WEBVTT - Appalling Media 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:15.920 Mr garbutschaf teared down this wall. Either you're with us 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.520 or you were with the terrorists. If you've got healthcare 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:21.760 all with it, then you can keep your plan. If 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.640 you are satisfied with it is not to be president 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.040 of the United States. Take it to a bank. Together. 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:34.480 We will make America great again. We'll never sharender. It's 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.920 what you've been waiting for all day. The Buck Sexton 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.800 Show joined the conversation called Buck Toll Free at eight 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:45.920 four four nine hundred. Buck that's eight four four nine 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:49.720 hundred to eight to five The Future of talk radio. 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:55.680 Buck Sexton. Welcome to Buck Sexton Show. Everybody. Great to 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:57.760 have you with me in the Freedom Hunt. Much to 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:03.200 discuss today, a lot of actionable intelligence to present, many 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:07.800 things that I'm excited to get into here in the Hut. 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:14.040 First off, the Senate has opened debate on immigration, so 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.560 we'll see how that goes. I don't want to make 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:20.760 any cynical predictions right off the bat, but I suppose 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:24.680 I will. The Democrats will not budge on this. They're 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.000 going to go into their whole purpose here is to 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:31.240 go into the mid terms as the great defenders of 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.759 non Americans, the legal aliens, and they think that that's 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.080 going to rally their base and that they will win 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.240 and when the mid terms and then they won't have 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.200 to negotiate with Republicans, or at least they'll be able 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.000 to completely stymy them if they win the Senate or 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.680 the House or who knows. Is it a good plan? No, 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.160 but I think that may in fact be the plan, 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.120 especially when you look at some of the folks who 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.840 involved Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and all the rest. So 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.120 we'll talk about that Senate immigration debate as much as 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.720 we we can, really, not just today, but this week. 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.960 It's going to be a big policy issue. I'm gonna 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.919 spend a good portion of time today on the complete 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:15.200 and utter debacle that has been mainstream media coverage of 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:21.000 North Korea's presence at the Winter Olympics in pyeong Chang 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:25.040 in South Korea. I wrote about this for The Hill 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:30.400 dot Com today. Um I referred to the media's uh, 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:36.200 north Korea's appalling American media boosters thanks you can read 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:37.840 on the Hill. I think that that says a lot 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.200 of what I'm gonna get into the headline carries a 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.440 fair amount of it. But it's important that we look 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.359 at why they would all of a sudden turn into 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:52.000 cheerleaders for the most vile and brutal dictatorship on the planet. 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.800 Why is that the case. Here's a hint. Has to 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.280 do with what they think of Trump. Here's an even 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:03.080 better hint. How's to do with how they viewed Trump 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:07.120 versus Kim Jong un. And you know, they think it's 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.280 pretty close in terms of how awful one is to 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.320 the other. And I'm talking about the New York Times, 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:17.720 I'm talking about CNN. This is not left wing crazy sites. 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:22.400 This is well maybe, but this is basically the the 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:26.200 the heart of the hashtag resistance in the media. So 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.120 we'll get into all things going on in North Korea. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.639 Um with well in South Korea, but regarding the North, 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.440 because it's chilling. I mean, they're celebrating, they're given the 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:41.560 celebrity star treatment to Kim Jong LUN's sister. Utterly appalling, 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:48.160 utterly appalling, And they are favorably comparing Kim Jong UN's sister. 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.600 And she is not just some person who happens to 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.720 be related to perhaps the most evil dictator on the planet. 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.960 She is a member of the polite Borrow. She is, 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.440 in fact, in charge of the literally in charge of 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.320 the propaganda apparatus of the Communist Party of North Korea. 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.480 She is the chief propagandist, and she is at the 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:13.240 Winter Olympics. And I understand South Korea is trying to 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.479 be as constructive as it can with its neighbors to 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.120 the north and all of that. But to say that 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:24.080 she is winning a diplomacy gold medal that is a quote, 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.760 or that she has outshined Mike Pence, our vice president. 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:34.040 They did that too, is completely beyond the pale. I mean, 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:38.280 it is bonkers, bonkers level crazy. But the media is 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.760 they've got Trump. When when I say Trump derangement syndrome, 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:45.000 I'm not trying to overstate it for effect. I'm not 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.240 trying to say, oh, yeah, it's like they're crazy, man. No, No, 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.479 I mean they're actually something's wrong. They've had a break 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.800 with reality. They need they need some assistance, they need 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.800 some help, they need to talk it through. So that 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:02.159 will all be coming up later, as well as the 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.200 the show that was put on today at the White 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:10.000 House Press conference with a series of questions about now 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:14.720 resigned White House aid Rob Porter. It's as though that's 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.240 the and I'm not exaggerating. I watched twenty minutes of 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.520 the White House Press conference today, maybe it was fifteen. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.640 I didn't I wasn't watching the clock, but I watched 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.600 a good chunk of it. And it's just one Rob 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:29.719 Porter question after another. Now, I think that domestic abusers 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:32.920 are scum, and I don't think that any man with 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:36.279 any honor integrity whatsoever would either hit a woman or 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:40.440 defend somebody who does hit a woman. That said, Rob 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.320 Porter is not the most important news story on planet Earth. 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.520 I would go so far as to say, Israel blowing 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.400 up a bunch of a bunch of bad guys in 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.560 Syria and saying, yeah, we know they're Iranians there too. 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.159 Maybe that's a bigger story, which we will talk about 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.960 here on this show. Yeah, that's right, these really air 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:04.400 force launching strikes in Syria everyone and making it clear 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.240 they know that, Yeah there's Iranians that are involved there too. 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.440 That's a big deal. But no media only wants to 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.840 ask about Rob Porter. It's only only White White House. Well, 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.720 I mean one question to question five questions. Fine, I 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.720 think I heard about twenty questions that are up from 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.480 the press corps about Rob Porter. I follow politics for 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.880 a living. I mean, I do follow other things too, 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:25.800 but it is part of my job. And I will 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:27.719 tell you I did not know who Rob Porter was 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:31.479 until this. He's a guy who carries papers to and 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.200 from the president. He's in He's in the White House. 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.680 He's part of the White House. How is this such 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:38.719 an important story to the media. Well, it falls into 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:42.240 the narrative of Trump is a Trump protects abusers, Trump 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.080 is in abuser. They'll even tell you they think Trump 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:48.520 is a serial sexual assaulter. I mean, that's that's what 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.599 this is all really about. It It's not about them 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.960 taking us down on this issue for the sake of 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.800 women's rights or anything else. It's it's to bash Trump. 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.719 This is a This is all about trying to bash Trump. 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.880 So we'll discuss that in in a little bit. But 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.159 first I have to say I wanted to get into 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:11.640 the latest on the hashtag memo or the memos that 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.760 are out there, the Russia collusion story, all this stuff 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:18.080 that's going on right now, and maybe later we'll talk 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.560 about budget and infrastructure. Infrastructure is not going anywhere. That's 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.240 gonna be a topic we've got for a long time. 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:24.880 So I don't think we have to spend too much 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.000 in infrastructure today. I know Trump gave a speech on it. 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.800 I wanted to get into something else first, also an 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.280 area where I can bring a little little special something, 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.840 a little little extra sizzle to the analysis in that 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.080 I actually know what I'm talking about with this because 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.840 I used to do analysis inside the intelligence community with 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.280 the security clearance, So I know when the clowns are 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.360 lying to us. I know when they're saying things that 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:50.360 are just patently false. And that's helpful because a lot 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.480 of stuff is not adding up on the whole Russia 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.880 collusion investigation. And we've got a big report out right now, 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.120 just broke before I came on air about an hour 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:05.520 or two before um about what the Obama administration was 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:12.080 doing in those early days of transferring power over to 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:16.640 the Trump administration on Russia collusion specifically, let me give 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.400 you a little bit of details here. This courtesy of 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:22.480 Fox News dot com X National Security Advisor Susan Rice. 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.720 Remember Susan Rice, Remember all the unmasking talk around Susan Rice. 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:27.400 We never really found out what was going on there? 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:30.640 Did we keep that in mind? Susan Rice sent an 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:32.720 unusual by the way. I was out at Stanford like 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:36.120 six months ago, and I passed her on the stairs, 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.680 and I'm telling she looked at me and as one 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:40.679 of those things were like, She's not supposed to know 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.600 who I am, but I've trashed Obama enough on CNN's 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.720 air waves that she knew who I was. And she 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.720 just looked right down. Yeah, that's right, I know, Susan. Right, 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:50.520 you're she's too important to know who I am. But 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.640 I'm telling you, she gave me a look. She knew 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.320 who I was. We did not talk. There was no 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.480 friendly there was no friendly banter like, Yeah, what's up. 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:02.600 I'm here at Stanford two, sus what's going on? Anyway? 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:07.439 Back to Susan Rice, former National security advisor, an unusual email. 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.520 She sent an unusual email to herself the day President 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:15.200 Trump was sworn into office, documenting former President Barack Obama's 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.280 guidance at a high level meeting about how law enforcement 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:23.200 should investigate Russian interference in the presidential race. According to 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:28.000 two Republican senators earlier today, Senator or Senate Judiciary Committee 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:33.080 Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Lindsey Graham Um said that 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:38.040 the partially unclassified email was sent partially unclassified, was sent 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:44.040 by Rice on January inauguration day everybody and appears to 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:48.480 document a January five meeting that included Obama, then FBI 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.959 Director James Comey, then Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, then 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:57.360 Vice President Joe Biden, and Rice, also known as a 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:03.320 meeting of the Five Families of the Existance. Who's going up? 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:08.600 What territory? What a Russia collusion narrative? Uh? Turns out 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.319 this is an email that doesn't really make a lot 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.439 of sense to me. I don't know if my godfather 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.319 impression there even really came through. It just sounded like 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.880 I was having some kind of an event over here. 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:21.760 But uh, here's what's going on in this email. Rice 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.120 wrote that quote, Obama wants to be sure that as 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:28.680 we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:34.120 ascertain if there's any reason we cannot share information fully 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:39.240 as it relates to Russia. Now this goes in the 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:45.400 excuse me, that's not your call, That's not how it works, right. Yeah. 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.480 For for example, you can't have one president who's like, well, 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.040 we've got some super secret covert action thing we're doing, 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.680 and like, you know, the new president doesn't get to 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.560 know about it. Nope, that that that's not how this 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.240 game goes, or maybe they think it does. But that's 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:06.520 not legitimate, that's not that's not ethical or legal. Um. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.720 They don't have the right to do that. And yet 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.280 she seemed to think that they did, which is quite strange. 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:16.080 Isn't it for a national security advisor? Um? And then 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:19.840 there's more. And this is the part of it that 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:24.760 is in fact the weirdest. And this this falls into 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.920 the category of and remember Susan Rice very close to 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.680 Barack Obama personally as well. She wrote the following President 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:36.160 Obama began the conversation, this is about her meeting with Comy, Yates, 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.760 Biden Rice. Okay, this is all all those yeah, all 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:44.840 those names, right, Yates hates Trump, Comy hates Trump, Biden 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:50.679 is Biden, Rice hates Trump? Right, m hmm. Isn't an 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:52.240 interesting that they would have all had a meeting about 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.600 Russia collusion where they're trying it's almost like they're trying 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:56.880 to get on the same sheet of music about you 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.800 know what, what what what's going to happen now? Because 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:01.520 they maybe we're assuming they were going to be in 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.720 charge and so now not only they're not in charge 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.320 of that investigation with a Hillary presidency, but also what 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.400 do they do about the stuff that was done before 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:15.240 when they were assuming Hillary was going to be president. 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.360 How do you cover the tracks, my friends? How do 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.839 you make all the all the sketchy stuff you did 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.160 go away? It's tough to cover your tracks. It's tough 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.560 to you know. You gotta do things like delete thirty 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:29.880 emails and use bleach bit on a server and set 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.400 up a home server and send emails with such reckless 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.040 disregard for what's contained in them that they end up 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:40.439 on a convicted pedophiles laptop that is married to you, 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.280 you know, who's married to your top eide. I mean, 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.040 those are the sorts of things, and one does one 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.760 is trying to cover up something. But so we have 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:53.400 this email that that she writes to herself, mind you, 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.920 which I would not. It is a way of establishing 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.400 a record. It's almost like establishing an alibi. Right. This 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.440 to me strikes me as this strikes me as the 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.959 equivalent of, you know, showing up to the bar at 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.160 midnight like, hey, everybody, my name is Buck Sexton. I'm 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.880 in this bar. Note the time. Note the time it 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.560 is midnight. It is midnight, and I will not be 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.440 on the other side of town in fifteen minutes or 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:21.280 so committing a heinous crime, because we're just going to 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.600 assume that I've established my alibi and you know, there 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:27.800 you have it. Here's what Rice writes in this email. 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:33.520 President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:38.000 to ensuring that every aspect of this issue, Russia collusion 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:42.080 everybody is handled by the intelligence and law enforcement communities 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.560 by the book. The President's stress that he is not 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:50.359 asking about initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.920 He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:59.200 as it normally would by the book. You repeated by 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.600 the book twice. I think I think you guys are 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:06.160 all seeing what I'm putting down here. It's a little convenient, 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:10.960 isn't it a little strange. It's almost like she's trying 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:15.960 to create a trail that would support the case if 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.200 in fact, things started to go awry, if the d 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:22.960 o J could no longer run interference for the anti trumpers, 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.200 if we started to get to the truth, like say, 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.120 if we found out that the Fusion GPS dossier was 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.600 in fact paid for by Hillary Clinton and the d 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:34.080 n C. If it became increasingly clear that James Comey 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.320 is really first and foremost concerned with himself and his power, 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.400 and he was willing to break the rules in favor 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:44.040 of Hillary and break the rules against Trump. It's almost 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:48.480 like she's trying to establish here that if everything started 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:54.560 to fall apart. Look at this email President Obama on 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:59.640 his last day in office, folks, or last days. This 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:01.920 was on the last day. She wrote this in the 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:03.880 last day in reference to an earlier meeting, but in 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.600 the very final moments of this administration after eight years, 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.320 Obama just wanted everyone to know it's all done by 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.880 the book. There's been no political bias here at all. Oh, 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:17.520 I think we all know that Susan Rice doth protest 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:23.600 the by the book too much. This is as we 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.400 would say on in my next there was this strikes 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.880 me as quite shady, my friends. This is very weird. 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.840 And when you added into everything else that we're finding out, 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.720 everything else that is going on around this Russia collusion narrative, 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.080 it is increasingly clear to me that what we are 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:44.600 facing is in fact, the most sweeping, egregious, and corrupt 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:52.360 political hit ever in modern American history. That's what This 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.960 was cooked up by people with power and influence who 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.000 did not want to see either of those things go 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.920 away of Hillary lost, and who hate Trump and everything 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:06.120 he stands for. And we are getting closer, We're getting 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:07.600 closer to be able to prove all of this. So 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.040 at very injuring piece up on Fox news dot com 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:15.920 eight four eight four buck, we have much more coming up, 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:20.520 my friends. We will be right back. Absolutely, James Comey 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.080 should be back to give answers to the Congress about 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:26.880 why his prior testimony was not truthful. He was making 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.000 claims about the dossier before Congress that now through the 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.400 investigation and discovery of evidence, we know may not have 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.880 been accurate regarding what he was doing. The House of 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:40.080 Representatives has subpoena power, and we absolutely got subpoena James Comey. 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.480 He's sort of gone from the hero of the left 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.000 to the demon of the left now to like, you know, 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.560 the greatest troll on Twitter. So I suspect that it 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.360 would be better to have him before the Congress answering 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.760 questions about what in the world was going on that 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:56.080 allowed cash at a political party to be convertible into 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.800 a government sponsored warrant to spy on Donald Trump's transition 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:03.000 to I want to hear Comey answer some questions under 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:04.520 oath about all this stuff too, now that we have 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:09.160 more information. I want to see smug Comey sit there 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.680 and simmer a bit. I'd like to see what that's like, 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:15.480 a bit of a bit of sizzling Comey on the 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.760 hot seat. It would be. You know, although the smugness 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.720 may overtake the whole room, like Comy's cloud of smug 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:26.399 may just may cause an evacuation. They just can't handle it. 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.359 It's just too much for them. I was just noting 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.040 with the guys before we got into a break. I said, 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.439 you know this old Susan Rice email where you know 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.439 Obama said, by the book, just by the book, totally 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:41.680 by the book, which was written, as I said, which 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:48.040 was written on sent written and sent on January so 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:53.160 and documenting a January five meeting. But on the very 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.360 last day where where she would be, you know, where 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.800 the transition has happened with That was an inauguration day, right, 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:00.200 or it was close to it. It was than a 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:03.159 day or two of them. This would be the equivalent 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.600 of all of a sudden, if I were out with 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.480 let's say, Mike and John. Neither of you guys like me. 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.760 You're unmarried, right, unmarried as of yet. Okay, we're working 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.520 out the guys, all three of us. So if we 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.840 were out and but we had wives, and all of 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:19.880 us all of a sudden, had all these text messages 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:21.760 about how we had a guy's night, but you know, 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.160 we weren't. We weren't at the casino or anything. I'm 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.240 so glad, And all the text messages said the same 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.879 thing to each other. So glad guys that we didn't 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:33.240 go to the casino, uh or or the you know, 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.720 gentlemen's club afterwards, because that would have been so bad. Yeah, 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.200 I'm so glad we didn't make that decision. It would 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:40.879 have been such a bad decision to make to do 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:44.560 that thing. We just hung out in eight cheeseburgers. You know, 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:49.560 some of the I assume are our theoretical wives would 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:52.720 find that a bit suspicious. Why are you guys just 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.720 writing yourself? Why are you creating this strange record, this 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.119 this archive, if you will, of of how great and 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.040 righteous you were? Allowed to night. That doesn't really seem 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:05.560 necessary unless you're hiding something. See what I mean, Susan 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.480 Rice writing to herself. You know, Oh Obama wanted everything 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:09.760 by the book. Oh it has to be so by 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.920 the book. And by the way, Comey was in that meeting. 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.360 We know how by the book Comey really is right. 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:21.959 Comey was Mr America's greatest g man. And then he 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:24.440 decided to like leak some stuff to the New York 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.240 Times and get an investigation started on a sitting president 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:31.560 out of spite. So maybe we should start rethinking all 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:35.240 these h wonderful and decent public servants like Rice and 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:38.600 Comey and others. The President doesn't want the public to 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:42.440 see the underlying facts what is revealed in our memo 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:46.960 or quotations from the very fast application that really demonstrate 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:50.200 just how misleading the Republicans have been. Their goal here 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.440 is to put the FBI on trial, to put Bob 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.600 Mueller's investigation on trial, and the President is only too 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:59.280 happy to accommodate. Republicans voted in the Congress to at 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.960 least both the publican and Democrat memo. Democrats only vote 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:06.159 release their memos. There is enormous hypocrisy here, because this 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:09.040 is all political. What this really is is they intentionally 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.639 put sources and methods in the document knowing that the 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:13.280 White House wouldn't be able to release it, and then 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:15.360 they could. They could basically go on TV and say 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:17.160 that we were adding the document. I think the President 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:18.800 made the right decision to say, look, if that's the 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:20.880 game you're gonna play, I'm gonna send it back to you. 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:22.600 You clean it up, and you work with the FBI, 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:24.199 send it back to us, and we'll be happy to 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:26.840 release it. I believe I said exactly that would happen 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:30.480 here on the show, that the Democrats would see their 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:34.000 memo with intentionally classified. Remember we had this whole conversation. 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:36.840 They'll just write so then this guy super Secret Squirrel 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:39.080 did this super secret Squirrel thing, and then more super 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:41.800 secret Squirrel, and they'd have to block out all of that. 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:44.040 That would be redacted, it would be classified, or there 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:46.720 be a need to redact it. You could not release 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:51.080 that out there as it was. And that's a way 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:55.240 of making it seem as the Republicans don't want the 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.080 facts to come out, they don't want the truth to 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:01.760 be shared with the American people. When as was pointed 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:05.680 out there, that was Shift versus Short, Adam Schiff, whom 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.320 you all know, of course, the Democrats. It's tough to 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:13.000 call him an attack dog, you know, it's more like, uh, 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.040 he seems a bit more reptilian, right, so he's more 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:21.000 like an attack iguana. Perhaps I don't know. Um, I 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:22.639 like dogs, so I don't like say Adam Shift is 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:27.159 an attack dog. But Mark Short, the White House Legislative Director, 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:31.399 was one responding there, and he's just saying, look, they 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:33.479 wouldn't even vote to release the original memo, which had 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:36.440 nothing classified and which the FBI at the senior level, 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.480 and the Democrats just flat outlide. Remember I told you 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:43.440 it's good to know when there's lies there. There's no way, 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:47.639 there's no way that that meant that anybody who had 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:52.480 any familiarity with the laws and regulations around classified information 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:55.280 would have thought that the Republican memo was a problem. 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:58.440 So everyone who saw it and said otherwise a liar, 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.680 there's lying to you, right, I would know it. Also, 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:04.560 you live the FBI, you go to prison. FBI lies 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:09.320 to all the American people. You know, stuff barely not 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:12.960 a big deal. So will we see this Democrat memo 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:16.080 or not. I think we clearly will um. But the 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:20.040 game has already been put into place here, and they're 0:22:20.040 --> 0:22:21.880 going to say, no matter what's in this memo now, 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:25.320 if it's not potent enough, and I think it really 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:29.159 won't be, they're gonna say, well, the really good stuff, 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:32.920 the really juicy stuff, was removed by those big, bad, 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:35.439 mean Republicans who don't want to know the truth about 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:42.160 the pies application on Carter Page. As I've said to you, 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:45.120 if they had really strong stuff on Carter Page, two 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:50.240 things would be true. One, they wouldn't have needed to 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:54.919 include the dossier at all. Two, it would have leaked. 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:58.240 We would know if there were some guys somewhere who 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:01.560 was tight with Putin, who was, you know, a senior 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:05.040 FSB officer or something who was talking to Carter Page. 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:09.119 We would have heard I'm sorry, they can get the 0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:14.600 never Trump hashtag resistance squad inside of the Department of 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:18.480 Justice or the FBI or maybe even the CIA. Some 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:23.560 very interesting stuff coming out about former Agency director Brennan recently. 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:27.040 He said some very some quite strange stuff. I know 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:30.160 it's been forgotten that Brennan is very tight with Obama 0:23:30.840 --> 0:23:33.600 and he wasn't just a SEI director. He's a political 0:23:33.600 --> 0:23:37.200 infighter and is known to be a very partisan guy 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:39.719 and has a reputation for leak and stuff to the 0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:43.719 media too, by the way, and not a reputation just 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:46.480 from people in the media. Some other folks I know 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:52.880 are like, yeah, Brennan leaks. But here's the thing, as 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:57.640 we continue to look at the carter page fives a warrant, 0:23:57.840 --> 0:24:01.720 as we see what's around it. If there was good information, 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:03.719 as I said, they wouldn't needed the dossier. And if 0:24:03.720 --> 0:24:06.359 there was good information, we would have already heard because 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:07.879 they would have leaked it to the Washington Post or 0:24:07.920 --> 0:24:11.800 somewhere else. Even more than that, though, and then we 0:24:11.880 --> 0:24:14.240 got a whole another level that comes into play here. Okay, 0:24:14.320 --> 0:24:16.320 So let's say they did have some good reason to 0:24:17.720 --> 0:24:22.399 or some reasonable reason to monitor carter pages communications. What 0:24:22.440 --> 0:24:28.080 does that say about the FISA process? Because I could 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:29.760 come up with a hundred different reasons why a lot 0:24:29.800 --> 0:24:31.920 of people I know in the press could fall under 0:24:31.920 --> 0:24:36.480 a FISA could fall under a fis a warrant, you know, 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:39.359 I can think of a lot of different reasons why 0:24:40.920 --> 0:24:42.800 different people I know in the media that talked to 0:24:43.040 --> 0:24:46.679 have you know, foreign sources or try to talk to 0:24:47.160 --> 0:24:50.919 even openly or not openly, but try to approach you know, 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:55.040 foreign military, foreign intelligence to get information for their stories. 0:24:55.359 --> 0:24:59.240 Are they all subjectifies a because from what I'm seeing 0:24:59.280 --> 0:25:02.560 Carter pay establish as a press didn't hear everybody that 0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:04.960 if the federal government and by that I really mean 0:25:05.040 --> 0:25:07.760 the deep state Democrats who like to abuse the federal 0:25:07.800 --> 0:25:11.639 government's powers for stuff like this, if they decide that 0:25:11.720 --> 0:25:17.560 they want to monitor your communications and therefore the communications 0:25:17.600 --> 0:25:19.439 of really everyone you're in touch with, because that's what 0:25:19.480 --> 0:25:22.480 it means, they can find a pretext to do it. 0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:25.639 It's not hard. What does the fourth demon really even mean? That? 0:25:26.080 --> 0:25:30.440 This is a very important concept that uh, I want 0:25:30.440 --> 0:25:32.480 to bring into our discussion in the show. It's something 0:25:32.520 --> 0:25:34.959 I want you to keep in mind, and that is 0:25:35.000 --> 0:25:43.520 that that mass surveillance is unsettling, but ruthless individual surveillance, right, 0:25:43.520 --> 0:25:47.680 individual surveillance that is really targeted, that breaks down Fourth 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:51.920 Amendment protection. That's what's that's what's actually terrifying. Yeah, Okay, 0:25:52.000 --> 0:25:53.840 if they if they're getting all of your stuff and 0:25:53.840 --> 0:25:56.200 they're they're getting the metadata and all that, that's that's bad. 0:25:57.520 --> 0:26:01.520 But if they can target people for political reasons and 0:26:01.560 --> 0:26:03.840 look at all their communications. I mean, foreign federal government 0:26:03.840 --> 0:26:08.480 can do that. I mean folks founding fathers went to 0:26:08.480 --> 0:26:10.960 war over general warrants, right, they were like going through 0:26:11.000 --> 0:26:13.280 the customs house looking for stuff and trying to tax 0:26:13.320 --> 0:26:16.720 you more. We we're we're gonna be okay with a 0:26:16.800 --> 0:26:20.639 situation where the federal government can decide that that literally 0:26:20.640 --> 0:26:25.560 a presidential candidate can be surveilled by finding someone near 0:26:25.680 --> 0:26:29.160 him for whom they can create some pretext for that surveillance, 0:26:29.160 --> 0:26:32.120 and we're supposed to be okay with that. Think about this, 0:26:33.680 --> 0:26:37.199 Carter Page is the way of getting to everybody on 0:26:37.200 --> 0:26:40.200 the Trump campaign. I know, I've read the the reports. 0:26:40.200 --> 0:26:42.240 At least you know Steve Bannon was caught up in 0:26:42.280 --> 0:26:45.600 that surveillance, and I mean, yeah, I really want to know. 0:26:45.960 --> 0:26:48.960 I want to know who. I don't know what If 0:26:49.000 --> 0:26:51.480 I'm carter Page, by the way, I mean, this is 0:26:51.520 --> 0:26:52.760 another way to go. I don't know if he'd be 0:26:52.800 --> 0:26:55.720 willing to do this I'm carter Page, then maybe I 0:26:55.760 --> 0:26:58.639 would say, you know what, I want the federal government 0:26:58.680 --> 0:27:02.800 to release all of the surveillance information on me because 0:27:02.800 --> 0:27:05.560 I don't believe he does have anything to hide. I 0:27:05.600 --> 0:27:09.560 don't I think that. You know, he could say, show 0:27:09.600 --> 0:27:12.720 all the communication, show everything gets out there, you know 0:27:12.760 --> 0:27:14.760 all the different contacts that I had, and you'll see 0:27:14.760 --> 0:27:19.760 it's all Nothing's Nothingsville, it's who cares. But it would 0:27:19.760 --> 0:27:21.640 matter to us a lot because it would show us 0:27:21.680 --> 0:27:27.280 that this was, like I said, a political hit. And 0:27:27.680 --> 0:27:31.920 the Democrats know that if the American people really figure 0:27:31.960 --> 0:27:35.240 this out, they will hold it against the Democrat Party 0:27:35.280 --> 0:27:40.920 as they should for a very very long time. And 0:27:41.240 --> 0:27:43.639 you know, I just see what's going on here with 0:27:43.640 --> 0:27:46.199 this Carter Page thing. Adam Ship's defense right now, the 0:27:46.240 --> 0:27:50.359 Democrats defense is, oh no, there's other stuff that made 0:27:50.359 --> 0:27:53.760 it okay for us to target this Carter Page guy 0:27:53.960 --> 0:27:55.840 who was on the FBI's radar, And that was the 0:27:55.840 --> 0:27:57.720 big thing they were saying. Yeah, he's on the FBI's 0:27:57.760 --> 0:27:59.720 radar before, and he worked with the FBI to help 0:27:59.800 --> 0:28:04.159 them track down some some shady Russians. So apparently the 0:28:04.200 --> 0:28:06.200 thanks he gets for that is that the FBI later 0:28:06.280 --> 0:28:10.480 on is miking him up, so to speak. But if 0:28:10.480 --> 0:28:13.040 he's such a bad guy, if he was doing shady things, 0:28:13.080 --> 0:28:16.480 can I just see one criminal charge even mentioned never 0:28:16.520 --> 0:28:21.360 mind brought just the basis of an indictment maybe against 0:28:21.359 --> 0:28:26.960 Carter Page if they can target his communications and everyone 0:28:27.000 --> 0:28:31.200 who talked to him there for indirectly surveilling them too. 0:28:31.240 --> 0:28:35.240 That's the way this works, based on on suspicion. With 0:28:35.440 --> 0:28:40.240 there's no charges. What what does this mean? Folks? Where 0:28:40.240 --> 0:28:42.840 are the limits? Really? Were the lines the boundaries that 0:28:42.880 --> 0:28:45.160 prevent the federal government from doing this the next time around? 0:28:45.920 --> 0:28:48.320 And here's a really scary thought. All this stuff we're 0:28:48.320 --> 0:28:50.720 talking about here, it's all kind of jammed up in 0:28:50.760 --> 0:28:54.680 the world that classified and everything else. This might have 0:28:54.680 --> 0:28:58.640 happened in other cases we don't even know about. I 0:28:58.640 --> 0:29:01.560 don't know that's they'll they'll do it to a presidential campaign. 0:29:01.560 --> 0:29:04.120 But they would no, they'd never do it. Just come on, 0:29:04.800 --> 0:29:07.600 let's really think about this one. You don't think that 0:29:07.720 --> 0:29:10.040 maybe some senior folks at d o J you want 0:29:10.040 --> 0:29:13.040 to keep an eye on somebody else somewhere. Now you 0:29:13.040 --> 0:29:16.160 start getting into some you know, we'd like to think 0:29:16.160 --> 0:29:20.680 that we're beyond the realm of police state tactics and 0:29:21.360 --> 0:29:24.680 the surveillance state and using that for you know, the 0:29:24.720 --> 0:29:27.040 Russians are the ones to do comproma the Russians are 0:29:27.040 --> 0:29:31.240 the ones who put video cameras in people's hotel rooms 0:29:31.280 --> 0:29:33.320 just to catch them doing what people do, and then 0:29:33.400 --> 0:29:35.680 you know, threatened to release that to embarrass them. Right, 0:29:35.720 --> 0:29:37.720 that's like the Russians. We wouldn't I mean, we don't 0:29:37.720 --> 0:29:38.920 do that in this country. I mean, the d O 0:29:39.040 --> 0:29:44.240 j FBI, it wouldn't do that. Are you sure. I'm 0:29:44.280 --> 0:29:45.760 a lot less shure now than I used to be, 0:29:46.600 --> 0:29:48.680 and I used to work on the inside, So that 0:29:48.760 --> 0:29:52.000 does not speak well about this whole situation. Eight four 0:29:52.080 --> 0:29:54.640 or four n eight to five. You've got thoughts on this? 0:29:54.720 --> 0:29:57.120 We are going to get into the whole North Korea 0:29:57.520 --> 0:30:02.560 media debacle. Wow, that's gonna be quite a discussion, so 0:30:02.640 --> 0:30:18.640 stick around for that. Will be right back. Welcome back team. 0:30:18.720 --> 0:30:24.080 Let's take a call from Tom in Youngstown, Ohio. Hey, Tom, alright, block, 0:30:24.120 --> 0:30:28.400 good afternoon. Uh. Two things. Number One, you mentioned Carter Page, 0:30:28.440 --> 0:30:34.040 and you were supposing that as a result of using 0:30:34.040 --> 0:30:36.200 the FIS warrant against him, they could do it against 0:30:36.200 --> 0:30:39.400 different groups and included the press. They did it against 0:30:39.440 --> 0:30:42.080 the press. Remember James Rosen and his parents, they used 0:30:42.080 --> 0:30:44.880 the fives A warrant to monitor them. I think that 0:30:44.960 --> 0:30:48.240 was the title. Uh. I think that was a criminal 0:30:48.440 --> 0:30:50.080 I think that was a criminal ward. I don't think 0:30:50.080 --> 0:30:52.600 they used I don't believe that was I don't believe 0:30:52.640 --> 0:30:54.000 that was a fisor warrant. From what I know, I 0:30:54.000 --> 0:30:55.400 think it was a criminal war but they but they 0:30:55.400 --> 0:30:57.479 went after the press anyway, based on the press doing 0:30:57.520 --> 0:31:00.239 their job. They as they also seized the Associate im 0:31:00.280 --> 0:31:03.720 Presses records. So the the Obama administration had to pass 0:31:03.880 --> 0:31:07.640 to do uh, to break down that wall, which look, 0:31:07.640 --> 0:31:10.400 it's always a little bit murky, but they just shattered 0:31:10.400 --> 0:31:12.880 it of you don't go after journalists for doing their jobs. 0:31:12.920 --> 0:31:16.000 Obama's folks did it, and people did not care. I 0:31:16.000 --> 0:31:19.400 mean when I mean people, the media did not remember. Uh. 0:31:19.920 --> 0:31:24.640 The Attorney General tone uh Sheryl Atkinson that she could 0:31:24.640 --> 0:31:28.080 no longer go to the into the Justice Department. Uh 0:31:28.160 --> 0:31:30.520 and and uh that was her job. So she was 0:31:30.800 --> 0:31:35.160 basically out of a job. CBS, what did she do? 0:31:35.240 --> 0:31:39.120 The Justice Department under Eric Holder? Remember remember she was 0:31:39.160 --> 0:31:43.280 the Justice Department corresponded first and Eric Holder, Yeah, she 0:31:43.320 --> 0:31:46.680 was exposing Yeah, Sharyl Atkinson was exposing some of the 0:31:46.680 --> 0:31:49.160 stuff that the the Holder d o J was up 0:31:49.200 --> 0:31:51.120 to and they did not like that over and she 0:31:51.160 --> 0:31:53.120 was like a career. CBS report that she'd been there 0:31:53.120 --> 0:31:55.040 a very long time, it was very well regarded, and 0:31:55.040 --> 0:31:58.040 all of a sudden she's gone, yeah, hey, one other 0:31:58.040 --> 0:32:01.240 thing you mentioned Susan Rice, and that Obama's said to 0:32:01.280 --> 0:32:03.239 go by Susan Right, she's by the book. He's all 0:32:03.280 --> 0:32:06.080 by the book. Only by the book. The book happened 0:32:06.080 --> 0:32:08.960 to be rules for radicals, that that he wanted them 0:32:08.960 --> 0:32:11.000 to go by. I like what you I like what 0:32:11.040 --> 0:32:13.200 you did there, Tom Shields high and thank you very 0:32:13.280 --> 0:32:15.520 much for the call my friend speaking about like what 0:32:15.600 --> 0:32:19.160 you did there. We got our friend, uh representative Louis Gohmert. 0:32:22.280 --> 0:32:26.000 I am shocked, really shocked that no fight sad judge 0:32:26.360 --> 0:32:29.840 has put anybody in jail yet. Yet we have found 0:32:30.360 --> 0:32:34.560 total disregard for a propriety before the fight of courts, 0:32:34.880 --> 0:32:37.760 and somebody should have been in jail long before now 0:32:38.120 --> 0:32:42.240 over the over the improprieties that were submitted to the court. 0:32:42.400 --> 0:32:45.240 Somebody's got to go to jail or our system is over. 0:32:45.840 --> 0:32:51.480 It is done. Louis Colmert. Congresson Goman, I like cogreson 0:32:51.480 --> 0:32:52.800 going by the way. I've been a bunch of fives 0:32:52.840 --> 0:32:55.720 and Funny's fun dude. I like him, but I think 0:32:55.720 --> 0:32:57.520 he's wrong here. No one's going No one's go to prison. 0:32:58.120 --> 0:32:59.840 And I know I say that, and I can already 0:33:00.000 --> 0:33:02.720 people like click, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go listen 0:33:02.760 --> 0:33:05.800 to somebody who's like, they're all going to jail. Everybody, 0:33:05.880 --> 0:33:09.760 it's all coming down. Colly's gonna get frog marks. Nope, 0:33:10.480 --> 0:33:12.600 it's not gonna happen, folks. I'm not saying we won't 0:33:12.600 --> 0:33:13.880 get to the truth. I'm not saying there won't be 0:33:13.920 --> 0:33:17.680 any consequences, but it is overwhelmingly likely, in my opinion, 0:33:17.680 --> 0:33:21.240 it will be political consequences. Understand who we're talking about here, 0:33:21.280 --> 0:33:24.760 who we're dealing with, people that know what you can 0:33:24.800 --> 0:33:27.960 do that's unethical versus what you can do or what 0:33:28.080 --> 0:33:32.200 you would do that it's prosecutable. Right, Although I will 0:33:32.240 --> 0:33:34.680 say that James call me with the classified thing to me, 0:33:34.680 --> 0:33:36.240 I don't know how he's getting to pass on that one, 0:33:36.280 --> 0:33:39.200 meaning Comey had notes for meeting with the White House 0:33:39.280 --> 0:33:42.240 that at least one senator I think it was grassly, 0:33:42.320 --> 0:33:45.720 but I forget now. One senator has said the information 0:33:45.800 --> 0:33:48.200 was classified, called me linked to the press. That's a 0:33:48.320 --> 0:33:50.640 that's a crime. You're not allowed to do that. But somehowever, 0:33:50.640 --> 0:33:54.680 it's like, yeah, it's it's Comy. You know, Comey's out there. 0:33:55.840 --> 0:34:00.720 I stare across the Crystal Clear Lake, fine ending that truth, 0:34:00.840 --> 0:34:03.800 justice in the American way grows with each beat of 0:34:03.880 --> 0:34:06.640 my heart. Comey is such a weirdo. I mean, if 0:34:06.640 --> 0:34:08.120 you look at this, if you're not on Twitter, you 0:34:08.160 --> 0:34:10.000 should get on Twitter just to see what I'm talking about. 0:34:10.000 --> 0:34:12.120 With Comy, You're gonna be like, who is this guy? 0:34:13.480 --> 0:34:15.640 He's like six nine. I bet he can't even dunk. 0:34:16.200 --> 0:34:18.600 I bet he never could dunk. That's right, I said it. 0:34:19.360 --> 0:34:21.560 So he's like six eleven. If you're six eleven, you 0:34:21.560 --> 0:34:24.479 should be able to dunk, darn it. But yeah, Comey 0:34:24.560 --> 0:34:27.280 is a big weirdo. Oh by the way, the literally 0:34:27.320 --> 0:34:31.640 a large weirdo. Uh. Top Justice Department official that quit, 0:34:33.040 --> 0:34:36.080 Like I I can understand this one. She quit over 0:34:36.320 --> 0:34:39.600 quote fear she might be asked to oversee Russia probe. 0:34:41.080 --> 0:34:46.040 Rachel Brand was her name, Associate Attorney General. And I 0:34:46.080 --> 0:34:48.960 gotta tell you, you know what, I'm sure she's probably 0:34:49.000 --> 0:34:52.319 a Democrat. You know, she's probably standing with Hillary so 0:34:52.400 --> 0:34:54.799 to speak, the whole thing. But apart from all that, 0:34:54.920 --> 0:34:57.680 for a moment, you gotta assume you really don't want 0:34:57.680 --> 0:34:59.560 that job. You really don't want to be the person 0:34:59.600 --> 0:35:03.799 oversee sing the d J investigation at this at this 0:35:03.840 --> 0:35:06.920 point of Russia, because you're gonna be at a rough 0:35:06.960 --> 0:35:10.680 spot no matter what, unless you're a true ideologue who 0:35:10.840 --> 0:35:13.480 wants to use this to continue to use this as 0:35:13.520 --> 0:35:19.440 the primary means of going after the Trump administration, and 0:35:19.520 --> 0:35:21.920 you're gonna take the heat that comes along with that 0:35:21.960 --> 0:35:24.640 because we're finding out now much more of what's true 0:35:24.680 --> 0:35:27.520 and what really happened and what was really going on 0:35:27.680 --> 0:35:30.480 with all this. But yeah, that's not a job that 0:35:30.520 --> 0:35:32.719 I would be like running to sign up for. Yes 0:35:32.760 --> 0:35:34.600 I would. I would love to be the person who, 0:35:35.280 --> 0:35:38.319 depending on the day, is gonna get trashed by one 0:35:38.360 --> 0:35:42.040 network or the other based on whatever moves she makes. 0:35:42.080 --> 0:35:45.600 So I'm thinking this memo, do we have we we 0:35:45.600 --> 0:35:47.840 don't know you read this week? Maybe? Yeah, I'm not 0:35:47.880 --> 0:35:50.640 talking to producer. Mike is telling me maybe this week, 0:35:50.680 --> 0:35:54.680 but we're not sure yet. Um it looks like it 0:35:55.280 --> 0:35:57.480 the some version, but be released. As I said to you, 0:35:57.760 --> 0:36:00.640 they've already played the classification games, which I knew it happened. 0:36:01.080 --> 0:36:03.040 I think the memo is going to be underwhelming. I 0:36:03.040 --> 0:36:05.160 mean the fact that it's ten pages also just seems 0:36:05.200 --> 0:36:06.680 strange to me. Why do you need a ten page 0:36:06.719 --> 0:36:08.960 memo to a fete the four pages of what was 0:36:09.000 --> 0:36:14.160 already released. Uh, but it's not gonna stop. It's not 0:36:14.200 --> 0:36:17.920 gonna stop anything. We need to find more information anyway. 0:36:17.400 --> 0:36:19.720 I get kind of radical on this one, and people 0:36:19.719 --> 0:36:21.320 get mad at me, like Buck, do you understand the 0:36:21.360 --> 0:36:23.560 sensitivity of sources and methods. Yeah, I know I do. 0:36:23.600 --> 0:36:26.399 I get it, But I get radical in so far 0:36:26.440 --> 0:36:30.239 as I want I want the president to just put it. 0:36:30.280 --> 0:36:32.400 I wanted to be put out there. What are we 0:36:32.400 --> 0:36:35.880 really gonna find out? Carter Page talk to some shady 0:36:35.920 --> 0:36:40.240 Russian dudes, you know? Okay, and unless we're really worried 0:36:40.239 --> 0:36:42.880 about the safety of those specific Russians, by the way, 0:36:42.920 --> 0:36:45.520 could we just do block out their last names, give 0:36:45.600 --> 0:36:48.440 them pseudonyms, you know, give them fake names. Who cares, 0:36:49.360 --> 0:36:51.560 But just let's see what they're really working with here, 0:36:51.960 --> 0:36:54.640 you know, that would be it, you know called one uh, 0:36:54.760 --> 0:36:56.920 you know person a and the other person be you know, 0:36:56.960 --> 0:36:59.320 person a spoke a carter Page person b met with 0:36:59.400 --> 0:37:03.920 them here, you know, you can still protect the identities 0:37:03.920 --> 0:37:06.280 and the safety of individuals that maybe, and I'm assuming 0:37:06.280 --> 0:37:08.280 there are people. I'm not even sure there is anybody. 0:37:08.520 --> 0:37:10.520 I think it's like the dossier and then some news 0:37:10.520 --> 0:37:13.960 reports and then oh yeah, the FBI knew that he 0:37:13.960 --> 0:37:16.120 talked to some Russians years ago and he helped them, 0:37:16.160 --> 0:37:18.359 But maybe he was still shady. You know, I don't know. 0:37:19.200 --> 0:37:20.879 Not a lot, not a lot here that I think 0:37:20.880 --> 0:37:24.279 could be a big, a big problem, you know. I mean, 0:37:24.320 --> 0:37:29.600 Carter Page wasn't like, you know, an agent living in 0:37:29.680 --> 0:37:31.960 deep cover in Bin Lawden's house or something, and if 0:37:32.120 --> 0:37:34.160 anyone finds out, you know, like, that's not what was 0:37:34.200 --> 0:37:38.040 happening here, folks. So anyway, we're gonna get into the 0:37:38.040 --> 0:37:40.879 North Korea thing here, because this is you're gonna enjoy 0:37:40.960 --> 0:37:42.839 this one. I mean, it's on the one hand, kind 0:37:42.840 --> 0:37:47.000 of terrifying how delusional the media really is in that 0:37:47.200 --> 0:37:49.560 they seem to believe that Trump is pretty much on 0:37:49.600 --> 0:37:51.520 the same plane as Kim Jong own. I mean, there's 0:37:51.600 --> 0:37:53.960 reason that I'll make the case as to why I 0:37:54.000 --> 0:37:57.760 think they think that. Stay with me. Kim Jong's sister 0:37:57.880 --> 0:38:01.880 Kim Yo jong sitting near directly behind the Vice president 0:38:01.880 --> 0:38:07.040 of the United States. It provides legitimacy. Oh, it's absolutely significant, 0:38:07.360 --> 0:38:10.760 the symbolism. She's about to emerge on the world's largest 0:38:10.760 --> 0:38:14.040 television stage. Her star has risen meteorically over the past 0:38:14.080 --> 0:38:17.080 four years. Kim Yo jong is the real power just 0:38:17.239 --> 0:38:19.840 under her brother. With the world watching the Olympics, she 0:38:19.880 --> 0:38:22.719 will put a young, telegenic face on the regime. It's 0:38:22.719 --> 0:38:25.680 a way to showcase North Korea on a world stage. 0:38:25.800 --> 0:38:29.120 Kim is the perfect counterpart to this, and it also 0:38:29.320 --> 0:38:32.080 is a signal that North Korea is not um, you know, 0:38:32.120 --> 0:38:36.480 this crazy, weird former Cold War state, but that it 0:38:36.600 --> 0:38:39.640 too has young women that are capable and are the 0:38:39.680 --> 0:38:43.560 future leadership. Welcome to ours here. The Buck Sexon show. 0:38:43.760 --> 0:38:47.480 That was a whole bunch of reporting. I think it's 0:38:47.560 --> 0:38:54.239 from CNN, but from mostly yes CNN, about about a 0:38:54.840 --> 0:39:01.040 regime that is in fact a ghoulish like of the 0:39:01.239 --> 0:39:07.520 Soviet era. Um that is the most totalitarian and brutal 0:39:07.560 --> 0:39:13.600 and repressive government on the planet. And yet the press 0:39:13.680 --> 0:39:18.000 coverage of a woman who is directly involved in that 0:39:18.080 --> 0:39:21.400 apparatus is like, yeah, look at her, She's telegenic and 0:39:21.480 --> 0:39:26.600 great and what a moment for North Korea. Uh, there 0:39:26.760 --> 0:39:31.319 is no way two make sense of how the media 0:39:31.400 --> 0:39:35.479 could be so foolish in their coverage of North Korea 0:39:35.680 --> 0:39:38.640 and North Korea without understanding that really this is at 0:39:38.719 --> 0:39:44.800 least in part about Trump. And I'm not just coming 0:39:44.880 --> 0:39:47.759 up with that. It's quite clear there were comparisons in 0:39:47.800 --> 0:39:51.799 the media between Kim Yo jung and remember that's the 0:39:52.000 --> 0:39:56.760 that's the sister of Kim Jong un. Kim Yo Jung 0:39:57.080 --> 0:40:00.880 is also in the polite borrow the scene, your communist 0:40:02.080 --> 0:40:08.960 senior communist entity that runs North Korea. She is the 0:40:09.239 --> 0:40:14.640 head of propaganda for the North Korean regime. She is 0:40:14.840 --> 0:40:19.160 personally technical title is director of the Propaganda and Agitation 0:40:19.200 --> 0:40:23.120 Department of the Workers Party of Korea. That sounds like 0:40:23.160 --> 0:40:27.160 a fun place to show up to work, and she 0:40:27.400 --> 0:40:31.360 is overseeing the brainwashing and psychological terror apparatus of the 0:40:31.360 --> 0:40:33.759 North Korean state. That's who this woman is. That they're 0:40:33.760 --> 0:40:39.400 all like, Oh, she's amazing. What are you wearing that door? 0:40:39.920 --> 0:40:45.520 That's Chanel. Well, when she goes back home, there will 0:40:45.520 --> 0:40:53.680 still be the multigenerational concentration camps where North Korean intelligence 0:40:53.800 --> 0:40:59.400 and military agents forced children to inform on their parents 0:40:59.560 --> 0:41:03.839 political beliefs inside these camps, and then the parents are 0:41:04.320 --> 0:41:09.080 mutilated and tortured to death on the evidence provided by 0:41:09.120 --> 0:41:12.960 their own children. That's North Korea. He didn't really get 0:41:13.000 --> 0:41:15.880 that sense of it though, from CNN's media coverage of it. 0:41:15.920 --> 0:41:18.239 And in fact, they were all too quick, and let's 0:41:18.280 --> 0:41:20.160 just see it as New York Times to their number 0:41:20.200 --> 0:41:24.800 of them, they were all too quick to talk about 0:41:24.800 --> 0:41:27.839 how North Korea was winning a gold medal for diplomacy. 0:41:29.520 --> 0:41:32.799 To compare Kim Yo jung when I just gave you 0:41:32.840 --> 0:41:35.960 some stats on sanctioned by the Treasury Department, by the way, hattle, 0:41:36.640 --> 0:41:39.480 that gets everybody excited at the dinner party. I just 0:41:39.560 --> 0:41:43.120 got my Treasure Department sanction for crimes against humanity. How's 0:41:43.239 --> 0:41:49.640 your day going? Compared to Ivanka Trump saying she's the 0:41:49.640 --> 0:41:53.440 Avanca of North Korea, which is quite a slight. If 0:41:53.480 --> 0:41:55.760 you don't think that's a slight, imagine for one moment 0:41:55.840 --> 0:41:58.040 that it was not the Trump administration. We were talking 0:41:58.040 --> 0:42:01.280 about the Obama administration, and any member of the press 0:42:01.360 --> 0:42:05.600 had ever, even for a moment, made a comparison between 0:42:05.840 --> 0:42:10.400 an active member of North Korea's apparatus of terror, repression, 0:42:10.719 --> 0:42:16.080 and murder with a member of Barack Obama's family. Right. 0:42:17.040 --> 0:42:18.799 You know, if someone had said Kim Yo Jong has 0:42:18.840 --> 0:42:21.839 any similarity to Michelle Obama, for example, in any way, 0:42:21.880 --> 0:42:24.600 I think people would have lost their minds. And I 0:42:24.640 --> 0:42:28.120 would agree with that actually, but you'll just note that 0:42:29.440 --> 0:42:35.600 with Ivanka, it's like, yeah, you know, young telogenic one's 0:42:35.640 --> 0:42:39.440 a part of a homicidal, maniacal regime. And you know, 0:42:40.080 --> 0:42:43.000 the other is Warden Grad who is an advisor to 0:42:43.000 --> 0:42:44.840 her dad in the White House and has like a 0:42:45.000 --> 0:42:47.480 you know, some nice kids and is a nice person 0:42:48.680 --> 0:42:51.200 trying to be a part of the U. S administration. 0:42:51.520 --> 0:42:55.400 You know, I'm sort of where's the comparison exactly? But 0:42:55.440 --> 0:42:58.680 they were saying that, oh, yeah, she's the Avanka of 0:42:58.680 --> 0:43:07.200 of North Korea. Uh. They're also was it particularly particularly 0:43:07.239 --> 0:43:10.239 annoying thing done by I think it was that they 0:43:10.280 --> 0:43:12.800 think this one was the New York Times where they 0:43:12.840 --> 0:43:20.600 they compared Pence's diplomacy to Kim Yo Jung's diplomacy in 0:43:20.719 --> 0:43:22.799 order to make it seem like Kim Yo Jung, Kim 0:43:22.840 --> 0:43:26.600 Jong Lund's sister is the one who you know, really 0:43:26.640 --> 0:43:29.279 gets it, you know, she's the savvy diplomat. Pence is 0:43:29.360 --> 0:43:33.440 just some rube, some you know, some hay seed, some hillbilly. 0:43:33.440 --> 0:43:36.719 He doesn't he doesn't get it. Yeah, they thought that 0:43:37.000 --> 0:43:40.960 she came off better in the comparison of the two. 0:43:41.400 --> 0:43:43.759 We're trying to find the I mean, I'm just so 0:43:43.840 --> 0:43:48.200 you get a sense of exactly whether or not I'm 0:43:48.239 --> 0:43:51.440 I mean, I'm exaggerating here anything else. The press is 0:43:51.480 --> 0:43:56.360 called North Korea's uh, north North Korea's efforts at the 0:43:56.400 --> 0:44:00.520 Olympics at charm offensive. Okay, fine, But they've also written 0:44:00.520 --> 0:44:02.560 headlines like this one from the New York Times, Kim 0:44:02.640 --> 0:44:08.160 Jong Own's sister turns on the charm, taking Pence's spotlight. 0:44:09.640 --> 0:44:13.120 Mm hmm. And as I said that the Times referred 0:44:13.120 --> 0:44:18.640 to North Korea's Ivanka, Uh, this is some pretty heinous stuff, folks. 0:44:18.640 --> 0:44:21.200 When you get into what North Korea is really like, 0:44:21.280 --> 0:44:25.359 what the regime is all about. You can complain about 0:44:25.360 --> 0:44:27.880 the Trump administration, you can think they're terrible. You know, 0:44:28.640 --> 0:44:30.880 this is America. You're allowed to have You're allowed to 0:44:30.880 --> 0:44:34.160 have dumb political opinions. Many millions of our fellow Americans do. 0:44:35.600 --> 0:44:38.839 But if you think that there is any moral equivalency 0:44:39.040 --> 0:44:42.479 or any comparison to be drawn between any member of 0:44:43.440 --> 0:44:46.759 the Trump administration of the Republican Party and what is 0:44:46.800 --> 0:44:51.160 going on in North Korea. You are, in fact, a 0:44:51.160 --> 0:44:56.920 a dangerous moron. Um it is, it is aggressively stupid 0:44:57.680 --> 0:45:02.360 to draw any comparisons or parallel between our our government, 0:45:02.400 --> 0:45:06.279 our administration, Donald Trump, and North Korea. And people were 0:45:06.280 --> 0:45:10.400 doing it. I mean, I'm giving you the big newspapers 0:45:10.440 --> 0:45:13.200 and news sites out there, I mean some of the largest, 0:45:13.239 --> 0:45:17.279 the most mainstream of the mainstream media. But once you 0:45:17.280 --> 0:45:20.680 get into the opinion level, the opinion sections and you know, 0:45:20.719 --> 0:45:23.520 the commentary at on Twitter and elsewhere that the blue 0:45:23.600 --> 0:45:28.279 check peanut gallery, they're all, oh, yeah, you know, it's 0:45:28.320 --> 0:45:31.840 well Trump, North Korea is better at this diplomacy thing 0:45:31.840 --> 0:45:34.040 than Trump. You know, Trump is so terrible, He's the worst. 0:45:34.600 --> 0:45:37.160 Trump's guilty of American fascist and North Korea just has 0:45:37.160 --> 0:45:40.120 its own version of People say communism, but it's really 0:45:40.160 --> 0:45:45.399 more like a more like a religious cult than communism, 0:45:45.400 --> 0:45:50.440 but that's a different discussion. They were delusional. And then 0:45:50.480 --> 0:45:53.120 there was just some other little aspects of how they 0:45:53.120 --> 0:45:56.760 approached North Korea, like, for example, the North Korean cheer squad. 0:45:57.239 --> 0:45:59.480 So they all were addressed exactly the same and moving 0:45:59.480 --> 0:46:02.520 in complete at unison. And here's what it sounded like. 0:46:29.880 --> 0:46:32.680 They were the North Korean cheerleaders who were going, I mean, 0:46:32.760 --> 0:46:35.680 I've never seen anything like that. First they started, they 0:46:35.680 --> 0:46:38.279 were cheering one Korea. Then they were cheering when when 0:46:38.280 --> 0:46:41.880 when it was a remarkable scene, they really look a 0:46:41.960 --> 0:46:44.879 sports commentator, I guess that was Mary Carell and NBC. Look, 0:46:45.040 --> 0:46:47.320 she's allowed to say whatever she wants, and she's also 0:46:47.480 --> 0:46:49.160 just saying that it was a remarkable cy and that's fine. 0:46:49.200 --> 0:46:51.520 I have no problem with that. It's the political press, 0:46:52.400 --> 0:46:55.120 it's the newspapers out there that are talking about the 0:46:55.160 --> 0:46:58.600 diplomacy and the effectiveness of North North Korean diplomacy here 0:46:59.440 --> 0:47:04.359 that I inc was particularly egregious. And I think it's 0:47:04.360 --> 0:47:09.120 only they're blind spots on this issue, or there the 0:47:09.239 --> 0:47:13.320 obtuse nature of the media's coverage such that they wouldn't 0:47:13.680 --> 0:47:16.359 seem or they wouldn't decide it was necessary to point 0:47:16.360 --> 0:47:19.640 out that, yes, the North Korea cheer squad at the 0:47:19.680 --> 0:47:24.720 Olympics moved in with tremendous precision and everything else, probably 0:47:24.760 --> 0:47:27.160 because they were threatened with constant beatings at home, and 0:47:27.200 --> 0:47:30.520 that's not an exaggeration. If they didn't get it exactly right, 0:47:30.920 --> 0:47:33.960 maybe worse than beatings, maybe the starvation of their families. 0:47:35.680 --> 0:47:37.040 If you haven't seen it. I mean, there are a 0:47:37.040 --> 0:47:39.160 series of documentaries on North Korea that are all that 0:47:39.200 --> 0:47:42.480 are actually quite good. There's one in particular where they 0:47:42.520 --> 0:47:46.319 bring in doctors from the outside outside North koreas borders 0:47:46.320 --> 0:47:48.680 I forget. I saw it many years ago, and they 0:47:48.719 --> 0:47:51.920 bring in all these doctors and they're fixing I problems, 0:47:52.080 --> 0:47:54.680 a lot of cataracts, I believe, which is a pretty 0:47:54.680 --> 0:47:57.360 straightforward surgery. But if you don't get the surgery, you 0:47:57.400 --> 0:48:02.000 go blind. And so they're they're actually restoring sight to 0:48:02.160 --> 0:48:04.400 North Koreans and their foreign doctors that are doing this 0:48:04.440 --> 0:48:08.759 because North Korean medicine is obviously garbage, barely exists, and 0:48:08.800 --> 0:48:11.680 but they're just trying to bring in as many of 0:48:11.719 --> 0:48:14.600 these uh as many of these doctors or as many 0:48:14.600 --> 0:48:17.759 patients these doctors as possible, and they're literally people have 0:48:17.880 --> 0:48:19.960 been blind, some of them for years, and now they're 0:48:19.960 --> 0:48:22.080 able to see again because their eyes are fine. They're 0:48:22.120 --> 0:48:25.000 just covered because of the counteracts. And what's remarkable. And 0:48:25.000 --> 0:48:27.120 then and I'm kind of giving away. Where the documentary 0:48:27.160 --> 0:48:30.000 goes here is that you have people whose site has 0:48:30.040 --> 0:48:35.000 been restored by the doctor, and they all know. They 0:48:35.040 --> 0:48:37.960 all know right away once they can see again. They 0:48:38.000 --> 0:48:40.520 don't say thank you to the doctor. They don't hug 0:48:40.560 --> 0:48:45.600 the doctor. They turn, they kneel, they grovel, they cry, 0:48:45.800 --> 0:48:50.080 and they beg for thanks. From a portrait of it 0:48:50.160 --> 0:48:52.719 was at the time Kim Jong Ilk, Kim Jong N's 0:48:52.760 --> 0:48:55.239 father on the wall. Yeah, I forget about the doctor 0:48:55.280 --> 0:49:00.080 that actually like changed my life. Thank you, dear leader. Oh, 0:49:00.080 --> 0:49:02.640 dear leader, You're so amazing. And here's what's even more 0:49:02.719 --> 0:49:06.360 sick about it. I can't blame them at all. Not 0:49:06.440 --> 0:49:09.800 only they brainwashed, they know that if they give insufficient thanks, 0:49:09.920 --> 0:49:13.799 especially because their foreigners present, it might be off to 0:49:13.840 --> 0:49:16.840 the might be off to the concentration camp for them 0:49:17.040 --> 0:49:20.799 for insufficient thanks, for insufficiently saying thank you to the 0:49:20.800 --> 0:49:25.200 dear leader who has created this environment in the country 0:49:25.360 --> 0:49:28.880 where you know, the Kim dynasty, where people are unable 0:49:28.920 --> 0:49:32.120 to get medical care or starving or living under complete 0:49:32.120 --> 0:49:36.000 tyranny and oppression. And you would think that this context 0:49:36.080 --> 0:49:39.200 would inform some of the way that season Journalists in 0:49:39.239 --> 0:49:43.080 New York Times CNN et cetera. Would discuss the North 0:49:43.160 --> 0:49:46.480 Korean propaganda offensive at the Olympics, because that's what it is. 0:49:46.520 --> 0:49:49.200 Nothing has changed, folks. This is not a big thaw 0:49:49.239 --> 0:49:51.279 in relations. They're not gonna be buddies after this. North 0:49:51.360 --> 0:49:53.440 Korea is not going to give up its nuclear program. 0:49:53.480 --> 0:49:56.280 They're not gonna stop testing missiles. Okay, I'm not gonna happen. 0:49:58.080 --> 0:50:00.399 In fact, the ignorance of the media out in North 0:50:00.480 --> 0:50:04.640 Korea was particularly on display when it came to the 0:50:04.719 --> 0:50:08.839 signature of Kim Joe young or Kim Yo jong rather, 0:50:09.239 --> 0:50:15.239 who was making some you know, write writing down some 0:50:15.320 --> 0:50:18.400 remarks about a unified Korea, looking forward to a unified 0:50:18.480 --> 0:50:21.120 Korea in the future, and a lot of press were like, 0:50:21.200 --> 0:50:23.520 see it's this is great. This is like the unified 0:50:23.600 --> 0:50:26.520 Korea and they're marching under unified flag every well, for 0:50:26.640 --> 0:50:30.200 decades now, North Korea has been talking about a unified Korea. 0:50:30.239 --> 0:50:33.640 It will come through either submission or conquest. That is it. 0:50:33.640 --> 0:50:36.399 It's going to be unified under the North Korean model, 0:50:36.440 --> 0:50:39.080 not the South Korean model, and the North Koreans would 0:50:39.080 --> 0:50:40.839 be all too happy if they could to do that 0:50:40.880 --> 0:50:43.520 by force. In fact, I think you can make a 0:50:43.640 --> 0:50:46.279 very convincing argument that the entire structure of the North 0:50:46.320 --> 0:50:51.800 Korean state exists so that it can take over South Korea, 0:50:51.840 --> 0:50:53.320 it's just at some point in the future, and that 0:50:53.400 --> 0:50:56.160 it's nuclear program is not just an external deterrent but 0:50:56.239 --> 0:51:00.560 to blackmail the South into eventually being subsumed into the North. 0:51:02.920 --> 0:51:05.280 But the journalis done. They're like, oh the warm greeting 0:51:05.360 --> 0:51:07.720 she wrote, it was so nice about a unified Korea. 0:51:09.280 --> 0:51:12.880 H They they are, but they are uncurious about this. 0:51:12.960 --> 0:51:15.920 Why because they view it as in some ways an 0:51:15.920 --> 0:51:18.480 opportunity to take cheap shots at Trump, which is what 0:51:18.560 --> 0:51:24.160 happened um. And also, whenever the current administration is evolved, whatever, 0:51:24.160 --> 0:51:26.800 there's a question of foreign policy, anything like, that's an issue. 0:51:28.239 --> 0:51:30.680 It has to be taken the the issue must be 0:51:30.719 --> 0:51:34.479 put in the context of, well, Trump is really bad too, 0:51:34.560 --> 0:51:37.719 you see, So we can't really blame this country for 0:51:37.760 --> 0:51:41.760 acting only that it does. Because Trump trumps arrangement syndrome 0:51:41.800 --> 0:51:43.920 is a very real thing, and it has infected the 0:51:43.960 --> 0:51:46.080 minds of the media more so than even many of 0:51:46.120 --> 0:51:51.520 our you know, everyday American leftists that are around us, 0:51:51.600 --> 0:51:53.480 especially in places like New York City, where I'm doing 0:51:53.520 --> 0:51:58.840 this show right now, So it was disconcerting to see it. Um, 0:51:58.880 --> 0:52:02.480 it's not something that we should excuse or allow. I mean, 0:52:02.480 --> 0:52:05.680 it's fine to report on North Korea's Olympic cheer squads, 0:52:05.840 --> 0:52:09.240 as weird and unsettling as they are. But no matter 0:52:09.280 --> 0:52:13.040 how much they hate Trump, the media never has an 0:52:13.080 --> 0:52:16.600 excuse to be a North Korean cheer squad. And that's 0:52:16.600 --> 0:52:20.640 what we saw over the weekend. And it was pathetic 0:52:20.680 --> 0:52:23.400 that they will slam the vice president of the United 0:52:23.440 --> 0:52:28.600 States while praising the sister and enabler of the worst 0:52:28.640 --> 0:52:31.720 dictator on the planet, and think that somehow that's normal. 0:52:31.760 --> 0:52:35.520 We don't pick up on this. They are an embarrassment. 0:52:35.880 --> 0:52:39.279 We will be right back. We have supported regimes like this, 0:52:39.400 --> 0:52:43.279 like Russia for many many that are still doing it. 0:52:43.320 --> 0:52:46.479 And so it's very interesting that he didn't take a knee, 0:52:46.480 --> 0:52:48.520 because you wouldn't have known if he was paying homage, 0:52:48.800 --> 0:52:51.880 because taking a knee is not disrespectful, you know, because 0:52:51.920 --> 0:52:54.400 you can. You can take a knee to propose to somebody, 0:52:54.640 --> 0:52:57.120 take anit to to to pray to somebody. So I 0:52:57.200 --> 0:53:00.600 think him not taking a knee, what him sitting down 0:53:00.680 --> 0:53:03.239 was more of the nonverbal spit in your face. It's 0:53:03.280 --> 0:53:09.000 interestingly that Donald Trump revers Russia so much over the 0:53:09.080 --> 0:53:12.919 United States very often, and so it's kind of hypocritical 0:53:13.000 --> 0:53:15.919 for Pence. All I hear from Trump is how great 0:53:16.000 --> 0:53:18.560 Russia is. He never says a bad word about Putin. 0:53:19.000 --> 0:53:22.640 That really is on American I mean, those are something. 0:53:22.640 --> 0:53:25.279 Those are the different opinions you get on on the view, 0:53:26.280 --> 0:53:30.400 uh about about North Korea and Russia. And look, to 0:53:30.440 --> 0:53:34.280 be fair, it's a little bit like you know, asking 0:53:34.719 --> 0:53:41.600 the Kardashians for their their thesis on nuclear physics in 0:53:41.760 --> 0:53:44.160 the twenty one century. I mean, it's it's a little beyond, 0:53:44.200 --> 0:53:46.760 you know, this is the this is a little beyond 0:53:46.800 --> 0:53:49.920 I think the wheelhouse you could say of joy Beha. 0:53:50.320 --> 0:53:54.239 You know, Trump reves Russia, and you know Alwa's it's 0:53:54.280 --> 0:53:58.759 just un American and you've got I don't know who 0:53:58.840 --> 0:54:03.480 the host was, but saying that Pence sitting down was 0:54:03.520 --> 0:54:10.440 a non verbal spit on your face. Let's just look 0:54:10.440 --> 0:54:13.400 at the other side of this. If Pence was walking 0:54:13.480 --> 0:54:19.240 up to North Korea's emissary to the Olympics being all chummy, 0:54:19.400 --> 0:54:21.360 what do we think what do we think the media 0:54:21.440 --> 0:54:24.719 is response to that? Would be, Oh, he's being the 0:54:24.760 --> 0:54:28.319 bigger man. He's really taking the long view. It's really 0:54:28.360 --> 0:54:31.760 amazing the kind of diplomatic acumen that Mike Pence brings 0:54:31.760 --> 0:54:33.879 to the scene. Here, look at look at what he's doing. 0:54:33.920 --> 0:54:36.840 He's a great statesman. You know, he's looks like a 0:54:37.120 --> 0:54:40.400 like a leading man in Hollywood and has the diplomatic 0:54:40.440 --> 0:54:44.240 tact of Henry Kissinger. They'd be like, oh, my gosh, 0:54:44.280 --> 0:54:47.200 Mike Pence is like loves North Korea and he's like 0:54:47.280 --> 0:54:50.840 so evil and I'm like sad. I'm like literally shaking 0:54:50.960 --> 0:54:52.719 right now because of what Mike Pence just did with 0:54:52.760 --> 0:54:55.759 North Korea. That is what they would do. I mean, 0:54:55.800 --> 0:54:58.120 maybe not in those exact words or telling, but pretty 0:54:58.160 --> 0:55:01.080 close to that. And we know they're just looking for 0:55:01.239 --> 0:55:03.680 a chance to take take shots at Pence, but let's 0:55:04.640 --> 0:55:07.680 understand that this is in the context of some really 0:55:07.719 --> 0:55:14.280 serious stuff. Um and you know, the the media's fan 0:55:14.400 --> 0:55:19.400 girling over North Korea's so called charm offensive is a 0:55:19.480 --> 0:55:21.879 real embarrassment for this country. And I would say it's 0:55:21.880 --> 0:55:24.200 embarrassing for places like seeing in the New York Times, 0:55:24.200 --> 0:55:27.200 but I don't know if they're even capable of it anymore. 0:55:27.920 --> 0:55:31.520 I don't know if if if they're capable of feeling 0:55:31.560 --> 0:55:33.480 ashamed of the way that they cover issues and the 0:55:33.480 --> 0:55:39.400 way that they are so skewed in their approach to 0:55:39.440 --> 0:55:44.319 all this. Trump has thrown them so Trump has made 0:55:44.320 --> 0:55:50.879 them so unhinged that nothing is uh for them. There's 0:55:50.920 --> 0:55:53.719 no issue you can look at and say, well, you know, 0:55:53.760 --> 0:55:56.680 we can all agree that that's worse. You know that guy, 0:55:56.680 --> 0:56:01.560 That guy's worse than Trump. They act like they have 0:56:01.719 --> 0:56:06.560 discovered with this Kim Jong un emissary, the sister of 0:56:06.640 --> 0:56:10.560 Kim Jong and Kim Yo jung, they have discovered some 0:56:10.640 --> 0:56:13.200 new opening with North Korea. It's just all a line. 0:56:13.400 --> 0:56:17.680 It's all crap. North Korea is the most evil despotism 0:56:17.680 --> 0:56:19.560 on the planet, and that they don't understand this and 0:56:19.560 --> 0:56:23.440 that they would allow Remember, they are enabling you want 0:56:23.440 --> 0:56:26.280 to talk about being complicit, they are enabling North Korea's 0:56:26.280 --> 0:56:30.240 propaganda to be more effective. What message is this sending 0:56:30.280 --> 0:56:33.080 to our South Korean allies who are looking at this like, 0:56:33.680 --> 0:56:35.680 I mean, I guess they're allowed to be at the Olympics, 0:56:35.680 --> 0:56:38.279 but you know, let's not let's not all take a 0:56:38.360 --> 0:56:40.439 knee for them, right, Let's not all kneel in front 0:56:40.480 --> 0:56:43.359 of them. What are the messages that are being sent here? Well, 0:56:44.040 --> 0:56:46.279 first and foremost, the media hates Trump more than Kim 0:56:46.360 --> 0:57:00.160 Jong un. Other shows just talk at you in the 0:57:00.280 --> 0:57:03.440 Freedom Hud. We have a mission. We fight for the 0:57:03.520 --> 0:57:06.880 truth in a team effort, and buck us back with 0:57:06.920 --> 0:57:11.920 our next play. That's some lines. Let let's take Steve 0:57:12.280 --> 0:57:17.280 in New York Casety, Hey, shield side Buck. Thanks for 0:57:17.320 --> 0:57:21.480 taking my call, shield Tide buddy, appreciate it. I just 0:57:21.520 --> 0:57:23.160 had a quick question for you. I wanted to get 0:57:23.160 --> 0:57:26.080 your perspective as a former member that on YPD about 0:57:26.600 --> 0:57:30.240 you believe the Trump administration has started to prepare some 0:57:30.320 --> 0:57:33.840 of the damage has done between UM American law enforcement 0:57:33.960 --> 0:57:36.120 and uh, the American public, some of the stuff that 0:57:36.160 --> 0:57:38.360 was done under the the Obama administration. Or is that 0:57:38.480 --> 0:57:42.480 an issue that's yet to have been tackled. I think absolutely. 0:57:42.520 --> 0:57:48.200 I mean I think if nothing else, Trump has verbalized 0:57:48.520 --> 0:57:53.520 a restoration of respect for law enforcement that was very 0:57:53.600 --> 0:57:57.720 much needed. Look, we were and I remember seeing the rallies, 0:57:57.760 --> 0:58:00.000 and I remember hearing President Obama the way he would 0:58:00.000 --> 0:58:02.520 speak but law enforcement, it was, you know, he'd say, yeah, 0:58:02.560 --> 0:58:04.240 we'd like law enforce and but you know, there's a 0:58:04.280 --> 0:58:06.280 lot of bad stuff and distrust, and there's a lot 0:58:06.320 --> 0:58:08.120 of racism. And it was always whoa you know, a 0:58:08.120 --> 0:58:10.320 whole a whole lot of second and that was the 0:58:10.640 --> 0:58:14.120 the media narrative was that police forces across the country 0:58:14.120 --> 0:58:20.040 were full of of of of systematically racist procedures and 0:58:20.240 --> 0:58:23.480 racist officers, and it was very damaging. And I mean, 0:58:23.520 --> 0:58:27.640 I will never forget the night of the well the 0:58:27.720 --> 0:58:33.240 conflagrations in in Ferguson, and I also remember the nights 0:58:33.240 --> 0:58:36.280 of the riots in Baltimore and the way the media 0:58:36.360 --> 0:58:37.840 was covering it. There was a lot of like, yeah, 0:58:37.920 --> 0:58:40.520 you know, this is this is because law enforcement does 0:58:40.560 --> 0:58:43.680 bad stuff. I'm like, no, people aren't looting a CVS 0:58:43.840 --> 0:58:47.200 because of what law enforcement did. And I think it 0:58:47.280 --> 0:58:53.600 was very damaging. And the obaministration played really, uh, really 0:58:53.600 --> 0:58:56.880 dirty politics with this issue. And Trump is restoring. And 0:58:56.880 --> 0:58:59.840 now there is one little wrinkle here, or one in 0:59:00.000 --> 0:59:04.840 a sting unanticipated shift, and that is that the press 0:59:05.720 --> 0:59:08.000 is now I mean, they still think the cops are basically, 0:59:08.560 --> 0:59:10.080 you know, a lot of them are racist. That's what 0:59:10.120 --> 0:59:11.880 the media thinks. They think a lot of cops are racists. 0:59:11.880 --> 0:59:15.040 And by the way, including officers who are black and 0:59:15.160 --> 0:59:17.880 Latino themselves, right, they're part of the racist problems too. 0:59:18.040 --> 0:59:20.000 It's not just oh, the white cops are racist, it's 0:59:20.000 --> 0:59:21.920 just cops in general are racist. That's one of the 0:59:21.920 --> 0:59:26.040 media narratives. But the thing with the FBI is really 0:59:26.040 --> 0:59:29.080 funny because now all of a sudden, you've got the 0:59:29.160 --> 0:59:33.400 major media outlets who are like, oh, FBI beyond suspicion. 0:59:33.520 --> 0:59:35.480 You know, the FBI would never do anything wrong on 0:59:36.040 --> 0:59:39.480 I didn't realize the FBI was was basically perfect, you know. 0:59:39.880 --> 0:59:42.480 Is some of the FBI guys must be feeling like, hey, 0:59:42.840 --> 0:59:45.160 CNN likes us all of a sudden, but they know 0:59:45.320 --> 0:59:47.400 because their FBI guys, that CNN is gonna hate them 0:59:47.400 --> 0:59:50.000 as soon as it's they go back to their usual right. 0:59:50.000 --> 0:59:51.560 But so that's the only thing I think, Steve, that 0:59:51.600 --> 0:59:56.520 people weren't expecting. Absolutely absolutely, I couldn't agree more. And 0:59:56.880 --> 0:59:59.600 just as as a Fox enforcement officer, I see it's 0:59:59.680 --> 1:00:01.760 nice to have have kind of bounced back from that, 1:00:01.840 --> 1:00:04.320 you know, the five officers down in the last five days. 1:00:04.360 --> 1:00:06.640 As money, I mean, it's it's it's becoming a problem. 1:00:06.640 --> 1:00:09.280 But it definitely seems like I think Trump's on the 1:00:09.360 --> 1:00:11.760 right track and thoughts and prayers the families those offers 1:00:11.760 --> 1:00:14.280 who were lost in a line of duty, and Steve 1:00:14.400 --> 1:00:17.560 Shields High thank you very much for calling in. So 1:00:17.880 --> 1:00:20.440 you know, I here's where I am on the on 1:00:20.520 --> 1:00:22.760 the Rob Porter issue, and I'm not gonna take a 1:00:22.880 --> 1:00:25.000 much time with this. We've got our friend Sean Parnell, 1:00:25.480 --> 1:00:31.560 who's an Army ranger, author, public speaker. It's all around great, 1:00:31.640 --> 1:00:33.720 great dude. He's gonna be he's in studio with us, 1:00:33.760 --> 1:00:35.160 he's gonna be joining us here in just a second. 1:00:35.840 --> 1:00:39.760 But I did need to address really the way people 1:00:40.520 --> 1:00:42.760 in the press are so focused on this issue of 1:00:42.760 --> 1:00:45.280 of of Rob Porter. So this was a guy who, 1:00:46.320 --> 1:00:48.400 as I said, and maybe I'm not paying close enough 1:00:48.400 --> 1:00:50.360 attention to what's going on inside the White House day 1:00:50.360 --> 1:00:51.680 in the day out, I don't even know he was. 1:00:52.560 --> 1:00:54.160 I mean, I think I had seen him before and 1:00:54.160 --> 1:00:56.720 photos in on tip, but like it was not. He's 1:00:56.760 --> 1:00:58.840 not somebody with a job that you're like, oh my gosh, 1:00:58.960 --> 1:01:02.320 is he qualified. I think it's basically handing folders to people. 1:01:03.360 --> 1:01:04.920 And I know that he has access and he's in 1:01:04.960 --> 1:01:06.440 the White House and he had an in terms of 1:01:06.440 --> 1:01:10.880 security clearance and all that. But I was and look, 1:01:10.920 --> 1:01:14.040 if he's a if he's a spouse abuser, if he 1:01:14.280 --> 1:01:15.840 beat his wives, I mean, it's one of the most 1:01:15.840 --> 1:01:18.960 grotesque things any human being can do. And you know, 1:01:19.040 --> 1:01:21.760 the the guy should yeah, he should be gone. And 1:01:21.800 --> 1:01:23.520 if they knew, they never should have hired him. But 1:01:24.000 --> 1:01:27.320 they're saying they didn't know. And he's also saying he's 1:01:27.360 --> 1:01:32.560 not guilty. So and I that's the situation we're in 1:01:32.680 --> 1:01:36.520 right now. Uh, but the press has made this into 1:01:37.240 --> 1:01:41.160 a a huge national story. Um, and today during the 1:01:41.200 --> 1:01:46.240 White House Press conference, I was, it was it was 1:01:46.240 --> 1:01:48.280 pretty remarkable. Folks, if you didn't want, I know, mostly 1:01:48.360 --> 1:01:49.960 have jobs in lives, so you don't sit around like 1:01:49.960 --> 1:01:53.439 I do watching the White House press conferences. But uh, 1:01:54.000 --> 1:01:56.160 you figure that with all things going on in the world, 1:01:57.840 --> 1:01:59.360 there's a lot of stuff to talk about, a lot 1:01:59.360 --> 1:02:01.440 of questions that they might want to pose the administration, 1:02:01.640 --> 1:02:05.600 many many things happening in this universe of ours. Here 1:02:05.680 --> 1:02:07.560 is what it was like during the White House Press 1:02:07.560 --> 1:02:11.040 conference today. It seems like the President who was believing 1:02:11.520 --> 1:02:15.560 Mr Porter as opposed to his alleged victims, he rob 1:02:15.640 --> 1:02:19.040 Porter as accusers or are they lying still wish Rob 1:02:19.200 --> 1:02:22.920 Porter well, prime candidate for blackmail and you have someone 1:02:22.960 --> 1:02:25.360 like Rob Porter who didn't have permident security there and 1:02:25.480 --> 1:02:27.320 what kind of We heard the President say that he 1:02:27.440 --> 1:02:30.720 takes domestic violence very seriously. I spoke with the president. 1:02:30.760 --> 1:02:34.520 Those are actually directly his works that he gave me. Mills's. 1:02:34.800 --> 1:02:39.160 That was just a smattering a selection of the various 1:02:40.520 --> 1:02:42.280 members of the White House Press Corps who just all 1:02:42.320 --> 1:02:43.920 they want to do is ask more questions. But Rob Porter, 1:02:44.000 --> 1:02:48.080 Rob Porter, Rob Porter, the guy resigned, He's gone. He 1:02:48.120 --> 1:02:52.880 wasn't important. Who cares at this point? Right? I don't 1:02:52.880 --> 1:02:55.840 know why does the press care so much? Oh, that's right, 1:02:56.560 --> 1:02:59.360 because they have a narrative. They have a storyline that 1:02:59.400 --> 1:03:04.240 Donald Trump is the abuser in chief. That's what they say. 1:03:04.640 --> 1:03:07.080 They actually had a guy or MSNBC. I saw this 1:03:07.120 --> 1:03:09.800 over the weekend. He referred to I mean, this was 1:03:10.240 --> 1:03:14.920 this was disrespectful and gross, even for MSNBC, which is 1:03:15.000 --> 1:03:18.640 saying a lot. But one of their analysts in MSNBC 1:03:18.760 --> 1:03:23.040 referred to Trump as the commander in chief of rape culture. 1:03:24.680 --> 1:03:27.320 Let that let that one just sinking there for a second. 1:03:27.360 --> 1:03:35.000 I mean, really unfounded, disrespectful and messed up stuff to say. 1:03:35.280 --> 1:03:37.200 You know, someone who says that tells you a lot 1:03:37.240 --> 1:03:42.440 more about themselves than they do the president or anything 1:03:42.440 --> 1:03:45.840 else that's going on. That's just just an offsides things 1:03:45.880 --> 1:03:48.840 to say. Man, it was crazy, but that's the narrative. 1:03:48.880 --> 1:03:53.600 That's the storyline that Trump is the is the you know, 1:03:53.640 --> 1:03:57.040 the commander in chief of the sexual abusers or whatever. 1:03:57.080 --> 1:04:00.920 It's really heinous, but the media believes it. I'm not 1:04:01.000 --> 1:04:04.440 just picking up random stuff from the blogs or from 1:04:04.440 --> 1:04:08.280 a Twitter or something. The media believes it. They think 1:04:08.320 --> 1:04:09.840 that this is true, and that's why they run with 1:04:09.880 --> 1:04:14.680 the story. They also then because they have some awareness 1:04:14.720 --> 1:04:17.600 that they are really digging into this story a lot. 1:04:17.680 --> 1:04:22.360 The White House is said over and over again, abuse, 1:04:22.480 --> 1:04:25.439 you know, in domestic abuse is disgusting, It's disgraceful. Trump says, 1:04:25.440 --> 1:04:28.720 it's disgusting and disgraceful. This guy's gone, and he keeps saying, well, 1:04:28.760 --> 1:04:31.600 you know he said he wished him, Well, what is he? 1:04:32.480 --> 1:04:34.560 Is it now? The situation is is it now the 1:04:34.640 --> 1:04:39.840 expectation that when someone is accused of something, they are 1:04:39.920 --> 1:04:44.440 to be without proof or rather without a proceeding. I 1:04:44.440 --> 1:04:46.720 should say, because I know there was proof, without a proceeding. 1:04:47.960 --> 1:04:50.360 Uh there, what is he never allowed to work again? 1:04:50.680 --> 1:04:52.960 Does he? Everyone has to say that this person is disgusting, 1:04:53.000 --> 1:04:57.080 they can't talk to him, irrespective of Rob Porter's innocence 1:04:57.160 --> 1:04:59.600 or guilty here that that strikes me as a very 1:04:59.600 --> 1:05:02.200 trouble blink standard we're setting up in the public sphere. 1:05:03.280 --> 1:05:05.080 But they knew they were digging into this story too much, 1:05:05.120 --> 1:05:07.200 so that's when they started to turn it into oh, 1:05:07.280 --> 1:05:10.520 the security clearance, he had an interm security clearance? What's 1:05:10.520 --> 1:05:13.440 going on with the security clearance all stuff? Look, the 1:05:13.480 --> 1:05:17.440 security clearance process is it is not great, all right. 1:05:18.280 --> 1:05:21.160 It's not controlled by the White House either. It's a 1:05:21.360 --> 1:05:27.280 very very imperfect system. And you know, there's only so 1:05:27.320 --> 1:05:29.720 much they're gonna be able to do and find out anyway. 1:05:29.800 --> 1:05:32.440 They can usually find the really big red flags. Maybe 1:05:32.440 --> 1:05:35.640 this time they miss something. But trying to blame the 1:05:35.640 --> 1:05:38.600 White House for security clearance process is like blaming the 1:05:38.600 --> 1:05:41.320 White House for the slow speeds at the d m 1:05:41.400 --> 1:05:43.320 V or something. It just has nothing to do with anything. 1:05:43.600 --> 1:05:45.840 The White House is not in charge of security clearances. 1:05:46.520 --> 1:05:50.720 So they're running with that story because they just want 1:05:50.720 --> 1:05:55.200 to talk about this more. And I just find the 1:05:55.280 --> 1:06:00.480 overwhelming disrespect that the media and look, the Democrat Party 1:06:00.520 --> 1:06:03.320 quite honestly has for this president to be yet another 1:06:03.360 --> 1:06:05.200 reason to just get alongside him in the trench and 1:06:05.240 --> 1:06:07.240 be like, all right, you know, well, I'm on this 1:06:07.320 --> 1:06:09.240 team because I just can't take what they're doing on 1:06:09.240 --> 1:06:11.880 the other side anymore. If they're gonna put people on 1:06:11.920 --> 1:06:15.320 TV that call our president the commander in chief of 1:06:15.400 --> 1:06:20.280 rape culture, I am going to disregard and or fight 1:06:20.320 --> 1:06:22.840 against all the other stuff those same people are saying 1:06:22.920 --> 1:06:26.600 because they're dishonest and they're destructive in their commentary and 1:06:26.640 --> 1:06:29.440 their thoughts and in what they're trying to spread on 1:06:29.520 --> 1:06:32.520 the airwaves across the country. So as for the Rob 1:06:32.560 --> 1:06:36.240 Porter thing, yeah, I don't know. The guy looks bad 1:06:36.280 --> 1:06:40.080 to me. He resigned, he's gone, and he has been 1:06:40.120 --> 1:06:43.720 publicly shamed, that is for sure. Why did the White 1:06:44.040 --> 1:06:46.720 The number one issue today at the White House Press 1:06:46.720 --> 1:06:50.240 Conference was Rob Porter? Beyond everything else, Beyond a trillion 1:06:50.240 --> 1:06:53.560 dollars of infrastructure spending, Beyond the millions of illegal aliens 1:06:53.560 --> 1:06:56.440 who may be legalized if Congress actually gets together with 1:06:56.600 --> 1:06:59.520 the Democrats and Republicans have a deal in place, right 1:06:59.520 --> 1:07:05.200 for Dreamers, beyond the difficulties facing our veterans and the 1:07:05.320 --> 1:07:07.600 v A system, beyond the U. S. Troops in Iraq 1:07:07.680 --> 1:07:10.040 and Afghanistan. And no, no, let's let's talk about Rob 1:07:10.080 --> 1:07:13.240 Porter for about twenty or thirty minutes. Let's focus on that. 1:07:14.960 --> 1:07:16.840 You know, we remember this stuff, folks. This is why 1:07:16.920 --> 1:07:19.880 when they want to be all serious, big ja journalism tomorrow, 1:07:19.920 --> 1:07:21.800 we'll be like, now, I think we know who you are. 1:07:22.840 --> 1:07:25.560 We're gonna be back with my buddy Sean Parnell here 1:07:25.560 --> 1:07:27.320 in just a second. He is going to talk to 1:07:27.440 --> 1:07:29.760 us about his new book as well as we're gonna 1:07:29.760 --> 1:07:32.360 discuss the issue about Afghanistan, what we're doing over there. 1:07:32.400 --> 1:07:48.360 So stay with me. We'll be right back. Welcome back 1:07:48.400 --> 1:07:51.360 to the Freedom How everybody. We've got Sean Parnell with 1:07:51.480 --> 1:07:54.040 us here in studio in New York City. He is 1:07:54.080 --> 1:07:57.320 a former U. S. Army Airborne ranger who served in 1:07:57.360 --> 1:08:00.240 the tenth Mountain Division for six years, retiring as account happen. 1:08:00.320 --> 1:08:04.000 He received two Bronze Stars and the Purple Heart. He's 1:08:04.000 --> 1:08:07.080 a pastiorate supporter of Americans military. He's the author of 1:08:07.160 --> 1:08:10.200 the bestseller Outlaw Platoon, which I have on my kindle 1:08:10.320 --> 1:08:13.720 and have read on in its entirety. I did not 1:08:13.840 --> 1:08:17.519 know that most toasts do not irk. This is a gift. 1:08:17.600 --> 1:08:19.200 I'm one of these rare hosts who actually reads a lot. 1:08:19.240 --> 1:08:22.000 You gave me a gift tonight. There. I should have 1:08:22.040 --> 1:08:23.720 brought my kindle to really prove it, just to sort 1:08:23.760 --> 1:08:27.040 of bring if you haven't, Guys, Outlaw Platoon is actually 1:08:27.040 --> 1:08:28.920 a great book, and I would really recommend it to 1:08:29.240 --> 1:08:31.080 all of you. You've got a new book coming out, 1:08:31.160 --> 1:08:33.000 I do, Yes, Why at we talking about that. We're 1:08:33.000 --> 1:08:34.320 gonna keep you through at the top of the hour. 1:08:34.360 --> 1:08:36.320 We're talking about some policy stuff too, but for now, 1:08:36.400 --> 1:08:37.880 just tell me about the new book. Yes, So I 1:08:37.920 --> 1:08:40.519 made the jump from nonfiction to fiction and I wrote, 1:08:40.760 --> 1:08:43.879 you know, and what I think is uh a military 1:08:43.960 --> 1:08:48.320 thriller about a guy named Eric Steele. It's faction, right. 1:08:48.439 --> 1:08:51.920 So the whole plot is centered around the disaster Serrani 1:08:51.960 --> 1:08:53.720 and nuclear deal, which is of course not just a 1:08:54.000 --> 1:08:56.000 not just a disaster for US, but a disaster for 1:08:56.120 --> 1:08:59.160 the entire world. Uh. And and the basic premises is 1:08:59.240 --> 1:09:02.840 that what would happen if they if they developed a 1:09:03.280 --> 1:09:05.960 man portable nuclear weapon and a vacuum CEO, and that 1:09:06.040 --> 1:09:08.040 weapon just so happened to fall into the wrong hands. 1:09:08.320 --> 1:09:10.679 How would the United States stop it? Track the weapon, 1:09:10.880 --> 1:09:14.200 defeat the threat. And Eric Steele, he's a guy that 1:09:14.640 --> 1:09:17.559 cut his teeth in Afghanistan fighting jihadis for fifteen years 1:09:17.600 --> 1:09:20.200 in the Special Forces and transition to a secret colandestine 1:09:20.200 --> 1:09:23.040 program called the Alpha Program. Or he tracks down and 1:09:23.320 --> 1:09:26.439 and neutralizes America's threats on behalf of the president. So 1:09:26.560 --> 1:09:29.680 it's a guy that that obviously will will eliminate the 1:09:29.800 --> 1:09:32.840 enemies of America with extreme prejudice, but also believes deeply 1:09:32.880 --> 1:09:35.080 in the war ethos and protecting the innocent. And so 1:09:35.680 --> 1:09:37.360 man of War is the title, and that's what the 1:09:37.360 --> 1:09:39.519 book is about, which is also by the way, I 1:09:39.600 --> 1:09:43.760 believe a very large, stingy jellyfish. Yes it is. It 1:09:43.920 --> 1:09:46.280 is delicious seafood if you're into that sort of thing, 1:09:46.560 --> 1:09:49.439 right or or a in the era of great wooden ships, 1:09:49.520 --> 1:09:51.840 I know, a man of war. But but it's also 1:09:51.960 --> 1:09:53.519 for people like me that get scared at the beach. 1:09:53.640 --> 1:09:55.519 You know, it's I I get scared. I want to 1:09:55.560 --> 1:09:57.439 get entangled up in a man of war. You don't, 1:09:57.600 --> 1:09:59.280 you don't, But in this case it refers to a 1:09:59.360 --> 1:10:01.760 man that was weren't of wars his entire adult life, 1:10:01.840 --> 1:10:04.280 just like me. The only profession I've known has been 1:10:04.320 --> 1:10:06.240 warrior because we've be don't We've been at war for 1:10:06.320 --> 1:10:08.960 over a third of my whole life. I was gonna 1:10:09.000 --> 1:10:13.280 ask you, what is the highest number of deployments at 1:10:13.360 --> 1:10:15.680 this point that you have heard of? Oh, I mean, 1:10:15.760 --> 1:10:18.120 it really depends what unit you're talking about, but twelve. Like, 1:10:18.200 --> 1:10:20.000 there are guys that are in ranger units that do 1:10:20.200 --> 1:10:22.920 three to six month deployments that do I mean, no'll 1:10:22.960 --> 1:10:25.400 come back say they have eighteen deployments, you know. But 1:10:25.479 --> 1:10:28.200 guys in the conventional infantry, that's where you really want 1:10:28.240 --> 1:10:30.000 to talk about. Guys that are in a conventional infantry. 1:10:30.040 --> 1:10:32.360 Asked him how many deployments they have If they if 1:10:32.400 --> 1:10:35.160 they say seven or eight deployments a year and a 1:10:35.200 --> 1:10:36.679 half a year to a year and a half each, 1:10:37.400 --> 1:10:39.920 that that is like where the rubber meets the road. Stuff. 1:10:40.160 --> 1:10:44.200 Like those old grizzled twenty plus year noncommission officers to 1:10:44.240 --> 1:10:47.559 spend their entire career in the light infantry. Those those 1:10:47.600 --> 1:10:49.599 are the guys that the army rides hard and puts 1:10:49.640 --> 1:10:54.000 away wet. These guys are are living a good portion 1:10:54.240 --> 1:10:59.160 of their lives in downrange. Man, my Peltoon sergeant, his 1:10:59.280 --> 1:11:01.880 name is Greg Greenson, was the best non commission officer 1:11:01.920 --> 1:11:03.960 that you could ever imagine. Was in Panama with the 1:11:04.000 --> 1:11:06.720 seventh Infantry Division. The seventhy Infantry Division is not a 1:11:06.800 --> 1:11:08.519 thing anymore, like they did the activity the Union a 1:11:08.560 --> 1:11:10.240 long time ago. I think they still have a headquarters 1:11:10.280 --> 1:11:13.280 element somewhere. But he was in Panama, you know, I 1:11:13.320 --> 1:11:15.719 mean in the early nineties. He was my patoon sergeant. 1:11:15.960 --> 1:11:18.120 He was forty two, forty three years old around was 1:11:18.160 --> 1:11:20.479 the twenty four year old, brand new lieutenant. So just 1:11:20.560 --> 1:11:22.320 to give you a sense of how many deployments this 1:11:22.439 --> 1:11:25.320 guy has gone through a career noncommission officer. And of 1:11:25.360 --> 1:11:27.240 course the non commission officers are really the backbone of 1:11:27.240 --> 1:11:29.519 our military. They're the guys that really make things happen. 1:11:29.680 --> 1:11:32.599 But yeah, these guys have done a lot. They've been there, 1:11:32.640 --> 1:11:35.400 done that, and they've got the stories, and um, these 1:11:35.439 --> 1:11:37.200 are the kind of guys that I served with. We're 1:11:37.200 --> 1:11:39.040 gonna do a first here in the Freedom Hub where 1:11:39.040 --> 1:11:40.600 we actually have somebody in studio. But we also have 1:11:40.640 --> 1:11:43.160 a caller that I think is a particularly good fit 1:11:43.320 --> 1:11:45.519 for our guest here, So we're gonna bring Steve in 1:11:45.760 --> 1:11:50.360 from Charlotte, North Carolina. Steve, how you doing great? But 1:11:50.800 --> 1:11:52.800 thanks for having me. Thank you. So you wanted to 1:11:52.800 --> 1:11:56.280 tell us about the fort anniversary of POW release out 1:11:56.320 --> 1:12:00.120 of Hanoi. That is correct. My dad was like, I 1:12:00.200 --> 1:12:01.880 think the third one off the plane, right behind the 1:12:01.920 --> 1:12:04.599 guy with the crutches. That's an amazing story. So tell 1:12:04.640 --> 1:12:06.040 me about tell us more about this. I mean, what 1:12:06.160 --> 1:12:08.400 how long was he? How long was he in captivity? 1:12:08.479 --> 1:12:12.639 And what happened? Seven years, ten months and nine days? 1:12:13.760 --> 1:12:18.479 Oh my gosh, shut down sixty five April three, came 1:12:18.520 --> 1:12:23.240 back to day seventy three. Wow, Steve. Uh. I gotta 1:12:23.280 --> 1:12:26.519 tell you, guys, guys like your dad are are the 1:12:26.560 --> 1:12:28.560 reason why I joined in the in the legacy that 1:12:28.720 --> 1:12:32.000 we inherited from men like that who never got the 1:12:32.040 --> 1:12:35.600 welcome home that they deserve. Um. I'm so blessed to 1:12:35.640 --> 1:12:38.720 be able to inherit, inherit the inherit the uniform from 1:12:38.760 --> 1:12:41.960 guys like that. And so please, I mean, is your 1:12:42.040 --> 1:12:45.240 is your dad still around? Yeah? I still around? Please 1:12:45.400 --> 1:12:51.559 please tell him welcome home from me? Great? Yeah. Colonel Morgan, 1:12:51.760 --> 1:12:56.599 Scotty Morgan Uh, let's see. Quincy Collins was a cellmate 1:12:56.640 --> 1:13:02.439 to his, as was Norm McDaniel, and uh yeah, pretty exciting. 1:13:02.760 --> 1:13:05.479 Does he doesn't talk about his son was born? Does 1:13:05.520 --> 1:13:11.320 he talked about Uh yeah, he talks about it, um um, 1:13:11.880 --> 1:13:14.679 you know, not every day. But you know, it's funny 1:13:14.960 --> 1:13:17.040 if I have a cousin that served in de Nang 1:13:17.120 --> 1:13:20.160 in six and they have a conversation. I learned more 1:13:20.240 --> 1:13:24.840 by listening, then Uh yeah. I mean, isn't that isn't 1:13:24.840 --> 1:13:27.240 that an interesting commentary on America too? I feel like 1:13:27.320 --> 1:13:33.519 this country would learn more by listening to our veterans. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah. 1:13:33.640 --> 1:13:36.120 So he Uh, let's see, at one point he was 1:13:36.200 --> 1:13:40.320 under a hundred pounds and they actually moved him out 1:13:40.360 --> 1:13:43.240 of the Hilton to another place because I thought he 1:13:43.360 --> 1:13:45.040 might die and they didn't want to die around the 1:13:45.120 --> 1:13:48.360 other prisoners. He actually lived and they brought him back. 1:13:49.000 --> 1:13:54.599 How's this today? Pilot shot down? Second one captured? Wow, 1:13:55.360 --> 1:13:59.120 So how's this help today? Is he doing okay? Pretty good? 1:13:59.240 --> 1:14:03.800 Pretty tough? You know, survived to days? Oh my god. 1:14:03.920 --> 1:14:06.160 One they worked on at books Army Medical Center before 1:14:06.240 --> 1:14:09.799 it first and then uh he didn't monitors blood pressure 1:14:09.840 --> 1:14:12.479 too good and had one rup. You know, that's one 1:14:12.520 --> 1:14:15.000 of those things where you you're walking by the e 1:14:15.280 --> 1:14:19.519 R and you know about folks live and h let 1:14:19.600 --> 1:14:21.840 he survived two of them. Well, Steve, I appreciate you 1:14:22.040 --> 1:14:24.280 calling in to remind us of the anniversary of the 1:14:24.320 --> 1:14:28.320 POW release from Hanoi, and also thank you, thank your 1:14:28.400 --> 1:14:32.360 dad please for a for a service. Absolutely thanks Steve, 1:14:32.720 --> 1:14:37.000 Thank you very much. Wow. Amazing. You know, there're there 1:14:37.000 --> 1:14:39.519 are the things you hear about and you try to 1:14:39.600 --> 1:14:41.519 run through and look, I know you are a frontline 1:14:41.600 --> 1:14:46.240 soldier in combat, um, but the notion of spending years 1:14:46.280 --> 1:14:48.280 in captivity in the enemy's hands, it's something that I 1:14:48.600 --> 1:14:50.519 I feel like if you haven't done that, you don't 1:14:50.560 --> 1:14:53.400 know what that's like. It's it's truly unbelievable. I'm still 1:14:53.560 --> 1:14:55.640 reeling a little bit from just the brief time that 1:14:55.840 --> 1:14:57.640 we were on the phone with him. But I mean, 1:14:57.920 --> 1:15:02.320 guys like that, I mean, they are the guys who 1:15:02.360 --> 1:15:05.080 built this country, and I just feel so grateful to 1:15:05.120 --> 1:15:08.519 be in the even talked about in the same sentence 1:15:08.560 --> 1:15:11.320 as them. We're gonna come back with Sean Parnell, author 1:15:11.360 --> 1:15:13.479 of Outlaw Platoon. We're gonna talk to him about what's 1:15:13.479 --> 1:15:16.240 going on now in Afghanistan. And also if you got 1:15:16.240 --> 1:15:17.840 any calls, you can talk to me, talk to Sean 1:15:17.880 --> 1:15:22.280 eight four eight to five eight four four buck our 1:15:22.479 --> 1:15:36.400 three in effect, stay with me. Other shows just talk 1:15:36.479 --> 1:15:39.080 at you in the Freedom Hud. We have a mission. 1:15:39.800 --> 1:15:42.960 We fight for the truth in a team effort, and 1:15:43.160 --> 1:15:47.000 buck us back with our next play. Welcome to our 1:15:47.240 --> 1:15:50.080 three team Quick Freeview. This hour, we'll be talking with 1:15:50.360 --> 1:15:53.320 Sean Parnell here in just a moment, more on Afghanistan 1:15:53.479 --> 1:15:56.040 and just what's going on in the world around us. 1:15:56.080 --> 1:15:59.320 And then we'll discuss the two portraits that were unveiled 1:15:59.360 --> 1:16:03.240 today of the Obama's maybe even get Shawn's take on 1:16:03.360 --> 1:16:05.840 some of that for a bit of a lighter fare. 1:16:05.920 --> 1:16:09.160 And then I've got the top five dogs of Instagram 1:16:09.240 --> 1:16:11.400 and talk to you about that's right. We've we've compiled 1:16:11.439 --> 1:16:13.439 the numbers, we've done the research one of the most 1:16:13.520 --> 1:16:17.400 popular dogs on Instagram. And then we'll get into some 1:16:17.880 --> 1:16:19.720 roll call. So I'm looking forward to all of that. 1:16:19.760 --> 1:16:21.160 I might even have a little bit of a shark 1:16:21.880 --> 1:16:23.760 carpet shark story for you later on too, so you 1:16:23.840 --> 1:16:26.000 gotta stay tuned. But we've got our friend with a 1:16:26.280 --> 1:16:31.120 Sean Parnell, former Army ranger, author of Outlaw Platoon, which 1:16:31.200 --> 1:16:33.280 is a great book you should all read, and also 1:16:33.840 --> 1:16:36.160 upcoming Man of War which is outer or soon to 1:16:36.240 --> 1:16:38.600 be out. It's out on Patriots Day. So we did 1:16:38.640 --> 1:16:40.000 a little So we did a little something that was 1:16:40.280 --> 1:16:43.080 not customary. We did an exclusive title and cover cover 1:16:43.200 --> 1:16:47.880 launch today, uh, and trying to rack up those pre 1:16:48.040 --> 1:16:50.479 orders prior to the book actually going on sale. And 1:16:50.600 --> 1:16:52.439 the reason we're doing is because we're going to donate 1:16:52.479 --> 1:16:54.600 a significant portion of the proceeds of the sales to 1:16:55.320 --> 1:16:57.479 my charity, the American War Or Initiative, where we turn 1:16:57.479 --> 1:17:01.200 around and give service dogs to vets. So, um, it's 1:17:01.200 --> 1:17:03.240 a good mission. We like it. There's a dire need 1:17:03.280 --> 1:17:05.840 for service dogs and we like to fulfill it. Service 1:17:05.880 --> 1:17:08.760 dogs are incredible, totally serious question. What's the primary breed? 1:17:08.840 --> 1:17:11.320 Is it mostly Belgian melon wall? It? Totally? It totally 1:17:11.400 --> 1:17:13.120 depends on what you need the dog for. I mean 1:17:13.640 --> 1:17:15.680 this program, first of all, it's in dire need. The 1:17:15.800 --> 1:17:18.759 v A doesn't really support it. Uh. There are veterans 1:17:18.760 --> 1:17:20.800 that set on wait lists for six years to get 1:17:20.840 --> 1:17:22.760 a service dog. But that's the program is so much 1:17:22.800 --> 1:17:25.080 more sophisticated now than it was in years past. The 1:17:25.400 --> 1:17:28.639 breed is dependent on what the ailment is. So um 1:17:28.920 --> 1:17:31.600 they found for example that black labs are great for 1:17:31.720 --> 1:17:34.280 post traumatic stress and trauma, and other dogs are different 1:17:34.320 --> 1:17:36.920 for brain injury. And then see some some dogs can 1:17:36.960 --> 1:17:39.120 smell seizures and the chemicals in the body. I mean, 1:17:39.160 --> 1:17:44.679 it's just it's very very sophisticated. But also what comes 1:17:44.720 --> 1:17:47.439 with that is that these dogs are very expensive as well. 1:17:47.600 --> 1:17:50.040 So you know, what do they run? What's what's I 1:17:50.080 --> 1:17:52.559 mean there are organizations out there that will charge about 1:17:52.600 --> 1:17:54.920 for a dog just because of the training that has 1:17:54.960 --> 1:17:56.760 to go in and you're talking like for a full 1:17:56.880 --> 1:18:00.479 legitimately service dog trained and certified dog, I mean two 1:18:00.560 --> 1:18:04.040 years of training, uh, constant supervision. It's just expensive. And 1:18:04.520 --> 1:18:06.479 so what we do is we come in and we 1:18:06.520 --> 1:18:09.559 fund it fully. My organization is is not top heavy, 1:18:09.680 --> 1:18:12.080 so we have very little red tape. We see a need, 1:18:12.160 --> 1:18:15.240 we fill it, and it's it's easy, you know. It's 1:18:15.280 --> 1:18:17.080 it's not like some of these other big organizations who 1:18:17.080 --> 1:18:19.880 would all do a lot of great work. Um, but 1:18:20.000 --> 1:18:21.800 we just we see a need, we fill it. We 1:18:21.840 --> 1:18:24.200 don't need much recognition. But in this case with Man 1:18:24.280 --> 1:18:25.560 of War and the launch of it. We want to 1:18:25.600 --> 1:18:27.680 give ourselves time to raise some serious money to do 1:18:27.800 --> 1:18:30.559 some serious good in the lives of vets. Fantastic um. 1:18:30.880 --> 1:18:32.599 Moving to the policy side of things for a second, 1:18:32.680 --> 1:18:35.599 or by the American Warrior Initiative dot org. Yes, yes, 1:18:35.760 --> 1:18:38.280 American Warrior Initiative dot com, dot org. It's all there, 1:18:38.360 --> 1:18:40.240 all directly the same spot. Now I want to ask 1:18:40.240 --> 1:18:41.800 you about this, and I share this with you before 1:18:41.840 --> 1:18:44.280 I I write columns for the Hill Um And I 1:18:44.360 --> 1:18:46.640 saw one, obviously not one that I wrote that that 1:18:47.040 --> 1:18:48.960 got me thinking. I thought you'd be a particularly good 1:18:49.000 --> 1:18:52.400 person to talk to about this one. And the title 1:18:52.520 --> 1:18:55.720 is America has done all it ken in Afghanistan. More 1:18:55.840 --> 1:18:59.560 troops won't win us anything. And in the opening paragraph 1:19:00.080 --> 1:19:02.160 and this is it's written by a Vett, written by 1:19:02.320 --> 1:19:05.280 an Army major, I believe uh. And he writes, falling 1:19:05.800 --> 1:19:09.000 there reports the US Armies read readying about a thousand 1:19:09.040 --> 1:19:11.800 additional troops for deployment to Afghanistan, where they will link 1:19:11.920 --> 1:19:14.719 up with some fourteen thousand or other U S service members. 1:19:15.240 --> 1:19:18.160 Tasks with an unachievable mission, and he goes on to 1:19:18.160 --> 1:19:21.639 say the persistence of violence after sixteen years of US intervention, 1:19:22.080 --> 1:19:24.600 raises serious questions about the need for and ability of 1:19:24.640 --> 1:19:27.040 the United States military to address what is at root 1:19:27.439 --> 1:19:32.680 an internal Afghan security problem increasingly disconnected from core American 1:19:32.760 --> 1:19:36.000 security interests. Sean, I'm very sympathetic to a lot of 1:19:36.040 --> 1:19:37.800 his argument. In fact, I say I agree with a 1:19:37.920 --> 1:19:40.880 lot of what he is getting at here. If the 1:19:41.000 --> 1:19:44.000 idea is that we're gonna we're gonna win, the Taliban 1:19:44.040 --> 1:19:46.400 will be done, there's gonna be some surrender, and it's 1:19:46.439 --> 1:19:49.280 gonna be a happy place in Afghanistan, I don't see 1:19:49.280 --> 1:19:51.880 that ever happening. But you, as a guy who was 1:19:51.960 --> 1:19:54.280 out there doing this work, and what provilence. By the way, 1:19:54.280 --> 1:19:55.680 I forget from the book you were. I was in 1:19:55.720 --> 1:19:58.679 Burmel District, Pactica Province, right in the border. We controlled 1:19:58.680 --> 1:20:00.679 about a hundred and thirty five mile a border area 1:20:00.800 --> 1:20:03.080 between Afghanistan and Pakistan. What do you what do you 1:20:03.120 --> 1:20:05.000 think about? I mean, it's hard to disagree with this 1:20:05.160 --> 1:20:08.280 with his his his policy argument is substantive. I mean, 1:20:08.720 --> 1:20:11.160 you know this. I have been saying things like this 1:20:11.400 --> 1:20:14.400 for a long time, that it is not about politicians 1:20:14.479 --> 1:20:16.479 get this wrong all the time. It is not about 1:20:17.000 --> 1:20:19.400 how many soldiers you have in Afghanistan. It is about 1:20:19.520 --> 1:20:22.120 the mission that they are performing in Afghanistan. Back in 1:20:22.240 --> 1:20:24.160 two thousand and six and two thousand and seven, the 1:20:24.200 --> 1:20:26.960 eyes of the nation were whole hearted, wholeheartedly focused on Iraq. 1:20:27.320 --> 1:20:30.080 You remember the surge was happening around that time. Wasn't 1:20:30.080 --> 1:20:32.639 going to be successful, wasn't going to be an abject failure? 1:20:32.760 --> 1:20:35.360 We didn't know, um. I mean around the clock news 1:20:35.400 --> 1:20:38.320 media coverage on it. But at that time in Afghanistan, 1:20:38.560 --> 1:20:41.320 the war was particularly deadly and we were in direct 1:20:41.400 --> 1:20:43.839 fire contact with the enemy every day. But war fighters 1:20:43.880 --> 1:20:46.400 were making decisions at the lowest level possible when we 1:20:46.520 --> 1:20:48.479 were doing it's a great effect. And at the end 1:20:48.520 --> 1:20:50.800 of two thousand and seven, we were getting intelligence from 1:20:50.800 --> 1:20:52.800 the State Department passed down through the chain of command 1:20:52.840 --> 1:20:55.559 to us on the ground where they were monitoring Taliban 1:20:55.600 --> 1:20:58.840 and Alqairic communications on the border, saying hey, look, we 1:20:58.920 --> 1:21:01.240 are broken. We are no longer going to commit our 1:21:01.280 --> 1:21:03.439 sons to this fight. It's just not worth it for 1:21:03.520 --> 1:21:06.160 us anymore. Let's go fight the Americans somewhere else. And 1:21:06.240 --> 1:21:08.720 then we change strategy from counter terroritor counter insurgaency we 1:21:08.800 --> 1:21:11.000 try to basically take a cookie cutter solution that worked 1:21:11.000 --> 1:21:14.080 in Iraq transplanted to Afghanistan and it did not work off. 1:21:14.200 --> 1:21:16.479 And we've talked about this before, Buck, It's you know, 1:21:16.920 --> 1:21:20.320 nation building in Afghanistan is fundamentally flawed. There never really 1:21:20.360 --> 1:21:23.519 has been a nation been trying to reconstitute a nation 1:21:23.720 --> 1:21:25.960 exact and you're trying to build it from them from 1:21:26.040 --> 1:21:27.920 the start, from scratch. Yeah, it's like Joe bat you 1:21:28.040 --> 1:21:30.240 you I mean that the Romans were more advanced than 1:21:30.280 --> 1:21:32.599 the Afghans are right now. I mean, if you talk 1:21:32.680 --> 1:21:35.400 to Afghans on the border in the country of Afghanistan, 1:21:35.439 --> 1:21:37.720 they don't even know that their country is called Afghanistan. 1:21:37.800 --> 1:21:41.240 It's crazy. So um, circling back to the point that 1:21:41.240 --> 1:21:43.120 I made initially, it's not about how many troops are there, 1:21:43.200 --> 1:21:46.320 is about what mission they're performing. If if I am 1:21:46.400 --> 1:21:48.200 making the decisions in the White House right now, what 1:21:48.360 --> 1:21:50.759 we do is we go back to a counter terror strategy. 1:21:50.920 --> 1:21:54.120 We put we rotate ranger battalion's in augmented by special 1:21:54.160 --> 1:21:55.800 forces so they can work with some of the special 1:21:55.800 --> 1:21:58.439 ops Afghan guys on the ground, and all we do 1:21:58.800 --> 1:22:01.080 is target the worst of the worse, and that way 1:22:01.160 --> 1:22:03.679 we secure the Republic of Afghanistan. They can do business 1:22:03.720 --> 1:22:05.760 the way that they want, like we're not building their nation. 1:22:05.840 --> 1:22:07.360 They can be as corrupt as they want. But we 1:22:07.560 --> 1:22:11.439 are conducting and planning missions Kinnectic missions in Afghanistan to 1:22:11.479 --> 1:22:13.880 kill terrorists to keep that country from going back to 1:22:13.960 --> 1:22:17.479 being a Petri dish for you know, and a global 1:22:17.560 --> 1:22:20.120 Islamic Hottest All Star team from where they can plan 1:22:20.240 --> 1:22:22.800 and attack the United States. That's the goal should be 1:22:22.920 --> 1:22:25.160 to keep it from going back to that. One of 1:22:25.240 --> 1:22:29.240 the troubling legacies of the Obama administration on foreign policy. 1:22:29.280 --> 1:22:30.800 And that's just a fun way to start a lot 1:22:30.840 --> 1:22:33.439 of different sentences, but one of the ones that really 1:22:33.520 --> 1:22:36.519 comes to mind is the idea. And I know that. Look, 1:22:36.600 --> 1:22:39.800 people the immediate the Democrats who know enough to know 1:22:39.920 --> 1:22:42.440 this would jump back at me with oh, but Petraeus 1:22:42.520 --> 1:22:44.160 is on board with this. I think MC crystals on 1:22:44.200 --> 1:22:48.080 board this. The notion of a negotiated settlement with the 1:22:48.160 --> 1:22:51.880 Taliban and this conflict that can happen, and maybe that's 1:22:51.880 --> 1:22:54.120 the only way we leave in which there is a 1:22:54.560 --> 1:22:56.800 lull in the conflict, but that is actually going to 1:22:57.040 --> 1:22:59.080 end in an abject failure. There is no way the 1:22:59.160 --> 1:23:02.360 Taliban became something other than what it is once they 1:23:02.400 --> 1:23:04.840 are left in charge of some portion of the country, 1:23:05.120 --> 1:23:07.000 and they will march on cobble and we will have 1:23:07.080 --> 1:23:10.280 the Taliban again in six months after we strike a 1:23:10.400 --> 1:23:13.080 quote unquote piece deal with the Taliban or whatever deal 1:23:13.120 --> 1:23:15.840 you want to cut, the the Afghan government as it 1:23:15.920 --> 1:23:18.280 stands right now will all be hanging from lamp posts 1:23:18.320 --> 1:23:20.560 and cobble. There is no there is no question that 1:23:20.640 --> 1:23:24.360 the Taliban retake that country. And I don't care what 1:23:24.600 --> 1:23:27.439 generals say about this. I don't and most of them 1:23:27.479 --> 1:23:30.000 are center left for some inexplicable reason. Anyway, I don't 1:23:30.000 --> 1:23:32.080 know why we could we just delve into that for 1:23:32.160 --> 1:23:34.640 a second. I've I've recently been explaining to folks that 1:23:34.960 --> 1:23:37.120 there needs to be in all, in all of the 1:23:37.920 --> 1:23:41.200 minds of of my fellow Americans, here a separation between 1:23:41.240 --> 1:23:44.360 people who have been doing the job and often people 1:23:44.400 --> 1:23:46.960 who are in charge of those doing the job within 1:23:47.040 --> 1:23:50.200 the federal government. From my side of things, when you 1:23:50.280 --> 1:23:53.200 get people like James Colemy, for example, head of the FBI, 1:23:53.680 --> 1:23:55.400 people think of them like, oh, he's an FBI guy. 1:23:55.439 --> 1:23:57.040 He's put in the time, and I'm like, James Comey 1:23:57.080 --> 1:23:59.040 is a rich lawyer. Everybody he has. He is not 1:23:59.200 --> 1:24:02.160 an FBI. He's not a law enforcement kicking the door, 1:24:02.560 --> 1:24:06.000 wrestling the crackhead to save Grahama from a terrible fate. Like, 1:24:06.320 --> 1:24:08.760 that's not who he is. He's a very political guy. 1:24:09.280 --> 1:24:11.040 Brendan at the c i A, you go through a 1:24:11.120 --> 1:24:13.559 whole list of previous ci directors, a lot of them 1:24:13.800 --> 1:24:16.679 very political. And I just think it's interestingly because people 1:24:16.800 --> 1:24:19.639 see what's done day in and day out, and I look, 1:24:19.640 --> 1:24:21.439 I see this with the military too. I never serve, 1:24:21.520 --> 1:24:24.599 but with the generals, people see what the rank and file, 1:24:25.479 --> 1:24:27.320 what they accomplish, and what their mission is and what 1:24:27.360 --> 1:24:30.439 their ethos is, and they feel like whoever runs the 1:24:30.479 --> 1:24:32.840 place is the pinnacle of that. And that's not always 1:24:32.880 --> 1:24:35.240 the case. A lot of times they're politicians. It's true, 1:24:35.439 --> 1:24:38.519 and it's so true. Generals have to be politicians. Um, 1:24:38.640 --> 1:24:40.479 but if you also think about and I'm not specifically 1:24:40.520 --> 1:24:42.559 referring to M. A. Crystal or Portrays here, right, these 1:24:42.600 --> 1:24:45.120 guys are unbelievably accomplished guys. A lot of these guys 1:24:45.200 --> 1:24:47.240 have combat experience on the ground, and our ack Afghanistan 1:24:47.280 --> 1:24:50.519 in other places. But the vast majority of generals for 1:24:50.600 --> 1:24:53.360 a long time in the military came up during and 1:24:53.439 --> 1:24:57.040 a largely peace time, right, and so for me, I 1:24:57.360 --> 1:25:00.320 almost a hundred percent of my experience in the terry 1:25:00.360 --> 1:25:03.040 has been combat, boots on the ground combat, And so 1:25:03.120 --> 1:25:05.080 you can imagine it's almost like if you spent your 1:25:05.120 --> 1:25:07.280 whole life as an infantry officer coming up in the 1:25:07.400 --> 1:25:09.880 ranks and never had a bullet cracked by your head. 1:25:10.160 --> 1:25:12.759 It's almost like being a painter and never having painted 1:25:12.800 --> 1:25:15.759 a painting. You can imagine the divide that exists between 1:25:15.800 --> 1:25:17.400 someone that's been there and someone that hasn't. But the 1:25:17.520 --> 1:25:19.360 people that haven't been there for the longest time in 1:25:19.400 --> 1:25:21.519 our military, we're the ones calling all the shots, and 1:25:21.560 --> 1:25:24.840 to our discussion, before much of the metro of the 1:25:24.920 --> 1:25:29.160 rank and file, they're going on decades of combatics in 1:25:29.600 --> 1:25:34.000 the military. Is hemorrhaging those people precisely because almost their 1:25:34.160 --> 1:25:38.439 entire career they served under commanders who had zero combat 1:25:38.479 --> 1:25:40.439 experience ever, and they had a bad experience. Seriously, the 1:25:41.200 --> 1:25:45.439 military in general is hemorrhaging small unit leaders that are saying, like, Okay, 1:25:45.920 --> 1:25:47.679 I don't want to live my life on a constant 1:25:47.760 --> 1:25:50.360 rotation to Iraq or Afghanistan year on year off. I'm 1:25:50.400 --> 1:25:52.320 never gonna have a lot. I'm gonna go through five 1:25:52.360 --> 1:25:55.719 different wives, six different divorces. I'm gonna have five different 1:25:55.800 --> 1:25:58.240 kids that are never gonna see me. I'm gonna say, hey, 1:25:58.360 --> 1:26:00.160 I'll see you have a good first grade year in 1:26:00.240 --> 1:26:02.120 second grade, and so on and so forth. They don't 1:26:02.160 --> 1:26:03.639 want to do that, So they're getting out in large 1:26:03.720 --> 1:26:06.320 numbers and and in large part of the military suffered 1:26:06.320 --> 1:26:09.479 because of it. What can be done to make this better? Well, 1:26:09.800 --> 1:26:11.800 I mean, at this point, I think that the army 1:26:11.920 --> 1:26:14.400 really needs to focus on building up the ranks with 1:26:14.520 --> 1:26:17.120 quality soldiers. I mean, in two thousand and six and 1:26:17.120 --> 1:26:19.439 two thousand seven, the army was, the military in general, 1:26:19.479 --> 1:26:21.360 was so strapped for people that we opened our arms 1:26:21.400 --> 1:26:23.360 to everybody, and so we got a lot of people 1:26:23.400 --> 1:26:25.280 in that should have never been involved in the military 1:26:25.320 --> 1:26:27.040 in the first place. And what ended up happening is 1:26:27.160 --> 1:26:28.880 they'd spent two or three years in and we chaptered 1:26:28.880 --> 1:26:31.880 them out in the military for some disciplinary action, or 1:26:31.920 --> 1:26:34.479 they just didn't they just couldn't carry their own weight. 1:26:34.840 --> 1:26:36.360 So I think we just there just needs to be 1:26:36.400 --> 1:26:38.639 a hyper focus on like, as we pour money into 1:26:38.640 --> 1:26:41.240 the military to recruit more soldiers, those soldiers need to 1:26:41.280 --> 1:26:43.479 be the cream of the crop that absolutely want to 1:26:43.560 --> 1:26:46.040 raise the right hand to serve this country. They believe 1:26:46.080 --> 1:26:48.360 in the mission. They're not just doing it. I don't know. 1:26:48.479 --> 1:26:49.880 I mean, who knows. I mean who knows. I mean 1:26:49.920 --> 1:26:51.040 there are a lot of There are a lot of 1:26:51.240 --> 1:26:53.040 people that join the military in two thousand and six 1:26:53.040 --> 1:26:54.960 and two thousand seven that had no other option. It's 1:26:55.000 --> 1:26:57.360 just I hate to say it. It's it's not it's 1:26:57.360 --> 1:26:59.960 a stereotype that's too often used. But it did happen, 1:27:00.040 --> 1:27:01.720 it um and so I think we just need to 1:27:01.760 --> 1:27:03.240 focus on the best of the best as we bring 1:27:03.320 --> 1:27:06.479 these guys in and rebuild our military. Rebuild. Rebuilding our 1:27:06.520 --> 1:27:09.120 military doesn't simply just mean the infrastructure and equipment. It 1:27:09.240 --> 1:27:13.840 means bringing in good quality soldiers that can perform a 1:27:14.560 --> 1:27:16.840 a high speed mission. And that's really where the focus 1:27:16.920 --> 1:27:20.360 needs to be on recruiting good people. Sean Parnell is 1:27:20.439 --> 1:27:23.960 author of Outlaw Platoon, which you can get on Amazon 1:27:24.160 --> 1:27:26.320 right now download on Kindle. Some of you have listened 1:27:26.320 --> 1:27:27.840 to me on that one already and said, wow, Buck 1:27:27.840 --> 1:27:30.000 it's a great recommendation. So some of the team is 1:27:31.000 --> 1:27:35.680 I am so grateful to the Team Buck. We need 1:27:35.840 --> 1:27:38.320 more militarized name for you. What we do do roll 1:27:38.360 --> 1:27:40.200 call at the end of the show on their suggestion 1:27:40.240 --> 1:27:42.400 when they get to read their we read them is 1:27:42.600 --> 1:27:45.240 you got that on lockdown? That's a great name. Team 1:27:45.240 --> 1:27:47.280 Buck is great. But I think I am going to 1:27:47.320 --> 1:27:49.080 personally come up with a militarized name for you. I 1:27:49.160 --> 1:27:50.439 love it all right, Well, if he passes it on 1:27:50.560 --> 1:27:53.640 to us, then it's like it's like when when my 1:27:53.800 --> 1:27:56.479 Southern Team Buck brothers and sisters say I can say y'all, 1:27:56.600 --> 1:27:58.600 I'm like, well, now I have permission, right, so then 1:27:58.760 --> 1:28:01.400 then I'm okay, I've been blessed. Good um. Also his 1:28:01.479 --> 1:28:04.120 book Man of War Amazon and bookstores. Yeah, it's it's 1:28:04.120 --> 1:28:06.240 anywhere books are sold. It's out right now for pre order. Now, 1:28:06.800 --> 1:28:10.040 help us buy the book. I'm donating to to buy 1:28:10.080 --> 1:28:13.320 service dogs. So help us help us accomplish that mission. 1:28:13.320 --> 1:28:15.559 And Sean and I are going to go and talk 1:28:15.600 --> 1:28:18.600 about solving all the world's problems over some well for me, 1:28:18.680 --> 1:28:20.680 tequila for him, beer and some burgers here in a 1:28:20.760 --> 1:28:23.200 few minutes. Sean great to have you in studiento ment. 1:28:23.200 --> 1:28:25.519 Thank you so much to hang out here. And we're 1:28:25.560 --> 1:28:40.280 gonna roll in a quick break. Now. We're in the 1:28:40.360 --> 1:28:42.439 third hour, friends, and that means sometimes I'm gonna talk 1:28:42.479 --> 1:28:45.640 to you about things that are not exactly at the 1:28:45.840 --> 1:28:48.320 at the top of the list of solving world problems 1:28:48.400 --> 1:28:50.640 or anything like that. I am, in fact going to 1:28:50.720 --> 1:28:53.080 tell you about the top dogs of Instagram coming up 1:28:53.080 --> 1:28:54.800 here at you just because I want to talk to 1:28:54.800 --> 1:28:56.840 you about dogs. I went and visit some puppies over 1:28:56.880 --> 1:29:01.519 the weekend. Ms Molly's We're we're revisiting that issue about dogs. 1:29:01.600 --> 1:29:04.120 I know I've talked to you about it before. Um, 1:29:04.360 --> 1:29:06.560 but this is the third hour. We get into some 1:29:06.640 --> 1:29:09.560 other topics, right, That's what we like to do. This 1:29:09.760 --> 1:29:12.320 is a news topic. I don't know how much I 1:29:12.439 --> 1:29:16.880 have to add to the currents conversation other than just 1:29:17.040 --> 1:29:20.640 my my take. Right, there's not in depth analysis of this. 1:29:20.760 --> 1:29:24.120 I am not somebody who has a particular eye for 1:29:24.320 --> 1:29:30.040 portraiture or or the the the arts in that way. Um. 1:29:31.400 --> 1:29:36.360 But today the the two official portraits for the Smithsonian's 1:29:36.479 --> 1:29:42.360 National Portrait Gallery of former President Barack Obama and uh 1:29:43.160 --> 1:29:48.160 former First Lady Michelle Obama were unveiled I guess kind 1:29:48.200 --> 1:29:50.080 of literally, right, they had them covered up and then 1:29:50.120 --> 1:29:52.720 they took them, they unveiled them. Uh, so we got 1:29:52.800 --> 1:29:57.360 to see them, and there was quite an interruption of 1:29:58.760 --> 1:30:04.880 responses about them. The biggest issue was why is it 1:30:05.080 --> 1:30:11.479 that the portrait of um Michelle Obama does too many 1:30:11.560 --> 1:30:17.200 of us, I think, not especially uh look like Michelle Obama. 1:30:18.320 --> 1:30:22.760 You know, in in an era of of constant photography 1:30:22.920 --> 1:30:26.600 and image retrieval and everything, we have, our minds, I 1:30:26.640 --> 1:30:30.839 think are also much more attuned to someone's facial likeness. 1:30:31.160 --> 1:30:33.880 We really know what people look like now, right. It's 1:30:33.920 --> 1:30:36.240 not like this is America and you know a couple 1:30:36.240 --> 1:30:38.680 of hundred years ago where you'd like read you'd read 1:30:38.680 --> 1:30:40.280 a news story and maybe they have some kind of 1:30:40.360 --> 1:30:43.680 an an etching, a drawing of a political figure we 1:30:43.760 --> 1:30:45.519 all we all have in our minds. I think a 1:30:45.560 --> 1:30:47.840 picture of what Michelle Obama looks like, certainly what Barack 1:30:47.880 --> 1:30:51.360 Obama looks like as well. And now the Barack painting 1:30:51.640 --> 1:30:53.760 looks looks just like Barack Obama. Right, Fine, so no 1:30:53.800 --> 1:30:56.920 I should We'll talk about the other interesting part of 1:30:57.000 --> 1:31:01.160 that artistic project in a moment. But the Michelle Obama 1:31:01.240 --> 1:31:04.639 panting didn't particularly look like her. And what I think 1:31:04.760 --> 1:31:07.920 was interesting was that this then turned into an issue 1:31:08.040 --> 1:31:11.360 of whether or not people were supportive of Michelle Obamas 1:31:11.360 --> 1:31:14.200 as a public figure. Like if you say the portrait 1:31:14.360 --> 1:31:19.000 doesn't look like her, it's somehow you know, not like 1:31:19.160 --> 1:31:21.479 on team Obama. And I just want to say that 1:31:21.600 --> 1:31:24.960 I have got no particular felix one way or the 1:31:25.040 --> 1:31:28.439 other about about Michelle Obama at this point, i just 1:31:28.520 --> 1:31:30.679 don't think it looks like her. And I'm not trying 1:31:30.680 --> 1:31:32.360 to make some political statement. I'm just sitting here like 1:31:32.880 --> 1:31:36.200 a portrait doesn't really look like her. I mean, does 1:31:36.200 --> 1:31:38.400 anyone really care? I don't know. But it turned into 1:31:38.439 --> 1:31:40.600 a big thing today and there was a lot of 1:31:41.520 --> 1:31:44.880 of back and forth between Obama supporters and Obama detractors 1:31:45.000 --> 1:31:48.040 and and if if you generally speaking, oh no, not everyone. 1:31:48.439 --> 1:31:51.160 If you were a Democrat and you support the obamaistration, 1:31:51.240 --> 1:31:54.439 you're like, it looks just like Michelle Obama. And if 1:31:54.520 --> 1:31:59.519 you're a critic, or maybe just somebody who calls it 1:31:59.600 --> 1:32:01.280 like you see it, you're like, it doesn't really look 1:32:01.320 --> 1:32:03.519 like Michelle Obama. So anyway, that got a lot of 1:32:03.520 --> 1:32:08.080 attention today for me, and maybe there's I will plead 1:32:08.200 --> 1:32:10.800 some degree of ignorance on this. I don't know what 1:32:11.000 --> 1:32:19.120 the official symbolism is of of Barack Obama's painting. If 1:32:19.160 --> 1:32:20.600 you haven't seen these, by the way, you should. You 1:32:20.600 --> 1:32:22.760 should really go check them out, because you'll go and 1:32:22.840 --> 1:32:24.640 then you can listen to the segment again back on 1:32:24.680 --> 1:32:27.240 the podcast, and you'll really be able to follow along 1:32:27.280 --> 1:32:30.920 with what I'm saying more more clearly. Barack Obama sitting 1:32:30.920 --> 1:32:35.000 in a chair, arms crossed, looked, spitting image of Obama, right, 1:32:35.080 --> 1:32:39.240 it looks just like him. Um, it's totally him. And 1:32:40.280 --> 1:32:46.439 the the backdrop is a bunch of his leaves, but 1:32:46.560 --> 1:32:50.600 like a lot of leaves. It looks like this is 1:32:50.680 --> 1:32:53.080 the portrait that you would expect if somebody was the 1:32:53.280 --> 1:32:56.880 president of the National Florists Association or something like this 1:32:57.160 --> 1:33:02.479 is uh, it is hard to fathom, at least from again, 1:33:02.680 --> 1:33:05.240 maybe there's some symbolism here that I don't understand. Hard 1:33:05.280 --> 1:33:07.680 to fathom from an outsider's point of view, somebody who 1:33:07.720 --> 1:33:11.320 doesn't know what the the official storyline is. Why you'd 1:33:11.320 --> 1:33:15.880 have a president that is surrounded with with lee with 1:33:15.960 --> 1:33:19.280 all these leaves just just because maybe it's some part 1:33:19.360 --> 1:33:21.599 of the maybe the White House provided the backdrop or something. 1:33:21.600 --> 1:33:23.640 I don't know, but it looks a little bit, it 1:33:23.680 --> 1:33:26.120 looks a little bit unusual. So you've got some You've 1:33:26.160 --> 1:33:28.519 got some portraits today of the President of the President, 1:33:28.560 --> 1:33:32.720 the first Lady, and uh, you know, it was it 1:33:32.880 --> 1:33:34.840 was the thing that people were talking about. Like I said, 1:33:34.960 --> 1:33:36.080 I don't have a lot to add to it other 1:33:36.120 --> 1:33:38.559 than I just felt like this was the biggest news 1:33:38.640 --> 1:33:41.040 story of the day this morning. I was, oh, my gosh, 1:33:41.120 --> 1:33:43.160 you know that the portraits. Everybody was spending a lot 1:33:43.200 --> 1:33:45.680 of time on them. Um. I will say the the 1:33:45.960 --> 1:33:48.240 dress that Michelle Obama was wearing, it is very elegant, 1:33:48.360 --> 1:33:51.839 so that's nice. And the the likeness of Barack Obama 1:33:51.960 --> 1:33:56.000 is quite good. So there's that. But you know, here 1:33:56.040 --> 1:33:57.840 we are art, my friends. You know, it's it's in 1:33:57.880 --> 1:33:59.800 the eye of the eye of the beholder, I guess. 1:34:00.720 --> 1:34:03.640 And it was interesting to see how politics influenced so 1:34:03.920 --> 1:34:08.439 clearly the way that people were responding to these paintings. 1:34:09.120 --> 1:34:10.600 I would just like to think that we're beyond the 1:34:10.640 --> 1:34:13.680 point where if you if you criticize anything having to 1:34:13.760 --> 1:34:16.600 do with the Obama's you will come under attack for 1:34:16.760 --> 1:34:20.000 being a hateful, mean, bad person because, like I said, 1:34:20.040 --> 1:34:23.040 I mean Brock's painting, you know, other than the weird backdrop, 1:34:23.080 --> 1:34:25.160 I thought was pretty good. But Michelle Obama's painting was 1:34:25.240 --> 1:34:27.760 just it's just not good. You know. It's just not 1:34:27.840 --> 1:34:30.320 a good painting of her. I think it doesn't I 1:34:30.360 --> 1:34:32.120 think it doesn't do her justice. I will say, I 1:34:32.200 --> 1:34:35.840 think it did not do Michelle Obama justice. Um, and 1:34:36.000 --> 1:34:38.680 that's this is one of the very rare times where 1:34:38.720 --> 1:34:42.080 I'm gonna be a makeshift art critic here on the show. 1:34:42.120 --> 1:34:44.400 I promise you all except for Netflix, and like that, 1:34:44.600 --> 1:34:47.639 I'm I am a ninth degree black belt in Netflix. 1:34:47.720 --> 1:34:51.160 But portraiture is not really not really my jam um, 1:34:51.280 --> 1:34:53.880 But dogs are. And I'm gonna talk to you about 1:34:54.520 --> 1:34:56.479 the top dogs of Instagram and then we'll do some 1:34:56.880 --> 1:34:59.920 Team buck roll call coming up, and I will all 1:35:00.040 --> 1:35:02.200 so make a brief apology for not having a Shields 1:35:02.280 --> 1:35:06.400 High episode up for today soon soon, I promise Malta 1:35:06.840 --> 1:35:08.599 and the good guys win that one, so you'll want 1:35:08.600 --> 1:35:11.000 to hear that Shield High episode. We'll be right back. 1:35:11.200 --> 1:35:14.360 So over the weekend, Team I managed to actually relax 1:35:14.439 --> 1:35:19.200 a bit I pretty much stayed off of social media 1:35:19.680 --> 1:35:21.960 for the weekend, or at least I didn't write any 1:35:22.040 --> 1:35:25.080 tweets on Saturday. I'm gonna try to get to a 1:35:25.160 --> 1:35:30.400 point where I at least don't don't create or or 1:35:30.520 --> 1:35:34.080 or do any content on social media Facebook and Twitter 1:35:34.160 --> 1:35:37.880 and this stuff on the weekends. It's such a psychological 1:35:38.920 --> 1:35:41.040 uh drag, I think, after all, to feel like you 1:35:41.080 --> 1:35:42.719 always have to be, you know, getting in there, getting 1:35:42.720 --> 1:35:45.280 in there, getting in there. I feel like for my 1:35:45.479 --> 1:35:49.680 profession in particular commentary and analysis of the news, and 1:35:49.840 --> 1:35:52.960 just in general, it's like we're all being forced to 1:35:53.040 --> 1:35:55.720 be street performers. Not that there's anything wrong with being 1:35:55.720 --> 1:35:59.400 a street performer, but you know, instead of focusing on 1:36:00.120 --> 1:36:06.120 doing uh uh Shakespeare or a Broadway play, we're all 1:36:06.200 --> 1:36:10.280 constantly running around in the street trying to do whatever 1:36:10.400 --> 1:36:13.640 it is, you know, our mime routine, or dressed in 1:36:13.760 --> 1:36:16.720 some kind of a big furry suit and passing the 1:36:16.800 --> 1:36:19.360 hat around and not even passing the hat around because 1:36:19.400 --> 1:36:22.320 social media is really for free on the commentary side, 1:36:22.400 --> 1:36:25.000 So I just try to get away from a little 1:36:25.040 --> 1:36:27.680 bit more now, and I think I think rules. You know, 1:36:27.680 --> 1:36:30.200 I used to think things like limiting yourself to a 1:36:30.280 --> 1:36:32.160 certain amount of TV watching. When I was a kid, 1:36:32.280 --> 1:36:34.800 that just sounded like a prison sentence. But now I 1:36:34.880 --> 1:36:36.759 think it's good to have some of those As an adult, 1:36:37.040 --> 1:36:39.760 I'm trying to force these guidelines on myself. I had 1:36:39.840 --> 1:36:43.160 the situation of being at a at a dinner recently, 1:36:43.280 --> 1:36:45.720 and sure enough, I was a dinner and uh, a 1:36:45.800 --> 1:36:47.640 friend of mine was across table from me, and he 1:36:48.520 --> 1:36:51.160 he left his phone out. We're we're in a pretty 1:36:51.320 --> 1:36:53.679 nice not a fancy, but a nice sit down restaurant, 1:36:54.280 --> 1:36:56.760 and he puts his phone down on the table and 1:36:56.880 --> 1:37:01.120 it goes on. Uh uh, I mean his phone is 1:37:01.200 --> 1:37:03.360 you know, someone's emailing him or texting him or whatever 1:37:03.400 --> 1:37:05.559 it is, but it's it's it's on the table, lighting 1:37:05.640 --> 1:37:10.080 up and and vibrating i'd say about every every two 1:37:10.160 --> 1:37:13.280 minutes or so. And I'm looking at I'm just like, 1:37:13.400 --> 1:37:16.080 you know, can I And he doesn't like this other thing. 1:37:16.320 --> 1:37:19.120 He doesn't like to have his phone in his pocket 1:37:19.160 --> 1:37:21.160 because he doesn't like the radiation, which I people have 1:37:21.200 --> 1:37:23.640 been reading about this, and I know there's radiation, but 1:37:23.760 --> 1:37:25.680 I had to say, hey, I'll keep your phone in 1:37:25.760 --> 1:37:27.360 my pocket. How about that. I just don't want it 1:37:27.439 --> 1:37:29.639 on the table. I'd like to be having a meal 1:37:29.720 --> 1:37:33.960 on a conversation and not seeing a from I mean, 1:37:34.000 --> 1:37:38.640 I just get this drives me insane. Everywhere you go 1:37:38.800 --> 1:37:42.080 now you cannot escape the devices. I really want to 1:37:42.120 --> 1:37:46.240 start a restaurant chain that is that is device free. 1:37:46.920 --> 1:37:49.800 I see people that are pulling out iPads at restaurants. 1:37:49.840 --> 1:37:52.320 Give them the kid. Look, that's that's what you want 1:37:52.360 --> 1:37:55.439 to do. Fine, but you gotta have headphones. Okay, you 1:37:55.560 --> 1:37:59.759 can't have like SpongeBob square Pants blasting over the iPad 1:38:00.000 --> 1:38:02.200 at a at a restaurant where people are actually trying 1:38:02.240 --> 1:38:04.840 to have a some kind of an experience, right, I'm 1:38:04.880 --> 1:38:07.120 not talking about Chuck E Cheese. That's a different kind 1:38:07.120 --> 1:38:12.280 of experience anyway. So I managed to pretty much stay 1:38:12.320 --> 1:38:14.560 off the social media this weekend and hang out and 1:38:15.360 --> 1:38:17.879 um is Molly and I we had really big plans 1:38:18.040 --> 1:38:22.040 to cook on Saturday because she's been just cooking up 1:38:22.080 --> 1:38:23.560 a storm recently. I mean, I told her though, she 1:38:23.600 --> 1:38:25.559 has to lay off, like she can't make gluten free. 1:38:26.280 --> 1:38:28.679 I don't know if we technically call it ZD or lasagna. 1:38:28.760 --> 1:38:31.120 It was kind of a combination because I just ate 1:38:31.160 --> 1:38:32.560 all of it, and then it's like, why am I 1:38:32.640 --> 1:38:34.840 even trying to go to the gym or be healthy? Right, 1:38:34.840 --> 1:38:38.799 I'm just gonna eat all of Molly's lasagna's um. But anyway, 1:38:38.840 --> 1:38:40.720 we we ordered an Indian food, which I hadn't had 1:38:40.760 --> 1:38:43.400 a long time, which was great, a little spicy, but great. 1:38:43.960 --> 1:38:47.360 And that night, Saturday night, we're sure enough, we're we're 1:38:47.400 --> 1:38:49.840 outside for second, we're actually gonna drop something off for 1:38:49.960 --> 1:38:54.200 her parents downstairs in our building, and I see an 1:38:54.320 --> 1:38:58.040 ancient looking carpet shark, also known as a docks in. 1:38:58.880 --> 1:39:01.280 And as you know, I've had my experiences with carpet 1:39:01.320 --> 1:39:04.920 sharks in recent months. And this one has long hair 1:39:05.240 --> 1:39:08.600 and has cataracts over both eyes, and very reminiscent of 1:39:08.760 --> 1:39:13.519 the carpet shark that like a little great white tried 1:39:13.600 --> 1:39:15.280 to take a chunk out of my face when I 1:39:15.400 --> 1:39:17.439 was just trying to gently lift it up in the air. 1:39:17.560 --> 1:39:19.080 And get to know the little guy at a at 1:39:19.120 --> 1:39:22.400 a party in New Jersey and ms Molly and makes 1:39:22.479 --> 1:39:24.519 jokes about it. She says, you know, you're scared of 1:39:24.560 --> 1:39:26.800 the carpet shark. I said, no, it's all right, you know, 1:39:26.880 --> 1:39:28.880 I understand now, you just gotta give a carpet shark, 1:39:28.920 --> 1:39:31.800 it's space. But this stocks and I mean the woman 1:39:31.840 --> 1:39:34.040 has to carry it because it has We actually talked 1:39:34.040 --> 1:39:35.360 to her a little bit. It's a nice lady who 1:39:35.360 --> 1:39:38.400 lives in our building, and she has arthritis in its 1:39:38.520 --> 1:39:41.840 legs and it has cataracts on both eyes. And I 1:39:41.880 --> 1:39:43.680 mean this, you know when it when it moves, it 1:39:43.760 --> 1:39:45.840 kind of shuffles, it doesn't move very and she carries 1:39:45.880 --> 1:39:47.240 it in and out of the building because it's so 1:39:47.320 --> 1:39:49.960 harvard to So, you know, I feel for a little 1:39:50.000 --> 1:39:52.080 little furry guy, but I'm still you know, I still 1:39:52.120 --> 1:39:55.320 gotta be careful. You know, even a even an aged 1:39:55.400 --> 1:39:58.880 carpet shark could be could be a problem, you know, 1:39:59.120 --> 1:40:01.120 all of a sudden gets one last bite out on you. 1:40:01.840 --> 1:40:04.960 And so the next day, sure enough, we're walking around, 1:40:05.080 --> 1:40:07.000 we're looking for a place to go to brunch, and 1:40:07.720 --> 1:40:10.560 and we we pass there's really only a couple of 1:40:10.600 --> 1:40:12.479 them now in the city, but we passed one of 1:40:12.560 --> 1:40:15.639 those stores. And I know everyone says adopts don't shop 1:40:16.560 --> 1:40:19.360 the New York City codes though, because there's been so 1:40:19.479 --> 1:40:24.479 much pressure on puppy mills, and they're they're actually very 1:40:24.680 --> 1:40:26.640 strict laws. I've I've read about this now in the 1:40:26.720 --> 1:40:29.960 city where they have to do the City of New York. 1:40:30.000 --> 1:40:31.840 If you're going to sell a dog in New York 1:40:32.320 --> 1:40:35.200 has to send inspectors to the breeder and has to 1:40:35.360 --> 1:40:38.600 license the breeder and make sure that you know that 1:40:38.760 --> 1:40:43.160 it's a well run operation where the dogs aren't in 1:40:43.280 --> 1:40:46.519 duress or distress and everything else. So that all said, 1:40:46.520 --> 1:40:47.960 whether you buy that or not. We weren't going in 1:40:48.000 --> 1:40:49.759 there to buy a dog. It's just because there happened 1:40:49.800 --> 1:40:54.280 to be two baby carpet sharks in the window, a 1:40:54.320 --> 1:40:57.360 little little almost like little minnows, but with teeth, you know, 1:40:57.360 --> 1:40:59.760 a little baby carpet trucks, and Miss Molly happens to 1:41:00.040 --> 1:41:03.240 kind of like Dockxin's I'll use their real name badger 1:41:03.280 --> 1:41:07.680 Hounds docks homes, and sure enough for and people have 1:41:07.920 --> 1:41:09.880 yelled at me and they've said that it's not badger hound, 1:41:09.920 --> 1:41:14.799 it's badger dog, because hound in German is dog, hound, dog, tomato, 1:41:14.920 --> 1:41:18.439 tomato whatever. So we we go in there and we 1:41:18.560 --> 1:41:20.640 we play with the little docksins for a while. I 1:41:20.720 --> 1:41:23.400 gotta tell you, they're actually pretty cute. So the carpet 1:41:23.479 --> 1:41:27.040 sharks when their babies they're fine. When they get older, 1:41:27.479 --> 1:41:29.760 you gotta watch out. You gotta look for the the 1:41:29.880 --> 1:41:32.320 dorsal fin moving around the cocktail party. If it comes 1:41:32.360 --> 1:41:35.400 directly at you, you could be in some trouble. But 1:41:35.920 --> 1:41:38.160 the carpet sharks were cute, and I'm not I'm not 1:41:38.280 --> 1:41:41.160 getting one, but you know, I'm I'm opening my mind 1:41:41.200 --> 1:41:42.720 a little bit too. At least now maybe I'll say 1:41:42.760 --> 1:41:44.080 hi to them on the street. You know, I've I've 1:41:44.120 --> 1:41:46.560 been a little anti anti docks that ever since my 1:41:46.640 --> 1:41:49.280 incident haunts me to this day. Well, you know what 1:41:49.400 --> 1:41:51.559 got me thinking about this now I've gone on way 1:41:51.600 --> 1:41:54.840 too long about my my docks in story, is that 1:41:55.320 --> 1:41:57.799 there's a New York Times Beast the five most popular 1:41:57.880 --> 1:42:01.840 dogs on Instagram drum roll. And I thought this was 1:42:02.000 --> 1:42:04.360 this was really funny because it tells you a lot. 1:42:04.479 --> 1:42:07.439 This is a real commentary on what's going on in 1:42:07.520 --> 1:42:11.080 the country right now. So you have the five most 1:42:11.920 --> 1:42:19.120 commonly uh posted pooches, five dogs that are top five, 1:42:19.160 --> 1:42:21.880 and so think right now and let's get the drum roll. Going. 1:42:22.320 --> 1:42:27.639 Number five is the husky, which I'm was surprised because 1:42:27.680 --> 1:42:31.120 huskies are big dogs that need a lot of exercise. 1:42:31.360 --> 1:42:35.439 Generally and their work dogs. But I suppose the husky 1:42:35.560 --> 1:42:39.880 is the one representative of dogs outside of of urban 1:42:40.000 --> 1:42:43.080 centers in terms of you know, people that if you 1:42:43.120 --> 1:42:44.760 if you live in an area where you've got trees 1:42:44.800 --> 1:42:46.400 and grass and a lot of you are like, yeah, buck, 1:42:46.400 --> 1:42:48.559 it's called America. If you live in a place where 1:42:48.600 --> 1:42:50.400 there's trees and grass, you might have a husky. And 1:42:50.479 --> 1:42:54.240 that's number five on the list of it's the scientific 1:42:54.280 --> 1:42:56.479 stuff that they crunched all the numbers on Instagram, and 1:42:56.560 --> 1:42:59.719 that's the fifth most popular dog, the husky. Number four, 1:43:00.240 --> 1:43:04.000 no surprise here is the chihuahua. Now, I think that 1:43:04.160 --> 1:43:09.439 is in part because Chihuahuas are incredibly common in cities 1:43:09.920 --> 1:43:12.120 right there, They're among the most common dogs and cities. 1:43:12.120 --> 1:43:14.559 They are actually among the most common shelter dogs too. 1:43:15.200 --> 1:43:18.920 Chihuahuas and pit bulls of all kinds, pitball mixes and 1:43:19.240 --> 1:43:21.560 just any kind of pit bull. Uh, those are the 1:43:21.560 --> 1:43:25.920 two most common shelter dogs. With chihuahuas, it's generally because 1:43:26.000 --> 1:43:28.639 people think that because they're small, there'll be a lot 1:43:28.760 --> 1:43:31.080 less work. But you still gotta walk them, you still 1:43:31.120 --> 1:43:32.599 gotta take them to the vet, you still gotta get 1:43:32.640 --> 1:43:36.080 them the shots. They're easier in some ways, but the 1:43:36.160 --> 1:43:40.720 responsibility of this little furry friend is still very much 1:43:40.800 --> 1:43:43.200 the same as if you had a Saint Bernard, Right, 1:43:43.240 --> 1:43:44.960 you gotta walk it, you gotta feed it, you gotta 1:43:45.040 --> 1:43:46.920 be there, you gotta take care of it. So a 1:43:46.960 --> 1:43:49.120 lot of people get over their heads with a chihuahua 1:43:49.160 --> 1:43:50.800 and they give it to the shelter. Very sad. But 1:43:50.880 --> 1:43:54.280 the good news is that chihuahuas and shelters get get 1:43:54.320 --> 1:43:56.800 usually picked up right away. They don't last very long 1:43:57.160 --> 1:44:00.439 from a reputable shelter, they get picked up. Number three 1:44:00.720 --> 1:44:03.920 on the most Popular Dogs of Instagram. Oh and also 1:44:04.000 --> 1:44:05.640 with chihuahuas, by the way, because there's a lot of 1:44:05.680 --> 1:44:08.640 like bedazzling of chihuahuas that goes on. A lot of 1:44:09.280 --> 1:44:12.040 little put your little gold chains and earrings, and you know, 1:44:12.120 --> 1:44:14.120 people like to dress up their chihuahua. So that's why 1:44:14.200 --> 1:44:17.200 they're so Instagram friendly. Remember, these aren the most popular 1:44:17.240 --> 1:44:20.240 dogs in the country. These are the most posted dogs 1:44:20.280 --> 1:44:24.200 in the country. Number three is the terrier. And first 1:44:24.200 --> 1:44:26.639 of all, terrier is is a type. It's not really 1:44:27.720 --> 1:44:29.479 you know, not really a specific so I don't know 1:44:29.479 --> 1:44:30.840 what I don't have much to say on this other 1:44:30.920 --> 1:44:34.000 than I don't know which terrier they're really referring to 1:44:34.320 --> 1:44:37.280 the Karen Terrier. Is it a you know, white terrier? 1:44:37.479 --> 1:44:39.760 Is that? Who knows? But they say number three is 1:44:39.800 --> 1:44:44.360 a terrier here, So whatever. Number two my personal favorite, 1:44:44.560 --> 1:44:51.080 the bulldog. Bulldogs are the second most posted dogs on Instagram. 1:44:51.160 --> 1:44:54.080 And it's because their droopy faces are adorable. And we 1:44:54.200 --> 1:44:56.639 all know that that is just a fact. And one 1:44:56.720 --> 1:44:58.760 day I will get a bulldog. And I already have 1:44:58.880 --> 1:45:01.439 five different names in my head for the bulldog and 1:45:01.880 --> 1:45:04.639 that's gonna happen. It's been a constant negotiation with Miss Milly. 1:45:04.680 --> 1:45:06.559 She wants to adopt. I want to get a bulldog 1:45:06.640 --> 1:45:09.040 from a breeder, and we're going back and forth on this. 1:45:09.640 --> 1:45:11.880 Maybe we'll do both, but there's a whole lot of 1:45:12.520 --> 1:45:14.760 there's a lot of territory that we need to work 1:45:14.800 --> 1:45:18.160 through before we get two dogs. Iwout one and then 1:45:18.200 --> 1:45:23.840 the number one most popular dog posted on Instagram is, 1:45:23.840 --> 1:45:27.360 in fact, the pug. I followed Doug the Pug on Instagram. 1:45:27.439 --> 1:45:29.960 He's very cute. He's a dapper little fellow. You know. 1:45:30.080 --> 1:45:32.640 One moment they've got him, you know, dressed up like 1:45:32.760 --> 1:45:37.960 a surfer dude another moment, he's like snowshoes and out 1:45:38.040 --> 1:45:41.719 on the slopes, Doug. You know the pug and pugs 1:45:41.760 --> 1:45:44.479 are are very cute, very friendly little fellows, and they 1:45:44.560 --> 1:45:49.479 make great companions and apparently great Instagram post dogs. So 1:45:49.600 --> 1:45:52.880 that's number one. So with that, my friends, I've told 1:45:52.920 --> 1:45:55.800 you about pups. Let's get into what you think. Let's 1:45:55.840 --> 1:45:58.720 talk about some well, let's get into some team buck 1:45:58.800 --> 1:46:01.799 roll call coming up right after the break. So before 1:46:01.880 --> 1:46:04.120 we get into roll call, everybody, I just wanted to 1:46:04.160 --> 1:46:07.479 say I've I have seen and read the messages, and 1:46:07.560 --> 1:46:10.840 I promise I will soon come up with the next 1:46:10.880 --> 1:46:14.120 episode of Shields High. It's just a heavy lift, and 1:46:14.200 --> 1:46:16.519 I've enjoyed having a weekend or two of I'm still 1:46:16.560 --> 1:46:19.320 doing the research, I'm reading, I'm taking notes, but I 1:46:19.680 --> 1:46:22.719 have not been able to bring myself to just spend 1:46:22.840 --> 1:46:25.639 the better part of a weekend pulling together the history 1:46:25.680 --> 1:46:28.240 show for last week or two. But it's happening. It's happening. 1:46:28.600 --> 1:46:31.200 We're gonna get one coming up here. I'm shooting for Monday. 1:46:31.720 --> 1:46:34.840 I've been thinking, is it going to be the gonna 1:46:35.040 --> 1:46:36.720 jump right to Malta or do I need to do 1:46:36.880 --> 1:46:41.080 the Siege of Vienna nine as a preamble of sorts, 1:46:41.160 --> 1:46:44.760 as a as A as a getting ready for pre 1:46:44.920 --> 1:46:48.240 heating the oven, if you will, for the Battle of 1:46:48.800 --> 1:46:53.040 of Malta. So that's that's what's you know. I'm thinking 1:46:53.040 --> 1:46:55.080 about that stuff. And then let's get into some Oh wait, 1:46:55.160 --> 1:46:58.880 here we go roll call please, sir. Oh yeah, Team Buck, 1:46:59.479 --> 1:47:04.240 it's for roll calls. Oh, Paul, we'll get some history 1:47:04.240 --> 1:47:06.560 stuff soon. Let's see what we have here in the 1:47:07.360 --> 1:47:15.200 mailbag via roll call. Um M David with the filling. Uh, 1:47:15.360 --> 1:47:18.960 I have a huge favor to ask. Uh. My wife 1:47:19.040 --> 1:47:22.120 and I are huge fans. And oh no, this is 1:47:22.240 --> 1:47:27.240 a shout out request for February third up. I gotta 1:47:27.280 --> 1:47:28.560 hold this one. I gotta hold this one. There's a 1:47:28.560 --> 1:47:31.400 shout out request for tomorrow. Producer, Mike, can you please 1:47:31.479 --> 1:47:33.439 remind me that we have a we have a shout 1:47:33.479 --> 1:47:37.880 at request for the thirtieth wedding anniversary tomorrow via via 1:47:38.000 --> 1:47:39.720 roll call. We will make that one tomorrow. So I'm 1:47:39.760 --> 1:47:41.720 gonna whoop. We're gonna put a hole on that one. 1:47:41.840 --> 1:47:44.800 We're gonna let that one simmer overnight and then we'll 1:47:44.840 --> 1:47:47.840 get back to it tomorrow. I think that's our first. 1:47:48.040 --> 1:47:50.679 That's the first request for a wedding anniversary shoutout. I've 1:47:50.720 --> 1:47:54.439 had birthday request before, and I've always tried to honor 1:47:54.520 --> 1:47:56.920 those because, hey, team, if it's your birthday, I'm happy 1:47:57.000 --> 1:48:00.240 for you. Hey, team, it's your birthday. Your going a 1:48:00.360 --> 1:48:03.880 party like it's your your birthday. You know how it goes? 1:48:04.640 --> 1:48:07.960 Um Brad writes in Buck, where I knew these were 1:48:08.000 --> 1:48:09.920 gonna start coming? In Buck, where are you on the 1:48:09.920 --> 1:48:12.639 Shields High series? You tell a good story, my friend, 1:48:12.680 --> 1:48:14.360 and I already know the history, and I'm joining your 1:48:14.400 --> 1:48:17.600 take on these events. Well, Brad, Um, thank you for 1:48:17.680 --> 1:48:20.439 the kind words. And it's it's coming back. It's just 1:48:20.600 --> 1:48:23.439 in a little tempor little temporary hiatus right now, a 1:48:23.479 --> 1:48:26.200 little a little bit of a Hey, you know, Buck 1:48:26.280 --> 1:48:29.240 needs to tend to some other things in life before 1:48:29.240 --> 1:48:31.760 he gets more. Look, I I'm gonna finish. I'm gonna 1:48:31.800 --> 1:48:35.960 get to ten episodes of Cross Versus Crescent and and 1:48:36.000 --> 1:48:37.760 then what's gonna end up happening is we're gonna figure 1:48:37.760 --> 1:48:39.599 out where the best home should be for the Shields 1:48:39.640 --> 1:48:44.080 High podcasts going forward, because I already have I have 1:48:44.240 --> 1:48:48.080 some American history ideas for the podcast that will be 1:48:48.280 --> 1:48:50.120 a whole lot, and I think that will be a 1:48:51.160 --> 1:48:55.040 even more uh resounding success with all you folks who 1:48:55.120 --> 1:48:58.640 like history. So we're gonna move into that realm Um, 1:48:58.800 --> 1:49:01.160 that's the plan at least. I think the only question 1:49:01.200 --> 1:49:04.120 is do I do Ancient Greece and Rome those battles first, 1:49:04.320 --> 1:49:06.439 or American stuff? And I feel like you'll all tell 1:49:06.520 --> 1:49:10.160 me American history. So that's that's the plan. But I 1:49:10.200 --> 1:49:13.439 gotta finish Cross versus Christ and first, all right, here 1:49:13.560 --> 1:49:16.320 we go. Um, hold on a second, I'm trying to 1:49:16.360 --> 1:49:20.160 pull him up. And I swear my computer always freezes 1:49:20.160 --> 1:49:21.439 whenever I want to do a roll call with you 1:49:21.520 --> 1:49:24.000 guys live radio. It's it's a it's a thing that 1:49:24.120 --> 1:49:27.240 can be difficult. Jeff writes, just listening to the show 1:49:27.320 --> 1:49:30.600 from Friday. Oh man, it's about the hamster, and I 1:49:30.760 --> 1:49:33.720 was sad about the hamster. Dude, this woman. First of all, 1:49:35.080 --> 1:49:38.040 if my hamster is my pet, I'm going down with 1:49:38.240 --> 1:49:40.080 the hamster. If the ship is sinking or if the 1:49:40.120 --> 1:49:42.360 plane is crashing or whatever, like, the hamster does not 1:49:42.479 --> 1:49:45.840 get flushed down the Toilet's your little buddy, your tiny 1:49:45.920 --> 1:49:49.160 little it's like half the size of a Chihuahua. I'm 1:49:49.160 --> 1:49:51.439 gonna get some angry emails from chihuahua owners out there, 1:49:51.479 --> 1:49:54.160 but it really is. Hamster is a good little fella, 1:49:54.320 --> 1:49:57.040 you know, And I feel bad anyway. So Jeff writes, 1:49:57.040 --> 1:49:59.720 I wonder if that poor hamster that was flushed at 1:49:59.720 --> 1:50:03.000 the air sport knows any sweet martial arts skills and 1:50:03.080 --> 1:50:05.320 could maybe round up a gang of teenage mutant ninja 1:50:05.360 --> 1:50:09.679 turtles down in the airport sewer shields. Ye, well well played, Jeff, 1:50:10.040 --> 1:50:14.320 well played Splinter. The sense of the teenage mutant ninja 1:50:14.360 --> 1:50:18.240 turtles was very wise and very very skilled in the 1:50:18.280 --> 1:50:21.560 martial arts. Um. And that's where I'm just gonna And 1:50:21.640 --> 1:50:23.599 for those of you who don't wrote teenage muntja Turtles, 1:50:24.000 --> 1:50:26.680 I don't know what to say. Um. That's it's a 1:50:26.720 --> 1:50:30.800 weird It's a really in retrospect, very weird show, very 1:50:30.840 --> 1:50:35.200 weird show. Taylor writes the falling buck your backup deeper 1:50:35.280 --> 1:50:38.280 noise is the same voice as Hillary, and for dan 1:50:38.400 --> 1:50:42.160 good reason, both are equally as wretched. Well, thank you 1:50:42.280 --> 1:50:45.200 very much, Taylor. I appreciate that as long as we 1:50:45.280 --> 1:50:48.120 get the basics of it, basically, I think that's good. 1:50:48.800 --> 1:50:52.599 Uh t j writes in Buck I enjoyed the Buck 1:50:52.680 --> 1:50:56.960 Peeve segment about air dryers. Maybe make it a weekly segment. 1:50:57.439 --> 1:50:59.560 I kind of like the idea of on Friday just 1:50:59.640 --> 1:51:02.400 doing this agrament on something that annoys me. I'm thinking 1:51:02.400 --> 1:51:04.400 about this. I'm gonna talk to producer Mike and John 1:51:04.439 --> 1:51:06.760 about it. But I feel like it could be a 1:51:06.800 --> 1:51:09.360 thing we do right Like, for example, right now, just 1:51:09.439 --> 1:51:12.040 off top of my head, people that on the subway 1:51:12.560 --> 1:51:14.360 decide that they're gonna walk to the top of the 1:51:14.400 --> 1:51:18.040 subway steps, stop and then look at their phone with 1:51:18.080 --> 1:51:20.160 about a hundred people behind them trying to walk up 1:51:20.200 --> 1:51:22.840 the stairs just and and there are people that just 1:51:22.920 --> 1:51:24.439 do this. They're like, oh my gosh, I finally have 1:51:24.560 --> 1:51:27.280 WiFi or you know, I have signal, and you know, 1:51:28.040 --> 1:51:30.439 unless you're like it like an e er doc and 1:51:30.760 --> 1:51:33.000 you can't find the hospital or something, which would be 1:51:33.640 --> 1:51:37.000 a whole other set of problems. I feel like you 1:51:37.080 --> 1:51:40.160 can wait the extra three seconds, move to the side, 1:51:40.360 --> 1:51:42.000 and let pc I'm already doing one of them. Now. 1:51:42.880 --> 1:51:46.519 We gotta find a uh, you know, Bucks grumble cast 1:51:46.680 --> 1:51:48.439 or something like that we'll do like a Friday. I 1:51:48.479 --> 1:51:51.360 think that'd be fun on the Friday's, so then people 1:51:51.400 --> 1:51:54.599 will know that I'm you know, it's like get off 1:51:54.680 --> 1:51:58.599 my lawn kind of stuff, which is good. Let's see 1:51:58.640 --> 1:52:00.720 what else we got here. I think it timefully. One 1:52:00.760 --> 1:52:05.479 more show is flown by today as it up, Jeff Holland, 1:52:05.560 --> 1:52:08.960 what's with the following? Quit slacking, Sexton. We need those 1:52:09.040 --> 1:52:12.760 history podcasts. Hope you have a blessed and find someday, Jeff, 1:52:12.800 --> 1:52:17.320 I know, I'm sorry I've created I've created a situation 1:52:17.400 --> 1:52:20.600 where the only way through shields high is to do 1:52:20.960 --> 1:52:23.439 shields high, and that is what will happen. That's what's 1:52:23.600 --> 1:52:25.760 I've I've been putting them out there, but I've taken 1:52:25.760 --> 1:52:28.040 a little break. He's just been a little quality time 1:52:28.080 --> 1:52:30.200 with Ms Molly, And now that we've had a couple 1:52:30.200 --> 1:52:33.080 of good weekends together, I'm gonna have to tell her, Honey, 1:52:33.160 --> 1:52:36.200 this weekend you can go do fun, normal person things. 1:52:36.360 --> 1:52:39.920 I'm going to uh lock myself to the desk with 1:52:39.960 --> 1:52:42.559 a bunch of old dusty books and write about how 1:52:42.640 --> 1:52:45.480 the Sultan was trying to invade the heart of Christianity 1:52:45.560 --> 1:52:48.400 and destroy the Western world. You know, as one does 1:52:49.040 --> 1:52:51.240 with that, my friends, it's gonna be it for our 1:52:51.320 --> 1:52:54.880 freedom Hut Extravaganta today. I'm excited about each day with 1:52:55.040 --> 1:52:58.599 you this week, so please do uh tune in, tell friends, 1:52:58.800 --> 1:53:01.559 share the podcast, and she'll tie