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Speaker 1: think they're less evil. But I also don't think that

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Speaker 1: they're completely um idiotic and self defeating at all their actions.

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Speaker 1: They've managed to hang on people forget now. In twelve

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Speaker 1: there were there were suicide bombings that were directly targeted

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Speaker 1: Asad himself. They almost took him out. They had penetrated

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Speaker 1: his inner circle. Uh, it was real close to all.

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Speaker 1: It was close to lights out for the Assad regime.

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Speaker 1: It really was. And everyone thought, oh my gosh, the

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Speaker 1: rebels and the ISIS and the rising. Nope, they hung on.

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Speaker 1: Never lost control of Damascus. Uh, never lost control the

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Speaker 1: coastal areas. And they've managed it. They've done it through

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Speaker 1: sheer brutality and and viciousness, but they know what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: They also did it because of an enormous influx of

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Speaker 1: help from Russia and in Iran. But the time you see,

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Speaker 1: this is what And now this just sounds like I'm

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Speaker 1: criticizing Obama, but this is true. The time to take

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Speaker 1: a bigger role in Syria was five years ago if

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Speaker 1: we wanted to do that. But now, all right, this

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Speaker 1: is showing up. You know, this should be like showing

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Speaker 1: up at the at the end of a of a

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Speaker 1: surgery where someone's you know, fighting for for his life

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Speaker 1: and saying, yeah, well, you know, I'm a trained surgeon.

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Speaker 1: Let me see if I can do something. When the

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Speaker 1: person is already flatlined and they've been they've been operating

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Speaker 1: for ten hours. Maybe you can come in and and

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Speaker 1: revive them and save them anything else. But the surgical

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Speaker 1: team that's been there has been running things for hours

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Speaker 1: and the patient's already flatlining. That's what we're dealing with

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Speaker 1: in Syria. It is too little, too late. And what

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Speaker 1: I'm worried about is that the Lindsay Graham's The World

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Speaker 1: are out there make it sound like, well, maybe too late,

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Speaker 1: but it won't be too little if we do a lot,

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Speaker 1: if we go big. No, let's not go big. You know,

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Speaker 1: I do not want you know, those I know we've

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Speaker 1: got a lot of military families listen to this show,

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Speaker 1: a lot of active and former military listening to the show.

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Speaker 1: I don't want any of you having to go over

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Speaker 1: there on orders and try to piece back together Syria.

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Speaker 1: We've done enough of this, we really have. Um it's

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Speaker 1: and and I would also note that I don't forget

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Speaker 1: that in the in the post nine eleven era, you

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Speaker 1: know that the world, particularly the Muslim world, is very

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Speaker 1: much taken an attitude of you know, look what America

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Speaker 1: has done in a raw Look what it's not in Afghanistan.

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Speaker 1: Not a lot, not a lot of gratitude. Not let's

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Speaker 1: just be honest about it. Not a lot of gratitude

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Speaker 1: from uh, the Muslim world in the Middle East for

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Speaker 1: getting rid of dictators, fighting back the Taliban. Nope, a

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Speaker 1: lot of Oh it's neo colonialism, it's imperialism. So all right,

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Speaker 1: let's let's let other you know, let's let's let countries

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Speaker 1: figure out their own affairs as much as we can.

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Speaker 1: And we're already doing stuff in Syria. And I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't disagree with of our actions in Syria with

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Speaker 1: regard to the air strikes against but ISIS was a

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Speaker 1: threat to us. I ISIS had cells set up specifically

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Speaker 1: to come after US. Okay, when people in Syria are

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Speaker 1: training operatives to come to my hometown or your hometown,

484
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Speaker 1: but they definitely were trying to come after New York

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Speaker 1: City and blow up the subways or run us over

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Speaker 1: with cars or whatever it was. It's now, it's now

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Speaker 1: it is our problem. I gotta deal with it. Right,

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Speaker 1: We dealt with that. ASSAD is not trying to send

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Speaker 1: operatives into New York City to blow up the subway,

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Speaker 1: to to kill as many of our people as possible. So,

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Speaker 1: you know what, not our problem. We've tried this. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna you know, or they'll be a flowering of democracy

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Speaker 1: and nope. Now what ends up happening is the Islamists takeover.

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Speaker 1: We look like the big bad meanings because we're trying

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Speaker 1: to you know, get the lights on and clean up

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Speaker 1: the sewage on the streets. And you know, we're we're

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Speaker 1: the terrible occupier that is America. And we've had the

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Speaker 1: ability of the United States military that has been shown

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Speaker 1: both to defeat the enemy and to adapt and do

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Speaker 1: incredible things that are well outside the what you think

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Speaker 1: of is the standard war fighter, uh tool, kid, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, building schools, building sewage, but doing all these

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Speaker 1: things these countries, and it's just enough. I wouldn't look.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't go over there, and so I wouldn't ask

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Speaker 1: anyone else to go over there. And I've been over

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Speaker 1: to rocket Afghanistan, as you know, I wouldn't I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: want to go over to Syria right now and try

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Speaker 1: to rebuild it. Right. It's different if I were high

509
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Speaker 1: speed SF guy or something. I was working with the Kurds.

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Speaker 1: That's cool, and they're doing a great job. But I'm

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Speaker 1: not about to show up over there, So I'm not

512
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Speaker 1: about to say that everyone else should go over there

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Speaker 1: and try to piece that place back together. We got

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Speaker 1: our own problems here, we got our own things to

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Speaker 1: worry about. Uh. Let's take Tim in Tuscarawas, Ohio. Did

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Speaker 1: I get that right, Tim? Yeah? I bet I've been

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Speaker 1: on there before. You know it. Listen. Number one, I

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Speaker 1: hope the president understands that when Lindsey Graham and the

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Speaker 1: golp eel cons who hate the President, along with the

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Speaker 1: Dems and the mainstream media all are urging him take action,

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Speaker 1: they're just maybe a problem with that, right, Okay, that's

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Speaker 1: number one. Point Number two, I'm glad Ken brought up

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Speaker 1: those white helmets because I'll tell you what we've seen

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Speaker 1: before where those guys have staged uh terrible events and

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Speaker 1: then at the end when the victims are all standing up, hugging,

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Speaker 1: having picks with the rescuers, there's something wrong with that. Also,

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Speaker 1: they're helping these radicals, okay, who want to overthrow a

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Speaker 1: sad And we know that they have taken over control

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Speaker 1: of some of the warehouses that Syrian uh military head

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Speaker 1: excuse me, And they've taken over some of their warehouses

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Speaker 1: and sock holds of also chemical weapons. So if there

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Speaker 1: are we don't know that they ain't just releasing them

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Speaker 1: to show that there's events there, but not that a

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Speaker 1: Sade used them like you said it would be. He's

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Speaker 1: stupid on his part. But you know, the President said,

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Speaker 1: We're not going in there and fights Syria. We're going

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Speaker 1: in there to fight ISIS, and we sending our special forces.

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Speaker 1: They hook up with the Curds and uh, they're just

539
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Speaker 1: about done with Isis. We don't need this war with

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Speaker 1: with Sharia and Russia. We needed to help the Kurds.

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Speaker 1: They've taken in Jews in the area. They've taken in

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Speaker 1: the oldest group of Christians, the Coptics, who in turn

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Speaker 1: are helping them fight against the radicals in the area.

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Speaker 1: We should support the courage. But I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: The President I think knows this, but he has got

546
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Speaker 1: to understand. Man, when you've got all your enemies urging

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Speaker 1: you on to do this. It's a big setup. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there there are some red flags here, Tim. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: the call and thank you for the ring. There. There

550
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Speaker 1: are big there are some big issues here. But I

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Speaker 1: also like that our caller brought off the Curds because

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Speaker 1: I've been coming on this show saying, guys, the Curds

553
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Speaker 1: are getting they're getting shell they're getting attacked by the Turks,

554
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Speaker 1: supposedly our allies. The Turks are just lying their faces

555
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: off about how they're all terror They're not all terrorists

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Speaker 1: and not all p KK. That's that's malarkey. But you know,

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Speaker 1: we don't want to deal with the oh and now

558
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Speaker 1: we've got a crisis with the Turks and how we

559
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: gotta handle it. The Turks has been very unhelpful, by

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Speaker 1: the way, we wouldn't be dealing with an ISIS if

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Speaker 1: it wasn't for Turkey saying yeah, we'll just open our

562
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Speaker 1: southern border and let all the crazies run across it,

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Speaker 1: which is what happened. Turkey was the gateway for all

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Speaker 1: the foreign fighters to get into Syria. They could have

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Speaker 1: done a lot more to stop that. So Turkey has

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Speaker 1: been a problem and the Kurds deserve a lot more

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Speaker 1: of our attention and support than they have been getting.

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Speaker 1: They have been honorable allies of the United States in

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Speaker 1: Iraq and in Syria, and we owe them a lot

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Speaker 1: more than we've been given them recently. I can tell

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Speaker 1: you that, and it is troubling. It's upsetting. H I

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Speaker 1: do need to talk to you about the Muller probe.

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Speaker 1: I thought we had a coomy SoundBite we could play

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Speaker 1: from his interview, but what is that with with the

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Speaker 1: with with you know, the you know, the guy who

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Speaker 1: can't ride the amusement park rides because he's what's this Stephanopolis?

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Speaker 1: Do you mean? I'm just kidding. I saw him once.

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Speaker 1: He's petite. He's petite. It's okay. You know he's got

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Speaker 1: big hair. I respect the hair. But he does a

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Speaker 1: he does an interview with with Comey. But it comes

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Speaker 1: out when when producer Mike, do we know, I believe

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Speaker 1: it's Sunday night, Oh song, we gotta wait till Sunday

583
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Speaker 1: for sanctimonious comy. Darn it? Alright, A four or four

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Speaker 1: to five Mueller probe and much more coming up. Stay

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Speaker 1: with me. I worry about a world where when you

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Speaker 1: go from violent groups to hate speech in a hurry.

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Speaker 1: In one of your responses to one of the opening questions, UM,

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Speaker 1: you may decide or Facebook may decide it needs to

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Speaker 1: police a whole bunch of speech. Um that I think

590
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: America might be better off not having policed by one

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Speaker 1: company that has a really big and powerful platform. Can

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Speaker 1: you define hate speech? Senator? I think that this is

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Speaker 1: a really hard question, and I think it's one of

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Speaker 1: the reasons why we struggle with it. There are certain

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Speaker 1: definitions that that we that we have around um, you know,

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Speaker 1: calling for for violence or UM, let's just agree on that.

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Speaker 1: There are some really passionately held views about the abortion

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Speaker 1: issue on this panel today. Can you imagine a world

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Speaker 1: where you might decide that pro lifers are prohibited from

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Speaker 1: speaking about their abortion views on your content on your platform.

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Speaker 1: I certainly would not want that to be the case,

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Speaker 1: but it might really be unsettling to people who have

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Speaker 1: had an abortion to have an open debate about that,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't it? It might be, but I don't think that

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Speaker 1: that would ye would fit any of the definitions of

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Speaker 1: of of what we have very important questions getting asked,

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Speaker 1: and that was Senator Ben sass posing to CEO of

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Speaker 1: Facebook or love Facebook if you are in France? Uh,

609
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Speaker 1: what is hate speech? And sure enough it doesn't really know.

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Speaker 1: They want to ban it, they want to make sure

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00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: it doesn't get on their platform, But what is hate speech?

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Speaker 1: I don't know that the Facebook is taking a different

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Speaker 1: position than some of the other social media giants here

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00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: because Facebook is essentially saying that they are taking some

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Speaker 1: responsibility or the content that goes up on their website,

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00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 1: and Twitter and others are like, well, we'll take stuff down,

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Speaker 1: but we can't stop people, right, we can't do it.

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Speaker 1: It's not like a pre What was the movie with

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Speaker 1: pre crime? I never even saw it. Maybe is it

620
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Speaker 1: worth seeing the Tom Cruise where they do the you

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Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about, they stop the crimes before

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Speaker 1: they happen. I forget what that was? What was it?

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Speaker 1: Come on, guys, we're all live radio. What's it called?

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Speaker 1: The thing? People are all across the country right now?

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Speaker 1: What minority report? Thank you for those of you who

626
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Speaker 1: are yelling in your car wherever you are. I'm sorry

627
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 1: that took us a moment there um. But the truth

628
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:07,879
Speaker 1: is they don't know what hate speeches, but they're gonna

629
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Speaker 1: try and I got news for you. If you have

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Speaker 1: a pro life Facebook group that's a little too honest

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Speaker 1: about what really goes on and planned parenthood and abortion clinics, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you might just all of a sudden find yourself either

633
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Speaker 1: shadow band or just outright band. That's what government regulation

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Speaker 1: is going to allow. He's back with you now, because

635
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Speaker 1: when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck

636
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Speaker 1: never stops. Mueller and the FBI and the d O

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Speaker 1: j uh, they don't care about probable cars and they

638
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Speaker 1: can always find a judge to give them a warrant.

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Speaker 1: This is all about trying to get something on Cohen

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Speaker 1: so they can say you're looking alive for a thousand years.

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00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:00,080
Speaker 1: I've seen them do it before. And you just to

642
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:03,720
Speaker 1: tell us true or not that Trump did something some crime,

643
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,720
Speaker 1: and then you won't be looking at an ending prison system.

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00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 1: They will do it. Mueller is corrupt enough, and people

645
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: have got to come to the to the realization Mueller

646
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: is not an honest, honorable man, that he is out

647
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 1: to get his people that he doesn't like, and he

648
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,919
Speaker 1: will do anything to bring him down. So let's ask

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Speaker 1: the President certainly has been clear that he has a

650
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: very deep concern about the direction that the Special Council

651
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:32,320
Speaker 1: and other investigations have taken. UH. This investigation started off

652
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: as rush of collusion, of which there was none. UH.

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00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 1: That has been very clear that nothing has come up

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Speaker 1: over the last year, and the President has spoken at

655
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: length on this topic. While the media continues to focus

656
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: on this despite the fact that there's been no evidence

657
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 1: after a year, We're going to continue to stay focused

658
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: on the issue. Peter Strock and Lisa Page our enemies

659
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 1: of President Trump. They were spending time at work trying

660
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,280
Speaker 1: to figure out how to keep him from being president,

661
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,359
Speaker 1: and if you were president, trying to have some sort

662
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: of insurance policy too, I guess, prevent him from acting

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Speaker 1: as president. And so we asked the question of the

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Speaker 1: FBI director, do they still have top secret of clearance?

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Speaker 1: Can they search databases unrestricted without a warrant? And the

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00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: answer we got was sort of a non answer, But

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Speaker 1: it's an interesting non answer because they said all FBI

668
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: agents have top secret clearance and must keep that. So

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Speaker 1: if they're still FBI agents, which apparently they are, he

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Speaker 1: means the non answer specifically really is an answer. It

671
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Speaker 1: says that they can search our databases. And our point

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00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 1: is a broader one. Here we're concerned whether you don't

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00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 1: like Trump or you don't like the Democrats. If you

674
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: work for the FBI, you should have the oversight of

675
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: a judge, so you can't willy nearly search, you know,

676
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,320
Speaker 1: an enemies list that you might have at work, this

677
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: special counsel and welcome to our two of the buck

678
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 1: sex and show my friends a special counsel situation. The

679
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 1: whole thing is an embarrassment. It's a farce, although it's

680
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: also very destructive and dangerous things, so we can't just

681
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: laugh about it. But it's gone way beyond, way beyond

682
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: what any reasonable person could think under the circumstances was ethical,

683
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:16,800
Speaker 1: allowable necessary. Uh, this is completely out of control. And

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Speaker 1: as I've been saying to you, the Democrats that I

685
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: Democrats I know, are like, yeah, it's it's unfair, it's terrible,

686
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 1: but you know it's hurting Trump, so they're okay with it.

687
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: It's always so disappointing to see how quickly the left

688
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: will not just abandoned principles but admit didn't even have

689
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: any principles. Just about power. It's about any anything to win,

690
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 1: anything to be able to bend the other side to

691
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 1: your will into the will of the state. But there's

692
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 1: some very important points come up recently about all this,

693
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Speaker 1: So the Cohen seizure, we'll talk about that in just

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00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:54,359
Speaker 1: a moment, but here is the latest. And I we're

695
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Speaker 1: gonna chew on this one together for a moment because

696
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Speaker 1: most of the time I read something emmic odd, it's

697
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,919
Speaker 1: just I'm getting lashes of what I want to tell

698
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: you and what I think that is what's important. This

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00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 1: one we're just gonna kind of marinate in together for

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Speaker 1: a moment, all right. Courtesy of the hashtag Resistance Center,

701
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 1: that is CNN, right, this is their p their their

702
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 1: main story right now. FBI sought Trump's communications with his

703
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: personal lawyer regarding Russia collusion investigation. Oh no, just kidding,

704
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Speaker 1: that's not what it says. It says FBI sought Trump's

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Speaker 1: communications with his personal lawyer regarding access Hollywood. I kid

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Speaker 1: you not this time. That's real. That's real. That is

707
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,439
Speaker 1: what the f So let's so let's just step back.

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Speaker 1: The FBI went into they made attorney client privilege a joke.

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Speaker 1: Remember we had any maccarthier yesterday, who's he calls balls

710
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,800
Speaker 1: and strikes. He's very fair minded. He's fair minded to Muller.

711
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: He knows some of these guys, He knows Komy, so

712
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: he tends to be a little nicer to them than

713
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Speaker 1: I am, because he likes them as people, or knows

714
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: them as people at least, whereas I'm just like these

715
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Speaker 1: guys are these guys are dangerous clowns. Ah. But I asked, remember,

716
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Speaker 1: I said, well, you know, it reminds me of how

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00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:21,360
Speaker 1: there's a First Amendment that protects journalists just like obtects

718
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,839
Speaker 1: all citizens. And you could, whenever there's a leak, just

719
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:26,839
Speaker 1: pull all the phones of all the journalists and you'd

720
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 1: find out really fast where the leak is. But that's

721
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: you don't do that because there's attention there. He said, yeah,

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00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: that's that's right. That's true. It's the same thing with

723
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 1: attorney client privilege. You can override it, but you better

724
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,879
Speaker 1: have a darn good reason to do that. He's better,

725
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,839
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you right now, they don't have one

726
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: for this. I don't know if I brought this up

727
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: with you, but technically, you know, technically the president can

728
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 1: just drone somebody without trial, according to the Obama administration,

729
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: at least, so are U S citizen without trial. So

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Speaker 1: you know, there's really no such thing as legal protections

731
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Speaker 1: underserved and circumstances. The government is just gonna do what

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Speaker 1: it's gonna do. If you take that point of view,

733
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:08,360
Speaker 1: you know, there's always some extreme circumstance that will allow

734
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Speaker 1: them to trample on whatever right. So if we're not

735
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 1: going to protect these rights, they're meaningless. And if we're

736
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Speaker 1: not gonna say, hold on a second, attorney client privilege

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00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 1: has to be considered meaningful and has to be protected,

738
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: then uh we we we are fundamentally damaging the justice

739
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 1: system in this country and in a way that we

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Speaker 1: will not be able to undo once it happens. So

741
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 1: but so here's the CNNPS. Okay, I told you this

742
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: is about FBI wanted communications between Cohen and Trump that

743
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: had to do with the Access Hollywood tape. Quote. FBI aids,

744
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: who rated the home office and hotel of Donald Trump's

745
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:51,240
Speaker 1: personal lawyer, sought communications that Trump had with attorney Michael

746
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 1: Cohen and others regarding the infamous Access Hollywood tape that

747
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: captured Trump making lewd re marks about women a month

748
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,800
Speaker 1: for the election. According to sources familiar with the matter,

749
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: the warrants. Specific reference to Trump is the first known

750
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 1: direct mention of the President in the search Ward, and

751
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 1: sources said it appeared in connection with Access Hollywood. This

752
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: is the part that I said, we're gonna have to

753
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: just team Bucks, gonna have to crowdsource this one for

754
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: a second. Here, what the heck do they need anything?

755
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 1: I mean of the Access Hollywood tape. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: I can fill in the blanks too, right, let's do

757
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: this together for a moment. Okay, So maybe Cohen try,

758
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: you know, maybe Cohen made an effort to suppress the tape.

759
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: Maybe he reached out and said, hey, you know NBC

760
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: or the Washington Post, the ones that actually are originally

761
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:49,280
Speaker 1: ram with it. Maybe he said, hey, you know, you guys,

762
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: please don't do that, or you don't whatever it may be, right,

763
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: we went through some efforts. Worst case basis, although I

764
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: can't imagine Cohen saying this to the Washington Post, But

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Speaker 1: you know, how much, hey, how much no no Access

766
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: Hollywood tape? How much that's not some huge crime against

767
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:12,320
Speaker 1: the state. Maybe they're gonna say it's a a federal

768
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: election committee violation or commission violation. But the warrant is

769
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Speaker 1: the first indication your cornery seeing an investigators suspect there

770
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Speaker 1: was any effort to suppress the tape. Can we just

771
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 1: all all the sake of moment here? What a joke

772
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,880
Speaker 1: this whole thing has turned into. Do you have a

773
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:38,959
Speaker 1: special counsel who is looking into communications surrounding a tape

774
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Speaker 1: where Trump was talking about how he likes to be

775
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: sexually aggressive towards women and you know, a little bit

776
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 1: of locker room talking or not the stuff you'd want

777
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: to say in front of your in front of your

778
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: mom or your daughter. But you know, that's what this

779
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:58,320
Speaker 1: is all about. Now the Access Hollywood tape has become

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Speaker 1: a part of the Special Council. We have a multimillion

781
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: dollar crack team of ferocious prosecutors and they're looking for

782
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:11,320
Speaker 1: information about a what was really just an October surprise

783
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: that you know that that the media was hoping would

784
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: cost Trump the election. And I would also note they

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00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: had no problem just just Deep six and Billy Bush's

786
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,439
Speaker 1: career over that one too. You know, sorry, I gotta

787
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: gotta ruin your life. But if it hurts Trump, that's

788
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: the out of fude. But everything though, if it shreads

789
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: the constitution, but it hurts Trump. It's fine if it

790
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:38,399
Speaker 1: destroys due process, but it hurts Trump. It's fine if

791
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Speaker 1: it shows that we have no morals, no ethics, no

792
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 1: sense of fair player good faith, but it hurts Trump.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can fill in the blank. This is

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00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 1: where we are now. At least the dirsh is out

795
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: there making the case and trying to tell folks that

796
00:45:58,160 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 1: this is not this is not okay, it's not the

797
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: way it's it's supposed to be. What we're seeing is

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00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:06,399
Speaker 1: a bifurcation of the investigation. I think Mueller has now

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Speaker 1: acknowledged that he doesn't have the authority to look into

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00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: uh Mr Donald Trump's pre presidential activities, and so he's

801
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: filtered that off and given that to the Southern District

802
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,959
Speaker 1: of New York, which is now going to investigate those

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00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: aspects because apparently they couldn't find anything substantial. When it

804
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: comes to the president's exercise of his article to authority,

805
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 1: the president had the right to fire a COMI, he

806
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,839
Speaker 1: had the right to determine what was to be investigated.

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00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: He would have the right to pardon, though I don't

808
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: think it would be a wise thing to do at

809
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 1: this time. But they're now moving some of the case

810
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 1: over to the Southern District to look into some other

811
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Speaker 1: matters regarding his lawyer, his private activities, uh, some negotiated settlements.

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00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 1: That seems like a subterfuge by which Mueller uh doesn't

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00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,359
Speaker 1: have the authority, so he gives it to somebody else,

814
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: gives them the information. It's like laundering information to another

815
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:05,959
Speaker 1: prosecutor authority. Laundering information to prosecutorial authority. Professor jersh Wood

816
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: says there, why would any special council do that unless

817
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 1: they had a vendetta against the person who's a subject investigation.

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Speaker 1: Keep in mind, and I do think this is this

819
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: needs to be brought up. The special counsel's authority and

820
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 1: a special council's basis is not to investigate Donald Trump.

821
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 1: I feel like we've just been uh the media has

822
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:34,760
Speaker 1: been trying to brainwash us or just create a climate

823
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:36,879
Speaker 1: where we all accept that this has just turned into

824
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 1: an endless investigation of the sitting president by federal prosecutors.

825
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: That's actually not what they were authorized to do. They're

826
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Speaker 1: authorized to look into Russian interference in the election. That

827
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: is their authorization. It is not just to investigate Trump

828
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 1: and anyone who's ever talked to him. I would also

829
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: note that, you know, you you take this to the

830
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:04,800
Speaker 1: absurd lengths of what is possible, and then you understand

831
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Speaker 1: better why people like me get so angry about these orguments, Like, well,

832
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: they're allowed to do this. Well, yeah, you know, technically

833
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 1: a a prosecutor could keep coming up with theory after

834
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,359
Speaker 1: theory of why they have to keep investigating you once

835
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Speaker 1: they've opened a case. Right, well, we have to look

836
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: at this, We have to look at that, we have

837
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: to look at They can drag this out for really

838
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 1: as long as they want, even easier. Why aren't people

839
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 1: more upset by the way about Tax Week producer Mike,

840
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Speaker 1: I don't understand. I'm ready to take boxes of of

841
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 1: t that I haven't paid the proper you know, excise

842
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: taxes on or whatever, and throw them into the harbor.

843
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,240
Speaker 1: I do it in Philly, I do it in Boston.

844
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 1: I do it here in New York. I'm very upset

845
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:47,959
Speaker 1: about this whole tax situation. People don't get upset about

846
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:51,280
Speaker 1: it though, now, Like, yeah, we're all just like bleating

847
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: sheep walking around paying our taxes, paying our taxes. I

848
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: had I had a discussion with a friend recently I said,

849
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Speaker 1: you know she's all and she's like, oh, I'm back

850
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Speaker 1: my refund. No, you want to talk about Nancy Pelosi's

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Speaker 1: crumbs your refund, My friends, those are the crumbs because

852
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 1: it was your cake that they've already taken. They're just

853
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,839
Speaker 1: giving you back the crumbs. Where's Pelosi when we need

854
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 1: her busy making cake somewhere else? Ah, people should be

855
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 1: much more upset about the tax situation there. But the

856
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Speaker 1: I r S could basically investigate you forever. I know,

857
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: I could probably have an I r S former I

858
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Speaker 1: R S person call in or whatever and say, no, no, Buck,

859
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: we can't I I I know stories they basically can. Okay,

860
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 1: they can just keep it going. I need to see

861
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 1: this year's receipts in that year, and this year and

862
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:41,400
Speaker 1: that year. They go back for seven years. How long

863
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:43,759
Speaker 1: do you think that'll take if they wanted to. These

864
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: people were saying, oh, well, Mueller has the authority to

865
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 1: do this. You know, if you have someone who's a

866
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:52,879
Speaker 1: who's acting in bad faith and using the power that's

867
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:56,400
Speaker 1: given them by the state in bad faith, your protections

868
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: are a lot flimsier than you think they are. It's

869
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:02,359
Speaker 1: not that hard to get to get warrants for all

870
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff, and to look at it and then

871
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: to look, we're talking about a world in which an

872
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:12,840
Speaker 1: opposition document that you or I could have written basically

873
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 1: ended up being the basis for a fize a warrant

874
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 1: against a presidential campaign during a U S election. This

875
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: is the world that we live in now. But they're all, oh,

876
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna let's look at what the communications

877
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 1: with Stormy Daniels were, Like we're now the Access Hollywood tape.

878
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 1: Like I said, there's really no middle ground. You're either

879
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 1: in the bunker with Trump. You're either in the in

880
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 1: the Trump trench, or you're part of the hashtag resistance

881
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 1: at this point, or you can just be completely you

882
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: don't care about it and you know you live off

883
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,760
Speaker 1: the grid and whatever. But there's not a middle ground

884
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:51,920
Speaker 1: in this political debate right now because people are just

885
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 1: absolutely positively dedicated to ending this presidency anyway that they can.

886
00:50:58,040 --> 00:50:59,839
Speaker 1: And it's it's really a shame. You know that there's

887
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 1: a list of people that if I ever got the

888
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: opportunity in a public forum, I would really verbally obviously,

889
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 1: but I'd really go after them. Uh and and there

890
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: are a bunch of a bunch of them are prosecutors.

891
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, A bunch of them are

892
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,319
Speaker 1: high profile prosecutors because I think they I think that

893
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:21,879
Speaker 1: prosecutors who are politicized, particularly federal, but any prosecutors politicized

894
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 1: and acting unethically are the single most dangerous government official

895
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: to any American. So that's why, you know, Patrick Fitzgerald

896
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 1: and Comey and Muller and and I'd like to have

897
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 1: a real, a real robust public exchange of thoughts with

898
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: some of these folks about how they ruin lives. And

899
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: they do so with a smile on their face because

900
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:47,919
Speaker 1: they're just partisan hitman. That's what they're doing, taking people out,

901
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,320
Speaker 1: taking them off the part, off the political field of battle.

902
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 1: And that's what's motivating all this stuff with' from I mean,

903
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:57,439
Speaker 1: come on, everyone, the Access Hollywood tape, this is just

904
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:03,320
Speaker 1: a complete joke, SAP. It's not funny. We've got a

905
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: lot more coming up. I will tell you about it

906
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,240
Speaker 1: after this break. So, oh, we all have our Paul Ryan.

907
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 1: Paul Ryan is gonna become a P nine d X instructor.

908
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 1: Do you hear that? I just made that up? But

909
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 1: that's actually a great rumor. I think we should go

910
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:19,319
Speaker 1: with that. He's not gonna be Speaker of the House

911
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 1: after this fall, though, so maybe he will earn this

912
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Speaker 1: isn't that? Isn't that p ninet x. We wear the

913
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914
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: I've never earned it, So I don't know what I'm

915
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 1: talking about, but I pretty you know what you guys

916
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:36,439
Speaker 1: you watch infomercials. Don't make me be the weird one.

917
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:38,840
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918
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Speaker 1: The President Clari has the constitutional power to fairing. I

936
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,439
Speaker 1: think it would be an enormous mistake. I think he's

937
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,839
Speaker 1: far better off to let Mueller continue to be frustrated.

938
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 1: The truth is, Mueller has produced nothing about President Trump

939
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:54,840
Speaker 1: and Russia. If you just look at what his original

940
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 1: assignment was, it is a bust. It's an absurdity. And

941
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: instead they've gone off trying to find ways to create noise.

942
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 1: But in terms of what he was originally hasked to

943
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 1: look into, Uh, Robert Mueller has come up with a

944
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 1: big trapp zero Uh. And we ought to be honest

945
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 1: about that. The president a relaxed focus on being president. Uh.

946
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 1: Don't worry about Mueller. He's gonna go away. Uh. And

947
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: in the end, this is gonna turn out to be

948
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: a great deal of noise about nothing. So I disagree

949
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 1: with new before I told you, But here I am

950
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:27,359
Speaker 1: actually bringing new back on in sound bite for him

951
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 1: to agree with him. Yeah, fort House, I think he's right.

952
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 1: I think that the sacking. I know sometimes I get

953
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:36,759
Speaker 1: a little antsy about this when I'm like, you know what,

954
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:39,720
Speaker 1: it would be too much fun to bathe in liberal tears,

955
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:45,359
Speaker 1: fire him, fire Muller. But uh, fire Muller, fire Rosenstein.

956
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 1: It's probably not a good idea at this point. I know,

957
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:51,920
Speaker 1: I know you could yell at me, throw some tomatoes

958
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 1: at me. I I don't think that it's the right

959
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 1: move at this at this juncture, at this stage, Uh,

960
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: maybe me can be persuaded on Rosenstein, but not on

961
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: not on Mueller. And I also have to note, isn't

962
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,320
Speaker 1: fascinating of people who are think of themselves as constitutional

963
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 1: scholars and lawyers and they know this stuff disagree on

964
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:15,279
Speaker 1: Can the president fire Muller? You'll read different analysis of this, right,

965
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:17,520
Speaker 1: have you've seen right people say oh he can't? These

966
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 1: people say oh he can. Isn't this kind of a

967
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 1: go no go thing? Shouldn't we be aware of whether

968
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 1: or not Mueller is fireable by the President of the

969
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: United States? How can this be sort of Hey, and

970
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:32,000
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure, but then again, can the president

971
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,359
Speaker 1: fight a war in Syria without asking Congress? Or can

972
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:38,560
Speaker 1: he blow up everything in serious asking Congress? People say yes,

973
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 1: people say no. I guess there's a lot of uncertainty.

974
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:45,319
Speaker 1: Doesn't really doesn't really inspire a lot of confidence in

975
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:49,040
Speaker 1: our our system these days, does it? So? Oh yeah,

976
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: I've got to get to the Paul Ryan stuff coming

977
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:55,800
Speaker 1: up here? Are we even here? Were real quick? Today?

978
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 1: I'm announcing that this year will be my last one

979
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:00,840
Speaker 1: as a member of the House. To be clear, I

980
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,799
Speaker 1: am not resigning. I intend to fool my serve term

981
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:05,920
Speaker 1: as I was elected. You get it. We're gonna talk

982
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:07,719
Speaker 1: about this coming up here. What does that mean? Paul

983
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: Ryan not not going for for another round? We'll talk

984
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 1: about it. I want to be clear, I'm not done yet.

985
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 1: I intend to run through the tape to finish the year.

986
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 1: Some of you wonder why I can't just do the

987
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,279
Speaker 1: normal politician thing, and which is to run and then

988
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:29,320
Speaker 1: retire after the election. That is what I'm told is

989
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 1: the politically shrewd thing to do. I considered that, but

990
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:36,439
Speaker 1: just as my conscience is what got me to take

991
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:39,719
Speaker 1: this job in the first place, my conscience could not

992
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: handle going out that way, I pledged to serve the

993
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 1: people of Wisconsin the first District honorably. In order to

994
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:48,880
Speaker 1: serve the people on my district honorably, I have to

995
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:53,440
Speaker 1: show them honestly. And for me to ask them to

996
00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:56,439
Speaker 1: vote to re elect me knowing that I wasn't gonna

997
00:56:56,480 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 1: stay is not being honest. So I simply we cannot

998
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:04,479
Speaker 1: do that. So that Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan,

999
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 1: you may have caught this from earlier today, but jump

1000
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 1: into it together, my friends, Paul Ryan saying he's not

1001
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:12,800
Speaker 1: going to run for your life, Speak of the House,

1002
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: just siding, just gonna You're gonna hit the fifty dollars,

1003
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 1: maybe a hundred thousand dollars, No more than that, though,

1004
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: because he's not Hillary Clinton selling access. But he's gonna

1005
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 1: hit the fifty dollar speech lecture circuit. Probably. Uh, I'm

1006
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:29,840
Speaker 1: guessing either the chancellor of a right leaning university or

1007
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:35,439
Speaker 1: the president of a major and very well funded think tank.

1008
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:37,959
Speaker 1: That's what's in Paul Ryan's future. With probably some board

1009
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:40,800
Speaker 1: seats at some companies, he's gonna be just fine. He's

1010
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:42,919
Speaker 1: gonna be lighting his cigars with a hundred dollar bills

1011
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:45,840
Speaker 1: pretty soon. Here, I think, but he's he's leaving, and

1012
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:49,240
Speaker 1: people are asking a whole lot of questions. They're saying,

1013
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:51,080
Speaker 1: hold on a second, to speak of the House, right,

1014
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: we got the whole Trump wave, the Trump agenda. You're

1015
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 1: gonna leave now, You're you're gonna leave it. You've got

1016
00:57:57,120 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 1: a Republican president, You've got a Republican House and Senate.

1017
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:02,080
Speaker 1: You I want to be a part of the second

1018
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:05,680
Speaker 1: half of the first term of the Trump administration. I

1019
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 1: think that strikes some people as a little m hmm. Now,

1020
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 1: I know there are a lot of people out there

1021
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: who are big Trump supporters who are overjoyed and and

1022
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 1: quite relieved at the notion that Paul Ryan is not

1023
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 1: going to be run anymore. Look, you know, I'll tell

1024
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: you this. I've heard from people who know who know

1025
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 1: Congressman Ryan. Well these there was a very nice guy,

1026
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 1: a little uptight, but very nice guy. So I'm sure

1027
00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: he's a good dude. And yeah, I can imagine that

1028
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 1: after a while being away from your family the way

1029
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 1: that he has been, being a weekend only dad, if

1030
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:43,919
Speaker 1: you had the option not to be gets tiresome. I'm

1031
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 1: with all that, but it is public service, and you

1032
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 1: are the Speaker of the House. Right, You're you're not

1033
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:55,720
Speaker 1: like deputy under Assistant Secretaries assistant of Deputy under at

1034
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 1: the Commerce Department. Right, I mean this is this is

1035
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 1: kind of a big deal sort of matters. And you

1036
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:04,920
Speaker 1: get Paul Ryan. Now, so we we've heard the reason, right,

1037
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 1: he's oh, I've got to be uh, I've got to

1038
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 1: be close to my family and all that stuff. Okay,

1039
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 1: what do we really think is happening here? Right? Well?

1040
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: What are the other what are the unspoken reason? And

1041
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:18,520
Speaker 1: Trump has been very in the press conference that I

1042
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 1: know Sara Huckabee Sanders very favorable towards uh, towards Speaker Ryan,

1043
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 1: very willing to you know, to say that he's a

1044
00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 1: good guy and all that other stuff, which is which

1045
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:33,600
Speaker 1: I've heard is true. Um, what else is going on here? Well,

1046
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 1: let's take a little look. Let's take a gander at

1047
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:38,280
Speaker 1: what has happened, and then we can get a better

1048
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 1: since maybe of what might happen or what he thought

1049
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 1: would happen, and how that would affect the decision making

1050
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 1: process here. For Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, here's

1051
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 1: what he said about his accomplishments. When I took this

1052
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:56,440
Speaker 1: job one of my conditions was that we aim high,

1053
00:59:56,760 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 1: that we do big things, that we fashion agenda, uh,

1054
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:03,200
Speaker 1: that we run on that agenda, that we win an election,

1055
01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:05,919
Speaker 1: and then we execute that agenda. I am so proud

1056
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,800
Speaker 1: that that is exactly what we have done and what

1057
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 1: we are doing right now. We've accomplished so much since then.

1058
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 1: Probably the two biggest achievements for me our first the

1059
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 1: major reform of our tax code for the first time

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Speaker 1: in thirty six years. Second is to rebuild our nation's military,

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Speaker 1: and after tax reform, addressing our military readiness crisis. That

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Speaker 1: was a top priority that we got done last month

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Speaker 1: as well. These I see as lasting victories that will

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Speaker 1: make this country more prosperous and more secure for decades

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Speaker 1: to come. Yeah about that. Few thinks here. The tax

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Speaker 1: cut mostly so far still right, people have gotten their

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Speaker 1: bonus and stuff. But tax cuts gonna take a little

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01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:57,040
Speaker 1: while before we see what the full economic growth that

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Speaker 1: comes from it is. But it's a good But that's

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Speaker 1: about his mainstream down the center gops. You're gonna get

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Speaker 1: on anything if the GOP has the House to center

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Speaker 1: and the White House and they don't pass a tax cut. Uh, really,

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Speaker 1: what are we doing? Here folks. Right, so it's tough

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Speaker 1: for me to get too excited about that. Yeah, it's good,

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Speaker 1: but you kind of expect that, right. You know if

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01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:21,440
Speaker 1: if you invite someone over to uh to cook a

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01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:24,840
Speaker 1: meal in your house, you know, it's it's nice if

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01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:28,160
Speaker 1: they like, pour you a glass of wine first, but

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Speaker 1: you're also hoping there's gonna be food, right, It's it's

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Speaker 1: not just there's gonna be a little more to it

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Speaker 1: than that first step. And I think that the tax guns,

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01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:37,760
Speaker 1: while they're good, it's easy to say that's great. Um.

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Speaker 1: And then the whole thing about the military readiness crisis? Uh,

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Speaker 1: how do you say this without people starting to yell

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Speaker 1: at you. I do get the sense that there it's

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Speaker 1: military spending for some folks is never enough. Whatever it

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01:01:54,680 --> 01:01:57,920
Speaker 1: is not enough. There is a point in which it's

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01:01:57,960 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 1: more than we should be spending. Are we there? Are

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01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 1: we close? We're probably close? But okay, Republicans also spend

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Speaker 1: more in the military. Republicans are spending more in general.

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Speaker 1: What did Paul Ryan not tackle though, let's let's get

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Speaker 1: on that, or what did the Republican Party, Because really,

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Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, and he's supposed to be you know,

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01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:21,360
Speaker 1: hand in glove with Trump on the Trump agenda, what

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01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 1: do they not really get done? Well, I mean, as

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01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 1: was making the rounds today, they passed Obamacare repealing in place,

1097
01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:33,880
Speaker 1: didn't become law though, they passed Kate Kate's Law, and

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01:02:33,920 --> 01:02:36,560
Speaker 1: they went after sanctuary cities, but that's also still being

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01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:40,200
Speaker 1: adjudicated in the courts, and didn't really do all that much. Um,

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01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 1: school choice for d C. That's nice, but just DC

1101
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:51,480
Speaker 1: not a lot of monumental legislative achievements in this term

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01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:54,760
Speaker 1: or you know, in the last eighteen months or so,

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01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:59,120
Speaker 1: when you finally had unified Republican government. I think it's

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01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:01,920
Speaker 1: get a little bit. I think it's a little too

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01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:04,720
Speaker 1: simplistic for Paul Ryan to walk off and say, yeah,

1106
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:06,960
Speaker 1: it's been great. I already hit a couple of homers. No,

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01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 1: you got on base. You got on base a couple

1108
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:14,000
Speaker 1: of times, which is nice, but that's not really why

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01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:16,320
Speaker 1: he's you know, it's not like he's done enough that

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01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 1: now it's all over and everything's gonna be fine. Then

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01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:24,400
Speaker 1: you get into some of the other things, Um, well,

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Speaker 1: you know here fine, before I get into the other

1113
01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:28,520
Speaker 1: side of this, there the more and some of you

1114
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 1: who are not Paul. My problem with Paul Ryan is

1115
01:03:30,760 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 1: on immigration. He's terrible, folks. If you don't know this,

1116
01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:36,160
Speaker 1: he's awful. He's like, yeah, I guess like, let's just

1117
01:03:36,200 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 1: bring in the and as many guest workers as humanly possible.

1118
01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 1: Let them stay here, work here, take jobs, because they're

1119
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:44,880
Speaker 1: not gonna just like stay and have kids and then

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Speaker 1: get benefits and they're just gonna come in, do work

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Speaker 1: and leave, right. I mean, the Chamber of Commerce was

1122
01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:54,440
Speaker 1: pulling the strings with Paul Ryan for a long time. Yeah,

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01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 1: that's what was going on, whether it was directly through

1124
01:03:57,360 --> 01:04:01,320
Speaker 1: them or they just shared in ideology him and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, Dollar was king for a lot of the

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01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 1: decision making about immigration. Not much I can tell you everybody.

1127
01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:10,480
Speaker 1: Here's here's Newt, another former speaker. I'll just I'll let

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Speaker 1: him have his say about Ryan before I take the

1129
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:18,640
Speaker 1: It's like the contrarian view here for the Republicans, We've

1130
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 1: got lots of talent. I think either Scalie or McCarthy

1131
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 1: would be a very good speaker. Obviously, Paul is a

1132
01:04:24,760 --> 01:04:29,560
Speaker 1: unique person. He's a great policy person, but he's gotten

1133
01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:32,840
Speaker 1: the regulation. He has now gotten welfare reformed with the

1134
01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:36,000
Speaker 1: President statements this week. He helped pass the big tax

1135
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 1: cut he always wanted to help pass. I think from

1136
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:41,520
Speaker 1: his perspective, he's gotten a lot of things done he

1137
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:44,360
Speaker 1: believes in. I think we'll find somebody who will be

1138
01:04:44,360 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 1: a good speaker in our job thenal be to beat

1139
01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:51,760
Speaker 1: the Democrats and make sure we have a majority. Okay,

1140
01:04:52,200 --> 01:04:54,680
Speaker 1: you know knew it was knew it was being generous there,

1141
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:57,240
Speaker 1: which you should be when someone's now. Keep mind, it's

1142
01:04:57,240 --> 01:04:59,640
Speaker 1: not like he retired today or he's he's still gonna

1143
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 1: be speaking of the House until until the fall um

1144
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 1: or until early next year. But you notice there's a

1145
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: little bit of like, yeah, everybody's ducking out. We got

1146
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:11,280
Speaker 1: other great people out. Don't worry, we got other great people.

1147
01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:13,760
Speaker 1: Why would Paul Ryan be ducking out here? Here's here's

1148
01:05:13,760 --> 01:05:17,480
Speaker 1: one version. Ryan was gonna be the guy who got

1149
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:22,080
Speaker 1: blamed when I'm just gonna say it, and this is

1150
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:24,440
Speaker 1: not the happy talk moment, this is not we are

1151
01:05:24,480 --> 01:05:27,440
Speaker 1: all gonna love this. No something. You may not like

1152
01:05:27,520 --> 01:05:30,080
Speaker 1: to hear this, but I keep it real. I keep

1153
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:34,120
Speaker 1: it one d in the freedom hud and I if

1154
01:05:34,160 --> 01:05:38,280
Speaker 1: the Republicans lose the House, which is a possibility, my

1155
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:42,520
Speaker 1: friends could actually happen. Uh, then you'd have a Then

1156
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:45,680
Speaker 1: he'd be in the minority. And a lot of a

1157
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:48,640
Speaker 1: lot of those who think that the Trump agenda has stalled,

1158
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:52,240
Speaker 1: they're not gonna blame Trump for that. They would blame

1159
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:56,440
Speaker 1: Paul Ryan. They would blame the establishment. And there are

1160
01:05:56,520 --> 01:06:00,360
Speaker 1: no there are no better emblems of the of the

1161
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:03,440
Speaker 1: Republican establishment than Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. They are

1162
01:06:03,560 --> 01:06:08,200
Speaker 1: as establishment as it gets, right. So I think Ryan

1163
01:06:08,320 --> 01:06:10,040
Speaker 1: is like, you know what, I'm gonna get out while

1164
01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:13,200
Speaker 1: things are good. Uh. And I'm sure all this stuff

1165
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:14,920
Speaker 1: he said about the family is true. I don't think

1166
01:06:14,920 --> 01:06:17,200
Speaker 1: he was making any of that up or anything. But

1167
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:19,560
Speaker 1: I just there's other things going on here too that

1168
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:23,880
Speaker 1: we should pay attention to, not just because you know

1169
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:26,200
Speaker 1: the speaker of the House. He's gonna be now his

1170
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:28,120
Speaker 1: seat is up. By the way, I think only Paul

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01:06:28,280 --> 01:06:31,880
Speaker 1: Nilan am I right about this, is set to run

1172
01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:35,720
Speaker 1: for because Naylan was gonna run who from this, just

1173
01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:39,440
Speaker 1: from the stuff I've seen on Twitter, that guy is crazy.

1174
01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 1: Naylan was gonna run against Ryan, and without any support

1175
01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:47,000
Speaker 1: from the GOP for when I said it all this

1176
01:06:47,040 --> 01:06:49,520
Speaker 1: guy is like, whoa, he's way out there. Now, They've

1177
01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:51,080
Speaker 1: got to put it in another candidate. And I think

1178
01:06:51,120 --> 01:06:55,440
Speaker 1: they're actually gonna amount to pretty serious Democrat, uh contender

1179
01:06:55,680 --> 01:06:59,440
Speaker 1: for that seat to make a statement against whoever the

1180
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:01,400
Speaker 1: actual or it's not gonna now and whoever the actual

1181
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 1: Republican is that they that they put in there. But

1182
01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:07,919
Speaker 1: I think that Ryan realizes that, you know what better

1183
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:10,920
Speaker 1: to remember when Michael Jordan's like left and he was

1184
01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:12,120
Speaker 1: at the top of his he was at the top

1185
01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:14,520
Speaker 1: of his game, right, and he's just like Michael Jordan's

1186
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 1: basic he was the sports equivalent of a superhero. In fact,

1187
01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 1: he was even in a cartoon, a Saturday Morning cartoon

1188
01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:22,920
Speaker 1: that I remember with Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jordan, you know

1189
01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:25,800
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about and Bo Jackson. That's right, Brandon.

1190
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:27,959
Speaker 1: Uh what was it called the All Stars or something

1191
01:07:28,040 --> 01:07:30,200
Speaker 1: or it was the All Stars. Yeah, we're like they

1192
01:07:30,200 --> 01:07:32,560
Speaker 1: were I didn't even were they fighting crime or so,

1193
01:07:32,600 --> 01:07:34,840
Speaker 1: I don't know, but you know, basketball hockey stick and

1194
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:37,120
Speaker 1: Bo Jackson in the baseball bat and they're just like

1195
01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:41,680
Speaker 1: being awesome. And Michael Jordan was basically a superhero. And

1196
01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:44,240
Speaker 1: then he decided to come back to the NBA after

1197
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:47,200
Speaker 1: going to the and he was he was still still

1198
01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:49,480
Speaker 1: a superhero. But then he started playing for the Wizards

1199
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Speaker 1: that it was kind of like, oh, like he's has

1200
01:07:51,520 --> 01:07:54,000
Speaker 1: one does he's getting older and everything. It's like he's

1201
01:07:54,040 --> 01:07:57,440
Speaker 1: not a superhero anymore. I'm not saying that Paul Ryan's superhero.

1202
01:07:57,520 --> 01:07:59,120
Speaker 1: I'm just saying he doesn't want to be the guy

1203
01:07:59,720 --> 01:08:01,480
Speaker 1: who was at the kind of the top of the

1204
01:08:01,560 --> 01:08:06,400
Speaker 1: game and then all of a sudden is like coming

1205
01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:08,520
Speaker 1: off the bench in the fourth quarter for five minutes

1206
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:10,160
Speaker 1: at a game that nobody cares about, you know what

1207
01:08:10,200 --> 01:08:11,560
Speaker 1: I mean, Like, he doesn't want to be that guy.

1208
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:16,680
Speaker 1: And I think this is his avoidance of that possibility

1209
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:19,320
Speaker 1: that we see going. I think that's the primary reason

1210
01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:22,479
Speaker 1: that Paul Ryan decided, you know what, I'm gonna get

1211
01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:24,800
Speaker 1: out of here, because he doesn't want to be the

1212
01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:27,600
Speaker 1: establishment fall guy if the midterms go badly, and you

1213
01:08:27,640 --> 01:08:29,479
Speaker 1: know what, I think that would have happened if they had.

1214
01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:31,720
Speaker 1: So that's my that's my assessment of it. And all

1215
01:08:31,760 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 1: of you who are like boo, Paul Ryan, I know,

1216
01:08:34,120 --> 01:08:37,040
Speaker 1: I know, I get it. I get he's a nice guy,

1217
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:39,400
Speaker 1: but I get it terrible on immigration, as I said,

1218
01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:42,400
Speaker 1: I mean among the worst Republicans on it. I mean

1219
01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:47,120
Speaker 1: he's like, he's almost like fundamentalist open borders libertarian bad

1220
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:50,320
Speaker 1: on immigration, because there's some fundamentalist libertarians and on immigration

1221
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:54,200
Speaker 1: who are just wacko. Anyway, So that's my pol Those

1222
01:08:54,200 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 1: are my Paul Ryan thoughts. We'll be right back with

1223
01:08:56,880 --> 01:09:00,320
Speaker 1: all of his term oil, particularly this last week. Tests

1224
01:09:00,320 --> 01:09:04,880
Speaker 1: the President at any time about stepping down before or now? No,

1225
01:09:05,040 --> 01:09:10,120
Speaker 1: And I think that's an absolutely ridiculous questions. So that's

1226
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Speaker 1: an April Ryan. Who is with NPR. Who's April Ryan with?

1227
01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:18,400
Speaker 1: I think she's with Let me sit here, let me

1228
01:09:18,439 --> 01:09:20,880
Speaker 1: check as as on on air, I need to make

1229
01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:25,960
Speaker 1: sure April Ryan is with? Uh who is she with?

1230
01:09:26,280 --> 01:09:29,280
Speaker 1: I don't even know. She's a journalist, well known. I'm

1231
01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:32,880
Speaker 1: just forgetting who exactly she whatever, doesn't matter, Okay. So

1232
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 1: she's a journalist for one of the big outlets, and

1233
01:09:36,240 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 1: and she asked at a press conference is the President

1234
01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:43,160
Speaker 1: thinking about stepping down? Which I can tell you the

1235
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:46,719
Speaker 1: answer is no. President is not thinking about stepping down.

1236
01:09:47,320 --> 01:09:49,280
Speaker 1: And I do think that there's a point at which

1237
01:09:49,400 --> 01:09:53,720
Speaker 1: the the questions from the media it's fair to ask, like,

1238
01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:58,240
Speaker 1: is this just blatantly disrespectful? You know, has this crossed

1239
01:09:58,280 --> 01:10:01,800
Speaker 1: over from asking tough questions to asking questions that are

1240
01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:04,559
Speaker 1: the equivalent of, you know, when did you stop eating

1241
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:07,080
Speaker 1: your wife? I mean, that's a question, but it's not

1242
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 1: something that posed in the West wing of the White

1243
01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 1: House you would expect, right that that or that you

1244
01:10:13,360 --> 01:10:17,800
Speaker 1: would accept, I would think, But it is indicative I

1245
01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:21,920
Speaker 1: think of the Trump dearrangement syndrome in its total reach,

1246
01:10:22,680 --> 01:10:25,200
Speaker 1: that the the Overton window, you know, the Overton window

1247
01:10:25,320 --> 01:10:29,000
Speaker 1: is what is considered acceptable to discuss what the realm

1248
01:10:29,040 --> 01:10:31,599
Speaker 1: of acceptable discussion is at any point in time. The

1249
01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:36,840
Speaker 1: Overton window on Trump is is constantly shifting and and

1250
01:10:36,880 --> 01:10:41,719
Speaker 1: it's always shifting negatively against Trump though, right, So, sometimes

1251
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:44,759
Speaker 1: you can get away with a whole lot more Trump

1252
01:10:44,840 --> 01:10:48,799
Speaker 1: bashing in certain areas, but you can always essentially bash

1253
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:54,680
Speaker 1: Trump all in all the time. And that's what you

1254
01:10:54,720 --> 01:10:56,920
Speaker 1: saw that Now. I would note that Ryan has gotten

1255
01:10:56,920 --> 01:11:00,439
Speaker 1: a lot of of pushback from this, and and even

1256
01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:03,640
Speaker 1: some worse stuff too. The reason why I asked the

1257
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:05,960
Speaker 1: question was not about Democratic Republican It was not a

1258
01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:08,439
Speaker 1: partisan thing. It was a reporter asking the question. But

1259
01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:11,599
Speaker 1: people have gone into their tribes and some are saying

1260
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:14,680
Speaker 1: that was a great question. Mostly people who do not

1261
01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:17,920
Speaker 1: support this president, and those who supporting this president are outraged,

1262
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:20,200
Speaker 1: are angry. I've been getting death threats and we've been

1263
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:24,840
Speaker 1: calling the FBI. Now, yeah, I gotta I got a

1264
01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:26,800
Speaker 1: couple of things to say on this, all right. First

1265
01:11:26,840 --> 01:11:30,840
Speaker 1: of all, anyone who ever threatens any journalist over what

1266
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:33,320
Speaker 1: they say or their question is is an imbecile and

1267
01:11:33,520 --> 01:11:35,360
Speaker 1: and and should be a report of the authorities. But

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Speaker 1: you don't make death threats against people, period, right, So

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01:11:38,600 --> 01:11:41,040
Speaker 1: I don't need to say that, but I just you know,

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Speaker 1: in case media Matters is listening, let me see that.

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Speaker 1: But then I also want to say this, Uh, I

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Speaker 1: don't know many people who work in media who haven't

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01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:53,639
Speaker 1: gotten terrible threats. I've gotten terrible threats. All my friends

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01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:56,200
Speaker 1: have gotten terrible death threats, threats of violence. I mean,

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01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:58,200
Speaker 1: really really bad stuff. I know plenty of people in

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01:11:58,280 --> 01:12:01,880
Speaker 1: media who have had threats against their families as well.

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Speaker 1: I mean, don't you get me started. I used to

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01:12:03,720 --> 01:12:06,200
Speaker 1: work I was a colleague of Dana Lashes at the Blaze.

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Speaker 1: What do you think that was like for Dana of

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01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:11,760
Speaker 1: and I can talk about a whole bunch of other

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01:12:11,800 --> 01:12:15,439
Speaker 1: people in the same category of of of threats and

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01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:18,360
Speaker 1: they just thinks. I think it's a little you know,

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01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:20,800
Speaker 1: it's a little bit like, oh, I'm getting threats. And now, look,

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01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:23,679
Speaker 1: she asked a very it was a very dumb question.

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01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:27,519
Speaker 1: It was a very dumb question. Um. That doesn't make

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01:12:27,520 --> 01:12:29,880
Speaker 1: her a bad person, It doesn't mean that anyone should

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01:12:30,320 --> 01:12:32,960
Speaker 1: be mean to her, but it's a dumb question. I

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01:12:33,040 --> 01:12:40,160
Speaker 1: think it's indicative of the press cores, lack of of um,

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Speaker 1: you know, underpinnings, lack of a framework for what is

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01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:47,760
Speaker 1: reasonable and rational with Trump, right, So that's no one

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01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:50,560
Speaker 1: ever would asked Obama that question or or Bush that

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01:12:50,680 --> 01:12:52,840
Speaker 1: question before him, no matter what we're talking about, no

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01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:56,680
Speaker 1: matter what period. But also you always gotta be a

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01:12:56,680 --> 01:12:58,559
Speaker 1: little when journalists start to do the whole Oh you know,

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01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:00,960
Speaker 1: I've been getting death threats. Death threats terrible, nobody should

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01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:03,360
Speaker 1: get them, but we all we all get that threats. Okay,

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01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:06,360
Speaker 1: So in this day of Twitter and Facebook, I can't

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01:13:06,360 --> 01:13:08,599
Speaker 1: even tell you know, oh my gosh, the stuff that's

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01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:09,800
Speaker 1: out there that if you're going to be in the

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01:13:09,800 --> 01:13:12,479
Speaker 1: public eye, you deal with so that that part of

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01:13:12,520 --> 01:13:14,479
Speaker 1: it I felt a little bit like, yeah, a report

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01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:18,360
Speaker 1: of the FBI, but it's not really germane to the

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01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:20,640
Speaker 1: discussion of why would you ask the president that? And

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01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:23,200
Speaker 1: the answer is because the press believe that that's a

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01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:25,200
Speaker 1: legitimate question, which tells us a lot more about the

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01:13:25,200 --> 01:13:27,040
Speaker 1: press than it does about the President. I want to

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01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:32,080
Speaker 1: talk to you about parenting, schools and elitism and also

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01:13:32,520 --> 01:13:35,960
Speaker 1: many bats amazing lineup coming up for the next hour.

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Speaker 1: Stay with me. Now, I am not a parent, so

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01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:42,400
Speaker 1: I have no expertise in this matter, but I do

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01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:46,479
Speaker 1: like to pretend to know about these things. Maybe because

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01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:50,400
Speaker 1: I had very good parents, um, also just because I

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01:13:50,439 --> 01:13:54,720
Speaker 1: find the whole the battles over parenting are fascinating to

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01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:57,400
Speaker 1: analyze as an outsider. So so maybe in a sense,

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01:13:57,400 --> 01:14:00,840
Speaker 1: even though I have no firsthand experience, I'm an objective

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01:14:00,960 --> 01:14:05,760
Speaker 1: observer of how people parent their kids. Like for example, today,

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01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:09,240
Speaker 1: I may have, in my losing battle against dad bod

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01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:12,920
Speaker 1: gone to the gym and there was a woman there

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01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:15,720
Speaker 1: who this is not no, no no, it's not like that

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01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:18,599
Speaker 1: kind of a story. It's not like, hey, I haven't

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01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:20,439
Speaker 1: seen you the gym in a while. No, no, it's not.

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01:14:20,479 --> 01:14:22,479
Speaker 1: It's not a fun gym story like that. She was,

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01:14:22,760 --> 01:14:28,120
Speaker 1: you know, clearly a mom with her baby. And uh,

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01:14:28,280 --> 01:14:30,599
Speaker 1: I will say that I could tell from hearing her

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01:14:30,600 --> 01:14:33,599
Speaker 1: speak that she was also foreign but irrelevant from where

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01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:36,559
Speaker 1: but mom with a baby in a foreign accent and

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01:14:36,640 --> 01:14:39,000
Speaker 1: brings the baby into a gym where people are doing

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01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:44,920
Speaker 1: like kettle bell swings and lifting bar bells with serious

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01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:47,640
Speaker 1: weight on them, you know, a gym, Jim. And this

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01:14:47,680 --> 01:14:49,800
Speaker 1: woman had just decided to I don't know why she

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01:14:49,920 --> 01:14:52,960
Speaker 1: wanted it. And she's like putting the baby on the treadmill.

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01:14:53,040 --> 01:14:55,080
Speaker 1: I mean a baby like a toddler. Well maybe that's

1333
01:14:55,120 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 1: not a baby, but you know two years old, like

1334
01:14:56,880 --> 01:14:59,160
Speaker 1: has unsteady legs and needs to be kind of help,

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01:14:59,320 --> 01:15:01,559
Speaker 1: puts her on the te readmill. Like, and I'm sitting

1336
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:04,200
Speaker 1: and watching this. They're like, whoa, I mean, technically there's

1337
01:15:04,200 --> 01:15:06,400
Speaker 1: an eighteen and over policy for the gym that I

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01:15:06,439 --> 01:15:09,439
Speaker 1: happened to be it. And the mom comes over and

1339
01:15:09,439 --> 01:15:13,000
Speaker 1: she's turning on the baby on the treadmill. Hold, I'm like, no, no,

1340
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:15,720
Speaker 1: treadmill not a toy. No, no, this is not and

1341
01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:18,800
Speaker 1: I but I'll tell you I was held back because

1342
01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:22,639
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, it's not my place, it's

1343
01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:26,280
Speaker 1: not my baby. I'm not a parent. You know, people

1344
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 1: will say I'm being curmudgeonly, which is always a daily

1345
01:15:29,439 --> 01:15:31,519
Speaker 1: struggle for me. So I'm just gonna let it go.

1346
01:15:32,080 --> 01:15:34,920
Speaker 1: And sure, after a little while, you know, she she's

1347
01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:37,120
Speaker 1: scurried out of there, and everything was fine, The baby

1348
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:40,320
Speaker 1: was fine. But I remember thinking to myself, like, this

1349
01:15:40,479 --> 01:15:43,479
Speaker 1: is not smart, right, Like this is dare I say,

1350
01:15:43,520 --> 01:15:46,680
Speaker 1: even as a non parent, it is bad parenting to

1351
01:15:46,840 --> 01:15:49,720
Speaker 1: bring your tiny toddler into a gym environment, let the

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01:15:49,880 --> 01:15:53,919
Speaker 1: tiny toddler walk around when people are swinging literally swinging

1353
01:15:53,960 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 1: heavy weights, Like I just think that's a bad move, right,

1354
01:15:57,360 --> 01:15:59,040
Speaker 1: I think so, and I think we can all agree

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01:15:59,040 --> 01:16:02,400
Speaker 1: on that. But people can very sensitive about criticism of parents,

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01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:10,280
Speaker 1: particularly criticism of parents from people entrusted with the children

1357
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:15,000
Speaker 1: of other parents, like teachers, for example. And that's why

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01:16:15,040 --> 01:16:18,439
Speaker 1: this particular post. I guess this is continuing. You know,

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01:16:18,439 --> 01:16:21,200
Speaker 1: I like to talk about education on the show higher

1360
01:16:21,240 --> 01:16:25,280
Speaker 1: education college stuff or fermtive action college admissions. Well here

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01:16:25,280 --> 01:16:28,040
Speaker 1: I'm talking to you about like kids that do fingerpainting

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01:16:28,040 --> 01:16:30,439
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Those kinds of kids and their

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01:16:30,479 --> 01:16:34,880
Speaker 1: teachers in Bastrop, Texas, which I'll admit i'd never heard

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01:16:34,880 --> 01:16:38,439
Speaker 1: of before today. Are you, gentlemen, familiar with Bastrop. It's

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01:16:38,479 --> 01:16:41,120
Speaker 1: lovely this time of year, you know, you know what

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01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:43,240
Speaker 1: a good thing about Texas is just be like, they're

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01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:45,760
Speaker 1: really into their football there. And you know what, even

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01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:48,160
Speaker 1: if it's not true, you haven't offended anybody. And there's

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01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:52,320
Speaker 1: like a chance they're like, damn right, let's see. I've

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01:16:52,360 --> 01:16:56,080
Speaker 1: learned the tricks. I know things. So in Basstrop, Texas,

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01:16:56,160 --> 01:17:00,360
Speaker 1: there's a teacher. Oh it's a So it's suburban Dallas. Okay,

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01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:01,880
Speaker 1: So it's a suburb of Dallas. I thought it was

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01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:04,880
Speaker 1: its own town. That doesn't count. That's like a neighborhood. Um.

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01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:08,799
Speaker 1: She expressed her frustration, and and this has been shared

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01:17:08,840 --> 01:17:12,120
Speaker 1: more than four hundred thousand times on Facebook, so this

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01:17:12,160 --> 01:17:15,520
Speaker 1: has gone viral. This is a teacher named Julie, Julie Marburger.

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01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:18,880
Speaker 1: She writes, I left work early today after an incident

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01:17:18,920 --> 01:17:22,200
Speaker 1: with a parent left me unable emotionally to continue for

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01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:25,679
Speaker 1: the day. I've already made the decision to leave teaching

1380
01:17:25,680 --> 01:17:28,080
Speaker 1: at the end of this year, and today I don't

1381
01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:31,320
Speaker 1: know if I will even make it that long. Parents

1382
01:17:31,320 --> 01:17:35,160
Speaker 1: have become far too disrespectful and their children are even worse.

1383
01:17:35,560 --> 01:17:39,200
Speaker 1: Administration always seems to air on the side of keeping

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01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:42,360
Speaker 1: the parent happy, which leaves me with no way to

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01:17:42,479 --> 01:17:46,000
Speaker 1: do the job I was hired to do teach kids.

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01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:49,120
Speaker 1: I am including photos that I took in my classroom

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01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:52,000
Speaker 1: over the past two days. This is how my classroom

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01:17:52,120 --> 01:17:55,680
Speaker 1: regularly looks after students spend the day there. Heap in

1389
01:17:55,720 --> 01:17:58,080
Speaker 1: mind that many of the items damaged or destroyed by

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01:17:58,120 --> 01:18:02,200
Speaker 1: my students are my personal possessions or I purchased myself

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01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:06,559
Speaker 1: because I have no classroom budget. Uh. Report, she goes

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01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:07,840
Speaker 1: by the way, this goes on at length, so I

1393
01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:10,120
Speaker 1: won't read the whole thing. Report cards come out later

1394
01:18:10,160 --> 01:18:13,080
Speaker 1: this week, and I'm nearly half of my students failing

1395
01:18:13,160 --> 01:18:16,560
Speaker 1: due to multiple missing assignments. I guess these aren't I

1396
01:18:16,560 --> 01:18:19,240
Speaker 1: guess they're not doing finger painting. Whoops, Wait a second,

1397
01:18:19,280 --> 01:18:22,640
Speaker 1: how old are these kids? Because the classroom is trashed.

1398
01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:25,479
Speaker 1: I gotta find out how old I assumed based on

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01:18:25,560 --> 01:18:28,439
Speaker 1: because I looked at the photos and it looks like

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01:18:28,479 --> 01:18:30,599
Speaker 1: a pack of wild animals are running around in there,

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01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:33,960
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to see Uh, I guess they're they're

1402
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:36,200
Speaker 1: gotta be old enough to have homework, which means that

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01:18:36,240 --> 01:18:40,479
Speaker 1: they're not toddlers. They're not finger painting level. Um. Although

1404
01:18:40,520 --> 01:18:41,920
Speaker 1: I know there's some colleges now where I think you

1405
01:18:41,920 --> 01:18:45,120
Speaker 1: can major in finger painting. I've never heard of a

1406
01:18:45,120 --> 01:18:47,519
Speaker 1: profession back to her viral post here where people put

1407
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:49,439
Speaker 1: so much of their heart and soul into their job. Okay,

1408
01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:51,759
Speaker 1: teachers are amazing, right, I get it. We all agree,

1409
01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:54,200
Speaker 1: fun Um. It has been a dream of mine for

1410
01:18:54,240 --> 01:18:55,879
Speaker 1: as long as I can remember, to have a classroom

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01:18:55,880 --> 01:18:58,840
Speaker 1: of my own. People. Absolutely, here's where we go. Here's

1412
01:18:58,840 --> 01:19:02,200
Speaker 1: back into the parenting stuff. Absolutely have to stop coddling

1413
01:19:02,240 --> 01:19:04,880
Speaker 1: and enabling their children. It's a problem that's going to

1414
01:19:04,920 --> 01:19:08,960
Speaker 1: spread through our society like wildfire. It's not fair to society,

1415
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 1: and more importantly, it's not fair to the cheach to

1416
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:13,920
Speaker 1: the children to teach them. It's okay, it will not

1417
01:19:14,000 --> 01:19:16,800
Speaker 1: serve them towards a successful and happy life. All right.

1418
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:18,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this as an out from an

1419
01:19:18,400 --> 01:19:21,599
Speaker 1: outsider's perspective as a nonparent hoping to be a parent

1420
01:19:21,640 --> 01:19:23,360
Speaker 1: in the next couple of years. But as a nonparent,

1421
01:19:25,120 --> 01:19:28,559
Speaker 1: I feel like kids are Bratti or now? I feel like, right,

1422
01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:30,600
Speaker 1: I mean, Brandon and Michael look at me, They're like

1423
01:19:30,640 --> 01:19:33,920
Speaker 1: absolutely kids are Bratti or now? They just are. Something

1424
01:19:33,960 --> 01:19:37,360
Speaker 1: has changed in our society. You know, things do change.

1425
01:19:37,600 --> 01:19:41,160
Speaker 1: It used to. You know, your technology changes, social more

1426
01:19:41,240 --> 01:19:44,479
Speaker 1: raise change. Things do change over time. And you know,

1427
01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:47,920
Speaker 1: when I'm in restaurants now it has become that's right,

1428
01:19:47,960 --> 01:19:49,559
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of get off my lawn coming

1429
01:19:49,600 --> 01:19:51,559
Speaker 1: your way here. When I'm in restaurants now, it is

1430
01:19:51,680 --> 01:19:55,960
Speaker 1: it is now almost normal for a kid to be

1431
01:19:56,080 --> 01:19:59,519
Speaker 1: kept quiet with an iPad, that they have the volume

1432
01:19:59,640 --> 01:20:03,720
Speaker 1: on at a at a restaurant, at a place of

1433
01:20:03,720 --> 01:20:07,559
Speaker 1: of relaxation and culinary enjoyment. Right, I don't care if

1434
01:20:07,600 --> 01:20:11,439
Speaker 1: it's Le cirque or if it's low Wendy's kids should

1435
01:20:11,439 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 1: be able to sit there, enjoy their food, and if

1436
01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:17,320
Speaker 1: they're not older to engage in conversation, at least be quiet.

1437
01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:20,400
Speaker 1: I'm okay with the I got a little coloring book

1438
01:20:20,479 --> 01:20:22,200
Speaker 1: or something because that doesn't bother me. Right, I'm not

1439
01:20:23,200 --> 01:20:26,760
Speaker 1: I'm not a monster, right, I'm not the demon from Frankenstein.

1440
01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:30,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I understand, but you can't have the noisies

1441
01:20:30,240 --> 01:20:33,760
Speaker 1: you can't have an iPad playing a movie SpongeBob spadrop.

1442
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:36,000
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm I'm on a date over here. Kid.

1443
01:20:36,080 --> 01:20:39,200
Speaker 1: You know, I know you're five or in some cases fifteen.

1444
01:20:39,240 --> 01:20:42,560
Speaker 1: I mean, some of these kids, no rules, no manners whatsoever.

1445
01:20:42,880 --> 01:20:45,000
Speaker 1: It's just too much. And I think it starts very young.

1446
01:20:45,439 --> 01:20:47,720
Speaker 1: And I think it's because there's a culture now of

1447
01:20:48,360 --> 01:20:51,840
Speaker 1: you know, you do you when it comes to parenting. No. No,

1448
01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:56,040
Speaker 1: there are the grumpy single people out there like me

1449
01:20:56,200 --> 01:20:58,280
Speaker 1: who are not parents, who I think have a duty.

1450
01:20:58,320 --> 01:21:01,439
Speaker 1: I think we have an obligation when parenting is not

1451
01:21:01,600 --> 01:21:03,760
Speaker 1: is not up to up to par in in the

1452
01:21:03,760 --> 01:21:07,760
Speaker 1: public square to say, you know what, take you know,

1453
01:21:07,920 --> 01:21:12,000
Speaker 1: little little fauntal Roy over here. You know, by the way,

1454
01:21:12,040 --> 01:21:14,799
Speaker 1: they all they've all got their all name like Casper.

1455
01:21:14,880 --> 01:21:18,120
Speaker 1: Now you know, they all have these like these literary names.

1456
01:21:18,439 --> 01:21:21,640
Speaker 1: It's just you know, Bartholomew Casper. You know, it's like,

1457
01:21:21,680 --> 01:21:26,160
Speaker 1: you know, what whatever happened? Like Mike and and Brandon

1458
01:21:26,200 --> 01:21:28,360
Speaker 1: and John and Tom. You know. Now all these kids

1459
01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:31,120
Speaker 1: have these names. It sounds like they pulled them out

1460
01:21:31,120 --> 01:21:33,599
Speaker 1: of a Harry Potter book, which they probably did, now

1461
01:21:33,600 --> 01:21:35,360
Speaker 1: that I'm saying it, out loud that that's probably how

1462
01:21:35,400 --> 01:21:37,479
Speaker 1: they got the name. But I think it will be

1463
01:21:37,479 --> 01:21:39,920
Speaker 1: better if we just all understood that it's a It

1464
01:21:40,360 --> 01:21:43,160
Speaker 1: is everyone's business when a kid is misbehaving in public.

1465
01:21:43,640 --> 01:21:45,320
Speaker 1: And to those of you who have really well behaved kids,

1466
01:21:45,360 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 1: which I know is a vast majority, it's of the

1467
01:21:49,200 --> 01:21:51,479
Speaker 1: people who listen to this show have very well behaved kids.

1468
01:21:51,479 --> 01:21:55,760
Speaker 1: Those who are parents, congrats and thank you for what

1469
01:21:55,800 --> 01:21:58,920
Speaker 1: you were doing, because you're really contributing to civilization and

1470
01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:03,840
Speaker 1: you're really keeping the tour of civilization going by having

1471
01:22:03,920 --> 01:22:07,080
Speaker 1: kids that don't act like little screaming monsters who think

1472
01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:09,439
Speaker 1: that they can throw their French fries across the room

1473
01:22:09,880 --> 01:22:14,519
Speaker 1: and yell and you know the whole thing. Yeah, I remember.

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Speaker 1: I remember even when I was I was walking Ms.

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01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:19,800
Speaker 1: Molly's family dog, which is basically a pit bull, and

1476
01:22:19,840 --> 01:22:21,479
Speaker 1: like a parent came over and was like he is

1477
01:22:21,520 --> 01:22:23,519
Speaker 1: it friendly? And I was like, nah, I wouldn't, and

1478
01:22:23,600 --> 01:22:25,400
Speaker 1: like the kids were just like we're going in anyway.

1479
01:22:25,439 --> 01:22:27,520
Speaker 1: I was like, guys, it's not gonna end. Well, okay,

1480
01:22:27,640 --> 01:22:29,880
Speaker 1: I tell you. The dog is not, you know, great

1481
01:22:29,920 --> 01:22:32,840
Speaker 1: with adults, but it's had experiences with kids who come

1482
01:22:32,880 --> 01:22:36,120
Speaker 1: in like poke you in the eyeballs, like that's not good.

1483
01:22:36,160 --> 01:22:39,120
Speaker 1: Dogs don't like that, right. Some dogs know they see

1484
01:22:39,160 --> 01:22:42,599
Speaker 1: somebody who's sub three ft five and they're like, back

1485
01:22:42,640 --> 01:22:46,240
Speaker 1: off because they know you're over. You know, you're over

1486
01:22:46,320 --> 01:22:49,439
Speaker 1: five feet or so. They the dog knows you're gonna

1487
01:22:49,600 --> 01:22:51,640
Speaker 1: They see the little people come over who are like

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01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:57,120
Speaker 1: eight six for something like that. You know, they get

1489
01:22:57,160 --> 01:22:58,960
Speaker 1: a little growl and the parents go, and I'm like,

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01:22:59,040 --> 01:23:01,200
Speaker 1: I told you, don't bring the kids too close to

1491
01:23:03,600 --> 01:23:06,400
Speaker 1: stuff I deal with, right, you know, it's just I

1492
01:23:06,400 --> 01:23:07,840
Speaker 1: want to bring it back down the sun and bring

1493
01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:10,120
Speaker 1: it back down a neutral. Cool the jets for a

1494
01:23:10,120 --> 01:23:14,200
Speaker 1: second here, um, and we're gonna I'm sorry. The kid

1495
01:23:14,200 --> 01:23:16,200
Speaker 1: in the gym today was just too much. I couldn't

1496
01:23:16,240 --> 01:23:19,280
Speaker 1: believe it. I couldn't believe it. And so I'm with

1497
01:23:19,320 --> 01:23:22,559
Speaker 1: this teacher who's freaking out. And you know, is she

1498
01:23:22,600 --> 01:23:24,439
Speaker 1: a drama queen? I don't know. I don't know her personally,

1499
01:23:24,479 --> 01:23:26,240
Speaker 1: but I like her post where she's just like people

1500
01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:31,040
Speaker 1: spoil their kids, don't spoil your kids. That's the you know.

1501
01:23:31,240 --> 01:23:34,639
Speaker 1: And this is a this is a group effort, folks. There,

1502
01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:37,439
Speaker 1: I say, it takes a village like a Remember she

1503
01:23:37,439 --> 01:23:39,240
Speaker 1: wrote that book a long time. It takes a village.

1504
01:23:40,160 --> 01:23:41,840
Speaker 1: Takes a village to keep your kids from acting like

1505
01:23:41,880 --> 01:23:44,439
Speaker 1: little monsters. All right, we'll be back. Stay with me.

1506
01:23:45,320 --> 01:23:48,519
Speaker 1: I want to take on school eliteism here for a second.

1507
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:52,599
Speaker 1: I mean at the college and and graduate level. So

1508
01:23:52,680 --> 01:23:57,439
Speaker 1: there's a story out there about Michael Cohen, who who's

1509
01:23:57,479 --> 01:24:01,040
Speaker 1: pulse your poles? Who's poles? That guy? Because his office

1510
01:24:01,080 --> 01:24:03,000
Speaker 1: got rated by the FBI, And I think this whole

1511
01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:05,560
Speaker 1: thing is an absolute sham. I think it's a disgrace.

1512
01:24:06,240 --> 01:24:08,200
Speaker 1: He knows he listened to the show. No, I am very,

1513
01:24:08,320 --> 01:24:11,840
Speaker 1: very fired up about it. But people have been poking

1514
01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:14,920
Speaker 1: around more to find out more about this Cohen fellow

1515
01:24:15,920 --> 01:24:21,479
Speaker 1: and Red State, which is a site um that is

1516
01:24:22,360 --> 01:24:24,479
Speaker 1: owned I believe, or was I think it was owned

1517
01:24:24,479 --> 01:24:28,040
Speaker 1: by Eric Ericson, who I know from from work stuff.

1518
01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:32,160
Speaker 1: Red State had a piece up that Trump lawyer Michael

1519
01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:36,000
Speaker 1: Cohen got his law degree from literally the worst law

1520
01:24:36,040 --> 01:24:38,320
Speaker 1: school in the country or the worst law school in

1521
01:24:38,320 --> 01:24:42,559
Speaker 1: the country is what was written here. And now I

1522
01:24:42,680 --> 01:24:44,760
Speaker 1: understand that people are going to look at this. There's

1523
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:46,679
Speaker 1: a little bit of a ha ha because he didn't

1524
01:24:46,680 --> 01:24:48,559
Speaker 1: get it from not a fancy school. They're not saying

1525
01:24:48,560 --> 01:24:51,880
Speaker 1: he didn't go to Harvard or Yale or you Michigated.

1526
01:24:51,920 --> 01:24:54,400
Speaker 1: There are some state schools that are phenomenal law schools, right,

1527
01:24:54,400 --> 01:24:57,719
Speaker 1: but you no, no, no, this is apparently the worst

1528
01:24:57,760 --> 01:25:02,960
Speaker 1: of the worst in terms of accredited law schools. Uh.

1529
01:25:03,200 --> 01:25:06,800
Speaker 1: And we're supposed to take from this. There's a little

1530
01:25:06,800 --> 01:25:09,080
Speaker 1: bit of just uh, you know, isn't this kind of funny?

1531
01:25:09,120 --> 01:25:14,400
Speaker 1: The president's top lawyer is not exactly an intellectual heavyweight.

1532
01:25:15,400 --> 01:25:17,240
Speaker 1: But but I wanted to push back on this a

1533
01:25:17,280 --> 01:25:20,559
Speaker 1: little bit. And I'm getting actually a little help, uh

1534
01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:22,360
Speaker 1: to that degree, because I say this all the time.

1535
01:25:22,840 --> 01:25:26,840
Speaker 1: I came from a background where I went to a

1536
01:25:26,920 --> 01:25:30,320
Speaker 1: high school on a full scholarship. It's called Regious High

1537
01:25:30,320 --> 01:25:31,680
Speaker 1: School here in New York City, and it's a really

1538
01:25:31,720 --> 01:25:35,519
Speaker 1: amazing place. Everyone goes for free. It's a completely private school.

1539
01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:38,480
Speaker 1: Everyone goes for free. They have their own test, standardized

1540
01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:41,760
Speaker 1: tests that they administer. It's their test, and then they

1541
01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:45,639
Speaker 1: have an interview portion as well, um, and and they

1542
01:25:45,680 --> 01:25:47,679
Speaker 1: just make their own decisions. It's run by an endowment

1543
01:25:47,760 --> 01:25:50,120
Speaker 1: and by people who give money who went there. That's

1544
01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:53,200
Speaker 1: it doesn't get any other funding, and it's a really

1545
01:25:53,240 --> 01:25:54,960
Speaker 1: interesting place in a lot of ways. But one of

1546
01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:57,439
Speaker 1: the things that I saw there and came to know

1547
01:25:57,600 --> 01:26:01,040
Speaker 1: is that unlike some of the New York kids that

1548
01:26:01,040 --> 01:26:03,519
Speaker 1: I grew up around who had parents who went to

1549
01:26:03,560 --> 01:26:06,200
Speaker 1: fancy schools, because legacy is a very big thing even still,

1550
01:26:06,320 --> 01:26:10,439
Speaker 1: especially at these Ivy League schools and equivalents, but a

1551
01:26:10,479 --> 01:26:13,120
Speaker 1: lot of the kids that I knew were just a

1552
01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:15,400
Speaker 1: lot of my friends, my classmates, most of them, almost

1553
01:26:15,439 --> 01:26:19,120
Speaker 1: all of them in high school. We're middle to what

1554
01:26:19,160 --> 01:26:23,960
Speaker 1: you'd call working class, middle to working class in terms

1555
01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:27,160
Speaker 1: of their their household income and all that. And they

1556
01:26:27,160 --> 01:26:29,400
Speaker 1: were brilliant kids, and they were really hard working, and

1557
01:26:29,439 --> 01:26:31,880
Speaker 1: they would go wherever they could get the most money

1558
01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:35,880
Speaker 1: to go. So I knew kids who were like on

1559
01:26:35,920 --> 01:26:40,000
Speaker 1: the same level as someone who could go to UH.

1560
01:26:40,120 --> 01:26:43,680
Speaker 1: I don't know, a swath More Cornell, which as we know,

1561
01:26:43,840 --> 01:26:46,559
Speaker 1: is like the fake IVY. But that's a whole other discussion.

1562
01:26:47,320 --> 01:26:50,600
Speaker 1: That's right, Cornell. People at me, come at me. But

1563
01:26:50,720 --> 01:26:52,400
Speaker 1: you know, people could have gone to a schools of

1564
01:26:52,400 --> 01:26:54,840
Speaker 1: those caliber in terms of the admissions rate, but they

1565
01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:58,760
Speaker 1: went to UH State school instead, or they went to

1566
01:26:59,040 --> 01:27:01,800
Speaker 1: a Catholic university where they where they could get more money,

1567
01:27:01,840 --> 01:27:04,639
Speaker 1: where they had more tuition helps. It was a financial decision,

1568
01:27:05,200 --> 01:27:07,080
Speaker 1: but they're every bit as smart and capable, and I

1569
01:27:07,160 --> 01:27:08,840
Speaker 1: think you could argue a lot of them probably got

1570
01:27:08,880 --> 01:27:12,200
Speaker 1: better educations at the state schools they went to, and

1571
01:27:12,200 --> 01:27:14,280
Speaker 1: they would have if they had paid forty thou dollars

1572
01:27:14,320 --> 01:27:16,519
Speaker 1: forty five thousand dollars year to go to school. So

1573
01:27:16,600 --> 01:27:19,000
Speaker 1: I had that experience of seeing because I knew who

1574
01:27:19,000 --> 01:27:20,800
Speaker 1: in my class was really smart and who was kind

1575
01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:23,360
Speaker 1: of just And some of the super smart kids went

1576
01:27:23,400 --> 01:27:26,680
Speaker 1: to the not the fanciest schools. Some kids who went

1577
01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:29,080
Speaker 1: to the schools you'd be so impressed with weren't really

1578
01:27:29,080 --> 01:27:31,479
Speaker 1: that impressive, but they were like the world's best tuba

1579
01:27:31,520 --> 01:27:35,080
Speaker 1: player or something. Fun. Fact, my college roommate my first

1580
01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:39,639
Speaker 1: year was actually a tuba player, which that's that's something

1581
01:27:39,640 --> 01:27:43,880
Speaker 1: that you gotta lived with. So this pushback on Michael

1582
01:27:43,920 --> 01:27:46,959
Speaker 1: Cohen as a lawyer, Look, I'm not some big Cohen defender,

1583
01:27:47,200 --> 01:27:51,040
Speaker 1: but I saw something really interesting from Twitter account Thomas Crown.

1584
01:27:51,280 --> 01:27:53,000
Speaker 1: He's a lawyer. I don't know his background, don't know

1585
01:27:53,080 --> 01:27:57,439
Speaker 1: the guys falling on Twitter, And here's here's the thread

1586
01:27:57,479 --> 01:27:59,320
Speaker 1: that he wrote on Twitter about this, and I think

1587
01:27:59,320 --> 01:28:04,120
Speaker 1: this is important. I think it's applicable way beyond uh

1588
01:28:04,200 --> 01:28:09,000
Speaker 1: just the case of Michael Cohen, right, or law school.

1589
01:28:09,120 --> 01:28:10,920
Speaker 1: I think there is applicable in general. I think everyone

1590
01:28:10,960 --> 01:28:15,720
Speaker 1: should know this, he writes. As Rump shaker Sarah Rum,

1591
01:28:15,720 --> 01:28:20,040
Speaker 1: who wrote the piece on on Michael Cohen, notes Thomas Cooley,

1592
01:28:20,160 --> 01:28:22,240
Speaker 1: that's the law school is considered the worst of the

1593
01:28:22,280 --> 01:28:26,200
Speaker 1: worst with honors, sir, and it has been for decades.

1594
01:28:26,240 --> 01:28:29,519
Speaker 1: It accepts almost everyone has an eighty six percent exepence right,

1595
01:28:29,560 --> 01:28:31,720
Speaker 1: which for a law school is basically everyone. I mean,

1596
01:28:31,720 --> 01:28:33,640
Speaker 1: if you're not a convicted felon, you can pretty much go.

1597
01:28:34,479 --> 01:28:37,439
Speaker 1: It means entry scores are miserable. All the indicators of

1598
01:28:37,479 --> 01:28:40,040
Speaker 1: success and the practice of law are not required to enter.

1599
01:28:40,120 --> 01:28:42,839
Speaker 1: This is all from Thomas Crown. Now quote law students

1600
01:28:42,840 --> 01:28:45,599
Speaker 1: and lawyers from other schools tend to mock it, and

1601
01:28:45,680 --> 01:28:48,880
Speaker 1: rightly so. For a few years I litigated against a

1602
01:28:48,920 --> 01:28:52,320
Speaker 1: guy who graduated towards the bottom of his class. There. Uh,

1603
01:28:52,320 --> 01:28:56,919
Speaker 1: he failed multiple times, and then he says he was unique.

1604
01:28:57,320 --> 01:29:00,880
Speaker 1: But Thomas Cooley has or had when I cared to look,

1605
01:29:01,439 --> 01:29:05,040
Speaker 1: a brutal failure and dropout rate. This is largely driven

1606
01:29:05,040 --> 01:29:07,400
Speaker 1: by the skills and so much else brought by those

1607
01:29:07,439 --> 01:29:10,959
Speaker 1: who get in there, but it's driven by other things too,

1608
01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:15,840
Speaker 1: and one of them is or was, an academically brutal environment.

1609
01:29:16,439 --> 01:29:19,320
Speaker 1: Unlike many of the many, if not most, top tier

1610
01:29:19,400 --> 01:29:22,720
Speaker 1: law schools, exams are not open book. There is no

1611
01:29:22,840 --> 01:29:26,200
Speaker 1: curve at Thomas Cooley, and the school knows at churns

1612
01:29:26,240 --> 01:29:29,439
Speaker 1: and burns students. If you got an A in real

1613
01:29:29,479 --> 01:29:31,559
Speaker 1: property in my law at law school, this guy went

1614
01:29:31,600 --> 01:29:34,120
Speaker 1: to a fancy one. You had a working grasp of

1615
01:29:34,160 --> 01:29:36,960
Speaker 1: a lot of theory and a well marked up book.

1616
01:29:38,000 --> 01:29:40,599
Speaker 1: If you've got an A and real property at Thomas Cooley,

1617
01:29:41,080 --> 01:29:44,679
Speaker 1: you not merely knew the rule against perapetuities. You could

1618
01:29:44,720 --> 01:29:47,799
Speaker 1: not merely apply it. You could generate a law school

1619
01:29:47,880 --> 01:29:51,080
Speaker 1: question about it and write the rubric for it. A

1620
01:29:51,200 --> 01:29:52,960
Speaker 1: friend was top of his class at the end of

1621
01:29:52,960 --> 01:29:55,320
Speaker 1: his first year law school and promptly transferred to a

1622
01:29:55,400 --> 01:29:59,240
Speaker 1: top twenty five where he finished at the top of

1623
01:29:59,320 --> 01:30:01,920
Speaker 1: his class, from Thomas Cooley because he said, this is

1624
01:30:02,000 --> 01:30:06,600
Speaker 1: so much easier, uh, he said, and then he goes on.

1625
01:30:06,680 --> 01:30:08,840
Speaker 1: An old lawyer are sometimes meant who passed away a

1626
01:30:08,920 --> 01:30:12,840
Speaker 1: decade ago. Usually give all the polished, bright things at

1627
01:30:12,880 --> 01:30:16,400
Speaker 1: a m law A hundred firms headaches with this joke.

1628
01:30:16,560 --> 01:30:18,760
Speaker 1: What's the difference to a trial lawyer and a litigator?

1629
01:30:19,040 --> 01:30:22,120
Speaker 1: A trial lawyer tries cases. A litigator has so much

1630
01:30:22,280 --> 01:30:24,360
Speaker 1: paper he can't get it up into the courtroom, so

1631
01:30:24,400 --> 01:30:27,519
Speaker 1: he has to settle on the courthouse steps. Point here

1632
01:30:27,560 --> 01:30:29,479
Speaker 1: is at the top of their class. Kids at Thomas

1633
01:30:29,560 --> 01:30:32,559
Speaker 1: Cooley are scrappers. They tend to be harder on neglive

1634
01:30:32,600 --> 01:30:36,200
Speaker 1: from school, not as polished, but much much more compelling

1635
01:30:36,720 --> 01:30:40,360
Speaker 1: on their feet in a courtroom. This guy is saying

1636
01:30:40,360 --> 01:30:44,840
Speaker 1: is that the crucible, my friends, matters. Skills matter, great determination,

1637
01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:48,799
Speaker 1: that all matters a heck of a lot for professional success.

1638
01:30:48,880 --> 01:30:52,760
Speaker 1: And yes, it matters in your academic environment too. We

1639
01:30:52,880 --> 01:30:55,000
Speaker 1: have been put up, We've been putting this culture where

1640
01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:58,240
Speaker 1: all the obsession, the obsession with degrees and the fancy

1641
01:30:58,240 --> 01:30:59,720
Speaker 1: school and all did you get into this school? You're

1642
01:30:59,720 --> 01:31:02,679
Speaker 1: into that school? Where do you go to school? It's

1643
01:31:03,200 --> 01:31:05,320
Speaker 1: I think we're finally moving away from it as we

1644
01:31:05,360 --> 01:31:08,240
Speaker 1: should some of and I mean this, and I am

1645
01:31:08,320 --> 01:31:11,120
Speaker 1: I am not in any way trying to you know,

1646
01:31:11,200 --> 01:31:13,639
Speaker 1: play play along here play game. Some of the smartest

1647
01:31:13,640 --> 01:31:17,360
Speaker 1: people I have ever worked with, uh in media, never

1648
01:31:17,439 --> 01:31:21,840
Speaker 1: graduated from college or even went to college. And some

1649
01:31:22,000 --> 01:31:23,760
Speaker 1: I mean I worked for Glenn Beck. Glenn never went

1650
01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:28,000
Speaker 1: to college. Guys, you know, practically was his own country

1651
01:31:28,040 --> 01:31:29,959
Speaker 1: for a while in terms of you know, his influence

1652
01:31:29,960 --> 01:31:31,599
Speaker 1: and how much money he's making everything else. I mean

1653
01:31:31,640 --> 01:31:34,640
Speaker 1: Glenn's grade, right, never went to college. I go down

1654
01:31:34,680 --> 01:31:36,120
Speaker 1: a whole list of people and I never went to

1655
01:31:36,120 --> 01:31:39,679
Speaker 1: college and incredibly successful. And then I look at other people.

1656
01:31:39,720 --> 01:31:42,559
Speaker 1: I know, people I worked with in government, some of

1657
01:31:42,600 --> 01:31:47,439
Speaker 1: the smartest analysts I came across state school. But you

1658
01:31:47,439 --> 01:31:49,080
Speaker 1: know what, they had to make it in state school.

1659
01:31:49,120 --> 01:31:50,920
Speaker 1: They had to study hard, they had to get the grades.

1660
01:31:51,240 --> 01:31:53,720
Speaker 1: Couldn't just rely on mumsian daddy to make it all

1661
01:31:53,760 --> 01:31:55,760
Speaker 1: happen for them. So I just don't you know, And

1662
01:31:56,000 --> 01:31:57,800
Speaker 1: I know where everyone's having a laugh at Cohen going

1663
01:31:57,800 --> 01:31:59,599
Speaker 1: to a crappy law school. But don't forget it that

1664
01:32:00,360 --> 01:32:03,080
Speaker 1: the school doesn't matter. You matter, and what you do

1665
01:32:03,160 --> 01:32:05,679
Speaker 1: there and what you learn, that's what really makes the difference.

1666
01:32:05,720 --> 01:32:08,000
Speaker 1: All Right, We'll be right back, team, stay with me. Look,

1667
01:32:08,040 --> 01:32:12,200
Speaker 1: I'm all in favor of enabling people to defend themselves. Obviously,

1668
01:32:12,320 --> 01:32:15,799
Speaker 1: I'm a big advocate of and defender of the Second Amendment,

1669
01:32:16,280 --> 01:32:18,479
Speaker 1: and I just believe that that we all have an

1670
01:32:18,479 --> 01:32:21,840
Speaker 1: inherent right to self defense and that the government should

1671
01:32:21,840 --> 01:32:24,679
Speaker 1: never just take that away from us because it feels

1672
01:32:24,720 --> 01:32:27,960
Speaker 1: like it or on some kind of whim. But there

1673
01:32:28,000 --> 01:32:30,120
Speaker 1: are some things that are just not gonna cut it.

1674
01:32:30,800 --> 01:32:34,160
Speaker 1: There are some things that just aren't gonna aren't gonna

1675
01:32:34,200 --> 01:32:38,200
Speaker 1: make it uh worth worth your while to try. We've

1676
01:32:38,240 --> 01:32:41,720
Speaker 1: seen recently when people have been talking about ways that

1677
01:32:41,800 --> 01:32:47,000
Speaker 1: we can have teachers prepared to defend their students. You

1678
01:32:47,080 --> 01:32:51,400
Speaker 1: had a few weeks ago buckets of rocks distributed, right,

1679
01:32:51,760 --> 01:32:55,599
Speaker 1: which you know you're you're counting on a lot there.

1680
01:32:55,640 --> 01:32:59,600
Speaker 1: First of all, uh, somebody having good aim with the

1681
01:32:59,720 --> 01:33:03,800
Speaker 1: rock that they're throwing, a good arm, and and also

1682
01:33:03,920 --> 01:33:07,080
Speaker 1: being able to get to those rocks. I mean, unless

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01:33:07,120 --> 01:33:10,040
Speaker 1: you've got Nolan Ryan in his heyday as a teacher,

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01:33:10,160 --> 01:33:14,360
Speaker 1: I don't think the bucket of rocks option is all

1685
01:33:14,439 --> 01:33:17,240
Speaker 1: that useful a way to go. I think that's pretty

1686
01:33:17,240 --> 01:33:19,479
Speaker 1: clear right in fact that I think there's a whole

1687
01:33:19,560 --> 01:33:20,960
Speaker 1: bunch of things you could think of that would be

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01:33:21,040 --> 01:33:25,360
Speaker 1: much more effective than a bucket of rocks. But that's

1689
01:33:25,360 --> 01:33:28,080
Speaker 1: not even the dumbest. We should We could almost give

1690
01:33:28,080 --> 01:33:30,000
Speaker 1: out awards for this. That's not the dumbest idea of

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01:33:30,040 --> 01:33:34,280
Speaker 1: school district has had um short of doing drills where

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01:33:34,280 --> 01:33:36,479
Speaker 1: they have the teacher throw their stapler. I mean you

1693
01:33:36,520 --> 01:33:41,800
Speaker 1: could do that, right, stapler's nine string nine stapler. Only

1694
01:33:41,840 --> 01:33:43,519
Speaker 1: some people will catch that reference. But you know what,

1695
01:33:43,560 --> 01:33:48,519
Speaker 1: the people who do, they're the real heroes. Heroes. Staper

1696
01:33:48,640 --> 01:33:53,400
Speaker 1: took me Staper. Yeah, I'm gonna have to anyway. Some

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01:33:53,439 --> 01:33:55,280
Speaker 1: people will catch it, and those are my Those are

1698
01:33:55,280 --> 01:33:56,960
Speaker 1: my brothers and sisters for life. And the rest of

1699
01:33:56,960 --> 01:33:58,720
Speaker 1: you who don't catch it, you're also our brothers and

1700
01:33:58,760 --> 01:34:03,120
Speaker 1: sisters for life. But the worst idea of all, I think,

1701
01:34:03,280 --> 01:34:09,120
Speaker 1: and this is worse than rocks. Many baseball bats. They're

1702
01:34:09,160 --> 01:34:12,799
Speaker 1: getting out many baseball bats to teachers in Mill Creek

1703
01:34:13,439 --> 01:34:18,519
Speaker 1: Township in Pennsylvania. And they actually Fox News actually got

1704
01:34:18,600 --> 01:34:21,479
Speaker 1: the the superintendent to go. I was like, well, it's

1705
01:34:21,520 --> 01:34:24,960
Speaker 1: a last resort and it's a dangerous world we lived.

1706
01:34:24,960 --> 01:34:29,280
Speaker 1: But sure enough, it's like, okay, can we break this down?

1707
01:34:29,439 --> 01:34:34,120
Speaker 1: There are several levels of wow here. Uh. First of all,

1708
01:34:34,439 --> 01:34:37,080
Speaker 1: the thing that strikes me is not is not just

1709
01:34:37,840 --> 01:34:41,000
Speaker 1: that this is idiotic, but also there's a specific idiocy

1710
01:34:41,040 --> 01:34:44,960
Speaker 1: with why not just a baseball bat? Why a mini

1711
01:34:45,080 --> 01:34:47,840
Speaker 1: baseball bat? And when I thought about this, because by

1712
01:34:47,840 --> 01:34:49,160
Speaker 1: the way, who has it? Do you have a mini

1713
01:34:49,200 --> 01:34:51,439
Speaker 1: baseball bat? He Actually, you're like a Phillies fan. Probably

1714
01:34:51,520 --> 01:34:53,680
Speaker 1: you probably have a collection of them. You and your

1715
01:34:53,680 --> 01:34:55,960
Speaker 1: Phillies friend weirdos probably have like a whole room with

1716
01:34:56,040 --> 01:34:59,240
Speaker 1: just many Phillies bats. And with the Flyers, you probably

1717
01:34:59,240 --> 01:35:01,960
Speaker 1: got those like sticks from the Flyers. That's what they

1718
01:35:01,960 --> 01:35:03,920
Speaker 1: call it, right, a hockey stick. I never watched hockey.

1719
01:35:04,240 --> 01:35:06,320
Speaker 1: I've learned my lesson, though I don't talk smack about

1720
01:35:06,360 --> 01:35:09,880
Speaker 1: hockey on radio. I've gotten because we have the real

1721
01:35:09,920 --> 01:35:12,280
Speaker 1: big baseball bats and the real big hockey there you go.

1722
01:35:12,400 --> 01:35:14,080
Speaker 1: Don't do many, Yeah, they don't do many in Philly.

1723
01:35:14,120 --> 01:35:16,040
Speaker 1: They don't go miny in Philly. What do you think

1724
01:35:16,080 --> 01:35:21,720
Speaker 1: this is? It is crazy? Right? Gosh not, they didn't many.

1725
01:35:21,760 --> 01:35:24,160
Speaker 1: They didn't many baseball bats. And like Quebec, you know

1726
01:35:24,240 --> 01:35:27,200
Speaker 1: that's something else, that's some foreign stuff. So in Philly

1727
01:35:27,240 --> 01:35:28,960
Speaker 1: they get the full bat. Plus they also put some

1728
01:35:29,040 --> 01:35:31,320
Speaker 1: nails into it. And you know, they spruce it up

1729
01:35:31,360 --> 01:35:33,559
Speaker 1: a little bit. That's a whole other discussion. But they

1730
01:35:33,600 --> 01:35:35,800
Speaker 1: don't even go with real baseball bats. They think it's

1731
01:35:35,800 --> 01:35:40,320
Speaker 1: a better idea to armed teachers with many baseball bats,

1732
01:35:40,880 --> 01:35:43,240
Speaker 1: which unless they're gonna do a special training where they

1733
01:35:43,280 --> 01:35:45,800
Speaker 1: get like one bat in each hand, and then it

1734
01:35:45,880 --> 01:35:49,560
Speaker 1: kind of turns into the what is it the Filipino

1735
01:35:49,680 --> 01:35:52,120
Speaker 1: stick fighting. I believe it's called collie. I watched a

1736
01:35:52,200 --> 01:35:55,240
Speaker 1: lot of martial arts movies in my day. Yeah, yeah,

1737
01:35:55,240 --> 01:35:57,599
Speaker 1: that's right. You guys have no you don't even talk

1738
01:35:57,640 --> 01:36:00,559
Speaker 1: to yea. Yeah, it's Filipino martial arts, two sticks, same time.

1739
01:36:00,880 --> 01:36:02,800
Speaker 1: It's actually pretty cool, and you see people doing it.

1740
01:36:03,120 --> 01:36:06,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get an email from somebody guarantee guaranteed any

1741
01:36:06,080 --> 01:36:07,960
Speaker 1: martial art that I give a call out to on

1742
01:36:08,000 --> 01:36:09,920
Speaker 1: this show. As long as I've been doing the show,

1743
01:36:10,120 --> 01:36:12,960
Speaker 1: someone's like, well, like, I'm a I'm a ninth degree

1744
01:36:12,960 --> 01:36:16,760
Speaker 1: black belt in Savat, the French art of kickboxing that

1745
01:36:16,840 --> 01:36:22,360
Speaker 1: combines ballet leg moves with Western style boxing. It's a

1746
01:36:22,400 --> 01:36:25,400
Speaker 1: real thing. They've even made a couple of bad martial

1747
01:36:25,479 --> 01:36:27,400
Speaker 1: arts movies about it, which is why I know about it,

1748
01:36:27,439 --> 01:36:30,160
Speaker 1: because I saw there's a whole other there's a whole

1749
01:36:30,200 --> 01:36:32,360
Speaker 1: other genre folks will have to explore together, which is

1750
01:36:32,840 --> 01:36:37,800
Speaker 1: eighties circle early nineties, but really eighties action movies. Like

1751
01:36:37,840 --> 01:36:39,600
Speaker 1: if you want to talk about Jeff Speakman in The

1752
01:36:39,600 --> 01:36:43,760
Speaker 1: Perfect Weapon, I've seen that movie many times. Like that

1753
01:36:43,840 --> 01:36:46,280
Speaker 1: was one all of a sudden, all these kenpo karate

1754
01:36:46,360 --> 01:36:48,400
Speaker 1: schools or over together. It's like, it's not just karate,

1755
01:36:48,520 --> 01:36:51,920
Speaker 1: it's kempo karate. It's like, oh, well, in that case,

1756
01:36:51,960 --> 01:36:55,839
Speaker 1: the spin kick is gonna work anyway. Mini bats not

1757
01:36:55,840 --> 01:37:00,000
Speaker 1: not a good not an effective tactic, not an effective technique. Uh.

1758
01:37:00,520 --> 01:37:02,519
Speaker 1: This funniest thing is they're not even giving him full bats.

1759
01:37:02,520 --> 01:37:05,120
Speaker 1: I mean a bat. Yeah, that'll work. You gotta get

1760
01:37:05,120 --> 01:37:06,840
Speaker 1: really close to somebody, at least a bat. You got

1761
01:37:06,840 --> 01:37:10,280
Speaker 1: a shot a mini bat. It's like ding stop it.

1762
01:37:10,920 --> 01:37:13,720
Speaker 1: Mini bad is for when somebody's like being naughty in detention.

1763
01:37:14,400 --> 01:37:16,280
Speaker 1: All right, we got roll call coming up? Stay with me.

1764
01:37:17,160 --> 01:37:19,920
Speaker 1: What the heck happened with Connor McGregor. By the way,

1765
01:37:20,000 --> 01:37:23,400
Speaker 1: I saw the headline a few days ago and and

1766
01:37:23,439 --> 01:37:25,760
Speaker 1: now today I actually he was like, you know, what,

1767
01:37:25,760 --> 01:37:28,519
Speaker 1: what did this guy do? I figured that it must

1768
01:37:28,520 --> 01:37:32,320
Speaker 1: be some kind of UFC stunt, But no, he actually

1769
01:37:32,360 --> 01:37:37,080
Speaker 1: just like freaked out and threw a metal trolley or

1770
01:37:37,200 --> 01:37:39,720
Speaker 1: dolly dolly trolley would be really hard. That would be

1771
01:37:39,760 --> 01:37:41,759
Speaker 1: the hulk to do that, right, because that's a large

1772
01:37:41,800 --> 01:37:44,479
Speaker 1: it's like a train car. A dolly is what you

1773
01:37:44,560 --> 01:37:46,680
Speaker 1: carry luggage. And he threw a metal dolly through the

1774
01:37:46,680 --> 01:37:51,320
Speaker 1: window of a van actually hurt some people, uh, injured

1775
01:37:51,320 --> 01:37:54,360
Speaker 1: a UFC fighter. Brandon did he was the guy able

1776
01:37:54,400 --> 01:37:56,960
Speaker 1: to fight the next day or not? He was not? Oh,

1777
01:37:57,000 --> 01:37:59,360
Speaker 1: you don't know. Okay, we're not sure. I should have

1778
01:37:59,360 --> 01:38:01,200
Speaker 1: found that out for went on air. But whatever, the

1779
01:38:01,240 --> 01:38:04,960
Speaker 1: point is, guys obviously got a bit of a bit

1780
01:38:04,960 --> 01:38:07,200
Speaker 1: of a screw loose. And on top of that, he

1781
01:38:07,240 --> 01:38:10,200
Speaker 1: does remind me the most, though, of the Brad Pitt

1782
01:38:10,280 --> 01:38:14,200
Speaker 1: character from Snatch. It's almost like that character was made

1783
01:38:14,200 --> 01:38:16,639
Speaker 1: real with Connor McGregor. You know, I thank you fire,

1784
01:38:16,800 --> 01:38:19,800
Speaker 1: you know, like and you don't really understand what he's saying.

1785
01:38:20,000 --> 01:38:22,040
Speaker 1: I thought they made all that stuff up for the

1786
01:38:22,080 --> 01:38:25,040
Speaker 1: movie Snatch, by the way, where he's got this weird

1787
01:38:25,200 --> 01:38:28,600
Speaker 1: like Irish uh what do they call it? The traveler

1788
01:38:29,040 --> 01:38:31,360
Speaker 1: used to be called gypsy. They don't like that Irish

1789
01:38:31,560 --> 01:38:35,599
Speaker 1: traveler language. Uh, when in fact that is what they said.

1790
01:38:35,600 --> 01:38:38,160
Speaker 1: They do sound like that. I've since seen documentaries where

1791
01:38:38,160 --> 01:38:40,960
Speaker 1: they speak that way and and underground boxing is a

1792
01:38:40,960 --> 01:38:43,599
Speaker 1: big thing for them. Connor McGregor though not exactly doing

1793
01:38:43,640 --> 01:38:45,920
Speaker 1: underground boxing because I think he's worth like a hundred

1794
01:38:45,960 --> 01:38:50,599
Speaker 1: million dollars now after his rather disappointing fight with Floyd Mayweather.

1795
01:38:51,600 --> 01:38:55,120
Speaker 1: So I just was surprised. I watched the video today,

1796
01:38:55,280 --> 01:38:58,200
Speaker 1: I was like, what is this guy doing? Why? Why

1797
01:38:58,240 --> 01:39:00,920
Speaker 1: do that? That doesn't make sense. I remember many years ago,

1798
01:39:00,960 --> 01:39:03,960
Speaker 1: I knew I knew a guy who knew a guy

1799
01:39:04,120 --> 01:39:06,599
Speaker 1: who got a little mouthfie in a bar with someone

1800
01:39:06,800 --> 01:39:10,000
Speaker 1: and there was some kind of a scrap and he

1801
01:39:10,520 --> 01:39:13,640
Speaker 1: uh hit. I wasn't there, but as the stories told me,

1802
01:39:13,680 --> 01:39:15,600
Speaker 1: he hit somebody in the side of the head with

1803
01:39:15,600 --> 01:39:21,439
Speaker 1: the Heineken bottle and actually the bottle partially shattered and

1804
01:39:21,680 --> 01:39:24,800
Speaker 1: a piece of glass got in the guy's eye that

1805
01:39:24,880 --> 01:39:27,760
Speaker 1: he hit. He went to Rikers Island for eighteen months

1806
01:39:27,800 --> 01:39:31,040
Speaker 1: for that, which is a very notorious prison here in

1807
01:39:31,040 --> 01:39:33,800
Speaker 1: New York City. So anytime you're because because that's what

1808
01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:36,160
Speaker 1: the dolly got thrown through the window and the glass

1809
01:39:36,200 --> 01:39:39,320
Speaker 1: shattered and actually hit this cut up this UFC fighter

1810
01:39:39,360 --> 01:39:43,160
Speaker 1: who's sitting there. Anytime you're assaulting someone and there's broken

1811
01:39:43,160 --> 01:39:46,280
Speaker 1: glass involved, very very bad idea. Also just a bad

1812
01:39:46,320 --> 01:39:50,000
Speaker 1: idea to assault people. Important safety tip with that, let's

1813
01:39:50,000 --> 01:40:01,320
Speaker 1: get into some rock call. It's time for roll call.

1814
01:40:01,720 --> 01:40:05,000
Speaker 1: Spring carts now swing swing dancing, isn't that with the

1815
01:40:05,080 --> 01:40:09,719
Speaker 1: right What was zoot suit riot? That was a thing, Brandon,

1816
01:40:09,760 --> 01:40:13,240
Speaker 1: you're DJs. You know about these guys they Big Dad

1817
01:40:13,280 --> 01:40:16,559
Speaker 1: Voodo Daddy. But also what what was the one were

1818
01:40:16,600 --> 01:40:19,280
Speaker 1: they that be who was remember for a while like

1819
01:40:19,320 --> 01:40:21,519
Speaker 1: swing dancing, the movie Swingers that had swing dancing. There

1820
01:40:21,560 --> 01:40:23,680
Speaker 1: was one band was it was that? The one that

1821
01:40:23,760 --> 01:40:27,400
Speaker 1: was really popular for like six months in a It

1822
01:40:27,560 --> 01:40:30,200
Speaker 1: was them y Big Bad Voda Daddy. Yeah. Yeah, all

1823
01:40:30,200 --> 01:40:33,120
Speaker 1: of a sudden, everybody who was wearing uh, you know,

1824
01:40:33,280 --> 01:40:37,680
Speaker 1: wearing the fedoras and zoot suits and there zoot suit right,

1825
01:40:37,840 --> 01:40:41,280
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right. So anyway, yeah, man, we could

1826
01:40:41,280 --> 01:40:45,439
Speaker 1: bring it back. Yeah, groovy tunes. Listen to my groovy tunes. Man,

1827
01:40:46,479 --> 01:40:50,719
Speaker 1: all right, into the Facebook box here speaking of important things.

1828
01:40:50,920 --> 01:40:54,160
Speaker 1: Terrible transition, Buck, but it's late in the show. Uh oh,

1829
01:40:54,200 --> 01:40:55,920
Speaker 1: I want to get to the emails first, I would

1830
01:40:55,960 --> 01:40:58,680
Speaker 1: I would like to note that if you want to

1831
01:40:58,680 --> 01:41:00,600
Speaker 1: be a part of roll Call, all you have to

1832
01:41:00,640 --> 01:41:02,400
Speaker 1: do is send us an email, and you can do

1833
01:41:02,520 --> 01:41:07,439
Speaker 1: so rather easily by writ into official team Buck at

1834
01:41:07,479 --> 01:41:11,280
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. That is Official Team Buck at g

1835
01:41:11,800 --> 01:41:16,240
Speaker 1: mail dot com. Next up here or first up here?

1836
01:41:16,560 --> 01:41:23,639
Speaker 1: Rather we have uh Rain, cool name who writes, Hi Buck.

1837
01:41:23,680 --> 01:41:25,479
Speaker 1: I love the show and I tell everyone to check

1838
01:41:25,520 --> 01:41:28,919
Speaker 1: it out at I heart Live or via your podcast

1839
01:41:29,000 --> 01:41:31,320
Speaker 1: on iTunes. Well, thank you, Rain, You're very kind and

1840
01:41:31,360 --> 01:41:34,839
Speaker 1: that is very much appreciated. You mentioned you just finished

1841
01:41:35,479 --> 01:41:39,479
Speaker 1: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and you were wondering why the creatures

1842
01:41:39,479 --> 01:41:42,760
Speaker 1: always depicted as a mumbling monster in the movies that

1843
01:41:42,880 --> 01:41:46,360
Speaker 1: you picture him reciting Shakespeare and holding conversations. And a

1844
01:41:46,400 --> 01:41:48,960
Speaker 1: show that depicted the monster beautifully, where he recited the

1845
01:41:48,960 --> 01:41:52,479
Speaker 1: great works and poetry, appreciated art and beauty, and engaged

1846
01:41:52,479 --> 01:41:57,320
Speaker 1: in conversation. Is Penny dreadful? The actor truly brings such

1847
01:41:57,360 --> 01:42:00,519
Speaker 1: depth and emotion to what has previously been a flat

1848
01:42:00,680 --> 01:42:05,320
Speaker 1: roll shields high Rain. Uh, well, Rain, let me say yes,

1849
01:42:05,520 --> 01:42:09,679
Speaker 1: I agree. I saw that Penny Dreadful and I thought

1850
01:42:09,680 --> 01:42:13,600
Speaker 1: it was excellent and also although the last season that

1851
01:42:13,680 --> 01:42:16,479
Speaker 1: kind of got off the rail. But I do remember

1852
01:42:16,520 --> 01:42:20,639
Speaker 1: the character of the Frankenstein Monster, the demon as Dr

1853
01:42:20,680 --> 01:42:25,560
Speaker 1: Frankenstein calls him, is very eloquent and thoughtful and interesting

1854
01:42:25,640 --> 01:42:30,080
Speaker 1: and not you know, that's right, I mean Brandon. When

1855
01:42:30,080 --> 01:42:33,400
Speaker 1: you think of Frankenstein, it's a lot of like and

1856
01:42:33,439 --> 01:42:35,360
Speaker 1: he moves kind of slow, and he's got the bolts

1857
01:42:35,360 --> 01:42:38,519
Speaker 1: in the neck and that's just a somehow. What is

1858
01:42:38,640 --> 01:42:41,160
Speaker 1: Some people consider Mary Shelley's Frankenstein one of the greatest

1859
01:42:41,200 --> 01:42:43,479
Speaker 1: novels of all time. I'm not in that category, but

1860
01:42:43,520 --> 01:42:45,400
Speaker 1: I have read that on those lists on the internet.

1861
01:42:46,080 --> 01:42:51,240
Speaker 1: Uh but what was a novel with with really beautiful writing,

1862
01:42:51,320 --> 01:42:53,960
Speaker 1: and it was early on in what would become the

1863
01:42:54,040 --> 01:42:57,840
Speaker 1: sci fi genre? Got you know, basically they made a

1864
01:42:57,840 --> 01:43:01,960
Speaker 1: bad movie adaptation of it. This would be saying, uh,

1865
01:43:02,400 --> 01:43:06,240
Speaker 1: you should go read the book. I'm trying to think

1866
01:43:06,240 --> 01:43:09,599
Speaker 1: of bad What is? What is the worst adaptation of

1867
01:43:09,600 --> 01:43:12,439
Speaker 1: a book that you liked into a movie. I like

1868
01:43:12,560 --> 01:43:15,360
Speaker 1: the book Bonfire the Vanities because it captured a certain

1869
01:43:15,400 --> 01:43:17,320
Speaker 1: period here in New York City. They made a movie

1870
01:43:17,320 --> 01:43:20,320
Speaker 1: with Tom Hanks and Melanie Griffith that is unwatchable garbage

1871
01:43:20,720 --> 01:43:25,880
Speaker 1: from a best selling book, they made an unwatchably garbage movie.

1872
01:43:26,000 --> 01:43:27,599
Speaker 1: I'm sure if we thought about this, we could come

1873
01:43:27,640 --> 01:43:30,640
Speaker 1: up with a whole number of this is not an

1874
01:43:30,680 --> 01:43:33,280
Speaker 1: unusual thing to happen, But maybe I'll come up with that.

1875
01:43:33,439 --> 01:43:35,280
Speaker 1: If you have any good if you have any great ones,

1876
01:43:35,800 --> 01:43:38,360
Speaker 1: and by that I mean terrible ones times when the

1877
01:43:38,360 --> 01:43:42,280
Speaker 1: the movie uh did not live up to the book

1878
01:43:42,360 --> 01:43:44,479
Speaker 1: at all, you can sell that to me on Facebook

1879
01:43:44,479 --> 01:43:49,519
Speaker 1: dot com slash buck Sexton. Oh buck Sexton's doing the

1880
01:43:49,640 --> 01:43:53,040
Speaker 1: row call. I like that. Other people start calling dershow

1881
01:43:53,040 --> 01:43:54,559
Speaker 1: it's the dirsh. By the way, I've seen that minon

1882
01:43:54,600 --> 01:43:57,680
Speaker 1: box a few times now. I'm like the dirsh. Hey, yeah,

1883
01:43:57,760 --> 01:43:59,479
Speaker 1: you're in a scrape. You're in a scrap. You need

1884
01:43:59,479 --> 01:44:03,000
Speaker 1: a little help. You know, the fuzz is coming after you.

1885
01:44:03,200 --> 01:44:07,559
Speaker 1: The five oh called the call. It sounds like he'd

1886
01:44:07,560 --> 01:44:10,040
Speaker 1: have like a billboards, you know by the highway, you know,

1887
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Speaker 1: accident whiplash called a dirsh. I'm sure Professor Dorsh Wos,

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Speaker 1: tenured professor of law at Harvard would not not not

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Speaker 1: approve of such billboards, but nonetheless back into the email

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Speaker 1: box Official Team Bucket, Gmail dot com if you want

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Speaker 1: to send it to us. Buck, you are exactly correct

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Speaker 1: on bands. For all those who think that crazy people

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Speaker 1: should be forbidden guns. Remember in the Soviet Union, if

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Speaker 1: you disagreed with the government, you were considered crazy. Only

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Speaker 1: a crazy person would not see the value of the commune.

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Speaker 1: Nuts is in the definition, not in the head or

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Speaker 1: the heart. Chuck from Grand Rapids. Uh, well, Chuck, I agree,

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Speaker 1: good sir, that bands tend not to work the way

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Speaker 1: they are advertised to work. So I am with you

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Speaker 1: on that, and I think that I think that any

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Speaker 1: time people think they're going to solve a problem by

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Speaker 1: just outlawing it, they have to think a lot harder

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Speaker 1: about what the real implications will be. Um. Next up,

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Speaker 1: we've got John who rides Hey Buck, big fan of

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Speaker 1: your show, especially the wit and sense of humor. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you, my good man. That you combine so well

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Speaker 1: with your expertise on history, geopolitics, national security, culture and

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Speaker 1: the mess that is our current government. It is great listening. Well, you, sir,

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Speaker 1: have fantastic taste. I'm also finished with a manuscript called

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Speaker 1: Joe Citizens Letter to Speaker Banter, which gives a Joe

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Speaker 1: Citizens take on all the liberal insanity and the refusal

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Speaker 1: of the Republican leaders to do anything about it. Being

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Speaker 1: from Los Angeles, I get the overload of leftist utopianism

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Speaker 1: every single day, and it burns me that the so

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Speaker 1: called conservative leaders don't do enough to fight this plague

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Speaker 1: we are seeing now. California sets the trends, however, insane

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Speaker 1: and the rest of the loose states follow. But I

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Speaker 1: dig deep into all the real nuttiness that goes on

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Speaker 1: in California, and it's even worse than whatever you might

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Speaker 1: read about. This is an exerpt. Oh he sent me

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Speaker 1: an exerpt. Okay, well, I can't read the whole excerpt

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Speaker 1: on Artis's long but thank you John for sending me this.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. And let's get whoops, I just I

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Speaker 1: just lost my inbox? He lost it? Fuel are fuel Er,

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Speaker 1: I'm finding I'm fine. There, give me one second? Where

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Speaker 1: did it go? One more? Here? This one from Cindy.

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Speaker 1: She writes, I'm with you about cruise ships. Well, of course,

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Speaker 1: and you're also a person of exquisite taste and understand

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Speaker 1: that cruise ships are generally not a good idea in

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Speaker 1: my opinion. Look, it's an opinion thing. Some people like picnics.

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Speaker 1: I say, why do you want to eat on the

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Speaker 1: ground and not have access to refrigeration? You know I'm

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Speaker 1: not I'm not down with picnics whatever. I think very overrated. Right,

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Speaker 1: you carry all your food? What happens you forgot? Oh

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Speaker 1: you forgot the mayo? Tough, no mayo for you. You're

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Speaker 1: on a picnic. You walked all the wayut in the

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Speaker 1: middle of that field, right, Not a picnic person. Not

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Speaker 1: a cruise ship person. You're not a tent person either.

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Speaker 1: I what do you mean like sleep in a tent? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I grew up doing camping. Don't even get me started

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Speaker 1: on camping makes makes no sense to me. Makes not

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Speaker 1: glamping I'm all about and yeah, you could say this

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Speaker 1: is fru fruit buck coming out, but I don't care.

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Speaker 1: Glamping I can get right. You go out staying in

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Speaker 1: a cabin, log cabin, the woods. I love nature. I

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Speaker 1: just don't like the feeling of waking up after sleeping

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Speaker 1: on the ground and having had like a rock in

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Speaker 1: the center of my back, because you know, that's just nature. Man,

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Speaker 1: I don't like that part of it. So I'm no,

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Speaker 1: that does not excite me. By the way, last night.

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Speaker 1: I was actually hanging out with Miss Molly and sitting

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Speaker 1: on the couch, and all of a sudden, my knee

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Speaker 1: just started to hurt for no reason, and out of nowhere,

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Speaker 1: I'm just like, ah, my knee hurts. And we just

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Speaker 1: looked at each other same time, and I was like, oh, man,

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Speaker 1: I needed not I need to not let that just

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Speaker 1: become a thing. My knee hurts, my back hurts, I

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Speaker 1: follow it in my knee. You just care like me,

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Speaker 1: all right? Um. Cindy wrote that about cruise ships. She

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Speaker 1: goes into some more details. She writes, as a conservative,

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Speaker 1: it may seemed backwards to me, but we need the government,

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Speaker 1: this government to investigate Twitter, Facebook, and Google about the

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Speaker 1: algorithms and censorship and a knackt legislation to stop at Cindy,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the sentiment, but I gotta tell you, I

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Speaker 1: think that almost always the government. It's gonna make the

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Speaker 1: government's gonna make the problem worse. You can think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be better, but they're really gonna make it worse.

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Speaker 1: That's my opinion. So we will see. And he said,

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Speaker 1: thank you for all you do. You thank you, Cindy

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Speaker 1: for rutting me this kind note I greatly appreciated, So

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be it. From the Freedom Hut Archives of

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Speaker 1: a roll call today, thank you so much for hanging out,

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Speaker 1: for being with me here in the Hut. All kinds

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Speaker 1: of exciting programs, plans, fiestas. We've got things coming up,

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Speaker 1: so I'll bring you up to speed on them in

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Speaker 1: good time. In the meantime, you are the evangelists for

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Speaker 1: this show. You are the people like count on. Please

1978
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Speaker 1: tell your friends, please spread the words, say download this

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Speaker 1: guy's podcast. It's on iTunes, The Buck Sexton Show. With that,

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Speaker 1: we close up shields high