i would consider to be. Round about. Their geographic limits set the national level. That's roundabout the sixteen seats said touch above ten percent of seats and that they achieve with around about six and a half seven percent of the national vote but they seem to me to be at their limited. It's very hard to see what additional seats they could win back with the possible exception of something like bob cata seat if he ever chose to retire and there was no some family success for example. He's seat they could win back kennedy right up in north queensland but at the same time the seats they still hold in northern new south wales will be eroded over time demographic change so. It's very hard to see that they would achieve much. Its demise has been predicted since nineteen twenty two. so it's a very brave person who says that the national party is not going to survive. But i think we're beginning to say more femme groups. Being outspoken on climate change. We are also beginning to see a lot more connection being made between the national party and the non agricultural rural activities like the coal industry. For example we've seen some very effective rural independence in the past. And i think with beginning to see more of that so on not prepared to predict their demise but i think that probably facing few more challenges now than they were civil decades ago i think it will continue on in some shape or form but i think unless it starts moving with the times. It's really going to be just a little rump. In the parliament political parties are very careful. About what the name sheep is. They died trumpeted. But the thomas for climate action now has six thousand family members and twenty thousand supporters of thomas. The climate action. Now that i would gather is why more than the national party may machine bobby happy to be proven wrong if someone wants to come out and confront him into sheets but that is a significant chunk of support of people who are backing action on climate change in order to make farmers jobs a little easier in a more seamless in terms of the way we need with global policy and the national party is a fraction of that. Will what does it say for with a regional constituency lines. I think that by to answer these questions as they may fooled otherwise it just becomes a as sort of personality. Rabble gabriel chen. The author of rusted off why country australia is fed up. Thanks to her. And my other guests. Linda bottle and jeff cockfield the editors of the national party prospects for the great survivors and frank bond. Your head of the history department at the australian national university. He's avila troiano. Is the sound engineer.
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"You know it on some level. I'm just posing i'm just. I'm just asking the question here. If you have the lowest vaccination rate of any team in the league. Aren't you a little bit concerned about the overall intellect of your team and don't hire intellect teams may be also have a competitive advantage over lower intellect teams like i just. I want my team to be really talented and really good. This is the best roster. This franchises had in a long time. I also want it to be really smart and really with it and four. This be they seem to be a little limited. As i like to say either that or you know. They're believers that they got coverted and they've got the antibodies and they wanna wait. Although again yesterday's information from the cdc was even those that have gotten cova And if built up the antibodies they need They need the vaccine. I but you know again. Trust me. I've been following all this and i've been reading it and living at like all of you have. I understand that that information could change in a week. A couple of other things about training camp. I thought were interesting Landon collins is ready to go I think that that's obviously good news And there doesn't appear to be any quarterback competition to speak of to be okay. There's not going to be. I think the more interesting thing will be. I asked ron rivera this. When i had him on the show you know because i did ask him. Why did he completely you know. Omit kyle allen from any conversation coming off. Ota's and he said no. No no. I wasn't intentional. Kyle's right in the mix He's gonna compete in any egos kyle. Will you know essentially imply. The kyle wasn't completely one hundred percent but he is now I think that you know if you're interested in a backup quarterback battle and typically are in this town. That's what we're going to be watching for. You know who takes the second team reps. Who gets into the game in the preseason games in the second quarter and the first one and the second one and then the third quarter you know in the last one or what however they play the preseason. That's going to be the interesting thing it. I don't know it seems to me. That people believe that taylor. Heinecke is the front runner to be the backup. I know a lot of our fans are hoping that taylor. Heinecke is the front runner to be the backup to ryan fitzpatrick but I wouldn't surprise me. If kyle allen ends up being the backup. None of you could argue that. The whole quarterback position for team is just one big backup quarterback battle. You could argue that. But i wouldn't ryan. Fitzpatrick is a starter. He's a starter in this league and if you want to say he's a bottom third starter. That's fine but he's not a bottom quarter starter you know. He's in that twenty range. Twenty-one range worse case go through the list there are still in this league. A lot of teams with major quarterback question marks or issues. I think ryan fitzpatrick is you know. Worst case a guy that fits in there in the low twenty s. You know or around twenty somewhere around there now. Is that good enough. No i ne- i want my guy to have the the seasons that he's had the last two years which would then put them in the top. Half of the league in quarterback play. If you get that from ryan fitzpatrick this year. Then you've got a chance to have a really good season or be a much better football team much better. I'm hoping for that. But i think the downside honestly and less he falls off a cliff at thirty eight years old which is always possible. I think the downside is you know. An upgrade. From last year any somewhere you know between nineteen and twenty three in terms of the rankings of starting quarterbacks. That's awfully optimistic. I think the odds would say that the falling off a cliff is more likely. I don't know why you would say that with him. Last year having one of the best seasons of his career in the year before playing really high level football her higher level football. Be eight years old. I understand that but you. You may have been the one to say that before last year thirty seven and he didn't fall off the x ray. I know that so. How many times can keep beating the is. I don't know brady keeps beating him. Rogers keeps beating him. Well there you go. There's the lady rogers and brady doctors and ryan. He should have no he could. He could be breeze. You're right and breeze really did fall off last year but wasn't brief forty last year. I think he was What else is interesting from day. One i don't know. I'm i'm trying to follow all of the the the guys on the beat ban. Jp and john and nikki to see if anything's going on out there today But again most of this stuff really really not that significant. I think Oh i wanted to mentioned in addition to like this time of year obviously injuries. Obviously some you know depth chart you know Insight but a lot of these interviews you know when the coach speaks at the end of these. I like listening to those. Because i think that's where you can learn some stuff after they're sitting there watching these guys day in and day out and then you can start to to learn about some of the got like last year at this time..
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"I don't know i could be way off But the point is. I don't personally think that if the fda approves the vaccine that's everybody's gonna come rushing into you know vaccine centers get vaccinated. I don't think most of the people that haven't gotten vaccinated even know that the fda has approved it yet But apparently there's a lot of discussion that the fda approval would be very helpful against those that are sort of vaccine hesitant like a lot of these people who are unvaccinated are waiting for fda approval. That doesn't make sense to me. Most people don't even know that that's absent fall. That's what i think. That's what i think you're awfully wound up about it. I could tell that. Well it's it's it seems like we are increasing the number of co vid positives at least as it relates to this you know delta variant and furthermore young fit professional athletes aren't getting sick especially those that are vaccinated so then that's are a mess right now. They are there they they. They've got this going on while they're trying to figure out who trading. Alex they can get for them as the trading deadline is just forty eight hours away basically. Yeah the I i was reading What's his face passan. I guess Earlier i think it was passed and whatever apparently sure's or will approve any trade two west coast teams that are pursuing him that are in the race but he's ruled out philly and houston as destinations. He has this veto right using his. They call ten in five rights. Ten years of service with the same team right. That's what it is right. Yes it is okay so let's see. He doesn't want he doesn't want to go play for us to because he doesn't want to play with a bunch of teenagers and he doesn't to go play for philly play with bryce harper. That's the reason. I don't know i mean the houston thing would seem obvious to me. You know Goldie was on the podcast with me yesterday and we were going through a lot of this stuff and for those of you that listened in like did i appreciate it. Also he he just he had a bad phone thing. Which is why we had to end early. We're pretty much done anyway. But anyway If you miss that you can go back and listen to it in just a yesterday show What was i gonna say again. I'm all over the place when i have been at the early about mercury coffee. Oh about sober yet. So sure is our sherzer. Mike rizzo apparently said that because of these ten five rights. We've got to get a deal prior to the four pm deadline tomorrow to work out the no-trade you know ability and i said to all the why can't they just worked out now and just say max. Tell us where you won't go and we won't talk to those teams. I mean i'm sure he'd be willing to tell them upfront. My point being is you. Don't in a situation like this. I i would think i could be wrong but i would imagine that. Was somebody like sherzer. These are deadline deals most times and their deadline deals. Because if you're an rizzo's position you wanna wait to see this thing heat up. You want the pressure of a deadline to four. Somebody's hand on the best possible offer. And it just seems to me that the nats would benefit from being able to walk this up to you know close to the deadline so just find out which teams he won't accept the trade to and don't talk to those teams tell them they're out Or don't tell them they're out but understand that they're not gonna win this you know ultimately and if you have to take a lesser deal from la or san francisco or san diego you do that You know part of me. I mean i don't wanna see max scherzer go. I want to see him be a national. I want to see him pitch. And it wildcard game or in a playoff game or whatever because it was so exciting but if he if he does go anywhere i kinda would like to see him in that nationally west race and healthy for it because that really is one of tommy. You've got three. The third place team is fourteen games over five hundred. That is a hell of a race. They have the three highest run differentials in the national league all in one division but as far as which team. I don't know i'm sort of rooting for san diego. I don't know why the pilot because that team that that sounds really taken it on the chin in recent years lost their football commod such a great town. Yep but it's san diego life is never bad. it's true it's it can't ever be bad. They're the most beautiful weather in our country is san diego weather year round. You wanna get some washington football talk or do you have anything more on the nats in. What you think's going to happen and who you would trade and who you wouldn't trade and strasbourg i think and strasbourg. Goldie said that this could be essentially a career ending injury. Yeah i mean he's having serious surgery and he's thirty three years old You know he's except for that world series run for the past couple of years. It's been one You know malady after another with him and that's got to be taken. It's toll over the years as he gets older and that two hundred forty five million dollar contract extension that the natch sides him to i know we said and i'm not gonna back away from you know if it gave them a world series than a championship which you could argue it did then it was worth it but still i mean if he if he if he is his career would be over. That would go down as probably maybe the all time worse contract history gully was saying by the way that that blast extension seven years. Two hundred sixty five was. I think it was two hundred. Sixty five million came after the world series. Yes so they haven't gotten anything from him since now last year obviously was Boy you know. I i really like stephen strasburg like i. I liked him. More than max scherzer. And i wanted him to be healthy and i wanted to see him. Have a dominant cy. Young type of regular season into a postseason. You know it was the game four at wrigley. That really sold me remember. He was you know he. Apparently he had Allergies are the sniffles and Who knows maybe he had the twisties and he was going to back out But you know there's all that discussion and and and in industy sort of publicly put some pressure on him a little bit and then he showed up and he was dominant and then there was nothing. Nothing in the postseason. There are a lot of moments in the postseason but game six in houston down. Three two facing elimination was an all clutch performance by by strasbourg and he was so great that night. I just those final two games were so incredible. But that game. Six facing elimination He's had almost two hall of fame postseason performances. He's been great as a playoff pitcher. I just wish that he could have had more health during his career. And it would really suck if this really is. An injury is as goldie. Describe it that there's no example of anybody coming back and being a hundred percent afterwards. He said that. This is the injury that matt harvey had and the surgery that matt harvey had And he's never been the same although he pitched really well last saturday night against the nets but That would your differences between matt harvey and Strasbourg stocks were placed for an organization that will russia back. The mets basically you know they ignored and they laughed at the strasbourg. Shutout when they brought harvey back from his His tommy john surgery and i think that contributed to Is his issues. A look at this is i. Don't want to start if this is stephen. Strasburg has given washington national fads. A tremendous amount of great moments over the years as frustrating. He has been there have been so many times where we watched some remarkable remarkable performance from the first day he ever pitched team. Yeah fourteen strikeouts. Yeah i mean that's all time debut. So i mean i think i mean you know. He should always be celebrated by washington.
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"That's a good point. I i and i think it was like. Let's stop this right now. Let's get in front of this and and make sure no one accuses her of quitting. Because that's what we we thought. We just watch. And i think a lot of those people are incredibly self-indulgent I think that that is you know. I think you need to be honest with you. I think you need to sit back and wait for the twisties discussion and explanation. I said to you two days ago. I would like to know specifically what the mental health issue is. Because if it's just about pressure and feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders that's different from a legitimate mental health issue now if you suffer major anxiety that turns into anxiety or panic attack disorder or whatever you want to go to Well then that gets into something that can be very isolation driven and see is tied to depression and lots of other things. I'm not trying to play psychiatrist here. I just have some experience with this You know over the course of my life with various people. So i i the twisties. Look the bottom line is you wouldn't tell you know an x. Games you know skateboard jumper. If he's got the twist he's refused got the yips to go ahead and and scoot down that you know Seventy five foot ramp to do a double whatever in the middle of the air. But if he's just feeling the pressure of the event we all feel pressure every day in our lives to perform not at the level. I'm saying Of of some of these professional athletes or entertainers or politicians or whatever. But for those people i am a big believer in the only way around it is through it in to face it and to learn how to face adversity. But this is not This is not what she based on all of the discussion of what. She was suffering from the it's apples and oranges. She could have really hurt herself. Potentially had gone through with it. But again back to you you said at the beginning there is sort of this I think you used the word canonizing And i think a lot of those people are trying to get ahead of what they were anticipating which was much more criticism and they wanted to drown that out. I think i think that's exactly what happened here. Now i just want to point out that if you are a big simone biles fan and why wouldn't you be. She's probably the greatest gymnasts in the history of the united states. You'll probably be able to see her. In the gold over america tour which will be touring around the country following the olympics at some point and i think it will be coming to the capital one arena. I think okay well with your i. I'm not are you going down the path of saying she's going to be on the cover of some magazine to deal with her deal with the twisties. Now i'm just pointing out that. The gold over america tours. That'd be mayo coming. Through your way precludes. North simone biles. Well maybe you know maybe rory mcilroy can get the yips at the. Us open but in a in a you know an charity event wouldn't get the yips. Maybe he'll be fine for that. Also i wanna point out she. I mean it's again. This is something very specific What she liked through You know this whole idea now. People have talked about the pressure on her. You know and how the weight of the world she even said waiter world felt like it was on her shoulders. She raced that she did an interview weeks ago with usa. Today who bas- basically said. I'm the best there ever was. I mean the facts. prove it. i'm the greatest of all time. Well she didn't seem brace that she didn't have the twisties then. I know that. I'm saying i mean the pressure that people have brought up that she felt right about the greatest. She shakes something she race. Yeah you know what the great ones do. The great ones embrace it. Welcome it and then beat it down in the biggest moments. I will you try to every day on this podcast with you but you get in the way of it sometimes. Can we move to the nets real quickly about. Because it's it's really been an incredible before we get to the next You've been pretty busy lately. You know. I mean i'm on vacation up sick. I'm going to take on vacation starting today. Also i had like my. I mean i had today off tomorrow often next week off of radio. We'll take we'll take a couple of days in the podcast and no. There's no actual vacation scheduled as i've told you and others on this podcast. That are listening. I am moving and this is will call it phase one of the move phase one. I mean moving out of my house Into a one month furnished rental that allows pets and then into the new house because the new house is not ready for us to move in to quite yet we thought we would be able to move right from our current house of the last many years into our new house But no that didn't work out that way so phase one will be to move out of our house and move a lot of this stuff into the new house which we will be able to do. We just won't be able to live in the new house for a while and we will be Renting a furnished rental condo in downtown bethesda. Time which by the way my wife said to me. You know what's gonna happen here. And i said yes. I know exactly what's going to happen. She's like you're gonna to. You're gonna phone with this place in not gonna wanna leave and yes. I have in recent years thought of low maintenance living as as as a real fantasy like like. I'm looking forward to just the month of being able to roll out. 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"Things. You do not have to quickly win. So even though administrative leave is officially seven days i would fully expect it to be extended and it could be a while and don't be shocked. It's not resolved until late in the season. That's not even. After the season. I would be surprised at this point. If we see castro again this year you said it. These next games coming up are crucial now. You know the mets aren't playing great. The phillies have actually. You know picked up some ground here and they seem to be playing better but it's an if they were in any other division it would be over the next worst. Division leader is seventeen games over five hundred. And and and the mets are sitting there at six games over five hundred so the nats are lucky. You know similar to the washington football team lockheed there in the division therein because it's not over but they gotta get healthier to have any chance Thanks and you know. I think a lot of people were following you on twitter on saturday night and you know i know it was a hectic situation but good job on keeping everybody up to date and Read mark of course follow me on twitter. Redes- recaps of all these games. It's totally worth it. And the nats chat podcast with our good friend al all the other good friend. Tim show Is totally worth the listen. There's no other you know. Sort of immediate recap of each nets game Like those guys do it. 'cause it just doesn't happen It used to mass and Thank you appreciate it. Mark zuckerman everybody. A crazy weekend at nats park up next a rising star in sports. Her name is bailey. Davis. who.
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"Off on the cowboys. He said it should upset them that they're not at that threshold. You're not thinking right if you haven't gotten vaccinated whatever you got i don't give a damn nothing else can be more important. You're not going to get to a super bowl easily. Nothing else could be more important. Jimmy johnson made that abundantly clear. Nothing else is more important than team and not being one of the teams to reach that threshold. Says there's other things to a great number of people on this team that are more important than winning championships. And that makes me worried. If you're not one of those teams that the threshold eighty five percent. I say parenthetically. Are you really thinking about winning a championship. Michael irvin continues. You see what i'm saying. Okay so now if you're not getting vaccinated and you've got all these other teams that are getting vaccinated. Will somebody in that damn locker room should say. Hey man are we're going to have a chance. Are you vaccinated. Let's go through this because this could be a two week healthy dude missing games and in this league. This ain't the nba in this league data. That could be it for you. The right person misses two weeks. That's it your ass is out closed quote when he's saying there is you know the nfl's got seventeen games the nba two. You get a key dude missing two games that could be it and we know as nfl. Fans it's a league of attrition. the healthier teams tend to be the teams that win. The unhealthy teams tend to be the teams that lose more So he went off. And i would think certainly in a lot of nfl locker rooms that this is a conversation. Do we really want to have the best chance to win if we have the best chance to win. If we want to had the least risk of losing key players in key games. That could cost us a playoff berth. We've got to have everybody vaccinated. We've got to be at the eighty five percent threshold washington not even close right now couple other things. The nba finals Well what a game on. Saturday night When we did the podcast on friday we talked about the game on thursday night. The saturday night game was really good. You know. I don't know think these nba playoffs have been great. And then i think there was a two week. Lull there with some bad games and blowout games. And i think the beginning of the finals weren't great but you see two teams to cities desperate to win a world championship and you can just see it in the performance as you can see it in the intensity on defense The game saturday night was great. And obviously the play of the game was late after phoenix closed the Milwaukee lead down to a point and had the ball late and devon booker. He either should have shot at earlier or the ball should moved a little bit. I'm not among the people. That believe. That monty william should all the time out and set something up you know you had milwaukee You know scrambling a little bit. You know after I think it was holiday. Had missed sort of a floater. And then booker had the rebound and they had a chance and booker had the ball man. He's been the guy by the way chris. Paul bounce-back with an outstanding game was crucial down the stretch in the fourth quarter of that game but booker law booker had the ball taken from them by drew holiday and then drew holiday. Instead of dribbling out the clock or tempting dribble out the clock in getting fouled and then making two free throws for three point lead through the lobby. Honest the dunk chris. Paul foul made the free throw. They win by four janas was phenomenal and has been phenomenal in this series. But milwaukee won the game on saturday night because of drew holidays performance. You know drew holiday in game four In the game that they won despite an ugly offensive performance from drew holiday. Who went four for twenty in that game For for twenty and game four They won that game They came back to win that game. against phoenix at home to tie that series. A two games apiece. The other night was a gem of a performance. Twenty seven points thirteen rebounds three steals a blocked shot twelve of twenty sixty percent from the field three for six from behind the arc fifty percent and again stifling incredible defense at times including the key steel and the key play of the game drew holiday. Even when he's been off offensively has been great defensively on. That was a great basketball game saturday night. A great basketball game A game was better played in less sloppy than maybe the two games that preceded it Unfortunately for phoenix. I thought the last possession. The ball gist was never left devon booker sands at thought. He should've shot at earlier And once he got into traffic. Light chris paul and game four who lost it and traffic when they were down to in the final minute booker ends up having it ripped From him by drew holiday and so yannis with the in the foul and the made free throw suryana says the block in game four and has the dunk in game five. Don't think the series is over. I think phoenix can win tomorrow. Night and milwaukee Would i bet on it. Probably not. But i would love to see a game seven in this series It's great that we have had the nba finals during the slowest portion. Typically of the sports calendar one last thing and we'll get to mark zuckerman I ask everybody all the time To subscribe to the athletic. Personally i love it. I think it's totally worth it. They put out this morning a survey of washington football team fans about a number of questions. I'm not going to read through all twenty of the questions with answers because a not going to give you all of the content. You know if you want the rest of it. You'll have to subscribe to the athletic. But i'm going to give you a couple of things that were very interesting to me. Okay the first is dealing with the quarterback question you know. This is a survey of washington. Football fans in it asks a lot of key. Football related questions. That i thought were interesting. The first one about the quarterback was who should start at quarterback in week one ninety one point two percent of the respondents said ryan fitzpatrick. This is not a. Who do you think. We'll start at quarterback in week one. This is who should start at quarterback and week one. This speaks to this conversation that we've had where you know. Some believe that you know a big portion of the fan base really wants taylor. Hynick ear thinks taylor. Heineke should start now. They don't and he's not going to ninety one point. Two percents fitzpatrick eight point. Six percent. said taylor heineke. So that's ninety nine.