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Speaker 1: you were with the terrorists. If you got healthcare, all
Speaker 1: of it, then you can keep your plan. If you're
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Speaker 1: take it to a bank. Together, we will make America
Speaker 1: great again. It's what you've been waiting for all day.
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton with America now joined the conversation called Buck
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Speaker 1: future of talk radio. Buck Sexton Team, Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Freedom Hunt Free Style Friday is honest. We're in hype
Speaker 1: of the holiday season right now. Last minute gift preparations
Speaker 1: going on. People going to check out the Big Tree
Speaker 1: here in New York City at Rockfeller Center and do
Speaker 1: whatever other Christmas stuff they like to do. And I
Speaker 1: got some news for you, those who care about these
Speaker 1: things that I'm willing to bet a lot of you do.
Speaker 1: Taxes are going down in this country. The latest and
Speaker 1: most breaking of news today just can't just hit the airwaves.
Speaker 1: Uh hit the airwaves just before I came on air,
Speaker 1: and that is that the GOP is well gup. Has
Speaker 1: the votes, right, I mean, they they still could mess
Speaker 1: it up, but they're probably not going to. It looks
Speaker 1: like it is happening. It would be a one point
Speaker 1: five trillion dollar tax cut over the next decade. It
Speaker 1: would have some pretty important impacts on the US economy,
Speaker 1: could spur a whole lot of hiring and investment and
Speaker 1: good thing. In fact, you even had Bob Corker, who
Speaker 1: for those of you who care, which I'm assuming it's
Speaker 1: probably very few of you, but Bob Corker came along
Speaker 1: for this one. He was initially a no. Maybe he
Speaker 1: just wanted to get a little attention. He was initially
Speaker 1: a no. But he has said, Bob Corker Tennessee that
Speaker 1: he will come on board here. And Senator Marco Rubio
Speaker 1: also known as Little Marco, which Tyron and I were discussing,
Speaker 1: probably doesn't like to be called Little Marco. I've just
Speaker 1: you know it. You know, they're the nicknames like Bush
Speaker 1: would give people nicknames the White House that they liked,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, be like you know, you're you're
Speaker 1: you're You're my pal. I'm gonna call you pal, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. But Little Marco, I don't know
Speaker 1: about that. I think maybe maybe I should drop that
Speaker 1: one from the description. Yeah, I think so, Yeah, that's it. Yes, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: fair enough. Well the little Marco got I mean, pardon me,
Speaker 1: Senator Rubio got his way. He is in fact Yese
Speaker 1: now it's stuck in my head. He got his way.
Speaker 1: They made the child tax credit higher. Um, it will
Speaker 1: now instead of being eleven, he wanted two thousand from
Speaker 1: one thousand, with even that refundable. I'm sorry, it already
Speaker 1: did that. Rubio wanted the amount of refundability to be
Speaker 1: fourteen hundred dollars, and looks like he got it. It
Speaker 1: made some adjustments here and there, but more or less,
Speaker 1: it is a done deal. Um. So there you go.
Speaker 1: You have taxes. Uh, you have taxes. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: better for the economy than what we have right now.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be better for the economy than the current
Speaker 1: tax regime. So it looks like I can't keep making
Speaker 1: fun of Republicans for not getting anything done. It looks
Speaker 1: to me like there will be something for them to
Speaker 1: celebrate going into the new year. So the biggest things
Speaker 1: here though, really have to do with the corporate tax rate.
Speaker 1: As you know, Uh, it ended up being dropped from
Speaker 1: thirty five. Big multinationals are gonna be getting a special
Speaker 1: one time tax on money that they repatriate from overseas,
Speaker 1: which is a good thing. And yeah, there's some other
Speaker 1: stuff they did for s corporations and partnerships. I mean,
Speaker 1: now I sound like a tax guy, like I work
Speaker 1: at you know, H and R Block are one of
Speaker 1: those places. But and I don't otherwise I know more
Speaker 1: about this stuff. But yeah, a lot of taxes going down.
Speaker 1: It is a big tax. Rick Trump said that it
Speaker 1: would be a Christmas present, right, there will be a
Speaker 1: Christmas present for America. It looks like that is going
Speaker 1: going to happen. Oh on Tyrone reminded me that there
Speaker 1: are now seven brackets down from how many were there before.
Speaker 1: I mean, as seven seems like a lot to me.
Speaker 1: Ten twelve percent, twent two, thirty five, and thirty seven.
Speaker 1: So there you have it. Um. Oh, and there's an
Speaker 1: exemption on the state tax. So now it's more than
Speaker 1: eleven million per person, So if you only if you're
Speaker 1: more than eleven million dollars in terms of inheritance, does
Speaker 1: the death tax apply. So there you go. So this
Speaker 1: could be great. I Look, the economy is already in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways doing very very well. Uh, the
Speaker 1: economy is strong right now, and I think this will
Speaker 1: make it stronger. Um. The only people that get, uh
Speaker 1: kind of a rough end of the deal here are
Speaker 1: those who live in high tax states who lose the
Speaker 1: ability to fully deduct state and local taxes. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be paying a little more in that, but a lot
Speaker 1: of other folks are gonna be getting a getting less,
Speaker 1: getting less in terms of taxation. So there you go.
Speaker 1: All right, Republicans, you got some stuff. You're man edged
Speaker 1: to get something done. And uh, I have to stop
Speaker 1: making fun of the Congress. Well, I were celebrating a
Speaker 1: little early, and as a general rule, I hate celebrating early.
Speaker 1: But at this point, I don't know how they could
Speaker 1: backtrack on it. Speaking of backtracking, do we know yet
Speaker 1: when frankin stepping down? Because I said he's got to
Speaker 1: step down and you agree with me time. But it
Speaker 1: was supposed to be January all along. It was always
Speaker 1: gonna be January, okay, because people were calling me, you remember,
Speaker 1: they were skeptical. I'm like, come on, he can't not
Speaker 1: step down. But I I still I stamped with my
Speaker 1: initial analysis, there's no way he can't step down. But
Speaker 1: every time I see a report that he hasn't given
Speaker 1: a date yet, I'm like, uh, maybe there's maybe that
Speaker 1: would be a problem. So we'll see. Okay, other things
Speaker 1: we're gonna get into this. I can't spend that much
Speaker 1: more time talking about taxes. Just want to tell you guys,
Speaker 1: uh corkers in. Rubio is in and they got fifty
Speaker 1: two votes as of now in the Senate. It's going
Speaker 1: to clearly pass in the House. Should happen Monday or Tuesday.
Speaker 1: A Merry Christmas, everybody. Uncle Sam is gonna take less
Speaker 1: of your private property away from you. That's that's what
Speaker 1: we're celebrating here. Yea. I mean, I guess it's a
Speaker 1: good thing. But there you have it. Well, we've got
Speaker 1: some new stuff on the Russia investigation we'll talk about
Speaker 1: this hour. Also the uh sexual harassment stories and the
Speaker 1: the the political movement, and that's there's some new stuff
Speaker 1: there that I want to talk to you about. I
Speaker 1: think we might have finally started to see that this
Speaker 1: is this is now becoming. We're gonna need to rain
Speaker 1: this in a little bit. You know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: a lot of bad people. There was a lot that
Speaker 1: need to be cleared out right. The the sexual harassment
Speaker 1: swamp had to be drained. I think a lot of it.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that's been done. And now,
Speaker 1: at least in the very high profile cases, I know
Speaker 1: sexual harassment is gonna be It's gonna be a problem forever.
Speaker 1: By the way, I mean, this is not anything that
Speaker 1: anyone's figured out how to stop. But now we're starting
Speaker 1: to see cases that are a little more well, at
Speaker 1: least people are saying one and they didn't do it.
Speaker 1: So you gotta start with that, as opposed to a
Speaker 1: lot of the other stuff we've seen the accuser saying no,
Speaker 1: I didn't do it, and then also some of what's
Speaker 1: being reported as a story that should go along with
Speaker 1: all these others. Um I find myself as trying to
Speaker 1: be a very honest and thoughtful, impartial observer of this.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm not sure this is this is this
Speaker 1: is not in the same category. This doesn't go in
Speaker 1: the same column as like the Weinstein spacey cosby all
Speaker 1: that stuff doesn't go in the same same place. So
Speaker 1: we'll get into a bit of that in the next
Speaker 1: and ESPN has gotten dragged into this now, the very
Speaker 1: public ESPN spat underway right now, so we'll talk. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that with Tyrone and and oh, I mean
Speaker 1: it's Friday and it's the holiday season, so we're all
Speaker 1: in a good mood, right, Let's do some action movie
Speaker 1: quotes to hit it. Tyrone, the marine calls like a
Speaker 1: day on the falls a banquet full mason of parade.
Speaker 1: I love the movie. It's a matter to see you
Speaker 1: got your pushing committed pencils quote. You know what old
Speaker 1: Jack Burton always says it in time likeness Jack Burton
Speaker 1: me Fridays. Thanks for the advice. Action movie quote Fridays.
Speaker 1: You guys have had a lot of time to watch
Speaker 1: some action movies since we started this show. And I
Speaker 1: we're going on our one year anniversary coming up in
Speaker 1: all over a month or so, maybe two months, So
Speaker 1: let's see what you got because I think I still
Speaker 1: have the belt, you know, I think I still have
Speaker 1: the action movie crown. And this is me trying to uh,
Speaker 1: trying to get some of you to see if you
Speaker 1: can bring it eight four four nine to eight to
Speaker 1: five eight four four nine hundred buck, We'll come back
Speaker 1: talking about Russia collusion. Maybe do some action movie quotes.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna have a really fun but information dense show,
Speaker 1: as we always do. Stay with me. So I am
Speaker 1: here not only to congratulate you, but to honor you
Speaker 1: for your courage and for your devotion. And I want
Speaker 1: you to know that with me as your president, America's police,
Speaker 1: we'll have a true friend and loyal champion in the
Speaker 1: White House, more loyal than anyone else can be. I
Speaker 1: tell you, President Trump was speaking at the FBI National
Speaker 1: Academy graduation today, a lot of supportive and encouraging words
Speaker 1: for America's police. Now that's not FBI agents in that room.
Speaker 1: It is local police that are training at Quantico as
Speaker 1: part of this academy. But President was, I was doing
Speaker 1: this thing there. I got my favorite part, or my
Speaker 1: favorite Trump stuff today was the impromptu press conference. We'll
Speaker 1: get into that. Um he's got That's that's when Trump
Speaker 1: is really at his at his best. I think the
Speaker 1: Trump sweet spot is just talking for five minutes to
Speaker 1: a whole group of reporters that think that they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to get one, you know, get one up on him,
Speaker 1: and He's just like, bring it. We got a bunch
Speaker 1: of quotes though, let's do it. Tim in Ohio. W
Speaker 1: h l oh, what's up? Tim? Hey? How's it going? Buck? Hey?
Speaker 1: Before I get to my quote, I've got a question
Speaker 1: for you. I was watching, uh, Patriot Games the other day,
Speaker 1: which one. Oh I'm sorry Patrioch if not the Patriot Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Harrison Ford movie. Yes, yeah, no, I don't do
Speaker 1: NFL we're boycotting. But anyway, Yeah, so with Harrison Ford
Speaker 1: and there's Buck the Anna Les's somewhere in that building
Speaker 1: and uh, my question is that? And then of course
Speaker 1: following with the Enemy of the State and so forth.
Speaker 1: Uh was the technology that good back then? Really? What
Speaker 1: they were showing us bits and pieces? Was it that good?
Speaker 1: Or even better? Oh? You mean back in Patriot Games,
Speaker 1: like when they saw the the feed of when they
Speaker 1: go into the satellites and uh, you know, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I mean I was alive in the eighties and I
Speaker 1: just kind of remember, like dost dis was like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: maybe it was really ninties, but I remember, you know,
Speaker 1: a CD then was like whoa, you know, it was
Speaker 1: like Caveman discovering fire. When you had a CD in
Speaker 1: your hand. So I doubt that all this stuff. I
Speaker 1: can't remember everything that's in there, but I doubt that
Speaker 1: it's it was an accurate depiction of what the technology
Speaker 1: available was at the time. I mean, as you know
Speaker 1: everything that My favorite thing in movies is whenever somebody
Speaker 1: has to hack something, it looks like they're in the
Speaker 1: matrix and there's all these big cool screens and they're
Speaker 1: just like typing away furiously on a computer, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's that's not what it That's actually not what it
Speaker 1: looks like. That's they're like sitting there going through code
Speaker 1: and it's really painstaking. And you know, it is not,
Speaker 1: in fact the situation where you get to be like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, standing up and doing a dance routine and
Speaker 1: you're hacking into the Pentagon. That's not how it works
Speaker 1: from what I understand. Uh. I had my phone tap
Speaker 1: back in the nineties by the f d I, and
Speaker 1: I just wondered if it was that good. But that
Speaker 1: was another story. Apparently that's another story. Is that is
Speaker 1: that is that family safer? Can you can you tell
Speaker 1: us that one family friendly or not? Oh? Sure? I
Speaker 1: wrote a scathing editory about Bill Clinton selling out our
Speaker 1: missile technology of the Chinese and getting all that loot
Speaker 1: for it, and uh, next thing, you know, my phone
Speaker 1: started making funny noises and my father, who worked for
Speaker 1: a Bell telephone for thirty some years, said, one night, hey,
Speaker 1: that sounds like an outside line, Pap. And I proceeded
Speaker 1: telling the story and he said, he's dumb nut. They're
Speaker 1: gonna watch you forever. So now when I go to
Speaker 1: buy a gun, I gotta go through FBI checks, you know,
Speaker 1: like the dealers they've never heard of such things. But
Speaker 1: that's another story. Alright, Well, Merry Christmas, I'm sorry. You
Speaker 1: gotta quote, you gotta quote, go ahead, go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 1: The other night, for the couple dozens time, I know
Speaker 1: you know this one. Well she I've been a one
Speaker 1: little keep me in the rodeo And that's the stupidest
Speaker 1: thing I ever heard of. I have no idea what
Speaker 1: that mome on. Oh, that's Slim, that's Slim. Picking two.
Speaker 1: I still don't even know we're talking about Dr Strangelove.
Speaker 1: Never see Is that an action movie? No, that's not
Speaker 1: an action movie. Jam Mary Christmas, and we love you buddy,
Speaker 1: but that's not an action movie. No, No, Tyrone's Tyrone
Speaker 1: and Amy are both waving you off the island. No,
Speaker 1: not an action movie. We we guys, we gotta have
Speaker 1: standards here. Okay, we we gotta have standards. Its gotta
Speaker 1: be an it's gotta be an action movie. I feel
Speaker 1: like the dude in The Big Lebowski and he's like,
Speaker 1: this is not It wasn't a dude. It was Walter
Speaker 1: Walter who's like, this is not nom dude. There are rules, right,
Speaker 1: that's there are rules here, folks. There are rules. John
Speaker 1: in Georgia, Good to have you, sir, Hey Atlanta Podcast,
Speaker 1: Minion checking in. Oh nice, thank you? Yeah baby. Um.
Speaker 1: By the way, before I get into my movie quote,
Speaker 1: so last caller brought up Patriot Games and you talked
Speaker 1: about that scene with the feed, which is just absolutely awesome.
Speaker 1: And uh, James Earl Jones goes as got any one
Speaker 1: of those camps, kill everyone and be gone before the bullets,
Speaker 1: before the echoes fade. No, that's a good scene. James
Speaker 1: Earl Jones was great as the well, he was an admiral, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's the admiral and Admiral Greer I think was his name. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe so did you ever read a Debt of Honor? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did about about Mr Clark and how he's got
Speaker 1: the the lady that he saves from like the human
Speaker 1: trafficking prostitution ring. I was very young when I read that.
Speaker 1: I was like, what is this? Do you remember how? Oh? No, no,
Speaker 1: that's not Debt of Honor. I'm sorry. I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: a different Clancy novel which was a Debt of Honor.
Speaker 1: Is the one where he drives a into the White
Speaker 1: House in the joint session of Congress at the end,
Speaker 1: right with the Japanese. Yeah, I was on a different way.
Speaker 1: What's interesting about that is that Debt of Honor came
Speaker 1: out in like nineties three oh yeah, before I know,
Speaker 1: before planes were being weaponized. That it happened. Then people
Speaker 1: were like, who could have ever thought this could happen?
Speaker 1: I immediately was like, Tom Clancy, this could happen apparently,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I know, he wrote all about it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: For those who don't know Debt of Honor, it's a
Speaker 1: joint it's well, it's a movie where the Japanese essentially
Speaker 1: orchestrate a way to retake their laws, some of their
Speaker 1: lost territories from what they initially token and World War
Speaker 1: two and including Guam, and then they basically said, look,
Speaker 1: we took this stuff, we don't want to fight anymore.
Speaker 1: We've got nukes now. But this other guy, well, I
Speaker 1: guess we've already kind of spoil it. But they end
Speaker 1: up running a plane into a joint session of Congress
Speaker 1: and just basically taken out the entire US government. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and there's a there's a part in the book where
Speaker 1: CNN is actually helping the U. S military and they go, well,
Speaker 1: we're in a mary can broadcast company, so we want
Speaker 1: to help the American military. Can you imagine that ever
Speaker 1: happening in the universe we live in, um but that
Speaker 1: CNN would take sides and try to help our military. No.
Speaker 1: In fact, I I worry sometimes, and thank you for
Speaker 1: calling in, John Shields Hide podcast listener, I worry sometimes
Speaker 1: that the meat I mean, I think the media does
Speaker 1: actually take the side of not our country. Sometimes the
Speaker 1: media decides that they will do things that they should
Speaker 1: not and that are harmful, harmful to us so not
Speaker 1: never mind, do they not necessarily help out the United
Speaker 1: States government. I think they actually sometimes are willing to
Speaker 1: hurt the United States government. And now I'm trying to
Speaker 1: find the Tom Clancy novel that I was thinking of
Speaker 1: where Mr Clark is I remember I read in like
Speaker 1: the fifth grade. I just picked it up somewhere and
Speaker 1: now I can't find it. The Debt of Honor is
Speaker 1: a great one though, that's one of his most famous ones.
Speaker 1: Highly recommend. This is actually good for me to start
Speaker 1: thinking about this because as I'm going to be on
Speaker 1: vacation after the Christmas break, uh, there will be a
Speaker 1: good opportunity to finally read some books that are just like,
Speaker 1: read some novels for fun, something I don't usually something
Speaker 1: I don't usually get an opportunity to do. So there
Speaker 1: is that um alright eight four four n eight to
Speaker 1: five eight four four nine buck. By the way you
Speaker 1: go through Tom Clancy's novelist, it's insane that guy wrote
Speaker 1: so much and did it's it's incredible anyway. Alright, alright,
Speaker 1: eight four four to five, calling with your action movie quotes.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talking about their latest on Russia, FBI collusion stuff.
Speaker 1: It's incredible. FBI has got big problems. There is rot
Speaker 1: that goes deep at the d o J. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about the latest on that and now, as if it
Speaker 1: wasn't clear enough, this is all just a partisan exercise
Speaker 1: and nonsense. Got the Democrats are piling on Rosenstein. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just they just shift with the with the news cycle,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever is useful to them on one day,
Speaker 1: and then the next it's not no principles, no scruples,
Speaker 1: what you gain. This is the party of the Party
Speaker 1: of Pelosi and Schumer and others. I just realized John,
Speaker 1: John want John had an action movie quote from me. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll let him do it on the other side of
Speaker 1: the break, and then we'll talk about this Russia collusion nonsense.
Speaker 1: I will be back with much more. Stay with me,
Speaker 1: all right, it's action movie quote Friday. We're in freestyle mode,
Speaker 1: so there are things I want to talk to you about.
Speaker 1: But we also have every line lit. So let's get
Speaker 1: into a couple of calls here, and then I'll tell
Speaker 1: you about how the Russia investigation here, here's the here's
Speaker 1: the teasers. You gotta wait with me through the calls,
Speaker 1: and then we'll get to this. The Russia investigations just
Speaker 1: fallen apart. It may continue on, but this thing is
Speaker 1: now a sham. I mean, I thought it was nonsense
Speaker 1: all long, and now we have proof. We have proof this.
Speaker 1: It's just the the shrill, delusional pro Hillary trying to
Speaker 1: find some way to justify their hatred for Trump, their
Speaker 1: whole not my President thing, which started even before this investigation.
Speaker 1: They're looking for some way to intellectually excuse being such
Speaker 1: a bunch of babies. All right, John from Georgia. Sorry,
Speaker 1: we didn't let you get to your quote. I cut
Speaker 1: you out before. So what is the quote you got
Speaker 1: for me for action movie quote? Friday? Hi Buck, long
Speaker 1: time to speak. Yeah, hey we miss you, buddy. Yeah. Thanks,
Speaker 1: my friends, Okay, you ready? All right? If you have
Speaker 1: any influence over your young friend, I suggest you exert
Speaker 1: it now. Otherwise I'll send you both to the hell
Speaker 1: where people are skinned alive. That's that simple. Oh dude,
Speaker 1: big trouble, little China. Thank you. I knew you'd get it.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Well, of course, I mean that's that. That's
Speaker 1: there's a quote from that in our action movie quote
Speaker 1: Friday intro. But you know they were thinking about making
Speaker 1: that remaking that movie, and then they bailed and then
Speaker 1: because yeah, because I don't think you could make it anymore.
Speaker 1: I think that movie would have would offend people today
Speaker 1: if you made it today, which is drive a lot
Speaker 1: of movies. By the way, thank you John for calling
Speaker 1: him man. I appreciate you being patient. Hold Tyrone, could
Speaker 1: you make Mrs doubtfire today? I say no, on numerous levels.
Speaker 1: I don't think you could have a man dressing up
Speaker 1: that way. I mean that's one of I think it's
Speaker 1: Robin Williams. I mean it's up there with certainly his
Speaker 1: like top five most financially successful. It might be number one.
Speaker 1: It was a big box. He's number one. At one
Speaker 1: time it was top three grossing, highest grossing comedies in
Speaker 1: the history of Hollywood. Yeah. I don't think you could
Speaker 1: do a man dressed up as a woman like that anymore.
Speaker 1: And I also don't think even a lot of he
Speaker 1: does a lot of different accents of different ethnicities and
Speaker 1: stuff over the court. Nope, no way, no no way.
Speaker 1: I just like on on the TV side, you could
Speaker 1: not do All in the Family today, no way. The
Speaker 1: seventies you can get, you could not do All in
Speaker 1: the Family Archie Bunker to Jefferson's. You could not do
Speaker 1: that anything. I got one that's even more, you could
Speaker 1: not well not even more. But but also up there
Speaker 1: with uh, the not being able to Missus Doltfire and
Speaker 1: it will say the parodies of Mrs Doubtfire where they
Speaker 1: make it a horror movie on YouTube is actually pretty funny.
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen that, I would recommend you check
Speaker 1: that out. But there's something about Mary. No way you
Speaker 1: could make that movie now, no way. I actually like,
Speaker 1: I wonder when it comes on I'm like, do they
Speaker 1: get complaints about this because it's it's it's uh, there's
Speaker 1: some not just raunchy stuff. There's some like edgy stuff
Speaker 1: in there. And that's the most current. That's late nineties,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah, but we think it was twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: Now it's a twenty year isn't that crazy thing? I
Speaker 1: hold where it's a twenty year old movie. But that
Speaker 1: movie there's stuff in there that I'm like, oh no,
Speaker 1: that would not that would not any of your Look
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen it, or you did see it,
Speaker 1: go back and watch it again. You'll be like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, what is acceptable in this country has changed
Speaker 1: a lot? Uh? Kelly from Mississippi, Welcome to Freedom Hunt
Speaker 1: The Evening, Merry Christmas, good evening, A merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 1: I don't have an action movie quote, but I believe
Speaker 1: the Tom Clancy novel that you're thinking of is Without Remorse.
Speaker 1: You are correct, sir, that is the movie. I mean,
Speaker 1: that is the book that I was thinking of. It
Speaker 1: came out in ninety three, so I was like thirteen
Speaker 1: or twelve when I read that. I was younger. I
Speaker 1: read that there's some stuff in that book. I was like, whoa,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a great novel, is it. It's a
Speaker 1: very well it's very well done. I mean, look, Tom
Speaker 1: Clancy was was the master of that genre. I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody else has ever reached quite the same. You know.
Speaker 1: He is the uh, the Michael Jordans, the the undisputed
Speaker 1: king of the espionage international affairs thriller at least I
Speaker 1: think so, oh yes, it'd be one that I would
Speaker 1: love to see a movie of. Oh yeah, actually they
Speaker 1: never made a movie of that one. Anyway, Kelly, thank
Speaker 1: you very much, my Merry Christmas. Appreciate the the assist,
Speaker 1: and you were correct. It was Without Remorse, which was
Speaker 1: one of the first Tom Clancy novels I've ever read. Actually,
Speaker 1: I think it might have been the first, uh John
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Yes, John, Welcome the Hut. Hello Buck, thank
Speaker 1: you for inviting me to the Freedom Hunt. Thank you
Speaker 1: for calling. Great to have you. I got a quote
Speaker 1: for you. It's an oldie, but goody. I think me
Speaker 1: and you were raised around the same time, watching the
Speaker 1: same movie. So here it goes. What are you some
Speaker 1: kind of special forces guy or something? No, just a cook,
Speaker 1: just a lowly, lowly cook under siege. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: we're gonna die. Absolutely Stephen Steven's finest work. When I
Speaker 1: was in New Orleans, I actually drove past a house
Speaker 1: that he rented for a while and was living in
Speaker 1: while he did the show Lawman. Side note, which was
Speaker 1: in Jefferson, Jefferson coun Jefferson Parish or whatever it's called. Uh.
Speaker 1: Side note, The show that came to be called Justified
Speaker 1: was initially initially written to be called law Man, but
Speaker 1: because uh Steven Seagal's show launched first, they changed the
Speaker 1: name of the other show from law Man to Justify,
Speaker 1: which actually people like Justified. Got one more for you?
Speaker 1: Oh you want? I mean it is Christmas, so I'm
Speaker 1: in a generous mood. Go ahead. Welcome to the party, pal.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, of course, Bruce willis Dieheart. But but I
Speaker 1: like at least we're staying in the action genre. John, Hey, buddy,
Speaker 1: have a great I have a great Christmas within your family.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us here in the Hot keep list
Speaker 1: in the next week. Will be on air until Friday.
Speaker 1: She'll tie you, buddy. Uh. Chris in California, welcome, hey,
Speaker 1: Buck Shield time. Merry Christmas time, Merry Christmas to you. Okay,
Speaker 1: a couple of things. First action movie quote for you.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do it here we do. Hey, you
Speaker 1: want to be a farmer, Here's a couple of acres
Speaker 1: and hit the buzzer. I don't know. It's actually a
Speaker 1: little funny. It's a Last Action Hero right before it
Speaker 1: kicked somebody in the junk. I have seen Last Action Hero.
Speaker 1: That does count as an action movie, clearly. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure that is the most uh timeless line from what
Speaker 1: was Remember that that movie was trashed by their critics.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was that bad. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a little hokey, and oh it came out at the
Speaker 1: same time as Jurassic Park, so it got annihilated. Then
Speaker 1: I didn't it's the same weekend. Yeah, I went up
Speaker 1: against Jurassic Park. That was not smart. Um, But oh
Speaker 1: you got something on corporate tax rates as well, Chris,
Speaker 1: let's talk some policy. Let's do. I was just curious
Speaker 1: and I've been listening to you for a number of
Speaker 1: years now, and it's always been a big proponent of
Speaker 1: text cuts. But it seems like you're pretty held up
Speaker 1: with this corporate tax rate cut. Maybe that's only in
Speaker 1: contrast to the individual income tax rax, but it just
Speaker 1: seems to be harping on it quite a bit, like
Speaker 1: why are we focusing so much attention on lowering the
Speaker 1: corporate tax rate? Well, yeah, thing, it's a good thing
Speaker 1: for everybody. I'm not sure what your hang up is. Well,
Speaker 1: my my hang up has been that they keep talking
Speaker 1: about So here's the thing. They're selling it as a
Speaker 1: middle class tax cut, but it is not actually a
Speaker 1: middle class meaning that they're selling this whole tax cut
Speaker 1: as a general proposition. You go back, you listen to
Speaker 1: what they've been saying, Oh, the middle class needs help,
Speaker 1: the middle class needs help. We're gonna cut the corporate
Speaker 1: tax rate. Now. I understand that there will be benefits
Speaker 1: for middle class working families that come from the corporate rate,
Speaker 1: but it's just to me from a purely political angle,
Speaker 1: never mind the economics for a second. I think it
Speaker 1: sends a weird message when the overall focus and you're
Speaker 1: saying that when the overall focus is supposed to be
Speaker 1: on middle class families, you're saying, at some middle class families,
Speaker 1: but it is actually on the corporate tax rate. You
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying. There's a disconnect there, and it
Speaker 1: also makes me a little bit. I just I'm on guard.
Speaker 1: I have been on guard for the reality of the
Speaker 1: donor class, which is very still has a lot of leverage,
Speaker 1: very important and powerful in the Republican Party, and how
Speaker 1: they're kind of getting you know, people say, oh, it
Speaker 1: helps everybody, and corporations don't pay taxes people to write.
Speaker 1: Trust me, a lot of very big, wealthy corporations want
Speaker 1: to corporate tax cut and they're going to feel the
Speaker 1: effects of that long before people who were showing up
Speaker 1: and making uh, you know, an an hourly wage at
Speaker 1: a at a you know, the local general store. So
Speaker 1: we need to stay with in reality here. There's only
Speaker 1: so much quoting of Reagan and Reagan's economic advisors we
Speaker 1: can do before it's a problem. I think from the
Speaker 1: optics of how the tax. But look, I think it's good.
Speaker 1: I've just been saying I don't think it's as good
Speaker 1: as it well, because I remember when I said this yesterday, Chris.
Speaker 1: We were told flat tax, we were told tax on
Speaker 1: one page. We have the House, we have the Senate,
Speaker 1: we have the presidency. Why can't we do that. This
Speaker 1: is not what we were promised, right, we can at
Speaker 1: least do on that. I'm sorry because I don't recall
Speaker 1: Donald Trump specifically stating that he was going to get
Speaker 1: into OPS into a flat tax. I recall him saying
Speaker 1: he was going to get into aftin reduced tax rates
Speaker 1: for everybody, including the corporate tax rate. But you made
Speaker 1: a point that I think is extremely worth looking at,
Speaker 1: and that is the politics of the optics of it.
Speaker 1: That is the only reason liberals ever when anything is
Speaker 1: because the optics of it. Being conservative is hard. It's
Speaker 1: easy to be a liberal. Yeah, always going to be.
Speaker 1: But that's but optics. But optics do matter, right, And
Speaker 1: so when you the average American who is who is
Speaker 1: a persuadable voter, sees Republican members of Congress going on
Speaker 1: TV saying we're gonna we're gonna help the middle class
Speaker 1: with their tax cuts, and yeah, they're they're doing a
Speaker 1: little bit here and there, the child tax credit, which
Speaker 1: is really actually the way they've structured it, it's kind
Speaker 1: of like the people aren't paying any taxes, so it's
Speaker 1: not a welfare payment, but it is redistributive. It is
Speaker 1: just the government sending you a check now because you're
Speaker 1: not paying any income tax. You're just getting a check
Speaker 1: the government. But people that are, you know, if you
Speaker 1: were paying, I mean I saw what the brackets were
Speaker 1: a second ago in this this latest version of the bill.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're paying right now or you're not
Speaker 1: really paying a lot less. And in fact, some people
Speaker 1: that own at homes will be paying more, and those
Speaker 1: are middle class working families. So when they see Republicans saying, oh,
Speaker 1: we're helping the middle class, but we're gonna cut the
Speaker 1: corporate tax rate dramatically, by the way, and oh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna shift around some deductions that individuals take in order
Speaker 1: to make it budget neutral so we can get it
Speaker 1: through without it having to go through sixty vote process,
Speaker 1: right because they only need fifty through reconciliation. So it
Speaker 1: doesn't look good and not looking good. You could say, oh,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter because growth, growth, growth, will their Democrats
Speaker 1: win the House or the Senate next year. Guess what,
Speaker 1: it matters a lot because now you're never getting those
Speaker 1: great tax cuts for the middle class, or the flat
Speaker 1: tax or anything else you said you want. So that's
Speaker 1: why you have to get that's you have to get
Speaker 1: through what you can when you can. Though, if we
Speaker 1: simply don't do anything because politically it might hurt us,
Speaker 1: well that's everything. And we come out and we say
Speaker 1: we're gonna put forward this tax bill, and the let's
Speaker 1: says it's literally the end of the world. I believe
Speaker 1: that's a Nanci Pelosi clust you know, I know well
Speaker 1: she would say that about I mean, they could cut
Speaker 1: the corporate rate from thirty five to thirty four, and
Speaker 1: she would say that it was the end of the world.
Speaker 1: I mean, so we could I think we can all
Speaker 1: safely agree to ignore Nancy Pelosi. And look, I've never
Speaker 1: I mean Chris to Chris, to be fair, I've never
Speaker 1: said this is a fisty discussion about taxes. I've never
Speaker 1: said I don't want the tax cutter. I've just said
Speaker 1: I feel like it could be better. It could be
Speaker 1: better politically for sure, and I also think it could
Speaker 1: be better on an individual rate because they could cut spending. Chris,
Speaker 1: That's the reality here, is that they won't touch spending,
Speaker 1: which is why they create the artificial constraint of we
Speaker 1: have to spend this money automatically. We're the Congress. We
Speaker 1: have to spend this money automatically. So we're only operating
Speaker 1: in this little subset of spending and we're gonna shift
Speaker 1: it around that way and give you a tax cut there.
Speaker 1: But the reality is that most of the money is
Speaker 1: on autopilot, and that's why we have all these budgetary constraints, right,
Speaker 1: So they can't Are they going to get sixty votes
Speaker 1: to cut spending. If they're not going to get sixty
Speaker 1: votes to cut spending, then they can't cut the spending.
Speaker 1: They have to work within the cost. You need sixty
Speaker 1: votes to raise spending. You do not need sixty votes
Speaker 1: to cut spending. That's what I'm saying to you, that
Speaker 1: they will not cut They will not. They're not dealing
Speaker 1: with the other side of the balloon here. We're just
Speaker 1: squeezing one side of the bloom. We're not talking about
Speaker 1: the other side. Of the bloom, which is spending. We're
Speaker 1: spending too much money, Chris as a country, so telling
Speaker 1: us all how great this tax cut is is all
Speaker 1: well and good, but at some point the music is
Speaker 1: gonna stop. We are heading towards that, and in the meantime,
Speaker 1: corporations get their cut. I mean, we'll see. Look, I
Speaker 1: would love to, you know, call me back in well,
Speaker 1: call any time you're welcome, but call me back in
Speaker 1: like a year and tell me has this is this
Speaker 1: better for you? Or do you feel like you're getting
Speaker 1: Are your wages going up? Or I don't know where
Speaker 1: you work or what you do, but I think a
Speaker 1: lot of Chris. No, I actually I would love to
Speaker 1: continue with that, but we have literally seven phone calls
Speaker 1: or seven lines that are all going at on. So
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta move on. And in Virginia, welcome.
Speaker 1: Good evening, Mr Sexton, Good evening, Miss Anne Um. Blazing Saddles,
Speaker 1: try making that again. I don't remember what, Tyrone. What
Speaker 1: are you saying about this one, Blazing Saddles? You were
Speaker 1: talking about movie? Oh yeah, no, I know, but ty
Speaker 1: Tye wants to win. I don't remember that movie very well.
Speaker 1: It's very good it's there's a lot of racist things,
Speaker 1: but because the black person wins in the end, I
Speaker 1: think they allow it to happen. Okay, I don't remember
Speaker 1: the movie at all. I saw it. I was like,
Speaker 1: I think they let him say it as long as
Speaker 1: the black guy's gonna win. Tyre Tyrone is later on
Speaker 1: this one and I you're you're kind of weight on hold.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. We have to go into a break here
Speaker 1: else we're gonna blow through our station break and we
Speaker 1: can't do that. Run into a break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: We've got more. Having talked about Russia collusion FBI, we
Speaker 1: will do that. Stay with me. Look, one of the
Speaker 1: great things that Trump accomplished his first year, as we know,
Speaker 1: is appointing Neil Gorst to the Supreme Court. And he's
Speaker 1: got a lot of other excellent constitutionalists and conservative uh
Speaker 1: conservative minds that are up on the bench now and
Speaker 1: and in process of putting more. But I should note that, Look,
Speaker 1: we're having a little fun. It's a Friday, all right.
Speaker 1: We're trying to lose them up for the holidays a
Speaker 1: little bit. One of Trump's nominees to the Circuit Court,
Speaker 1: this would be the U. S. District Court for the
Speaker 1: District of Columbia. He did not have the best day ever.
Speaker 1: He did not have a stellar performance when asked by
Speaker 1: a Republican. Remember as the Republican asking the questions on
Speaker 1: the Judiciary Committee, and the Republican is trying to figure out,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, Senator John Kennedy is trying to figure out, Okay,
Speaker 1: does this guy Peterson does he know the stuff you'd
Speaker 1: want somebody to know if they're going to be a
Speaker 1: federal judge, which is a thing that matters. And this
Speaker 1: went viral today, so I'll let you listen to it.
Speaker 1: It's enjoy. You can just raise your hand on this
Speaker 1: one if you will, to save a little time. Have
Speaker 1: any of you not tried a case to verdict? Here
Speaker 1: was the only one of I think five that UM
Speaker 1: jury trial. I have not civil, no criminal, no bitch.
Speaker 1: I'll stay at our federal court. I have not Have
Speaker 1: you ever taken a deposition? I was involved in taking
Speaker 1: depositions when I was associate at Wiley Ryan when I
Speaker 1: first came out of law school. Um, but that that
Speaker 1: was do you ever have how many? How many depositions?
Speaker 1: I would um, I'd be struggling to to remember messing
Speaker 1: ten probably somewhere you ever tried to take a deposition
Speaker 1: by yourself? I believe. No. Have you ever argued emotion
Speaker 1: in state court? I have not. Have you ever argued
Speaker 1: emotion in federal court? No? Uh, when's the last time
Speaker 1: you read the Federal rules of civil procedure? The Federal
Speaker 1: Rules of Civil procedure? Um? I have in my current position,
Speaker 1: I obviously don't need to stay as um um. By
Speaker 1: the way, he hadn't answer more specific and pointed legal questions,
Speaker 1: to which the answers were No, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't have it for you right now. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was a pretty brutal session there. I mean, this would
Speaker 1: be the equivalent of me, I'm just gonna say, me
Speaker 1: sitting there up for some post at NASA and they're like, so,
Speaker 1: what are your credentials? Like, well, I I got like
Speaker 1: a C minus in trigonometry and yeah. This guy was
Speaker 1: not blowing anyone's socks off with his answers to these
Speaker 1: legal questions, and it just went viral today. It was
Speaker 1: kind of funny, have you ever tried a case in court? No?
Speaker 1: Have you've done this? No? Have you done that? No,
Speaker 1: this guy's gonna be a federal judge. Everybody. I look,
Speaker 1: you know, they can't all be winners. They can't all
Speaker 1: be gorcerches. So this one was not. But it'll all
Speaker 1: be okay. Russia, Russia, Russia got that coming up. FBI
Speaker 1: is well, it was in Hillary's pocket. We'll talk about it. Stay, women,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna rebuild the FBI. It'll be bigger and better
Speaker 1: than ever. But it is very sad when you look
Speaker 1: at those documents and how they've done that is really
Speaker 1: really disgraceful, and you have a lot of very angry
Speaker 1: people that are seeing it. It's a very sad thing
Speaker 1: to watch. I will tell you that. And I'm going
Speaker 1: today on behalf of the FBI their new building. And
Speaker 1: you know, but when I when everybody, not me, when
Speaker 1: everybody the level of anger as I safe and with
Speaker 1: this thing with respect to the FBI is certainly very sad.
Speaker 1: Trump calling out the FBI, at least the part of
Speaker 1: the FBI that has been involved, those individuals at the
Speaker 1: bureau who have had a hand in the Russia collusion investigation,
Speaker 1: the Muller probe and all of that stuff. It was
Speaker 1: a very bad week for the Muller probe for anybody
Speaker 1: who is being honest about what's out there and what
Speaker 1: we found out, And increasingly I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be difficult for the left to continue this unless they
Speaker 1: have some real new information they can bring to light.
Speaker 1: And I don't believe they do or because if they did,
Speaker 1: we already know. But I also wanted to say that
Speaker 1: it isn't it interesting This entire Russia Trump collusion narrative
Speaker 1: is based on and people in the press remember as
Speaker 1: a government and many Americans believe it to be true.
Speaker 1: Hasn't yet been proven, but they believe it to be true.
Speaker 1: It would require an international conspiracy to throw an election
Speaker 1: involving Russian secret intelligence and cyber hacking, and somehow they've
Speaker 1: kept the conspiracy quiet up to this point. They'll believe that,
Speaker 1: but they don't believe. They won't believe it is a
Speaker 1: conspiracy that is completely beyond the pale. When you say, well,
Speaker 1: hold on a second, maybe some pro Hillary d o
Speaker 1: J and FBI officials saw an opening to investigate the
Speaker 1: Trump campaign and to create problems with the Trump campaign,
Speaker 1: and they went where they went for it, and they
Speaker 1: had the power to do it, and they did it.
Speaker 1: Why is that crazy? What about that doesn't add up?
Speaker 1: You know, you think about this. You look at people
Speaker 1: that look at you if you bring this up with them,
Speaker 1: like you're crazy because you don't believe that the Kremlin
Speaker 1: was working with Trump to beat Hillary, which even if
Speaker 1: Trump wanted to do that, how that would work is
Speaker 1: think about the risk reward there too. All right, we're
Speaker 1: going back to basics here. Trump is going to collude
Speaker 1: with Russia to throw an election that a multibillion dollar
Speaker 1: US media complex can't figure out how to, you know,
Speaker 1: make it go one way or the other. Come on,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't make any sense. But what we're seeing
Speaker 1: now with Strock and Lisa Page and McCabe and all
Speaker 1: these other senior d o J officials and FBI officials
Speaker 1: and that stuff right at FBI is within the d
Speaker 1: o J, so it can kind of use them somewhat interchangeably,
Speaker 1: is that there were people who hated Trump, I mean
Speaker 1: really hated him. And the Democrats are scrambling right now
Speaker 1: for a way to explain this to fair minded Americans,
Speaker 1: you know, right, people that are looking at this and
Speaker 1: saying themselves, a hold on a second, we're supposed to
Speaker 1: believe that this just all happened that this is some
Speaker 1: big coincidence that you had the person who was exonerating Hillary,
Speaker 1: and as we know now, they just bailed Hillary out. Okay,
Speaker 1: Hillary broke the law. Hillary is a federal There should
Speaker 1: be a federal convict should be legitimately, that's not an overstatement.
Speaker 1: That's now what she have gone to prison. She probably
Speaker 1: would have taken a plea deal and you know what
Speaker 1: it would have been. They would have let it scale
Speaker 1: down to a misdemeanor, I would guess. But anybody who's
Speaker 1: not Hillary Clinton to do what she did would be
Speaker 1: facing charges of some kind full stop. Okay, And that's
Speaker 1: just any discussion otherwise is is nonsense. So they bailed
Speaker 1: Hillary out, and somebody who was at the helm, all right,
Speaker 1: who's basically driving the car to bail out Hillary, also
Speaker 1: was involved in the Mueller probe and also talked about
Speaker 1: an insurance policy in case Trump one. That's a weird
Speaker 1: thing to say, right, weird thing to say if you're
Speaker 1: in the acting FBI director's office for sure, right, very
Speaker 1: very strange. And as I've been saying, do you have
Speaker 1: to remember the full context here? These are people who
Speaker 1: thought they'd be working for Hillary. They all want to
Speaker 1: get millions of dollars for their memoirs, probably after after
Speaker 1: the Hillary administration is done. They they had a very
Speaker 1: clear motive for trying to help Hillary and then even
Speaker 1: to perhaps undo the Trump presidency afterwards, at least for
Speaker 1: spite for vengeance, if not for some personal gain. And
Speaker 1: there's no good response to this. They say, oh, Bernie,
Speaker 1: they said mean things about Bernie Sanders too. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: there's not there's not all the other stuff with Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 1: That's that's irrelevant. This only matters in the context of
Speaker 1: an endless and completely open investigation that was start it
Speaker 1: based on nonsense. And oh we find out the people
Speaker 1: who started it also happened to hate Trump. That they
Speaker 1: hate other people doesn't matter because they didn't start huge
Speaker 1: investigations of those other politicians. But it's just distraction from
Speaker 1: the media. It's look at the shiny object over here.
Speaker 1: Don't get close to the truth. Don't believe what you
Speaker 1: already know. Believe us fake news. We'll tell you the truth.
Speaker 1: You have Democrats actually going after Rod Rosenstein. Now, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is this is astonishing. You got you gotta hear
Speaker 1: some of this that the Department of Justice itself. Not Mueller,
Speaker 1: not his team, but the Department of Justice, the formal
Speaker 1: Public Affairs channel had actually orchestrated this dump of text
Speaker 1: messages that were revealed in the course of an ongoing
Speaker 1: Department of Justice investigation. That strikes me, it's very odd
Speaker 1: that there are people in the Department of Justice who
Speaker 1: apparently are cooperating with this effort to undermine the integrity
Speaker 1: and the strength of the Special Council investigation. Is an
Speaker 1: irrelevant distraction. What you have there is a Democrat member
Speaker 1: of Congress who's now claiming that they are basically deep
Speaker 1: state pro Trump elements at the FBI. Now we've been
Speaker 1: hearing all along that go ahead, Tyrone. That particular democrat
Speaker 1: was the one who just made up a crazy number
Speaker 1: for the number of mass shootings. There's been nine d
Speaker 1: shootings with ten or more people this year, according to
Speaker 1: that was the same guy last week. But this is
Speaker 1: what you're hearing. Oh, you know, how could they release
Speaker 1: these texts? They were on government They're they're using government
Speaker 1: property as in their phones, their devices. Those are official devices,
Speaker 1: those are official records. These senior FBI people must think
Speaker 1: they're really untouchable. To be using official records and talking
Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff about the president or soon to
Speaker 1: be president. Not smart, by the way. Like I worked
Speaker 1: in the federal government, I never would have dreamed of
Speaker 1: sending an email or a text message on government property
Speaker 1: that was like the commander in chief is an idiot,
Speaker 1: a moron, or you know whatever. All the stuff that
Speaker 1: was being said, it's just you know, because you never know,
Speaker 1: and that stuff's gonna get called the new an investigation.
Speaker 1: We all this is all one oh one. This is
Speaker 1: not surprising at all, but others in the media have
Speaker 1: been trying this too. Oh. I feel bad for the
Speaker 1: FBI agents whose privacy has been violated. Here. No one
Speaker 1: set up a camera in their bedroom. This is on
Speaker 1: their official work computers, smartphones, whatever it may be. And
Speaker 1: it's relevant, and you know the FBI, you know, you
Speaker 1: don't get to play that game. And the FBI wants
Speaker 1: your records. Let me have it be known. If they're
Speaker 1: doing investigation and they think that whatever you've got is relevant,
Speaker 1: it's theirs. They gotta play by the same rules, folks.
Speaker 1: I've gotta play by the same rules. And you can
Speaker 1: just tell there's a desperation right now. Oh yeah, as
Speaker 1: I said, the Bernie Sanders thing, there are text messages
Speaker 1: about other politicians irrelevant. That doesn't mean anything. Because we're
Speaker 1: working backwards from there's a huge, massive investigation that never
Speaker 1: should have been started. And the juxtaposition of the Hillary
Speaker 1: case versus the Hillary investigation versus Trump investigation is just
Speaker 1: appalling and how clear the politicization is. And you know
Speaker 1: not you got Adam Schiff who's now whining about Oh,
Speaker 1: they might try to shut this down. Yeah, because they
Speaker 1: want to continue this forever. This is the hashtag resistance.
Speaker 1: This is it Russia collusion nonsense. That's what they're trying
Speaker 1: to go for here. That's what they think will be
Speaker 1: the difference maker. It might not stop the administration, it'll
Speaker 1: slow it down enough to make it ineffective. They want
Speaker 1: to make sure that Trump can make America great again.
Speaker 1: That's what the investigation is all about. I gonna find
Speaker 1: any Russian collusion anyway. It's Oh but Schiff here is
Speaker 1: telling us all that. I'll let him say. This is
Speaker 1: the Democrat who who people believe is also the source
Speaker 1: of a lot of interesting information for the press that
Speaker 1: is anti Trump that is not supposed to be getting
Speaker 1: out there. When you look at the context of the
Speaker 1: allegations that the d o J Inspector generals investigating, they
Speaker 1: were very selective in what they released. There were multiple
Speaker 1: reports last year that the FBI was heavily predisposed against
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton and in favor of Donald Trump. If there
Speaker 1: are text messages that run in the other direction, why
Speaker 1: have they not also been released? Once they have been released,
Speaker 1: are very anti Trump? The ones that they've released are all,
Speaker 1: to the degree they bear at all, as far as
Speaker 1: I can tell, are anti Trump. Um. Does that mean
Speaker 1: they're not investigating the same allegation running in the opposite direction?
Speaker 1: What's the allegation the opposite direction? What Democrat Committee membership
Speaker 1: is saying doesn't make any sense. What's he saying that
Speaker 1: that people that they are anti anti Hillary people started
Speaker 1: the Russia investigation against Trump. It's irrelevant. Hillary got bailed out,
Speaker 1: Hillary got got the sweet deal one. Trump's the one
Speaker 1: that's getting all those people dragged through the mud and
Speaker 1: the nonsense of this Mueller probe, which is feted by
Speaker 1: the way it is putrid, rotten to the core. But well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna find anti Hillary text. I mean, they don't
Speaker 1: even have coherent arguments if they found some FBI. First
Speaker 1: of all the people that are at the top of
Speaker 1: these investigations, McCabe, Muller, comey struck. All Hillary partisans. What's
Speaker 1: her name? The one who was the acting Attorney general?
Speaker 1: Uh d o J. I can't remember name off that
Speaker 1: may head, but you know I'm talking about member. She
Speaker 1: was the one that wouldn't do the job with the
Speaker 1: the travel band, you know what I mean. I'm forgetting name,
Speaker 1: Sally Ate. Sally Ate. There we go. These are all
Speaker 1: Hillary partisans, and they're all the ones that have their
Speaker 1: fingerprints all over the email investigation, the Russia collusion, the
Speaker 1: Muller probe, Hillary partisans. Who's gonna w when are we
Speaker 1: gonna see the anti Hillary text? You're not gonna see
Speaker 1: the anti Hillary text, you idiot, because they're all Hillary partisans.
Speaker 1: So that's why they don't have anti Hillary text. You know,
Speaker 1: figure it out. Guy's an idiot. But I mean he
Speaker 1: doesn't have a good argument to make. That's that's a
Speaker 1: part of this too. Maybe he's not dumb, he just
Speaker 1: has nothing else to say, because what's he gonna say?
Speaker 1: People are figuring this out? You're really gonna tell me,
Speaker 1: this is a coincidence, you really? I mean, I was
Speaker 1: on Fox News. I was getting yelled over earlier in
Speaker 1: the week by somebody who doesn't know anything, who was
Speaker 1: trying to tell me that, well, the Russia collusion has
Speaker 1: already been proven because of the meeting with Donald Trump Jr.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, we're back to that now. That's pathetic.
Speaker 1: And also, yeah, he kept saying Wikipedia instead of Wiki
Speaker 1: leaks pretty different things. By the way, colluding with Wikipedia
Speaker 1: wouldn't get you very far unless you had an interest
Speaker 1: in random things and knowledge. But you didn't even have
Speaker 1: an argument to make. I'm I'm here looking at Fusion EPs.
Speaker 1: You have a Fusion GPS researcher married to a top
Speaker 1: Muller probe guy who got demoted from the Mueller probe
Speaker 1: because he was trying to work Fusion GPS stuff into
Speaker 1: what the FBI was doing. This is a coincidence. Come on,
Speaker 1: this stuff is now. This is now bright red Neon
Speaker 1: signs uh. And the media is in a bit of
Speaker 1: a panic, but that the Christmas holiday can't come soon
Speaker 1: enough for most of the mainstream because they need to
Speaker 1: regroup after this. This week has been terrible for them.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Republicans have been more focused on tax reform.
Speaker 1: But this has been a very, very damaging, a few
Speaker 1: days damaging series of news cycles for the whole Russia
Speaker 1: collusion thing, and Trump knows it. Trump was smacking them
Speaker 1: around to on that one. Alright, eight four or four
Speaker 1: to five. We'll take some calls. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, saying lines. Let let's get to it on
Speaker 1: in New York. Welcome sir, Hello buck. I got a
Speaker 1: little bit of dialogue from a mid nineteen fifties movie. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll give it a shot. Fifties is old, but let's
Speaker 1: go for it. Okay, Uh, start, you've lived too long?
Speaker 1: What about you? Gunfighter? But I know it, have no idea?
Speaker 1: What is that? That was Alan Ladd was the star
Speaker 1: in the movie was Shane, which is like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a really good one if you if you ever get
Speaker 1: a chance. I read the book on the novel. I yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll check it out. I mean, I will say Western's
Speaker 1: action movie. It's it's borderline for me. It's one of
Speaker 1: Jack Pallence's early screol He's a Jack Pallence plays a gunfighter. Uh,
Speaker 1: the guy at your cannon from Pettico Junction has a
Speaker 1: small part, the one that played the secretary on Beverly
Speaker 1: Hillbilly's Nancy Coulp was in it in a small part.
Speaker 1: On you're on the list, I'll put on the list. John,
Speaker 1: have a very merry Christisan. Thank you for calling her
Speaker 1: from New York. Robert and alab Amma, what do you
Speaker 1: got for me? Sir? Hey, I'm good. I speaking of Shane.
Speaker 1: Did you watch the last Um Wolverine movie? I did
Speaker 1: see Logan right there was It was very violent. I
Speaker 1: will say there was like a thirteen year old girl
Speaker 1: with with crazy claws lopping dude's heads off left and right. Well,
Speaker 1: they probably deserve it. I like your attitude. Robert, what
Speaker 1: do you got question for you? And this is not
Speaker 1: a quote but just a theoretical question. Is die Hard
Speaker 1: a Christmas movie? Not only is it a Christmas movie,
Speaker 1: it features some Christmas dialogue and takes place on I
Speaker 1: believe on Christmas Eve. Right, it actually has him right
Speaker 1: on a guy's chest. Ho ho ho Now I have
Speaker 1: a machine gun to a clear reference to Santa Claus.
Speaker 1: It is, in fact a Christmas movie. I don't even
Speaker 1: think this is when we have to turn over to
Speaker 1: the judges. Well, you know, if you actually, if you
Speaker 1: think about it, could die Hard be a remake of
Speaker 1: It's a Wonderful Life Because in a wonderful life there's
Speaker 1: family troubles and a third party reunite the family. I mean,
Speaker 1: isn't that just the basis of die Hard. I think
Speaker 1: we're stretching here a little bit, but but I like
Speaker 1: the affon to stretch. I like the effort. Man Robert Schilkes,
Speaker 1: high buddy, thank you for calling in, and have a
Speaker 1: merry Christmas. Lines little everyone likes to call it on Friday.
Speaker 1: I love it. Chris California, welcome, good to talk to
Speaker 1: you you too. Um multi pass uh, Lulu Dallas multi
Speaker 1: pass the Fifth Element. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. I will
Speaker 1: just put out there that you just said one word
Speaker 1: and I was able to name the movie. Amy is
Speaker 1: freaking out over there. She's like, that's incredible. I know, Amy,
Speaker 1: I am. It's a gift. It's hard to control. It's
Speaker 1: a gift. Screener. Remember the movie called The Cooler, Yes,
Speaker 1: the Cooler I don't know that one. That's William H.
Speaker 1: Macy movie where he plays a bad luck Joe who
Speaker 1: stays in a casino all the time, and if there's
Speaker 1: too much luck going on, he's called in by Alec
Speaker 1: Baldwin to go hang around the people and make him lose. Okay,
Speaker 1: And I don't know that one. He's sort of like
Speaker 1: a bad luck chill. And it made me think of
Speaker 1: the shooting in Air in Las Vegas and how it
Speaker 1: would be relatively inexpensive for a casino to keep a
Speaker 1: guy around who was, you know, a loner who had
Speaker 1: guns and throw him in wherever there would be a
Speaker 1: possibility of actual Uh no, we're done, We're done. This
Speaker 1: has gotten too weird. He's done. What What the heck
Speaker 1: was he talking about? That movie was literally about if
Speaker 1: the guy came by, you would have bad luck. So
Speaker 1: if you're in a casino and you got a hot
Speaker 1: streak at the craps table, he comes stand next to
Speaker 1: you and all of a sudden, you crap out. I
Speaker 1: don't know where he how he got to where he got.
Speaker 1: I was trying to let him get to a conclusion,
Speaker 1: because it was I was trying to give him the
Speaker 1: benefit of not just rambling into into we went off.
Speaker 1: That train was way off the rails. That train, That
Speaker 1: train was you know, running over huts in the village,
Speaker 1: and livestock was fleeing and it was bad that train.
Speaker 1: That train got way loose. Sorry about that, everybody. It's
Speaker 1: gonna happen sometimes. Um anyway, all right, Uh, we gotta
Speaker 1: talk about some of the latest sextual harassment stuff. Um
Speaker 1: do we how long is it we might talk about? Well,
Speaker 1: do we have any updates on the time round? Well
Speaker 1: that's okay, So that's too long. Well we'll get to
Speaker 1: in a few minutes. Oh, we have something. We have
Speaker 1: some things to discuss. I believe the first high profile
Speaker 1: case of a woman getting in trouble for sexual harassment
Speaker 1: has happened now, right, A lady stepped down from a
Speaker 1: what was this? Uh yeah, Democrat woman accused of sexual harassment.
Speaker 1: I'm talking with this new This is in Kansas. We've
Speaker 1: got some new sexual harassment stories to discussed together. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of them today. I don't we have
Speaker 1: time to get to all them. We'll get to some
Speaker 1: of them next week. We're getting more of the holiday
Speaker 1: cheers stuff. Don't worry. Play some Christmas music and all that.
Speaker 1: Today we're just gonna talk about the news and some
Speaker 1: other things. Sexual harassment stories coming up after the break,
Speaker 1: you want to hear him. Here's a story that you
Speaker 1: won't see the media spend a lot of time on.
Speaker 1: You've got some of the A couple of the women
Speaker 1: that were making that we're considering making sexual miss conduct
Speaker 1: allegations against Donald Trump in the final months of the
Speaker 1: presidential race had their lawyer California California lawyer Lisa Bloom
Speaker 1: making efforts to get them a whole lot of money,
Speaker 1: including one woman being offered as much as seven hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars. Now that leaves a whole lot
Speaker 1: of unanswered questions, doesn't it. I should note that any
Speaker 1: time in recent history a Republican has been acute, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump most specifically, has been accused of any kind of
Speaker 1: sexual misconduct. And someone raised the possibility of anyone coming
Speaker 1: out and saying this not just for political reasons but
Speaker 1: also for payment, that has been slapped down right away.
Speaker 1: That's uh, that's a slander, completely untrue. Would never happen.
Speaker 1: Women need to be believed no woman would ever do that. Well,
Speaker 1: now we have a report that two women were very
Speaker 1: close to doing that, getting paid to say that Donald true.
Speaker 1: Now you could say that what there was gonna they
Speaker 1: were gonna tell the truth. But I should note, whether
Speaker 1: you believe that or not, that for an encounter that
Speaker 1: may have been in a gray area where Trump thought
Speaker 1: that he had full consent to touch or grab or
Speaker 1: whatever it may have been, and a woman did not
Speaker 1: feel that way, the economic incentive to add to the
Speaker 1: story is certainly there, right The economics said up to
Speaker 1: make it sound even worse. You're talking about seven dred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars substantial if you were giving testimony
Speaker 1: in a court and somebody said, well, there you know,
Speaker 1: are you? Are you swear to tell the whole truth,
Speaker 1: nothing but the truth. Did someone pay you seven or
Speaker 1: fifty grand to say this? And you said yes, that
Speaker 1: would look bad. That would look bad. So I would
Speaker 1: just note that we've gotten used to brushing all that
Speaker 1: aside right away out of hand. Oh no, No, no
Speaker 1: woman would ever level allegation against Donald Trump, against the
Speaker 1: president of sexual misconduct because somebody paid them to say
Speaker 1: such a thing as a disgrace, except it looks like
Speaker 1: it was, if not true, very close to being true. Um.
Speaker 1: The Hill dot Com broke the story today, and well
Speaker 1: done in doing so, So I think that that's not worthy.
Speaker 1: A couple of other things here, because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of this sexual harassment stuff, sexual miss I think sexual
Speaker 1: misconduct is probably a better term because it's more all inclusive.
Speaker 1: But we'll talk about what should be included and what shouldn't.
Speaker 1: Matt Damon got in some trouble with that. I mentioned
Speaker 1: this before. There is a woman who is the first
Speaker 1: high profile female politician, or maybe she's not high profile,
Speaker 1: but Kansas Democrat Andrea Ramsey has been accused of sexual
Speaker 1: harassment and is dropping out of a congressional race US
Speaker 1: House race. They have a woman who it is said
Speaker 1: was harassing and retaliated against a male subordinate who rejected
Speaker 1: her advances. This is still overwhelmingly going to be a
Speaker 1: problem where men are the aggressors. But I did think
Speaker 1: it was noteworthy that we did have one case here
Speaker 1: that has become something of a national news story where
Speaker 1: a woman will no longer run for Congress because she
Speaker 1: It's a power dynamic thing, right, If a woman is
Speaker 1: in a place where she holds a man's job in
Speaker 1: her hands, Uh, that could influence the you know, the
Speaker 1: the that and that would influence the sexual dynamic very strongly.
Speaker 1: And a man could feel coerce not fit. It's different,
Speaker 1: not physically coerce. We're not talking about the criminal kind
Speaker 1: of sexual coersion, but professional co sexual harassment, professional coercion
Speaker 1: that absolutely can and and has happened, so as we
Speaker 1: see from this story, just want to put that in there.
Speaker 1: And then we get into the Matt Damon thing, which
Speaker 1: I mean, I've always thought Matt Damon was very overrated.
Speaker 1: I know some of you've already written to me in
Speaker 1: the past and said you disagree with me on that.
Speaker 1: That's fine. I don't know why the guy. I feel
Speaker 1: like I could walk through any mall in America and
Speaker 1: find a better guy to play a lot of roles
Speaker 1: than Matt Damon. But anyway, that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 1: I just like to hate on Matt Damon for some reason,
Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons. Matt Damon sat down for
Speaker 1: an interview with Variety or one of these was a
Speaker 1: Variety of one of these publications, and he said a
Speaker 1: lot of things, and they were asking kind of do
Speaker 1: you believe do you not believe about individual cases? And
Speaker 1: I don't really I don't have you know, that's he
Speaker 1: can say what he wants to say about that, right,
Speaker 1: he can say I do believe it, don't believe, and
Speaker 1: that's on him. But he also tried to make a
Speaker 1: point about how we are in this habit right now
Speaker 1: of and I've been warning you about this four weeks now.
Speaker 1: Those you listen to the show, no where anything that
Speaker 1: is in the sexual harassment category is spoken about in
Speaker 1: the same general, vain, same general context as grotesque, predatory,
Speaker 1: criminal stuff. Because of this movement right now that me too,
Speaker 1: women are to be believed no more sexual harassment movement
Speaker 1: that's going on in the country, and that's going to
Speaker 1: create problems. I think it already is create We're seeing
Speaker 1: it happening right now. It's beginning to be an issue.
Speaker 1: I mentioned Matt Lowry yesterday again because I like to
Speaker 1: hate on Matt lower I'm usually a very nice and
Speaker 1: generous person, especially about other people, but there's some people
Speaker 1: that need to be cut down a few sizes. Uh.
Speaker 1: But Matt lower I just had a piece come out
Speaker 1: where a woman who was twenty four had a consensual
Speaker 1: affair with him. Right, affairs are bad, shouldn't do it,
Speaker 1: but she did it, and she this whole long story
Speaker 1: about how he was the power dynamic, and she was
Speaker 1: so taken in by him and he was so compelling
Speaker 1: and everything else. That's like, look, you know, you got
Speaker 1: involved with the merried guy and it didn't well and
Speaker 1: you were mostly traumatized by it. But that's not that's
Speaker 1: not a Weinstein like situation. That's just a you made
Speaker 1: a bad choice in Matt Lower's a creep situation. But
Speaker 1: that's not the same thing. There was no force, there
Speaker 1: were no threats, there was no coercion, and people are
Speaker 1: speaking about it like, Okay, well, this is all very similar,
Speaker 1: and we need to be very clear. The biggest distinction
Speaker 1: is are we talking civil or criminal? Right, civil is
Speaker 1: go out on a date with me or you're fired.
Speaker 1: That person should the person who does that should be
Speaker 1: fired and they should be sued for a lot of money. Right.
Speaker 1: What the criminal side would be the Weinstein of come
Speaker 1: back to my hotel and to talk about the role,
Speaker 1: and then Weinstein like grabs and doesn't take no for
Speaker 1: an answer and is molesting and all that stuff. But
Speaker 1: this is a distinction in law that should also be
Speaker 1: reflected in our discussions about all this. Matt Damon in
Speaker 1: this interview was trying to say this trying to make
Speaker 1: that point, of course, not as precisely or eloquently as
Speaker 1: I just have. He's Matt Damon. But people were piling on.
Speaker 1: I mean, they are all over Matt Damon on this one.
Speaker 1: Oh how could you? And it just goes to show
Speaker 1: that the political winds are blowing so strongly behind this
Speaker 1: whole movement right now that anyone who stands up, even
Speaker 1: for a moment, it says, hold on a second, Maybe
Speaker 1: this one we should we should think a little bit
Speaker 1: more about her. Maybe we shouldn't rush to judgment on
Speaker 1: every case as though they're all the same case. That
Speaker 1: person is not part of the problem. This is what's
Speaker 1: that issue with movements. Movements rely on the mentality of
Speaker 1: a mob. Now, movements can be good, but movements can
Speaker 1: also be bad, and good movements can turn bad quickly
Speaker 1: because the mentality of a group, the psychology of a mass,
Speaker 1: is different and has different moral tendencies and traits than
Speaker 1: that of an individual. And that's my concern right now,
Speaker 1: is all this is and has been my concern is
Speaker 1: all this is happening. So Matt Damon just got on
Speaker 1: the hot seat for this one. Uh. And then there's
Speaker 1: the ESPN as a whole mess over there MSNBC with
Speaker 1: Sports All Center as ESPN is having some trouble and
Speaker 1: I don't know that much about it because I'm focused
Speaker 1: on some of the other things here. Tyrone does know
Speaker 1: about it, Tyrone, what the heck is going on ESPN?
Speaker 1: There's people, there's a lot of stuff going on. Well,
Speaker 1: it was um Adrian Lawrence, a former ESPN staffers. She
Speaker 1: was on Sports Center different different shows, went to the
Speaker 1: Boston Globe and told her story, and from that other
Speaker 1: people sort of were asked about the culture they're ESPN,
Speaker 1: and this particular culture isn't just sexual harassment like some
Speaker 1: of the other places. It's sort of also a boys club,
Speaker 1: I think would be the best way to describe it.
Speaker 1: And while ESPN has made a lot of strides compare,
Speaker 1: you know, as far as a lot of they made
Speaker 1: a lot of strides with women being you know, for
Speaker 1: you know, front and center, but they still have ways
Speaker 1: to go if you believe what's come out in the
Speaker 1: Boston Globe article. So what what was in what was
Speaker 1: some of what's in the article? Well, well, first let's
Speaker 1: take the boys club part of it. There was a
Speaker 1: woman Sarah Walsh. Waxley was a big fan of and
Speaker 1: she was having her and her husband were having a
Speaker 1: lot of trouble having a baby, multiple miscarriages, and it
Speaker 1: was kind of she kind of was told according to
Speaker 1: other people because she refused to speak on it, but
Speaker 1: she has kind through social media. She came to work
Speaker 1: the day she had a miscarriage and was literally bleeding
Speaker 1: on set in Alabama for college game day because she's
Speaker 1: not supposed to miss work, but men could miss work
Speaker 1: for much less. So if you're a woman there, you're
Speaker 1: asked to do things that men, at least that's what
Speaker 1: the story says, and people have corroborated. You're asked to
Speaker 1: do things that men aren't asked to do. It isn't
Speaker 1: an interesting that assuming that that is an accurate reflection
Speaker 1: of the culture there, that that is apparently what's going
Speaker 1: on ESPN in terms of male female relations. And meanwhile,
Speaker 1: ESPN is like very progressive, left wing, anti gone all
Speaker 1: that stuff. Yes, that but that that's more complicated. That's
Speaker 1: a lawger playing, that's more complicated. I'm just saying that
Speaker 1: you got a lot of liberals over the ESPN, and
Speaker 1: I think you have a lot of city people and
Speaker 1: cities tend to be more liberal. They cover teams locally,
Speaker 1: they end up ESPN nationally and they take their politics
Speaker 1: with them. But there isn't there also a highlight like
Speaker 1: an anchor and a former employee, and there's text messages.
Speaker 1: That's the that's the that's the sexual harassment part. Adrian
Speaker 1: Lawrence claims that John Bucharage, who has been there for
Speaker 1: a long time, and he's I think he's a solid guy,
Speaker 1: he claimed. She claimed that he's sexually harassed her. He
Speaker 1: came out and said, listen, if she thought that, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I thought we were friends. But he went to step further.
Speaker 1: He went to his bosses when those allegations came out
Speaker 1: and showed his bosses all the text messages. And they
Speaker 1: have since published those text messages and I read them
Speaker 1: and it sounds like Adrian Lawrence. This is the first
Speaker 1: time because I've actually always side. I tend to side
Speaker 1: with the women because I think they have a lot
Speaker 1: to lose when they come forward on this one. I
Speaker 1: have to side with the with the man, she said,
Speaker 1: he said things like corner long legs. Well, they went
Speaker 1: to dinner together and he was talking about adjusting the
Speaker 1: seat in the car for her long legs, So that's
Speaker 1: not him really referring to her legs in a This
Speaker 1: is this where, this is the beginning. This is why
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about it because I've been
Speaker 1: worried that this is where we're heading now. People are
Speaker 1: seeing this as it's leverage. It's a way to get
Speaker 1: a payday. You know, little things are gonna be the
Speaker 1: people are gonna try to magnify them for their own purposes,
Speaker 1: for their own advancement, right. And I will say most
Speaker 1: of the current ESPN staffers have been supportive of her
Speaker 1: she's no longer there, and think that they need to
Speaker 1: make changes. But all of them have said ESPN is
Speaker 1: better with this particular issue than other workplaces, So they're saying,
Speaker 1: maybe her complaints with this individual are true, but compared
Speaker 1: all the places they worked, this place is awesome. And
Speaker 1: looking at the text messages, I just don't see a case.
Speaker 1: He tried to show around the area for people who
Speaker 1: don't know, you go to Bristol, Connecticut, that is not
Speaker 1: a a metro as, not a as a not a
Speaker 1: diverse urban metropolitan ecosystem. No, so if you and you
Speaker 1: kind of have to move there, and you're moving over
Speaker 1: again from Boston, from Miami, from Colorado, different cities where
Speaker 1: you get picked up. Now you you kind of get
Speaker 1: to the big time. The big time is the middle
Speaker 1: of nowhere. He offered to show around, she accepted. She said, hey,
Speaker 1: when are you available? Hey, I'm only on the campus
Speaker 1: because they set up a whole campus for the staff.
Speaker 1: They went out to different dinners. It just seems like
Speaker 1: maybe he said something out of line along the way,
Speaker 1: but it seems like buying lards. This was a friendship
Speaker 1: where he may have thought he could say something and
Speaker 1: maybe she was offended, but he definitely was not a
Speaker 1: predator who had power over her. Yeah, well, the power
Speaker 1: dynamic is also very important. A period of peer relationships
Speaker 1: in the workplace should be treated very dead friendly. Then
Speaker 1: when somebody has power over your future, you're firing or
Speaker 1: hiring or any of that kind of stuff. Well, before
Speaker 1: we run in a break here, Tyrone. The Russell Simmons
Speaker 1: thing I saw three accusers was four accusing, four accusers,
Speaker 1: now kind of saying out flat out rape. So, I
Speaker 1: mean he's he's like a billionaire right or close to it.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's an incredibly wealthy hip hop and persorio
Speaker 1: and really important to the black community in that a
Speaker 1: lot of the comedians that we know, Martin Lawrence, Chris Tucker,
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart came he with Deaf Comedy Jam, which he created,
Speaker 1: and without him, there's no them. So he's really important.
Speaker 1: And not to mention everything like with the music run DMC,
Speaker 1: L cool J, on and on and on. He's flat
Speaker 1: out there night. He's the first person in one of
Speaker 1: these major cases where came out and flat out said nope,
Speaker 1: no way, didn't happen. I didn't do it. But it's
Speaker 1: a lot of tests, right yep. And it's no longer
Speaker 1: Deaf Comedy Jam though it's now like you know, it's
Speaker 1: no longer Russell Simmons Deaf Comedy Jam. It's just deaf
Speaker 1: jam comedy. Oh so they already it's the Kevin Spacey
Speaker 1: thing now where they you know, they erased h They
Speaker 1: literally erased his face from a movie in post production, right,
Speaker 1: so yes, and and now they're saying, oh, well, him
Speaker 1: bettering himself now he does a lot of yoga and meditation.
Speaker 1: This is him running away from his past. When he's saying, no,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to live longer. So it's like everything
Speaker 1: he does now is under a tremendous amount of scrutiny.
Speaker 1: But he is flat out that night. He's the first
Speaker 1: person to come out this strongly into this is here
Speaker 1: we are. You're getting minor things that are being inflated
Speaker 1: in the case of this ESPN situation, and we've got
Speaker 1: to keep an eye out for that. And you also
Speaker 1: have now the first really high profile case of somebody
Speaker 1: who's like, Nope, this is this is not me, right,
Speaker 1: that's what he said. This is a not me situation
Speaker 1: instead of you know me too, is what the accusers
Speaker 1: I've been saying. All right, we have to run to
Speaker 1: a break. Team will be back. We'll take your calls,
Speaker 1: and then we've got immigration in the next hour. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that. Emily is a not he joining some
Speaker 1: team Bucks speaks and I'm gonna tell you about sharks
Speaker 1: and killer whales because that'll be fun. Stay with me.
Speaker 1: Chef Chef Mario Vitali has gotten into into hot water
Speaker 1: for some sexual harassment stuff, and he sent out an
Speaker 1: email I just saw this or somebody on his behalfs
Speaker 1: o an email and it says, as many of you know,
Speaker 1: this week there's been some news coverage about my past behavior.
Speaker 1: I made any mistakes. I'm very sorry. I work every
Speaker 1: day to regain your trust. And then, in the same
Speaker 1: note bs, in case you're searching for a holiday inspired breakfast,
Speaker 1: these pizza dough cinnamon rolls are favorite. It's like, no, no,
Speaker 1: the apology is separate from the pizza dough cinnamon roll
Speaker 1: holidays thing. You don't put them together. Chef Batali, whoever
Speaker 1: his PR crisis PR firm is he should fire them.
Speaker 1: That's not how you do this. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: sorry about all of my misbehavior in the past, but
Speaker 1: let's talk about a spice. Is like no, Chef Batali,
Speaker 1: that is not how you do this. Oh um, all right,
Speaker 1: Robert and Mississippi. What do you got for me? Yes, sir?
Speaker 1: How are you? Mr? Sixton? I'm good, sir. How are
Speaker 1: you doing? I'm doing outstanding. My fellow brother at HARMS
Speaker 1: I retired least I'm the does. Oh well, thank you
Speaker 1: for your service, sir, Thank you, sir. My quote. I'm
Speaker 1: not a big movie person. I own one movie and
Speaker 1: one movie. Oh with my kitchen that long but ridge
Speaker 1: over the river quiet? Good guess though, right what's there?
Speaker 1: I said, it was a good guess. Yes, Oh, I
Speaker 1: wanted to mention the story you told a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, which one the boss story about the orphans? Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't remember what am I telling? Was that the
Speaker 1: wrong anyway? I don't you admit? No, that was somebody else.
Speaker 1: That wasn't me, that was a different host. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: movie here, yep, uh, Well we have here is a
Speaker 1: case of so until tell me everything, but you show
Speaker 1: me nothing. Heat. I don't know what is it? True
Speaker 1: romance Christian Slater, all right, legit, legit action movie and
Speaker 1: you got me. All right, sir, you have out foxed
Speaker 1: the Sexton tonight, but next time I will get you.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for calling and Robert, Merry Christmas
Speaker 1: and Shields High. I got a couple of calls that
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Speaker 1: get you. Here in a few moments, we have someone
Speaker 1: from the Justic Vaughan from the Center for Immigration Studies
Speaker 1: talking about immigration year in review and also what we
Speaker 1: can look forward to next year with the Trump administration,
Speaker 1: So stay with me for that and more terrorists substruct
Speaker 1: in the streets and subways of New York City twice.
Speaker 1: It's in a few months. Both terrorists came to our
Speaker 1: country through the dysfunctional immigration system that we are correcting
Speaker 1: and rapidly, and one came through chain migration, chain migration
Speaker 1: to the other visa lottery. They have a lottery, you
Speaker 1: pick people. Do you think the country has given us
Speaker 1: their best people? Know? What kind of a system is
Speaker 1: that they come in by a lottery? They give us
Speaker 1: their worst people. They put them in a bin. But
Speaker 1: in his hand when he's picking him, is the really
Speaker 1: the worst of the worst. Congratulations you're going to the
Speaker 1: United States? Okay, water system, lottery system. We're calling for
Speaker 1: Congress to end chain migration and to end the visa
Speaker 1: lottery system and replace it with a merit based system
Speaker 1: of immigration. That was President Trump earlier today talking about
Speaker 1: where he stands on immigration. Nothing's really happened on it
Speaker 1: in seen. In fact, there's been some reporting that there
Speaker 1: are more illegals now at the border than in previous quarters,
Speaker 1: or more have been captured. What is going on here?
Speaker 1: What can we expect in or can we at least
Speaker 1: hope for in? We have Jessica Vaughan with us now.
Speaker 1: She is Director of Policy Studies at the Center for
Speaker 1: Immigration Studies. Jessica, thanks for making the time, glad to
Speaker 1: be with you all Right, First, before I get into
Speaker 1: the absolute latest news here, I just want to know
Speaker 1: what could we say about the Trump administration on immigration
Speaker 1: year one, you know, the the good, the bad, and
Speaker 1: the man Well, I they've accomplished a lot, really and
Speaker 1: and clearly immigration has been one of the most important
Speaker 1: issues that this administration wants to tackle, and they have
Speaker 1: a lot of clean up to do after eight years
Speaker 1: of the Obama administration, not only dismantling in the relation enforcement,
Speaker 1: but also opening up and creating programs that that we're uh,
Speaker 1: you know, illegal for them to create because only Congress
Speaker 1: can do that. So they're doing a lot of cleanup.
Speaker 1: But Interior enforcement is up um almost over the Obama administration.
Speaker 1: We saw an initial drop historic laws of apprehensions at
Speaker 1: the border, but there's the courts have imposed a catch
Speaker 1: and relief policy for unaccompanied miners and families who come
Speaker 1: from Central America, so their hands are kind of tied there.
Speaker 1: But they've also cleaned up the legal system by reinstituting
Speaker 1: programs to correct fraud. They are holding you know, they're
Speaker 1: arresting people for crimes like identity fraud and immigration fraud
Speaker 1: that we're ignored by the Obama administration. So the returning
Speaker 1: integrity to our immigration system and tightening up loopholes as
Speaker 1: they find them. But really with the President can't do
Speaker 1: it all all by himself. There are things that Congress
Speaker 1: has to do, and those are the things like UH
Speaker 1: ending chain migration, UM, it's doing something about sanctuary cities, UM,
Speaker 1: ending the visa lottery, and a number of other areas
Speaker 1: like you know, UM superseding the courts on this issue
Speaker 1: of catch and release, fixing our asylum system that's so
Speaker 1: abused by people now and by immigration lawyers. So it
Speaker 1: really has to be a team effort, and I think
Speaker 1: the President has made really great progress. He's set out
Speaker 1: an agenda, he's starting to accomplish things, but at a
Speaker 1: certain point he needs resources from Congress and also a
Speaker 1: few tweaks to the law from Congress, and of course
Speaker 1: only Congress, as I said, can be the major reforms
Speaker 1: to our legal immigration system, so that are immigration system
Speaker 1: works for Americans and for the United States of America,
Speaker 1: not us for the people who want to come here.
Speaker 1: Jessica what can you tell me about this piece in
Speaker 1: the Washington Examiner that says Trump administration rolls out global
Speaker 1: campaign to combat those who overstay their visas in the US.
Speaker 1: But this is a huge problem. In the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, the Department of Homeland Security has estimated that
Speaker 1: more than half a million people who came in on
Speaker 1: visitor visas or other types of temporary non immigrant visas
Speaker 1: did not leave when it was time for them to
Speaker 1: do so, and they stayed on and make up a
Speaker 1: very large share of the illegal immigrant population in the
Speaker 1: United States. And part of it is because there has
Speaker 1: been some little interior enforcement in the country, so they
Speaker 1: don't fear getting caught or feel getting deported. But the
Speaker 1: other part of it is that the state Department has
Speaker 1: had has been, you know, really too lenient and who
Speaker 1: qualifies for these visas to come here. So the approaching
Speaker 1: it from both angles to try to address this problem.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's something that the wall that it fits.
Speaker 1: Speaking of a wall, we had Kirsten Nielsen just earlier
Speaker 1: this week say the following we're gonna have a law,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have border security, and we're gonna protect homeland
Speaker 1: and would the President, tell you when we've got the job.
Speaker 1: What did you say from me, build a wall attacked
Speaker 1: our country? You support the men and women. You see
Speaker 1: the reality of this wall and how effective it is
Speaker 1: as a bother when people in Washington or playing politics
Speaker 1: when it comes to the implementation of the technology needed
Speaker 1: to be successful. Of course it does, because this is
Speaker 1: key to our security of our of our homeland. I
Speaker 1: also find it very confusing. Is as you know, in
Speaker 1: two thousand six, we had a bill, the Secure Fence Act,
Speaker 1: that was largely bipartisan that would have done just this.
Speaker 1: So it is politics. It's easy for fix in Washington
Speaker 1: talk about the benefits of the law and not a wall.
Speaker 1: They're not working here, they're not facing the threat sentence
Speaker 1: of surfacing every day. All right, Jessica, that's the DHS,
Speaker 1: newly installed DHS chief saying that there's gonna be a wall.
Speaker 1: We need a wall. Walls great, But are we actually
Speaker 1: gonna get a wall? If all I want for Christmas
Speaker 1: is a border wall? Am I going to be happy
Speaker 1: next year? Um? You will be if Congress does its
Speaker 1: job and passes a spending bill like they're supposed to
Speaker 1: do every year, with the resources that the president is
Speaker 1: asked for to get this done. Um, Secretary Neilson is right.
Speaker 1: Congress asked for this back in two thousand six, and
Speaker 1: here eleven years later, it's still not finished. And we
Speaker 1: need it now more than ever because of the continued
Speaker 1: influx of people trying to get here over our southwest border,
Speaker 1: but also because of the drugs and other amiss it
Speaker 1: smuggling that is going on over the border. Um. It's
Speaker 1: so most of the illegal drugs that come into this
Speaker 1: country come over the border. So that's the other thing
Speaker 1: that the wall would help address. So but you know, again, Um,
Speaker 1: you're saying, it's Congress and there's only so much. It
Speaker 1: sounds like from what I'm gathering here, Jessica, that the
Speaker 1: Trump administration, the executive branch, has been good on immigration
Speaker 1: this year. Actually, the Trump has been keeping promises to
Speaker 1: degree that it's in his power to a Congress needs
Speaker 1: to get its button gear. That's right, and they need
Speaker 1: to remember why Trump was elected that in part it
Speaker 1: was because of the promises to address the immigration problems.
Speaker 1: And some of these can only be done that you know.
Speaker 1: They they's got a lot on their plate right now,
Speaker 1: and I don't expect to see any immigration legislation before
Speaker 1: the end of the year, but it better be at
Speaker 1: the top of the list for early in eighteen, because, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, these problems are festering and they need to
Speaker 1: be resolved, and we don't you want to go through uh,
Speaker 1: you know, another terrorist attack or more another influx of
Speaker 1: people from Central America or people of using the asylumces
Speaker 1: them before this gets fixed. They know what to do,
Speaker 1: they just need to do it, and the bills are there.
Speaker 1: The House of Representatives has passed a series of bills
Speaker 1: that would address sanctuaries, gangs, um eitherify for h to
Speaker 1: help employers avoid hiring illegal aliens, and a number of
Speaker 1: other good legislation. It's sitting before the Senate right now,
Speaker 1: and all we need to see some boats on these builds.
Speaker 1: Jessica Vaughan is Director of Policy Studies at the Center
Speaker 1: for Immigration Studies c i S dot org. For all
Speaker 1: of their research, Jessica, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: Thank you, glad to glad to be with you, and
Speaker 1: have a good weekend you too. Merry Christmas. Christmas. Alright, teams,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna roll into a whole slew of stories
Speaker 1: next the we should come up with, like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: a segment where you do like grab bag or something.
Speaker 1: You know, we just like throw a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: things together. Sometimes Emily's Nadi will be doing in the
Speaker 1: next but Tyrone and I kind of do that on
Speaker 1: a regular basis anyway, just to come up with a
Speaker 1: cool intro because we're doing a whole bunch of new
Speaker 1: stuff with the show starting in eighteen, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of uh, revamping and you know, redoing and
Speaker 1: making stuff cooler whatever. The best way of saying that is,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be making stuff cooler here on the show.
Speaker 1: So with all that, we've got Emily Zanati from Daily
Speaker 1: Wire next on Chicago and to bar from the President,
Speaker 1: what the heck is going on there? She'll answer it
Speaker 1: stay with me, but a very busy week in the news.
Speaker 1: But there are some stories we have not yet gotten to.
Speaker 1: But that's what we're gonna do now with the help
Speaker 1: of our friend Emily Zanati is Nati, Tom everybody. She
Speaker 1: is a writer for the Daily Wire. Trick out what
Speaker 1: she's got up there at the Daily wire dot com.
Speaker 1: Mrs Nati, good to have you, Thanks for having me
Speaker 1: all right, let's talk first about how Los Angeles wants
Speaker 1: to put shelter animals on a vegan diet. I think
Speaker 1: feeding dogs vegan food is a former of animal cruelty.
Speaker 1: It basically is dogs need protein. They can't manufacture their
Speaker 1: own vitamin D. They have so many dietary requirements that
Speaker 1: it really is basically animal abuse to put them on
Speaker 1: a vegan diet. But apparently l A wants to leave
Speaker 1: the nation in being progressive in their pet treatment, So
Speaker 1: they're asking all of their shelters to ditch the regular
Speaker 1: kibble and put everybody on it all vegan diet because
Speaker 1: animals eating animals just isn't right? Are They just gonna
Speaker 1: blast NPR podcast into the kennel and also make all
Speaker 1: the dogs meet with their life coaches, right like they're
Speaker 1: all going to be assessed for their cultural appropriation on
Speaker 1: the way in their way out. They all need to
Speaker 1: hear cereal, you know, like I was gonna say, what's
Speaker 1: the other one? I was gonna say, the other one
Speaker 1: with that guy is not doing NPR anymore anyway, um,
Speaker 1: and I would also know that you know, I this
Speaker 1: is a complete random note, but it's the third hour
Speaker 1: at least, I feel like we can say whatever we
Speaker 1: want here. I did some reach search into a fox
Speaker 1: as a pet because there's a really cool do you
Speaker 1: know this Instagram account Juniper Fox? Yes, I am familiar. Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm all about Juniper Fox. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is amazing because foxes are so cute and it's
Speaker 1: kind of like a cross between a cat and a
Speaker 1: dog because foxes have retractable claws, and plus they just
Speaker 1: look really cute. Turns out they mark all their territory
Speaker 1: and it smells like skunk and you can't get them
Speaker 1: to stop doing it. And oh, by the way, there's
Speaker 1: a certain chemical I forget what it is, something that's
Speaker 1: in a certain kind of food that you have to
Speaker 1: give them or else they'll go blind and die and
Speaker 1: you have to be very rigorous about it. And I
Speaker 1: was like, that doesn't sound like a good pet for
Speaker 1: me to have. Some of these exotic animals turn out
Speaker 1: to be a lot more work. Like I I have
Speaker 1: a friend who wanted for years to have a wallaby,
Speaker 1: and now she has sounds amazing. I want a wallaby?
Speaker 1: Who's your from with the wallaby? Does she have an
Speaker 1: Instagram account? The wallaby I'm legitimately writing this down right now,
Speaker 1: and I want to follow, Well, be the wallaby. That
Speaker 1: sounds amazing. How's it working out for It's working out okay,
Speaker 1: but's basically I adopted a baby kangaroo and now I
Speaker 1: just have a baby kangaroo. Like it didn't turn out
Speaker 1: as wonderful as she had hoped, but I think it
Speaker 1: turned out as adorable as she had hoped. That is amazing, Okay.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm excited about this. And another day we'll
Speaker 1: talk about how one day I hope to adopt a wombat.
Speaker 1: But that's a whole separate discussion. So l a vegan diet.
Speaker 1: We got that on our list here. Oh what is
Speaker 1: this about? So you're a Chicago in right, Chicago right?
Speaker 1: Because I and I actually got to see you in Chicago,
Speaker 1: and event was that was exciting. I actually saw Emily
Speaker 1: live and in person. And uh Ram Emmanuel, though has
Speaker 1: declared Chicago at Trump Free city. I feel like there's
Speaker 1: a I feel like there's a you know, a separation
Speaker 1: of powers issues here, or or like the mayor can't
Speaker 1: just banned an American citizen, particularly the president. No, no,
Speaker 1: he can't actually just say that. Donald can't spend a
Speaker 1: night like in his own hotel because we actually have
Speaker 1: a Trump tower in Chicago. Trump on the size, it's
Speaker 1: very prominent, but he mayor und Emmanuel went on Colbert's
Speaker 1: show and was like, oh, we have Chicago is the
Speaker 1: first Trump free city, as though this was going to
Speaker 1: be some sort of selling point for living in Chicago.
Speaker 1: It's the first Trump free city. We're banning him from
Speaker 1: our city limits. No, I mean, alright, fine, but it's
Speaker 1: not exactly like all of Chicago's problems are solved. We
Speaker 1: have a billion dollar budget crisis, we have a where
Speaker 1: the number one city for losing population, so we have
Speaker 1: six hundred homicides. Like I think, we've got bigger things
Speaker 1: to worry about than whether Donald Trump fronts the hotel
Speaker 1: room in Chicago. Trump mentioned in his speech here. He
Speaker 1: mentioned Chicago in the speech play that please Tyrone. Now
Speaker 1: more than ever, we must support the men and women
Speaker 1: in blue. In the last two years, America has seen
Speaker 1: a tragic rise in violent crime. In two thousand and
Speaker 1: fifteen and two thousand and sixteen, we witnessed the steepest
Speaker 1: two year consecutive increase in murders in nearly half a
Speaker 1: century and you look at what's going on in Chicago.
Speaker 1: What the hell is going on in Chicago? What the
Speaker 1: hell is happening there? Uh so, what is going on there? Emily,
Speaker 1: you're there, you're a journalist. He's not wrong. In the
Speaker 1: Times and prom Emmanuel has been mayor, which is just
Speaker 1: a little over four years, we have actually doubled our
Speaker 1: homicide rate and astonishing. So this is it's astonishing and
Speaker 1: it's mostly from game warfare on the South and West sides,
Speaker 1: but we just can't control it. In fact, the actual
Speaker 1: chief of the Police Union went to the White House
Speaker 1: asking for the White House to interfere to do something,
Speaker 1: to offer some sort of federal aid, and Chicago refused it.
Speaker 1: So we're looking at a more than six hundred homicide year.
Speaker 1: Last year, we ended the year with just a little
Speaker 1: over five hundred, So this is a big jump from
Speaker 1: seventeen and something's got to give here soon. We got
Speaker 1: Emily's Nati in the line of the Daily Wire or
Speaker 1: she Chicago Bay. So speaking of all things Chicago and
Speaker 1: Rama Manuel and and his terrible nous. Uh he is
Speaker 1: going to give out I Chicago I d s for
Speaker 1: the quote undocumented and those on the sidelines. What is
Speaker 1: that This is a weird plan on the part of
Speaker 1: Chicago to try to recognize the illegal immigrants who live
Speaker 1: within the city. It's not just enough, apparently that we're
Speaker 1: a sanctuary city that we can take in everybody and
Speaker 1: ICE is not able to ask them their immigration status
Speaker 1: when they're applying for a job or when an ICE
Speaker 1: person knocks on their door. Now we're actually going to
Speaker 1: give them packs I D numbers so they can pay
Speaker 1: city and state and federal taxes and also receive benefits.
Speaker 1: So of course this is going over very well with
Speaker 1: people in Chicago, considering that the city is dead broke
Speaker 1: and not able to pay for its actual school system.
Speaker 1: Now we're talking about potentially extending benefits to people who
Speaker 1: do not have legal status. But I mean, we don't
Speaker 1: want Trump, so obviously that's that's something I guess. So
Speaker 1: all right, so it's Trump free city, but he's given
Speaker 1: out free ideas for all the illegals. One more thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to touch on here because I know you've
Speaker 1: probably got exciting holiday plans in the in the Zanati household.
Speaker 1: Come up, you gotta do you have a last minute
Speaker 1: shopping You've got to get to I have finished my shopping,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure that there's going to be somebody I forgot,
Speaker 1: so I definitely have some last minute shopping. I got
Speaker 1: you all right. Well, one more thing though, just update
Speaker 1: me on Blake Fahrenholt. We didn't get to talk about
Speaker 1: him earlier. We've been talking about some of the sketchy
Speaker 1: and bad dudes out there, uh, and the allegations and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. But what's going on Blake Farrenhold, another
Speaker 1: guy in Congress is in some trouble. Yeah, So Blake
Speaker 1: Farrenhold ended up having to announce his retirement earlier this week.
Speaker 1: He was the subject of an eighty four thousand dollar
Speaker 1: lawsuit that Congress settled on his behalf. It's not necessarily
Speaker 1: sexual harassment. What it really is is a unsafe and
Speaker 1: intimidating work environment. So he's been accused of making dirty jokes,
Speaker 1: of making his employees feel kind of achy when they're
Speaker 1: in his office, making things very difficult for them, and
Speaker 1: one employee actually approached Congress, threatened to sue, and settled
Speaker 1: for eighty four thousand dollars. This past week, another employee,
Speaker 1: former communications director at Farenhold's office, approached the House House
Speaker 1: Ethics Committee and said that he was in an unsafe
Speaker 1: for environment, that he wanted to make a four normal complaint.
Speaker 1: And it was at that point that Fahrenholt just said,
Speaker 1: I think probably more is coming down the line, so
Speaker 1: I'm going to step aside. And he's the first Republican
Speaker 1: we've had, aside from Trent Frank's who also had some
Speaker 1: issues with his staff, to take l Frankins sort of
Speaker 1: lead and leave Congress. So we're looking at perhaps another
Speaker 1: dozen or so accusations like this, so he could only
Speaker 1: be the first of many. Emily's Naughty is at the
Speaker 1: Daily Wire. She's a writer. Check out the Daily wire
Speaker 1: dot com. Emily having Mary Christmas in a happy New Year.
Speaker 1: We're excited to talk to you. Get sounds good, Happy,
Speaker 1: Happy Christmas. Happy Christmas to you. All right, team, We're
Speaker 1: going to roll into a break. We'll be back in
Speaker 1: just a few minutes. Here, I'm going to talk to
Speaker 1: you about I'm gonna talk to you about great white
Speaker 1: sharks and killer whales. But it's gonna make sense, trust me.
Speaker 1: That's coming up. So I want to share a totally
Speaker 1: random story with you for a few minutes. If I can.
Speaker 1: And my little brother is traveling the world right now.
Speaker 1: He's down in on vacation in South Africa, and he's
Speaker 1: just posting all of these incredible photos. South Africa's I've
Speaker 1: heard it's an amazing place. I've never been, but he's
Speaker 1: he's having a great time. He's posting all these photos
Speaker 1: and he's, you know, seeing baby cheetahs in the wild,
Speaker 1: lions and I was gonna say tigers and bears, but
Speaker 1: that's actually not true. He's seeing neither tigers nor bears
Speaker 1: where he is, but lions and giraffes and gazelles and
Speaker 1: all that stuff that you would think, um, you know
Speaker 1: ward Hog, Like, was Pumba Tim own Amy the ward Hog?
Speaker 1: Do we know Tim the lion King? Come on? One
Speaker 1: of them was oh gosh, yeah, you this is your generation.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to know this one. All right. I'll let
Speaker 1: I'll let it slide this time. But anyway, there's a
Speaker 1: there's a ward that she's sent ward Hog photos. And
Speaker 1: but I'm one thing that I thought, and my little
Speaker 1: brother is a very intrepid fellow. I've always wanted to
Speaker 1: do that thing where you get into a cage. I
Speaker 1: know there's some people like, that's so dumb, buck, what's
Speaker 1: wrong with you? But I think it sounds cool to
Speaker 1: get into one of those cages where you have the
Speaker 1: great white sharks that come up close to the cage, Like,
Speaker 1: I just figure that looks pretty cool, right, What is
Speaker 1: you think of? And people will say to car carroden
Speaker 1: carcarious Latin name for the great white sharks, scientific name, uh,
Speaker 1: it's the apex predator, like nothing could ever match the
Speaker 1: the might and fury in the sea of of the
Speaker 1: great white. And it turns out that's not true, and
Speaker 1: that actually affects whether or not you can go see
Speaker 1: great whites anymore in South Africa. So so the biggest
Speaker 1: whites they call them white pointers, I believe, in either
Speaker 1: South Africa or Australia, but the biggest ones tend to
Speaker 1: be off of Australia and also actually off the coast
Speaker 1: of California, some really big great white sharks out there.
Speaker 1: I have a little sister, by the way, who's like
Speaker 1: an amateur shark expert, a lawyer, yes, but also an
Speaker 1: amateur shark expert. And the great whites off South Africa
Speaker 1: tend to be more aerial and acrobatic, and there was
Speaker 1: a very well established population of them, and people could
Speaker 1: get in those in the dive cage. You do any
Speaker 1: much experience, he basically just had to be able to
Speaker 1: breathe through the apparatus. You get in there, you're in
Speaker 1: a big steel cage, and you see the white sharks, right,
Speaker 1: and it sounds really cool. But but my brother can't
Speaker 1: do it. And he he thought about doing it. But
Speaker 1: it turns out that the whole notion of the great
Speaker 1: white shark as the absolute apex predator of the seed
Speaker 1: is not true. In fact, there's a big problem right
Speaker 1: now off of South Africa because as crazy as this is,
Speaker 1: white sharks are being killed off. White sharks are being
Speaker 1: killed off by killer whales, and in fact, not only
Speaker 1: are the killer whales uh killing the gray white sharks,
Speaker 1: they are almost with it's been described as with surge
Speaker 1: in like precision, removing the shark's liver because that is
Speaker 1: the most nutrient dense part of the shark. People have
Speaker 1: been saying that that, you know, there have been some
Speaker 1: researchers that are are seeing this and they've never seen
Speaker 1: anything like this before. I mean that The New York
Speaker 1: Post describe some of the theories of how this is
Speaker 1: how this has happening. Where they find the bodies, they
Speaker 1: find the washed up carcasses, and it's clearly the only
Speaker 1: thing that could be doing this, and it's also different
Speaker 1: bite marks, and uh, you know, they they have ways,
Speaker 1: you know, hashtag science, right, They've got ways through marine
Speaker 1: biology stuff of figuring this out. But here's the theory.
Speaker 1: This from the New York Post a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: One theory is that Orca's shut down all communication, sneak
Speaker 1: up and stun the shark by slapping it with its massive,
Speaker 1: powerful tail. Then it flips the shark on its back,
Speaker 1: causing momentary paralysis, and pushes the shark through the water
Speaker 1: until it suffocates. The orca finishes off the attack by
Speaker 1: carefully tearing open a hole in the shark to remove
Speaker 1: the liver, the largest and most nutrient rich oregan. Uh
Speaker 1: So they've only had a hand that's the end of
Speaker 1: the quote there. But they've only had a few white
Speaker 1: sharks wash up on the beach with the liver removed
Speaker 1: in this way. But they can't they're not seeing as
Speaker 1: many sharks out there, which means that white shark tourism
Speaker 1: is way down too. And it's because they think that
Speaker 1: there's like a pot of killer whales out there that
Speaker 1: just the the baddest dudes in the ocean, and they're
Speaker 1: just killing white sharks, which is pretty incredible when you
Speaker 1: think about it. Um. I will note that there was
Speaker 1: actually a really really bad horror movie that I saw
Speaker 1: here in New York on like the local I think
Speaker 1: it was w P I X eleven, which used to
Speaker 1: have all these uh kind of B level movies that
Speaker 1: would run all the time, and I would watch them,
Speaker 1: and the Orca. The movie was called Orca, and it
Speaker 1: was about a killer whale that goes rogue and and
Speaker 1: it's eating It's sort of like Jaws, but with a
Speaker 1: killer whale. And what's that that doesn't happen really? I mean,
Speaker 1: there have been some incidents with people in whales, but
Speaker 1: when they're in captivity, and that's a whole other discussion.
Speaker 1: But what you find out when you actually do a
Speaker 1: little research on these guys is that they're a lot bigger, heavier,
Speaker 1: and more powerful than sharks and a whole lot smarter.
Speaker 1: And that's pretty crazy. So anyway, my little brother is
Speaker 1: not diving with white sharks because they in South Africa
Speaker 1: can't find them because killer whales are like snipers in
Speaker 1: the ocean, knocking them out and taking their livers. That's
Speaker 1: pretty intent stuff I know has nothing to do with Christmas.
Speaker 1: And you're like, Buck, what is this story? I just
Speaker 1: thought it was really interesting. I still think it's really interesting. Man.
Speaker 1: I guess I won't get a chance to swim with
Speaker 1: white sharks anytime soon. If I go down to South
Speaker 1: Africa anyway. They travel sweeter, that's what we call them.
Speaker 1: And Uh, I'll be back with some team, Buck speaks
Speaker 1: in just a few minutes. Stay with me. Well, Team,
Speaker 1: it's a snowy night here in New York City, so
Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to close up shop in the Freedom
Speaker 1: Hut and trudge through the accumulation of UH sludge that
Speaker 1: will be on the streets, no doubt waiting for me.
Speaker 1: Tyrone and I were talking Amy too. We didn't see
Speaker 1: this one coming. I usually when there's major weather that's
Speaker 1: gonna hit the East Coast, the media is like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, there's gotta be weather. But this time around,
Speaker 1: there was no. I didn't see any warning on anything.
Speaker 1: I guess there was enough actual news to fill the
Speaker 1: news cycle this week, so I was caught surprised. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a nice weekend to be snowed in.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get into some team buck speaks in just
Speaker 1: a moment here. I wanted to tell you though, that
Speaker 1: we have been putting in motion some pieces on the
Speaker 1: History podcast. First episode will drop of shield Ye. First
Speaker 1: episode will drop on January eight, barring any unforeseen technical difficulties.
Speaker 1: So that'll be the first one, and I can tell
Speaker 1: you it'll be the battle of two French Charles Martel
Speaker 1: the Hammer dropping the Hammer against the conquest by the
Speaker 1: Islamic Empire. So we'll talk about that. That'll be fun.
Speaker 1: That'll be remember. That'll be separate from the show. So
Speaker 1: those of you who like history, you just have to
Speaker 1: subscribe to this show. However you listen to podcasts, iTunes
Speaker 1: is a great one. There are others Google Play and Stitcher,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if we're on so we're not
Speaker 1: on SoundCloud, right, We're only on Stitcher, is that right?
Speaker 1: I know we're on Google Play, and I know we're
Speaker 1: on iTunes, so those are good ones. And of course
Speaker 1: the I Heart app that allows you to listen to
Speaker 1: anything we do here in the hut, but that'll be exciting.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of a lot of work in the
Speaker 1: new year, but I'm looking forward to It's kind of work.
Speaker 1: I like, I'm gonna be on the beach with Molly
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks and she's given like, are
Speaker 1: you reading stuff that's like for vacation, and I'll be
Speaker 1: like yes, and it'll be like and then the janissaries
Speaker 1: ripped the heads off of the nights templar blah blah,
Speaker 1: and be like, whoa, It's crazy. That actually would have
Speaker 1: never happened to some of you know, but you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So uh, let's get into Oh wait, no,
Speaker 1: one more thing. I have a house guest this weekend.
Speaker 1: A friend of Ms Molly's is staying with us, a
Speaker 1: friend of hers from for many, many years ago, and
Speaker 1: I am uh looking forward to it. I yeah, right,
Speaker 1: you gotta be just the one thing. I never liked
Speaker 1: being a house guest. This is just a weird idiosyncrasy
Speaker 1: about me. I've never been comfortable really staying in other
Speaker 1: people's homes, no matter how nice they are, no matter
Speaker 1: what they try to do to make me feel comfortable.
Speaker 1: I'm always polite and I try to be a good
Speaker 1: house guest. But I just I just always I like
Speaker 1: to be in my own space, or i'd like to
Speaker 1: be in my space or paying people for the space.
Speaker 1: I mean, I I don't generally like to be a
Speaker 1: house guest. It's just not something that some people love it.
Speaker 1: You know, they want to crash with their buddies. I've
Speaker 1: got friends my age thirty five, and over the holidays
Speaker 1: they'll still go crash out on somebody's couch somewhere and
Speaker 1: they love that. They like that, you know, adult sleep over, Netflix,
Speaker 1: binge vibe you get from just staying at your buddy's
Speaker 1: place out in the living room. I don't like to
Speaker 1: even with a guest bedroom, even if I have a
Speaker 1: guest shellet waiting for me or a little guest cottage,
Speaker 1: whatever fancy terms are the people used for this stuff.
Speaker 1: Um still, I don't know being a house guest. And
Speaker 1: I agree, what's that? What's the old thing about how
Speaker 1: house guests are like fish? They start to stink after
Speaker 1: is it three days or four days? I think it's
Speaker 1: three days, but that sounds about right to me. Amy,
Speaker 1: it's a three days. You've never heard this my old
Speaker 1: man wisdom really just because it's like a generational she
Speaker 1: doesn't want to say it. There's a generational gap here,
Speaker 1: so I know, you know, I use words like an
Speaker 1: income poop, and that's just not part of the jargon
Speaker 1: of of Amy's part of the younger generation. So that
Speaker 1: doesn't really doesn't really happy much. Sometimes I do have
Speaker 1: to yell get off my lawn in here, just to
Speaker 1: remind everybody that you know, I'm technically but I feel
Speaker 1: I feel sixty. Sometimes Tyrone and I are about the
Speaker 1: same age though, so Tyrone, but Tyrone's wisdom comes through
Speaker 1: all the time, so that's not surprising to any of you.
Speaker 1: All Right, here we go. Um, we got some team
Speaker 1: Buck speaks coming in. Michael with the following, you've never
Speaker 1: been skiing, I think you do live under a rock
Speaker 1: in the Bronx Zoo. You want a real workout, try
Speaker 1: cross country skiing. You want to learn it, go to
Speaker 1: the Waterville Valley Resort in New Hampshire. Uh, my son
Speaker 1: is there. He runs the Nordic Center and he'll hook
Speaker 1: it up. Other than perhaps a pulled muscler to you're
Speaker 1: way less likely to get hurt doing Nordic alpine. You
Speaker 1: can actually get seriously hurt. Yeah, I will tell you that.
Speaker 1: For those of you who are like, oh, have you've
Speaker 1: never been skiing? I saw because I grew up in
Speaker 1: New York, and I think it was a bigger thing
Speaker 1: in my youth for people from Manhattan to go skiing.
Speaker 1: I I don't know. I don't see it as much now. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't see as people around me. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because I don't ski. I don't know skiers.
Speaker 1: But I saw so many people that would have a
Speaker 1: giant cast on their leg when they come back from
Speaker 1: vacation from a skiing accident. So maybe cross country is
Speaker 1: the way to go. I'd be willing to check that out.
Speaker 1: I have been doing. You know, one thing that I've
Speaker 1: worked into my routine that people say is so good
Speaker 1: and I'm I kind of don't buy it yet, but
Speaker 1: they say it's is kettle bell swings. Do you ever
Speaker 1: do your kettle bell swings? They say, it's uh, from
Speaker 1: a from a metabolic perspective, it's almost as good as
Speaker 1: doing wind sprints, and with wind sprints is basically number one.
Speaker 1: The kettle bells is like right below jump rope. And
Speaker 1: I mean in terms of your metabolic. It's really good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tyrone's giving me the thumbs up on that one. It's hard,
Speaker 1: but I just kind of feel like, I don't know
Speaker 1: how could this. I gotta do it more. I gotta
Speaker 1: do it more, all right, So maybe I'll add some
Speaker 1: cross country skiing into the mix, or what about snowshoeing.
Speaker 1: There we go to note that some of you took
Speaker 1: my advice and saw a wind River and liked it
Speaker 1: very much. I got those notes as well. Wind River
Speaker 1: very good movie. Intense and disturbing, but very very good.
Speaker 1: I think well done for what it is. Uh, let's
Speaker 1: get to the latest, Stanton. Right, So if you come
Speaker 1: to Utah, I'll teach you how to snowboard buck. We've
Speaker 1: got the greatest snow on Earth. Well, Stanton, I can
Speaker 1: tell you that is a very compelling offer. The one
Speaker 1: place I've been in the United States where it felt like, wow,
Speaker 1: there's a whole lot of consolidated, congregated team buck with
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City, Utah. I was like walking around the streets,
Speaker 1: people like back and I was like, hey, they're like back.
Speaker 1: I was like, what's going on? You know? That was
Speaker 1: that was fun because obviously working at the blaze uh
Speaker 1: and with Glenn there with Glenn as the the guy. Uh.
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City was a very friendly venue for us.
Speaker 1: I remember went out there for the Man on the
Speaker 1: Moon event and I was in. I would just go
Speaker 1: to like a little random cafe or something to get
Speaker 1: a coffee and they're nice ladies, like hello, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, hello, nice ladies and we're having a
Speaker 1: good time. All right. Anyway, Yeah, I'd love to come
Speaker 1: out to Utah at some point, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: the beach in a few weeks, so that's good. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be off the grid at the beach reading history
Speaker 1: books so that I can do my history podcast really well.
Speaker 1: All right, Uh, here we have Alan writing in. You
Speaker 1: were saying that Today's shows ratings were up, and I
Speaker 1: think it's because everyone loves a train wreck. Now at
Speaker 1: the ratings stay up, then you'll have a point. But
Speaker 1: right now, I think it's too early to tell. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I will say Tyrone yesterday made the same point.
Speaker 1: I think you guys are probably right at this. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like, oh wow, the Today's show is
Speaker 1: it gonna fall apart? And so people tune in to
Speaker 1: see if it's gonna fall apart when Laur leaves. But
Speaker 1: I still guy's not worth twenty five million dollars. Maybe
Speaker 1: he's worth five million dollars. He's not worth twenty five
Speaker 1: million dollars. That's just nonsense. Um. And then Alan also
Speaker 1: wrote in OMG, buck uh you got he man's castle
Speaker 1: is Castle Gray Skill. You're killing me. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: I got My parents got me a long time ago.
Speaker 1: They got me Castle Gray Skull. I still remember it.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, cash all my life
Speaker 1: has called played. I thought it was amazing because like
Speaker 1: when you're a kid too, even though now I feel
Speaker 1: like the best presidents are small, right, the best presence
Speaker 1: would be electronics stuff for you. I don't know. Some
Speaker 1: of the ladies like handbags. I guess that's for people
Speaker 1: who are not little kids. But I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what kids like. The point is,
Speaker 1: I just remember the bigger the present, and the more
Speaker 1: you had to like get in there and get up
Speaker 1: to your elbows and wrapping paper and just like wow,
Speaker 1: just go crazy and take it take it all off.
Speaker 1: The present that was like the ones you're really excited about, right,
Speaker 1: you needed one big present, even if it wasn't the
Speaker 1: most awesome thing that you were actually gonna use. I
Speaker 1: remember the biggest president I ever saw under the Sexton
Speaker 1: family tree was my mom got my sister at Dollhouse.
Speaker 1: That was gigantic. Anyway, what else do we have in here?
Speaker 1: Jeffrey rights in. You were talking on spices on the
Speaker 1: show I was listening to this morning. I recently discovered
Speaker 1: a new one Weaver's Dutch Country Farm dust seasoning. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you, Jeffrey. I will check out this new spice.
Speaker 1: That is Ah, that is exciting. I'm looking forward to it. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see we got here next. One Bow, Bow and Buck.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a sounds like a show where we get
Speaker 1: out there and hang out in America. Do some bass fishing?
Speaker 1: I did. I will tell you I did a lot
Speaker 1: of bass fishing growing up. My dad used to take
Speaker 1: me and my brothers and we would go out and
Speaker 1: just hit little ponds all around upstate New York and
Speaker 1: bass was like that was the exciting fish. Usually it
Speaker 1: was uh, perch and bluegill and you know, a little
Speaker 1: and a little kind of junk fish. But they're fun too.
Speaker 1: When you're a little kid, man, you get it. You
Speaker 1: get like a a quarter pound perch on that on
Speaker 1: your little rod, and you're like, oh man, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: You know you're fighting that thing. I'm talking like when
Speaker 1: you're seven eight years old. I could post some photos
Speaker 1: of this. We still have photos of us all going
Speaker 1: fishing with these these tiny little fish. But occasion my
Speaker 1: dad would pull up like a four or five pound,
Speaker 1: you know, small mouth bass or something, and that was
Speaker 1: like a monster. I was like, is it gonna eat me?
Speaker 1: It was like so big to me, because you know,
Speaker 1: that's yeah, is the opposite effect of what happened when
Speaker 1: I went as alligator not hunting, but alligator sit seeing
Speaker 1: with Molly, and I was like, that's the that's the alligator.
Speaker 1: I I feel like I could pick it up and
Speaker 1: put it in a put it in my bathtub at
Speaker 1: home and it would have plenty of room. I was
Speaker 1: expecting something a little more dinosaur like. Anyway, Bow, Bow,
Speaker 1: and Buck pardon me for the digression. Bow, I'm with you, Buck.
Speaker 1: I never like laur or Kuric either, for that matter.
Speaker 1: They're both disingenuous phonies. And the reason I haven't watched
Speaker 1: any so called morning news program in years. Thanks for
Speaker 1: keeping it real Shields high well bow. Clearly you are correct,
Speaker 1: and clearly they are disingenuous phonies, and I I have
Speaker 1: it on good authority not nice as well, which I
Speaker 1: always think is such a yeah, such a an important
Speaker 1: indicator of everything. Is somebody really nice or not a
Speaker 1: lot of people say that there are folks in media
Speaker 1: they dealt with or nice, But you got to really
Speaker 1: spend time around them, you know, can't just be all
Speaker 1: I met them once in the green room for two seconds. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, there's one day maybe I'll tell you. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't tell you who's mean in media necessarily, though maybe
Speaker 1: I would, but I would definitely tell you who's like
Speaker 1: really really nice, like a truly there's some really truly
Speaker 1: decent people in the world of media. So maybe one day,
Speaker 1: maybe it's like a little Christmas thing. Next week, I'll
Speaker 1: be like, you know, who's on my super nice list,
Speaker 1: and Santa should bring them all the presence in the world. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna close it up shop here in
Speaker 1: the Freedom Hut. Have a great weekend, everybody. Next week
Speaker 1: we'll have some fun and some holiday theme stuff. To
Speaker 1: be sure to tune in shields, high