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Speaker 1: Make no mistake, America, You're a great American Again. The

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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show begins. No Happy Friday, America. Michael Palka

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Speaker 1: and from my friend Buck Sexton. Happy to be here,

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Speaker 1: thrilled to be As a matter of fact, I've missed

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Speaker 1: you guys, and we have a lot to talk about.

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Speaker 1: Want you want to talk about an overabundance of topics

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Speaker 1: There's insanity out there. There is serious topic overload. There's

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Speaker 1: would love to hear from all of you. If you're

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Speaker 1: not familiar with me, Bucks sometimes refers to me as

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Speaker 1: the Godfather, not the godfather there from the Mario Puozzo

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Speaker 1: old school, So that kind of godfather A little different there,

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Speaker 1: very different thinking. But if you remember me from the Blaze, Radio, etc.

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Speaker 1: still out there at Puropelca dot com, but for tonight.

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Speaker 1: I'm here and I'm back. I'm happy to be with you.

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Speaker 1: We also have some special guests joining us tonight next hour.

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Speaker 1: The One, the Only, Shannon Bream is going to join us.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna pick her brain on her new book, and

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Speaker 1: we're also going to see if she'll give us a

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Speaker 1: on the Fox News Channel. Buck's been on there a

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Speaker 1: lot lately, I think so much To get to tonight,

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Speaker 1: Big Brother via China is officially creeping into millions and

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Speaker 1: millions and millions of cars all around the globe. This

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Speaker 1: is a big deal. China has purchased the Volvo car company.

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Speaker 1: Happened a while ago, and in doing so, they have

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Speaker 1: And they've also realized that that's a way to get

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Speaker 1: is how China is controlling its people. If you get

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Speaker 1: this country, life becomes more difficult. It becomes harder for

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Speaker 1: So China is doing this. Now, that's not going to

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Speaker 1: he said, Russia's got to get out. And the press said, well,

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Speaker 1: And I'm sitting here a red faced as John and

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Speaker 1: the guys in the studio are saying, you know, you

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Speaker 1: read the phone number wrong, dummy. The dummy was implied.

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Speaker 1: then for the people who don't have the alpha numeric

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Speaker 1: the law be enforced as it's meant to be, which

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Speaker 1: I guess the answer. But you bring up the residual

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Speaker 1: effect this will have on his residuals, I guess is

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Speaker 1: what I'm looking at. It already appears that Empire is

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Speaker 1: coming back for another season, but Inside Money says no

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Speaker 1: Jussie on the show. I wonder how they get rid

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Speaker 1: of his character? Well, yeah, where do they like? How

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Speaker 1: somebody else to play the character they write about? I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's such an interesting it's such an interesting question. You know,

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Speaker 1: you just feel so bad for this entire process. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's just so many people that have been victimized by

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Speaker 1: this allegedly false claim. And I mean I say that

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Speaker 1: because I don't know anybody that believes that that actually happened,

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Speaker 1: only because the investigation was so thorough. As a prosecutor,

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Speaker 1: you know, you and I have talked about this before

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Speaker 1: the amount of time, talent, and resources that were diverted

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Speaker 1: to chase down these leads when they could have been used,

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Speaker 1: you know, more effectively fighting crime in the Chicago's got

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Speaker 1: a terrible crime problem, and in every big city does.

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Speaker 1: Those hours lost can never be repaid unless Jesse agrees

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Speaker 1: to work over the one hundred and thirty grand, which

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Speaker 1: he won't because that would be an admission of guilt.

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Speaker 1: So that really the balls in the court of the

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Speaker 1: city to see if they're actually going to follow through

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Speaker 1: with that investigation. But the social damage is already done,

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Speaker 1: and the political damage is already done. What Hollywood is

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Speaker 1: going to do, as you phrased your very insightful question,

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Speaker 1: is I would say anybody's guest, but I think we

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Speaker 1: can probably guess they're not going to re embrace Jesse

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Speaker 1: with open arms. He have to find another position if

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Speaker 1: he wants to continue to work in that town. Wow,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to go from seventy thousand dollars an episode too.

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Speaker 1: We need somebody to carry the coffee into the craft

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Speaker 1: services table. Oh, that could hurt. He apologizes, Mike. He

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Speaker 1: apologizes if he did this, and he is as he's forgiven.

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Speaker 1: We are a culture of forgiveness. If he apologizes, he's forgiven,

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Speaker 1: he could actually make a comeback. Why do I say that,

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Speaker 1: We've seen other celebrities do it so, but it would

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Speaker 1: have that that's something he might have to strategize with

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Speaker 1: this lawyers, that they decide to go that route. That

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Speaker 1: would be one way to make a comeback, maybe even

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Speaker 1: keep his character. I don't know. I'm the eternal optimist.

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Speaker 1: I mean forgiveness is extending grace, and that's what we

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Speaker 1: do as human beings. Don't we extend grace, We understand,

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Speaker 1: we forgive. If somebody is contrite, expresses remorse and expresses

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Speaker 1: an apology, well that's the advice I would give him.

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Speaker 1: And that's the ice from Wendy Patrick, or at least

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Speaker 1: an explanation of what Jesse might do. Wendy Patrick, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much, my friend. Appreciate you being there. Love

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Speaker 1: the clarity, and I love the compassion because without it,

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Speaker 1: we're just animals and we need to we need to

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Speaker 1: latch onto the compassion. So thank you. My friend Amen

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Speaker 1: always loves to mix it up. Thanks Mike, and there

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Speaker 1: she goes. I'm a big fan of Wendy stuff. So

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Speaker 1: if you want to know what she's up to. Wendy

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Speaker 1: Patrick PhD dot com. This is going to be one

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Speaker 1: to watch. This guy is probably going to be radioactive

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Speaker 1: in Hollywood for a while until he does what Wendy

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Speaker 1: suggested he'd do. I think I have time to grab

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Speaker 1: a quick call before we go to break. Larry is

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Speaker 1: on the phone in Ohio. Larry, Welcome to the Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show. I'm sorry I had to hold nun, but

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Speaker 1: you know, I only get so much time with the prosecutor.

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Speaker 1: I got to get her when I can. Hey, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you got eb a hour. That's right, You're absolutely right,

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Speaker 1: and then most of the attorneys you get that quarter

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Speaker 1: hour and you've got to maximize it. So Buck was

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Speaker 1: down at the border. Well you're you're welcome, sir. You

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Speaker 1: know I read Buck's Facebook post yesterday about visiting the

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Speaker 1: border and he went to a section of the border

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Speaker 1: that I also visited during twenty fourteen in the summer

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Speaker 1: when we had that big wave come through, and he

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Speaker 1: said that he watched the border guards, the border patrol

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Speaker 1: arrests two people coming in and it turns out they

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Speaker 1: were from Qubating. Yeah, so you have a thought on

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Speaker 1: the border and the President. Well, yeah, Mike, I heard

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Speaker 1: the last couple of days the President as indicated he

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Speaker 1: may shut down the border between US in Mexico, which

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Speaker 1: I agree with him, but I think it'd be does

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Speaker 1: it should be a complete shut down, not just for

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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants, for air traffic, train traffic, and most of

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Speaker 1: all mail service. There's millions of dollars mailed from US

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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants to their homes in Mexico. You're right, I would.

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Speaker 1: I would shut it down completely. Take a division of

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Speaker 1: troops from Fort Hood, division of Marines from Camp Pendleton

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Speaker 1: and shut that thing down completely and hit them right

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Speaker 1: in the belly, mainly financially, no banking transactions. Well, that

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Speaker 1: that brings Larry, I'm up against a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a wall here. You bring up a really radical but

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Speaker 1: you know it's not implausible solution. You just have to

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Speaker 1: make sure you're not preventing medicine or vital resources from

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Speaker 1: getting back and forth. And it's one I'm sure the

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Speaker 1: administration's investigating. We've got more to talk about today, a

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Speaker 1: lot more to talk about it. I found out about

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Speaker 1: Buck's gripe on the robocalls, and we all get them.

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Speaker 1: I've had a bunch but I reached out to the

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Speaker 1: FCC and talked to the big man a cheat pie

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Speaker 1: about it. We'll get to that tonight. You want to

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Speaker 1: call in and join the conversation. Eight four four nine

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Speaker 1: hundred Buck eight four four nine two eight two five

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Speaker 1: on The Buck Sexton Show. Michael Pelka in for Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton on this Friday night, and Wow, the time is

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Speaker 1: rocking and flying. I'm excited about that. But there's so

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Speaker 1: much more going on. We were talking briefly about the

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Speaker 1: border just before the break, and there is great concern

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Speaker 1: at the border now, not just because we're currently overwhelmed.

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Speaker 1: Our border patrol is overwhelmed, and they've said it. They've

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Speaker 1: told the President. The Department of Homeland Security is saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: mister President, we're in deep trouble here. We got big problems,

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Speaker 1: and now there is a caravan approaching us that is

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Speaker 1: the biggest caravan ever. So what are we going to do?

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Speaker 1: What are we going to do, mister President? Maybe the

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Speaker 1: answer is to temporarily close the border. Maybe maybe not.

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Speaker 1: We'll discuss. Michael Pelka on the Buck Sexton Show, coming

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Speaker 1: up next hour. I forgot to tell you, coming up

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Speaker 1: next hour, Buck was griping about all the robocalls he

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Speaker 1: gets on his phone. I get him too, you get

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Speaker 1: him too. So I reached out to a Jeet Pie

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Speaker 1: at the FCC, yeah, head guy, and he talked to

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Speaker 1: me about it. I'll tell you what he's doing. I'll

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Speaker 1: let him tell you what he's doing. And you've seen

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Speaker 1: Buck on TV with Shannon Bream on Fox. One of

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Speaker 1: my favorite people in the whole wide world is Shannon Bream.

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Speaker 1: While I reached out to Shannon and said, hey, Buck's

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Speaker 1: been on your show. Why did you come on Buck

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Speaker 1: show with me? So next hour, my friend, my buddy

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Speaker 1: Fox anchor Shannon Bream will join us, and you're welcome

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Speaker 1: to eight four four nine hundred Buck eight four four

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Speaker 1: nine hundred two eight two five The Buck Sexton Show

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Speaker 1: with Michael Pelka sitting in. Come on back, Michael Pelka

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Speaker 1: here for Buck Sexton on this Friday night. Happy to

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Speaker 1: be here, thrilled to be here. My friend Buck taking

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Speaker 1: a day out. He's been working like a dog, he's

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Speaker 1: been everywhere, and he got a little testy, I know,

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Speaker 1: over the robocalls. I'll play for you, Mike. Conversation with

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Speaker 1: the FCC chief a Jeet Pie because I was getting

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Speaker 1: the same number of calls. It's driving me nuts. And

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Speaker 1: I reached out and said, you've got to be doing

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Speaker 1: something somebody in Washington. Now that we've kind of got

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Speaker 1: control of the FCC, somebody's got to be doing something.

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Speaker 1: So we'll talk with a Jeet Pie shortly, or you'll

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Speaker 1: hear my conversation with him. You can't talk to him, well,

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Speaker 1: maybe you can. Maybe you're a neighbor anyway, if you

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Speaker 1: want to discuss anything with me on the program tonight

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Speaker 1: eight four four nine hundred buck eight four four nine

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Speaker 1: hundred two eight two five. I just talked with a

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Speaker 1: buddy mine who's listening in Dallas. Happens to be a

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Speaker 1: movie critic and checked in in the break and said,

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Speaker 1: you know, Dumbo. You may not want to bother with Dumbo.

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Speaker 1: And I'm kind of bummed about this because new movie

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Speaker 1: coming out, Tim Burton directing a lot five action version

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Speaker 1: of Dumbo with computerization. Of course you don't have flying elephants,

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Speaker 1: but you have flying animated elephants that look like real elephants.

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Speaker 1: And Danny de Vito said the whole thing, said you

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Speaker 1: may want to skip this one. And the review that

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Speaker 1: my reviewer friend quoted was from a colleague who said,

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Speaker 1: the best way to understand Dumbo, which is two hours

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Speaker 1: and ten minutes long. How many kids are gonna sit

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Speaker 1: through a two hour and ten minute movie. I feel

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Speaker 1: bad for the parents who bring a bunch of kids

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Speaker 1: to see a movie which PG. Thirteen, which means it's

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Speaker 1: probably got some little bit action in it. A two

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Speaker 1: hour and ten minute movie. Parents with kids, how many

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Speaker 1: times are they going to have to get up and

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Speaker 1: leave go to the bathroom two hours and ten minutes.

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Speaker 1: That's just insensitive movie studio. You're not being smart for

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Speaker 1: your target audience. But Dumbo, I saw. I saw that

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Speaker 1: the trailer, and I was so excited because I love

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Speaker 1: Tim Burton movies. And now I'm thinking, I can't see this.

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Speaker 1: I can't say it if you've seen it already, if

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Speaker 1: you went out at lunch and you want to correct

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Speaker 1: this review which says more junk, less trunk, and there

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Speaker 1: apparently are some global things in their global governmental things

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Speaker 1: and environmental stuff, and it's also putting in the opinion,

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Speaker 1: the anti circus opinion. Nobody wants to see animals abused,

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Speaker 1: but we don't want to see it in a Disney classic.

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Speaker 1: My buddy said, if you want to see a circus movie,

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Speaker 1: go rent the one from a few years ago. I

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Speaker 1: think it had Hugh Jackman and it I didn't see it,

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Speaker 1: but that's out there. Also coming up this hour, bottom

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Speaker 1: of the hour, we're gonna talk with Shannon Bream from

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Speaker 1: Fox News. She has a book coming out, and I

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Speaker 1: am such a fan of Shannon Bream. I love. I

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Speaker 1: have a lot of good friends at Fox and some

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Speaker 1: of them are very powerful and opinionated, and they drive

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Speaker 1: a lot of their work based on opinion. Shannon Bream

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Speaker 1: is one of the pure journalists out there and I

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Speaker 1: think very respectful. So I'm excited to talk to her

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Speaker 1: this hour and we will get into a discussion with

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Speaker 1: her about a few things. Talk about the President too.

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Speaker 1: I want I want to know what she feels about

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Speaker 1: what he's up to, especially the rally that we saw

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Speaker 1: last night in Michigan. There's a big headline this evening

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Speaker 1: on Drudge that says federal spending the highest in a decade.

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Speaker 1: And that's true. We're spending a lot of money, and

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Speaker 1: that's one of those areas I wish we would get

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Speaker 1: our all of our politicians to control. We don't have

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Speaker 1: a revenue problem. We're bringing in revenue. Donald Trump's economy

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Speaker 1: is bringing in tax money, corporate tax money, because sales

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Speaker 1: are up even though they hut the corporate tax rate.

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Speaker 1: Guess what. Corporations can get more efficient and they sell

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Speaker 1: more stuff, and we're doing better in bringing in revenue.

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Speaker 1: But the revenue is not the problem. The problem is spending.

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Speaker 1: If you spend more than you make, you're going to

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Speaker 1: have a problem. So anybody who's got issues with the

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Speaker 1: deficit going up, do you have to look at federal

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Speaker 1: spending and federal spending the highest in a decade. And

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Speaker 1: I think we got to be honest about it. We

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Speaker 1: have to be honest with our politicians. If they're spending

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Speaker 1: too much money, we need them to dial it back.

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Speaker 1: We need them to calm down with the spending. But

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Speaker 1: guess who controls the spending right now? Oh? Gee, I

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Speaker 1: wonder who. I wonder who? Nancy Pelosi. Don't get me started, people,

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Speaker 1: don't get me started now. I asked a question on

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Speaker 1: Monday when we were talking about things. I asked a question.

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Speaker 1: Following the release of the Muller report to the Department

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Speaker 1: of Justice and to the Attorney General and his four

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Speaker 1: page summary, which basically told us there was no collusion

646
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Speaker 1: and the good news there there was no American involved

647
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: in the Russian attempts to mess with our election. No American,

648
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: which is great news for everybody. And why we're not

649
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 1: cheering that after all that time, I don't know. But

650
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: you've got Adam Schiff, whose name I really have a

651
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: hard time saying without turning it into something else. Adam

652
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 1: Schiff demanding, Nancy Pelosi demanding, Chuck Schumer demanding, Jerry Nadler

653
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: demanding that April second. They want that report, little mister.

654
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: They're demanding that report and all the underlying evidence, and

655
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: now we're hearing that maybe mid April. We will get

656
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 1: the report. Maybe mid April. I wonder if when you

657
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: hand over the report you'll also get an apology to

658
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:15,240
Speaker 1: the president. We should make that contingent upon the delivery

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00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: of the report. You want to copy the report. If

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00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: you called the president a Russian asset, you have to

661
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:27,360
Speaker 1: apologize first, and I think an apology is due. I

662
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 1: think an apology is definitely due. And the first thing

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00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: I thought of on Sunday when the report and the

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Speaker 1: summary converged on the media and caused the left side

665
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: of the media go apoplectic. I thought six hundred and

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00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: seventy five days and forty million dollars, six hundred and

667
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:52,919
Speaker 1: seventy five days and forty million dollars an untold media time.

668
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: Billions in media time was spent attacking the president, and

669
00:42:56,680 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 1: he attacked back. There's no harm in tecting yourself. But

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00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: it reminded me of a song from Rent, that big

671
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:10,280
Speaker 1: song of five twenty five hundred whatever minutes. I don't

672
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: know the musical. I only know the song because you've

673
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: heard it a million times, and so a buddy him

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00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: on and I wrote and produced a little parody song

675
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: from Rent and wanted to share it with you here.

676
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: It's called what about Trump? The Apology, because we believe

677
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: the president deserves an apology for the six hundred seventy

678
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: five days and forty million dollars that you and I

679
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 1: paid for, So let me share it with you right here.

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00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: It was a complete and total exoneration. The president is

681
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: the president of all Americans, and he's focused on doing

682
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: what is best for our country. The media saying the

683
00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: most horrible things about this president. Where was the apology?

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Speaker 1: Six hundred seventy five days in foy Mildi in the dolls,

685
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: six hundred seventy five days in mad and bus found

686
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:17,479
Speaker 1: six hundred seventy five days in ponty million dollars. How

687
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:25,400
Speaker 1: do you measure mensuras from coming to Brandon to stoke

688
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:31,800
Speaker 1: it to bid Rosenstein, Obama, mccaven, Chris the First Steve

689
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: six hundred seventy five days in Pony Mildi in the dolls?

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00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:59,919
Speaker 1: How do you MEASUREE? Measure about? What about? What a five?

691
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: The media theology? What about? It's a shame that our

692
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:21,240
Speaker 1: country had to go through this, and I never want

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00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,920
Speaker 1: this country to go through that again, that kind of

694
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 1: abusive power, with what appears to be a deep state

695
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: conspiracy that was forced on us by the mainstream media's

696
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 1: left side and by many inside the government. You know,

697
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: if Saturday Night Live can go after the president and

698
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 1: parody the president, I think we should be allowed to

699
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: go after the mainstream media and parody them. I hope

700
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: you appreciated our little effort there. It's not commercially available.

701
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: It's a parody. It's meant to mock the world and

702
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: what's going on. And I hope you can find it

703
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:04,399
Speaker 1: on Puropelca dot com. It's our musical response to that.

704
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 1: But mister President, I'm with you, there's no apology coming.

705
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:13,879
Speaker 1: But I think if if somebody would apologize, then when

706
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: Robert Barr turns over the copies of the report, once

707
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: you apologize, you get a copy. Once you apologize, you

708
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: get a copy. I think that's gonna be a very

709
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: short line from CNN and MSNBC. I'd love to see

710
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: Rachel Mattow apologizing and then getting her copy of the report.

711
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 1: You get a code that you can see it. With

712
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,440
Speaker 1: Michael Pelcas sitting in for Buck Sexton on this Friday night,

713
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 1: still to come, you're gonna hear what the chairman of

714
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 1: the FCC had to say when we asked him about

715
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 1: Buck's problem with robo calls and the one the Only.

716
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Speaker 1: Shannon Bream from Fox News joins us in just a

717
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Speaker 1: little bit on The Buck Sexton Show. Michael Pelka here

718
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,360
Speaker 1: on a Friday night on The Buck Sexton Show, enjoying

719
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Speaker 1: this audience, Always love this audience. You guys are smart,

720
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 1: and you keep me on track, and you bring up

721
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: topics that we need to delve into a little bit further.

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Speaker 1: Last hour, we talked with Attorney Prosecutor Wendy Patrick, and

723
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 1: she gives us an update on the Jesse Smollett story

724
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: and what could be coming down the pike for Jesse

725
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: because he's not free, he's not skipping down the road

726
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: going yeeha. And he also doesn't have a job. His

727
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 1: high paid gig is kind of gone. But there may

728
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: be more coming for Jesse and one of our friends

729
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: in Alabama. The name written here on my call screen

730
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,800
Speaker 1: says Enix. So I want to make sure we're getting

731
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Speaker 1: the name right. Enich says Jesse needs to be charged

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00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 1: with something else. Enix, am I getting your name correctly.

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Speaker 1: It's pronounced enich e in front of Niche. Oh Enoch, Yes, well,

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Speaker 1: welcome Nick. What part of Alabama? Mobile, Alabama, one of

735
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 1: the greatest places in the world. Is Winzel's Oyster Bar

736
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 1: still there? Oh? Yes, sir. I have to tell you people,

737
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:22,879
Speaker 1: if you are ever near Mobile, Alabama, you have to

738
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Speaker 1: experience something on the scale of Winzel's Oyster Bar. Giant operation.

739
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: They had a billboard that drew me in. It said fried,

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00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 1: stewed or nude, and you could get oysters just about

741
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 1: any way. I hope it's still great. Oh, it is

742
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: absolutely Well, that's good and good people in Alabama, Nick,

743
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 1: I know that, But do you think Jesse Smollett deserves

744
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:50,320
Speaker 1: to be charged with something else? Well, I had a question.

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00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 1: I didn't know if the crime of a hate crime

746
00:48:55,560 --> 00:49:02,320
Speaker 1: was only constituted with violence. Wikipedia says that it's anything

747
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: targeting a certain group of people that belong in a organization,

748
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 1: or if you target a group of people based on

749
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: their beliefs. So under that premise, it's his hopes was

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Speaker 1: a hate crime towards conservatives. Yeah, that's a that's an

751
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:24,760
Speaker 1: interesting interpretation. It might be a bit of a stretch,

752
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 1: a slight reach, but let's look at that. I don't

753
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:32,280
Speaker 1: think hate crimes will require violence. You can believe somebody

754
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:37,759
Speaker 1: you can do vandalism against someone's property and destroy property,

755
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: and if you do it with racial intent or that

756
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:45,440
Speaker 1: kind of hatred in your heart, that seems to me

757
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: to be a hate crime. But in the case of

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00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:53,879
Speaker 1: Jesse Smollett, let's consider that maybe. And the one thing

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00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: that keeps coming up is what this um, what this

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00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: hoax has done to real vic of hate crimes, What

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00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 1: this hoax has done to people who've been victimized because

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00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:08,400
Speaker 1: of their sexual orientation or because of their skin color,

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00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: and how it's going to hurt those folks and their

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00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: cases for getting justice. And I think that therein lies

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00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 1: the real problem with what Jesse Smollett did. He diminished

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Speaker 1: the actual crimes against real victims by doing this. But

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00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 1: what I think this is and now maybe we need

768
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 1: a new law here, Enich, maybe we've come up on something.

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Speaker 1: Could there be a self hate crime because it seems

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00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 1: to me that Jesse Smollett is a self hater, that

771
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: he did this whole thing. Well, we know why he

772
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: did it. He wanted to raise his stature at work

773
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:50,320
Speaker 1: and make this turn into his social currency, his popularity,

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Speaker 1: and he wanted to convert that into bigger stardom. It

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00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: wasn't enough. He was getting seventy grand a week or whatever.

776
00:50:57,480 --> 00:50:59,839
Speaker 1: It was somewhere between fifty and one hundred grand a week.

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00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:04,320
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I think he's got a big

778
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 1: tough road ahead of him because he's now he was

779
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 1: given the opportunity to be a star and it wasn't

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00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:17,479
Speaker 1: enough for him quickly enough, and he had to try

781
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: and go in and make something else out of it.

782
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: So I think he's going to pay for this for

783
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 1: a long long time. Were you a fan of the show,

784
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:32,320
Speaker 1: Not so much. I don't watch a lot of TV,

785
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: to be honest. I'll watch movies. But I have out

786
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: outside interests. Work, coffees, outdoor too. Yeah, I'm I'm addicted

787
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:45,399
Speaker 1: to golf, much to my wife's dismay. But if it's

788
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 1: warm enough for me to be out there and playing,

789
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:49,880
Speaker 1: even if I'm wearing gloves and a scarf and a

790
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: big jacket, I'm doing it. And I think everybody should

791
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: find time to get away from work and or a

792
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: lot of the politics in the news and broaden your perspective.

793
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:01,839
Speaker 1: You'll meet new people. But Enek, if I were in

794
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 1: the neighborhood, i'd meet you at the bar and we'd

795
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:06,799
Speaker 1: have a dozen oysters in a beer. But it's going

796
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 1: to have to be another night, my friend. Well, if

797
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: you're do visit Wensles again, try the West Indie Salad.

798
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: You won't be disappointed the West Indie Salad. So now

799
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,399
Speaker 1: we've got food recommendations. I love it. Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 1: You have a great evening. If you want to join

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00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: the conversation like Enok, you can eight four four nine

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Speaker 1: hundred buck eight four four nine hundred two eight two

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00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:31,480
Speaker 1: five still to come, just around the corners. A matter

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00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:36,839
Speaker 1: of fact, somebody I call friend and I've only talked

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00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:39,760
Speaker 1: to her in person a couple of times, but every

806
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:42,280
Speaker 1: time I reach out to her on social media directly,

807
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: she writes back. And I know that personally, she is

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00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:50,720
Speaker 1: one of the gems in our world. She's a decent

809
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 1: person in working in the crazy business we call show.

810
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 1: She is a journalist. Her name is Shannon Bream and

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00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: she's on five Monday through Friday in an anchor role

812
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 1: on a show that gets I think needs to get

813
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 1: a lot more love. And so we're gonna start with

814
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,279
Speaker 1: that tonight when we come back. We're going to talk

815
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 1: to Shannon. We're gonna talk about her book. We're going

816
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 1: to talk about the president. We're talking about what Robert

817
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:21,839
Speaker 1: Barr has told us about and we'll dive. We still

818
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,360
Speaker 1: have to get to the FCC chair and what he

819
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 1: said about Buck's problem with robocalls. I'll play you that

820
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 1: answer coming up too on the Buck Sexton Show. Well

821
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 1: that's not exactly one hundred percent true. The buck has

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Speaker 1: stopped for today, and I'm here Michael Pelka sitting in

823
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:45,320
Speaker 1: for my good friend Buck Sexton on The Buck Sexton

824
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Speaker 1: Show on this Friday evening. Happy to be here, thrilled

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00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 1: to be here, And I have to admit I'm just

826
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:55,720
Speaker 1: a little bulliant at the moment. I have a news

827
00:53:55,760 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 1: crush on our next guest, and she's somebody I appreciate

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00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:04,800
Speaker 1: the work she does. But because I've met her personally

829
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 1: and I know what kind of person she is, I

830
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 1: just like Shannon Bream and you know her from Fox

831
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 1: and watching her at night on Fox News Night every

832
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:23,400
Speaker 1: single night Monday through Friday. But I get to say, hello, friend,

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00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Oh, Mike, you know,

834
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,359
Speaker 1: the feeling is more than mutual. I am honored to

835
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 1: be with you. Well, you do so much in the

836
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: world of news that I marvel at because so many

837
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:41,959
Speaker 1: times we who work in the talk field or even

838
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:44,919
Speaker 1: in the news field get caught up with a lot

839
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:49,120
Speaker 1: of the divisiveness and a lot of the lack of congeniality.

840
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 1: And I think you can approach any subject with any

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00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 1: person on any side and make it civil, and I

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00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: really respect that. So I've listened you interview people from

843
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:04,880
Speaker 1: left and right, and I mean really far left, and

844
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 1: everybody seems to leave happy or at least feeling like

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00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 1: they got respected. So thank you for that. Oh, thank you, Mike.

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00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 1: You know I feel that, you know, it's sometimes fun

847
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:16,880
Speaker 1: to just let them go. When they get heated and

848
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: they're back and forth, it's kind of entertaining. But Michael

849
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: is really that people hear both sides or multiple sides

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00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:25,760
Speaker 1: if there are, because that's where your viewers learn something

851
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 1: and get information, and that's what we're supposed to be about. Yeah.

852
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 1: I agree, we're supposed to be. We don't always get there,

853
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:35,919
Speaker 1: but we're supposed to be. Now, before we get into

854
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 1: some of the newsy stuff, I have to tell you,

855
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:42,680
Speaker 1: I'm going to call the Attorney General's office and I'm

856
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 1: going to call Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff and what's

857
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:52,520
Speaker 1: his name, Nadler out from Long Island, and we're all

858
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 1: going to demand together that Finding the bright Side is

859
00:55:57,040 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 1: released before May fourteenth. We cannot We need full transparency

860
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 1: on the book. Why can't we get your new book

861
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:08,279
Speaker 1: before May fourteenth? That, as you know, publishers pick a

862
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:11,280
Speaker 1: date and that's the date. There are a few copies

863
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:15,880
Speaker 1: building around out there that has flipped through the gates

864
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:18,959
Speaker 1: of restriction. So there's a little bit out there, and

865
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to send one to you. Oh good,

866
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 1: So I can send it and talk to our secrets

867
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 1: and everything in it. Yeah, I know, I'll talk about

868
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: little hints to wet people's appetite. So what is the

869
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: book Finding the bright Side? The art of chasing what matters?

870
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:37,360
Speaker 1: From Shannon Brain? What are we looking at here? You know?

871
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:40,000
Speaker 1: What it really stemmed from. I would write a story

872
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 1: occasionally on my Facebook page about my family or something happened.

873
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:46,720
Speaker 1: I lost my wedding ring at one point for months,

874
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: and I told the story on Facebook of how I

875
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 1: found it after I had cried my eyes out and

876
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: it looked everywhere and finally gave up on it. And

877
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: it was such a fun, emotional, happy time for me

878
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:58,959
Speaker 1: when I found it. And I just went and poured

879
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 1: out the story on faceboo book, And I mean, that's

880
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 1: really what's kind of the start of this. I had

881
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,359
Speaker 1: a publisher company a couple of years ago and said,

882
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:08,480
Speaker 1: we like your stories, we like how you connect with people,

883
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:10,879
Speaker 1: and we'd like you to write a book. And I thought,

884
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 1: I don't know how to write a book. I'm not

885
00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:15,239
Speaker 1: an author. And I said well, how does this work.

886
00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 1: Do you match me up with somebody? And they said, no, no,

887
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 1: we like your voice. It's a little corny, it's really you,

888
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 1: and that's what we want you to do, to tell

889
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:25,600
Speaker 1: stories about your life. And I said, well, for me, really,

890
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 1: my face is the biggest cornerstone of my whole life

891
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: and if I can weave that through the book, and

892
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:31,600
Speaker 1: it's a big part of it, then I'd love to

893
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:35,040
Speaker 1: do it. And they said great. So it's there is

894
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:37,400
Speaker 1: definitely some newsy stuff in there, some behind the scenes

895
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 1: at the Supreme Court the first time I interviewed the President.

896
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 1: I mean, so there are newsy things there, but there

897
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:45,920
Speaker 1: are also things I think everybody can relate to, some

898
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:49,680
Speaker 1: really high highs and really low loads. I mean, terrible

899
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 1: points in my life and kind of how I leaned

900
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,919
Speaker 1: on my face and my family, my husband to get

901
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 1: through that. And I hope that it'll encourage people who

902
00:57:57,840 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 1: find themselves in a really tough spot or just make

903
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 1: them laugh, because I make fun of myself a lot

904
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:04,560
Speaker 1: in the book too. Well. I'm still trying to get

905
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 1: over the fact that your wedding ring was lost for

906
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:10,120
Speaker 1: what two months? You said, no, it was about six months.

907
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 1: Oh my god, can you imagine. I just can't imagine

908
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 1: had I lost my wedding ring, how my wife would

909
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:21,439
Speaker 1: react and how many times that would come up over

910
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 1: the course of six months. Yeah, I mean my husband.

911
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: I was so scared, and I wrote in the story

912
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 1: about how I didn't want to tell him because I

913
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 1: was personally so heartbroken that I could do something so stupid,

914
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 1: something that was listen, it's not worth a lot of money,

915
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 1: but it was worth everything to me. What's sentimental value?

916
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 1: And I was so scared. But when I finally got

917
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 1: my courage together up for a couple of weeks stating

918
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 1: and I can't find it, I was sobbing my eyes out,

919
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 1: and he was like, it's okay, it's a ring. It

920
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 1: doesn't represent you know, it's not our actual marriage. It is.

921
00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 1: Hang on one second, Shannon, we're getting a real weird connection.

922
00:58:57,240 --> 00:58:59,040
Speaker 1: Can we put you on hold for a second, just

923
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 1: reconnect real quickly. Okay, We're gonna try that. Shannon Bram

924
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 1: is telling you these incredible stories about her new book,

925
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 1: and I want to get into her show tonight too.

926
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:13,400
Speaker 1: So Finding the bright Side is her book, The Art

927
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 1: of Chasing What Matters and obviously, when she talks about

928
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:20,800
Speaker 1: her wedding ring, it's a big deal, and John and

929
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: the crew will tell me, I guess when we get

930
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 1: her back on the horn. Here it sounds like she

931
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:28,240
Speaker 1: was calling from a cave somewhere, and there were all

932
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:31,480
Speaker 1: kinds of static interferences. And I need to pick Shannon's

933
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:35,440
Speaker 1: brain on a couple of things here. So a little

934
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:40,360
Speaker 1: background on Shannon Bream and Michael Palka. We met on Amtrak.

935
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: For those of you who know my history from the

936
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 1: Blaze and the Blaze dot Com and the Radio, I

937
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 1: used to ride the Amtrak a couple times a week

938
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: and I ended up riding the train with Shannon and

939
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 1: back and forth to New York once from DC, and

940
00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:00,800
Speaker 1: we had a great conversation, and that where it started.

941
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:03,440
Speaker 1: And thankfully she's back with us. I didn't want to

942
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 1: miss that story of your husband's reaction to the ring,

943
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:10,600
Speaker 1: because it's so powerful. Well, I was so scared to

944
01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 1: tell him, and I was so mad at myself and

945
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:16,040
Speaker 1: just really heartbroken over it. But I finally after a

946
01:00:16,080 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, thought I can't tie this anymore. I'm

947
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 1: gonna have to tell him I can't find my ring.

948
01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:23,000
Speaker 1: And I was crying my eyes out and I said

949
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:25,000
Speaker 1: to him and he was just, you know, that was

950
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:27,880
Speaker 1: just a representation of our vows. It's not our actual marriage.

951
01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:31,280
Speaker 1: It's okay, it's just this thing, and it's all right,

952
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 1: we'll get you a new one. And it was such

953
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:36,120
Speaker 1: a huge relief to me, and wait off for my shoulders. Now,

954
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:38,360
Speaker 1: I was still really sad, and every time I thought

955
01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 1: about it, I got kind of choked up. But I'd

956
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:43,360
Speaker 1: finally sort of made peace with it, like, you know what,

957
01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:45,439
Speaker 1: and I even prayed. I said, you know what, Lord,

958
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:47,280
Speaker 1: if I've left it in a hotel room somewhere, because

959
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 1: I've been traveling a lot with the campaigns and stuff,

960
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 1: I said, I called every hotel, I tried everywhere. I said,

961
01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:53,680
Speaker 1: you know what, if somebody else found it or it

962
01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:56,320
Speaker 1: ended up in a pawn shop somewhere, I really hope

963
01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: that it will make someone else happy and it'll start

964
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 1: a great marriage for them. And so I just kind

965
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: of had to let it go. And the day that

966
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:06,760
Speaker 1: I found it, I just was so overwhelmed and excited.

967
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:08,920
Speaker 1: And I never take it off now because I don't

968
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:11,920
Speaker 1: ever want to lose it again. Well that's good, No spoilers.

969
01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:14,160
Speaker 1: It's probably in the book where you found it, so

970
01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:16,200
Speaker 1: we'll hold off. We don't want to give that one up.

971
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:19,440
Speaker 1: Shannon Bream is on the phone with Shannon on nightly

972
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 1: on Fox News Fox News Night and Shannon, you know,

973
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:27,600
Speaker 1: I do mornings usually, so I miss you, but I

974
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:29,840
Speaker 1: get up and I listen at three o'clock when they

975
01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 1: replay it, which is yes, it's like a bonus for me.

976
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 1: I get extra Shannon's what's happening tonight on the show? Well,

977
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:39,600
Speaker 1: of course we're going to talk about this back and

978
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 1: forth about the Bar reports, and you know Democrats had

979
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:45,400
Speaker 1: demanded we need the whole thing, nothing redacted by April second,

980
01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:49,280
Speaker 1: which is next week. Barr, who was very professional and

981
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 1: until he became Attorney General, was really well respected by

982
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:55,320
Speaker 1: both sides, nonpartisan, that kind of thing. They obviously have

983
01:01:55,360 --> 01:01:57,360
Speaker 1: a different feeling about him now because he was a

984
01:01:57,400 --> 01:02:01,480
Speaker 1: political appointee by the president. He said, today, listen, I'm

985
01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 1: doing everything I can. There's a lot of material, almost

986
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 1: four hundred pages. We've got to vet it for grand

987
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:09,760
Speaker 1: jury material and other classified information. But our goal, we're

988
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:11,280
Speaker 1: working around the clock, is to get it to you

989
01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:16,480
Speaker 1: by mid April. Diane Feinstein, a Senator ranking member on Judiciary, said, Okay,

990
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:18,400
Speaker 1: that sounds reasonable. Please try to get it to us

991
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:20,760
Speaker 1: by April fifteenth. He's agreed to come up on the

992
01:02:20,840 --> 01:02:23,920
Speaker 1: Hill and testify in early May, but the House Democrats

993
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 1: are saying, no, that's not acceptable to still expected by

994
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 1: April second. I mean, he's told them they're not going

995
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:32,520
Speaker 1: to get it. So the fight continues. But you know,

996
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:35,800
Speaker 1: everybody has their own prediction about this. I don't think

997
01:02:35,840 --> 01:02:39,120
Speaker 1: the bar would have still mischaracterized what Muller said in

998
01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:42,880
Speaker 1: his summary. He says, it's just a summary that it's

999
01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:45,560
Speaker 1: going to turn out. No, he was hiding collusion all along,

1000
01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 1: and it's actually in the Muller report. But that seems

1001
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:50,400
Speaker 1: to be what some people on the Hill are hoping for.

1002
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:54,400
Speaker 1: It's so maddening to me. I can't imagine being in

1003
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:58,960
Speaker 1: the politics where you go from respected to rejected just

1004
01:02:59,040 --> 01:03:03,440
Speaker 1: because one your political opponents has appointed your political opponent

1005
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:07,040
Speaker 1: has appointed you. It's just craziness. And well, much of

1006
01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:10,360
Speaker 1: what happens here, as you know in DC, is craziness. Well,

1007
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:14,360
Speaker 1: one of your colleagues, Dana Perino, who I appreciate as well,

1008
01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 1: don't know her said, she suggests the president get out

1009
01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:20,240
Speaker 1: of Washington and do what he did last night and

1010
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 1: be with the people as much as possible right now.

1011
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:26,760
Speaker 1: And I love that advice. I don't know if he's

1012
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 1: taken it. I hope he does. And she said, not

1013
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:32,240
Speaker 1: Mara Lago, you know, go to Michigan, go to Iowa,

1014
01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 1: go to places where you know you need to be

1015
01:03:35,080 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 1: with those people. And I think that's wonderful advice, and

1016
01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 1: I hope he does take it. Any other surprise than

1017
01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:45,320
Speaker 1: any guests tonight, we should be looking out for well,

1018
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:47,680
Speaker 1: you know what. Interestingly enough, we are all we are

1019
01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 1: featuring the lead actress in the movie Unplanned that's opening

1020
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:54,240
Speaker 1: this weekend. And I've got a lot of your listeners

1021
01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:56,880
Speaker 1: on your various outlets have heard of this. But it's

1022
01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:59,320
Speaker 1: the story of Abby Johnson, who for years worked in

1023
01:03:59,400 --> 01:04:02,880
Speaker 1: plan parent Hood. She grew up pretty conservative, but really

1024
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:05,040
Speaker 1: believed in their mission, which she felt was to help

1025
01:04:05,080 --> 01:04:08,080
Speaker 1: women in crisis and women who needed healthcare. She spent

1026
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 1: years within the system, became a clinic director, was employee

1027
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:14,960
Speaker 1: of the Year, and then she saw something an abortion

1028
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:17,920
Speaker 1: that so changed her mind that she had a radical

1029
01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:20,640
Speaker 1: change to the other side. So this movie comes out,

1030
01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:22,840
Speaker 1: and I think, regardless of how you feel on abortion,

1031
01:04:23,560 --> 01:04:25,520
Speaker 1: you know, she says, there are good people on both sides.

1032
01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:28,960
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to demonize anybody. But it's interesting that

1033
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:32,520
Speaker 1: this movie opens this weekend is rated R, which upset

1034
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:34,440
Speaker 1: a lot of the people who put this movie together

1035
01:04:34,560 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 1: because the fact is, in a lot of states, a

1036
01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 1: young woman could go without her parents' permission or assent

1037
01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 1: and go get an abortion, which she couldn't legally go

1038
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:48,120
Speaker 1: see this movie with a rated art freighting, you know.

1039
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 1: So there's that The lead actress also who plays Abby

1040
01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:54,680
Speaker 1: Johnson in the movie, has an incredible backstory of her own,

1041
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:58,160
Speaker 1: and she is actually from Georgia, a state that has

1042
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:02,240
Speaker 1: just passed a very restrict abortion bill. Basically after there's

1043
01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 1: a hard beat detective that you can't in many cases

1044
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:07,600
Speaker 1: have an abortion. So the movie industry is now saying

1045
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:10,240
Speaker 1: we're going to boycott Georgia. Well, she's from there, and

1046
01:05:10,320 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 1: she says, listen, I want to speak up on all

1047
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 1: these things. I wasn't especially pro life before I took

1048
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:17,080
Speaker 1: this movie. It's probably hurt my career in the long run,

1049
01:05:17,160 --> 01:05:20,160
Speaker 1: but I learned a lot about abortion and how this works.

1050
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:23,680
Speaker 1: And so you know, people want to talk about what's

1051
01:05:23,680 --> 01:05:26,320
Speaker 1: in the movie and whether you should see it, and

1052
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:28,760
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's an interesting conversation to have,

1053
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:32,400
Speaker 1: although you know, acknowledging that it's a tough one. It's

1054
01:05:32,440 --> 01:05:35,040
Speaker 1: not something people like to talk about. Yeah, it is

1055
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:38,720
Speaker 1: a very difficult conversation and yet a very necessary one

1056
01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:42,280
Speaker 1: in my opinion. Her name is Shannon Bream. She's on

1057
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:47,680
Speaker 1: Fox Monday through Friday nightly eleven pm, after my bedtime,

1058
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:51,040
Speaker 1: but I get to hear it again at three am.

1059
01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:54,840
Speaker 1: And the book May fourteenth, unless we get the Attorney

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Speaker 1: General to demand the early release. Finding the bright Side

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Speaker 1: the Art of chasing what matters, My friend, I miss

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01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:05,360
Speaker 1: you like a front tooth, but I appreciate everything you do.

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01:06:05,960 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 1: Great to talk with you, and you know I am

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Speaker 1: your biggest fans. Thank well, thank you, thank you, God

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Speaker 1: bless There she goes the one on OL Shannon Bream

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01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 1: here on the Buck Sexton Show. I thought I thought

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01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:19,360
Speaker 1: it was only fair since he's been on her show,

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01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:22,360
Speaker 1: that she should be on this show. My name's Michael Pelca.

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Speaker 1: I'm stepping aside for just a couple of minutes. When

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Speaker 1: we get back. If we have time, I'll play the

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Speaker 1: FCC chairman's comments on what Buck can expect to be

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Speaker 1: done about those pesky robocalls. That's next on The Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show Michael Pelka, And for Buck Sexton tonight on

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Speaker 1: The Buck Sexton Show, Hope you've joined the conversation eight

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Speaker 1: four four nine hundred Buck eight for four nine hundred

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01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:53,480
Speaker 1: two eight two five. You know, Buck was grousing, really

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01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:57,800
Speaker 1: upset about robocalls and the fact they come through our phones.

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01:06:58,080 --> 01:07:00,400
Speaker 1: It was bad enough when we were getting them home,

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01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:03,720
Speaker 1: but now they're on our cell phones. So I picked

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01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:05,920
Speaker 1: up the phone. I called the FCC. I got the

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Speaker 1: man in charge at Jake Pie on the phone, and

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01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 1: I said, sir, what the heck are we doing about

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01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:16,400
Speaker 1: robo calls? Oh? I got This drives me crazy. I

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01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:19,680
Speaker 1: give them myself all the time. They typically have the

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01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 1: same area code that I've got, and even the next

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01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:25,320
Speaker 1: three digits might be the same. Those are called spoofed robocalls.

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Speaker 1: And the problem is that because of the Internet, this

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01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:31,760
Speaker 1: technology to unleash these calls has gotten much much better,

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Speaker 1: and so it almost doesn't even matter where you are

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Speaker 1: in the world. In fact, most of the robocalls we

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01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:39,560
Speaker 1: see come from abroad but seem to be local. So

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Speaker 1: the FEC has taken out the stops to attack this problem.

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01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:46,400
Speaker 1: I've demanded that the phone companies adopt what is called

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01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:50,160
Speaker 1: call authentication for every single phone call. Essentially, this is

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01:07:50,160 --> 01:07:53,120
Speaker 1: a digital fingerprint that would be attached to every call

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01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:56,120
Speaker 1: to verify that the call is legitimate. And if a

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01:07:56,160 --> 01:07:59,000
Speaker 1: phone call didn't have that fingerprint, then the phone carrier

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01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:02,440
Speaker 1: carriers would carry that phone call on their networks. And

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01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:04,840
Speaker 1: so I told them we want this implemented this here,

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01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:08,040
Speaker 1: and if it's not, the SEC will take regulatory action

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01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:10,760
Speaker 1: to ensure that it is. In addition to that, we're

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01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:14,400
Speaker 1: also working very hard on the enforcement side. The largest

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01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:17,760
Speaker 1: finds in the SEC's eighty five year history have been

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01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:20,320
Speaker 1: imposed under my leadership over the last two years on

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01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:25,680
Speaker 1: robocallers who unleashed millions of robocalls on American consumers. And

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Speaker 1: in addition to that, we're working with other agencies, the

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01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 1: Federal Trade Commission, and even agencies abroad in places like

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01:08:31,960 --> 01:08:35,280
Speaker 1: India to cooperate on law enforcements to make sure that

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01:08:35,320 --> 01:08:37,799
Speaker 1: we can track down and go after these call centers.

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Speaker 1: They're set up for the express purpose of unleashing these robocalls,

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01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:43,080
Speaker 1: and it's kind to the point where I get every

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Speaker 1: single day a number of emails from consumers saying, I

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01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:48,400
Speaker 1: don't even bother answering the phone anymore because I know

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01:08:48,479 --> 01:08:51,479
Speaker 1: that it's more than likely than not a spoofed call,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sick of it. And I I'm sick of

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01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 1: it too, And as the chairman, I can tell you

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Speaker 1: that this is the SEC's top consumer protection priority and

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Speaker 1: we're not going to stop. Well you can answer that

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01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 1: phone with confidence. Well, I would love that. I also

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Speaker 1: asked the FCC chairman if the same rules were going

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Speaker 1: to apply to phone calls from campaigns, and he kind

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01:09:13,840 --> 01:09:16,200
Speaker 1: of laughed and said, you know, that's where we're going

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01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:18,720
Speaker 1: to have a little bit of a problem, because no

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01:09:18,840 --> 01:09:22,720
Speaker 1: politician wants to write a law that's going to preclude

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Speaker 1: them from robo calling us during an election year. So

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Speaker 1: more on that, Stay tuned for more on that. Michael

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01:09:34,439 --> 01:09:38,240
Speaker 1: Pelka in for Buck Sexton. We still have another hour,

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Speaker 1: and we got to talk about cars and what they're

1129
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:44,240
Speaker 1: trying to do to your car to control it. That's

1130
01:09:44,280 --> 01:09:48,719
Speaker 1: just around the corner. Come on back. Well it's not Buck,

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01:09:49,080 --> 01:09:52,800
Speaker 1: it's Michael Pelka in for Buck. Buck is out for today.

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01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:55,200
Speaker 1: Good for him. He's been working hard down at the

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Speaker 1: border and he's still dealing with the Adjuda over the

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01:10:00,080 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 1: robo calls. So we just talked to the FCC chair

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01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:07,839
Speaker 1: about that, the commissioner. Hopefully we'll get that set. Hopefully

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01:10:07,880 --> 01:10:11,200
Speaker 1: they'll straighten straighten out for us in the near future.

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01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:13,479
Speaker 1: I was just reading and I need to get back

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01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:18,479
Speaker 1: into the FCC chief's head because he was saying that

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01:10:18,520 --> 01:10:23,439
Speaker 1: they've they've charged all these fines, They've hit all these

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01:10:23,479 --> 01:10:25,479
Speaker 1: people up with these big fines, but it looks like

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01:10:25,479 --> 01:10:28,000
Speaker 1: they're not collecting them. So you can send out all

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01:10:28,040 --> 01:10:30,519
Speaker 1: the fines you want, sir, but let's get that money

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01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:34,000
Speaker 1: in there. Maybe they'll lean on them a little bit.

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01:10:34,160 --> 01:10:35,800
Speaker 1: By the way, last hour of the show. If you

1145
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:38,000
Speaker 1: want to join the conversation, happy to get and do

1146
01:10:38,200 --> 01:10:42,600
Speaker 1: just about anything. I want to talk about the electoral

1147
01:10:42,640 --> 01:10:46,839
Speaker 1: College because I'm reading something that makes me a little upset.

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01:10:47,439 --> 01:10:50,280
Speaker 1: The phone lines are open. Eight four four nine hundred

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01:10:50,280 --> 01:10:53,680
Speaker 1: Buck eight four four nine two eight two five. I

1150
01:10:53,800 --> 01:10:58,240
Speaker 1: live in a state that has more cows than people.

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01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:01,679
Speaker 1: I think, Delaware, and we're not exactly a big cattle state.

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01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:06,200
Speaker 1: There's only three counties in the whole state. One of

1153
01:11:06,240 --> 01:11:11,200
Speaker 1: them is deep red, one is deep blue, and that's

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01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 1: the highest population, so it always votes out the rest

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01:11:14,320 --> 01:11:17,320
Speaker 1: of us, and the other one's kind of purplish. But

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01:11:17,479 --> 01:11:21,600
Speaker 1: here in Delaware we have but three electoral votes, and

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01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:25,760
Speaker 1: our state has now joined this group of states that

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01:11:26,040 --> 01:11:30,160
Speaker 1: pledges to give all of the electoral votes to whichever

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01:11:30,320 --> 01:11:34,799
Speaker 1: state gets the or to whichever candidate gets the popular vote.

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Speaker 1: I just don't understand how people are not standing up

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01:11:41,240 --> 01:11:46,439
Speaker 1: and screaming about this, How people aren't saying no. Well, now,

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01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:54,040
Speaker 1: Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley introduced a bill to totally eliminate

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01:11:54,120 --> 01:11:56,920
Speaker 1: the electoral college. He wants it going, he wants it out, says,

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01:11:56,960 --> 01:12:01,400
Speaker 1: got to get rid of it. You're the weren't you

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01:12:01,479 --> 01:12:05,680
Speaker 1: the guy that co sponsored the Green New Deal and

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01:12:05,720 --> 01:12:10,240
Speaker 1: then voted against it. You're one of the one of

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01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:12,679
Speaker 1: the people who couldn't even support your Green New Deal.

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01:12:12,800 --> 01:12:15,960
Speaker 1: Is the same thing going to happen here. We're gonna

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01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:18,960
Speaker 1: try and get a hold of Hans von Spakovsky of

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01:12:19,040 --> 01:12:23,879
Speaker 1: the Heritage Foundation to talk about the electoral college. I'm

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01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:28,559
Speaker 1: a huge fan of the electoral college because what it

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01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:32,920
Speaker 1: does is really create fairness among the states in our union.

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01:12:33,680 --> 01:12:36,720
Speaker 1: And the Democrats are out there crowing. Elizabeth Warren's out

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01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:40,680
Speaker 1: there saying, we must abolish it. We must abolish the

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01:12:40,680 --> 01:12:43,759
Speaker 1: electoral college. In that way, every vote will be counted.

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01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:48,440
Speaker 1: It's all about fairness. Yes, And there's a county in California.

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01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:51,479
Speaker 1: I think it's Los Angeles County that has more people

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01:12:52,439 --> 01:12:56,760
Speaker 1: than ten states. So that one county, if you just

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01:12:56,960 --> 01:13:00,519
Speaker 1: visit that county and get that county vote, you can

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01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:07,720
Speaker 1: effectively annihilate the votes in ten states. So I'm not

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01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:10,200
Speaker 1: a fan of eliminating the electoral College. I think the

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01:13:10,200 --> 01:13:13,760
Speaker 1: founders knew exactly what they were doing, and they were

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01:13:13,840 --> 01:13:17,160
Speaker 1: keeping They weren't looking to the future and saying, well,

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01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:21,880
Speaker 1: candidates will only go to five states if this happens, Yeah,

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01:13:22,040 --> 01:13:26,240
Speaker 1: you make California, New York, Texas, Florida, and Illinois a

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01:13:26,280 --> 01:13:29,960
Speaker 1: lot more important. So I'm a big fan of the

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01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:32,799
Speaker 1: electoral college, and I'm not going to sit by quietly.

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01:13:32,880 --> 01:13:36,760
Speaker 1: I don't think it can be eliminated so easily. But

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Speaker 1: you know this whole cry for fairness that comes out

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01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: of the Democrats and the progressives, it's never fair if

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01:13:45,280 --> 01:13:48,040
Speaker 1: they're telling you it's in the interest of fairness, then

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01:13:48,160 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 1: where were they? Where were they for the last couple

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01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:56,280
Speaker 1: hundred years. If you didn't think the electoral college was fair,

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01:13:57,160 --> 01:14:01,519
Speaker 1: why didn't you raise your hand twenty sixteen and say,

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01:14:01,680 --> 01:14:03,920
Speaker 1: we just can't have this electoral college. It's not going

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01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:10,040
Speaker 1: to be fair. Somebody like Donald Trump won't win. You know.

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01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:13,960
Speaker 1: The duplicitous nature of the people on the left side

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01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:17,240
Speaker 1: of the aisle never ceases to amaze me, never ceases

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01:14:17,280 --> 01:14:20,360
Speaker 1: to amaze me. So maybe around the corner we'll get

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01:14:21,240 --> 01:14:23,960
Speaker 1: we'll get some word from the Heritage Foundation. I think

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01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:26,320
Speaker 1: Hans awigh in on this. He's a great legal mind

1202
01:14:26,360 --> 01:14:30,200
Speaker 1: on stuff like this. Joe Biden said something stupid this week.

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01:14:30,439 --> 01:14:35,680
Speaker 1: Oh really, what a shock? Yeah, And he also has

1204
01:14:35,680 --> 01:14:38,639
Speaker 1: been saying stupid things for years, for decades. In fact,

1205
01:14:39,920 --> 01:14:43,080
Speaker 1: a videotape on Earth when twenty nine year old Biden

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01:14:43,920 --> 01:14:48,920
Speaker 1: was on public television showed up, and he's kind of

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01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:52,040
Speaker 1: saying dumb things. No shock, Joe Biden has a decades

1208
01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:54,600
Speaker 1: long history of saying dumb things. But this one I

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01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:57,320
Speaker 1: have to just share with you because it just makes

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01:14:57,360 --> 01:15:00,160
Speaker 1: me laugh. The thing is, I didn't have me any

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01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:02,280
Speaker 1: larger contributors, and the only reason, see, I went to

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01:15:02,320 --> 01:15:04,400
Speaker 1: the big guys for the money. I was ready to

1213
01:15:04,479 --> 01:15:10,320
Speaker 1: prostitute myself. And then wait, what Joe Biden was what's

1214
01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:13,800
Speaker 1: of course he's talking about donors, but he puts it

1215
01:15:13,840 --> 01:15:16,760
Speaker 1: an interesting Joe Biden language. And the thing is I

1216
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:19,320
Speaker 1: didn't have many larger contributors. And the only reason, see,

1217
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:21,280
Speaker 1: I went to the big guys for the money. I

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01:15:21,320 --> 01:15:24,080
Speaker 1: was ready to prostitute myself. And the man and man

1219
01:15:24,080 --> 01:15:26,360
Speaker 1: in which I talked about it, but what happened was

1220
01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:28,800
Speaker 1: they said come back when you're forty, son, and so

1221
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:33,040
Speaker 1: I had to go out. Twenty nine year old Joe

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01:15:33,040 --> 01:15:35,800
Speaker 1: Biden looks like if you guys know the old TV

1223
01:15:35,920 --> 01:15:40,560
Speaker 1: show Taxi, he looks like Andy Kaffin's character of Latka Graves.

1224
01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:46,040
Speaker 1: They're almost separated at birth. But Biden trying to make

1225
01:15:46,120 --> 01:15:49,559
Speaker 1: himself sound like the young the young Turk. If I

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01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:51,880
Speaker 1: can use that expression with Joe Biden, Oh yeah, he's

1227
01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:55,599
Speaker 1: a progressive. Joe Biden trying to make himself sound like

1228
01:15:55,600 --> 01:15:58,240
Speaker 1: the young kid in the Senate, even though he had

1229
01:15:58,320 --> 01:16:01,479
Speaker 1: aspirations for higher off us, which thank god, he's never

1230
01:16:01,640 --> 01:16:05,679
Speaker 1: gotten to the presidency. He got close, but never got there.

1231
01:16:06,439 --> 01:16:08,840
Speaker 1: He said some things that also turned out to be

1232
01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:13,640
Speaker 1: a little offensive and let him go here, Well, I

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01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:15,680
Speaker 1: had to go to a number of small contributors. What

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01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:18,000
Speaker 1: I think we all great percenta. You didn't take no

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01:16:18,120 --> 01:16:22,479
Speaker 1: for an answer, so more from here you think the

1236
01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:26,760
Speaker 1: example I am an anacronis I'm a twenty nine year

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01:16:26,800 --> 01:16:28,960
Speaker 1: old oddball. The only reason I was able to raise

1238
01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:30,679
Speaker 1: the money is I was able to have a national

1239
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:33,800
Speaker 1: constituency to run for office because I was twenty. No,

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01:16:33,840 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 1: I'm like the token black or the token woman. I

1241
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:40,120
Speaker 1: was a token young person. The token young person. Joe

1242
01:16:40,120 --> 01:16:44,600
Speaker 1: Biden comparing himself to a token black and a token

1243
01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:49,240
Speaker 1: woman very interesting in his comments about Clarence Thomas surface too.

1244
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:53,040
Speaker 1: And now Joe Biden getting set to announce here in Delaware.

1245
01:16:52,720 --> 01:16:55,519
Speaker 1: The word on the street, the skinny on the street

1246
01:16:55,880 --> 01:17:01,679
Speaker 1: in Delaware is that Joe Bunden's gonna announce next week

1247
01:17:02,200 --> 01:17:05,800
Speaker 1: because if he announced before April one, he'd have to

1248
01:17:05,840 --> 01:17:09,240
Speaker 1: file his election papers and we'd have to see how

1249
01:17:09,320 --> 01:17:11,880
Speaker 1: much money he raised, and he wouldn't have time to

1250
01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:15,800
Speaker 1: raise money to compete with Bernie or Beto or any

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01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:19,160
Speaker 1: of them. And that makes you look weak. That makes

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01:17:19,160 --> 01:17:22,320
Speaker 1: you look weak speak in the electoral college. Andrew is

1253
01:17:22,360 --> 01:17:26,080
Speaker 1: in Virginia and calling into the Buck Sexton Show. Andrew

1254
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:29,920
Speaker 1: has a question about this. Welcome to the program, Sir, Hey,

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01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:37,160
Speaker 1: how's it going. So it's interesting that Delaware is saying saying,

1256
01:17:38,080 --> 01:17:42,720
Speaker 1: we're against the electoral college, so they're trying to nullify it.

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01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:44,960
Speaker 1: Seems to me I just heard about this, that it's

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01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:47,519
Speaker 1: trying to nullify the electoral college by saying, well, all

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01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:51,760
Speaker 1: our electoral votes will go to whoever wins the popular election. Yeah.

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01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:54,800
Speaker 1: The interesting thing is they're shooting themselves in the foot

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01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:58,800
Speaker 1: because the electoral college is what gives which is what

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01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:03,160
Speaker 1: increases the auto of each state. So as a smaller state,

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01:18:03,520 --> 01:18:06,920
Speaker 1: for them to basically try to dissolve the electoral college,

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01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:10,679
Speaker 1: they're eventually going to dissolve one of their electoral votes.

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01:18:11,320 --> 01:18:16,360
Speaker 1: You're absolutely one correct. Any small state that joins in

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01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:21,600
Speaker 1: this movement to invalidate or eliminate the electoral college is

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01:18:21,720 --> 01:18:28,600
Speaker 1: really following party line instruction. And Delaware is very blue.

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Speaker 1: Like I said that, the three counties here, the one

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Speaker 1: that has so many people is pure, deep deep blue.

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Speaker 1: It's the one that gave us. Chris coons, it's it's

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01:18:38,360 --> 01:18:42,960
Speaker 1: giving us fits here as conservatives, as small government people,

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Speaker 1: and in this case, Andrew, you're one hundred percent right.

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Speaker 1: That's why most of the states you're seeing who are

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Speaker 1: moving to eliminate the electoral college are blue states. They

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Speaker 1: are states that say, fairness, we wanted Hillary, and they

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01:18:55,880 --> 01:19:01,559
Speaker 1: don't realize that it's such a foolish mission. It's asolutely insane. Now, Andrew,

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Speaker 1: can I ask you a question? Okay, are you in

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01:19:04,560 --> 01:19:06,600
Speaker 1: the hospital? I hear that beeping. It sounds like some

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01:19:06,720 --> 01:19:12,400
Speaker 1: kind of monitor. I maybe are you okay? Yes? I

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01:19:12,479 --> 01:19:16,840
Speaker 1: am okay, good good. That's a very vague I maybe,

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01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 1: but a stude observation that any state wants to jump

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Speaker 1: on this bandwagon of the elimination of the electoral college

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01:19:26,520 --> 01:19:30,880
Speaker 1: is really especially if it's a small state, it's eliminating itself. Now,

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Speaker 1: if we look at the popular vote from twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: Hillary won by what was it, three million votes. Everybody

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Speaker 1: says this is massive win. Well, if you take out

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Speaker 1: New York and California, If you eliminate those two states

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Speaker 1: where she had massive popular vote wins, Donald Trump wins

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Speaker 1: the popular vote count. So it was really a great

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Speaker 1: example of why the electoral college is important, because only

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Speaker 1: two states would have swayed that election, and that's not

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Speaker 1: fair to the other forty eight. Andrew, thank you for

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01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:09,120
Speaker 1: joining the conversation tonight. Appreciate it once again proving the

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01:20:09,200 --> 01:20:14,080
Speaker 1: buck Sexton audience smart on it. And yeah, I realize

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01:20:14,080 --> 01:20:17,599
Speaker 1: how stupid my state is. It really is foolish. Michael

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Speaker 1: Pelka checking out for just a couple of minutes on

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Speaker 1: the buck Sexton Show. Michael Pelka is sitting in for

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01:20:26,080 --> 01:20:29,040
Speaker 1: buck Sexton tonight on the buck Sexton Show. Still time

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01:20:29,080 --> 01:20:31,639
Speaker 1: to join the conversation eight four to four nine hundred

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01:20:31,640 --> 01:20:35,400
Speaker 1: Buck eight four four nine hundred two eight two five

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01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:39,320
Speaker 1: talking about the electoral college. Hans von Spakovsky of the

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01:20:39,360 --> 01:20:43,439
Speaker 1: Heritage Foundation on the phone. Talk to him over the

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01:20:43,479 --> 01:20:47,600
Speaker 1: break about you know, Hans, could we really have the

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01:20:47,640 --> 01:20:50,559
Speaker 1: electoral college and danger? Is it really at risk of

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01:20:50,640 --> 01:20:55,240
Speaker 1: being eliminated? Well, I'll tell you I hope not, and

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Speaker 1: I certainly hope that's not the case. And the reason

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01:20:59,360 --> 01:21:03,160
Speaker 1: being that the original reason that the framers of the

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01:21:03,200 --> 01:21:07,680
Speaker 1: Constitution decided to use the electoral college rather than a

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01:21:07,840 --> 01:21:10,880
Speaker 1: national popular vote, which is what the Democrats were all

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01:21:10,880 --> 01:21:14,919
Speaker 1: in liberals were all pushing for is just as true today.

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01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:19,200
Speaker 1: The reason for it is as true today as it

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01:21:19,280 --> 01:21:22,120
Speaker 1: was then, in fact, probably more so, and the reason

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01:21:22,240 --> 01:21:25,479
Speaker 1: being very simple. They said, look if if if a

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Speaker 1: president is elected by the national popular vote, we're afraid

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Speaker 1: that presidential candidates will just go to the big cities,

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01:21:32,880 --> 01:21:35,200
Speaker 1: They'll just go to the urban areas, and they will

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Speaker 1: ignore the rest of the country. They will ignore the

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01:21:38,439 --> 01:21:43,479
Speaker 1: more rural areas that the places with smaller populations. And

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Speaker 1: that's just as true today. You know, under the electoral

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01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:51,000
Speaker 1: college system, the small est states, you know, places like

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01:21:51,080 --> 01:21:56,240
Speaker 1: Montana and elsewhere with small populations, they still get three

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01:21:56,280 --> 01:21:59,439
Speaker 1: electoral college votes no matter how small their population is.

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Speaker 1: And what that means is that a president can win

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01:22:04,120 --> 01:22:09,760
Speaker 1: office by basically gathering up those electoral college votes from

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01:22:10,160 --> 01:22:12,920
Speaker 1: the rest of the country. You know, what liberals like

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01:22:12,960 --> 01:22:16,880
Speaker 1: to refer to as flyover country. And anybody who doubts that,

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01:22:17,040 --> 01:22:22,040
Speaker 1: just look at the last presidential election. You know, Hillary

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01:22:22,080 --> 01:22:27,559
Speaker 1: Clint's votes came from the big urban areas, the big cities,

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01:22:27,640 --> 01:22:32,679
Speaker 1: you know, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, the whole rest

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01:22:32,720 --> 01:22:36,160
Speaker 1: of the country. Almost all of the counties across the

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01:22:36,200 --> 01:22:42,000
Speaker 1: country voted for Donald Trump. Yeah. And if you look

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01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:45,880
Speaker 1: at New York State in California and you eliminate just

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01:22:46,200 --> 01:22:52,000
Speaker 1: the imbalancing votes between Clinton and Trump and those two states,

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01:22:52,479 --> 01:22:55,559
Speaker 1: donald Trump wins the rest of the popular vote. So

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Speaker 1: forty eight. If you took only the popular vote from

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01:22:58,880 --> 01:23:03,200
Speaker 1: forty eight states, it's a Trump whitewash of Hillary Clinton.

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Speaker 1: And it's amazing. But here's my question. We're talking to

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Speaker 1: Heritage Foundations Hans von Spakowski today about the electoral college.

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Speaker 1: There are now twelve states that have said, through various actions,

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Speaker 1: that they will give their electoral votes to whomever or

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01:23:22,120 --> 01:23:27,799
Speaker 1: whichever states win the popular vote, or to the candidate

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01:23:27,840 --> 01:23:33,400
Speaker 1: that wins the popular vote. That is that legit? Can

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01:23:33,439 --> 01:23:39,559
Speaker 1: they do that? Is it bypassing the intent of the Constitution? Yeah,

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01:23:39,760 --> 01:23:43,000
Speaker 1: and it's not legit. The people behind that movement they

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01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:47,720
Speaker 1: call the National Popular Vote Plan. They claim that as

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01:23:47,800 --> 01:23:52,400
Speaker 1: soon as sufficient number of states, who represent two hundred

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01:23:52,400 --> 01:23:55,360
Speaker 1: and seventy electoral College votes that's how much you need

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01:23:55,400 --> 01:23:59,000
Speaker 1: to win the presidency. As soon as enough state legislatures

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01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:01,800
Speaker 1: have passed at the repent that many votes, then that

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01:24:01,880 --> 01:24:06,960
Speaker 1: plan will go into effect. And in essence, those states

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01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:10,519
Speaker 1: have passed bills that say that they won't award their

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01:24:10,560 --> 01:24:13,880
Speaker 1: electoral College votes to the candidate against the most votes

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01:24:13,920 --> 01:24:17,080
Speaker 1: in their state. They're gonna give it to whoever wins

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01:24:17,080 --> 01:24:21,840
Speaker 1: the national popular vote, basically ignoring what the constituents of

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01:24:21,880 --> 01:24:24,719
Speaker 1: their state have said and how they voted. But here's

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01:24:24,720 --> 01:24:27,679
Speaker 1: the problem with that. There's a provision in the US

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01:24:27,800 --> 01:24:33,360
Speaker 1: Constitution that says that state compacts, in other words, agreements

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01:24:33,439 --> 01:24:38,000
Speaker 1: between states, have to be approved by the US Congress.

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01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:41,760
Speaker 1: The people behind this bill say, oh no, no, that

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01:24:41,800 --> 01:24:46,320
Speaker 1: doesn't apply to this particular national Popular Vote compact. But

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01:24:47,080 --> 01:24:50,679
Speaker 1: they're wrong. So what's going to happen is if enough

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01:24:50,720 --> 01:24:55,559
Speaker 1: states passed this the states who haven't passed it, at

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01:24:55,600 --> 01:24:58,760
Speaker 1: places probably like Texas and elsewhere, they're going to go

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01:24:58,800 --> 01:25:00,599
Speaker 1: to court. It's going to end up for the US

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01:25:00,640 --> 01:25:05,240
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, and those states are going to say this compact,

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Speaker 1: of this national Popular Vote plan is illegal, it's unconstitutional

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01:25:10,160 --> 01:25:13,360
Speaker 1: because they didn't get the approval of Congress. Okay, so,

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Speaker 1: based on what you've shared with us, it looks like

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01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:20,920
Speaker 1: we're not at the two hundred and seventy vote threshold,

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01:25:21,000 --> 01:25:25,759
Speaker 1: which this group thinks is enough to make their plan work.

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01:25:26,320 --> 01:25:29,439
Speaker 1: And even if they get to two seventy, this will

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01:25:29,520 --> 01:25:32,639
Speaker 1: end up in the courts because the states that don't

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01:25:32,640 --> 01:25:37,160
Speaker 1: want themselves to be made insignificant will attempt to stop it,

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01:25:37,760 --> 01:25:40,080
Speaker 1: and then it usually ends up all the way at

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01:25:40,120 --> 01:25:44,360
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. And currently, based on the five to

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01:25:44,439 --> 01:25:48,639
Speaker 1: four conservative to liberal lean of the Supreme Court, one

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01:25:48,720 --> 01:25:52,800
Speaker 1: would assume the Court would side with the Constitution on

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01:25:52,840 --> 01:25:56,639
Speaker 1: this and not with a move towards the popular vote.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that's the best breakdown of that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's the best read of the situation. By

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01:26:02,840 --> 01:26:06,920
Speaker 1: the way, people should also realize that the framer of

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01:26:06,960 --> 01:26:10,599
Speaker 1: the Constitution wanted somebody running for president. They didn't want

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01:26:10,640 --> 01:26:16,880
Speaker 1: them winning a national election. They wanted them to basically

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01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:21,640
Speaker 1: have to campaign in and win a series of regional elections.

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01:26:21,840 --> 01:26:24,639
Speaker 1: And that's the way our system works. Why because again,

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01:26:25,680 --> 01:26:29,960
Speaker 1: they thought that would elect somebody to the presidency that

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01:26:30,120 --> 01:26:35,559
Speaker 1: had the broadest support of the American people. That's fantastic, terrific.

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01:26:35,600 --> 01:26:37,960
Speaker 1: Hans Hans who loved the work that you guys do

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01:26:37,960 --> 01:26:41,439
Speaker 1: at the Heritage Foundation, and we appreciate you taking time

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01:26:41,479 --> 01:26:45,479
Speaker 1: to join us here and explain this. I'm comforted now

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01:26:45,520 --> 01:26:48,800
Speaker 1: that the electoral College is still safe, at least in

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01:26:48,920 --> 01:26:53,080
Speaker 1: my lifetime. It feels I hope so too. Thank you, sir,

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01:26:53,200 --> 01:26:56,120
Speaker 1: have a great day. Thank you, And there he goes

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01:26:56,160 --> 01:27:00,599
Speaker 1: Hans von Spakovsky from the Heritage Foundation. We get wonky

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01:27:00,720 --> 01:27:03,559
Speaker 1: here even on Friday nights. But we're going to talk

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01:27:03,600 --> 01:27:07,479
Speaker 1: more about Big Brother controlling your car. Coming up next

1397
01:27:07,840 --> 01:27:14,080
Speaker 1: on the Buck Sexton Show. Come on back. Michael Pelka

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01:27:14,200 --> 01:27:17,759
Speaker 1: holding the line for Buck Sexton, holding the line for America.

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01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:20,280
Speaker 1: Bucks got a night off. I'm here to cover the

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01:27:21,000 --> 01:27:25,759
Speaker 1: Freedom Hut, as it were, from the constitutionally protected free

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01:27:25,760 --> 01:27:29,360
Speaker 1: speech bunker here in the woods of Delaware. Bob's on

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01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:32,040
Speaker 1: the line from New York. Bob, you had a comment,

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01:27:32,360 --> 01:27:34,639
Speaker 1: we're talking about the electoral College. You want to put

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01:27:34,640 --> 01:27:38,479
Speaker 1: a button on the segment? Yes, I do. I do. Mike. Also,

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01:27:38,520 --> 01:27:40,160
Speaker 1: before I get to my point, I just wanted to

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01:27:40,200 --> 01:27:42,639
Speaker 1: say that I know you were involved with the Beat

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01:27:42,640 --> 01:27:45,679
Speaker 1: of New York w KHU back in the eighties and

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01:27:46,920 --> 01:27:50,840
Speaker 1: so many memories. I was growing up in New York

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01:27:50,840 --> 01:27:52,960
Speaker 1: at the time, and I used to listen to that

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01:27:53,080 --> 01:27:56,080
Speaker 1: radio station so much, and I remember remember the Saturday

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01:27:56,120 --> 01:27:59,360
Speaker 1: Night Live the Saturday Night mixed that you had with

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01:27:59,400 --> 01:28:02,160
Speaker 1: the Ted Are. Oh yeah, a long time ago. We

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01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:04,560
Speaker 1: had a lot of great DJs on there, The Riddler,

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01:28:04,640 --> 01:28:09,040
Speaker 1: we had MC I forget all of the mcs. Yeah,

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01:28:09,120 --> 01:28:10,680
Speaker 1: it was a great time in New York to be

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01:28:10,720 --> 01:28:14,280
Speaker 1: in the dance world and dance music, and it's still

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01:28:14,320 --> 01:28:17,280
Speaker 1: There's still a lot of great people there. Ted was

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01:28:17,280 --> 01:28:20,920
Speaker 1: the king of the studio mix man everyone. I was

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01:28:21,320 --> 01:28:23,679
Speaker 1: part of the New York record pool. So I became

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01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:27,320
Speaker 1: a DJ because of listening to w KTU and to

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01:28:27,400 --> 01:28:29,440
Speaker 1: the extent that you had anything to do with the programming.

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01:28:29,840 --> 01:28:32,000
Speaker 1: You inspired me to be a DJ when I was

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01:28:32,080 --> 01:28:35,040
Speaker 1: going through college and graduate school. I know I still

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01:28:35,080 --> 01:28:37,160
Speaker 1: do it as a hobby, but anyway, I got a

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01:28:37,280 --> 01:28:40,519
Speaker 1: chill Bob. I was the assistant program director for a

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01:28:40,680 --> 01:28:43,559
Speaker 1: better part of half a decade and KATU, So thank

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01:28:43,600 --> 01:28:47,000
Speaker 1: you sir. It was a phenomenal station. It's no longer

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01:28:47,040 --> 01:28:50,040
Speaker 1: to beat in New York, but it was definitely back then.

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01:28:50,479 --> 01:28:54,639
Speaker 1: But my point was you mentioned how if you took

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01:28:54,680 --> 01:28:57,280
Speaker 1: New York in California out of the popular vote equation,

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01:28:57,640 --> 01:28:59,720
Speaker 1: I would actually be even more precise if you took

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01:28:59,760 --> 01:29:03,040
Speaker 1: five counties in the entire country out of the popular

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01:29:03,120 --> 01:29:05,839
Speaker 1: vote equation, Trump would have won the twenty sixteen election

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01:29:05,880 --> 01:29:08,519
Speaker 1: by the popular vote, those five counties being, as you

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01:29:08,520 --> 01:29:13,759
Speaker 1: probably know, Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and La County YEP.

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01:29:14,080 --> 01:29:17,560
Speaker 1: And that alone tells you why we need the electoral

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Speaker 1: College so that the whole country can be represented and

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01:29:21,280 --> 01:29:25,280
Speaker 1: not just five counties. Bob Student observations and thank you

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01:29:25,360 --> 01:29:28,919
Speaker 1: for the flashback to my old life in the wacky

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01:29:29,000 --> 01:29:32,800
Speaker 1: world of dance music and morning radio. Appreciate you, sir.

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01:29:32,960 --> 01:29:37,600
Speaker 1: Have a great weekend. Quick check in with Lewis and Maryland.

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01:29:37,680 --> 01:29:40,599
Speaker 1: Lewis say you are a naval vent, sir. Thank you

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01:29:40,640 --> 01:29:43,760
Speaker 1: for your service. Welcome to the show. Thank you sir.

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01:29:45,240 --> 01:29:49,479
Speaker 1: What's on your mind, sir? Well, well over two years

1445
01:29:49,479 --> 01:29:56,320
Speaker 1: ago doing that? What about mactebersh Is Clearenhouse PC. We

1446
01:29:56,520 --> 01:30:00,200
Speaker 1: bought some stuff problem and then I started getting all

1447
01:30:00,200 --> 01:30:03,479
Speaker 1: these robo calls and I called them up and the

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01:30:03,760 --> 01:30:06,400
Speaker 1: young lady to answer the phone. I said, did you

1449
01:30:06,439 --> 01:30:09,400
Speaker 1: give my number away? In She says, well what about it?

1450
01:30:10,000 --> 01:30:13,000
Speaker 1: And I said, well, I'm getting all these calls since

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01:30:13,040 --> 01:30:17,280
Speaker 1: I signed up with you, and she says, well, you

1452
01:30:17,320 --> 01:30:20,880
Speaker 1: didn't notify us not to and I said, well, you

1453
01:30:20,920 --> 01:30:23,479
Speaker 1: should have never gave my number up. So in the

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01:30:23,479 --> 01:30:26,840
Speaker 1: meantime answered that my wife had a stroke and it

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01:30:26,920 --> 01:30:30,439
Speaker 1: affected you were quite a bit. And I got all

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01:30:30,439 --> 01:30:35,200
Speaker 1: these calls from Jamaica continuously, and I started, I called

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01:30:36,360 --> 01:30:40,320
Speaker 1: a mark, started marking down the numbers that they were

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01:30:40,360 --> 01:30:44,400
Speaker 1: calling from, and it was seventy over, seventy yearly, seventy

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01:30:44,400 --> 01:30:49,120
Speaker 1: five different numbers. And I stopped writing, so I called Verizing,

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01:30:49,200 --> 01:30:52,600
Speaker 1: and Verizing says I asked them, could they stop it?

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01:30:53,040 --> 01:30:56,679
Speaker 1: And they said no, we can block three calls. I said,

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01:30:56,720 --> 01:31:01,840
Speaker 1: but I've got these seventy five numbers here, and they said,

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01:31:01,880 --> 01:31:08,040
Speaker 1: just hang up. And then I called the Jamaican embassy

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01:31:08,400 --> 01:31:11,799
Speaker 1: and I explained to them the way I'm telling you

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01:31:11,840 --> 01:31:15,879
Speaker 1: that my wife had a stroke and we're another doctor's

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01:31:15,920 --> 01:31:20,719
Speaker 1: career and because I've had the same number for seventy

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01:31:20,760 --> 01:31:24,439
Speaker 1: three years, ever since I've been made wow. And they

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01:31:24,479 --> 01:31:31,040
Speaker 1: said that we'll see what we can do, but they

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01:31:31,080 --> 01:31:36,679
Speaker 1: didn't do anything. And then I'm up against the holding

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01:31:36,760 --> 01:31:40,479
Speaker 1: three million dollars package for me and all of this. Yeah,

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01:31:40,560 --> 01:31:43,000
Speaker 1: and Lewis, hang on one second, sir, I'm up against

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01:31:43,040 --> 01:31:46,320
Speaker 1: the time crush I will pledge to you, sir, as

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01:31:46,680 --> 01:31:49,280
Speaker 1: a tribute to your service to this country and your

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01:31:49,320 --> 01:31:54,160
Speaker 1: dedication to your wife, to pressure the FCC chairman about

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01:31:54,200 --> 01:31:58,479
Speaker 1: this to hopefully get rid of these robocalls in the meantime, Sir,

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Speaker 1: as the sun of a Navy veteran who served probably

1477
01:32:02,280 --> 01:32:05,479
Speaker 1: in the same area you did. Thank you for your service, sir,

1478
01:32:05,640 --> 01:32:09,240
Speaker 1: and God bless you. I mentioned earlier, I'm not a

1479
01:32:09,280 --> 01:32:12,080
Speaker 1: fan of big government getting into our lives, and an

1480
01:32:12,160 --> 01:32:16,799
Speaker 1: intrusion is coming into our lives in the automobile world.

1481
01:32:16,920 --> 01:32:22,559
Speaker 1: I kind of figured this out just recently. So I'm

1482
01:32:22,560 --> 01:32:24,840
Speaker 1: filling up my wife's car and I'm noticing the gas

1483
01:32:25,000 --> 01:32:28,360
Speaker 1: prices are creeping up, and I'm thinking, is it the

1484
01:32:28,439 --> 01:32:32,080
Speaker 1: springtime thing or is it the gas tax thing? And

1485
01:32:32,120 --> 01:32:35,080
Speaker 1: then I read that story about what the European Union's

1486
01:32:35,160 --> 01:32:37,880
Speaker 1: playing on doing with Big Brother in our cars, and

1487
01:32:37,920 --> 01:32:40,320
Speaker 1: I said, I got to talk to my pal, Lauren Fix,

1488
01:32:40,439 --> 01:32:43,200
Speaker 1: the car coach. If you know you know what I'm

1489
01:32:43,240 --> 01:32:47,600
Speaker 1: talking about. Lauren Fix is my go to person on

1490
01:32:47,760 --> 01:32:53,080
Speaker 1: information on cars and what's happening two cars via the government.

1491
01:32:53,479 --> 01:32:57,200
Speaker 1: So if you don't know her, you should. Let's see,

1492
01:32:57,200 --> 01:32:59,720
Speaker 1: are you here Lauren fix the car coach. I am here,

1493
01:32:59,760 --> 01:33:02,360
Speaker 1: I'm I'm smiling and thanking you very much for the

1494
01:33:02,479 --> 01:33:06,080
Speaker 1: kind words. Well, you are my go to when I

1495
01:33:06,160 --> 01:33:08,479
Speaker 1: need to know, okay, what's the hot new car coming out?

1496
01:33:08,760 --> 01:33:11,160
Speaker 1: Or if I need to know why are cars doing this?

1497
01:33:11,600 --> 01:33:15,720
Speaker 1: You're the person I look to rant with or smile with.

1498
01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:19,360
Speaker 1: But you just get to get into all the great cars.

1499
01:33:19,600 --> 01:33:23,200
Speaker 1: But you also study stuff. So gas prices going up?

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01:33:23,360 --> 01:33:27,400
Speaker 1: Is it because of the change of spring fuels or what? Yeah,

1501
01:33:27,439 --> 01:33:29,679
Speaker 1: this is actually what President Obama is trying to stop.

1502
01:33:29,720 --> 01:33:33,040
Speaker 1: They're doing this ethanol swamp. So basically they'll say, oh,

1503
01:33:33,040 --> 01:33:35,840
Speaker 1: we have a different blend for the winter gas and

1504
01:33:35,960 --> 01:33:39,400
Speaker 1: the summer gas. That was probably a good idea in

1505
01:33:39,520 --> 01:33:43,160
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty, maybe even in nineteen eighty, but here we

1506
01:33:43,200 --> 01:33:46,439
Speaker 1: are in almost twenty twenty. I hate to be saying that,

1507
01:33:46,600 --> 01:33:50,599
Speaker 1: but their guess is so different now. This same fuel

1508
01:33:50,640 --> 01:33:52,360
Speaker 1: they use any time of year, you can use any

1509
01:33:52,400 --> 01:33:56,120
Speaker 1: time of year. There's no changing the gasoline blends. And

1510
01:33:56,160 --> 01:33:59,200
Speaker 1: they do it because it was regulated a long time ago.

1511
01:33:59,360 --> 01:34:01,560
Speaker 1: And these are the regulations that cost you and I

1512
01:34:01,680 --> 01:34:04,599
Speaker 1: money at the pump. Because while they're switching from as

1513
01:34:04,640 --> 01:34:07,360
Speaker 1: they're calling winter gas to summer gas, which has the

1514
01:34:07,439 --> 01:34:11,080
Speaker 1: same detersions in it, but a slightly different mix. What

1515
01:34:11,160 --> 01:34:13,240
Speaker 1: happens is you're paying more money while they're getting the

1516
01:34:13,280 --> 01:34:17,160
Speaker 1: new fuel in the pipeline. So it doesn't impact diesel

1517
01:34:17,200 --> 01:34:20,639
Speaker 1: as much as it does gasoline. But it's definitely something

1518
01:34:20,680 --> 01:34:22,840
Speaker 1: that you will see soften up in the next couple weeks.

1519
01:34:23,080 --> 01:34:25,639
Speaker 1: Did you mean you thought President Trump was doing it,

1520
01:34:25,720 --> 01:34:29,800
Speaker 1: not President Obama? Well, no, no, no. The current administration

1521
01:34:29,960 --> 01:34:32,800
Speaker 1: is trying to stop it, but the past administration of

1522
01:34:32,800 --> 01:34:36,559
Speaker 1: Obama did absolutely nothing. And every administration has been well

1523
01:34:36,600 --> 01:34:39,439
Speaker 1: aware of this and they address it randomly, But it's

1524
01:34:39,439 --> 01:34:44,200
Speaker 1: whoever's in charge of this particular regulation should be saying,

1525
01:34:44,240 --> 01:34:47,120
Speaker 1: why are we doing this? This is costing consumers extra money?

1526
01:34:47,360 --> 01:34:49,840
Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be nice to actually think about us, those

1527
01:34:49,920 --> 01:34:53,439
Speaker 1: that vote people in to lower gasoline prices because it's

1528
01:34:53,479 --> 01:34:55,680
Speaker 1: for the good of the economy. But the problem is

1529
01:34:55,680 --> 01:34:58,320
Speaker 1: it's a strategic move in many cases, so you know,

1530
01:34:58,479 --> 01:35:02,080
Speaker 1: depends who's in office, depends who's running the department. There's

1531
01:35:02,080 --> 01:35:04,679
Speaker 1: a lot of politics involved. That's what I call politics,

1532
01:35:04,680 --> 01:35:07,640
Speaker 1: I guess. Yeah, So I hope that President Trump does

1533
01:35:07,680 --> 01:35:10,280
Speaker 1: eliminate that. He's looking at removing the EV tax credits.

1534
01:35:10,320 --> 01:35:13,760
Speaker 1: He's looking at stop giving stopping giving money to car

1535
01:35:13,840 --> 01:35:16,960
Speaker 1: manufacturers to make cars more fuel efficient. They make money,

1536
01:35:17,240 --> 01:35:20,240
Speaker 1: it's called profit, and that profit they're supposed to us

1537
01:35:20,280 --> 01:35:22,840
Speaker 1: to go back into research and development, which is deductible.

1538
01:35:23,080 --> 01:35:26,280
Speaker 1: Why are we giving them more money our tax dollars?

1539
01:35:26,280 --> 01:35:29,800
Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense with you on that. But

1540
01:35:30,600 --> 01:35:35,679
Speaker 1: gas taxes are also being looked at to be raised. Now,

1541
01:35:35,920 --> 01:35:39,880
Speaker 1: state federal, who's looking to raise the gas taxes? Well,

1542
01:35:39,880 --> 01:35:42,240
Speaker 1: each state already charges a certain amount of taxes and

1543
01:35:42,280 --> 01:35:45,800
Speaker 1: the highest believer or not state is Pennsylvania. Where you're looking,

1544
01:35:45,840 --> 01:35:48,160
Speaker 1: you think it would be like Alaska where it might

1545
01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:50,320
Speaker 1: be lower. So every state has their own tax. That

1546
01:35:50,400 --> 01:35:53,479
Speaker 1: money goes into the state coffers. Now, what about on

1547
01:35:53,479 --> 01:35:56,320
Speaker 1: a federal level, there's federal tax on top. It's currently

1548
01:35:56,400 --> 01:35:59,600
Speaker 1: eighteen cents, So if you had no state tax on

1549
01:35:59,640 --> 01:36:02,800
Speaker 1: your gasoline per gallon, you still have eighteen percent on

1550
01:36:02,840 --> 01:36:05,200
Speaker 1: the Feds. And that money is supposed to go into

1551
01:36:05,200 --> 01:36:06,960
Speaker 1: a fund. That fund is supposed to take care of

1552
01:36:07,040 --> 01:36:11,799
Speaker 1: roads and bridges on international, interstate anything that goes across countries,

1553
01:36:11,840 --> 01:36:15,519
Speaker 1: across the state. So what's happened is is some I

1554
01:36:15,600 --> 01:36:17,720
Speaker 1: love these Friday night deals. You know, we'll make a

1555
01:36:17,720 --> 01:36:20,519
Speaker 1: Friday night deal. And now a third of that money

1556
01:36:21,080 --> 01:36:22,800
Speaker 1: is not going into roads and bridges, as we can

1557
01:36:22,800 --> 01:36:25,080
Speaker 1: tell by looking at the potholes and roads and bridges.

1558
01:36:25,200 --> 01:36:28,320
Speaker 1: It goes into the rail stations and the potential for

1559
01:36:28,600 --> 01:36:31,240
Speaker 1: light rail. So it's not even being used for the

1560
01:36:31,280 --> 01:36:33,240
Speaker 1: roads and bridges, even though that's what they're being tax

1561
01:36:33,320 --> 01:36:36,800
Speaker 1: But on top of that, more electric vehicles, better fuel

1562
01:36:36,800 --> 01:36:41,320
Speaker 1: efficient cars, more hybrid type cars, less gasoline being used.

1563
01:36:41,880 --> 01:36:44,639
Speaker 1: So what happens, there's less taxes coming into the fund.

1564
01:36:45,120 --> 01:36:47,080
Speaker 1: So now they're realizing, how are we going to repair

1565
01:36:47,160 --> 01:36:50,280
Speaker 1: these roads and bridges. Well, some genius and Washington's got

1566
01:36:50,280 --> 01:36:53,639
Speaker 1: a great idea. We're going to raise this is their idea.

1567
01:36:53,680 --> 01:36:56,320
Speaker 1: We're going to raise the taxes, the federal gas tax

1568
01:36:56,360 --> 01:36:59,719
Speaker 1: to forty two cents a gallon. Wait, from what eighteen

1569
01:36:59,840 --> 01:37:04,160
Speaker 1: or something from eighteen to forty two. I'm like, whoa, whoa,

1570
01:37:04,280 --> 01:37:07,320
Speaker 1: wait a minute, who's putting this up? And when you start,

1571
01:37:07,320 --> 01:37:09,160
Speaker 1: of course I had to say this, but it happens

1572
01:37:09,160 --> 01:37:11,559
Speaker 1: to be the Democrats. They think that we need more

1573
01:37:11,560 --> 01:37:13,719
Speaker 1: money for roads and bridges. And the first thing is, yes,

1574
01:37:13,880 --> 01:37:17,200
Speaker 1: everybody agrees the roads and bridges are horrible into every state,

1575
01:37:17,800 --> 01:37:20,639
Speaker 1: So we need money. Yes, that makes sense. You need

1576
01:37:20,680 --> 01:37:23,520
Speaker 1: money instead of saving money, instead of shrimp on treadmills

1577
01:37:23,520 --> 01:37:25,640
Speaker 1: and all the silly things that they do. You know

1578
01:37:25,760 --> 01:37:28,080
Speaker 1: why cats don't like snow, and they put you know,

1579
01:37:28,320 --> 01:37:31,400
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars into that. They should take this

1580
01:37:31,520 --> 01:37:33,920
Speaker 1: money and leave it in the roads and bridges. So

1581
01:37:34,120 --> 01:37:37,200
Speaker 1: states should make the choices, not the federal government. So

1582
01:37:37,280 --> 01:37:40,120
Speaker 1: what's happening now is the federal government wants to control

1583
01:37:40,200 --> 01:37:42,439
Speaker 1: it all. The states don't want to give up their money,

1584
01:37:42,720 --> 01:37:44,160
Speaker 1: and so they have to give a portion of that

1585
01:37:44,200 --> 01:37:47,040
Speaker 1: money to the feds anyhow, for any interstate that crosses

1586
01:37:47,360 --> 01:37:50,760
Speaker 1: between two states, so it's intrust states. There's a lot

1587
01:37:51,160 --> 01:37:54,559
Speaker 1: of politics involved, but the bottom line is raising your

1588
01:37:54,600 --> 01:37:58,639
Speaker 1: gas taxes because they don't have enough money coming in

1589
01:37:59,040 --> 01:38:01,160
Speaker 1: is their thoughts. But you say, well, I'm going to

1590
01:38:01,200 --> 01:38:03,960
Speaker 1: go buy an electric vehicle, makes sense, right, I'm gonna

1591
01:38:04,040 --> 01:38:06,080
Speaker 1: hybrid the heck with them, I'm not going to buy

1592
01:38:06,120 --> 01:38:08,559
Speaker 1: as much gasoling Well, don't worry, they've got you too.

1593
01:38:08,800 --> 01:38:10,920
Speaker 1: Every electric vehicle and hybrid's going to pay an extra

1594
01:38:11,040 --> 01:38:13,479
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a year, and you're also going to pay

1595
01:38:13,479 --> 01:38:16,559
Speaker 1: a buy the mileage tax, so we're gonna pay a

1596
01:38:16,680 --> 01:38:20,320
Speaker 1: road use tax like trucks do exactly. So if you

1597
01:38:20,320 --> 01:38:22,240
Speaker 1: add that up, it's going to be well over forty

1598
01:38:22,280 --> 01:38:25,000
Speaker 1: two cents a gallon. And if you're thinking I've got

1599
01:38:25,000 --> 01:38:26,920
Speaker 1: an EV and it's a smarter choice, you're still gonna

1600
01:38:26,920 --> 01:38:28,720
Speaker 1: get nailed. So what are they going to do with

1601
01:38:28,760 --> 01:38:30,559
Speaker 1: all this money? Well, you and I know it'll go

1602
01:38:30,560 --> 01:38:32,840
Speaker 1: into one gigantic pot. A lot of it ends up

1603
01:38:32,840 --> 01:38:35,320
Speaker 1: in the general Fund, and it's supposed to be split

1604
01:38:35,400 --> 01:38:38,479
Speaker 1: two thirds for roads and bridges, one third for trains

1605
01:38:38,560 --> 01:38:41,160
Speaker 1: and light rail, and we know what's going to happen.

1606
01:38:41,200 --> 01:38:44,240
Speaker 1: That doesn't happen. It ends up going to someone getting

1607
01:38:44,240 --> 01:38:46,760
Speaker 1: a private plane, or someone would like to have a

1608
01:38:46,800 --> 01:38:50,600
Speaker 1: golden toilet. And the problem is that this expense for

1609
01:38:50,640 --> 01:38:53,320
Speaker 1: the wrong thing is what infuriates me. If they use

1610
01:38:53,400 --> 01:38:55,240
Speaker 1: the actual money they had, and there's quite a bit

1611
01:38:55,240 --> 01:38:57,800
Speaker 1: of it into the billions, they could fix the road

1612
01:38:58,040 --> 01:39:01,720
Speaker 1: and bridges, but they're not. Okay. So if I'm not

1613
01:39:01,800 --> 01:39:06,280
Speaker 1: angry enough with that, Volvo and the European Union have

1614
01:39:06,439 --> 01:39:11,240
Speaker 1: made an announcement about limiting speed and I'm just furious

1615
01:39:11,240 --> 01:39:14,839
Speaker 1: about this. Can this come here? What's the deal behind? Yeah,

1616
01:39:14,880 --> 01:39:16,840
Speaker 1: it's already coming here. Volvo is going to start putting

1617
01:39:16,840 --> 01:39:19,960
Speaker 1: speed limits on their vehicles. So think about this. There

1618
01:39:19,960 --> 01:39:22,880
Speaker 1: are speed limits already on big trucks. They don't want

1619
01:39:22,880 --> 01:39:24,680
Speaker 1: them to go so fast. You can only go so

1620
01:39:24,760 --> 01:39:26,599
Speaker 1: fast with a big truck anyhow. I used to drive

1621
01:39:27,080 --> 01:39:30,080
Speaker 1: a truck for a while haul our race cars. But

1622
01:39:30,200 --> 01:39:31,519
Speaker 1: I will tell you that you can only go so

1623
01:39:31,600 --> 01:39:34,280
Speaker 1: fast because otherwise we could say the tail wags the dog,

1624
01:39:34,320 --> 01:39:36,400
Speaker 1: the trailer starts to sway, and you don't want to

1625
01:39:36,400 --> 01:39:39,639
Speaker 1: be doing that, and it's also very dangerous. So truck

1626
01:39:39,720 --> 01:39:43,640
Speaker 1: drivers that are professional drivers, without a question, they know,

1627
01:39:43,920 --> 01:39:45,960
Speaker 1: you know there's a certain limit. Well, they have limitters

1628
01:39:45,960 --> 01:39:49,160
Speaker 1: on their trucks and they're already being tracked and so

1629
01:39:49,240 --> 01:39:51,840
Speaker 1: now by whoever owns their truck. Now they want to

1630
01:39:51,840 --> 01:39:54,720
Speaker 1: do that same type of thing to cars, and they're

1631
01:39:54,760 --> 01:39:57,639
Speaker 1: doing it in China and in Europe as of twenty

1632
01:39:57,760 --> 01:40:01,080
Speaker 1: twenty two. So every vehicle produced by twenty twenty two

1633
01:40:01,120 --> 01:40:03,840
Speaker 1: will have a limitter on it, so that means you

1634
01:40:03,880 --> 01:40:06,360
Speaker 1: can't go over the speed limit, not even one mile

1635
01:40:06,360 --> 01:40:08,080
Speaker 1: an hour. With the speed limit, it will not let

1636
01:40:08,120 --> 01:40:11,440
Speaker 1: you because it's going to be based on GPS information.

1637
01:40:12,200 --> 01:40:15,040
Speaker 1: So if the speed limit is now fifty, you're doing fifty,

1638
01:40:15,120 --> 01:40:17,400
Speaker 1: which means zero road hazard. Everyone around you who might

1639
01:40:17,439 --> 01:40:20,880
Speaker 1: be doing fifty five. If you're slowing down traffic, someone

1640
01:40:20,960 --> 01:40:22,960
Speaker 1: might pass you. You still won't be able to go faster.

1641
01:40:23,720 --> 01:40:26,160
Speaker 1: And they're also going to put into that anyone that's

1642
01:40:26,160 --> 01:40:29,080
Speaker 1: in a crosswalk, if that thinks something's in a crosswalk,

1643
01:40:29,439 --> 01:40:31,800
Speaker 1: it will actually stop the vehicle because it's going to

1644
01:40:31,840 --> 01:40:35,040
Speaker 1: make the assumption that's a human where it could be anything. Wow,

1645
01:40:35,560 --> 01:40:40,240
Speaker 1: and no coincidence that Volvo was bought by China, and

1646
01:40:40,439 --> 01:40:43,480
Speaker 1: China wants all of those cars to be electric vehicles

1647
01:40:43,680 --> 01:40:47,120
Speaker 1: now reporting back to them so they can add their

1648
01:40:47,160 --> 01:40:51,519
Speaker 1: speeding or whatever to their social credit score. Oh I

1649
01:40:51,560 --> 01:40:53,240
Speaker 1: got one more thing for you to go with Gelie

1650
01:40:53,280 --> 01:40:55,280
Speaker 1: who owns Volvo, and I do love their cars, but

1651
01:40:55,320 --> 01:40:58,880
Speaker 1: I have to say the owner of Geelie is the

1652
01:40:59,200 --> 01:41:06,400
Speaker 1: president of China's brother no Gee whom. Yeah. Yeah, well

1653
01:41:06,439 --> 01:41:08,920
Speaker 1: everyone's related if you're making any money out there in

1654
01:41:09,200 --> 01:41:11,760
Speaker 1: the world of China. So yeah, but think about this

1655
01:41:11,800 --> 01:41:13,800
Speaker 1: they're reporting on the back. Now, you know a lot

1656
01:41:13,840 --> 01:41:16,120
Speaker 1: about these social credit scores, and you and I have

1657
01:41:16,160 --> 01:41:19,160
Speaker 1: both ranted about them, and if they're starting to do

1658
01:41:19,200 --> 01:41:21,160
Speaker 1: that here, you know, so go ahead if you want

1659
01:41:21,160 --> 01:41:22,680
Speaker 1: to tell them with social credit scores are I know

1660
01:41:22,680 --> 01:41:25,599
Speaker 1: you've been researching. Oh, we've We've talked about it at nauseam.

1661
01:41:25,680 --> 01:41:29,200
Speaker 1: The social credit scores well known to this audience, but

1662
01:41:29,280 --> 01:41:32,280
Speaker 1: it still makes me angry. And now on a Friday evening,

1663
01:41:32,360 --> 01:41:35,400
Speaker 1: I'm doubly angry. Thank you, Lauren Fixed the car Coach.

1664
01:41:35,400 --> 01:41:37,760
Speaker 1: Where do we find you online? You can find me

1665
01:41:37,760 --> 01:41:40,200
Speaker 1: at car Coach Reports dot com. Follow me on all

1666
01:41:40,240 --> 01:41:42,400
Speaker 1: forms of social media at Lauren Fix. And I just

1667
01:41:42,439 --> 01:41:44,960
Speaker 1: posted my for minute Friday so you can watch me

1668
01:41:45,080 --> 01:41:48,200
Speaker 1: rant about social credit scores. Cool, thank you, my friend.

1669
01:41:48,600 --> 01:41:51,240
Speaker 1: All right, thank you? And there she goes Lauren Fixed

1670
01:41:51,280 --> 01:41:54,320
Speaker 1: the Car Coach with information that infuriates me to the

1671
01:41:54,360 --> 01:41:56,799
Speaker 1: point where I need to take a break. Michael Pelka

1672
01:41:56,920 --> 01:41:59,800
Speaker 1: here wrapping up the Buck Sexton Show. Will be right

1673
01:41:59,840 --> 01:42:06,840
Speaker 1: back Michael Pelca in for Buck Sexton tonight. Before we

1674
01:42:06,840 --> 01:42:09,400
Speaker 1: get out of here, I was listening to AOC the

1675
01:42:09,439 --> 01:42:12,880
Speaker 1: other night. Alexandra Kazy Cortez and she said something and

1676
01:42:12,960 --> 01:42:16,720
Speaker 1: made my ears prick up. One year ago, I was

1677
01:42:16,840 --> 01:42:21,320
Speaker 1: waitressing in a taco shop in downtown Manhattan. I just

1678
01:42:21,360 --> 01:42:25,000
Speaker 1: got health insurance for the first time a month ago.

1679
01:42:25,760 --> 01:42:29,360
Speaker 1: So did you or did you not violate the law

1680
01:42:29,880 --> 01:42:33,200
Speaker 1: that demanded you have health insurance? I want to know

1681
01:42:33,400 --> 01:42:37,320
Speaker 1: was she breaking the law before her her job in

1682
01:42:37,439 --> 01:42:41,200
Speaker 1: Congress gave her healthcare. Somebody in the media should ask

1683
01:42:41,320 --> 01:42:44,519
Speaker 1: that I've got time for a real quick phone called

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Speaker 1: jonas in Austin, Texas. And I always worry about people

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Speaker 1: in Austin, especially if they're conservatives, because they're surrounded. John,

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Speaker 1: you got about thirty seconds. Can you bring your message

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Speaker 1: home that quickly? Yeah? I think we need to bring

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Speaker 1: the family back. I think that's what do we need

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Speaker 1: to focus on if we do tax reform where stay

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Speaker 1: at home parents who take care of children get the

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Speaker 1: same deduction as when you do when you go through

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Speaker 1: a daycare. I agree this country. I think you're right

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Speaker 1: and you can't go wrong with focusing on the family. John,

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Speaker 1: God bless you and yours and thank you for listening

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Speaker 1: to this show. We appreciate you. Have a great weekend, sir.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe I can't believe we're already up against it,

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Speaker 1: and I barely got any time. I didn't get to

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Speaker 1: tell you about the gig. If you want to you

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Speaker 1: want to make sixty five grand for four months, you

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Speaker 1: have to eat vegan food around the world. There's trade

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Speaker 1: offs to everything. People, I didn't get to tell you

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Speaker 1: about the funniest vanity plates the California has rejected you.

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Speaker 1: Did you know there were two hundred words for poop

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Speaker 1: in different languages and California has to look out for

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Speaker 1: all of them. Have a great weekend and as always,

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Speaker 1: test stude on my friends, test pseudom