1 00:00:11,657 --> 00:00:14,937 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure 2 00:00:14,937 --> 00:00:17,577 Speaker 1: you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeart Radio app 3 00:00:17,857 --> 00:00:20,937 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the Buck 4 00:00:20,977 --> 00:00:25,457 Speaker 1: Sexton Show. In this episode, our friend Kurt Schlichterer is 5 00:00:25,577 --> 00:00:29,217 Speaker 1: making an appearance, which is very exciting. He is a lawyer, 6 00:00:29,697 --> 00:00:34,057 Speaker 1: a veteran, an author, a columnist at townhall dot com, 7 00:00:34,097 --> 00:00:38,697 Speaker 1: and just general ass kicker and patriotic American. Kurt. Great 8 00:00:38,737 --> 00:00:41,777 Speaker 1: to have you on, sir, Thanks for coming to hang out. Well, Buck, 9 00:00:41,817 --> 00:00:45,577 Speaker 1: you forgot sexual powerhouse. I mean, you did tell me 10 00:00:45,617 --> 00:00:47,137 Speaker 1: that at some point your wife is going to bring 11 00:00:47,177 --> 00:00:48,937 Speaker 1: you a bottle of wine. So I figured we would 12 00:00:48,977 --> 00:00:52,017 Speaker 1: have the you know, the life advice for the gentleman 13 00:00:52,057 --> 00:00:54,137 Speaker 1: out there. Once we had. Once you had a couple 14 00:00:54,137 --> 00:00:56,737 Speaker 1: of glasses of wine. Missus schlicht could tell everybody you 15 00:00:56,777 --> 00:01:00,337 Speaker 1: know how the alpha dogs actually roll. I'm just saying 16 00:01:00,537 --> 00:01:03,057 Speaker 1: that's what I've heard. Well, you've seen her, you know 17 00:01:03,057 --> 00:01:05,177 Speaker 1: how hot she is. You and I like share this. 18 00:01:05,337 --> 00:01:08,657 Speaker 1: We just will not tolerate women who aren't of a 19 00:01:08,737 --> 00:01:11,217 Speaker 1: certain standard. Well, I will tell you that I have 20 00:01:11,297 --> 00:01:13,257 Speaker 1: a we have a mutual friend who I don't want 21 00:01:13,297 --> 00:01:16,537 Speaker 1: to I don't know if I have permission to give 22 00:01:16,577 --> 00:01:19,257 Speaker 1: away his secrets, but you and I have a mutual friend. 23 00:01:19,297 --> 00:01:20,737 Speaker 1: You probably know who it is. Just for me saying this. 24 00:01:21,137 --> 00:01:23,377 Speaker 1: Who has a theory that you basically can't trust a 25 00:01:23,417 --> 00:01:27,577 Speaker 1: guy who doesn't have a hot wife. Now, as long 26 00:01:27,577 --> 00:01:30,497 Speaker 1: as the guy thinks his wife is hot, that counts, right, 27 00:01:30,537 --> 00:01:33,177 Speaker 1: It's all about that. But you can't trust a guy 28 00:01:33,217 --> 00:01:35,057 Speaker 1: who doesn't have a hot wife. That's or who doesn't 29 00:01:35,057 --> 00:01:36,817 Speaker 1: believe he as a hot wife. That's his theory. I 30 00:01:36,857 --> 00:01:40,377 Speaker 1: always think that's an interesting case study. Why would you 31 00:01:40,457 --> 00:01:42,897 Speaker 1: Why would you settle for anything less than the best? 32 00:01:42,937 --> 00:01:46,297 Speaker 1: You're a man, damn it, you're a man. There you go. 33 00:01:47,377 --> 00:01:49,977 Speaker 1: So we could get into a dating advice for the 34 00:01:50,257 --> 00:01:52,617 Speaker 1: younger male portion of the audience later on the program, 35 00:01:52,737 --> 00:01:54,937 Speaker 1: Like I said, Kurt asked me. He's like, He's like, 36 00:01:54,977 --> 00:01:57,257 Speaker 1: can I smoke? Can I drink? Can I drink a cigar? 37 00:01:57,537 --> 00:02:00,137 Speaker 1: That would be crazy? Can I smoke a cigar? Can 38 00:02:00,217 --> 00:02:02,817 Speaker 1: I drink some scotch? During this? And I was like, Kurt, 39 00:02:02,937 --> 00:02:05,337 Speaker 1: you you roll however you want, buddy. This is Kurt's world. 40 00:02:05,377 --> 00:02:08,817 Speaker 1: We're just trying to film it um and and we'll 41 00:02:08,817 --> 00:02:10,817 Speaker 1: get into some of that stuff. I can I ask 42 00:02:10,817 --> 00:02:12,777 Speaker 1: you about some real stuff though for a second first, 43 00:02:12,777 --> 00:02:14,137 Speaker 1: because like there are a lot of people coming here 44 00:02:14,177 --> 00:02:16,377 Speaker 1: that we want to have news content analysis. You're very 45 00:02:16,417 --> 00:02:22,657 Speaker 1: smart man. You come from the old school, Cold War era, 46 00:02:23,137 --> 00:02:26,657 Speaker 1: thump it out with the bad guys with tanks. We're 47 00:02:26,697 --> 00:02:30,297 Speaker 1: talking order of battle stuff. We're talking about how many, 48 00:02:30,537 --> 00:02:34,697 Speaker 1: how many, you know, millions of rounds and hundreds and 49 00:02:34,817 --> 00:02:39,097 Speaker 1: thousands of gallons of fuel and you know, massive formations 50 00:02:39,457 --> 00:02:41,857 Speaker 1: to fight the Soviet beasts. So you know you're not 51 00:02:41,897 --> 00:02:46,697 Speaker 1: one of these fancy counterinsurgency guys. Oh. I speak multiple 52 00:02:46,777 --> 00:02:50,017 Speaker 1: languages of the natives, and I read books and sit 53 00:02:50,057 --> 00:02:52,537 Speaker 1: around and try to win the hearts and minds. You're like, boom, 54 00:02:52,577 --> 00:02:58,617 Speaker 1: we're dropping bombs on you. Howsovo after nine to eleven, 55 00:02:58,737 --> 00:03:01,617 Speaker 1: which you know, was a lot like a fireman instead 56 00:03:01,617 --> 00:03:03,457 Speaker 1: of getting to put out the fire at the orphanage 57 00:03:03,457 --> 00:03:05,297 Speaker 1: of the old folks. I mean, it's the cat out 58 00:03:05,297 --> 00:03:08,577 Speaker 1: of the tree. What I was at coast of I 59 00:03:08,577 --> 00:03:11,777 Speaker 1: was helping people, you know, start musher arms. It was 60 00:03:12,097 --> 00:03:14,217 Speaker 1: it was. It was not a slam band. But I 61 00:03:15,177 --> 00:03:18,297 Speaker 1: started out in the Cold War. I started out in Germany. 62 00:03:18,457 --> 00:03:21,737 Speaker 1: I was part of NATO. I went to the Gulf Wars, 63 00:03:21,777 --> 00:03:24,457 Speaker 1: part of seventh Corps, end up at seven Core Headquarters. 64 00:03:24,857 --> 00:03:27,417 Speaker 1: I ran a heavily armed car wash at that time. 65 00:03:28,177 --> 00:03:30,937 Speaker 1: After that, got out, went in the reserves, immediately went 66 00:03:31,017 --> 00:03:34,577 Speaker 1: mechanized infantry, which is uh you know. And of course 67 00:03:34,657 --> 00:03:37,337 Speaker 1: being the new lieutenant, I got to be the vehicle guy. 68 00:03:37,457 --> 00:03:40,057 Speaker 1: I got to be the battalion motor officer for a 69 00:03:40,137 --> 00:03:45,817 Speaker 1: heavy battalion. That was just a delight because they break 70 00:03:45,897 --> 00:03:50,057 Speaker 1: all the time. How prepared are we for the possibility 71 00:03:50,337 --> 00:03:54,177 Speaker 1: of a war with a country like either Russia or 72 00:03:54,297 --> 00:03:58,057 Speaker 1: China where they have very large things that can go 73 00:03:58,177 --> 00:04:00,217 Speaker 1: bang to you know what I mean. You know, we've 74 00:04:00,257 --> 00:04:03,337 Speaker 1: been fighting We've been fighting wars for twenty years where 75 00:04:03,337 --> 00:04:08,817 Speaker 1: we have absolute uncontested air superiority from day one, right, 76 00:04:09,217 --> 00:04:15,897 Speaker 1: we have under air attacks and Korea right, absolute technological superiority. 77 00:04:16,897 --> 00:04:19,417 Speaker 1: You know, in most cases, even our guys in Afghanistan 78 00:04:19,457 --> 00:04:21,457 Speaker 1: at Rock had you know, night vision, goggless. Some of 79 00:04:21,457 --> 00:04:23,817 Speaker 1: the you know we can get into like some of 80 00:04:23,857 --> 00:04:27,337 Speaker 1: the Hakani network guys and everything would have. But generally speaking, 81 00:04:27,657 --> 00:04:30,137 Speaker 1: you know, we had much better technology. Are we ready 82 00:04:30,537 --> 00:04:34,697 Speaker 1: if we had to go, you know, Abram's tank muzzle 83 00:04:34,737 --> 00:04:39,137 Speaker 1: to muzzle with Russian tank formations. Are we ready for this? 84 00:04:39,217 --> 00:04:41,337 Speaker 1: I mean, just just to get an understanding of where 85 00:04:41,377 --> 00:04:44,017 Speaker 1: we stand right now with military readiness for the wars 86 00:04:44,017 --> 00:04:47,577 Speaker 1: we may be fighting. I'm not as worried about crew 87 00:04:47,657 --> 00:04:53,217 Speaker 1: to crew fighting as I am about high level leadership. 88 00:04:55,257 --> 00:05:01,097 Speaker 1: Leadership cures a host of illnesses. It is a solution 89 00:05:01,137 --> 00:05:04,137 Speaker 1: to many, many problems, and we don't have it right now. Buck. 90 00:05:04,177 --> 00:05:06,777 Speaker 1: We have a military that has not won a war 91 00:05:06,937 --> 00:05:10,177 Speaker 1: unequivocally in thirty years. We have a military that is 92 00:05:10,257 --> 00:05:13,697 Speaker 1: very concerned with nonsense. You know, I was talking to 93 00:05:14,017 --> 00:05:16,897 Speaker 1: another guy who's associated with war colleges, and he was 94 00:05:16,977 --> 00:05:19,417 Speaker 1: telling me that he would, you know, sit in briefings 95 00:05:19,617 --> 00:05:22,377 Speaker 1: and you know, basic exercises. A bunch of colonels on 96 00:05:22,417 --> 00:05:26,417 Speaker 1: Saturday will brief you on what America's greatest strategic challenge is. 97 00:05:26,497 --> 00:05:28,657 Speaker 1: Then Sunday they'll brief you on what the solution is, 98 00:05:29,297 --> 00:05:33,257 Speaker 1: you know, basic one oh one war collogey stop. Half 99 00:05:33,257 --> 00:05:35,457 Speaker 1: the people will show up and say, our number one 100 00:05:35,657 --> 00:05:40,857 Speaker 1: strategic challenges climate change. Okay, No, our number one strategic 101 00:05:40,937 --> 00:05:44,697 Speaker 1: challenge is Chinese trying to kill US. I am not 102 00:05:44,857 --> 00:05:48,697 Speaker 1: confident in our military leadership today. I think we have 103 00:05:48,817 --> 00:05:52,457 Speaker 1: dropped our standards, taken our eyes off the ball, lost 104 00:05:52,497 --> 00:05:56,097 Speaker 1: our focus. I think if we get into a high 105 00:05:56,137 --> 00:06:00,977 Speaker 1: intense conventional conflict against a peer competitor, and I don't 106 00:06:00,977 --> 00:06:04,017 Speaker 1: think the Soviet are the Russians got Soviets updating myself. 107 00:06:04,217 --> 00:06:07,297 Speaker 1: The Russians are truly a peer competitor at this point, 108 00:06:07,497 --> 00:06:10,617 Speaker 1: though after they rebuild their shattered army they probably will 109 00:06:10,697 --> 00:06:15,457 Speaker 1: be UM. I think I think we're gonna find ourselves 110 00:06:16,177 --> 00:06:22,137 Speaker 1: outgunned an outfought. I think we've milked our our past experience, 111 00:06:22,297 --> 00:06:24,577 Speaker 1: particularly in the Navy. You know, we were the only 112 00:06:24,617 --> 00:06:27,497 Speaker 1: military name of the British, the only Navy that had 113 00:06:27,537 --> 00:06:31,697 Speaker 1: done massive worldwide combat operations. We did that World War Two. 114 00:06:31,737 --> 00:06:34,337 Speaker 1: We lived off that legacy. I know, my family's all Navy. 115 00:06:34,537 --> 00:06:37,977 Speaker 1: I'm the I'm the Green sheep, uh. And we lived 116 00:06:37,977 --> 00:06:40,297 Speaker 1: off that for years and that that's just gone. Now. 117 00:06:40,297 --> 00:06:47,177 Speaker 1: Our ships are running into each other. Are the officer 118 00:06:47,297 --> 00:06:51,417 Speaker 1: corps is a disaster. There's no real focus on combat readiness. 119 00:06:51,457 --> 00:06:54,817 Speaker 1: Soldiers do what commanders check. Commanders are checking wokeness, so 120 00:06:54,977 --> 00:07:00,417 Speaker 1: you get wokeness and it's uh, it's a disaster and 121 00:07:00,417 --> 00:07:02,817 Speaker 1: if we get into a fight, we're going to lose people. Well, 122 00:07:03,017 --> 00:07:07,217 Speaker 1: this is you know, we saw in in a rocket 123 00:07:07,257 --> 00:07:13,577 Speaker 1: Afghanistan excellence at the warfighter level continuously, but with the 124 00:07:13,817 --> 00:07:17,977 Speaker 1: with the idea of a war, a conventional developed world 125 00:07:18,537 --> 00:07:23,337 Speaker 1: conflict now right. I brought up things like ammunition, gasoline, 126 00:07:23,377 --> 00:07:26,577 Speaker 1: because that's what actually matters. You know, who has who 127 00:07:26,617 --> 00:07:29,177 Speaker 1: brings more guns that they can keep in the field, 128 00:07:29,177 --> 00:07:31,777 Speaker 1: that they can fire accurately and feed with MMO and 129 00:07:31,857 --> 00:07:34,497 Speaker 1: you know, all that component of it, which is not 130 00:07:34,657 --> 00:07:36,897 Speaker 1: you know, really what we were doing in these other places. 131 00:07:36,937 --> 00:07:39,577 Speaker 1: I mean I was reading about six months ago. I 132 00:07:39,577 --> 00:07:42,097 Speaker 1: think it was maybe a little more than that. We 133 00:07:42,097 --> 00:07:47,297 Speaker 1: were worried that our ability to provide munitions to Ukraine 134 00:07:47,457 --> 00:07:50,377 Speaker 1: was outstripping our ability to make them. And that's for 135 00:07:50,457 --> 00:07:54,017 Speaker 1: a war we're not even in. Look, the United States 136 00:07:54,137 --> 00:07:58,937 Speaker 1: is one war since the Civil War with two things. 137 00:07:58,937 --> 00:08:01,777 Speaker 1: First of all, our troops are generally excellent. They're generally 138 00:08:01,777 --> 00:08:04,537 Speaker 1: pretty good. You might be able to say at the 139 00:08:04,537 --> 00:08:08,697 Speaker 1: British Army, maybe the German Army Man for man, we're 140 00:08:08,817 --> 00:08:15,017 Speaker 1: better trained, had a more focused professional military traditions. But 141 00:08:15,137 --> 00:08:18,817 Speaker 1: the American soldiers are pretty damn good, but you put 142 00:08:18,857 --> 00:08:23,657 Speaker 1: pretty damn good with endless artillery rounds. You know, the 143 00:08:23,737 --> 00:08:27,217 Speaker 1: Germans would fight the Americans, and they'd be tactically very proficient, 144 00:08:28,417 --> 00:08:31,097 Speaker 1: but every time they shot at Americans, they just get 145 00:08:31,137 --> 00:08:35,897 Speaker 1: pummeled by one five finds. They just get blown to bits, 146 00:08:36,537 --> 00:08:39,977 Speaker 1: and and you can't fight that. We win because we 147 00:08:40,297 --> 00:08:45,137 Speaker 1: mastered logistics. We deliver steal on target. Steal on target 148 00:08:45,297 --> 00:08:48,017 Speaker 1: is not just pulling the cord on a camp, it's 149 00:08:48,497 --> 00:08:52,337 Speaker 1: building the shell, moving the shell. I remember in the Gulf, 150 00:08:53,777 --> 00:08:56,577 Speaker 1: I was at seven Core, Maine, which was the city 151 00:08:56,617 --> 00:08:59,377 Speaker 1: of Hafer Albatine is right off what's called Tabline Road, 152 00:08:59,497 --> 00:09:01,977 Speaker 1: big road running over the north, and I was going 153 00:09:02,057 --> 00:09:05,657 Speaker 1: back towards the town down in through a Waddy, which 154 00:09:05,697 --> 00:09:09,297 Speaker 1: is a big valley, big valley, completely empty, nothing but rocks. 155 00:09:09,337 --> 00:09:13,857 Speaker 1: In the occasion euromastic Lizard. Three days later, I drove 156 00:09:13,857 --> 00:09:16,977 Speaker 1: through that same valley. As far as the eye can 157 00:09:17,017 --> 00:09:21,137 Speaker 1: see was American military material. We moved a city of 158 00:09:21,337 --> 00:09:26,977 Speaker 1: five hundred thousand men from America and Europe to the 159 00:09:27,057 --> 00:09:29,617 Speaker 1: ports and then out in the middle of the desert, 160 00:09:29,857 --> 00:09:34,257 Speaker 1: and then we fought it moving. That is a logistic 161 00:09:34,297 --> 00:09:39,377 Speaker 1: achievement desert Storm, and frankly, we never I can't think 162 00:09:39,377 --> 00:09:41,857 Speaker 1: when they're military that's mastered it. I mean, I think 163 00:09:42,097 --> 00:09:45,457 Speaker 1: the Victorian Desert Storm was probably the height of America's 164 00:09:45,537 --> 00:09:50,297 Speaker 1: undisputed power, but it was a power of logistics. Right, Well, 165 00:09:50,457 --> 00:09:51,577 Speaker 1: what I was gonna say, I mean, by the way, 166 00:09:51,617 --> 00:09:53,537 Speaker 1: there's you know, How to Make War, the book by 167 00:09:53,697 --> 00:09:56,497 Speaker 1: William Morrow, which is now a multiple multiple editions, a 168 00:09:56,537 --> 00:09:59,297 Speaker 1: good basis for our basics for people to get a 169 00:09:59,337 --> 00:10:01,897 Speaker 1: sense of how to make war, what it actually entails, 170 00:10:01,937 --> 00:10:05,697 Speaker 1: and and it is so much and over. Yeah, strategy, 171 00:10:05,697 --> 00:10:08,297 Speaker 1: every strategy is sexy, right, you know, Sunsue and you 172 00:10:08,377 --> 00:10:11,177 Speaker 1: talk about the clouds of wis to uh, you know, 173 00:10:11,177 --> 00:10:13,777 Speaker 1: you talk about all these different people from from history. 174 00:10:14,097 --> 00:10:16,017 Speaker 1: That makes everyone sound fancy and then look at there's 175 00:10:16,017 --> 00:10:18,177 Speaker 1: a lot of insight and interesting stuff from that. But 176 00:10:18,417 --> 00:10:21,057 Speaker 1: you really want to understand how people win wars. You 177 00:10:21,097 --> 00:10:24,817 Speaker 1: look at the greatest military powers in history all had 178 00:10:25,257 --> 00:10:31,097 Speaker 1: superior logistics. Superior logistics. I mean this is this was 179 00:10:31,137 --> 00:10:32,977 Speaker 1: true of even though people don't think of it this way. 180 00:10:33,017 --> 00:10:38,537 Speaker 1: The Mongolia. Mongolians were amazing at siege warfare, which required 181 00:10:38,697 --> 00:10:43,057 Speaker 1: you know, enormous building and construction and coordination. I mean, 182 00:10:43,217 --> 00:10:47,017 Speaker 1: you know, as well as moving and feeding eighty thousand 183 00:10:47,097 --> 00:10:49,417 Speaker 1: men or you know, whatever the size the military was 184 00:10:49,697 --> 00:10:52,977 Speaker 1: that they were talking about on horseback obviously, the Germans 185 00:10:53,457 --> 00:10:56,617 Speaker 1: moving guns that are like bigger than any guns we 186 00:10:56,697 --> 00:10:58,697 Speaker 1: even see now for the First World War. They're doing 187 00:10:58,697 --> 00:11:00,497 Speaker 1: it with some of it on trains, but a lot 188 00:11:00,497 --> 00:11:03,617 Speaker 1: of it with horseback. Obviously, the British, the British Navy. 189 00:11:03,617 --> 00:11:08,177 Speaker 1: I mean, most of the army that Wermark that invaded 190 00:11:08,377 --> 00:11:12,297 Speaker 1: Poland was horse drawn. Its not me, Yeah, you can 191 00:11:12,377 --> 00:11:16,337 Speaker 1: hear about the Parsers, but a ton of it was 192 00:11:16,617 --> 00:11:19,537 Speaker 1: horse drawn. I mean, even when the Ottomans were at 193 00:11:19,577 --> 00:11:22,377 Speaker 1: their peak too. What the Ottomans could do, the reason 194 00:11:22,377 --> 00:11:25,737 Speaker 1: the Ottomans were the pre eminent Western world military power 195 00:11:25,897 --> 00:11:30,297 Speaker 1: for certainly a few hundred years, was they could bring 196 00:11:30,297 --> 00:11:33,457 Speaker 1: more men into the field, feed them with better material, 197 00:11:33,697 --> 00:11:37,497 Speaker 1: better training, and better logistics support for them than anybody 198 00:11:37,577 --> 00:11:40,977 Speaker 1: else by far, like no one else even close to 199 00:11:41,137 --> 00:11:42,737 Speaker 1: being able. Now, you know, a lot of that was 200 00:11:42,777 --> 00:11:47,137 Speaker 1: the logistics of or the the advantage of having Constantinople, 201 00:11:47,177 --> 00:11:51,577 Speaker 1: which is the single probably most advantageous real estate you 202 00:11:51,617 --> 00:11:54,257 Speaker 1: could have had in the entire certainly entire Mediterranean world, 203 00:11:54,297 --> 00:11:56,897 Speaker 1: but of course it was the Romans who really built 204 00:11:56,937 --> 00:11:59,097 Speaker 1: that up. And of course we still you can go 205 00:11:59,217 --> 00:12:03,257 Speaker 1: swalk on a Roman road today. Yeah, and it's better 206 00:12:03,297 --> 00:12:08,177 Speaker 1: than most roads in our third world cities in Blue America. 207 00:12:08,257 --> 00:12:10,497 Speaker 1: And this is why, you know, as as I look 208 00:12:10,537 --> 00:12:13,137 Speaker 1: again now at the future and what we'll be able 209 00:12:13,177 --> 00:12:16,977 Speaker 1: to do. Um, Look, our economic pre eminence is really 210 00:12:17,017 --> 00:12:20,897 Speaker 1: what drives our military preeminence, certainly in a conventional conflict. 211 00:12:21,497 --> 00:12:24,217 Speaker 1: And I see what's happening in Ukraine, and I wanted 212 00:12:24,217 --> 00:12:27,537 Speaker 1: to switch and get your sense of where we are 213 00:12:28,137 --> 00:12:31,097 Speaker 1: in We're going to talk strategy now. We've been talking logistics, 214 00:12:31,097 --> 00:12:34,097 Speaker 1: talking strategy here. Here's where here's where I think the 215 00:12:34,497 --> 00:12:36,857 Speaker 1: right tends to be on this um and not including 216 00:12:36,857 --> 00:12:38,897 Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham, who's just like blow it out of the sky, 217 00:12:39,097 --> 00:12:42,177 Speaker 1: went with the Russian claims. I mean, I don't I 218 00:12:42,177 --> 00:12:44,817 Speaker 1: don't understand how the Republican base. I want to meet 219 00:12:44,817 --> 00:12:49,657 Speaker 1: these South Carolina Republican you know, rock solid Republican voters 220 00:12:50,097 --> 00:12:52,657 Speaker 1: who are like Lindsey Graham is my guy. I guess 221 00:12:52,697 --> 00:12:54,857 Speaker 1: it's just habit. But I sit here, I go what 222 00:12:54,897 --> 00:12:59,217 Speaker 1: do you you know anyway, you know, these red states 223 00:12:59,217 --> 00:13:01,457 Speaker 1: get soft because they don't have to fight. You know, 224 00:13:01,857 --> 00:13:05,457 Speaker 1: Republicans in California are pretty hard because we're on our 225 00:13:06,057 --> 00:13:08,617 Speaker 1: back foot all the time. But you get to like 226 00:13:08,737 --> 00:13:11,657 Speaker 1: Texas and if you want to be electeds som you 227 00:13:11,697 --> 00:13:14,257 Speaker 1: gotta be a Republican. Seeing it a lot of soft 228 00:13:14,377 --> 00:13:18,097 Speaker 1: Republicans who should be Democrats in a normal state coming in. 229 00:13:18,257 --> 00:13:20,137 Speaker 1: And then there are things like well, you know, we 230 00:13:20,217 --> 00:13:24,777 Speaker 1: can't really stop groomers. Oh well, school choice is terrible. 231 00:13:25,177 --> 00:13:28,537 Speaker 1: Oh well, ain't gonna be started? Yeah, no, I mean 232 00:13:28,577 --> 00:13:30,737 Speaker 1: you want. I was thinking it's interesting, you know, the 233 00:13:31,217 --> 00:13:34,457 Speaker 1: you could argue like three of the great and great 234 00:13:34,497 --> 00:13:37,457 Speaker 1: I don't mean like good people, but most impactful. Although 235 00:13:37,497 --> 00:13:38,977 Speaker 1: I hate that word. It's not really the way it 236 00:13:38,977 --> 00:13:42,497 Speaker 1: should be used. Impactful. It's not even a word, but 237 00:13:42,537 --> 00:13:44,977 Speaker 1: people use it all the time. Um. I think it's 238 00:13:44,977 --> 00:13:46,897 Speaker 1: probably is considered a word now. But then again, so 239 00:13:47,177 --> 00:13:48,657 Speaker 1: or is like, you know, there's all these things that 240 00:13:48,657 --> 00:13:52,537 Speaker 1: they're changing all the time. Um. Yes, you look at Napoleon, 241 00:13:53,217 --> 00:13:56,497 Speaker 1: sort of the greatest French nationalist of all time from Corsica, 242 00:13:56,857 --> 00:13:59,737 Speaker 1: which is like I know, right, not really Frans like coming. 243 00:14:00,577 --> 00:14:03,937 Speaker 1: You know, Wrench warriors were a delusional teenage girl and 244 00:14:04,017 --> 00:14:08,017 Speaker 1: a Corsican dwarf. You know, he went back and forth 245 00:14:08,057 --> 00:14:11,057 Speaker 1: between Italy and France, right, so it's like, is it 246 00:14:11,097 --> 00:14:18,537 Speaker 1: really France. Um, you had Joseph Stalin, who came from uh, Georgia, 247 00:14:18,657 --> 00:14:22,097 Speaker 1: which is on the frontier of the Russian Russian Empire 248 00:14:22,137 --> 00:14:26,457 Speaker 1: at the time, right, and you have Hitler. Much of 249 00:14:26,457 --> 00:14:28,977 Speaker 1: every of those things of Hitler's being German. Hitler is Austrian, 250 00:14:29,537 --> 00:14:33,417 Speaker 1: which from from the from the sort of frontier, and 251 00:14:34,057 --> 00:14:37,457 Speaker 1: and you know the nationalist ultra nationalist sentiments that came 252 00:14:37,537 --> 00:14:40,617 Speaker 1: from some of these individuals and the way that they 253 00:14:40,897 --> 00:14:42,377 Speaker 1: I just think it's interesting because you know, they grew 254 00:14:42,457 --> 00:14:45,737 Speaker 1: up in places where there was that that friction of 255 00:14:45,937 --> 00:14:50,497 Speaker 1: empire and holding all together. Yeah, that's a good point. 256 00:14:50,537 --> 00:14:54,017 Speaker 1: I mean, you look at somebody like Trajan uh and 257 00:14:54,137 --> 00:14:57,297 Speaker 1: uh he was I believe he was Spanish. He was 258 00:14:57,337 --> 00:15:00,497 Speaker 1: born in Spain. Hold on, I'm gonna get honey, I'm 259 00:15:00,537 --> 00:15:04,257 Speaker 1: gonna get the pizza. This is fine. This is what 260 00:15:04,417 --> 00:15:06,897 Speaker 1: we expect on this to see on the radio show. 261 00:15:07,217 --> 00:15:09,617 Speaker 1: We're on the clock, man, it's every we got sponsors, 262 00:15:09,617 --> 00:15:12,257 Speaker 1: we gotta get do you know here here you could 263 00:15:12,257 --> 00:15:13,737 Speaker 1: get the pizza. What do we get on this pizza? 264 00:15:13,737 --> 00:15:15,617 Speaker 1: By the way, we talking pepperoni? What do we get 265 00:15:15,657 --> 00:15:18,937 Speaker 1: on this Oh? I got pepperoni, sausage, bell, pepper and onions. 266 00:15:19,217 --> 00:15:25,897 Speaker 1: Excuse me, honey, get the pizza. This is very much 267 00:15:26,017 --> 00:15:29,857 Speaker 1: like Will Ferrell in Wedding Crashers when he's like the 268 00:15:29,897 --> 00:15:32,777 Speaker 1: meat load, I'm going to go get the pizza. Give 269 00:15:32,817 --> 00:15:35,097 Speaker 1: me a minute. Yeah, go ahead and get the pizza. 270 00:15:35,257 --> 00:15:37,097 Speaker 1: That's not that's not a problem. In the meantime, I'm 271 00:15:37,137 --> 00:15:38,697 Speaker 1: actually going to do a read for one of our 272 00:15:38,737 --> 00:15:42,657 Speaker 1: fantastic sponsors. 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Call the Oxford Gold Group about your 292 00:16:40,097 --> 00:16:43,257 Speaker 1: possibility to get gold and silver today. You can also 293 00:16:43,257 --> 00:16:46,737 Speaker 1: get additional free bonus opportunities. Oh that sounds interesting. A 294 00:16:47,017 --> 00:16:49,737 Speaker 1: three three four zero four gold A three three four 295 00:16:49,897 --> 00:16:54,377 Speaker 1: zero four g O L D. Kurt Schlichter is back 296 00:16:54,657 --> 00:16:57,457 Speaker 1: and he has his pizza now in hand, which is 297 00:16:57,497 --> 00:17:00,537 Speaker 1: exciting or at least at hand. I love how you 298 00:17:00,657 --> 00:17:03,697 Speaker 1: just swing right into a read. Yeah, of course is 299 00:17:03,697 --> 00:17:05,857 Speaker 1: when I guess post for folks, it's the part I 300 00:17:05,897 --> 00:17:08,937 Speaker 1: hate the most, but I'm I'm a pro man. That's 301 00:17:09,017 --> 00:17:10,737 Speaker 1: you know, you got you got your space and the 302 00:17:10,777 --> 00:17:13,457 Speaker 1: time you're dead no dead air, no dead air even 303 00:17:13,497 --> 00:17:15,177 Speaker 1: on the podcast. That's how we roll. By the way, 304 00:17:15,457 --> 00:17:20,577 Speaker 1: I heard a dog pizza because I heard wait, wait, 305 00:17:20,737 --> 00:17:22,617 Speaker 1: I got a question. I heard a dog in the background. 306 00:17:22,617 --> 00:17:24,857 Speaker 1: Do you have a dog? What do you what do 307 00:17:24,857 --> 00:17:29,537 Speaker 1: you have? I have a rat like, uh, terrier and 308 00:17:29,657 --> 00:17:32,417 Speaker 1: kind of like a little quarty. Okay, I mean, you 309 00:17:32,457 --> 00:17:35,977 Speaker 1: know it's funny. Um, I'm looking at houses with the 310 00:17:36,137 --> 00:17:38,337 Speaker 1: uh with the wife, you know, we want to actually 311 00:17:38,337 --> 00:17:39,897 Speaker 1: get a house, gonna try to start a family, that 312 00:17:39,937 --> 00:17:42,137 Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And because I've lived in just like 313 00:17:42,177 --> 00:17:46,177 Speaker 1: tiny apartments my whole life, very bachelor style. Um, you 314 00:17:46,217 --> 00:17:49,577 Speaker 1: know it was at one point, yeah, at one point, 315 00:17:49,657 --> 00:17:52,017 Speaker 1: my my very small studio apartment in New York was 316 00:17:52,057 --> 00:17:55,137 Speaker 1: described by a young woman as uh as as looking 317 00:17:55,177 --> 00:17:59,577 Speaker 1: like something that was a shrine to uh, like my 318 00:17:59,697 --> 00:18:03,177 Speaker 1: time in the CIA, and and a sword collection. And 319 00:18:03,217 --> 00:18:06,897 Speaker 1: I was like, what guy in his early thirties who 320 00:18:06,937 --> 00:18:09,457 Speaker 1: lives alone doesn't have a bunch of weapons on the 321 00:18:09,457 --> 00:18:15,417 Speaker 1: wall anyway up there? See for every squad right exactly 322 00:18:15,697 --> 00:18:18,657 Speaker 1: exactly why why why wouldn't I have a saber handy? 323 00:18:18,777 --> 00:18:20,417 Speaker 1: I'm not telling you what's in some of these drawers 324 00:18:20,457 --> 00:18:23,497 Speaker 1: around me. Yeah, but I will say that, she laughs 325 00:18:23,537 --> 00:18:25,897 Speaker 1: to me. Because we go see houses, I always want 326 00:18:25,897 --> 00:18:27,737 Speaker 1: to see the books of the person who lives there, 327 00:18:28,057 --> 00:18:31,657 Speaker 1: like what books they have, and it's just I just 328 00:18:31,777 --> 00:18:33,577 Speaker 1: feel like I can I look at the books and 329 00:18:33,617 --> 00:18:35,777 Speaker 1: I get a sense. I'm like of who lives here 330 00:18:36,457 --> 00:18:38,817 Speaker 1: right away every time. First of all, I know Democrat 331 00:18:38,857 --> 00:18:41,017 Speaker 1: or Republican. And she thinks it's really funny. I mean, 332 00:18:41,017 --> 00:18:43,017 Speaker 1: I've seen your books. We're gonna talk about Inferno and 333 00:18:43,377 --> 00:18:45,817 Speaker 1: you're you know, you're an author, My man, here's an 334 00:18:45,817 --> 00:18:49,337 Speaker 1: author who writes um thrillers. We call it? Is that? 335 00:18:49,497 --> 00:18:53,257 Speaker 1: Is that what we would describe the matter? Yeah, yeah, yeah, 336 00:18:53,297 --> 00:18:56,857 Speaker 1: I write The People's Republic was the first of the novels, 337 00:18:57,297 --> 00:19:00,937 Speaker 1: and it's back there, and uh, I decided always bored 338 00:19:01,217 --> 00:19:04,417 Speaker 1: right I board reading these novels. They seemed fairy cookie cutter, 339 00:19:04,577 --> 00:19:06,377 Speaker 1: I want to write some of his action pack funny 340 00:19:06,417 --> 00:19:09,497 Speaker 1: and talked about what was going on. So I'm at 341 00:19:09,617 --> 00:19:12,177 Speaker 1: a world where America has a great divorce, half of 342 00:19:12,177 --> 00:19:14,937 Speaker 1: its red, half of its blue, and a guy from 343 00:19:14,937 --> 00:19:17,177 Speaker 1: the Red has to go into Blue America to do 344 00:19:17,337 --> 00:19:20,937 Speaker 1: missions with guns and he carries a Wilson Combat forty five, 345 00:19:21,297 --> 00:19:24,177 Speaker 1: which got me to meet Bill Wilson eventually, who's just 346 00:19:24,857 --> 00:19:29,217 Speaker 1: a badass gunmaker. And then people buy this thing and 347 00:19:29,297 --> 00:19:31,897 Speaker 1: they enjoyed it. Yeah, I'm a funny guy. I'm the 348 00:19:31,937 --> 00:19:34,297 Speaker 1: only O six I know who was ever a stand 349 00:19:34,337 --> 00:19:37,417 Speaker 1: up comic and how to write a joke. And they're 350 00:19:37,417 --> 00:19:40,617 Speaker 1: funny and action packed and interesting. So I write a 351 00:19:40,657 --> 00:19:46,017 Speaker 1: second one and a third one. I'm writing number eight now, Okay, 352 00:19:46,737 --> 00:19:51,097 Speaker 1: Inferno is number seven. It's out and there's so much 353 00:19:51,137 --> 00:19:54,017 Speaker 1: fun to read, and there's so much fun to write. 354 00:19:54,777 --> 00:19:57,697 Speaker 1: And I've sold a tone of these things. They'll be 355 00:19:57,737 --> 00:20:00,417 Speaker 1: in the top hundred of Amazon. And this is just 356 00:20:01,177 --> 00:20:05,417 Speaker 1: I mean, this is just you know, a great use 357 00:20:05,457 --> 00:20:10,137 Speaker 1: of technology because while I do do non fixed and 358 00:20:10,257 --> 00:20:13,217 Speaker 1: frangory with these, I don't have to go and ask 359 00:20:13,257 --> 00:20:16,697 Speaker 1: anybody if they want to publish it. I can publish it, 360 00:20:17,817 --> 00:20:22,577 Speaker 1: and I sold on Amazon, and it's professional quality, and 361 00:20:24,217 --> 00:20:28,177 Speaker 1: it's you know, people love these things, and it's finally 362 00:20:28,217 --> 00:20:31,697 Speaker 1: making some conservative culture well, this is the thing. This 363 00:20:31,777 --> 00:20:33,057 Speaker 1: is the thing that we have to do. I've been 364 00:20:33,097 --> 00:20:36,057 Speaker 1: saying for a while and I to others say this too, 365 00:20:36,057 --> 00:20:39,057 Speaker 1: but I think it needs amplification, right that. You know, 366 00:20:39,097 --> 00:20:43,657 Speaker 1: you think about Tom Wolfe, who I think people would 367 00:20:43,697 --> 00:20:46,137 Speaker 1: would put as a conservative or certainly a more traditionalist 368 00:20:46,177 --> 00:20:49,937 Speaker 1: author Bonfire the Vanities. You can read Bonfire the Vanities, 369 00:20:49,977 --> 00:20:52,217 Speaker 1: which is a great novel. I've actually got it right 370 00:20:52,217 --> 00:20:54,097 Speaker 1: over here on my bookshelf which people can't see. But 371 00:20:54,177 --> 00:20:56,657 Speaker 1: you know, I don't have my credibility shelf behind me. 372 00:20:56,697 --> 00:20:59,297 Speaker 1: It's in front of me right now, but it's still there. 373 00:20:59,417 --> 00:21:01,057 Speaker 1: I just want ever to know I'm not you know, 374 00:21:01,057 --> 00:21:03,457 Speaker 1: I'm calling it out. It's still there. Bonfire the Vanities, 375 00:21:03,497 --> 00:21:05,737 Speaker 1: great book, terrible movie, So don't ever watch the movie. 376 00:21:05,817 --> 00:21:08,457 Speaker 1: Tom Hanks, Goldie not Goalie on um who is in it? 377 00:21:08,857 --> 00:21:13,097 Speaker 1: Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis is in it. And I 378 00:21:13,137 --> 00:21:15,777 Speaker 1: was trying to remember who the female lead was, but anyway, UM, 379 00:21:15,817 --> 00:21:17,817 Speaker 1: not a good remember either. Yeah, the book was. The 380 00:21:17,857 --> 00:21:20,537 Speaker 1: book is excellent though, but you you can read that 381 00:21:20,617 --> 00:21:23,297 Speaker 1: book and you understand that we just sort of go 382 00:21:23,337 --> 00:21:28,577 Speaker 1: through cycles here with with Democrat urban politics and the 383 00:21:28,617 --> 00:21:32,457 Speaker 1: way the city machinery works, and the way the newspapers 384 00:21:32,497 --> 00:21:35,817 Speaker 1: and the narrative and racial politics and all this stuff 385 00:21:35,897 --> 00:21:41,457 Speaker 1: comes together. We need more people creating things in that space. 386 00:21:41,497 --> 00:21:43,497 Speaker 1: And I say this is somebody who does like traditional 387 00:21:43,617 --> 00:21:46,937 Speaker 1: news talk radio every day. Um, obviously I think I 388 00:21:46,977 --> 00:21:49,097 Speaker 1: have a particular take on it. Or I've been good 389 00:21:49,137 --> 00:21:52,097 Speaker 1: at it, so I you know, I love what I do. Um, 390 00:21:52,537 --> 00:21:54,497 Speaker 1: but I do want to actually do some of that 391 00:21:54,537 --> 00:21:56,257 Speaker 1: other stuff. I mean, if I had my brothers, I'll 392 00:21:56,257 --> 00:21:58,057 Speaker 1: just tell you this, right, we nerd out together here 393 00:21:58,057 --> 00:22:01,097 Speaker 1: for a second, just you, me and the you know 394 00:22:01,137 --> 00:22:03,097 Speaker 1: the there's gonna be like hundreds of thousands of people 395 00:22:03,097 --> 00:22:04,617 Speaker 1: when all of sudden done. You're gonna listen to this 396 00:22:04,657 --> 00:22:06,457 Speaker 1: at least watching. We need more people to watch. So 397 00:22:06,457 --> 00:22:08,497 Speaker 1: if you're listening to this, please subscribe to the YouTube 398 00:22:08,577 --> 00:22:12,217 Speaker 1: channel as well. Because Kurt and I shirt. He's wearing 399 00:22:12,217 --> 00:22:15,937 Speaker 1: a cool shirt. If more of you click subscribe at 400 00:22:16,057 --> 00:22:18,497 Speaker 1: YouTube dot com slash buck section. Kurt will go down 401 00:22:18,537 --> 00:22:21,817 Speaker 1: three buttons. We're talking three buttons down. That's a little 402 00:22:21,817 --> 00:22:25,577 Speaker 1: bit of man cleavage. You're gonna get there going wow. 403 00:22:26,137 --> 00:22:31,537 Speaker 1: And Earnest org nine, Uh, I don't even who is that? 404 00:22:32,577 --> 00:22:36,537 Speaker 1: You know who Ernest Boord nine is? No? You know nine, 405 00:22:37,217 --> 00:22:40,057 Speaker 1: I don't know. Anyway, we need to Ernest Boord nine. 406 00:22:40,057 --> 00:22:44,177 Speaker 1: You're gonna go Ernestine of course. Of course I was 407 00:22:44,217 --> 00:22:48,057 Speaker 1: thinking Sarash from Beverly Hills, cop and anyway, Um, so 408 00:22:48,097 --> 00:22:52,897 Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember Bronson okay. I also 409 00:22:53,057 --> 00:22:56,297 Speaker 1: was good friends with the sister of Lisa Ailbacher who 410 00:22:56,337 --> 00:22:58,497 Speaker 1: was in there. She was a stand up comic and 411 00:22:58,537 --> 00:23:01,377 Speaker 1: she would never tell her real name, but we figured 412 00:23:01,417 --> 00:23:05,577 Speaker 1: it out. Good dude, you're also in LA. I would say, 413 00:23:05,577 --> 00:23:08,417 Speaker 1: I'm a New York Conserva guy though even though I've moved. 414 00:23:08,457 --> 00:23:10,857 Speaker 1: I've moved to Miami to join the Lord of Revolution. 415 00:23:10,937 --> 00:23:12,737 Speaker 1: So and I love it here, by the way, and 416 00:23:12,777 --> 00:23:14,777 Speaker 1: I I don't know what to say. It's awesome, Like 417 00:23:14,897 --> 00:23:17,897 Speaker 1: I just went on. I went. I went and picked 418 00:23:17,937 --> 00:23:22,537 Speaker 1: up an AAR fifteen recently, and dam of Defense, you'd 419 00:23:22,577 --> 00:23:24,977 Speaker 1: be very proud. It's very, very excellent. I also also 420 00:23:25,017 --> 00:23:26,857 Speaker 1: got a Staccatos too. We can talk about this in 421 00:23:26,857 --> 00:23:32,177 Speaker 1: the oh oh oh yes, oh yes. Papa Buck doesn't 422 00:23:32,217 --> 00:23:36,057 Speaker 1: mess around, you know what I mean. If I'm getting firearms, yeah, 423 00:23:36,097 --> 00:23:38,337 Speaker 1: it's like the Lamborghini of firearms. Like I'm not playing 424 00:23:38,377 --> 00:23:41,497 Speaker 1: games over here. But I walked out of the gun store, 425 00:23:42,137 --> 00:23:44,257 Speaker 1: and I know this is gonna sound crazy to the 426 00:23:44,297 --> 00:23:47,137 Speaker 1: people listening who are from like normal red states. For 427 00:23:47,297 --> 00:23:49,617 Speaker 1: the Second Amendment, there was a part of me that 428 00:23:49,737 --> 00:23:55,777 Speaker 1: kept thinking, like I'm gonna get arrested because in New York. Yeah, 429 00:23:55,777 --> 00:23:57,537 Speaker 1: in New York, if you walk out of a gun 430 00:23:57,577 --> 00:24:00,977 Speaker 1: store with an AAR fifteen, like that means somebody sold 431 00:24:00,977 --> 00:24:02,777 Speaker 1: you something in the back they weren't supposed to and 432 00:24:02,777 --> 00:24:03,977 Speaker 1: like you're in trouble. You know what I'm saying, Like 433 00:24:04,017 --> 00:24:06,897 Speaker 1: this is crazy. Yeah, here comes to slat team. Yeah, yeah, 434 00:24:06,937 --> 00:24:11,577 Speaker 1: I was up. I've got an a state concealed license. 435 00:24:11,657 --> 00:24:17,417 Speaker 1: I was in Texas where it applies, and of course 436 00:24:17,457 --> 00:24:20,017 Speaker 1: in California, I was only a guy in charge of 437 00:24:20,137 --> 00:24:23,657 Speaker 1: thousands of guys hearing automatic rifles on the streets of 438 00:24:23,697 --> 00:24:29,257 Speaker 1: Los Angeles as a battalion commander during civil operations. But 439 00:24:29,417 --> 00:24:33,137 Speaker 1: I can't be trusted with a concealed carry permit. No, 440 00:24:33,337 --> 00:24:36,737 Speaker 1: some GS three has to decide for the colonel who 441 00:24:37,017 --> 00:24:41,337 Speaker 1: whether or not I should be armed. So I'm I 442 00:24:41,417 --> 00:24:44,137 Speaker 1: had a gun. I was carrying it, and it felt 443 00:24:44,297 --> 00:24:47,537 Speaker 1: very weird. I know I carried guns a lot, but 444 00:24:47,697 --> 00:24:50,497 Speaker 1: you have to recock your mind when you're doing it. 445 00:24:50,777 --> 00:24:53,377 Speaker 1: You can't be allowed mouth, you can't drink a lot. 446 00:24:53,697 --> 00:24:56,817 Speaker 1: You gotta behave yourself. And it was you know, normally, 447 00:24:57,097 --> 00:24:59,017 Speaker 1: you know, gun three, I would be an as big 448 00:24:59,017 --> 00:25:01,977 Speaker 1: an idiot as I want. Suddenly, you're you know, you 449 00:25:02,057 --> 00:25:04,697 Speaker 1: got that glock and suddenly it's like, ah, I better, 450 00:25:04,857 --> 00:25:09,177 Speaker 1: uh make sure I don't do anything stupid. It is remarkable. 451 00:25:09,217 --> 00:25:13,137 Speaker 1: I mean I remember even when I was sent by 452 00:25:13,137 --> 00:25:15,497 Speaker 1: the federal government to the NYPD to help the Intel 453 00:25:15,497 --> 00:25:20,217 Speaker 1: Division the CIA, the federal government had trained me to 454 00:25:20,377 --> 00:25:23,937 Speaker 1: use firearms, and I asked, I was like, so, is 455 00:25:23,937 --> 00:25:25,817 Speaker 1: there any way, like can I get a permit here 456 00:25:25,817 --> 00:25:28,817 Speaker 1: as as you know, a civilian essentially, you know, And 457 00:25:28,857 --> 00:25:31,977 Speaker 1: they were like no, sitting. I was like, wait, but 458 00:25:31,977 --> 00:25:33,457 Speaker 1: but I mean, I don't understand, like I have the 459 00:25:33,457 --> 00:25:35,577 Speaker 1: Second Amendment and I've been trained. You guys knew you 460 00:25:35,777 --> 00:25:37,457 Speaker 1: I have a top secret clearance And they're just like, yeah, 461 00:25:37,457 --> 00:25:40,257 Speaker 1: we don't. That doesn't that means nothing? Yeah, no, no, no, 462 00:25:40,297 --> 00:25:42,897 Speaker 1: that matters. Yeah, you know, the gang members, they get 463 00:25:42,937 --> 00:25:44,817 Speaker 1: to have the guns and if by the way, and 464 00:25:44,937 --> 00:25:47,497 Speaker 1: even if arrested with them in New York at least 465 00:25:47,537 --> 00:25:51,617 Speaker 1: now and a lot of other Democrat precincts, you've noticed, 466 00:25:51,657 --> 00:25:53,977 Speaker 1: there's a fascinating I like to tell everybody about this card. 467 00:25:54,217 --> 00:25:58,177 Speaker 1: I'm sure you've noticed this. There is a fascinating reality 468 00:25:58,457 --> 00:26:04,337 Speaker 1: of firearms, uh law enforce or enforcing laws around firearms 469 00:26:04,577 --> 00:26:06,737 Speaker 1: where they're always talking about how we have to crack 470 00:26:06,817 --> 00:26:11,097 Speaker 1: down on guns, more background checks, ban AAR fifteen. So 471 00:26:11,137 --> 00:26:13,257 Speaker 1: you know all this stuff right that Biden's still talking 472 00:26:13,257 --> 00:26:15,097 Speaker 1: about it, you know this this week. I mean they're 473 00:26:15,097 --> 00:26:17,657 Speaker 1: talking about the stuff all the time. Wow. You know 474 00:26:17,697 --> 00:26:22,697 Speaker 1: that they basically don't prosecute gang members for a first 475 00:26:22,697 --> 00:26:27,897 Speaker 1: defense with guns in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles go 476 00:26:27,977 --> 00:26:29,657 Speaker 1: on the list. So if you have a if you 477 00:26:29,697 --> 00:26:31,937 Speaker 1: have a handgun that is totally illegal for you to 478 00:26:31,937 --> 00:26:34,697 Speaker 1: have because you're a convicted felon. Anyway, a lot of 479 00:26:34,737 --> 00:26:37,937 Speaker 1: district attorneys are just saying, you know, we don't want 480 00:26:38,057 --> 00:26:40,137 Speaker 1: we don't like this is gonna make your life hard, 481 00:26:40,177 --> 00:26:43,097 Speaker 1: So we're not gonna actually prosecute you for this. But 482 00:26:43,337 --> 00:26:45,657 Speaker 1: they would totally charge me. I was gonna say, I 483 00:26:45,777 --> 00:26:49,457 Speaker 1: guarantee you if you had an illegal r if you 484 00:26:49,537 --> 00:26:51,497 Speaker 1: had you know, if you did something that even made 485 00:26:51,657 --> 00:26:53,097 Speaker 1: if you had an sp let's do this. If you 486 00:26:53,137 --> 00:26:54,857 Speaker 1: had an spr if you had a short bear rifle 487 00:26:55,617 --> 00:26:58,057 Speaker 1: and you and they bagged you with that in California, 488 00:26:58,137 --> 00:27:00,497 Speaker 1: even if every other firem you had was legal, you 489 00:27:00,537 --> 00:27:02,617 Speaker 1: and I both know you're going to prison. You and 490 00:27:02,657 --> 00:27:04,217 Speaker 1: I both know the disrict attorney is going to try 491 00:27:04,257 --> 00:27:05,657 Speaker 1: to send you to prison or you know, the county 492 00:27:05,697 --> 00:27:09,457 Speaker 1: attorney or whatever. Absolutely yeah, oh yeah. So this so 493 00:27:11,697 --> 00:27:14,497 Speaker 1: the gang members who actually murder people, they get the 494 00:27:14,537 --> 00:27:18,537 Speaker 1: pass right because you know, all social justice. But the 495 00:27:18,617 --> 00:27:20,697 Speaker 1: guy that wants to you know, I'll actually tell you 496 00:27:20,737 --> 00:27:22,857 Speaker 1: this is this is a true story. I knew a 497 00:27:22,857 --> 00:27:25,297 Speaker 1: guy in New York who had the cops come to 498 00:27:25,457 --> 00:27:30,377 Speaker 1: his home and they they to be fair, they didn't 499 00:27:30,457 --> 00:27:36,537 Speaker 1: arrest him, but they confiscated his double barreled shotgun. Okay, 500 00:27:36,577 --> 00:27:38,857 Speaker 1: like his Elmer Fudd. It wasn't an overunder. I mean, 501 00:27:38,897 --> 00:27:40,097 Speaker 1: it wasn't a side by side, but it was in 502 00:27:40,177 --> 00:27:43,177 Speaker 1: an over under. They confiscated a shotgun because he was 503 00:27:43,217 --> 00:27:46,617 Speaker 1: a lawful permit holder for that long gun in New 504 00:27:46,697 --> 00:27:50,337 Speaker 1: York City who had sent in the renewal check. Because 505 00:27:50,377 --> 00:27:52,657 Speaker 1: you have to renew it's not even enough to go 506 00:27:52,697 --> 00:27:54,977 Speaker 1: through the process and pay you know, seven hundred dollars 507 00:27:55,057 --> 00:27:57,097 Speaker 1: or whatever it is, or five hundred dollars to get 508 00:27:57,097 --> 00:27:59,537 Speaker 1: the permit the first time there's a renewal I think 509 00:27:59,537 --> 00:28:02,137 Speaker 1: it's three years or five years or something. He sent 510 00:28:02,217 --> 00:28:04,137 Speaker 1: in a renewal check, but it was a personal check, 511 00:28:04,177 --> 00:28:07,537 Speaker 1: not a certified check. Do you think that they reached 512 00:28:07,577 --> 00:28:10,217 Speaker 1: out to him to say, you know, hello, sir, we 513 00:28:10,257 --> 00:28:14,377 Speaker 1: know you're trying to you know, the Licensing Division, the NAPD. No. No, 514 00:28:14,537 --> 00:28:16,177 Speaker 1: they just put it all on a drawer with this file, 515 00:28:16,777 --> 00:28:19,257 Speaker 1: waited until it came up, and then they paid him 516 00:28:19,257 --> 00:28:21,537 Speaker 1: a visit. They confiscated his shotgun, and they said we 517 00:28:21,577 --> 00:28:23,617 Speaker 1: could arrescue, you know, but we're not gonna do. They 518 00:28:23,617 --> 00:28:25,217 Speaker 1: didn't do that because obviously I think people would have 519 00:28:25,217 --> 00:28:28,657 Speaker 1: completely lost around. But that is the anti firearms regime 520 00:28:28,977 --> 00:28:32,737 Speaker 1: in a major city. That's how they actually do things. Yeah, 521 00:28:32,777 --> 00:28:37,297 Speaker 1: it's anti firearms for normal people, pro firearms for you know, 522 00:28:37,377 --> 00:28:42,177 Speaker 1: preferred democratic constituencies. The one of the biggest problems in 523 00:28:42,217 --> 00:28:44,657 Speaker 1: our country right now is the two tiered system of law, 524 00:28:45,137 --> 00:28:49,537 Speaker 1: the two tiered system of everything. You saw it recently 525 00:28:49,577 --> 00:28:52,577 Speaker 1: with a Silicon Valley bank. Do you think a bank 526 00:28:53,097 --> 00:28:56,657 Speaker 1: that somebody else pointed out its brilliant, a bank catering 527 00:28:57,017 --> 00:29:02,377 Speaker 1: a regional bank in Texas catering to the oil wildcatter industry, 528 00:29:02,537 --> 00:29:08,657 Speaker 1: would get a Sunday night pass on the FDIC limits. Oh, 529 00:29:08,697 --> 00:29:14,217 Speaker 1: I don't think so. I'mocratic connected one in California. Oh yeah, yeah, 530 00:29:14,297 --> 00:29:19,137 Speaker 1: we can. Here you go, there's free money. It's true. 531 00:29:19,177 --> 00:29:22,657 Speaker 1: I mean the system, the ways in which the system 532 00:29:22,737 --> 00:29:25,937 Speaker 1: are rigged are so multifaceted, but also so brazen at 533 00:29:25,977 --> 00:29:28,737 Speaker 1: this point, but I think when people look into it, 534 00:29:28,737 --> 00:29:30,257 Speaker 1: it can be overwhelming. I want to bring I want 535 00:29:30,257 --> 00:29:32,057 Speaker 1: to bring this back to California though in a second, 536 00:29:32,097 --> 00:29:34,617 Speaker 1: as you're a Californian Conservative, and I think that's fascinating 537 00:29:34,657 --> 00:29:37,177 Speaker 1: because of what's happening in your state. We'll get to 538 00:29:37,217 --> 00:29:38,857 Speaker 1: that a second. But I also want to make sure 539 00:29:39,097 --> 00:29:41,257 Speaker 1: that whether it's Kurt or anybody else out there, they're 540 00:29:41,257 --> 00:29:43,417 Speaker 1: getting a great night's sleep. 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I mean, have you 556 00:30:31,257 --> 00:30:35,897 Speaker 1: reached a sort of terminal velocity of crazy such that 557 00:30:36,017 --> 00:30:37,737 Speaker 1: now even because this is what I always tell people, 558 00:30:37,737 --> 00:30:41,417 Speaker 1: I say, you have to remember Democrat cities because they 559 00:30:41,537 --> 00:30:44,017 Speaker 1: think that, first of all, the suffering of their stupid 560 00:30:44,097 --> 00:30:47,457 Speaker 1: policies is mostly going to be confined to other people 561 00:30:47,457 --> 00:30:50,017 Speaker 1: who are not important to them, right, So that's step one. 562 00:30:50,577 --> 00:30:52,857 Speaker 1: And then there's another step though, and this is more 563 00:30:52,937 --> 00:30:56,417 Speaker 1: places I think you see like Portland, Seattle, but similar 564 00:30:56,897 --> 00:31:01,497 Speaker 1: where they believe that the suffering of their dumbass policies 565 00:31:02,377 --> 00:31:06,417 Speaker 1: is a necessary, almost purification process to get to that 566 00:31:06,497 --> 00:31:09,817 Speaker 1: better place. So it's like, Okay, we have more shootings, 567 00:31:10,177 --> 00:31:13,057 Speaker 1: but we have more social and racial justice in this city, now, 568 00:31:13,137 --> 00:31:16,177 Speaker 1: don't we. You know, Okay, we have a whole lot 569 00:31:16,257 --> 00:31:20,337 Speaker 1: more you know, street crime, and people are overdosing on 570 00:31:20,417 --> 00:31:24,177 Speaker 1: fentonel left and right, but the less class based system 571 00:31:24,217 --> 00:31:26,297 Speaker 1: than it would otherwise be, you know, stuff like that. 572 00:31:27,217 --> 00:31:31,777 Speaker 1: But eventually even the Nancy Pelosi Libs are like, I 573 00:31:31,817 --> 00:31:36,497 Speaker 1: don't want you know, lunatics. Well, I mean half naked 574 00:31:36,537 --> 00:31:39,057 Speaker 1: lunatic attacking her husband with a hammer for example, Right, 575 00:31:39,097 --> 00:31:45,017 Speaker 1: I mean, you know stuff like that. Well, look, you're 576 00:31:45,057 --> 00:31:47,577 Speaker 1: not gonna while we have to add some crime around here. 577 00:31:47,937 --> 00:31:50,977 Speaker 1: I live in a rich liberal area. You think you 578 00:31:51,017 --> 00:31:54,257 Speaker 1: think our cops are gonna let Hobo's Trump up and 579 00:31:54,257 --> 00:31:58,577 Speaker 1: down our streets. Of course they're not. You know, the 580 00:31:58,977 --> 00:32:03,337 Speaker 1: suffering in California is to the people who aren't connected, 581 00:32:03,817 --> 00:32:09,017 Speaker 1: who aren't approved, who aren't loved U. For the rest 582 00:32:09,057 --> 00:32:12,577 Speaker 1: of us, it's fairly comfortable. I mean, there's annoying things 583 00:32:12,617 --> 00:32:17,937 Speaker 1: that happen, but otherwise it's you know, if you're I'm 584 00:32:17,977 --> 00:32:21,417 Speaker 1: a lawyer in a blue state. This state was literally 585 00:32:21,537 --> 00:32:28,017 Speaker 1: made for me, So it's not that bad, h you know. 586 00:32:28,097 --> 00:32:30,857 Speaker 1: I mean, there's certainly some personal things. There's family here 587 00:32:30,857 --> 00:32:34,457 Speaker 1: that I want to stay here, and I you know, 588 00:32:34,497 --> 00:32:37,257 Speaker 1: at some point I can definitely see myself moving to 589 00:32:37,377 --> 00:32:41,137 Speaker 1: the Free State of Florida. I you know, a lot 590 00:32:41,177 --> 00:32:46,297 Speaker 1: of the nonsense is exhausting. The taxes are exhausting, h 591 00:32:46,537 --> 00:32:52,257 Speaker 1: the idiotic policies are exhausting. At some point, you just 592 00:32:52,297 --> 00:32:55,737 Speaker 1: want to breathe free. But I'm not quite ready to 593 00:32:55,817 --> 00:32:59,097 Speaker 1: leave yet. I don't particularly like the idea of retreating. 594 00:32:59,457 --> 00:33:01,897 Speaker 1: I don't know if California can be turned around. It's 595 00:33:01,937 --> 00:33:06,017 Speaker 1: certainly be a hard fight. But you know, people are 596 00:33:06,057 --> 00:33:09,217 Speaker 1: doing it. We're registering more and more conservatives out here 597 00:33:09,377 --> 00:33:15,097 Speaker 1: and else, groups registering ten thousand a month, and I think, 598 00:33:15,777 --> 00:33:19,297 Speaker 1: you know, I think a lot of regular folks are 599 00:33:19,337 --> 00:33:22,577 Speaker 1: getting sick of the nonsense. We just hopefully they'll stop 600 00:33:22,657 --> 00:33:26,057 Speaker 1: voting for idiots like Governor Hairstyle. I think you need 601 00:33:26,057 --> 00:33:30,777 Speaker 1: to get some really desirable part of the state and 602 00:33:30,897 --> 00:33:33,537 Speaker 1: make it the red stronghold and then kind of the 603 00:33:33,617 --> 00:33:37,897 Speaker 1: ink blot of red grow out from there. Or I 604 00:33:37,937 --> 00:33:39,857 Speaker 1: was gonna say, I know it used to be Orange County, 605 00:33:39,897 --> 00:33:41,977 Speaker 1: but you guys need to get you need to get 606 00:33:42,017 --> 00:33:46,217 Speaker 1: that back, because I think that can have a really 607 00:33:46,257 --> 00:33:49,057 Speaker 1: a really profound effect. I mean, even just for example, 608 00:33:49,057 --> 00:33:52,897 Speaker 1: I'm in Miami now and the fact that it was right, 609 00:33:52,977 --> 00:33:55,097 Speaker 1: I mean it when you know more than fifty fifty 610 00:33:55,137 --> 00:33:58,857 Speaker 1: for descantists. But the difference from being the difference in 611 00:33:59,097 --> 00:34:03,297 Speaker 1: quality of life and policies even in a fifty fifty city, right, 612 00:34:03,697 --> 00:34:05,857 Speaker 1: So a fifty fifty city. So let maybe what I 613 00:34:05,857 --> 00:34:08,257 Speaker 1: mean here is like, can we get San Diego to 614 00:34:08,377 --> 00:34:11,857 Speaker 1: be fifty fifty Republican on the because it keeps a 615 00:34:11,937 --> 00:34:14,657 Speaker 1: check on the crazy in New York, in DC, in 616 00:34:14,697 --> 00:34:19,657 Speaker 1: San Francisco it's nine ten. It's literally ninety ten in 617 00:34:19,697 --> 00:34:22,897 Speaker 1: those cities. Now in DC it's more like ninety seven 618 00:34:22,937 --> 00:34:27,457 Speaker 1: to three. Oh yeah, yeah. I just want DC to 619 00:34:27,577 --> 00:34:31,057 Speaker 1: fess ear in its own sewage. It's h you know, 620 00:34:31,177 --> 00:34:35,817 Speaker 1: boiling your own filth um. Look, I mean everything that 621 00:34:35,857 --> 00:34:40,417 Speaker 1: the Blues touch turns to garbage. And I think normal 622 00:34:40,497 --> 00:34:44,577 Speaker 1: people are seeing that. I think, Look, I think next 623 00:34:44,657 --> 00:34:47,497 Speaker 1: year it's gonna be a very good year for Republicans 624 00:34:47,497 --> 00:34:50,937 Speaker 1: if we don't blow it. I think, you know, and 625 00:34:50,977 --> 00:34:52,617 Speaker 1: I wrote a town hall com has to do with 626 00:34:52,737 --> 00:34:58,137 Speaker 1: Ukraine and Ron de Santis. I think that the Republican 627 00:34:58,217 --> 00:35:00,737 Speaker 1: Republicans are going to nominate your De Santis or Trump. 628 00:35:00,897 --> 00:35:04,137 Speaker 1: It's one or the other. I don't think anybody else 629 00:35:04,177 --> 00:35:09,297 Speaker 1: has a chance. But they're effectively by next year, they're 630 00:35:09,337 --> 00:35:11,497 Speaker 1: going to The Republicans are going to have the anti 631 00:35:11,577 --> 00:35:14,497 Speaker 1: war candidate. The Democrats are not going to have any 632 00:35:14,537 --> 00:35:17,657 Speaker 1: choice but be essentially the pro war candidate. And I think, 633 00:35:17,737 --> 00:35:21,857 Speaker 1: by you know, another eighteen months, I think the American 634 00:35:21,897 --> 00:35:24,577 Speaker 1: people are going to be firmly in the anti Ukrainian 635 00:35:24,617 --> 00:35:28,257 Speaker 1: war camp. So I just don't see anything good happening there. 636 00:35:28,337 --> 00:35:30,617 Speaker 1: This is perfect. It's almost like I see its static 637 00:35:30,737 --> 00:35:32,897 Speaker 1: right now. I don't see the Ukrainians being able to 638 00:35:32,897 --> 00:35:36,497 Speaker 1: build up the compact power to break the break the stalemate. 639 00:35:36,777 --> 00:35:40,337 Speaker 1: I do see Russian history tells me that Russians come 640 00:35:40,377 --> 00:35:43,257 Speaker 1: back from initial defeats. I think the Russians have the 641 00:35:43,337 --> 00:35:47,417 Speaker 1: capacity to build up combat power. So I think a 642 00:35:47,537 --> 00:35:50,697 Speaker 1: best case is a static war, which we're funding, and 643 00:35:50,737 --> 00:35:52,657 Speaker 1: I think people will be sick of it. A worst 644 00:35:52,657 --> 00:35:55,897 Speaker 1: case would be a Ukrainian collapse in the face of 645 00:35:55,937 --> 00:36:00,777 Speaker 1: a Russian offensive, with American intervening to try and assure 646 00:36:00,777 --> 00:36:02,537 Speaker 1: them off. So this is perfect, and I don't think 647 00:36:02,537 --> 00:36:04,297 Speaker 1: the American people are going to be there. I think, 648 00:36:04,297 --> 00:36:08,697 Speaker 1: and the Republicans, could you keep talking, hold on a second, 649 00:36:08,697 --> 00:36:13,897 Speaker 1: hold on, I gotta ask you something. What should the 650 00:36:13,937 --> 00:36:18,577 Speaker 1: position of the Republican party be on Ukraine right now 651 00:36:18,737 --> 00:36:23,337 Speaker 1: because we're asking questions or raising concerns. We're saying a 652 00:36:23,377 --> 00:36:26,297 Speaker 1: lot of money is going to this, but I never 653 00:36:26,457 --> 00:36:29,137 Speaker 1: hear really, I mean, if i'm if I'm being totally 654 00:36:29,297 --> 00:36:31,217 Speaker 1: frank about this, and you and I are two guys 655 00:36:32,097 --> 00:36:35,017 Speaker 1: who are frank I mean you're Kurt on Buck, but 656 00:36:35,057 --> 00:36:39,377 Speaker 1: we're being frankier and they never say, well should we? 657 00:36:39,417 --> 00:36:43,937 Speaker 1: Just what would a Descantist or Trump administration if they 658 00:36:43,937 --> 00:36:46,097 Speaker 1: were in charge now, which I know they can't be, 659 00:36:46,177 --> 00:36:49,257 Speaker 1: But what would they want the policy to be? Is 660 00:36:49,297 --> 00:36:52,617 Speaker 1: it just is it totally? Is it set limits to 661 00:36:52,697 --> 00:36:55,377 Speaker 1: the funding? Is it set limits the aid? Or is 662 00:36:55,377 --> 00:36:59,617 Speaker 1: it this is not our problem, not our fight. Zelenski's 663 00:36:59,657 --> 00:37:02,977 Speaker 1: funding under a Republican administration, assuming this war still going on, 664 00:37:03,377 --> 00:37:07,177 Speaker 1: goes down to basically zero at least for combat operations. 665 00:37:07,577 --> 00:37:11,417 Speaker 1: Should that be the policy? What should the policy? Well, look, 666 00:37:11,417 --> 00:37:13,977 Speaker 1: we have to have a strategy which requires objectives, and 667 00:37:14,017 --> 00:37:16,297 Speaker 1: we haven't talked about any of that because the minute 668 00:37:16,377 --> 00:37:23,617 Speaker 1: somebody responds to the reactive tactics, there's always seen our tactics. 669 00:37:23,817 --> 00:37:26,817 Speaker 1: We haven't seen a strategy. Suddenly, you love Putin and 670 00:37:26,857 --> 00:37:28,737 Speaker 1: I love being told I love Putin by a guy 671 00:37:28,777 --> 00:37:31,537 Speaker 1: who is never in the Cold War, who actually went 672 00:37:31,537 --> 00:37:35,577 Speaker 1: out and marched for the KGB's nuclear freeze, telling me, 673 00:37:35,897 --> 00:37:38,977 Speaker 1: you know you love Putin. I you know, I literally 674 00:37:39,057 --> 00:37:42,977 Speaker 1: trained Ukrainian soldiers. There were Ukrainian soldiers in our battalion, 675 00:37:43,097 --> 00:37:46,937 Speaker 1: in our brigade in Kosova. I like the Ukrainians. I 676 00:37:46,977 --> 00:37:50,497 Speaker 1: support them. I would like them to win. They're patriots. 677 00:37:50,537 --> 00:37:52,417 Speaker 1: I understand why they're doing what they want to do. 678 00:37:52,457 --> 00:37:55,817 Speaker 1: But I'm an American patriot, and my interest is my country. 679 00:37:56,097 --> 00:38:01,817 Speaker 1: Our strategic interests as America right now is not Ukraine. 680 00:38:02,337 --> 00:38:05,897 Speaker 1: It is to preserve American supremacy and make sure the 681 00:38:05,977 --> 00:38:10,857 Speaker 1: Chinese don't supplant us. What would support that? That is 682 00:38:10,897 --> 00:38:15,257 Speaker 1: the strategy. A strategy, A smart one would be to 683 00:38:15,297 --> 00:38:18,497 Speaker 1: get Russia back in the Western Fold. I have long 684 00:38:18,617 --> 00:38:22,977 Speaker 1: said that the greatest American foreign policy mistake in the 685 00:38:23,017 --> 00:38:26,257 Speaker 1: last three decades was not a Rack or Afghanistan, but 686 00:38:26,377 --> 00:38:29,977 Speaker 1: the failure to bring Russia into the West after the 687 00:38:29,977 --> 00:38:33,177 Speaker 1: fall of the Soviet Union. It got botched, and then 688 00:38:33,217 --> 00:38:35,617 Speaker 1: suddenly in the last eight years it's been like politically 689 00:38:35,737 --> 00:38:39,577 Speaker 1: useful domestically to hate Russia. You don't have to like Russia. 690 00:38:39,777 --> 00:38:43,257 Speaker 1: You just need Russia to be on our side against China. 691 00:38:43,417 --> 00:38:47,257 Speaker 1: So that should be our strategy. And starting that process 692 00:38:47,337 --> 00:38:51,457 Speaker 1: and it will be a process means making peace in Ukraine. Now, 693 00:38:51,537 --> 00:38:55,337 Speaker 1: Ukrainians won't like it because they'll have to give up territory. 694 00:38:56,417 --> 00:38:59,297 Speaker 1: Putin won't like it because he's not going to get 695 00:38:59,297 --> 00:39:02,777 Speaker 1: everything he wants. But I think our strategy. You know, 696 00:39:02,857 --> 00:39:07,657 Speaker 1: are you know to support our strategy? We should make peace, 697 00:39:08,097 --> 00:39:11,617 Speaker 1: force peace down these guys throats, because it's non American 698 00:39:11,697 --> 00:39:14,617 Speaker 1: interest for this war to continue. I know it's not 699 00:39:14,777 --> 00:39:19,017 Speaker 1: just I know it reck it will recognize an aggressor 700 00:39:19,017 --> 00:39:22,697 Speaker 1: will get some reward out of it. But I'm an American. 701 00:39:23,257 --> 00:39:27,097 Speaker 1: I care about the United States of America. That's my priority, 702 00:39:27,657 --> 00:39:32,137 Speaker 1: and that's what supports a meaningful objective which is much 703 00:39:32,177 --> 00:39:34,697 Speaker 1: bigger than Ukraine. Kurt, we gotta let you get to 704 00:39:34,737 --> 00:39:36,697 Speaker 1: your delicious pizza. I can almost smell it, even though 705 00:39:36,737 --> 00:39:40,217 Speaker 1: I guess it's technically a few thousand miles away. Your books. Though, 706 00:39:41,137 --> 00:39:44,577 Speaker 1: where's people go? Amazon? Which one is latest one? Let's 707 00:39:44,577 --> 00:39:47,417 Speaker 1: sell some books here? Go to Amazon, get Inferno, but 708 00:39:47,537 --> 00:39:50,937 Speaker 1: get get People's Republic, the first one. You'll like it. 709 00:39:50,937 --> 00:39:53,817 Speaker 1: It's fun. You'll want to read all seven I have sold. 710 00:39:54,017 --> 00:39:59,657 Speaker 1: A bunch of these conservatives are begging for material, and boy, 711 00:39:59,857 --> 00:40:03,097 Speaker 1: if only we could convince one of the studios to 712 00:40:03,177 --> 00:40:06,657 Speaker 1: make it. But it's a little unpec it's a little 713 00:40:06,737 --> 00:40:10,217 Speaker 1: not politically correct. Maybe it'd be a real hard a 714 00:40:11,137 --> 00:40:14,337 Speaker 1: hard kill for them to swallow. But they make great movies. 715 00:40:14,617 --> 00:40:16,337 Speaker 1: A lot good to me. I'm gonna I'm gonna go 716 00:40:16,337 --> 00:40:18,617 Speaker 1: get a copy Kirch look through everybody. Also look for 717 00:40:18,697 --> 00:40:22,577 Speaker 1: him Ontownhall dot com. Kurt always a pleasure, Sir, we'll 718 00:40:22,617 --> 00:40:24,737 Speaker 1: talk soon. Thanks for having me.