JR Afternoon with Chris Renwick

JR Afternoon with Chris Renwick ~ November 8, 2024 ~ Full Show

November 8, 2024 ~ JR Afternoon with Chris Renwick On this episode: Chris talks about ongoing world conflicts and how a new Trump administration could affect them; finds out how you can meet Herman Moore this weekend and talks to a man who's father collected comic books for years.

Duration:: 1h 14m
Broadcast on:: 12 Nov 2024
Audio Format:: other

Well, happy Friday. It's good to be back with you and we're busy again today. Well, first of all, we're going to talk a little bit about what comes next for Donald Trump and the issues overseas, the issues with Israel and and Hamas, the issues with Russia and Ukraine. Now, one of the things that I think a lot of people have to go back to and remember is not just the political talking points, the campaign talking points of, well, under Donald Trump's first presidency, there were no wars, which is true, but to me, it's it's it kind of diminishes the value of that, right? So while there were no, no new conflict started, there was a number of efforts to put out potential fires of issues that could come down the pipe. If you go back to 2016, one of the issues was North Korea. North Korea was a big problem. And Kim Jong Un and the constant tests of nuclear missiles was one that concerned the United States greatly. And it wasn't the fact that there weren't new escalations. It was the fact of how did we stop these things from happening? Now, one of the knocks against Donald Trump was, was that, well, this is a guy that went and talked to Kim Jong Un and talked to Vladimir Putin and had these conversations with these dictators, these, these, these leaders of non-democracy, democratized countries. And, and, and, and it was, it was almost held against him. Whereas in my mind, it was always, okay, well, let's talk because how do we stop something from happening? Now, if, if that conflict is inevitable, it'll happen after those conversations. But let's try to not hat, let's try to, to, to put out those fires. And I think for the most part, Donald Trump did. Now, when it comes to these, this next round of issues, right, when you're looking at Ukraine and Russia and Israel and, and Hamas or Israel and Hezbollah or Israel and Iran, well, this was one of the, the main talking points of Donald Trump was, look, when I get elected, we're going to fix these things. Like Iran's not going to bully people around anymore. And they're not going to just funnel these terrorist groups behind closed doors to then hurt Israel. Like that's not happening. And literally the day after he gets elected, Hamas comes out and says they want to cease fire. And, and now going forward, what, what influence does Donald Trump have on the geopolitical stage, particularly with our adversaries? So we'll talk about that coming up at two 18 because I think that is a really important factor and a really important issue, certainly now, but even by the time he takes office on January 20th, there should be a plan in place because that needs to be addressed. It needs to be addressed as quickly as possible. So things that seem to be escalating kind of don't and, and can cool down and potentially stop. So that is a, a must priority for this incoming administration. So we'll talk about that coming up at two 18, meanwhile, uh, Donald Trump has announced that he will elevate Susie Wiles who ran this campaign. He will be his or she will be his chief of staff. She will be the first woman chief of staff in US history and in the jockeying the battle for these cabinet positions and appointments is, is obviously one that will continue to watch for, um, but he says that Susie Wiles will be his chief of staff. Also today, the, the DOJ announced that three people speaking of Iran were charged federally after the FBI thwarted a threat from, uh, an Iranian man to kill Donald Trump before the presidential election. And this goes all the way back to those, those days of the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, then the assassination attempt in, in, uh, in West Palm beach at Trump International. And so the, the idea of an, a foreign adversary having a hit out on a presidential candidate, it was frightening enough. Then the actual assassination attempts happened and now those, uh, those three have now been charged federally, uh, which is good to see, uh, again, if you, if you want to read between the tea leaves, it seems like Iran doesn't want Donald Trump to be president. Um, also, uh, special counsel, Jack Smith has asked the federal court in the Trump case for a pause while he assesses how to deal with this case going into the future. Uh, Jack Smith, uh, telling the federal judge today that he could have a decision by December 2nd on how to resolve the criminal case around Donald Trump. He asked judge John, Tonya Chutkin to wipe away all deadlines that were associated with this case. And so, and, and, and how they can move forward with Donald Trump's presidency. Well, the issue for, for this current DOJ and for Jack Smith is that, well, Donald Trump is now the president elect and the DOJ doesn't charge or go after presidents sitting presidents. So now what do we do? So here was part of what he wrote in this, in this one page filing. As a result of the election held on November 5th, the defendant is expected to be certified as president elect on January 6th and inaugurated on January 20th. The government respectfully requests that the court vacate the remaining deadlines in the pre trial schedule to afford the government time to assess this unprecedented circumstance and determine the appropriate course going forward consistent with the Department of Justice policy. By December 2nd, the government will file a status report or otherwise inform the court of the result of its deliberations. So something else will, will continue to keep an eye on. Also here in Michigan, um, Calhoun County out kind of West in that battle Creek area, Southern South Michigan. Um, the secretary of state's office said Calhoun County did not include all of the votes cast in Tuesday's election and officials were working to resolve the discrepancy. Calhoun County, uh, is, is a, uh, is home to a couple of really close races, competitive house seats. And there was a reporting problem centered around absentee ballots. Craig Margaret did a really nice piece in the Detroit news on this. So they were submitted to the city of battle Creek. Um, and, and they used two high speed absentee ballot tabulators there. But the, uh, the, uh, um, election management system wasn't programmed to combine the, the, the drives from the two tabulators. So basically, they didn't have both sets of data. So after reading the first set of numbers, it replaced the results with the second set of numbers instead of adding them together. So not funny business. Uh, but again, another error in how these votes were totaled, uh, 808 5 9 0 9 5 7 808 5 9 0 double J are coming up on the other side. We'll talk about how this new Trump administration is going to impact what's happening on the geopolitical stage, uh, particularly in, in Ukraine and in the Gaza strip, talk about it next on Jay afternoon. So as this transition takes place over the next couple of months, one of the things that has been top of mind or must be top of mind, in my opinion, is these, these foreign affairs and the, and the, the place that the United States find themselves in, in both of them. And particularly dealing with Russia and Ukraine and Israel, and I guess, mostly Hamas, but, but certainly particularly Iran and how, how does this next administration, this, this next, this next Donald Trump presidency, how does, how will Donald Trump taking office impact things in Europe and in the Middle East? It's where we bring in Ben Friedman. He's the policy director of defense priorities and joins me this afternoon. Ben, happy Friday. Good to have you. Thanks for having me on. Uh, how do you see, first of all, what, what in this moment of transition, how, how, uh, how does Donald Trump get into the fold of what's been happening over the last couple of years in involving things in the Middle East and, uh, and in Europe? Well, in Israel and Ukraine in particular, Trump has fairly sharp and defined policies in comparison to some other places. He's going to be even more pro-Israel and pro-bombing Gaza, least for a while. His position seems to be, uh, during the campaign, you know, do what you got to do, but get it over with. So he's not concerned about the war crimes there and so forth, but he is potentially concerned about the duration of the war. Um, and then, uh, you know, with Ukraine, as everyone knows, he said he's going to cut a deal, uh, with Russia fast. I think he'll find that very difficult, if not impossible, uh, given that, you know, it'll be hard to get both Russia and Ukraine to agree no matter how bad you want to do it. Uh, but you will see probably a withdrawal with some U.S. support for Ukraine and pressure on the Ukrainian government, which hasn't been there before to get to the table with Russia, uh, with less leverage than they had during the Biden administration. So those things are fairly clear, but in a broader sense, I think his foreign policy is still quite undefined and that's because, you know, the, in, in part, because of these fights about personnel that are going on with sort of competing factions trying to get in front of Trump and get their people into the administration and the key position secretary of state secretary of defense, things like that. And it remains to be seen if we get kind of a redo of last time he was president when you had people like Mike Pompeo and Jim Mattis, H.R. McMaster, who are very conventional hawks, as opposed to the more, um, less conventional Trump, uh, more, maybe true to Trump foreign policy people that he got later in the term who are a little more open to doing deals and ending the wars. Uh, so Donald Trump spoke with Vladimir Zelensky this week and it sounds like, according to reporting, that Elon Musk was, was on the line, uh, with that, that call. We don't know what they said. Um, but what, what, what position would Elon Musk have in talking with Zelensky aside from, I mean, you know, the Starlink connection might be one, but, but what, what, uh, what would Elon Musk involvement, a signal to you? Well, it's sort of a signal of how wild things are when Donald Trump's in power. I mean, you know, the, the kind of randomness of who's kind of with him in the room on a given day seems to matter a lot. And, uh, you know, Elon Musk has been touted, uh, in Trump said this and Musk has said it as his kind of, uh, regulatory czar would be looking into waste in the U.S. government and things like that. But I've not heard anything prior to that hearing about that call that he'd be intimately involved in foreign policy. So, um, you know, in some ways your guess is as good as mine about what exactly it means. I mean, I, you know, other than the fact that, you know, Trump's pretty close to Elon Musk these days. So he, he decided to invite him onto this call with Zelensky for whatever reason. Hmm. And so let's go back to the Middle East. Um, and, and you mentioned kind of the, the differing mentalities of, uh, of those in higher aspects of power within Donald Trump's first administration and the ways that they handled things. Um, how do you think Donald Trump views these, uh, these appointments now, right? It feels like, uh, I don't know that he necessarily goes after, uh, as you mentioned, kind of that warhawk again, but, but he made a lot of promises on the campaign trail to get these, these, uh, these, these conflicts settled quickly. So how does that impact who he chooses in his cabinet? Well, I think he made a promise to get the, uh, Ukraine Russia conflict settled quickly. I don't think he made many promises about settling any other conflicts. In fact, it was sort of notable to me how little he talked about, uh, getting out of Syria, which is something he started to do the first time he was president and then didn't follow through on because he was talked out of it. Uh, his position on Afghanistan, uh, was that it was a mistake to get out as far as I could tell, even though his administration correctly, it might be initiated that process of exiting. So, um, he's a little back and forth on these things. Uh, but, you know, I think, uh, he does have some interesting to sort of be the peace candidate or the peace president. Uh, but on the other hand, he, you know, I think he's, uh, like many presidents, uh, but maybe particularly so, he's very into loyalty. So people who, um, or have proved that they're loyal to Trump, and maybe he's willing to overlook the fact that they violently disagree with him about some of these matters, like Mike Pompeo, uh, who's trying to get, uh, you know, a top job in the second Trump administration, or Tom Cotton, who's the senator from Arkansas has been rumored to be maybe Secretary of Defense, who, you know, is a hawk, hawk, you know, he's for all the wars and some new ones, which he wouldn't think would be what Trump would want at Secretary of Defense, but his loyalty might overcome that. So I think, you know, those things are going to play out. And, uh, there are certainly people who are in Trump world, who are eagerly trying to stop those appointments, but, uh, I'm not sure how it will shake out, and I don't know if anybody can be. If you were advising him, what would, what would be the advice on, on the first couple of things that he should consider? Well, I think in addition to, um, trying to get Ukraine, uh, into a peace deal with Russia and putting some pressure on the Ukrainian government to do that, which really, I think, just takes looking at the situation on the ground, honestly, I would say we're going to take NATO for Ukraine off the table. I think it's always been kind of a lie that we've told Ukraine that we would put the NATO eventually, uh, and now we should just submit that it's been a lie. And I think that would actually be conducive, uh, to a settlement in Ukraine. And in some ways, we'd really be doing them the Ukraine a favor in a weird way of, uh, cutting off false hope that, you know, at some point we're going to be their savior by having them in this alliance. So we could do that. Um, I think, you know, another thing would be to, uh, say that they're going to follow through on this agreement, uh, the Biden administration signed with the Iraqi government for some of these partial withdrawal, withdrawal of US forces there. And I think they, the Trump administration, uh, ought to announce that they want to get out of Syria and set some sort of time to able to do that. You know, those would be some good steps right off the bat. And, you know, there's other things involving burden sharing with allies, shifting the burden of defending Europe. But, you know, I think those anti-war things would be good starting points. Yeah, I'm, I'm with you. And as those issues continue to escalate in the region, I think the fears of a lot of Americans is that, well, we're going to get more involved before potentially things start to slow down. And, um, and that, uh, I don't think anybody's for that. Uh, Ben Friedman, thanks so much for your time and insight is always appreciated. Appreciate it. Thanks for having me again. Yep. You got it. That's Ben Friedman with Defense priorities here on JR afternoon. Love to hear from you. 800-859-0957-800-859-0WJR. All of that. And as we find today, uh, that those three connected to an Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump, pre-election have been charged. Uh, that that was thwarted by the FBI. That more as we continue on JR afternoon. One other thing I just want to make mention of, and then I, Axios has put out a really interesting piece that I want to bring to your attention, but we're still probably a couple of days before we know exactly who is going to have control of the House of Representatives. My guess is that it will be Republicans. Uh, and currently Republicans have 202 elected Republicans, Democrats, 202. Uh, so they've got a 10, a 10 member lead currently. Uh, and they need just six more to get to 218. That would be the majority. Uh, so we'll continue to watch that as well. And that would mean a complete Republican control of both the White House, the House, and the Senate. Uh, so just something to watch as, as we're keeping an eye on what's happening post election. Um, there's been another interesting piece put out by Axios. And this kind of goes to what I told you on Wednesday, which was what needs to happen for the Democrats now? Well, they need to look in the mirror. They need to, to have that coming to Jesus moment, which is our party platform has failed. Our party platform has failed the American people. Our party platform is not something that people can get behind. It has strayed too far away from where historically the Democratic party has been. And if you look across the aisle, now Republicans are a party of the working class. Republicans are a diverse party. And, and, and for whatever reason, Republicans have taken on this, this, this idea of being the common sense party, that was something that was never really associated with Republicans. Republicans were, were financially, fiscally responsible. They wanted smaller government, but, but now this is something completely different. And so what is the Republican party or what, excuse me, what does the Democrat party need to do? And it's in something that is being talked about in Axios. And yes, there's a lot of finger pointing. Yes, there's a lot of, uh, what it could have showed up. But one of the things that they've, that they talk about in this piece is that the, some of the most popular figures weren't able to help. Some of the most popular figures in the, in the party, in American politics, quite frankly, in Barack Obama and Michelle Obama weren't able to help. They weren't able to go to Joe Biden because they didn't feel like they, that he had it in him. He, they didn't feel like they could send him out somewhere because, you know, he's going to gaff something and it's going to be a headline. I don't know, like calling people garbage. So it became an issue that Democrats were calling on celebrities kind of in those last days to pick up those pieces when in reality, I think the messaging was wrong. When in reality, I think they just didn't have the right set of issues for the American people. And instead of focusing on how, how immigration has immigration, how inflation has impacted people, how immigration has impacted people and, and instead of dismissing those issues, bringing them into the fold and making sure that people understand that you know that it's an issue. And, and it's, it was something that in my mind was the biggest factor in why Donald Trump was able to pick up support in darn near every state in the country. In some of the most dark blue counties in America, it's why Donald Trump was able to pick up that support because he hit the issues that people cared about. It's why Donald Trump's growing base of union workers has grown. It's because he's hitting the issues that matter to those people. And, and, and the campaign realized that instead of dismissing these issues, you need to hit them head on. And that's part of the reason why Donald Trump won. But in this era, now, Republicans, Democrats have a very difficult road ahead, which is trying to figure out how to get back to the old party, how to get back to being that party of common sense, not censoring, not, not, you know, giving endless money to a country in Europe, in war, that's, that's not, that doesn't have democratic DNA on it. It just does it. It's very out of character. And a lot of the social issues, a lot of the, the, the, you know, men's and women's sports and the men's in the girls bathrooms and a lot of those issues that would never have been a true democratic issue. So how do they then make that transition? It is, it is absolutely the reckoning that this party will face over the next two, two years, year and a half, as they get ready for the midterms in 26, how they, how they handle themselves, how they, how they align themselves from a party perspective is going to be very interesting. 808590957, 8085900WJR. Dave, the Democrat kicks us off this afternoon. Dave, I missed hearing from you earlier this week. Well, crap. And right now I'm packing in my boxes. I'm in Canada right now. Oh, where are we at? Windsor, Ontario. Okay. All right. Well, wasn't a fart travel. That's good. No, no, no, no. It's a local phone call to WJR. Yeah. Are you serious? Let's talk. Let's hone in on this Ukraine issue. First of all, I think your guess is delusional if they think that the whole deal with Putin going into Ukraine is because they want assurance that they won't join the NATO with the article. It's a huge part of it. It's already defending now. I mean, it's an end and it's a huge part of a democratic. How much money do you think we put in to as far as relative, relative, relevant money and expresses any form to put into Ukraine as far as Russia, Russia's adventure isn't back to reconstitute. Hey, all right. Hold on. Let's let's go from a historical perspective. You remember back in the seventies, those flower children, all those people that were that were hippies, all those folks that were that were that were that were protesting the Vietnam War, all those, all those Democrats, do you remember those people? Do you think that they would have advocated for the United States to send money to a country in war with? Were they against the war machine? Now, right there, there gets the 60, 58,000 American lives that were lost in Vietnam. We're not putting one body in the soil. In fact, we're not in any war directly losing lives, okay? We were in Afghanistan losing about 65, 66 soldiers' lives over four years versus 16 over the last four years. I mean, that's what American people like. It's to defend people like that. And that's what Jimmy Kimball was talking about as well as his long list of other things, science, the abolishment of scientific thinking, whether it's global climate change, whether it's the the reproductive rights of women. And I mean, my God, Ukraine is a perfect example. That Ukraine is a perfect example where we're going to just put Donald Trump's going to add, it's America first last and only relative to NATO. We don't need NATO. We don't need to be involved in anywhere in the world. And which is not true. That's not what he said. It was from the very beginning. All you had to do before he got into office, listen to his interviews, like on George Stephanopoulos, July 31, 2016, pull that one up saying, yeah, that's by people in Crimea are happy. Is that Putin's fault? It's Obama's fault. I mean, he goes, there you go. Welcome in. Do you think do you think Trump walks away from NATO? Is that something you think happens? I ain't got no listen to his son. Listen to Don Jr. come down. This time, he's got no one to restrain because he's prepared. He's had years to go get loyalists then. He's go go with his instinct. His instinct is not to rely on anyone who's who's buried from his from his own beliefs. And NATO, he said it is an obsolete organization before he got into office when the generals and everybody, the level headed people in the administration told them why NATO was important. The same reason why he wanted to care about what Don Jr. said. What did he say? Don Jr. said. I don't care what Don Jr. said. What did he say? My father's instinct is right. And he's not going to put up with people like he did last at put up with have to put up with people last time. This is why Project 2025 is just allowed. It's his complete representation of everything about him as far as as far as what he what he proposed, what he always wanted, what he what he's expressed to everybody. This is this this this is what we got to look forward into next two years. Interesting. What did you make of the the outcome of the election? I didn't get to talk with you. Did you did it pan out the way you thought it was? No, no, not at all. Yeah, yeah, I thought I I I was shot. Yeah, I was shot. I mean, I was I was right. I looked at the exit polling. And the one factor I was using that one came out the way I thought it was the polls were picking up 40%. And it was 45% on the account. But everything else was wrong. Everything else was wrong on the polling. So no, it was it was a wild night, David. All right. Thank you, my friend. We'll talk to you again soon. I got to take a break. Unbelievable story about a local family. Well, as a matter of fact, a new documentary is out. And if you're a comic book fan or a superhero fan, or you were when you were a kid, you cannot miss this next interview. Do it next on J or afternoon. All right, so we'll do a got an audible here a little bit. So our guest is unable to join us. And I do want to talk about this, though. And Brian, I need you because I am right here. Truth be told, I don't know anything about any of this. You would be you would really be the expert on this. So there is a new documentary out. It is called selling Superman. And I just want to I want to set this up and I want to make sure I'm doing this right. So it it this is a family here locally. I don't know where exactly they're at, but this is a local Metro Detroit family. They're they're a father. The father of this family passed away. And he growing up his kids, his wife, he he had Asperger syndrome. So which is a part of the the autism spectrum. So he was emotionally distant at times. And you know, the psychological level of it can be very difficult for a family, especially, you know, many, many years ago, when it wasn't a normal thing, people didn't know what exactly it was or why people are like that or whatever. So one of the things that he kind of became obsessive over issues. And he had this obsession that nobody in the family knew about fast forward all these years, he passes away. And the family's going through his stuff, right? A lot of old things. Yep. And they uncover what they uncover is this treasure trove of comic books to the tune of 300,000 comic books and not just 300,000 comic books. And this is where I'm going to hand it off to you, Brian, because you might as well just speaking Mandarin. I don't know of any of anything about any of this stuff. But but he they uncovered this trove of 300,000 comic books that were like what some of the most valuable comic books he has not the first appearance of Superman, but the first Superman comics Superman number one. And apparently from the trailer, he his he had like an OCD to collect. So he collected everything when he got Superman number one, then he bought two, three, four, five and collected for years and years and years. So he's got hundreds and hundreds of Superman comic books. You know, and apparently he had two copies of Superman number one, which is, which is that like the Holy Grail? No, that's the one should number one is the Holy Grail. Superman number one is like maybe third or fourth on the list. Okay, so this this collection is to your knowledge. Is there another collection like this on Earth? Not that I've ever heard of. This is like to stuff. People stumble on stuff all the time in, you know, you see those storage locker videos and things like that, you'll smile across one or two or maybe a box. This apparently he's got multiple, multiple, like it's like a warehouse. Yeah, rooms filled with boxes and boxes and boxes, like hundreds and thousands of comic books that like when he started collecting, he would just collect them all. So they said this set of Superman he's got has the first one. It goes through a World War two. It goes through women getting the vote. All these historical things are always reflected in comic books when they're writing the stories, they reflect what's going on in the world. So it's, you know, they got these little pieces of history reflected in these comic books that this man just had for years and years and years. And his family didn't know. Okay, so you said Superman number one could be valued at how much? He said on the trailer, they estimated two to three million dollars for that one comic book. And he had two copies of that. Yeah, two copies of that for what I saw. Okay. And so and there's there's estimated or they guessing there's probably three copies in the world that are worth having. This man has two of them. Because, you know, it's from the 1930s. It's from 1933 or 34. Right. And so one of the things that I like to do when I was a kid and I was really into it for a certain amount of time and I could tell you a really embarrassing story if you'd like. Sure. But I like to collect cards. I like to collect like baseball cards when I was a kid. Sure. And I also when I was a kid like to collect Pokemon cards. And I thought that I I was just buying these cards to sell. So I get the cards, I'd open them, I'd put them in a little sleeve and I'd file them away. And I buy some more, I put them a little sleeve and I file away. So finally, I was done with this one day. I'm like, I don't want to do this anymore. So I I go to the my local card shop and I have them all in this binder. And my mom tells me she's like, look, you probably this is not a thing. Like, I don't think this is going to work for you. And I'm like, Mom, you don't know anything. This is a Pikachu. I got this. Don't worry about it. And I'm giving her the business. And she is doing the right thing in trying to knock me down a couple pegs. Yeah. So we get to the card shop and bless this guy's heart. He goes, well, just keep collecting. Just keep keep keep. I can't give you anything for this. Just keep collecting. I was crushed, crushed. I think I threw the thing away. I was like, I'm not doing this. I this is about to be a millionaire. And now it's gone. Right. Right. It's you took away every dream I ever had. I'm not doing this anymore. So my point is, this is all very much lost on me. But what I do know is that there are grading systems. So like, for example, I had a card at a Ken Griffey, Jr. card. And it was like, somebody told me like, this is a really good card. And you should send it in and get it, whatever. So I sent it in, they graded it. It was like an eight. And then they sent it back in this like, hard plastic case and screws in it. And then it had like a tag. It was like, whatever it is, the description of it. And then it had the number eight on it. That was the grade. So they do that for comics, right? They do. Absolutely. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you ship your comics in. They will go through all your comics. They will grade them. They will seal the ones that are really valuable that you want sealed and ship them back to you. Okay. So all of this is outlined in a new, what, four part documentary called selling Superman. And where can we watch? Apparently you can watch it online. If you pay, I'm looking at the site now, but on November 16th, it's going to be at the Imagine Royal Oak. So you can go there to see it on November 16th. They're showing at different places around the country and then eventually it'll be streaming, but they're not telling me where it's going to be streaming right now. And I understand that the one of the main kind of focuses, and I think there's a lot of focuses in this, one, like the dad who brought these kids up and there's a little bit of resentment there, and it wasn't always the happy, go lucky childhood. And then he passes and then they find this treasure trove. So there's almost this like internal struggle of like, well, what do we do? Because dad spent all of this time, all of this energy probably to the detriment of us in collecting this. And now we have basically millions and millions of dollars sitting here. Like, do we, do we sell it or do we keep it? That's kind of the, the internal struggle. And if they sell it, they wanted to go to somebody who's going to treasure it like they're dead, not just somebody who wants it. Right. The value they want somebody who really, really wants it. Comic books. Yes. So have you been saving your money ever since you saw the story break? I got about 12 comic boxes in my basement. I've been looking at it on the side of my eye when I came down there, maybe the grandkids one day I'll hit it portion. Yeah. Is there anything? Well, it's, it's an unbelievable story. And we'll continue to talk about it here on Jay afternoon. Don't go anywhere. All right. Three o'clock hour. It is good to have you. Hey, by the way, the Eagles adding more shows to their 2025 residency at sphere Las Vegas. And you could be there score trip for two with flights a two night stay at the Venetian resort Las Vegas dinner at Yardbird Southern Table and bar and two tickets to the concert with a VIB VIP experience package to enter for your chance to win Texas hours national keyword witchy witchy to 95819 for full details and official contest rules visit WJR dot com. Hey, uh, you know, um, there is, uh, I've talked a lot about AI and, and artificial intelligence and, and how this impacts the world. And, and generally, um, I think there are a lot of good things that can come from AI. And then I think that there's a lot of bad things that come from my eye, but that's a whole other topic because in this case, something good has happened. Uh, artificial intelligence has detected breast cancer in a British woman after a routine scan declared that she was cancer three, a West Sussex woman who was 68 recently underwent a mammogram which showed that there were no signs of cancer. However, because university hospital Sussex was conducting an experiment with AI, doctors decided to use this system to give the results another scan and it spotted cancer cells that were too small to be detected by the human eye. The woman says, I knew that whatever they could see on my scan must have been incredibly small if it wasn't picked up the first time. And because the cancer was found so early, um, they were able to remove it with a lumpectomy and now she's cancer free, but she says it's extraordinary and I'm amazed when I talk to friends, I just can't believe that AI can detect what the human eye can't always see. I just feel so lucky. So look, in those cases, that technology is going to be transformational, transformational, and this goes for any scan. It goes for, for basically any type of, of, of medical application. It can be incredibly, incredibly helpful. And it, and it can save somebody's life. So I think that that's, that's fantastic. Also, amusement parks are not immune to the economic climate either. Six flags announcing that they could be shutting down parks in the coming days. It's the latest quarterly earnings report. Six flags entertainment, the parent company, said it'll consider closing some of its parks as part of its, its long-term plan. They operate 42 amusement and water parks around the world. They're, they're not indicating which locations, which water parks, which theme parks. But, but for a lot of people, those parks are a national pastime. And, and the fact that, that they're closing down some of those parks. I mean, I don't know, Danielle, Brian, were you ever big theme park goers? Was that something that you guys were ever interested in? I feel like Danielle probably was. I never was. Not a big goer. I get motion sickness. Oh, but I do go. I just get very sick. Do you take any sort of, you take any sort of, uh, uh, what, there's a couple different types. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, when I was younger, I did, but now it doesn't work. No, it's just over. You could wear that little band with the pressure point around your wrist. Have you seen those? Yeah, but it's no, but this is a severe case. I see. Very severe. You're very severe. It's a very severe case. Yeah, that's fair. I mean, I, I'm not a big, uh, I don't ride roller coasters. It's just, I mean, you know, never, I don't ride roller coasters either. You know, it's funny is like now with like little kids, it's like, I have to not project my, yes, issues on them. So like, we've taken them to like Michigan's adventure a couple of times, which is like a perfect, uh, scale for us. Like they don't need to go to Cedar Point yet. They can't do any of that stuff. So, uh, Michigan's adventure is a nice, they, they have a lot more kid stuff. So it's like, I, if they're like wanting to do something, I got to be like, okay, do it. If that's what you want to do, I can't be like, guys, that just defies the law of gravity. Is it something that we want to do? But like, no, you, if you want to do it, you do it. That's cool. You got to do, do, do your thing. But yeah, yeah, you can't say dads are free to do that. Yeah, I can. That just doesn't make sense to me. But if you want to do it, God bless. Um, it's very hard. It's very hard. I like to imagine, uh, um, also, uh, you know, with all the questions around the 2020 election and what happened in 2024, um, there was a case out of Calhoun County. That's the west side of the state in the battle Creek area, um, where there was a, uh, uh, contradiction of numbers. The Secretary of State's office says they're working to resolve this discrepancy, which involved absentee ballots. So what they're saying happened was in Calhoun County, they use two different high speed absentee ballot tabulators and they have the numbers of one, send all the absentee ballots through, then they send them the absentee ballots in this other tabulator. And so when they sent the numbers in, when they attach the second number of numbers, it took away the first number. So they had to find a way to bring these numbers together and, uh, and they have or will, but it's something that they're, they were looking at, uh, involving this, uh, this election, which, look, I, I think that I even didn't go on back to 2020. It's fair to, to, to look at our system and question what, what vulnerabilities there are, what issues there are. And, and again, I, I told people earlier this week that our elections are perfect. They can't be perfect. It's, it's impossible. Um, but it's pretty darn good. And as long as we catch these, these errors, um, then it should give people a tremendous amount of, of, um, satisfaction to know that our, our cases, our, our elections rather are being handled properly. Speaking of cases, the DOJ charging three in an Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump. And it was something that he talked about, particularly post Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was shot in the ear was that the Iranian regime had a hit out on him. And when you've got that out there, which of course, the secret service is aware of, which of course, the FBI and an intelligent agencies are aware of, um, the fact that Butler was even able to happen in the first place is, is remarkable in and of itself. Um, but now the justice department announcing today federal charges for three, according to those court documents, Iranian officials asked one of the men charged to surveil and ultimately assassinate Donald Trump. Uh, that man is still at large in Iran, according to the justice department. But this newly disclosed plot, plot, uh, was another attempt on Donald Trump's life by the Iranian regime. Uh, because prosecutors say this person who is still, uh, wanted in Iran, participated in recorded conversations with law enforcement, originally tasked by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps to carry out other assassination attempts against us and Israeli citizens inside the United States. And, and it was thwarted by the FBI. So good work by our intelligence agencies, uh, as, uh, as, look, that's just unacceptable. And, and quite frankly, a part of the reason, um, why the United States needs to be more forceful and needs to be more stringent on countries like Iran. So it's just something that we'll continue to watch for you. All right, coming up on the other side, lions, great harm and more joins us as he's got a special event coming up this weekend. We'll talk about it on Jay afternoon. All right. Well, if you want to hang with lions royalty, you'll have an opportunity to this weekend and imagine in Royal Oak, it's a VIP experience with Herman Moore, who joins me this afternoon. Herman, it's good to have you back my friend. Always. Thank you very much. I appreciate the invite. Um, so I'm looking at some of the stuff that, uh, that you've, uh, you've got for people if they want to take advantage. Um, and, uh, look, I, I know Lomas Brown well. I know you guys are friends. You have a, a, a Herman low blanket. Yeah. So we, what I've done is over the years is, um, Lomas and I, we've been great, not just teammates, but his brothers. And he does a tremendous amount of work on the community. He does a lot with different, um, uh, people throughout and business leaders. And what we've wanted to do is just kind of throw out a journey as, as brothers, as, as teammates. And, uh, the blankets are just kind of a testament to that. And it's, it pulls out of that, some visuals that I think people will really enjoy. They're funny. Uh, they can check those out at herm and low.com, h-e-r-m and low.com. Um, if they like to see what we're doing there, it's, it's a great work by a gentleman by the name of Larry Dodge, um, College of Creative Studies, um, former guy that, um, student, and he does tremendous illustration. I don't know how you've put up with him this long. He's, uh, he's a, he's a tough guy to get along with that Lomas Brown. Yeah. Lomas is a, a, just a fall for the earth and people understand that phrase. Um, a, a very, very compassionate person and he's, he's there for people and he has the, the laugh that goes a long way. Uh, I love calling my brother. Yeah. Um, so tell us about, uh, the Herman more experience at Imagine in Royal Oak this weekend. What do you got for people? Well, it's, it's been great. I've been, uh, as everyone knows, Imagine theaters is, is awesome. Um, Paul Glance and his team and, and everyone he has there, just do a tremendous job. And they've been kind enough to offer us the opportunity to utilize their theater and invite lion fans out and those that just want to come out and have a great evening. I know there's a, a great, um, game that's going on that I know we'll, we'll probably have somewhere in the background. Uh, they loved it. They won't have to worry about missing that, but if they come out and support the Herman more tackle life foundation, we do a lot with, uh, offering free mental health services to educators and, um, families who can't afford it, but also to first responders and, and those in our community that may need it. Um, and then we also do entrepreneurship program. So I'll have a final personal effects there. My memorabilia that you can't get online. You can't really buy it. Uh, anywhere in any stores I have it at my own collections. Um, cameo type, uh, videos we can do with them VIP meet and greet and things that needs just making it a nice experience. Um, while you're there, we got four bar, boom, and plus seating. As you know, the services that imagine. So it's, it's awesome. Yeah, it's, it's top notch and, um, and everything that you continue to do with your foundation, your partnership with low and, and imagine, uh, is, is one that, uh, that seems to be made in heaven. Um, and, and of course, uh, you welcome lions fans out. Now, I mean, we're ushering in, you know, kind of this, this golden age for lions football, but I mean, you guys had some runs too back in those early 90s. And, um, and what, uh, what do you see? But, you know, kind of the similarities, if there are of the teams that you guys were on, you and low and, and, and maybe this team that they've got built now. Yeah, well, here's the thing that's really interesting. I really like the fact that coach Campbell and there's no disrespect to players such as myself and Barry and Lomas and Chris Filman and guys like that. He's created a different identity for this team. He's, it's a different era. It's a different game than what we had. I don't think anyone's mistaking, um, some of the receivers to be, you know, Chris Carter's and Randy Moss's and Jerry Rice's across the line or Darryl Green's and, um, um, um, Deion Sanders and those type of, you know, Charles Woods and those guys on the other side. But I think there's a tremendous amount of talent that is there. And in this era, based on what's happening, I think this team is poised, um, to, to win a championship. And I think they deserve it. They've built their own culture. They've built their own type of team without negating or forgetting the history of the Lions and the players have become before them, um, in our era and all those things, but they're building their own story. And that's why I am more impressed with in the fact that they have a coach and Dan Campbell, that he goes in. He's very authentic. He's transparent and, um, they, they, they've built a, a winning culture. You know, winning is you all, as anyone would know, who's been in sports. It's not about just talking about it. It's about you have to embody that. You have to, to know that when you're not winning, you, you innately know what that feels like that you're underperforming. And so they don't accept anything other than winning and playing their best. And I think that's, that's tremendous. So I applaud them. And again, that's why we're, as, as former players, we're out supporting them. We're out speaking very highly about this organization, about this, this coaching staff and these players. But even like with me, it's, it's celebrating our fan base and offering career events like we're doing at Imagine, but then they come out for at no cost to come out and just let's celebrate this, this, this exciting thing that are happening, not just with the Lions, but with all the Detroit sports. This is a great, it's a great time to be a Detroit Lions and Detroit sports fan. No doubt about it. Did you find that in your, in your playing days too, in your career, that there was just something different about coaches, whether they were position coaches or whatever that if they played, they understood the game at a different level because it seems to me, you know, Dan makes a big focus on understanding what they go through mentally, physically, and what all that entails. And he's very cognizant of it. And he's very cognizant of the business aspect of it too. And, and you see that in the, in the way that they've, they've, they've paid these guys, but did you find that it was a different mentality with coaches that played the game? It is. So I was blessed as a receiver to have Charlie Sanders, NFL Hall of Famer, Lions legend, who was my coach at some point in time doing my career, had Raymond Berry, another legend, another guy that, you know, is a NFL legend that was my coach. And I always had good rapport with them. It was only when you had people who hadn't played the game, there was a disconnect because it was their way or no way. And what we realized is players that there's something, unless you've actually played the game, there's going to be a disconnect in communication. I love the fact that Coach Campbell has brought people and personnel on his team that have played the game. And he's mixed that in with some really great minds who understand how to put philosophy and schemes together. And they work together. It's not about ego and attitude. Think early in the 90s and the times when I played, it was, it was just too much of possessiveness. And it was, you had to embody and embrace their way. And sometimes their way wasn't the right way, but then, you know, it was about if you're not performing well or you're not the top three or five, you can't get paid because, you know, your value for the team was based upon what your stats were across the league, where they don't do that now. Right now they're paying these guys. It's not about how much money they're making. It's not about, I mean, not how much money they're making. It's not about how many stats they have. It's not about those type of things. It's more about what their contribution and their importance is to the team that ultimately drives their value. So I love the philosophy. I love the way it's been placed. But I think it was a broken system in the 90s, which ultimately allowed us not to really hit. I think our apex on this team. It is imagine more the Herman more experience this Sunday, November 10th at Imagine Royal Oak. I'm sure that if you a poke and prod Herman more, he can give you a lot more stories just like this. A lot of insights about playing the game. Tickets are available. You can head online and get them there. And maybe wrap yourself up in a little Herman more in Lomas Brown blanket. Keep you warm this winter. Herman, thank you, my friend. Enjoy the weekend and enjoy the game. Thanks again and I'm really remind everyone to event is free. So come on out and we're starting at 6 30. So I appreciate if they come out and show some support and go lions. You got it. Go lions. Herman more. Thank you, my friend. We'll talk soon. Thank you. Yep. That is Herman more here on WJR. We'll take a break, come back on the other side, get to some calls, some text, 800-859-0957. It's WJR. All right. I wanted to keep this a little bit lighter on this Friday. It feels like we've all been through a lot this week. I don't know if you guys feel that way. It's how I feel. So I'm going to give you a couple of stories here that just make me laugh. So do you remember Danielle Bryant? Did you ever see the movie Jumanji? Da Jumanji. Where all the animals come out of this board game and they're running all over this town. 43. 43 monkeys that were bred for medical research escaped a compound in South Carolina and have been spotted in the woods nearby. And scientists and site workers are using food to try to recapture them. These monkeys escaped on Wednesday after an employee at the Alpha Genesis facility didn't fully lock a door as she fed and checked on them. Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard said that they are very social monkeys. They travel in groups. So when the first couple go out the door, the others tend to just follow right along. Westergaard says that the main goal is to have the monkeys returned safely with no other problems. He goes, I think that they're having an adventure and the monkeys. The monkeys are exploring the outer fence area of this compound and they found the window where some of these other monkeys are inside and they are cooing and trying to talk to them from the outside. But let's not bury the lead. 43 scientifically tested monkeys are just out in South Carolina. They're having fun. I saw this at a movie once. It doesn't end well. It doesn't end well. Isn't this how Planet of the Apes got started? I don't know. Maybe I don't know that that's probably totally wrong. Having never seen Planet of the Apes. This is the plot of the Rugrats movie too. And also this happens in the last of us. Monkeys are always getting out and bad things happen afterwards. They are they are often tested on. So it I can see how it's the basis for a lot of dramatization. I hope they never. 43 monkeys. I hope they never find them. Not all 43. Well, yeah, I think they've they've at least have an idea where they're at. They're only the size of a cat. They only weigh about seven pounds. So they're little little monkeys. But they say that they pose no risk to the public or public health. And they breed these monkeys to sell the medical and other researchers. Wait, where was this again? Where in South Carolina? South Carolina. This is around the Columbia area. South Carolina. Daniel's playing on a weekend trip now. My buddy. My buddy David lives there. So I'm just, you know, watch out for those monkeys, David. Hey, David, pick us up on monkey. Look, or just steer clear of the monkeys. I mean, you don't know. You don't know. How about this story? You ready for this? The ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz that were initially while they were stolen out of the Julie Judy Garland Museum in in Minnesota are now for sale. So these, these, this pair of ruby slippers take you back a little bit. They were on loan to the Judy Garland Museum in 2005. The guy who initially had these shoes gave it to the museum to show that summer in 2005, somebody smashed the display case and stole the slippers. Nobody knew where they are. The FBI were was able to track them down. They got them back in 2018. So for almost what 15 years they were, they were MIA. And the guy who stole them was like 78 at the time. He was sentenced, but they served him to, they gave him time served because he was not in good health. But he did confess that yeah, I took a hammer to the case and I hit the glass case, broke it open and took the shoes. But I guess he thought that the shoes were actually like be dazzled with real jewels. Yeah, he thought they were real rubies. He thought they were real, real rubies, which I guess if you look at them, they're totally not. I don't know how you make that distinction. Yeah, whatever, unless you don't know what a ruby is. Sounds like you might be a little dumb. Yeah. Also, they don't put rubies on real movie props, like that's whatever, whatever, it's ridiculous. You're more on. So they get these shoes back. And now the, they're up for sale. The grand, the city and the state in Minnesota set aside $100,000 earlier this year to purchase the slippers. And look, there's only four pairs of these in existence. They only used four different pairs. And this is one of them. And so they could be going, I mean, these shoes could be going for a lot of money, a lot of money guaranteed. Is there Kim Kardashian buys them? That's going to be it. But there's your highest better. Why? Why do you say that? Because she can. Of course she would want those. Oh, it's just because she can. Yeah. Does she want to wear them or just have them? No, she's like a, she's a weird collector. You should, I don't want you to see her collection, but she's, she's a weird collector. Okay. I see. Okay. It would kind of make her a villain. I actually might be on board with this. If she were to buy these shoes, like it obviously means a lot to the good folks in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and the state that they set aside government tax, you know, tax payer money to buy these prop shoes. And if Kim Kardashian comes in to buy them for herself, I actually fully support this, fully support this idea. I think that would be great. That would make her quite a villain. Yeah, it should be something where people can see them. I mean, that's one of the most famous movies of all time. I can't imagine any little kid who's never seen the Wizard of Oz. No, you know, so, so my wife, uh, fun, the fun fact about my wife hates the Wizard of Oz. Really? Why? Hate scares her. Oh, the flying monkeys. The Wizard of Oz scares her. Well, the flying monkeys. It's a, it's a very common fear for, especially for those of the ancestors of the monkeys in South Carolina. Next thing you know, next thing you know, they're just siding with a witch somewhere. It's not what you want here on a monkey Friday. On J.R. afternoon, on J.R. afternoon, be our monkey in a round monkey Friday. Got any other monkey stories in that bag of yours? I wish. I think I'm all monkeyed out. If Stephanie's afraid of frightened by the Wizard of Oz, would she then not let Jacob and Henry see it? Or would you just not watch it with them? No, she, no, she just doesn't want to watch it. Okay. She, I'm like, look, it's the Wizard of Oz. This is an incredible movie. Like, it's a great movie. And it's a cool fantasy for little kids. I mean, I remember when I was a little kid watching that movie and it's still something little kids love to watch. Yeah, it's cool. It's good. It's good movie. A woman who pleaded guilty to dressing as a clown. And in 1990, murdering the wife of a man that she later married has been released from prison. Sheila Keene Warren, who's 61, was released 18 months after she pleaded guilty to second degree murder for shooting a woman according to the Florida Department of Corrections. The plea deal came shortly after a trial would have started. Karen Wien who maintained her innocence even after her plea was sentenced to 12 years in prison. She's been in custody for seven years since her arrest and in, and well, her arrest in 2017. And a law in 1990 allowed significant credit for good behavior, which she has had. Because she would have been released in about two years. She will always be an admitted convicted murderer and will wear that stain every day for the rest of her life according to the attorneys in this case. But her attorney has said that she only took the plea deal because she would be released less in two years than had she been facing a life sentence if she were convicted at trial. But she maintains no, I didn't dress up like a clown and kill somebody. And just again, a Florida story, which is the wackiest of all stories. But the sheriff's investigation has she had they suspected her. But she wasn't arrested in another case that they still haven't been able to approve involving her dressing up as a clown. Because in that case, in that case, this woman son and her and his friends were at a home when a person dressed as a clown rang the doorbell. This kid's mom answered a clown handed her some balloons. She responded how nice and the clown pulled a gun and shot her. What? Yeah. Talk about movie material. That is movie material. And she is now released. And she's gonna be dressed up as a clown in about 10 minutes, y'all watch out. So happy Friday. Unbelievable stuff. All right, we'll take a break. Come back for more here on Jay afternoon. Ken Brown. Hello, nice to see you. I have to go back to a couple of things you just went through before we even go into anything else. Yeah. Number one, yeah, the woman that got shot by the clown, she's okay now, right? Yeah, yeah, she says, no, the one who got shot though, initially, yes, she dressed up as a clown shot somebody they're fine. But then murdered somebody else. Okay, I don't want to then pleaded guilty. Even though she says she wasn't guilty, now she's released. Okay, I don't know. She's back out in the world. Okay, I just want to know that she escaped in a little getaway car. Yes. Okay. No, well, it was a little, but she was in the side car. Right, she was in the side car. It was the side car. And number two, me and you must be the same type of person. The Wizard of Oz was on last night. I was watching it. I had two Jack Daniels and I wasn't really, I was, yeah, it was on HBO. So I was tripping out the whole time. I've seen it 200 times, but to watch it again, it's just, it's, it's, it's amazing. And I was captivated by the little, the little lollipop guild. I was just fascinated. Watch that movie. Ken, Ken, Ken. This is a part of the lollipop guild. Yes. Can I, I'll get, yeah. Really represent a lollipop guild. I'll let you win on a little secret. Yes. And I haven't told many people this. Certainly never set it on the radio. When I was a kid, I was in a rendition of Wizard of Oz. And not only was I in the lollipop guild, I was the head of the lollipop. You presented the lollipop. Yes. That's correct. And let me just tell you that little leg kick that they do. The little leg kick, right? I, I can't tell you how many times I watched that clip to me when I was in my, when I was studying for the role, that little like jerk kick. The little jerk kick, right? Yeah. Yep. That was me. It was flawless, flawless execution. And as you watch it as an adult, I've looked at it these, you know, when you watch as a kid, little, little munchkins that, you know, you think they're children, those guys are like 50 years old apiece, but I watch you just think last night. It's just, it was trippy. Yes. It's amazing. Well, if you, it's, it's funny. Cause if you want, it's not, I mean, when you look back, right? And the way people perceived little people then, like they couldn't compute, right? Right. And so there were like, behind the scenes pictures, like them on set, like smoking cigarettes and like taking a break or whatever. The book on that it was like orgies every night at the hotel is just crazy with the, the whole group of them. Oh, no, seriously. You got to read this book. When you, when you watch it, you see that the, the lollipop guild, they're all like, they all act like Edward G. Robison. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now, do you know, do you know the jig clamped story in this, Chris? Uh, no. Do you know that the jig clamped story? Yeah. But the episode was the original Tin Man. When they first started filming it, though, he got allergic to the silver paint and got sick, and they had to replace them. He would have been really, yeah, he started filming it. And then the paint, he got allergic reaction to the silver paint for the Tin Man, and it made him sick and he had to drop out. Oh, no way. Yeah, there you go. That's true for your kin brown. Who knew, who knew that's what we were doing today. That's it. Um, are you okay? I haven't checked on you. Yeah, I'm fine. I'm worried about you. I'm glad you're feeling much better. I'm fine. Yeah, I'm okay. I'm fine. But in the recent dev developments, yeah, are you okay? Wednesday, I was not happy, but I'm not talking about the election. What are you talking about, the life? I'm talking about Kirk Herb Street's dog. Oh, are you okay? Yeah, I'm trying to me. Are you all right? Trying to make it through. Now, I don't watch, you know, game day a lot like all you guys do. I'm not. But he would bring the dog on the show, right? Her dog died. They had to put the dog down. I really can't or in its sprint, right? Well, I got to feel everybody in. So that's what happened. And I'll just tell you, I don't understand it. I don't understand why people bring their dogs everywhere. It's actually a pet peeve of mine. Really? So the fact that he's bringing it to games that drove me absolutely bad. Were they showing on the set every week or something that he was a dog? All the time. All the time. It was it was it was everything about the dog. And I'm like, can we talk about football for a little bit? I really don't care. Right, but you got to have a morning. You can't say bad stuff now. There's a morning period for the dog. So why? Because it's a morning period for the dog, the dog. But it's a dog. I don't understand that. But we will give them a week before you get on it. But yeah, you got to give them a week. You can't just talk about the dog being on the set. Oh, God. Was it every week? Okay. It was every was every day. Every way. Okay. It was Thursday night football without Michael's. I was everywhere, everywhere. All the time. Well, give it a week, man. A morning period of a week. Well, I'm sorry for you starting getting in the dogs on the set. Then I really shouldn't have voiced my my opinion so early. That's fine. I was out of an alliance facility today. And was the Darius Smith in pads? Yes. Well, they did like a walk through a thing. You only see 10 minutes, you know, doing a week, but I was 50 50. He'll play. You know, Taylor Decker will not be playing this Sunday. Okay, he's out. Okay. That's a big loss. It's a problem. I wonder how they're going to switch up any suit to the left side for this game. Cool. And who's going to take Penny Sue's place that? That's a big problem. Decker was playing well. Yeah. He has been playing well. There was a couple of games early that I thought he wasn't playing well, but he regrouped. He's been doing a really nice job the last few years. So interesting game. I think the Darius Smith will play a little bit of just my feeling on it. He looked in great. We'll get a few snaps looked in great shape and was happy to be here. Nice locker room talk. I heard a I heard a what up dough in the head of what I'm going to get there. Yes, that's good. That's good. So he's going to fit in nicely here. Yes. So fit in nicely here. Get this game Sunday. This is the toughest game for the next month. Yes. There's no doubt about it. On the road Sunday night, prime time game, Lions Texans down in Houston. I don't have a what's the spread? Lions three and a half plus three. Well, minus three. Yeah, minus three and a half. Yeah, they're giving three. Okay. All right. I mean, that makes sense. And like six point favorites. Baseball real quick. Soto, would you pay seven hundred million dollars for Soto? A few of the tigers? Seven hundred. What's the what's the term? Well, whatever year is seven hundred million. Is it really matter how many years that you play a seven hundred million, but seven hundred million dollars contract? I'm just wondering, would you go over board and bring in a guy like Soto? There you go. Well, I don't know. I'm down. Oh boy. I will pay. I got the kick. I will pay money for anybody who has a picture of Chris Renwick. I'll find it. I'll find it for you. I'll find it for you. All right. Please. That'll be my Christmas gift to you. Please. All fine. All right. That's going to do it. All right. Mitch Mitch album of the crew coming up. See you. That's the next week. Have a good one.