WEBVTT - Buck Brief - Catalina Lauf 0:00:11.697 --> 0:00:14.977 You're listening to The Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure 0:00:14.977 --> 0:00:17.977 you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or 0:00:18.017 --> 0:00:21.897 wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everybody, Welcome to the 0:00:21.937 --> 0:00:25.137 Buck Brief. On this episode, we have Katalina Love with us. 0:00:25.137 --> 0:00:27.257 She is the founder of the Defense of Freedom PAC 0:00:27.817 --> 0:00:32.097 formerly ran for Congress in a tough race, and we 0:00:32.177 --> 0:00:34.417 appreciate her being here. She just got back from the UK. 0:00:34.577 --> 0:00:36.817 She may be a little jet lagged, so we can 0:00:36.817 --> 0:00:38.897 talk about some UK stuff too. I just got back 0:00:38.897 --> 0:00:42.097 from Scotland last summer. I love it up there. But 0:00:42.177 --> 0:00:44.937 they are communists. I don't know what happened to them, 0:00:45.297 --> 0:00:49.257 but they're politics great people, beautiful country. Terrible politics. 0:00:49.577 --> 0:00:53.217 Yeah, I think they're just too close to Russia and 0:00:53.297 --> 0:00:54.497 all of the mess over there. 0:00:54.617 --> 0:00:58.457 No, they've unfortunately, they've been sucked. 0:00:58.137 --> 0:01:05.737 In by the globalst un type of mentality where they 0:01:05.737 --> 0:01:07.777 want to be part of Europe, but yet some of 0:01:07.817 --> 0:01:12.017 them want to be independent and I'll remain pretty Western, 0:01:12.297 --> 0:01:15.097 especially when it comes to the economic system. But they 0:01:15.137 --> 0:01:18.297 were just being, you know, unfortunately manipulated a lot. 0:01:18.377 --> 0:01:19.137 Their media is. 0:01:19.297 --> 0:01:23.217 And so if we think ours is corrupted out here 0:01:23.657 --> 0:01:27.857 when it comes to just liberal mainstream media. Mayhem over 0:01:27.897 --> 0:01:34.417 there is just beyond horrible. Their government run news is entirely. 0:01:35.497 --> 0:01:37.577 Did you ever did you ever see that exchange from 0:01:37.697 --> 0:01:42.417 with the BBC presenter and Jordan Peterson where she keeps saying, well, 0:01:42.497 --> 0:01:45.897 well in other words, in other words, and he's like, no, no, 0:01:45.937 --> 0:01:47.937 not in other words. You know, they're kind of going 0:01:47.977 --> 0:01:49.777 back and forth, but she keeps saying in other words 0:01:49.777 --> 0:01:51.817 to change what he says to be something she can attack, 0:01:52.097 --> 0:01:54.057 and she does it over and over and over again. 0:01:54.177 --> 0:01:56.337 I just thought it was amazing that someone could be 0:01:56.377 --> 0:01:59.337 paid to do something as straightforward as interview people on 0:01:59.417 --> 0:02:03.577 TV and be as bad at it as the BBC. 0:02:03.817 --> 0:02:05.617 I can't even remember her name, but she was pretty horrible. 0:02:06.777 --> 0:02:08.177 I did want to ask you actual it's funny you 0:02:08.177 --> 0:02:10.057 just came back with the UK about the royal family. 0:02:10.177 --> 0:02:12.297 First of all, do you watch the Crown? 0:02:14.137 --> 0:02:15.217 I thought some of it? 0:02:16.457 --> 0:02:18.897 Yeah, some of it, that's it, only some of it? Okay, 0:02:19.097 --> 0:02:22.577 wife and I are watching this thing now all the time. 0:02:23.297 --> 0:02:25.057 How much have we talked? You've seen like two episodes? 0:02:25.097 --> 0:02:25.897 What are we talking about? 0:02:26.457 --> 0:02:26.537 No? 0:02:26.737 --> 0:02:28.817 I saw the first couple of seasons and I'll tell 0:02:28.817 --> 0:02:29.177 you why. 0:02:29.297 --> 0:02:31.697 And then I want to hear your perspective, but I, 0:02:31.737 --> 0:02:36.697 as a British history lover, I believe that sometimes you know, 0:02:36.737 --> 0:02:39.457 if it wasn't it's not the Tutors. The Crown seemed 0:02:39.457 --> 0:02:43.857 a little too slow for me. There wasn't enough you know, 0:02:44.017 --> 0:02:45.417 scandal like the Tutor Court. 0:02:45.457 --> 0:02:48.737 And I don't know how historically accurate it is. So 0:02:49.217 --> 0:02:51.017 that was my qualms with it, why I didn't watch 0:02:51.057 --> 0:02:53.377 the whole thing. But what were you going to say? 0:02:53.977 --> 0:02:56.657 I mean, it was I think it's pretty on the 0:02:56.737 --> 0:03:01.097 broad strokes. The historical accuracy is there, here's what's going on. So, 0:03:01.137 --> 0:03:03.537 as you know, I do a radio show with my man, 0:03:03.617 --> 0:03:06.257 Clay Travis, you know, like five hundred stations, no big deal, 0:03:06.657 --> 0:03:10.857 and we argue about this. We argue about sometimes because 0:03:10.897 --> 0:03:14.977 he thinks that the British royal family is fascinating and classy, 0:03:15.497 --> 0:03:20.497 and I think that monarchy is at best quaint anachronism 0:03:20.657 --> 0:03:24.337 and really more kind of bizarre and something that people 0:03:24.377 --> 0:03:26.857 need to just like let go of. Now. I'm not 0:03:26.897 --> 0:03:29.937 going to tell people in Great Britain that they should 0:03:29.937 --> 0:03:34.177 stop with this bizarre obsession about you know, that's their 0:03:34.177 --> 0:03:36.817 own thing. But for Americans, I don't understand this at all, 0:03:36.857 --> 0:03:39.777 Like I'll watch The Crown because it's entertainment, and I 0:03:39.777 --> 0:03:43.937 think the royal family is for entertainment purposes. Okay, I 0:03:43.977 --> 0:03:46.497 guess kind of like the Kardashians in this country, you know, 0:03:46.697 --> 0:03:51.537 or reality TV to some degree. I don't understand why 0:03:51.657 --> 0:03:55.417 anyone has, as an American any affinity for them. Clay 0:03:55.497 --> 0:03:57.657 is a big Queen Elizabeth fan. That's how this comes up. 0:03:57.657 --> 0:04:01.097 I'm like, why what does she do? You know, she 0:04:01.137 --> 0:04:03.497 shows up and does this sort of little hand wave 0:04:03.617 --> 0:04:04.297 thing that they do. 0:04:04.337 --> 0:04:04.737 That's it. 0:04:07.857 --> 0:04:08.617 Well, you know that. 0:04:08.617 --> 0:04:12.017 They account for billions of dollars of the UK economy, 0:04:12.177 --> 0:04:15.217 so I think they have a financial reason to keep 0:04:15.257 --> 0:04:15.857 them around. 0:04:16.777 --> 0:04:19.697 But what do you mean billions? Like how so what 0:04:19.817 --> 0:04:23.537 billions of dollars? How by selling TV rights or something. 0:04:25.737 --> 0:04:30.217 Yes, the amount they I believe are the number one. 0:04:30.657 --> 0:04:33.457 Like they completely sustain most of. 0:04:33.457 --> 0:04:36.257 The economy when it comes to tourism because Americans are 0:04:36.337 --> 0:04:42.217 so obsessed with English history as a whole. You go 0:04:42.417 --> 0:04:46.617 to the UK and you've been all of these castles 0:04:46.897 --> 0:04:49.217 anywhere that you go, they're all A lot of them 0:04:49.257 --> 0:04:52.257 are either owned by the family or they're they're pretty 0:04:52.457 --> 0:04:56.257 much maintained by a national trust, especially parks and things 0:04:56.297 --> 0:05:00.057 like that, and so I mean they just attract visitors 0:05:00.097 --> 0:05:03.977 from everywhere because I mean it's cool even where you know, 0:05:04.017 --> 0:05:05.737 I was spending some time there and you have you know, 0:05:05.777 --> 0:05:11.817 a Roman wall from you know, nine hundred years ago. No, 0:05:12.057 --> 0:05:15.177 that's yeah, well that's a lot north. But there are 0:05:15.217 --> 0:05:17.937 a lot of different like ruin areas. 0:05:18.097 --> 0:05:18.177 And. 0:05:19.897 --> 0:05:22.577 It's I mean, it's so interesting. I mean, there is. 0:05:22.657 --> 0:05:25.537 It is an interesting thing. They've gone through so much. 0:05:25.657 --> 0:05:29.537 Think about a country that was completely attacked for centuries 0:05:29.697 --> 0:05:33.177 and they've somehow maintained and were at some point the 0:05:33.497 --> 0:05:36.737 greatest empire in the world until you know, we came 0:05:36.777 --> 0:05:40.297 along and destroyed them in seventeen seventy six. 0:05:40.617 --> 0:05:42.217 But there is a lot of history there. 0:05:42.217 --> 0:05:46.457 So I understand why Americans are so enthralled with not 0:05:46.497 --> 0:05:48.177 only the history, but then the magic. 0:05:47.977 --> 0:05:49.777 Of the You're one of them. 0:05:49.937 --> 0:05:53.337 You buy into this whole royal family, this this whole 0:05:53.457 --> 0:05:56.497 fable of I mean, it's a mean look at some 0:05:56.537 --> 0:05:59.177 of the royals. You go back the last I don't know, 0:05:59.217 --> 0:06:01.417 the last one hundred years or so. You had the 0:06:01.457 --> 0:06:04.737 abdication king, right, the guy who stepped down who was 0:06:04.817 --> 0:06:08.457 the brother of the guy who was stuttering, and then 0:06:08.457 --> 0:06:10.697 we had the whole movie about how he overcame his stutter. 0:06:11.737 --> 0:06:13.937 I had a speech impedant as a child, So I'm 0:06:13.977 --> 0:06:15.657 sort of like, yeah, a lot of us overcome stutters. 0:06:15.697 --> 0:06:16.977 I don't know, it doesn't mean that you're like a 0:06:16.977 --> 0:06:20.377 global hero, but anyway, so we have we have that 0:06:20.417 --> 0:06:22.537 guy who we find out is actually a Nazi, not 0:06:22.617 --> 0:06:26.097 the stutterer, but the guy who abdicated. He's a Nazi 0:06:26.177 --> 0:06:29.017 sympathizer who wanted the Nazis to put him in charge 0:06:29.017 --> 0:06:31.697 if they were able to super piece with the British. 0:06:31.777 --> 0:06:36.577 And then you have Prince Andrew, who we know not good, 0:06:36.977 --> 0:06:40.137 not good, what's going on there he's in And then 0:06:40.137 --> 0:06:41.577 there are a lot of people that's I don't even follow 0:06:41.617 --> 0:06:43.457 the Charles and Diana stuff. I mean, he didn't do 0:06:43.497 --> 0:06:45.777 anything like criminal or awful or he's not a trader 0:06:45.817 --> 0:06:48.417 from what I understand, But I don't know. I just 0:06:48.417 --> 0:06:51.137 feel like these people are are to your point, yeah, 0:06:51.177 --> 0:06:54.137 Buckingham Palace, keep it as a museum, sure, but do 0:06:54.177 --> 0:06:57.777 we need people walking around as museum pieces with everyone 0:06:57.817 --> 0:06:59.657 acting like we should listen to what they have to 0:06:59.697 --> 0:07:02.577 say like, I don't care what any of these under 0:07:02.777 --> 0:07:06.177 educated trust fund babies have to say about anything in 0:07:06.177 --> 0:07:08.737 the British Royal family. And I give you Megan Markle 0:07:08.857 --> 0:07:10.937 as my final, my final addition to this. 0:07:12.097 --> 0:07:15.217 You know, she ruined that, she ruined the royal family. 0:07:15.257 --> 0:07:19.417 For me, I will say, loved the Tutor era, loved 0:07:19.577 --> 0:07:21.617 you know, Queen Elizabeth. I first, I think there's a lot 0:07:21.697 --> 0:07:25.177 to learn from all of their faults in a lot 0:07:25.217 --> 0:07:27.657 of ways, but there was also again history, I mean 0:07:27.897 --> 0:07:30.697 when you look at something like the Tutor dynasty, I 0:07:30.737 --> 0:07:32.057 mean they changed history. 0:07:32.417 --> 0:07:33.777 Henry the eighth broke. 0:07:33.577 --> 0:07:37.977 Off from the Catholic Church, divorced his wife, and that's 0:07:38.057 --> 0:07:42.137 arguably what created, you know, a sector of Christianity to 0:07:42.337 --> 0:07:43.697 that eventually came to our country. 0:07:43.777 --> 0:07:46.337 So there's a lot I think. I think I do 0:07:46.417 --> 0:07:46.897 agree with. 0:07:47.217 --> 0:07:50.857 I chopped off some of his wife's heads. You know, 0:07:50.897 --> 0:07:54.817 we have a church founded on the family values. As 0:07:54.897 --> 0:07:56.777 Hitchins used to say of Henry the Eighth, it's probably 0:07:56.817 --> 0:07:59.497 not a good thing, you know. That's that's pretty intense. 0:07:59.537 --> 0:08:01.817 Like I've seen some arguments, and I've seen some rough 0:08:01.817 --> 0:08:05.537 divorces from Afar, but but sending your wife to the 0:08:05.537 --> 0:08:09.577 guillotine is or you know, to the headsman's acts. That's 0:08:10.497 --> 0:08:12.977 I mean, it's history. You're right, it's fascinating as history, 0:08:13.017 --> 0:08:14.737 don't get me wrong. But I don't know if like 0:08:14.777 --> 0:08:18.577 the Church of England is something that is uh, it's 0:08:18.617 --> 0:08:20.457 really more of a social club. Now, let's be honest, 0:08:20.457 --> 0:08:23.097 like the Anglican Church. It's my dad is an Anglican. 0:08:23.137 --> 0:08:24.417 So I can say this. It's like, give me a 0:08:24.457 --> 0:08:28.057 break the whole thing, you know, just be Catholics and 0:08:28.097 --> 0:08:30.657 give it and give it a rest. So all right, 0:08:30.697 --> 0:08:32.937 so we don't agree on the British royal family. That's 0:08:32.937 --> 0:08:35.337 one thing I'm gonna need you to explain then to me, 0:08:36.817 --> 0:08:39.777 because you are you are barely a millennial, right, you're 0:08:39.817 --> 0:08:42.217 almost gen Z, but you're a millennial where you're like 0:08:43.137 --> 0:08:43.657 you're like a. 0:08:44.497 --> 0:08:48.337 I think I'm ten Z. Yes, no, I'm a I'm 0:08:48.337 --> 0:08:49.377 a full out millennial. 0:08:49.497 --> 0:08:51.217 You're a full millennial. Okay, I thought you were like 0:08:51.257 --> 0:08:53.697 customer millennial gen z. All right, Well you can explain 0:08:53.697 --> 0:08:54.257 the tailor. 0:08:54.097 --> 0:08:57.017 St today It's okay, there we go. 0:08:57.497 --> 0:08:59.137 You can explain the how do you have to how 0:08:59.137 --> 0:09:00.457 old do you have to be to run for Congress? 0:09:00.497 --> 0:09:01.337 Isn't it twenty five? 0:09:01.857 --> 0:09:02.097 Right? 0:09:02.177 --> 0:09:03.057 It is twenty five? 0:09:03.177 --> 0:09:07.417 Yes, see yeah, so see you could have Caroline Leavitt, 0:09:07.457 --> 0:09:09.097 I think ram when she was twenty six up in 0:09:09.097 --> 0:09:11.017 New Hampshire and now she probably going to be Trump's 0:09:11.017 --> 0:09:14.057 White House Press secretary. So you know, yeah, there's that. 0:09:15.137 --> 0:09:16.977 I got to talk about a sponsor. He for a second, 0:09:17.017 --> 0:09:19.337 we come back that you can explain why people So 0:09:19.417 --> 0:09:21.337 you just tried to tell me that the British royal 0:09:21.377 --> 0:09:23.457 family Americans are allowed to be obsessed with it because 0:09:23.497 --> 0:09:26.217 of history, and I'm sitting here like, okay, what I mean? 0:09:26.377 --> 0:09:28.737 We could go We could go many rounds on this one. 0:09:28.777 --> 0:09:31.217 I want to know why people should care about Taylor Swift, 0:09:31.257 --> 0:09:34.817 Travis Kelce and the conspiracies that were around this for 0:09:34.857 --> 0:09:37.377 a while that we're floating around. Do you buy into 0:09:37.377 --> 0:09:39.137 any of them? Also, we'll ask you about UFOs and 0:09:39.177 --> 0:09:42.217 JFK since Front conspiracies if we have time. 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A Taylor Swift fan? 0:10:43.337 --> 0:10:46.537 Is that something that we would say explain to explain yourself? 0:10:47.697 --> 0:10:52.497 Absolutely not, And I'm appalled by the women in my generation. 0:10:52.657 --> 0:10:54.457 That are so obsessed. 0:10:55.297 --> 0:11:00.057 She's like a cult leader for millennial women all the 0:11:00.097 --> 0:11:02.577 way down to I mean even younger. There's you know, 0:11:03.017 --> 0:11:04.777 seventy eight year olds that are obsessed with there as 0:11:04.857 --> 0:11:07.577 much as thirty thirty five year old women are. I 0:11:07.737 --> 0:11:11.697 don't understand it. I do not understand it. I am 0:11:11.737 --> 0:11:15.617 not a Swiftie by any means, and I'm sad that 0:11:15.657 --> 0:11:20.257 this is what, you know, America's culture has turned into. 0:11:20.337 --> 0:11:24.337 You know, I'm a Stevie Nick Scalp, you know, I was. 0:11:25.177 --> 0:11:28.057 My heart was born in the seventies, and I just 0:11:28.177 --> 0:11:31.897 do not understand the obsession with with Taylor Swift nowadays. 0:11:31.897 --> 0:11:32.537 I don't get it. 0:11:33.257 --> 0:11:36.577 But it seems like adults even are are asking all 0:11:36.577 --> 0:11:39.777 these questions about Travis Kelsey, whom I only know of 0:11:39.857 --> 0:11:42.737 now apparently he's very good at football. I only know 0:11:42.777 --> 0:11:44.977 about him because of this Taylor Swift phenomenon because I'm 0:11:44.977 --> 0:11:48.937 trying to read the news for adults, and the number 0:11:49.017 --> 0:11:50.937 one thing this is why, like, you know what, You're 0:11:50.977 --> 0:11:55.017 actually helping me illuminate something that I've just figured out 0:11:55.017 --> 0:11:57.377 about myself. I like the Daily Mail a lot, but 0:11:57.457 --> 0:11:59.377 the thing that drives me nuts about the Daily Mail 0:11:59.497 --> 0:12:02.097 as a news source is there's all this crap about 0:12:02.137 --> 0:12:03.577 Megan and Harry, you know. 0:12:03.737 --> 0:12:06.497 Harry, who's just like, I'll just do whatever Mugan says. 0:12:07.017 --> 0:12:10.897 Mgan wolves you know, he's the most boring buffoon the planet. 0:12:11.097 --> 0:12:13.457 And we just want to privacy. That's why we're doing 0:12:13.497 --> 0:12:15.297 interviews because of privacy. Uh. 0:12:15.577 --> 0:12:18.737 And then you've got all these celebrity you know, these 0:12:18.737 --> 0:12:21.617 celebrity things like the tailors. So it's I open daily mail. 0:12:21.657 --> 0:12:23.417 I'm looking for their good news, and what they give 0:12:23.457 --> 0:12:25.177 me is a lot of stuff about Taylor Swift and 0:12:25.297 --> 0:12:29.617 the British royal family. Why why is it? The people 0:12:29.657 --> 0:12:32.177 don't realize it is a It is a giant waste 0:12:32.177 --> 0:12:34.097 of time, and people probably tell me it's wasted time 0:12:34.097 --> 0:12:36.137 for me even talk about it now, But it got 0:12:36.177 --> 0:12:38.777 so much attention that I'm this is cathartic for me. 0:12:39.257 --> 0:12:42.017 Why do people waste their time caring about celebrities personal lives? 0:12:42.337 --> 0:12:44.617 This I've honestly never understood this at all. Like I 0:12:44.657 --> 0:12:47.537 don't really get it who someone is dating or whatever. Yeah, 0:12:47.537 --> 0:12:48.897 I wish them well, it's great. I hope they are 0:12:48.937 --> 0:12:50.537 like very happy, get married and have lots of kids. 0:12:51.497 --> 0:12:54.577 Why does what explain like to me? Where this comes from? 0:12:54.617 --> 0:12:56.657 This desire to like dig into the relationship. 0:12:56.737 --> 0:12:58.377 Is it real? Is it just for the cameras? 0:13:00.017 --> 0:13:04.177 Yeah, I honestly think it began in the Kardashian reality 0:13:04.297 --> 0:13:07.057 TV era, and I do believe that, you know, Rai 0:13:07.177 --> 0:13:12.377 Dalio a long time said that for so long it 0:13:12.417 --> 0:13:16.737 was never culture, never ran politics, and now it's the opposite. 0:13:16.817 --> 0:13:20.417 We're living in a time where all of these cultural things, 0:13:20.457 --> 0:13:23.217 you know, Taylor Swift now, how she's involved with, you know, 0:13:23.257 --> 0:13:24.177 supporting Biden. 0:13:24.337 --> 0:13:30.697 It's like the somewhere along the way that impacted our 0:13:30.737 --> 0:13:32.817 culture and now it's flitting into our politics. 0:13:33.177 --> 0:13:35.977 But I believe that it's just because we're living in 0:13:36.017 --> 0:13:40.057 this reality TV era where you know, we don't have 0:13:40.297 --> 0:13:43.577 people that are talking about the substantive issues. I mean, 0:13:43.617 --> 0:13:46.057 you are, and there are others in you know, our 0:13:46.817 --> 0:13:49.337 our lane of things that want to talk about things 0:13:49.377 --> 0:13:52.737 that matter, but we've just become so dumbed down as 0:13:52.777 --> 0:13:56.657 a society. And unfortunately, I'm embarrassed that a lot of 0:13:56.737 --> 0:13:59.697 you know, women are kind of that's all that they 0:13:59.737 --> 0:14:02.737 want to talk about instead of talking about ideas or 0:14:03.177 --> 0:14:06.497 philosophy or history or you know, politics and things like that. 0:14:06.537 --> 0:14:09.417 And we're just so this it's again, it's they make 0:14:09.537 --> 0:14:11.577 so much more money off of it though too. I mean, 0:14:11.617 --> 0:14:14.417 think about how much money Taylor Swift made off of 0:14:15.097 --> 0:14:18.217 all of these concerts and these women, these women being 0:14:18.217 --> 0:14:21.817 obsessed with her and now with her relationship. I believe 0:14:21.857 --> 0:14:25.017 that it started because of the reality TV era, that 0:14:25.297 --> 0:14:28.857 once we broke that you know, the proverbial what do 0:14:28.897 --> 0:14:29.697 they say that, not. 0:14:29.577 --> 0:14:32.217 The invisible hand, but that in a theater. 0:14:33.017 --> 0:14:38.417 Well, yes, once we broke that in reality TV, it 0:14:38.497 --> 0:14:42.857 completely changed the game. And unfortunately, I don't know if 0:14:42.897 --> 0:14:45.897 we can go back. You know, you don't see as 0:14:45.937 --> 0:14:48.657 much reality TV going on, and I guess people still 0:14:48.697 --> 0:14:50.937 care about relationships and things like that, but now it's 0:14:50.977 --> 0:14:52.737 just in your face all the time. 0:14:53.417 --> 0:14:57.897 Well, I would understand it if people were generally rooting 0:14:58.417 --> 0:15:01.777 for others to be happy, but obviously that's asking way 0:15:01.777 --> 0:15:03.657 too much because people like to revel in the misery 0:15:03.657 --> 0:15:06.577 of others. Let's actually talk about social media a second, 0:15:06.577 --> 0:15:09.337 because did you see on Capitol Hill I think it 0:15:09.377 --> 0:15:12.337 was a week ago all these members of Congress were like, 0:15:12.417 --> 0:15:15.737 I want accountability for Facebook, and they're like yelling about 0:15:15.737 --> 0:15:17.017 all this stuff. Do you know what I'm talking about? 0:15:17.057 --> 0:15:18.697 This just you might've been in the UK when this 0:15:18.737 --> 0:15:20.817 was going on. But this was the big thing was 0:15:20.817 --> 0:15:23.737 they were having and then then they have. Mark Zuckerberg 0:15:23.937 --> 0:15:26.537 was like okay, I'm like really sorry and we're you know, 0:15:26.977 --> 0:15:29.737 and no, Mark Zuckerberg's worth like eighty billion dollars more 0:15:29.737 --> 0:15:31.377 this week than he was last week, Like none of this. 0:15:31.737 --> 0:15:33.897 Let's talk about the social media stuff here in a second. 0:15:33.897 --> 0:15:35.697 You can agree with me, but I'm gonna let you 0:15:35.777 --> 0:15:39.097 think about this one. People that talk about banning TikTok, 0:15:39.657 --> 0:15:41.697 this is just like red meat that's fed. No one 0:15:41.697 --> 0:15:43.537 ever thinks this through. You're not going to ban TikTok. 0:15:43.577 --> 0:15:46.417 It doesn't actually do anything. 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Does you know? 0:17:02.337 --> 0:17:04.217 I was looking at a lot of these studies to 0:17:04.297 --> 0:17:09.137 bring up you know, women again, it studies show that 0:17:09.177 --> 0:17:14.177 it's actually made women more depressed, particularly liberal women, because 0:17:14.217 --> 0:17:18.497 they are actually on social media more than conservative women are. 0:17:19.177 --> 0:17:24.137 And I do believe that it is making us dumber, 0:17:25.137 --> 0:17:26.177 more sadder. 0:17:27.017 --> 0:17:31.777 Unfortunately, it's just you know, it's just destroying relationships. 0:17:31.937 --> 0:17:33.217 It's just a distraction. 0:17:34.177 --> 0:17:36.977 And I know it's so important because in this age 0:17:37.017 --> 0:17:40.017 of communication, and it's amazing that you can have this 0:17:40.177 --> 0:17:44.297 medium to you know, share your life or even you know, 0:17:44.297 --> 0:17:46.657 speak with others or remember when Facebook first came out, 0:17:46.697 --> 0:17:49.097 how great that was to reconnect with people and all 0:17:49.097 --> 0:17:52.777 of that. But I think unfortunately it's gotten so big 0:17:52.897 --> 0:17:56.057 to the point where it's just eating everybody. I mean, 0:17:56.057 --> 0:17:59.257 it's just it's a part of everybody's life, and we're 0:17:59.537 --> 0:18:02.937 I think we're taking away from human connection, We're taking 0:18:02.977 --> 0:18:06.817 away from the realities of life, and it's unfortunately, I believe, 0:18:06.977 --> 0:18:08.737 really impacting people's mental health. 0:18:08.777 --> 0:18:10.617 But everybody has a choice, you know, you have the 0:18:10.697 --> 0:18:11.057 choice to. 0:18:11.857 --> 0:18:14.537 Be on social media or spend eight hours a day 0:18:14.577 --> 0:18:19.497 on it or not. And so I think it's it's 0:18:19.497 --> 0:18:22.897 amazing what technology has become. But I do believe that 0:18:22.937 --> 0:18:26.537 it's to the detriment of a human I don't want 0:18:26.537 --> 0:18:30.697 to say psychology, but I guess human psychology. 0:18:30.817 --> 0:18:33.617 So they keep telling us that they want to ban TikTok, 0:18:33.657 --> 0:18:36.017 but they never ban TikTok. Right, this is something that's 0:18:36.057 --> 0:18:39.817 bipartisan now to from members of Congress. I actually think 0:18:39.857 --> 0:18:42.137 that a lot of the time, when you have congressional 0:18:42.177 --> 0:18:45.937 agreement on something that's at issue, it's something to be 0:18:46.457 --> 0:18:49.417 like wary of. You're like, oh, these guys all agree. 0:18:49.497 --> 0:18:52.217 Something's up, like they're they're getting kickbacks, or there's something 0:18:52.617 --> 0:18:54.377 to see. There's something that they don't want you to 0:18:54.377 --> 0:18:56.737 see here. And I've been saying that they're not going 0:18:56.817 --> 0:18:59.257 to do it because here's here's my theory, okay, and 0:18:59.297 --> 0:19:01.097 you can agree or disagree with me, but this is 0:19:01.177 --> 0:19:04.297 but agreeing with me Catalina just means you're a brilliant 0:19:04.337 --> 0:19:06.017 person of excellent judgment. So I'm going to throw that 0:19:06.057 --> 0:19:08.697 out there. They say that they want to get rid 0:19:08.697 --> 0:19:11.417 of TikTok, and it's because they want to show, like, 0:19:11.417 --> 0:19:15.697 teach China lesson. I'm sitting here like China is engaged 0:19:15.697 --> 0:19:19.297 in the most sophisticated hacking operations and has been for 0:19:19.337 --> 0:19:21.777 twenty years in the history of the planet, stealing all 0:19:21.897 --> 0:19:25.577 kinds of sensitive information from companies, from government agencies, from everything. 0:19:26.937 --> 0:19:30.097 There's so much that's going on that people aren't even 0:19:30.137 --> 0:19:32.577 aware of in terms of corporate espionage, all the rest 0:19:32.577 --> 0:19:35.337 of it. The idea that China is going to be 0:19:35.417 --> 0:19:39.217 some power that will displace us because they know that 0:19:39.297 --> 0:19:43.497 I like to watch gun, red meat and puppy videos 0:19:43.977 --> 0:19:46.457 on my phone is absurd to me. I know, they 0:19:46.537 --> 0:19:48.457 keep saying, oh, they're going to have all your data, 0:19:49.017 --> 0:19:52.017 like I wouldn't use a Chinese based chat app. And 0:19:52.097 --> 0:19:54.337 I know some people are because people can see that. 0:19:54.377 --> 0:19:56.097