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Speaker 1: spiritual decre that even if you must stand alone to

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Speaker 1: do the right thing, he did the right thing. And

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Speaker 1: it's a shame that we as Americans have allowed ourselves

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Speaker 1: to get to the point where we're at where one

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Speaker 1: true patriot has to stand alone, out there by himself

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Speaker 1: to do the right thing during the time when our

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Speaker 1: country should pull together and we should support one another,

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Speaker 1: you know, regardless of what else is going on. You know,

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Speaker 1: Vienna Webva knows the right thing. He doesn't have to

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Speaker 1: like Trump, but he is our commander in chief, and

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Speaker 1: here's our president, and he's out there standing by himself,

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Speaker 1: representing not only you know, America's sport, but he's also

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Speaker 1: representing who he was in the past. And that's an

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Speaker 1: army ranger. And you know, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: allowing the diversity of us as Americans to call into

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Speaker 1: your show and be able to express ourselves. And regardless

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Speaker 1: whether you agree with us or not, we're sharing that.

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Speaker 1: And and thank you so much for having these lines

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Speaker 1: open for guys like me to be able to call

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Speaker 1: in and show our support for Vienn Webba and guys

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Speaker 1: like him that are out there that are doing the

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Speaker 1: right thing. Well, it's my honor to have you on ROB,

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Speaker 1: So thank you very much, first for your service and

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Speaker 1: also for the excellent call. And I agree with you.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you wholeheartedly. I think you're absolutely right

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Speaker 1: and and I I would say this as well and

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Speaker 1: shields high rob thank you, sir Um. I would say

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Speaker 1: this as well. That villanueva Um I think he did,

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Speaker 1: even if they are upset about this now, I think

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Speaker 1: he did. The Pittsburgh Steelers, whether they know it or not,

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Speaker 1: a big favor because now there are guys who are

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Speaker 1: coming out who are saying, you know what, I would

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Speaker 1: have stood too, but it was a team decision. And

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Speaker 1: because I'll tell you this, I don't care what. I

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Speaker 1: don't care you know what the the tone and tenor

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Speaker 1: in the locker room is of any sport or whatever.

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Speaker 1: There is no universe in which I would feel comfortable

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Speaker 1: in any way disrespecting the anthem period for all stop.

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Speaker 1: So at least now there's a conversation about how they

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Speaker 1: are Pittsburgh Steelers that didn't want to do it, but

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Speaker 1: they wanted to be respectful of their teammates and they

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Speaker 1: wanted to stay out of it. But you know, there's

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Speaker 1: really not there's really not staying out of it. There's

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Speaker 1: only are are you gonna? You know? Are no one's

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Speaker 1: saying that you have to? Uh, you know, grovel and

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Speaker 1: beg and and and sing and all this stuff. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're just saying, show respect, show respect for the flag.

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Speaker 1: You're you're you're at a your this is literally a spectacle.

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Speaker 1: You're at a public event, a professional sports event. Show

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Speaker 1: respect to the flag. If you don't, we want to

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Speaker 1: know why, because it's it's not about showing respect for Trump.

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Speaker 1: Love love Trump or not, it's not about showing respect

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Speaker 1: for Trump. We're not pledging allegiance to Trump. That's not

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Speaker 1: what And I know you know that. I know that

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Speaker 1: everybody should know that. But some people are kind of

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Speaker 1: pretending now, like that's what this is really about. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't work that way. Like I was saying, if I

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Speaker 1: was talking about feeding the hungry children in the world,

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Speaker 1: that's a worthy cause, that's great. If I did that

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Speaker 1: at somebody's funeral, I would get attention. I might even

487
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Speaker 1: get written up in the newspaper. But that would be

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Speaker 1: disrespectful because it's not about that. And that's how I

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Speaker 1: view the protest during the anthem the NFL. It's not

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Speaker 1: about it's not about cops mistreating or not minorities in

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Speaker 1: this country. It's not about cops as racist murderers, which

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Speaker 1: is actually what Kaepernick and the Black Lives Matter rhetoric

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Speaker 1: that started all this was about. And I've seen those signs.

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Speaker 1: I have been at those protests. I've had this debate

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Speaker 1: on CNN with Van Jones or he was trying to

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Speaker 1: tell me that, you know, oh, this is about police brutality. No. No,

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Speaker 1: I was at the protests and this. They weren't expecting

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Speaker 1: this over at seeing and I was at the protests

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Speaker 1: where they were holding up signs about when I say

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Speaker 1: at covering as a journalist or walking through on my

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Speaker 1: way home, um holding up signs saying, you know, racist

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Speaker 1: murdering cops and how many people of color have to

503
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Speaker 1: be murdered by cops before you realize how racist the

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Speaker 1: state has been all this stuff. I worked for the

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Speaker 1: m y p D. And I have law enforcement in

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Speaker 1: my family. Not okay with it, Not okay with that

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Speaker 1: slander that is out there. And Black Lives Matter as

508
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Speaker 1: as a function of its rhetoric has been slandering law enforcement.

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Speaker 1: It's not to say that there aren't cops who I mean.

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Speaker 1: I was the first one when that when the cop

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Speaker 1: was caught on video shooting a shooting an individual who's

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Speaker 1: running away? And I was like, well that guy, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that looked like an execution. That that's a that's a

514
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Speaker 1: bad cop. They call it. There's a word for them.

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Speaker 1: Police have a word. They call them purpose in uniform,

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Speaker 1: which is cops who break the law. All blue wall

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Speaker 1: of signs please. I was just Tyrone and I were

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Speaker 1: talking before the show. I said, if any of the

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Speaker 1: and many of the detectives that I used to work

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Speaker 1: with were minority. In fact, many of the tectives I

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Speaker 1: used to work with were either black or Latino, if

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Speaker 1: somebody had said something, said something racist, you know, a

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Speaker 1: fellow cop or never mind, Actually, well it was roughing

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Speaker 1: somebody up because of their skin color or acting the way,

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Speaker 1: it would have been unthinkable. Um, you mean you would

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Speaker 1: add a problem with the cop the other cop right away.

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Speaker 1: So it's just anyway, But I'm I'm getting on on

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Speaker 1: every line here, people. I look, it's this is people

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Speaker 1: get passionate about the subject. I understand, and and uh,

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Speaker 1: you want to want to talk about us. Let's take

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Speaker 1: Greg in Oklahoma on the I Heart app Hey Greg,

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Speaker 1: Hey buck, hey man, what's going on to you know,

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Speaker 1: as a veteran, I have to look at it, um,

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Speaker 1: a couple of different lights. Obviously, like you've said over

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Speaker 1: and over, it isn't the time or place to make

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Speaker 1: a protest, especially about the issue that they want to

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Speaker 1: bring up, which is a non sequad or to begin with. Um.

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Speaker 1: But for me, I'm not gonna let spoiled rich athletes

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Speaker 1: ruined football for myself. UM sure, if you guys want

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Speaker 1: to protest, go ahead and protest. I'm gonna focus on football,

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Speaker 1: just like I do with Hollywood. You know, Hollywood's practically communist,

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Speaker 1: but I still enjoy the movies they make. Um. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: they can protest if they want to. I obviously prefer

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Speaker 1: that they don't do it during the anthem as as

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Speaker 1: a veteran, you know that means so much to us.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, if they want to go

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Speaker 1: out and help the community of protest in a different way,

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Speaker 1: not at that time, go ahead. Um. Well, like I said,

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00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: you just just ignore what they're doing, enjoy the game,

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Speaker 1: and I think we would be better for it. Yeah. Well, Greg,

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00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: and I know you're a veteran, Greg, and you're a

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Speaker 1: friend of the show, so great to hear from me.

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Speaker 1: As always, thank you for your service and shields high. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, part of the problem here also is that

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Speaker 1: the First Amendment. There's the there's the First Amendment as law,

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Speaker 1: the First Amendment as a constitutionally protected right, and then

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00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: there's the First Amendment as a principle. As an idea,

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Speaker 1: I would like to live in a society where we

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Speaker 1: all can share our opinions and ideas without reprisal in

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00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: our professional lives. Unfortunately, that is not the country that

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Speaker 1: we live in. In fact, we now live in a

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Speaker 1: country where if you refuse to refer to an individual

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Speaker 1: by a plural pronoun they instead of he or she,

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Speaker 1: you might be in trouble. You might lose your job.

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Speaker 1: That that is the world that that is the America

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Speaker 1: now that we live in. Never mind saying things that

567
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Speaker 1: are politically incorrect. You know, look at James daymore at

568
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Speaker 1: at Google. I mean, there's any number of instances of this.

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Speaker 1: You had. Uh the CEO of Mozilla, brendan Ike, fired

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Speaker 1: years later because he supported a a completely mainstream political

571
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: campaign an opinion of the time, which had to do

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Speaker 1: with uh marriage, gay marriage and traditional marriage in the

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Speaker 1: state of California. When Barack Obama agreed with him. I

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Speaker 1: mean Barack Obama and him were the same position traditional marriage. Sure,

575
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Speaker 1: civil unions, but traditional marriages, traditional marriage. Years later they're like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, this guy supporting traditional marriage. We need

577
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Speaker 1: to fire him now. As a function of law, employers

578
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,719
Speaker 1: do have some latitude with this. This is where things

579
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: are gonna get very tricky because as I already said,

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Speaker 1: oh no, you can't wear something on your helmet to

581
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: support cops. Well, then that also means that you don't

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Speaker 1: get to wear stuff. What was that Kaepernick had the

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Speaker 1: socks with with with the pigs on them. That was Kaepernick, right, yeah. Please,

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Speaker 1: by the way, let's not pretend that Kaepernick is some

585
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Speaker 1: kind of a martyr for uh, you know, civil rights,

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Speaker 1: and give me a break. Guys wearing pig socks with

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Speaker 1: pigs with little police hats on them, Okay, is a jerk,

588
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: But I've got a lot of attention now. Now he

589
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: is wrapped in the righteousness of social justice. It's so

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00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: easy to do so much harder to actually make a

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Speaker 1: difference and to inspire people. One of the issues here

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Speaker 1: that I see and I can't I'm I appreciate by

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Speaker 1: the way all of you were calling it. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get through. We've got the lines here. It's

595
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 1: lit up like a Christmas tree. We'll get to more

596
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Speaker 1: in a second. I think that we have a feeling

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Speaker 1: and this maybe is this is a change that we're

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00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: gonna either accept or not as a society. But when

599
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: actors spout off about stuff, we're usually like, you're either

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Speaker 1: usually you're you're pretty male and female and lucky, and

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Speaker 1: we don't want to hear it. You know, it's just

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Speaker 1: you're somebody who's like one of the genetic lottery and

603
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Speaker 1: talking about you know, the big movie stars. You're really

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Speaker 1: you know, you're really good looking male or female, and

605
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Speaker 1: you're really lucky. And now you want to tell all

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Speaker 1: of us how to live our lives. And you don't

607
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Speaker 1: live your life that way. So we've more or less learned,

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Speaker 1: at least those of us with any wisdom. What's theever.

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00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: We've learned that, you know, actors, they can mouth off

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Speaker 1: about whatever and it doesn't really we don't have to.

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00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,800
Speaker 1: We can kind of be like, yeah, whatever, thanks, thanks DiCaprio,

612
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Speaker 1: take your private jet to the climate change rally and

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00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: you know, leave us alone. Uh. But with athletes, especially

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Speaker 1: the nfl UM and some of some of the other

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Speaker 1: big ticket you know, main baseball, I mean, some of

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Speaker 1: these big sports, but I think the NFL more than

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Speaker 1: any other really, there's a sense that they really represent

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Speaker 1: America and their leaders, and they're important to the culture

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Speaker 1: in a way that is more profound, more powerful than

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Speaker 1: many other sports, not all their other you know, basketball players,

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Speaker 1: baseball players. I mean, there's other big sports that are

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Speaker 1: are certainly in the same conversation as this, But I

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Speaker 1: mean you look at the top top NFL players and

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00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: the way that society looks at them, and um, we

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Speaker 1: think of them as leaders, and we think of them

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Speaker 1: as kind of men among men, and we might just

627
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Speaker 1: have to start thinking about them as entertainers. That may

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00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 1: be the shift here, you know, we may have to

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Speaker 1: start thinking about professional athletes, even at the NFL, instead

630
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Speaker 1: of the modern day gladiators who represent the American ideal

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Speaker 1: of hard work, endurance, strength, leadership, all of that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: not to take away from there. These guys there are

633
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: are incredible athletes and they've worked very hard, but maybe

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00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: we have to ignore their politics the same way we

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Speaker 1: ignore actors. Because I don't think this is going on

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Speaker 1: anytime soon, all right, lots of lines. Let we got uh, well,

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Speaker 1: as we take calls, you know how many space right now?

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Speaker 1: As we take calls though, we will open up, so

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Speaker 1: uh eight eight four four nine eight four four n

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Speaker 1: eight to five, We'll be right back with more. Stay

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Speaker 1: with me, Buck sex in here, welcome back to the

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Speaker 1: Freedom Hunt. We have uh every line, let's let's sake them.

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Speaker 1: We have al in Missouri on w w v A.

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Speaker 1: He's a former marine. Good to have you on, sir,

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I was a former marine. V Now I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm a pipeliner now and I'm working because the President

647
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Speaker 1: Trump pushing the issue and keeping us working. I raised

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00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: nine kids doing this congrass. That's amazing, and they're all

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Speaker 1: doctors and lawyers and everything else. So I've devoted my

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Speaker 1: whole life to them. But when it comes to American play,

651
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Speaker 1: that is what we rally around, and that's what we're about.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't have a color issue. Where you're all Americans,

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Speaker 1: that's what it's about. I think Kaepernick was being a

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Speaker 1: baby when he took the knee a year ago because

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Speaker 1: his team wasn't doing as good. So we'll leave that

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Speaker 1: at that. You think it was a stunt hile, Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: I think you'd being a big baby because the team

658
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: was really good, but they were having their moments and

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Speaker 1: weren't producing those things. Another thing when Hillary was with

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Speaker 1: Stephen Colburn or whatever. Yeah, and she goes, well, maybe

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Speaker 1: they take a collection and send me some more night. Well,

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Speaker 1: I on PayPal. I'm taking a collection. Is Center to

663
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Speaker 1: Quantanamo Bay for being a trader. I don't think. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that will work, but I I appreciate where

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Speaker 1: I don't even know actually kind of cross the wires there.

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Speaker 1: He wants to send Hillary to Gipmro. Well, that's not

667
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Speaker 1: gonna happen anyway. Thank you, sir for your service. And

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Speaker 1: wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners

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Speaker 1: when somebody disrespects are flat to say, get that son

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Speaker 1: of up up the field right now. Out he's fired.

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Speaker 1: Fired there. It is, that is what ignited this the

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Speaker 1: most recent controversy over NFL and kneeling and anthems and

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Speaker 1: all these players today that we're taking the knee and

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Speaker 1: everything else. So it's a pretty uh, pretty well what

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Speaker 1: do we think of President Trump saying that unusual for

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Speaker 1: president to take that take that um tone. But nonetheless,

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Speaker 1: there you have it. Also, I'm seeing here that the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: who are scheduled to play tonight Dallas Cowboys are planning

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Speaker 1: to show unity before Monday night football. So whether they're

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Speaker 1: gonna stand in lock arms, probably yeah. So they're just

681
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Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna make a nonstatement statement. But fine, fine,

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Speaker 1: I'm okay with a nonstatement statement. You know, just just

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Speaker 1: be respectful, to be respectful to the you know you

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Speaker 1: can you can stand there silently, right, I mean, no

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Speaker 1: one's measuring like how quickly your hand goes to your heart.

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Speaker 1: And you know that this isn't North Korea. I get it,

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Speaker 1: I mean, but there's a difference, right. It's like I

688
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Speaker 1: was saying about that, you know, and not not to

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Speaker 1: just always go to a funeral and let's make it

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Speaker 1: a wedding so it's a happy thing. You know, you

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Speaker 1: can stand in the back of the room at the

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Speaker 1: wedding and have your own thoughts about everything, and you

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Speaker 1: know no one's saying that you have to be, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, up at the front, yelling and cheering for

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Speaker 1: it all. But if all of a sudden you take

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Speaker 1: the wedding as an opportunity to be like you know,

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Speaker 1: I never really achieved my goals in life, and I'd

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Speaker 1: like to just take the attention off the bride and

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Speaker 1: groom for a minute. People would be annoyed, rightly so,

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Speaker 1: And the anthem is not the time and not the

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Speaker 1: place for protests about about police in America. And if

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Speaker 1: you want to make it about police and race issues, uh,

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Speaker 1: then people are gonna have something to say about it.

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Speaker 1: Because obviously, as an understanding of what the symbolism is, right,

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Speaker 1: this wasn't an accident. They chose the anthem because it's

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Speaker 1: going to upset people. They're they're deliberately being provocative. There's

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Speaker 1: there's no way around otherwise. Why do it at all?

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Speaker 1: Why I picked this moment because it'll get attention. People

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Speaker 1: will see this, and but now Trump has made this

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Speaker 1: a much bigger issue than it would have and otherwise

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Speaker 1: and ultimately, I just wish that sports was a refuge

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Speaker 1: for all of us from the day to day grind.

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Speaker 1: I really do. And I'm not even somebody who's all

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Speaker 1: that crazy about watching professional sports. Have too many old,

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Speaker 1: boring history books to read, which I think are fascinating,

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Speaker 1: But I don't really get that excited about much in

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Speaker 1: the way of professional sports. I do watch the NFL,

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Speaker 1: but I do like that. It's you know, when I

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Speaker 1: think about how you know just and I'm sorry, I've

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Speaker 1: got all the lines here are. Let we will get

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Speaker 1: to some more calls on a second and then and

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Speaker 1: then I have to tell you about the other hero.

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Speaker 1: I haven't forgotten. I got another hero. It's not getting

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Speaker 1: nearly enough attention to the media. Um, but we'll get it.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to it. Not and then I have to

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Speaker 1: possible flashpoints for conflict up to including a major war.

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Speaker 1: I gotta get to that too. And if we have time,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you about healthcare because guess what Republicans, you know,

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Speaker 1: dropped They dropped the ten yard pass that would have

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Speaker 1: been a first down here, right, But they can't do anything.

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Speaker 1: I mean this it is uh, they're not even like

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Speaker 1: forget about NFL level. The Republicans are like the j

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Speaker 1: V water Polo squad. I mean, they just cannot figure

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Speaker 1: out what's going on here. It looks like healthcare is

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Speaker 1: are the health care reform effort is already doomed. So

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Speaker 1: I mean, we'll talk about it, but it's not like

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Speaker 1: I've got great news. My news is that the health

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Speaker 1: care system, Mr Obamacare, and Republican stink. There's my news.

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Speaker 1: And I could sit here for an hour and tell

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Speaker 1: you but how much Republicans you know, they stink and

741
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Speaker 1: you can't trust them. And the other shows will do that.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't need to do that. You already

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Speaker 1: know much of that. We'll talk about the issue and

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Speaker 1: what would have happened and where we go from here. Um,

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Speaker 1: but I just want to say that for me, you know,

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Speaker 1: last week, actually I had the uh this this happens

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Speaker 1: to be here in New York City sometimes I was

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Speaker 1: in a I was in a taxi and the driver

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Speaker 1: kind of looked, you know, looked to me twice in

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Speaker 1: the rear view mirror guys maybe looking behind, but kind

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Speaker 1: of looked up a third time. And I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 1: he's he's looking at me. And and he said, you know,

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Speaker 1: do I know you from somewhere, which somebody who did

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Speaker 1: a little you know, was was the occasional uh conservative

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Speaker 1: commentator over at CNN. I figured maybe the guy was

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Speaker 1: in an airport somewhere and saw my face on the screen,

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Speaker 1: and you know, and sure enough that's he's Like I

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Speaker 1: watched CNN all the time, and I'm like, well, you

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Speaker 1: don't see me there anymore. But um, you know, he said,

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Speaker 1: I watched CNN all the time, and the guy recognized me,

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Speaker 1: and he wanted he wanted to talk politics. And it's

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Speaker 1: not that I won't talk politics with strangers. I'm this

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Speaker 1: is what I do in a sense. I mean all

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Speaker 1: the time, right, I'm always on trying to have these discussions.

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Speaker 1: But I also, you know, I'm it's late, I've had

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Speaker 1: a long day. I actually just want to get home

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Speaker 1: and and and I don't want to have a five

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Speaker 1: minute conversation where somebody gets offended or gets you know, testy,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want that. So I turned the turn

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Speaker 1: the conversation to if there are a few things you

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Speaker 1: can turn the conversation too, and one of them is sports,

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Speaker 1: you know, And this is one of the tricks that

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Speaker 1: I've learned. Yeah, you know, I do a little political commentary,

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Speaker 1: but you know, yeah, how how how about those how

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Speaker 1: about those giants? And we can have a nice conversation

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Speaker 1: about sports. It's not because I don't want to talk

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Speaker 1: politics with a total stranger, because I we'll talk politics

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Speaker 1: with anybody, but sometimes you're tired, you're wanta deal with it.

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Speaker 1: And I've had one or two situations where people have

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Speaker 1: corened me and they want to ask me questions about

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Speaker 1: these things, and I really, I just want a sandwich.

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Speaker 1: You know. Actually, I actually don't want to give my

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Speaker 1: whole thesis on the Trump administration right now. I just

784
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Speaker 1: I just want a sandwich. It's not that you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm unwilling to have a discussion with somebody else, but

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Speaker 1: the time and place, time and place. I think that's

787
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Speaker 1: kind of the motto for today. There's a time and place, um.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like sports now is not even that

789
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Speaker 1: refuge anymore. Now. It's like, you know, how about the giants,

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Speaker 1: like well, you see the NFL protest, even sports, everything

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Speaker 1: is politicized. It's my way of saying, everything is so

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Speaker 1: political now, and and it's it is different. This is

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Speaker 1: not I'm not you know, shaking my fist in the

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Speaker 1: air and saying, you know, in my day, because first

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Speaker 1: of all, my day don't. I don't even know what

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Speaker 1: that would mean. And uh, it's because social media is

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Speaker 1: now has at both an amplifier and a clarifier effect

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Speaker 1: on these conversations. Amplified in the sense that you know,

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Speaker 1: we all have a voice, We all can be media personalities,

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Speaker 1: we all can be public commentators. All it takes is

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Speaker 1: an Internet connection and then clarification, which I guess is

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Speaker 1: a nice way of saying it, which is now we

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Speaker 1: whereas before I think there were a lot of people

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Speaker 1: who could do their jobs even in the public eye

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Speaker 1: and you wouldn't necessarily know their politics. Now they're they're

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Speaker 1: putting it out there for you, and we haven't yet

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Speaker 1: figured out what to do with somebody who you know,

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Speaker 1: wants to be an NFL announcer like Monday Night, and

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Speaker 1: then Tuesday wants to be a gun control expert, or

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Speaker 1: actually somebody who just weighs in on guns and knows

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Speaker 1: nothing about them, right that that that happens. So that's

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Speaker 1: what's really different here. Um, like I said, the other

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Speaker 1: hero has nothing to football, will get there, and also

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Speaker 1: some national security buck brief all that. But I can

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Speaker 1: see we got all a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 1: had the lines let up the entire show, So clearly

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Speaker 1: we've got people who want to chat about this. Um.

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Speaker 1: Let's take Tom in Ohio on w w V A Hey, Tom,

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Speaker 1: definite book. I called the White House today for a

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Speaker 1: couple of reasons. One was the uh, the result of

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Speaker 1: the boycott by Golden State as far as going to

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Speaker 1: the White House. And also I guess the college team

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Speaker 1: is hanging on doing the same thing, and I said that, uh,

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Speaker 1: that's that's okay. You know, all Trump hass to do

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Speaker 1: is for that time slot and make it publicly known

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Speaker 1: that he's inviting the Cajun Navy and the U A

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Speaker 1: Waco Navy and the first responders to UH Harvey and

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Speaker 1: to uh Irma to the White House in their place.

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Speaker 1: You know, these sports figures are just entertainers, and we

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Speaker 1: lose trunk of that. And you know, we don't invite

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Speaker 1: the group that got the most Emmy's, the most Oscars,

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Speaker 1: the most Tony's, the most Grammys for the White US

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Speaker 1: and give them special attention so they can stop doing

834
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Speaker 1: this if if that becomes comes to that point. But

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Speaker 1: the other part of it is UH that I want

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Speaker 1: to talk about is uh Lindsay Graham's bill regarding healthcare. Now,

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Speaker 1: both Susan Collins and John McCain say that it's not bipartisan. Well,

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Speaker 1: I called both their offices. I mentioned it to the

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Speaker 1: White House a comment line and also called Lindsay Graham's

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Speaker 1: office that Obamacare is totally partisan. Plus the fact that

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Speaker 1: when you consider that Lindsay Graham's bill contains part of

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Speaker 1: Obamacare that makes it bipartisan, and the fact that it's

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Speaker 1: going back to the states that in some instances are

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Speaker 1: controlled by Democrats. Other states that's controlled it's by Republicans

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Speaker 1: that you know, this bill is dead on arrival already, right,

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Speaker 1: they don't have the votes. Well, what I'm saying is

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Speaker 1: this I think would put if if Lindsey Graham and

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Speaker 1: Trump were to approach publicly John McCain and Susan Collins

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Speaker 1: and say, don't use bipartisan because this is a bipartisan

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00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: You're going to get the Democrats from one Obamacare and

851
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,760
Speaker 1: that's it. Then at least it puts them up front

852
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: as being really rhinos and and for that matter, well

853
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,760
Speaker 1: the Republicans who won't go along, it's either a personal

854
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,919
Speaker 1: legacy for them, John McCain, or it's about getting free

855
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:22,959
Speaker 1: stuff from the quote free stuff in the federal government,

856
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: which is gonna Murkowski and the rest of them. So

857
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean, I think you're writing the messaging

858
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: and Tom Shields, thank you for calling it from Ohio.

859
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 1: But it's our you know, here we are and now

860
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: now they failed. Now we're past the window for it

861
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:36,959
Speaker 1: to just be reconciliation. Now they and they're just gonna

862
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 1: have a thousand excuses pretty soon. The excuse will be sorry,

863
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:42,839
Speaker 1: we can't do it now because you know, mid terms,

864
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 1: that's what's gonna The excuse for an action will be

865
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Speaker 1: action would hurt us in the mid terms. I think

866
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Speaker 1: that's where we're heading. Just give it some time, and

867
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Speaker 1: not much time. We'll be there soon. Uh, Johnny and

868
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Speaker 1: Mississippi on w BUV. Hey Johnny, Hey Buck, Yeah, Hey,

869
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: I just wanted to Uh, I just wanted to say

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Speaker 1: Number one. I think it's unfortunate that one of the

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Speaker 1: few places where we can be united during an anthem

872
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: or during during honoring our flag, it's a shame that

873
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:22,319
Speaker 1: we can't even have that without it being used. Yeah.

874
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 1: I wish that this was a place where we could all,

875
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,360
Speaker 1: you know, we all just get to be Americans and

876
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: we're all, you know, getting to both respect and and

877
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:33,720
Speaker 1: appreciate the skills and the accomplishments of these athletes, and

878
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 1: we get to you know, get away from our day

879
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: to day lives and enjoy ourselves a little bit that

880
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: that's what sports should be about. It shouldn't be about that.

881
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: I think, Well, I can't hear Johnny. Is he still there? No, Johnny,

882
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: Johnny at child time and thank you? We lost you though, Uh,

883
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: Felix and Pennsylvania has been a home for quite a while,

884
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: your patient, man, Felix, what's going on? Hey, Block, how

885
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 1: are you doing? I'm all right, you know, I kind

886
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 1: of I kind of wanted to talk about conspiracies a

887
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 1: little bit, and this is interesting, how kind of ties in.

888
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 1: I think you're on the think you might be calling

889
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: the wrong show. But go ahead, there are other shows

890
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: for that. Okay, no, no, no, no, no, no pill show.

891
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 1: Are you are you part? Are you part of the

892
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 1: ruminat Phelix? I was I was gonna say, you know,

893
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: despite what Alex Jones says that about you, I'm thinking

894
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton for president two thousand, absolutely absolutely is the government.

895
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 1: He will be the head of the government. Go ahead,

896
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,360
Speaker 1: but look, but you know what, you know some of

897
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,959
Speaker 1: these conspiracies, you know, they're not that far off the mark.

898
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Speaker 1: I mean, let's take a look at Jeff Sessions for

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Speaker 1: a second. This must have been he must have been

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Speaker 1: planted there by someone who planned you know, four or

901
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: five moves ahead, because he has completely checkmated Donald Trump. Okay,

902
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: Jeff Sessions has how so well, because Jeff Sessions as

903
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: the attorney general, he can't get rid of um, you know,

904
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: the guy I'll come out. I forgot what his name

905
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:49,240
Speaker 1: is now, who's not going? Yeah, former FBI director? Okay.

906
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,320
Speaker 1: And they can't go after Hillary and and and the

907
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:53,800
Speaker 1: d you know, the people in the d n C

908
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 1: for for for all the crimes that they committed. Okay,

909
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,439
Speaker 1: So Sessions is actually a check mat right there. Wait,

910
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: but why would why? I mean, give me your what's

911
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:04,760
Speaker 1: what's the two line of what you're trying to tell me? Here, Felix? Okay,

912
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: I mean, and and look at how now here? No,

913
00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 1: no, no no, felix, what is the two line or three line?

914
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 1: Will give you three version of what you're trying to

915
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 1: tell me. You think Sessions is helping the Democrats? I'm confused. No, no, no, no.

916
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 1: I think that he wasn't planned by somebody, all right.

917
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 1: In other words, I think that they're actually is a

918
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 1: certain elite group of people globalists or whatever trying to

919
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:28,879
Speaker 1: country who are trying to take this country down, Okay,

920
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 1: and take a look our our educational system has been infiltrated.

921
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: Everything is all left wing, that's taught right. Look at

922
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 1: now what's happening at the NFL and the American institution.

923
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:42,840
Speaker 1: Look at how this is being corrupted. Okay, I'm not

924
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,320
Speaker 1: really seeing I'm not I'm missing the connective tissue between

925
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Speaker 1: all these different these different observations though, Felix, it's it's

926
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 1: taking taking America down, okay. In other words, trying to

927
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: bring us into the global fault. You got, you know,

928
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: you got the climate change thing, and it's you know,

929
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 1: that's all related to you and Agenda twenty one and

930
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: the sustainability um you know, and so you've got people

931
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: pushing for that. And then you look at even like

932
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 1: this whole Black Lives Matter thing, I mean, they based

933
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: it on two poster boys, you know, uh, Michael Brown,

934
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Speaker 1: you know, who was who was a thug who was

935
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Speaker 1: committing a crime, and Trayvon Martin, who was committing an assault,

936
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Speaker 1: you know, instead of you know, using legitimate cases of

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00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 1: police brutality. You know that I will I will say

938
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Speaker 1: that those those are those are two very bad and Felix,

939
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Speaker 1: thank you for calling in thank you for holding for

940
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Speaker 1: such a long time. Uh, those are not good cases

941
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Speaker 1: to be the exemplars of what there is real police.

942
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:38,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I could sit here and talk to you

943
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,240
Speaker 1: about something there. There are cases are really bad police brutality.

944
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Speaker 1: It does happen. Um, they're cases where cops are guilty

945
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: of murder, recent ones. But Mike Brown, well, I mean

946
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Speaker 1: the Zimmerman thing, George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman wasn't

947
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 1: even a cop. I mean what that had to do with,

948
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Speaker 1: you know, And and that's where they created this concept

949
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Speaker 1: of a white Hispanic I mean, they created a whole

950
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:06,320
Speaker 1: new categorization to make that story more intersestant. The media.

951
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Speaker 1: NBC actually changed the audio tape so that it sounded

952
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Speaker 1: more racist. I mean, anyway, we we we That was

953
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Speaker 1: a while ago, but that was a fascinating case study. Okay,

954
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Speaker 1: I've got the other Since we've taken calls, we're gonna

955
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Speaker 1: get into the other hero story, which I'll get into

956
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 1: right after this break. And then um we'll talk about

957
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:31,399
Speaker 1: North Korea. We'll talk about Kurdistan if it is a thing,

958
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 1: because that's really what's up for debate right now. And

959
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: will there'll be a Kurdish country carved out of northern

960
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 1: Iraq and what that could do in the region, the

961
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:43,279
Speaker 1: destabilizations that could happen there. So we will get to

962
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 1: that and UH much more. Buck back with you now.

963
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Speaker 1: I started the show talking about Villanueva and his heroic

964
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 1: stand UH, and I also mentioned another hero that didn't

965
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:56,359
Speaker 1: get nearly as much and in my opinion, didn't get

966
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: nearly enough attention. Over the weekend, UM, there was a

967
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: shooting at a church in Tennessee that left one dead,

968
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 1: a mother of future mother and wife, and seven wounded. Uh.

969
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 1: And the hero here is UM Robert Angele, who was

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00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: the usher. So a shooter walked into a church and

971
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: just started shooting people at random, and the usher tackled

972
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Speaker 1: him withstood being pistol whipped to his own head and

973
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Speaker 1: then the gun and the struggle that the shooter had

974
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: brought in. Emmanuel Sampson was the shooter. The gun went

975
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:41,719
Speaker 1: off and and hit the shooter, and then hero of

976
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 1: our story, Robert angle was able to run out to

977
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:46,800
Speaker 1: his vehicle and get his firearm and then hold the shooter,

978
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:51,879
Speaker 1: hold the shooter until the police were able to get there.

979
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 1: So if we're not for this usher. You could have

980
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 1: had many more killed in this church. This was a

981
00:53:57,120 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 1: mass shooting in a church. Out you have the heroics

982
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: of Robert Angele, who I have to say, it's much

983
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: easier after one of these incidents to think about how

984
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 1: we would all react in a similar way that it

985
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:15,240
Speaker 1: is to actually do so in the moment, the moment

986
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: somebody comes in to a situation like that. Never in

987
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:24,320
Speaker 1: a million years would you expect you're in church in Tennessee,

988
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:31,759
Speaker 1: near Nashville and there would be some deranged shooter to

989
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:38,400
Speaker 1: start start firing a people. So it is really worthy

990
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 1: of of of acclaim and deep respect and admiration that

991
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 1: this that this man tackled the shooter and and stopped

992
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:49,959
Speaker 1: him from going on a mass murdering spree. It's terrible

993
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 1: that he killed one woman, he shot seven others. Um

994
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:57,800
Speaker 1: why didn't this story seem to merit much more of

995
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 1: the media's attention. Usually a a mass shooting will will

996
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 1: hear a lot about how this is evidence of why

997
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 1: we need more gun control, or we would hear about

998
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: the different possible angles, whether of if it's police involved

999
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:16,919
Speaker 1: or if there's a racial angle to it. Well, here

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00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:22,879
Speaker 1: you had a Sudanese immigrant to the United States who,

1001
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 1: for no apparent reason that anyone is aware of, tried

1002
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 1: to go on a mass murder spree inside of a church,

1003
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Speaker 1: was stopped by someone who also was able to get

1004
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:39,000
Speaker 1: to a firearm and prevent So a good guy with

1005
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 1: a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun. Which,

1006
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 1: as those of us who pay attention are honest and

1007
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 1: know what the heck we're talking about, we'll tell anyone

1008
00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:49,799
Speaker 1: who listens that that's usually how these situations when they

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00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:53,400
Speaker 1: don't end with, you know, fifteen or twenty dead, or

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00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 1: five or ten dead. When when it when it ends

1011
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:58,080
Speaker 1: sooner than it would have otherwise, it is oftentimes because

1012
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 1: a good guy with a gun, whether lawn forcement or

1013
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 1: a civilian good Samaritan, gets there and stops the situation

1014
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,839
Speaker 1: from being much worse than what I have otherwise. Um,

1015
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: but it was an immigrant, it was an African American

1016
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:17,480
Speaker 1: the United States shooting up a a church, and it's

1017
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:19,320
Speaker 1: just not a story the media is particularly interested in.

1018
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 1: They just don't want to talk about it. So I

1019
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:24,080
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about it just because we should know

1020
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Speaker 1: that Robert Angel of Tennessee saved a bunch of lives

1021
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Speaker 1: and he is a hero. And this is a story

1022
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 1: that everyone should know and we should be hearing much

1023
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 1: more about. But you know, we've got someone in the left.

1024
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: You think that Kaepernick is brave for taking a knee. No, no,

1025
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 1: angle tackling a shooter to save lives in a church.

1026
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Speaker 1: That's great. If you want a herring, do you want

1027
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 1: to hearing, you better shut up if you want to hear,

1028
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:10,880
Speaker 1: there's Oran Hatch trying to deal with some some hecklers,

1029
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 1: some protesters on the healthcare Billity, I've got I've got

1030
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Speaker 1: good news in a sense, although it's news of bad news,

1031
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:20,040
Speaker 1: but I suppose in the situation it could be construed

1032
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:24,920
Speaker 1: as good news. Uh, it doesn't really matter, because the

1033
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:28,600
Speaker 1: latest on the healthcare bill is the following Collins becomes

1034
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 1: a third Republican to oppose Graham Cassidy bill Um, the

1035
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: main senator joins McCain and Paul and saying they won't

1036
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:39,440
Speaker 1: vote for the healthcare bill. Here's what we got, Kurtsey

1037
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Speaker 1: of the Wall Street Journal. Senator Susan Collins of Maine

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00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 1: said Monday she opposes the latest Republican healthcare proposal to

1039
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 1: roll back the Affordable Care Act officially leaving the GOP

1040
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 1: legislation without enough support to pass MS. Collins opposition likes

1041
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 1: ly likely marks the death blow for the bill, which

1042
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Speaker 1: had been close to collapsing for day, as GOP leaders

1043
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 1: can lose no more than two Republican votes to pass

1044
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Speaker 1: the bill. Ram Paul of Kentucky, John Tocany of Arizona

1045
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 1: already said they couldn't support. So McCain Kentucky Paul and

1046
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:13,680
Speaker 1: also Ted Cruz was against this. I'm hearing, Oh gosh,

1047
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 1: what's going on? Yeah, Fox reporting that earlier today. Ah,

1048
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 1: so what exactly, what exactly are we paying these Republican

1049
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 1: members of Congress to do. What's the point of going

1050
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:32,959
Speaker 1: out and electing them and doing all this if they're

1051
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: just gonna not do very much at all and then

1052
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 1: say that it's the Democrat's fault. On the other side, Um,

1053
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Speaker 1: the protesters were saying, uh, they are protesters that are

1054
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 1: saying no cuts to medicaid. And here's some audio from

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Speaker 1: one of those protests. I'm so sorry about this process.

1056
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Speaker 1: I would have preferred. You can kind of hear there're

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Speaker 1: only no cuts to medicaid. That's with the big no

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00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:08,880
Speaker 1: cuts to medicaid once. Yeah, yeah, it's it's not the

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00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,120
Speaker 1: most I can't hear what there was no custom medicaid.

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00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 1: What was the end of it. What they're saying is

1061
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 1: no cuts to medicaid or no liberty. That's not the catchiest.

1062
00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 1: That's not the catchiest tune I've ever heard, you know

1063
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 1: what I mean? No cuts to medicaid or no liberty.

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00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 1: They could use some help on the slogans. I want

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00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 1: to put that out there, healthcare protesters. You know you guys,

1066
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:32,160
Speaker 1: could you guys could up your game a little bit.

1067
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 1: You know your your meme you're not really memorable. Your

1068
00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 1: memes are weak here with the no cuts to medicaid

1069
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:41,520
Speaker 1: or no liberty. I don't really understand, not really clear

1070
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:42,919
Speaker 1: on what they're I mean, I know what they're trying

1071
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 1: to say, right, but that's not I'm not gonna put

1072
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: that on a bumper stick or anytime soon. Um So,

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00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 1: no cuts to medicaid, that's to be expected. That's why

1074
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: Obamacare was all designed. It was designed so that you

1075
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 1: could never get rid of it. That's why it was

1076
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 1: front loaded with all the goodies, generally the goodies being

1077
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:04,480
Speaker 1: the stand your parents insurance until you're twenty six. That's

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01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:07,960
Speaker 1: not really all that meaningful as health as health insurance

1079
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 1: reform goes, we don't even have a health insurance system really,

1080
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: as I've always said, we have subsidies and and and

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01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:18,880
Speaker 1: government mandates that determine what the insurance market is. It's

1082
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 1: not really about risk and insurance. It's about what people

1083
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:26,440
Speaker 1: get through the political process, but what they're given. Really,

1084
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 1: it's a better way to put it through the political process.

1085
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 1: But it doesn't look like it doesn't look like we're

1086
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:32,760
Speaker 1: gonna have all that much to talk about with this bill.

1087
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 1: The basics of the bill, had it gone through, which

1088
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:39,200
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like it's gonna do. The bill would

1089
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:43,600
Speaker 1: have given money to the states instead of giving money

1090
01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:47,280
Speaker 1: to the well letting the federal government set up the exchanges.

1091
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 1: So here we are, Um, yeah, that's not gonna happen.

1092
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:56,440
Speaker 1: So it's an interesting idea, but I suppose the discussion

1093
01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:59,800
Speaker 1: of it at some level is somewhat uh at this

1094
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:03,600
Speaker 1: point academic, because they're not going to do it. It's

1095
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: not going to happen. They are unable to get this

1096
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:16,320
Speaker 1: bill through, and my frustration, my frustration with the Republicans

1097
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:22,080
Speaker 1: at this point is becoming, Oh, I guess I'm becoming

1098
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 1: numb to my own frustration with them. Um, but I

1099
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:27,560
Speaker 1: did want to note something only this is a more

1100
01:01:27,720 --> 01:01:29,640
Speaker 1: maybe and more we'll go to a more interesting place

1101
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 1: in the healthcare debate for a second here, because why

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01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:36,520
Speaker 1: am I going to Why am I going to get

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01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:41,360
Speaker 1: deep into the details of uh a healthcare build that's

1104
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:43,440
Speaker 1: not even gonna go through at this point. That's the

1105
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 1: third real attempt Republicans have had this year, and they

1106
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 1: can't make it work. This was particularly interesting to me though,

1107
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 1: because it brings together some of our threads from last

1108
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 1: weeks and what we're talking about last week, and that

1109
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:59,280
Speaker 1: is you will remember a very some very self righteous

1110
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 1: lecture for the American people courtesy of comedian who's seems

1111
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:10,200
Speaker 1: neither particularly nice nor particularly funny, comedian Jimmy Kimmel, who

1112
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 1: you know, he called Brian kill Meat a little creep

1113
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 1: in said he was basically kissing up to him and everything,

1114
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:17,760
Speaker 1: and you know it was it was being he was

1115
01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 1: being nasty about that, um, you know, sort of implying

1116
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 1: that Brian was you know, being weasey or something. So um,

1117
01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:31,880
Speaker 1: that wasn't that wasn't cool. And he also well he

1118
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:34,240
Speaker 1: also was going after Cassidy, right, that was the big

1119
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:36,760
Speaker 1: Cassie lied to his face and Cassie's a liar every

1120
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:38,560
Speaker 1: So Jimmy Kimmel was on was on the war path

1121
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:41,920
Speaker 1: last week going after people on this healthcare thing, and

1122
01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 1: then we found out something pretty interesting, which is which

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01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 1: you know it had we came out on a Friday.

1124
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 1: So I feel like it's kind of getting lost in

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01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 1: the shuffle with all the NFL and taking the knee

1126
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:55,000
Speaker 1: and don't take the knee and stand, don't stand, lock

1127
01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 1: arms all this. So many people say, like, I defend

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01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 1: the right of these plays just say it. Well, I

1129
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:05,960
Speaker 1: know I'm going I'm backtracking the NFL thing, But it's

1130
01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:07,960
Speaker 1: not about whether they have the right to say it

1131
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:10,720
Speaker 1: from a government perspective. It's does a private employer have

1132
01:03:10,920 --> 01:03:15,280
Speaker 1: to allow for this speech because they don't allow other speech? Yeah?

1133
01:03:15,960 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 1: I work in radio. Yeah I have free speech rights,

1134
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:22,960
Speaker 1: and I could say a lot of stuff about the government,

1135
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:24,400
Speaker 1: and there are some limits to it, right, But I

1136
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:26,080
Speaker 1: could say a lot of stuff that the government or

1137
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:29,240
Speaker 1: may not like. Um may or may not like and

1138
01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:32,120
Speaker 1: they can't take action against if my employer can. I

1139
01:03:32,240 --> 01:03:34,200
Speaker 1: can't sit here and start cursing up a storm and

1140
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:36,320
Speaker 1: saying whatever I want about anybody and be like, well,

1141
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 1: the First Amendment, right, No, it's not how it works.

1142
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:42,240
Speaker 1: You get fired. Same thing for the NFL, everybody I know.

1143
01:03:42,600 --> 01:03:44,200
Speaker 1: People hate to think of it this way. The same

1144
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:48,160
Speaker 1: people who want bakers to lose their ability to make

1145
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:50,720
Speaker 1: a living and how their businesses shut down and destroyed

1146
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 1: by the government because they won't make a cake for

1147
01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:55,919
Speaker 1: certain people are the people that I noticed. We're saying,

1148
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:59,400
Speaker 1: you know, well and others there's a fur they have

1149
01:03:59,440 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 1: a right to free speech and and you know at

1150
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 1: the NFL, which is it? Do you do you have

1151
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:07,800
Speaker 1: a right to free speech and free expression or not?

1152
01:04:08,120 --> 01:04:09,480
Speaker 1: They can't see to figure that out. But all right,

1153
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:13,640
Speaker 1: back to the pardon the digression, Pardon the digression. Back

1154
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:21,360
Speaker 1: to Jimmy Kimmel, comedian who said the following or who

1155
01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 1: we found out the following. On Friday, courtesy of The Hill,

1156
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:29,720
Speaker 1: comedian Jimmy Kimmel consulted with Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer's

1157
01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 1: office on details surrounding the healthcare debate. The Daily Beast

1158
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:37,880
Speaker 1: reported Friday, Schumer's office provided technical guidance and info about

1159
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:40,720
Speaker 1: the bill, as well as stats from various think tanks

1160
01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:43,440
Speaker 1: and experts on the effects of the legislation. A source

1161
01:04:43,520 --> 01:04:47,160
Speaker 1: told the outlet, Okay, so you know what this means, right,

1162
01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:50,320
Speaker 1: just we're going to connect all these dots. Now, we

1163
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:55,640
Speaker 1: have late night comedians who are straight up mouthpieces. Are

1164
01:04:55,720 --> 01:05:02,600
Speaker 1: just are just megaphones. They are propagandists for Democrat politicians.

1165
01:05:04,040 --> 01:05:07,320
Speaker 1: This is as as clear as can be. Jimmy Kimmel

1166
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 1: is getting his information for his monologues and other stuff.

1167
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:16,360
Speaker 1: He is a day facto functionary of the d n C.

1168
01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:20,000
Speaker 1: Of Chuck Schumer, of Nancy Pelosi. Up there, you know,

1169
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:22,880
Speaker 1: I'm a comedian. Ha ha ha. Oh, I don't know anything. Oh,

1170
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:25,840
Speaker 1: you've cornered me on an area of subject subject matter

1171
01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:27,320
Speaker 1: that I don't know anything about. Ha ha ha. I'm

1172
01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:29,280
Speaker 1: just a comedian. But let me make fun of all

1173
01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:31,600
Speaker 1: those dumb Republicans who want to do something about healthcare,

1174
01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:33,800
Speaker 1: who hate poor people and hate minorities. Ha ha ha.

1175
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:36,960
Speaker 1: Well wait, that's not true. They're actually trying to make

1176
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:40,920
Speaker 1: the healthcare system better for everybody because Obamacare stinks. Oh,

1177
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:43,200
Speaker 1: I'm a comedian, ha ha ha. Sorry, it's just a joke,

1178
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:46,240
Speaker 1: you know. That's that's the game. It is it is

1179
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:48,680
Speaker 1: both sword and shield. They use it to attack, they

1180
01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 1: use it for defense. I'm a comedian. I'm a comedian.

1181
01:05:52,680 --> 01:05:54,880
Speaker 1: You know, clown knows on, clown knows off? Which is

1182
01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:57,520
Speaker 1: it gonna be? Kimmel, is the clown knows on? Are

1183
01:05:57,600 --> 01:05:59,360
Speaker 1: you making us laugh? Or we supposed to listen to

1184
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:02,440
Speaker 1: your your story worries about healthcare in this country because

1185
01:06:02,440 --> 01:06:04,360
Speaker 1: I don't want the clown nose on. But you're taking

1186
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:06,800
Speaker 1: orders from Chuck Schumer. That's a problem. Hong Kong, right,

1187
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:11,840
Speaker 1: that's not cool. But that's what we found out. And

1188
01:06:11,920 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 1: I should know those of you listening, and I know

1189
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:15,480
Speaker 1: a lot of you, like Buck, I don't watch this

1190
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:18,480
Speaker 1: that late night comedy, you know, a late night talk

1191
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 1: show whatever you call it, late night show. Um, but

1192
01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:27,080
Speaker 1: you know, how surprised are you? I'm guessing not all

1193
01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:30,440
Speaker 1: that surprised that you have comedians who are taking their

1194
01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:33,640
Speaker 1: marching orders from Damn. I know people old blucklets on fur.

1195
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 1: He's just getting information. Really, how big do you think

1196
01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:40,920
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel's writing and production teammates They really need, they

1197
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:45,680
Speaker 1: need Chuck Schumer's office to give them help. They really

1198
01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:49,120
Speaker 1: need to get their help from Chuck Schumer. Mm hmm,

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01:06:50,120 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 1: A little suspicious, isn't it a little suspicious? Speaking about healthcare?

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01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:57,760
Speaker 1: We got Dr Rick from Maryland alone? What's up? Dr

1201
01:06:57,880 --> 01:07:01,919
Speaker 1: Rick dropped some knowledge? Oh, Buck, I tell you, I can't.

1202
01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:05,000
Speaker 1: I am so upset about this, and I have been

1203
01:07:05,080 --> 01:07:09,200
Speaker 1: for years. Um. I thought from the beginning that Obamacare

1204
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:13,480
Speaker 1: really was meant to bring on a single payer system.

1205
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:16,480
Speaker 1: I still believe that. I think it was contrived from

1206
01:07:16,560 --> 01:07:20,720
Speaker 1: the very beginning to fall apart. And I don't see

1207
01:07:20,840 --> 01:07:25,280
Speaker 1: anyone in um I left or right has the guts

1208
01:07:25,320 --> 01:07:30,000
Speaker 1: to have an honest conversation about healthcare. Well, what do

1209
01:07:30,040 --> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 1: you think that conversation would sound like? Well, it would

1210
01:07:33,640 --> 01:07:38,760
Speaker 1: sound like because you're you're a practitioner. I'm a PhD.

1211
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:44,040
Speaker 1: I'm a psychologist kind of doctor. Fair enough, Yeah, I'm

1212
01:07:44,200 --> 01:07:47,920
Speaker 1: I'm that conservative shrink in people's Republic of Montgomery County.

1213
01:07:48,520 --> 01:07:51,560
Speaker 1: So um, But I'm a nerros psychologist a specialty. But

1214
01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:53,600
Speaker 1: I have a private practice, and I've been blessed to

1215
01:07:53,680 --> 01:07:56,880
Speaker 1: be very busy. I'm feed for service, so I don't

1216
01:07:56,920 --> 01:08:00,040
Speaker 1: take any insurance anymore, step for Medicare and then and

1217
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:03,320
Speaker 1: I work at a very large, renowned hospital in the area,

1218
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:06,919
Speaker 1: um where they are having a very hard time. Most

1219
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:08,960
Speaker 1: of the hospitals actually are in the red be in

1220
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:13,480
Speaker 1: honesty and they try to hide the fact. Um and um,

1221
01:08:13,680 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 1: you know Medicare is that is quickly becoming Medicaid. Many

1222
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:23,400
Speaker 1: people are leaving. Good practitioners just cannot afford to be

1223
01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:25,720
Speaker 1: a Medicare. In fact, I wasn't paid for a year

1224
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:28,960
Speaker 1: and a half. They owed me thousands and thousands, and

1225
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:32,759
Speaker 1: thankfully one of our senators helped and then I finally

1226
01:08:32,800 --> 01:08:36,360
Speaker 1: got the money back. Um, I may have to leave.

1227
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:37,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to do that

1228
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:41,360
Speaker 1: to my patients. But I've been telling people for years

1229
01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:43,200
Speaker 1: that it will get to the point where they had

1230
01:08:43,320 --> 01:08:46,640
Speaker 1: so few practitioners for Medicare that I could see the

1231
01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:48,960
Speaker 1: government saying for me to be licensed, I have to

1232
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:52,040
Speaker 1: see a percentage of Medicare patients, which which should make

1233
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:54,200
Speaker 1: you a de facto employee of the state, right that

1234
01:08:54,320 --> 01:08:56,920
Speaker 1: that actually is socialized medicine. Once they start saying that

1235
01:08:57,040 --> 01:08:59,400
Speaker 1: you have to see people and have to take a

1236
01:08:59,479 --> 01:09:02,720
Speaker 1: certain price swor do you have to use your professional expertise,

1237
01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:06,519
Speaker 1: you're an employee of the state. Absolutely, they're already doing

1238
01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:10,920
Speaker 1: the price point, and pediatricians literally lose money per well

1239
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:14,600
Speaker 1: baby shot. Um. Now I I've been blessed. I have

1240
01:09:14,800 --> 01:09:18,400
Speaker 1: my own my own general practitioner has a boutique practice.

1241
01:09:18,520 --> 01:09:20,280
Speaker 1: He has one of those v I P practices, so

1242
01:09:20,320 --> 01:09:22,599
Speaker 1: I can get in whenever I need to see him. Um,

1243
01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:26,240
Speaker 1: and you pay one fee per per year. Um. There

1244
01:09:26,280 --> 01:09:28,160
Speaker 1: are all these models out there. But I think that's

1245
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:30,200
Speaker 1: one of the problem is and this is the left

1246
01:09:30,320 --> 01:09:35,840
Speaker 1: versus right differences. Those are the conservatorian observatives. We you know,

1247
01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:40,080
Speaker 1: we we believe in charity versus the government. And I

1248
01:09:40,160 --> 01:09:43,280
Speaker 1: think they're blending charity and helping people out with health

1249
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:46,719
Speaker 1: care with other things, and they then they take away

1250
01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:49,960
Speaker 1: from other people. So there's always winners and losers depending

1251
01:09:50,080 --> 01:09:53,240
Speaker 1: on on you know what side you're on. And they're

1252
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:56,160
Speaker 1: not having this honest conversation. And and the prices are

1253
01:09:56,200 --> 01:09:58,400
Speaker 1: way too high, partly because of the government. Seemed like

1254
01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:02,880
Speaker 1: colleges and tuition, same thing, same principles happening, and they're

1255
01:10:02,920 --> 01:10:05,679
Speaker 1: not allowing the free market to really take place. Yeah,

1256
01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:07,760
Speaker 1: the absence of the free market is one of the

1257
01:10:07,840 --> 01:10:10,080
Speaker 1: things that really are absence of a free market role.

1258
01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:11,880
Speaker 1: And so much of this health care discussion is really

1259
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:13,519
Speaker 1: bothering me. I mean that we're supposed to be so

1260
01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:15,400
Speaker 1: excited that the States would be in charge instead of

1261
01:10:15,400 --> 01:10:17,200
Speaker 1: the federal government. Okay, it's a little better, but it's

1262
01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:19,040
Speaker 1: still not what we're looking for. But Dr Rick, great

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01:10:19,040 --> 01:10:21,000
Speaker 1: to have you, man Shields. We gotta run into a

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Speaker 1: quick break here. I will be talking to you about

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Speaker 1: certainly one, if not both of the following Kurdistan and

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Speaker 1: the referendum to separate the Kurdish region of northern Iraq

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Speaker 1: from the rest of Iraq, which the Turks and the

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Speaker 1: Iranians and the Iraqis will all freak out about, including

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Speaker 1: perhaps leading up to a military incursion into Kurdistan, which

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Speaker 1: this could get very very bad, very messy. Um. And uh.

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Speaker 1: Then there's also North Korea saying that the US has

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Speaker 1: declared war on them, which is not true but also

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Speaker 1: interesting because technically the war with North Korea never ended

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Speaker 1: from three. Technically that war never concluded. It's been really

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Speaker 1: on pause. Um. But also it was never a war.

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Speaker 1: It was a police action under the auspices of the

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Speaker 1: United Nations, just where the U S did most of fighting.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, there's that. We'll be back with that and

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Speaker 1: more president had a problem with the First Amendment. Not

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Speaker 1: at all. The President is simply stating, uh, that pride

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Speaker 1: in our country is a good thing. It's something that

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Speaker 1: we should all celebrate, something that should frankly bring us together,

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Speaker 1: not divide us. This isn't about the President being against anyone.

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Speaker 1: But this is about the President and millions of Americans

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Speaker 1: being for something, being for honoring our flag, honoring our

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Speaker 1: national anthem, uh, and honoring the men and women who

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Speaker 1: fought to defend it. I should know. That was Sarah

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Speaker 1: Huckaby Sanders just speaking about the whole NFL controversy and

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Speaker 1: with the where the president stands on it. I just

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Speaker 1: want to note that on my my sheet, my audio

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Speaker 1: sheet and all. So throughout the day when I'm looking

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Speaker 1: sometimes I'll see a quote from Sanders and I can't

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Speaker 1: get this out of my head. I'll see, you know,

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Speaker 1: the quote is Sanders. He's simply stating that pride in

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Speaker 1: our country is a good thing. And I immediately think, Wow,

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Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders is really having a bipartisan moment, Like you know,

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Speaker 1: he's just standing up for America. He loves America. What's

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Speaker 1: the problem. It's the flag it's the anthem, baby, stand

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Speaker 1: up for it, you know. Like and because I see

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Speaker 1: these really pro Trump patriotic statements and then with Sanders

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Speaker 1: after it, and I always think of Huckaby Sanders, which

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Speaker 1: is how she was initially uh introduced to us. All.

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Speaker 1: So whenever I see Sanders, I'm like, wow, Bernie Sanders

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Speaker 1: really reached across the Aisleand it's like, you know, President

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Speaker 1: Trump's doing a great job, great jobs. He loves America,

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Speaker 1: he wants people stand for the anthem. He's not a racist.

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Speaker 1: Who says he's racist? That's crazy. And then I realized, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's not that Sanders, it's Sarah Sanders, the White House spokesperson.

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Speaker 1: Oh it all makes sense now. But occasionally I'm like, wow, Bernie,

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Speaker 1: it's it's not Bernie. Though, it's not Bernie. Um, you

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Speaker 1: can imagine some of the quotes you see from the

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Speaker 1: White House Press secretary and thinking they're coming from that

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Speaker 1: would be amazing. By the way, Bernie Sanders just like

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Speaker 1: taking the podium and all of a sudden he's like,

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Speaker 1: I love Trump. It's all been a big line. I think.

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Speaker 1: From's amazing. You know, it would be yeah, exactly, China,

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Speaker 1: it would be amazing, Like this would be phenomenal, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think the political world would just if

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Speaker 1: you would see DC journalists, their actual heads would just

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Speaker 1: come flying off into the sky, right just Well of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, Hillary shot up? How what happened? Alright? So

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Speaker 1: it was I had the wrong Sanders in mind. But

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Speaker 1: that's that's gonna continue. I'm telling you at some point

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Speaker 1: on the show, it will be an accent, but I'll

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Speaker 1: call for a clip thinking it's Bernie Sanders and uh,

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Speaker 1: and it will be Um, Sarah Huckaby Sanders and vice versa,

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Speaker 1: just because Sanders, Um, I can't get it straight. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: we just use last names when we pull audio clips. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I should note that there was an expansion of the

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Speaker 1: travel band. Um. I just have a couple of quick

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Speaker 1: thoughts on this before we run into our next break here,

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Speaker 1: and then I'll talk to you about Curtish referendum. It's

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Speaker 1: a big deal, everybody. If you can't about Middle Eastern

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Speaker 1: national security, this Kurdish thing is, this is a risky business.

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Speaker 1: Although I'm I'm very I am very favorably and I

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Speaker 1: admit this, I have a bias in favor of the Kurds.

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Speaker 1: I'm very procured. I am very hard on Turkey for

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of reasons. They we'll talk about another time.

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Speaker 1: Although I have some Turkish friends or wonderful people I've got.

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Speaker 1: I've got Turkish friends, I do actually, but I'm very procured. Um,

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Speaker 1: but the administration expanded it's uh, it's so called UM

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Speaker 1: Muslim band to a number of countries, including including North

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Speaker 1: Korea and Venezuela. CHAT. North Korea and Venezuela were added. UM,

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Speaker 1: I just want to know, so what do we what

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Speaker 1: do they call the Muslim band? Now that um completely secular,

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Speaker 1: totalitarian North Korea and uh Christian Venezuela are on the list,

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Speaker 1: are we still going to call it the Muslim band?

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Speaker 1: Because I'm pretty sure now, if not before, it's not

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Speaker 1: a Muslim band. You are now entering the Freedom Technical

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Speaker 1: Operations Center programs mustne keV strictly need to know. Team

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Speaker 1: Bucket is cleared and ready for the buck Breeze. As

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Speaker 1: Jubilan Iraqi Kurds celebrate their vote Monday on independence from Iraq,

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Speaker 1: shooting off fireworks and parading in cars festooned with Kurdish

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Speaker 1: flags late into the night, their neighbors conducted military exercises

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Speaker 1: on the region's borders, raising the threat of military intervention

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Speaker 1: if it succeeds. The vote played out on a historic

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Speaker 1: day for several several million Kurds in northern Iraq and

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Speaker 1: was a pivotal moment in the Kurdish dream of a

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Speaker 1: politically independent state. End quote. That's from The New York

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Speaker 1: Times earlier today. On As Kurds celebrated dependence, neighbors threatened

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Speaker 1: military action. Most notably the neighbors are Iran, Turkey and Iraq,

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Speaker 1: which the Kurdish area would be seceding from if in

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Speaker 1: fact it did so. You have a referendum. It was

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Speaker 1: overwhelmingly in favor of uh in favor of an independent

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Speaker 1: Kurdish state. Now, I want to give you a little

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Speaker 1: bit of backstory here, a little bit of a history,

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Speaker 1: and then we can talk about what this means for today.

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Speaker 1: Because the possibility of a conflict that the scariest ones

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Speaker 1: are in my mind are either and the most likely,

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Speaker 1: a Turkish incursion into into Kurdish Iraq, into in order

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Speaker 1: in Iraq in order to prevent a secession, or in

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Speaker 1: response to in response to secessions more likely, or in

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Speaker 1: a rocky military rocky military response from Baghdad saying sorry,

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Speaker 1: you don't get to do this, and what the US

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Speaker 1: does here, there's the concerns of real politique and UH

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Speaker 1: and trying to deal with a very complicated region and

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Speaker 1: put the interests of an allied Iraq high on our

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Speaker 1: list of priorities. And and then there's the moral and

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Speaker 1: ethical obligations that I think many of us feel too

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Speaker 1: the Kurds. UM. So here's here's some just some back

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Speaker 1: some background information, background or on the on the Curds

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Speaker 1: that we should know before we can talk about what

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Speaker 1: this means, because this could. I don't think it will,

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Speaker 1: and I don't like I know that it's a useful

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Speaker 1: it's a useful employ to go on radio and you know,

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Speaker 1: every everyone is terrible, Everything is a disaster, and we're

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Speaker 1: all gonna die. Right. That's the that's the basic formula

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Speaker 1: for different shows that have had some success or other

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Speaker 1: over the years. You know that it's everything is terrible,

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Speaker 1: everyone's awful, all the Republicans or traders in the country

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Speaker 1: is about to collapse. But I like to talk about

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Speaker 1: what's what's real and what's happened and what is happening. Um,

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Speaker 1: That's just my preference, and I think those of you

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Speaker 1: come listen to the show expect that and appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: So what you need to know about the Kurds uh,

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Speaker 1: They have their own language, they are ethnically and linguistically

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Speaker 1: distinct from Arabs, and they were promised their own state,

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Speaker 1: and they have been stretching back for for centuries. They

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Speaker 1: were promised their own state of some kind, at least

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Speaker 1: by a Woodrow Wilson after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire,

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Speaker 1: because the Ottoman Empire extended over so much of the

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Speaker 1: Middle East that all of what are now Kurdish areas

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Speaker 1: fell under Ottoman Ottoman control Ottoman domain at the time.

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Speaker 1: So we've said to them for well a century ago,

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Speaker 1: we told them that they would have their own state.

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Speaker 1: We just had to figure it out. But then we

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Speaker 1: had as we had the creation of Israel, Balfour Declaration,

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Speaker 1: Israel Palestine, you had Psyke's Pico, which was the separation

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Speaker 1: of what is now the Near East Mediterranean, Near East

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Speaker 1: states of Syria, Jordan's Lebanon into air areas of British

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Speaker 1: and French influence. Some people would, I think be surprised

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Speaker 1: to know that even Back in the nineteen twenties and

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Speaker 1: nineteen thirties, there were concerns and and even military action

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Speaker 1: taken against uprisings in Syria, and I believe there are

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Speaker 1: French planes even dropping bombs in Damascus a century ago.

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Speaker 1: But Midiast history lesson or Middy's history deep for another day.

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Speaker 1: The Kurds are the largest, believed to be the largest

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Speaker 1: stateless ethnic and linguistic group in the world, something in

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Speaker 1: the neighborhood of five to thirty million of them, and

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Speaker 1: they are spread all over. There's a lot of very

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Speaker 1: large Kurdish Kurdish diaspora UM and those who are because

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Speaker 1: those were interested in history, which I'm realizing more and

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Speaker 1: more is all of you listening, which as makes me

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Speaker 1: very happy and I greatly appreciate UM. Solid In will

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Speaker 1: now is salad In Province. But Slidin, who took Jerusalem

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Speaker 1: back from the Crusaders, Kurdish in fact, came from a

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Speaker 1: town in what is now solid And Province, came from

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Speaker 1: a town that Saddam Hussein was desperate to link himself

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Speaker 1: to to be the modern day solid In. But Solidon

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Speaker 1: was occurred. Um and the Kurds have a long history

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Speaker 1: of military prowess. So the Kurds in the more modern,

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Speaker 1: more modern era have been waging a long standing insurgency

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Speaker 1: against various tyrants, whether in Iraq, or in Syria, or

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Speaker 1: in Iran, or yes, in Turkey, which is really where

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Speaker 1: they are mostly spread out. Now, if you're looking for

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Speaker 1: one contiguous area of Kurds, it would be in Turkey.

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Speaker 1: It would be in Syria northern or Iraq northern Iraq,

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Speaker 1: and also into Iran. So you can imagine those are

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Speaker 1: all very import countries in the region, and they all

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Speaker 1: have their reasons for opposing an independent Kurdish state. So

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Speaker 1: I'll start with that, and then I'll get into why

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Speaker 1: I think that we owe we owe the Kurds something here,

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Speaker 1: and as a country that was founded on the premise

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Speaker 1: that we should not be uh we we should not

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Speaker 1: be left to the whims of tyrants who do not

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Speaker 1: represent us, who are not representative of our interests, and

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Speaker 1: who have broken their covenants with natural law and with

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Speaker 1: their promises to us. Um, that's something that we should

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Speaker 1: have some sympathy for. At least I think we should

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Speaker 1: have sympathy for the Kurdish plight here. And I tell

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Speaker 1: you this upfront there are other people. They are wonderful

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Speaker 1: people I know of either military or you know, backgrounds

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Speaker 1: in diplomacy or intel or whatever it may be, who

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Speaker 1: are will tell you all the reasons why there's a

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Speaker 1: terrible idea. And you know, Turkeys a critical natal ally

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Speaker 1: and we really need you know, that's more important than

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Speaker 1: I I'm very procured, um. I I am in favor

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Speaker 1: of Kurdish aspirations, and I think that we should reward

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Speaker 1: we should reward them. And I'll get into why we

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Speaker 1: should reward them in a second. And I know we're

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Speaker 1: we're covering a lot of territory in a short period time,

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Speaker 1: so I'm really trying to focus on just the key points.

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Speaker 1: Why do Turkey, Syria, Iraq in Iran have a problem

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Speaker 1: with a Kurdish state in Iraq? I should know it

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Speaker 1: would just be Iraq, and they're not trying to car

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Speaker 1: at least not yet. They're not trying to carve off

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Speaker 1: pieces of these other countries to create this Kurdish homeland.

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Speaker 1: It would just be in northern Iraq, which already and

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Speaker 1: they this is part of the argument, has autonomy in

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Speaker 1: many ways. It already is really a kind of a

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Speaker 1: federal zone. It, it operates its own distinct government, it

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01:22:49,400 --> 01:22:51,400
Speaker 1: has its own schools, that has its own flag. In

1473
01:22:51,520 --> 01:22:54,280
Speaker 1: fact that I won't lie to you, I had a

1474
01:22:54,400 --> 01:22:57,479
Speaker 1: Kurdish flag T shirt that I used to wear many

1475
01:22:57,600 --> 01:23:02,640
Speaker 1: years ago after having be um acquainted with and an

1476
01:23:02,680 --> 01:23:06,519
Speaker 1: admirer of the Kurds. And again I will get into

1477
01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:10,280
Speaker 1: why that is. So, just to put it out there,

1478
01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:15,200
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm a Kurdish Kurdish supporter. Uh. The problem

1479
01:23:15,240 --> 01:23:17,639
Speaker 1: that Turkey has with this is that Turks, the Turks

1480
01:23:17,680 --> 01:23:21,599
Speaker 1: have a large Kurdish speaking minority. They don't recognize them.

1481
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:23,439
Speaker 1: In fact, one of the problems that the Kurds have

1482
01:23:23,560 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: had over the let's call it the last centuries that

1483
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:29,639
Speaker 1: these other states that were formed and there's a cold

1484
01:23:29,720 --> 01:23:31,680
Speaker 1: colonial legacy to why is there in a rock and

1485
01:23:31,720 --> 01:23:34,280
Speaker 1: why is there Assyria and where did these things come from?

1486
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:36,840
Speaker 1: Um and the fall of the islam An Empire and

1487
01:23:36,920 --> 01:23:40,320
Speaker 1: what that meant for the region after the First World War. Uh.

1488
01:23:40,400 --> 01:23:43,679
Speaker 1: Their language has been banned in different countries at different times.

1489
01:23:43,800 --> 01:23:46,639
Speaker 1: Their their dress, their style of dress has been banned

1490
01:23:46,680 --> 01:23:50,639
Speaker 1: in different times at different countries. There have been lots

1491
01:23:50,680 --> 01:23:56,280
Speaker 1: of efforts to suppress them, and they there's an old

1492
01:23:56,920 --> 01:24:00,800
Speaker 1: Kurdish saying that they're only friends are the mountains, which

1493
01:24:00,880 --> 01:24:03,240
Speaker 1: is really true. Which is really true. As I've discussed

1494
01:24:03,240 --> 01:24:06,479
Speaker 1: with you before, if you look at the history of

1495
01:24:06,600 --> 01:24:10,160
Speaker 1: people that come from mountainous areas, whether it's you know,

1496
01:24:10,880 --> 01:24:16,400
Speaker 1: everything from the Mong in Southeast Asia, the Scots, from Scotland,

1497
01:24:16,479 --> 01:24:20,800
Speaker 1: from you north of Great Northern Great Britain. UH show

1498
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:22,559
Speaker 1: me an area where there are mountains, and I'll show

1499
01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:25,000
Speaker 1: you people that have probably at one time or another,

1500
01:24:25,080 --> 01:24:29,920
Speaker 1: resisted a central governing Afghanistan as a fantastic example of this. UM.

1501
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:33,479
Speaker 1: But highlanders of all kinds, not just Scottish Highlanders, but

1502
01:24:33,600 --> 01:24:35,920
Speaker 1: Highlanders tend to have their own way of doing things.

1503
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:39,040
Speaker 1: They tend to resist government. And you know true and Appalachia, true,

1504
01:24:39,080 --> 01:24:41,800
Speaker 1: and Southeast Asia through all over the place tend to

1505
01:24:41,840 --> 01:24:45,040
Speaker 1: have their own way of doing things UM and the

1506
01:24:45,160 --> 01:24:48,720
Speaker 1: Kurds are are another prime example of that. Because of

1507
01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:52,960
Speaker 1: their ability to uh evade central government control stretching back

1508
01:24:53,080 --> 01:24:59,400
Speaker 1: for generations, they have had difficult relationships with the different

1509
01:24:59,479 --> 01:25:03,920
Speaker 1: countries in which you have a Kurdish minority population. So

1510
01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:08,320
Speaker 1: in Turkey you even have an insurgency and ongoing insurgency.

1511
01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:11,040
Speaker 1: The PKK, the Kurdistan Workers Party, which is really a

1512
01:25:11,960 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 1: kind of old school think of in the seventies eighties

1513
01:25:15,040 --> 01:25:19,080
Speaker 1: time frame of when you have these Marxist separation, liberation

1514
01:25:19,160 --> 01:25:22,080
Speaker 1: movements and separation movements, separatist movements. That's what the p

1515
01:25:22,240 --> 01:25:26,760
Speaker 1: KK is. It's a militant separatist movement in Turkey. So

1516
01:25:26,880 --> 01:25:30,040
Speaker 1: you have Kurds living in Turkey who are obviously you

1517
01:25:30,120 --> 01:25:35,680
Speaker 1: have Turkey's ethnically Turkish, and uh, the Kurds want to

1518
01:25:35,680 --> 01:25:37,960
Speaker 1: be able to speak Kurdish, which they're not. They've they've

1519
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:39,200
Speaker 1: had all kinds of problems with that and a lot

1520
01:25:39,240 --> 01:25:42,040
Speaker 1: to do. And in fact, the Turks called the mountain Turks,

1521
01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:44,479
Speaker 1: which I think is a pejorative for them, but they

1522
01:25:44,520 --> 01:25:46,720
Speaker 1: call them mountain Turks. They don't even recognize them. And

1523
01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:49,760
Speaker 1: there's this insurgency and there are all all kinds of

1524
01:25:49,800 --> 01:25:52,160
Speaker 1: problems that in Northern Syria. The Kurds are there now

1525
01:25:52,240 --> 01:25:56,799
Speaker 1: that they've been able to be very effective and helpful

1526
01:25:56,840 --> 01:25:59,760
Speaker 1: in our fight against Islamic State in Northern Syria. In fact,

1527
01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:03,200
Speaker 1: it is Kurdish militias that we have relied on as

1528
01:26:03,240 --> 01:26:05,680
Speaker 1: our ground force to defeat ices. So we owe them

1529
01:26:05,720 --> 01:26:08,760
Speaker 1: a debt of gratitude for that um. And then you

1530
01:26:08,880 --> 01:26:12,400
Speaker 1: have Iraq, which is the single most important case I

1531
01:26:12,479 --> 01:26:15,639
Speaker 1: think for why we owe the occurred something. And if

1532
01:26:15,640 --> 01:26:18,439
Speaker 1: you look at the Middle East in over the last

1533
01:26:18,600 --> 01:26:22,280
Speaker 1: let's call it, well, I could pick any any a

1534
01:26:22,320 --> 01:26:25,880
Speaker 1: bunch of different numbers. Let's call the last fifty years. Uh,

1535
01:26:26,200 --> 01:26:31,360
Speaker 1: there have been lots of cycles of bloodshed and violence

1536
01:26:31,439 --> 01:26:35,080
Speaker 1: and instability and people turning on the former allies, turning

1537
01:26:35,120 --> 01:26:39,120
Speaker 1: on the US, and then in the more recent era

1538
01:26:39,560 --> 01:26:43,400
Speaker 1: of jihadist and Islamist movements rising to prominence in the

1539
01:26:43,439 --> 01:26:48,280
Speaker 1: Middle East, there has been one group certainly stretching back

1540
01:26:48,320 --> 01:26:49,840
Speaker 1: all the way to the eighties, and this is why

1541
01:26:49,920 --> 01:26:52,479
Speaker 1: we also had the no fly zone set up to

1542
01:26:52,560 --> 01:26:54,680
Speaker 1: protect them in northern rak there's been one group who

1543
01:26:54,760 --> 01:26:58,559
Speaker 1: has been showing that there's nothing specific to the Middle

1544
01:26:58,560 --> 01:27:00,760
Speaker 1: East that means that they have to be that it

1545
01:27:00,800 --> 01:27:03,320
Speaker 1: has to be unstable. But I should know, Kurds are Muslims,

1546
01:27:04,320 --> 01:27:06,760
Speaker 1: but they don't have this gee hottest terrorist problem that

1547
01:27:06,880 --> 01:27:11,840
Speaker 1: some of the other regional states and different groups have.

1548
01:27:12,720 --> 01:27:16,280
Speaker 1: They seem able to control the gee hottest threat in

1549
01:27:16,360 --> 01:27:19,320
Speaker 1: their midst and they've not just see him that they've

1550
01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:23,000
Speaker 1: been able to not only do we not worry about

1551
01:27:24,200 --> 01:27:26,000
Speaker 1: That's not that there have been Kurdish terrorists, I'm not

1552
01:27:26,080 --> 01:27:27,760
Speaker 1: saying that, but not only have we not had to

1553
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:31,040
Speaker 1: worry about a gee Hottest takeover of of Kurdish areas,

1554
01:27:31,120 --> 01:27:33,439
Speaker 1: and but the Kurds have been an ally with us

1555
01:27:33,560 --> 01:27:39,680
Speaker 1: fighting against gee Hottest, the pesh Murga, who are famously

1556
01:27:39,920 --> 01:27:42,120
Speaker 1: known as an encourage. It's those who make a pact

1557
01:27:42,200 --> 01:27:45,479
Speaker 1: with death. That's what pesh Murga is. The Kurdish militia

1558
01:27:45,760 --> 01:27:48,160
Speaker 1: of northern Iraq. And they call it a militia, isn't really.

1559
01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:50,280
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're a standing army there just for

1560
01:27:50,400 --> 01:27:53,760
Speaker 1: a region, not for a central government. Um. And there

1561
01:27:53,840 --> 01:27:57,479
Speaker 1: are these other governments and these two families in particular

1562
01:27:57,560 --> 01:28:00,760
Speaker 1: that control two different parts of the Kurtish areas in

1563
01:28:00,760 --> 01:28:03,800
Speaker 1: Northern Rock. But they've been fighting with us, They've been

1564
01:28:04,160 --> 01:28:07,400
Speaker 1: working alongside us in Iraq. They have been a trustworthy

1565
01:28:07,439 --> 01:28:11,120
Speaker 1: ally and partner. They were fighting against Saddam Hussein and

1566
01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:15,559
Speaker 1: they you know, I have friends who go to or Bill,

1567
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:17,400
Speaker 1: they go to the Kurdish areas of Rock. They're like,

1568
01:28:17,479 --> 01:28:20,200
Speaker 1: this is it's it's like being in Turkey. Actually less

1569
01:28:20,200 --> 01:28:21,559
Speaker 1: you have been in Turkey. If you've been in Turkey

1570
01:28:21,600 --> 01:28:24,599
Speaker 1: and be like, wow, Northern Iraq kind of feels like Turkey.

1571
01:28:24,680 --> 01:28:26,439
Speaker 1: Although don't tell the don't tell the Kurds or the

1572
01:28:26,520 --> 01:28:29,240
Speaker 1: Turks that there's been a lot of investment from Turkey

1573
01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:33,720
Speaker 1: in the Kurdish areas, but they have shown that stability

1574
01:28:34,600 --> 01:28:38,920
Speaker 1: and uh An investment and rule of law, these are

1575
01:28:39,000 --> 01:28:41,519
Speaker 1: all possible in the heart of the Middle East, not

1576
01:28:41,560 --> 01:28:42,840
Speaker 1: just in the heart of the middleist and in the

1577
01:28:42,960 --> 01:28:46,519
Speaker 1: middle of what has been the messiest, nastiest neighborhood. I mean,

1578
01:28:46,520 --> 01:28:50,160
Speaker 1: the Kurds were bombed by Saddam and there was the

1579
01:28:50,240 --> 01:28:53,760
Speaker 1: on Fal campaign, he was dropped gas on them at

1580
01:28:53,800 --> 01:28:55,880
Speaker 1: halab Job. I mean, they've been through all of this,

1581
01:28:57,439 --> 01:29:01,120
Speaker 1: and we've turned our back on them before. And you know,

1582
01:29:01,160 --> 01:29:03,479
Speaker 1: people was talking about us, you know, separating our friends

1583
01:29:03,520 --> 01:29:05,759
Speaker 1: from our foes, and our allies from from our enemies.

1584
01:29:05,800 --> 01:29:08,600
Speaker 1: And the Kurds have been an ally in a neighborhood

1585
01:29:08,600 --> 01:29:12,200
Speaker 1: where we need them and they have really stood beside us.

1586
01:29:12,400 --> 01:29:14,640
Speaker 1: And you know, I know that, you know, our our

1587
01:29:14,680 --> 01:29:17,200
Speaker 1: troops who have been fighting alongside Kurds, who've been training

1588
01:29:17,240 --> 01:29:20,880
Speaker 1: with Kurds, they trust them, they admire them, they know

1589
01:29:21,080 --> 01:29:24,760
Speaker 1: that they they stand and fight um and and it

1590
01:29:24,920 --> 01:29:28,200
Speaker 1: was really the the Kurds that were able to check

1591
01:29:28,320 --> 01:29:31,800
Speaker 1: the initial advance of the Islamic State into Iraq and

1592
01:29:31,880 --> 01:29:34,120
Speaker 1: then with our help again to turn that campaign around.

1593
01:29:34,240 --> 01:29:37,599
Speaker 1: So I know that this could this could get very

1594
01:29:37,680 --> 01:29:41,519
Speaker 1: messy because Iran, Turkey, although Iran who cares right, but

1595
01:29:41,640 --> 01:29:46,439
Speaker 1: Iran Turkey, Iraq, They're all worried that pieces of their

1596
01:29:46,439 --> 01:29:51,280
Speaker 1: own countries will be part of this Kurdish nationalism project.

1597
01:29:51,880 --> 01:29:55,160
Speaker 1: And the Iraqis are particularly worried about losing oil revenue

1598
01:29:55,280 --> 01:29:58,240
Speaker 1: that comes from northern part of the country, particularly from

1599
01:29:58,280 --> 01:30:00,800
Speaker 1: kirk Cook, which has their oil fields outside the rocky

1600
01:30:00,880 --> 01:30:04,160
Speaker 1: city of kirk Cook that have important revenue. I'm not

1601
01:30:04,240 --> 01:30:06,320
Speaker 1: saying it's easy. I'm not saying this won't be messy,

1602
01:30:07,040 --> 01:30:09,160
Speaker 1: but I am saying that the Kurds want their own state,

1603
01:30:09,479 --> 01:30:13,320
Speaker 1: they want autonomy, and I don't know if it's today,

1604
01:30:13,479 --> 01:30:15,679
Speaker 1: but we should help them get there. That's my opinion,

1605
01:30:16,240 --> 01:30:19,639
Speaker 1: and people are free to disagree. We'll be right back,

1606
01:30:20,439 --> 01:30:23,760
Speaker 1: Welcome back team. I think maybe we'll do more um.

1607
01:30:24,000 --> 01:30:27,560
Speaker 1: We'll do some updates on North Korea tomorrow because I

1608
01:30:27,600 --> 01:30:29,479
Speaker 1: want to give that. I want to give that some

1609
01:30:29,800 --> 01:30:35,719
Speaker 1: ample time. So we did Kurdish referendum on independence today.

1610
01:30:35,760 --> 01:30:38,040
Speaker 1: Because that happened today. We'll we'll do the latest on

1611
01:30:38,120 --> 01:30:43,400
Speaker 1: the North Korea saber rattling, escalation standoff, all the terms

1612
01:30:43,439 --> 01:30:45,519
Speaker 1: that you're hearing from the media all the time. We'll

1613
01:30:45,560 --> 01:30:48,080
Speaker 1: get to those, I think probably tomorrow. I know we've

1614
01:30:48,080 --> 01:30:49,479
Speaker 1: got a caller wants to talk with this a second.

1615
01:30:49,520 --> 01:30:51,880
Speaker 1: We have a caller coming in from Delaware. By the way,

1616
01:30:51,880 --> 01:30:55,760
Speaker 1: I love Team Buck Delaware and Maryland are strongholds. Love

1617
01:30:55,840 --> 01:30:58,479
Speaker 1: it so always great to have folks in uh well,

1618
01:30:58,560 --> 01:31:00,840
Speaker 1: anywhere in the country, but a lot of Delaware and

1619
01:31:00,880 --> 01:31:03,560
Speaker 1: Maryland folks listening, which makes me very happy. Uh ed

1620
01:31:03,680 --> 01:31:07,080
Speaker 1: in Delaware on the I Heart app. What's going on? Hi?

1621
01:31:07,280 --> 01:31:09,240
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm good, I'm good. What's on your mind?

1622
01:31:10,600 --> 01:31:15,840
Speaker 1: Stale pid h There we go ahead, slid um. I

1623
01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:21,000
Speaker 1: will just getting straight to the point. North Korea has

1624
01:31:21,080 --> 01:31:24,080
Speaker 1: been allowed to progress like this for twenty some years.

1625
01:31:24,760 --> 01:31:28,880
Speaker 1: All these past presidents didn't do Often they're more worried

1626
01:31:28,920 --> 01:31:34,320
Speaker 1: about China getting involved. While my opinion about China's bring

1627
01:31:34,439 --> 01:31:41,920
Speaker 1: it on, Um the wee wait one minute, longer North

1628
01:31:42,040 --> 01:31:44,920
Speaker 1: Korea may law of the nuclear weapon. We just can't

1629
01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:48,840
Speaker 1: wait any longer. It's over, it's done. Need to do

1630
01:31:49,080 --> 01:31:53,479
Speaker 1: something now now, if not sooner. Your ex military, is

1631
01:31:53,520 --> 01:31:58,840
Speaker 1: that correct? I'm sorry you're your former military yourself? Yes,

1632
01:31:58,920 --> 01:32:02,760
Speaker 1: I am, yes, sir. Okay, So my family is military

1633
01:32:02,840 --> 01:32:07,120
Speaker 1: to everyone, and my family has served in the United

1634
01:32:07,160 --> 01:32:10,200
Speaker 1: States military. And so you you think we should take

1635
01:32:10,240 --> 01:32:12,479
Speaker 1: action right now in North Koreaan. So you think a

1636
01:32:12,560 --> 01:32:15,040
Speaker 1: preventative what it's some kind of a preventative first strike

1637
01:32:15,160 --> 01:32:18,720
Speaker 1: on their facilities? And what are you talking about? Invasion?

1638
01:32:19,600 --> 01:32:22,920
Speaker 1: Invasion all the way around? I think, but I do

1639
01:32:23,080 --> 01:32:26,400
Speaker 1: have an opinion. Um, I think we should just get

1640
01:32:26,479 --> 01:32:29,439
Speaker 1: to the point with Chinese, with the Chinese government say

1641
01:32:29,920 --> 01:32:32,880
Speaker 1: either in thing now take care of or we will,

1642
01:32:33,479 --> 01:32:36,400
Speaker 1: and I believe we shoot in faith. I have a

1643
01:32:36,479 --> 01:32:40,840
Speaker 1: plan to do. It's really simple, but it would have

1644
01:32:41,000 --> 01:32:44,800
Speaker 1: to be a blitch free type of basis all I

1645
01:32:44,920 --> 01:32:48,760
Speaker 1: want from all sides. We have these missiles supposed to

1646
01:32:48,800 --> 01:32:50,880
Speaker 1: be able to shoot things, then well we should be

1647
01:32:51,000 --> 01:32:53,439
Speaker 1: used them. We should that shoot them down long time ago.

1648
01:32:54,479 --> 01:32:59,439
Speaker 1: A very a very aggressive and risky approach, but it hey,

1649
01:32:59,760 --> 01:33:02,640
Speaker 1: ed people are talking about the possibility of something like

1650
01:33:02,720 --> 01:33:05,040
Speaker 1: this happening in the not too distant future. So I

1651
01:33:05,120 --> 01:33:07,200
Speaker 1: do appreciate the call, appreciate your service or and your

1652
01:33:07,240 --> 01:33:09,360
Speaker 1: families as well. Thank you. Um, I gotta We're gonna

1653
01:33:09,400 --> 01:33:11,720
Speaker 1: run and break in a second. I wanted to uh

1654
01:33:11,920 --> 01:33:16,400
Speaker 1: just here's because I gotta play Villa Nueva. Uh. Here's

1655
01:33:16,439 --> 01:33:18,600
Speaker 1: what he had to say about the whole standing with

1656
01:33:18,800 --> 01:33:23,600
Speaker 1: the go play it. I've made, uh, coach Tomling I

1657
01:33:23,680 --> 01:33:25,920
Speaker 1: look bad and and that is my fault, and that

1658
01:33:26,080 --> 01:33:28,000
Speaker 1: is my fault only. I've made my teammates look bad,

1659
01:33:28,040 --> 01:33:30,160
Speaker 1: and that is my fault, my fault only. And I

1660
01:33:30,240 --> 01:33:32,920
Speaker 1: made the Steelers also look bad, and that is my

1661
01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:35,680
Speaker 1: fault and my fault only. So unwillingly I have. I've

1662
01:33:35,760 --> 01:33:39,639
Speaker 1: made a mistake, um, and so UM you know I've

1663
01:33:39,680 --> 01:33:41,400
Speaker 1: I've I've talked to my team is about the situation.

1664
01:33:41,720 --> 01:33:44,120
Speaker 1: Hopefully they understand it. If they don't, I still have

1665
01:33:44,200 --> 01:33:47,040
Speaker 1: to live with it because the nature of this debate

1666
01:33:47,760 --> 01:33:51,000
Speaker 1: is uh is is causing a lot of very heated

1667
01:33:51,800 --> 01:33:55,200
Speaker 1: reactions from from fans, from players, and and it's undeserving

1668
01:33:55,240 --> 01:33:57,600
Speaker 1: to all the players and coaches. All Right, he's a

1669
01:33:57,640 --> 01:34:00,600
Speaker 1: good man and a patriot, and I'm gonna have to

1670
01:34:00,640 --> 01:34:02,160
Speaker 1: take a look. You know, We're gonna spend some time

1671
01:34:02,200 --> 01:34:05,040
Speaker 1: thinking of this tonight here in the Hut because was

1672
01:34:05,120 --> 01:34:08,479
Speaker 1: he shamed into this or is that really how he feels?

1673
01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:11,559
Speaker 1: You know, is this peer pressure or is this really

1674
01:34:11,600 --> 01:34:14,280
Speaker 1: what's in his heart? Because all I saw yesterday was

1675
01:34:14,320 --> 01:34:17,080
Speaker 1: a patriot standing for his country, and I'm wondering what's

1676
01:34:17,080 --> 01:34:19,840
Speaker 1: happened since then. We'll be right back. I had to laugh,

1677
01:34:20,160 --> 01:34:22,120
Speaker 1: team buck back with you here in the Freedom Hunt.

1678
01:34:22,840 --> 01:34:26,320
Speaker 1: I was seeing these stories over over the weekend, and

1679
01:34:26,600 --> 01:34:31,640
Speaker 1: and I'm noticing a trend with the Democrat media now, um,

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01:34:31,960 --> 01:34:34,880
Speaker 1: and the trend is as follows. They'll they'll go with

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01:34:35,040 --> 01:34:40,559
Speaker 1: the headline that creates a a perception of some kind

1682
01:34:40,600 --> 01:34:43,920
Speaker 1: of impropriety, right, so they'll say, you know, here a

1683
01:34:44,000 --> 01:34:47,720
Speaker 1: perfect example was the recent headline. I saw that that

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01:34:48,040 --> 01:34:52,639
Speaker 1: was all over the place. Betsy Divos Education Secretary uses

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01:34:52,680 --> 01:34:57,600
Speaker 1: a private jet for her travel. Oh and this is

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01:34:57,680 --> 01:35:01,360
Speaker 1: supposed to tie in to the private some some of

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01:35:01,439 --> 01:35:06,599
Speaker 1: the other administration officials who have been using a private

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01:35:06,680 --> 01:35:10,599
Speaker 1: jet recently, perhaps with some some problem like Tom Price

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01:35:11,040 --> 01:35:13,960
Speaker 1: uh using taxpayer fund and private jet use. But other

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01:35:14,040 --> 01:35:17,519
Speaker 1: sites so Tom Price is doing this, he's using a jet,

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01:35:17,600 --> 01:35:19,840
Speaker 1: and they're looking into this and taxpayer has been paying

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01:35:19,880 --> 01:35:22,200
Speaker 1: for it, and that's an issue. Then they all Betsy

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01:35:22,320 --> 01:35:25,560
Speaker 1: de Vos also using a private jet for work, and

1694
01:35:25,640 --> 01:35:28,479
Speaker 1: then you find out if you read the story, you

1695
01:35:28,680 --> 01:35:31,679
Speaker 1: find out that she it's her jet and she pays

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01:35:31,720 --> 01:35:34,920
Speaker 1: for it. I mean, is there is that? How? How

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01:35:35,040 --> 01:35:37,400
Speaker 1: can that be a problem? I mean, if anything, the taxpayer,

1698
01:35:37,439 --> 01:35:39,599
Speaker 1: we could all give her a high five and say thanks.

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01:35:40,479 --> 01:35:42,160
Speaker 1: You know, if you didn't want to take a government

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01:35:42,240 --> 01:35:43,920
Speaker 1: car to work, if you were going to take your

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01:35:43,960 --> 01:35:46,880
Speaker 1: own car and that was within regulations, why not write

1702
01:35:46,880 --> 01:35:48,840
Speaker 1: the same thing with the jet. If if you're gonna

1703
01:35:48,840 --> 01:35:50,519
Speaker 1: spend your own time to do your government work. I

1704
01:35:50,520 --> 01:35:52,280
Speaker 1: don't see what I don't see what the problem is.

1705
01:35:53,320 --> 01:35:56,720
Speaker 1: But they do it because a lot of people don't

1706
01:35:56,760 --> 01:36:00,040
Speaker 1: read beyond the headlines. And it's not just about click it.

1707
01:36:00,160 --> 01:36:05,080
Speaker 1: It's also a form of perception management. The headlines. In

1708
01:36:05,120 --> 01:36:07,160
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, the headline and maybe the first

1709
01:36:07,280 --> 01:36:10,519
Speaker 1: line of a story are the story On the Internet

1710
01:36:10,600 --> 01:36:13,000
Speaker 1: these days, it's what most people see. It's what their

1711
01:36:13,040 --> 01:36:17,679
Speaker 1: impression is of what's going on. So it doesn't really

1712
01:36:17,760 --> 01:36:22,280
Speaker 1: matter if you eight paragraphs in give some better explanation

1713
01:36:22,400 --> 01:36:25,519
Speaker 1: for what's going on. If the headline is you know,

1714
01:36:25,800 --> 01:36:29,919
Speaker 1: did this Republicans say something really racist question mark, everyone's

1715
01:36:29,920 --> 01:36:32,599
Speaker 1: gonna go, whoa. It sounds like that Republican probably said

1716
01:36:32,640 --> 01:36:35,160
Speaker 1: something racist. But when they get into paragraph and they're like, actually,

1717
01:36:35,200 --> 01:36:36,720
Speaker 1: it wasn't that person at all, and this was just

1718
01:36:36,800 --> 01:36:39,880
Speaker 1: an unfounded rumor, the damage is already the damage has

1719
01:36:39,880 --> 01:36:43,040
Speaker 1: already been done. And you'll notice this with the recent

1720
01:36:43,120 --> 01:36:47,000
Speaker 1: frenzy over um because that this has just been happening, right.

1721
01:36:47,080 --> 01:36:50,000
Speaker 1: Tom Price uses a private using a private jet and

1722
01:36:50,080 --> 01:36:53,400
Speaker 1: taxpayers paying for it. Betsy Devasi is a private jet,

1723
01:36:53,479 --> 01:36:55,960
Speaker 1: but she's paying for it. But let's talk about these

1724
01:36:56,080 --> 01:37:00,040
Speaker 1: just because people are going to assume that Betsy of

1725
01:37:00,080 --> 01:37:02,080
Speaker 1: Boss must be doing something shady if she's using a

1726
01:37:02,120 --> 01:37:04,880
Speaker 1: private jet. Two and a lot of a lot of

1727
01:37:04,920 --> 01:37:06,800
Speaker 1: folks won't even get to the part where they find

1728
01:37:06,840 --> 01:37:09,880
Speaker 1: out that she's done nothing wrong. Another good example of

1729
01:37:09,920 --> 01:37:14,840
Speaker 1: this is the recent Jared Kushner Ivanka Trump uh using

1730
01:37:14,920 --> 01:37:19,160
Speaker 1: private email fiasco. It's not a fiasco at all. There

1731
01:37:19,280 --> 01:37:22,880
Speaker 1: if they've sent the emails so that they any communication

1732
01:37:23,479 --> 01:37:26,439
Speaker 1: has been uh sent so that it is kept as

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01:37:26,520 --> 01:37:30,320
Speaker 1: a public record. This is not similar, and this is

1734
01:37:30,360 --> 01:37:32,280
Speaker 1: what they're trying to do. This is why CNN had

1735
01:37:32,280 --> 01:37:34,200
Speaker 1: a story on this. I saw before I came on air.

1736
01:37:34,280 --> 01:37:38,240
Speaker 1: All you know, Jared Kushner using a private email. Well,

1737
01:37:38,800 --> 01:37:41,640
Speaker 1: no one is saying that he's talking about classified You know,

1738
01:37:42,120 --> 01:37:47,280
Speaker 1: government officials use open phone lines to say, hey, you know,

1739
01:37:47,400 --> 01:37:49,519
Speaker 1: do you want to meet for lunch later? I mean this,

1740
01:37:50,000 --> 01:37:51,760
Speaker 1: this is not a This is not a problem. But

1741
01:37:51,920 --> 01:37:55,280
Speaker 1: they they know that they'll be if they present the

1742
01:37:55,320 --> 01:37:57,600
Speaker 1: story in a certain way, there'll be the perception of

1743
01:37:57,680 --> 01:38:00,960
Speaker 1: it as a problem. And that's good enough. If they

1744
01:38:01,200 --> 01:38:05,040
Speaker 1: just are able to construe it as though maybe there's

1745
01:38:05,080 --> 01:38:07,760
Speaker 1: an issue, it has the same effect, which is to

1746
01:38:08,479 --> 01:38:11,360
Speaker 1: get the Democrat base all fired up. Oh see, there's

1747
01:38:11,360 --> 01:38:15,679
Speaker 1: more impropriety from the Trump people, and those who don't

1748
01:38:15,680 --> 01:38:18,240
Speaker 1: read any further think that there must be some kind

1749
01:38:18,280 --> 01:38:21,559
Speaker 1: of an issue here. Using a private email account, if

1750
01:38:21,640 --> 01:38:24,639
Speaker 1: you're a forwarding those emails to your government email account

1751
01:38:24,720 --> 01:38:28,000
Speaker 1: and keeping those records is completely legal and ethical, and

1752
01:38:28,040 --> 01:38:30,519
Speaker 1: there's not an issue with it, even if you forgot

1753
01:38:30,600 --> 01:38:32,519
Speaker 1: to do that once or twice, because it was a

1754
01:38:32,640 --> 01:38:37,160
Speaker 1: minor form of communication like Hey, you know, what do

1755
01:38:37,200 --> 01:38:39,240
Speaker 1: you want on your sandwich today? I'm making a run, right.

1756
01:38:39,240 --> 01:38:42,439
Speaker 1: I mean, government employees are normally human beings too. I

1757
01:38:42,520 --> 01:38:45,519
Speaker 1: know this is sometimes lost on on the media when

1758
01:38:45,520 --> 01:38:47,640
Speaker 1: they want to pretend like they can't put two and

1759
01:38:47,720 --> 01:38:51,080
Speaker 1: two together. But people in the government also have Gmail

1760
01:38:51,160 --> 01:38:55,639
Speaker 1: and Yahoo and hotmail, and they have personal relationships with folks,

1761
01:38:55,680 --> 01:38:58,280
Speaker 1: and they'll have communications with them. It's only an issue

1762
01:38:58,439 --> 01:39:03,280
Speaker 1: if you're using private email for explicit work purposes and

1763
01:39:03,400 --> 01:39:06,800
Speaker 1: you're trying to hide them, i e. You're not maintaining

1764
01:39:06,840 --> 01:39:08,760
Speaker 1: a record of those emails. Keep in mind, you can

1765
01:39:08,800 --> 01:39:11,960
Speaker 1: never really delete the emails anyway, right, so you know,

1766
01:39:12,160 --> 01:39:14,439
Speaker 1: a few emails here or there, it's not like they're

1767
01:39:14,439 --> 01:39:18,040
Speaker 1: ever going away. But also we know that they they

1768
01:39:18,280 --> 01:39:22,040
Speaker 1: want to normalize. There's that word. It is a It

1769
01:39:22,160 --> 01:39:24,760
Speaker 1: is a useful word that the left left has. They

1770
01:39:24,800 --> 01:39:30,519
Speaker 1: want to normalize Hillary's email usage and make it seem

1771
01:39:30,640 --> 01:39:33,920
Speaker 1: like that whole story, that whole scandal was much ado

1772
01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:38,080
Speaker 1: about nothing. No, Hillary was talking about sensitive classified government

1773
01:39:38,160 --> 01:39:42,080
Speaker 1: information on her private server. That's a world of difference

1774
01:39:42,600 --> 01:39:45,479
Speaker 1: from just using a private email server while you're a

1775
01:39:45,560 --> 01:39:49,879
Speaker 1: government employee a few times for unimportant communication that you're recording.

1776
01:39:50,600 --> 01:39:52,920
Speaker 1: But you could see by the time I've already gotten

1777
01:39:52,960 --> 01:39:55,360
Speaker 1: past the headline that people might lose interest. They don't

1778
01:39:55,400 --> 01:39:58,320
Speaker 1: really care. But this is yet another instance of why

1779
01:39:59,160 --> 01:40:02,000
Speaker 1: we can't trust the media, why we shouldn't pay attention

1780
01:40:02,760 --> 01:40:07,400
Speaker 1: to their pretense of objectivity, that they're unbiased. It's just

1781
01:40:07,520 --> 01:40:11,200
Speaker 1: such a lie. It's so obvious. So anyway that the

1782
01:40:11,479 --> 01:40:15,320
Speaker 1: Kushner Trump email thing, I just see nothing. Ivanka Trump said,

1783
01:40:15,320 --> 01:40:18,240
Speaker 1: there's nothing there. But they're gonna pretend they're just they're

1784
01:40:18,280 --> 01:40:20,800
Speaker 1: just asking questions. They're just asking questions. Yeah, right, They're

1785
01:40:20,840 --> 01:40:23,720
Speaker 1: trying to make people think that there's much more going

1786
01:40:23,720 --> 01:40:25,360
Speaker 1: on than there is. I should note that this weekend

1787
01:40:26,320 --> 01:40:29,479
Speaker 1: I went out. I went out, I found a spot

1788
01:40:29,520 --> 01:40:31,479
Speaker 1: on the roof of my building where I live, and

1789
01:40:31,560 --> 01:40:36,400
Speaker 1: I was reading what had happened. Um. I'm literally in

1790
01:40:36,479 --> 01:40:40,160
Speaker 1: the middle of of the book of the Hillary Explanation,

1791
01:40:40,240 --> 01:40:44,200
Speaker 1: the official explanation for why it is that she did

1792
01:40:44,280 --> 01:40:50,479
Speaker 1: not um win the presidency. And it's amazing she is.

1793
01:40:51,680 --> 01:40:55,160
Speaker 1: She takes more or less the the MSNBC host line

1794
01:40:55,200 --> 01:41:00,040
Speaker 1: at this point. The the the previous practice of I

1795
01:41:00,240 --> 01:41:06,640
Speaker 1: to maintain some veneer, some facade some front of of,

1796
01:41:07,479 --> 01:41:11,519
Speaker 1: you know, politician like approach to these things. She's straight

1797
01:41:11,600 --> 01:41:13,519
Speaker 1: up saying, you know, Russia has to all the election

1798
01:41:13,640 --> 01:41:16,719
Speaker 1: pretty much, and you know, Russian interfere and she talks

1799
01:41:16,800 --> 01:41:20,400
Speaker 1: about openly a lot of I mean, she is h

1800
01:41:20,640 --> 01:41:23,040
Speaker 1: a a left wing I think a lot of I

1801
01:41:23,080 --> 01:41:25,320
Speaker 1: think a lot of folks forgot this during the election

1802
01:41:26,000 --> 01:41:28,479
Speaker 1: that or at least this was hidden from I shouldn't

1803
01:41:28,520 --> 01:41:30,200
Speaker 1: say forgot, but this was hidden from them. She's a

1804
01:41:30,360 --> 01:41:33,960
Speaker 1: very left wing individual. This whole notion that she was

1805
01:41:34,040 --> 01:41:36,920
Speaker 1: a centrist or that she was a technocrat, meaning you know,

1806
01:41:37,080 --> 01:41:39,160
Speaker 1: somebody who's just about getting it done and just about

1807
01:41:39,200 --> 01:41:42,439
Speaker 1: bringing her skills to bear for the American people. That

1808
01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:48,720
Speaker 1: is nonsense. She's a left winger and she always has been,

1809
01:41:48,800 --> 01:41:52,160
Speaker 1: she always will be. And she doesn't really accept the

1810
01:41:52,920 --> 01:41:55,320
Speaker 1: you know, she she's doing a version of the I'm

1811
01:41:55,400 --> 01:41:57,960
Speaker 1: sorry if people were offended by my comments, and that's

1812
01:41:57,960 --> 01:42:00,800
Speaker 1: your apology, you know, not I'm sorry for my She's saying,

1813
01:42:00,840 --> 01:42:04,799
Speaker 1: I take responsibility for losing the election. It's my fault,

1814
01:42:05,200 --> 01:42:08,200
Speaker 1: but I don't really take responsibility because Russia and these

1815
01:42:08,240 --> 01:42:11,680
Speaker 1: other things happened in James Comey and it can't be both, right,

1816
01:42:11,760 --> 01:42:13,439
Speaker 1: but I don't. I'll have some more updates for you

1817
01:42:13,560 --> 01:42:16,160
Speaker 1: about what happened, which was not the most relaxing weekend

1818
01:42:16,200 --> 01:42:18,240
Speaker 1: reading I've ever had, but I did spend some time

1819
01:42:18,280 --> 01:42:20,680
Speaker 1: on it this weekend. We'll have some more thoughts in

1820
01:42:20,800 --> 01:42:24,400
Speaker 1: just a few including a movie talk Stay with me. Hey, team,

1821
01:42:24,439 --> 01:42:27,439
Speaker 1: it's buck. I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna

1822
01:42:27,520 --> 01:42:30,840
Speaker 1: give it to you straight. I did not use the

1823
01:42:30,880 --> 01:42:35,400
Speaker 1: crock pot this past weekend. I know it's terrible. Molly

1824
01:42:35,479 --> 01:42:38,320
Speaker 1: and I got busy with some other things. She had

1825
01:42:38,400 --> 01:42:41,519
Speaker 1: some friends come over. One of her dear friends has

1826
01:42:42,000 --> 01:42:44,920
Speaker 1: wedding plans that she's making, and the girls got talking

1827
01:42:44,920 --> 01:42:49,800
Speaker 1: about wedding stuff, and the guys her fiance came over too,

1828
01:42:49,920 --> 01:42:53,519
Speaker 1: and they were talking about well, we were talking about

1829
01:42:53,720 --> 01:42:57,560
Speaker 1: other things, all kinds of stuff. But you know, I

1830
01:42:57,680 --> 01:42:59,120
Speaker 1: just didn't get around of the crock pot. And I

1831
01:42:59,400 --> 01:43:01,320
Speaker 1: feel bad because so many of you sent me, and

1832
01:43:01,360 --> 01:43:05,720
Speaker 1: I'm keeping them all amazing crock pot or as I

1833
01:43:05,840 --> 01:43:10,320
Speaker 1: call it, slow cooker recipes that I'm gonna be using.

1834
01:43:10,680 --> 01:43:14,720
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have enough braised meat recipes going forward to

1835
01:43:15,160 --> 01:43:17,200
Speaker 1: last for quite some time and I thank you for

1836
01:43:17,240 --> 01:43:19,760
Speaker 1: all that. It's very kind of you, and a lot

1837
01:43:19,840 --> 01:43:22,439
Speaker 1: of you are are willing to make an exception for

1838
01:43:22,520 --> 01:43:25,680
Speaker 1: the fact that technically I'm not making barbecue, but you're

1839
01:43:25,720 --> 01:43:30,000
Speaker 1: giving me barbecue recipes that would work in a slow cooker.

1840
01:43:30,120 --> 01:43:32,120
Speaker 1: So not only am I going to do them, uh

1841
01:43:32,439 --> 01:43:35,760
Speaker 1: do these recipes, I'm also going to take photo and

1842
01:43:35,920 --> 01:43:37,719
Speaker 1: video of it and be putting it up on social

1843
01:43:37,760 --> 01:43:40,200
Speaker 1: media so you can see the end result, good and bad.

1844
01:43:40,360 --> 01:43:42,920
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm gonna be burning some things here and

1845
01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:49,000
Speaker 1: there and making the occasional uh mistake in my cooking explorations,

1846
01:43:49,080 --> 01:43:52,439
Speaker 1: but nonetheless I'm I'm gonna be working on Also, I

1847
01:43:52,520 --> 01:43:56,160
Speaker 1: saw a movie over the weekend that wasn't terrible. Those

1848
01:43:56,280 --> 01:43:59,120
Speaker 1: who are somewhat new to the Freedom Hut may not

1849
01:43:59,360 --> 01:44:04,040
Speaker 1: know that I have a reputation among my beloved UH

1850
01:44:04,360 --> 01:44:09,160
Speaker 1: team Buck friends and family that I am harsh on movies. Now,

1851
01:44:09,360 --> 01:44:12,000
Speaker 1: let me first say, before we go too far down

1852
01:44:12,120 --> 01:44:17,200
Speaker 1: this path, that I am quick to say that TV

1853
01:44:17,439 --> 01:44:19,160
Speaker 1: right now is in a golden age. I mean, there

1854
01:44:19,200 --> 01:44:23,320
Speaker 1: are more good TV shows out there now than people

1855
01:44:23,400 --> 01:44:26,280
Speaker 1: have time for. I haven't even gotten to Narco's Season

1856
01:44:26,400 --> 01:44:29,559
Speaker 1: three yet, and I'm in the middle of The Strain,

1857
01:44:29,720 --> 01:44:32,080
Speaker 1: which I have to say I really like. And the

1858
01:44:32,160 --> 01:44:35,160
Speaker 1: stuff I like from The Strain is always the flashbacks

1859
01:44:35,200 --> 01:44:38,120
Speaker 1: to give the the origin stories. For those who don't know,

1860
01:44:38,160 --> 01:44:43,040
Speaker 1: The Strain is a show on f X about vampires,

1861
01:44:43,120 --> 01:44:47,400
Speaker 1: but it kind of takes a virus as vampires or

1862
01:44:47,479 --> 01:44:51,759
Speaker 1: vampires are a virus approach to it and and adds

1863
01:44:51,800 --> 01:44:55,439
Speaker 1: some some nasty visuals to the whole vampire process. But

1864
01:44:55,560 --> 01:44:59,880
Speaker 1: they do all these throwbacks to while they do throwbacks

1865
01:45:00,200 --> 01:45:04,839
Speaker 1: World War Two, to the concentration camps, to Eastern Europe,

1866
01:45:04,960 --> 01:45:08,320
Speaker 1: to all this backstory, and I just find that part

1867
01:45:08,360 --> 01:45:10,639
Speaker 1: of the show really interesting, and I just think it's

1868
01:45:10,920 --> 01:45:14,599
Speaker 1: great escapism the storytelling they do. Uh And keep in mind,

1869
01:45:14,760 --> 01:45:18,120
Speaker 1: I will be doing the real Dracula on this show,

1870
01:45:18,600 --> 01:45:20,720
Speaker 1: which is one of my favorite shows to do. That

1871
01:45:20,760 --> 01:45:23,720
Speaker 1: will be on Halloween or whatever the closest day is.

1872
01:45:23,760 --> 01:45:28,400
Speaker 1: We're on air to Halloween this year. Uh So, Anyway,

1873
01:45:28,600 --> 01:45:30,000
Speaker 1: I think that there are a lot of great shows

1874
01:45:30,040 --> 01:45:32,200
Speaker 1: out there, but movies are often made now for the

1875
01:45:32,280 --> 01:45:34,840
Speaker 1: international market. This is why you know Fast and the

1876
01:45:34,960 --> 01:45:39,800
Speaker 1: Furious fifteen does so well. This is why the Transformers

1877
01:45:39,880 --> 01:45:43,240
Speaker 1: can put out just loud c g I garbage, but

1878
01:45:43,320 --> 01:45:47,080
Speaker 1: it still makes money because you can dub a truck

1879
01:45:47,280 --> 01:45:51,040
Speaker 1: that has a giant sword, that's fighting a helicopter that's

1880
01:45:51,080 --> 01:45:53,800
Speaker 1: also a dog that's also a stegasaurus, or you know,

1881
01:45:53,920 --> 01:45:57,519
Speaker 1: whatever the Transformer stuff is. But you know, a a

1882
01:45:57,760 --> 01:46:02,040
Speaker 1: well written piece that explore characters and that doesn't literally

1883
01:46:02,200 --> 01:46:04,640
Speaker 1: it doesn't translate as well. So when you're looking at

1884
01:46:04,680 --> 01:46:08,800
Speaker 1: markets like Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, you know huge, huge

1885
01:46:08,880 --> 01:46:12,760
Speaker 1: places around the world, huge cities and countries that are

1886
01:46:12,800 --> 01:46:16,320
Speaker 1: also looking at movies. That's why they do so much

1887
01:46:16,360 --> 01:46:18,960
Speaker 1: of the big computer generated imagery, the c g I,

1888
01:46:19,160 --> 01:46:21,840
Speaker 1: and and you have all of these serials, all of

1889
01:46:21,960 --> 01:46:27,880
Speaker 1: these repeats, these franchises and superheroes and cartoons seem to

1890
01:46:27,880 --> 01:46:29,760
Speaker 1: be the only thing that make money. Okay, so I

1891
01:46:29,880 --> 01:46:33,679
Speaker 1: usually put down movies I saw, I mean the new stuff,

1892
01:46:33,960 --> 01:46:37,759
Speaker 1: and I might have to go see Mother just because

1893
01:46:38,120 --> 01:46:40,360
Speaker 1: the reviews of it are so terrible that I want

1894
01:46:40,400 --> 01:46:42,559
Speaker 1: to know if I can come up with a more

1895
01:46:42,760 --> 01:46:45,280
Speaker 1: terrible review for it. I'm sure it's garbage. I think

1896
01:46:45,360 --> 01:46:50,560
Speaker 1: Darren Aronofsky is wildly overrated. I think Black Swan was

1897
01:46:50,600 --> 01:46:54,680
Speaker 1: a really bad movie. And my mother who's a professional

1898
01:46:54,880 --> 01:46:59,280
Speaker 1: was a professional ballet dancer for American Ballet Theater, which

1899
01:46:59,479 --> 01:47:01,880
Speaker 1: at the time was other than number one or two best,

1900
01:47:02,000 --> 01:47:05,000
Speaker 1: probably number one best ballet company in the United States.

1901
01:47:05,800 --> 01:47:08,439
Speaker 1: She always laughs when people talk about how great Natalie

1902
01:47:08,520 --> 01:47:11,120
Speaker 1: Portman's dancing was and how she trained so hard, because

1903
01:47:11,640 --> 01:47:13,840
Speaker 1: it was not up to par for those who know

1904
01:47:14,400 --> 01:47:17,560
Speaker 1: what real classical ballet should look like. But nonetheless, I

1905
01:47:17,600 --> 01:47:21,559
Speaker 1: just thought it was a bad movie, and I mic

1906
01:47:21,600 --> 01:47:23,960
Speaker 1: go c mother because the reviews of it are saying

1907
01:47:24,000 --> 01:47:25,800
Speaker 1: things like it's the worst movie of the century, so

1908
01:47:25,920 --> 01:47:27,920
Speaker 1: that makes me want to go check it out. And

1909
01:47:28,080 --> 01:47:32,600
Speaker 1: I also, um, I want to just have some touchstone,

1910
01:47:32,760 --> 01:47:35,760
Speaker 1: some point of reference for how bad movies can get

1911
01:47:35,800 --> 01:47:38,240
Speaker 1: these days that are hyped up. But I saw La

1912
01:47:38,400 --> 01:47:42,280
Speaker 1: La Land, and I will say it's a solid B

1913
01:47:42,479 --> 01:47:45,639
Speaker 1: plus that it was up for Best Picture, and that actually,

1914
01:47:45,720 --> 01:47:49,000
Speaker 1: if you remember, people thought it one best picture and

1915
01:47:49,080 --> 01:47:52,960
Speaker 1: then they realized that it was the wrong envelope or whatever. Uh,

1916
01:47:53,640 --> 01:47:55,960
Speaker 1: That I was up for Best Picture really for me

1917
01:47:56,479 --> 01:47:59,920
Speaker 1: solidifies my thesis that movies, big budget, two hour long

1918
01:48:00,040 --> 01:48:03,479
Speaker 1: movies are in the decline, and this was a decent

1919
01:48:03,600 --> 01:48:06,200
Speaker 1: movie that tried to have some had some good music,

1920
01:48:06,880 --> 01:48:09,680
Speaker 1: nice acting, nice performances. It was a real movie. It

1921
01:48:09,840 --> 01:48:12,960
Speaker 1: wasn't you know, boom bang bing bang boom, you know,

1922
01:48:13,160 --> 01:48:16,800
Speaker 1: just lots of loud explosions and flashes of color and

1923
01:48:16,920 --> 01:48:20,080
Speaker 1: light on screen. Um, this was It was a real movie.

1924
01:48:20,120 --> 01:48:22,360
Speaker 1: It was a musical. Uh. And I think they did

1925
01:48:22,400 --> 01:48:25,600
Speaker 1: a good job with it, and it certainly romanticizes a

1926
01:48:25,640 --> 01:48:28,840
Speaker 1: bit of the struggle in l A for actors and

1927
01:48:29,000 --> 01:48:31,280
Speaker 1: musicians these days. It was funny for me because when

1928
01:48:31,280 --> 01:48:33,960
Speaker 1: I was out in Los Angeles, I saw my just

1929
01:48:34,080 --> 01:48:37,360
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, I saw my college roommate, and

1930
01:48:37,520 --> 01:48:40,680
Speaker 1: he is a working musician and we've been friends up

1931
01:48:40,680 --> 01:48:42,360
Speaker 1: to this day. And it's funny now I think about

1932
01:48:42,400 --> 01:48:45,680
Speaker 1: how we've almost been friends for twenty years, and you know,

1933
01:48:45,720 --> 01:48:47,160
Speaker 1: he tells me about the music scene and he's a

1934
01:48:47,360 --> 01:48:52,280
Speaker 1: successful musician but not a household name. And what goes

1935
01:48:52,360 --> 01:48:54,960
Speaker 1: on with all that and the struggles. That's maybe a

1936
01:48:55,040 --> 01:48:57,800
Speaker 1: story for another time. But here's my thing about La

1937
01:48:57,920 --> 01:49:01,519
Speaker 1: La Land, which was like the runner up for Best Picture.

1938
01:49:01,520 --> 01:49:03,320
Speaker 1: I guess you could say it was best picture until

1939
01:49:03,360 --> 01:49:07,560
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It was, Um, it was about twenty or

1940
01:49:07,600 --> 01:49:11,400
Speaker 1: thirty minutes too long. I wish that people would understand

1941
01:49:11,439 --> 01:49:14,880
Speaker 1: that ninety minutes for me is really the sweet spot

1942
01:49:14,960 --> 01:49:17,439
Speaker 1: for a movie. Two hours is long, two and a

1943
01:49:17,479 --> 01:49:20,000
Speaker 1: half hours is way too long, and three hours unless

1944
01:49:20,040 --> 01:49:24,120
Speaker 1: it's Braveheart, which really should have been like a five

1945
01:49:24,200 --> 01:49:26,759
Speaker 1: hour epic or something. It should have been multiple movies.

1946
01:49:27,600 --> 01:49:30,240
Speaker 1: They should have spread it out. It's so amazing. But

1947
01:49:31,000 --> 01:49:32,840
Speaker 1: for me, ninety minutes is where you want it for

1948
01:49:32,880 --> 01:49:36,120
Speaker 1: a movie, because two hours often it just drags. And

1949
01:49:36,160 --> 01:49:38,120
Speaker 1: I think La La Land dragged. But Molly made me

1950
01:49:38,160 --> 01:49:39,960
Speaker 1: watch it over the weekend. I liked it. I mean

1951
01:49:40,000 --> 01:49:42,719
Speaker 1: I gave it a B plus. And as I started

1952
01:49:42,720 --> 01:49:45,080
Speaker 1: out saying, I don't hate all movies, that is that

1953
01:49:45,200 --> 01:49:47,599
Speaker 1: is not fair when people said that Buck hates all movies,

1954
01:49:47,640 --> 01:49:50,120
Speaker 1: it's not true or new movies, right. There's obviously I

1955
01:49:50,240 --> 01:49:52,240
Speaker 1: love action movies. I love a lot of eighties and

1956
01:49:52,360 --> 01:49:55,960
Speaker 1: nineties movies, but recently I think movies have been in

1957
01:49:56,080 --> 01:49:58,519
Speaker 1: the dumpster a bit and a lot of lands of

1958
01:49:58,600 --> 01:50:01,280
Speaker 1: solid B plus. I'd give it. So that was my

1959
01:50:01,600 --> 01:50:03,280
Speaker 1: my little movie review from over the weekend. If you

1960
01:50:03,320 --> 01:50:05,200
Speaker 1: haven't seen it, I think you'd like it. It's nice,

1961
01:50:05,360 --> 01:50:08,200
Speaker 1: it's worth watching. It's better than just see it on

1962
01:50:08,280 --> 01:50:11,280
Speaker 1: a plane. I'd say it's on demand at home if

1963
01:50:11,320 --> 01:50:13,160
Speaker 1: you can, definitely give it a shot if you have

1964
01:50:13,320 --> 01:50:15,920
Speaker 1: not already. Now I want to watch the movie that

1965
01:50:16,120 --> 01:50:19,160
Speaker 1: one I think Moonlight. It was called I can't remember,

1966
01:50:19,479 --> 01:50:21,960
Speaker 1: but that one best picture. I'll have to go check

1967
01:50:22,160 --> 01:50:24,519
Speaker 1: that out now to see if I like that. Um,

1968
01:50:24,640 --> 01:50:26,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in Vegas, I should note later on

1969
01:50:26,920 --> 01:50:30,200
Speaker 1: this week, so you'll have some broadcasts from the Vegas

1970
01:50:30,280 --> 01:50:34,400
Speaker 1: Freedom Hunt, which is like, Hey, you know, Vegas, We're

1971
01:50:34,400 --> 01:50:36,519
Speaker 1: gonna give Daddy the rain Man sweet. Do you take that?

1972
01:50:36,600 --> 01:50:38,920
Speaker 1: We're going to Vegas, Mike, Vegas. Do you think we

1973
01:50:39,000 --> 01:50:40,800
Speaker 1: get there my midnight money? We're gonna be up five

1974
01:50:40,880 --> 01:50:47,720
Speaker 1: hondy by midnights. Vegas, Baby, Vegas Swingers. Great movie if

1975
01:50:47,720 --> 01:50:50,920
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it, and I'm looking forward to seeing

1976
01:50:51,000 --> 01:50:53,280
Speaker 1: some folks out there and and getting a chance to

1977
01:50:54,000 --> 01:50:57,480
Speaker 1: I don't gamble, so I just go to the restaurants

1978
01:50:57,520 --> 01:50:59,920
Speaker 1: and look at the sites, and after a few days

1979
01:51:00,040 --> 01:51:02,840
Speaker 1: in Vegas, I've usually I've usually done it. You know.

1980
01:51:03,160 --> 01:51:04,960
Speaker 1: It's a great town for a few days for me.

1981
01:51:05,080 --> 01:51:07,760
Speaker 1: But I'm always happy to uh come back to my

1982
01:51:07,840 --> 01:51:11,600
Speaker 1: own concrete concrete jungle here in New York City, so

1983
01:51:12,240 --> 01:51:14,240
Speaker 1: you know we'll see Vegas should be fun. I'm gonna

1984
01:51:14,280 --> 01:51:18,320
Speaker 1: be out there and uh, not gambling, but doing what

1985
01:51:18,439 --> 01:51:20,360
Speaker 1: one does in Vegas when one does not gamble, which

1986
01:51:20,520 --> 01:51:23,200
Speaker 1: for me just means going to different restaurants and maybe

1987
01:51:23,240 --> 01:51:25,160
Speaker 1: I'll go catch a show. I don't know who's out

1988
01:51:25,200 --> 01:51:27,439
Speaker 1: there right now, but I'm sure there's some shows that

1989
01:51:27,560 --> 01:51:31,479
Speaker 1: are worthwhile. So with that team, I will say thank

1990
01:51:31,560 --> 01:51:33,720
Speaker 1: you as always for hanging out with me here in

1991
01:51:33,760 --> 01:51:35,880
Speaker 1: the Freedom Hunt. Looking forward to being with you every

1992
01:51:35,960 --> 01:51:39,120
Speaker 1: day this week, same time, same place. Uh. If you

1993
01:51:39,240 --> 01:51:42,360
Speaker 1: have any great Vegas recommendations from your last time there,

1994
01:51:42,400 --> 01:51:44,840
Speaker 1: you can send them to me at Facebook dot com

1995
01:51:45,080 --> 01:51:47,960
Speaker 1: slash Buck Sexton And if you haven't already, please do

1996
01:51:48,040 --> 01:51:50,400
Speaker 1: click like and follow me on Facebook. It's one of

1997
01:51:50,439 --> 01:51:52,720
Speaker 1: the favorite ways I have to communicate with all of you.

1998
01:51:52,840 --> 01:51:56,040
Speaker 1: I'm constantly reading the messages and responding and it's a

1999
01:51:56,080 --> 01:51:57,560
Speaker 1: way to keep in touch with as much of the

2000
01:51:57,640 --> 01:52:00,760
Speaker 1: team as I can. Uh. And so also check out

2001
01:52:00,840 --> 01:52:03,360
Speaker 1: Buck saxon dot com slash store if you haven't already

2002
01:52:03,400 --> 01:52:06,200
Speaker 1: gotten gear and uh, you know, send me send me

2003
01:52:06,240 --> 01:52:08,439
Speaker 1: a Facebook message if you want with with your gear

2004
01:52:08,560 --> 01:52:10,639
Speaker 1: and I'll share it on the on the big Facebook,

2005
01:52:10,640 --> 01:52:12,800
Speaker 1: and then we can we can all see how people

2006
01:52:12,840 --> 01:52:15,840
Speaker 1: are a rocking the team Buck Squad gear. Uh. So,

2007
01:52:16,200 --> 01:52:18,200
Speaker 1: with that, I'm gonna close out the Freedom Hunt for

2008
01:52:18,200 --> 01:52:21,080
Speaker 1: the night and honor a privilege and a pleasure as

2009
01:52:21,080 --> 01:52:23,720
Speaker 1: always to have had you here with me. Until next time,

2010
01:52:24,360 --> 01:52:25,040
Speaker 1: Shields high.