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Yes, it's me! Mark Steyn of that ilk - back for another hour of questions from Steyn Clubbers around the planet. The fun starts at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm in the British Isles and 9pm in western and central Europe.
Lots going on in the world. There has been, for example, much talk this last week over a widening gulf between Trump and the MAGA base over Jeffrey Epstein. Well, maybe. But this time he's gone too far. Way too far:
President Trump joked about requiring the US to call soccer "football" in line with the rest of the world during an interview at the FIFA Club World Cup final... Trump attended the FIFA final Sunday evening at MetLife Stadium, where Chelsea FC trounced Paris Saint-Germain FC in what the president aptly described as "a bit of an upset."
Despite the let-down match, Trump lit up when a reporter suggested penning a new executive order officially renaming soccer "football" in the US.
"I think we could do that," he told DAZN.
What the hell? This great republic's indifference to "soccer" is the core of American exceptionalism. The proper US attitude to the sport was deftly articulated by my fellow Granite Stater Orrin Judd about twenty years ago (it seems to have vanished from the Internet). Responding to an international announcement that the Gay World Cup would be held in Mexico, Mr Judd remarked:
I thought it was only Americans who called it that.
Happy to hear your thoughts on that or anything else on your mind. Whether or not you're a member of The Mark Steyn Club, you can listen to our show live as it happens wherever you chance to be on this turbulent earth: Club membership is required only to ask a question. We love to hear from brand new members, and especially appreciate those who are having such a grand time around these parts that they've signed up a chum for a Steyn Club Gift Membership. Among the additions to our ranks in recent days are newbies from around the planet - from Washington to West Auckland, Manchester to Madeira, Vancouver to Vejer de la Frontera. If you've joined this week either for a full year or a see-how-it-goes experimental quarter, do shoot me a head-scratcher for today's show.
But, if you're not interested in joining, no worries, as they say in Oz: We seek no unwilling members - and as always the show is free to listen to, so we hope you'll want to tune in. So see you back here at 3pm North American Eastern - which is 8pm in London and Dublin, 9pm in Paris and Berlin, 10pm in Kiev and Jerusalem; half-past-ten in Teheran; midnight-forty-five in Kathmandu; 3am in Singapore and Honkers (sorry about that); 5am in Sydney and Melbourne; 7am in Auckland, and a far more convivial hour for the kippers and kedgeree in His Majesty's Dominions eastward across the Pacific, where you're so far ahead Michael E Mann's probably lost his appeal by now...