1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,960 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. This episode 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: we have Amber Smith with us. She's a phenomenal, amazing lady. 3 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: She was a Kiowa helicopter pilot in Afghanistan and Iraq, 4 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: so combat tours in both war zones. She was also 5 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,119 Speaker 1: a Deputy Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under the 6 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: Trump administration, the author of the phenomenal book During about 7 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: her time as a Kiowa pilot, Danger Close and Amber, 8 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:35,839 Speaker 1: you gotta tell everybody what do they need to know 9 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: about the Kiowa platform, right because people people give a 10 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:41,919 Speaker 1: lot of a lot of hoopla, a lot of attention 11 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: to the Apache and of the black Hawk. But tell 12 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: everybody about what it is to be in a Kiowa 13 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 1: and what kind of stuff you were doing. Well. I 14 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: was grateful enough to get to fly the most amazing, 15 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,480 Speaker 1: badass helicopter in the Army's inventory at the time. It's 16 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: a light attack reconnaissance helicopter. It's a two seater. At 17 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: the co pilot that we have a fitting gun. We 18 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 1: have a rocket pause that carries high explicit rockets, and 19 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: then we can carry hell fire missiles as well. But 20 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 1: the best part of our job was who we worked for. 21 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: We worked for a ground force, so infantry, marines, special forces, 22 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 1: NATO forces, in country forces like the Iraqi Army or 23 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: the FNUM National Army. And we fly extremely low level, 24 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: just anywhere from fifty two hundred and fifty feet off 25 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: of the ground, UM, so well within range of the 26 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: enemy's weapon systems. And UM it's definitely down in the 27 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: fight every day we go out on a mission. So 28 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: I mean there's there's flying close to the ground, you know, 29 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: like like Maverick in the recent Maverick where he's all, 30 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: you know, doing the obstacle course thing or whatever. And 31 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: I spoke to an F eighteen pilot who said, you 32 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: got understand at that speed you're in the you're in 33 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: the dirt in like two seconds if you mess up. Um, 34 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: but you're not much time from a state. Yeah. Right, 35 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 1: you were flying at a level where you could basically 36 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: see like someone's you know, you see the color of 37 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: someone's hair right there be the ground. We're very loft. 38 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: The ground intint behind that is that we do hunt 39 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: for ieeds on the road ahead of convoys. And UM, 40 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: we do, like I said, get into these close combat 41 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: attacks when um often we get called into an enemy 42 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:30,519 Speaker 1: firefight with friendly ground forces. So based off the range 43 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: of our weapons systems, just by nature, we have to 44 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: be very close to the ground. And that does mean 45 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: that it is an intense light It's an intense mission 46 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: because you know, you do have the hazard of the 47 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: enemy of their weapon systems, but then you have all 48 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: of those other hazards that come with flying so close 49 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 1: to the ground. You heard in Iraq, wires used to 50 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: be such danger tilets and unfortunately resulted in you know, 51 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: multiple multiple kyoer crashes. So it was a pretty dangerous job. 52 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: Which like telephone wires you're saying like you would you 53 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: would actually have about telephone and comms wires, yes, birds, 54 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: telephone wires, cell phone towers, trees, yes, wow, that's remember 55 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 1: what kind of what kind of defensive armor do you 56 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: have on? I mean, except whenever I've seen photos of 57 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 1: the of the Kiawa, it's um it's an agile platform, 58 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: but it doesn't look like it's not. You know, when 59 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: you see like an a ten ward hog, you're like, 60 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: that thing looks like you could kick the crap out 61 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: of it. You guys in the KaiA was I assume, yeah, 62 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: you really had to avoid enemy fire the Kaiwa could 63 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: take a beating. It brought me home many times. My 64 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 1: aircraft got shut up when I was in Iraq and 65 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: I had an AK forty seven bullet land about twelve 66 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: inches behind my spine. M Thankfully there was an armor 67 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: plate behind the back of our seat and then underneath 68 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: our seat as well. But we also had an armor 69 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: panel that engine block. But get this, because of weight 70 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: purposes so we could carry more AMMO, we would actually 71 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: remet AMMO plates so the engine was less protected. Right. So, Amber, 72 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: you've seen the military from being a combat deployed rotary 73 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:25,039 Speaker 1: aircraft warrior, if I may say, and you've also been 74 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: somebody who's dealt with the DoD at the policy communications 75 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: deputy Defense secretary level. So I think you're in a 76 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: particular position to talk a bit about the concerns over 77 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: a military that is increasingly concerned with d EI, social justice, 78 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: and wokeness instead of being the most effective combat machinery 79 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: for the defeative enemies in defense of America possible. What 80 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: do you think of that problem, the scale of it, 81 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: the reality of it. Well, I think it's incredibly dangerous 82 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:09,479 Speaker 1: to our national security, to the health of the fighting force, 83 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: as a whole, especially when we compare it to what 84 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: our adversaries look like today. We face some very real threats. 85 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 1: We inch closer to World War three on a daily 86 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: basis with this administration and the threats that works those 87 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: two around the world. And what do we see our 88 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 1: military doing. We see policies that are pushed down on 89 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: the force that have the intent of dividing the force 90 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: instead of unifying the force. And the military works because 91 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: everyone is one after basic training, everybody puts on the 92 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: exact same uniform and you put the American flag on 93 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 1: your shoulder, and you are a team. You're serving towards 94 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:53,599 Speaker 1: one purpose, and you do that by coming together. You 95 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: don't sit there and focus on everyone's unique individuality and 96 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 1: then talk about how other people may be a part 97 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 1: of the problem. And so it's really creating this softer 98 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:10,600 Speaker 1: generation of a military that we haven't really seen before. 99 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: And I think it's incredibly dangerous when we look at 100 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: the attention and the training hours and the shift of 101 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:23,359 Speaker 1: focus away from these priceless training hours to prepare for 102 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: the mission, to prefare, to deter, and then if necessary, 103 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 1: fight in some of these conflicts that are now being 104 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 1: focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, extremism training to being soldiers, 105 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: being told that domestic terrorism is the biggest threat, solitary 106 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:50,479 Speaker 1: transgender policies, double standards for physical fitness tests, and the 107 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: recruiting numbers are showing the damning effects that are having 108 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: on the military today. The Army missed their numbers by 109 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: fifteen thousand soldier in twenty twenty two. That's twenty five 110 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:06,600 Speaker 1: percent below what they were looking to hit. That is 111 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: absolutely damaging to our nation. It silly shows the health 112 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: of the force and it's struggling right now. And when 113 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: you start paying attention to some of the policies that 114 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: are being forced on soldiers that are damaging morale, this 115 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: is what you get. Awoke military that is absolutely DRIs 116 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: to recruit, movement to morale, and young Americans are saying no, 117 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:39,440 Speaker 1: thanks are for other opportunities. It's really sad when I 118 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: hear people that have either gotten out recently or serve 119 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: for many years in some cases friends of mine, who 120 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: did I mean more combat deployments than that. I feel 121 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: like I can even count when I try to run 122 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: them all past them and say, wait, weren't you How 123 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: many times are you interact how many times are you 124 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: in Afghanistan? And they say not only would they not 125 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 1: want to go back in, but that if their own 126 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: son or daughter I was thinking about serving, that they 127 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: would try to obviously it's the you know, the person's choice, um, 128 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: but that they would try to discourage them from joining 129 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: with the military as it is today. I don't know 130 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: if you've had that experience. I have many friends, particularly 131 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: from the heavy combat branches, who say, Nope, I wouldn't 132 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 1: want my son joining up right now. I have had 133 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: so many of the exact same conversations, and it's it's 134 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 1: terrifying for the military, the fighting force as a whole 135 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 1: in our national security with when you when you put 136 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: it in the perspective of what is our military supposed 137 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 1: to do and how generapaup to serve the country. But 138 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: for me personally, it's it's um. It's really sad to 139 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 1: see a military that I served in for over seven 140 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:55,599 Speaker 1: and a half years. I did two combat deployments and 141 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 1: one to Iraq, one to Afghanistan, and to see a 142 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:03,079 Speaker 1: military that is unrecognizable to the one that I served 143 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 1: in where we had a mission, we were focused, we 144 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 1: were a team, we didn't nitpick each other about a 145 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 1: part based on our differences. There was a standard and 146 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 1: you had to meet it and didn't. Then guess what, 147 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,320 Speaker 1: that wasn't the job for you too, and you went 148 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 1: on and did something else. Now, all of these lowered standards, 149 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 1: it's just it's absolutely creating resentment within the ranks and 150 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 1: it's killing morale and people are saying, maybe I should 151 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: look elsewhere, Like what are these sacrifices Living a life 152 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:41,080 Speaker 1: in the military is you're missing birthdays, You're missing kids graduations. 153 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 1: You're like, I've talked to soldiers who are like, I'm 154 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 1: I'm done watching my children grow up over zoom, you know, 155 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: and they're missing all of these life things that you 156 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: these these life celebrations, that anniversary's, weddings, funerals, like these 157 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: times that you don't get back, and that sacrifice was 158 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: always worth it to so many people who and then 159 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: they see the fall of Afghanistan, they see the no 160 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 1: accountability they see Secretary of Defense Austin testifying on Capitol 161 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: Hill last week that he has zero regrets for the 162 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: way that the withdrawal for Afghanistan happened and how the 163 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: country collapsed and fell into the hands of Afghanistan. He 164 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:25,960 Speaker 1: saw that thirteen US service members were killed as a 165 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: result of a suicide attack while they were guarding h 166 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: Kaya Kabul International Airport during the withdrawal. So to hear 167 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 1: leaders like that that creates such a distrust of the 168 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 1: commander to subordinate relationship that is absolutely vital to the 169 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: success of the relationship to get soldiers to want to 170 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:48,439 Speaker 1: fight and win on the battlefield. Just that trust of 171 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:54,119 Speaker 1: their leaders which they have with senior military officials and generals, 172 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: you've lost the military. We live in extremely dangerous times 173 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:03,080 Speaker 1: right now. In those recruitment numbers, Like we'll see the 174 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: next year coming up what those look like, but it's 175 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 1: not going to look any better. Like I had lost 176 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: fifteen thousand soldiers to their recruitment goals. The other branches 177 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,080 Speaker 1: the only reason they made it was because they were 178 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 1: pulling from their delayed entry programs. That means they're setting 179 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,840 Speaker 1: themselves up this year for an either harder recruitment goal. 180 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: So it is just it is dangerous, dangerous times and 181 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 1: because there's no accountability because of this toxic or leadership 182 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,599 Speaker 1: that refuses to look internally. You keep seeing when a 183 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: Pentagon is questioned about any of their failures. All they 184 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: do is look outward and they place blame elsewhere. It's 185 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: never like, hey, maybe we should take a look at 186 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 1: what we are doing that is causing some of these 187 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:54,199 Speaker 1: self inflicted problems, and they won't do it. 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He's commander in 218 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: chief right and you've got some interesting, interesting people who 219 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 1: are including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Millie and Lloyd Austin, 220 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,439 Speaker 1: Secretary Defense, who are making all kinds of decisions about 221 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: this one way of putting all this. How do you 222 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:36,439 Speaker 1: think they're doing so far? I mean, how does the 223 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:39,120 Speaker 1: picture look to you of US support for the war 224 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 1: in Ukraine eighteen months in or fifty fifteen months in well. 225 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: I think that the United States military industrial complex, the 226 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: Pentagon MANI political leaders in Washington, DC are addicted to war. 227 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 1: I think they're addicted to conflict. I think war has 228 00:13:55,679 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: become big business and that's extremely dangerous for our nation. 229 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: If you look at the withdrawal of Afghanistan, we shifted 230 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: almost immediately towards a new conflict, a proxy war in 231 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: Ukraine with Russia, and really a fight that is not 232 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: within vital US national security interest. This is a regional 233 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: war between neighbors. The United States has already pumped in 234 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: more money than it ever did in an annual amount 235 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 1: for Afghanistan. So a war that we were fighting on 236 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 1: the ground in Afghanistan and it's and it's just when 237 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: is enough enough? And I'm not happy with the status 238 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:51,440 Speaker 1: of how things are going with the war in Ukraine. UM. 239 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 1: I think that we have some more vital navity interests, 240 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: some real threats that face our nation, like China. Every 241 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: single day that threat grows, it increases on a daily basis. UM. 242 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: And I think that the US is preoccupied with fighting 243 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: a proxy war in Ukraine with Russia right now. You know, 244 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: when I think back to I was in Afghanistan in 245 00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 1: two thousand and ten and interfacing with I was a 246 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: very you know, very low man in the hierarchy, but 247 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: I was interfacing with the people who were, let's just say, 248 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 1: calling the shots in country for both the military and 249 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: the intelligence agencies. And I was always, even at that 250 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: stage and at that age, shocked at how everybody was 251 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 1: repeating everybody else's lines. But everybody kind of knew that 252 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: it wasn't really true. You know, all the stuff about 253 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: all we were we're making all these gains in this area, 254 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:54,360 Speaker 1: and we're we're consolidating what we've done in that area. 255 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: But when you actually talk to people who were there 256 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: were dealing with it. Like when I when I met 257 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: with a couple offer an odas, a couple different special 258 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: forces teams, and I said, what do you guys think 259 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: is going on? They're like, oh, well, you know, the 260 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:10,800 Speaker 1: big military assessment versus what you were getting from from 261 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: door kickers who were living in combat outposts. It always 262 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 1: felt like there was a huge disconnect. And I was 263 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: there in twenty and ten. I was like, this is 264 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 1: just not gonna work. But if you told anybody that 265 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: or if you talked about that, you were kind of 266 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: treated like you were disloyal to the American war effort 267 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: there or the NATO as we know war effort there 268 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: before the Ukraine war, Right, this is what NATO existed 269 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: for Somehow do you feel like we're heading into the 270 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 1: same trap with Ukraine, not obviously with our own forces deployed, 271 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: but just with our diplomatic, economic, and material support to 272 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 1: a war that to me looks like it's going to 273 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: go on for years, and we're talking about we better 274 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: start thinking about our support for Ukraine with a T 275 00:16:56,760 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: not a B as in a trillion, two trillion. Well 276 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:02,520 Speaker 1: you think it's heading that way or are you? Are 277 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:04,440 Speaker 1: you have any faith that maybe they'll cut it off 278 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: before that? Well to your point about Afghanistan and people 279 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: sort of saying that you're disloyal if you sort of 280 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: have an opposing view to push Poker to potentially start 281 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 1: World War three with the nuclear power, there's nothing more 282 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: dangerous than a week army with nuclear power, and that's 283 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: where we keep pushing this war. And so yeah, just 284 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 1: to your point about UM speaking out in opposition to Hey, 285 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:43,199 Speaker 1: maybe we should be pushing a peace agreement between the 286 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: two nags instead of pushing more war. It's like the 287 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:51,399 Speaker 1: thing that um, you know, the Pentagon and certain leaders 288 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: in Washington, DC see to do. They throw money at 289 00:17:55,840 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 1: the problem. And we have a lot of old in 290 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:05,400 Speaker 1: DC that cannot get the cold out of their heads. 291 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: So you Russia into the conversation and it's nope, you know, 292 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:14,800 Speaker 1: We're going to throw absolutely anything in every at Russia. 293 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: And it's like they get tunnel vision if you bring 294 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:22,400 Speaker 1: up the word Russia. Guess what. Russia is a near 295 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 1: peer adversary in a conflict with a regional conflict right now. 296 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: Who is a bigger threat to US than Russia right now? China? 297 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 1: Who where geographically is the United States primarily focused on 298 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: right now? Russia? Okay, the United States military cannot is 299 00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 1: not capable of fighting a two front war right now. 300 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 1: So when we're sending all of our ammunition, you know, 301 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 1: brigades of our military into Poland, into Romania, in these 302 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:03,640 Speaker 1: other areas around Ukraine, helping train in Ukraine, depleting our 303 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 1: own United States tradition stockpile that we will likely need 304 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: in the very near future, it's just really not smart 305 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: decision making. I can't say I'm very surprised, but focusing 306 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: on Russia when we have such a very near threat 307 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,840 Speaker 1: with China, which is no longer a near peer, China's 308 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: a peer adversary. Everybody wants to focus on Russia and Washington, DC. 309 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: Everybody wants to throw hundreds of billions of dollars their way. 310 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:37,919 Speaker 1: And it's absolutely a disgrace for US leadership, who is 311 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:41,040 Speaker 1: tasked with protecting the American people, to put us in 312 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 1: harm's way the way that they are today with how 313 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: they're handling the war with Russia. You know, Senator Lindsay 314 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 1: Graham recently said he's definitely opened the idea of putting 315 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 1: US troops in Taiwan, creating a US military presence on 316 00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 1: that island. What do you think about that? Does he 317 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:06,360 Speaker 1: want an immediate war with China? Because guess what, that's 318 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 1: not going to look like the wars that he was 319 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 1: pushing in Iraq and Afghanistan for twenty years. That's gonna 320 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: look like a war to end all wars. It's gonna 321 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: get very ugly, very quickly. That is very true. I'm 322 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,439 Speaker 1: a little bit surprised always, and this is more of 323 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 1: just a general political feeling that Lindsay Graham is always 324 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: so he's always treated by conservatives and conservative media for 325 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 1: the most part, with some kind of reverence. And this 326 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 1: is a guy who I've never seen him refer to 327 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,879 Speaker 1: a war that other people will fight with any trepidation whatsoever. 328 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,440 Speaker 1: Like there's never a sense when Lindsay Graham talks about 329 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: US troops going somewhere to fight. He's not going anywhere 330 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 1: to fight. Children aren't going anywhere to fight. He doesn't 331 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 1: actually have any children. But you know, he's not going anywhere. 332 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:59,119 Speaker 1: And you sit there and you say, well, why is 333 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 1: he getting re elected so many times by the people 334 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 1: of South Carolina? You know what has to happen here? 335 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I just I'm surprised that his constant push 336 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 1: for more expenditure of men and materiel in conflict isn't 337 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: a bigger problem for conservatives who are taking more of 338 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: a here at home approach. Yeah, because it's just an 339 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: interview to him, right, It's just another campaign cycle, it's 340 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 1: just another rally cry. It's not like you said, it's 341 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:33,360 Speaker 1: not his kids, it's not his money, he's it's not 342 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: his time away. He gets to go on these congressionally 343 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:41,120 Speaker 1: sponsored trips into a war zone, take the photos, get 344 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:44,640 Speaker 1: the you know, special treatment, and say that he's been 345 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 1: to a war zone and he gets to see what 346 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,359 Speaker 1: it's really like. But that's not actually what real war 347 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:55,159 Speaker 1: is like. Politicians have got to get back to the 348 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: stance where war is a last resort. It is a 349 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: very last resort um. People's lives shouldn't be so loosely 350 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: thrown out to fight these wars and that sort of 351 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: policy stance for foreign policy and conflicts and wars that 352 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 1: we've seen around the world that is taking a toll 353 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:23,399 Speaker 1: on our military. It's completely damaging the all volunteer force. 354 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:29,719 Speaker 1: I I mean, I think it's scary times speaking of 355 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 1: the all volunteer Force and how long that's going to 356 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 1: stick around for, which is seriously going to change some things. 357 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 1: And if a war with China breaks out, that's exactly 358 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: we will be looking at. Nobody wants to talk about, 359 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 1: but that's the reality. Yeah, I just I mean, I'm 360 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 1: I'm down here in Florida, and you know, if we 361 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 1: if you had the Chinese it was like a red 362 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:54,200 Speaker 1: Dawn situation where I think it was actually North Korea 363 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 1: and the remake right if they started, you know, setting 364 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: up landing craft or whatever, all the beaches year of 365 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: South Beach. I'd be like, all right, let's go, you know, 366 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 1: mount up. We have to fight. But on the other 367 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:09,280 Speaker 1: side of that equation, if someone told me that I, 368 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,880 Speaker 1: you know, some future child of mine is eighteen years old, 369 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 1: if my son son to be said I want to 370 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:21,920 Speaker 1: go and help out with the US war effort, assuming 371 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,160 Speaker 1: we deployed troops. I know we haven't at least officially 372 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 1: deployed any troops in Ukraine, but I want to go 373 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 1: fight for Ukrainian independence. I'd be like, do not join 374 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 1: the military if you want to fight for Ukrainian independence, 375 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: Like I don't. I don't know what else to say 376 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 1: to me if that's our fight. It feels like people 377 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: keep bringing this up, say, well, what if a NATO 378 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 1: country's next, We have a treaty with those countries. We 379 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: have a written promise with those countries it says if X, 380 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: then Y. We don't have that with Ukraine exactly. So 381 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:51,359 Speaker 1: I don't know why these things keep getting conflated. Yeah, 382 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: people seem to be missing that point of absolutely, we 383 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:59,159 Speaker 1: have an obligation to NATO. Putin is not invading a 384 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 1: NATO country. If that should happen. Of course, the United 385 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: States would protect our NATO alley Ally, that's not what's 386 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,639 Speaker 1: happening right now, and so that's why I say it's 387 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 1: provocative that the United States wants to fight this proxy 388 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 1: war with Russia. It's pushing the biggest nuclear power in 389 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 1: the world, and it is not in the best interest 390 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: of the security of our nation, of the safety of 391 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,440 Speaker 1: our nation, and too many people it's almost like Ukraine 392 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 1: is the next you see the blue and yellow flags 393 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: waving and the sunflowers. It's like the new thing that 394 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 1: people want to support without accepting what the reality of 395 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: a war in Ukraine against Russia actually means, Like how 396 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 1: much farther do you think we're going to go before 397 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: the United States commits some sort of US ground force 398 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 1: and then guess what, Then we're at war with Russia. 399 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:56,880 Speaker 1: Then it's no longer we no longer get to say, oh, 400 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 1: we're supplying equipment, Oh we're supplying training or to fight 401 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:05,440 Speaker 1: medical care. No we're not. We're at war with Russia. 402 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 1: And the devastating effects of that if the war were 403 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:14,359 Speaker 1: to expand, because Russia would obviously feel that it's an exit. 404 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 1: Now it faces a true existential threat. The Russians also 405 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,760 Speaker 1: view Ukraine as existential to their long term survival. We 406 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: don't really get that part of it. This is not 407 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 1: a justification of the aggression, it's just the understanding of 408 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: the Russian perception of the issue. Right, So, the Russians 409 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 1: view a Ukraine that is de facto or you know, 410 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: close basically de facto and NATO or actually a NATO, 411 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,440 Speaker 1: which some people talked about, as something that's completely unacceptable 412 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,679 Speaker 1: for their long term strategic interest in the survival of 413 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: the Russian Federation. Point being, they'll keep fighting this out 414 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 1: as long as they have to, and they don't see 415 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,120 Speaker 1: this as a you know, we're just going to give 416 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,200 Speaker 1: up because this is too costly for us. Now, there 417 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,200 Speaker 1: might be a negotiation that could end this, and that's 418 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: what I think should be pursued. But there seems to 419 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 1: be very little interest in even talking about these days, 420 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,640 Speaker 1: and I think that from the administration of people in Washington. 421 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 1: It's it's really disconcerting after twenty years of war, where 422 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: it was very clear to people you were there, I 423 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,320 Speaker 1: was there, very clear that this wasn't going to be 424 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 1: the thing that they thought it was going to be. 425 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,400 Speaker 1: It's like we haven't learned a lesson, but I want 426 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,919 Speaker 1: to come back and actually ask you about some trans 427 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: agenda issues here are in just a second. 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And also just 454 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 1: want to ask what your plans are here going forward 455 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,359 Speaker 1: and other things of the projects you're gonna be involved in. 456 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 1: But you know, there's so much attention now to trans 457 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: stuff in sports, the trans community in sports. And you've 458 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:00,679 Speaker 1: seen him recently, Uh. Megan Rappino, for example, of very 459 00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: left wing, became kind of famous for being a really 460 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: a left wing voice in the women's national soccer team 461 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 1: and saying that like they don't make enough money even 462 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 1: though they're actually paid disproportionately to what they bring in 463 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:12,640 Speaker 1: in terms of revenue. But you know who cares about 464 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 1: things like math. She thinks that trans men should be 465 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: able to compete against women now in soccer, to which 466 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,679 Speaker 1: I say, like, I'm a guy who spent way too 467 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 1: much time at a desk the last ten years. I 468 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 1: would toss around members of the women's national soccer team 469 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: on a soccer field still to this day, having played 470 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,520 Speaker 1: at like a reasonable high school level. Like, we're a 471 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,880 Speaker 1: long time ago. It's crazy. We all know it's crazy 472 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: in sports. What is the situation now in the military though, 473 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 1: for how the issue is is handled? I mean, because 474 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 1: if you're a if you're a man who becomes a 475 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:49,160 Speaker 1: trans female, are you still in it? Are you kept 476 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: in a male unit in male barracks? Like? How do 477 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 1: they handle that? What's policy? So the policy, the Department 478 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 1: of Defense policy for trans genders is that they can 479 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: serve in their preferred gender. So once they go through 480 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: the transition process, and they then are allowed to put 481 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 1: their preferred gender on their military ID card. Once they 482 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 1: have that ID card, they are allowed to shower in 483 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:22,960 Speaker 1: Like a man that now says he's a transgender woman, 484 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 1: I said that right is now allowed to shower in 485 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: the women's locker room, They're allowed to use the women's bathroom, 486 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 1: sleep in women's quarters. They are treated as though they 487 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:38,840 Speaker 1: are a woman. That is the policy. And then they 488 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:48,479 Speaker 1: have to meet whatever female versus male standards exist. Wait, 489 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 1: I gotta ask how, Yeah, I'm just processing this. How 490 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 1: what has to happen for them to even like qualified? 491 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,239 Speaker 1: Do they? Is it just a do you have to 492 00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: meet with a base psychologist or something? You know? Did 493 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 1: you go or could you say? No, I'm a woman 494 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,920 Speaker 1: now and therefore the military will treat me as a woman. 495 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,640 Speaker 1: There's a process, you have to meet with a doctor. 496 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 1: But not every transgender that exists out there or wants 497 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 1: to transition has gender dysphoria. Some do, but some don't, 498 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 1: and it does it doesn't matter like regardless of if 499 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 1: you have it or not, you're still allowed to transition 500 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 1: if you speak with your doctor and then you speak 501 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 1: with your commander and you it takes away considerable amount 502 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 1: of time a soldier who is in that process of 503 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:42,560 Speaker 1: transitioning hormones surgeries, the time it takes with all of 504 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: the administration things, you're missing training, and then the team 505 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: grows without you, right, but then you have to be 506 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 1: fully accepted back as soon as you come back. So 507 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 1: it does not add if the military had like a 508 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 1: litmus test for pretty much everything they do, and said, 509 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:04,680 Speaker 1: does this policy make us a stronger fighting force. Does 510 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 1: this make us more likely to win a war against China? 511 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 1: Does this make us a more lethal, you know, more 512 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 1: elite fighting force in the world. If the answer is no, 513 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 1: maybe they should look twice at forcing those policies on 514 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: the entire force. But here is the kicker of equality rights, 515 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 1: which is what the Biden administration is trying to do 516 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: with this executive order that they pushed down to the 517 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 1: Department Offense when they then allowed transgenders to serve openly, 518 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:38,160 Speaker 1: so they fully you know, have are on board with 519 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: everything transgender. The Selective Service what all men eighteen to 520 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,720 Speaker 1: twenty five in this country have to sign up for 521 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 1: within thirty days of their eighteenth birthday. Men men have 522 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:58,560 Speaker 1: to sign up for the Selective Service. Now, the Selective 523 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: Service only says your birth sex, so only men born 524 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:09,040 Speaker 1: in their biological sex as a man have to sign 525 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: up for the draft. So women who transition and become 526 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,560 Speaker 1: men they do not have to sign up for the draft. 527 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: But men who become women are still required to sign 528 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 1: up to for the draft. So it's like which one 529 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,240 Speaker 1: do they see? So are they saying that, like transgender 530 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,800 Speaker 1: women are really men according to the Selective Service? If 531 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 1: a draft was ever to happen, or there's just this 532 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,200 Speaker 1: like complete double standard there, which happens a lot when 533 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 1: some of these policies are shoved down. They don't think 534 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 1: in third order effects of the decisions. But it's like 535 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 1: as a society, it's like, when are we going to 536 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 1: accept reality? Just like what we were talking about with Ukraine, 537 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 1: Afghanistan stand generals, everybody would and testify it up on 538 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 1: Capitol Hill through the lens of these rose colored glasses. 539 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,400 Speaker 1: They painted this pretty picture of what Afghanistan looked like, 540 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 1: but in reality, we all knew Afghanistan wasn't going to 541 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,960 Speaker 1: stand on a stew feet without the United States military 542 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 1: and the US dollar. Ukraine, everybody knows what happens as 543 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,720 Speaker 1: soon as the United States leaves and quit standing up Ukraine. 544 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,600 Speaker 1: You can know that Russia is the enemy and wish 545 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 1: that this was not happening to Ukraine, but you can 546 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 1: also live in the reality of the situation. And it's 547 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 1: the same thing with transgenders. The military is focusing so 548 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 1: much money, so much time and training, taking away training 549 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:46,200 Speaker 1: to focus and give special treatment to the transgender demographic 550 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 1: for the military, and they do so by saying well, 551 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 1: we want to make sure that we are recruiting to 552 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the population. The military has never 553 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 1: been able to recruit to one hundred percent of the population. 554 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:01,479 Speaker 1: They're at about, you know, less than twenty five of 555 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 1: young Americans who are eligible to serve today. So it's like, 556 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,640 Speaker 1: how about we focus on the problems that exist in 557 00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:14,879 Speaker 1: the military today on fixing those instead of contributing more 558 00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 1: problems to the military. Yes, I think that would make 559 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:19,759 Speaker 1: a whole lot of sense. I want to come back. 560 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,840 Speaker 1: We'll talk with the Amber here in a second about 561 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,920 Speaker 1: just some some more general some more general topics. You know, 562 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:26,839 Speaker 1: maybe we'll take a little tripp down memory lane too. 563 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: We'll get to that in just a moment. I want 564 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,279 Speaker 1: to tell everybody but the Tunnels of Towers Foundation. 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That's t the 581 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,440 Speaker 1: number two T dot org. All right, ever, so I 582 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:23,120 Speaker 1: gotta ask your your husband is a fighter pilot? What 583 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,920 Speaker 1: is he? What is he flying? What was he flying? 584 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:30,799 Speaker 1: Is he an F eighteen guy? Oh? He fis the 585 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,880 Speaker 1: best thing out there? A helicopter. He's not a fire pilot. 586 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 1: He's a helicopter pilot. Oh he's also yes, see I 587 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,600 Speaker 1: and all these jokes with like if you know, if 588 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,200 Speaker 1: he like did a lane change and almost caused an accident, 589 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,400 Speaker 1: like oh yeah, just like a fixed wing guy, you know, 590 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,000 Speaker 1: too fast for everybody. You're both you are married to 591 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,239 Speaker 1: a rotary military rotary aircraft military pilot. I don't know 592 00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:56,400 Speaker 1: why I thought. I thought he was like Ane and 593 00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:01,799 Speaker 1: twenty two guy. Pardon me, I'm way off. Yeah, he 594 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,600 Speaker 1: is a helicopter pilot like me. He's a cab guys 595 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:10,799 Speaker 1: got a stetson. So yeah, oh wow, very cool. I 596 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:12,839 Speaker 1: was unaware. I was wondering if they're like any jokes 597 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,799 Speaker 1: you make, But since you're both rotary, what do you 598 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,120 Speaker 1: make jokes about fixed wing aircraft people? You know? Are 599 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,440 Speaker 1: you kind of just like, yeah, couldn't make it in 600 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:23,200 Speaker 1: rotary aircraft school, Like I feel like helicopter pilot pretty much. 601 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,680 Speaker 1: You guys are different, right, You guys are like a 602 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,840 Speaker 1: different bunch because you're flying. I've seen the videos like 603 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:32,040 Speaker 1: little birds and stuff, and um, you know the night Stalkers. 604 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,840 Speaker 1: I mean they're like practically flying these things upside down 605 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:39,440 Speaker 1: beneath the bridge, smoking a cigar MP five in one hand, 606 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,480 Speaker 1: and you know they're just going crazy out there doing 607 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,440 Speaker 1: amazing stuff. Yeah. When I was in flight school, we 608 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:50,560 Speaker 1: would have instructor pilots who this didn't happen in my cockpit, 609 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,760 Speaker 1: but students within my class they would have stories because 610 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,360 Speaker 1: a lot of the instructor pilots were old Vietnam pilots. 611 00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 1: So then you know, after they get out of the 612 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,520 Speaker 1: military there after pilots they come when they teach like 613 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:05,320 Speaker 1: the newer generation of pilot military pilots, and they would 614 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:11,040 Speaker 1: The Vietnam pilots were the absolute best guys in the world. 615 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,919 Speaker 1: They had the most amazing stories. And yeah, one guy 616 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,719 Speaker 1: was even like I didn't know what to do. I 617 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,759 Speaker 1: got in my car, I got in the helicopter and 618 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,759 Speaker 1: like once we got up to altitude, like you just 619 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:23,879 Speaker 1: started smoking and we just threw laughing because obviously that's 620 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,719 Speaker 1: no longer allowed, but back in Vietnam days, like that's 621 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,759 Speaker 1: what they did. That is kind of amazing. Having having 622 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:31,040 Speaker 1: been you know, I remember when I was in the 623 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,759 Speaker 1: rocket Afghanistan because you watch some of these movies and 624 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:39,880 Speaker 1: like every American Vietnam movie, for example, everyone's walking around shirtless, 625 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,640 Speaker 1: smoking drinking beer on base all the time. Right, that's 626 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,319 Speaker 1: when they're back on base, you're smoking cigarettes, you're drinking beer. 627 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:48,319 Speaker 1: Not a lot of I didn't see a lot of 628 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,240 Speaker 1: beer drinking in theater. They definitely got rid. The British 629 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,239 Speaker 1: would do it though the British were always you know, 630 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:57,359 Speaker 1: able to which I thought was interesting. Yes, yes, they 631 00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:02,440 Speaker 1: got rid of U all of that uh in today's military. 632 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:07,160 Speaker 1: One of my fly instructors, though, he was I actually 633 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,480 Speaker 1: write about this in my book Danger Clothes when he uh, 634 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,920 Speaker 1: he didn't drink alcohol. He never drank alcohol, but everybody 635 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:20,040 Speaker 1: else in his company drank alcohol. And he said he 636 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,440 Speaker 1: was so sick wherever they were in Vietnam. He was 637 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,920 Speaker 1: so sick of never getting any mail runs that everybody 638 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,680 Speaker 1: was too hungover to like work or fly the next day. 639 00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,920 Speaker 1: So he literally like took a helicopter, didn't tell anybody, 640 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,440 Speaker 1: flew to whatever base has the mail, loaded up the 641 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,640 Speaker 1: helicopter with all of their mail, and then flew it 642 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:41,520 Speaker 1: back to everybody because he was so sick of waiting around. Well, 643 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:42,920 Speaker 1: I'm sure he was. I'm sure he was a hero. 644 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,960 Speaker 1: And everybody who wanted to get some mail from back home. 645 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:50,160 Speaker 1: Very very good for speaking morale. I'm gonna have you 646 00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:54,120 Speaker 1: help settle this bet um, which is not really a 647 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:57,320 Speaker 1: bet a debate in the in the Sexton household between 648 00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,440 Speaker 1: mister and Missus Sexton. And I keep my voice down 649 00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,520 Speaker 1: because when according that she might be able to hear me. 650 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,680 Speaker 1: So I'm like, I'm like, I don't want anyone to 651 00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:09,239 Speaker 1: know I love bulldogs. You and your husband, right, you 652 00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:14,200 Speaker 1: are English bulldog people. And people give me all this stuff. 653 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,920 Speaker 1: They say, oh there they have all the health issues 654 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,640 Speaker 1: and they snore and all that stuff. But I try 655 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,799 Speaker 1: to tell them I will find the snoring adorable because 656 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,759 Speaker 1: it's English bulldog snoring. It's not gross human snoring. Help 657 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,040 Speaker 1: sell right now, she'll listen to this. I'll tell her 658 00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:32,880 Speaker 1: about this. Help sell missus Sexton on the English bulldog 659 00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:37,920 Speaker 1: which you have as a breed. So I have been 660 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:41,680 Speaker 1: obsessed since I saw one on the gift card when 661 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,080 Speaker 1: I was probably like twelve years old, and that was 662 00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:47,480 Speaker 1: my dream. I wanted to get a bulldog ever since then. 663 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:53,000 Speaker 1: When my husband got engaged and you know we were 664 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,319 Speaker 1: going to get married, I started sending him photos and 665 00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:02,800 Speaker 1: videos on a daily basis of bulldog puppies interacting. They're 666 00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:06,440 Speaker 1: like everywhere on Instagram. Um so just start tagging her, 667 00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:09,799 Speaker 1: Start tagging her on like every single cute video that 668 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,520 Speaker 1: you see, and get it in her brain and she's 669 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:16,800 Speaker 1: gonna come around. She's gonna wrinkly and smushy and how cuddly, 670 00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:20,959 Speaker 1: and there's nothing like a bulldog personality out there. They're 671 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:25,120 Speaker 1: stubborn but hilarious, and they're the most loyal dogs, the 672 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:30,000 Speaker 1: best cuddlers, and if you snor, they're a little stinky 673 00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,120 Speaker 1: every now and then. But I mean, is there a 674 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:36,359 Speaker 1: dog that isn't say, you know what I mean? Come back? 675 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,399 Speaker 1: You know, humans, we come back from the gym or whatever. 676 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,440 Speaker 1: It can be a little rough. Sometimes you gotta lead 677 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,200 Speaker 1: the shoes out the back door, like you know. It's 678 00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,080 Speaker 1: not I don't. I don't see that as such a 679 00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,160 Speaker 1: big issue. Um I told you I'm already doing the 680 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:50,720 Speaker 1: bulldog propaganda from Instagram, sending her a little bulldog photos 681 00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:53,480 Speaker 1: of puppies and things. So we'll see. But she likes 682 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,200 Speaker 1: she's a big dog person. This is the thing we 683 00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,839 Speaker 1: keep coming. She wants a big dog, like you know, 684 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:03,240 Speaker 1: eighty pounds. Are you guys looking at a frenchie or English? 685 00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,600 Speaker 1: I want to I mean, I want an English If 686 00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:07,640 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna get one, I'm gonna get English bulldog. 687 00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:09,680 Speaker 1: So yeah, that's the plan. So maybe you might do 688 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,920 Speaker 1: a lot of people think that English aren't very athletic, 689 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,600 Speaker 1: but if you do have a bulldog. I mean you 690 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:22,799 Speaker 1: train them when they're young, they will they're like good 691 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,680 Speaker 1: walking dogs if you get the right harness um, but 692 00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,719 Speaker 1: you gotta start them young. And they're also very like 693 00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:36,160 Speaker 1: fast sprinters and they can jump extremely high, so throwing frisbees, 694 00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,560 Speaker 1: throwing a ball. Like they are outdoor dogs, Like you 695 00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:40,880 Speaker 1: can get them out there. It's kind of like up 696 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:42,440 Speaker 1: to the owner if you want them to be like 697 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,920 Speaker 1: lazy couchdogs and that's all they do from when they're puppies. 698 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,160 Speaker 1: That's all they do. But like you want to get 699 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,920 Speaker 1: them outside and like have them go play at the 700 00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:56,200 Speaker 1: park like they love that too. Amber. Your book Danger Clothes, 701 00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,120 Speaker 1: people should get a copy of they don't already. I 702 00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,840 Speaker 1: know you're working on another book, which we'll have you 703 00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,600 Speaker 1: back when that is published to talk about obviously, but 704 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,520 Speaker 1: anything else anywhere else people should look for your work, 705 00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:11,960 Speaker 1: your commentary, all that good stuff. Yeah. You can always 706 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:16,080 Speaker 1: see what I am up to lately on official Amber 707 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,120 Speaker 1: Smith dot com and then you can follow along on 708 00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:25,080 Speaker 1: Instagram or Twitter at Amber Smith Usa. Awesome, Amber, thank 709 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,919 Speaker 1: you so much. We'll talk to you again soon. Thanks back. 710 00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:28,839 Speaker 1: Great to see you