Speaker 1: You are entering the freedom hunt. We'll mustache Bolton, sink
Speaker 1: Trump's ship, plus CNN shows us who they really are
Speaker 1: a bunch of smug libs. Washington Post suspends a journalist
Speaker 1: for some tweets about Kobe Bryant's terrible accident. And then
Speaker 1: what about Western civilization? And art is triggering to other civilizations?
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Speaker 1: buck Sexton Show begins. Remember no, Welcome to the buck
Speaker 1: Sexton Show, every buddy, thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 1: Man from NYC. Always a good day here in town.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you spending the time with us. Pruce and Mark
Speaker 1: is fired up today. He got a good night's sleep.
Speaker 1: Apparently I got a good night's sleep. We have quite
Speaker 1: a show in store for you. Let's kick it off
Speaker 1: with Bolton straight away, Mustache Bolton. Right, isn't there a
Speaker 1: Beatles song? I am the Walrus? Right? Isn't that? Or
Speaker 1: is a line? A line from a Beatles song? Because
Speaker 1: the must the Bolton mustache is Walrus like, and I
Speaker 1: respect that the guy's willing to go out on a
Speaker 1: limb in this way and be so devoted to a
Speaker 1: particular style of facial hair. Somebody who is newer to
Speaker 1: the facial hair game respect for Bolton on that, but
Speaker 1: some disrespect on some other things should come mister Bolton's way.
Speaker 1: And I guess that's where we start this today. Why
Speaker 1: would a former senior adviser to any president, never mind
Speaker 1: this president, think it is appropriate to write down everything
Speaker 1: that was said in meetings and then use some of that,
Speaker 1: at least to publish a book so that the public
Speaker 1: can know what was going through the president's mind and
Speaker 1: how he reaches the decisions that he reaches. Notice how
Speaker 1: this is very much out of the Komi playbook. You
Speaker 1: see these bureaucratic infighters, people who have spent a long
Speaker 1: time in the corridors of power and government often have
Speaker 1: competing emotions. And this comes from my time in the CIA,
Speaker 1: dealing with not just the most senior CIA folks, but
Speaker 1: also other people throughout the government all the way up
Speaker 1: to the President. I had briefings in the Oval Office
Speaker 1: with the President, the Vice President, national Security Advisor, and
Speaker 1: so on and so forth. And when you spend some
Speaker 1: time in those policy circles, you get the sense very
Speaker 1: quickly that you have people who are both frustrated. They
Speaker 1: feel frustrated and underappreciated because their genius has not been
Speaker 1: fully embraced by the rest of their government peers. And
Speaker 1: then there's also quite a bit of arrogance because they've
Speaker 1: had this power and they think, they really know, they're
Speaker 1: the one that is best suited for this job. They're
Speaker 1: the one that needs to maintain the perception in government
Speaker 1: circles and even more importantly, in many ways outside of government,
Speaker 1: that they have a wisdom insight that other people would
Speaker 1: not bring to the same role. What is that really
Speaker 1: based in I don't know. I don't think you could
Speaker 1: really point to anything in particular. In fact, I have
Speaker 1: popularized what I believe now many people understand to be
Speaker 1: a truism about these government agencies and these government positions,
Speaker 1: which is that they're very hard jobs to get. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that the people who get them are impressive,
Speaker 1: highly skilled, and worthwhile. Just because it's hard to get,
Speaker 1: you know, it's hard to win the lottery. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean a lottery winner as a genius. Right, that's a
Speaker 1: simplification of this principle. But you understand where I'm going
Speaker 1: with it, So I'm Bashador Bolton. You look at him
Speaker 1: and you ask, well, what exactly are the big foreign
Speaker 1: policy successes that this individual has. Does he feel any
Speaker 1: even a little bit chastened over the Iraq War? No?
Speaker 1: Does he feel like there has been a really now
Speaker 1: multidecade failure in the war in Afghanistan to even understand
Speaker 1: what we are doing there other than prevent the Taliban
Speaker 1: from taking over the country and defeating the allies that
Speaker 1: we have spent billions and billions and billions of dollars training, equipping,
Speaker 1: and trying to assist. Perhaps maybe people feel that that's
Speaker 1: enough of a mission, but then we should at least
Speaker 1: be honest about it. There is no future in which
Speaker 1: a stable and democratic and worthwhile from a nation state perspective,
Speaker 1: Afghanistan exists. It's always going to be this difficult, violent
Speaker 1: backwater of a country. That's just something that we may
Speaker 1: have to step I would prefer there was honesty from
Speaker 1: policy circles though about this. Why is Bolton someone who
Speaker 1: has this job of National Security Advisor? Well, it's in
Speaker 1: no small part because he was making the rounds as
Speaker 1: a pundit on Fox News. He had visibility to this president.
Speaker 1: To Trump did not come from the left wing media swamp.
Speaker 1: And as we see with Trump, if you were good
Speaker 1: enough on Fox and known in those conservative circles, it's
Speaker 1: very it was a very useful springboard to some of
Speaker 1: the most powerful positions in government. And this this didn't
Speaker 1: always result in a good outcome. Just look at the mooch. Hey,
Speaker 1: a mooch sennor Scaramouchi, who is really reveling in his
Speaker 1: turn coode status against the president. I mean, this was
Speaker 1: a fellow who I remember. I sat on a panel
Speaker 1: on Maria Bardaromo's show once and we had we had
Speaker 1: the Mooch come in, and he was almost the Trump whisperer.
Speaker 1: He was an individual who came in to tell us
Speaker 1: what was really going on in Trump's mind, in his heart,
Speaker 1: and all of it was that Trump is a genius,
Speaker 1: He's amazing, He's fantastic. And then when the mooch really
Speaker 1: self destructed, it wasn't deep. You can't blame Trump for
Speaker 1: the mooch calling a reporter and going on some really
Speaker 1: shockingly profane I mean, I do use salty language in
Speaker 1: private life, but not like the Mooch does shockingly profane
Speaker 1: tirade and got himself fired from the White House. Speaking
Speaker 1: of people getting very important, very senior jobs, White House
Speaker 1: Communications Directors, Karamuchi, Special Advisor to the President, Amorrossa. I mean,
Speaker 1: you go down this list the presidents. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: amazed at actually how successful he has been given some
Speaker 1: of the quite honestly unforced errors that have been made. Right,
Speaker 1: I mean, the fact that he withstood the Russia collusion ambush,
Speaker 1: which is what it was. It was a coordinated ambush
Speaker 1: from the deep state, the left of Democrats trying to
Speaker 1: undermine this present. The fact that he was able to
Speaker 1: do that is remarkable, and I think it would have
Speaker 1: broken a lesser man. I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I would have been able to handle in Trump shoes,
Speaker 1: all that pressure, people going after trying to use the
Speaker 1: weaponize the Department of Justice, to go after your children,
Speaker 1: to go after your family, to go after anybody who's
Speaker 1: close to you. That's intimidating, even when you're the President
Speaker 1: of the United States. But on the personnel choices he
Speaker 1: has made, I can make no defense of Trump in
Speaker 1: that in that realm, I mean, he just he's I
Speaker 1: don't know who he's listening to. I don't know why
Speaker 1: he can't figure this out, and people who Sometimes people
Speaker 1: get mad at me or Trump supporters, and I say,
Speaker 1: or really, are we gonna you get? Some of Trump's
Speaker 1: most senior people turn on him after he's given them
Speaker 1: the opportunity of a lifetime to serve their country. And
Speaker 1: that's what brings me back to Bolton here. What's most important?
Speaker 1: When I was talking to you about these bureaucrats and
Speaker 1: their egos and the frustration insecurity and arrogance that all
Speaker 1: combines in this Knox just stew I'm so amazing, but
Speaker 1: people don't think I'm amazing enough. And I'm the one
Speaker 1: who needs this job. But it's really about the mission,
Speaker 1: this ping ponging back and forth psychologically, what is really
Speaker 1: important using that position to advance the interests of the
Speaker 1: United States, the American people, or making sure that you
Speaker 1: get a two million dollar book advance and get really
Speaker 1: big fees on the speaking circuit afterwards, and that your
Speaker 1: policy chums, your buddies think that you did great work
Speaker 1: and maybe you'll get pulled into another administration, or you'll
Speaker 1: be made the president of some very cash you know,
Speaker 1: coffers full to the brim think tank, or maybe you'll
Speaker 1: get pulled in to be on the board of some company,
Speaker 1: not Barisma, because you've got to be a real superstar
Speaker 1: to get on the board of Barisma. As we know,
Speaker 1: apparently Hunter Biden actually is going to pay the child
Speaker 1: support videos for the child he fathered with a stripper
Speaker 1: that he initially denied paternity of. And I believe he's
Speaker 1: also married and his wife is expecting, so he's got
Speaker 1: his handsful. But he is going to be writing some checks,
Speaker 1: it seems, before having to go to court to have
Speaker 1: them force him to do so. I go back to
Speaker 1: my premise on this of could you imagine if one
Speaker 1: of the Trump children had this story? Never mind, I
Speaker 1: mean there's the BURISMUS staff and the doing crack and
Speaker 1: getting kicked out of a military post. He only got
Speaker 1: his dad was a senator, is a public affairs post,
Speaker 1: gets kicked out of that for failing a drug I mean,
Speaker 1: what a mess. But remember nothing he did was in
Speaker 1: any way illicit. Hunter Biden has fantastic judgment. How could
Speaker 1: you question his judgment with the crack and the strippers
Speaker 1: and the out of wedlock lying about birth thing and
Speaker 1: all that, And I mean, who could really think that
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden would make such a mistake, make an air
Speaker 1: of course not, it's malarkey, utter malarkey. But then that
Speaker 1: brings me to Bolton again. This is another reason why
Speaker 1: the Senate, the Republican senators that are currently in the
Speaker 1: seventh day of what is a stunningly boring trial, because
Speaker 1: it's there's not even no normal person hears about what
Speaker 1: the allegations are and says, oh my gosh, the president
Speaker 1: did that. First of all, he didn't do anything, because
Speaker 1: nothing happened at Second of all, even if he tried
Speaker 1: to do the thing they say he wanted to do,
Speaker 1: who cares he has the right to do it. They're
Speaker 1: impeaching the president over nothing, or they have impeached him
Speaker 1: mother over nothing. They're trying to remove him even that
Speaker 1: step further over absolutely nothing. And that's why with the
Speaker 1: exception of about you know, three or four million superlibs
Speaker 1: who watched this coverage on TV, and I mean, I
Speaker 1: know how many of them are super libs. That's who
Speaker 1: watches the coverage probab about half Superlibs and half people
Speaker 1: who just care to know really followed politics closely, Conservatives,
Speaker 1: and there are other people, but you know, there is
Speaker 1: this core of left wing base that finds all these
Speaker 1: speeches by Adams and I think it's journalists. For example,
Speaker 1: they think every Adam Shifts speech is the combination of
Speaker 1: you know, the funeral oration by Pericles, you know, the
Speaker 1: Gettysburg address. I mean, you name him, the greatest speeches
Speaker 1: in history. You know, Eisenhower talking about the military industrial
Speaker 1: complex and all this stuff, all the greatest speeches in history.
Speaker 1: And they think that Adam Shift is just doing that
Speaker 1: all the time when he's talking about this obstruction and
Speaker 1: corruption and all the rest of it. Mustache Bolton should feel, honestly,
Speaker 1: his loyalty should be to the people of the United States,
Speaker 1: and in that means not going along with the ambush
Speaker 1: that Democrats are running against the duly elected president of
Speaker 1: the United States on false slash, trumped up pardon the
Speaker 1: phrase pretenses, that's where we are. His book is not
Speaker 1: as important as not playing into the Democrats hands here.
Speaker 1: But again, the president brings in someone of questionable judgment,
Speaker 1: questionable history, and loyalty. On top of all of that,
Speaker 1: I have never been a Boltonist. He is definitely showing
Speaker 1: us shades of James Comy here. Who was the single
Speaker 1: most important person in the whole James Coomy fiasco we
Speaker 1: know is Comy himself. That's what really mattered. It was
Speaker 1: never about Trump or the American people or anything else.
Speaker 1: First and foremost, it was about Comey. Why does Bolton
Speaker 1: think he's so important that this book needs to drop
Speaker 1: now at this point? And why should he profit so
Speaker 1: handsomely off of betraying the very commander in chief whom
Speaker 1: he was entrusted with the sacred obligation to advise on
Speaker 1: matter of war and peace? Do we ever get an
Speaker 1: answer for that? Now? Every everybody just gets to cash out. Now,
Speaker 1: everybody in DC, all the swamp dwellers, get to do
Speaker 1: whatever they want on either side of the aisle when
Speaker 1: it's time to fill up their bank account and get
Speaker 1: their face on television. It's distressing. It's also why I
Speaker 1: sit here and tell you I do believe. I believe
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell will keep the senators in line here. I
Speaker 1: won't go as far to say that I can predict
Speaker 1: because Mitt Romney. You know when MIT's in it, you
Speaker 1: never know with friends like Mitt, who needs enemies in politics.
Speaker 1: But I do think that they're going to vote to
Speaker 1: end this thing, that they should just have the vote.
Speaker 1: Have the vote. Let's see. If they don't, they will
Speaker 1: not have learned a fundamental lesson of the Trump era,
Speaker 1: which is that if you if you insist on taking
Speaker 1: good faith actions to try to make the other side
Speaker 1: like you, when all they've done is bad faith action
Speaker 1: and show you how much they hate you, you're not
Speaker 1: going to win them over and you're not gonna win.
Speaker 1: I've got a better idea. Hey, Republicans in the Senate,
Speaker 1: let's win. Shut it down, take the vote. America needs
Speaker 1: to move on. You're in the Freedom Hut. This is
Speaker 1: the Buck Sex and Show podcast. Well, it's kind of ironic.
Speaker 1: It's coming from the New York Times. Someone telling the
Speaker 1: New York Times about a book deal about somebody wants
Speaker 1: to sell a lawyer or lawyer kind of confirmed. Regardless
Speaker 1: regardless of all that, you go to the fact Ukraine
Speaker 1: got the money. They did nothing to get the money. Zelenski,
Speaker 1: the president said, there was nothing held up. If you
Speaker 1: based upon that, you have the transcripts to which the
Speaker 1: whole world does. If you stick to the facts, there's
Speaker 1: no reason why this carry on beyond Friday. If you
Speaker 1: look at what the Democrats said in Adler when he
Speaker 1: was in Congress proposing this impeachment, that they proved to
Speaker 1: beyond a shadow of a doubt, it is not the
Speaker 1: Senate's rule to have witnesses come in. I do not
Speaker 1: think they made the case. I think they repeated the
Speaker 1: same thing. I think they went overboard when you saw
Speaker 1: Nadler and you also saw Adam Shifts and they're going
Speaker 1: to put people's heads on a spike and others. I
Speaker 1: think they did everything in their case to make sure
Speaker 1: that this is ended. By this. The Republicans have been
Speaker 1: operating in good faith this whole time. I think too
Speaker 1: much good faith, and I think that they have allowed
Speaker 1: the Democrats to gain too much ground for their underhanded
Speaker 1: messaging efforts. But here you are. You know, the draft
Speaker 1: of the of the Bolton book seems to have been
Speaker 1: or at least parts of it have been leaked to
Speaker 1: the New York Times. This is Kavanaugh two point oh,
Speaker 1: this is the playbook all over again. They've decided that
Speaker 1: they're not they haven't won. Everyone knows this now. I
Speaker 1: mean the desperate Dems that go on TV and say,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it was an amazing speech. Look with
Speaker 1: the no no sorry if Nadler, no serious person finds
Speaker 1: them to be compelling truth tellers. No honest observer in
Speaker 1: this whole process would turn around and say, yeah, Adam
Speaker 1: Schiff and Nadler, they really convinced me. I was on
Speaker 1: the I was on the fence before, but I've changed
Speaker 1: my mind because of what they have said. You know,
Speaker 1: there's there's some different areas they keep trying to find.
Speaker 1: What will the same way than the earliest days after
Speaker 1: the whistle blower we still don't know the whistle blower is.
Speaker 1: Why is that because the media is complicit in this?
Speaker 1: Well A, you're gonna tell me the media can't figure
Speaker 1: this out. They've all got sources, the national security apparatus
Speaker 1: they can't figure out. And we already we've it's already
Speaker 1: been reported it's Eric Scaramella. Can we find out if
Speaker 1: that's actually true or not? You know, can we verify
Speaker 1: this that's what's been reported? No, no one. When was
Speaker 1: the last time you even heard that name? And it matters?
Speaker 1: A whole lot who he is and what his motivations were.
Speaker 1: It certainly does because we're in this game of perception,
Speaker 1: perception of were these charges brought against the president because
Speaker 1: of outrage against crimes, against against constitution or were a
Speaker 1: bunch of left wing activists in the government conspiring to
Speaker 1: find some excuse because the Mueller probe failed to bring
Speaker 1: this president down. That's a very important distinction. That's one
Speaker 1: we should have all the facts we can to answer
Speaker 1: one way or the other. But they pretend that that's
Speaker 1: not the present, that's that's not the case, that's not
Speaker 1: going to happen. Um. You have also the severity of
Speaker 1: this is now getting you know that they keep moving.
Speaker 1: What the ground is that they want to have this
Speaker 1: fight on the Democrats are going to? Where are they
Speaker 1: really going to focus in? One area is as is
Speaker 1: this even is this conduct even impeachable? Which from the
Speaker 1: very beginning, so this should just be I mean, this
Speaker 1: is where Trump and his defenders should have should have
Speaker 1: made the this is where the fortress should have been
Speaker 1: set up. And this is ridiculous. It's utterly clearly not
Speaker 1: impeachable conduct. They happened, and he's allowed to have the
Speaker 1: conversation he had and that's it. That's it. But sometimes
Speaker 1: this White House doesn't have the best messaging strategy. Thanks
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Speaker 1: crimes alleged in the articles and the common law of
Speaker 1: presidential impeachment and Nixon yes, in Clinton yes, here no
Speaker 1: a factor to be considered as the judges in the
Speaker 1: High Court come as you will individually to your judgment.
Speaker 1: What's a way to gauge the severity of this? You
Speaker 1: get into this argument about about whether there are whether
Speaker 1: you have to commit an actual criminal offense to be impeached,
Speaker 1: and I think that in fairness and in honesty, no,
Speaker 1: of course there are. There are circumstances under which you
Speaker 1: could be impeached without violating the law. But when we
Speaker 1: talk about high crimes and misdemeanors, right, I mean the
Speaker 1: language used, the perception of why would this be set
Speaker 1: up in this way? You look at the history of
Speaker 1: this process when it has been used before, and the
Speaker 1: fact that it has never been successfully for example used,
Speaker 1: meaning that a president's ever been removed should tell us something.
Speaker 1: It's a very high bar, a very high bar. It
Speaker 1: was FDR impeached and removed for violating the constitutional rights
Speaker 1: of Japanese Americans who were put into internment camps. Now,
Speaker 1: of course not. I mean you look at all these
Speaker 1: other times in history. I mean you look at Wilson,
Speaker 1: look at FDR. You could look at a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of presidents and say, well, I mean they they violated
Speaker 1: people's rights. They did things that would be far more egregious,
Speaker 1: far more egregious when President Trump has done so. Really,
Speaker 1: this becomes a the reason this is not a criminal proceeding. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is not in the hands that are partner of justice.
Speaker 1: It is assessing whether or not this is an outrage
Speaker 1: without politics. Can you take political inclination out of this?
Speaker 1: And would a normal American be outrage to hear about this?
Speaker 1: And I know we're in a culture we're outrage is
Speaker 1: so cheap, and the media thrives off of it, and they're,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, they pretend to be freaked out all
Speaker 1: the time. But when someone sits down and says to you,
Speaker 1: this is what happened. The President United States have this
Speaker 1: phone call raised the issue of whether he could get
Speaker 1: some answers in an area of corruption involving somebody who, yes,
Speaker 1: is a Democratic contender for the presidency. Does anyone say, oh,
Speaker 1: that's just too far. The only people who say that
Speaker 1: are the same people who think the president is a
Speaker 1: traitor because of Russia, which was a lie. The president
Speaker 1: is a rapist, including this woman who came forward with
Speaker 1: the allegation from thirty five years ago at a department store,
Speaker 1: went on Anderson Cooper TV. Made a mockery of Anderson
Speaker 1: Cooper's journalism. You know said, quote, this is the woman
Speaker 1: who accused him. You know quote, I think rapist. Sexy
Speaker 1: end quote, that is what the accuser of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: That everyone now is just pretended like that didn't happen.
Speaker 1: What she said. So, the same people who believe that
Speaker 1: Trump is out of his mind crazy has to be
Speaker 1: replaced through the exercise of a constitutional amendment to remove
Speaker 1: a crazy president. The same people think the president was
Speaker 1: a trader with Russia. The same people who think the
Speaker 1: president should be removed for the emolument's clause. The same
Speaker 1: people who think the president should be removed because of
Speaker 1: the Billy Bush tape. I mean just whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Those are the only people who hear about this story
Speaker 1: and say, yeah, yeah, he should be impeached and removed
Speaker 1: from office for it. If you don't fit into that category,
Speaker 1: if you're not somebody who has thought the president should
Speaker 1: be removed from office for a dozen other things, none
Speaker 1: of which he should have been removed from removed for,
Speaker 1: then you hear this and you say no. So when
Speaker 1: they talk about how there's no crime, I mean, there's
Speaker 1: there's no crime against against dignity, ethics, and morality worthy
Speaker 1: of being removed from office, I mean, forget about it
Speaker 1: actually being a criminal statute. There's just no They're there,
Speaker 1: but they'll they'll try on this and they're hoping to
Speaker 1: focus in on something that will just give them a
Speaker 1: little more a little more leeway. Look, it's pretty straightforward.
Speaker 1: If you want to take a sports analogy. This is
Speaker 1: the this is the fourth quarter. And now you know,
Speaker 1: now the two teams in this impeachment and removal proceeding,
Speaker 1: Republicans and Democrats. You know, they're calling timeouts, they're throwing
Speaker 1: the ball. You know, they're throwing the ball, making sure
Speaker 1: that it gets out of bounds so that the clock
Speaker 1: stops I mean there there's time management going on here
Speaker 1: because one side just wants to do anything to extend
Speaker 1: this and that's the Democrats because they've lost, and they
Speaker 1: know it. They've lost. They did not they did not
Speaker 1: make the case, they did not win the perception battle.
Speaker 1: And Republicans it's in their hands now. All Republicans have
Speaker 1: to do. Producing Mark's gonna be proud of me. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna use some sports here. All Republicans in the Senate
Speaker 1: have to do is take a knee. That's all they
Speaker 1: have to do. They have the ball, the clock is
Speaker 1: running down. They can take a knee. Why when the
Speaker 1: other side has been cheating it every way and on
Speaker 1: the other side is doing everything they can to make
Speaker 1: sure that it hasn't been a fair game, and you
Speaker 1: have the ball in your hands and you're the Republican party,
Speaker 1: why would you not say we're ending this thing. That's
Speaker 1: what justice would be, That's what justice demands here. And
Speaker 1: I worry that there are some Republicans so in love
Speaker 1: the same way that John Bolton is so in love
Speaker 1: with his own greatness and wisdom that his story and
Speaker 1: his book is more important than this presidency. Clearly there
Speaker 1: are Republican senators, where I think are more in love
Speaker 1: with the perception of themselves as the good, ethical, honest people.
Speaker 1: They find Trump still so unseemly. Oh, Trump is such
Speaker 1: a such an odious character that they just want to
Speaker 1: create some separation with him because they're not like Trump.
Speaker 1: They're better and Trump. That's clearly what Mitt Romney thinks.
Speaker 1: Mitt Romney who Donald Trump brought back into the fold
Speaker 1: and was willing to help again and was willing to
Speaker 1: play ball with And that's one thing about Trump. I
Speaker 1: will say, Yes, you know, people come and go in
Speaker 1: his good graces, but if you extend your hand to Trump,
Speaker 1: he seems to me willing to take it, even in
Speaker 1: cases where he shouldn't. But that is that is the
Speaker 1: reality of this president, for better or for worse. And
Speaker 1: this is the reality of Mitt Romney prousition mark playclip nine.
Speaker 1: I've said for some time, but I hope to be
Speaker 1: able to hear from John Bolton. I think with a
Speaker 1: story that came out yesterday's increasingly apparent that it would
Speaker 1: be important to hear from John Bolton. I of course
Speaker 1: will make a final decision on witnesses after we've heard
Speaker 1: from not only the prosecution, but also the defense. But
Speaker 1: I think at this stage it's pretty fair to say
Speaker 1: that John Bolton has a relevant testimony to provide to
Speaker 1: those of us who are sitting in impartial justice. John
Speaker 1: Bolton's testimony is relevant. Why isn't Hunter Biden's testimony relevant?
Speaker 1: How come Mitt Romney won't come out? I mean, if
Speaker 1: Mitt was really standing on principle and not the greatness
Speaker 1: of MIT, sounds like the worst sitcom ever Mitt Romney,
Speaker 1: you know, just walking around following Mitt Romney, how awesome
Speaker 1: he is. But if it wasn't about the greatness of MIT,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you line this up and say, hold on a second. Okay, look,
Speaker 1: I want to hear from Bolden, but I also want
Speaker 1: to hear from Hunter Biden. And then when people say
Speaker 1: it's not relevant, that's a joke, that's preposterous. Of course
Speaker 1: it's relevant. The entire Democrat case rests on. It was
Speaker 1: completely illegitimate, unfounded to ask any questions about an investigation
Speaker 1: involving Hunter Biden in barisma, when any normal, any federal
Speaker 1: corruption prosecutor, knowing these facts in the situation, would say, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that's worthy of a probe, that's worthy of it's worth
Speaker 1: looking into what happened there. We should know, we should know,
Speaker 1: So how can that not be relevant. It's not relevant
Speaker 1: because that doesn't look good for the Democrats, and they
Speaker 1: just think that they will win the public perception battle.
Speaker 1: They can shout, they can outshout the Republicans in this
Speaker 1: propaganda fight, and that's that's what they're we're banking on.
Speaker 1: Which again it's why I say, Republicans, you have the ball.
Speaker 1: The clock is running down to take their knee. This
Speaker 1: is done. It's done. They're gonna say Trump is impeach
Speaker 1: They're gonna try to stain him. They have stained him.
Speaker 1: I don't know, not to anybody who not to anyone
Speaker 1: who has ever supported Trump or thought about supporting Trump,
Speaker 1: we all know what a joke this thing is. But
Speaker 1: they have put this mark on Trump's record forever that
Speaker 1: he has been impeached. So okay, they got that. They
Speaker 1: abuse their power, They abuse the faith the American people
Speaker 1: put in them by giving them power to do this.
Speaker 1: The Senate wants to give them what why why show
Speaker 1: good faith? All because of the greatness of the Senate.
Speaker 1: This is this is simply absurd. And we also know
Speaker 1: this is absurd because there was not a single member
Speaker 1: of the opposing party, as ken ken Starr, a man
Speaker 1: who knows a thing or two about impeachment play clip five.
Speaker 1: To the contrary, for the first time in America's modern history,
Speaker 1: not a single House member of the presidence parties supported
Speaker 1: either of the two articles of impeachment, not one, not
Speaker 1: in committee, not on the House floor. And that pivotal
Speaker 1: fact puts in bold relief the Peter Redino principle, call
Speaker 1: it the Redino rule. Impeachment must be bipartisan in nature.
Speaker 1: Against sitting as a courtin this body should signal to
Speaker 1: the nation the return to our traditions bipartisan impeachments. This
Speaker 1: is an entirely partisan process, and a part is an
Speaker 1: impeachment process. There's no Republican who's gone along with this,
Speaker 1: no Republican who says, yes, you're right. Finally, this is
Speaker 1: this is too much, that Trump has gone too far.
Speaker 1: And underneath all of this there's an assumption, an assumption
Speaker 1: that I think is pretty offensive, but it's also being
Speaker 1: made by emotionally unstable libs. So how upset can you
Speaker 1: really be that there's nothing that Trump could do that
Speaker 1: would make people turn them. That's just not true. If
Speaker 1: during that whole Russian collusion fiasco, they had found real
Speaker 1: proof that the Trump campaign, on the direction of the President,
Speaker 1: had tried to engage in a program of stealing of
Speaker 1: emails and at the direction of the president and coordination
Speaker 1: with the Russians about when to release them. If the
Speaker 1: initial allegation but that were true and they could prove it, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, you know, you can't have that. You can't
Speaker 1: have a president working with a foreign power open, you know,
Speaker 1: intentionally trying to skew an election. I mean, that's why
Speaker 1: they use that narrative because it was so. But it
Speaker 1: was of course all a lie. It was all a lie.
Speaker 1: You can notice how that the storyline there wasn't well,
Speaker 1: even if President Trump did that, that's fine, it was well,
Speaker 1: he didn't do it. He's innocent on this. The storyline
Speaker 1: is even more bizarre in a sense because it's not
Speaker 1: even the president is innocent, it's that there's nothing, there's
Speaker 1: really no violation. I don't even if John Bolden comes forward,
Speaker 1: and I know that I'm not entirely alone on this,
Speaker 1: but they're not that many people who agree with me,
Speaker 1: even on the right, either if John Bolden came forward
Speaker 1: and said, yeah, he was conditioning the AID on getting
Speaker 1: investigations of what was going on with Barisma. He's the
Speaker 1: commander in chief, he's allowed to do that. If you
Speaker 1: think that's too much bare knuckle politics, few that's a
Speaker 1: little bit too And remember Obama had the IRS investigating
Speaker 1: political opponents. We're supposed to pretend like that wasn't a
Speaker 1: big deal. After the Tea Party had completely crushed Democrats
Speaker 1: in a midterm election, all of a sudden, going to
Speaker 1: the twenty twelve election, the IRS is using is weaponized
Speaker 1: against conservative groups, patriot conservative America. That's like who they're
Speaker 1: going after and the IRS. That tells you a lot,
Speaker 1: doesn't it. But you know, there was no there's no
Speaker 1: impeachment move against Obama. There people weren't. Oh, you know
Speaker 1: Obama needs to be removed from office for this. No,
Speaker 1: he said there was not a smidgeon of corruption, and
Speaker 1: he lied to the American people. He got away with
Speaker 1: lying all the time, didn't matter he was Obama. Trump
Speaker 1: lies and they tell you Trump lies about his shoe sizes.
Speaker 1: You know, Trump lies about who cares Obama lies about.
Speaker 1: You can keep your plan if you want to keep
Speaker 1: your plan, your healthcare plan. That seems to matter to
Speaker 1: me quite a bit more. I am hoping, friends, that
Speaker 1: this will end soon. I am hoping that we are
Speaker 1: not foolish enough to go through what we went through
Speaker 1: with Kavin. I remember that, Oh, the FBI needs to
Speaker 1: investigate the allegations of crazy people who are lying. No.
Speaker 1: I don't think the FBI should have had to investigate
Speaker 1: the allegations of crazy people who are lying. That was absurd. Oh,
Speaker 1: we're going to extend this now because John Bolton wants
Speaker 1: to say something. If John, if what John Bolton says
Speaker 1: is true, I don't care. Republicans should still say Nope,
Speaker 1: no removal, see you later, doesn't matter. There's nothing John
Speaker 1: Bolton can say at this point that would change anyone's
Speaker 1: mind who understands the full dynamics of what's really going
Speaker 1: on here, So who cares, don't fall into the trap
Speaker 1: this is. This is where the left uses the underlying,
Speaker 1: the underlying desire for decency that conservatism fosters, and I don't. Oh,
Speaker 1: Trump is so India. Whatever the reality is, the Conservatives
Speaker 1: are much more likely to play by rules that hurt
Speaker 1: their own side than Democrats. Are, and you can think
Speaker 1: of countless examples of this. We cannot let that be
Speaker 1: used as a weapon against us in intelection year when
Speaker 1: the American people should get this, should get the choice
Speaker 1: I give you. I mean, I give you my word.
Speaker 1: You know this. If we have an election and Donald
Speaker 1: Trump loses, I'm going to say, okay, I mean, unless
Speaker 1: there's something that really happened, that's an irregularity. And so
Speaker 1: unless there really was cheating, which I don't think. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're unlike democrats, I'm not saying that that's
Speaker 1: going to happen. They're already saying that's opening. I'll say, Okay,
Speaker 1: Trump lost, you know, perhaps Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren
Speaker 1: or Joe Biden's a president. Now we got to deal
Speaker 1: with this. This is our new reality. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: cry and say that they stole it and he cheated
Speaker 1: to do That's what democrats do. You're in the Freedom hunt.
Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. The articles of
Speaker 1: impeachment before you have been passed on a purely partisan
Speaker 1: basis for the first time in history. In fact, there
Speaker 1: was bipartisan opposition to the articles of impeachment. They have
Speaker 1: been trying to impeach the president from the moment of
Speaker 1: his inauguration for no reason, just because he won. That
Speaker 1: is why they are impeaching that. That's why they have
Speaker 1: impeached a president. That's why they're trying to remove the president.
Speaker 1: It's because he won and he was not supposed to.
Speaker 1: It's because that is the violation, and people are still
Speaker 1: very upset about it, and they're even more terrified in
Speaker 1: a sense, the ratification, the consolidation, the stamp of approval
Speaker 1: of the American people, not just of Trump winning the
Speaker 1: first time, but he's been in office for four years.
Speaker 1: They've all told us, they say, he's so dumb, he
Speaker 1: doesn't know anything. He's going to be a disaster. He's
Speaker 1: better than Obama, and he's better than Bush as president.
Speaker 1: So far, he just is. They can try to tell
Speaker 1: us otherwise. There was actually some polling that came out,
Speaker 1: I think it was yesterday on what do people think
Speaker 1: of where the economy is now versus where it was
Speaker 1: before Trump took office? And on every major metric, in
Speaker 1: every area where you can try to measure this, it's better.
Speaker 1: It's objectively better, it's subjectively better. People understand there, you know,
Speaker 1: they know based on the numbers that things are going
Speaker 1: really well, but they also feel like things are going
Speaker 1: better than they were. Like, it's never perfect. There's no
Speaker 1: such thing as economic security. You know, Producer Mark needs
Speaker 1: to build a when he gets the house for him
Speaker 1: and the new missus, he's got to build a little
Speaker 1: like poolhouse or something for the Buckster because it's too
Speaker 1: expensive here in New York City. I don't want him
Speaker 1: go to do. You know, there's no such thing as
Speaker 1: economic security, really, but you do the best you can
Speaker 1: with what you have, and you hope that there's an
Speaker 1: economy that fosters your talents and makes things easier for
Speaker 1: you instead of harder for you to succeed. That's where
Speaker 1: we are, and they want they want the American people.
Speaker 1: They want the will of the American people to be
Speaker 1: thwarted to use a process once. I mean, we've already
Speaker 1: had a special counsel. When you really think about this,
Speaker 1: it's just so absurd. And they've been punishing us by
Speaker 1: putting this through, this this worthless spectacle of Schiff And
Speaker 1: now they're in Pelosi just lying to our faces all
Speaker 1: the time. Oh, they're so sad, that's why they're giving
Speaker 1: out pens when they're signing the article of appeachment. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's so grave, and they don't want to do it,
Speaker 1: lying to us like we're all a bunch of idiots.
Speaker 1: We all know what they're doing, we all understand what
Speaker 1: this process has been about from the beginning. And it's
Speaker 1: also just boring now it's just gotten to the boing
Speaker 1: where I don't want to hear more of their same
Speaker 1: arguments over and over again. We've all been through this enough.
Speaker 1: The country should have other things too focus on. There
Speaker 1: are other more worthwhile areas of our attention. Pretty much
Speaker 1: anything is more worthwhile of our attention. This is the
Speaker 1: seventh day of the Senate trial. It should be the
Speaker 1: last day of the Senate trial. They should vote, they
Speaker 1: should be done. That's it. Anything else and the buckster
Speaker 1: is going to be very upset. Thanks for listening to
Speaker 1: The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts,
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Speaker 1: My friends, let's do a quick review, shall we. Why
Speaker 1: did the president win? Why did he beat Hillary Clinton
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen? There are a lot of reasons we
Speaker 1: could put forward. Some reasons as being more compelling than others.
Speaker 1: Hillary's inability to find Wisconsin on a map, for example,
Speaker 1: might have been part of the problem. There are tons
Speaker 1: of things that you could point to, but one that
Speaker 1: was a consistent, a consistent theme. And I remember this
Speaker 1: because I was, for the twenty fifteen twenty sixteen election
Speaker 1: cycle a political analyst at CNN, a conservative political analyst.
Speaker 1: They always would call me that by a conservative commentator,
Speaker 1: and then they'd bring on political analyst so and so.
Speaker 1: You know, conservative political commentator Buck Sexton. You can just
Speaker 1: hear the audience booing, poo, conservative, boo, Republican, and they'd
Speaker 1: bring on, Ah, yes, let's hear from Maria Cardona or
Speaker 1: Van Jones or Anna Navarro allegedly a Republican. By the way,
Speaker 1: all she does is trash Republicans, but she's allegedly a Republican.
Speaker 1: That's of the dishonest people and media, of the people
Speaker 1: that I really I feel both sort of sorry for them,
Speaker 1: and I find it humorous and also disgusting all at
Speaker 1: the same time. Are those who fall into the Jennifer
Speaker 1: Rubin and a Navarro, Tom Nichols who unfollowed me on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Oh so sad, oh so, sad. I was always I
Speaker 1: was always very fair and good to Tom back in
Speaker 1: the day when he wanted to have adult conversations. But
Speaker 1: he's lost his mind and so now he doesn't follow
Speaker 1: me on Twitter anymore. It it brings a tear to
Speaker 1: my eye. If anything, I'm I'm too polite, I'm too
Speaker 1: gallant for this industry. But sometimes you got to call
Speaker 1: it out where it is. Max Boot another loon on
Speaker 1: the right. But all he does is say what the
Speaker 1: left wants him to. Doesn't understand or doesn't care that
Speaker 1: he's being used as a prop against his former ideological allies.
Speaker 1: And I guess these people never really cared about these
Speaker 1: policy matters, never cared about these public debates, even if
Speaker 1: they devoted decades of their lives to it, their their
Speaker 1: professional lives, even if they were giving speeches and writing
Speaker 1: books about how conservatism is. This is the way, as
Speaker 1: they say on The Mandalorian Great Show, highly recommend Baby
Speaker 1: Yoda worth the price of admission right then and there.
Speaker 1: But then you have the reality of what CNN has become.
Speaker 1: People ask, how could you ever have worked there? And
Speaker 1: I tell them all it's because it has always been liberal.
Speaker 1: But it used to be liberal and we're gonna bring
Speaker 1: on Republicans, and we got to treat the Republican with
Speaker 1: some basic decorum and respect. We've we've got to be
Speaker 1: willing to show the Republican that, you know, we're not
Speaker 1: just going to ambush them on air. And that wasn't
Speaker 1: always true, and there was always but you know, I
Speaker 1: used to do Brook Baldwin show, and she was fair
Speaker 1: to me at least when I was talking about terrorism stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, I did other peoples shows and there were
Speaker 1: a reasonable but you know, Don Lemon Show was always
Speaker 1: just a mess. Don Lemon Show is always where the
Speaker 1: CNN got to really be CNN. They they dropped the
Speaker 1: facade of Oerward journalists, and they thought they made this
Speaker 1: calculation that they could show Trump rallies, that they would
Speaker 1: show the American people who Donald Trump was and that
Speaker 1: it would hurt Trump. And they were always really mocking him.
Speaker 1: They're like, aha, look at Trump, look at hout dumb.
Speaker 1: This is look at all these people that are so
Speaker 1: foolish they think Trump can win the presidency. And it
Speaker 1: was too late, you know, when Zucker and company finally
Speaker 1: figured out that, oh no, people like a politician who
Speaker 1: speaks like a normal person. People like someone who embraces
Speaker 1: the fact that he's imperfect but wants to represent the
Speaker 1: will of a forgotten constituency of American voters, particularly white
Speaker 1: working class voters in this country. I mean people like that.
Speaker 1: CNN didn't figure that out. And there was also always
Speaker 1: this elitist contempt, but it's an unearned elitism, not just
Speaker 1: a sn at MSNBC to. I mean Joe Scarborough. Joe
Speaker 1: Scarborough passes judgment all the time on people who are
Speaker 1: far more intelligent, courageous, ethical, and worthwhile than he is.
Speaker 1: That that's really part of that. That's his shick. He's
Speaker 1: like the mean dumb guy in high school who's always
Speaker 1: wearing the you know, the varsity letterman Jack or whatever
Speaker 1: it was, Like, Yeah, I mean that guy, oh excuse me, mister,
Speaker 1: like valedictorian, who's gonna go ROTC because you're just so cool.
Speaker 1: That's Joe Scarborough. I mean, this is who these are
Speaker 1: people that their their stick is appealing to insecure elitists
Speaker 1: because one of the one of the one of the factors,
Speaker 1: one of the realities of the trump eras you got
Speaker 1: a guy who calls out journalist calls out a lot
Speaker 1: of people says, why, why exactly are you so spectacular?
Speaker 1: Why should you be able to look down your nose
Speaker 1: and other people? Why should you be able to put
Speaker 1: others who have made different choices, who have perhaps you
Speaker 1: know either you know, whether we're talking about women who
Speaker 1: have focused on building families and staying home and taking
Speaker 1: care of families. Oh, you know, the elitists on the
Speaker 1: coast look down on that. Oh, it's like a it's
Speaker 1: like a form of servitude to be a mom who
Speaker 1: takes care of kids. It's ridiculous. And people who don't
Speaker 1: go to fancy or any four year college and instead
Speaker 1: sign up voluntarily for the military because they want to
Speaker 1: serve their country. People who learn to be skilled welders
Speaker 1: or electricians, or plumbers or carpenters or you know, to
Speaker 1: make the stuff that we need to make our lives
Speaker 1: safe and better and easier. You know, there are people
Speaker 1: that go on TV. They're effectively glorified actors. They don't
Speaker 1: know anything, they have no particular skills. They look down
Speaker 1: on all those people and they think that those people
Speaker 1: also aren't as good as illegal aliens. Those people are
Speaker 1: idiots because they don't understand that there are thirty seven genders. Now,
Speaker 1: those people, you know, need need to learn a whole
Speaker 1: lot from the huff Post, Vox dot Com, New York Times,
Speaker 1: left wing pseudo intelligentsia. That was a big underlying theme
Speaker 1: of the entire Trump campaign and continues throughout the Trump presidency. Well,
Speaker 1: we have now one of the most if you're trying
Speaker 1: to distill that smugness, that unearned arrogance, which is a
Speaker 1: key characteristic of the modern liberal and unearned arrogance. And
Speaker 1: I really see this too, and it even comes up
Speaker 1: among the people that I know in media. Conservatives tend
Speaker 1: to be not all of them summer I'm the greatest,
Speaker 1: I do the greatest show, and I'm you know, that's fine,
Speaker 1: that's their own thing. But generally speaking, conservatives are more
Speaker 1: willing to say, look, you know, all the stuff I
Speaker 1: still have to learn. There's there's a humility of liberals are, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm a genius. Oh that I've never seen so many
Speaker 1: people of my life. You go, oh, you turn out
Speaker 1: TV and all these liberals pose is the true intellectual
Speaker 1: and then they say stupid things. You know, they all
Speaker 1: think Laurence tribe is some kind of brilliant legal mind.
Speaker 1: And then you see what this guy tweets out. You go,
Speaker 1: this guy's in Harvard law school. This guy's an idiot,
Speaker 1: doesn't know doesn't understand things that just a person who
Speaker 1: thinks things through and has not polluted his mind with
Speaker 1: the greatness of my every thought. I mean, arrogance can
Speaker 1: actually be a hindrance to good decision making. Libs, guess what.
Speaker 1: It's true. You can be trapped in your own composity. Wait,
Speaker 1: it's a danger on the right end on the left.
Speaker 1: But there is no class of people in this country
Speaker 1: with a great I say this, okay, other than actors,
Speaker 1: but actors have to usually be pretty good at acting,
Speaker 1: although some of them are. There is no class of
Speaker 1: people in this country with a greater degree of unearned
Speaker 1: arrogance and contempt for normal Americans than your standard lib
Speaker 1: TV news anchor. They're famous, they're highly paid, and they're
Speaker 1: good at basically nothing. It's amazing. It's a great gig
Speaker 1: if you can get it, But usually gig is a
Speaker 1: commodation being really lucky and sucking up to the right people.
Speaker 1: That's how most of the people that you see on
Speaker 1: TV that get these jobs get them. Speaking of which
Speaker 1: we have the distillation of the contempt that the lib
Speaker 1: TV news anchors and their analysts feel for the American
Speaker 1: people in this unforgettable and I really hope I mean
Speaker 1: that word very literally, unforgettable. Do not forget this. Here
Speaker 1: is how a multi millionaire TV news anchor at CNN
Speaker 1: and his guests talk about Trump voters. Would you please
Speaker 1: play producer Mark. He also knows, deep in his heart
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump couldn't find U crane in a map
Speaker 1: if you had the letter you and a picture of
Speaker 1: an actual physical crane next to it. He knows that
Speaker 1: this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of
Speaker 1: the world. And so that's partly him playing to their
Speaker 1: bass and playing to their audience. You know, the credulous
Speaker 1: boomer rub demo that backs Donald Trump, that wants to
Speaker 1: think that that Donald Trump's a smorrow one And there
Speaker 1: are y'all. Y'all will elite us or them? You elite
Speaker 1: us with your geography and your maps and your spelling,
Speaker 1: even though my math you're reading, yeah, you're reading. You
Speaker 1: know your geography. Know in other countries see from your
Speaker 1: latte all those lines on the map. Only them elite us.
Speaker 1: Know where Ukraine is. Sorry, I apologize, but but it
Speaker 1: was Rick's fault. I blame Ric but at all honestly,
Speaker 1: but not sorry. Hold on, wait tell you the second
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on them. That was good. Sorry, that
Speaker 1: was a good one. I needed that. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: a good one. Hilarious. I just wonder, I mean, they
Speaker 1: say this, and I would I would want to know
Speaker 1: what would what would the reaction have been if on
Speaker 1: Fox newsample, which I think does have some very earnest
Speaker 1: journalists who try to try to present the facts as
Speaker 1: best they can. I'm not saying that no one's perfect that,
Speaker 1: but I think they make a good faith effort. I
Speaker 1: think there are people that try there. And then there's
Speaker 1: a whole lot of opinion that is to the right,
Speaker 1: no question, right, it's a it's a conservative leaning network.
Speaker 1: I don't live in a fantasy where all, of course
Speaker 1: it is CNN though doesn't say it's a liberal leading network.
Speaker 1: CNN thinks it's objective. Right, it's a joke, it's ridiculous,
Speaker 1: it's absurd. But can you imagine for a second if
Speaker 1: Fox News had had a couple of it's and by
Speaker 1: the way, that one guy, Rick Wilson's one of the
Speaker 1: one of the guys who just all you have to
Speaker 1: do is go and see the things that he said.
Speaker 1: I I mean, I'm still amazed that the fact that
Speaker 1: he goes on TV given what he said about Ann
Speaker 1: Coulter on Twitter publicly once, which I cannot I could
Speaker 1: not even begin to repeat on air. It was absolutely
Speaker 1: disgusting and heinous. And you know, Anne is amazing, and
Speaker 1: I think Ann's one of the one of the best
Speaker 1: contemporary polemicists alive. I make no make no secret of that.
Speaker 1: And you know, Rick Wilson, He's never been a problem
Speaker 1: to me. I've met him a few times. I don't
Speaker 1: have anything personally against him. I just think that his
Speaker 1: stick is kind of disgusting, and sometimes it is quite
Speaker 1: clearly disgusting. But you know, he's there and this is
Speaker 1: this thing. He's a Republican that just he just dances
Speaker 1: to the two and the Libs play for him all
Speaker 1: the time. That's right, you know, come on, Rick Wilson,
Speaker 1: go in the corner, dance, bear dance. Do what we
Speaker 1: tell you, Rick Wilson, and they do, and he does
Speaker 1: it right. This has become the way I guess that
Speaker 1: he puts, you know, food on the table. It's how
Speaker 1: he gets the paycheck, whatever, and the other the other
Speaker 1: individuals a New York Times writer, and I just have
Speaker 1: to say, could you imagine if Fox News had one
Speaker 1: of its main anchors, all right, this isn't some little
Speaker 1: late night weekend show or something. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: one of its main anchors, have on two guests and
Speaker 1: laughing hysterically while they're essentially saying that, you know, the
Speaker 1: base of the opposing party, that that Barack Obama's bass
Speaker 1: can't read, doesn't have have maps, can't spell, you know,
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, drinks lattes or whatever, whatever
Speaker 1: the stuff, all the stuff that they were saying, just
Speaker 1: flip it. There would be outrage for all my outrage
Speaker 1: from the media, you know, especially if they if these
Speaker 1: conservative commentators in this sense, if they focused in I mean,
Speaker 1: he went after you know what was it rue? Essentially
Speaker 1: what they're making fun of here we all know this
Speaker 1: are rural uh you know, rural senior citizen Trump voters
Speaker 1: who are white. That's what that's what they're making fun of.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine if there was a similar moment where
Speaker 1: they went after some of the more favorable demographics for
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party and made fun of a lack of
Speaker 1: maps and reading and literally, could you imagine the outrage
Speaker 1: that you would see, Oh, Mike, it would be you know,
Speaker 1: we would be told that the country was being pulled
Speaker 1: apart of the scene. There would probably be riots. Actually,
Speaker 1: I mean there would be real problems if that ever happened.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's amazing here CNN thinks that they're
Speaker 1: the victims. I see this one of the the fellow
Speaker 1: mister Ali who was not RICKI you know, the other
Speaker 1: one than Rick Wilson. He's saying, oh, you know, my
Speaker 1: family's worried about my safety and everything now and look
Speaker 1: and no, no person, there's never an excuse for threatening
Speaker 1: anybody because of what they say on TV. And if
Speaker 1: you do that, you're a moron. I don't care what
Speaker 1: your politics are, what part of your or anything else.
Speaker 1: If you do that, you're a bad person. Okay, so
Speaker 1: let's just establish that. But this is this is just
Speaker 1: the way CNN really, This is who that This is
Speaker 1: who CNN is, This is what that network's all about.
Speaker 1: And this is what and the reason that you know,
Speaker 1: I want to bring it up is that they haven't
Speaker 1: learned anything. It hasn't changed, nothing is different from twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen four. Them, they don't, they don't feel any sense
Speaker 1: of Wow, maybe we were wrong to trash Trump so
Speaker 1: much because he's actually been a pretty good president. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe we could try to come up with better ideas
Speaker 1: to the American people instead of just saying a bunch
Speaker 1: of you know, toothless hillbilly racists, or the reason that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump won the election. They still live, you know,
Speaker 1: they would say that we live though the Conservatives live
Speaker 1: in a bubble. No lives live in a bubble. They
Speaker 1: don't understand that there are a whole lot of people,
Speaker 1: millions and millions of millions of them, who vote for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump who just think that it's a guy who
Speaker 1: is going to do good things for the country and
Speaker 1: doesn't look even though he's a billionaire and you know
Speaker 1: he's married to supermodels and all this stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: he doesn't look on people who make a living, do
Speaker 1: the right thing, treat their families well, try to support
Speaker 1: their try to support their wife and children or you know,
Speaker 1: their husband and children, whichever way, doesn't look down on
Speaker 1: them with contempt. On white working class voters in particularly
Speaker 1: doesn't look at them with contempt, and the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: really does have a contempt for that demographic. You know,
Speaker 1: move aside, you're a problem. You're not educated, up, you're
Speaker 1: you're not sophisticated. Up. You don't drink enough lattas with
Speaker 1: almond milk or actually a hazel on milk, which I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a latte drinker, so there's that. I actually make
Speaker 1: a pretty mean latte. CNN shows you who they are.
Speaker 1: They've learned nothing. Just remember this. The New York Times,
Speaker 1: the Washington Post, all these other major news out that
Speaker 1: they all view the same way. They all view their
Speaker 1: fellow Americans with contempt. You know, I don't view the
Speaker 1: Democrat constituency the same the same way that the Democrats
Speaker 1: view the Republican constituency. And that I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: hate them at all. I don't. I don't have hatred
Speaker 1: for them. I think they're wrong, I think they're misguided.
Speaker 1: I think that there are a lot of things that
Speaker 1: history shows us that they don't yet understand or are
Speaker 1: unwilling to unwilling to take into account with their analysis.
Speaker 1: But I still do hope. And that's why when I
Speaker 1: hear from Democrats who listen to this show. It makes
Speaker 1: me happy. I want more Democrats to listen to this
Speaker 1: show because I do think that there are people who
Speaker 1: the more they think about their beliefs and the more
Speaker 1: they think about being Democrats and what that really means,
Speaker 1: and get and get an unbiased or shouldn't unbiased? Pardon me,
Speaker 1: get an unfiltered sense of it from somebody that opposes
Speaker 1: that ideology, who understands that he's talking about. The more
Speaker 1: likely is we can bring people over to our side
Speaker 1: and our way of thinking, which I do think is
Speaker 1: better for the country. But CNN, folks, when people show
Speaker 1: you who they are, listen to them, let them tell you.
Speaker 1: CNN showed you what it's all about. Don't forget it.
Speaker 1: You're in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton
Speaker 1: Show podcast. Basically, wonder Biden got a job? Stab place president?
Speaker 1: If that's a crime my name, shouldn't half of your
Speaker 1: children be in prison? My children are nine and eleven.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that you want to throw a nine year
Speaker 1: old in prison, but at this point, my third grader
Speaker 1: plays basketball and softball at her school, so so stop
Speaker 1: playing the nasty No, no, stop playing the nasty Washington Game.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry games attacking a nine year old. Get him,
Speaker 1: get him ted, don't don't let don't let up on
Speaker 1: Brian Carram of CNN. Oh, that's right, and Playboy go
Speaker 1: get him ted? Absolutely. Oh aren't your kids you know,
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden? Look at these Look at these psycho libs.
Speaker 1: They're defending the hundred Biden arrangement. Oh it doesn't everybody, No,
Speaker 1: not everybody's kids get fifty thousand dollars a month because daddy,
Speaker 1: your mommy is a politician to sit on a board
Speaker 1: they have no business on while daddy or mommy are
Speaker 1: supposed to be investigating that company. No, not everybody gets it.
Speaker 1: That's not a normal thing. But this is this is
Speaker 1: what they have to do libs for their positions, to
Speaker 1: hold the positions they do in this whole hundred Biden thing,
Speaker 1: they have to pretend to be complete idiots. Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to The bus Esson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe
Speaker 1: on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get
Speaker 1: your podcasts. The typical board number of these Fortune one
Speaker 1: hundred companies, we know their titans of their industry. They're
Speaker 1: highly qualified and as such they're well compensated. Even so,
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden was paid Sidney efficently more. This is how
Speaker 1: well he was compensated. So Hunter Biden has paid over
Speaker 1: eighty three thousand dollars a month, while the average American
Speaker 1: family of four during that time each year made less
Speaker 1: than fifty four thousand dollars. And that's according to us
Speaker 1: since his bureau during that time. And this is what's
Speaker 1: been reported about his work on the board. The Washington
Speaker 1: Post said, quote, what specific duties Hunter Biden carried out
Speaker 1: for Barisma are not fully known end quote. Then New
Speaker 1: Yorker reported, quote once or twice a year, he attended
Speaker 1: Barisma board meetings and energy forums that took place in
Speaker 1: Europe end quote. When speaking with ABC News about his
Speaker 1: qualifications to be on Barisma's board, Hunter Biden didn't point
Speaker 1: to any of the usual qualify stations of a board member.
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden had no experience in natural gas, no experience
Speaker 1: in the energy sector, no experience with Ukrainian regulatory affairs.
Speaker 1: As far as we know, he doesn't speak Ukrainian. Pretty
Speaker 1: sure he doesn't. Pretty sure, Hunter Biden doesn't speak any Ukrainian. Notice,
Speaker 1: how there's still a defensiveness that was Pambondi talking about
Speaker 1: how this whole Hunter Biden on the board of Arhism
Speaker 1: is completely absurd, and liberals just pretend like it's not.
Speaker 1: The Libs act like there's nothing to see here. There's
Speaker 1: everything to see here. This is now the standard. Remember
Speaker 1: they also have spent so much time and you know
Speaker 1: this is important context for this raising how dare and
Speaker 1: this is a real thing. How there are diplomats who
Speaker 1: buy food at Trump Hotel, a place where I've hung
Speaker 1: out a lot, where they have fantastic hanging bacon strips
Speaker 1: where they take a little flame gun out I guess
Speaker 1: a flamethrower. I don't know what, a little whatever you
Speaker 1: call it. It looks like it's a little fiery thing
Speaker 1: that comes out of a can and a blowtorch. There
Speaker 1: we go, a flame thingy. So yeah, they take a
Speaker 1: blowtorch and they do The bacon strip's very much worth it.
Speaker 1: If you ever go down there. That's that's the best
Speaker 1: the food. Other than that, I'm gonna tell you it
Speaker 1: is pretty mediocre, but the bacon's excellent. I actually saw
Speaker 1: a recipe last night that uses interwoven strips of crispy
Speaker 1: bacon instead of a bun bam, hashtag paleo, hashtag gluten free.
Speaker 1: But there were all these stories. The Washingtonost run them.
Speaker 1: Other places would run them about how there were diplomats
Speaker 1: who were buying cheeseburgers at Trump Hotel or whatever and
Speaker 1: having a beer, having glass of wine, and how that's
Speaker 1: a violation of the Emolument's clause because by spending money,
Speaker 1: and these are real stories, by spending money. The Washington
Speaker 1: Post ran this at Trump Hotel, they were perhaps currying
Speaker 1: favor with the president, and you'd say, to yourself, hold
Speaker 1: on a second. They spend a few hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 1: from twenty different countries on product at a commercial enterprise
Speaker 1: that has food costs, that has labor costs, and they
Speaker 1: think that they're gonna sway Trump on foreign policy or
Speaker 1: something with this. This would this would be like someone saying, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm really worried that someone walked up to the president
Speaker 1: gave him five bucks and was like, I need I
Speaker 1: need you to, you know, stop backing Ukraine against Russia.
Speaker 1: You know, But they gave him five bucks, So I
Speaker 1: think he's probably gonna I think he's probably gonna come
Speaker 1: up to my side of this. Thing. It's it's it's again.
Speaker 1: It's preposterous. They keep making all these preposterous arguments, and
Speaker 1: then they expect us to take them seriously when they
Speaker 1: make a new preposterous argument. No, I'd rather not have
Speaker 1: that approach. I'd rather not accept that. I refuse in
Speaker 1: the fact to to accept it. But the Hunter Biden
Speaker 1: thing is not going away anytime soon, because it also
Speaker 1: is an issue of corruption. Corruption. The Democrats pretend they
Speaker 1: give all these speeches, all this oh my gosh, all
Speaker 1: these speeches about how sad they are about money and
Speaker 1: politics and how unfair it is that there's all these
Speaker 1: special interests, and then their kids all just get completely
Speaker 1: Democrat politicians. Kids get the complete white glove treatment from
Speaker 1: the media in with whatever things that they do. I mean,
Speaker 1: the fact that I'm supposed to listen to Hillary in
Speaker 1: the starting out, Hillary hollow, the fact that I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to listen to Chelsea Clinton. Chelsea Clinton has never had
Speaker 1: a real job. It's never had a real job, never
Speaker 1: showed up to a job where she could realistically be
Speaker 1: fired for underperformance or not showing up because of who
Speaker 1: mommy and daddy is. Now I'm online. If you know
Speaker 1: if my mommy and daddy were so rich and powerful
Speaker 1: that I could just like move from one place to another,
Speaker 1: can't get fired, get paid a lot of money. You know,
Speaker 1: NBC paid Chelsea Clinton for I think it was twenty
Speaker 1: minutes of actual on air work, and she was horrible
Speaker 1: at it, by the way, as somebody who's also in
Speaker 1: the business. I think they paid her almost seven hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Yeah, that's good. That's good work. If for
Speaker 1: twenty minutes of work on air, that's good work if
Speaker 1: you can get it. You know, NBC News, they really,
Speaker 1: they're really watching every penny over there. Huh. No, again,
Speaker 1: that's not illegal. It's gross, though, And I don't have
Speaker 1: to listen. I don't have to accept the narrative being
Speaker 1: pushed by the rest of the liberal media that, oh, now,
Speaker 1: because she's a Clinton, this is somebody who I should
Speaker 1: have to listen to. Right, we can push back against
Speaker 1: these says. No, I'm sorry, it's it's it's gross. It's gross.
Speaker 1: I don't like nepotism. Not gonna lie. That could be
Speaker 1: a problem for me down the line with some other
Speaker 1: things going on in the Republican Party as we know.
Speaker 1: But I do not like nepotism. I do not approve
Speaker 1: of it. I do not defend it is not something
Speaker 1: that and you know our side people like it sometimes
Speaker 1: when it's on our side. And no, no, no, if
Speaker 1: we're going to talk principles, we got to keep those
Speaker 1: principles clear, gotta keep them consistent. I'll leave that one
Speaker 1: for now. Then we just get to does Mazie Horono
Speaker 1: really know anything? That's a that's a fair question, I ask.
Speaker 1: I think I've told you before, and I don't don't.
Speaker 1: I don't say it out of not trying to be mean,
Speaker 1: but does Mazie Horono know anything? Because when she talks
Speaker 1: on television, I find myself asking a question, how is
Speaker 1: this person of the United States Senator? And I really
Speaker 1: I just and not that I think the other senators
Speaker 1: are so impressive, and I think Schumer is calculating and cunning.
Speaker 1: I think sam could be said of Pelosi. But you know,
Speaker 1: none of them are great intellectuals, and certainly none of
Speaker 1: them have any moral fiber or character worth talking about.
Speaker 1: But the people of Hawaii, I just I don't know,
Speaker 1: whis such a beautiful place the people of Hawaii? What
Speaker 1: is it that makes them think yeah, I want this
Speaker 1: person to represent my state. Would you play clip sixteen please,
Speaker 1: producer Mark. They're making the argument, basically, especially Josh Wish,
Speaker 1: that an abusive power is not in teachable offense. I
Speaker 1: don't know of any other real constitutional scholar who agrees
Speaker 1: with Josh Wits, But that kind of argument says that
Speaker 1: you think that this president truly can do anything he
Speaker 1: wants under Article two of the Constitution, which is the
Speaker 1: president's position, and these kinds of arguments enable him to
Speaker 1: hold to that position. It's really what I call the
Speaker 1: he did it, so what? Defense, and that's what the
Speaker 1: Republicans may ultimately hang their hats on. Even if they're
Speaker 1: they hear from Bolton, which is pretty damning testimony, they
Speaker 1: just alike to all the things that the President has
Speaker 1: been saying and pushing out what I call big cya
Speaker 1: arguments about his explanation for the whole then I think
Speaker 1: that you know, they're going to be left with, yeah,
Speaker 1: he did it so what. I don't think the country
Speaker 1: is going to buy that. What the heck was that?
Speaker 1: Anybody know? What was that all about? Huh? The president
Speaker 1: says he can do anything. The President's defense is very
Speaker 1: specific on things he did or did not do. The
Speaker 1: president's defense is not he can do anything, and I
Speaker 1: just who knows more about constitutional law? Alan Dershowitz or
Speaker 1: Amazing Herono. I think we could all make a pretty
Speaker 1: good determination of that one. Ah, it's amazing by the
Speaker 1: way Joe Biden is. I know, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: get too much more into the Hunter Biden thing. I
Speaker 1: got other things I want to talk to you about
Speaker 1: as well today. But Joe Biden kind of let everyone
Speaker 1: know exactly what's going on here when he says that,
Speaker 1: you know, the press, the press corps, the press has
Speaker 1: got my back in this whole process. We know they do, Joe.
Speaker 1: We're not surprised to hear that, because one would think
Speaker 1: that Hunter Biden, who I think it was the Waldorf
Speaker 1: in New York by the way, I'd said the Waldorf
Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills, but it's the Waldorf in New York
Speaker 1: in a very fancy places. He's driving around in a
Speaker 1: Porsche and initially was saying that he wasn't going to
Speaker 1: pay paternity hey, because he had a child with a
Speaker 1: stripper and exotic answer. Perhaps if you prefer that nomenclature,
Speaker 1: you know that you would think that this would be
Speaker 1: kind of a bigger deal because we have not just
Speaker 1: the wayward son of Joe Biden here, who is at
Speaker 1: the center of this now conspiracy, This this whole issue
Speaker 1: of whether or not the president should be impeached removed
Speaker 1: from office. A Hunter Biden judgment would seem to matter
Speaker 1: a whole lot. You know, Hunter Biden is not is
Speaker 1: not a smooth operator. He's not a guy that you
Speaker 1: can count on to make the right decision. That's putting
Speaker 1: it mildly. But the press is not interested at all.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not interested in really tracking down what
Speaker 1: did or did not happen in Ukraine. They don't want
Speaker 1: to run stories on the corruption that seemed to be
Speaker 1: happening not just at Barisma, but more generally in the
Speaker 1: in the energy sector in Ukraine. Here's what Here's what
Speaker 1: Joe Biden says though, about his buddies in the press
Speaker 1: who have got his back play twenty Presidents can't hold gredges.
Speaker 1: These guys are attacking me and my fa get it,
Speaker 1: and the press corps with me. They're all good people.
Speaker 1: Follow me. They keep asking me, you know, they just
Speaker 1: brought up your son Hunter, and they're doing this and that.
Speaker 1: The other thing. Well, guess what, I don't hold grudges
Speaker 1: because presidents can't hold grudges. Presidents have to be fighters,
Speaker 1: but they also have to be healers. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: the Democrats want to do. They want to heal the country.
Speaker 1: They want to heal the country by undoing the twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen vote before we can have another vote to ratify that.
Speaker 1: Those of us who voted for Trump in twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: feel even better about it now than we ever have.
Speaker 1: That's certainly the case with me. With each passing year
Speaker 1: it's been it's been an even better investment decision to
Speaker 1: vote for Donald Trump with each passing year. I don't
Speaker 1: mean investment financial, if that's true too. I just mean
Speaker 1: you're even more certain all that decision with each passing year.
Speaker 1: You're in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton
Speaker 1: Show podcast. Do you you have a celebrity crush? Yes, Prince
Speaker 1: the Rock. Come on, just look at that man. He's
Speaker 1: eye candy. I'm a happily married man. I think my
Speaker 1: wife's a star and I've got a big crush on her.
Speaker 1: Do you have a celebrity crush? Not for The New
Speaker 1: York Times to know about my favorite actor and actress?
Speaker 1: Who want to Dern and William Macy who starred in
Speaker 1: a movie that I produce. Alicia Keys is a fantastic
Speaker 1: artist and a really good person. Crushing on you. Evelyn
Speaker 1: the Rock, He's eye candy. Look at those pack muscles.
Speaker 1: Look at that gloodyous Maximus hizzled with hours of sweaty
Speaker 1: work in the gym Owlishaputh Warren wishes she had been
Speaker 1: right there on the treadmill going at least two point
Speaker 1: two miles from an hour. Wow, the Rock was doing
Speaker 1: his thing. WHOA, I gotta tell you that was like,
Speaker 1: that was a real moment when the New York Times
Speaker 1: asks all these different um all these different Democrat contenders,
Speaker 1: who their celebrity crush is. At first of all, I
Speaker 1: like that Bloomberg is like Laura Gern, She's great, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, I think she does a great job. Like
Speaker 1: who is is that the actress from the Jurassic Park?
Speaker 1: Is that Laura Dern? Or like I think he said,
Speaker 1: Laura Dern, is that the same par I don't even
Speaker 1: know who he's talking about. Bloomberg ag ainswers it that way.
Speaker 1: High five to may Or Pete and to Andrew Yang
Speaker 1: for being like, no, no, sorry, not doing this. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, Yank says it's his wife. That's cute, And
Speaker 1: I think that's the you know, a good answer to
Speaker 1: the circumstances. Mayor Pete, you give a good answer. I say,
Speaker 1: it's a good answer, and he's like, yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna play this game either. Um, who is the who's
Speaker 1: the first one? Who? Who's who? Said? Prince? Who? Producer? Mark?
Speaker 1: Who was that? That was Amy Klobuchar. Oh, that's why
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell from that, Prince you don't really have
Speaker 1: a cloba char impression. Yeah, I don't have a cloth
Speaker 1: of char impression. That's true. I gotta work. When I
Speaker 1: heard the Warren part, I was like that that's what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hear later in Buck's voice, Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: the rock. Have you ever he ever seen the way
Speaker 1: that he just deadlifts like five thousand pounds. Give us
Speaker 1: a lady, give us a lady. The vapors? Oh good, heavens,
Speaker 1: I love you how much? Man? Meeting one, I was
Speaker 1: gonna ask a question, but I don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: I can go on from here. Just I was gonna
Speaker 1: say Bernie wasn't in that video. What's his celebrity crush?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's a good one. Um, I gotta
Speaker 1: think who would be Who would be the Bernie Sanders crush.
Speaker 1: Perhaps the early Soviet slash communist Rosa Luxembourg. I don't know.
Speaker 1: We'd have to think, could that be it? Maybe the
Speaker 1: marvelous missus maizel Um. She's beautiful. Yeah, that sounds like
Speaker 1: that's that says she's incredible. I mean, I'm a I like,
Speaker 1: what's her name? But I don't know her actual name.
Speaker 1: I just trying to think of an old lady communist,
Speaker 1: and Rosa Luxembourg was the first one who came. Now.
Speaker 1: I think she's technically I just think any old lady
Speaker 1: would work in this situation. Yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know who. I don't know who Bernie Sanders would
Speaker 1: go for. I would be curious to see who he
Speaker 1: comes up with, though. Um, And for those who are
Speaker 1: wondering at Rosa Luxemburg was a libertarian Marxist from eighteen
Speaker 1: seventy one to nineteen nineteen. And she's a socialist. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. So that was the only socialist I
Speaker 1: could think of from back in the day, who's a
Speaker 1: lady off the top? I had not a lot of
Speaker 1: really famous female socialists, so that's all I had on
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, I feel like females weren't in power
Speaker 1: when socialism was a big thing. That's probably true. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good point. I didn't even have the vote
Speaker 1: in this country really, so at least when socialism is
Speaker 1: getting started. So anyway, UM, celebrity crushes. Uh, let's see
Speaker 1: what we have here, Um celebrity crushes. I think the
Speaker 1: best one was clearly The Rock um Laurena der I
Speaker 1: mean the best in terms of, like, what was the
Speaker 1: most amusing for us here in the studio. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I think The Rock did a
Speaker 1: The Rock probably should reach out. He's occasionally active on
Speaker 1: Twitter and has something to say to us, something to
Speaker 1: say to those who reach out to him. People always
Speaker 1: talking about The Rock maybe running for president, if you remember,
Speaker 1: that was a thing that came up for a while.
Speaker 1: I think i'd vote for him. I don't know. He's
Speaker 1: a very charismatic fellow. He's a very I'm thinking right
Speaker 1: now about all that, you know, I could talk about
Speaker 1: how Elizabeth Warren finds him so charismatic too. But I
Speaker 1: think the other one, the other one that the other
Speaker 1: one that I had was was Alicia Keys from Tom Steyer.
Speaker 1: I just thought that's a random like, like, I mean, fine, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's just like Tom Steyer who goes with Alicia Keys.
Speaker 1: I don't know, yeah, I just he's such a he's
Speaker 1: such a nerd, that guy. And it turns out, you know,
Speaker 1: you look more into his past financially and like he
Speaker 1: founded a bank that's been really rough on low income people.
Speaker 1: And I think that this whole climate change thing is
Speaker 1: he's a billionaire who's trying to trying to pay off,
Speaker 1: you know, the sins of the past of how he
Speaker 1: became a billionaire. He's a very guilty conscience billionaire for
Speaker 1: whatever reason. But now I have to ask Producer Mark,
Speaker 1: does Missus Mark allow you to answer the question who
Speaker 1: the celebrity crushes? Oh, it's my wife, obviously, Producer Mark.
Speaker 1: That is the only correct? Was there one before she
Speaker 1: was missus Producer Mark? I always for some reason said me, Lacunas, Okay, yeah, respectable, Ye,
Speaker 1: who's mine? Jessica Beale? We all already know that correct correct,
Speaker 1: even though there was that whole anti vax thing that
Speaker 1: came up out there. Hey yeah, I didn't see. Hey, nobody,
Speaker 1: nobody's perfect. Nobody's perfect. Jessica call me. I know her
Speaker 1: and I was very married. Yeah, I know. I know.
Speaker 1: He's super rich and famous whatever and the rich famous attractive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I run the freedom. Thanks for listening to The Bus
Speaker 1: Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the
Speaker 1: iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. There's
Speaker 1: continued investigation about just what happened and what went wrong.
Speaker 1: It led to the tragedy over the weekend of that
Speaker 1: helicopter going down and killing nine people, Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna,
Speaker 1: another husband, wife, and daughter. I think, I mean, the
Speaker 1: whole thing, it's just is absolutely horrific. And I didn't
Speaker 1: want to on the first day we talked about I
Speaker 1: didn't want to get into this. Although it did happen
Speaker 1: right away, there is the media reaction to this, and
Speaker 1: there were some very well, let's just say noteworthy for now,
Speaker 1: media reactions to what happened. First of all, that that TMZ,
Speaker 1: which is a gossip site, a celebrity gossip site, broke
Speaker 1: the news before Bryant's family or other families were able
Speaker 1: to be notified. Is that raises some very very clear
Speaker 1: questions about, you know, journalistic ethics. Does anyone really think
Speaker 1: that it's right for someone to find out that their father,
Speaker 1: their brother, their mother, their sister, husband, wife, etc. Died
Speaker 1: suddenly by seeing it on Twitter. That's a part of
Speaker 1: this discussion that I didn't get into quite yet. And
Speaker 1: then there's also how do journalists respond when something like
Speaker 1: this happened? How do people who claim that their their job,
Speaker 1: their life's work, their profession which gets them up every
Speaker 1: day is about bringing information to people, how do they
Speaker 1: react when this kind of a tragedy occurs. Well, we
Speaker 1: have one one instance that certainly has gotten a lot
Speaker 1: of attention. A Washington Post reporter right after Kobe Bryant,
Speaker 1: right after the news broth that Kobe Bryant died, she
Speaker 1: shared the following tweet, Kobe Bryant's disturbing rape case, The
Speaker 1: DNA evidenced the accuser story and the half confession. It
Speaker 1: was a piece from the Daily Beast, and she shared
Speaker 1: it right as this man was. I mean, they have
Speaker 1: they had quite literally not retrieved the bodies yet and
Speaker 1: given the reality here of what occurred, they believe that
Speaker 1: helicopter was going I heard today up to one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty miles an hour and it collided into the
Speaker 1: side of a mountain. There were much more pressing, much
Speaker 1: more important things for people to be considering at that
Speaker 1: moment of extreme grief than sharing an old story about
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant that was clearly going to set off a
Speaker 1: lot of people under the circumstances. Now, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that you can, ever you should wipe a figures background
Speaker 1: clean just because they die. That's not that's not the
Speaker 1: standard that we're trying to set up here, but it
Speaker 1: is I think understandable for people to want to have
Speaker 1: some space for grieving when you when a figure like
Speaker 1: this who did a lot of good for a lot
Speaker 1: of people and inspired a lot of people. And that
Speaker 1: was why I wanted to focus on that in the
Speaker 1: first day. And I will say, there's a video that's
Speaker 1: going around right now of a reporter, of a sports
Speaker 1: reporter or a female journalist sports journalist about the one
Speaker 1: time she met Kobe Bryant. I have to tell you,
Speaker 1: usually when people have the after a death of a figure,
Speaker 1: like this. I mean, I remember after Andrew Breitbart very
Speaker 1: suddenly passed away, I was on TV and I was asked,
Speaker 1: you know, do you have you know, everyone was going
Speaker 1: around the table. I was with a bunch of people.
Speaker 1: This is back in the real news days, and they
Speaker 1: were all telling stories about their experiences with Andrew Britbart.
Speaker 1: And I had never met Andrew Breitbart, so I just said,
Speaker 1: I wish, you know, I thoughts and prayers for his family.
Speaker 1: I mean, but I don't have a story to share.
Speaker 1: And I think that sometimes people get dragged into or
Speaker 1: that they feel a pressure to tell some kind of
Speaker 1: a personal anecdote about a person like this, a public
Speaker 1: figure like this, because everyone is doing it. This woman
Speaker 1: told the story but the one time she met Kobe Bryant,
Speaker 1: and it's really touching, actually it was. It was incredibly
Speaker 1: earnest and well done and worth hearing about how he
Speaker 1: was a girl dad. That's how Kobe Bryant described himself,
Speaker 1: because he was so proud of being a dad of
Speaker 1: I think three girls and wish that he could have
Speaker 1: five more. And you know, it was just a It's
Speaker 1: a really inspiring message and it's something that I think
Speaker 1: if you get the chance on we don't have it
Speaker 1: here almost show today, but if you get the chance,
Speaker 1: it's worth it's worth hearing to rush out there when
Speaker 1: someone has when there's been a tragedy like this, and
Speaker 1: to share a new story that first of all, he
Speaker 1: was never a gami. It was never adjudicated in criminal court.
Speaker 1: We do believe still somewhat in the presumption of innocence
Speaker 1: as certainly as a legal matter, but also as it
Speaker 1: affects people's public reputations, and I think that that has
Speaker 1: to be taken into account. Felicious Omez was in a
Speaker 1: whole lot of hot water after tweeting that because of
Speaker 1: the outrage on the internet. Here's what she responded to.
Speaker 1: Here's how she responded thirty nine minutes after sharing this. So,
Speaker 1: so Kobe Bryant and his daughter die, seven other people dead,
Speaker 1: fire wreckage of a helicopter crash. People are just processing
Speaker 1: this and she says, oh, yeah, I remember that story
Speaker 1: about Kobe Bryant being a rapists. That's effectively what this
Speaker 1: Washington Post reporter decided to do. And then when she
Speaker 1: got the backlash, which I think anybody would expect would happen,
Speaker 1: she wrote, well, that was eye opening. To the ten
Speaker 1: thousand people literally who have commented and emailed me with
Speaker 1: abuse and death threats, please take a moment and read
Speaker 1: the story, which was written three plus years ago and
Speaker 1: not by me. Any public figure is worth remembering in
Speaker 1: their totality. Yeah, it was a three plus year old story.
Speaker 1: So the first Kobe Bryant dies, the first thing this
Speaker 1: Washington Post reporter does is find the most, the most
Speaker 1: you know, damning, the worst moment effectively of Kobe Bryant's
Speaker 1: public life and share that. And it just felt like
Speaker 1: this is an incredibly poor judgment from this reporter, She continued,
Speaker 1: even if that public figure is beloved, and that's totally unsettling.
Speaker 1: The folks are responding with rage and threats toward me.
Speaker 1: Someone who didn't even write the piece but found it
Speaker 1: well reported, speaks volumes about the pressure people come under
Speaker 1: to stay silent in these cases. Well, the rape allegation
Speaker 1: was not the news story the day that he died
Speaker 1: with his daughter in a helicopter crash. Right, The rape
Speaker 1: allegation had been the story over I think over fifteen
Speaker 1: over fifteen years ago, and it did seem too many
Speaker 1: people understandably that that Felicia Sunmez of the Washington Post
Speaker 1: was unwilling to extend even a little bit of just
Speaker 1: considered a little a little bit of good faith leeway
Speaker 1: to Kobe Bryant family members, fans, friends, to grieve a
Speaker 1: bit before we have to go into the you know,
Speaker 1: we can have this referendum or we have not referendum.
Speaker 1: Have this referencing back to Kobe Bryant's life and you know,
Speaker 1: the ups and the ups and downs and all the
Speaker 1: things that people can and will discuss about about a
Speaker 1: public figure like this. I think it's interesting that the
Speaker 1: Washington Post suspended her because of this. They suspended her,
Speaker 1: but I don't think the Washington Post suspended her because
Speaker 1: that they would extend this sense of basic decency from
Speaker 1: reporters in the immediate aftermath. I mean, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: say it. I think that if a Republican of any
Speaker 1: anyone who's associated with the with the right and Republicanism
Speaker 1: died in a in a plane crash, helicopter crash, car crash,
Speaker 1: you name it, that a Washington Post reporter would be
Speaker 1: able to say, well, look at how this person was
Speaker 1: really you know, supporting white nationalists with this legislation or
Speaker 1: in a right away just just bash the person. Kobe Bryant,
Speaker 1: international superstar, beloved by you know, hundreds of millions of
Speaker 1: people really around the world. There's a special protection that
Speaker 1: has afforded his legacy by the Washington Post. And also
Speaker 1: I think a response to market forces here where people
Speaker 1: look at the Post and they say, really, these are
Speaker 1: the kind of people that you employ. You employ people
Speaker 1: who are willing to trash a man as his body
Speaker 1: and his daughter's body have not even been retrieved from
Speaker 1: the crash site. And you know that's and then you
Speaker 1: also get into when is a public figure? How does
Speaker 1: a public figure receive any any grace or forgiveness after
Speaker 1: they pass away for incidents where there is still a
Speaker 1: dispute as to what happened like this, you know, I
Speaker 1: you know, the circumstances of this, I don't remember all
Speaker 1: and I could go back and read it. I haven't
Speaker 1: yet all of the details of the case, but I
Speaker 1: do remember when it first happened, and you know, the
Speaker 1: circumstances of it were certainly in dispute. Kobe Bryant never
Speaker 1: never admitted to knowingly sexually assaulting someone, this young woman
Speaker 1: at this employee of a Now he was a married
Speaker 1: man at the time. I mean, there's this whole other
Speaker 1: component of why was he having sex, even if it
Speaker 1: was consensual sex with a nineteen year old girl when
Speaker 1: he's got a wife and several children at home. That's
Speaker 1: another part of the story. But you know, this is
Speaker 1: this is where we have to as a society start
Speaker 1: to understand what the boundaries are, what the acceptable you know,
Speaker 1: where does discourse go about a public figure like this
Speaker 1: after he is gone? Could be he or she depending
Speaker 1: on the circumstances. But this is obviously Kobe Bryant's life
Speaker 1: we're discussing, and do we you know, what happens is
Speaker 1: does this person always live with the asterisk of what
Speaker 1: it's just effectively an accusation. It's one thing, I mean,
Speaker 1: if it's proven in court. I mean, but Mike Tyson,
Speaker 1: for example, another sports hero who has a who has
Speaker 1: a rape conviction, not just a rape allegation, rape conviction
Speaker 1: on his record. He's gone around and tried to make
Speaker 1: public amends for this and what he says he served
Speaker 1: his debt to society. He's tried to make public amends.
Speaker 1: He's tried to be a better person, a better father,
Speaker 1: you know, is that what what becomes? You know what?
Speaker 1: The day you know, I hope Mike Tyson has a
Speaker 1: rest of long, long and happy life and all that.
Speaker 1: But the day that Mike Tyson passes is the first
Speaker 1: thing is the first thing that reporters are going to say,
Speaker 1: this guy was it was a rape. Was somebody who
Speaker 1: was credibly accused of and prosecuted for and convicted for
Speaker 1: a rape. How do we view public figures in their
Speaker 1: totality after the fact. It's a complicated question. I don't
Speaker 1: have an answer for you today on this. I just
Speaker 1: know that this one Washington Post reporter found out that
Speaker 1: if nothing else, give the family twenty four or forty
Speaker 1: eight hours degree before you say, oh, yeah, this guy
Speaker 1: was accused of rape. That seems to me to be
Speaker 1: a basic decency. Not that not that it's silenced forever
Speaker 1: and we can't have the discussion, But how about just
Speaker 1: how about a little bit of space for the family
Speaker 1: and space for friends and other people who who come along.
Speaker 1: And I just say that just you wait and see
Speaker 1: the Washington Post would not extend it. This is a
Speaker 1: protection for Kobe Bryant, for people that are in good
Speaker 1: standing with not just it's not even a left wing thing.
Speaker 1: It's just in good standing with the general culture. And
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant is a cultural icon and not just a
Speaker 1: sports icon. Some Republican, though, meets an end and associated
Speaker 1: with Trump. You know, at some point the future, you
Speaker 1: know someone who's in the Trump orbit or just a Republican.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even matter if it's in the Trump orbit. No, no,
Speaker 1: whatever the worst thing is they can say about him,
Speaker 1: You'll see Washington Post reporters saying it right away. You're
Speaker 1: in the freedom Hud. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 1: You are self proclaimed socialist democrotic. Put in the please
Speaker 1: thank you. Your agenda has promised free healthcare for everybody,
Speaker 1: free college tuition, and to pay off people's college loans.
Speaker 1: The price tag for that is estimated to be sixty
Speaker 1: trillion dollars over ten years. Correct. Well, look, we have
Speaker 1: political opponents. You don't know. You don't know how much
Speaker 1: you're planning, don't know, nobody knows. This is impossible. You're
Speaker 1: going to propose a plan to the American people. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna tell how much a cost? Of course, will
Speaker 1: you know exactly what healthcare costs will be women in
Speaker 1: the next I don't know what the costs saw who
Speaker 1: knows the costs. It's gonna be really expensive, but it's
Speaker 1: gonna be great. A few things here about Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 1: One is that we have to take very seriously that
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders can in fact become the Democrat nominee for president.
Speaker 1: I think that we're getting really close to that. Look,
Speaker 1: he was second place in twenty sixteen. It kind of
Speaker 1: makes sense when you think about it. And I would
Speaker 1: also tell you that I think the election that America
Speaker 1: should see here, I mean the real matchup, the one
Speaker 1: that would have meaning about the direction of this country,
Speaker 1: is Donald Trump versus Bernie Sanders. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that that would be better for Trump or better for Sanding.
Speaker 1: I'm not even just the matchup. If you're looking at
Speaker 1: what would really be significant about the direction of the
Speaker 1: United States of America in twenty twenty, I can't believe
Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty. Keep running twenty nineteen on everything, it
Speaker 1: would be it would be Bernie Sanders versus Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: and I think Trump wins on that one. I think
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders is in a lot of ways somewhat untested.
Speaker 1: I think that he hasn't received the kind of criticism
Speaker 1: from Democrats that he would receive from Trump along the way.
Speaker 1: The Bernie Bros, the Bernie fans are are psychotically devoted
Speaker 1: to this guy. I mean they Bernie does have a
Speaker 1: cult like status around him. Not for all of his supporters,
Speaker 1: but there's definitely a group of them who really believe
Speaker 1: that he's a Look, he's a political revolutionary in a
Speaker 1: sense who wants to dramatically change this country. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: if that's the case, then we should really understand what
Speaker 1: today is that he's going to transform the country into.
Speaker 1: And that's why when he's asked questions about what will
Speaker 1: your plan cost, and he goes through the court, whatever cost.
Speaker 1: It's very expensive. But the millionaires and the billionaires don'll
Speaker 1: pay for it. No, we're all going to pay for it.
Speaker 1: It's going to be incredibly expensive to do what he
Speaker 1: wants to do. Expensive on a scale that we have
Speaker 1: never seen before. And we're talking about spending money at
Speaker 1: least in overall numbers, in just raw numbers that I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's ever been done before. And he's
Speaker 1: just suggesting that this is going to be the way
Speaker 1: that we move forward. I mean, look, Bernie Sanders been
Speaker 1: a senator from Vermont, a state with a population of
Speaker 1: like a couple of million, not a very big place,
Speaker 1: not a place of tremendous economic dynamism. No offensive Vermont.
Speaker 1: I'll actually really like it as a place to visit.
Speaker 1: But Bernie Sanders taken over the country as the leader
Speaker 1: of the executive branch is something that we need to
Speaker 1: really understand. Could happen. This could happen, and that would
Speaker 1: be something that the folks who are generally thinking that
Speaker 1: politics does not really move the needle all that much
Speaker 1: for your life one way or the other. You know,
Speaker 1: I believe there's there's a general sense among many of
Speaker 1: us who either care a little bit or a lot
Speaker 1: about politics that you know, it's kind of just we
Speaker 1: kind of just muddle along. We kind of just it's
Speaker 1: all gonna happen the way that it happens, and you know,
Speaker 1: some good decisions and bad decisions, but America's American will
Speaker 1: all be fine. I mean, for America to elect someone
Speaker 1: who claims to be a democratic, who is a democratic socialist,
Speaker 1: and notice how he hones in on that the Democratic
Speaker 1: socialist democratic socialist. Well, okay, so what mister Maduro is
Speaker 1: a democratic socialist. You know, the the socialists of the
Speaker 1: Soviet Union all they all thought, I mean, they didn't
Speaker 1: have elections, but they all thought that they were representing
Speaker 1: the will of the people. The whole point is that
Speaker 1: there is socialism which centralized planning and state control and
Speaker 1: state direction of not just you know, when you can
Speaker 1: direct the economy and all economic activity, you're also going
Speaker 1: to be involved in people's lives and ways where you
Speaker 1: have far too much authority, where the state has far
Speaker 1: too much power, And that's ultimately the problem that we're
Speaker 1: going to face with a Bernie Sanders presidency. You know
Speaker 1: that socialism at its core has to have an authoritarian streak,
Speaker 1: if not be outright authoritarian, because it's not individuals making
Speaker 1: free it's not individuals with the freedom to make their
Speaker 1: own decisions engage in a market of conduct where they
Speaker 1: will they make their own determinations about what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: In socialism, it's we think, we the people in charge,
Speaker 1: we the people that have the power, think that this
Speaker 1: is what should happen. Therefore it will happen the way
Speaker 1: we wanted to That is their approach, and that's markedly
Speaker 1: different than what we've seen in this country for a
Speaker 1: very long time. This would be a leap into these
Speaker 1: socialist abyss. Make no mistake about it. A Bernie Sanders
Speaker 1: presidency would not be something that you can just say,
Speaker 1: all right, item's going to hunker down and wait four years.
Speaker 1: You know, what will it mean to your four oh
Speaker 1: one k, your healthcare, your retirement, your home value. You know?
Speaker 1: A Bernie Sanders presidency would be a dramatic shift in
Speaker 1: a way that I'll be honest with you, I don't
Speaker 1: think a Biden presidency poses the same risks. I think
Speaker 1: that Biden gives us incremental traditional incremental democrat socialism. Bernie
Speaker 1: Sanders is like jumping into the deep end of the
Speaker 1: pool right away. On democratic socialism, Bernie Sanders is let's
Speaker 1: go all. And for those who say, oh buck, but
Speaker 1: the Congress, the Congress has to go along with this too, well,
Speaker 1: let's remember Elizabeth Warren's already saying that student loans will
Speaker 1: just be forgiven as an executive order through the Department
Speaker 1: of Education. Think of the ways that Bernie Sanders, especially
Speaker 1: given the reluctance of conservative judges to do universal junctions
Speaker 1: and tie up a Democrat president. Look look at Obama
Speaker 1: tie up a Democrat president the way they'll tie up
Speaker 1: President Trump. Think about what Bernie Sanders, just as as president,
Speaker 1: can do that would damage the economy and would have
Speaker 1: a real effect on your life, regardless of who controls Congress.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember
Speaker 1: to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeart Radio app, or
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, team Buck, it's time
Speaker 1: for roll call. Whatever happened to dubstep producer Mark? Remember
Speaker 1: when that was? Really? Remember that guy scrill X with
Speaker 1: like half of a shaved head and a long hair
Speaker 1: and the cigarette dangling out of his mouth was considered
Speaker 1: a world famous musician. It's involved aroun Just now it's
Speaker 1: just like house and tech name music. I think I
Speaker 1: think edm is what the cool kids call it, right? Yes? Yeah,
Speaker 1: who's Marshmallow? Marshmallows a newer artist, someone who could never
Speaker 1: hurt us? He actually his face a stay puff marshmallow man.
Speaker 1: He wears like a big marshmallow head. Nobody's ever seen
Speaker 1: his face? Are you serious? But I'm completely serious? Do
Speaker 1: you remember who's the guy who wore the big mouse helmet.
Speaker 1: I think that was a VICI. Now it wasn't a VICI,
Speaker 1: but you're close. It was another There was another guy
Speaker 1: who had the mouse help. Um, you know what I'm talking.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking dead mouse, dead man dead.
Speaker 1: That makes sense, Yeah, yeah, dead mouse. Um, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember that was a big That was a big thing.
Speaker 1: Every every I feel like every five years or so,
Speaker 1: people discover they rediscover like super beat, heavy electric music
Speaker 1: and everyone goes, oh, it's amazing. But anyway, I digress.
Speaker 1: Speaking of things. You know what I watched last night,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you. Watch a little bit of it.
Speaker 1: What Buck the Bachelor. I was curious. Look, I'm figuring
Speaker 1: maybe I gotta pick up some tips or something, because
Speaker 1: I actually have a lot em on like male friends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the wife is very big into it. This is my thing,
Speaker 1: and I wish maybe, you know, I think we'll have
Speaker 1: we might have a couple of our colleagues from the
Speaker 1: first some of our new female contributors, and maybe we'll
Speaker 1: ask some of them about this, because I really do
Speaker 1: I don't understand why women like the show because it's
Speaker 1: a guy who's got all these women who are competing
Speaker 1: for his attention in a way that is completely absurd
Speaker 1: compared to the way things going really, which is yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't even mess with that. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what that is. I can't. I mean watching
Speaker 1: like fifty dudes trying to get the same thing the opposite. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I get it. But I'm saying when you
Speaker 1: watch women love The Bachelor, they love this show that
Speaker 1: I understand why they would love The Bachelor Rex. It's
Speaker 1: all these guys buying. I don't understand why women like
Speaker 1: a show about and then but you know what, I
Speaker 1: like Reality Tell there's so much drama though, they just
Speaker 1: they just make it. Everard's crying. I've heard of watch
Speaker 1: like it's a sitcom. I've been hilarious. It's been on
Speaker 1: for like twenty years, and so it's this thing and
Speaker 1: I've never really and so I watched a little bit
Speaker 1: last X. I was just trying to turn my brain
Speaker 1: off and it worked, by the way, and He's there's
Speaker 1: like I just like, I just talk a why, Like
Speaker 1: you don't like we're on this journey together. I'm like, lady,
Speaker 1: you've known this guy for like two weeks. And he's
Speaker 1: making out with ten different girls at night, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't understand how you're so attached. Yeah, watch you just sitdown.
Speaker 1: It's hilarious. Just like we're just like you don't know me,
Speaker 1: like the way that I know you, and like we're
Speaker 1: on this journey and I just like I just want
Speaker 1: to trust in my heart and trust in your heart.
Speaker 1: And like these girls for these girls like twenty four,
Speaker 1: twenty five, they're all on it so they can get famous.
Speaker 1: I get money, and they hear I am talking about it.
Speaker 1: I know people like bucks, stop talking about the Bachelor.
Speaker 1: I like I've made the argument. Trying to take up
Speaker 1: some tips. Remember Jersey Shore, Yeah, best sitcome ever made
Speaker 1: on television. That was a phenomenon for a while. No, Yeah,
Speaker 1: speaking of DJ's remember that guy he made He made
Speaker 1: like twenty million a year for a couple of years.
Speaker 1: He still does. He still tours are maybe not that
Speaker 1: much money, but like he was me, he was just one.
Speaker 1: That's one of the best. By the way, I always say,
Speaker 1: being a TV news anchor, or, if you're like in
Speaker 1: the right market and have the right setup, you're like
Speaker 1: an overpaid you know, overpaid in person. But the best
Speaker 1: job in the world is to be one of these
Speaker 1: DJs that makes half a million dollars a night to
Speaker 1: show up and press press play on their iTunes. That
Speaker 1: that's not exactly what they do. It's kind of what
Speaker 1: they do. What do they what do they do? Well,
Speaker 1: they're mixing that. They're like making it live in real time.
Speaker 1: They don't like. But no, but there's no mix table anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about old school DJs scratches and stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm talking to DJs that get paid, like DJ pauly
Speaker 1: D or like those guys. They're still doing that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought they just show up and it's not like
Speaker 1: you know, you go to a wedding or a bar
Speaker 1: mitzvah and and it's just a guy playing, pressing play
Speaker 1: and changing the songs. That's what I thought they did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I made all this money, all right, Well, I learned
Speaker 1: something new every day, Chuck writes in Team Bucket. iHeartMedia
Speaker 1: dot Com. But you guys have let us know. I
Speaker 1: I feel like if we get the audience to to
Speaker 1: push him on this one. I told Producer Mark that
Speaker 1: we got to create a little thing called like you
Speaker 1: know Marks. You know Producer Mark's corner or something where
Speaker 1: he ever day he tells us what's on his muck.
Speaker 1: We literally had this conversation. I said, yes, and then
Speaker 1: you've forgotten to do it for a week. Well, I
Speaker 1: mean you're supposed to remind me of things. Otherwise I
Speaker 1: don't even remember when we have like shows unless you
Speaker 1: tell me. This is part of your job. What I
Speaker 1: have to text you every morning? Hey, come to work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: come to work. So we're gonna have you come up
Speaker 1: with a cool name for the Producer Mark Corner. You
Speaker 1: didn't tell me to come up, and we'll come up
Speaker 1: with a cool name for Producer Marks Corner. And then
Speaker 1: every day we just started came up with We're just
Speaker 1: a Producer Marks quarter and we're just because you are
Speaker 1: in a corner over there. I believe in the text
Speaker 1: you said we would call it the Curmudgeonly Millennial something
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, but we could do that. What should
Speaker 1: we just call it? Nobody puts mark in a corner?
Speaker 1: I mean, if that's what you would like, technically dirty corner,
Speaker 1: dirty dancing refforts. Um, all right, we'll come up with
Speaker 1: a cool name because we want to be able to
Speaker 1: bring bring in the voice of producer Mark official. I
Speaker 1: mean he's in every day, but officially in some capacity
Speaker 1: towards the end of the show so you can hear
Speaker 1: what he's thinking about. Um, you know, he can give
Speaker 1: marital advice, hockey tips, things like that, hockey tips, you know,
Speaker 1: like you need like kind of good to win. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you know that's They've got a ranger's hat on as
Speaker 1: I'm talking you. We've also got to get a little
Speaker 1: camera for at least just just a little box. We
Speaker 1: get producer Marks right above. Yeah, we throw on a
Speaker 1: little GoPro. We'll make it happen. All right, Now we
Speaker 1: get to roll call because I know we already played
Speaker 1: it and we haven't done it yet. Team Bucket, iheartmat
Speaker 1: dot com. If you want to send us emails. We
Speaker 1: love emails, We love Facebook messages. The thing I love
Speaker 1: the most is when you get new people to listen
Speaker 1: to the show on Apple podcasts or on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: That's the thing that makes me the happiest for those
Speaker 1: of you listening. But another thing it makes me happy
Speaker 1: is when you send in Facebook messages and emails and
Speaker 1: we get to as many of them as we can
Speaker 1: on the show. All Right, Chuck not to be confused
Speaker 1: with Buck Buck. I know you say so much that
Speaker 1: that is right. It is hard to keep track. Your
Speaker 1: comment on retained titles is spot on and a worthwhile
Speaker 1: reminder of the basis of Americanism. One of the best
Speaker 1: virtues of the American Revolution is all titles were eliminated,
Speaker 1: not just of royalty. We avoid it ridiculously pompous revolutionary terms.
Speaker 1: No comrade, citizen, etc. Simple, straightforward civil language is the
Speaker 1: American way. It underlines our principle of being created equal
Speaker 1: before the law and each other. So for us, in
Speaker 1: a room full of Americans, everyone's properly greeted as mister
Speaker 1: or miss Chuck from Grand Rapids Chuck, thanks so much, man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously I agree with you. I think that we need
Speaker 1: to stop doing this. I don't know why we still
Speaker 1: think that it's appropriate. Soul ambassador or soul and so, No,
Speaker 1: you're not an ambassador. If you're so, ambassador or fine,
Speaker 1: that's your title. And keep titles. We don't have them anymore,
Speaker 1: you know. I just I don't get that. I don't
Speaker 1: get that, Mark Buck. Regarding AOC's assertion that Trump is
Speaker 1: an authoritarian, remember when Trump said that if Congress didn't act,
Speaker 1: he would remember when he said he had a pen
Speaker 1: and a phone. That is authoritarian defined, that is tyrannical.
Speaker 1: But that wasn't Trump, that was Obama. Never mind, she tie,
Speaker 1: thanks Mark, Yeah, I mean there's clearly a different standard
Speaker 1: media applies to what Trump does and what Obama does.
Speaker 1: We've known that all along. That's certainly the case, and
Speaker 1: I just wish that they would give me some examples
Speaker 1: of how Trump is an authoritarian and not just that
Speaker 1: they hate Trump and call them an authoritarian because it
Speaker 1: sounds scary. Yeah, there should be a little bit more honest,
Speaker 1: but this is a little more honest about that. Hold
Speaker 1: on a second. Next up here, Noah, hey Buck, I
Speaker 1: heard you say that it's sad that Americans who do
Speaker 1: not know geography. Sad that American do not know geography.
Speaker 1: I would like to say that memorizing geography is so fun.
Speaker 1: I memorize every state and capital. Then I went and
Speaker 1: memorize every country and cap in the world, and I
Speaker 1: am fifteen. And it's just sad that politicians are so stupid.
Speaker 1: Love your show, All right, cool, there we go, Thanks
Speaker 1: so much, Noah. Well the man Noah's fifteen and he's
Speaker 1: learned every every state capital and every country and every
Speaker 1: country capital. I will say that there was this great
Speaker 1: game that I used to play with my really my
Speaker 1: little brother who's super smart um and and a fantastic
Speaker 1: fellow in every regard. And we used to play this game.
Speaker 1: Though we had a globe and it will be like dude,
Speaker 1: lu lu lu and then you'd have to it would
Speaker 1: say like, you know, Papua New Guinea and you'd have
Speaker 1: to poke it on the globe with a little pan.
Speaker 1: You I'm talking about, dude lu lu Oh. I just
Speaker 1: just wanted to clarify that. Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's I do impressions of a lot of things, including
Speaker 1: including globes, including computer noises from the early two thousands.
Speaker 1: So but it would say like it would say a country,
Speaker 1: you'd have to poke it on the globe, and there
Speaker 1: was different levels of difficulty and it was a speed thing.
Speaker 1: So how many could you poke in? Uh? You know
Speaker 1: that too? Yeah, that's fun. I mean it's geography. Look,
Speaker 1: we all should You should know geography because you don't
Speaker 1: want to not know because you don't have maps like
Speaker 1: such as the Iraq. You know what I mean, do
Speaker 1: we have we don't. We should have that clip ready
Speaker 1: at all times. It's still the greatest. I don't know
Speaker 1: about the girl from the Paget with Mario Lopez where
Speaker 1: she's like, you know, the iraqis and South Africa and
Speaker 1: they don't have maps like such as I get it.
Speaker 1: She got a lot, you know somengimes. You're speaking, you're tired,
Speaker 1: or you're nervous. You know, you kind of get a
Speaker 1: disconnect with your national television. Yeah, yeah, exactly, you get nervous, man,
Speaker 1: you get nervous sometimes. Um, so that can actually happen. Um.
Speaker 1: But they don't have maps like such as that is
Speaker 1: that is the thing, Uh, the Iraq. That's one of
Speaker 1: my favorite clips of all time. Jen Buck, What is
Speaker 1: your book list on books one should read on about communism?
Speaker 1: Books one should read about communism? Uh? Oh, well, you
Speaker 1: should start with some of the source material. So if
Speaker 1: you're going to talk about communism socialism, you must read
Speaker 1: the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marks in eighteen forty eight.
Speaker 1: It's not very long. You must read it. That is
Speaker 1: an absolute, absolute most you have to read the Communist Manifesto.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the the ultimates and look, Mark, there's
Speaker 1: a whole a huge host of writings from Marks and
Speaker 1: Angles and then other socialists. But I would start there
Speaker 1: if you've never read that, if you're looking for something fun,
Speaker 1: Animal Farm is absolutely fantastic for description. It really is
Speaker 1: a very spot on description of the early days of
Speaker 1: the Soviet Union in a lot of ways, in terms
Speaker 1: of the factionalism and the changing of the rules and everything.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really you can read Animal Farm as
Speaker 1: a child and get a lot out of it, and
Speaker 1: then you read Animal Farm as an adult and you
Speaker 1: get even more out of it. But again, that's a
Speaker 1: that's not a serious that's not a scholarly work, but
Speaker 1: it is a very powerful novel for what it is.
Speaker 1: And I do think that you can make the case
Speaker 1: that Orwell is the greatest English language author of the
Speaker 1: last hundred years. I think that's a that's a there's
Speaker 1: a strong case to be made for that. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be that I would And more on communist
Speaker 1: only Whittaker Chambers Witness from the American perspective, you should read.
Speaker 1: That's absolutely essential reading on communism and really about communist
Speaker 1: penetration of the United States and the way that there
Speaker 1: were government officials who were Communist sympathizers in this country.
Speaker 1: I would also say read The God That Failed, which
Speaker 1: is a compilation of seven different former communists socialists who
Speaker 1: saw who saw the failures of the system and flipped
Speaker 1: ideologically and realize what a disaster it was. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say the Communist Manifesto of the God That Failed.
Speaker 1: I think the God That Failed you can just download
Speaker 1: a pdf online. I mean not that I always want
Speaker 1: authors to get money for what they do, but I
Speaker 1: think it's right there on If you type in Google
Speaker 1: the God That Failed, it'll show up. That's excellent reading. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would start there. Commistnifesto God that Failed Animal Farm.
Speaker 1: There's more stuff on the Soviet Union I could talk
Speaker 1: to you about, but I would begin there, and that's
Speaker 1: a pretty good place. I'm probably leaving some out that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna punch myself later for leaving off this list,
Speaker 1: but that's a good start. You're in the Freedom Hut.
Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. All right, Now
Speaker 1: we'll get into the Facebook inbox. Adam Buck on yoga,
Speaker 1: were you able to master the yoga flame from street
Speaker 1: Fighter being a human human flamethrower would be awesome. Shieldsi
Speaker 1: yoga flame. I know he's talking about. Street Fighter was
Speaker 1: a great game. I played a lot of Street Fighter
Speaker 1: back in the day. There was a character whose name
Speaker 1: I actually cannot remember, who was an Indian yoga like
Speaker 1: you know, yoga guru, I guess, or yogi I don't know, whatever.
Speaker 1: You'd call somebody who's like the best at yoga and
Speaker 1: he could extend body parts to like kick you with
Speaker 1: a foot from ten away. It's pretty pretty creative character
Speaker 1: in that in that game, procer Mark, were you a
Speaker 1: street Fighter player? And if so, who was your who
Speaker 1: is your go to character? I miss that era? You ear? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Have you ever played? It's actually pretty good. I mean
Speaker 1: I have, of course, like in arcades and stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm a traditionalist. I like Ryu the most.
Speaker 1: I thought Ryu was the best. Ken was like a
Speaker 1: rip off of Ryu. I'm like, why do we need
Speaker 1: too of the Sega or Nintendo both. I played a
Speaker 1: lot of video games. You tried a book about like
Speaker 1: the Battle Fantastic what. I'll have to get the name
Speaker 1: for you, but there was a battle between Segon and Nintendo.
Speaker 1: Really it was an amazing book. I never knew all
Speaker 1: the backstory to it. I didn't know any of that.
Speaker 1: I don't know anything backstory. Yeah, and I'm suppy to
Speaker 1: be curious because I played both of those systems. But
Speaker 1: I will get the name of it and announced to
Speaker 1: the audience tomorrow. Two little kids play the view games.
Speaker 1: I feel like when I think of vide games now,
Speaker 1: I think of adults playing deo games, I think of
Speaker 1: like I think of thirty year old dudes playing Call
Speaker 1: of Duty. Back then, it was really Nintendo was for kids.
Speaker 1: Kids was for adults. Oh okay, yeah, because because there
Speaker 1: was a time when video games were a kids and
Speaker 1: now I mean you walk into these video game outlet
Speaker 1: stores and things that they have all they forget what
Speaker 1: they're called. But you know, like game Stop, I think
Speaker 1: is one of them, and everyone in there is like
Speaker 1: in their forties. Oh yeah, video games are a major
Speaker 1: league adult thing. But they still make video games for
Speaker 1: kids as well. Yeah, but I remember my parents never
Speaker 1: played video games, right, so when they saw us playing
Speaker 1: video games, it was like we were playing with g I. Joe's.
Speaker 1: But it was like the same kind of thing. And
Speaker 1: now you have all these people that are adults that
Speaker 1: are that are playing these Well, that's because we grew
Speaker 1: up with it. Yeah, And that's why people got mad
Speaker 1: at me when I said that The Witcher was a
Speaker 1: bad TV show because they love the video games so much.
Speaker 1: They didn't want to hear that reality. But you know what, producer, Mark,
Speaker 1: I'm here. I'm here to share reality with people. I
Speaker 1: never played the game either. I'm more of a sports
Speaker 1: game kind of guy. What is the greatest sports video
Speaker 1: game of all time? It's hard to say, because they
Speaker 1: make a new vision in the time that you played it,
Speaker 1: you know, for it's time. I mean I grew up
Speaker 1: playing like NHL ninety nine and those kind of games,
Speaker 1: and the early Maddens when you were a kid, they're
Speaker 1: like so much better. Madden two thousand and four. For me,
Speaker 1: it was the most amazing thing ever Tommy Football actually
Speaker 1: from playing that game. Madden was O three when Vic
Speaker 1: was on the cover and victors That's what I'm thinking about. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was amazing. Yeah, I was the best. Michael Vick
Speaker 1: was super human in that video game. Yeah. It was
Speaker 1: like all the old people say Bo Jackson in techmoball,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, Bo Jackson was an incredible athlete. Dare
Speaker 1: I used to see this thing. I kind of like
Speaker 1: stop paying attention to professional sports in the last decade
Speaker 1: or so. But growing up, actually, when I used to
Speaker 1: go to Knix games all the time, I knew the
Speaker 1: only one I don't know anything about hockey, which I producer,
Speaker 1: Marquets is taking me to a hockey game. But the
Speaker 1: other sports I actually actually know him. I used to
Speaker 1: watch a cartoon with Wayne Gretzky bo jackson of Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: I don't even remember what it's called. There was a
Speaker 1: cartoon where they were like superheroes. It was the three
Speaker 1: of them, and that was pre internet, when you had
Speaker 1: it to like do stuff like that to get kids
Speaker 1: interested in sports. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember watching that.
Speaker 1: It was pretty good. It's better than Captain Planet. That
Speaker 1: cartoon stunk. What does Captain Even before I knew that,
Speaker 1: even before I knew that climate change was a hoax,
Speaker 1: Captain Planet. He's the hero gonna bring pollution down to zero?
Speaker 1: That was the show. Show suck. I guess it's a
Speaker 1: nice way to make kids not throw their garbage on
Speaker 1: the I'm against littering. I think, you know, I think
Speaker 1: littering is for barbarians. That said climate changes, the hoax,
Speaker 1: and Captain Planet was always like trying to stop commerce
Speaker 1: from happening. I'm like, it's commerce, yo. Obviously you never
Speaker 1: watched Captain America. Captain America is great. Why is he's
Speaker 1: a Marvel Yeah you did, but you hate Marvel movies.
Speaker 1: I hate Marvel movies. I love Marvel comics. I'm a
Speaker 1: purist producer and so is Team Buck, which is why
Speaker 1: they gonna send us more messages for tomorrow. Until then,
Speaker 1: my friends, Shields High