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Speaker 1: such a big story. They didn't want to get it wrong.

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Speaker 1: But here's what he said. Remember back a while ago,

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Speaker 1: I said there were some Russian mercenaries and we may

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Speaker 1: have taken a lot of them out on the battlefield

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Speaker 1: in Syria. Here's the former CI director, Vladimir Putin has

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Speaker 1: not yet received the message sufficiently, and we need to

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Speaker 1: continue to work at that. But it hasn't just been sanctions.

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Speaker 1: The largest expulsion sixty folks was from this administration. This

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Speaker 1: administration announced a nuclear posture review that has put Russia

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Speaker 1: on notice that we're gonna recapitalize our deterrence force in Syria. Now.

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Speaker 1: A handful of weeks ago, the Russians met their match

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Speaker 1: and a couple hundred Russians were killed. A couple of

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Speaker 1: hundred Russians were killed by air strikes from US. Those

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Speaker 1: Russians were helping USA. They thought they were gonna rush

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Speaker 1: no pun intended, sorry, they thought they were going to

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Speaker 1: make an assault on some Kurds who are are our allies,

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Speaker 1: are buddies, Those Kurds called in air strikes, those Russians

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Speaker 1: were annihilated. But that's also something that I remember here

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Speaker 1: we think of what's going on in Syria. I think

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Speaker 1: it's natural to think of it as well. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's there's guys on different sides of this battlefield, but

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Speaker 1: we're deconflicting with Russia and we're gonna keep it. Oh, no,

448
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Speaker 1: things can go south. Things can go bad very quickly

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Speaker 1: in any number of ways. And the moment that you

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Speaker 1: realize that you could have two hundred people killed who

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Speaker 1: are Russian citizens and we didn't even really, we didn't

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Speaker 1: mean for that to be the case. We're just protecting

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Speaker 1: the Kurds. Now, you can see how any US military

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Speaker 1: action in Syria, Uh, we need to be aware of

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Speaker 1: the fact that there's some other big players in that neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: And that then factors into my thinking about what are

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Speaker 1: the Russians, What are the Russians believe they could get

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Speaker 1: away with without a major reprisal and say, you know, oops, sorry,

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Speaker 1: keep that in mind as we're talking about the possibility

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Speaker 1: coming up here of air strikes, which I know people

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Speaker 1: are still very much of the mind that Trump should

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Speaker 1: do something. We'll do something. I'm hoping that's not the case.

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Speaker 1: So why why don't we actually discuss. We'll update on

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Speaker 1: Syria and then we can get it the latest on

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Speaker 1: the Mueller Cohen uh situation, Russia collusion pro and so

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Speaker 1: we can't even call it the Russia collusion probe anymore.

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Speaker 1: It's just the get get Trump probe. That's what it is.

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Speaker 1: We should just call it that, to get Trump probe.

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Speaker 1: That is what they are doing. It is a target

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Speaker 1: or it is a target operation against an individual. It

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Speaker 1: is not looking for the violation of a specific crime

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Speaker 1: or even vague crimes. So let's all be on the

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Speaker 1: same page with that. Eight four four five. If you

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Speaker 1: would like to chat my friends eight Buck. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: they're already leaking the COMI books. Good thing. I'm not

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Speaker 1: trying to eat right now. Comy he's among my least favorite.

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Speaker 1: He really is, you know. And I think I could

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Speaker 1: take him in one on one. By the way, he's

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Speaker 1: got some inches on me, John, I have great handle.

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Speaker 1: I played a lot of basketball as a kid. I

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Speaker 1: think I think I could take him. You know, I

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Speaker 1: can go left. That's right. There are all kinds of

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Speaker 1: things about the Buck that people don't know. We'll hait

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Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll be back. What worries you most

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Speaker 1: about any military action we might take, given the very

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Speaker 1: highly complex um landscape, and sire you the many many

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Speaker 1: actors that are engaged there. Well, there's uh, there's a

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Speaker 1: tactical concern, uh ma'am that civilian innocent people. We don't

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Speaker 1: add to any civilian deaths and do everything humanly possible

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Speaker 1: to avoid that. We're trying to stop the murder of

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Speaker 1: innocent people. But on a strategic level, it's how do

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Speaker 1: we keep this from escalating out of control? Uh? If

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Speaker 1: you get my drift on that, there's Secretary Defense Mattis saying, Look,

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Speaker 1: it's never as simple as just you know, oh look

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Speaker 1: at that stuff on the map. Pew pu, it's gone.

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Speaker 1: That's not the way this works. It certainly wasn't the

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Speaker 1: way the work last time, when, as I mentioned to

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Speaker 1: you a year ago, the air strikes didn't do a

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Speaker 1: darn thing. Really, they were symbolic. But I think we

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Speaker 1: all need to be very careful when our symbolism requires

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Speaker 1: Tomahawk missiles because as we've seen, remember two hund Russians

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Speaker 1: are so killed and okay, Putin can make too much

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Speaker 1: of a stink about it because he doesn't want his

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Speaker 1: own people back home in Russia to realize the extent

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Speaker 1: of Russian involvement in Syria. And they weren't uniform Russian soldiers.

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Speaker 1: They were paramilitaries who I'm sure we're contracted by the

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Speaker 1: Assad regime, probably getting you know, probably getting paid his mercenaries.

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Speaker 1: Two help USAD out. But what happens if, in response

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Speaker 1: to say, a US missile strike on some kind of

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Speaker 1: regime facilities and ASAD regime facility and fortifications what have,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden we find that, you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: a US plane gets shot out of the sky by

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Speaker 1: something that seems really sophisticated. Assad says, oh, no, it

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Speaker 1: was that the rebels stole that from us. How do

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Speaker 1: we respond to that, say, oh, buck, we're gonna We're

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Speaker 1: gonna then bomb some more Assauds stuff. Okay, Well, then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you know, we got the U

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Speaker 1: s M beds with some curve and uh, they get

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Speaker 1: hit with with air strikes from Assad directly, and you

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Speaker 1: know that time, Asad's like, well, we didn't know, we

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Speaker 1: thought it was something else. I mean, I'm this is

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Speaker 1: like your war gaming you do with with a couple

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Speaker 1: of buddies after work. But you understand you're catching my

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Speaker 1: drift here, as Secretary Defense said, which is this stuff

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Speaker 1: is never clean and easy. And when you when you

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Speaker 1: look at what could go wrong, I think you see

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Speaker 1: that the costs greatly outweigh the benefits of anything meaningful.

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Speaker 1: And if we're not going to do anything meaningful in Syria,

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Speaker 1: then why would we do anything at all to show

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Speaker 1: the world as you can't get away with chemical weapons usage.

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Speaker 1: I've noticed people saying in the argument last few days,

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Speaker 1: we'll look at North Korea used chemical weapons in an

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Speaker 1: assassination plot that was successful against Kim Jong uns half brother,

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Speaker 1: King Jong Nam uh in what I think was Malaysia

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Speaker 1: in the airport where some female assassage is rubbed VX

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Speaker 1: on his face, which, by the way, yikes, not a

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Speaker 1: good way to go uh. And then also we had

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Speaker 1: this Russian defector in the UK who was also hit

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Speaker 1: with the Novu chuk Russian nerve agent. But I bring

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Speaker 1: those up because I think it illustrates a different point

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Speaker 1: from what some of the more hawkish let's bomb Syria folks.

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Speaker 1: I think it makes a different point than they think

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Speaker 1: which is that, yeah, exactly, those the chemical weapons got

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Speaker 1: used in those two places. We're taking we got sanctions.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if we could sanction North Korea

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Speaker 1: anymore than we are. The only way to sanction North

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Speaker 1: kree or more is it starts sanctioning other people like

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Speaker 1: China more and then things get a little little rocky,

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Speaker 1: and we have sanctions in in Russia and response to

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Speaker 1: what they did, what the Russian government did with nova

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Speaker 1: Chuk that nerve agent um. Show your learners, we didn't

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Speaker 1: bomb them. So we we don't have some consistent policy

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Speaker 1: of well, if you're behind a chemical weapons attack, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna bomb you. That's not our policy. So what is

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Speaker 1: the policy that people are pushing for? Here? Assade is

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Speaker 1: really really bad and does does really miserable, terrible, awful things,

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Speaker 1: and so we just want to show him that we

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Speaker 1: dislike him and think that he's wrong. He's been doing

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Speaker 1: this for years everyone. As I've mentioned, half a million

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Speaker 1: people have been killed in the Syrian Civil War in

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Speaker 1: the most brutal ways imaginable in many cases. So this

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Speaker 1: is where we draw the line. Um. As I've said

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Speaker 1: to you people, now now I know that this is

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Speaker 1: where I could push back, buck, but you said Obama

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Speaker 1: didn't enforce his red line. That was bad. Yeah, Obama

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Speaker 1: was the one who created the red line. Trump is

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Speaker 1: now in a business where okay, well I'll enforce it.

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Speaker 1: But now we realize, okay, it didn't work last time.

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Speaker 1: So are you gonna You're gonna do more? You're gonna

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Speaker 1: drop more bombs or has send more missiles to what end?

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Speaker 1: I also, I just think that there's a higher level

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Speaker 1: narrative battle that's playing out right now, a battle of narratives.

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Speaker 1: There are those of us who see what's gone on

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Speaker 1: in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the lesson we take away

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Speaker 1: from it is, uh, no more trying to rebuild societies

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Speaker 1: or or no, no more trying to free societies in

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Speaker 1: the grip of Islamic totalitarianism. They it's not worth it

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Speaker 1: too our lives, and it's not worth the loss of

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Speaker 1: lives and treasure over here and there. There's way too

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Speaker 1: little gratitude from those countries and from the international community

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Speaker 1: for what we've done. Uh. You know, it's it's a

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Speaker 1: thankless job to eliminate vicious despots, or, in the case

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Speaker 1: of the Taliban, a vicious organization, you know, bloodthirsty tyrants,

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Speaker 1: and and then try to free people because ultimately they

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Speaker 1: don't like us because we're non Muslim Westerners and we're

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Speaker 1: in their country. And when I say that, I see,

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Speaker 1: I know this is unfair, because actually the case of

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Speaker 1: Iraq and Afghanistan, a lot of the people there are

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Speaker 1: and I would say strong majorities are, are very thankful

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Speaker 1: that they no longer have those regimes in place. But

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Speaker 1: it only takes you know, ten twenty of a population

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Speaker 1: to basically make a country ungovernable, ungovernable, and make your

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Speaker 1: life miserable trying to trying to make it governable. We're

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Speaker 1: just not doing it anymore. We shouldn't do it anymore.

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Speaker 1: It's also amazing, isn't it to watch so many people

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Speaker 1: in the national level media who take the position that

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Speaker 1: we should do something about Syria and Assad But any

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Speaker 1: militarization or additional federal effort at our southern border, that's

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Speaker 1: that's not even a national security issue. How is that

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Speaker 1: possible to think that way? I mean, it's based on

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Speaker 1: either ignorance or ignorance, stupidity or dishonesty. But it's a

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Speaker 1: commonplace among the media elites. They really think that this

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Speaker 1: is that Syria is a bigger nash security issue than

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Speaker 1: our own southern border is, with all the drug trafficking,

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Speaker 1: human trafficking, illegal crossing, and just the vulnerability that it

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Speaker 1: creates for this country. So we'll see. I'm really hoping

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Speaker 1: that there is not a I'm hoping that there's not

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Speaker 1: gonna be military action. But I mentioned Rand Paul before

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Speaker 1: here here's he was doing the Rand Paul thing today.

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Speaker 1: But I think that there are still a great deal

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Speaker 1: of potential for hostilities. That's what some call it. That's

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Speaker 1: when they don't want to use the word war. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think we're I think something's gonna happen in Syria.

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Speaker 1: And I've been very clear that the constitution doesn't allow

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Speaker 1: the president to do this without first asking Congress. I

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Speaker 1: wish everyone would just get consistent on this one. I

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Speaker 1: know plenty of Republicans who hated hated the idea of

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Speaker 1: Obama taking a strike, and now they're pro trumpeting. You know,

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Speaker 1: we we need to be consistent here. This is not

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Speaker 1: time for petty partisan squad us um, but it it is.

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Speaker 1: It is my hope that Trump is just going to

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Speaker 1: condemn and work harder with allies in the region to

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Speaker 1: put more pressure on the Assad regime and not not

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Speaker 1: make this our military's problem isis became our problem. Let's

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Speaker 1: not make a Solder problem too. That's all I feel

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Speaker 1: about this. We gotta talk about Muller probe guys coming off.

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Speaker 1: It's just keeps getting crazier. We'll hit that more. Stay

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Speaker 1: with me. Welcome to our two of the buck Section show.

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Speaker 1: My friends. I want to talk to you about Lion

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Speaker 1: James Comey. That's what Trump calls them. I think there's

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Speaker 1: they actually have a website now going to right Lion

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Speaker 1: Comey Got something or other. So his book is coming

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Speaker 1: out now and the first excerpts have been given to

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Speaker 1: my friend Ben Dominic from The Federalist. This is an

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Speaker 1: exerpt from Comy's book, which is called No Higher Loyalty

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Speaker 1: and can be yours for the discount price of like

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Speaker 1: forty for the hardcover or something. You know, Comy, just

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Speaker 1: stop stop stop being greedy. You know it's really expensive

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Speaker 1: for a book. Um, I'm just kidding about all that. Well,

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Speaker 1: not really, but here's what Comy writes in this new memoir,

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Speaker 1: which is just an assault on Trump. And look, he

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Speaker 1: he sees what the market wants. Comy is, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, he actually reminds me of for those of

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Speaker 1: you who are a Game of Thrones people, he's very

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Speaker 1: much Little fingeresque. He reminds me a little Finger. I mean,

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Speaker 1: sometimes he's with the good guys, sometimes he's with the

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Speaker 1: bad guys, but it's really just all about him at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day. The Little Finger doesn't even

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Speaker 1: pretend to have principles, and Comy does so in a way,

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Speaker 1: Comy is actually worse than little Finger from Game of Thrones.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying any kind even doesn't really look like him. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's a stretch, buck, You're off, all right. The The

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Speaker 1: excerpt I want to talking about, though, is as follows.

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Speaker 1: I want to give you the full dramatic interpretation of

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Speaker 1: this one. This is all a quote from his book

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Speaker 1: that just came out. Comey writes that Obama sat alone

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Speaker 1: with him in the Oval office in late November and

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Speaker 1: told him I picked you to be FBI director because

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Speaker 1: of your integrity and your ability. I want you to

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Speaker 1: know that nothing, nothing has happened in the last year

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Speaker 1: change my view. That's Obama speaking on the verge of tears.

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Speaker 1: Comey told Obama, boy, were those words I needed to hear.

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to do the right thing, I know,

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Speaker 1: Obama said, I know. Oh, man, Yeah. If he's so

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Speaker 1: sure he's doing the right thing, if he's ethics, why

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Speaker 1: does he care about Obama things? Are we really going

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Speaker 1: to pretend that Obama is Obama is an uninto or

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Speaker 1: a disinterested party here common it's all a full scale

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Speaker 1: assault on Trump. You know that's coming up. And I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to know there was a time when when

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Speaker 1: people who were senior public officials would have thought it

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Speaker 1: was unseemly to just roll up their sleeves, cash in

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Speaker 1: and get into the middle of the political scrum right away.

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Speaker 1: And I do think it's unseemly. How can any of

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Speaker 1: us have any faith that people that are leave behind

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Speaker 1: some o previous administration of a different party aren't Maybe

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Speaker 1: just like James Coby, pretending not to be manipulating things

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Speaker 1: behind the scenes for their own political and partisan ends,

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Speaker 1: when that's what they're doing left and right? How how

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Speaker 1: can we believe that now it would be foolish not

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Speaker 1: to believe that there were deep state elements, not just now,

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Speaker 1: but in previous administrations too. They We are waking up

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Speaker 1: to this reality as a country now, as I've been

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Speaker 1: saying the same way, we finally figure out, oh wow,

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Speaker 1: the media is all left wing bias all the time, right,

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Speaker 1: and that the academy, colleges, universities left wing bias. A

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Speaker 1: lot of judges, although not all of them, but a

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Speaker 1: lot of the judiciary activist left wing judges. Now we're

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Speaker 1: seeing it's true with federal bureaucracy too. He's so called

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Speaker 1: fourth branch of government, the unelected branch of government, the

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Speaker 1: federal bureaucracy. And now we see who Comey really is.

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Speaker 1: Who is you will recall held up as being America's

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Speaker 1: last truly honest cop for a long time, right, even

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Speaker 1: though he's really just a lawyer, the politically connected lawyer.

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Speaker 1: He's a d o J lawyer. Every people think that

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Speaker 1: Comey was like wrestling crack dealers and you know, like

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Speaker 1: part of you know, there's crocketting tubs and comy. No,

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Speaker 1: this guy is a a boardroom brawler. He is not

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Speaker 1: someone who has been doing the work on the front lines.

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Speaker 1: So whenever he starts to wrap himself into oh, the FBI,

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Speaker 1: I am the FBI, and the FBI is me, don't

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Speaker 1: let him get away with that. He wasn't a special

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Speaker 1: agent for two decades who was having to worry about

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Speaker 1: some serial killer trying to bury a screwdriver into his

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Speaker 1: neck when he came in through the back door. You know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, no, there's a guy who's been basically a

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Speaker 1: politician his whole life. Really, another thing that we're realizing,

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Speaker 1: and this is gonna trans This will come up again

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Speaker 1: in our conversation about Dershowitz when the mother probe is

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Speaker 1: we'll go there in just a moment together. Another thing

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Speaker 1: that shows you is prosecutors are political actors too, and

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Speaker 1: that's why we have to demand such high ethics and

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Speaker 1: and we should create much greater accountability for them than

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Speaker 1: we currently have. Um But prosecutors determine the outcome of

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Speaker 1: the host election by not charging Hillary Clinton. So here's

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Speaker 1: what Comey says in this memoir, and this according to

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Speaker 1: the Washington Post quote. The Washington Post obtained a copy

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Speaker 1: of the book before its scheduled release. In his memoir,

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Speaker 1: Comey paints a devastating portrait of a president who built

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Speaker 1: a cocoon of alternative reality that he was busy rapping

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Speaker 1: around all of us. Comey describes Trump as a congenital

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Speaker 1: liar and unethical leader, devoid of human emotion and driven

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Speaker 1: by personal ego. End quote. I think psychologists call this projection.

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Speaker 1: This is Comey seeing in someone else what I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of us would in fact see in Comey.

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Speaker 1: Devoid a human emotion and driven by personal legal That

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Speaker 1: sounds like James called me to me, the guy who

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Speaker 1: thinks he's giving a constant ethics lecture to the entire country,

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Speaker 1: as well as the president United States, right before he

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Speaker 1: decides that he's gonna take notes that we've been told

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Speaker 1: by somebody with a clearance. Remember the Senate were classified.

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Speaker 1: I just linked them to a newspaper. We have the

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Speaker 1: Special Counsel Nightmare because of James Comey. Don't forget it.

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Speaker 1: That's how important James Comey thinks he is. That's how

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Speaker 1: self centered and narcissistic this lanky maniac actually is. That

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Speaker 1: his own bruised ego. Because Trump didn't want him around

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Speaker 1: anymore and fired him, which is completely the president's prerogative.

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Speaker 1: Because Comey had his feeldage hurt. He was looking for

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Speaker 1: a way and look, he's a he is a talented

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Speaker 1: bureaucratic infighter. I'm sure there are few people that you

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Speaker 1: could have ever come across the federal government who could

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Speaker 1: throw you under the bus as fast as James Comey could.

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Speaker 1: Go back and look at the story of how he

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Speaker 1: with the author reauthorization of a surveillance program. I'm the

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Speaker 1: Bush administration. Comey was just so self serving and so sanctimonious.

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Speaker 1: I can't stand people like this. I mean, if it's

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Speaker 1: coming across that I don't know this guy, but I

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Speaker 1: dislike him. You're you're picking up what I'm putting down.

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Speaker 1: But he wanted the special Counsel because he knew that

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Speaker 1: the bureaucratic process that it would put in place is

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Speaker 1: just going to grind away and be vengeance against his enemies.

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Speaker 1: So they think about this. Comey thinks that it was

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Speaker 1: unfair that he didn't get to finish his term as

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Speaker 1: FBI director. He felt slighted, so he a senior former

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Speaker 1: FBI bureaucrat the director of the Federal Bureer of Investigation

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Speaker 1: took action based on his power and access given to

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Speaker 1: him by the American people. Mind you right, he's doing

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Speaker 1: He is supposed to serve the American people. He's supposed

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Speaker 1: to use those powers for our benefit. He took that

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Speaker 1: power and used it illicitly and very likely illegally in

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Speaker 1: order to get the process going that would hobble this

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Speaker 1: president and his presidency for over a year, slow down

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Speaker 1: the agenda, waste countless billions of hours at this point

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Speaker 1: of media time on this. I mean, you know, CNN,

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Speaker 1: it's it's like they've all had some kind of a

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Speaker 1: nervous breakdown over at CNN. Every night it's like, oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, the call me on the moller on the Russia,

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Speaker 1: and you know, they have no idea what's going on

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Speaker 1: in the real world. They're just all fixated on this.

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Speaker 1: They are fixated on it, and we we have this

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Speaker 1: nightmare because of James Coby, and I think also because

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Speaker 1: there are some people in the Trump administration who just

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Speaker 1: are not we're not seasoned enough, did not have a

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Speaker 1: deep enough understanding of who they were really up against.

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Speaker 1: Maybe some of them thought that after Trump won the

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Speaker 1: election that there would be some kind of honeymoon period

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Speaker 1: or oh no, I don't know. They they wanted at

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Speaker 1: that point, they were more angry than ever. No good faith,

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Speaker 1: only bile and hatred toward the president. That's what they were,

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Speaker 1: That's what they were in for. But the Comey Memoir

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Speaker 1: is gonna producer, Mike, Do I have to read this?

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Speaker 1: I have to read this, don't I? I think I

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Speaker 1: have to read the John I have to read this,

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Speaker 1: don't I? Yeah? What do you think the Comey Memoir?

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Speaker 1: The things I the things I do for the Freedom Hunt,

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Speaker 1: to make sure that I bring only the best information.

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Speaker 1: There you go like it on John's on Fire? Uh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think there is some stuff in this that's probably

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Speaker 1: made up. I gotta go in and read it. Not

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Speaker 1: quite as uh, not quite as much a fantasy as

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Speaker 1: Fire and Fury. But oh, here we go more excerpts.

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Speaker 1: I should have focused more answers. This is what call me.

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Speaker 1: Comy describes a February four meeting in the Oval Office.

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Speaker 1: Meeting in the Oval Office, where he asked Attorney General

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Speaker 1: Jeff Sessions, our boy, we love Jeff to clear the

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Speaker 1: room so he could bring up the FBI investigation of

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Speaker 1: former National Security advisor Michael Flynn directly with Comy, a

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Speaker 1: key event in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation whether Trump

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Speaker 1: sought to obstruct justice. Quope, I hope you can see

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Speaker 1: your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,

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Speaker 1: Trump said, according to Comy's account of the meeting, some

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Speaker 1: of which he first shared and sent it testimony last year.

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Speaker 1: He's a good guy. I hope you can let this go.

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Speaker 1: Comy writes that he regrets not interrupting Trump to explain

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Speaker 1: that this plea was wrong. He recalls later confronting Sessions,

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Speaker 1: whom he describes as both overwhelmed and overmatched by the job.

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Speaker 1: You mean, the job that Comy thinks that he should have,

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Speaker 1: because that's what's going on there. Forget lion, Comey. It's

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Speaker 1: bitter Comy. He is a bitter, bitter man. And not

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Speaker 1: just because when he flies and coach it's really uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: But I'm sure that's true. I mean, I'm not that's odd.

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Speaker 1: It's uncomfortable for me right like I sit there. And

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Speaker 1: but not just because Comy hits his head in hallway

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Speaker 1: sometimes by accident. He's bitter about a lot of things.

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Speaker 1: And he's trying to take it out of the administration.

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Speaker 1: So this is gonna be a story for the weeks

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Speaker 1: they had my friends, We're gonna have to see what

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Speaker 1: they do with it. Um. I'm just wondering, can we

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Speaker 1: get confirmation if Comey actually lead classified information to the press,

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Speaker 1: because that's a big deal, and we know, I forget

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Speaker 1: who the senator was who went on record and said

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Speaker 1: that that that the memos that Comy leaked were classified,

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Speaker 1: but you can certainly make the case that they are.

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Speaker 1: All right, Uh, Mueller probe do we want to do? Facebook?

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Speaker 1: I love? By the way, what is the data from

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Speaker 1: Star Trek? Is whatever I's saying? Data is the one

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Speaker 1: that is the data, the one who's just like no

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Speaker 1: sunlight Android the whole thing. Yeah. Uh, Zuckerberg not a

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Speaker 1: charming guy, very lucky, not charming uh and and really

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Speaker 1: really unimpressive. I guess it. It's amazing that guy managed

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Speaker 1: to stay in as CEO as long as he has. Ah,

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Speaker 1: So I give him credit for that. You know, maybe

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Speaker 1: he's got sort of Comey's sense of of completely outrageous

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Speaker 1: self regard. Oh former special assistant to former FBI Director

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Speaker 1: James Comey. Oh I just so, this is why I

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Speaker 1: see this young f former FBI guy on CN all

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Speaker 1: the time. He was literally Comey's little buddy. I didn't

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Speaker 1: know that he was Comey's assistant. That's why this guy's

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Speaker 1: on TV all the time. I'm like, when did they

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Speaker 1: When did they make Pajama boy like their chief legal

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Speaker 1: analysts over there? And now it's because I see, it's

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Speaker 1: because it's called me. If you guys don't know, I

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Speaker 1: don't think guy's Josh Campbell. I see up on CN

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Speaker 1: on CNN right now. So he worked directly for Comey.

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Speaker 1: I see he's part of the Comy Amen chorus. I

849
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:46,320
Speaker 1: was like, where where did this guy come from? Alright,

850
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:48,800
Speaker 1: good talk, good talk. We gotta come back and discuss

851
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:52,799
Speaker 1: the Dirsh making an appearance on the show via sound bite.

852
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:54,439
Speaker 1: We should get on to come hang. And he likes

853
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: me actually true story, has no idea who I am,

854
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 1: but every time he sees me him like Professor Dirsh,

855
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:03,919
Speaker 1: He's like, hell, just like that special for me. We'll

856
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 1: be right back, you know. Right as we were in

857
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: the break there, I got some news courtesy of producer

858
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 1: Mike that I wanted to share with all of you Mike,

859
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: let him know when you're talking about the DIRSH. I

860
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 1: had let it be known that I was listening to l.

861
00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 1: Rush Bow earlier today and he was referring to Alan

862
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 1: dersh Was as the I mean, I'm sure Rush has

863
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:38,760
Speaker 1: been calling that for twenty years, but I'm just excited

864
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 1: about the only one. I like it. It's it's catching

865
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: on now if Russia's doing and everyone's doing it, although

866
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 1: he probably did it for the first time in like

867
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 1: seven but anyway, UM, I like it me. You know,

868
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: when when I'm on the same on the same side

869
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: of the issue was Rush, I know him in good company,

870
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: the DIRSH. But the DIRSH is making some very important points,

871
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,360
Speaker 1: including this one, and I want to deconstru ruck this

872
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 1: with you in just a secondary right, Here's what the

873
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:08,400
Speaker 1: good professor had to say. You can find evidence to

874
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 1: create or manufacture crimes against anybody if you're determined to

875
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:14,799
Speaker 1: do it. That's what's wrong with the Special Counsel because

876
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 1: they come in with targets painted on people's back, and

877
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: people like Comey and people like Mueller are gonna find

878
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:24,280
Speaker 1: crimes whether they have to go and try to find

879
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 1: a technical violation of banking laws. On which they can

880
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 1: hook plography, stars or things of that kind. And even

881
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: your account, which was obviously metaphorical in part, proves again

882
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: if you're determined to find crimes against anybody, you can

883
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: do it. That's why we have to restrict and limit

884
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:49,240
Speaker 1: the application of the criminal law to clear unequivocal crimes,

885
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 1: and don't use it against political enemies unless the evidence

886
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 1: is just overwhelming. I've been trying to tell you and

887
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 1: the dirtes spot all of this one, and it really

888
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 1: is an addendum to the process, is the punishment. But

889
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: also they'll find a crime to punish too, as he said,

890
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:11,799
Speaker 1: they'll manufacture one. I remember when I was working on

891
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: a counter terrorism case and we're looking at a guy

892
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:18,839
Speaker 1: bad Uh had some let's just say, some very bad

893
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: positions about U. S troops abroad in US foreign policy.

894
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 1: He happened to be of the Islamic faith, Uh, and

895
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 1: there were some real concerns about him. And you know that.

896
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:30,800
Speaker 1: I remember I was sitting there and there was a

897
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 1: discussion with all the different investigators that were involved where

898
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:40,319
Speaker 1: I was involved. I was running the case actually, and Uh,

899
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,520
Speaker 1: sure enough, somebody said, well, you know, so we we

900
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:45,320
Speaker 1: can't get him but we thought he was maybe involved

901
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,440
Speaker 1: with some essentially some material support terrorism, but no, we

902
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:50,399
Speaker 1: did didn't them on that. And then someone's like, well,

903
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 1: you know, I think we get him on a mortgage fraud.

904
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: And I was like, come on, man, like I didn't.

905
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 1: I didn't leave I didn't leave Langley to come up

906
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 1: here and do work here in New York to get

907
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: some guy who legitimately, uh had has trouble speaking or

908
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 1: reading English, to get him on a mortgage like if

909
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 1: he if he's doing terrorism, stuff, lock him up. But like,

910
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 1: I'm not sitting here saying let's try to put him

911
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 1: away for years in federal prison, by the way, for

912
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: a mortgage fraud that wasn't where the bank had lost

913
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: no money. It was one of those It was like, uh,

914
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:24,399
Speaker 1: I mean I I obviously also can't really get into

915
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: specifics here because this end up not being prosecuted, but

916
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 1: I remember, you know, and it was a lot of

917
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,280
Speaker 1: O t hours in that case. A lot of people

918
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:35,360
Speaker 1: wanted to make it into something and I sat there

919
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:38,399
Speaker 1: and I said, no, nope, I want no part of that.

920
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:40,520
Speaker 1: You guys want to if you guys wanted me to

921
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:42,440
Speaker 1: be part of the mortgage fraud task Force. That's a

922
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 1: whole other discussion, okay, And and then we have to

923
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 1: have a talk about why is it that you know,

924
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: if the credit card companies lie to you about your

925
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 1: rate switching or moving, which they've all done by the way,

926
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 1: They've moved their their dates around so they can check

927
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,320
Speaker 1: your APR up and they just get found out and

928
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 1: maybe they pay a fine if that. But if you

929
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 1: misstate your income or something on it, it's ten years, folks,

930
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: federal prison for mortgage fraud. I mean, usually don't people

931
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: take a plea, they don't get the ten but you

932
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 1: can get ten years from mortgage fraud. If you watch

933
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 1: the wire, you you know that that's actually how they

934
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:14,839
Speaker 1: go after one of the very corrupt politicians. I don't

935
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: get them on corruption and try to get them a

936
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 1: mortgage fraud. But the point is, somebody really goes through

937
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:23,879
Speaker 1: all your finances. I guarantee you they could find tax

938
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 1: violations guaranteed of some kind you didn't pay. You didn't

939
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:32,279
Speaker 1: pay taxes on things you bought on the internet that

940
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 1: are from out of state. And I know there's guidelines

941
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 1: for how much. You know, if you're not gonna usually

942
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 1: get jail time for that. But the point, oh, that's,

943
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: you know, a tax evasion. Now they've got a tax

944
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:43,319
Speaker 1: evasion probe open on you, and a lot of you

945
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:45,440
Speaker 1: are like, gosh, buck, you have to pay Oh yeah,

946
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:47,359
Speaker 1: you buy stuff online from out of state, you have

947
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:51,319
Speaker 1: to pay sales tax on it. Who knew? Right, This

948
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:53,839
Speaker 1: is the point that they're just making. That's why it's

949
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 1: so unethical, so corrupt, so disgraceful that Mueller and all

950
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 1: the rest aren't looking for crimes. They're going after people.

951
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 1: And it just so happens that they are going after

952
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:10,399
Speaker 1: the sitting president of the United States of America right now.

953
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: He's back with you now, because when it comes to

954
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Facebook has

955
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:32,360
Speaker 1: been served as a pianis from the Special council Owner's Office.

956
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:38,280
Speaker 1: Is that correct? Yes? Have you or anyone at Facebook

957
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 1: been interviewed by the Special Counsel's Office? Yes? Have you

958
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:48,319
Speaker 1: been interviewed? I have not. I have not, others have.

959
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:51,359
Speaker 1: I believe so. And I want to be careful here

960
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:57,600
Speaker 1: because that our work with the Special Counsel is confidential,

961
00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 1: and I want to make sure that in an open

962
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 1: session I'm not feeling something that's confidential That's why I

963
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:08,760
Speaker 1: made clear that you have been contented. You have fan subpoenas. Actually,

964
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:11,680
Speaker 1: let me clarify that I actually am not aware of

965
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:14,239
Speaker 1: of a subpoena. I believe that there maybe, but I

966
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: know we're working with them. The Zuckerberg robot almost had

967
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 1: a malfunction. I don't know if I got to talk

968
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 1: about that at all, beds Adegh Zuckerberg S. I'm just

969
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,360
Speaker 1: bitter because the guy could buy me ninety billion times

970
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 1: over or whatever. That's man. I should have been on

971
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 1: that hallway and Harvard. My My hallway at Amherst was

972
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 1: like it's like a zoo. It was crazy. We we

973
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 1: had the only twenty true story. We had the only

974
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 1: twenty one year old freshman on campus, so we were

975
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 1: lit that we were the Florida party with because we're

976
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: the only We had the only twenty one year old freshman.

977
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: He had served in a foreign militarium, so it was

978
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 1: quite a bit older than his year. And we actually

979
00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 1: turned his room into a We would move a desk

980
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:02,920
Speaker 1: in front of the doorway and turn his room into

981
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:05,440
Speaker 1: a full service bar or or other people did that,

982
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: and I happen to be in the vicinity when they

983
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:12,000
Speaker 1: did that. I did not actually publicize and throw those

984
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:15,400
Speaker 1: parties and get involved in logistics of getting alcohol for

985
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: like five people or anything. I just happened to be

986
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 1: in the vicinity when that happened occasionally. So I'm told

987
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 1: that's the story. Back to Zuckerberg, Um, he is uh,

988
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:28,919
Speaker 1: he's doing a good job of trying to of why

989
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: is he talking to people? I want to boil this

990
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 1: down for a second. Let's distill what matters a lot

991
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 1: of your like buck this Facebook thing. I know, I

992
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 1: don't find it nearly as interesting as most of my

993
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 1: media peers do. You're giving them a lot of information,

994
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:44,560
Speaker 1: They're taking your information, they're monetizing it. This is this

995
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 1: is the reality of what's going on. And I don't

996
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 1: know how anyone doesn't understand that that's what's going on here.

997
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:51,080
Speaker 1: Do you think Facebook is doing this to be nice?

998
00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 1: But there's a very important point to be me just

999
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:58,880
Speaker 1: in that alone. What Mark Zuckerberg is doing is a

1000
00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:04,760
Speaker 1: big pr move here. It's convincing people that Facebook cares

1001
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:09,720
Speaker 1: what you think about their privacy practices, cares about your privacy.

1002
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: Facebook doesn't care about your privacy. Facebook makes money off

1003
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:16,880
Speaker 1: of violating your privacy, it's the whole point. And they

1004
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 1: make their they literally make the rules, they get to

1005
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 1: determine what shared, who sees it, what, and all that stuff.

1006
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 1: You think they're really sitting around like, oh, we have

1007
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 1: an ethical responsib blah blah blah blah blah. Please, it's

1008
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:35,320
Speaker 1: total nonsense. It really is. Um But there's obviously a

1009
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of folks who are clinging to

1010
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: this belief that the progressive platforms, which is what all

1011
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:49,120
Speaker 1: social media platforms are right now, aren't actually just rapacious

1012
00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 1: machines of capitalism, which they are absolutely are. And you

1013
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 1: know what, I'm okay with that. I get it all right.

1014
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's nothing on there's nothing you're putting

1015
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 1: on Facebook that you should care if anyone knows your

1016
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:05,680
Speaker 1: sees you know what I'm saying. So there you go.

1017
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:10,240
Speaker 1: H oh, Well there was one other thing that he uh, okay,

1018
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 1: So so he said they're working special counsel. I think

1019
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 1: that's significant issue. It just shows you how far this

1020
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:19,840
Speaker 1: special council monster extends. Now, it's just the tentacles of

1021
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:22,840
Speaker 1: the octopus are touching on everything these days, right all

1022
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 1: they're all over the place. Remember, comey, got that special

1023
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 1: counsel going, and now you've got Facebook executives or lawyers

1024
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:32,640
Speaker 1: or whomever they have sitting now with them, all because

1025
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:35,320
Speaker 1: Hillary lost the election. Because oh, it's just so unthinkable

1026
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: that Hillary lost the election. You know, you know what's amazing,

1027
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,520
Speaker 1: This is an aside. This isn't even the first time

1028
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: in my life that Democrats have essentially refused to believe

1029
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 1: that their candidate lost the election and cried like little babies.

1030
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: I remember Bush v. Gore. Oh, you know Bush one

1031
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:52,280
Speaker 1: because of the Supreme Court. They didn't believe that he

1032
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:55,440
Speaker 1: won that election. I remember being in college and seeing

1033
00:59:55,440 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 1: people put up posters on their on their walls, another

1034
00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:01,680
Speaker 1: college dorm story of the popular vote of Bush v. Gore,

1035
01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:06,560
Speaker 1: because I I just started in school then. So you know,

1036
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 1: this isn't the first time. They're not they're not even

1037
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 1: first time offenders on the delusion of our candidate didn't

1038
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 1: actually lose, like a bunch of crying babies. And they'll

1039
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 1: they'll tank the whole country, they'll tank whatever they have

1040
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:25,640
Speaker 1: to to make them feel better about this one. So

1041
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 1: that is so many we're going to special council, that's happening.

1042
01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 1: And I also noticed that Zuckerberg is like, I don't

1043
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:32,480
Speaker 1: know if we're under subpoena, but we are working with

1044
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:36,760
Speaker 1: the Special Council. Well, what does that mean. I thought

1045
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:40,000
Speaker 1: that these companies, and I thought that's because they've said

1046
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:42,600
Speaker 1: in the past they will only respond to subpoenas about

1047
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:45,680
Speaker 1: their information, they won't just share it freely with law enforcement.

1048
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:48,240
Speaker 1: Kind of sounded to me like he's said, yeah, we'll

1049
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 1: like give them whatever they need right working with not

1050
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:56,760
Speaker 1: you know, under subpoena, we will because of the power

1051
01:00:56,800 --> 01:00:59,000
Speaker 1: of the judiciary. YadA, YadA, will give you no no, no.

1052
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:00,360
Speaker 1: It was just like, oh, y ask me, We'll get

1053
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:05,480
Speaker 1: them out anything they want. Please change my battery. Well

1054
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:07,880
Speaker 1: that's that. And then there's also the the issue that

1055
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 1: came up before about the usage of data in the

1056
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:14,040
Speaker 1: Cambridge Analytica thing. Again, I think if not a non story,

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Speaker 1: a hyperventilated story, like, oh my gosh, it's just not

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Speaker 1: that important, it's not that big. But remember when the

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Speaker 1: Obama people said in twenty twelve that they did essentially

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Speaker 1: exactly what Cambridge Analytica had done, and people pointed this out,

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Speaker 1: they said, wow, this seems like quite a bit of

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Speaker 1: hypocrisy here Obama's people do it. It's amazing, it's groundbreaking.

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Speaker 1: Trump's campaign maybe does it via third party Cambridge. Everyone's like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, they're all freaking out about it. So

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Speaker 1: Zuckerberg dealt with this as well. During the hearing today.

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Speaker 1: There's been a lot of talk about UH Cambridge and

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Speaker 1: what they've done in the last campaign. In two thousand

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Speaker 1: and eight and two thousand and twelve, there was also

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Speaker 1: a lot of this done. UH of the lead digital

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Speaker 1: heads of the Obama campaign said recently, Facebook was surprised

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Speaker 1: we were able to suck out the whole social graph,

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Speaker 1: but they didn't stop us once they realized that was

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Speaker 1: what we were doing. They came to the office in

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Speaker 1: the days following the election recruiting, and we're very candid

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Speaker 1: that they allowed us to do things they wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.

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Speaker 1: That's a direct quote from one of the heads of

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Speaker 1: the Obama digital team. What what would she mean by

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Speaker 1: they Facebook, we're on our side, Congressman. We didn't allow

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Speaker 1: the Obama campaign to do anything that any developer on

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Speaker 1: the platform wouldn't have otherwise been able to do. So

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Speaker 1: she was just making an inaccurate statement in your point

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Speaker 1: of view, Yes, they saying she lied. That strikes me

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Speaker 1: as kind of convenient, doesn't it. Why would you lie

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Speaker 1: about that? It doesn't seem like a smart thing to do,

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01:02:55,720 --> 01:02:57,640
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. If it's always good to

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01:02:57,640 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 1: think about the motivations for a lie, why would somebody

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01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 1: say that they just want some attention. Clearly, if it

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Speaker 1: wasn't true, that that person could have been risking their reputation,

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Speaker 1: maybe their job. So that strikes me as a little simple.

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Speaker 1: Someone's lying, either l Garberg is not talligged that truth

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Speaker 1: or somebody else. But there's somebody who's needs needs to

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Speaker 1: come clean on the whole situation. I'm not sure what

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Speaker 1: it is. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. By the way,

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Speaker 1: we uh in the third hour, I want to give

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Speaker 1: you a little bit of a preview where where we're going.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about the opioid epidemic. I have some information

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Speaker 1: about the pharma big farmer companies that are going to

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Speaker 1: be testifying soon, and we want to talk about that

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Speaker 1: component of the opioid crisis. Also, we're gonna be joined

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Speaker 1: by an entrepreneur from the Midwest, from Indiana, UM and

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Speaker 1: talk to him about one town in Indiana Wall Street

1103
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 1: Journal profile where they're just crushing it. They're doing really

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Speaker 1: well economically, so well that they actually can't even fill

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Speaker 1: all the jobs they have. We'll discuss that in that

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Speaker 1: sector of that industry, and then I'll share some thoughts

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Speaker 1: with you on hip hop, the current state of hip hop.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be interesting. Uh, and coming up here in

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Speaker 1: just a moment, The most beloved people in the world

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Speaker 1: are Oh, we have data, my friends, we are going

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01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 1: to get into it. Unfortunately, it's not the most beloved

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Speaker 1: person in the Freedom Hunt, because that would be either

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Speaker 1: John or producer Mike. But it's the world. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about it. Stay with me. Who is the most admired

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Speaker 1: person in the world? Well, we know this list is

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Speaker 1: a sham because I'm not even in the top twenty,

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01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 1: which makes me very sad. It's a big bummer. But

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Speaker 1: it is quite a list. This according to you gov,

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Speaker 1: which is at what a polling company. I don't know

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Speaker 1: much about you gov, but anyway, it's some very interesting

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01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:06,000
Speaker 1: bits of information on this one worlds most admired Who

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01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: wants to guess at number one? I know some of

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Speaker 1: you are like Barack Obama. False, wrong, It is in

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Speaker 1: fact Bill Gates in the number one slot. Barack Obama

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Speaker 1: is number two. The number two most admired person on

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01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:27,960
Speaker 1: planet Earth is Barack Obama. Who wants to guess? At

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Speaker 1: number three? This was way out of left field for me.

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Speaker 1: Jackie Chan the actor, how why? I have absolutely no idea.

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Speaker 1: I cannot even begin to tell you why that is.

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01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 1: But then you can listen Jack ma who is the

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01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:51,720
Speaker 1: founder of Ali Baba. He is China's um equivalent of

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01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:56,000
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos. You know, he's he is the guy right

1133
01:05:56,000 --> 01:06:00,280
Speaker 1: now in the digital space. Vladimir Putin comes it at

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01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:09,520
Speaker 1: number six. La uh, Christiano Ronaldo that's just sports. Oh,

1135
01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:12,480
Speaker 1: he's so good at sports. Soccer is the world sport. Whatever.

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01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:15,760
Speaker 1: And then Lionel Messi, who's like the other best soccer

1137
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:20,040
Speaker 1: player in the world. Warren Buffett, America's financial Grahampa comes

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01:06:20,080 --> 01:06:23,080
Speaker 1: into twelve, and then you get David Beckham Elon Musk.

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01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:27,400
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's m j still on the list, number fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Most amount, he's ahead of the pope. Everybody literally one

1141
01:06:32,680 --> 01:06:36,520
Speaker 1: space ahead of the pope is Michael Jordan's seventeen is

1142
01:06:36,560 --> 01:06:45,280
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Hey, nineteen is riscip Rowan and yeah, there

1143
01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:48,680
Speaker 1: you got it. So in the twenties, Imran Khan not

1144
01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:51,720
Speaker 1: only supposing. I guess Bill Gates is so admired because

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01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 1: of the charitable work that he does, which is nice um,

1146
01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:57,560
Speaker 1: which is nice. He's got that going for him. And

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Speaker 1: you look at these other names. The Dolly Lama is

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01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:01,240
Speaker 1: on there by the way. I would have thought that

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01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:03,040
Speaker 1: Dali Wi will be honest, I thought the Dalai Lama

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01:07:03,040 --> 01:07:05,920
Speaker 1: would probably come in at number one. Does anyone know

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01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:09,120
Speaker 1: anything about the Dalai Lama? Big hit the lama? But no,

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01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:11,919
Speaker 1: people have no, they don't know anything. Is who's gonna

1153
01:07:11,960 --> 01:07:14,880
Speaker 1: catch that reference? Probably all of you. But no one

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01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:16,640
Speaker 1: knows anything of the dial Lama. All they know is

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Speaker 1: that when you die, youchief full consciousness. No, you don't

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Speaker 1: know anything with the lama. I don't know any about

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01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:27,160
Speaker 1: the llama, flowing rubs, the whole thing. Right. People just

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01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:29,680
Speaker 1: know that they're supposed to like the Dalai Lama. The

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Speaker 1: dial Llama is the human equivalent of the muse of museums.

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01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:35,960
Speaker 1: Did you like the museum? You always have to say yes.

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Speaker 1: Did you even go to the museum in that foreign

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Speaker 1: country that you were in that foreign city. You have

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Speaker 1: to say you like the museum anyway. You're not allowed

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01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 1: to say you don't like a museum. And you're not

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Speaker 1: allowed to except for maybe the Museum of Sex, which

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01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 1: is actually not far from me in New York City,

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Speaker 1: which I will tell you I've never been to, and

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01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:55,040
Speaker 1: I've heard it is not good. I've heard it's disappointing.

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Speaker 1: Um there's that. It's actually true story and it was

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01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:01,800
Speaker 1: not me. Whenever I tell these stories, I know Mike

1171
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 1: is looking at me like he thinks that this is me,

1172
01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:05,520
Speaker 1: the true story, but not my story. I had a

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01:08:05,520 --> 01:08:08,480
Speaker 1: friend who took a girl there on it yet yeah, right,

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01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:10,840
Speaker 1: a friend who took a girl there on a first date,

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01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 1: took a young lady to the Museum of Sex on

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Speaker 1: date one? Who want it is a bold move? Who

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Speaker 1: wants to guess if there was a date number two? That? Yeah,

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01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:24,120
Speaker 1: that that was not the That was not the way

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01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:27,800
Speaker 1: to go apparently. So anyway, it's tough when you're in

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Speaker 1: the gift shop and you're like, do you want the

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01:08:29,120 --> 01:08:32,360
Speaker 1: whip in chain or do you want the chocolate in

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01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:37,120
Speaker 1: the shape of um So, anyway, um, where was all this? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You have to say you like the Llama even if

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Speaker 1: you know nothing about the Llama. Oh, but the women, Gosh,

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01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:43,360
Speaker 1: I don't want to be I don't want to be

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01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:45,960
Speaker 1: all about the patriot. I will just a note here

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01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:49,200
Speaker 1: because there's some there's some b roll making the rounds

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01:08:49,200 --> 01:08:51,080
Speaker 1: on CE and then now of young Trump, and people

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Speaker 1: say that I have young Trump hair. False. My hair

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01:08:54,400 --> 01:08:57,360
Speaker 1: is far superior to Young Trump. Okay, I I mine,

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01:08:57,479 --> 01:09:01,200
Speaker 1: just mine just grows in in proportion, like a like

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01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:03,920
Speaker 1: a chia pet, like a thick bush. It just grows

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01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:05,599
Speaker 1: out and out and out. I don't need to like

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01:09:05,680 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 1: swirl it around or anything. The poof, as I call it,

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01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:11,920
Speaker 1: is all natural or the swoop. I actually prefer the swoop,

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01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:14,360
Speaker 1: although to be fair, Trump has more of a swoop,

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01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:16,840
Speaker 1: had and still has more of a swoop than I do.

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Speaker 1: I digress. So the most admired women in the world

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Speaker 1: that's also part of this list you have, okay, the producer, Mike,

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01:09:24,400 --> 01:09:26,519
Speaker 1: did you see this list? No? No, don't know cheating

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01:09:26,760 --> 01:09:29,880
Speaker 1: Who's the most Who's the most admired woman in the world?

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01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:33,519
Speaker 1: Come on, you gotta tell me. I want a name.

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Speaker 1: Michelle Obama Very good guests Number two look at you though,

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01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:40,880
Speaker 1: producer Mike's on his game, I will tell you I

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Speaker 1: would have guest Oprah Winfrey, which I thought would be

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Speaker 1: a pretty safe guest. It turns out Michelle Obama's number two,

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Speaker 1: Oprah win threes, number three, so you're silver medal on

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Speaker 1: bronze medal, respectively. Number one Angelina Jolie, which to me

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Speaker 1: is like, I don't get it right. I mean, her

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01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:04,439
Speaker 1: English accent in the tomb Raider movies was laughable. You know,

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Speaker 1: she she's been, she's did she broight? Did she break

1212
01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:11,800
Speaker 1: up Brad and Jennifer? Or did Jennifer break up her?

1213
01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:14,280
Speaker 1: And I forget how that went. Ms Molly will yell

1214
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:15,679
Speaker 1: at me if I get the she broke up Brat

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01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:19,559
Speaker 1: and Jenneral she that's right. She's the home wrecker. Home wrecker.

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Speaker 1: Number one on the Oh his love yet, John? I

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01:10:23,479 --> 01:10:27,000
Speaker 1: like John always takes the positive point of view. All right, John,

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Speaker 1: I'll let you. I'll let you get away with it

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Speaker 1: today on that one, by the way, Number five on

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Speaker 1: the list. Hello, it's Hillary. Oh yeah, Mike just spit

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Speaker 1: out his water. That's I was looking for that all day. Um.

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Speaker 1: Number six Emma Watson, the chick from the Harry Potter movies. Right,

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Speaker 1: the the young lady from the Harry Potter movie is

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01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:52,439
Speaker 1: not right? Right? Yeah, that's who. I don't even know

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01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 1: she was that famous. I'm learning something new every day.

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01:10:55,400 --> 01:10:58,520
Speaker 1: Malta usef sid that that I can that I can understand.

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01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:05,480
Speaker 1: I'm gla merk yah Angula for wearing non gender distinguishing

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Speaker 1: suits at all times. And uh, Taylor Swift on here.

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01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:11,920
Speaker 1: I love t Swift. You guys all know that. So

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01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:17,080
Speaker 1: respect Madonna. And it's it's gotten weird. That's all I

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Speaker 1: have to say. I'man donna. It's gotten weird. You know.

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Speaker 1: That's that's it. You don't need to say anything else.

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01:11:22,280 --> 01:11:23,720
Speaker 1: I don't need. I don't want to say anything that's

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01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:26,040
Speaker 1: gonna get me in trouble. Gal Gadot is on here.

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01:11:26,040 --> 01:11:27,400
Speaker 1: And then there' a whole bunch of women like I

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01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:30,360
Speaker 1: don't even know who they are, so I can't even

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01:11:30,360 --> 01:11:33,680
Speaker 1: tell you who they Who's a shwari a rai, you know,

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01:11:33,840 --> 01:11:35,120
Speaker 1: I no, I don't know who that is. I think

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01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:37,479
Speaker 1: it's an actress, a Bollywood actress. But if that's like

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01:11:38,040 --> 01:11:40,880
Speaker 1: the first woman to discover a cure for cancer in

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01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:45,280
Speaker 1: South Asia, apologies, I think it's a Bollywood actress though, um,

1242
01:11:45,360 --> 01:11:48,839
Speaker 1: and then Yangne don't know who that is, fan Bingbing

1243
01:11:48,920 --> 01:11:51,040
Speaker 1: don't know who that is, Zooway, don't know who that is.

1244
01:11:51,120 --> 01:11:54,679
Speaker 1: And then Elizabeth Warren just sneaking in under the wire

1245
01:11:55,560 --> 01:11:57,840
Speaker 1: because they needed some diversity on this list. So that's

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01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:01,080
Speaker 1: what Elizabeth Warren provides. So that's the good news. This

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01:12:01,160 --> 01:12:04,000
Speaker 1: was pretty interesting, folks. I don't know how how accurate

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01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:07,479
Speaker 1: this is and how much people Um, I don't know

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01:12:07,479 --> 01:12:11,360
Speaker 1: how much people will look at this and say that's scientific.

1250
01:12:11,479 --> 01:12:13,439
Speaker 1: But I just weren't share with you. So some very

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01:12:13,479 --> 01:12:16,799
Speaker 1: interesting stuff on here, very interesting stuff. Brock and Michelle

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01:12:16,840 --> 01:12:19,000
Speaker 1: Obamba are basically the two most admired people in the world,

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01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:21,000
Speaker 1: though it's really what it comes down to, according to

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01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:25,679
Speaker 1: this poll on the internet. Uh so there's that. Um

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01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:27,200
Speaker 1: some other names on the list that I was kind

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01:12:27,200 --> 01:12:30,639
Speaker 1: of excited to see, Clint Eastwood high Marks. Uh who

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01:12:30,640 --> 01:12:33,840
Speaker 1: else we've got here? Net and Yahoo makes the list,

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01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:36,320
Speaker 1: but they're they're not in the top twenty. All right,

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01:12:36,400 --> 01:12:39,680
Speaker 1: we gotta come back into uh some other stuff here.

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01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:52,679
Speaker 1: I had a quick break. Stay with me. He's holding

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Speaker 1: the line for America. Buck Sexton is back thy Welcome

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Speaker 1: to our three of the Buck Sexton Show. Um, you

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Speaker 1: probably noticed this from listening to me for a while.

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Speaker 1: I I'd like to use our three to talk about

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Speaker 1: whatever it is just on my mind. I guess this

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Speaker 1: is lately I've been I've been thinking about the structure.

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Speaker 1: People have been asking me, what's the structure of your show?

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Speaker 1: And I always say, well, the first hour is what's happening,

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Speaker 1: what's big, what do we need to talk about. The

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Speaker 1: second hour is usually more tends to be more national security,

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Speaker 1: also just maybe more of a drill down, a deep

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Speaker 1: dive into something that I think matters. In the third

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Speaker 1: hours just whatever is on my mind right Uh. This though,

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Speaker 1: is a topic that crosses all of those different areas.

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Speaker 1: The opioid epidemic massive urgent national issue, very news worthy

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Speaker 1: though not really all that much in the news right now. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and and also something that I've been exploring and learning

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Speaker 1: a lot more about. It's just a fascinating story. The

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Speaker 1: quick US hooke on this. What got me thinking about

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Speaker 1: it today is that opioid distributors are going to testify

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Speaker 1: before a House committee coming up soon. Five. This is

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Speaker 1: from the Hill dot com. Five executives of opioid distribution

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Speaker 1: companies will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee

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Speaker 1: in May about how millions of pain pills found their

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Speaker 1: way to small West Virginia towns, and I would know

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Speaker 1: that there's a there's a lot of backlash and anger

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Speaker 1: at these different hill companies, different pharmaceutical companies for the

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Speaker 1: opioid epidemic. You look at some of the numbers here,

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Speaker 1: you see things like Miami luken Uh sent four thousand

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Speaker 1: that's a that's one of the corporations that sent four thousand, sorry,

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Speaker 1: four million pain pills to Oceania, which is a town

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Speaker 1: of one thousand people from two thousand, four million opioid

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Speaker 1: pills seven years people. It's a lot of pills, right

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Speaker 1: you you worked that out per person per day, that's

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Speaker 1: a lot of pills. And so this is the other

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Speaker 1: the other side of I've been talking a lot about

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Speaker 1: the cartels, which the media is just straight up suppressing

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Speaker 1: because Big Pharma is corporation there they the media is

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Speaker 1: okay with pharma being bad guys. They're not okay with

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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants being the bad guys even when they are.

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Speaker 1: And the cartels have had a huge hand in and

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering when someone will really catch onto the fact

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Speaker 1: that it is a true statement to say that illegal

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Speaker 1: immigrants from Mexico are responsible for tens of thousands of

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Speaker 1: preventable deaths in this country. So and that's not to

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Speaker 1: say they're directly causing them, as though they're murdering people.

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Speaker 1: That's just to say that tens of thousands of people

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Speaker 1: are dead. And I mean, I think the number, if

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Speaker 1: you added up, would really be in the hundreds of

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Speaker 1: thousands since about the year two thousand because of what

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Speaker 1: the cartels have been doing. But the pharmaceutical companies have

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Speaker 1: also been up to some really shady stuff. And I

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Speaker 1: would direct you to a book that I'm actually in

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Speaker 1: the middle of right now. Um it's called dream Land,

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Speaker 1: and it's the true tale of of America's opiate epidemic

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Speaker 1: by Sam Canones, who is a who is an l

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Speaker 1: A Times journalist. But it's one of the best books

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Speaker 1: I've read in a long time. It's, like I said,

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Speaker 1: Dreamland by Sam Canonas, because it takes you through the

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Speaker 1: whole story of how did we get to this point

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Speaker 1: where you have sixty four thousand people of the year

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Speaker 1: dying from opioid overdoses. That's a lot of people. You

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Speaker 1: start thinking about how many of those those people. You

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Speaker 1: look at this as not just the deaths, but also

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Speaker 1: the lives shattered from their family members, and just the

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Speaker 1: lost futures and the lost productivity, and you realize that

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Speaker 1: this is affecting millions of people. Sixty sixty three thousand

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Speaker 1: dead in one year is affecting at a minimum hundreds

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Speaker 1: of thousands of people, really millions of people in very

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Speaker 1: direct ways. But one of the big parts of this

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Speaker 1: that the book Dreamland goes into, which I'm I read

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Speaker 1: it at night before I go to sleep these days.

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Speaker 1: I'm halfway through it, is that there was a revolution

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Speaker 1: in the thinking of pain doctors in about the nineteen

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Speaker 1: nineties and there were some, uh, there were some pharmaceutical companies,

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Speaker 1: one in particular, but I won't name it because I

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Speaker 1: don't want to say the wrong one, uh, that decided

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Speaker 1: that they were going to run with a statistic that

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Speaker 1: only one percent of people would become addicted to opioids

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Speaker 1: if prescribed them, and it's it's hard to believe. You.

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Speaker 1: You read the backstory to that in the book, and

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Speaker 1: it turns out it's a letter that somebody wrote to

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Speaker 1: a Journal of Medicine that suggested that in a small

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Speaker 1: sample size of end of end of life cancer patients,

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Speaker 1: only one percent of them were addicted to opioids. And

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Speaker 1: you can imagine all the different reasons that that's not

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Speaker 1: a sufficient study for anything. And that was seized upon

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Speaker 1: by a big fire. And they were just they were

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Speaker 1: selling pills. It was a bonanza. And then it became

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Speaker 1: if you didn't treat pain, it became one of the

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Speaker 1: the vital signs. You know, you go in, they gotta

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Speaker 1: do your your pulse and uh, you're what was a pulse?

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Speaker 1: And then um, you know, heartbeat or is that the

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Speaker 1: same thing. I can't whatever the four or five vital

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Speaker 1: signs are. I'm not a doctor, right, it doesn't matter. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The things that doctors always do. They put on the pressure, cough,

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Speaker 1: They take your pulse, and then they add and making no,

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Speaker 1: but that's not with the tongue to press or whatever.

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Speaker 1: They they added pain as one of the as one

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Speaker 1: of the markers that they have to measure every time

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Speaker 1: you go to a doctor's office. And that's where some

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Speaker 1: of you may have seen this. They created this. This

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Speaker 1: was all done in the nineties, they created this scale

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Speaker 1: of like really unhappy face to kind of unhappy face

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Speaker 1: for children so they could point with their pain was,

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Speaker 1: and then they had the arbitrary one to ten pain

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Speaker 1: scale for adults. Well, somebody who was addicted to OxyContin

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Speaker 1: in particular, which has a large dose of oxycodone in it,

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Speaker 1: which is time release. Guess what drug addicts figured out?

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Speaker 1: What you know, what you wanna do? You break up

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Speaker 1: the oxy contin and then you can snort it and

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Speaker 1: instead of it being time release, it all goes into

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Speaker 1: your system at once. So these are things, whether we'll

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Speaker 1: find out from this book is fascinating story. But farmer

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Speaker 1: companies were running around selling this stuff saying it was

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Speaker 1: non addictive, and it's incredibly addictive anything that affects your brain.

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Speaker 1: Based on the way the way that opiates do opioids opiates,

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Speaker 1: people kind of use these a little bit interchangeably. Has

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Speaker 1: to do with the chemical structure and compound. I think

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Speaker 1: that the opioid is similar chemical compound. Opiate is actually

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Speaker 1: derived from the opium poppy. So I'm just telling you,

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Speaker 1: if you get a chance. Dreamline it's an of a

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Speaker 1: book and it explains how it happened that you had

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Speaker 1: all of these uh opioid epidemics popping up, many opioid

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Speaker 1: epidemics popping up in towns that didn't have a lot

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Speaker 1: of crime, didn't have a lot of gangs. It was

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Speaker 1: a combination of abuse from pharmaceutical companies and the change

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Speaker 1: and the doctor thinking. Was one of the things that

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Speaker 1: I thought was so amazing. All of a sudden, if

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Speaker 1: you went into a doctor and you said you were

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Speaker 1: in pain, the doctor was worried that if he didn't

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Speaker 1: he or she didn't give you a script for pain pills,

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Speaker 1: they might be negligent, and even you could sue them

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Speaker 1: for failing to treat your pain. Think about what that does.

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Speaker 1: Every junkie now who goes into a doctor has the

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Speaker 1: has the upper hand, has a leverage. Every addictude goes in.

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Speaker 1: People would get and and they they they decided to

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Speaker 1: expand what they would treat with. Originally opioids. They realized

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Speaker 1: very very dangerous. I mean back in the sixties and seventies,

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Speaker 1: a like incredibly addictive. You gotta stay away and this stuff.

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Speaker 1: Then going into the eighties, especially in the nineties, it

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Speaker 1: was we're not just gonna use this for terminal cancer,

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Speaker 1: patients to literally ease their pain. Palliative care. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: use it for back pain, We're gonna use it for

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Speaker 1: chronic pelvic pain. What hurts. They started deciding to u

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Speaker 1: to write people's scripts for uh oxycon and purpose that

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Speaker 1: there's a whole bunch of them. Um, you know, people

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Speaker 1: are familiar with them right then. Then they became kind

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Speaker 1: of a part of pop culture and people would talk

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Speaker 1: about abusing them. And but it's a remarkable story. You know,

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Speaker 1: the cartel component I've usually focused on, but the way

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Speaker 1: that medicine was really turned upside down on this issue

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Speaker 1: of pain and pain pills and the consequences. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it is hollowed out. Some of these small towns, you know,

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Speaker 1: they're never going to be the same. And now they're

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Speaker 1: looking Now they're looking for this is what this hell

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Speaker 1: story is about. Opioid distributors are gonna be testifying that

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Speaker 1: they look for criminal charges against some of these pharmaceutical

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Speaker 1: companies and some of these doctors, you know, pill mills,

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Speaker 1: They go after them, They go after them hard. Now

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Speaker 1: d e A gets involved with people who are writing

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Speaker 1: scripts for too many pain pills or and I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you actually because the doctors figure out what the and

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Speaker 1: this is a conversation actually had with the d A

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Speaker 1: agent once. Because of the way the doctors write the script,

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Speaker 1: they're always trying to make it a little bit more

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Speaker 1: like they're hedging toward less drugs is invested. They can

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Speaker 1: investigate even less drugs because then the doctors just structure

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Speaker 1: so they stay below it. So it's a cat and

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Speaker 1: mouse game. Anyway, check out if you're looking for a

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Speaker 1: book to read about all this, check out Dreamline. I'm

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Speaker 1: it's so well written. It's a fantastic, fantastic book. We'll

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Speaker 1: be back with a story about a Midwest town that

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Speaker 1: is booming right now in the industry that are supporting it.

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Speaker 1: It's in Indiana, I'll tell you that. But for more,

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Speaker 1: you gotta stay with me. I owe one more thing.

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Speaker 1: I also saw, uh it's it's in the headlines now

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Speaker 1: all the violence in Mexico. So don't think that I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be following that very closely. What was

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Speaker 1: the port of Varta now had something where when something

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Speaker 1: went down, producer Mike, where was it? Oh? No, Cancoon?

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Speaker 1: It was Cancoon. It was like some fourteen murders in

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours, I think was the in Cancoon, Mexico,

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Speaker 1: an all time record. So this is people talk about

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Speaker 1: this plague, this pandemic of opioids in this country. It's

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Speaker 1: a massive problem and we really as a country need

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Speaker 1: to educate ourselves more on how this is happening. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's some somewhat the farmer companies being irresponsible, but and

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Speaker 1: and the medical community having a lot of bad advice

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Speaker 1: and regulations for a long time. But it's really the

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Speaker 1: cartels and illegal immigration all right. Now, with that, we'll

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Speaker 1: come back and talk about r V sharing just a

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Speaker 1: few Welcome back everybody to the Buck Sexton Show. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to tell you a good news story from the

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Speaker 1: employment side. You know that we've talked about how employments

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Speaker 1: are incredibly low, but people also say that manufacturing needs

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Speaker 1: to make a comeback. There's one place in the country

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Speaker 1: right now that was just highlight in the Wall Street

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Speaker 1: Journal where there's not just a healthy manufacturing sector, there's

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Speaker 1: a manufacturing boom going on, and it's a very specific

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Speaker 1: part of the economy. This Wall Street Journal piece was

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Speaker 1: titled the future of America's economy looks a lot like Elkhart, Indiana.

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Speaker 1: Here's what it says. The self proclaimed RV Capital of

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Speaker 1: the World gives a glimpse of what the American economy

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Speaker 1: looks like when operating at full tilt. High school students

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Speaker 1: around here skip college for factory jobs that offer great

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Speaker 1: pay and benefits for higher signed sprout like roadside weeds,

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Speaker 1: and workers are so flush that car dealers can't keep

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Speaker 1: new pickups on the lot. At the same time, the

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Speaker 1: strands are showing, employers can't hang on to employees, and

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01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:59,639
Speaker 1: house prices are zooming. The worker shortage prompt of local

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01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:02,280
Speaker 1: Kentuck You Fried Chicken restaurant to offer a hundred and

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01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:05,680
Speaker 1: fifty dollars and signing bonus. McDonald's failed to open for

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01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:08,479
Speaker 1: lunch last fall because managers couldn't corral enough hands at

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01:25:08,520 --> 01:25:12,240
Speaker 1: eight dollars an hour. So you've got a really big

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01:25:12,280 --> 01:25:15,719
Speaker 1: boom going on in r vs in elk Card, Indiana,

1477
01:25:15,760 --> 01:25:18,479
Speaker 1: which is having all kinds of interesting economic implications. Let's

1478
01:25:18,479 --> 01:25:21,120
Speaker 1: bring out somebody who knows this sector backwards and forwards,

1479
01:25:21,120 --> 01:25:23,559
Speaker 1: and also just knows the Midwest and the economy out there.

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01:25:23,880 --> 01:25:26,080
Speaker 1: We have Joel Clark with us now. He is the

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01:25:26,120 --> 01:25:29,600
Speaker 1: founder and president of r V share Joel, great to

1482
01:25:29,600 --> 01:25:32,519
Speaker 1: have you joining us, Buck, thanks for having me. It's

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01:25:32,520 --> 01:25:36,320
Speaker 1: a pleasure. So you are an entrepreneur and you're specifically

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01:25:36,360 --> 01:25:38,120
Speaker 1: dealing in the r V sector. If we just tell

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01:25:38,200 --> 01:25:41,439
Speaker 1: me first about why is the RV sector recreational vehicles?

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01:25:41,439 --> 01:25:43,640
Speaker 1: Why are they booming right now? And elk cart is

1487
01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 1: just one example of this. Yeah, that's a great question.

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01:25:47,160 --> 01:25:49,040
Speaker 1: So a lot of the boom if you look at

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01:25:49,040 --> 01:25:52,320
Speaker 1: the RV sales industry in in particular, and you can

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01:25:52,360 --> 01:25:55,080
Speaker 1: kind of break the RV industry into a few kind

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01:25:55,080 --> 01:25:57,559
Speaker 1: of a few different parts. One is r V sales,

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01:25:57,600 --> 01:25:59,920
Speaker 1: but then another part is r V rental, which I've

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01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:02,559
Speaker 1: overlaps a lot, but it's different too, and that's where

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01:26:02,600 --> 01:26:06,280
Speaker 1: I largely focus um with r V share. But you know,

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01:26:06,320 --> 01:26:08,880
Speaker 1: the RV sales kind of the the boom bust cycle

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01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:11,639
Speaker 1: of RV sales, if you look at it, is very

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01:26:11,720 --> 01:26:14,400
Speaker 1: largely a function of the economy as a whole, and

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01:26:14,600 --> 01:26:17,439
Speaker 1: very much a function of oil prices, which makes sense

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01:26:17,600 --> 01:26:19,720
Speaker 1: if gas goes up to four dollars a gallon all

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01:26:19,760 --> 01:26:21,800
Speaker 1: of a sudden, taking the family across country to go

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01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:24,840
Speaker 1: check out Yellowstone becomes uh, you know, less of a

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01:26:24,880 --> 01:26:27,160
Speaker 1: budget vacation and all of a sudden, the cost really

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01:26:27,200 --> 01:26:30,200
Speaker 1: goes to the roof. So it was a great piece.

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01:26:30,320 --> 01:26:33,479
Speaker 1: I love seeing the Wall Street Journal give um give

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01:26:33,520 --> 01:26:36,800
Speaker 1: el cars the love it deserves. El cards an amazing place. Obviously,

1506
01:26:37,200 --> 01:26:40,479
Speaker 1: the RV industry is just, you know, fantastic. It's it's

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01:26:40,479 --> 01:26:42,679
Speaker 1: a joy to be a part of, to help people. Really,

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01:26:42,720 --> 01:26:44,479
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, what everyone in the

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01:26:44,560 --> 01:26:47,599
Speaker 1: r V industry cells is family time, which is like,

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01:26:47,640 --> 01:26:50,640
Speaker 1: there's hard to be you know, more excited about a

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01:26:50,720 --> 01:26:53,880
Speaker 1: product in an industry that you're you're in. So I

1512
01:26:53,920 --> 01:26:56,160
Speaker 1: think it was a great piece, but I think that

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01:26:56,280 --> 01:26:58,960
Speaker 1: it actually kind of in a way missed the mark

1514
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:01,680
Speaker 1: on what the kind of I think the real story is.

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01:27:01,920 --> 01:27:04,840
Speaker 1: I think the real story is actually buried a little

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01:27:04,840 --> 01:27:07,559
Speaker 1: further down in that article, and I think it really

1517
01:27:07,600 --> 01:27:10,599
Speaker 1: gets pulled out by a quote from Shelley Moore, who's

1518
01:27:10,640 --> 01:27:13,679
Speaker 1: the urban planner of Elkhart, and she kind of talks

1519
01:27:13,720 --> 01:27:16,519
Speaker 1: about kind of that boom bust cycle of RV sales

1520
01:27:16,560 --> 01:27:19,840
Speaker 1: in itself. Uh, there's a quote where it says, uh,

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01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:22,519
Speaker 1: Shelley Moore, the Elkhart urban planner, said that the city

1522
01:27:22,600 --> 01:27:25,320
Speaker 1: is in a race against the clock unquote to build

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01:27:25,320 --> 01:27:29,559
Speaker 1: a more diverse and sustainable economy. Um, you know, really

1524
01:27:30,120 --> 01:27:32,519
Speaker 1: what you have and what I think the article kind

1525
01:27:32,520 --> 01:27:34,880
Speaker 1: of misses the mark on is that, you know, the

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01:27:35,320 --> 01:27:39,040
Speaker 1: Midwest and the Middle American economy is at the end

1527
01:27:39,080 --> 01:27:41,599
Speaker 1: of the day, so much bigger than these these boom

1528
01:27:41,600 --> 01:27:44,600
Speaker 1: bus cycles and RV sales are just one part of

1529
01:27:44,600 --> 01:27:47,240
Speaker 1: the r V industry as a whole. And that it's

1530
01:27:47,280 --> 01:27:48,960
Speaker 1: you know, if you watch the video that a company

1531
01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:51,599
Speaker 1: that article, there's kind of this feeling there of it's

1532
01:27:51,600 --> 01:27:53,840
Speaker 1: a it's a gravy train now in RV sales, but

1533
01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:57,519
Speaker 1: everyone's kind of waiting for the next bust for the

1534
01:27:57,840 --> 01:28:01,080
Speaker 1: sales article when that all all change. Just UM and

1535
01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:03,519
Speaker 1: r V shure, we're kind of uniquely positioned to see

1536
01:28:03,520 --> 01:28:05,800
Speaker 1: a different angle because we are in the r V

1537
01:28:05,960 --> 01:28:09,160
Speaker 1: rental space and one thing in the r V rental space. Uh.

1538
01:28:09,200 --> 01:28:11,680
Speaker 1: They say that r V reynalds are good in a

1539
01:28:11,720 --> 01:28:14,519
Speaker 1: good economy and great in a bad economy because an

1540
01:28:14,600 --> 01:28:18,040
Speaker 1: RV rental, unlike RV ownership, this becomes an asset for people, right,

1541
01:28:18,080 --> 01:28:19,599
Speaker 1: It's not just something to have fun and hang out

1542
01:28:19,600 --> 01:28:23,120
Speaker 1: with the family. In absolutely, and that's that's book. What

1543
01:28:23,200 --> 01:28:25,280
Speaker 1: we see as kind of the real story is if

1544
01:28:25,280 --> 01:28:27,960
Speaker 1: you you can look historically at the whole RV sales

1545
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:30,040
Speaker 1: industry and it goes up down, up, down, and if

1546
01:28:30,080 --> 01:28:32,760
Speaker 1: you lay oil prices over that, up down, up down,

1547
01:28:32,760 --> 01:28:35,679
Speaker 1: it makes sense. So what we're building in r V Show,

1548
01:28:35,680 --> 01:28:38,320
Speaker 1: and what I'm really focused on, is like, hey, let's

1549
01:28:38,360 --> 01:28:42,679
Speaker 1: build Middle American economics that work in a downturn. Let's

1550
01:28:42,680 --> 01:28:45,800
Speaker 1: help these eleven million families that have bought this RV

1551
01:28:46,320 --> 01:28:48,960
Speaker 1: and in good times it's a vacation machine. But what

1552
01:28:49,080 --> 01:28:51,160
Speaker 1: we're really focused on is we're getting ready for the

1553
01:28:51,200 --> 01:28:53,639
Speaker 1: next bad time and how do we help families turn

1554
01:28:53,720 --> 01:28:56,519
Speaker 1: that into a cash generating asset when the next market

1555
01:28:56,520 --> 01:29:01,639
Speaker 1: correction happens. So you've basically created Airbnb for r vs, Right,

1556
01:29:01,680 --> 01:29:03,720
Speaker 1: that's a fair way to describe what I know. The

1557
01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:06,639
Speaker 1: platform is different in specific and proprietary, but in terms

1558
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:09,040
Speaker 1: of how it functions. This is a way for people

1559
01:29:09,040 --> 01:29:11,320
Speaker 1: to make money off the RV that sits in their backyard.

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01:29:11,400 --> 01:29:14,200
Speaker 1: For a lot of folks, right, forty eight weeks of

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01:29:14,200 --> 01:29:17,000
Speaker 1: the year, they're not using this thing. Yeah, yeah, you know,

1562
01:29:17,120 --> 01:29:18,920
Speaker 1: you hit the nail on the head or more in

1563
01:29:19,120 --> 01:29:21,400
Speaker 1: our our mission that's up on the wall all over

1564
01:29:21,479 --> 01:29:24,040
Speaker 1: here is we create entrepreneurs. You know. We we do

1565
01:29:24,080 --> 01:29:26,759
Speaker 1: that by helping folks rent r vs all over the country.

1566
01:29:27,080 --> 01:29:29,880
Speaker 1: But our focus is you know these families too, they've

1567
01:29:29,920 --> 01:29:32,920
Speaker 1: got that RV sitting in their driveway forty eight fifty

1568
01:29:32,960 --> 01:29:35,800
Speaker 1: weeks a year. Let's help you take that RV and

1569
01:29:35,800 --> 01:29:39,479
Speaker 1: turn into an extra forty grand a year in income.

1570
01:29:39,600 --> 01:29:41,840
Speaker 1: So you know this, Like I said that, the piece

1571
01:29:41,920 --> 01:29:44,960
Speaker 1: is fantastic. I love, you know, seeing the industry get

1572
01:29:44,960 --> 01:29:47,639
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal attention. You know, Indiana getting a high

1573
01:29:47,680 --> 01:29:51,200
Speaker 1: five for booming economy is pretty cool, right, you don't

1574
01:29:51,200 --> 01:29:53,240
Speaker 1: see that every day. But like I said, I think

1575
01:29:53,240 --> 01:29:55,920
Speaker 1: the real story underneath it is, you know, even the

1576
01:29:56,040 --> 01:29:58,559
Speaker 1: people in the article are openly talking about you know,

1577
01:29:58,680 --> 01:30:01,360
Speaker 1: this is a boom bust cycle. The bust is coming.

1578
01:30:01,760 --> 01:30:03,800
Speaker 1: And that's where me and my team are are really

1579
01:30:03,800 --> 01:30:06,360
Speaker 1: focused on. Where we think the real story is is

1580
01:30:06,520 --> 01:30:09,160
Speaker 1: the way that we brace for the next bus is

1581
01:30:09,280 --> 01:30:13,719
Speaker 1: we create tools and infrastructure that empower the middle American entrepreneur.

1582
01:30:13,840 --> 01:30:16,559
Speaker 1: And there's way more Middle American entrepreneurs than you know

1583
01:30:16,640 --> 01:30:18,639
Speaker 1: you ever see on the news or read about online.

1584
01:30:18,920 --> 01:30:21,920
Speaker 1: Joel Clark is founder and president of r v share.

1585
01:30:21,960 --> 01:30:23,280
Speaker 1: To see more what they're doing, you can go to

1586
01:30:23,400 --> 01:30:26,400
Speaker 1: r v share dot com and you can find the

1587
01:30:26,439 --> 01:30:29,320
Speaker 1: perfect rv rental that way as well. Joel, great to

1588
01:30:29,360 --> 01:30:31,080
Speaker 1: have you, my friend. Thank you so much for joining us.

1589
01:30:31,880 --> 01:30:34,559
Speaker 1: Buck always the pleasure. Thank you, sir, our team. We're

1590
01:30:34,560 --> 01:30:37,840
Speaker 1: gonna roll into a quick break when we come back.

1591
01:30:37,880 --> 01:30:42,439
Speaker 1: I'm gonna share some thoughts. Get ready for brace. Brace yourself,

1592
01:30:42,560 --> 01:30:44,160
Speaker 1: my friends. When you come back, I'm gonna tell you

1593
01:30:44,160 --> 01:30:47,760
Speaker 1: about hip hop bucks. Take on, John, don't be friend,

1594
01:30:47,800 --> 01:30:50,000
Speaker 1: It's gonna be okay. I'm gonna get through it. We're

1595
01:30:50,040 --> 01:30:51,720
Speaker 1: gonna talk about some hip hop music and how I

1596
01:30:51,760 --> 01:30:53,559
Speaker 1: think some of it is that there's a little too much,

1597
01:30:54,080 --> 01:31:07,719
Speaker 1: a little too much profanity. We'll be right back. He's

1598
01:31:07,760 --> 01:31:10,120
Speaker 1: back with you now, because when it comes to the

1599
01:31:10,200 --> 01:31:18,400
Speaker 1: fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Team. I'm Curmudgein Lee,

1600
01:31:18,520 --> 01:31:22,200
Speaker 1: but I'm not prudish. But I gotta tell you today,

1601
01:31:22,880 --> 01:31:26,080
Speaker 1: as I was still waging my losing campaign against Dad Bob,

1602
01:31:27,280 --> 01:31:29,559
Speaker 1: I am Hans, Am I Awn Hans and we just

1603
01:31:29,600 --> 01:31:35,760
Speaker 1: want you. I found myself trying to get motivated to

1604
01:31:35,800 --> 01:31:40,200
Speaker 1: do some burpies, which I'm convinced only exists to make

1605
01:31:40,320 --> 01:31:45,920
Speaker 1: us all feel weak and pathetic and lame. Oh they're

1606
01:31:45,960 --> 01:31:49,280
Speaker 1: so good for your metabolic rate. Yeah, that's right. I

1607
01:31:49,320 --> 01:31:51,640
Speaker 1: really want to flop around on the ground like a

1608
01:31:51,720 --> 01:31:56,280
Speaker 1: fish and fling flop sweat from my poofy hair across

1609
01:31:56,320 --> 01:31:58,439
Speaker 1: the room every time I jump up in the air.

1610
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:01,720
Speaker 1: Or then there's kettle bell swings, which, for those of

1611
01:32:01,720 --> 01:32:04,679
Speaker 1: you who are familiar, you know what I'm talking about.

1612
01:32:05,240 --> 01:32:07,280
Speaker 1: Every time I do one of those swings, I'm like,

1613
01:32:07,840 --> 01:32:11,960
Speaker 1: is this the end of future generations of bucks? It's

1614
01:32:11,960 --> 01:32:14,960
Speaker 1: a scary thing, you know. It's a It's a close

1615
01:32:15,040 --> 01:32:18,520
Speaker 1: fought ordeal every time you swing one of those kettlebells

1616
01:32:18,560 --> 01:32:21,639
Speaker 1: between your knees as hard and fast as you can.

1617
01:32:21,960 --> 01:32:24,439
Speaker 1: But I was trying to get motivated for the workout,

1618
01:32:24,560 --> 01:32:27,920
Speaker 1: and I was looking around on Spotify, because I'm cool,

1619
01:32:28,120 --> 01:32:31,360
Speaker 1: like as the kids are. I'm pretty sure, like such

1620
01:32:31,400 --> 01:32:34,640
Speaker 1: as I believe that are at education, like such as

1621
01:32:34,680 --> 01:32:39,240
Speaker 1: a South Africa and a Diraq everywhere like such as.

1622
01:32:39,280 --> 01:32:42,880
Speaker 1: And there was a time when I would talk some

1623
01:32:43,040 --> 01:32:47,080
Speaker 1: smack about Spotify, how it was just for the music hipsters.

1624
01:32:47,160 --> 01:32:49,040
Speaker 1: Now I use it all the time anyway, I was

1625
01:32:49,120 --> 01:32:51,639
Speaker 1: trying to get a and by the way, you guys

1626
01:32:51,640 --> 01:32:54,720
Speaker 1: can follow me on Spotify and then make fun of

1627
01:32:54,880 --> 01:32:59,160
Speaker 1: all of the Creed and Taylor Swift that I have

1628
01:32:59,280 --> 01:33:02,080
Speaker 1: in my music playlists there there I have public playlists,

1629
01:33:02,080 --> 01:33:04,360
Speaker 1: so you can just find me there. Yeah, that's right.

1630
01:33:04,400 --> 01:33:06,760
Speaker 1: T Swift gets me fired up. Okay, that's just how

1631
01:33:06,760 --> 01:33:10,480
Speaker 1: I roll. I can just feel all the emails cascading

1632
01:33:10,520 --> 01:33:14,120
Speaker 1: in telling me my man card is revoked forever. But anyway,

1633
01:33:14,120 --> 01:33:17,560
Speaker 1: I was thinking about or trying to find a good playlist,

1634
01:33:17,640 --> 01:33:21,280
Speaker 1: and I found some that were, you know, for workout specifically,

1635
01:33:21,320 --> 01:33:23,960
Speaker 1: and some of them were hip hop specific Now, I

1636
01:33:24,000 --> 01:33:26,519
Speaker 1: grew up listening, to believe it or not, a lot

1637
01:33:26,560 --> 01:33:28,160
Speaker 1: of hip hop here in New York City in the

1638
01:33:28,160 --> 01:33:32,800
Speaker 1: early nineties. It was all Notorious b I G. And

1639
01:33:33,120 --> 01:33:38,280
Speaker 1: Tupac and Nas and Cypress Hill and House of Pain,

1640
01:33:38,680 --> 01:33:42,720
Speaker 1: and these were the music acts that my peers all

1641
01:33:42,720 --> 01:33:44,960
Speaker 1: listened to all across the city. It was there was

1642
01:33:45,000 --> 01:33:48,320
Speaker 1: really a hip hop explosion across the country. But I'm

1643
01:33:48,360 --> 01:33:51,240
Speaker 1: a little older and wiser about all things in life now,

1644
01:33:51,280 --> 01:33:53,280
Speaker 1: and I was listening to one of these hip hop

1645
01:33:53,320 --> 01:33:56,439
Speaker 1: mixes in parts so I can sound cool when I

1646
01:33:56,479 --> 01:33:58,639
Speaker 1: talked to Miss Molly because she's a bit younger. She's

1647
01:33:58,640 --> 01:34:01,599
Speaker 1: not even thirty yet, so she's bit younger than me. Uh,

1648
01:34:01,640 --> 01:34:03,640
Speaker 1: and and I can be like, yeah, today, I was

1649
01:34:03,720 --> 01:34:10,240
Speaker 1: listening to Cardi B and Gucci Maine and Little Wayne

1650
01:34:10,360 --> 01:34:14,880
Speaker 1: and Geezy on my music playlist. That's right, But I

1651
01:34:14,920 --> 01:34:16,200
Speaker 1: was listening to it, and I have to tell you,

1652
01:34:16,400 --> 01:34:19,160
Speaker 1: those were some of the artists on this playlist I

1653
01:34:19,200 --> 01:34:23,040
Speaker 1: was listening to today, and I I called a lot

1654
01:34:23,080 --> 01:34:27,920
Speaker 1: of the lyrics. And I'm not somebody who is particularly squeamish,

1655
01:34:27,920 --> 01:34:31,120
Speaker 1: and I'm very anti censorship, but I gotta tell you

1656
01:34:31,840 --> 01:34:33,920
Speaker 1: there's a little part of it that's like, why is

1657
01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:38,160
Speaker 1: it that, in this day and age of me too,

1658
01:34:39,360 --> 01:34:44,599
Speaker 1: when there's so much uh discussion of the need for

1659
01:34:44,960 --> 01:34:48,519
Speaker 1: equality among women and and treating women with greater respect

1660
01:34:48,600 --> 01:34:53,600
Speaker 1: and ending sexual harassment, hip hop is considered a completely

1661
01:34:54,160 --> 01:34:57,920
Speaker 1: separate space. In that whole conversation, there were things that

1662
01:34:57,960 --> 01:35:00,360
Speaker 1: were being wrapped about. And these are new rap songs,

1663
01:35:00,439 --> 01:35:02,160
Speaker 1: right or we call it hip hop now, but when

1664
01:35:02,200 --> 01:35:04,120
Speaker 1: I was a kid, we called it rap. But these

1665
01:35:04,120 --> 01:35:05,960
Speaker 1: are new hip hop songs that are out that are

1666
01:35:06,000 --> 01:35:09,080
Speaker 1: topping the charts. Uh. Though those are big apparently Gucci

1667
01:35:09,160 --> 01:35:12,200
Speaker 1: Maine and Little Wayne and these are big. These are

1668
01:35:12,200 --> 01:35:15,040
Speaker 1: big music acts. I know about Little Wayne because in fact,

1669
01:35:15,400 --> 01:35:18,360
Speaker 1: I know the NYPD detective who arrested him and sent

1670
01:35:18,479 --> 01:35:21,719
Speaker 1: him to prison for a weapon's possession. Story for another time.

1671
01:35:22,360 --> 01:35:24,439
Speaker 1: But the lyrics in these songs, I mean, there was

1672
01:35:24,520 --> 01:35:27,040
Speaker 1: one title of a song, for example, that really caught

1673
01:35:27,040 --> 01:35:31,799
Speaker 1: my eye. It was bottles and be the second word

1674
01:35:33,000 --> 01:35:36,040
Speaker 1: is also a term for a female dog, and I

1675
01:35:36,080 --> 01:35:39,200
Speaker 1: was like, you know, that seems to me to be

1676
01:35:39,720 --> 01:35:42,880
Speaker 1: pretty offensive. And I'm not somebody who talks a lot

1677
01:35:42,920 --> 01:35:46,800
Speaker 1: about what's offensive and what's not. I I like a

1678
01:35:46,840 --> 01:35:49,479
Speaker 1: live in the live kind of world. And then I'm

1679
01:35:49,479 --> 01:35:51,479
Speaker 1: gonna tell you, I really felt like I'm out of

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01:35:51,520 --> 01:35:53,640
Speaker 1: it because there were terms that were used and I

1681
01:35:53,680 --> 01:35:57,040
Speaker 1: was like, what is that word? I know, I sound

1682
01:35:57,040 --> 01:36:00,000
Speaker 1: like a huge nerd right now, but I was unfamili

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01:36:00,000 --> 01:36:02,160
Speaker 1: It was some of the slang, and so I did

1684
01:36:02,200 --> 01:36:04,920
Speaker 1: a little poking around, and sure enough I found out

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01:36:05,040 --> 01:36:10,960
Speaker 1: that it is very graphic sexual commentary using slang terms

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01:36:11,000 --> 01:36:13,240
Speaker 1: that is just all over And these are big songs

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01:36:13,320 --> 01:36:15,680
Speaker 1: right now, and sure enough, today I'm thinking that I'm

1688
01:36:15,720 --> 01:36:18,559
Speaker 1: in the gym and then I see news Busters here

1689
01:36:19,040 --> 01:36:21,600
Speaker 1: has a piece it got it got linked today in

1690
01:36:21,600 --> 01:36:24,200
Speaker 1: the Drudge reports. So it feels like there's some synchronicity here.

1691
01:36:24,520 --> 01:36:27,639
Speaker 1: Hateful hip hop. The top us R and B hip

1692
01:36:27,640 --> 01:36:32,080
Speaker 1: hop songs objectify women fifty five times. So I'm not

1693
01:36:32,160 --> 01:36:34,160
Speaker 1: I'm not alone here. I'm not crazy and thinking that

1694
01:36:34,240 --> 01:36:38,760
Speaker 1: this stuff is uh a little bit, uh a little

1695
01:36:38,800 --> 01:36:40,920
Speaker 1: bit too much. And I'm not saying that should be

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01:36:40,960 --> 01:36:43,360
Speaker 1: illegal or should be censored. I'm just saying, why is

1697
01:36:43,400 --> 01:36:47,280
Speaker 1: this not part of the social discussion, the social commentary

1698
01:36:47,320 --> 01:36:51,439
Speaker 1: we have? Why does me too not touch hip hop?

1699
01:36:52,280 --> 01:36:54,880
Speaker 1: It's a question I would like someone else maybe to answer.

1700
01:36:54,960 --> 01:36:57,200
Speaker 1: But I did wonder today myself when I was in

1701
01:36:57,240 --> 01:37:00,519
Speaker 1: the gym burpies and kettle bell swings and other terrible

1702
01:37:00,560 --> 01:37:02,960
Speaker 1: things that I know are good for you and YadA YadA,

1703
01:37:03,080 --> 01:37:07,760
Speaker 1: But I was really taken aback by how graphic some

1704
01:37:07,840 --> 01:37:11,880
Speaker 1: of the language was. And it's not not a lot

1705
01:37:11,920 --> 01:37:15,519
Speaker 1: of stuff about like, you know, love and romance. And

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01:37:15,800 --> 01:37:19,280
Speaker 1: I can handle double entendres in these hip hop songs

1707
01:37:19,520 --> 01:37:22,400
Speaker 1: if you know the words that are being used. It's

1708
01:37:22,439 --> 01:37:27,920
Speaker 1: just clinical graphic terminology. I know I sound I sound

1709
01:37:27,920 --> 01:37:29,400
Speaker 1: like I'm a little bit of a of a nerd,

1710
01:37:29,439 --> 01:37:31,120
Speaker 1: but it's the way it is. We're going to roll

1711
01:37:31,160 --> 01:37:47,320
Speaker 1: into uh roll call. Stay with me. The show ain't

1712
01:37:47,360 --> 01:37:56,160
Speaker 1: over yet, folks keeping it real. It's time for roll call,

1713
01:37:56,880 --> 01:37:59,760
Speaker 1: and we got some cool cats in Freedom Hunt daddy O.

1714
01:38:00,520 --> 01:38:03,280
Speaker 1: Now let's get into some old calling. If you want

1715
01:38:03,280 --> 01:38:05,760
Speaker 1: to be a part of it, Facebook dot Com, slash

1716
01:38:05,920 --> 01:38:10,519
Speaker 1: buck Sexton and uh, let's get into a Bill Rights. Hey, Bucket,

1717
01:38:10,640 --> 01:38:14,559
Speaker 1: was great meeting you a few weeks ago back in Savannah. Well,

1718
01:38:14,720 --> 01:38:16,920
Speaker 1: great to meet you too, Bill, Thank you very much

1719
01:38:16,960 --> 01:38:19,639
Speaker 1: for the note. Really enjoyed my trip down in Savannah,

1720
01:38:19,680 --> 01:38:22,439
Speaker 1: hanging out with our friends at Black Rifle Coffee and

1721
01:38:22,800 --> 01:38:29,439
Speaker 1: nine Line Apparel. Uh, let's see what's here, Steven Rights.

1722
01:38:29,600 --> 01:38:34,439
Speaker 1: Bad movie adaptations of books, Starship Troopers. You know, Stephen,

1723
01:38:34,680 --> 01:38:36,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to diverge with

1724
01:38:36,840 --> 01:38:40,800
Speaker 1: you here. I thought that Starship Troopers as corny as

1725
01:38:40,840 --> 01:38:43,760
Speaker 1: it was, And it was corny, I make I make

1726
01:38:43,800 --> 01:38:47,760
Speaker 1: no bones about that. Pretty watchable in its own weird way.

1727
01:38:48,600 --> 01:38:51,760
Speaker 1: I thought it was. It was campy, but I kind

1728
01:38:51,800 --> 01:38:54,760
Speaker 1: of enjoyed it. I thought it was actually a pretty good,

1729
01:38:55,120 --> 01:39:00,000
Speaker 1: pretty good thing. Check out um. Paul writes, Hey, Buck

1730
01:39:00,040 --> 01:39:03,040
Speaker 1: two things. Keep thinking, why don't we set up our

1731
01:39:03,040 --> 01:39:06,760
Speaker 1: own air base on Kurdish territory. It will give us

1732
01:39:07,160 --> 01:39:09,519
Speaker 1: the ability to supply air power and a base of

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01:39:09,600 --> 01:39:14,640
Speaker 1: operations in the area. Your emergency I experience, Oh, your emergency,

1734
01:39:14,720 --> 01:39:18,639
Speaker 1: I experienced with the e ER loaded with illegal sounds mild.

1735
01:39:19,000 --> 01:39:21,800
Speaker 1: Try visiting the e r s in California. I was

1736
01:39:21,840 --> 01:39:24,599
Speaker 1: a medical rep for years and saw firsthand how many

1737
01:39:24,640 --> 01:39:29,000
Speaker 1: people abuse this privilege. It's appalling, uh from Paul Paul,

1738
01:39:29,040 --> 01:39:32,840
Speaker 1: I totally agree. And people who talk about illegal immigration

1739
01:39:33,600 --> 01:39:37,080
Speaker 1: and just dismiss things like what happens when remember, I'm

1740
01:39:37,080 --> 01:39:39,920
Speaker 1: not saying that the illegal that the the emergency room

1741
01:39:40,040 --> 01:39:45,000
Speaker 1: was full of illegal aliens who had emergencies and we're no, no,

1742
01:39:45,280 --> 01:39:47,599
Speaker 1: they go for the first line of care because they

1743
01:39:47,600 --> 01:39:49,799
Speaker 1: wanted up paying for it. You have to be treated,

1744
01:39:49,800 --> 01:39:52,080
Speaker 1: and so there there will be no bill, they'll be

1745
01:39:52,160 --> 01:39:55,439
Speaker 1: they will not pay. And so I'm they're saying, I

1746
01:39:55,479 --> 01:39:58,439
Speaker 1: need someone to operate on my eye. And there are

1747
01:39:58,439 --> 01:40:02,120
Speaker 1: other people there who, according to one of the nurses,

1748
01:40:02,320 --> 01:40:05,639
Speaker 1: were a lot of them were illegal. Uh. And that

1749
01:40:05,640 --> 01:40:07,559
Speaker 1: that's a pretty fair guest considering I'm here in New

1750
01:40:07,600 --> 01:40:11,360
Speaker 1: York City, and what the demographic profile is for New York. Uh,

1751
01:40:11,439 --> 01:40:15,479
Speaker 1: and the emergency room usage that goes on here, and

1752
01:40:15,680 --> 01:40:18,400
Speaker 1: you get people that are taking vision tests and getting eyeglasses.

1753
01:40:18,400 --> 01:40:20,640
Speaker 1: And I'm not begrudging that people want eyeglasses or that

1754
01:40:20,640 --> 01:40:24,519
Speaker 1: they need basic vision tests in a you know, because

1755
01:40:24,520 --> 01:40:26,760
Speaker 1: they are illegals, I get it. I'm just saying, it's

1756
01:40:26,800 --> 01:40:28,960
Speaker 1: the emergency room, and there are a whole lot of

1757
01:40:29,000 --> 01:40:31,400
Speaker 1: people who did not have anything even in the universe

1758
01:40:31,439 --> 01:40:34,760
Speaker 1: of an emergency. And Paul is telling me he saw

1759
01:40:34,800 --> 01:40:38,800
Speaker 1: the same thing in California when he was working as

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01:40:38,840 --> 01:40:43,360
Speaker 1: a medical wrap. I totally believe it. Um William writes,

1761
01:40:43,760 --> 01:40:47,719
Speaker 1: uh Buck, Why isn't there a special prosecutor to find

1762
01:40:47,760 --> 01:40:52,240
Speaker 1: out who tortured and killed Deputy federal Prosecutor Jonathan Luna

1763
01:40:52,280 --> 01:40:54,640
Speaker 1: in two thousand and three. He worked out of the

1764
01:40:54,640 --> 01:40:58,000
Speaker 1: Federal courthouse in Baltimore. There's a massive cover up regarding

1765
01:40:58,040 --> 01:41:03,479
Speaker 1: this case. I'm now investigating this terrible crime myself. Um

1766
01:41:03,800 --> 01:41:07,400
Speaker 1: Well William, I have no idea about this case at all.

1767
01:41:07,479 --> 01:41:09,400
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna have to take a look at this one.

1768
01:41:09,400 --> 01:41:12,599
Speaker 1: And I can't give you anything beyond thanks for the note,

1769
01:41:12,680 --> 01:41:19,320
Speaker 1: and I'll take a look. Next up here, Alex writes, Hey, Buck,

1770
01:41:19,400 --> 01:41:22,160
Speaker 1: love this show Shields High. Fairly new listener, and you've

1771
01:41:22,200 --> 01:41:25,599
Speaker 1: got yourself a new regular listener. Now I'm told that

1772
01:41:26,040 --> 01:41:30,680
Speaker 1: Irish gypsies are called tinkers. I thought they were called travelers.

1773
01:41:30,720 --> 01:41:33,919
Speaker 1: Maybe they're called tinkers. I know they don't like gypsy

1774
01:41:34,040 --> 01:41:36,920
Speaker 1: and they definitely don't like being called pikers, which I

1775
01:41:36,960 --> 01:41:41,559
Speaker 1: think is quite an insult over there. So yeah, and

1776
01:41:41,680 --> 01:41:43,599
Speaker 1: thank you very much Alex for being a new part

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01:41:43,720 --> 01:41:48,120
Speaker 1: of the team. Uh. Next here, got a lot of

1778
01:41:48,200 --> 01:41:51,759
Speaker 1: notes this week appreciated of course. I love your show

1779
01:41:52,000 --> 01:41:55,040
Speaker 1: and I can't wait for more Shields High episodes. I

1780
01:41:55,080 --> 01:41:58,040
Speaker 1: agree that tossing a few sun dried tomatoes into a

1781
01:41:58,120 --> 01:42:01,799
Speaker 1: dish is not very appetizing, but sun dried tomatoes blended

1782
01:42:01,840 --> 01:42:06,960
Speaker 1: like a pesto makes the best pizza sauce ever. M Sharon,

1783
01:42:07,240 --> 01:42:11,519
Speaker 1: I will give that one some thought. Um, you you

1784
01:42:11,600 --> 01:42:13,519
Speaker 1: may be able to convert me. I do have an

1785
01:42:13,520 --> 01:42:17,559
Speaker 1: irrational hatred of sun dried tomatoes. Or maybe it's quite

1786
01:42:17,640 --> 01:42:21,200
Speaker 1: rational actually, but there might be ways that you could

1787
01:42:21,439 --> 01:42:25,000
Speaker 1: bring me over your side of things. Mary. Al Right,

1788
01:42:25,080 --> 01:42:27,880
Speaker 1: Hey Buck, if you're looking for a way to get

1789
01:42:27,960 --> 01:42:32,439
Speaker 1: rid of any physical books, check out paperback swap dot com. Also,

1790
01:42:32,479 --> 01:42:34,320
Speaker 1: thank you for all that you say and do. You're

1791
01:42:34,360 --> 01:42:36,960
Speaker 1: a blessing. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and

1792
01:42:37,000 --> 01:42:40,720
Speaker 1: opinions and really enjoy your history lessons too well. Thank

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01:42:40,720 --> 01:42:43,679
Speaker 1: you very much, Mary. And also a note that Mary

1794
01:42:43,720 --> 01:42:47,760
Speaker 1: wrote office Space, Uh, just yesterday when I was on air,

1795
01:42:48,600 --> 01:42:51,880
Speaker 1: in reference to what I said about Staeper three ninth

1796
01:42:52,040 --> 01:42:57,000
Speaker 1: Staper and Adam three ninth Staper, Milt, we're gonna need

1797
01:42:57,080 --> 01:43:01,200
Speaker 1: to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage. B

1798
01:43:02,200 --> 01:43:06,400
Speaker 1: We some new people coming in and we need all

1799
01:43:06,439 --> 01:43:09,519
Speaker 1: this space we can get. So if you could just

1800
01:43:09,600 --> 01:43:13,040
Speaker 1: go ahead and you pack up your stuff and move

1801
01:43:13,080 --> 01:43:19,880
Speaker 1: it down there, that would be terrific. It excuse me,

1802
01:43:20,680 --> 01:43:25,840
Speaker 1: I believe you hit my stapler. I believe I love him.

1803
01:43:25,880 --> 01:43:29,639
Speaker 1: In Office Spaces, it is a timeless classic of Mike

1804
01:43:29,760 --> 01:43:35,960
Speaker 1: Judges entire catalog of work. Office Space maybe my very favorite.

1805
01:43:35,960 --> 01:43:38,960
Speaker 1: Although Silicon Valley was really good, I think it's gone

1806
01:43:38,960 --> 01:43:41,000
Speaker 1: a little downhill in the last couple of seasons. I'll

1807
01:43:41,040 --> 01:43:43,160
Speaker 1: be honest, it's not nearly The writing is just not

1808
01:43:43,280 --> 01:43:46,160
Speaker 1: as funny and as clever as it was before, but Mary,

1809
01:43:46,200 --> 01:43:48,680
Speaker 1: you are correct, that was office space. Thank you very much.

1810
01:43:48,840 --> 01:43:52,000
Speaker 1: Great to hear from you. Uh William writes book, You

1811
01:43:52,040 --> 01:43:54,639
Speaker 1: don't know how tired I am of talking heads who

1812
01:43:54,680 --> 01:43:57,439
Speaker 1: have never been in harm's way banging the war drum. Well,

1813
01:43:57,479 --> 01:44:00,760
Speaker 1: will William, I I understand, and I agree. I think

1814
01:44:00,800 --> 01:44:02,840
Speaker 1: it's far too easy to always talk about how we

1815
01:44:02,880 --> 01:44:05,040
Speaker 1: just need to go over there and kick butt. Man.

1816
01:44:05,960 --> 01:44:09,240
Speaker 1: I know what kicking butt entails. I've seen others do

1817
01:44:09,320 --> 01:44:13,559
Speaker 1: it up close and personal, and there's nothing that is

1818
01:44:13,560 --> 01:44:15,960
Speaker 1: more serious in terms of a national discussion than when

1819
01:44:15,960 --> 01:44:19,439
Speaker 1: we put our own in harm's way. And I think

1820
01:44:19,439 --> 01:44:26,559
Speaker 1: that staying out of Syria is an absolutely essential, essential

1821
01:44:26,880 --> 01:44:30,280
Speaker 1: policy goal for the Trump administration. I really do. And

1822
01:44:30,280 --> 01:44:32,640
Speaker 1: when I say staying out, I mean no land invasion,

1823
01:44:32,720 --> 01:44:36,200
Speaker 1: no massive occupation, none of that. We should be doing things.

1824
01:44:36,479 --> 01:44:40,360
Speaker 1: We just don't have to do everything. Brian is next up.

1825
01:44:40,360 --> 01:44:43,680
Speaker 1: He rights buck Love the show I'm fifty five, but

1826
01:44:43,800 --> 01:44:46,160
Speaker 1: was definitely able to relate to all of the John

1827
01:44:46,240 --> 01:44:49,640
Speaker 1: Hughes films. I truly believe John Hughes was the Shakespeare

1828
01:44:49,640 --> 01:44:54,040
Speaker 1: of that generation. I'm tired of the rewriting of history. Well, Brian,

1829
01:44:54,360 --> 01:44:56,280
Speaker 1: I like John Hughes films too, and I think they're

1830
01:44:56,280 --> 01:44:59,360
Speaker 1: really important in my in my formative years. And I

1831
01:44:59,400 --> 01:45:01,640
Speaker 1: just would note that there's really very little now that

1832
01:45:02,080 --> 01:45:06,240
Speaker 1: Disney films, John Hughes films, I mean Disney cartoons. Back

1833
01:45:06,360 --> 01:45:08,960
Speaker 1: from my youth, nothing is able to stand up to

1834
01:45:09,000 --> 01:45:12,320
Speaker 1: the new regime of political correctness. And we just need

1835
01:45:12,360 --> 01:45:15,200
Speaker 1: to stop, you know, we need to stop that from

1836
01:45:15,240 --> 01:45:20,479
Speaker 1: overtaking the arts, from overtaking our conversations. It's just too much. Uh.

1837
01:45:20,600 --> 01:45:24,160
Speaker 1: Next up we have Roger, who writes Buck for confessing

1838
01:45:24,200 --> 01:45:27,479
Speaker 1: to having creed on your iPod, you are now charged

1839
01:45:27,479 --> 01:45:30,960
Speaker 1: with crimes against humanity shields high. Well, all I have

1840
01:45:31,000 --> 01:45:34,519
Speaker 1: to say to you, Roger is I'm six feet from

1841
01:45:34,640 --> 01:45:40,240
Speaker 1: derege and I'm thinking, baby six feet all right, I'll stop,

1842
01:45:40,560 --> 01:45:44,519
Speaker 1: but that's my response to you, Roger. Uh. Next up

1843
01:45:45,640 --> 01:45:51,639
Speaker 1: is Eric, who writes about nine minutes into Tuesday's podcast,

1844
01:45:51,680 --> 01:45:54,280
Speaker 1: you're killing me with the not my President thing. Well, Eric,

1845
01:45:54,320 --> 01:45:58,800
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed that not my president, not my president.

1846
01:45:59,320 --> 01:46:01,320
Speaker 1: They thought that was a really clever chat here on

1847
01:46:01,320 --> 01:46:03,560
Speaker 1: the streets of New York City. They were wrong, but

1848
01:46:03,720 --> 01:46:07,120
Speaker 1: that did not stop them. We got Philip here rights again,

1849
01:46:07,160 --> 01:46:11,800
Speaker 1: the affirmative action culture segment was great. Uh and that

1850
01:46:11,960 --> 01:46:16,280
Speaker 1: and that's artificially segregates our society. Great spot on Wednesday

1851
01:46:16,320 --> 01:46:22,200
Speaker 1: confirming concerning affirmative action at Penn Law too. Well, thank

1852
01:46:22,200 --> 01:46:25,559
Speaker 1: you very much, Philip, I appreciate that. Um. Next up,

1853
01:46:25,600 --> 01:46:27,840
Speaker 1: we got Matthew, who writes love your show and was

1854
01:46:27,880 --> 01:46:29,960
Speaker 1: awesome to meet you a talk tank in Fort Wayne.

1855
01:46:30,600 --> 01:46:34,160
Speaker 1: About fifty and twenty years ago, the Springfield, Illinois Police

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01:46:34,160 --> 01:46:37,000
Speaker 1: Department had to turn down white applicants in order to

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01:46:37,080 --> 01:46:41,240
Speaker 1: hire less qualified minority applicants in the name of diversity.

1858
01:46:41,720 --> 01:46:43,840
Speaker 1: I've been mad about that ever since. And I've even

1859
01:46:43,840 --> 01:46:47,240
Speaker 1: put Native American on my job applications, even though only

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01:46:47,280 --> 01:46:51,879
Speaker 1: one sixteenth Native American shields high. Matthew, Matthew, look, I understand.

1861
01:46:51,880 --> 01:46:54,160
Speaker 1: You know, there's been a lot of big fights here

1862
01:46:54,200 --> 01:46:57,160
Speaker 1: in New York City over the f D and y

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01:46:57,360 --> 01:47:01,080
Speaker 1: the Fire Department, which is much more or homogeneous, much

1864
01:47:01,120 --> 01:47:04,679
Speaker 1: more white than any social justice warriors are okay with.

1865
01:47:05,040 --> 01:47:06,880
Speaker 1: And so they've done all these things where they try

1866
01:47:06,920 --> 01:47:09,559
Speaker 1: to change the tests, but then they run a foul

1867
01:47:09,560 --> 01:47:12,160
Speaker 1: of well are people taking different tests for the same

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01:47:12,160 --> 01:47:15,160
Speaker 1: fire department job? Because that would seem on its face

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01:47:15,200 --> 01:47:19,280
Speaker 1: to be discriminatory. Uh So it happens all over the country,

1870
01:47:19,320 --> 01:47:20,880
Speaker 1: and it's something we need to keep our eye on

1871
01:47:21,040 --> 01:47:22,960
Speaker 1: and uh and keep fighting this fight. I think it's

1872
01:47:23,040 --> 01:47:27,479
Speaker 1: very important. Are one more here, Earnest right, it's too deep,

1873
01:47:27,560 --> 01:47:30,960
Speaker 1: too deep dive requests from a long time fan back

1874
01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:32,960
Speaker 1: in the reel from back in the real news days.

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01:47:33,600 --> 01:47:36,960
Speaker 1: Number One, symbolism of the U. S. Flag and flag etiquette.

1876
01:47:36,960 --> 01:47:40,040
Speaker 1: I doubt youngsters have heard that the red and white

1877
01:47:40,080 --> 01:47:43,719
Speaker 1: stripes signify the blood soaked bandages of continental soldiers. Number

1878
01:47:43,800 --> 01:47:47,559
Speaker 1: Two bigger government as a result of revenue sharing post

1879
01:47:47,640 --> 01:47:52,160
Speaker 1: Vietnam War. Instead of cutting taxes without war expense, taxes

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01:47:52,200 --> 01:47:55,960
Speaker 1: remained up and government grants grew. I'm seventy one and

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01:47:56,000 --> 01:47:58,560
Speaker 1: I remember these things. Please share them with your younger listeners.

1882
01:47:59,120 --> 01:48:02,280
Speaker 1: From earn in Yuma. Well, Ernest, thank you so much

1883
01:48:02,280 --> 01:48:05,840
Speaker 1: for being with me from way back when Ernest and

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01:48:05,840 --> 01:48:09,120
Speaker 1: Becky appreciated. And without my friends, I'm gonna have to

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Speaker 1: clear out the Freedom Hut for the rest of the night. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I got guys here, I got Mike and John that

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01:48:15,400 --> 01:48:17,280
Speaker 1: they need to go home, so I can't just keep

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Speaker 1: on going otherwise I would thank you as always for

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Speaker 1: joining me. Please do spread word about the show. Check

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01:48:22,280 --> 01:48:25,040
Speaker 1: out some of our advertisers that we've mentioned throughout the program.

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Speaker 1: It's a way to support them and us and get

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Speaker 1: some great gear for yourself. Until next time, my friends,

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Speaker 1: Shields High