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Speaker 1: Good evening. The President of United States is tired of
Speaker 1: so many black people coming to this country, tired of
Speaker 1: immigrants from Haiti in Africa being allowed in quote, why
Speaker 1: are we having all these people from the whole country
Speaker 1: has come here? The President said today the White House,
Speaker 1: this meeting behind closed doors, in which the President referred
Speaker 1: to countries like Haitian countries in Africa as a whole.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has shown us his dark heart, has shown
Speaker 1: us his racism. But we cannot normalize the fact that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has turned the Oval Office into our into
Speaker 1: a morally bankrupt place. Where there are lies and division
Speaker 1: and racism that comes out every single day. Apologize for
Speaker 1: using this word here, but this is quote from the president.
Speaker 1: Why are we having all these people from the whole
Speaker 1: countries come here? I'm a proud holder. My family was
Speaker 1: called macar leaders. We came from Italians and Irish who
Speaker 1: were regarded as people from whole countries a century ago.
Speaker 1: We call people slant eyes Chinese immigrants that were now
Speaker 1: ashamed of speaking about in those terms because they came
Speaker 1: from a whole country and now they're a backbone of
Speaker 1: this country. Welcome to the Book Sexes Show, everybody. It
Speaker 1: has been quite a quite a twenty four hour period
Speaker 1: here in the news cycle that was just we could
Speaker 1: have probably done a whole show of just playing audio
Speaker 1: of people cursing on TV. And reference to this statement
Speaker 1: that the President says he used different words, but that
Speaker 1: the overall sense that he was criticizing the immigration deal
Speaker 1: as opposed to him was true, and that he did
Speaker 1: call out some some countries specifically. You've got others weighing
Speaker 1: in on this. What Senator Durban was in that meeting.
Speaker 1: We'll talk a bit more about about him and about
Speaker 1: what's going on with this whole situation which is completely
Speaker 1: consuming the anti I mean, the anti Trump media. This
Speaker 1: is all they're talking about. I've never seen so much
Speaker 1: profanity in mainstream news. I've never seen so much, so
Speaker 1: many people who were racing to use a four letter
Speaker 1: word as often as they possibly could. And here we are.
Speaker 1: You have journalists, so so called journalists, I don't know,
Speaker 1: they're sometimes really pundits who are posing as journalists, who
Speaker 1: are just straight up saying the president is a racist.
Speaker 1: Here's one of them. This is Samon tonight. I'm Don Lemon.
Speaker 1: The President of the United States is racist. And that
Speaker 1: was a sentiment echoed by many different shows, many different
Speaker 1: anti Trump media members. I think that this is a
Speaker 1: very a very interesting point in the immigration discussion, because,
Speaker 1: as I've been saying to you, uh Trump, Trump knows
Speaker 1: that he can't betray his base on this, and Trump
Speaker 1: knows that the movement of Trump is um essentially falls apart.
Speaker 1: If there's no wall, if there's no immigration enforcement, and
Speaker 1: if there's amnesty, it's all over. I mean at that point,
Speaker 1: I don't know how anybody sure. The economy is is
Speaker 1: doing pretty well for now, and people would point to
Speaker 1: that and there's some other but yeah, that's pretty mainstream
Speaker 1: stuff what you've seen so far from Trump in terms
Speaker 1: of republican Republican policy preferences and tax cuts, deregulation. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be honest with you. I don't think now a
Speaker 1: president Rubio or Cruise or heaven forbid Ka sick. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think any of them could have won. But
Speaker 1: had they won, yeah, they'd also pushed for for tax
Speaker 1: uts and and would be doing some of this as well.
Speaker 1: But what was different about Trump was the immigration issue.
Speaker 1: And here we are now in the midst of a
Speaker 1: discussion about it where they're just saying he's a racist,
Speaker 1: which is really a reflection of how the left takes
Speaker 1: this issue, how they describe this issue. Uh, and and
Speaker 1: they're primary debate point, if you will, all throughout, which
Speaker 1: is that opposition to immigration is inherently racist, that that's
Speaker 1: the only reason that people might be concerned about the
Speaker 1: vast numbers of illegal immigrants in particular, but also there's
Speaker 1: been a tremendous influx of legal immigrants of the last
Speaker 1: forty or fifty years or so, including from countries with
Speaker 1: very disparate cultures from what we would call uh, well,
Speaker 1: different cultures from ours and different even from Western civilization,
Speaker 1: and we would like to have an open and an
Speaker 1: honest discuss about what that means for the country. You know.
Speaker 1: One part of this, as many of you know, listen
Speaker 1: to the show I I I love history and and
Speaker 1: and every time I find myself reading a history book,
Speaker 1: it's just kind of a reminder of how many other
Speaker 1: history books I want to read. Write. The more you
Speaker 1: learn about your our history, the more you want to know,
Speaker 1: and the more you realize you have to set aside
Speaker 1: time to just begin to catch up on some of
Speaker 1: these issues. But one thing that is true is that
Speaker 1: a country that loses its sense of ideological cohesion is
Speaker 1: headed for very dangerous times. And the history of a
Speaker 1: more the history of a multi confessional, multi ideological, multi
Speaker 1: national melting pot or mixing pot or whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call it throughout the world has actually been generally
Speaker 1: pretty tough. It is not a formula for continued stability.
Speaker 1: Now in the American context, people would point out they
Speaker 1: would say, hey, we are a country that takes people
Speaker 1: from all over the world and they become great Americans.
Speaker 1: And that is true. But assimilation is a process and
Speaker 1: assimilation also requires a certain degree of buying from the
Speaker 1: people coming to the country in the first place. And
Speaker 1: if the first thing that immigrants are taught, for example,
Speaker 1: is break the law, there will be no consequences. And oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, America owes you something. America should be
Speaker 1: doing more for you, even though you came here and
Speaker 1: your first act on us soil was to break the law.
Speaker 1: I don't think that makes for future immigration policy, and
Speaker 1: I don't think that makes for a future of this
Speaker 1: country that's particularly right. I think it's going to be
Speaker 1: full of all kinds of conflict and uh, the dissolution
Speaker 1: of of our polity. As they would say in a
Speaker 1: political science class, right, our political union or political entity.
Speaker 1: It is all just an idea. Right, countries are all
Speaker 1: a fiction. And what you are forced to deal with
Speaker 1: when you look at the issue of immigration as Democrats
Speaker 1: propose it right now, if you really get down to it,
Speaker 1: on what grounds can we tell anyone they can't come
Speaker 1: to this country? The Democrat Party has either intentionally or
Speaker 1: just slowly morphed over time into a party that refuses
Speaker 1: to privilege the interests of citizens and Americans over anybody else.
Speaker 1: If that other person is a prospective Democrat voter. And
Speaker 1: that's what this all comes down to. It's just about
Speaker 1: votes in power for Democrats. What it does to the country,
Speaker 1: what it does to the debt, the economy, to our
Speaker 1: the shared bonds of our history and our culture in
Speaker 1: this country, Democrats don't care. They simply do not care.
Speaker 1: And a lot of us look at what's going on
Speaker 1: in Europe where there are substantial problems that are very
Speaker 1: recent in the making, with large immigrant populations who do
Speaker 1: not adopt the culture, do not adopt the legal system,
Speaker 1: they rejected, they do not learn the language. Now I'm
Speaker 1: not saying all of them, but enough that it is
Speaker 1: a destabilizing force within that society. Germany, Sweden, you go through,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of different countries you can look at.
Speaker 1: And this is a problem, by the way, is only
Speaker 1: going to increase over time. And what is the answer
Speaker 1: that Democrats have for this? Who do the Democrats say
Speaker 1: can't come into the country. Uh, it's not clear to
Speaker 1: me that they believe there's anyone who shouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to come into this country. And keep in mind that
Speaker 1: only half the country pays income taxes. A lot of
Speaker 1: people are in the country already who are not economically
Speaker 1: contributing to the to the greater good. A lot of
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants are in the country, accessing services that they
Speaker 1: are not supposed to and and in violation of law
Speaker 1: in some cases and others, they're just exploiting the system,
Speaker 1: exploiting our our goodwill toward all people. We understand there's
Speaker 1: some circumstances, some things where you just you know, if
Speaker 1: someone comes to the hospital, you got to treat them,
Speaker 1: and I agree with that, but we cannot be the
Speaker 1: world's e er and soup kitchen. There have to be
Speaker 1: limits on this. And we wonder why it is that
Speaker 1: this discussion immediately gets turned into screams of of racism
Speaker 1: and on all the rest or we don't necessarily wonder
Speaker 1: why we should just be prepared because that's what's going
Speaker 1: to happen, and that's what is happening right now. I
Speaker 1: want to know what all of you think about that.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a Friday, so I like to
Speaker 1: open up the lines as much as I can. So
Speaker 1: what do you think about the president's comments? What what's
Speaker 1: your take on He says he used tough language and
Speaker 1: was talking about this subject. So this isn't fake news.
Speaker 1: It may be false or exaggerated in some way. But
Speaker 1: he said, why are we bringing people in from countries
Speaker 1: that are in really rough shape? And why do the
Speaker 1: Democrats want that so very very badly? And I want
Speaker 1: to know what you think about this eight four four
Speaker 1: nine eight to five eight four four nine buck. Uh,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a show where we just kind of
Speaker 1: roll with what we want to talk about here today.
Speaker 1: That's the way we're gonna do it. So oh, which
Speaker 1: also means that I know we're talking about something kind
Speaker 1: of serious right now. But action movie quote Friday is
Speaker 1: also in effect hit it action. You could ask yourself question,
Speaker 1: do I feel lucky? Movie? That's fot off quote Friday's
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Speaker 1: When it came to the issue of quote chain migration,
Speaker 1: I said to the President, do you realize how painful
Speaker 1: that term is to so many people. African Americans believe
Speaker 1: that they migrated to America in chains, and when you
Speaker 1: speak about chain migration, it hurts them personally. And he said, oh,
Speaker 1: that's a good line. And then when I talked to
Speaker 1: him what the impact this has on family unification in
Speaker 1: a nation but values families with the flag as the
Speaker 1: most important symbols of our future. They scoffed at this notion.
Speaker 1: It was a heartbreaking moment. Senator Dick Durbin there doesn't
Speaker 1: know what chain migration is or where it comes from.
Speaker 1: Chain migration has nothing to do with African Americans, and
Speaker 1: as it's not, the derivation of the term has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with African Americans who are brought to this
Speaker 1: country through slavery. Chain migration has to do with individuals
Speaker 1: who form a human chain, who are in this country
Speaker 1: to bring in the rest of their families. So Dick
Speaker 1: durban here doesn't care what the truth is, doesn't care
Speaker 1: what reality is. He's just seeing it another opportunity to
Speaker 1: pile on and engage in the most uh flimsy virtue
Speaker 1: signaling it just doesn't care. He just doesn't doesn't factor
Speaker 1: into his thinking that chain migration is not what he
Speaker 1: seems to think it is. I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: that dumb or if he is just pretending because it
Speaker 1: gives him a good sound by right now, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it has nothing to do with with anything. Uh
Speaker 1: he I. He's just looking for an opportunity to slam
Speaker 1: the president and that's all that he really cares about.
Speaker 1: Right now. With all of this, it would be interesting
Speaker 1: if we could have a discussion actually about why don't
Speaker 1: we have a merit based immigration system in this country Canada? Does?
Speaker 1: Are all Canadians racist? Because they have a point system.
Speaker 1: They look, they look at a person, each individual, and
Speaker 1: they say, what are your skills, how much money do
Speaker 1: you have, what's your background? What would you bring to
Speaker 1: the country, and yes or no, we will let you in.
Speaker 1: That's it. If there is no process of yes or no,
Speaker 1: if it's just show up, especially when you've got, you know,
Speaker 1: a welfare state like we do in this country. We
Speaker 1: like to think of, oh, you know Europe, they've got
Speaker 1: this crazy welfare state and everything. We got a big
Speaker 1: welfare state in America. To everybody, we're twenty trillion dollars
Speaker 1: in debt. We're supposed to believe that, Uh, in many cases,
Speaker 1: illiterate immigrants from third world countries are going to be
Speaker 1: a huge benefit to an increasingly information based economy that
Speaker 1: already has significant wealth disparities. That's what we are. We're
Speaker 1: supposed to think because of doing the jobs Americans won't do.
Speaker 1: The Americans who have been doing whatever jobs they're doing,
Speaker 1: stretching back now for a few decades, have racked up
Speaker 1: a twenty trillion dollar tab that future generations are on
Speaker 1: the hook for. So where does that leave us now?
Speaker 1: If we bring a lot of unskilled labor that doesn't
Speaker 1: speak English, never mind whether they buy into the rest
Speaker 1: of American law, American culture, they're gonna save us. It's
Speaker 1: not what. It's not how it's working out in Europe
Speaker 1: where they've had labor shortages, or at least they talk
Speaker 1: about labor shortages in places like Germany. It's it's a problem.
Speaker 1: It has been a problem. Uh So, look, every citizen,
Speaker 1: or rather every immigrant, needs to be judged as an individual.
Speaker 1: I've met incredible immigrants from every country one can think of, Right,
Speaker 1: I've met immigrants from place and in fact, and I
Speaker 1: will you know, for you can start to rattle them
Speaker 1: off in your in your head, right, think about it,
Speaker 1: you know you look kit uh Cuban Americans, the Cuban
Speaker 1: American community, this country so patriotic. Some of my close
Speaker 1: friends and mentors in uh In when I lived in
Speaker 1: d C. Cuban American and they fled an island that
Speaker 1: was turned into a prison camp basically, and they're incredible Americans, right,
Speaker 1: But they came to the process legally. They bought into
Speaker 1: this country, and it's it should be on an individualized basis.
Speaker 1: What we've seen here is really an argument in favor
Speaker 1: of Americ based immigration system, not one that is certainly
Speaker 1: what we have now, which has chained migration and the lottery.
Speaker 1: Let's not get too crazy, and the lottery is fifty
Speaker 1: thou people year. There's a lot of people. But in
Speaker 1: the grand scheme of things, we've got a million new
Speaker 1: folks each year who are permanent residents or get citizenship.
Speaker 1: A million a year's a lot of people each year.
Speaker 1: So looking at this process is all about doing what's
Speaker 1: best for the American people and doing doing what's best
Speaker 1: for future generations. And you know, this country is not
Speaker 1: a it's not a guarantee that will continue to be
Speaker 1: the best, the freest and everything else. We do have
Speaker 1: to take care of our own house here a bit.
Speaker 1: But yeah, a Cuban American immigrants, I remember I've spent
Speaker 1: I spent some time with it with a friend of
Speaker 1: mine years ago. Who was a Cambodian immigrant. I mean
Speaker 1: when you've when you've had to flee, when you've had
Speaker 1: to flee the camer rouge with your family, and then
Speaker 1: America gives you safe haven. Yeah, you love America and
Speaker 1: you certainly at the time that would have been a
Speaker 1: you know, the camer rouge running your country. It's a
Speaker 1: pretty crappy country, right, Let's get away from just countries
Speaker 1: that are poor and call them crappy that that can
Speaker 1: see them a little bit like punching down. I understand that.
Speaker 1: But North Korea is a crappy country. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: also poor, but it's an authoritarian police state. You know,
Speaker 1: there there are plenty of crappy. Look, you could make
Speaker 1: an argument that you know, in some ways, you know,
Speaker 1: Russia's kind of a crappy country. I mean, not crappy
Speaker 1: in the same way that these other countries are. It's
Speaker 1: crappy in its own way, but it's got a basically
Speaker 1: a dictator. You don't really have rule of law and
Speaker 1: a free press. And you know, there's different levels of crappy.
Speaker 1: I guess what I'm trying to say. And there are
Speaker 1: plenty of Americans that will try to tell you how
Speaker 1: terrible this place is too. So you know, talking about
Speaker 1: a country is not the same thing as talking about
Speaker 1: all the people from that country. You know, when I,
Speaker 1: for example, when I criticize some aspects of Islamic belief,
Speaker 1: which you know, people get very tense about that and
Speaker 1: they get very angry. And you're not a Muslim, and
Speaker 1: what do you know? And I'm not criticizing individual Muslims.
Speaker 1: I've many people in my life, including people I've served
Speaker 1: with overseas and and have trusted with my personal safety,
Speaker 1: who were Muslim. What I'm talking about the ideology, the
Speaker 1: ideological system, the same way that I wouldn't get offended
Speaker 1: if somebody said, well, you know, Roman Catholics, they really
Speaker 1: need to they got problems with this and that, and
Speaker 1: it's misogynistic or whatever is they want to say. They're
Speaker 1: talking about the ideology, they're not. At least I don't
Speaker 1: take it as they're attacking me as a person, right,
Speaker 1: And a nation state is an entity unto itself. It
Speaker 1: is laws, customs, culture and ideas. It's not every single
Speaker 1: person that's in that country. So maybe this is I
Speaker 1: think there's a nuance that's getting lost in the conversation
Speaker 1: of the course of the last twenty four hours or so. Uh.
Speaker 1: But you know here we are. Wow, what a what
Speaker 1: a moment for the media. I've never seen this is
Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say. And by the way,
Speaker 1: we've got every line here lits, so we will get
Speaker 1: the calls right after the break. I promise you. I
Speaker 1: know you're I want to hear you all way in
Speaker 1: and got a lot of thoughts on this. If you
Speaker 1: want to throw in an action movie quote, you can too.
Speaker 1: But we'll talk about immigration. But I think the media
Speaker 1: is more more up in arms about this about the
Speaker 1: crap hole. I'll keep saying craphole instead of what was
Speaker 1: actually said, but the craphole comment, uh, than they were
Speaker 1: about the whole Billy Bush audio tape before the election.
Speaker 1: I think this is I think this is the peak
Speaker 1: of their of their outrage. So that's that's that is
Speaker 1: saying something with this media. It really is all right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get into your calls, So stay on hold
Speaker 1: or give me a ring. We'll be right back. He's
Speaker 1: holding the line for America. Buck sex in his back.
Speaker 1: Dr King's faith and his love for humanity led him
Speaker 1: and so many other heroes to courageously stand up for
Speaker 1: civil rights of African Americans. Through his bravery and sacrifice,
Speaker 1: Dr King opened the eyes and lifted the conscience of
Speaker 1: our nation. He stirred the hearts of our people to
Speaker 1: recognize the dignity written in every human soul. Today we
Speaker 1: sell a break Dr King for standing up for the
Speaker 1: self evident truth Americans holds so dear that no matter
Speaker 1: what the color of our skin or the place of
Speaker 1: our birth, we are all created equal by God. That
Speaker 1: was President Trump earlier today, the same president that is
Speaker 1: being called a racist, vile, uh, a neo Nazi, all
Speaker 1: this stuff by mainstream journalists with big platforms, so they
Speaker 1: ignore what he says when they don't when it doesn't
Speaker 1: help or fit the narrative, and then they just focus
Speaker 1: in on one thing, take it out of context, and
Speaker 1: make it sound as bad as they possibly can. This
Speaker 1: isn't gonna change, and no one who supports Trump is
Speaker 1: gonna say, you know what, I can't support him anymore
Speaker 1: because he mentioned some countries and said they were crappy.
Speaker 1: Because a lot of people are gonna say, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's calling them crappy countries because of anyone's skin color.
Speaker 1: He's just saying it's a crappy country. There. There are plenty,
Speaker 1: There are plenty of crappy countries around the world. This
Speaker 1: is just this is just reality. Right. Democrats prefer emotion
Speaker 1: over truth, emotion over reality. But there are bad countries
Speaker 1: all over the place, right, just just the truth. But
Speaker 1: by the way, just one note before I know we've
Speaker 1: got every single line lit So by the way, as
Speaker 1: I take calls, that means a spot open. So those
Speaker 1: of you, because we had just a rush of calls,
Speaker 1: I want to hear from as many of you as
Speaker 1: I can today on the show. So eight four four
Speaker 1: to eight to five is a number as we take calls,
Speaker 1: a slot open, so call in you can kind of
Speaker 1: paste it as we go through because we've got six
Speaker 1: lines lit up right now with callers. Um. But this
Speaker 1: is from Fox News Research, so that this is very
Speaker 1: interesting for and twenty six new U s citizenship. These
Speaker 1: are the numbers in terms of country of origin for
Speaker 1: new United States citizens in. Number one Mexico two hundred
Speaker 1: nine thousand, Number two India thousand, Number three Philippines eighty
Speaker 1: two thousand, Number four China sixty seven thousand, number five,
Speaker 1: Dominican Republic fifty seven thousand, Number six, Cuba fifty seven thousand,
Speaker 1: number seven, Vietnam forty six thousand, number eight, Columbia thirty
Speaker 1: five thousand, number nine, El Salvador thirty four thousand, number ten,
Speaker 1: Jamaica thirty three thousand. We don't really want to get
Speaker 1: lectures about America's a racist country, Republicans are racist, or
Speaker 1: what we're the country that's bringing in hundreds of thousand,
Speaker 1: a million years I told you, But of the top
Speaker 1: ten countries, not a single majority, wider majority Caucasian country
Speaker 1: for new U s citizens and immigrants. And when we're
Speaker 1: getting lectures about racism, how does that work. We're being
Speaker 1: lectured about the racism of this country or the racism
Speaker 1: the Republican Party or the President himself, when it's not
Speaker 1: that we bring in some non white immigrants. We bring
Speaker 1: in a vast majority of immigrants who are in fact
Speaker 1: non white, which, by the way, if we're doing it
Speaker 1: based on skills, I'm on you great. If we're doing
Speaker 1: it based on these are people who are going to
Speaker 1: contribute right away to the economy. I don't care what
Speaker 1: color anybody is. That's not how we do it, though,
Speaker 1: we do it based on who is your Do you
Speaker 1: have family here? If you are a refugee from a
Speaker 1: you know, from a country X and you have you know,
Speaker 1: twelve relatives, do you get to sponsor them to all
Speaker 1: come with you? And then do they get to then
Speaker 1: sponsor their relatives to come with them too? Alright, every
Speaker 1: line is let let's get into this. James in North Carolina,
Speaker 1: welcome to freedom, hud sir, Yes, sir, yes, thank you
Speaker 1: for taking my call book. How are you? I'm good,
Speaker 1: Thank you for calling in good. Yeah, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to mention you mentioned that you're a fan of history
Speaker 1: as am I and m My wife is a newly
Speaker 1: sworn of marriaging citizens. Congratulations, you know, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: We're so happy. I just believe, you know, especially the
Speaker 1: time we had to wait for her to come to
Speaker 1: this country. Um, some of our best immigrants. I think
Speaker 1: that both this country from the start came from what
Speaker 1: we would call crappy country, you know, at the time.
Speaker 1: And I think that as long as people do it legally,
Speaker 1: if they're going to contribute, definitely bring them. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel the same sentiment was thrown upon Irish immigrants
Speaker 1: or the Chinese coming to work on the railroad. You know,
Speaker 1: it was, oh, what are they going to bring to
Speaker 1: this country? Just cheap way. Well, they're defendants are now
Speaker 1: some of our senators, congressmen, major businessmen, and they were
Speaker 1: coming for a better life. And I just don't I'm
Speaker 1: not on board with the immigrants shaming that I feel
Speaker 1: sometimes just going on, and I think that our country
Speaker 1: has made up with people that sometimes came with no skills,
Speaker 1: but learned skills and assimilated. Um, James, I know, I look,
Speaker 1: I I appreciate all your sentiments, and I think he
Speaker 1: makes a very very good points. I would just at
Speaker 1: a few thoughts of that. One is that the when,
Speaker 1: for example, you mentioned, uh, the Chinese, I think you
Speaker 1: mentioned building the railroads in that period of time, and
Speaker 1: the the Chinese Exclusion Act and all the different persecution
Speaker 1: against the Chinese in this country as they're building railroads.
Speaker 1: But when you're talking about a pre twenty century America,
Speaker 1: just automatically, you're talking about a country where there was
Speaker 1: no welfare state, there was no federal income tax, and
Speaker 1: if you came you had to make it on your
Speaker 1: own right. There was no option to show up, do
Speaker 1: nothing and have the state pay for all your stuff.
Speaker 1: I think that's an important distinction when we look back
Speaker 1: at the historical example. You know, there's a difference between
Speaker 1: pioneers and settlers. And oh I I I'd say that
Speaker 1: I'm a persecuted minority in whatever country I come from,
Speaker 1: and now I'm in America and I just expect to
Speaker 1: check and food stamps and whatever else. Those are different circumstances, right.
Speaker 1: I think we can agree that that's a difference. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that negates any part of what you've said,
Speaker 1: but that's an important thing to keep in mind here.
Speaker 1: Uh And and I think the objection that a lot
Speaker 1: of I mean, I can't say a lot what does
Speaker 1: that even mean? Right? But the objection that some people
Speaker 1: people like may feel is that they are meaning the
Speaker 1: immigration authorities right now or the Democrat Party and how
Speaker 1: they pushed immigration is that they want to privilege certain countries.
Speaker 1: And that's what's happened, for example, with temporary protected status
Speaker 1: with Al Salvador and Haitian. Certain countries irrespective of any
Speaker 1: one individual from that country is it's treated as special
Speaker 1: because of the country. Right. So in the case of
Speaker 1: El Salvador. We say, oh, they had a really uh,
Speaker 1: they've had a lot of violence, or an earthquake or
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. It changes, and so El
Speaker 1: Salvador goes to the front of the line because of that. Well,
Speaker 1: that's different than saying, well, hold on a second, somebody
Speaker 1: from El Salvador who wants to apply to be an
Speaker 1: American and wants to really bring something to the table
Speaker 1: and go through the process legally should be you know,
Speaker 1: should or should not be brought into the country. Right.
Speaker 1: That's saying the entire country gets to go to the
Speaker 1: front line because it's in such a rough, rough shape.
Speaker 1: Well you know that that that's if you're somebody from
Speaker 1: Paraguay and just to pick a country random, you're somebody
Speaker 1: from Vietnam, you gotta be like, hold on a second,
Speaker 1: why do so El Salvador now has an advantage over me? Right,
Speaker 1: because we're treating it like we view this by nation state,
Speaker 1: not by individual. And I think that's also part of
Speaker 1: the objection here. So when when Trump is lashing out,
Speaker 1: he's saying, hold on a second, why or why are
Speaker 1: we making special protections for for Haiti, for Al Salvador.
Speaker 1: I don't know the answers. They've had natural disasters, and
Speaker 1: but there are a lot of places that have all
Speaker 1: kinds of We don't have a special program for Somalia.
Speaker 1: Somalia has been basically in a state of war for
Speaker 1: the last thirty years. Right, you know what? Why doesn't say?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? So creating a special privilege
Speaker 1: for based on nationality for countries that are doing really
Speaker 1: badly also seems kind of countered to it and wrong.
Speaker 1: I think it should be based on individuals. And James,
Speaker 1: I've been talking. Anything you want to add to it,
Speaker 1: I wanted to give you those two thoughts. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to say thank you for that, and
Speaker 1: also to you know, I believe in the merrit based system.
Speaker 1: My wife had to wait her turn and I had
Speaker 1: to pick the coind and learn English in her country,
Speaker 1: come to the United States. Now she's a productive citizen,
Speaker 1: and it boils our blood in the house when we
Speaker 1: see people from her same country or other Latin American
Speaker 1: countries show up and, like you said, become a charge
Speaker 1: on the system. So I totally agree with what you're saying.
Speaker 1: All right, James, thank you so much for the call.
Speaker 1: Good to have you with us. Um, let's get to
Speaker 1: uh Tammy in Stewart, Virginia. Tammy, good to have you,
Speaker 1: hey Buck, but thank you, thank you for letting leave
Speaker 1: talk to you tonight. Thank you for calling in the
Speaker 1: storman Um, I know when we voted for Trump. Trump
Speaker 1: has a special way in putting things and that doesn't
Speaker 1: bother me. And sometimes strong words need to come out
Speaker 1: our words then we might not fill and appropriate to
Speaker 1: get attention. And this is a big deal in our country. UM.
Speaker 1: I know we're a great country. I know we have
Speaker 1: a lot. But as I get older, off I realized
Speaker 1: that you know, as far as medical and housing and things. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's harder and harder, and you begin to
Speaker 1: see that as you get older and wiser. And I
Speaker 1: feel the frustration with what Trump said because I look
Speaker 1: at all the funding and all the things that our
Speaker 1: country does for other countries, and yet you still have
Speaker 1: to watch the poor people that live there and they
Speaker 1: still have nothing. And you know, we give and give
Speaker 1: and do for others, which is good, but it does
Speaker 1: become frustrating because where's the money one and these poor
Speaker 1: people that we're accused in Trump of saying that they're
Speaker 1: they're crap. That's to me, is not what he's saying.
Speaker 1: Because people that don't have anything from the country that
Speaker 1: he stated, how are they going to get here anyway?
Speaker 1: And you know we we help. Yeah, well there are
Speaker 1: countries that are too impover I mean that are you know.
Speaker 1: The truth is that what ends up happening, Tammy, is
Speaker 1: that for a lot of folks, proximity the United States
Speaker 1: is a tremendous advantage who want to immigrate here. That's
Speaker 1: what we've seen. Right, if you're close enough to walk
Speaker 1: or to get here by boat, Um, that's a lot
Speaker 1: easier than if you actually have to get on an
Speaker 1: international flight, although we do have five thousand visa over
Speaker 1: stays a year. But Tammy, I very much appreciate you
Speaker 1: calling in. Thank you. Um Evelyn in Greensboro, North Carolina,
Speaker 1: have one Hi buck. The reason I called that was
Speaker 1: a lot of these conversations have already been said, right,
Speaker 1: But I have no proble with someone coming here illegally
Speaker 1: and and doing what is right, learning the language, going
Speaker 1: towards our belief system as far as you know, uh,
Speaker 1: getting in with the community, not establishing their own rules
Speaker 1: and laws from their country that they came and I
Speaker 1: have a coworker. She came from India with a special
Speaker 1: needs child and another another daughter. She spent so much
Speaker 1: money in lawyers and everything to get her through the
Speaker 1: you know, immigration process to be a legal naturalized system.
Speaker 1: And she came with a master's in um nuclear science.
Speaker 1: Now she doesn't do that at work, but she's she's
Speaker 1: got a high paying job, much better than mine. And
Speaker 1: so she is paying taxes and doing um, you know what,
Speaker 1: what American citizen, which she owns a home. She's she's
Speaker 1: a wonderful person. And um, they're the kind of people
Speaker 1: that you don't mind coming into this country. And I
Speaker 1: went through the test with her to try to get her,
Speaker 1: you know, familiar with the answers for to become a citizen.
Speaker 1: I don't think half or three courters of American citizens
Speaker 1: born here could answer those. Oh yeah, absolutely, the citizenship test.
Speaker 1: A lot of American citizens would fail the citizenship tests
Speaker 1: if they had to take it. But Evel and I
Speaker 1: hear you. And that's the thing. I mean, there's really
Speaker 1: no no reasonable and moral person is opposed to an
Speaker 1: immigrant coming to the country just because they don't like immigrants.
Speaker 1: It's just about having an orderly process that's as fair
Speaker 1: as it can be and that benefits the American people,
Speaker 1: the critics extent possible. Evelin, thank you for calling and
Speaker 1: always good to talk to you. I gotta run a
Speaker 1: quick break your team. We're gonna run out of time,
Speaker 1: but lines Lit will take more calls because this is
Speaker 1: a bit more and uh, we're roll into some other
Speaker 1: things later on in the show. We've got Matt wallsh
Speaker 1: jointing to talk about whether or not people should just
Speaker 1: think college is the thing to do and they graduated
Speaker 1: from high school. Here's a hint. He doesn't think so,
Speaker 1: and I agree with him. We'll also discuss uh, maybe
Speaker 1: some dating dues and don'ts letting don'ts later on in
Speaker 1: the show. It's been been a while since I've been
Speaker 1: on the single scene, but share some thoughts with you
Speaker 1: on that. I might get into the Iran re certification.
Speaker 1: Although that's a pretty short news story, but it maybe
Speaker 1: we'll get me talking about a little online spat that
Speaker 1: occurred between a few former Obama administration national security officials
Speaker 1: and a New York Times reporter. Um, I know that's
Speaker 1: very vague, but if I get into it, it's pretty
Speaker 1: interesting and I'm just really curious what you all think
Speaker 1: about this, this Trump situation as well. We've got some
Speaker 1: spots open on the lines now eight four four eight
Speaker 1: to five eight four four nine hundred buck. We are
Speaker 1: rolling on freestyle Friday, and we'll be right back. Yea.
Speaker 1: Even in the President United States is tired of so
Speaker 1: many black people come into this country, tired of immigrants
Speaker 1: from Haiti and Africa being allowed in quote, why are
Speaker 1: we having all these people from the whole country has
Speaker 1: come here? The President said today at the White House. So, um, anyway,
Speaker 1: that was Anderson Cooper again, and uh, there you have it. Um,
Speaker 1: there you have Anderson Cooper saying mean things about the
Speaker 1: president from earlier today. We've got a lot of lines
Speaker 1: lit here. Uh, let's get into it. Daniel in Harrisonburg, Virginia,
Speaker 1: Daniel and Harrisonburg. Yeah, Hey, what's up, Daniel? Hey you
Speaker 1: may remember me from coming in a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I don't remember, But what's up? Ah? I haven't actual
Speaker 1: movie quote for you. Without sacrifice, there can be no victory.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that one is, man, you got me.
Speaker 1: It's from Transformers. Optimist Prime says it multiple times and
Speaker 1: every movie oh wow, very good, very good. Congratul got
Speaker 1: me on that one. I think I saw the first
Speaker 1: Transformers movie. I didn't see the other like two or
Speaker 1: three after that though. Yeah. They've continued making some more
Speaker 1: in their two more new ones now oh all right, um,
Speaker 1: and they don't want to talk to you a little
Speaker 1: bit about your history podcast. So I really liked it
Speaker 1: and I thought it was really good and something you
Speaker 1: said and then it I reignited a memory my dad
Speaker 1: told me when I was listening to your show a
Speaker 1: few days ago about the Muslim Empires. And I remember
Speaker 1: that when I showed my dad at the eras would
Speaker 1: be covering in history this year because I'm fifteen in Emma,
Speaker 1: Oh no, I remember, You're the fifteen year old they
Speaker 1: called in Okay, yeah, of course, go ahead. But he
Speaker 1: shared a link with me about it. Turns out my
Speaker 1: grandmother's ancestor was Americ drenching the band of Croatia in
Speaker 1: uh hm, and he helped fight the Ottoman Empire at
Speaker 1: the Battle of Crabava Field. Very cool. I might have
Speaker 1: to get into that battle on the podcast. Daniel, Thank
Speaker 1: you very much. I'm sorry. One more thing, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I also wanted to talk to you about immigrants quick.
Speaker 1: And I remember back when Trump was getting elected. My
Speaker 1: dad's hairdresser, she is actually an immigrant from Mexico, and
Speaker 1: she came in the legal way, and she was kind
Speaker 1: of here and she said that she was going to
Speaker 1: vote for Trump because she had to go through so
Speaker 1: much stuff to get here illegally, and there's so many
Speaker 1: other ships coming in here not even bothering to do
Speaker 1: all that. Yeah, the people that go through it legally
Speaker 1: are very annoyed at people are very annoyed that so
Speaker 1: many people get through illegally. Daniel, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll download the History podcast coming out on Monday.
Speaker 1: She'll hie, buddy, thank you. All right, team, we're gonna
Speaker 1: roll an hour two here coming up in just a
Speaker 1: second eight four four nine eight two five on the
Speaker 1: lines they got me on that action movie quote Transformers
Speaker 1: is in fact an action movie. And we have to
Speaker 1: get into some other stuff here. You know, if there's
Speaker 1: everything is all focused now on this craphole comment, to
Speaker 1: the extent that there's really almost nothing else that's getting
Speaker 1: reported on out there, which is well, well crazy, But
Speaker 1: we'll get into some other stuff, So stay right there. Team,
Speaker 1: I'll be back. He's back with you now, because when
Speaker 1: it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Buck Sexton Show. You've got uh
Speaker 1: crap hole gates or whatever they're calling it now. I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's the big scandal, the big scandal. The
Speaker 1: President says he did not say it, and others are
Speaker 1: saying he did say it. And that's what they have
Speaker 1: had on the lower third of CNN, I think, NonStop
Speaker 1: for twenty four hours now, a four letter word whole
Speaker 1: and then countries. They cannot get enough of this. They
Speaker 1: love talking about this because you know that the media
Speaker 1: has been a little upset for a while, and they're
Speaker 1: upset because their favorite subject matter is the lecturing of
Speaker 1: others on racism. They love this. Wealthy particularly wealthy white
Speaker 1: liberals on various media channels really in joy and get it,
Speaker 1: get a particular thrill out of talking about how everyone
Speaker 1: how everyone who disagrees with them on whatever subject matter.
Speaker 1: It's just so racist. And they're not racist, of course,
Speaker 1: they being the liberal media people, they're they're not racist.
Speaker 1: And yet you have people like Nancy Pelosi out there,
Speaker 1: and she can say things like this, and we're all
Speaker 1: supposed to just say that this is fun. This is
Speaker 1: part of a bigger problem. Let me let me work
Speaker 1: into this with you for a moment. Here. This is
Speaker 1: what Nancy Pelosi said about some of the members of
Speaker 1: Congress negotiating over Doka. Who's going to take this deal?
Speaker 1: And then one will you know that you are? We
Speaker 1: haven't thought. Just stay tuned, Stay tuned. I would say
Speaker 1: of that McCarthy, the four four, the five white guys
Speaker 1: that call them, you know, um, I say you can
Speaker 1: open a Hamburger stand next or what? Um? The that
Speaker 1: could have been done four months ago, the very idea
Speaker 1: that this week they're saying, oh, why don't we get
Speaker 1: four white guys and General Kelly to come and do this.
Speaker 1: This is part of a much larger phenomenon one I'm
Speaker 1: sure many of you, all of you are familiar with,
Speaker 1: and that is that it is considered among Democrats and leftists,
Speaker 1: it is considered open season to mock and deride and
Speaker 1: put down whiteness, and white Democrats will do this as
Speaker 1: a means of showing that they are not they're not
Speaker 1: a part of the problem. Right that it's others, it's Republicans, Conservatives,
Speaker 1: traditional Christians who are white. They're the problem. They are
Speaker 1: the the issue with racism in this country. And I
Speaker 1: do think that there's a there's an overall sense that
Speaker 1: many people have that they are sick of hearing about.
Speaker 1: They're sick of a situation in which you can make
Speaker 1: any comment about white people. You can lecture white people
Speaker 1: on their white privilege, demean their struggles, to mean their pain,
Speaker 1: to mean their uh, their triumphs, say that it was
Speaker 1: all handed to them, say that it's all easier for them.
Speaker 1: Make fun of how white people, in different ways culturally
Speaker 1: are inferior to other people. You know, white people aren't
Speaker 1: good at this, or white people aren't good at that.
Speaker 1: White people ruined thirty things. That was a very popular
Speaker 1: article on BuzzFeed. And this has now become a punchline
Speaker 1: for stupid people. Right, it's like, oh, you know, just
Speaker 1: a bunch of oh, a bunch of white guys got together.
Speaker 1: Oh there's you know, these white guys they don't know anything.
Speaker 1: Why is that? Why is it okay two limit anyone
Speaker 1: to their their race in terms of their respect, their recorded,
Speaker 1: their case abilities. Why is mocking white people all all okay?
Speaker 1: And I should note that for for white people who
Speaker 1: aren't leftist democrats, and also just white people in general
Speaker 1: not allowed to make comments about anything else and anyone else.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not not allowed to step outside if
Speaker 1: you're you're allowed to talk about how white people are
Speaker 1: all inherently racist, had it easier than everybody else, White privilege,
Speaker 1: white splaining, all this stuff, and you can't. You can't
Speaker 1: even speak about other races, ethnicities, or anything else without
Speaker 1: without risking firing, without risking your career, your reputation, your friends,
Speaker 1: your social standing, everything. I think everyone's kind of sick
Speaker 1: of it. At least a lot of people are sick
Speaker 1: of it. It's a double standard that has no philosophical
Speaker 1: moral grounding to it, right, It's just it's just become
Speaker 1: an accepted double standard of the media and and in
Speaker 1: our politics. And everyone's kind of tired of it, you know,
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi, ah ha, A bunch of white guys. And
Speaker 1: it's pretably white males I'm talking about here too. White
Speaker 1: males are now the the punching bag on college campuses
Speaker 1: for various professors, even entire classes devoted to this. I mean,
Speaker 1: the whole notion of white privilege is, so it is
Speaker 1: actually so offensive as somebody who went to a high
Speaker 1: school where there were a lot of working class we'd
Speaker 1: call working class whites. In my school, it was a
Speaker 1: scholarship school, and it was always remarkable to me that
Speaker 1: some of my friends who were uh, excellent students but
Speaker 1: came from very difficult back I think the the average income,
Speaker 1: and this is back in the nineties in my class
Speaker 1: was basically the average household income was like fifty something
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year, which in New York City, by
Speaker 1: the way, wherever you're living in the country, New York
Speaker 1: is twice as expensive unless you live in the Bay Area,
Speaker 1: and it's basically twice as expense of his most other
Speaker 1: parts of the country in terms of quality of life
Speaker 1: everything else. So fifty grand in New York in like
Speaker 1: the nineteen mid nineteen nineties would be like living on
Speaker 1: twenty five grand and the rest of the country. And
Speaker 1: I just remember that the my fellow students, among among
Speaker 1: the white students and the Asian students, it was just
Speaker 1: kind of you know, you'nna to take out a lot
Speaker 1: of loans, and you know, your your your white privilege
Speaker 1: is only gonna get you so far here, I guess.
Speaker 1: But for the non white, non Asian students in my class,
Speaker 1: including some of higher socio economics standing than the white
Speaker 1: students I'm talking about, it was, you know, let's please,
Speaker 1: we need more diversity at Harvard. Let's bring you in
Speaker 1: as fast as we can. What what do I tell
Speaker 1: my friend who's you know, the got a single parent
Speaker 1: and his working two jobs and has better grades and
Speaker 1: better s a t S than one of his classmates,
Speaker 1: and he can't get he can't even look at some
Speaker 1: of these schools, and he's going to be drowning in
Speaker 1: debt and loans for decades. But you know, he has
Speaker 1: white privilege. I think eventually people get tired of that, right,
Speaker 1: and we we might finally be at the point now.
Speaker 1: And in large part I think it's because the Asian
Speaker 1: American community is also as also kind of like, hey,
Speaker 1: hold on a second, what the heck is this all about.
Speaker 1: You've got people that are here who are phenomenal students,
Speaker 1: do incredibly well, have had no leg up on anybody,
Speaker 1: no special advantage. You know, some of their parents refugees
Speaker 1: from Vietnam, you know, came here from South Korea without
Speaker 1: a dime in their pockets, whatever the case may be,
Speaker 1: and they're told, yeah, but you know, we we don't
Speaker 1: need you as much as we need some other immigrant minorities.
Speaker 1: Well what is that based on? Right? The whole racial
Speaker 1: cast system that the media, academia and the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: and forces on us is not just tiresome now, it's
Speaker 1: it's wrong. It's unethical. And the notion that you should
Speaker 1: be able to make fun of whiteness and white people
Speaker 1: all the time, because is ha ha ha, what what
Speaker 1: message does that send? And the Nancy Pelosi, I mean,
Speaker 1: look that she wasn't even a particularly egregious example of it,
Speaker 1: but that we have these terms like white privilege and
Speaker 1: white splaining and people say, check your privilege. You know,
Speaker 1: there was a an say that I remember reading a
Speaker 1: while ago, and it was by because I read I
Speaker 1: just like I just like smart people. I just like
Speaker 1: reading brilliant people. So I'll try anyone who is really knowledgeable,
Speaker 1: really thoughtful from any perspective. If I find it, I'll
Speaker 1: try to read it. And the guy's a socialist actually,
Speaker 1: and he wrote a piece about how the left has
Speaker 1: just completely lost its mind. He didn't say it that way,
Speaker 1: but he's basically saying when they will say that you
Speaker 1: can't really understand, you can't really understand suffering the same
Speaker 1: way as a white persons as you can as a
Speaker 1: non white person, that that pain and suffering is different
Speaker 1: for for white people. And he went in to a
Speaker 1: whole essay his name is Freddie dubor the whole essay
Speaker 1: about how he lost one parent slowly and painfully to
Speaker 1: cancer and then lost another parent slowly and uh, slowly
Speaker 1: painfully to cancer. And people will be like, well, but
Speaker 1: you're suffering is not the same as as embattled minorities
Speaker 1: in this country or something. He goes, No, I think
Speaker 1: I have an understanding. I think I actually know what
Speaker 1: what suffering is, thank you very much. I think it's
Speaker 1: a human thing. It's not a race or gender or
Speaker 1: ethnicity thing. And it's a very evil, Uh, it's a
Speaker 1: very evil way to approach the suffering of other human beings,
Speaker 1: to think, well, where do you fall in this artificially
Speaker 1: constructed hierarchy that's changing all the time of you know,
Speaker 1: who's got it, who's got it works, who's who's rougher,
Speaker 1: who's rougher off? More difficult for them to deal with
Speaker 1: um and you know, it's we're reaching a point where
Speaker 1: people are kind of sick of it. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't want to be lectured about white privilege. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be told that, you know, opposition to affirmative action,
Speaker 1: or opposition to immigrations based upon national origin quota that
Speaker 1: favor third world non Christian countries for example, or you know,
Speaker 1: or or or non white countries specifically because they're non white,
Speaker 1: that that's not something we're allowed to talk about. All right.
Speaker 1: I've been going on for some length here and we've
Speaker 1: got which I very much appreciate. We got every single line.
Speaker 1: Let let me rack and stack some calls when we
Speaker 1: come back, and we will hear from all the U
Speaker 1: team made for four to five. Stay with me, all right,
Speaker 1: team lines, let let's get into it. RB in Greensboro,
Speaker 1: North Carolina. Welcome to Freedom, Hud. Thanks for taking my call, man,
Speaker 1: you thanks for all you've done and continue to do.
Speaker 1: When people refer to the best and the brightest and
Speaker 1: the finest that are referring to you and many of
Speaker 1: the people that helped you along the way, you're it's
Speaker 1: uh the way you analyze stuff, man, it's very fair
Speaker 1: and it as credibility to your opinion. And I just
Speaker 1: like I like listening thinking like here and I this
Speaker 1: guy's doing Bravo Company Create Club is all that set
Speaker 1: up so well. Thank you, thank you, thank you RB
Speaker 1: very kind words. At also very much appreciate you supporting
Speaker 1: one offul sponsors of the show. That's what keeps the
Speaker 1: show on the air, so that means a lot. And
Speaker 1: thank you for your kind words. It's important part of it.
Speaker 1: This is, to me is just super simple. Trump is
Speaker 1: a businessman. He's not thinking immigration, He's thinking HR Department.
Speaker 1: And you want to go get the best schools and
Speaker 1: the best places to get the best people to do
Speaker 1: the job. And it pisces me off that people can't
Speaker 1: get in a room and have a conversation with upen
Speaker 1: ideas and saying things, and nobody takes it out of
Speaker 1: the room when you when you start leaking stuff out
Speaker 1: those rooms, when you're having those back room conversations, then
Speaker 1: nobody everybody will shut up, nobody will nobody will express himself. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a terrible thing that that idiot democrat did by
Speaker 1: pulling this out and making a big deal out of it,
Speaker 1: because it hurts the sausage making that needs to go
Speaker 1: on and keeps people from being afraid to say something
Speaker 1: because it's gonna get repeated and reported and all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and that hurts the system. But Trump's
Speaker 1: just hiring people, and he's looking for countries to have
Speaker 1: an education system that are training their people that can
Speaker 1: bring something to the table and help this country be greater.
Speaker 1: And the Democrats are looking for countries they have no system,
Speaker 1: and whenever they come over here, they're gonna need the
Speaker 1: government's help. If they need the government's health, they're gonna
Speaker 1: vote Democrats to me it it They detrimental to this
Speaker 1: country for the for US to bring people over here.
Speaker 1: They're all they're gonna do is lead money off the
Speaker 1: top of the of the welfare system. Yeah. I've had
Speaker 1: on before different experts who crunch the numbers and market
Speaker 1: Corey into the Center of Immigration Studies for example RB
Speaker 1: and he just says, look, you got about double double
Speaker 1: the welfare and benefits usage of of immigrants into the country.
Speaker 1: And I mean immigrants, not even legal immigrants that you
Speaker 1: do for native born Americans. I mean, that's these are
Speaker 1: statistics when when you're a country that's twenty trillion in
Speaker 1: debt and you're worried about what your economic future is
Speaker 1: gonna be. You gotta take this stuff seriously. And it
Speaker 1: also goes to the heart of whether or not we
Speaker 1: even have something that can be called the country. If
Speaker 1: you don't control your borders, who comes and goes. If
Speaker 1: citizenship is not something to be valued, but something that
Speaker 1: has given away freely to benefit a a ruling elite class,
Speaker 1: that then America it will cease to be. It is
Speaker 1: just a matter of how quickly they're they're just wanting
Speaker 1: to be politically correct about who we bring over. Trump
Speaker 1: just cares about making America great, and I see that
Speaker 1: in that conversation. I think, and most of Americans do.
Speaker 1: Only the political elite see this as an opportunity to
Speaker 1: be jerks about this, but the rest of us makes
Speaker 1: it makes perfect sense to all of us common people
Speaker 1: out here in the field. Why would we want people
Speaker 1: to come over here that can bring nothing to the table. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a straight I like your HR. I like
Speaker 1: your HR office analogy, because that's the way we should
Speaker 1: run it. That Canada's immigration system is like a giant
Speaker 1: national HR office. That's how they do it, and the
Speaker 1: Canadians are very nice and nice people, not racist at all. RB.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your thoughtful and kind call my friend,
Speaker 1: shield Tie, and have a great weekend. Uh. Let's see,
Speaker 1: we got here, a lot of calls, a lot of calls. Uh,
Speaker 1: Dave in Sacramento. We got a Sacramento calling. All right,
Speaker 1: what's up? Dave? Hey, Buck Shields, Hi, how are you
Speaker 1: field time? My friend? I'm good, good, Hey, I'm calling
Speaker 1: to um. Uh. Well, first of all, let me ask
Speaker 1: a personal question. You had you had a Porterhouse at
Speaker 1: some point. When did you do that? I've had it.
Speaker 1: What do you mean, I've had a Porterhouse steak before.
Speaker 1: I'm just look, I'm a ribby guy, all right, you
Speaker 1: know I like what I like. I know, I know.
Speaker 1: So my my point I wanted to bring up today
Speaker 1: is to kind of step back from this craphole whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it, different countries, uh, thing that's
Speaker 1: going on right here, and take the larger perspective, which
Speaker 1: is this is just a war right now between left
Speaker 1: and right. And sorry, President happens to be on the right,
Speaker 1: just like Bush before him. He's catching it every time
Speaker 1: in the media. I remember back when Bush was president
Speaker 1: and NPR would just hammer him daily. They would put
Speaker 1: up the troop numbers of folks that got killed in
Speaker 1: an action over in Iraq and Afghanistan and him every
Speaker 1: single day. And the same thing when he started to
Speaker 1: promote the idea or promote the surge, Yeah, exactly, and
Speaker 1: they called it the so called surge is how they
Speaker 1: phrase it. Every single time. I said, this isn't a
Speaker 1: search and so just the insidious attack daily. And it's
Speaker 1: the same with Trump. He's just kidding it every time
Speaker 1: they have an opportunity to do this, except now it's
Speaker 1: completely magnified, you know, with every single news media outlet
Speaker 1: other than Fox hammering on him. Yeah, it's an amazing
Speaker 1: I mean you look at you look at the hysteria, Daves.
Speaker 1: I mean, the country is doing actually really well by
Speaker 1: all these different measures and metrics. You can look at businesses,
Speaker 1: great economies, great employments, great, I mean all this, and
Speaker 1: they're acting like we're at the end of days right now.
Speaker 1: Though they don't believe in that biblical stuff on the left,
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, I mean they're acting
Speaker 1: like we are, you know, just just days away from
Speaker 1: some kind of Trump apocalypse. And I'm looking around. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, things are going pretty well, man, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, what what what world are they living in?
Speaker 1: But Dave, thank you for the call from Sacramento Goo
Speaker 1: to talk to you. My friend, She'll tie you know,
Speaker 1: I was just one one little side here, and that
Speaker 1: is that the experience of being in what you could
Speaker 1: call a crappy country is something that very much, very
Speaker 1: very much affects your sense of how great America is.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's not enough to be there
Speaker 1: for like an hour and you know then then fly
Speaker 1: out or something. I mean, you know, to really spend
Speaker 1: some time, spend a few weeks, maybe a few months,
Speaker 1: in a country where there's uh really no expectation of
Speaker 1: a government that functions without graft and theft and corruption,
Speaker 1: Where you can't trust the police, where the police don't
Speaker 1: come even if you call them, where if they do come,
Speaker 1: they're just as likely to shake you down or maybe
Speaker 1: even do you harm as any bad guys that are
Speaker 1: in your home. Where there's raw sewage in the streets,
Speaker 1: where there aren't street lights, where you don't really have
Speaker 1: much in the way of cell phone signal and very
Speaker 1: little in the way of of WiFi, Where kids walk around,
Speaker 1: sometimes up to their ankles in raw sewage and runoff,
Speaker 1: where indoor plumbing is a rarity, where electricity is a luxury.
Speaker 1: There are where where people die of diseases that we're
Speaker 1: essentially eradicated in the developed world, have been cured for
Speaker 1: over a century. There are places I've been in places
Speaker 1: like that. There are places like that in this world,
Speaker 1: and it is ah very perspective changing and perspective shaping
Speaker 1: to spend some time in it, because when you come
Speaker 1: back to this country that we are in, I don't
Speaker 1: care if you are in the roughest inner city or
Speaker 1: the poorest parts of the rust belt or whatever. This
Speaker 1: place is incredible. I the the cleanliness, this technology, the services,
Speaker 1: the legal system, the food, the medicine. I mean, America
Speaker 1: is amazing. And you really, I'm just putting it out there.
Speaker 1: And I know many of you have spent time in
Speaker 1: places like this, But if you ever do find yourself
Speaker 1: in when you'll see what I mean, if you're in
Speaker 1: a truly impoverished third world country and in the parts
Speaker 1: of it where no tourists would ever go, changes the
Speaker 1: way you view this country forever. So that's something to
Speaker 1: think about here we'll be back with more calls and
Speaker 1: more to talk about, just a few other shows. Just
Speaker 1: talk at you in the Freedom Hunt. We have a mission.
Speaker 1: We fight for the truth in a team effort and
Speaker 1: buck us back with our next play time. Do you
Speaker 1: think the coverage of Donald Trump has overcorrected? That is,
Speaker 1: do you think yes, and we're over our skis and
Speaker 1: it's gonna hurt us. Yes, we've overstepped. We're over our skis.
Speaker 1: We are to not we the entire mainstream media. We
Speaker 1: are reflexively anti trump um on all things. Look at
Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough there on the Katie Kirk podcast, because yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to hear Katie Kurrik's opinions. They're gonna Katiekirk
Speaker 1: very lucky person to have had the job she did
Speaker 1: when she did, because I've never heard her say anything
Speaker 1: interesting in my life. But I gotta say, Scarborough, at
Speaker 1: least it is correct on this right. Let's call it
Speaker 1: what it is, saying that the media is reflexively and
Speaker 1: almost psychotically anti Trump. I think Morning Joe's as a
Speaker 1: show not as bad as some others, but it's also
Speaker 1: pretty reflexively and insanely anti Trump. But it's not gonna
Speaker 1: get any better after this. I should note though I
Speaker 1: have not I will say that I have not seen
Speaker 1: or heard from and I talked to a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of people listen to the show or in
Speaker 1: constant contact with me via Facebook or email. I got
Speaker 1: a lot of friends in the media, you know, writers, journalist, reporters,
Speaker 1: all that no one who's pro Trump has seen this
Speaker 1: whole exchange, over the crap, whole countries, and it's like,
Speaker 1: this is it for me. I'm done, which is pretty
Speaker 1: amazing when you think about I mean, I'm just it's anecdotal.
Speaker 1: I understand. I'm not giving you a scientific study here,
Speaker 1: but I haven't heard from anyone yet that they're like,
Speaker 1: you know what, this is too much, He's gone too far.
Speaker 1: I'm done with Trump over this. Meanwhile, if you're anti Trump,
Speaker 1: this is now what we're we're in. It's like Dante's
Speaker 1: Inferno and this is the ninth circle of Hell. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the worst of the worst of the worst.
Speaker 1: Greg in Oklahoma City, It's ranger, Greg, isn't it. Buck.
Speaker 1: How's it going today? I'm good, brother, Thank you for calling,
Speaker 1: and always good to talk to you. Absolutely, man um,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to talk about this little spat between
Speaker 1: Brett Stevens of New York Times and are a steamed
Speaker 1: friend Tommy A. Vitter Um, who was a formal National
Speaker 1: Security Council spokesman for the Obama administration, and this theory
Speaker 1: that Obama administration people had tipped off the Israeli or
Speaker 1: excuse me, the Iranians, that the Israelis we're going to
Speaker 1: kill or assassinated, if you will, general solemnity. And I
Speaker 1: find it interesting that many of the players in this
Speaker 1: um have no experience in foreign policy at all. I mean,
Speaker 1: vitter Is it was just in college and had a
Speaker 1: b A. And it was just like a van driver,
Speaker 1: I guess for UM, Obama for America, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, in a few short years later, is
Speaker 1: a natural security spokesman with no actual experience in national security.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh no, he's first of all, he's the
Speaker 1: guy who's like, dude, Benghazi was like two three years ago. Bra,
Speaker 1: that was Tommy vitor Uh. If you remember that that
Speaker 1: exchange from that was on national television, I'll never forget.
Speaker 1: There's like it was like two years ago. Hang ten. Uh.
Speaker 1: So here's here's the exchange. Let me let me get
Speaker 1: into it a bit. I've I've been reading about this.
Speaker 1: I had a feeling this is what would happen with it.
Speaker 1: So you had Brett Stevens, who is a former Wall
Speaker 1: Street journal never Trump, current New York Times editorialist. He
Speaker 1: leans right, but he's never He's he's never Trump like Trump.
Speaker 1: If Trump wears a blue suit, Brett Stevens wants to
Speaker 1: wear a gray one. Right, It's it's like he is
Speaker 1: never Trump in a way that's a a sickness. But
Speaker 1: he's now the New York Times, and he raised an
Speaker 1: r he he tweeted out an article from how Arts,
Speaker 1: which is an Israeli left newspaper, and in Hearts they
Speaker 1: cited I believe it was a Kuwaiti sourced claim. So
Speaker 1: take that for whatever it's worth. That the Obama administration
Speaker 1: had given heads up somehow to Custom Solimani, who's the
Speaker 1: head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the i r
Speaker 1: g C, which everybody listening is the is the kind
Speaker 1: of the crazy revolutionary henchman of the Iranian regime. Think
Speaker 1: of it that way. You know, if if there were like, uh,
Speaker 1: it's like the the equivalent if they could create you know,
Speaker 1: spec ops jihadis. That's what the I r g C
Speaker 1: is and the head of it, Custom Solimani, has been
Speaker 1: involved in all kinds of bad stuff, including with the
Speaker 1: I r g c S ties to what was going
Speaker 1: on with the Shia militias in Iraq. Greg, I know
Speaker 1: you served in Iraq. You were a sniper, uh some
Speaker 1: years ago. They were the guys that were helping get
Speaker 1: all the e f P s, the explosively formed penetrate.
Speaker 1: There's these cylindrical explosive devices that create a it's almost
Speaker 1: like a shooting a stream of molten magma in a
Speaker 1: sense through the hulls of armored vehicles that maimed and
Speaker 1: killed a lot of U S servicemen. So Consum solomany
Speaker 1: Is is human refuse and the world would be a
Speaker 1: better place if we took him out. That the Obama
Speaker 1: administration allegedly may have given him a heads up would
Speaker 1: just be another data point that the Obama and his
Speaker 1: people were so desperate to get a deal with Iran
Speaker 1: that they would even possibly betray an intelligence source or
Speaker 1: betray a method of getting information to give Cosum Solomania
Speaker 1: heads up that some other country was going to try
Speaker 1: to take him out. Well, that obviously got people's attention.
Speaker 1: Now as to Greg, your question about whether it's true
Speaker 1: or not, Vtour and Uh and Stevens went back and forth.
Speaker 1: Ben Rhodes also was pulled into this because Stevens is like,
Speaker 1: do you guys want to comment on this? And v
Speaker 1: Tour and Ben Rhodes, who is Obama's national security propagandist,
Speaker 1: UH mocked Stevens for even raising it, and they had
Speaker 1: something of a back and forth there, and effectively they're
Speaker 1: saying it's not true that it never happened. I don't know, Greg,
Speaker 1: I mean, I wasn't in government at the time, and
Speaker 1: you know, so I don't know if it's true or not.
Speaker 1: A Kuwaiti source Israeli Daily newspaper article. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe not, who knows, But I would say that
Speaker 1: I would find it at least theoretically believable that the
Speaker 1: Obama administration would do that. And what was even more
Speaker 1: interesting was that these two senior Obama administration officials thought
Speaker 1: it was completely beyond the pale that taking out the
Speaker 1: leader of the Kods Force, which is a terrorist organization,
Speaker 1: they think that's just insane, and they that was what
Speaker 1: was interesting in the exchange. So you know, they're like,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, killing an Iranian leader, like we would
Speaker 1: ever do that? Um. First of all, you know, if
Speaker 1: we could have taken Saddam out in the early days
Speaker 1: and one of those palaces with a big bomb, I'm sure,
Speaker 1: I'm sure we would have been perfectly happy to do that.
Speaker 1: And second of all, he's a I mean, the IRG
Speaker 1: season designated terrorist organization, and Consum Solimani has American blood
Speaker 1: on his hands. You know, if I had the choice
Speaker 1: to drop a jade m on on Cossum Solimani, I
Speaker 1: know which, I know which answer i'd give Greg. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that. I think it was interesting too that
Speaker 1: they both have defended, uh, the idea that Israel shouldn't
Speaker 1: do that. Yeah, sorry, Israel was the country that was
Speaker 1: that was, you know, according to this article, going to
Speaker 1: take out Costam Solomany. And you know, I would look
Speaker 1: at this and I'd say, well, if Israel is going
Speaker 1: to take out, you know, a senior Hamass operative, why
Speaker 1: wouldn't they want to take out a senior ir GC
Speaker 1: operative exactly? And I think Ben Rhodes's tweet in that
Speaker 1: whole exchange was kind of telling he he just said
Speaker 1: it was outrage Is that you would even suggest it?
Speaker 1: Not that No, they didn't do it. UM. I think
Speaker 1: if somebody would accuse me of something that crazy, I
Speaker 1: would be like, no, I absolutely did not do that.
Speaker 1: Not no, that not rageous claim. How could you ever
Speaker 1: think of propagating that? Um. It is an interesting play
Speaker 1: of words that those you know, the Ben Rhodes and
Speaker 1: Tommy of your type of people have a habit of
Speaker 1: doing UM, using words very selectively and carefully in choosing,
Speaker 1: you know, how they what sort of message they want
Speaker 1: to display. UM. And Tommy's defense of general somomy solomony
Speaker 1: is absolutely crazy and insane because, like you said, he
Speaker 1: does have the blood of thousands of Americans. We know
Speaker 1: of at least five hundred that were killed with those
Speaker 1: e f P s UM and I know personally a
Speaker 1: couple of friends that are missing limbs, in arms and
Speaker 1: legs because of these things. I mean, UM. For people
Speaker 1: that don't know, an e FP, like you said, is
Speaker 1: molten steel and whatnot, and copper usually is shot at
Speaker 1: twenty two per second, so it's going through these things.
Speaker 1: It's a shape charge specifically meant to puncture US armored
Speaker 1: vehicles and kill our guys. And the Iranians were handing
Speaker 1: those two Shia militia's to kill our guys, and we
Speaker 1: should have been taken out as many of them as
Speaker 1: we could. And I know some people that were involved
Speaker 1: in dealing with those e FP networks. God bless them
Speaker 1: for doing it. But it's something that we should not
Speaker 1: we should not forget any time soon. And you know, look,
Speaker 1: I wish, I wish. Now we're getting into the rock stuff, Greg,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have a beer and talk about this sometime.
Speaker 1: All the mom would have to be gluten free. But
Speaker 1: you know, Muktada should have taken out that evil, that
Speaker 1: evil tub of vileness. Any chance that we should have,
Speaker 1: we should have helped we could. If it's an interesting
Speaker 1: theory that we could have, they would have pushed. It.
Speaker 1: Doesn't surprise me if it did happen, because again the
Speaker 1: obamists administration just rolled over at any cost to get
Speaker 1: that Iranian deal deal done. So I mean it's something
Speaker 1: to think about. Yeah, Costum, Silmani, Matad all Sodder, these
Speaker 1: are people that you know, if we could take off
Speaker 1: the battlefield, we should, Greg, thank you for service. Thank
Speaker 1: you for your call. Brother. Always always always good to
Speaker 1: hear from you. We're gonna roll in a quick break here,
Speaker 1: team when we come back, talk about some some other things.
Speaker 1: One note, I I just saw this right before I
Speaker 1: went in to break. There was a commerce or there
Speaker 1: was a story up about hazing death I think in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna be talking about college later on the show,
Speaker 1: whether people should go to college. But I'm just for
Speaker 1: those who are listening, who are Look, if you had
Speaker 1: a great time in your fraternity or sorority, God bless
Speaker 1: and I'm glad you had a great time, But I
Speaker 1: would advise anybody don't don't join those things. And and
Speaker 1: it's it's just not it's not a good idea, you know,
Speaker 1: at this stage, it's just so much binge drinking, you know.
Speaker 1: I know I sound like a grumpy old man here,
Speaker 1: but I had a All my friends did that stuff
Speaker 1: in college, and they asked me to do the various
Speaker 1: fraternities and even I even was asked to join a
Speaker 1: secret society. And I didn't do any of that stuff. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: No one is like smearing rotten eggs on Buck's face
Speaker 1: after making him drink, you know, out of a keg
Speaker 1: until he vomits on himself or something that's never happening.
Speaker 1: And that stuff happens in a lot of fraternities just
Speaker 1: and I don't even want to get into the sorority stuff,
Speaker 1: so I just don't do it. That's that's advice for
Speaker 1: all the young team puck out there. You're you're too cool,
Speaker 1: too worthwhile, and too interesting and individual to get sucked
Speaker 1: into some constrained social environment that's really just revolves around
Speaker 1: a lot of of binge drinking. That's my opinion. People
Speaker 1: can say I'm wrong, but if it were up to me,
Speaker 1: I would. I would all on campus fraternities and sororities
Speaker 1: across the country. I'd probably say ah later, all right,
Speaker 1: that was just out of nowhere. But I saw that,
Speaker 1: and that just it's just so upsetting. This nineteen year
Speaker 1: old kid died at a fraternity. You know, what do you?
Speaker 1: What do you? What are you idiots around him doing? First?
Speaker 1: First priority? Always we're with people. First party is gonna
Speaker 1: be everyone's okay, you're supposed to be socializing. No one's
Speaker 1: supposed to die. Good God, And I'm very anti Greek.
Speaker 1: I'm very anti Greek life. I'll just put it out there,
Speaker 1: so all right, we'll be right back. Fake news better
Speaker 1: running high because the buck Sexton Show is back. Rebecca
Speaker 1: in New Hampshire. What's going on, Rebecca do Hey? So
Speaker 1: I've spent quite a bit of time in Haiti and
Speaker 1: I just wanted to talk about um, the president choice
Speaker 1: of words. If those were the the actual words that
Speaker 1: he used. Um, I think he could have used a
Speaker 1: better choice of words. However, I can understand why he
Speaker 1: said what he said. Tell us why if that makes
Speaker 1: any sense. Well. One of the things I've learned after
Speaker 1: spending a tremendous amount of time in Haiti working to
Speaker 1: help people start small businesses a way of a hand
Speaker 1: up instead of a hand out, is that their education system,
Speaker 1: though it's all run by nonprofits, is decent for what
Speaker 1: they're used to. When friends of mine from Haiti, even
Speaker 1: ones that have worked for the u n as translators,
Speaker 1: come to the United States on a green car and
Speaker 1: they basically feel as though they have to start all
Speaker 1: the way back in elementary school all over again, because
Speaker 1: even with a degree from a university in Haiti, they
Speaker 1: can't get a job in the United States, so they
Speaker 1: inevitably end up with a very low paying job and
Speaker 1: have to receive government assistance. And this is one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why I encourage my Haitian friends to not
Speaker 1: come to the United States, to stay in their own country,
Speaker 1: get the best education they can, and to help make
Speaker 1: their own country better rather than coming here and working
Speaker 1: a minimum wage job and living off of the federal government. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: brain drain from countries into the US, particularly poor countries
Speaker 1: that could really use as much of their own Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, indigenous entrepreneurship as possible is a real issue, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And if you look at I know, one of the
Speaker 1: things being discussed lately is um TPR and folks having
Speaker 1: to go back. And it was a couple of months
Speaker 1: ago that the the Haitians on t p I they
Speaker 1: were gonna say, are going to have to start returning back.
Speaker 1: And I have Haitian friends here in the United States,
Speaker 1: and and they were interviewing a lot of Haitians on
Speaker 1: the radio who had been here since they were children,
Speaker 1: had gone out and gotten degrees, are working very very
Speaker 1: good jobs, and they have to go back, and they're
Speaker 1: saying it's not there. Our country doesn't have jobs for
Speaker 1: us there, and our country. We can't make a living.
Speaker 1: And my response to that is go back and improve
Speaker 1: the economy. You now have the skills to do that.
Speaker 1: Is there are a that you can country out of poverty?
Speaker 1: Is there a way that you could just I mean,
Speaker 1: we you know, we've got to We're gonna be at
Speaker 1: the top of the hour here a second, so I
Speaker 1: need to move. But just real quick, um, if people
Speaker 1: want to understand how poor I think people think of poverty.
Speaker 1: They think of like a rundown part of town. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of people particularly haven't left the country. Hey,
Speaker 1: is is poor? Actually in a in a global sense?
Speaker 1: Meaning I believe Haiti is one of the ten poorest
Speaker 1: in fact, maybe one of the five poorest countries in
Speaker 1: the world per capita. What is that? How does that
Speaker 1: manifest itself? What's it like when you're there? Well, when
Speaker 1: I am there, I actually live out in the provinces.
Speaker 1: I don't live in Port of Prince. I live out
Speaker 1: in the countryside uh In. Sometimes I've been there in
Speaker 1: a tent through hurricanes, but generally it is in a
Speaker 1: center block or um stick built with mud structure. Um
Speaker 1: Sometimes families as large as ten people will live in
Speaker 1: two very small rooms. Uh no, running water. Electricity is
Speaker 1: through a solar panel. Um, your bathroom is a you know,
Speaker 1: a long drop out back. You are bathing out of
Speaker 1: a bucket of water with a cup, and that is
Speaker 1: how you're surviving. And even inside porter prints where I
Speaker 1: have day now and then you might have electricity turned
Speaker 1: on three hours a day and that is it. So
Speaker 1: we're talking bare bones. Refrigeration is highly unusual out in
Speaker 1: the countryside. Um. Everything is cooked over charcoal. Um that
Speaker 1: is made in the country, which is stripping the landscape,
Speaker 1: which leads to the mud flides and so on. But
Speaker 1: you know, unless you're in very small pockets in the country,
Speaker 1: you've never even been inside a regular store. It's all
Speaker 1: outside marketplaces. So we're talking the poor of the poor
Speaker 1: people who are in the United States. Unless you're in
Speaker 1: very specific areas in the United States, will never understand
Speaker 1: what it's like to be in Haiti. Rebecca, very enlightening.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for your call, and thank you
Speaker 1: for sharing all that with us, and welcome. Thank you
Speaker 1: have a great weekend in Shield. Hie H Richard, Mississippi. Richard,
Speaker 1: what's up, hey, Buck? I just I want to call
Speaker 1: and tell you Uh, listen to your Shields high broadcast
Speaker 1: twice and I think he is outstanding and I recommend
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Speaker 1: it's I enjoyed it, man, and I love I love
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Speaker 1: heard you say you put it all together. Yeah it
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Speaker 1: friends and listen to my friend, we're gonna keep them going.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Richard. I'm glad I can keep
Speaker 1: you company while you're while you're driving around down there
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Speaker 1: a good weekend. See, I'm so glad people are you know,
Speaker 1: people are getting around with the shieldside. It's so nice,
Speaker 1: such a nice call from Richard. Really really appreciate that.
Speaker 1: All Right, we gotta I'm gonna talk to you. Are
Speaker 1: we got the worst flu season in many years. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wind about the flu. But also there's a policy
Speaker 1: tie in that I'm gonna make and I promised I
Speaker 1: want to talk about vaccines because some of you are like,
Speaker 1: don't do it, because I never people get really upset
Speaker 1: about that. Matt Wills's gonna join talk about college, and
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna talk to you about first dates because
Speaker 1: we're going to a weekend, so why not there right there?
Speaker 1: Welcome back to our three of the Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1: It's our last hour together. This week in the Freedom
Speaker 1: Hunt brings a tear to my eye. The only thing
Speaker 1: that makes me happy is that we'll be together next
Speaker 1: week here in the Freedom Hunt, of course. And I'm
Speaker 1: spending my weekend working on the Shield High History podcast,
Speaker 1: which hopefully everyone listening to this will at least try
Speaker 1: to download one time see if you like it, and
Speaker 1: then even if you don't, please keep downloading it. That
Speaker 1: would be great. But hopefully you'll love it, because I've
Speaker 1: gotten some pretty positive feedback so far on it, and
Speaker 1: it is a labor of love. But I don't want
Speaker 1: to sound like a hypochondriac, somebody who is always worried
Speaker 1: about being sick. Well maybe I kind of am. It's
Speaker 1: also called being a New Yorker. I think we tend
Speaker 1: to have high anxiety about catching colds and flues because
Speaker 1: we're in the subway and these huge office buildings that
Speaker 1: were surrounded by people in the street all the time,
Speaker 1: and you just you can see how the virality of
Speaker 1: a virus is a very real thing. And sure enough,
Speaker 1: I mentioned to you earlier on in the week that
Speaker 1: I got a flu shot, only to find out that
Speaker 1: the flu shot for this year is something like effective
Speaker 1: against the actual flu. And now we're already seeing reports
Speaker 1: that this is the worst flu in years, where the
Speaker 1: health officials this is this was linked up on Drudge.
Speaker 1: I think it's an ap piece. The entire continental United
Speaker 1: States is experiencing wide spread flu right now, the first
Speaker 1: time in the thirteen years of the current tracking system
Speaker 1: that has happened. According to the Centers for Disease Control,
Speaker 1: officials said that this flu season is shaping up to
Speaker 1: be one of the worst. The rate of flu hospitalizations,
Speaker 1: the number of people hospitalized with flu per hundred thousand
Speaker 1: nearly doubled last week compared with the previous week. So
Speaker 1: last week it was twenty two point seven per hundred thousand.
Speaker 1: This week the rate was thirteen I'm sorry. The week
Speaker 1: before the rate was thirteen point seven Uh, this is
Speaker 1: not the kind of thing that I right, well, I
Speaker 1: know no one wants to see anything like this. This
Speaker 1: is this is bad news. The influenza influenza A virus
Speaker 1: H three and two has caused the lion's share of
Speaker 1: the illness in most parts of the country this year. Now,
Speaker 1: why am I bring this up? One Because I'm sharing
Speaker 1: my anxiety over getting the flu again this year after
Speaker 1: having gotten nailed with it last year. As I told you,
Speaker 1: and there's nothing really that teaches humility. I always say
Speaker 1: this to people. You know, you don't know, nothing teaches
Speaker 1: you humility as fast as either having the flu or
Speaker 1: food poisoning. Because all, no matter how big and tough
Speaker 1: or cool and smooth or you know, pretty and amazing
Speaker 1: whatever you think you are, when that flu comes on
Speaker 1: and you're shaking under the covers and then sweating and
Speaker 1: shaking and sweating, and your fevers like a hundred who
Speaker 1: are a hundred and three? Yeah, you realize we're all
Speaker 1: We're all fragile little butterflies in this world. We're all
Speaker 1: we are snowflakes, and that it is easy to melt us. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's a reminder of our fragility. As as human beings.
Speaker 1: But it also is for me a reminder that of
Speaker 1: all the things that I would like government to be
Speaker 1: better at or to to do, maybe a little more
Speaker 1: of curing pandemic disease should be a lot higher on
Speaker 1: the list. Every time I see some big ticket fundraiser
Speaker 1: about climate change and they're like, white could die in
Speaker 1: a hundred years because the water is gonna rise. And
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't have like a canoe or
Speaker 1: a kayak or something, you know, it's just gonna get
Speaker 1: higher and higher than water. I want to yell and say,
Speaker 1: I've got an idea. Why don't you guys deal you
Speaker 1: guys being the federal government centers for disease control, why
Speaker 1: don't you deal with the possibility of pandemic influenza and
Speaker 1: try to get ahead of that problem, because it is
Speaker 1: just a matter of time. When I mentioned before the
Speaker 1: Spanish influenza, which they believe was started in the Midwestern
Speaker 1: United States in UH nineteen eighteen ors or so nighteen,
Speaker 1: I forget right around there, and it killed tens of
Speaker 1: millions of people around the world. People die every year
Speaker 1: from the flu. Usually they're either very young or on
Speaker 1: the older side, but that in the nineteen teens, you
Speaker 1: could have the rapid spread and progression of if IRUs
Speaker 1: like that that would kill so many people. Now add
Speaker 1: on to it, not instantaneous, but twenty four hour global travel.
Speaker 1: Instantaneous would be like Star Trek where the guy just
Speaker 1: appears somewhere else. That would be cool, though, but global
Speaker 1: travel is now the norm, and so one person and
Speaker 1: also just the concentration of human beings in particularly large cities. Look,
Speaker 1: this is the stuff, you know. We all have our
Speaker 1: things that get us get us worried. For some people,
Speaker 1: it's that we're gonna into a credit crisis because of
Speaker 1: the debt and our money. Our money is gonna be
Speaker 1: worthless and we're gonna be in a mad Max dystopian future.
Speaker 1: For other people, it's an e MP attack. Right, We've
Speaker 1: all got our stuff. Okay, North Korea puts an MP
Speaker 1: up in the sky. It fries everything all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: At least your problem is going to be the fact
Speaker 1: that you can't access your four oh one case statements online.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna or your medical records, the doctor's office,
Speaker 1: power stations will be off all that stuff, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: So e MP freaks on people out. For me, I
Speaker 1: think the big the big threat that doesn't get nearly
Speaker 1: enough attention is pandemic disease, and it's one of those
Speaker 1: areas where the private sector. Yeah, private sector obviously huge
Speaker 1: role to play in curing diseases. As I found out
Speaker 1: recently that Celiac disease, which is something that I'm very
Speaker 1: hopeful will be cured in the near future, that some
Speaker 1: of the cures they're looking at right now aren't really cures.
Speaker 1: They're just treatments you take while you also maintain a
Speaker 1: gluten free die it. And I just want to be like,
Speaker 1: if I can't eat my fried coconut shrimp, well, what's
Speaker 1: the point, right, Why why am I even taking this
Speaker 1: pill that's for celiac disease. But if you had, say,
Speaker 1: a a way to combat pandemic influenza that was truly effective,
Speaker 1: the humanitarian the humanitarian side of the debate would win out,
Speaker 1: meaning you're not gonna be able to make a huge
Speaker 1: profit off of it, because if it's really needed, they're
Speaker 1: gonna make it mass produce for everybody to save lives. Morally,
Speaker 1: it's correct, but there's a reason why the private sector
Speaker 1: doesn't get too excited about that, because the reason why
Speaker 1: the private sector spends a lot more money, for example,
Speaker 1: trying to cure things like baldness or yeah, dysfunction of
Speaker 1: certain male areas, a lot of money spending those, uh,
Speaker 1: those parts of the problem of then on things like
Speaker 1: how to beat the fluor or even the common cold.
Speaker 1: So I know, hypochondriact. But coming out here for a second,
Speaker 1: but just everybody wash your hands. And if you get sick,
Speaker 1: stay home, don't go to work. And if you're near
Speaker 1: somebody who's sick, don't worry. I give you a past.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about being rude. Be like, I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: gotta here, I gotta create some distance. Here a sneeze
Speaker 1: can go twenty feet, my friends, twenty feet those little
Speaker 1: particles of saliva with those little viral things in it.
Speaker 1: So be safe out there. Important safety tips from Buck.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll be right back with Matt Walsh, gonna
Speaker 1: talk to us about college. Should you go? Should you go?
Speaker 1: We'll be right back with that, al right, everybody, before
Speaker 1: we can start to think about what's happening this weekend,
Speaker 1: We've got Matt Walsh with us on the line right now.
Speaker 1: He is a writer at The Daily Wire, also the
Speaker 1: author of the Matt Walsh Blog, and his book The
Speaker 1: Unholy Trinity is out in bookstores all over the place.
Speaker 1: Great to have you back, Matt. So talk to me
Speaker 1: about this piece you wrote on on college. Because I'm
Speaker 1: a I'm somebody who went to a four year liberal
Speaker 1: arts school. Felt like it was at least two years
Speaker 1: too long. It was way too expensive, I'd say, of
Speaker 1: my peers didn't really do anything that would truthfully be
Speaker 1: called studying, uh and at any length of time. And
Speaker 1: I thought about going to grad school afterwards, and I
Speaker 1: was like, well, that's just crazy, because that's now two
Speaker 1: dollars in addition to it. What was your piece about?
Speaker 1: Tell me about it? Now. Let's you know, I've been
Speaker 1: a I wouldn't call it. Some people call me anti college.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I call myself an anti college,
Speaker 1: but I've I'm anti the current system by which we
Speaker 1: we funnel. We just sort of automatically funnel every eighteen
Speaker 1: year old through the college education, you know, through the
Speaker 1: through your university system, without even thinking about it, as
Speaker 1: if as if it's an absolute requirement for everybody. So
Speaker 1: I'm anti that, and I was thinking about it, uh
Speaker 1: this week, especially Beau that it dawned on me or
Speaker 1: I was informed really that, um, we were about to
Speaker 1: reach the landmark in in in our marriage where we're
Speaker 1: gonna finish paying off my wife's college loans, which I
Speaker 1: didn't go to college, but and she, you know, stay
Speaker 1: at home mom, so she's not quote using the degree. Um.
Speaker 1: But we've been paying it off our whole marriage and
Speaker 1: we're almost done. So. But the fact that we have
Speaker 1: been paying off a degree that isn't being in any
Speaker 1: sort of actively used, is that just puts us in
Speaker 1: the same category. It's not a unique situation at all.
Speaker 1: Of course, this is the same situation that the majority
Speaker 1: of college graduates are in, where they are paying off
Speaker 1: degrees that they haven't exactly used. And the number that
Speaker 1: I saw when I was researching the piece was, I
Speaker 1: think it's only about of college graduates are right now
Speaker 1: in a job related to their major, which is just
Speaker 1: a It was just just such a small as it's
Speaker 1: a crazy there's an incredible number, incredibly small. Um. So
Speaker 1: I just really think maybe it's time for us to
Speaker 1: read to re reevaluate how we approach higher education. And
Speaker 1: so that's what the piece was about, Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: to say that the student loan debt and some people
Speaker 1: on in a bubble is at a trillion dollars right now.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of money by any account. That there's
Speaker 1: a trillion dollars of loans outstanding for people to have
Speaker 1: gone to undergraduate and graduate programs in this country. And
Speaker 1: if you look at the expense of going to a
Speaker 1: college program today, with the exception of community college a
Speaker 1: little different, but any state or private college university today
Speaker 1: versus what it what it was thirty years ago. Matt.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if you've had this experience.
Speaker 1: My dad who was on scholarship all through high school,
Speaker 1: scholarship through college, but he would tell stories about helping
Speaker 1: at a at a boatyard over the summer to make
Speaker 1: money and he would actually be able to pay off
Speaker 1: like a semester or two by working over the summer.
Speaker 1: You would have to work for about thirty years at
Speaker 1: a summer job right now to put a dent in
Speaker 1: a private four year college university. The costs are crazy, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you and then you, so you look at
Speaker 1: how cost of skyrocketing and then in many of these
Speaker 1: schools which you alluded to, the quality of the education
Speaker 1: is declining, So there's just as the the gap right
Speaker 1: now between quality and cost is like it's like there's
Speaker 1: light years between them and a lot of these schools.
Speaker 1: And when I say quality of the education, I think, um,
Speaker 1: that's not always about the institution itself, although often it is,
Speaker 1: but I think it it can also be about just
Speaker 1: the fact that you as as you talked about, it's
Speaker 1: possible to go to one of these schools and get
Speaker 1: a degree and leave without without ever having really learned
Speaker 1: anything or done much studying. So the quality of education
Speaker 1: isn't always there, certainly not to justify the price and
Speaker 1: the increase in price, which is why for me it's
Speaker 1: And of course there are some people that need to
Speaker 1: go to a college, that legitimately need to go to
Speaker 1: a four year institution or even beyond that because I
Speaker 1: want to get in the medical field or a legal field,
Speaker 1: or they want to be an engineer and architect whatever.
Speaker 1: So we all understand, of course you gotta go to
Speaker 1: college for that and for some other fields as well.
Speaker 1: But my point is that this is what if you're
Speaker 1: eighteen years old, you're getting out of high school and
Speaker 1: you're thinking about who I want to go to college
Speaker 1: or not, you should be able to complete this sentence.
Speaker 1: The sentence is I want to go to a four
Speaker 1: year institution so that I can blank and you should
Speaker 1: have something there. And if if it's so that I
Speaker 1: can become a doctor, then great, But if it's if
Speaker 1: you if you don't really know what the what the
Speaker 1: what the blankets supposed to be, then I think the
Speaker 1: smartest thing is to don't go to a college right now.
Speaker 1: Maybe down the line you're going to one, but if
Speaker 1: you have no idea why you're going, then don't go.
Speaker 1: And I think the craziest thing, this is what almost
Speaker 1: everyone does, and this is what they tell you to do,
Speaker 1: and this is what I was told to do when
Speaker 1: I was a nice school with my guy in sculpils.
Speaker 1: They'll say, well, if you don't know what you want
Speaker 1: to do, that's fine, just go to college anyway and
Speaker 1: then figure it out. You'll figure out when you're there.
Speaker 1: So now you're talking about paying. You're telling these eight
Speaker 1: and year old kids with no money, no assets, no job,
Speaker 1: no resume, nothing to their name, you're telling them the
Speaker 1: post to to accept a lifetime of crushing debt on
Speaker 1: the theory on the hope that while that that this
Speaker 1: thing that they're purchasing down the line will come in
Speaker 1: andy and then while they after they're they're supposed to
Speaker 1: purchase it, and then after they just figure out what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do with it. In what other scenario would
Speaker 1: we ever recommend that someone makes such a financial commitment
Speaker 1: like that. I think it's I think it's crazy and
Speaker 1: there's no reason to do it. If you, if you
Speaker 1: leave high school, get a job somewhere, go experience life,
Speaker 1: do some things, and then you decide that, hey, I
Speaker 1: want to be a doctor, Well you can go to
Speaker 1: school then, and so you're two years behind what your
Speaker 1: what your what your peers in high school are doing.
Speaker 1: Who cares, it doesn't matter um At least, then you've
Speaker 1: cut out the risk of going and making this financial
Speaker 1: commitment which in the end will not do anything for you.
Speaker 1: And that's so it's a pretty good risk. Now we're
Speaker 1: speaking to Matt Walsh or the Matt Walsh Blog. He's
Speaker 1: a writer at The Daily or at Daily wire dot com,
Speaker 1: and his piece up there on this subject is, don't
Speaker 1: believe the lie. Kids. You don't need to go to
Speaker 1: college and you probably shouldn't, you know, Matt. If I'm
Speaker 1: being honest about myself, I and I try to advise
Speaker 1: other people about this. If I had spent a year
Speaker 1: or two either working, we're serving, whether that's uh, serving
Speaker 1: your country in the military, serving as a missionary abroad,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, or just a job where you
Speaker 1: have to show up, you get paid an amount of money,
Speaker 1: and then you start to see what that's like. I
Speaker 1: would have approached college a little differently. It took me
Speaker 1: about two years before I decided, wait a second, this
Speaker 1: is a finite and I have the opportunity to learn
Speaker 1: a lot and do a lot here, and I was
Speaker 1: honestly taking it more seriously than a vast majority of
Speaker 1: my peers. I think that that's good advice for people.
Speaker 1: And I remember there was a story about a guy
Speaker 1: a couple of years below me who was one of
Speaker 1: these kids who just showed up and just all he
Speaker 1: was doing was drinking, Matt, right, which is not unusual.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people that go to these
Speaker 1: colleges and it's just drinking and party, and that's what
Speaker 1: they think college is. He actually failed out and his
Speaker 1: dad made him work as a toll collector. Completely honorable job,
Speaker 1: but you know, not necessarily the most stimulating of professions.
Speaker 1: As a told both collector in New Jersey for a
Speaker 1: year before he would let him go back to school
Speaker 1: and help him pay for it. And apparently the kid
Speaker 1: came back a changed human being when it came to
Speaker 1: school work. Yeah, I think that's a girl. I wish
Speaker 1: that every if only every you know, eight nine general
Speaker 1: had had a parent like that, a dad like that.
Speaker 1: But I think that, uh, you know, we talked about
Speaker 1: the college experience, and that's one of the arguments I
Speaker 1: hear in favor of just sending the kids in college
Speaker 1: no matter what is Well, it's for the it's for
Speaker 1: the experience. It's a great experience. I think the college
Speaker 1: experience is one of the worst things about college right
Speaker 1: now for in most cases, um and it's and I
Speaker 1: think for a lot of kids that's not going to
Speaker 1: be a formative experience that that teaches them about life
Speaker 1: and helps them grow. And I think for something ken,
Speaker 1: but I think they're in the minority. More likely is yeah,
Speaker 1: someone goes and they're told collector, or they work a
Speaker 1: low wage job, or they do whatever, you know, as
Speaker 1: long as they're working and paying and taking care of themselves.
Speaker 1: In a big advocate for that, Um, when you're eighteen
Speaker 1: years old, just get out there in the world and
Speaker 1: learn to take care of yourself a little bit. That's
Speaker 1: that's how you grow and learn about yourself and learn
Speaker 1: what your talents are, your skills are, your passions are,
Speaker 1: what your vocation is. Because the vast majority of eighteen
Speaker 1: your kids that come out of high school and they
Speaker 1: have no idea about that. I didn't know about it
Speaker 1: either when I when I graduated at school, I didn't
Speaker 1: know what I was good at, what I was supposed
Speaker 1: to be doing, because unfortunately, the public school education system
Speaker 1: doesn't really the most kids, doesn't really help you sort
Speaker 1: that out, and they don't help you discover who you
Speaker 1: are because it's all about just just shuffling kids along
Speaker 1: this conveyor belt like system. So I think they need
Speaker 1: to get out there in the world and and and
Speaker 1: and figure it out. And then the great thing is
Speaker 1: that if they decided I need to go to college,
Speaker 1: they're gonna go in as a not only as a
Speaker 1: more mature person, but they'll have a little bit of
Speaker 1: experience under the belt to have a little bit of
Speaker 1: a resume already, and they'll have a little bit of
Speaker 1: money too that they can go into college with, so
Speaker 1: they're not going in broke. I just think this is
Speaker 1: obviously the best way to approach it, and I think
Speaker 1: I think what happens is that you have some parents
Speaker 1: who do not want their kids to do that, because
Speaker 1: I know it's not the case for all of them,
Speaker 1: but there are some parents who, even though this is
Speaker 1: clearly the best approach, there's some parents who don't want
Speaker 1: that because they're definitely afraid that their kid will go
Speaker 1: out into the world and then discovered they don't want
Speaker 1: to go to college at all, and now the parent
Speaker 1: is going to be embarrassed that they have a kid
Speaker 1: that didn't go to college. And so for some parents
Speaker 1: it's kind of a vanity thing where they want their
Speaker 1: kids in college, not so much for the kid, but
Speaker 1: for themselves. I think that's a very profound insight, by
Speaker 1: the way, because Matt Matt, there's a lot of social
Speaker 1: pressure on parents to make sure and you'll even hear
Speaker 1: the stories, right, the first in my family to go
Speaker 1: to college. That's a great that's all well and good,
Speaker 1: but it's something that that the parents feel very good
Speaker 1: about and you know, maybe it's a good idea. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's not to go to college. Yeah. Yeah, And and look,
Speaker 1: we all have desires and things for our kids, and
Speaker 1: we all want our kids to be educated, and a
Speaker 1: lot of parents really want that formal education something really
Speaker 1: important to them. And I'm not downplaying that at all.
Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a fine goal for your kid,
Speaker 1: but um, at the end of the day, they're eighteen
Speaker 1: years older, an adult, and this has to be what's
Speaker 1: best for them and what they want to do it
Speaker 1: to some extent, and so there is that. There's you know,
Speaker 1: the social pressure that the kids feel in high school,
Speaker 1: except that I experienced where it's like they don't treat
Speaker 1: at least high school I went to it. I think
Speaker 1: this is pretty common. They basically tell you you're going
Speaker 1: to college. Second option is the military. That that's okay.
Speaker 1: Maybe outside of that, it's like there's no other option. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like a space alien, like the guidance counselor doesn't
Speaker 1: even want to see you. Yeah, that same thing in
Speaker 1: my school. Matt Walsh, everybody check out his latest at
Speaker 1: daily wire dot com. He's also got a piece we
Speaker 1: didn't have time to get here today. But it's the
Speaker 1: folks who were vagina hats and call us tea baggers
Speaker 1: are offended by Trump's vulgarity. Uh, excellent stuff there, go
Speaker 1: check it out a Daily wire dot com. Matt, have
Speaker 1: a great weekend, sir, Thank you, Thanks for sure. Then
Speaker 1: we're gonna roll into a quick break and we come back.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to you about keeping one's dignity on
Speaker 1: a date, a little bit of free freedom hunt advice
Speaker 1: on a Friday, based on a story out of Dallas
Speaker 1: that I saw. We will talk about that. Uh, any
Speaker 1: last minute calls, let me no. Eight four four to
Speaker 1: five eight four four nine buck. I'll be back with
Speaker 1: you in just a few minutes. You know, it's funny.
Speaker 1: I was talking to a colleague of mine today and
Speaker 1: we were discussing how sometimes a a business negotiation, you know,
Speaker 1: or a first business meeting. He was telling me a
Speaker 1: story and I said, you know, it kind of sounds
Speaker 1: like a first date. You know, you want to be
Speaker 1: clear about what you want but not too eager, and
Speaker 1: you want to be interested but not too interested, And
Speaker 1: you know, you want to allow the other person to
Speaker 1: meet you halfway, and you know, there's sort of a
Speaker 1: similarity between the rhythm of being on a first date
Speaker 1: and the rhythm of a business negotiation, where you're not
Speaker 1: sure the deal is going to get done or not,
Speaker 1: or you're not sure you're gonna get what you want,
Speaker 1: and reminded me of how as somebody here in New
Speaker 1: York City, we we get married a lot later than
Speaker 1: folks in the rest of the country. Uh, I know,
Speaker 1: I'm working on it. Everybody, don't worry, it's it's happening.
Speaker 1: But we get married I think an average, and on average,
Speaker 1: like twenty eight or twenty nine here is pretty standard
Speaker 1: for New York City. And so that means that most
Speaker 1: folks have gone on a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: first dates. And I've maybe one day I'll sit around
Speaker 1: on a Friday evening with some of you and tell
Speaker 1: you my funniest or perhaps most embarrassing or well, I
Speaker 1: guess it would be both first date stories. Mine are
Speaker 1: not amazing. I mean, I do remember once, many years ago,
Speaker 1: being on a date with a woman who told me
Speaker 1: on the first date that she writes a blog about
Speaker 1: all of the dates that she goes on, and that
Speaker 1: was the only and I was respectful about it. And
Speaker 1: I wasn't brusk or or rude or anything, but that
Speaker 1: was the only date that I did not see through
Speaker 1: to the end. I was like, I'm this is not
Speaker 1: gonna work for me. This whole this, everything I say
Speaker 1: to you may end up on a blog. I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not signing on for that. So we were just
Speaker 1: having coffee and I finished my coffee and went on
Speaker 1: my way. But you also have that that circumstance of
Speaker 1: you know, if it doesn't go your way, things don't
Speaker 1: turn out the way you like. You always have to
Speaker 1: remember that dignity is the one thing that nobody can
Speaker 1: take from you but yourself. You know, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what happens. Someone else can be mean, they can be demeaning,
Speaker 1: they can be rude, they can be you know, crazy, whatever,
Speaker 1: But if you you choose whether or not on a
Speaker 1: date to maintain your dignity, which is also one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why as much as and I'm going to
Speaker 1: admit now that I watch used to watch a Bravo
Speaker 1: show called The Millionaire Matchmaker. I know, I know, make
Speaker 1: fun of I deserve it. I deserve it. Laid on.
Speaker 1: You can send me the Facebook messages right now, you're like, bluck,
Speaker 1: your man card has been revoked. But you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: it was entertaining. But there was this woman on it, Patty,
Speaker 1: who was the host, and she would always say, only
Speaker 1: two drinks aloud, okay, and and that was the limit.
Speaker 1: For women who were at this mixer with were vice
Speaker 1: versa for men to to drinks. That's it. It is
Speaker 1: a very good rule for a first date because the
Speaker 1: one time when you might find yourself not acting with
Speaker 1: the or the likeliest time for you to not act
Speaker 1: with the most dignity. I don't know, probably a pretty
Speaker 1: small percentage of those listening to this show right now
Speaker 1: are single, but I don't know, maybe it's about twenty
Speaker 1: of you. And but the one thing is, if you
Speaker 1: get really drunk, dignity becomes a little tougher to hold
Speaker 1: onto if things don't go your way, meaning you know,
Speaker 1: you feel like this has been a bad date, and
Speaker 1: you know you're you're you wanna you wish it had
Speaker 1: gone better, and then you have to make that decision
Speaker 1: about Okay, I'm just gonna go home and shake hands
Speaker 1: and be very respectful and dignified and not you know,
Speaker 1: throw a tantrum, not you know, say anything snide on
Speaker 1: you know, not just try to you know, to take
Speaker 1: a few pot shots on your way out, you know
Speaker 1: from the date. You know, that's that's you have a
Speaker 1: few drinks. It's more like it happened. Well, we have
Speaker 1: quite a good example of what allegedly can happen if
Speaker 1: you have too much to drink and you don't decide
Speaker 1: to hang on to uh, dignity for very long. A
Speaker 1: woman back in December was on a date in Dallas
Speaker 1: and she she was apparently allegedly very intoxicated, and the
Speaker 1: guy she was on the date with brought her home
Speaker 1: and she quote shattered to twenty thou dollar sculptures and
Speaker 1: poured wine on paintings, including two Andy Warhol works, each
Speaker 1: valued at five hundred thousand dollars. She she allegedly did
Speaker 1: three hundred thousand dollars of damage to this guy's artwork
Speaker 1: on a first date because she was drunk. And now
Speaker 1: she faces really you know, this actually gets serious, because
Speaker 1: she faces really serious criminal charges because of it. And
Speaker 1: it's just a reminder, you know, dignity is one of
Speaker 1: those things where you are the only person who can
Speaker 1: safeguard it. But the great thing is no one can
Speaker 1: take it from you. You have to let it go.
Speaker 1: And if a date's going badly and you're a little
Speaker 1: too lit up, that's when you know. That's what all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, as a guy, you say, you know,
Speaker 1: you know it's wanna start talking about my exes. You
Speaker 1: know my ex girlfriend left me because no, no, no,
Speaker 1: hold onto your dignity. This day didn't go well, don't
Speaker 1: you You know, I'm just wondering, you know, why don't
Speaker 1: why don't you why don't you like me more? I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think you want to go out again?
Speaker 1: You know, no, no, no, no, hold on to that dignity.
Speaker 1: And for the ladies out there, you don't want to
Speaker 1: be in a position where you've had like seven glasses
Speaker 1: of Chardon and you're like, oh that then Andy Warhol
Speaker 1: painting whoop thing drug a little bit white on it?
Speaker 1: Too bad? Stinks for you, ifter not fun on the date. Man,
Speaker 1: you don't want that either. That's bad, ladies, that's bad.
Speaker 1: So you don't want to be the guy who's why
Speaker 1: don't you like me more? And you don't want to
Speaker 1: be the girl who is falling over inner heels. I
Speaker 1: have to say I've seen that. Like, I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: hard to work in those walk in those heels. I've
Speaker 1: never tried before. Um, But you know, dignity very important,
Speaker 1: very important for all, um. And I just this woman
Speaker 1: who allegedly did three hundred thousand dollars of damage to
Speaker 1: artwork on a first date is a is a reminder
Speaker 1: to drinks max if you want to drink anything at all,
Speaker 1: by the way, which is a whole separate discussion, and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, try to We've all got to keep it together.
Speaker 1: We've all been there. We want to just tell somebody
Speaker 1: what we really think about them after that first date
Speaker 1: or whatever. But you know what, our mothers and fathers are,
Speaker 1: our grand pappies and grand mammies are, our families raised
Speaker 1: gentlemen and gentle ladies. And so we don't do that.
Speaker 1: I gotta gotta keep that dignity. All right. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get into some team buck roll call here in just
Speaker 1: a sex stay with me team. Our freestyle Friday is
Speaker 1: going to be coming to a close here in just
Speaker 1: a few minutes. It's been a great week here on
Speaker 1: the radio, and I very much appreciate all of you
Speaker 1: joining me, and also thank you for listening to, downloading,
Speaker 1: and hopefully sharing the Shields High podcast. New episode coming
Speaker 1: out on Monday, The First Crusade. That's right. It's a
Speaker 1: bit of payback if you will, for the conquest of
Speaker 1: the Byzantine Empire and the Battle of Tour which the
Speaker 1: Christian side one, but as you know, it was close
Speaker 1: fought and it was in Christianity's backyard, so to speak.
Speaker 1: Coming up on Monday, we'll talk about the crusade to
Speaker 1: take back Jerusalem and what the ramifications of that were
Speaker 1: going forward for the Cross versus Crescent Wars, so we'll
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Speaker 1: we will get that addressed right away. We got Taylor
Speaker 1: here right and then I've officially run out of close
Speaker 1: friends and family to talk about the Buck Sexton show
Speaker 1: and Shields High. I'm now that weird guy walking up
Speaker 1: to strangers. Hey, check out this Buck sex and fella.
Speaker 1: I feel I need to make a more official handout,
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Speaker 1: You're the man I am. I am humbled and honored
Speaker 1: and thank you for being a Team Bucks superstar and
Speaker 1: trying to spread the word It's the reason why the
Speaker 1: show is growing. It's the reason why people are like, Wow,
Speaker 1: this history podcast. It's it's really working. People want to
Speaker 1: hear this stuff. They want they want storytelling of our history.
Speaker 1: It's it's working. So please keep keep going, keep listening,
Speaker 1: keep spreading the word. All right, we have next one Pablo,
Speaker 1: who writes in Hey, this is a few weeks after
Speaker 1: the Bucks Speaks question from Mike about a jacket for
Speaker 1: Korea coming from someone in Korea. A leather jacket isn't
Speaker 1: going to get it done. It is absolutely freezing right
Speaker 1: now and the only thing getting me through is a
Speaker 1: heavy down jacket I got from Pearl Harbor because I
Speaker 1: couldn't find one in Korea. Has the sharp aligned hood
Speaker 1: has been a lifesaver. If only that global warming would
Speaker 1: start kicking in shields high well shield side of you, Pablo,
Speaker 1: and thank you for the update on uh cold weather
Speaker 1: coupture courtesy of Korea. Now. I got a note from Mary.
Speaker 1: I listened to your show every night. Last night I
Speaker 1: heard you talk about French women being against the women
Speaker 1: of America, bringing dirt against men. I don't understand how
Speaker 1: they can bring up things from thirty years ago, I'm
Speaker 1: angry that women climb over men this way. Well, Mary,
Speaker 1: you know I've been worried all along about false accusations. Look,
Speaker 1: guilty party should be punished. Sexual harassments illegal, and sexual
Speaker 1: assault is a crime. But innocent until proven guilty isn't
Speaker 1: just a legal standard. It should also be something of
Speaker 1: a guiding concept for UH society at large. Right, it
Speaker 1: shouldn't just be an accusation, you know, verdict first, trial later.
Speaker 1: That's not the way it's supposed to be, all right,
Speaker 1: And now we got one from Paul representing Team buck
Speaker 1: here with the following, Any chance you could do a
Speaker 1: debate with a liberal on your show, border Wall, Russia, collusion,
Speaker 1: or any other topic that would entertain us would be
Speaker 1: nice to hear how you compose yourself and separate from
Speaker 1: how stupid they sound and are. Thanks for your book
Speaker 1: list that you answered on air. Bought them all. Wishing
Speaker 1: you and your team a great start to your year. Paul, Well, Paul,
Speaker 1: you know I would be happy to have a liberal
Speaker 1: on to discuss on this show any topic that would
Speaker 1: be of interest to this audience. I just have a
Speaker 1: hesitation because radio the moment that radio becomes too contentious.
Speaker 1: It's just a shouting match with nothing else. It's not
Speaker 1: even like on TV, where what they call cross talk
Speaker 1: is frustrating, but at least you can see something. On radio,
Speaker 1: it just turns into a garbled mess. And really the
Speaker 1: host always has the the upper hand, which is why
Speaker 1: some of these radio shows really love it when someone
Speaker 1: calls in so they can go, yeah, it should up
Speaker 1: and they hang up on the guy or whatever, because
Speaker 1: you get to control the pace and the duration of
Speaker 1: the exchange, which is also why, for example, at CNN
Speaker 1: or some of the left wing media, left wing news outlets,
Speaker 1: I would say, conservatives already a huge disadvantage. The deck
Speaker 1: is literally, well not literally, but the deck is actually
Speaker 1: stacked against them. So I would love too, but it
Speaker 1: would need to be a very particular kind of liberal,
Speaker 1: and I would need to trust that the liberal would
Speaker 1: want to exchange ideas and not get snide or nasty,
Speaker 1: because I really make a point on this show to
Speaker 1: avoid being to avoid being a jerk. I'm always disappointed
Speaker 1: there are some other hosts out there who are not nice,
Speaker 1: and they're they're unkind to callers without reason. Not many,
Speaker 1: I'm just there are a few that come to mind,
Speaker 1: or they're just particularly nasty. They like to make fun
Speaker 1: of people's appearances a lot, things like that. I just
Speaker 1: never understand that. I think that's really that's not what
Speaker 1: this should be about, and you know, calling people stupid
Speaker 1: and things like that. I try to avoid that. I'm
Speaker 1: not perfect, but I try to avoid all that unnecessary
Speaker 1: negativity as much as possible. So debates, I'm open to it,
Speaker 1: but it's it's tough on radio. I'll be honest with you,
Speaker 1: and I will just tell you that I'm somebody who
Speaker 1: has come up against this already in my career. They
Speaker 1: won't have me on the Bill mar Show because I'm
Speaker 1: uh to adept a debater, and there are concerns about
Speaker 1: how the rest of the panel will be able to
Speaker 1: handle me. And that's been true in other places too.
Speaker 1: That never had me on Anderson Cooper Show on CNN,
Speaker 1: would never have me on Jake Tapper Show on CNN.
Speaker 1: They could only let me do Don Lemon Show, which
Speaker 1: just turns into a food fight and yelling and nastiness
Speaker 1: and as a joke, as you've seen the last couple
Speaker 1: of days. Because they don't want to put a prize
Speaker 1: fighter in the ring with little old me and have
Speaker 1: that prize fighter get knocked out. So that's always been
Speaker 1: a limitation for me, because I'll debate anybody. I mean,
Speaker 1: the last time they have me on MSNBC was six
Speaker 1: years ago, maybe yes, six years ago, very early in
Speaker 1: my career. And it's because while I was still getting
Speaker 1: used to media on the merits, I smoked the person
Speaker 1: that I was supposed to debate, who was one of
Speaker 1: their prized on air pundits. So it's it's it's never
Speaker 1: as easy and straightforward as it seems to to get
Speaker 1: people to have a real robust conversation, all right, And now,
Speaker 1: as you can see, I have a lot of thoughts
Speaker 1: on that. Uh it's it's a frustration of mine in
Speaker 1: two ways. I'd like to have more debates with honest
Speaker 1: and and uh reasonable intellectuals of the left. And also
Speaker 1: I think it's very indicative of how the left places
Speaker 1: they game that. I mean, I know for a fact
Speaker 1: that I've been barred from some invitations in media or banned,
Speaker 1: if you will, from some shows just because I'm I
Speaker 1: don't know what else to say, I'm too smart for
Speaker 1: the panel or the host. That's just the truth. I know.
Speaker 1: The producers that work on these different shows, and in
Speaker 1: a debate setting, they are worried about me, and they
Speaker 1: should be because they would get Buck slapped. All right,
Speaker 1: now we have Susan writing in, Hey Buck, I'm not
Speaker 1: oss original Saturday Squad, but I've been listening to you
Speaker 1: for over a year, and thanks to you, I watched
Speaker 1: less and less TV. I listened to you instead. I
Speaker 1: also happened to be Hungarian, and last night I was
Speaker 1: very glad to hear one of your callers mentioned the
Speaker 1: battle of nandor fa Harvar. I'm not gonna lie, I
Speaker 1: have no idea how to pronounce that, though he said
Speaker 1: the name of the Hungarian city sikest hair Var that
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Guys, I'm much better with at least bumbling
Speaker 1: through German or even Arab names that I am with
Speaker 1: with Hungary, and this is way beyond me. That is
Speaker 1: also a very important city in our history. It used
Speaker 1: to be the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom in the
Speaker 1: early centuries. I send you some info on this battle
Speaker 1: and also recommend the story of the Siege of Agair.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your hard work. Have a great weekend,
Speaker 1: Shields high well, Susan it's a great honor that you
Speaker 1: listen to this show over watching TV. I thank you
Speaker 1: very much for that, and also thank you for sending
Speaker 1: me this information. I am familiar, at least in broad strokes,
Speaker 1: with the fact that the Eastern European states were the
Speaker 1: ones during the period of the High Ottoman Empire, the
Speaker 1: most powerful caliphate in history. They were on the front lines.
Speaker 1: They were the ones that were holding the line for
Speaker 1: Western civilization, Christianity, and Christendom against the conquest of Jihad.
Speaker 1: And that's going to be a major feature of the
Speaker 1: Shields High series when I get to it. We're gonna
Speaker 1: work through the Crusades first, because or at least the
Speaker 1: First Crusade, and then perhaps do a little bit more
Speaker 1: beyond that because there's so much there. But I can't
Speaker 1: skip from the eighth century to the or fifteenth century
Speaker 1: without putting some context in the middle there, and you
Speaker 1: can't skip the Crusades if you're talking about cross versus
Speaker 1: Crescent conflict. But we will get into some of those
Speaker 1: major Eastern European battles, and I will look into the
Speaker 1: Siege of Aga on some of these other ones that
Speaker 1: you have brought to my attention. All right with that,
Speaker 1: I am gonna close up shop here in the hut.
Speaker 1: By the way, check out buck sexton dot com. If
Speaker 1: you ever want to listen to the show there you can.
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Speaker 1: Team Buck gear. MS. Molly's going away for a few
Speaker 1: days to do some work on the roads on to
Speaker 1: be solo this weekend, just me and my history books,
Speaker 1: but semi messages, and I'm excited to join you every
Speaker 1: day next week, no matter what comes our way, friends,
Speaker 1: no matter how rainy and bleak the weekend in New
Speaker 1: York's City, maybe I will have my shield high