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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton. Welcome to Buck Sexton Show. Everybody. Great to

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Speaker 1: have you with me in the Freedom Hunt. Much to

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Speaker 1: First off, the Senate has opened debate on immigration, so

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Speaker 1: even openly or not openly, but try to approach you know,

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Speaker 1: foreign military, foreign intelligence to get information for their stories.

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Speaker 1: Are they all subjectifies a because from what I'm seeing

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Speaker 1: Carter pay establish as a press didn't hear everybody that

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Speaker 1: if the federal government and by that I really mean

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Speaker 1: the deep state Democrats who like to abuse the federal

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Speaker 1: government's powers for stuff like this, if they decide that

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Speaker 1: they want to monitor your communications and therefore the communications

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Speaker 1: of really everyone you're in touch with, because that's what

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Speaker 1: it means, they can find a pretext to do it.

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Speaker 1: It's not hard. What does the fourth demon really even mean? That?

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Speaker 1: This is a very important concept that uh, I want

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Speaker 1: to bring into our discussion in the show. It's something

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Speaker 1: I want you to keep in mind, and that is

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Speaker 1: that that mass surveillance is unsettling, but ruthless individual surveillance, right,

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Speaker 1: individual surveillance that is really targeted, that breaks down Fourth

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Speaker 1: Amendment protection. That's what's that's what's actually terrifying. Yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 1: if they if they're getting all of your stuff and

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Speaker 1: they're they're getting the metadata and all that, that's that's bad.

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Speaker 1: But if they can target people for political reasons and

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Speaker 1: look at all their communications. I mean, foreign federal government

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Speaker 1: can do that. I mean folks founding fathers went to

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Speaker 1: war over general warrants, right, they were like going through

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Speaker 1: the customs house looking for stuff and trying to tax

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Speaker 1: you more. We we're we're gonna be okay with a

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Speaker 1: situation where the federal government can decide that that literally

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Speaker 1: a presidential candidate can be surveilled by finding someone near

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Speaker 1: him for whom they can create some pretext for that surveillance,

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Speaker 1: and we're supposed to be okay with that. Think about this,

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Speaker 1: Carter Page is the way of getting to everybody on

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Speaker 1: the Trump campaign. I know, I've read the the reports.

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Speaker 1: At least you know Steve Bannon was caught up in

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Speaker 1: that surveillance, and I mean, yeah, I really want to know.

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Speaker 1: I want to know who. I don't know what If

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Speaker 1: I'm carter Page, by the way, I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: another way to go. I don't know if he'd be

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Speaker 1: willing to do this I'm carter Page, then maybe I

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Speaker 1: would say, you know what, I want the federal government

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Speaker 1: to release all of the surveillance information on me because

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Speaker 1: I don't believe he does have anything to hide. I

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Speaker 1: don't I think that. You know, he could say, show

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Speaker 1: all the communication, show everything gets out there, you know

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Speaker 1: all the different contacts that I had, and you'll see

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Speaker 1: it's all Nothing's Nothingsville, it's who cares. But it would

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Speaker 1: matter to us a lot because it would show us

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Speaker 1: that this was, like I said, a political hit. And

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Speaker 1: the Democrats know that if the American people really figure

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Speaker 1: this out, they will hold it against the Democrat Party

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Speaker 1: as they should for a very very long time. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I just see what's going on here with

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Speaker 1: this Carter Page thing. Adam Ship's defense right now, the

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Speaker 1: Democrats defense is, oh no, there's other stuff that made

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Speaker 1: it okay for us to target this Carter Page guy

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Speaker 1: who was on the FBI's radar, And that was the

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Speaker 1: big thing they were saying. Yeah, he's on the FBI's

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Speaker 1: radar before, and he worked with the FBI to help

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Speaker 1: them track down some some shady Russians. So apparently the

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Speaker 1: thanks he gets for that is that the FBI later

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Speaker 1: on is miking him up, so to speak. But if

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Speaker 1: he's such a bad guy, if he was doing shady things,

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Speaker 1: can I just see one criminal charge even mentioned never

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Speaker 1: mind brought just the basis of an indictment maybe against

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Speaker 1: Carter Page if they can target his communications and everyone

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Speaker 1: who talked to him there for indirectly surveilling them too.

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Speaker 1: That's the way this works, based on on suspicion. With

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Speaker 1: there's no charges. What what does this mean? Folks? Where

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Speaker 1: are the limits? Really? Were the lines the boundaries that

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Speaker 1: prevent the federal government from doing this the next time around?

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Speaker 1: And here's a really scary thought. All this stuff we're

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Speaker 1: talking about here, it's all kind of jammed up in

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Speaker 1: the world that classified and everything else. This might have

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Speaker 1: happened in other cases we don't even know about. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that's they'll they'll do it to a presidential campaign.

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Speaker 1: But they would no, they'd never do it. Just come on,

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Speaker 1: let's really think about this one. You don't think that

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Speaker 1: maybe some senior folks at d o J you want

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Speaker 1: to keep an eye on somebody else somewhere. Now you

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Speaker 1: start getting into some you know, we'd like to think

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Speaker 1: that we're beyond the realm of police state tactics and

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Speaker 1: the surveillance state and using that for you know, the

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Speaker 1: Russians are the ones to do comproma the Russians are

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Speaker 1: the ones who put video cameras in people's hotel rooms

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Speaker 1: just to catch them doing what people do, and then

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Speaker 1: you know, threatened to release that to embarrass them. Right,

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Speaker 1: that's like the Russians. We wouldn't I mean, we don't

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Speaker 1: do that in this country. I mean, the d O

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Speaker 1: j FBI, it wouldn't do that. Are you sure. I'm

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Speaker 1: a lot less shure now than I used to be,

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Speaker 1: and I used to work on the inside, So that

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Speaker 1: does not speak well about this whole situation. Eight four

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Speaker 1: or four n eight to five. You've got thoughts on this?

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Speaker 1: We are going to get into the whole North Korea

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Speaker 1: media debacle. Wow, that's gonna be quite a discussion, so

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Speaker 1: stick around for that. Will be right back. Welcome back team.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a call from Tom in Youngstown, Ohio. Hey, Tom, alright, block,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon. Uh. Two things. Number One, you mentioned Carter Page,

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Speaker 1: and you were supposing that as a result of using

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Speaker 1: the FIS warrant against him, they could do it against

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Speaker 1: different groups and included the press. They did it against

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Speaker 1: the press. Remember James Rosen and his parents, they used

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Speaker 1: the fives A warrant to monitor them. I think that

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Speaker 1: was the title. Uh. I think that was a criminal

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Speaker 1: I think that was a criminal ward. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they used I don't believe that was I don't believe

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Speaker 1: that was a fisor warrant. From what I know, I

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Speaker 1: think it was a criminal war but they but they

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Speaker 1: went after the press anyway, based on the press doing

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Speaker 1: their job. They as they also seized the Associate im

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Speaker 1: Presses records. So the the Obama administration had to pass

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Speaker 1: to do uh, to break down that wall, which look,

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00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: it's always a little bit murky, but they just shattered

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Speaker 1: it of you don't go after journalists for doing their jobs.

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Speaker 1: Obama's folks did it, and people did not care. I

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Speaker 1: mean when I mean people, the media did not remember. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The Attorney General tone uh Sheryl Atkinson that she could

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Speaker 1: no longer go to the into the Justice Department. Uh

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Speaker 1: and and uh that was her job. So she was

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Speaker 1: basically out of a job. CBS, what did she do?

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Speaker 1: The Justice Department under Eric Holder? Remember remember she was

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Speaker 1: the Justice Department corresponded first and Eric Holder, Yeah, she

548
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Speaker 1: was exposing Yeah, Sharyl Atkinson was exposing some of the

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Speaker 1: stuff that the the Holder d o J was up

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Speaker 1: to and they did not like that over and she

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Speaker 1: was like a career. CBS report that she'd been there

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Speaker 1: a very long time, it was very well regarded, and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden she's gone, yeah, hey, one other

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Speaker 1: thing you mentioned Susan Rice, and that Obama's said to

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Speaker 1: go by Susan Right, she's by the book. He's all

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00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: by the book. Only by the book. The book happened

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00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 1: to be rules for radicals, that that he wanted them

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00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 1: to go by. I like what you I like what

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Speaker 1: you did there, Tom Shields high and thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for the call my friend speaking about like what

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Speaker 1: you did there. We got our friend, uh representative Louis Gohmert.

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Speaker 1: I am shocked, really shocked that no fight sad judge

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Speaker 1: has put anybody in jail yet. Yet we have found

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00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: total disregard for a propriety before the fight of courts,

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Speaker 1: and somebody should have been in jail long before now

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Speaker 1: over the over the improprieties that were submitted to the court.

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Speaker 1: Somebody's got to go to jail or our system is over.

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Speaker 1: It is done. Louis Colmert. Congresson Goman, I like cogreson

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Speaker 1: going by the way. I've been a bunch of fives

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Speaker 1: and Funny's fun dude. I like him, but I think

571
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Speaker 1: he's wrong here. No one's going No one's go to prison.

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Speaker 1: And I know I say that, and I can already

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Speaker 1: people like click, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go listen

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Speaker 1: to somebody who's like, they're all going to jail. Everybody,

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Speaker 1: it's all coming down. Colly's gonna get frog marks. Nope,

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen, folks. I'm not saying we won't

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Speaker 1: get to the truth. I'm not saying there won't be

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Speaker 1: any consequences, but it is overwhelmingly likely, in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: it will be political consequences. Understand who we're talking about here,

580
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Speaker 1: who we're dealing with, people that know what you can

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00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: do that's unethical versus what you can do or what

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Speaker 1: you would do that it's prosecutable. Right, Although I will

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Speaker 1: say that James call me with the classified thing to me,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how he's getting to pass on that one,

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Speaker 1: meaning Comey had notes for meeting with the White House

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Speaker 1: that at least one senator I think it was grassly,

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00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: but I forget now. One senator has said the information

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Speaker 1: was classified, called me linked to the press. That's a

589
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: that's a crime. You're not allowed to do that. But somehowever,

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Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, it's it's Comy. You know, Comey's out there.

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Speaker 1: I stare across the Crystal Clear Lake, fine ending that truth,

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Speaker 1: justice in the American way grows with each beat of

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Speaker 1: my heart. Comey is such a weirdo. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you look at this, if you're not on Twitter, you

595
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: should get on Twitter just to see what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: With Comy, You're gonna be like, who is this guy?

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Speaker 1: He's like six nine. I bet he can't even dunk.

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Speaker 1: I bet he never could dunk. That's right, I said it.

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00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: So he's like six eleven. If you're six eleven, you

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00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,479
Speaker 1: should be able to dunk, darn it. But yeah, Comey

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Speaker 1: is a big weirdo. Oh by the way, the literally

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Speaker 1: a large weirdo. Uh. Top Justice Department official that quit,

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Speaker 1: Like I I can understand this one. She quit over

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Speaker 1: quote fear she might be asked to oversee Russia probe.

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00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: Rachel Brand was her name, Associate Attorney General. And I

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Speaker 1: gotta tell you, you know what, I'm sure she's probably

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Speaker 1: a Democrat. You know, she's probably standing with Hillary so

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Speaker 1: to speak, the whole thing. But apart from all that,

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Speaker 1: for a moment, you gotta assume you really don't want

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Speaker 1: that job. You really don't want to be the person

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Speaker 1: oversee sing the d J investigation at this at this

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Speaker 1: point of Russia, because you're gonna be at a rough

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Speaker 1: spot no matter what, unless you're a true ideologue who

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Speaker 1: wants to use this to continue to use this as

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Speaker 1: the primary means of going after the Trump administration, and

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Speaker 1: you're gonna take the heat that comes along with that

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00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: because we're finding out now much more of what's true

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Speaker 1: and what really happened and what was really going on

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Speaker 1: with all this. But yeah, that's not a job that

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Speaker 1: I would be like running to sign up for. Yes

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Speaker 1: I would. I would love to be the person who,

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Speaker 1: depending on the day, is gonna get trashed by one

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Speaker 1: network or the other based on whatever moves she makes.

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Speaker 1: So I'm thinking this memo, do we have we we

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Speaker 1: don't know you read this week? Maybe? Yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 1: talking to producer. Mike is telling me maybe this week,

627
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Speaker 1: but we're not sure yet. Um it looks like it

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Speaker 1: the some version, but be released. As I said to you,

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Speaker 1: they've already played the classification games, which I knew it happened.

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Speaker 1: I think the memo is going to be underwhelming. I

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Speaker 1: mean the fact that it's ten pages also just seems

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Speaker 1: strange to me. Why do you need a ten page

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Speaker 1: memo to a fete the four pages of what was

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Speaker 1: already released. Uh, but it's not gonna stop. It's not

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Speaker 1: gonna stop anything. We need to find more information anyway.

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Speaker 1: I get kind of radical on this one, and people

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Speaker 1: get mad at me, like Buck, do you understand the

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Speaker 1: sensitivity of sources and methods. Yeah, I know I do.

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Speaker 1: I get it, But I get radical in so far

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Speaker 1: as I want I want the president to just put it.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to be put out there. What are we

642
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: really gonna find out? Carter Page talk to some shady

643
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:40,240
Speaker 1: Russian dudes, you know? Okay, and unless we're really worried

644
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Speaker 1: about the safety of those specific Russians, by the way,

645
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: could we just do block out their last names, give

646
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 1: them pseudonyms, you know, give them fake names. Who cares,

647
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: But just let's see what they're really working with here,

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00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: you know, that would be it, you know called one uh,

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00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: you know person a and the other person be you know,

650
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Speaker 1: person a spoke a carter Page person b met with

651
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: them here, you know, you can still protect the identities

652
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 1: and the safety of individuals that maybe, and I'm assuming

653
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Speaker 1: there are people. I'm not even sure there is anybody.

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00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: I think it's like the dossier and then some news

655
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: reports and then oh yeah, the FBI knew that he

656
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: talked to some Russians years ago and he helped them,

657
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 1: But maybe he was still shady. You know, I don't know.

658
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Speaker 1: Not a lot, not a lot here that I think

659
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: could be a big, a big problem, you know. I mean,

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00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: Carter Page wasn't like, you know, an agent living in

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Speaker 1: deep cover in Bin Lawden's house or something, and if

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Speaker 1: anyone finds out, you know, like, that's not what was

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Speaker 1: happening here, folks. So anyway, we're gonna get into the

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Speaker 1: North Korea thing here, because this is you're gonna enjoy

665
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Speaker 1: this one. I mean, it's on the one hand, kind

666
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 1: of terrifying how delusional the media really is in that

667
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: they seem to believe that Trump is pretty much on

668
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: the same plane as Kim Jong own. I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: reason that I'll make the case as to why I

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00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,760
Speaker 1: think they think that. Stay with me. Kim Jong's sister

671
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: Kim Yo jong sitting near directly behind the Vice president

672
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Speaker 1: of the United States. It provides legitimacy. Oh, it's absolutely significant,

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00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 1: the symbolism. She's about to emerge on the world's largest

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Speaker 1: television stage. Her star has risen meteorically over the past

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Speaker 1: four years. Kim Yo jong is the real power just

676
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Speaker 1: under her brother. With the world watching the Olympics, she

677
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: will put a young, telegenic face on the regime. It's

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Speaker 1: a way to showcase North Korea on a world stage.

679
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: Kim is the perfect counterpart to this, and it also

680
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: is a signal that North Korea is not um, you know,

681
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Speaker 1: this crazy, weird former Cold War state, but that it

682
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Speaker 1: too has young women that are capable and are the

683
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Speaker 1: future leadership. Welcome to ours here. The Buck Sexon show.

684
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Speaker 1: That was a whole bunch of reporting. I think it's

685
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: from CNN, but from mostly yes CNN, about about a

686
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Speaker 1: regime that is in fact a ghoulish like of the

687
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: Soviet era. Um that is the most totalitarian and brutal

688
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: and repressive government on the planet. And yet the press

689
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: coverage of a woman who is directly involved in that

690
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: apparatus is like, yeah, look at her, She's telegenic and

691
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: great and what a moment for North Korea. Uh, there

692
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 1: is no way two make sense of how the media

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Speaker 1: could be so foolish in their coverage of North Korea

694
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Speaker 1: and North Korea without understanding that really this is at

695
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:44,800
Speaker 1: least in part about Trump. And I'm not just coming

696
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Speaker 1: up with that. It's quite clear there were comparisons in

697
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Speaker 1: the media between Kim Yo jung and remember that's the

698
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:56,760
Speaker 1: that's the sister of Kim Jong un. Kim Yo Jung

699
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Speaker 1: is also in the polite borrow the scene, your communist

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Speaker 1: senior communist entity that runs North Korea. She is the

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Speaker 1: head of propaganda for the North Korean regime. She is

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Speaker 1: personally technical title is director of the Propaganda and Agitation

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Speaker 1: Department of the Workers Party of Korea. That sounds like

704
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Speaker 1: a fun place to show up to work, and she

705
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 1: is overseeing the brainwashing and psychological terror apparatus of the

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Speaker 1: North Korean state. That's who this woman is. That they're

707
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Speaker 1: all like, Oh, she's amazing. What are you wearing that door?

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Speaker 1: That's Chanel. Well, when she goes back home, there will

709
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: still be the multigenerational concentration camps where North Korean intelligence

710
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 1: and military agents forced children to inform on their parents

711
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:03,839
Speaker 1: political beliefs inside these camps, and then the parents are

712
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:09,080
Speaker 1: mutilated and tortured to death on the evidence provided by

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Speaker 1: their own children. That's North Korea. He didn't really get

714
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: that sense of it though, from CNN's media coverage of it.

715
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 1: And in fact, they were all too quick, and let's

716
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Speaker 1: just see it as New York Times to their number

717
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:24,800
Speaker 1: of them, they were all too quick to talk about

718
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Speaker 1: how North Korea was winning a gold medal for diplomacy.

719
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Speaker 1: To compare Kim Yo jung when I just gave you

720
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Speaker 1: some stats on sanctioned by the Treasury Department, by the way, hattle,

721
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: that gets everybody excited at the dinner party. I just

722
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Speaker 1: got my Treasure Department sanction for crimes against humanity. How's

723
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: your day going? Compared to Ivanka Trump saying she's the

724
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Speaker 1: Avanca of North Korea, which is quite a slight. If

725
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Speaker 1: you don't think that's a slight, imagine for one moment

726
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: that it was not the Trump administration. We were talking

727
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,280
Speaker 1: about the Obama administration, and any member of the press

728
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: had ever, even for a moment, made a comparison between

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Speaker 1: an active member of North Korea's apparatus of terror, repression,

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Speaker 1: and murder with a member of Barack Obama's family. Right.

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Speaker 1: You know, if someone had said Kim Yo Jong has

732
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Speaker 1: any similarity to Michelle Obama, for example, in any way,

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Speaker 1: I think people would have lost their minds. And I

734
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Speaker 1: would agree with that actually, but you'll just note that

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Speaker 1: with Ivanka, it's like, yeah, you know, young telogenic one's

736
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Speaker 1: a part of a homicidal, maniacal regime. And you know,

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Speaker 1: the other is Warden Grad who is an advisor to

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Speaker 1: her dad in the White House and has like a

739
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: you know, some nice kids and is a nice person

740
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Speaker 1: trying to be a part of the U. S administration.

741
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm sort of where's the comparison exactly? But

742
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: they were saying that, oh, yeah, she's the Avanka of

743
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: of North Korea. Uh. They're also was it particularly particularly

744
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 1: annoying thing done by I think it was that they

745
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,800
Speaker 1: think this one was the New York Times where they

746
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: they compared Pence's diplomacy to Kim Yo Jung's diplomacy in

747
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 1: order to make it seem like Kim Yo Jung, Kim

748
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: Jong Lund's sister is the one who you know, really

749
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 1: gets it, you know, she's the savvy diplomat. Pence is

750
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: just some rube, some you know, some hay seed, some hillbilly.

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00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: He doesn't he doesn't get it. Yeah, they thought that

752
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: she came off better in the comparison of the two.

753
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 1: We're trying to find the I mean, I'm just so

754
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: you get a sense of exactly whether or not I'm

755
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm exaggerating here anything else. The press is

756
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 1: called North Korea's uh, north North Korea's efforts at the

757
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: Olympics at charm offensive. Okay, fine, But they've also written

758
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: headlines like this one from the New York Times, Kim

759
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: Jong Own's sister turns on the charm, taking Pence's spotlight.

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00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. And as I said that the Times referred

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00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: to North Korea's Ivanka, Uh, this is some pretty heinous stuff, folks.

762
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: When you get into what North Korea is really like,

763
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:25,359
Speaker 1: what the regime is all about. You can complain about

764
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 1: the Trump administration, you can think they're terrible. You know,

765
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 1: this is America. You're allowed to have You're allowed to

766
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: have dumb political opinions. Many millions of our fellow Americans do.

767
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: But if you think that there is any moral equivalency

768
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Speaker 1: or any comparison to be drawn between any member of

769
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Speaker 1: the Trump administration of the Republican Party and what is

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Speaker 1: going on in North Korea. You are, in fact, a

771
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 1: a dangerous moron. Um it is, it is aggressively stupid

772
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:02,360
Speaker 1: to draw any comparisons or parallel between our our government,

773
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: our administration, Donald Trump, and North Korea. And people were

774
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 1: doing it. I mean, I'm giving you the big newspapers

775
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: and news sites out there, I mean some of the largest,

776
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: the most mainstream of the mainstream media. But once you

777
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: get into the opinion level, the opinion sections and you know,

778
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: the commentary at on Twitter and elsewhere that the blue

779
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: check peanut gallery, they're all, oh, yeah, you know, it's

780
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 1: well Trump, North Korea is better at this diplomacy thing

781
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 1: than Trump. You know, Trump is so terrible, He's the worst.

782
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: Trump's guilty of American fascist and North Korea just has

783
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: its own version of People say communism, but it's really

784
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:45,399
Speaker 1: more like a more like a religious cult than communism,

785
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: but that's a different discussion. They were delusional. And then

786
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: there was just some other little aspects of how they

787
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:56,760
Speaker 1: approached North Korea, like, for example, the North Korean cheer squad.

788
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: So they all were addressed exactly the same and moving

789
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: in complete at unison. And here's what it sounded like.

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Speaker 1: They were the North Korean cheerleaders who were going, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like that. First they started, they

792
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 1: were cheering one Korea. Then they were cheering when when

793
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 1: when it was a remarkable scene, they really look a

794
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,879
Speaker 1: sports commentator, I guess that was Mary Carell and NBC. Look,

795
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 1: she's allowed to say whatever she wants, and she's also

796
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: just saying that it was a remarkable cy and that's fine.

797
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 1: I have no problem with that. It's the political press,

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00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: it's the newspapers out there that are talking about the

799
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Speaker 1: diplomacy and the effectiveness of North North Korean diplomacy here

800
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:04,359
Speaker 1: that I inc was particularly egregious. And I think it's

801
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 1: only they're blind spots on this issue, or there the

802
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 1: obtuse nature of the media's coverage such that they wouldn't

803
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,359
Speaker 1: seem or they wouldn't decide it was necessary to point

804
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 1: out that, yes, the North Korea cheer squad at the

805
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:24,720
Speaker 1: Olympics moved in with tremendous precision and everything else, probably

806
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: because they were threatened with constant beatings at home, and

807
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: that's not an exaggeration. If they didn't get it exactly right,

808
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: maybe worse than beatings, maybe the starvation of their families.

809
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it. I mean, there are a

810
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Speaker 1: series of documentaries on North Korea that are all that

811
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 1: are actually quite good. There's one in particular where they

812
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:46,319
Speaker 1: bring in doctors from the outside outside North koreas borders

813
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 1: I forget. I saw it many years ago, and they

814
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: bring in all these doctors and they're fixing I problems,

815
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: a lot of cataracts, I believe, which is a pretty

816
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 1: straightforward surgery. But if you don't get the surgery, you

817
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: go blind. And so they're they're actually restoring sight to

818
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 1: North Koreans and their foreign doctors that are doing this

819
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: because North Korean medicine is obviously garbage, barely exists, and

820
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: but they're just trying to bring in as many of

821
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: these uh as many of these doctors or as many

822
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 1: patients these doctors as possible, and they're literally people have

823
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: been blind, some of them for years, and now they're

824
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: able to see again because their eyes are fine. They're

825
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: just covered because of the counteracts. And what's remarkable. And

826
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Speaker 1: then and I'm kind of giving away. Where the documentary

827
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: goes here is that you have people whose site has

828
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Speaker 1: been restored by the doctor, and they all know. They

829
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: all know right away once they can see again. They

830
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 1: don't say thank you to the doctor. They don't hug

831
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Speaker 1: the doctor. They turn, they kneel, they grovel, they cry,

832
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Speaker 1: and they beg for thanks. From a portrait of it

833
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: was at the time Kim Jong Ilk, Kim Jong N's

834
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 1: father on the wall. Yeah, I forget about the doctor

835
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Speaker 1: that actually like changed my life. Thank you, dear leader. Oh,

836
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Speaker 1: dear leader, You're so amazing. And here's what's even more

837
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Speaker 1: sick about it. I can't blame them at all. Not

838
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,800
Speaker 1: only they brainwashed, they know that if they give insufficient thanks,

839
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:13,799
Speaker 1: especially because their foreigners present, it might be off to

840
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 1: the might be off to the concentration camp for them

841
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 1: for insufficient thanks, for insufficiently saying thank you to the

842
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:25,200
Speaker 1: dear leader who has created this environment in the country

843
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:28,880
Speaker 1: where you know, the Kim dynasty, where people are unable

844
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: to get medical care or starving or living under complete

845
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 1: tyranny and oppression. And you would think that this context

846
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: would inform some of the way that season Journalists in

847
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:43,080
Speaker 1: New York Times CNN et cetera. Would discuss the North

848
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Speaker 1: Korean propaganda offensive at the Olympics, because that's what it is.

849
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Speaker 1: Nothing has changed, folks. This is not a big thaw

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Speaker 1: in relations. They're not gonna be buddies after this. North

851
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: Korea is not going to give up its nuclear program.

852
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,280
Speaker 1: They're not gonna stop testing missiles. Okay, I'm not gonna happen.

853
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Speaker 1: In fact, the ignorance of the media out in North

854
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Speaker 1: Korea was particularly on display when it came to the

855
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Speaker 1: signature of Kim Joe young or Kim Yo jong rather,

856
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Speaker 1: who was making some you know, write writing down some

857
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Speaker 1: remarks about a unified Korea, looking forward to a unified

858
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Speaker 1: Korea in the future, and a lot of press were like,

859
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: see it's this is great. This is like the unified

860
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Speaker 1: Korea and they're marching under unified flag every well, for

861
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: decades now, North Korea has been talking about a unified Korea.

862
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Speaker 1: It will come through either submission or conquest. That is it.

863
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Speaker 1: It's going to be unified under the North Korean model,

864
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Speaker 1: not the South Korean model, and the North Koreans would

865
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Speaker 1: be all too happy if they could to do that

866
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,520
Speaker 1: by force. In fact, I think you can make a

867
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Speaker 1: very convincing argument that the entire structure of the North

868
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Speaker 1: Korean state exists so that it can take over South Korea,

869
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:53,320
Speaker 1: it's just at some point in the future, and that

870
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 1: it's nuclear program is not just an external deterrent but

871
00:50:56,239 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 1: to blackmail the South into eventually being subsumed into the North.

872
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:05,280
Speaker 1: But the journalis done. They're like, oh the warm greeting

873
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:07,720
Speaker 1: she wrote, it was so nice about a unified Korea.

874
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: H They they are, but they are uncurious about this.

875
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 1: Why because they view it as in some ways an

876
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 1: opportunity to take cheap shots at Trump, which is what

877
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: happened um. And also, whenever the current administration is evolved, whatever,

878
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:26,800
Speaker 1: there's a question of foreign policy, anything like, that's an issue.

879
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: It has to be taken the the issue must be

880
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:34,479
Speaker 1: put in the context of, well, Trump is really bad too,

881
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 1: you see, So we can't really blame this country for

882
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:41,760
Speaker 1: acting only that it does. Because Trump trumps arrangement syndrome

883
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: is a very real thing, and it has infected the

884
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: minds of the media more so than even many of

885
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 1: our you know, everyday American leftists that are around us,

886
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 1: especially in places like New York City, where I'm doing

887
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 1: this show right now, So it was disconcerting to see it. Um,

888
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: it's not something that we should excuse or allow. I mean,

889
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 1: it's fine to report on North Korea's Olympic cheer squads,

890
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:09,240
Speaker 1: as weird and unsettling as they are. But no matter

891
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: how much they hate Trump, the media never has an

892
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: excuse to be a North Korean cheer squad. And that's

893
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: what we saw over the weekend. And it was pathetic

894
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 1: that they will slam the vice president of the United

895
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: States while praising the sister and enabler of the worst

896
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:31,720
Speaker 1: dictator on the planet, and think that somehow that's normal.

897
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 1: We don't pick up on this. They are an embarrassment.

898
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:39,279
Speaker 1: We will be right back. We have supported regimes like this,

899
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:43,279
Speaker 1: like Russia for many many that are still doing it.

900
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:46,479
Speaker 1: And so it's very interesting that he didn't take a knee,

901
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:48,520
Speaker 1: because you wouldn't have known if he was paying homage,

902
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,880
Speaker 1: because taking a knee is not disrespectful, you know, because

903
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 1: you can. You can take a knee to propose to somebody,

904
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 1: take anit to to to pray to somebody. So I

905
00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:00,600
Speaker 1: think him not taking a knee, what him sitting down

906
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 1: was more of the nonverbal spit in your face. It's

907
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: interestingly that Donald Trump revers Russia so much over the

908
00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:12,919
Speaker 1: United States very often, and so it's kind of hypocritical

909
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:15,919
Speaker 1: for Pence. All I hear from Trump is how great

910
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: Russia is. He never says a bad word about Putin.

911
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: That really is on American I mean, those are something.

912
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:25,279
Speaker 1: Those are the different opinions you get on on the view,

913
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:30,400
Speaker 1: uh about about North Korea and Russia. And look, to

914
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:34,280
Speaker 1: be fair, it's a little bit like you know, asking

915
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:41,600
Speaker 1: the Kardashians for their their thesis on nuclear physics in

916
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 1: the twenty one century. I mean, it's it's a little beyond,

917
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:46,760
Speaker 1: you know, this is the this is a little beyond

918
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: I think the wheelhouse you could say of joy Beha.

919
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: You know, Trump reves Russia, and you know Alwa's it's

920
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:58,759
Speaker 1: just un American and you've got I don't know who

921
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 1: the host was, but saying that Pence sitting down was

922
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 1: a non verbal spit on your face. Let's just look

923
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:13,400
Speaker 1: at the other side of this. If Pence was walking

924
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:19,240
Speaker 1: up to North Korea's emissary to the Olympics being all chummy,

925
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:21,360
Speaker 1: what do we think what do we think the media

926
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 1: is response to that? Would be, Oh, he's being the

927
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:28,319
Speaker 1: bigger man. He's really taking the long view. It's really

928
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:31,760
Speaker 1: amazing the kind of diplomatic acumen that Mike Pence brings

929
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:33,879
Speaker 1: to the scene. Here, look at look at what he's doing.

930
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:36,840
Speaker 1: He's a great statesman. You know, he's looks like a

931
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 1: like a leading man in Hollywood and has the diplomatic

932
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:44,240
Speaker 1: tact of Henry Kissinger. They'd be like, oh, my gosh,

933
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: Mike Pence is like loves North Korea and he's like

934
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,840
Speaker 1: so evil and I'm like sad. I'm like literally shaking

935
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:52,719
Speaker 1: right now because of what Mike Pence just did with

936
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Speaker 1: North Korea. That is what they would do. I mean,

937
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 1: maybe not in those exact words or telling, but pretty

938
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 1: close to that. And we know they're just looking for

939
00:55:01,239 --> 00:55:03,680
Speaker 1: a chance to take take shots at Pence, but let's

940
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: understand that this is in the context of some really

941
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:14,280
Speaker 1: serious stuff. Um and you know, the the media's fan

942
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 1: girling over North Korea's so called charm offensive is a

943
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:21,879
Speaker 1: real embarrassment for this country. And I would say it's

944
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 1: embarrassing for places like seeing in the New York Times,

945
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 1: but I don't know if they're even capable of it anymore.

946
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if if if they're capable of feeling

947
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 1: ashamed of the way that they cover issues and the

948
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:39,400
Speaker 1: way that they are so skewed in their approach to

949
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:44,319
Speaker 1: all this. Trump has thrown them so Trump has made

950
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:50,879
Speaker 1: them so unhinged that nothing is uh for them. There's

951
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,719
Speaker 1: no issue you can look at and say, well, you know,

952
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 1: we can all agree that that's worse. You know that guy,

953
00:55:56,680 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: That guy's worse than Trump. They act like they have

954
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: discovered with this Kim Jong un emissary, the sister of

955
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: Kim Jong and Kim Yo jung, they have discovered some

956
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: new opening with North Korea. It's just all a line.

957
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 1: It's all crap. North Korea is the most evil despotism

958
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:19,560
Speaker 1: on the planet, and that they don't understand this and

959
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:23,440
Speaker 1: that they would allow Remember, they are enabling you want

960
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:26,280
Speaker 1: to talk about being complicit, they are enabling North Korea's

961
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:30,240
Speaker 1: propaganda to be more effective. What message is this sending

962
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 1: to our South Korean allies who are looking at this like,

963
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess they're allowed to be at the Olympics,

964
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:38,279
Speaker 1: but you know, let's not let's not all take a

965
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:40,439
Speaker 1: knee for them, right, Let's not all kneel in front

966
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:43,359
Speaker 1: of them. What are the messages that are being sent here? Well,

967
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 1: first and foremost, the media hates Trump more than Kim

968
00:56:46,360 --> 00:57:00,160
Speaker 1: Jong un. Other shows just talk at you in the

969
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 1: Freedom Hud. We have a mission. We fight for the

970
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:06,880
Speaker 1: truth in a team effort, and buck us back with

971
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:11,920
Speaker 1: our next play. That's some lines. Let let's take Steve

972
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:17,280
Speaker 1: in New York Casety, Hey, shield side Buck. Thanks for

973
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 1: taking my call, shield Tide buddy, appreciate it. I just

974
00:57:21,520 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: had a quick question for you. I wanted to get

975
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 1: your perspective as a former member that on YPD about

976
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:30,240
Speaker 1: you believe the Trump administration has started to prepare some

977
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: of the damage has done between UM American law enforcement

978
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:36,120
Speaker 1: and uh, the American public, some of the stuff that

979
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 1: was done under the the Obama administration. Or is that

980
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 1: an issue that's yet to have been tackled. I think absolutely.

981
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 1: I mean I think if nothing else, Trump has verbalized

982
00:57:48,520 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 1: a restoration of respect for law enforcement that was very

983
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:57,720
Speaker 1: much needed. Look, we were and I remember seeing the rallies,

984
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 1: and I remember hearing President Obama the way he would

985
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 1: speak but law enforcement, it was, you know, he'd say, yeah,

986
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:04,240
Speaker 1: we'd like law enforce and but you know, there's a

987
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: lot of bad stuff and distrust, and there's a lot

988
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 1: of racism. And it was always whoa you know, a

989
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 1: whole a whole lot of second and that was the

990
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: the media narrative was that police forces across the country

991
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 1: were full of of of of systematically racist procedures and

992
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: racist officers, and it was very damaging. And I mean,

993
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:27,640
Speaker 1: I will never forget the night of the well the

994
00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: conflagrations in in Ferguson, and I also remember the nights

995
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: of the riots in Baltimore and the way the media

996
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:37,840
Speaker 1: was covering it. There was a lot of like, yeah,

997
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:40,520
Speaker 1: you know, this is this is because law enforcement does

998
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 1: bad stuff. I'm like, no, people aren't looting a CVS

999
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:47,200
Speaker 1: because of what law enforcement did. And I think it

1000
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 1: was very damaging. And the obaministration played really, uh, really

1001
00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:56,880
Speaker 1: dirty politics with this issue. And Trump is restoring. And

1002
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 1: now there is one little wrinkle here, or one in

1003
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:04,840
Speaker 1: a sting unanticipated shift, and that is that the press

1004
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 1: is now I mean, they still think the cops are basically,

1005
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of them are racist. That's what

1006
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 1: the media thinks. They think a lot of cops are racists.

1007
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 1: And by the way, including officers who are black and

1008
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 1: Latino themselves, right, they're part of the racist problems too.

1009
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 1: It's not just oh, the white cops are racist, it's

1010
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:21,920
Speaker 1: just cops in general are racist. That's one of the

1011
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:26,040
Speaker 1: media narratives. But the thing with the FBI is really

1012
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 1: funny because now all of a sudden, you've got the

1013
00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:33,400
Speaker 1: major media outlets who are like, oh, FBI beyond suspicion.

1014
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:35,480
Speaker 1: You know, the FBI would never do anything wrong on

1015
00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:39,480
Speaker 1: I didn't realize the FBI was was basically perfect, you know.

1016
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 1: Is some of the FBI guys must be feeling like, hey,

1017
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 1: CNN likes us all of a sudden, but they know

1018
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 1: because their FBI guys, that CNN is gonna hate them

1019
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 1: as soon as it's they go back to their usual right.

1020
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:51,560
Speaker 1: But so that's the only thing I think, Steve, that

1021
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:56,520
Speaker 1: people weren't expecting. Absolutely absolutely, I couldn't agree more. And

1022
00:59:56,880 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 1: just as as a Fox enforcement officer, I see it's

1023
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: nice to have have kind of bounced back from that,

1024
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: you know, the five officers down in the last five days.

1025
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 1: As money, I mean, it's it's it's becoming a problem.

1026
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:09,280
Speaker 1: But it definitely seems like I think Trump's on the

1027
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 1: right track and thoughts and prayers the families those offers

1028
01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 1: who were lost in a line of duty, and Steve

1029
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:17,560
Speaker 1: Shields High thank you very much for calling in. So

1030
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:20,440
Speaker 1: you know, I here's where I am on the on

1031
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:22,760
Speaker 1: the Rob Porter issue, and I'm not gonna take a

1032
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:25,000
Speaker 1: much time with this. We've got our friend Sean Parnell,

1033
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:31,560
Speaker 1: who's an Army ranger, author, public speaker. It's all around great,

1034
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 1: great dude. He's gonna be he's in studio with us,

1035
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 1: he's gonna be joining us here in just a second.

1036
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 1: But I did need to address really the way people

1037
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 1: in the press are so focused on this issue of

1038
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 1: of of Rob Porter. So this was a guy who,

1039
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 1: as I said, and maybe I'm not paying close enough

1040
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 1: attention to what's going on inside the White House day

1041
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 1: in the day out, I don't even know he was.

1042
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I had seen him before and

1043
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 1: photos in on tip, but like it was not. He's

1044
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 1: not somebody with a job that you're like, oh my gosh,

1045
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 1: is he qualified. I think it's basically handing folders to people.

1046
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:04,920
Speaker 1: And I know that he has access and he's in

1047
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:06,440
Speaker 1: the White House and he had an in terms of

1048
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:10,880
Speaker 1: security clearance and all that. But I was and look,

1049
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:14,040
Speaker 1: if he's a if he's a spouse abuser, if he

1050
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:15,840
Speaker 1: beat his wives, I mean, it's one of the most

1051
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:18,960
Speaker 1: grotesque things any human being can do. And you know,

1052
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 1: the the guy should yeah, he should be gone. And

1053
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 1: if they knew, they never should have hired him. But

1054
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 1: they're saying they didn't know. And he's also saying he's

1055
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 1: not guilty. So and I that's the situation we're in

1056
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:36,520
Speaker 1: right now. Uh, but the press has made this into

1057
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Speaker 1: a a huge national story. Um, and today during the

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Speaker 1: White House Press conference, I was, it was it was

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Speaker 1: pretty remarkable. Folks, if you didn't want, I know, mostly

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Speaker 1: have jobs in lives, so you don't sit around like

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Speaker 1: I do watching the White House press conferences. But uh,

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Speaker 1: you figure that with all things going on in the world,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff to talk about, a lot

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Speaker 1: of questions that they might want to pose the administration,

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Speaker 1: many many things happening in this universe of ours. Here

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Speaker 1: is what it was like during the White House Press

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Speaker 1: conference today. It seems like the President who was believing

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Speaker 1: Mr Porter as opposed to his alleged victims, he rob

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Speaker 1: Porter as accusers or are they lying still wish Rob

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Speaker 1: Porter well, prime candidate for blackmail and you have someone

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Speaker 1: like Rob Porter who didn't have permident security there and

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Speaker 1: what kind of We heard the President say that he

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Speaker 1: takes domestic violence very seriously. I spoke with the president.

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Speaker 1: Those are actually directly his works that he gave me. Mills's.

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Speaker 1: That was just a smattering a selection of the various

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Speaker 1: members of the White House Press Corps who just all

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Speaker 1: they want to do is ask more questions. But Rob Porter,

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Speaker 1: Rob Porter, Rob Porter, the guy resigned, He's gone. He

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Speaker 1: wasn't important. Who cares at this point? Right? I don't

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Speaker 1: know why does the press care so much? Oh, that's right,

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Speaker 1: because they have a narrative. They have a storyline that

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is the abuser in chief. That's what they say.

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Speaker 1: They actually had a guy or MSNBC. I saw this

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Speaker 1: over the weekend. He referred to I mean, this was

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Speaker 1: this was disrespectful and gross, even for MSNBC, which is

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Speaker 1: saying a lot. But one of their analysts in MSNBC

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Speaker 1: referred to Trump as the commander in chief of rape culture.

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Speaker 1: Let that let that one just sinking there for a second.

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Speaker 1: I mean, really unfounded, disrespectful and messed up stuff to say.

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Speaker 1: You know, someone who says that tells you a lot

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Speaker 1: more about themselves than they do the president or anything

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Speaker 1: else that's going on. That's just just an offsides things

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Speaker 1: to say. Man, it was crazy, but that's the narrative.

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Speaker 1: That's the storyline that Trump is the is the you know,

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Speaker 1: the commander in chief of the sexual abusers or whatever.

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Speaker 1: It's really heinous, but the media believes it. I'm not

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Speaker 1: just picking up random stuff from the blogs or from

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Speaker 1: a Twitter or something. The media believes it. They think

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Speaker 1: that this is true, and that's why they run with

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Speaker 1: the story. They also then because they have some awareness

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Speaker 1: that they are really digging into this story a lot.

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Speaker 1: The White House is said over and over again, abuse,

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Speaker 1: you know, in domestic abuse is disgusting, It's disgraceful. Trump says,

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Speaker 1: it's disgusting and disgraceful. This guy's gone, and he keeps saying, well,

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Speaker 1: you know he said he wished him, Well, what is he?

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Speaker 1: Is it now? The situation is is it now the

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Speaker 1: expectation that when someone is accused of something, they are

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Speaker 1: to be without proof or rather without a proceeding. I

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Speaker 1: should say, because I know there was proof, without a proceeding.

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Speaker 1: Uh there, what is he never allowed to work again?

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Speaker 1: Does he? Everyone has to say that this person is disgusting,

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Speaker 1: they can't talk to him, irrespective of Rob Porter's innocence

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Speaker 1: or guilty here that that strikes me as a very

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Speaker 1: trouble blink standard we're setting up in the public sphere.

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Speaker 1: But they knew they were digging into this story too much,

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Speaker 1: so that's when they started to turn it into oh,

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Speaker 1: the security clearance, he had an interm security clearance? What's

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Speaker 1: going on with the security clearance all stuff? Look, the

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Speaker 1: security clearance process is it is not great, all right.

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Speaker 1: It's not controlled by the White House either. It's a

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Speaker 1: very very imperfect system. And you know, there's only so

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Speaker 1: much they're gonna be able to do and find out anyway.

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Speaker 1: They can usually find the really big red flags. Maybe

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Speaker 1: this time they miss something. But trying to blame the

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Speaker 1: White House for security clearance process is like blaming the

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Speaker 1: White House for the slow speeds at the d m

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Speaker 1: V or something. It just has nothing to do with anything.

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Speaker 1: The White House is not in charge of security clearances.

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Speaker 1: So they're running with that story because they just want

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Speaker 1: to talk about this more. And I just find the

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Speaker 1: overwhelming disrespect that the media and look, the Democrat Party

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Speaker 1: quite honestly has for this president to be yet another

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Speaker 1: reason to just get alongside him in the trench and

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Speaker 1: be like, all right, you know, well, I'm on this

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Speaker 1: team because I just can't take what they're doing on

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Speaker 1: the other side anymore. If they're gonna put people on

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Speaker 1: TV that call our president the commander in chief of

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Speaker 1: rape culture, I am going to disregard and or fight

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Speaker 1: against all the other stuff those same people are saying

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Speaker 1: because they're dishonest and they're destructive in their commentary and

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Speaker 1: their thoughts and in what they're trying to spread on

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Speaker 1: the airwaves across the country. So as for the Rob

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Speaker 1: Porter thing, yeah, I don't know. The guy looks bad

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Speaker 1: to me. He resigned, he's gone, and he has been

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Speaker 1: publicly shamed, that is for sure. Why did the White

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Speaker 1: The number one issue today at the White House Press

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Speaker 1: Conference was Rob Porter? Beyond everything else, Beyond a trillion

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Speaker 1: dollars of infrastructure spending, Beyond the millions of illegal aliens

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Speaker 1: who may be legalized if Congress actually gets together with

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Speaker 1: the Democrats and Republicans have a deal in place, right

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Speaker 1: for Dreamers, beyond the difficulties facing our veterans and the

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Speaker 1: v A system, beyond the U. S. Troops in Iraq

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Speaker 1: and Afghanistan. And no, no, let's let's talk about Rob

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Speaker 1: Porter for about twenty or thirty minutes. Let's focus on that.

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Speaker 1: You know, we remember this stuff, folks. This is why

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Speaker 1: when they want to be all serious, big ja journalism tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: we'll be like, now, I think we know who you are.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be back with my buddy Sean Parnell here

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Speaker 1: in just a second. He is going to talk to

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Speaker 1: us about his new book as well as we're gonna

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Speaker 1: discuss the issue about Afghanistan, what we're doing over there.

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Speaker 1: So stay with me. We'll be right back. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the Freedom How everybody. We've got Sean Parnell with

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Speaker 1: us here in studio in New York City. He is

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Speaker 1: a former U. S. Army Airborne ranger who served in

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Speaker 1: the tenth Mountain Division for six years, retiring as account happen.

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Speaker 1: He received two Bronze Stars and the Purple Heart. He's

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Speaker 1: a pastiorate supporter of Americans military. He's the author of

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Speaker 1: the bestseller Outlaw Platoon, which I have on my kindle

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Speaker 1: and have read on in its entirety. I did not

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Speaker 1: know that most toasts do not irk. This is a gift.

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Speaker 1: I'm one of these rare hosts who actually reads a lot.

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Speaker 1: You gave me a gift tonight. There. I should have

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Speaker 1: brought my kindle to really prove it, just to sort

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Speaker 1: of bring if you haven't, Guys, Outlaw Platoon is actually

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Speaker 1: a great book, and I would really recommend it to

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Speaker 1: all of you. You've got a new book coming out,

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Speaker 1: I do, Yes, Why at we talking about that. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna keep you through at the top of the hour.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about some policy stuff too, but for now,

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Speaker 1: just tell me about the new book. Yes, So I

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Speaker 1: made the jump from nonfiction to fiction and I wrote,

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Speaker 1: you know, and what I think is uh a military

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Speaker 1: thriller about a guy named Eric Steele. It's faction, right.

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Speaker 1: So the whole plot is centered around the disaster Serrani

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Speaker 1: and nuclear deal, which is of course not just a

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Speaker 1: not just a disaster for US, but a disaster for

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Speaker 1: the entire world. Uh. And and the basic premises is

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Speaker 1: that what would happen if they if they developed a

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Speaker 1: man portable nuclear weapon and a vacuum CEO, and that

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Speaker 1: weapon just so happened to fall into the wrong hands.

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Speaker 1: How would the United States stop it? Track the weapon,

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Speaker 1: defeat the threat. And Eric Steele, he's a guy that

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Speaker 1: cut his teeth in Afghanistan fighting jihadis for fifteen years

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Speaker 1: in the Special Forces and transition to a secret colandestine

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Speaker 1: program called the Alpha Program. Or he tracks down and

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Speaker 1: and neutralizes America's threats on behalf of the president. So

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Speaker 1: it's a guy that that obviously will will eliminate the

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Speaker 1: enemies of America with extreme prejudice, but also believes deeply

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Speaker 1: in the war ethos and protecting the innocent. And so

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Speaker 1: man of War is the title, and that's what the

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Speaker 1: book is about, which is also by the way, I

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Speaker 1: believe a very large, stingy jellyfish. Yes it is. It

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01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:46,280
Speaker 1: is delicious seafood if you're into that sort of thing,

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Speaker 1: right or or a in the era of great wooden ships,

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Speaker 1: I know, a man of war. But but it's also

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Speaker 1: for people like me that get scared at the beach.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's I I get scared. I want to

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Speaker 1: get entangled up in a man of war. You don't,

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Speaker 1: you don't, But in this case it refers to a

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Speaker 1: man that was weren't of wars his entire adult life,

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Speaker 1: just like me. The only profession I've known has been

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Speaker 1: warrior because we've be don't We've been at war for

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Speaker 1: over a third of my whole life. I was gonna

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Speaker 1: ask you, what is the highest number of deployments at

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Speaker 1: this point that you have heard of? Oh, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it really depends what unit you're talking about, but twelve. Like,

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Speaker 1: there are guys that are in ranger units that do

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Speaker 1: three to six month deployments that do I mean, no'll

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Speaker 1: come back say they have eighteen deployments, you know. But

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Speaker 1: guys in the conventional infantry, that's where you really want

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Speaker 1: to talk about. Guys that are in a conventional infantry.

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Speaker 1: Asked him how many deployments they have If they if

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Speaker 1: they say seven or eight deployments a year and a

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Speaker 1: half a year to a year and a half each,

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Speaker 1: that that is like where the rubber meets the road. Stuff.

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Speaker 1: Like those old grizzled twenty plus year noncommission officers to

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Speaker 1: spend their entire career in the light infantry. Those those

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Speaker 1: are the guys that the army rides hard and puts

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Speaker 1: away wet. These guys are are living a good portion

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Speaker 1: of their lives in downrange. Man, my Peltoon sergeant, his

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Speaker 1: name is Greg Greenson, was the best non commission officer

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Speaker 1: that you could ever imagine. Was in Panama with the

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Speaker 1: seventh Infantry Division. The seventhy Infantry Division is not a

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Speaker 1: thing anymore, like they did the activity the Union a

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Speaker 1: long time ago. I think they still have a headquarters

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Speaker 1: element somewhere. But he was in Panama, you know, I

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Speaker 1: mean in the early nineties. He was my patoon sergeant.

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Speaker 1: He was forty two, forty three years old around was

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Speaker 1: the twenty four year old, brand new lieutenant. So just

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Speaker 1: to give you a sense of how many deployments this

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Speaker 1: guy has gone through a career noncommission officer. And of

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Speaker 1: course the non commission officers are really the backbone of

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Speaker 1: our military. They're the guys that really make things happen.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, these guys have done a lot. They've been there,

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Speaker 1: done that, and they've got the stories, and um, these

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Speaker 1: are the kind of guys that I served with. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna do a first here in the Freedom Hub where

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Speaker 1: we actually have somebody in studio. But we also have

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Speaker 1: a caller that I think is a particularly good fit

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Speaker 1: for our guest here, So we're gonna bring Steve in

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Speaker 1: from Charlotte, North Carolina. Steve, how you doing great? But

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Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Thank you. So you wanted to

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Speaker 1: tell us about the fort anniversary of POW release out

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Speaker 1: of Hanoi. That is correct. My dad was like, I

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Speaker 1: think the third one off the plane, right behind the

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Speaker 1: guy with the crutches. That's an amazing story. So tell

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Speaker 1: me about tell us more about this. I mean, what

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Speaker 1: how long was he? How long was he in captivity?

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Speaker 1: And what happened? Seven years, ten months and nine days?

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, shut down sixty five April three, came

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Speaker 1: back to day seventy three. Wow, Steve. Uh. I gotta

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Speaker 1: tell you, guys, guys like your dad are are the

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Speaker 1: reason why I joined in the in the legacy that

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Speaker 1: we inherited from men like that who never got the

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Speaker 1: welcome home that they deserve. Um. I'm so blessed to

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Speaker 1: be able to inherit, inherit the inherit the uniform from

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Speaker 1: guys like that. And so please, I mean, is your

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Speaker 1: is your dad still around? Yeah? I still around? Please

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Speaker 1: please tell him welcome home from me? Great? Yeah. Colonel Morgan,

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Speaker 1: Scotty Morgan Uh, let's see. Quincy Collins was a cellmate

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Speaker 1: to his, as was Norm McDaniel, and uh yeah, pretty exciting.

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Speaker 1: Does he doesn't talk about his son was born? Does

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Speaker 1: he talked about Uh yeah, he talks about it, um um,

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Speaker 1: you know, not every day. But you know, it's funny

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Speaker 1: if I have a cousin that served in de Nang

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Speaker 1: in six and they have a conversation. I learned more

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Speaker 1: by listening, then Uh yeah. I mean, isn't that isn't

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Speaker 1: that an interesting commentary on America too? I feel like

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Speaker 1: this country would learn more by listening to our veterans. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah.

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Speaker 1: So he Uh, let's see, at one point he was

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Speaker 1: under a hundred pounds and they actually moved him out

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Speaker 1: of the Hilton to another place because I thought he

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Speaker 1: might die and they didn't want to die around the

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Speaker 1: other prisoners. He actually lived and they brought him back.

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Speaker 1: How's this today? Pilot shot down? Second one captured? Wow,

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Speaker 1: So how's this help today? Is he doing okay? Pretty good?

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Speaker 1: Pretty tough? You know, survived to days? Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: One they worked on at books Army Medical Center before

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Speaker 1: it first and then uh he didn't monitors blood pressure

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Speaker 1: too good and had one rup. You know, that's one

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Speaker 1: of those things where you you're walking by the e

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Speaker 1: R and you know about folks live and h let

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Speaker 1: he survived two of them. Well, Steve, I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: calling in to remind us of the anniversary of the

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Speaker 1: POW release from Hanoi, and also thank you, thank your

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Speaker 1: dad please for a for a service. Absolutely thanks Steve,

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Wow. Amazing. You know, there're there

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Speaker 1: are the things you hear about and you try to

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Speaker 1: run through and look, I know you are a frontline

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Speaker 1: soldier in combat, um, but the notion of spending years

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Speaker 1: in captivity in the enemy's hands, it's something that I

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01:14:48,600 --> 01:14:50,519
Speaker 1: I feel like if you haven't done that, you don't

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Speaker 1: know what that's like. It's it's truly unbelievable. I'm still

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Speaker 1: reeling a little bit from just the brief time that

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Speaker 1: we were on the phone with him. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: guys like that, I mean, they are the guys who

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Speaker 1: built this country, and I just feel so grateful to

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Speaker 1: be in the even talked about in the same sentence

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Speaker 1: as them. We're gonna come back with Sean Parnell, author

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Speaker 1: of Outlaw Platoon. We're gonna talk to him about what's

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Speaker 1: going on now in Afghanistan. And also if you got

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Speaker 1: any calls, you can talk to me, talk to Sean

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Speaker 1: eight four eight to five eight four four buck our

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Speaker 1: three in effect, stay with me. Other shows just talk

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Speaker 1: at you in the Freedom Hud. We have a mission.

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Speaker 1: We fight for the truth in a team effort, and

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Speaker 1: buck us back with our next play. Welcome to our

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Speaker 1: three team Quick Freeview. This hour, we'll be talking with

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Speaker 1: Sean Parnell here in just a moment, more on Afghanistan

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Speaker 1: and just what's going on in the world around us.

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Speaker 1: And then we'll discuss the two portraits that were unveiled

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Speaker 1: today of the Obama's maybe even get Shawn's take on

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Speaker 1: some of that for a bit of a lighter fare.

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Speaker 1: And then I've got the top five dogs of Instagram

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Speaker 1: and talk to you about that's right. We've we've compiled

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Speaker 1: the numbers, we've done the research one of the most

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Speaker 1: popular dogs on Instagram. And then we'll get into some

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Speaker 1: roll call. So I'm looking forward to all of that.

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Speaker 1: I might even have a little bit of a shark

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Speaker 1: carpet shark story for you later on too, so you

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Speaker 1: gotta stay tuned. But we've got our friend with a

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Speaker 1: Sean Parnell, former Army ranger, author of Outlaw Platoon, which

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Speaker 1: is a great book you should all read, and also

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Speaker 1: upcoming Man of War which is outer or soon to

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Speaker 1: be out. It's out on Patriots Day. So we did

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Speaker 1: a little So we did a little something that was

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Speaker 1: not customary. We did an exclusive title and cover cover

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Speaker 1: launch today, uh, and trying to rack up those pre

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Speaker 1: orders prior to the book actually going on sale. And

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Speaker 1: the reason we're doing is because we're going to donate

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Speaker 1: a significant portion of the proceeds of the sales to

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Speaker 1: my charity, the American War Or Initiative, where we turn

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Speaker 1: around and give service dogs to vets. So, um, it's

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Speaker 1: a good mission. We like it. There's a dire need

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Speaker 1: for service dogs and we like to fulfill it. Service

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Speaker 1: dogs are incredible, totally serious question. What's the primary breed?

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Speaker 1: Is it mostly Belgian melon wall? It? Totally? It totally

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Speaker 1: depends on what you need the dog for. I mean

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Speaker 1: this program, first of all, it's in dire need. The

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Speaker 1: v A doesn't really support it. Uh. There are veterans

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Speaker 1: that set on wait lists for six years to get

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Speaker 1: a service dog. But that's the program is so much

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Speaker 1: more sophisticated now than it was in years past. The

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Speaker 1: breed is dependent on what the ailment is. So um

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Speaker 1: they found for example that black labs are great for

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Speaker 1: post traumatic stress and trauma, and other dogs are different

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Speaker 1: for brain injury. And then see some some dogs can

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Speaker 1: smell seizures and the chemicals in the body. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just it's very very sophisticated. But also what comes

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Speaker 1: with that is that these dogs are very expensive as well.

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Speaker 1: So you know, what do they run? What's what's I

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Speaker 1: mean there are organizations out there that will charge about

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Speaker 1: for a dog just because of the training that has

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Speaker 1: to go in and you're talking like for a full

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Speaker 1: legitimately service dog trained and certified dog, I mean two

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Speaker 1: years of training, uh, constant supervision. It's just expensive. And

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Speaker 1: so what we do is we come in and we

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Speaker 1: fund it fully. My organization is is not top heavy,

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Speaker 1: so we have very little red tape. We see a need,

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Speaker 1: we fill it, and it's it's easy, you know. It's

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Speaker 1: it's not like some of these other big organizations who

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Speaker 1: would all do a lot of great work. Um, but

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Speaker 1: we just we see a need, we fill it. We

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Speaker 1: don't need much recognition. But in this case with Man

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Speaker 1: of War and the launch of it. We want to

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Speaker 1: give ourselves time to raise some serious money to do

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Speaker 1: some serious good in the lives of vets. Fantastic um.

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Speaker 1: Moving to the policy side of things for a second,

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Speaker 1: or by the American Warrior Initiative dot org. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: American Warrior Initiative dot com, dot org. It's all there,

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Speaker 1: all directly the same spot. Now I want to ask

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Speaker 1: you about this, and I share this with you before

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Speaker 1: I I write columns for the Hill Um And I

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Speaker 1: saw one, obviously not one that I wrote that that

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Speaker 1: got me thinking. I thought you'd be a particularly good

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Speaker 1: person to talk to about this one. And the title

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Speaker 1: is America has done all it ken in Afghanistan. More

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Speaker 1: troops won't win us anything. And in the opening paragraph

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Speaker 1: and this is it's written by a Vett, written by

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Speaker 1: an Army major, I believe uh. And he writes, falling

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Speaker 1: there reports the US Armies read readying about a thousand

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Speaker 1: additional troops for deployment to Afghanistan, where they will link

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Speaker 1: up with some fourteen thousand or other U S service members.

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Speaker 1: Tasks with an unachievable mission, and he goes on to

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Speaker 1: say the persistence of violence after sixteen years of US intervention,

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Speaker 1: raises serious questions about the need for and ability of

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Speaker 1: the United States military to address what is at root

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Speaker 1: an internal Afghan security problem increasingly disconnected from core American

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Speaker 1: security interests. Sean, I'm very sympathetic to a lot of

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Speaker 1: his argument. In fact, I say I agree with a

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Speaker 1: lot of what he is getting at here. If the

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Speaker 1: idea is that we're gonna we're gonna win, the Taliban

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Speaker 1: will be done, there's gonna be some surrender, and it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a happy place in Afghanistan, I don't see

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Speaker 1: that ever happening. But you, as a guy who was

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Speaker 1: out there doing this work, and what provilence. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I forget from the book you were. I was in

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Speaker 1: Burmel District, Pactica Province, right in the border. We controlled

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Speaker 1: about a hundred and thirty five mile a border area

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Speaker 1: between Afghanistan and Pakistan. What do you what do you

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Speaker 1: think about? I mean, it's hard to disagree with this

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Speaker 1: with his his his policy argument is substantive. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know this. I have been saying things like this

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Speaker 1: for a long time, that it is not about politicians

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Speaker 1: get this wrong all the time. It is not about

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Speaker 1: how many soldiers you have in Afghanistan. It is about

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Speaker 1: the mission that they are performing in Afghanistan. Back in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and six and two thousand and seven, the

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Speaker 1: eyes of the nation were whole hearted, wholeheartedly focused on Iraq.

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Speaker 1: You remember the surge was happening around that time. Wasn't

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Speaker 1: going to be successful, wasn't going to be an abject failure?

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Speaker 1: We didn't know, um. I mean around the clock news

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Speaker 1: media coverage on it. But at that time in Afghanistan,

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Speaker 1: the war was particularly deadly and we were in direct

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Speaker 1: fire contact with the enemy every day. But war fighters

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Speaker 1: were making decisions at the lowest level possible when we

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Speaker 1: were doing it's a great effect. And at the end

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Speaker 1: of two thousand and seven, we were getting intelligence from

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Speaker 1: the State Department passed down through the chain of command

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Speaker 1: to us on the ground where they were monitoring Taliban

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Speaker 1: and Alqairic communications on the border, saying hey, look, we

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Speaker 1: are broken. We are no longer going to commit our

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Speaker 1: sons to this fight. It's just not worth it for

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Speaker 1: us anymore. Let's go fight the Americans somewhere else. And

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Speaker 1: then we change strategy from counter terroritor counter insurgaency we

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Speaker 1: try to basically take a cookie cutter solution that worked

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Speaker 1: in Iraq transplanted to Afghanistan and it did not work off.

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Speaker 1: And we've talked about this before, Buck, It's you know,

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Speaker 1: nation building in Afghanistan is fundamentally flawed. There never really

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Speaker 1: has been a nation been trying to reconstitute a nation

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Speaker 1: exact and you're trying to build it from them from

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Speaker 1: the start, from scratch. Yeah, it's like Joe bat you

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Speaker 1: you I mean that the Romans were more advanced than

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Speaker 1: the Afghans are right now. I mean, if you talk

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Speaker 1: to Afghans on the border in the country of Afghanistan,

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Speaker 1: they don't even know that their country is called Afghanistan.

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Speaker 1: It's crazy. So um, circling back to the point that

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Speaker 1: I made initially, it's not about how many troops are there,

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Speaker 1: is about what mission they're performing. If if I am

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Speaker 1: making the decisions in the White House right now, what

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Speaker 1: we do is we go back to a counter terror strategy.

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Speaker 1: We put we rotate ranger battalion's in augmented by special

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Speaker 1: forces so they can work with some of the special

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Speaker 1: ops Afghan guys on the ground, and all we do

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Speaker 1: is target the worst of the worse, and that way

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Speaker 1: we secure the Republic of Afghanistan. They can do business

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Speaker 1: the way that they want, like we're not building their nation.

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Speaker 1: They can be as corrupt as they want. But we

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Speaker 1: are conducting and planning missions Kinnectic missions in Afghanistan to

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Speaker 1: kill terrorists to keep that country from going back to

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Speaker 1: being a Petri dish for you know, and a global

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Speaker 1: Islamic Hottest All Star team from where they can plan

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Speaker 1: and attack the United States. That's the goal should be

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Speaker 1: to keep it from going back to that. One of

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Speaker 1: the troubling legacies of the Obama administration on foreign policy.

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Speaker 1: And that's just a fun way to start a lot

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Speaker 1: of different sentences, but one of the ones that really

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Speaker 1: comes to mind is the idea. And I know that. Look,

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Speaker 1: people the immediate the Democrats who know enough to know

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Speaker 1: this would jump back at me with oh, but Petraeus

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Speaker 1: is on board with this. I think MC crystals on

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Speaker 1: board this. The notion of a negotiated settlement with the

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Speaker 1: Taliban and this conflict that can happen, and maybe that's

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Speaker 1: the only way we leave in which there is a

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Speaker 1: lull in the conflict, but that is actually going to

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01:22:57,040 --> 01:22:59,080
Speaker 1: end in an abject failure. There is no way the

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01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:02,360
Speaker 1: Taliban became something other than what it is once they

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Speaker 1: are left in charge of some portion of the country,

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01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:07,000
Speaker 1: and they will march on cobble and we will have

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Speaker 1: the Taliban again in six months after we strike a

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01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:13,080
Speaker 1: quote unquote piece deal with the Taliban or whatever deal

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01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:15,840
Speaker 1: you want to cut, the the Afghan government as it

1484
01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:18,280
Speaker 1: stands right now will all be hanging from lamp posts

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01:23:18,320 --> 01:23:20,560
Speaker 1: and cobble. There is no there is no question that

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Speaker 1: the Taliban retake that country. And I don't care what

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01:23:24,600 --> 01:23:27,439
Speaker 1: generals say about this. I don't and most of them

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01:23:27,479 --> 01:23:30,000
Speaker 1: are center left for some inexplicable reason. Anyway, I don't

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01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:32,080
Speaker 1: know why we could we just delve into that for

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01:23:32,160 --> 01:23:34,640
Speaker 1: a second. I've I've recently been explaining to folks that

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01:23:34,960 --> 01:23:37,120
Speaker 1: there needs to be in all, in all of the

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01:23:37,920 --> 01:23:41,200
Speaker 1: minds of of my fellow Americans, here a separation between

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01:23:41,240 --> 01:23:44,360
Speaker 1: people who have been doing the job and often people

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01:23:44,400 --> 01:23:46,960
Speaker 1: who are in charge of those doing the job within

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01:23:47,040 --> 01:23:50,200
Speaker 1: the federal government. From my side of things, when you

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01:23:50,280 --> 01:23:53,200
Speaker 1: get people like James Colemy, for example, head of the FBI,

1497
01:23:53,680 --> 01:23:55,400
Speaker 1: people think of them like, oh, he's an FBI guy.

1498
01:23:55,439 --> 01:23:57,040
Speaker 1: He's put in the time, and I'm like, James Comey

1499
01:23:57,080 --> 01:23:59,040
Speaker 1: is a rich lawyer. Everybody he has. He is not

1500
01:23:59,200 --> 01:24:02,160
Speaker 1: an FBI. He's not a law enforcement kicking the door,

1501
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:06,000
Speaker 1: wrestling the crackhead to save Grahama from a terrible fate. Like,

1502
01:24:06,320 --> 01:24:08,760
Speaker 1: that's not who he is. He's a very political guy.

1503
01:24:09,280 --> 01:24:11,040
Speaker 1: Brendan at the c i A, you go through a

1504
01:24:11,120 --> 01:24:13,559
Speaker 1: whole list of previous ci directors, a lot of them

1505
01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:16,679
Speaker 1: very political. And I just think it's interestingly because people

1506
01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:19,639
Speaker 1: see what's done day in and day out, and I look,

1507
01:24:19,640 --> 01:24:21,439
Speaker 1: I see this with the military too. I never serve,

1508
01:24:21,520 --> 01:24:24,599
Speaker 1: but with the generals, people see what the rank and file,

1509
01:24:25,479 --> 01:24:27,320
Speaker 1: what they accomplish, and what their mission is and what

1510
01:24:27,360 --> 01:24:30,439
Speaker 1: their ethos is, and they feel like whoever runs the

1511
01:24:30,479 --> 01:24:32,840
Speaker 1: place is the pinnacle of that. And that's not always

1512
01:24:32,880 --> 01:24:35,240
Speaker 1: the case. A lot of times they're politicians. It's true,

1513
01:24:35,439 --> 01:24:38,519
Speaker 1: and it's so true. Generals have to be politicians. Um,

1514
01:24:38,640 --> 01:24:40,479
Speaker 1: but if you also think about and I'm not specifically

1515
01:24:40,520 --> 01:24:42,559
Speaker 1: referring to M. A. Crystal or Portrays here, right, these

1516
01:24:42,600 --> 01:24:45,120
Speaker 1: guys are unbelievably accomplished guys. A lot of these guys

1517
01:24:45,200 --> 01:24:47,240
Speaker 1: have combat experience on the ground, and our ack Afghanistan

1518
01:24:47,280 --> 01:24:50,519
Speaker 1: in other places. But the vast majority of generals for

1519
01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:53,360
Speaker 1: a long time in the military came up during and

1520
01:24:53,439 --> 01:24:57,040
Speaker 1: a largely peace time, right, and so for me, I

1521
01:24:57,360 --> 01:25:00,320
Speaker 1: almost a hundred percent of my experience in the terry

1522
01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:03,040
Speaker 1: has been combat, boots on the ground combat, And so

1523
01:25:03,120 --> 01:25:05,080
Speaker 1: you can imagine it's almost like if you spent your

1524
01:25:05,120 --> 01:25:07,280
Speaker 1: whole life as an infantry officer coming up in the

1525
01:25:07,400 --> 01:25:09,880
Speaker 1: ranks and never had a bullet cracked by your head.

1526
01:25:10,160 --> 01:25:12,759
Speaker 1: It's almost like being a painter and never having painted

1527
01:25:12,800 --> 01:25:15,759
Speaker 1: a painting. You can imagine the divide that exists between

1528
01:25:15,800 --> 01:25:17,400
Speaker 1: someone that's been there and someone that hasn't. But the

1529
01:25:17,520 --> 01:25:19,360
Speaker 1: people that haven't been there for the longest time in

1530
01:25:19,400 --> 01:25:21,519
Speaker 1: our military, we're the ones calling all the shots, and

1531
01:25:21,560 --> 01:25:24,840
Speaker 1: to our discussion, before much of the metro of the

1532
01:25:24,920 --> 01:25:29,160
Speaker 1: rank and file, they're going on decades of combatics in

1533
01:25:29,600 --> 01:25:34,000
Speaker 1: the military. Is hemorrhaging those people precisely because almost their

1534
01:25:34,160 --> 01:25:38,439
Speaker 1: entire career they served under commanders who had zero combat

1535
01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:40,439
Speaker 1: experience ever, and they had a bad experience. Seriously, the

1536
01:25:41,200 --> 01:25:45,439
Speaker 1: military in general is hemorrhaging small unit leaders that are saying, like, Okay,

1537
01:25:45,920 --> 01:25:47,679
Speaker 1: I don't want to live my life on a constant

1538
01:25:47,760 --> 01:25:50,360
Speaker 1: rotation to Iraq or Afghanistan year on year off. I'm

1539
01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:52,320
Speaker 1: never gonna have a lot. I'm gonna go through five

1540
01:25:52,360 --> 01:25:55,719
Speaker 1: different wives, six different divorces. I'm gonna have five different

1541
01:25:55,800 --> 01:25:58,240
Speaker 1: kids that are never gonna see me. I'm gonna say, hey,

1542
01:25:58,360 --> 01:26:00,160
Speaker 1: I'll see you have a good first grade year in

1543
01:26:00,240 --> 01:26:02,120
Speaker 1: second grade, and so on and so forth. They don't

1544
01:26:02,160 --> 01:26:03,639
Speaker 1: want to do that, So they're getting out in large

1545
01:26:03,720 --> 01:26:06,320
Speaker 1: numbers and and in large part of the military suffered

1546
01:26:06,320 --> 01:26:09,479
Speaker 1: because of it. What can be done to make this better? Well,

1547
01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:11,800
Speaker 1: I mean, at this point, I think that the army

1548
01:26:11,920 --> 01:26:14,400
Speaker 1: really needs to focus on building up the ranks with

1549
01:26:14,520 --> 01:26:17,120
Speaker 1: quality soldiers. I mean, in two thousand and six and

1550
01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:19,439
Speaker 1: two thousand seven, the army was, the military in general,

1551
01:26:19,479 --> 01:26:21,360
Speaker 1: was so strapped for people that we opened our arms

1552
01:26:21,400 --> 01:26:23,360
Speaker 1: to everybody, and so we got a lot of people

1553
01:26:23,400 --> 01:26:25,280
Speaker 1: in that should have never been involved in the military

1554
01:26:25,320 --> 01:26:27,040
Speaker 1: in the first place. And what ended up happening is

1555
01:26:27,160 --> 01:26:28,880
Speaker 1: they'd spent two or three years in and we chaptered

1556
01:26:28,880 --> 01:26:31,880
Speaker 1: them out in the military for some disciplinary action, or

1557
01:26:31,920 --> 01:26:34,479
Speaker 1: they just didn't they just couldn't carry their own weight.

1558
01:26:34,840 --> 01:26:36,360
Speaker 1: So I think we just there just needs to be

1559
01:26:36,400 --> 01:26:38,639
Speaker 1: a hyper focus on like, as we pour money into

1560
01:26:38,640 --> 01:26:41,240
Speaker 1: the military to recruit more soldiers, those soldiers need to

1561
01:26:41,280 --> 01:26:43,479
Speaker 1: be the cream of the crop that absolutely want to

1562
01:26:43,560 --> 01:26:46,040
Speaker 1: raise the right hand to serve this country. They believe

1563
01:26:46,080 --> 01:26:48,360
Speaker 1: in the mission. They're not just doing it. I don't know.

1564
01:26:48,479 --> 01:26:49,880
Speaker 1: I mean, who knows. I mean who knows. I mean

1565
01:26:49,920 --> 01:26:51,040
Speaker 1: there are a lot of There are a lot of

1566
01:26:51,240 --> 01:26:53,040
Speaker 1: people that join the military in two thousand and six

1567
01:26:53,040 --> 01:26:54,960
Speaker 1: and two thousand seven that had no other option. It's

1568
01:26:55,000 --> 01:26:57,360
Speaker 1: just I hate to say it. It's it's not it's

1569
01:26:57,360 --> 01:26:59,960
Speaker 1: a stereotype that's too often used. But it did happen,

1570
01:27:00,040 --> 01:27:01,720
Speaker 1: it um and so I think we just need to

1571
01:27:01,760 --> 01:27:03,240
Speaker 1: focus on the best of the best as we bring

1572
01:27:03,320 --> 01:27:06,479
Speaker 1: these guys in and rebuild our military. Rebuild. Rebuilding our

1573
01:27:06,520 --> 01:27:09,120
Speaker 1: military doesn't simply just mean the infrastructure and equipment. It

1574
01:27:09,240 --> 01:27:13,840
Speaker 1: means bringing in good quality soldiers that can perform a

1575
01:27:14,560 --> 01:27:16,840
Speaker 1: a high speed mission. And that's really where the focus

1576
01:27:16,920 --> 01:27:20,360
Speaker 1: needs to be on recruiting good people. Sean Parnell is

1577
01:27:20,439 --> 01:27:23,960
Speaker 1: author of Outlaw Platoon, which you can get on Amazon

1578
01:27:24,160 --> 01:27:26,320
Speaker 1: right now download on Kindle. Some of you have listened

1579
01:27:26,320 --> 01:27:27,840
Speaker 1: to me on that one already and said, wow, Buck

1580
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:30,000
Speaker 1: it's a great recommendation. So some of the team is

1581
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:35,680
Speaker 1: I am so grateful to the Team Buck. We need

1582
01:27:35,840 --> 01:27:38,320
Speaker 1: more militarized name for you. What we do do roll

1583
01:27:38,360 --> 01:27:40,200
Speaker 1: call at the end of the show on their suggestion

1584
01:27:40,240 --> 01:27:42,400
Speaker 1: when they get to read their we read them is

1585
01:27:42,600 --> 01:27:45,240
Speaker 1: you got that on lockdown? That's a great name. Team

1586
01:27:45,240 --> 01:27:47,280
Speaker 1: Buck is great. But I think I am going to

1587
01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:49,080
Speaker 1: personally come up with a militarized name for you. I

1588
01:27:49,160 --> 01:27:50,439
Speaker 1: love it all right, Well, if he passes it on

1589
01:27:50,560 --> 01:27:53,640
Speaker 1: to us, then it's like it's like when when my

1590
01:27:53,800 --> 01:27:56,479
Speaker 1: Southern Team Buck brothers and sisters say I can say y'all,

1591
01:27:56,600 --> 01:27:58,600
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, now I have permission, right, so then

1592
01:27:58,760 --> 01:28:01,400
Speaker 1: then I'm okay, I've been blessed. Good um. Also his

1593
01:28:01,479 --> 01:28:04,120
Speaker 1: book Man of War Amazon and bookstores. Yeah, it's it's

1594
01:28:04,120 --> 01:28:06,240
Speaker 1: anywhere books are sold. It's out right now for pre order. Now,

1595
01:28:06,800 --> 01:28:10,040
Speaker 1: help us buy the book. I'm donating to to buy

1596
01:28:10,080 --> 01:28:13,320
Speaker 1: service dogs. So help us help us accomplish that mission.

1597
01:28:13,320 --> 01:28:15,559
Speaker 1: And Sean and I are going to go and talk

1598
01:28:15,600 --> 01:28:18,600
Speaker 1: about solving all the world's problems over some well for me,

1599
01:28:18,680 --> 01:28:20,680
Speaker 1: tequila for him, beer and some burgers here in a

1600
01:28:20,760 --> 01:28:23,200
Speaker 1: few minutes. Sean great to have you in studiento ment.

1601
01:28:23,200 --> 01:28:25,519
Speaker 1: Thank you so much to hang out here. And we're

1602
01:28:25,560 --> 01:28:40,280
Speaker 1: gonna roll in a quick break. Now. We're in the

1603
01:28:40,360 --> 01:28:42,439
Speaker 1: third hour, friends, and that means sometimes I'm gonna talk

1604
01:28:42,479 --> 01:28:45,640
Speaker 1: to you about things that are not exactly at the

1605
01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:48,320
Speaker 1: at the top of the list of solving world problems

1606
01:28:48,400 --> 01:28:50,640
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I am, in fact going to

1607
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:53,080
Speaker 1: tell you about the top dogs of Instagram coming up

1608
01:28:53,080 --> 01:28:54,800
Speaker 1: here at you just because I want to talk to

1609
01:28:54,800 --> 01:28:56,840
Speaker 1: you about dogs. I went and visit some puppies over

1610
01:28:56,880 --> 01:29:01,519
Speaker 1: the weekend. Ms Molly's We're we're revisiting that issue about dogs.

1611
01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:04,120
Speaker 1: I know I've talked to you about it before. Um,

1612
01:29:04,360 --> 01:29:06,560
Speaker 1: but this is the third hour. We get into some

1613
01:29:06,640 --> 01:29:09,560
Speaker 1: other topics, right, That's what we like to do. This

1614
01:29:09,760 --> 01:29:12,320
Speaker 1: is a news topic. I don't know how much I

1615
01:29:12,439 --> 01:29:16,880
Speaker 1: have to add to the currents conversation other than just

1616
01:29:17,040 --> 01:29:20,640
Speaker 1: my my take. Right, there's not in depth analysis of this.

1617
01:29:20,760 --> 01:29:24,120
Speaker 1: I am not somebody who has a particular eye for

1618
01:29:24,320 --> 01:29:30,040
Speaker 1: portraiture or or the the the arts in that way. Um.

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01:29:31,400 --> 01:29:36,360
Speaker 1: But today the the two official portraits for the Smithsonian's

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01:29:36,479 --> 01:29:42,360
Speaker 1: National Portrait Gallery of former President Barack Obama and uh

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01:29:43,160 --> 01:29:48,160
Speaker 1: former First Lady Michelle Obama were unveiled I guess kind

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01:29:48,200 --> 01:29:50,080
Speaker 1: of literally, right, they had them covered up and then

1623
01:29:50,120 --> 01:29:52,720
Speaker 1: they took them, they unveiled them. Uh, so we got

1624
01:29:52,800 --> 01:29:57,360
Speaker 1: to see them, and there was quite an interruption of

1625
01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:04,880
Speaker 1: responses about them. The biggest issue was why is it

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01:30:05,080 --> 01:30:11,479
Speaker 1: that the portrait of um Michelle Obama does too many

1627
01:30:11,560 --> 01:30:17,200
Speaker 1: of us, I think, not especially uh look like Michelle Obama.

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01:30:18,320 --> 01:30:22,760
Speaker 1: You know, in in an era of of constant photography

1629
01:30:22,920 --> 01:30:26,600
Speaker 1: and image retrieval and everything, we have, our minds, I

1630
01:30:26,640 --> 01:30:30,839
Speaker 1: think are also much more attuned to someone's facial likeness.

1631
01:30:31,160 --> 01:30:33,880
Speaker 1: We really know what people look like now, right. It's

1632
01:30:33,920 --> 01:30:36,240
Speaker 1: not like this is America and you know a couple

1633
01:30:36,240 --> 01:30:38,680
Speaker 1: of hundred years ago where you'd like read you'd read

1634
01:30:38,680 --> 01:30:40,280
Speaker 1: a news story and maybe they have some kind of

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01:30:40,360 --> 01:30:43,680
Speaker 1: an an etching, a drawing of a political figure we

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01:30:43,760 --> 01:30:45,519
Speaker 1: all we all have in our minds. I think a

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01:30:45,560 --> 01:30:47,840
Speaker 1: picture of what Michelle Obama looks like, certainly what Barack

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01:30:47,880 --> 01:30:51,360
Speaker 1: Obama looks like as well. And now the Barack painting

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01:30:51,640 --> 01:30:53,760
Speaker 1: looks looks just like Barack Obama. Right, Fine, so no

1640
01:30:53,800 --> 01:30:56,920
Speaker 1: I should We'll talk about the other interesting part of

1641
01:30:57,000 --> 01:31:01,160
Speaker 1: that artistic project in a moment. But the Michelle Obama

1642
01:31:01,240 --> 01:31:04,639
Speaker 1: panting didn't particularly look like her. And what I think

1643
01:31:04,760 --> 01:31:07,920
Speaker 1: was interesting was that this then turned into an issue

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01:31:08,040 --> 01:31:11,360
Speaker 1: of whether or not people were supportive of Michelle Obamas

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01:31:11,360 --> 01:31:14,200
Speaker 1: as a public figure. Like if you say the portrait

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01:31:14,360 --> 01:31:19,000
Speaker 1: doesn't look like her, it's somehow you know, not like

1647
01:31:19,160 --> 01:31:21,479
Speaker 1: on team Obama. And I just want to say that

1648
01:31:21,600 --> 01:31:24,960
Speaker 1: I have got no particular felix one way or the

1649
01:31:25,040 --> 01:31:28,439
Speaker 1: other about about Michelle Obama at this point, i just

1650
01:31:28,520 --> 01:31:30,679
Speaker 1: don't think it looks like her. And I'm not trying

1651
01:31:30,680 --> 01:31:32,360
Speaker 1: to make some political statement. I'm just sitting here like

1652
01:31:32,880 --> 01:31:36,200
Speaker 1: a portrait doesn't really look like her. I mean, does

1653
01:31:36,200 --> 01:31:38,400
Speaker 1: anyone really care? I don't know. But it turned into

1654
01:31:38,439 --> 01:31:40,600
Speaker 1: a big thing today and there was a lot of

1655
01:31:41,520 --> 01:31:44,880
Speaker 1: of back and forth between Obama supporters and Obama detractors

1656
01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:48,040
Speaker 1: and and if if you generally speaking, oh no, not everyone.

1657
01:31:48,439 --> 01:31:51,160
Speaker 1: If you were a Democrat and you support the obamaistration,

1658
01:31:51,240 --> 01:31:54,439
Speaker 1: you're like, it looks just like Michelle Obama. And if

1659
01:31:54,520 --> 01:31:59,519
Speaker 1: you're a critic, or maybe just somebody who calls it

1660
01:31:59,600 --> 01:32:01,280
Speaker 1: like you see it, you're like, it doesn't really look

1661
01:32:01,320 --> 01:32:03,519
Speaker 1: like Michelle Obama. So anyway, that got a lot of

1662
01:32:03,520 --> 01:32:08,080
Speaker 1: attention today for me, and maybe there's I will plead

1663
01:32:08,200 --> 01:32:10,800
Speaker 1: some degree of ignorance on this. I don't know what

1664
01:32:11,000 --> 01:32:19,120
Speaker 1: the official symbolism is of of Barack Obama's painting. If

1665
01:32:19,160 --> 01:32:20,600
Speaker 1: you haven't seen these, by the way, you should. You

1666
01:32:20,600 --> 01:32:22,760
Speaker 1: should really go check them out, because you'll go and

1667
01:32:22,840 --> 01:32:24,640
Speaker 1: then you can listen to the segment again back on

1668
01:32:24,680 --> 01:32:27,240
Speaker 1: the podcast, and you'll really be able to follow along

1669
01:32:27,280 --> 01:32:30,920
Speaker 1: with what I'm saying more more clearly. Barack Obama sitting

1670
01:32:30,920 --> 01:32:35,000
Speaker 1: in a chair, arms crossed, looked, spitting image of Obama, right,

1671
01:32:35,080 --> 01:32:39,240
Speaker 1: it looks just like him. Um, it's totally him. And

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Speaker 1: the the backdrop is a bunch of his leaves, but

1673
01:32:46,560 --> 01:32:50,600
Speaker 1: like a lot of leaves. It looks like this is

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01:32:50,680 --> 01:32:53,080
Speaker 1: the portrait that you would expect if somebody was the

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01:32:53,280 --> 01:32:56,880
Speaker 1: president of the National Florists Association or something like this

1676
01:32:57,160 --> 01:33:02,479
Speaker 1: is uh, it is hard to fathom, at least from again,

1677
01:33:02,680 --> 01:33:05,240
Speaker 1: maybe there's some symbolism here that I don't understand. Hard

1678
01:33:05,280 --> 01:33:07,680
Speaker 1: to fathom from an outsider's point of view, somebody who

1679
01:33:07,720 --> 01:33:11,320
Speaker 1: doesn't know what the the official storyline is. Why you'd

1680
01:33:11,320 --> 01:33:15,880
Speaker 1: have a president that is surrounded with with lee with

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01:33:15,960 --> 01:33:19,280
Speaker 1: all these leaves just just because maybe it's some part

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01:33:19,360 --> 01:33:21,599
Speaker 1: of the maybe the White House provided the backdrop or something.

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01:33:21,600 --> 01:33:23,640
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it looks a little bit, it

1684
01:33:23,680 --> 01:33:26,120
Speaker 1: looks a little bit unusual. So you've got some You've

1685
01:33:26,160 --> 01:33:28,519
Speaker 1: got some portraits today of the President of the President,

1686
01:33:28,560 --> 01:33:32,720
Speaker 1: the first Lady, and uh, you know, it was it

1687
01:33:32,880 --> 01:33:34,840
Speaker 1: was the thing that people were talking about. Like I said,

1688
01:33:34,960 --> 01:33:36,080
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot to add to it other

1689
01:33:36,120 --> 01:33:38,559
Speaker 1: than I just felt like this was the biggest news

1690
01:33:38,640 --> 01:33:41,040
Speaker 1: story of the day this morning. I was, oh, my gosh,

1691
01:33:41,120 --> 01:33:43,160
Speaker 1: you know that the portraits. Everybody was spending a lot

1692
01:33:43,200 --> 01:33:45,680
Speaker 1: of time on them. Um. I will say the the

1693
01:33:45,960 --> 01:33:48,240
Speaker 1: dress that Michelle Obama was wearing, it is very elegant,

1694
01:33:48,360 --> 01:33:51,839
Speaker 1: so that's nice. And the the likeness of Barack Obama

1695
01:33:51,960 --> 01:33:56,000
Speaker 1: is quite good. So there's that. But you know, here

1696
01:33:56,040 --> 01:33:57,840
Speaker 1: we are art, my friends. You know, it's it's in

1697
01:33:57,880 --> 01:33:59,800
Speaker 1: the eye of the eye of the beholder, I guess.

1698
01:34:00,720 --> 01:34:03,640
Speaker 1: And it was interesting to see how politics influenced so

1699
01:34:03,920 --> 01:34:08,439
Speaker 1: clearly the way that people were responding to these paintings.

1700
01:34:09,120 --> 01:34:10,600
Speaker 1: I would just like to think that we're beyond the

1701
01:34:10,640 --> 01:34:13,680
Speaker 1: point where if you if you criticize anything having to

1702
01:34:13,760 --> 01:34:16,600
Speaker 1: do with the Obama's you will come under attack for

1703
01:34:16,760 --> 01:34:20,000
Speaker 1: being a hateful, mean, bad person because, like I said,

1704
01:34:20,040 --> 01:34:23,040
Speaker 1: I mean Brock's painting, you know, other than the weird backdrop,

1705
01:34:23,080 --> 01:34:25,160
Speaker 1: I thought was pretty good. But Michelle Obama's painting was

1706
01:34:25,240 --> 01:34:27,760
Speaker 1: just it's just not good. You know. It's just not

1707
01:34:27,840 --> 01:34:30,320
Speaker 1: a good painting of her. I think it doesn't I

1708
01:34:30,360 --> 01:34:32,120
Speaker 1: think it doesn't do her justice. I will say, I

1709
01:34:32,200 --> 01:34:35,840
Speaker 1: think it did not do Michelle Obama justice. Um, and

1710
01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:38,680
Speaker 1: that's this is one of the very rare times where

1711
01:34:38,720 --> 01:34:42,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be a makeshift art critic here on the show.

1712
01:34:42,120 --> 01:34:44,400
Speaker 1: I promise you all except for Netflix, and like that,

1713
01:34:44,600 --> 01:34:47,639
Speaker 1: I'm I am a ninth degree black belt in Netflix.

1714
01:34:47,720 --> 01:34:51,160
Speaker 1: But portraiture is not really not really my jam um,

1715
01:34:51,280 --> 01:34:53,880
Speaker 1: But dogs are. And I'm gonna talk to you about

1716
01:34:54,520 --> 01:34:56,479
Speaker 1: the top dogs of Instagram and then we'll do some

1717
01:34:56,880 --> 01:34:59,920
Speaker 1: Team buck roll call coming up, and I will all

1718
01:35:00,040 --> 01:35:02,200
Speaker 1: so make a brief apology for not having a Shields

1719
01:35:02,280 --> 01:35:06,400
Speaker 1: High episode up for today soon soon, I promise Malta

1720
01:35:06,840 --> 01:35:08,599
Speaker 1: and the good guys win that one, so you'll want

1721
01:35:08,600 --> 01:35:11,000
Speaker 1: to hear that Shield High episode. We'll be right back.

1722
01:35:11,200 --> 01:35:14,360
Speaker 1: So over the weekend, Team I managed to actually relax

1723
01:35:14,439 --> 01:35:19,200
Speaker 1: a bit I pretty much stayed off of social media

1724
01:35:19,680 --> 01:35:21,960
Speaker 1: for the weekend, or at least I didn't write any

1725
01:35:22,040 --> 01:35:25,080
Speaker 1: tweets on Saturday. I'm gonna try to get to a

1726
01:35:25,160 --> 01:35:30,400
Speaker 1: point where I at least don't don't create or or

1727
01:35:30,520 --> 01:35:34,080
Speaker 1: or do any content on social media Facebook and Twitter

1728
01:35:34,160 --> 01:35:37,880
Speaker 1: and this stuff on the weekends. It's such a psychological

1729
01:35:38,920 --> 01:35:41,040
Speaker 1: uh drag, I think, after all, to feel like you

1730
01:35:41,080 --> 01:35:42,719
Speaker 1: always have to be, you know, getting in there, getting

1731
01:35:42,720 --> 01:35:45,280
Speaker 1: in there, getting in there. I feel like for my

1732
01:35:45,479 --> 01:35:49,680
Speaker 1: profession in particular commentary and analysis of the news, and

1733
01:35:49,840 --> 01:35:52,960
Speaker 1: just in general, it's like we're all being forced to

1734
01:35:53,040 --> 01:35:55,720
Speaker 1: be street performers. Not that there's anything wrong with being

1735
01:35:55,720 --> 01:35:59,400
Speaker 1: a street performer, but you know, instead of focusing on

1736
01:36:00,120 --> 01:36:06,120
Speaker 1: doing uh uh Shakespeare or a Broadway play, we're all

1737
01:36:06,200 --> 01:36:10,280
Speaker 1: constantly running around in the street trying to do whatever

1738
01:36:10,400 --> 01:36:13,640
Speaker 1: it is, you know, our mime routine, or dressed in

1739
01:36:13,760 --> 01:36:16,720
Speaker 1: some kind of a big furry suit and passing the

1740
01:36:16,800 --> 01:36:19,360
Speaker 1: hat around and not even passing the hat around because

1741
01:36:19,400 --> 01:36:22,320
Speaker 1: social media is really for free on the commentary side,

1742
01:36:22,400 --> 01:36:25,000
Speaker 1: So I just try to get away from a little

1743
01:36:25,040 --> 01:36:27,680
Speaker 1: bit more now, and I think I think rules. You know,

1744
01:36:27,680 --> 01:36:30,200
Speaker 1: I used to think things like limiting yourself to a

1745
01:36:30,280 --> 01:36:32,160
Speaker 1: certain amount of TV watching. When I was a kid,

1746
01:36:32,280 --> 01:36:34,800
Speaker 1: that just sounded like a prison sentence. But now I

1747
01:36:34,880 --> 01:36:36,759
Speaker 1: think it's good to have some of those As an adult,

1748
01:36:37,040 --> 01:36:39,760
Speaker 1: I'm trying to force these guidelines on myself. I had

1749
01:36:39,840 --> 01:36:43,160
Speaker 1: the situation of being at a at a dinner recently,

1750
01:36:43,280 --> 01:36:45,720
Speaker 1: and sure enough, I was a dinner and uh, a

1751
01:36:45,800 --> 01:36:47,640
Speaker 1: friend of mine was across table from me, and he

1752
01:36:48,520 --> 01:36:51,160
Speaker 1: he left his phone out. We're we're in a pretty

1753
01:36:51,320 --> 01:36:53,679
Speaker 1: nice not a fancy, but a nice sit down restaurant,

1754
01:36:54,280 --> 01:36:56,760
Speaker 1: and he puts his phone down on the table and

1755
01:36:56,880 --> 01:37:01,120
Speaker 1: it goes on. Uh uh, I mean his phone is

1756
01:37:01,200 --> 01:37:03,360
Speaker 1: you know, someone's emailing him or texting him or whatever

1757
01:37:03,400 --> 01:37:05,559
Speaker 1: it is, but it's it's it's on the table, lighting

1758
01:37:05,640 --> 01:37:10,080
Speaker 1: up and and vibrating i'd say about every every two

1759
01:37:10,160 --> 01:37:13,280
Speaker 1: minutes or so. And I'm looking at I'm just like,

1760
01:37:13,400 --> 01:37:16,080
Speaker 1: you know, can I And he doesn't like this other thing.

1761
01:37:16,320 --> 01:37:19,120
Speaker 1: He doesn't like to have his phone in his pocket

1762
01:37:19,160 --> 01:37:21,160
Speaker 1: because he doesn't like the radiation, which I people have

1763
01:37:21,200 --> 01:37:23,640
Speaker 1: been reading about this, and I know there's radiation, but

1764
01:37:23,760 --> 01:37:25,680
Speaker 1: I had to say, hey, I'll keep your phone in

1765
01:37:25,760 --> 01:37:27,360
Speaker 1: my pocket. How about that. I just don't want it

1766
01:37:27,439 --> 01:37:29,639
Speaker 1: on the table. I'd like to be having a meal

1767
01:37:29,720 --> 01:37:33,960
Speaker 1: on a conversation and not seeing a from I mean,

1768
01:37:34,000 --> 01:37:38,640
Speaker 1: I just get this drives me insane. Everywhere you go

1769
01:37:38,800 --> 01:37:42,080
Speaker 1: now you cannot escape the devices. I really want to

1770
01:37:42,120 --> 01:37:46,240
Speaker 1: start a restaurant chain that is that is device free.

1771
01:37:46,920 --> 01:37:49,800
Speaker 1: I see people that are pulling out iPads at restaurants.

1772
01:37:49,840 --> 01:37:52,320
Speaker 1: Give them the kid. Look, that's that's what you want

1773
01:37:52,360 --> 01:37:55,439
Speaker 1: to do. Fine, but you gotta have headphones. Okay, you

1774
01:37:55,560 --> 01:37:59,759
Speaker 1: can't have like SpongeBob square Pants blasting over the iPad

1775
01:38:00,000 --> 01:38:02,200
Speaker 1: at a at a restaurant where people are actually trying

1776
01:38:02,240 --> 01:38:04,840
Speaker 1: to have a some kind of an experience, right, I'm

1777
01:38:04,880 --> 01:38:07,120
Speaker 1: not talking about Chuck E Cheese. That's a different kind

1778
01:38:07,120 --> 01:38:12,280
Speaker 1: of experience anyway. So I managed to pretty much stay

1779
01:38:12,320 --> 01:38:14,560
Speaker 1: off the social media this weekend and hang out and

1780
01:38:15,360 --> 01:38:17,879
Speaker 1: um is Molly and I we had really big plans

1781
01:38:18,040 --> 01:38:22,040
Speaker 1: to cook on Saturday because she's been just cooking up

1782
01:38:22,080 --> 01:38:23,560
Speaker 1: a storm recently. I mean, I told her though, she

1783
01:38:23,600 --> 01:38:25,559
Speaker 1: has to lay off, like she can't make gluten free.

1784
01:38:26,280 --> 01:38:28,679
Speaker 1: I don't know if we technically call it ZD or lasagna.

1785
01:38:28,760 --> 01:38:31,120
Speaker 1: It was kind of a combination because I just ate

1786
01:38:31,160 --> 01:38:32,560
Speaker 1: all of it, and then it's like, why am I

1787
01:38:32,640 --> 01:38:34,840
Speaker 1: even trying to go to the gym or be healthy? Right,

1788
01:38:34,840 --> 01:38:38,799
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna eat all of Molly's lasagna's um. But anyway,

1789
01:38:38,840 --> 01:38:40,720
Speaker 1: we we ordered an Indian food, which I hadn't had

1790
01:38:40,760 --> 01:38:43,400
Speaker 1: a long time, which was great, a little spicy, but great.

1791
01:38:43,960 --> 01:38:47,360
Speaker 1: And that night, Saturday night, we're sure enough, we're we're

1792
01:38:47,400 --> 01:38:49,840
Speaker 1: outside for second, we're actually gonna drop something off for

1793
01:38:49,960 --> 01:38:54,200
Speaker 1: her parents downstairs in our building, and I see an

1794
01:38:54,320 --> 01:38:58,040
Speaker 1: ancient looking carpet shark, also known as a docks in.

1795
01:38:58,880 --> 01:39:01,280
Speaker 1: And as you know, I've had my experiences with carpet

1796
01:39:01,320 --> 01:39:04,920
Speaker 1: sharks in recent months. And this one has long hair

1797
01:39:05,240 --> 01:39:08,600
Speaker 1: and has cataracts over both eyes, and very reminiscent of

1798
01:39:08,760 --> 01:39:13,519
Speaker 1: the carpet shark that like a little great white tried

1799
01:39:13,600 --> 01:39:15,280
Speaker 1: to take a chunk out of my face when I

1800
01:39:15,400 --> 01:39:17,439
Speaker 1: was just trying to gently lift it up in the air.

1801
01:39:17,560 --> 01:39:19,080
Speaker 1: And get to know the little guy at a at

1802
01:39:19,120 --> 01:39:22,400
Speaker 1: a party in New Jersey and ms Molly and makes

1803
01:39:22,479 --> 01:39:24,519
Speaker 1: jokes about it. She says, you know, you're scared of

1804
01:39:24,560 --> 01:39:26,800
Speaker 1: the carpet shark. I said, no, it's all right, you know,

1805
01:39:26,880 --> 01:39:28,880
Speaker 1: I understand now, you just gotta give a carpet shark,

1806
01:39:28,920 --> 01:39:31,800
Speaker 1: it's space. But this stocks and I mean the woman

1807
01:39:31,840 --> 01:39:34,040
Speaker 1: has to carry it because it has We actually talked

1808
01:39:34,040 --> 01:39:35,360
Speaker 1: to her a little bit. It's a nice lady who

1809
01:39:35,360 --> 01:39:38,400
Speaker 1: lives in our building, and she has arthritis in its

1810
01:39:38,520 --> 01:39:41,840
Speaker 1: legs and it has cataracts on both eyes. And I

1811
01:39:41,880 --> 01:39:43,680
Speaker 1: mean this, you know when it when it moves, it

1812
01:39:43,760 --> 01:39:45,840
Speaker 1: kind of shuffles, it doesn't move very and she carries

1813
01:39:45,880 --> 01:39:47,240
Speaker 1: it in and out of the building because it's so

1814
01:39:47,320 --> 01:39:49,960
Speaker 1: harvard to So, you know, I feel for a little

1815
01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:52,080
Speaker 1: little furry guy, but I'm still you know, I still

1816
01:39:52,120 --> 01:39:55,320
Speaker 1: gotta be careful. You know, even a even an aged

1817
01:39:55,400 --> 01:39:58,880
Speaker 1: carpet shark could be could be a problem, you know,

1818
01:39:59,120 --> 01:40:01,120
Speaker 1: all of a sudden gets one last bite out on you.

1819
01:40:01,840 --> 01:40:04,960
Speaker 1: And so the next day, sure enough, we're walking around,

1820
01:40:05,080 --> 01:40:07,000
Speaker 1: we're looking for a place to go to brunch, and

1821
01:40:07,720 --> 01:40:10,560
Speaker 1: and we we pass there's really only a couple of

1822
01:40:10,600 --> 01:40:12,479
Speaker 1: them now in the city, but we passed one of

1823
01:40:12,560 --> 01:40:15,639
Speaker 1: those stores. And I know everyone says adopts don't shop

1824
01:40:16,560 --> 01:40:19,360
Speaker 1: the New York City codes though, because there's been so

1825
01:40:19,479 --> 01:40:24,479
Speaker 1: much pressure on puppy mills, and they're they're actually very

1826
01:40:24,680 --> 01:40:26,640
Speaker 1: strict laws. I've I've read about this now in the

1827
01:40:26,720 --> 01:40:29,960
Speaker 1: city where they have to do the City of New York.

1828
01:40:30,000 --> 01:40:31,840
Speaker 1: If you're going to sell a dog in New York

1829
01:40:32,320 --> 01:40:35,200
Speaker 1: has to send inspectors to the breeder and has to

1830
01:40:35,360 --> 01:40:38,600
Speaker 1: license the breeder and make sure that you know that

1831
01:40:38,760 --> 01:40:43,160
Speaker 1: it's a well run operation where the dogs aren't in

1832
01:40:43,280 --> 01:40:46,519
Speaker 1: duress or distress and everything else. So that all said,

1833
01:40:46,520 --> 01:40:47,960
Speaker 1: whether you buy that or not. We weren't going in

1834
01:40:48,000 --> 01:40:49,759
Speaker 1: there to buy a dog. It's just because there happened

1835
01:40:49,800 --> 01:40:54,280
Speaker 1: to be two baby carpet sharks in the window, a

1836
01:40:54,320 --> 01:40:57,360
Speaker 1: little little almost like little minnows, but with teeth, you know,

1837
01:40:57,360 --> 01:40:59,760
Speaker 1: a little baby carpet trucks, and Miss Molly happens to

1838
01:41:00,040 --> 01:41:03,240
Speaker 1: kind of like Dockxin's I'll use their real name badger

1839
01:41:03,280 --> 01:41:07,680
Speaker 1: Hounds docks homes, and sure enough for and people have

1840
01:41:07,920 --> 01:41:09,880
Speaker 1: yelled at me and they've said that it's not badger hound,

1841
01:41:09,920 --> 01:41:14,799
Speaker 1: it's badger dog, because hound in German is dog, hound, dog, tomato,

1842
01:41:14,920 --> 01:41:18,439
Speaker 1: tomato whatever. So we we go in there and we

1843
01:41:18,560 --> 01:41:20,640
Speaker 1: we play with the little docksins for a while. I

1844
01:41:20,720 --> 01:41:23,400
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, they're actually pretty cute. So the carpet

1845
01:41:23,479 --> 01:41:27,040
Speaker 1: sharks when their babies they're fine. When they get older,

1846
01:41:27,479 --> 01:41:29,760
Speaker 1: you gotta watch out. You gotta look for the the

1847
01:41:29,880 --> 01:41:32,320
Speaker 1: dorsal fin moving around the cocktail party. If it comes

1848
01:41:32,360 --> 01:41:35,400
Speaker 1: directly at you, you could be in some trouble. But

1849
01:41:35,920 --> 01:41:38,160
Speaker 1: the carpet sharks were cute, and I'm not I'm not

1850
01:41:38,280 --> 01:41:41,160
Speaker 1: getting one, but you know, I'm I'm opening my mind

1851
01:41:41,200 --> 01:41:42,720
Speaker 1: a little bit too. At least now maybe I'll say

1852
01:41:42,760 --> 01:41:44,080
Speaker 1: hi to them on the street. You know, I've I've

1853
01:41:44,120 --> 01:41:46,560
Speaker 1: been a little anti anti docks that ever since my

1854
01:41:46,640 --> 01:41:49,280
Speaker 1: incident haunts me to this day. Well, you know what

1855
01:41:49,400 --> 01:41:51,559
Speaker 1: got me thinking about this now I've gone on way

1856
01:41:51,600 --> 01:41:54,840
Speaker 1: too long about my my docks in story, is that

1857
01:41:55,320 --> 01:41:57,799
Speaker 1: there's a New York Times Beast the five most popular

1858
01:41:57,880 --> 01:42:01,840
Speaker 1: dogs on Instagram drum roll. And I thought this was

1859
01:42:02,000 --> 01:42:04,360
Speaker 1: this was really funny because it tells you a lot.

1860
01:42:04,479 --> 01:42:07,439
Speaker 1: This is a real commentary on what's going on in

1861
01:42:07,520 --> 01:42:11,080
Speaker 1: the country right now. So you have the five most

1862
01:42:11,920 --> 01:42:19,120
Speaker 1: commonly uh posted pooches, five dogs that are top five,

1863
01:42:19,160 --> 01:42:21,880
Speaker 1: and so think right now and let's get the drum roll. Going.

1864
01:42:22,320 --> 01:42:27,639
Speaker 1: Number five is the husky, which I'm was surprised because

1865
01:42:27,680 --> 01:42:31,120
Speaker 1: huskies are big dogs that need a lot of exercise.

1866
01:42:31,360 --> 01:42:35,439
Speaker 1: Generally and their work dogs. But I suppose the husky

1867
01:42:35,560 --> 01:42:39,880
Speaker 1: is the one representative of dogs outside of of urban

1868
01:42:40,000 --> 01:42:43,080
Speaker 1: centers in terms of you know, people that if you

1869
01:42:43,120 --> 01:42:44,760
Speaker 1: if you live in an area where you've got trees

1870
01:42:44,800 --> 01:42:46,400
Speaker 1: and grass and a lot of you are like, yeah, buck,

1871
01:42:46,400 --> 01:42:48,559
Speaker 1: it's called America. If you live in a place where

1872
01:42:48,600 --> 01:42:50,400
Speaker 1: there's trees and grass, you might have a husky. And

1873
01:42:50,479 --> 01:42:54,240
Speaker 1: that's number five on the list of it's the scientific

1874
01:42:54,280 --> 01:42:56,479
Speaker 1: stuff that they crunched all the numbers on Instagram, and

1875
01:42:56,560 --> 01:42:59,719
Speaker 1: that's the fifth most popular dog, the husky. Number four,

1876
01:43:00,240 --> 01:43:04,000
Speaker 1: no surprise here is the chihuahua. Now, I think that

1877
01:43:04,160 --> 01:43:09,439
Speaker 1: is in part because Chihuahuas are incredibly common in cities

1878
01:43:09,920 --> 01:43:12,120
Speaker 1: right there, They're among the most common dogs and cities.

1879
01:43:12,120 --> 01:43:14,559
Speaker 1: They are actually among the most common shelter dogs too.

1880
01:43:15,200 --> 01:43:18,920
Speaker 1: Chihuahuas and pit bulls of all kinds, pitball mixes and

1881
01:43:19,240 --> 01:43:21,560
Speaker 1: just any kind of pit bull. Uh, those are the

1882
01:43:21,560 --> 01:43:25,920
Speaker 1: two most common shelter dogs. With chihuahuas, it's generally because

1883
01:43:26,000 --> 01:43:28,639
Speaker 1: people think that because they're small, there'll be a lot

1884
01:43:28,760 --> 01:43:31,080
Speaker 1: less work. But you still gotta walk them, you still

1885
01:43:31,120 --> 01:43:32,599
Speaker 1: gotta take them to the vet, you still gotta get

1886
01:43:32,640 --> 01:43:36,080
Speaker 1: them the shots. They're easier in some ways, but the

1887
01:43:36,160 --> 01:43:40,720
Speaker 1: responsibility of this little furry friend is still very much

1888
01:43:40,800 --> 01:43:43,200
Speaker 1: the same as if you had a Saint Bernard, Right,

1889
01:43:43,240 --> 01:43:44,960
Speaker 1: you gotta walk it, you gotta feed it, you gotta

1890
01:43:45,040 --> 01:43:46,920
Speaker 1: be there, you gotta take care of it. So a

1891
01:43:46,960 --> 01:43:49,120
Speaker 1: lot of people get over their heads with a chihuahua

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Speaker 1: and they give it to the shelter. Very sad. But

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Speaker 1: the good news is that chihuahuas and shelters get get

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Speaker 1: usually picked up right away. They don't last very long

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Speaker 1: from a reputable shelter, they get picked up. Number three

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Speaker 1: on the most Popular Dogs of Instagram. Oh and also

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Speaker 1: with chihuahuas, by the way, because there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: like bedazzling of chihuahuas that goes on. A lot of

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01:44:09,280 --> 01:44:12,040
Speaker 1: little put your little gold chains and earrings, and you know,

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Speaker 1: people like to dress up their chihuahua. So that's why

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01:44:14,200 --> 01:44:17,200
Speaker 1: they're so Instagram friendly. Remember, these aren the most popular

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Speaker 1: dogs in the country. These are the most posted dogs

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Speaker 1: in the country. Number three is the terrier. And first

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Speaker 1: of all, terrier is is a type. It's not really

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Speaker 1: you know, not really a specific so I don't know

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Speaker 1: what I don't have much to say on this other

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01:44:30,920 --> 01:44:34,000
Speaker 1: than I don't know which terrier they're really referring to

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Speaker 1: the Karen Terrier. Is it a you know, white terrier?

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Speaker 1: Is that? Who knows? But they say number three is

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Speaker 1: a terrier here, So whatever. Number two my personal favorite,

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Speaker 1: the bulldog. Bulldogs are the second most posted dogs on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: And it's because their droopy faces are adorable. And we

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Speaker 1: all know that that is just a fact. And one

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01:44:56,720 --> 01:44:58,760
Speaker 1: day I will get a bulldog. And I already have

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Speaker 1: five different names in my head for the bulldog and

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Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. It's been a constant negotiation with Miss Milly.

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Speaker 1: She wants to adopt. I want to get a bulldog

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01:45:06,640 --> 01:45:09,040
Speaker 1: from a breeder, and we're going back and forth on this.

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01:45:09,640 --> 01:45:11,880
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll do both, but there's a whole lot of

1920
01:45:12,520 --> 01:45:14,760
Speaker 1: there's a lot of territory that we need to work

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01:45:14,800 --> 01:45:18,160
Speaker 1: through before we get two dogs. Iwout one and then

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Speaker 1: the number one most popular dog posted on Instagram is,

1923
01:45:23,840 --> 01:45:27,360
Speaker 1: in fact, the pug. I followed Doug the Pug on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: He's very cute. He's a dapper little fellow. You know.

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Speaker 1: One moment they've got him, you know, dressed up like

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Speaker 1: a surfer dude another moment, he's like snowshoes and out

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01:45:38,040 --> 01:45:41,719
Speaker 1: on the slopes, Doug. You know the pug and pugs

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01:45:41,760 --> 01:45:44,479
Speaker 1: are are very cute, very friendly little fellows, and they

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01:45:44,560 --> 01:45:49,479
Speaker 1: make great companions and apparently great Instagram post dogs. So

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Speaker 1: that's number one. So with that, my friends, I've told

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01:45:52,920 --> 01:45:55,800
Speaker 1: you about pups. Let's get into what you think. Let's

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01:45:55,840 --> 01:45:58,720
Speaker 1: talk about some well, let's get into some team buck

1933
01:45:58,800 --> 01:46:01,799
Speaker 1: roll call coming up right after the break. So before

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01:46:01,880 --> 01:46:04,120
Speaker 1: we get into roll call, everybody, I just wanted to

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01:46:04,160 --> 01:46:07,479
Speaker 1: say I've I have seen and read the messages, and

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01:46:07,560 --> 01:46:10,840
Speaker 1: I promise I will soon come up with the next

1937
01:46:10,880 --> 01:46:14,120
Speaker 1: episode of Shields High. It's just a heavy lift, and

1938
01:46:14,200 --> 01:46:16,519
Speaker 1: I've enjoyed having a weekend or two of I'm still

1939
01:46:16,560 --> 01:46:19,320
Speaker 1: doing the research, I'm reading, I'm taking notes, but I

1940
01:46:19,680 --> 01:46:22,719
Speaker 1: have not been able to bring myself to just spend

1941
01:46:22,840 --> 01:46:25,639
Speaker 1: the better part of a weekend pulling together the history

1942
01:46:25,680 --> 01:46:28,240
Speaker 1: show for last week or two. But it's happening. It's happening.

1943
01:46:28,600 --> 01:46:31,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna get one coming up here. I'm shooting for Monday.

1944
01:46:31,720 --> 01:46:34,840
Speaker 1: I've been thinking, is it going to be the gonna

1945
01:46:35,040 --> 01:46:36,720
Speaker 1: jump right to Malta or do I need to do

1946
01:46:36,880 --> 01:46:41,080
Speaker 1: the Siege of Vienna nine as a preamble of sorts,

1947
01:46:41,160 --> 01:46:44,760
Speaker 1: as a as A as a getting ready for pre

1948
01:46:44,920 --> 01:46:48,240
Speaker 1: heating the oven, if you will, for the Battle of

1949
01:46:48,800 --> 01:46:53,040
Speaker 1: of Malta. So that's that's what's you know. I'm thinking

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01:46:53,040 --> 01:46:55,080
Speaker 1: about that stuff. And then let's get into some Oh wait,

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Speaker 1: here we go roll call please, sir. Oh yeah, Team Buck,

1952
01:46:59,479 --> 01:47:04,240
Speaker 1: it's for roll calls. Oh, Paul, we'll get some history

1953
01:47:04,240 --> 01:47:06,560
Speaker 1: stuff soon. Let's see what we have here in the

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01:47:07,360 --> 01:47:15,200
Speaker 1: mailbag via roll call. Um M David with the filling. Uh,

1955
01:47:15,360 --> 01:47:18,960
Speaker 1: I have a huge favor to ask. Uh. My wife

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01:47:19,040 --> 01:47:22,120
Speaker 1: and I are huge fans. And oh no, this is

1957
01:47:22,240 --> 01:47:27,240
Speaker 1: a shout out request for February third up. I gotta

1958
01:47:27,280 --> 01:47:28,560
Speaker 1: hold this one. I gotta hold this one. There's a

1959
01:47:28,560 --> 01:47:31,400
Speaker 1: shout out request for tomorrow. Producer, Mike, can you please

1960
01:47:31,479 --> 01:47:33,439
Speaker 1: remind me that we have a we have a shout

1961
01:47:33,479 --> 01:47:37,880
Speaker 1: at request for the thirtieth wedding anniversary tomorrow via via

1962
01:47:38,000 --> 01:47:39,720
Speaker 1: roll call. We will make that one tomorrow. So I'm

1963
01:47:39,760 --> 01:47:41,720
Speaker 1: gonna whoop. We're gonna put a hole on that one.

1964
01:47:41,840 --> 01:47:44,800
Speaker 1: We're gonna let that one simmer overnight and then we'll

1965
01:47:44,840 --> 01:47:47,840
Speaker 1: get back to it tomorrow. I think that's our first.

1966
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Speaker 1: That's the first request for a wedding anniversary shoutout. I've

1967
01:47:50,720 --> 01:47:54,439
Speaker 1: had birthday request before, and I've always tried to honor

1968
01:47:54,520 --> 01:47:56,920
Speaker 1: those because, hey, team, if it's your birthday, I'm happy

1969
01:47:57,000 --> 01:48:00,240
Speaker 1: for you. Hey, team, it's your birthday. Your going a

1970
01:48:00,360 --> 01:48:03,880
Speaker 1: party like it's your your birthday. You know how it goes?

1971
01:48:04,640 --> 01:48:07,960
Speaker 1: Um Brad writes in Buck, where I knew these were

1972
01:48:08,000 --> 01:48:09,920
Speaker 1: gonna start coming? In Buck, where are you on the

1973
01:48:09,920 --> 01:48:12,639
Speaker 1: Shields High series? You tell a good story, my friend,

1974
01:48:12,680 --> 01:48:14,360
Speaker 1: and I already know the history, and I'm joining your

1975
01:48:14,400 --> 01:48:17,600
Speaker 1: take on these events. Well, Brad, Um, thank you for

1976
01:48:17,680 --> 01:48:20,439
Speaker 1: the kind words. And it's it's coming back. It's just

1977
01:48:20,600 --> 01:48:23,439
Speaker 1: in a little tempor little temporary hiatus right now, a

1978
01:48:23,479 --> 01:48:26,200
Speaker 1: little a little bit of a Hey, you know, Buck

1979
01:48:26,280 --> 01:48:29,240
Speaker 1: needs to tend to some other things in life before

1980
01:48:29,240 --> 01:48:31,760
Speaker 1: he gets more. Look, I I'm gonna finish. I'm gonna

1981
01:48:31,800 --> 01:48:35,960
Speaker 1: get to ten episodes of Cross Versus Crescent and and

1982
01:48:36,000 --> 01:48:37,760
Speaker 1: then what's gonna end up happening is we're gonna figure

1983
01:48:37,760 --> 01:48:39,599
Speaker 1: out where the best home should be for the Shields

1984
01:48:39,640 --> 01:48:44,080
Speaker 1: High podcasts going forward, because I already have I have

1985
01:48:44,240 --> 01:48:48,080
Speaker 1: some American history ideas for the podcast that will be

1986
01:48:48,280 --> 01:48:50,120
Speaker 1: a whole lot, and I think that will be a

1987
01:48:51,160 --> 01:48:55,040
Speaker 1: even more uh resounding success with all you folks who

1988
01:48:55,120 --> 01:48:58,640
Speaker 1: like history. So we're gonna move into that realm Um,

1989
01:48:58,800 --> 01:49:01,160
Speaker 1: that's the plan at least. I think the only question

1990
01:49:01,200 --> 01:49:04,120
Speaker 1: is do I do Ancient Greece and Rome those battles first,

1991
01:49:04,320 --> 01:49:06,439
Speaker 1: or American stuff? And I feel like you'll all tell

1992
01:49:06,520 --> 01:49:10,160
Speaker 1: me American history. So that's that's the plan. But I

1993
01:49:10,200 --> 01:49:13,439
Speaker 1: gotta finish Cross versus Christ and first, all right, here

1994
01:49:13,560 --> 01:49:16,320
Speaker 1: we go. Um, hold on a second, I'm trying to

1995
01:49:16,360 --> 01:49:20,160
Speaker 1: pull him up. And I swear my computer always freezes

1996
01:49:20,160 --> 01:49:21,439
Speaker 1: whenever I want to do a roll call with you

1997
01:49:21,520 --> 01:49:24,000
Speaker 1: guys live radio. It's it's a it's a thing that

1998
01:49:24,120 --> 01:49:27,240
Speaker 1: can be difficult. Jeff writes, just listening to the show

1999
01:49:27,320 --> 01:49:30,600
Speaker 1: from Friday. Oh man, it's about the hamster, and I

2000
01:49:30,760 --> 01:49:33,720
Speaker 1: was sad about the hamster. Dude, this woman. First of all,

2001
01:49:35,080 --> 01:49:38,040
Speaker 1: if my hamster is my pet, I'm going down with

2002
01:49:38,240 --> 01:49:40,080
Speaker 1: the hamster. If the ship is sinking or if the

2003
01:49:40,120 --> 01:49:42,360
Speaker 1: plane is crashing or whatever, like, the hamster does not

2004
01:49:42,479 --> 01:49:45,840
Speaker 1: get flushed down the Toilet's your little buddy, your tiny

2005
01:49:45,920 --> 01:49:49,160
Speaker 1: little it's like half the size of a Chihuahua. I'm

2006
01:49:49,160 --> 01:49:51,439
Speaker 1: gonna get some angry emails from chihuahua owners out there,

2007
01:49:51,479 --> 01:49:54,160
Speaker 1: but it really is. Hamster is a good little fella,

2008
01:49:54,320 --> 01:49:57,040
Speaker 1: you know, And I feel bad anyway. So Jeff writes,

2009
01:49:57,040 --> 01:49:59,720
Speaker 1: I wonder if that poor hamster that was flushed at

2010
01:49:59,720 --> 01:50:03,000
Speaker 1: the air sport knows any sweet martial arts skills and

2011
01:50:03,080 --> 01:50:05,320
Speaker 1: could maybe round up a gang of teenage mutant ninja

2012
01:50:05,360 --> 01:50:09,679
Speaker 1: turtles down in the airport sewer shields. Ye, well well played, Jeff,

2013
01:50:10,040 --> 01:50:14,320
Speaker 1: well played Splinter. The sense of the teenage mutant ninja

2014
01:50:14,360 --> 01:50:18,240
Speaker 1: turtles was very wise and very very skilled in the

2015
01:50:18,280 --> 01:50:21,560
Speaker 1: martial arts. Um. And that's where I'm just gonna And

2016
01:50:21,640 --> 01:50:23,599
Speaker 1: for those of you who don't wrote teenage muntja Turtles,

2017
01:50:24,000 --> 01:50:26,680
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say. Um. That's it's a

2018
01:50:26,720 --> 01:50:30,800
Speaker 1: weird It's a really in retrospect, very weird show, very

2019
01:50:30,840 --> 01:50:35,200
Speaker 1: weird show. Taylor writes the falling buck your backup deeper

2020
01:50:35,280 --> 01:50:38,280
Speaker 1: noise is the same voice as Hillary, and for dan

2021
01:50:38,400 --> 01:50:42,160
Speaker 1: good reason, both are equally as wretched. Well, thank you

2022
01:50:42,280 --> 01:50:45,200
Speaker 1: very much, Taylor. I appreciate that as long as we

2023
01:50:45,280 --> 01:50:48,120
Speaker 1: get the basics of it, basically, I think that's good.

2024
01:50:48,800 --> 01:50:52,599
Speaker 1: Uh t j writes in Buck I enjoyed the Buck

2025
01:50:52,680 --> 01:50:56,960
Speaker 1: Peeve segment about air dryers. Maybe make it a weekly segment.

2026
01:50:57,439 --> 01:50:59,560
Speaker 1: I kind of like the idea of on Friday just

2027
01:50:59,640 --> 01:51:02,400
Speaker 1: doing this agrament on something that annoys me. I'm thinking

2028
01:51:02,400 --> 01:51:04,400
Speaker 1: about this. I'm gonna talk to producer Mike and John

2029
01:51:04,439 --> 01:51:06,760
Speaker 1: about it. But I feel like it could be a

2030
01:51:06,800 --> 01:51:09,360
Speaker 1: thing we do right Like, for example, right now, just

2031
01:51:09,439 --> 01:51:12,040
Speaker 1: off top of my head, people that on the subway

2032
01:51:12,560 --> 01:51:14,360
Speaker 1: decide that they're gonna walk to the top of the

2033
01:51:14,400 --> 01:51:18,040
Speaker 1: subway steps, stop and then look at their phone with

2034
01:51:18,080 --> 01:51:20,160
Speaker 1: about a hundred people behind them trying to walk up

2035
01:51:20,200 --> 01:51:22,840
Speaker 1: the stairs just and and there are people that just

2036
01:51:22,920 --> 01:51:24,439
Speaker 1: do this. They're like, oh my gosh, I finally have

2037
01:51:24,560 --> 01:51:27,280
Speaker 1: WiFi or you know, I have signal, and you know,

2038
01:51:28,040 --> 01:51:30,439
Speaker 1: unless you're like it like an e er doc and

2039
01:51:30,760 --> 01:51:33,000
Speaker 1: you can't find the hospital or something, which would be

2040
01:51:33,640 --> 01:51:37,000
Speaker 1: a whole other set of problems. I feel like you

2041
01:51:37,080 --> 01:51:40,160
Speaker 1: can wait the extra three seconds, move to the side,

2042
01:51:40,360 --> 01:51:42,000
Speaker 1: and let pc I'm already doing one of them. Now.

2043
01:51:42,880 --> 01:51:46,519
Speaker 1: We gotta find a uh, you know, Bucks grumble cast

2044
01:51:46,680 --> 01:51:48,439
Speaker 1: or something like that we'll do like a Friday. I

2045
01:51:48,479 --> 01:51:51,360
Speaker 1: think that'd be fun on the Friday's, so then people

2046
01:51:51,400 --> 01:51:54,599
Speaker 1: will know that I'm you know, it's like get off

2047
01:51:54,680 --> 01:51:58,599
Speaker 1: my lawn kind of stuff, which is good. Let's see

2048
01:51:58,640 --> 01:52:00,720
Speaker 1: what else we got here. I think it timefully. One

2049
01:52:00,760 --> 01:52:05,479
Speaker 1: more show is flown by today as it up, Jeff Holland,

2050
01:52:05,560 --> 01:52:08,960
Speaker 1: what's with the following? Quit slacking, Sexton. We need those

2051
01:52:09,040 --> 01:52:12,760
Speaker 1: history podcasts. Hope you have a blessed and find someday, Jeff,

2052
01:52:12,800 --> 01:52:17,320
Speaker 1: I know, I'm sorry I've created I've created a situation

2053
01:52:17,400 --> 01:52:20,600
Speaker 1: where the only way through shields high is to do

2054
01:52:20,960 --> 01:52:23,439
Speaker 1: shields high, and that is what will happen. That's what's

2055
01:52:23,600 --> 01:52:25,760
Speaker 1: I've I've been putting them out there, but I've taken

2056
01:52:25,760 --> 01:52:28,040
Speaker 1: a little break. He's just been a little quality time

2057
01:52:28,080 --> 01:52:30,200
Speaker 1: with Ms Molly, And now that we've had a couple

2058
01:52:30,200 --> 01:52:33,080
Speaker 1: of good weekends together, I'm gonna have to tell her, Honey,

2059
01:52:33,160 --> 01:52:36,200
Speaker 1: this weekend you can go do fun, normal person things.

2060
01:52:36,360 --> 01:52:39,920
Speaker 1: I'm going to uh lock myself to the desk with

2061
01:52:39,960 --> 01:52:42,559
Speaker 1: a bunch of old dusty books and write about how

2062
01:52:42,640 --> 01:52:45,480
Speaker 1: the Sultan was trying to invade the heart of Christianity

2063
01:52:45,560 --> 01:52:48,400
Speaker 1: and destroy the Western world. You know, as one does

2064
01:52:49,040 --> 01:52:51,240
Speaker 1: with that, my friends, it's gonna be it for our

2065
01:52:51,320 --> 01:52:54,880
Speaker 1: freedom Hut Extravaganta today. I'm excited about each day with

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01:52:55,040 --> 01:52:58,599
Speaker 1: you this week, so please do uh tune in, tell friends,

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Speaker 1: share the podcast, and she'll tie