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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, welcome to the Buck Brief. We got our buddy,

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Speaker 2: Kurt Schlickter back.

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Speaker 3: In the house. The man himself.

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Speaker 2: He is a lawyer, he is many many years in

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Speaker 2: the United States military. He's a senior columnist at townhall

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Speaker 2: dot com. He's an author. He's got a new book

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Speaker 2: coming out which makes a great stocking stuffer, but for

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Speaker 2: early next year, right because it technically you can't stock

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Speaker 2: your stuffing with it X. It's coming out the first

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Speaker 2: week of January, but you should pre order it if

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Speaker 2: you can. The Attack by Kurt Schlickter, coming out January eighth.

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Speaker 3: Mister Kurt, how are you, buddy?

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Speaker 1: Oh? I'm doing great. I've got my Noel going on.

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Speaker 3: That's good. That's good to know.

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Speaker 2: So I wanted to know for you. You know, this

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Speaker 2: is a little bit of a of a year in

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Speaker 2: review and then a year look ahead show. Right, what

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Speaker 2: for you is the biggest and most interesting story of

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 3: What were you just as fired up about as anything?

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Speaker 1: Well? Look, I think I think the story that sums

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Speaker 1: up twenty twenty three was the Senate staffer and his

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Speaker 1: think that perfectly encapsulated everything about this year, from a

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Speaker 1: gross leftism to bizarre perversion, to a total contempt for

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Speaker 1: our norms and our institutions. I think that we can

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Speaker 1: tell me there is like the perfect ending.

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Speaker 2: It's really in the Christmas spirit. Apparently with it it's

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Speaker 2: like the worst year ever.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look at this. You've got America is in

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Speaker 1: the dumpster. We have a an alleged president who's trying to,

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Speaker 1: you know, if not arrest, at least disenfranchised his political opponent.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much to choose from. Yeah, Harvard,

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Speaker 1: you have a midwain diversity hire who's a plagiarist, who's

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Speaker 1: heading America's allegedly greatest university. I mean, it's uh, Jimmy

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Speaker 1: Carter is just happy that he's not going to pass

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Speaker 1: on to his reward before seeing a worse president than him.

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Speaker 2: You know a lot of people are just listening to this,

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Speaker 2: so they don't they don't really see it because they

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Speaker 2: don'tubscribe to the YouTube channel, which they should YouTube Buck

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Speaker 2: Sexton for the Buck brief. But you know, this is

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Speaker 2: one thing people say, oh do you have you have

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Speaker 2: main and with the donor is stand Kurt. A lot

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Speaker 2: of maintenance goes into this and it can get it

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Speaker 2: can get crazy like right now, just happened. It started

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Speaker 2: sticking off to the side, like like Dennis the Menace situation,

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Speaker 2: and there's not nothing I can do about it. You know.

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Speaker 2: So while it is a blessing, it is also a curse.

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Speaker 2: This is a total non sequitor. Let's get back to

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Speaker 2: the real things. What what for you is is the

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Speaker 2: of the past year, is there anything that you think

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Speaker 2: we're going to get a particularly joyous resolution to in

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Speaker 2: the coming year, whether it's a conflict abroad or a

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Speaker 2: election here at home? I mean, what, what's kind of

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Speaker 2: making you hopeful? Grinch after your whole is everything sucks?

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Speaker 2: America is getting this, you know, butt kicked or whatever.

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Speaker 1: I I'm becoming one of those guys. I hate that.

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Speaker 1: I look, I have hope for America. But you know,

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Speaker 1: it's always darkest before the dawn, and don't worry, it

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Speaker 3: Okay, can I ask you?

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Speaker 2: Can ask you a real question because you're your military guy.

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Speaker 2: My concern here is, so you know, we're both a

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Speaker 3: It's a food group, but I would say.

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Speaker 1: And it's always Christmas somewhere.

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Speaker 3: That's also true. But but onto like a real question

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Speaker 2: On the military side, my concern is with with the

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Speaker 2: getting I don't know, We'll be three hundred billion in

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Speaker 1: It's it's a stalemate. But you know, having knowing something

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Speaker 1: I went and trained Ukrainian soldiers. I don't think they

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Speaker 1: pleasure to say, but you know, Ukraine is running out

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Speaker 1: not good. That's that's bad. And there are millions of

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Speaker 2: Also, though I mean I wonder about this sometimes, you know,

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Speaker 3: We got the best guys in.

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Speaker 2: The world at that, I mean our you know, our

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Speaker 2: Are we amazing?

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Speaker 1: Though?

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Speaker 2: At the sending tanks across a battlefield, massive amounts of ammunition,

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Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Like? Are you know exactly you mean? And thirty three

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Speaker 1: very little faith in our generals. Our generals have any

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Speaker 1: proven track record of failure. They have not won a war,

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Speaker 1: you I don't know if they can do conventional fight.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if we have the ammunition to do well.

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Speaker 2: That's what what I was gonna ask you, is do

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Speaker 2: I was like, really, I was looking.

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Speaker 1: At something about an artillery shell making plant in the US,

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Speaker 1: and then we're trying to make like one hundred and

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Speaker 2: Well, I want to ask you about that, but hold

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Speaker 3: And now we know that.

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Speaker 2: The world is looking more destabilized and America is looking

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Speaker 2: I'm being I'm being honest, like I'm asking the real question.

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Speaker 2: A purple haired, nose ringed, non binary like three or

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Speaker 3: Is that?

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Speaker 2: Is that coming in the actual military, not you know,

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Speaker 1: No, it is. When I wrote the People's Republic books,

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Speaker 2: Can I ask you, do any of your friends, colleagues,

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Speaker 1: Well, look for me, my birthday is the day before Christmas.

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Speaker 2: Go check out The Attack. Kirch Luker's book out first

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