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Speaker 1: episode of The Buck Sexton Show with me now, the indefatigable,
Speaker 1: the formidable, the one and only Raheim Kassam. He is
Speaker 1: the editor in chief of the National Pulse and the
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Speaker 1: talents spans from global affairs all the way down to
Speaker 1: the proper way to tie a windsor not. Mister Raheem Kassam,
Speaker 1: good to have you answer. What an introduction, and not
Speaker 1: least because you know, from a very arcane perspective, indefatigable
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Speaker 1: the word existed and was used in many other contexts
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Speaker 1: indefatigable or maybe it's a long once or maybe that's
Speaker 1: a bit probably too long to to paint on the
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Speaker 1: You know, we've been doing these conversations and the audience
Speaker 1: response has been great because we're just getting really interesting
Speaker 1: people on to talk about whatever is top of mind.
Speaker 1: So one way I I like to start is just
Speaker 1: to get you to tell me right now what in
Speaker 1: the world of politics. We're going to cover a whole
Speaker 1: range of things here. One of the world of politics
Speaker 1: gets you the most fired up, like what are you
Speaker 1: focused on? I don't know about focus. M That's a
Speaker 1: word that escapes me. I'm kind of a scatter brain
Speaker 1: in politics. It's like books as well. I'm reading fifty
Speaker 1: at a time and I never finished any of them.
Speaker 1: But something that has occurred to me, you know, there
Speaker 1: are several things that have occurred to me a lot recently,
Speaker 1: especially in you know, with the Biden classified documents thing
Speaker 1: going on in the background, is that is that like
Speaker 1: I still can't put my finger on who got Biden elected, right,
Speaker 1: and that and that bothers me as a as a
Speaker 1: as a point, like when you look at Trump, people
Speaker 1: say Bannon. You look at Obama, people say Jim Messner
Speaker 1: and David Plath and David Axel, Rod Bush, Karl Rove.
Speaker 1: But there isn't one in Biden world, and I that
Speaker 1: bothers me because of you know, so many different things,
Speaker 1: so many different big question marks that were over the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty election in general. But for there not to
Speaker 1: be somebody out there doing ted talks and being on
Speaker 1: the front cover of Time magazine being called the you know,
Speaker 1: the man who got the most votes for a presidential
Speaker 1: candidate in American history is a pretty big thing that
Speaker 1: you want to claim and and you know, a big,
Speaker 1: big medallion that you want to wear around your neck,
Speaker 1: but nobody seems to want to claim it, and that
Speaker 1: bothers me. Yeah, well, there's certainly something going on right
Speaker 1: now with his if a staff is on the way
Speaker 1: out there. There have just been the news reports about
Speaker 1: that that you're not gonna have ron Klain anymore because
Speaker 1: people have been It's really, i think, in an addendum
Speaker 1: in many ways to your to your point here, which
Speaker 1: is not only who's respect who's responsible for getting him elected,
Speaker 1: but who is the person who's really calling the shots,
Speaker 1: who's really running things, you know, behind the scenes. A
Speaker 1: lot of people, it said ron Klain, the White House
Speaker 1: Chief of Staff now White House Chief of Staff, depending
Speaker 1: on who it is I think can matter a lot
Speaker 1: or a little for an administration. Uh does any even
Speaker 1: really remember the Trump White House chiefs of staff? I
Speaker 1: don't think that, you know, No one said, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: the days of Ryan's previous and uh and the you
Speaker 1: know the guy with the Irish name, who was you
Speaker 1: know omb yeah, omb budget guy before that. Um, But
Speaker 1: so you have Clain on the way out and this
Speaker 1: guy's zigns, I'm not sure how to say his name
Speaker 1: even who was the COVID czar that we never heard about? Really,
Speaker 1: he's going to be taking over, So who actually calls
Speaker 1: the sharks for Biden? As he's leaving all the classified
Speaker 1: all of the place and looking like he's constantly confused
Speaker 1: Barack Obama and Susan Rice. I mean that that's kind
Speaker 1: of one of the least well kept secrets here in Washington, DC,
Speaker 1: is that most of most of what this regime is
Speaker 1: currently doing comes from his previous boss that I think
Speaker 1: you know. And Susan Rice was one of the names
Speaker 1: that was floated. Now they're saying it's going to be
Speaker 1: Jeff Zience. Jeff Ziens, by the way, an important character
Speaker 1: to note, not just because of his his you know,
Speaker 1: World Economic Forum billionaire credentials, but also because of as
Speaker 1: you say this, this covidsar who was a COVID ZAR,
Speaker 1: but really quietly, and you have to understand this point
Speaker 1: in time, in twenty twenty three, the United States is
Speaker 1: still one of the only countries in the world that
Speaker 1: doesn't allow non citizens in if they're not vaccinated. So
Speaker 1: Zion is still doing the bidding of big COVID behind
Speaker 1: the scenes, very quietly. And the fact that he's being
Speaker 1: elevated now to this this prestige position in American politics
Speaker 1: is honestly, it's like a It's like a path on
Speaker 1: the back and a thank you for continuing to do
Speaker 1: that on behalf of you know, big farmer, big government,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to, you know, whatever you want to,
Speaker 1: you know, daub the apparat human time, interrrational, reasonable world,
Speaker 1: where heim shouldn't the guy who was the Covids are
Speaker 1: who said that a winter of death was coming for
Speaker 1: anybody who didn't get vaccinated. That's a quote that you
Speaker 1: were going to overrun the hospitals if you didn't get vaccinated.
Speaker 1: These were things that he was saying in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: going into the winter period. You would think that he
Speaker 1: should not only be fired, but honestly shamed and and
Speaker 1: and removed ignominiously from the public square. And yet he's
Speaker 1: now White House Chef of staff. It's a promotion which
Speaker 1: I think says a lot about how the Democrat apparatus
Speaker 1: views COVID, even at this stage. Yeah, but I'll go
Speaker 1: you one further. I mean, you know, again, as I say,
Speaker 1: this is a this is a slap on the back
Speaker 1: for and well done, old boy for for doing that.
Speaker 1: But is it's worse than that? Right in any rational world?
Speaker 1: You said in any rational world, Well, in any rational world,
Speaker 1: the the person who put together the original COVID task
Speaker 1: force should be susceptible to class action lawsuits from all
Speaker 1: the people who lost their businesses, all the people who
Speaker 1: lost their loved ones as a result of all of that.
Speaker 1: And that person was Mike Pence. So you know, there's
Speaker 1: blame to go around on all sides on this, especially
Speaker 1: for those who got the ball rolling at that, you know,
Speaker 1: the opening days of COVID. Let me ask and Jeff Zience.
Speaker 1: Just just to conclude on the Jeff Zions point, you know,
Speaker 1: this for him is very much an opportunity to take
Speaker 1: that kind of totalitarian mindset and run the Oval Office
Speaker 1: with it. Yeah. No, absolutely. I mean it's it's like
Speaker 1: they got there their trial run of communism and now
Speaker 1: they're saying, oh, you're ready for the big leagues of
Speaker 1: being a commie at the highest level. Yeah, Raheem. You
Speaker 1: mentioned the Trump or rather Pence, the Trump administration and COVID.
Speaker 1: I really, I really want to dive into your feelings
Speaker 1: about where Trump is right now and that whole conversation.
Speaker 1: You have very interesting views on this and I want
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Speaker 1: the Trump issue, do you think that Trump is running
Speaker 1: into a real problem here with his base, with his people,
Speaker 1: his voters, with the continued discussion of how great Operation
Speaker 1: Warp Speed is. I mean, I heard him recently say
Speaker 1: that the vaccine saved hundreds of millions of lives. I
Speaker 1: have been a huge Trump supporter. I like the guy
Speaker 1: very much personally. I think he did phenomenal things for
Speaker 1: our country as president. The vaccine did not save hundreds
Speaker 1: of millions of lives. So how do we deal with this?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Yeah? So typically there has been one
Speaker 1: critical area where you know, even Trump, even the most
Speaker 1: ardent Trump supporters, will say, Okay, he has a he
Speaker 1: has a blind spot on that. But given that it's
Speaker 1: you know, his only massive blind spot, we're willing to
Speaker 1: to not overlook it, but at least at least forgive
Speaker 1: elements of it. And that was personnel, right, The personnel
Speaker 1: choices that both the Trump administration made and the Trumper
Speaker 1: operation as it has been since after its presidency, remain
Speaker 1: curious to a lot of people. And again, most people
Speaker 1: understand that when they when they choose somebody, when they
Speaker 1: go to bat for somebody, when they put their eggs
Speaker 1: in the basket of a presidential candidate, that they're not
Speaker 1: looking for perfection. They're willing to say, you know, no
Speaker 1: man is perfect, no woman is perfect. No candidate will
Speaker 1: therefore be perfect. But in doing what he's been doing
Speaker 1: over the last you know a couple of years now,
Speaker 1: as it regards the big farmer vacciness, he's opening up
Speaker 1: an unnecessary second weak spot as far as his base
Speaker 1: is concerned, and there are major complaints about it now.
Speaker 1: I do think, however, that a lot of people are
Speaker 1: overestimating what that if impact is, and I think especially
Speaker 1: a lot of people who want other candidates to be
Speaker 1: the president Republican president next time around, are certainly overestimating
Speaker 1: the impact of that. But you're right to say that
Speaker 1: I don't think it's doing Trump any good at all,
Speaker 1: and it is in fact putting off some of his supporters.
Speaker 1: The important part of this actually is what Ron De
Speaker 1: Santis himself did. Since I alluded to it, I'll say it,
Speaker 1: which is a course correction. And there's no reason that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump can't make a course correction on this as well.
Speaker 1: Early days of of COVID, the governor of Florida was
Speaker 1: doing very similar things to a lot of the other
Speaker 1: the governors. But but you know, the end of the
Speaker 1: thirty days to slow the spread, as a lot of
Speaker 1: the rest of us did. And I hold my hand
Speaker 1: up and say myself included here we course corrected, right.
Speaker 1: We realized what this thing was being used for. We
Speaker 1: realized that, you know, European countries may want to do this,
Speaker 1: the Chinese may certainly want to do this, but frankly,
Speaker 1: it's not the American way. And you know, RDS to
Speaker 1: his credit course corrected. People with any level of I
Speaker 1: might vote Trump next time around, will still forgive him
Speaker 1: if he course corrects on this, and he's going to
Speaker 1: have to. We all know he's going to We all
Speaker 1: know he's going to turn around at some point and say, look,
Speaker 1: I did what I was told was that it was
Speaker 1: in the interest of the public. It was the time
Speaker 1: when my administration came together the best. We delivered the
Speaker 1: things that were expected to be delivered of us, even
Speaker 1: though people said we weren't able to do it. We
Speaker 1: then saw collusion even between the health industry and pharmaceutical
Speaker 1: lobby to delay the rollout of the vaccine itself. And
Speaker 1: yet I still get no credit. Well, you know, that's
Speaker 1: all well and good, but he's going to come out.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to come out, and I think he
Speaker 1: will come out at some point and say, you know,
Speaker 1: well I was tricked just like the rest of you.
Speaker 1: Where do you come down at this point on the
Speaker 1: looming showdown that you know, everyone is expecting Trump and
Speaker 1: de Santis in a primary. Now I know Trump has announced,
Speaker 1: de Santis has not, who knows. I'm a big proponent
Speaker 1: of saying nobody can predict the future, and all you
Speaker 1: can do is look back at people's predictions, and you
Speaker 1: know that nobody can predict the future. They can get
Speaker 1: it right. They can get binaries meaning a yes or
Speaker 1: no or you know, A or B right about fifty
Speaker 1: percent of the time, which makes sense, right, people will
Speaker 1: get it as often as they don't when they're trying
Speaker 1: to predict events for the most part. That all said,
Speaker 1: with all that throat clearing in place, are you already
Speaker 1: determined that it's one or the other in terms of
Speaker 1: what you think is best for the Republican Party or
Speaker 1: are you in wait and see mode? Yeah? I feel
Speaker 1: like the zen Master. You know, It's that It's that
Speaker 1: moment from Charlie Wilson's War. You know, the zen Master says,
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see. But but you know, the foundation
Speaker 1: is clearly obviously there for Rhonda Santists. It's there amongst
Speaker 1: the people around him, it's there amongst the donor class
Speaker 1: that have clearly said that they're on his side. It's
Speaker 1: there in terms of a level of the grassroots support
Speaker 1: now who say they want him to run. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's visible to me that everything that you would want
Speaker 1: in place for a presidential run, Rhonda Santist has seems
Speaker 1: to have in place. Whether or not that's of his
Speaker 1: doing is another concern there are. I'm currently reading a
Speaker 1: book by Rhonda Santists. Not many people have read it
Speaker 1: or even know that he wrote a book, but he did.
Speaker 1: This was before he was a public figure at all, really,
Speaker 1: and it was during the Obama administration. And he goes
Speaker 1: into quite a lot of detail about constitutional law, the unders,
Speaker 1: the federalist papers, and it's it's so clear that he's
Speaker 1: a genuinely like brilliant constitutional mind that the writing is
Speaker 1: excellent for somebody who hadn't written a book before. The
Speaker 1: framing is excellent, The points he makes throughout the book
Speaker 1: a point and not talking points, you know. And I
Speaker 1: remember once interviewing him back and I think it was
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen or sixteen, and saying to him at the time, look,
Speaker 1: I hope you don't mind me saying, but I think
Speaker 1: you've got it. You know, the look, the family, the experience,
Speaker 1: the awards and the military, so on and so forth.
Speaker 1: The problem I have here is almost like Trump as well,
Speaker 1: is the people around him. I'm not sure that Ronda
Speaker 1: Santis has a team around him that a lot of
Speaker 1: people will find palatable. He certainly doesn't have a lot
Speaker 1: of donuts, big donors that a lot of people will
Speaker 1: find palatable. And so when I said in the last
Speaker 1: conversation that we were having on the last topic about
Speaker 1: what can be forgiven and what can't be I think
Speaker 1: a lot of Republicans will air on the side if
Speaker 1: it's between Trump and DeSantis, with better the devil you
Speaker 1: know than the devil you know than the devil you don't.
Speaker 1: And they will also be asking a lot of questions about, well,
Speaker 1: you know, who is advising him on foreign policy? He's been,
Speaker 1: he's saber rattled a lot on the Middle East and
Speaker 1: Iran and Israel and all of these things. Is he
Speaker 1: going to be another Bush? He will have as many
Speaker 1: questions to answer on those debate stages as Donald Trump will,
Speaker 1: and I think people should rejoice about that. I think
Speaker 1: the Republican base deserves a full and rough and hard
Speaker 1: and difficult primary because for two reasons, not just because
Speaker 1: it allows for those arguments to be had and those
Speaker 1: what might seem to be sort of niche issues to
Speaker 1: come out, but also it trains that person up, whoever
Speaker 1: you know, becomes the nominee, it trains them up for
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Speaker 1: I think if Trump lacked anything last time in his campaign,
Speaker 1: it was that he didn't go through a primary, right,
Speaker 1: he didn't get to warm up before the big fight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if you're a boxer, if you're in any sport,
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Speaker 1: think you're right by the way that it's almost a
Speaker 1: stone upon which the blade can be sharpened for any politician.
Speaker 1: But on our side, we're certainly going to need that
Speaker 1: given the media reality that we're up against. I want
Speaker 1: to ask you about the royal family rahem, which I
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Speaker 1: and adds a level of gravitass to everything that he says.
Speaker 1: Raheem is from the United Kingdom, and I have some
Speaker 1: questions about this. There's this book out, there's an obsession
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Speaker 1: you are on this. You could be a big fan
Speaker 1: of the monarchy. You could be like I just think
Speaker 1: to myself, I don't understand how anyone can see this
Speaker 1: as as anything other than I don't know, I viewed
Speaker 1: as as entirely ridiculous. Why why do people care so much?
Speaker 1: Both in the UK and here at home about say,
Speaker 1: the spare Prince Harry biography and the Meghan Markle back
Speaker 1: and forth, all this stuff. I look at this and
Speaker 1: I'm like, these are these are celebrities basically like this,
Speaker 1: I might as well be watching, you know, the latest
Speaker 1: on the Kardashians, you know who they're dating or something.
Speaker 1: I just don't care. Am I missing something? Please explain
Speaker 1: to me, because you actually come from Great Britain, Go ahead,
Speaker 1: well I do, and I actually come from a historic
Speaker 1: county called Middlesex. And I just saw that your your
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Speaker 1: we have a we have a link there. I am
Speaker 1: a monarchist, and I'm a proud one. I believe in
Speaker 1: the institution of monarchy. I believe in having a part
Speaker 1: of your government being there for the long haul, and
Speaker 1: therefore having the nation's interests at heart, rather than re
Speaker 1: election or fundraising or anything like that at heart. I
Speaker 1: don't believe in a in a tyrannical or dictatorship. I
Speaker 1: don't believe in a in a vast amount of executive
Speaker 1: authority being vested in the crown. But there is a difference.
Speaker 1: There is a difference between the crown, right, the monarchy
Speaker 1: is an institution and the royal family. The royal family,
Speaker 1: like you say, can become very much like watching reality
Speaker 1: teller vision and and the tabloid papers love to make
Speaker 1: it that right. Um, Megan Markel is really the reason
Speaker 1: that we're having this conversation here, and I'll remind you
Speaker 1: where she comes from and it is not the United Kingdom,
Speaker 1: so so so thank you for that. And of course
Speaker 1: the last big blow up that we had really I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, if you exclude Diana from it in and
Speaker 1: of herself, was you know Wallace Simpson another American who
Speaker 1: got embroiled in the royal family and caused the king
Speaker 1: to abdicate. This is blaming America for the British royal
Speaker 1: families mess ups. Look at this. I will take responsibility
Speaker 1: for Christopher Steele if you take responsibility for Megan Markle.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying, right, unbelievable, unbelievable. But so you
Speaker 1: think that there is a role for it? Oh? Massive,
Speaker 1: I mean massive, I mean this is this is actually
Speaker 1: you asked me what you know what really sort of
Speaker 1: is bugging me politically at the moment and maybe even
Speaker 1: keeping me up at night a little bit. It is
Speaker 1: the incoming constitutional vandalism that we were about to see
Speaker 1: because the Labor Party, which is which is our left
Speaker 1: wing party in the United Kingdom, looks like it's going
Speaker 1: to take the reigns of government next time around after
Speaker 1: there is an election, and they have promised to abolish
Speaker 1: the House of Laws that is our upper chamber. They
Speaker 1: will replace it with an elected Senate. And my position
Speaker 1: on this is that what is the point of bicamerality, right,
Speaker 1: two chambers in your congress, parliament, whatever, if they're both
Speaker 1: chosen in the same way. I think you guys had
Speaker 1: a constitutional amendment that reflected from number seventeen or something
Speaker 1: like that that changed the nature of what your set,
Speaker 1: how your Senate was chosen, and it basically ruined the Senate.
Speaker 1: The Senate was never supposed to be just another democratic
Speaker 1: body full of politicians, and they're going to do that
Speaker 1: to our House of Lords. So here's the thing. So
Speaker 1: we're going to have two democratic chambers in our parliament.
Speaker 1: The executive branch in the United Kingdom is also chosen
Speaker 1: from the parliament, and then you're basically saying there shouldn't
Speaker 1: be a monarchy either, So at that point you've got
Speaker 1: a tyranny of the majority system. It doesn't work. There
Speaker 1: has to be something more than just politicians who push
Speaker 1: that stuff around. And it's really interesting to me because
Speaker 1: Kars Starmer Circus Starmer, who is the leader of the
Speaker 1: Labor Party right now, who will become the prime minister
Speaker 1: if the polls remain the same, went to Davos, went
Speaker 1: to the World Economic Forum and he was asked by
Speaker 1: a reporter, Emily Maitliss, if you had to choose between
Speaker 1: Westminster and Davos, which would it be, And he said Davos, Well,
Speaker 1: it's interesting, isn't it that he is the one that's
Speaker 1: charging head first with constitutional vandalism and at the same
Speaker 1: time he thinks the unelected other way to get things done.
Speaker 1: It doesn't it doesn't hold. The argument doesn't hold. And
Speaker 1: so I think you do need somebody who has the
Speaker 1: long term interest in the nation at heart. So even
Speaker 1: if they don't have real power, right like it's a
Speaker 1: symbolism that's supposed to be. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: authority is dilvested in the monarch. Well, the very It's
Speaker 1: interesting because in my book Enoch was right. I talk
Speaker 1: about this right in nineteen forty eight, when the Canadians
Speaker 1: effectively created their own form of nationality and said we're
Speaker 1: not subjects anymore, we have Canadian citizenship. It changed everything
Speaker 1: for the entire British Empire. And so we went from
Speaker 1: subjects to citizens within the same period of time. But
Speaker 1: what are you citizens off is the question? Because of
Speaker 1: course we have England, we have Wales, we have Northern Ireland,
Speaker 1: we have Scotland. Several of those make up Great Britain.
Speaker 1: Several more of those together make up the United Kingdom.
Speaker 1: You know, we have this kind of grand union of
Speaker 1: different countries and entities that voluntarily come together, much like
Speaker 1: your states. Right, And they say, okay, we are going
Speaker 1: to vest our power in the nation, but what is
Speaker 1: the nation? Well, the nation has to be more than
Speaker 1: the sum of its politicians, right, It can't just be
Speaker 1: some tech that are scribbled down. Because you know, you
Speaker 1: have a constitution. Remember we don't have a written constitution.
Speaker 1: We have an evolving constitution. Right. Our primary law is
Speaker 1: our constitution. It's it's it's it gets very complicated, but
Speaker 1: it's not dull. I assure you that I know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people get sort of think, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: what do I know about constitutional you know, import and
Speaker 1: all of this stuff as it relates to politics. It's everything.
Speaker 1: If you don't understand the way your country works, then
Speaker 1: you can't really complain about how it works. And at
Speaker 1: the end of all of the all of the questions
Speaker 1: that are raised about what makes Britain Britain is the crown,
Speaker 1: because the crown is the connection between the nation and God.
Speaker 1: That's why, as you'll see when Charles is crowned, if
Speaker 1: formally that they will touch his head with anointing oil,
Speaker 1: and that is the head of the Church of mind.
Speaker 1: Isn't the crown that the head of the Church of England.
Speaker 1: Technically that's that's how this that is what signifies, which
Speaker 1: I think not the man that really has the power
Speaker 1: is Big Odds that has the power. I think Hitchens. Hitchens,
Speaker 1: who was just a poor man's raheem becausam Christopher Hitchins
Speaker 1: used to say that, yes, the Church of England built
Speaker 1: on the family values of Henry the Eighth, which I
Speaker 1: think it's pretty funny, but anyway, it was a Hitchens line. Um.
Speaker 1: But yes, back to back to the Crown. By the way,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that Christopher Hitchins can can can wax
Speaker 1: moral um about anybody else's exploits. Well, he's certainly not
Speaker 1: here anymore to defend himself, so there's that. But but
Speaker 1: tell me this, um uh, Well, I was actually gonna
Speaker 1: ask you something kind of silly for a second, just
Speaker 1: to take us in a different direction. Do you do
Speaker 1: you watch The Crown like every because I tried to
Speaker 1: fight it as long as I can. But you know,
Speaker 1: you have a girlfriend, I have a fiance. The ladies
Speaker 1: love that show man. I don't know. I couldn't fight
Speaker 1: it off anymore. I was like, all right, fine, honey,
Speaker 1: we'll watch The Crown. And it's pretty engrossing for what
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah. Actually, my girlfriend doesn't like the Crown,
Speaker 1: and I think it calls She's just like a very
Speaker 1: red blooded American patriot and finds it all very stuffy
Speaker 1: and boring. And he did fight a war elevant not
Speaker 1: that long ago, so we would pretty much never have
Speaker 1: to pay any attention to that royal family ever. Again
Speaker 1: here that that is the thing. So for Americans. That's
Speaker 1: why I ask you, as a brit why do you
Speaker 1: care as an Americans. I do not want to hear
Speaker 1: it from people. It's bizarre the fixation they have with
Speaker 1: the the British royal family. It makes no sense to
Speaker 1: me at all, But for British people, I understand. Um,
Speaker 1: so that's that's one air. So we've we've well, look,
Speaker 1: I mean, The Crown is a good show. It's not
Speaker 1: particularly true to real life, but it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: very entertaining. The interest in it, however, speaks to something broader,
Speaker 1: I think, And I know you're not going to like
Speaker 1: what I'm about to say, but I do think Americans
Speaker 1: kind of miss something. They miss this this institution almost.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they want to be ruled from London, right.
Speaker 1: You maybe want your own monarchy, but people want something
Speaker 1: that spirational and in a country where we have the
Speaker 1: founding Fathers being torn down all the time, and there's there,
Speaker 1: I think there is something that, look, we all love
Speaker 1: like I'm sure there were. Of course, there's British Republicans
Speaker 1: who want the an end to the monarchy and so
Speaker 1: on and so forth, and that and that is only
Speaker 1: unfortunately going to grow and grow with with Charles at
Speaker 1: the helm Um. But everyone basically loved her Majesty the Queen.
Speaker 1: They understood that her life was Yes, she gets to
Speaker 1: live in nice, big palaces, but they understood that her
Speaker 1: life was really service. And I was lucky enough to
Speaker 1: be able to go to Windsor Castle and pay my
Speaker 1: respects at her tomb recently. And and and we had
Speaker 1: as a nation we could come together and celebrate, um
Speaker 1: that that person doing such great things. UM. I just
Speaker 1: offhand referred to her as as in terms of popularity,
Speaker 1: the Dolly Parton of the of the United Kingdom, which
Speaker 1: Clay thought. He was like, you're you're crazy. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get so so bashed or attorney. There was like a
Speaker 1: big Tennessee newspaper that picked that up or you know
Speaker 1: that he took that line. I don't they heard it
Speaker 1: from me, or they just went with it. But she
Speaker 1: was like the Dolly Parton of the United Kingdom. Everybody
Speaker 1: loved her, which I thought was pretty funny. Um okay.
Speaker 1: So see, we had Viri Lynn during the during the
Speaker 1: Second World War, we had Viri Lynn and Viri Lynn.
Speaker 1: People will know the song We'll Meet Again and actually
Speaker 1: We'll Meet Again was one of the last songs that
Speaker 1: was ever played on one of the Queen's Christmas addresses,
Speaker 1: and so that I feel like Viri Lynn was kind
Speaker 1: of our Dolly parton. I feel like the reason you
Speaker 1: don't have a comparison is because of the very short
Speaker 1: term nature of both your politics and your celebrity life.
Speaker 1: And again, it's hard to explain because I understand that
Speaker 1: constitutionally you guys are reversed to it, but from an
Speaker 1: institutional perspective, a lot of a lot of Britons like
Speaker 1: myself look at it and go, I'm so comforted by that.
Speaker 1: So this, this turns, this turns into the next. I
Speaker 1: think it's an easy way to transition into something that
Speaker 1: to me is is related and you can take this
Speaker 1: ever you want. Um which is I remember, I think
Speaker 1: it was actually Andrew Tate before he was held in prison.
Speaker 1: He has UK citizenship as well as American citizenship. I
Speaker 1: think he said that England is a country that no
Speaker 1: longer stands for anything, that won't and that won't defend
Speaker 1: its values in as effectively in terminal decline as a society.
Speaker 1: Do you agree with that diagnosis? And I asked because
Speaker 1: as an American, I think a lot of people look
Speaker 1: at Canada, Look at the UK. Look at Australia. I
Speaker 1: was living in and now I've never been there, and
Speaker 1: I don't profess to be an Australia expert. I thought
Speaker 1: it was kind of like the United Kingdom with nicer
Speaker 1: people in kangaroos, But turns out they're a bunch of
Speaker 1: socialists who will do whatever they're told and embrace authoritarianism,
Speaker 1: embraced the most insane COVID lunacy. And that really worries
Speaker 1: me in a society that it can't actually be nimble
Speaker 1: and adapt to reality as it happens, that it could
Speaker 1: be overtaken by a mass hysteria. Same thing in Canada
Speaker 1: under Trudeau. Is the UK a country, and so we
Speaker 1: think that those places are just further ahead of America.
Speaker 1: You know, there there are warning signs of what we
Speaker 1: will turn into if we don't stand for certain values freedom, liberty, individuality.
Speaker 1: Is the UK in terminal decline. What do you make
Speaker 1: of that? Serfdom? I mean, what you're talking about is serfdom, right,
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's the worst part of it is
Speaker 1: almost the choice to be a serf, to be a
Speaker 1: slave to your to your government, your bureaucrats, your politicians,
Speaker 1: and forget that they are the ones who are either
Speaker 1: supposed to represent your interests or as you guys once
Speaker 1: did you know, they'll get tarred and feathered and tossed
Speaker 1: overboard and serfdom is a very difficult thing in a
Speaker 1: world that is increasingly relativistic morally and is increasingly secularized
Speaker 1: because because government has become the religion. You know, in
Speaker 1: the United Kingdom, the National Health Service which is failing,
Speaker 1: I mean failing. They're having to set up temporary morgues
Speaker 1: and mortuaries across the country because the National Health Service
Speaker 1: is killing people. It is killing people by not showing
Speaker 1: up in time when ambulances are called. It is killing
Speaker 1: people because it is spending gargantu in sums of money.
Speaker 1: You know, the National Health Services budget has doubled in
Speaker 1: the last I think it's ten, ten to fifteen years.
Speaker 1: The health has doubled. Do you think we have seen
Speaker 1: commensurate rises in care as a result of that budget doubling. No,
Speaker 1: we haven't. We've actually seen a worsening in care over
Speaker 1: the last decade in the United Kingdom and the National
Speaker 1: Health Service, you know, they call it the envy of
Speaker 1: the world. I have never met anybody anywhere in the
Speaker 1: world who envies our healthcare system. I've never met anybody
Speaker 1: anywhere in the world who looks at my teeth and goes, well,
Speaker 1: that's wonderful. I want to use the dentists that you're using.
Speaker 1: And and you know, we've we've placed God with government
Speaker 1: in our societies. We've replaced you know this, this this
Speaker 1: appeal to something greater than us and greater than the little,
Speaker 1: particular particularisms of the lives, all little lives we lead
Speaker 1: with bureaucracy and the boring nature of the things that
Speaker 1: they tell us are moral, which are oftentimes wildly immoral things. Right,
Speaker 1: I think of transgender you know, library drag queen our
Speaker 1: or whatever they're calling it nowadays, is one of the
Speaker 1: great examples of what is being deified. So it's like
Speaker 1: a bathtub right where where we know that we have
Speaker 1: to keep that tub full of warm water, that that
Speaker 1: that that cleanses us, that nourishes us, that protects us,
Speaker 1: that keeps us warm. Meanwhile, our davos ali are constantly
Speaker 1: pulling the plug and we're just constantly trying to trying
Speaker 1: to plug that hole with with all manner of things.
Speaker 1: Brexit as a good example of that, right that that
Speaker 1: was the United Kingdoms electorate slamming their hand on the
Speaker 1: drain and saying, well, well, well, well we need our own,
Speaker 1: you know, system of government to keep us independent, to
Speaker 1: keep us sovereign, to keep us safe, and to hold
Speaker 1: our belief in something. But the problem with that is, sorry,
Speaker 1: I know I'm break it because you're very close to
Speaker 1: it and know Nigel, and so I want to put
Speaker 1: a pin in that. But keep going. But just in
Speaker 1: conclusion of all of that point, you know, you ask
Speaker 1: about terminal decline, it's not that. It's not that we
Speaker 1: the people of any of these western countries necessarily believe
Speaker 1: in the terminal decline of our nations. Yes, of course,
Speaker 1: some silly Marxists you know, have bought into it, but
Speaker 1: they we can overcome those people. We are stronger than
Speaker 1: them in very many ways. But but it's that every
Speaker 1: time we get anywhere close to not just stopping that,
Speaker 1: but actually turning the taps on and refilling the bathtub,
Speaker 1: it's the it's the you know, we call them the
Speaker 1: Davos Elite. Today it's it's Davos one day, it's Brussels. Another,
Speaker 1: It's Capitol Hill another. All of those people and all
Speaker 1: of those institutions are still just tugging away at that
Speaker 1: at that drain. Now, you did have a decline particular, right, right,
Speaker 1: you did have a particular view of Brexit. Somebody who
Speaker 1: you were on Nigel Farage's staff, you know Nigel very well,
Speaker 1: you know the Brexiteers personally and in a close way.
Speaker 1: We were told, I mean, if you were somebody who
Speaker 1: was reading you know, the Economist or the editorial page
Speaker 1: of the New York Times, that Brexit was going to
Speaker 1: lead to calamity. Right, I'm not sure if it was
Speaker 1: going to be that all the Brits would be starving,
Speaker 1: but you know, bad things were going to happen from it,
Speaker 1: and then it was madness. What has been the report
Speaker 1: card since Brexit? I mean, what has gone on? How
Speaker 1: would you view it now that some years have passed
Speaker 1: since that event that seemed to shock the international elites
Speaker 1: and create this moment of maybe we're not all going
Speaker 1: to be taking orders from bureaucrats in Brussels. Actually, now,
Speaker 1: this is this is where it gets really interesting. Because
Speaker 1: I talked earlier about how kiss Stamol wants to replace
Speaker 1: the House of Lords with with a Senate. Well, why
Speaker 1: does he really want to do that, Because what he
Speaker 1: intends to do is pass primary legislation in the House
Speaker 1: of Commons to rejoin the European Union, and he knows
Speaker 1: it will be easier to pass in an elected Senate
Speaker 1: to rejoin the European Union than it would pass through
Speaker 1: the House of Lords in our current constitutional format. So
Speaker 1: so right now in the British press on an almost
Speaker 1: daily basis, and I go through it on an almost
Speaker 1: daily base. Well, now I go through it on a
Speaker 1: daily basis. You see, you know, when are we going
Speaker 1: to rejoin the EU? Should Britain rejoin the EU? Brexit
Speaker 1: is least less popular than ever before, and as the
Speaker 1: older generation that predominantly voted for Brexit is dying out unfortunately,
Speaker 1: and as the Conservative part Conservative Party continues to govern
Speaker 1: as a center left party, Brexit is being watered down,
Speaker 1: it is being neutralized. There are all sorts of things
Speaker 1: that are blamed nowadays on Brexit that that have nothing
Speaker 1: to do with Brexit, but the British public sort of
Speaker 1: looks at it and they're told it by the Sun
Speaker 1: newspaper and the Times newspaper and the Murdoch Press and
Speaker 1: and Sky News and the BBC, and they're told it
Speaker 1: and they go, oh, yeah, I guess it must have
Speaker 1: been Brexit. What a bad idea. So I think unfortunately
Speaker 1: we're looking at a campaign now to return to to
Speaker 1: the European Union within the next five years, and and
Speaker 1: they may well win that campaign. Is Britain salvageable as
Speaker 1: a great country with a great tradition and a great people, Well,
Speaker 1: you've described almost no longer exist. There is no one,
Speaker 1: you know, one British people anymore. In a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: I am evidence of that. You know, my parents were well,
Speaker 1: my father was born in Tanzania, my mother was born
Speaker 1: in India. My lineage goes back to India. Um and
Speaker 1: and a lot of people who are of my ilk
Speaker 1: chose not to assimilate, and they chose not to you know,
Speaker 1: have traditional British values, and they chose not to learn
Speaker 1: the language as as as fluently as I did, and
Speaker 1: they chose to kind of not have I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: like a dual loyalty, but certainly like a dualism right
Speaker 1: inside themselves. That that that, you know, and I don't
Speaker 1: like this. I don't like. I just I mean British
Speaker 1: of the American people. You know, the American people as
Speaker 1: one people exist. It's not about any racial, ethnic or
Speaker 1: religious identity. It's about your identity as an American. Bamba.
Speaker 1: The Constitution and our culture are shared history. So right,
Speaker 1: So is the UK salvageable in as that or is
Speaker 1: it breaking apart? I'm leading up to Yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 1: go ahead. Sorry, I just I like to flesh those
Speaker 1: things out, you know. And you the reason I say that,
Speaker 1: it's because you do it too, right, African American, Asian American,
Speaker 1: and everybody gets sort of segmented into these little identity groups,
Speaker 1: and we've done that as well. Unless there is a minister,
Speaker 1: a real sort of philosopher king that comes along and
Speaker 1: and reminds the country that it is one country in
Speaker 1: a very Disraelian sense, right, one nation. Conservatism was was
Speaker 1: the longest running strain of conservative thought in the United Kingdom. Ever,
Speaker 1: unless somebody comes along and reminds the general public of
Speaker 1: that and indeed forces them to believe in it, right Like,
Speaker 1: I don't mean, I don't mean through coercion, I mean
Speaker 1: through argument, you know, gets them to believe in that goal.
Speaker 1: Then then no, there isn't a United Kingdom anymore, and
Speaker 1: nor should we pretend that they will be. You cannot
Speaker 1: have a cohesive nation if everybody is taught that they
Speaker 1: are part of a different group than their next door neighbors.
Speaker 1: Is it more left wing as a country now in
Speaker 1: its totality than the US? I mean, you have a
Speaker 1: means of comparison here. You know, one thing that I
Speaker 1: think people have recognized about Canada is if you take
Speaker 1: the most you know, beta male low t Marxist leadership
Speaker 1: in America, that's actually much more common and much more
Speaker 1: powerful in the context of Canada and Trudeau and Trudeauism. Right,
Speaker 1: So is that also true about the UK? Right now?
Speaker 1: Are they even? Are they more awoke? I don't even
Speaker 1: know how much that term is used over there and
Speaker 1: then we are here. Oh it's used. It's used way
Speaker 1: too much over there, and it's it's used in a
Speaker 1: really cringe way. So so they don't say, like somebody goes,
Speaker 1: you know, woke In the UK, woke is the is
Speaker 1: the adjective that describes the movement. So there'll be like
Speaker 1: editorials in the Telegraph that says we must end woke,
Speaker 1: you know, as if that's like Antifa, um, and it
Speaker 1: gets up, it gets on my nerves. Just from a
Speaker 1: from a from a linguistic perspective. To answer your question,
Speaker 1: I think, governmentally, bureaucratically, we are far more of a
Speaker 1: left wing country and you should look to us as
Speaker 1: a warning of how not to run your country. Culturally.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been here for six years now. Culturally,
Speaker 1: I think America is more left wing. People in the
Speaker 1: United Kingdom are more, you know, more inclined to say, well,
Speaker 1: let's let's take a beat on that and think about that,
Speaker 1: and think about its implications to our culture, to our neighbors,
Speaker 1: to our society. The America seems every time somebody comes
Speaker 1: up with a you know, a progressive new thing, seems
Speaker 1: to just slam its foot on the accelerator and go, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the new thing, and that's what we're going for now,
Speaker 1: whether it's BLM or what have you, or the transgender stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, America, we have to we have to accept this.
Speaker 1: America is the single largest exporter of cultural Marxism in
Speaker 1: the world today, and that is a deeply, deeply shocking thing.
Speaker 1: And of course, when you guys sneeze, we all catch
Speaker 1: a cold. That stuff is now in Britain, it is
Speaker 1: now in Australia, it is now in Canada, it is
Speaker 1: all across Europe. You know, the French actually have the
Speaker 1: lowest tolerance for this stuff of almost any European nation.
Speaker 1: I mean, apart from these deeply social conservative nations like
Speaker 1: Poland and Hungary. The French look at American political cultures
Speaker 1: as they do most as they do look at most
Speaker 1: things American. Right, but we're going to I think it's
Speaker 1: our political culture. But yeah, they look at a lot
Speaker 1: of it. But but but on this one they're right. You know,
Speaker 1: on this thing. They're not just being French about it,
Speaker 1: They're actually being smart about it. And so you've got
Speaker 1: to know that when the French are right about something
Speaker 1: in critique of you, you've really got a problem. May
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Speaker 1: on a second. I want to ask you what's the
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Speaker 1: want to him craziest thing happening in America today. The
Speaker 1: craziest thing happening in America in America today is that
Speaker 1: is that the right has not managed cultural hegemony yet.
Speaker 1: Like that is like, yeah, I find that utterly, utterly baffling,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, Um, that there is so
Speaker 1: much cultural rot and disease coming out of Hollywood and
Speaker 1: New York as you know, UM, but that we haven't,
Speaker 1: that we haven't really truly cut through that yet, really
Speaker 1: embarrasses me. It speaks to our lack of creativity. It
Speaker 1: speaks to our lack of honestly, for people who regard
Speaker 1: themselves as I do, and I don't, I don't profess
Speaker 1: to speak for you in this regard, but I regard
Speaker 1: myself as a populist. For people who regard themselves as populists,
Speaker 1: we're not very good at being popular in the things
Speaker 1: that we promote culturally. So that's why this year, I'm
Speaker 1: pleased to say, and I think you may be getting
Speaker 1: the exclusive here on this right now, that the National
Speaker 1: Pulse is going to be moving into that territory. We
Speaker 1: are going to be moving into print magazine territory. We
Speaker 1: are going to be moving into documentary territory. We are
Speaker 1: we are just widening the scope of the things that
Speaker 1: we present to as many people as possible, because because
Speaker 1: I was reading this Michael Anton essay, actually I think
Speaker 1: it was in I Am seventeen seventy six magazine, which
Speaker 1: is a great magazine about about Tom Wolfe and about
Speaker 1: the the the vacuums that he saw around him culturally
Speaker 1: and how he just chose to fill them, right. He
Speaker 1: just told the stories that he saw before him that
Speaker 1: he knew weren't being told anywhere else. On fire of
Speaker 1: the vanities, so on and so forth. And we've got
Speaker 1: we've got real bonfires of the vanities going on in Washington,
Speaker 1: DC right now. We've got we've got neighborhoods, predominantly black neighborhoods,
Speaker 1: by the way, which are being totally left to rack
Speaker 1: and ruin by a black mayor of Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: But nobody's telling those stories for the sake of history.
Speaker 1: Nobody's telling them for the sake of the next generation
Speaker 1: learning from the mistakes. And so that is the thing
Speaker 1: that really really baffles me constantly, how we are not
Speaker 1: better at this yet. So, for example, because I think
Speaker 1: this comes up a lot on the right in the
Speaker 1: context of how is it that we thought the outcome
Speaker 1: here would be any different when we've been playing for
Speaker 1: this make believe neutral space in a lot of institutions
Speaker 1: for a long time, and for example, even in classrooms,
Speaker 1: they'll say, oh, well, there you're pushing your right wing
Speaker 1: conservative values. Someone's values are going to be in the classroom.
Speaker 1: I think the right has at least woken up to
Speaker 1: that reality because of you know, transgender drag, Queen Story Hour,
Speaker 1: and all these things that have become and CRT, which
Speaker 1: is explicitly in many context anti white, explicitly racist in
Speaker 1: the way that it's presented in classrooms. People have realized
Speaker 1: that there's not this oh, we're just gonna have neutral space,
Speaker 1: neutral space. When you have a left wing that says
Speaker 1: that you know, algebra and higher math class being taught
Speaker 1: as racist, you're going to you have to address the
Speaker 1: battle as it is and not as you wish it were.
Speaker 1: So there are some places colleges, universities, for example Rheim,
Speaker 1: that the the left will not allow there to be
Speaker 1: any who do not think like them, but given the
Speaker 1: creative areas right, So, you know, if you're in the
Speaker 1: political science department at a lot of different universities, you're
Speaker 1: never going to get hired as an associate professor. You're
Speaker 1: never going to get tenure for sure if you're a conservative.
Speaker 1: So they operate at like a country club that won't
Speaker 1: allow in the you know, the undesirables, the conservatives in
Speaker 1: the creative side. Though, why don't we have? You berentioned
Speaker 1: Tom Wolf? By the way, Bonfire the Vanity is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite novels of all time. Took place in
Speaker 1: the Upper East Side where I grew up, and I
Speaker 1: read Tom Wolf when I was in the eighth grade.
Speaker 1: I've read that book in the eighth grade. Why don't
Speaker 1: we produce great novels? Why don't we have It's amazing?
Speaker 1: People will say that show is conservative, or people will
Speaker 1: say The Top Gun Maverick is conservative. I say it's
Speaker 1: not conservative. It's just a movie the way movies used
Speaker 1: to be entertaining, good guys, bad guys, and not a
Speaker 1: lot of radical political theory thrown in there. Why can't
Speaker 1: we Why aren't we capable? It seems of doing more
Speaker 1: of that? Are we capable of doing more of that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And it's like every single time a left wing celebrity
Speaker 1: or journalist comes out on our side just a little bit,
Speaker 1: we all go nuts and hand them the football and say, right,
Speaker 1: you're you're the quarterback now. Whether it's whether it's Wise
Speaker 1: or Ricky Gervais or or you're on Musk or whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, we we we leave the people who have
Speaker 1: been fighting on our side, and we hand the ball
Speaker 1: and the control of the game over to somebody very
Speaker 1: recently on our side. And then and then when they
Speaker 1: when they turn an ass or when they you know,
Speaker 1: express that they weren't quite signed up for the entire thing,
Speaker 1: then we go, oh my goodness. Some of us were
Speaker 1: warning about about the Kanye situation before Kanye went totally
Speaker 1: you know, whacko. Right, and and and here's look, here's
Speaker 1: a message to people who because it's Jermaine to your question,
Speaker 1: is not you and I I mean, we we do
Speaker 1: this on a daily basis, right, We are literally creating
Speaker 1: content every single day that millions of people see. But
Speaker 1: but there's there's a lot more to the conservative cultural
Speaker 1: movement than the podcast. As the talking Heads the political strategists,
Speaker 1: all of that. It actually really behooves the ordinary American
Speaker 1: to step into this space, because only you, who is
Speaker 1: not living in DC, who is not living in New York,
Speaker 1: who is not living in Miami, who is not living
Speaker 1: in these big cities, can talk about the experiences that
Speaker 1: you're having in your states, in your counties, in your towns,
Speaker 1: in your villages, in your you know, I don't care
Speaker 1: whether you live in a in a relatively new suburban district,
Speaker 1: whether you live in a you in the desert. If
Speaker 1: you're not putting pen to paper and memorializing the experiences
Speaker 1: that you're having, then why do you suppose that anybody
Speaker 1: will do that for you? Right? And here's the thing,
Speaker 1: a lot of those people, we're not great writers, they
Speaker 1: were not great thinkers. What they were able to do
Speaker 1: is observe the world around them and just write enough
Speaker 1: down so that somebody somewhere could pick over it at
Speaker 1: some point in the future and go, ah, this is
Speaker 1: what was going on in these areas. It wasn't all Biden,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't all LGBT, and it wasn't all this.
Speaker 1: We need historians to be able to see that stuff.
Speaker 1: And it is completely completely on the shoulders of ordinary
Speaker 1: Americans to make sure that that stuff stays in the
Speaker 1: historical record. The second part of this is, Um, you
Speaker 1: talked about the somebody's values is going to be in
Speaker 1: the classroom, right, and that and that's so called that
Speaker 1: fake neutral space. Well, that fake neutral space comes from
Speaker 1: comes from secularism, it comes from science, and it comes
Speaker 1: from the expert class. The expert class that we all
Speaker 1: know were the people behind COVID, were the people saying
Speaker 1: that there'll be a third World War if, if you know,
Speaker 1: Britain leaves the European Union. They're all saying that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump would would you know, accidentally press the nuclear button
Speaker 1: instead of the diet coke Buttonum, these are the people
Speaker 1: who need challenging and we should you know, the you
Speaker 1: know the Chad meme where it's just you know, the
Speaker 1: guy and he just says, you know, yes, that's it. Yes. Well,
Speaker 1: when the left accuses us of oh, well you just
Speaker 1: want your philosophy in the classrooms, yes, oh you just
Speaker 1: want you know, anti abortion measures, Yes, you just don't
Speaker 1: want me you know, a man dressed up in a
Speaker 1: skirt going into the girl's locker room, Yes, you know
Speaker 1: those are the answers. It's you don't have to equivocate
Speaker 1: about those things. And we spend too much time equivocating.
Speaker 1: We want to be liked too much. Forget about it.
Speaker 1: We're not going to be liked by the other side.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be liked by your own side. I think
Speaker 1: personally that I am going to use twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: to write more than I've ever written before because there
Speaker 1: are so many things going on out there. I am
Speaker 1: going to do a tour of the United States and
Speaker 1: document in documentary format what is going on out there
Speaker 1: in the real United States, because very few people are
Speaker 1: telling the stories of ordinary Americans, and I think these
Speaker 1: are the times especially that those stories need to be told.
Speaker 1: And and you know, history is not written by the victors.
Speaker 1: History is written by those who bother to write it.
Speaker 1: So let's write it. Raheim Kasalm, everybody check out the
Speaker 1: Raheem Kassam podcast and also go to the National Pulse
Speaker 1: and keep an eye out for all these projects. As Raheem,
Speaker 1: you're promising some cool stuff that people are going to
Speaker 1: be looking for it. So thank you, my friend, for
Speaker 1: coming and hanging out. And we'll have to do like
Speaker 1: a podcast after dark session at some point with some booze,
Speaker 1: some lifestyle tips. What's the one what is the one
Speaker 1: thing raheem that the American that American men listening to this,
Speaker 1: if you could get them to either do more of
Speaker 1: or less of one thing, what would it be? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, every year is dry January for me, and
Speaker 1: it's it's a real it's it's a hardship for thirty
Speaker 1: one days. Um, and I'm going through that. It's the
Speaker 1: tail end of it right now. I'm going through it.
Speaker 1: But you know, for me, I've undertaken a lot of
Speaker 1: different things in the last couple of years. I was
Speaker 1: I was about forty pounds heavier, um, not but twenty
Speaker 1: four months ago. Um, I've I've lost all that way.
Speaker 1: I've changed a lot of the things in my life. Um. Honestly,
Speaker 1: the things that that's made the world of difference to
Speaker 1: me from a from a physical perspective is deadlifting, running
Speaker 1: and the stem masta quite frankly that it sort of
Speaker 1: shed all of the weight for me. And the other
Speaker 1: part of it for me is um, you know, I've
Speaker 1: very much switched. I used to be a seven eight
Speaker 1: nine points of beer and night kind of guy. You know,
Speaker 1: no dinner. It was just beer for me, and I've
Speaker 1: very much switched that out from martinis a little bit
Speaker 1: more sophisticated, a little you can you can drink fewer
Speaker 1: of them, and still you know, have that little buzz.
Speaker 1: I actually think they are far better a measure of
Speaker 1: a man than a than a than a cous light
Speaker 1: as well. And then the other thing is ignore the
Speaker 1: advice from the nutrition experts who are trying to get
Speaker 1: you to eat crickets and all of that nonsense. The
Speaker 1: best breakfast you can have is steaking eggs, and frankly,
Speaker 1: the best every meal you can have your steak and eggs.
Speaker 1: So get on that trade. I actually totally agree. So
Speaker 1: there you go, everybody. Raheem my friend, thanks for being
Speaker 1: with us, thanks for giving us your time, and we'll
Speaker 1: have you back soon. Just thank you. Puck