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Speaker 1: Hey, team, this is the Buck Sexton Show. And on

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Speaker 1: this episode we have Amber eighty with us now. She

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Speaker 1: is the Washington editor of the Spectator. She's a writer, columnist, author.

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Speaker 1: In fact, she's got a book that is just on

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Speaker 1: the new shelves out there, I guess on the shelves

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Speaker 1: and it's a new book on them called Snowflakes Revolt.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Amber about that and some

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Speaker 1: other important stuff going on now, and we're going to

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Speaker 1: see again, how are you doing. I'm doing great. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for having me on the program. Buck.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the snowflake, shall we, because we don't

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Speaker 1: hear that term a lot anymore, not as much as

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Speaker 1: we used to. And then we saw the Stanford Law School,

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Speaker 1: the antics, the lunacy, the acting like a room full

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Speaker 1: of spoiled children, but shouting a lot of curses at

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Speaker 1: the federal judge, Judge Duncan, And I think snowflakes maybe

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Speaker 1: is a thing we have to bring Backnock is how

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Speaker 1: else do you describe law students who shout down a

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Speaker 1: federal judge who has been invited to their university to

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Speaker 1: speak right. It's a term that's kind of considered ghost now,

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Speaker 1: but I'm almost using it tongue in cheek in the

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Speaker 1: book's title, because the whole premise of this book is

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Speaker 1: that conservatives really got it wrong. And a lot of

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Speaker 1: our commentary about what would happen to these crazy campus activists,

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Speaker 1: a lot of us kind of thought that they would

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Speaker 1: get out into the real world and they would melt

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Speaker 1: so to speak, right, The real world would hit them

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Speaker 1: warnings from their employers, and they would eventually just have

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Speaker 1: to adapt or die. But instead what happened is that

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Speaker 1: they actually brought their politics with them off campus and

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Speaker 1: are using a lot of the same tactics that we

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Speaker 1: saw at Stanford University just recently with this speech from

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Speaker 1: the judge that you mentioned, where they basically orchestrate mobs,

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Speaker 1: they have online cancel campaigns, they use social media to

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Speaker 1: shame their employers, and it's all done with the intent

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Speaker 1: of trying to push every major American institution further to

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Speaker 1: the left and to have the progressive orthodoxy that they're

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Speaker 1: really hammering into people and silencing descent. They want that

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Speaker 1: to be the way of every single major institution, and

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Speaker 1: they will do anything to do it. So do you

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Speaker 1: think that given what we've seen with some of these failures,

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Speaker 1: whether it's of banking, or of FAA regulation or you

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Speaker 1: name it, they're all these areas. Now people are starting

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Speaker 1: to say, hold on, if we're pushing people forward based

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Speaker 1: on diversity and inclusion instead of merit, there will be

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Speaker 1: problems that come from this. I think the thought process

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Speaker 1: is that the woke or the snowflakes in our discussion

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Speaker 1: or are supposed to say, you know what, you guys

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Speaker 1: are right, we won't do that anymore because the bad

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Speaker 1: things or things could even happen that are bad as

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Speaker 1: a result of this, you know, planes crashing, trains, derailing

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Speaker 1: people who become lawyers who have not even the faintest

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Speaker 1: idea of what the constitution is or supposed to do.

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Speaker 1: But I would wonder what about the position that they

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Speaker 1: might take that's just this is the cost, like this

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Speaker 1: is the cost of social justice, because because I see

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Speaker 1: this on the criminal justice front all the time, that

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Speaker 1: there's a belief that the residents, let's say, of San

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Speaker 1: and they'll say, oh, man, we shouldn't have done like

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Speaker 1: this is a bad idea. Well, that assumes, though, that

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Speaker 1: they are going to place their safety and the safety

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Speaker 1: of their city more importantly, not necessarily, their safety above

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Speaker 1: their ideology, and I actually don't think they'll do that.

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Speaker 1: I think that a lot of them just view this as, yeah,

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Speaker 1: if we destroy a company with our wokeness, then fine,

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Speaker 1: that's the price we pay. Yeah, I think that's right.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that these individuals really have any sort

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Speaker 1: of logical cause and effect type of conversation happening with themselves.

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Speaker 1: I mean, everything goes back to racism or sexism for them.

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Speaker 1: of time trying to incorporate diversity, equity and inclusion instead

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Speaker 1: the criminal justice question that you're talking out right. The

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Speaker 1: problem isn't that individuals are committing crimes at higher rates

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Speaker 1: often as another byproduct of racism. Like there's no explanation

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Speaker 1: So I don't think that they'll ever look at any

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Speaker 1: back and to your point about the lack of quality

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Speaker 1: of people who are being hired from the Wok activist class,

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Speaker 1: I mean it starts back in college, of course, because

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Speaker 1: a or likelihood of passing the bar, so you're actually

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Speaker 1: hurting the people you're purport to help. But let's say

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Speaker 1: get hired through another affirmative action program at whatever company

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Speaker 1: they work for. Well, there's a study that was written

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Speaker 1: a lot of these rather underqualified candidates end up becoming

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Speaker 1: specialist in diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. And why do

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Speaker 1: they do that? Well, it's because it makes them unfireable.

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Speaker 1: So even though they're really bad at their job, or

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Speaker 1: they're untalented, or they're underqualified, they have this special way

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Speaker 1: creating a hostile work environment. So this is a way

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Speaker 1: that they've actually created institutional protection for themselves. Well, also,

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Speaker 1: it seems to me like how can this ties into

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Speaker 1: the stand for dean of diversity, who you know, verbally

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Speaker 1: horribly obviously verbally berated. The Fifth Circuit Judge Judge duncan

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Speaker 1: that it's effectively also a job that is it is

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Speaker 1: impossible to underperform really because the whole point is to

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Speaker 1: just do grievance politics all the time. So, if you're

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Speaker 1: a diversity activist or diversity educator, what are you saying,

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Speaker 1: So if there's not more diversity in the university, it's

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Speaker 1: not your fault because you're the one who's saying we

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Speaker 1: need more diversity. Right, So you're always it's like there's

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Speaker 1: you know, they got a fever. The only prescription is,

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Speaker 1: you know, is more cowbell, right. You know they're saying

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Speaker 1: and so how you even have job? Like, how could

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Speaker 1: you even have performance metrics? Yeah? I noticed how they

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Speaker 1: group is underrepresented in this space. Well, when I was

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Speaker 1: former presidents of the university had previously owned slaves and

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Speaker 1: into these grievances. These are simply used as a way

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Speaker 1: want to ask you more about Snowflake's Revolt, Amber Athies

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Speaker 1: I guess, younger, hipper version of Greta Thundberg now. And

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Speaker 1: her name is Sophia Kiani, and she's been invited to

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Speaker 1: the United Nations, She's received a whole bunch of awards,

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Speaker 1: she has fellowships with various climate institutions, and she's a

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Speaker 1: I think, like a freshman in college that is of

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Speaker 1: the belief I mean, I think sincerely that our world

435
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Speaker 1: could disappear as we know it in the next five

436
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Speaker 1: to ten years because of climate change. And she's just

437
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Speaker 1: this beautiful, clearly bright young person. And it's so sad

438
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Speaker 1: to see that these kids get so wrapped up in

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Speaker 1: what is an obvious lie. I think it's a fascinating

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Speaker 1: that adults, adults wouldn't listen to a college freshman, and

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Speaker 1: rightly so, by the way, about what the speed limit

442
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Speaker 1: should be in the neighborhood. Like you know, generally speaking,

443
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Speaker 1: you're going to as as an adult, you're going to

444
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Speaker 1: discount the ideas, and certainly in the case of Grettath Thunberg,

445
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 1: she was like six fifteen sixteen when she was started

446
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 1: sailing around and lecturing everybody about you know, how dare

447
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Speaker 1: you and all that stuff. Why do they listen to

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Speaker 1: somebody that they would on this issue, which is enormously

449
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 1: complicated as much as they're neurotics about it, but they

450
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Speaker 1: wouldn't listen to them on anything else. It just seems

451
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Speaker 1: to me like it's debasing. It's debasing for an adult

452
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Speaker 1: to be like, oh, let's let's worship this child who

453
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Speaker 1: is going to lecture us all on climate issues. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think what they're doing is they're elevating children who

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Speaker 1: happen to agree with them, because the obvious response to

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Speaker 1: people who criticize them is, why are you going after

457
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Speaker 1: a kid? Why are you attacking a team? I mean

458
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Speaker 1: that's what they said about Greta, right, So I think

459
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Speaker 1: they're actually using them as basically human shields, which is

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Speaker 1: exactly what they did in the pandemic too. I mean,

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Speaker 1: these are people who shamelessly abused and use kids for

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Speaker 1: their political agendas during the pandemic. They had no problem

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Speaker 1: using children as the punching bags for pandemic policy, and

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Speaker 1: they kept saying, well, kids are resilient, they'll get over it.

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Speaker 1: We have to protect grandma. So we're going to make

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Speaker 1: sure that kids have to go to school in a

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Speaker 1: mask where they have to attend zoom classes for two years.

468
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Speaker 1: And they were the ones who were most harmed by

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Speaker 1: all of these restrictions, while a lot of adults got

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Speaker 1: to even the ones with the most neuroses, got to

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Speaker 1: live out more normal lives than their kids did. And

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Speaker 1: there's something really sickening about that. And I think the

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Speaker 1: same thing is happening with other political calcula. So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have no, there's not good. There's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: new Greta. I didn't mean. What's this person's name again?

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Speaker 1: By the way, I didn't Sophia Keianni, Sophia. Check her out?

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Speaker 1: How do you spell that? I've never I've never heard

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Speaker 1: of kay okay i a and and I I believe

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Speaker 1: she's a cuter version of Greta. And she's got so basically,

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00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 1: they have they have a they they've now they've decided

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Speaker 1: that the spokesperson for a climate catastrophe it's going to

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Speaker 1: be a a young person who is um better looking

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Speaker 1: is basically she's the new upgraded model. Wow, I'd never

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Speaker 1: I'd never heard of this before, but I will have

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Speaker 1: to I'll have to check this out. I by the way,

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00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 1: I every adult and I mean this, every single adult, CNN,

487
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Speaker 1: everywhere else who sat down and had I did interviews.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Thunberg. I do not, I refuse, I

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Speaker 1: do not take them seriously on anything like to me.

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Speaker 1: To me, it's the equivalent they might as well have

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Speaker 1: sat down and and interviewed you know, a chipmunk or

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Speaker 1: like a tortoise or something like. It's just what are

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Speaker 1: you doing? You're asking a sixteen year old about global

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Speaker 1: economic and environmental policy. It was it was truly insane,

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Speaker 1: you know, but you'll appreciate this. I remember I said

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Speaker 1: that that adults who listened to Greta when she was

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Speaker 1: doing her toward the US should be ashamed of how

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Speaker 1: stupid they are. And a former Fox host, I will

499
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Speaker 1: say that, a former host not say we're still there,

500
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Speaker 1: started shouting at me, saying that I was child bashing.

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Speaker 1: So actually fell into the fell into the left wing

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Speaker 1: game of no, no, I'm making fun of the adults.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I could have made fun of the

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Speaker 1: you know, the child. She was like seventeen or eighteen

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Speaker 1: at the time. But I was actually just saying, adults,

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Speaker 1: listen to the person are stupid. But some people are

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Speaker 1: so desperate to virtue signal their defense of children when

508
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Speaker 1: it comes to Greta and you know, all this stuff,

509
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Speaker 1: not with the things that children do need to be

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Speaker 1: protected from, masking transgender ideology, sexualization in schools, but want

511
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Speaker 1: to protect them from no one's can say anything mean

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Speaker 1: about Greta because she was a kid. It was crazy.

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Speaker 1: The whole thing was insane. It was absolutely nuts. It

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Speaker 1: just speaks to this larger trend of the left really

515
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: trying to steal in a sense, away from kids. They're

516
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Speaker 1: on social media younger than ever. They're apparently involved in

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Speaker 1: political activism on a national, if not worldwide stage, younger

518
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Speaker 1: than ever. They can pick their gender, they're supposed to

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Speaker 1: be exposed to books that have pornography in them. They're

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Speaker 1: supposed to bear the weight of the pandemic on their shoulders.

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Speaker 1: I mean again, it's not a surprise that you have

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Speaker 1: this massive mental health crisis among young people, and we

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Speaker 1: haven't even gotten into the pharmaceutical questions. Involved with things

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Speaker 1: like antidepressants and birth control that young women are on

525
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Speaker 1: more than ever. But the pathologies that exist among a

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Speaker 1: really large segment of the population is harming kids really significantly.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you actually about the pharma side

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Speaker 1: number two t dot org. Big Farmer. It's interesting there

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Speaker 1: used to be this left wing criticism of big pharma

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Speaker 1: because they were like profiteers and corporatism and all this stuff.

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Speaker 1: And then the pandemic came along and big Pharma was

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Speaker 1: not to be questioned under any circumstances. And we know

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Speaker 1: what happened there. And now it seems like on the

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Speaker 1: right you're hearing criticisms of just the over medication of

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Speaker 1: well all people, but particularly young women. And I hear

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Speaker 1: this from the right. I don't hear this from the left.

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Speaker 1: Why is that while the left is a big portion

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Speaker 1: of the group that's doing it. And I think it's

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Speaker 1: because the left has been more overwhelmingly accepting of the

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Speaker 1: idea that intense emotions of any kind are actually illness

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Speaker 1: that needs to be treated with medication. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure exactly why that is. I don't know if it's

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Speaker 1: because liberal adults are also more likely to be on

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Speaker 1: these medications, so maybe it's become normalized for them. But shockingly,

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Speaker 1: the New York Times actually did a really in depth

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Speaker 1: investigation on the prescription of ssries for young women. It

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Speaker 1: was about three months ago, i want to say, and

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Speaker 1: they talked about the massive side effects that can come

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Speaker 1: from using these drugs, mostly that it really messes with

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Speaker 1: the firing of various hormones in your body and the

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Speaker 1: way that you react to situations emotionally, and basically every

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Speaker 1: part of your emotional response gets worked when you're on

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Speaker 1: these drugs for any significant period of time. It's why

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Speaker 1: you see these tiktoks and these really flatly affected young

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Speaker 1: women talking in monotone voices. They're unable to really express

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Speaker 1: real emotion, and it's because they're on any number of

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Speaker 1: cocktail of medications because they were told that being really

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Speaker 1: sad or angry or angry was actually a problem with

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Speaker 1: the chemical imbalance in their brain. And there's questions now

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Speaker 1: as to whether that understanding of depression or anxiety was

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Speaker 1: correct as well. The medical community is currently kind of

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Speaker 1: debating that understanding of what depression and anxiety actually are.

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Speaker 1: And I just think, you know, outside of the side effects,

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Speaker 1: maybe there's there's a lot of people who do really

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Speaker 1: need these, But when you're prescribing it to anyone who

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Speaker 1: just who says to you that you are, you say

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Speaker 1: to your therapist, for example, that you're feeling really sad

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Speaker 1: about something that happened at school, it seems like the

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Speaker 1: default is just to prescribe something. And from personal experience,

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Speaker 1: I had a great loss in my family and I

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Speaker 1: decided to go speak to someone just to kind of

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Speaker 1: have someone to talk to outside of the situation. I

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Speaker 1: didn't feel like I, you know, wasn't that wasn't handling

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Speaker 1: it well, so to speak. But the first thing that

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Speaker 1: the therapist asked me was if I thought that I

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Speaker 1: needed to be on depression medication. And I just was

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Speaker 1: flummixed by this. I said, well, I'm grieving, you know,

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Speaker 1: something really terrible has just happen. But I don't think

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Speaker 1: that I'm sick, Like I think it's normal to be

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Speaker 1: really sad and to have some difficult emotions when you're

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Speaker 1: dealing with the loss of a family member. And I

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Speaker 1: just thought that was so strange. That that was the

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Speaker 1: first question that was asked before any other assessment of

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Speaker 1: my health or mental health. And I if that's what's

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Speaker 1: happening in therapist's office across the country, that's pretty terrifying.

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Speaker 1: I think that's I think it's something that requires a

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Speaker 1: whole lot more conversation and people need to focus in

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Speaker 1: on this because, I mean, the numbering something is off.

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Speaker 1: I know people will say maybe it's you know, church

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Speaker 1: or religious attendance so down, so down, or the whole

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Speaker 1: range of things. Social media, I think is deeply unhelpful.

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Speaker 1: I think the reinforcement of narratives of negativity constantly, whether

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Speaker 1: it's through the politics of racial grievance, or the catastrophism

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Speaker 1: of climate change, or any number of things, where people

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Speaker 1: are just constantly being trained to be unhappy really and

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Speaker 1: they don't realize it, but their brain, their neural pathways

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Speaker 1: there was going through these narratives of nothing is fair,

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Speaker 1: everything is rigged, everyone's against me, I'm so unhappy, everything sucks.

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Speaker 1: If you train your brain to think that way all

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Speaker 1: the time, turns out that's how you think about your existence.

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Speaker 1: You're spot on, buck. I just read something in this

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Speaker 1: vein in the Wall Street Journal yesterday where they were

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Speaker 1: talking about the difference between why liberals tend to have

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Speaker 1: higher levels of dissatisfaction with their lives and or mental

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Speaker 1: illness versus conservatives, And it's because of this mental framework

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Speaker 1: of viewing everything as being outside of your control. You're

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Speaker 1: trapped in a system that doesn't want you to succeed.

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Speaker 1: Everything is working against you. Whereas conservatives will tend to

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Speaker 1: say they tend to look at things more through a

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Speaker 1: lens of personal responsibility. They recognize that there are things

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Speaker 1: out of their control, but they try to focus just

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Speaker 1: on the things that they can affect in their life,

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Speaker 1: and they tend to brush shot losses as not part

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Speaker 1: of this larger systemic pattern that's intended to destroy them

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Speaker 1: or keep them down. And these patterns of negative thinking

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00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: on the left do really reinforce themselves and stack on

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00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 1: to each other to the point where they get into

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00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: this really deep hole that's almost impossible to dig out of.

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Speaker 1: And Rafe check out her book The Snowflakes Revolt and

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Speaker 1: look for her work at The Washington or at the

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Speaker 1: Spectator rather, and she's the Washington editor. Amber. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for being well. Us appreciate it. Thank you Buck,