00:21:04.600Like mentally, like if you were, as a tennis player, you had to actually see and mentally see that serve when you toss it up there and hit it through.
00:21:12.100Great baseball players can see that ball coming in over there.
00:21:14.200Remember they say Ted Williams could see the seams on the curveball like he had just crazy good.
00:21:21.540My coach said to me, he goes, there will be a time in your life when you will be able to have a serve hit at you and you'll be able to tell me the number and who makes the ball.
00:21:29.660And it happened for me for three days and I never got it back.
00:21:32.520But you could hit ball as hard as you want to serve 115, 120 miles an hour.
00:21:36.580And I could tell you it was a Wilson, he was hoping three or a pin four.
00:21:39.960And I don't know what happens in your brain, but it's the same thing with it.
00:21:42.640Now, I never got it back, but he didn't lie.
00:21:45.820And that he was like the guys that are the greats could see that the majority of the time.
00:21:49.260Look, and I got to tell you, if you play me ping pong and you hit the ball at me, I can tell you what color the ball is.
00:28:14.200And if you go and poll athletes, if you did a poll right now of the last 20 years of college athletes in Division I, they will tell you they hate the NCAA.
00:30:21.500I would pray for victory just so they wouldn't have to watch the game lose and then get back on the bus and leave.
00:30:28.620In other words, like before we could help families get there, it was actually – there was a lot of cost involved in trying to support your –
00:30:36.600So we were way behind in trying to take the pendulum, obviously, as one.
00:30:40.620So basically, in its simplest terms, and the senator understands this, the courts have ruled that the NCAA, the way it was set up, setting these rules of eligibility or whether you could transfer or what your academics could be or what scholarship was allowed and what's an extra benefit,
00:30:57.260all those rules were agreed to by the parties that beat without the student-athletes being involved.
00:44:05.240Where they're doing these crazy shots.
00:44:07.160It's like, you know, off the rafter, on the back, you know, nothing but net.
00:44:12.400And it's one of the great, for those of y'all, because we have a lot of young listeners, go Google, like, Bird, Jordan, McDonald's commercial classics.
00:44:21.460But no, he said the best part about that game when the coaches left the room and it was like they were calling shots in each other's face and there was a lot of betting going on.
00:44:28.260As he said, seeing Charles Barkley trash talk with Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, you look at that roster of the guys that were there trash talking.
00:44:37.620And he said it was the ultimate level of trash talking because there was no audience.
00:46:20.940And so my grandfather told me that he named me Mordecai because he wanted me to be somebody that would protect and stand up for the weaker.
00:46:31.000And so whether it be in school, if you want to try to pick on a kid, you kind of had to go through me.
00:46:43.700American Jewry should be this country's greatest patriots.
00:46:46.700Jews in America should be this country's greatest patriots because where else in the history of the world have the Jewish people had an opportunity to work hard, own land, own business, do things, but in this incredible democracy, the United States of America?
00:47:02.320Nowhere else except maybe Israel right now.
00:47:05.480Jews should be this country's greatest patriots.
00:47:07.260So I – this country saved my grandfather's life.
00:47:10.440He came from Turnipol in 1929 when he was 11 years old.
00:47:13.700He was the oldest of three younger siblings.
00:47:16.700He brought my Auntie Shirley, my Uncle – my Uncle Harold was an infant, and my Auntie Claire.
00:47:21.120And he told me this country saved our family's life.
00:47:28.860Went to the Boston area, went with some family, and much of his family couldn't make the trip, didn't make the trip, died in the Holocaust.
00:47:35.580And so he loved Israel because he had told me that if Israel had been a state way back then in 1929, even though it was Zionism, even the Jews were returning to the ancestral home run, America was the dream.
00:47:47.760But it was more expensive to come to America.
00:47:49.060That maybe if Israel was a state back in 29 and they'd have gone to Israel and more of his family, more of my cousins and my aunts and uncles would have survived the Holocaust.
00:47:59.360And so those things kind of obviously, you know, sort of, you know, stuck with me.
00:48:06.700You know, one of the things, Senator, when people want to have some debate about Israel or who our ally is or how much money we're going to say, I love when I speak about raising someone else, say, for the Boys and Girls Club.
00:48:43.300Look, Israel is surrounded by nations that would drive it into the sea.
00:48:46.800And the only reason Israel exists is because it has beaten them over and over and over again in war after war after war, in many instances against all odds.
00:49:00.200You know, I'm reminded of – this is kind of a silly analogy, but it's one that resonates with me at least.
00:49:06.600When I was a kid, there was a book series I read called The Great Brain.
00:49:45.000And he said, but the Mormons are very tolerant.
00:49:48.840And he said it was a very simple matter of Swen D. learning to whip all the kids his age and Tom D. learning to whip all the kids his age and me learning to whip all the kids my age.
00:49:56.760And he has a line, it's amazing how tolerant kids can be when you can whip them.
00:50:13.500You look at peace that broke out, I think, under President Trump's leadership.
00:50:16.820None of that happens except for the fact that Israel can whip them.
00:50:21.600And they've demonstrated it over and over again as recently as this past year in the 12-day war.
00:50:27.220And by the way, as the three of us are talking, there are millions of people on the streets of Iran risking their lives.
00:50:33.920And you look at women that are standing up there and men, they are literally – far too many are being slaughtered.
00:50:40.520The others, if the revolution doesn't succeed, they can anticipate being rounded up, tortured, murdered.
00:50:48.620And in many ways, I think this is the consequence of losing a war that sometimes in today's political world, we think everything is a comms matter.
00:51:00.540It's all about communications and messaging.
00:51:02.540No, there was a 12-day war and Iran lost.
00:51:05.140And if you are the Ayatollah Khamenei, you are an Islamist dictator, your staying in power is predicated on convincing your citizenry you are omnipotent.
00:51:37.140And we said on this podcast in the wake of this, I said, I believe the regime will fall because they've been shown to be a paper tiger.
00:51:46.520And look, my prayers are – I can think of nothing that would make the Middle East safer, that would make America safer than having that theocratic lunatic who chants death to America no longer in charge.
01:00:59.400I proposed – and this is a sports wager I make with some frequency, which is the loser presents – like what I offered up was Texas barbecue, Blue Bell ice cream, and Shiner Bock beer, and you present it in the winner's jersey.
01:01:26.180He's a confident betting man right there.
01:01:27.940He said, you will walk onto the Senate floor, and he went and bought, wearing a Steelers beanie, and this giant piece of bling that says Steelers that's, I don't know, about 10 inches wide, this giant gold chain.
01:01:42.940Walk onto the Senate floor and cast a vote.
01:01:45.040Yeah, you can bring the barbecue and stuff if you've got to walk on.