Brazil and Latin America plus baseball playoffs

0:00Dave Roberts here. There you are surrounded by fans, sharing wings, sharing drinks, high-fiving random strangers. Everybody remembers the game. Nobody remembers the guy coughing behind you until a few days later. At 2 a.m., you wake up with a fever and your throats on fire. Now what? Urgent care, clothes, ER, slam, telehealth, maybe, but the pharmacy's clothes. You needed a medical emergency kit. These aren't first aid kits. They contain essential prescriptions, use for over 30 common conditions, sinus and ear infection, UTIs, stomach bug, travelers diarrhea and more. On hand before you need them. Use your doctor-developed guidebook to select the right prescription or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. It's like an urgent care and drugstore at home. When you're sick, traveling or stranded, you'll wish you ordered a medical emergency kit. Order online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with my promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue. That's promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue.

1:02Hi everybody. This is Silvio Conto and Dallas. Texas on Tuesday, October the 6th. And welcome to our commentary. Well, I have a post over the American thinker today talking about Brazil. I've got another one coming out tomorrow, but I'll get through that in a minute. The election in Brazil, that is pretty amazing. What's going down in Brazil. Not just the election of Bolsonaro, everything else going on. But anyway, let me talk a little bit about these baseball playoffs. Because let's just say last night the baseball hole was not very good, especially for the Yankees. They didn't. They made five errors in one game and that's that's pretty bad for a baseball team. I think three of them were in the first inning. But what is happening with the White Sucks is really, I think, the story, the story of baseball, at least this postseason. The White Sucks, of course, got in as the wild card and they're now playing Cleveland

2:04and they're up to zero against Cleveland. You know, all they got to do is win one more game and they'll advance to the American League Finals. That is pretty amazing because I didn't think this would happen. I predicted Cleveland would beat the White Sucks. But it happened or it's happening, I should say. Now they still have to win three more and Cleveland really is a superior team. But there's something going on with these young White Sucks. It's a very young team. They have this wonderful Japanese first baseman, the one who cannot speak English and he does these crazy interviews. Really funny interviews. You should watch them. They have a bunch of young guys who obviously have never tasted winning before. They spent the last three seasons and last place losing over a hundred games. I mean, this was a bad team. Now, it was a bad team in transition,

3:05meaning they were basically just bringing in lots and lots of young players and giving them a chance to play. And when that happens, as we remember Houston 10 years ago, Houston went through the same thing 10 years ago and they brought in a bunch of young players and then they went to an really remarkable remarkable run. They were in the World Series four times in six years. But I don't know if that's going to happen to the White Sucks, but what is developing this year, I think the whole country is probably cheering for them. But there's another intriguing little story here about the White Sucks, which I didn't think about too much until today. The Pope is a huge fan of the White Sucks. Now, Pope Leo grew up in South Chicago, where of course, in the southern part of the city, that's where the White Sucks play. And as they say, the South Side, you're a White Sucks fan. And he's a big fan of the White Sucks. Although he's keeping it,

4:05you know, he's not out there overdoing this, but everybody knows that he's a huge fan of the White Sucks. So I'm wondering, I'm wondering if maybe there's a little bit of holy influence here on the White Sucks. You know, I don't know. Yeah, maybe you remember that movie Angels in the Outfield? Maybe the Pope is helping out here. Look, I'm not going to say it's over, but the White Sucks are two-thirds of the way there. So you got to like their chances. And the Indians are going to let the Indians, I keep saying that the Guardians are Cleveland. I hate that name, the Guardians, by the way, but the Cleveland team has to win the next three. Basically, that's it. If they want to win this series. So the odds are in favor of the White Sucks to say the least. So I don't know. I don't know if the Pope did it. If the Pope is doing it, but what a great story they are anyway, with or without the Pope, but for a Catholic like me, having the Pope cheering a baseball team,

5:07the first time it's ever happened, because this is the first American Pope that we've ever had. I think it is. Yeah, I don't think there's ever been an American Pope before. So my goodness, the Pope is a fan of the White Sucks and the White Sucks are so far. The story of the Pope's season wouldn't that be great if the White Sucks go to distance and win everything. And then they get a phone call from the Pope. Yeah, they always get a phone call from the president and the dugout after they win. Imagine getting a phone call from the Pope, congratulating them, or imagine better than that. The Pope goes to Chicago to throw one, the first pitch in a White Sucks series. Wouldn't that be something? That would be something. Talk about an audience that night. So congratulations to the White Sucks. That's all I can tell you. They're doing an amazing job in this rather remarkable series that they're playing. But let's talk a little bit about Latin

6:12America and Brazil. I have a posted day about Bolsonaro. This is the son of former president Bolsonaro who is under house arrest. He was accused of a political, it was really a political hack job that was done against his father. And he's been under house arrest. He's also been in bad health. So the son decided to run. And even though he didn't win the first round, he got 47% and now he got the endorsement of the third leading candidate. That's two more points. So he's almost at 50 already without without anybody else. So he's, I mean, I'm pretty sure he's going to win the runoff at the end of the month. But it's not just that he won his family. He's got two brothers, I guess, who were elected to the Senate. The first lady, Bolsonaro's wife, the father that is, she was elected to the Senate in central Brazil, Brazil, the capital of Brazil.

7:19And the party, the Bolsonaro's party did extremely well in the election. So if he were to win the election, he would have a pretty good Congress to work with. But there's also the larger story of what's happening in Latin America with more and more of these governments being elected, representing center right presidents or center right movements. Now, obviously, we hope that all of these leaders govern well because at the end of the day, they're going to have to prove themselves to be good at governing. I mean, they can't just, you know, they can't just be all about, you know, talking. They're going to have to put up some results. And you know, you're seeing it already in Colombia, where the new president is taking a very tough hand against criminals. And I think what's really behind this right center movement in Latin America, it's not so much, it's not an ideological thing. I don't think it's capitalism versus socialism or free markets versus government. I don't

8:19think it's quite that simple. I think what's really going on is that everybody has taken a look at El Salvador, where they've been able to clean up that country successfully. And everybody's saying, why can't we do that here? Why can we not have saved streets? And a place where people can walk and go to work and businesses can operate without having to pay off this gang or that gang, or you don't have to worry about your kids being kidnapped. That kind of mentality, I think is what's driving these victories in Latin America. Again, I don't think it's, I mean, I don't believe that voters get up on day and say, okay, we're going to vote for the free market capitalist. I don't think they think that way. I think what they say is we're tired of all this domestic insecurity in our country. And we want not just low and older, but we want safe streets, clean streets. And we want to be able to be lift peacefully. And they did it in El Salvador. So let's do it here. And I think

9:25that's really what's going on behind all of this. People want safe streets. They want to be able to live peacefully. And unfortunately, many Latin American countries, that's not the way it is. And these governments are promising to change it so that the country looks more like El Salvador now. Can a country like Brazil do all of this? More complicated because it's a very big country compared to El Salvador. I mean, El Salvador is a nation or six or seven million people largely concentrated in one place. You know, Brazil is a country of 200 million people, you know, large territories. So it's always going to be more difficult to govern. But you know, if they can, if they can at least deal with the insecurity, I think these governments are going have a lot of support, excuse me, from their voters. Because that's what's driving all of this, the insecurity going on in the countries. The fact that people want to have safe streets. They want

10:26to have, you know, peaceful nights. They don't want to have their kids being kidnapped. And then have to pay ransom or whatever for that. So I think that's what's driving all of this. And Brazil is the latest to go in that direction. And the biggest one too, remember, Brazil is the biggest country in Latin America. One of the top 10 economies in the world, gross domestic product, I think is the eighth largest. So that's a big, that's a big economy, big country. A lot of influence to have a country like that aligned with the United States. I think it's a huge, huge thing happening in Brazil. Well, let me leave you today with a quick on this day in history. We remember today one of my favorite actors, Charlton Heston, who was born on this day in 1923, passed away in 2008. I guess the first movie that comes to mind when I think of Charlton Heston has been her. You know, that's a great movie.

11:32The Ten Commandments. That's a great movie too. But he's made a bunch of other movies. A lot of them, not as well known. I remember one time he made a movie about this family in South Africa around the turn of the century or so. Very interesting, very interesting movie. I thought it was really well done. I can't think of the name right now, but I remember watching the movie. And it was really a lot of fun. And then of course, later on, he made that movie, the Planet of the Eighths, which I wasn't crazy about that movie. But he did a great job acting in that movie, as he always did in movies. So we remember Charlton Heston, who was born on this day in 1923, passed away in 2008. Of course, he was also known for being the president of the The Warnational Rifeful Association. I think that's what he did in the last 10 or 15 years of his life. So he was always very involved in politics and the Second Amendment and all of

12:35that. So Charlton Heston, 1923, 2008. We remember him today. Thank you for listening. Thank you for watching. This is so we're going to end up. Dave Roberts here. There you are surrounded by fans, sharing wings, sharing drinks, high-fiving random strangers. Everybody remembers the game. Nobody remembers the guy coughing behind you until a few days later at 2 a.m. You wake up with the fever and your throats on fire. Now what? Urgent care, clothes, ER, slam, telehealth, maybe, but the pharmacies close. You needed a medical emergency kit. These aren't first aid kits. They contain essential prescriptions used for over 30 common conditions, sinus and ear infection, UTIs, stomach bug, travelers diarrhea and more. On hand before you need them. Use your doctor-developed guidebook to select the right prescription or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. It's like an urgent care and drugstore at home. When you're sick, traveling or stranded, you'll wish you ordered a medical

13:35emergency kit. Order online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with my promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue. That's promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue.