Speaker 1: You are entering the Freedom Hunt. It's almost Thanksgiving, everybody,
Speaker 1: so let's hang out and we'll do a show. That's
Speaker 1: what's coming up. This is the Buck Sexton Show where
Speaker 1: the mission where mission is to decode what really matters
Speaker 1: with actionable intelligence, Make no mistakes, American, Bring You're a
Speaker 1: great America Again, the Buck Sexton Show begins. He's a
Speaker 1: great guy. Now, welcome to Buck Backton Show. Everybody, Wednesday
Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving. A lot of people are off today, a
Speaker 1: lot of people in the media business are taking their vacation.
Speaker 1: You will notice that here I am in the Freedom
Speaker 1: Und with producer Brandon. We are holding down the fort.
Speaker 1: We are on the front lines of freedom right now,
Speaker 1: not just running off to eat our turkeys and our
Speaker 1: mashed potatoes and obviously stuffing. I also have to say
Speaker 1: that I think stuffing should become something that you don't
Speaker 1: just eat on Thanksgiving. Now, people might say to me, Buck,
Speaker 1: how would you know there's gluten free stuffing? And it
Speaker 1: is amazing, because all stuffing is fantastic. It's just an
Speaker 1: excuse to eat little cubes of seasoned bread and then
Speaker 1: whatever other food you want, you drip into that and
Speaker 1: you turn into this like mush that absorbs all the
Speaker 1: other the turkey, grayvy, the cranberry, the cranberry sauce, you
Speaker 1: know whatever other you know, this is the for someone
Speaker 1: who has had just a box of crutons to eat stuffing,
Speaker 1: respect it exactly. I mean, all you need to do
Speaker 1: is take a box of crutons, add some water, kind
Speaker 1: of mush it up, put it in the microwave. That yeah,
Speaker 1: instant stuffing boom. Minds blown everybody at home. No, we
Speaker 1: are going to talk some news today. Obviously, I'm not
Speaker 1: just gonna bring you here to hang out and talk
Speaker 1: about Thanksgiving things. Although I do have this vision in
Speaker 1: my head that as all of you listened to this show,
Speaker 1: you are well, some of you will be on the
Speaker 1: road or in the well in the air if you've
Speaker 1: downloaded the show on podcast, you could listen. Because everyone
Speaker 1: travels quite not everybody, but a lot of people travel
Speaker 1: quite a distance, travel quite a bit in order to
Speaker 1: get to see loved ones over this holiday. And so
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm hoping that I'm keeping you company
Speaker 1: for either your Thanksgiving travel or your pre Thanksgiving feast preparations.
Speaker 1: Because my understanding is I mean that turkey can take
Speaker 1: a really long time, especially if you have to thought so,
Speaker 1: I guess you're not sitting there watching the turkey thaw.
Speaker 1: That wouldn't be the most exciting thing ever. But there
Speaker 1: are certainly things that one can do to get ahead
Speaker 1: of the game. My family, we always have quite a
Speaker 1: spread of treats and suits and things before the main meal,
Speaker 1: and you pretty much have had a meal before you
Speaker 1: sit down for the big game. This year, I might
Speaker 1: try to I might try to leave alextra. So anyway, well,
Speaker 1: we'll get more into Thanksgiving. How people are triggered by Thanksgiving. Now,
Speaker 1: it's a colonial holiday. Nothing can be fun, nothing can
Speaker 1: be something that brings all the American people. It's not
Speaker 1: a religious holiday. You can imbue it with your own
Speaker 1: religious significance if you want. But even still, the truth
Speaker 1: here is that it's something that we can't even look
Speaker 1: at as a universe, a universal outside the jurisdiction of
Speaker 1: wokeness and political correctness. Holiday. I don't want to spend
Speaker 1: too much time on that though. Hunter Biden back in
Speaker 1: the news today, Oh man, you can tell I've got
Speaker 1: a little bit of a little bit of the pre
Speaker 1: holiday time to roll. Let's get out there and party
Speaker 1: vibe going here. But I'm gonna I'm gonna do the show.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be strong show today. It's gonna be a
Speaker 1: strong show. It's not by the way, this is some
Speaker 1: people do their Thanksgiving Wednesday show like a week in
Speaker 1: advance or something. No, none of that, None of that
Speaker 1: week saws here, none of that week thing in gravy
Speaker 1: in the Freedom Hut. We're doing a real show. Producer,
Speaker 1: Brandon's here. Does he want to be here now? He
Speaker 1: wants to be sitting eating a giant turkey drumstick, hanging out,
Speaker 1: probably watching football, But instead we're doing a show. Hunter
Speaker 1: Biden back in the news. Let's get into that for
Speaker 1: a moment, shall we. He's back in the news because
Speaker 1: there is a report from the New York Post that
Speaker 1: says that Hunter Biden is believed this is what. It says,
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden suspected of smoking crack in DC strip club
Speaker 1: vip room. And to this, I say, this is just
Speaker 1: an allegation. There's no proof of this yet, and perhaps
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden just needed to find a quiet place to
Speaker 1: read up on strategies to improve the efficiencies of the
Speaker 1: Ukrainian natural gas market. Because we know he's quite an
Speaker 1: expert in that. But this is the fellow that the
Speaker 1: media will immediate will immediately jump down your throat, They
Speaker 1: will yell at you, they will be quite upset at
Speaker 1: you if you say anything about how it seemed quite
Speaker 1: corrupt for this fellow to be on the board when
Speaker 1: his father was. It seems like something you wouldn't allow
Speaker 1: to happen if you were really concerned with good governance
Speaker 1: and avoiding the appearance of corruption. In fact, there is
Speaker 1: a piece today I read about what ethics rules usually
Speaker 1: are for a White House, and it's supposed to be
Speaker 1: that the mere perception the appearance of corruption is enough
Speaker 1: for someone to recuse themselves from an area, which raises
Speaker 1: the question, why wouldn't Joe Biden step away from the
Speaker 1: Ukraine portfolio if his son was in fact going to
Speaker 1: be on the board of this company. Why not? What
Speaker 1: is there to lose? We have so many experts on Ukraine,
Speaker 1: as you've seen, We've had all these people come forward
Speaker 1: who you know. I've been working on Ukraine for the
Speaker 1: National Security Council for the last fifteen years. I'm the
Speaker 1: world's greatest expert on Ukraine. All these different figures all
Speaker 1: these folks coming forward to tell us what needs to
Speaker 1: happen with Russia and Ukraine, and yet here we are
Speaker 1: now being told that it was obvious that there was
Speaker 1: an appearance of corruption between Hunter Biden and his father
Speaker 1: on the situation with Barisma. And also this guy is
Speaker 1: quite a disaster, really, I mean, Hunter Biden has had
Speaker 1: a track record that's stunning. The fact that he has
Speaker 1: worked with some of the law firms and different organizations
Speaker 1: that he has given the reality of his past is
Speaker 1: just further testament to in fact, how corrupt he really is,
Speaker 1: how much this was a perception at least of a
Speaker 1: pay for play scheme. And can't that be enough If
Speaker 1: I am going to be a Ukrainian oligarch, if I'm
Speaker 1: going to wargain this out from their perspective, if I'm
Speaker 1: the head of Barisma, I don't need to necessarily write
Speaker 1: out some contract for Hunter Biden that says you will
Speaker 1: speak to your father and do something illegal here in
Speaker 1: order to help us. I just want you on the
Speaker 1: board so that people know that you're protected. You know,
Speaker 1: within the ranks of the mafia. If there's a made
Speaker 1: guy who is with you, it doesn't really matter if
Speaker 1: the made guy is telling everybody you can't touch this
Speaker 1: other individual or not because he's rolling with a made
Speaker 1: guy for our purposes. In this analogy, Hunter Biden was
Speaker 1: like a maide mafioso. You couldn't you can't touch him.
Speaker 1: This is also in the movie That Departed with Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 1: He goes, it's actually Jack Nicholson's right hand man whose
Speaker 1: name I forget from the movie, who says there are
Speaker 1: guys you can't touch, and you know, Leonardo DiCaprio gets
Speaker 1: a lesson and who he can't and can't hit. Essentially,
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden on the board of Barisma was this is
Speaker 1: a company that it's going to be harder to hit
Speaker 1: at least, and that's why he was there. He also
Speaker 1: was in a place, an establishment that I lived very
Speaker 1: near in DC called Archibalds, which that that is the
Speaker 1: allegation in the New York Post. I cannot say whether
Speaker 1: or not this is archibald Is. It's considered a gentleman's club.
Speaker 1: I do not think there are a whole lot of
Speaker 1: gentlemen who frequent this establishment. It was a point of
Speaker 1: jest for many of us in DC to say, who
Speaker 1: goes it's right on K Street, right near some of
Speaker 1: the big fancy law firms, is right in the midst
Speaker 1: of all the swampiness. You have this, uh, I believe
Speaker 1: the gentleman's club, cabarets and it's a strip club, right, So,
Speaker 1: I don't know, we use these different terms, but it's
Speaker 1: a strip club I have. I don't even know anybody
Speaker 1: in DC who's been in this place. It is it
Speaker 1: has something of a place of ill, of some ill repute.
Speaker 1: I think you could say Hunter Biden might have been
Speaker 1: and it's not just a hundred bids in there. He
Speaker 1: might have been there, according to the York Post smoking crack,
Speaker 1: which is pretty stunning. And this guy's father is supposed
Speaker 1: to now be according to Democrats, than the presidents of
Speaker 1: the United States coming up in twenty twenty. This is
Speaker 1: what this is what I keep coming back to. You
Speaker 1: have Democrats who complain and cry about how Trump is
Speaker 1: ruining the prestige or the presidency and that he is
Speaker 1: so not presidential in his approach and that we need
Speaker 1: people who are just more serious in the role. And
Speaker 1: then they offer up Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Bernie Sander,
Speaker 1: They offer up these figures that I look at them
Speaker 1: and I said, this is I mean, the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: is not sending us their best? Are they Is this
Speaker 1: really their best? I think they would have to answer yes,
Speaker 1: they have no other alternative right now. People are very
Speaker 1: concerned in Democrat ranks. I'm starting to see this percolating
Speaker 1: through the media. You'll also hear people behind closed doors
Speaker 1: and in back channel talking about this that if Bernie
Speaker 1: or perhaps even Warren were to get the nomination, certainly Bernie,
Speaker 1: it has been said that Barack Obama might speak out
Speaker 1: against or I should say, before he could get the nomination.
Speaker 1: If it looks like he would, Barack Obama may speak
Speaker 1: out against Bernie Sanders. That would cause quite a fracture
Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party, and I'm not sure how they
Speaker 1: would really be able to handle that unless there was
Speaker 1: some plan to put a long shot or not I
Speaker 1: shouldn't say long shot, a as yet undeclared candidate in
Speaker 1: the mix. And this is where we get into our
Speaker 1: is it Hillary's at Michelle Obama? People have thrown around
Speaker 1: the name Oprah here as well. Look, I how could
Speaker 1: anyone say that Oprah wouldn't be a serious candidate when
Speaker 1: you see the candidacy that Donald Trump was able to
Speaker 1: run as somebody who really understands media. Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: a free media genius. This is how he was able
Speaker 1: to beat Hillary Clinton. He understands how to create a story,
Speaker 1: how to create drauma and tension through the press. And
Speaker 1: they always think that because they're able to put their
Speaker 1: spin on things, that they're doing more damage to Trump
Speaker 1: than benefit that he's getting out of it. The reality
Speaker 1: is that they're often showing everybody who they are and
Speaker 1: putting shining the light on Trump or some issue that
Speaker 1: he wants to talk about. So Hunter Biden and the
Speaker 1: corruption situation is going to continue to be a problem
Speaker 1: for Democrats. I'll never forget Anderson Cooper. The only really
Speaker 1: memorable moment of whatever Democrat debate that was where he said,
Speaker 1: there's no evidence or without evidence to Joe Biden that
Speaker 1: you did anything wrong in Ukraine. Well, no, there's there's
Speaker 1: no allegation of criminal conduct, but there's already proof of
Speaker 1: doing something wrong. What they did was gross, it was unethical,
Speaker 1: just like they can make the claim that what President
Speaker 1: Trump did on that phone call with the Ukrainian president,
Speaker 1: President Lensky, that that was unethical. They can make that argument.
Speaker 1: I disagree with it, but it's not illegal. And the
Speaker 1: pretense that it is illegal the make believe story. The
Speaker 1: Democrats tell themselves that if they just get upset enough
Speaker 1: about this and talk enough about this, they will managed
Speaker 1: to convince people that this is that it was illegal.
Speaker 1: Just goes to show you that they're willing to twist
Speaker 1: the law in ways that it is unrecognizable in order
Speaker 1: to go after a the primary political opponent right now,
Speaker 1: who is who is Donald Trump? So we should look
Speaker 1: at this, by the way, Josh I think it is.
Speaker 1: Josh Hammer wrote a great piece in The New York
Speaker 1: Post where he's saying, we have to stop focusing in
Speaker 1: a lot of New York Post shout outs today. I
Speaker 1: don't know what. I don't know what's all about. You know,
Speaker 1: the Post is a it's a good paper. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a got a good editorial page, headline, the best
Speaker 1: headlines in the business. I'll give them that. But the
Speaker 1: Post today has this piece by Josh Hammer where he's
Speaker 1: talking about how by fighting on the issue of the
Speaker 1: quid pro quo, where not really understanding what is at
Speaker 1: stake here and what the issues really are because quid
Speaker 1: pro quos do happen all the time. Mick mulvaney was right,
Speaker 1: even though he got, you know, just hammered for this.
Speaker 1: Mick mulvaney was correct when he said they're quid pro
Speaker 1: quos in foreign policy all the time. And so Hammer
Speaker 1: says in his editorial, and this is a continuate or
Speaker 1: a version, I should say of what I've been telling
Speaker 1: you that because politicians have First Amendment rights to say
Speaker 1: different things about what they're going to do in policy,
Speaker 1: because they have the right to speak and share their ideas.
Speaker 1: To criminalize someone saying do this or and I will
Speaker 1: do this as a politician in the way the Democrats
Speaker 1: are trying to do would open itself to all kinds
Speaker 1: of mischief. Then the issue of the quid pro quo
Speaker 1: just becomes do democrats like this quid pro quo or
Speaker 1: not is in an abuse of power or not based
Speaker 1: upon their perception of whether there is some benefit for
Speaker 1: the president. You know, bribery is a very specific thing.
Speaker 1: They have tried to expand the definition of bribery to
Speaker 1: include this will Look, you're a politician who does things
Speaker 1: in the political realm. If this thing that you want
Speaker 1: done gets done, it would be good for you politically.
Speaker 1: Therefore you're guilty of bribery. As I've been saying along,
Speaker 1: this is absurd. That means that any political act could
Speaker 1: conceivably be construed a construed as bribery, which just goes
Speaker 1: to show you that if everything is bribery, nothing is bribery.
Speaker 1: So I think that that's that's it's gone into the
Speaker 1: level of silliness. It's absurd. But they're going to continue
Speaker 1: on with this. There's no doubt in my mind that
Speaker 1: Democrats are going to impeach this president, No no doubt whatsoever,
Speaker 1: because there's no feasible way for them to back away
Speaker 1: at this point. They have to. They have to do
Speaker 1: this in their in their own minds. That's what's going
Speaker 1: to happen. M And with that, my friends, I want
Speaker 1: to turn to a fellow from the d n C
Speaker 1: vice chair I believe of the DNC appeared yesterday on
Speaker 1: Fox News Hold one second, and I was saying he
Speaker 1: had a member of the d n C senior staff.
Speaker 1: I believe he's the vice president, vice chair something of
Speaker 1: the DNC. Um I've I've had him on my show
Speaker 1: before at the Hill. I found him to be uh
Speaker 1: snyde and rude, and he was quite snyde and rude
Speaker 1: when he appeared on. Michael Blake is a DNC vice chair.
Speaker 1: That's that's right. This is what he shows up on
Speaker 1: Fox News to talk about Democratic candidates, and this is
Speaker 1: what he does play clips. Well, she's not running. But
Speaker 1: the core question is why I held to suck a
Speaker 1: car is still have a job here in the first place.
Speaker 1: The reality is this is someone who said white supremacy
Speaker 1: is a hoax, and why does Fox allow him to
Speaker 1: still be here in the first place? Right? Well, I
Speaker 1: mean his opinion there is that Michelle Obama may get
Speaker 1: in this race. Do you think that will happen or
Speaker 1: is not gonna happen? Not going to happen. But I
Speaker 1: think the core question is he shouldn't be on here
Speaker 1: at all. Yeah, we didn't bring you on to talk
Speaker 1: about Tucker Carlson. I brought you on to talk about
Speaker 1: the Democratic field. This is somebody who's representing the Democratic
Speaker 1: National Committee. This is who's supposed to show us that
Speaker 1: we would be at a better we'd be heading to
Speaker 1: a better politics if we only had a Democrat president
Speaker 1: and a Democrat House and Senate. I mean that's what
Speaker 1: the NC wants. And he acted like a complete jerk
Speaker 1: on Bill Bill Hemmer's show. And Hammer, by the way,
Speaker 1: is a very fair minded guy, very decent guy, does
Speaker 1: a good show, does give people on both sides a
Speaker 1: fair shake to speak in a Democrat and Republican. He's
Speaker 1: he's he tries to play it as straight as a
Speaker 1: as a as a journalist or a TV journalists as
Speaker 1: he can, I think. And this guy, Michael Blake was
Speaker 1: acting like a total total jerk. I mean, just no manners,
Speaker 1: no deasons. He was ever going on to trash his
Speaker 1: colleague who's not there. That's just it's a it's a
Speaker 1: cowardly move. He is not there to talk. He wasn't
Speaker 1: asked to talk about Tucker Cross, and he's asked to
Speaker 1: come talk about whether Michelle Obama is going to possibly
Speaker 1: get into the race, and he just uses an opportunity.
Speaker 1: So I just point at this to show you this
Speaker 1: is somebody who's very senior in the d NC apparatus,
Speaker 1: and this is just showing you what the reality is
Speaker 1: of the Democrats, that they they're not going to be
Speaker 1: nice if Trump loses, They're not going to be kinder
Speaker 1: and better politicians than Trump has. But this is all
Speaker 1: of this is all a myth, a mirage doesn't exist.
Speaker 1: Democrats have embraced a hysteria and a viciousness and a
Speaker 1: person in politics of personal destruction that Trump is in
Speaker 1: antidote two in many ways that he is an answer to.
Speaker 1: He is there as a means of pushing back and
Speaker 1: fighting back against the political machinery of the left that
Speaker 1: just seeks to crush and destroy and control. Trump is
Speaker 1: the guy you want by your side in a bar fight,
Speaker 1: and in twenty twenty, this election is going to be
Speaker 1: a political bar fight unlike anything you've ever seen before.
Speaker 1: I just remember the other side anytime they talk about
Speaker 1: civility or Trump's tone, they're the worst when it comes
Speaker 1: to that stuff, the absolute worst. And Trump just gives
Speaker 1: them some of their own medicine. That was First Lady
Speaker 1: Melanie A Trump who is certainly arguably the most iconic
Speaker 1: from a fashion and style perspective, the most beautiful for
Speaker 1: those who care about the way the fashion magazines like
Speaker 1: to portray first ladies and how how they're supposed to
Speaker 1: be a representation of America and all this stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: First Lady Melanie at Trump is obviously stunning and highly fashionable,
Speaker 1: and all she does is talk about the issues that
Speaker 1: are that are really non politically, you know, be nice
Speaker 1: to people. She's trying to say Happy Thanksgiving here, and
Speaker 1: she's getting people are booing her. You know, I was
Speaker 1: just talking to you a second ago about how you
Speaker 1: can't buy into the lie a lie the left is
Speaker 1: going to want to tell you, or is telling you
Speaker 1: every day that they're nicer that Trump, that the Republican
Speaker 1: Party is now a party of meanness because of Trump. No.
Speaker 1: Trump is in many ways a response to the viciousness
Speaker 1: of the left and the lack of any sense that
Speaker 1: there can be something that is non political. There are
Speaker 1: some areas where we can come together as Americans and
Speaker 1: be decent to each other and oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: come together and give thanks as a country and not
Speaker 1: have it be a political food fight and not have
Speaker 1: all the nonsense social justice warrior criticisms of Thanksgiving as
Speaker 1: a holiday. But now the left has decided that they
Speaker 1: want a state of constant political warfare in every place,
Speaker 1: on every issue, and there can be no respite from it.
Speaker 1: Sports is not a respite from it. National holidays is
Speaker 1: not a respite from it. It has to continue on always.
Speaker 1: You know that there are people booing Melanni a Trump.
Speaker 1: I mean I would tell you this if people at
Speaker 1: a Thanksgiving event like this, where Milanni at, where the
Speaker 1: First ladies just there to try to, you know, be
Speaker 1: a nice representation of the First Family at a given
Speaker 1: point in time, if people had booed Michelle Obama, I
Speaker 1: would have thought that they were jerks too. Let's let's
Speaker 1: keep this consistent. If if you be any first lady
Speaker 1: who showing up saying happy thanks gaining everybody you know,
Speaker 1: show a little class, you know, but the left has
Speaker 1: no class. This is why the left they're always showing
Speaker 1: up and interrupting events and shouting people down and protesting
Speaker 1: and cancel culture and get this person fired and get
Speaker 1: them thrown off the internet platforms, make them lose their job.
Speaker 1: This isn't an anomaly for them. Now. This is who
Speaker 1: the left has become. They embrace all of that. They don't.
Speaker 1: They don't in any way repudiate it when there are
Speaker 1: these movements to humiliate and destroy their political opponents, which
Speaker 1: look it always brings me back to I mean Cavanall
Speaker 1: was a political mind eleven moment for many of us
Speaker 1: Note eleven, in the sense that it was a change,
Speaker 1: a dramatic change in perception of the reality that we
Speaker 1: are living, and that was a national security and US
Speaker 1: safety in the face of a terrorist threat change in perception.
Speaker 1: But for our politics in America now, Kavanaugh was a
Speaker 1: turning point. Certainly a turning point for me. And I've
Speaker 1: talked to many friends about this. If they could do
Speaker 1: that to him, if they could destroy or try to
Speaker 1: destroy that man in that way, with so much dishonesty
Speaker 1: and viciousness and just lack of basic human sympathy for
Speaker 1: a father or a husband, a good man. They do
Speaker 1: to anybody for any reason. By the way, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if you're a public figure. They will make you
Speaker 1: a public figure if it becomes a benefit to the
Speaker 1: left to make an example of you. You think you're
Speaker 1: just walking to your car with the groceries, but all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, some incident happens, and they've got a
Speaker 1: video camera out there, and now you're public enemy number one.
Speaker 1: They want to destroy you. No sense of good faith,
Speaker 1: no willingness to show any grace or mercy. So I
Speaker 1: just want to be very clear about that. You know,
Speaker 1: as we're going into this holiday, we'll have a couple
Speaker 1: of days here where there's not as much of a
Speaker 1: focus on politics. Do not do not believe the people
Speaker 1: who will tell you this is something that I come
Speaker 1: up with too, that basically Trump is such a bad man.
Speaker 1: This is what you always hear. I've heard this from
Speaker 1: some associates and friends of mine recently. They'll say to me,
Speaker 1: this was said to me recently. You're too nice and
Speaker 1: decent a person to support Donald Trump. This is a
Speaker 1: an attack on not an attack on. Maybe this is
Speaker 1: a way that people will try to criticize my support
Speaker 1: of the president. They say, look at how you conduct
Speaker 1: yourself and how you speak to people versus the way
Speaker 1: he does. And I turn around them, I say, but
Speaker 1: I don't. Donald Trump is not America's you know, kindergarten teacher.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is not there to We're gonna say, he's
Speaker 1: there to provide a personal exemplar of conduct, not just
Speaker 1: in office, but before he even entered office. That's that
Speaker 1: would be a new standard. Really, you know, George W.
Speaker 1: Bush was not an exemplar of fantastic conduct in his
Speaker 1: life that we all should look up to before. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at you know, we can all be honest here, right,
Speaker 1: we're all adults. I mean Bush had some problems and
Speaker 1: use a trust fund, baby, Okay, so yeah, and you
Speaker 1: know Trump had hired a lot of money too. If
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about this, and don't even get
Speaker 1: me started on Bill Clinton, Well, this is not the
Speaker 1: standard that I hold politicians too, and I don't think
Speaker 1: we should. I think it's actually strange. On the one hand,
Speaker 1: you have people who will tell you that the problem
Speaker 1: of Trump is a problem of a cult, it's a
Speaker 1: form of destructive hero worship, and that he is being
Speaker 1: elevated as though he's a monarch, as though he's a dictator.
Speaker 1: Robert Redford, by the way, Robert Redford is he wrote
Speaker 1: an editorial one of these, like now Trump has gone
Speaker 1: too far. I was like, first of all, as a
Speaker 1: Robert Redford is he still is he still doing things?
Speaker 1: What's his situation? Like? I don't even know he was
Speaker 1: still out there. But I got to love when these actors,
Speaker 1: these Hollywood types, whether it's Tadira or Redford, they're like,
Speaker 1: all right, that's it. This changes everything. Robert Redford is,
Speaker 1: We're gonna editorial about how Trump is Like a dictator.
Speaker 1: But I have to tell you, on the one I
Speaker 1: think there's a disconnect. There's a disparity here because the
Speaker 1: argument against Trump is so often from the left. They'll
Speaker 1: say that there's a cult of personality. Look, every national
Speaker 1: politician in this country there's some a little bit of
Speaker 1: a cult of personality around them. It doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: that's something we should aspire to, but it has to
Speaker 1: be there, just the same way that if you're gonna
Speaker 1: run for president, you have to be a narcissist. I mean,
Speaker 1: you have to really believe that you are special. Maybe
Speaker 1: you believe that you're chosen by chosen by God. I
Speaker 1: also think that there are people more likely to be
Speaker 1: Democrats and Republicans, But I do think that there are
Speaker 1: people who would say that just as as a cynical
Speaker 1: form of self promotion as politicians were all. Of course,
Speaker 1: I think I'm It's not that I want to run,
Speaker 1: it's that I am, or you know, God has chosen
Speaker 1: me to run. Some people believe it, some people don't.
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't see in their hearts. I don't
Speaker 1: know which politicians mean that and which ones are being disingenuous.
Speaker 1: But they say that we are engaged in hero worship
Speaker 1: of Trump. But then they also will tell us that
Speaker 1: we are supposed to look to the president to be
Speaker 1: the example for our children, and you know that, Oh
Speaker 1: look at his language, or look what he did here,
Speaker 1: what he said there. I view him as a person
Speaker 1: who is doing a job, and that's where I'd want
Speaker 1: to say today transition for a moment into how we
Speaker 1: should be thankful for the job. But he's doing it
Speaker 1: is going so much better than we were told. I mean,
Speaker 1: if we're going to be thankful for first and foremost,
Speaker 1: be thankful for your health, your family, and the fact
Speaker 1: that those of you who are and most of the
Speaker 1: most of Team Buck is here in America, not all.
Speaker 1: We've got Canada military bases around the world. They're obviously American,
Speaker 1: but they're not in the fifty States right now. The
Speaker 1: ones who are international basis. And there's some other folks
Speaker 1: who listen in Israel I now, so we have some
Speaker 1: people all the world. But if you're listening to this
Speaker 1: and you are an American, you are incredibly lucky just
Speaker 1: by virtue of that fact. You're lucky because you are
Speaker 1: a part of a political community that is the most
Speaker 1: powerful most influential, most free, and most prosperous in the
Speaker 1: history of the world. If you start to break down
Speaker 1: the numbers on that, and what are the chances that
Speaker 1: you would be born an American at this point in
Speaker 1: time instead of you know, born in ancient Sumeria and
Speaker 1: like lucky to hit your third birthday. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you look at the chances of being born at a
Speaker 1: time when people are starting to think about how soon
Speaker 1: we're going to hit you know, triple digit life expectancy
Speaker 1: as the norm, and the amount of time that we
Speaker 1: have to pursue the life of the mind. And I
Speaker 1: know we don't do it as much as we should.
Speaker 1: And I really am thinking about cutting my cable chord,
Speaker 1: but I think I'm going to do it. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: only reason I have it is so I can see news.
Speaker 1: I can see cable news coming in sometimes, but that's
Speaker 1: not I don't think that's enough for me anymore. I
Speaker 1: get everything I need digitally, and I think it'd be
Speaker 1: better to just read more books and read more articles
Speaker 1: and just kind of bag it and watch Netflix and
Speaker 1: those things that I want. But anyway, but you have
Speaker 1: it back to being thankful and not my cable news
Speaker 1: proclivity or lack thereof. Here's what I would say, we
Speaker 1: should all take a moment to be thankful for the
Speaker 1: most important things, your loved ones, your health, and the
Speaker 1: fact that you are alive at this time. It is.
Speaker 1: It is an amazing and glorious thing to be alive
Speaker 1: at this point in human history. I would also say,
Speaker 1: and had I had a feeling this morning that I
Speaker 1: wasn't sure I was going to share you or not.
Speaker 1: But I do think that things are particularly strong right now,
Speaker 1: Things are going very well. I get a little little
Speaker 1: twig hinge of ominousus that there's something ominous over the
Speaker 1: horizon in twenty twenty. I don't I couldn't tell you
Speaker 1: what it is. I don't, you know. I always say
Speaker 1: nobody can predict the future, and don't trust anybody who
Speaker 1: says they can. But we're we're going to head into
Speaker 1: some This is where all the cliche analogies come up,
Speaker 1: you know, the stormy waters work or something, because right
Speaker 1: now things just feel a little bit too stable, positive strong,
Speaker 1: and there is always there are ups and downs. My friends,
Speaker 1: you look at what was said to be the future
Speaker 1: of a Trump presidency. What they were telling us would happen.
Speaker 1: You look at that and then you see what's actually happening.
Speaker 1: And first of all, they obviously can you know, the
Speaker 1: Tom Friedman's and the Paul Krugman's and Here Times editorial board,
Speaker 1: Washington Post editorial board or MSNBC analysts and anchors and CNN,
Speaker 1: and they were all so wrong that nobody should ever
Speaker 1: feel obligated to listen to them ever again, at about anything.
Speaker 1: But people will because everyone likes to have their their
Speaker 1: own political biases reflected back to them via the articles
Speaker 1: they read, the news stories that pop up on their screen,
Speaker 1: the cable shows that they watch at night. The smart
Speaker 1: people watch or listen to the Buck Sex and Show
Speaker 1: because it keeps them safe in warm at night, or
Speaker 1: they check out my man Jesse Kelly as well, who's
Speaker 1: also on Pluto TV channel to forty eight, the first
Speaker 1: given a little shout out heading into Thanksgiving. The reality
Speaker 1: is that America is in an incredibly prosperous moment. We
Speaker 1: do not have a major war. I know, we have military,
Speaker 1: we still have some military and commeat operations going on.
Speaker 1: There's some sweeping up remnants of ices happening in Syria.
Speaker 1: There's still stabilization efforts in Afghanistan, which I think, unfortunately
Speaker 1: in the long term, are doomed to failure. But we
Speaker 1: don't have we don't have a war going on right
Speaker 1: now where we're losing hundreds of people a day casualties
Speaker 1: in a war that was that has been reality cyclically
Speaker 1: throughout our our history. It's just a period of time
Speaker 1: that we tend to have this degree of peace. So
Speaker 1: as you go home and you are about to carve
Speaker 1: up the turkey and dole out the sweet potatoes with
Speaker 1: I like it. My mom. My mom does an amazing
Speaker 1: missus Sexton, meaning my mom, I don't there's not a
Speaker 1: missus Sexton for me yet. We're working on We're working
Speaker 1: on it. We're working on it. M MoMA does an
Speaker 1: amazing classic Thanksgiving feast, but she does. She does the
Speaker 1: marshmallows with the sweet potato, the browned marshmallow on top
Speaker 1: of the sweet potato, which I gotta say it is decadent,
Speaker 1: but it is quite It is quite delicious. I would
Speaker 1: also tell you that marshmallows I think are generally an
Speaker 1: overrated food. That's right, it's not that good, you know,
Speaker 1: You're ever like, oh, I just want to eat up
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of marshmallows, I don't think. So you
Speaker 1: got to burn them and put chocolate on. You burn
Speaker 1: anything and put chocolate on, it's gonna taste okay. So
Speaker 1: it's carbon and chocolate. Back to the Thanksgiving the part
Speaker 1: about being thankful right now. I look, I don't sit
Speaker 1: around and make crazy predictions and then hope one of
Speaker 1: them comes true. As I can tell you that I'm
Speaker 1: some kind of prophet or something. Other people do that
Speaker 1: on their radio shows. I don't like to do that here.
Speaker 1: We're going to hit something bad next year. I just
Speaker 1: have a feeling. I can't I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: But the election is going to be nasty. I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about that. Something's We're going to hit something rough.
Speaker 1: And so I just know I've been around long enough
Speaker 1: to know that you, wherever you are across the country,
Speaker 1: around the world, my fellow Americans, take a moment to
Speaker 1: feel the blessings that we really do have in this country.
Speaker 1: Right now. You have your individual blessings, then you have
Speaker 1: the more general this period in time, this point in
Speaker 1: history blessings. And it's remarkable. I mean, this country, we
Speaker 1: are not in the midst of a huge war. We
Speaker 1: are not in the midst of a recession. You know.
Speaker 1: The biggest problem most of us deal with in terms
Speaker 1: of what the news is reporting on, hows to do
Speaker 1: with whether we're going to argue about politics or not.
Speaker 1: I know, perhaps that's a place to transition. Do not
Speaker 1: believe these articles or do not listen to these experts
Speaker 1: who are there's this whole industry of how to talk
Speaker 1: to your relatives about politics during Thanksgiving without making anybody
Speaker 1: too upset. No, do not, do not do this. Do
Speaker 1: not do this. Please, that's not the way. That's not
Speaker 1: the way to make everybody, everybody happy. I couldn't believe
Speaker 1: that this was really stunning. It was it. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think what the group was here. The NNAF Abortion
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Speaker 1: They said tool kid, I'm not that's that's what was
Speaker 1: in the tweet. Uh No, do not all right, I
Speaker 1: do politics every day. I work in politics for a living,
Speaker 1: or you know, political media, whatever, we call this. Not
Speaker 1: a journalist, not even really sure what. I'm just a
Speaker 1: guy with some thoughts and does some things do not
Speaker 1: bring up highly contentious politically. You already know this, I
Speaker 1: mean everyone already knows is you know, you understand if
Speaker 1: you got a family where that's I mean my family,
Speaker 1: it's always fun because we're all we're all on Team
Speaker 1: America and the Sexton family, so we don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about it. But you know, I mean in other families,
Speaker 1: I know there's a little more sensitivity about this, and
Speaker 1: I've seen what can happen when these conversations go awry.
Speaker 1: So but this is why people have football and they
Speaker 1: have movies and they have things that you can talk
Speaker 1: about where everyone can have an opinion and just share,
Speaker 1: exchange ideas and not get into a content just exchange
Speaker 1: with the other side of the table about whether Bernie
Speaker 1: Sanders is really good to deliver free healthcare for everybody
Speaker 1: in life is going to be great and everything will
Speaker 1: be fantastic. No, he is not correct, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. Enjoy your stuffing and your turkey and
Speaker 1: green beans. I think with the green beans probably in
Speaker 1: the sex and how green beans are good. You know,
Speaker 1: green beans are good because they're very easy to wrap
Speaker 1: in other foods, you know, on your plate, to kind
Speaker 1: of mush them in with mashed potatoes or sweet potato
Speaker 1: or stuffing, and then you feel like you're getting some greens.
Speaker 1: So somehow the twenty five hundred calorie or three thousand
Speaker 1: calorie Thanksgiving feast that you are shoveling into your mouth
Speaker 1: is is a bit healthier because you've got green beans
Speaker 1: that'll be a part of the mix. So that's the advantage.
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Speaker 1: pardon will be a very popular one with the media.
Speaker 1: After all, turkeys are closely related to vultures. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I like that line, but there is a
Speaker 1: little truth to it. But today, after the birds will
Speaker 1: retire to Gobbler's Rest at Virginia Tech Great College, where
Speaker 1: they will be cared for and enjoy a terrific life,
Speaker 1: they should retire this tradition. We don't need this bizarre
Speaker 1: pardoning of the turkey thing anymore. I know I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to be the Thanksgiving Grinch, although I will be
Speaker 1: the Christmas Grinch because I will tell you all as
Speaker 1: it gets closer. How and once you have children who
Speaker 1: are above the age of twelve. I think Christmas gifts,
Speaker 1: just try one year not doing the Christmas gift thing
Speaker 1: and just spend time together and forget about But I
Speaker 1: don't know people get me. Oh, but stores need and
Speaker 1: everything else. People. It's different now, man. If you can
Speaker 1: buy stuff for people, buy them a gift whenever you want.
Speaker 1: You don't have to wait until Christmas time to get gifts.
Speaker 1: You sit there on your phone and order anything you
Speaker 1: want to order for anybody. But I know it's very,
Speaker 1: very commercial to the Christmas holiday. As I Thanksgiving is
Speaker 1: also commercial, at least for grocery stores and everything else.
Speaker 1: And I'm all down with most of the traditions and
Speaker 1: the way that we talk about what I actually I
Speaker 1: feel like they've started to push the whole Pilgrim narrative
Speaker 1: and all that out of it. You know, we don't
Speaker 1: hear about this so much anymore. And there's some there
Speaker 1: are some early some of the earliest settlements had some
Speaker 1: experiments with socialism and with communal property, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: and it didn't work out well. What a shock when
Speaker 1: people had their own plot of land and they were
Speaker 1: responsible for that land and also were able to benefit
Speaker 1: from having it be better tended. Talking now about the
Speaker 1: earliest colonists, the earliest settlers, people that were showing up
Speaker 1: here wearing those funky shoes with the little little buckles
Speaker 1: on them, look like look like lepre cons, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, those ones? Yeah, you know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. The Puritans Plymouth Rock. They showed up and
Speaker 1: they had communal ownership of some of the property, and
Speaker 1: that turned out to not be a good thing. So
Speaker 1: they started to go, wait a second, maybe we should
Speaker 1: have ownership of land. I also love the lack of
Speaker 1: an honest assessment of what went on with native peoples
Speaker 1: before the European settlers showed up in this country. We
Speaker 1: always hear that there was no sense of ownership of land. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and yet there were tribes, notably like the Comanche among others,
Speaker 1: that were infamous for going to neighboring tribes and wiping
Speaker 1: everybody out and taking all their stuff. So I do
Speaker 1: think they did have a sense of property. They just
Speaker 1: didn't have a sense of writing, and the rule of
Speaker 1: law was not codified. But they liked to create this
Speaker 1: mythology of a perfect a utopia that existed here before
Speaker 1: the settlers arrived. As you know, I've talked to you
Speaker 1: about this in the context of Columbus Day, where the
Speaker 1: storyline is that everything was great here and then we
Speaker 1: showed up and we re ruined it basically, and now
Speaker 1: we need to be saying sorry. There was a piece
Speaker 1: in the Guardian today, the UK paper, not that anyone
Speaker 1: really cares what the UK has to say about Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: because we're thankful that we don't have to deal with
Speaker 1: their dumbass monarchy. What a ridiculous I'm sorry now, not
Speaker 1: just because of the disgusting Prince Andrew situation, but I
Speaker 1: just in general. So, hey, if Monokey the Queen, we
Speaker 1: have to all sit around and vow and it's for tradition.
Speaker 1: They get to just be sort of rich and fancy
Speaker 1: for no apparent reason. No, no, we fought. We fought
Speaker 1: a little war so we did not have to bow
Speaker 1: and scrape and bend the knee to a bunch of
Speaker 1: people that have done nothing to nothing to deserve the
Speaker 1: praise they get from the British bit But anyway, that's
Speaker 1: I might even try to watch some of this. Everyone
Speaker 1: loves to show the Crown, which I have to say,
Speaker 1: I tried to. I thought it was very boring. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm alade in this one. I just I couldn't get
Speaker 1: into it. I know, different different strokes for different folks.
Speaker 1: Where was Oh, yes, on the Native peoples and the
Speaker 1: way that Thanksgiving is now Thanksgiving is considered an imperialist
Speaker 1: and colonialist holiday in the academy. It hasn't really caught
Speaker 1: on yet because people do like an excuse to eat
Speaker 1: a really big, rich meal and to be with their families,
Speaker 1: and because it's not an explicitly religious holiday, although I
Speaker 1: think it goes all the way back to George Washington
Speaker 1: and you know, people giving thanks and well obviously it
Speaker 1: goes back even before. But when it was turned into
Speaker 1: a holiday, an official holiday, you needed to have a
Speaker 1: country first, right, So it was something that we could
Speaker 1: do a whole Thanksgiving history. Perhaps on another day. I thought,
Speaker 1: I don't know how fascinting that would be for all
Speaker 1: of you. But the storyline is always that the Native
Speaker 1: peoples in this country, not just in this country, but
Speaker 1: in North America in general, we're living in a state
Speaker 1: of harmony, and then we came along and we're the
Speaker 1: looiters and the oppressors, and did all these terrible things. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: if you look at the reality of what was happening
Speaker 1: in the New World, particularly in the context of the
Speaker 1: Aztecs and the Maya's Mayans, rather there was a system
Speaker 1: of slavery and exploitation that was going on before we
Speaker 1: ever arrived. Because people are people all over the world,
Speaker 1: and if you're looking at what was going on in
Speaker 1: the fifteenth centuries sixteenth centuries, that people doing bad stuff
Speaker 1: all over the world. There was no place that was
Speaker 1: this utopia where people where everyone lived in harmony with
Speaker 1: the land. And the one one thing that liberals never
Speaker 1: seemed to really understand is that nature is actually quite
Speaker 1: unforgiving and destructive. You see this with all the different
Speaker 1: versions that they put out in pop culture of Native
Speaker 1: people's living in harm with the land. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you look at Dances with Wolves, for example, Oh, everything
Speaker 1: was the Native American tribes there were living in this
Speaker 1: world of everything was beautiful and they just lived off
Speaker 1: the land that everything's fun. And then you can even see,
Speaker 1: i mean, the plot of Dances with Wolves is completely
Speaker 1: taken by the movie what was the movie with the
Speaker 1: Blue the Blue Aliens? The Blue Alien movie. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to the blue alien Avatar. Avatar. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say it one of the worst movies I've ever
Speaker 1: seen in my life. And I saw it in the
Speaker 1: special three d oh. Look the thing is like the
Speaker 1: weird jellyfish in the sky is flying to my face. No,
Speaker 1: it was bad. It was not a good movie. And
Speaker 1: I've been told it's also the same plot from Fern Gully,
Speaker 1: which I never saw. Is that correct? Fern Gully has
Speaker 1: the same You should watch that, really, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: maybe you would fall. It wouldn't work with you because
Speaker 1: I watched it as a kid and it's more like
Speaker 1: a kids movie. But yeah, it's the same plot, the
Speaker 1: same basic plot, right, So the bad people show up,
Speaker 1: the looiters and all these things. The reality of mother
Speaker 1: nature is that, especially for societies that were pre industrial
Speaker 1: and didn't have even basic agricultural implements or or systems
Speaker 1: of animal husbandry, I believe is the correct term. I'm
Speaker 1: amazing how many Americans don't even know that the Native
Speaker 1: Americans in this country did not They did. They did
Speaker 1: not have a culture of of horseback riding until the
Speaker 1: European Spanish colonists showed up. That was where they got horses.
Speaker 1: There was not we think of, you know, the Plains,
Speaker 1: Indian pot of the Plains, Native Americans planes Native Americans
Speaker 1: as the appropriate terminology, but tries tribes like the Sioux
Speaker 1: and the uh I mentioned Comanche before Apache, that they're
Speaker 1: riding horses. That was actually something that came as part
Speaker 1: of the Yes, the colonial the colonial conquest of America.
Speaker 1: What I just think this is a fascinating part of
Speaker 1: that that just gets left up people like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: they had horsed because of us. But what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to say about mother nature and the way it can
Speaker 1: be quite brutal, is that for those societies, I mean
Speaker 1: they're famine was a regular occurrence. People would run out
Speaker 1: of food, people would freeze to death, people would would
Speaker 1: die because of exposure to the elements. And so there's
Speaker 1: always this story, this make believe world that liberals conjure
Speaker 1: up of pre European, pre industrial societies, we're living in
Speaker 1: harmony with Mother nature, when the reality is that they
Speaker 1: were living at the whim of Mother Nature most of
Speaker 1: the time, and life was to borrow from hobbes often nasty, brutish,
Speaker 1: and short. So if we're just going to have these
Speaker 1: conversations about whether Thanksgiving as a colonial hoiday. I think
Speaker 1: we should be honest about what life was like here beforehand,
Speaker 1: what ways did it get better or was it not. Obviously,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of very terrible things that were
Speaker 1: done to the Native peoples by the colonial settlers. Some
Speaker 1: of the native peoples did some terrible things to the
Speaker 1: settlers as well. We know about that. It was mostly
Speaker 1: a function of disease that wiped out the Native American
Speaker 1: population this country. I think about ninety the real estimates
Speaker 1: are over ninety seven percent of casualties after the conquest
Speaker 1: of North well of the Americas, I should say, came
Speaker 1: from disease, primarily smallpox and influenza. So we always are
Speaker 1: told about the genocide that occurred, and that we have
Speaker 1: to constantly be apologizing for this, and that this is
Speaker 1: something that all Americans we should carry some stain of
Speaker 1: shame over the genocide. There were very bad things that happened.
Speaker 1: I'm familiar with the different ways that the Native peoples
Speaker 1: were killed and rounded up and put on reservations. But
Speaker 1: a vast majority of the extinction of Native peoples that
Speaker 1: occurred in the New World was the result of disease.
Speaker 1: It was just it was a highly an unfortunate situation
Speaker 1: for people whose immune systems had not been exposed to
Speaker 1: disease the way they had in the Western and primarily
Speaker 1: Mediterranean world. So anyway, I just think that if we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about the colonial background of Thanksgiving, we
Speaker 1: should have a more open and honest discussion. But okay, well,
Speaker 1: what were the good parts of this? What were the
Speaker 1: bad parts of this? What were the aspects of you know,
Speaker 1: we're giving thanks in the new world. Do we have
Speaker 1: to focus so much in our contemporary context on how
Speaker 1: things back then weren't There was no wokeness, there was
Speaker 1: no social justice. There was a lot of yes, racism
Speaker 1: and exploitation and bad things happening. Does that mean we're
Speaker 1: not allowed to just get together and give thanks today
Speaker 1: for all the all the benefits and bounty and wondrous
Speaker 1: stuff in this land. You know, they really do believe
Speaker 1: they want to change. Then I'm trying to see what
Speaker 1: the name. I think Trump said that there's an effort
Speaker 1: to change the name of Thanksgiving and that everyone has
Speaker 1: freaked out, and so that that's not true. Here we go,
Speaker 1: universities teach students here's an example of exactly what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about, how to decolonize their Thanksgiving. This is in
Speaker 1: the college fix. As college students across the nation head
Speaker 1: home for Thanksgiving, they're armed with the knowledge to decolonize
Speaker 1: their holiday quote by taking how you can eat your
Speaker 1: Turkey and decolonized Thanksgiving two. That's an event that is
Speaker 1: happening on college campuses and thanks but no Thanksgiving decolonizing
Speaker 1: an American holiday. This is amazing. There's an article here
Speaker 1: they talk about Professor Wick in which she encouraged parents
Speaker 1: to send letters to their children's schools to advocate for
Speaker 1: a more inclusive approach to discussing Thanksgiving, which is an
Speaker 1: assistant professor of history at Saint Mary's University. Montana State
Speaker 1: University is having an Indigenous dinner on November thirteenth, including
Speaker 1: only locally and tribally sourced foods, with various stations offering
Speaker 1: natural Native American dishes. So now we have to give
Speaker 1: thanks by eating the foods of the native people's here
Speaker 1: here beforehand, I've just how long before we're told that
Speaker 1: that is cultural appropriation? Anybody how long before that that
Speaker 1: itself becomes a problem. This is like what I was
Speaker 1: discussing with you yesterday on the issue of pronouns. They
Speaker 1: want you to use specific pronouns or to announce your pronouns,
Speaker 1: and also to use specific pronouns, and then whenever one
Speaker 1: starts announcing their pronouns, if they ever get their way,
Speaker 1: they'll the problem will be that when people announce their pronouns,
Speaker 1: some people have to use pronouns that are unexpected. So
Speaker 1: it doesn't solve any actual problem. It doesn't really make
Speaker 1: any of this go away. If you celebrate Thanksgiving by
Speaker 1: having I don't know what maze and squash, and I
Speaker 1: don't know what the native dishes would be, and it
Speaker 1: depends on what the country right. But if you were
Speaker 1: to borrow from the native culture, then you would be
Speaker 1: guilty of cultural appropriation. So there's really no way to win.
Speaker 1: These are just people who just want to whine. They
Speaker 1: just want to complain. They don't want you to just
Speaker 1: be able to hang out with friends and family and
Speaker 1: eat way too much, which we're all going to do. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to carve out some time forget about
Speaker 1: carving the turkey of the carve out some time to
Speaker 1: get to the gym. The day after this just so
Speaker 1: I don't feel like a you know, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: one of those those bullfrogs where you can't even see
Speaker 1: its legs when it's sort of like, that's what I
Speaker 1: feel like after thinks I look like I feel i'd
Speaker 1: look like a bullfrog where you can't see any of
Speaker 1: its limbs because it's just kind of so gross. It's
Speaker 1: just kind of spilling out. And that's what I woulda bell,
Speaker 1: I would say, they're rubing my belly. I told by.
Speaker 1: You know, my my parents have an amazing white French
Speaker 1: bulldog named Tulula, and my parents don't live far from me,
Speaker 1: so I'm able to go visit on a regular basis
Speaker 1: here in New York City. And the French bull she's
Speaker 1: a she's beautiful dog, great dog. French bulldogs. You know,
Speaker 1: Dana Lash I believe as a French hasn't. I think
Speaker 1: she has a couple of French bulldogs. She's got great
Speaker 1: tasting dogs. French cheese are so cute. They're great for cities.
Speaker 1: Those of you that have country how not country houses,
Speaker 1: but houses in the country. And you know, yes, if
Speaker 1: I had twenty acres or whatever, two weeks an acre,
Speaker 1: if I had more than a couple of hundred square
Speaker 1: feet to live in. I'd probably get a lab or
Speaker 1: a Golden retriever. Oh maybe, I don't know, maybe a
Speaker 1: shepherd and a shepherd be kind of cool. I like
Speaker 1: Bernese mountain dogs too, but they're enormous. You feel like
Speaker 1: you want to put a saddle on them for the kids.
Speaker 1: But don't do that. That's bad. Uh, was I saying,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, tu lula um. We joked around though, because
Speaker 1: she's all she's all. She's all white. She's an all
Speaker 1: white dog, and she's gotten a little up there in years,
Speaker 1: and she's gotten a little she's got a little pudgy
Speaker 1: in her old age. And I found a photo and
Speaker 1: I showed her my little sister. She looks like one
Speaker 1: of those white fur seals that you'll see try to
Speaker 1: like they're just like this mound of blubber on the ice,
Speaker 1: and that's how they try to hide from a polar bears.
Speaker 1: Doesn't always work. The Fredgie looks a little bit like that.
Speaker 1: These days, Mom's gonna yell at me for making fun
Speaker 1: of the Fredgie for big fat. But you know whatever,
Speaker 1: I don't even know she's got. She's busy cookie. I
Speaker 1: don't know if she's gonna see hear or see this
Speaker 1: show so fun things. Give your dog some of the
Speaker 1: scraps from the table. Yeah, that's I think there's even
Speaker 1: a there's a parable in the Bible about this, right
Speaker 1: that the gentile. The gentile gets the scraps from the table.
Speaker 1: Give you know, your dogs sitting there seeing that turkey
Speaker 1: leg up on the table, seeing that giant hunk of
Speaker 1: delicious baked meat. By the way, baked ham is for Christmas.
Speaker 1: Turkey is Thanksgiving, baked ham is Christmas. Let's not get
Speaker 1: it twisted. But keep your dog a little bit of
Speaker 1: a month, you give it a couple munches of it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. The dog deserves it. Cats,
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Speaker 1: do make. I didn't get to talk to about this
Speaker 1: before I sort to throw this in the mix today.
Speaker 1: A governor, former governor of Massachusetts, deval Patrick, has said
Speaker 1: that he's going to run and there's all this reporting
Speaker 1: that Obama. Obama gave him a blessing to run, I think,
Speaker 1: and deval Patrick had this to say about his race,
Speaker 1: pretty sure, Brandon, would you please play thirteen? And as
Speaker 1: I've watched the field, many of them friends develop and
Speaker 1: offer their message. I do sense that there's still space
Speaker 1: for what I offer. And in fact, as I've gotten
Speaker 1: out and around over the course of the last ten
Speaker 1: days or so, I think that path is even wider
Speaker 1: than I imagined. I think deval Patrick's the only one
Speaker 1: who thinks there's a wide path for him to run
Speaker 1: for president. I'm just gonna put that out there. There
Speaker 1: was a photo that was circulating over the weekend of
Speaker 1: Deval Patrick at an event for Deval Patrick and there
Speaker 1: was nobody there. Nobody, so they had to cancel the
Speaker 1: event because no person showed up to the event. Not
Speaker 1: I think they said that there were two who walked
Speaker 1: in and we're like, we're not gonna be the only
Speaker 1: two people here. So that's pretty much I think. I'll
Speaker 1: you even know about Deval Patrick's chances of winning the
Speaker 1: winning the presidency. I know that this is going to
Speaker 1: be the big topic for everybody. If you're gonna If
Speaker 1: you're gonna talk politics at the Thanksgiving table, the big
Speaker 1: topic will likely be the twenty twenty election and who
Speaker 1: the best Democrat candidate will be for the twenty you know,
Speaker 1: who would be the best candidate or who would be
Speaker 1: the most likely to win. Perhaps if you're a Republican,
Speaker 1: you're probably more likely to focus on that. I'm still
Speaker 1: putting my money on Elizabeth Warren, folks, and I'm pretty
Speaker 1: confident welcome back to him, Pretty confident that my Elizabeth
Speaker 1: Warren prediction is gonna be wrong. My Biden prediction, I
Speaker 1: think is going to be correct, that he's not gonna
Speaker 1: be the nominee. But I still don't know. I still
Speaker 1: don't know who is going to be the one who
Speaker 1: steps forward when it's not by it. And it feels
Speaker 1: like Elizabeth warrenber her her whole Medicare for All debacle
Speaker 1: where she said she was going to pay for it
Speaker 1: without making anybody else have to pay for it, and
Speaker 1: all these different things. Elizabeth Warren, She's got problems obviously
Speaker 1: with her candidacase there are issues that I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna going to continue to face her, even on the left,
Speaker 1: and just the fact and we were talking about Native
Speaker 1: Americans and the Thanksgiving holiday earlier on the show. Just
Speaker 1: the fact that she has been able to continue on
Speaker 1: as a viable candidate, despite the fact that she engaged
Speaker 1: in a multi decade long racial fraud is pretty stunning.
Speaker 1: Democrats seemed finely. Remember same people who are telling you
Speaker 1: Trump lies. Trump has a problem with the truth, you
Speaker 1: can't trust him, and all this stuff. I have no problem.
Speaker 1: Never mind Hillary Clinton, hollow who is in the pantheon
Speaker 1: of corrupt and dishonest politicians. There's something, particularly for me,
Speaker 1: at least, there's something particularly odious about the way the
Speaker 1: news media has covered up for Hillary Clinton all these
Speaker 1: all these years, and the ways that she's like, I know,
Speaker 1: do you all agree that that's nothing? Quickly due here different,
Speaker 1: But you know they're really bashing these days. You've really
Speaker 1: got all the Democrats a little bit in in a
Speaker 1: foul mood. Michael Bloomberg because he's gonna I think that
Speaker 1: here's his play. I've been thinking about this a lot
Speaker 1: more last night. Why act she went up for At first,
Speaker 1: let's do the bashing and then we'll get into what
Speaker 1: his play is. For example, we have Elizabeth Warren, so
Speaker 1: I am here on day two of Michael Bloomer thirty
Speaker 1: seven million dollars and five You know, Michael Bloomer is
Speaker 1: making a bit about democracy in twenty twenty. He doesn't
Speaker 1: need people, He only needs zags and bags of money.
Speaker 1: This has been disproven so many times, and it's a
Speaker 1: it's a thing that politicians can only say because they
Speaker 1: think that their constituencies aren't very bright. Like Elizabeth Warren
Speaker 1: knows that Jeff Bush spent a vast sum of money
Speaker 1: and lost to the primary, didn't even get close to
Speaker 1: winning the primary in the twenty sixteen election, that Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton dramatically outspent Donald Trump and Donald Trump as we know, winning.
Speaker 1: Yet here we are she's still saying this that somehow
Speaker 1: Bloomberg might be able to buy the election, that Michael
Speaker 1: Bloomberg would be in a position to just run off
Speaker 1: with this thing because he's got bags bags of money
Speaker 1: to spend on it. He's not the only one. Do
Speaker 1: you got Bertie Sanders, who is very upset? Do you
Speaker 1: got another billionaire in the race? The oh get their
Speaker 1: class is destroying America by engaging in capitalism that creates
Speaker 1: tremendous prosperity in thousands and thousands of jobs. Can we
Speaker 1: have a little bit of the Bernie Sanders vibe on
Speaker 1: the show, producer Brandon clip one, please clip one? And
Speaker 1: when he believes, and this is the arrogance of billionaires, Hey,
Speaker 1: I can run for president because I'm worth fifty five billion.
Speaker 1: And maybe I'll take one billion out of that fifty
Speaker 1: five billion O a lot when you're worth that much.
Speaker 1: And I gotta start running a massive amount of TVs
Speaker 1: to California and in fact all over this country. And
Speaker 1: I think that is precisely one of the factors that
Speaker 1: is undermining American democracy. Here undermining democracy. People being able
Speaker 1: to use their private property to spread that message is
Speaker 1: undermining democracy. It is not undermining democracy. But really, what
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Centers want is mobocracy. Oh colocracy.
Speaker 1: Just get the masses riled up on an issue. Don't
Speaker 1: let them That doesn't matter if they know what you
Speaker 1: really stand for, it doesn't matter if the math you're
Speaker 1: trying to sell them on doesn't add up. Just do whatever,
Speaker 1: Do whatever you've got to do in order to get
Speaker 1: the votes you have to get to be in power
Speaker 1: to further push America down the very destructive path of socialism.
Speaker 1: And this is where I think Bloomberg really comes in.
Speaker 1: I've been thinking more about this. I don't think Bloomberg
Speaker 1: really believes he's going to be president. I just I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't. I don't see it. He seems
Speaker 1: like a smart enough guy to know he's not going
Speaker 1: to win the presidency. But maybe that's not really his
Speaker 1: ultimate purpose here. I think he wants I think if
Speaker 1: he could win, he would take the job, and he
Speaker 1: would do it. I'm not saying that, but I think
Speaker 1: he've used this as a two pronged thing. One is
Speaker 1: the yeah, the vanity project act of running for president
Speaker 1: given the very very weak field. Okay, fine. And also
Speaker 1: I think he sees what Donald Trump did after all
Speaker 1: the years that he said he was going to run,
Speaker 1: and then finally he runs and he wins. But I
Speaker 1: believe that Bloomberg understands that there's a real threat to
Speaker 1: everything that the Democrats believe in that comes from the
Speaker 1: openness and the intellectual flimsiness. But the open is about
Speaker 1: the socialism that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are pushing now,
Speaker 1: not that they couldn't win. I think that unfortunately, especially
Speaker 1: if we hit a major financial downturn. And this is
Speaker 1: part of my concern for next year. I've said I
Speaker 1: have this something, there's something ominous that just keeps I'm
Speaker 1: concerned things can't stay the way they are right now
Speaker 1: going into the election. Something's going to happen. If you
Speaker 1: hit a very bad economic stretch in the election year.
Speaker 1: Who does that benefit the most? It certainly benefits Democrats
Speaker 1: against Trump, There's no question. Then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you'll have news coverage of oh, the economy and unemployments
Speaker 1: going up, and they then, all of a sudden, will
Speaker 1: be the biggest story in the country every day. I'll
Speaker 1: flood the zone, even if it's a pretty moderate downturn,
Speaker 1: even if it's just a cyclical Okay, well, now we've
Speaker 1: got to kind of get some of the excess and
Speaker 1: get some of the you know, the bad money out
Speaker 1: of the system, so to speak. I mean, just sort
Speaker 1: of let things reset. Even with that, they'll turn it
Speaker 1: into the biggest news store in the country, and they'll
Speaker 1: say that this is a repudiation of Donald Trump. But
Speaker 1: the people in the Democratic primary who would benefit the
Speaker 1: most from this are the far left, I mean, the socialists.
Speaker 1: People get scared and they turn to the government to
Speaker 1: save them. People decide that when things get really bad,
Speaker 1: they never look at root causes, and government overspending and
Speaker 1: intervention and monetary policy and all the things that can
Speaker 1: make a downturn certainly much worse, if not be the
Speaker 1: primary cause of a downturn in the economy, the cyclical
Speaker 1: nature of these things. And there are people that I
Speaker 1: know who would argue that we shouldn't have to have cyclical,
Speaker 1: these cyclical downturns, and that this is the result of
Speaker 1: monetary policy and central planning of our economy. By that,
Speaker 1: you know, and I people that just study this their
Speaker 1: whole lives go back and forth on this, and I'm not,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not really one of them, although I
Speaker 1: do think I think the central planning is always is
Speaker 1: always something you want to do the bare minimum of,
Speaker 1: just like I think government is something you want to
Speaker 1: have very clearly delineated and limited. This goes back, of
Speaker 1: course to our founding philosophy, but I think that should
Speaker 1: be the case as well. From the perspective of government
Speaker 1: intervention in the economy. It should be the absolute minimum necessary,
Speaker 1: really just the enforcement of contracts and the bare minimum
Speaker 1: of regulation, and that's not what we have now. But
Speaker 1: if you were to have a market that all of
Speaker 1: a sudden becomes really choppy and people get scared and
Speaker 1: bad things are happening, then you would see, I think,
Speaker 1: a big surgeon support for the far left the Democrat Party.
Speaker 1: Remember that it was when socialism had a big rise
Speaker 1: in this country as a result of the Great Depression.
Speaker 1: The narrative was that capitalism had failed. In fact, some
Speaker 1: of the traders to this country who were people who
Speaker 1: were communists, who were doing the bidding of the Soviet Union,
Speaker 1: and yes they existed, Yes that was real. They still
Speaker 1: pretend like we don't have more than a mountain of evidence,
Speaker 1: which we do that there were penetrations, Soviet penetrations of
Speaker 1: the United States government at a very high level, but
Speaker 1: also that there was tremendous there. There were efforts from
Speaker 1: the Soviet Union to infiltrate socialism and yes, communism into
Speaker 1: this country, but there was an openness to it. The
Speaker 1: fellow travelers of the Communist Party in Moscow in this
Speaker 1: country believe that capitalism had failed, and they looked around,
Speaker 1: they saw this economic station and sat, see, we need
Speaker 1: a system where the government will will make sure that
Speaker 1: we are fed and everything is fair and everything will
Speaker 1: be better. That became a belief that was really easy
Speaker 1: for people of honestly, of good intention initially to support.
Speaker 1: And so when people get scared, they don't look at
Speaker 1: the government and say what did you do? They look
Speaker 1: at the government and say, how could you help me?
Speaker 1: So if we head into a bad economic period in
Speaker 1: the next year, you will see a big surgeon support
Speaker 1: for Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and anybody who is
Speaker 1: far left on the Democrat spectrum and promising a whole
Speaker 1: lot of free The free stuff candidate becomes even though
Speaker 1: you can afford it even less with a bad economy,
Speaker 1: the free stuff candidate becomes very, very popular, very quickly,
Speaker 1: when all of a sudden everyone is scared. And that's
Speaker 1: where I think Bloomberg realizes that it's not a good
Speaker 1: idea for this country to go socialist. A Bloomberg, who's
Speaker 1: a self made multi multi billionaire, understands that at some level,
Speaker 1: and perhaps he believes that his role here is just
Speaker 1: to make sure that whoever wins the Democrat primary, it's
Speaker 1: somebody that at least at a basic level, believes in
Speaker 1: the benefits of capitalism as some understanding of what really
Speaker 1: works and how markets make our lives better, at how
Speaker 1: markets bring about prosperity and do things for us as
Speaker 1: a people that we should all, yes, dare I say
Speaker 1: we should be thankful for We should be thankful for
Speaker 1: capitalism today, thankful that we live in a country that
Speaker 1: is certainly imperfect and has far too much socialism and
Speaker 1: central planning going on, but is at least in some
Speaker 1: ways a better example than all of our near peers
Speaker 1: about how to pursue efficient markets and to empower the
Speaker 1: individual to make choices that benefit the individual, and then
Speaker 1: in the aggregate, those individual decisions that help that are
Speaker 1: based in self interest create a better society around for
Speaker 1: all of the rest of us. They invent new things,
Speaker 1: they make good things, they help with things, they provide
Speaker 1: services that all of us benefit from. That is a
Speaker 1: lesson that I would hope that perhaps we could be
Speaker 1: talking about at the Thanksgiving table this year. That would
Speaker 1: be that would be a better one. Tell the kids
Speaker 1: about why capitalism is great and that's why they've you know,
Speaker 1: you've got families all across the country that are going
Speaker 1: to be having a giant well I don't know whatever
Speaker 1: like a twenty pound bird or however big how big
Speaker 1: or like the average turkey, I don't even really know,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, how how bigger? Like if
Speaker 1: you get like at standard Thanksgiving turkey, it's like, isn't
Speaker 1: like fifteen pounds or not? There's a big Did you
Speaker 1: see that video of the turkey following around the mail
Speaker 1: truck every single stop? Oh, turkeys are terrifying. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: they're big enough to do some damage. Turkeys. You know,
Speaker 1: you start to realize that, you know, there's that whole
Speaker 1: I don't know if that theory is still believed them,
Speaker 1: but that you had dinosaurs actually transitioned and you know,
Speaker 1: this was like around the Jurassic Park era when people
Speaker 1: started saying that they trends, they've evolved into birds over time.
Speaker 1: You look, you look in the eyes, you look at
Speaker 1: those little beady eyes of a turkey, and you're like,
Speaker 1: you you're a great greg You know, Grandpa is probably
Speaker 1: a velociraptor. You know. Yeah, they look they look scary,
Speaker 1: they're mean, and they'll come after you. They'll chase you down,
Speaker 1: you know other you know, birds, You get too close
Speaker 1: to birds, you find out the hardway. They they're not
Speaker 1: they're not cuddly, and turkeys will chase you down. They
Speaker 1: can be very very aggressive, and they are ugly too.
Speaker 1: They're one of the if you're thinking, like, what is
Speaker 1: the ugliest animal in the world, I think turkeys have
Speaker 1: got to be kinda up on that list. And they're
Speaker 1: really and they do you know, you think about like buzzards.
Speaker 1: I think that buzzards and vultures are very high up
Speaker 1: on the animals you don't want to be near and
Speaker 1: spend time around scale. You know. Yeah, they just look
Speaker 1: dirty all the time and they goblet underneath. You don't
Speaker 1: know what's going on. It's not cool. Yeah, but they
Speaker 1: taste pretty They taste pretty good. Um, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: be We're gonna beat in some turkey. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: some turk sandwiches the day after that, turkey, turkey, turkey
Speaker 1: for days and days and days. Good things, my friends.
Speaker 1: I think the concern of this perspective that makes it
Speaker 1: sound like, you know, it's all the fault of students
Speaker 1: of color or somehow their families that they struggle to
Speaker 1: get ahead, and when the reality is there are so
Speaker 1: many barriers that our system puts up, and I want
Speaker 1: to make sure I communicated that I'm very conscious of
Speaker 1: the advantages and privileges that I have had, not through
Speaker 1: any great wealth, but certainly through education, through the advantages
Speaker 1: that come with being white and being male. And that's
Speaker 1: part of why I know I've got to make myself
Speaker 1: useful as a candidate and as president. Pete Buddha Judge
Speaker 1: got into some trouble here with the Democrats because he
Speaker 1: tried to talk about education and particularly education and minority
Speaker 1: communities and what could be done to improve things. And
Speaker 1: this is probably a surprise, dude, none of you listening,
Speaker 1: but guess what. There are only certain things you're allowed
Speaker 1: to say when you're talking about minorities and education in
Speaker 1: America if you are a white male, period. But if
Speaker 1: you're a white male running for elected office and all use,
Speaker 1: the only things you're allowed to say, and this was
Speaker 1: established once again with Mayor Peter you the only things
Speaker 1: allowed to say is systemic racism, racism, barriers to minorities,
Speaker 1: more racism, and more resources needed because racism, that's it.
Speaker 1: You deviate from that as a Democrat, you go in
Speaker 1: any other director you talk about, well, maybe we'll look
Speaker 1: at how what are charter schools? Which charter schools are
Speaker 1: public schools. It's just money that it's just a different
Speaker 1: format for a public school. But anyway people who oh,
Speaker 1: it drains money from public schools is a silly it's
Speaker 1: a strange argument. But you're not allowed to have an
Speaker 1: open conversation about education when education is failing in so
Speaker 1: many underprivileged minority communities across the country. It's just it's
Speaker 1: just sad. It's it's really it's really troubling. The people
Speaker 1: that are supposed to be in positions of power that
Speaker 1: can do something about this or could come up with
Speaker 1: new ideas either are unwilling to or aren't allowed to.
Speaker 1: They're not allowed to come up with things ideas to help.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know people that teach in schools here
Speaker 1: in New York City that are that are almost that
Speaker 1: are entirely as a as a function of the way
Speaker 1: the school is set up underprivileged backgrounds. People that have
Speaker 1: to be either from section they at housing or I
Speaker 1: forget what the designation is, but they've received some form
Speaker 1: of welfare. The schools entirely minority, and I hear about
Speaker 1: what goes on at that school and The problem is
Speaker 1: not resources. The problem is not a lack of computers
Speaker 1: or textbooks. I mean, these are things that you'll hear.
Speaker 1: The problem is not there's not enough money for teachers
Speaker 1: or there's not enough teachers. That those are not the problems.
Speaker 1: Problems are. And this is from teachers I know in
Speaker 1: one school in particular here in New York City that's
Speaker 1: entirely underprivileged and minority, that problems are things like students
Speaker 1: are unwilling to listen to authority. They're unwilling to be
Speaker 1: silent when they're told that it's time for someone who
Speaker 1: presented the class, or are they they don't show up,
Speaker 1: or they there are all these other issues that come
Speaker 1: up in the classroom, and there's no support for students
Speaker 1: to do their homework at home. This is what I
Speaker 1: hear from teachers all the time. But if you're a
Speaker 1: Democrat and you can't talk about any of that, if
Speaker 1: you're a Democrat, you know what the script is, What
Speaker 1: is the problem with education as it pertains to minority
Speaker 1: majority schools and minority neighborhoods where the test scores are
Speaker 1: very low and education is not succeeding. The answer is racism. Racism, racism,
Speaker 1: structural racism, and more racism. If you say anything other
Speaker 1: than that, you will be crushed by your own side
Speaker 1: as a Democrat. And that's just sad because you know
Speaker 1: who suffers as a result of that, Kids who cannot
Speaker 1: count on adults to have adult conversations about how to
Speaker 1: make the education system better for all kids, and in
Speaker 1: particular minority kids in this country. And this is the
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Speaker 1: feel like it all we could do. Actually, let's we'll
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Speaker 1: with Buck producer Brandon. Just we're here. I can I
Speaker 1: can smell the turkey in your oven right now. I
Speaker 1: can almost taste those mashed potatoes you've got going on
Speaker 1: the stove top. And so I feel like we're just
Speaker 1: gonna let this, uh sit back, relax and let the
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Speaker 1: there it is in a student analysis. Indeed, I think
Speaker 1: that it is a better definitely a better movie than
Speaker 1: Men at Work. I'm not really a big Amelia West
Speaker 1: de Bes guy in general, but if you haven't seen
Speaker 1: Young Guns and you like westerns, it's kind of like
Speaker 1: a almost like a hipster Western or something. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's it's very much a nineties movie, but it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I saw it with my brothers so many times. Hunter
Speaker 1: writes in again on the Graham, awesome of us the instagrams.
Speaker 1: We're going to instagram with Facebook, we'll do emails. We're
Speaker 1: just having a little bit of a having a loose
Speaker 1: last session here because hm, I can just I can
Speaker 1: almost taste those the crewe dete that you've laid out,
Speaker 1: you know, just as little palate cleanser, perhaps some stalks
Speaker 1: of celery with a bit of blue cheese, a bit
Speaker 1: of blue cheese dressing to dip in. Not ranch dressing, folks,
Speaker 1: blue cheese dressing. All right, let's be civilized, Hunter writes.
Speaker 1: My name is Hunter, and I'm from Texas. I want
Speaker 1: to tell you how much I support you. I'm very
Speaker 1: recent Christian, and I became a follower of Jesus from
Speaker 1: a totally unlikely background. I was previously an extremely left
Speaker 1: wing liberal Jew. In the span of the last year,
Speaker 1: all those things have changed. I've begun to be transformed
Speaker 1: because of this change. I've become a huge fan of
Speaker 1: yours and your leadership for conservatism and traditional values and
Speaker 1: masculinity in America. But I'm actually most impressed by what
Speaker 1: an amazing person you are. Studying the Bible and following
Speaker 1: Christ with the Christian community helps me see that, and
Speaker 1: that's what made me want to share with you how
Speaker 1: much I've changed and been impacted by your example. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for being an amazing role model in
Speaker 1: christ Hunter Well, Hunter, God blessman. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: It's a very very kind message, and I hope I will.
Speaker 1: I hope I can going forward live up to that message,
Speaker 1: because this is a very very nice thing that you
Speaker 1: wrote in So thank you so much. I don't know
Speaker 1: I see, I don't know people's names because I only
Speaker 1: have their screen and I don't want to use people's
Speaker 1: screen names without asking them first. So we'll just call
Speaker 1: this guy Rob, even though that's not his name. Hey Buck,
Speaker 1: I was catching up on the podcast as a licensed
Speaker 1: mental professional. I want to clear up a misconception. There
Speaker 1: are many mental health providers who are conservative. However, mental
Speaker 1: health providers do not have conscious conscientious protection and face
Speaker 1: a very liberal lineup of higher education institutions, journals, and
Speaker 1: associations such as the APA and ACA. For any conservative
Speaker 1: mental health provider who would like to surround themselves with
Speaker 1: those who see the truth and the true effects of
Speaker 1: medical surgical treatment of gender dysphoria, aap log has a
Speaker 1: new mental health wing working on spreading the truth. I
Speaker 1: don't know what aplog is, but thank you quote Rob,
Speaker 1: because I don't know what your real name is the
Speaker 1: mental health professional. I appreciate I appreciate you writing in.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I didn't say that all people who are
Speaker 1: mental health practitioners are liberals. It's just the most by
Speaker 1: party affiliation, it is the most liberal of the mental
Speaker 1: health professions. So you have more Democrats who are shrinks
Speaker 1: than you do, say, have Democrats who are surgeons. And
Speaker 1: now we will transition. Remember guys, check out the Graham
Speaker 1: Buck on the Instagram. I'll probably post a photo of Tallulah.
Speaker 1: I'll be scratching her belly, feeding your giant chunks of
Speaker 1: seared turkey meat. I guess I wouldn't be seared, it
Speaker 1: would be baked. You bake a road Do you roast
Speaker 1: or bake a turkey? You roast a turkey? Right? This
Speaker 1: is great. What's the difference in roasting and baking that?
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you, but right, I've always heard the terminology,
Speaker 1: know turkey. I mean you put in the oven, you
Speaker 1: turn the heat up, you roast in it, and you're
Speaker 1: baking it. Roast sounds more. I know that the thing
Speaker 1: with the fire at the top is the broiler, and
Speaker 1: you get to bast it too, and you bait. I
Speaker 1: know what basting is. It's where you you dripped the
Speaker 1: juice all over it. Right, yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've never really been involved in the turkey cooking. One
Speaker 1: day I'll have to learn how to do this myself.
Speaker 1: I have learned how to cook that bird. I might
Speaker 1: go see a movie bout, Michael C. Have you seen
Speaker 1: um Ford Versus Ferrari? I might go check it out. No,
Speaker 1: but I did finally see Joker. What do you think
Speaker 1: it is probably one of the best, uh comic movies
Speaker 1: I've seen in a very very long time. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: it focused more on speaking of mental health, focus more
Speaker 1: on the person and the story instead of all the
Speaker 1: CGI stuff going on. It was it was a real
Speaker 1: it was a real story that had human connection and
Speaker 1: an impact, and it felt like it felt like something
Speaker 1: that people would remember afterwards. Sure. Yeah, I look, I
Speaker 1: thought it was I thought it was excellent, and people
Speaker 1: said it was so sounds. I mean, there's some violent stuff,
Speaker 1: but it's not super it's not ultra violent. No. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're going pulp fiction and this stuff back in
Speaker 1: the day, it's not like that. No. No, I mean
Speaker 1: maybe compared to Aunt Man and some of the lighter
Speaker 1: comic movies perhaps, but as far as the movie itself,
Speaker 1: I mean, you see any Tarantino movie, Those are violent,
Speaker 1: very violent. Yeah, I'm by the way, I am. I
Speaker 1: am an anti Tarantino guy. As far as his movies
Speaker 1: in general, or just him as, I don't like him.
Speaker 1: You don't like pulp fiction, I don't like any of it,
Speaker 1: all right, I've seen a lot of it. No, I know,
Speaker 1: people look at me like I'm crazy. I mean, did
Speaker 1: you like inglorious bastards. Yeah, not one of my favorites
Speaker 1: by him, but reservoir dogs. No, wait, hold on a
Speaker 1: second producer, Nick, who's coming in from the mother ship.
Speaker 1: He says, here we go. So now, I mean, now
Speaker 1: I don't sound like a fool on radio. Roasting occurs
Speaker 1: at higher temp ritures with an uncovered pen. So that
Speaker 1: how okay? How many of you at home really knew
Speaker 1: the difference he's baking and roasted. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: there are different things, But did you know that I
Speaker 1: didn't know that. We need to get the more you know,
Speaker 1: sound bite on the board. Knowing is half the battle,
Speaker 1: remember that. Yeah, we grew up, we do. We grew
Speaker 1: up with such better cartoons. Yeah, we grew up with
Speaker 1: cartoons that made us Americans. You know. Now they grew
Speaker 1: up with cartoons. It's like they're making a little teletubby communists. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not good. It's not good. All right?
Speaker 1: So I know what roasting guys? I learned? Hey, learn something,
Speaker 1: learn something new every day. It's kind of exciting. David. Fuck,
Speaker 1: You're right about the euro marketing campaigns. Remember far fig Nugan.
Speaker 1: It sounded awesome until they started lying about their fuel
Speaker 1: efficiency and it almost sunk them. Keep up the work,
Speaker 1: take care. What's a far fig Nugan? Do we know?
Speaker 1: Producer Brandon, I might need you to google this one.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to f I'll google it. But
Speaker 1: I guess thought that was a name you would call
Speaker 1: some boss. It's Vassist. I'm farfek Nugan. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know fafeknugans or nickt kut zeffik nugan. What is that?
Speaker 1: Is it a car? In German? It's a German word
Speaker 1: that means driving pleasure or driving enjoyment. It's used mostly
Speaker 1: to talk about the pleasure and delight one gets from
Speaker 1: driving around. Ohtoo doan? Yeah? So what makes a car
Speaker 1: of Voltswagen? Found got something new every day? And San Look,
Speaker 1: it's this is a learning section of the soul. Will
Speaker 1: we just do these things where we learn? Yeah? Now
Speaker 1: is the time on spruckets where we dance. You know,
Speaker 1: you remember, I don't care anybody says those were the
Speaker 1: SNL glory days. I'm as HAPs what's up there? We'd go?
Speaker 1: I'm as happy as a little girl. Yeah, Mike Myers,
Speaker 1: Dana Carvey, that was the Chris Farley, that was the peak.
Speaker 1: You go back and watch people look, oh yeah, this
Speaker 1: guy Belushi where there's like cheeseburger, cheeseburger and like the
Speaker 1: samurai sushi that's not fat stuff. That might have been
Speaker 1: funny fifty years ago. Man, that stuff doesn't hold up.
Speaker 1: I know all the Boomers are gonna yell at me.
Speaker 1: It's fine. I love you Boomers. James writes in I'm
Speaker 1: having problems with the roll call audio. Is the other
Speaker 1: person even your normal audio is louder than you. Blah blah, guys.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, man, I don't know what
Speaker 1: the problem is with the audio. Producer Mark gets so
Speaker 1: he's not here right now. Can you get married in
Speaker 1: a few days? May I look at that producer? Mark
Speaker 1: gets so churmudgeonly. I'm telling you so curmudgingly. When I
Speaker 1: tell him, hey, you know, people are saying that there's
Speaker 1: audio problems the podcast, He's like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: hear any of this nonsense from any of you. So
Speaker 1: I want to hear it, though, So keep telling me
Speaker 1: if there's a problem, But I'll just I'll feed it
Speaker 1: the producer Mark, and we'll make sure we you know.
Speaker 1: I'll give him. I'll give him some cookies or something
Speaker 1: to make sure he doesn't get mad at me. I'll
Speaker 1: buy him off somehow. Take it just a little moment
Speaker 1: of a little moment of zen. Here and we're rolling
Speaker 1: with roll Call right before Thanksgiving, because I'm here working hard,
Speaker 1: doing a show for all of you. Even though a
Speaker 1: lot of my peers are like, oh, I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: a three day a three day holiday during the week.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. His freedom gonna spread itself? Is the freedom
Speaker 1: Hutch just gonna, you know, do its own thing without
Speaker 1: us here to make sure that the Libs, the commies,
Speaker 1: and the evildoers are held responsible. I think not. I
Speaker 1: think we all know the answer to that question. So
Speaker 1: we get back into this, my men, Here we go.
Speaker 1: Next up we are, We're doing the Facebook. We'll get
Speaker 1: to the emails if I can figure out where they are, Victor.
Speaker 1: Victor writes, greetings, Oh, great one, what has happened to
Speaker 1: the Drudge Report? As Master Yoda would say, the dark
Speaker 1: side I sense in you? Is that pretty good? That's
Speaker 1: pretty good? Right? My Yoda wasn't bad for a guy
Speaker 1: never does Yoda on the show or does yoga, but
Speaker 1: doesn't do Yoda either, A little bit of Grovey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it might be the same guy, though voices it could
Speaker 1: we Matt Drudge seems way too negative on Trump lately,
Speaker 1: as abundantly clear as a bright, sunning day along the horizon,
Speaker 1: Thank you buck. Yeah, people have gotten kind of upset
Speaker 1: with Drudge recently. I don't really know what that's about.
Speaker 1: I don't know why why we got Drudge all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, not really being on the Trump train. It's
Speaker 1: not even that sudden. It's been a while now. But
Speaker 1: I don't know. Trudge is a is a shadowy, shadowy figure,
Speaker 1: shadowy character. He's elusive, like a snow leopard. You never
Speaker 1: know where you're gonna find him, never know where he's
Speaker 1: gonna turn up. And I guess snow leopards actually have
Speaker 1: to stay at high altitude in very limited regions. But
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, hard to find. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the deal is with Drudge. I never met him.
Speaker 1: I've never talked to Matt Drudge, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't even think he knows who I am, So
Speaker 1: I can't say that I have anything like that. Here
Speaker 1: we go, Matt writes in oh a little more. The
Speaker 1: more you know. Doo doo, doo doo. Remember that, Matt
Speaker 1: writes in because I mentioned that the sweetbreads yesterday, we're disgusting,
Speaker 1: And I'm correct. There's that trying to save you all
Speaker 1: from making the mistake that many of may before if
Speaker 1: going to restaurant like, oh, sweetbreads. I like bread. I
Speaker 1: like things that are sweet. Perhaps I shall like sweetbread. No,
Speaker 1: it is not like chocolate flavored bread. It is, as
Speaker 1: Matt points out, the thymus or pancreas glands. That sounds
Speaker 1: even grosser than what I was talking about. I think
Speaker 1: I would take intestines over thymus or pancreas. Honestly, maybe not.
Speaker 1: Intestants are kind of gross too. And he also says
Speaker 1: here that tongue taste like pot roast. I believe you,
Speaker 1: but let me also say that I don't know what
Speaker 1: pot roast taste like, so I can't say if it
Speaker 1: tastes like tongue or not. I don't have ever had it.
Speaker 1: Brand In Hey, brother Buck and producer Mark Shields high
Speaker 1: congrats in the upcoming wedding this weekend. Producer Mark, marriage
Speaker 1: is not easy, but nothing good, ever, is just remember
Speaker 1: the words of Winston Churchill, never never, never give up
Speaker 1: praying for you both. God bless you and your future bride.
Speaker 1: Producer Mark, back to business. Last night, I was at
Speaker 1: the Polhattan, Virginia Board of Supervisors meeting where a board
Speaker 1: voted to make our county a Second Amendment sanctuary county
Speaker 1: due to the gun grabbing legislation that the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: is voting on in January. There's a wave of patriots
Speaker 1: attending these meetings in record numbers. I haven't seen anything
Speaker 1: like this since the Tea Party movement. The organization that
Speaker 1: informed me about it is called the Virginia Citizens Defense
Speaker 1: League or VCDL. As of last night, Virginia has had
Speaker 1: fifteen counties become Second Amendment sanctuary counties, and many more
Speaker 1: have planned to meet. Shields are high in Virginia. Brother,
Speaker 1: God bless you Airborne all the way. Brandon. Sounds like
Speaker 1: a Second Amend sanctuary thing is a good, good move,
Speaker 1: So good luck and God bless on that. Let me know,
Speaker 1: let me know how that goes. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: hadn't heard about this before. So see, we're learning all
Speaker 1: kinds of new things here on the show. That is
Speaker 1: just the way it is on the Buck Sexton Show,
Speaker 1: Adam Right's Buck Good News. Timberlake was caught with his
Speaker 1: hands in the cookie jar. That's a Jessica Bill. Maybe
Speaker 1: Jessica Sexton. After all, there's Hope Shields High. Oh what
Speaker 1: did producer Brandon? What did Timberlake do? I didn't even
Speaker 1: see this, do we know? I couldn't tell you. I'll
Speaker 1: have to google that one as well. How could Eddie
Speaker 1: Man cheat on Jessica Bill? Good? Heavens good, heavens Man.
Speaker 1: I say, it's absurd, How absurd? I don't know if
Speaker 1: that happened or not. You know, maybe maybe Timberlake was just,
Speaker 1: you know, working on some choreography super late at night
Speaker 1: in the hotel room or something. I don't know, he
Speaker 1: was spotting justin that is JT to the to the
Speaker 1: kids holding hands with the co star of his I
Speaker 1: guess on some movie set. Yeah, is that? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Is that a thing I like? Is that? I mean? Hell,
Speaker 1: the hand a little? I mean like, okay, if I
Speaker 1: were married and somebody was holding my wife's hand who
Speaker 1: was not a you know, immediate relative or something like
Speaker 1: her dad, that might I think that's a bother party foul.
Speaker 1: There could be more to the story. Maybe there could
Speaker 1: be Maybe they were just working on the hand holding
Speaker 1: for the next big scene. Yes, yes, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to I'm trying to find the bright side here.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to revel in the marital misery of
Speaker 1: Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel. Even though she was my
Speaker 1: high school CROs when we were growing up, so she
Speaker 1: was pretty. She's pretty fantastic. Mary Camp did seventh have
Speaker 1: a man and we were the same age. She was great,
Speaker 1: she could even she even even good at basketball, just saying,
Speaker 1: I mean I was probably better. Uh. Gina Wright's book
Speaker 1: Appetite for Destruction, Shield Tie and rock On. What was that? Oh? She?
Speaker 1: I think she's I think that Gene's trying to be helpful.
Speaker 1: I don't know she understands that. Brandon, what is your
Speaker 1: podcast called? Because you have a podcast, I appreciate you
Speaker 1: asking Appetite for Distortion, which of course is a playoff
Speaker 1: Appetite of Destruction, their first Landmark album. So producer Brandon
Speaker 1: over here does a show where he talks about everything
Speaker 1: guns and roses. Right, Yeah, a lot of profile interviews,
Speaker 1: So it's not just hey, my favorite song, my favorite album.
Speaker 1: You know, if whether it's a former band member or
Speaker 1: a comedian and author, um, you know, is there a
Speaker 1: casema that Slash is the greatest rock guitarist of all time?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think so. Oh yeah, Now I thought I
Speaker 1: was giving you an easy one to like that is
Speaker 1: I mean, does Hendricks, Eddie van Halen. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: there's a lot Stevie Ray Vaughan, there's so many Eric Clapton,
Speaker 1: There's there's a lot up there. But but Slash does
Speaker 1: have a cool top hat. Oh absolutely, she still rocks.
Speaker 1: We're rolling here with a special Thanksgiving role call. Want
Speaker 1: to bring in all the voices from across the country.
Speaker 1: Is you're getting ready, you're just oh, you can smell
Speaker 1: that turkey. You can just oh, you can taste it.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you're not stuck in traffic somewhere trying to get
Speaker 1: to see your loved ones. So that will certainly be
Speaker 1: the case for some people as they're listening to this,
Speaker 1: because man, those Thanksgiving roads we used to go. We
Speaker 1: used to go visit my dad's mother, so my grandmother
Speaker 1: on the father's side, down in Charlottesville, Virginia, and we
Speaker 1: would drive down to Charlottesville, all six of us, because
Speaker 1: I want to force those four kids and my family
Speaker 1: and my mom and dad, and we would drive down there,
Speaker 1: and many times we made that made the trip in
Speaker 1: a Cadillac Sedan, like an old school I think it
Speaker 1: was from like nineteen seventy eight or something, and this
Speaker 1: was in the nineties, so really old Cadillacs, a dad
Speaker 1: that did not have air conditioning that worked, by the way,
Speaker 1: which was not a big deal for going down for Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: but when we would drive down there for fourth or July,
Speaker 1: that was not always optimal. It was it was suboptimal.
Speaker 1: But driving down to Thanksgiving and driving down to Charlotte's
Speaker 1: Villliver Thanksgiving from New York City, it's like you're trying
Speaker 1: to go to do the worst leg of travel in
Speaker 1: the worst single corridor in the entire country as a
Speaker 1: as a tradition, but it brought us closer as a family.
Speaker 1: There were times were almost run out of gas, there
Speaker 1: were flat tires, there were you know, incidents of plenty
Speaker 1: on that on that road trip back of the day.
Speaker 1: And you know, this is before we all had smartphones
Speaker 1: and GPS and everything else, so you know, you got
Speaker 1: into a road trip. There was a little bit of
Speaker 1: like a little bit of like a you know, Lewis
Speaker 1: and Clark vibe. You're like, I don't know if we go.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're gonna make it. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're gonna get all the way
Speaker 1: down to charlottes Ville, Virginia. We get down there, and
Speaker 1: I remember being kid, I was like, these people all
Speaker 1: have these kind of funny accents, like, oh hello bug.
Speaker 1: Well in the Charlotte's vie, I was like, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: hello to you. You know, it's great. Um. They don't
Speaker 1: have those accents in northern Virginia. Like when I worked
Speaker 1: with the CIA, you go around, none of that in
Speaker 1: Northern Virginia. But you get down to Charlotte's when people
Speaker 1: actually have the cool accents. So they don't all say
Speaker 1: I do Claia, though, which makes me, oh, I do Declaia.
Speaker 1: That's not a thing us New York. They don't have
Speaker 1: a fan. They don't not say ohoo, good loo Declaia.
Speaker 1: That's not a turns out people in the South don't
Speaker 1: actually say I learned this when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: because I was a New Yorker. I was a Yankee
Speaker 1: from New York City. So yeah, man, we used to
Speaker 1: go down. There's a long, long road trip. So any
Speaker 1: of you that are stuck on the road and we're
Speaker 1: in traffic out I'm just telling you, at least you
Speaker 1: can and you have buck Sexton podcast to keep you company.
Speaker 1: If if for some reason you make the ill advised
Speaker 1: choice not to indulge in just catching up in Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton podcasts, you could listen to an enormous music library
Speaker 1: on your phone or on your touch screen and your
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. And that's just it's such a
Speaker 1: game change from what it used to be. I mean,
Speaker 1: I remember being stuck in that car. There's nothing to do,
Speaker 1: so look out the window. Just look at the window
Speaker 1: for hours and hours and hours and hours, and you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: you know we're on like I ninety five two, So
Speaker 1: there's no charm. There's no charm. That's how I got
Speaker 1: to No New Jersey. Drive through New Jersey as like, ah,
Speaker 1: I know what this is. This is all the chemical
Speaker 1: plants and the smells. This is New Jersey. Remember when
Speaker 1: I was a little kid, we drive all the way
Speaker 1: down to Charlotte'sville. It was quite a thing shots was
Speaker 1: pretty though. The Uba campus is really nice. I liked
Speaker 1: it down there, all right, I said, we're doing roll call.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to take you too far down memory
Speaker 1: in the lane. I do remember also though, eating a
Speaker 1: fair amount of food at those rest stops, and man,
Speaker 1: rest stops have gotten so much nicer now. You go
Speaker 1: down you drive from like you drive on ninety five
Speaker 1: and you go to restaurant rest stop, they're basically like
Speaker 1: offering you a Shiatsu massage and do you want a
Speaker 1: wheat grass shot? And oh they have they have, you know,
Speaker 1: organic and sustainable turkey burgers for you. I mean, rest
Speaker 1: stops have gone into a whole other direction. True of
Speaker 1: stadium food too, Like I go to stadiums now and
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, would you like would you like some
Speaker 1: some seared brisket with a side of roasted Brussels sprouts?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I remember when you went to a
Speaker 1: game and it was like you were lucky if you
Speaker 1: get a big thing of soggy French fries. You were
Speaker 1: pretty much only ga and ted popcorn and hot dogs. So,
Speaker 1: you know, kids these days they don't realize how good
Speaker 1: they've got it, you know, now, I'm about to be
Speaker 1: the gray beard millennial who's calling it out when you're going,
Speaker 1: you know, all for all the young all the young
Speaker 1: uns who we're listening to this right now. If you
Speaker 1: are a gen Z and you're traveling with your family,
Speaker 1: just understand something. Kid, You got it easy, all right.
Speaker 1: You got your little smartphone, video games, texting your friends,
Speaker 1: everything else. Man, I used to have to get into
Speaker 1: a small, uncomfortable sedan with five other people as a
Speaker 1: kid and sit in traffic for like ten hours just
Speaker 1: to get down to see some relatives in Virginia. And
Speaker 1: that was a form that was a formative experience for
Speaker 1: all of us. Let me tell you that, Man, what
Speaker 1: I wouldn't give to if I could have at that
Speaker 1: point in time had some kind of little video game player,
Speaker 1: would have been amazing. Would have really helped out or
Speaker 1: read books, that's a thing you could do. I have
Speaker 1: not forgotten about that. I've not forgotten that books are
Speaker 1: a possibility for those of the one to do that.
Speaker 1: Jeremy writing it on the roll call Buck, do you
Speaker 1: think if the media, including yourself, just ignore the impeachment hearings,
Speaker 1: they would lose even more traction? Also with Andrew Yang
Speaker 1: and Tulsea Gabbard being pushed to the side of the
Speaker 1: DNC primary. Could the Democrats be peddling dare I say
Speaker 1: racism the one issue they see him to think separates
Speaker 1: them from Republicans. I say this in Jess, but it's
Speaker 1: interesting to see the front runners are all old and white.
Speaker 1: She'll tell you. I have a great Thanksgiving. Have a
Speaker 1: great Thanksgiving to you, Jeremy. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: writing in. I think Jeremy's a woe who listener. And
Speaker 1: Fort Wayne, Indiana and the house we have ever been
Speaker 1: in four Indiana. Lovely place, lovely people. Have been a
Speaker 1: couple of times. Actually, yeah, it's nice. Indiana is America,
Speaker 1: you know, Manhattan's not really America. I don't know what
Speaker 1: this is. This is some kind of international protectorate with
Speaker 1: way too high real estate costs. Axel Roses from Lafayette, Indiana.
Speaker 1: Is he really? Yeah? He? He is not looking so
Speaker 1: good these days. No comments? Uh fushing sixty or is
Speaker 1: he really? He's not sixty yet, but he's mid to
Speaker 1: late fifties. Wow, I know that. Just that just is mine.
Speaker 1: I mean, I will never think of him as anything
Speaker 1: other than guy doing the Axl Rose dance on stage,
Speaker 1: you know, like the kind of moving the legs on
Speaker 1: the side that think that you snake dance the Davy
Speaker 1: Jones dance. Yeah, and and like, I mean, okay, what
Speaker 1: is the By the way, we've never had this discussion before,
Speaker 1: as people are probably stuck in their cars or cooking
Speaker 1: their Thanksgiving meals or just hanging out. The greatest, the
Speaker 1: greatest Guns and Roses song of all time? My friend,
Speaker 1: what is it? I think this is an easy answer,
Speaker 1: so I'm kind of I think Welcome to the Jungle
Speaker 1: is the most universally beloved interesting either that or Sweet Child,
Speaker 1: Sweet Child Mine? Okay, I guess Sweet Child of Mine. Okay,
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the greatest. It's not a
Speaker 1: rock anthem, and I think it's one of the I
Speaker 1: think you could argue it's one of the ten greatest
Speaker 1: actual rock songs of I mean certainly of my lifetime.
Speaker 1: I could say that people always put it in there. Oh,
Speaker 1: this is like what they do with movies. Though black
Speaker 1: and white movies are so good, they're but that's crap.
Speaker 1: Black and white movies are mostly boring and do not
Speaker 1: hold up same thing about older rock with them. Oh,
Speaker 1: but you know, you really, if you really want the
Speaker 1: good stuff you've then you've got to listen. I'm like,
Speaker 1: the Beatles had as much garbage as they did good stuff.
Speaker 1: Well they did a lot, so I guess you can't
Speaker 1: win them all. A lot of it was not not
Speaker 1: so not so good, you know. I mean, Hendrix has
Speaker 1: a couple of really really good songs. I mean, I
Speaker 1: appreciate that you said that Hendrix might be the greatest
Speaker 1: rock guitars of all time. I think I could go
Speaker 1: for that. I could get into it, but I sweech
Speaker 1: out in the Mind is amazing. Welcome to the Jungle
Speaker 1: is that. It's definitely it's one of those two because
Speaker 1: it's not November rain, That's for sure. That's my favorite.
Speaker 1: That's my personal favorite. What it is? I like what
Speaker 1: is happening the epics mixed in with the rock. I like,
Speaker 1: I like the grand of it. I oh man, I
Speaker 1: just went for them trying. That was one I get
Speaker 1: marked back. I can't even remember what's it, so I
Speaker 1: get mark back here. No, no, no, it's fun. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to think of what the other the other
Speaker 1: great Guns and Roses songs are. Well, this is why
Speaker 1: I because you can speak to everybody universally with politics.
Speaker 1: Despite the fact that Gina was my favorite band to me,
Speaker 1: no matter what generation you are, you know sweet shad
Speaker 1: of Mine, you know. So that's that's the point. You
Speaker 1: can ask anybody in the street. They know that song.
Speaker 1: It's a look, it's a fantastic song, um so, and
Speaker 1: it's one of those few songs from a Guns and
Speaker 1: Roses considered a hair band that's actually a topic of
Speaker 1: conversation sometimes. I don't think so. I think they kind
Speaker 1: of killed that a little bit. I mean because they
Speaker 1: did have super long hair. They did, But I mean
Speaker 1: maybe because in the Welcome to the Jungle video actual
Speaker 1: teases his hair up, you know, with the AquaNet back
Speaker 1: in the day, huh would you have done that if
Speaker 1: you were I mean, I would those guys. I feel
Speaker 1: like there was nothing quite like being a true rock
Speaker 1: star in the eighties and nineties for just you know,
Speaker 1: having a lot of fun and doing whatever the heck
Speaker 1: you want. Just to picture you're you're swoop with AquaNet
Speaker 1: and just teased out is I don't even know what
Speaker 1: AquaNet is, but o, it's like hairspray. It's just like
Speaker 1: crazy hair spray. Yeah, I mean the swoop. The swoop really,
Speaker 1: I mean basically if I was in a band, it
Speaker 1: would be a hair band because of the swoop by definition. Sure,
Speaker 1: So that's that's one way to that's one way to
Speaker 1: keep keep things rolling along. Here. We got a little
Speaker 1: more roll call coming your way. And then you're gonna
Speaker 1: be eating turkey, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, let's just close out our pre Thanksgiving show.
Speaker 1: We should have, you know, we should have like loaded
Speaker 1: in some you know, some thanks is there? What does
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving music? Is there such a thing? Is it Thanksgiving music?
Speaker 1: There should be give thanks for Thanksgiving? You know something
Speaker 1: like that. Well, just like how Adam Sandler does are
Speaker 1: very h one of two or three depending upon who
Speaker 1: asked Connika songs, he does have a turkey song, really
Speaker 1: turkey for me and turkey for you. Cool dobble gobble goo.
Speaker 1: You know how Sandler does it? I I did not
Speaker 1: know that. Um, all right, let's get back now we're
Speaker 1: gonna take some emails. Buck uh well, no team Bucket.
Speaker 1: iHeartMedia dot com. That is the uh that is the
Speaker 1: way to send me an email, So please do send
Speaker 1: it in. Let's see here, Jason right, Buck, your voice
Speaker 1: is a pleasant combination of Christian Slater and Dan Carlin
Speaker 1: from hardcore History. Love the show, Shields high. Okay, thanks,
Speaker 1: I'll take it. Christian Slater huh, I've never gotten that
Speaker 1: one before. You're a little Christian Slater in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do now, Huh who Christians later was a little
Speaker 1: bit of Jack Nicholson two, So maybe your interest descendant
Speaker 1: of Jack Well. I guess that's that's possible. Um, let's
Speaker 1: see next up in the inbox here, Tyler, Hey, Buck,
Speaker 1: I've been listening to you for round seven years. Wow.
Speaker 1: I've always enjoyed it, appreciated your analysis and insights, and
Speaker 1: I spread the word about the Buck Sexton Show every
Speaker 1: chance I get. Mostly just want to reach out and
Speaker 1: thank you for what you're doing. No, Tyler, I gotta
Speaker 1: thank you for what you're doing. That is, that is
Speaker 1: what is helping the show grow. And every time somebody
Speaker 1: tells me they got somebody else listen to the show,
Speaker 1: I just I appreciate it so much. It's the single
Speaker 1: best thing you can do to help us keep doing
Speaker 1: what we're doing here and do more programs, products, more things,
Speaker 1: more podcasts, more video, more everything. Next, I'd like to
Speaker 1: recommend a book to you called Day of War, which
Speaker 1: is the first of the Line of War series by
Speaker 1: Cliff Graham, who's a veteran and primarily writes biblical war fiction.
Speaker 1: These books are fantastic. I think you dig them. Huh,
Speaker 1: here we go. Lastly, I reasonally saw that justin Tiberlake
Speaker 1: was see it out with another woman, so the window
Speaker 1: could be open for you to take a run of
Speaker 1: Jessica Bill just trying to be a good wingman shield time. Tyler.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Tyler. I think unfortunately I'm not in the
Speaker 1: right tax bracket for miss Beale, but it is nonetheless,
Speaker 1: it is appreciated that you guys. It's like I got
Speaker 1: It's like I've got thousands and thousands of Team Buck
Speaker 1: wingman all across the country. You're just looking out for,
Speaker 1: you know, because they want, you know, producer Marks getting married.
Speaker 1: I know people want it's time for it's time for
Speaker 1: host Buck to get married, and you know, make a
Speaker 1: little mini bucks or buckets or whatever too. I don't
Speaker 1: think we're gonna called them bucket. That wouldn't work. To
Speaker 1: buckle down, to buckle down, that's right. Um let us
Speaker 1: see here. Omer all right, it's hey Buck, longtime fan.
Speaker 1: Love the show Shieldsy. Today you played a clip of
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris talking about her pharma plan. Believe it or not,
Speaker 1: I actually think there's a good idea presented somewhere in
Speaker 1: her ramblings. Not the part about stripping companies of their
Speaker 1: patents that was obviously blunkers. It was the part about
Speaker 1: setting a cap on drug prices that is based on
Speaker 1: global averages that has merit, though not for the reasons
Speaker 1: Kamala thinks it does. I'm a Canadian citizen who's working
Speaker 1: in the public hell care industry and clinical research, and
Speaker 1: I have to tell you it's true that our drug
Speaker 1: prices are much lower than yours are in the States,
Speaker 1: but only because we cheat health. Canada puts a cap
Speaker 1: on drug prices that is significantly lower than the free
Speaker 1: market value of all medication. Some drug companies don't bother
Speaker 1: any of the Canadian market because of this cap, but
Speaker 1: most capitulate. The reason they put up with this is
Speaker 1: that the revenue they are making from the high the
Speaker 1: high free market drug prices in the US more than
Speaker 1: covers the cost of R and D and regulatory adherents. Therefore,
Speaker 1: drug companies are still able to turn a profit in
Speaker 1: Canada on razor thin margins. It's in this way the
Speaker 1: US subsidizes drug prices for Canada and really the rest
Speaker 1: of the world. Yeah, I've heard about this. Kama thinks
Speaker 1: likely putting a peg on drug prices based on the
Speaker 1: world average will bring US drug prices down to level
Speaker 1: the rest of the world. Chet is wrong. The drug
Speaker 1: industry is too capital intensive and high risk to exist
Speaker 1: on such small margins worldwide. Again, the only reason other
Speaker 1: con he's get away with it is they're leading on
Speaker 1: the high markups US citizens pay for their drugs. If
Speaker 1: the US were to stop paying those high prices, the
Speaker 1: whole industry would collapse and all likelihood what this policy
Speaker 1: would do is forced the drug companies to raise the
Speaker 1: cost of medication globally to ensure the high rates of
Speaker 1: the US market remain intact. Wow, this is fascinating. He's
Speaker 1: got more and more and more here. I hope that
Speaker 1: was co here, And let me know if you need
Speaker 1: me to clarify anything. Thanks for hearing me. I'll keep
Speaker 1: up the good work. Ohmer, Ohmer, that's fascinating man. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much somebody. Really, I've heard this argument before,
Speaker 1: but it sounds like you're somebody who works in the
Speaker 1: industry and has a particular expertise and background in it.
Speaker 1: Now Here we have to Bill who writes Buck? Is
Speaker 1: this true? And I can't see what you're asking me
Speaker 1: other than that, So the answers I don't know, Daniel
Speaker 1: Buck love the impressions, even though Warden sounds a bit
Speaker 1: like Flute from hr puffin Stuff, and your Betto sounds
Speaker 1: totally like Kyle from the Amanda Show. So glad I
Speaker 1: found your show. Wouldn't miss it for the world. Dan
Speaker 1: in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Thank you, Dan, Wow, Elisabeth Warren. Sure
Speaker 1: he just wants all the millionaire horehound in the billionaires
Speaker 1: could be paying for healthcare that's gonna be free for all.
Speaker 1: Have you? And then you've got what was her? Who's
Speaker 1: your betto? I just I think Betto sounds like better.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think anyone else really sounds
Speaker 1: like better. I kind of miss him being in the
Speaker 1: race because we had so much fun with Betto when
Speaker 1: he was in. Do you remember that show Duckman. It
Speaker 1: was a cartoon on USA with a Georgie's Alexander. There
Speaker 1: was a good character on their named Ajax that you
Speaker 1: sound like. Oh really, so if anyone gets that reference,
Speaker 1: good for you. That's a that's some vague stuff. I
Speaker 1: don't I've never never heard of any of that. So
Speaker 1: thank you for bringing to my attention, Producer Mark Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see. I'm sorry, Producer Brandon part. I knew that
Speaker 1: was gonna happen once today, I do. I was gonna
Speaker 1: have one late in the show, late in the show.
Speaker 1: You guys, You guys are all my favorite book. And Mark,
Speaker 1: it takes the crazy as a bedbug is an old expression.
Speaker 1: It's many decades old. You should look it up, all right, man, Sorry,
Speaker 1: I just didn't know. I don't know everything. And I'm
Speaker 1: honest with you, guys. I could be those hosts like
Speaker 1: I know everything. I'm so smart, I'm perfect. People are annoying.
Speaker 1: I don't know certain stuff. I learned stuff I'm here
Speaker 1: to learn with all of you. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna learn though, coming up? How good turkey tastes boom,
Speaker 1: That's right, it's gonna be fantastic. We're gonna have a
Speaker 1: wonderful thanksgiving all of you. You have your homework for
Speaker 1: this long holiday weekend. I'll be back with you live
Speaker 1: on Monday. Enjoy your time off, do give thanks, hold
Speaker 1: your loved ones close, hold your freedom close, and do
Speaker 1: tell somebody at the Thanksgiving table about the Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1: Tell them to download it on iTunes or watch it
Speaker 1: on Pluto TV channel two forty eight. The first Happy
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Shield Time