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Speaker 1: TV shows and movies that are more coming up. This

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Speaker 1: to the Buck Sexton Show. I'm coming to you live

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Speaker 1: from California. I'm visiting out here in Los Angeles for

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Speaker 1: This Comy thing was you know, I I promised that

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Speaker 1: If you really put into context who this individual, who

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Speaker 1: that is a very problematic figure. This this Mr Komy

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Speaker 1: senior government officials who you know, they just want to

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Speaker 1: be right on the front lines of opposition to Trump

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Speaker 1: and his agenda. And it can't be a coincidence. There's

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Speaker 1: something bigger going on here. And I think this is

432
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Speaker 1: a big part of of what the swamp really is.

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Speaker 1: And I think that Comey is an example of exactly

434
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Speaker 1: how out of control much of this is. I mean,

435
00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 1: Comey somebody who, as I was saying, has made decisions

436
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Speaker 1: at key points in his career that show that he's

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Speaker 1: a political player, and of the decisions that he made

438
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Speaker 1: had a real impact on history. And I think he relished.

439
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 1: He pretends in this interview with Stephanopolis to dread it,

440
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Speaker 1: to have all of this on the one hand. On

441
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Speaker 1: the other and you know, he he poses as someone

442
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Speaker 1: who you know is losing sleep over this all the time.

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Speaker 1: And I don't even think that it's a case where

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Speaker 1: you could say that, you know, Comy is like the

445
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Speaker 1: punchest pilot of all this. You know, well, you know,

446
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 1: whatever the whatever, I'm supposed to do, whatever the people

447
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Speaker 1: want here. No, he had an agenda the whole time.

448
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Speaker 1: He in a gendera the whole time, and it was

449
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Speaker 1: whatever's gonna make him look the best, whatever would allow

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Speaker 1: him to be the best commist that he could be

451
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,919
Speaker 1: very important part of the There's so much in the interview,

452
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Speaker 1: touches on the Hillary email investigation, the tarmac, Lauretta Lynch

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Speaker 1: and all that. UM. A few things that I wanted

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Speaker 1: to get because I could talk about this at length

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Speaker 1: and not really hit on some very meaty point pins

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Speaker 1: that we need to we need to do um And

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to avoid it though, And before we close

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Speaker 1: this out, I might have to get into some of

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Speaker 1: the the really petty, childish stuff. So in the one hand,

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Speaker 1: you've got this guy who's like, you know, I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: the conscience of America. I'm going to go around and

462
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Speaker 1: give speeches on ethics and leadership and it's all about

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Speaker 1: the truth and being more than just somebody who's out

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Speaker 1: for the self and all this. And then he's like,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't like the shoes the president was wearing.

466
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Speaker 1: But you know, I thought that the president is not

467
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Speaker 1: as handsome as he thinks he is and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: You're just his hands aren't that big. His hair is

469
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Speaker 1: kind of weird. Why do that unless you can't help

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Speaker 1: yourself because you're a huge phony, which is you know,

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Speaker 1: does he call him phony comy because he probably should.

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Speaker 1: I know he's been great lion comey and grandstanding comby.

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Speaker 1: I think phony comy is better better, although I I

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Speaker 1: do like my formulation of sancta coomy. He is very

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Speaker 1: sancta comus. Uh. But here's the the part of it

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Speaker 1: that some of the parts that I thought were particularly

477
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Speaker 1: worthwhile from the and I won't make you sit through

478
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Speaker 1: and listen to too much of his of the clips.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of you watched this, but if

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Speaker 1: we're if we're analyzing this together, some very worthwhile moments

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Speaker 1: that struck me, like, for example, on the whole notion

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Speaker 1: of the tarmac meeting and how that came about. The

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Speaker 1: truth is that he's never had a real, really worthwhile

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Speaker 1: explanation for this. Here quote, I don't know what they

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Speaker 1: talked about. This is for remember, Rhoda Lynch is having

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Speaker 1: a personal meeting with Bill Clinton while his wife is

487
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Speaker 1: under FBI investigation for actually breaking federal laws, which is

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Speaker 1: what she did. She broke the law. They didn't charge her,

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Speaker 1: but she broke the law. Okay, And any person who

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Speaker 1: looks at this realizes this stinkst I haven't and only that.

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Speaker 1: But Comey excuses this while simultaneously using it as the

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Speaker 1: justification for being the one who steps in front of

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Speaker 1: the American people and says there should be no charge

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Speaker 1: against Hillary. So it's not that bad the tarmac meeting,

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Speaker 1: he will say, But also, oh, I had to step

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Speaker 1: in front and give that whole speech about the extreme carelessness. Right.

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Speaker 1: And when when Steph Stephanopolis asked him about the tarmac meeting,

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Speaker 1: he said, I don't know what they talked about. I

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Speaker 1: credit Lauretta Lynch because I think she's an honest person,

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Speaker 1: saying we talked about grandchildren and other things. I find

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Speaker 1: it hard to believe that Bill Clinton would have tried

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Speaker 1: to obstruct justice by walking across the tarmac in front

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Speaker 1: of a bunch of FBI agents. Okay, here's another interpretation

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Speaker 1: on this one that I think is much more in

505
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Speaker 1: line with how the Clinton's approach everything. Of course, they

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Speaker 1: thought that they could do this. Hillary was able to

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Speaker 1: get away with the email thing. Hillary was. There's never

508
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Speaker 1: been a real investigation of the Clinton Foundation, despite what

509
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Speaker 1: is so blatantly and obviously a massive influenced peddling scheme

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Speaker 1: where the sitting Secretary of State was effectively selling influence

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Speaker 1: to her foundation on the premise that would turn into

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Speaker 1: influence with the next president United States. And you know,

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Speaker 1: the husband taking enormous fees to give speeches while his

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Speaker 1: wife is Secretary of State from foreign governments, my friends,

515
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Speaker 1: And somehow this is not a big thing. You know

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Speaker 1: that they can go in there and seize Michael Cohen,

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Speaker 1: the personal lawyer for president from sees his attorney client

518
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Speaker 1: privileged documents. But we've never really had anyone looked long

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Speaker 1: and hard at the Clinton Foundation. The reason that Loretta

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Speaker 1: Lynch was so reckless about meeting with Bill Clinton on

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Speaker 1: the tarmac is because they figured we're at the top

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Speaker 1: of this system. We run the swamp, nothing's gonna happen

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Speaker 1: to us, so of course we can do this. It's

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Speaker 1: it's a similar thinking too with with hooting and the

525
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Speaker 1: way that he uses or his you know, his people

526
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Speaker 1: will use nova chuk or polonium to poison someone. You

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Speaker 1: might say to yourself, well, why would you use a

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Speaker 1: chemical weapon that is so obviously going to be tied

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Speaker 1: back to Russia? That's the point, because he can. What

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Speaker 1: are we gonna do. We're gonna throw more sanctions on him?

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Speaker 1: Oo Putin's really scared, right If it doesn't matter, why

532
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Speaker 1: do it? Because you can? Why would Loretta Lynch meet

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Speaker 1: with Bill Clinton because they wanted to talk about whatever

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Speaker 1: they were talking about. I think quite clearly she probably

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Speaker 1: gave him a very um vaguely worded but clear enough

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Speaker 1: for him to understand Na that don't worry, we got

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Speaker 1: this covered. You know Hillary is gonna be fine, and

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00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: that's all that was needed. Yeah, because think about the

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Speaker 1: risks of what they're doing. If they really thought they'd

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Speaker 1: get in trouble, how stupid can you be? No, they

541
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: know that they're above the system. They know that they're

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Speaker 1: above the law. And that's why. Remember Laura Lynch never

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Speaker 1: even refused herself. Okay, you've got Jeff Sessions, who's just

544
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Speaker 1: trying to be a good, honorable guy, who pulled himself

545
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Speaker 1: out of the bar fight that is the Russia collusion

546
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: investigation because he thinks that's the right thing to do.

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00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: Loretta Lynch is right in the middle of the bar

548
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 1: fight over Hillary Clinton's EMIL investigation and didn't even didn't

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00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 1: even start to didn't stop the think for a second,

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I should I should accuse myself from this.

551
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: This looks dirty, this looks bad. Another thing in all this,

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Speaker 1: and because look they covered a lot of ground is

553
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Speaker 1: a long interview, right, I think ten million people watching,

554
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 1: more people watch Stormy Daniels. Though, I'm just saying more

555
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 1: interest in Stormy Daniels Trump thing than there wasn't. I

556
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Speaker 1: don't know. It's salacious, and it's a word that's gotten

557
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Speaker 1: a lot of use over last year. We should come

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Speaker 1: up with something else, maybe scirreless, you know, I don't

559
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Speaker 1: know that there needs to be some other It's the

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Speaker 1: salacious dossier, the salacious allegations against Trump. There's gotta be

561
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Speaker 1: something else. Dossier another word that. Now, dossier was a thing.

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Speaker 1: And now if you say the dossier ever knows what

563
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Speaker 1: you're talking about. But on the notion of or on

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Speaker 1: the issue of classified information, this was an important part

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Speaker 1: of all this, James Comey, with that, this is about

566
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Speaker 1: the Hillary email stuff. Reason number two. I have to

567
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: talk about it very carefully. Classified information came into the

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Speaker 1: possession of the U. S Intelligence community in the early

569
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Speaker 1: part of it indicated there was material out there that

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Speaker 1: raised the question of whether Loretta Lynch was controlling me

571
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Speaker 1: and the FBI and keeping the Clinton campaign informed about

572
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Speaker 1: our investigation. Now I don't believe that, and I don't

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Speaker 1: believe that's true, but there was material that I knew

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Speaker 1: someday when it's declassified, and I thought it would be

575
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Speaker 1: decades in the future, would cause historians to wonder, was

576
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: there some strange business going on? There was Loretta Lynch

577
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: somehow carrying water for the campaign and controlling what the

578
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: FBI did. This is a massive steamy pile of you

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Speaker 1: know what, This is just atrocious. This is so beyond

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Speaker 1: what anyone could reasonably be expected to believe. James Comey

581
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 1: is saying here, I can't tell you about it, can't

582
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 1: give any specifics, and it wouldn't come out for decades.

583
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm a guy who really worries about

584
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Speaker 1: his legacy. But I'm not in love with my own virtue,

585
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: because I'm too virtuous to be in love with my virtue.

586
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: But let me just say that I was. I was

587
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Speaker 1: worried about those historians in decades from now, when they're

588
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: thinking about building a life size statue of Comy at

589
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: twelve feet tall, and when they're worried about what has

590
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: happened in the past, they might look at this and say, well,

591
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: there was this now declassified information that Comey says it's

592
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Speaker 1: not credible, but that made them think that maybe Loretta

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Speaker 1: Lynch was involved investigator. I mean, this is this is

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Speaker 1: just it's just nonsense. It's not real. What does this

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Speaker 1: even mean? He's worried about what historians are gonna think

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Speaker 1: in a few decades. Who thinks that way? Who the

597
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: who the heck is gonna care in a few decades? Well,

598
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: what does he's really worried? But this is I don't

599
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Speaker 1: know if it's more that he's delusional at the legacy

600
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: of comey or then he really thinks that he can

601
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Speaker 1: just get away with making something up his own story.

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00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: It's class pod can't tell you about it, which I

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00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: guess he he does think he can do that. But

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Speaker 1: that's just a non factor in all of this um

605
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: and and ultimately his his whole justification for the decision

606
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Speaker 1: they came to on the Hillary emails, it's just garbage

607
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Speaker 1: and not letting it. If Lauretta Lynch couldn't be the

608
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Speaker 1: one to make the statement the American people, why couldn't

609
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Speaker 1: her number two? It had to come from the FBI.

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Speaker 1: That's a total that's a comy decision. That is, it

611
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Speaker 1: was the ultimate grand standard move, the ultimate grand standard move.

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Speaker 1: And you could say, well, Buck, why would he later

613
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Speaker 1: on talk about the Wiener investigation. Look, I didn't make

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Speaker 1: up the name, all right, that's what else? What else

615
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Speaker 1: am I gonna call it? Don't don't look at me

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Speaker 1: the Ween they're investigating Weener. Get your mind out of

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00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 1: the gutter. Um. But what are they gonna They're gonna

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Speaker 1: suppress that information, take the act of step of not

619
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Speaker 1: letting the public know they're looking into Wiener's Oh gosh,

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Speaker 1: we're looking at the weiner server. So oh, I gotta

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Speaker 1: run a break. All right, We'll be our back. Sorry.

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Speaker 1: It was the first time he met Donald Trump. What

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Speaker 1: was your impression? He had impressively quaffed hair that looks

624
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Speaker 1: to be all his I confess I stared at it

625
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: pretty closely, and my reaction was I must take gackle

626
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Speaker 1: of time in the morning. Tie was too long, as

627
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 1: it always is. He looked slightly orange up close, with

628
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Speaker 1: small white um half moons under his eyes, which I

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Speaker 1: assume are from tanning goggles. What does this have to

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Speaker 1: do with anything? Why is the former FBI director talking

631
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Speaker 1: about the current president United States like he's a you know,

632
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Speaker 1: a sixth grade girl on no offense to sixth grade girls,

633
00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,399
Speaker 1: but come on, didn't like his hair. Looks like he's

634
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: a handing bad guys. An embarrassment. Grayson in Mesa, Arizona.

635
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Speaker 1: What are you think of my friend field side Buck

636
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: against oss here? Hey, um, you know I just picked

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Speaker 1: up here brit Hume with Brett there this afternoon on

638
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: Fox UM, and he was pointing out a lot of

639
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: things that were left out, the questionable things that were

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Speaker 1: cut out, key questions that Stephanopolis was asking, we've only

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Speaker 1: got about forty seconds, my friend, So what are some

642
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 1: of them? Well, the questions that regarding comey um uh,

643
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 1: him taking on and assuming roles that are delegated to

644
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: like the justice of partner where he became instead of

645
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: his role as the FBI director, he was became judge,

646
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: jury and execute. Yeah, he was running the DJ and

647
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 1: the FBI by is by his own decision. Grace and

648
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: appreciate you calling him and I gotta run into the

649
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: next block here. He's back with you now, because when

650
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops.

651
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: Welcome to our two of the Bucks extent show, my friends.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you here. So we we've gone through

653
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 1: a lot of the comy stuff. I want to I

654
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: want to move past. I want to move past coomy palooza.

655
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 1: Like no Buck, Buck, We've got a favor and the

656
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: only prescription is more comy, not true. I know you've

657
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: had enough, probably of comy. I've had enough at this point.

658
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: I do. I think it's done now too, meaning it's

659
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: fading away. He doesn't have staying power, you know. He

660
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: has all the charm of a of a recently divorced

661
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: I R. S auditor who's just looking to looking to

662
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:13,839
Speaker 1: rage at the world. You know what I mean. It's

663
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,760
Speaker 1: not good. It's not good. He's he's in a rough space.

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Speaker 1: He's he's not a guy that people really are gonna

665
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: want to have around all that much. And I haven't

666
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: even gotten a see it just happens. I was gonna

667
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: start making fun of his, like Zen Lake tweets that

668
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 1: he puts out. And also I saw something greasing. I

669
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 1: thought it must be photoshopper. He's like doing a jumping

670
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: jack or something and he's like, yeah, you come anyway.

671
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: We're moving on from that though, But it's all that

672
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: stuff is important. His his justifications for what he did

673
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: are not compelling. Um. He holds other people to a

674
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: very extreme standard within the law, but holds himself to

675
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: whatever standard he comes up with. UM. And he is

676
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,439
Speaker 1: very very sanctimonious. But there's some real stuff that's also

677
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: happening right now that has to do with the law

678
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: on how people are tree dude within the context of

679
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: the law, whether it is it is fair or not

680
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: to them. Uh. And Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer, has had

681
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,320
Speaker 1: his stuff seized, as you know, We've talked about it

682
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:19,760
Speaker 1: here and just today a judge has said that there

683
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: well that a judge has denied the temporary restraining order

684
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Speaker 1: that Cohen has asked for with regard to all of

685
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 1: his um all of his everything. Really, I mean, they

686
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 1: seized all of his stuff. And imagine someone came into

687
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: your home. Not just someone, Imagine the FBI came in

688
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: and took all of your documents, your phones, your computers,

689
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: and was able to go through everything and without any

690
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 1: prohibitions on what could be seen. Now you're gonna, I

691
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: understand what the what the left and the Democrat, the

692
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: anti Trump folks they say here is Oh no, don't worry.

693
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: They're gonna bring in a taint team, which is what

694
00:38:56,040 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: it is called, and they will try to separate out

695
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: what is privileged from what is not. Well, here's the thing.

696
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:08,800
Speaker 1: Once they already have it that doesn't really feel like

697
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: that doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy. Once the

698
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: FBI or once the people from the Department of Justice,

699
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: once federal prosecutors have access this information, guess what the

700
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: tie is gonna go to the prosecutor here. If it's

701
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: close to not being privileged, guess what it's not privileged.

702
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: If there's any way they could justify it not being privileged.

703
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: Guess what, that's where it's gonna go. And then there's

704
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:38,399
Speaker 1: another level too of when you know, think aback, think

705
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: back to when you were in school. You're like me

706
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Speaker 1: and you were not somebody who really liked math, and

707
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: there were copies of the textbook that had the answers

708
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: in the back, and the whole thing was, you know,

709
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: you're gonna you know, you're you're gonna get to the

710
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: you're able to check your own work that way. But

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Speaker 1: I have to admit sometimes I was like, wow, oh,

712
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,320
Speaker 1: you know, I got the answer here, and I'm just

713
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: kinda I'm gonna kind of make up how I got

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Speaker 1: there and just make sure I've got the answer. That's

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00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: always the temptation. If prosecutors have all this information handy. Now,

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Speaker 1: I know people are gonna say the taint team is

717
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: going to separate it out. But the the taint team,

718
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: first of all, they work for the they work for

719
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: the the other side. There for the other team, people

720
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: are gonna say, oh, they're not gonna be there. It's

721
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: gonna be independent independent, how they all know what they're

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Speaker 1: working on. When you can tell me these people don't

723
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: talk Oh, yeah, sure, you're you're gonna After all, we've

724
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 1: seen all the shenanigans with Loretta Lynch, the tarmac meeting Hillary,

725
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: the emails, breaking the blackberries, using bleach bit to erase

726
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 1: their hard drives and no charges there. And you know,

727
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: after all the stuff we have seen to shake our

728
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 1: confidence in the nonpartisan nature of the Department of Justice,

729
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: now they want us to be like, yeah, I mean,

730
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 1: so they got all of Trump's lawyer stuff, but they're

731
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: gonna be really judicious about what they keep what they don't. Right,

732
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:03,879
Speaker 1: this is laughable, This is preposterous. And to finish off

733
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Speaker 1: my math answer analogy, I still have nightmares about being

734
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:09,919
Speaker 1: in the middle of math exams that I'm not doing

735
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: well and and it's it's like a stress to this day,

736
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: you know, I have like a dream where it's like no,

737
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 1: like I don't know, I can't do quadratic equations anymore.

738
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Speaker 1: But they well, once they have the answers, they can

739
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: find other ways to get there, meaning once they have

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00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 1: the information, they'll find another way to get it, not

741
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: through the process of what the FBI just sees, you know,

742
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: And you could say, well, buck, you know, if if

743
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: Cohen's done anything shady, then he deserves whatever he gets.

744
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: And to that, I just respond, you know, you don't

745
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: know anyone who hasn't done anything shady. If you're doing stuff,

746
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 1: and if the government wants to wants to make an

747
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 1: example of you, they'll find a way to make it

748
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 1: look like you're shady. You know. One of the things

749
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: that I actually talk about in the earlier days of

750
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:56,720
Speaker 1: the Buck Section show, one of the the the favorite

751
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: topics that I would hit that I felt like never

752
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: got enough attentions. One my mantras here, right, I like

753
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 1: to do things that I think are really important, but

754
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:07,800
Speaker 1: other people are focused on other stuff. It was over criminalization,

755
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: and I became very familiar with all these different stories

756
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: of people that faced really serious repercussions and meant, in

757
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 1: some cases, pretty long stretches in prison for conduct that

758
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 1: not only wasn't criminal in nature, but wasn't even problematic

759
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: or damaging in terms of what it really did, but

760
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:35,760
Speaker 1: just violated some either obscure or uh, you know, obscure

761
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: iss a good But sometimes it's really it's not even

762
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: just that it's obscured, it's it's that they don't even

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00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: know if it's a statute or not that they don't

764
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 1: even the people enforcing it aren't clear on what's covered

765
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: and what's not. So how are you supposed to know? Oh,

766
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,720
Speaker 1: ignorance of the law is not not a defense. Well, actually,

767
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 1: when you're talking about some of the stuff, ignorance the

768
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: law should be a defense. But I bring that up

769
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: just because when you're more familiar with those cases. And

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00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 1: there's a book even written by a Harvey silver Gate, uh,

771
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: three Felonies a Day, where he says, you know you're

772
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: you're committing felonies every day, you don't even know it.

773
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 1: It doesn't make you bad person, doesn't mean you go

774
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: to jail. But if you were really being strict in

775
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 1: your application a law, you're probably committing felonies on a

776
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: pretty regular basis. Um. One of the ones that comes

777
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 1: up often is exceeding authorized use of a computer and

778
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: how people do that without realizing it, um. And and

779
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: also just exceeding the terms of service and what that

780
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,800
Speaker 1: can mean all kinds of stuff. Maybe we could have

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00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: you be interesting to. I'll go, you know, that's a

782
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 1: book that I've cited before, and I'll be on and

783
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 1: I just know the title, haven't read it, so now

784
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,759
Speaker 1: I've just given myself a little additional homework. I'll go back,

785
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: I'll check that one out. But if they have all

786
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:43,799
Speaker 1: your stuff and they want to get you, they will.

787
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 1: That's the point. There's a way to get you. And

788
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 1: if you're a lawyer and you've been dealing with clients

789
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 1: who have complicated legal relationships with international entities and a deal, like,

790
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 1: they're gonna be able to get you the same way

791
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,800
Speaker 1: that I think it's Donald Rumsfeld some years ago admit

792
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 1: or the I'm not admitted, but but offered that he

793
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 1: writes a letter every year the I R S where

794
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 1: he's like, I've I've done the best I can with this,

795
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 1: but I know that if you really come after me,

796
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: you'll tell me that some of this is wrong. Just

797
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: understand that I can't understand this, and I have a

798
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 1: lot of resources, and I'm a really smart guy, and

799
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: I've done my best. And he actually sends that letter

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00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: to the I R S every year just to make

801
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: a point. And he's right. If they if they wanted

802
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: to overturn all of his books and look at all

803
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: this stuff, uh, they wanted to pour through it, they

804
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: would find they would find things that are wrong. And

805
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 1: maybe could even make a case that some of it

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00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 1: was it was criminal in nature, a criminal violation of

807
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 1: the tax code, even by accident. And the same thing

808
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:42,839
Speaker 1: is true to the broader tax codes. So that's when

809
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: people say, oh, we've got a taint team. We're gonna

810
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:49,800
Speaker 1: separate out the stuff that uh, he's attorney client privileg

811
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:53,320
Speaker 1: from what's not. That's that's a judgment call, and that

812
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: you're already putting a lot of weight on the side

813
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,359
Speaker 1: of what the prosecutors want and what they're gonna get

814
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 1: when they have possession of this, when it's when it's

815
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: something that they already have and uh in their hands.

816
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: Um and and it's all meant to show that they'll

817
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: just do anything to get to get Trump and his people.

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00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 1: And it was tied into the article I I've mentioned

819
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: as well about how article I read over the weekend

820
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,359
Speaker 1: about how Trump the whole president is coming to an end,

821
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: which I'll talk to you more about later on. But

822
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: that's not happening, but they think it is. And they

823
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:30,359
Speaker 1: think that this latest tough guy tactic of taking all

824
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: of Cohen's information, taking all of his electronic devices, pouring

825
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:40,799
Speaker 1: through his files. I sometimes want to ask. I wish

826
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:43,240
Speaker 1: I could sit down and actually force people at places

827
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 1: like MSNBC and CNN to answer the question, why do

828
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 1: they really think they're gonna find? What do they think

829
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: they could produce at this point? Realistically? Although what's realistic

830
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:54,839
Speaker 1: for them? I don't know's I think they're all stuck

831
00:45:54,840 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: in a delusion. But realistically, that would not only show

832
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,240
Speaker 1: that what they think about Trump is true, but also

833
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,879
Speaker 1: that his base would say, people like me even would say, yeah,

834
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 1: you know, that's too much. Come on, what's it really

835
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 1: going to be. It's just not not gonna happen. But

836
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: it's troubling to see that with all the all the

837
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 1: politicization of the judicial process that has occurred in the

838
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 1: Trump era, right the primary, the general election, and afterwards,

839
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: all the stuff we've seen, people like Comy are the

840
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 1: ones making the decisions about what attorney client privilege does

841
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 1: and does not mean for Trump, and they expect us

842
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: to believe that that's fine, that there's no problem here,

843
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:42,319
Speaker 1: then he'll get a fair shake. The swamp is deep,

844
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: my friends, The swamp is very very deep. Eight four

845
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 1: four five You want to chat eight four four I

846
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: gotta talk to you about this latest situation with California

847
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: and the National Guard. One of the one of the

848
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 1: more interesting UM questions I asked people out here is,

849
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 1: so what do you think about governance in California? And

850
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: I've been trying to talk to as many folks is

851
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: as I can about that. Oh you know, I sat

852
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: next to a guy at breakfast today who I won't

853
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: say which one, but I know from a farm from

854
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 1: one of these commercials where they they are advertising a

855
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: and he's an actor, right, he's not. He's not actually

856
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: somebody that suffers from the condition. Um. But I sat

857
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 1: next like, that's the guy from that commercial, and he's like, yeah,

858
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:31,680
Speaker 1: I've got a I've got an embarrassing condition. You know.

859
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: It's kind of like, that's the guy from the commercial.

860
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 1: And I thought of myself. You know, I never people

861
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 1: that I don't know but you know from something. I

862
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 1: almost never will go up with them in santydaying or whatever.

863
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 1: And although all of you have you ever see me

864
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 1: anywhere because I so rarely actually have person to person

865
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 1: contact with members of Team Buck that like, by all

866
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: means come over and give me a high five, you know,

867
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 1: we can have a drink. But I was sitting there

868
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 1: was like, does this guy like it when people say, hey,

869
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 1: you're the guy from the commercial. It the guy with

870
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 1: the problem, the problem, you know, the problem with the thing.

871
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? You know, I got an

872
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,880
Speaker 1: embarrassing medical issue. But he doesn't actually have it right,

873
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: So that's so he's an actor playing a guy with

874
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: an embarrassing medical issue. And do you think your stuff?

875
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: You're like, well, you know, do you want to be

876
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:17,840
Speaker 1: the in public? You know, I think the answers you

877
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: leave the guy aload no matter what, obviously, but I

878
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 1: just thought it's kind of funny. I was like, yeah,

879
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 1: I like them. People like, hey are you Buck? I'm like,

880
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,879
Speaker 1: I am indeed, um, but I'm known for different things.

881
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,959
Speaker 1: All right. Uh, the California situation that we'll talk about

882
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: that stay with me. I got some calls up, but

883
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 1: I've also got to talk to you about what's going

884
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: on with California and the National Guard sent that's supposed

885
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: to be sent to the border. But Scott in Long Beach, Mississippi,

886
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: you're up first. Scott, Hey, Hey, how are you doing?

887
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 1: But I'm good. Thanks for the call. I just had

888
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:02,240
Speaker 1: a angle to add on the radar on Cohen's office.

889
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,879
Speaker 1: One thing I ever heard anybody bring up is uh, yeah,

890
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 1: I think they they're looking for any criminal stuff they

891
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:12,280
Speaker 1: can find. But right now, a team of n FBI

892
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 1: agents is going to get to review this stuff. But

893
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:18,359
Speaker 1: even if Trump's lawyer, if the Laurie wins the court

894
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: and gets it reviewed by a master, I've heard that

895
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 1: master is going to be a judge. Well if that

896
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: judge is no Obama pointing, what if this is just

897
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 1: all one big fishing expedition to look for stuff to

898
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: use against Trump in the election? Right? Well, I've been

899
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 1: saying this too, that I think that some of the information,

900
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:37,320
Speaker 1: forget about whether it's used in a legal proceeding against

901
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: Trump for any of his people. I think you may

902
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:43,919
Speaker 1: see leaks of it exactly. And now we're talking about

903
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 1: the equivalent of you know, what about is it okay

904
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: if somebody can the FBI come in and sees uh,

905
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 1: you know, a president's medical records, or then just all

906
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: of a sudden stuff gets leaked. I mean it just

907
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:56,799
Speaker 1: seems strange. Well what it surprives you? I mean, look,

908
00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: look how they haven't gone after a leak or so

909
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,799
Speaker 1: far coming people they convicted the leak in anything well,

910
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:03,319
Speaker 1: all this stuff is that. That's a very good point.

911
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 1: It's not that hard to get. You know. You'll notice

912
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: that of all the of all the anti Trump leaks

913
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: out there, there has not been a single conviction of

914
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:14,840
Speaker 1: number my conviction, not even a single person charged. And

915
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: these are leaks that would have come from a pretty

916
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: small circle of individuals. I mean, you look at the

917
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 1: leak over the phone call between the Russian ambassador and

918
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 1: incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. There's not a lot

919
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 1: of people that have access to this stuff exactly, So

920
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:33,800
Speaker 1: the SDI gets to look at all his tony clients information.

921
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: Was to keep that from leaking like a sieve to

922
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 1: the d n C and of the Democrats to start

923
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: digging up all the dirt they can possibly dig up

924
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 1: before election. No, I I see it the way you do.

925
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 1: I think it's a big problem. Scott, so will continue

926
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 1: to follow closely, and I appreciate you calling in Shields

927
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 1: high So this California story, I just mentioned it, but

928
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 1: it's I'm here in Cali, I'm in l A, So

929
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: I feel like it caught my eye. In particular, such

930
00:50:58,160 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 1: a lovely state. I mean, the water here is so

931
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: beauty full, the food so great. People are really fun.

932
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 1: But the government here is just just bonkers. I mean,

933
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 1: they've got all kinds of problems. But now you're Governor

934
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: Jerry Brown, who has rejected Trump's terms for the National

935
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: Guards deployment to the US Mexico border. They're supposed to

936
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:21,319
Speaker 1: be four hundreds. Like it's not that big of uh,

937
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: not that big of a group here, but you know,

938
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: four hundred troops are supposed to be sent to the

939
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 1: border to help out, and they have determined, meaning that

940
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 1: Governor Brown has decided that the work that they would

941
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 1: be doing at the border is too close to immigration enforcement. Now,

942
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 1: my understanding is that the stuff that there would be

943
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: doing involves like vehicle maintenance. And here I'm trying to

944
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 1: see what the actual list is, because it's not that

945
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 1: they're not tracking, the National Guard is not grabbing and

946
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:59,719
Speaker 1: arresting people trying to cross the border, And um, what

947
00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 1: was the what were the specifics here? Uh? Hold on

948
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 1: a second, Oh yeah, here it is they would not

949
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: allow its troops to fix and repair vehicles, operate remote

950
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: control surveillance cameras, or perform other tasks under Trump's plan.

951
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean stuff that's not arresting people are

952
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:22,839
Speaker 1: actively involved in immigration, uh law enforcement, they still won't

953
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 1: let they won't let them do. And this is just

954
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: another version of saying that that they are not they

955
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:30,319
Speaker 1: are opposed. They've got the resources, right, Governor Brown here

956
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: in California, how's the resources at his disposal? He could

957
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 1: help out with the border sending some National Guard troops

958
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 1: down to the border. Other border state governors have completely

959
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: gone along with this. I think Trump says he's gonna

960
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 1: senda where he's asked for. Remember, the governors have to

961
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 1: all sign off on this. Trump's gonna ask for a

962
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 1: total of four thousand to help out with border related tasks, which,

963
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:55,319
Speaker 1: especially as we get into some of the warmer months,

964
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 1: you have a lot higher rate of of border crossings.

965
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: So and I think they're acting a surge. You got

966
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 1: all this publicity around the so called caravan. That's not

967
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:08,279
Speaker 1: the last caravan you're gonna see. It's certainly not well.

968
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:10,879
Speaker 1: Mostly illegal crossings have nothing to do with caravans. There's

969
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: people crossing every day. But what can we think about

970
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 1: this other than Governor Jerry Brown doesn't really believe in

971
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: the mission of border patrol and the federal government's mission

972
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 1: of securing the border. I think he's just not someone

973
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: who believes him, you know. And this is not surprising

974
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 1: if you follow the trajectory of politics and states that

975
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:37,319
Speaker 1: have a very large illegal alien population, they are now

976
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:41,800
Speaker 1: states that are there are favorable toward a near open

977
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 1: border status. And this is why we can't even really

978
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 1: have a very productive discussion with the Democrats, because it

979
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: used to be hey, and even a state like California be, hey,

980
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:54,800
Speaker 1: how do we cut down on illegal crossings? You know

981
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,320
Speaker 1: how the in the what to do about illegals in

982
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: the country was considered a separate part of the discussion.

983
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:02,839
Speaker 1: But everyone was as recently as I would say ten

984
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:06,840
Speaker 1: years ago, everyone was, at least theoretically in the political

985
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:10,880
Speaker 1: class on board for securing the border. There was a

986
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: bipartisan consensus, Yeah, we need a secure border. Sure, fine,

987
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: And that's gone now. California used a secure border as

988
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 1: a bad thing because the people that are illegal in

989
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 1: California have a tremendous amount of sway in the country,

990
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:30,839
Speaker 1: in the state rather well in the country as well. Um,

991
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 1: and there are many people that have either familial bonds,

992
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:39,399
Speaker 1: ties of kinship, friends, colleagues, coworkers whatever in the legal

993
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 1: alien population who also view any enforcement of border security

994
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:45,440
Speaker 1: as some kind of slap in the face, some kind

995
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:49,879
Speaker 1: of attack on them. So sure enough, the Governor Brown

996
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: here is backing down. I think Trump called him governor Moonbeam. Uh,

997
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 1: he's backing off of that, No surprise. We're gonna talk

998
00:54:57,719 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: Syria coming up here in just a few minutes. And

999
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 1: also what Trump's really do it stay? Since election day,

1000
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:12,840
Speaker 1: we've created three million new jobs, three millions. And and people,

1001
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 1: if I would have said that prior to the election

1002
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:18,040
Speaker 1: that will create in a short period of time three

1003
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 1: million jobs, that would have said, that's ridiculous, that's an exaggeration,

1004
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:24,239
Speaker 1: how could it be possible. We would have taken a

1005
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:26,839
Speaker 1: lot of heat. But we've created three million new jobs,

1006
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:28,959
Speaker 1: and now the numbers even higher than that. So since

1007
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: election day, three million new jobs. Unemployment rates for Hispanics?

1008
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 1: Are there any Hispanics in the room now? I think

1009
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: for Hispanics, the we have the lowest level ever recorded.

1010
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 1: The story of many, many millions of people who come

1011
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 1: to this country to look for an opportunity, and our

1012
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 1: president has now restored the capacity of people like me

1013
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:02,320
Speaker 1: that started a business from the trunk of our cars

1014
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:05,839
Speaker 1: to become a very prominent company where we impact over

1015
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: fifty families, and thinking Mr President very happy that right

1016
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:16,479
Speaker 1: before he was elected, we had a town hall meeting

1017
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:18,879
Speaker 1: and I took the liberty of elected him. I said,

1018
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:20,839
Speaker 1: we're going to elect you in November, and we're gonna

1019
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 1: see you soon. My god, I look prophetic today. So

1020
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,439
Speaker 1: of the country, according to Rasmus in approves the job

1021
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: that President Trump is doing, which is really high for

1022
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:37,000
Speaker 1: a president at this stage of the game, higher than

1023
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:40,840
Speaker 1: Obama's approval at this point in time. And yet you

1024
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: can see that there are completely there are narratives that

1025
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 1: are so different right now of what's going on in

1026
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:50,399
Speaker 1: the country that you have to think that we're talking

1027
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,799
Speaker 1: about a different country. Right You have, on the one hand,

1028
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:57,439
Speaker 1: a narrative of an administration that is letting the letting

1029
00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:00,360
Speaker 1: the American people's business be business and let them do

1030
00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 1: what they do, trying to take the constraints the shackles

1031
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 1: of government regulation off of our backs and uh off

1032
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 1: of the labor that we all do and in our

1033
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:14,800
Speaker 1: our jobs or do today lives. And and then the

1034
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: other hand you have you have people that are supposed

1035
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 1: to be informing us about this and talking about what's

1036
00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 1: really going on that that matters to all of you.

1037
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: And what you are left with is people who say

1038
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 1: things like, oh that this weekend of The New Yorker

1039
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 1: published an essay, and they would just say, oh, it's

1040
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 1: just it's just they can essee me, and it's now like,

1041
00:57:34,480 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 1: you know, we rooted. They went out, there's opinion me in.

1042
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:40,000
Speaker 1: But what they published is obviously a reflection of what

1043
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:42,440
Speaker 1: they think we should all read and know, not that

1044
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:44,439
Speaker 1: that many people read The New Yorker in the first place,

1045
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: but it was a piece on how this is the

1046
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:50,920
Speaker 1: basically the we're in the end times of the Trump presidency.

1047
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:53,680
Speaker 1: And it was a completely serious piece in the sense

1048
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 1: that this was not not trying to be a a

1049
00:57:57,680 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 1: send up of things. This was not meant to be

1050
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 1: a parody. This is totally serious that we are in

1051
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:07,440
Speaker 1: the phase of the end. It's like the Berlin Wallace

1052
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 1: coming down that the Trump presidency is about to end,

1053
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 1: and pointing to the Michael Cohen record seizure as the

1054
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 1: evidence that that's really all the evans you need that

1055
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 1: this is all coming down and all falling apart. You know,

1056
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 1: you wonder at what point they stopped making these predictions,

1057
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 1: At what point being wrong becomes problematic enough for them

1058
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 1: that they will no longer keep at it. Because last year,

1059
00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 1: I remember The New Yorker and I actually pulled some

1060
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 1: of this over the weekend to read The New Yorker

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Speaker 1: was writing about It was one of those publications that

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Speaker 1: found it fashionable to write about how fascism was coming

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Speaker 1: to America the courtesy of Trump, right, that Trump was

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00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 1: going to be a fascist, And it's just isn't an

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00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 1: amazing when you think with this Trump is gonna be

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Speaker 1: a fascist? They say, Meanwhile, the guy is being stymied

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Speaker 1: and block left and right by random federal judges. And

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Speaker 1: his response is never you know, sees that federal judge

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Speaker 1: and take him into custody. You know, he's like, all right,

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Speaker 1: I think that guy is wrong, but you know, we'll

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00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:13,439
Speaker 1: see you in court, and we're not gonna just run

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Speaker 1: rough shot over all different parts the judiciary. We will

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Speaker 1: go through the process. They talk about a president who

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Speaker 1: is undermining all of our institutions. Meanwhile, he plays within

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Speaker 1: the guidelines as president of the institutions more so than

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Speaker 1: his predecessor. Did you know Obama was the one who

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00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 1: was like an off a pen on the phone, and

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00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 1: he was just gonna do stuff whether or not it

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Speaker 1: was within his constitutionally delegated authority to do so. Trump

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Speaker 1: is like, well, okay, I wanted to do that, but

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Speaker 1: I guess I can't right now, and we'll see and

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00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 1: we'll move on to other stuff. Trump is the one

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00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:52,280
Speaker 1: who's made serious efforts to negotiate with the other side

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Speaker 1: on issues like immigration. His immigration offer of amnesty for

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00:59:56,600 --> 01:00:01,920
Speaker 1: DACA DOCCA covered individuals is more than anyone would have

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01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:05,280
Speaker 1: imagined a Republican in his position would have started out with.

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01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:08,680
Speaker 1: And Democrats were like, no, yeah, they don't want it,

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Speaker 1: No part of it not enough for them. And you

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Speaker 1: see the the focus still on on Cohen and the

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Speaker 1: lawyer and the Russia probe. And I know we've all

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Speaker 1: I mean, part of me likes the comy story because

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Speaker 1: it's so it's such a good way to illustrate grandiose bureaucrats.

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Speaker 1: I think that all of us getting a solid dose

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Speaker 1: of sancta comey is a pretty is pretty worthwhile in

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Speaker 1: that sense. But I also don't want to give this

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Speaker 1: guy much more attention and much more of our of

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01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: our viewership and and spending our our very precious hours

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Speaker 1: listening to him drown on about leadership and ethics, because

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Speaker 1: I think that ultimately he is well, not just a

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Speaker 1: waste of our time. I think he's pretty destructive. I

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Speaker 1: think he's doing a lot of things that are very

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Speaker 1: problematic for the country and certainly problematic for the federal bureaucracy,

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Speaker 1: and the notion of civil servants as public servants instead

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Speaker 1: of well self servicing and self promoted. But Trump is

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Speaker 1: out there and he's still making the case. And I

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01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:16,280
Speaker 1: think that as long as as long as the economy

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Speaker 1: holds together and we're able to forestall a debt crisis,

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Speaker 1: it's coming, but hopefully it won't hit at a point

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Speaker 1: that is too damaging for the Trump presidents. As long

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Speaker 1: as all that's happening, he's in pretty good shape and

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01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:32,480
Speaker 1: we'll be in pretty good shape for the mid terms.

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Speaker 1: Here's what he said, by the way, about what's going

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Speaker 1: on with companies coming into the country nineteen. We're working

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Speaker 1: on new trade deals that are gonna be great deals.

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Speaker 1: Where as you know, very tough on Cuba's not fair,

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01:01:52,720 --> 01:01:56,320
Speaker 1: not fair what happened. Companies are moving back into our country. Now,

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Speaker 1: we have billions of dollars and even trillions of dollars

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Speaker 1: going to become ming back in already started Apple three

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Speaker 1: fifty billion dollar investment. So many of the companies are

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Speaker 1: bringing back their money. They're putting it to work. Chrysler

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01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 1: is opening up a big, beautiful plant in Michigan, and

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01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 1: so many other car companies, and it's a whole different story.

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Speaker 1: They all want to be part of it. What would

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Speaker 1: the narrative from the mainstream media be like if none

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Speaker 1: of this was happening. I think it's a fun thought experiment.

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Speaker 1: What would they be saying if you didn't have record

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Speaker 1: low unemployment, record low Hispanic and African American unemployment, if

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Speaker 1: you didn't have companies bringing back billions of dollars to

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Speaker 1: repatriating it into the States, also promising to have more

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Speaker 1: jobs here. Think about what it would sound like that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's at This is quite a feat, and

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Speaker 1: it's really an extenuate or a an extension of what

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Speaker 1: he did during the primary. He's at with the entire

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Speaker 1: media apparat not just opposed to him, but actively rooting

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Speaker 1: for him to be criminally charged, indicted, and thrown out

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Speaker 1: of office. All the above, and that you have entire

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Speaker 1: media entities that have devoted themselves to that process. That's

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Speaker 1: what they want to happen here. Fortunately, the country is

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Speaker 1: actually doing well and people can see that, and so

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Speaker 1: there's a counterbalance, the counterbalancing force of reality against the

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Speaker 1: destructive media narrative about Trump. Is is is remarkable, It

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Speaker 1: really is. You know, if if we were at a

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Speaker 1: time of stagnation and you know, unemployment was going up

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Speaker 1: and the kind of could you imagine, what would they

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01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:42,000
Speaker 1: even be saying? I don't know what. They just focus

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01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:45,160
Speaker 1: on that instead of what they're doing with the Trump

1147
01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:48,920
Speaker 1: Russia collusion fairy tale they've been telling for so long.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but I just I feel like, you know,

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01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:53,400
Speaker 1: you get it here because you won't hear it a

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01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:54,920
Speaker 1: whole lot of other places. I like to tell you

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01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:57,600
Speaker 1: that you know what Trump is doing. It is working

1152
01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:00,520
Speaker 1: in ways that matter to you and me every day.

1153
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:03,880
Speaker 1: And they can talk about Michael Cohen until they're blue

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Speaker 1: in the face. All Right, we got to I want

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Speaker 1: to update you on Syria the aftermath of those strikes,

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Speaker 1: so we'll hit that coming up. Stay with me. You

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Speaker 1: are now entering the freedom technical Operations Center. All sensitive

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Speaker 1: programs musty keeps strictly need to know. Team Buck is

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Speaker 1: cleared and ready for the Buck brief. The sole reason

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Speaker 1: we are there is to take out Isis. But as

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Speaker 1: we start to see in the world, community watches as

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Speaker 1: Syria kills innocent men, women and children, backed by Bashar

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Speaker 1: al Assad, backed by Russia, backed by Iron the United

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Speaker 1: States and its allies had to act. And so that's

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Speaker 1: exactly what we did. We believe we degraded their ability

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Speaker 1: to use chemical weapons. So there you had a State

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Speaker 1: Department spokeswoman Heather, Now we're on the strikes. Some follow

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Speaker 1: up to the strikes in Syria. By the way, if

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Speaker 1: you didn't get a chance to read it, please do

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Speaker 1: check out on the on the Hill dot com. I

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Speaker 1: wrote on this, Uh, my title was something along lines

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Speaker 1: of Trump's serious strike hits the mark, But you know,

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01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:14,920
Speaker 1: instability looms. Um, there there's a or escalation looms rather, UM,

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Speaker 1: I have concerns about that. But here here's more of

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Speaker 1: what I'm thinking. After that whole thing happened, I spent

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Speaker 1: time obviously wrote about it. Over the weekend. I spent

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Speaker 1: more time thinking as well about why do we fire

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Speaker 1: these missiles off and blow up of a bunch of

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Speaker 1: chemical weapons factories in Syria. I think that the the

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Speaker 1: eventual answer we're gonna come to on this is that

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Speaker 1: it won't really mean very much. It doesn't mean all

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Speaker 1: that much. And I'm not sure that you can say

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Speaker 1: anything has been accomplished other than messaging here. And how

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Speaker 1: important you think that is is a very debatable proposition,

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Speaker 1: you know. On the one hand, yeah, I get it.

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Speaker 1: We we don't want to be living in a world

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Speaker 1: where dictators think that they can use chemical weapons with

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Speaker 1: impunity on their own people. I understand that. But I

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Speaker 1: also see this and think to myself, you're talking about

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Speaker 1: dozens of people killed in a very inhuman and h

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01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:13,320
Speaker 1: or inhumane and brutal fashion. But you've got a half

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Speaker 1: a million people have done in the Syrian Civil War,

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Speaker 1: and this is not stopping that war. In fact, that

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Speaker 1: might you could argue it could uh, it could prolong it.

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Speaker 1: I could make it. Now. I don't think that standing

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Speaker 1: up against chemical weapons will prolong it, but a a

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Speaker 1: greater US involvement that may come from that strike could

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Speaker 1: make this thing drag on even longer. And then you

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Speaker 1: also have this notion that we've really affected their chemical

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Speaker 1: weapons program, which I gotta tell you I find I

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Speaker 1: find tough. I know, I've I've seen some of the

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Speaker 1: analysis on this. I think maybe Maddest last week said that,

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Speaker 1: you know, we've put or I don't don't quote me

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Speaker 1: on that one. I'm not sure it was Maddest, but

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Speaker 1: people were saying ti the administration, we've set their chemical

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Speaker 1: weapons program back, you know years, you know, many been

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Speaker 1: in months that this will be really meaningful as a

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Speaker 1: a way of hitting them at basically taking their capability offline.

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Speaker 1: I find that tough. I find that tough to believe

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Speaker 1: because I think I mentioned this to you a bit

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Speaker 1: last week. Even saren gas, which is a nerve gas

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Speaker 1: more more advanced and more terrifying and say chlorine gas

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Speaker 1: or or even mustard gas. But saren gas has been

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Speaker 1: around since it was initially came from pesticide research. They

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Speaker 1: were trying to find something that was really effective at

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Speaker 1: killing bugs. So you've got world War two era technology.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're when we're discussing saren gas. It is

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Speaker 1: a World War two era technology. It is not hard

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Speaker 1: to come up with this. And even if you were

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Speaker 1: to assume as and I think the the big assumption

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Speaker 1: assume that the chemical weapons facilities and capabilities that the

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Speaker 1: Assad regime has or just completely wiped out by those

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Speaker 1: US strikes. I think that's I think it's uh, it's

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Speaker 1: a tough sell for me that they won't be able

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Speaker 1: to relatively quickly reconstitute that and use it as they

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Speaker 1: see fit. Now, even mon they don't. They don't have to,

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Speaker 1: nor nor will they use chemical weapons on a regular basis.

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Speaker 1: Even even before we did this strike, it was relatively speaking,

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Speaker 1: a rare tactic for them. Um. But by the way

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Speaker 1: Trump Trump spoke about this and and the Syrian and

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Speaker 1: Russian response, John Place seventeen, did our generals do a

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Speaker 1: great job. And you know with way over hundred missile

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Speaker 1: shut in, they didn't shoot one down? The equipment didn't

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Speaker 1: work too well, their equipment and uh, they didn't shoot

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Speaker 1: one you know you heard, oh they shot forty down,

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Speaker 1: then they shot fifteen down. They watched. Then I called,

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Speaker 1: I said, did they know, sir? Every single one hit?

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Speaker 1: Its started? Think of that? How do you not one shot? Now,

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Speaker 1: it's good to know that America has the capability to

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Speaker 1: get past things like the surface to air missile systems

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Speaker 1: that the Syrians have that they've gotten or borrowed or

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Speaker 1: been able to leverage Russian technology in order to have

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Speaker 1: UM But that also doesn't deal with the fundamental problem

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Speaker 1: of the Syrians civil war and the conventional weapons usage

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Speaker 1: that's killing four more people than anything that's happening to

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Speaker 1: deal with the chemical weapons side. So I know the

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Speaker 1: administration feels strongly about this, and it seems like Trump

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Speaker 1: has very much set a line for all right actions

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Speaker 1: over there that we're not going to get, which is

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Speaker 1: that's critical. That was my big concern going into this,

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Speaker 1: because I remember when I talked to you about this

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Speaker 1: on Friday, I said, I'm I'm hoping. I kind of

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Speaker 1: knew that there was gonna be a striker like I'm

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01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:12,560
Speaker 1: hoping that they don't really do this, but if they do,

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Speaker 1: at least it should be limited. And I think that

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Speaker 1: the precedent that it sets as well when it comes

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Speaker 1: to constitutional well, you know this is how much can

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01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:25,719
Speaker 1: I even be upset about the president when all presidents

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Speaker 1: basically do this. You know, I see a national security

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Speaker 1: problem somewhere, I'm just gonna fire some missiles at it.

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Speaker 1: That seems to be the approach of it's a bipartisan approach.

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Speaker 1: There's something that I really don't like, and I'm president.

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01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:40,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send some missiles and blow it up. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's the war powers at constitutional Who knows. One of

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Speaker 1: the more acrimonious debates that doesn't seem to go anywhere

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Speaker 1: is does the president need to confer with Congress or

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Speaker 1: not before declaring war. I get people on both sides

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Speaker 1: of that one that are completely convinced of the the

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Speaker 1: rightness of their position and think that the other side

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Speaker 1: is just just nuts um. But you know, Syria, Well,

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Speaker 1: we'll see what ends up happening in the in the

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01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:07,200
Speaker 1: months ahead. That will give us a much better sense

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Speaker 1: of whether they really are just limiting this to a

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01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:15,400
Speaker 1: a a one off against assad that that maintains the

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01:11:15,439 --> 01:11:18,719
Speaker 1: red line that Obama abandoned, but that does not drag

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01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:22,280
Speaker 1: us deeper into this thing. It was a big It

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01:11:22,360 --> 01:11:25,200
Speaker 1: was a big promise that Trump made during the campaign

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01:11:25,439 --> 01:11:27,720
Speaker 1: that we would not be fighting I think he was

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01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:30,120
Speaker 1: just reruning on the stupid wars on a pretty regular basis.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to fight stupid wars. We're not going

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01:11:32,880 --> 01:11:36,439
Speaker 1: to do that. And sure enough, I think that This

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01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:39,320
Speaker 1: is going to be the real rubber meets the road

1283
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:42,759
Speaker 1: moment of whether or not Trump keeps that promise, because

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01:11:42,760 --> 01:11:44,760
Speaker 1: I don't want it, You don't want it. It's it's

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01:11:44,800 --> 01:11:47,720
Speaker 1: a terrible idea for us to start putting ourselves in

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01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:50,519
Speaker 1: a place or we are responsible for what happens in Syria,

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01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:53,760
Speaker 1: were responsible every time somebody sets off an I e.

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01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:58,240
Speaker 1: D or or puts a puts a car bomb somewhere.

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01:11:58,920 --> 01:12:01,080
Speaker 1: That just we've got other things that we've got to

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01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:03,640
Speaker 1: do with our resources and our people. We've got a

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01:12:03,640 --> 01:12:06,639
Speaker 1: country to build here and continue building. I think that's

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01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:08,400
Speaker 1: a that's a fair way to look at it, all right.

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01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:10,920
Speaker 1: I want to get into some cultural stuff in the

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01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:13,960
Speaker 1: next hour. It'll be fun, including wokeness and how it

1295
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:16,360
Speaker 1: destroys all your favorite movies and TV shows if you

1296
01:12:16,439 --> 01:12:19,479
Speaker 1: let it. We'll talk about that coming up. Enough with

1297
01:12:19,680 --> 01:12:23,800
Speaker 1: revisiting things, stop being surprised every time you watch an

1298
01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:26,280
Speaker 1: old movie or TV show and find some of the

1299
01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:31,280
Speaker 1: ideas in it are old. A recent article by Molly

1300
01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:34,720
Speaker 1: Ringwold got a lot of attention because she revisited The

1301
01:12:34,800 --> 01:12:38,320
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club and her other eighties movies and found them troubling.

1302
01:12:38,560 --> 01:12:41,200
Speaker 1: In the age of me too. She said she was

1303
01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:44,719
Speaker 1: taken aback by the scope of the ugliness. Oh please,

1304
01:12:44,760 --> 01:12:52,920
Speaker 1: they were teen comedies, not snuff films. So there that's

1305
01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:54,680
Speaker 1: are we can said of. There you welcome to our

1306
01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:57,920
Speaker 1: three of the Buck Sexton Show. There you had Bill Maher, uh,

1307
01:12:58,439 --> 01:13:02,320
Speaker 1: left wing comedian, Uh, saying what I've been saying. So

1308
01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:05,000
Speaker 1: this is good news in a sense. This this makes

1309
01:13:05,080 --> 01:13:07,960
Speaker 1: me happy that even people on the left are figuring

1310
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:10,639
Speaker 1: out that this game that the left has really enjoyed

1311
01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:15,600
Speaker 1: playing for a while, this game of Hey, let's go

1312
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:19,559
Speaker 1: back and look once again at everything that was made

1313
01:13:19,640 --> 01:13:25,120
Speaker 1: as as art and entertainment from decades ago and apply

1314
01:13:25,400 --> 01:13:30,880
Speaker 1: the current, the current standards of being woke, of being

1315
01:13:30,920 --> 01:13:33,280
Speaker 1: a social justice warrior to it. You're not gonna have

1316
01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:35,880
Speaker 1: anything left. You're not gonna have any music left, You're

1317
01:13:35,880 --> 01:13:39,280
Speaker 1: not gonna have any TV shows left. Uh, it's all.

1318
01:13:39,680 --> 01:13:43,360
Speaker 1: A lot of books are gonna be forbidden. Bill Maher

1319
01:13:43,720 --> 01:13:46,880
Speaker 1: is seeing what I've seen for a long time now,

1320
01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:51,240
Speaker 1: which is that the progressive left has decided that it

1321
01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:55,040
Speaker 1: it will wield its power beyond its ability to even

1322
01:13:55,120 --> 01:13:59,840
Speaker 1: describe its outer limits when it comes to being censors

1323
01:14:00,240 --> 01:14:06,280
Speaker 1: of entertainment, pop culture and what is acceptable in discourse.

1324
01:14:07,160 --> 01:14:09,160
Speaker 1: As I've been mentioned that there are no outer limits

1325
01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:11,960
Speaker 1: to this. There's no place where I can say, Okay,

1326
01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:15,040
Speaker 1: well they'll they'll leave that alone, because with the exception

1327
01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:18,960
Speaker 1: as noted here of of hip hop music, for for

1328
01:14:19,479 --> 01:14:23,120
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they don't really get into the misogyny and

1329
01:14:24,120 --> 01:14:26,640
Speaker 1: the particularly although some of you are also gonna say, well,

1330
01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:29,960
Speaker 1: you know, Buck, there's a lot of a lot of

1331
01:14:30,040 --> 01:14:34,080
Speaker 1: casual adultery and uh and drinking and pickup truck talk

1332
01:14:34,880 --> 01:14:37,519
Speaker 1: where there's not a lot of labor going on in

1333
01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:39,680
Speaker 1: the back of pickup truck, but maybe other stuff in

1334
01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:42,720
Speaker 1: country music. And I would say that may be true

1335
01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:45,160
Speaker 1: as well. I'm not as familiar with country music and

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01:14:45,400 --> 01:14:47,439
Speaker 1: as as I am with hip hop music. As an

1337
01:14:47,560 --> 01:14:49,880
Speaker 1: urban dweller, um, I know more about the hip hop

1338
01:14:49,960 --> 01:14:52,800
Speaker 1: side of things. Believe it or not. For some of you,

1339
01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:55,400
Speaker 1: you're like, I do not believe it, Buck, but that

1340
01:14:55,520 --> 01:14:57,400
Speaker 1: against some of you also believe when I tweeted out

1341
01:14:57,400 --> 01:14:59,639
Speaker 1: a photo of a stretch pink Hummer this past weekend

1342
01:14:59,680 --> 01:15:02,920
Speaker 1: that it was really my car. Uh So some people,

1343
01:15:03,320 --> 01:15:05,880
Speaker 1: you know, some people believe some stuff. I went, I

1344
01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:08,280
Speaker 1: bet us I bet that stretch pink Hummer. I put

1345
01:15:08,320 --> 01:15:10,880
Speaker 1: a photo up on Twitter of it. It was really

1346
01:15:11,000 --> 01:15:13,960
Speaker 1: like double stretch too. It was it's like the biggest

1347
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:16,760
Speaker 1: car I've I've seen um and it was pink, pink,

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01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:19,880
Speaker 1: and it was a Hummer. Uh, it's gotta cost a

1349
01:15:19,920 --> 01:15:21,559
Speaker 1: couple hundred thousand dollars or something. I mean, I think

1350
01:15:21,560 --> 01:15:23,280
Speaker 1: it's gotta be really maybe a hundred fifty grand to

1351
01:15:23,320 --> 01:15:28,560
Speaker 1: and her grand. Very expensive. Nonetheless, I view, uh, this

1352
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:33,360
Speaker 1: is a threat. I view this wokenus component as a

1353
01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:38,120
Speaker 1: a threat to all of the things that we can

1354
01:15:38,200 --> 01:15:41,080
Speaker 1: enjoy together society. It's a big problem because it it

1355
01:15:41,200 --> 01:15:43,920
Speaker 1: pulls us apart one of the things that really brings

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01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:46,800
Speaker 1: us together. And I don't know if any of you saw.

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01:15:46,920 --> 01:15:51,400
Speaker 1: There was a over the weekend, a video making the

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01:15:51,520 --> 01:15:54,360
Speaker 1: rounds of a professional hockey player, and there was adorable

1359
01:15:54,400 --> 01:15:56,600
Speaker 1: little girls. There were their brothers and her dad, and

1360
01:15:56,680 --> 01:15:59,920
Speaker 1: he keeps trying to throw a puck over the plexiglass

1361
01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:02,080
Speaker 1: to her and and one of the I think her

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01:16:02,120 --> 01:16:04,280
Speaker 1: brother grabs one, and then another brother gets another one,

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01:16:04,280 --> 01:16:06,880
Speaker 1: and the guy comes over this hockey player a third

1364
01:16:06,960 --> 01:16:08,600
Speaker 1: time to make sure this girl and she gets the

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01:16:08,720 --> 01:16:11,000
Speaker 1: puck you know, she gets the little puck thrown to

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Speaker 1: her over the plexiglass divider at the at the ice

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01:16:13,920 --> 01:16:17,040
Speaker 1: hockey game, and she has this look of just pure

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01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:20,280
Speaker 1: unfiltered joy in her face, and it's just really cute

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01:16:20,320 --> 01:16:22,439
Speaker 1: and funny, and it's it's it was a great, little,

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01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:28,920
Speaker 1: great little moment. And I think that sports, movies, TV,

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Speaker 1: these are a lot of things that actually bring us

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01:16:32,760 --> 01:16:37,200
Speaker 1: into a place where we can agree and like them together. Right, Food,

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01:16:37,280 --> 01:16:39,240
Speaker 1: doing doing another thing I like to talk about here

1374
01:16:39,280 --> 01:16:41,960
Speaker 1: on the show, a lot of food because I like food. Um,

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01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:44,920
Speaker 1: but those are things that that are common ground for us.

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01:16:45,040 --> 01:16:48,439
Speaker 1: You know, if I'm sitting down, uh oh, you know,

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01:16:48,800 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 1: I'm somebody who actually I like to chat with uber drivers, right,

1378
01:16:52,320 --> 01:16:55,160
Speaker 1: I'm somebody who doesn't usually sit completely silently in the

1379
01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:57,160
Speaker 1: in the car. I feel like I'm driving with this

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01:16:57,280 --> 01:17:00,240
Speaker 1: fellow or this madam, and I would like to, uh

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01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:04,719
Speaker 1: like to engage in some kind of friendly banter, little

1382
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:07,560
Speaker 1: chit chat, a little back and forth. And you know,

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01:17:08,320 --> 01:17:10,280
Speaker 1: what's the place where you can prett easily go talk

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01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:13,240
Speaker 1: about sports, talking about movies, talking about TV shows. You know,

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01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:14,479
Speaker 1: these days, for me, it's you know, what do you

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01:17:14,520 --> 01:17:17,920
Speaker 1: watch on Netflix, and most people, unless they just don't

1387
01:17:17,920 --> 01:17:19,200
Speaker 1: want to talk to you all, you can find some

1388
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:21,479
Speaker 1: way to say, yeah, we we can discuss this. And

1389
01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:26,880
Speaker 1: that's why I find it troubling beyond just the irritation

1390
01:17:27,640 --> 01:17:30,519
Speaker 1: of social justice warriors who find who won't let us

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01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:35,040
Speaker 1: find humor in anything, who refuse to accept that a

1392
01:17:35,160 --> 01:17:37,920
Speaker 1: world that is constrained by their vision of what is

1393
01:17:37,960 --> 01:17:44,160
Speaker 1: acceptable today is not only going to be stunted and

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01:17:44,600 --> 01:17:48,200
Speaker 1: and is going to be way less interesting and exciting

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01:17:48,200 --> 01:17:51,400
Speaker 1: than would otherwise be. It also negates much of the

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01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:54,840
Speaker 1: shared culture and history that we have as a society

1397
01:17:54,960 --> 01:17:57,320
Speaker 1: that brings us together. And now I know some of

1398
01:17:57,360 --> 01:17:59,519
Speaker 1: you're thinking, oh, buck ah, you're taking this beyond TV

1399
01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:01,599
Speaker 1: shows too. Yeah, of course, this is where we get

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01:18:01,640 --> 01:18:05,040
Speaker 1: into UH statues that have to come down, and this

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01:18:05,160 --> 01:18:08,639
Speaker 1: is where we get into UH mascots and whether they're

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01:18:08,640 --> 01:18:12,280
Speaker 1: offensive or not, and all these other parts of what

1403
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:16,320
Speaker 1: is shared in this country that is now subject to

1404
01:18:16,840 --> 01:18:21,280
Speaker 1: the political whims of the moment. And the response from

1405
01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:23,120
Speaker 1: the left on this is always the same, destroy, pull

1406
01:18:23,200 --> 01:18:25,840
Speaker 1: it down. And I've been bringing these to your attention

1407
01:18:25,960 --> 01:18:29,000
Speaker 1: in recent weeks. A pooh from The Simpsons, and it

1408
01:18:29,120 --> 01:18:31,519
Speaker 1: is an amazing Hank Azaria who does that who's a

1409
01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:33,840
Speaker 1: he's a white guy like me, he does that voice.

1410
01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:35,880
Speaker 1: I have to sit here and say, I don't think

1411
01:18:35,920 --> 01:18:39,160
Speaker 1: I'm allowed to do an impersonation of Hank Azaria doing

1412
01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:44,360
Speaker 1: an impersonation of an Indian convenience store owner. I don't

1413
01:18:44,400 --> 01:18:46,360
Speaker 1: think that I'd be able to do that without risking

1414
01:18:46,880 --> 01:18:49,720
Speaker 1: some kind of backlash. Right, So that's where you can

1415
01:18:49,720 --> 01:18:51,599
Speaker 1: see the rules here. Don't aren't even clear, don't even

1416
01:18:51,640 --> 01:18:55,320
Speaker 1: make any sense. The Breakfast Club with Molly Molly Ringwald's essay,

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01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:59,599
Speaker 1: That's what Bill Mahr was talking about there. Um, there

1418
01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:02,760
Speaker 1: are a bunch of oh a friends, which is whenever

1419
01:19:02,840 --> 01:19:04,560
Speaker 1: Ms Molly wants to upset me, she tells me that

1420
01:19:04,600 --> 01:19:06,800
Speaker 1: I'm not being very chandler. I'm being much more ross.

1421
01:19:07,439 --> 01:19:09,519
Speaker 1: Those who got the show know what I'm talking about.

1422
01:19:09,680 --> 01:19:11,560
Speaker 1: Those who don't are like Buck, what is wrong with you?

1423
01:19:12,400 --> 01:19:16,160
Speaker 1: But anyway, the the you, you find any show and

1424
01:19:16,360 --> 01:19:22,280
Speaker 1: it'll either be homophobic, transphobic, um sexist, And I just say,

1425
01:19:22,560 --> 01:19:24,639
Speaker 1: you know, at some point we also need to understand

1426
01:19:24,680 --> 01:19:27,880
Speaker 1: that art is allowed to be offensive. Right, There's a

1427
01:19:27,920 --> 01:19:31,280
Speaker 1: difference between celebrating every aspect of an artistic work of

1428
01:19:31,360 --> 01:19:34,400
Speaker 1: one kind or another, and also allowing for the space

1429
01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:38,280
Speaker 1: for there to be art that will push buttons in

1430
01:19:38,320 --> 01:19:41,280
Speaker 1: the first place. And and and this is also why

1431
01:19:41,400 --> 01:19:43,519
Speaker 1: whenever we start to have this conversation, you can see

1432
01:19:43,600 --> 01:19:46,799
Speaker 1: that UH liberals respond just with it with a rage,

1433
01:19:47,600 --> 01:19:50,280
Speaker 1: because they're drunk on the power they have in this

1434
01:19:50,400 --> 01:19:52,680
Speaker 1: current moment and they don't want to have to defend it.

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01:19:53,040 --> 01:19:55,720
Speaker 1: They like being able to be the censors because if

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01:19:55,720 --> 01:19:58,720
Speaker 1: they control the culture, they will control politics. And they

1437
01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:02,080
Speaker 1: know it, and they know that's why it's so essential

1438
01:20:02,120 --> 01:20:04,040
Speaker 1: to them, and that's why they're they're willing to just

1439
01:20:05,520 --> 01:20:09,360
Speaker 1: just keep on pushing through despite all the contradictions. Sugar

1440
01:20:09,640 --> 01:20:13,559
Speaker 1: is bad for you doesn't mean it's not delicious. Doesn't

1441
01:20:13,600 --> 01:20:16,360
Speaker 1: mean that I don't like some very sugary things myself.

1442
01:20:16,439 --> 01:20:18,400
Speaker 1: Of course I do. It's a it's a weakness. I

1443
01:20:18,520 --> 01:20:21,000
Speaker 1: have to be aware of it. But I just note

1444
01:20:21,080 --> 01:20:24,240
Speaker 1: that as I looked through more and more information about

1445
01:20:25,000 --> 01:20:30,400
Speaker 1: UH opioids and how the pain epidemic in this country,

1446
01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:34,840
Speaker 1: which was really an opioid epidemic in response to concerns

1447
01:20:34,960 --> 01:20:38,080
Speaker 1: over chronic pain, but but how that all happened and

1448
01:20:38,120 --> 01:20:41,200
Speaker 1: how the scientific community, in this case, the medical community

1449
01:20:42,040 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 1: was way off the mark in the nineties and in

1450
01:20:45,240 --> 01:20:48,400
Speaker 1: the early two thousands, and practicing good medicine at the

1451
01:20:48,520 --> 01:20:56,240
Speaker 1: time was in many cases incredibly dangerous and really counterproductive

1452
01:20:56,280 --> 01:20:59,519
Speaker 1: for people. But I'm just reminded of of how, you know,

1453
01:20:59,600 --> 01:21:03,519
Speaker 1: I'm here in California and you have the whole you know,

1454
01:21:03,720 --> 01:21:06,720
Speaker 1: nanny state in full effect. And I was talking people

1455
01:21:06,760 --> 01:21:08,840
Speaker 1: today about you know, so, how how how's that whole

1456
01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:11,160
Speaker 1: high speed rail thing coming along? You're like, not so good,

1457
01:21:11,720 --> 01:21:14,280
Speaker 1: not so good, pretty expensive, and that's a pretty bad

1458
01:21:14,320 --> 01:21:18,080
Speaker 1: idea too. Um. But sure enough, you've got the paper bag,

1459
01:21:18,280 --> 01:21:21,640
Speaker 1: only no plastic bag, so you've got that ban. I

1460
01:21:21,720 --> 01:21:23,439
Speaker 1: think you're going to see more and more efforts to

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01:21:24,160 --> 01:21:28,600
Speaker 1: regulate what we eat as essentially treating sugar as a

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01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:34,439
Speaker 1: UM a public health crisis. I really do believe you're

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01:21:34,479 --> 01:21:38,240
Speaker 1: gonna see this. UM just noting that over the weekend,

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01:21:38,280 --> 01:21:41,759
Speaker 1: I think, I yeah, I saw an interview on Reason

1465
01:21:41,840 --> 01:21:44,800
Speaker 1: dot COM's website with Gary Talbos, who I've had on

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01:21:44,880 --> 01:21:47,519
Speaker 1: the show. I had him on almost maybe a year ago,

1467
01:21:47,600 --> 01:21:49,720
Speaker 1: give or take a month. I've always thought his work

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01:21:49,800 --> 01:21:52,680
Speaker 1: was really interesting on you know Why do we have

1469
01:21:53,120 --> 01:21:56,000
Speaker 1: some of the health problems, particularly diabetes and obesity. Why

1470
01:21:56,120 --> 01:22:00,200
Speaker 1: is there just been an enormous surge in the those

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01:22:00,280 --> 01:22:04,680
Speaker 1: issues and sugar is the most likely culprit. And I

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01:22:04,800 --> 01:22:06,320
Speaker 1: just have to take a moment laugh because you know,

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01:22:06,520 --> 01:22:08,720
Speaker 1: much of the policy here in California is based on

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01:22:09,439 --> 01:22:11,960
Speaker 1: or or should say, much of the conversation around policy.

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01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:15,000
Speaker 1: The policy is not in fact based in scientific fact.

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01:22:15,960 --> 01:22:18,719
Speaker 1: But they have this idea that science can solve everything.

1477
01:22:19,520 --> 01:22:22,880
Speaker 1: And I do think the technology makes the world better

1478
01:22:23,080 --> 01:22:25,960
Speaker 1: in so many ways. I think that technology is is

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Speaker 1: advancing our lives and advancing human progress in in remarkable ways.

1480
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:35,840
Speaker 1: But science is is a is a constant series of

1481
01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:38,599
Speaker 1: questions and answers, and it's it's not there's this thing

1482
01:22:38,880 --> 01:22:42,320
Speaker 1: we know and no more questions asked. And just as

1483
01:22:42,360 --> 01:22:45,120
Speaker 1: with opioids, how twenty years ago people are saying, yeah,

1484
01:22:45,200 --> 01:22:47,200
Speaker 1: you know, there's really not a lot of evidence that

1485
01:22:47,280 --> 01:22:51,000
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's addictive. Oh yes, it is. Right. If

1486
01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:53,519
Speaker 1: you give people oxyconon, they're going to get at some point,

1487
01:22:53,560 --> 01:22:57,280
Speaker 1: they're gonna get addicted. People might have a different biochemistry,

1488
01:22:57,400 --> 01:22:59,599
Speaker 1: it might be more addictive for some than than for others,

1489
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:03,920
Speaker 1: but they were wrong, wrong, wrong on this, and this

1490
01:23:04,040 --> 01:23:06,000
Speaker 1: is here in America and this is in my lifetime.

1491
01:23:06,560 --> 01:23:08,760
Speaker 1: And another place where they've just been wrong, wrong, wrong

1492
01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:12,320
Speaker 1: is sugar and the roll of sugar in our diets

1493
01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:17,759
Speaker 1: and how it's just eat is creating wreckage all around

1494
01:23:18,200 --> 01:23:21,320
Speaker 1: um and there's a there's a profit motive and putting

1495
01:23:21,360 --> 01:23:24,280
Speaker 1: more sugar into stuff, it's become very very cheap. There

1496
01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:26,360
Speaker 1: was a time when sugar was actually and many of

1497
01:23:26,439 --> 01:23:28,519
Speaker 1: you know this, you know this history, sugar was actually

1498
01:23:28,720 --> 01:23:33,800
Speaker 1: very expensive and hard to get and that and also

1499
01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:38,200
Speaker 1: the labor that it required was backbreaking, really difficult stuff,

1500
01:23:38,200 --> 01:23:42,320
Speaker 1: and that was why it relied predominantly in the Caribbean

1501
01:23:42,400 --> 01:23:45,160
Speaker 1: and in parts of the America's where sugar could be

1502
01:23:45,200 --> 01:23:48,400
Speaker 1: grown and relied on slavery. So it was really nasty,

1503
01:23:48,640 --> 01:23:52,760
Speaker 1: tough work, and the sugar cane had to be processed right,

1504
01:23:52,800 --> 01:23:55,479
Speaker 1: it had to go through the process right away. But

1505
01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:57,840
Speaker 1: now it's become in really the twentieth century, became such

1506
01:23:57,880 --> 01:24:01,519
Speaker 1: a bigger part of our diets, and the advice that

1507
01:24:01,600 --> 01:24:03,960
Speaker 1: we were all getting, the advice that we were getting

1508
01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:07,120
Speaker 1: on the food pyramid and and for what we should

1509
01:24:07,160 --> 01:24:10,639
Speaker 1: be doing in our day to day diance was just wrong, folks.

1510
01:24:10,720 --> 01:24:13,960
Speaker 1: It was bad. I remember being in science class in

1511
01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:15,719
Speaker 1: the fifth grade and we're all learning the food pyramid

1512
01:24:15,760 --> 01:24:18,360
Speaker 1: and they're telling me to eat six to twelve servings

1513
01:24:18,560 --> 01:24:21,680
Speaker 1: of rice and grain and white bread and you know,

1514
01:24:21,840 --> 01:24:26,040
Speaker 1: all day long. It's just terrible. This is terrible for us.

1515
01:24:26,439 --> 01:24:29,000
Speaker 1: I mean this notion that I think back to people

1516
01:24:29,040 --> 01:24:31,640
Speaker 1: thinking that peanut butter and jelly was a healthy snack. No,

1517
01:24:32,439 --> 01:24:35,120
Speaker 1: it is not a healthy snack, right, But if you

1518
01:24:35,200 --> 01:24:36,759
Speaker 1: were growing, if you were a child of the eighties

1519
01:24:36,840 --> 01:24:39,719
Speaker 1: like me, people thought a lot of Penny and jay

1520
01:24:40,400 --> 01:24:42,160
Speaker 1: and people say, oh, that's a pretty good that's a

1521
01:24:42,160 --> 01:24:44,479
Speaker 1: pretty good option. But like a snack, yeah, it's just

1522
01:24:44,640 --> 01:24:48,759
Speaker 1: just give me a whole bunch of uh, processed carbs

1523
01:24:48,880 --> 01:24:51,599
Speaker 1: and then some some gelatinous sugar and throw a little

1524
01:24:51,600 --> 01:24:54,160
Speaker 1: peanut butter on there, which has an incredibly high calorie

1525
01:24:54,200 --> 01:24:56,720
Speaker 1: and fat content and doesn't even have the benefits of say,

1526
01:24:57,040 --> 01:25:01,000
Speaker 1: almond butter or some of the other nut butters out there. Um.

1527
01:25:01,680 --> 01:25:04,800
Speaker 1: But the scientific community was wrong on that too, uh

1528
01:25:05,320 --> 01:25:07,120
Speaker 1: And whatever research was done on it, a lot of

1529
01:25:07,160 --> 01:25:10,960
Speaker 1: it was actually put forward by the sugar companies, and

1530
01:25:11,000 --> 01:25:13,080
Speaker 1: the sugar lobby, which is even more amazing when you

1531
01:25:13,120 --> 01:25:16,800
Speaker 1: think about it, that the war on high fat food. Um,

1532
01:25:17,439 --> 01:25:20,479
Speaker 1: the notion that bacon and butter and uh, I know right,

1533
01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:22,760
Speaker 1: this is it enrages me too, that these things are

1534
01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:27,240
Speaker 1: bad for you. This became the conventional wisdom, and it

1535
01:25:27,360 --> 01:25:29,679
Speaker 1: was and it still is kind of still seeing people

1536
01:25:29,720 --> 01:25:31,519
Speaker 1: trying to push back and oh no, you know, it's

1537
01:25:31,880 --> 01:25:34,439
Speaker 1: it's really good for you. You you need you know,

1538
01:25:34,520 --> 01:25:37,920
Speaker 1: you need these processed carbs in your diet, not really

1539
01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:41,000
Speaker 1: very very little. Uh. You know. My problem here as

1540
01:25:41,000 --> 01:25:42,760
Speaker 1: I sit here is and I like, I like to

1541
01:25:42,880 --> 01:25:44,840
Speaker 1: just indulge too much in some of the things that

1542
01:25:44,880 --> 01:25:47,000
Speaker 1: are good for you in smaller amounts, right, I'm like, yeah,

1543
01:25:47,320 --> 01:25:49,240
Speaker 1: I don't like a little bit of bacon. I like

1544
01:25:49,320 --> 01:25:52,000
Speaker 1: a lot of bacon. French fries I know are not

1545
01:25:52,080 --> 01:25:53,640
Speaker 1: good for you, but I just eat them because I

1546
01:25:53,680 --> 01:25:56,599
Speaker 1: can't help it. Because that's of all the food weaknesses

1547
01:25:56,640 --> 01:25:58,240
Speaker 1: I have. I'm like, well, I mean, let's get aside

1548
01:25:58,240 --> 01:26:00,559
Speaker 1: of fries, right, I should probably cut that. I'd probably

1549
01:26:00,600 --> 01:26:02,760
Speaker 1: live five years longer if I just stop eating French fries.

1550
01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:05,320
Speaker 1: But I can't help myself. Although out here, you know,

1551
01:26:05,320 --> 01:26:08,320
Speaker 1: they've got they've got in and Out Burger here in California,

1552
01:26:08,800 --> 01:26:10,960
Speaker 1: which the burgers are amazing. I obviously get them with

1553
01:26:11,040 --> 01:26:13,920
Speaker 1: no bun I gotta let us wrap um. But the

1554
01:26:14,040 --> 01:26:16,200
Speaker 1: fries are kind of weak sauce. I'm just gonna say

1555
01:26:16,240 --> 01:26:19,800
Speaker 1: that the fries are on the week sauce side. Uh.

1556
01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:22,519
Speaker 1: But anyways, sugar is going to be something that there

1557
01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:24,880
Speaker 1: are gonna be fights over sugar, and I think California

1558
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:27,719
Speaker 1: is gonna be at the forefront of that. They're gonna

1559
01:26:27,720 --> 01:26:30,760
Speaker 1: be efforts to tell you that sugar should be regular. Look,

1560
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:32,719
Speaker 1: we had it in New York with the big drinks

1561
01:26:32,880 --> 01:26:36,040
Speaker 1: right the BLOOMBERGI in. You know, you shouldn't be having

1562
01:26:36,160 --> 01:26:40,920
Speaker 1: too much sugar in your drinks. Uh. And now is

1563
01:26:40,960 --> 01:26:43,479
Speaker 1: a sixty ounce big gulp a good idea for anyone?

1564
01:26:44,640 --> 01:26:48,000
Speaker 1: Probably not. Do I think that the government should tell

1565
01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:50,800
Speaker 1: you that you can have it? No, if they want

1566
01:26:50,840 --> 01:26:52,280
Speaker 1: to put up signs that lets you know that you're

1567
01:26:52,400 --> 01:26:59,200
Speaker 1: ingesting a few uh thousand calories um by drinking this

1568
01:26:59,320 --> 01:27:01,120
Speaker 1: stuff over the worse of you know, a few days,

1569
01:27:01,280 --> 01:27:03,040
Speaker 1: or you know, over the course of a week. Yeah,

1570
01:27:03,080 --> 01:27:04,200
Speaker 1: I think it's good for them to give you the

1571
01:27:04,240 --> 01:27:07,400
Speaker 1: full knowledge of it. But I just also look at

1572
01:27:07,439 --> 01:27:11,920
Speaker 1: this as the response to science and government don't really

1573
01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:14,560
Speaker 1: mix that well when it comes to policy. Shouldn't be

1574
01:27:15,040 --> 01:27:17,040
Speaker 1: oh well, we're gonna get it right this time. Forget

1575
01:27:17,040 --> 01:27:20,519
Speaker 1: about individual freedom, Let's just have more nanny state. And

1576
01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:23,240
Speaker 1: whether it was nanny state in dealing with pain, because

1577
01:27:23,280 --> 01:27:25,280
Speaker 1: that was all very it was all very regulated, and

1578
01:27:25,400 --> 01:27:28,360
Speaker 1: this was government policy to uh, you know what drugs

1579
01:27:28,400 --> 01:27:30,960
Speaker 1: would be allowed and what amounts and um, you know

1580
01:27:31,040 --> 01:27:33,400
Speaker 1: how quick and you tie in the h ms and

1581
01:27:33,439 --> 01:27:34,800
Speaker 1: how they were trying to get people in and out

1582
01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:37,360
Speaker 1: in and out of these opposite very very quickly. Uh.

1583
01:27:37,640 --> 01:27:42,080
Speaker 1: That was disastrous for the opioid epidemic in this country.

1584
01:27:42,120 --> 01:27:44,120
Speaker 1: And also the big farmer. Don't even get me started.

1585
01:27:44,160 --> 01:27:46,519
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that all day. But all but sugar

1586
01:27:47,200 --> 01:27:49,720
Speaker 1: is is a scourge that I wish I had known

1587
01:27:49,760 --> 01:27:51,920
Speaker 1: about when I was younger. I mean just little things

1588
01:27:51,960 --> 01:27:54,479
Speaker 1: that I think about. A big glass of orange juice.

1589
01:27:54,560 --> 01:27:57,439
Speaker 1: I thought that was healthy. That is not healthy. You

1590
01:27:57,720 --> 01:28:01,400
Speaker 1: are basically having the equip blent of a coke in

1591
01:28:01,520 --> 01:28:04,680
Speaker 1: terms of yeah, it's got some vitamin C. Great. The

1592
01:28:04,800 --> 01:28:06,960
Speaker 1: vitamin C absorption is not as good because it lacks

1593
01:28:07,000 --> 01:28:08,880
Speaker 1: the fiber of an actual orange that you would eat

1594
01:28:09,240 --> 01:28:12,280
Speaker 1: and the amount of sure orange juice can actually be

1595
01:28:12,479 --> 01:28:14,880
Speaker 1: used as a sweetener in other foods. So when you

1596
01:28:14,920 --> 01:28:17,040
Speaker 1: think about orange juice is something that I know, I

1597
01:28:17,080 --> 01:28:18,759
Speaker 1: guess we're not going to have an o J sponsor

1598
01:28:18,880 --> 01:28:21,280
Speaker 1: on the show anytime soon, But what can you do? Uh?

1599
01:28:21,560 --> 01:28:23,400
Speaker 1: But when you think about orange juice is something like

1600
01:28:23,520 --> 01:28:25,920
Speaker 1: honey that you would put in something else to sweeten it. Now,

1601
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:28,360
Speaker 1: imagine drinking a glass of honey first thing in the morning,

1602
01:28:28,680 --> 01:28:30,599
Speaker 1: and and you'd be like, wow, that's a bad idea, right,

1603
01:28:30,640 --> 01:28:33,400
Speaker 1: But this our whole conception of this and scientists and

1604
01:28:33,479 --> 01:28:36,040
Speaker 1: the food pyramid and what you should eat and what's healthy,

1605
01:28:36,520 --> 01:28:39,320
Speaker 1: they were wrong about all this, and it was government policy,

1606
01:28:39,439 --> 01:28:42,719
Speaker 1: and the government policy was being pushed along by private

1607
01:28:42,800 --> 01:28:45,000
Speaker 1: sector interest that could care less about what was making

1608
01:28:45,040 --> 01:28:48,600
Speaker 1: you healthy. Talbots, I think, is a fashionating guy on

1609
01:28:48,680 --> 01:28:51,599
Speaker 1: this um. He's done the most interesting He's a journalist,

1610
01:28:51,600 --> 01:28:53,080
Speaker 1: he's not even scientist, but he's on the most interesting

1611
01:28:53,160 --> 01:28:56,560
Speaker 1: research on why is it that we can't seem to

1612
01:28:56,600 --> 01:28:59,920
Speaker 1: figure out what really causes people to to gain way

1613
01:29:00,120 --> 01:29:02,479
Speaker 1: to have all these these these health related issues from

1614
01:29:02,520 --> 01:29:04,560
Speaker 1: weight gain and when you look at the cost to

1615
01:29:04,600 --> 01:29:08,160
Speaker 1: our society in all kinds of ways, but particularly just

1616
01:29:08,280 --> 01:29:12,040
Speaker 1: the medical cost of of having people that don't have

1617
01:29:12,960 --> 01:29:17,519
Speaker 1: the proper instruction about the roll of sugar in the diet.

1618
01:29:18,160 --> 01:29:20,560
Speaker 1: It's vast, It's it's enormous. And I but I know

1619
01:29:20,760 --> 01:29:22,519
Speaker 1: this is happening. I just had this and I was

1620
01:29:22,560 --> 01:29:25,040
Speaker 1: walking around today in the in the galleria here, and uh,

1621
01:29:25,640 --> 01:29:28,840
Speaker 1: seeing all these different places that are just slinging sugar

1622
01:29:28,920 --> 01:29:31,280
Speaker 1: drinks at you as fast as they can. H this

1623
01:29:31,479 --> 01:29:33,720
Speaker 1: is gonna be a fight with the nanny state that

1624
01:29:33,840 --> 01:29:36,240
Speaker 1: looms ahead. I'm I have a I have a feeling,

1625
01:29:36,280 --> 01:29:38,240
Speaker 1: and I tend to be read about these things. All right,

1626
01:29:38,479 --> 01:29:40,560
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about political scientists in

1627
01:29:40,600 --> 01:29:44,439
Speaker 1: a moment here. Uh. One of my basic feces you've

1628
01:29:44,479 --> 01:29:47,679
Speaker 1: heard me on the show UM say before, I think,

1629
01:29:49,120 --> 01:29:51,479
Speaker 1: is that we shouldn't call it political science. And I've

1630
01:29:51,520 --> 01:29:53,760
Speaker 1: got a great data point as to why that is.

1631
01:29:54,640 --> 01:29:56,080
Speaker 1: You could also call a lot of these people who

1632
01:29:56,080 --> 01:29:58,920
Speaker 1: professional political scientists clowns after hearing what I have to say.

1633
01:29:59,360 --> 01:30:02,120
Speaker 1: But it has to do with the worst president of

1634
01:30:02,160 --> 01:30:05,920
Speaker 1: all time? Who is it? According to our highly educated

1635
01:30:05,960 --> 01:30:08,760
Speaker 1: political science class. We'll tell you when we get back.

1636
01:30:09,840 --> 01:30:14,040
Speaker 1: I don't think the political scientists are scientists. And I

1637
01:30:14,160 --> 01:30:18,720
Speaker 1: say this as someone who technically has an academic background

1638
01:30:18,880 --> 01:30:22,240
Speaker 1: and wrote an honors thesis and political science at Amer's College.

1639
01:30:22,680 --> 01:30:24,840
Speaker 1: My thesis, by the way, was on a college speech

1640
01:30:25,200 --> 01:30:27,960
Speaker 1: a college campus speech codes. You can imagine how popular

1641
01:30:28,080 --> 01:30:31,960
Speaker 1: that was among the various political science professors who love

1642
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:34,240
Speaker 1: those speech codes because they want to protect people from

1643
01:30:34,840 --> 01:30:38,920
Speaker 1: scary thoughts. But they're there. I couldn't help but be

1644
01:30:39,080 --> 01:30:42,200
Speaker 1: struck by this, because, as I've said, I don't believe

1645
01:30:42,280 --> 01:30:47,439
Speaker 1: that political scientists are scientists. I think that there it's

1646
01:30:47,439 --> 01:30:51,720
Speaker 1: a discipline, but it's really like a multidisciplinary analysis of

1647
01:30:52,479 --> 01:30:56,519
Speaker 1: history and contemporary you know, political forces. And anyway, I

1648
01:30:56,600 --> 01:30:59,040
Speaker 1: think at Harvard they actually call it politics instead of

1649
01:30:59,080 --> 01:31:02,639
Speaker 1: political science. I think the political science as a as

1650
01:31:02,720 --> 01:31:05,760
Speaker 1: a a discipline. That's the word I was looking for.

1651
01:31:05,840 --> 01:31:07,519
Speaker 1: I was gonna say doctrine, but that would have been wrong.

1652
01:31:07,800 --> 01:31:13,000
Speaker 1: As a discipline is it's just improperly named. Anyway, you

1653
01:31:13,080 --> 01:31:16,800
Speaker 1: get this piece on Yahoo News where they still still

1654
01:31:16,800 --> 01:31:18,639
Speaker 1: a lot of people use Yahoo. It's kind of amazing

1655
01:31:18,680 --> 01:31:23,040
Speaker 1: to me. Uh, Yahoo is still a thing. But Donald

1656
01:31:23,080 --> 01:31:28,280
Speaker 1: Trump is ranked the worst president in US history in

1657
01:31:28,439 --> 01:31:35,240
Speaker 1: this According to a Presidents and Executive Politics Presidential Greatness Survey,

1658
01:31:35,960 --> 01:31:41,320
Speaker 1: Trump is lower than President Nixon on this one. Um,

1659
01:31:41,720 --> 01:31:47,520
Speaker 1: so that's pretty amazing. Even among conservatives. Abraham Lincoln unsurprisingly

1660
01:31:47,560 --> 01:31:50,160
Speaker 1: takes the top prize. This says, So they do this

1661
01:31:50,200 --> 01:31:53,640
Speaker 1: study every four years, and it's from social science researchers

1662
01:31:54,120 --> 01:31:57,560
Speaker 1: from the American Political Science Association Section on Presidents and

1663
01:31:57,680 --> 01:32:01,479
Speaker 1: Executive Politics. WHOA, there's a crazy seminar to go to

1664
01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:04,360
Speaker 1: at some point. Hey man, did you go to the

1665
01:32:05,080 --> 01:32:09,080
Speaker 1: American Political Science Association Section on Presidents and Executive Politics?

1666
01:32:09,200 --> 01:32:11,360
Speaker 1: Last year? It was wild? Man? Did you see what

1667
01:32:11,439 --> 01:32:14,880
Speaker 1: they had there with the ice luge? It was crazy? No,

1668
01:32:15,080 --> 01:32:17,160
Speaker 1: not really. I don't think that that's the way it goes.

1669
01:32:18,040 --> 01:32:19,840
Speaker 1: But but this is funny to me for a whole

1670
01:32:19,840 --> 01:32:22,560
Speaker 1: bunch of reasons, because it's actually a great example of

1671
01:32:23,800 --> 01:32:25,519
Speaker 1: keep this in mind. These are people who, at least

1672
01:32:25,720 --> 01:32:29,880
Speaker 1: theoretically from what we know, spend their entire professional lives,

1673
01:32:29,960 --> 01:32:34,200
Speaker 1: spend countless hours of their day trying to find ways

1674
01:32:35,160 --> 01:32:40,040
Speaker 1: to better understand politics in general and American politics more specifically.

1675
01:32:40,880 --> 01:32:45,440
Speaker 1: And what we find out is that they are incapable

1676
01:32:45,680 --> 01:32:48,240
Speaker 1: of putting together some pretty basic and rational thoughts. Here,

1677
01:32:48,920 --> 01:32:50,960
Speaker 1: what we find out is that they would put Trump

1678
01:32:51,600 --> 01:32:55,880
Speaker 1: lower on the list. Lower on the list, then say, oh,

1679
01:32:56,120 --> 01:33:01,040
Speaker 1: Woodrow Wilson, who was a clan apologist who set resegregated

1680
01:33:01,080 --> 01:33:04,880
Speaker 1: the federal government, who wished the South had defeated the

1681
01:33:04,960 --> 01:33:08,439
Speaker 1: North in the Civil War. I mean Woodrow Wilson was

1682
01:33:08,960 --> 01:33:12,320
Speaker 1: a bad guy, by the way, all kinds of eugenicist

1683
01:33:12,400 --> 01:33:15,720
Speaker 1: inclinations as well. And you notice that they don't want

1684
01:33:15,720 --> 01:33:19,000
Speaker 1: to or at least they haven't yet named renamed Woody Woo,

1685
01:33:19,560 --> 01:33:22,759
Speaker 1: which is the School of International Relations at Princeton University.

1686
01:33:22,800 --> 01:33:26,240
Speaker 1: They let that go. They put Trump way ahead of

1687
01:33:26,280 --> 01:33:30,320
Speaker 1: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who, as we know, gainst a complete

1688
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Speaker 1: pass to this day for one of the darkest episode

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Speaker 1: certainly in twentieth century American politics, where he put Americans

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Speaker 1: in internment camps, Japanese Americans put in internment camps. So

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01:33:45,640 --> 01:33:52,320
Speaker 1: so Woodrow Wilson was a racist, segregationist, uh eugenicist, and

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01:33:52,560 --> 01:33:55,519
Speaker 1: who actually took took actions based on those ideas. Not

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01:33:55,680 --> 01:33:58,800
Speaker 1: these these are not just like personal attacks. And f

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01:33:59,040 --> 01:34:06,720
Speaker 1: DR was a constitution shredding, uh, semi authoritarian, and they

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01:34:06,960 --> 01:34:08,880
Speaker 1: say Trump is worse. I mean, Trump is even worse

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Speaker 1: then some of those nineteenth century presidents we've had in

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01:34:12,600 --> 01:34:14,400
Speaker 1: the run up to the Civil War that everyone's like, well,

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01:34:14,479 --> 01:34:17,800
Speaker 1: that guy was really bad. Uh. But this just goes

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01:34:17,880 --> 01:34:21,800
Speaker 1: to show you how completely out of touch political scientists are,

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01:34:21,920 --> 01:34:24,920
Speaker 1: not not with the public, which is that goes without

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01:34:24,960 --> 01:34:28,360
Speaker 1: saying um, but with the reality around them. And also

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01:34:29,479 --> 01:34:32,120
Speaker 1: it goes more towards my theory of I just don't

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01:34:32,160 --> 01:34:35,840
Speaker 1: believe the political scientists are really scientists. Yeah. I know,

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01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:38,680
Speaker 1: they can do regression analysis and there. They can throw

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01:34:38,800 --> 01:34:41,280
Speaker 1: some numbers on these things and they can make it

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01:34:41,360 --> 01:34:45,439
Speaker 1: look sciencey, but the discipline is really politics, and politics

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01:34:45,560 --> 01:34:49,680
Speaker 1: is the study of history and human power dynamics and

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01:34:50,040 --> 01:34:53,640
Speaker 1: relations between groups and individuals right and the individual in

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01:34:53,680 --> 01:34:56,680
Speaker 1: the state. Okay, and philosophy. And there's a whole bunch

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01:34:56,720 --> 01:34:59,439
Speaker 1: of stuff thrown into it, but it is not a science.

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01:35:00,120 --> 01:35:02,400
Speaker 1: Is poorly named. I'm like a one man band here,

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01:35:02,439 --> 01:35:04,679
Speaker 1: I know, but we should all just call it politics

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01:35:04,720 --> 01:35:07,080
Speaker 1: and stop calling a political science because political scientists are

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01:35:07,080 --> 01:35:09,600
Speaker 1: a bunch of bozos. Based on this study, Trump is

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01:35:09,640 --> 01:35:13,559
Speaker 1: the worst president ever Wow, guys. Yeah, all the low

1716
01:35:13,640 --> 01:35:18,040
Speaker 1: unemployment and economic growth and prosperity is just terrible. Are

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01:35:18,120 --> 01:35:20,759
Speaker 1: we got roll call coming up? Stay with me, well, team,

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01:35:21,040 --> 01:35:24,960
Speaker 1: I'm out here in Los Angeles and that's always a

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01:35:25,040 --> 01:35:28,120
Speaker 1: fun time that the weather is nicer than New York.

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01:35:28,439 --> 01:35:32,720
Speaker 1: I saw video of a a subway stop that I

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01:35:32,840 --> 01:35:36,519
Speaker 1: take on a regular basis that it looked like the

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01:35:36,680 --> 01:35:39,400
Speaker 1: end times. We had some kind of a flash flood

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01:35:39,479 --> 01:35:41,000
Speaker 1: from rain in New York City, or at least in

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01:35:41,040 --> 01:35:43,479
Speaker 1: the subways. So being in l A that part of

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01:35:43,520 --> 01:35:47,880
Speaker 1: it's really nice out here at our I heart HQ

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01:35:48,640 --> 01:35:51,240
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles or in the Los Angeles area. I'm

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01:35:51,240 --> 01:35:55,080
Speaker 1: actually in what is the Valley, which is kind of

1728
01:35:55,160 --> 01:35:58,040
Speaker 1: like l A but kind of not. But I'm enjoying

1729
01:35:58,080 --> 01:35:59,880
Speaker 1: it out here. It was freezing cold for l A

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01:36:00,040 --> 01:36:02,120
Speaker 1: last night. Thought I will say, for some reason, wherever

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01:36:02,280 --> 01:36:05,000
Speaker 1: I go it's a lot colder than it's supposed to

1732
01:36:05,000 --> 01:36:07,760
Speaker 1: be when I'm there, I am not good not good

1733
01:36:07,840 --> 01:36:10,360
Speaker 1: luck when it comes to weather. The other thing about

1734
01:36:10,479 --> 01:36:12,280
Speaker 1: l A is that even though I take I take

1735
01:36:12,400 --> 01:36:14,880
Speaker 1: Uber pretty much everywhere here, I'm not somebody who gets

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01:36:14,920 --> 01:36:17,920
Speaker 1: any joy out of driving. I like to just sort

1737
01:36:17,960 --> 01:36:19,880
Speaker 1: of sit back and relax. I don't really particularly get

1738
01:36:19,920 --> 01:36:24,000
Speaker 1: excited about being the guy fighting the traffic. Even still

1739
01:36:24,920 --> 01:36:28,000
Speaker 1: so much time in cars out here. I need to

1740
01:36:28,040 --> 01:36:30,280
Speaker 1: be able to walk to places. So that's that's my

1741
01:36:30,400 --> 01:36:31,720
Speaker 1: only thing on l A for right now. But I'm

1742
01:36:31,760 --> 01:36:33,280
Speaker 1: having a good time out here meeting with all kinds

1743
01:36:33,320 --> 01:36:37,240
Speaker 1: of important folks from radio land and get a chance

1744
01:36:37,360 --> 01:36:39,679
Speaker 1: to chat with them. So with that, let me stop

1745
01:36:39,760 --> 01:36:43,479
Speaker 1: just I'll hopefully have some better stories about my l

1746
01:36:43,479 --> 01:36:46,640
Speaker 1: A tre I just got in yesterday and so I

1747
01:36:46,760 --> 01:36:49,920
Speaker 1: haven't been able to hang out with T Swift or

1748
01:36:50,800 --> 01:36:53,160
Speaker 1: or I don't know if Cardi B is l A based,

1749
01:36:53,720 --> 01:36:55,800
Speaker 1: but I like to throw in Cardi B references now

1750
01:36:55,840 --> 01:36:59,040
Speaker 1: because I just found out who this artist is and

1751
01:36:59,280 --> 01:37:01,840
Speaker 1: apparently that's what the cool kids listen to right now.

1752
01:37:02,520 --> 01:37:05,679
Speaker 1: So you know, maybe I'll go by the set of Gosh.

1753
01:37:05,680 --> 01:37:07,559
Speaker 1: I don't even know. They don't They don't do Leno

1754
01:37:07,720 --> 01:37:10,519
Speaker 1: or or Letterman out here, so what are the shows

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01:37:10,560 --> 01:37:12,160
Speaker 1: that they do out I don't know. I need to

1756
01:37:12,240 --> 01:37:15,920
Speaker 1: learn more about l A. With that rambling sense of

1757
01:37:16,160 --> 01:37:18,600
Speaker 1: whatever I've got in my head, it is time for

1758
01:37:18,760 --> 01:37:24,559
Speaker 1: your thoughts, my friends, some roll call the show ain't

1759
01:37:24,600 --> 01:37:35,360
Speaker 1: over yet, folks keeping it real just say keeping it real.

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01:37:36,320 --> 01:37:38,760
Speaker 1: I don't know why. That just sort of and for

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01:37:38,800 --> 01:37:41,719
Speaker 1: those who don't know, that's from the movie Clueless, because

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01:37:41,880 --> 01:37:44,320
Speaker 1: because I'm keeping it real. And then that became a

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01:37:44,360 --> 01:37:46,800
Speaker 1: phrase that everybody continue to use. I think it's still

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01:37:47,040 --> 01:37:49,240
Speaker 1: or people will say keeping it one hundred now as

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01:37:49,280 --> 01:37:52,439
Speaker 1: well for shorthand. But I just I like our announcer

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01:37:52,600 --> 01:37:56,200
Speaker 1: keeping it real. All right, let's get into all of

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01:37:56,320 --> 01:37:58,519
Speaker 1: the latest good stuff here from roll Call. If you

1768
01:37:58,640 --> 01:38:01,800
Speaker 1: want to be a part of it, Facebook dot com,

1769
01:38:02,200 --> 01:38:04,720
Speaker 1: slash buck sextent, that is all you need and you

1770
01:38:04,760 --> 01:38:07,000
Speaker 1: can send us a message there. We read them all,

1771
01:38:07,240 --> 01:38:09,400
Speaker 1: we enjoy them all, and uh we try to get

1772
01:38:09,439 --> 01:38:13,479
Speaker 1: as many on the air as we can. So we

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01:38:13,720 --> 01:38:18,280
Speaker 1: have Amy first up here. She writes, Oh my gosh, Buck,

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01:38:18,800 --> 01:38:22,880
Speaker 1: read some Comy excerpts from the book in a Valley

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01:38:22,920 --> 01:38:25,720
Speaker 1: girl accent. It would be comedic gold or read some

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01:38:25,920 --> 01:38:28,679
Speaker 1: in a vale girl accent. Since Comy is being such

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01:38:28,720 --> 01:38:32,479
Speaker 1: a little girl. Well, Amy, I tend to agree with you. Um,

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01:38:32,880 --> 01:38:34,640
Speaker 1: I have a I have a very negative view of

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01:38:34,880 --> 01:38:37,920
Speaker 1: of Comy based on his public persona. I feel like

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01:38:38,040 --> 01:38:40,559
Speaker 1: I really understand who comy is. As I've been discussing

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01:38:40,600 --> 01:38:43,439
Speaker 1: throughout the show. I feel like it's quite clear this

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01:38:43,560 --> 01:38:49,360
Speaker 1: is someone who has gone through life with an irrationally

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01:38:49,479 --> 01:38:53,880
Speaker 1: high self regard. And uh, that's that explains a lot.

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01:38:53,960 --> 01:38:55,760
Speaker 1: I think that that takes us pretty close to where

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01:38:55,800 --> 01:38:58,519
Speaker 1: we where we are with all this, UM, thank you

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01:38:58,640 --> 01:39:00,960
Speaker 1: very much for the note. We have Phil up Next,

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01:39:01,040 --> 01:39:05,639
Speaker 1: he writes, Buck great show Friday, Creed on your playlist

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01:39:05,760 --> 01:39:09,040
Speaker 1: negates any chick artists you may find there. You get

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01:39:09,160 --> 01:39:12,120
Speaker 1: to keep your man card. Thank you very much, Phil.

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01:39:12,160 --> 01:39:14,320
Speaker 1: I appreciate that I'm gonna hold onto my man card

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01:39:14,680 --> 01:39:18,080
Speaker 1: and I needed h. He also writes, Creed morphed into

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01:39:18,120 --> 01:39:22,080
Speaker 1: an even more powerhouse band, alter Bridge, which I highly

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01:39:22,120 --> 01:39:24,439
Speaker 1: recommend to any Freedom Hunt listener. Will Philip, I can

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01:39:24,520 --> 01:39:27,720
Speaker 1: tell you, in fact, you can fact check me on

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01:39:27,840 --> 01:39:31,400
Speaker 1: this one because of my public Spotify playlists that I

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01:39:31,520 --> 01:39:34,920
Speaker 1: have alter Bridge on there, so I am familiar with

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01:39:35,040 --> 01:39:39,240
Speaker 1: and enjoy alter Bridge. I I like any of that

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01:39:39,520 --> 01:39:42,400
Speaker 1: kind of that kind of power rock stuff I'm into,

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01:39:42,600 --> 01:39:45,479
Speaker 1: especially if if it's more positive sounding. My only problem

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01:39:45,520 --> 01:39:49,320
Speaker 1: with some of the heavier rock is the moment people

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01:39:49,320 --> 01:39:52,639
Speaker 1: start doing the growl are you ready? You know all

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01:39:52,680 --> 01:39:55,679
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff that's I don't like that. It's scary,

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01:39:56,200 --> 01:39:59,320
Speaker 1: it sounds a little mean. I like the rock that's

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01:39:59,439 --> 01:40:02,600
Speaker 1: melodic and and inspiring. And now I sound like a

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01:40:02,680 --> 01:40:04,880
Speaker 1: huge dork. But you know what, I own it. I

1806
01:40:04,960 --> 01:40:06,519
Speaker 1: own it. I let it, I let it, let it roll.

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01:40:07,320 --> 01:40:08,920
Speaker 1: Uh See, this is what I tell us Molly when

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01:40:08,960 --> 01:40:11,599
Speaker 1: she says that my shoe choice, for example, is old

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01:40:11,680 --> 01:40:14,519
Speaker 1: man like. I see, yes, but my feet are comfortable

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01:40:14,800 --> 01:40:16,800
Speaker 1: and I don't care if people don't like the shoes

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01:40:16,880 --> 01:40:19,040
Speaker 1: that I wear. Except when I'm on TV. I have

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01:40:19,160 --> 01:40:21,439
Speaker 1: conceded on that one. Now you will notice I I

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01:40:21,560 --> 01:40:25,160
Speaker 1: do not wear if I ever wear boat shoes on TV. Now,

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01:40:25,240 --> 01:40:28,160
Speaker 1: it's because I'm in a very very comfortable environment and

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01:40:28,920 --> 01:40:31,439
Speaker 1: I feel like I might as well, you know, just chill.

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01:40:31,960 --> 01:40:35,599
Speaker 1: But generally speaking, I wear shinable shoes. That's the new

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01:40:37,040 --> 01:40:39,519
Speaker 1: that's the new regime. I mean, we're in boat shoes

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01:40:39,600 --> 01:40:41,720
Speaker 1: right now, don't worry. But in general, I on TV,

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01:40:41,800 --> 01:40:45,599
Speaker 1: we're shopable shoes, all right. Next up, we get Erica.

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Speaker 1: She writes, I was listening to the last Thursday show

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Speaker 1: and your discussion of opioid addiction. I found the idea

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01:40:51,800 --> 01:40:54,639
Speaker 1: you expressed last month about how people aren't being killed

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01:40:54,680 --> 01:40:57,920
Speaker 1: by prescription drugs rather by o ding on illegal drugs

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01:40:58,000 --> 01:41:00,760
Speaker 1: flowing in through our week border. I saw this chart

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01:41:00,800 --> 01:41:04,920
Speaker 1: with an article and how the reconfiguration of OxyContin caused

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01:41:04,960 --> 01:41:07,640
Speaker 1: the jump to illegal drug use. Well, Erica, first of all,

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Speaker 1: thank you for your message. And let me be clear

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01:41:09,400 --> 01:41:11,240
Speaker 1: about what I was at least trying to say, if

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01:41:11,320 --> 01:41:14,320
Speaker 1: not what I did say about all this, uh, the

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01:41:15,439 --> 01:41:18,400
Speaker 1: the the truth about OxyContin and about opiod over to

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01:41:18,520 --> 01:41:22,080
Speaker 1: overdoses complicated and and I would commend to you all.

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01:41:22,360 --> 01:41:24,680
Speaker 1: And I actually tweeted at him over the weekend just

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01:41:24,760 --> 01:41:26,439
Speaker 1: to let him know how great I thought. His book

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01:41:26,560 --> 01:41:29,680
Speaker 1: was Sam Canonez uh maybe Queen Nonez. I'm not sure

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01:41:29,720 --> 01:41:32,320
Speaker 1: how you pronounce his name, but his book Dreamland is

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01:41:32,439 --> 01:41:35,719
Speaker 1: so good. I'm almost done with it. I'm reading three books.

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01:41:36,600 --> 01:41:39,080
Speaker 1: Uh well, sorry, I see that sounds like a humble brag,

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01:41:39,200 --> 01:41:41,799
Speaker 1: but it's really just because I my attention gets scattered

1839
01:41:42,040 --> 01:41:44,200
Speaker 1: and I forced myself now to be reading a novel.

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01:41:44,840 --> 01:41:49,639
Speaker 1: So I'm reading three books simultaneously, not at the same time,

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01:41:49,720 --> 01:41:52,760
Speaker 1: but contempt maybe contemporaneously is a better way to describe it.

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01:41:52,880 --> 01:41:54,760
Speaker 1: And one that makes it sound less like I should

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01:41:54,800 --> 01:41:58,680
Speaker 1: punch myself in the face. But yeah, one of them

1844
01:41:58,760 --> 01:42:01,639
Speaker 1: is Dreamland. It's really really good. But to to your

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01:42:01,680 --> 01:42:05,599
Speaker 1: point about the deaths, people still die for prescription drug overdose,

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01:42:05,680 --> 01:42:08,120
Speaker 1: no question. In fact, I I think I've mentioned you

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01:42:08,200 --> 01:42:13,000
Speaker 1: before on this show. I had two very close childhood

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01:42:13,080 --> 01:42:15,840
Speaker 1: friends as obviously as we got a bit older, who

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01:42:16,000 --> 01:42:19,600
Speaker 1: both overdosed on prescription drugs. I don't know the specifics.

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01:42:19,880 --> 01:42:23,560
Speaker 1: I never wanted to um uh in any way be

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01:42:23,680 --> 01:42:25,880
Speaker 1: insensitive to the family, so I didn't ask. I just

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01:42:25,960 --> 01:42:29,320
Speaker 1: knew it was prescription drugs. It might have been entirely accidental,

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01:42:29,720 --> 01:42:32,880
Speaker 1: or it might have been from abuse, but I anyway,

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01:42:33,000 --> 01:42:36,840
Speaker 1: the point being, uh, people still certainly die in pretty

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01:42:36,920 --> 01:42:40,800
Speaker 1: large numbers, unfortunately from prescription drugs. But the spike, the

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01:42:41,000 --> 01:42:43,519
Speaker 1: big spike in depths we've seen over the last five

1857
01:42:43,640 --> 01:42:48,280
Speaker 1: or six years comes from fentanyl, which is almost entirely

1858
01:42:48,560 --> 01:42:53,599
Speaker 1: illegally obtained and in many cases even illegally created fentanyl

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01:42:53,920 --> 01:42:57,120
Speaker 1: and heroin. So you've had a pretty consistent number of

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01:42:57,280 --> 01:43:01,360
Speaker 1: opioid or prescription rug overdoses, and the last five or

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01:43:01,360 --> 01:43:04,200
Speaker 1: six years it's the illegal stuff, and there's a complicated

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01:43:04,280 --> 01:43:10,439
Speaker 1: relationship between how opioids in the prescription drug market because

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01:43:10,520 --> 01:43:12,439
Speaker 1: of H and this is all A lot of this

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01:43:12,560 --> 01:43:14,920
Speaker 1: is covered in Dreamland. There are other articles are other

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01:43:14,960 --> 01:43:16,519
Speaker 1: places you can read on it that are really good.

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01:43:17,560 --> 01:43:21,320
Speaker 1: But pain management through the nineties got this whole makeover

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01:43:21,439 --> 01:43:27,400
Speaker 1: where people started prescribing, including first line medical professionals. Primary

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01:43:27,479 --> 01:43:30,559
Speaker 1: care doctors were told that not only should they prescribe

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01:43:30,600 --> 01:43:33,760
Speaker 1: opioids because they were very unlikely to be addictive, but

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01:43:33,840 --> 01:43:36,479
Speaker 1: they were under an obligation to and to treat pain

1871
01:43:37,200 --> 01:43:40,760
Speaker 1: as one of the you know, initial markers of health

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01:43:40,840 --> 01:43:43,240
Speaker 1: that they look for when you first go into an office.

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01:43:43,240 --> 01:43:45,360
Speaker 1: And now, of course, unlike blood pressure, pain is not

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01:43:45,520 --> 01:43:48,560
Speaker 1: objective what kind of pain you're in. So there was

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01:43:48,640 --> 01:43:54,000
Speaker 1: this an enormous explosion of UH prescription drug usage from opioid,

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01:43:54,880 --> 01:43:59,360
Speaker 1: opioid derived or opioid drugs. Oxycotton the most famous which

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01:43:59,400 --> 01:44:03,240
Speaker 1: contains see CoDown and and they used to get people

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01:44:03,360 --> 01:44:05,960
Speaker 1: really big doses I mean doctors which describe really big

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01:44:06,000 --> 01:44:10,680
Speaker 1: doses of of oxy oxycotton on a daily basis for people. Um.

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Speaker 1: But there are others as well, UM that I've been

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Speaker 1: learning learning more about recently. I vicul in, percocet. Uh.

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01:44:17,920 --> 01:44:19,840
Speaker 1: There are a few others that am actually blanking on

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01:44:20,040 --> 01:44:23,000
Speaker 1: right now that are that are pretty widely prescribed, but

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01:44:23,600 --> 01:44:27,280
Speaker 1: the big spike has been from fentanel and which is

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01:44:27,360 --> 01:44:32,400
Speaker 1: incredibly powerful, potent, very very dangerous, and heroin and the heroine.

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01:44:33,320 --> 01:44:37,240
Speaker 1: The heroin explosion of this country comes hand hand in

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Speaker 1: glove with illegal alien population in uh in this country

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Speaker 1: from Mexico and Central America, predominantly from Mexico. Now, it's interesting.

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01:44:46,160 --> 01:44:48,360
Speaker 1: I've had this discussion with people recently and they say,

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01:44:48,680 --> 01:44:51,960
Speaker 1: isn't it so unfair? And I think it's important for

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01:44:52,000 --> 01:44:53,679
Speaker 1: all of us keeping mind as we discussed this, because

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01:44:53,680 --> 01:44:56,000
Speaker 1: I'll speak to you very honestly about the problems of

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01:44:56,000 --> 01:45:00,400
Speaker 1: illegal immigration, the problems of terrorism and there it reminds

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01:45:00,439 --> 01:45:03,000
Speaker 1: me that there's a cross over here. Right. Let's say

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01:45:03,400 --> 01:45:07,160
Speaker 1: one percent of the illegal immigrant population this country is

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01:45:07,200 --> 01:45:09,680
Speaker 1: involved in the drug trade. That's, by the way, I

1897
01:45:10,040 --> 01:45:12,040
Speaker 1: can't even say that's a wild guess. I'm just making

1898
01:45:12,120 --> 01:45:14,240
Speaker 1: up that number because that's easy. Uh. It might be

1899
01:45:14,360 --> 01:45:16,720
Speaker 1: considerably less than that, it might be considerably more. But

1900
01:45:16,840 --> 01:45:20,479
Speaker 1: let's say one percent of the illegal immigrant population is

1901
01:45:20,520 --> 01:45:23,960
Speaker 1: involved in the drug trade in some capacity, transporting, selling,

1902
01:45:24,120 --> 01:45:28,759
Speaker 1: whatever um. That would be like saying, within the Islamic

1903
01:45:28,840 --> 01:45:32,519
Speaker 1: population of this country, what what percentage or actual radicals

1904
01:45:33,000 --> 01:45:36,080
Speaker 1: And if you said less than one percent, I think

1905
01:45:36,120 --> 01:45:38,880
Speaker 1: that would be a fair a fair estimate. But the

1906
01:45:38,960 --> 01:45:41,880
Speaker 1: problem is that you can you can still have a

1907
01:45:42,080 --> 01:45:44,760
Speaker 1: massive problem even if only one percent of the legal

1908
01:45:44,800 --> 01:45:49,599
Speaker 1: alien population is importing heroin from Sinaloa in Mexico, from

1909
01:45:49,720 --> 01:45:53,160
Speaker 1: Nyaret and from other parts of the Mexican highlands that

1910
01:45:53,320 --> 01:45:56,840
Speaker 1: can easily grow poppy and easy grow poppy flowers. So

1911
01:45:57,000 --> 01:45:59,439
Speaker 1: to say that it's unfair, that's true, it's unfair to

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01:45:59,439 --> 01:46:02,640
Speaker 1: the ninety percent of the population that isn't involved, But

1913
01:46:03,040 --> 01:46:04,840
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you don't have a huge problem and

1914
01:46:04,920 --> 01:46:08,760
Speaker 1: it isn't contained within a certain group of people. UH.

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01:46:08,800 --> 01:46:10,360
Speaker 1: And this is one of the problems. This is one

1916
01:46:10,400 --> 01:46:13,759
Speaker 1: of the big challenges of public policy discussion that involves

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01:46:14,600 --> 01:46:17,639
Speaker 1: national security issues but also sensitive issues that affect people

1918
01:46:17,680 --> 01:46:19,479
Speaker 1: in their day to day lives and how they feel

1919
01:46:19,479 --> 01:46:23,560
Speaker 1: they're treated. So UH, opioids. I find this topic fascinating

1920
01:46:23,800 --> 01:46:25,639
Speaker 1: on a whole bunch of of levels, and it's something

1921
01:46:25,680 --> 01:46:28,360
Speaker 1: we'll continue to talk about here in the HUT I

1922
01:46:28,680 --> 01:46:31,240
Speaker 1: am apologizing right now because I just I realized I've

1923
01:46:31,280 --> 01:46:34,320
Speaker 1: gone a little bit over and oh wait, wait, one

1924
01:46:34,360 --> 01:46:37,400
Speaker 1: more here from Lauren. She writes back, I just realized

1925
01:46:37,400 --> 01:46:40,080
Speaker 1: you're in soul Cow. If you and Miss Molly ever

1926
01:46:40,200 --> 01:46:42,439
Speaker 1: wants surf lessons, you know who to ask. Well, Lauren,

1927
01:46:42,479 --> 01:46:43,840
Speaker 1: thank you so much. I want to end on a

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01:46:43,880 --> 01:46:46,800
Speaker 1: happy note, and Lauren gave us a happy note there. Sure,

1929
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Speaker 1: if I can ever get the time and the inclination

1930
01:46:48,880 --> 01:46:50,679
Speaker 1: to get up on a surfboard, if Miss Molly feels

1931
01:46:50,720 --> 01:46:52,240
Speaker 1: like she's up for it, we'll come down and check

1932
01:46:52,280 --> 01:46:54,720
Speaker 1: it out. She's out here doing some work too, so

1933
01:46:54,840 --> 01:46:59,720
Speaker 1: we're actually simultaneously in Los Angeles area. Um with that,

1934
01:46:59,880 --> 01:47:02,360
Speaker 1: my friends, I gotta close up the hut very much.

1935
01:47:02,560 --> 01:47:05,400
Speaker 1: Enjoying my time with you as always out here in

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01:47:05,520 --> 01:47:08,880
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I will be here every day and then

1937
01:47:09,040 --> 01:47:12,280
Speaker 1: Thursday actually in San Diego, but i'll be here every

1938
01:47:12,360 --> 01:47:14,920
Speaker 1: day this week until then, So please send me your thoughts,

1939
01:47:15,200 --> 01:47:18,120
Speaker 1: send me your recommendations for the best places to do

1940
01:47:18,320 --> 01:47:21,599
Speaker 1: fun stuff in l A. And until next time, my friends,

1941
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Speaker 1: Shields High