WEBVTT - Guest Host: Mike Opelka

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<v Speaker 1>This is the Buck Sexton Show, where the mission or

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<v Speaker 1>mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence.

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<v Speaker 1>Make no mistake, American, You're a great American. Again the

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<v Speaker 1>Buck Sexton Show begins. No test studio, my friends, test Studo,

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<v Speaker 1>Michael Palka here, and actually I'm not in the Freedom

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<v Speaker 1>Hut as who were. I am filling in for Buck

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<v Speaker 1>Sexton today happily, So Merry Christmas to those of you

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<v Speaker 1>who celebrate the day after this Boxing Day. I am

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<v Speaker 1>coming to you from the original Free Speech Bunker in Chicago, Illinois.

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<v Speaker 1>I am in home, home base, visiting family and friends

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<v Speaker 1>and honoring the memory of my dad, who passed two

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<v Speaker 1>years ago today. But I'm here with you to celebrate

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<v Speaker 1>the holidays, to celebrate a miraculous day, one of the

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<v Speaker 1>most amazing days on record, one of the most amazing

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<v Speaker 1>days in my mind, at least. I woke up this

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<v Speaker 1>morning and I was like, oh, Christmas was great, but

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<v Speaker 1>you know, we've still got some problems. We have the

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<v Speaker 1>story that broke on Christmas Day of the tragedy of

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<v Speaker 1>the young child from Guatemala who entered this country so

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<v Speaker 1>deathly ill that even American medicine could not save the child.

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<v Speaker 1>What a terrible tragedy. This young boy died after his

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<v Speaker 1>parents took him what hundreds thousands of miles from Guatemala

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<v Speaker 1>through Central America, up through Mexico to America, and the

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<v Speaker 1>kid was so sick that when we finally noticed it

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<v Speaker 1>and saw how bad the fever was, this child could

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<v Speaker 1>not be saved by the great American medicine. A tragedy. Indeed,

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<v Speaker 1>now we're going to see this being used as a

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<v Speaker 1>political weapon against Donald Trump. Twice in the last month,

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<v Speaker 1>we have had children die and but for the actions

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<v Speaker 1>of the parents, those children would be alive today. But

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<v Speaker 1>it's a tragedy, nonetheless. So I feel terrible for that

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<v Speaker 1>family and a terrible loss of life. But it wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>our fault. It's not our problem, folks. And if you're

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<v Speaker 1>going to try and pin this on Donald Trump and

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<v Speaker 1>his policies, you're doing the wrong thing. And speaking of

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<v Speaker 1>the president, our president, my president, your president, not Hillary Clinton.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you Jesus. Donald Trump was missing today, missing an action.

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<v Speaker 1>It was like, wow, why isn't he tweeting? He was

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<v Speaker 1>tweeting up a storm over the weekend. He worked while chancey.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what we call Chuck and Nancy. While Chancy went

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<v Speaker 1>home during the government shutdown, Donald Trump stayed in the

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<v Speaker 1>White House. Donald Trump stayed in the White House and

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<v Speaker 1>worked as much as he could. There were plans happening

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<v Speaker 1>about a meeting with North Korea, despite the fact that

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<v Speaker 1>North Korea is not behaving really well these days. There

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<v Speaker 1>were discussions. There was a call to the troops in fact,

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<v Speaker 1>and NBC and MSNBC and Huffington Post couldn't wait to

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<v Speaker 1>go after Donald Trump would say, it's the first time

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<v Speaker 1>since two thousand and two a city president hasn't visited

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<v Speaker 1>the troops at this point, and his president says, he's awful.

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<v Speaker 1>Our troops deserve better. And then shortly thereafter, we heard

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<v Speaker 1>about a mission, an amazing mission, possibly six weeks in

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<v Speaker 1>the making. If you listen to a person who would

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<v Speaker 1>know about these things, Dana Perrino over at Fox News

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<v Speaker 1>what First of all, what a class act Dana Perino is.

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<v Speaker 1>But Pairinho explained today on the Five that in order

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<v Speaker 1>to do what the President and First Lady and their

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<v Speaker 1>team did today, it takes weeks and weeks and weeks

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<v Speaker 1>of planning, and it also takes a lot of secrecy.

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<v Speaker 1>What am I talking about talking about the President going

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<v Speaker 1>to visit the troops in Iraq. The President pulled off something.

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<v Speaker 1>And we are so often bombarded by the mainstream meets

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<v Speaker 1>attack on this president, calling him just that he's unhinged,

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<v Speaker 1>he can't keep his secret, he can't hold anything back. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>look at what just happened today, President Don J. Trump

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<v Speaker 1>and Milania Trump, the First Lady, flew to Iraq to

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<v Speaker 1>visit our troops. An amazing moment captured by just a

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<v Speaker 1>pool camera. You know, it's a video crew that goes

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<v Speaker 1>along with the President. It's not the full Press Corp.

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<v Speaker 1>Because you know, if you'd brought the full Press Corp

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<v Speaker 1>up to date on this, they would eleak this and

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<v Speaker 1>destroyed this mission a long time ago. But just a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of hours ago in Iraq, the President walked out

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<v Speaker 1>on stage to thunderous applause from men and women's station.

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<v Speaker 1>There yes, American troops chanting USA to their commander in chief.

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<v Speaker 1>It was just a great moment and for all the

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<v Speaker 1>people were caught with their pants down. I'm talking to

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<v Speaker 1>my old friend Monte Williams, who really doesn't like this

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<v Speaker 1>president and went after him about this and also basically

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<v Speaker 1>claimed that the child who died, the terminally ill child

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<v Speaker 1>who came into this country because the parents dragged him

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<v Speaker 1>here from Guatemala, that that was the fault of this administration.

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<v Speaker 1>That's incorrect. But Monte Williams and A Lissa Milano both

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<v Speaker 1>went after the president and they used the MSNBC and

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<v Speaker 1>NBC News stories about this president not visiting the troops. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>I mentioned that this mission had taken weeks to plan

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<v Speaker 1>and it wasn't that easy to pull off. Not just

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<v Speaker 1>keeping a secret. This was President Trump just a few

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<v Speaker 1>hours ago talking about the mission, and he was asked

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<v Speaker 1>about his concerncerns, and of course his first concern was

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<v Speaker 1>for the first Lady and the people around him. Late,

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<v Speaker 1>I will tell you, but if you would have seen

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<v Speaker 1>what we had to go through with the darkened plane,

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<v Speaker 1>with all windows, clothes, with no lights on whatsoever, anywhere,

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<v Speaker 1>pitch black. I've never seen it. I've been many aeroplanes,

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<v Speaker 1>all types and shapes and sizes. I've never seen anything

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<v Speaker 1>like it. We're coming in and I know all of

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<v Speaker 1>the things that were surrounding us for safety. So did

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<v Speaker 1>I have a concern, Yeah, I had a concern, But

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<v Speaker 1>my bigger concern was maybe the people that were with me,

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<v Speaker 1>certainly all of them except I think John Bolden. He's

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<v Speaker 1>a pretty tough guy in adlan Chia. Yeah, I do

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<v Speaker 1>think John Bolton could have handled it. John Bolton is

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<v Speaker 1>a tough cat. He still looks like the Lorex to me.

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<v Speaker 1>But just a wonderful moment, the President going to visit

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<v Speaker 1>the troops, and for the rest of you who couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>believe it, the MSNBC crowd, the huff Post crowd, who

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<v Speaker 1>really I just love that these people are exposed, that

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<v Speaker 1>they printed on their websites, on their Twitter accounts for

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<v Speaker 1>God and everybody to see, the people who slam this president,

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<v Speaker 1>and we're so indignant and very upset about the fact

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<v Speaker 1>that he hadn't got well. It just does take a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit of a plan. The trips are are. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to try and get our buddy, Dan Bongino

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<v Speaker 1>on the phone. Dan Bongino, former Secret Service agent, knows

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<v Speaker 1>about this. There are people out there saying, well, don

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<v Speaker 1>Trump did this just because people were critical of him.

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<v Speaker 1>MSNBC was criticizing him. No, as Bongino said online, it

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<v Speaker 1>takes weeks weeks in advance. Advanced teams have to go there.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, they have to send secrets teams there to

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<v Speaker 1>meet with the military commanders to set up all the protocols, safety,

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<v Speaker 1>security protocols to happen. So this was kept a secret.

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<v Speaker 1>This was just a wonderful, wonderful moment for President Donald J. Trump,

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<v Speaker 1>And he was, as he said, in a completely blacked

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<v Speaker 1>out plane. They left last night and they flew all

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<v Speaker 1>the way to Baghdad. Now, granted, Iraq is a lot

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<v Speaker 1>safer today than it was, say in two thousand and two,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's still not a slam dunk in terms of security.

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<v Speaker 1>It's still not an easy deal. So for the president

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<v Speaker 1>to get there and get it done and pull this

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<v Speaker 1>off in quiet, I saw I think I saw the

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<v Speaker 1>Treasury secretary with him. I saw Sarah Huckabee Sanders there.

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<v Speaker 1>She wrote one of the most touching things about standing

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<v Speaker 1>with one of the soldiers and he hold the patch

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<v Speaker 1>off his jacket arm and gave it to her. Just

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<v Speaker 1>an amazing thing, very amazing. Good good on you, mister President,

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<v Speaker 1>as they would say in Australia, really good on you.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll try and get Dan, maybe we can get Dan

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<v Speaker 1>Bungino call in talk about just what it takes to

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<v Speaker 1>pull this off, and then we'll we have to get

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<v Speaker 1>to a couple of other things today because there are

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<v Speaker 1>some wonderful things out there we need to talk about.

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<v Speaker 1>Since it's the end of the year, I have combed

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<v Speaker 1>the news files and pulled up some of the moments

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<v Speaker 1>that should embarrass the hell out of the mainstream media.

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<v Speaker 1>If you follow me on Twitter, maybe you know what

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<v Speaker 1>I'm talking about. But I've created my own version of

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<v Speaker 1>twenty eighteen's most embarrassing media moments. And oh yeah, we're

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<v Speaker 1>going to talk about the stock market. We're going to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about what happened today. Because there are people among

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<v Speaker 1>us who I just can't believe how anti American they are.

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<v Speaker 1>There are people who have been exhibiting extreme schadenfreude. Schadenford

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<v Speaker 1>is one of the early pure Opelka words of the day.

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<v Speaker 1>Schadenfreud is a German word that means the feeling of

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<v Speaker 1>joy that you get at the misfortune of others. And

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<v Speaker 1>there have been folks who experienced schotte schadenfreude over the

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<v Speaker 1>stock market and the precipitous drop we have seen over

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<v Speaker 1>the past few weeks. Now, we need to keep in

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<v Speaker 1>mind that the stock market has in fact, been on

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<v Speaker 1>a tear since the recession of two thousand and eight,

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<v Speaker 1>since the bottom, because of all the fiscal stimulus that

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<v Speaker 1>was shoved down the throats of the economy and the

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<v Speaker 1>banks by the Federal Reserve. All the stimulus, and it

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<v Speaker 1>did what it was supposed to do. It kept the

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<v Speaker 1>economy going. It got people back into getting mortgages and

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<v Speaker 1>car loans. And now ten years later, guess what. The

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<v Speaker 1>market has been on a tear for ten years. Nothing

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<v Speaker 1>goes up forever. But you heard people saying, oh, this

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<v Speaker 1>is Trump's recession. Here it comes the stock markets crashing.

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<v Speaker 1>But if you read the Wall Street Journal today, you

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<v Speaker 1>saw the reports about retail sales. You saw the story

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<v Speaker 1>that was out there that America's underlying economic fundamentals were

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<v Speaker 1>rock solid. And today the stock market told us the

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<v Speaker 1>rest of the story. We'll get to our buddy, the

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<v Speaker 1>capitalist pig, coming up just around the corner. I also

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<v Speaker 1>have to talk about something that happened here in Chicago.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not talking about the naming of the highway. There's

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<v Speaker 1>a mayoral candidate here in Chicago who wants to name

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<v Speaker 1>a section highway after Barack Obama. He wants to take

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<v Speaker 1>a section of highway currently known as the Dan Ryan Expressway.

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<v Speaker 1>It's an old Chicago figure, Dan Ryan, and rename it

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<v Speaker 1>the Barack Obama Expressway. Now, there's already a chunk of

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<v Speaker 1>I fifty five in this state that's named for Barack Obama.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a chunk of highway in California that's named for

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<v Speaker 1>Barack Obama. But that's not good enough for these butt kissers.

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<v Speaker 1>They want to name another section of Chicago roadways after

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<v Speaker 1>Barack who saying Obama. But there's an interesting story behind it,

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<v Speaker 1>and we'll have to share that with you, so we'll

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<v Speaker 1>get to that. You can join me on Twitter today.

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<v Speaker 1>Apparently we are on a holiday schedule and one of

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<v Speaker 1>our people is not here to answer the phone, so

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<v Speaker 1>I can't take phone calls from you guys. If you

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<v Speaker 1>want to send me your home phone number on Twitter,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll call you. Persleaa, we'll do this. Who go ahead,

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<v Speaker 1>I double dog day to put your home phone number

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<v Speaker 1>on Twitter and all of the nineteen thousand or so

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<v Speaker 1>people who follow me may call you. But we can't

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<v Speaker 1>do phone calls today, but we will do some Twitter polling.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll talk more about the president in Iraq. The Secret

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<v Speaker 1>Mission we'll talk more about what the Dems have been doing.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a new song I have to play for you,

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<v Speaker 1>and we'll have some fun on the Buck Sexton Show.

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<v Speaker 1>Come on back, Michael Pelka and for Buck Sexton on

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<v Speaker 1>the Buck Sexton Show. Here, Happy, happy, Happy Christmas to

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<v Speaker 1>you and yours. Oh, I neglected to say it. I'm sorry.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like such a mcgegee here, Happy Kuanza, Happy

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<v Speaker 1>first day of Quanza. On the first day of Quanza,

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<v Speaker 1>someone gave to me korn or something. I'm sorry to

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<v Speaker 1>made up holiday nineteen sixty six. Terrible person. Keep that handy,

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<v Speaker 1>you'll hear more of that. Yeah, the first day of quanza.

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<v Speaker 1>How do you say quanza with a straight face? It's

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<v Speaker 1>made that question. That's absolutely right. I'm here for buck

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<v Speaker 1>Is on holiday. Good for him, and I'm coming to

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<v Speaker 1>you live from actually the banks of Lake Michigan in Chicago,

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<v Speaker 1>the main line of mid America, my hometown. So I'm

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<v Speaker 1>having fun and with you. Always happy to be here

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<v Speaker 1>with family over the holidays. I hope you had chance

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<v Speaker 1>to be with family or friends. A buddy of mine,

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<v Speaker 1>and you've heard him on the show, Billy halliwell, he's

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<v Speaker 1>a great writer in the faith world and just a

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<v Speaker 1>wonderful person all around. Billy has a friend's giving Christmas

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<v Speaker 1>where they get all the people who don't have family

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<v Speaker 1>in the area and they have him over and they

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<v Speaker 1>have like a Christmas dinner. And we had our Christmas

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<v Speaker 1>dinner last night at one of my sisters homes in

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<v Speaker 1>the suburbs of Chicago, a little town called Schaumberg, which

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<v Speaker 1>is famous for a massive mall. And that's really about it.

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<v Speaker 1>But somebody dropped a sweet potato casserole in the kitchen

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<v Speaker 1>and I never noticed it before, but sweet potatoes went

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<v Speaker 1>all mashed up and everything on the floor. When it

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<v Speaker 1>hits the floor, it looks like someone ralphed. So we

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<v Speaker 1>took pictures posing as if we had been the people

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<v Speaker 1>who rouped the sweet potaties. I'm sure my mother was

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<v Speaker 1>looking down from heaven and shaking her head and going,

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<v Speaker 1>what is wrong with you all? But maybe I'll post

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<v Speaker 1>I should post a copy of that picture on the internets.

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<v Speaker 1>We've got a lot to do today. We're going to

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<v Speaker 1>get to my top five media moments of the year,

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<v Speaker 1>Top five most embarrassing media moments of the year. Because

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<v Speaker 1>the mainstream media was absolutely idiotic. This year, there was

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<v Speaker 1>such a competition. I had to put montages together. And

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<v Speaker 1>this guy actually makes an appearance. One of the biggest

0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:10.360
<v Speaker 1>jack wagons ever makes an appearance in the bad media moments.

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<v Speaker 1>Remember remember that, Remember that from Governor Howard Dean, the

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<v Speaker 1>scream that killed a presidential career. It was, yeah, that

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<v Speaker 1>primal scream. He makes an appearance. You didn't see much

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<v Speaker 1>of Howard Dean this year, but when he did show up,

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<v Speaker 1>he said really dumb things. So we'll get to that.

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<v Speaker 1>And just around the corner, we have to talk about

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<v Speaker 1>what happened to the stock market today, because it has dropped,

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<v Speaker 1>as we all know, into bear market territory, down twenty

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<v Speaker 1>percent for the year. But today the Dow Jones Industrial

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<v Speaker 1>Index climbed to one thousand and eighty six points in

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<v Speaker 1>one day, the largest single day rise ever. And is

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<v Speaker 1>that because of something the president said? Or is it

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<v Speaker 1>because of the comments in the Wall Street Journal about

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<v Speaker 1>the retail industry. But the President did have thoughts about

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<v Speaker 1>the market, and I'll play those for you and we

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<v Speaker 1>will pick the brain of a really smart guy. My

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<v Speaker 1>buddy Jonathan Hoenig of the Capitalist Pig is going to

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<v Speaker 1>join us live on the Buck Sexton Show. My name

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<v Speaker 1>Michael Pelca. Happy to be here with you. Come on

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<v Speaker 1>back after the break we'll talk money on the Buck

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<v Speaker 1>Sexton program. Michael Pelka in for Buck Sexton. Buck will

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<v Speaker 1>be back. He's having a little Christmas holiday. Good for him,

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<v Speaker 1>God bless. I am here in my hometown, the main

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<v Speaker 1>line of mid America, Chicago, Illinois, and I have to

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<v Speaker 1>tell you this happened yesterday and I wonder if it

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<v Speaker 1>had anything to do with what happened today. This I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>the fact is that the economy is doing so well

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<v Speaker 1>that they raised the interest rates and that says a

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<v Speaker 1>form of safety in a way. President of Obama didn't

0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:05.840
<v Speaker 1>do much of that. Much easier to run when you

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<v Speaker 1>have no interest. There he had a very low interest rate.

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<v Speaker 1>We have a normalized interest rate. A normalized interest rate

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<v Speaker 1>means a life. No, it's good for a lot of people.

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<v Speaker 1>They have money in the bank, they get interest on

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<v Speaker 1>their money. For many years nobody got interest on them.

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<v Speaker 1>So the President talked about the Federal Reserve. He also

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<v Speaker 1>tell people that the market had some opportunities to buy,

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<v Speaker 1>and today we saw that big buying happen. But what

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<v Speaker 1>does it mean does it mean there's there's safety, there's

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<v Speaker 1>a mean everything's good? I don't know. So I rely

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<v Speaker 1>on people with common sense, people who don't just tell

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<v Speaker 1>you all the rosy stories. They tell you the reality.

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<v Speaker 1>And one such person as my friend and genius in

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<v Speaker 1>financial world. He's called the Capitalist Pig. He can follow

0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.640
<v Speaker 1>him on the Capitalist pig dot com or follow him

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<v Speaker 1>on Twitter. Jonathan Honig joins us, Hello, my friend, how

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<v Speaker 1>are you well? Feeling about a thousand points better today?

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<v Speaker 1>Christmas Eve? Wow? You know this? You know, the old

0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:12.679
<v Speaker 1>thing is that when elephants are dancing, mice get trampled

0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:16.800
<v Speaker 1>and full some elephants dancing these days in the stock market,

0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:20.680
<v Speaker 1>first to historic drubbing on Christmas Eve is down six

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<v Speaker 1>hundred points, and then another historic game today. The market

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<v Speaker 1>that saw has never been up a thousand points in

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<v Speaker 1>one day, and we saw today a thousand and eighty

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<v Speaker 1>six points higher. Gets still mikeet you can believe it

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<v Speaker 1>down for the month. So some the wild swings on

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<v Speaker 1>Wall Street continue. Yeah, So while we can be happy

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<v Speaker 1>about today, we can also still be a little cautious

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<v Speaker 1>because the stove is hot. You don't want to touch

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<v Speaker 1>it just yet. Maybe I'm just I think more than anything, Mike,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, you we have to put today's action and

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<v Speaker 1>just the economy ritt large, in a little bit of context.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, we've we've been in the midst of a

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<v Speaker 1>nine year and I'll put the politics aside. These the

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<v Speaker 1>bits been in the midst of a nine year bull market,

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<v Speaker 1>in a nine year economic expansion, some of which occurred

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<v Speaker 1>under the previous a president, some of which occurred under

0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:13.960
<v Speaker 1>the career president. So you know, we're this economic expansion

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<v Speaker 1>just in general is pretty long in the tooth to

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<v Speaker 1>begin with. Then add to that worries about rising inflation,

0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:22.960
<v Speaker 1>rising interest rates, which the President had alluded to a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit, and just generally a slowing economy, and some

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<v Speaker 1>worries about the financial sector. You know, I think what

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<v Speaker 1>really frightened the market, Mike was that news that Treasury

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<v Speaker 1>Secretary Manuchin had called the nation's largest banks and inquired

0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:40.320
<v Speaker 1>inquired with them on a Sunday if they had liquidity

0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:43.400
<v Speaker 1>and we're functioning that I think I scared a lot

0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:47.200
<v Speaker 1>of traders and investors before on Christmas Eve, But today

0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:49.880
<v Speaker 1>the bulls were back, and essentially we're right back where

0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:52.840
<v Speaker 1>we were in the market. Before Christmas Eve, still down

0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:54.879
<v Speaker 1>for the month, but certainly better than we were at

0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:57.800
<v Speaker 1>eight o'clock this morning. Well, you bring up some really

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<v Speaker 1>key points on this, and again we're talking to Jonathan Honig,

0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:04.760
<v Speaker 1>the capitalist Pig. I followed Jonathan on Twitter, but I

0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:08.120
<v Speaker 1>also follow him when he does his little seminars online

0:22:08.160 --> 0:22:12.000
<v Speaker 1>on Saturday morning. So I appreciate that I'm learning, Jonathan.

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<v Speaker 1>My notebook's getting bigger. You talk about the comments from

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<v Speaker 1>the Treasury Secretary and how that may have spooked the

0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:22.960
<v Speaker 1>market because he called the banks and said, hey, are

0:22:23.000 --> 0:22:26.600
<v Speaker 1>you liquid? Do you have enough money? And we hadn't

0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:30.200
<v Speaker 1>heard any questions of the stability of the banks here

0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:34.399
<v Speaker 1>tofore in this latest downturn, so that spooked it. I

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<v Speaker 1>look at some of my tech stocks because I look

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<v Speaker 1>at the Apples and I look at the Googles, and

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<v Speaker 1>I see there had been some I guess, a loss

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<v Speaker 1>of credibility or trust from many of us who are

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<v Speaker 1>a retail investors, and you know, we don't trade like

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<v Speaker 1>the big people, and we got nervous. And Apple had

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<v Speaker 1>been down from a big high earlier like two hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and forty something, and they bounced back a little bit

0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:02.680
<v Speaker 1>today they came back with a nice little bounce. So

0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:06.280
<v Speaker 1>absolutely mean Apple today, Mike had its best day in

0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:09.720
<v Speaker 1>five years. It can believe, it was up about seven percent.

0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:14.040
<v Speaker 1>It's still down seven percent year to date, however, and

0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:16.600
<v Speaker 1>you know, Apple is just a It's a perfect example

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<v Speaker 1>of really the type of stock that has led this

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<v Speaker 1>bull market, really led the economy, you know, Mike, during

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<v Speaker 1>the Obama years and even during many of the President

0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:28.080
<v Speaker 1>Trump sears. You know, it wasn't Ford or Alcoa. It

0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:31.720
<v Speaker 1>wasn't the manufacturing stocks that were leading this economy forward.

0:23:31.920 --> 0:23:34.239
<v Speaker 1>It was the apples and the facebooks. If it's been

0:23:34.280 --> 0:23:36.920
<v Speaker 1>the amazons that have really been leading the way forward,

0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:39.800
<v Speaker 1>then they are all really started to wilt in October

0:23:39.840 --> 0:23:42.600
<v Speaker 1>and November. So what we've seen now in later November

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<v Speaker 1>December is just almost the rest of the market, and

0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:48.320
<v Speaker 1>I believe the rest of the economy catching up and

0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:51.840
<v Speaker 1>slowing down. So guests a bit of a bounce back today.

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<v Speaker 1>But I still think that for most investors, Mike, you

0:23:54.359 --> 0:23:56.080
<v Speaker 1>big or small, I don't think care whether you have

0:23:56.119 --> 0:23:58.640
<v Speaker 1>a thousand dollars or a million dollars in the bank.

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<v Speaker 1>I do think now it's a great time for caution

0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:04.960
<v Speaker 1>you know, people are spent like crazy this Christmas season. Now,

0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:07.520
<v Speaker 1>maybe that's good for the economy that people are spending,

0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:10.800
<v Speaker 1>but to me, it's a it's a great sign of overconfidence,

0:24:11.040 --> 0:24:13.200
<v Speaker 1>not unlike what we saw in two thousand and six,

0:24:13.280 --> 0:24:15.560
<v Speaker 1>two thousand and seven, even two thousand and eight, as

0:24:15.600 --> 0:24:18.640
<v Speaker 1>the markets were wilting, people were still spending. And that's

0:24:18.640 --> 0:24:21.080
<v Speaker 1>what always gets people into trouble markets. It's not that

0:24:21.119 --> 0:24:24.880
<v Speaker 1>they pick a bad stock, but that they buy, they

0:24:24.960 --> 0:24:27.720
<v Speaker 1>owe more than they have, they buy more than they have,

0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:30.800
<v Speaker 1>and that debt is what always gets people into problem,

0:24:30.880 --> 0:24:33.480
<v Speaker 1>whether it's a stock, whether it's their home, or whether

0:24:33.520 --> 0:24:35.480
<v Speaker 1>it's the credit card, which is what it is this

0:24:35.560 --> 0:24:38.280
<v Speaker 1>time around in the market. Well, we heard that the

0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:41.800
<v Speaker 1>Wall Street Journal today had the good numbers, the positive

0:24:41.880 --> 0:24:45.560
<v Speaker 1>numbers on retail, and retail stocks certainly benefited today. But

0:24:45.680 --> 0:24:48.399
<v Speaker 1>you bring up a really key point here, Jonathan Honey

0:24:48.640 --> 0:24:51.560
<v Speaker 1>tells us if we can't afford it, you're you're going

0:24:51.640 --> 0:24:54.320
<v Speaker 1>to have problems down the road because those bills will

0:24:54.359 --> 0:24:58.200
<v Speaker 1>come in January. I just read, Jonathan, twenty eight percent

0:24:58.240 --> 0:25:02.440
<v Speaker 1>of us are still paying for last year's Christmas expenditures.

0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:06.520
<v Speaker 1>And that's never a good sign. If more than a

0:25:06.640 --> 0:25:09.120
<v Speaker 1>quarter of the people out there are still paying off

0:25:09.160 --> 0:25:13.200
<v Speaker 1>credit card debt from last Christmas, I shudder to think

0:25:13.320 --> 0:25:17.399
<v Speaker 1>where we will be a year from today. Yeah, And indeed,

0:25:17.400 --> 0:25:20.119
<v Speaker 1>mikel and the thing that President is right about is

0:25:20.119 --> 0:25:23.680
<v Speaker 1>that interest rates are going up now. Whether you think

0:25:23.720 --> 0:25:26.280
<v Speaker 1>they should or think they you know, that's that's really

0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:29.159
<v Speaker 1>another discussion. Interest rates are going up. You know in

0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:31.760
<v Speaker 1>many of us, you know, ten years ago, twelve years ago,

0:25:32.200 --> 0:25:35.280
<v Speaker 1>before the financial crisis, it was really our home was

0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:37.920
<v Speaker 1>it was our mortgages where many of us had borrowed

0:25:37.960 --> 0:25:41.879
<v Speaker 1>and kind of leveraged ourselves a bit too much. This

0:25:41.960 --> 0:25:45.000
<v Speaker 1>time around, Mike, and really is the credit card. Americans

0:25:45.000 --> 0:25:48.040
<v Speaker 1>have record amounts of credit card debt, and the interest

0:25:48.119 --> 0:25:50.800
<v Speaker 1>on those credit cards is also at a record high.

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<v Speaker 1>So a great New Year's resolution, again doesn't matter if

0:25:53.800 --> 0:25:55.880
<v Speaker 1>you're just getting started with the markets or whether you've

0:25:55.880 --> 0:25:57.480
<v Speaker 1>got a lot of money in the bank, is to

0:25:57.600 --> 0:26:00.480
<v Speaker 1>start to whittle down get rid of that credit card debt.

0:26:00.560 --> 0:26:02.919
<v Speaker 1>Because you know, Mike, you can hope and aim and

0:26:03.000 --> 0:26:05.639
<v Speaker 1>really try real hard to make ten, twelve, fifteen percent

0:26:05.640 --> 0:26:07.720
<v Speaker 1>in the market where you can pay down that credit

0:26:07.760 --> 0:26:11.000
<v Speaker 1>card debt. And it's like an immediate return on a

0:26:11.040 --> 0:26:13.639
<v Speaker 1>principle on your bottom line. It's a great goal for

0:26:13.720 --> 0:26:16.000
<v Speaker 1>anyone for the new year to start to put their

0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:18.720
<v Speaker 1>financial house in order and one hundred percent with you.

0:26:18.880 --> 0:26:23.560
<v Speaker 1>And sometimes it takes a long time. I'm full disclosure here.

0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:28.280
<v Speaker 1>You're humble announcer in his late twenties rapped up thirty

0:26:28.320 --> 0:26:31.359
<v Speaker 1>thousand dollars of credit card debt when I wasn't making

0:26:31.359 --> 0:26:33.720
<v Speaker 1>a lot of money. It took me eight years to

0:26:33.760 --> 0:26:36.200
<v Speaker 1>get out the whole. But now I will tell you

0:26:36.359 --> 0:26:39.600
<v Speaker 1>I don't live with any credit card debt, and I

0:26:39.640 --> 0:26:43.199
<v Speaker 1>don't live with automobile debt. I live only with a

0:26:43.320 --> 0:26:48.639
<v Speaker 1>residential mortgage debt. And I will tell you, yeah, go ahead,

0:26:48.720 --> 0:26:51.520
<v Speaker 1>and what you find, Mike, and I'm sure. And what

0:26:51.640 --> 0:26:53.919
<v Speaker 1>you find is that you know the market is always

0:26:53.920 --> 0:26:56.399
<v Speaker 1>going to be unpredictable and a lot of indicators do

0:26:56.520 --> 0:26:59.480
<v Speaker 1>suggest that there will be a recession at twenty nineteen,

0:26:59.640 --> 0:27:03.280
<v Speaker 1>look at and inevitable that recessions do come in. What

0:27:03.400 --> 0:27:06.920
<v Speaker 1>I know you probably experiences just that feeling of safety,

0:27:06.960 --> 0:27:09.560
<v Speaker 1>that feeling security knowing that you aren't going to have

0:27:09.600 --> 0:27:13.480
<v Speaker 1>the loan visa MasterCard debt collectors knocking on your door.

0:27:13.520 --> 0:27:16.200
<v Speaker 1>When you've got that consumer debt paid off, quite simply,

0:27:16.240 --> 0:27:19.120
<v Speaker 1>you sleep better at night. And that helps everywhere every

0:27:19.160 --> 0:27:21.760
<v Speaker 1>American these days. Well, the other thing it allows you

0:27:21.880 --> 0:27:25.880
<v Speaker 1>to do, Jonathan, and it's common sense, it's very obvious,

0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:28.359
<v Speaker 1>but it allows you to put money away. And we

0:27:28.480 --> 0:27:31.760
<v Speaker 1>as Americans, have not been saving. Now I had heard

0:27:31.800 --> 0:27:35.760
<v Speaker 1>maybe you can back me up or debunk this. America

0:27:35.920 --> 0:27:39.439
<v Speaker 1>started saving again, and it appears that the millennials, the

0:27:39.560 --> 0:27:43.680
<v Speaker 1>people I so often harangue, they're actually saving and not

0:27:43.920 --> 0:27:47.040
<v Speaker 1>weighing themselves down with anything other than maybe they're student

0:27:47.119 --> 0:27:51.920
<v Speaker 1>loan debt. Is that accurate? Well, there was a transformation,

0:27:52.000 --> 0:27:54.480
<v Speaker 1>like again, I mean, you know, the more things change,

0:27:54.520 --> 0:27:56.359
<v Speaker 1>the more they say they stay the same. In the

0:27:56.400 --> 0:27:59.520
<v Speaker 1>wake of the global financial crisis, you can believe it.

0:27:59.520 --> 0:28:02.640
<v Speaker 1>It's you know, ten years ago now, there was a transformation.

0:28:02.720 --> 0:28:05.719
<v Speaker 1>People tighten their belts, they paid down their debt, they

0:28:05.720 --> 0:28:09.440
<v Speaker 1>started once again living within their means, and to your point,

0:28:09.520 --> 0:28:13.400
<v Speaker 1>they once again started saving. In the decade that's followed,

0:28:13.600 --> 0:28:16.280
<v Speaker 1>we started to see that trend reverse once again. They

0:28:16.320 --> 0:28:19.240
<v Speaker 1>call it the wealth effect, Mike, and it basically means that,

0:28:19.440 --> 0:28:21.800
<v Speaker 1>you know, the more we have, the more we tend

0:28:21.800 --> 0:28:24.479
<v Speaker 1>to spend. So as the stock market has gone up,

0:28:24.480 --> 0:28:26.359
<v Speaker 1>at least up until the last couple of months, and

0:28:26.400 --> 0:28:30.719
<v Speaker 1>as unemployment has continued to remain unemployment has remained quite strong,

0:28:31.000 --> 0:28:34.040
<v Speaker 1>people have simply been spending more, kind of moving out

0:28:34.040 --> 0:28:37.360
<v Speaker 1>of that recession depression air of mentality that was born

0:28:37.440 --> 0:28:39.720
<v Speaker 1>after two thousand and eight and starting once again to

0:28:39.840 --> 0:28:42.160
<v Speaker 1>ring up those credit card bills. And Mike, you're right,

0:28:42.240 --> 0:28:44.840
<v Speaker 1>a lot of the millennials you know whatever, in a

0:28:44.920 --> 0:28:46.800
<v Speaker 1>love them or hate them, a lot of them came

0:28:46.880 --> 0:28:50.800
<v Speaker 1>up during the global financial crisis, so they're pretty conservative

0:28:50.840 --> 0:28:53.040
<v Speaker 1>if you can imagine to begin with. Then again, a

0:28:53.040 --> 0:28:56.160
<v Speaker 1>lot of them invested in bitcoin, which is down about

0:28:56.200 --> 0:28:59.200
<v Speaker 1>eighty percent or ninety percent this year. So this has

0:28:59.240 --> 0:29:01.240
<v Speaker 1>just been a tough or Mike, to be an investor

0:29:01.280 --> 0:29:04.320
<v Speaker 1>of any sort, which another reason why you really have

0:29:04.400 --> 0:29:06.880
<v Speaker 1>to keep a long term perspective and always live within

0:29:06.920 --> 0:29:10.400
<v Speaker 1>your meetings. Well, that's good advice, Jonathan. Should we look

0:29:10.440 --> 0:29:12.600
<v Speaker 1>for I got about a minute or so left here.

0:29:13.040 --> 0:29:16.840
<v Speaker 1>Should we look for anything specific? Is this what they

0:29:16.920 --> 0:29:20.840
<v Speaker 1>call a dead cat bounce today? Or what should we

0:29:20.920 --> 0:29:24.840
<v Speaker 1>be watching for for the last few days of the year. Yeah,

0:29:25.000 --> 0:29:27.560
<v Speaker 1>that's the fear, right, that dead cat bounce, that this

0:29:27.640 --> 0:29:30.640
<v Speaker 1>is just one day that a reversal in the midst

0:29:30.680 --> 0:29:34.840
<v Speaker 1>of the continued downward trend in stocks. You know, the

0:29:35.240 --> 0:29:38.200
<v Speaker 1>market's down about six percent this year. It didn't get

0:29:38.240 --> 0:29:39.959
<v Speaker 1>there in one day, and it's not going to reverse

0:29:40.000 --> 0:29:41.920
<v Speaker 1>in one day. So what you want to see is

0:29:42.280 --> 0:29:46.040
<v Speaker 1>essentially the trend continue. You want to see any stocks,

0:29:46.040 --> 0:29:49.160
<v Speaker 1>whether it be the high tech flyers, or the utilities,

0:29:49.240 --> 0:29:50.960
<v Speaker 1>or even some of the energy stocks that have just

0:29:51.000 --> 0:29:53.680
<v Speaker 1>been tunneled this year, begin to make some kind of

0:29:53.680 --> 0:29:56.040
<v Speaker 1>a base here and move higher in a sustained fashion.

0:29:56.320 --> 0:29:59.280
<v Speaker 1>We haven't seen it yet. Even today, about sixteen hundred

0:29:59.360 --> 0:30:02.720
<v Speaker 1>stocks at New fifty two week glows only a handful

0:30:02.720 --> 0:30:05.880
<v Speaker 1>at New fifty two kighs. So this is a bottoming process.

0:30:06.160 --> 0:30:08.680
<v Speaker 1>But one day is a great start in terms of

0:30:08.680 --> 0:30:11.080
<v Speaker 1>getting the economy and hope of the stock market back

0:30:11.080 --> 0:30:15.120
<v Speaker 1>on track. In twenty nineteen. Great stuff, always, always great

0:30:15.160 --> 0:30:18.360
<v Speaker 1>stuff from my friend Jonathan Honig the Capitalist Pig, Capitalist

0:30:18.440 --> 0:30:21.240
<v Speaker 1>pig dot com. Thank you, Jonathan. I hope we have

0:30:21.640 --> 0:30:24.520
<v Speaker 1>more record setting days on the upside in the green

0:30:25.480 --> 0:30:27.600
<v Speaker 1>side in the new year. To be with you and

0:30:27.800 --> 0:30:30.160
<v Speaker 1>it's great to be on Bucks show. Thanks so much, Mikey,

0:30:30.160 --> 0:30:33.840
<v Speaker 1>Thank you, sir. God bless there. He goes really smart

0:30:33.880 --> 0:30:37.520
<v Speaker 1>and measured advice always from Jonathan. You know. He doesn't

0:30:37.840 --> 0:30:40.840
<v Speaker 1>play the politics game. He plays the common sense game,

0:30:40.840 --> 0:30:42.760
<v Speaker 1>which is what we need to do with our money.

0:30:43.240 --> 0:30:48.400
<v Speaker 1>Money doesn't have Democrat or Republican after it. And I'm

0:30:48.400 --> 0:30:50.440
<v Speaker 1>going to leave it at that. I have so much

0:30:50.480 --> 0:30:52.080
<v Speaker 1>more to get to, but right now I have to

0:30:52.080 --> 0:30:54.680
<v Speaker 1>get to a break. Michael Pelka, my name is sitting

0:30:54.680 --> 0:30:57.440
<v Speaker 1>in for my friend Buck Sexton on the Buck Sexton Show.

0:30:58.560 --> 0:31:02.360
<v Speaker 1>Michael Pelka in for Sexton. On this day after Christmas

0:31:02.440 --> 0:31:08.360
<v Speaker 1>Boxing Day? Did you return anything? I did not, because

0:31:08.520 --> 0:31:10.880
<v Speaker 1>pretty much I only got a couple of things and

0:31:11.000 --> 0:31:14.200
<v Speaker 1>that's all I wanted. And I got what I wanted,

0:31:14.200 --> 0:31:18.040
<v Speaker 1>the sweater I wanted and the scarf I wanted and

0:31:18.160 --> 0:31:22.160
<v Speaker 1>the Chicago Bears socks that I wanted. I don't need

0:31:22.200 --> 0:31:25.760
<v Speaker 1>anything else. I already have enough junk. I have to

0:31:25.800 --> 0:31:28.720
<v Speaker 1>talk about some technology today and some fun stuff today.

0:31:28.720 --> 0:31:31.239
<v Speaker 1>We'll get to that next hour. And there is a

0:31:31.440 --> 0:31:35.880
<v Speaker 1>one day screening of a movie that I am going

0:31:35.960 --> 0:31:38.720
<v Speaker 1>to see tomorrow, and I will encourage you to go

0:31:38.800 --> 0:31:42.600
<v Speaker 1>see it too. But it's only happening one day, and

0:31:42.680 --> 0:31:46.160
<v Speaker 1>I think it's going to be spectacular. From Peter Jackson,

0:31:46.200 --> 0:31:48.360
<v Speaker 1>the guy behind the Lord of the Rings movie, so

0:31:48.640 --> 0:31:51.440
<v Speaker 1>gives you an idea the kind of quality it should be.

0:31:51.480 --> 0:31:55.560
<v Speaker 1>But we'll dive into that a little bit later. I

0:31:55.680 --> 0:31:59.840
<v Speaker 1>also have to play something for you. It might be

0:31:59.880 --> 0:32:04.320
<v Speaker 1>the cringiest thing ever. I love the people who are

0:32:04.440 --> 0:32:09.040
<v Speaker 1>so so distracted by Donald Trump that they spend their

0:32:09.080 --> 0:32:13.000
<v Speaker 1>waking hours trying to do creative things to attack the president.

0:32:13.600 --> 0:32:18.040
<v Speaker 1>And this little montage from from some of the sufferers

0:32:18.080 --> 0:32:21.800
<v Speaker 1>of Trump Arrangements syndrome caught my ear today. I get

0:32:21.960 --> 0:32:25.240
<v Speaker 1>I'm so, I'm smiling thinking about it. Get it speak correctly.

0:32:25.320 --> 0:32:30.840
<v Speaker 1>The Trump Arrangement syndrome choir and their little holiday music.

0:32:33.120 --> 0:32:35.960
<v Speaker 1>Wait a second, here, I am. I I'm in a

0:32:36.120 --> 0:32:39.040
<v Speaker 1>guest studio, so you have to forgive me. I push

0:32:39.120 --> 0:32:44.000
<v Speaker 1>the wrong button. Here's the Trump Arrangement syndrome choir. We

0:32:44.040 --> 0:32:47.960
<v Speaker 1>wish you a mother Christmas. We wish you a mother Christmas.

0:32:48.240 --> 0:32:52.040
<v Speaker 1>We wish you a mother Christmas. And impeachment next year.

0:32:52.480 --> 0:32:55.040
<v Speaker 1>You know. Kind of clever, right, little little bit of

0:32:55.080 --> 0:32:58.560
<v Speaker 1>a clever turn on some holiday classics. But then you

0:32:58.680 --> 0:33:01.080
<v Speaker 1>start hearing some of the other because they all did

0:33:01.120 --> 0:33:03.959
<v Speaker 1>this and then piled them up in one little montage.

0:33:04.960 --> 0:33:07.440
<v Speaker 1>We wish you a Molla Christmas, we wish you a

0:33:07.520 --> 0:33:11.120
<v Speaker 1>mothera Christmas, We wish you a Molla Christmas, and impeachment

0:33:11.320 --> 0:33:15.160
<v Speaker 1>next year. I wish they had Maxine Waters doing it,

0:33:15.760 --> 0:33:18.520
<v Speaker 1>because that would have been just an epic. I think

0:33:18.600 --> 0:33:21.720
<v Speaker 1>I have hold on a second. Yeah, let me go

0:33:21.800 --> 0:33:24.600
<v Speaker 1>to this point in this clip. It's about two minutes worth.

0:33:24.640 --> 0:33:26.880
<v Speaker 1>I won't give you all the bad singing, although there

0:33:26.960 --> 0:33:30.160
<v Speaker 1>certainly is a ton of it. But this guy, this

0:33:30.160 --> 0:33:33.800
<v Speaker 1>guy just made me smile and all year as we

0:33:34.360 --> 0:33:39.320
<v Speaker 1>know you're in bed with poutin. We know you're in

0:33:39.360 --> 0:33:44.520
<v Speaker 1>bed with pot because your treason is clear. You're how

0:33:44.600 --> 0:33:47.720
<v Speaker 1>do you not laugh at these people and they're all

0:33:47.920 --> 0:33:51.320
<v Speaker 1>smiling and their little faces, some of them their Santa

0:33:51.360 --> 0:33:54.560
<v Speaker 1>hats and holding up their doggies and singing the treason

0:33:54.720 --> 0:33:59.200
<v Speaker 1>it's clear. We wish you a mother Christmas. We wish

0:33:59.280 --> 0:34:03.120
<v Speaker 1>you a mother Christmas. We wish you Emo, Chris Smiths

0:34:03.520 --> 0:34:14.759
<v Speaker 1>and IMPEACHMD. It's just beautiful. Please sclap. I've tweeted out

0:34:14.800 --> 0:34:16.600
<v Speaker 1>a link to that. If you follow me on Twitter

0:34:16.640 --> 0:34:19.719
<v Speaker 1>at Stuntbright you can see it originally sent to me

0:34:19.800 --> 0:34:23.040
<v Speaker 1>by the very funny Kate Hyde, who is at Kate

0:34:23.120 --> 0:34:26.640
<v Speaker 1>Hyde of New York. Just a wonderful little turn, and

0:34:26.960 --> 0:34:30.080
<v Speaker 1>especially on a day where you have the President of

0:34:30.160 --> 0:34:33.160
<v Speaker 1>the United States pulling off a secret mission to go

0:34:33.280 --> 0:34:36.400
<v Speaker 1>visit the troops, and you have the stock market setting

0:34:36.440 --> 0:34:40.960
<v Speaker 1>a record the one time massive bounce over a thousand

0:34:41.040 --> 0:34:45.080
<v Speaker 1>points in one day. It's just a remarkable thing. All right,

0:34:45.600 --> 0:34:49.480
<v Speaker 1>busy first hour, even busier second and third hours coming up.

0:34:49.800 --> 0:34:52.360
<v Speaker 1>I did not get to the Women's March news. I

0:34:52.440 --> 0:34:56.080
<v Speaker 1>didn't get to the Obama Highway news, which there is

0:34:56.160 --> 0:34:59.799
<v Speaker 1>Obama Highway news here in Chicago. Let's just name all

0:34:59.800 --> 0:35:03.279
<v Speaker 1>the interstates Barack Obama, right, why not? Do you know,

0:35:03.440 --> 0:35:06.680
<v Speaker 1>forget that Dwight Eisenhower was the guy behind that. Let's

0:35:06.680 --> 0:35:09.880
<v Speaker 1>just call it all Obama because after all, the nothing

0:35:09.920 --> 0:35:13.640
<v Speaker 1>he did ever went wrong, ever fast and furious. I

0:35:13.640 --> 0:35:17.960
<v Speaker 1>could go on and on and on, but the beautiful

0:35:18.040 --> 0:35:21.560
<v Speaker 1>story here. Then there's also a question, did Barbie get heavy?

0:35:23.239 --> 0:35:28.040
<v Speaker 1>I got a really strange question today about Barbie gaining weight.

0:35:29.239 --> 0:35:31.520
<v Speaker 1>Not that I have a Barbie doll collection. I'm not

0:35:31.640 --> 0:35:34.960
<v Speaker 1>Richard Simmons. He has one. He's got quite a few. Apparently.

0:35:35.640 --> 0:35:39.480
<v Speaker 1>We'll get into all this next on the Buck Sexton Show.

0:35:39.760 --> 0:35:43.400
<v Speaker 1>Come on back. It is not buck Sexton. It is

0:35:43.480 --> 0:35:47.839
<v Speaker 1>Michael Pela Bucks Buddy and my friend Buck Sexton having

0:35:47.880 --> 0:35:50.759
<v Speaker 1>a little bit of a holiday break. Mary. Christmas to you.

0:35:51.400 --> 0:35:54.879
<v Speaker 1>Hopefully you celebrated Christmas. If you didn't, you've already had

0:35:54.920 --> 0:35:58.520
<v Speaker 1>your holiday. If you celebrated Hanukkah, and that was a

0:35:58.520 --> 0:36:01.359
<v Speaker 1>while ago, a couple of weeks ago. Didn't run concurrently.

0:36:01.480 --> 0:36:05.120
<v Speaker 1>This year, we didn't have Chrismaca. This year we had

0:36:05.480 --> 0:36:09.719
<v Speaker 1>Hankah first, then Christmas. Oh, I almost forgot. It's quanzall

0:36:10.200 --> 0:36:14.400
<v Speaker 1>happy first day of Quanza. No, not gonna get into

0:36:14.440 --> 0:36:17.799
<v Speaker 1>that again. Made up holiday. Yeah, I know a lot

0:36:17.800 --> 0:36:22.319
<v Speaker 1>of people it celebrates it the good things have African tradition. Well,

0:36:22.400 --> 0:36:27.320
<v Speaker 1>we're not. Let's not get into it. Christmas is about

0:36:27.320 --> 0:36:32.520
<v Speaker 1>the birth of Jesus, and as Mother Teresa taught us,

0:36:32.560 --> 0:36:36.360
<v Speaker 1>the joy of Christmas, the jays, Jesus, the always others

0:36:36.360 --> 0:36:40.920
<v Speaker 1>and the why. The last thing is you. And speaking

0:36:40.960 --> 0:36:49.120
<v Speaker 1>of Jesus, Alexandria Cazio Cortez, maybe you know a day

0:36:49.160 --> 0:36:54.000
<v Speaker 1>after she gets my agreement. I actually agreed with what

0:36:54.040 --> 0:36:57.080
<v Speaker 1>she said about shutting down the government and the people

0:36:57.160 --> 0:36:59.680
<v Speaker 1>who should be penalized first of the people who shut

0:36:59.719 --> 0:37:02.239
<v Speaker 1>it down, meaning the members of Congress, the House, and

0:37:02.280 --> 0:37:05.560
<v Speaker 1>the Senate should not be getting paid when they can't

0:37:05.560 --> 0:37:09.600
<v Speaker 1>get their act together and keep the government open. And

0:37:09.640 --> 0:37:13.160
<v Speaker 1>so you know, she's saying that those people shouldn't get paid.

0:37:14.360 --> 0:37:16.719
<v Speaker 1>What's the kind of funny part of this is in

0:37:16.760 --> 0:37:21.400
<v Speaker 1>just eight days, when the Democrats take over the House,

0:37:22.200 --> 0:37:25.480
<v Speaker 1>if the government's still shut down and she had her way,

0:37:25.680 --> 0:37:27.600
<v Speaker 1>she would not be getting paid. And she's the one

0:37:27.600 --> 0:37:31.080
<v Speaker 1>who said, well, I can hardly I can't get an

0:37:31.120 --> 0:37:33.600
<v Speaker 1>apartment in Washington, DC because I don't have enough money

0:37:33.640 --> 0:37:35.160
<v Speaker 1>and I'm only going to be baking one hundred and

0:37:35.160 --> 0:37:37.400
<v Speaker 1>seventy four thousand dollars a year, and I just thought

0:37:37.600 --> 0:37:41.560
<v Speaker 1>I won't be able to find an apartment. Give me

0:37:41.800 --> 0:37:47.480
<v Speaker 1>a break. But wouldn't it be ironic if the new

0:37:47.560 --> 0:37:51.120
<v Speaker 1>Congress said, if the government is shut down, the first

0:37:51.160 --> 0:37:54.600
<v Speaker 1>people who won't be paid are the people who made

0:37:54.640 --> 0:38:00.120
<v Speaker 1>the shutdown happen. Then they'd keep the government open. And

0:38:00.239 --> 0:38:05.120
<v Speaker 1>let's not forget that it's not a government shutdown, something

0:38:05.200 --> 0:38:08.000
<v Speaker 1>like eighty eight percent of the government has already funded.

0:38:08.120 --> 0:38:10.480
<v Speaker 1>So people are getting paid and the people who might

0:38:10.640 --> 0:38:16.040
<v Speaker 1>even be getting a delayed payment will get paid. I

0:38:16.160 --> 0:38:23.400
<v Speaker 1>heard somebody at CNN talking about talking about the fact

0:38:23.400 --> 0:38:28.640
<v Speaker 1>that the Kennedy gift Shop at the Kennedy Museum was closed,

0:38:29.760 --> 0:38:32.680
<v Speaker 1>and she said, well, that means the person who works

0:38:32.680 --> 0:38:35.600
<v Speaker 1>in the gift shop, the kid who runs the cash

0:38:35.640 --> 0:38:39.440
<v Speaker 1>register at the gift shop, won't be getting there forty

0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:42.480
<v Speaker 1>to fifty thousand dollars year check. And I thought, wait,

0:38:43.239 --> 0:38:46.360
<v Speaker 1>wait a minute, the kid who runs the gift shop

0:38:47.560 --> 0:38:50.239
<v Speaker 1>is getting forty to fifty grand, a kid who is

0:38:50.280 --> 0:38:55.160
<v Speaker 1>a clerk, a retail clerk at a gift shop. If

0:38:55.200 --> 0:39:00.480
<v Speaker 1>we're paying people forty to fifty grand to be the

0:39:00.560 --> 0:39:03.960
<v Speaker 1>checkout clerk at the gift shop, do you need a

0:39:03.960 --> 0:39:06.520
<v Speaker 1>better example of why government does not need to be

0:39:06.600 --> 0:39:11.359
<v Speaker 1>involved in things like retail the waste of money. We'll

0:39:11.440 --> 0:39:15.000
<v Speaker 1>get into government waste of money. John Stossel, who I

0:39:15.120 --> 0:39:21.800
<v Speaker 1>just appreciate his journalistic skill so much, exposed a controversy

0:39:21.840 --> 0:39:24.680
<v Speaker 1>about government spending in New York that is just gonna

0:39:24.719 --> 0:39:27.799
<v Speaker 1>it'll make your blood boil. But back to what I

0:39:27.840 --> 0:39:33.200
<v Speaker 1>was saying about Alexandria Kazio Cortez. She tried to politicize

0:39:35.120 --> 0:39:41.880
<v Speaker 1>the death of this Guatemalan child, the Guatemalan child who

0:39:42.400 --> 0:39:47.600
<v Speaker 1>tragically passed away after mommy and daddy dragged the child

0:39:47.680 --> 0:39:53.799
<v Speaker 1>two thousand miles and the kid was so sick even

0:39:53.880 --> 0:39:58.640
<v Speaker 1>American medicine couldn't save the child's life. And Acazio Quartz

0:39:58.800 --> 0:40:03.319
<v Speaker 1>tried to Christmas and the birth of Jesus and the

0:40:03.360 --> 0:40:06.960
<v Speaker 1>celebration of the birth of Jesus and politicize it saying

0:40:06.960 --> 0:40:11.200
<v Speaker 1>that you know, Jesus and Mary and Joseph, they were

0:40:11.320 --> 0:40:16.719
<v Speaker 1>they were refugees coming to America. I guess she are

0:40:16.800 --> 0:40:22.319
<v Speaker 1>coming to Bethlehem, America. Hum she tried to put a

0:40:22.320 --> 0:40:27.359
<v Speaker 1>political spin on it and compare Jesus to the refugee

0:40:27.440 --> 0:40:31.960
<v Speaker 1>child who perished. And she's so wrong on this, because

0:40:32.000 --> 0:40:34.759
<v Speaker 1>if you read your Luke Gospel, I realized some of

0:40:34.800 --> 0:40:38.520
<v Speaker 1>the other gospels have a slightly different interpretation. But the

0:40:38.560 --> 0:40:42.719
<v Speaker 1>one that I've always followed is that that Joseph and

0:40:42.760 --> 0:40:47.359
<v Speaker 1>Mary had had to go for a census, and by

0:40:47.400 --> 0:40:50.239
<v Speaker 1>the time they got to Bethlehem there was no room

0:40:50.280 --> 0:40:52.600
<v Speaker 1>at the end, if you will, and so they took

0:40:52.640 --> 0:40:58.239
<v Speaker 1>the stable out back. But stop trying to politicize a

0:40:58.280 --> 0:41:05.319
<v Speaker 1>tragedy that obviously has no connection to the tragedy or

0:41:05.360 --> 0:41:10.600
<v Speaker 1>the politics. And also joining Alexandriacazio Cortez, a guy who

0:41:10.840 --> 0:41:15.640
<v Speaker 1>the Democrats have a lot of hopes resting on. Beto O'Rourke.

0:41:15.960 --> 0:41:18.080
<v Speaker 1>I want to call him Beto, so we can take

0:41:18.440 --> 0:41:21.279
<v Speaker 1>Michael Jackson, beat it and do a parody. You know,

0:41:21.360 --> 0:41:25.800
<v Speaker 1>Beto Beto. You know, we could do something with Beto Beto,

0:41:25.920 --> 0:41:31.480
<v Speaker 1>but Beto Beto doesn't work. But Beto O'Rourke has already

0:41:31.520 --> 0:41:35.880
<v Speaker 1>tried to politicize the death of this child. This is

0:41:35.920 --> 0:41:40.320
<v Speaker 1>what he said today. Just tragic, and we're thinking about

0:41:40.360 --> 0:41:44.520
<v Speaker 1>his family right now, just what they must be feeling

0:41:44.880 --> 0:41:47.960
<v Speaker 1>to have lost their child on Christmas Day, to be

0:41:48.000 --> 0:41:51.200
<v Speaker 1>in a strange country, not to know what's next for them.

0:41:51.719 --> 0:41:53.160
<v Speaker 1>So we want to do everything we can to help

0:41:53.239 --> 0:41:55.920
<v Speaker 1>that family. I've reached out to Customs and Border Protection

0:41:55.960 --> 0:41:58.279
<v Speaker 1>to find out what happens and then what we can

0:41:58.320 --> 0:42:00.000
<v Speaker 1>do to be helpful to the family. I'm still waiting

0:42:00.040 --> 0:42:02.799
<v Speaker 1>to hear back from them. Yeah, you're going to politicize

0:42:02.880 --> 0:42:05.560
<v Speaker 1>this because you want to be president. You want to

0:42:05.640 --> 0:42:08.600
<v Speaker 1>run in twenty twenty, and so you're going to use

0:42:08.760 --> 0:42:12.560
<v Speaker 1>every ever you can to bring up the children. And

0:42:13.400 --> 0:42:15.200
<v Speaker 1>you know what's going to happen out of this. Here's

0:42:15.200 --> 0:42:17.480
<v Speaker 1>the other shame of what's going to happen out of this.

0:42:18.560 --> 0:42:21.600
<v Speaker 1>It's a horrible tragedy. This child died, and forever the

0:42:21.680 --> 0:42:25.480
<v Speaker 1>parents will remember Christmas. Every time they celebrate Christmas, they're

0:42:25.520 --> 0:42:29.440
<v Speaker 1>going to think about their child who passed away. That

0:42:29.560 --> 0:42:33.480
<v Speaker 1>child had to be sick for some time. That child

0:42:33.480 --> 0:42:37.360
<v Speaker 1>probably was sick over the entire course of their travel

0:42:37.480 --> 0:42:44.480
<v Speaker 1>from Guatemala to the border in America. Really sick enough

0:42:44.520 --> 0:42:47.719
<v Speaker 1>to die at a young age. It's a horrible situation.

0:42:48.400 --> 0:42:50.000
<v Speaker 1>And as I said, mom and dad are going to

0:42:50.120 --> 0:42:54.160
<v Speaker 1>remember it forever. Every Christmas there'll be an empty chair.

0:42:54.920 --> 0:42:59.640
<v Speaker 1>But you know, there are millions of Americans, myself included,

0:42:59.719 --> 0:43:04.120
<v Speaker 1>my family included, who've lost relatives on holidays, and every

0:43:04.120 --> 0:43:07.440
<v Speaker 1>time that holiday comes around, it's hard not to think

0:43:07.480 --> 0:43:12.200
<v Speaker 1>about that person. My dad passed away two years ago today,

0:43:13.680 --> 0:43:17.520
<v Speaker 1>and Christmas is never the same when you lose a relative.

0:43:18.680 --> 0:43:24.799
<v Speaker 1>So to politicize this, I think is offensive. But here's

0:43:24.840 --> 0:43:26.759
<v Speaker 1>the other flip side of this, and Here's what I

0:43:26.800 --> 0:43:29.080
<v Speaker 1>want you to pay attention to, because I guarantee you're

0:43:29.080 --> 0:43:34.960
<v Speaker 1>going to see this happen. What happens now, What happens

0:43:35.080 --> 0:43:37.640
<v Speaker 1>now to all the people coming across the border, all

0:43:37.640 --> 0:43:40.759
<v Speaker 1>the people are demanding or asking for a style, And

0:43:40.920 --> 0:43:44.319
<v Speaker 1>not just the people who break through illegally, but the

0:43:44.320 --> 0:43:46.319
<v Speaker 1>people who go to the port of entry and fill

0:43:46.320 --> 0:43:48.600
<v Speaker 1>out the paperwork and then want to have their case

0:43:48.640 --> 0:43:53.280
<v Speaker 1>adjudicated before an immigration judge. What happens to them now?

0:43:53.360 --> 0:43:56.760
<v Speaker 1>Because of this situation and the tragedy of the child

0:43:56.800 --> 0:44:00.640
<v Speaker 1>who died a couple of weeks ago, to children in

0:44:00.680 --> 0:44:05.120
<v Speaker 1>a month. Because of that, now we are going to

0:44:05.160 --> 0:44:09.439
<v Speaker 1>be giving physicals virtually to every person who comes in.

0:44:11.120 --> 0:44:14.200
<v Speaker 1>We used to check people at Ellis Island and the

0:44:14.239 --> 0:44:16.680
<v Speaker 1>East Coast when people came to America. On the East Coast,

0:44:16.719 --> 0:44:21.200
<v Speaker 1>we had the immigration processing station at Ellis Island where

0:44:21.280 --> 0:44:24.840
<v Speaker 1>everybody went through, and in the early part of the

0:44:24.880 --> 0:44:28.640
<v Speaker 1>twentieth century, because we were terrified of disease coming into

0:44:28.640 --> 0:44:32.560
<v Speaker 1>this country or people bringing horrible diseases to this country

0:44:32.640 --> 0:44:36.520
<v Speaker 1>east to kind of check them over and sometimes they'd

0:44:36.560 --> 0:44:40.520
<v Speaker 1>be sent back. So if you didn't have the right paperwork,

0:44:40.719 --> 0:44:43.919
<v Speaker 1>or your health was in question, you would not be

0:44:44.000 --> 0:44:47.560
<v Speaker 1>let off Ellis Island and onto the American mainland. You

0:44:47.600 --> 0:44:50.799
<v Speaker 1>would be sent home or you would maybe be put

0:44:50.840 --> 0:44:55.680
<v Speaker 1>in a clinic there if your problem was minor. But

0:44:55.840 --> 0:44:59.279
<v Speaker 1>now we're saying that the Customs and Border Patrol is

0:44:59.360 --> 0:45:04.080
<v Speaker 1>going to have have to basically become a medical facility

0:45:05.320 --> 0:45:08.959
<v Speaker 1>and these people are going to be getting free physicals. Now,

0:45:09.000 --> 0:45:11.560
<v Speaker 1>I'm I'm all happy that we're going to try and

0:45:11.600 --> 0:45:14.319
<v Speaker 1>be good to people and take care of people, but

0:45:14.360 --> 0:45:18.160
<v Speaker 1>what about the people here? Now? Are we going to

0:45:18.239 --> 0:45:21.320
<v Speaker 1>be able to say that that we should be giving

0:45:21.600 --> 0:45:25.000
<v Speaker 1>care to all those people too? Should everybody? This is

0:45:25.040 --> 0:45:30.200
<v Speaker 1>another plea for medicare for all, And they're going to

0:45:30.239 --> 0:45:33.560
<v Speaker 1>show you that people who are coming into the country

0:45:33.560 --> 0:45:36.279
<v Speaker 1>are going to have to be given physicals. So why

0:45:36.320 --> 0:45:40.600
<v Speaker 1>can't we be giving government physicals to everybody. It's a

0:45:40.719 --> 0:45:43.879
<v Speaker 1>very slippery slope, and they're using the tragedy of this

0:45:44.040 --> 0:45:48.000
<v Speaker 1>child to try to try and move their agenda forward

0:45:48.200 --> 0:45:57.080
<v Speaker 1>yet again, yet again. So I just I just get

0:45:57.120 --> 0:46:00.319
<v Speaker 1>so angry when I see Democrats doing this. They're taking

0:46:00.360 --> 0:46:05.480
<v Speaker 1>a tragedy and politicizing it, and yet the people who

0:46:05.480 --> 0:46:11.839
<v Speaker 1>are being victimized by these insensitive bastards. They will get

0:46:11.920 --> 0:46:17.200
<v Speaker 1>no pushback. As a matter of fact, they'll be elevated.

0:46:18.040 --> 0:46:21.240
<v Speaker 1>So that's my little rant on the border. I'm totally

0:46:21.280 --> 0:46:23.520
<v Speaker 1>against this. And you know what this reminds me of.

0:46:23.560 --> 0:46:27.319
<v Speaker 1>I wonder if John has this queued up. There was

0:46:27.360 --> 0:46:33.040
<v Speaker 1>a time when Democrats did want the border protected because

0:46:33.120 --> 0:46:39.280
<v Speaker 1>they realized that it was very expensive. It was really

0:46:39.320 --> 0:46:42.399
<v Speaker 1>expensive to just open the borders and let people in.

0:46:43.960 --> 0:46:47.160
<v Speaker 1>And it was back in the nineties that a senator,

0:46:47.200 --> 0:46:51.600
<v Speaker 1>a Democratic senator, railed against what was happening on the

0:46:51.640 --> 0:46:56.880
<v Speaker 1>borders in California, and in a debate as she was

0:46:57.000 --> 0:47:00.680
<v Speaker 1>running for election, she brought up the reality, the fiscal

0:47:00.800 --> 0:47:04.160
<v Speaker 1>reality of the borders. John, if you have the Diane

0:47:04.239 --> 0:47:07.839
<v Speaker 1>Feinstein clip, go ahead and roll it here. I think

0:47:07.880 --> 0:47:11.080
<v Speaker 1>we can enforce our borders. I think we should enforce

0:47:11.160 --> 0:47:14.759
<v Speaker 1>our borders. To have a situation where forty percent of

0:47:14.800 --> 0:47:18.879
<v Speaker 1>the baby's born on Medicaid in California today are born

0:47:19.080 --> 0:47:23.720
<v Speaker 1>of illegal immigrants creates a very real problem for the state,

0:47:24.040 --> 0:47:30.960
<v Speaker 1>which is in deficit finished of our prison population at

0:47:31.000 --> 0:47:34.360
<v Speaker 1>a cost of three hundred million a year. The illegal

0:47:34.400 --> 0:47:37.520
<v Speaker 1>immigrants who come here and commit felonies. That's not what

0:47:37.560 --> 0:47:43.359
<v Speaker 1>this nation that will be twenty five years old next year.

0:47:44.280 --> 0:47:51.080
<v Speaker 1>That clip Diane Feinstein, a Democratic Senator, talking about the

0:47:51.239 --> 0:47:55.799
<v Speaker 1>fiscal impact and the impact that illegals make on the

0:47:55.840 --> 0:48:00.000
<v Speaker 1>economy in California. You think three hundred million was probably

0:48:00.200 --> 0:48:02.759
<v Speaker 1>drop in the bucket compared to the billions that are

0:48:02.800 --> 0:48:08.799
<v Speaker 1>being spent now, the billions in medical education, welfare, everything

0:48:08.840 --> 0:48:12.399
<v Speaker 1>that goes now in California. And the next thing that's

0:48:12.400 --> 0:48:17.239
<v Speaker 1>going to happen is the vote. So just to understand

0:48:17.280 --> 0:48:21.000
<v Speaker 1>that when a politician speaks left and right, they generally

0:48:21.000 --> 0:48:24.200
<v Speaker 1>are saying whatever they have to say to get you

0:48:24.320 --> 0:48:29.319
<v Speaker 1>to vote for them. Again, just throwing that out there, Feinstein,

0:48:29.520 --> 0:48:32.200
<v Speaker 1>all of them and make me angry. Michael Pelka is

0:48:32.200 --> 0:48:34.560
<v Speaker 1>sitting in for Buck Sexton. When we get back, I

0:48:34.760 --> 0:48:38.560
<v Speaker 1>bring good news, people of Earth. There is a study

0:48:38.640 --> 0:48:44.759
<v Speaker 1>that shows that alcohol and coffee can make you live

0:48:44.800 --> 0:48:49.560
<v Speaker 1>past ninety Alcohol and coffee, people of Earth. Good news.

0:48:50.000 --> 0:48:57.280
<v Speaker 1>And seventy percent of America had sex on Christmas Day.

0:48:57.400 --> 0:49:00.479
<v Speaker 1>That's another one we have to get to and I'll

0:49:00.480 --> 0:49:03.200
<v Speaker 1>try and dig deep into that. Michael Pelca, As I said,

0:49:03.280 --> 0:49:05.520
<v Speaker 1>filling in for my friend Buck Sexton on the Buck

0:49:05.560 --> 0:49:17.480
<v Speaker 1>Sexton Show, Bake news, make news, make news, make make

0:49:17.560 --> 0:49:24.879
<v Speaker 1>make news. Yes it is fake news. I got caught

0:49:25.000 --> 0:49:29.200
<v Speaker 1>dancing into the fake news theme. Michael pelc and for

0:49:29.320 --> 0:49:32.560
<v Speaker 1>Buck Sexton on this day after Christmas, hope you had

0:49:32.560 --> 0:49:35.080
<v Speaker 1>a merry Christmas. Hope you're making plans for a big

0:49:35.160 --> 0:49:38.560
<v Speaker 1>new year, especially after a daylight we had today. You

0:49:38.600 --> 0:49:41.200
<v Speaker 1>should feel good about what's going on in the world.

0:49:42.000 --> 0:49:46.160
<v Speaker 1>You should feel good about I think the leadership that

0:49:46.320 --> 0:49:53.279
<v Speaker 1>was on display since the government shutdown, since the shutdown,

0:49:53.600 --> 0:49:57.360
<v Speaker 1>what is this day? Six now, since the government shutdown,

0:49:58.040 --> 0:50:02.400
<v Speaker 1>the person who said I will take the mantle, Donald

0:50:02.440 --> 0:50:08.200
<v Speaker 1>John Trump, stayed in DC. He was reportedly headed to

0:50:08.480 --> 0:50:13.920
<v Speaker 1>Mara Lago for sixteen days. That's what CNN kept saying,

0:50:14.680 --> 0:50:17.240
<v Speaker 1>sixteen days. He was going to go to Mara Lago

0:50:17.280 --> 0:50:21.200
<v Speaker 1>and play golf while the government sat shut down. Twenty

0:50:21.200 --> 0:50:24.000
<v Speaker 1>two percent of the government, so not really a big deal.

0:50:24.400 --> 0:50:26.480
<v Speaker 1>And as we talked about earlier, the part of the

0:50:26.520 --> 0:50:30.760
<v Speaker 1>government that actually pays people like the guy that runs

0:50:30.800 --> 0:50:35.040
<v Speaker 1>the gift shop for the Kennedy Museum. That guy was

0:50:35.080 --> 0:50:40.799
<v Speaker 1>going to get his fifty thousand dollars held back. Why

0:50:40.840 --> 0:50:43.840
<v Speaker 1>are we paying somebody a gift shop fifty grand. I

0:50:43.920 --> 0:50:46.320
<v Speaker 1>really want to know more about that story. But this

0:50:47.160 --> 0:50:52.880
<v Speaker 1>is so irritating to me. I'm I'll get over it,

0:50:52.960 --> 0:50:56.360
<v Speaker 1>I know. But Donald Trump did not leave the White House,

0:50:57.400 --> 0:51:00.839
<v Speaker 1>and he tweeted up and down all over since then.

0:51:01.520 --> 0:51:04.080
<v Speaker 1>He even sat with the First Lady and they took

0:51:04.080 --> 0:51:08.320
<v Speaker 1>calls from kids who were waiting for Santa and wanting

0:51:08.360 --> 0:51:11.960
<v Speaker 1>to track stuff. And there was more fake news about that.

0:51:12.040 --> 0:51:15.000
<v Speaker 1>Did you see that story? That story needs to be

0:51:15.440 --> 0:51:19.560
<v Speaker 1>explained as well. The President and the First Lady, for

0:51:19.640 --> 0:51:21.720
<v Speaker 1>the second year in a row, sat and took phone

0:51:21.719 --> 0:51:25.120
<v Speaker 1>calls from kids who were wanting to track Santa Claus.

0:51:26.280 --> 0:51:29.520
<v Speaker 1>And the President talked to one seven year old and

0:51:29.640 --> 0:51:35.360
<v Speaker 1>the media lost its mind, absolutely lost their mind because

0:51:35.400 --> 0:51:40.919
<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump talking to this kid, said do you still

0:51:40.960 --> 0:51:46.200
<v Speaker 1>believe in Santa? Because it's seven? It's marginal, right, And

0:51:46.480 --> 0:51:52.879
<v Speaker 1>the media went absolutely banana bat crap crazy. I think

0:51:52.880 --> 0:52:03.160
<v Speaker 1>I've got it here. We'll marry Christmas. So the President

0:52:03.200 --> 0:52:05.040
<v Speaker 1>and the First later sit in front of a fire.

0:52:05.120 --> 0:52:07.760
<v Speaker 1>Somebody screened a bunch of calls from kids calling Santa.

0:52:07.760 --> 0:52:09.640
<v Speaker 1>And this is a young girl seven years old named

0:52:09.680 --> 0:52:15.160
<v Speaker 1>Cole Coleman and the President says, Merry Christmas, Coleman and

0:52:15.239 --> 0:52:18.520
<v Speaker 1>the kids, you know, answering and being very polite. The

0:52:18.520 --> 0:52:22.600
<v Speaker 1>the media finally got the audio from the other side

0:52:22.640 --> 0:52:24.879
<v Speaker 1>of the conversation, but this is what ticked them off

0:52:24.920 --> 0:52:29.239
<v Speaker 1>so badly. How are you? How are you? How are

0:52:29.320 --> 0:52:44.040
<v Speaker 1>you going? That's good? What a horrible man asking a child?

0:52:44.080 --> 0:52:48.240
<v Speaker 1>Are you doing good in school? What a question? Yeah? Yeah,

0:52:48.560 --> 0:52:58.239
<v Speaker 1>he asked. How he's showing parental concern the kids talking

0:52:58.239 --> 0:53:12.239
<v Speaker 1>about Santa? But now cookies, Well, you just so what

0:53:12.400 --> 0:53:14.759
<v Speaker 1>you can't hear because the idiots in the press corps

0:53:14.760 --> 0:53:19.080
<v Speaker 1>who keep taking pictures and don't the cameras have silent mode.

0:53:19.120 --> 0:53:21.279
<v Speaker 1>You can put your camera in silent mode. And do

0:53:21.320 --> 0:53:25.279
<v Speaker 1>you need fifty thousand pictures of the president doing the

0:53:25.320 --> 0:53:30.839
<v Speaker 1>same thing he's talking on the phone anyway, he said,

0:53:30.960 --> 0:53:34.320
<v Speaker 1>do you still believe in Santa? Because it's it's marginal

0:53:34.440 --> 0:53:39.080
<v Speaker 1>at seven? Right, The media lost their mind. Kid didn't

0:53:39.080 --> 0:53:45.600
<v Speaker 1>know what marginal meant. Everybody just calmed down. But we've

0:53:45.640 --> 0:53:48.319
<v Speaker 1>got more on the President doing good things in the

0:53:48.360 --> 0:53:52.160
<v Speaker 1>fake news media trying to destroy him. Coming up next

0:53:52.640 --> 0:53:55.279
<v Speaker 1>on The Buck Section Show with Michael Pelka, Hanging Out

0:53:55.320 --> 0:53:59.920
<v Speaker 1>with You come on back. Well, Buck does stop occasionally,

0:54:00.760 --> 0:54:04.640
<v Speaker 1>like for holidays Or's birthday, which I think I think

0:54:04.719 --> 0:54:09.440
<v Speaker 1>it's coming up Friday. I think Buck Sexton's birthday is

0:54:09.520 --> 0:54:13.120
<v Speaker 1>this Friday. So we have to plan a special Buck

0:54:13.200 --> 0:54:17.799
<v Speaker 1>Sexton birthday. What do you get the guy who has everything.

0:54:18.520 --> 0:54:21.440
<v Speaker 1>He's got a TV show, he's got a radio show,

0:54:22.840 --> 0:54:27.799
<v Speaker 1>he's got that hair. Maybe you get him. I know

0:54:27.880 --> 0:54:31.640
<v Speaker 1>what you could get Buck Sexton. And this sounds like

0:54:31.680 --> 0:54:35.160
<v Speaker 1>a suck up, and it is. You could download the

0:54:35.200 --> 0:54:38.399
<v Speaker 1>podcast for that day. That would be a good thing.

0:54:40.719 --> 0:54:45.360
<v Speaker 1>You could download the podcast today, you know, because of me.

0:54:45.600 --> 0:54:51.800
<v Speaker 1>Michael Pelca hanging out in the Chicago Free Speech Bunker,

0:54:51.880 --> 0:54:55.680
<v Speaker 1>the original home of the Puro Pelca Free Speech Bunker

0:54:55.840 --> 0:55:00.279
<v Speaker 1>here in Chicago, Illinois. Happy to be here celebrate the

0:55:00.280 --> 0:55:07.439
<v Speaker 1>holidays with my family. And boy, what a day. We

0:55:07.480 --> 0:55:10.600
<v Speaker 1>woke up this morning and everybody was gonna we got

0:55:10.600 --> 0:55:12.880
<v Speaker 1>to go back to work after Christmas. We had the

0:55:13.000 --> 0:55:17.040
<v Speaker 1>horrible downturn in the market for the last few weeks,

0:55:17.040 --> 0:55:20.840
<v Speaker 1>and that don't have the stock market jump one thousand

0:55:20.840 --> 0:55:26.719
<v Speaker 1>and eighty three points today, an all time record. Amazing.

0:55:26.800 --> 0:55:29.480
<v Speaker 1>We talked to Jonathan Honig, the Capitalist Pig about it

0:55:29.680 --> 0:55:35.480
<v Speaker 1>last hour, and he was explaining that this is this

0:55:35.560 --> 0:55:38.120
<v Speaker 1>is a good thing, but don't think we are out

0:55:38.160 --> 0:55:40.680
<v Speaker 1>of the woods just yet. Don't think it's all clear.

0:55:41.840 --> 0:55:44.760
<v Speaker 1>Because the economy has been so good for so long

0:55:44.800 --> 0:55:49.000
<v Speaker 1>that we have to make sure that all the fundamentals

0:55:49.040 --> 0:55:53.600
<v Speaker 1>stay fundamentally strong. And we had a great retail Christmas.

0:55:55.560 --> 0:55:59.440
<v Speaker 1>You saw people like Walmart have a spike. You saw Amazon,

0:55:59.520 --> 0:56:01.920
<v Speaker 1>which so a lot of retail business have a spike,

0:56:02.800 --> 0:56:08.280
<v Speaker 1>and we hope those fundamentals stay strong. The President reportedly

0:56:08.320 --> 0:56:10.720
<v Speaker 1>going to meet with the FED chairman when he gets

0:56:10.719 --> 0:56:15.960
<v Speaker 1>back from his surprise visit to the troops, and maybe

0:56:16.000 --> 0:56:17.920
<v Speaker 1>we'll have a little bit of a change in the

0:56:17.960 --> 0:56:21.239
<v Speaker 1>FED policy. I don't think I don't think so the Fed.

0:56:21.800 --> 0:56:24.399
<v Speaker 1>The FED was very aggressive this year trying to keep

0:56:24.440 --> 0:56:27.520
<v Speaker 1>inflation in control, and they seem to have done that.

0:56:28.840 --> 0:56:32.680
<v Speaker 1>And they've also said that next year, maybe two increases

0:56:33.000 --> 0:56:37.200
<v Speaker 1>in the prime lending rate. We saw four this year,

0:56:37.200 --> 0:56:40.360
<v Speaker 1>and that contributed somewhat to the slowdown in the market.

0:56:40.400 --> 0:56:44.560
<v Speaker 1>But the market also is the market. Nothing goes up forever.

0:56:46.480 --> 0:56:49.120
<v Speaker 1>So getting back to why the President won't meet with

0:56:49.160 --> 0:56:52.160
<v Speaker 1>the FED chair until he gets back, because he went

0:56:52.200 --> 0:56:56.839
<v Speaker 1>to Iraq in a super secret mission, and I was

0:56:56.920 --> 0:57:00.720
<v Speaker 1>listening to some of his remarks to the troops while

0:57:00.760 --> 0:57:02.880
<v Speaker 1>he was there. Let me give you just a little

0:57:02.880 --> 0:57:05.439
<v Speaker 1>sample of what the President said while he was with

0:57:05.480 --> 0:57:11.000
<v Speaker 1>our troops in Iraq surprise visit. America. Shouldn't be doing

0:57:11.120 --> 0:57:17.440
<v Speaker 1>the fighting for every nation on Earth, not being reimbursed

0:57:17.800 --> 0:57:22.000
<v Speaker 1>in many cases at all. If they want us to

0:57:22.040 --> 0:57:25.320
<v Speaker 1>do the fighting, they also have to pay a price,

0:57:25.680 --> 0:57:30.000
<v Speaker 1>and sometimes that's also a monetary price. So we're not

0:57:30.120 --> 0:57:33.440
<v Speaker 1>the suckers of the world. See, I don't mind this.

0:57:34.200 --> 0:57:36.920
<v Speaker 1>A lot of my friends who are uber liberals are

0:57:37.000 --> 0:57:41.960
<v Speaker 1>upset with the president's tone. He went to visit the troops,

0:57:41.960 --> 0:57:44.200
<v Speaker 1>he shook hands, he took pictures, he hung out, and

0:57:44.200 --> 0:57:46.960
<v Speaker 1>then he gave a little speech. He laid out some policy.

0:57:47.000 --> 0:57:49.800
<v Speaker 1>And I don't mind that at all. I don't mind

0:57:49.800 --> 0:57:52.360
<v Speaker 1>the President of the United States saying, yeah, we're strong,

0:57:52.440 --> 0:57:54.600
<v Speaker 1>and we'll try and take care of people and help

0:57:54.600 --> 0:57:57.880
<v Speaker 1>people where we can, but you know, we don't want

0:57:57.920 --> 0:58:03.880
<v Speaker 1>to be suckers. I think he was just fine. He

0:58:03.920 --> 0:58:08.000
<v Speaker 1>added a little more, We're no longer the suckers, folks,

0:58:08.360 --> 0:58:11.720
<v Speaker 1>and people aren't looking at us as suckers, and I

0:58:11.840 --> 0:58:15.880
<v Speaker 1>love you folks because most of you are nodding your

0:58:15.880 --> 0:58:20.479
<v Speaker 1>head this way. We're respected again. As a nation. We're

0:58:20.480 --> 0:58:26.760
<v Speaker 1>respected again. America is safer and pieces more possible because

0:58:26.800 --> 0:58:30.800
<v Speaker 1>of the incredible courage and devotion of every patriot here tonight.

0:58:32.440 --> 0:58:36.760
<v Speaker 1>Some people say, well, maybe somebody comes from the area

0:58:36.920 --> 0:58:40.360
<v Speaker 1>and they hit us on our homeland. If that happens,

0:58:41.000 --> 0:58:45.880
<v Speaker 1>they will suffer consequences over here like nobody has ever

0:58:45.920 --> 0:58:51.040
<v Speaker 1>suffered before. I don't mind that either. I don't mind

0:58:51.080 --> 0:58:55.480
<v Speaker 1>the President of the United States telling our troops that

0:58:55.560 --> 0:58:58.800
<v Speaker 1>if somebody comes and tries to do what was done

0:58:58.800 --> 0:59:01.520
<v Speaker 1>to us on September eleventh, that we will come back

0:59:01.560 --> 0:59:05.840
<v Speaker 1>and we will deliver a punch that is going to

0:59:05.920 --> 0:59:09.960
<v Speaker 1>make anyone else think twice. Donald Trump's a counterpuncher. He's

0:59:09.960 --> 0:59:13.480
<v Speaker 1>always said he was a counterpuncher, but this was this

0:59:13.560 --> 0:59:15.080
<v Speaker 1>was a lot of fun, all right. A little bit

0:59:15.160 --> 0:59:24.000
<v Speaker 1>more from the President, and I hope they hear that

0:59:24.080 --> 0:59:27.360
<v Speaker 1>loud and clear. And that's not a threat. That's going

0:59:27.440 --> 0:59:32.480
<v Speaker 1>to be a fact if anything should happen at all. Nope,

0:59:32.720 --> 0:59:35.080
<v Speaker 1>that's that's not a threat, that's a fact. But he

0:59:35.160 --> 0:59:39.160
<v Speaker 1>will ever have suffered the consequences that they will suffer.

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<v Speaker 1>Just remember I said it. We will honor You're welcome.

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<v Speaker 1>You're welcome. We will honor your service by doing everything

0:59:47.800 --> 0:59:51.400
<v Speaker 1>in our power to defend our homeland and to stop

0:59:51.520 --> 0:59:56.280
<v Speaker 1>terrors from entering America shores. And he's going to deliver

0:59:56.360 --> 0:59:59.280
<v Speaker 1>a little bit of a message about the wall, and

0:59:59.360 --> 1:00:04.880
<v Speaker 1>I like the too, and that includes strengthening of our borders.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if your folks are aware of what's happening.

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<v Speaker 1>We want to have strong borders in the United States,

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<v Speaker 1>and Democrats don't want to let us have strong voters

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<v Speaker 1>only for one reason, you know why, because I want it.

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<v Speaker 1>He's not wrong. We played the clip from Diane Feinstein

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<v Speaker 1>from nineteen ninety four where she talked about America protecting

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<v Speaker 1>its borders and why we need to do it. We've

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<v Speaker 1>played clips from Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and Hillary

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<v Speaker 1>Clinton who all talked about and Barack Obama the need

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<v Speaker 1>for strong borders. They've all voted for wall funding. But

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<v Speaker 1>the only reason they don't want it now, the main

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<v Speaker 1>reason is because of who's in the White House. If

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<v Speaker 1>I said, you know, I think just standing here, look

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<v Speaker 1>at it, all these brilliant young faces. These warriors. You warriors,

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<v Speaker 1>you know you're modern day warriors. That's what you want.

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<v Speaker 1>But you gave me an idea. Just look at it,

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<v Speaker 1>this warrior group. I think I'll say I don't want

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<v Speaker 1>the wall, and then they're going to give it to me.

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<v Speaker 1>I figured out the solution first late. Yeah, he's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>use a little reverse psychology. I love the fact that

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<v Speaker 1>the president went to Iraq again. They pulled this off.

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<v Speaker 1>I would love to get some inside perspective on this,

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<v Speaker 1>and maybe we will in the last hour to give

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<v Speaker 1>you an idea of just what it takes to pull

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<v Speaker 1>off this mission and how much planning. Dana Perino said

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<v Speaker 1>it was at least six weeks. Six weeks and they

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<v Speaker 1>had to get all of the people who were involved

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<v Speaker 1>in the pool, the pool reporters who would be going

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<v Speaker 1>with to agree to be quiet the entire time. The

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<v Speaker 1>fact that nothing leaked spectacular just amazing. The fact that

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<v Speaker 1>the press is they're even more spectacular. But again, the

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<v Speaker 1>fun part of this is looking at what MSNBC and

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<v Speaker 1>the Huffington Post and other outlets have done just today

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<v Speaker 1>talking about the fact that this was the first time

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<v Speaker 1>any president since two thousand and two did not visit

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<v Speaker 1>the troops. This is this is just a wonderful bit

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<v Speaker 1>of schadenfreude to see these people being dragged through their

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<v Speaker 1>own words. And I know, I know I'm not supposed

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<v Speaker 1>to do it, but I'm reveling in seeing what idiots

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<v Speaker 1>they turned out to be. All Right, we talked about idiots.

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<v Speaker 1>Now we need to talk about some incredible people. I

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<v Speaker 1>do have another idiot. To get to him, we will,

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<v Speaker 1>we will get to the idiot who is Hank Johnson,

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<v Speaker 1>because that relates to the border story. And we got

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<v Speaker 1>to go back to the border story a little bit.

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<v Speaker 1>But I want to get into a story, a good

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<v Speaker 1>story about somebody who understands the real meaning of Christmas,

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<v Speaker 1>someone who understands the meaning of sacrifice. I'm talking about

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<v Speaker 1>a young man. And again, I give the millennials a

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<v Speaker 1>hard time all the time. I'm sorry if you are

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<v Speaker 1>a good millennial, but there are so many of your

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<v Speaker 1>kind who gave us the man Bun and some of

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<v Speaker 1>the other hipster crap that's out there. But in the

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<v Speaker 1>case of Brady's singer, he was the eighteenth person taken

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<v Speaker 1>in the recent Major League Baseball Draft, and he was

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<v Speaker 1>a guy who a pitcher has yet to make it

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<v Speaker 1>into the big leagues, but he signed a deal with

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<v Speaker 1>the Kansas City Royals. He got a four point five

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<v Speaker 1>million dollars signing bonus. And what did Brady Singer do

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<v Speaker 1>with a signing bonus. Well, a letter that he wrote

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<v Speaker 1>to his mom and dad explains everything. And you've probably

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<v Speaker 1>seen it this because it's all over the media, but

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<v Speaker 1>it's just spectacular. This is mom reading the letter from

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<v Speaker 1>their child. Dear Mom and Dad, I just want to

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<v Speaker 1>say thank you for everything you've done to help me

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<v Speaker 1>reach my dreams from Woodley Field to Comton State. There's

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<v Speaker 1>actually no way I could have done all this by myself.

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<v Speaker 1>Both of you constantly took off of work and spent

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<v Speaker 1>every dining day just to put my face my small

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<v Speaker 1>appreciation for both of you has never stopped in it

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<v Speaker 1>never will. I will always remember traveling around Forward for baseball,

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<v Speaker 1>trying to chiefly eat and save money, but I never

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<v Speaker 1>could because you both always wanted me to have the

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<v Speaker 1>best stuff to help me pursue my dream. So that story,

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<v Speaker 1>just that part of the story is gut wrenching enough

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<v Speaker 1>and it makes your eyes water. I know I've got

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<v Speaker 1>a little tear in my eye as this mom talks

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<v Speaker 1>about their kid realizing everything they did from Little League

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<v Speaker 1>to now Kaufman Stadium, where the Royals will play if

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<v Speaker 1>he makes the team, and he probably will. The kid's

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<v Speaker 1>a pretty good picture, but this letter, this letter explains

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<v Speaker 1>that he gets what mom and dad have done and

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<v Speaker 1>what so many moms and dads everywhere due for the kids.

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<v Speaker 1>They do everything they can to make their kids have

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<v Speaker 1>an incredible life. And now comes the gift. Let's film

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<v Speaker 1>traveling at dear hotel, food and all those gayways I

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<v Speaker 1>drank is much more than I could ever give you.

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<v Speaker 1>But there's something I want to get to you. She's

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<v Speaker 1>a little stunned at what she's reading and the kid

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<v Speaker 1>is videotaping this. I am paying off the loom from

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<v Speaker 1>the bank. Also, I paid off all your dad as well.

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<v Speaker 1>What now Instead of trying to say money every weekend

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<v Speaker 1>to replace the same as account you drained on towns

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<v Speaker 1>the place, you can stick it on yourselves because you

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<v Speaker 1>deserve the very best. I want you both to know

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<v Speaker 1>how much I appreciate you and how none of this

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<v Speaker 1>would be possible with does you're giving hearts help to

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<v Speaker 1>shape my tiny dream into a reality. I love you

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<v Speaker 1>both more than you could ever imagine and will never

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<v Speaker 1>forget what you both have done. Ellet amazing, amazing, a

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<v Speaker 1>young man on the cusp of success as a pro athlete.

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<v Speaker 1>And we've seen it before, kids who buying their moms homes,

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<v Speaker 1>but this is the moment when you get to see

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<v Speaker 1>the parents' reaction. It's a great Christmas gift. If you

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<v Speaker 1>haven't seen it, I've tweeted on the link to Brady's singer.

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<v Speaker 1>It's b Singer fifty one on the Twitter. You should

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<v Speaker 1>see it. Well done, sir, Well done. Michael pelc and

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<v Speaker 1>for Buck Sexton. On The Buck Sexton Show, we got

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<v Speaker 1>more of the politics and we're gonna put some fun

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<v Speaker 1>at the media for the dumb things they did in

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<v Speaker 1>twenty eighteen. We'll dive into some of that next on

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<v Speaker 1>The Buck Sexton Show. Michael Palcan for Buck Sexton. Buck

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<v Speaker 1>is taking a little pet, a little personal time, and

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<v Speaker 1>he's got a birthday coming up this Friday. I have

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<v Speaker 1>no idea where he's going to be for his birthday,

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<v Speaker 1>so don't ask me. I don't think there's a big party,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, Buck, He'll do it quietly. I'm sure among

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<v Speaker 1>the millions in NYC. If he were in Chicago, I

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<v Speaker 1>would invite him to join me tonight. This was the

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<v Speaker 1>weirdest thing I'm in Chicago, as I've mentioned before, hanging

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<v Speaker 1>out with family and a few friends and staying at

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<v Speaker 1>a hotel because I don't want any member of the

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<v Speaker 1>family to feel jealous that I didn't stay stay at

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<v Speaker 1>their house, so I just try and you know, don't

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<v Speaker 1>show favorites. Also like hotels a lot. And I got

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<v Speaker 1>up this morning and under the door of my hotel

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<v Speaker 1>were two tickets to a concert that's going on tonight,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, wait a minute, what is this? And

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<v Speaker 1>I look down in big bold letters on the ticket

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<v Speaker 1>or bon Jovi, the Scorpions, Deaf Leopard and Poison. I'm thinking, wow,

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<v Speaker 1>that's a big show, a tribute to eighties medal bon Jovi,

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<v Speaker 1>the Scorpions, def Leopard and Poison. And something then is

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<v Speaker 1>wrong with this, obviously, something very wrong with this. When

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<v Speaker 1>you realize the word tribute, this means this is a

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<v Speaker 1>bunch of tribute bands. So it's not gonna be like

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<v Speaker 1>Deaf Leopard. It's gonna be like Fred Leopard or something,

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<v Speaker 1>or Band Jovi. It won't be bon Jovis. This is

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<v Speaker 1>a tribute bands. But why were these put under my door?

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<v Speaker 1>Why have I been given a pair of tickets to

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<v Speaker 1>an eighties hair band extravagance. I'm not going needless to say,

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<v Speaker 1>but somebody will. I will get to the mainstream media's

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<v Speaker 1>most embarrassing moments of the year. But I have to

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<v Speaker 1>give you something that irritated me. We talked about politicizing

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<v Speaker 1>tragedy and how Alexandria Kazu Cortez and Beto O'Rourke have

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<v Speaker 1>already tried to do it. But Hank Johnson, congressman from

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<v Speaker 1>the fourth District in Georgia, was trying to make a

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<v Speaker 1>point with Secretary Nielsen, Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen last week

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<v Speaker 1>when this exchange happened. How many children seventeen years old

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<v Speaker 1>or younger have died in DHS ice or CBP custody

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<v Speaker 1>since you took office. I will get back to you

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<v Speaker 1>on that figure. What I can tell you is that

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<v Speaker 1>we have saved four thousand, two hundred migrants who were

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<v Speaker 1>out distressed. You literally, how many have died? I understand

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<v Speaker 1>your question, stir, I will get back to you. Can

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<v Speaker 1>you give me an approximate figure. I will get back

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<v Speaker 1>to you. I'm not going to guess on I love

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<v Speaker 1>Nielsen for saying this. I'm not going to give you

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<v Speaker 1>an approximate, sir, not under oath. And this guy's just

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<v Speaker 1>looking for some sort of gotcha moment, because that's what

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<v Speaker 1>these hearings are about, both left and right. But this

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<v Speaker 1>guy's adult. If you don't know who Hank Johnson is,

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<v Speaker 1>he keeps getting reelected, especially after saying idiotic things like

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<v Speaker 1>this about Guam. My fear is that the whole island

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<v Speaker 1>will become so overly populated that it will tip over

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<v Speaker 1>and cap size. We don't anticipate that. The Guam population

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<v Speaker 1>I think currently about one hundred and seventy five. I

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<v Speaker 1>love this admiral, just trying to give an answer to

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<v Speaker 1>this idiot. What's dumber though, Hank Johnson, the guy who

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<v Speaker 1>thinks Guam could flip over, or the people who keep

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<v Speaker 1>reelecting him. Michael Pelkin from Johnson, Buck Johnson? Who's he?

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<v Speaker 1>Buck Sexton? Come on back? It is the Buck Sexton Show.

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<v Speaker 1>Michael Pelka sitting in for my friend Buck Sexton. Merry

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<v Speaker 1>Christmas to you and yours. Hope you're ramping up for

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<v Speaker 1>New Year's to the two of you in the country

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<v Speaker 1>celebrating a happy quanza. You know, first day of quanza

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<v Speaker 1>started nineteen sixty six. What a I'm not going to

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<v Speaker 1>get into it. I have breaking news. Donald Trump lands

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<v Speaker 1>at US base in Germany for refueling plans to meet

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<v Speaker 1>troops station there. So not only did the President surprise

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<v Speaker 1>us with a trip to Iraq and the visit with

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<v Speaker 1>the troops, the President and the First Lady and their

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<v Speaker 1>contingent have now landed in Germany and there will be

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<v Speaker 1>another stop and another visit with the troops. I think

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<v Speaker 1>that's spectacular and it's another finger in the eye of

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<v Speaker 1>MSNBC NBC, The Huffington Post a Lissa Milano, my old

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<v Speaker 1>buddy Mantel Williams, who all were crowing about this president

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<v Speaker 1>hasn't visited the troops, the first president since two thousand

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<v Speaker 1>and two not to visit the troops. Well we've changed

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<v Speaker 1>that one, haven't we. So good for you, mister president.

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<v Speaker 1>Good for you. And also today what a remarkable day

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<v Speaker 1>the president seeing the market sort of rebound. Now will

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<v Speaker 1>the stock market continue? Is this the base? Did we

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<v Speaker 1>finally have a bottom in the market that we saw

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<v Speaker 1>firm up today. A thousand point jump today, one thousand

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<v Speaker 1>point rise, a record setting in any single day. This

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<v Speaker 1>is the most and it's got to be killing people

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<v Speaker 1>who were counting on the market. And imagine people for

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<v Speaker 1>the stock market to tank, Imagine people there are because

1:13:04.840 --> 1:13:09.040
<v Speaker 1>there are people who dislike this president so much that

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<v Speaker 1>they want the stock market to take a giant dump

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<v Speaker 1>and basically kill the retirement of so many millions of Americans.

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<v Speaker 1>Just insanity, But that's where we are with Trump arrangement syndrome.

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<v Speaker 1>So I hope this is the sign the markets firming up.

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<v Speaker 1>If you read the Wall Street Journal, and you should,

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<v Speaker 1>by the way, it's not just about the stock market.

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<v Speaker 1>I think some of the stuff in the Wall Street

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<v Speaker 1>Journal is the best reporting on every topic you could want,

1:13:43.320 --> 1:13:47.559
<v Speaker 1>from movies, food and just crazy stories that you never

1:13:47.680 --> 1:13:52.000
<v Speaker 1>hear about in mainstream media. But the market. It is

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<v Speaker 1>a reflection of what we read about in the Wall

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<v Speaker 1>Street Journal the last couple of days, saying that the

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<v Speaker 1>retail environment is so strong, the underlying fundamentals of the

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<v Speaker 1>retail environment were driving a lot of what happened on

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<v Speaker 1>Wall Street today. So good, good for you, Wall Street,

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<v Speaker 1>Good for you. American economy and ha ha to all

1:14:13.280 --> 1:14:18.479
<v Speaker 1>the people who are pooh pooing what America's economy is doing.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm very happy about that. By the way, there

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<v Speaker 1>are pictures coming out now and this has got to

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<v Speaker 1>kill CNN too. CNN is being forced to show troops

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<v Speaker 1>bringing Trump hats to have the President signed their hats.

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<v Speaker 1>But what does CNN do instead of focusing on the

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<v Speaker 1>fact that the President made this giant secret trip to

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<v Speaker 1>the Middle East to Iraq to support our troops and

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<v Speaker 1>have the First Lady with him, And they're showing pictures

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<v Speaker 1>of the troops holding up the hats that they brought,

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<v Speaker 1>the make America Great hats, the red hats you know

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<v Speaker 1>we're talking about, and he's signing some of the hats

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<v Speaker 1>for some of these soldiers, volunteers, I might remind you,

1:15:06.720 --> 1:15:10.800
<v Speaker 1>people who are away from their families, their wives, their girlfriends,

1:15:10.840 --> 1:15:16.759
<v Speaker 1>their boyfriends, their babies, putting their butts on the line.

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<v Speaker 1>And what does CNN focus on. Donald Trump made his

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<v Speaker 1>first visit to a war zone, received an enthusiastic reception,

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<v Speaker 1>and some of these soldiers may have violated military rules

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<v Speaker 1>by asking the President to sign their Trump hats. What

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<v Speaker 1>is wrong with you, CNN, You are a giant Agua

1:15:42.400 --> 1:15:45.360
<v Speaker 1>Fiesta says we used to call people in Texas. You

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<v Speaker 1>are a giant wet blanket. Presidents signing Make America Great

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<v Speaker 1>Again hats an embroidered patch that reads twenty twenty. Will

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<v Speaker 1>the DoD actually get upset about this? He's your president,

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<v Speaker 1>he's their commander, and you've already got retired Rear Admiral

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<v Speaker 1>John Kirby, who was on CNN all the time saying,

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<v Speaker 1>this is a campaign slogan, it's a campaign item. It's

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<v Speaker 1>completely inappropriate for troops to do this. Give me a break.

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<v Speaker 1>I rolled my eyes so far back I saw my

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<v Speaker 1>own brain when I read this. Thank you Kirby, you

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<v Speaker 1>toad and CNN. Is this transitions into my take on

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<v Speaker 1>the mainstream media. The mainstream media in twenty eighteen embarrass themselves,

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<v Speaker 1>embarrass themselves beyond belief. And so I combed through my files,

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<v Speaker 1>my audio files to find what I considered me the

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<v Speaker 1>tip five most embarrassing moments of the mainstream media from

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<v Speaker 1>twenty eighteen, and I compiled them here for you, and

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<v Speaker 1>I will count them backwards from number five to number

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<v Speaker 1>one for you, and maybe even do it in Casey

1:17:14.200 --> 1:17:17.719
<v Speaker 1>case in fashion is the late Casey Casum would have done.

1:17:18.400 --> 1:17:24.360
<v Speaker 1>I made a fortune counting backwards. So you may disagree

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<v Speaker 1>with me, you may agree with me, but we will

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<v Speaker 1>focus on the mainstream media. I will get to wag

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<v Speaker 1>my finger at them and say, shame on you, you toads.

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<v Speaker 1>So coming in at number five is the mainstream media

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<v Speaker 1>says obsession with what they believe are bombshell reports that

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<v Speaker 1>they hope will sink the president. Here's number five, a

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<v Speaker 1>bombshell report. This is a bombshell, This is a bombshell.

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<v Speaker 1>This bombshell dropped the bombshell, and the dropped the bombshell,

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<v Speaker 1>the bombshell. That's a bombshell. Now this latest bombshell out

1:18:00.280 --> 1:18:05.760
<v Speaker 1>that bombshow accusation, bombshell accusation? That was the bombshell I

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<v Speaker 1>could have used in conjunction with bombshell. Also, the walls

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<v Speaker 1>are caving in or this is the beginning of the end.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't tell you how many times bombshell report was

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<v Speaker 1>joined by the walls are caving in or the beginning

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<v Speaker 1>of the end. And yet here we are two years

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<v Speaker 1>into the presidency. And some of those came from early

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<v Speaker 1>twenty seventeen, right after the inauguration, a bombshell report, another

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<v Speaker 1>Bombshow well, if you thought that was an embarrassing moment,

1:18:39.680 --> 1:18:43.920
<v Speaker 1>the mainstream media was tripping all over itself all last

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<v Speaker 1>year to try and elevate the status of one of

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<v Speaker 1>the weasleyest characters I think I've ever seen in the

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<v Speaker 1>political spectrum, the guy who managed to corral Stormy Daniels

1:18:58.240 --> 1:19:02.240
<v Speaker 1>and represent her in her efforts to go after Donald Trump,

1:19:02.800 --> 1:19:06.400
<v Speaker 1>and then he also tried to take down Judge Kavanaugh

1:19:06.640 --> 1:19:10.880
<v Speaker 1>before he became Justice Kavanaugh. Of course, I'm talking about

1:19:10.920 --> 1:19:14.880
<v Speaker 1>the one, the only, the super slimy Michael Avanati. So

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<v Speaker 1>coming in at number four and the media's most embarrassing

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<v Speaker 1>moments of twenty eighteen, here's the Abanati factor. Hid your children,

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<v Speaker 1>hid your loved ones. You know. My first guest tonight

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<v Speaker 1>from television, please welcome Michael Avanati. Joining me now is

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<v Speaker 1>Froming Daniels attorney, Michael Avanti. Michael Avanati is with us now.

1:19:36.600 --> 1:19:39.280
<v Speaker 1>Michael Avanati joins us now. Now we've got the man

1:19:39.320 --> 1:19:41.800
<v Speaker 1>who put her in front of the cameras, her attorney,

1:19:42.080 --> 1:19:44.919
<v Speaker 1>Michael Avanati, and join I mean now from Los Angeles

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<v Speaker 1>is Michael Avanati. Michael Avanati, Michael the guy was given

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<v Speaker 1>more free media time by every single liberal outlet, everyone,

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<v Speaker 1>and it was relentless. As long as he could fight

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<v Speaker 1>some kind of smear that they could slap on the president,

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<v Speaker 1>they were willing to forgive whatever Michael Avenati was really

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<v Speaker 1>all about. And after the Kavanaugh stuff, I think that

1:20:13.960 --> 1:20:18.519
<v Speaker 1>was his downfall. We hear reportedly Avanati had to sell

1:20:18.560 --> 1:20:22.519
<v Speaker 1>his ferrari in order to pay off his considerable debts.

1:20:23.479 --> 1:20:26.840
<v Speaker 1>And then there were the allegations of domestic abuse. So

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know where those stand right now, so it

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<v Speaker 1>won't comment on those. But the fact that this guy

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<v Speaker 1>went from slimy lawyer to actual twenty twenty Democratic possible

1:20:37.160 --> 1:20:43.400
<v Speaker 1>nominee is beyond embarrassing to the mainstream media. But that

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<v Speaker 1>was only number four. Moving up a notch to number

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<v Speaker 1>three is the relentless character assassination that the mainstream media

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<v Speaker 1>tried to slap on the President of the United States.

1:20:57.360 --> 1:21:00.840
<v Speaker 1>And it really was relentless. It was it was ridiculous,

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<v Speaker 1>It was non stop. They went after every single kind

1:21:05.200 --> 1:21:09.800
<v Speaker 1>of slam or insult they could. And so at number

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<v Speaker 1>three for twenty eighteenth most embarrassing Moments, from the mainstream media.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's the media attacking the president. It's obviously racist, he's

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<v Speaker 1>obviously demagogue. He obviously condones anti Semitism. That's what happened

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<v Speaker 1>in Nazi Germany. It's not even a question of whether

1:21:25.840 --> 1:21:30.680
<v Speaker 1>it's presidential behavior or not. It's not minimally human behavior.

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<v Speaker 1>This has now become a struggle about good versus evil,

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<v Speaker 1>and the President of the United States is evil. Howard Dean.

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<v Speaker 1>The last voice you heard there was former DNC chair

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<v Speaker 1>and governor Howard Dean calling the President of the United

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<v Speaker 1>States evil. And as you hear that, as you are

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<v Speaker 1>hearing that news, the president is on a very difficult trip.

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<v Speaker 1>He and the First Lady took from the United States

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<v Speaker 1>to Iraq to visit our troops, and then now they're

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<v Speaker 1>in Germany refueling, stopping and visiting the troops again after

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<v Speaker 1>they spent time working all through the Christmas holiday, while

1:22:14.680 --> 1:22:17.479
<v Speaker 1>Chuck and Nancy Chancy as we call them, and all

1:22:17.520 --> 1:22:21.439
<v Speaker 1>the Democrats went home, and Howard Dean, the guy who

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<v Speaker 1>remembers scuttled his own political career with this scream after

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<v Speaker 1>a win. I think in Iowa that primal scream killed

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<v Speaker 1>Howard Dean's political career, and now he's out there saying

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<v Speaker 1>the President of the United States is the evil evil.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know what the media considers now worse than

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<v Speaker 1>President Trump. This is remarkable to me, the mainstream media

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<v Speaker 1>and the second most embarrassing moments from twenty eighteen. It's

1:22:56.400 --> 1:23:00.559
<v Speaker 1>in a montage where we had the mainstream media deciding,

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<v Speaker 1>if they can't have a bombshell walls caving in beginning

1:23:04.479 --> 1:23:07.480
<v Speaker 1>of the end attack on the president, if Michael Avanadi

1:23:07.560 --> 1:23:11.520
<v Speaker 1>can't bring him down, if they can't call him a racist, misogynist,

1:23:11.640 --> 1:23:15.639
<v Speaker 1>whatever else they called him, If that can't bring him down,

1:23:16.840 --> 1:23:20.599
<v Speaker 1>then they have to turn their laser weapons on you

1:23:20.680 --> 1:23:24.920
<v Speaker 1>and I are anyone who voted for the president. The

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<v Speaker 1>second most embarrassing moment in the media, the mainstream media

1:23:29.360 --> 1:23:33.840
<v Speaker 1>of twenty eighteen, to least for me, was when the

1:23:33.880 --> 1:23:37.720
<v Speaker 1>media decided that you and I were the problem. At

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<v Speaker 1>number two, here's the mainstream media embarrassing itself by calling

1:23:43.080 --> 1:23:47.080
<v Speaker 1>us Trump voters evil. We can no longer say Trump's

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<v Speaker 1>the bad guy. If you vote for Trump, you're the

1:23:50.880 --> 1:23:54.280
<v Speaker 1>bad guy. Tens of millions of people voted for him.

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<v Speaker 1>Are you suggesting that they're racist? Or there. Yes, the

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<v Speaker 1>people who vote all the people who vote for truer. Yes,

1:24:01.000 --> 1:24:05.320
<v Speaker 1>if you vote for Trump, then you the voter, You

1:24:05.479 --> 1:24:10.000
<v Speaker 1>not Donald Trump, are standing at the border like Nazis.

1:24:10.080 --> 1:24:14.959
<v Speaker 1>Those people who are supporting what he's doing here are racist,

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<v Speaker 1>period period. Thank you meathead. That was Rob Reiner, director

1:24:21.920 --> 1:24:25.160
<v Speaker 1>Rob Reiner, saying that anybody who voted for Donald Trump

1:24:25.280 --> 1:24:30.599
<v Speaker 1>is racist, period. Second most embarrassing group of media moments

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<v Speaker 1>Michael Pelke in for my buddy Buck Sexton. Michael Palke

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<v Speaker 1>here for Buck Sexton. Tonight on the night after Christmas,

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<v Speaker 1>hope you had a great Christmas. Hope you had a

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<v Speaker 1>great holiday so far, and that the new year is

1:25:53.760 --> 1:25:58.240
<v Speaker 1>going to bring you prosperity and joy and happiness. We've

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<v Speaker 1>been talking about all the news of the day, including

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<v Speaker 1>the breaking news of the President's surprise trip to the

1:26:04.760 --> 1:26:08.320
<v Speaker 1>troops in Iraq and now in Germany, and just the

1:26:08.520 --> 1:26:12.040
<v Speaker 1>remarkable day on Wall Street with the record setting bump

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<v Speaker 1>of a thousand and eighty three points. Today huge and

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<v Speaker 1>last break. We were beginning our countdown of the top

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<v Speaker 1>five most embarrassing moments in the media of twenty eighteen,

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<v Speaker 1>and there have been a lot, but we had a

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<v Speaker 1>montage of the mainstream media obsessed with saying a bombshell

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<v Speaker 1>report about Donald Trump, a bombshell from the mullarca bombshell,

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<v Speaker 1>And then we heard about the way they constantly talk

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<v Speaker 1>about the beginning of the end, and the walls are

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<v Speaker 1>closing in and this is all falling apart. It's just

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<v Speaker 1>a maddening And at number four was Michael Levanatti the

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<v Speaker 1>elevation of this. He would be what we would have

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<v Speaker 1>called an ambulance chaser in the past, an attorney who

1:27:02.000 --> 1:27:07.320
<v Speaker 1>just chases up sleazy cases. And he actually was given

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<v Speaker 1>serious consideration as a twenty twenty presidential candidate for the Democrats,

1:27:12.720 --> 1:27:14.719
<v Speaker 1>saying he's got to be the guy who's not afraid

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<v Speaker 1>of Donald Trump. And a number three the mainstream it

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<v Speaker 1>is constant denigration of the president, saying he's a racist, misogynist,

1:27:22.880 --> 1:27:27.920
<v Speaker 1>all the stuff that just doesn't have any backup to it.

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<v Speaker 1>Number two, the mainstream media went after you and went

1:27:32.479 --> 1:27:36.919
<v Speaker 1>after me because they couldn't take down the president. Their

1:27:37.000 --> 1:27:42.120
<v Speaker 1>attacks were falling short, so now they focused on isolating

1:27:42.160 --> 1:27:45.280
<v Speaker 1>you and I and saying that anybody who voted for

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump was a racist. This is pure Saul Olinsky.

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<v Speaker 1>Go and get Rules for Radicals and over the break

1:27:54.600 --> 1:27:58.479
<v Speaker 1>reread Rules for Radicals. You'll see how the left uses

1:27:58.520 --> 1:28:03.040
<v Speaker 1>all this perfect Olinsky tactics. At least they're trying to

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<v Speaker 1>use it that way. But the number one most offensive

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<v Speaker 1>media moment came from a CNN host who I watch

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<v Speaker 1>just because I want to see how ridiculous he is

1:28:16.680 --> 1:28:19.919
<v Speaker 1>and I want to call him out when his Bravo

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<v Speaker 1>Sierra needs to be called out. And so this is

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<v Speaker 1>my number one pick for the mainstream media's most embarrassing

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<v Speaker 1>moment of twenty eighteen. It comes from a guy who

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<v Speaker 1>has his own show and is paid just a ton

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<v Speaker 1>of money to host a nightly show on CNN. It

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<v Speaker 1>comes from the one and only Don Lemon at number

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<v Speaker 1>one with the most embarrassing media moment of twenty eighteen.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's Don Lemon. The biggest terror threat in this country

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<v Speaker 1>is white men. Most of them radicalize to the right,

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<v Speaker 1>and we have to start doing something about them. Wait

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<v Speaker 1>what bla blah blah blah. The most the biggest threat

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<v Speaker 1>to America is white men. Radicalized white men is the

1:29:13.560 --> 1:29:17.200
<v Speaker 1>biggest threat and most of them have been radicalized, and

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<v Speaker 1>that we have to do something about them. What what?

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<v Speaker 1>What would you have us do? Don Lemon? What would

1:29:24.520 --> 1:29:27.200
<v Speaker 1>you have us do? This? I remind you of the

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<v Speaker 1>same down Lemon, who on New Year's Eve gets hammered

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<v Speaker 1>on CNN. Gone gone again, Man, you look very handsome.

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<v Speaker 1>Happy New Year to go. Hey, we hope so. Don

1:29:42.920 --> 1:29:45.920
<v Speaker 1>Lemon's hammered on CNN every New Year's Eve and he

1:29:45.920 --> 1:29:48.880
<v Speaker 1>gets to do his job while he's drunk, and he's

1:29:48.920 --> 1:29:52.360
<v Speaker 1>allowed to say that the biggest problem in America are

1:29:52.400 --> 1:29:58.560
<v Speaker 1>the white males. Something to remember about Don Lemon. His

1:29:58.880 --> 1:30:04.759
<v Speaker 1>boyfriend who we met last year is a white male.

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<v Speaker 1>Don Lemon, are you doing something about that? It's so embarrassing.

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<v Speaker 1>I gotta take a break. Come on back, Michael Pelka

1:30:14.880 --> 1:30:18.680
<v Speaker 1>and for Buck Sexton on The Buck Sexton Show. And

1:30:18.880 --> 1:30:22.439
<v Speaker 1>I'm holding the line for Buck. Michael Pelka is back

1:30:22.560 --> 1:30:25.800
<v Speaker 1>for Buck, who's got a little break going on leading

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<v Speaker 1>up to his birthday Friday. Good for you, Happy birthday, Buck,

1:30:29.000 --> 1:30:34.320
<v Speaker 1>Merry Christmas to you, Merry Christmas to everybody, and hopefully

1:30:34.400 --> 1:30:37.520
<v Speaker 1>the new year will bring us more of the feelings

1:30:37.560 --> 1:30:42.920
<v Speaker 1>we had today. Today was a terrific day. Day after Christmas,

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<v Speaker 1>back to work, dreading what could be? You know, another

1:30:45.880 --> 1:30:48.360
<v Speaker 1>bad day on Wall Street and we have a record setter.

1:30:49.080 --> 1:30:52.240
<v Speaker 1>We had a miraculous day today and then the news

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<v Speaker 1>of the President going to visit our troops overseas in

1:30:56.000 --> 1:31:01.080
<v Speaker 1>a secret mission, and now after visiting the troops in

1:31:01.120 --> 1:31:05.519
<v Speaker 1>iraqis in Germany. So a great day, a great day

1:31:05.520 --> 1:31:09.439
<v Speaker 1>all around for America. So God bless us and thank you,

1:31:10.400 --> 1:31:13.360
<v Speaker 1>thank you. It's important to be thankful. I realized that

1:31:13.400 --> 1:31:15.960
<v Speaker 1>more and more, and it doesn't cost you anything to

1:31:16.040 --> 1:31:20.240
<v Speaker 1>be thankful and grateful. I mentioned earlier a couple of

1:31:20.240 --> 1:31:22.680
<v Speaker 1>things that caught my eye, and I've been yammering on

1:31:22.760 --> 1:31:24.960
<v Speaker 1>some topics for so long, I don't know if I'll

1:31:24.960 --> 1:31:29.559
<v Speaker 1>get to everything. But I did say that alcohol and

1:31:29.640 --> 1:31:32.600
<v Speaker 1>coffee can help you live past ninety according to a

1:31:32.680 --> 1:31:38.320
<v Speaker 1>new study. Researchers say they found people who drink moderate

1:31:38.320 --> 1:31:42.040
<v Speaker 1>amounts of beer or wine along with two cups of

1:31:42.040 --> 1:31:47.880
<v Speaker 1>coffee increased their chances for a longer life. So you

1:31:47.880 --> 1:31:50.519
<v Speaker 1>can have a couple of cups of coffee and moderate

1:31:50.600 --> 1:31:55.280
<v Speaker 1>amounts of beer or wine. I've got you covered on this,

1:31:55.479 --> 1:31:59.200
<v Speaker 1>except they don't drink coffee. The key word, of course,

1:31:59.320 --> 1:32:02.519
<v Speaker 1>is modern. And they called this study which has been

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<v Speaker 1>going on since two thousand and three, and they've been

1:32:07.640 --> 1:32:16.599
<v Speaker 1>examining people who are ninety years old nonagenarians. Seventeen hundred

1:32:16.680 --> 1:32:23.120
<v Speaker 1>nonagenarians have been monitored since two thousand and three trying

1:32:23.120 --> 1:32:26.000
<v Speaker 1>to find the key to living to a ninetieth birthday

1:32:26.120 --> 1:32:29.479
<v Speaker 1>and beyond. And they found, among other things, that people

1:32:29.479 --> 1:32:32.519
<v Speaker 1>who drank moderate amounts of alcohol or coffee lived longer

1:32:32.560 --> 1:32:36.439
<v Speaker 1>than those who abstained. And they also found that people

1:32:36.479 --> 1:32:40.799
<v Speaker 1>who were overweight in their seventies lived longer than normal

1:32:41.080 --> 1:32:45.799
<v Speaker 1>or underweight people did. So isn't that a little bit comforting?

1:32:45.920 --> 1:32:48.400
<v Speaker 1>Everybody's got a couple extra pounds. I know the year

1:32:48.479 --> 1:32:51.040
<v Speaker 1>was so busy, you didn't have time to lose ten pounds.

1:32:52.000 --> 1:32:56.880
<v Speaker 1>But they don't have an explanation for it yet. But

1:32:57.000 --> 1:33:01.960
<v Speaker 1>the one of the researchers, doctor Cluttie Cowis, a key

1:33:02.000 --> 1:33:07.599
<v Speaker 1>researcher in the study, said that she firmly believes that

1:33:07.840 --> 1:33:13.320
<v Speaker 1>modest drinking improves longevity. They found that two glasses of

1:33:13.400 --> 1:33:17.760
<v Speaker 1>beer wine every day decrease the chances of premature death

1:33:17.800 --> 1:33:19.920
<v Speaker 1>by eighteen percent. Now I get a lot of heat

1:33:19.960 --> 1:33:23.760
<v Speaker 1>because I openly admit to drinking wine virtually every day.

1:33:24.760 --> 1:33:27.679
<v Speaker 1>I don't drink to excess, I don't drink to get drunk.

1:33:27.760 --> 1:33:31.000
<v Speaker 1>I enjoy a glass of wine or two and sometimes

1:33:31.120 --> 1:33:36.719
<v Speaker 1>a third. And I promote responsible drinking and not drinking

1:33:36.720 --> 1:33:42.920
<v Speaker 1>and driving. But this is good news. They still say

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<v Speaker 1>exercise is good and I agree. I think you have

1:33:46.000 --> 1:33:49.439
<v Speaker 1>to be able to endure your life, not just to

1:33:49.479 --> 1:33:53.960
<v Speaker 1>sit there like a blob. But alcohol and coffee now

1:33:54.200 --> 1:33:58.519
<v Speaker 1>being we are now being told alcohol and coffee can

1:33:58.680 --> 1:34:04.080
<v Speaker 1>lead you to a beyond the age of ninety and

1:34:04.200 --> 1:34:06.800
<v Speaker 1>even a couple of extra pounds. This, I bring good

1:34:06.840 --> 1:34:12.559
<v Speaker 1>news from the world of Sid's people. This fantastic news.

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<v Speaker 1>Now this other study, I mentioned it earlier. They claimed

1:34:18.280 --> 1:34:24.519
<v Speaker 1>seventy percent of the people in the country adults, seventy

1:34:24.520 --> 1:34:30.680
<v Speaker 1>percent of the people in the country had conjugal relations

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<v Speaker 1>on Christmas Day. I thought about this and I said, now,

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<v Speaker 1>how did they get this figure? How did they get

1:34:37.720 --> 1:34:40.479
<v Speaker 1>to this? Well, they used a couple of things to

1:34:40.760 --> 1:34:47.040
<v Speaker 1>figure it out. One is births babies. They tracked when

1:34:47.080 --> 1:34:50.280
<v Speaker 1>babies were born, and they back timed it basically. And

1:34:50.400 --> 1:34:52.479
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if you've done this, but as one

1:34:52.520 --> 1:34:55.320
<v Speaker 1>of nine kids, I know that we have in over

1:34:55.360 --> 1:34:57.519
<v Speaker 1>the course of the years, tried to figure out when

1:34:57.720 --> 1:35:03.519
<v Speaker 1>we were created, at what point where each one of

1:35:03.640 --> 1:35:07.599
<v Speaker 1>us the spark of our lives started. So they go

1:35:07.680 --> 1:35:14.080
<v Speaker 1>back from birth months from August and September, and those

1:35:14.160 --> 1:35:18.160
<v Speaker 1>seem to have a corresponding relationship to this study of

1:35:18.560 --> 1:35:22.720
<v Speaker 1>Americans being frisky during the winter months, especially during the

1:35:22.760 --> 1:35:26.519
<v Speaker 1>holiday season, when cuddling is very very much a part

1:35:26.520 --> 1:35:31.760
<v Speaker 1>of our culture. And they are now saying, according to

1:35:31.800 --> 1:35:35.160
<v Speaker 1>this survey, which does come from a company that oddly

1:35:35.240 --> 1:35:38.960
<v Speaker 1>enough makes its money by selling what we would call

1:35:39.640 --> 1:35:45.720
<v Speaker 1>adult devices, but they're saying Eden Fantasies put together this

1:35:46.200 --> 1:35:50.320
<v Speaker 1>study in the statistics that say seventy percent of adults

1:35:50.400 --> 1:35:56.120
<v Speaker 1>claimed they had sex on Christmas Day, I'm questioning their facts,

1:35:57.000 --> 1:36:01.040
<v Speaker 1>just saying I'm not sure if that's completely accurate. Also,

1:36:01.120 --> 1:36:03.519
<v Speaker 1>I'm here in Chicago, and one of the big news

1:36:03.520 --> 1:36:08.120
<v Speaker 1>stories today in Chicago, there's two news stories that involve

1:36:08.439 --> 1:36:13.120
<v Speaker 1>the Windy City here. One of them talks about the

1:36:13.200 --> 1:36:19.880
<v Speaker 1>planned January nineteenth Women's March, which has now been scuttled.

1:36:20.880 --> 1:36:26.280
<v Speaker 1>Chicago had set up plans for yet another annual women's march,

1:36:27.040 --> 1:36:30.240
<v Speaker 1>and they're canceling this one. The save the date card

1:36:30.280 --> 1:36:33.439
<v Speaker 1>you got is invalid. Take it off the fridge. Go

1:36:33.560 --> 1:36:36.240
<v Speaker 1>to the Facebook page of the Women's March in Chicago

1:36:36.280 --> 1:36:39.599
<v Speaker 1>if you want to see what happened. Now, Why why

1:36:39.720 --> 1:36:43.680
<v Speaker 1>was this march, which has had hundreds of thousands of

1:36:43.800 --> 1:36:50.360
<v Speaker 1>women attend in the past. Why was this cancel. Oh,

1:36:50.400 --> 1:36:52.880
<v Speaker 1>it's a little problem with the leaders of the march.

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<v Speaker 1>Sarah Kerensky, the Women's March Chicago board member, says, there's

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<v Speaker 1>no march, there's no route. We're going to provide ways

1:37:01.680 --> 1:37:05.240
<v Speaker 1>for people to organize and take action in their local communities.

1:37:05.600 --> 1:37:11.040
<v Speaker 1>The problem is members of the Women's March are associated

1:37:11.080 --> 1:37:15.400
<v Speaker 1>with bad people, people like, Oh, I don't know, Louis Farrakhan,

1:37:15.520 --> 1:37:20.280
<v Speaker 1>one of the biggest antisemites on the planet, a guy

1:37:20.320 --> 1:37:26.320
<v Speaker 1>whose organization, the Nation of Islam, openly hates Jews. And

1:37:26.400 --> 1:37:30.320
<v Speaker 1>when you talk about Judaism as a gutter religion and

1:37:30.400 --> 1:37:33.000
<v Speaker 1>you talk about the Jews as the enemy of you,

1:37:34.640 --> 1:37:40.960
<v Speaker 1>I got a problem with that, Minister Farrakhan. So the

1:37:41.000 --> 1:37:46.080
<v Speaker 1>Women's March, which has some people who are associated with

1:37:46.920 --> 1:37:51.800
<v Speaker 1>Louis Farrakhan, and they've been asked, some of the women

1:37:51.840 --> 1:37:55.160
<v Speaker 1>have been asked to resign and they haven't. They've been

1:37:55.160 --> 1:37:58.400
<v Speaker 1>asked to resign over the relationship with Farrakhan, a really

1:37:58.439 --> 1:38:04.200
<v Speaker 1>bad guy, and yet they wouldn't. So the Women's March

1:38:04.280 --> 1:38:08.280
<v Speaker 1>got heat here in Chicago and they've canceled it. The

1:38:08.360 --> 1:38:12.560
<v Speaker 1>other woman who's involved with this women's march, Linda Sarsour,

1:38:12.840 --> 1:38:16.240
<v Speaker 1>who I think is a dangerous individual. She's someone who

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<v Speaker 1>would support sharia law. She's a woman. You've seen her

1:38:18.720 --> 1:38:23.200
<v Speaker 1>with the head scarf. I saw her rallying in the DC.

1:38:23.439 --> 1:38:27.600
<v Speaker 1>I was in the Senate building covering the women's me

1:38:27.800 --> 1:38:31.920
<v Speaker 1>two angry moments inside the Senate building during the Kavanaugh hearing,

1:38:31.960 --> 1:38:38.040
<v Speaker 1>said Linda Sarsour was there rallying the sisters against Kavanaugh's nomination.

1:38:40.000 --> 1:38:42.839
<v Speaker 1>She's someone who has campaigned for people who support sharia

1:38:42.960 --> 1:38:46.200
<v Speaker 1>law in America, people in Michigan who were running for office.

1:38:46.280 --> 1:38:50.240
<v Speaker 1>Thank god they didn't win. And I would tend to

1:38:50.280 --> 1:38:52.920
<v Speaker 1>believe that Sarceur is probably somebody who does not have

1:38:52.960 --> 1:38:56.600
<v Speaker 1>a problem with female genital mutilation. I haven't had a

1:38:56.680 --> 1:38:59.120
<v Speaker 1>chance to ask her that question, but I seem to

1:38:59.120 --> 1:39:02.640
<v Speaker 1>recall there may have been a memory about that. But

1:39:02.840 --> 1:39:06.560
<v Speaker 1>Chicago's the other thing about the women's march, the Chicago's

1:39:06.600 --> 1:39:10.280
<v Speaker 1>Women's March that's been canceled January nineteenth. If you had

1:39:10.320 --> 1:39:13.400
<v Speaker 1>plans to be in Chicago, I hope you bought the

1:39:13.479 --> 1:39:19.400
<v Speaker 1>travel insurance. It's worth it. Sometimes. But here's the question

1:39:19.520 --> 1:39:21.840
<v Speaker 1>I have. I grew up in Chicago, I was born

1:39:21.840 --> 1:39:23.960
<v Speaker 1>and raised on the South side of the city. Still

1:39:24.040 --> 1:39:26.479
<v Speaker 1>a Bear fan, still a White Sox fan, not so

1:39:26.560 --> 1:39:31.600
<v Speaker 1>much a Bulls fan anymore. And I support my Chicago Blackhawks,

1:39:31.640 --> 1:39:33.840
<v Speaker 1>even though we kind of stink on ice this year.

1:39:34.880 --> 1:39:36.840
<v Speaker 1>But I know the city. I don't know who in

1:39:36.880 --> 1:39:45.200
<v Speaker 1>the right mind would plan a rally in January. Who

1:39:45.200 --> 1:39:50.480
<v Speaker 1>would put a rally on the lake front on January nineteenth?

1:39:50.600 --> 1:39:53.840
<v Speaker 1>Who would do that? What kind of an idiot says,

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<v Speaker 1>you know it would be smart. Let's all get together

1:39:56.000 --> 1:39:58.080
<v Speaker 1>and stand on the lake front in the middle of

1:39:58.160 --> 1:40:05.920
<v Speaker 1>January in Chicago. That's just stupid. So maybe they're changing

1:40:05.960 --> 1:40:08.479
<v Speaker 1>it because of that, but it really has more to

1:40:08.520 --> 1:40:11.120
<v Speaker 1>do with the fact that they were getting tremendous pushback

1:40:11.360 --> 1:40:16.040
<v Speaker 1>against their movement and this rally because of Louis Farrakon,

1:40:16.240 --> 1:40:18.760
<v Speaker 1>because of some of the bad people they are associated with,

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<v Speaker 1>and I, for one, I'm glad to see that they're

1:40:21.160 --> 1:40:24.320
<v Speaker 1>actually having to shut it down. The other thing in

1:40:24.439 --> 1:40:29.679
<v Speaker 1>Chicago that happened I mentioned this earlier today. The Chicago

1:40:29.720 --> 1:40:33.679
<v Speaker 1>mayoral candidate, a guy who was Barack Obama's one time

1:40:33.800 --> 1:40:38.799
<v Speaker 1>Chief of staff Bill Daily. Harry he was a senior

1:40:38.840 --> 1:40:44.719
<v Speaker 1>advisor to the president. Bill Daily relative of the Daily family,

1:40:44.880 --> 1:40:49.360
<v Speaker 1>that basically it was run Chicago for decades. A couple

1:40:49.360 --> 1:40:53.400
<v Speaker 1>of other people jumped in here and there, but Mayor

1:40:53.600 --> 1:40:57.599
<v Speaker 1>Richard D. Jay Daily and his son both ran this

1:40:58.000 --> 1:41:01.599
<v Speaker 1>city for I think it was over twenty five years each.

1:41:03.240 --> 1:41:06.559
<v Speaker 1>But Bill Daily has now put his name in the

1:41:06.920 --> 1:41:09.799
<v Speaker 1>list of people who want to run for the mayor's

1:41:09.880 --> 1:41:13.000
<v Speaker 1>office in Chicago, and he has suggested that they rename

1:41:13.040 --> 1:41:18.000
<v Speaker 1>a portion of the Dan Ryan Expressway as the Barack

1:41:18.040 --> 1:41:24.000
<v Speaker 1>Obama Expressway. Now there are problems already because Chicago already

1:41:24.040 --> 1:41:27.360
<v Speaker 1>has part of ninety five called the Barack Obama Highway,

1:41:27.840 --> 1:41:30.439
<v Speaker 1>and Dan Ryan, the guy that the road was named after,

1:41:30.600 --> 1:41:34.240
<v Speaker 1>was a key player in the interstate highway system development.

1:41:36.240 --> 1:41:40.280
<v Speaker 1>So the Dan Ryan family's mad about this. And there

1:41:40.280 --> 1:41:43.360
<v Speaker 1>are people saying there are actually people who like Barack Obama,

1:41:43.360 --> 1:41:46.639
<v Speaker 1>who say, well, wait a minute, and if you want

1:41:46.640 --> 1:41:48.559
<v Speaker 1>to know more of the details on it. Our friend

1:41:48.600 --> 1:41:51.360
<v Speaker 1>Emily Zanati of The Daily Wire has written up the

1:41:51.400 --> 1:41:54.439
<v Speaker 1>story about the problems with us. But she points out

1:41:54.479 --> 1:41:59.080
<v Speaker 1>the back in October, the Dan Ryan, which would then

1:41:59.160 --> 1:42:02.439
<v Speaker 1>be called the Barack Obama Highway was the scene of

1:42:02.479 --> 1:42:07.599
<v Speaker 1>at least four shootings. Four shootings in October, at least

1:42:07.640 --> 1:42:11.000
<v Speaker 1>one of the person in that round of shootings died.

1:42:11.640 --> 1:42:14.320
<v Speaker 1>In August, two men were shot and one was killed

1:42:14.720 --> 1:42:18.240
<v Speaker 1>on the Dan Ryan, and in just the last week,

1:42:18.280 --> 1:42:22.280
<v Speaker 1>two men have been shot on the Dan Ryan. I

1:42:22.320 --> 1:42:25.439
<v Speaker 1>don't know if Obama wants this road named after him.

1:42:27.120 --> 1:42:29.519
<v Speaker 1>I just remember as a kid growing up driving from

1:42:29.520 --> 1:42:32.000
<v Speaker 1>the South Side to the North Side and back to

1:42:32.120 --> 1:42:37.080
<v Speaker 1>visit relatives. My father often called it the damn Ryan Expressway.

1:42:37.920 --> 1:42:43.080
<v Speaker 1>Maybe that's the appropriate name for this highway. Michael Pelka

1:42:43.120 --> 1:42:45.160
<v Speaker 1>stepping aside when we get back after to tell you

1:42:45.240 --> 1:42:47.479
<v Speaker 1>the story of the two million dollar bathroom in New

1:42:47.560 --> 1:42:51.759
<v Speaker 1>York City. It's just craziness. It's the Buck Sexton Show.

1:42:51.840 --> 1:42:56.599
<v Speaker 1>Come on back, Michael Pelka in for Bucks Sexton, wrapping

1:42:56.720 --> 1:42:59.519
<v Speaker 1>up what has been a blink of an eye. I

1:42:59.640 --> 1:43:03.160
<v Speaker 1>love the way the show moves, and I I wish

1:43:03.200 --> 1:43:06.080
<v Speaker 1>we had the ability to have included your calls today.

1:43:06.160 --> 1:43:09.080
<v Speaker 1>We had a few problems technically, but we got through it.

1:43:09.600 --> 1:43:12.560
<v Speaker 1>I didn't get to the weird story about Kevin spacing

1:43:12.640 --> 1:43:16.680
<v Speaker 1>that video he posted after being charged with indecent assault,

1:43:17.640 --> 1:43:21.040
<v Speaker 1>indecent sexual assault, and battery. I didn't get to the

1:43:21.120 --> 1:43:27.080
<v Speaker 1>story of Barbie apparently has gotten chunky or maybe more realistic,

1:43:27.520 --> 1:43:31.479
<v Speaker 1>and I think that's okay. Didn't get to the story

1:43:31.479 --> 1:43:34.479
<v Speaker 1>about how the networks are promoting an eleven year old

1:43:34.600 --> 1:43:40.960
<v Speaker 1>dancing in bars and getting money thrown at the child. Yeah,

1:43:41.080 --> 1:43:45.760
<v Speaker 1>it's okay if the kid's trance, But can you imagine

1:43:46.040 --> 1:43:51.680
<v Speaker 1>eleven year old girl dancing in a gentleman's club. There

1:43:51.720 --> 1:43:54.800
<v Speaker 1>would be appropriate outrage, just as there should be in

1:43:54.840 --> 1:43:57.320
<v Speaker 1>this case. But no, we're going to promote it because

1:43:57.800 --> 1:44:03.800
<v Speaker 1>it's a trans kid who dresses and drag. It's disgusting.

1:44:05.320 --> 1:44:07.240
<v Speaker 1>And then I want to give a salute out to

1:44:07.360 --> 1:44:12.720
<v Speaker 1>John Stossel, who's always out there digging. And John Stossel

1:44:12.800 --> 1:44:18.080
<v Speaker 1>has a report that he has posted on YouTube about

1:44:18.160 --> 1:44:23.360
<v Speaker 1>the two million dollars bathroom in a park in New York.

1:44:23.840 --> 1:44:26.479
<v Speaker 1>Not in Central Park, but I think this is one

1:44:26.520 --> 1:44:29.839
<v Speaker 1>of the outer boroughs. I'll give you a little surprise,

1:44:29.920 --> 1:44:34.360
<v Speaker 1>a little sample here here it is this little building

1:44:34.680 --> 1:44:39.200
<v Speaker 1>is a two million dollars bathroom. Two million dollars. I

1:44:39.240 --> 1:44:43.400
<v Speaker 1>had to check it out. I was expecting gold plated fixtures.

1:44:44.240 --> 1:44:47.519
<v Speaker 1>It's just a toilet, a couple of eurolds, two sinks.

1:44:48.040 --> 1:44:52.120
<v Speaker 1>Two million dollars. Two million dollars was spent on this

1:44:52.200 --> 1:44:56.400
<v Speaker 1>building in New York. Two million dollars on a tiny building.

1:44:56.400 --> 1:45:00.320
<v Speaker 1>And if you bought a home in the neighborhood in

1:45:01.160 --> 1:45:04.280
<v Speaker 1>this little part of New York it looks like Brooklyn

1:45:04.320 --> 1:45:08.240
<v Speaker 1>or Queens, you could buy a four bedroom, two bathroom

1:45:08.360 --> 1:45:14.640
<v Speaker 1>house for six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And Stossel

1:45:14.720 --> 1:45:18.439
<v Speaker 1>tried to find out why why this costs so much.

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<v Speaker 1>What he found out was kind of astonishing. Thing costs

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<v Speaker 1>more when government builds it. Washington, DC's Visitor Center was

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<v Speaker 1>supposed to cost two hundred and sixty five million. It

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<v Speaker 1>ended up costing six hundred million. The Veterans Affair Medical

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<v Speaker 1>Center and your Denver was projected to cost five hundred

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<v Speaker 1>ninety million. Now they estimate one point seven billion. Government

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<v Speaker 1>spends more because every decision is tied up in endless rules,

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<v Speaker 1>minority outreach, wheelchair access, zoning rule, and much more. Your

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<v Speaker 1>department puts out a statement the current estimate to build

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<v Speaker 1>a new bathroom is three million dollars. It is now

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<v Speaker 1>approaching in some case is going over three million, Mitchell Silvers.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just disgusting when you see what goes on. And

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<v Speaker 1>Stossel points out that a private partnership in Bryant Park,

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<v Speaker 1>which runs that park in Midtown Manhattan, rebuilt bathrooms for

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<v Speaker 1>under half a million dollars. But no, this tiny structure,

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<v Speaker 1>this little bitty basic industrial bathroom, costs the taxpayers of

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<v Speaker 1>New York two million, and another one will cost them

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<v Speaker 1>three to four million. You should check out John stossel stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>It's brilliant. It's brilliant. Also, if you're interested in World

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<v Speaker 1>War One and you're a historian, look up Peter Jackson,

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<v Speaker 1>the guy who did The Lord of the Rings and

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<v Speaker 1>all those movies. He has a movie coming out one

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<v Speaker 1>day only tomorrow. He's taken old footage from World War One,

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<v Speaker 1>colorized it and hired people to do lip reading and

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<v Speaker 1>get the real story of the soldiers from World War One.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to be covering it and will be reporting

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<v Speaker 1>on it as well. And so I thank you for

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<v Speaker 1>being with me tonight on a special night where we

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<v Speaker 1>mark the anniversary of the guy who taught me about

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<v Speaker 1>free speech. My dad, f Gregory Opelka, passed away two

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<v Speaker 1>years ago. Today taught me that after the First Amendment,

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<v Speaker 1>everything else comes. Second. Test studo, my friends, test studo