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Speaker 1: Big story everyone's talking about today is the tariffs, the

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Speaker 1: until this point, it's been mostly US administrations concerned with

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Speaker 1: Similar thing at work here. You have far too many

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Speaker 1: juveniles engaged in crime, and so what they decided to do,

433
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Speaker 1: and you know gang activity, we're talking about sixteen seventeen

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Speaker 1: year olds. What they decided to do was tell the

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Speaker 1: sheriff's department that they're gonna have a new approach to

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Speaker 1: public safety and they're going to reduce the crime rate,

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Speaker 1: the burglary rate, and the way to do that is

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Speaker 1: by saying that kids stay in school, We're not going

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Speaker 1: to arrest kids for violent behavior. We're just going to

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Speaker 1: issue citations. And they were going to push this notion

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Speaker 1: of citations and then they would say, look look at

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Speaker 1: how what a great job we're doing in Brower County

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Speaker 1: because of the drop in violent crime, when in reality,

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Speaker 1: they just were saying there were fewer arrests for burglary, larceny,

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Speaker 1: assault because sheriffs are being told if seventeen year old,

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Speaker 1: you know, punch of somebody or Rob's you know, Rob's

447
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Speaker 1: a liquor store or something. Give him a citation, don't

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Speaker 1: arrest him and process him. You can imagine what that

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Speaker 1: did to the actual crimes in the in the county.

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Speaker 1: That is not That is not a good way to

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Speaker 1: go about not a good way to go about your

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Speaker 1: law enforcement tactics. It has also come out that Sheriff

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Speaker 1: Israel was using the department as a it's just political machine,

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Speaker 1: old school political machine. He was hiring people who are

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Speaker 1: doing outreach, who were really just campaigning for him and

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Speaker 1: creating deeper roots for him in the community for the

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Speaker 1: purposes of re election. Because he's an elected he's an

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Speaker 1: elected official. I think people forget that that guy is

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Speaker 1: an elected official, Sheriff Sheriff Israel. Uh. And now when

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Speaker 1: people start to see this, and there have been a

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Speaker 1: bunch of different websites that have pulled us together. Sarah

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Speaker 1: rump Over at Red State did and Coulters syndicated column

463
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Speaker 1: this week is just on this issue. Her columns held

464
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Speaker 1: the school to mass murder pipeline and she's pointing it

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Speaker 1: out and it's there. I saw it last week and

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Speaker 1: I was trying to track it down. Actually reach out

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Speaker 1: to a friend of mine, a couple of friends of

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Speaker 1: mine in Florida said, you know, do you no need

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Speaker 1: journalists who could give me a little background on this

470
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Speaker 1: or anyone who could add a little meet to the

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Speaker 1: bones of these theories or of this theory. And sure

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Speaker 1: enough others called called wind this as well, because this

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Speaker 1: was out there. This was out there, and no one

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Speaker 1: wanted to run with it right away because it seemed like, well,

475
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Speaker 1: there's some there's some elements in different stories that support this.

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Speaker 1: But what end up happening was a sheriff's department became

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Speaker 1: a social justice political organization that was much more concerned

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Speaker 1: with the stats and the perception of safety than the

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Speaker 1: actual implementation and of safety, particularly with regard to juveniles

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Speaker 1: teenage offenders. Why does that matter Because Nicholas Cruse was

481
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Speaker 1: a multiple, multiple time, dozens of calls teenage offender, and

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Speaker 1: it is it stands to me at least perfectly reasonable

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Speaker 1: to believe that if they had had a different approach

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Speaker 1: to dealing with possibly violent teenagers in Broward County, there

485
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Speaker 1: may have been a different outcome with Nicholas Cruz. This

486
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: has been the theory all along. Now there's evidence to

487
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Speaker 1: support it. Now there there's a lot of people have

488
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Speaker 1: been going through the public documents and looking for that.

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Speaker 1: As I mentioned, I think Sarah Rump a red state.

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Speaker 1: And Sheriff Israel was at one point bragging, bragging about

491
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Speaker 1: telling his deputies that they were not to arrest juveniles,

492
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Speaker 1: and he cited the quote dramatic drop in violent crime

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Speaker 1: during his tenure and the issuing of thousands of all

494
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Speaker 1: citations rather than arrest for juveniles specifically, So how do

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Speaker 1: you how do you make people think you're doing a

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Speaker 1: good job in Broward County? For Sheriff Israel, You change

497
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Speaker 1: who you arrest and that's all you have to do.

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Speaker 1: You make the decision that you're going to release juveniles

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Speaker 1: with just essentially a warning, right with a citation instead,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess citation you gotta pay or show up,

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00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: but no more arrests. And oh, you get to feel

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Speaker 1: like a community leader and somebody who's socially justice aware

503
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: because what else is a part of this, Oh, a

504
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: disproportioned impact of juvenile arrests on minorities in the Broward community.

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Speaker 1: So you looked like a social justice hero, you being

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Speaker 1: Sheriff Israel who was dropping the crime rate. Meanwhile people

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00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 1: were actually suffering. Crime was happening. And oh, by the way,

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Cruz was able to have the cops called to

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Speaker 1: his house dozens of times without any real act and

510
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Speaker 1: taken against him. And we are led to believe that

511
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Speaker 1: there was nothing that law enforcem could have done the

512
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: situation that was better or that could have stopped it.

513
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Speaker 1: So this what started out as a conspiracy theory that

514
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Speaker 1: does make its way around the internet. Some of my

515
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: fellow conservative analysts have looked at it, pulled together the

516
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: data and it's it's true. It is true. There was cronyism,

517
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: there was politicization and ineptitude lies at the Broward County

518
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department that were it was a systemic issue, systemic.

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Speaker 1: So I just wanted to add that to our discussion

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Speaker 1: of everything that had happened in Florida. And with that,

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Speaker 1: I will take if you want to, if you've got

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Speaker 1: any thoughts. Is, by the wayf any of you lived

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Speaker 1: down in Brower. I know we've got a lot of

524
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Speaker 1: Florida listeners and you live in Broward County, would really

525
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Speaker 1: be curious to hear if you have any experience with

526
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Speaker 1: this or if you live in a jurisdiction where you

527
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Speaker 1: think something similar has a heard, where they've changed the

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Speaker 1: way they count statistics about arrests or the way or

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Speaker 1: they change what they're willing to arrest people for. One

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Speaker 1: of the big things that got me mad here in

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Speaker 1: New York City reviously was I found out that, uh,

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Speaker 1: build a Blasio. Who you guys, are anyone listening any

533
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Speaker 1: of the country unless maybe you're in you're in Chicago,

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Speaker 1: San Francisco or l A. I feel like we have

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Speaker 1: a worse mayor than you. Um, I think we have

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Speaker 1: a worse mayor than you. The guy is a clown,

537
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: but he made the decision that told the police department

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Speaker 1: here on YPD that they're not going to arrest people

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00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: for public urination anymore. I remember growing up and when

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Speaker 1: the city in the bad old days, and it was

541
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Speaker 1: really bad. When I was growing up here. It was

542
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: actually the worst in it ever was was in the

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Speaker 1: early nineties when I was a kind of young teenager

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00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: and people would just, you know, they would you'd come

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00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: home and there'll be somebody who was you know, right

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00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: on the front step and just what happened all the time.

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Speaker 1: It was disgusting. It was disgrace and de Blasi. I

548
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, it's kind of mean to arrest people

549
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: for for, you know, urinating on the street in public,

550
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Speaker 1: So we're not going to do that anymore. This is

551
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: what social justice gets you, my friends, and this is

552
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: what the left belief is going to advanced the common good.

553
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,239
Speaker 1: And in Broward it was I think disastrous. If any

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00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: of you listening have any ideas on that, let me

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Speaker 1: know eight four five eight four Buck gonna be a

556
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: switching up topics here in just a second, so stay

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Speaker 1: with me, all right, team, let's take some calls. We

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Speaker 1: have Matthew in Nebraska. Hey Matthew, Hey Buck, thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me on. I've been listening to your podcast most

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Speaker 1: of the time. I just wanted to mention that there's

561
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Speaker 1: been a program in place since in a couple of

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Speaker 1: different states including Ohio and Colorado and a few others

563
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Speaker 1: that have not been named, called the Faster Program, and

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00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: it trains teachers to confront an armed attacker and trauma

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Speaker 1: management to try and save as main kids lives as possible. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm all, I'm all fine with the training, and

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Speaker 1: I actually like the idea of concealed carry for personnel

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Speaker 1: in schools who want to have it. I just think

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Speaker 1: the notion of a of a uniformed defense force or

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Speaker 1: some kind of official defense force for all schools based

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Speaker 1: on the number of shootings and the number of honestly

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Speaker 1: that the number of shootings are really talking about, is

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Speaker 1: not the not the appropriate solution to the problem. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I totally agree. I I used to go to school

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Speaker 1: ten years ago with the school that had a resource officer,

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Speaker 1: and we all knew where their office was and their

577
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Speaker 1: rough schedule moving around the building. But having teachers who

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00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: you don't know are armed are probably the best way

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Speaker 1: to confront an attacker that slipped through every hole like

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Speaker 1: we had in Partlet Yeah, and by the way, as

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Speaker 1: as soon as you have the first teacher you have

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Speaker 1: who has an a D and literally shoots some literally

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Speaker 1: shoots himself and a foot, I mean, that'll be a

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00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: national news story. And if you were to put thousands

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Speaker 1: of teachers, you know it's gonna happen at some point.

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00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: I always remember that video of I forget I think

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Speaker 1: it was a I forget, I think it was a

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Speaker 1: D A agent. It was on YouTube where he's showing

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Speaker 1: a class is glock. Do you know what I'm talking

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00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:20,240
Speaker 1: about and oh yeah, there's been many instances where somebody

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00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: who should know what they do completely messes up and

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00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,359
Speaker 1: puts a shop somewhere they weren't put through his back

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Speaker 1: and that guy pulling through his knee, I think in

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Speaker 1: a classroom full of kids. It's gotten millions and millions

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Speaker 1: of views on YouTube, and they show it in gun

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Speaker 1: safety class. I mean I was in a gun safety

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Speaker 1: class and they showed that clip. So somebody told me

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00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:38,919
Speaker 1: that guy tried to sue. By the way, I tried

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00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,240
Speaker 1: to sue either the school or the news or somebody,

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00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: but he didn't win. But Matthew, if they want to

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Speaker 1: get but federal, you know, federal air marshals. I don't

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Speaker 1: believe a federal air marshal has actually foiled a terrorist

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00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,399
Speaker 1: or any kind of violent plot aboard an airplane since

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00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: nine eleven. I don't think that's happened. True. But right

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Speaker 1: now we have this program in place and it's a charity.

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00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: So what's the name of the program again, the faster program.

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00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: I have to look at this one. Yeah, yeah, Pastor

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Speaker 1: Saves Lives dot org five or one three, and it

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Speaker 1: trains teachers. It's been in place after the Sandy Hooks

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Speaker 1: shooting started out in Ohio. There's another version in Colorado,

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Speaker 1: and they're even training teachers in other states. I'm in

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Speaker 1: favorite say the same reason why, Matthew. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's good to know how to defend yourself with you know,

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Speaker 1: if you can, you know, with your hands. It's good

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00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: to know some basic self defense skills. Martial arts might

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00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 1: be at that's one way of saying it. But it's

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00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: it's good to not to defend yourself. It doesn't mean

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00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 1: you have to get into fights, right, It's just a

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Speaker 1: good thing to to know, and I think it instills

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Speaker 1: a degree of of confidence and make somebody a little

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Speaker 1: more uh, you know, self possessed when they're dealing with

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Speaker 1: certain situations. And so I feel the same way about

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Speaker 1: if adults want to get active shooter training, if adults

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Speaker 1: want to conceal carry in schools, I'm all I'm for

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00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: it and fine with it. Um. So if this program

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Speaker 1: maybe could be expanded, that's perhaps a way to to

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Speaker 1: get us to a better place in all this. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for calling Matthew from from Nebraska. Appreciate it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know this is it's been pretty amazing to see

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Speaker 1: how quickly this issue was uh turned into well, how

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Speaker 1: quickly all of a sudden we're being told that the

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Speaker 1: solution is gun control. And I thought we had gotten

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Speaker 1: a place where we were past this, but now here

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Speaker 1: we are. In fact, there's still you know, efforts at

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Speaker 1: gun control and gun restrictions, but then also the notion

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Speaker 1: of a massive force. I don't think that's the answer either, um,

637
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: but not a lot of people want to hear the

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00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: problem is not as bad as the meat is telling you.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I'm telling you. The administration is going

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Speaker 1: to be rolling out policy over the next three weeks,

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Speaker 1: and it will be very, very strong. I've also spoken

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Speaker 1: with Jeff about bringing a lawsuit against some of these

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Speaker 1: sopioid companies. I mean, what they're doing and the way

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Speaker 1: the distribution, and you have people that go to the

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Speaker 1: hospital with a broken arm and they come out in

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Speaker 1: there addicted. You know. As you know, we've been I

647
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 1: think we've been involved more than any administration by far.

648
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Speaker 1: President Trump earlier today at a White House summit on

649
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Speaker 1: the opioid crisis, welcome to our to the buck sex

650
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: and show everyone this is an issue that from the

651
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: beginnings of this show I've tried to bring attention to

652
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:26,240
Speaker 1: this is an issue that I have to say, given

653
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Speaker 1: the focus and and outrage and the national convulsion that

654
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: we have just had because of the school shooting, I

655
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: can't help but look at the lack of political momentum

656
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 1: and media focus on this, which is also a life

657
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 1: or death issue, and in terms of scale, it is

658
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: not even close when we look at the problem. Um.

659
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Speaker 1: As I mentioned yesterday, the numbers are what they are.

660
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Speaker 1: You have a few ousen people killed in school shootings

661
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: in recent years. For twenty sixteen I think, or maybe

662
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 1: it's seventeen, the numbers are in over sixty three thousand

663
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 1: people died of opioid over overdoses, sixty three thousand. To

664
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Speaker 1: put that in perspective, you had a total in of

665
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: seventeen thousand, two hundred fifty people were murdered in the

666
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Speaker 1: United States, So you lost it's all murders, all cities,

667
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Speaker 1: three million people, seventeen thousand, two hundred fifty murders in

668
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Speaker 1: the US UH sixty three thousand people died of opiod overdoses. Now,

669
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Speaker 1: I know with opioids people are there's differences here right there.

670
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: Taking them, they're becoming addicted. But this is an urgent

671
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Speaker 1: national crisis, and it's affecting communities all across the country.

672
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Speaker 1: And I think that this hits home, particularly with the President,

673
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Speaker 1: because of what he went through with his brother, who,

674
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Speaker 1: as is well known, has been described by the President

675
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Speaker 1: in some detail, drank himself to death. And this is

676
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Speaker 1: I just I see these Look I'm not saying we

677
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: can't handle more than one issue, but look at the

678
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: the ferocity of the media's demands for urgent action and

679
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: sweeping change on gun control because of school shootings, and

680
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: the much more muted approach to dealing with a crisis

681
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,879
Speaker 1: that is it is a true pandemic. We have a

682
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Speaker 1: pandemic of addiction in this country right now, particularly to

683
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 1: these opioids and these different uh, these different chemical compounds

684
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 1: don't even have to necessarily grown anymore. But you've got

685
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 1: a perfect storm of a number of factors that have

686
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:05,439
Speaker 1: come together. One of them is that people have been

687
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:09,399
Speaker 1: given a lot of prescription drugs for pain, and the

688
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:13,800
Speaker 1: prescription or the pharmaceutical companies seemed to be way too

689
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:20,840
Speaker 1: lax in their safeguards in selling enormous quantities of a

690
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Speaker 1: whole bunch of different drugs OxyContin and and others into

691
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Speaker 1: certain parts of the country, certain pharmacies, and that's very,

692
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Speaker 1: very bad. You have, as I've been telling you, the

693
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Speaker 1: Mexican cartels more violent than they've ever been. I was

694
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Speaker 1: just telling a friend this the other day. He said,

695
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Speaker 1: no way. I said, look it up, and it came

696
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Speaker 1: back to me, said, you're right. Most murders ever in

697
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Speaker 1: Mexico because of the cartels right now, violence on a

698
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Speaker 1: scale that is as bad as anything that we've seen

699
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Speaker 1: in that country. Oh and by the way, they're now

700
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Speaker 1: vertically integrated as heroin growers and exporters and importers. I

701
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:57,880
Speaker 1: mean they're importing into the United States, exporting in from

702
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Speaker 1: Mexico and growing it. And if you look at a

703
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: map of Mexico, there's highlands that kind of form a

704
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Speaker 1: backbone of spine of the country up starting up in

705
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 1: the Durango and Sinaloa area, Cineloa highlands, and then you

706
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: go all the way down and they can grow poppy

707
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: up there, and they do. They're growing heroin now, I

708
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: mean they don't grow heroin. That heroin is a process

709
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Speaker 1: that you you get it from the paste from the

710
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Speaker 1: poppy plant. But they're doing that now in Mexico used

711
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 1: to have to come all the way from South Asia

712
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Speaker 1: for the most part. Then you've also got large chemical factories,

713
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 1: illegal ones operating in Mexico and in China, and they

714
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: can bring pills into the US that are incredibly addictive,

715
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Speaker 1: very very powerful, fentanel and others, these different chemical compounds

716
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 1: that haven't that have addictive properties, that are just it

717
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: is very very hard to to break. I mean when

718
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: you read the descriptions I have to give so I

719
00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: think it was seeing Inn in the New York Times

720
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 1: was writing just about what addicts are like, what the

721
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: It was profiles of different opioid addicts, and they are

722
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: generally functioning people. We have this notion in the country,

723
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: and I think that's part of why the media is

724
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: not really focused on this issue. And you think about

725
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: there's there were a lot of stories, stories about the

726
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 1: crack epidemics, stories about the AIDS epidemic. I mean, when

727
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 1: when there's a national crisis like this, usually because it

728
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: is both important and attention grabbing, media runs with it.

729
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 1: I see very little coverage of opioids. It hasn't yet

730
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Speaker 1: been addressed as something that needs a really a cultural

731
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Speaker 1: shift and the mobilization of communities across the country to

732
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Speaker 1: deal with it. And I'm not comparing to say that

733
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Speaker 1: one is important and one is into or something. But

734
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 1: you look at the the the outpouring from both sides

735
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 1: of the aisle to deal at school shooting, then you

736
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Speaker 1: look at the opioid crisis. Government is not going to

737
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Speaker 1: solve the opioid crisis, folks, governs all, I'm not gonna

738
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Speaker 1: solve school shootings. But it's this is from us, this

739
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: is at our level. And I've I've been around people,

740
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Speaker 1: I've seen people in my life, even you know, growing

741
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: up in New York City, there were a lot of

742
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Speaker 1: drugs here. In fact, one of the things I think

743
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Speaker 1: that always surprises. It certainly surprised some of my my

744
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 1: peers at Langley at the c i a UM. One

745
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 1: of the things that always surprises was that when I

746
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Speaker 1: tell them stories about and like I had very loving,

747
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: supportive family, had great parents, I went to a great

748
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: Jesuit school here and everything, but just being in the

749
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Speaker 1: city and be you know, going we used to go

750
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Speaker 1: out very young age here. People had fake I d s.

751
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 1: I think back to this now and it seems crazy,

752
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: but everyone starting around fourteen or fifteen, would try to

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Speaker 1: get a fake I d and they're going to bars,

754
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Speaker 1: and there were nightclubs that we would go to here

755
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Speaker 1: in New York. I mean, not me obviously, because I

756
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 1: was not twenty one yet, but yeah, maybe, but you're

757
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: just around and people started doing drugs that are very

758
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:01,879
Speaker 1: young age. I think one of the things that's surprising

759
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: for some of my my government friends when I said, well,

760
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:07,320
Speaker 1: how did you get a how did you get a clearance?

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00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 1: You know, you know, and I said, I just never

762
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 1: got mixed up in any of that stuff. It just

763
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 1: never was for me. You know. I had a a

764
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Speaker 1: big brother to look out for me, and a little

765
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Speaker 1: brother and sister that I wanted to be proud of me,

766
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Speaker 1: and parents that you know, in the same that I

767
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: felt the same about. And it just never And I

768
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Speaker 1: had friends who went to rehab. I knew people very

769
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Speaker 1: well who went to rehab for serious drug addiction, and

770
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,359
Speaker 1: I'm glad that they got help, but some of them

771
00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,320
Speaker 1: were never really the same afterwards. I was just speaking

772
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Speaker 1: to a dear friend of mine a few weeks ago.

773
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Speaker 1: We actually met up and had had dinner for the

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Speaker 1: first time in a while. A guy I've known for

775
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: decades at this point, and we we got into a

776
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of a lot of fun trouble

777
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 1: together back in the day. You know, we were kind

778
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: of partners and uh and growing up together here in

779
00:45:57,719 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: the city. And he said that we saw he saw

780
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Speaker 1: another friend he saw in the street who we both

781
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: knew and has been just been through it, addicted to

782
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: the worst addicted to the worst stuff. And by the way,

783
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: a privileged kid. You know, I grew up with a

784
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 1: life of privilege here in the city, and but just

785
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: had the had multiple trips into rehab. And he said

786
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: he saw him and they were really all friends, and

787
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: he pretended not to see him, meaning the guy who

788
00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: had been to rehab tend not to see him, sped

789
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: up and just walked past him and walked away. He

790
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 1: said he couldn't even bring himself to be mad at

791
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 1: him because he knew that he just it's just easier,

792
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 1: it's easier not to get into it. You know, how

793
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:41,280
Speaker 1: are you doing? Oh? You know, I've you know, I'm

794
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: I'm clean for x amount of days, and you know,

795
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: because we all know, we all know. I think I

796
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 1: might have been mentioned before in the show. I had

797
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: two friends growing up, both of whom died of drug overdoses,

798
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Speaker 1: one of whom was actually a very very close friend

799
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Speaker 1: of mine when I was on the very young, the

800
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: younger side. Um, Now they were prescription drug overdoses. I

801
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: don't you know, And then you get into it was

802
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 1: it was it just an of course, in these situations,

803
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: you just respect the family's wishes and try to support them,

804
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:16,360
Speaker 1: and you know, you don't ask questions, right, But I

805
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: knew that both of them died of drug overdose. Uh.

806
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 1: And two people I knew, I knew well and spent

807
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 1: a lot of time with, and also, by the way,

808
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: very very privileged people here in the city. And I

809
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 1: just always stayed away from that stuff. I never healed me.

810
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you these stories just because I've I've

811
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 1: seen it. I've seen what it does to people. I

812
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 1: knew young women, I knew my peers. When I was

813
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: in high school fifteen sixteen years old, going to rehab

814
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: for cocaine, that was a big one. Um, some others

815
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:47,399
Speaker 1: would go for alcohol, but cocaine was particularly a big

816
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 1: issue when I was growing up in the city. And

817
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,879
Speaker 1: you know, that's a dangerous drug, terribly addictive ruins lives. Well,

818
00:47:53,880 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 1: we're seeing now is a proliferation of these incredible potent

819
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: pain killers that are even more addictive and more available

820
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: and can come in all different kinds of forms. And

821
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: you've got the car. You can either get it from

822
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 1: the cartels, which is coming to you from a street dealer, right,

823
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 1: or you having an unethical doctor who's prescribing too many

824
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: pain killers and not paying attention, or maybe just a

825
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: doctor who doesn't really you know, people are doctor shopping,

826
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 1: or the pharmacist is not paying attention. They are all

827
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,879
Speaker 1: these different ways to get this, right. That's that's part

828
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: of it too. People talk about gateway drugs. Well, if

829
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 1: you're on pain medication for your back and it's an opioid,

830
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: it is it is a gateway drug to then getting

831
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 1: fenttal from so because you become addicted. I mean, I

832
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 1: actually don't believe that marijuana is a gateway drug too.

833
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 1: And I trust me more than I feel like more

834
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 1: than half the people I knew growing up in New

835
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 1: York City. I want to say we're like three quarters

836
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: of a smoked marijuana way way less than that did

837
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 1: anything else in terms of drugs. And I couldn't give

838
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: you a percentage. But the notion of it being a gateway,

839
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 1: I've always thought was kind of a falsehood. But addiction

840
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: is so debilitating and destructive, and the numbers don't lie.

841
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: Sixty three thousand people died, sixty three thousand of our

842
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: fellow Americans. Think of the holes that have been left

843
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: in those families. These are sons and daughters and mothers

844
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:19,879
Speaker 1: and fathers. And I just don't get any sense of

845
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 1: the the urgency of national action from the opinion makers.

846
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:27,439
Speaker 1: I give Trump crad I think Trump is really looking

847
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 1: at this and trying to tackle this, and I do

848
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 1: believe it's because he has a personal connection to addiction,

849
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: not to somebody has been affected. But I don't know.

850
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,320
Speaker 1: Maybe he knows people have been affected by opioids too,

851
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 1: but from my own life knowing some folks who have

852
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 1: dealt with addiction to particularly to illegal substances, I mean,

853
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: alcohol is debilitating too, but it is it is tough,

854
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: it is uh, it is life shattering for a lot

855
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 1: of a lot of people, destroy his families, destroy his careers.

856
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: And this is if we're gonna start having a natural

857
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 1: conversation about taking positive action at the most local level

858
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 1: all the way up to the top of government. I

859
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: feel like this should be the priority. Um, It's only

860
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:12,800
Speaker 1: gonna get worse, by the way, and unless we start

861
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: finding ways to address it and deal with it. And

862
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 1: and I have I have theories, by the way, that

863
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:21,359
Speaker 1: aren't really based in the This is gonna sound bad

864
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 1: like based in the science as I'm coming up with

865
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 1: with quackery here. No, but I have my own inclinations

866
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:29,879
Speaker 1: about why the opioid epidemic has gotten so bad. Why

867
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: A lot of you listening, I know many of you

868
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: across the country listening to show right now are saying, well,

869
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,360
Speaker 1: I know somebody who has been affected by it. You

870
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 1: might know many people have been affected by it. Um.

871
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: I think it's because of the way that we approach

872
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: our datity lives now and pushing through pain and dealing

873
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: and people are more are want to be active longer.

874
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 1: People feel like they should be able to. And I

875
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:57,240
Speaker 1: certainly encouraged that. Right. You want to be as physically

876
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: active as you can as long as you can, but

877
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 1: you can agging injuries, back pain. A lot of physical

878
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:07,319
Speaker 1: pain actually comes from stress and from lifestyle issues that

879
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 1: are just a part of what it is to be

880
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:11,720
Speaker 1: grinding and out, trying to pay bills, trying to support

881
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:15,239
Speaker 1: a family, trying to keep the mortgage paid. All of that, right,

882
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: there are physical manifestations of that pain. If you can

883
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 1: escape it with a pill, that becomes very potent. That's

884
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:26,799
Speaker 1: hard to that's hard to pass up for a lot

885
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: of people. And it also affects different It affects people differently,

886
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 1: meaning for some and they're starting to to look at

887
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: the genetics of this more. They're starting to look at

888
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 1: the biochemistry much more rigorously. Some people. Yeah, I mean,

889
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,760
Speaker 1: I remember I had a it's gonna sound like ridiculous,

890
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 1: but a long time ago I had the first time

891
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: I was ever given real prescription painkillers was because I

892
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 1: was doing some cliff jumping and managed to give myself

893
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 1: an ear infection, which, when you're an adult sounds sounds.

894
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:02,439
Speaker 1: An ear infection is maddening lye painful. If it gets

895
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:05,960
Speaker 1: into your inter ear, it's terrible. It's the worst. It Literally,

896
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 1: the guy the doc had to give you pain killers.

897
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: I took it. I remember feeling kind of, you know,

898
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: a little woozy. It's kind of I remember, and I

899
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 1: didn't have any inclination afterwards to you know, I remember

900
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 1: I had leftovers and I just you know, I threw

901
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:22,880
Speaker 1: them out, right? Who cares? For some people, they're finding

902
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 1: now that their biochemistry, they're actually the way that their

903
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: brain functions is that once they take it, it's like

904
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:31,799
Speaker 1: this is all that they this is all that they want.

905
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 1: They want to read, they want to achieve that feeling again.

906
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:38,239
Speaker 1: And then once they get in that cycle on opioids

907
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:41,920
Speaker 1: and they try to withdraw. Opioid withdrawal is described by

908
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,399
Speaker 1: people in a lot of different ways, but the most

909
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 1: common way is think of the worst flu you've ever

910
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:50,399
Speaker 1: had and multiplied by a hundred, and that's what that's

911
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,919
Speaker 1: what opioid with all feels like. And that's why people

912
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,280
Speaker 1: make the terrible decisions they do once they become addicted.

913
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 1: But this is a national this is a true national crisis.

914
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 1: People are dying in vast numbers, many more than are

915
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:05,879
Speaker 1: dying from car accidents, many more than are dying from

916
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 1: any kind of violence, not just gun violence, hammers and

917
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 1: sharp objects too. And yet you know that you're not

918
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 1: seeing the pundit class because you know what, on this one,

919
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:22,320
Speaker 1: this is just about us. Harder for them to find

920
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 1: a bad guy. You know there's there's no there's no

921
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 1: n r A for the left to beat up on

922
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:28,919
Speaker 1: when it comes to opioids. I mean, I guess maybe

923
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 1: they're trying to make it the pharmaceutical industry. But here's

924
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 1: the thing. You beat up on the farm on big

925
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 1: farmer too much. Guess what people need pain pills too, right,

926
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 1: family members who have been through surgeries recently. You're gonna

927
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:41,800
Speaker 1: need pain pills sometimes. So it's not not as easy

928
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: as just oh, the big bad farmers the problem we

929
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 1: have here. So I just think this is she deserves

930
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 1: a lot more, uh, not just attention, right, that's one

931
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: part of it, but action. We've we've spent a couple

932
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 1: of weeks there's a country convulse by discussion over how

933
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:05,360
Speaker 1: to stop uh terrible murders that should never happen but

934
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: are in the dozens, and we've spent far too little

935
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 1: of our time also thinking about how we can stop

936
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: murders that are in the tens of thousands, over sixty

937
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 1: three thousand last year. Had a quick break here, We'll

938
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:23,720
Speaker 1: be right back. Some countries have a very very tough penalty,

939
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:27,279
Speaker 1: the ultimate penalty, and by the way, they have much

940
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 1: less of a drug problem than we do. So we're

941
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: gonna have to be very strong on penalties. Hopefully we

942
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:39,000
Speaker 1: can do some litigation against the the opioid companies. I

943
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: think it's very important because a lot of states are

944
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 1: doing it. But I keep saying, if the states are

945
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:48,360
Speaker 1: doing it, why isn't the federal government doing it? I

946
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 1: think the President's got an interesting point whenever he talks

947
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 1: about more concerted action on opioids. I don't think that

948
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:59,399
Speaker 1: currently any there's I think US law is pretty clear

949
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: that you can only be killed if you kill someone,

950
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:03,960
Speaker 1: meaning you can only be put to death if you

951
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 1: cause if you cause death, um, except for treason, and

952
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:12,799
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I think that's it. I think I think

953
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: the only crime you can be put to death for

954
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 1: that does not involve that does not involve killing somebody

955
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:21,320
Speaker 1: or are you being responsible for someone's death, is treason.

956
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 1: I think that's correct. John in Whitesboro, New York, Hey,

957
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 1: what's up, John. I'll be real quick. I used to

958
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 1: work as a transit company and you can't get a

959
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 1: bigger in New York City, and you can't get a

960
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:36,319
Speaker 1: bigger journal than the subway system, and I quote more

961
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 1: females urinating and guys. But trust me, I would never

962
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 1: lock anybody up for that at worst, or I throw

963
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,319
Speaker 1: them off the subway system. But I was telling your

964
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,719
Speaker 1: screener that I actually one time got urinated on on

965
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,879
Speaker 1: the Jay train at Lormer Avenue when uh, I guess

966
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 1: that's like like two stops away from the Williamsburg Bridge.

967
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 1: Were you in uniform? Yeah, I was hiding in a

968
00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 1: room looking for fair beaters. Two guys came through, one

969
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:02,840
Speaker 1: one up up onto the platform and the other was

970
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: on the mezzanine. So I stopped the messanine guy I

971
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 1: said he wanted to use the phone, so I let

972
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:09,920
Speaker 1: him go. I started going upstairs, and you know how

973
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 1: like on the elevated lines, was like a landing halfway up.

974
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:14,399
Speaker 1: As soon as I got the landing, I felt something

975
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: hit my hat, so I stopped, you know, because I

976
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:17,719
Speaker 1: was wondering what it was. And then all of a

977
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 1: sudden I got port on by urine. So I continued

978
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 1: going up the stairs and around, like you know, when

979
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 1: you get up to the platform you could walk around,

980
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:26,280
Speaker 1: and the guy was in the corner there at the

981
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:28,400
Speaker 1: thing that goes around the stairway, and he was urinating

982
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:31,439
Speaker 1: and it came down on me and he was drunk

983
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:33,359
Speaker 1: and stuff. But you know, I think I wrote him

984
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 1: with summons, but he didn't have good idea. He was drunk.

985
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,799
Speaker 1: But I tell me I I he got smacked around

986
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 1: a little bit and I threw him both the up.

987
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: But no one would lock you up with that buck. Okay,

988
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:50,640
Speaker 1: Officer John, thank you. I got nothing. Man, I got

989
00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 1: nothing after that. You know I needed I actually really

990
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:57,760
Speaker 1: needed that car. Thank you, Officer John Eggs. All right, everybody,

991
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 1: I'll be right back. We should be looking for bipartisan

992
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:04,720
Speaker 1: solutions to revise the FISA process so that what happened

993
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:08,480
Speaker 1: to President Trump never happens to a future American president.

994
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: So I went looking for solutions, and I found that

995
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 1: in the gentleman from California, the ranking member of the

996
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:17,280
Speaker 1: Intelligence Committee, wanted to give the President of the United

997
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:21,080
Speaker 1: States the power to appoint FISA judges. He argued that

998
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 1: then judges would be more ideologically diverse, they'd come from

999
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 1: different areas in the United States, and they would be

1000
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 1: subject to Senate confirmation. Today, I filed that legislation, and

1001
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 1: I would encourage the Gentleman from California to join me

1002
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 1: as a co sponsor so that we can advance bipartisan legislation.

1003
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: Who wants to guess whether she have joined in that legislation.

1004
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 1: Who wants to guess the answer? Of course you already know. Look,

1005
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: this is this is a process that I think, unfortunately,

1006
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:54,960
Speaker 1: we'll go out with a whimper and not a bang,

1007
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 1: meaning there's not going to be any day, or I

1008
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 1: can come on the show and they see it's all over.

1009
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: We have our answers. And part of the problem here

1010
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:08,960
Speaker 1: is that while some who are opponents of the administration

1011
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: pretend that that's the only thing that will that's the

1012
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:14,439
Speaker 1: only thing they want. They want the truth, just the truth,

1013
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: nothing but the truth. They know that every day that

1014
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 1: this goes on is a day that slows down the

1015
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:24,480
Speaker 1: administration from building a wall, slows down the administration from

1016
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: trying to help with the economy, allows things like this

1017
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:34,200
Speaker 1: to go on challenge and of course I'm just closed

1018
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:37,600
Speaker 1: with talking about the GOP tax scam. Every day that

1019
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: goes by, we see more evidence that it is exactly

1020
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 1: that a tax scam. We continue to put out the

1021
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 1: truth on the tax scams, massive giveaways to corporations and

1022
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:51,640
Speaker 1: the wealthy, and its consequences for workers, seniors, and families.

1023
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 1: Every day we see more corporations announcing stuck buy backs

1024
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 1: to enrich their executives and investors instead of increasing the

1025
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 1: wages an ongoing basis of workers. I see. So now

1026
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 1: it has to be a wage increase, A bonus of

1027
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars to employees from all these different companies.

1028
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:12,400
Speaker 1: That's crumbs. But it needs to be a wage increase

1029
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 1: for Nancy Pelosi to be happy. Nancy Pelosi is an

1030
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:18,120
Speaker 1: economic illiterate. She has no idea what she's talking about

1031
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 1: and what's worse, in many ways, she does not care. Uh.

1032
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:25,760
Speaker 1: She has no policy to put forward that would improve

1033
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 1: the economic situation of workers. But she knows that bashing Trump,

1034
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 1: bashing this administration is good politics for her base, and

1035
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:38,000
Speaker 1: that is in fact what she is set on doing.

1036
00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 1: But you think that maybe we could spend more time

1037
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: explaining to the American people how Nancy Pelosi does not

1038
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: have well, she doesn't have a conceptual understanding of how

1039
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 1: wages would go up. So you start with that, but

1040
00:59:52,360 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 1: also get into why it matters that companies will have

1041
00:59:57,240 --> 01:00:00,080
Speaker 1: more cash what that will do for hiring. But know,

1042
01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:02,920
Speaker 1: instead of being able to engage there. I mean, we

1043
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 1: can write I just did, but instead of that being

1044
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 1: a focus of the narrative, it is so much more

1045
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:11,240
Speaker 1: on what the latest in the Muller probe is. I

1046
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:16,040
Speaker 1: am so sick and tired of this Muller probe. I'm

1047
01:00:16,080 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 1: seeing now that there's a breaking news, if you want

1048
01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 1: to call it, that, that there will be more indictments

1049
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:27,240
Speaker 1: of Russians. Okay, great, what's that gonna do. These are

1050
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:30,320
Speaker 1: Russians who will never stand trial. These are Russians who

1051
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 1: don't give a crap what Mueller says or thinks or

1052
01:00:33,640 --> 01:00:37,680
Speaker 1: does or the the d o J for that matter.

1053
01:00:38,680 --> 01:00:42,000
Speaker 1: And this time around it may have to do with

1054
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: the theft of Hillary's emails, is what I'm being told.

1055
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:46,840
Speaker 1: That's what I'm well, that's what I'm reading issue. I mean,

1056
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 1: uh so we'll see a hacking scheme to get at

1057
01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:56,439
Speaker 1: her emails. But you know, if it's not that, it's

1058
01:00:56,520 --> 01:01:00,360
Speaker 1: there's some other bit of leakage from the Muller probes.

1059
01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:03,880
Speaker 1: So much leaking it's really hard to feel like there's

1060
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:05,800
Speaker 1: political integrity in this. And I would also not that

1061
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:09,920
Speaker 1: there was an article written by a former FBI agent

1062
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 1: who I think it was a Scarlet is still Read

1063
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:15,520
Speaker 1: or something like that was the title, Or you're saying

1064
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 1: that Mueller has a long history of being one of

1065
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 1: these guys who in internal investigations, even at the FBI,

1066
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:25,479
Speaker 1: would take the truth to an extreme, meaning that even

1067
01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:30,640
Speaker 1: if something was not particularly material, or if it could

1068
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 1: be said that you did not give the most specific

1069
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:35,840
Speaker 1: version of the truth possible, he would use that for

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Speaker 1: leverage over people in investigations. I think we're certainly seeing

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Speaker 1: that democrats are playing games. They're using the bureaucratic machinery

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Speaker 1: of the d o J as a weapon against their

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Speaker 1: ideological opponents. That's what is happening. Uh. And when they're

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Speaker 1: not just grinding people through that process, they are also

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Speaker 1: letting America believe because that's the whole purpose of these

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Speaker 1: stories that data jar that Jared Kushner took bribes, that

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Speaker 1: that's the latest one. Last twenty four hours, he got

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Speaker 1: loans because he met with the CEO Sans Companies and

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Speaker 1: Kushner got loans, and you know they're going. Oh and

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Speaker 1: also a CNN was running that Ivanka's international business transactions

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Speaker 1: are under investigation. Another league, more leaks all the time.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that they'll run stories at CNN when

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Speaker 1: nothing comes of that investigation, when there are no charges

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Speaker 1: and no no malfeasants found when they look into these transactions.

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Speaker 1: I saw yesterday they're going into Trump's finances. Now I'm

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Speaker 1: familiar with the way these with these things actually work.

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Speaker 1: And this is what everyone needs to remember. If they

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Speaker 1: want to get you bad enough, and they have enough

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Speaker 1: leeway and they have the resources, they'll get you. They'll

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Speaker 1: find something. People always think. You know, there's actually a

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Speaker 1: pretty interesting book. I think it's written by Harvey ever

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Speaker 1: his name is Silverstein or Silvergate. I think it's Harvey

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Speaker 1: silver Gate, um. Three felonies a day. And it's just

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Speaker 1: about how many Americans who because most people don't go

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Speaker 1: to law school and don't really have a detailed understanding

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Speaker 1: of criminal law and also the justice system like once

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Speaker 1: you once they start poking around and asking questions, as

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Speaker 1: we know, that becomes its own problem that people are

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Speaker 1: committing to Harvey silver Gate. Yeah, Buck human google over here.

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Speaker 1: Uh and I should never. I'm gonna make so many

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Speaker 1: mistakes tomorrow or probably the next hour. Thank you, John.

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Speaker 1: I deserved that. I deserved that. That was I earned

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Speaker 1: that one. UM. Anyway, the book that was about the

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Speaker 1: accidental felonies that people commit that are look, they're more

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Speaker 1: minor stuff, but you know, uh, you know, misuse of

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Speaker 1: a computer program or exceeding your authority on a work computer.

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Speaker 1: These are all like felonies that people could theoretically be

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Speaker 1: charged for. They have no idea, no idea. I don't

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Speaker 1: even get me started on your taxes. And that's the

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01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:08,880
Speaker 1: way that they've been going after people for a long time.

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Speaker 1: That was the old Clinton. That was the old Clinton

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Speaker 1: move right, just get give somebody a real thorough audit.

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Speaker 1: And as you know, if you've ever gone through that process,

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01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:18,960
Speaker 1: you've done nothing wrong. It's not like you get a

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Speaker 1: prize at the end. You don't even get a high

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Speaker 1: five from the I R. S. Afterward. It's like, oh wow,

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Speaker 1: yours there as clean as Clinton Bay. It's like on

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Speaker 1: the onto the next, you know, poor soul, Onto the

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Speaker 1: next person who gets to deal with our questioning and

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Speaker 1: investigations and has their freedom and their property at risk. Well,

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Speaker 1: we get paid, you know, we the bureaucracy, get paid

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Speaker 1: to show up no matter what you got breaking news.

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Speaker 1: Let's see n I see a right now, Kushner's business

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01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 1: interest got millions in loans after a White House meetings?

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Speaker 1: Did he did he do something? Did he violate ethics

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Speaker 1: or not? Because they're they're implying that he violated ethics

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Speaker 1: and that he took a bride. If he did, that's

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Speaker 1: really bad and you should be in trouble. But you

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01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:02,960
Speaker 1: know what, I'm willing to bet up. I'm willing to

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Speaker 1: bet that no, he didn't. And when they find that out,

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01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:10,040
Speaker 1: they will not care, They will not cover that. They

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01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 1: just keep reminding us of who is under investigation and

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Speaker 1: what they are using this to sully individuals in the

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Speaker 1: administration and as a form of taking out their ideological appeance.

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Speaker 1: That's what this all is. That's why I just I

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Speaker 1: just don't have any respect for the Muller probe anymore.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear it. You know, they have

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01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:32,959
Speaker 1: given me nothing so far other than you know, low

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01:05:33,080 --> 01:05:36,800
Speaker 1: level mickey mouse garbage to work with in terms of

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Speaker 1: their prosecutions. And okay, they're going off to manage. We

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Speaker 1: didn't need a special counsel to go after maniforts tax returns, folks.

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Speaker 1: Any prosecutor could have done that right. We could have

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Speaker 1: brought our friend Annie McCarthy out of retirement. He probably

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Speaker 1: could have figured out the manifort situation about five minutes

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Speaker 1: in his pajamas. Is it's not that hard. You can

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01:05:57,600 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 1: pull the guy's bank records and you know that. That's it.

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01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:02,680
Speaker 1: That's all she wrote. So why do we have a

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01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:06,880
Speaker 1: special counsel? Why was it needed? The only reason we

1149
01:06:06,960 --> 01:06:10,000
Speaker 1: have a special counsel is because the media demanded one

1150
01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:11,919
Speaker 1: because of what Trump said in an interview with Lesser

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Speaker 1: Holt after firing James Comeey. Because they said that the

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Speaker 1: Justice Department under this president could not be trusted to

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Speaker 1: operate as it as it does, and now we're seeing that. Well,

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Speaker 1: hold on a second, they're just this is operating as

1155
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Speaker 1: some some rogue entity that's running around wrapping people up

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01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:33,520
Speaker 1: for all kinds of things. This guy wasn't in London.

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Speaker 1: It was like the married the daughter of a Russian

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Speaker 1: oligarch or is he the son of a Russian art

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Speaker 1: I forget, but he was. He got nailed for lying

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Speaker 1: to the FBI about a meeting five years ago or something.

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Speaker 1: We're supposed to feel safer and better at night because

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Speaker 1: of this. This is just it's just so frustrating, folks,

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Speaker 1: because I was looking. We started out they are talking

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Speaker 1: about a very real problem that no, doesn't just have

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Speaker 1: live in the balances costing lives every single day, and

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Speaker 1: and keep repeating the number sixty three thou dead last year.

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01:07:07,320 --> 01:07:13,760
Speaker 1: That's a huge number. And people would rather bog the

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Speaker 1: president down and all of his top advisors in minutia

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Speaker 1: and garbage and nonsense then make some allowance for Okay,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is the president. This is the presidency.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we should stop trying to starting, uh, stop trying

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Speaker 1: to sabotage its functions because we don't like where it

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Speaker 1: stands on some issues. Is another part of the whole

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Speaker 1: Trump arrangement situation. What has Trump done that really upsets

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Speaker 1: these people so much? I think that's important. You have

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01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:42,360
Speaker 1: to remind yourself. You have to ask that question, you will,

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Speaker 1: What has Trump done that makes them hate him so much? Now?

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Speaker 1: They really were that excited about Hillary? Yes? Hello, I

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Speaker 1: mean they really were just so set on a Hillary

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Speaker 1: Clinton presidency. I find that hard to believe. And maybe

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Speaker 1: they were so set on it, but that's what makes

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Speaker 1: them so angry. They're so angry about the tax cat

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Speaker 1: like Nancy Nancy Pelosi, Oh, it's a corporate giveaway. It's

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01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:08,840
Speaker 1: just for the fat cats, you know, I mean talking

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Speaker 1: about the pot, calling the kettle black right, Nancy Pelosi's

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01:08:11,160 --> 01:08:15,919
Speaker 1: huband's worth like fifty million. So what has he done

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01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:18,280
Speaker 1: that makes them so mad? The way that he speaks,

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Speaker 1: the way that he is, the fact that he's not

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Speaker 1: a social justice warrior. I guess, yeah, I guess so

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Speaker 1: that is, in fact, what is so bothersome to them,

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01:08:32,040 --> 01:08:33,840
Speaker 1: and that he's a threat to their power and to

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Speaker 1: their stranglehold over the national narrative. The fact that he

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01:08:37,040 --> 01:08:38,960
Speaker 1: doesn't play by their rules, the fact that he calls

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Speaker 1: them out, he slaps them around, and he wins. Because

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Speaker 1: there's no there's nothing that he has done so far

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01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:47,759
Speaker 1: that I can look at and say, wow, that's really

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01:08:48,439 --> 01:08:52,200
Speaker 1: He's gonna really just stepping it with the liberals on

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Speaker 1: that one. It's it's tone that they hate so much.

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Speaker 1: It's stop ill. It's not the substance of the policies

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Speaker 1: that have been implemented maybe eventually. I mean, the idea

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01:09:05,479 --> 01:09:07,200
Speaker 1: of a wall, I know, keeps liberals up in line

1202
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:10,720
Speaker 1: and makes them cry, makes them sad. What do we do?

1203
01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 1: We'll see, I mean, the small thing they'll get ready

1204
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:17,800
Speaker 1: for with the Russian the indictments of more Russians. It

1205
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:19,920
Speaker 1: just feeds, right, and they're gonna be throwing a party

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Speaker 1: over at CNN on that one. It just feeds in

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Speaker 1: the narrative, Oh my gosh, the election conspiracy, the election conspiracy.

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01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:29,800
Speaker 1: You'll you'll note that there are some very prominent left

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Speaker 1: wing reporters with actual time on the ground in Russia.

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01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:34,960
Speaker 1: No they're talking about and they're not appearing on these

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Speaker 1: big networks because other ones were saying, Okay, yeah, so

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01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:40,240
Speaker 1: they did this stuff. But this is this is like

1213
01:09:40,280 --> 01:09:44,360
Speaker 1: at the kiddie table, and this is nonsense, some social

1214
01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:52,959
Speaker 1: media maneuvering. He's information warfare and sock puppets and ah,

1215
01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:55,719
Speaker 1: people have lost it, folks, they've lost it. All we got,

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Speaker 1: We've got a lot more. Next hour, we are gonna

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01:09:57,920 --> 01:10:01,120
Speaker 1: be joined by our friend Gordon Chang to talk about

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01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:05,040
Speaker 1: the China tariff situation on steel and aluminum and also

1219
01:10:05,120 --> 01:10:07,519
Speaker 1: just what we should be prepared for when dealing in

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01:10:07,560 --> 01:10:09,720
Speaker 1: dealing with China going forward here this could be uh,

1221
01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:15,200
Speaker 1: some rocky times ahead. I'll talk to you about the Invincible, Invincible,

1222
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 1: the Invincible, the invincible missiles that Vladimir Putin says that

1223
01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:23,200
Speaker 1: he has that can get past our radar. And you

1224
01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:26,679
Speaker 1: know they can't just nucas now, they can nucas into

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01:10:26,680 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 1: oblivion or something. I don't know. Well, I do know.

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01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:32,240
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you about it. And also we'll be

1227
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Speaker 1: joined by our our friends from Black Rifle Coffee. They're

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01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:37,719
Speaker 1: just gonna tell us a bit of the they've got.

1229
01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:40,559
Speaker 1: The company history is fasting. They've got some really cool stories.

1230
01:10:40,600 --> 01:10:42,680
Speaker 1: I'm excited to ask them about it. And then we've

1231
01:10:42,680 --> 01:10:45,000
Speaker 1: got a roll call coming. So we've got quite a

1232
01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:47,599
Speaker 1: little show left for you, folks. Don't go anywhere. I'll

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01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:50,400
Speaker 1: be right back. I kind of like Goren Hatch a

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01:10:50,439 --> 01:10:54,559
Speaker 1: little bit more now. Uh. He is quoted here, Nail

1235
01:10:54,720 --> 01:10:59,960
Speaker 1: is saying, quote, obiolic Are supporters are the stupidest dumbass people.

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01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:07,040
Speaker 1: Well he's ever met, Uh like it. That's pretty funny.

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01:11:06,880 --> 01:11:09,559
Speaker 1: He later had a spokesperson say he said it in

1238
01:11:09,760 --> 01:11:12,640
Speaker 1: chess blah blah, but he said it. He said at

1239
01:11:12,680 --> 01:11:18,360
Speaker 1: the American Enterprisesitude this tupid as dumb ass people. That's well,

1240
01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:20,920
Speaker 1: we'll play at the word hatch Hat tipped to Orange

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01:11:20,920 --> 01:11:26,880
Speaker 1: Hatch on that one. Pretty funny, all right, Joe in Wilmington, Delaware. Hey, Joe,

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01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan. Thank you, sir. This tragedy that

1243
01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:36,360
Speaker 1: happened in Florida, you know, it says a lot about

1244
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:40,880
Speaker 1: Republican leadership as well. Um for whatever reason, they just

1245
01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:43,800
Speaker 1: allowed that Democrats to control of the narratives. I mean,

1246
01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:47,719
Speaker 1: can you believe that instead of the story being Brower

1247
01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:53,639
Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Department doesn't protect the community from from people

1248
01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:56,439
Speaker 1: like this when when they had because the narrative is

1249
01:11:56,479 --> 01:11:59,240
Speaker 1: that it's the n r A spot. I mean, it's

1250
01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:03,080
Speaker 1: just so logical and every since in the way, and

1251
01:12:03,120 --> 01:12:07,480
Speaker 1: true Republicans like myself, we're sticking tired of some Republican

1252
01:12:07,600 --> 01:12:11,960
Speaker 1: leaders just running with their heads between their tails. We're

1253
01:12:11,960 --> 01:12:15,320
Speaker 1: ready to fight for our message. It's you know, when

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01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:19,600
Speaker 1: you have this sheriff that was told his department was

1255
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:22,680
Speaker 1: told numerous of times, there was problems when you had

1256
01:12:22,680 --> 01:12:27,519
Speaker 1: the FBI notified, But yet the storyline is going to

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01:12:27,600 --> 01:12:31,559
Speaker 1: be the n r A. And you know, Buck, I

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Speaker 1: expect young kids to react emostly, they're they're high school kids,

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01:12:35,479 --> 01:12:39,960
Speaker 1: are traumatops. But can somebody in the Republican community have

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01:12:40,280 --> 01:12:43,640
Speaker 1: the guts to really tell them what the heck is

1261
01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:46,519
Speaker 1: going on. I mean, you can be empathetic and yeah,

1262
01:12:46,560 --> 01:12:50,599
Speaker 1: this this kid was a troubled kid. He gave every

1263
01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:54,040
Speaker 1: morning fight imaginable. It could have been a car he

1264
01:12:54,160 --> 01:12:55,960
Speaker 1: drove into the school. It could have been a bomb.

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01:12:56,840 --> 01:13:02,000
Speaker 1: The crime isn't the weapon. The crime is that your community,

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01:13:02,439 --> 01:13:06,160
Speaker 1: your Shares Department, was supports numerous times they did nothing

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01:13:06,240 --> 01:13:10,320
Speaker 1: to protect the public. That's what the true storyline is. Well,

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01:13:10,360 --> 01:13:12,640
Speaker 1: I look, I I agree that they're they're well, I

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01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:14,800
Speaker 1: agree with what you're saying here. And Joe, thank you

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01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:16,439
Speaker 1: very much for calling him body y. Thank you for

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01:13:16,560 --> 01:13:19,599
Speaker 1: kind words about about the show as well. Look, Joe's

1272
01:13:19,640 --> 01:13:21,400
Speaker 1: only right. I mean a lot of Republicans have started

1273
01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:25,240
Speaker 1: running scared on this right away. You know, they've they've

1274
01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:28,920
Speaker 1: just been trying to appease the appease the rage mob,

1275
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:31,160
Speaker 1: and that is never going to be successful. It's never

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Speaker 1: a good idea. Daniel in Arkansas, Hey Daniel, Hey Buck,

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Speaker 1: what's going on? Shield Dame? Not much shield time, My friend,

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Speaker 1: I got a two part question for you. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: make it quick and then I'm gonna jump the line

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Speaker 1: so I can. Let's do you over the radio, Roger

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Speaker 1: that Sir. As far as I'm I know, the president

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Speaker 1: could only be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors if

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Speaker 1: he commits said high crimes and misdemeaners while he's president

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Speaker 1: of the United States. So if they haven't found anything yet,

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Speaker 1: unless they're a fortune teller, they can't charge him with anything.

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Speaker 1: I think high crimes and misdemeanors are. It's a pretty

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Speaker 1: broad range that even would include some people say argue

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Speaker 1: would include even non criminal activity um so or or

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Speaker 1: low level criminal activity, I should say, And it's really

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Speaker 1: up to the Congress. That's that's the it's a political

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Speaker 1: it's much more a political tool than it is a

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Speaker 1: criminal justice tool, Daniel. So we'll see. And you want

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Speaker 1: to ask if he pardoned everybody in the Rushi investigation,

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Speaker 1: because we're going to run a break here in a second. Um,

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Speaker 1: he could. There's nothing that the president's pardon power is

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Speaker 1: basically absolute, so he could pardon anyone if he just

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Speaker 1: did a blanket pardon for anyone that saw on their

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Speaker 1: list that they're going to call up, wouldn't they just

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Speaker 1: have to end it? Uh No, I don't think he

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Speaker 1: that's different than shutting down the investigation. But I have

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Speaker 1: to think about that a little bit. But look, I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm of the mind that he should pardon General Flynn.

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Speaker 1: So I'll just go out there and say it. Daniel,

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Speaker 1: thank you for your caugh markets all, my friend. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. We're going to talk about Russian nukes and

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Speaker 1: Chinese trade war. You are now entering the Freedom Tactical

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Speaker 1: Operations Center. All sensative programs must be cats strictly need

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Speaker 1: to know team buckets cleared and ready for the buck brief.

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Speaker 1: After the United States withdrew from the A b M

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Speaker 1: Treaty unilaterally, we've been working hard to create new, promising,

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Speaker 1: repreated systems and this enabled us to make a big

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Speaker 1: step forward creating new strategic arms. We have developed a

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Speaker 1: new generation of missiles. But currently the Defense Ministry, who

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Speaker 1: works together with the defense companies in the space industry,

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Speaker 1: and they're testing a new missile system that uses a

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Speaker 1: heavy I CBHM. Much scarier when putin saying it through

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Speaker 1: a translator, but that was the Premier of Russia talking

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Speaker 1: or his translator telling us what he's saying. But he

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Speaker 1: was talking about the announcement today from Russia from the

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Speaker 1: official account of the President and the various news news

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Speaker 1: agencies there that they have developed a new series of

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Speaker 1: nuclear weapons, including an undersea drone that has nuclear capability

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Speaker 1: and also a a nuclear device that can a missile

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Speaker 1: that can go basically through our radar without us being

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Speaker 1: do anything about it. That's what they're claiming. Um, this

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Speaker 1: is being taken by a lot of folks who watch

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Speaker 1: Russia closely. Uh, with a grain assaults putin up there

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Speaker 1: we go the little maybe you know, the hunt for

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Speaker 1: Red October does come to mind with all of this,

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Speaker 1: But the the realities here are this doesn't change the

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Speaker 1: nuclear threat to United States from Russia, and it doesn't

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Speaker 1: change that we would annihilate Russia in event of any

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Speaker 1: kind of nuclear strike. We're still in the same place.

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Speaker 1: Does anyone really think of Russia fired all of its

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Speaker 1: nukes at us, we'd be able to shoot them all down? No,

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Speaker 1: of course not um. Same thing as to a Russia

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Speaker 1: if we fire all our stuff, they couldn't shot them

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Speaker 1: all down either. So this is a bit of bluster,

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Speaker 1: a bit of chest thumping from Putin um, and it

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Speaker 1: is in part, at least, I think, driven by the

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Speaker 1: fact that one he's got his re election coming up

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Speaker 1: in a few weeks. The Russian president is expected to win,

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Speaker 1: which is not surprising, but it's important for him for

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Speaker 1: domestic political reasons to go out there and say that

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Speaker 1: he's got invincible missiles. He is invincible. So that's what

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Speaker 1: this is, at least in part, a reflection of right

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Speaker 1: now that that's why he's running around talking about his

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01:17:58,840 --> 01:18:01,720
Speaker 1: invincible missiles that can get past our radar and do

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Speaker 1: all this stuff. Um, but this doesn't change our strategic

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Speaker 1: calculation about nukes, and it also doesn't change that Russia's

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Speaker 1: economy is smaller than Canada's. Okay, Russia is We're gonna

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Speaker 1: talking about China in a few minutes. China is scary

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01:18:15,920 --> 01:18:18,720
Speaker 1: long term. China is a problem, folks, not one that

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Speaker 1: has any easy answers, and not one that we can ignore.

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Speaker 1: Russia is a country with it's a very big military,

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Speaker 1: with a very or at least a very powerful military,

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Speaker 1: with a medium two small ish economy, especially given the

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Speaker 1: side of the country. It's natural resources and everything else.

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Speaker 1: So this is not something to be overly alarmed about. Seeing.

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Speaker 1: People the immediate hot takes whenever Putin says anything, knows

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Speaker 1: it is Trump gonna condemn it. Well, why should Trump

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Speaker 1: condemn it when it's not as big of an issue

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Speaker 1: as Putin is claiming? Right, Well, what's the point of that?

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Speaker 1: Why antagonize the Russian premier when he's talking about a

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Speaker 1: threat that's not even as big of a threat as

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Speaker 1: he is trying to lead us, lead us into thinking.

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Speaker 1: So that's part of Oh, but but there's the election

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Speaker 1: in Russia. There's also what happened And if you listen

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Speaker 1: to this show, you know in detail what happened some

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Speaker 1: weeks ago in Syria where Russian paramilitaries fighting alongside the

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Speaker 1: Assad regime went after a Kurdish base in eastern Syria

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Speaker 1: and the Kurds called in artillery and air strikes and

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Speaker 1: and it was a it was a blood bath. They lost.

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Speaker 1: Estimates are in a couple of hundreds actually um for

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Speaker 1: the losses, and it's a question of how many where

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Speaker 1: Syrians versus how many were Russians. But that didn't that

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Speaker 1: didn't sit well with the Russian government even though they

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Speaker 1: were they were paramilitaries, they were contractors working for saw,

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Speaker 1: not Russian uniform military. But there are Russian military, uh

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Speaker 1: folks in Syria as well. And I mentioned. I think

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Speaker 1: it was yesterday that we have our fighter planes coming

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Speaker 1: into very close contact with their fighter planes in a

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Speaker 1: way that some are saying is far too close for

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Speaker 1: comfort and could lead to the shootdown of either a

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Speaker 1: US or Russian plane, which would spiral US into a crisis,

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Speaker 1: and a minimum and diplomatic, if not military crisis very quickly.

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Speaker 1: So look the Russians, they're they're talking about this this

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Speaker 1: technology that's out there that people have discussing for some time,

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Speaker 1: hyper hypersonic glide vehicles which go I think five times

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Speaker 1: the speed of sound and or I could be wrong

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Speaker 1: about that, and essentially would allow the Russians to fire

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Speaker 1: missile and hit anywhere in the world within a few hours. Now,

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Speaker 1: the truth is that the Russians can already pretty much

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Speaker 1: hit anywhere in the world in a few hours, so

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Speaker 1: or at least they can hit anywhere in the world

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Speaker 1: with their missiles, not necessarily as they can't do it

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Speaker 1: at the speed of these hypersonic glide vehicles which I've

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Speaker 1: been reading up on. I tell you this is where

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Speaker 1: I am always very honest with you. I'm a a

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Speaker 1: Jehadis and car bombs students, you know. I am not

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Speaker 1: a student of advanced missile defense and that that is

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Speaker 1: really a sub that is really a specialty within the

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Speaker 1: overall discipline of military and national security analysis. This is true.

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Speaker 1: You know, if you're at the Pentagon is placed, the

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Speaker 1: people that are the missile people are not the people

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Speaker 1: that are the counterinsurgency and counter terroris and people generally.

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Speaker 1: It's just there's not there's not as much and not

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Speaker 1: enough crossover on it. But I I've done research on it,

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Speaker 1: and I wanted to just bring up the speed on

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Speaker 1: what's going on with this whole Russia situation because the

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Speaker 1: truth is that this is not anything to be overly

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Speaker 1: concerned about. People are talking about the various treaties that

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Speaker 1: this may have implications for, But the Russians have already

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Speaker 1: violated the uh sort of the medium range Missile Treaty

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Speaker 1: that we have with them, the Intermediate Range Nuclear Treaty,

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Speaker 1: and there's the Start Treaty, which has been updated a

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Speaker 1: couple of times. There. I think there's an update that's

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Speaker 1: supposed to happen at some point the pretty near future. UH. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: we have got two turns with them. This may in

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Speaker 1: fact be the nuclear turn is still in place. And

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Speaker 1: this could be employed by the Russians to force us

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Speaker 1: to the negotiating table to just talk about other things too,

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Speaker 1: rite where they're gonna be a little more belligerent with

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Speaker 1: the rhetoric on missiles, so that we come and talk

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Speaker 1: them more about what's going on in Syria with Ukraine

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Speaker 1: with the sanctions that they really do want sanctions gone,

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Speaker 1: and we will see how that works out for them.

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Speaker 1: But I wouldn't worry about about Putin and as invincible missiles,

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Speaker 1: we still sleep soundly despite the fact that there are

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Speaker 1: more countries now that have missiles, nuclear missiles and nuclearar

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Speaker 1: abilities than did decades ago, and the Russians still have

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of nukes, Chinese of nukes. Is plenty

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Speaker 1: of countries out there right now that we just assume

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Speaker 1: they won't step out of line because they know that

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Speaker 1: the response from US would be annihilation. Uh. So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get Gordon Chang joining us you in a second.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna weigh in on the tariffs in the steel industry. Uh,

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Speaker 1: specifically that we'll deal with China um and some other

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Speaker 1: aspects of US China foreign policy. So a lot of

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Speaker 1: national security this hour, hour three of the Buck Sexton Show,

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Speaker 1: and then later on we'll be joined by our friends

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Speaker 1: from Black Rifle CEO and vice president. UM and that's

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Speaker 1: where we're heading, So stay with me. Big news about

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Speaker 1: China coming in today and we want to talk to

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Speaker 1: Gordon Chang about it. He is the author of the

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Speaker 1: Coming Collapse of China and a Daily Beast columnist. Gordon,

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Speaker 1: great to have you, Thank you so much. Buck. So

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Speaker 1: first let's let's talk a bit about the tariffs, because

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Speaker 1: that's getting a lot of attention because it has people

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Speaker 1: are saying cause quite a dip in the stock market

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Speaker 1: for the day, but it also could be a harbinger

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Speaker 1: of some economic troubles to come. What do you make

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Speaker 1: of this? Is this long overdue? Or we play in

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Speaker 1: high stakes poker we could lose. What do you think

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Speaker 1: of the Trump move? Probably all of the above. UM.

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Speaker 1: It's we have to remember that this was These tariffs

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Speaker 1: are imposed under the authority of the Trade Expansion Act

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Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty two. This is a national security measure. UM.

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Speaker 1: These tariffs are set at levels so that the aluminum

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Speaker 1: industry and the steel industry can be self sustaining. Because

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Speaker 1: we need to make sure that We've got a steel

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Speaker 1: and aluminum industry that can supply defense needs, so that's

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Speaker 1: important for US apart from trade. You know, when it

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Speaker 1: comes to trade, we don't know the details. It's going

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Speaker 1: to take about a week for the administration to negotiate

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Speaker 1: with other countries and to come up with final rules,

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Speaker 1: and we'll just have to see how it goes. But

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Speaker 1: I suspect that the harshest rules will be applied against

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Speaker 1: China because China has been extremely predatory in flooding the

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Speaker 1: world with excess steel and aluminum. They've been subsidizing producers

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Speaker 1: in order to put our producers out of business. We

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Speaker 1: got to do something. The Chinese may huff and puff,

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Speaker 1: but we got to remember that we're the trade deficit country.

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Speaker 1: Last year, we had a four d seventy billion dollar

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Speaker 1: trade merchandise trade deficit with China. That four billion, by

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Speaker 1: the way, was eight point eight percent of China's overall

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Speaker 1: trade surplus. We've got an enormous amount of leverage here.

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Speaker 1: And what do you think the next moves on the

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Speaker 1: Trump team should be Gordon with regard to to dealing

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Speaker 1: with China. Mean Trump has been promising and this goes

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Speaker 1: all the back to the campaign that he would get

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Speaker 1: fair and smart trade with China. From your estimation, what

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Speaker 1: would that mean and how would that look? Well, I

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Speaker 1: think the first thing that would mean is that we've

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Speaker 1: first we've got to go against their theft of US

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Speaker 1: intellectual property of the Chinese steel and estimated three hundred

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Speaker 1: six hundred billion dollars a year in US i P.

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Speaker 1: We've got to put a stop to that, and so

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Speaker 1: Robert Lheiser, the US Trade Representative, has now got an

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Speaker 1: ongoing investigation pursuingto Section three or one of the Trade

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01:26:21,320 --> 01:26:24,160
Speaker 1: Act of nineteen seventy four. We need to impose some

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Speaker 1: stiff penalties to get the Chinese to stop this. Also,

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01:26:28,800 --> 01:26:32,560
Speaker 1: we know that China has been engaged in increasingly predatory

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Speaker 1: moves to close off their market, especially with their Made

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01:26:35,760 --> 01:26:40,240
Speaker 1: in China initiative. They've identified ten sectors that they want

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Speaker 1: Chinese companies to dominate, and you know they're closing off

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Speaker 1: their markets through various means. We can't allow this to continue.

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Speaker 1: They can't be allowed to continue to close their market

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01:26:51,720 --> 01:26:54,880
Speaker 1: while our market is open. That just doesn't work. What

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Speaker 1: do you think the responses will be of the Chinese

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01:26:57,600 --> 01:27:01,240
Speaker 1: government to these actions? By the Trump administration. Well, you

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01:27:01,280 --> 01:27:04,840
Speaker 1: know they will. UM. They'll try to, for instance, um

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01:27:04,880 --> 01:27:08,759
Speaker 1: close off their markets even further to US agricultural products.

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01:27:09,080 --> 01:27:12,640
Speaker 1: Sorghum has been mentioned in this regard. But um, with

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01:27:12,720 --> 01:27:15,439
Speaker 1: the balance of trade. Um, you know, they could hurt

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01:27:15,520 --> 01:27:18,799
Speaker 1: us a little bit, we could hurt them a lot. Um.

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01:27:18,880 --> 01:27:22,479
Speaker 1: We we actually as Americans should know this because in

1508
01:27:22,560 --> 01:27:26,280
Speaker 1: the World's Great Trade War in the nineteen thirties, the

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01:27:26,320 --> 01:27:28,720
Speaker 1: country that got hurt the most was US because we

1510
01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:32,120
Speaker 1: were the world's trade surplus country. Now it's China's turn

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01:27:32,200 --> 01:27:35,000
Speaker 1: to be the trade surplus country. So we shouldn't be

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01:27:35,040 --> 01:27:39,080
Speaker 1: afraid of trade friction. I'm not welcoming it, but I

1513
01:27:39,120 --> 01:27:42,160
Speaker 1: am saying that we've got to protect ourselves and we've

1514
01:27:42,160 --> 01:27:45,760
Speaker 1: got to insist on China's adherence to trade bargains that

1515
01:27:45,840 --> 01:27:49,360
Speaker 1: it is made and so UM. At some point, you know,

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01:27:49,680 --> 01:27:52,280
Speaker 1: this has gone much too far. We've allowed the Chinese

1517
01:27:52,360 --> 01:27:55,360
Speaker 1: to take advantage of us. There are no longer any

1518
01:27:55,560 --> 01:27:58,920
Speaker 1: note cost solutions. Um. But you know, if people want

1519
01:27:58,920 --> 01:28:02,559
Speaker 1: to complain, they should be complaining about presidents named Clinton,

1520
01:28:02,640 --> 01:28:06,360
Speaker 1: Bush and Obama as much as Trump, because Trump inherited

1521
01:28:06,400 --> 01:28:09,640
Speaker 1: this situation. Gordon Chang's author of the Coming Collapse of

1522
01:28:09,720 --> 01:28:14,000
Speaker 1: China Gordon. There's also some news about consolidation of power

1523
01:28:14,200 --> 01:28:18,040
Speaker 1: by Chinese Premier Shijin Ping. And there are some news

1524
01:28:18,040 --> 01:28:20,840
Speaker 1: reports just in the last twenty four hours about the

1525
01:28:20,880 --> 01:28:26,400
Speaker 1: banning of some words in China for public discourse that

1526
01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:28,800
Speaker 1: seemed like the kind of things that might be used

1527
01:28:28,800 --> 01:28:32,559
Speaker 1: to describe she that would not necessarily be to his liking.

1528
01:28:32,640 --> 01:28:35,320
Speaker 1: What's going on? Well, yeah, we need the pooh is

1529
01:28:35,479 --> 01:28:40,480
Speaker 1: is now banned, so is Disney UM, the words I disagree,

1530
01:28:40,760 --> 01:28:43,960
Speaker 1: I mean, there are more and more words that are

1531
01:28:44,080 --> 01:28:47,840
Speaker 1: being um taken off the Chinese Internet, and the reason

1532
01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:51,800
Speaker 1: is that the Communist Party on Sunday announced that it

1533
01:28:51,880 --> 01:28:55,519
Speaker 1: was recommending to the National People's Congress, which will meet

1534
01:28:55,960 --> 01:28:58,320
Speaker 1: on starting on the fifth of this month, that they

1535
01:28:58,320 --> 01:29:02,479
Speaker 1: will recommend the abolition of the two term term limit

1536
01:29:02,880 --> 01:29:06,080
Speaker 1: or President of the country. That's president of the state.

1537
01:29:06,400 --> 01:29:11,360
Speaker 1: That's a relatively unimportant post. In China. They've got what's

1538
01:29:11,360 --> 01:29:14,679
Speaker 1: called the Trinity uh, and the presidency is only one

1539
01:29:14,680 --> 01:29:17,479
Speaker 1: of the trinity. The other two are General Secretary of

1540
01:29:17,479 --> 01:29:21,439
Speaker 1: the Communist Party and the chairman of the party's Central

1541
01:29:21,479 --> 01:29:26,040
Speaker 1: Military Commission. By far the presidency is the least important

1542
01:29:26,120 --> 01:29:29,439
Speaker 1: of the trinity, and what sign Ping has been showing

1543
01:29:29,479 --> 01:29:31,680
Speaker 1: the rest of the world is that although this is

1544
01:29:31,880 --> 01:29:35,120
Speaker 1: a ceremonial post, he is willing to go to any

1545
01:29:35,200 --> 01:29:37,519
Speaker 1: lengths to make sure that he can hang on to power.

1546
01:29:37,880 --> 01:29:40,840
Speaker 1: And that's chilling. Um So, at this point, we've got

1547
01:29:40,880 --> 01:29:43,479
Speaker 1: to assume that Sijun Ping wants to be, as they

1548
01:29:43,520 --> 01:29:47,120
Speaker 1: say in China, emperor for life, and that's going to

1549
01:29:47,200 --> 01:29:50,320
Speaker 1: have consequences that are royal in the Chinese political system.

1550
01:29:50,360 --> 01:29:53,280
Speaker 1: At the moment um, people in China aren't very happy

1551
01:29:53,320 --> 01:29:56,400
Speaker 1: about this for the most part, and China is probably

1552
01:29:56,400 --> 01:29:59,599
Speaker 1: gonna end up with a much more coercive political system

1553
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:03,479
Speaker 1: and probably a much more belligerent external policy. Um So,

1554
01:30:03,520 --> 01:30:06,200
Speaker 1: this is bad news for everybody. That was the next

1555
01:30:06,280 --> 01:30:07,840
Speaker 1: question I was gonna ask you, Gordon, which is what

1556
01:30:08,040 --> 01:30:12,120
Speaker 1: becomes the external flash one of the most likely external

1557
01:30:12,160 --> 01:30:16,240
Speaker 1: flashpoints as she continues this consolidation of power over a

1558
01:30:16,280 --> 01:30:18,519
Speaker 1: country that you know, Russia gets a lot of talk

1559
01:30:18,560 --> 01:30:20,920
Speaker 1: these days, and we've been discussing Russian nukes even here

1560
01:30:20,960 --> 01:30:24,559
Speaker 1: on the show. But China is a long term, much

1561
01:30:24,640 --> 01:30:28,200
Speaker 1: bigger competitor to the United States. Both economically and militarily

1562
01:30:28,520 --> 01:30:31,880
Speaker 1: well certainly. Um. You know, and the question is like

1563
01:30:31,920 --> 01:30:33,880
Speaker 1: where are we going to see this? I mean it

1564
01:30:33,880 --> 01:30:37,400
Speaker 1: could be anywhere. China is trying to grab territory from

1565
01:30:37,560 --> 01:30:40,400
Speaker 1: India and and you can see that there's an arc

1566
01:30:40,479 --> 01:30:43,720
Speaker 1: of instability to its south and to its east, UM,

1567
01:30:44,400 --> 01:30:47,519
Speaker 1: going all the way up to South Korea. In the north. UM,

1568
01:30:47,600 --> 01:30:51,760
Speaker 1: you have China engaging in all sorts of dangerous activities

1569
01:30:51,840 --> 01:30:55,639
Speaker 1: along that periphery. It's trying to spread into the Indian Ocean.

1570
01:30:56,200 --> 01:30:59,400
Speaker 1: It wants to actually establish a base on the Atlantic Ocean.

1571
01:30:59,439 --> 01:31:02,200
Speaker 1: From what we can tell it Wallvis Bay in Namibia,

1572
01:31:02,640 --> 01:31:06,960
Speaker 1: they're snooping around the Azores. UM. You know, this is

1573
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:09,160
Speaker 1: a country that just sort of thinks that it can

1574
01:31:09,200 --> 01:31:12,400
Speaker 1: take whatever it wants. And I can understand why they

1575
01:31:12,400 --> 01:31:14,919
Speaker 1: feel that way because we've had a succession of presidents

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01:31:14,920 --> 01:31:18,120
Speaker 1: who have not effectively opposed this expansion. Is UM. So

1577
01:31:18,240 --> 01:31:21,080
Speaker 1: we have emboldened the worst elements in the Chinese political

1578
01:31:21,120 --> 01:31:24,519
Speaker 1: system by showing everybody else that aggression works. You know,

1579
01:31:24,560 --> 01:31:27,439
Speaker 1: when they look back at this period. I hope that

1580
01:31:27,560 --> 01:31:31,439
Speaker 1: things go away and we don't have a global conflict.

1581
01:31:31,680 --> 01:31:33,800
Speaker 1: But if we do, buck people are gonna look at

1582
01:31:33,800 --> 01:31:35,920
Speaker 1: the United States in the same way they looked at

1583
01:31:35,920 --> 01:31:38,200
Speaker 1: Britain and France in the nineteen thirties and just ask

1584
01:31:38,560 --> 01:31:41,280
Speaker 1: why didn't you use your power to protect yourself and

1585
01:31:41,360 --> 01:31:43,720
Speaker 1: the rest of the world. Um. So I think we're

1586
01:31:43,760 --> 01:31:46,920
Speaker 1: going to be vulnerable to that if, um, you know,

1587
01:31:47,000 --> 01:31:50,760
Speaker 1: the Chinese actually do something horrible, because we've shown them

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01:31:50,920 --> 01:31:53,600
Speaker 1: that it's okay to be horrible. We complain about it,

1589
01:31:53,760 --> 01:31:55,720
Speaker 1: but we don't do anything about it. And that's for

1590
01:31:55,840 --> 01:31:58,120
Speaker 1: the reason why I think we've got to change our

1591
01:31:58,320 --> 01:32:01,479
Speaker 1: China policies quickly. Gordon, one more thing, if we let

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01:32:01,479 --> 01:32:05,480
Speaker 1: you go, tell me about broad coom and the possible

1593
01:32:05,600 --> 01:32:08,400
Speaker 1: takeover of Qualcomm and why that's something we should pay

1594
01:32:08,400 --> 01:32:12,360
Speaker 1: attention to. Yeah, broad Colm is a Singapore based company. Um,

1595
01:32:12,479 --> 01:32:16,200
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a proxy fight shareholder vote on Tuesday.

1596
01:32:16,800 --> 01:32:20,439
Speaker 1: Broad Common will probably win. Um. What Broadcom has done

1597
01:32:20,439 --> 01:32:24,559
Speaker 1: in the past is it sells off parts UM and

1598
01:32:24,600 --> 01:32:28,280
Speaker 1: then ruthlessly controls costs. The reason why this is important

1599
01:32:28,280 --> 01:32:32,320
Speaker 1: to us is because there is a struggle now for

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01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:37,280
Speaker 1: setting five G standards for cellular communications. Whoever controls five

1601
01:32:37,360 --> 01:32:40,040
Speaker 1: G is going to control communications for the next decade

1602
01:32:40,120 --> 01:32:42,880
Speaker 1: or so. The only American company that has a chance

1603
01:32:43,160 --> 01:32:47,360
Speaker 1: of establishing and winning the five G race is qual Calm.

1604
01:32:47,640 --> 01:32:50,160
Speaker 1: But there's no way Qualcom is gonna win if Broadcom

1605
01:32:50,280 --> 01:32:52,880
Speaker 1: takes it over, because they're just going to try to

1606
01:32:53,200 --> 01:32:56,400
Speaker 1: um sell it off. And so we have a national

1607
01:32:56,439 --> 01:32:58,839
Speaker 1: security issue here because we do not want the Chinese

1608
01:32:58,880 --> 01:33:01,960
Speaker 1: controlling self commune vacations for the rest of the world

1609
01:33:02,040 --> 01:33:04,800
Speaker 1: for about a decade. So it's in a sense the

1610
01:33:04,880 --> 01:33:07,679
Speaker 1: same reason we need a domestic steel industry for national

1611
01:33:07,720 --> 01:33:10,400
Speaker 1: security purpose. You're saying this is a commercial issue, but

1612
01:33:10,439 --> 01:33:15,080
Speaker 1: it's also a communications and therefore security issue as well. Yeah,

1613
01:33:15,200 --> 01:33:19,200
Speaker 1: and and um, Qualcom is so much more important than

1614
01:33:19,240 --> 01:33:23,720
Speaker 1: the steel or aluminum industries. So um, this is this

1615
01:33:23,800 --> 01:33:27,320
Speaker 1: is the lifeblood of America. It's it's innovation technology. And

1616
01:33:27,760 --> 01:33:31,040
Speaker 1: you know, we can't allow a state backed Chinese enterprise,

1617
01:33:31,080 --> 01:33:36,360
Speaker 1: which is Laweit Technologies, to dominate global communications for obvious reasons.

1618
01:33:36,360 --> 01:33:40,240
Speaker 1: So much more important than stealer aluminum. All Right, Gordon Shank,

1619
01:33:40,280 --> 01:33:43,240
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it. Team.

1620
01:33:43,240 --> 01:33:46,000
Speaker 1: We're hitting a quick break. We'll be right back, uh

1621
01:33:46,040 --> 01:33:49,599
Speaker 1: and we'll have the folks from Black Rifle Coffee here

1622
01:33:49,640 --> 01:33:53,400
Speaker 1: in studio with us. We have the CEO, we have

1623
01:33:53,600 --> 01:33:57,360
Speaker 1: the vice president. They are veterans, they are great guys,

1624
01:33:57,360 --> 01:33:58,880
Speaker 1: and they're gonna tell us about the founding of their

1625
01:33:58,880 --> 01:34:02,799
Speaker 1: company and one of our a great a wonderful sponsor

1626
01:34:02,800 --> 01:34:05,400
Speaker 1: of the show, but also a great American story here

1627
01:34:05,520 --> 01:34:08,160
Speaker 1: of veterans and entrepreneurship. So we're excited to have up

1628
01:34:08,240 --> 01:34:10,120
Speaker 1: their their wave and I say, and they're they're coming in.

1629
01:34:10,280 --> 01:34:12,000
Speaker 1: We got the guys coming in right now. We'll be

1630
01:34:12,120 --> 01:34:14,960
Speaker 1: right back. Welcome back, everybody in the Freedom Hut. Today.

1631
01:34:15,000 --> 01:34:18,040
Speaker 1: We have a couple of guests with us. I am

1632
01:34:18,200 --> 01:34:22,439
Speaker 1: very pleased to bring on Evan Hayfer, CEO and founder

1633
01:34:22,680 --> 01:34:26,920
Speaker 1: of Black Rifle Coffee, and Matt Best, vice president and

1634
01:34:27,000 --> 01:34:30,120
Speaker 1: chief of Happiness for all Things Black Rifle. We have

1635
01:34:30,200 --> 01:34:32,080
Speaker 1: them here with this. As you guys all know, Black

1636
01:34:32,200 --> 01:34:34,200
Speaker 1: Rifle is a sponsor of the show. They also have

1637
01:34:34,439 --> 01:34:38,000
Speaker 1: a great backstory, a great message and mission, and so

1638
01:34:38,040 --> 01:34:39,599
Speaker 1: I want to bring them in to talk to everybody

1639
01:34:39,600 --> 01:34:41,719
Speaker 1: about how us all got started. Gentlemen, thank you for joining,

1640
01:34:41,720 --> 01:34:43,320
Speaker 1: Thanks for having us. Yeah, thanks for having us. We

1641
01:34:43,360 --> 01:34:48,120
Speaker 1: appreciate the opportunity. Mike so as as we went on air,

1642
01:34:48,160 --> 01:34:49,599
Speaker 1: I told them that the one thing I have to do,

1643
01:34:49,720 --> 01:34:51,240
Speaker 1: and this is important for all of you listening if

1644
01:34:51,240 --> 01:34:53,679
Speaker 1: you're ever in an interview situation on radio or TV,

1645
01:34:54,360 --> 01:34:56,360
Speaker 1: the one trick, and I've been told this by some

1646
01:34:56,400 --> 01:34:58,519
Speaker 1: of the bigger anchors in the business. You have to

1647
01:34:58,560 --> 01:35:00,599
Speaker 1: write the name down in front of you, even if

1648
01:35:00,600 --> 01:35:02,640
Speaker 1: someone gives you a sheet of paper, because if you

1649
01:35:02,680 --> 01:35:05,080
Speaker 1: get the name wrong, that's all anybody remembers. But you

1650
01:35:05,120 --> 01:35:07,160
Speaker 1: can call me whatever you want, because you guys are

1651
01:35:07,240 --> 01:35:09,559
Speaker 1: wonderful sponsors here of the show, and I'm really pleased

1652
01:35:09,560 --> 01:35:12,200
Speaker 1: to have you, Uh Evan tell me about how this

1653
01:35:12,240 --> 01:35:15,439
Speaker 1: all got started. I mean, a couple of spec ops guys. Coffee.

1654
01:35:15,439 --> 01:35:18,320
Speaker 1: It doesn't necessarily well, yeah, there's the first thing you

1655
01:35:18,360 --> 01:35:20,519
Speaker 1: think about. I'm just saying it's not. No, it doesn't,

1656
01:35:20,560 --> 01:35:22,960
Speaker 1: I think. And for years guys used to make fun

1657
01:35:23,000 --> 01:35:26,360
Speaker 1: of me for being such a coffee head. I started

1658
01:35:26,439 --> 01:35:28,920
Speaker 1: roasting coffee ten years ago, but my love affair with

1659
01:35:29,000 --> 01:35:32,519
Speaker 1: coffee started twenty years ago. I was an analyst. I

1660
01:35:32,520 --> 01:35:34,360
Speaker 1: feel like I'm supposed to be the latte master, but

1661
01:35:34,400 --> 01:35:37,439
Speaker 1: apparently you're a time Yeah, I I was, you know,

1662
01:35:37,560 --> 01:35:40,840
Speaker 1: I I've spent some time behind an espresso machine. I've

1663
01:35:40,880 --> 01:35:43,960
Speaker 1: spent some time on the roaster. For me, coffee started

1664
01:35:44,320 --> 01:35:48,400
Speaker 1: twenty plus years ago, you know, n with with falling

1665
01:35:48,439 --> 01:35:51,320
Speaker 1: in love with espresso and just diving into the art

1666
01:35:51,360 --> 01:35:56,000
Speaker 1: of it and deploying back and forth into Iraq in Afghanistan,

1667
01:35:56,360 --> 01:35:59,000
Speaker 1: well my entire adult life. Can you tell a little

1668
01:35:59,000 --> 01:36:00,840
Speaker 1: about your military? By the way, for a lot of

1669
01:36:00,880 --> 01:36:02,920
Speaker 1: the folks listening, they may not know that not just

1670
01:36:02,960 --> 01:36:04,640
Speaker 1: a guy who knows a lot about coffee. And then like,

1671
01:36:04,640 --> 01:36:07,160
Speaker 1: why is Buck saying he's such a renaissance man coffee?

1672
01:36:07,280 --> 01:36:10,240
Speaker 1: Like there are reasons, Yeah, I I suppose so I've

1673
01:36:10,240 --> 01:36:12,400
Speaker 1: been called that before. I don't know if I necessarily

1674
01:36:12,439 --> 01:36:15,639
Speaker 1: weren't the title, but I was a Green Beret for

1675
01:36:16,120 --> 01:36:18,840
Speaker 1: well for several years, and then I transitioned over as

1676
01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:21,720
Speaker 1: a contractor to the CIA for a little while. I

1677
01:36:21,760 --> 01:36:23,960
Speaker 1: spent about five years on the ground in Iraq and

1678
01:36:24,000 --> 01:36:28,080
Speaker 1: another couple in Afghanistan. I did several trips as as

1679
01:36:28,120 --> 01:36:31,519
Speaker 1: you know how those trips go, uh, typically around ninety

1680
01:36:31,520 --> 01:36:35,520
Speaker 1: twenty days. But I'd spend most of my time overseas

1681
01:36:35,680 --> 01:36:38,840
Speaker 1: in Iraq, Afghanistan, a few other places around the world.

1682
01:36:39,680 --> 01:36:42,560
Speaker 1: I found that having a great cup of coffee in

1683
01:36:42,600 --> 01:36:46,200
Speaker 1: the morning was was really important to me, and I

1684
01:36:46,240 --> 01:36:49,320
Speaker 1: started roasting coffee just for that because I couldn't find

1685
01:36:49,720 --> 01:36:52,479
Speaker 1: the coffee that I wanted. And you know, uh, and

1686
01:36:52,560 --> 01:36:56,320
Speaker 1: Matt knows, the coffee Overseas really just doesn't get it done.

1687
01:36:56,360 --> 01:36:59,439
Speaker 1: It's bad coffee. It didn't kind of what they call

1688
01:36:59,520 --> 01:37:01,720
Speaker 1: it coffee ruble. I would just throw ice cubes in

1689
01:37:01,760 --> 01:37:03,719
Speaker 1: it and just throw it down as quick as possible

1690
01:37:03,720 --> 01:37:05,919
Speaker 1: because I didn't care about the taste. I just wanted caffeine.

1691
01:37:06,040 --> 01:37:08,360
Speaker 1: And I was the same way I I just I

1692
01:37:08,400 --> 01:37:10,439
Speaker 1: fell in love with it. I started diving into the

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Speaker 1: roast profiles really deeply around two thousand eight, and one

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01:37:14,280 --> 01:37:16,000
Speaker 1: of my bags I would take Overseas was full of

1695
01:37:16,040 --> 01:37:18,439
Speaker 1: fresh roasted coffee and the other was full of like

1696
01:37:18,680 --> 01:37:21,759
Speaker 1: kit So everybody knew when I was coming into the country,

1697
01:37:21,800 --> 01:37:23,640
Speaker 1: everybody knew what kind of coffee it was going to

1698
01:37:23,720 --> 01:37:27,200
Speaker 1: be bringing. And more importantly, it just it made me

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01:37:27,320 --> 01:37:30,880
Speaker 1: kind of immerse myself into something completely different than what

1700
01:37:30,920 --> 01:37:33,280
Speaker 1: I was doing in in combat zones. It gave me

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01:37:33,400 --> 01:37:35,960
Speaker 1: kind of a recreational therapy in a way that I

1702
01:37:36,360 --> 01:37:39,760
Speaker 1: really could excel at something outside of combat, right, Matt,

1703
01:37:39,800 --> 01:37:42,600
Speaker 1: You also have a military background, and tell us a

1704
01:37:42,640 --> 01:37:44,320
Speaker 1: bit about that and how you guys linked up to

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01:37:44,400 --> 01:37:48,439
Speaker 1: start a veteran owned and operated business in this area. Absolutely.

1706
01:37:48,439 --> 01:37:50,880
Speaker 1: I'm a form arm ranger, did five deployments with Second

1707
01:37:50,960 --> 01:37:53,839
Speaker 1: Range of Retalion, got out, didn't really like the civilian

1708
01:37:53,880 --> 01:37:56,120
Speaker 1: sector too much because I had a little difficult time

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01:37:56,120 --> 01:38:00,000
Speaker 1: assimilating back into you know, it's it's difficult especially be

1710
01:38:00,120 --> 01:38:02,920
Speaker 1: playing more for so many years. And then I started

1711
01:38:02,920 --> 01:38:05,559
Speaker 1: contracting with the agency as well. And then during that time,

1712
01:38:05,560 --> 01:38:08,439
Speaker 1: which is actually really funny story, I was um an

1713
01:38:08,439 --> 01:38:11,600
Speaker 1: Afford operating base and there was an expresso machine and

1714
01:38:11,600 --> 01:38:13,479
Speaker 1: it had to be like fifteen thou dollars And I'm

1715
01:38:13,479 --> 01:38:16,280
Speaker 1: sitting there going why did the government waste that much

1716
01:38:16,280 --> 01:38:18,759
Speaker 1: money on an espresso machine? Will come to find out

1717
01:38:19,040 --> 01:38:22,080
Speaker 1: Evan head course, the uh the guys doing supply to

1718
01:38:22,120 --> 01:38:24,519
Speaker 1: purchase that machine just a couple of years before. So

1719
01:38:24,880 --> 01:38:26,880
Speaker 1: when I linked up with Evan with Black Rifle Coffee

1720
01:38:26,960 --> 01:38:29,160
Speaker 1: is like, of course you did that. Evan. Of course

1721
01:38:29,200 --> 01:38:32,320
Speaker 1: you convinced the government to buy this amazing espresso machines

1722
01:38:32,320 --> 01:38:34,559
Speaker 1: so you could develop your roast profiles while you were

1723
01:38:34,960 --> 01:38:37,840
Speaker 1: playing more. It wasn't hard, It really wasn't. They came

1724
01:38:37,880 --> 01:38:39,640
Speaker 1: to me and asked me what kind of machine, and

1725
01:38:40,000 --> 01:38:41,840
Speaker 1: literally I was like, well, if you're gonna ask me,

1726
01:38:42,000 --> 01:38:43,960
Speaker 1: what kind of a budget do we have? And that's

1727
01:38:43,960 --> 01:38:46,439
Speaker 1: your taxpayer dollars hard at work, That's what they wanted.

1728
01:38:46,600 --> 01:38:48,280
Speaker 1: The first thing I do every day is drink coffee.

1729
01:38:48,280 --> 01:38:50,840
Speaker 1: And as I say on the show constantly, first thing

1730
01:38:50,840 --> 01:38:52,200
Speaker 1: I do every day is in fact, to drink some

1731
01:38:52,240 --> 01:38:54,840
Speaker 1: black rifle coffee. So thank you, gentlemen very much for that.

1732
01:38:55,240 --> 01:38:57,439
Speaker 1: I'm a silencer smooth guy. For the most part. I

1733
01:38:57,479 --> 01:38:59,240
Speaker 1: mixed it up a little bit. I'm also freedom Blend,

1734
01:38:59,280 --> 01:39:01,240
Speaker 1: but I like the silence smooth. But I wanted you

1735
01:39:01,280 --> 01:39:03,840
Speaker 1: to tell me a little bit, Evan, about what you're

1736
01:39:04,760 --> 01:39:07,640
Speaker 1: about the mission of hiring veterans. And you have one

1737
01:39:07,680 --> 01:39:10,360
Speaker 1: story in particularly really stuck out to me about how

1738
01:39:10,720 --> 01:39:13,280
Speaker 1: you don't just have veterans of the United States Armed

1739
01:39:13,320 --> 01:39:17,240
Speaker 1: Forces working for you, actually have some foreign auxiliaries who

1740
01:39:17,360 --> 01:39:21,280
Speaker 1: worked alongside US forces from Afghanistan who have immigrated to

1741
01:39:21,320 --> 01:39:24,280
Speaker 1: the United States. That's a pretty amazing story. Yeah, I

1742
01:39:24,320 --> 01:39:26,160
Speaker 1: think a lot of guys, you know, we're known for

1743
01:39:26,240 --> 01:39:29,320
Speaker 1: hiring veterans because we've we've got above fifty percent hiring

1744
01:39:29,680 --> 01:39:33,280
Speaker 1: uh with veterans along our our entire workforce. We're rolling

1745
01:39:33,280 --> 01:39:35,240
Speaker 1: out a pretty big expansion over the next year. We're

1746
01:39:35,240 --> 01:39:37,960
Speaker 1: gonna try to maintain that fifty Obviously, it's all based

1747
01:39:37,960 --> 01:39:40,400
Speaker 1: on how many applicants we can get. So go to

1748
01:39:40,400 --> 01:39:42,400
Speaker 1: Black Rifle Coffee dot com and you can take a

1749
01:39:42,400 --> 01:39:44,920
Speaker 1: look at, you know, to take a look at the

1750
01:39:45,000 --> 01:39:47,480
Speaker 1: job openings that we have. Will be hiring people in Nashville,

1751
01:39:47,600 --> 01:39:52,439
Speaker 1: San Antonio, Sparks, Nevada. Uh, and the the Afghans, these

1752
01:39:52,479 --> 01:39:55,599
Speaker 1: guys that we actually worked with overseas in Cobba Province.

1753
01:39:55,640 --> 01:39:59,599
Speaker 1: They were commandos that worked for the Americans alongside of them.

1754
01:40:00,160 --> 01:40:03,160
Speaker 1: One particular, Wally, We did a video on him. You

1755
01:40:03,200 --> 01:40:05,800
Speaker 1: could go to YouTube and check that out. But Uh,

1756
01:40:05,840 --> 01:40:08,720
Speaker 1: he was with us basically right after the invasion of

1757
01:40:08,760 --> 01:40:14,080
Speaker 1: Afghanistan all the way through fifteen. Um so he was

1758
01:40:14,120 --> 01:40:17,400
Speaker 1: with us basically for fourteen years, and he had been

1759
01:40:17,439 --> 01:40:21,679
Speaker 1: on thousands of direct action missions, which you know is

1760
01:40:21,800 --> 01:40:26,439
Speaker 1: basically direct action meek. Yeah, he's a door kicker. Uh.

1761
01:40:26,479 --> 01:40:30,759
Speaker 1: He went from private to commander h throughout that fourteen years.

1762
01:40:31,120 --> 01:40:34,280
Speaker 1: He was having to move his family every six months

1763
01:40:34,320 --> 01:40:37,920
Speaker 1: to protect them, survived multiple ambushes, not only you know,

1764
01:40:37,960 --> 01:40:41,080
Speaker 1: with his unit, but with his family. Uh, he applied

1765
01:40:41,120 --> 01:40:45,200
Speaker 1: received refugee status. He immigrated into the United States. Um

1766
01:40:45,560 --> 01:40:48,240
Speaker 1: was working in a gas station when we when we

1767
01:40:48,240 --> 01:40:50,479
Speaker 1: got a hold of him, we my business partner and

1768
01:40:50,520 --> 01:40:53,240
Speaker 1: I were talking. He actually thought he was killed a

1769
01:40:53,280 --> 01:40:55,880
Speaker 1: couple of years back. So when he reached out, we

1770
01:40:55,880 --> 01:40:59,080
Speaker 1: were not only like pleasantly surprised, but we were the

1771
01:40:59,120 --> 01:41:01,200
Speaker 1: first thing we said, we let's get him on a plan,

1772
01:41:01,280 --> 01:41:03,600
Speaker 1: lets get him out here. So uh, got him on

1773
01:41:03,600 --> 01:41:06,479
Speaker 1: a plane, got him a house, got him taking care

1774
01:41:06,479 --> 01:41:08,960
Speaker 1: of He's got six kids, so he just had another

1775
01:41:09,160 --> 01:41:13,400
Speaker 1: another little one actually. And now we've got a total

1776
01:41:13,640 --> 01:41:16,880
Speaker 1: of five Afghan former Afghan commanders that work for us

1777
01:41:17,040 --> 01:41:20,240
Speaker 1: in our production shop. So they're printing T shirts and

1778
01:41:20,280 --> 01:41:23,000
Speaker 1: doing a bunch of things for us. But fantastic guys.

1779
01:41:23,000 --> 01:41:25,680
Speaker 1: And I think that's the thing that Americans really need

1780
01:41:25,720 --> 01:41:28,920
Speaker 1: to understand. Two is uh, you know, shoulder to shoulder,

1781
01:41:28,960 --> 01:41:31,920
Speaker 1: there's been a heavy burden placed on the American veteran

1782
01:41:31,960 --> 01:41:35,160
Speaker 1: but also there's a lot of Afghans and Iraqis that

1783
01:41:35,200 --> 01:41:38,400
Speaker 1: were heavy that we're carrying just as much of the

1784
01:41:38,479 --> 01:41:42,920
Speaker 1: combat load out there, and those guys were defending your

1785
01:41:42,960 --> 01:41:45,960
Speaker 1: freedom just as they were defending mine and defending us

1786
01:41:46,000 --> 01:41:50,440
Speaker 1: down range. We do owe them an incredible amount of gratitude,

1787
01:41:50,880 --> 01:41:53,879
Speaker 1: and that's a debt that that I'm focused on repaying,

1788
01:41:53,920 --> 01:41:57,120
Speaker 1: not only to the veteran community, but in my lifetime.

1789
01:41:57,160 --> 01:42:00,639
Speaker 1: This is the single most uh prominent thing in my life,

1790
01:42:00,680 --> 01:42:04,519
Speaker 1: which was the American foreign wars that we've been involved in. Uh.

1791
01:42:04,560 --> 01:42:07,720
Speaker 1: My ethical responsibility to the nation is to make sure

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01:42:07,800 --> 01:42:10,920
Speaker 1: that I can primarily focus on the men and women

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01:42:11,200 --> 01:42:14,120
Speaker 1: that have been fighting the wars that we've been in

1794
01:42:14,200 --> 01:42:17,160
Speaker 1: for I mean, we invaded Iraq in two thousand one.

1795
01:42:17,200 --> 01:42:19,559
Speaker 1: We can all do math. There's thousands of men and

1796
01:42:19,600 --> 01:42:23,960
Speaker 1: women out there, Americans and foreigners that need They don't

1797
01:42:23,960 --> 01:42:27,040
Speaker 1: need a hand out, they need an opportunity to hand up.

1798
01:42:27,640 --> 01:42:31,880
Speaker 1: And my responsibility as a business is to make sure

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01:42:31,920 --> 01:42:36,720
Speaker 1: that we're growing the company and maintaining that ethical orientation,

1800
01:42:36,840 --> 01:42:39,880
Speaker 1: to make sure that we're always making making sure that

1801
01:42:39,960 --> 01:42:43,360
Speaker 1: we can put the veteran first ahead of everything else.

1802
01:42:43,640 --> 01:42:45,839
Speaker 1: So that's that's the main mission in Black Rafic Coffee.

1803
01:42:45,840 --> 01:42:48,160
Speaker 1: So we've got Evan hey for CEO of Black Rifle

1804
01:42:48,200 --> 01:42:50,559
Speaker 1: Coffee in studio with us right now, and Matt Best

1805
01:42:50,680 --> 01:42:55,080
Speaker 1: vice president uh and happiness Guru um, as well as

1806
01:42:55,120 --> 01:42:57,960
Speaker 1: just all all around, all around God takes care all

1807
01:42:58,040 --> 01:42:59,960
Speaker 1: kinds of things. Right. I've seen the videos, my friend,

1808
01:43:00,040 --> 01:43:03,600
Speaker 1: the videos are exceptionable. We we definitely have fun and

1809
01:43:03,640 --> 01:43:06,040
Speaker 1: it's obviously, say it's a statirical representation of my values.

1810
01:43:06,040 --> 01:43:09,320
Speaker 1: You know, we're obviously constitutionalists and pre Second Amendment and

1811
01:43:09,360 --> 01:43:11,200
Speaker 1: we like to have fun with it and obviously be safe.

1812
01:43:11,200 --> 01:43:13,120
Speaker 1: Tell me a bit about the expansion though, what's going

1813
01:43:13,200 --> 01:43:16,000
Speaker 1: on now in eighteen you guys are I mean, I

1814
01:43:16,040 --> 01:43:17,599
Speaker 1: know a little bit about it because I'm actually gonna

1815
01:43:17,600 --> 01:43:19,519
Speaker 1: be with you in Savannah next week for the opening

1816
01:43:19,520 --> 01:43:21,760
Speaker 1: of it with your first brick and mortar store that

1817
01:43:21,800 --> 01:43:25,040
Speaker 1: will be actually our third and mortar store, thank you. Um. Yeah,

1818
01:43:25,080 --> 01:43:28,240
Speaker 1: we're moving our headquarters down to San Antonio, Texas, so

1819
01:43:28,600 --> 01:43:31,320
Speaker 1: taking corporate there. There's just gonna be a lot of opportunity,

1820
01:43:31,320 --> 01:43:33,559
Speaker 1: and the veteran pool down there is significantly larger, so

1821
01:43:33,640 --> 01:43:36,200
Speaker 1: we hope to you know, employ a lot more vegans

1822
01:43:36,240 --> 01:43:38,120
Speaker 1: down there, and then we're gonna be rolling out brick

1823
01:43:38,160 --> 01:43:40,200
Speaker 1: and mortar and retail and just a lot of cool stuff.

1824
01:43:40,200 --> 01:43:42,840
Speaker 1: Expanding the company and just chasing opportunity and trying to

1825
01:43:42,840 --> 01:43:45,040
Speaker 1: give it back to the community as well. Bernie folks listening,

1826
01:43:45,040 --> 01:43:46,559
Speaker 1: by the way, if they want to join in Savannah,

1827
01:43:46,560 --> 01:43:48,320
Speaker 1: how would they find out about the event? If they

1828
01:43:48,320 --> 01:43:50,080
Speaker 1: want to come buy some gear and check out the

1829
01:43:50,640 --> 01:43:54,880
Speaker 1: bounced castles, the gear or what else is gonna be there. Yeah,

1830
01:43:54,920 --> 01:43:57,519
Speaker 1: we're doing that with nine Lines. So nine Line Apparel

1831
01:43:57,600 --> 01:44:00,439
Speaker 1: is you know, we're opening a coffee shop in side

1832
01:44:00,439 --> 01:44:02,960
Speaker 1: of their business, so they can go check nine Line out.

1833
01:44:03,000 --> 01:44:05,360
Speaker 1: They can check us out on social media. We're gonna

1834
01:44:05,360 --> 01:44:09,400
Speaker 1: be posting throughout that entire time. Uh, March ninth and tenth,

1835
01:44:09,560 --> 01:44:11,960
Speaker 1: and I'll be there, a bunch of other cool veterans

1836
01:44:12,000 --> 01:44:13,920
Speaker 1: will be there hanging out and shaking hands and just

1837
01:44:13,960 --> 01:44:17,479
Speaker 1: having a good time. Yeah, we've got helicopters to get

1838
01:44:17,479 --> 01:44:19,559
Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff going on out of the bounce castles.

1839
01:44:19,600 --> 01:44:22,120
Speaker 1: All right, bounce castles are fine, but helicopters that a

1840
01:44:22,160 --> 01:44:24,320
Speaker 1: little spice to things. Well, a right, everybody check them out.

1841
01:44:24,320 --> 01:44:28,000
Speaker 1: Evan Hayfer CEO and Matt Best, vice president of Black

1842
01:44:28,080 --> 01:44:30,040
Speaker 1: Rifle Coffee and thank you John, by the way, for

1843
01:44:30,200 --> 01:44:33,320
Speaker 1: being wonderful sponsors of the show. We are very pleased

1844
01:44:33,320 --> 01:44:35,439
Speaker 1: and honored to have you, and thanks for coming in studio.

1845
01:44:35,520 --> 01:44:39,080
Speaker 1: Thanks well everyone. I hope you enjoyed our conversation with

1846
01:44:39,479 --> 01:44:42,080
Speaker 1: Evan and Matt from Black Rifle. They're they're great guys.

1847
01:44:42,160 --> 01:44:44,719
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna be joining them right after the show

1848
01:44:44,800 --> 01:44:47,600
Speaker 1: here for some drinks out on the town, catching up

1849
01:44:47,640 --> 01:44:51,160
Speaker 1: about things. And it's always fun to talk to some

1850
01:44:51,280 --> 01:44:55,000
Speaker 1: guys who worked on the national security side of things.

1851
01:44:55,040 --> 01:44:57,439
Speaker 1: So we can tell tell stories about well they can

1852
01:44:57,479 --> 01:45:00,519
Speaker 1: tell war stories about Iraq and Afghanist and I can

1853
01:45:00,560 --> 01:45:04,639
Speaker 1: tell uh memo, you know, and and analysis stories about

1854
01:45:04,640 --> 01:45:07,240
Speaker 1: a rocket Afghanistan. It's a good it's good time. Nonetheless

1855
01:45:07,280 --> 01:45:11,720
Speaker 1: good time. We get to rap on all that stuff. So, uh,

1856
01:45:12,280 --> 01:45:15,200
Speaker 1: this is where we get into, as you know, roll

1857
01:45:15,280 --> 01:45:23,519
Speaker 1: call tea. So yesterday it was almost an accident. I

1858
01:45:23,560 --> 01:45:26,920
Speaker 1: was trying to download one song to use for roll

1859
01:45:26,960 --> 01:45:30,479
Speaker 1: call from my desktop and I pulled something that was

1860
01:45:30,600 --> 01:45:33,040
Speaker 1: not for roll Call. But what I noticed a lot

1861
01:45:33,080 --> 01:45:35,160
Speaker 1: of you were like, you know what, it's better, and

1862
01:45:35,240 --> 01:45:37,640
Speaker 1: so we've decided that instead of having the little like

1863
01:45:38,280 --> 01:45:43,200
Speaker 1: a little drummer boy thing there. Uh, Instead of that,

1864
01:45:43,720 --> 01:45:45,880
Speaker 1: we are gonna try to mix it up a little

1865
01:45:45,880 --> 01:45:48,080
Speaker 1: bit and and have a little more a little more

1866
01:45:48,120 --> 01:45:53,040
Speaker 1: audio audio variety here on the show. And so we're

1867
01:45:53,040 --> 01:45:54,640
Speaker 1: gonna try to spice it up and surprise you with

1868
01:45:54,680 --> 01:45:57,120
Speaker 1: our role call tunes and and just in general, we're

1869
01:45:57,120 --> 01:46:00,040
Speaker 1: gonna try to mix up some of the what I

1870
01:46:00,160 --> 01:46:02,960
Speaker 1: call I guess they call it is imaging the correct term, John, right,

1871
01:46:03,000 --> 01:46:06,040
Speaker 1: the yeah, imaging, which is weird because an image is

1872
01:46:06,040 --> 01:46:08,920
Speaker 1: something you see, and yet in radio it's all audio.

1873
01:46:09,080 --> 01:46:12,280
Speaker 1: But now now I'm talking nonsense. Who cares? All Right,

1874
01:46:12,479 --> 01:46:17,240
Speaker 1: these are your thoughts, your whimsical references, whatever you've got

1875
01:46:17,320 --> 01:46:20,759
Speaker 1: for me, and you can add to them of course

1876
01:46:20,840 --> 01:46:25,920
Speaker 1: at facebook dot com slash buck Sexton, Facebook dot com

1877
01:46:25,920 --> 01:46:28,920
Speaker 1: slashbuck Sexton, and let's send me your thoughts. Let's get

1878
01:46:28,920 --> 01:46:32,320
Speaker 1: into it. Uh. First up, Eric, I was catching up

1879
01:46:32,320 --> 01:46:35,759
Speaker 1: on your podcast and heard you are coming to Savannah.

1880
01:46:35,960 --> 01:46:39,040
Speaker 1: I am in charge of the Savannah Police Canine Unit.

1881
01:46:39,520 --> 01:46:41,080
Speaker 1: It would be cool if we could meet you at

1882
01:46:41,160 --> 01:46:43,000
Speaker 1: nine line and get a picture with you and a

1883
01:46:43,040 --> 01:46:46,160
Speaker 1: couple of our canine handlers and their dogs. I would

1884
01:46:46,160 --> 01:46:48,799
Speaker 1: love to put it on our Facebook page. Savannah Police

1885
01:46:48,840 --> 01:46:51,240
Speaker 1: Canain Unit. If you don't mind what day you're gonna

1886
01:46:51,280 --> 01:46:54,200
Speaker 1: be here, Eric, not only or not mine? That sounds awesome.

1887
01:46:54,800 --> 01:46:57,240
Speaker 1: Count me in. I will be down in Savannah and

1888
01:46:57,240 --> 01:47:01,320
Speaker 1: I'll be hanging with Nine Line and Black Rifle on Friday. Um,

1889
01:47:01,680 --> 01:47:04,400
Speaker 1: not this Friday, the March nine, I think it is.

1890
01:47:04,439 --> 01:47:06,759
Speaker 1: So I'll be and any of you, any of you listening,

1891
01:47:06,760 --> 01:47:08,640
Speaker 1: if you wanna, and it's not just me, you'll hang

1892
01:47:08,640 --> 01:47:11,160
Speaker 1: out with you know, Matt and Evan, the Black Rifle guys,

1893
01:47:11,160 --> 01:47:14,240
Speaker 1: the Nine Line guys. Tyler will be there, he's the CEO.

1894
01:47:14,520 --> 01:47:16,800
Speaker 1: His crew will be there. Uh. It should be a

1895
01:47:16,800 --> 01:47:20,360
Speaker 1: lot of fun and you can come check it out.

1896
01:47:20,400 --> 01:47:23,559
Speaker 1: It's just at the Nine Line apparel store and Black

1897
01:47:23,680 --> 01:47:27,160
Speaker 1: Rifles opening a franchise in this store. So it'll be

1898
01:47:27,200 --> 01:47:29,479
Speaker 1: a great time down in Savannah. And yes, Eric of

1899
01:47:29,520 --> 01:47:33,400
Speaker 1: the Canine Unit, by all means, my friend, please do

1900
01:47:33,720 --> 01:47:36,360
Speaker 1: tell folks that I'll be there, and I'll be there

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01:47:36,360 --> 01:47:38,720
Speaker 1: probably around lunchtime during the day on Friday, and I'll

1902
01:47:38,760 --> 01:47:40,160
Speaker 1: just be hanging out for a few hours and I'll

1903
01:47:40,200 --> 01:47:41,760
Speaker 1: leave to do my radio show. That's the way it's

1904
01:47:41,760 --> 01:47:47,759
Speaker 1: gonna go. Next up here, Um, Frank writes hi Buck Trump,

1905
01:47:47,840 --> 01:47:51,120
Speaker 1: saying I like taking guns away first before due process.

1906
01:47:51,600 --> 01:47:54,880
Speaker 1: It is is exactly what cops do or try to

1907
01:47:54,920 --> 01:47:57,240
Speaker 1: do every time they come upon somebody with a weapon

1908
01:47:57,280 --> 01:48:02,040
Speaker 1: who is obviously a threat. Um okay, Frank, I mean

1909
01:48:02,479 --> 01:48:05,960
Speaker 1: there's the there is something about officers safety that is

1910
01:48:06,000 --> 01:48:09,799
Speaker 1: actually a provisional law that officers have. This is why

1911
01:48:09,880 --> 01:48:11,639
Speaker 1: they can ask you have anything sharp on you, even

1912
01:48:11,680 --> 01:48:13,280
Speaker 1: if you haven't committed a crime. Do you have anything

1913
01:48:13,280 --> 01:48:15,280
Speaker 1: sharp on you? Do you have anything? And they can

1914
01:48:15,320 --> 01:48:18,560
Speaker 1: take that for the purposes of the interaction. Now, like

1915
01:48:18,720 --> 01:48:21,599
Speaker 1: I was never uniformed officer or on patrol, So if

1916
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Speaker 1: I'm messing up any of the I had the patrol

1917
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Speaker 1: guy that I had to read it when I worked

1918
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Speaker 1: for the NYPD, But I was not the guy who

1919
01:48:29,120 --> 01:48:33,639
Speaker 1: was putting the bracelets on cool term for handcuffs. Uh.

1920
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Speaker 1: The other thing is I always like the some of

1921
01:48:36,080 --> 01:48:38,800
Speaker 1: the cop terminology that I picked up. Like in New York,

1922
01:48:38,960 --> 01:48:42,600
Speaker 1: whatever precinct you work in, somebody will ask you and

1923
01:48:42,640 --> 01:48:44,559
Speaker 1: you say, that's what I turn out of. What do

1924
01:48:44,600 --> 01:48:47,040
Speaker 1: you turn out of? Turn out of the sixteenth I

1925
01:48:47,120 --> 01:48:50,280
Speaker 1: turn out of the nineteenth precinct. And if somebody ever

1926
01:48:50,320 --> 01:48:52,639
Speaker 1: says you know, I work for the twenty third precinct.

1927
01:48:52,720 --> 01:48:55,200
Speaker 1: It's like, no, you didn't, No, you didn't. By the way,

1928
01:48:55,200 --> 01:48:57,120
Speaker 1: this is also applies to a whole lot of c

1929
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Speaker 1: I a lingo. I could always tell if somebody is

1930
01:49:00,120 --> 01:49:03,360
Speaker 1: either embellishing or not really what they say they are

1931
01:49:03,400 --> 01:49:05,720
Speaker 1: because of just certain things that people will say who

1932
01:49:05,720 --> 01:49:09,479
Speaker 1: worked in the agency versus people who maybe like showed

1933
01:49:09,560 --> 01:49:11,840
Speaker 1: up one day for a meeting's you know, as as

1934
01:49:11,920 --> 01:49:16,240
Speaker 1: a government counterpart or something. Anyway, Uh, let's see what

1935
01:49:16,280 --> 01:49:21,960
Speaker 1: we got here next in the inbox, Um, Mike, Uh,

1936
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Speaker 1: just laugh at a joke you talked about the other day.

1937
01:49:24,240 --> 01:49:26,680
Speaker 1: I was in the county team meeting today and it

1938
01:49:26,720 --> 01:49:29,960
Speaker 1: was announced that we officially are no longer countering ISSL,

1939
01:49:30,400 --> 01:49:33,439
Speaker 1: but we will be defeating ISIS. I thought you would

1940
01:49:33,520 --> 01:49:36,479
Speaker 1: enjoy the humor in that distinction. Well, yes, I certainly do.

1941
01:49:37,160 --> 01:49:40,040
Speaker 1: And I was always on the right side of this issue.

1942
01:49:40,479 --> 01:49:45,080
Speaker 1: I was not saying IL because it was pedantic nonsense

1943
01:49:45,600 --> 01:49:49,120
Speaker 1: and there was just no reason because here's you don't

1944
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Speaker 1: you okay, let me explain, because that people say a

1945
01:49:51,439 --> 01:49:54,599
Speaker 1: buckets about it. No, it's not about disrespect to Israel. Guys, Okay,

1946
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Speaker 1: it's it's because this Obama would say is because the

1947
01:49:59,439 --> 01:50:02,880
Speaker 1: same reason he it's a Pakistan and total Luban, because

1948
01:50:02,920 --> 01:50:06,080
Speaker 1: he thought it sounded more sophisticated. And Obama was the

1949
01:50:06,120 --> 01:50:11,280
Speaker 1: prophetsorial genius president, right, So that was what I was

1950
01:50:11,320 --> 01:50:16,040
Speaker 1: all about. But levant, the purpose of an acronym is

1951
01:50:16,080 --> 01:50:18,479
Speaker 1: to simplify things, as you all know, and those of

1952
01:50:18,479 --> 01:50:21,320
Speaker 1: you who are military or former intel like me, now

1953
01:50:21,439 --> 01:50:23,720
Speaker 1: that you go through this whole period where you can

1954
01:50:23,840 --> 01:50:26,799
Speaker 1: have conversations, it just feels like one acronym after another.

1955
01:50:28,120 --> 01:50:31,519
Speaker 1: But levant is a term that that honestly, very few

1956
01:50:31,560 --> 01:50:35,080
Speaker 1: people know so to use an acronym, and one of

1957
01:50:35,120 --> 01:50:37,880
Speaker 1: the words in the acronym you're choosing to use is

1958
01:50:37,920 --> 01:50:42,360
Speaker 1: a complex term that isn't even really a geographic It

1959
01:50:42,439 --> 01:50:47,280
Speaker 1: isn't really geographically defined. Uh. It's just bizarre. And I'm

1960
01:50:47,320 --> 01:50:49,080
Speaker 1: so glad that we finally got rid of it was

1961
01:50:49,120 --> 01:50:52,240
Speaker 1: just Obama, the White House and some of the Executive

1962
01:50:52,280 --> 01:50:56,800
Speaker 1: branch agencies because Obama random that we're doing that. So anyway, yes,

1963
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Speaker 1: it is. Isis the Islamic state of Iraq and Syria.

1964
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Speaker 1: I've been saying for a long time we should rebrand

1965
01:51:02,080 --> 01:51:06,360
Speaker 1: the al Qaeda franchise in which is obviously not ISIS,

1966
01:51:06,439 --> 01:51:09,280
Speaker 1: but we should. It was jabbattal Nusra, and and now

1967
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Speaker 1: there's been some realignments and changes, and I forget what's

1968
01:51:11,920 --> 01:51:14,000
Speaker 1: going on with it. The I'm out up on the

1969
01:51:14,240 --> 01:51:18,559
Speaker 1: g hottest uh war lord is m that's going on

1970
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Speaker 1: inside of Syria right now, as as I have been

1971
01:51:20,880 --> 01:51:24,080
Speaker 1: in previous months. But I can tell you that we

1972
01:51:24,080 --> 01:51:26,439
Speaker 1: should have just called instead of jibbattal Nusra, which was

1973
01:51:26,479 --> 01:51:29,519
Speaker 1: the al Qaeda franchise, could have just called them al

1974
01:51:29,600 --> 01:51:34,439
Speaker 1: Qaeda in Syria? Why not a q s right there?

1975
01:51:34,560 --> 01:51:36,759
Speaker 1: We do this everywhere else. A QUSA is al Qaida

1976
01:51:36,840 --> 01:51:40,679
Speaker 1: South Asia, a Qui al Qaeda Iraq, Like why everyone's're

1977
01:51:40,680 --> 01:51:43,000
Speaker 1: gonna go jabuttal Nusra? And then everyone's like, oh do

1978
01:51:43,040 --> 01:51:45,880
Speaker 1: I spell it with the apostrophes and it gets all complicated.

1979
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Speaker 1: So anyway, Um, I did not get through nearly enough

1980
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Speaker 1: of your thoughts today, folks. I promised you tomorrow will

1981
01:51:53,520 --> 01:51:57,439
Speaker 1: have a more robust roll call and we'll have cooler

1982
01:51:57,560 --> 01:51:59,519
Speaker 1: music too, all right, So John, hold me to it.

1983
01:51:59,520 --> 01:52:01,559
Speaker 1: We gotta have cool music tomorrow for a roll call,

1984
01:52:02,280 --> 01:52:04,559
Speaker 1: because we're hit here in the Freedom Hunt. We know

1985
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Speaker 1: how to party. She'll tie h