and they send in the troops. man, i have to give hats off to those parents. now for the country as you mentioned we are going to do this later on in the show. somebody who isn t so thrilled about the anthem as you and i, pete, is jon stewart. he has a podcast. i don t know if our viewers know that. but he does. and he had mark cuban on, somebody who took the national anthem when the colin kaepernick, you know, kerfluffle erupted. mark cuban said take it out all together from the mavericks game. they eliminated it. they had this discussion and here is what jon stewart had to say about what he calls a weird ritual. does anyone know when that started, playing the national anthem before games? it s such weird ritual. i have always thought about when kaepernick took the knee and the whole thing was like you have got to stand for the anthem. why is that when the anthem