Speaker 1: You are entering the freedom hunt. Former CI director Pompeo
Speaker 1: is slated to be the next Secretary of State. Did
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Speaker 1: Always appreciative of your time. Excited to get into everything
Speaker 1: that matters in our world today. The Pompeo hearing is
Speaker 1: what I wanted to want to get into first, and
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you I think this Pompeo guys really solid.
Speaker 1: I wrote a piece today on the On the Hill
Speaker 1: dot com about the confirmation marks. By the way, I
Speaker 1: was I even picked. It was published before the hearing
Speaker 1: started and by name. I was able to say, well,
Speaker 1: here's the playbook, and you know, Booker is gonna is
Speaker 1: gonna Senator Booker is gonna make noise about Islamophobia. And
Speaker 1: it's so when I say things are predictable, it's always
Speaker 1: fun when I've actually predicted it. And I'm sure many
Speaker 1: of you had the same thought, right, those of you
Speaker 1: and by the way, those of you even care about
Speaker 1: watching a Senate confirmation hearing. You know how many people
Speaker 1: have ever been thumbs down in the entire history of
Speaker 1: the Senate. There have been nine people who have gotten
Speaker 1: that map. So it's not exactly high stakes poker for
Speaker 1: most folks. It's pretty pretty straightforward. And there have been
Speaker 1: a lot more who have withdrawn. So there's that right,
Speaker 1: can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen situation.
Speaker 1: But it's never been a secretary of state. I mean,
Speaker 1: usually someone who's gonna get up in the Secretary of
Speaker 1: State role is is vetted, ready to rock, sign sealed
Speaker 1: and delivered. It's generally not someone you're gonna go, well,
Speaker 1: we don't really know this guy is or gal um
Speaker 1: and that's certainly the case with Pompeo. In a sane world,
Speaker 1: let me just say, it's not even a close vote.
Speaker 1: In the sane world, all the Democrats would vote for
Speaker 1: this guy too. Um And, and look, it hasn't gone
Speaker 1: to a floor vote yet. It's it actually is gonna
Speaker 1: be close. It's gonna be tight. You have Rand Paul
Speaker 1: saying that he's not going to vote to confirm Pompeio,
Speaker 1: which I think is you know, it's I go back
Speaker 1: and forth with Senator Paul, have interviewed many times. I
Speaker 1: like the guy's ideas, and I also like his low key,
Speaker 1: kind of Kentucky surfer dude demeanor. I dig, I dig
Speaker 1: all that, but I think sometimes it's it can be
Speaker 1: a little self serving on the I'm the only sane
Speaker 1: voice on presidential uh, you know, war powers and congressional authorization.
Speaker 1: So we'll see, we'll see if we can come around
Speaker 1: to to my side of it on this one. I
Speaker 1: doubt it though. And then there's just some Democrats who
Speaker 1: were engaged in the most shameless of of shameless grandstanding today.
Speaker 1: But we expected, we expected that to be the case.
Speaker 1: Um And And Senator Corey Booker really lad the charge.
Speaker 1: He was the head of the Democrat ambush against Pompeio. Today,
Speaker 1: so I think it's likely he'll get through, but the
Speaker 1: fact that it's even gonna be tight. They I think
Speaker 1: the vote was sixty six thirty three. I think. Don't
Speaker 1: quote me on that one, but I'm probably right because
Speaker 1: they tend to be right. Um sixty six and like
Speaker 1: I said, go to the Hill dot com you can
Speaker 1: see my latest piece, or we actually put it up
Speaker 1: on Facebook dot com to piece. Some of the folks
Speaker 1: in d C were like, wow, it's like you understand Pompeio.
Speaker 1: I'm like, obviously, uh, but sixty six thirty three was
Speaker 1: the vote with the Senate the last time, almost a
Speaker 1: year ago to the day. I mean it was pretty
Speaker 1: close or to the month of six thirty three to
Speaker 1: make him the most powerful spy in the world. I know,
Speaker 1: we don't say spy, we say CIA direct here, but
Speaker 1: you get what I'm saying, right, Spy master, if you
Speaker 1: want to be a little more technical, chief bureaucrat of
Speaker 1: an intelligence agency, if you want to be a little
Speaker 1: more accurate, because that's actually what the job is. You're
Speaker 1: a bureaucrat. You're a politician who does a lot of
Speaker 1: managing down That's what the CIA director does. No karate chops,
Speaker 1: no exploding cuff links, no lasers coming out of your car,
Speaker 1: or even if you have those, you'd have to install
Speaker 1: them yourself. I don't know, it's probably possible now, but
Speaker 1: they voted sixty six thirty three for him. Now people
Speaker 1: are saying, well, is it is it gonna is it
Speaker 1: gonna happen? Is he gonna go through or not? It's
Speaker 1: gonna be close. You got Senator McCain who's uh fighting, uh,
Speaker 1: fighting bravely against cancer right now, but he's not gonna
Speaker 1: be there for for the vote you've ran, Paul. Remember,
Speaker 1: we only got what is not a lot of leeway here.
Speaker 1: But I think that you'll get some I think that
Speaker 1: you'll get some Democrats who realized that sanity is the
Speaker 1: better option here. As much as hash hashtag resistance is fun,
Speaker 1: remember all they can do with what they're gonna they're
Speaker 1: gonna knock down this secretary of state. You know, the
Speaker 1: next secretary of State should be if they don't make
Speaker 1: if they don't put Pompeo through, you know, woman is
Speaker 1: banning just to bathe in liberal tears. It would be incredible.
Speaker 1: Do I think Bannon should be Secretary of State? I
Speaker 1: don't know the guy, probably not. The point is it
Speaker 1: should always you always want to have the the the
Speaker 1: ace up to sleeve, be like, hey, you guys don't
Speaker 1: want to vote for Pompeo. I give you Steve Bannon
Speaker 1: for Scretary of State, who wants a piece. So that's
Speaker 1: what I that's what I think about all that. But
Speaker 1: I mentioned Corey Booker, who I you know, I'm always
Speaker 1: are Why are they not thinking about him? More? For you?
Speaker 1: Hear Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, I know, both females,
Speaker 1: So maybe for the Democrat identity politics machinery, that's obviously
Speaker 1: really important, But you don't hear people talking about Corey
Speaker 1: Booker for and I wonder why that is? Right He's
Speaker 1: you think he's senator. You know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff that Democrats would get excited about. So anyway, but
Speaker 1: Corey Booker was not getting me excited to that. He
Speaker 1: was really going after it. He was. And keep in
Speaker 1: mind Pompeo has been on a charm tour and he
Speaker 1: reached out even to Hillary Clinton herself just to say, hey,
Speaker 1: any advice you can give. He wants advice from wherever
Speaker 1: he can get it. As long as it's the best advice.
Speaker 1: He reached out to every living Secretary of State in
Speaker 1: advance of the hearing. Today, he has had the State Department,
Speaker 1: at his request, reach out to departed senior state employees
Speaker 1: in order to say, hey, we'd love We know you
Speaker 1: left and you didn't you weren't happy, unertiller soon we'd
Speaker 1: love to have you back. And how much of this
Speaker 1: have you seen reported of the media, By the way,
Speaker 1: you know it's there, but you're not getting a lot
Speaker 1: of focus on this. And how many of you know,
Speaker 1: just off the top of you heard this guy that
Speaker 1: was being skewered today by some Democrats, I mean mostly Booker.
Speaker 1: I think there were a couple others. I got a
Speaker 1: little bit. Booker was really going after him. How many
Speaker 1: know that he was a an army captain Harvard log Rad,
Speaker 1: number one in his class at West Point, very well
Speaker 1: liked within the agency and Langley folks are not shy
Speaker 1: about letting their thoughts be known about who runs the
Speaker 1: so called seventh floor, the executive level, so he was
Speaker 1: very well like there. You don't get any of that. Instead,
Speaker 1: you get treated to questions like this one about Islamophobia. Basically,
Speaker 1: when it comes to making sure that we don't have
Speaker 1: a terrorists brewing in in places that where Muslims congregated.
Speaker 1: There's a special place, right, they have a they have
Speaker 1: an opportunity. It's more than a duty, more than a require.
Speaker 1: It's an opportunity. Right to be treated as when someone
Speaker 1: from another face says it, it can get characterized. Do
Speaker 1: you think that Muslims in America who are in positions
Speaker 1: of leadership have a different category of obligation because of
Speaker 1: their religion? That's what I'm hearing you saying. I don't
Speaker 1: see it. It's not an obligation, it's an opportunity. So
Speaker 1: can we just back up for one second here, So
Speaker 1: Corey Bookers basically so, so are you trying to tell
Speaker 1: me that Muslims have some special place in preventing Islamic terrorism? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the answer is yeah. Actually, it's not saying that every
Speaker 1: Muslim is an obligation to Most Muslims just want to
Speaker 1: go about their lives and do what they do and
Speaker 1: just be normal folks. But any Muslim who is either
Speaker 1: in a leadership position in a community where there are
Speaker 1: some radicals, are they're aware of radicalization, or any Muslim
Speaker 1: who happens to know that someone has radicalized, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: may be there. They're in a better position to one
Speaker 1: know about it and to do something about it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: but it was just an effort to try to get
Speaker 1: him on Islamophobia. That's just always remember this. The left
Speaker 1: will go to the match not just in favor of
Speaker 1: the civil rights of Muslim Americans and you know, we
Speaker 1: we defend those and we support those two, but they'll
Speaker 1: go to the match in order to make sure that
Speaker 1: no one says anything that's a little too terse, even
Speaker 1: about Islamists, people that believe in political Islam, that believe
Speaker 1: in Sharia, you know, and they don't care about the
Speaker 1: hypocrisy of selling out by doing so right, by soft
Speaker 1: pedaling radical Islam, by pretending that there's not something specific
Speaker 1: at this time in the world and a raise among
Speaker 1: all religions. Islam has a unique problem set that unfortunately
Speaker 1: affects all of us, even well outside of the Islamic faith.
Speaker 1: That's just a fact. But whenever you try to talk
Speaker 1: about it, they want to shout you down and yell
Speaker 1: that you're a bigot in islamophobe. And also, I can't
Speaker 1: help but notice that there pro pro LGBT and uh
Speaker 1: feminist and pro transgender agenda kind of gets lost by
Speaker 1: the wayside when they're like, yeah, the Muslim Brotherhood not
Speaker 1: so bad. It's no big deal. It's just in a side,
Speaker 1: But I think it's a worthwhile one. Oh, speaking of
Speaker 1: the pro LGBT agenda, Corey Booker followed up with this one.
Speaker 1: When I was a politician, I had a very clear
Speaker 1: view on whether it was appropriate for two same sex
Speaker 1: persons to marry. I stand by that. So so you
Speaker 1: do not believe it's appropriate for two gay people to marry, Center,
Speaker 1: I continue to hold that view. It's the same view,
Speaker 1: and so people in the State Department. I met some
Speaker 1: in Africa that are married under your leadership, you do
Speaker 1: not believe that that should be allowed that I believe
Speaker 1: it's the case. We have married gay couples at the
Speaker 1: say you should know I treated them with the exact
Speaker 1: same set of right believe. Do you believe that gay
Speaker 1: sex is a perversion? Yes? Or no? If I if
Speaker 1: I can, if you yes, if you believe that gay
Speaker 1: sex is a perversion, because this is what you sent
Speaker 1: here Center one of your speeches. Yes or no? Do
Speaker 1: you believe gay sex is a perversions and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you the same answer I just gave you previously.
Speaker 1: My my respect for every individual, regardless of the sexual
Speaker 1: orientation is the same. Now, Pompeo is a pro and
Speaker 1: he handled all this very well today. But I got
Speaker 1: a bunch of thoughts after the line of questioning from
Speaker 1: from Booker. First of all, what does any of that
Speaker 1: have to do What is his previous position on what
Speaker 1: was called traditional marriage until about a year ago? Uh,
Speaker 1: what does that have to do with being Secretary of
Speaker 1: State exactly? And if we were also now I mean,
Speaker 1: remember this is these are the rules the left of
Speaker 1: the left are creating here. If we are going to
Speaker 1: drum people out of public life, and we're gonna push
Speaker 1: people out of positions of authority and government based on
Speaker 1: previous positions on social issues that the left has gotten
Speaker 1: the courts to agree with them, on the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: to agree with them on on some of these issues,
Speaker 1: then that means that find me, a a prominent democrat
Speaker 1: of the last ten years, can't be in office, can't
Speaker 1: be a part of the conversation. Barack Obama traditional marriage
Speaker 1: candidate in two thousand and eight, Hillary Clinton, traditional marriage
Speaker 1: candidate until it was no longer politically until it became
Speaker 1: politically inconvenient for then she switched of course. So it's
Speaker 1: just a cheap shot that Booker is taking your just
Speaker 1: a cheap shot. They knows the cameras are on and
Speaker 1: this is gonna do. This is gonna get him on
Speaker 1: the MSNBC highlight reel. He'll probably be on Maddow's show tonight.
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonn I'm gonna put that. I'm gonna guess,
Speaker 1: let's see, probably be on one of the MSNB She's
Speaker 1: see shows tonight, just to take a few bows. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pummeling that that big at Pompeo who served in uniform,
Speaker 1: served as country honorably, was a great CIA director and
Speaker 1: now wants to help the country actually be better off
Speaker 1: around the world. Yeah that guy, go get him. This
Speaker 1: is what we're up against with Democrats. This is the
Speaker 1: way they play the game, as you know. Uh, so
Speaker 1: we'll see Pompeo isn't through. He's not through the gauntlet yet.
Speaker 1: I think he will get through. But this is just classical.
Speaker 1: But they should leak that. But I really this is
Speaker 1: you can call it buck foo, you know, instead of
Speaker 1: kung fu they should, uh, you know, every every battle
Speaker 1: is won before it's ever fought. That's Sun Sue. I
Speaker 1: could do this all day. They should, uh, they should
Speaker 1: leak that that Bannon is the next one. If you don't,
Speaker 1: if you don't give me Pompeo, we're great and they
Speaker 1: and I want I want like vintage band and I
Speaker 1: want big military jacket, hair down to like the small
Speaker 1: of his back. You know, guy looks like he has
Speaker 1: it showered in like a month, just came off a
Speaker 1: park bench. I want him coming into the Senate hearing
Speaker 1: room covered in old newspapers. I want that Bannon and
Speaker 1: he's a street prowl. I look. The guys really interesting
Speaker 1: and compelling when he talks. But that that's who they
Speaker 1: should offer up as the replacement for Pompeio. If he
Speaker 1: does not get through, that'll that'll get some folks in line,
Speaker 1: I think. So that's a little more on the Pompeio.
Speaker 1: Here a couple other things I wanted to get to
Speaker 1: with this, because there's something about we haven't touched yet
Speaker 1: on Russia and what came up today with regard to Russia,
Speaker 1: important confirmation, important new information from the former CI director
Speaker 1: about Russia, that that is relevant to our discussions here.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk Russia, we come back and uh, and
Speaker 1: then we've got to get into this. It's almost like
Speaker 1: a countdown clock. I mean, some of the news news
Speaker 1: organizations might have might as well as put down like
Speaker 1: countdown to launch, because they're they're assuming, although I think
Speaker 1: they're backing off it a little bit right now, they
Speaker 1: are assuming that there will be a strike against Syria.
Speaker 1: I don't know any hour or any moment, I'll get
Speaker 1: into more of why I think that's I hope that's
Speaker 1: not the case. Uh, and we'll discuss some of all
Speaker 1: the latest on Syria. So as always, we've got a
Speaker 1: lot my friends on our docket here in the Freedom
Speaker 1: Hunt will be right back. Well, I'm just saying. Michael Weinstein,
Speaker 1: who is a former Air Force officer who founded the
Speaker 1: Military Religious Freedom Foundation, says that he has been seeing
Speaker 1: increasing complaints from those inside the intelligence community under your leadership. So, um,
Speaker 1: I think there have been a number of concerns raised, man, ma'am,
Speaker 1: If I might please the number the number of we
Speaker 1: call them no fear complaints. The statutory requirement decreased from
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen to two thousand seventeen by Buck Slab.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of that. That was like you never s
Speaker 1: even to get John's actually very simple down under Pompeo's watch.
Speaker 1: Is that like a throwing star sound that we have nothing?
Speaker 1: The buck slap is getting crazy, guys. It's like none
Speaker 1: chucks in there. But it was a no, that's not
Speaker 1: a boomerang. It's not Australians. No, no kung fu Australian movies.
Speaker 1: Uh or buck Foo that's a thing. I'm gonna stay
Speaker 1: with that for a while. That's what we do on
Speaker 1: radio buck fou um. So anyway, Pompeo, they tried to
Speaker 1: come at him with that stuff, and they came with
Speaker 1: the weak sauce and sure enough he slapped it down.
Speaker 1: That was Senator A. Jean Sheheen uh rhyming name is
Speaker 1: always kind of a bold thing, you know. But Jean Sheheen,
Speaker 1: who was saying that there were more complainty Intel Community's like,
Speaker 1: actually down, but you're close, you're close, um and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: there's that. To keep in mind, I mentioned that we
Speaker 1: would talk more about what is going on with the
Speaker 1: Russia situation, and I definitely, definitely I want to do
Speaker 1: that real quick. Let's get John from Atlanta in and
Speaker 1: then we'll talk Russia and the hearing today on the
Speaker 1: other side. Hey John, Hey Buck, I'm your podcast minion
Speaker 1: from Atlanti. So I'm usually a day behind my podcast.
Speaker 1: What's up, John? Yeah? Oh brother, I've been upgraded. Nice. Now.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about, um, the case with Cohen and
Speaker 1: the mission creep for lack of a better term, with
Speaker 1: this investigation, and it would be really cool if Trump
Speaker 1: just did a press conference and just said, look, this
Speaker 1: has been going on for thirteen months, nothing has come
Speaker 1: of it, and now it's going in every possible little
Speaker 1: direction and it's getting in the way. And then he
Speaker 1: pulls something out of the Clinton playbook and says, I've
Speaker 1: got to get back to doing the job for the
Speaker 1: American people. So from this moment right now, you have
Speaker 1: forty eight hours to come up with physical evidence or
Speaker 1: computer evidence or anything linking my campaign to Russian collusion
Speaker 1: in forty eight hours time. Everyone aspired, do you think
Speaker 1: Trump should just go? You think Trump should pull the
Speaker 1: nuclear option here on the Mother probe. Yeah, And then
Speaker 1: think about all like MSNBC, CB, CNN and Fox would
Speaker 1: all have like these countdown clocks tours. I mean people
Speaker 1: would actually be crying on air at MSNBC. There'll be
Speaker 1: There'll be no shame over there. They would just there
Speaker 1: would be like straight up lamentations and rending of garments,
Speaker 1: gnashing of teeth on air at MSNBC. People. We I
Speaker 1: think we'd actually see we'd actually see Chris Matthews just
Speaker 1: like you know, a fifth of Johnny Walker, like right
Speaker 1: there on air, like just just gone. He would freak out. Um. Anyway,
Speaker 1: thank you for calling in John Russia. What's going on
Speaker 1: with it? We'll tell you after the break. He's holding
Speaker 1: line for America. Buck Sexton is back. So this administration
Speaker 1: has taken a series of actions to push back. That's
Speaker 1: not my question. Let's start with My question is what
Speaker 1: what behavior has the Kremlin shown that it indicates it
Speaker 1: wants to get along with the United States. Is there
Speaker 1: any gift shell? Please share it with Senator. I take
Speaker 1: a backseat to no one with my views of the
Speaker 1: threat that is presented to America from Russia. And if
Speaker 1: I am confirmed as a Secretary State, I can assure
Speaker 1: you this administration will continue, as it has for the
Speaker 1: past fifteen month, to take real actions to push back
Speaker 1: to reset the deterrence relationship with respect to Russia. Don't
Speaker 1: let the media just slither away from this one, because
Speaker 1: I think they're going to in the next few months.
Speaker 1: They're still going to pretend that Trump did something terrible
Speaker 1: in the election and all. I'm not saying they're gonna
Speaker 1: abandon that. But the notion that the Trump administration is
Speaker 1: soft on Russia is increas saconly a talking point for
Speaker 1: loons and loons only it's nuts. It is not just
Speaker 1: an exaggeration of the facts, it is a denial of
Speaker 1: the facts. In the other direction, Trump has gone after
Speaker 1: Russia in his first twelve months in ways that matter.
Speaker 1: Not trying to you know, not trying to arm wrestle
Speaker 1: Putin what he sees him at some international conference, not
Speaker 1: going on TV and getting a panel of you know,
Speaker 1: the fifteen analysts they have on at the same time
Speaker 1: at sea and all go, oh, look at a strong
Speaker 1: statement against Putin he just made. That's irrelevant, That doesn't
Speaker 1: really matter. On what matters, Trump has been doing much
Speaker 1: more than his predecessor did, much more. And looking at
Speaker 1: Pompeo's role in all this, Pompeo is a Russia hawk.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who thinks Putin's bad news wants
Speaker 1: to counteract and trust me, he was running the c
Speaker 1: i A. He he knows that Russia has got gotten
Speaker 1: into all kinds of bad stuff all over the world.
Speaker 1: There's a particular and it's one that I have in
Speaker 1: my own little now uh much lower down the food
Speaker 1: chain way, but there's a particular uh sensibility and and
Speaker 1: approach the world you get from being an intelligence officer,
Speaker 1: military or civilian. You know, you see things a different
Speaker 1: way because you're always looking at the underbelly. You're and
Speaker 1: you're always looking for the underbelly, and you develop a
Speaker 1: healthy cynicism and a useful skepticism in your approach to
Speaker 1: international relationship. Everything. You know, all all kinds of stuff,
Speaker 1: and Pompeio is well aware, I assure you of all
Speaker 1: the the problems Russia's causing for US abroad. And I mean,
Speaker 1: once you start, if you dig into what the FSB
Speaker 1: and the Federal Neus losbo bizo plas nasty, I know
Speaker 1: that's cool, right, It's fun to say what the FSB
Speaker 1: is up to. Uh, then you know even more that
Speaker 1: these guys are very, very aggressive and that they are
Speaker 1: working against us. All over the world in all kinds
Speaker 1: of ways, including here at home. It's kind of amazing.
Speaker 1: I remember when they broke up that that spy ring
Speaker 1: and there was the really like the really attractive Russian spy,
Speaker 1: and I just yeah, Producer Mike's eyes just got like
Speaker 1: like saucers over there. He was like, ah, but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but that turned into like a tabloid story. That was
Speaker 1: actually a real thing, right that that was a real
Speaker 1: you know, this was a serious I know you know that,
Speaker 1: but I just mean everyone's like they were just running
Speaker 1: pictures of the of that one redhead spy all the time,
Speaker 1: the Russian in all the newspapers. But the Russians are
Speaker 1: up to very shady stuff. So are the Chinese in
Speaker 1: this country. But the Russians are up to all kinds
Speaker 1: of shady stuff, um and and have been for a
Speaker 1: very long time. Pompeo is aware of it. He knows
Speaker 1: we have to counter and he knows how to counter it.
Speaker 1: And I think it's interesting you you haven't had someone
Speaker 1: go from being ci director of Secretary of State. I
Speaker 1: think it's actually a very natural transition. I think before
Speaker 1: you go into the world of diplomacy, it's really helpful
Speaker 1: to have a true sense of what goes on in
Speaker 1: the intelligence world. Right, So whether you're military intelligence or
Speaker 1: civilian intelligence. Um, I think that's actually a very helpful perspective.
Speaker 1: So you can tell I. I don't get too excited
Speaker 1: about a lot of the Trump a lot of the
Speaker 1: Trump picks for the cabinet. I'm a Maddis fan. We're
Speaker 1: all Madis fans, right, you know anyone who when when
Speaker 1: reporters ask him, like, what do you think about like
Speaker 1: the Kardashian and he's like, I'm a Secretary of Defense,
Speaker 1: I defend the country. We like that guy. But you know,
Speaker 1: Pompeo I think is one of the one of the
Speaker 1: more inspired picks the administration has had so far. And
Speaker 1: he's he's risen with the challenge on Russia. He's a hawk,
Speaker 1: which is gonna make it harder for the media to
Speaker 1: keep saying Trump is soft on Russia. Trumps. I mean,
Speaker 1: they'll try, but they're just gonna sound crazier and crazier.
Speaker 1: Not that that will stop them. And then one more thing,
Speaker 1: very important, and this because it will tie into our
Speaker 1: Syria discussion a little bit, very important confirmation of what
Speaker 1: I had talked to you about before here and what
Speaker 1: the news media was almost. Uh, they were a little
Speaker 1: shy in reporting it because it seemed like it was
Speaker 1: such a big story. They didn't want to get it wrong.
Speaker 1: But here's what he said. Remember back a while ago,
Speaker 1: I said there were some Russian mercenaries and we may
Speaker 1: have taken a lot of them out on the battlefield
Speaker 1: in Syria. Here's the former CI director, Vladimir Putin has
Speaker 1: not yet received the message sufficiently, and we need to
Speaker 1: continue to work at that. But it hasn't just been sanctions.
Speaker 1: The largest expulsion sixty folks was from this administration. This
Speaker 1: administration announced a nuclear posture review that has put Russia
Speaker 1: on notice that we're gonna recapitalize our deterrence force in Syria. Now.
Speaker 1: A handful of weeks ago, the Russians met their match
Speaker 1: and a couple hundred Russians were killed. A couple of
Speaker 1: hundred Russians were killed by air strikes from US. Those
Speaker 1: Russians were helping USA. They thought they were gonna rush
Speaker 1: no pun intended, sorry, they thought they were going to
Speaker 1: make an assault on some Kurds who are are our allies,
Speaker 1: are buddies, Those Kurds called in air strikes, those Russians
Speaker 1: were annihilated. But that's also something that I remember here
Speaker 1: we think of what's going on in Syria. I think
Speaker 1: it's natural to think of it as well. You know,
Speaker 1: there's there's guys on different sides of this battlefield, but
Speaker 1: we're deconflicting with Russia and we're gonna keep it. Oh, no,
Speaker 1: things can go south. Things can go bad very quickly
Speaker 1: in any number of ways. And the moment that you
Speaker 1: realize that you could have two hundred people killed who
Speaker 1: are Russian citizens and we didn't even really, we didn't
Speaker 1: mean for that to be the case. We're just protecting
Speaker 1: the Kurds. Now, you can see how any US military
Speaker 1: action in Syria, Uh, we need to be aware of
Speaker 1: the fact that there's some other big players in that neighborhood.
Speaker 1: And that then factors into my thinking about what are
Speaker 1: the Russians, What are the Russians believe they could get
Speaker 1: away with without a major reprisal and say, you know, oops, sorry,
Speaker 1: keep that in mind as we're talking about the possibility
Speaker 1: coming up here of air strikes, which I know people
Speaker 1: are still very much of the mind that Trump should
Speaker 1: do something. We'll do something. I'm hoping that's not the case.
Speaker 1: So why why don't we actually discuss. We'll update on
Speaker 1: Syria and then we can get it the latest on
Speaker 1: the Mueller Cohen uh situation, Russia collusion pro and so
Speaker 1: we can't even call it the Russia collusion probe anymore.
Speaker 1: It's just the get get Trump probe. That's what it is.
Speaker 1: We should just call it that, to get Trump probe.
Speaker 1: That is what they are doing. It is a target
Speaker 1: or it is a target operation against an individual. It
Speaker 1: is not looking for the violation of a specific crime
Speaker 1: or even vague crimes. So let's all be on the
Speaker 1: same page with that. Eight four four five. If you
Speaker 1: would like to chat my friends eight Buck. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: they're already leaking the COMI books. Good thing. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to eat right now. Comy he's among my least favorite.
Speaker 1: He really is, you know. And I think I could
Speaker 1: take him in one on one. By the way, he's
Speaker 1: got some inches on me, John, I have great handle.
Speaker 1: I played a lot of basketball as a kid. I
Speaker 1: think I think I could take him. You know, I
Speaker 1: can go left. That's right. There are all kinds of
Speaker 1: things about the Buck that people don't know. We'll hait
Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll be back. What worries you most
Speaker 1: about any military action we might take, given the very
Speaker 1: highly complex um landscape, and sire you the many many
Speaker 1: actors that are engaged there. Well, there's uh, there's a
Speaker 1: tactical concern, uh ma'am that civilian innocent people. We don't
Speaker 1: add to any civilian deaths and do everything humanly possible
Speaker 1: to avoid that. We're trying to stop the murder of
Speaker 1: innocent people. But on a strategic level, it's how do
Speaker 1: we keep this from escalating out of control? Uh? If
Speaker 1: you get my drift on that, there's Secretary Defense Mattis saying, Look,
Speaker 1: it's never as simple as just you know, oh look
Speaker 1: at that stuff on the map. Pew pu, it's gone.
Speaker 1: That's not the way this works. It certainly wasn't the
Speaker 1: way the work last time, when, as I mentioned to
Speaker 1: you a year ago, the air strikes didn't do a
Speaker 1: darn thing. Really, they were symbolic. But I think we
Speaker 1: all need to be very careful when our symbolism requires
Speaker 1: Tomahawk missiles because as we've seen, remember two hund Russians
Speaker 1: are so killed and okay, Putin can make too much
Speaker 1: of a stink about it because he doesn't want his
Speaker 1: own people back home in Russia to realize the extent
Speaker 1: of Russian involvement in Syria. And they weren't uniform Russian soldiers.
Speaker 1: They were paramilitaries who I'm sure we're contracted by the
Speaker 1: Assad regime, probably getting you know, probably getting paid his mercenaries.
Speaker 1: Two help USAD out. But what happens if, in response
Speaker 1: to say, a US missile strike on some kind of
Speaker 1: regime facilities and ASAD regime facility and fortifications what have,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden we find that, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: a US plane gets shot out of the sky by
Speaker 1: something that seems really sophisticated. Assad says, oh, no, it
Speaker 1: was that the rebels stole that from us. How do
Speaker 1: we respond to that, say, oh, buck, we're gonna We're
Speaker 1: gonna then bomb some more Assauds stuff. Okay, Well, then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you know, we got the U
Speaker 1: s M beds with some curve and uh, they get
Speaker 1: hit with with air strikes from Assad directly, and you
Speaker 1: know that time, Asad's like, well, we didn't know, we
Speaker 1: thought it was something else. I mean, I'm this is
Speaker 1: like your war gaming you do with with a couple
Speaker 1: of buddies after work. But you understand you're catching my
Speaker 1: drift here, as Secretary Defense said, which is this stuff
Speaker 1: is never clean and easy. And when you when you
Speaker 1: look at what could go wrong, I think you see
Speaker 1: that the costs greatly outweigh the benefits of anything meaningful.
Speaker 1: And if we're not going to do anything meaningful in Syria,
Speaker 1: then why would we do anything at all to show
Speaker 1: the world as you can't get away with chemical weapons usage.
Speaker 1: I've noticed people saying in the argument last few days,
Speaker 1: we'll look at North Korea used chemical weapons in an
Speaker 1: assassination plot that was successful against Kim Jong uns half brother,
Speaker 1: King Jong Nam uh in what I think was Malaysia
Speaker 1: in the airport where some female assassage is rubbed VX
Speaker 1: on his face, which, by the way, yikes, not a
Speaker 1: good way to go uh. And then also we had
Speaker 1: this Russian defector in the UK who was also hit
Speaker 1: with the Novu chuk Russian nerve agent. But I bring
Speaker 1: those up because I think it illustrates a different point
Speaker 1: from what some of the more hawkish let's bomb Syria folks.
Speaker 1: I think it makes a different point than they think
Speaker 1: which is that, yeah, exactly, those the chemical weapons got
Speaker 1: used in those two places. We're taking we got sanctions.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if we could sanction North Korea
Speaker 1: anymore than we are. The only way to sanction North
Speaker 1: kree or more is it starts sanctioning other people like
Speaker 1: China more and then things get a little little rocky,
Speaker 1: and we have sanctions in in Russia and response to
Speaker 1: what they did, what the Russian government did with nova
Speaker 1: Chuk that nerve agent um. Show your learners, we didn't
Speaker 1: bomb them. So we we don't have some consistent policy
Speaker 1: of well, if you're behind a chemical weapons attack, we're
Speaker 1: gonna bomb you. That's not our policy. So what is
Speaker 1: the policy that people are pushing for? Here? Assade is
Speaker 1: really really bad and does does really miserable, terrible, awful things,
Speaker 1: and so we just want to show him that we
Speaker 1: dislike him and think that he's wrong. He's been doing
Speaker 1: this for years everyone. As I've mentioned, half a million
Speaker 1: people have been killed in the Syrian Civil War in
Speaker 1: the most brutal ways imaginable in many cases. So this
Speaker 1: is where we draw the line. Um. As I've said
Speaker 1: to you people, now now I know that this is
Speaker 1: where I could push back, buck, but you said Obama
Speaker 1: didn't enforce his red line. That was bad. Yeah, Obama
Speaker 1: was the one who created the red line. Trump is
Speaker 1: now in a business where okay, well I'll enforce it.
Speaker 1: But now we realize, okay, it didn't work last time.
Speaker 1: So are you gonna You're gonna do more? You're gonna
Speaker 1: drop more bombs or has send more missiles to what end?
Speaker 1: I also, I just think that there's a higher level
Speaker 1: narrative battle that's playing out right now, a battle of narratives.
Speaker 1: There are those of us who see what's gone on
Speaker 1: in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the lesson we take away
Speaker 1: from it is, uh, no more trying to rebuild societies
Speaker 1: or or no, no more trying to free societies in
Speaker 1: the grip of Islamic totalitarianism. They it's not worth it
Speaker 1: too our lives, and it's not worth the loss of
Speaker 1: lives and treasure over here and there. There's way too
Speaker 1: little gratitude from those countries and from the international community
Speaker 1: for what we've done. Uh. You know, it's it's a
Speaker 1: thankless job to eliminate vicious despots, or, in the case
Speaker 1: of the Taliban, a vicious organization, you know, bloodthirsty tyrants,
Speaker 1: and and then try to free people because ultimately they
Speaker 1: don't like us because we're non Muslim Westerners and we're
Speaker 1: in their country. And when I say that, I see,
Speaker 1: I know this is unfair, because actually the case of
Speaker 1: Iraq and Afghanistan, a lot of the people there are
Speaker 1: and I would say strong majorities are, are very thankful
Speaker 1: that they no longer have those regimes in place. But
Speaker 1: it only takes you know, ten twenty of a population
Speaker 1: to basically make a country ungovernable, ungovernable, and make your
Speaker 1: life miserable trying to trying to make it governable. We're
Speaker 1: just not doing it anymore. We shouldn't do it anymore.
Speaker 1: It's also amazing, isn't it to watch so many people
Speaker 1: in the national level media who take the position that
Speaker 1: we should do something about Syria and Assad But any
Speaker 1: militarization or additional federal effort at our southern border, that's
Speaker 1: that's not even a national security issue. How is that
Speaker 1: possible to think that way? I mean, it's based on
Speaker 1: either ignorance or ignorance, stupidity or dishonesty. But it's a
Speaker 1: commonplace among the media elites. They really think that this
Speaker 1: is that Syria is a bigger nash security issue than
Speaker 1: our own southern border is, with all the drug trafficking,
Speaker 1: human trafficking, illegal crossing, and just the vulnerability that it
Speaker 1: creates for this country. So we'll see. I'm really hoping
Speaker 1: that there is not a I'm hoping that there's not
Speaker 1: gonna be military action. But I mentioned Rand Paul before
Speaker 1: here here's he was doing the Rand Paul thing today.
Speaker 1: But I think that there are still a great deal
Speaker 1: of potential for hostilities. That's what some call it. That's
Speaker 1: when they don't want to use the word war. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we're I think something's gonna happen in Syria.
Speaker 1: And I've been very clear that the constitution doesn't allow
Speaker 1: the president to do this without first asking Congress. I
Speaker 1: wish everyone would just get consistent on this one. I
Speaker 1: know plenty of Republicans who hated hated the idea of
Speaker 1: Obama taking a strike, and now they're pro trumpeting. You know,
Speaker 1: we we need to be consistent here. This is not
Speaker 1: time for petty partisan squad us um, but it it is.
Speaker 1: It is my hope that Trump is just going to
Speaker 1: condemn and work harder with allies in the region to
Speaker 1: put more pressure on the Assad regime and not not
Speaker 1: make this our military's problem isis became our problem. Let's
Speaker 1: not make a Solder problem too. That's all I feel
Speaker 1: about this. We gotta talk about Muller probe guys coming off.
Speaker 1: It's just keeps getting crazier. We'll hit that more. Stay
Speaker 1: with me. Welcome to our two of the buck Section show.
Speaker 1: My friends. I want to talk to you about Lion
Speaker 1: James Comey. That's what Trump calls them. I think there's
Speaker 1: they actually have a website now going to right Lion
Speaker 1: Comey Got something or other. So his book is coming
Speaker 1: out now and the first excerpts have been given to
Speaker 1: friendly anti Trump Get Trump publications. No surprise there, and
Speaker 1: we have, for example, the following This is the best
Speaker 1: woman I've seen so far. This one comes courtesy of
Speaker 1: my friend Ben Dominic from The Federalist. This is an
Speaker 1: exerpt from Comy's book, which is called No Higher Loyalty
Speaker 1: and can be yours for the discount price of like
Speaker 1: forty for the hardcover or something. You know, Comy, just
Speaker 1: stop stop stop being greedy. You know it's really expensive
Speaker 1: for a book. Um, I'm just kidding about all that. Well,
Speaker 1: not really, but here's what Comy writes in this new memoir,
Speaker 1: which is just an assault on Trump. And look, he
Speaker 1: he sees what the market wants. Comy is, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, he actually reminds me of for those of
Speaker 1: you who are a Game of Thrones people, he's very
Speaker 1: much Little fingeresque. He reminds me a little Finger. I mean,
Speaker 1: sometimes he's with the good guys, sometimes he's with the
Speaker 1: bad guys, but it's really just all about him at
Speaker 1: the end of the day. The Little Finger doesn't even
Speaker 1: pretend to have principles, and Comy does so in a way,
Speaker 1: Comy is actually worse than little Finger from Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying any kind even doesn't really look like him. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's a stretch, buck, You're off, all right. The The
Speaker 1: excerpt I want to talking about, though, is as follows.
Speaker 1: I want to give you the full dramatic interpretation of
Speaker 1: this one. This is all a quote from his book
Speaker 1: that just came out. Comey writes that Obama sat alone
Speaker 1: with him in the Oval office in late November and
Speaker 1: told him I picked you to be FBI director because
Speaker 1: of your integrity and your ability. I want you to
Speaker 1: know that nothing, nothing has happened in the last year
Speaker 1: change my view. That's Obama speaking on the verge of tears.
Speaker 1: Comey told Obama, boy, were those words I needed to hear.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to do the right thing, I know,
Speaker 1: Obama said, I know. Oh, man, Yeah. If he's so
Speaker 1: sure he's doing the right thing, if he's ethics, why
Speaker 1: does he care about Obama things? Are we really going
Speaker 1: to pretend that Obama is Obama is an uninto or
Speaker 1: a disinterested party here common it's all a full scale
Speaker 1: assault on Trump. You know that's coming up. And I
Speaker 1: just wanted to know there was a time when when
Speaker 1: people who were senior public officials would have thought it
Speaker 1: was unseemly to just roll up their sleeves, cash in
Speaker 1: and get into the middle of the political scrum right away.
Speaker 1: And I do think it's unseemly. How can any of
Speaker 1: us have any faith that people that are leave behind
Speaker 1: some o previous administration of a different party aren't Maybe
Speaker 1: just like James Coby, pretending not to be manipulating things
Speaker 1: behind the scenes for their own political and partisan ends,
Speaker 1: when that's what they're doing left and right? How how
Speaker 1: can we believe that now it would be foolish not
Speaker 1: to believe that there were deep state elements, not just now,
Speaker 1: but in previous administrations too. They We are waking up
Speaker 1: to this reality as a country now, as I've been
Speaker 1: saying the same way, we finally figure out, oh wow,
Speaker 1: the media is all left wing bias all the time, right,
Speaker 1: and that the academy, colleges, universities left wing bias. A
Speaker 1: lot of judges, although not all of them, but a
Speaker 1: lot of the judiciary activist left wing judges. Now we're
Speaker 1: seeing it's true with federal bureaucracy too. He's so called
Speaker 1: fourth branch of government, the unelected branch of government, the
Speaker 1: federal bureaucracy. And now we see who Comey really is.
Speaker 1: Who is you will recall held up as being America's
Speaker 1: last truly honest cop for a long time, right, even
Speaker 1: though he's really just a lawyer, the politically connected lawyer.
Speaker 1: He's a d o J lawyer. Every people think that
Speaker 1: Comey was like wrestling crack dealers and you know, like
Speaker 1: part of you know, there's crocketting tubs and comy. No,
Speaker 1: this guy is a a boardroom brawler. He is not
Speaker 1: someone who has been doing the work on the front lines.
Speaker 1: So whenever he starts to wrap himself into oh, the FBI,
Speaker 1: I am the FBI, and the FBI is me, don't
Speaker 1: let him get away with that. He wasn't a special
Speaker 1: agent for two decades who was having to worry about
Speaker 1: some serial killer trying to bury a screwdriver into his
Speaker 1: neck when he came in through the back door. You know,
Speaker 1: I mean, no, there's a guy who's been basically a
Speaker 1: politician his whole life. Really, another thing that we're realizing,
Speaker 1: and this is gonna trans This will come up again
Speaker 1: in our conversation about Dershowitz when the mother probe is
Speaker 1: we'll go there in just a moment together. Another thing
Speaker 1: that shows you is prosecutors are political actors too, and
Speaker 1: that's why we have to demand such high ethics and
Speaker 1: and we should create much greater accountability for them than
Speaker 1: we currently have. Um But prosecutors determine the outcome of
Speaker 1: the host election by not charging Hillary Clinton. So here's
Speaker 1: what Comey says in this memoir, and this according to
Speaker 1: the Washington Post quote. The Washington Post obtained a copy
Speaker 1: of the book before its scheduled release. In his memoir,
Speaker 1: Comey paints a devastating portrait of a president who built
Speaker 1: a cocoon of alternative reality that he was busy rapping
Speaker 1: around all of us. Comey describes Trump as a congenital
Speaker 1: liar and unethical leader, devoid of human emotion and driven
Speaker 1: by personal ego. End quote. I think psychologists call this projection.
Speaker 1: This is Comey seeing in someone else what I think
Speaker 1: a lot of us would in fact see in Comey.
Speaker 1: Devoid a human emotion and driven by personal legal That
Speaker 1: sounds like James called me to me, the guy who
Speaker 1: thinks he's giving a constant ethics lecture to the entire country,
Speaker 1: as well as the president United States, right before he
Speaker 1: decides that he's gonna take notes that we've been told
Speaker 1: by somebody with a clearance. Remember the Senate were classified.
Speaker 1: I just linked them to a newspaper. We have the
Speaker 1: Special Counsel Nightmare because of James Comey. Don't forget it.
Speaker 1: That's how important James Comey thinks he is. That's how
Speaker 1: self centered and narcissistic this lanky maniac actually is. That
Speaker 1: his own bruised ego. Because Trump didn't want him around
Speaker 1: anymore and fired him, which is completely the president's prerogative.
Speaker 1: Because Comey had his feeldage hurt. He was looking for
Speaker 1: a way and look, he's a he is a talented
Speaker 1: bureaucratic infighter. I'm sure there are few people that you
Speaker 1: could have ever come across the federal government who could
Speaker 1: throw you under the bus as fast as James Comey could.
Speaker 1: Go back and look at the story of how he
Speaker 1: with the author reauthorization of a surveillance program. I'm the
Speaker 1: Bush administration. Comey was just so self serving and so sanctimonious.
Speaker 1: I can't stand people like this. I mean, if it's
Speaker 1: coming across that I don't know this guy, but I
Speaker 1: dislike him. You're you're picking up what I'm putting down.
Speaker 1: But he wanted the special Counsel because he knew that
Speaker 1: the bureaucratic process that it would put in place is
Speaker 1: just going to grind away and be vengeance against his enemies.
Speaker 1: So they think about this. Comey thinks that it was
Speaker 1: unfair that he didn't get to finish his term as
Speaker 1: FBI director. He felt slighted, so he a senior former
Speaker 1: FBI bureaucrat the director of the Federal Bureer of Investigation
Speaker 1: took action based on his power and access given to
Speaker 1: him by the American people. Mind you right, he's doing
Speaker 1: He is supposed to serve the American people. He's supposed
Speaker 1: to use those powers for our benefit. He took that
Speaker 1: power and used it illicitly and very likely illegally in
Speaker 1: order to get the process going that would hobble this
Speaker 1: president and his presidency for over a year, slow down
Speaker 1: the agenda, waste countless billions of hours at this point
Speaker 1: of media time on this. I mean, you know, CNN,
Speaker 1: it's it's like they've all had some kind of a
Speaker 1: nervous breakdown over at CNN. Every night it's like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, the call me on the moller on the Russia,
Speaker 1: and you know, they have no idea what's going on
Speaker 1: in the real world. They're just all fixated on this.
Speaker 1: They are fixated on it, and we we have this
Speaker 1: nightmare because of James Coby, and I think also because
Speaker 1: there are some people in the Trump administration who just
Speaker 1: are not we're not seasoned enough, did not have a
Speaker 1: deep enough understanding of who they were really up against.
Speaker 1: Maybe some of them thought that after Trump won the
Speaker 1: election that there would be some kind of honeymoon period
Speaker 1: or oh no, I don't know. They they wanted at
Speaker 1: that point, they were more angry than ever. No good faith,
Speaker 1: only bile and hatred toward the president. That's what they were,
Speaker 1: That's what they were in for. But the Comey Memoir
Speaker 1: is gonna producer, Mike, Do I have to read this?
Speaker 1: I have to read this, don't I? I think I
Speaker 1: have to read the John I have to read this,
Speaker 1: don't I? Yeah? What do you think the Comey Memoir?
Speaker 1: The things I the things I do for the Freedom Hunt,
Speaker 1: to make sure that I bring only the best information.
Speaker 1: There you go like it on John's on Fire? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there is some stuff in this that's probably
Speaker 1: made up. I gotta go in and read it. Not
Speaker 1: quite as uh, not quite as much a fantasy as
Speaker 1: Fire and Fury. But oh, here we go more excerpts.
Speaker 1: I should have focused more answers. This is what call me.
Speaker 1: Comy describes a February four meeting in the Oval Office.
Speaker 1: Meeting in the Oval Office, where he asked Attorney General
Speaker 1: Jeff Sessions, our boy, we love Jeff to clear the
Speaker 1: room so he could bring up the FBI investigation of
Speaker 1: former National Security advisor Michael Flynn directly with Comy, a
Speaker 1: key event in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation whether Trump
Speaker 1: sought to obstruct justice. Quope, I hope you can see
Speaker 1: your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,
Speaker 1: Trump said, according to Comy's account of the meeting, some
Speaker 1: of which he first shared and sent it testimony last year.
Speaker 1: He's a good guy. I hope you can let this go.
Speaker 1: Comy writes that he regrets not interrupting Trump to explain
Speaker 1: that this plea was wrong. He recalls later confronting Sessions,
Speaker 1: whom he describes as both overwhelmed and overmatched by the job.
Speaker 1: You mean, the job that Comy thinks that he should have,
Speaker 1: because that's what's going on there. Forget lion, Comey. It's
Speaker 1: bitter Comy. He is a bitter, bitter man. And not
Speaker 1: just because when he flies and coach it's really uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure that's true. I mean, I'm not that's odd.
Speaker 1: It's uncomfortable for me right like I sit there. And
Speaker 1: but not just because Comy hits his head in hallway
Speaker 1: sometimes by accident. He's bitter about a lot of things.
Speaker 1: And he's trying to take it out of the administration.
Speaker 1: So this is gonna be a story for the weeks
Speaker 1: they had my friends, We're gonna have to see what
Speaker 1: they do with it. Um. I'm just wondering, can we
Speaker 1: get confirmation if Comey actually lead classified information to the press,
Speaker 1: because that's a big deal, and we know, I forget
Speaker 1: who the senator was who went on record and said
Speaker 1: that that that the memos that Comy leaked were classified,
Speaker 1: but you can certainly make the case that they are.
Speaker 1: All right, Uh, Mueller probe do we want to do? Facebook?
Speaker 1: I love? By the way, what is the data from
Speaker 1: Star Trek? Is whatever I's saying? Data is the one
Speaker 1: that is the data, the one who's just like no
Speaker 1: sunlight Android the whole thing. Yeah. Uh, Zuckerberg not a
Speaker 1: charming guy, very lucky, not charming uh and and really
Speaker 1: really unimpressive. I guess it. It's amazing that guy managed
Speaker 1: to stay in as CEO as long as he has. Ah,
Speaker 1: So I give him credit for that. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: he's got sort of Comey's sense of of completely outrageous
Speaker 1: self regard. Oh former special assistant to former FBI Director
Speaker 1: James Comey. Oh I just so, this is why I
Speaker 1: see this young f former FBI guy on CN all
Speaker 1: the time. He was literally Comey's little buddy. I didn't
Speaker 1: know that he was Comey's assistant. That's why this guy's
Speaker 1: on TV all the time. I'm like, when did they
Speaker 1: When did they make Pajama boy like their chief legal
Speaker 1: analysts over there? And now it's because I see, it's
Speaker 1: because it's called me. If you guys don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't think guy's Josh Campbell. I see up on CN
Speaker 1: on CNN right now. So he worked directly for Comey.
Speaker 1: I see he's part of the Comy Amen chorus. I
Speaker 1: was like, where where did this guy come from? Alright,
Speaker 1: good talk, good talk. We gotta come back and discuss
Speaker 1: the Dirsh making an appearance on the show via sound bite.
Speaker 1: We should get on to come hang. And he likes
Speaker 1: me actually true story, has no idea who I am,
Speaker 1: but every time he sees me him like Professor Dirsh,
Speaker 1: He's like, hell, just like that special for me. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back, you know. Right as we were in
Speaker 1: the break there, I got some news courtesy of producer
Speaker 1: Mike that I wanted to share with all of you Mike,
Speaker 1: let him know when you're talking about the DIRSH. I
Speaker 1: had let it be known that I was listening to l.
Speaker 1: Rush Bow earlier today and he was referring to Alan
Speaker 1: dersh Was as the I mean, I'm sure Rush has
Speaker 1: been calling that for twenty years, but I'm just excited
Speaker 1: about the only one. I like it. It's it's catching
Speaker 1: on now if Russia's doing and everyone's doing it, although
Speaker 1: he probably did it for the first time in like
Speaker 1: seven but anyway, UM, I like it me. You know,
Speaker 1: when when I'm on the same on the same side
Speaker 1: of the issue was Rush, I know him in good company,
Speaker 1: the DIRSH. But the DIRSH is making some very important points,
Speaker 1: including this one, and I want to deconstru ruck this
Speaker 1: with you in just a secondary right, Here's what the
Speaker 1: good professor had to say. You can find evidence to
Speaker 1: create or manufacture crimes against anybody if you're determined to
Speaker 1: do it. That's what's wrong with the Special Counsel because
Speaker 1: they come in with targets painted on people's back, and
Speaker 1: people like Comey and people like Mueller are gonna find
Speaker 1: crimes whether they have to go and try to find
Speaker 1: a technical violation of banking laws. On which they can
Speaker 1: hook plography, stars or things of that kind. And even
Speaker 1: your account, which was obviously metaphorical in part, proves again
Speaker 1: if you're determined to find crimes against anybody, you can
Speaker 1: do it. That's why we have to restrict and limit
Speaker 1: the application of the criminal law to clear unequivocal crimes,
Speaker 1: and don't use it against political enemies unless the evidence
Speaker 1: is just overwhelming. I've been trying to tell you and
Speaker 1: the dirtes spot all of this one, and it really
Speaker 1: is an addendum to the process, is the punishment. But
Speaker 1: also they'll find a crime to punish too, as he said,
Speaker 1: they'll manufacture one. I remember when I was working on
Speaker 1: a counter terrorism case and we're looking at a guy
Speaker 1: bad Uh had some let's just say, some very bad
Speaker 1: positions about U. S troops abroad in US foreign policy.
Speaker 1: He happened to be of the Islamic faith, Uh, and
Speaker 1: there were some real concerns about him. And you know that.
Speaker 1: I remember I was sitting there and there was a
Speaker 1: discussion with all the different investigators that were involved where
Speaker 1: I was involved. I was running the case actually, and Uh,
Speaker 1: sure enough, somebody said, well, you know, so we we
Speaker 1: can't get him but we thought he was maybe involved
Speaker 1: with some essentially some material support terrorism, but no, we
Speaker 1: did didn't them on that. And then someone's like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I think we get him on a mortgage fraud.
Speaker 1: And I was like, come on, man, like I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't leave I didn't leave Langley to come up
Speaker 1: here and do work here in New York to get
Speaker 1: some guy who legitimately, uh had has trouble speaking or
Speaker 1: reading English, to get him on a mortgage like if
Speaker 1: he if he's doing terrorism, stuff, lock him up. But like,
Speaker 1: I'm not sitting here saying let's try to put him
Speaker 1: away for years in federal prison, by the way, for
Speaker 1: a mortgage fraud that wasn't where the bank had lost
Speaker 1: no money. It was one of those It was like, uh,
Speaker 1: I mean I I obviously also can't really get into
Speaker 1: specifics here because this end up not being prosecuted, but
Speaker 1: I remember, you know, and it was a lot of
Speaker 1: O t hours in that case. A lot of people
Speaker 1: wanted to make it into something and I sat there
Speaker 1: and I said, no, nope, I want no part of that.
Speaker 1: You guys want to if you guys wanted me to
Speaker 1: be part of the mortgage fraud task Force. That's a
Speaker 1: whole other discussion, okay, And and then we have to
Speaker 1: have a talk about why is it that you know,
Speaker 1: if the credit card companies lie to you about your
Speaker 1: rate switching or moving, which they've all done by the way,
Speaker 1: They've moved their their dates around so they can check
Speaker 1: your APR up and they just get found out and
Speaker 1: maybe they pay a fine if that. But if you
Speaker 1: misstate your income or something on it, it's ten years, folks,
Speaker 1: federal prison for mortgage fraud. I mean, usually don't people
Speaker 1: take a plea, they don't get the ten but you
Speaker 1: can get ten years from mortgage fraud. If you watch
Speaker 1: the wire, you you know that that's actually how they
Speaker 1: go after one of the very corrupt politicians. I don't
Speaker 1: get them on corruption and try to get them a
Speaker 1: mortgage fraud. But the point is, somebody really goes through
Speaker 1: all your finances. I guarantee you they could find tax
Speaker 1: violations guaranteed of some kind you didn't pay. You didn't
Speaker 1: pay taxes on things you bought on the internet that
Speaker 1: are from out of state. And I know there's guidelines
Speaker 1: for how much. You know, if you're not gonna usually
Speaker 1: get jail time for that. But the point, oh, that's,
Speaker 1: you know, a tax evasion. Now they've got a tax
Speaker 1: evasion probe open on you, and a lot of you
Speaker 1: are like, gosh, buck, you have to pay Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you buy stuff online from out of state, you have
Speaker 1: to pay sales tax on it. Who knew? Right, This
Speaker 1: is the point that they're just making. That's why it's
Speaker 1: so unethical, so corrupt, so disgraceful that Mueller and all
Speaker 1: the rest aren't looking for crimes. They're going after people.
Speaker 1: And it just so happens that they are going after
Speaker 1: the sitting president of the United States of America right now.
Speaker 1: He's back with you now, because when it comes to
Speaker 1: the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Facebook has
Speaker 1: been served as a pianis from the Special council Owner's Office.
Speaker 1: Is that correct? Yes? Have you or anyone at Facebook
Speaker 1: been interviewed by the Special Counsel's Office? Yes? Have you
Speaker 1: been interviewed? I have not. I have not, others have.
Speaker 1: I believe so. And I want to be careful here
Speaker 1: because that our work with the Special Counsel is confidential,
Speaker 1: and I want to make sure that in an open
Speaker 1: session I'm not feeling something that's confidential That's why I
Speaker 1: made clear that you have been contented. You have fan subpoenas. Actually,
Speaker 1: let me clarify that I actually am not aware of
Speaker 1: of a subpoena. I believe that there maybe, but I
Speaker 1: know we're working with them. The Zuckerberg robot almost had
Speaker 1: a malfunction. I don't know if I got to talk
Speaker 1: about that at all, beds Adegh Zuckerberg S. I'm just
Speaker 1: bitter because the guy could buy me ninety billion times
Speaker 1: over or whatever. That's man. I should have been on
Speaker 1: that hallway and Harvard. My My hallway at Amherst was
Speaker 1: like it's like a zoo. It was crazy. We we
Speaker 1: had the only twenty true story. We had the only
Speaker 1: twenty one year old freshman on campus, so we were
Speaker 1: lit that we were the Florida party with because we're
Speaker 1: the only We had the only twenty one year old freshman.
Speaker 1: He had served in a foreign militarium, so it was
Speaker 1: quite a bit older than his year. And we actually
Speaker 1: turned his room into a We would move a desk
Speaker 1: in front of the doorway and turn his room into
Speaker 1: a full service bar or or other people did that,
Speaker 1: and I happen to be in the vicinity when they
Speaker 1: did that. I did not actually publicize and throw those
Speaker 1: parties and get involved in logistics of getting alcohol for
Speaker 1: like five people or anything. I just happened to be
Speaker 1: in the vicinity when that happened occasionally. So I'm told
Speaker 1: that's the story. Back to Zuckerberg, Um, he is uh,
Speaker 1: he's doing a good job of trying to of why
Speaker 1: is he talking to people? I want to boil this
Speaker 1: down for a second. Let's distill what matters a lot
Speaker 1: of your like buck this Facebook thing. I know, I
Speaker 1: don't find it nearly as interesting as most of my
Speaker 1: media peers do. You're giving them a lot of information,
Speaker 1: They're taking your information, they're monetizing it. This is this
Speaker 1: is the reality of what's going on. And I don't
Speaker 1: know how anyone doesn't understand that that's what's going on here.
Speaker 1: Do you think Facebook is doing this to be nice?
Speaker 1: But there's a very important point to be me just
Speaker 1: in that alone. What Mark Zuckerberg is doing is a
Speaker 1: big pr move here. It's convincing people that Facebook cares
Speaker 1: what you think about their privacy practices, cares about your privacy.
Speaker 1: Facebook doesn't care about your privacy. Facebook makes money off
Speaker 1: of violating your privacy, it's the whole point. And they
Speaker 1: make their they literally make the rules, they get to
Speaker 1: determine what shared, who sees it, what, and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: You think they're really sitting around like, oh, we have
Speaker 1: an ethical responsib blah blah blah blah blah. Please, it's
Speaker 1: total nonsense. It really is. Um But there's obviously a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of folks who are clinging to
Speaker 1: this belief that the progressive platforms, which is what all
Speaker 1: social media platforms are right now, aren't actually just rapacious
Speaker 1: machines of capitalism, which they are absolutely are. And you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm okay with that. I get it all right.
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's nothing on there's nothing you're putting
Speaker 1: on Facebook that you should care if anyone knows your
Speaker 1: sees you know what I'm saying. So there you go.
Speaker 1: H oh, Well there was one other thing that he uh, okay,
Speaker 1: So so he said they're working special counsel. I think
Speaker 1: that's significant issue. It just shows you how far this
Speaker 1: special council monster extends. Now, it's just the tentacles of
Speaker 1: the octopus are touching on everything these days, right all
Speaker 1: they're all over the place. Remember, comey, got that special
Speaker 1: counsel going, and now you've got Facebook executives or lawyers
Speaker 1: or whomever they have sitting now with them, all because
Speaker 1: Hillary lost the election. Because oh, it's just so unthinkable
Speaker 1: that Hillary lost the election. You know, you know what's amazing,
Speaker 1: This is an aside. This isn't even the first time
Speaker 1: in my life that Democrats have essentially refused to believe
Speaker 1: that their candidate lost the election and cried like little babies.
Speaker 1: I remember Bush v. Gore. Oh, you know Bush one
Speaker 1: because of the Supreme Court. They didn't believe that he
Speaker 1: won that election. I remember being in college and seeing
Speaker 1: people put up posters on their on their walls, another
Speaker 1: college dorm story of the popular vote of Bush v. Gore,
Speaker 1: because I I just started in school then. So you know,
Speaker 1: this isn't the first time. They're not they're not even
Speaker 1: first time offenders on the delusion of our candidate didn't
Speaker 1: actually lose, like a bunch of crying babies. And they'll
Speaker 1: they'll tank the whole country, they'll tank whatever they have
Speaker 1: to to make them feel better about this one. So
Speaker 1: that is so many we're going to special council, that's happening.
Speaker 1: And I also noticed that Zuckerberg is like, I don't
Speaker 1: know if we're under subpoena, but we are working with
Speaker 1: the Special Council. Well, what does that mean. I thought
Speaker 1: that these companies, and I thought that's because they've said
Speaker 1: in the past they will only respond to subpoenas about
Speaker 1: their information, they won't just share it freely with law enforcement.
Speaker 1: Kind of sounded to me like he's said, yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: like give them whatever they need right working with not
Speaker 1: you know, under subpoena, we will because of the power
Speaker 1: of the judiciary. YadA, YadA, will give you no no, no.
Speaker 1: It was just like, oh, y ask me, We'll get
Speaker 1: them out anything they want. Please change my battery. Well
Speaker 1: that's that. And then there's also the the issue that
Speaker 1: came up before about the usage of data in the
Speaker 1: Cambridge Analytica thing. Again, I think if not a non story,
Speaker 1: a hyperventilated story, like, oh my gosh, it's just not
Speaker 1: that important, it's not that big. But remember when the
Speaker 1: Obama people said in twenty twelve that they did essentially
Speaker 1: exactly what Cambridge Analytica had done, and people pointed this out,
Speaker 1: they said, wow, this seems like quite a bit of
Speaker 1: hypocrisy here Obama's people do it. It's amazing, it's groundbreaking.
Speaker 1: Trump's campaign maybe does it via third party Cambridge. Everyone's like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, they're all freaking out about it. So
Speaker 1: Zuckerberg dealt with this as well. During the hearing today.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of talk about UH Cambridge and
Speaker 1: what they've done in the last campaign. In two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight and two thousand and twelve, there was also
Speaker 1: a lot of this done. UH of the lead digital
Speaker 1: heads of the Obama campaign said recently, Facebook was surprised
Speaker 1: we were able to suck out the whole social graph,
Speaker 1: but they didn't stop us once they realized that was
Speaker 1: what we were doing. They came to the office in
Speaker 1: the days following the election recruiting, and we're very candid
Speaker 1: that they allowed us to do things they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.
Speaker 1: That's a direct quote from one of the heads of
Speaker 1: the Obama digital team. What what would she mean by
Speaker 1: they Facebook, we're on our side, Congressman. We didn't allow
Speaker 1: the Obama campaign to do anything that any developer on
Speaker 1: the platform wouldn't have otherwise been able to do. So
Speaker 1: she was just making an inaccurate statement in your point
Speaker 1: of view, Yes, they saying she lied. That strikes me
Speaker 1: as kind of convenient, doesn't it. Why would you lie
Speaker 1: about that? It doesn't seem like a smart thing to do,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. If it's always good to
Speaker 1: think about the motivations for a lie, why would somebody
Speaker 1: say that they just want some attention. Clearly, if it
Speaker 1: wasn't true, that that person could have been risking their reputation,
Speaker 1: maybe their job. So that strikes me as a little simple.
Speaker 1: Someone's lying, either l Garberg is not talligged that truth
Speaker 1: or somebody else. But there's somebody who's needs needs to
Speaker 1: come clean on the whole situation. I'm not sure what
Speaker 1: it is. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. By the way,
Speaker 1: we uh in the third hour, I want to give
Speaker 1: you a little bit of a preview where where we're going.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the opioid epidemic. I have some information
Speaker 1: about the pharma big farmer companies that are going to
Speaker 1: be testifying soon, and we want to talk about that
Speaker 1: component of the opioid crisis. Also, we're gonna be joined
Speaker 1: by an entrepreneur from the Midwest, from Indiana, UM and
Speaker 1: talk to him about one town in Indiana Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal profile where they're just crushing it. They're doing really
Speaker 1: well economically, so well that they actually can't even fill
Speaker 1: all the jobs they have. We'll discuss that in that
Speaker 1: sector of that industry, and then I'll share some thoughts
Speaker 1: with you on hip hop, the current state of hip hop.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be interesting. Uh, and coming up here in
Speaker 1: just a moment, The most beloved people in the world
Speaker 1: are Oh, we have data, my friends, we are going
Speaker 1: to get into it. Unfortunately, it's not the most beloved
Speaker 1: person in the Freedom Hunt, because that would be either
Speaker 1: John or producer Mike. But it's the world. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about it. Stay with me. Who is the most admired
Speaker 1: person in the world? Well, we know this list is
Speaker 1: a sham because I'm not even in the top twenty,
Speaker 1: which makes me very sad. It's a big bummer. But
Speaker 1: it is quite a list. This according to you gov,
Speaker 1: which is at what a polling company. I don't know
Speaker 1: much about you gov, but anyway, it's some very interesting
Speaker 1: bits of information on this one worlds most admired Who
Speaker 1: wants to guess at number one? I know some of
Speaker 1: you are like Barack Obama. False, wrong, It is in
Speaker 1: fact Bill Gates in the number one slot. Barack Obama
Speaker 1: is number two. The number two most admired person on
Speaker 1: planet Earth is Barack Obama. Who wants to guess? At
Speaker 1: number three? This was way out of left field for me.
Speaker 1: Jackie Chan the actor, how why? I have absolutely no idea.
Speaker 1: I cannot even begin to tell you why that is.
Speaker 1: But then you can listen Jack ma who is the
Speaker 1: founder of Ali Baba. He is China's um equivalent of
Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos. You know, he's he is the guy right
Speaker 1: now in the digital space. Vladimir Putin comes it at
Speaker 1: number six. La uh, Christiano Ronaldo that's just sports. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's so good at sports. Soccer is the world sport. Whatever.
Speaker 1: And then Lionel Messi, who's like the other best soccer
Speaker 1: player in the world. Warren Buffett, America's financial Grahampa comes
Speaker 1: into twelve, and then you get David Beckham Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's m j still on the list, number fifteen.
Speaker 1: Most amount, he's ahead of the pope. Everybody literally one
Speaker 1: space ahead of the pope is Michael Jordan's seventeen is
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Hey, nineteen is riscip Rowan and yeah, there
Speaker 1: you got it. So in the twenties, Imran Khan not
Speaker 1: only supposing. I guess Bill Gates is so admired because
Speaker 1: of the charitable work that he does, which is nice um,
Speaker 1: which is nice. He's got that going for him. And
Speaker 1: you look at these other names. The Dolly Lama is
Speaker 1: on there by the way. I would have thought that
Speaker 1: Dali Wi will be honest, I thought the Dalai Lama
Speaker 1: would probably come in at number one. Does anyone know
Speaker 1: anything about the Dalai Lama? Big hit the lama? But no,
Speaker 1: people have no, they don't know anything. Is who's gonna
Speaker 1: catch that reference? Probably all of you. But no one
Speaker 1: knows anything of the dial Lama. All they know is
Speaker 1: that when you die, youchief full consciousness. No, you don't
Speaker 1: know anything with the lama. I don't know any about
Speaker 1: the llama, flowing rubs, the whole thing. Right. People just
Speaker 1: know that they're supposed to like the Dalai Lama. The
Speaker 1: dial Llama is the human equivalent of the muse of museums.
Speaker 1: Did you like the museum? You always have to say yes.
Speaker 1: Did you even go to the museum in that foreign
Speaker 1: country that you were in that foreign city. You have
Speaker 1: to say you like the museum anyway. You're not allowed
Speaker 1: to say you don't like a museum. And you're not
Speaker 1: allowed to except for maybe the Museum of Sex, which
Speaker 1: is actually not far from me in New York City,
Speaker 1: which I will tell you I've never been to, and
Speaker 1: I've heard it is not good. I've heard it's disappointing.
Speaker 1: Um there's that. It's actually true story and it was
Speaker 1: not me. Whenever I tell these stories, I know Mike
Speaker 1: is looking at me like he thinks that this is me,
Speaker 1: the true story, but not my story. I had a
Speaker 1: friend who took a girl there on it yet yeah, right,
Speaker 1: a friend who took a girl there on a first date,
Speaker 1: took a young lady to the Museum of Sex on
Speaker 1: date one? Who want it is a bold move? Who
Speaker 1: wants to guess if there was a date number two? That? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that was not the That was not the way
Speaker 1: to go apparently. So anyway, it's tough when you're in
Speaker 1: the gift shop and you're like, do you want the
Speaker 1: whip in chain or do you want the chocolate in
Speaker 1: the shape of um So, anyway, um, where was all this? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You have to say you like the Llama even if
Speaker 1: you know nothing about the Llama. Oh, but the women, Gosh,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be I don't want to be
Speaker 1: all about the patriot. I will just a note here
Speaker 1: because there's some there's some b roll making the rounds
Speaker 1: on CE and then now of young Trump, and people
Speaker 1: say that I have young Trump hair. False. My hair
Speaker 1: is far superior to Young Trump. Okay, I I mine,
Speaker 1: just mine just grows in in proportion, like a like
Speaker 1: a chia pet, like a thick bush. It just grows
Speaker 1: out and out and out. I don't need to like
Speaker 1: swirl it around or anything. The poof, as I call it,
Speaker 1: is all natural or the swoop. I actually prefer the swoop,
Speaker 1: although to be fair, Trump has more of a swoop,
Speaker 1: had and still has more of a swoop than I do.
Speaker 1: I digress. So the most admired women in the world
Speaker 1: that's also part of this list you have, okay, the producer, Mike,
Speaker 1: did you see this list? No? No, don't know cheating
Speaker 1: Who's the most Who's the most admired woman in the world?
Speaker 1: Come on, you gotta tell me. I want a name.
Speaker 1: Michelle Obama Very good guests Number two look at you though,
Speaker 1: producer Mike's on his game, I will tell you I
Speaker 1: would have guest Oprah Winfrey, which I thought would be
Speaker 1: a pretty safe guest. It turns out Michelle Obama's number two,
Speaker 1: Oprah win threes, number three, so you're silver medal on
Speaker 1: bronze medal, respectively. Number one Angelina Jolie, which to me
Speaker 1: is like, I don't get it right. I mean, her
Speaker 1: English accent in the tomb Raider movies was laughable. You know,
Speaker 1: she she's been, she's did she broight? Did she break
Speaker 1: up Brad and Jennifer? Or did Jennifer break up her?
Speaker 1: And I forget how that went. Ms Molly will yell
Speaker 1: at me if I get the she broke up Brat
Speaker 1: and Jenneral she that's right. She's the home wrecker. Home wrecker.
Speaker 1: Number one on the Oh his love yet, John? I
Speaker 1: like John always takes the positive point of view. All right, John,
Speaker 1: I'll let you. I'll let you get away with it
Speaker 1: today on that one, by the way, Number five on
Speaker 1: the list. Hello, it's Hillary. Oh yeah, Mike just spit
Speaker 1: out his water. That's I was looking for that all day. Um.
Speaker 1: Number six Emma Watson, the chick from the Harry Potter movies. Right,
Speaker 1: the the young lady from the Harry Potter movie is
Speaker 1: not right? Right? Yeah, that's who. I don't even know
Speaker 1: she was that famous. I'm learning something new every day.
Speaker 1: Malta usef sid that that I can that I can understand.
Speaker 1: I'm gla merk yah Angula for wearing non gender distinguishing
Speaker 1: suits at all times. And uh, Taylor Swift on here.
Speaker 1: I love t Swift. You guys all know that. So
Speaker 1: respect Madonna. And it's it's gotten weird. That's all I
Speaker 1: have to say. I'man donna. It's gotten weird. You know.
Speaker 1: That's that's it. You don't need to say anything else.
Speaker 1: I don't need. I don't want to say anything that's
Speaker 1: gonna get me in trouble. Gal Gadot is on here.
Speaker 1: And then there' a whole bunch of women like I
Speaker 1: don't even know who they are, so I can't even
Speaker 1: tell you who they Who's a shwari a rai, you know,
Speaker 1: I no, I don't know who that is. I think
Speaker 1: it's an actress, a Bollywood actress. But if that's like
Speaker 1: the first woman to discover a cure for cancer in
Speaker 1: South Asia, apologies, I think it's a Bollywood actress though, um,
Speaker 1: and then Yangne don't know who that is, fan Bingbing
Speaker 1: don't know who that is, Zooway, don't know who that is.
Speaker 1: And then Elizabeth Warren just sneaking in under the wire
Speaker 1: because they needed some diversity on this list. So that's
Speaker 1: what Elizabeth Warren provides. So that's the good news. This
Speaker 1: was pretty interesting, folks. I don't know how how accurate
Speaker 1: this is and how much people Um, I don't know
Speaker 1: how much people will look at this and say that's scientific.
Speaker 1: But I just weren't share with you. So some very
Speaker 1: interesting stuff on here, very interesting stuff. Brock and Michelle
Speaker 1: Obamba are basically the two most admired people in the world,
Speaker 1: though it's really what it comes down to, according to
Speaker 1: this poll on the internet. Uh so there's that. Um
Speaker 1: some other names on the list that I was kind
Speaker 1: of excited to see, Clint Eastwood high Marks. Uh who
Speaker 1: else we've got here? Net and Yahoo makes the list,
Speaker 1: but they're they're not in the top twenty. All right,
Speaker 1: we gotta come back into uh some other stuff here.
Speaker 1: I had a quick break. Stay with me. He's holding
Speaker 1: the line for America. Buck Sexton is back thy Welcome
Speaker 1: to our three of the Buck Sexton Show. Um, you
Speaker 1: probably noticed this from listening to me for a while.
Speaker 1: I I'd like to use our three to talk about
Speaker 1: whatever it is just on my mind. I guess this
Speaker 1: is lately I've been I've been thinking about the structure.
Speaker 1: People have been asking me, what's the structure of your show?
Speaker 1: And I always say, well, the first hour is what's happening,
Speaker 1: what's big, what do we need to talk about. The
Speaker 1: second hour is usually more tends to be more national security,
Speaker 1: also just maybe more of a drill down, a deep
Speaker 1: dive into something that I think matters. In the third
Speaker 1: hours just whatever is on my mind right Uh. This though,
Speaker 1: is a topic that crosses all of those different areas.
Speaker 1: The opioid epidemic massive urgent national issue, very news worthy
Speaker 1: though not really all that much in the news right now. Uh,
Speaker 1: and and also something that I've been exploring and learning
Speaker 1: a lot more about. It's just a fascinating story. The
Speaker 1: quick US hooke on this. What got me thinking about
Speaker 1: it today is that opioid distributors are going to testify
Speaker 1: before a House committee coming up soon. Five. This is
Speaker 1: from the Hill dot com. Five executives of opioid distribution
Speaker 1: companies will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee
Speaker 1: in May about how millions of pain pills found their
Speaker 1: way to small West Virginia towns, and I would know
Speaker 1: that there's a there's a lot of backlash and anger
Speaker 1: at these different hill companies, different pharmaceutical companies for the
Speaker 1: opioid epidemic. You look at some of the numbers here,
Speaker 1: you see things like Miami luken Uh sent four thousand
Speaker 1: that's a that's one of the corporations that sent four thousand, sorry,
Speaker 1: four million pain pills to Oceania, which is a town
Speaker 1: of one thousand people from two thousand, four million opioid
Speaker 1: pills seven years people. It's a lot of pills, right
Speaker 1: you you worked that out per person per day, that's
Speaker 1: a lot of pills. And so this is the other
Speaker 1: the other side of I've been talking a lot about
Speaker 1: the cartels, which the media is just straight up suppressing
Speaker 1: because Big Pharma is corporation there they the media is
Speaker 1: okay with pharma being bad guys. They're not okay with
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants being the bad guys even when they are.
Speaker 1: And the cartels have had a huge hand in and
Speaker 1: I'm wondering when someone will really catch onto the fact
Speaker 1: that it is a true statement to say that illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants from Mexico are responsible for tens of thousands of
Speaker 1: preventable deaths in this country. So and that's not to
Speaker 1: say they're directly causing them, as though they're murdering people.
Speaker 1: That's just to say that tens of thousands of people
Speaker 1: are dead. And I mean, I think the number, if
Speaker 1: you added up, would really be in the hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands since about the year two thousand because of what
Speaker 1: the cartels have been doing. But the pharmaceutical companies have
Speaker 1: also been up to some really shady stuff. And I
Speaker 1: would direct you to a book that I'm actually in
Speaker 1: the middle of right now. Um it's called dream Land,
Speaker 1: and it's the true tale of of America's opiate epidemic
Speaker 1: by Sam Canones, who is a who is an l
Speaker 1: A Times journalist. But it's one of the best books
Speaker 1: I've read in a long time. It's, like I said,
Speaker 1: Dreamland by Sam Canonas, because it takes you through the
Speaker 1: whole story of how did we get to this point
Speaker 1: where you have sixty four thousand people of the year
Speaker 1: dying from opioid overdoses. That's a lot of people. You
Speaker 1: start thinking about how many of those those people. You
Speaker 1: look at this as not just the deaths, but also
Speaker 1: the lives shattered from their family members, and just the
Speaker 1: lost futures and the lost productivity, and you realize that
Speaker 1: this is affecting millions of people. Sixty sixty three thousand
Speaker 1: dead in one year is affecting at a minimum hundreds
Speaker 1: of thousands of people, really millions of people in very
Speaker 1: direct ways. But one of the big parts of this
Speaker 1: that the book Dreamland goes into, which I'm I read
Speaker 1: it at night before I go to sleep these days.
Speaker 1: I'm halfway through it, is that there was a revolution
Speaker 1: in the thinking of pain doctors in about the nineteen
Speaker 1: nineties and there were some, uh, there were some pharmaceutical companies,
Speaker 1: one in particular, but I won't name it because I
Speaker 1: don't want to say the wrong one, uh, that decided
Speaker 1: that they were going to run with a statistic that
Speaker 1: only one percent of people would become addicted to opioids
Speaker 1: if prescribed them, and it's it's hard to believe. You.
Speaker 1: You read the backstory to that in the book, and
Speaker 1: it turns out it's a letter that somebody wrote to
Speaker 1: a Journal of Medicine that suggested that in a small
Speaker 1: sample size of end of end of life cancer patients,
Speaker 1: only one percent of them were addicted to opioids. And
Speaker 1: you can imagine all the different reasons that that's not
Speaker 1: a sufficient study for anything. And that was seized upon
Speaker 1: by a big fire. And they were just they were
Speaker 1: selling pills. It was a bonanza. And then it became
Speaker 1: if you didn't treat pain, it became one of the
Speaker 1: the vital signs. You know, you go in, they gotta
Speaker 1: do your your pulse and uh, you're what was a pulse?
Speaker 1: And then um, you know, heartbeat or is that the
Speaker 1: same thing. I can't whatever the four or five vital
Speaker 1: signs are. I'm not a doctor, right, it doesn't matter. Uh.
Speaker 1: The things that doctors always do. They put on the pressure, cough,
Speaker 1: They take your pulse, and then they add and making no,
Speaker 1: but that's not with the tongue to press or whatever.
Speaker 1: They they added pain as one of the as one
Speaker 1: of the markers that they have to measure every time
Speaker 1: you go to a doctor's office. And that's where some
Speaker 1: of you may have seen this. They created this. This
Speaker 1: was all done in the nineties, they created this scale
Speaker 1: of like really unhappy face to kind of unhappy face
Speaker 1: for children so they could point with their pain was,
Speaker 1: and then they had the arbitrary one to ten pain
Speaker 1: scale for adults. Well, somebody who was addicted to OxyContin
Speaker 1: in particular, which has a large dose of oxycodone in it,
Speaker 1: which is time release. Guess what drug addicts figured out?
Speaker 1: What you know, what you wanna do? You break up
Speaker 1: the oxy contin and then you can snort it and
Speaker 1: instead of it being time release, it all goes into
Speaker 1: your system at once. So these are things, whether we'll
Speaker 1: find out from this book is fascinating story. But farmer
Speaker 1: companies were running around selling this stuff saying it was
Speaker 1: non addictive, and it's incredibly addictive anything that affects your brain.
Speaker 1: Based on the way the way that opiates do opioids opiates,
Speaker 1: people kind of use these a little bit interchangeably. Has
Speaker 1: to do with the chemical structure and compound. I think
Speaker 1: that the opioid is similar chemical compound. Opiate is actually
Speaker 1: derived from the opium poppy. So I'm just telling you,
Speaker 1: if you get a chance. Dreamline it's an of a
Speaker 1: book and it explains how it happened that you had
Speaker 1: all of these uh opioid epidemics popping up, many opioid
Speaker 1: epidemics popping up in towns that didn't have a lot
Speaker 1: of crime, didn't have a lot of gangs. It was
Speaker 1: a combination of abuse from pharmaceutical companies and the change
Speaker 1: and the doctor thinking. Was one of the things that
Speaker 1: I thought was so amazing. All of a sudden, if
Speaker 1: you went into a doctor and you said you were
Speaker 1: in pain, the doctor was worried that if he didn't
Speaker 1: he or she didn't give you a script for pain pills,
Speaker 1: they might be negligent, and even you could sue them
Speaker 1: for failing to treat your pain. Think about what that does.
Speaker 1: Every junkie now who goes into a doctor has the
Speaker 1: has the upper hand, has a leverage. Every addictude goes in.
Speaker 1: People would get and and they they they decided to
Speaker 1: expand what they would treat with. Originally opioids. They realized
Speaker 1: very very dangerous. I mean back in the sixties and seventies,
Speaker 1: a like incredibly addictive. You gotta stay away and this stuff.
Speaker 1: Then going into the eighties, especially in the nineties, it
Speaker 1: was we're not just gonna use this for terminal cancer,
Speaker 1: patients to literally ease their pain. Palliative care. We're gonna
Speaker 1: use it for back pain, We're gonna use it for
Speaker 1: chronic pelvic pain. What hurts. They started deciding to u
Speaker 1: to write people's scripts for uh oxycon and purpose that
Speaker 1: there's a whole bunch of them. Um, you know, people
Speaker 1: are familiar with them right then. Then they became kind
Speaker 1: of a part of pop culture and people would talk
Speaker 1: about abusing them. And but it's a remarkable story. You know,
Speaker 1: the cartel component I've usually focused on, but the way
Speaker 1: that medicine was really turned upside down on this issue
Speaker 1: of pain and pain pills and the consequences. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is hollowed out. Some of these small towns, you know,
Speaker 1: they're never going to be the same. And now they're
Speaker 1: looking Now they're looking for this is what this hell
Speaker 1: story is about. Opioid distributors are gonna be testifying that
Speaker 1: they look for criminal charges against some of these pharmaceutical
Speaker 1: companies and some of these doctors, you know, pill mills,
Speaker 1: They go after them, They go after them hard. Now
Speaker 1: d e A gets involved with people who are writing
Speaker 1: scripts for too many pain pills or and I'll tell
Speaker 1: you actually because the doctors figure out what the and
Speaker 1: this is a conversation actually had with the d A
Speaker 1: agent once. Because of the way the doctors write the script,
Speaker 1: they're always trying to make it a little bit more
Speaker 1: like they're hedging toward less drugs is invested. They can
Speaker 1: investigate even less drugs because then the doctors just structure
Speaker 1: so they stay below it. So it's a cat and
Speaker 1: mouse game. Anyway, check out if you're looking for a
Speaker 1: book to read about all this, check out Dreamline. I'm
Speaker 1: it's so well written. It's a fantastic, fantastic book. We'll
Speaker 1: be back with a story about a Midwest town that
Speaker 1: is booming right now in the industry that are supporting it.
Speaker 1: It's in Indiana, I'll tell you that. But for more,
Speaker 1: you gotta stay with me. I owe one more thing.
Speaker 1: I also saw, uh it's it's in the headlines now
Speaker 1: all the violence in Mexico. So don't think that I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be following that very closely. What was
Speaker 1: the port of Varta now had something where when something
Speaker 1: went down, producer Mike, where was it? Oh? No, Cancoon?
Speaker 1: It was Cancoon. It was like some fourteen murders in
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, I think was the in Cancoon, Mexico,
Speaker 1: an all time record. So this is people talk about
Speaker 1: this plague, this pandemic of opioids in this country. It's
Speaker 1: a massive problem and we really as a country need
Speaker 1: to educate ourselves more on how this is happening. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's some somewhat the farmer companies being irresponsible, but and
Speaker 1: and the medical community having a lot of bad advice
Speaker 1: and regulations for a long time. But it's really the
Speaker 1: cartels and illegal immigration all right. Now, with that, we'll
Speaker 1: come back and talk about r V sharing just a
Speaker 1: few Welcome back everybody to the Buck Sexton Show. I
Speaker 1: wanted to tell you a good news story from the
Speaker 1: employment side. You know that we've talked about how employments
Speaker 1: are incredibly low, but people also say that manufacturing needs
Speaker 1: to make a comeback. There's one place in the country
Speaker 1: right now that was just highlight in the Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal where there's not just a healthy manufacturing sector, there's
Speaker 1: a manufacturing boom going on, and it's a very specific
Speaker 1: part of the economy. This Wall Street Journal piece was
Speaker 1: titled the future of America's economy looks a lot like Elkhart, Indiana.
Speaker 1: Here's what it says. The self proclaimed RV Capital of
Speaker 1: the World gives a glimpse of what the American economy
Speaker 1: looks like when operating at full tilt. High school students
Speaker 1: around here skip college for factory jobs that offer great
Speaker 1: pay and benefits for higher signed sprout like roadside weeds,
Speaker 1: and workers are so flush that car dealers can't keep
Speaker 1: new pickups on the lot. At the same time, the
Speaker 1: strands are showing, employers can't hang on to employees, and
Speaker 1: house prices are zooming. The worker shortage prompt of local
Speaker 1: Kentuck You Fried Chicken restaurant to offer a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars and signing bonus. McDonald's failed to open for
Speaker 1: lunch last fall because managers couldn't corral enough hands at
Speaker 1: eight dollars an hour. So you've got a really big
Speaker 1: boom going on in r vs in elk Card, Indiana,
Speaker 1: which is having all kinds of interesting economic implications. Let's
Speaker 1: bring out somebody who knows this sector backwards and forwards,
Speaker 1: and also just knows the Midwest and the economy out there.
Speaker 1: We have Joel Clark with us now. He is the
Speaker 1: founder and president of r V share Joel, great to
Speaker 1: have you joining us, Buck, thanks for having me. It's
Speaker 1: a pleasure. So you are an entrepreneur and you're specifically
Speaker 1: dealing in the r V sector. If we just tell
Speaker 1: me first about why is the RV sector recreational vehicles?
Speaker 1: Why are they booming right now? And elk cart is
Speaker 1: just one example of this. Yeah, that's a great question.
Speaker 1: So a lot of the boom if you look at
Speaker 1: the RV sales industry in in particular, and you can
Speaker 1: kind of break the RV industry into a few kind
Speaker 1: of a few different parts. One is r V sales,
Speaker 1: but then another part is r V rental, which I've
Speaker 1: overlaps a lot, but it's different too, and that's where
Speaker 1: I largely focus um with r V share. But you know,
Speaker 1: the RV sales kind of the the boom bust cycle
Speaker 1: of RV sales, if you look at it, is very
Speaker 1: largely a function of the economy as a whole, and
Speaker 1: very much a function of oil prices, which makes sense
Speaker 1: if gas goes up to four dollars a gallon all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, taking the family across country to go
Speaker 1: check out Yellowstone becomes uh, you know, less of a
Speaker 1: budget vacation and all of a sudden, the cost really
Speaker 1: goes to the roof. So it was a great piece.
Speaker 1: I love seeing the Wall Street Journal give um give
Speaker 1: el cars the love it deserves. El cards an amazing place. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the RV industry is just, you know, fantastic. It's it's
Speaker 1: a joy to be a part of, to help people. Really,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, what everyone in the
Speaker 1: r V industry cells is family time, which is like,
Speaker 1: there's hard to be you know, more excited about a
Speaker 1: product in an industry that you're you're in. So I
Speaker 1: think it was a great piece, but I think that
Speaker 1: it actually kind of in a way missed the mark
Speaker 1: on what the kind of I think the real story is.
Speaker 1: I think the real story is actually buried a little
Speaker 1: further down in that article, and I think it really
Speaker 1: gets pulled out by a quote from Shelley Moore, who's
Speaker 1: the urban planner of Elkhart, and she kind of talks
Speaker 1: about kind of that boom bust cycle of RV sales
Speaker 1: in itself. Uh, there's a quote where it says, uh,
Speaker 1: Shelley Moore, the Elkhart urban planner, said that the city
Speaker 1: is in a race against the clock unquote to build
Speaker 1: a more diverse and sustainable economy. Um, you know, really
Speaker 1: what you have and what I think the article kind
Speaker 1: of misses the mark on is that, you know, the
Speaker 1: Midwest and the Middle American economy is at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, so much bigger than these these boom
Speaker 1: bus cycles and RV sales are just one part of
Speaker 1: the r V industry as a whole. And that it's
Speaker 1: you know, if you watch the video that a company
Speaker 1: that article, there's kind of this feeling there of it's
Speaker 1: a it's a gravy train now in RV sales, but
Speaker 1: everyone's kind of waiting for the next bust for the
Speaker 1: sales article when that all all change. Just UM and
Speaker 1: r V shure, we're kind of uniquely positioned to see
Speaker 1: a different angle because we are in the r V
Speaker 1: rental space and one thing in the r V rental space. Uh.
Speaker 1: They say that r V reynalds are good in a
Speaker 1: good economy and great in a bad economy because an
Speaker 1: RV rental, unlike RV ownership, this becomes an asset for people, right,
Speaker 1: It's not just something to have fun and hang out
Speaker 1: with the family. In absolutely, and that's that's book. What
Speaker 1: we see as kind of the real story is if
Speaker 1: you you can look historically at the whole RV sales
Speaker 1: industry and it goes up down, up, down, and if
Speaker 1: you lay oil prices over that, up down, up down,
Speaker 1: it makes sense. So what we're building in r V Show,
Speaker 1: and what I'm really focused on, is like, hey, let's
Speaker 1: build Middle American economics that work in a downturn. Let's
Speaker 1: help these eleven million families that have bought this RV
Speaker 1: and in good times it's a vacation machine. But what
Speaker 1: we're really focused on is we're getting ready for the
Speaker 1: next bad time and how do we help families turn
Speaker 1: that into a cash generating asset when the next market
Speaker 1: correction happens. So you've basically created Airbnb for r vs, Right,
Speaker 1: that's a fair way to describe what I know. The
Speaker 1: platform is different in specific and proprietary, but in terms
Speaker 1: of how it functions. This is a way for people
Speaker 1: to make money off the RV that sits in their backyard.
Speaker 1: For a lot of folks, right, forty eight weeks of
Speaker 1: the year, they're not using this thing. Yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you hit the nail on the head or more in
Speaker 1: our our mission that's up on the wall all over
Speaker 1: here is we create entrepreneurs. You know. We we do
Speaker 1: that by helping folks rent r vs all over the country.
Speaker 1: But our focus is you know these families too, they've
Speaker 1: got that RV sitting in their driveway forty eight fifty
Speaker 1: weeks a year. Let's help you take that RV and
Speaker 1: turn into an extra forty grand a year in income.
Speaker 1: So you know this, Like I said that, the piece
Speaker 1: is fantastic. I love, you know, seeing the industry get
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal attention. You know, Indiana getting a high
Speaker 1: five for booming economy is pretty cool, right, you don't
Speaker 1: see that every day. But like I said, I think
Speaker 1: the real story underneath it is, you know, even the
Speaker 1: people in the article are openly talking about you know,
Speaker 1: this is a boom bust cycle. The bust is coming.
Speaker 1: And that's where me and my team are are really
Speaker 1: focused on. Where we think the real story is is
Speaker 1: the way that we brace for the next bus is
Speaker 1: we create tools and infrastructure that empower the middle American entrepreneur.
Speaker 1: And there's way more Middle American entrepreneurs than you know
Speaker 1: you ever see on the news or read about online.
Speaker 1: Joel Clark is founder and president of r v share.
Speaker 1: To see more what they're doing, you can go to
Speaker 1: r v share dot com and you can find the
Speaker 1: perfect rv rental that way as well. Joel, great to
Speaker 1: have you, my friend. Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: Buck always the pleasure. Thank you, sir, our team. We're
Speaker 1: gonna roll into a quick break when we come back.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna share some thoughts. Get ready for brace. Brace yourself,
Speaker 1: my friends. When you come back, I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: about hip hop bucks. Take on, John, don't be friend,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be okay. I'm gonna get through it. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about some hip hop music and how I
Speaker 1: think some of it is that there's a little too much,
Speaker 1: a little too much profanity. We'll be right back. He's
Speaker 1: back with you now, because when it comes to the
Speaker 1: fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Team. I'm Curmudgein Lee,
Speaker 1: but I'm not prudish. But I gotta tell you today,
Speaker 1: as I was still waging my losing campaign against Dad Bob,
Speaker 1: I am Hans, Am I Awn Hans and we just
Speaker 1: want you. I found myself trying to get motivated to
Speaker 1: do some burpies, which I'm convinced only exists to make
Speaker 1: us all feel weak and pathetic and lame. Oh they're
Speaker 1: so good for your metabolic rate. Yeah, that's right. I
Speaker 1: really want to flop around on the ground like a
Speaker 1: fish and fling flop sweat from my poofy hair across
Speaker 1: the room every time I jump up in the air.
Speaker 1: Or then there's kettle bell swings, which, for those of
Speaker 1: you who are familiar, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Every time I do one of those swings, I'm like,
Speaker 1: is this the end of future generations of bucks? It's
Speaker 1: a scary thing, you know. It's a It's a close
Speaker 1: fought ordeal every time you swing one of those kettlebells
Speaker 1: between your knees as hard and fast as you can.
Speaker 1: But I was trying to get motivated for the workout,
Speaker 1: and I was looking around on Spotify, because I'm cool,
Speaker 1: like as the kids are. I'm pretty sure, like such
Speaker 1: as I believe that are at education, like such as
Speaker 1: a South Africa and a Diraq everywhere like such as.
Speaker 1: And there was a time when I would talk some
Speaker 1: smack about Spotify, how it was just for the music hipsters.
Speaker 1: Now I use it all the time anyway, I was
Speaker 1: trying to get a and by the way, you guys
Speaker 1: can follow me on Spotify and then make fun of
Speaker 1: all of the Creed and Taylor Swift that I have
Speaker 1: in my music playlists there there I have public playlists,
Speaker 1: so you can just find me there. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: T Swift gets me fired up. Okay, that's just how
Speaker 1: I roll. I can just feel all the emails cascading
Speaker 1: in telling me my man card is revoked forever. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about or trying to find a good playlist,
Speaker 1: and I found some that were, you know, for workout specifically,
Speaker 1: and some of them were hip hop specific Now, I
Speaker 1: grew up listening, to believe it or not, a lot
Speaker 1: of hip hop here in New York City in the
Speaker 1: early nineties. It was all Notorious b I G. And
Speaker 1: Tupac and Nas and Cypress Hill and House of Pain,
Speaker 1: and these were the music acts that my peers all
Speaker 1: listened to all across the city. It was there was
Speaker 1: really a hip hop explosion across the country. But I'm
Speaker 1: a little older and wiser about all things in life now,
Speaker 1: and I was listening to one of these hip hop
Speaker 1: mixes in parts so I can sound cool when I
Speaker 1: talked to Miss Molly because she's a bit younger. She's
Speaker 1: not even thirty yet, so she's bit younger than me. Uh,
Speaker 1: and and I can be like, yeah, today, I was
Speaker 1: listening to Cardi B and Gucci Maine and Little Wayne
Speaker 1: and Geezy on my music playlist. That's right, But I
Speaker 1: was listening to it, and I have to tell you,
Speaker 1: those were some of the artists on this playlist I
Speaker 1: was listening to today, and I I called a lot
Speaker 1: of the lyrics. And I'm not somebody who is particularly squeamish,
Speaker 1: and I'm very anti censorship, but I gotta tell you
Speaker 1: there's a little part of it that's like, why is
Speaker 1: it that, in this day and age of me too,
Speaker 1: when there's so much uh discussion of the need for
Speaker 1: equality among women and and treating women with greater respect
Speaker 1: and ending sexual harassment, hip hop is considered a completely
Speaker 1: separate space. In that whole conversation, there were things that
Speaker 1: were being wrapped about. And these are new rap songs,
Speaker 1: right or we call it hip hop now, but when
Speaker 1: I was a kid, we called it rap. But these
Speaker 1: are new hip hop songs that are out that are
Speaker 1: topping the charts. Uh. Though those are big apparently Gucci
Speaker 1: Maine and Little Wayne and these are big. These are
Speaker 1: big music acts. I know about Little Wayne because in fact,
Speaker 1: I know the NYPD detective who arrested him and sent
Speaker 1: him to prison for a weapon's possession. Story for another time.
Speaker 1: But the lyrics in these songs, I mean, there was
Speaker 1: one title of a song, for example, that really caught
Speaker 1: my eye. It was bottles and be the second word
Speaker 1: is also a term for a female dog, and I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, that seems to me to be
Speaker 1: pretty offensive. And I'm not somebody who talks a lot
Speaker 1: about what's offensive and what's not. I I like a
Speaker 1: live in the live kind of world. And then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you, I really felt like I'm out of
Speaker 1: it because there were terms that were used and I
Speaker 1: was like, what is that word? I know, I sound
Speaker 1: like a huge nerd right now, but I was unfamili
Speaker 1: It was some of the slang, and so I did
Speaker 1: a little poking around, and sure enough I found out
Speaker 1: that it is very graphic sexual commentary using slang terms
Speaker 1: that is just all over And these are big songs
Speaker 1: right now, and sure enough, today I'm thinking that I'm
Speaker 1: in the gym and then I see news Busters here
Speaker 1: has a piece it got it got linked today in
Speaker 1: the Drudge reports. So it feels like there's some synchronicity here.
Speaker 1: Hateful hip hop. The top us R and B hip
Speaker 1: hop songs objectify women fifty five times. So I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not alone here. I'm not crazy and thinking that
Speaker 1: this stuff is uh a little bit, uh a little
Speaker 1: bit too much. And I'm not saying that should be
Speaker 1: illegal or should be censored. I'm just saying, why is
Speaker 1: this not part of the social discussion, the social commentary
Speaker 1: we have? Why does me too not touch hip hop?
Speaker 1: It's a question I would like someone else maybe to answer.
Speaker 1: But I did wonder today myself when I was in
Speaker 1: the gym burpies and kettle bell swings and other terrible
Speaker 1: things that I know are good for you and YadA YadA,
Speaker 1: But I was really taken aback by how graphic some
Speaker 1: of the language was. And it's not not a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff about like, you know, love and romance. And
Speaker 1: I can handle double entendres in these hip hop songs
Speaker 1: if you know the words that are being used. It's
Speaker 1: just clinical graphic terminology. I know I sound I sound
Speaker 1: like I'm a little bit of a of a nerd,
Speaker 1: but it's the way it is. We're going to roll
Speaker 1: into uh roll call. Stay with me. The show ain't
Speaker 1: over yet, folks keeping it real. It's time for roll call,
Speaker 1: and we got some cool cats in Freedom Hunt daddy O.
Speaker 1: Now let's get into some old calling. If you want
Speaker 1: to be a part of it, Facebook dot Com, slash
Speaker 1: buck Sexton and uh, let's get into a Bill Rights. Hey, Bucket,
Speaker 1: was great meeting you a few weeks ago back in Savannah. Well,
Speaker 1: great to meet you too, Bill, Thank you very much
Speaker 1: for the note. Really enjoyed my trip down in Savannah,
Speaker 1: hanging out with our friends at Black Rifle Coffee and
Speaker 1: nine Line Apparel. Uh, let's see what's here, Steven Rights.
Speaker 1: Bad movie adaptations of books, Starship Troopers. You know, Stephen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to diverge with
Speaker 1: you here. I thought that Starship Troopers as corny as
Speaker 1: it was, And it was corny, I make I make
Speaker 1: no bones about that. Pretty watchable in its own weird way.
Speaker 1: I thought it was. It was campy, but I kind
Speaker 1: of enjoyed it. I thought it was actually a pretty good,
Speaker 1: pretty good thing. Check out um. Paul writes, Hey, Buck
Speaker 1: two things. Keep thinking, why don't we set up our
Speaker 1: own air base on Kurdish territory. It will give us
Speaker 1: the ability to supply air power and a base of
Speaker 1: operations in the area. Your emergency I experience, Oh, your emergency,
Speaker 1: I experienced with the e ER loaded with illegal sounds mild.
Speaker 1: Try visiting the e r s in California. I was
Speaker 1: a medical rep for years and saw firsthand how many
Speaker 1: people abuse this privilege. It's appalling, uh from Paul Paul,
Speaker 1: I totally agree. And people who talk about illegal immigration
Speaker 1: and just dismiss things like what happens when remember, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that the illegal that the the emergency room
Speaker 1: was full of illegal aliens who had emergencies and we're no, no,
Speaker 1: they go for the first line of care because they
Speaker 1: wanted up paying for it. You have to be treated,
Speaker 1: and so there there will be no bill, they'll be
Speaker 1: they will not pay. And so I'm they're saying, I
Speaker 1: need someone to operate on my eye. And there are
Speaker 1: other people there who, according to one of the nurses,
Speaker 1: were a lot of them were illegal. Uh. And that
Speaker 1: that's a pretty fair guest considering I'm here in New
Speaker 1: York City, and what the demographic profile is for New York. Uh,
Speaker 1: and the emergency room usage that goes on here, and
Speaker 1: you get people that are taking vision tests and getting eyeglasses.
Speaker 1: And I'm not begrudging that people want eyeglasses or that
Speaker 1: they need basic vision tests in a you know, because
Speaker 1: they are illegals, I get it. I'm just saying, it's
Speaker 1: the emergency room, and there are a whole lot of
Speaker 1: people who did not have anything even in the universe
Speaker 1: of an emergency. And Paul is telling me he saw
Speaker 1: the same thing in California when he was working as
Speaker 1: a medical wrap. I totally believe it. Um William writes,
Speaker 1: uh Buck, Why isn't there a special prosecutor to find
Speaker 1: out who tortured and killed Deputy federal Prosecutor Jonathan Luna
Speaker 1: in two thousand and three. He worked out of the
Speaker 1: Federal courthouse in Baltimore. There's a massive cover up regarding
Speaker 1: this case. I'm now investigating this terrible crime myself. Um
Speaker 1: Well William, I have no idea about this case at all.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna have to take a look at this one.
Speaker 1: And I can't give you anything beyond thanks for the note,
Speaker 1: and I'll take a look. Next up here, Alex writes, Hey, Buck,
Speaker 1: love this show Shields High. Fairly new listener, and you've
Speaker 1: got yourself a new regular listener. Now I'm told that
Speaker 1: Irish gypsies are called tinkers. I thought they were called travelers.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're called tinkers. I know they don't like gypsy
Speaker 1: and they definitely don't like being called pikers, which I
Speaker 1: think is quite an insult over there. So yeah, and
Speaker 1: thank you very much Alex for being a new part
Speaker 1: of the team. Uh. Next here, got a lot of
Speaker 1: notes this week appreciated of course. I love your show
Speaker 1: and I can't wait for more Shields High episodes. I
Speaker 1: agree that tossing a few sun dried tomatoes into a
Speaker 1: dish is not very appetizing, but sun dried tomatoes blended
Speaker 1: like a pesto makes the best pizza sauce ever. M Sharon,
Speaker 1: I will give that one some thought. Um, you you
Speaker 1: may be able to convert me. I do have an
Speaker 1: irrational hatred of sun dried tomatoes. Or maybe it's quite
Speaker 1: rational actually, but there might be ways that you could
Speaker 1: bring me over your side of things. Mary. Al Right,
Speaker 1: Hey Buck, if you're looking for a way to get
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Speaker 1: thank you for all that you say and do. You're
Speaker 1: a blessing. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and
Speaker 1: opinions and really enjoy your history lessons too well. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much, Mary. And also a note that Mary
Speaker 1: wrote office Space, Uh, just yesterday when I was on air,
Speaker 1: in reference to what I said about Staeper three ninth
Speaker 1: Staper and Adam three ninth Staper, Milt, we're gonna need
Speaker 1: to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage. B
Speaker 1: We some new people coming in and we need all
Speaker 1: this space we can get. So if you could just
Speaker 1: go ahead and you pack up your stuff and move
Speaker 1: it down there, that would be terrific. It excuse me,
Speaker 1: I believe you hit my stapler. I believe I love him.
Speaker 1: In Office Spaces, it is a timeless classic of Mike
Speaker 1: Judges entire catalog of work. Office Space maybe my very favorite.
Speaker 1: Although Silicon Valley was really good, I think it's gone
Speaker 1: a little downhill in the last couple of seasons. I'll
Speaker 1: be honest, it's not nearly The writing is just not
Speaker 1: as funny and as clever as it was before, but Mary,
Speaker 1: you are correct, that was office space. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Great to hear from you. Uh William writes book, You
Speaker 1: don't know how tired I am of talking heads who
Speaker 1: have never been in harm's way banging the war drum. Well,
Speaker 1: will William, I I understand, and I agree. I think
Speaker 1: it's far too easy to always talk about how we
Speaker 1: just need to go over there and kick butt. Man.
Speaker 1: I know what kicking butt entails. I've seen others do
Speaker 1: it up close and personal, and there's nothing that is
Speaker 1: more serious in terms of a national discussion than when
Speaker 1: we put our own in harm's way. And I think
Speaker 1: that staying out of Syria is an absolutely essential, essential
Speaker 1: policy goal for the Trump administration. I really do. And
Speaker 1: when I say staying out, I mean no land invasion,
Speaker 1: no massive occupation, none of that. We should be doing things.
Speaker 1: We just don't have to do everything. Brian is next up.
Speaker 1: He rights buck Love the show I'm fifty five, but
Speaker 1: was definitely able to relate to all of the John
Speaker 1: Hughes films. I truly believe John Hughes was the Shakespeare
Speaker 1: of that generation. I'm tired of the rewriting of history. Well, Brian,
Speaker 1: I like John Hughes films too, and I think they're
Speaker 1: really important in my in my formative years. And I
Speaker 1: just would note that there's really very little now that
Speaker 1: Disney films, John Hughes films, I mean Disney cartoons. Back
Speaker 1: from my youth, nothing is able to stand up to
Speaker 1: the new regime of political correctness. And we just need
Speaker 1: to stop, you know, we need to stop that from
Speaker 1: overtaking the arts, from overtaking our conversations. It's just too much. Uh.
Speaker 1: Next up we have Roger, who writes Buck for confessing
Speaker 1: to having creed on your iPod, you are now charged
Speaker 1: with crimes against humanity shields high. Well, all I have
Speaker 1: to say to you, Roger is I'm six feet from
Speaker 1: derege and I'm thinking, baby six feet all right, I'll stop,
Speaker 1: but that's my response to you, Roger. Uh. Next up
Speaker 1: is Eric, who writes about nine minutes into Tuesday's podcast,
Speaker 1: you're killing me with the not my President thing. Well, Eric,
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed that not my president, not my president.
Speaker 1: They thought that was a really clever chat here on
Speaker 1: the streets of New York City. They were wrong, but
Speaker 1: that did not stop them. We got Philip here rights again,
Speaker 1: the affirmative action culture segment was great. Uh and that
Speaker 1: and that's artificially segregates our society. Great spot on Wednesday
Speaker 1: confirming concerning affirmative action at Penn Law too. Well, thank
Speaker 1: you very much, Philip, I appreciate that. Um. Next up,
Speaker 1: we got Matthew, who writes love your show and was
Speaker 1: awesome to meet you a talk tank in Fort Wayne.
Speaker 1: About fifty and twenty years ago, the Springfield, Illinois Police
Speaker 1: Department had to turn down white applicants in order to
Speaker 1: hire less qualified minority applicants in the name of diversity.
Speaker 1: I've been mad about that ever since. And I've even
Speaker 1: put Native American on my job applications, even though only
Speaker 1: one sixteenth Native American shields high. Matthew, Matthew, look, I understand.
Speaker 1: You know, there's been a lot of big fights here
Speaker 1: in New York City over the f D and y
Speaker 1: the Fire Department, which is much more or homogeneous, much
Speaker 1: more white than any social justice warriors are okay with.
Speaker 1: And so they've done all these things where they try
Speaker 1: to change the tests, but then they run a foul
Speaker 1: of well are people taking different tests for the same
Speaker 1: fire department job? Because that would seem on its face
Speaker 1: to be discriminatory. Uh So it happens all over the country,
Speaker 1: and it's something we need to keep our eye on
Speaker 1: and uh and keep fighting this fight. I think it's
Speaker 1: very important. Are one more here, Earnest right, it's too deep,
Speaker 1: too deep dive requests from a long time fan back
Speaker 1: in the reel from back in the real news days.
Speaker 1: Number One, symbolism of the U. S. Flag and flag etiquette.
Speaker 1: I doubt youngsters have heard that the red and white
Speaker 1: stripes signify the blood soaked bandages of continental soldiers. Number
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Speaker 1: Vietnam War. Instead of cutting taxes without war expense, taxes
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Speaker 1: From earn in Yuma. Well, Ernest, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for being with me from way back when Ernest and
Speaker 1: Becky appreciated. And without my friends, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: clear out the Freedom Hut for the rest of the night. Uh.
Speaker 1: I got guys here, I got Mike and John that
Speaker 1: they need to go home, so I can't just keep
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