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Speaker 1: We've got updates for you on that, plus a sting

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Speaker 1: And why are there no Sunday questions about Biden's sexual

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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or mission is to

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Speaker 1: decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake,

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Speaker 1: you're a great American. Again, the Buck Sexton Show begins,

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Speaker 1: He's a great guy. Now. I want to review that

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Speaker 1: While it's an indication the President is asking people to

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Speaker 1: If you don't believe in science. They don't believe in governance.

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Speaker 1: That's their approach, and we do not. We don't want

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Speaker 1: and sounds like welcome to the buck Sex and Show. Everybody.

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Speaker 1: we're far enough in this and have enough data to

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Speaker 1: know that was wrong. There was no bed, there would

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Speaker 1: be no benefit for the Swedes to do the lockdown.

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Speaker 1: And now people are telling me, well, the economy and

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Speaker 1: Sweden has been hit. First of all, Okay, it's been hit.

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Speaker 1: Does anyone think that it's Is it a better thing

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Speaker 1: or a worse thing for some businesses to be open

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Speaker 1: and some businesses to have revenue in economy, better to

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Speaker 1: have no businesses open, no revenue. So clearly just applied

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Speaker 1: basic sense and logic to this. Clearly it would be

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Speaker 1: worse for the economy if they had done with all

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Speaker 1: these other places had done, and there is no evidence

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Speaker 1: to suggest that it is markedly worse off from a

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Speaker 1: health and safety and mortality rate. Is now we have

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Speaker 1: we have our control group, and we have our answer.

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Speaker 1: We did not need to shut down all fifty states

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Speaker 1: in this country. Are close to all fifty states in

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Speaker 1: this country with lockdowns. New York probably needed to be

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Speaker 1: locked down, perhaps the tri state area in New York,

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Speaker 1: New Jersey, Connecticut, and they're needed to be precautions put

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Speaker 1: in place. House where this is not This is not

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Speaker 1: a oh, we don't need mitigation or we don't need

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Speaker 1: to take this seriously. Of course not. That's absurd. That's

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Speaker 1: a straw man. No one really thinks that. No one's

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Speaker 1: arguing for that. But tell people that they can operate businesses.

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Speaker 1: Tell people they can't go to parks, they can't go

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Speaker 1: into public places where they're able to maintain distance and

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Speaker 1: they're an open air. It's absurd. We're shutting down parks

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Speaker 1: at a time when fresh air and open space are

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Speaker 1: essential for men till and physical health. There's been so

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Speaker 1: much wrong here, and only some people have been willing

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Speaker 1: to ask questions along the way. And I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: even I tired after a few days of being told

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Speaker 1: that I don't care about all the death, but I

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Speaker 1: don't care about you know, a stupid, vicious, just utterly

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Speaker 1: moronic position that people were taking about anyone who would

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Speaker 1: ask questions by looking at the data. Because we make

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Speaker 1: we make decisions as a society all the time about

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Speaker 1: what is acceptable risk. There's a different thing too than

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Speaker 1: risk versus the certainty of something happening right, we take

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Speaker 1: We let people drive cars, and everyone hates this example.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's not a bad example. We let people drive cars,

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Speaker 1: not not not saying okay, well we're going to have

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Speaker 1: you know, we know that the following people are going

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Speaker 1: to die from this, But we let people drive cars

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Speaker 1: knowing that it is possible that people will die from this.

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Speaker 1: You know, it is possible that there will be additional

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Speaker 1: cases and casualties from COVID nineteen once we begin reopening.

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Speaker 1: It's also possible that there really aren't, but we're willing

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Speaker 1: to take that risk because of all the factors involved.

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Speaker 1: This is life, this is how this is how adults

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Speaker 1: make decisions. And we know that you can't have a

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Speaker 1: lockdown forever. So why do we keep hearing people say,

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Speaker 1: oh no, keep it going as long as you have to.

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Speaker 1: There was a transition, they tried to transition the lockdown

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Speaker 1: consensus makers out there at the major news organizations, and

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Speaker 1: you know that there was there was this culture of

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Speaker 1: the lockdown that you were seeing from celebrities. You know,

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Speaker 1: here I am in my Malibu mansion and I'm telling

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Speaker 1: everybody you must stay lockdown. That's your civic duty. There

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Speaker 1: was a culture of this that was that was pervasive.

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Speaker 1: But initially it was don't allow the hospitals to be overwhelmed.

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Speaker 1: You know, there are hospitals now in New York. Another

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Speaker 1: piece in the Wall Street Journal about this Syracuse for example,

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Speaker 1: of you know, a good size city in New York State.

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Speaker 1: The hospitals are mostly empty, empty, No one can get care,

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Speaker 1: no one is able was able to do elective surgeries

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Speaker 1: of any kind or do preventative preventive visits to the hospital.

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Speaker 1: You know, I mean, I sit here and I wonder,

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Speaker 1: you know, at what point, are we going to be

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Speaker 1: able to assess all the people who have teeth rotting

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Speaker 1: out of their head? You know? But you might say, oh,

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Speaker 1: who cares about that? Actually, a really bad tooth infection

501
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: can become very dangerous. People don't necessarily realize this, but

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Speaker 1: dental health can turn into like whole body health real fast.

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Speaker 1: How many people haven't had preventative cancer screenings. How many

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Speaker 1: people haven't had surgeries, you know, earlier interventions that might

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Speaker 1: have led to better outcomes as a result of this,

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Speaker 1: there's so many consequences to the shutdown, which was really

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Speaker 1: just a policy of panic. Isn't it fascinating? We started

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Speaker 1: out this hour talking about the elites panicking because they

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Speaker 1: say we're going to panic, right, That's what elite panic is,

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, the hoi polloi will be raging in

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Speaker 1: the streets. What will we ever do? And then their

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Speaker 1: response is what the panic actually comes from? That that

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Speaker 1: is the panic telling us all to stay home indefinitely

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Speaker 1: and not really knowing how they're going to reintegrate us

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Speaker 1: back into our normal lives. How could you have a

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Speaker 1: response more steep and panic than that. It's crazy, isn't it?

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Speaker 1: And we now see this, We see the numbers, we

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Speaker 1: have the data, and the data does not support what

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Speaker 1: we've been told all along we should be doing across

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Speaker 1: the board, maybe in New York because we got hit

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Speaker 1: so badly, because this place where I'm coming to you now,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm here, I'm living it, I'm around it

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Speaker 1: all the time. You know. I tried to go into

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Speaker 1: a store last night and my mask wasn't covering my nose,

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Speaker 1: it was only covering my mouth, and a guy gave

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Speaker 1: me the whole hey, fix your mask thing before I

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Speaker 1: could walk into the store. Now, look, it's a private business,

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Speaker 1: I understand, and I'm willing to comply because that's what

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Speaker 1: the business has been told to do and they're they're

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Speaker 1: able to set their own regulations. Is a little bit

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Speaker 1: like no shoot, pardon me, A little bit like no shirt,

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Speaker 1: no shoes, not no to shoot, no shirt, no shoes,

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Speaker 1: no service. Well, in New York it's you know, no mask,

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Speaker 1: no gloves, no service, or at least no mask, no service,

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Speaker 1: gloves or optional. Still, but I don't know how long

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Speaker 1: that will last either. So there's this whole movement in

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Speaker 1: this city toward making this feel more normal for people

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Speaker 1: you're seeing a lot more of these designer masks and

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Speaker 1: a lot of efforts to make it seem like this

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Speaker 1: is just the way it's going to be for a

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Speaker 1: very long time, like we're going into the summer, and

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Speaker 1: I think people will eventually get very tired of having

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Speaker 1: these things on their faces, especially when they realize that

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Speaker 1: your risk. All I do is read the data and

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Speaker 1: in the studies all day long. Your risk from outdoor

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Speaker 1: from outdoor transmission of this unless somebody is basically in

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Speaker 1: physical contact with you or speaking right into your face

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Speaker 1: where you can feel like the heat of their breadth,

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Speaker 1: your risk of physical transmission from this from all the

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Speaker 1: studies they have so far outdoors is insignificant. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you have risk from everything, right. You have risk of

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Speaker 1: getting terrible staff infection every time you shave and you

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Speaker 1: cut yourself and you know you could die from a

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Speaker 1: staff infection, But do you stop shaving? And this is

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Speaker 1: this is where we have to remind ourselves that there's

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Speaker 1: no there's no perfect safety. And this reminds me of

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Speaker 1: the conversation we were having as a country after nine

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Speaker 1: eleven and with terrorism. People are saying, well, what do

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Speaker 1: we have to do to make sure this never happens again. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can prevent catastrophe with the right measures, or at

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Speaker 1: least you can make it harder for catastrophe like that

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Speaker 1: to occur because of those evil psychopaths of al Qaeda.

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Speaker 1: But there's no eliminating all terrorist at acts. We saw

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Speaker 1: this with the rise of the Islamic State and all

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Speaker 1: the lone wolf attacks. Here there is no perfect safety.

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Speaker 1: And if you if you try for perfect safety through

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Speaker 1: state mandates, what you get is the elimination of freedom.

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Speaker 1: And you still have risk. You have risk from whatever

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Speaker 1: it is the state says they're protecting you from, but

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Speaker 1: you also have the risk of a state that has

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Speaker 1: become almost all powerful, which should terrify people a lot

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Speaker 1: more than pretty much anything else we face out there

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Speaker 1: in the real world. I mean, a state going tyrannical.

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Speaker 1: If you look at history, you know what, really what

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Speaker 1: really gets the body count very high, tyrannical states. That's

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Speaker 1: that's worse than worse than pretty much anything we've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the only exception of that might be the

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Speaker 1: Spanish flu pandemic of nineteen eighteen, and that is something

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Speaker 1: that's also coming up now in these discussions about mask,

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Speaker 1: which I want to I want to transition to for

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Speaker 1: a second. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the

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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show podcast. You're seeing a lot of this

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Speaker 1: pop up now analysis of the pandemic of nineteen eighteen

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Speaker 1: and how San Francisco they say had had this under

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Speaker 1: control and then they started to ease, and then it

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Speaker 1: all came back and then things got so much worse.

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Speaker 1: Notice how the NBC News has a piece on this.

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing it all over the place, though. Notice how

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Speaker 1: the the goal here and shifted. Now it's lockdowns indefinitely

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Speaker 1: to prevent the second wave. Wait, I thought it was

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Speaker 1: lockdowns to prevent overcrowding of the hospital, and then it

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Speaker 1: was just ben the curve. So we have more time

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Speaker 1: to figure out more about the disease and allow our

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Speaker 1: public health, our public health and doctors and so on

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Speaker 1: and so forth to get in a better position to

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Speaker 1: deal with this. And now it's well, no, we have

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Speaker 1: to lock down until we figure out how to prevent

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Speaker 1: a second wave through test and trace. But the test

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Speaker 1: and trace is never going to be anywhere near what

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Speaker 1: it needs to be for us to be able to

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Speaker 1: do what they say we need to be able to do,

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Speaker 1: which is find out when someone has this and everyone

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Speaker 1: they've talked to you right away, and then contain it

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Speaker 1: with a three twenty million people in this country. Do

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Speaker 1: you think the government's going to be Do you think

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Speaker 1: there's any way they would have enough effectiveness in test

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Speaker 1: and trace that that really is that's a that's a

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Speaker 1: realistic option for us. This is all just people changing,

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Speaker 1: constantly changing where the goalposts are on this and now

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Speaker 1: preventing a second wave. Here's what happened in San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: They talk about the Anti Mask League. You people didn't

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Speaker 1: want to wear masks anymore, and there was all this

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Speaker 1: propaganda out there. Quote the man or a woman or

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Speaker 1: child who will not wear a mask now is a

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Speaker 1: dangerous slacker. A public service announcement from the American Red

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Speaker 1: Cross out at the time. This is all in this

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Speaker 1: NBC piece. And then there was the Anti Mask League

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Speaker 1: and the other other people were saying that, you know

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Speaker 1: that masks were not necessary. But here's the problem. They're

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Speaker 1: saying that they were flattening the curve, and then it

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Speaker 1: came back. Flattening the curve indefinitely is called indefinite lockdown.

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Speaker 1: Under the rules that were being set forward for us

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Speaker 1: and that destroyed society. We can't do that. So they

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Speaker 1: need to stop pretending that indefinite lockdown flattens the curve

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Speaker 1: and that means that that's what we're going to do,

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Speaker 1: because that's impossible. We're not going to do that. It

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Speaker 1: would be not advisable to do that. But there was

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Speaker 1: a second outbreak here. Look, the states and states and

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Speaker 1: cities right now are playing a lot of games with us.

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Speaker 1: They're saying they're reopening, but they're really not. They're saying

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Speaker 1: that they have a roadmap, but there are afraid to

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Speaker 1: enact it. This is why states that live in reality

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Speaker 1: and are willing to have leadership that are willing to

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Speaker 1: take appropriate risks and show a little courage here we'll

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Speaker 1: be what saves us because other states are just going

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Speaker 1: to sit on this and sit on this and refuse

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Speaker 1: to move until states that have taken action are okay,

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Speaker 1: which is going to happen. Thanks for listening to the

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00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 1: Bus Sesson Show podcast. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast,

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00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. It

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Speaker 1: bothers me that this is still in the news cycle

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Speaker 1: because I think we're missing the bigger pieces of what

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Speaker 1: we need to be doing as an American people to

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Speaker 1: continue to protect one another. And we should be having

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Speaker 1: that dialogue about asymptomatics. We should be having that dialogue

646
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 1: about this unique clotting that we're seeing. And you know,

647
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: we're the first country that really had young people to

648
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Speaker 1: this degree. Italy and Europe is about eight years older

649
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: than us as a median age. So this is the

650
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Speaker 1: first experience of this virus in an open society anywhere

651
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: we really can understand what's happening to every different age groups.

652
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: These are the things that we should be talking about

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Speaker 1: and focusing on. So I think as a scientist and

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Speaker 1: a public health official and a researcher, sometimes I worry

655
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Speaker 1: that we don't get the information to the American people

656
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 1: that they need when we continue to bring up something

657
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Speaker 1: that was from Thursday night. Oh you mean the media

658
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: is a bunch of irresponsible hacks. Here's doctor Burke's, who

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Speaker 1: I'm sure is going to all of a sudden, you're

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00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: going to see a bit of a change in tone

661
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: from Saint Fauci and Saint Burk's to oh well, why

662
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: is Burkes doing Trump's bidding? You already started to see

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00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 1: someone over the weekend. She's a hack just doing what

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Speaker 1: Trump says. This woman has worked in public health at

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Speaker 1: the highest levels for decades, who's been working on saving

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Speaker 1: people from HIV, particularly in Africa, where millions and millions

667
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Speaker 1: of lives have been saved by HIV prevention efforts. And

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00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: yet now because she calls out, the media has gotchi games, bullcrap,

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Speaker 1: the stuff that we know they're doing. We know they're

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Speaker 1: doing it, but they're starting to turn on her. They're

671
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 1: starting to feel like she's not the super genius that

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Speaker 1: we had all been led to believe when she was

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00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 1: telling us, you know, dealing with what we're effectively worst

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Speaker 1: case scenarios on this. They don't. They don't feel quite

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00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 1: the same way about her right now. That's just it's

676
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: just the reminder, folks that the news media, even right now,

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00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,240
Speaker 1: in a crisis, you know, America's house is on fire,

678
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: and the news media wants to run stories on how

679
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,280
Speaker 1: they don't like, you know, they don't like the house owner,

680
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,360
Speaker 1: and it's like, well, what are you guys doing? What

681
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: is going on here? They just really can't help it.

682
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: I suppose this is who they are. I mean, they

683
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 1: can't help it. But they they're not going to change.

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Speaker 1: This is the reality of the news media that we

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Speaker 1: are dealing with, and unfortunately this is the media we're

686
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Speaker 1: stuck with. But I want to note that, you know,

687
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:59,719
Speaker 1: some states are beginning to open Tennessee, Missouri, Montana. They're

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Speaker 1: the last ones, according to Fox News here that have

689
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Speaker 1: that have taken steps toward opening. And you're going to

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00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: see these states are they're going. I mean, I really

691
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Speaker 1: believe they're gonna be okay. Not say it's gonna be perfect,

692
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Speaker 1: but they're gonna be okay. And then you're going to

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Speaker 1: have more pressure on the blue states. But Red states

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Speaker 1: are not perfect here either. This is where you get

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Speaker 1: the When I say not perfect, I mean that there

696
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Speaker 1: have been things that have happened in some Red states

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Speaker 1: that are very concerning. This is where you have this story.

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Speaker 1: Was it on the on the blaze of a a

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Speaker 1: sting operation against women who were trying to women who

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Speaker 1: were trying to give nail salon services at home? You know,

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Speaker 1: a sting operation? Well, you don't say that's really a

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00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: good usage of police resources, isn't it. That's really something

703
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,879
Speaker 1: that's worth worth people doing trying to trying to paint

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Speaker 1: people's nails for them, So the police set up people

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Speaker 1: undercover to make sure they get the get the women

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Speaker 1: who we're trying to make a living by painting people's

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00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 1: nails at their homes. This is so stupid, it's so absurd,

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Speaker 1: But we see this happening. We see this happening in

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00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 1: state after state, time after time, and it's because that

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Speaker 1: there's a there's a mentality here. There are there are

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Speaker 1: people who are in positions of authority. There are people

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Speaker 1: who believe that they are the ones that have to

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Speaker 1: tell us how we deal with this and what they're real,

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Speaker 1: what acceptable risks are and what are not. And they

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Speaker 1: do not like challenges to their authority. They do not

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Speaker 1: want to hear about how Sweden is doing well. They

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Speaker 1: don't want to hear even about other states that are

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Speaker 1: reopening that have not had anywhere near the cases we

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Speaker 1: have in the US. You know what, I also think

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Speaker 1: a part of this is that everyone recognizes that our

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Speaker 1: experts in the scientific community so far we've had mixed

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Speaker 1: results at best with the therapeutics that we have available

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Speaker 1: to us right now. Who knows if a vaccine is

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Speaker 1: going to be particularly effective and how soon it will

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Speaker 1: be effective how soon we'll actually have one, So waiting

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Speaker 1: for medicine to save is I do think that there

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Speaker 1: was and look, I'm guilty of this in my own

728
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Speaker 1: my own head. I just the idea that we might

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Speaker 1: be able to go back to living normal lives sooner

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Speaker 1: because of some huge breakthrough on what could be sweeter,

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Speaker 1: what could be greater than that? Right? But no, No,

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Speaker 1: the same same medical community that can't cure the common

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Speaker 1: cold is going to have a challenging time with this.

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Speaker 1: I can tell you that right now, medical researchers around

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Speaker 1: the world that look, I don't know the first thing

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Speaker 1: about any of this, and this is not my area,

737
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Speaker 1: but I'm just telling you, if we're waiting for the

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Speaker 1: experts in this realm to just give us the silver bullet,

739
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: we're gonna be waiting a very long time, and our

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00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: whole society, our whole way of life, will deteriorate around

741
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Speaker 1: us while we're playing that waiting game. We can't do that.

742
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Speaker 1: You absolutely cannot allow that to be the way that

743
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Speaker 1: this goes forward. So then we also have the left

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Speaker 1: and their complaints about all of this, which are I

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Speaker 1: have to just say, are are stunning, absolutely stunning. Here's

746
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Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi. And this is a great Pelosi moment in

747
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Speaker 1: that it really distills the esthens of Nancy Pelosi. She's

748
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: so shameless, and if we had a real press that

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Speaker 1: was oppositional and was that was interested in truth, Pelosi

750
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 1: would be scared to go on any of these shows

751
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: because she would just get constantly blasted for all of

752
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 1: the misdirection, all the lies, all of the just most

753
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: blatant political crap that she pulls. But instead, she knows

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Speaker 1: that she's going into friendly territory all the time, with

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00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: the exception of when when she's on Fox News. And

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Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time Pelosi was on a

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Speaker 1: Fox News show. Maybe she does the Sunday shows because

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Speaker 1: Chris Wallace is a very kind of, you know, neutral

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00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: centrist interviewer, but I don't I don't know that she's

760
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Speaker 1: done any of the other Fox News shows recently, because

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00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: she's obviously not going to subject herself to having anyone

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Speaker 1: ask a question about what a huge fraud she is

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Speaker 1: and all of this. But here's Pelosi on the Remember

764
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: you have to remember, you have to remember the timeline here.

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Speaker 1: Pelosi was opposed initially to Trump's China travel restriction, said

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00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:14,839
Speaker 1: that it wasn't it was you know, racist, wasn't good.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna you know, it's not gonna, it's not worth it.

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Speaker 1: We shouldn't be doing this. She was a terrible idea.

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Speaker 1: And now her criticism is effectively, well, it wasn't enough,

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Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't enough. That that's the shift that

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Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi has made here play clip three. Actually tens

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Speaker 1: of thousands of people were still allowed in from China,

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Speaker 1: so it wasn't as it is described as this great moment.

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Speaker 1: There were Americans coming back or Green cardholders coming back,

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Speaker 1: but there were tens of thousand. So if you're going

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Speaker 1: to shut the door because you have an evaluation of

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Speaker 1: an epidemic, then shut the door. Oh oh, so it

778
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: wasn't strong enough is her complaint. Now, and here's the

779
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Speaker 1: problem that Nancy Pelosi has in making this case. Do

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Speaker 1: you know what we call those tens of thousands of

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Speaker 1: Americans who are coming back from China? Americans? So she

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00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: doesn't understand these are citizens and Green card holders. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna tell them they can't come back to their home country. Now,

784
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 1: maybe we should have put them into quarantine right away.

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Speaker 1: But hindsight is twenty twenty. But could you imagine the

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Speaker 1: outrage from Nancy Pelosi. I don't just mean in general,

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Speaker 1: imagine the outrage from Nancy Pelosi if when all this

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Speaker 1: was going on, the President had said, well, if you

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Speaker 1: are coming back from China, obviously we're gonna have a

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Speaker 1: fair number of people who are Chinese Americans who are

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Speaker 1: coming back from travel there, who are citizens or green

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Speaker 1: card holders. And if you come back and you know,

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Speaker 1: you're not allowed to come back, never mind even putting

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00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 1: into quarantine right away, you're not allowed to come back.

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Speaker 1: Find somewhere else to live while we figured this out.

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Speaker 1: First of all, it's not I don't even know how

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Speaker 1: you'd deal with the constitutionality of that. I mean, you

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00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: get a lot of problems, you'd have a lot of issues.

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Speaker 1: But that's now Pelosi's claim what was unnecessary and severe

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00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: is now not severe enough. And she acts like she

801
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 1: knew this all along and she has all the answers.

802
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Speaker 1: Just appalling. I mean, she is a truly appalling and

803
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:19,360
Speaker 1: really deranged by politics at this point, but she manages

804
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 1: to still say this stuff. She manages to continue to

805
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 1: just make these claims and does not get any of

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00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: the pushback that you would expect does not get anyone,

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00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: you know, asking her real question. I shouldn't say that

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00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: you would expect that you would hope for if we

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00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 1: had a serious press corps, but we simply don't. But

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Speaker 1: then again, Adam Schiff could also run around saying stuff

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Speaker 1: like this. You remember, this guy is in the House

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Speaker 1: Intelligence Committee. He tried to he was the point man

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Speaker 1: on the pre on the impeachment of the President, which

814
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:52,320
Speaker 1: was just a disgusting exercise. Here's shift place sixteen. I

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00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: don't think we had any idea how much damage she

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Speaker 1: would go on to do in the months ahead. There

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00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 1: are fifty thousand Americans now who are dead, in significant

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Speaker 1: part because of his incompetence, because of his inability to

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Speaker 1: think beyond himself and put the country first. I don't

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Speaker 1: think we would have ever anticipated that his brand of

821
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Speaker 1: narcissism and his brand of incompetence, sometimes his brand of

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Speaker 1: malevolence would be so fatal to the American people. But probably,

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Speaker 1: you know, the strongest echo of what we were talking

824
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Speaker 1: about during the trial was when he was earlier talking

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Speaker 1: about how he didn't want to return the calls from governers.

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Speaker 1: He didn't want his vice president to return calls from

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Speaker 1: governors that weren't saying nice things about him, that really

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Speaker 1: weren't saying things about him that he could then turn

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Speaker 1: into campaign commercials, as indeed he has. That was such

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00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 1: a profound and disturbing echo of what he tried to

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Speaker 1: do with Ukraine. So sadly, you know, as we pointed

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00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,280
Speaker 1: out during the trial, a man with no moral compass

833
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: will never find his way, and this president certainly hasn't.

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Speaker 1: Does anyone think that Adam Schiff has a moral compass?

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Speaker 1: Adam Schiff might be to slimy, most dishonest person in

836
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Speaker 1: the entire United States Congress, which is a remarkable feat.

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Speaker 1: And now that's a truly stunning accomplishment for somebody to have,

838
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: given how many liars and how many disgraces are in

839
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Speaker 1: the Congress. But he's also he sounds like a crazy

840
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Speaker 1: person here. Yeah, Trump is a responsi for fifty thousand deaths.

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Speaker 1: Notice the problem they they will have as they continue

842
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 1: this line of really just gutter attack, I mean just

843
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 1: the grossest, most underhanded, most despicable politics. Are all of

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Speaker 1: the European countries, are all their prime ministers guilty of

845
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 1: murder too. Do they all have blood on their hands?

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Speaker 1: In fact, find me a major country does. Does any

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Speaker 1: government not have blood on its hands? And at what

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00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 1: point if every government has blood on its hands, what

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Speaker 1: does that even really mean other than governments can't protect you.

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Speaker 1: Governments are incompetent by their nature. They are going to

851
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,839
Speaker 1: disappoint you. If you think that a government is there

852
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:54,919
Speaker 1: to be your friend and keep you safe, you're wrong.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't matter who the leader is, that's not the function

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Speaker 1: of government. They do. It does what it can in

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Speaker 1: this case to try to protect this but it's always

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Speaker 1: going to disappoint you. It's never going to be enough.

857
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Speaker 1: But you won't hear that from the Democrats. You won't

858
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Speaker 1: hear that. Instead, you'll hear the usual attacks about how

859
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Speaker 1: Trump is completely and utterly bereft of any moral compass,

860
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Speaker 1: and he's a terrible person, and he's responsible for all this. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: they offer up none other than Joe Biden as the

862
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Speaker 1: answer here, as if Joe Biden would do such a

863
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: better job figuring all this out. Oh oh, and in

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Speaker 1: case you're wondering now, Pelosi has in fact endorsed Joe Biden. Oh,

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Speaker 1: this is a this is a big one, folks. Ooh,

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Speaker 1: this is really going to move the needle play at

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Speaker 1: Mark today. I am proud to endorse Joe Biden for

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Speaker 1: President of the United States because he will be an

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Speaker 1: extraordinary president. He knows how to get the job done. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's right, Joe Biden. That's who they say, we do

871
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 1: a better. We're dealing with an enormously complicated issue, really

872
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: a once in a century pandemic. And if only the

873
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: guy who talks about the weird blonde hairs on his

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Speaker 1: legs and sniffs women's heads, by his own admission and

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Speaker 1: by photographic evidence, and now has a completely credible and

876
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: I really mean credible sexual assault allegation against him from

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Speaker 1: when he was a United States senator. That's the person

878
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,800
Speaker 1: the Democrats are telling you, if only he were in charge,

879
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: this would all be so much better. They can't really

880
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 1: believe this, but we know that it doesn't matter whether

881
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: they believe it or not. It's useful to them right now.

882
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 1: What is the only principle the Democratic Party holds firm

883
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Speaker 1: to the pursuit of power, which is not really a principle.

884
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:50,719
Speaker 1: That's the only thing they really care about. Everything else

885
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 1: is pushed aside at a moment's notice, anything else is

886
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:59,120
Speaker 1: completely disposable. I mean Nancy Pelosi and morality. That's that's funny, right,

887
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 1: that's a joke. But I want to talk about how

888
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Speaker 1: the media is trying to handle the fact that now

889
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Speaker 1: the word is out and after all this stuff against Kavanaugh.

890
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Speaker 1: And we will talk a little bit more about the

891
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Speaker 1: general Flint situation too, because we're getting more answers about this.

892
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Speaker 1: Oh you you're humble conservative hosts like yours truly and

893
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Speaker 1: among others. Somehow, we've been right on Russia collusion, We've

894
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:24,280
Speaker 1: been right on General Flynn, we were right on Kavanna,

895
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 1: right on these things all along, and the facts, additional

896
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Speaker 1: facts after those fights were had in public, proved that

897
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Speaker 1: to be the case. But do you see any any

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Speaker 1: penance from the media whatsoever about their efforts to destroy

899
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Speaker 1: these people. Do you see anyone caring about how wrong

900
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Speaker 1: they've been all along on the the mainstream media. No,

901
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: of course not, because they knew that they were serving

902
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:48,759
Speaker 1: a purpose at the time. That was what mattered. But

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Speaker 1: let's let's take a look at the Joe Biden situation.

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Speaker 1: You're in the freedom hunt. This is the buck sex

905
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Speaker 1: and show podcast. You will recall during the Kavanaugh destruction

906
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 1: effort by the media, you will recall that there was

907
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Speaker 1: no evidence whatsoever of contemporaneous corroboration. In fact, the effort

908
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:20,359
Speaker 1: to destroy Kavanaugh revolved entirely around women who had increasingly

909
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:27,799
Speaker 1: implausible claims of sexual assault, starting with the least obviously

910
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Speaker 1: false that you called that with Christine Blasiford, and then

911
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: going over to Deborah Ramirez and I can say this,

912
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Speaker 1: if you were in college and somebody put their their

913
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Speaker 1: genitalia in your face, I don't think you would need,

914
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Speaker 1: as she claimed she did a week of coaching by

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Speaker 1: lawyers to help you figure out if, in fact that

916
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Speaker 1: thing happened to you. That strikes me as highly implausible.

917
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 1: But that was what we were told, and also other

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Speaker 1: people that were there at Yale University at the time

919
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Speaker 1: remembered no such incident, did not believe that it happened,

920
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 1: no corroboration whatsoever. And then you got to the Julie

921
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Speaker 1: Sweatne case, where the media was willing to with no

922
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Speaker 1: again evidence of any kind other than a clearly delusional

923
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Speaker 1: person seeking attention. And there were others. As I've told you,

924
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Speaker 1: there were women who came forward who said that Brett

925
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Speaker 1: kavanol raped them on a boat in a state he

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Speaker 1: had never been to. So there were people who came forward.

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Speaker 1: You know, we were being told in this instance that

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Speaker 1: women have a right to be believed, and there were

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Speaker 1: women who lied as a matter of record, because that's

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Speaker 1: why the Senate Democrats didn't even produce those allegations. There

931
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Speaker 1: were people who this was an all hands on deck

932
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Speaker 1: effort to destroy a person who was viewed as a

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Speaker 1: threat to Roe v. Wade, as a threat to the

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Speaker 1: liberals preferred composition of the Supreme Court. So it wasn't

935
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Speaker 1: anything goes situation. It wasn't anything goes moment. But even

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Speaker 1: blasi Ford was never even able to prove that she

937
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Speaker 1: had met met Brett Kavanaugh. Never no record of anyone

938
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Speaker 1: saying that they ever hung out, knew each other, were

939
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Speaker 1: even in the same room. She claims that she went

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Speaker 1: to a party, that she did not know how she

941
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Speaker 1: got there, who invited her, where the house was, what

942
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Speaker 1: house it was, and that he attacked her, and that

943
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Speaker 1: she doesn't know how she got home or who picked

944
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Speaker 1: her up or anything else, and she thought it was

945
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Speaker 1: the wrong year also, which is left out of all

946
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Speaker 1: of that too. Oh okay, so pretty much every fact

947
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Speaker 1: she had was either not a fact or was wrong.

948
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Speaker 1: But she knew it was Brett Kavanaugh. Couldn't have been

949
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Speaker 1: someone else, couldn't have been some other guy that was,

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Speaker 1: you know, grabbing at her when he was drunk at

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00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 1: this party, which the thing that know happens all too often.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is part of the problem is that

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Speaker 1: this is that there are far too many people who

954
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 1: are victims of this kind of conduct, and when someone

955
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Speaker 1: comes forward with a politically charged allegation that does not

956
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 1: have any facts behind it, it does affect perception of

957
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: how often people are telling the truth with this. It

958
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Speaker 1: just does. So it's wrong. It hurts real survivors when

959
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 1: this happens, when people say things that are clearly untrue.

960
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: For reasons that we all understand. Right, this was a

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00:53:56,520 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 1: Supreme Court seat, and this was considered a sacred duty

962
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Speaker 1: of women on the left to try and destroy Kavanaugh.

963
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:06,880
Speaker 1: Here's the problem now with the Joe Biden situation as

964
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 1: we know it. The problem is that there is now

965
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Speaker 1: not only an allegation that is credible that relies on

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Speaker 1: already established contact between the two of them, there's what

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00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 1: we believe is video and audio evidence of contemporaneous corroboration.

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Speaker 1: And not only that, but CNN had it in its archives.

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Speaker 1: I'll bring you up to speed on this at a moment.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the Bus Sesson Show podcast. Remember

971
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever

972
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. So here's where we are with

973
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 1: with the Democrat nominee for the presidency, Joe Biden. As

974
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: I've already told you, the way that the media, the

975
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: national press treated the Kavanaugh situation was that any allegation

976
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:58,280
Speaker 1: against him was to be believed, no matter how flimsy

977
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:00,840
Speaker 1: it was in terms of evidence, or even how not

978
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 1: credible it would seem at first at first look. And

979
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Speaker 1: that was a situation where there were there were a

980
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 1: lot of people that said that they didn't believe it

981
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:14,360
Speaker 1: had happened, or that they couldn't give corroboration for it,

982
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:16,880
Speaker 1: there was no evidence that could be presented. But the

983
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:19,840
Speaker 1: standard was not only should a woman a woman have

984
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 1: a right to be believe. The standard was that if

985
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 1: there's even a doubt that is created about this person's ability,

986
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:30,560
Speaker 1: if there is any doubt whatsoever, then ability to do

987
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 1: this job you credibly and in the eyes of the public,

988
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: then we deserve something better, so that person should step down.

989
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 1: That was the standard for Kavanaugh, that the media is

990
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 1: set up and that we were told we should all

991
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:44,800
Speaker 1: adhere to. How can that now not be the standard

992
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:46,440
Speaker 1: if it's for a Supreme Court justice, how can it

993
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 1: not be the standard for a president? Now? We all

994
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 1: know that they covered up stuff with Bill Clinton for

995
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 1: a long time too, that Bill Clinton was credibly accused,

996
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 1: credibly accused of rape. We know that right that that

997
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 1: is on the record, that has been long established. Media

998
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 1: didn't care. But now in they Post me too era,

999
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:11,440
Speaker 1: when they were so clear, so definite, and what the

1000
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 1: standards were for gate for gauging this kind of conduct,

1001
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: for deciding what should happen and what's beliefable and what's not.

1002
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,760
Speaker 1: They're willing to toss this all out because of politics.

1003
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: We know this. Here's the problem that they currently have

1004
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:26,840
Speaker 1: to deal with. And they're going to go through a

1005
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: lot of supposed soul searching and processing, and they're gonna

1006
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: use a lot of fancy words that mean one thing

1007
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 1: and one thing only. They're not gonna do squat about

1008
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:37,279
Speaker 1: this they're not gonna do anything about it. They're just

1009
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:39,200
Speaker 1: gonna say, oh, yeah, we talked about it, we covered it.

1010
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:40,840
Speaker 1: We covered it in the back of the newspaper. We

1011
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: didn't mention it on air on TV. But sure, yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: we covered it. We're still looking, We're still researching. They're

1013
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 1: going to be researching Joe Biden's sexual assault allegations in

1014
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:52,920
Speaker 1: twenty years, meaning they're never going to really research it.

1015
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Speaker 1: They're just gonna keep saying that, oh no, we're still

1016
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: looking at it, still trying to figure stuff out. Here's

1017
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:58,520
Speaker 1: a problem though, you know, we were also told a

1018
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Speaker 1: contemporary corroboration is meaningful, right because at least that establishes

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00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:06,320
Speaker 1: that the person did not, as I believe the kavanauc

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Speaker 1: users did, come up out of nowhere with I'm going

1021
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Speaker 1: to be a hero to women, to the women's movement

1022
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 1: to the left by destroying this guy before he can

1023
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 1: be on the Supreme Court. And so they just made

1024
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: up stories. People that knew him from his life, but

1025
00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 1: they just made it up. The problem that Biden has

1026
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 1: is that this isn't somebody who just made it up.

1027
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,920
Speaker 1: Now because she doesn't want Biden to be president, this

1028
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:33,040
Speaker 1: is somebody who according to what we now have as

1029
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: at least circumstantial evidence. According to circumstantial evidence, she was

1030
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Speaker 1: telling people about this at the time, and all the

1031
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 1: timeline all matches up for when she left the job

1032
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Speaker 1: and what she did next. Here is audio of terror

1033
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Speaker 1: Reid's mother back in nineteen ninety three allegedly calling into

1034
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Speaker 1: CNN to discuss how her daughter was something bad happened

1035
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Speaker 1: to her and it was from a prominent politician. Here

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Speaker 1: this is what the audio of it sounds like. Playcliff

1037
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Speaker 1: two back a couple more phone calls on this very

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Speaker 1: important topic. Our guests are former United States Senator Howard Baker,

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Speaker 1: Richard Allen, former National Security advisor, and Lois Romano of

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Speaker 1: The Washington Post, San Luis Obispo, California. Hello, Yeah, Hello,

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering what a staffer would to do besides go

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Speaker 1: to the press in Washington. My daughter has just left

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Speaker 1: there after working for a prominent senator and could not

1044
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Speaker 1: get through with her problems at all. And the only

1045
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:41,280
Speaker 1: thing she could have done was go to the press,

1046
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Speaker 1: and she chose not to do it out of respect

1047
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Speaker 1: for you, or she had a story to tell, but

1048
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Speaker 1: out of respect for the person she worked for. She

1049
00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: didn't tell them, that's true. But these are the people

1050
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Speaker 1: who do come to the lowest romanos, right the staff

1051
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: worker who says, I want to let you know about

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Speaker 1: what's going on down the hall. And a lot of

1053
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Speaker 1: these people had a sense of applegate. They feel that

1054
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Speaker 1: this public officials should be accountable if it's something blowers

1055
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Speaker 1: to the president. Guess where Tara Reid's mother was living

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Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety three when that phone call was made

1057
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Speaker 1: to the Larry King Show, San Luis Obispo, California. Guess

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Speaker 1: when Tara Reid had just left her job right around then.

1059
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Speaker 1: People who have heard, including Tara Reid have heard the audio, said, yep,

1060
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Speaker 1: that's Tara Reid's mother. So what are we to make

1061
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:32,400
Speaker 1: of this? She clearly had a problem with Biden back then.

1062
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Speaker 1: It made her leave her job, and it was so

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Speaker 1: troubling that even her mother was calling into Larry King

1064
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Speaker 1: Show to say, I'm more. You know, this is the situation.

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Speaker 1: So she didn't just come up with this story now

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Speaker 1: because she doesn't want Biden to be president and she

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Speaker 1: likes Trump. In fact, I'll understand she's a Democrat, but

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that won't get that won't get much play.

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Speaker 1: So what do the Democrats do about this? You know

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Speaker 1: what's funny is we all know what they're going to do,

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Speaker 1: which is nothing. This will just this will just be

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00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 1: treated like it. It's a thing that we all know

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Speaker 1: but cannot be spoken of, can't talk about. This doesn't

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Speaker 1: have any residents, doesn't have any impact or power. Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden has to beat Donald Trump. That's all that matters.

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Speaker 1: Nothing else matters. I really believe that that the Democrat

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Speaker 1: Party could find out that Joe Biden had a long

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Speaker 1: history of this. And I would note that bosses who

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Speaker 1: tend to grab women and penetrate them against their will,

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Speaker 1: which is what the allegation is here, tends tend not

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Speaker 1: to be a one off thing. There are bosses who

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Speaker 1: do this, and they tend to be predators. And that's

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Speaker 1: that's usually what you find out in there and when

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Speaker 1: you do a deep dive into their background and how

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Speaker 1: they've really been. So is this woman even the only

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Speaker 1: one with Biden? But I'll tell you this, if five

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Speaker 1: women came forward and said that Biden did this, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know what the response would be from the media,

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Speaker 1: from the press. Well, women accused Trump too, so can't

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Speaker 1: do anything about this? What aboutism, the double standards? It's

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Speaker 1: going to be jaw dropping. All the people in the

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Speaker 1: media who were claiming that Kavanaugh should step down coming

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Speaker 1: they believe Kavanaugh there and their politics were quite obvious

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Speaker 1: in that whole process. They're the same people now who

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Speaker 1: are not saying anything about what the allegations against Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden are. And I would note so I also think

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Speaker 1: that this is important. I think this is something that

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Speaker 1: we need to keep in mind. There's no accountability whatsoever

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Speaker 1: for the press doing what they did, the lies that

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Speaker 1: they told, the willingness to cast aside any effort at impartiality,

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Speaker 1: at being nonpartisan and being wrong. They were wrong. They're

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Speaker 1: wrong about Kavanaugh, and they're going to feign ignorance and

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Speaker 1: stupidity about Biden because what else are they going to do.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing about this allegation that rings false. And if

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Speaker 1: five women came forward and said that Joe Biden had

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Speaker 1: done this to them, they would still say the same thing. Nope,

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Speaker 1: none of them have a right to be believed. Too

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01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:01,880
Speaker 1: much at stake here for the left, too much power.

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01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 1: They hate Trump that much. How how can anybody who's

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Speaker 1: a journalist be taken seriously with this. I mean, you

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01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:08,800
Speaker 1: go back and look at what people were saying on

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01:02:08,920 --> 01:02:11,680
Speaker 1: the left, what the Democrat media was saying about cabin

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01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 1: at the time. Those who believed all this, they've set

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01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:17,800
Speaker 1: a standard here that they just simply are going to

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01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:19,640
Speaker 1: forget that they set. They're going to just pretend it

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Speaker 1: never happened. Because these people, I really tell you this,

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01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 1: among the worst human beings in America in professional life

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01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:29,920
Speaker 1: who are treated generally well and think that they're important

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Speaker 1: are mainstream journalists. They're among the worst people in the

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Speaker 1: country in any profession. Yeah, there's, like, you know, cartel

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Speaker 1: hitmen who are worse, But I'm saying for a profession

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Speaker 1: that thinks of itself as being elite and worthwhile and

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Speaker 1: really important to the functioning of our republic, journalism is

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Speaker 1: rotten in America. Not all journalists are rotten, but journalism

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Speaker 1: in general is rotten. There's no other explanation for how

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Speaker 1: this Joe Biden allegation is being handled versus the way

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Speaker 1: that the cabin All situation was handled. Do you think

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Speaker 1: it's CNN found this in its archives? I would note Noope,

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Speaker 1: someone else had to go and find this in CNN's archives. Wow.

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Speaker 1: You mean that the same media that was able to

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Speaker 1: find a ten year old, you know, off off stage

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01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:18,640
Speaker 1: Mike moment with Billy Bush and President Trump to try

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01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:21,440
Speaker 1: to destroy him, a classic October surprise as dirty as

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Speaker 1: against right before the election. You mean that same mainstream

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01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:26,760
Speaker 1: media couldn't figure out this. It had to be brought

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Speaker 1: to CNN's attention. Oh wow. I don't think anybody's even

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Speaker 1: a little bit surprised by that. I'm a CNN is

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01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 1: on an anti Trump jihad. We all know that they've

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Speaker 1: been on it for years. They're not going to change,

1140
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 1: but we don't have to show them respect as a

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Speaker 1: media organization, as a journalistic enterprise, because they don't deserve

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Speaker 1: respect for either of those things. They don't deserve respect

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Speaker 1: in general. And to all the women out there that

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Speaker 1: I know who wanted to believe the press was being

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Speaker 1: fair and what it was saying about Kavanaugh, I would

1146
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Speaker 1: want to know, how could anyone try to claim that

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Speaker 1: what's going on right now where you have a Democrat

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Speaker 1: nominee for the presidency who has been incredibly accused of

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Speaker 1: sexual assault by a woman who can who did know

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Speaker 1: him who was alone with him and who does have

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Speaker 1: now contemporary's corroboration or having told other people about the

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Speaker 1: story back in nineteen ninety three. Is it okay if

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden does it? What is the standard? What is

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01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:22,280
Speaker 1: the standard that they are operating under now? They need

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01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 1: to establish this? Do they excuse Joe Biden because he's

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01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:28,080
Speaker 1: too important to Democrats? I mean, that is what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: But I just want I want them to verbalize it.

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Speaker 1: I want them to have to say it. Why is

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Speaker 1: this okay? You know, CNN, I don't think has done

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Speaker 1: a single story on this. What a trash heap of

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01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:45,040
Speaker 1: an organization that place is. It's really appalling. You're in

1162
01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:48,680
Speaker 1: the Freedom Hud. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast.

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Speaker 1: Would it be a mistake if Joe Biden didn't pick

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Speaker 1: a woman of caller to be his running mate a president?

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Speaker 1: Biden will do what he has always on, which is

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Speaker 1: respect and value communities of color. I think he understands

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01:05:04,280 --> 01:05:07,040
Speaker 1: that black communities and people of color are vital to

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Speaker 1: the success of the Democratic Party, and I think he's

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Speaker 1: going to pick the right person. I of course think

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Speaker 1: that a woman of color can bring certain attributes we

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Speaker 1: have to lift up marginalized communities, communities that do not

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Speaker 1: trust that they will be served because they have been

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01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:22,960
Speaker 1: the hardest hit by this pandemic. In the state of

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Speaker 1: Georgia alone. While we're only thirty two percent of the population,

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Speaker 1: African Americans comprise fifty four percent of the deaths. And

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Speaker 1: so yes, having a woman of color on the ticket

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Speaker 1: will help promote not only diversity but trust. But I

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Speaker 1: trust Joe Biden to pick the person he thinks is

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Speaker 1: the right running mate for him. Man, the media is

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Speaker 1: really helping out with the Stacey Abrams for VP campaign,

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Speaker 1: aren't they keep on giving her as much of a

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Speaker 1: platform as I can. Remember, this is a woman who

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Speaker 1: lost the Georgia governor's race and then went around saying

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Speaker 1: that she wanted so you know, she's got great judgment.

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Speaker 1: But they're really doing everything they can to try to help,

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Speaker 1: in part because, you know, Chuck Todd putting an African

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Speaker 1: American female on his show that he's elevating as a

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Speaker 1: likely Joe Biden or possible Joe Biden pick makes, you know,

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Speaker 1: makes Chuck Todd feel like he's doing his part for

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Speaker 1: diversity and wokeness and doing what the left would want

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Speaker 1: him to do you see this in a lot of

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Speaker 1: these other Sunday shows as well. I bring this up

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Speaker 1: because you had I think a handful of different possible,

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Speaker 1: possible vice presidential picks for Biden that we're showing up

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Speaker 1: on the Sunday shows, which I don't really I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think the Sunday shows are overwhelmingly garbage. I think

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Speaker 1: they're trash. I think they're not very good. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's this old sort of inside DC we need to have,

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Speaker 1: you know, the old Tim Russert model of things. It's

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Speaker 1: all gone now. I mean, Chuck Todd is an intense

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Speaker 1: mediocrity and everyone knows it, and so are these other

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Speaker 1: people that have these Sunday Jake Tapper, he's the most

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Speaker 1: boring man on television. But you know, whatever, they they

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Speaker 1: do this, they have these Sunday shows. And how many

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Speaker 1: of them do you think asked Biden's vice presidential candidates,

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Speaker 1: especially in the case of Stacey Abrams, a female, what

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Speaker 1: do you think about the credible sexual assault allegation against

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden? Do you think any of them got to

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Speaker 1: ask that question? Nope, escape right past that one. Why

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Speaker 1: is that? How can you be a journalist when you

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Speaker 1: have a president a presidential contender. You only have two

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Speaker 1: men left in this race now it's Biden and Trump.

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Speaker 1: One of them has and it's just come to light

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Speaker 1: that there's contemporaneous corroboration of the sexual assault allegation against Biden.

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Speaker 1: How can you not ask that question? See, this goes

1216
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Speaker 1: to everything that we talk about here all the time,

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Speaker 1: which is the bias that's going on, that people are

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Speaker 1: pursuing an ideological agenda. And it's why you shouldn't watch

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Speaker 1: ABC News tonight, even though I think like twelve million

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01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:43,080
Speaker 1: people do. You should listen to people that actually tell

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Speaker 1: you what's true and who share your values and your

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01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:48,760
Speaker 1: view because the information is already out there. We all

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Speaker 1: have access to more information than ever before. It's what values,

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Speaker 1: what principles do you apply to it? What analysis do

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01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:57,040
Speaker 1: you do with it? What do you think the takeaways are?

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Speaker 1: How do you use judgment and how do you tell

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Speaker 1: people to go forward once they have that information? Right?

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Speaker 1: That that's what differentiates not having someone who looks and

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01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:11,840
Speaker 1: sounds fancy and who has really cool intro music and

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01:08:12,040 --> 01:08:13,960
Speaker 1: is on ABC News or you know, any of these

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01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:18,040
Speaker 1: other platforms, or you can watch CNN and have the

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Speaker 1: likes of Jim Acosta still present himself as just just

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Speaker 1: an honest, objective journal man Play fifteen. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: know why the President didn't take questions this evening. It's

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Speaker 1: interesting me that Kaylee Mckininny, you know, the new spokesperson

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Speaker 1: who you know is over the top in her you know,

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Speaker 1: Soviet like praise of or rewriting of history on things,

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01:08:41,080 --> 01:08:43,920
Speaker 1: would say one thing, and then the president. They clearly

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Speaker 1: didn't even coordinate their lives. They didn't Anderson, and I

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Speaker 1: think we found out today that the President's words have meeting,

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01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:54,280
Speaker 1: but they're also at times hazardous to your health. And

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Speaker 1: I think that was part of what we learned today

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Speaker 1: and go into your point in orson there just isn't

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01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:03,560
Speaker 1: enough disinfectant at the White House to wash away what

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01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:06,080
Speaker 1: the President did and the lies that were told to

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Speaker 1: try to cover it up. I will tell you, Anderson,

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Speaker 1: one of the reasons why he cut short that briefing

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Speaker 1: earlier this evening, my sources tell me, is because the

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01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:15,559
Speaker 1: President was upset about the flak he was taking over

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01:09:16,320 --> 01:09:19,160
Speaker 1: his comments that people could use disinfectants to kill the

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01:09:19,240 --> 01:09:23,080
Speaker 1: coronavirus inside their bodies. Yeah, objective journals. There. You got

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01:09:23,160 --> 01:09:26,280
Speaker 1: one guy who's a news anchor, Anderson Cooper quote news anchor.

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Speaker 1: First of all, it really doesn't sound particularly articulate there,

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Speaker 1: does he? You know, like yeah, you know, I mean yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, like Kiley mcinanny, you know, I mean you

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Speaker 1: go back and listen to Its really been that guy

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Speaker 1: fifteen million a year something like that, ten fifteen million

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01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:41,880
Speaker 1: a year for a job that you could replace him

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Speaker 1: tomorrow and nobody would care and nobody would notice. But

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Speaker 1: you know, Jeff Zucker likes him so and he's the

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Speaker 1: brand over there whatever that means, not Jeff Zucker Anderson Cooper.

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Speaker 1: And then you have Jim Acosta, who I mean, who

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01:09:52,400 --> 01:09:56,640
Speaker 1: was clownish in his partisan ship. And we got all

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01:09:56,680 --> 01:09:58,120
Speaker 1: these things going on this country. You know, why is

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01:09:58,160 --> 01:09:59,880
Speaker 1: it that I'm here telling you about the data, talking

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01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:03,400
Speaker 1: about Sweden, about lockdowns, about all this and these other everything.

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01:10:03,439 --> 01:10:05,800
Speaker 1: It's the nag is about Trump, Trump bad, Orange Man

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01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:09,280
Speaker 1: bad Trump bad oh an MSNBC. I mean, it's it's

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Speaker 1: the same thing over there. It's not like they're any better.

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Speaker 1: Here's a crazy Joe Scarborough. Is he still somehow listed

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Speaker 1: as a conservative. I just want to know what the

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Speaker 1: I mean. Joe Scarborough is the Jennifer Rubin of conservative

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01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:25,519
Speaker 1: male TV pundits in that all he does is bash

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Speaker 1: the right, but still claims to have some affiliation with

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01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:30,080
Speaker 1: the right. I guess the guy's just a jerk too.

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Speaker 1: People and I know they work with them, say he's

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Speaker 1: not a nice not a nice guy. I'm really full

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Speaker 1: of himself, which I know another guy who's intellectually deeply

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Speaker 1: mediocre and has just played the game right, the corporate game,

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Speaker 1: and gotten into a good position for himself financially, I mean,

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Speaker 1: not ethically, morally, or in terms of his contribution to society.

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Speaker 1: Play four. And the President had just said a couple

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Speaker 1: of months earlier that it was just one person coming

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Speaker 1: in from China was going to be swept away, or

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Speaker 1: it was eleven or fifteen people. Finn. Let me just say, then,

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Speaker 1: the twenty fifth Amendment is de facto abolished. And I'm not,

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Speaker 1: of course, I'm not. We've got an election coming up.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that this is what Democrats should push for,

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Speaker 1: because it would only distract I'm just saying, like my

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Speaker 1: con law professor said about the tenth Amendment, that the

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Speaker 1: growth of massive growth of government in effect made void

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Speaker 1: for all practical purposes, the tenth Amendment. You can add

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Speaker 1: the twenty fifth Amendment to that right now, because this

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Speaker 1: president is behaving in a way that is so dangerous

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Speaker 1: and extraordinarily irrational in the middle of a pandemic that

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Speaker 1: is changing history, that is destroying our economy day by day,

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Speaker 1: that's killing people, especially seniors, day by day. That if

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Speaker 1: it were ever going to be used, it would be used.

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Speaker 1: Now it's not going to be used. So why don't

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Speaker 1: we just stop, Why don't we just stop pretending that

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Speaker 1: we have a twenty fifth Amendment because we really, for

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Speaker 1: all purposes, we don't. No, it's not a good point,

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Speaker 1: and they're both just not very bright. Thanks for listening

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Speaker 1: to The bus Essen Show podcast. Remember to subscribe on

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Speaker 1: Apple podcast, at the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you

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Speaker 1: get your podcasts. North Korea has been in the news

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Speaker 1: a lot lately, and I wanted to break down everything

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Speaker 1: that's going on, separate fact from fiction. And to help

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Speaker 1: us do that, we are joined by a true expert

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Speaker 1: in the field, Bruce Klinger. He's a senior research fellow

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Speaker 1: at the Heritage Foundation. He spent twenty years at my

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Speaker 1: old my old spot, the CIA, but he's spent a

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Speaker 1: lot more time there than I did. Mister Klinger, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Well, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: All right, so let's just start with why is North

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Speaker 1: Korea getting all this attention? There was maybe Kim Jong

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Speaker 1: ung is dead, Maybe he's really sick. Ohaid, No, he's not.

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Speaker 1: What happened and where are we now on that? Well,

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Speaker 1: as you point out, there are an awful lot of rumors,

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Speaker 1: everything from he's dead, he's brain dead, he's incapacitated from

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Speaker 1: a heart attack, a failed heart operation, even from a

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Speaker 1: failed to launch that he was observing. At the other end, US,

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Speaker 1: South Korea and Chinese officials are saying he's fine, either

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Speaker 1: because we see nothing unusual in North Korea, or some

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Speaker 1: would say they have information that he's fine. The bottom

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Speaker 1: line is, we don't know. When I worked in North

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Speaker 1: Korea at CIA, it was the hardest of the hard

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Speaker 1: targets in retrospect. Before that, I'd worked the Soviet Union,

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Speaker 1: which was an open book compared to North Korea. So

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Speaker 1: you know, on the one hand, there's nothing unusual that

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Speaker 1: we can see. There's no real hard information on Kim's condition,

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Speaker 1: There have been many reports, false reports over the years

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Speaker 1: of failing health or death of Kim as well as

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Speaker 1: the two predecessors, and then they came out re emerged fine.

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Speaker 1: So those of us who have been watching for a

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Speaker 1: long time, we tend to be fairly conservative in jumping

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Speaker 1: to conclusions. We've been through a lot of these rumors,

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Speaker 1: so they may be true. He may be toes up

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Speaker 1: on a slab, but it could also be yet another

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Speaker 1: instance of false rumors and he just re emerges, either

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Speaker 1: after recuperating or he was never in sickness at all.

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Speaker 1: And what would be the succession plan if such a

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Speaker 1: thing really even is known or exists. There was a

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Speaker 1: lot of Internet chatter over the weekend about the possibility

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Speaker 1: of his sister taking over, who is kind of a

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Speaker 1: known quantity because of the Olympics sometime ago. But what

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Speaker 1: would happen if Kim Jong un dropped dead of a

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Speaker 1: heart attack tomorrow. Well, again, the answer is, we don't know.

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Speaker 1: There's no formal succession plan in the North Korean constitution,

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Speaker 1: as there wasn't when Kim's father, Kim Jong ill, died

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Speaker 1: in twenty eleven. There may be a plan behind the scenes,

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Speaker 1: either standing or an ad hoc in case he was

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Speaker 1: going in for a heart procedure, So we're all trying

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Speaker 1: to assess. I think up until a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 1: the view was that a traditional Confucian society like North

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Speaker 1: Korea wouldn't have a woman leader. But in the last

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Speaker 1: two years, Kim's sister has come out of the shadows.

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Speaker 1: She's gained authority, she's gained stature. She really led the

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Speaker 1: delegation to South Korea for the Olympics two years ago,

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Speaker 1: even though others nominally were higher ranking, she clearly was

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Speaker 1: in charge. So I think right now she has the

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Speaker 1: inside track because she's a Kim family member. Others will

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Speaker 1: point to an uncle of Kim chong un, but he

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Speaker 1: was really exiled for thirty years in Eastern Europe and

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Speaker 1: he only came back recently. So I think right now

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Speaker 1: it would appear to be the sister. But again we

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Speaker 1: don't know, and what's the concern if there was a doubt.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there were some people obviously who were celebrating

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Speaker 1: this a bit prematurely celebrating and as we now know,

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Speaker 1: because who knows what even is going on with Kim

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Speaker 1: Jong un, But there is there a great. You know,

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Speaker 1: what would it be Would it be a good thing

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Speaker 1: from the perspect active of geopolitics and international relations if

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Speaker 1: Kim Jong undied? Or is there are there too many

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Speaker 1: unknowns that you know, maybe it's a devil you know,

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Speaker 1: situation versus whoever could come after him. I mean, what

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Speaker 1: how how would we assess that right now? Is it

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Speaker 1: an opportunity if he dies? Is it a possible collapse?

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Speaker 1: Sort of all of the above. You know, no one

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Speaker 1: outside of North Korea is going to shed a tear

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Speaker 1: if this brutal dictator, who according to the UN is

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Speaker 1: a purveyor of crimes against humanity if he passes away,

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Speaker 1: But there will be concerned by the United States as

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Speaker 1: well as South Korea and Japan are critical allies about

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Speaker 1: uncertainty in succession. There's the fear of an explosion in

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Speaker 1: that North Korea may lash out at its neighbors, either

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Speaker 1: because of a perceived threat from outside or to create

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Speaker 1: a rally round the flag effect for succession, or an

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Speaker 1: implosion of regime collapse, regime instability, a power struggles, civil war,

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Speaker 1: who's got control of the nuclear weapons? So all of

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Speaker 1: those are very real concerns. There's going to be a

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Speaker 1: lot of visibility by US and its allies, the military

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Speaker 1: and intelligence communities on what's going on. You know that

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Speaker 1: said we had the same concerns when the two previous

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Speaker 1: leaders passed away and the system worked, and that the

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Speaker 1: regime maintained itself and they anointed successor did succeed, even

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Speaker 1: though many had predicted they would fail. What do we

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Speaker 1: know about And by the way, we're speaking to Bruce Klingner,

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Speaker 1: he is a senior research fell at the Heritage Foundation

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Speaker 1: twenty years spent before that at the Central Intelligence Agency. Bruce,

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Speaker 1: what do we know about how North Korea is handling

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Speaker 1: the coronavirus situation? Considering that they're right next door to China.

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Speaker 1: China had this terrible outbreak. One of the only countries

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Speaker 1: really that has consistent commerce with North Korea is China.

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Speaker 1: So do we know? Again, we know it's a black

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Speaker 1: box of some degree, But have we seen any indicators

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Speaker 1: that they've had this disease spread within their borders? North

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Speaker 1: Korea still officially says they've had no cases whatsoever. None

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Speaker 1: of us believe that because all of the neighboring countries

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Speaker 1: had it. But right after the outbreak in China, they

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Speaker 1: imposed some pretty strong containment measures. They cut off really

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Speaker 1: contact with the outside world. They canceled flights from Beijing

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Speaker 1: and Moscow, they closed the border with China, and they

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Speaker 1: even cracked down on state runs smuggling, which had been

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Speaker 1: a way of gaining money for the regime to try

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Speaker 1: to circumvent UN sanctions. So the border with China is

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Speaker 1: still a bit porous, but it has really been cracked

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Speaker 1: down on. So there are sources inside North Korea that

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Speaker 1: says there have been deaths, There have been cases, but

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Speaker 1: we're not seeing real indications of widespread death or disease

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Speaker 1: as one might have expected. So perhaps they were able

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Speaker 1: to dodge a bullet on COVID and their indications at

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Speaker 1: some schools in Pyongyang are starting to reopen. So being

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Speaker 1: the hermit kingdom, as it's called in this case might

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Speaker 1: have actually been something of an advantage being such an

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Speaker 1: isolated place. The isolation may have paid off for them

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Speaker 1: in that regard. How is the Trump administration overall at

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Speaker 1: this point? How would you assess how they've done in

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Speaker 1: dealing with North Korea? Just sort of taking a step back,

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Speaker 1: We're going to be heading an election this fall. Trump

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Speaker 1: had all this outreach to Kim Jong un. Now he's

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Speaker 1: back in the headlines because of what may have been

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Speaker 1: some health issues. Again, we don't know, as you've established,

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Speaker 1: but has Trump had the right approach which we have

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Speaker 1: anything to show for now going at a year four

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Speaker 1: of a new tactic or new tactics when it comes

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Speaker 1: to North Korea, we really we've made absolutely no progress

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Speaker 1: on denucrozation or getting any kind of change in North

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Speaker 1: Korean behavior. Recently, North Korea has said they are not

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Speaker 1: interested in any working level or even summit level meetings

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Speaker 1: with President Trump unless we basically capitulate on our denucrozation policy.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I wasn't a supporter of the idea

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Speaker 1: of the summit diplomacy. I'm more of a traditionalist and

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Speaker 1: the idea of you actually make progress at the working

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Speaker 1: level and work up to a summit where you sign

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Speaker 1: an agreement. But at least it did put to the

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Speaker 1: test the idea that many people had of if only

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Speaker 1: the leaders from the two countries could get together, only

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Speaker 1: the North Korean leader can make a decision, so therefore

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Speaker 1: we'd have a breakthrough. Well, we've tested that hypothesis and

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Speaker 1: found it false. So you know. I think there's a

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Speaker 1: lot that I have been critical of the Trump administration

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Speaker 1: on North Korea, but no administration or president has a

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Speaker 1: monopoly on good or bad ideas when it comes to

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01:20:37,280 --> 01:20:39,920
Speaker 1: North Korea. So what we have to do is have

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Speaker 1: a truly maximum pressure policy that we have not had

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Speaker 1: that despite the moniker, we've been holding back on unforcing

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Speaker 1: our own laws as well as un sanctions. We've been

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Speaker 1: curtailing military exercises for two years on the Korean peninsula,

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Speaker 1: and right now we're engaged in some very tortuous negotiations

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Speaker 1: with South Korea over their compensation for US forces. I

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Speaker 1: don't think the US should be demanding exorbit in increases

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Speaker 1: a fivefold increase, as the administration is. I think we

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Speaker 1: should accept an incremental increase because right now we need

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Speaker 1: to be shoulder to shoulder with our allies, not bickering

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Speaker 1: over nichols and dimes when we face common threats not

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Speaker 1: only from North Korea but also China. Bruce Klingner of

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Speaker 1: the Heritage Foundation and formerly of the CIA, Bruce, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for your expertise, sir. We appreciate it. Well.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. You're in the freedom hunt. This

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Speaker 1: is the Buck Sex and Show podcast. Big tweet out

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Speaker 1: from Maria Barto Romo over the weekend, breaking news sources

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Speaker 1: tell me General Flynn will be completely exonerated this week.

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Speaker 1: It was a total fraud, a setup. More tomorrow. I

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Speaker 1: guess that was Yester round Sunday. Oh wow, you mean

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Speaker 1: that the primary other than manaport, the primary justification in

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Speaker 1: terms of a criminal prosecution that was successful for so

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Speaker 1: much of the Russia collusion. Nonsense, right, this is what

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Speaker 1: they would point to. Oh, look at General Flynn, convicted

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Speaker 1: felon General Flynn. Look at all the criminality that we

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Speaker 1: found here. No, you mean you manufactured. It was disgusting

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Speaker 1: what they did to General Flynn. Let's just review for

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Speaker 1: a moment. Shelby. He's the incoming national security advisor, former

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Speaker 1: chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, had spent thirty years

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Speaker 1: working as part of the United States military, serving in uniform.

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01:22:42,320 --> 01:22:46,479
Speaker 1: He was a decorated veteran, and he was one of

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01:22:46,840 --> 01:22:50,519
Speaker 1: the early national security allies of the Trump administration, which

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01:22:50,600 --> 01:22:53,480
Speaker 1: made him hated by the deep state national security establishment

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Speaker 1: as we know. And he's coming in during the transition.

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01:22:56,680 --> 01:23:02,280
Speaker 1: He's the incoming national security advisor, and what do what

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01:23:02,479 --> 01:23:07,679
Speaker 1: do Sally Yates at DOJ and Comby over at FBI

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01:23:08,560 --> 01:23:11,240
Speaker 1: and this this whole cabal that we know, what do

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01:23:11,320 --> 01:23:15,960
Speaker 1: they decided to do? They take leaked criminally leaked information

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01:23:16,439 --> 01:23:18,760
Speaker 1: by by ignacious over the Washington Post, and they're now

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01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:21,720
Speaker 1: looking into and I oh, well, I hope Durham. I

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01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:24,560
Speaker 1: hope the Durham investigation finds who leaked that stuff and

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01:23:24,720 --> 01:23:27,040
Speaker 1: sends them to prison for a good four or five years.

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Speaker 1: That's because that's really that's probably what you get for that.

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01:23:30,320 --> 01:23:33,320
Speaker 1: Maybe you get three four years in a deal, but

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01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:35,559
Speaker 1: I mean you're gonna get real prison time for leaking

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01:23:35,960 --> 01:23:38,640
Speaker 1: ts information to the press like that. And some of

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01:23:38,680 --> 01:23:40,200
Speaker 1: you would say, well, no, no, no, buck, you should

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01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:42,640
Speaker 1: get ten Look look at you know, look at you

1504
01:23:42,720 --> 01:23:45,200
Speaker 1: know Reality Winner or whatever name you know, you got

1505
01:23:45,280 --> 01:23:47,000
Speaker 1: ten years, right, I mean, so you can get some

1506
01:23:47,160 --> 01:23:52,960
Speaker 1: real time for leaking uh top secret intercept like that

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01:23:53,280 --> 01:23:55,320
Speaker 1: to the press. For partisan purpose, they gotta make they

1508
01:23:55,360 --> 01:23:58,000
Speaker 1: gotta make a really strong example of that person. Guess

1509
01:23:58,040 --> 01:23:59,920
Speaker 1: what's going to be Somebody who liked Obama a lot,

1510
01:24:00,040 --> 01:24:02,800
Speaker 1: probably would vote for Biden now or definitely would vote

1511
01:24:02,800 --> 01:24:06,560
Speaker 1: for Biden now, and hates Trump. So they might be

1512
01:24:06,640 --> 01:24:08,840
Speaker 1: able to find out who this is. I certainly hope

1513
01:24:09,439 --> 01:24:14,599
Speaker 1: they do find out who it is, and that would

1514
01:24:14,680 --> 01:24:16,680
Speaker 1: that would be a big missing piece of all this.

1515
01:24:16,840 --> 01:24:20,040
Speaker 1: But also remember that they used the Logan Act to

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01:24:20,240 --> 01:24:24,840
Speaker 1: have a sit down conversation with General Flynn and then

1517
01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:27,400
Speaker 1: pretended that it wasn't really a friendly conversation to the

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01:24:27,479 --> 01:24:31,559
Speaker 1: National Security Visor and the FBI and people were telling

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01:24:31,680 --> 01:24:33,160
Speaker 1: us all the experts you told you, Oh, but he

1520
01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:35,200
Speaker 1: should know better that these people were morons. Okay, this

1521
01:24:35,400 --> 01:24:37,560
Speaker 1: was as clear as set up as anything could ever be.

1522
01:24:37,920 --> 01:24:40,280
Speaker 1: I've told you that all along, those who end listed

1523
01:24:40,360 --> 01:24:42,320
Speaker 1: me for years here on the show know that I

1524
01:24:42,439 --> 01:24:45,080
Speaker 1: knew exactly what game they were playing with this. They

1525
01:24:45,120 --> 01:24:47,360
Speaker 1: got him on a one zero zero one violation. Now

1526
01:24:47,439 --> 01:24:49,960
Speaker 1: it turns out there was a side deal that they

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01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:54,680
Speaker 1: would not disclose where they would withhold charges or that

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01:24:54,720 --> 01:24:57,960
Speaker 1: they would refrain from charges against his son if he

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01:24:58,080 --> 01:25:00,720
Speaker 1: pleaded guilty. So what they did is they jammed him up,

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01:25:01,040 --> 01:25:03,320
Speaker 1: and they made sure that you know, he had no

1531
01:25:03,560 --> 01:25:05,840
Speaker 1: chance to take this to trial. If he took it

1532
01:25:05,920 --> 01:25:07,880
Speaker 1: the trial, they were going to annihilate him and his

1533
01:25:07,960 --> 01:25:12,320
Speaker 1: family members, and for what he'd say, for lying about what.

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01:25:12,439 --> 01:25:14,920
Speaker 1: He didn't even do anything illegal. So they're gonna get

1535
01:25:15,000 --> 01:25:18,640
Speaker 1: him for not lying about criminal conduct, but just misremembering

1536
01:25:18,680 --> 01:25:22,160
Speaker 1: a conversation that he has with two FBI guys. Remember

1537
01:25:23,200 --> 01:25:27,000
Speaker 1: Andy McCabe lied very much so under oath. But he's

1538
01:25:27,080 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 1: FBI and he's connected to the deep state folks, and

1539
01:25:29,400 --> 01:25:32,160
Speaker 1: so he didn't get charged, no criminal charges. How is

1540
01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:35,599
Speaker 1: that possible they got lied under oath, Well, it doesn't count.

1541
01:25:36,120 --> 01:25:37,960
Speaker 1: So we see the double standards, just like the double

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01:25:37,960 --> 01:25:39,519
Speaker 1: standard with cabal. I mean, this is this is the

1543
01:25:39,560 --> 01:25:43,200
Speaker 1: way that the left, the deep state, dishonest people always

1544
01:25:43,280 --> 01:25:47,400
Speaker 1: have to have malleable standards because that's the only way

1545
01:25:47,400 --> 01:25:49,519
Speaker 1: they'll be able to get what they want. Because if

1546
01:25:49,520 --> 01:25:54,000
Speaker 1: a standard is applied consistently and universally, then it's it's

1547
01:25:54,160 --> 01:25:56,720
Speaker 1: clear that they're going to run on the wrong side

1548
01:25:56,720 --> 01:25:58,160
Speaker 1: of it at some point because they're bad people. So

1549
01:25:58,400 --> 01:26:00,519
Speaker 1: what do they do. They use standard, They use rules

1550
01:26:00,560 --> 01:26:02,679
Speaker 1: against us, and then they have no rules for themselves.

1551
01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:07,240
Speaker 1: There's a piece from Sean Davis and the Federalist just

1552
01:26:07,520 --> 01:26:10,360
Speaker 1: from a couple days ago. New court documents filed under

1553
01:26:10,439 --> 01:26:16,160
Speaker 1: SEAL include significant exculpatory information about Michael Flynn. The new documents,

1554
01:26:16,200 --> 01:26:19,879
Speaker 1: which were filed under seal by the Just Department on Friday,

1555
01:26:21,000 --> 01:26:24,479
Speaker 1: allegedly include exonerating evidence about Flynn, who pleaded guilty to

1556
01:26:24,560 --> 01:26:28,320
Speaker 1: line to federal investigators about conversations with foreign diplomats as

1557
01:26:28,400 --> 01:26:31,759
Speaker 1: Trump's top incoming foreign policy advisor and is currently attempting

1558
01:26:31,800 --> 01:26:35,080
Speaker 1: to withdraw his plea, as well as evidence of malfeasance

1559
01:26:35,200 --> 01:26:38,800
Speaker 1: by the FBI during its investigation of Flynn. According to

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01:26:38,920 --> 01:26:42,160
Speaker 1: the FBI official who spoke to the Federalist, FBI General

1561
01:26:42,200 --> 01:26:47,000
Speaker 1: Counsel Dan Bonte led the charge internally against DJ's disclosure

1562
01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:51,479
Speaker 1: of new materials. Bonte, who briefly served as acting Attorney

1563
01:26:51,560 --> 01:26:55,320
Speaker 1: General after Trump became president, personally signed off on one

1564
01:26:55,360 --> 01:26:59,080
Speaker 1: of the federal spy warrants against former Trump campaign affiliate

1565
01:26:59,200 --> 01:27:02,320
Speaker 1: Carter Page. The new documents, which were filed under a

1566
01:27:02,360 --> 01:27:05,920
Speaker 1: protective order by DJ on Friday, will reflect poorly on

1567
01:27:05,960 --> 01:27:08,400
Speaker 1: the FBI, the official told the Federalist. It is not

1568
01:27:08,600 --> 01:27:12,040
Speaker 1: clear when or even if those documents will be unsealed

1569
01:27:12,080 --> 01:27:14,639
Speaker 1: and made to the public. Because the documents were foiled

1570
01:27:14,720 --> 01:27:16,320
Speaker 1: under sealed, the Federalist has not been able to review

1571
01:27:16,360 --> 01:27:20,439
Speaker 1: them independently. Multiple investigative reports issued by the DOJ Inspector

1572
01:27:20,520 --> 01:27:26,799
Speaker 1: General revealed myriad instances of corruption by FBI officials throughout

1573
01:27:26,840 --> 01:27:29,400
Speaker 1: the multi year investigation of Trump in his former campaign,

1574
01:27:30,640 --> 01:27:36,639
Speaker 1: former campaign. My friends, the fix was in from the beginning.

1575
01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:44,479
Speaker 1: This was a disgusting, a disgusting miscarriage of justice. They

1576
01:27:44,560 --> 01:27:46,320
Speaker 1: knew that Flynn didn't lie, as we know from the

1577
01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:49,280
Speaker 1: initial report, the FBI didn't believe that Flynn lied, But

1578
01:27:49,360 --> 01:27:52,599
Speaker 1: then they were pushed to amend that for some reason

1579
01:27:53,320 --> 01:27:55,080
Speaker 1: to get leverage. Oh, now they got him on this.

1580
01:27:56,120 --> 01:27:59,400
Speaker 1: This is the classic FBI maneuver. Just you know, when

1581
01:27:59,439 --> 01:28:01,240
Speaker 1: they want to get you on something, they always look

1582
01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:03,280
Speaker 1: to get you on a one zero zero one violation,

1583
01:28:03,680 --> 01:28:05,760
Speaker 1: and then that becomes the lever they use to get

1584
01:28:05,800 --> 01:28:08,960
Speaker 1: everything else they want. So so you think you're in

1585
01:28:09,000 --> 01:28:12,400
Speaker 1: a position to fight against something. You think that they've

1586
01:28:12,439 --> 01:28:14,400
Speaker 1: got the wrong guy. But guess what, they don't. They

1587
01:28:14,439 --> 01:28:17,120
Speaker 1: don't have to prove that their initial suspicion of you

1588
01:28:17,640 --> 01:28:19,720
Speaker 1: for criminal conduct was correct. All they have to do

1589
01:28:19,840 --> 01:28:21,559
Speaker 1: is get you in a one zero zero one lying

1590
01:28:21,640 --> 01:28:25,880
Speaker 1: to FBI and now you're facing five years. Now you'll

1591
01:28:25,920 --> 01:28:30,240
Speaker 1: do whatever they say, You'll please, You'll you'll rat on

1592
01:28:30,320 --> 01:28:33,160
Speaker 1: other people. You know, you'll you won't just to borrow

1593
01:28:33,280 --> 01:28:36,040
Speaker 1: from Who was it that was saying this all the time,

1594
01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:39,200
Speaker 1: Alan Dershowitz up at Harvard about all this stuff. He

1595
01:28:39,280 --> 01:28:43,640
Speaker 1: said that they won't just sing, they'll compose, meaning they

1596
01:28:43,680 --> 01:28:46,600
Speaker 1: won't just tell tales. They'll make them up as they

1597
01:28:46,680 --> 01:28:49,000
Speaker 1: go along about what, you know, whatever they think that

1598
01:28:49,040 --> 01:28:52,640
Speaker 1: the officials want to hear. So, you know, here we go,

1599
01:28:52,760 --> 01:28:56,519
Speaker 1: and the Federalists, just an hour ago published Robert Muller's

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01:28:57,040 --> 01:29:00,719
Speaker 1: case against Michael Flynn is about to implode. New facts

1601
01:29:00,720 --> 01:29:03,440
Speaker 1: in the Michael Flinn investigation, calling a question the voluntariness

1602
01:29:03,479 --> 01:29:06,800
Speaker 1: of Flynn's plea Judge Sullivan should dismiss the charges to

1603
01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:12,480
Speaker 1: send a clear message outrageous prosecutorial coercion will not be tolerated.

1604
01:29:13,400 --> 01:29:18,960
Speaker 1: My friends, this needs, this needs to happen. We need

1605
01:29:19,080 --> 01:29:22,439
Speaker 1: justice here. I've been saying all along that General Flynn

1606
01:29:22,479 --> 01:29:24,240
Speaker 1: should be I've said it on Twitter. I've been very

1607
01:29:24,280 --> 01:29:26,599
Speaker 1: open that he should be pardoned, that presidents should pardon him.

1608
01:29:27,400 --> 01:29:29,519
Speaker 1: In a sense. I guess now I might end up

1609
01:29:29,560 --> 01:29:32,439
Speaker 1: being happy I did not get my request because he

1610
01:29:32,600 --> 01:29:35,320
Speaker 1: may be not just pardoned, but he may be exonerated,

1611
01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:39,839
Speaker 1: meaning that they vacate his plea, and the judge vacates

1612
01:29:39,880 --> 01:29:42,280
Speaker 1: his plea and says, you know, we are sorry and

1613
01:29:42,360 --> 01:29:46,960
Speaker 1: sends him on his way because this is appalling his team.

1614
01:29:47,080 --> 01:29:49,120
Speaker 1: The legal team is trying to withdraw the guilty plea

1615
01:29:49,240 --> 01:29:52,240
Speaker 1: right now. The more they find out about this, I mean,

1616
01:29:52,240 --> 01:29:54,360
Speaker 1: they keep trying to hide the information. The more information

1617
01:29:54,439 --> 01:29:57,599
Speaker 1: that comes out, the more clear it is that they

1618
01:29:57,760 --> 01:30:01,240
Speaker 1: railroaded this guy. They basically made a a crime, made

1619
01:30:01,280 --> 01:30:03,080
Speaker 1: him plead to it, or also going to destroy him

1620
01:30:03,120 --> 01:30:05,400
Speaker 1: and his son, and now they're trying to hide what

1621
01:30:05,479 --> 01:30:08,439
Speaker 1: they did. You know why they did all this because

1622
01:30:08,479 --> 01:30:10,519
Speaker 1: he was tied to Trump? I mean because the deep

1623
01:30:10,560 --> 01:30:13,519
Speaker 1: state didn't like that somebody else came along and was

1624
01:30:13,560 --> 01:30:16,840
Speaker 1: in power who wasn't one of theirs. Thanks for listening

1625
01:30:16,880 --> 01:30:20,280
Speaker 1: to The Bus Sesson Show podcast. Remember to subscribe on

1626
01:30:20,360 --> 01:30:23,720
Speaker 1: Apple Podcast, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get

1627
01:30:23,760 --> 01:30:26,880
Speaker 1: your podcasts. I'm gonna get you some roll call. I

1628
01:30:26,920 --> 01:30:28,479
Speaker 1: want to check in with producer Mark Over in the

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01:30:28,520 --> 01:30:31,040
Speaker 1: Penalty Box. My friend, how was your weekend great? How

1630
01:30:31,200 --> 01:30:33,760
Speaker 1: was yours? It was all right? Would you watch We

1631
01:30:33,920 --> 01:30:37,080
Speaker 1: started a new show called Silicon Valley Valley on HBO.

1632
01:30:37,080 --> 01:30:39,200
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever watched it. Amazing show. Yeah,

1633
01:30:39,240 --> 01:30:42,280
Speaker 1: great show, great show. Yeah, I've had a feeling you

1634
01:30:42,320 --> 01:30:44,559
Speaker 1: guys would both like that one. That's a great one. Yeah,

1635
01:30:45,040 --> 01:30:47,240
Speaker 1: we're really enjoying it when like season three, I think

1636
01:30:47,320 --> 01:30:49,120
Speaker 1: it's a quick show, only twenty five minutes or so

1637
01:30:49,240 --> 01:30:51,519
Speaker 1: an episode. Yes, you can burn through episodes real fast.

1638
01:30:51,640 --> 01:30:53,000
Speaker 1: But it's good. And you know, people that I know

1639
01:30:53,080 --> 01:30:56,040
Speaker 1: who are in that that Silicon Valley world, I mean

1640
01:30:56,040 --> 01:30:58,800
Speaker 1: the real thing, say that there's a lot of a

1641
01:30:58,880 --> 01:31:01,120
Speaker 1: lot of truth in that show, that a lot of

1642
01:31:01,160 --> 01:31:03,800
Speaker 1: the silly stuff is really based on real stuff, and

1643
01:31:04,400 --> 01:31:09,559
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty amazing. Yeah, it's very clever. Well, I'm glad, man,

1644
01:31:09,600 --> 01:31:11,880
Speaker 1: I'm glad you enjoyed that. I saw a show called,

1645
01:31:11,920 --> 01:31:15,519
Speaker 1: I mean a movie called Extraction. I also watched a

1646
01:31:15,600 --> 01:31:17,920
Speaker 1: bit of The Crown with the Snow Princess. We had

1647
01:31:17,960 --> 01:31:20,360
Speaker 1: a very nice time. The Crown is great, by the way.

1648
01:31:20,560 --> 01:31:22,519
Speaker 1: I didn't think I would like it, a fantastic show.

1649
01:31:23,200 --> 01:31:26,680
Speaker 1: But I saw this movie Extraction. I watched this one

1650
01:31:27,160 --> 01:31:30,880
Speaker 1: solo while the Snow Princess was doing other things. The

1651
01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:35,240
Speaker 1: movie Extraction is I've never seen a movie with so

1652
01:31:35,400 --> 01:31:37,920
Speaker 1: little plot and so little dialogue and so many people

1653
01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:40,960
Speaker 1: getting shot, it's like nothing else. I mean, it's at

1654
01:31:41,040 --> 01:31:43,439
Speaker 1: least the movie Commando. All the violence kind of comes

1655
01:31:43,479 --> 01:31:47,200
Speaker 1: at the end. But Schwarzenegger's Commando, which if you haven't seen,

1656
01:31:47,360 --> 01:31:51,040
Speaker 1: is a great old action flick. It's all building to

1657
01:31:51,520 --> 01:31:55,160
Speaker 1: just one long, continuous shootout at the end where he

1658
01:31:55,240 --> 01:31:58,160
Speaker 1: just keeps switching weapons and it's ridiculous and it's amazing,

1659
01:31:58,200 --> 01:32:01,559
Speaker 1: and it's a great, great movie. They'dolf some steam, Bennett.

1660
01:32:01,760 --> 01:32:04,720
Speaker 1: It's a great movie. This movie. There's just a lot

1661
01:32:04,760 --> 01:32:06,680
Speaker 1: of shooting pretty much the whole time, and it's just

1662
01:32:06,800 --> 01:32:09,960
Speaker 1: one guy who kills so many people that he makes

1663
01:32:10,040 --> 01:32:12,800
Speaker 1: John Wick look like a pacifist. It's the guy who

1664
01:32:12,840 --> 01:32:17,400
Speaker 1: plays Thor in the Avengers movies. Yeah, Chris Hemsworth. Yeah,

1665
01:32:17,920 --> 01:32:20,519
Speaker 1: he's just running around lighting up dudes all over the place.

1666
01:32:21,040 --> 01:32:23,160
Speaker 1: I've never seen so many people get shot in a movie,

1667
01:32:23,200 --> 01:32:25,400
Speaker 1: I think by one person. It's just I've never seen

1668
01:32:25,439 --> 01:32:28,800
Speaker 1: anything like it. It's pretty astonishing. Was it entertaining? Yes?

1669
01:32:29,280 --> 01:32:31,959
Speaker 1: Could I write a better script in ten minutes? Probably?

1670
01:32:32,280 --> 01:32:37,160
Speaker 1: So there's that anyway, That was Yeah, I know, I'm

1671
01:32:37,200 --> 01:32:38,760
Speaker 1: just telling I look it's a it's a review, not

1672
01:32:38,840 --> 01:32:41,960
Speaker 1: a recommendation. I'm sure you know. This week, I'm very

1673
01:32:42,040 --> 01:32:45,240
Speaker 1: excited because I have I have the Last Kingdom to

1674
01:32:45,360 --> 01:32:49,280
Speaker 1: get to. I'm Utred's son of Ughtred. It's gonna be amazing.

1675
01:32:49,520 --> 01:32:52,519
Speaker 1: I'm very pleased about that. So the Last Kingdom is

1676
01:32:52,520 --> 01:32:54,599
Speaker 1: a great show. And I'm gonna be watching the Last Kingdom,

1677
01:32:54,600 --> 01:32:57,080
Speaker 1: which will be a lot of fun. All Right, here

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01:32:57,160 --> 01:33:02,000
Speaker 1: we go, t J. It's buck. Today here in Iowa,

1679
01:33:02,080 --> 01:33:04,880
Speaker 1: Governor Kim Reynolds is announcing her plan to reopen the state.

1680
01:33:05,000 --> 01:33:07,639
Speaker 1: We never had a shelter in place amongst those plans.

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01:33:07,680 --> 01:33:10,160
Speaker 1: It's already even stated that farmers markets will be allowed

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01:33:10,240 --> 01:33:13,599
Speaker 1: to reopen, but food vendors only, and people are being

1683
01:33:13,680 --> 01:33:16,559
Speaker 1: encouraged to mask up and only send one family member

1684
01:33:16,600 --> 01:33:19,320
Speaker 1: with no kids. I can't help but notice some of

1685
01:33:19,400 --> 01:33:23,840
Speaker 1: my more left leaning colleague acquaintances are taking issue at this. However,

1686
01:33:23,960 --> 01:33:26,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure these same people go to an indoor boxtore

1687
01:33:26,720 --> 01:33:29,479
Speaker 1: grocer to get their groceries weekly or bi weekly. But

1688
01:33:29,680 --> 01:33:31,600
Speaker 1: god forbid, we have an open air market. We can

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01:33:31,640 --> 01:33:34,120
Speaker 1: get our food from our small business neighbors without being

1690
01:33:34,240 --> 01:33:38,360
Speaker 1: confined to the eight foot wide grocery store aisles. I

1691
01:33:38,520 --> 01:33:41,000
Speaker 1: can't decide if those people just haven't thought this through

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01:33:41,120 --> 01:33:42,759
Speaker 1: or if they just would rather not see a GOP

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01:33:42,920 --> 01:33:49,519
Speaker 1: governor be successful in reopening the state. Yeah, I think.

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01:33:49,720 --> 01:33:53,559
Speaker 1: I think that first of all, outdoor markets are probably

1695
01:33:53,560 --> 01:33:55,760
Speaker 1: safer than indoor markets. We all know that, and I

1696
01:33:56,160 --> 01:33:58,880
Speaker 1: do believe that there was a surge. I know they

1697
01:33:58,920 --> 01:34:02,520
Speaker 1: were outdoor hospitals set up during the Spanish flu pandemic,

1698
01:34:02,640 --> 01:34:04,519
Speaker 1: but I think they also started to move a lot

1699
01:34:04,560 --> 01:34:08,280
Speaker 1: of things outdoors as much as possible because just fresh air, sunlight,

1700
01:34:08,360 --> 01:34:10,439
Speaker 1: as we know, these are good things. These things kill

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01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:14,240
Speaker 1: the virus. As for people who don't want there to

1702
01:34:14,280 --> 01:34:16,600
Speaker 1: be success on this, yeah, we're going to see some

1703
01:34:16,720 --> 01:34:18,439
Speaker 1: of that. I wish it was not the case, but

1704
01:34:18,520 --> 01:34:21,240
Speaker 1: there are people that would rather be right than have

1705
01:34:21,479 --> 01:34:25,439
Speaker 1: us return to a greater degree of normalcy. There are

1706
01:34:25,479 --> 01:34:28,320
Speaker 1: people that would prefer to be correct than to have

1707
01:34:28,600 --> 01:34:31,519
Speaker 1: things go better for all of us. Eric, Hey Buck,

1708
01:34:31,520 --> 01:34:33,240
Speaker 1: I've been listening to your podcast It's back when you

1709
01:34:33,280 --> 01:34:36,000
Speaker 1: were on the Blaze. Well, thank you, Eric. You've been

1710
01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:38,120
Speaker 1: a part of my routine daily at work. I work

1711
01:34:38,160 --> 01:34:40,559
Speaker 1: as a lead custody and so luckily I'm still working.

1712
01:34:40,960 --> 01:34:42,639
Speaker 1: It seems to me that people are happy to stay

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01:34:42,720 --> 01:34:44,960
Speaker 1: home and collect money from the government, especially since most

1714
01:34:44,960 --> 01:34:48,800
Speaker 1: people are making more on unemployment. Why can't people work

1715
01:34:48,840 --> 01:34:51,519
Speaker 1: with masks like I'm forced to every day? I'm starting

1716
01:34:51,560 --> 01:34:53,519
Speaker 1: to feel like there's something going on behind the scenes.

1717
01:34:53,560 --> 01:34:56,280
Speaker 1: I'm not a big conspiracy theory kind of guy. People

1718
01:34:56,360 --> 01:34:58,320
Speaker 1: really hate Trump though, and I'm starting to think deep

1719
01:34:58,360 --> 01:35:01,640
Speaker 1: state democrats and the media might be up something. Eric. Eric,

1720
01:35:01,720 --> 01:35:03,240
Speaker 1: first of all, thank you for continuing to do what

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01:35:03,320 --> 01:35:07,000
Speaker 1: you do and making sure that you know if places

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01:35:07,040 --> 01:35:09,560
Speaker 1: are wherever it is you're working as a custodian, that

1723
01:35:09,640 --> 01:35:12,840
Speaker 1: it's clean and sanitary, and that really is these days

1724
01:35:12,920 --> 01:35:15,120
Speaker 1: more important than ever. And just that you're showing up

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01:35:15,160 --> 01:35:17,559
Speaker 1: and continue to be productive. You deserve aig a big

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01:35:17,680 --> 01:35:20,280
Speaker 1: high five for that. And as for why can't other

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01:35:20,320 --> 01:35:22,120
Speaker 1: folks work with masks on, I think that's what we're

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01:35:22,160 --> 01:35:23,760
Speaker 1: heading for. I think there will be more people that

1729
01:35:23,840 --> 01:35:26,559
Speaker 1: are working with masks, so that's going to become more normal.

1730
01:35:26,640 --> 01:35:30,360
Speaker 1: That's going to become an expectation that we all have

1731
01:35:30,680 --> 01:35:32,640
Speaker 1: in our offices and our jobs. I think you might

1732
01:35:32,720 --> 01:35:35,320
Speaker 1: have an increase in social distancing in the office too,

1733
01:35:35,439 --> 01:35:37,519
Speaker 1: meaning that desks will have to be further apart. And

1734
01:35:37,640 --> 01:35:40,040
Speaker 1: I remember when I worked in the CIA, we were

1735
01:35:40,160 --> 01:35:43,080
Speaker 1: in a like a shared cubical situation and it just

1736
01:35:43,160 --> 01:35:44,600
Speaker 1: felt like we were all on top of each other.

1737
01:35:44,640 --> 01:35:46,960
Speaker 1: I mean we were so it was just so tight

1738
01:35:47,040 --> 01:35:49,519
Speaker 1: in there. And that was I'm not talking about overseas,

1739
01:35:49,600 --> 01:35:51,120
Speaker 1: where you expect if you're in a war zone, you're

1740
01:35:51,120 --> 01:35:53,120
Speaker 1: going to be in tight quarters. I mean here Stateside.

1741
01:35:54,000 --> 01:35:55,640
Speaker 1: So I think they're gonna have a shift away from

1742
01:35:55,640 --> 01:35:58,600
Speaker 1: all of that. And yeah, mask wearing is going to

1743
01:35:58,680 --> 01:36:01,600
Speaker 1: become very m on the office, which I mean a

1744
01:36:01,640 --> 01:36:05,040
Speaker 1: lot of masks are not comfortable. I think people forget this.

1745
01:36:06,040 --> 01:36:07,559
Speaker 1: If you put on one of those N ninety five

1746
01:36:07,640 --> 01:36:10,200
Speaker 1: respirator masks, for example, you find that they're really tight

1747
01:36:10,280 --> 01:36:13,120
Speaker 1: on your face. They're not very not fun to have on.

1748
01:36:14,200 --> 01:36:16,920
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, I think that's where we're heading. And Eric,

1749
01:36:17,000 --> 01:36:19,680
Speaker 1: thank you so much for writing in and thank you

1750
01:36:19,720 --> 01:36:21,320
Speaker 1: for listening. Since I was on the Blaze, man, remember

1751
01:36:21,360 --> 01:36:23,000
Speaker 1: that's going back now. I haven't been on the Blaze

1752
01:36:23,000 --> 01:36:27,320
Speaker 1: in four years. Robert Buck, I listen you on podcast.

1753
01:36:27,439 --> 01:36:31,719
Speaker 1: This is Rob from VA. Wanted to ask why Iraq

1754
01:36:31,920 --> 01:36:34,160
Speaker 1: was such a bad foreign policy decision looking back at

1755
01:36:34,240 --> 01:36:35,800
Speaker 1: nine to eleven and not knowing what was going to

1756
01:36:35,840 --> 01:36:38,000
Speaker 1: happen next, since Saddam was a bad guy and Iram

1757
01:36:38,120 --> 01:36:41,280
Speaker 1: was even worse. We go into Afghanistan, we liberated Rock

1758
01:36:41,360 --> 01:36:43,560
Speaker 1: and wow, looks like Iran is in the middle. Do

1759
01:36:43,640 --> 01:36:45,080
Speaker 1: you think this could have been a factor in going

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01:36:45,160 --> 01:36:47,000
Speaker 1: into a rock It didn't work out that we wanted.

1761
01:36:47,040 --> 01:36:48,920
Speaker 1: In the media and the Democrats are at fault. I'm

1762
01:36:48,920 --> 01:36:51,479
Speaker 1: still in uniform. And you stay on the radio. First

1763
01:36:51,520 --> 01:36:54,360
Speaker 1: heard you on the Rush Show. Stay safe, well, Robert.

1764
01:36:54,400 --> 01:36:56,040
Speaker 1: I appreciate you listening to me, feeling for the great

1765
01:36:56,080 --> 01:36:59,840
Speaker 1: man himself, mister Rush Limbaugh, the greatest living radio host.

1766
01:37:00,560 --> 01:37:06,640
Speaker 1: And as for why Iraq is a bad decision, I

1767
01:37:06,680 --> 01:37:09,600
Speaker 1: think you just look at the consequences of this and

1768
01:37:09,960 --> 01:37:12,479
Speaker 1: we what we gained versus what we lost in that

1769
01:37:12,600 --> 01:37:15,600
Speaker 1: whole process. So I think the moment you do that,

1770
01:37:15,720 --> 01:37:18,880
Speaker 1: you start to see that there was a there was

1771
01:37:18,920 --> 01:37:20,720
Speaker 1: a cost benefit analysis that would go in a very

1772
01:37:20,760 --> 01:37:23,880
Speaker 1: different direction. Now that we actually have the inputs, the factors,

1773
01:37:23,920 --> 01:37:25,679
Speaker 1: the numbers, we would we would have a very different

1774
01:37:25,680 --> 01:37:29,320
Speaker 1: approach to it. Yeah, I think that they believed at

1775
01:37:29,360 --> 01:37:31,360
Speaker 1: the time, and I remember this and I remember I

1776
01:37:31,439 --> 01:37:34,120
Speaker 1: worked in the Iraq Office of the CIA, so I

1777
01:37:34,200 --> 01:37:35,920
Speaker 1: could also go back and look at a lot of

1778
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:39,280
Speaker 1: the historical documents from that office as I did, and

1779
01:37:39,360 --> 01:37:41,880
Speaker 1: I had access to pretty much every piece of classified

1780
01:37:41,920 --> 01:37:45,439
Speaker 1: information that the CIA is a rock office, had, So

1781
01:37:46,439 --> 01:37:48,160
Speaker 1: with that, I mean, I can just tell you that

1782
01:37:48,240 --> 01:37:50,280
Speaker 1: the expectations for what we're going to happen there in

1783
01:37:50,400 --> 01:37:53,240
Speaker 1: that country were very different from the outcome. There really

1784
01:37:53,400 --> 01:37:55,760
Speaker 1: was a belief and this is this is well known,

1785
01:37:55,800 --> 01:37:57,679
Speaker 1: this is all across the media as well, and people

1786
01:37:57,760 --> 01:37:59,800
Speaker 1: understand this, but there really was a belief throughout government,

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01:38:00,680 --> 01:38:02,599
Speaker 1: or at least in a lot of places within the government,

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01:38:02,720 --> 01:38:05,479
Speaker 1: that we're making decisions that we would come along and

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01:38:05,560 --> 01:38:08,240
Speaker 1: the Iraqis would be happy that he was gone, and

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01:38:08,479 --> 01:38:10,720
Speaker 1: then which this would serve as a model. This was

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01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:13,120
Speaker 1: the pitch that would serve as a model for other

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01:38:13,200 --> 01:38:15,920
Speaker 1: Middle Eastern states, and it just turned out to not

1793
01:38:16,080 --> 01:38:18,720
Speaker 1: be the case that they would take to this the

1794
01:38:18,800 --> 01:38:21,479
Speaker 1: way that we thought that they perhaps would. It was

1795
01:38:21,560 --> 01:38:25,560
Speaker 1: not the case that this led to a series of

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01:38:25,600 --> 01:38:29,400
Speaker 1: flowering democracies throughout the Middle East. And when you look

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01:38:29,439 --> 01:38:31,080
Speaker 1: at it in that context, and we also to keep

1798
01:38:31,080 --> 01:38:33,479
Speaker 1: fighting the war on terror and Afghanistan is still ongoing

1799
01:38:33,560 --> 01:38:35,720
Speaker 1: now and we still have troops in Iraq. You look

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01:38:35,760 --> 01:38:37,600
Speaker 1: at these decisions, I just think it's very hard in

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01:38:37,640 --> 01:38:40,240
Speaker 1: retrospect to think that these were the thing that that decision,

1802
01:38:40,280 --> 01:38:43,559
Speaker 1: in particular to go into Iraq, knowing what we know now,

1803
01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:46,640
Speaker 1: I think it's clear it was a bad idea. If

1804
01:38:46,680 --> 01:38:48,960
Speaker 1: we were in the same circumstances and you're asked using

1805
01:38:49,000 --> 01:38:51,120
Speaker 1: the same data as you were at that point in time,

1806
01:38:51,160 --> 01:38:53,080
Speaker 1: would you would you end up with the same result.

1807
01:38:53,600 --> 01:38:56,200
Speaker 1: That's a more complicated question. That's a more difficult thing

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01:38:56,240 --> 01:38:59,720
Speaker 1: for us to figure out. So I leave the two.

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01:38:59,840 --> 01:39:02,160
Speaker 1: Thank you for your service, Robert, and thanks so much

1810
01:39:02,160 --> 01:39:05,240
Speaker 1: for listening to the show. Kelly, I just heard part

1811
01:39:05,240 --> 01:39:09,520
Speaker 1: of the conversation about parents homeschooling. I may have misunderstood,

1812
01:39:09,600 --> 01:39:11,840
Speaker 1: but my opinion about parents homeschooling, and I see it

1813
01:39:11,880 --> 01:39:14,160
Speaker 1: with a lot of my stressed out friends with their homeschooling.

1814
01:39:14,760 --> 01:39:17,280
Speaker 1: They don't have the education to help with math, especially

1815
01:39:17,320 --> 01:39:20,960
Speaker 1: among other subjects. Students aren't getting the benefits of actually teachers.

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01:39:21,040 --> 01:39:23,320
Speaker 1: It's not the same and kids need to be back

1817
01:39:23,360 --> 01:39:26,840
Speaker 1: to school eventually when it's safe. Hey, Kelly, I'm not

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01:39:26,880 --> 01:39:29,040
Speaker 1: opposed to kids going back to school. I just think

1819
01:39:29,120 --> 01:39:34,559
Speaker 1: that the effort to malign homeschooling. And my friend Enis Felcher,

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01:39:34,560 --> 01:39:37,320
Speaker 1: who joined us last week, made this pretty clear, I

1821
01:39:37,400 --> 01:39:39,320
Speaker 1: think when she said, look, this is not homeschooling. This

1822
01:39:39,479 --> 01:39:41,720
Speaker 1: is shelter in place with your kids and try to

1823
01:39:41,800 --> 01:39:44,920
Speaker 1: teach them some stuff. Actual homeschoolers, of which there are

1824
01:39:44,920 --> 01:39:47,439
Speaker 1: a couple of million in the country that the teachers

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01:39:47,640 --> 01:39:50,360
Speaker 1: set up before I mean sorry, the parents set up

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01:39:50,400 --> 01:39:54,000
Speaker 1: beforehand to be better teachers, to make sure they know

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01:39:54,120 --> 01:39:56,880
Speaker 1: what the curriculum is, that make sure they understand what

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01:39:57,000 --> 01:39:58,639
Speaker 1: they're going to be teaching ahead of time, and they're

1829
01:39:58,640 --> 01:40:00,880
Speaker 1: also setting up activities all kinds of other things. So

1830
01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:05,760
Speaker 1: this is ad hoc. This is, you know, impromptu homeschooling,

1831
01:40:05,800 --> 01:40:08,160
Speaker 1: which is not the way it's normally done. And as

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01:40:08,200 --> 01:40:09,920
Speaker 1: for kids going back to school, sure, and look, there

1833
01:40:09,920 --> 01:40:11,160
Speaker 1: are a lot there are a lot of very good

1834
01:40:11,160 --> 01:40:13,519
Speaker 1: public schools in the country. We all know that, but

1835
01:40:13,600 --> 01:40:15,719
Speaker 1: there are a lot of bad ones. And people should

1836
01:40:15,720 --> 01:40:19,240
Speaker 1: have choices about what they what their children learn and

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01:40:19,320 --> 01:40:23,280
Speaker 1: where they go to school. And the one size fits all,

1838
01:40:23,400 --> 01:40:25,280
Speaker 1: do what we say or else attitude from the state

1839
01:40:25,320 --> 01:40:29,160
Speaker 1: about public schools is troubling, especially when you see what

1840
01:40:29,360 --> 01:40:34,439
Speaker 1: a massive fiscal burden the teachers. It's really the teachers unions,

1841
01:40:34,479 --> 01:40:37,680
Speaker 1: but you know the education budgets, which is largely a

1842
01:40:37,720 --> 01:40:40,439
Speaker 1: slush fund to pay adults in a lot of these places.

1843
01:40:40,439 --> 01:40:41,880
Speaker 1: I'm not saying the teachers make a lot of money,

1844
01:40:41,960 --> 01:40:44,280
Speaker 1: but there are a lot of administrators and union officials

1845
01:40:44,320 --> 01:40:45,960
Speaker 1: and people like that that are also making money that

1846
01:40:46,040 --> 01:40:48,560
Speaker 1: have nothing to do with teachers. I think if you

1847
01:40:48,720 --> 01:40:50,519
Speaker 1: if you check the statistics, you'd see that over the

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01:40:50,640 --> 01:40:54,439
Speaker 1: last of twenty years, there has been a seven x

1849
01:40:54,680 --> 01:40:59,080
Speaker 1: increase in our public school system of non teaching staff,

1850
01:40:59,680 --> 01:41:03,840
Speaker 1: so all kinds of administrators and special assistants and you know,

1851
01:41:03,920 --> 01:41:06,760
Speaker 1: all this other stuff. So that's why it's become a

1852
01:41:06,840 --> 01:41:09,200
Speaker 1: huge jobs program. A lot of people have these jobs

1853
01:41:09,240 --> 01:41:11,160
Speaker 1: that they really can't get fired from. They've got very

1854
01:41:11,240 --> 01:41:14,479
Speaker 1: cushy benefits, not a huge salary, but some salaries for

1855
01:41:16,200 --> 01:41:19,640
Speaker 1: teaching bureaucrats, not for teachers. It's actually quite high. You know,

1856
01:41:19,640 --> 01:41:22,000
Speaker 1: if you're the superintendent of schools and some districts, you're

1857
01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:23,960
Speaker 1: you're making a lot of money. Actually you're doing very well.

1858
01:41:26,640 --> 01:41:29,479
Speaker 1: You're in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sex

1859
01:41:29,600 --> 01:41:36,479
Speaker 1: and Show podcast. Okay more roll call here, Chris writes

1860
01:41:36,520 --> 01:41:38,479
Speaker 1: in Buck Love your podcast. We listen to it here

1861
01:41:38,479 --> 01:41:40,960
Speaker 1: at the Detective's office every morning to become a morning

1862
01:41:41,040 --> 01:41:43,280
Speaker 1: staple with our standard black Rifle coffee, even if it

1863
01:41:43,439 --> 01:41:45,680
Speaker 1: is a little bit behind because I listened it from

1864
01:41:45,680 --> 01:41:47,800
Speaker 1: the day before. Help us out here. We have a

1865
01:41:48,040 --> 01:41:51,760
Speaker 1: running bet regarding Producer Mark. Is he for real or

1866
01:41:51,880 --> 01:41:54,400
Speaker 1: is he just doing a stick? There's no way a

1867
01:41:54,479 --> 01:41:56,720
Speaker 1: twenty seven year old millennial could really be as as

1868
01:41:56,800 --> 01:41:59,560
Speaker 1: stuffy and weary of the world as this guy. A

1869
01:41:59,640 --> 01:42:01,720
Speaker 1: week's worth of lunches is on the line, and these

1870
01:42:01,760 --> 01:42:07,160
Speaker 1: guys don't order off the kid's menu. She'll tie Producer Mark.

1871
01:42:07,200 --> 01:42:09,479
Speaker 1: I will let you answer this one. I read this email.

1872
01:42:09,760 --> 01:42:12,040
Speaker 1: What do you mean I'm stuffy and out of touch

1873
01:42:12,080 --> 01:42:14,000
Speaker 1: with the world. I don't get it or weary of

1874
01:42:14,080 --> 01:42:17,880
Speaker 1: the world. I think they're just asking is this the son?

1875
01:42:18,040 --> 01:42:19,680
Speaker 1: I guess I have to give the real answer here.

1876
01:42:19,760 --> 01:42:21,240
Speaker 1: I wanted to give you a first crack. If you

1877
01:42:21,280 --> 01:42:23,600
Speaker 1: guys are asking if Producer Mark that you hear is

1878
01:42:23,640 --> 01:42:25,840
Speaker 1: like the way, is actually Producer Mark or if he's

1879
01:42:25,880 --> 01:42:30,599
Speaker 1: doing some the answers Yes, that's you're hearing Producer Mark.

1880
01:42:30,640 --> 01:42:32,760
Speaker 1: And this is how he is. Right, My life is

1881
01:42:32,760 --> 01:42:37,680
Speaker 1: a stick book. They're getting pure, unadulterated producer Mark is

1882
01:42:37,680 --> 01:42:39,280
Speaker 1: all we're trying to get to. Here. You're getting the

1883
01:42:39,320 --> 01:42:43,280
Speaker 1: real deal, folks. No additives, no preservatives, right Mark. Yes,

1884
01:42:43,400 --> 01:42:46,400
Speaker 1: I'm organic all the way, Organic Mark all the way.

1885
01:42:46,800 --> 01:42:48,960
Speaker 1: It's all you need, folks. So there you go. So

1886
01:42:49,040 --> 01:42:51,479
Speaker 1: I guess someone's buying somebody some lunches. Here, Producer Mark,

1887
01:42:51,479 --> 01:42:53,720
Speaker 1: you're getting the real deal every day. I hope you're

1888
01:42:53,720 --> 01:42:55,880
Speaker 1: all team Producer Mark, and half of you are mocking me.

1889
01:42:55,960 --> 01:42:58,479
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure how this is working. Well, No,

1890
01:42:58,600 --> 01:43:00,760
Speaker 1: I think I think they're all t Mark. They just

1891
01:43:00,840 --> 01:43:02,800
Speaker 1: want to know if if Mark is a character or

1892
01:43:02,800 --> 01:43:04,479
Speaker 1: if Mark is really Mark. And I'm here to say no,

1893
01:43:04,600 --> 01:43:07,080
Speaker 1: Mark is really Mark. Guys, this is this is producer Mark.

1894
01:43:07,120 --> 01:43:09,920
Speaker 1: You're getting him the real deal. Uh. And and just

1895
01:43:10,080 --> 01:43:12,040
Speaker 1: you know, when I show up, you know, after doing

1896
01:43:12,160 --> 01:43:14,360
Speaker 1: five hours or radio many days a week, you know,

1897
01:43:14,560 --> 01:43:16,280
Speaker 1: the first thing I off and here from producer Mark

1898
01:43:16,400 --> 01:43:18,320
Speaker 1: is like, oh, you showed up for work today, Because

1899
01:43:18,360 --> 01:43:20,120
Speaker 1: I'm usually a little bit late. So I kind of

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Speaker 1: learned it. But none nonetheless, Nonetheless, that's where we are.

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Speaker 1: As I've said before, Buck is the only human being

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Speaker 1: who can be late to his own living room. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty there's there's like twenty steps between there on the couch,

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Speaker 1: so twenty David, Hey Buck, I've noticed nobody's talking about

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Speaker 1: cryptocurrency anymore. I saw Bitcoin is trading at seventy five hundred.

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Speaker 1: The dio is bobbing up and down, but pretty healthy

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Speaker 1: considering the circumstances. I'm curious about your thoughts on why

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Speaker 1: cry crypto isn't moving higher with all the uncertainty that exists.

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Speaker 1: Keep up the great work. Don't want producer Mark beat

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Speaker 1: you up too much. David. I think that's a very

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Speaker 1: good question about crypto, because you would think that given

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Speaker 1: all the money printing going on, as we know, it's

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Speaker 1: digits on a screen, it's not really printing printing money.

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Speaker 1: But as we as that's happening, and you have all

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Speaker 1: of this sense of you know, where are you gonna

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Speaker 1: where you're gonna have a store of value that's worthwhile,

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Speaker 1: you have not seen if crypto doesn't have a spike.

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Speaker 1: Now it feels like when is it ever gonna have

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Speaker 1: a spike? Which makes me feel like it really was

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Speaker 1: all Look, they were creating all these different cryptos, there

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Speaker 1: was a scammy nature to some of it. For sure,

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Speaker 1: blockchain technology is certainly worthwhile and interesting. It might have

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Speaker 1: some very very important uses as a technology in the future.

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Speaker 1: But crypto, as you know, I had friends are saying, Oh,

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Speaker 1: crypto's gonna go to one hundred thousand, you know a bitcoin.

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Speaker 1: Each bitcoin were worth one hundred thousand dollars. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be super rich. I'm gonna retire on this. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, look, I'm not giving you advice

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Speaker 1: one or the other. That's not what I do. But

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Speaker 1: it seems pretty dubious to me right now. Producer Mark,

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Speaker 1: did you ever buy any crypto? No, I didn't have

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Speaker 1: money back then. Yeah, I mean yeah, you know that's

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Speaker 1: the crypto thing really felt a little bit like people

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Speaker 1: were trying to just play in a craps game or something,

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Speaker 1: or you know, it's just gambling for a lot of

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Speaker 1: folks because no one really understands it, and they just

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Speaker 1: saw it going up and they figured I want to

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Speaker 1: get in on this. But David, it's a great question.

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Speaker 1: I have not read a single good answer as to

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Speaker 1: why if cryptos not having a big move up now,

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Speaker 1: when is it ever going to have a big move

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Speaker 1: up other than what we saw, which was just a bubble,

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Speaker 1: just like the tulip craze in the Netherlands. It just

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Speaker 1: was a bubble where people were buying crypto. It's going

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Speaker 1: up some more people buy it because they want to

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Speaker 1: get in on it, you know, classic Herd bubble mentality.

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Speaker 1: Mark writes in Buck on Friday's podcast. You mention you

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Speaker 1: thought the debates would be better without an audience, but

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Speaker 1: I disagree. You just know Trump will pull tera read

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Speaker 1: front and center in the audience just to rattle Joe,

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Speaker 1: and it will be fantastic shields high well, Mark, you know,

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Speaker 1: to each his own on this one. You can certainly

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Speaker 1: prefer having an audience. I think Trump is going to

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Speaker 1: bring up the allegations against Joe Biden, and Biden's gonna

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Speaker 1: bring up allegations against Trump, So that's that's something else

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Speaker 1: that we can expect. But yeah, I just don't like

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Speaker 1: the audience making all that noise and kind of getting

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Speaker 1: in the way and being annoying. So I prefer without.

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Speaker 1: But you if you prefer with, then that's fine. You know,

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Speaker 1: tomato tomato. Some people like chocolate ice cream like me.

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Speaker 1: Some people like strawberry. You know who love strawberry ice

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Speaker 1: cream by their producer mark? My parents? Yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: can't believe it now. I go over there and they're like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, we've got some ice cream in the fridge.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, what do you have. They're like, well, there's

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Speaker 1: the coin you don't like, and then there's a bunch

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Speaker 1: of other things, but we gotta check. Makes me sad.

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Speaker 1: Haven't you been buying their groceries? Do you like revolt

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Speaker 1: and refuse to buy them strawberry? No, I'll get them

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Speaker 1: whatever ice cream they want. I'm a good son. Is

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Speaker 1: nice of you even though they're wrong. I'm good like that. Yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: strawberries gross. We all know it. But it's all righty

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Speaker 1: to each his on them. My mom and dad likes

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Speaker 1: strawberry ice cream. They're allowed to like strawberry ice cream.

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Speaker 1: But they're still wrong. But I love them, chad Buck.

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Speaker 1: The people are claiming to believe the president really meant

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Speaker 1: to cure COVID. We need to inject the disinfect and

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Speaker 1: are the same people that require the warning of hot

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Speaker 1: liquid on the side of their coffee cups. The old

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Speaker 1: adage there is no dumb question goes out the window.

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Speaker 1: With today's media, they prove that wrong every day. Keep

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Speaker 1: up the good workshields high. Chad agreed. By the way,

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Speaker 1: everyone check out bucksexton dot com. We've got stories going

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Speaker 1: dot com and that's that's where the one stop shop

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Speaker 1: for all things bucktastic. And we'll be back tomorrow, same time,

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Speaker 1: same place. Shield tie