WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.960 --> 00:00:04.519 Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch. 2 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:07.679 Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America 3 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:09.400 and Jim Garrity of National Review. 4 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:11.720 Free Martini's coming up. 5 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:15.279 So glad you're with us for the Friday edition of 6 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:16.679 The Three Martini Lunch. 7 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:17.879 So much to get to today. 8 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:20.399 We're going to be talking about a number of things, 9 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:24.679 including the latest on the TikTok ban, which still isn't 10 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:26.440 a ban and now it looks like it'll never be 11 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:29.320 a ban. Why is this so hard to actually implement 12 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:31.519 this law. We'll talk about what the new arrangement with 13 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:34.119 TikTok is and why it seems to be falling short. 14 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:35.880 We'll also be taking a look at. 15 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:38.880 Pam Bondi and the Justice Department actually making some arrests 16 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:41.640 and response to the invasion of the church on Sunday, 17 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:44.840 including the guy that we played in the clip on Monday. 18 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:47.119 So that's pretty gratifying, and we'll be taking a look. 19 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:51.640 As we head into NFL Conference Championship weekend, the San 20 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:53.719 Francisco forty nine ers are not in the final four. 21 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:56.479 They got slaughtered by the Seahawks last week, but they 22 00:00:56.759 --> 00:00:59.159 fact that they got to the divisional round despite a 23 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:01.640 raft of injury to keep players this year. 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Three people have now been arrested 72 00:03:18.199 --> 00:03:22.639 in conjunction with those anti ice protests that barged into 73 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:25.919 the city's church on Sunday, disrupting worship services. Video E 74 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:28.680 saw videos of the kids crying. We played the clip 75 00:03:28.759 --> 00:03:32.639 of the guy just screaming like he was either on. 76 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:34.840 Drugs or possessed. Take your pick. 77 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:37.599 I believe William Kelly. We don't need to just prefer 78 00:03:37.639 --> 00:03:39.840 him as the guy. We've now got a mug shot 79 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:41.680 for him. Sorry to step on the news. 80 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:43.000 No, that's exactly right. 81 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:45.879 So the first two arrests yesterday, we're Nikima Levy Armstrong, 82 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:48.400 who was kind of the ringleader of the whole deal, 83 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:51.759 and then also Chantelle Luisa Allen. And yes, William Kelly, 84 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:54.639 the guy who has not only been part of that protest, 85 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:57.719 but many protests at Christ Church in Washington, d C. 86 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:01.240 He's been spotted in New Orleans trying to worshippers all 87 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:04.560 over the place. So he is finally in custody. Don Lemon, 88 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:06.719 you can tell he really wishes he was arrested, but 89 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:08.680 he's not. The judge would not sign off on that. 90 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:11.520 I'm not sure why, but nonetheless, Jim, it's good to 91 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:14.479 see arrests being made here because, as we've explained earlier 92 00:04:14.520 --> 00:04:16.160 in the week, this was clearly a crime. 93 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:19.160 You know, Greg, we're not fans of Don Lemon on 94 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:22.040 this podcast, but this is where we can find common 95 00:04:22.040 --> 00:04:25.600 ground with Don Lemon. We'd like to see him frog 96 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:28.920 marched in handcuffs. To use the infamous phrase of Ambassador 97 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:31.839 Joe Wilson, apparently it is not to be or it 98 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:34.040 is not to be based on the current evidence. I 99 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:36.160 saw people pointing out that the judge reportedly as a 100 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:39.160 spouse who works in the Minnesota Attorney General's office. I 101 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:41.279 don't know if that's the case. I would point out 102 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.480 to the fact that certain figures were arrested, that there 103 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:47.680 was sufficient evidence to get an arrest warrant indicates that 104 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:51.240 this is not the judge rejecting all evidence out of 105 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:53.160 hand and doing what he had to protect it if 106 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:55.879 clearly there's some threshold of evidence and some of them 107 00:04:55.879 --> 00:04:58.439 were made, some of them were not, we can still 108 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:00.600 hold out hope that at some point Don Lemon will 109 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:03.120 get his wish and that we will finally get to 110 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:04.720 see that. I'm sure he would think we would make 111 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:10.120 great television. You know, it's almost the old expression here, 112 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:12.519 I can't even get arrested in the case of Don Lemon, 113 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:15.680 literally he cannot get arrested despite me or recording himself 114 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:19.600 disrupting church services and things like that. But look, you know, 115 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:24.199 William Kelly, based on both that video and the let's 116 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:28.079 just say scruffy looking mugshot that he's got here, seems 117 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:30.000 like exactly the kind of guy where if you see 118 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:33.600 him on a street corner shouting, you're probably gonna cross 119 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:35.879 the street to just avoid him. I think we've all 120 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:39.720 run into that type of personality and that kind of persona. Look, 121 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:42.079 you know, they'll have their day in court. 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And you know, back in 173 00:08:08.199 --> 00:08:10.879 the I guess the last year of the Biden administration, 174 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:15.720 Congress passed the TikTok Ban as it was known, basically 175 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:19.560 forcing TikTok to no longer be owned by Byte Dance, 176 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:21.600 had to be completely divested of any company that was 177 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:24.839 connected to the Chinese government. It was upheld by the 178 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:28.920 Supreme Court nine to nothing, and ever since then it's 179 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:31.759 basically been kicked down the road by the Trump administration 180 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:35.600 for the most part, in terms of actually implementing this law. 181 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:38.159 At different times, Trump has talked about, you know, other 182 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:40.639 people taking it over. He mentioned Larry Allison at one point, 183 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:42.919 He mentioned other people at one point. Well, now there's 184 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:46.639 a deal in place, but the deal does not exactly 185 00:08:47.399 --> 00:08:49.200 fit with what the law calls for, which is the 186 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:51.559 complete devestment of Byte Dance, because the Bike Dance still 187 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:54.480 controls twenty percent of the company, and as you point 188 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:57.759 out in the Jolt today, that means Byte Dance still 189 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:01.039 certainly has a say in how tik Talk functions, which 190 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:04.159 means propaganda and other things. And possibly I don't know, 191 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:07.559 but maybe you've dug into this as well, data harvesting, 192 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:09.159 basically Chinese spyware. 193 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.360 Will it still be that going forward here? 194 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:14.799 So what exactly is the deal and what's the reality 195 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:17.679 for its compliance or non compliance with the law. 196 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:20.240 Yeah, well, Greg, you said this the current arrangement that 197 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:23.480 was now finalized yesterday, it does not fit with the 198 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:27.360 existing past law. That's another way of saying violates the law. Yes, 199 00:09:27.639 --> 00:09:31.480 Byte Dance gets to keep nineteen point nine percent of 200 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:36.399 the US version of TikTok. The You know, everybody who 201 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:39.080 was worried about this from a national security perspective, all 202 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:40.840 the China hawks, all the big people who saw this, 203 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:42.840 none of them are satisfied with this. And these are 204 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:45.480 folks like you know, folks not just with the Hudson Institute, 205 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:50.480 good solid conservative hawkish types. Mark Short, former of Vice 206 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:52.600 President Mike Pence's chief of staff. He was Director of 207 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:55.960 Legislative Affairs in Trump's first term. These are not knee 208 00:09:56.039 --> 00:09:58.679 jerk Trump critics. These are not people who are automatically 209 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:01.279 going to denounce the president whatever he says. And the 210 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:04.559 whole playing Well, don't worry, the US licenses the algorithm. Well, 211 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:07.559 that doesn't really address the core problem here, which is 212 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:10.679 the problem was being used to feed out messages that 213 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:14.360 were hostile to American interests and to suppress messages that were, 214 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:16.759 you know, supportive of American interests or critical of the 215 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:19.559 Chinese state. Right, and so one of the things they 216 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:21.159 point out is that, well, don't worry, we have full 217 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:23.679 inspection of the algorithm. Well, why do you feel the 218 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:27.039 need to inspect the algorithm because the algorithm is even 219 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:30.759 used to pump foreign propaganda into people's mind, Like there's 220 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:33.159 this thing like, no, the problem is the algorithm. You 221 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:37.720 would need a different algorithm to resolve this, right. So, yes, 222 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:40.600 technically there's a US entity that is in charge of 223 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:44.840 moderating the content seven member majority of American board, TikTok's 224 00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:49.080 Chief executive officer, Shao Chu, who gets to have a 225 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:52.159 seat on the board. But the person who was TikTok's 226 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:55.559 head of operations, Adam Presser, is the new CEO. People 227 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:57.840 say oh, okay, well you got an American CEO that fakes. 228 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:01.240 That's good is Adam Presser has been with TikTok in 229 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:04.159 senior executive role since April twenty twenty two. So I 230 00:11:04.200 --> 00:11:07.440 went back through some of the most notorious examples of 231 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:12.039 TikTok either censoring content or promoting content that we considered 232 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:15.759 to be anti American propaganda. Former NBA player Nis Kanter 233 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:19.000 Freedom had his account shut down and back in March 234 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:22.159 twenty twenty three. Then twelve days later they said, oh, 235 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:25.120 it was an error, you know, just because we just 236 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:27.799 happened to coincidentally shut down the biggest critic of the 237 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:30.519 one of the biggest critics of the Chinese regime. May 238 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:33.000 twenty twenty three, they shut down the Actin Institute after 239 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:36.559 her post messages promoting Jimmy Lai and criticizing the Chinese 240 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:40.679 Communist Party. All this time, Presser was the TikTok vice 241 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:43.080 president in chief of staff. You know, this is not 242 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:45.759 a guy who was oh off in some branch office 243 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:48.360 somewhere who had no idea what was going on there. 244 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:53.360 October twenty three, the Hamas attack on Israel, all of 245 00:11:53.399 --> 00:11:55.879 a sudden, TikTok users are getting all these anti Israel 246 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:58.000 and pro Hamas messages, and the guy go back on 247 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:00.440 it works through the algorithm and says, the moment you 248 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:03.159 clicked on one of these, your fee just started filling 249 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:05.960 up with more and more of it. Right. November twenty 250 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:08.960 twenty three, TikTok users suddenly start approvingly this two thousand 251 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:11.240 and two letter from Osama bin Laden and saying, oh, 252 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:13.399 bin Laden made a lot of good useful points. No, no, 253 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:15.480 he did not, right, But the question is like, how 254 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:19.039 does something from two thousand and two suddenly go big 255 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:22.279 and go viral all over TikTok and what caused that? 256 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:24.879 That has to be the algorithm, right. Rutgers University does 257 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:27.279 a study December twenty twenty three and says, look, there's 258 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:30.159 just no way that the information's critical of the Chinese 259 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:34.360 government has this low traffic, and information that is supportive 260 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:37.080 of the Chinese government has this much traffic without somebody 261 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:38.919 playing with the algorithm. It's just no way that this 262 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:42.360 is naturally occurring this entire time. Presser is head of 263 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:45.399 operations for TikTok. So you're like, oh, don't worry, We've 264 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:48.000 got an American in church. We've got the American who's been 265 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.559 in senior roles during all the problem times. But all 266 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:52.480 the other times we've had these problems with the algorithm. 267 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:55.159 So why would we think that this algorithm is going 268 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:57.399 to suddenly get a whole lot better when you've got 269 00:12:57.440 --> 00:12:59.919 the same guy running the operation. I don't see how 270 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:04.399 this is consistent with US interests. Last night on True 271 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:07.120 Social Trump goes on talks about how much he loves TikTok, 272 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:11.000 and TikTok loves young people, young people love him. He 273 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:13.399 also says, I would also like to thank President g 274 00:13:13.639 --> 00:13:16.759 of China for working with us and ultimately approving the deal. Boy, 275 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:18.759 there's nothing that makes me feel warmer or fuzzier than 276 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:20.799 having the president of the United States gush about how 277 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:24.919 great the Chinese, the dictator in China is and how 278 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:26.600 wonderful it is to work with them, how great they 279 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:27.039 get along. 280 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:30.320 So reassuring the question about the data harvesting, Has that 281 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:33.159 gotten any better, because that's probably the biggest national security concern. 282 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:35.759 It's the same algorithm. They say, Oh, don't worry, it's 283 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:38.159 going to stay in the United States. But again, Bite 284 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:40.279 Dance has a twenty percent stake in all that, So 285 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:43.759 what's preventing them from also, like if TikTok, if China 286 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:47.519 wanted to use TikTok as a weapon of leverage, if 287 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:50.480 they were using it to to gather dirt on people, 288 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:53.399 if they're using it to track the locations of US 289 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:56.519 service personnel or US government employees or something like that, 290 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:00.000 well they already have all that data. The horse says 291 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:03.240 the bar. The whole herd left the bar. The entire 292 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:06.120 Kentucky Derby has run out of the barn at top speed. 293 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:08.480 So yeah, we can close the barn door. Now, I'm 294 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:10.480 not sure how much is going to mitigate the damage. 295 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:13.600 Yeah, this seemed like an easy win. It was overwhelmingly 296 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.639 passed firm by the Supreme Court. 297 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:19.159 Yeah, so how. 298 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:22.960 This continues to unfold like this, I'm not quite sure. Anyway, 299 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:27.279 let's talk about your life. Hopefully you're all going to 300 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:30.200 be safe this weekend with the big storm. But look, 301 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:32.279 as we've talked about all week and kind of joked 302 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:34.679 a tongue in cheek, but it's true, we're all going 303 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:37.639 to die, and so at this point hopefully it's not 304 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:41.759 this weekend, certainly, but nonetheless, it's just smart. 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The story today is 342 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:26.559 that a team that consistently over the past several years 343 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:29.919 has competed for conference championships is now trying to figure 344 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:32.120 out why, not only this year, but over a number 345 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:35.840 of years, they've piled up more injuries and injuries to 346 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:37.679 key players than just about any team in the league, 347 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:39.440 in some cases more than any other team in the league. 348 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:42.679 In fact, this year, they've sidelined about ninety five million 349 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:45.960 dollars in salary as a result of injuries. And so 350 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:49.320 when it comes to guys who have been lost by 351 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:53.720 the forty nine Ers, it's been players like Nick Bosa 352 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:57.799 and Torn acl Fred Warner broke an ankle. Those guys 353 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:00.600 have been out most of the season. George kittletore achilles 354 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:03.440 in the first playoff game against the Eagles first round 355 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:06.440 draft pick tour in Acl. But even guys that didn't 356 00:17:07.039 --> 00:17:09.240 end up out for the season, like quarterback Brock Purty, 357 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:13.440 receivers Ricky Piersoll and Juwan Jennings, they've missed serious playing time. 358 00:17:13.480 --> 00:17:16.279 But somehow, credit to coach Shanahan and his team, they've 359 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:19.160 managed to make the playoffs and even get a playoff 360 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:20.240 win in Philadelphia. 361 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:22.519 But they're trying to figure out why this is happening. 362 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:24.640 Could be a lot of different reasons, but one of 363 00:17:24.680 --> 00:17:28.119 the reasons that they're investigating, along with others, admittedly, is 364 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:32.240 whether the electrical substation near their training facility and Levi 365 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:35.440 Stadium where they play in Santa Clara, might have something 366 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:38.279 to do with that, and general manager John Lynch says, Hey, 367 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:41.200 it deals with allegedly the health and safety of our players. 368 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:43.119 I think you at least have to take a look 369 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:45.279 at it. We're reaching out to anyone and everyone to 370 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:48.440 see is there even a study that exists on something 371 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:52.079 like this. The Washington Post says, this is ridiculous, This 372 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:58.200 is nonsense. There's no suggestion that exposure to electro motive 373 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:01.720 force is what I mean, it's from these substations, could 374 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:04.839 be related to all these injuries. But you know, as 375 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:07.319 long as you're investigating everything, I guess if there is 376 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:09.000 a way to test it, go ahead and do it. 377 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:14.200 But I am skeptical that that's the case, because you know, 378 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:17.680 it looks like that would be an unlikely reason for 379 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:18.839 somebody to snap their ankle. 380 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:20.039 But you know that could be me. 381 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:24.759 I actually really like the response from John Lynch. He 382 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:27.880 basically just tackles this the way he used to tackle 383 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:30.319 posing running backs back when he was a safety. Just 384 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:32.279 just hammers into it in the sense that he's saying 385 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:34.960 that like, look, we don't know, we don't really have 386 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:36.799 a lot of good evidence to point in this direction, 387 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:39.279 but we're not going to leave any stone unturned. If 388 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:41.799 there's a possibility this is a factor in player injuries, 389 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:43.880 we will, you know, dig into it see if there's 390 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:45.839 something we can do to address it. But he doesn't 391 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:48.640 sound like he's a wide eyed conspiracy theorist either. Now 392 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:50.720 I could make a lot of jokes about the Jets here, 393 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:52.599 but I'm actually not going to. It always seems like 394 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:54.960 your team is getting hurt by injuries much worse than 395 00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:57.799 other teams. I'm sure that's kind of a perception. You can, 396 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:00.200 you know, quantify how many, how many there are and 397 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:02.640 how serious they are. I think it was men's health. 398 00:19:02.680 --> 00:19:05.519 I was reading years ago somebody made the argument that 399 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:11.720 an overwhelming majority of injuries that are involving ligaments, tendons, 400 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:14.799 pulled muscles, stuff like that come from an imbalance in 401 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:16.599