1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. In this episode, our 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: friend Kurt Schlichtor is making an appearance, which is very exciting. 3 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: He is a lawyer, a veteran and author, a columnist 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: at townhall dot com, and just general ass kicker and 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: patriotic American. Kurt. Great to have you on, sir, Thanks 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: for coming to hang out. Well, Buck, you forgot sexual powerhouse. 7 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,119 Speaker 1: I mean, you did tell me that at some point 8 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: your wife is going to bring you a bottle of wine. 9 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: So I figured we would have the you know, the 10 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 1: life advice for the gentleman out there. Once we had you, 11 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: Once you had a couple of glasses of wine. Missus 12 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,680 Speaker 1: Schlichtor could tell everybody you know how the alpha dogs 13 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 1: actually roll. I'm just saying that's what I've heard. Well, 14 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:43,879 Speaker 1: you've seen her, you know how hot she is. You 15 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: and I like share this. We just will not tolerate 16 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 1: women who aren't of a certain standard. Well, I will 17 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:52,040 Speaker 1: tell you that I have a we have a mutual 18 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: friend who I don't want to I don't know if 19 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 1: I have permission to give away his secrets, But you 20 00:00:58,160 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: and I have a mutual friend. You probably know who 21 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 1: is for me saying this who has a theory that 22 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: you basically can't trust a guy who doesn't have a 23 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: hot wife. Now, as long as the guy thinks his 24 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 1: wife is hot, that counts, right, It's all about that. 25 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 1: But you can't trust a guy who doesn't have a 26 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: hot wife. That's or who doesn't believe he as a 27 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:17,400 Speaker 1: hot wife. That's his theory. I always think that's an 28 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: interesting case study. Why would you why would you settle 29 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 1: for anything less than the best? You're a man, damn it, 30 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:28,319 Speaker 1: you're a man. There you go. So we could get 31 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: into a dating advice for the younger male portion of 32 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: the audience later on the program. Like I said, Kurt 33 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 1: asked me, He's like, He's like, can I smoke? Can 34 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: I drink? Can I drink a cigar? That would be crazy? 35 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 1: Can I smoke a cigar? Can I drink some scotch? 36 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: During this? And I was like, Kurt, you you roll 37 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 1: however you want, buddy, this is Kurt's world. We're just 38 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: trying to film it um and and we'll get into 39 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: some of that stuff. I can I ask you about 40 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: some real stuff though for a second. First, because like 41 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: there are a lot of people come here that we 42 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: want to have news content analysis. You're very smart man. 43 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: You come from the old Cold War era, thump it 44 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: out with the bad guys with tanks. We're talking order 45 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: of battle stuff. We're talking about how many, how many, 46 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: you know, millions of rounds and hundreds and thousands of 47 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 1: gallons of fuel and you know, massive formations to fight 48 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 1: the Soviet beasts. So you know you're not one of 49 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 1: these fancy counterinsurgency guys. Oh. I speak multiple languages of 50 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: the natives, and I read books and sit around and 51 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 1: try to win the hearts and minds. You're like, boom, 52 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: we're dropping bombs on you. How Kosovo after nine to eleven, 53 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: which you know was a lot like a fireman instead 54 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: of getting to put out the fire at the orphanage 55 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: of the old folks. I mean, it's the cat out 56 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,239 Speaker 1: of the tree. Uh. What I was at coast of 57 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: I was helping people, you know, start mushroom farms. Uh. 58 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,839 Speaker 1: It was, it was. It was not a slam band. 59 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 1: But I started out in the Cold War. I started 60 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: out in Germany. I was part of NATO. I went 61 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 1: to the Gulf Wars per seventh Corps, end up at 62 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: seven Core Headquarters. I ran a heavily armed car wash 63 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: at that time. After that got out, went in the reserves, 64 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: immediately went mechanized infantry, which is uh you know, and 65 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 1: of course being the new lieutenant, I got to be 66 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 1: the vehicle guy. I got to be the battalion motor 67 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: officer for a heavy battalion. That was just a delight 68 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 1: because they break all the time. How prepared are we 69 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 1: for the possibility of a war with a country like 70 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: either Russia or China where they have very large things 71 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: that can go bang to you know what I mean? 72 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: You know, we've been fighting, We've been fighting wars for 73 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: twenty years where we have absolute uncontested air superiority from 74 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: day one, right, we have under air attack since Korea, right, 75 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:58,120 Speaker 1: absolute technological superiority. You know, in most cases, even our 76 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: guys in Afghanistan, I rock had night vision goggless. Some 77 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: of the you know, we can get into like some 78 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: of the Hakani network guys and everything would happen. But 79 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: generally speaking, you know, we had much better technology. Are 80 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: we ready if we had to go you know, Abram's 81 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: tank muzzle to muzzle with Russian tank formations? Are we 82 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:20,359 Speaker 1: ready for this? I mean, just just to get an 83 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 1: understanding of where we stand right now with military readiness 84 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: for the wars we may be fighting. I'm not as 85 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: worried about crew to crew fighting as I am about 86 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:39,839 Speaker 1: high level leadership. Leadership cures a host of illnesses. It 87 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: is a solution to many many problems, and we don't 88 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: have it right now. Buck. We have a military that 89 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: has not won a war unequivocally in thirty years. We 90 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 1: have a military that is very concerned with nonsense. You know, 91 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 1: I was talking to another guy who was associated with 92 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 1: war colleges, and he was telling me that he would, 93 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:01,039 Speaker 1: you know, sit in briefings and you know, basic exercises. 94 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: A bunch of colonels on Saturday will brief you on 95 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 1: what America's greatest strategic challenge is. Then Sunday they'll brief 96 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: you on what the solution is, you know, basic one 97 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: oh one, warcology stock. Half the people will show up 98 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: and say, our number one strategic challenges climate change. Okay, No, 99 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: our number one strategic challenge is Chinese trying to kill us. 100 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: I am not confident in our military leadership today. I 101 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: think we have dropped our standards, taken our eyes off 102 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 1: the ball, lost our focus. I think if we get 103 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: into a high intense conventional conflict against a peer competitor, 104 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: and I don't think the Soviet are the Russians got 105 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: Soviets updating myself. The Russians are truly a peer competitor 106 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: at this point, though after they rebuild their shattered army 107 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:54,280 Speaker 1: they probably will be. Um. I think I think we're 108 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: going to find ourselves outgunned an outfought. I think we've 109 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 1: milked our past experience, particularly in the Navy. You know, 110 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,359 Speaker 1: we were the only military name of the British, the 111 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 1: only navy that had done massive worldwide combat operations. We did. 112 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 1: Now in World War Two, we lived off that legacy. 113 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: I know, my family's all Navy. I'm the I'm the 114 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: Green sheep. Uh. And we lived off that for years 115 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 1: and that that's just gone. Now our ships are running 116 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: into each other. Are the officer corps is a disaster. 117 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: There's no real focus on combat readiness. Soldiers do what 118 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: commanders check. Commanders are checking wokeness, so you get wokeness 119 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: and it's uh, it's a disaster. And if we get 120 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: into a fight, we're going to lose people. Well, this 121 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,720 Speaker 1: is my concern, isn't you know we saw in a 122 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: rocket Afghanistan excellence at the war fighter level continuously, but 123 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: with the with the idea of a war, a conventional 124 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: developed world conflict, now right. I brought up things like ammunition, gasoline, 125 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: because that's what actually matters. You know, who has who 126 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 1: brings more guns that they can keep in the field, 127 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: that they can fire accurately and feed with MMO and 128 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: you know, all that component of it, which is not 129 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: you know, really what we were doing in these other places. 130 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: I mean, I was reading about six months ago. I 131 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: think it was maybe a little more than that. We 132 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: were worried that our ability to provide munitions to Ukraine 133 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,240 Speaker 1: was outstripping our ability to make them. And that's for 134 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: a war we're not even in. Look, the United States 135 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: is one war since the Civil War with two things. 136 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: First of all, our troops are generally excellent. They're generally 137 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: pretty good. You might be able to say at the 138 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: British Army, maybe the German Army man for man, we're 139 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: better trained, had a more focused professional military traditions. But 140 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: the American soldiers are pretty damn good. But you put 141 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: pretty damn good with endless artillery rounds. You know, the 142 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 1: Germans would fight the Americans, and they'd be tactically very proficient. 143 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: But every time they shot at Americans, they just get 144 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 1: pummeled by one five finds. They just get blown to 145 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: bits and and you can't fight that. We win because 146 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: we mastered logistics. We deliver steal on target. Steal on 147 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: target is not just pulling the cord on a camp. 148 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 1: It's building the shell, moving the shell. I remember in 149 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: the Gulf, I was at seven Core, Maine, which was 150 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 1: the city of Hafer Albatine is right off what's called 151 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: Tabline Road, big road running over the north, and I 152 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: was going back towards the town down in through a waddy, 153 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: which is a big valley, big valley, completely empty, nothing 154 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 1: but rocks and the occasional euromastic lizard. Three days later, 155 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: I drove through that same valley, as far as the 156 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 1: eye can see was American military material. We move moved 157 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: a city of five hundred thousand men from America and 158 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: Europe to the ports and then out in the middle 159 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: of the desert, and then we fought it moving. That 160 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:17,679 Speaker 1: is a logistic achievement, uh desert storm and frankly, we 161 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:21,319 Speaker 1: never I can't think they're military. That's master did I mean, 162 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: I think the Victorian Desert Storm was probably the height 163 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 1: of America's undisputed power, but it was a power of logistics. Right, Well, 164 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: what I was gonna say, I mean, by the way, 165 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: there's you know, how to Make War, the book by 166 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: William Morrow, which is now a multiple multiple editions, a 167 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: good basis for our basics for people to get a 168 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 1: sense of how to make war, what it actually entails, 169 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 1: and and and it is so much and over yet strategy, 170 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: every strategy is sexy, right, you know, Sunsue and you 171 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: talk about the clouds of wits and uh, you know, 172 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: you talk about all these different people from from history. 173 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: That makes everyone sound fancy. And then look there's a 174 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 1: lot of insight and interesting stuff from that. But you 175 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 1: really want to understand how people will wars. You look 176 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: at the greatest military powers in history all had superior logistics. 177 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: Superior logistics. I mean, this is this was true of 178 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: even though people don't think of it this way. The Mongolia. 179 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: Mongolians were amazing at siege warfare, which required you know, 180 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 1: enormous building and construction and coordination, I mean, you know, 181 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 1: as well as moving and feeding eighty thousand men or 182 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:29,679 Speaker 1: you know, whatever the size of the military was that 183 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: they we're talking about on horseback obviously, the Germans moving 184 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: guns that are like bigger than any guns we even 185 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:38,679 Speaker 1: see now for the First World War. They're doing it 186 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 1: with some of it on trains, but a lot of 187 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 1: it with horseback. Obviously, the British, the British Navy, I 188 00:10:43,559 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 1: mean most of the army that weremock that invaded Poland 189 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 1: was horse drawn. Yeah, you can hear about the pass, 190 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: but a ton of it was horse drawn. I mean, 191 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: even when the Ottomans were at their peaked too. What 192 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: the Ottomans could do, the reason the Ottomans were the 193 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: pre eminent Western world military power for certainly a few 194 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: hundred years was they could bring more men into the field, 195 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: feed them with better material, better training, and better logistics 196 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 1: support for them than anybody else by far, like no 197 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 1: one else even close to being able. Now, you know, 198 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:23,679 Speaker 1: a lot of that was the logistics of or the 199 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:29,319 Speaker 1: advantage of having Constantinople, which is the single probably most 200 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: advantageous real estate you could have had in the entire 201 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:35,560 Speaker 1: certainly entire Mediterranean world. But of course it was the 202 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: Romans who really built that up. And of course we stake. 203 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:42,319 Speaker 1: You can go walk on a Roman road today. Yeah, 204 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 1: and it's better than most roads in our third world 205 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: cities in Blue America. And this is why, you know, 206 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: as I look again now at the future and what 207 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: we'll be able to do. Look, our economic pre eminence 208 00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: is really what drives our military pre eminence, certainly in 209 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 1: a convention conflict. And I see what's happening in Ukraine, 210 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: and I wanted to switch and get your sense of 211 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: where we are in We're going to talk strategy now. 212 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: We've been talking logistics, talking strategy here, here's where. Here's 213 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 1: where I think the right tends to be on this um. 214 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: And not including Lindsay Graham, who's just like blow it 215 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,319 Speaker 1: out of the sky, went with the Russian claims. I mean, 216 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 1: I don't I don't understand how the Republican base. I 217 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: want to meet the South Carolina Republican you know, rock 218 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 1: solid Republican voters who are like Lindsey Graham is my guy. 219 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 1: I guess it's just habit. But I sit here, I go, 220 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:38,680 Speaker 1: what do you you know? Anyway? You know, these red 221 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 1: states get soft because they don't have to fight. You know, 222 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 1: Republicans in California are pretty hard because we're on our 223 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 1: back foot all the time. But you get to like 224 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: Texas and if you want to be electis som you 225 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 1: gotta be a Republican. Seeing a lot of soft Republicans 226 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 1: who should be Democrats in a normal state coming in. 227 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:00,079 Speaker 1: And then there are things like well, you know, you 228 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: can't really stop groomers. Oh well, school choice is terrible. 229 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: Oh well, hin' gonna be started? Yeah, no, I mean 230 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: you want. I was thinking it's interesting, you know, the 231 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 1: you could argue like three of the great and great 232 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 1: I don't mean like good people, but most impactful. Although 233 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:18,839 Speaker 1: I hate that word. It's not really the way it 234 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 1: should be used. Impactful. It's not even a word, but 235 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:24,839 Speaker 1: people use it all the time. Um, I think it's 236 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: probably is considered a word now. But then again, so 237 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: or is like you know, there's all these things that 238 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 1: they're changing all the time. Um. Yes, you look at Napoleon, 239 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 1: sort of the greatest French nationalist of all time from Corsica, 240 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 1: which is like I do right, not really France, like 241 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: you know, Wrench warriors were a delusional teenage girl, a 242 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: Corsican dwarf. You know, he went back and forth between 243 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:53,359 Speaker 1: Italy and France, right, So it's like, is it really France. Um, 244 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 1: you had Joseph Stalin, who came from uh, Georgia, which 245 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 1: is on the frontier of the Russian Russian Empire at 246 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 1: the time, right, and you have Hitler much of every 247 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: those things of Hitler's being German. Hitler is Austrian, which 248 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 1: from from the from the sort of frontier, and and 249 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 1: you know the nationalist ultra nationalist sentiments that came from 250 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 1: some of these individuals and the way that they I 251 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 1: just think it's interesting because you know, they grew up 252 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:26,359 Speaker 1: in places where there was that that friction of empire 253 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 1: and holding all together. Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, 254 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: you look at somebody like Trajan uh and uh he 255 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: was I believe he was Spanish. He was born in Spain. 256 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: Hold on, I'm gonna get honey, I'm gonna get the pizza. 257 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: This is fine. This is what we expect on this 258 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 1: to see on the radio show. We're on the clock, man, 259 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 1: it's every we got sponsors. We gotta get to eat. 260 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: You know, here here you could get the pizza. What 261 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: do we get on this pizza? By the way, we 262 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 1: talking pepperoni? What do we get on this Oh, I 263 00:14:56,080 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: got pepperoni, sausage, bell pepper and onions. Excuse me, ho, Hey, 264 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 1: get the paza. This is very much like Will Ferrell 265 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: in Wedding Crashers when he's like the meat load. I'm 266 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 1: going to go get the pizza. Give me a minute. Yeah, 267 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: go ahead and get the pizza. That's not that's not 268 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: a problem. In the meantime, I'm actually going to do 269 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:20,840 Speaker 1: a read for one of our fantastic sponsors. The recent 270 00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: bank failures are the nation's largest collapse of a financial 271 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: institution since two eight. If you've been on the fence 272 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 1: about buying gold and silver, now is the time to 273 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 1: make the call. 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Call the Oxford Gold Group about your possibility 290 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: to get gold and silver today. You can also get 291 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 1: additional free bonus opportunities. Oh that sounds interesting. A three 292 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 1: three four zero four gold A three three four zero 293 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 1: four g O. L. D. Kurt Schlichter is back and 294 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: he has his pizza now in hand, which is exciting 295 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: or at least at hand. I love how you just 296 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: swing right into a read. Yeah, of course is when 297 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 1: I guess post for folks, it's the part I hate 298 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: the most. But but I'm I'm a pro man. That's 299 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: you know, you got you got to use your space 300 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: in the time. You're dead. No dead air, no dead 301 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 1: air even on the podcast. That's how we roll. By 302 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 1: the way. I heard a dog pizza because I heard it. 303 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 1: Look he's out. Wait wait, I got a question. I 304 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 1: heard a dog in the background. Do you have a dog? 305 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:07,239 Speaker 1: What do you what do you have. I have a 306 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: rat like uh, terrier and kind of like a little quarty. Okay, 307 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, it's funny. Um, I'm looking 308 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 1: at houses with the uh, with the wife, you know, 309 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,119 Speaker 1: we want to actually get a house, gonna try to 310 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,360 Speaker 1: start a family, that kind of stuff. And because I've 311 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 1: lived in just like tiny apartments my whole life, very 312 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:28,600 Speaker 1: bachelor style. Um you know that was at one point, Yeah, 313 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 1: at one point, my my very small studio apartment in 314 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 1: New York was described by a young woman as uh 315 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: as as looking like something that was a shrine to uh, 316 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:42,880 Speaker 1: like my time in the CIA, and and a sword collection. 317 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: And I was like, what guy in his early thirties 318 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,199 Speaker 1: who lives alone doesn't have a bunch of weapons on 319 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 1: the wall anyway, see every squad right exactly exactly. Why 320 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: why why wouldn't I have a saber handy? I'm not 321 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: telling you what's in some of these wars around me. Yeah, 322 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 1: but I will say that, she laughs to Because we 323 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 1: go see houses, I always want to see the books 324 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 1: of the person who lives there, like what books they have, 325 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 1: And I just I just feel like I can I 326 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 1: look at the books and I get a sense I'm 327 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: like of who lives here right away every time. First 328 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,120 Speaker 1: of all, I know Democrat or Republican, and she thinks 329 00:18:20,119 --> 00:18:21,719 Speaker 1: it's really funny. I mean, I've seen your books. We're 330 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 1: gonna talk about Inferno, and you're you know, you're an author, 331 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 1: a man. Here's an author who writes um thrillers. We 332 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 1: call it? Is that? Is that what we would describe 333 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 1: the master? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I write The People's Republic 334 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 1: was the first of the novels, and it's back there, 335 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: and I decided always bored, right, I bored reading these novels. 336 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: They seemed fairy cookie cutter. I want to write some 337 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 1: of his action pack funny and talked about what was 338 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:50,960 Speaker 1: going on. So I imago world where America has a 339 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:53,679 Speaker 1: great divorce, half of its Red, half of its blue, 340 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 1: and a guy from the Red has to go into 341 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: Blue America to do missions with guns, and he carries 342 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: a Wilson combat at five, which got me to meet 343 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:07,400 Speaker 1: Bill Wilson eventually, who's just a badass gunmaker. And then 344 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:10,439 Speaker 1: people buy this thing and they enjoyed it. Yeah, I'm 345 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: a funny guy. I'm the only O six I know 346 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 1: who was ever a stand up comic. And how to 347 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 1: write a joke and they're funny and action packed and interesting. 348 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,640 Speaker 1: So I write a second one and a third one. 349 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 1: I'm writing number eight now, okay, Inferno is number seven. 350 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:32,399 Speaker 1: It's out and there's so much fun to read, and 351 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 1: there's so much fun to write. And I've sold a 352 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 1: ton of these things. They'll be in the top hundred 353 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 1: of Amazon. And this is just, I mean, this is 354 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 1: just you know, a great use of technology because while 355 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 1: I do do nonfiction for Regory, with these I don't 356 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: have to go and ask anybody if they want to 357 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:58,919 Speaker 1: publish it. I can publish it and I sell it 358 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: on Amazon, and it's professional quality, and uh, it's you know, 359 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: people love these things, and it's finally making some conservative culture. Well, 360 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 1: this is the thing, this is the thing that we 361 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:14,479 Speaker 1: have to do. I've been saying for a while and 362 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:16,480 Speaker 1: I know others say this too, but I think it 363 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:20,119 Speaker 1: needs amplification, right that. You know, you think about um 364 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 1: Tom Wolfe, who I think people would would put as 365 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 1: a conservative or certainly a more traditionalist author Bonfire the Vanities. 366 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 1: You can read Bonfire the Vanities, which is a great novel. 367 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 1: I've actually got it right over here on my bookshelf, 368 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,199 Speaker 1: which people can't see. But you know, I don't have 369 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,159 Speaker 1: my credibility shelf behind me. It's in front of me 370 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: right now, but it's still there. I just want ever 371 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:41,719 Speaker 1: to know I'm not you know, I'm calling it out. 372 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,359 Speaker 1: It's still there. Bonfire the Vanity is great book, terrible movie. 373 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: So don't ever watch the movie. Tom Hanks, Goldie not 374 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 1: goalieh on um who was in it? Tom Hanks and 375 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 1: uh Bruce Willis is in it. And I was trying 376 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,640 Speaker 1: to remember who the female lead was, but anyway, um, 377 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 1: not a good remember either. Yeah, the book was. The 378 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,439 Speaker 1: book is excellent though, but you you can read that 379 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,159 Speaker 1: book and you understand that we just sort of go 380 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:08,439 Speaker 1: through cycles here with with democrat urban politics and the 381 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:12,320 Speaker 1: way the city machinery works, and the way the newspapers 382 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 1: and the narrative and racial politics and all this stuff 383 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:21,320 Speaker 1: comes together. We need more people creating things in that space. 384 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 1: And I say this is somebody who does like traditional 385 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 1: news talk radio every day. Um, obviously I think I 386 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 1: have a particular take on it or I've been good 387 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 1: at it, so I you know, I love what I do, 388 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 1: but I do want to actually do some of that 389 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: other stuff. I mean if I had my brothers, I'll 390 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:37,919 Speaker 1: just tell you this, right, we nerd out together here 391 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: for a second, just you, me and the you know 392 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: the there's gonna be like hundreds of thousands of people 393 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: when all said and done, you're gonna listen to this 394 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 1: at least watching. We need more people to watch. So 395 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:48,399 Speaker 1: if you're listening to this, please subscribe to the YouTube 396 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 1: channel as well, because Kurt and I are handsome guys. 397 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 1: He's wearing a cool shirt. If more of you click 398 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,880 Speaker 1: subscribe at YouTube dot com. Slash buck sex and Kurt 399 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 1: will go down. Three buttons. We're talking three buttons down. 400 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 1: That's a little bit of man cleavage. You're gonna get 401 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:10,640 Speaker 1: there going wow. And Earnest org nine, Uh, I don't 402 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: even who is that? You know who Ernest Boord nine is? No, 403 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 1: you know Ernestine. I don't know. Anyway, we need Ernest 404 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 1: Boord nine. You're gonna go Ernestine of course. Of course 405 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,919 Speaker 1: I was thinking Sarash from Beverly Hills, cop and anyway, 406 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:32,240 Speaker 1: um so, I don't know if you remember Bronson, Okay. 407 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,920 Speaker 1: I also was good friends with the sister of Lisa Ailbacher, 408 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,159 Speaker 1: who was in there. She was a stand up comic 409 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: and she would never tell her real name, but we 410 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: figured it out. Good dude, you're also in LA I 411 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,640 Speaker 1: would say, I'm a New York conserved guy though even 412 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 1: though I've moved. I've moved to Miami to join the 413 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 1: Florida Revolution. So and I love it here, by the way, 414 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,439 Speaker 1: and I I don't say it's awesome like I I 415 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,919 Speaker 1: just went on. I went. I went and picked up 416 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:02,400 Speaker 1: an A R fifteen recently, and dam of defense, you'd 417 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: be very proud. It's very, very excellent. I also also 418 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: got a staccato c he too. We can talk about 419 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:11,479 Speaker 1: this in the oh oh oh yes, oh yes. Papa 420 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,199 Speaker 1: Buck doesn't mess around, you know what I mean. If 421 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:17,639 Speaker 1: I'm getting firearms, yeah, it's like the Lamborghini of firearms. 422 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: Like I'm not playing games over here. But I walked 423 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: out of the gun store, and I know this is 424 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 1: gonna sound crazy to the people listening who are from 425 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: like normal red states. For you, the Second Amendment, there 426 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: was a part of me that kept thinking, like, I'm 427 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:36,200 Speaker 1: gonna get arrested because in New York. Yeah, in New York, 428 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:37,959 Speaker 1: if you walk out of a gun store with an 429 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: AAR fifteen, like that means somebody sold you something in 430 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 1: the back they weren't supposed to, and like you're in trouble, 431 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like this is crazy. Yeah, 432 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,479 Speaker 1: here comes to swat team. Yeah yeah, I was up. 433 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,639 Speaker 1: I've got an out of state and sealed license. I 434 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: was in uh Texas where it applies, and uh, of 435 00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: course in California, I was only a guy in charge 436 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 1: of thousands of guys hearing automatic rifles on the streets 437 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: of Los Angeles as a battalion commander during civil operations. 438 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 1: But I can't be trusted with a concealed carry permit. No, 439 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,399 Speaker 1: some GS three has to decide for the colonel who 440 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:21,199 Speaker 1: whether or not I should be armed. So I'm I 441 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: had a gun. I was carrying it and it felt 442 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 1: very weird. I know I carried guns a lot, but 443 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,360 Speaker 1: you have to recock your mind when you're doing it. 444 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: You can't be allowed mouth, you can't drink a lot. 445 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,680 Speaker 1: You gotta behave yourself. And it was you know, normally, 446 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 1: you know, Gun three, I can be an as big 447 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,800 Speaker 1: an idiot as I want. Suddenly you're you know, you 448 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 1: got that glock and suddenly it's like a better Uh, 449 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: make sure I don't do anything stupid. It is remarkable. 450 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:53,000 Speaker 1: I mean I remember even when I was sent by 451 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,359 Speaker 1: the federal government to the NYPD to help the Intel 452 00:24:55,359 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 1: Division the CIA, the federal government had trained me to 453 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: use firearms, and I asked, I was like, so, is 454 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:05,679 Speaker 1: there any way, like can I get a permit here 455 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,679 Speaker 1: as as you know, a civilian essentially you know, And 456 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: they were like no, sitting. I was like, wait, but 457 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: but I mean, I don't understand, like I have a 458 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,440 Speaker 1: Second Amendment and I've been trained. You guys knew you 459 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: I have a top secret clearance. And they're just like, yeah, 460 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: we don't. That doesn't that means nothing, No, No, that matters. Yeah, 461 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 1: you know, the gang members, they get to have the 462 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: guns and if by the way, and even if arrested 463 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,639 Speaker 1: with them in New York at least now and a 464 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 1: lot of other Democrat precincts. Um, you've noticed there's a 465 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 1: fascinating I like to tell everybody about this card. I'm 466 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:39,959 Speaker 1: sure you've noticed this. There is a fascinating reality of firearms, 467 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: uh law enforce or enforcing laws around firearms, where they're 468 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: always talking about how we have to crack down on guns, 469 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,159 Speaker 1: more background checks, ban a R fifteen. So you know 470 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: all this stuff right that Biden's still talking about it. 471 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 1: You know this this week and they're they're talking about 472 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: the stuff all the time. You know that they basically 473 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:03,479 Speaker 1: don't prosecute gang members for a first defense with guns 474 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, you go on a list. 475 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 1: So if you have a if you have a handgun 476 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: that is totally illegal for you to have because you're 477 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: a convicted felon. Anyway, a lot of district attorneys are 478 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 1: just saying, you know, we don't want we don't like 479 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,439 Speaker 1: this is gonna make your life hard, so we're not 480 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 1: gonna actually prosecute you for this. But they would totally 481 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:27,400 Speaker 1: charge me. I was gonna say, I guarantee you if 482 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,879 Speaker 1: you had an illegal r if you had you know, 483 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,919 Speaker 1: if you did something that even made if you had 484 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 1: an sp let's do this. If you had an spr 485 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,879 Speaker 1: if you had a short bear rifle and you and 486 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,680 Speaker 1: they bagged you with that in California, even if every 487 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,880 Speaker 1: other firem you had was legal. You and I both 488 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: know you're going to prison. You and I both know 489 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,399 Speaker 1: the dirict attorney is going to try to send you 490 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:48,359 Speaker 1: to prison or you know, the county attorney or whatever. Absolutely, yeah, 491 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,160 Speaker 1: oh yeah, so this so gang members, the gang members 492 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: who actually murder people, they get the pass right because 493 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 1: you know, all social justice. But the guy that wants 494 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:00,919 Speaker 1: to you know, I'll actually tell you this is this 495 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,200 Speaker 1: is a true story. I knew a guy in New 496 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: York who had the cops come to his home and they, 497 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: to be fair, they didn't arrest him, but they confiscated 498 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: his double barreled shotgun. Okay, like his Elmer Fudd. It 499 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:19,680 Speaker 1: wasn't an overunder. I mean, it wasn't a side by side, 500 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 1: but it was in an over under. They confiscated a 501 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,360 Speaker 1: shotgun because he was a lawful permit holder for that 502 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: long gun in New York City who had sent in 503 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: the renewal check. Because you have to renew it's not 504 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,879 Speaker 1: even enough to go through the process and pay you know, 505 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,160 Speaker 1: seven hundred dollars or whatever it is, or five hundred 506 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: dollars to get the permit the first time there's a renewal. 507 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,439 Speaker 1: I think it's three years or five years or something. 508 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,320 Speaker 1: He sent in a renewal check, but it was a 509 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 1: personal check, not a certified check. Do you think that 510 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,680 Speaker 1: they reached out to him to say, you know, hello sir, 511 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,879 Speaker 1: like we know you're trying to you know, the Licensing Division, 512 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 1: the NAPD. No. No, they just put it all on 513 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 1: a drawer with his file, waited until it came up, 514 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,040 Speaker 1: and then they paid him a visit. They confiscated a 515 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,439 Speaker 1: shotgun and they said we could arrescue, you know, but 516 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,439 Speaker 1: we're not gonna do They didn't do that because obviously 517 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 1: I think people would have completely lost around. But that 518 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 1: is the anti firearms regime in a major city. That's 519 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 1: how they actually do things. Yeah, it's anti firearms for 520 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: normal people, pro firearms for you know, preferred Democrat constituencies. 521 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 1: The one of the biggest problems in our country right 522 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 1: now is the two tiered system of law, the two 523 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 1: tiered system of everything. You saw it recently with Silicon 524 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: Valley Bank. Do you think a bank that somebody else 525 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: pointed out its brilliant, a bank catering a regional bank 526 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 1: in Texas, catering to the oil wildcatter industry, would get 527 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 1: a Sunday night pass on the FDIC limits. Oh I 528 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 1: don't think so. The Democrat connected one in California, Oh yeah, yeah, 529 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 1: we can. Here you go, there's free money it's true. 530 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 1: I mean, the system, the ways in which the system 531 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 1: are rigged are so multifaceted, but also so brazen at 532 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 1: this point, but I think when people look into it, 533 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 1: it can be overwhelming. I want to bring I want 534 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 1: to bring this back to California though in a second, 535 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 1: as you're a Californian Conservative, and I think that's fascinating 536 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 1: because of what's happening in your state. We'll get to 537 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 1: that a second. 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I mean, have you 555 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:15,720 Speaker 1: reached a sort of terminal velocity of crazy such that 556 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:17,560 Speaker 1: now even because this is what I always tell people, 557 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 1: I say, you have to remember Democrat cities because they 558 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: think that, first of all, the suffering of their stupid 559 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,280 Speaker 1: policies is mostly going to be confined to other people 560 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 1: who are not important to them, right, So that's step one. 561 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,680 Speaker 1: And then there's another step though, and this is more 562 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 1: places I think you see like Portland's Seattle, but similar 563 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:41,320 Speaker 1: where they believe that the suffering of their dumbass policies 564 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: is a necessary, almost purification process to get to that 565 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 1: better place. So it's like, Okay, we have more shootings, 566 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 1: but we have more social and racial justice in this city, now, 567 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 1: don't we. You know? Okay, we have a whole lot 568 00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: more you know, street crime, and people are overdoing fentanel 569 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: left and right, but the less class based system than 570 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 1: it would otherwise be you know, stuff like that. But 571 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:11,880 Speaker 1: eventually even the Nancy Pelosi Libs are like, I don't 572 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:16,760 Speaker 1: want you know, lunatics, Well, I mean half naked lunatic 573 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 1: attacking her husband with a hammer for example, Right, I mean, 574 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: you know stuff like that. Well, look, you're not gonna 575 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 1: while we have to add some crime around here. I 576 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 1: live in a rich, liberal area. You think you think 577 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 1: our cops are gonna let Hobo's Trump up and down 578 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:39,240 Speaker 1: our streets. Of course they're not. You know, the suffering 579 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 1: in California is to the people who aren't connected, who 580 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: aren't approved, who aren't loved. For the rest of us, 581 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 1: it's fairly comfortable. I mean, there's annoying things that happen, 582 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: but otherwise it's you know, if you're I'm a lawyer 583 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:02,040 Speaker 1: in a blue state. The state was literally made for me, 584 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,640 Speaker 1: so it's not that bad, you know. I mean, there's 585 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: certainly some personal things. There's family here that I want 586 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,960 Speaker 1: to stay here, and I you know, at some point 587 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,880 Speaker 1: I can definitely see myself moving to the free state 588 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 1: of Florida. I you know, a lot of the nonsense 589 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:29,680 Speaker 1: is exhausting, The taxes are exhausting, the idiotic policies are exhausting. 590 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 1: At some point you just want to breathe free. But 591 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 1: I'm not quite ready to leave yet. I don't particularly 592 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 1: like the idea of retreating. I don't know if California 593 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 1: can be turned around. It's certainly be a hard fight. 594 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 1: But you know, people are doing it. We're registering more 595 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,560 Speaker 1: and more conservatives out here. I know Rick Grinnell's groups 596 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: registering ten thousand a month, and I think, uh, you know, 597 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,760 Speaker 1: I think a lot of regular folks are getting sick 598 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 1: of nonsense. We just hopefully they'll stop voting for idiots 599 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,920 Speaker 1: like Governor Hairstyle. I think you need to get some 600 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,240 Speaker 1: really desirable part of the state and make it the 601 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 1: red stronghold and then kind of the ink blot of 602 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:18,239 Speaker 1: red grow out from there. Or I was gonna say, 603 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 1: I know it used to be Orange County, but you 604 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,360 Speaker 1: guys need to get you need to get that back, 605 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,480 Speaker 1: because I think that can have a really, a really 606 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,400 Speaker 1: profound effect. I mean, even just for example, I'm in 607 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:33,000 Speaker 1: Miami now and the fact that it was right, I mean, 608 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 1: it went you know, more than fifty fifty for descentists. 609 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 1: But the difference from being the difference in quality of 610 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:43,080 Speaker 1: life and policies even in a fifty fifty city, right, 611 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,680 Speaker 1: So a fifty fifty city. So let maybe what I 612 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,080 Speaker 1: mean here is like, can we get San Diego to 613 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,600 Speaker 1: be fifty fifty Republican on the rest because it keeps 614 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 1: a check on the crazy in New York? In DC? 615 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:59,040 Speaker 1: In San Francisco it's nine ten. It's literally ninety ten 616 00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,320 Speaker 1: in those city. Now in DC it's more like ninety 617 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 1: seven to three. Oh yeah, yeah. I just want DC 618 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,880 Speaker 1: to fess earn its own sewage. It's uh, you know, 619 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 1: boiling your own filth um. Look, I mean everything that 620 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:20,240 Speaker 1: the Blues touch turns to garbage. And I think normal 621 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:24,399 Speaker 1: people are seeing that. I think, Look, I think next 622 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,320 Speaker 1: year it's gonna be a very good year for Republicans 623 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,719 Speaker 1: if we don't blow it. I think, you know, and 624 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:32,440 Speaker 1: I wrote a town hall com has to do with 625 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:37,960 Speaker 1: Ukraine and RHN de Santis. I think that the Republican 626 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:40,560 Speaker 1: Republicans are going to nominate your De Santis or Trump. 627 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 1: It's one or the other. I don't think anybody else 628 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: has a chance, but they're effectively. By next year they're 629 00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,360 Speaker 1: going to the Republicans are going to have the anti 630 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,319 Speaker 1: war candidate the Democrats are not going to have any 631 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,480 Speaker 1: choice but be essentially the pro war candidate. And I think, 632 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:01,680 Speaker 1: by you know, another eighteen months, I think the American 633 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 1: people are going to be firmly in the anti Ukrainian 634 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,480 Speaker 1: war camp. So let me ask you this. I just 635 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,880 Speaker 1: don't see anything good happening there. This is perfect. It's 636 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,359 Speaker 1: almost like I see its static right now. I don't 637 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,560 Speaker 1: see the Ukrainians being able to build up the compact 638 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,279 Speaker 1: power to break the break the stalemate. I do see 639 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:21,719 Speaker 1: Russian history tells me that Russians come back from initial defeats. 640 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,319 Speaker 1: I think the Russians have the capacity to build up 641 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,320 Speaker 1: combat power. So I think the best case is a 642 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,200 Speaker 1: static war, which we're funding, and I think people will 643 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,400 Speaker 1: be sick of it. A worst case would be a 644 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,440 Speaker 1: Ukrainian collapse in the face of a Russian offensive, with 645 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,160 Speaker 1: American intervening to try and assure them off. So this 646 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,360 Speaker 1: is perfect. I don't think the American people are going 647 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,680 Speaker 1: to be there, I think, and the Republicans or can 648 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,520 Speaker 1: you hear me? Could you keep talking? Hold on a second, 649 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:53,759 Speaker 1: hold on? I gotta ask you something. What should the 650 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:58,279 Speaker 1: position of the Republican Party be on Ukraine? Right now 651 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:03,120 Speaker 1: because we're asking questions or raising concerns. We're saying a 652 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,120 Speaker 1: lot of money is going to this, but I never 653 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,920 Speaker 1: hear really, I mean, if i'm if I'm being totally 654 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,040 Speaker 1: frank about this, and you and I are two guys 655 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,840 Speaker 1: who are frank I mean you're Kurt on Buck, but 656 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:19,120 Speaker 1: we're being frankier and they never say, well should we? 657 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:23,759 Speaker 1: Just what would a dissantist or Trump administration if they 658 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,840 Speaker 1: were in charge now, which I know they can't be, 659 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,120 Speaker 1: But what would they want the policy to be? Is 660 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,440 Speaker 1: it just is it totally? Is it set limits to 661 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,200 Speaker 1: the funding? Is it set limits the aid? Or is 662 00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:39,480 Speaker 1: it this is not our problem, not our fight. Zelenski's 663 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,359 Speaker 1: funding under a Republican administration, assuming this war is still 664 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,800 Speaker 1: going on, goes down to basically zero at least for 665 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,320 Speaker 1: combat operations. Should that be the policy? What should the 666 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,480 Speaker 1: policy be? Well, look, we have to have a strategy 667 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,000 Speaker 1: which requires objectives, and we haven't talked about any of 668 00:36:55,040 --> 00:37:01,560 Speaker 1: that because the minute somebody responds to the reactive tactics, 669 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:05,360 Speaker 1: there's always seen our tactics. We haven't seen a strategy. Certainly, 670 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,799 Speaker 1: you love Putin and I love being told I love 671 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,319 Speaker 1: Putin by a guy who is never in the Cold War, 672 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,560 Speaker 1: who actually went out and marched for the KGB's nuclear freeze, 673 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,880 Speaker 1: telling me, you know you love Putin. I you know, 674 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:22,040 Speaker 1: I literally trained Ukrainian soldiers. There were Ukrainian soldiers in 675 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,680 Speaker 1: our battalion in Kosa, our brigade in Kosova. I like 676 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,440 Speaker 1: the Ukrainians. I support them. I would like them to win. 677 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,040 Speaker 1: They're patriots. I understand why they're doing what they want 678 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,640 Speaker 1: to do. But I'm an American patriot, and my interest 679 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:39,040 Speaker 1: is my country. Our strategic interests as America right now 680 00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:44,840 Speaker 1: is not Ukraine. It is to preserve American supremacy and 681 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:49,160 Speaker 1: make sure the Chinese don't supplant us. What would support that? 682 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:54,680 Speaker 1: That is the strategy, A strategy, A smart one would 683 00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,440 Speaker 1: be to get Russia back in the Western Fold. I 684 00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:02,680 Speaker 1: have long said that the greatest American foreign policy mistake 685 00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,640 Speaker 1: in the last three decades was not a Rack or Afghanistan, 686 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,680 Speaker 1: but the failure to bring Russia into the West after 687 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,719 Speaker 1: the fall of the Soviet Union. It got botched, and 688 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:14,800 Speaker 1: then suddenly in the last eight years it's been like 689 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,560 Speaker 1: politically useful domestically to hate Russia. You don't have to 690 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,120 Speaker 1: like Russia. You just need Russia to be on our 691 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:25,360 Speaker 1: side against China. So that should be our strategy. And 692 00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:29,280 Speaker 1: starting that process and it will be a process means 693 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:33,359 Speaker 1: making peace in Ukraine. Now, Ukrainians won't like it because 694 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:37,320 Speaker 1: they'll have to give up territory. Putin won't like it 695 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,520 Speaker 1: because he's not going to get everything he wants. But 696 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:44,800 Speaker 1: I think our strategy. You know, are you know? To 697 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,839 Speaker 1: support our strategy? We should make peace, force peace down 698 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,120 Speaker 1: these guys throats, because it's non American interest for this 699 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:55,840 Speaker 1: war to continue. I know it's not just I know 700 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,320 Speaker 1: it wreck it will recognize an aggressor will get some 701 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:03,560 Speaker 1: reward out of it. But I'm an American. I care 702 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:07,560 Speaker 1: about the United States of America. That's my priority, and 703 00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:12,280 Speaker 1: that's what supports a meaningful objective which is much bigger 704 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,680 Speaker 1: than Ukraine. Kurt, we gotta let you get to your 705 00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:16,600 Speaker 1: delicious pizza. I can almost smell it, even though I 706 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:20,040 Speaker 1: guess it's technically a few thousand miles away. Your books, though, 707 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,399 Speaker 1: where's people go? Amazon? Which one is latest one? Let's 708 00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,279 Speaker 1: sell some books here? Go to Amazon, Get Inferno, but 709 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,480 Speaker 1: get get get People's Republic. The first one you'll like it. 710 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,640 Speaker 1: It's fun. You'll want to read all seven I have sold. 711 00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:39,479 Speaker 1: A bunch of these concervatives are begging for material, and boy, 712 00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:42,920 Speaker 1: if only we could convince one of the studios to 713 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,479 Speaker 1: make it. But it's a little unpec it's a little 714 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:51,160 Speaker 1: not politically correct. Maybe it'd be a real hard, hard 715 00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,160 Speaker 1: kill for them to swallow. But they make great movies. 716 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:55,879 Speaker 1: There are a lot of good to me. I'm I'm 717 00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,160 Speaker 1: gonna go get a copy. Kirch look here, everybody also 718 00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,600 Speaker 1: look for him on town hall dot com. Kurt always 719 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,520 Speaker 1: a pleasure, sir, we'll talk soon. Thanks for having me.