Ryder Cup Reax… Super Bowl Surprise?…ICE Confusion! And Jim Acosta won’t let it go

Ryder Cup Reax… Super Bowl Surprise?…ICE Confusion! And Jim Acosta won’t let it go

[Music] Are you ready? Hot mics with Billy Bush starts in 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. The the American people still have questions about it. And I think that this moment, this Access Hollywood moment was a sign of things to come. I Jim, I don’t think anyone has questions about it anymore. It’s been dealt with, Jim. It was nine years ago. Nine. Yeah. And he is lost. XC CNN reporter and current justice warrior or algorithm whipper Jim Aosta lured me in with candy and compliments. And then I got accosted. I’ve thought about it for a few days and we’ll respond right here, right now. It’s Hot Mics with Billy Bush presented by our friends at LA Golf. [Music] Hot know it. [Music] All right, we’re live on TuneIn and YouTube. Before we welcome digital uh a an unbelievable author and fantastic person Kat Rosenfield, who’s written some amazing things uh today. I can’t wait to talk to her. Uh especially should Bridget Mcronone have to show her genitals to prove that she is not a man? I mean, oh my god. Few days ago though, I got accosted. It’s taken me the weekend to heal. I was told by an important woman at Substack, if you want to promote your new Substack channel and maximize your launch, you should appear on some established ones. Makes sense, right? It’s kind of how podcasting goes. If you want to be on, you know, build your podcast, get on other podcasts that are good. I was connected rather quickly with Jim Acasta, the ex CNN White House correspondent turned independent Substack editorialist. Naturally at home with confrontation, Jim had sort of made a name for himself in the resistance, belligerently taking on Trump at every term, any chance he got during the first administration. Yes, Jim Acasta. There’s a lot of Department of Homeland Security data out there that shows border crossings at a near record low. Uh that shows undocumented immigrants committing crime at lower levels. That shows undocumented criminals, undocumented immigrants committing crime at lower levels than nativeorn Americans. Um what do you say to You don’t you don’t really believe that statute. Do you really believe that? What do you ask? I believe I believe in you get the point. Jim loves confrontation. So yeah, like I said, the very nice liaison at Substack set me up to cross-promote my just launched Substack channel with Jim and his 312,000 subscribers, just over 10,000 who are paying. Jim probably makes close to, I don’t know, $80,000 a month providing his service. And you know the old expression, you get what you pay for. I’m pretty sure these people, you know, don’t come to Jim for nuance of any kind. They hate Trump with a passion and they count on Jim to feed that fury. The Jim Aosta show is an echo chamber. Look, I could make a lot more money quickly by picking one side of Trump or the other and attacking the enemy from that position. You know, Megan Tucker, Benny Johnson, they all make a lot of money railing away from the right. And to be fair, they’re, you know, reticent mostly to criticize Trump even when he rambles at the UN like a drunk man at a bar. Your countries are going to hell. Climate change is the greatest gun job ever perpetrated on the world. Windmills are pathetic. I’ve ended seven wars. He won’t let that go. The echo chambers of America are where the dough is. But, you know, Jim Aosta is not a poser. He’s he’s as left as AOC. So, when it comes to perceived women’s issues and outrage, he basically identifies this one. Jim has definitely poured oil in the wiper fluid tank at least twice. He is he’s the anti-man, but I took a chance that he would be welcoming to me on his platform because the Substack woman said he was great and he was excited to have me. And since he was, you know, albeit without terrible fanfare, pushed out of his job too, I said, “You know what? I bet Jim Acasta is actually probably a nice guy. I have a ton of liberal friends. I live in LA. I I would have very few friends if I if I didn’t. So, we set the date. What took place was a Jim Acasta interrogation exactly 9 years after NBC News leaked to the Wall Street Journal what was clearly the most promising October surprise in presidential history, the Axis Hollywood bus tape. Jim Acasta felt he needed to attack me over it. It’s raw meat for his band of liberal followers. It’s also deeply painful for me. I’ve done extensive work, a lot of work psychologically, emotionally, including a stint in the Hoffman Institute, years of therapy, EMDR, a recent psilocybin journey to heal what almost killed me. To paraphrase from V Victor Frankle’s man’s search for meaning, it’s through exceptionally difficult external situations which gives man the opportunity to grow spiritually beyond himself. I’ve done a [ __ ] ton of work to put myself back together and not because there was anything wrong with me to start. My resolve after the psilocybin journey was to keep both feet in the future. Not one in the future and one in the past. My guide told me, “Stop telling the old stories. Live only as the future you.” It was such a divine revelation. I felt God finally guiding me to that glorious place where all the pain makes sense. I wasn’t expecting the serpent so soon. When I asked Jim Acasta two and a half hours before the interview what the topics were, he replied, “Hey, uh, I think uh, Kimmel is OB, the big focus, first amendment issues under Trump, you know, these stations refusing to air Kimmel, the new FCC guy. Also, I’m kind of interested in Apple pulling this Jessica Chastain show.” Well, turns out that uh Jim wasn’t interested at all in Jessica Chastain and she never got a mention. Uh and then he added a short while later uh independent media and your new venture on Substack 2. Oh, good. He was, you know, there it is. The reason for me coming on, a little plug for my startup channel. Great. Thank you, Jim. That’s nice. And then an hour before we do the interview, he sends one more. And OB again, we should talk about the ah tape a little. Ob like I haven’t talked about that enough. Do you think when Jim Acasta gets Bill Clinton on his live Substack show, he will text him an afterthought like uh and OB we should talk about Monica Lewinsky a little? I don’t think so. So I replied to Jim, “What tape?” Uhhuh. You can ask anything you want. My psilocybin journey guide gave me homework after my recent journey though. Two feet firmly planted in the future. Stop telling the same old stories. They deplete from you and keep you from becoming the future you. So that may be my answer, but uh you know, we’ll we’ll see. Jim. Well, Jim Acasta went after me as if I was a child predator. We began with Kimmel, which eased us in, Epstein for a minute, and then finally the real reason that he invited me on. It became apparent. The Access Hollywood bus tape of 20 years ago, weaponi, filmed in 2005, weaponized in 2016 to take Trump out, was the only reason he brought me on. I was a sacrificial lamb there to be interrogated, castigated, humiliated in front of his Trump detesting cabal of left-wing subscribers. Talk about the October surprise. Jim kept using words like, “Well, you know, people really want the answers to this.” And and you know, what would you say to these women who are still here? You go. I would be I would be remiss. I would be ignoring the elephant in the room if I didn’t say, “Billy, you went through this. You were you went you you were cancelled there for a while. The thing is I wasn’t cancelled for speech. I was canceled for years. But when you think about that day and the stuff that is said on this video and and you know you seem to be you know laughing along with what he’s saying and so on. And I know you I know you regret that. Obviously you regret that. It’s it’s a moment that I think every American remembers. just about every every American. Yeah. No one more than me. Uh yeah, Jim Ir look, I try to keep two feet in the future. Um and I’m just looking at the transcript of what he said that day. You know, he said something about they’re talking about furniture, but you don’t go back and and think about that and and say, “What the [ __ ] was I thinking I should have told?” Here he goes, “Jim, I should have said, “What the [ __ ] is wrong with you?” or something like, you know, who who grabs women by the [ __ ] brags about Because because Jim, there is no way on God’s green earth I can take a human being seriously when they’re saying that. Not one as borish as this. And does that explain why you were I mean so does that explain why you were laughing along? Why you were kind of I mean I don’t know if the right word but yeah I mean and I’m sure you know there are women who will never okay think that that is true. Okay, take that smug bastard off the screen. Jim Acasta invented a mandate so he could exploit me for his base. Simple. He served his most ardent fan. And making an enemy out of me is a small cost in his mind that I didn’t take a moral stand 20 years ago as the world expects the new co-host of Access Hollywood to do because what could be a a higher position of moral authority than co-host of Access Hollywood? I was just as bad as the man who did all the talking and what had gotten away with it. Jim, when your fellow liberal elitist CNN colleague was caught pleasuring himself to a woman on a work Zoom call, did you speak up on on behalf of those women you defend so righteously? Or since I’ve never seen your show, did did you take that person who I’ll leave nameless for his own sake? Did you, you know, rake him over the coals for what he did to a colleague, you know, as he pinned in the gallery of his Zoom call. I lost my job, my new home, my ability to earn a living in my beloved chosen field for 3 years. I went through a pretty deep depression, gym, suicidal ideiation, you know, survived a pretty relentless public shaming beat down for something someone else said because the media establishment was controlled by left-wing lunatics like you then, not now. I pushed back against Jim and unearthed his motive. Jim, I love you. Jim, I love you and I know you’re doing your job because I can see the comments rolling in there and they’re like, “Jim, you got to hold him account. You got to do it.” But Jim, if you and I were offline right now, I don’t think you’d be going too hard at me because I think, you know, it was a [ __ ] situation to be in. A very shitty situation to be in. I don’t choose. So, Jim’s producer, Matt, nice young guy. He texted me after the awkward exchange between me and Jim and he said, “You may not want to hear it, but we really do appreciate you coming on. Thank you. You handled it really well and good luck with your Substack.” Handled it well. Like, sounds like he’s had to follow up with abused guests in the past. The poor guy. Am I the naive one? I’ve never listened to Jim’s show before. I mean, should I have known he was going to ambush me? I mean, the kid felt badly. He’s young. He still has a soul. We pray for him. But, uh, not a word from Jim. Not a thanks, not an attempted, “Hey, people really loved you.” Uh, no. Like the man he loathes so viscerally, he moved on me like a [ __ ] and moved on. Here’s the point and why it matters to all of us. Jim Acasta is deepening the American political divide which the majority of us I think would like to see heal a little bit. Right? The algorithms whip up from the internet all the hate and all the anger and all of a sudden these fringe people get to control everything that we see see here and hope you know hopefully they get us to adopt it and believe it ourselves. They’re feeding these little corners. And I guarantee you 80% of the material that you, you know, read on Twitter is provided by about 10% of people on Twitter. It’s a very loud minority. So, you know, Jim’s not Chris Cuomo who left CNN and embraced an independent spirit on News Nation because he knew both parties had problems and neither has all the answers. Cuomo was fed up with the narrative that controlled CNN. Jim Acasta is maxing those subs by pandering to his loyal following. He’s not interested in changing minds. He’s busy harvesting cash from unchanged minds. Again, he’s more like Trump than he would admit. I went to church yesterday with my youngest of three daughters, and the sermon was about having a softer heart. My daughter convinced me to soften my position even on loathsome Jim, which believe it or not, I have. She said I should feel sorry for him. Why? Why? She’s right though. That attack and frankly Jim himself means nothing. Even though a pompous preachy prick like him, you know, who sees the world through a black and white lens unloads his pain and frustration on me, does not mean my gaze turns from you, dear Lord. Pray with me, Father. Help me disregard Jim Aosta’s selective outrage. It’s for you to sort out. You know, look, I went into that interview assuming I was being welcomed to Substack by one of its more prolific creators. Ah, Jim went in with different plans. So, he’ll be redeemed perhaps, right? We hope that he sees humanity in people, embraces their flaws, helps them heal when their hearts are hurt. You know, that’s what uh that’s what we want to do out there. Jim wants to whip the algorithm. Now, since Jim never got around to it, let me say it. Uh please check out my new Substack page at billybush.substack.com. substack.com. There you go. He forgot the he forgot to give me the plug. Coming up, should the first lady of France, Breijgitron, have to pull down her Capri to show an American jury that she’s not a man? How humiliating. Is it ever worth it to defend yourself on the internet? It definitely doesn’t set you totally free. The cat’s out of the bag in a second. I can’t wait to talk to Cat Rosenfield. But right now, word about my friends at Venbrook Insurance. Jeffrey Lang from Venbrook’s supply chain insurance team nailed it with that line. Every business depends on suppliers. Whether it’s parts, packaging, raw materials, or tech. If something goes wrong upstream or down the line, it can impact your bottom line. Natural disasters, political unrest, or even cyber attacks can hit when you least expect it. That’s why Venbrook’s supply chain insurance goes beyond traditional business interruption coverage so your business doesn’t stall out when the world shifts. Set up a consultation with their risk experts today. Venbrook is all about helping businesses put the right coverage behind them so they can take bold steps forward. That’s why their tagline is boldly go forward. You can book a free consultation at venbrook.com/hotmics and tell them Billy sent you. Uh here we go. Let’s take a little few comments here before we move on from that last little segment right there. Uh Sarah Paul says, “Nothing but class, BB. I was impressed. It was I was so I was so impressed how you responded with ease and confidence. You taught everyone an important lesson.” Big fan right here. Uh thank you. Uh that interview just made him look bad, not you. Uh Janine says, “I was so angry listening as I was leaving church yesterday.” Oh, she listened to the the one that he put up and I had to pull over and scream, “So much for a peaceful relationship with everyone.” The thing is, Jim’s people a role in the echo chamber. This to them this is great. This is relief because they’re so damn frustrated over the last several years that you know who’s gotten away with it. Well, then he’s gotten away with it so hard. Hit Billy Bush again. One more time. Hit him for us, Jim. And the coward does. But everyone knows what you are. Okay, you’re watching and listening to Hot Mics with Billy Bush, brought to you by LA Golf. My guest right now is Cat Rosenfield. She just wrote an article titled, “Should Breg Mcronone have to say I’m not a man?” And she wrote it for the free press, which I am a loyal subscriber to. Uh Cat, do last time we spoke, your cat was in the house with you. Still there? Yeah. Well, you you asked you asked for this and here he is. Oh my god, that’s a handsome cat. I got to say that. He’s he’s a pretty beautiful boy. Cat, you’re amazing. I think you’re such a fantastic writer and I think you’re bold because you write about the internet. You write about internet culture, all the [ __ ] that’s out there, which means you like open yourself up to to to get hit. You’ve been attacked kind of a lot, haven’t you? been targeted for cancellation. Um, the Democrats came at you for calling Joe for saying he was asleep in his bowl of grl or something and and MAGA came for you too. And how do you do it? Um, I don’t know. I It might be a fetish. It might be masochism. Uh, or it’s that I’ve learned not to care about the opinions of silly people that I don’t know on the internet. But it is hard sometimes. Oh my god. Well, so recently what you wrote in this article which I you know I every time you write when I stop um recently you were targeted for racism by the media elite for not praising the latest work of Tanahi Coats who of course is a wonderful writer and a wonderful thinker but you managed to say I think he missed on this one. Um you know it’s it’s funny I uh this tweet came across my timeline or I guess we call it X now. I don’t know what we call do you call them posts on X? Anyway, um somebody had uh screen capped his latest essay from Vanity Fair, which I do think he probably wrote in a bit of a hurry. It’s not his his best work. Um they’d screen capped a a little piece of it that was sort of unexceptional, just you know, not not great pros and had written man to write like this in this sort of reverent way. Um which struck me as funny just the juxtaposition of it. And so I quote tweeted it with um a little bit of you know absurdest Twitter humor. Um and I said man to write like this. And my screen cap was of the um the wrath from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Sa 2001 Kevin Smith movie. Oh yeah. Um you know judging by your reaction I think you get the cultural reference. I think I overestimated how recognizable it would be. Um, and it’s uh probably too profane to repeat on your YouTube channel, but um but yeah, so I I did this I was getting on an airplane. I did this over the, you know, while drinking a surprisingly good airport latte in O’Hare. and then um didn’t think much of it until uh several people decided that you know even obliquely suggesting that Tanahazi coats might have been in this case slightly overrated was an act of virulent racism which I still can’t quite parse but that was my latest uh trip to the minds of being the main character online. And then another sort of fancy writer Hamilton Kaine announced he was privy to the real scoop and said online, “Oh my god, I’m friends with her editor. I know her mother’s publisher. Oh my god. Dang, the stories I’ve heard about God. And then you did what uh most people won’t do because they don’t have the balls. You fired back right at this guy and said, “Oh yeah, what are Tell me the worst thing I’ve done.” Tell me. Go ahead. Put it out there. He unfollowed you. He he he he he blocked you. He took down the post. Shut right down because what? Wasn’t expecting you to stand up for yourself. Yeah. Yeah. And I think he just got a little over his skis. Um I mean facially it was a very interesting claim to say that it was my mother’s best friend that my mother’s best friend had told him all kinds of stories about how racist I was which just seemed a little bit uh hard to believe. But I I was eager to hear the stories if they existed. Uh but this is the thing about these pylons that you know people get drunk by just having thirdderee proximity to somebody who’s being dragged online. Yeah. and they get so excited at feeling like an insider and at being able to participate in some way. And so they uh go online and make potentially uh legally legally actionable defamatory claims about a total stranger. And this is the world we live in now. You know, uh does it hurt? You know, one of the great points you make is it doesn’t matter sometimes if you defend yourself or not because you’re addressing it because you’re getting in there. Sometimes there’s something sticks to you no matter what. So, no one really, you know, you can exonerate yourself. It never happened. dude, you know, took down his post and uh and and you know, ran away, but still there’s some kind of mark on you or there’s some kind of feeling that you’ve been hurt, I guess. Well, I mean, it’s it’s a drag when something like that happens to see your family brought into it or in this case, you know, my close family friend uh who who doesn’t deserve to be embroiled in the stupidest internet drama of all time. Um, but the other thing is that it’s it’s such a theft of time and energy and I often think that this is really the point of coming after people like this. Um you mentioned Breijgit Mcronone and uh I’m sure we’ll talk about that in in a moment but um there’s this saying it’s attributed to Jean Par Jean Paul Sartra uh it’s a paraphrase but the saying is um that the anti-semite doesn’t accuse the Jew of stealing because he believes the Jew stole something. He does it because he enjoys seeing the Jew turn out his pockets to prove his innocence. which is to say people make these allegations because they like seeing you have to respond to them. They like wasting your time. They like stealing your energy and your sense of peace in the world by forcing you to address these, you know, oftenimes ridiculous accusations which you’re really between a rock and a hard place trying to decide are you going to respond and defend yourself, which is of course the natural human inclination. But if you do, you sort of dignify it. And there’s that saying about wrestling with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it, so don’t do it. So it’s it’s a difficult uh line to walk. I mean, worse for Breijit Mcronone, uh worse than being called a man. Candace Owens is saying that, you know, uh not only is she a man, but she’s her husband’s father, right? that she Candace is accusing her of birthing her husband Emanuel as a son then coming back changing becoming a woman and going back and marrying her son like this is the kind of I I couldn’t write something this convoluted and twisted if I did I think my editor would be like you have to tone this down a little bit um but yes she’s alleged to have stolen her so the idea is that Breijgit was actually the sister of this male child. Um, Breijgit died and the male child her brother took her identity. But before doing this, he fathered Emanuel Mcronone and then transitioned and then married the son that he fathered. And if you’re having a hard time keeping track of that, me too. Holy I mean, what a great movie that would be. I mean, it would be an amazing movie, but this is alleged to be true in a six-part series by Candace Owens. And now, the first lady of France is going to come to America or send photos to an American jury to prove photographic evidence that that she is in fact a woman. She’s going to show her genitals to a to a jury. I’m not sure that she’s going to show her genitals. Um, and one of the reason What other way is photographic evidence? I mean, that’s there’s only one thing that says no. Well, what am I missing? I’m missing something. Uh, I I think that if she were to just show naked photos of herself, people would say, “Well, she had surgery.” So, I believe the photos she’s going to be submitting are more of a medical nature. It’s going to be um images from her pregnancy, images of her nursing her children. I’m not super wellversed in exactly what’s happening in this court case, though. So, this is this is me saying what I what I’ve heard and what I think is true, but I’m not certain. So, how does this end? Do you imagine? And now you and I are going to riff like uh you know, a couple of two bit lawyers here, but I mean, if if unless Candace Owens must have factored in um I’ll probably lose uh the case, but so what? It was worth the publicity. We got a whole big thing out of it. And I can say it was a sham trial, you know, the whole and but I is this about building the business or I mean the only way that this ends is that she gets hit with a massive multi- tens of millions of dollars and is and has to pay up, right? Or else people will continue this. This is this is going to be a watershed moment. But the problem is I think that whatever fines Candace Owens incurs if she loses this lawsuit, she will have no trouble paying. And more importantly, who will be satisfied by this? The damage will be done. Anybody who enjoyed believing this insane conspiracy theory will continue to believe it because because it’s fun. Um because the truth doesn’t matter. and Rejit Mcronone will have achieved maybe the satisfaction of having it legally affirmed that the truth matters. But it seems sort of like cold comfort given how uh invasive and timeconsuming and soulc crushing the process of of proving this negative. Yeah. I wonder have they I wonder if there’s any past between them or something like that. I wonder why like why would you go after I know this I know this began with two conspiracy theorists in France. It’s not like you know Candace came out of nowhere with this. This was disproven years ago uh when someone else tried to to bring it up. I forgot the journalist or the column, whoever it was, uh that person’s name, but Candace picked it up and turned it into a series and thought this is going to be fantastical storytelling and and riveting, but now it’s going to to court, so she must feel totally uh totally safe, like it’s all going to be worth it. And I wonder what this does for the psychology of Breijgit Mcronone. It can’t be easy. Um I, you know, humiliating. struggled to really comprehend all of this. I don’t like trying to model the interiority of whatever is going on in Candace Owens’s head. It seems um like a a scary place to me, but I do feel for Breit Mcronone. I I think it’s awful. And I think that it says something kind of awful about the broad broader culture that you can be the first lady of France and you can still have your time wasted in this way by a person fabricating bizarre and terrible rumors about you on the other side of the world. Um, Anita says this is so unfair to her. Candace did terrible damage to a fellow woman and then written dreams. Another person comments Candace comes with receipts for what she is saying. She comes with receipts. That’s the big word today. Receipts. Uh I know I’ve seen them, but I don’t find them to be overly uh overly convincing on this one. I just think that someone I think it feels to me in my heart, like she said, this is worth it. A shot at at Breijit Mcronone on this particular topic is is worth it. It’s it’s just business. So, um but anyway, you you there’s so many great examples in there. You talk about Kate Middleton and you know she was forced to come out because of just the the machine just kept going after her and finally she had to come out and say it’s you know it’s cancer. Barry Weiss, you know, your uh your boss, the great editor-inchief of the free press, you know, there’s all kinds of people online saying that she’s a MSAD agent. And she sat down with the head of uh Israeli Secret Service and was like and he’s like, “You are absolutely not a MSAD agent now or nor have you ever been.” And she’s like, “Yeah, well, it’s going to do very little to quell those people who want to believe it.” Yeah, it’s true. Nobody is is going to be satisfied by that who was enjoying the theorizing to the contrary. Well, I just uh I it’s such a great article. It’s such a great point. It’s so important for you know, listen, it’s just for all of us to just don’t buy this [ __ ] Make sure you’re spending enough time outside. Um where should people I like to follow on the free press, but you do Substack too, right? and some um I’m the co-host of the feminist feminine chaos I cannot talk feminine chaos podcast on Substack um which I recorded an episode of today with Phoebe Maltzy and journalist Katie Herszog was our special guest and uh otherwise you can find me on the website formerly known as Twitter where I may or may not be getting accused of racism for making Jay and Silent Bob references. God, I love it. I mean, I hope you’re as thick skinned as as as you come off. Maybe you cry like crazy when you know in the in the in the in the dark corners at times. I have a special closet in my house just for this. It’s sound. Can I mention one more thing actually since I’m with you? Um, my next novel uh has it’s officially up for pre-sale. It’s called How to Survive in the Woods. It comes out March 10th, 2026. So, if you want to get on the ball and read about murder in the middle of the wilderness, um, you can pre-order it now. God, imagine you do it all. Uh, what’s the cat’s name again? Beth Rasputin. He left. He was mad that he didn’t get enough camera time. So, you said he was going to turn around and show us his butthole. I’m glad he didn’t because he’s that’s just I prevented it. I saved I saved your life. Cat Rosenfield, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Awesome. Uh, coming up, anyone else uh a little embarrassed by the crowd at the RDER Cup? Oh my god. Attacking the European players like they were violent illegals or something. And the women, the woman that they fired. I mean, I got a little secret for you. That was almost me. You hired the wrong MC, maybe. First, let’s talk prize picks for a second. It’s uh my favorite place to win money. Yesterday turned out kind of well for me, right? This is the way it goes though. Okay, this is uh this is last week. This is when I won. I don’t always win, but I won with Jared Goff over seven and a half completions. Look at that. I got Derek Henry uh you know, running right there for at least one touchdown. Uh and I got Jir Gibbs running for 55 and a half. I took the I took more than that and I won on all fronts right there. That’s nice, right? you get a little payout. Let’s take a look at prize picks and the lineup for tonight’s Monday Night Football. The Jets versus the Dolphins. Very simple here. It’s just two easy picks. Tua Tagola. What is he going to do? 235 yards passing. Will he do it? He averages about 190 per game. I’m going to say less. I got a choice to go more or less than 235 and a half. I’m going to say less this time. And Justin Fields for the New York Jets. Will he throw for more or less than 182 and a half? I think he’ll throw for more. I think the kid’s going to have a night. So, those are my picks right there. It’s easy and I like easy. Find two or more players and pick more or less under their projected stats. You can play in 40 states including California and Texas. So, it’s great. Prize picks will give you 50 bucks when you play your first $5 lineup. Win or lose. So, just win or lose, you win. Use the promo code hot mics and download the app right now. So, um, what what is going on, uh, in America, right? Political violence aside, and I don’t mean that insensitively, the people are getting restless out there. Did the Philadelphia Eagles ship up their fans to Long Island for the RDER Cup this past weekend. Sorry, Philly, but you know, you guys are animals. You wear you have a New York driver’s If you show up in a Philadelphia parking lot with a New York license plate, you’re getting keyed. The writer cup was crazy this weekend. The heckling uh Heather McMahon who’s uh who’s a comic, a comedian, kind of a you know flirts with the game of golf, but uh she stepped out. She didn’t even make it to Sunday. Uh she was the first TMC. Uh she got the crowd going and joined him in a round of FU Rory. Listen to this. [ __ ] you, Rory. Thank you, Rory. Okay, here’s the crazy thing. That almost was me. My agent called me and said, “Hey, do you want to be the MC on the first tea at the Ryder Cup?” And I said, “Oh, yeah.” Well, they went with a female comedian instead of me. I lost the job to Heather, but we, you know, listen, Heather got wrapped up in the moment. I don’t believe in cancel culture. Don’t hate on Heather. Don’t send messages. She got wrapped up and she screwed up. That’s all there is to it. I’m sure she’s got something to say about it. So, uh, we’ll listen to what she has to say and then forgive her. But like when Rory Mroy is is is playing, he’s on the T- box. What’s going on? I already we missed the green dildos that they’re throwing at NBA games and WNBA games. Now they’re putting squeaky rubber ducks when he swings. I mean, this is You don’t do that. This is golf. Somebody throws a beer on Rory’s uh on Rory Mroyy’s wife, Erica. Now, Rory talked about this directly. Listen to what he said. Erica is fine. She is a very, very strong woman. She handled everything this week with class and poise and dignity like she always has. And I love her and we’re going to have a good time celebrating tonight. I actually had no idea that Erica had a beer thrown at her yesterday. So, fair play to Erica. She didn’t bring that to the team room. We didn’t make that a big deal. That’s news to me, which is that says a lot about the strength of Erica and everybody in this team that they I was out there for two days with Erica Maroy and the amount of abuse that she received was astonishing. And the way she was out there supporting her husband and supporting her team was unbelievable. And kudos to her for that. Erica, that’s Shane Lowry right there who they had to pair with Rory because he’s such a big dude. I mean, but you can see the beer right there. That was That’s her. That’s Rory’s wife right there with the um with this with the straw hat. Uh and someone just leans look throws a beer at her. I don’t know what’s going on here. Um look, winning, I will say this, does have a way of easing the pain. The Euros uh the European team once they clinched it on Sunday, they sent Trump a social media post led by Rory Mroy. I mean, you know, Trump was out there. He was he was pulling for him and they decided I mean, this is very classy. And they put together this unbelievable post. They all gathered in behind Rory. It’s like a It’s like what do you call Ellen DeGeneres’s Oscar Oscar selfie? It’s Rory in the front, the whole team behind him, and they go after the Trumpster. Are you watching? Are you watching? Are you watching Donald Trump? Are you watching Donald Trump? You can see Trump up top to his credit uh very classy. He said, “I’m watching. I’m watching and congratulations.” That was it. I thought that was great. But you know, Tom Watson spoke for a lot of people, a great American uh golfing legend uh when he said, “I’d like to congratulate Roar Ryder Cup Europe on their victory. Your team was the your team played the very the first few days was sensational. More importantly, I’d like to apologize for the rude and mean-spirited behavior from our American crowd at Beth Page. As a former player, captain and as an American, I’m ashamed of what happened. Why do you think this is? I’m wondering why why is it like this? Is it the live tour where everybody’s, you know, going crazy and it’s a big party scene and everybody’s getting too drunk and overs served and all that, you know? Is that an element of it? Um, the PGA has made every effort to make the game more accessible, right? I will say this. What about the, you know, the internet, uh, the Instagram algorithm of dudes fighting on golf courses? I don’t know how this happened, but I saw like two of them and now all I get are guys like punching each other out on a golf course. I get this in my feed like all the time. And and you think, you know, when this does this happen a lot? Uh, America’s most popular player, I don’t know, is Happy Gilmore. That’s like punches out Bob Barker. That’s that’s a joke. We don’t actually do that on the golf course. Here’s the funny thing about the whole weekend, though. Right now, as we speak, I know for a fact that Justin Thomas, Cameron Young from the US, and their the team they played against on Saturday afternoon in a fourball, Rory Mroy, and Shane Lowry are on a plane together. All four of them now flying back to Jupiter, Florida, where they all live within a mile of each other. So, we love the accents and we love Ireland and we love the UK versus the US, but they all live in the same gated community in Florida. Uh, Jackie Ono in our chat section here, Jackie says, “Who brought the keg on the Greens? It’s like a college out of control party.” Uh, no kidding. Uh, another comment, “Why on earth would they do that? We need to be kind to our neighbors, not throw nastiness. What is wrong with some Americans?” Julia in the chat section says the crowd was disgusting. Classless crowd for sure. The chance and loudspeaker about Rory was so disrespectful. Disgusting behavior by Heather. But um I think she got c I honestly think she got caught up and um soon as she said, “Fuck you, Rory.” FY f you Rory. She went, “Oh god, what have I done?” Um and never made it to Sunday, so she won’t be back. But uh yeah, I just don’t want to see that. I love the game of golf. I love how classy, you know, it is. And uh it does it teaches you a lot about character. And um you can remember the old expression that uh golf is like bike shorts. It reveals a lot about a man. Sorry. Okay. It’s really funny. All right. So, uh how about this? Here’s what it’s more craziness in America. Uh, ice cubes bust. So, so Donald Trump wants to send the National Guard into Portland, Oregon. Uh, there have been dozens, not not thousands or hundreds, but dozens of protesters outside the ICE headquarters in Portland. Trump claims that their Antifa, who he’s, you know, declared is the domestic terror organization. The protesters set fire to an ICE bus. Can you believe? Sadly, it ended up belonging to Ice Cube, the rapper. Cube is okay other than a torched bus for which we assume he has insurance. Cube posted up. It wasn’t my bus. It was a It was a crew bus parked in front of the hotel. Everybody was upstairs sleeping. Nobody hurt. No equipment changed. Da da da da da da da. Can you believe poor ice cube guy’s my neighbor? Anyway, uh here we go. In New York, Andrew Cuomo’s odds of actually winning the mayoral race in New York City as an independent just went up. Eric Adams, the sitting mayor, dropped out today, so they won’t split the votes against the 33-year-old Zoron Mdani. This is how pissed off people are. A socialist whose parents are rich Hollywood executives or mom is. Dad’s a Colombia professor who wants Russian grocery stores, basically socialist grocery stores on every corner, free child care, frozen rent everywhere, all the promises he’ll never be able to deliver on his, you know, uh, he’s about to run away with it, the whole thing. And now people who swore they’d drink water out of the East River before they’d vote for Andrew Cuomo are going to vote for Andrew Cuomo, including everyone I know to save the world’s financial market from assured implosion. Um, yeah, it’s going to be interesting. I think you’re going to see a lot of Republicans who swore to God they’d never vote for Andrew Cuomo actually do it, and they may stave off a disaster here. Bad Bunny is going to headline the Super Bowl halftime show. so much for not performing in the US uh in protest of ICE deportations of illegal immigrants. He will be performing in San Francisco. I can’t risk the safety of my fans like that. That was the reason he gave for not performing in the US until this opportunity came along. Perhaps he’s reason the only people inside that building are so rich and likely legal. So, uh you know, all good. Number one streamer on Spotify between 2020 and 2022 is Bad Bunny. He’s a big deal. Every old person says, “Who the hell is Bad Bunny?” Well, um, until Taylor Swift knocked him out, nobody listened to more on Spotify than him. I wonder what dress he’ll wear when he performs. Jesus guy. Uh, I mean, if I had to pick, I like the one on the left. It’s sort of elegant. Oh my god. Uh Wednesday we are looking forward to a very special uh episode of of Hot Mics. We are going to enjoy uh the company of a guy that has built himself a massive YouTube following. I don’t know how he did it. Supposed to be our guest today, but he ran into a little trouble down at Turning Point USA. Um his name is Tim P. So we look forward to welcoming Tim on Wednesday. Hot mics brought to you by LA Golf. Take your swing to the next level with LA Golf’s cuttingedge technology. Visit laggolf.com and upgrade your game. You can always listen to us exclusively on TuneIn. We’re back tomorrow at 1000 a.m. Eastern time for Morning Bikes. Just a really light little chat. We go through the paper together heavy on the chat section. Hope you can join us. Bye-bye. [Music]

What do we think of how the fans handled the Ryder Cup this weekend? Why did this happen? Bad Bunny plays the Super Bowl… Did we expect Taylor Swift? Plus ICE Confusion… people are burning the wrong buses! And Jim Acosta accosted Billy… Billy lays it all out…

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