WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.600 Music. 00:00:12.723 --> 00:00:15.603 We'll go back to New World next week. I'm James Corbett of CorbettReport.com. 00:00:16.823 --> 00:00:19.303 And I'm James Evan Palato of MediaMonarchy.com. 00:00:19.443 --> 00:00:22.863 Honestly, for me, I like the human element, the old way of doing it. 00:00:23.203 --> 00:00:26.963 We've got that all-star story, plus weapons reserves. 00:00:27.243 --> 00:00:35.823 But first, first crypto bill vote fails to get 100% re-thug-looking support despite Trump's call. 00:00:35.943 --> 00:00:38.883 Grabbing this from Cointelegraph, James, which, have I said, 00:00:39.143 --> 00:00:41.503 always to me looks like Cointelegraph. 00:00:42.683 --> 00:00:46.723 Cryptocurrency-related bills backed by U.S. President Donald Trump failed to 00:00:46.723 --> 00:00:51.123 clear a key procedural step in the House of Representatives on Tuesday despite 00:00:51.123 --> 00:00:54.503 the president's threats and a public push for action. 00:00:54.703 --> 00:00:58.803 Trump had urged Republican lawmakers to get the first vote done this afternoon 00:00:58.803 --> 00:01:05.423 on legislation to regulate payment stablecoins as part of a larger effort to 00:01:05.423 --> 00:01:09.743 pass crypto legislation before they all go on August recess. 00:01:09.743 --> 00:01:15.303 In a Tuesday post on the social media platform he owns, Trump ordered all Republicans 00:01:15.303 --> 00:01:19.743 to vote yes on the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. 00:01:19.843 --> 00:01:26.683 Stable Coins Genius Act, a bill designed to regulate payment stable coins in the U.S. 00:01:27.063 --> 00:01:30.983 The legislation is one of three bills, along with one to address market structure 00:01:30.983 --> 00:01:35.043 and central bank digital currencies that Republican House leaders have been 00:01:35.043 --> 00:01:40.263 pushing as part of the party's crypto week plans, which this is really the first I'd heard of that. 00:01:40.543 --> 00:01:44.583 The president, the crypto week, the president may have been referring to a house 00:01:44.583 --> 00:01:48.903 resolution to consider the three bills and a defense bill, which failed to get 00:01:48.903 --> 00:01:51.623 support from a majority of lawmakers present on Tuesday. 00:01:52.063 --> 00:01:55.523 At least 13 Republicans may have voted against the resolution, 00:01:55.943 --> 00:02:00.443 the genius act, which passed through the Senate in June with bipartisan support, 00:02:00.563 --> 00:02:04.743 despite initial resistance from many Democrats That's expected to head to a 00:02:04.743 --> 00:02:07.083 floor vote in the House. That was on Tuesday. 00:02:08.609 --> 00:02:13.369 Under personal scrutiny, and it's not for the only reason on this episode or 00:02:13.369 --> 00:02:18.089 this week, for his role in pushing the stablecoin legislation due to his involvement 00:02:18.089 --> 00:02:20.829 in his family-backed crypto company, 00:02:21.109 --> 00:02:24.429 World Liberty Financial, WLF, 00:02:24.789 --> 00:02:31.589 which sounds like WWF, which issued its own stablecoin and suggested a conflict of interest. 00:02:32.049 --> 00:02:34.989 Something we'd all get mad about if Pelosi was doing it. 00:02:34.989 --> 00:02:41.169 Bloomberg reported on Friday that Binance helped create WLF's USD1 stablecoin, 00:02:41.369 --> 00:02:47.969 also used by an Abu Dhabi investment firm to settle a $2 billion investment in the crypto exchange. 00:02:48.289 --> 00:02:52.009 World Liberty Financial has received a significant portion of its funding from 00:02:52.009 --> 00:02:56.169 overseas, which has brought about serious ethical and national security concerns, 00:02:56.709 --> 00:03:00.049 said California Representative Maxine Waters' office. 00:03:00.049 --> 00:03:06.569 You know, again, you know you're not doing well when CNN or Maxine Waters is dunking on you. 00:03:06.829 --> 00:03:11.249 Foreign investment is not just a business deal. It's a direct payment to the sitting U.S. 00:03:11.369 --> 00:03:15.169 President with the goal of currying favor and influence within the White House. 00:03:15.349 --> 00:03:18.889 I mean, I was going to say, oh, geriatric Congress critter crazies. 00:03:18.989 --> 00:03:20.749 Who cares what they think? But they're right. 00:03:21.769 --> 00:03:26.289 Broken clock. Many Democratic leaders have responded to Republicans' push for 00:03:26.289 --> 00:03:31.389 the digital asset bills with their own anti-crypto-corruption-weak agenda. 00:03:31.869 --> 00:03:36.369 Boo, Coke, drink Pepsi. They're calling for amendments in the three bills to 00:03:36.369 --> 00:03:39.549 address consumer protection and prevent the president, the vice president, 00:03:39.569 --> 00:03:46.429 and members of Congress from holding or promoting crypto over concerns with conflict of interest. 00:03:46.589 --> 00:03:51.129 So say things they don't have a personal stake in. And can we just say, 00:03:51.449 --> 00:03:53.389 kids, you're both just the worst. 00:03:54.109 --> 00:03:59.209 In related news, James, Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto is the world's 11th 00:03:59.209 --> 00:04:01.709 richest person, if they exist at all. 00:04:01.929 --> 00:04:06.929 James, this sounds like another kind of situation. Again, you talk about the Bitcoin psyop. 00:04:07.029 --> 00:04:11.149 This sounds like another situation of stealing the real and selling us back the fake. 00:04:11.769 --> 00:04:13.909 Bitcoin, in this case, being the real. 00:04:15.496 --> 00:04:18.636 You know, I would only disagree only to say, well, Bitcoin, I think, 00:04:18.756 --> 00:04:21.576 maybe used to be the real or potentially could have been the real. 00:04:21.716 --> 00:04:23.076 But I think they stole that from us, too. 00:04:23.276 --> 00:04:26.516 And if people want more on that, there is an excellent book by Steve Patterson 00:04:26.516 --> 00:04:31.716 and Roger Veer called Hijacking Bitcoin that goes through exactly how Bitcoin was hijacked. 00:04:31.816 --> 00:04:36.736 And they stole that real or at least potential real and gave us the fake. 00:04:36.856 --> 00:04:40.916 But here's the second order of that, because the system just keeps going and 00:04:40.916 --> 00:04:44.856 propagating itself. And for people who do not understand the stablecoin PSYOP 00:04:44.856 --> 00:04:49.516 and what is going on right now, there's more that you should definitely learn about that. 00:04:49.696 --> 00:04:53.276 So in my own humble attempt to spread awareness of that, I recently wrote Bitcoin 00:04:53.276 --> 00:04:55.436 $100,000, what does it mean? 00:04:55.656 --> 00:04:59.016 In which I talked about the stablecoin PSYOP and what it's about. 00:04:59.196 --> 00:05:02.296 But people who want even more depth of detail on that should, 00:05:02.396 --> 00:05:07.396 of course, go to Mark Goodwin and Whitney Webb, who co-authored a series of 00:05:07.396 --> 00:05:11.516 articles on this last year, including Trump embraces the Bitcoin dollar. 00:05:11.736 --> 00:05:14.196 Stable coins to entrench U.S. 00:05:14.476 --> 00:05:18.476 Financial hegemony. So long story short-ish. 00:05:18.756 --> 00:05:21.656 And you really should go to these articles for more detail on this, 00:05:21.756 --> 00:05:26.896 but this is a win-win for the oligarchs because they not only get to continue 00:05:26.896 --> 00:05:28.916 to inflate the never-ending, 00:05:29.076 --> 00:05:30.856 never-stopping monetary bubble, 00:05:30.996 --> 00:05:35.196 and they not only get to tokenize that debt for the blockchain era, 00:05:35.376 --> 00:05:40.676 and they not only get to find a way to solve the problem of how to continue to propagate the U.S. 00:05:40.816 --> 00:05:44.756 Dollar hegemony into the 21st century amidst the death of the petrodollar, 00:05:44.916 --> 00:05:48.776 which people will remember was the system that Henry Kissinger jury-rigged in 00:05:48.776 --> 00:05:51.396 order to save the dollar after the collapse of Bretton Woods, 00:05:51.616 --> 00:05:53.516 so to keep that can kicking down the road. 00:05:53.636 --> 00:05:59.776 But they also provide a way for people like the Trumps and other families to 00:05:59.776 --> 00:06:02.236 get involved in monetizing this 00:06:02.236 --> 00:06:06.936 never-ending big beautiful bubble that is being blown by the oligarchs. 00:06:06.956 --> 00:06:11.656 So it is win-win for the oligarchs and the broligarchs, by which I mean ka-ching ka-ching. 00:06:12.556 --> 00:06:15.276 Anyway, there's a lot more detail. I'll throw that in the show notes if people 00:06:15.276 --> 00:06:18.376 want to start reading in on this, but I think I'll have more to say on this in the future. 00:06:19.844 --> 00:06:23.824 James, I just glanced over at this moment as we speak. 00:06:24.044 --> 00:06:29.364 Bitcoin is right now at $118,000 right now. 00:06:29.704 --> 00:06:35.284 So it is booming. Or like the meme I saw in my members' memers room earlier, 00:06:35.944 --> 00:06:37.124 Bitcoin's kind of booming. 00:06:37.304 --> 00:06:41.184 It's more a show that the dollar is dooming, if you will. 00:06:42.004 --> 00:06:46.504 I've heard it put in a way that stable coins are anything but due to their inability 00:06:46.504 --> 00:06:51.084 to consistently maintain their peg to the assets they are supposed to back. 00:06:51.724 --> 00:06:54.644 This is not financial advice. I am not a lawyer. 00:06:54.884 --> 00:07:00.444 I'm James Evan Palato of MediaMonarchy.com, and this is episode 597 of New World Next Week. 00:07:00.584 --> 00:07:03.984 And if you're wondering, if you feel like you miss out, like what's a great 00:07:03.984 --> 00:07:05.864 way that you can make some of that scratch? 00:07:06.844 --> 00:07:13.724 Sell weapons to both sides of a conflict. Trump to send 300 million in weapons 00:07:13.724 --> 00:07:16.904 to Ukraine drawn from the Pentagon Reserves. 00:07:17.104 --> 00:07:21.984 The pentagram, as I like to call it. Grabbing this from ronpaulinstitute.org for the first time. 00:07:22.644 --> 00:07:27.344 Once and future king, D.J. Trump set to use his authority to send weapons directly 00:07:27.344 --> 00:07:29.664 to Ukraine from Pentagon Reserves. 00:07:29.804 --> 00:07:34.244 Reuters reports, citing two sources familiar with the matter after last week's 00:07:34.244 --> 00:07:37.404 brief halt in shipments and now subsequent reversal. 00:07:37.964 --> 00:07:42.224 Until now, the Trump administration had only transferred arms that were previously 00:07:42.224 --> 00:07:44.824 approved during Brandon's prior term. 00:07:45.044 --> 00:07:49.164 Trump is likely to use the Presidential Drawdown Authority, PDA, 00:07:49.464 --> 00:07:53.984 which enables the president to quickly provide military aid in emergencies, 00:07:54.524 --> 00:07:58.664 despite long-running fears that America could lack for key military hardware 00:07:58.664 --> 00:08:04.204 of fighting its own wars against a major power. It remains that the U.S. 00:08:04.484 --> 00:08:10.184 Has not fought a direct war with a great power in quite some time going back to the World War II era. 00:08:10.950 --> 00:08:14.950 Trump this week indicated he would send more weapons to Ukraine amid intensifying 00:08:14.950 --> 00:08:20.510 Russian advances and aerial strikes after the prior week saw hundreds of drones sent nightly. 00:08:20.690 --> 00:08:23.830 More than three years after Russia's invasion of its neighbor, 00:08:24.270 --> 00:08:26.350 Trump's team will identify arms from U.S. 00:08:26.410 --> 00:08:30.150 Stockpiles to send to Ukraine under the presidential drawdown authority, 00:08:30.230 --> 00:08:34.210 the sources said, with one saying they could be worth around $300 million. 00:08:34.790 --> 00:08:39.710 This is expected to include Patriot air defense missiles and medium-range rockets, 00:08:39.710 --> 00:08:43.750 which is somewhat surprising and alarming given the amount of patriots the Pentagon 00:08:43.750 --> 00:08:49.410 has just blown through defending Israel amid all those Iranian attacks. 00:08:49.870 --> 00:08:54.450 According to The Guardian, the United States only has about 25% of the patriot 00:08:54.450 --> 00:08:59.430 missile intercepts it needs for all of the Pentagon's military plans after burning 00:08:59.430 --> 00:09:02.190 through the stockpiles in the Middle East in recent months, 00:09:02.350 --> 00:09:06.330 an alarming depletion that led to the Trump administration freezing the latest 00:09:06.330 --> 00:09:08.730 transfer of munitions to Ukraine. 00:09:08.890 --> 00:09:13.670 Do you remember, we used to be able to say, Obama dropped the most bombs ever. 00:09:13.870 --> 00:09:17.810 He ran out of bombs. And then Trump did even worse than that. 00:09:18.370 --> 00:09:23.430 As has been noted earlier, U.S. weapons manufacturers can only produce approximately 00:09:23.430 --> 00:09:27.190 500 Patriot missiles per year. The U.S. 00:09:27.490 --> 00:09:30.430 Stockpile, they can't GMO more of them. The U.S. 00:09:30.710 --> 00:09:34.070 Stockpile of air and missile defenses have been drained to aid Ukraine during 00:09:34.070 --> 00:09:37.830 the war with Russia, missile interceptors are in short supply in the West. 00:09:38.090 --> 00:09:44.270 Trump's fresh up to $300 million infusion would reverse Defense Secretary Pete 00:09:44.270 --> 00:09:48.710 Hegseth's decision to pause shipments while a more thorough review can be made 00:09:48.710 --> 00:09:52.670 after he expressed wariness of expanding support to Ukraine, 00:09:52.850 --> 00:09:59.010 which I think a lot of people who voted for MAGA were also expressing their not support for this. 00:09:59.690 --> 00:10:04.710 Trump asks Zelensky if he could strike Moscow if the U.S. provided longer-range 00:10:04.710 --> 00:10:07.290 weapons. This seems fairly inflammatory. 00:10:07.830 --> 00:10:11.490 Trump later denied he was sending long-range weapons to Ukraine and said that 00:10:11.490 --> 00:10:14.730 Ukraine shouldn't target Moscow. Now that you found me out. 00:10:15.530 --> 00:10:21.650 And U.S. weapons supplies to Ukraine never stops, says those bastards at the Kremlin. 00:10:21.890 --> 00:10:25.570 The arms deliveries have continued despite claims of disruptions. 00:10:25.570 --> 00:10:27.850 Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. 00:10:28.270 --> 00:10:31.270 James, the situation just keeps getting worse. 00:10:32.574 --> 00:10:36.054 It certainly does, but I'm thoroughly confused because, James, 00:10:36.174 --> 00:10:40.334 isn't this the war that was absolutely going, he was going to end on day one 00:10:40.334 --> 00:10:41.754 of his new administration, right? 00:10:41.914 --> 00:10:45.754 And he, he, all he had to do was make a phone call because he knew exactly what 00:10:45.754 --> 00:10:49.434 to say to Zelensky and Putin to get this all called, oh, wait, 00:10:49.534 --> 00:10:52.254 no, oh, that was all fake news. No, of course he never promised that. 00:10:53.694 --> 00:10:57.554 And what, Trump lying to the gullible rubes who would vote him into office in 00:10:57.554 --> 00:11:02.074 order to gain power? Or we certainly don't have any relateds that will flesh 00:11:02.074 --> 00:11:03.834 that out in any greater detail, right? 00:11:04.354 --> 00:11:09.234 Anyway, yes, I am not going to use the canard, which you've pointed out, 00:11:09.334 --> 00:11:10.174 I've pointed out before. 00:11:10.354 --> 00:11:13.514 People always use, oh, this is just a distraction from that. 00:11:13.654 --> 00:11:17.154 But while you were busy with other stories, and for good reason, 00:11:17.294 --> 00:11:22.214 like the Epstein story, yes, the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to rage on, 00:11:22.294 --> 00:11:24.554 in fact, seems to be escalating at the moment. 00:11:25.334 --> 00:11:28.434 Just a couple examples of stories that are floating through the news. 00:11:28.554 --> 00:11:32.874 Wires as we're recording this, Russia unleashes most massive attacks since war's 00:11:32.874 --> 00:11:34.574 start on Zelensky's hometown. 00:11:34.954 --> 00:11:38.434 But on the flip side of that coin, Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed 00:11:38.434 --> 00:11:41.054 major Russian drone makers' entire network. 00:11:41.594 --> 00:11:46.474 So who knows? Fog of war. There's a lot of PR that goes around that may or may not be true. 00:11:46.614 --> 00:11:50.374 But at any rate, there are major things happening in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, 00:11:50.374 --> 00:11:52.634 and I think it deserves a bit of attention. 00:11:52.874 --> 00:11:56.334 And on that note, and especially on the note of the drone strikes. 00:11:56.554 --> 00:12:00.534 I will be writing specifically about that in my editorial this weekend so people 00:12:00.534 --> 00:12:04.714 can stay tuned for more on this, which I think is an incredibly important conflict 00:12:04.714 --> 00:12:08.254 because it is increasingly showing us the future of warfare itself. 00:12:12.463 --> 00:12:17.903 It kind of looks like Syria has turned into a hot war situation as well. 00:12:18.143 --> 00:12:22.823 But in those Donfrey-Trumpstein updates that you were referring to, 00:12:23.043 --> 00:12:27.823 Democrats gloat as MAGA world explodes over the Epstein files. 00:12:28.023 --> 00:12:33.483 They were on Pam's desk, but there's no desk here, you crazy conspiracy theorist. 00:12:33.703 --> 00:12:38.223 Trump calls Epstein conspiracy a hoax, turns on MAGA weaklings. 00:12:38.443 --> 00:12:45.303 He sure does turn them on. oh wait you mean he's now turned against them that 00:12:45.303 --> 00:12:47.463 coming from the guardian and again and 00:12:47.563 --> 00:12:50.383 rightly so rightfully so of course and i made the joke 00:12:50.383 --> 00:12:53.043 what last week the democrats don't want to look at 00:12:53.043 --> 00:12:56.003 of course epstein's relationship to bill clinton and all 00:12:56.003 --> 00:12:58.803 of their people but it looks like they're willing 00:12:58.803 --> 00:13:02.763 to go that way just to get trump and 00:13:02.763 --> 00:13:05.983 why not absolutely our third 00:13:05.983 --> 00:13:09.823 and final story on this new world next week episode 597 00:13:09.823 --> 00:13:12.783 here in summer and hope that you 00:13:12.783 --> 00:13:15.563 you wherever you are out there i hope you're doing 00:13:15.563 --> 00:13:18.963 safe and sound and then you're not freaking out because the world would like 00:13:18.963 --> 00:13:22.483 you to freak out and think everything's gonna fall apart but you got the power 00:13:22.483 --> 00:13:26.503 within you and we appreciate you being here we've been doing this for over 15 00:13:26.503 --> 00:13:31.443 years this new world next week have we yeah we've cracked yeah we're over i 00:13:31.443 --> 00:13:34.563 think over 15 years james so what might seem, 00:13:34.763 --> 00:13:40.783 I guess, like a dumb summer story, and it is, but it has wider implications 00:13:40.783 --> 00:13:44.563 and again sort of speaks to the massive changes that we might see. 00:13:44.843 --> 00:13:49.363 Major League Baseball putting automated balls and strikes to the test in the 00:13:49.363 --> 00:13:52.483 All-Star Game this week. Some pitchers not thrilled. 00:13:52.723 --> 00:13:57.663 The hottest topic in Atlanta this week ahead of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. 00:13:57.783 --> 00:14:01.323 They kind of take a break and all the best players do an exhibition game against 00:14:01.323 --> 00:14:02.583 each other. None of it counts. 00:14:02.803 --> 00:14:06.323 They do the home run derby as well. It's just kind of the fun break time. 00:14:07.463 --> 00:14:12.683 The biggest topic wasn't a player or a coach or a manager. It's not even human. 00:14:12.863 --> 00:14:16.923 For the first time, the Midsummer Classic is going to be using automated technology 00:14:16.923 --> 00:14:21.723 to allow pitchers, catchers, and batters to challenge the call of balls and strikes, 00:14:21.943 --> 00:14:25.603 a system that's already been in use in the minor leagues and in spring training, 00:14:25.783 --> 00:14:28.743 but had never been put in place at a major league park. 00:14:28.923 --> 00:14:32.363 It's a technology that has the potential to revolutionize the game, 00:14:32.523 --> 00:14:36.823 a system that might forever change one of the ficklest parts of an incredibly 00:14:36.823 --> 00:14:38.723 fickle game, the ever-changing, 00:14:38.923 --> 00:14:45.103 unpredictable strike zone put in place by all two human home plate umpires. 00:14:45.343 --> 00:14:52.183 This is where we'd see the Leslie Nielsen naked gun late calls of safe and dancing around. 00:14:52.403 --> 00:14:57.223 According to MLB, the challenge system will have the same rules as were used in spring training. 00:14:57.423 --> 00:15:00.963 Each team starts the game with two challenges and they keep their challenges 00:15:00.963 --> 00:15:03.343 if you're deemed to have won your challenge. 00:15:03.743 --> 00:15:07.543 Only the pitcher, catcher, and hitter can challenge a call and the system is 00:15:07.543 --> 00:15:09.083 put into place when one of those players... 00:15:10.141 --> 00:15:14.381 Taps the top of his cap twice. When a player would challenge a call, 00:15:14.481 --> 00:15:17.861 the game would pause and attention would turn to the stadium's massive screen 00:15:17.861 --> 00:15:19.021 beyond right center field. 00:15:19.241 --> 00:15:23.801 A virtual simulation of the pitch would be shown along with the box, the little strike zone. 00:15:23.961 --> 00:15:27.801 If you've seen baseball on TV, you've seen the little digital outline there, 00:15:27.941 --> 00:15:28.981 right there at the strike zone. 00:15:29.141 --> 00:15:33.561 And the technology would rule if the ball fell with or outside that box. 00:15:33.841 --> 00:15:37.961 Play would then resume after the short break. The phrase used most on Monday 00:15:37.961 --> 00:15:43.141 when discussing the technology was an iconic one in baseball lore, The Human Element. 00:15:43.401 --> 00:15:47.701 It's one of the things that can make baseball so perfectly imperfect the ability 00:15:47.701 --> 00:15:50.021 of umpires like the hated C.B. 00:15:50.141 --> 00:15:54.981 Buckner or Phil Cousy to simply get it wrong and have a massive impact on a game. 00:15:55.381 --> 00:15:59.301 Sidebar, a pitcher is being investigated for maybe cheating, 00:15:59.901 --> 00:16:03.281 making bad pitches on purpose to help out Las Vegas. 00:16:03.801 --> 00:16:08.601 The Human Element is one of baseball's quirks that give the nation's pastime its identity. 00:16:09.301 --> 00:16:12.821 But you could also argue nobody likes baseball. They hated it. 00:16:12.981 --> 00:16:16.281 Slow and boring. That's why they've added the pitch clock to speed everything 00:16:16.281 --> 00:16:17.741 up over these last couple of years. 00:16:17.941 --> 00:16:24.641 When baseball went on strike in 1994, they never, ever recovered their popularity. 00:16:24.881 --> 00:16:29.001 Basketball ever since then has only become way more popular in the States. 00:16:29.581 --> 00:16:35.181 Chris Sale, the Atlanta Braves pitcher and reigning National League Cy Young 00:16:35.181 --> 00:16:38.261 Award winner, said, honestly, for me, I like the human element. 00:16:38.261 --> 00:16:41.221 I don't think the abs is a perfect system i like 00:16:41.221 --> 00:16:45.741 the old feel the old way of doing it james's this is kind of why fight clubs 00:16:45.741 --> 00:16:53.781 get crafted i guess so i i guess so but you know i'm not misreading this so 00:16:53.781 --> 00:16:57.841 it's not going to be every pitch is going to be judged by the robots it's just 00:16:57.841 --> 00:16:59.581 if it's if it's challenged right. 00:17:00.545 --> 00:17:03.445 Correct. Correct. If someone taps their head twice. 00:17:03.905 --> 00:17:08.265 Right, right, right, right. So, OK. I mean, yeah, I look, I'm a big defender 00:17:08.265 --> 00:17:12.185 of the human element, although in this case, it just seems like it's just a 00:17:12.185 --> 00:17:16.545 challenge. But if and when they start replacing umpires with just this automated 00:17:16.545 --> 00:17:18.885 strike system, then, yeah, I can see that. 00:17:18.985 --> 00:17:22.185 But maybe just because I'm a blase Canadian. 00:17:22.405 --> 00:17:26.185 So what do I care about the sacred history of baseball? But I care about the 00:17:26.185 --> 00:17:27.185 sacred history of hockey. 00:17:27.345 --> 00:17:31.805 And I will never forgive, I think it was Fox, when they started broadcasting NHL games. 00:17:32.005 --> 00:17:36.905 And they would put the purple ring around the puck so that Americans could see 00:17:36.905 --> 00:17:39.745 where the puck is. Because we just can't follow where the puck is. 00:17:40.265 --> 00:17:42.265 That, to me, was sacrilegious. 00:17:42.825 --> 00:17:44.725 I don't know. What's your take on this? 00:17:46.305 --> 00:17:52.845 You know, I've grown to love it in my later years of life. 00:17:53.505 --> 00:17:58.185 I mean, I've joked and I was like, man, if they would have done fantasy sports 00:17:58.185 --> 00:18:02.405 in high school, I would have crushed it at math, except I would have gone, 00:18:02.945 --> 00:18:06.365 screw you, I'm not doing your jock game and I'm not going to take part. 00:18:06.525 --> 00:18:09.525 But honestly, it honestly would have helped me with my math. 00:18:09.685 --> 00:18:13.805 I think my math got better when I was working at stores and behind counters 00:18:13.805 --> 00:18:18.565 and we just did cash before the point when you'd run a credit card to buy a stick of gum. 00:18:18.905 --> 00:18:24.785 Everything was cash. And so I was pretty slick then. I like the old school way of doing things. 00:18:24.945 --> 00:18:30.225 I think in some ways this goes along with jazz and the Constitution as being 00:18:30.225 --> 00:18:34.665 the three greatest things America ever invented. Baseball, jazz, and the Constitution. 00:18:35.265 --> 00:18:39.385 Problematic as they all may be. Yeah, I like the old way of doing things. 00:18:39.525 --> 00:18:43.625 A clock seems to run against the whole nature of it. 00:18:43.785 --> 00:18:47.805 So, so many of the things we've actually been watching in honor of All-Star Week. 00:18:47.965 --> 00:18:51.265 We've been watching some baseball movies and some Ken Burns documentaries in 00:18:51.265 --> 00:18:52.785 the media monarchy community. 00:18:53.892 --> 00:18:58.592 And even the Ken Burns documentary, as voluminous and comprehensive as it is, 00:18:58.792 --> 00:19:02.652 I find myself going, oh, that's not true anymore. Oh, no, they changed that. 00:19:03.092 --> 00:19:08.132 So things have changed in the unchanging 200-year-old game. 00:19:08.272 --> 00:19:11.192 And I guess, of course, again, who's going to get swept aside? 00:19:11.412 --> 00:19:15.572 The old man yelling at the cloud generally doesn't win. 00:19:15.672 --> 00:19:18.712 So as hard as it can be, a lot of times it 00:19:18.712 --> 00:19:21.672 is not worth your emotional effort to get invested 00:19:21.672 --> 00:19:24.492 in things that you know they're going to change and that you know 00:19:24.492 --> 00:19:27.372 you have no no control over you can 00:19:27.372 --> 00:19:31.132 still throw the ball with your kids in the yard james you 00:19:31.132 --> 00:19:34.332 go you've been to some games in japan right you've 00:19:34.332 --> 00:19:37.272 sent me a picture or two i have i i 00:19:37.272 --> 00:19:42.172 mean i like the game i like the game and well honestly i could see the utility 00:19:42.172 --> 00:19:47.032 of being able to call certain or challenge certain pitches because i saw recently 00:19:47.032 --> 00:19:51.532 otani got caught uh caught looking uh struck out looking is that how you say 00:19:51.532 --> 00:19:55.052 it I forget in American how you say it, in Japanese, Senshin. 00:19:55.872 --> 00:20:01.052 And he lost his mind. He was going apoplectic on the umpire, 00:20:01.192 --> 00:20:05.392 by which I mean he kind of shook his head and said some words to him as he walked back to the dugout. 00:20:05.532 --> 00:20:09.192 But it was clearly outside the strike zone. And I was thinking, 00:20:09.352 --> 00:20:12.652 you know, if they could challenge pitches, they'd challenge that one, I'm sure. 00:20:14.580 --> 00:20:17.960 But yeah, that's the level of Otani flipping out on somebody. 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:24.300 And he's one of the big things. I found myself yelling back at the Ken Burns 00:20:24.300 --> 00:20:27.660 baseball documentary about Babe Ruth, Babe Ruth, Babe Ruth. 00:20:27.740 --> 00:20:32.040 It's like, oh man, he's basically being replaced at this point. 00:20:32.320 --> 00:20:34.940 And that's the way the world is going to go. 00:20:35.540 --> 00:20:40.340 That is New World Next Week, episode 597. It is true. It is real. 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:45.520 The Korber Report 2017 data archive, USB flash drives are in the house. 00:20:45.700 --> 00:20:49.780 They are on the newworldnextweek.com store for a limited time. 00:20:49.900 --> 00:20:53.960 That means the 2013 to 2017 bundle is available. 00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:57.500 And James, honestly, probably what's going to happen is this is going to sell 00:20:57.500 --> 00:20:59.540 out immediately and we'll already 00:20:59.540 --> 00:21:03.020 get the backups to make sure we can keep all these things shipping. 00:21:03.580 --> 00:21:07.660 And of course, you can't just, you know, have a bunch of information like that 00:21:07.660 --> 00:21:10.660 without having a soundtrack to learn your way forward to. 00:21:10.860 --> 00:21:14.120 I'll remind you again about the Media Monarchy music compilations. 00:21:14.460 --> 00:21:19.760 Basically five days worth of hand-picked episodes. You could buy 24 hours of 00:21:19.760 --> 00:21:21.600 country, 24 hours of techno. 00:21:21.860 --> 00:21:24.760 You can find all those at newworldnextweek.com as well. 00:21:24.940 --> 00:21:28.760 And I get to play the exclusive audio of these New World Next Week episodes 00:21:28.760 --> 00:21:30.260 before they are published anywhere. 00:21:30.540 --> 00:21:35.400 And again, YouTube has really been, it's been great to be back on YouTube, James. 00:21:35.660 --> 00:21:38.680 It feels like some way of like, oh man, they started, you know, 00:21:38.760 --> 00:21:40.480 carrying our show on the networks again. 00:21:40.680 --> 00:21:44.020 And it's been a nice help. James, how are you hanging in there, buddy? 00:21:44.660 --> 00:21:47.840 Yeah, no, it's funny how that works. It's like you don't exist if you're not 00:21:47.840 --> 00:21:50.860 on certain platforms, right? No, we've been here the whole time, guys. 00:21:51.180 --> 00:21:55.480 We're still just doing what we're doing for 15 plus years, as you accurately point out. 00:21:55.600 --> 00:21:59.520 And we will continue doing it for as long as the world continues to be crazy. 00:21:59.760 --> 00:22:04.300 So I'm not suspecting that we'll run out of material anytime soon. 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:07.380 On that note, thank you as always for the three stories. Looking forward to 00:22:07.380 --> 00:22:09.920 doing it again, buddy. you too man take care.