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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton. Welcome to Buck Sexton Show. Everybody, Thank you
Speaker 1: very much for being here. You got much to discuss today,
Speaker 1: as always eight four four or nine to eight to five,
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Speaker 1: your thoughts. We will talk about the latest on the
Speaker 1: Russia collusion investigation in just a moment. We will also
Speaker 1: spend some time on McCabe at the FBI or formally
Speaker 1: will he be fired or not? And what does that
Speaker 1: tell us about this whole situation. And then we will
Speaker 1: also have a follow up on the Russian alleged Russian
Speaker 1: use of Nuvochuk, the nerve agent that was used in
Speaker 1: a assassination attempt in the United Kingdom, and just a
Speaker 1: bunch of other stories that will get thrown into the mix. Here,
Speaker 1: I have to start with the biggest single news of
Speaker 1: the day, though little news item. It's not so much
Speaker 1: that it's new as that it's a reminder of something
Speaker 1: that is already going on, and that is that Special
Speaker 1: Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed the Trump organization in the
Speaker 1: Russia investigation. Now, the Trump org had already been giving
Speaker 1: documents to Muller's team, so they were cooperating. So in
Speaker 1: that sense, it's not new, but the issuance of a
Speaker 1: subpoena by the Special Council has with it at least
Speaker 1: the perception that Mueller's sense of all this is that
Speaker 1: someone's trying to hide something, or that they can't trust
Speaker 1: that the willing cooperation thus far would continue or would
Speaker 1: be sufficient. Basically, it's like Mueller thinks that he can't
Speaker 1: trust the Trump people to actually give the documents they're
Speaker 1: supposed to, and that's why he's going with the subpoena
Speaker 1: in this process. That's what That's what it strikes me as.
Speaker 1: And now we're getting into some really precarious territory because
Speaker 1: you have a special counsel that's going to be looking
Speaker 1: at the complex finances of a large multinational corporation. And
Speaker 1: what if Mueller decides that he's going to bring some
Speaker 1: kind of a charge that's mickey mouse stuff, you know, Well,
Speaker 1: what if he's going to get them on some kind
Speaker 1: of I don't know, you know, some kind of a
Speaker 1: wire fraud or something. You know, there's there's so many
Speaker 1: different things. One thing the public is not particularly familiar
Speaker 1: with is how messed up your life will be the
Speaker 1: moment that federal prosecutors and federal investigators I want to
Speaker 1: take a look at what's going on with you, and
Speaker 1: heaven forbid this should ever happen to any of you
Speaker 1: listening to this show or to yours, truly, because I
Speaker 1: do know what this is like from working on the
Speaker 1: law enforcement side for a big but also having close
Speaker 1: friends and associates who are in fact federal uh and
Speaker 1: and some reformer federal prosecutors, and they've I'm always fascinated
Speaker 1: to hear how it goes, and I often describe it.
Speaker 1: I have fun analogies for this. The eye of sore
Speaker 1: On is a good one, you know, does the eye
Speaker 1: of sore and really bother you only when it's on you, right,
Speaker 1: Otherwise what's the big deal? But the moment it's on you,
Speaker 1: it's bad, it's scary. Or you could say that the
Speaker 1: federal government, at least on the d O j FBI side,
Speaker 1: is somewhat like the one eyed giant from the Odyssey.
Speaker 1: You will recall the Odysseus and his cohorts hiding in
Speaker 1: the cave and the one eyed giant was eating them
Speaker 1: one at a time, and they managed to put a
Speaker 1: stake in his eye and then sneak out of the
Speaker 1: sneak out of the cave by hiding on the underside
Speaker 1: of sheep man. And think of the federal government as
Speaker 1: somewhat like the one eyed giant. Maybe even sons that
Speaker 1: I it's fine if it doesn't get a hand on you,
Speaker 1: but if it does, it's gonna be a very very
Speaker 1: bad day, meaning that when it's your turn, things get
Speaker 1: ugly fast. You go most likely bankrupt, your reputation is ruined,
Speaker 1: you become radioactive professionally and for a lot of people personally,
Speaker 1: And even if at the end there's no real wrongdoing,
Speaker 1: you have suffered. The process is the punishment, I repeated,
Speaker 1: because I want you to remember it. The process is
Speaker 1: the punishment with this, and that's why there's so much
Speaker 1: support for it from Democrats, even though it has started
Speaker 1: to slip out more and more in recent months. Most
Speaker 1: Democrats who are sane and reasonable, or at least close
Speaker 1: to sane and reasonable, understand there's never gonna be any
Speaker 1: collusion evidence that's found. They know that there's because there
Speaker 1: was no collusion, So how can you find evidence of
Speaker 1: something that didn't happen? And also, as an aside, how
Speaker 1: would it be that at this point, after everything that
Speaker 1: we've seen and heard, after all of the leaks and
Speaker 1: all the investigations, everything that has happened, the Trump campaign,
Speaker 1: which has made some you know, made some errors here
Speaker 1: and there. I don't mean criminal stuff, I just made
Speaker 1: you know, They've hired some people, have fired some people
Speaker 1: that there have been some stuff that's gone on. Right,
Speaker 1: we all know that the Trump campaign, though, was able
Speaker 1: to hide an international conspiracy to defeat Hillary Clinton in
Speaker 1: a presidential election from the most sophisticated intelligence and surveillance
Speaker 1: apparatus in the world. They were able to, as they say,
Speaker 1: they're able to find the Russia stuff, right, They found
Speaker 1: all these they're they're tracking down Twitter accounts and Facebook accounts.
Speaker 1: They can find all that, and they've got it all
Speaker 1: mapped out. We've got indictments now from Muller. But they
Speaker 1: at this point still haven't found anything with any of
Speaker 1: the Trump people that would justify this investigation and that
Speaker 1: would qualify as collusion. Still has not happened, And so
Speaker 1: you have to wonder, is the Trump squad that's slick
Speaker 1: that they had such operational security that they couldn't find
Speaker 1: anything on them, or just does nothing of the collusion
Speaker 1: variety exists. I think we all know the answer to this.
Speaker 1: But now the Mala thing has nothing to do with collusion.
Speaker 1: The Mala probe is payback. It is payback not just
Speaker 1: for Hillary Clinton's loss. It is payback for the slap
Speaker 1: in the face to the elites that Trump has represented.
Speaker 1: It is payback for all of the people who were
Speaker 1: expecting to get promotions and access and power because of
Speaker 1: a new Democrat administration. It's payback for or Trump exposing that, Yes,
Speaker 1: in fact, there are left wing elements in very senior
Speaker 1: roles of the federal bureaucracy that I actually do have
Speaker 1: considerable power have amassed real authority for themselves, and Trump
Speaker 1: has exposed them. And worse than exposing them, in many ways,
Speaker 1: Trump has also challenged them openly. Mueller is all about payback.
Speaker 1: When you look into his background and you look into
Speaker 1: all these characters at the d o J. That and
Speaker 1: we'll get to McCabe. Oh, don't worry, we'll get to
Speaker 1: McCabe situation in just a few minutes. There is a recurrent,
Speaker 1: recurring theme Mueller. Mueller is first and foremost concerned with
Speaker 1: the legacy of what he and the other d o
Speaker 1: J people are around him create for themselves. They have
Speaker 1: gone after with tenacity, fiercely, gone after people for investigations
Speaker 1: that were on the borderline all the way. Look into
Speaker 1: his past, look into the prosecutions, call me the same thing.
Speaker 1: Comey and Mueller and these others, they created this narrative
Speaker 1: around themselves of oh, we we're the honest ones. And
Speaker 1: now we see, how how quickly does Comey become an
Speaker 1: anti Trump, rabid partisan in the press. How quickly does
Speaker 1: pret bar Or, the former U S. Attorney for New
Speaker 1: York the Southern District, the most important U. S. Attorney
Speaker 1: seat in the country, a stepping stone for you know,
Speaker 1: being the attorney general or any number of other senior
Speaker 1: posts in Washington. How quickly before Priests shown up on CNN.
Speaker 1: He's a Democrat, he's a left winger. Did we get
Speaker 1: to see one? Can we see one senior d o
Speaker 1: J figure that is implicated in all this stuff, the
Speaker 1: Russia collusion investigation, all of it. Can we just see
Speaker 1: one who is not even pro Trump, just not rapidly
Speaker 1: anti Trump. Just one? I can't think of it. I'm
Speaker 1: not aware of one. What are the chances of that, folks?
Speaker 1: What are the chances that each one of these officials McCabe,
Speaker 1: comby Mueller, go down the list of all the people
Speaker 1: are involved in this, not a single one of them
Speaker 1: is anything other than an obvious Democrat partisan pro Hillary acolyte.
Speaker 1: Seems sims rather suspicious and fishy. Doesn't it now add
Speaker 1: to that that the Trump organization is going to have
Speaker 1: all of its all of its books opened. Do we
Speaker 1: think there might be some embarrassing information that will find
Speaker 1: its way into the press just somehow, oh somehow. Remember,
Speaker 1: there are anti trumpers in the government, and it's d
Speaker 1: o J that we're willing to break their oaths and
Speaker 1: violate federal criminal law, to commit felonies, just to stick
Speaker 1: a thumb in the eye of Trump's team, just to
Speaker 1: go after General Flynn. By the way, I say, when
Speaker 1: it comes to Andy McCabe, the former acting FBI director,
Speaker 1: I think that General Michael Flynn should get to determine
Speaker 1: whether or not McCabe gets fired and McCabe therefore loses
Speaker 1: his over a million dollar pension. Because when it suits them,
Speaker 1: the Democrats and the deep State and the rest of them,
Speaker 1: they tell us the laws, the law, rules are rules.
Speaker 1: And when it doesn't, all of a sudden, we hear
Speaker 1: a lot of back talk and gibberish and nonsense and
Speaker 1: take the totality of the situation into account. And there's
Speaker 1: more going on here, and that's not fair. And I
Speaker 1: thought rules were rules. Well, we already saw this with
Speaker 1: Hitler in the emails. Were as are not rules. Laws
Speaker 1: don't really count. When Democrats are implicated, something else automatically
Speaker 1: comes into the conversation. Mueller is now a rogue operation.
Speaker 1: I know he's still under the auspices of the d
Speaker 1: o J, but this is turning into banana Republic stuff,
Speaker 1: my friends, This is third world nonsense. When you have
Speaker 1: a team of people who clearly have an animus against
Speaker 1: the administration and power against the elected officials entrusted by
Speaker 1: the American people to run this government, and when they
Speaker 1: have to deal with the constant irritation and threats from
Speaker 1: this nonsense special prosecutor that's just gonna keep going and
Speaker 1: going and going and dropping charges on people like Manifort
Speaker 1: that have nothing to do with frum And by the way,
Speaker 1: guy's facing decades in prison for what, Well, you know,
Speaker 1: Mulla will figure it out. Enough is enough. I I'm
Speaker 1: of the mind, and I know this is unpopular. I
Speaker 1: know people get mad at me for saying it, but
Speaker 1: I don't really much care because I find power mad
Speaker 1: prosecutors to be the single greatest threat to liberty in
Speaker 1: this country that most of us will ever face. I
Speaker 1: think that they should shut it down. Yeah, there'd be Oh,
Speaker 1: it would be such a and then what and then
Speaker 1: what what are they gonna say? What are they gonna
Speaker 1: do that The Democrats have already told us in the
Speaker 1: House They're still gonna keep investigating. The entire multibillion dollar
Speaker 1: media apparatus is going to keep investigating the d o J.
Speaker 1: Could investigate any information of collusion that was brought to
Speaker 1: their attention. Right, It's not like that means no more
Speaker 1: investigation of any kind. It's not like it means Trump
Speaker 1: would be out of hot water if he did something wrong.
Speaker 1: But this has become too much, looking into the organization,
Speaker 1: looking into their finances. Are we all gonna act surprised? I, oh, gosh,
Speaker 1: you mean damaging, damaging, non criminal information found its way
Speaker 1: to the media, right when Mueller's getting all this stuff
Speaker 1: from the Trump organization. Oh wow, what a shock, What
Speaker 1: a shock. It's time to shut this thing down. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it will happen. I have a feeling that they're going
Speaker 1: to continue on with it and there'll be more lame
Speaker 1: prosecutions brought against people for mickey mouse crimes. You know, lying,
Speaker 1: you know, the Papadopoulis effect and a lying to investigators.
Speaker 1: Notice that Jim Clapper, he can lie to the American
Speaker 1: people about surveillance and that's under oath. It's in front
Speaker 1: of Congress. But you know, we'll give give Clapp our pass.
Speaker 1: When is the law of the law, When do rules
Speaker 1: actually count? Don't count? For Clapper. They don't count for
Speaker 1: Hillary with their emails. They don't count for Comey giving
Speaker 1: information that we've been told by the Senate is classified
Speaker 1: to a reporter to settle a political score. Don't count
Speaker 1: for him. Don't count for Loretta Lynch when she has
Speaker 1: a tarmac meaning and does not recuse herself from Hillary's
Speaker 1: email investigation. So so what are we to make of
Speaker 1: all this? I mean, this is the great problem that
Speaker 1: we face in the Trump eras that so much of
Speaker 1: this has been exposed, and the rabid hatred of the
Speaker 1: left for not just Donald Trump but all those who
Speaker 1: support him has become so overwhelming that their willingness to
Speaker 1: break laws, destroy institutions, remove all integrity from public life
Speaker 1: has forced us to say, well, what do we do?
Speaker 1: Do we fight fire with fire or do we just
Speaker 1: sit here and take it. It's a it's a question
Speaker 1: for which I do not have an easy answer for you.
Speaker 1: But we should be thinking about it right now. As
Speaker 1: the Mueller probe drags the entire Trump organization. Trump's children
Speaker 1: will now be involved in this. Everybody who has had
Speaker 1: a business dealing with Trump in recent years now has
Speaker 1: a team of pros acuters lined up to just find
Speaker 1: something to justify their time and to get back at Trump,
Speaker 1: and we'll be right back. Stay with me. We're going
Speaker 1: to continue to fully cooperate out of respect for the
Speaker 1: Special Council. We're not going to comment for any specific
Speaker 1: questions about the Trump organization. I'd refer either Sarah Huckaby
Speaker 1: Sanders handling a lot of stuff in today's press conference
Speaker 1: in the White House. And yeah, they're going to continue cooperating.
Speaker 1: But cooperation doesn't get you very far with this Special
Speaker 1: Council because the fixes in I know others and some
Speaker 1: of my colleagues call it a witch hunt, and um,
Speaker 1: I think it's actually driven by you know, because a
Speaker 1: witch one do you think is something where they usually
Speaker 1: the villagers gonna go back to Salem and people actually
Speaker 1: believe that there's something. I think now we're almost beyond
Speaker 1: which hunt. They know there's no witch They're just pretending
Speaker 1: because they want to just keep the investigation going because
Speaker 1: it allows them to pull people in, pull records in,
Speaker 1: look at information, look at all kinds of stuff. Here,
Speaker 1: here's something for you who wants to who wants to
Speaker 1: bet that at some point over the course of this investigation,
Speaker 1: Trump's tax returns leak some point. I'm not saying tomorrow
Speaker 1: or next month, but at some point all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: some and they're gonna have some backstory for it. Though.
Speaker 1: Oh you know, got it from a source who met
Speaker 1: met me under a bridge and he left two chalk
Speaker 1: marks on the wall, and you know we had the
Speaker 1: secret handshake. And I'm a journalist. I can't tell you
Speaker 1: my sources. But just remember that right now you have
Speaker 1: pro Hillary, pro Hillary partisan prosecutors who are getting access
Speaker 1: to everything they want from Trump's company, which is going
Speaker 1: to include a lot about Trump's personal finances. Who knows
Speaker 1: what else is gonna be in there, right reams and
Speaker 1: reams of documentation they're gonna have. I'm just I know,
Speaker 1: I'm sometimes you like to throw a long bomb into
Speaker 1: the end zone. You know it may not get caught,
Speaker 1: but you know, it keeps the defense got It keeps
Speaker 1: the defense awake. You know what I'm saying. I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna see Trump's tax returns leak, and I think it.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna come from these one of these investors,
Speaker 1: probably special counts, but one of these investigations that's going on. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then the press is going to present it like, well,
Speaker 1: we deserve a pullets or look what we've done, and
Speaker 1: we'll have to say, oh great, you know now we
Speaker 1: see that Trump takes a lot of tax deductions. They're
Speaker 1: all legal, and they'll be like, well, but they're so
Speaker 1: mean and occupy Wall Street and inequality and stuff, just
Speaker 1: like they did with Romney. It'll be the same thing
Speaker 1: all over again. Romny paid all the required taxes and
Speaker 1: he was still a bad guy. Somehow he's holding the
Speaker 1: line for a merry buck Sexton, his back president Field
Speaker 1: Justice Department should act by Sunday. Fire Entry King. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's a determination that we would leave up to Attorney
Speaker 1: General Sessions. But we do think that it is well
Speaker 1: documented that he has had some very troubling behavior and
Speaker 1: by most accounts of bad actor and should have some
Speaker 1: calls for concern. But that would be a determination that
Speaker 1: d J would have to make. He should not receive
Speaker 1: his full pension as results of as I just said,
Speaker 1: that would be a decision that Department of Justice would
Speaker 1: have to make. Or Andy McCabe, here's the guy who
Speaker 1: sat on the new information about Hillary's emails. Remember this
Speaker 1: is an FBI director who in October or September, I
Speaker 1: forget which month it was. Finds out that accused and
Speaker 1: now convicted UH sexual predator Anthony Weener had classified information
Speaker 1: on his laptop courtesy of his wife, whom abbodd who
Speaker 1: somehow was never put through the gauntlet of prosecutors questioning
Speaker 1: her and possibly getting caught up in a perjury charge. Right,
Speaker 1: but think about that, the right hand woman whom abodin
Speaker 1: to Hillary Clinton at that point, the presumed next president
Speaker 1: United States. So so let's just back the presumed next
Speaker 1: president of the United States is top advisor had classified
Speaker 1: information on the lab top that her pedophile husband had
Speaker 1: access to and owned, and that the acting FBI director
Speaker 1: or whatever he was deputy FBI director at the time
Speaker 1: of Cabe. It's like, Yeah, I don't know if we're
Speaker 1: gonna move on that one. Hey, I think we gotta
Speaker 1: give that a little time. Let's air that one out
Speaker 1: a little bit. Let's see what happens. See, I think
Speaker 1: that's a problem. I think we all think that's a problem.
Speaker 1: And that's why right now, the fate of McCabe. Not
Speaker 1: keep in mind, this is just disciplinary but his pensions
Speaker 1: at stake um but much more importantly than that, it
Speaker 1: has to do with what the narrative becomes of McCabe's
Speaker 1: involvement in all of this. Is he going to be
Speaker 1: called as a witness in any possible obstruction prosecution of
Speaker 1: Trump or any of his top people. As to whether
Speaker 1: I would feel sorrow for McCabe if he lost his pension,
Speaker 1: usually I would say, you know, be losing your pension,
Speaker 1: look for it's a big deal. I knew guys. I
Speaker 1: knew with the m Y p D. They were PhD
Speaker 1: s in their pensions, man, And I totally respect it.
Speaker 1: But I got they knew, you know, when they were
Speaker 1: going to hit their number and everything. And it's a
Speaker 1: big part of what brings people into the line of
Speaker 1: work is Yeah, you're not gonna become rich working for
Speaker 1: the city, for example, but you're gonna be you do
Speaker 1: your time, you do a good job, You're gonna be
Speaker 1: taken care of. It's a promise. It's a contract between
Speaker 1: between in that case law enforcements a firefighters and other people,
Speaker 1: but between law enforcement in the city or the county
Speaker 1: or the state, whatever it may be. Right, So so
Speaker 1: I totally respect that. In the case of McCabe. Now
Speaker 1: you're talking about a guy who is gonna if he
Speaker 1: gets fired, he becomes a martyr to the anti Trump
Speaker 1: cause he's gonna be just fine. They're gonna give him,
Speaker 1: you know, just just wait there. You know you're gonna
Speaker 1: see him. I don't know if he's a particularly chatty fellow.
Speaker 1: I know his wife has political aspirations because oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. His wife was the one who was running
Speaker 1: for state Senate in Virginia and got all this money
Speaker 1: from the d n C. And it's like tied into
Speaker 1: Terry mccalloff and oh what a surprise, like hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars. She wants to be a Democrat, who
Speaker 1: wants to who wants to place a bet as to
Speaker 1: whether or not we can assume that McCabe really doesn't
Speaker 1: like Trump. That's a household where I have a feeling
Speaker 1: there was a lot of Trump bashing going on, and
Speaker 1: that can affect things that can affect But when k
Speaker 1: will be taking care of this is one thing the
Speaker 1: left always does better than conservatives. It's true and mediates
Speaker 1: true in politics, true in government. If you take one
Speaker 1: for the team on the left, they have your back.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're a conservative, and whether it's in
Speaker 1: politics or you know, they're like, oh, I couldn't get
Speaker 1: you know, you know, you know, you couldn't get a
Speaker 1: gig with Fox News or something. You know, you're on
Speaker 1: your own. That's it. There's no publishing houses that are
Speaker 1: rushing out to give you a big check. There's no
Speaker 1: companies are gonna rush to put you on the board
Speaker 1: with liberals. Though you're trust me, you'll he'll be good
Speaker 1: to guy, he said, he'll be good to go. Gosh,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what Comy is getting on advance
Speaker 1: for his book. I'm assuming it's seven figures. By the way,
Speaker 1: no one's gonna read call me stupid book, you know,
Speaker 1: boring a book by the FBI Director's gonna first of all,
Speaker 1: a book written by a guy, or it's gonna be
Speaker 1: ghost written, but he'll put his name on it. But
Speaker 1: he'll be directing it to somebody who thinks that putting
Speaker 1: out super weird tweets of like nature scenes and talking
Speaker 1: about the need to restore integrity in America like he's
Speaker 1: the chief of the boy Scout troops speaking down to
Speaker 1: all of us. He thinks that's normal. So his book
Speaker 1: is going to be super boring. I mean, the Clintons
Speaker 1: have actually really excelled in getting paid a lot of
Speaker 1: money to have books written under their names that are
Speaker 1: boring and don't sell, but they still get huge, huge,
Speaker 1: Um what what do you producer, Mike, you got something
Speaker 1: for me? This political said it? Come he has a
Speaker 1: multimillion dollars and he hasn't don't even have the title
Speaker 1: for the book yet. So yeah, exactly, they're just gonna
Speaker 1: throw millions of dollars because this is this is how
Speaker 1: the game works. This is the game. The left plays big.
Speaker 1: They make sure that people who do what what is
Speaker 1: necessary for the cause, they get paid, They get taken
Speaker 1: care of. It's gonna be on the board of companies
Speaker 1: and you know all this stuff. You know, look at
Speaker 1: big Sisapolitano, remember her. Hey, I'm gonna have my t
Speaker 1: S agents patch you down all over. She's like the
Speaker 1: chancellor of the UC school system. Now it's actually a
Speaker 1: really big job. Yeah, she's uh so trust me. No, No,
Speaker 1: Bush Administration DHS secretary is being asked to be you know,
Speaker 1: putting it, put in that role. But I'm very good
Speaker 1: at it, she says, uh, kind of missing the Poltan
Speaker 1: Actually she was just a colorful character at that DHS.
Speaker 1: We miss miss being able to do her on the show.
Speaker 1: Oss on this show knows what I'm talking about. It's
Speaker 1: a regular And that was in the that was there
Speaker 1: was a lot more going on with you know. Uh,
Speaker 1: it was the early days of the the machine that
Speaker 1: does like the puff puff for whatever when you go
Speaker 1: in the airport. You know, I don't even that was
Speaker 1: not so I sound like a villager who's just discovered technology.
Speaker 1: The machine that does the puff puff. Yeah, but the
Speaker 1: thing that makes sure you don't have a bomb on
Speaker 1: your something when you're getting a playing whatever, that's called
Speaker 1: the Politano was very much a part of all those debates,
Speaker 1: all right back to McKay, Back to McKay, back on track, Sexton,
Speaker 1: get it together, Sexton. So he's even if lose his pens,
Speaker 1: is gonna be fine. That's all I'm trying to say.
Speaker 1: And I'm winding a little bit how the left takes
Speaker 1: care of their own because trust me, as a conservative
Speaker 1: media these days, you're like, well, I hope everything goes
Speaker 1: okay because like otherwise, you know, no one's gonna be like, hey,
Speaker 1: Bucky want you to come teach at Columbia Journalism School.
Speaker 1: There are clowns, hacks, they got nowhere in this business.
Speaker 1: They end up teaching it like the top journalism school
Speaker 1: in the country, because you know, they show up and
Speaker 1: they're like, let's watch a movie of CBS Evening News,
Speaker 1: you know, and like see news is all about integrity
Speaker 1: and storytelling. It's like, yeah, great, thanks. You know, you
Speaker 1: will not find a lot of conservatives getting those gigs,
Speaker 1: whether it's the academy boards of companies. There are plenty
Speaker 1: of conservatives to run companies, but they just know if
Speaker 1: they bring a if they bring a known conservative on
Speaker 1: the board of their company, then they become a target
Speaker 1: for boycott's And Media Matter. Media matter is really the worst,
Speaker 1: by the way, I throw around the term with the
Speaker 1: worst occasionally, but Media Matters actually deserves it the worst.
Speaker 1: People who work there should be ashamed. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't say that about places I give. I give
Speaker 1: as much of the benefit of the doubt and and
Speaker 1: good faith to the other side of arguments and discussions
Speaker 1: i possibly can. And I have loads of friends who
Speaker 1: are Democrats and leftists and we get along great, and
Speaker 1: it's fine. Media Matters is disgusting, though, it really needs
Speaker 1: to go really needs to go away. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think the whole thing is dishonest too. It's a political
Speaker 1: action committee pretending to be a five at one C
Speaker 1: three or five one see four forget, which it's just
Speaker 1: a character assassination pack. That's all. It is, very very
Speaker 1: bad people. So we'll see if Trump fires McCabe. He's
Speaker 1: got until Sunday? Is that right? He's got until Sunday
Speaker 1: to fire before is I think it's I believe it's
Speaker 1: McCabe's fiftieth birthday, which is quite a That just kind
Speaker 1: of ups the ending a little bit, doesn't it. I
Speaker 1: may be making that up, but people tell me things.
Speaker 1: I think it is his fiftieth birthday. And by the way,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a pretty good gig, isn't it retire
Speaker 1: full pension for life at fifty? That's nice. I assume
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be working until what am I right? His
Speaker 1: birthdays May five? Birthdays May five? Fine? How old is he? Though?
Speaker 1: He's fifty? Alright? Alright? Alright? So I mean I was
Speaker 1: kind of right. I was close close enough. It was
Speaker 1: the matth test. I showed my work I get half
Speaker 1: credit for though, Okay, so he's fifty. Everybody, it's not
Speaker 1: actually his birthday. It'll be close though, would be an
Speaker 1: early birthday present if he gets the keepers pension. But
Speaker 1: that's that's a good gig. Good gig to be able
Speaker 1: to retire full pension of benefits of fifty. I gotta
Speaker 1: say for all the backbreaking labor of you know, sitting
Speaker 1: in a lot of meetings and doing a lot of paperwork. Um, no,
Speaker 1: no one us I think that it did. Look, that's
Speaker 1: the Inspector General. They're the ones that have come out
Speaker 1: with this. It's not about uh, you know, it's not
Speaker 1: a Trump administration decision. It's internal to d o J.
Speaker 1: And they're saying that he had improper contact with or
Speaker 1: he essentially lied about or or misled. They're using all
Speaker 1: these kind of you know, halfway words about it, but
Speaker 1: that he wasn't fully forthcoming when he talked about what
Speaker 1: he told FBI personnel to tell the press about the
Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton or But the Clinton foundation investigation. I think
Speaker 1: that's what it was, was a Clinton It was Clinton foundation, right,
Speaker 1: not Clinton email at all. All the Hillary, all the
Speaker 1: Hillary investigations, the criminal wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton is tough
Speaker 1: to keep track of there's a lot, so you gotta
Speaker 1: keep an eye on it. Um, we gotta roll in
Speaker 1: a quick break here eight four to five team, If
Speaker 1: you would like to call in, I've got some updates
Speaker 1: for you on maybe some thoughts on the Pennsylvania election
Speaker 1: going forward. Is it Pelosi's party the Democrats? The answers yes,
Speaker 1: And then we can talk a bit about some other
Speaker 1: things too. Oh, there's surveillance video of that guy from
Speaker 1: the from the shooting, the Parkland school shooting, um of
Speaker 1: him outside and not doing anything. So that's now in
Speaker 1: the news again. We might talk a bit more about that. Oh,
Speaker 1: and some follow up to yesterday's uh never Again movement protests. Oh,
Speaker 1: I've got some stuff for you on that. We've got
Speaker 1: more that we will want to share on it, so
Speaker 1: that will be coming up to. So we've got a
Speaker 1: past show and the third I aren't talking a bit
Speaker 1: about the the philosophy of why progressives are crazy, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna really break it down for you. You're gonna
Speaker 1: like it. It's gonna be something that's worth listening to
Speaker 1: more than once to you'd be like, oh, wow, now
Speaker 1: I know why they are so insane and why they
Speaker 1: are snowflakes who can unhandled normal debate like adults have.
Speaker 1: But you have to stay to the third hour for that.
Speaker 1: That'll be coming up in a bit. Until then, stay
Speaker 1: with me. One of the things I have always admired
Speaker 1: about President Trump is his opposition to the Iraq War,
Speaker 1: his fourth rightness about this, and his condemnation of the
Speaker 1: regime change. So I'm perplexed by the nomination of people
Speaker 1: who loved the Iraq War so much that they would
Speaker 1: advocate for a war with Iran next. I think it
Speaker 1: goes against most of the things that President Trump campaigned on,
Speaker 1: that the unintended consequences of regime change in Iraq actually
Speaker 1: led to instability in the Middle East and actually made
Speaker 1: the conditions worse in the Middle East. I gotta say,
Speaker 1: I'm usually a pretty pro rand guy. I think he's
Speaker 1: getting way way ahead of his skis on this one,
Speaker 1: or he's he's uh going too far. I don't know
Speaker 1: what his what it is about Pompela gets them so upset.
Speaker 1: But look a lot of people. If you're gonna discount
Speaker 1: anyone who thought the Iraq War was a good idea
Speaker 1: from being in any national security role going forward, and
Speaker 1: when he said good idea. By the way, I assume
Speaker 1: he just means voted for it. Remember, Congress, maybe he
Speaker 1: means some of the statements he's made about it. But
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have a lot of folks to choose from.
Speaker 1: Congress voted overwhelmingly to give George W. Bush the authority
Speaker 1: to go to war if Iraq did not comply. And
Speaker 1: then also his problems with the new CIA director seemed
Speaker 1: to be just way overblown. People are saying it's he's
Speaker 1: not even accurate in what he's saying about her. And
Speaker 1: I don't know what something's really gotten Rampaul fired up
Speaker 1: about this stuff, and I just think he's wrong on this.
Speaker 1: I think that he's seeing big problems with there aren't
Speaker 1: big problems. I like it when Rand. I stand with
Speaker 1: Rand when he's the one guy that will say stuff
Speaker 1: that we all should be saying. But this does not
Speaker 1: strike me. It's one of those cases. Sam in Charlotte, Sam,
Speaker 1: what is up my friend? Hey, Bud's going brother shield
Speaker 1: time man. Thank you for your call. Hey, I wish
Speaker 1: man you could put that sense of reason, sense of
Speaker 1: reason the capital um here. Here's what I don't understand,
Speaker 1: and maybe you can help me understand it. You know,
Speaker 1: typically when you get an assignment, there's a scope of
Speaker 1: that assignment. There's a scope of work that has to
Speaker 1: be done. How in the world can the special Counsel
Speaker 1: have an unlimited scope creed on just any and everything
Speaker 1: they want to do at the expense of the taxpayers?
Speaker 1: And we just have to suit buy and say, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: you're just you're done when you're done, And I guess
Speaker 1: you're never gonna be done. Well, you know, our friend
Speaker 1: Andy McCarthy is a former federal prosecutor of about twenty
Speaker 1: some odd years, has said that to have a special
Speaker 1: counsel without a specific crime to investigate is preposterous. And
Speaker 1: because of that, because it's not narrowed in scope automatically
Speaker 1: by what they're looking at, they essentially can look at
Speaker 1: anything and that, and then they're they're just gonna be
Speaker 1: drawing on resources from the d o J based on
Speaker 1: the premise that they have to look at whatever they
Speaker 1: think they should be looking at. And Sam, it's just
Speaker 1: it's wrong, my friend, it should not be happening this way. Wells,
Speaker 1: I share your frustrations. I mean, I'm sure a bunch
Speaker 1: of US Americans that. Listen to you, I can do UM,
Speaker 1: but it seems like the special counsels doing this and
Speaker 1: then they're trying to do everything they can. They can't
Speaker 1: get too Dromp because there's nothing they can't get to him,
Speaker 1: so they're trying to get to everything around him just
Speaker 1: to create hate and discontent and distractions. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: they're just trying to get out whoever they can around them.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna find any collusion. I'm with you, Sam,
Speaker 1: thanks for calling. And shield side John in Gulfport, Mississippi. Hey,
Speaker 1: John hally Buck Shields High. I'm stuck on this far.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Weiner, who was ahead of the Libya desk in
Speaker 1: the State Department under Hillary and UH under John Kerry
Speaker 1: when he took over the State Department. Before the election
Speaker 1: in two sixteen, UH, he met up with his old
Speaker 1: friend Christopher Steele and Steele told him about the allegations
Speaker 1: contained in his dossier, and shortly thereafter he bumped into
Speaker 1: his other old friend, Sydney Blithal who is you know,
Speaker 1: a supporter of Hillary Clinton, well known from the avid supporter,
Speaker 1: loyal supporter of Hillary Clinton, who told him, yes, I
Speaker 1: had my own copy of these allegations, and that came
Speaker 1: to me via this man named Cody Snarer s H
Speaker 1: E A R E R. And Cody Shearer has a
Speaker 1: background going back, supporting, helping the Clinton so all the
Speaker 1: way back to the nineties. And it so happens that
Speaker 1: a lot of these people we're talking about got there,
Speaker 1: got acquainted because they were after Ronald Reagan and Ali
Speaker 1: North back in the Iran Contra scandal. They were the
Speaker 1: they were the political fighters. John, I gave you all
Speaker 1: the time we have my friend. I'm sorry, we gotta
Speaker 1: go into a break now, but thank you for the call.
Speaker 1: And I'll just let John what John said stand. We'll
Speaker 1: be back. He's back with you now, because when it
Speaker 1: comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Buck Sexton Show. Thank you for
Speaker 1: being with me. You had the walk out from schools
Speaker 1: across the country yesterday, the Never Again movement, as it
Speaker 1: is self described, getting marches going across the country, lots
Speaker 1: of demands made, lots of people holding up signs. So
Speaker 1: there's the way the media portrayed the whole situation. CNN
Speaker 1: here with the headline A Generation Raised on gun violence
Speaker 1: sends a loud message to adults. Um, not not really.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe it was loud the message, though I'm
Speaker 1: not sure it was received, as in not clear to
Speaker 1: me what they think is going to happen here or
Speaker 1: what should happen. You'll notice that the left gets very touchy,
Speaker 1: very defensive the moment you say, well, what is this
Speaker 1: movement all about? Really? You know, Occupy Wall Street. You'll
Speaker 1: remember that for some years ago. What do they want?
Speaker 1: An end to inequality? That's not really a thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's me and like we want to end inequality, like
Speaker 1: you know, to rich people. And like I'm not imaging,
Speaker 1: like he's not cool. It's not really much of a movement.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna be telling your grandkids about
Speaker 1: the Occupy Wall Street movement. Intend it's fearsome march on
Speaker 1: Zuccati Park in downtown Manhattan. And then you had Black
Speaker 1: Lives Matter. What does black lives matter all about? Folks?
Speaker 1: What does black lives matter? One? Woh pretty much to
Speaker 1: call cops racist? Oh't no. They said it was about
Speaker 1: raising awareness. But I was actually at some of those protests,
Speaker 1: and uh, they say terrible things about cops. So a lot,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of that. So there's that. What do
Speaker 1: they want policy wise? Oh, you know, we want they
Speaker 1: want there to be federal oversight of police departments that
Speaker 1: have a history of discrimination. Okay, well you could just
Speaker 1: you could push for that without saying the cops are
Speaker 1: all racist murderers, right, that would It's one way to go.
Speaker 1: You might have a little bit more willingness for people
Speaker 1: to listen on either side if that were the case.
Speaker 1: By the way, I see him up on CNN right
Speaker 1: now gurgling with gurgland is upon us or Trump and
Speaker 1: Remoller and verstre Remoller and Trump and federal Prostacus and
Speaker 1: or brooking the documents and Reagan nuction for he's up
Speaker 1: there doing this thing, always teaching at the Kennedy School. Now,
Speaker 1: by the way, you know what I know from all
Speaker 1: my friends who went to Harvard Kennedy School. It's where
Speaker 1: you go if you really wanted to agree from Harvard,
Speaker 1: but you couldn't get into any other Harvard schools. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Being I'm just gonna say it, just gonna
Speaker 1: say it, dropping hate toward the Harvard Kennedy School. Take that. Um,
Speaker 1: where was I? Oh? Yeah? The Never Again movement and
Speaker 1: the kids by the way, literally kids, uh. In case
Speaker 1: you're wondering, I had a report. I saw some reporters
Speaker 1: sharing stuff. I actually had to put this out on Twitter,
Speaker 1: and I want to make sure I give you the
Speaker 1: the real deal with what happened here. Um here we
Speaker 1: had where wait, where did it go? Oh gosh, it
Speaker 1: was yeah, you had an elementary school. An elementary school
Speaker 1: doing a walkout in Virginia because I really want to
Speaker 1: hear from eight year olds about the Second Amendment, the Constitution,
Speaker 1: policies regarding crime, policies regarding individual rights. I want eight
Speaker 1: year olds to be raising awareness. Now, I'm not making
Speaker 1: this up, folks. I got the photo in front of
Speaker 1: me and Alexander. I'm sure it was in other places too.
Speaker 1: This was the mobilization of the Democrat school public school
Speaker 1: apparatus for a political purpose. Hat tipped to my former
Speaker 1: colleague Matt Wall. She's an excellent writer, who pointed out
Speaker 1: that to really push this whole thing home that the
Speaker 1: bias that I'm talking about there should be at the
Speaker 1: at the high school level, because we're not gonna involve
Speaker 1: like toddlers in this. Okay, at the high school level,
Speaker 1: We'll leave that to the left. Uh, they should do
Speaker 1: a walkout for life, meaning a walkout for the Life movement.
Speaker 1: I promise you schools would clamp down on it and
Speaker 1: they would find all kinds of reasons to justify why
Speaker 1: they can't provide resources teachers. You know, it's pretty easy,
Speaker 1: right the kids gotta be in school, and the kids
Speaker 1: gotta be in school. We can't. We can't do that.
Speaker 1: You gotta do a march. March for life, you know,
Speaker 1: pro life mark. Meanwhile, this thing you got, you know,
Speaker 1: Cuomo showing up. You know, we want to end gone violence.
Speaker 1: Nobody needs a million rounds to kill a deer. We
Speaker 1: will get rid of all automatic machine gun chain saw bayonets.
Speaker 1: If you think, just go back to some of them.
Speaker 1: Some of the Cuomo greatest hits. The governor of New
Speaker 1: York here, I hate the big rifles that make the
Speaker 1: bang noise. It's very loud and it hurts my ears.
Speaker 1: So the elementary school walk out in Alexander, Virginia happened,
Speaker 1: and I know that that some members of the press
Speaker 1: share this photo. They're like, see now the movements really
Speaker 1: coming together. Now it's all happening, folks. We have the
Speaker 1: ten year olds with us we we have kindergarten and
Speaker 1: pre kindergarten exercising their First Amendment rights. I just don't
Speaker 1: think it's as compelling as they do. I don't think
Speaker 1: that handing signs to two little kids on complicated political
Speaker 1: issues is a winning strategy for an argument. It may
Speaker 1: be a photo op of some kind, but I don't
Speaker 1: think that that's about to convince. It's not about to convince.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, yes, yes, now that I see that, uh,
Speaker 1: Mrs Mrs Smith's third grade class, third grade homeroom class,
Speaker 1: is deeply opposed to the Second Amendment. I think it's
Speaker 1: time we gave it another Look, what do you say, Congress.
Speaker 1: It's not how it works, it's not how it goes.
Speaker 1: Somehow they think that that this will be effective. Oh
Speaker 1: as if that wasn't enough at some of the other schools.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we saw some First Amendment First Amendment in
Speaker 1: action going on here in Tennessee. Oh do we have
Speaker 1: we have audio of this one? In Tennessee, students tore
Speaker 1: down the American flag. And for these are high school
Speaker 1: students tore down the American flag in front of their
Speaker 1: building and stomped on it and ripped it apart because
Speaker 1: you know, gun violence, and here's what the police said
Speaker 1: about it. This is just audio them doing an Actually,
Speaker 1: so that's First Amendment rights in action. Folks. You can't
Speaker 1: see it, but just you know, there's a whole group
Speaker 1: of high schoolers ripping down the flag in front of
Speaker 1: their school and ripping it apart, you know, because they
Speaker 1: want to show how opposed to gun violence they are.
Speaker 1: And so the way to do that is to just
Speaker 1: desecrate the flag in front of their school. Now there's
Speaker 1: a to mean that wants to say, all right, you
Speaker 1: know they're high school kids that they don't you know,
Speaker 1: their kids. You can actually say this, and there there are.
Speaker 1: They are kids. Unlike when they talk about the unaccompanied
Speaker 1: miners of the border who say they're seventeen are actually
Speaker 1: twenty five. But these are actually kids, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: do foolish things. I did dumb things when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, not as dumb as this, but I did
Speaker 1: some dumb things. Hey. It's like, see if I can
Speaker 1: pop a wheelie on my bicycle. No, not something worth trying,
Speaker 1: in fact, and you find out the hard way when
Speaker 1: you do. Uh. Anyway, this is exactly what I thought
Speaker 1: it would be this is the virtue signaling of adults
Speaker 1: being forced upon kids in schools and kids who see
Speaker 1: this as a a fun activity in a way to
Speaker 1: feel like they're part of something. Right. It's literally is
Speaker 1: like a fun group back to via let's go march
Speaker 1: and chant and hold up signs. An adults saying see
Speaker 1: listen to the children and the rest of us who
Speaker 1: are acting like adults and not just technically adults as
Speaker 1: a matter of age saying no, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: It's not about listening to the children. And this has
Speaker 1: been a tremendously effective distraction operation. I would note from
Speaker 1: the biggest failures, the biggest points of failure in the
Speaker 1: entire park Land shooting, which were the result of failed
Speaker 1: law enforcement activities. Look, you you know this. I'm very
Speaker 1: pro law enforcement, law enforcement in my family, worked in
Speaker 1: law enforcement for a short time myself. But that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean I'm not gonna call out when law enforcement messes up, right,
Speaker 1: And I know a lot of the folks listening who
Speaker 1: are cops across the country are like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: and guys do something badly. We gotta when I mean
Speaker 1: guys in the in the general, you know, when zur
Speaker 1: or there, because those are now pronouns that we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that later, pronouns that are made up that you're
Speaker 1: goes to use. I'm jumping ahead of the script though,
Speaker 1: But when folks in general of all genders, uh see
Speaker 1: that people within their profession are making mistakes, that makes
Speaker 1: the rest of their profession. You know, it doesn't make
Speaker 1: them look dad, but you know it's they're upholding stand
Speaker 1: they're trying to uphold the standard, right, they got to
Speaker 1: call it out when it's wrong. I don't think any
Speaker 1: I never I haven't heard anybody really who defends the
Speaker 1: I mean, look, the FBI doesn't offend the FBI on this,
Speaker 1: so there's no one defending. And the only people that
Speaker 1: are defending the Broward County Sheriff's office work for the
Speaker 1: Brower characters pretty much. Sheriff Scott is real. That's it.
Speaker 1: And this other guy Peterson who didn't go inside the school,
Speaker 1: who there's video up today showing you he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a gun fire inside. I'm gonna hang out out here.
Speaker 1: Good luck did nothing disgraceful. But you know there's another
Speaker 1: story I want to share with you. Not getting very
Speaker 1: much attention at all. But it goes to one of
Speaker 1: the premises we've discussed here before on the show, and
Speaker 1: that is, is there an issue about disciplining students and
Speaker 1: not wanting to arrest people who are of this age
Speaker 1: because it looks bad and because of the new guidance
Speaker 1: and and do political do issues of political correctness factor?
Speaker 1: And by the way, one very important point on the
Speaker 1: prisoner school pipeline and how it may have affected Nicholas Cruz,
Speaker 1: the Parkland Marjorie Stillman Douglas shooter, is was he considered
Speaker 1: a minority student for the purposes of law enforcement. I
Speaker 1: I think I've seen people write that he was, and
Speaker 1: therefore there would have been under policy, under guidelines put
Speaker 1: in place by the Obama administration, there would have been
Speaker 1: hesitation to arrest him. They would have wanted to do
Speaker 1: other things. You know, it's tough in Florida with the
Speaker 1: way the media does this stuff. You know, Cruizes, his
Speaker 1: cruise considered a minority. That Cruz is not considered a
Speaker 1: minority because you know, Republican um Zimmerman was considered white,
Speaker 1: not a minority, because as he was involved in a
Speaker 1: scuffle with Trayvon Martin and the shooting and all that. Right,
Speaker 1: So Zimmerman was considered a white Hispanic, which was a
Speaker 1: new designation when I was not familiar with until the
Speaker 1: media made that one up. I don't know if Nicholas
Speaker 1: Cruz at the time was considered, but I can imagine
Speaker 1: he would have been, and that may have in fact
Speaker 1: affected the way that law enforcement handled him under the
Speaker 1: guidelines that yes, Brower County Sheriff's office had in place.
Speaker 1: But that came all the way from the top, not
Speaker 1: just of the Obama administration, but from President Obama himself.
Speaker 1: But there's another case that I want to bring to
Speaker 1: your attention from Palm Beach that brings some of this together.
Speaker 1: And it's also just it's a terrible it means a
Speaker 1: terrible situation, but I think it might illustrate some of
Speaker 1: what we're discussing here. So we will get back into this,
Speaker 1: uh in just a few minutes, eight four four to five.
Speaker 1: You want to call in eight four four, buck, We've
Speaker 1: got a lot more show coming. Stay there. Use there's
Speaker 1: another story another a murder in Florida involving a minor,
Speaker 1: a teenager seventeen years old, and the way that the
Speaker 1: Post reported on it was teen stab boys at sleepover
Speaker 1: because of religious beliefs. Doesn't even want to guess which
Speaker 1: religious beliefs he was investigating, becoming acquainted with, radicalizing with
Speaker 1: perhaps at the time not Unitarianism, and promise you that
Speaker 1: not not not Presbyterianism. I'll let you guess. But he
Speaker 1: uh was arrested recently. He was arrested for for murder.
Speaker 1: And when we learn more information about this young man,
Speaker 1: what we find out is that, in a somewhat similar
Speaker 1: way to Nicholas Cruise, Corey Johnson seventeen. This is written
Speaker 1: about in the Palm Beach Post and the New York
Speaker 1: Post and whole bunch of places. Seventeen year old Corey
Speaker 1: Johnson stabbed three people, one of them fatally, at a
Speaker 1: sleepover with other teenagers in Palm Beach. I guess what
Speaker 1: this teenager was like Nicholas Cruise, A well established bad kid.
Speaker 1: They knew about him for a long time. He was
Speaker 1: on law enforcement's radar. He's now facing charges the first
Speaker 1: degree murder, but law enforcement, including the FBI, says it
Speaker 1: was just a matter of weeks before they were going
Speaker 1: to bring charges against him. Let me give you some
Speaker 1: of the background here, as to what was going on here.
Speaker 1: This is from the Palm Beach Post. In January each
Speaker 1: when he's seventeen, several local law enforcement agencies and the
Speaker 1: FBI came together with a staff at the William Dwyer
Speaker 1: High School in Palm Beach Gardens, where this UH suspect
Speaker 1: here was a student at the time. The Palm Beach
Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office received information that Johnson supported the terrorist
Speaker 1: organization ISIS and had reached out to the group online
Speaker 1: expressing his desire to join them. A Sheriff's detective interview
Speaker 1: Johnson for a mental health assessment, and then the team
Speaker 1: sympathized with terrorist organizations. According to the official report, Palm
Speaker 1: Beach County School District Police said that during middle school,
Speaker 1: Johnson made anti Semitic and anti homosexual statements. He also
Speaker 1: had similar beliefs to the KKK. School Police said they
Speaker 1: received information that Johnson had violent tendencies, had spoken about
Speaker 1: inappropriate places to bomb, and as a white supremacist. Investigators
Speaker 1: also learned that there were several guns in side of
Speaker 1: Johnson's residence. His family later told investigators there were guns
Speaker 1: in his mother's home, but they were locked in a
Speaker 1: safe After the meeting, the FBI told Jupiter Police that
Speaker 1: a counter intelligence agency in Europe investigated Johnson's connections to
Speaker 1: several threats made on Instagram to a Catholic high school
Speaker 1: in England. Though the report does not say what the
Speaker 1: threats were, authority says they were so severe in nature
Speaker 1: that up to a hundred students were removed from that
Speaker 1: school in England fearing some kind of attack. British news
Speaker 1: outlets reported on the threat in October t and the
Speaker 1: threat one threat posted on Instagram stated we will kill
Speaker 1: every single infidel student at this school, barring from the
Speaker 1: Islamic state there. In the weeks following that meeting with
Speaker 1: federal law enforcement and Jupiter Police, they monitored his Johnson
Speaker 1: the suspect here the subject Johnson's movements and a social
Speaker 1: media account, interviewed his family, but they did not The
Speaker 1: FBI did not want to charge Johnson because he was
Speaker 1: a juvenile and believe a redirection approach would be best,
Speaker 1: so they spoke to the team. They told him I
Speaker 1: of no further contact with ISIS. By the summer of
Speaker 1: the FBI said Johnson was making more online threats and
Speaker 1: then they decided, fine, We're gonna bring charges against him. Well,
Speaker 1: here's a problem, folks. They were gonna bring charges against him. Uh,
Speaker 1: And a couple of weeks before they could bring the charges,
Speaker 1: he tried to murder three people, stabbed one I believe
Speaker 1: a thirteen year old boy to death with a knife
Speaker 1: at a party because he was bad. This Johnson fellow,
Speaker 1: he's a bad kid, bad adolescent. Whatever law enforcement knew
Speaker 1: about it, he had broken the law many many times.
Speaker 1: You cannot make not just threats across state lines, but
Speaker 1: transnational threats over the internet. He did. He was not arrested.
Speaker 1: They tried to intervene. They wanted to work with them,
Speaker 1: They wanted to do the right thing. Now we're talking
Speaker 1: about a little too much partying, some drugs, some stuff
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, intervene right that the people kids as
Speaker 1: their second chances. I get that when you're talking about
Speaker 1: somebody who's espousing gee hottest and radical beliefs and says
Speaker 1: that he and it's threatening to shoot up a school overseas.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure if we dug deeper here we find
Speaker 1: even more, you know, the usual stuff, abusing animals, torturing animals.
Speaker 1: I'm sure this guy was doing all that stuff. Law
Speaker 1: enforcement didn't want to get ahead of it, though they
Speaker 1: they and this is in Florida once again the same thing.
Speaker 1: Was this another instance of the school to prison pipeline mentality?
Speaker 1: Oh no, we can't lock them up, we can't press
Speaker 1: charges because then there'll be a criminal for life. So
Speaker 1: let's just sort of sit back and wait and hope
Speaker 1: that nothing really bad happens. Well, this one wasn't a shooting.
Speaker 1: It was a stabbing. But someone's dead and law enforcement
Speaker 1: knew plenty ahead of time to do something in the
Speaker 1: state of Florida, but they chose not too. It's tough stuff,
Speaker 1: but sometimes we have to dive into that together. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back. He's holding the line for America, Buck
Speaker 1: sext in his back and I spoke with the Prime
Speaker 1: Minister and we are in deep discussions. A very sad situation.
Speaker 1: It certainly looks like the Russians were behind it. Something
Speaker 1: that should never ever happen, and we're taking it very seriously,
Speaker 1: as I think are many others. The United States, as
Speaker 1: we have said, all along stands and solidarity with its
Speaker 1: closest ally of the United Kingdom. We share the United
Speaker 1: Kingdom's assessment that Russia is responsible for the reckless nerve
Speaker 1: agent attack on British citizen and his daughter, and the
Speaker 1: United States is working together with our allies and partners
Speaker 1: to ensure that this kind of abhorrent attack does not
Speaker 1: happen again. Fray think further will keep you pissed. I
Speaker 1: applaud President Trump and taking this strong decisive action against Russia.
Speaker 1: You know, if you look at what they did in
Speaker 1: our elections, Uh, he's finally taking action when the previous
Speaker 1: administration didn't. If you look at what President Trump recently
Speaker 1: did just a few weeks ago to to finally sell
Speaker 1: Javelin missiles to our friends the Ukraine so then they
Speaker 1: can push back on Russia's aggression in the Ukraine. I mean,
Speaker 1: these are strong decisive steps that our allies have been
Speaker 1: calling on us to take four years. I'm glad we
Speaker 1: finally have a president Donald Trump who's willing to support
Speaker 1: our allies and push back on Russia's aggression. We hear
Speaker 1: so much about how Trump is unwilling to criticize Vladimir Putin,
Speaker 1: and then he criticizes Putinori calls out Russia for this,
Speaker 1: and the press acts like it didn't happen. How many
Speaker 1: people even know, I mean, you don't have to be
Speaker 1: paying very close attention to the media that this administration,
Speaker 1: the one that's supposed to be so friendly towards Russia,
Speaker 1: so in Putin's pocket, the Kremlin's stooge, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: How many people even know that Trump was willing to
Speaker 1: sell anti tank missiles. You you heard Steve schleisay, just
Speaker 1: their javelin missiles go after armor that is in eastern
Speaker 1: Ukraine that is either operated by or the property of
Speaker 1: the Russian government. The Obama administration was unwilling to do that.
Speaker 1: I thought it would be too provocative. Thought that sending
Speaker 1: over javelin missiles and sniper rifles which could be used
Speaker 1: to used by Ukrainian national military to go after the
Speaker 1: so called separatist Ukraine, that would be a little too
Speaker 1: much of a thumb in Putin's eye. And yet Trump
Speaker 1: will do it. They just announced that they're adding the
Speaker 1: thirteen people on the Muller indictment list to US sanctions. Today,
Speaker 1: the Brits have expelled twenty three diplomats that they've ever
Speaker 1: actually undeclared intelligence officers. So the Brits have an up
Speaker 1: to that the Brits are doing things, all this pushback
Speaker 1: on Russia, and you'll notice that the administration never really
Speaker 1: gets any credit for it. It just happens, it passes,
Speaker 1: and then within a few weeks. You know, why doesn't
Speaker 1: Trump criticize Russia more? As though his soul meaning for
Speaker 1: existence is to try and find ways to antagonize Vladimir
Speaker 1: Putin in Russia more than we already do. The Russia
Speaker 1: situation is complicated. I've had people asking about it in
Speaker 1: the last few days, actually, even just offline away from
Speaker 1: my media job. People say, you know, what do you
Speaker 1: think we should do. You've got a country with a
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of natural resources and a lot of nukes,
Speaker 1: but an economy that's nothing to get too excited about. That.
Speaker 1: We want to work with where we can, and we've
Speaker 1: got to slop down where we have to, and that's
Speaker 1: the way it's gonna be. I'm much more bullish on
Speaker 1: US Russia relations in time. I don't mean tomorrow or
Speaker 1: next year, but you know, in ten years, fifteen years,
Speaker 1: I think Russia will be trending more towards the United States.
Speaker 1: I think China is going to be a big problem.
Speaker 1: We are on a a path for a clash of civilizations,
Speaker 1: and not just in the rhetorical sense with China. But
Speaker 1: that's I suppose a discussion for another time the Russian
Speaker 1: use of the of the nerve agent nova. Chuck here, Look,
Speaker 1: it's reckless and no doubt about it, and that it
Speaker 1: injured what was it eighteen other people or eighteen other
Speaker 1: people were exposed to it had been taken to the hospital.
Speaker 1: If this were done in the United States, we would
Speaker 1: expect there to be a very strong response. And it
Speaker 1: was done in the UK to our or in the
Speaker 1: within the borders of what is our closest ally or
Speaker 1: among sorry Canada, among our closest allies. I didn't mean
Speaker 1: to didn't mean to imply, as I've said to you, though,
Speaker 1: it is different when it's a Russian that we're talking about,
Speaker 1: even a former Russian. For whatever reason, we think of
Speaker 1: it that way, they think of it that way. Uh.
Speaker 1: Your nationality is kind of a funky thing. You can
Speaker 1: you can surrender your passport and move to a new country.
Speaker 1: But places like Russia it is a mafia. You are
Speaker 1: not allowed to leave and they do not really much care.
Speaker 1: So I will say that was a that is a difference,
Speaker 1: and I think that's a red line that they would
Speaker 1: be slowed across. I think the Russians understand that if
Speaker 1: you had a prominent US if you had a prominent
Speaker 1: American journalist who was a critic of the Kremlin who
Speaker 1: all of a sudden had no but chalk on his
Speaker 1: front door handle, Uh, then we'd have then we have
Speaker 1: big problems. And then you'd have to figure out what's ay,
Speaker 1: what's an acceptable response? Um, I think you now you're
Speaker 1: starting to talk about really trying to economically cripple Russia.
Speaker 1: And you know, once you start doing things like that,
Speaker 1: then I can get out of control pretty quickly. Then
Speaker 1: things can get very ugly. But the Putin's up for
Speaker 1: re election soon. He's going to be election. I know
Speaker 1: it's funny, right an election, but he's going to be
Speaker 1: elected by a huge margin. He does have a lot
Speaker 1: of popular support inside of Russia and he's not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: So we have to work with him in find ways
Speaker 1: to do what we can to encourage better behavior from him. Um,
Speaker 1: we'll have to see if the media finally lets up
Speaker 1: on the narrative that somehow Trump and all those who
Speaker 1: work for him are just so pro putent when he
Speaker 1: this White House is literally doing things that the Obama
Speaker 1: administration refused to do against Russia because they thought it
Speaker 1: was too belligerent. And you still hear the oh he
Speaker 1: had some deal with Putin, And there's Russia collusion and
Speaker 1: the dossier and all that stuff that they they will
Speaker 1: not back off of that because they're so they're so
Speaker 1: professionally invested in the narrative. It's not gonna go anywhere
Speaker 1: anytime soon. So I just wanted to give a little
Speaker 1: update there on what's going on with Russia. Trump has
Speaker 1: straight up said we think it's them. Sarah Hackaby Sanders,
Speaker 1: Everyone's saying, yeah, we think it's Russia. So all that
Speaker 1: stuff you're hearing, yes about it. Oh, Trump won't criticize them,
Speaker 1: It's all nonsense. Just a quick note. Also another follow
Speaker 1: up that I'll work in here before we get to
Speaker 1: go into a break, and then I'll I've got a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of I'm gonna talk to you about dangerous
Speaker 1: animals in the third hour of the show today about
Speaker 1: the philosophy of progressives and why they're so hostile. So
Speaker 1: we've got all kinds of fun things coming up. But
Speaker 1: the aftermath of the Pennsylvania eighteenth district election that happened
Speaker 1: what was it two days ago? People are looking at
Speaker 1: this now, and what's funny to me is, yeah, okay, sure,
Speaker 1: if you run a young telegenic I feel like that's
Speaker 1: what you're allowed to say without you know, you can
Speaker 1: say someone telegenic and no one can be like, hey,
Speaker 1: you don't, don't judge them based on their appearance. Um,
Speaker 1: you can run a I was a former marine and
Speaker 1: who does everything you can to sound and act like
Speaker 1: a Republican and you might be able to win a
Speaker 1: district that's sort of union union Democrat dominated, right, But
Speaker 1: in the general you're gonna have to deal the fact
Speaker 1: that this is the Democrat Party, is the party of Pelosi,
Speaker 1: Sanders and Schumer and Kamala Harris too. She's gonna become
Speaker 1: a much bigger name going forward. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: find a way to put her on a ticket in
Speaker 1: I'm just not sure if she's gonna be the top
Speaker 1: of it or but that's my expectation. But Pelosi is
Speaker 1: already getting a little bit here because people realize that
Speaker 1: she is. Yeah, she's popular, and U her district is
Speaker 1: basically a Marine County I think, which is north of
Speaker 1: San Francisco. It's very posh and crazy liberal. Marine County
Speaker 1: is so liberal that I think sometimes they visit New
Speaker 1: York and they're like, this place is some sort of fascist,
Speaker 1: right wing dictatorship, Like they can't handle it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a whole other vel of liberal out there. But
Speaker 1: Pelosi was asked whether she basically, are are you a liability?
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi? Are you a problem for the party? And
Speaker 1: here is what she said, And I've I feel pretty
Speaker 1: confident about the my ability to to do first and
Speaker 1: foremost a master legislator for the good of the American
Speaker 1: people that that have proven that. But what you've done
Speaker 1: is not why you should go forward. Why should go forward?
Speaker 1: Is what are you going to do next? And I
Speaker 1: don't think that the Koch brothers should decide who the
Speaker 1: leader of the Democratic Party is in the House. Uh
Speaker 1: So she still calls herself the master legislative that's today Pelosi,
Speaker 1: You're great, and the master that just say there did
Speaker 1: not go anywhere, Folks. She likes power, likes power. Uh
Speaker 1: she's a master legislator. You can't make this stuff up.
Speaker 1: She said it before I wasn't. I was like, did
Speaker 1: she really say that? Again? Oh she did. It's Pelosi's party.
Speaker 1: Remember that. As we go into the mid terms, I've
Speaker 1: got more. I should probably come up with some music
Speaker 1: that would be like an intro for when I want
Speaker 1: to talk about Bucks Bucks health thoughts, and I'll keep
Speaker 1: him on. I have no medical training of any kind whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Very limited like trauma wound. I wouldn't. I was gonna
Speaker 1: say expertise. That would be totally false, very limited trauma
Speaker 1: wound like familiarization from some of my previous work. But
Speaker 1: I do like to talk about health issues because I
Speaker 1: think that there's I think that's one of the great
Speaker 1: unexplored and and misunderstood frontiers of the world around us.
Speaker 1: I'm somebody who feels like there are so many answers
Speaker 1: that we don't yet have, and the more information we
Speaker 1: have access to now, the more clear it becomes that
Speaker 1: there's there's whole there are things that go on that
Speaker 1: the medical community isn't even really looking at very closely,
Speaker 1: but could be game changers for a lot of us
Speaker 1: down the line. Um. And one day I'll share my
Speaker 1: thoughts on you know, the gastro intestinal tract and how
Speaker 1: it's so important for health. It's something you learned about
Speaker 1: when you have Celiac disease. But this is just something
Speaker 1: that's a little bit of a This is more of
Speaker 1: a lifestyle thing than a health thing, or a lifestyle
Speaker 1: thing than a medical one per se. But it's one
Speaker 1: that I've dealt with many times in my life. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you have too. In fact, some of your probably
Speaker 1: in the midst of it as you're listening to this show.
Speaker 1: This is on CBS Story here in New York. They
Speaker 1: asked a bunch of different medical professionals about the stress
Speaker 1: that people feel. Were the stressful commute, especially a commute
Speaker 1: where you're moving slowly, you gotta go a long ways,
Speaker 1: and you don't know if you're gonna make it in time,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna be late for work. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many of you listening to the show have to
Speaker 1: rely on mass transit, for example, But whether it's mass
Speaker 1: transit or traffic jams, you probably at some point it felt, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit of a tightening in your chest.
Speaker 1: You can have physical symptoms from the agitation of being
Speaker 1: stuck in a in a brutal commute, and this is
Speaker 1: a part of our of our lives that that I
Speaker 1: think really needs to change, especially with all the different
Speaker 1: technologies that allow people to work from home and to
Speaker 1: contribute meaningfully to their business without being physically present. We've
Speaker 1: got to stop this thing of like that, this crush
Speaker 1: of people all trying to take the same the same highway,
Speaker 1: the same road at the same time to get where
Speaker 1: they are going, because it means that everyone's losing a
Speaker 1: lot of time in the process. But even worse, or
Speaker 1: maybe as bad, it's bad for your health. In fact,
Speaker 1: a stressful commute, according to this piece, is worse for
Speaker 1: your physiological symptoms if you do it continuously. Stressful community
Speaker 1: is worse than PTSD according to some medical experts that
Speaker 1: talked to you about here, in terms of your blood
Speaker 1: pressure and other measurements that they can look at for
Speaker 1: your stress level. Um, it's really really important that you, uh,
Speaker 1: you work, you work on your breathing a little bit.
Speaker 1: I know, that's one of the things people always say, like,
Speaker 1: you know, focusing breathing actually does help though if you
Speaker 1: do it, you know, it actually helps if you breathe properly.
Speaker 1: It's something that I've tried to get better at doing
Speaker 1: a radio show here. But if you've got a really
Speaker 1: stressful commute, I I offer you two things. See now
Speaker 1: I'm giving this is like the good advice. This is
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Speaker 1: then on top of that, you know, figure out a
Speaker 1: way that your commute isn't driving your nuts. That's another
Speaker 1: very important data point that all you should have and
Speaker 1: and try to limit your commute and try to find
Speaker 1: ways if you can. Look. I know, jobs, it's tough.
Speaker 1: You gotta go where the work is. And some people
Speaker 1: are working for a long time, and some people don't
Speaker 1: mind it. I mean I talk to people that come
Speaker 1: from like two hours away in New Jersey, you know,
Speaker 1: and they're like, I got a youd I got I
Speaker 1: got a big dog, not a little dog, A big dog.
Speaker 1: I got a odd I coming from Jersey, you know,
Speaker 1: I get stuck with the tunnel. I get stuck in
Speaker 1: the tunnel and turn on the Buck Sexton Show, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, You're onto something there, buddy.
Speaker 1: It's all about mindset. You know, some people don't get
Speaker 1: upset when they get stuck in traffic or whatever. But
Speaker 1: if you are somebody like that, try to find ways
Speaker 1: to mitigate the physic because you know mitia. Mitigating the
Speaker 1: physiological symptoms is important because it you know this this
Speaker 1: stuff the stress your heart, you know, your your brain.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of research that's still being done,
Speaker 1: but all the evidence points towards your stress level affects
Speaker 1: your cardiovascular health. It also affects your um neurological health
Speaker 1: and your brain functioning. So you gotta do what you
Speaker 1: can to take care of that. So see him. These
Speaker 1: are the nuggets of wisdom you get from the Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton Show, things like try to make your commute not
Speaker 1: so brutal and terrible, and also, um, try to take
Speaker 1: deep breaths if you get stuck in a situation like that.
Speaker 1: For me, and sometimes it's a subway. I've had situations
Speaker 1: where I had to get on live TV and there
Speaker 1: was I'm in the subway here in New York. Because
Speaker 1: if you try to take a car, most of the time,
Speaker 1: You're never gonna get where you're going here, because all
Speaker 1: the TV studios are in Midtown Manhattan and in the
Speaker 1: middle of the city. And I've had the situation of
Speaker 1: sitting there in a subway knowing that I had to
Speaker 1: do a lot. I've TV hit, knowing that it was coming.
Speaker 1: It was gonna come down two minutes, like literally, it
Speaker 1: was gonna be a matter of a hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: seconds whether I made the hit or not, and sitting
Speaker 1: there for five or ten minutes before that where the
Speaker 1: subway they do this thing where they go, you know,
Speaker 1: we are delayed. They have like a robotic voice that
Speaker 1: comes on, we are delayed. And if it's a delayed
Speaker 1: that's not that bad. They'll tell you like, we are
Speaker 1: delayed because of trained traffic ahead. And then you know,
Speaker 1: like all right, we're probably okay, but they say this,
Speaker 1: we are delayed because of an investigation. Ah, now you're
Speaker 1: at like it's time to hit the emergency exit, like
Speaker 1: get out of there and like make a run for
Speaker 1: in the dark New York City Subway tunnel because you
Speaker 1: are done zo. You're gonna miss whatever that. That's happened
Speaker 1: to me too. I've come close a few times to
Speaker 1: or you just sit there and freak out and turn
Speaker 1: into a puddle of sweat and everyone's like, why is
Speaker 1: that guy like freaking out so much? You're like, did
Speaker 1: you get the team? Because you can't text or email
Speaker 1: or anything either, so people would just think that you
Speaker 1: were rude and do and show up, or they'd worry
Speaker 1: about you. So stressful commutes, cut them out of your
Speaker 1: life as much as you can, or find ways to
Speaker 1: make them not stressful. You know what the best way is,
Speaker 1: download the Buck Sexton Show podcast and have it at
Speaker 1: the ready at all times in case you miss a
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Speaker 1: Freedom Hut. That, my friends, is the way to get
Speaker 1: it done. That is how we roll. Alright, our three
Speaker 1: coming up, we're gonna talk about the mindset of progressive
Speaker 1: social justice warriors. Why are they a bunch of snow flakes? Well,
Speaker 1: we will take a blowtorch to the snow flakes in
Speaker 1: just a few minutes here. If you stay with me,
Speaker 1: I'll explain much more. He's holding the line for America.
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton his back. Welcome to our three of the
Speaker 1: buck Sexton Show. One of my favorite things about being
Speaker 1: on for the three hours that I have each night
Speaker 1: with you, and also being on a later in the days,
Speaker 1: I get to do deep dives into things. I got
Speaker 1: to do all kinds of interesting and fun research and
Speaker 1: present you with a lot that I know you're not
Speaker 1: going to hear anywhere else. And this falls into that category.
Speaker 1: This is where we get into our our third hour,
Speaker 1: which tends to be where I just share with you
Speaker 1: what whatever's top of mind for me. It's not dictated
Speaker 1: by the news cycle. It's not political or national security necessarily.
Speaker 1: It's just whatever I've got for you. And there is
Speaker 1: a piece it was just published called the Psychology of
Speaker 1: Progressive Hostility on Quilette dot com that I cannot recommend
Speaker 1: to you more highly. We will post it up on
Speaker 1: my website a link to it, and I'll also share
Speaker 1: it on Facebook. It's written by Matthew Blackwell. Let me
Speaker 1: let me give you some of what he gets into.
Speaker 1: But just to set the stage, why is it that
Speaker 1: I'm sure if you're listening to the show, there's a
Speaker 1: very good chance we share a lot of political beliefs,
Speaker 1: similar worldview Some of you maybe agree with me fifty
Speaker 1: or sixty percent of the time. A lot of you
Speaker 1: probably agree with me, hopefully plus of the time or
Speaker 1: maybe plus at the time, but you've probably come across
Speaker 1: the same phenomenon that I have, which is when someone
Speaker 1: tells you as a conservative. We'll leave our liberal listeners
Speaker 1: out of this for a second, but there are some.
Speaker 1: But as a conservative, when someone tells you that you're
Speaker 1: wrong or that you have a belief that is wrong,
Speaker 1: your response tends to be tell me why, why is
Speaker 1: that the case? What makes me wrong? And you're at
Speaker 1: least willing to hear it out there response that you
Speaker 1: see from liberals And this is not just my perception
Speaker 1: or I'm gonna get into some of the the science,
Speaker 1: if you will, on this, some of the social science,
Speaker 1: the studies on it. There have been studies Progressives in
Speaker 1: America today respond with, well, you know how they respond
Speaker 1: if you say, hey, you know, gun control is actually
Speaker 1: not as easy or good an ideas you seem to
Speaker 1: think it is. They say, you're a terrible person. I
Speaker 1: hate your face. And he said, well, hold on, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not a terrible person, and you're allowed to not
Speaker 1: like my face. But this is about a policy issue,
Speaker 1: and there are pluses and minuses. One of the big
Speaker 1: problems that progressives have with their approach to any number
Speaker 1: of issues is that they actually see their opinion not
Speaker 1: just as as more correct, but as absolutely correct, meaning
Speaker 1: that there can be no there is no trade off,
Speaker 1: and therefore there is no good faith opposition to their idea.
Speaker 1: You either agree with them or you're factually wrong, or
Speaker 1: even worse, you agree with them, or you're You're bad.
Speaker 1: You are pushing for something that is that makes you
Speaker 1: a bad person. It's a judgment on you that you
Speaker 1: don't see it their way. So here's here's this piece
Speaker 1: that walks us through some of this, and then I'll
Speaker 1: get into some of the social science and some of
Speaker 1: the authors that it it relies on. Uh quote. Recently,
Speaker 1: I arrived at a moment of introspection about a curious
Speaker 1: aspect of my own behavior. When I disagree with a
Speaker 1: conservative friend or colleague on some political issue, I have
Speaker 1: no fear of speaking my mind. I talk, they listen,
Speaker 1: they respond, I talked some more, and at the end
Speaker 1: of it we get along just as we always have.
Speaker 1: But I've discovered that when a progressive friend says something
Speaker 1: with which I disagree or that I know to be incorrect.
Speaker 1: I'm hesitant to point it out. This hesitancy is a
Speaker 1: consequence of the different treatment one tends to receive from
Speaker 1: those on the right and left when expressing a difference
Speaker 1: of opinion. I am not, as it turns out, the
Speaker 1: only one who has noticed this. That's a stupid, blanking question,
Speaker 1: answered a Socialist Alliance activists when I asked, sincerely where
Speaker 1: they were getting what sounded like inflated poverty statistics. Quote.
Speaker 1: If you don't believe in gay marriage or gun control
Speaker 1: on friend me, demand multiple Facebook status is from those
Speaker 1: I know. That's gross and racist, spluttered a red faced
Speaker 1: Ben Affleck when the atheist and neuroscientists Sam Harris criticized
Speaker 1: Islamic doctrines on Bill Maher's Real Time. Nobody blinks an
Speaker 1: I when Harris criticizes Christianity, least of all Affleck, who
Speaker 1: starred in Kevin Smith's irreverent religious satire Dogma. But Christians
Speaker 1: are not held to be a sacra sank and protected
Speaker 1: minority on the political left and and then as skeptic magazines,
Speaker 1: Michael Shermer tweeted recently, when I debate Christians, Jews, creationists,
Speaker 1: climate deniers, etcetera. They are unfailingly polite, respectful, thoughtful, discerning,
Speaker 1: and listen to my arguments. Far left social justice warriors
Speaker 1: do not. They simply look for fault and pounds. Isn't
Speaker 1: this so very true? My friends? I bet you come
Speaker 1: across this in your day to day lives, whether it's
Speaker 1: trying to have just a casual discussion about the day's
Speaker 1: events in the workplace, or if you're seeing friends for
Speaker 1: drinks after if you're getting the kids together with you know,
Speaker 1: and their parents show up and and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is that you're interacting with people out there,
Speaker 1: have you come across the social justice warrior? It is
Speaker 1: likely that if you contradict them, or even just refuse
Speaker 1: to agree with them on something, they're not going to
Speaker 1: try to persuade you. They're going to try to slam you.
Speaker 1: They aren't looking for converts. They are hunting for heretics,
Speaker 1: as I like to say. And it is absolutely the case.
Speaker 1: And now we're starting to see that this is a
Speaker 1: widespread phenomenon. It is a a part of progressive belief system.
Speaker 1: Now because I believe and this is where I'm departing
Speaker 1: from this piece for a moment, but progressive ism fills
Speaker 1: the place of religious belief for a vast majority of progressives.
Speaker 1: There are many progressives you'll come across who will claim
Speaker 1: they'll claim that they have, you know, an allegiance to
Speaker 1: one one religion or other. They'll claim that they have
Speaker 1: a relationship with a church or with the Almighty. Some
Speaker 1: of them certainly do. They usually see it though, as
Speaker 1: a mechanism for so social justice right. They see it
Speaker 1: as a place for a community, not necessarily about the
Speaker 1: individual communing with God. But for a lot of progressives,
Speaker 1: you have a sense that their belief system, their political
Speaker 1: belief system, is deeply tied in to their identities as people.
Speaker 1: And that's why the moment that you disagree with them
Speaker 1: on something, the moment that you see things differently, it's
Speaker 1: like you're negating who they are as people. Right, I
Speaker 1: believe in climate science because I'm a good person and
Speaker 1: I'm smart and I care about things. And you say, well,
Speaker 1: maybe you're just actually, maybe you've been conned, maybe you've
Speaker 1: been lied to. Maybe actually this isn't what you think
Speaker 1: it is. They're not going to respond to that with well, wow,
Speaker 1: you're right, Maybe I don't need to do all this
Speaker 1: stupid recycling all the time. You know how much I
Speaker 1: hate recycling. Uh, maybe I don't need to do that.
Speaker 1: They're gonna say, you're telling me I'm not as good
Speaker 1: as person as I thought, or that's there. That's going
Speaker 1: to be their thought process, and the response is gonna be,
Speaker 1: I hate your faith And there are reasons for this.
Speaker 1: There are reasons for this in in our discourse. We're
Speaker 1: starting to see this more and more. This is not aberrant,
Speaker 1: it's not random, it's not based on the person and
Speaker 1: has become a part of the ideology. So when people
Speaker 1: talk about the polarization of politics in this country, what
Speaker 1: they need to take into account is that there is
Speaker 1: one major component of the political spectrum that isn't even
Speaker 1: just about politics. It's about identity, and it is central
Speaker 1: to who on the left progressives. It's central to who
Speaker 1: they think they are as people. I want to continue
Speaker 1: with a little bit of this because I think this
Speaker 1: is this deep dive into social justice. Warriors will explain
Speaker 1: a lot, and these are things that will affect you
Speaker 1: in your day to day life. I think you should
Speaker 1: know that you're not alone. If you've ever tried to
Speaker 1: say to someone, Hey, you know, maybe maybe abortion for
Speaker 1: all nine months of a pregnancy is a really immoral
Speaker 1: thing and you should rethink your stance on this. You
Speaker 1: tend not to get, Yeah, you're right, let's talk about it.
Speaker 1: You tend to get how could you you just want
Speaker 1: to put women in slavery? Well, why is that the response?
Speaker 1: And why do you see this time and time again
Speaker 1: from one side of the political spectrum and not the other.
Speaker 1: Why is it the conservatives can have fierce debates with
Speaker 1: each other on sub on substance and then walk away
Speaker 1: friends and respectful of each other. And conservatives are willing
Speaker 1: to hear beliefs from all over the place and at
Speaker 1: least hear them out without assuming the person who holds
Speaker 1: beliefs that contradict their own are bad people. This is
Speaker 1: it's not just, This is not just an intellectual exercise.
Speaker 1: It will help us all understand why we have to
Speaker 1: have the interactions that all of you listening to this
Speaker 1: show are having day in and day out. And also,
Speaker 1: what's going to happen in this country if this side
Speaker 1: wins out? What happens if progressivism becomes the dominant political
Speaker 1: ideology in America. We'll get into that some more in
Speaker 1: just a few minutes. The Psychology of Progressive hostility, Part two.
Speaker 1: My friends, welcome back. Thank you for being here with
Speaker 1: me on the show. So let's just put this into
Speaker 1: some context. You guys all, remember when Trump was officially
Speaker 1: declared Trump was officially declared president, there was this this
Speaker 1: shriek from a Hillary supporting leftist that went viral. In
Speaker 1: case you missed it, or in case you just want
Speaker 1: to kick back, relax and let the good times roll again,
Speaker 1: here's what a sounded like. Donald J. Trump is now
Speaker 1: President of the United States, to be able to introduce
Speaker 1: for the first time ever anywhere the President of the
Speaker 1: United States of America. Donald, you didn't get out of
Speaker 1: you here. That's a that's a full grown woman shrieking
Speaker 1: as loud and like making a noise that I didn't
Speaker 1: know a human being canna make. It's just, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like Hillary warming up her vocal cords for being
Speaker 1: on stage at the opera or something. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: really bad. And and you know progressives are a little
Speaker 1: a little not so you know, they got problems for sure.
Speaker 1: But back to our scientific deep dive, into this. Others
Speaker 1: have started to pick up on this, and the notion
Speaker 1: that the that the conservative mind is willing to deal
Speaker 1: with challenges, to deal with uncertainty, and to see things
Speaker 1: as tradeoffs is increasingly supported by the social science literature.
Speaker 1: And the notion that progressives emotionalize and get angry really
Speaker 1: quickly and freak out basically based on what their political
Speaker 1: beliefs are is increasingly a uh. This is not a
Speaker 1: sometime thing. This is a most or all the time thing.
Speaker 1: One of the great examples of this that he cites
Speaker 1: in this piece again this is unquilette dot com and
Speaker 1: it's by Matthew Blackwell, is this story of a professor
Speaker 1: in Canada UM who made the mistake, if you will,
Speaker 1: um at will, was that Wilfrid Laurier was the name
Speaker 1: of the school. I think anyways, you made the mistake
Speaker 1: of showing a debate in her class where Professor Peterson
Speaker 1: was talking about whether or not people should have to
Speaker 1: refer to transgender individuals. This is in Canada. Folks with
Speaker 1: pronouns like zer z, i, R and there v er
Speaker 1: literally made up pronouns. The faculty of Wilford Laurier University
Speaker 1: or college, whichever it is Canada. I don't know what
Speaker 1: I don't know at these I don't know the Canadian schools.
Speaker 1: Uh A. But the faculty brought her in for discipline
Speaker 1: and when she said I was I didn't even weigh in,
Speaker 1: they said, exactly, that's the problem. You showed a debate
Speaker 1: that other people were having and didn't tell the students, uh,
Speaker 1: which side was right. Here's actually how it's written in
Speaker 1: the piece during Shepherd, that's the professor Lindsay Shepherd during
Speaker 1: her interrogation. Uh. Because remember she this was recorded. She
Speaker 1: said that, or rather her superiors she recorded, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: Not only did she get in trouble for for the video,
Speaker 1: she recorded the interrogation by the fellow faculty members, and
Speaker 1: in that her superiors can be heard explaining that Professor Peterson,
Speaker 1: whom we've had here on the show, his views were
Speaker 1: problematic and that she should have either criticized them or
Speaker 1: not exposed her students to his opinions at all. But
Speaker 1: that would be taking sides, she said audibly on the
Speaker 1: tape that she made. Although she didn't share Peterson's views herself,
Speaker 1: she had played the video to encourage a class debate yes,
Speaker 1: replied one of her interrogators. Can't you see that this
Speaker 1: is something that is not really up for debate. Her job,
Speaker 1: she was informed, is to oppose the political right. That's right,
Speaker 1: my friends, Whether or not you, as a function of
Speaker 1: law in Canada should have to refer to a person
Speaker 1: by the made up pronoun zer or ver is quote
Speaker 1: not really upper debate, According to professors at what I
Speaker 1: assume is a reasonably reputable Canadian institution of higher learning,
Speaker 1: although maybe I'm giving too much credit. This exposes the mentality,
Speaker 1: This exposes what you see on the college campuses, and
Speaker 1: it exposes the uh the speech equals violence trope that
Speaker 1: the left relies on now as a as an excuse
Speaker 1: to shut down speakers they don't like, or the no platforming.
Speaker 1: They have effectively been conditioned to think in this way,
Speaker 1: you know, the circuitry in their brains, the wiring brings
Speaker 1: about this kind of overreaction to political beliefs. There's aren't
Speaker 1: just correct, They're the only beliefs. No one can challenge them,
Speaker 1: and if people challenge them, they have to go on
Speaker 1: on the offensive. They have to attack back to this piece,
Speaker 1: and Quillett, in his remarkable book the righteous mind. Why
Speaker 1: good people are divided by politics and religion. Jonathan Hate
Speaker 1: recalls a telling experiment. He and his colleagues Brian Nosick
Speaker 1: and Jesse Graham sought to discover how well conservative and
Speaker 1: what Hate terms liberal progressive students understood one another by
Speaker 1: having them answer moral questions as they thought their political
Speaker 1: opponents would answer them. The results were clear and consistent.
Speaker 1: According to Hate. In all analyzes, conservatives were more accurate
Speaker 1: than liberals. Asked to think the way a liberal thinks.
Speaker 1: Conservatives answered moral questions just as the liberal would answer them,
Speaker 1: but liberal students were unable to do the reverse. Rather,
Speaker 1: they seem to put moral ideas into the mouths of
Speaker 1: conservatives that they don't hold to. Put it bluntly, Hate
Speaker 1: and his colleagues found the progressives don't understand conservatives the
Speaker 1: way conservatives understand progressives. He calls us the conservative advantage,
Speaker 1: and it goes a long way in explaining the different
Speaker 1: ways each side deals with opinions unlike their own. People
Speaker 1: get angry at what they don't understand, and an all
Speaker 1: progressive education ensures that they don't understand. End quote. See
Speaker 1: my friends, we are cracking it open here and getting
Speaker 1: right to the center of it, right to the truth.
Speaker 1: Because you and I know what liberals think and believe,
Speaker 1: we can engage with them and at least are willing
Speaker 1: to approach their opinions in good faith. But they are
Speaker 1: so costed in their echo chambers of higher education and
Speaker 1: the media and the Democrat Party and all the rest
Speaker 1: of it. They don't even know what we believe. Really,
Speaker 1: they're actually so ignorant that they think that we support
Speaker 1: the n r A, for example, because we don't really
Speaker 1: care that much about gun violence for some reason that
Speaker 1: they couldn't explain. They don't know what we believe, which
Speaker 1: is why they are so nasty and aggressive and hateful
Speaker 1: in their responses. But this should all make you feel
Speaker 1: a little bit better about every uncomfortable exchange you've had
Speaker 1: with the progressive recently. In a sense, it's not really
Speaker 1: their fault. You just know a lot more than they do.
Speaker 1: You're much more well versed on the issues and have
Speaker 1: a much better understanding of what they think themselves and
Speaker 1: what you think. This is the conservative advantage will be
Speaker 1: right back. He's holding the line for America, Buck Sexton,
Speaker 1: his back. What is the deadliest animal in the United States,
Speaker 1: my friends. Oh, I'm looking at you, producer, Mike and John.
Speaker 1: The deadliest animal by the numbers in the US is
Speaker 1: what can you you maybe give me like a hand
Speaker 1: signal or what what do you got? What do you got? What?
Speaker 1: A bear? A cat? No cat? No kid out? Actually
Speaker 1: they do. Cats do end up killing people sometimes because
Speaker 1: of the infections from the scratches. Is that what you're
Speaker 1: referring to? Are you talking about like like mountain lions
Speaker 1: that go after bikers and hikers? What do we what
Speaker 1: do you know? Come on, squad, I was referring to, uh,
Speaker 1: cats because they killed massive amounts of like birds and
Speaker 1: rodents and stuff. So you're like, oh, killing people home
Speaker 1: slice people? So what kills the most people? Nothing? Alright? Fine?
Speaker 1: I mean usually feel like people be like bears, snakes.
Speaker 1: You know, they're not even playing along in here. They're
Speaker 1: just done with me today. All right? Five? The answer
Speaker 1: is hornets, wasps, and bees. That's right. This is a
Speaker 1: study published by Wilderness and Environmental Medicine. Hornets, wasps, and
Speaker 1: bees kill the most people. Now, it's kind of an
Speaker 1: unfair question, right, It's kind of like asking what's the
Speaker 1: most deadly animal on the planet. And I will tell
Speaker 1: you because obviously you guys don't like this game that
Speaker 1: I'm playing with you right now. I'm not talking to
Speaker 1: you at home. I'm talking to the Freedom Hunt control room.
Speaker 1: They're like, stop with the twenty questions. It's it's mosquitoes
Speaker 1: because of malaria and other pathogens that the yeah, dude
Speaker 1: were limiting malaria around the world would save so many
Speaker 1: more lives than combating climate change. But people really want
Speaker 1: to focus on other things. I want to focus on
Speaker 1: climate change. But yeah, I just thought this was in.
Speaker 1: The New York Times cited this report earlier this week
Speaker 1: on wilderness and from Wilderness and Environmental Medicine hornets watson bees.
Speaker 1: But they killed people mostly because of those who have allergies,
Speaker 1: so it's not really a fair like one be sting
Speaker 1: if you have an allergy can kill you, right, But
Speaker 1: usually it's not that big of a deal. Although I
Speaker 1: remember I was very dumb when I was like seven
Speaker 1: or eight, and I definitely thought it was fun for
Speaker 1: a little while when i'd be out somewhere where they
Speaker 1: had grass to try and stomp on bees. When you're
Speaker 1: like seven or eight and not that strong or coordinated,
Speaker 1: and you miss stomping on the bee. The beat, the
Speaker 1: bee gets his the be uh, the bee gets his revenge.
Speaker 1: It does happen anyway. I've been stung a few times.
Speaker 1: But then there's some other animals that that make the list.
Speaker 1: Here my favorite on Planet Earth. Dogs they were responsible
Speaker 1: for two hundred and uh wait from twenty two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight. By the way, it's a seven year period.
Speaker 1: They analyze, dogs were responsible for two d and seventy
Speaker 1: two deaths. Uh so that's that's that's sad um the
Speaker 1: fatality rate and dog attacks, well, it's particularly high, unfortunately
Speaker 1: for the very young and the elderly. But surprisingly um
Speaker 1: neither wait, Oh my gosh, guys, I totally I totally
Speaker 1: lied to you just now, and I need to eat
Speaker 1: a big slice of humble pie. This piece starts out
Speaker 1: saying that everyone assumes it's bees wasps, and including me.
Speaker 1: I'm actually wrong. For once. I know I should go,
Speaker 1: I should go do some push ups in the corner,
Speaker 1: or we should we should mark this occasion because it
Speaker 1: is so rare. Savor the flavor, gentleman. It's not something
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen very often. I am I am dead
Speaker 1: wrong on this one. It is not these wasps and hornets.
Speaker 1: It is in fact, pigs, cows and horses, Higgs, cows
Speaker 1: and horses. They were responsible for five hundred and seventies
Speaker 1: six deaths and it's from farm farm stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: basically people getting attacked or trampled and farms. So that's
Speaker 1: actually the So the deadliest animals in America, according to
Speaker 1: this comprehensive study are pigs, cows, and horses, which is
Speaker 1: not exciting. Like if this were Australia, there would be
Speaker 1: probably some form of snake that has enough venom to
Speaker 1: kill three hundred people, and there there's saltwater crocodiles, there's
Speaker 1: great white sharks, tiger sharks, bull sharks. Australia's got all
Speaker 1: the good scary animals, a lot of good scary animals
Speaker 1: in Africa too, But are scariest are pigs, cows, and
Speaker 1: horses according to this, which I have to say I
Speaker 1: found somewhat somewhat surprising. So not saying you should avoid it.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying be aware. You know, next time that
Speaker 1: cow has given you kind of a funny look, that
Speaker 1: cow might have some ill intentions. You know that you
Speaker 1: they sneak up on you. You You don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are actually malk cow is a bull,
Speaker 1: that's right. Good job Buck, Buck hasn't spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time on farms. I was gonna be like, is
Speaker 1: it a steer, No, that's a type of cow. Everybody
Speaker 1: listening to this who has any experience around for mentals
Speaker 1: is like, Buck, you gotta stop right now. You can't,
Speaker 1: you can't dig up. But nonetheless, I just think this
Speaker 1: is really interesting because people think of dangerous animals like
Speaker 1: bears and uh, mountain lions, and you are more likely
Speaker 1: to be struck by lightning by a pretty wide margin,
Speaker 1: I think, than you are to be attacked by a bear.
Speaker 1: And from what I understand, there's still debate to this
Speaker 1: day as to whether or not a healthy wolf has
Speaker 1: ever attacked and eaten a person. In North America, rabid
Speaker 1: wolves have definitely attacked people. No quite san and starving wolves.
Speaker 1: I see that thing. I think they create this little
Speaker 1: carve out for like wolves that are starving. But I'm
Speaker 1: kind of like, I don't really care if the wolf
Speaker 1: is super hungry when it eats me. I'm still getting eaten,
Speaker 1: so I think that counts. I don't think you get
Speaker 1: to wipe away the wolf eating people think because the
Speaker 1: wolves belly's empty, very hungry. No, No, that makes me sad.
Speaker 1: As you can tell. I like animals a lot. I
Speaker 1: used to play a game growing up. My parents were
Speaker 1: very permissive and uh and kind, and I'd be like,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, Dad, who what a fight? Trying sarah
Speaker 1: Tops or a grizzly bear and he he would actually, my, my,
Speaker 1: my very highly educated father would actually give me an answer.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, that's the answer. Clue, Hey,
Speaker 1: thos try saratops grizzly bear. To try Saratops has the
Speaker 1: light advantage, so clearly it's gonna cut out. So yeah, he'sy.
Speaker 1: Can tell it like when I was when I was
Speaker 1: in kindergarten, I tried to spell out I wanted to
Speaker 1: be an animal conservationist. When I grew up, I didn't
Speaker 1: spell it properly, um, but I had heard about it.
Speaker 1: And then you get to hang out with animals. By
Speaker 1: the way, we got in the house here with us, now,
Speaker 1: that's right, DJ Cash producer, Mike's dog. Very very fun.
Speaker 1: We come back, we'll get into some roll call. Stay
Speaker 1: with me. Well, I think that's going to close it
Speaker 1: up here in the Freedom Hut today. I hope you
Speaker 1: enjoyed the show. Let me know your thoughts at Facebook
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Speaker 1: you can subscribe on iTunes, so please do. And also
Speaker 1: be great if you told a friend, hey, what's what
Speaker 1: are your favorite podcasts? Well? Mine is the Buck sext
Speaker 1: and show. The more podcast we get, the happier I am.
Speaker 1: So make me happy, help me spread the podcast around.
Speaker 1: And with that, my friends, you know what Tom it is.
Speaker 1: It's roll call time, Team Buck. It's time for roll call.
Speaker 1: I mean, it just makes you want to grab a claymore,
Speaker 1: go out there in a kilt and fight some Englishmen,
Speaker 1: you know. But nonetheless that's actually Scotland and I know
Speaker 1: technically on Saturday at St Patrick's Day. So there you
Speaker 1: have it. It is what it is people. The appropriation
Speaker 1: has run far and wide. I've actually had a lot
Speaker 1: of people asking recently what I think about the I'm
Speaker 1: the people that get offended about St Patrick's Day garb
Speaker 1: now and I'm like, is this really what it's come to?
Speaker 1: There's now a thing, the Fighting Irish Show. They don't
Speaker 1: like it. It's a little lepre con and all the
Speaker 1: stuff about getting drunk on St. Patty's Day. I know,
Speaker 1: we just played Scotland the Bridge of which is not
Speaker 1: really St Patty's Day. Now that I'm sitting here, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to change up the bagpipes for tomorrow, because
Speaker 1: I think playing Scotland the Brave as a way of
Speaker 1: commemorating St. Patty's Day is probably not exactly correct, and
Speaker 1: the cultural appropriation is real. Alright, But with that for
Speaker 1: forget the music for a second. Let's get to what
Speaker 1: your thoughts are on all of this and more. Michael.
Speaker 1: Right when I was eight or nine, my older buds
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood took me with them to see the
Speaker 1: Curse of the Werewolf with Oliver Reid. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: that movie. Scared the crap out of me. I actually
Speaker 1: covered my eyes the last five minutes of the flick.
Speaker 1: Terrified of werewolves to this day. Thank god, I've never
Speaker 1: come up against one. Well, Michael, Uh, I agree, werewolves
Speaker 1: are scary. They've had a real resurgence with these movies
Speaker 1: called Underworld, where you have a very slender, attractive British
Speaker 1: actress who's just wearing incredibly tight leather pants and chopping
Speaker 1: the heads off of likings, which is another word for
Speaker 1: werewolf and of course other vampires, because she's a vampire.
Speaker 1: She's one of those special vampires that fights against werewolves.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a weird deal. But if you're into
Speaker 1: that stuff, you might enjoy that show or that movie
Speaker 1: next up here. Hold on a second. All right, we
Speaker 1: got Jason, he writes Buck. Today is my birthday. Well,
Speaker 1: happy birthday, Jason, And all I want for my birthday.
Speaker 1: Oh here we go is no more dub step roll call,
Speaker 1: Thanks buddy, and keep your shield high. Well, well, Jason,
Speaker 1: say we did it for you, my friend. There you go.
Speaker 1: We'll just we'll just say we did it for you.
Speaker 1: Nothing to do with St. Patty's Day. It's Jason's birthday,
Speaker 1: he gets. Well, at least he gets to change the tune,
Speaker 1: not necessarily the tune he wants. Because of rights and
Speaker 1: clearances and all that, we have some limitations. As much
Speaker 1: as I would love to sit here and just play
Speaker 1: Credence Clearwater, I don't think we're allowed to do that.
Speaker 1: For a whole bunch of reasons. You know stuff. Uh,
Speaker 1: Connor is next up here here. It's a buck as
Speaker 1: a fan and a libertarian and a free speech purist.
Speaker 1: I'm asking you to help bring attention. My friends and
Speaker 1: I are in the middle of um Okay. We are
Speaker 1: rehearsing for a musical American Idiot by green Day, and
Speaker 1: the mayor of the city of Brexville, Ohio is trying
Speaker 1: to shut our production down and I'm not sure about
Speaker 1: our chances. We feel we have the constitutional right to
Speaker 1: do this show. Censor. Censorship should be brought to attention
Speaker 1: on both sides of the political spectrum. I'm asking for
Speaker 1: your help and the help of those in the conservative
Speaker 1: free speech movement to bring attention to this and allow
Speaker 1: freedom and liberty to win. If I can get a response,
Speaker 1: I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks so much, Connor. Well, Connor,
Speaker 1: there you go. You got a response on about a
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five or so radio stations across the country.
Speaker 1: There you go, my man, plus a a large sports
Speaker 1: stadium full of podcast listeners. It's about right. So there
Speaker 1: you go. You got some people that heard you, my friend,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I think you do have the constitutional right
Speaker 1: to do a show, although it's by Green Day, Green
Speaker 1: Days a little you know, Connor, I don't want upset you.
Speaker 1: Green Days a little overrated. Though they're okay, they're okay.
Speaker 1: I'm not even talking about their politics. I don't even
Speaker 1: get into that stuff. But you know, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. But Connor, you fight that good fight. My
Speaker 1: libertarian friend. He's also a member of Young Team Buck
Speaker 1: Squad from what I can gather here, so yes, he's
Speaker 1: in high school. So there you go. So Connor, thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Uh Brent is next up here. He writes, Buck,
Speaker 1: I love your show. See Brent pays attention and knows
Speaker 1: if you want to be in roll call first line.
Speaker 1: I love your show. Very good way to start. And
Speaker 1: as a retired D O D employee, I like the
Speaker 1: fact that you have an inside the government point of view.
Speaker 1: But most of all, I love that you love dogs.
Speaker 1: I'd listen anyway, but that puts you over the top.
Speaker 1: Keep up the great work, Brent. Well, Brent, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. Man. I really appreciate that I do. I
Speaker 1: do love dogs because Buck, he loves dogs. I don't
Speaker 1: know any you know what I'm talking about. That was
Speaker 1: from Dog Show and remember the SNL sketch Dog Show,
Speaker 1: Dog Show really, because hello dogs there was mr mr
Speaker 1: um oh gosh, I can't remember the names of the
Speaker 1: dogs now. I don't remember the names that there were
Speaker 1: the two Little Dogs and dog Show. Anyway, John, if
Speaker 1: you figured it out, let me know. It's an SNL sketch.
Speaker 1: It's old though, because I'm old, all right, Um, Michael,
Speaker 1: he writes in Hey, hey, Buck, trip to Austin. If
Speaker 1: you have any questions or your team needs any help
Speaker 1: while you're on your way down here, where to go,
Speaker 1: work to do and be happy to help out or
Speaker 1: even help organize. There are a few cool places close
Speaker 1: to downtown with good barbecue, like Terry Blacks Barbecue on
Speaker 1: Barton Springs Road or Uncle Billy's on Barton Springs Road,
Speaker 1: which has barbecue and is a micro brew. Wow, he's
Speaker 1: got a lot of Austin knowledge. He drops your Michael,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for this, my friend. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go through it a bit and and uh, what's what's up? John?
Speaker 1: Pistachio and Nacho. No, it's not Lord Pistachio and Naco.
Speaker 1: Those aren't the names. That's weird. Huh, that's I gotta No,
Speaker 1: those aren't that. I don't think those are the names.
Speaker 1: Those those are great. Calling your dog lord Pistachio is
Speaker 1: amazing and obviously has to wear a little a little
Speaker 1: dog top hat and have a monocle and be like, hey, hello,
Speaker 1: I'm a fancy doggie. Hello. But back to Michael and
Speaker 1: Austin and our wonderful affiliate down there, k L b J.
Speaker 1: I am gonna come down to Austin. It's just a
Speaker 1: question of timing. I am coming out to Whoa Whoa
Speaker 1: in just a few weeks, March thirty one, I think, Uh,
Speaker 1: the date escapes my mind right now, but I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that's yeah, the thirty one of March. I'll be
Speaker 1: in FOURT Way in Indiana, rocking out, and I will
Speaker 1: also be heading out to California, I believe in about
Speaker 1: a month. So maybe we can get some Team Buck
Speaker 1: folks together there and we'll be so yeah, everybody listening
Speaker 1: on k E I b out in Los Angeles. We
Speaker 1: might do a little event. It would be different though,
Speaker 1: you know. We'd have a lot of micro greens and
Speaker 1: we gather the best pet therapists in the area. I kid,
Speaker 1: I joke, come on, uh, but klb j Austin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: barbecue Joint in Austin. It will happen. Just a question
Speaker 1: whether it will be this spring or this fall. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm gonna show up in Austin in
Speaker 1: the middle of July. I might. I might wait until
Speaker 1: like octobery or something, but I might get it done
Speaker 1: soon enough. All right, Um, let's say we've got so
Speaker 1: many messages in here. Thank you everybody. Remember if you
Speaker 1: want to be a part of it, Facebook dot com,
Speaker 1: slash buck Sexton, that is all you need to be
Speaker 1: in the roll call party. Uh what do we have here?
Speaker 1: Ben rights Buck? Last year in Pennsylvania alone, there were
Speaker 1: over a hundred thousand junior and youth hunters out of
Speaker 1: their class woods, sorry, out of their classrooms and in
Speaker 1: the woods responsibly using their firearms. No mass murders were committed.
Speaker 1: There was no national media coverage. Well, Ben, you make
Speaker 1: a good point. A lot of people, a lot of
Speaker 1: young law biding gun owners, are exactly that, and I
Speaker 1: think that gets left out of much of this discussion.
Speaker 1: There you have it, um Will writes, Hold on a second,
Speaker 1: what do we got here? Uh? Antifa PCU great flick?
Speaker 1: Can you show me where the campus is. It's not
Speaker 1: like Eric, right on, right on, Q John, thank you
Speaker 1: one more, give me one more. I love it fantastic. Um,
Speaker 1: you know what. I think that's a good note to
Speaker 1: end off for today. But thank you will for your
Speaker 1: note and phenomenal to have all of you writing in. Guys,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a freestyle Friday tomorrow. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun some of your thoughts and
Speaker 1: suggestions and uh, as I said, Facebook is great. Also,
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Speaker 1: with that, I will say, I will bid you adieu
Speaker 1: and wish you shields high.