Speaker 1: Mr garbutsch Off teared down this wall. Either you're with
Speaker 1: us or you were with the terrorists. If you got
Speaker 1: healthcare already, then you can keep your plan. If you
Speaker 1: are satisfied with President of the United States, take it
Speaker 1: to a bank. Together, we will make America great again.
Speaker 1: It's what you've been waiting for all day. The Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton Show joined the Conversation called Buck Toll Free at
Speaker 1: eight four four nine hundred Buck. That's eight four four
Speaker 1: nine hundred to eight to five the Future of talk radio.
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton. Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Everybody, Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for hanging out. Pleasure and a privilege
Speaker 1: to have you joining me here in the Freedom Hut.
Speaker 1: We have a freestyle Friday and Effect, which means we're
Speaker 1: going to cover a whole bunch of different things throughout
Speaker 1: the show, getting some serious stuff, have some fun, and
Speaker 1: of course a little bit of St. Patrick's Day celebration
Speaker 1: coming up later on. So we have a couple of
Speaker 1: main news stores. I wanted to get to today and
Speaker 1: that has to do with the latest on the investigation McCabe.
Speaker 1: I think we're on McCabe firing watch though right this
Speaker 1: could happen. It may occur even while we are on air.
Speaker 1: There is the chance that we will bring you then
Speaker 1: the the on air as it happens, or as it's reported,
Speaker 1: at least breaking news about the firing. And so that's
Speaker 1: just just keep that in mind that we might be
Speaker 1: spicing up this Friday show a little bit with some
Speaker 1: some breaking news there. And I would say about the
Speaker 1: McCabe firing, usually I would refrain from having any sort
Speaker 1: of a celebratory tone or and I'm not by the way,
Speaker 1: I would not celebrate it. I think it may be justice,
Speaker 1: but I would not celebrate it. There's a difference. But
Speaker 1: usually i'd be a little more sympathetic to a multi decade,
Speaker 1: multi decade government servant who was about to get his pension.
Speaker 1: It seems a little intense, But then you realize two things,
Speaker 1: or at least I realized two things as I think
Speaker 1: about this. One. The conduct must be really egregious for
Speaker 1: the Inspector General of the FBI to feel that a
Speaker 1: termination at this stage of McCabe's career is necessary. We
Speaker 1: don't know what the conduct is yet, so I can't feel, well,
Speaker 1: we don't even know if he's gonna get fired, right,
Speaker 1: But worried to be fired, and we don't know for what.
Speaker 1: Not clear to me if it's a bit stern, or
Speaker 1: if it's exactly what has called for without knowing the
Speaker 1: facts I leaned toward. It must have been really bad
Speaker 1: if they're thinking about of this. But then there's the
Speaker 1: the other component of this. I guess I'm getting into
Speaker 1: the McCabe stuff. I'm switching the script here. I know
Speaker 1: I this is all just a show that comes together
Speaker 1: in my head. So it's not like we write it
Speaker 1: all out beforehand and we've got blocks and different segments
Speaker 1: like on TV, and now we have to have this
Speaker 1: person on right. I can do whatever I want. The
Speaker 1: Freedom hunt is a free flowing it's almost like a
Speaker 1: living organism, my friends, all of us together. So the
Speaker 1: McCabe firing main fact happened. The other reason that I
Speaker 1: find myself feeling a little bit like, hey, I can't
Speaker 1: I can't feel too much sympathy for the possible firing
Speaker 1: of McCabe is that other people who may in fact
Speaker 1: have suffered from McCabe's partisan actions have been ruined in
Speaker 1: this process of figuring out what happened and who was
Speaker 1: doing what at the d O j FBI, Russia lusion,
Speaker 1: the Muddler probe, all this stuff, right, all these different
Speaker 1: pieces that are coming together, and it's hard to feel
Speaker 1: all that much sadness for somebody who may have not
Speaker 1: just stood by but being a part of trying to
Speaker 1: ruin other people's lives. It troubles me that we have
Speaker 1: now come to a place in our political discourse where
Speaker 1: we seem to and when when I say we, I
Speaker 1: mean a lot of Americans, not really you with me.
Speaker 1: A lot of Americans seem to just want whoever disagrees
Speaker 1: with them to be charged with the crime. And I
Speaker 1: would say, well, it's different with Hillary, because it's not
Speaker 1: that we didn't conjure up Hillary's crime. She committed them
Speaker 1: and they were real and she got away with it.
Speaker 1: But they still want to lock up people on the
Speaker 1: other side of the aisle for minor crimes or perhaps
Speaker 1: even no crime at all. You had to Dershoitz, I
Speaker 1: Alan Dershowitz speaking about this and this comparison earlier today,
Speaker 1: the Harvard law professor, I'm sure many of you are
Speaker 1: familiar with. Here's what was said. General Flynn led guilty
Speaker 1: to lying to investigators. A lot of people say Hey,
Speaker 1: look he did. General Flynn did no worse than what
Speaker 1: Mr McCabe did and he lost everything. Is that a
Speaker 1: fair comparison. No, he shouldn't have pleaded guilty. If he
Speaker 1: wasn't guilty, he obviously pleaded guilty. That ends the matter.
Speaker 1: But I haven't heard anything about McCabe acknowledging or admitting anything.
Speaker 1: And absent and admission, I think you need proof, so
Speaker 1: you know, just saying he shouldn't have pleaded guilty. But
Speaker 1: the fact of the matter is that when you face
Speaker 1: down federal prosecutors in the federal government and they have
Speaker 1: you on one of these things, and they may be
Speaker 1: hiding exculpatory information, they may be colluding behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: what choice do you really have. I've spoken to friends
Speaker 1: of mine on prosecutor prosecutorial side about this, and they'll say,
Speaker 1: you know, if we offer you a deal, you don't
Speaker 1: take it because the federal sentences are stiff, they are rough.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's easy for Dershowitz to say this, but
Speaker 1: but the reality is that for Flynn, for Flynn, if
Speaker 1: he had not taken a deal, he could have gotten
Speaker 1: the max. Maybe who knows, they could say, oh, there's
Speaker 1: extenuating circumstances. At a minimum, who's gonna serve a year
Speaker 1: or two in prison prison for lying about a non crime?
Speaker 1: And now we have McCay more and more information. By
Speaker 1: the way, I have a story, big story that it's
Speaker 1: actually the main story on I believe on Fox News
Speaker 1: right now as we go on air um on Fox
Speaker 1: News dot com. Yes it is struck page texts reveal
Speaker 1: personal relationship between FBI official judge recused from the Flynn case.
Speaker 1: We have Sean Davis joining us later on in the
Speaker 1: show today with that information. He is the co author
Speaker 1: with Molly Hemingway of this piece. They have the text
Speaker 1: messages that show this very strange relationship between a d
Speaker 1: o J. Lawyer, FBI agent who was, keep in mind,
Speaker 1: the director of counterintelligence at FBI, or maybe he was
Speaker 1: a deputy director, but very senior counterintelligence officer at the FBI,
Speaker 1: involved in the Hillary email investigation, involved in the Mueller
Speaker 1: probe in the other stages, had to be pushed out
Speaker 1: of the Mueller probe, and he had a relationship with
Speaker 1: the fins a court judge that seems very very shady.
Speaker 1: In fact, it was the same judge who presided over
Speaker 1: the guilty plea of General Flynn. So to Dershowitz's point, Okay,
Speaker 1: the process is the process, But what if the process
Speaker 1: is tainted? What about the Ted Stevens situation? Um, what
Speaker 1: about that where you had a senator who was railroaded
Speaker 1: by partisan esecutors, whether it was because they didn't like
Speaker 1: Republicans or because they just wanted to get a scalp.
Speaker 1: That's on the record, that's clear they hit evidence. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Stevens was facing all these charges, they had exculpatory evidence
Speaker 1: on the center from Alaska, and by the way, that
Speaker 1: then led to the Democrats picking up that Senate seat,
Speaker 1: which was necessary for the passage of Obamacare. Understand. I
Speaker 1: guess you'd call the political butterfly effect here. If prosecutors
Speaker 1: going after Ted Stevens can result in a situation where
Speaker 1: Obamacare can be passed, we need to take these things
Speaker 1: very seriously when you're talking about corruption cases at a
Speaker 1: high level, and it doesn't get any higher than a
Speaker 1: presidential campaign, and the presidential administration that we are currently
Speaker 1: is currently embattled. Um Ari Fleischer took a slightly different
Speaker 1: tone than Dershowitz today. Remember him from the Bush administration Look,
Speaker 1: there's only one way to do this, and it's by
Speaker 1: the book. If there is precedent, If the SBI Inspector
Speaker 1: General has previously fired people, meaning they did not get
Speaker 1: any of their pension, they should follow that president. If
Speaker 1: there are examples where they're mitigating circumstances, do they apply here?
Speaker 1: Taking away a man's pench and a woman's pension who
Speaker 1: has been a lifelong government bureacrat is a heavy, heavy
Speaker 1: sentence shouly be imposed if it's deserved. The facts in
Speaker 1: this case seemed to suggest it's deserved. We got to
Speaker 1: know what they are, and I think that we're going
Speaker 1: to be finding out he relatively soon. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna get fired. I set it today on Outnumbered on
Speaker 1: the Fox News couch. I believe McCabe is gonna get fired,
Speaker 1: which is rare. I remember when I was at the NYPD,
Speaker 1: there was a case, it was some time before I
Speaker 1: got there, about um a guy who had missus subpoena
Speaker 1: power miss you subpoena power in order to get the
Speaker 1: records of either next wife or an ex girlfriend. I forget,
Speaker 1: but that's a bit. I mean, there's a huge no no.
Speaker 1: And he had been on for a long time, and
Speaker 1: I think he loves I think he I don't remember now.
Speaker 1: I think he lost his pension. I'm pretty sure he
Speaker 1: did force appoenaing the phone records, so that's this can happen.
Speaker 1: And it is really for a government servant, short of
Speaker 1: criminal sanction, it's the it's the ultimate, the ultimate punishment
Speaker 1: because if you're if you're close to getting and this
Speaker 1: guy's days from getting his pension, this is what you've
Speaker 1: been looking forward to and waiting for for a long time.
Speaker 1: So we will see. But I think he's gonna get
Speaker 1: He's gonna get canned. Jonathan Turley, the law professor, he
Speaker 1: also spoke about this, And I'm just trying to give
Speaker 1: you a variety of feelings and opinions on this one.
Speaker 1: I actually meant to go to Turley first, but I
Speaker 1: went to Dershwitz instead. Who's you never know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna get with the Dirsh. You know, the Dirsh is uh.
Speaker 1: He's kind of a wild man. Sometimes sometimes you're with him,
Speaker 1: sometimes you're not. Turley, he's he's a steady player in
Speaker 1: the legal analysisiety. Here's what he had to say. The
Speaker 1: real is strange thing about all of this is that
Speaker 1: McCabe so far has been worried more about pensions than prison.
Speaker 1: That's not the choice that was given to Michael Flynn.
Speaker 1: Michael Flynn, if you recall, was charged with false statements,
Speaker 1: even though Comey's investigators reportedly believed that Flynn didn't intend
Speaker 1: to mislead them. That's not, apparently the conclusion of the
Speaker 1: Inspector General with regard to McCabe. He's very important. The
Speaker 1: FBI Inspector General, from what we know, claims that there
Speaker 1: was a lack of candor from McCabe with regard to
Speaker 1: his statements to investigators. Winning the FBI's Inspector General team
Speaker 1: about what happened when it came to the when it
Speaker 1: came to discussions with the media, and perhaps anything that
Speaker 1: had to do with other the Hillary email investigation and
Speaker 1: or looking into the Clinton Foundation, and a lack of
Speaker 1: candor is a bureaucratese way of saying lied. But you'll
Speaker 1: notice how important words are, right, extremely careless versus gross
Speaker 1: negligence that kept Hillary out of prison, and courtesy of
Speaker 1: lanky weird ocomy, changing just those words was exculpatory. Oh well,
Speaker 1: she wasn't grossly negligence. She was just extremely careless. Andy McCabe,
Speaker 1: he's at a different category, different standard because he wasn't lying,
Speaker 1: he was just lacking candor. Oh you'll see how lacking
Speaker 1: candor Freendie McCabe may or may not result in disciplinary sanction,
Speaker 1: but a judgment call about the veracity about the truthfulness
Speaker 1: of General Michael Flynn. A judgment call was made that
Speaker 1: he should be criminally prosecuted for it. And if it
Speaker 1: was a judgment call, my friends, don't you think he
Speaker 1: should have gotten the benefit of the doubt. That's what
Speaker 1: we keep seeing time and again from all of these investigations,
Speaker 1: Hilary's emails, the Clinton Foundation, Russia collusion, all of it.
Speaker 1: The Democrats somehow always gets the benefit of the doubt,
Speaker 1: and then some the Republican, the person tied to Trump.
Speaker 1: It's what the doubt of the benefit, whatever we would
Speaker 1: call it, gets the raw end of the deal, the
Speaker 1: raw end of the deal. And this happens with too
Speaker 1: great a consistency and too great a frequency for it
Speaker 1: to be a coincidence. This is the deep state that
Speaker 1: we talked about. This is the corruption that grew to
Speaker 1: the very top of the Department of Justice and the FBI,
Speaker 1: and we are just beginning to get some of the
Speaker 1: truth here. We're just beginning to see this for what
Speaker 1: it really was. We'll have we got more on this.
Speaker 1: And also people are WHOA Russia. Russia's getting interesting right now.
Speaker 1: They they have retaliated. I'll give you the details on that.
Speaker 1: You have to stay with me. But also it is Friday,
Speaker 1: so John, let's not leave people out who want to
Speaker 1: get in on the I'm putting action movie. People keep
Speaker 1: asking if I'm back, and I haven't really had an answer,
Speaker 1: but now yeah, I'm thinking I'm back. Quote, you have
Speaker 1: a right to be. Friday's don't come fo eight four
Speaker 1: four n eight to five my friends eight four four
Speaker 1: buck talking more about shady d O J stuff, McCabe's
Speaker 1: pension on the line, and then Russia, all that more
Speaker 1: coming up. The behavior, if it's manifested into action with
Speaker 1: your thumb on the scale of a particular investigation one
Speaker 1: way or the other, then that I mean that that's
Speaker 1: borderline criminal behavior, manipulating an investigation. I think I think
Speaker 1: that this i G Report is going to be particularly impactful,
Speaker 1: more so than any of these useless congressional investigations. I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna see some pure TNT come out in
Speaker 1: this in this i G report. That was Chris Swecker,
Speaker 1: who was an assistant who was the assistant director of
Speaker 1: the FBI. He was on Fox News actually right after it,
Speaker 1: right after I was on today and making some some predictions.
Speaker 1: I totally agree with them. And there is something there's
Speaker 1: There are criminal statutes that can apply. Just because you're
Speaker 1: in government doesn't give you a free pass with stuff.
Speaker 1: We all know that. Obviously with classified information you have
Speaker 1: criminal ramifications for that, but also official misconduct. Uh, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't just have to be fraud. If you do
Speaker 1: something really really bad and use your authority as a
Speaker 1: government employee to do it, getting fired is not the
Speaker 1: worst thing that can happen to you. There are other
Speaker 1: things that can happen to you too, So I think
Speaker 1: everyone needs to remember that with this whole FBI situation
Speaker 1: as well. We have to see what comes out. I
Speaker 1: think the the i G report will be made public
Speaker 1: so we will know. Um. Jesse in Jackson, Mississippi, Hey,
Speaker 1: Jesse Gratings, book Sels high brother shield Side Jesse. I
Speaker 1: just had to call him, mess with you a little bit.
Speaker 1: I happen to be watching Outnumbered this morning on Fox. Yeah. Nice, okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love that show. You know, it's funny because I
Speaker 1: watch you on TV and it's it amazes me because
Speaker 1: you look like you're about to graduate from high school.
Speaker 1: You're a very young looking guy to have the experience
Speaker 1: and the knowledge, and I'm almost forty man, as Miss
Speaker 1: Molly keeps reminding me, I'm up, I'm getting up there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I mean you look like a kid. But I
Speaker 1: said there, And I watched you right on the verge
Speaker 1: of losing your cool with Marie Harf, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: he's gonna choker any minute now, you know, I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you. I gotta tell you something. People
Speaker 1: don't I don't think they know this, but it's actually
Speaker 1: it's actually all love because Marie and I go way back.
Speaker 1: I've known Marie for we figured out date on set
Speaker 1: for twelve years. Marie's a friend of mine. We have
Speaker 1: a lot of mutual friends in Calm. We knew each
Speaker 1: other back in d C. Marie Harf, who you see
Speaker 1: on Fox all the time, is an old friend of mine.
Speaker 1: Jillian Turner, who you also see on Fox News, she's
Speaker 1: a friend of mine from when I lived in d
Speaker 1: C and I was with the agency. So some of
Speaker 1: the some of the other national security punits you see
Speaker 1: out there were literally my social group in d C.
Speaker 1: Which is pretty funny when you think about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you went from smiling to roll in your
Speaker 1: eyes so eventually looking like you wanted to choker. Well,
Speaker 1: well can we stay? Let's let's you know, let's just
Speaker 1: no no, no need for choking imagery here. I look,
Speaker 1: I think we got it got a little. It got
Speaker 1: a little testy today sometimes, but it was all within
Speaker 1: the It was all based on the substance. And I
Speaker 1: gotta say I think I was actually much more. Uh,
Speaker 1: some of my my colleagues were having a much more
Speaker 1: strenuous debate than I was having with any of them.
Speaker 1: There was off to my left, things were getting really
Speaker 1: feisty for those you want to go back and see it.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, sometimes I get a little spunky on TV.
Speaker 1: What can I tell you? Jesse? Hey, but I know
Speaker 1: you're just giving me a little bit of the rough stuff.
Speaker 1: But it's all in love. Good to tell. Jesse's laugh.
Speaker 1: He's having a good laugh. Jesse's got a good laugh.
Speaker 1: Shields hide brother. Thank you for calling in eight four
Speaker 1: or four to five. You want to chat with me,
Speaker 1: please give me a ring. We got lines open here.
Speaker 1: We got a bunch of phenomenal guests line up. I
Speaker 1: think we got three guests line up on the show
Speaker 1: later on coming up. So just keeping you on your
Speaker 1: toes team can't keep you bored on Friday. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be fun. He's holding the line for Ama Buck set
Speaker 1: his back. We want to get to the bottom of it,
Speaker 1: and we're really upset when you see at the highest
Speaker 1: levels of the d J and FBI individuals who are
Speaker 1: trying to turn their departments essentially into a political arm
Speaker 1: of the DNC and Hillary Clint campaign that needs to
Speaker 1: be investigated. Yes it does. Shoes is gonna be only
Speaker 1: other foot folks. The pendulum can swing the other way
Speaker 1: with using investigations as a weapon of politics, and in
Speaker 1: this case, I think it's justified. I don't even I'm
Speaker 1: not even looking at this from the cynical perspective, although
Speaker 1: we could. You got the party in powers getting hound
Speaker 1: with all these investigations. Oh yeah, they want to play
Speaker 1: that way. Maybe we should play that way. Maybe two
Speaker 1: can play at that game. I think it's about time.
Speaker 1: They think that the Mulla probe should stretch on for
Speaker 1: two three four years. Yeah, just more and more investigations.
Speaker 1: Witnesses people losing their life savings, trying to defend themselves,
Speaker 1: leaks to the just, to the CNN, Lucy, and then
Speaker 1: they would probably love that. It's so fancy, Lucy. And
Speaker 1: then he's Manafique, but Washington Post, New York Times, all
Speaker 1: these others, and maybe we should just start investigating them.
Speaker 1: See how they like it. You know, do one to
Speaker 1: others might be a lesson. We need to teach the
Speaker 1: Democrat deep state do one to others a reminder of
Speaker 1: the Golden Rule via federal investigation. It could be it's
Speaker 1: it's away, folks, It's one method. We could try it,
Speaker 1: all right, lots of lines, lit, I think every line
Speaker 1: is let. All right, let's get into it. We have, uh,
Speaker 1: first up, Horace in Columbia, South Carolina. Hey Horse, Hey Buck,
Speaker 1: how's it going, man? It's good? Thank you for your call, sir, Yes, sir, so,
Speaker 1: your show yesterday was very timely, uh with with the
Speaker 1: pole topic of liberals not wanting to use facts to debate. Yes,
Speaker 1: the psychology of liberal host or progressive hostility right, So
Speaker 1: with the whole gun can fold debates coming up again,
Speaker 1: I mean I've lived through this as many times as
Speaker 1: you have. I've tried to step outside of my box
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, do they have a coherent argument somewhere
Speaker 1: like Glenn Vick's control book on our side or John
Speaker 1: Watt's books? Is there anything you could point me to
Speaker 1: where they have any sort of factual this is our
Speaker 1: side on gun control and why we want it. I
Speaker 1: I can't think of what the the single seminal work
Speaker 1: would be on the left for gun control off the
Speaker 1: top of my head, but I would say that if
Speaker 1: you want to know what they think and what the
Speaker 1: arguments are that they use. I actually have a web browser.
Speaker 1: This is true. I have a web browser that is
Speaker 1: just bookmarked with and filled with all of my leftist
Speaker 1: reading material. So I go on Huffing and post Slate,
Speaker 1: New York Times Watch, which was really interesting to me
Speaker 1: because part of that article I told you about about
Speaker 1: the psychology of of hostility and debates was we know
Speaker 1: their side and they don't know ours. I actually spend
Speaker 1: a good portion of my time every day reading how
Speaker 1: the left explains to their own different arguments and ideas
Speaker 1: and what their positions are so that I really understand
Speaker 1: them so so really, I think the best place to
Speaker 1: go would just be do a search in the New
Speaker 1: York Times editorial page of on guns, same thing the
Speaker 1: Washington Post, and you'll see a consolidation there of what
Speaker 1: the progressive view is. In terms of any one book,
Speaker 1: I don't know of. I don't know of a liberal
Speaker 1: that has tackled the issue of gun control from the
Speaker 1: perspective of let's go all in because here's the thing, horace,
Speaker 1: they don't want to put down on paper for the
Speaker 1: most part, what the real goal is, which is confiscation
Speaker 1: and the elimination of the Second Amendment. Remember that there's
Speaker 1: a there's a dishonesty that's inherent in a lot of
Speaker 1: the liberal arguments against guns, and that they won't tell
Speaker 1: us what they really want, which is confiscation. I've found
Speaker 1: it hard, you know, I fortnelt from guns and looked
Speaker 1: at just what is their stance on the abortion? Can
Speaker 1: they give a coherent here is why they can't they? Oh,
Speaker 1: they would point you to they would point you to
Speaker 1: the judicial opinion Roe v. Wade. I think is probably
Speaker 1: there you're right, I agree with you, but I'm just
Speaker 1: saying that's probably what they would say. And you'll notice,
Speaker 1: I mean, the arguments that they use in favor of abortion.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of buzzwords and a lot of sloppy thinking.
Speaker 1: It's very weak. Even honest liberals that I know will
Speaker 1: say that Roe v. Wade is garbage legal interpretation, but
Speaker 1: they still agree with the They agree with the outcome,
Speaker 1: but they know that it's bad law exactly. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: well it is uh and you know, look, this is
Speaker 1: oh wow. I'm just noticing now they're they're running the
Speaker 1: text messages between Page and Struck on TV as we're
Speaker 1: on the air. Horse. We'll have to get to that
Speaker 1: in a second. But as as for you know what, Horse,
Speaker 1: let me give this some thought. You know, whould be
Speaker 1: the guy to ask. I will, because I'm in contact
Speaker 1: with him. I'm in contact directly with John Lott. I'll
Speaker 1: send him a message and say, hey, what's the best
Speaker 1: one place counter argument book on basically pro gun control?
Speaker 1: And I'll see what he says and if I get
Speaker 1: an answer to let you know, how about that? I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Yeah, you can just mention it on your
Speaker 1: show absolutely rock and roll. Brother, Thank you for calling
Speaker 1: and have a great Sympatrick staying a good weekend. Let's
Speaker 1: take Uh. We've got so many wonderful colors here today,
Speaker 1: Herb in New Jersey? What up, Herb? Hey Shields high,
Speaker 1: Buck Fields High, Herb. I have just two quick comments
Speaker 1: before I get to my point. First of all, during
Speaker 1: your opening monologue, yeah me chuckle a couple of times,
Speaker 1: and I thought to myself, Man, Buck is such a
Speaker 1: fun guy to hang out with, even if only on
Speaker 1: the radio. Thank you. I appreciate you're certainly you're certainly welcome. Um,
Speaker 1: it's it's a great show. UM. My second comment is um,
Speaker 1: and you know try I hope you're wearing a hat
Speaker 1: to keep your head from swelling up here we go. UM.
Speaker 1: Because of your background, you see so many things that
Speaker 1: most of us will never see. And when you're offering
Speaker 1: your analysis on the air, uh being on radio or TV, UM,
Speaker 1: you know you're doing so from a lens that sees
Speaker 1: things a little bit deeper than most of us will
Speaker 1: ever understand. And for that, I just want to thank
Speaker 1: you for what you do uh here on the air
Speaker 1: with us. So you're very kind. Her thank you. Now
Speaker 1: going to my point, UM, you know I I believed
Speaker 1: and fully supported and still do uh President Trump. UM.
Speaker 1: And in particular, um uh you know I was encouraged
Speaker 1: by his promise to drain the swamp. Now, in the
Speaker 1: case of Mr McCabe, if he doesn't instruct Attorney General
Speaker 1: Sessions to make sure that Mr McCabe is fired, um
Speaker 1: as a message to all the other bad um that
Speaker 1: you think that would be disappointing and that would be
Speaker 1: failing to uphold Trump's promise of draining the swamp. Right, Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I can agree with you in principle, although the way
Speaker 1: that this works is actually the President doesn't have any
Speaker 1: direct say over this because it falls under civil service rules.
Speaker 1: It's actually not something the President weighs in on. Specifically.
Speaker 1: That said, the i G report, I believe has already
Speaker 1: recommended firing. It's up to It's up to the Attorney General.
Speaker 1: So the i G, of course the Inspector General for
Speaker 1: listening the a G. The Attorney General can decide that
Speaker 1: he's going to go with the recommendation or not, So
Speaker 1: it's really herb in Attorney General Sessions is hands whether
Speaker 1: this is going to be a firing or not, and
Speaker 1: we will have to see and thank you for the
Speaker 1: kind words, sir. She'ld tie and have a great weekend,
Speaker 1: a great St. Patrick's Day. Let's take Steve in Biloxi, Mississippi. Hey, Steve,
Speaker 1: Steve here a TV. But I don't hear you. Where
Speaker 1: are you, my friend? I think Steve taking nap. Steve's
Speaker 1: disappeared on us. Oh he's listening on delay maybe and
Speaker 1: he says that, Buck, all right, Steve, we'll come back
Speaker 1: to you. Maybe we'll try that. Let's get to uh,
Speaker 1: look at Kenny up in Boston, our brother in Boston. Kenny,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Hi? Buck? What's up? I got a
Speaker 1: movie quote that may be pertinent here. Uh something last
Speaker 1: week you said kinda disappointed me. You said something about
Speaker 1: old movies stink or something to that. I think I said,
Speaker 1: hold hold up, hold hold your horses, Kenny. I said,
Speaker 1: black and white movies are overrated. And I stand behind that.
Speaker 1: I just you know, John is literally pulling out the
Speaker 1: gong on me right now. I have a quote from
Speaker 1: a black and white movie, and I will tell you
Speaker 1: the year of it. I'll give you a hint. Nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty seven. It's a action movie. It's a war movie.
Speaker 1: I consider all war movies to be action movies. It's
Speaker 1: a quote within a quote, so, uh, protagonist is quoting
Speaker 1: an English writer named Samuel Johnson, and our protagonist says, well,
Speaker 1: Samuel Johnson said, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Speaker 1: And you know the movie you got me? What is it?
Speaker 1: It's a movie called Paths of Glory. It's by Stanley Koprick,
Speaker 1: a fantastic director. And the protagonist was Kirk Douglas speaking
Speaker 1: that I highly recommended. It's a World War one movie,
Speaker 1: and there are very few World War one action movie.
Speaker 1: This movie is is great. I think I should give
Speaker 1: it a look one time, and I think you will
Speaker 1: like this. And it's very realistic and it's very realistic
Speaker 1: uh um war scenes. You know, pass the gloria. I'll
Speaker 1: check it out. Thank you very much, Kenny for calling
Speaker 1: in shields. How do you, buddy? Uh? You know, I've
Speaker 1: got a whole list of Maybe I'll go back and
Speaker 1: I'll try some more black and white movies just so
Speaker 1: I can really put some meat on the bones of
Speaker 1: my criticism here. You know, if I'm gonna be a
Speaker 1: contrary the thing about being a contrarit is you. You
Speaker 1: gotta come prepared for battle. And I know that people
Speaker 1: think that black and white movies are good. It's like
Speaker 1: whenever I tell everybody that Bruce Springsteen is super overrated,
Speaker 1: I'm it's accurate, right, exactly, It's just accurate. But the Springsteen,
Speaker 1: I know, we've had some New Jersey people calling, and
Speaker 1: the Springsteen fans come after you like the Beyonce mafia
Speaker 1: comes after you like you are just at their mercy.
Speaker 1: So you better be ready to be like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Why is it that he only has two songs you
Speaker 1: can name off the top of your head? You know
Speaker 1: you just I have the deep breath on this one.
Speaker 1: Don't even get me started on Bob Dylan. Oh he's
Speaker 1: the words smith of his generation. Please. Dylan sings about
Speaker 1: as well as as gurgling gurgen speaks. Mr jam Remary
Speaker 1: singer song for Nick Soon. All right, we're gonna roll
Speaker 1: in a quick break. We'll be right back. We don't
Speaker 1: have any personnel changes at this time. But the president
Speaker 1: shouldn't be bound because Democrats and in the Senate can't
Speaker 1: do their job. If the president wants to be able
Speaker 1: to make a change because he feels like it's the
Speaker 1: right thing for the American people. His hands shouldn't be
Speaker 1: tied because Democrats failed to do what they were elected
Speaker 1: to do. This president was elected to put forward policies
Speaker 1: and push those policies forward with the team that he selects,
Speaker 1: not the team that the Democrats think he should have.
Speaker 1: That's not how the system works. And just because they
Speaker 1: don't want the president to have his full team, that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean if he decided to make changes, he shouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to. At this rate, the United States Senate
Speaker 1: would take eleven and a half years to confirm our nominees.
Speaker 1: Eleven and a half years to confirm our nominees. In
Speaker 1: the first entire term of the George H. W. Bush administration,
Speaker 1: his entire four years, he faced one close your vote.
Speaker 1: In the entire four years of the Clinton administration, he
Speaker 1: faced ten cloture votes. Under the George W. Bush administration,
Speaker 1: the entire first term, he faced four closure votes. Barack
Speaker 1: Obama face seventeen is in first entire four years. We
Speaker 1: have faced seventy nine in our first fourteen months. This
Speaker 1: is very important, folks. Those two sound bites, you are
Speaker 1: getting a sense of how the Democrats are are stocking
Speaker 1: the pond and pulling fish out of it, if you will.
Speaker 1: They are, on the one hand, saying there's chaos, there's
Speaker 1: all these unfilled slots, all these news stores, Washing Post
Speaker 1: New York talks, Oh my gosh, we don't have enough
Speaker 1: bureaucross what's gonna happen to us? Muffle? You've got the crumpets.
Speaker 1: And then you find out that they won't let the
Speaker 1: administration fill a lot of those slots. The numbers don't lie.
Speaker 1: Cloture votes are what is it's it's the term used
Speaker 1: in the Senate for essentially shutting it down so there's
Speaker 1: no vote, right, That's that's what they do. It prevents
Speaker 1: there from being a vote on the nominees. Uh. And
Speaker 1: they're just they're in the minority, but they're shutting it
Speaker 1: down time and again so on. So you actually have
Speaker 1: Democrats complaining about how there aren't enough Trump administration staffings
Speaker 1: that are getting filled, their staffers that are being pulled
Speaker 1: in for these roles, while the Senate Democrats, with Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer leading them, are doing every literally everything in their power,
Speaker 1: not like theoretically they're actually are doing everything that they
Speaker 1: can to stop nominees from getting through. So they're they're
Speaker 1: on they're on both sides of the transaction here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're like they're they're lighting there. They're taking matches
Speaker 1: and throwing them into the house and then running the
Speaker 1: streets saying, oh my gosh, there's no fire department here.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, maybe stop blighting the house on fire.
Speaker 1: That would be a better would be a better way
Speaker 1: to go. But the storyline about personnel and about the
Speaker 1: White House, look, I've seen the stories. To mc master,
Speaker 1: the National Security Advisor may not be long for this administration.
Speaker 1: But you know what, he's a four star general. He's
Speaker 1: got a very distinguished career. He's a very well regarded guy.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be fine. You know, he served for a year.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll move on to something else. Chilkin at the
Speaker 1: Veterans Affairs I think he might want to keep a
Speaker 1: cardboard box handy in his office. I think right likely.
Speaker 1: And who's the other I don't think Kelly's going I
Speaker 1: don't buy that. I see that reporting. No way Trump
Speaker 1: likes Kelly. Kelly Kelly and Trump, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: see that. People are saying it. But Nope, there may
Speaker 1: be some people inside the White House that would like
Speaker 1: to see Kelly go. I won't speculate on that, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure you could probably take some guesses. Maybe some
Speaker 1: people that are not not thrilled with Kelly right now.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean Trump's gonna say goodbye to him,
Speaker 1: so I doubt that. But speaking of departures, this has
Speaker 1: been reported all over the place. I actually say I'm
Speaker 1: telling you this story out of some sympathy. So this
Speaker 1: is multiple sources confirming that Rex Tillerson, and I'm only
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you this to be gross, but you're
Speaker 1: gonna probably see it. It's getting a lot of play
Speaker 1: right now on social media. Rex Tillerson was fired while
Speaker 1: he was in the lou That's how we found out
Speaker 1: he was in the Privy and the reason he was,
Speaker 1: and he was told by Kelly, the White House Chief
Speaker 1: of Staff. While he was in the lou. I saw
Speaker 1: this headline. I thought, well, that's this is just weird
Speaker 1: on so many levels. Tillerson had picked up a stomach
Speaker 1: bug on his Africa trip, and so he was in
Speaker 1: rough shape. And I just say this because I have
Speaker 1: I have been in that same spot stomach bug in Africa.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you things you never want to have
Speaker 1: to tell anybody that you know, you never want to
Speaker 1: have to say the words I've got to I m
Speaker 1: acbug while I'm in Africa. Uh, and he got really sick.
Speaker 1: So I feel badly for him, and it just makes me.
Speaker 1: It just reminds me that you can think you are tough,
Speaker 1: you can think you are cool, but if you get
Speaker 1: hit with the wrong kind of you eat some undercooked
Speaker 1: meat in the third world country, my friends, you you
Speaker 1: have a new sense of humility. Oh yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't care who you are. You find me the
Speaker 1: toughest dude. You find me the world's strongest man. And
Speaker 1: he eats some uh, some bad kebab in uh, you know,
Speaker 1: eat some bad kebab in Afghanistan. Oh, it's all over.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have a rough couple of days. So I
Speaker 1: feel badly for tellers everyone reporting on the story, because
Speaker 1: you know, they're all laughing about how he was on
Speaker 1: the you know, on the porcelain throne while while he
Speaker 1: was dethroned. But it was because he was dealing with
Speaker 1: some food poisoning in Africa, which is I've I've been
Speaker 1: there with rough, rough stuff. So anyway you see that story,
Speaker 1: I at least know what's going on because the headlines
Speaker 1: are all like fired while on the pot. There you go.
Speaker 1: It's not not the way the most secretaries of state
Speaker 1: would want to go out. But also I would note
Speaker 1: that the reporters a little bit of glee and oh yeah,
Speaker 1: this is you know, the the ignominious ending directs Tillerson's
Speaker 1: tenure as Secretary of State. But hey, look happens to
Speaker 1: the best of us, right, happened to me. The President
Speaker 1: has also shown that he's been extremely tough on Russia
Speaker 1: throughout his administration, and I think particularly you saw that
Speaker 1: today in the Russia sanctions that were put forward. I
Speaker 1: think you can see what the administration's viewpoint is simply
Speaker 1: by looking at the actions that we took today by
Speaker 1: placing new sanctions on Russia. Welcome back to the Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton Show. There you had Sarah Huckabee Sanders talking about
Speaker 1: the actions the White House taken against Russia, which is
Speaker 1: scaring everyone so much. It's like we're entering some new
Speaker 1: phase of a Cold war. People are so deeply concerned
Speaker 1: about where all this is heading. And oh, yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go. Something particularly about the All All Mile Russian
Speaker 1: choral group is like, you know, you can just see
Speaker 1: a submarine with a big hammer and sickle on it,
Speaker 1: getting ready to bring the world to the brink of annihilation.
Speaker 1: So I still think that's also the best Tom Clancy movie.
Speaker 1: Tom Clancy book made a new movie Hunt for October.
Speaker 1: So the Trump administration has come out with some new
Speaker 1: actions against Russian last couple of days, more sanctions. They've
Speaker 1: put the thirteen Russians indicted by Mueller's probe actually on
Speaker 1: the sanctions list. So that's pretty you know that that's
Speaker 1: a gimme. I don't think that's a hard one to
Speaker 1: pull off. But also Russia has accused I'm sorry, the
Speaker 1: Trump administration has accused Russia of campaign of cyber attacks
Speaker 1: targeting the US power grid. This is from nprs website,
Speaker 1: but the news here is pretty straightforward. The reporting similar
Speaker 1: across platform, so just bear with me. This is NPR quote.
Speaker 1: Since at least March, Russian hackers attempted to infiltrate numerous
Speaker 1: sectors of American infrastructure, including energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation,
Speaker 1: and manufacturing. According to a Department of Homeland Security report
Speaker 1: published on Thursday. The announcement came as the White House
Speaker 1: impost sanctions against nineteen Russians and five entities for allegedly
Speaker 1: interfering in u S presidential election and other cyber attacks.
Speaker 1: Let me state that this is not new Russia probing
Speaker 1: our cyber defenses trying to find ways in. This is
Speaker 1: the new surveillance for or future warfare. This is what
Speaker 1: we can expect to be happening with any adversary going forward.
Speaker 1: They want to map out our electronic networks of all
Speaker 1: kinds and if possible, not just know where things are
Speaker 1: and know what we have, but also shut it down
Speaker 1: when the time comes. Think about it if you had
Speaker 1: and this is where some of you I know are
Speaker 1: probably yelling about e m p s as well, But
Speaker 1: given the way that we fight wars today, if you
Speaker 1: were able to shut off an adversary's electric grid, even
Speaker 1: for a couple of hours, what kind of advantage that
Speaker 1: would give you? Right? Think about what that would mean.
Speaker 1: The panic that you set off and people say all
Speaker 1: back that the military has you know, redundant power source
Speaker 1: isn't all right? But think about what what happened in
Speaker 1: the civilian areas while that was going on, and any
Speaker 1: military strike that would be conducted with even a partial
Speaker 1: power outage, are partial black out would just seem magnified
Speaker 1: in the mind of those that had, you know, those
Speaker 1: that were in the dark basically right, and the rest
Speaker 1: of the country as well. And the Russians have been
Speaker 1: working on this for a while. They've been they've been
Speaker 1: experimenting and probing for some or some time. So people
Speaker 1: are going to obviously look at this and be concerned,
Speaker 1: as they should be. Let's not blow this out of proportion.
Speaker 1: The problem comes in a sense with understanding what proportion
Speaker 1: really is. I think that's fair to say, how do
Speaker 1: you respond to Russia poking around in our power grid?
Speaker 1: What is a real what what is a realistic and
Speaker 1: fair response to that. We've we're trying diplomatic stuff, We've
Speaker 1: tried sanctions, We're putting additional sanctions on them. See, Russia
Speaker 1: can't be blocked off from the world. Russia can't be contained.
Speaker 1: Look at what's going on, even with North Korea, where
Speaker 1: you have a vast majority of the world states that
Speaker 1: matter are that's probably a very unpc thing to say,
Speaker 1: but on the global stage, only certain countries really really
Speaker 1: make a difference on security policy. And now we're all
Speaker 1: unique snowflakes and we're all equal in God's eyes. But
Speaker 1: I'm talking about countries and power politics here. Ah, the
Speaker 1: North Koreans are able to get around sanctions and they
Speaker 1: can't even be effectively cut off from global markets from
Speaker 1: cyber activity. You know, containment is never perfect, and containment
Speaker 1: is even harder with a country the size of Russia
Speaker 1: and the importance of Russia. And you've got Putin is
Speaker 1: about to coast to a fourth I believe victory as presidents,
Speaker 1: so he's who are going to be dealing with for
Speaker 1: the foreseeable future. That's why as we look at these
Speaker 1: different polkes and prods that we are getting from the Russians,
Speaker 1: we need to understand that everything we do has to
Speaker 1: take into account that there will be follow on actions
Speaker 1: from the Russians and that they have their own ways
Speaker 1: of making things more difficult for us. People are talking
Speaker 1: about how this is a second Cold War. I think
Speaker 1: that's overblown. Although I didn't read a book some years
Speaker 1: ago about the new The New Cold War was the
Speaker 1: title of the book. It's different now. The Russians aren't
Speaker 1: waging some campaign for international Communism as they were when
Speaker 1: they were the Soviet Union. But they do seek to
Speaker 1: regain some sense of lost glory. I always remember the
Speaker 1: words of a Polish friend of mine that I've stuck
Speaker 1: with me that nothing brings Russians together like suffering. It
Speaker 1: has been a phrase that provided necessary context and wisdom
Speaker 1: for a lot of what I see going on with
Speaker 1: Putin's regime. We see all this aggressiveness from the Nova
Speaker 1: Chalk poisoning in the United Kingdom to what the Russians
Speaker 1: have done in Syria. They didn't even really blink an
Speaker 1: eye when two hundred Russians reportedly up to two Russians
Speaker 1: were killed fighting as paramilitaries alongside Syria as a sad regime.
Speaker 1: So but we we see this reporting, we think to ourselves, Russia,
Speaker 1: such a becoming such a pariah and the international community
Speaker 1: and you know, the at the United Nations and other places,
Speaker 1: it's so out of what is the what are expectations
Speaker 1: for great powers? And all the all those things you
Speaker 1: can throw in there. Meanwhile, Putin has actually got a
Speaker 1: lot of support inside the Russian inside the Russian population,
Speaker 1: among the Russian population, and much of what we see
Speaker 1: as necessary responses to his aggressiveness plays out in Russia
Speaker 1: like we are all ganging up on them, trying to
Speaker 1: prevent them from establishing their own spheres of influence. And
Speaker 1: you know, this is where you start to get into
Speaker 1: the the tribalism that does exist among nation states, right,
Speaker 1: the sense that people have an allegian to country, and
Speaker 1: the Russian people feel like in the post Soviet era,
Speaker 1: they've gotten a raw deal and they want somebody who
Speaker 1: pushes back, punches back, fights back for them, and many
Speaker 1: of them think that that is Putin. There was a
Speaker 1: profile done a while ago. I can't remember which magazine
Speaker 1: it was in, but it was of what essentially what
Speaker 1: Putin's day to day is like. And he starts off
Speaker 1: reading the working man's newspaper in Russia. You know, he started,
Speaker 1: I don't mean look like the workers Party, communist apparatic newspaper.
Speaker 1: I mean like what you know, the equivalent I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I was gonna name some papers here, but I don't
Speaker 1: want to, you know, but the equivalent here of of
Speaker 1: a tabloid daily that you know, folks would read quickly
Speaker 1: on the subway on their way to work. That's what
Speaker 1: he starts with. For Russians in Russian, Right, that's what
Speaker 1: he wants to know. What is the what is the
Speaker 1: every day that the working man in Russia think about things,
Speaker 1: what's on his mind. And a lot of the stuff
Speaker 1: that we see going on doesn't matter a bit, you know,
Speaker 1: this stuff that's happened really in Syria And Nope, that's
Speaker 1: if anything, that's just Russia upholding its obligations to its
Speaker 1: friends and allies and partners. Right, that's the way that
Speaker 1: it is viewed inside the country at some level. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they hide dead bodies from the people of Russia. They
Speaker 1: don't want them to know how deep the entanglements are.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of propaganda going on with all this.
Speaker 1: But we need to understand what we're really dealing with
Speaker 1: here on the other side of the table. This is
Speaker 1: not a country that is waiting to have a This
Speaker 1: is not a country that is just waiting any day
Speaker 1: now for things to get much more Americanized and everything
Speaker 1: to just be great. There's a certain pride and sense
Speaker 1: of being under siege that unites the Russian people. Like
Speaker 1: I said, nothing brings them together like suffering, and they
Speaker 1: feel like the international community is being unfair to them.
Speaker 1: Right now, they're being victimized by it. This is certainly
Speaker 1: the narrative that Putin is. I mean, look, this is
Speaker 1: all what I'm telling you is kind of the out
Speaker 1: of the RTI propaganda playbook. I'm not saying this is true.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying this is what is disseminated from the
Speaker 1: Kremlin on down and is believed pretty widely in Russia.
Speaker 1: And so it's with that that you have to now
Speaker 1: look at us, with our media talking about all these
Speaker 1: election hackings and these sanctions, and the American media's anti
Speaker 1: Russia obsession, which has been so inflamed because of their
Speaker 1: anti Trump obsession, makes it look like we are a
Speaker 1: little hysterical over there. So there there's a sense that
Speaker 1: we've lost a little bit of credibility I think with
Speaker 1: the Russian population, or at least with some segment of it,
Speaker 1: that we are always looking for some reason to be
Speaker 1: upset at Russia, sometimes very much justified, as in the
Speaker 1: case of the nov chuck Uh neurochemical poisoning that occurred.
Speaker 1: But another stuff with all the different news reports, I mean,
Speaker 1: how you see so much more of Vladimir Putin on CNN.
Speaker 1: His name is said with so much greater frequency. Then
Speaker 1: you will see the photo of or hear the name
Speaker 1: of Hijin Ping, the dictator of China now folks president
Speaker 1: for life. Okay, no more George Orwell's animal farm. A
Speaker 1: lot of words banned from the Chinese Internet now because
Speaker 1: they don't want people to be describing accurately what jin
Speaker 1: Ping has become. That's a country with a billion people,
Speaker 1: second largest economy in the world, and has big plans
Speaker 1: for its future, plans that are going to conflict with
Speaker 1: ours at some point. But the American media is much
Speaker 1: more concerned with making making it seem like Russia is
Speaker 1: lurking in every or Putin is lurking in every corner,
Speaker 1: and the Russians are trying to drag us into some
Speaker 1: kind of Cold war two point oh or maybe even
Speaker 1: three point oh. Now this this new phase. The Trump administration, meanwhile,
Speaker 1: which has gotten so much heat, it's gotten so much
Speaker 1: pushback for not doing enough on Russia, has done a
Speaker 1: lot on Russia in the last few weeks and really
Speaker 1: over the course of the administration. I've mentioned to the
Speaker 1: provision of Javelin anti tank missiles to the Ukrainian National
Speaker 1: Army to fight against Russian backed and Russian just Russian
Speaker 1: UH separatists in eastern Ukraine. There's also now sanctions that
Speaker 1: have been expanded upon against Russian entities and individuals because
Speaker 1: of some of what they have, some of what they've done.
Speaker 1: It depends on we're talking about election meddling stuff, were
Speaker 1: now the cyber attacks. But it's gonna be it's gonna
Speaker 1: be tricky going forward because everything that we do, the
Speaker 1: Russians have their own ways of responding to it, and
Speaker 1: ultimately the sanctions that were put in place, and I'll
Speaker 1: just say it, it's not gonna do it. Friends. It's
Speaker 1: actually a few entities. Is a big country, all right.
Speaker 1: I think us population in Russia thought I had a
Speaker 1: hundred twenty million. How do you live in Russia? I
Speaker 1: don't even know, Mike, let me know. Usually I know
Speaker 1: populations pretty I'm pretty good with them. But I think
Speaker 1: Russia is like a hundred twenty million. I'm guessing. Um,
Speaker 1: it's interesting to familiarize yourself with country populations. Then you
Speaker 1: have it is that what is it? You say? Under
Speaker 1: a seventy million? Under seventy so it's huge. But actually
Speaker 1: I was gonna say a hundred twenty million, No, alright
Speaker 1: under seven he so I was a little off. I
Speaker 1: think Thailand has seventy million. There's some countries that are surprising.
Speaker 1: Pakistan is a hundred and twenty million, Nigeria has a
Speaker 1: hundred and forty million, more like a hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: or hundred sixty probably now. Actually there's some countries you'd
Speaker 1: be like, whoa, we've got a lot of people. Um. Anyway,
Speaker 1: back to Russia. Uh, we gotta watch ourselves here because
Speaker 1: the media is really agitating for a very aggressive response
Speaker 1: that the Trump administration has been responsible and how they
Speaker 1: have reacted to these provacations. But let's let's keep our
Speaker 1: you know, are I on the price here, which is
Speaker 1: we just want things to be the best they possibly
Speaker 1: can be for America, for our people. We don't want
Speaker 1: to be brought into any foreign wars or conflicts, uh,
Speaker 1: period full stop, and we really want to try to
Speaker 1: avoid it. And we gotta have much greater concern about
Speaker 1: what the future looks like with China than Russia. Russia,
Speaker 1: we have there's enough cultural middle ground with us, and
Speaker 1: just give it some time. It's still very early. The
Speaker 1: Silvia Union wasn't that long ago. I think we're actually
Speaker 1: moving right. Maybe not right now, but in general, if
Speaker 1: you look at the last forty years or so, we're
Speaker 1: moving in the right direction China. I think we're actually
Speaker 1: seeing things. He's gonna get gonna get rough, gonna get tough.
Speaker 1: I am barish on the future of what US China
Speaker 1: relations are gonna look like going forward. By the way,
Speaker 1: we got Sean Davis joining us to talk about this
Speaker 1: huge story about these Struck page texts that reveal a
Speaker 1: personal relationship between the between Struck and a judge. A
Speaker 1: judge woid to recuse himself from the case of General
Speaker 1: Michael Flynn. Shawn is going to be joining us here
Speaker 1: on the show in just a few minutes. He and
Speaker 1: Molly having We broke that story on the Federalist dot
Speaker 1: com and now it is all over the place except
Speaker 1: on CNN. UM, what a surprise. They're not covering it.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, what a shock. The President is going to
Speaker 1: continue fighting for the American worker. He's also working with
Speaker 1: a number of individual countries UH and negotiating on areas
Speaker 1: of national security where we can work together. UH. And
Speaker 1: there's some flexibility there, and we're continuing to have those
Speaker 1: conversations and will continue through the next part of the
Speaker 1: end of next week, which is when I believe the
Speaker 1: deadline happens. You know, I've got all freaked out about
Speaker 1: the tariff situation, and I saw my conservative friends in
Speaker 1: the media, including a lot of a lot of those
Speaker 1: that are are quite honestly brilliant, and uh, I really
Speaker 1: like their work and like the people, and they were
Speaker 1: just hammering Trump on the old tariff's thing. And I've
Speaker 1: been trying to give you just the the full picture.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I think tariffs are great. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying I think tariffs are terrible. I'm saying, you know, okay,
Speaker 1: I understand why people are opposed to them, and I
Speaker 1: know what we we've talked about the econ one on
Speaker 1: one aspect of it. But I saw very instinct piece
Speaker 1: from Derek Scissors over to AI. We might have him
Speaker 1: next week, hopefully we reach out to Derek where this
Speaker 1: was exactly the kind of thinking that I was trying
Speaker 1: to bring to this show, which is all right, everyone,
Speaker 1: cool your jets, calm down a little bit, all right.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking to you know. I'm saying this in
Speaker 1: like the general you sense, not to my beloved audience.
Speaker 1: But this whole notion that tariffs are gonna like destroy
Speaker 1: the economy and a trade war and everything. The tariffs
Speaker 1: that we're talking about are very small and on a
Speaker 1: very small part of the economy. That's the shortened version
Speaker 1: of this piece that Scissors wrote from me. Actually, I
Speaker 1: think he's very smart. Scissors is very sharp on trade.
Speaker 1: John choked. That's awesome. You you guys could see if
Speaker 1: a John just like spat his coffee all over the
Speaker 1: place is great. Yeah, that's right. That was a want
Speaker 1: want from Buck, but I got John with it. Happy Friday, John,
Speaker 1: make sure your caffeinate. Um. So anyway, they will have
Speaker 1: Scissors on the That's like the highlight of my day.
Speaker 1: But I got John to spit out his coffee there
Speaker 1: with that. One earlier day, I had a want on
Speaker 1: Outnumbered on Fox News. They're like, what do you think
Speaker 1: of Lamb? And I was like, Lamb is a wolf
Speaker 1: in Republican clothing. And they were like what. I'm like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a little stretched. That didn't really I mean,
Speaker 1: it makes sense, but you gotta think about it too
Speaker 1: long and then you're kind of just like, you know,
Speaker 1: wolf in sheep's clothing, lamb Republican lamb pretending to you know,
Speaker 1: you get it. I know you're like, Buck, move on,
Speaker 1: I'm moving on. I'm moving on. Just a preview what's coming,
Speaker 1: because we've got a lot here. I know, there's this
Speaker 1: big story about the text messages between Struck and Page
Speaker 1: about a judge on the FISA courts. You got FBI
Speaker 1: d o J talking about some weird stuff involving a
Speaker 1: fires a court judge involved with the Michael Flynn case.
Speaker 1: Oh is this all a coincidence? I don't think. So
Speaker 1: we've got Sean Davis joining us in just a few
Speaker 1: minutes on that. We're also looking to see if McCabe
Speaker 1: actually does get fired, which I still think is gonna happen,
Speaker 1: but it might happen. What if it just happened with
Speaker 1: a Trump tweet. What if he tweets out like right
Speaker 1: before he has a burger and goes to bed like, McCabe,
Speaker 1: you're fired. I mean I think no, he ca actually
Speaker 1: can't do it, but you know, would be funny if
Speaker 1: he did it. Anyway, So we're watching Thank you John,
Speaker 1: So we're watching, uh, see if that actually ends up happening.
Speaker 1: And then I've got to Emily Snati joining with just
Speaker 1: some fun uh banter, because that's what we do with Msnati,
Speaker 1: which he's on, and we'll be joined also by a
Speaker 1: federal from the Washington Free Beacon later on Mr Sonny Bunch.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna star Sonny Bunch. He'll be joining us talk
Speaker 1: about Netflix and TV and then we'll have a phenomenal
Speaker 1: roll call with some bagpipes Laddie. So basically, at this
Speaker 1: point do you realize how awesome the show is going
Speaker 1: to be until the end, So there's no reason if
Speaker 1: you to do anything except finish it out. And oh yeah,
Speaker 1: hall a friend about it. He's holding the line for
Speaker 1: America buck sext in his back seg scoop today on
Speaker 1: The Federalist. You know it's one of our favorite sites.
Speaker 1: It is the Federalist dot com. It's co founded by
Speaker 1: Ben Dominic and Sean Davis. We have Sean Davis with
Speaker 1: us now and he's going to talk to us about
Speaker 1: this this this major story. Here's the headline. Peter Struck,
Speaker 1: remember him, the FBI agent with the shady text messages,
Speaker 1: had personal relationship with recused judge in the Michael Flynn case.
Speaker 1: Sean great to have you back with us, great could
Speaker 1: be here. Thank you for having me tell me a
Speaker 1: bit about Well, actually, no walk us through because there's
Speaker 1: some complexities here and there's a lot going on. But
Speaker 1: this is a big story you guys have on the federalists.
Speaker 1: Tell us what's going on, how it might have really
Speaker 1: affected the Michael Flynn case. So, uh, my colleague Molly
Speaker 1: Hemingway and I obtained a bunch of text messages between
Speaker 1: Lisa Page and Peter Struck used to the former FBI
Speaker 1: agents and attorneys who are extremely involved in both the
Speaker 1: Clinton case, the dossier Carter Page case, and as it
Speaker 1: turns out, maybe even the Flint case. And what we
Speaker 1: saw in these text messages between them was the fact
Speaker 1: that Peter Struck apparently had a personal friendship with Judge
Speaker 1: Rudolph Contraras, who he and Lisa Page referred to as Rudy,
Speaker 1: to the point that they even schemed over texts about
Speaker 1: how they could get in contact and talk with him
Speaker 1: at her he was appointed a vice federal surveillance of
Speaker 1: court judge, and how they could privately get together with
Speaker 1: him in ways that wouldn't trigger a required recusal of
Speaker 1: him from various cases. At one point. They even suggested
Speaker 1: a cocktail party that they would invite him to where
Speaker 1: they could talk to him and that would be much
Speaker 1: better than at one on one conversation. They even used
Speaker 1: the phrase, we have to have cover for these meetings.
Speaker 1: So it's a it's a pretty big blockbuster, especially since
Speaker 1: this judge is the one who accepted Mike Flynn, former
Speaker 1: Trump National Security advisors guilty plea and then was removed
Speaker 1: from the case just days after that. So there are
Speaker 1: all kinds of questions about whether that case was properly handled.
Speaker 1: You know, it was Peter Strock who was one of
Speaker 1: the agents who interviewed one at the White House in
Speaker 1: January seventeen, So this, this blockbuster bombshell, raises a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of questions about what was going on with that case. Sean, Usually,
Speaker 1: when when one of these stories breaks, the first thought
Speaker 1: that goes through my mom mind is what they're going
Speaker 1: to say to try to counteract the momentum here, what
Speaker 1: they're going to say to explain this away, what the
Speaker 1: excuse will be based on. And we're you know, we're
Speaker 1: talking to the guy. Folks Shawn and Molly Hemingway over
Speaker 1: the federalists are the ones who have access to these
Speaker 1: text messages. Based on what's in those texts, Can you
Speaker 1: even conjure up why an FBI agent would be saying
Speaker 1: to his paramour, who's a d o J lawyer, we
Speaker 1: need cover for a meeting. If it's just an innocent
Speaker 1: beer among government employees, why would anyone talk that way? Well,
Speaker 1: it's interesting we ask ourselves the same questions, you know,
Speaker 1: what are the innocent explanations for this? But the thing
Speaker 1: that we found most disturbing, in addition to the actual
Speaker 1: substance of the messages, that to exchange with the Department
Speaker 1: of Justice to actually withheld this from Congress. In the
Speaker 1: records that they had provided the Congress of these text messages,
Speaker 1: d o J redacted every single mention in conversation about this.
Speaker 1: Despis a judge who ended up presiding over the flee
Speaker 1: as was recused, So that right there communicates UH with
Speaker 1: the fancy lawyers. Look called men's rea a guilty mind.
Speaker 1: And it's like I said earlier, it raises a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of questions. Why were they hiding that from Congress?
Speaker 1: If there's if there's no there there, then there would
Speaker 1: be no reason for them to hide it, and yet
Speaker 1: hide it they did. Um. But because we were able
Speaker 1: to obtain these texts where those redactions were not included,
Speaker 1: we were able to get a full picture of what
Speaker 1: was going on there. And it doesn't look good when
Speaker 1: you have two FBI agents who have already been involved
Speaker 1: in uh, you know, who knows how many shenanigans over there.
Speaker 1: When you have them conspiring to clude with this judge
Speaker 1: in secret, scheming ways to to have cover to have
Speaker 1: these conversations, it, from my viewpoint, it all but screams
Speaker 1: that you have to have a special prosecutor here to
Speaker 1: this agency clearly cannot be trusted to police itself. Was
Speaker 1: being a Shawn Davis. He's the co founder of the Federalist.
Speaker 1: He is co author of a piece that's up right now.
Speaker 1: It is the Main Store and the Federalists, and it
Speaker 1: is getting a lot of attention, as it should. Peter
Speaker 1: Struck had personal relationship with recused judge in Michael Flynn case. Sean,
Speaker 1: at this point, you know, you mentioned the idea of
Speaker 1: a special prosecutor from the d J. I've got kind
Speaker 1: of a twofold statement slash question for you. One is
Speaker 1: that it feels to me, like, if there's ever a
Speaker 1: place where we need a special prosecutor, it would be
Speaker 1: to look at conduct within the d o J that
Speaker 1: is highly shady, considering the d o J is usually
Speaker 1: the additional layer of you know, anti corruption overwatch we
Speaker 1: have over the rest of the federal government. Right so
Speaker 1: to me, it seems like the special counsels particularly needed
Speaker 1: here for this kind of situation. And then also the
Speaker 1: Michael Flynn guilty plea is looking more and more like
Speaker 1: a Ted Stevens redux. Like this guy, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how exactly it happened, but there's plenty of evidence pointing
Speaker 1: toward Flynn gott sandbags somehow here. Well, it's so fascinating
Speaker 1: that you bring up Ted Stevens because the judge who
Speaker 1: is assigned to this case after a contrarist was moved
Speaker 1: from it is the same judge who took over the
Speaker 1: Steven's case, Tim At Sullivan. Yeah, images, oh, he's the man.
Speaker 1: I love Sullivan, go ahead, yeah, And Sullivan does not
Speaker 1: mess around. He did not mess around in the Steven's
Speaker 1: case where there was just massive prosecutorial misconduct, stuff that
Speaker 1: was never disclosed to the defense that should have been
Speaker 1: and he has already issued a pretty remarkable order to
Speaker 1: Mueller's prosecution team that they had better turn over to
Speaker 1: him the judge, all material exculpatory evidence that they have
Speaker 1: in their possession that they had at any time, including
Speaker 1: during their plea negotiations. And he notes in a footnotes
Speaker 1: that a number of federal courts have held that withholding
Speaker 1: that information from a defendant, even during a plean negotiation,
Speaker 1: you know it hasn't gotten a trial is a miscarriage
Speaker 1: of justice that would uh raise the Supreme courts ire.
Speaker 1: So Sullivan isn't messing around the whole thing with Flynn
Speaker 1: looks fishy, especially with computer. Struck was apparently the one
Speaker 1: who who wrote up the notes of the interview with Flynn. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Flynn may be guilty. I don't know, Um
Speaker 1: that you know, he knows and the Lord knows. But
Speaker 1: what I care about is as an actual fair process
Speaker 1: ording the constitution playing out here, and I'm beginning to
Speaker 1: wonder if that was actually given to him. I think
Speaker 1: it's also important for everyone to hear that the judge
Speaker 1: that we're talking about, that Peter Struck was talking to
Speaker 1: his uh paramore. I can't think of a better word lady.
Speaker 1: He was having a you know, a side thing going
Speaker 1: on with um Lisa Page. Judge Rudolph Contreras was on
Speaker 1: the physichord, and that comes across in there in the
Speaker 1: text messages between Page and Struck. It's like, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: Rudy's on the physi cord. Now, isn't that important? Slash interesting?
Speaker 1: Oh it's It's fascinating, especially since it was that fights
Speaker 1: the court which in October issued a warrant to surveile
Speaker 1: Carter Page, an American citizen who hadn't have been accused
Speaker 1: of any wrongdoing, to spy on him, based largely on
Speaker 1: claims in a dacier which no one has verified at
Speaker 1: this point, put together by a foreign asset who is
Speaker 1: paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign. So, I mean, that
Speaker 1: whole thing stunk to high heaven already, and now you
Speaker 1: throw in the fact that these two FBI agents who
Speaker 1: are knee deep and all this nonsense, we're also conspiring
Speaker 1: to collude with the judge on that court at the
Speaker 1: same time. I just don't know how you can with
Speaker 1: a straight face say that we don't need a special
Speaker 1: prosecutor to unwind all this and figure out what the
Speaker 1: heck was going on speaking about not with a straight face.
Speaker 1: I spoke earlier today to a friend of mine it
Speaker 1: used to be in the intelligence community, and and she
Speaker 1: we had a little bit of back and forth because
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, this carter Page situation, the guy,
Speaker 1: and I don't mean to put him down, but he
Speaker 1: seems so clownish, and there have been no charges against him,
Speaker 1: and he seems to me to be the wrong the
Speaker 1: aggrieved and wronged party here. Yet the entire Democrat justification
Speaker 1: for utilizing the most impressive, intrusive and there for frightening
Speaker 1: surveillance apparatus on the planet against a presidential campaign is
Speaker 1: Carter Page, who still do this day? I'm like, what
Speaker 1: were the what do they find about carter Page? Shawan?
Speaker 1: To me, it just seems like we've gone beyond the
Speaker 1: realm of this is a serious This is a serious
Speaker 1: position for them to hold. That's somehow carter Page justified
Speaker 1: all this stuff. No, it's crazy, like Paul Manafford, Fine,
Speaker 1: I get it, Rick Gates, I get it. But yet
Speaker 1: those aren't the guys they spied on. It was carter Page,
Speaker 1: who I don't know, the guy. I've never spoken to him.
Speaker 1: He he seems kind of a loon, but he's totally
Speaker 1: upfront with his policy views. He's like, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: the U. S Should change with false and Russia. The
Speaker 1: speech he gay, which apparently UH necessitated him being spied on,
Speaker 1: was it a venue in an event where Obama had
Speaker 1: spoken the year previously and it was all public online.
Speaker 1: The idea that they had to spy on this guy
Speaker 1: to figure out what he thought, or that he had
Speaker 1: somehow been offered a multibillion dollar steak and a Russian
Speaker 1: energy company. You'd have to be any tunes to actually
Speaker 1: buy into that, and yet that's what our federal surveillance
Speaker 1: apparatus ostensibly bought into. I also refuse to believe this
Speaker 1: this justification for all the things we're talking about that well,
Speaker 1: there's more on Page. We just don't know if at
Speaker 1: this stage of the game, with everything that has leaked,
Speaker 1: with everything that has been released officially as well, if
Speaker 1: there was something we'd say, oh wow, Carter Page actually
Speaker 1: was into some stuff that really did warrant this kind
Speaker 1: of attention. I am a d percent sure we would
Speaker 1: know about that at this point. Oh yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that that that whole UH surveillance deep state law en
Speaker 1: worcement deep State. They leaked like a sieve. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think you're right. If if there were anything to
Speaker 1: his background that they could have used to their advantage
Speaker 1: to defend their actions, we would have heard about it
Speaker 1: on CNN long ago. And just one more thing, Sean
Speaker 1: and everyone should go read this piece and the Federalists
Speaker 1: and we'll link to it on on buck sex and
Speaker 1: dot com. Uh. Do you think we're gonna get some
Speaker 1: answers here about Judge Contraris and his relationship? It's struck.
Speaker 1: Is there a process that you can see in place
Speaker 1: right now that may get us what we need here?
Speaker 1: I don't know that the judiciary for very good reason.
Speaker 1: It's generally kind of resistant to any sort of external pressure. Um.
Speaker 1: And especially in his recusal with Twinn that wasn't related
Speaker 1: to his fice the duties where you have these fice
Speaker 1: the courts set up explicitly by Congress to help them
Speaker 1: provide oversight. Um. I'll be interested to see how the
Speaker 1: judiciary responds. I honestly doubt that they're gonna respond much
Speaker 1: at all. But it calls into question the integrity of
Speaker 1: the court and the decision making process. They have their Um, so,
Speaker 1: I think for their own good and for their own
Speaker 1: benefits from the integrity of their system, they should come
Speaker 1: forward and actually be honest about the reasons why he
Speaker 1: was refused. Um. Whether that will happen, I think is
Speaker 1: anyone's guest real quick. Sean St. Patrick's day plans are
Speaker 1: what in the Davis household? Oh gosh, I don't know it.
Speaker 1: We'll take it. We'll take it, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're not dancing around dressed like a leprech con,
Speaker 1: that's fine, Sean. We're not gonna be doing that here either.
Speaker 1: But you know, saw people get very festive, Sean Davis.
Speaker 1: Everybody got a young family man. We're not gonna be
Speaker 1: doing anything festive. Fair enough. You got to catch up
Speaker 1: on some sleep. The Federalist dot com is the site,
Speaker 1: Sean Davis, Molly Hemingway. They are the authors. Check it out. Sean,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for making the time. Thank you buck.
Speaker 1: Today we're gonna be rolling into ah our three coming
Speaker 1: up here in just a few minutes. So that's where
Speaker 1: things are gonna get spicy. Or St. Patrick's Day is
Speaker 1: going to be more of a theme, I think because
Speaker 1: it is a freestyle stay with me, We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: I knew this would happen, folks. I knew it was
Speaker 1: just a matter of time as soon as you saw
Speaker 1: some of the dating apps, because now that's really that's
Speaker 1: where they got the pulse of our culture is the
Speaker 1: dating apps, right, that's lets you know what's going on
Speaker 1: with the kids, with the cool people. You know, when
Speaker 1: I say the kids, I mean people in their twenties,
Speaker 1: because now I'm in my thirties and it feels like
Speaker 1: it feels like it's just all a passively behind that dude.
Speaker 1: You know, my back hurts, my elbows hurt, everything hurts,
Speaker 1: thirty six sore all over the place. I don't even
Speaker 1: do anything. You know, some people actually have an excuse.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the dating apps they banned people from, as
Speaker 1: I said, a few of the dating apps, not all
Speaker 1: of them. And I'm sure there's like you know, duck
Speaker 1: hunters need Love dot Com. I'm sure there's other dating
Speaker 1: sites where this is not a problem. But some of them,
Speaker 1: if you have any kind of a firearm, you are
Speaker 1: you're banned, right or they shut down your account, whatever
Speaker 1: it is. They take disciplinary action, with the exception of
Speaker 1: people who are law enforcement or military. Thankfully they're not
Speaker 1: that dumb. But as I said, what about hunters, you
Speaker 1: know people that want, Hey, you know, I'd like to go.
Speaker 1: I'd like to go shoot some birds, maybe my future
Speaker 1: lady love or future um Man love, if you're the
Speaker 1: lady that's, or or any combination thereof. Uh want somebody
Speaker 1: that will go, you know, go duck hunting to or
Speaker 1: go perhaps shoot some grouse with the twenty gauge if
Speaker 1: one has the aim and accuracy for such a thing.
Speaker 1: And sure enough, the anti gun photo fervor has already
Speaker 1: spread to the point of absurdity. This is from n
Speaker 1: J dot Com New Jersey dot Com. What's up, Jersey
Speaker 1: in the house. I feel like you guys should know
Speaker 1: you're all welcome here for our St. Patrick's Day festival
Speaker 1: in New York City because ours is way more awesome
Speaker 1: than anything in New Jersey. But we love you New Jersey.
Speaker 1: We love you. You're like our cousin that we invite
Speaker 1: over on the holidays, and this is one of them
Speaker 1: to come to New York and come party with us.
Speaker 1: All right, here's what New Jersey dot Com says. Though
Speaker 1: a New Jersey school district that allegedly suspended to high
Speaker 1: school students this week over a gun photo taken during
Speaker 1: during a family visit to a private shooting range. Is
Speaker 1: facing community backlash and the threat of a law lawsuit
Speaker 1: over district policies. The photo of four rifles, ammunition clips,
Speaker 1: and a gun duffel bag was shared by one of
Speaker 1: the students on the social media app Snapchat with the
Speaker 1: caption fun day at the Range. A screen capture of
Speaker 1: the image made the rounds among other students and later
Speaker 1: brought to the attention of Lazy Township High School officials.
Speaker 1: Students received a five day in school suspension for violating
Speaker 1: the school's policy on weapons possession. You know, I have
Speaker 1: adorable photos of me when I'm like twelve years old
Speaker 1: with my brothers and my dad and we're out at
Speaker 1: the range. I think actually in that photo, I think
Speaker 1: we might have been gosh, I think it was. I
Speaker 1: think it was an Idaho. But we're out of a range,
Speaker 1: and you know, we're firing at twenty two. We're not maniacs,
Speaker 1: you know. We we don't have twelve year olds fireing
Speaker 1: Bazukas or something. You know. It's but we got a
Speaker 1: twenty two. It's a little bolt action. What's the big
Speaker 1: deal and it's nice time spend with the families, all
Speaker 1: of you know. But these policies now have become bonkers
Speaker 1: because everyone has allowed themselves to get so emotionally wrapped
Speaker 1: up in this moment. They're forgetting that one. There's about
Speaker 1: sixty million gun owners in the country who are perfectly
Speaker 1: law abiding, patriotic. Not only are they okay as neighbors,
Speaker 1: you want them as your neighbors. They make the neighborhood safer,
Speaker 1: and they make the country in the event of tyranny freer.
Speaker 1: I know the liberals snicker at that, but it's just true. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's something that we need to remind the country, if
Speaker 1: I think right now, because when you get kids that
Speaker 1: are getting suspended for being at the range with parental supervision,
Speaker 1: there's no way that the teachers didn't know that that's
Speaker 1: what's going on. But the sure enough the policies in
Speaker 1: place and how people are getting getting in trouble because
Speaker 1: they went to arrange. You have a school district policy now,
Speaker 1: and this is I'm sure not just in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: You have a school this policy that is punishing kids
Speaker 1: for completely legal, legitimate and you would even say family
Speaker 1: bonding behavior. You know what's next? You know, are are
Speaker 1: they gonna start suspending kids that go horseback riding because
Speaker 1: it's horse slavery? And Pete is gonna get upset. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is just out of control. I knew this would happen.
Speaker 1: So the school district is gonna get sued, and it
Speaker 1: should get sued. Needs to get rid of this policy.
Speaker 1: There needs to be some sanity here. Yeah, okay, you
Speaker 1: don't want kids that are posting threats or threatening photos.
Speaker 1: But a day at the range with your with your
Speaker 1: siblings and your parents, that's not threatening. That's like America,
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Get with it. We'll be right back. He's
Speaker 1: back when you out, because when it comes to the
Speaker 1: fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Well, the fun
Speaker 1: is about to come to a dead end. Who is
Speaker 1: the competition next? KGB guy top mother gotta left on
Speaker 1: his right leg named Satovski Valentine Dmitrovichakowski here you know him.
Speaker 1: I gave him a lynch. Hey, father, I ask him,
Speaker 1: if I risk my neck for you when I got
Speaker 1: a chance to kill englishman? Is your father a ghost?
Speaker 1: Do you converse with the Old Mighty in order to
Speaker 1: find his equal. An irishman is forced to talk to God. Yes, Father, everything, Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't want my God. You got to come by no.
Speaker 1: Welcome to our three of the buck Sexton Show, everybody.
Speaker 1: That was our little St Patrick's Day montage for all
Speaker 1: of you. Something I was thinking about today. We were
Speaker 1: trying to pull some things together. And by the way,
Speaker 1: extra points if anything, you can figure out what all
Speaker 1: three of those movies were. All three are well now
Speaker 1: two were playing, two are Irish actors, um one is
Speaker 1: a don't know, I'm not even getting this right. Actually,
Speaker 1: well there too. They're supposed to be Irish in the movie,
Speaker 1: and the third is obviously Scottish, and then you have
Speaker 1: uh whatever, you get the idea. The point is I
Speaker 1: I was thinking about the best action movie quotes and
Speaker 1: the best stuff you could pull from Irish specific movies.
Speaker 1: And there's so much more in our pop culture that's uh,
Speaker 1: Scottish based than Irish. Is really interesting. And you look
Speaker 1: at movies and Joe you know, obviously, uh all the
Speaker 1: all the Mike Meyers stuff is from the Austin powers
Speaker 1: of Scottish. And then you also have Braveheart Scottish. Although
Speaker 1: there's an irishman in it, which I just gave away.
Speaker 1: I'm giving away all the clips now. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: you look through this and the most famous Irish action
Speaker 1: actors in at least from what I know, are You
Speaker 1: gotta say Pierce Braslon even though he's playing a brit
Speaker 1: when he plays James Bond. And then Liam Neeson, who's
Speaker 1: also Irish by the way, that's it. People would say
Speaker 1: Colin Farrell, And I'm just like Colin Farrell ruins movies.
Speaker 1: Actually that's his job. His job is to be in
Speaker 1: a movie and ruin it, and keep being in movies
Speaker 1: and keep ruining them over and over again and keep
Speaker 1: getting big movie roles. And you know Dayton Supermodels the
Speaker 1: whole thing and ruining the movies. You know, I'm okay
Speaker 1: with the guy who's actually good at his job, enjoying
Speaker 1: all the fruits of his labor um, but actually don't
Speaker 1: stink and he's in movie after movie where he is
Speaker 1: the worst. So we put a little bit of St
Speaker 1: Patrick's day montage it for you. But I really try
Speaker 1: to think about it. What who is the great Irish
Speaker 1: hero in American pop culture? And if you're thinking about
Speaker 1: great characters that are actually Irish and not British or Scottish.
Speaker 1: So there's room there somewhere. And huh, you don't have
Speaker 1: you don't have as much so many different Scottish characters
Speaker 1: in our even in the Wonder Woman movie, for example,
Speaker 1: in Wonder Woman, the sniper guy Scottish and the whole
Speaker 1: thing right, he's not Irish. You don't have as many irishman.
Speaker 1: Don't know what's going on with that, all right, So
Speaker 1: I hope you're enjoying your St. Patrick's Day weekend as
Speaker 1: it's getting started, folks, We've got quite a third hour here.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be joined by a sunny bunch from the
Speaker 1: Washington Free Beacon. He just is talking about Netflix and
Speaker 1: all the different shows you can watch. You know, I
Speaker 1: love that topic. Lug. It's the third hour, it's a Friday.
Speaker 1: We gotta we gotta ease into the weekend a bit.
Speaker 1: We also have Emily's a notty joining us in just
Speaker 1: a few minutes, and she's going to be talking to
Speaker 1: you all about what the uh. Some of the stories
Speaker 1: that either well some of them are the ones you've missed.
Speaker 1: And then also they'll be certainly one story that we
Speaker 1: have an update on from her, but she'll and she'll
Speaker 1: share with us because we'll ask her what her Saint
Speaker 1: Patrick's Day plans are. You know, I feel like people say,
Speaker 1: don't say St. Patty's Day, and I want to say,
Speaker 1: I understand why Patty Wagon is offensive, but I feel
Speaker 1: like Irish people, at least Irish Americans. I can't speak
Speaker 1: for Irish people. Irish are actually kind of a bunch
Speaker 1: of left wing socialists. I know, people don't like the
Speaker 1: it's you go, you go to our my friends. I
Speaker 1: had a buddy who was, you know, studying an Nowland
Speaker 1: for years and he's like, uh, it's not like Irish Americans.
Speaker 1: You get a certain you know. Yeah, we got Quinn
Speaker 1: Is sitting in here, also known as Mike producer. Mike
Speaker 1: John is not Irish, but I'm half and you know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. It's a very different deal. When
Speaker 1: you have actual Irish people. They're like, yeah, I love
Speaker 1: I love Cuba. They're like, whoa, Yeah, I've recently met
Speaker 1: a fellow quinlan um friend of a friend who is
Speaker 1: exactly what you just described, and yeah we were not related. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, they don't really like America. You're like, whoa,
Speaker 1: what's up with that. You know, Irish American people were
Speaker 1: all like, yeah, bro fighting Irish, Notre Dame, drinking beer,
Speaker 1: loving each other America, but of Irish descent. You go
Speaker 1: over to Ireland, They're just like, stop appropriating our culture.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, it's really not what It's
Speaker 1: not what people think it is. You're right on points
Speaker 1: exactly the way it is. So you know, this is
Speaker 1: this is you live and learn folks, you live in them.
Speaker 1: This is like what I spent a summer in Greece,
Speaker 1: and I thought I'd be like, oh hey if I
Speaker 1: stole paco like uzo and dancing, and I mean there
Speaker 1: was plenty of that, but there's also a lot of
Speaker 1: like America ruined our country with that coup back in
Speaker 1: the day or whatever, and they still protest about it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, guys, get it together, why don't you pay
Speaker 1: some taxes. I'm just saying. I'm just saying it's you know, Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I don't think I think Team Buck Greek American is
Speaker 1: a strong force. I don't think Team Buck Greece is
Speaker 1: that strong. So I think we're okay there because a
Speaker 1: lot of the Greeks that are like, hey, I want
Speaker 1: to make a lot of money and be successful and
Speaker 1: you know, better future of my children. They are like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna leave this Teloponnese where no one really pays access. Um.
Speaker 1: So there's so there's that, but a lot of anti
Speaker 1: American graffiti in Greece. So I've got a random story
Speaker 1: for to throw in the mix here before we get
Speaker 1: our friend Emily's nadi on. I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: seen this or not, but there's a sheriff who is
Speaker 1: I believe he's yeah, based on a oh no, Alabama.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, Georgia, who don't worry, Georgia, You're good, Alabama.
Speaker 1: This is on you. Sheriff defends self after public outrage
Speaker 1: over seven forty dollar beach house pocketing money from innate
Speaker 1: food fund. You gotta love this dude. This guy figured
Speaker 1: out he's the uh. I don't know how to say
Speaker 1: this Etowah or Edawah. I don't know e t o
Speaker 1: w a H, but the let's say Edowah. Edowa County
Speaker 1: Sheriff Todd Entrikin is like, the law says that whatever
Speaker 1: money that is not used to feed inmates can be
Speaker 1: used for the sheriff's purposes. So he took that to
Speaker 1: be you know, I feel like a lot of people
Speaker 1: would think, yeah, you know, ballistic inserts for vests and
Speaker 1: like additional canine units and you know things like that.
Speaker 1: You know, a police memorial fun, that's where you think
Speaker 1: the money would go. No, he bought a almost million
Speaker 1: dollar beach house three quarters of million dollars. And what
Speaker 1: I love about this guy you almost have to respect
Speaker 1: the hustle and just the shamelessness. He was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what the law says. I'm I'm not apologizing for it.
Speaker 1: This guy's got real estate assets. He makes ninety dollars
Speaker 1: a year, it's public record. He's got real estate assets
Speaker 1: in the in the millions. He owns one point seven
Speaker 1: million dollars of real estate and when asked about this,
Speaker 1: including uh, multiple homes, and he was like, yeah, that's right, son,
Speaker 1: that's what the law says. And what he's not back.
Speaker 1: Usually public officials where they have something like this happened,
Speaker 1: they're kind of like like maybe we should like I
Speaker 1: will make restitution or no. No, this guy's like, that's
Speaker 1: what the law says. You chumps didn't change the law.
Speaker 1: So Papa needs a new beach house. And that's it. So,
Speaker 1: you know, Usually I see these stories of public officials
Speaker 1: engaging corruption or graft or whatever, and I'm like, how
Speaker 1: dare you, sir? And this one I'm trying, like, Wow,
Speaker 1: this guy's a straight up hustler. He's like, that's what
Speaker 1: the law says. I want a beach house. I want
Speaker 1: to sit out there drinking homemade kai burns and being
Speaker 1: fancies Alabama Sheriff. This guy's this guy's got some good taste.
Speaker 1: He's got almost some you know, three quarters of a
Speaker 1: million dollars beach house. That sounds pretty nice, but it
Speaker 1: just goes to show you, folks, you all got you.
Speaker 1: I almost went into it, y'all. There by accident appropriate
Speaker 1: so much am Irish appropriating, Southern appropriating, you know, gosh,
Speaker 1: and if I start doing an accent, people be like,
Speaker 1: you suit your figure from Manhattan. They don't have accents,
Speaker 1: so I can't appropriate anything right now. Anyway, this Sheriff's
Speaker 1: obviously bad. What he did. He probably is taking food
Speaker 1: out of the out of prisoners. At some level, we're
Speaker 1: making a crappier food. But apparently he legally can do it,
Speaker 1: which is pretty amazing, all right, we got more to
Speaker 1: stay with me, everybody. It's been quite a week in
Speaker 1: the news cycle, and there's some stories that we want
Speaker 1: to follow up on or that we haven't even gotten
Speaker 1: a chance to talk to you about yet. And for
Speaker 1: that we are joined by our friend Emily's A Nati.
Speaker 1: She is a senior editor at Daily wire dot Com.
Speaker 1: You could follow her on the Twitter at e. M
Speaker 1: Zanati Mrs a Nati. Hey, what's up. It's good. It's good,
Speaker 1: so so happy for to Happy St. Patrick's Day. You're
Speaker 1: in Chicago. I am. This is like our Nashville, this
Speaker 1: is our big day. So I've got to tell you something.
Speaker 1: Savannah Georgia was talking a little smack when I was
Speaker 1: down there about a week ago. They claim to have
Speaker 1: the second biggest St. Patrick's Day celebration in the country.
Speaker 1: And I don't even have the heart to ask is
Speaker 1: it after Chicago or after New York? Because if it's
Speaker 1: after New York, which I'm assuming it is, it means
Speaker 1: they think they're beaten out the Windy City. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to go live. Yeah, I will venture downtown to
Speaker 1: to show Savannah Georgia how much of a disaster Chicago is.
Speaker 1: I mean, the river literally gets turned green, right right,
Speaker 1: that's the first order of business. Tomorrow At eight thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning, they pour some stuff in the river
Speaker 1: that turns it green, and then we have an endless
Speaker 1: parade and then everyone goes up to Wrigley Fields and
Speaker 1: just get drunk for the rest of the night. Is
Speaker 1: there is there Irish? I should probably know this, considering
Speaker 1: I'm roughly half Irish in terms of background. Is there
Speaker 1: Irish cuisine? I what do you we got? Producer Mike
Speaker 1: looking at me, saying, yes, what's Irish cuisine? Dude? What
Speaker 1: do we got now? Emily, do you know of any
Speaker 1: Irish cuisine? Yeah? I mean I've had Irish breakfast, which
Speaker 1: is like sausage and eggs and corn beef and cabbage obviously.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right, corned beef. All right. That's their
Speaker 1: that's their contribution to the culinary world. Take it alright? Alright,
Speaker 1: well let's get into the Okay, Oh, this story broke
Speaker 1: my heart this week, the dog on the plane. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's the latest on this? I saw somebody see I
Speaker 1: said right when it broke that the that the airline
Speaker 1: is it attendant or we don't say steward dress anymore, right, attendant? Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you, the flight attendant. I was gonna say airline attendant.
Speaker 1: The flight attendant, uh said she or rather we were
Speaker 1: told by reporting that she knew it was a dog
Speaker 1: put up there. Anyway to me that could be an
Speaker 1: animal cruelty case. Do we have any updates on this?
Speaker 1: We don't, other than the United has now apologized and
Speaker 1: the actual owners of the dog have spoken out saying
Speaker 1: that they told that the stewardess or a flight attendant
Speaker 1: that it was definitely a dog. You could hear the
Speaker 1: dog that when they put the dog into the overhead
Speaker 1: compartments that the dog barked for about an hour straight.
Speaker 1: So it seems strange to you that now United is
Speaker 1: coming back and saying this was all a tragic accident
Speaker 1: and her slight attendant had no idea there was a
Speaker 1: dog in the bag. She just saw the bag that
Speaker 1: didn't fit under the seat. It's it's a bizarre story,
Speaker 1: and it keeps getting weirder because it sounds like this
Speaker 1: dog really wanted out, and nobody on the plane seemed
Speaker 1: to say anything. Yeah, I'm somebody who you know any
Speaker 1: any cruelty to dogs? And I just want I just
Speaker 1: want to fight someone. I get very very angry about it.
Speaker 1: And when I'm told that there's or when I'm reading
Speaker 1: that there was a dog that was making noise to
Speaker 1: get out of there, I feel like the stewardess. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I didn't actually mean that. I feel like the airline
Speaker 1: attendant must have no one and figured, well, he's got
Speaker 1: enough air up there. Who cares? Which is terrible? Which
Speaker 1: is awful? Yeah, which is awful. And it is a
Speaker 1: airless compartment. It is not served by the planes material
Speaker 1: so you just you can't breathe if you're locked into
Speaker 1: a compartment that's typically meant for baggage. Those dogs. Are
Speaker 1: you paid to put your dog or cat in their
Speaker 1: soft carrier under the seat in front of you. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of shocking that an airline attendant that would
Speaker 1: know these rules and know that United has asked people
Speaker 1: to pay that extra hundred and twenty five dollars to
Speaker 1: bring your pet on board, would still manage to do this.
Speaker 1: It's it's scary, but United actually has a horrible track
Speaker 1: record when it comes to animals. Since this time last year,
Speaker 1: something like twenty four animals have died on board planes,
Speaker 1: and eighteen of those animals have been on United. So
Speaker 1: if you have a dog or cat, you may want
Speaker 1: to think about flying United. Before you fly United, come
Speaker 1: fly the Soviet Union. Fly United. That's the way. That's
Speaker 1: what they should call it, something like that. You know
Speaker 1: it's it's the worst. I really can not. I'm trash
Speaker 1: United left variety, you know what, they deserve it all right,
Speaker 1: but let's move on to one more. Actually got a
Speaker 1: couple more here we have the snake whisperer is no more.
Speaker 1: Emily tell us what happened? Read So apparently in Malaysia
Speaker 1: there are so many snakes, so many king cobras, which
Speaker 1: are the world's most deadly snake, so many of these
Speaker 1: that they have snake whispers attached to fire departments, so
Speaker 1: that when you find a king cobra in your backyard,
Speaker 1: you actually have to call this person. I obviously am
Speaker 1: never moving to Malaysia. I don't know if there was
Speaker 1: any reason to move to Malaysia, but that is not
Speaker 1: happening now. This guy was phoned in to take care
Speaker 1: of a snake got bit. He is the world foremost
Speaker 1: snake handler. He was even on Malaysia's got Talent or
Speaker 1: America's got talent one of those to showcase his snake handling,
Speaker 1: and he got bit and sadly he passed away yesterday.
Speaker 1: He was the world's foremost snake charmer. I feel like
Speaker 1: this reminds me a little bit of the the guy
Speaker 1: who with the Australian what's his name, Steve, you know
Speaker 1: Hunter and then he finally got taken out by a stingwright.
Speaker 1: It's like, if you're around very dangerous animals enough, I
Speaker 1: don't care how much expertise you have, they are animals,
Speaker 1: you will sneeze and get bitten. I mean, something will happen.
Speaker 1: And the funny thing about Steve Irwin was that he
Speaker 1: actually died swimming with animals that are not particularly dangerous,
Speaker 1: like sting rays are dangerous, but it's very rare to
Speaker 1: get hit by one like that. And he just pressed
Speaker 1: his luck one too many things. And this was the
Speaker 1: same thing in the A order, which was also highly unlucky.
Speaker 1: As these things go, um okay, so onto something else.
Speaker 1: Uh A. You've got a lot of coverage of adult
Speaker 1: film stars, as they are sometimes referred to or on
Speaker 1: CNN constantly now porn stars. That's the way they always
Speaker 1: refer to the an adult film star was ordering a
Speaker 1: pizza from Dominoes and then things got weird. Well I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess it got weird for real life, but it
Speaker 1: sort of sounds like what would happen in one of
Speaker 1: her movies. I don't know, I've never seen one. I
Speaker 1: just I you know, I've heard thing. So the delivery
Speaker 1: driver gave her her pizza, then a couple of hours later,
Speaker 1: decided to text her and offered her two hundred dollars
Speaker 1: to perform for him. He stole her information off of
Speaker 1: one of the pizza box ordering forms, kept her receipt,
Speaker 1: and then texted her later on like it was no
Speaker 1: big deal. And can we just tell everybody at home
Speaker 1: listening to this Emily as they're getting ready for their
Speaker 1: Friday evenings, are already off on their weekends. What was
Speaker 1: the single greatest part of the whole story that Dominoes
Speaker 1: was involved in? Here, Dominoes offered for her trouble to
Speaker 1: give her a free order of cinnamon Stix. This re
Speaker 1: in the deal. This woman claimed she was literally proposition
Speaker 1: for money by the delivery guy and which she called
Speaker 1: a complaint. The manager offered her an order of cinnamon sticks, folks,
Speaker 1: So customer customer service propositions, Yeah, if you are propositions
Speaker 1: by your Domino's delivery driver, do have sex for money?
Speaker 1: The best you're going to do from Domino's is a
Speaker 1: free dessert before we let you go off onto your weekend. Emily,
Speaker 1: We're assuming you're gonna have a more fun answer to
Speaker 1: this question than our last guest, Sean Davis when we
Speaker 1: love from the Federalists, who basically was like partying St. Patrick's.
Speaker 1: Get out of here. I've got things to write. What
Speaker 1: are you doing? What is the Nazi household up to
Speaker 1: for St. Patrick's Day? You know we're in Chicago. We
Speaker 1: have no choice. We're going to have to go get
Speaker 1: some green beer. At some points, I I get caught
Speaker 1: up in the middle of it. I have red hair,
Speaker 1: so obviously this is my holiday, regardless of whether I
Speaker 1: am at all Irish according to twenty three and me.
Speaker 1: So I'm definitely going to get some green beer. Be
Speaker 1: careful because you know people that have kissed me I'm Irish,
Speaker 1: buttons on. It's a microaggression and cultural appropriation. It is cultural.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to carry my DNA results with me
Speaker 1: so that I am not accused of cultural appropriation, and
Speaker 1: you're better than Elizabeth Warren. But we already knew that
Speaker 1: Emily's a naughty everybody. Great to have her from the
Speaker 1: Daily Wire. Emily, have a fantastic weekend and enjoy your St.
Speaker 1: Patrick's Day. Thank you to alright, team, we're going to
Speaker 1: roll into a break. We've got so much more this hour.
Speaker 1: Stay with us and we'll be right back. He's holding
Speaker 1: the line for America Buck Sex in his back. Welcome
Speaker 1: back team, our three of the buck Sex and show
Speaker 1: in effect here, I often say to you all that
Speaker 1: I'm going to spend my weekend watching Netflix or Netflix
Speaker 1: and Amazon and perhaps HBO, because that is what I do,
Speaker 1: because I am not as fun and interesting as I
Speaker 1: should probably be. Nonetheless, Ms Molly still likes me, and
Speaker 1: there's still things to discuss. For those of us who
Speaker 1: watch a lot of television, are we in fact in
Speaker 1: a golden age of TV? We've got somebody who's got
Speaker 1: expertise on this, and that he has written a major
Speaker 1: piece for the Weekly Standard on its sunny Bunch joins
Speaker 1: us now he is the executive editor of the Washington
Speaker 1: Free Beacon. He's got a piece though in the weekly
Speaker 1: Standard overload, will any shows from the golden age of
Speaker 1: TV and your Sonny, thank you for joining us? Yeah,
Speaker 1: thanks carrying me on? Alright, So, I often say that
Speaker 1: I feel like the state of cinema right now is
Speaker 1: borderline crap. But the state of TV shows is so
Speaker 1: incredible that it's like all over the place. You can't
Speaker 1: even keep up with it. What say you, sir, Well,
Speaker 1: this is the problem, right, is that you can't actually
Speaker 1: keep up with it. There's so much good TV out there,
Speaker 1: you know. One of the one of the headlines I
Speaker 1: proposed for this piece was fifty seven thousand channels and
Speaker 1: everything on right, a play on the old Bruce Springsteening
Speaker 1: song fifty seven channels and nothing on. Like, the idea
Speaker 1: here is we have so much good too, great TV
Speaker 1: mostly good. There's a lot of kind of mediocre middle
Speaker 1: that we can we can discuss the difference between the
Speaker 1: great and the good later, but the you know, the
Speaker 1: the idea here is, there's just so much to watch
Speaker 1: that what what's going to end up lasting? Right? T
Speaker 1: V TV is a TV and all art really is
Speaker 1: a is a What lasts is what you can read
Speaker 1: over and over again. What you can share with other
Speaker 1: people over and over again, movies that you can watch
Speaker 1: time and again. A TV show, even a great TV show,
Speaker 1: you know, like The Sopranos, probably my favorite TV show
Speaker 1: of the last twenty years. Uh, sitting down to rewatch that,
Speaker 1: that's the ninety investment. Who has time for that? So
Speaker 1: the idea of this pieces. Look, there's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: Uh what does it mean to even form a canon
Speaker 1: of great art? And can you form a canon of
Speaker 1: great TV? I just I'm not a dent short as possible.
Speaker 1: What are the greatest five TV shows of the last
Speaker 1: twenty years? Since you have obviously done the deep dive
Speaker 1: in the research here. Uh, well, I mean, what would
Speaker 1: my five personal favorites be. It's a it's a slightly
Speaker 1: different question, right, but I would I would go with, uh,
Speaker 1: the Sopranos, which I just mentioned, The Shield, which is
Speaker 1: a is a great show that was on effects. It
Speaker 1: kind of, in my opinion, it kind of really kicked
Speaker 1: off this boom of great TV shows. It was the
Speaker 1: first of the big basic cable shows to to reach
Speaker 1: uh not a large audience, but a but an important
Speaker 1: audience and influential audience. UM, I would say The Simpsons
Speaker 1: is probably one of one of my one of my
Speaker 1: five favorite TV shows, uh, Deadwood. Deadwood, I think is
Speaker 1: if I was going to pick one show that will
Speaker 1: end up lasting, it would probably be Deadwood. And we
Speaker 1: can discuss why in a sec. But the fifth show
Speaker 1: I would go with the comedy. I would go with,
Speaker 1: let's say Veep. I love Veep. Interesting. You don't have
Speaker 1: the the usual Breaking Bad or the Wire on the list. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I like the Wire, but I don't love it, uh,
Speaker 1: and I like Breaking Back a lot. I think Breaking
Speaker 1: Bad is one of these shows that kind of picked
Speaker 1: up steam as it went. And one of the reasons
Speaker 1: that did this, and I kind of discussed this in
Speaker 1: the piece a little bit, is because of the way
Speaker 1: streaming helped save it and bring it to a bigger audience.
Speaker 1: You know, if if you look at the evolution of
Speaker 1: TV over the last twenty years or so, you see
Speaker 1: a medium that has grown by picking up new distribution
Speaker 1: methods and and when you when you're looking at say
Speaker 1: pay cable, you have the Sopranos, those shows. But then
Speaker 1: the expansion of basic cable was a big one, bringing
Speaker 1: in f X and bringing in a m C where
Speaker 1: you kind of uh, you you created you had a
Speaker 1: much wider audience base because these channels were on so
Speaker 1: many networks or there were in so many uh so
Speaker 1: many homes and people didn't have to pay extra for them.
Speaker 1: They were just on the basic cable packages. And then streaming,
Speaker 1: of course, you know streaming Netflix and Amazon Prime. These
Speaker 1: are the are two massively popular services that are in
Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of homes, and uh they have pioneered
Speaker 1: kind of a new distribution model. Netflix in particular. You know,
Speaker 1: the thing about Netflix is that they don't just release
Speaker 1: a new show every couple of weeks. They released a
Speaker 1: new show and they released all the episodes of that
Speaker 1: show at once, and that has drastically changed how people
Speaker 1: watch TV. I mean this, this whole idea of binging.
Speaker 1: You know, when is binging ever been a good thing,
Speaker 1: But now it is. It's just kind of taken for
Speaker 1: granted that you binge watch a TV show and you
Speaker 1: that's how you catch up with it, That's how you
Speaker 1: kind of keep in touch with the culture. That's how
Speaker 1: you know what to talk about at the water cooler.
Speaker 1: Sonny Bonch, the executive editor of the Washington Free Beacon,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us, sir. Yeah, thanks
Speaker 1: turning me on. Alright, team, we're rolling too a break,
Speaker 1: will be right back. Well. Tomorrow is St Patrick's Day,
Speaker 1: my friends, and I hope you've got some fun plans.
Speaker 1: Perhaps you're going to drink some beer with green food
Speaker 1: coloring in it, and hopefully you won't be walking through
Speaker 1: too much of what was formerly beer with food coloring
Speaker 1: in it in the streets, although people tend to get
Speaker 1: a little sloppy on St. Patrick's Day in some places,
Speaker 1: as you know. And there's finally, ah, there's finally some
Speaker 1: pushback against the cultural appropriation. Uh and and it turns
Speaker 1: out that yeah, there aren't in fact any lepri cons.
Speaker 1: That's not a real thing that's out there. So maybe
Speaker 1: maybe we should stop associating on with leprecons and fairies
Speaker 1: and sprites and other things. I don't know. Personally, I
Speaker 1: kind of like it. Then again, there's quite a separation
Speaker 1: between actual Irish people and now the generations of Americans
Speaker 1: that at one point came from Irish or some mixed
Speaker 1: stock like me. So I hope you've got some fun
Speaker 1: plans tomorrow. I'm gonna be laying low if I can
Speaker 1: because I am right on the parade route. My apartment
Speaker 1: is going to be rocking. I mean, the windows are
Speaker 1: going to be rattled with the sounds of the bagpipers
Speaker 1: that are out there, and there's no escape for me.
Speaker 1: So I might as well just put on a kilt
Speaker 1: and get into it. So with that, I will now
Speaker 1: turn our attention to what you have to say, my
Speaker 1: friends with some roll call team Buck, it's time for
Speaker 1: roll call. I really do feel like we're looking over
Speaker 1: Emerald Green Fields and all the rest of it the
Speaker 1: moment that bagpipes has come up. But like I've said, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: there we go, it's enough. Bagpipes are amazing for about
Speaker 1: thirty seconds. I originally said five minutes, and people like
Speaker 1: that's way too long, and then I rethought, you know,
Speaker 1: bagpipes are probably something you want for about thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: I think that's fair. So now let's it into it.
Speaker 1: Brian writes the following. By the way, if you want
Speaker 1: to be a part of roll Call Facebook dot com
Speaker 1: slash buck Sexton, make sure you follow the page, by
Speaker 1: the way, and then you can send me your thoughts. There.
Speaker 1: All right, Brian, he's up first here, He writes, savor
Speaker 1: the Flavor. Nice Tommy Boy reference, great show, love the
Speaker 1: deep dive into the mind of the social justice warrior. Well, Brian,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. I do a lot of research
Speaker 1: throughout the day and and my mission is to always
Speaker 1: bring you things as much as I can that you
Speaker 1: won't hear anywhere else. And there are things that you
Speaker 1: want to hear, because I know that you've got a
Speaker 1: lot of options out there for people to give you
Speaker 1: their opinions. I try to do more research than all
Speaker 1: the rest of them and try to be more original
Speaker 1: than most of them. If well, I'll just say most
Speaker 1: of them. So thank you very much for joining the show.
Speaker 1: And yes, that was Savor the Flavor was a very
Speaker 1: subtle Tommy Boy reference I've made yesterday on the show
Speaker 1: about being wrong. Turns out, by the way, that I
Speaker 1: gotta give producer Mike a code read because Fox News
Speaker 1: reported that McCabe's birthday is in fact this Sunday. That
Speaker 1: was the report from Fox News, Which is why he
Speaker 1: because when he hits fifty, that's when he can retire.
Speaker 1: It's an age it's an age restriction, so which, by
Speaker 1: the way, it seems pretty young to retire, right I'm
Speaker 1: hoping when I'm fifty that I'm gonna be hitting my
Speaker 1: max bench press. I'm not looking to retire at fifty fifty.
Speaker 1: It's like I'm just gonna be getting started, like the
Speaker 1: next chapter of Buck. Alright, Jason is next up here.
Speaker 1: He writes, Oh wow, he took a photo of the
Speaker 1: Blue Cat Lodge, which is featured in which is featured
Speaker 1: in the show Ozark. And it turns out it's a
Speaker 1: real place, which is pretty cool. Did not did not
Speaker 1: know that? Well, thank you very much. Al Right, Next
Speaker 1: up here, Uh, we have Mark, who writes, when I
Speaker 1: was in high school, I had a teacher named Mary
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Sexton, and she was fantastic. She was one of
Speaker 1: the nicest people you've ever met. After I graduated, I
Speaker 1: was in the Marines. I stopped by to visit her
Speaker 1: a couple of times when I was home on leave.
Speaker 1: I've wondered many times what happened to her. I'm an
Speaker 1: old guy, graduated high school in sixty one, so she
Speaker 1: would probably be eight ish if still with us. I
Speaker 1: wonder if she is a relative of yours, and if so,
Speaker 1: could you tell me a little bit about her. Here
Speaker 1: is a picture she seems like a very nice lady, Mark.
Speaker 1: I cannot say that I'm aware of any relations. Sexton
Speaker 1: is an occupational surname which I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people are surprised when they hear a sexton as the
Speaker 1: person who collects money in a church. He's the the
Speaker 1: lay person who works in a church. Uh digs the
Speaker 1: graves in fact, so I'm like grave digger. You know
Speaker 1: you can get like all the flames coming out of
Speaker 1: the side of my giant four by four grave digger.
Speaker 1: Isn't that a thing? Right that? Yeah, that's one of those,
Speaker 1: isn't it? Bigfoot and great monster trucks. That's not think enough?
Speaker 1: Thank you, Monster truck rallies Sexton the grave digger. Uh
Speaker 1: so yeah, there you go. But we also collect the
Speaker 1: money and are generally hopefully nice people to just say
Speaker 1: hi to in the church. That's what sextons are. So
Speaker 1: I'm affiliated with the church my friends in some way.
Speaker 1: All right, Um, next up here? Oh wow, we got
Speaker 1: so many, so many messages coming in. Thank you all.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate them. I will read all of them
Speaker 1: even if I don't. If it doesn't make it on
Speaker 1: air today, do not fret. There will be more opportunities
Speaker 1: and I will certainly read them. And this guy t
Speaker 1: J gets a huge high five because he actually has
Speaker 1: a shields high T shirt on in his Facebook photo
Speaker 1: and also with his very lovely wife. I'm I'm assuming
Speaker 1: could be girlfriend, but his wife, uh, and that makes me.
Speaker 1: That reminds me we're gonna be revamping and reworking on
Speaker 1: merchandise in the Team Bucks store. I've actually just been
Speaker 1: talking today to our design team about that we're gonna
Speaker 1: make some really cool stuff for and maybe even partner
Speaker 1: up with some folks to so really, really Nito, I
Speaker 1: just said, NTO, that's the first really hip hip things
Speaker 1: in the team Buck store. So, t J wrights Buck,
Speaker 1: you're so far out of your game trying to talk
Speaker 1: about cattle. Steer equals full grown mail that was castrated
Speaker 1: as a calf. Cows, while usually a term for cattle,
Speaker 1: is specifically a female. On that note, it's not uncommon
Speaker 1: to have Rocky Mountain oyster festivals out here in the Midwest.
Speaker 1: Rocky Mountain oysters are actually not bad. I think I
Speaker 1: put them above chicken gizzards. Well, thank you for schooling
Speaker 1: me on steer. I will be among the first to
Speaker 1: admit I will be the first to admit that I
Speaker 1: do not know anything about livestock, so we do not
Speaker 1: come across a lot of that here in Manhattan, where
Speaker 1: I grew up. Um next up here, Bill, Bill Wrights,
Speaker 1: Buck Love the show. Can you give us the progressive
Speaker 1: mentality article link once more tonight? Please seem to perfectly
Speaker 1: encompass the left and their approach to debate shields high. Bill. Absolutely, Lee,
Speaker 1: and you are very helpful. Reminder, I forgot to tweet
Speaker 1: that out last night. I'll share it with you. The
Speaker 1: Psychology of Progressive Hostility producer Mike. We gotta put that
Speaker 1: up on buck sex and dot com and also on
Speaker 1: Facebook so everyone can read it because I went through
Speaker 1: it in some detail last night on the show. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see what else we have here, Kirk, He writes Buck,
Speaker 1: thanks for speaking out on Stephen Hawking. Yes, he was
Speaker 1: brilliant and showed incredible courage persevering through a l s. However,
Speaker 1: for the left to cast him as the genius of
Speaker 1: our time regarding astrophysics and the universe is irresponsible. Then again,
Speaker 1: what's new? I find one of the greatest minds in
Speaker 1: astrophysics is actually a Jesuit priest father Robert Spitzer. He
Speaker 1: combines faith and reason. He discusses the expanding universe theory,
Speaker 1: which even most atheistic scientists are on board with. Simply put,
Speaker 1: if the universe is expanding constantly, there has to be
Speaker 1: a beginning. You hear nothing about this in the mainstream
Speaker 1: because it challenges this sacred big bang. Thanks for speaking
Speaker 1: up again where it counts. Kirk from Houston, Will Kirk,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. I'm glad you appreciated me taking
Speaker 1: a little bit of a diversion or digression into Hawking.
Speaker 1: And like I said, I I am somebody who you
Speaker 1: I would not be able to help my future children
Speaker 1: with their high school geometry homework, but I do read
Speaker 1: and think a lot about these things. And Hawking has
Speaker 1: become or became more a media celebrity than a scientist
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. All right, here we go.
Speaker 1: Whoa uh, Jackie writes Buck Love your show, been with
Speaker 1: you many years now, just listening to last night's show,
Speaker 1: and I have to speak up. I have a friend
Speaker 1: who's a flight attendant and always asked her the other
Speaker 1: side of the story. There's always another side. For the
Speaker 1: most part, the airlines are not the ones handing down
Speaker 1: the ridiculous rules and regulations that government is. No, you're you're,
Speaker 1: I I get it. I know the f a A.
Speaker 1: Absolutely true. And I'm glad that Jackie is pointing this
Speaker 1: out because while we come down really hard on the airlines,
Speaker 1: the really stupid regulations, the ones that are like, don't
Speaker 1: use your kindle during takeoff because it's gonna interfere with
Speaker 1: our systems, which is that was the rule for years.
Speaker 1: They finally got rid of it because it was so stupid.
Speaker 1: But that comes from the uh, the f A A.
Speaker 1: And so the f A should get its fair share
Speaker 1: of hostility as well. And Jackie writes that she has
Speaker 1: two carpet sharks donut dournut turnut turnut, turnut, turnut turnut
Speaker 1: carpet sharks. Um check out Caruso the celebrity docks and
Speaker 1: on Facebook he is quite the celebrity. Love my doxies.
Speaker 1: Keep up the good work, Thank you, Jackie. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm fond of carpet sharks as long
Speaker 1: as they don't try to eat me. It's when they
Speaker 1: try to eat me then I get a little sad. Uh. So, oh,
Speaker 1: we've got an inner. We've got one International team Buck,
Speaker 1: and then I got to close up the Freedom Hunt
Speaker 1: for the weekend and go, I'm gonna pretend like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna party over St. Patty's Day and drink I'm such
Speaker 1: a teetotler man, I'm gonna at least producer Mike's wearing
Speaker 1: a green shirt. Um, I got nothing on, although I
Speaker 1: wore my green tie today on Trish Reagan's show on
Speaker 1: Fox New Fox Business and during Outnumbered Rocket of green
Speaker 1: tie with Shamrocks on it. No less, that's right, that's
Speaker 1: like plus three points for Ireland and Sarah Huckaby Sanders
Speaker 1: in the press conference today also very pleasant shade of green. Alright,
Speaker 1: Hannah from Israel is right, and I love the International
Speaker 1: team Buck. When you mentioned on Wednesday's show that your
Speaker 1: podcast was good for a commute, I said, yes, out loud.
Speaker 1: I commute once a week from across Israel from the
Speaker 1: north to the middle of the country to visit family.
Speaker 1: It's a two and a half hour drive each way,
Speaker 1: and your podcast makes me look forward to the time
Speaker 1: in the car you make it could be a very
Speaker 1: unpleasant trip something I actually look forward to. Thank you well, Hannah,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. That's a very kind note. And
Speaker 1: it is my honor and privilege to be able to
Speaker 1: keep you company as you are traversing the great state
Speaker 1: of Israel or the country thereof. Uh, so, thank you
Speaker 1: so much, everybody. I've just realized now I've gotta shut
Speaker 1: down the Freedom Hunt for the day, but we'll be
Speaker 1: back on Monday and every day next week. We've got
Speaker 1: some exciting stuff already in the works. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: very mean and make producer Mike work on things all
Speaker 1: weekend that are gonna make the show sound even cooler.
Speaker 1: But he's he's down because I'm gonna send him some
Speaker 1: guinness so I'll have something to to help him drown
Speaker 1: the sorrows. And John, make sure that you come up
Speaker 1: rested and ready. You're in every day next week, my friend,
Speaker 1: Happy St. Patty's Day to the crew here. I'm sorry St.
Speaker 1: Patrick's Day, but I'm irish. I can say whatever I want.
Speaker 1: Happy St. Patrick's Day to all of you at home,
Speaker 1: and uh that's how that's what we're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Oh Um, I thought I had an announcement, but I
Speaker 1: actually don't. Basically, go on Facebook, go on Twitter, follow me,
Speaker 1: there if you're not already, semi thoughts for the show
Speaker 1: going forward, and uh, have a great holiday weekend. Everybody
Speaker 1: celebrating whatever way you see fit. If that includes just
Speaker 1: sort of doing what you always do and not paying
Speaker 1: attention to this celebration of Irish American nous, well that's
Speaker 1: fine too. See you on Monday shoot time.