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Speaker 1: There's insanity out there. There is serious topic overload. There's
Speaker 1: a buffet here of things we could talk about, and
Speaker 1: we'll try and get to all of it. And I
Speaker 1: would love to hear from all of you. If you're
Speaker 1: not familiar with me, Bucks sometimes refers to me as
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,
Speaker 1: very different thinking. But if you remember me from the Blaze, Radio, etc.
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Speaker 1: We also have some special guests joining us tonight next hour.
Speaker 1: The One, the Only, Shannon Bream is going to join us.
Speaker 1: We're gonna pick her brain on her new book, and
Speaker 1: we're also going to see if she'll give us a
Speaker 1: tip as to what she's covering on her incredible show
Speaker 1: on the Fox News Channel. Buck's been on there a
Speaker 1: lot lately, I think so much To get to tonight,
Speaker 1: there's a Jussie Smollett update from a prosecutor in California's
Speaker 1: going to talk to us. And did you know that
Speaker 1: Big Brother via China is officially creeping into millions and
Speaker 1: millions and millions of cars all around the globe. This
Speaker 1: is a big deal. China has purchased the Volvo car company.
Speaker 1: Happened a while ago, and in doing so, they have
Speaker 1: infiltrated one of the better car companies in the world.
Speaker 1: And they've also realized that that's a way to get
Speaker 1: inside all of our lives. And I know Bucks talked
Speaker 1: about the social credit score in China. Social credit score
Speaker 1: is how China is controlling its people. If you get
Speaker 1: caught smoking in public on one of the millions of
Speaker 1: facial recognition cameras in China. You get whatever ten demerits.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they record it, but they give
Speaker 1: you a strike. If you're doing it on a platform
Speaker 1: on the subway area, it's a bigger offense. If you're speeding,
Speaker 1: it's a problem. If you're caught misbehaving in public. They
Speaker 1: record all of this. And when your social credit score
Speaker 1: gets to the point where it is below the expected score,
Speaker 1: just like your own personal financial credit score is in
Speaker 1: this country, life becomes more difficult. It becomes harder for
Speaker 1: you to do things. It becomes impossible for you to
Speaker 1: live as you would want to live. They can prevent
Speaker 1: you from buying plane tickets if your social credit score
Speaker 1: is not high enough. If you're not a good enough
Speaker 1: member of the party, the Chinese government can prevent you
Speaker 1: from flying. They can prevent you from buying a ticket
Speaker 1: on the high speed rail. They can relegate you to
Speaker 1: buying a ticket on the slow, slower than molasses train system.
Speaker 1: So China is doing this. Now, that's not going to
Speaker 1: happen here, is it. We can have a social credit
Speaker 1: score happening here. We can't have China like impositions into
Speaker 1: our personal lives. Well, we'll talk about this because Volvo
Speaker 1: is now putting into effect some of the social credit
Speaker 1: score monitoring that China has, and we'll talk to the
Speaker 1: car coach Lauren Fix a little bit later in the
Speaker 1: show about that. But I'll just bring it up right now.
Speaker 1: If you own a car in the European Union and
Speaker 1: you want to drive over a certain speed, they're going
Speaker 1: to be able to slow you down. They'll be able
Speaker 1: to actually limit the speed. They'll put limits like we
Speaker 1: have in many of the professionally driven trucks in this
Speaker 1: country that will prevent you from driving over the speed limit.
Speaker 1: It won't just send a warning to you. It will
Speaker 1: control your engine. And this is coming on new cars,
Speaker 1: of course, so I'm not going to retro fit all
Speaker 1: the cars. So hang on to that nineteen sixty five
Speaker 1: Mustang you got. It's going to be worth a lot
Speaker 1: more than you anticipated. This is happening. And if you
Speaker 1: look at the way we are driving now. I use
Speaker 1: something called ways wa Ze. It's an app on your
Speaker 1: phone that helps you avoid traffic. It's GPS and driving instructions,
Speaker 1: and it is crowdsourced information on traffic. Maybe the location
Speaker 1: of speed traps. I'm just saying, it might warn you
Speaker 1: about a half a mile before you approach a speed trap,
Speaker 1: so you might slow down just in case you were
Speaker 1: going over the limit. But Ways is collecting all this
Speaker 1: data and they're going to share it with somebody. And
Speaker 1: it's getting a little freaky because now when I come
Speaker 1: out of a store, I get in my car, I
Speaker 1: instantly get a message that says you're fifteen minutes from home.
Speaker 1: How did they know? How did they know I was
Speaker 1: going home? So if you don't think that technology is
Speaker 1: already here, even in older cars, if you have your device,
Speaker 1: your smartphone on you, big brothers going to know where
Speaker 1: you are, how far away you are. They're recording your patterns.
Speaker 1: They know I go to the studio every morning, when
Speaker 1: I go to my other gig at five thirty in
Speaker 1: the morning, and then no, I tend to leave at
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock and then I go home after that. So
Speaker 1: they're already watching us. And the only way to make
Speaker 1: sure they're not is to disconnect. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if any of us wants to do that. I don't
Speaker 1: know if any of us thinks that's something we're even
Speaker 1: capable of doing anyway your thoughts, you want to join
Speaker 1: the conversation on this eight four four nine hundred buck
Speaker 1: eight four four nine hundred seven eight two five. I
Speaker 1: know I got I get all concerned about Big Brother.
Speaker 1: I get very concerned about the fact that a gigantic,
Speaker 1: growing government could want to take over important parts of
Speaker 1: our lives. But then again, when I turned sixteen, getting
Speaker 1: your driver's license and getting the freedom of being able
Speaker 1: to drive a car was the most important thing you
Speaker 1: could do. And now today the sixteen year olds don't
Speaker 1: seem to be so concerned with it. They're more interested
Speaker 1: in when they're going to get the latest upgrade on
Speaker 1: Fortnite or whatever the video game of the day. Is
Speaker 1: that they believe all the cars are going to drive themselves,
Speaker 1: and maybe they will, but that's something I still don't
Speaker 1: want to get rid of. There was nothing more freeing
Speaker 1: than being able to leave your parents' house, get in
Speaker 1: a car, even if you had to borrow it from
Speaker 1: mom and dad, and drive away and drive to some
Speaker 1: place that wasn't home, to get freedom. And now I
Speaker 1: fear that all that's gonna go away, And the same
Speaker 1: sixteen year olds who don't care about getting a driver's license,
Speaker 1: being able to drive. This same group of people is
Speaker 1: who Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats want to give the
Speaker 1: right to vote too. They want to allow them to
Speaker 1: pick a president because they're going to pick a president
Speaker 1: who wants all the freedoms to give us all the
Speaker 1: free stuff. It's a little frightening. It is a little frightening,
Speaker 1: and I've taken myself way out of the direction I
Speaker 1: wanted to go today because there is so much happening today.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we talked about this, but John
Speaker 1: Bolton has warned Russia on the military presence in Venezuela.
Speaker 1: Last weekend and early this week, there were several planes
Speaker 1: from Russia that landed in Caracas and delivered tanks, troops,
Speaker 1: and military advisors to Venezuela. Now it's not an overwhelming
Speaker 1: military force that showed up, but let's just say it's
Speaker 1: a couple hundred Russian soldiers in a few tanks and
Speaker 1: some military advisors. Now, why would would Venezuela need military advisors?
Speaker 1: And I don't know, a couple hundred soldiers and some tanks.
Speaker 1: They have a military Maybe it's a deal. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: a deal, and the president said two days ago when
Speaker 1: he was meeting with the opposition leader that declared president
Speaker 1: of Venezuela Whela's wife, Guyeto's wife in the White House,
Speaker 1: he said, Russia's got to get out. And the press said, well,
Speaker 1: how are they going to get out, sir, and he said, well,
Speaker 1: everything's on the table. You'll see, you'll see. But then
Speaker 1: I started thinking, why why why is Russia in Venezuela.
Speaker 1: Russians in Venezuela for one reason and one reason only,
Speaker 1: And we need to pay attention here. Why would Venezuela
Speaker 1: allow Russian soldiers and military equivalent, just a small little
Speaker 1: bit of it into the country. Maduro the dictator Maduro
Speaker 1: would not allow caravans of food into the country, of
Speaker 1: medicine into the country. Caracas is going back to the
Speaker 1: Middle Ages as the power outages continue in that wants
Speaker 1: great capital city. It's all going the wrong direction. So
Speaker 1: why why why does Maduro have Russians and tanks and
Speaker 1: military advisors. They're now his private security team. Why would
Speaker 1: Russia offer that? Oh, I don't know. Because the gooey
Speaker 1: dinosaur juice that exists between the Earth's surface and the
Speaker 1: ground underneath Venezuela. Venezuela has oil reserves beyond anyone's real
Speaker 1: expectations or knowledge. Venezuela has more oil underground, I believe,
Speaker 1: than Saudi Arabia. And Russia loves to have oil because
Speaker 1: oil equals power. And if we don't do something about
Speaker 1: what's going on in Venezuela, we're gonna have It's kind
Speaker 1: of like this proxy war that's going on there. The
Speaker 1: interesting thing here, and perhaps the President can maybe make
Speaker 1: something happen here. The interesting thing in all of this
Speaker 1: is China doesn't like Russia being in Venezuela either, because China,
Speaker 1: with all its people, needs that oil too. Isn't this
Speaker 1: an interesting little three level chess match. We shall see
Speaker 1: where this goes. Any thoughts on any of this, all
Speaker 1: of this, none of this, trust me. We've got a
Speaker 1: lot to get to tonight. Michael Pelka in for my
Speaker 1: buddy Buck Sexton on the Buck Sexton Show. You can
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Speaker 1: And I'm sitting here a red faced as John and
Speaker 1: the guys in the studio are saying, you know, you
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Speaker 1: nine hundred And I didn't say the right number. The
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Speaker 1: we didn't get a call. Yeah, you read the wrong number. There, cheesecake.
Speaker 1: So if you guys want to join the conversation, we
Speaker 1: have a lot to talk about tonight. As I mentioned,
Speaker 1: we're going to get an update and answer some questions
Speaker 1: on the just Smallett thing in Chicago, which is so
Speaker 1: embarrassing to me because I am Chicago born. Chicago is
Speaker 1: my hometown, I lived there, I still visit there regularly,
Speaker 1: I have family there, and to see this mess in Chicago,
Speaker 1: I have to tell you, for the first time in
Speaker 1: my life, I agreed with Ram Emmanuel when he called
Speaker 1: out what was done. He actually chastised publically the District
Speaker 1: Attorney's office and the prosecutors who dropped the case. But
Speaker 1: we'll pick the brains of California Prosecutor Wendy Patrick, who
Speaker 1: you may or may not have seen. She's been all
Speaker 1: over the news, been all over Fox stations, and we'll
Speaker 1: ask her about the j Smallett story because it's growing
Speaker 1: and growing. I know it's been quiet for a couple
Speaker 1: of days, but I think there's so much more behind
Speaker 1: this now. Last night, the President spoke to a full
Speaker 1: house with an overflow crowd in Michigan, and it was
Speaker 1: a campaign event, no doubt about it. And I thought
Speaker 1: it was interesting because Dana Perino on the Five had
Speaker 1: some advice for the president, and I think he should
Speaker 1: listen to Dana Perino. Miss Barno said that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: should get out of Washington as much as he can
Speaker 1: right now, as much as possible, and be with the
Speaker 1: people who got him elected and the people who he's
Speaker 1: going to need come twenty twenty, come the next election.
Speaker 1: And I agree with that. I think he's so good
Speaker 1: when he's with people, and he's so spot on and
Speaker 1: all you heard today there's one clip from last night.
Speaker 1: That was overplayed and over loan, and I think it's
Speaker 1: out of the hour. It was an hour and thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: just over an hour and thirty minutes. The President spoke
Speaker 1: last night. He used a little teleprompter. Most of it
Speaker 1: was Donald Trump, and he connected with that audience, says
Speaker 1: he does every time he's with his base. But you
Speaker 1: don't hear the important things, like you didn't hear you
Speaker 1: didn't hear this really anywhere in mainstream media. You did
Speaker 1: not hear Donald Trump from his Michigan rally saying this.
Speaker 1: We believe that children should be taught to love our country,
Speaker 1: to honor our history, to be proud, to be happy,
Speaker 1: to love and always to respect our great American flag. Now,
Speaker 1: aside from that weird pronunciation at the end of it
Speaker 1: where he says great American flag, I think he does
Speaker 1: that to get your attention. That's his speech pattern. But
Speaker 1: what is wrong with that, That, truly is what should
Speaker 1: be indoctrinating our children is all about. That's what we
Speaker 1: should be giving these kids, the understanding of how great
Speaker 1: America is, what a great opportunity America is. But no,
Speaker 1: they chose to focus on the other parts of the speech.
Speaker 1: The President talked about loving God, the President talked about
Speaker 1: respecting life and not voting for people who are pro infanticide.
Speaker 1: But the one moment, the six point seven seconds of
Speaker 1: the speech last night that the mainstream media has played
Speaker 1: over and over and CNN could not wait to get
Speaker 1: in in the morning and play it without bleeping it.
Speaker 1: You know, you remember the s whole comment that the
Speaker 1: President made years ago, and CNN all its anchors kept saying, Oh,
Speaker 1: we're going to be able to say that, right, we
Speaker 1: can curse on TV, right? Or how excited they were
Speaker 1: like a bunch of seven year olds running into their parents'
Speaker 1: dinner party and saying the word p us out loud
Speaker 1: so all the adults would laugh. They're so idiotic, it's
Speaker 1: so maddening. But this is the seven seconds with the
Speaker 1: appropriate beleieping of what I believe was an ad lib
Speaker 1: last night. The Democrats have to now decide whether they
Speaker 1: will continue defrauding the public with ridiculous books. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: wonder if that was on the teleprompter like that or
Speaker 1: did they did they edit it down or put Bravo
Speaker 1: Sierra instead of whatever else the President said? You know
Speaker 1: what he said? I know what he said. I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem with that. My life is not going
Speaker 1: to end. My world is not going to stop. Because
Speaker 1: the President used the Bravo Sierra term in front of
Speaker 1: an audience of his supporters. Oh Heaven forfend, it's like
Speaker 1: they've never heard cursing. Get on a subway at three
Speaker 1: o'clock in New York City when the schools are letting
Speaker 1: out and the kids are going home and duck away
Speaker 1: from the f bombs. Try I double dog Daria. It's crazy, people,
Speaker 1: he really is crazy. And hopefully we'll lend clarity to that.
Speaker 1: All right, David's down, Hold, we're gonna get to you, David.
Speaker 1: We're also going to get to our friend, doctor Wendy
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Speaker 1: better for you, better for America. Well it's not Buck,
Speaker 1: but it's his buddy, Michael Pelica, the Godfather, here with
Speaker 1: you on the buck Sexton showing this Friday evening. And
Speaker 1: what's been an incredible, incredible last week, starting with last
Speaker 1: Friday and the drop of the Muller report at the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice handed to the Attorney General, and then
Speaker 1: Sunday we got the four pages, and then Monday we
Speaker 1: saw the weekend ratings for or MSNBC and CNN that
Speaker 1: we're swirling the toilet and going down, down, down, And
Speaker 1: then Monday happened and we had some craziness, something that
Speaker 1: shocked me and maybe just scratch my head and say
Speaker 1: what And I'm talking about the Chicago story with the
Speaker 1: dropping of all sixteen charges against Jesse Smollett, the actor
Speaker 1: from Empire, and the subsequent reaction from so many in
Speaker 1: the mainstream media and then from the Mayor of Chicago,
Speaker 1: Ram Emmanuel. I found myself believed or not agreeing with
Speaker 1: Ram Emmanuel for the first time in my life because
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. So I called a friend of mine,
Speaker 1: somebody who is a lawyer, who is a prosecutor, who
Speaker 1: writes on much of this stuff and also speaks publicly
Speaker 1: about the law. Her name is Wendy Patrick. Wendy Patrick
Speaker 1: p dot com is where you find out more about her.
Speaker 1: You've probably seen her on TV or heard her on radio.
Speaker 1: She's been on this show with me in the past.
Speaker 1: And I asked Wendy to stop in with us this
Speaker 1: evening because I just need to understand this even further.
Speaker 1: Wendy Patrick, Welcome back to the Buck Sexton Show. Thanks Mike,
Speaker 1: it's always a pleasure to join you. Well, I'm happy
Speaker 1: you're here because you and I talked to off Air
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, and you said, this isn't
Speaker 1: really that unusual, this kind of action by a prosecutor's office,
Speaker 1: district attorney's office. This isn't really that strange in a sense.
Speaker 1: And let me explain, in a sense, it is not
Speaker 1: enormously unusual to have some kind of a deferred prosecution,
Speaker 1: to have lower level crimes disposed of other than by
Speaker 1: way of jury trial. What makes this case unique is
Speaker 1: the fact that it's Jesse Smollett, and we want to
Speaker 1: make sure that Lady Justice is lined and that nobody
Speaker 1: gets a special deal because of who they are. That
Speaker 1: has been the focus in this case. We have watched
Speaker 1: Jussie go from victim to villain to vindication. Now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden on Monday, a move which apparently took
Speaker 1: the chief employee the mayor by such surprise that they
Speaker 1: both came out with that fiery press conference. So we
Speaker 1: all watched on Monday. Now, will you talk about the
Speaker 1: gift that keeps on giving? As if we didn't have
Speaker 1: enough to talk about now we see that the city
Speaker 1: is doing jussee for the one hundred and thirty grand
Speaker 1: that they spent chasing down leads. They say we're false,
Speaker 1: in an attempt to corroborate his story, which of course
Speaker 1: they never could at end of all arrows pointed in
Speaker 1: the other direction. So it's even more interesting now, might
Speaker 1: because now we have an issue of whether or not
Speaker 1: he can be prosecuted under a city ordinance, which or
Speaker 1: prosecuted civilly. Of course, what that means is a lower
Speaker 1: standard of proof, and we really often say suit civilly
Speaker 1: because it's at the preponderance of the evidence. But he
Speaker 1: is not clear. I suppose that is the message from Chicago,
Speaker 1: from his fans around the globe, and from the court
Speaker 1: of public opinion, where, of course you and I know
Speaker 1: he's already been convicted. Yeah, he's guilty in the court
Speaker 1: of public opinion, especially if you're a geek like me
Speaker 1: and you read through the files that the Chicago Police
Speaker 1: Department released later that evening on Monday. I did too, Mike,
Speaker 1: I read the same thing you did. We both geeked
Speaker 1: out on it, no doubt, remarkable stuff. But here are
Speaker 1: my other questions, Wenny. I think this is interesting, and
Speaker 1: it's always good to know that Chicago probably has some
Speaker 1: recourse here and that in a civil proceeding, not a
Speaker 1: criminal proceeding. As you said, the standard of guilt is
Speaker 1: lower with that term preponderance of evidence. It's just got
Speaker 1: to kind of feel like more than not that he
Speaker 1: was guilty, and he could get smacked with that. I
Speaker 1: don't know if Illinois has or Chicago has court costs,
Speaker 1: because it could get more expensive for Jesse if he
Speaker 1: is in fact found guilty on that side. But here's
Speaker 1: the other question. And you may not know this. That
Speaker 1: letter that was sent to the production facility, the studio
Speaker 1: in Chicago where Empire was headquartered, the letter that had
Speaker 1: the white powder in it turned out to be benign,
Speaker 1: nothing big. The letter that threatened Jesse Smollett that appeared
Speaker 1: to be race based and had some homophobic slurs on
Speaker 1: it as well. If that turns out to have been
Speaker 1: created by Jesse Smollett and mailed by Jesse Smollett, is
Speaker 1: there a federal crime here that could ramp up as well. Yes,
Speaker 1: And that actually is what's being investigated. And you know
Speaker 1: that's what the President tweeted about the other day. Is
Speaker 1: he maybe have the clear state wise, but of course
Speaker 1: we know the city's going after him under that city
Speaker 1: ordinance and the FBI is looking into him for mail fraud,
Speaker 1: for send that false letter to himself, So he is
Speaker 1: certainly not in the clear, you know. And you and
Speaker 1: I talked on Monday about he may have been vindicated
Speaker 1: quote unquote, but he wasn't exonerated. Remember, even the prosecutor's
Speaker 1: office said, when asked, do you think he's innocent, they
Speaker 1: said no. So the FEDS are looking at them to
Speaker 1: see if they can make something out of that case federally,
Speaker 1: and they could absolutely if they chose to charge him
Speaker 1: with the crime there. But here is the issue with
Speaker 1: crimes that involved fraud. The penalty is often finds, not handcuffs,
Speaker 1: and people are so livid, especially those that no others
Speaker 1: that have actually been legitimate hate crime victims don't worry
Speaker 1: that they will now be afraid to come forward because
Speaker 1: they're afraid they won't be believed because of the Jesse
Speaker 1: Smollett case. So the ramifications, even if the FEDS do
Speaker 1: go after them for mail fraud or for you know,
Speaker 1: however they want to charge sending that false letter, the
Speaker 1: ramifications and the ripple effect is far larger than simply
Speaker 1: what's going to happen to criminally. It's what this has
Speaker 1: done socially, and that is one of the reasons that
Speaker 1: this jest isn't going away anytime soon. And I have
Speaker 1: long predicted that even though Hollywood is very forgiving, this
Speaker 1: may have long term damage on his marketability, the brand management,
Speaker 1: the damage control that would be involved in attempting to
Speaker 1: repair his image. It's never going to happen without a
Speaker 1: public apology, and that does not appear to be forthcoming. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's a great analysis there. We're talking to Wendy Patrick.
Speaker 1: She's a prosecutor, an attorney, an author. Someday I respect
Speaker 1: opinion on the law talking about whether or not Jesse Smollett,
Speaker 1: even though if he gets caught up in something I
Speaker 1: hate to play that if true thing. But if he
Speaker 1: ends up being prosecuted for writing a letter that used
Speaker 1: the postal system, and that's a federal crime, it's not
Speaker 1: going to involve Jesse being handcuffed and frog marched out
Speaker 1: of his home and into a courtroom. And people who
Speaker 1: are getting all fired up about that that want that
Speaker 1: just check yourself for a minute, because remember how we
Speaker 1: laughed at the left and the media who railed against
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and kept saying I can't wait, I can't
Speaker 1: wait for him to be handcuffed and let out of
Speaker 1: the White House, for Jared and Ivanka to be handcuffed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the same kind of anger. And so while we
Speaker 1: laughed at them, understand that people are laughing at us.
Speaker 1: The law is the law, and we need to let
Speaker 1: the law be enforced as it's meant to be, which
Speaker 1: I guess the answer. But you bring up the residual
Speaker 1: effect this will have on his residuals, I guess is
Speaker 1: what I'm looking at. It already appears that Empire is
Speaker 1: coming back for another season, but Inside Money says no
Speaker 1: Jussie on the show. I wonder how they get rid
Speaker 1: of his character? Well, yeah, where do they like? How
Speaker 1: somebody else to play the character they write about? I mean,
Speaker 1: it's such an interesting it's such an interesting question. You know,
Speaker 1: you just feel so bad for this entire process. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's just so many people that have been victimized by
Speaker 1: this allegedly false claim. And I mean I say that
Speaker 1: because I don't know anybody that believes that that actually happened,
Speaker 1: only because the investigation was so thorough. As a prosecutor,
Speaker 1: you know, you and I have talked about this before
Speaker 1: the amount of time, talent, and resources that were diverted
Speaker 1: to chase down these leads when they could have been used,
Speaker 1: you know, more effectively fighting crime in the Chicago's got
Speaker 1: a terrible crime problem, and in every big city does.
Speaker 1: Those hours lost can never be repaid unless Jesse agrees
Speaker 1: to work over the one hundred and thirty grand, which
Speaker 1: he won't because that would be an admission of guilt.
Speaker 1: So that really the balls in the court of the
Speaker 1: city to see if they're actually going to follow through
Speaker 1: with that investigation. But the social damage is already done,
Speaker 1: and the political damage is already done. What Hollywood is
Speaker 1: going to do, as you phrased your very insightful question,
Speaker 1: is I would say anybody's guest, but I think we
Speaker 1: can probably guess they're not going to re embrace Jesse
Speaker 1: with open arms. He have to find another position if
Speaker 1: he wants to continue to work in that town. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's hard to go from seventy thousand dollars an episode too.
Speaker 1: We need somebody to carry the coffee into the craft
Speaker 1: services table. Oh, that could hurt. He apologizes, Mike. He
Speaker 1: apologizes if he did this, and he is as he's forgiven.
Speaker 1: We are a culture of forgiveness. If he apologizes, he's forgiven,
Speaker 1: he could actually make a comeback. Why do I say that,
Speaker 1: We've seen other celebrities do it so, but it would
Speaker 1: have that that's something he might have to strategize with
Speaker 1: this lawyers, that they decide to go that route. That
Speaker 1: would be one way to make a comeback, maybe even
Speaker 1: keep his character. I don't know. I'm the eternal optimist.
Speaker 1: I mean forgiveness is extending grace, and that's what we
Speaker 1: do as human beings. Don't we extend grace, We understand,
Speaker 1: we forgive. If somebody is contrite, expresses remorse and expresses
Speaker 1: an apology, well that's the advice I would give him.
Speaker 1: And that's the ice from Wendy Patrick, or at least
Speaker 1: an explanation of what Jesse might do. Wendy Patrick, thank
Speaker 1: you so much, my friend. Appreciate you being there. Love
Speaker 1: the clarity, and I love the compassion because without it,
Speaker 1: we're just animals and we need to we need to
Speaker 1: latch onto the compassion. So thank you. My friend Amen
Speaker 1: always loves to mix it up. Thanks Mike, and there
Speaker 1: she goes. I'm a big fan of Wendy stuff. So
Speaker 1: if you want to know what she's up to. Wendy
Speaker 1: Patrick PhD dot com. This is going to be one
Speaker 1: to watch. This guy is probably going to be radioactive
Speaker 1: in Hollywood for a while until he does what Wendy
Speaker 1: suggested he'd do. I think I have time to grab
Speaker 1: a quick call before we go to break. Larry is
Speaker 1: on the phone in Ohio. Larry, Welcome to the Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton Show. I'm sorry I had to hold nun, but
Speaker 1: you know, I only get so much time with the prosecutor.
Speaker 1: I got to get her when I can. Hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: you got eb a hour. That's right, You're absolutely right,
Speaker 1: and then most of the attorneys you get that quarter
Speaker 1: hour and you've got to maximize it. So Buck was
Speaker 1: down at the border. Well you're you're welcome, sir. You
Speaker 1: know I read Buck's Facebook post yesterday about visiting the
Speaker 1: border and he went to a section of the border
Speaker 1: that I also visited during twenty fourteen in the summer
Speaker 1: when we had that big wave come through, and he
Speaker 1: said that he watched the border guards, the border patrol
Speaker 1: arrests two people coming in and it turns out they
Speaker 1: were from Qubating. Yeah, so you have a thought on
Speaker 1: the border and the President. Well, yeah, Mike, I heard
Speaker 1: the last couple of days the President as indicated he
Speaker 1: may shut down the border between US in Mexico, which
Speaker 1: I agree with him, but I think it'd be does
Speaker 1: it should be a complete shut down, not just for
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants, for air traffic, train traffic, and most of
Speaker 1: all mail service. There's millions of dollars mailed from US
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants to their homes in Mexico. You're right, I would.
Speaker 1: I would shut it down completely. Take a division of
Speaker 1: troops from Fort Hood, division of Marines from Camp Pendleton
Speaker 1: and shut that thing down completely and hit them right
Speaker 1: in the belly, mainly financially, no banking transactions. Well, that
Speaker 1: that brings Larry, I'm up against a little bit of
Speaker 1: a wall here. You bring up a really radical but
Speaker 1: you know it's not implausible solution. You just have to
Speaker 1: make sure you're not preventing medicine or vital resources from
Speaker 1: getting back and forth. And it's one I'm sure the
Speaker 1: administration's investigating. We've got more to talk about today, a
Speaker 1: lot more to talk about it. I found out about
Speaker 1: Buck's gripe on the robocalls, and we all get them.
Speaker 1: I've had a bunch but I reached out to the
Speaker 1: FCC and talked to the big man a cheat pie
Speaker 1: about it. We'll get to that tonight. You want to
Speaker 1: call in and join the conversation. Eight four four nine
Speaker 1: hundred Buck eight four four nine two eight two five
Speaker 1: on The Buck Sexton Show. Michael Pelka in for Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton on this Friday night, and Wow, the time is
Speaker 1: rocking and flying. I'm excited about that. But there's so
Speaker 1: much more going on. We were talking briefly about the
Speaker 1: border just before the break, and there is great concern
Speaker 1: at the border now, not just because we're currently overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: Our border patrol is overwhelmed, and they've said it. They've
Speaker 1: told the President. The Department of Homeland Security is saying, hey,
Speaker 1: mister President, we're in deep trouble here. We got big problems,
Speaker 1: and now there is a caravan approaching us that is
Speaker 1: the biggest caravan ever. So what are we going to do?
Speaker 1: What are we going to do, mister President? Maybe the
Speaker 1: answer is to temporarily close the border. Maybe maybe not.
Speaker 1: We'll discuss. Michael Pelka on the Buck Sexton Show, coming
Speaker 1: up next hour. I forgot to tell you, coming up
Speaker 1: next hour, Buck was griping about all the robocalls he
Speaker 1: gets on his phone. I get him too, you get
Speaker 1: him too. So I reached out to a Jeet Pie
Speaker 1: at the FCC, yeah, head guy, and he talked to
Speaker 1: me about it. I'll tell you what he's doing. I'll
Speaker 1: let him tell you what he's doing. And you've seen
Speaker 1: Buck on TV with Shannon Bream on Fox. One of
Speaker 1: my favorite people in the whole wide world is Shannon Bream.
Speaker 1: While I reached out to Shannon and said, hey, Buck's
Speaker 1: been on your show. Why did you come on Buck
Speaker 1: show with me? So next hour, my friend, my buddy
Speaker 1: Fox anchor Shannon Bream will join us, and you're welcome
Speaker 1: to eight four four nine hundred Buck eight four four
Speaker 1: nine hundred two eight two five The Buck Sexton Show
Speaker 1: with Michael Pelka sitting in. Come on back, Michael Pelka
Speaker 1: here for Buck Sexton on this Friday night. Happy to
Speaker 1: be here, thrilled to be here. My friend Buck taking
Speaker 1: a day out. He's been working like a dog, he's
Speaker 1: been everywhere, and he got a little testy, I know,
Speaker 1: over the robocalls. I'll play for you, Mike. Conversation with
Speaker 1: the FCC chief a Jeet Pie because I was getting
Speaker 1: the same number of calls. It's driving me nuts. And
Speaker 1: I reached out and said, you've got to be doing
Speaker 1: something somebody in Washington. Now that we've kind of got
Speaker 1: control of the FCC, somebody's got to be doing something.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk with a Jeet Pie shortly, or you'll
Speaker 1: hear my conversation with him. You can't talk to him, well,
Speaker 1: maybe you can. Maybe you're a neighbor anyway, if you
Speaker 1: want to discuss anything with me on the program tonight
Speaker 1: eight four four nine hundred buck eight four four nine
Speaker 1: hundred two eight two five. I just talked with a
Speaker 1: buddy mine who's listening in Dallas. Happens to be a
Speaker 1: movie critic and checked in in the break and said,
Speaker 1: you know, Dumbo. You may not want to bother with Dumbo.
Speaker 1: And I'm kind of bummed about this because new movie
Speaker 1: coming out, Tim Burton directing a lot five action version
Speaker 1: of Dumbo with computerization. Of course you don't have flying elephants,
Speaker 1: but you have flying animated elephants that look like real elephants.
Speaker 1: And Danny de Vito said the whole thing, said you
Speaker 1: may want to skip this one. And the review that
Speaker 1: my reviewer friend quoted was from a colleague who said,
Speaker 1: the best way to understand Dumbo, which is two hours
Speaker 1: and ten minutes long. How many kids are gonna sit
Speaker 1: through a two hour and ten minute movie. I feel
Speaker 1: bad for the parents who bring a bunch of kids
Speaker 1: to see a movie which PG. Thirteen, which means it's
Speaker 1: probably got some little bit action in it. A two
Speaker 1: hour and ten minute movie. Parents with kids, how many
Speaker 1: times are they going to have to get up and
Speaker 1: leave go to the bathroom two hours and ten minutes.
Speaker 1: That's just insensitive movie studio. You're not being smart for
Speaker 1: your target audience. But Dumbo, I saw. I saw that
Speaker 1: the trailer, and I was so excited because I love
Speaker 1: Tim Burton movies. And now I'm thinking, I can't see this.
Speaker 1: I can't say it if you've seen it already, if
Speaker 1: you went out at lunch and you want to correct
Speaker 1: this review which says more junk, less trunk, and there
Speaker 1: apparently are some global things in their global governmental things
Speaker 1: and environmental stuff, and it's also putting in the opinion,
Speaker 1: the anti circus opinion. Nobody wants to see animals abused,
Speaker 1: but we don't want to see it in a Disney classic.
Speaker 1: My buddy said, if you want to see a circus movie,
Speaker 1: go rent the one from a few years ago. I
Speaker 1: think it had Hugh Jackman and it I didn't see it,
Speaker 1: but that's out there. Also coming up this hour, bottom
Speaker 1: of the hour, we're gonna talk with Shannon Bream from
Speaker 1: Fox News. She has a book coming out, and I
Speaker 1: am such a fan of Shannon Bream. I love. I
Speaker 1: have a lot of good friends at Fox and some
Speaker 1: of them are very powerful and opinionated, and they drive
Speaker 1: a lot of their work based on opinion. Shannon Bream
Speaker 1: is one of the pure journalists out there and I
Speaker 1: think very respectful. So I'm excited to talk to her
Speaker 1: this hour and we will get into a discussion with
Speaker 1: her about a few things. Talk about the President too.
Speaker 1: I want I want to know what she feels about
Speaker 1: what he's up to, especially the rally that we saw
Speaker 1: last night in Michigan. There's a big headline this evening
Speaker 1: on Drudge that says federal spending the highest in a decade.
Speaker 1: And that's true. We're spending a lot of money, and
Speaker 1: that's one of those areas I wish we would get
Speaker 1: our all of our politicians to control. We don't have
Speaker 1: a revenue problem. We're bringing in revenue. Donald Trump's economy
Speaker 1: is bringing in tax money, corporate tax money, because sales
Speaker 1: are up even though they hut the corporate tax rate.
Speaker 1: Guess what. Corporations can get more efficient and they sell
Speaker 1: more stuff, and we're doing better in bringing in revenue.
Speaker 1: But the revenue is not the problem. The problem is spending.
Speaker 1: If you spend more than you make, you're going to
Speaker 1: have a problem. So anybody who's got issues with the
Speaker 1: deficit going up, do you have to look at federal
Speaker 1: spending and federal spending the highest in a decade. And
Speaker 1: I think we got to be honest about it. We
Speaker 1: have to be honest with our politicians. If they're spending
Speaker 1: too much money, we need them to dial it back.
Speaker 1: We need them to calm down with the spending. But
Speaker 1: guess who controls the spending right now? Oh? Gee, I
Speaker 1: wonder who. I wonder who? Nancy Pelosi. Don't get me started, people,
Speaker 1: don't get me started now. I asked a question on
Speaker 1: Monday when we were talking about things. I asked a question.
Speaker 1: Following the release of the Muller report to the Department
Speaker 1: of Justice and to the Attorney General and his four
Speaker 1: page summary, which basically told us there was no collusion
Speaker 1: and the good news there there was no American involved
Speaker 1: in the Russian attempts to mess with our election. No American,
Speaker 1: which is great news for everybody. And why we're not
Speaker 1: cheering that after all that time, I don't know. But
Speaker 1: you've got Adam Schiff, whose name I really have a
Speaker 1: hard time saying without turning it into something else. Adam
Speaker 1: Schiff demanding, Nancy Pelosi demanding, Chuck Schumer demanding, Jerry Nadler
Speaker 1: demanding that April second. They want that report, little mister.
Speaker 1: They're demanding that report and all the underlying evidence, and
Speaker 1: now we're hearing that maybe mid April. We will get
Speaker 1: the report. Maybe mid April. I wonder if when you
Speaker 1: hand over the report you'll also get an apology to
Speaker 1: the president. We should make that contingent upon the delivery
Speaker 1: of the report. You want to copy the report. If
Speaker 1: you called the president a Russian asset, you have to
Speaker 1: apologize first, and I think an apology is due. I
Speaker 1: think an apology is definitely due. And the first thing
Speaker 1: I thought of on Sunday when the report and the
Speaker 1: summary converged on the media and caused the left side
Speaker 1: of the media go apoplectic. I thought six hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five days and forty million dollars, six hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five days and forty million dollars an untold media time.
Speaker 1: Billions in media time was spent attacking the president, and
Speaker 1: he attacked back. There's no harm in tecting yourself. But
Speaker 1: it reminded me of a song from Rent, that big
Speaker 1: song of five twenty five hundred whatever minutes. I don't
Speaker 1: know the musical. I only know the song because you've
Speaker 1: heard it a million times, and so a buddy him
Speaker 1: on and I wrote and produced a little parody song
Speaker 1: from Rent and wanted to share it with you here.
Speaker 1: It's called what about Trump? The Apology, because we believe
Speaker 1: the president deserves an apology for the six hundred seventy
Speaker 1: five days and forty million dollars that you and I
Speaker 1: paid for, So let me share it with you right here.
Speaker 1: It was a complete and total exoneration. The president is
Speaker 1: the president of all Americans, and he's focused on doing
Speaker 1: what is best for our country. The media saying the
Speaker 1: most horrible things about this president. Where was the apology?
Speaker 1: Six hundred seventy five days in foy Mildi in the dolls,
Speaker 1: six hundred seventy five days in mad and bus found
Speaker 1: six hundred seventy five days in ponty million dollars. How
Speaker 1: do you measure mensuras from coming to Brandon to stoke
Speaker 1: it to bid Rosenstein, Obama, mccaven, Chris the First Steve
Speaker 1: six hundred seventy five days in Pony Mildi in the dolls?
Speaker 1: How do you MEASUREE? Measure about? What about? What a five?
Speaker 1: The media theology? What about? It's a shame that our
Speaker 1: country had to go through this, and I never want
Speaker 1: this country to go through that again, that kind of
Speaker 1: abusive power, with what appears to be a deep state
Speaker 1: conspiracy that was forced on us by the mainstream media's
Speaker 1: left side and by many inside the government. You know,
Speaker 1: if Saturday Night Live can go after the president and
Speaker 1: parody the president, I think we should be allowed to
Speaker 1: go after the mainstream media and parody them. I hope
Speaker 1: you appreciated our little effort there. It's not commercially available.
Speaker 1: It's a parody. It's meant to mock the world and
Speaker 1: what's going on. And I hope you can find it
Speaker 1: on Puropelca dot com. It's our musical response to that.
Speaker 1: But mister President, I'm with you, there's no apology coming.
Speaker 1: But I think if if somebody would apologize, then when
Speaker 1: Robert Barr turns over the copies of the report, once
Speaker 1: you apologize, you get a copy. Once you apologize, you
Speaker 1: get a copy. I think that's gonna be a very
Speaker 1: short line from CNN and MSNBC. I'd love to see
Speaker 1: Rachel Mattow apologizing and then getting her copy of the report.
Speaker 1: You get a code that you can see it. With
Speaker 1: Michael Pelcas sitting in for Buck Sexton on this Friday night,
Speaker 1: still to come, you're gonna hear what the chairman of
Speaker 1: the FCC had to say when we asked him about
Speaker 1: Buck's problem with robo calls and the one the Only.
Speaker 1: Shannon Bream from Fox News joins us in just a
Speaker 1: little bit on The Buck Sexton Show. Michael Pelka here
Speaker 1: on a Friday night on The Buck Sexton Show, enjoying
Speaker 1: this audience, Always love this audience. You guys are smart,
Speaker 1: and you keep me on track, and you bring up
Speaker 1: topics that we need to delve into a little bit further.
Speaker 1: Last hour, we talked with Attorney Prosecutor Wendy Patrick, and
Speaker 1: she gives us an update on the Jesse Smollett story
Speaker 1: and what could be coming down the pike for Jesse
Speaker 1: because he's not free, he's not skipping down the road
Speaker 1: going yeeha. And he also doesn't have a job. His
Speaker 1: high paid gig is kind of gone. But there may
Speaker 1: be more coming for Jesse and one of our friends
Speaker 1: in Alabama. The name written here on my call screen
Speaker 1: says Enix. So I want to make sure we're getting
Speaker 1: the name right. Enich says Jesse needs to be charged
Speaker 1: with something else. Enix, am I getting your name correctly.
Speaker 1: It's pronounced enich e in front of Niche. Oh Enoch, Yes, well,
Speaker 1: welcome Nick. What part of Alabama? Mobile, Alabama, one of
Speaker 1: the greatest places in the world. Is Winzel's Oyster Bar
Speaker 1: still there? Oh? Yes, sir. I have to tell you people,
Speaker 1: if you are ever near Mobile, Alabama, you have to
Speaker 1: experience something on the scale of Winzel's Oyster Bar. Giant operation.
Speaker 1: They had a billboard that drew me in. It said fried,
Speaker 1: stewed or nude, and you could get oysters just about
Speaker 1: any way. I hope it's still great. Oh, it is
Speaker 1: absolutely Well, that's good and good people in Alabama, Nick,
Speaker 1: I know that, But do you think Jesse Smollett deserves
Speaker 1: to be charged with something else? Well, I had a question.
Speaker 1: I didn't know if the crime of a hate crime
Speaker 1: was only constituted with violence. Wikipedia says that it's anything
Speaker 1: targeting a certain group of people that belong in a organization,
Speaker 1: or if you target a group of people based on
Speaker 1: their beliefs. So under that premise, it's his hopes was
Speaker 1: a hate crime towards conservatives. Yeah, that's a that's an
Speaker 1: interesting interpretation. It might be a bit of a stretch,
Speaker 1: a slight reach, but let's look at that. I don't
Speaker 1: think hate crimes will require violence. You can believe somebody
Speaker 1: you can do vandalism against someone's property and destroy property,
Speaker 1: and if you do it with racial intent or that
Speaker 1: kind of hatred in your heart, that seems to me
Speaker 1: to be a hate crime. But in the case of
Speaker 1: Jesse Smollett, let's consider that maybe. And the one thing
Speaker 1: that keeps coming up is what this um, what this
Speaker 1: hoax has done to real vic of hate crimes, What
Speaker 1: this hoax has done to people who've been victimized because
Speaker 1: of their sexual orientation or because of their skin color,
Speaker 1: and how it's going to hurt those folks and their
Speaker 1: cases for getting justice. And I think that therein lies
Speaker 1: the real problem with what Jesse Smollett did. He diminished
Speaker 1: the actual crimes against real victims by doing this. But
Speaker 1: what I think this is and now maybe we need
Speaker 1: a new law here, Enich, maybe we've come up on something.
Speaker 1: Could there be a self hate crime because it seems
Speaker 1: to me that Jesse Smollett is a self hater, that
Speaker 1: he did this whole thing. Well, we know why he
Speaker 1: did it. He wanted to raise his stature at work
Speaker 1: and make this turn into his social currency, his popularity,
Speaker 1: and he wanted to convert that into bigger stardom. It
Speaker 1: wasn't enough. He was getting seventy grand a week or whatever.
Speaker 1: It was somewhere between fifty and one hundred grand a week.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I think he's got a big
Speaker 1: tough road ahead of him because he's now he was
Speaker 1: given the opportunity to be a star and it wasn't
Speaker 1: enough for him quickly enough, and he had to try
Speaker 1: and go in and make something else out of it.
Speaker 1: So I think he's going to pay for this for
Speaker 1: a long long time. Were you a fan of the show,
Speaker 1: Not so much. I don't watch a lot of TV,
Speaker 1: to be honest. I'll watch movies. But I have out
Speaker 1: outside interests. Work, coffees, outdoor too. Yeah, I'm I'm addicted
Speaker 1: to golf, much to my wife's dismay. But if it's
Speaker 1: warm enough for me to be out there and playing,
Speaker 1: even if I'm wearing gloves and a scarf and a
Speaker 1: big jacket, I'm doing it. And I think everybody should
Speaker 1: find time to get away from work and or a
Speaker 1: lot of the politics in the news and broaden your perspective.
Speaker 1: You'll meet new people. But Enek, if I were in
Speaker 1: the neighborhood, i'd meet you at the bar and we'd
Speaker 1: have a dozen oysters in a beer. But it's going
Speaker 1: to have to be another night, my friend. Well, if
Speaker 1: you're do visit Wensles again, try the West Indie Salad.
Speaker 1: You won't be disappointed the West Indie Salad. So now
Speaker 1: we've got food recommendations. I love it. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: You have a great evening. If you want to join
Speaker 1: the conversation like Enok, you can eight four four nine
Speaker 1: hundred buck eight four four nine hundred two eight two
Speaker 1: five still to come, just around the corners. A matter
Speaker 1: of fact, somebody I call friend and I've only talked
Speaker 1: to her in person a couple of times, but every
Speaker 1: time I reach out to her on social media directly,
Speaker 1: she writes back. And I know that personally, she is
Speaker 1: one of the gems in our world. She's a decent
Speaker 1: person in working in the crazy business we call show.
Speaker 1: She is a journalist. Her name is Shannon Bream and
Speaker 1: she's on five Monday through Friday in an anchor role
Speaker 1: on a show that gets I think needs to get
Speaker 1: a lot more love. And so we're gonna start with
Speaker 1: that tonight when we come back. We're going to talk
Speaker 1: to Shannon. We're gonna talk about her book. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk about the president. We're talking about what Robert
Speaker 1: Barr has told us about and we'll dive. We still
Speaker 1: have to get to the FCC chair and what he
Speaker 1: said about Buck's problem with robocalls. I'll play you that
Speaker 1: answer coming up too on the Buck Sexton Show. Well
Speaker 1: that's not exactly one hundred percent true. The buck has
Speaker 1: stopped for today, and I'm here Michael Pelka sitting in
Speaker 1: for my good friend Buck Sexton on The Buck Sexton
Speaker 1: Show on this Friday evening. Happy to be here, thrilled
Speaker 1: to be here, And I have to admit I'm just
Speaker 1: a little bulliant at the moment. I have a news
Speaker 1: crush on our next guest, and she's somebody I appreciate
Speaker 1: the work she does. But because I've met her personally
Speaker 1: and I know what kind of person she is, I
Speaker 1: just like Shannon Bream and you know her from Fox
Speaker 1: and watching her at night on Fox News Night every
Speaker 1: single night Monday through Friday. But I get to say, hello, friend,
Speaker 1: welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Oh, Mike, you know,
Speaker 1: the feeling is more than mutual. I am honored to
Speaker 1: be with you. Well, you do so much in the
Speaker 1: world of news that I marvel at because so many
Speaker 1: times we who work in the talk field or even
Speaker 1: in the news field get caught up with a lot
Speaker 1: of the divisiveness and a lot of the lack of congeniality.
Speaker 1: And I think you can approach any subject with any
Speaker 1: person on any side and make it civil, and I
Speaker 1: really respect that. So I've listened you interview people from
Speaker 1: left and right, and I mean really far left, and
Speaker 1: everybody seems to leave happy or at least feeling like
Speaker 1: they got respected. So thank you for that. Oh, thank you, Mike.
Speaker 1: You know I feel that, you know, it's sometimes fun
Speaker 1: to just let them go. When they get heated and
Speaker 1: they're back and forth, it's kind of entertaining. But Michael
Speaker 1: is really that people hear both sides or multiple sides
Speaker 1: if there are, because that's where your viewers learn something
Speaker 1: and get information, and that's what we're supposed to be about. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I agree, we're supposed to be. We don't always get there,
Speaker 1: but we're supposed to be. Now, before we get into
Speaker 1: some of the newsy stuff, I have to tell you,
Speaker 1: I'm going to call the Attorney General's office and I'm
Speaker 1: going to call Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff and what's
Speaker 1: his name, Nadler out from Long Island, and we're all
Speaker 1: going to demand together that Finding the bright Side is
Speaker 1: released before May fourteenth. We cannot We need full transparency
Speaker 1: on the book. Why can't we get your new book
Speaker 1: before May fourteenth? That, as you know, publishers pick a
Speaker 1: date and that's the date. There are a few copies
Speaker 1: building around out there that has flipped through the gates
Speaker 1: of restriction. So there's a little bit out there, and
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to send one to you. Oh good,
Speaker 1: So I can send it and talk to our secrets
Speaker 1: and everything in it. Yeah, I know, I'll talk about
Speaker 1: little hints to wet people's appetite. So what is the
Speaker 1: book Finding the bright Side? The art of chasing what matters?
Speaker 1: From Shannon Brain? What are we looking at here? You know?
Speaker 1: What it really stemmed from. I would write a story
Speaker 1: occasionally on my Facebook page about my family or something happened.
Speaker 1: I lost my wedding ring at one point for months,
Speaker 1: and I told the story on Facebook of how I
Speaker 1: found it after I had cried my eyes out and
Speaker 1: it looked everywhere and finally gave up on it. And
Speaker 1: it was such a fun, emotional, happy time for me
Speaker 1: when I found it. And I just went and poured
Speaker 1: out the story on faceboo book, And I mean, that's
Speaker 1: really what's kind of the start of this. I had
Speaker 1: a publisher company a couple of years ago and said,
Speaker 1: we like your stories, we like how you connect with people,
Speaker 1: and we'd like you to write a book. And I thought,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to write a book. I'm not
Speaker 1: an author. And I said well, how does this work.
Speaker 1: Do you match me up with somebody? And they said, no, no,
Speaker 1: we like your voice. It's a little corny, it's really you,
Speaker 1: and that's what we want you to do, to tell
Speaker 1: stories about your life. And I said, well, for me, really,
Speaker 1: my face is the biggest cornerstone of my whole life
Speaker 1: and if I can weave that through the book, and
Speaker 1: it's a big part of it, then I'd love to
Speaker 1: do it. And they said great. So it's there is
Speaker 1: definitely some newsy stuff in there, some behind the scenes
Speaker 1: at the Supreme Court the first time I interviewed the President.
Speaker 1: I mean, so there are newsy things there, but there
Speaker 1: are also things I think everybody can relate to, some
Speaker 1: really high highs and really low loads. I mean, terrible
Speaker 1: points in my life and kind of how I leaned
Speaker 1: on my face and my family, my husband to get
Speaker 1: through that. And I hope that it'll encourage people who
Speaker 1: find themselves in a really tough spot or just make
Speaker 1: them laugh, because I make fun of myself a lot
Speaker 1: in the book too. Well. I'm still trying to get
Speaker 1: over the fact that your wedding ring was lost for
Speaker 1: what two months? You said, no, it was about six months.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, can you imagine. I just can't imagine
Speaker 1: had I lost my wedding ring, how my wife would
Speaker 1: react and how many times that would come up over
Speaker 1: the course of six months. Yeah, I mean my husband.
Speaker 1: I was so scared, and I wrote in the story
Speaker 1: about how I didn't want to tell him because I
Speaker 1: was personally so heartbroken that I could do something so stupid,
Speaker 1: something that was listen, it's not worth a lot of money,
Speaker 1: but it was worth everything to me. What's sentimental value?
Speaker 1: And I was so scared. But when I finally got
Speaker 1: my courage together up for a couple of weeks stating
Speaker 1: and I can't find it, I was sobbing my eyes out,
Speaker 1: and he was like, it's okay, it's a ring. It
Speaker 1: doesn't represent you know, it's not our actual marriage. It is.
Speaker 1: Hang on one second, Shannon, we're getting a real weird connection.
Speaker 1: Can we put you on hold for a second, just
Speaker 1: reconnect real quickly. Okay, We're gonna try that. Shannon Bram
Speaker 1: is telling you these incredible stories about her new book,
Speaker 1: and I want to get into her show tonight too.
Speaker 1: So Finding the bright Side is her book, The Art
Speaker 1: of Chasing What Matters and obviously, when she talks about
Speaker 1: her wedding ring, it's a big deal, and John and
Speaker 1: the crew will tell me, I guess when we get
Speaker 1: her back on the horn. Here it sounds like she
Speaker 1: was calling from a cave somewhere, and there were all
Speaker 1: kinds of static interferences. And I need to pick Shannon's
Speaker 1: brain on a couple of things here. So a little
Speaker 1: background on Shannon Bream and Michael Palka. We met on Amtrak.
Speaker 1: For those of you who know my history from the
Speaker 1: Blaze and the Blaze dot Com and the Radio, I
Speaker 1: used to ride the Amtrak a couple times a week
Speaker 1: and I ended up riding the train with Shannon and
Speaker 1: back and forth to New York once from DC, and
Speaker 1: we had a great conversation, and that where it started.
Speaker 1: And thankfully she's back with us. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: miss that story of your husband's reaction to the ring,
Speaker 1: because it's so powerful. Well, I was so scared to
Speaker 1: tell him, and I was so mad at myself and
Speaker 1: just really heartbroken over it. But I finally after a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, thought I can't tie this anymore. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to tell him I can't find my ring.
Speaker 1: And I was crying my eyes out and I said
Speaker 1: to him and he was just, you know, that was
Speaker 1: just a representation of our vows. It's not our actual marriage.
Speaker 1: It's okay, it's just this thing, and it's all right,
Speaker 1: we'll get you a new one. And it was such
Speaker 1: a huge relief to me, and wait off for my shoulders. Now,
Speaker 1: I was still really sad, and every time I thought
Speaker 1: about it, I got kind of choked up. But I'd
Speaker 1: finally sort of made peace with it, like, you know what,
Speaker 1: and I even prayed. I said, you know what, Lord,
Speaker 1: if I've left it in a hotel room somewhere, because
Speaker 1: I've been traveling a lot with the campaigns and stuff,
Speaker 1: I said, I called every hotel, I tried everywhere. I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, if somebody else found it or it
Speaker 1: ended up in a pawn shop somewhere, I really hope
Speaker 1: that it will make someone else happy and it'll start
Speaker 1: a great marriage for them. And so I just kind
Speaker 1: of had to let it go. And the day that
Speaker 1: I found it, I just was so overwhelmed and excited.
Speaker 1: And I never take it off now because I don't
Speaker 1: ever want to lose it again. Well that's good, No spoilers.
Speaker 1: It's probably in the book where you found it, so
Speaker 1: we'll hold off. We don't want to give that one up.
Speaker 1: Shannon Bream is on the phone with Shannon on nightly
Speaker 1: on Fox News Fox News Night and Shannon, you know,
Speaker 1: I do mornings usually, so I miss you, but I
Speaker 1: get up and I listen at three o'clock when they
Speaker 1: replay it, which is yes, it's like a bonus for me.
Speaker 1: I get extra Shannon's what's happening tonight on the show? Well,
Speaker 1: of course we're going to talk about this back and
Speaker 1: forth about the Bar reports, and you know Democrats had
Speaker 1: demanded we need the whole thing, nothing redacted by April second,
Speaker 1: which is next week. Barr, who was very professional and
Speaker 1: until he became Attorney General, was really well respected by
Speaker 1: both sides, nonpartisan, that kind of thing. They obviously have
Speaker 1: a different feeling about him now because he was a
Speaker 1: political appointee by the president. He said, today, listen, I'm
Speaker 1: doing everything I can. There's a lot of material, almost
Speaker 1: four hundred pages. We've got to vet it for grand
Speaker 1: jury material and other classified information. But our goal, we're
Speaker 1: working around the clock, is to get it to you
Speaker 1: by mid April. Diane Feinstein, a Senator ranking member on Judiciary, said, Okay,
Speaker 1: that sounds reasonable. Please try to get it to us
Speaker 1: by April fifteenth. He's agreed to come up on the
Speaker 1: Hill and testify in early May, but the House Democrats
Speaker 1: are saying, no, that's not acceptable to still expected by
Speaker 1: April second. I mean, he's told them they're not going
Speaker 1: to get it. So the fight continues. But you know,
Speaker 1: everybody has their own prediction about this. I don't think
Speaker 1: the bar would have still mischaracterized what Muller said in
Speaker 1: his summary. He says, it's just a summary that it's
Speaker 1: going to turn out. No, he was hiding collusion all along,
Speaker 1: and it's actually in the Muller report. But that seems
Speaker 1: to be what some people on the Hill are hoping for.
Speaker 1: It's so maddening to me. I can't imagine being in
Speaker 1: the politics where you go from respected to rejected just
Speaker 1: because one your political opponents has appointed your political opponent
Speaker 1: has appointed you. It's just craziness. And well, much of
Speaker 1: what happens here, as you know in DC, is craziness. Well,
Speaker 1: one of your colleagues, Dana Perino, who I appreciate as well,
Speaker 1: don't know her said, she suggests the president get out
Speaker 1: of Washington and do what he did last night and
Speaker 1: be with the people as much as possible right now.
Speaker 1: And I love that advice. I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: taken it. I hope he does. And she said, not
Speaker 1: Mara Lago, you know, go to Michigan, go to Iowa,
Speaker 1: go to places where you know you need to be
Speaker 1: with those people. And I think that's wonderful advice, and
Speaker 1: I hope he does take it. Any other surprise than
Speaker 1: any guests tonight, we should be looking out for well,
Speaker 1: you know what. Interestingly enough, we are all we are
Speaker 1: featuring the lead actress in the movie Unplanned that's opening
Speaker 1: this weekend. And I've got a lot of your listeners
Speaker 1: on your various outlets have heard of this. But it's
Speaker 1: the story of Abby Johnson, who for years worked in
Speaker 1: plan parent Hood. She grew up pretty conservative, but really
Speaker 1: believed in their mission, which she felt was to help
Speaker 1: women in crisis and women who needed healthcare. She spent
Speaker 1: years within the system, became a clinic director, was employee
Speaker 1: of the Year, and then she saw something an abortion
Speaker 1: that so changed her mind that she had a radical
Speaker 1: change to the other side. So this movie comes out,
Speaker 1: and I think, regardless of how you feel on abortion,
Speaker 1: you know, she says, there are good people on both sides.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to demonize anybody. But it's interesting that
Speaker 1: this movie opens this weekend is rated R, which upset
Speaker 1: a lot of the people who put this movie together
Speaker 1: because the fact is, in a lot of states, a
Speaker 1: young woman could go without her parents' permission or assent
Speaker 1: and go get an abortion, which she couldn't legally go
Speaker 1: see this movie with a rated art freighting, you know.
Speaker 1: So there's that The lead actress also who plays Abby
Speaker 1: Johnson in the movie, has an incredible backstory of her own,
Speaker 1: and she is actually from Georgia, a state that has
Speaker 1: just passed a very restrict abortion bill. Basically after there's
Speaker 1: a hard beat detective that you can't in many cases
Speaker 1: have an abortion. So the movie industry is now saying
Speaker 1: we're going to boycott Georgia. Well, she's from there, and
Speaker 1: she says, listen, I want to speak up on all
Speaker 1: these things. I wasn't especially pro life before I took
Speaker 1: this movie. It's probably hurt my career in the long run,
Speaker 1: but I learned a lot about abortion and how this works.
Speaker 1: And so you know, people want to talk about what's
Speaker 1: in the movie and whether you should see it, and
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's an interesting conversation to have,
Speaker 1: although you know, acknowledging that it's a tough one. It's
Speaker 1: not something people like to talk about. Yeah, it is
Speaker 1: a very difficult conversation and yet a very necessary one
Speaker 1: in my opinion. Her name is Shannon Bream. She's on
Speaker 1: Fox Monday through Friday nightly eleven pm, after my bedtime,
Speaker 1: but I get to hear it again at three am.
Speaker 1: And the book May fourteenth, unless we get the Attorney
Speaker 1: General to demand the early release. Finding the bright Side
Speaker 1: the Art of chasing what matters, My friend, I miss
Speaker 1: you like a front tooth, but I appreciate everything you do.
Speaker 1: Great to talk with you, and you know I am
Speaker 1: your biggest fans. Thank well, thank you, thank you, God
Speaker 1: bless There she goes the one on OL Shannon Bream
Speaker 1: here on the Buck Sexton Show. I thought I thought
Speaker 1: it was only fair since he's been on her show,
Speaker 1: that she should be on this show. My name's Michael Pelca.
Speaker 1: I'm stepping aside for just a couple of minutes. When
Speaker 1: we get back. If we have time, I'll play the
Speaker 1: FCC chairman's comments on what Buck can expect to be
Speaker 1: done about those pesky robocalls. That's next on The Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton Show Michael Pelka, And for Buck Sexton tonight on
Speaker 1: The Buck Sexton Show, Hope you've joined the conversation eight
Speaker 1: four four nine hundred Buck eight for four nine hundred
Speaker 1: two eight two five. You know, Buck was grousing, really
Speaker 1: upset about robocalls and the fact they come through our phones.
Speaker 1: It was bad enough when we were getting them home,
Speaker 1: but now they're on our cell phones. So I picked
Speaker 1: up the phone. I called the FCC. I got the
Speaker 1: man in charge at Jake Pie on the phone, and
Speaker 1: I said, sir, what the heck are we doing about
Speaker 1: robo calls? Oh? I got This drives me crazy. I
Speaker 1: give them myself all the time. They typically have the
Speaker 1: same area code that I've got, and even the next
Speaker 1: three digits might be the same. Those are called spoofed robocalls.
Speaker 1: And the problem is that because of the Internet, this
Speaker 1: technology to unleash these calls has gotten much much better,
Speaker 1: and so it almost doesn't even matter where you are
Speaker 1: in the world. In fact, most of the robocalls we
Speaker 1: see come from abroad but seem to be local. So
Speaker 1: the FEC has taken out the stops to attack this problem.
Speaker 1: I've demanded that the phone companies adopt what is called
Speaker 1: call authentication for every single phone call. Essentially, this is
Speaker 1: a digital fingerprint that would be attached to every call
Speaker 1: to verify that the call is legitimate. And if a
Speaker 1: phone call didn't have that fingerprint, then the phone carrier
Speaker 1: carriers would carry that phone call on their networks. And
Speaker 1: so I told them we want this implemented this here,
Speaker 1: and if it's not, the SEC will take regulatory action
Speaker 1: to ensure that it is. In addition to that, we're
Speaker 1: also working very hard on the enforcement side. The largest
Speaker 1: finds in the SEC's eighty five year history have been
Speaker 1: imposed under my leadership over the last two years on
Speaker 1: robocallers who unleashed millions of robocalls on American consumers. And
Speaker 1: in addition to that, we're working with other agencies, the
Speaker 1: Federal Trade Commission, and even agencies abroad in places like
Speaker 1: India to cooperate on law enforcements to make sure that
Speaker 1: we can track down and go after these call centers.
Speaker 1: They're set up for the express purpose of unleashing these robocalls,
Speaker 1: and it's kind to the point where I get every
Speaker 1: single day a number of emails from consumers saying, I
Speaker 1: don't even bother answering the phone anymore because I know
Speaker 1: that it's more than likely than not a spoofed call,
Speaker 1: and I'm sick of it. And I I'm sick of
Speaker 1: it too, And as the chairman, I can tell you
Speaker 1: that this is the SEC's top consumer protection priority and
Speaker 1: we're not going to stop. Well you can answer that
Speaker 1: phone with confidence. Well, I would love that. I also
Speaker 1: asked the FCC chairman if the same rules were going
Speaker 1: to apply to phone calls from campaigns, and he kind
Speaker 1: of laughed and said, you know, that's where we're going
Speaker 1: to have a little bit of a problem, because no
Speaker 1: politician wants to write a law that's going to preclude
Speaker 1: them from robo calling us during an election year. So
Speaker 1: more on that, Stay tuned for more on that. Michael
Speaker 1: Pelka in for Buck Sexton. We still have another hour,
Speaker 1: and we got to talk about cars and what they're
Speaker 1: trying to do to your car to control it. That's
Speaker 1: just around the corner. Come on back. Well it's not Buck,
Speaker 1: it's Michael Pelka in for Buck. Buck is out for today.
Speaker 1: Good for him. He's been working hard down at the
Speaker 1: border and he's still dealing with the Adjuda over the
Speaker 1: robo calls. So we just talked to the FCC chair
Speaker 1: about that, the commissioner. Hopefully we'll get that set. Hopefully
Speaker 1: they'll straighten straighten out for us in the near future.
Speaker 1: I was just reading and I need to get back
Speaker 1: into the FCC chief's head because he was saying that
Speaker 1: they've they've charged all these fines, They've hit all these
Speaker 1: people up with these big fines, but it looks like
Speaker 1: they're not collecting them. So you can send out all
Speaker 1: the fines you want, sir, but let's get that money
Speaker 1: in there. Maybe they'll lean on them a little bit.
Speaker 1: By the way, last hour of the show. If you
Speaker 1: want to join the conversation, happy to get and do
Speaker 1: just about anything. I want to talk about the electoral
Speaker 1: College because I'm reading something that makes me a little upset.
Speaker 1: The phone lines are open. Eight four four nine hundred
Speaker 1: Buck eight four four nine two eight two five. I
Speaker 1: live in a state that has more cows than people.
Speaker 1: I think, Delaware, and we're not exactly a big cattle state.
Speaker 1: There's only three counties in the whole state. One of
Speaker 1: them is deep red, one is deep blue, and that's
Speaker 1: the highest population, so it always votes out the rest
Speaker 1: of us, and the other one's kind of purplish. But
Speaker 1: here in Delaware we have but three electoral votes, and
Speaker 1: our state has now joined this group of states that
Speaker 1: pledges to give all of the electoral votes to whichever
Speaker 1: state gets the or to whichever candidate gets the popular vote.
Speaker 1: I just don't understand how people are not standing up
Speaker 1: and screaming about this, How people aren't saying no. Well, now,
Speaker 1: Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley introduced a bill to totally eliminate
Speaker 1: the electoral college. He wants it going, he wants it out, says,
Speaker 1: got to get rid of it. You're the weren't you
Speaker 1: the guy that co sponsored the Green New Deal and
Speaker 1: then voted against it. You're one of the one of
Speaker 1: the people who couldn't even support your Green New Deal.
Speaker 1: Is the same thing going to happen here. We're gonna
Speaker 1: try and get a hold of Hans von Spakovsky of
Speaker 1: the Heritage Foundation to talk about the electoral college. I'm
Speaker 1: a huge fan of the electoral college because what it
Speaker 1: does is really create fairness among the states in our union.
Speaker 1: And the Democrats are out there crowing. Elizabeth Warren's out
Speaker 1: there saying, we must abolish it. We must abolish the
Speaker 1: electoral college. In that way, every vote will be counted.
Speaker 1: It's all about fairness. Yes, And there's a county in California.
Speaker 1: I think it's Los Angeles County that has more people
Speaker 1: than ten states. So that one county, if you just
Speaker 1: visit that county and get that county vote, you can
Speaker 1: effectively annihilate the votes in ten states. So I'm not
Speaker 1: a fan of eliminating the electoral College. I think the
Speaker 1: founders knew exactly what they were doing, and they were
Speaker 1: keeping They weren't looking to the future and saying, well,
Speaker 1: candidates will only go to five states if this happens, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you make California, New York, Texas, Florida, and Illinois a
Speaker 1: lot more important. So I'm a big fan of the
Speaker 1: electoral college, and I'm not going to sit by quietly.
Speaker 1: I don't think it can be eliminated so easily. But
Speaker 1: you know this whole cry for fairness that comes out
Speaker 1: of the Democrats and the progressives, it's never fair if
Speaker 1: they're telling you it's in the interest of fairness, then
Speaker 1: where were they? Where were they for the last couple
Speaker 1: hundred years. If you didn't think the electoral college was fair,
Speaker 1: why didn't you raise your hand twenty sixteen and say,
Speaker 1: we just can't have this electoral college. It's not going
Speaker 1: to be fair. Somebody like Donald Trump won't win. You know.
Speaker 1: The duplicitous nature of the people on the left side
Speaker 1: of the aisle never ceases to amaze me, never ceases
Speaker 1: to amaze me. So maybe around the corner we'll get
Speaker 1: we'll get some word from the Heritage Foundation. I think
Speaker 1: Hans awigh in on this. He's a great legal mind
Speaker 1: on stuff like this. Joe Biden said something stupid this week.
Speaker 1: Oh really, what a shock? Yeah, And he also has
Speaker 1: been saying stupid things for years, for decades. In fact,
Speaker 1: a videotape on Earth when twenty nine year old Biden
Speaker 1: was on public television showed up, and he's kind of
Speaker 1: saying dumb things. No shock, Joe Biden has a decades
Speaker 1: long history of saying dumb things. But this one I
Speaker 1: have to just share with you because it just makes
Speaker 1: me laugh. The thing is, I didn't have me any
Speaker 1: larger contributors, and the only reason, see, I went to
Speaker 1: the big guys for the money. I was ready to
Speaker 1: prostitute myself. And then wait, what Joe Biden was what's
Speaker 1: of course he's talking about donors, but he puts it
Speaker 1: an interesting Joe Biden language. And the thing is I
Speaker 1: didn't have many larger contributors. And the only reason, see,
Speaker 1: I went to the big guys for the money. I
Speaker 1: was ready to prostitute myself. And the man and man
Speaker 1: in which I talked about it, but what happened was
Speaker 1: they said come back when you're forty, son, and so
Speaker 1: I had to go out. Twenty nine year old Joe
Speaker 1: Biden looks like if you guys know the old TV
Speaker 1: show Taxi, he looks like Andy Kaffin's character of Latka Graves.
Speaker 1: They're almost separated at birth. But Biden trying to make
Speaker 1: himself sound like the young the young Turk. If I
Speaker 1: can use that expression with Joe Biden, Oh yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a progressive. Joe Biden trying to make himself sound like
Speaker 1: the young kid in the Senate, even though he had
Speaker 1: aspirations for higher off us, which thank god, he's never
Speaker 1: gotten to the presidency. He got close, but never got there.
Speaker 1: He said some things that also turned out to be
Speaker 1: a little offensive and let him go here, Well, I
Speaker 1: had to go to a number of small contributors. What
Speaker 1: I think we all great percenta. You didn't take no
Speaker 1: for an answer, so more from here you think the
Speaker 1: example I am an anacronis I'm a twenty nine year
Speaker 1: old oddball. The only reason I was able to raise
Speaker 1: the money is I was able to have a national
Speaker 1: constituency to run for office because I was twenty. No,
Speaker 1: I'm like the token black or the token woman. I
Speaker 1: was a token young person. The token young person. Joe
Speaker 1: Biden comparing himself to a token black and a token
Speaker 1: woman very interesting in his comments about Clarence Thomas surface too.
Speaker 1: And now Joe Biden getting set to announce here in Delaware.
Speaker 1: The word on the street, the skinny on the street
Speaker 1: in Delaware is that Joe Bunden's gonna announce next week
Speaker 1: because if he announced before April one, he'd have to
Speaker 1: file his election papers and we'd have to see how
Speaker 1: much money he raised, and he wouldn't have time to
Speaker 1: raise money to compete with Bernie or Beto or any
Speaker 1: of them. And that makes you look weak. That makes
Speaker 1: you look weak speak in the electoral college. Andrew is
Speaker 1: in Virginia and calling into the Buck Sexton Show. Andrew
Speaker 1: has a question about this. Welcome to the program, Sir, Hey,
Speaker 1: how's it going. So it's interesting that Delaware is saying saying,
Speaker 1: we're against the electoral college, so they're trying to nullify it.
Speaker 1: Seems to me I just heard about this, that it's
Speaker 1: trying to nullify the electoral college by saying, well, all
Speaker 1: our electoral votes will go to whoever wins the popular election. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The interesting thing is they're shooting themselves in the foot
Speaker 1: because the electoral college is what gives which is what
Speaker 1: increases the auto of each state. So as a smaller state,
Speaker 1: for them to basically try to dissolve the electoral college,
Speaker 1: they're eventually going to dissolve one of their electoral votes.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely one correct. Any small state that joins in
Speaker 1: this movement to invalidate or eliminate the electoral college is
Speaker 1: really following party line instruction. And Delaware is very blue.
Speaker 1: Like I said that, the three counties here, the one
Speaker 1: that has so many people is pure, deep deep blue.
Speaker 1: It's the one that gave us. Chris coons, it's it's
Speaker 1: giving us fits here as conservatives, as small government people,
Speaker 1: and in this case, Andrew, you're one hundred percent right.
Speaker 1: That's why most of the states you're seeing who are
Speaker 1: moving to eliminate the electoral college are blue states. They
Speaker 1: are states that say, fairness, we wanted Hillary, and they
Speaker 1: don't realize that it's such a foolish mission. It's asolutely insane. Now, Andrew,
Speaker 1: can I ask you a question? Okay, are you in
Speaker 1: the hospital? I hear that beeping. It sounds like some
Speaker 1: kind of monitor. I maybe are you okay? Yes? I
Speaker 1: am okay, good good. That's a very vague I maybe,
Speaker 1: but a stude observation that any state wants to jump
Speaker 1: on this bandwagon of the elimination of the electoral college
Speaker 1: is really especially if it's a small state, it's eliminating itself. Now,
Speaker 1: if we look at the popular vote from twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: Hillary won by what was it, three million votes. Everybody
Speaker 1: says this is massive win. Well, if you take out
Speaker 1: New York and California, If you eliminate those two states
Speaker 1: where she had massive popular vote wins, Donald Trump wins
Speaker 1: the popular vote count. So it was really a great
Speaker 1: example of why the electoral college is important, because only
Speaker 1: two states would have swayed that election, and that's not
Speaker 1: fair to the other forty eight. Andrew, thank you for
Speaker 1: joining the conversation tonight. Appreciate it once again proving the
Speaker 1: buck Sexton audience smart on it. And yeah, I realize
Speaker 1: how stupid my state is. It really is foolish. Michael
Speaker 1: Pelka checking out for just a couple of minutes on
Speaker 1: the buck Sexton Show. Michael Pelka is sitting in for
Speaker 1: buck Sexton tonight on the buck Sexton Show. Still time
Speaker 1: to join the conversation eight four to four nine hundred
Speaker 1: Buck eight four four nine hundred two eight two five
Speaker 1: talking about the electoral college. Hans von Spakovsky of the
Speaker 1: Heritage Foundation on the phone. Talk to him over the
Speaker 1: break about you know, Hans, could we really have the
Speaker 1: electoral college and danger? Is it really at risk of
Speaker 1: being eliminated? Well, I'll tell you I hope not, and
Speaker 1: I certainly hope that's not the case. And the reason
Speaker 1: being that the original reason that the framers of the
Speaker 1: Constitution decided to use the electoral college rather than a
Speaker 1: national popular vote, which is what the Democrats were all
Speaker 1: in liberals were all pushing for is just as true today.
Speaker 1: The reason for it is as true today as it
Speaker 1: was then, in fact, probably more so, and the reason
Speaker 1: being very simple. They said, look if if if a
Speaker 1: president is elected by the national popular vote, we're afraid
Speaker 1: that presidential candidates will just go to the big cities,
Speaker 1: They'll just go to the urban areas, and they will
Speaker 1: ignore the rest of the country. They will ignore the
Speaker 1: more rural areas that the places with smaller populations. And
Speaker 1: that's just as true today. You know, under the electoral
Speaker 1: college system, the small est states, you know, places like
Speaker 1: Montana and elsewhere with small populations, they still get three
Speaker 1: electoral college votes no matter how small their population is.
Speaker 1: And what that means is that a president can win
Speaker 1: office by basically gathering up those electoral college votes from
Speaker 1: the rest of the country. You know, what liberals like
Speaker 1: to refer to as flyover country. And anybody who doubts that,
Speaker 1: just look at the last presidential election. You know, Hillary
Speaker 1: Clint's votes came from the big urban areas, the big cities,
Speaker 1: you know, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, the whole rest
Speaker 1: of the country. Almost all of the counties across the
Speaker 1: country voted for Donald Trump. Yeah. And if you look
Speaker 1: at New York State in California and you eliminate just
Speaker 1: the imbalancing votes between Clinton and Trump and those two states,
Speaker 1: donald Trump wins the rest of the popular vote. So
Speaker 1: forty eight. If you took only the popular vote from
Speaker 1: forty eight states, it's a Trump whitewash of Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1: And it's amazing. But here's my question. We're talking to
Speaker 1: Heritage Foundations Hans von Spakowski today about the electoral college.
Speaker 1: There are now twelve states that have said, through various actions,
Speaker 1: that they will give their electoral votes to whomever or
Speaker 1: whichever states win the popular vote, or to the candidate
Speaker 1: that wins the popular vote. That is that legit? Can
Speaker 1: they do that? Is it bypassing the intent of the Constitution? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's not legit. The people behind that movement they
Speaker 1: call the National Popular Vote Plan. They claim that as
Speaker 1: soon as sufficient number of states, who represent two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy electoral College votes that's how much you need
Speaker 1: to win the presidency. As soon as enough state legislatures
Speaker 1: have passed at the repent that many votes, then that
Speaker 1: plan will go into effect. And in essence, those states
Speaker 1: have passed bills that say that they won't award their
Speaker 1: electoral College votes to the candidate against the most votes
Speaker 1: in their state. They're gonna give it to whoever wins
Speaker 1: the national popular vote, basically ignoring what the constituents of
Speaker 1: their state have said and how they voted. But here's
Speaker 1: the problem with that. There's a provision in the US
Speaker 1: Constitution that says that state compacts, in other words, agreements
Speaker 1: between states, have to be approved by the US Congress.
Speaker 1: The people behind this bill say, oh no, no, that
Speaker 1: doesn't apply to this particular national Popular Vote compact. But
Speaker 1: they're wrong. So what's going to happen is if enough
Speaker 1: states passed this the states who haven't passed it, at
Speaker 1: places probably like Texas and elsewhere, they're going to go
Speaker 1: to court. It's going to end up for the US
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, and those states are going to say this compact,
Speaker 1: of this national Popular Vote plan is illegal, it's unconstitutional
Speaker 1: because they didn't get the approval of Congress. Okay, so,
Speaker 1: based on what you've shared with us, it looks like
Speaker 1: we're not at the two hundred and seventy vote threshold,
Speaker 1: which this group thinks is enough to make their plan work.
Speaker 1: And even if they get to two seventy, this will
Speaker 1: end up in the courts because the states that don't
Speaker 1: want themselves to be made insignificant will attempt to stop it,
Speaker 1: and then it usually ends up all the way at
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. And currently, based on the five to
Speaker 1: four conservative to liberal lean of the Supreme Court, one
Speaker 1: would assume the Court would side with the Constitution on
Speaker 1: this and not with a move towards the popular vote.
Speaker 1: Do you think that's the best breakdown of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's the best read of the situation. By
Speaker 1: the way, people should also realize that the framer of
Speaker 1: the Constitution wanted somebody running for president. They didn't want
Speaker 1: them winning a national election. They wanted them to basically
Speaker 1: have to campaign in and win a series of regional elections.
Speaker 1: And that's the way our system works. Why because again,
Speaker 1: they thought that would elect somebody to the presidency that
Speaker 1: had the broadest support of the American people. That's fantastic, terrific.
Speaker 1: Hans Hans who loved the work that you guys do
Speaker 1: at the Heritage Foundation, and we appreciate you taking time
Speaker 1: to join us here and explain this. I'm comforted now
Speaker 1: that the electoral College is still safe, at least in
Speaker 1: my lifetime. It feels I hope so too. Thank you, sir,
Speaker 1: have a great day. Thank you, And there he goes
Speaker 1: Hans von Spakovsky from the Heritage Foundation. We get wonky
Speaker 1: here even on Friday nights. But we're going to talk
Speaker 1: more about Big Brother controlling your car. Coming up next
Speaker 1: on the Buck Sexton Show. Come on back. Michael Pelka
Speaker 1: holding the line for Buck Sexton, holding the line for America.
Speaker 1: Bucks got a night off. I'm here to cover the
Speaker 1: Freedom Hut, as it were, from the constitutionally protected free
Speaker 1: speech bunker here in the woods of Delaware. Bob's on
Speaker 1: the line from New York. Bob, you had a comment,
Speaker 1: we're talking about the electoral College. You want to put
Speaker 1: a button on the segment? Yes, I do. I do. Mike. Also,
Speaker 1: before I get to my point, I just wanted to
Speaker 1: say that I know you were involved with the Beat
Speaker 1: of New York w KHU back in the eighties and
Speaker 1: so many memories. I was growing up in New York
Speaker 1: at the time, and I used to listen to that
Speaker 1: radio station so much, and I remember remember the Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live the Saturday Night mixed that you had with
Speaker 1: the Ted Are. Oh yeah, a long time ago. We
Speaker 1: had a lot of great DJs on there, The Riddler,
Speaker 1: we had MC I forget all of the mcs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a great time in New York to be
Speaker 1: in the dance world and dance music, and it's still
Speaker 1: There's still a lot of great people there. Ted was
Speaker 1: the king of the studio mix man everyone. I was
Speaker 1: part of the New York record pool. So I became
Speaker 1: a DJ because of listening to w KTU and to
Speaker 1: the extent that you had anything to do with the programming.
Speaker 1: You inspired me to be a DJ when I was
Speaker 1: going through college and graduate school. I know I still
Speaker 1: do it as a hobby, but anyway, I got a
Speaker 1: chill Bob. I was the assistant program director for a
Speaker 1: better part of half a decade and KATU, So thank
Speaker 1: you sir. It was a phenomenal station. It's no longer
Speaker 1: to beat in New York, but it was definitely back then.
Speaker 1: But my point was you mentioned how if you took
Speaker 1: New York in California out of the popular vote equation,
Speaker 1: I would actually be even more precise if you took
Speaker 1: five counties in the entire country out of the popular
Speaker 1: vote equation, Trump would have won the twenty sixteen election
Speaker 1: by the popular vote, those five counties being, as you
Speaker 1: probably know, Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and La County YEP.
Speaker 1: And that alone tells you why we need the electoral
Speaker 1: College so that the whole country can be represented and
Speaker 1: not just five counties. Bob Student observations and thank you
Speaker 1: for the flashback to my old life in the wacky
Speaker 1: world of dance music and morning radio. Appreciate you, sir.
Speaker 1: Have a great weekend. Quick check in with Lewis and Maryland.
Speaker 1: Lewis say you are a naval vent, sir. Thank you
Speaker 1: for your service. Welcome to the show. Thank you sir.
Speaker 1: What's on your mind, sir? Well, well over two years
Speaker 1: ago doing that? What about mactebersh Is Clearenhouse PC. We
Speaker 1: bought some stuff problem and then I started getting all
Speaker 1: these robo calls and I called them up and the
Speaker 1: young lady to answer the phone. I said, did you
Speaker 1: give my number away? In She says, well what about it?
Speaker 1: And I said, well, I'm getting all these calls since
Speaker 1: I signed up with you, and she says, well, you
Speaker 1: didn't notify us not to and I said, well, you
Speaker 1: should have never gave my number up. So in the
Speaker 1: meantime answered that my wife had a stroke and it
Speaker 1: affected you were quite a bit. And I got all
Speaker 1: these calls from Jamaica continuously, and I started, I called
Speaker 1: a mark, started marking down the numbers that they were
Speaker 1: calling from, and it was seventy over, seventy yearly, seventy
Speaker 1: five different numbers. And I stopped writing, so I called Verizing,
Speaker 1: and Verizing says I asked them, could they stop it?
Speaker 1: And they said no, we can block three calls. I said,
Speaker 1: but I've got these seventy five numbers here, and they said,
Speaker 1: just hang up. And then I called the Jamaican embassy
Speaker 1: and I explained to them the way I'm telling you
Speaker 1: that my wife had a stroke and we're another doctor's
Speaker 1: career and because I've had the same number for seventy
Speaker 1: three years, ever since I've been made wow. And they
Speaker 1: said that we'll see what we can do, but they
Speaker 1: didn't do anything. And then I'm up against the holding
Speaker 1: three million dollars package for me and all of this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Lewis, hang on one second, sir, I'm up against
Speaker 1: the time crush I will pledge to you, sir, as
Speaker 1: a tribute to your service to this country and your
Speaker 1: dedication to your wife, to pressure the FCC chairman about
Speaker 1: this to hopefully get rid of these robocalls in the meantime, Sir,
Speaker 1: as the sun of a Navy veteran who served probably
Speaker 1: in the same area you did. Thank you for your service, sir,
Speaker 1: and God bless you. I mentioned earlier, I'm not a
Speaker 1: fan of big government getting into our lives, and an
Speaker 1: intrusion is coming into our lives in the automobile world.
Speaker 1: I kind of figured this out just recently. So I'm
Speaker 1: filling up my wife's car and I'm noticing the gas
Speaker 1: prices are creeping up, and I'm thinking, is it the
Speaker 1: springtime thing or is it the gas tax thing? And
Speaker 1: then I read that story about what the European Union's
Speaker 1: playing on doing with Big Brother in our cars, and
Speaker 1: I said, I got to talk to my pal, Lauren Fix,
Speaker 1: the car coach. If you know you know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. Lauren Fix is my go to person on
Speaker 1: information on cars and what's happening two cars via the government.
Speaker 1: So if you don't know her, you should. Let's see,
Speaker 1: are you here Lauren fix the car coach. I am here,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm smiling and thanking you very much for the
Speaker 1: kind words. Well, you are my go to when I
Speaker 1: need to know, okay, what's the hot new car coming out?
Speaker 1: Or if I need to know why are cars doing this?
Speaker 1: You're the person I look to rant with or smile with.
Speaker 1: But you just get to get into all the great cars.
Speaker 1: But you also study stuff. So gas prices going up?
Speaker 1: Is it because of the change of spring fuels or what? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is actually what President Obama is trying to stop.
Speaker 1: They're doing this ethanol swamp. So basically they'll say, oh,
Speaker 1: we have a different blend for the winter gas and
Speaker 1: the summer gas. That was probably a good idea in
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty, maybe even in nineteen eighty, but here we
Speaker 1: are in almost twenty twenty. I hate to be saying that,
Speaker 1: but their guess is so different now. This same fuel
Speaker 1: they use any time of year, you can use any
Speaker 1: time of year. There's no changing the gasoline blends. And
Speaker 1: they do it because it was regulated a long time ago.
Speaker 1: And these are the regulations that cost you and I
Speaker 1: money at the pump. Because while they're switching from as
Speaker 1: they're calling winter gas to summer gas, which has the
Speaker 1: same detersions in it, but a slightly different mix. What
Speaker 1: happens is you're paying more money while they're getting the
Speaker 1: new fuel in the pipeline. So it doesn't impact diesel
Speaker 1: as much as it does gasoline. But it's definitely something
Speaker 1: that you will see soften up in the next couple weeks.
Speaker 1: Did you mean you thought President Trump was doing it,
Speaker 1: not President Obama? Well, no, no, no. The current administration
Speaker 1: is trying to stop it, but the past administration of
Speaker 1: Obama did absolutely nothing. And every administration has been well
Speaker 1: aware of this and they address it randomly, But it's
Speaker 1: whoever's in charge of this particular regulation should be saying,
Speaker 1: why are we doing this? This is costing consumers extra money?
Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be nice to actually think about us, those
Speaker 1: that vote people in to lower gasoline prices because it's
Speaker 1: for the good of the economy. But the problem is
Speaker 1: it's a strategic move in many cases, so you know,
Speaker 1: depends who's in office, depends who's running the department. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of politics involved. That's what I call politics,
Speaker 1: I guess. Yeah, So I hope that President Trump does
Speaker 1: eliminate that. He's looking at removing the EV tax credits.
Speaker 1: He's looking at stop giving stopping giving money to car
Speaker 1: manufacturers to make cars more fuel efficient. They make money,
Speaker 1: it's called profit, and that profit they're supposed to us
Speaker 1: to go back into research and development, which is deductible.
Speaker 1: Why are we giving them more money our tax dollars?
Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense with you on that. But
Speaker 1: gas taxes are also being looked at to be raised. Now,
Speaker 1: state federal, who's looking to raise the gas taxes? Well,
Speaker 1: each state already charges a certain amount of taxes and
Speaker 1: the highest believer or not state is Pennsylvania. Where you're looking,
Speaker 1: you think it would be like Alaska where it might
Speaker 1: be lower. So every state has their own tax. That
Speaker 1: money goes into the state coffers. Now, what about on
Speaker 1: a federal level, there's federal tax on top. It's currently
Speaker 1: eighteen cents, So if you had no state tax on
Speaker 1: your gasoline per gallon, you still have eighteen percent on
Speaker 1: the Feds. And that money is supposed to go into
Speaker 1: a fund. That fund is supposed to take care of
Speaker 1: roads and bridges on international, interstate anything that goes across countries,
Speaker 1: across the state. So what's happened is is some I
Speaker 1: love these Friday night deals. You know, we'll make a
Speaker 1: Friday night deal. And now a third of that money
Speaker 1: is not going into roads and bridges, as we can
Speaker 1: tell by looking at the potholes and roads and bridges.
Speaker 1: It goes into the rail stations and the potential for
Speaker 1: light rail. So it's not even being used for the
Speaker 1: roads and bridges, even though that's what they're being tax
Speaker 1: But on top of that, more electric vehicles, better fuel
Speaker 1: efficient cars, more hybrid type cars, less gasoline being used.
Speaker 1: So what happens, there's less taxes coming into the fund.
Speaker 1: So now they're realizing, how are we going to repair
Speaker 1: these roads and bridges. Well, some genius and Washington's got
Speaker 1: a great idea. We're going to raise this is their idea.
Speaker 1: We're going to raise the taxes, the federal gas tax
Speaker 1: to forty two cents a gallon. Wait, from what eighteen
Speaker 1: or something from eighteen to forty two. I'm like, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, who's putting this up? And when you start,
Speaker 1: of course I had to say this, but it happens
Speaker 1: to be the Democrats. They think that we need more
Speaker 1: money for roads and bridges. And the first thing is, yes,
Speaker 1: everybody agrees the roads and bridges are horrible into every state,
Speaker 1: So we need money. Yes, that makes sense. You need
Speaker 1: money instead of saving money, instead of shrimp on treadmills
Speaker 1: and all the silly things that they do. You know
Speaker 1: why cats don't like snow, and they put you know,
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars into that. They should take this
Speaker 1: money and leave it in the roads and bridges. So
Speaker 1: states should make the choices, not the federal government. So
Speaker 1: what's happening now is the federal government wants to control
Speaker 1: it all. The states don't want to give up their money,
Speaker 1: and so they have to give a portion of that
Speaker 1: money to the feds anyhow, for any interstate that crosses
Speaker 1: between two states, so it's intrust states. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of politics involved, but the bottom line is raising your
Speaker 1: gas taxes because they don't have enough money coming in
Speaker 1: is their thoughts. But you say, well, I'm going to
Speaker 1: go buy an electric vehicle, makes sense, right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hybrid the heck with them, I'm not going to buy
Speaker 1: as much gasoling Well, don't worry, they've got you too.
Speaker 1: Every electric vehicle and hybrid's going to pay an extra
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a year, and you're also going to pay
Speaker 1: a buy the mileage tax, so we're gonna pay a
Speaker 1: road use tax like trucks do exactly. So if you
Speaker 1: add that up, it's going to be well over forty
Speaker 1: two cents a gallon. And if you're thinking I've got
Speaker 1: an EV and it's a smarter choice, you're still gonna
Speaker 1: get nailed. So what are they going to do with
Speaker 1: all this money? Well, you and I know it'll go
Speaker 1: into one gigantic pot. A lot of it ends up
Speaker 1: in the general Fund, and it's supposed to be split
Speaker 1: two thirds for roads and bridges, one third for trains
Speaker 1: and light rail, and we know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: That doesn't happen. It ends up going to someone getting
Speaker 1: a private plane, or someone would like to have a
Speaker 1: golden toilet. And the problem is that this expense for
Speaker 1: the wrong thing is what infuriates me. If they use
Speaker 1: the actual money they had, and there's quite a bit
Speaker 1: of it into the billions, they could fix the road
Speaker 1: and bridges, but they're not. Okay. So if I'm not
Speaker 1: angry enough with that, Volvo and the European Union have
Speaker 1: made an announcement about limiting speed and I'm just furious
Speaker 1: about this. Can this come here? What's the deal behind? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's already coming here. Volvo is going to start putting
Speaker 1: speed limits on their vehicles. So think about this. There
Speaker 1: are speed limits already on big trucks. They don't want
Speaker 1: them to go so fast. You can only go so
Speaker 1: fast with a big truck anyhow. I used to drive
Speaker 1: a truck for a while haul our race cars. But
Speaker 1: I will tell you that you can only go so
Speaker 1: fast because otherwise we could say the tail wags the dog,
Speaker 1: the trailer starts to sway, and you don't want to
Speaker 1: be doing that, and it's also very dangerous. So truck
Speaker 1: drivers that are professional drivers, without a question, they know,
Speaker 1: you know there's a certain limit. Well, they have limitters
Speaker 1: on their trucks and they're already being tracked and so
Speaker 1: now by whoever owns their truck. Now they want to
Speaker 1: do that same type of thing to cars, and they're
Speaker 1: doing it in China and in Europe as of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. So every vehicle produced by twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: will have a limitter on it, so that means you
Speaker 1: can't go over the speed limit, not even one mile
Speaker 1: an hour. With the speed limit, it will not let
Speaker 1: you because it's going to be based on GPS information.
Speaker 1: So if the speed limit is now fifty, you're doing fifty,
Speaker 1: which means zero road hazard. Everyone around you who might
Speaker 1: be doing fifty five. If you're slowing down traffic, someone
Speaker 1: might pass you. You still won't be able to go faster.
Speaker 1: And they're also going to put into that anyone that's
Speaker 1: in a crosswalk, if that thinks something's in a crosswalk,
Speaker 1: it will actually stop the vehicle because it's going to
Speaker 1: make the assumption that's a human where it could be anything. Wow,
Speaker 1: and no coincidence that Volvo was bought by China, and
Speaker 1: China wants all of those cars to be electric vehicles
Speaker 1: now reporting back to them so they can add their
Speaker 1: speeding or whatever to their social credit score. Oh I
Speaker 1: got one more thing for you to go with Gelie
Speaker 1: who owns Volvo, and I do love their cars, but
Speaker 1: I have to say the owner of Geelie is the
Speaker 1: president of China's brother no Gee whom. Yeah. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: everyone's related if you're making any money out there in
Speaker 1: the world of China. So yeah, but think about this
Speaker 1: they're reporting on the back. Now, you know a lot
Speaker 1: about these social credit scores, and you and I have
Speaker 1: both ranted about them, and if they're starting to do
Speaker 1: that here, you know, so go ahead if you want
Speaker 1: to tell them with social credit scores are I know
Speaker 1: you've been researching. Oh, we've We've talked about it at nauseam.
Speaker 1: The social credit scores well known to this audience, but
Speaker 1: it still makes me angry. And now on a Friday evening,
Speaker 1: I'm doubly angry. Thank you, Lauren Fixed the car Coach.
Speaker 1: Where do we find you online? You can find me
Speaker 1: at car Coach Reports dot com. Follow me on all
Speaker 1: forms of social media at Lauren Fix. And I just
Speaker 1: posted my for minute Friday so you can watch me
Speaker 1: rant about social credit scores. Cool, thank you, my friend.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you? And there she goes Lauren Fixed
Speaker 1: the Car Coach with information that infuriates me to the
Speaker 1: point where I need to take a break. Michael Pelka
Speaker 1: here wrapping up the Buck Sexton Show. Will be right
Speaker 1: back Michael Pelca in for Buck Sexton tonight. Before we
Speaker 1: get out of here, I was listening to AOC the
Speaker 1: other night. Alexandra Kazy Cortez and she said something and
Speaker 1: made my ears prick up. One year ago, I was
Speaker 1: waitressing in a taco shop in downtown Manhattan. I just
Speaker 1: got health insurance for the first time a month ago.
Speaker 1: So did you or did you not violate the law
Speaker 1: that demanded you have health insurance? I want to know
Speaker 1: was she breaking the law before her her job in
Speaker 1: Congress gave her healthcare. Somebody in the media should ask
Speaker 1: that I've got time for a real quick phone called
Speaker 1: jonas in Austin, Texas. And I always worry about people
Speaker 1: in Austin, especially if they're conservatives, because they're surrounded. John,
Speaker 1: you got about thirty seconds. Can you bring your message
Speaker 1: home that quickly? Yeah? I think we need to bring
Speaker 1: the family back. I think that's what do we need
Speaker 1: to focus on if we do tax reform where stay
Speaker 1: at home parents who take care of children get the
Speaker 1: same deduction as when you do when you go through
Speaker 1: a daycare. I agree this country. I think you're right
Speaker 1: and you can't go wrong with focusing on the family. John,
Speaker 1: God bless you and yours and thank you for listening
Speaker 1: to this show. We appreciate you. Have a great weekend, sir.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I can't believe we're already up against it,
Speaker 1: and I barely got any time. I didn't get to
Speaker 1: tell you about the gig. If you want to you
Speaker 1: want to make sixty five grand for four months, you
Speaker 1: have to eat vegan food around the world. There's trade
Speaker 1: offs to everything. People, I didn't get to tell you
Speaker 1: about the funniest vanity plates the California has rejected you.
Speaker 1: Did you know there were two hundred words for poop
Speaker 1: in different languages and California has to look out for
Speaker 1: all of them. Have a great weekend and as always,
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