Speaker 1: This is the Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or
Speaker 1: mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence.
Speaker 1: Make no mistake, American, You're a great American. Again the
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show begins. No test studio, my friends, test Studo,
Speaker 1: Michael Palka here, and actually I'm not in the Freedom
Speaker 1: Hut as who were. I am filling in for Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton today happily, So Merry Christmas to those of you
Speaker 1: who celebrate the day after this Boxing Day. I am
Speaker 1: coming to you from the original Free Speech Bunker in Chicago, Illinois.
Speaker 1: I am in home, home base, visiting family and friends
Speaker 1: and honoring the memory of my dad, who passed two
Speaker 1: years ago today. But I'm here with you to celebrate
Speaker 1: the holidays, to celebrate a miraculous day, one of the
Speaker 1: most amazing days on record, one of the most amazing
Speaker 1: days in my mind, at least. I woke up this
Speaker 1: morning and I was like, oh, Christmas was great, but
Speaker 1: you know, we've still got some problems. We have the
Speaker 1: story that broke on Christmas Day of the tragedy of
Speaker 1: the young child from Guatemala who entered this country so
Speaker 1: deathly ill that even American medicine could not save the child.
Speaker 1: What a terrible tragedy. This young boy died after his
Speaker 1: parents took him what hundreds thousands of miles from Guatemala
Speaker 1: through Central America, up through Mexico to America, and the
Speaker 1: kid was so sick that when we finally noticed it
Speaker 1: and saw how bad the fever was, this child could
Speaker 1: not be saved by the great American medicine. A tragedy. Indeed,
Speaker 1: now we're going to see this being used as a
Speaker 1: political weapon against Donald Trump. Twice in the last month,
Speaker 1: we have had children die and but for the actions
Speaker 1: of the parents, those children would be alive today. But
Speaker 1: it's a tragedy, nonetheless. So I feel terrible for that
Speaker 1: family and a terrible loss of life. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: our fault. It's not our problem, folks. And if you're
Speaker 1: going to try and pin this on Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: his policies, you're doing the wrong thing. And speaking of
Speaker 1: the president, our president, my president, your president, not Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1: Thank you Jesus. Donald Trump was missing today, missing an action.
Speaker 1: It was like, wow, why isn't he tweeting? He was
Speaker 1: tweeting up a storm over the weekend. He worked while chancey.
Speaker 1: That's what we call Chuck and Nancy. While Chancy went
Speaker 1: home during the government shutdown, Donald Trump stayed in the
Speaker 1: White House. Donald Trump stayed in the White House and
Speaker 1: worked as much as he could. There were plans happening
Speaker 1: about a meeting with North Korea, despite the fact that
Speaker 1: North Korea is not behaving really well these days. There
Speaker 1: were discussions. There was a call to the troops in fact,
Speaker 1: and NBC and MSNBC and Huffington Post couldn't wait to
Speaker 1: go after Donald Trump would say, it's the first time
Speaker 1: since two thousand and two a city president hasn't visited
Speaker 1: the troops at this point, and his president says, he's awful.
Speaker 1: Our troops deserve better. And then shortly thereafter, we heard
Speaker 1: about a mission, an amazing mission, possibly six weeks in
Speaker 1: the making. If you listen to a person who would
Speaker 1: know about these things, Dana Perrino over at Fox News
Speaker 1: what First of all, what a class act Dana Perino is.
Speaker 1: But Pairinho explained today on the Five that in order
Speaker 1: to do what the President and First Lady and their
Speaker 1: team did today, it takes weeks and weeks and weeks
Speaker 1: of planning, and it also takes a lot of secrecy.
Speaker 1: What am I talking about talking about the President going
Speaker 1: to visit the troops in Iraq. The President pulled off something.
Speaker 1: And we are so often bombarded by the mainstream meets
Speaker 1: attack on this president, calling him just that he's unhinged,
Speaker 1: he can't keep his secret, he can't hold anything back. Well,
Speaker 1: look at what just happened today, President Don J. Trump
Speaker 1: and Milania Trump, the First Lady, flew to Iraq to
Speaker 1: visit our troops. An amazing moment captured by just a
Speaker 1: pool camera. You know, it's a video crew that goes
Speaker 1: along with the President. It's not the full Press Corp.
Speaker 1: Because you know, if you'd brought the full Press Corp
Speaker 1: up to date on this, they would eleak this and
Speaker 1: destroyed this mission a long time ago. But just a
Speaker 1: couple of hours ago in Iraq, the President walked out
Speaker 1: on stage to thunderous applause from men and women's station.
Speaker 1: There yes, American troops chanting USA to their commander in chief.
Speaker 1: It was just a great moment and for all the
Speaker 1: people were caught with their pants down. I'm talking to
Speaker 1: my old friend Monte Williams, who really doesn't like this
Speaker 1: president and went after him about this and also basically
Speaker 1: claimed that the child who died, the terminally ill child
Speaker 1: who came into this country because the parents dragged him
Speaker 1: here from Guatemala, that that was the fault of this administration.
Speaker 1: That's incorrect. But Monte Williams and A Lissa Milano both
Speaker 1: went after the president and they used the MSNBC and
Speaker 1: NBC News stories about this president not visiting the troops. Well,
Speaker 1: I mentioned that this mission had taken weeks to plan
Speaker 1: and it wasn't that easy to pull off. Not just
Speaker 1: keeping a secret. This was President Trump just a few
Speaker 1: hours ago talking about the mission, and he was asked
Speaker 1: about his concerncerns, and of course his first concern was
Speaker 1: for the first Lady and the people around him. Late,
Speaker 1: I will tell you, but if you would have seen
Speaker 1: what we had to go through with the darkened plane,
Speaker 1: with all windows, clothes, with no lights on whatsoever, anywhere,
Speaker 1: pitch black. I've never seen it. I've been many aeroplanes,
Speaker 1: all types and shapes and sizes. I've never seen anything
Speaker 1: like it. We're coming in and I know all of
Speaker 1: the things that were surrounding us for safety. So did
Speaker 1: I have a concern, Yeah, I had a concern, But
Speaker 1: my bigger concern was maybe the people that were with me,
Speaker 1: certainly all of them except I think John Bolden. He's
Speaker 1: a pretty tough guy in adlan Chia. Yeah, I do
Speaker 1: think John Bolton could have handled it. John Bolton is
Speaker 1: a tough cat. He still looks like the Lorex to me.
Speaker 1: But just a wonderful moment, the President going to visit
Speaker 1: the troops, and for the rest of you who couldn't
Speaker 1: believe it, the MSNBC crowd, the huff Post crowd, who
Speaker 1: really I just love that these people are exposed, that
Speaker 1: they printed on their websites, on their Twitter accounts for
Speaker 1: God and everybody to see, the people who slam this president,
Speaker 1: and we're so indignant and very upset about the fact
Speaker 1: that he hadn't got well. It just does take a
Speaker 1: little bit of a plan. The trips are are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to try and get our buddy, Dan Bongino
Speaker 1: on the phone. Dan Bongino, former Secret Service agent, knows
Speaker 1: about this. There are people out there saying, well, don
Speaker 1: Trump did this just because people were critical of him.
Speaker 1: MSNBC was criticizing him. No, as Bongino said online, it
Speaker 1: takes weeks weeks in advance. Advanced teams have to go there.
Speaker 1: You know, they have to send secrets teams there to
Speaker 1: meet with the military commanders to set up all the protocols, safety,
Speaker 1: security protocols to happen. So this was kept a secret.
Speaker 1: This was just a wonderful, wonderful moment for President Donald J. Trump,
Speaker 1: And he was, as he said, in a completely blacked
Speaker 1: out plane. They left last night and they flew all
Speaker 1: the way to Baghdad. Now, granted, Iraq is a lot
Speaker 1: safer today than it was, say in two thousand and two,
Speaker 1: but it's still not a slam dunk in terms of security.
Speaker 1: It's still not an easy deal. So for the president
Speaker 1: to get there and get it done and pull this
Speaker 1: off in quiet, I saw I think I saw the
Speaker 1: Treasury secretary with him. I saw Sarah Huckabee Sanders there.
Speaker 1: She wrote one of the most touching things about standing
Speaker 1: with one of the soldiers and he hold the patch
Speaker 1: off his jacket arm and gave it to her. Just
Speaker 1: an amazing thing, very amazing. Good good on you, mister President,
Speaker 1: as they would say in Australia, really good on you.
Speaker 1: We'll try and get Dan, maybe we can get Dan
Speaker 1: Bungino call in talk about just what it takes to
Speaker 1: pull this off, and then we'll we have to get
Speaker 1: to a couple of other things today because there are
Speaker 1: some wonderful things out there we need to talk about.
Speaker 1: Since it's the end of the year, I have combed
Speaker 1: the news files and pulled up some of the moments
Speaker 1: that should embarrass the hell out of the mainstream media.
Speaker 1: If you follow me on Twitter, maybe you know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. But I've created my own version of
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen's most embarrassing media moments. And oh yeah, we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about the stock market. We're going to
Speaker 1: talk about what happened today. Because there are people among
Speaker 1: us who I just can't believe how anti American they are.
Speaker 1: There are people who have been exhibiting extreme schadenfreude. Schadenford
Speaker 1: is one of the early pure Opelka words of the day.
Speaker 1: Schadenfreud is a German word that means the feeling of
Speaker 1: joy that you get at the misfortune of others. And
Speaker 1: there have been folks who experienced schotte schadenfreude over the
Speaker 1: stock market and the precipitous drop we have seen over
Speaker 1: the past few weeks. Now, we need to keep in
Speaker 1: mind that the stock market has in fact, been on
Speaker 1: a tear since the recession of two thousand and eight,
Speaker 1: since the bottom, because of all the fiscal stimulus that
Speaker 1: was shoved down the throats of the economy and the
Speaker 1: banks by the Federal Reserve. All the stimulus, and it
Speaker 1: did what it was supposed to do. It kept the
Speaker 1: economy going. It got people back into getting mortgages and
Speaker 1: car loans. And now ten years later, guess what. The
Speaker 1: market has been on a tear for ten years. Nothing
Speaker 1: goes up forever. But you heard people saying, oh, this
Speaker 1: is Trump's recession. Here it comes the stock markets crashing.
Speaker 1: But if you read the Wall Street Journal today, you
Speaker 1: saw the reports about retail sales. You saw the story
Speaker 1: that was out there that America's underlying economic fundamentals were
Speaker 1: rock solid. And today the stock market told us the
Speaker 1: rest of the story. We'll get to our buddy, the
Speaker 1: capitalist pig, coming up just around the corner. I also
Speaker 1: have to talk about something that happened here in Chicago.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about the naming of the highway. There's
Speaker 1: a mayoral candidate here in Chicago who wants to name
Speaker 1: a section highway after Barack Obama. He wants to take
Speaker 1: a section of highway currently known as the Dan Ryan Expressway.
Speaker 1: It's an old Chicago figure, Dan Ryan, and rename it
Speaker 1: the Barack Obama Expressway. Now, there's already a chunk of
Speaker 1: I fifty five in this state that's named for Barack Obama.
Speaker 1: There's a chunk of highway in California that's named for
Speaker 1: Barack Obama. But that's not good enough for these butt kissers.
Speaker 1: They want to name another section of Chicago roadways after
Speaker 1: Barack who saying Obama. But there's an interesting story behind it,
Speaker 1: and we'll have to share that with you, so we'll
Speaker 1: get to that. You can join me on Twitter today.
Speaker 1: Apparently we are on a holiday schedule and one of
Speaker 1: our people is not here to answer the phone, so
Speaker 1: I can't take phone calls from you guys. If you
Speaker 1: want to send me your home phone number on Twitter,
Speaker 1: I'll call you. Persleaa, we'll do this. Who go ahead,
Speaker 1: I double dog day to put your home phone number
Speaker 1: on Twitter and all of the nineteen thousand or so
Speaker 1: people who follow me may call you. But we can't
Speaker 1: do phone calls today, but we will do some Twitter polling.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about the president in Iraq. The Secret
Speaker 1: Mission we'll talk more about what the Dems have been doing.
Speaker 1: There's a new song I have to play for you,
Speaker 1: and we'll have some fun on the Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1: Come on back, Michael Pelka and for Buck Sexton on
Speaker 1: the Buck Sexton Show. Here, Happy, happy, Happy Christmas to
Speaker 1: you and yours. Oh, I neglected to say it. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I feel like such a mcgegee here, Happy Kuanza, Happy
Speaker 1: first day of Quanza. On the first day of Quanza,
Speaker 1: someone gave to me korn or something. I'm sorry to
Speaker 1: made up holiday nineteen sixty six. Terrible person. Keep that handy,
Speaker 1: you'll hear more of that. Yeah, the first day of quanza.
Speaker 1: How do you say quanza with a straight face? It's
Speaker 1: made that question. That's absolutely right. I'm here for buck
Speaker 1: Is on holiday. Good for him, and I'm coming to
Speaker 1: you live from actually the banks of Lake Michigan in Chicago,
Speaker 1: the main line of mid America, my hometown. So I'm
Speaker 1: having fun and with you. Always happy to be here
Speaker 1: with family over the holidays. I hope you had chance
Speaker 1: to be with family or friends. A buddy of mine,
Speaker 1: and you've heard him on the show, Billy halliwell, he's
Speaker 1: a great writer in the faith world and just a
Speaker 1: wonderful person all around. Billy has a friend's giving Christmas
Speaker 1: where they get all the people who don't have family
Speaker 1: in the area and they have him over and they
Speaker 1: have like a Christmas dinner. And we had our Christmas
Speaker 1: dinner last night at one of my sisters homes in
Speaker 1: the suburbs of Chicago, a little town called Schaumberg, which
Speaker 1: is famous for a massive mall. And that's really about it.
Speaker 1: But somebody dropped a sweet potato casserole in the kitchen
Speaker 1: and I never noticed it before, but sweet potatoes went
Speaker 1: all mashed up and everything on the floor. When it
Speaker 1: hits the floor, it looks like someone ralphed. So we
Speaker 1: took pictures posing as if we had been the people
Speaker 1: who rouped the sweet potaties. I'm sure my mother was
Speaker 1: looking down from heaven and shaking her head and going,
Speaker 1: what is wrong with you all? But maybe I'll post
Speaker 1: I should post a copy of that picture on the internets.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot to do today. We're going to
Speaker 1: get to my top five media moments of the year,
Speaker 1: Top five most embarrassing media moments of the year. Because
Speaker 1: the mainstream media was absolutely idiotic. This year, there was
Speaker 1: such a competition. I had to put montages together. And
Speaker 1: this guy actually makes an appearance. One of the biggest
Speaker 1: jack wagons ever makes an appearance in the bad media moments.
Speaker 1: Remember remember that, Remember that from Governor Howard Dean, the
Speaker 1: scream that killed a presidential career. It was, yeah, that
Speaker 1: primal scream. He makes an appearance. You didn't see much
Speaker 1: of Howard Dean this year, but when he did show up,
Speaker 1: he said really dumb things. So we'll get to that.
Speaker 1: And just around the corner, we have to talk about
Speaker 1: what happened to the stock market today, because it has dropped,
Speaker 1: as we all know, into bear market territory, down twenty
Speaker 1: percent for the year. But today the Dow Jones Industrial
Speaker 1: Index climbed to one thousand and eighty six points in
Speaker 1: one day, the largest single day rise ever. And is
Speaker 1: that because of something the president said? Or is it
Speaker 1: because of the comments in the Wall Street Journal about
Speaker 1: the retail industry. But the President did have thoughts about
Speaker 1: the market, and I'll play those for you and we
Speaker 1: will pick the brain of a really smart guy. My
Speaker 1: buddy Jonathan Hoenig of the Capitalist Pig is going to
Speaker 1: join us live on the Buck Sexton Show. My name
Speaker 1: Michael Pelca. Happy to be here with you. Come on
Speaker 1: back after the break we'll talk money on the Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton program. Michael Pelka in for Buck Sexton. Buck will
Speaker 1: be back. He's having a little Christmas holiday. Good for him,
Speaker 1: God bless. I am here in my hometown, the main
Speaker 1: line of mid America, Chicago, Illinois, and I have to
Speaker 1: tell you this happened yesterday and I wonder if it
Speaker 1: had anything to do with what happened today. This I mean,
Speaker 1: the fact is that the economy is doing so well
Speaker 1: that they raised the interest rates and that says a
Speaker 1: form of safety in a way. President of Obama didn't
Speaker 1: do much of that. Much easier to run when you
Speaker 1: have no interest. There he had a very low interest rate.
Speaker 1: We have a normalized interest rate. A normalized interest rate
Speaker 1: means a life. No, it's good for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: They have money in the bank, they get interest on
Speaker 1: their money. For many years nobody got interest on them.
Speaker 1: So the President talked about the Federal Reserve. He also
Speaker 1: tell people that the market had some opportunities to buy,
Speaker 1: and today we saw that big buying happen. But what
Speaker 1: does it mean does it mean there's there's safety, there's
Speaker 1: a mean everything's good? I don't know. So I rely
Speaker 1: on people with common sense, people who don't just tell
Speaker 1: you all the rosy stories. They tell you the reality.
Speaker 1: And one such person as my friend and genius in
Speaker 1: financial world. He's called the Capitalist Pig. He can follow
Speaker 1: him on the Capitalist pig dot com or follow him
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Jonathan Honig joins us, Hello, my friend, how
Speaker 1: are you well? Feeling about a thousand points better today?
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve? Wow? You know this? You know, the old
Speaker 1: thing is that when elephants are dancing, mice get trampled
Speaker 1: and full some elephants dancing these days in the stock market,
Speaker 1: first to historic drubbing on Christmas Eve is down six
Speaker 1: hundred points, and then another historic game today. The market
Speaker 1: that saw has never been up a thousand points in
Speaker 1: one day, and we saw today a thousand and eighty
Speaker 1: six points higher. Gets still mikeet you can believe it
Speaker 1: down for the month. So some the wild swings on
Speaker 1: Wall Street continue. Yeah, So while we can be happy
Speaker 1: about today, we can also still be a little cautious
Speaker 1: because the stove is hot. You don't want to touch
Speaker 1: it just yet. Maybe I'm just I think more than anything, Mike,
Speaker 1: you know, you we have to put today's action and
Speaker 1: just the economy ritt large, in a little bit of context.
Speaker 1: You know, we've we've been in the midst of a
Speaker 1: nine year and I'll put the politics aside. These the
Speaker 1: bits been in the midst of a nine year bull market,
Speaker 1: in a nine year economic expansion, some of which occurred
Speaker 1: under the previous a president, some of which occurred under
Speaker 1: the career president. So you know, we're this economic expansion
Speaker 1: just in general is pretty long in the tooth to
Speaker 1: begin with. Then add to that worries about rising inflation,
Speaker 1: rising interest rates, which the President had alluded to a
Speaker 1: little bit, and just generally a slowing economy, and some
Speaker 1: worries about the financial sector. You know, I think what
Speaker 1: really frightened the market, Mike was that news that Treasury
Speaker 1: Secretary Manuchin had called the nation's largest banks and inquired
Speaker 1: inquired with them on a Sunday if they had liquidity
Speaker 1: and we're functioning that I think I scared a lot
Speaker 1: of traders and investors before on Christmas Eve, But today
Speaker 1: the bulls were back, and essentially we're right back where
Speaker 1: we were in the market. Before Christmas Eve, still down
Speaker 1: for the month, but certainly better than we were at
Speaker 1: eight o'clock this morning. Well, you bring up some really
Speaker 1: key points on this, and again we're talking to Jonathan Honig,
Speaker 1: the capitalist Pig. I followed Jonathan on Twitter, but I
Speaker 1: also follow him when he does his little seminars online
Speaker 1: on Saturday morning. So I appreciate that I'm learning, Jonathan.
Speaker 1: My notebook's getting bigger. You talk about the comments from
Speaker 1: the Treasury Secretary and how that may have spooked the
Speaker 1: market because he called the banks and said, hey, are
Speaker 1: you liquid? Do you have enough money? And we hadn't
Speaker 1: heard any questions of the stability of the banks here
Speaker 1: tofore in this latest downturn, so that spooked it. I
Speaker 1: look at some of my tech stocks because I look
Speaker 1: at the Apples and I look at the Googles, and
Speaker 1: I see there had been some I guess, a loss
Speaker 1: of credibility or trust from many of us who are
Speaker 1: a retail investors, and you know, we don't trade like
Speaker 1: the big people, and we got nervous. And Apple had
Speaker 1: been down from a big high earlier like two hundred
Speaker 1: and forty something, and they bounced back a little bit
Speaker 1: today they came back with a nice little bounce. So
Speaker 1: absolutely mean Apple today, Mike had its best day in
Speaker 1: five years. It can believe, it was up about seven percent.
Speaker 1: It's still down seven percent year to date, however, and
Speaker 1: you know, Apple is just a It's a perfect example
Speaker 1: of really the type of stock that has led this
Speaker 1: bull market, really led the economy, you know, Mike, during
Speaker 1: the Obama years and even during many of the President
Speaker 1: Trump sears. You know, it wasn't Ford or Alcoa. It
Speaker 1: wasn't the manufacturing stocks that were leading this economy forward.
Speaker 1: It was the apples and the facebooks. If it's been
Speaker 1: the amazons that have really been leading the way forward,
Speaker 1: then they are all really started to wilt in October
Speaker 1: and November. So what we've seen now in later November
Speaker 1: December is just almost the rest of the market, and
Speaker 1: I believe the rest of the economy catching up and
Speaker 1: slowing down. So guests a bit of a bounce back today.
Speaker 1: But I still think that for most investors, Mike, you
Speaker 1: big or small, I don't think care whether you have
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars or a million dollars in the bank.
Speaker 1: I do think now it's a great time for caution
Speaker 1: you know, people are spent like crazy this Christmas season. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe that's good for the economy that people are spending,
Speaker 1: but to me, it's a it's a great sign of overconfidence,
Speaker 1: not unlike what we saw in two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, even two thousand and eight, as
Speaker 1: the markets were wilting, people were still spending. And that's
Speaker 1: what always gets people into trouble markets. It's not that
Speaker 1: they pick a bad stock, but that they buy, they
Speaker 1: owe more than they have, they buy more than they have,
Speaker 1: and that debt is what always gets people into problem,
Speaker 1: whether it's a stock, whether it's their home, or whether
Speaker 1: it's the credit card, which is what it is this
Speaker 1: time around in the market. Well, we heard that the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal today had the good numbers, the positive
Speaker 1: numbers on retail, and retail stocks certainly benefited today. But
Speaker 1: you bring up a really key point here, Jonathan Honey
Speaker 1: tells us if we can't afford it, you're you're going
Speaker 1: to have problems down the road because those bills will
Speaker 1: come in January. I just read, Jonathan, twenty eight percent
Speaker 1: of us are still paying for last year's Christmas expenditures.
Speaker 1: And that's never a good sign. If more than a
Speaker 1: quarter of the people out there are still paying off
Speaker 1: credit card debt from last Christmas, I shudder to think
Speaker 1: where we will be a year from today. Yeah, And indeed,
Speaker 1: mikel and the thing that President is right about is
Speaker 1: that interest rates are going up now. Whether you think
Speaker 1: they should or think they you know, that's that's really
Speaker 1: another discussion. Interest rates are going up. You know in
Speaker 1: many of us, you know, ten years ago, twelve years ago,
Speaker 1: before the financial crisis, it was really our home was
Speaker 1: it was our mortgages where many of us had borrowed
Speaker 1: and kind of leveraged ourselves a bit too much. This
Speaker 1: time around, Mike, and really is the credit card. Americans
Speaker 1: have record amounts of credit card debt, and the interest
Speaker 1: on those credit cards is also at a record high.
Speaker 1: So a great New Year's resolution, again doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: you're just getting started with the markets or whether you've
Speaker 1: got a lot of money in the bank, is to
Speaker 1: start to whittle down get rid of that credit card debt.
Speaker 1: Because you know, Mike, you can hope and aim and
Speaker 1: really try real hard to make ten, twelve, fifteen percent
Speaker 1: in the market where you can pay down that credit
Speaker 1: card debt. And it's like an immediate return on a
Speaker 1: principle on your bottom line. It's a great goal for
Speaker 1: anyone for the new year to start to put their
Speaker 1: financial house in order and one hundred percent with you.
Speaker 1: And sometimes it takes a long time. I'm full disclosure here.
Speaker 1: You're humble announcer in his late twenties rapped up thirty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars of credit card debt when I wasn't making
Speaker 1: a lot of money. It took me eight years to
Speaker 1: get out the whole. But now I will tell you
Speaker 1: I don't live with any credit card debt, and I
Speaker 1: don't live with automobile debt. I live only with a
Speaker 1: residential mortgage debt. And I will tell you, yeah, go ahead,
Speaker 1: and what you find, Mike, and I'm sure. And what
Speaker 1: you find is that you know the market is always
Speaker 1: going to be unpredictable and a lot of indicators do
Speaker 1: suggest that there will be a recession at twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: look at and inevitable that recessions do come in. What
Speaker 1: I know you probably experiences just that feeling of safety,
Speaker 1: that feeling security knowing that you aren't going to have
Speaker 1: the loan visa MasterCard debt collectors knocking on your door.
Speaker 1: When you've got that consumer debt paid off, quite simply,
Speaker 1: you sleep better at night. And that helps everywhere every
Speaker 1: American these days. Well, the other thing it allows you
Speaker 1: to do, Jonathan, and it's common sense, it's very obvious,
Speaker 1: but it allows you to put money away. And we
Speaker 1: as Americans, have not been saving. Now I had heard
Speaker 1: maybe you can back me up or debunk this. America
Speaker 1: started saving again, and it appears that the millennials, the
Speaker 1: people I so often harangue, they're actually saving and not
Speaker 1: weighing themselves down with anything other than maybe they're student
Speaker 1: loan debt. Is that accurate? Well, there was a transformation,
Speaker 1: like again, I mean, you know, the more things change,
Speaker 1: the more they say they stay the same. In the
Speaker 1: wake of the global financial crisis, you can believe it.
Speaker 1: It's you know, ten years ago now, there was a transformation.
Speaker 1: People tighten their belts, they paid down their debt, they
Speaker 1: started once again living within their means, and to your point,
Speaker 1: they once again started saving. In the decade that's followed,
Speaker 1: we started to see that trend reverse once again. They
Speaker 1: call it the wealth effect, Mike, and it basically means that,
Speaker 1: you know, the more we have, the more we tend
Speaker 1: to spend. So as the stock market has gone up,
Speaker 1: at least up until the last couple of months, and
Speaker 1: as unemployment has continued to remain unemployment has remained quite strong,
Speaker 1: people have simply been spending more, kind of moving out
Speaker 1: of that recession depression air of mentality that was born
Speaker 1: after two thousand and eight and starting once again to
Speaker 1: ring up those credit card bills. And Mike, you're right,
Speaker 1: a lot of the millennials you know whatever, in a
Speaker 1: love them or hate them, a lot of them came
Speaker 1: up during the global financial crisis, so they're pretty conservative
Speaker 1: if you can imagine to begin with. Then again, a
Speaker 1: lot of them invested in bitcoin, which is down about
Speaker 1: eighty percent or ninety percent this year. So this has
Speaker 1: just been a tough or Mike, to be an investor
Speaker 1: of any sort, which another reason why you really have
Speaker 1: to keep a long term perspective and always live within
Speaker 1: your meetings. Well, that's good advice, Jonathan. Should we look
Speaker 1: for I got about a minute or so left here.
Speaker 1: Should we look for anything specific? Is this what they
Speaker 1: call a dead cat bounce today? Or what should we
Speaker 1: be watching for for the last few days of the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the fear, right, that dead cat bounce, that this
Speaker 1: is just one day that a reversal in the midst
Speaker 1: of the continued downward trend in stocks. You know, the
Speaker 1: market's down about six percent this year. It didn't get
Speaker 1: there in one day, and it's not going to reverse
Speaker 1: in one day. So what you want to see is
Speaker 1: essentially the trend continue. You want to see any stocks,
Speaker 1: whether it be the high tech flyers, or the utilities,
Speaker 1: or even some of the energy stocks that have just
Speaker 1: been tunneled this year, begin to make some kind of
Speaker 1: a base here and move higher in a sustained fashion.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen it yet. Even today, about sixteen hundred
Speaker 1: stocks at New fifty two week glows only a handful
Speaker 1: at New fifty two kighs. So this is a bottoming process.
Speaker 1: But one day is a great start in terms of
Speaker 1: getting the economy and hope of the stock market back
Speaker 1: on track. In twenty nineteen. Great stuff, always, always great
Speaker 1: stuff from my friend Jonathan Honig the Capitalist Pig, Capitalist
Speaker 1: pig dot com. Thank you, Jonathan. I hope we have
Speaker 1: more record setting days on the upside in the green
Speaker 1: side in the new year. To be with you and
Speaker 1: it's great to be on Bucks show. Thanks so much, Mikey,
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. God bless there. He goes really smart
Speaker 1: and measured advice always from Jonathan. You know. He doesn't
Speaker 1: play the politics game. He plays the common sense game,
Speaker 1: which is what we need to do with our money.
Speaker 1: Money doesn't have Democrat or Republican after it. And I'm
Speaker 1: going to leave it at that. I have so much
Speaker 1: more to get to, but right now I have to
Speaker 1: get to a break. Michael Pelka, my name is sitting
Speaker 1: in for my friend Buck Sexton on the Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1: Michael Pelka in for Sexton. On this day after Christmas
Speaker 1: Boxing Day? Did you return anything? I did not, because
Speaker 1: pretty much I only got a couple of things and
Speaker 1: that's all I wanted. And I got what I wanted,
Speaker 1: the sweater I wanted and the scarf I wanted and
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears socks that I wanted. I don't need
Speaker 1: anything else. I already have enough junk. I have to
Speaker 1: talk about some technology today and some fun stuff today.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that next hour. And there is a
Speaker 1: one day screening of a movie that I am going
Speaker 1: to see tomorrow, and I will encourage you to go
Speaker 1: see it too. But it's only happening one day, and
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be spectacular. From Peter Jackson,
Speaker 1: the guy behind the Lord of the Rings movie, so
Speaker 1: gives you an idea the kind of quality it should be.
Speaker 1: But we'll dive into that a little bit later. I
Speaker 1: also have to play something for you. It might be
Speaker 1: the cringiest thing ever. I love the people who are
Speaker 1: so so distracted by Donald Trump that they spend their
Speaker 1: waking hours trying to do creative things to attack the president.
Speaker 1: And this little montage from from some of the sufferers
Speaker 1: of Trump Arrangements syndrome caught my ear today. I get
Speaker 1: I'm so, I'm smiling thinking about it. Get it speak correctly.
Speaker 1: The Trump Arrangement syndrome choir and their little holiday music.
Speaker 1: Wait a second, here, I am. I I'm in a
Speaker 1: guest studio, so you have to forgive me. I push
Speaker 1: the wrong button. Here's the Trump Arrangement syndrome choir. We
Speaker 1: wish you a mother Christmas. We wish you a mother Christmas.
Speaker 1: We wish you a mother Christmas. And impeachment next year.
Speaker 1: You know. Kind of clever, right, little little bit of
Speaker 1: a clever turn on some holiday classics. But then you
Speaker 1: start hearing some of the other because they all did
Speaker 1: this and then piled them up in one little montage.
Speaker 1: We wish you a Molla Christmas, we wish you a
Speaker 1: mothera Christmas, We wish you a Molla Christmas, and impeachment
Speaker 1: next year. I wish they had Maxine Waters doing it,
Speaker 1: because that would have been just an epic. I think
Speaker 1: I have hold on a second. Yeah, let me go
Speaker 1: to this point in this clip. It's about two minutes worth.
Speaker 1: I won't give you all the bad singing, although there
Speaker 1: certainly is a ton of it. But this guy, this
Speaker 1: guy just made me smile and all year as we
Speaker 1: know you're in bed with poutin. We know you're in
Speaker 1: bed with pot because your treason is clear. You're how
Speaker 1: do you not laugh at these people and they're all
Speaker 1: smiling and their little faces, some of them their Santa
Speaker 1: hats and holding up their doggies and singing the treason
Speaker 1: it's clear. We wish you a mother Christmas. We wish
Speaker 1: you a mother Christmas. We wish you Emo, Chris Smiths
Speaker 1: and IMPEACHMD. It's just beautiful. Please sclap. I've tweeted out
Speaker 1: a link to that. If you follow me on Twitter
Speaker 1: at Stuntbright you can see it originally sent to me
Speaker 1: by the very funny Kate Hyde, who is at Kate
Speaker 1: Hyde of New York. Just a wonderful little turn, and
Speaker 1: especially on a day where you have the President of
Speaker 1: the United States pulling off a secret mission to go
Speaker 1: visit the troops, and you have the stock market setting
Speaker 1: a record the one time massive bounce over a thousand
Speaker 1: points in one day. It's just a remarkable thing. All right,
Speaker 1: busy first hour, even busier second and third hours coming up.
Speaker 1: I did not get to the Women's March news. I
Speaker 1: didn't get to the Obama Highway news, which there is
Speaker 1: Obama Highway news here in Chicago. Let's just name all
Speaker 1: the interstates Barack Obama, right, why not? Do you know,
Speaker 1: forget that Dwight Eisenhower was the guy behind that. Let's
Speaker 1: just call it all Obama because after all, the nothing
Speaker 1: he did ever went wrong, ever fast and furious. I
Speaker 1: could go on and on and on, but the beautiful
Speaker 1: story here. Then there's also a question, did Barbie get heavy?
Speaker 1: I got a really strange question today about Barbie gaining weight.
Speaker 1: Not that I have a Barbie doll collection. I'm not
Speaker 1: Richard Simmons. He has one. He's got quite a few. Apparently.
Speaker 1: We'll get into all this next on the Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1: Come on back. It is not buck Sexton. It is
Speaker 1: Michael Pela Bucks Buddy and my friend Buck Sexton having
Speaker 1: a little bit of a holiday break. Mary. Christmas to you.
Speaker 1: Hopefully you celebrated Christmas. If you didn't, you've already had
Speaker 1: your holiday. If you celebrated Hanukkah, and that was a
Speaker 1: while ago, a couple of weeks ago. Didn't run concurrently.
Speaker 1: This year, we didn't have Chrismaca. This year we had
Speaker 1: Hankah first, then Christmas. Oh, I almost forgot. It's quanzall
Speaker 1: happy first day of Quanza. No, not gonna get into
Speaker 1: that again. Made up holiday. Yeah, I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people it celebrates it the good things have African tradition. Well,
Speaker 1: we're not. Let's not get into it. Christmas is about
Speaker 1: the birth of Jesus, and as Mother Teresa taught us,
Speaker 1: the joy of Christmas, the jays, Jesus, the always others
Speaker 1: and the why. The last thing is you. And speaking
Speaker 1: of Jesus, Alexandria Cazio Cortez, maybe you know a day
Speaker 1: after she gets my agreement. I actually agreed with what
Speaker 1: she said about shutting down the government and the people
Speaker 1: who should be penalized first of the people who shut
Speaker 1: it down, meaning the members of Congress, the House, and
Speaker 1: the Senate should not be getting paid when they can't
Speaker 1: get their act together and keep the government open. And
Speaker 1: so you know, she's saying that those people shouldn't get paid.
Speaker 1: What's the kind of funny part of this is in
Speaker 1: just eight days, when the Democrats take over the House,
Speaker 1: if the government's still shut down and she had her way,
Speaker 1: she would not be getting paid. And she's the one
Speaker 1: who said, well, I can hardly I can't get an
Speaker 1: apartment in Washington, DC because I don't have enough money
Speaker 1: and I'm only going to be baking one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy four thousand dollars a year, and I just thought
Speaker 1: I won't be able to find an apartment. Give me
Speaker 1: a break. But wouldn't it be ironic if the new
Speaker 1: Congress said, if the government is shut down, the first
Speaker 1: people who won't be paid are the people who made
Speaker 1: the shutdown happen. Then they'd keep the government open. And
Speaker 1: let's not forget that it's not a government shutdown, something
Speaker 1: like eighty eight percent of the government has already funded.
Speaker 1: So people are getting paid and the people who might
Speaker 1: even be getting a delayed payment will get paid. I
Speaker 1: heard somebody at CNN talking about talking about the fact
Speaker 1: that the Kennedy gift Shop at the Kennedy Museum was closed,
Speaker 1: and she said, well, that means the person who works
Speaker 1: in the gift shop, the kid who runs the cash
Speaker 1: register at the gift shop, won't be getting there forty
Speaker 1: to fifty thousand dollars year check. And I thought, wait,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, the kid who runs the gift shop
Speaker 1: is getting forty to fifty grand, a kid who is
Speaker 1: a clerk, a retail clerk at a gift shop. If
Speaker 1: we're paying people forty to fifty grand to be the
Speaker 1: checkout clerk at the gift shop, do you need a
Speaker 1: better example of why government does not need to be
Speaker 1: involved in things like retail the waste of money. We'll
Speaker 1: get into government waste of money. John Stossel, who I
Speaker 1: just appreciate his journalistic skill so much, exposed a controversy
Speaker 1: about government spending in New York that is just gonna
Speaker 1: it'll make your blood boil. But back to what I
Speaker 1: was saying about Alexandria Kazio Cortez. She tried to politicize
Speaker 1: the death of this Guatemalan child, the Guatemalan child who
Speaker 1: tragically passed away after mommy and daddy dragged the child
Speaker 1: two thousand miles and the kid was so sick even
Speaker 1: American medicine couldn't save the child's life. And Acazio Quartz
Speaker 1: tried to Christmas and the birth of Jesus and the
Speaker 1: celebration of the birth of Jesus and politicize it saying
Speaker 1: that you know, Jesus and Mary and Joseph, they were
Speaker 1: they were refugees coming to America. I guess she are
Speaker 1: coming to Bethlehem, America. Hum she tried to put a
Speaker 1: political spin on it and compare Jesus to the refugee
Speaker 1: child who perished. And she's so wrong on this, because
Speaker 1: if you read your Luke Gospel, I realized some of
Speaker 1: the other gospels have a slightly different interpretation. But the
Speaker 1: one that I've always followed is that that Joseph and
Speaker 1: Mary had had to go for a census, and by
Speaker 1: the time they got to Bethlehem there was no room
Speaker 1: at the end, if you will, and so they took
Speaker 1: the stable out back. But stop trying to politicize a
Speaker 1: tragedy that obviously has no connection to the tragedy or
Speaker 1: the politics. And also joining Alexandriacazio Cortez, a guy who
Speaker 1: the Democrats have a lot of hopes resting on. Beto O'Rourke.
Speaker 1: I want to call him Beto, so we can take
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson, beat it and do a parody. You know,
Speaker 1: Beto Beto. You know, we could do something with Beto Beto,
Speaker 1: but Beto Beto doesn't work. But Beto O'Rourke has already
Speaker 1: tried to politicize the death of this child. This is
Speaker 1: what he said today. Just tragic, and we're thinking about
Speaker 1: his family right now, just what they must be feeling
Speaker 1: to have lost their child on Christmas Day, to be
Speaker 1: in a strange country, not to know what's next for them.
Speaker 1: So we want to do everything we can to help
Speaker 1: that family. I've reached out to Customs and Border Protection
Speaker 1: to find out what happens and then what we can
Speaker 1: do to be helpful to the family. I'm still waiting
Speaker 1: to hear back from them. Yeah, you're going to politicize
Speaker 1: this because you want to be president. You want to
Speaker 1: run in twenty twenty, and so you're going to use
Speaker 1: every ever you can to bring up the children. And
Speaker 1: you know what's going to happen out of this. Here's
Speaker 1: the other shame of what's going to happen out of this.
Speaker 1: It's a horrible tragedy. This child died, and forever the
Speaker 1: parents will remember Christmas. Every time they celebrate Christmas, they're
Speaker 1: going to think about their child who passed away. That
Speaker 1: child had to be sick for some time. That child
Speaker 1: probably was sick over the entire course of their travel
Speaker 1: from Guatemala to the border in America. Really sick enough
Speaker 1: to die at a young age. It's a horrible situation.
Speaker 1: And as I said, mom and dad are going to
Speaker 1: remember it forever. Every Christmas there'll be an empty chair.
Speaker 1: But you know, there are millions of Americans, myself included,
Speaker 1: my family included, who've lost relatives on holidays, and every
Speaker 1: time that holiday comes around, it's hard not to think
Speaker 1: about that person. My dad passed away two years ago today,
Speaker 1: and Christmas is never the same when you lose a relative.
Speaker 1: So to politicize this, I think is offensive. But here's
Speaker 1: the other flip side of this, and Here's what I
Speaker 1: want you to pay attention to, because I guarantee you're
Speaker 1: going to see this happen. What happens now, What happens
Speaker 1: now to all the people coming across the border, all
Speaker 1: the people are demanding or asking for a style, And
Speaker 1: not just the people who break through illegally, but the
Speaker 1: people who go to the port of entry and fill
Speaker 1: out the paperwork and then want to have their case
Speaker 1: adjudicated before an immigration judge. What happens to them now?
Speaker 1: Because of this situation and the tragedy of the child
Speaker 1: who died a couple of weeks ago, to children in
Speaker 1: a month. Because of that, now we are going to
Speaker 1: be giving physicals virtually to every person who comes in.
Speaker 1: We used to check people at Ellis Island and the
Speaker 1: East Coast when people came to America. On the East Coast,
Speaker 1: we had the immigration processing station at Ellis Island where
Speaker 1: everybody went through, and in the early part of the
Speaker 1: twentieth century, because we were terrified of disease coming into
Speaker 1: this country or people bringing horrible diseases to this country
Speaker 1: east to kind of check them over and sometimes they'd
Speaker 1: be sent back. So if you didn't have the right paperwork,
Speaker 1: or your health was in question, you would not be
Speaker 1: let off Ellis Island and onto the American mainland. You
Speaker 1: would be sent home or you would maybe be put
Speaker 1: in a clinic there if your problem was minor. But
Speaker 1: now we're saying that the Customs and Border Patrol is
Speaker 1: going to have have to basically become a medical facility
Speaker 1: and these people are going to be getting free physicals. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm all happy that we're going to try and
Speaker 1: be good to people and take care of people, but
Speaker 1: what about the people here? Now? Are we going to
Speaker 1: be able to say that that we should be giving
Speaker 1: care to all those people too? Should everybody? This is
Speaker 1: another plea for medicare for all, And they're going to
Speaker 1: show you that people who are coming into the country
Speaker 1: are going to have to be given physicals. So why
Speaker 1: can't we be giving government physicals to everybody. It's a
Speaker 1: very slippery slope, and they're using the tragedy of this
Speaker 1: child to try to try and move their agenda forward
Speaker 1: yet again, yet again. So I just I just get
Speaker 1: so angry when I see Democrats doing this. They're taking
Speaker 1: a tragedy and politicizing it, and yet the people who
Speaker 1: are being victimized by these insensitive bastards. They will get
Speaker 1: no pushback. As a matter of fact, they'll be elevated.
Speaker 1: So that's my little rant on the border. I'm totally
Speaker 1: against this. And you know what this reminds me of.
Speaker 1: I wonder if John has this queued up. There was
Speaker 1: a time when Democrats did want the border protected because
Speaker 1: they realized that it was very expensive. It was really
Speaker 1: expensive to just open the borders and let people in.
Speaker 1: And it was back in the nineties that a senator,
Speaker 1: a Democratic senator, railed against what was happening on the
Speaker 1: borders in California, and in a debate as she was
Speaker 1: running for election, she brought up the reality, the fiscal
Speaker 1: reality of the borders. John, if you have the Diane
Speaker 1: Feinstein clip, go ahead and roll it here. I think
Speaker 1: we can enforce our borders. I think we should enforce
Speaker 1: our borders. To have a situation where forty percent of
Speaker 1: the baby's born on Medicaid in California today are born
Speaker 1: of illegal immigrants creates a very real problem for the state,
Speaker 1: which is in deficit finished of our prison population at
Speaker 1: a cost of three hundred million a year. The illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants who come here and commit felonies. That's not what
Speaker 1: this nation that will be twenty five years old next year.
Speaker 1: That clip Diane Feinstein, a Democratic Senator, talking about the
Speaker 1: fiscal impact and the impact that illegals make on the
Speaker 1: economy in California. You think three hundred million was probably
Speaker 1: drop in the bucket compared to the billions that are
Speaker 1: being spent now, the billions in medical education, welfare, everything
Speaker 1: that goes now in California. And the next thing that's
Speaker 1: going to happen is the vote. So just to understand
Speaker 1: that when a politician speaks left and right, they generally
Speaker 1: are saying whatever they have to say to get you
Speaker 1: to vote for them. Again, just throwing that out there, Feinstein,
Speaker 1: all of them and make me angry. Michael Pelka is
Speaker 1: sitting in for Buck Sexton. When we get back, I
Speaker 1: bring good news, people of Earth. There is a study
Speaker 1: that shows that alcohol and coffee can make you live
Speaker 1: past ninety Alcohol and coffee, people of Earth. Good news.
Speaker 1: And seventy percent of America had sex on Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: That's another one we have to get to and I'll
Speaker 1: try and dig deep into that. Michael Pelca, As I said,
Speaker 1: filling in for my friend Buck Sexton on the Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton Show, Bake news, make news, make news, make make
Speaker 1: make news. Yes it is fake news. I got caught
Speaker 1: dancing into the fake news theme. Michael pelc and for
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton on this day after Christmas, hope you had
Speaker 1: a merry Christmas. Hope you're making plans for a big
Speaker 1: new year, especially after a daylight we had today. You
Speaker 1: should feel good about what's going on in the world.
Speaker 1: You should feel good about I think the leadership that
Speaker 1: was on display since the government shutdown, since the shutdown,
Speaker 1: what is this day? Six now, since the government shutdown,
Speaker 1: the person who said I will take the mantle, Donald
Speaker 1: John Trump, stayed in DC. He was reportedly headed to
Speaker 1: Mara Lago for sixteen days. That's what CNN kept saying,
Speaker 1: sixteen days. He was going to go to Mara Lago
Speaker 1: and play golf while the government sat shut down. Twenty
Speaker 1: two percent of the government, so not really a big deal.
Speaker 1: And as we talked about earlier, the part of the
Speaker 1: government that actually pays people like the guy that runs
Speaker 1: the gift shop for the Kennedy Museum. That guy was
Speaker 1: going to get his fifty thousand dollars held back. Why
Speaker 1: are we paying somebody a gift shop fifty grand. I
Speaker 1: really want to know more about that story. But this
Speaker 1: is so irritating to me. I'm I'll get over it,
Speaker 1: I know. But Donald Trump did not leave the White House,
Speaker 1: and he tweeted up and down all over since then.
Speaker 1: He even sat with the First Lady and they took
Speaker 1: calls from kids who were waiting for Santa and wanting
Speaker 1: to track stuff. And there was more fake news about that.
Speaker 1: Did you see that story? That story needs to be
Speaker 1: explained as well. The President and the First Lady, for
Speaker 1: the second year in a row, sat and took phone
Speaker 1: calls from kids who were wanting to track Santa Claus.
Speaker 1: And the President talked to one seven year old and
Speaker 1: the media lost its mind, absolutely lost their mind because
Speaker 1: Donald Trump talking to this kid, said do you still
Speaker 1: believe in Santa? Because it's seven? It's marginal, right, And
Speaker 1: the media went absolutely banana bat crap crazy. I think
Speaker 1: I've got it here. We'll marry Christmas. So the President
Speaker 1: and the First later sit in front of a fire.
Speaker 1: Somebody screened a bunch of calls from kids calling Santa.
Speaker 1: And this is a young girl seven years old named
Speaker 1: Cole Coleman and the President says, Merry Christmas, Coleman and
Speaker 1: the kids, you know, answering and being very polite. The
Speaker 1: the media finally got the audio from the other side
Speaker 1: of the conversation, but this is what ticked them off
Speaker 1: so badly. How are you? How are you? How are
Speaker 1: you going? That's good? What a horrible man asking a child?
Speaker 1: Are you doing good in school? What a question? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he asked. How he's showing parental concern the kids talking
Speaker 1: about Santa? But now cookies, Well, you just so what
Speaker 1: you can't hear because the idiots in the press corps
Speaker 1: who keep taking pictures and don't the cameras have silent mode.
Speaker 1: You can put your camera in silent mode. And do
Speaker 1: you need fifty thousand pictures of the president doing the
Speaker 1: same thing he's talking on the phone anyway, he said,
Speaker 1: do you still believe in Santa? Because it's it's marginal
Speaker 1: at seven? Right, The media lost their mind. Kid didn't
Speaker 1: know what marginal meant. Everybody just calmed down. But we've
Speaker 1: got more on the President doing good things in the
Speaker 1: fake news media trying to destroy him. Coming up next
Speaker 1: on The Buck Section Show with Michael Pelka, Hanging Out
Speaker 1: with You come on back. Well, Buck does stop occasionally,
Speaker 1: like for holidays Or's birthday, which I think I think
Speaker 1: it's coming up Friday. I think Buck Sexton's birthday is
Speaker 1: this Friday. So we have to plan a special Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton birthday. What do you get the guy who has everything.
Speaker 1: He's got a TV show, he's got a radio show,
Speaker 1: he's got that hair. Maybe you get him. I know
Speaker 1: what you could get Buck Sexton. And this sounds like
Speaker 1: a suck up, and it is. You could download the
Speaker 1: podcast for that day. That would be a good thing.
Speaker 1: You could download the podcast today, you know, because of me.
Speaker 1: Michael Pelca hanging out in the Chicago Free Speech Bunker,
Speaker 1: the original home of the Puro Pelca Free Speech Bunker
Speaker 1: here in Chicago, Illinois. Happy to be here celebrate the
Speaker 1: holidays with my family. And boy, what a day. We
Speaker 1: woke up this morning and everybody was gonna we got
Speaker 1: to go back to work after Christmas. We had the
Speaker 1: horrible downturn in the market for the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: and that don't have the stock market jump one thousand
Speaker 1: and eighty three points today, an all time record. Amazing.
Speaker 1: We talked to Jonathan Honig, the Capitalist Pig about it
Speaker 1: last hour, and he was explaining that this is this
Speaker 1: is a good thing, but don't think we are out
Speaker 1: of the woods just yet. Don't think it's all clear.
Speaker 1: Because the economy has been so good for so long
Speaker 1: that we have to make sure that all the fundamentals
Speaker 1: stay fundamentally strong. And we had a great retail Christmas.
Speaker 1: You saw people like Walmart have a spike. You saw Amazon,
Speaker 1: which so a lot of retail business have a spike,
Speaker 1: and we hope those fundamentals stay strong. The President reportedly
Speaker 1: going to meet with the FED chairman when he gets
Speaker 1: back from his surprise visit to the troops, and maybe
Speaker 1: we'll have a little bit of a change in the
Speaker 1: FED policy. I don't think I don't think so the Fed.
Speaker 1: The FED was very aggressive this year trying to keep
Speaker 1: inflation in control, and they seem to have done that.
Speaker 1: And they've also said that next year, maybe two increases
Speaker 1: in the prime lending rate. We saw four this year,
Speaker 1: and that contributed somewhat to the slowdown in the market.
Speaker 1: But the market also is the market. Nothing goes up forever.
Speaker 1: So getting back to why the President won't meet with
Speaker 1: the FED chair until he gets back, because he went
Speaker 1: to Iraq in a super secret mission, and I was
Speaker 1: listening to some of his remarks to the troops while
Speaker 1: he was there. Let me give you just a little
Speaker 1: sample of what the President said while he was with
Speaker 1: our troops in Iraq surprise visit. America. Shouldn't be doing
Speaker 1: the fighting for every nation on Earth, not being reimbursed
Speaker 1: in many cases at all. If they want us to
Speaker 1: do the fighting, they also have to pay a price,
Speaker 1: and sometimes that's also a monetary price. So we're not
Speaker 1: the suckers of the world. See, I don't mind this.
Speaker 1: A lot of my friends who are uber liberals are
Speaker 1: upset with the president's tone. He went to visit the troops,
Speaker 1: he shook hands, he took pictures, he hung out, and
Speaker 1: then he gave a little speech. He laid out some policy.
Speaker 1: And I don't mind that at all. I don't mind
Speaker 1: the President of the United States saying, yeah, we're strong,
Speaker 1: and we'll try and take care of people and help
Speaker 1: people where we can, but you know, we don't want
Speaker 1: to be suckers. I think he was just fine. He
Speaker 1: added a little more, We're no longer the suckers, folks,
Speaker 1: and people aren't looking at us as suckers, and I
Speaker 1: love you folks because most of you are nodding your
Speaker 1: head this way. We're respected again. As a nation. We're
Speaker 1: respected again. America is safer and pieces more possible because
Speaker 1: of the incredible courage and devotion of every patriot here tonight.
Speaker 1: Some people say, well, maybe somebody comes from the area
Speaker 1: and they hit us on our homeland. If that happens,
Speaker 1: they will suffer consequences over here like nobody has ever
Speaker 1: suffered before. I don't mind that either. I don't mind
Speaker 1: the President of the United States telling our troops that
Speaker 1: if somebody comes and tries to do what was done
Speaker 1: to us on September eleventh, that we will come back
Speaker 1: and we will deliver a punch that is going to
Speaker 1: make anyone else think twice. Donald Trump's a counterpuncher. He's
Speaker 1: always said he was a counterpuncher, but this was this
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun, all right. A little bit
Speaker 1: more from the President, and I hope they hear that
Speaker 1: loud and clear. And that's not a threat. That's going
Speaker 1: to be a fact if anything should happen at all. Nope,
Speaker 1: that's that's not a threat, that's a fact. But he
Speaker 1: will ever have suffered the consequences that they will suffer.
Speaker 1: Just remember I said it. We will honor You're welcome.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. We will honor your service by doing everything
Speaker 1: in our power to defend our homeland and to stop
Speaker 1: terrors from entering America shores. And he's going to deliver
Speaker 1: a little bit of a message about the wall, and
Speaker 1: I like the too, and that includes strengthening of our borders.
Speaker 1: I don't know if your folks are aware of what's happening.
Speaker 1: We want to have strong borders in the United States,
Speaker 1: and Democrats don't want to let us have strong voters
Speaker 1: only for one reason, you know why, because I want it.
Speaker 1: He's not wrong. We played the clip from Diane Feinstein
Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety four where she talked about America protecting
Speaker 1: its borders and why we need to do it. We've
Speaker 1: played clips from Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton who all talked about and Barack Obama the need
Speaker 1: for strong borders. They've all voted for wall funding. But
Speaker 1: the only reason they don't want it now, the main
Speaker 1: reason is because of who's in the White House. If
Speaker 1: I said, you know, I think just standing here, look
Speaker 1: at it, all these brilliant young faces. These warriors. You warriors,
Speaker 1: you know you're modern day warriors. That's what you want.
Speaker 1: But you gave me an idea. Just look at it,
Speaker 1: this warrior group. I think I'll say I don't want
Speaker 1: the wall, and then they're going to give it to me.
Speaker 1: I figured out the solution first late. Yeah, he's gonna
Speaker 1: use a little reverse psychology. I love the fact that
Speaker 1: the president went to Iraq again. They pulled this off.
Speaker 1: I would love to get some inside perspective on this,
Speaker 1: and maybe we will in the last hour to give
Speaker 1: you an idea of just what it takes to pull
Speaker 1: off this mission and how much planning. Dana Perino said
Speaker 1: it was at least six weeks. Six weeks and they
Speaker 1: had to get all of the people who were involved
Speaker 1: in the pool, the pool reporters who would be going
Speaker 1: with to agree to be quiet the entire time. The
Speaker 1: fact that nothing leaked spectacular just amazing. The fact that
Speaker 1: the press is they're even more spectacular. But again, the
Speaker 1: fun part of this is looking at what MSNBC and
Speaker 1: the Huffington Post and other outlets have done just today
Speaker 1: talking about the fact that this was the first time
Speaker 1: any president since two thousand and two did not visit
Speaker 1: the troops. This is this is just a wonderful bit
Speaker 1: of schadenfreude to see these people being dragged through their
Speaker 1: own words. And I know, I know I'm not supposed
Speaker 1: to do it, but I'm reveling in seeing what idiots
Speaker 1: they turned out to be. All Right, we talked about idiots.
Speaker 1: Now we need to talk about some incredible people. I
Speaker 1: do have another idiot. To get to him, we will,
Speaker 1: we will get to the idiot who is Hank Johnson,
Speaker 1: because that relates to the border story. And we got
Speaker 1: to go back to the border story a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I want to get into a story, a good
Speaker 1: story about somebody who understands the real meaning of Christmas,
Speaker 1: someone who understands the meaning of sacrifice. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: a young man. And again, I give the millennials a
Speaker 1: hard time all the time. I'm sorry if you are
Speaker 1: a good millennial, but there are so many of your
Speaker 1: kind who gave us the man Bun and some of
Speaker 1: the other hipster crap that's out there. But in the
Speaker 1: case of Brady's singer, he was the eighteenth person taken
Speaker 1: in the recent Major League Baseball Draft, and he was
Speaker 1: a guy who a pitcher has yet to make it
Speaker 1: into the big leagues, but he signed a deal with
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Royals. He got a four point five
Speaker 1: million dollars signing bonus. And what did Brady Singer do
Speaker 1: with a signing bonus. Well, a letter that he wrote
Speaker 1: to his mom and dad explains everything. And you've probably
Speaker 1: seen it this because it's all over the media, but
Speaker 1: it's just spectacular. This is mom reading the letter from
Speaker 1: their child. Dear Mom and Dad, I just want to
Speaker 1: say thank you for everything you've done to help me
Speaker 1: reach my dreams from Woodley Field to Comton State. There's
Speaker 1: actually no way I could have done all this by myself.
Speaker 1: Both of you constantly took off of work and spent
Speaker 1: every dining day just to put my face my small
Speaker 1: appreciation for both of you has never stopped in it
Speaker 1: never will. I will always remember traveling around Forward for baseball,
Speaker 1: trying to chiefly eat and save money, but I never
Speaker 1: could because you both always wanted me to have the
Speaker 1: best stuff to help me pursue my dream. So that story,
Speaker 1: just that part of the story is gut wrenching enough
Speaker 1: and it makes your eyes water. I know I've got
Speaker 1: a little tear in my eye as this mom talks
Speaker 1: about their kid realizing everything they did from Little League
Speaker 1: to now Kaufman Stadium, where the Royals will play if
Speaker 1: he makes the team, and he probably will. The kid's
Speaker 1: a pretty good picture, but this letter, this letter explains
Speaker 1: that he gets what mom and dad have done and
Speaker 1: what so many moms and dads everywhere due for the kids.
Speaker 1: They do everything they can to make their kids have
Speaker 1: an incredible life. And now comes the gift. Let's film
Speaker 1: traveling at dear hotel, food and all those gayways I
Speaker 1: drank is much more than I could ever give you.
Speaker 1: But there's something I want to get to you. She's
Speaker 1: a little stunned at what she's reading and the kid
Speaker 1: is videotaping this. I am paying off the loom from
Speaker 1: the bank. Also, I paid off all your dad as well.
Speaker 1: What now Instead of trying to say money every weekend
Speaker 1: to replace the same as account you drained on towns
Speaker 1: the place, you can stick it on yourselves because you
Speaker 1: deserve the very best. I want you both to know
Speaker 1: how much I appreciate you and how none of this
Speaker 1: would be possible with does you're giving hearts help to
Speaker 1: shape my tiny dream into a reality. I love you
Speaker 1: both more than you could ever imagine and will never
Speaker 1: forget what you both have done. Ellet amazing, amazing, a
Speaker 1: young man on the cusp of success as a pro athlete.
Speaker 1: And we've seen it before, kids who buying their moms homes,
Speaker 1: but this is the moment when you get to see
Speaker 1: the parents' reaction. It's a great Christmas gift. If you
Speaker 1: haven't seen it, I've tweeted on the link to Brady's singer.
Speaker 1: It's b Singer fifty one on the Twitter. You should
Speaker 1: see it. Well done, sir, Well done. Michael pelc and
Speaker 1: for Buck Sexton. On The Buck Sexton Show, we got
Speaker 1: more of the politics and we're gonna put some fun
Speaker 1: at the media for the dumb things they did in
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. We'll dive into some of that next on
Speaker 1: The Buck Sexton Show. Michael Palcan for Buck Sexton. Buck
Speaker 1: is taking a little pet, a little personal time, and
Speaker 1: he's got a birthday coming up this Friday. I have
Speaker 1: no idea where he's going to be for his birthday,
Speaker 1: so don't ask me. I don't think there's a big party,
Speaker 1: you know, Buck, He'll do it quietly. I'm sure among
Speaker 1: the millions in NYC. If he were in Chicago, I
Speaker 1: would invite him to join me tonight. This was the
Speaker 1: weirdest thing I'm in Chicago, as I've mentioned before, hanging
Speaker 1: out with family and a few friends and staying at
Speaker 1: a hotel because I don't want any member of the
Speaker 1: family to feel jealous that I didn't stay stay at
Speaker 1: their house, so I just try and you know, don't
Speaker 1: show favorites. Also like hotels a lot. And I got
Speaker 1: up this morning and under the door of my hotel
Speaker 1: were two tickets to a concert that's going on tonight,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, wait a minute, what is this? And
Speaker 1: I look down in big bold letters on the ticket
Speaker 1: or bon Jovi, the Scorpions, Deaf Leopard and Poison. I'm thinking, wow,
Speaker 1: that's a big show, a tribute to eighties medal bon Jovi,
Speaker 1: the Scorpions, def Leopard and Poison. And something then is
Speaker 1: wrong with this, obviously, something very wrong with this. When
Speaker 1: you realize the word tribute, this means this is a
Speaker 1: bunch of tribute bands. So it's not gonna be like
Speaker 1: Deaf Leopard. It's gonna be like Fred Leopard or something,
Speaker 1: or Band Jovi. It won't be bon Jovis. This is
Speaker 1: a tribute bands. But why were these put under my door?
Speaker 1: Why have I been given a pair of tickets to
Speaker 1: an eighties hair band extravagance. I'm not going needless to say,
Speaker 1: but somebody will. I will get to the mainstream media's
Speaker 1: most embarrassing moments of the year. But I have to
Speaker 1: give you something that irritated me. We talked about politicizing
Speaker 1: tragedy and how Alexandria Kazu Cortez and Beto O'Rourke have
Speaker 1: already tried to do it. But Hank Johnson, congressman from
Speaker 1: the fourth District in Georgia, was trying to make a
Speaker 1: point with Secretary Nielsen, Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen last week
Speaker 1: when this exchange happened. How many children seventeen years old
Speaker 1: or younger have died in DHS ice or CBP custody
Speaker 1: since you took office. I will get back to you
Speaker 1: on that figure. What I can tell you is that
Speaker 1: we have saved four thousand, two hundred migrants who were
Speaker 1: out distressed. You literally, how many have died? I understand
Speaker 1: your question, stir, I will get back to you. Can
Speaker 1: you give me an approximate figure. I will get back
Speaker 1: to you. I'm not going to guess on I love
Speaker 1: Nielsen for saying this. I'm not going to give you
Speaker 1: an approximate, sir, not under oath. And this guy's just
Speaker 1: looking for some sort of gotcha moment, because that's what
Speaker 1: these hearings are about, both left and right. But this
Speaker 1: guy's adult. If you don't know who Hank Johnson is,
Speaker 1: he keeps getting reelected, especially after saying idiotic things like
Speaker 1: this about Guam. My fear is that the whole island
Speaker 1: will become so overly populated that it will tip over
Speaker 1: and cap size. We don't anticipate that. The Guam population
Speaker 1: I think currently about one hundred and seventy five. I
Speaker 1: love this admiral, just trying to give an answer to
Speaker 1: this idiot. What's dumber though, Hank Johnson, the guy who
Speaker 1: thinks Guam could flip over, or the people who keep
Speaker 1: reelecting him. Michael Pelkin from Johnson, Buck Johnson? Who's he?
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton? Come on back? It is the Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1: Michael Pelka sitting in for my friend Buck Sexton. Merry
Speaker 1: Christmas to you and yours. Hope you're ramping up for
Speaker 1: New Year's to the two of you in the country
Speaker 1: celebrating a happy quanza. You know, first day of quanza
Speaker 1: started nineteen sixty six. What a I'm not going to
Speaker 1: get into it. I have breaking news. Donald Trump lands
Speaker 1: at US base in Germany for refueling plans to meet
Speaker 1: troops station there. So not only did the President surprise
Speaker 1: us with a trip to Iraq and the visit with
Speaker 1: the troops, the President and the First Lady and their
Speaker 1: contingent have now landed in Germany and there will be
Speaker 1: another stop and another visit with the troops. I think
Speaker 1: that's spectacular and it's another finger in the eye of
Speaker 1: MSNBC NBC, The Huffington Post a Lissa Milano, my old
Speaker 1: buddy Mantel Williams, who all were crowing about this president
Speaker 1: hasn't visited the troops, the first president since two thousand
Speaker 1: and two not to visit the troops. Well we've changed
Speaker 1: that one, haven't we. So good for you, mister president.
Speaker 1: Good for you. And also today what a remarkable day
Speaker 1: the president seeing the market sort of rebound. Now will
Speaker 1: the stock market continue? Is this the base? Did we
Speaker 1: finally have a bottom in the market that we saw
Speaker 1: firm up today. A thousand point jump today, one thousand
Speaker 1: point rise, a record setting in any single day. This
Speaker 1: is the most and it's got to be killing people
Speaker 1: who were counting on the market. And imagine people for
Speaker 1: the stock market to tank, Imagine people there are because
Speaker 1: there are people who dislike this president so much that
Speaker 1: they want the stock market to take a giant dump
Speaker 1: and basically kill the retirement of so many millions of Americans.
Speaker 1: Just insanity, But that's where we are with Trump arrangement syndrome.
Speaker 1: So I hope this is the sign the markets firming up.
Speaker 1: If you read the Wall Street Journal, and you should,
Speaker 1: by the way, it's not just about the stock market.
Speaker 1: I think some of the stuff in the Wall Street
Speaker 1: Journal is the best reporting on every topic you could want,
Speaker 1: from movies, food and just crazy stories that you never
Speaker 1: hear about in mainstream media. But the market. It is
Speaker 1: a reflection of what we read about in the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal the last couple of days, saying that the
Speaker 1: retail environment is so strong, the underlying fundamentals of the
Speaker 1: retail environment were driving a lot of what happened on
Speaker 1: Wall Street today. So good, good for you, Wall Street,
Speaker 1: Good for you. American economy and ha ha to all
Speaker 1: the people who are pooh pooing what America's economy is doing.
Speaker 1: So I'm very happy about that. By the way, there
Speaker 1: are pictures coming out now and this has got to
Speaker 1: kill CNN too. CNN is being forced to show troops
Speaker 1: bringing Trump hats to have the President signed their hats.
Speaker 1: But what does CNN do instead of focusing on the
Speaker 1: fact that the President made this giant secret trip to
Speaker 1: the Middle East to Iraq to support our troops and
Speaker 1: have the First Lady with him, And they're showing pictures
Speaker 1: of the troops holding up the hats that they brought,
Speaker 1: the make America Great hats, the red hats you know
Speaker 1: we're talking about, and he's signing some of the hats
Speaker 1: for some of these soldiers, volunteers, I might remind you,
Speaker 1: people who are away from their families, their wives, their girlfriends,
Speaker 1: their boyfriends, their babies, putting their butts on the line.
Speaker 1: And what does CNN focus on. Donald Trump made his
Speaker 1: first visit to a war zone, received an enthusiastic reception,
Speaker 1: and some of these soldiers may have violated military rules
Speaker 1: by asking the President to sign their Trump hats. What
Speaker 1: is wrong with you, CNN, You are a giant Agua
Speaker 1: Fiesta says we used to call people in Texas. You
Speaker 1: are a giant wet blanket. Presidents signing Make America Great
Speaker 1: Again hats an embroidered patch that reads twenty twenty. Will
Speaker 1: the DoD actually get upset about this? He's your president,
Speaker 1: he's their commander, and you've already got retired Rear Admiral
Speaker 1: John Kirby, who was on CNN all the time saying,
Speaker 1: this is a campaign slogan, it's a campaign item. It's
Speaker 1: completely inappropriate for troops to do this. Give me a break.
Speaker 1: I rolled my eyes so far back I saw my
Speaker 1: own brain when I read this. Thank you Kirby, you
Speaker 1: toad and CNN. Is this transitions into my take on
Speaker 1: the mainstream media. The mainstream media in twenty eighteen embarrass themselves,
Speaker 1: embarrass themselves beyond belief. And so I combed through my files,
Speaker 1: my audio files to find what I considered me the
Speaker 1: tip five most embarrassing moments of the mainstream media from
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and I compiled them here for you, and
Speaker 1: I will count them backwards from number five to number
Speaker 1: one for you, and maybe even do it in Casey
Speaker 1: case in fashion is the late Casey Casum would have done.
Speaker 1: I made a fortune counting backwards. So you may disagree
Speaker 1: with me, you may agree with me, but we will
Speaker 1: focus on the mainstream media. I will get to wag
Speaker 1: my finger at them and say, shame on you, you toads.
Speaker 1: So coming in at number five is the mainstream media
Speaker 1: says obsession with what they believe are bombshell reports that
Speaker 1: they hope will sink the president. Here's number five, a
Speaker 1: bombshell report. This is a bombshell, This is a bombshell.
Speaker 1: This bombshell dropped the bombshell, and the dropped the bombshell,
Speaker 1: the bombshell. That's a bombshell. Now this latest bombshell out
Speaker 1: that bombshow accusation, bombshell accusation? That was the bombshell I
Speaker 1: could have used in conjunction with bombshell. Also, the walls
Speaker 1: are caving in or this is the beginning of the end.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many times bombshell report was
Speaker 1: joined by the walls are caving in or the beginning
Speaker 1: of the end. And yet here we are two years
Speaker 1: into the presidency. And some of those came from early
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, right after the inauguration, a bombshell report, another
Speaker 1: Bombshow well, if you thought that was an embarrassing moment,
Speaker 1: the mainstream media was tripping all over itself all last
Speaker 1: year to try and elevate the status of one of
Speaker 1: the weasleyest characters I think I've ever seen in the
Speaker 1: political spectrum, the guy who managed to corral Stormy Daniels
Speaker 1: and represent her in her efforts to go after Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: and then he also tried to take down Judge Kavanaugh
Speaker 1: before he became Justice Kavanaugh. Of course, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the one, the only, the super slimy Michael Avanati. So
Speaker 1: coming in at number four and the media's most embarrassing
Speaker 1: moments of twenty eighteen, here's the Abanati factor. Hid your children,
Speaker 1: hid your loved ones. You know. My first guest tonight
Speaker 1: from television, please welcome Michael Avanati. Joining me now is
Speaker 1: Froming Daniels attorney, Michael Avanti. Michael Avanati is with us now.
Speaker 1: Michael Avanati joins us now. Now we've got the man
Speaker 1: who put her in front of the cameras, her attorney,
Speaker 1: Michael Avanati, and join I mean now from Los Angeles
Speaker 1: is Michael Avanati. Michael Avanati, Michael the guy was given
Speaker 1: more free media time by every single liberal outlet, everyone,
Speaker 1: and it was relentless. As long as he could fight
Speaker 1: some kind of smear that they could slap on the president,
Speaker 1: they were willing to forgive whatever Michael Avenati was really
Speaker 1: all about. And after the Kavanaugh stuff, I think that
Speaker 1: was his downfall. We hear reportedly Avanati had to sell
Speaker 1: his ferrari in order to pay off his considerable debts.
Speaker 1: And then there were the allegations of domestic abuse. So
Speaker 1: I don't know where those stand right now, so it
Speaker 1: won't comment on those. But the fact that this guy
Speaker 1: went from slimy lawyer to actual twenty twenty Democratic possible
Speaker 1: nominee is beyond embarrassing to the mainstream media. But that
Speaker 1: was only number four. Moving up a notch to number
Speaker 1: three is the relentless character assassination that the mainstream media
Speaker 1: tried to slap on the President of the United States.
Speaker 1: And it really was relentless. It was it was ridiculous,
Speaker 1: It was non stop. They went after every single kind
Speaker 1: of slam or insult they could. And so at number
Speaker 1: three for twenty eighteenth most embarrassing Moments, from the mainstream media.
Speaker 1: Here's the media attacking the president. It's obviously racist, he's
Speaker 1: obviously demagogue. He obviously condones anti Semitism. That's what happened
Speaker 1: in Nazi Germany. It's not even a question of whether
Speaker 1: it's presidential behavior or not. It's not minimally human behavior.
Speaker 1: This has now become a struggle about good versus evil,
Speaker 1: and the President of the United States is evil. Howard Dean.
Speaker 1: The last voice you heard there was former DNC chair
Speaker 1: and governor Howard Dean calling the President of the United
Speaker 1: States evil. And as you hear that, as you are
Speaker 1: hearing that news, the president is on a very difficult trip.
Speaker 1: He and the First Lady took from the United States
Speaker 1: to Iraq to visit our troops, and then now they're
Speaker 1: in Germany refueling, stopping and visiting the troops again after
Speaker 1: they spent time working all through the Christmas holiday, while
Speaker 1: Chuck and Nancy Chancy as we call them, and all
Speaker 1: the Democrats went home, and Howard Dean, the guy who
Speaker 1: remembers scuttled his own political career with this scream after
Speaker 1: a win. I think in Iowa that primal scream killed
Speaker 1: Howard Dean's political career, and now he's out there saying
Speaker 1: the President of the United States is the evil evil.
Speaker 1: But you know what the media considers now worse than
Speaker 1: President Trump. This is remarkable to me, the mainstream media
Speaker 1: and the second most embarrassing moments from twenty eighteen. It's
Speaker 1: in a montage where we had the mainstream media deciding,
Speaker 1: if they can't have a bombshell walls caving in beginning
Speaker 1: of the end attack on the president, if Michael Avanadi
Speaker 1: can't bring him down, if they can't call him a racist, misogynist,
Speaker 1: whatever else they called him, If that can't bring him down,
Speaker 1: then they have to turn their laser weapons on you
Speaker 1: and I are anyone who voted for the president. The
Speaker 1: second most embarrassing moment in the media, the mainstream media
Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen, to least for me, was when the
Speaker 1: media decided that you and I were the problem. At
Speaker 1: number two, here's the mainstream media embarrassing itself by calling
Speaker 1: us Trump voters evil. We can no longer say Trump's
Speaker 1: the bad guy. If you vote for Trump, you're the
Speaker 1: bad guy. Tens of millions of people voted for him.
Speaker 1: Are you suggesting that they're racist? Or there. Yes, the
Speaker 1: people who vote all the people who vote for truer. Yes,
Speaker 1: if you vote for Trump, then you the voter, You
Speaker 1: not Donald Trump, are standing at the border like Nazis.
Speaker 1: Those people who are supporting what he's doing here are racist,
Speaker 1: period period. Thank you meathead. That was Rob Reiner, director
Speaker 1: Rob Reiner, saying that anybody who voted for Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is racist, period. Second most embarrassing group of media moments
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Speaker 1: Michael Pelke in for my buddy Buck Sexton. Michael Palke
Speaker 1: here for Buck Sexton. Tonight on the night after Christmas,
Speaker 1: hope you had a great Christmas. Hope you had a
Speaker 1: great holiday so far, and that the new year is
Speaker 1: going to bring you prosperity and joy and happiness. We've
Speaker 1: been talking about all the news of the day, including
Speaker 1: the breaking news of the President's surprise trip to the
Speaker 1: troops in Iraq and now in Germany, and just the
Speaker 1: remarkable day on Wall Street with the record setting bump
Speaker 1: of a thousand and eighty three points. Today huge and
Speaker 1: last break. We were beginning our countdown of the top
Speaker 1: five most embarrassing moments in the media of twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: and there have been a lot, but we had a
Speaker 1: montage of the mainstream media obsessed with saying a bombshell
Speaker 1: report about Donald Trump, a bombshell from the mullarca bombshell,
Speaker 1: And then we heard about the way they constantly talk
Speaker 1: about the beginning of the end, and the walls are
Speaker 1: closing in and this is all falling apart. It's just
Speaker 1: a maddening And at number four was Michael Levanatti the
Speaker 1: elevation of this. He would be what we would have
Speaker 1: called an ambulance chaser in the past, an attorney who
Speaker 1: just chases up sleazy cases. And he actually was given
Speaker 1: serious consideration as a twenty twenty presidential candidate for the Democrats,
Speaker 1: saying he's got to be the guy who's not afraid
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump. And a number three the mainstream it
Speaker 1: is constant denigration of the president, saying he's a racist, misogynist,
Speaker 1: all the stuff that just doesn't have any backup to it.
Speaker 1: Number two, the mainstream media went after you and went
Speaker 1: after me because they couldn't take down the president. Their
Speaker 1: attacks were falling short, so now they focused on isolating
Speaker 1: you and I and saying that anybody who voted for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was a racist. This is pure Saul Olinsky.
Speaker 1: Go and get Rules for Radicals and over the break
Speaker 1: reread Rules for Radicals. You'll see how the left uses
Speaker 1: all this perfect Olinsky tactics. At least they're trying to
Speaker 1: use it that way. But the number one most offensive
Speaker 1: media moment came from a CNN host who I watch
Speaker 1: just because I want to see how ridiculous he is
Speaker 1: and I want to call him out when his Bravo
Speaker 1: Sierra needs to be called out. And so this is
Speaker 1: my number one pick for the mainstream media's most embarrassing
Speaker 1: moment of twenty eighteen. It comes from a guy who
Speaker 1: has his own show and is paid just a ton
Speaker 1: of money to host a nightly show on CNN. It
Speaker 1: comes from the one and only Don Lemon at number
Speaker 1: one with the most embarrassing media moment of twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: Here's Don Lemon. The biggest terror threat in this country
Speaker 1: is white men. Most of them radicalize to the right,
Speaker 1: and we have to start doing something about them. Wait
Speaker 1: what bla blah blah blah. The most the biggest threat
Speaker 1: to America is white men. Radicalized white men is the
Speaker 1: biggest threat and most of them have been radicalized, and
Speaker 1: that we have to do something about them. What what?
Speaker 1: What would you have us do? Don Lemon? What would
Speaker 1: you have us do? This? I remind you of the
Speaker 1: same down Lemon, who on New Year's Eve gets hammered
Speaker 1: on CNN. Gone gone again, Man, you look very handsome.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year to go. Hey, we hope so. Don
Speaker 1: Lemon's hammered on CNN every New Year's Eve and he
Speaker 1: gets to do his job while he's drunk, and he's
Speaker 1: allowed to say that the biggest problem in America are
Speaker 1: the white males. Something to remember about Don Lemon. His
Speaker 1: boyfriend who we met last year is a white male.
Speaker 1: Don Lemon, are you doing something about that? It's so embarrassing.
Speaker 1: I gotta take a break. Come on back, Michael Pelka
Speaker 1: and for Buck Sexton on The Buck Sexton Show. And
Speaker 1: I'm holding the line for Buck. Michael Pelka is back
Speaker 1: for Buck, who's got a little break going on leading
Speaker 1: up to his birthday Friday. Good for you, Happy birthday, Buck,
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to you, Merry Christmas to everybody, and hopefully
Speaker 1: the new year will bring us more of the feelings
Speaker 1: we had today. Today was a terrific day. Day after Christmas,
Speaker 1: back to work, dreading what could be? You know, another
Speaker 1: bad day on Wall Street and we have a record setter.
Speaker 1: We had a miraculous day today and then the news
Speaker 1: of the President going to visit our troops overseas in
Speaker 1: a secret mission, and now after visiting the troops in
Speaker 1: iraqis in Germany. So a great day, a great day
Speaker 1: all around for America. So God bless us and thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. It's important to be thankful. I realized that
Speaker 1: more and more, and it doesn't cost you anything to
Speaker 1: be thankful and grateful. I mentioned earlier a couple of
Speaker 1: things that caught my eye, and I've been yammering on
Speaker 1: some topics for so long, I don't know if I'll
Speaker 1: get to everything. But I did say that alcohol and
Speaker 1: coffee can help you live past ninety according to a
Speaker 1: new study. Researchers say they found people who drink moderate
Speaker 1: amounts of beer or wine along with two cups of
Speaker 1: coffee increased their chances for a longer life. So you
Speaker 1: can have a couple of cups of coffee and moderate
Speaker 1: amounts of beer or wine. I've got you covered on this,
Speaker 1: except they don't drink coffee. The key word, of course,
Speaker 1: is modern. And they called this study which has been
Speaker 1: going on since two thousand and three, and they've been
Speaker 1: examining people who are ninety years old nonagenarians. Seventeen hundred
Speaker 1: nonagenarians have been monitored since two thousand and three trying
Speaker 1: to find the key to living to a ninetieth birthday
Speaker 1: and beyond. And they found, among other things, that people
Speaker 1: who drank moderate amounts of alcohol or coffee lived longer
Speaker 1: than those who abstained. And they also found that people
Speaker 1: who were overweight in their seventies lived longer than normal
Speaker 1: or underweight people did. So isn't that a little bit comforting?
Speaker 1: Everybody's got a couple extra pounds. I know the year
Speaker 1: was so busy, you didn't have time to lose ten pounds.
Speaker 1: But they don't have an explanation for it yet. But
Speaker 1: the one of the researchers, doctor Cluttie Cowis, a key
Speaker 1: researcher in the study, said that she firmly believes that
Speaker 1: modest drinking improves longevity. They found that two glasses of
Speaker 1: beer wine every day decrease the chances of premature death
Speaker 1: by eighteen percent. Now I get a lot of heat
Speaker 1: because I openly admit to drinking wine virtually every day.
Speaker 1: I don't drink to excess, I don't drink to get drunk.
Speaker 1: I enjoy a glass of wine or two and sometimes
Speaker 1: a third. And I promote responsible drinking and not drinking
Speaker 1: and driving. But this is good news. They still say
Speaker 1: exercise is good and I agree. I think you have
Speaker 1: to be able to endure your life, not just to
Speaker 1: sit there like a blob. But alcohol and coffee now
Speaker 1: being we are now being told alcohol and coffee can
Speaker 1: lead you to a beyond the age of ninety and
Speaker 1: even a couple of extra pounds. This, I bring good
Speaker 1: news from the world of Sid's people. This fantastic news.
Speaker 1: Now this other study, I mentioned it earlier. They claimed
Speaker 1: seventy percent of the people in the country adults, seventy
Speaker 1: percent of the people in the country had conjugal relations
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day. I thought about this and I said, now,
Speaker 1: how did they get this figure? How did they get
Speaker 1: to this? Well, they used a couple of things to
Speaker 1: figure it out. One is births babies. They tracked when
Speaker 1: babies were born, and they back timed it basically. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've done this, but as one
Speaker 1: of nine kids, I know that we have in over
Speaker 1: the course of the years, tried to figure out when
Speaker 1: we were created, at what point where each one of
Speaker 1: us the spark of our lives started. So they go
Speaker 1: back from birth months from August and September, and those
Speaker 1: seem to have a corresponding relationship to this study of
Speaker 1: Americans being frisky during the winter months, especially during the
Speaker 1: holiday season, when cuddling is very very much a part
Speaker 1: of our culture. And they are now saying, according to
Speaker 1: this survey, which does come from a company that oddly
Speaker 1: enough makes its money by selling what we would call
Speaker 1: adult devices, but they're saying Eden Fantasies put together this
Speaker 1: study in the statistics that say seventy percent of adults
Speaker 1: claimed they had sex on Christmas Day, I'm questioning their facts,
Speaker 1: just saying I'm not sure if that's completely accurate. Also,
Speaker 1: I'm here in Chicago, and one of the big news
Speaker 1: stories today in Chicago, there's two news stories that involve
Speaker 1: the Windy City here. One of them talks about the
Speaker 1: planned January nineteenth Women's March, which has now been scuttled.
Speaker 1: Chicago had set up plans for yet another annual women's march,
Speaker 1: and they're canceling this one. The save the date card
Speaker 1: you got is invalid. Take it off the fridge. Go
Speaker 1: to the Facebook page of the Women's March in Chicago
Speaker 1: if you want to see what happened. Now, Why why
Speaker 1: was this march, which has had hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: women attend in the past. Why was this cancel. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's a little problem with the leaders of the march.
Speaker 1: Sarah Kerensky, the Women's March Chicago board member, says, there's
Speaker 1: no march, there's no route. We're going to provide ways
Speaker 1: for people to organize and take action in their local communities.
Speaker 1: The problem is members of the Women's March are associated
Speaker 1: with bad people, people like, Oh, I don't know, Louis Farrakhan,
Speaker 1: one of the biggest antisemites on the planet, a guy
Speaker 1: whose organization, the Nation of Islam, openly hates Jews. And
Speaker 1: when you talk about Judaism as a gutter religion and
Speaker 1: you talk about the Jews as the enemy of you,
Speaker 1: I got a problem with that, Minister Farrakhan. So the
Speaker 1: Women's March, which has some people who are associated with
Speaker 1: Louis Farrakhan, and they've been asked, some of the women
Speaker 1: have been asked to resign and they haven't. They've been
Speaker 1: asked to resign over the relationship with Farrakhan, a really
Speaker 1: bad guy, and yet they wouldn't. So the Women's March
Speaker 1: got heat here in Chicago and they've canceled it. The
Speaker 1: other woman who's involved with this women's march, Linda Sarsour,
Speaker 1: who I think is a dangerous individual. She's someone who
Speaker 1: would support sharia law. She's a woman. You've seen her
Speaker 1: with the head scarf. I saw her rallying in the DC.
Speaker 1: I was in the Senate building covering the women's me
Speaker 1: two angry moments inside the Senate building during the Kavanaugh hearing,
Speaker 1: said Linda Sarsour was there rallying the sisters against Kavanaugh's nomination.
Speaker 1: She's someone who has campaigned for people who support sharia
Speaker 1: law in America, people in Michigan who were running for office.
Speaker 1: Thank god they didn't win. And I would tend to
Speaker 1: believe that Sarceur is probably somebody who does not have
Speaker 1: a problem with female genital mutilation. I haven't had a
Speaker 1: chance to ask her that question, but I seem to
Speaker 1: recall there may have been a memory about that. But
Speaker 1: Chicago's the other thing about the women's march, the Chicago's
Speaker 1: Women's March that's been canceled January nineteenth. If you had
Speaker 1: plans to be in Chicago, I hope you bought the
Speaker 1: travel insurance. It's worth it. Sometimes. But here's the question
Speaker 1: I have. I grew up in Chicago, I was born
Speaker 1: and raised on the South side of the city. Still
Speaker 1: a Bear fan, still a White Sox fan, not so
Speaker 1: much a Bulls fan anymore. And I support my Chicago Blackhawks,
Speaker 1: even though we kind of stink on ice this year.
Speaker 1: But I know the city. I don't know who in
Speaker 1: the right mind would plan a rally in January. Who
Speaker 1: would put a rally on the lake front on January nineteenth?
Speaker 1: Who would do that? What kind of an idiot says,
Speaker 1: you know it would be smart. Let's all get together
Speaker 1: and stand on the lake front in the middle of
Speaker 1: January in Chicago. That's just stupid. So maybe they're changing
Speaker 1: it because of that, but it really has more to
Speaker 1: do with the fact that they were getting tremendous pushback
Speaker 1: against their movement and this rally because of Louis Farrakon,
Speaker 1: because of some of the bad people they are associated with,
Speaker 1: and I, for one, I'm glad to see that they're
Speaker 1: actually having to shut it down. The other thing in
Speaker 1: Chicago that happened I mentioned this earlier today. The Chicago
Speaker 1: mayoral candidate, a guy who was Barack Obama's one time
Speaker 1: Chief of staff Bill Daily. Harry he was a senior
Speaker 1: advisor to the president. Bill Daily relative of the Daily family,
Speaker 1: that basically it was run Chicago for decades. A couple
Speaker 1: of other people jumped in here and there, but Mayor
Speaker 1: Richard D. Jay Daily and his son both ran this
Speaker 1: city for I think it was over twenty five years each.
Speaker 1: But Bill Daily has now put his name in the
Speaker 1: list of people who want to run for the mayor's
Speaker 1: office in Chicago, and he has suggested that they rename
Speaker 1: a portion of the Dan Ryan Expressway as the Barack
Speaker 1: Obama Expressway. Now there are problems already because Chicago already
Speaker 1: has part of ninety five called the Barack Obama Highway,
Speaker 1: and Dan Ryan, the guy that the road was named after,
Speaker 1: was a key player in the interstate highway system development.
Speaker 1: So the Dan Ryan family's mad about this. And there
Speaker 1: are people saying there are actually people who like Barack Obama,
Speaker 1: who say, well, wait a minute, and if you want
Speaker 1: to know more of the details on it. Our friend
Speaker 1: Emily Zanati of The Daily Wire has written up the
Speaker 1: story about the problems with us. But she points out
Speaker 1: the back in October, the Dan Ryan, which would then
Speaker 1: be called the Barack Obama Highway was the scene of
Speaker 1: at least four shootings. Four shootings in October, at least
Speaker 1: one of the person in that round of shootings died.
Speaker 1: In August, two men were shot and one was killed
Speaker 1: on the Dan Ryan, and in just the last week,
Speaker 1: two men have been shot on the Dan Ryan. I
Speaker 1: don't know if Obama wants this road named after him.
Speaker 1: I just remember as a kid growing up driving from
Speaker 1: the South Side to the North Side and back to
Speaker 1: visit relatives. My father often called it the damn Ryan Expressway.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the appropriate name for this highway. Michael Pelka
Speaker 1: stepping aside when we get back after to tell you
Speaker 1: the story of the two million dollar bathroom in New
Speaker 1: York City. It's just craziness. It's the Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1: Come on back, Michael Pelka in for Bucks Sexton, wrapping
Speaker 1: up what has been a blink of an eye. I
Speaker 1: love the way the show moves, and I I wish
Speaker 1: we had the ability to have included your calls today.
Speaker 1: We had a few problems technically, but we got through it.
Speaker 1: I didn't get to the weird story about Kevin spacing
Speaker 1: that video he posted after being charged with indecent assault,
Speaker 1: indecent sexual assault, and battery. I didn't get to the
Speaker 1: story of Barbie apparently has gotten chunky or maybe more realistic,
Speaker 1: and I think that's okay. Didn't get to the story
Speaker 1: about how the networks are promoting an eleven year old
Speaker 1: dancing in bars and getting money thrown at the child. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's okay if the kid's trance, But can you imagine
Speaker 1: eleven year old girl dancing in a gentleman's club. There
Speaker 1: would be appropriate outrage, just as there should be in
Speaker 1: this case. But no, we're going to promote it because
Speaker 1: it's a trans kid who dresses and drag. It's disgusting.
Speaker 1: And then I want to give a salute out to
Speaker 1: John Stossel, who's always out there digging. And John Stossel
Speaker 1: has a report that he has posted on YouTube about
Speaker 1: the two million dollars bathroom in a park in New York.
Speaker 1: Not in Central Park, but I think this is one
Speaker 1: of the outer boroughs. I'll give you a little surprise,
Speaker 1: a little sample here here it is this little building
Speaker 1: is a two million dollars bathroom. Two million dollars. I
Speaker 1: had to check it out. I was expecting gold plated fixtures.
Speaker 1: It's just a toilet, a couple of eurolds, two sinks.
Speaker 1: Two million dollars. Two million dollars was spent on this
Speaker 1: building in New York. Two million dollars on a tiny building.
Speaker 1: And if you bought a home in the neighborhood in
Speaker 1: this little part of New York it looks like Brooklyn
Speaker 1: or Queens, you could buy a four bedroom, two bathroom
Speaker 1: house for six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And Stossel
Speaker 1: tried to find out why why this costs so much.
Speaker 1: What he found out was kind of astonishing. Thing costs
Speaker 1: more when government builds it. Washington, DC's Visitor Center was
Speaker 1: supposed to cost two hundred and sixty five million. It
Speaker 1: ended up costing six hundred million. The Veterans Affair Medical
Speaker 1: Center and your Denver was projected to cost five hundred
Speaker 1: ninety million. Now they estimate one point seven billion. Government
Speaker 1: spends more because every decision is tied up in endless rules,
Speaker 1: minority outreach, wheelchair access, zoning rule, and much more. Your
Speaker 1: department puts out a statement the current estimate to build
Speaker 1: a new bathroom is three million dollars. It is now
Speaker 1: approaching in some case is going over three million, Mitchell Silvers.
Speaker 1: It's just disgusting when you see what goes on. And
Speaker 1: Stossel points out that a private partnership in Bryant Park,
Speaker 1: which runs that park in Midtown Manhattan, rebuilt bathrooms for
Speaker 1: under half a million dollars. But no, this tiny structure,
Speaker 1: this little bitty basic industrial bathroom, costs the taxpayers of
Speaker 1: New York two million, and another one will cost them
Speaker 1: three to four million. You should check out John stossel stuff.
Speaker 1: It's brilliant. It's brilliant. Also, if you're interested in World
Speaker 1: War One and you're a historian, look up Peter Jackson,
Speaker 1: the guy who did The Lord of the Rings and
Speaker 1: all those movies. He has a movie coming out one
Speaker 1: day only tomorrow. He's taken old footage from World War One,
Speaker 1: colorized it and hired people to do lip reading and
Speaker 1: get the real story of the soldiers from World War One.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be covering it and will be reporting
Speaker 1: on it as well. And so I thank you for
Speaker 1: being with me tonight on a special night where we
Speaker 1: mark the anniversary of the guy who taught me about
Speaker 1: free speech. My dad, f Gregory Opelka, passed away two
Speaker 1: years ago. Today taught me that after the First Amendment,
Speaker 1: everything else comes. Second. Test studo, my friends, test studo