1 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: Mr garbutsch Off teared down this wall. Either you're with 2 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: us or you were with the terrorists. If you've got 3 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,639 Speaker 1: healthcare already, then you can keep your plan. If you 4 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 1: are satisfied with Trump is not when to be president 5 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: of the United State. Take it to a bank. Together, 6 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: we will make America great again. You'll never sharender. It's 7 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: what you've been waiting for all day. The buck Sexton 8 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 1: Show joined the conversation called Buck Toll Free at eight 9 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: four four nine hundred Buck that's eight four four nine 10 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:49,520 Speaker 1: hundred to eight to five The future of talk radio, 11 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: buck Sexton. People who say they don't want to give 12 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: up their guns, they don't want change. What do you 13 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: say to them? I think, unless you can give me 14 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: a real reason and why you need it, you don't. 15 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 1: You don't need it, honestly asking for less prayers, fewer prayers, 16 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: fewer words, and more action. But this is something that 17 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: I'm going to carry with me forever, and I'm never 18 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: going to stop. I don't think ever like I'm never 19 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: gonna let this go. You are year old and right 20 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:21,959 Speaker 1: now I'm wearing a bullet group. Fast delmat are all 21 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 1: the corporations that are still affiliated with the n r A. 22 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: I just believe that everything should be more secure to curious, shot, untilled. 23 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: We won't tolerate being scared to come into school. We 24 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: won't tolerate having to stay out of school because we're scared. 25 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,839 Speaker 1: We can't be hunted. Welcome to Bucks Action Show everybody. 26 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: Today was a national school walk out to protest gun violence. 27 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: It is a month since the terrible shooting at the 28 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: Marjorie Stone in Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and 29 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: today we had thousands and thousands of kids, young adults 30 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: walking out of their schools across the country. I will 31 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 1: say there are a few things that immediately jumped out 32 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: of me. One is never before have I seen the 33 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,519 Speaker 1: media so willing to listen to the opinions of teenagers 34 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: on national policy. I don't see it with really anything 35 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: else that I can think of. You know, usually it's 36 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:36,679 Speaker 1: adults make and enforce the laws and teenagers obey them. 37 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,640 Speaker 1: An adults teach teenagers about the constitution and the law. 38 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: But here we have a movement of children, young adults, 39 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: adolescents who are being used for obvious political purposes by 40 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: one side of the political aisle. As I have told you. 41 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: From the beginning, it was clear that leftist activist groups 42 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: were involved in this. It was clear that there was 43 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 1: astro turfing going on, that this was not some grassroots 44 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: movement without any involvement. You had organizers from the Women's 45 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 1: March and other groups, and I can't even keep up 46 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: with all of them who have reached out to these 47 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: kids C and N. I don't know if they're going 48 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: to be violating child labor laws, but they might as 49 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 1: well give some of these kids a contributor contract. I 50 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: don't know if they're even allowed to do that, but 51 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:25,280 Speaker 1: they probably should because they keep pointing, putting them on 52 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: TV and treating them like they are experts. And this 53 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: is where the breakdown happens. You see, they're really trying 54 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: to silence you and intimidate you by putting forward victims 55 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: and claiming that if you oppose what those victims are 56 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: promoting as policy, now you're a bad person. If you 57 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: don't give way to the arguments of kids in this case, 58 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: then clearly you are unfeeling uncaring and to borrow from 59 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: some of the most famed this of these child activists, 60 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: you support the n r A, which is a terrorist 61 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: organization they say, and terrorizes children. This is a national 62 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: media embarrassment for sure. Look, do these kids no better? 63 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:16,520 Speaker 1: Do they think they're doing good? Thing? Tough to tell. 64 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: You got to look at it on an individual case 65 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: and depends on what they're saying and how they're saying. 66 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: But saying that the First Amendment applies to kids and 67 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,560 Speaker 1: they have a voice in all this is just all 68 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 1: a smoke screen. This is moral blackmail on a massive scale. 69 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: You have school districts that are spending money to bust 70 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,039 Speaker 1: these kids to protests. This has now become like a 71 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 1: school activity that just goes to show you, goes to 72 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,760 Speaker 1: show you the leftist bent of most of the teachers, 73 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 1: unions and a lot of teachers in these school systems, 74 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 1: in public school And this is not going to advance policy. 75 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: It wanted ad It's the argument is it, can you 76 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 1: make can you make claims about how this is good? 77 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: There's activism? You know, it's we got an engaged citizenry. Sure, yeah, 78 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: it's just exercising the First mment. Yeah, but everything is 79 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,840 Speaker 1: exercising the First Amendment, right, I mean, come on, some 80 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: crazy guy that on the corner was telling me the 81 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 1: world is gonna end as he's standing on a bunch 82 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: of cardboard boxes. Well, he's just exercising the First Amendment. 83 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: Doesn't mean I have to think he's right or respect 84 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: when he's sang. These are all canards, These are all 85 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: red herrings. There smoke screens, as I said, And you'll 86 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 1: notice that there aren't a lot of and there aren't 87 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: a lot of kids appearing on TV who have a 88 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 1: different take on this. They are handpicking which students get 89 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: the national media platforms. They are deciding who will be 90 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: the voice of this movement, and it is overwhelmingly along 91 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 1: partisan lines. And the demonization of the n r A 92 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: and the threats that I've even seen from people online 93 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: about or directed towards people from the n r A 94 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: are appalling. They are absolutely appalling. But you've got waves 95 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: of these students walking out across the country. It allows 96 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: the media to pat itself on the back. It allows 97 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:21,720 Speaker 1: them to act like they're giving a voice to the 98 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:27,279 Speaker 1: voiceless here whatever. All the cliches apply. But we're also 99 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 1: quite aware of the fact that there are adults who 100 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 1: see advantage in all this. There are adults who see 101 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: that using children as pawns in a political battle is 102 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: A is a an effective tactic, right, because if you're 103 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: going to push back against the messaging, you're being mean 104 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: if you point out that these kids don't know anything 105 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:56,799 Speaker 1: about firearms law or quite honestly law or the Constitution. 106 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:00,400 Speaker 1: Because I'm hearing what they're saying, and more to them 107 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: don't and I wouldn't expect them to their kids. But 108 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: there's something strange about putting forward young people who don't 109 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: have the experience or knowledge to debate national issues with 110 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: any real capability, and to put them in positions where 111 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 1: not only are they to be listened to, they're not 112 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: supposed to be criticized, which is part of this whole 113 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: thing if you come out too strongly against US. I 114 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: called it a puppet show in the week when they 115 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 1: keep putting these kids on TV, and oh gosh, people 116 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: got so mad at me. What do you think this is? 117 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: Seeing an adults CNN producers see some kid who suffered 118 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 1: a trauma? Was that one of these was it was 119 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas and they put them on TV 120 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden they're saying that you know 121 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: this politicians owned by the n r A, and this 122 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: person is a total hack who's got blood on his 123 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: hands because he took n RA donations, and they're just 124 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: being a little attack dogs. That's not okay, it's not acceptable. 125 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:11,559 Speaker 1: But anything goes, anything goes, So the conversation, I suppose 126 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: will continue. I saw today on the cover of the 127 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: the Huffington Post they were using the hashtag enough. I 128 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: wonder if they've formally switched from hashtag never again, which 129 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: is meant to evoke the the Holocaust, and maybe they've 130 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 1: moved on to hashtag enough. I'm not sure. I don't know, um, 131 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 1: but I do know that these kids don't understand gun policy, 132 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:48,319 Speaker 1: they don't understand criminology, they don't understand how violence in 133 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 1: the statistics with violence in school, a vast majority of 134 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:57,880 Speaker 1: it occurs outside of school. By orders of magnitude, exponentially 135 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: more violence occurs outside of school. That's where students are 136 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: most likely to be harmed by each other and by 137 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: non students. And most of the violence has nothing to 138 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: do with a deranged school shooter. It's drug related, it's 139 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: gang related, but that's not what we're talking about here. This, 140 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 1: this is specifically meant to mobile This is meant to 141 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:24,199 Speaker 1: mobilize a group of students for the purpose of fundraising 142 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: for the left, passing legislation against the Second Amendment, and 143 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:32,079 Speaker 1: creating some issue for the Democrats to push going into 144 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 1: mid terms. Of course, the problem they're gonna run into 145 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: is that gun control is not popular in places where 146 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: they need to run towards the They need to run centrists, 147 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: they need to run carbon copies if they can. Of 148 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: what just happened in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania's eighteenth district, which was 149 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: won by the Democrats. I mean, he's has the other 150 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 1: guy conceded yet by the way he conceded. No, he 151 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: hasn't conceded, right, Okay, so it's in the six D 152 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: vote range right now. Oh. Another thing. Anytime somebody ever 153 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,720 Speaker 1: tells you that voter fraud doesn't matter or they know, 154 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,679 Speaker 1: they usually start with voter fraud doesn't happen, and then 155 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 1: you do a Google search and they say, well, someone 156 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 1: just went to prison for it last week. And they say, okay, well, 157 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:14,439 Speaker 1: it's not that big a deal. Doesn't happen that much. 158 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,640 Speaker 1: When you have congressional elections that are coming down to 159 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: literally hundreds of votes, it's pretty clear that it matters. 160 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,839 Speaker 1: It's pretty clear that even a very small fraction of 161 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 1: votes cast being fraudulent or in any way hampered with 162 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: could change the outcome. Um, well, that's that's another place 163 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 1: we'll have to go and discuss. Oh I mentioned the adults. 164 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: We'll talk more about where the adults come down here 165 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: on using this movement for their own purposes, on pushing 166 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:51,520 Speaker 1: narratives that they find politically convenient, and how ultimately they 167 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:53,319 Speaker 1: won't address the truth. And it's one that I tell 168 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 1: you here on the show. School shootings are have been 169 00:10:56,080 --> 00:11:00,479 Speaker 1: going down for decades. Children are incredibly safe in schools. 170 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 1: We do not need to do all these things that 171 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: people are saying we have to do. We need a 172 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: baseline of competence from law enforcement, which we usually have, 173 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 1: but in this case of the Stonean Douglas shooting, we 174 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: did not baseline of competency, open communication and maybe some 175 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: tightening of open communication between the schools and law enforcement, 176 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: and then some tightening of the background check system. This 177 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 1: is not a modern pandemic. This is not an urgent plague. 178 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,320 Speaker 1: This has now become from a policy perspective, overblown. For 179 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: every student that walked out today because they wanted to 180 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: honor the memories of you know, the fellow students that 181 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:43,320 Speaker 1: were lost at stoneA Douglas High School, or that they 182 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: did this as a form of mourning and community gathering. 183 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: Great God bless. But for those who are saying we 184 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: need to change the Constitution of the United States because 185 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: they say so because of what happened, I'm sorry, but 186 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: they don't have enough wisdom or experience on the subject 187 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: matter to influence my opinion, and I know they're not 188 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: influencing yours either, And this is not the way that 189 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: we should be debating issues of national importance in this country. 190 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: It's a sham what the Democrats are doing. All Right, 191 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 1: We've got a pat show. I'm gonna talk to you 192 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: about the passing of Stephen Hawking later on. We're also 193 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 1: going to discuss that the UK has expelled twenty three 194 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: diplomats from its shores and Russian diplomats in response to 195 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:37,840 Speaker 1: the Nova chalk poisoning. And what else have I got 196 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: for you? A whole lot of stuff. We'll have Hillary 197 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: making an appearance later. Oh, I have a follow up 198 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 1: on the French bulldog that died in the overhead been 199 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: because of a stupid airline employee. We will get that. 200 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: Just I want I read it last night. I read 201 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 1: the details. I saw the photo too, and it disturbed me. 202 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: It really made me mad. And you and say, that's 203 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 1: not rational, Buck. You're reading stories about terrible wars and 204 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 1: things all the time, and I know that's true, but 205 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: I don't know that the photo of that French you 206 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: really really hit home. It made me, Uh made me sad. 207 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:12,880 Speaker 1: So we'll talk about that, because there's a bigger lesson 208 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: about airlines that we should draw from what happened on 209 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,960 Speaker 1: that plane where somebody's pet was forced into an overhead 210 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:22,680 Speaker 1: beIN where it's slowly suffocated. We will we will talk 211 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 1: more about that, and obviously your thoughts welcome as well. 212 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:31,719 Speaker 1: Eight to eight to five eight Buck. You can't call, 213 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: but you want to tweet. I am at Buck Sexton 214 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: on Twitter and I'm a lean, mean tweeting machine, including 215 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,199 Speaker 1: during the show and after and at two A and 216 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: when I can't sleep. So get on the Twitter. We'll 217 00:13:43,640 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 1: be right back. What do we want gun control? When 218 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: do we want it? Now? Governor Andrew Cromo was with 219 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 1: them in that one, right, So the governor of New 220 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 1: York State. They're demanding gun control, folks, there's already so 221 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 1: much gun control. The way that this whole debate is 222 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 1: framed is dishonest. They're claiming that they just want common 223 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: sense gun control. We already have all kinds of gun control. 224 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: And I don't mean like trigger finger discipline. I'm talking 225 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: about all the laws that are which I know for 226 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 1: a lot of your like that is gun control, Buck, 227 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: But I'm talking about laws that are in place that 228 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 1: govern the sale and transfer and storage and carriage and use. 229 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: And you know, there's a whole cannon pardon the expression 230 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 1: of law around guns. And in a place like New York, 231 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 1: they do it in a way that it's supposed to 232 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 1: make it complicated. It's supposed to make it difficult. And 233 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: there's all kinds of ownerous restrictions in place on the 234 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: Second Amendment already, restrictions that they would never dream of 235 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 1: bringing about it a similar level for other constitutionally protected rights, 236 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: because they just flatly don't view the Second Amendment as 237 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: a constitution constitutionally protected right. They think it is a 238 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,800 Speaker 1: quaint anachronism and that it's evil and that it needs 239 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 1: to go. They flatly do not believe that the right 240 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 1: to bear arms is in the Constitution, and they are 241 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: using children now to make that argument for them. It's 242 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: not the first time, but this time around they have 243 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: harness their powers of organizing for this purpose, and none 244 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 1: other than Chuck Schumer, for example, joined it. I mean, 245 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: the got these adults joining in the student chance, No surprise, Humer. 246 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: Here's what he had to say. Now, everyone's I've been 247 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 1: through these wars. I am the author of the Brady 248 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: Law and the assault weapons ban, the n r A. 249 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: The n r A has made me public Enemy no. One, 250 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 1: and I'm proud of it. And together we're gonna win 251 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 1: where gonna win. We're gonna win where gonna win? I mean, 252 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 1: what kind of bull crap chant is that we're gonna win? 253 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: What exactly We're gonna ben more guns in New York State. 254 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: There's already all kinds of bands in place for New 255 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: York State. We're gonna eliminate the right to bear arms nationwide. 256 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: That's never gonna happen. That's well, I'm not gonna happen 257 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 1: anytime soon, at least if they keep pushing. I'm sure 258 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 1: they think that they can change perception enough that over 259 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 1: time they might be able to get what they want 260 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:10,120 Speaker 1: with this. But it is uh it is distressing onetheless 261 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: to see all this happening. It's very as I've been 262 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: telling you, it's very Olynsky though. It's all about mobilization. 263 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: Make activism a social activity, make activism seem fun and 264 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,879 Speaker 1: cool and hip, and then people become activists, and then 265 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 1: they want to keep going. It's like a party where 266 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 1: you get to feel good about yourself, like a fun party, 267 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: not a political party, you know. And then they're hoping 268 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: that they'll have these networks in place for the midterms, 269 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: and that they'll have people that rise up to get 270 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:43,880 Speaker 1: others to vote and to believe that they're giving them 271 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: a message that's important, that's powerful. That's what this whole 272 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 1: game is. It's not going to change anything. I do 273 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: want to talk to you about something else that has 274 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:59,720 Speaker 1: begun to make its way into the conversation, and I 275 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:01,199 Speaker 1: easy here with you, and I had to do with 276 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:05,680 Speaker 1: the Broward Sheriff's Department, Broward County Sheriff's Department policies when 277 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: it came to arresting juveniles. It turns out that there 278 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:13,160 Speaker 1: was really something to it. I talked to you here 279 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: on the show about it. But the Obama administration through 280 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 1: the Department of Education decided that there needed to be 281 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:28,119 Speaker 1: some social justice adjustments to how schools discipline teenagers and 282 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 1: how quickly they reported to law enforcement. And they claim, 283 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,640 Speaker 1: but there is racial disparity in the system and therefore 284 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 1: they had to change the way the system was giving 285 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:45,919 Speaker 1: out discipline. Well, we will dive into that together after this, 286 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 1: because I think it's gonna be eye opening. Investigation will 287 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 1: continue unofficially despite the GOP shutting it down at the 288 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:56,719 Speaker 1: banner up on CNN as we were on the air. 289 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: What a shock. That's it's classic. So they're gonna continue 290 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 1: an investigation that's not really an investigation, but that way 291 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:12,880 Speaker 1: they can still pretend like it's an investigation. Yeah, this 292 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: is what the Democrats do, all right, I promise you 293 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 1: let to talk about this school discipline policies of the 294 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 1: Obama administration. Now, remember, and this is something that's easy, 295 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:24,360 Speaker 1: easy to lose sight of it. I don't have children yet, 296 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: so I don't deal with any school system. Really. I 297 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 1: just read about them a lot, but I've been to school. Uh. 298 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 1: But the Obama administration was willing to throw its political 299 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 1: muscle around via the Department of Education on a pretty 300 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: regular basis. The Obama team, if you remember, even threatened 301 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 1: to cut off funding for I believe it was North 302 00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: but it might have been South Carolina schools if they 303 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: did not acquiesce to the new Department of Education guidelines 304 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: on trans gender students and bathroom usage they were going to. 305 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 1: They threatened to cut funding, folks for public schools unless 306 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 1: they allowed teenage boys to use the bathroom that they 307 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:18,199 Speaker 1: prefer of teenage girls, and vice versa. So that was 308 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:20,359 Speaker 1: one time when you saw the politics of the Obama 309 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 1: administration played out through the prism of the public school system. 310 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,200 Speaker 1: And that's important to remember. But there was another part 311 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 1: of the Obama administration that was prominent all things social justice. 312 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 1: Obama was really a social justice warrior. President Obama was 313 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:43,119 Speaker 1: somebody who believed deeply in using the power of the 314 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:48,119 Speaker 1: government in a somewhat arbitrary fashion in order to benefit 315 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: disadvantaged groups at the expense of so called advantage groups. 316 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: In social justice parlance of today, we'd call this addressing 317 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: white privilege, for example, But in this specific in the 318 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: specific case of the school system, there was a theory 319 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: that Obama and his Department of Education and others put 320 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 1: into practice of what they called the school to prison pipeline, 321 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 1: and that there was too much arresting of high school, 322 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 1: particularly minority high school students, going on that that created 323 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 1: an environment where there would be further arrests and they'd 324 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:31,639 Speaker 1: be pulled out of school, and the problem was the arrest, 325 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:35,880 Speaker 1: not the behavior. And then even before that, they would 326 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:41,679 Speaker 1: say that minority students were punished more severely for and 327 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,399 Speaker 1: this isn't important for the same infraction. That's always the claim, 328 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 1: or the same infraction, they're punished much more severely than 329 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:53,679 Speaker 1: their non minority uh counterparts, particularly that black students are 330 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 1: punished more harshly in school by teachers and administrators than 331 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 1: white students are for the same offense. That's the plane. 332 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 1: Now here's a discussion between the former head of VICE. 333 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 1: I think he's just out as of recently. I've always 334 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:12,200 Speaker 1: thought Vice was just all smoke in mirrors. I've said 335 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 1: this to you I think before on the show. Virus 336 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: is like a bunch of hipster's telling you about the news, 337 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: but pretending they don't really care much about the news. 338 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 1: They've got a book of slam poetry that they're compiling 339 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 1: that's much more meaningful to them, right, I mean it's 340 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: so there's always this annoying insuction. Look at me um 341 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,439 Speaker 1: standing on the d m Z of North Korea, but like, 342 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 1: I don't, I don't really care man doing Vice hard 343 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: hitting journalism. But the the co founder and former head 344 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 1: of Vice was sitting down with Obama to talk about this. 345 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: This was a few years ago. But this is a 346 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: good basic for a good basic definition of what this 347 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 1: whole prison of pipeline thing is. Is the criminal justice 348 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 1: system in America racist. The system restudy has shown is 349 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: biased somewhere institutionally in such a way where an African 350 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: American youth is more likely to be suspended from school 351 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: than a white youth for engaging in the same disruptive behavior, 352 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,440 Speaker 1: more likely to be arrested, more likely to be charged, 353 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: more likely to be prosecuted aggressively, more likely to get 354 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:31,159 Speaker 1: a stiffer sentence. The system tilts in a direction that 355 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 1: is unjust. The statistics are so skewed you have to 356 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 1: question whether we have become numb two the costs that 357 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:49,400 Speaker 1: it has on these communities. Whether you got the idea, 358 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 1: but Noticety says, more likely to be suspended, more likely 359 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 1: to be prosecuted for the same offense, and the New 360 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 1: York Times wrote a piece about this recently, Trump finds 361 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: unlikely culprit in school shootings m A discipline policies. UH. 362 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 1: This article has the unintended effect of confirming everything that 363 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 1: I had read before and come to conclusions about with 364 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 1: regard to the Broward County Sheriff's Department and how it's 365 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: interacting with high school students, and also just how the 366 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 1: s j W attitude of the Obama administration had permeated 367 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: throughout the school system in a way that was really 368 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:33,919 Speaker 1: destructive because when you look at this piece, there are 369 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:35,360 Speaker 1: a lot of I mean, first of all, they talk 370 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:46,119 Speaker 1: about the UH, the Rethink Discipline program um, which is 371 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: the Trump Commission will examine, includes guidelines that the Obama 372 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: aministration issued on the legal limitations on the use of 373 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 1: restraints and seclusion, corporal punishment, and equity for special education students. 374 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 1: So Rethink Discipline was they UH called this or the 375 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 1: Abdoministration and Disciplined guidelines that were given out. So they 376 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 1: actually had guidelines on this, and what they were claiming 377 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:14,199 Speaker 1: was some of what I had told you, which is 378 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:19,439 Speaker 1: that UH, students based on how they're writing this and 379 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 1: compulic statistics. They say students of color are singled out 380 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:27,400 Speaker 1: and more harshly punished than their uh than their white counterparts. 381 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,639 Speaker 1: There's a few things that just automatically jump out to 382 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 1: me about this claim. And I'm gonna translate all this 383 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 1: in a moment into why we care in the context 384 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 1: of the school shootings in general and the Marjorie Stone 385 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: and Douglas shooting in particular in a second here, but 386 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,880 Speaker 1: the notion that being punished for the same infraction, there's 387 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,879 Speaker 1: no way to statistically account for this, But there's also 388 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 1: no way to line up exactly is this a student 389 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 1: that is, we're talking to things like disruptions and classrooms 390 00:25:55,960 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 1: or maybe you know, cursing or okay, and teacher listening 391 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: to this nose. And I was just I was a 392 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: soccer coach, right, So I wasn't a teacher, but I 393 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 1: worked in a school for a period of time and 394 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 1: had to deal with kids. And I had overwhelmingly super diligent, 395 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:17,640 Speaker 1: well behaved, great kids. But even in that scale, there 396 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,119 Speaker 1: were the kids that I dealt with who had a 397 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 1: you know, consistently a little bit of an attitude, a 398 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,920 Speaker 1: little bit of a discenary disciplinary problem and there were 399 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 1: the kids who maybe once in a while would get 400 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 1: a little out of sorts, but they generally weren't a problem. 401 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: Now I knew that there was a line sometimes that 402 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,080 Speaker 1: if any of them cross I'd have to actually, you know, 403 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 1: bench them for a game, or you know, I had 404 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:42,239 Speaker 1: to do that a couple of times, or if they 405 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 1: were being you know, rowdy, or if they were getting 406 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,199 Speaker 1: into it, because these were high school aged kids, if 407 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 1: they were you know, saying they're going to fight someone 408 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: on the other team, things like that would happen. I'd 409 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,600 Speaker 1: have to step in and and cut that off right away, 410 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 1: and they would have to be disciplined there. But you know, 411 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: the kid that did it two or three times, or 412 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:01,640 Speaker 1: the kid that was close to doing it a few times, 413 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: it was going to be more harshly punished by me 414 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,200 Speaker 1: then the kid who you know, just one time got 415 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: a little heated during the game. And I'm trying to translate, 416 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: trying to take that and put in the context of 417 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 1: a classroom. I'm sure it's the same thing with teachers. 418 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 1: You see, I don't believe that teachers in the public 419 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: school system are inherently racially biased in the way that 420 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 1: the new York Times, the Abadministration's Department of Education and 421 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,159 Speaker 1: others assume, I just don't believe it, and the statistics 422 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 1: alone can't can't be used to say that, well, there's 423 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: a there's a disparate impact on minority students in these 424 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:43,720 Speaker 1: schools because the reality of crime statistics in this country, 425 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: or that there's a disparate impact among the African American 426 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:51,239 Speaker 1: community of of homicides. For example, right there are more 427 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: African Americans per capita killed in homicides, and they're more 428 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:58,840 Speaker 1: African African Americans per capita that commit homicides. Now there's 429 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 1: very complicated, uh socio economic reasons and you know, and 430 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 1: and discussions to be had around that issue. But there's 431 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: clearly a difference in the per capita incidents of violent 432 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:14,919 Speaker 1: crime in the African American community community than the rest 433 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,199 Speaker 1: of the country. That there is a difference in school 434 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 1: discipline as well, is something that should be a conversation, 435 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 1: not something that is day facto or or on its 436 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:29,920 Speaker 1: face treated as racism, which is what they're saying, which 437 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 1: is what they're doing now. The way that so that's 438 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: one level, is the way that the schools under the 439 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 1: obomb aministration decided to deal with this was And now 440 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 1: you're gonna start seeing the how Broward County factors into 441 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 1: this was Well, you know, don't arrest kids, give them 442 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: more written warnings, be be slower to turn them over 443 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: to police, don't don't take school behavior that's criminal and 444 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: necessarily assume you have to call law enforcement. See if 445 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 1: you can handle it internally, See if the school's disciplinary 446 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,960 Speaker 1: policies will deal with it first. Now, I met a 447 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: lot of teachers in my life. I've never met a 448 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: teacher who would relish the idea who would look forward 449 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 1: to calling police on one of his or her students ever. Ever, 450 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 1: so the notion that the Department Education thinks that it 451 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 1: should be telling teachers and administrators, you know, be slower 452 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 1: to call the cops as a means of dealing with 453 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: the problem is exactly the wrong way to deal with 454 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 1: the problem. Letting kids get away with more behavior that 455 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 1: is borderline up to and including criminal is not a 456 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: way of increasing or improving discipline. It's just a way 457 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,360 Speaker 1: for administrators and in some cases law enforcement to change 458 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:43,239 Speaker 1: the numbers and look like they're being less discriminatory. In 459 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,239 Speaker 1: the case of the Parkland school shooting, what we know 460 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: is that the Broward County Sheriff's office was giving a 461 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 1: lot of citea a lot of written warnings and citations 462 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,040 Speaker 1: to kids for what would have gotten them previously arrested. 463 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 1: And the theory here, it's not proven, but the theory 464 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 1: is that with someone like Nicholas Cruz, you have a 465 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 1: student who was in an ecosystem where behavior was much 466 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 1: less likely to result in arrest and a visit from 467 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 1: law enforcement and much more likely to be just bounced 468 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: around the school system. And you know, he's eventually expelled. 469 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: But there was a softer line taken by authority in 470 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:29,200 Speaker 1: Broward County which was responsible for safety of those students 471 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 1: at Parkland. And there's a way to take that thread 472 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,560 Speaker 1: and have it all the way at the top from 473 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 1: President Obama himself on down less discipline in schools, the 474 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,480 Speaker 1: prison the school the prison pipeline, which is just a 475 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,880 Speaker 1: bogus theory that they have created to explain away many 476 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,480 Speaker 1: difficult socio and economic issues that are happening in schools 477 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: and pretending that there's no disparity issues in discipline, that 478 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:02,000 Speaker 1: it's all just institutional racism, that's what they're saying, and 479 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: that may have had very, very tragic consequences when it 480 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 1: filtered all the way down at the level of say 481 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: Stoneman Douglas High School and how administrators, teachers, and others 482 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 1: felt they should be dealing with problem students across the board, 483 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:19,360 Speaker 1: minority or otherwise. But this is something we will continue 484 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: to revisit. It's but it just comes from the flawed 485 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 1: theory of of the social justice warriors, which is if 486 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: there is a remember if you remember, disparate impact as well. 487 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 1: That's a theory that says that if it affects one 488 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 1: group more than another, it must be wrong if that 489 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,240 Speaker 1: group is disadvantaged, even if it's based on action and 490 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 1: sound law. As I've said to you, there's a disparate 491 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,200 Speaker 1: impact of violent crime too. What do we do about that? 492 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 1: You know, not enforced the law? I don't think so, 493 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 1: all right, eight four four to five eight four four buck, 494 00:31:51,680 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Also have a concerned when we 495 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: talk about this of the impact of of having armed 496 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 1: teachers as it relates to African American Hispanic students. And 497 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 1: here's why I say that there is an overwhelming body 498 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:19,479 Speaker 1: of evidence that shows that harsh disciplinary protocols disproportionately impact 499 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:23,680 Speaker 1: children of color. Do you have any concern about a 500 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 1: policy that would result in arming teachers and the concern 501 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 1: that we should make sure that if something like that 502 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:36,320 Speaker 1: were to occur, that there would be training around implicit bias. 503 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,720 Speaker 1: So that's Kamala Harris talking about this. So she's saying 504 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 1: implicit bias. I mean, the teachers shoot more minority students 505 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,840 Speaker 1: if they're armed in schools. This, this theory continues, and 506 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:50,120 Speaker 1: it it permeates so much of the policy making around 507 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 1: school safety, doesn't it. Herber New Jersey, What do you think, 508 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: my friend? Uh? Well, first of all, let me say 509 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:02,720 Speaker 1: shields high buck, thank you. Like you, I'm calling bs 510 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 1: on this entire narrative that tries to take the focus 511 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 1: off of truth and reality when you're talking about keeping 512 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 1: our kids safe while they're in school. Um, you know, 513 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 1: I don't care how many tools of violence you try 514 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: to make illegal. Uh. People who are contemplating a crime 515 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:34,720 Speaker 1: are going to obtain whatever tool they find necessary by 516 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 1: any means necessary. And And what you're really talking about here, 517 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: if you're serious about wanting to keep our kids safe, 518 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:48,720 Speaker 1: is trying to keep a shield between them and the 519 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 1: evil that promotes violence. Physical shield is the only thing 520 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:58,400 Speaker 1: that's going to protect our children because UM, well here's 521 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 1: a perfect example. UM. There's a story going around uh 522 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,920 Speaker 1: the internet in the last twenty four hours about a 523 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:11,440 Speaker 1: situation that that that occurred in California where a student 524 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:16,879 Speaker 1: made some threats on social media. The police investigated, They 525 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:22,680 Speaker 1: found uh several weapons and ammunition in the possession of 526 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 1: this child in their home. UM, they arrested them and 527 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 1: um charged them with the unlawful possession UM and averted 528 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:38,799 Speaker 1: any potential violence in that child school because they put 529 00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 1: up a shield. They invested, the law enforcement did its 530 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,719 Speaker 1: job there, and law enforcement in Parkland clearly was unfortunately 531 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:48,719 Speaker 1: asleep at wheel Herb. Thank you for calling in from 532 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:50,279 Speaker 1: New Jersey. I want to get to Bill and West 533 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,279 Speaker 1: Virginia before we have to go to the next hour. Bill, 534 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,959 Speaker 1: good to have you all right. Thanks thanks for taking 535 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,000 Speaker 1: my time for your time there. Uh yeah, I wanted 536 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,440 Speaker 1: to talk about Chuck Schumer. He happens his big mouth 537 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,800 Speaker 1: and that and uh what's he got to say about 538 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,040 Speaker 1: the Obama Hary could fast and furious stuff. You know, 539 00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:07,200 Speaker 1: the government broke the Lawler, we got gun laws, and 540 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,480 Speaker 1: they broke the gun laws in it. How many of 541 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,600 Speaker 1: these guns are available from Mexico coming back here to 542 00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 1: cause these problems? Yeah, I mean, Chuck Schumer's the worst. 543 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:20,440 Speaker 1: So there's that can't understand that, Why don't the people 544 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,160 Speaker 1: start shoving at the Republicans starts shoving it back in 545 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,640 Speaker 1: his face, and that you know, it just dumbfails me. Yeah, 546 00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:28,200 Speaker 1: I hear you, Bill, thank you for calling him my 547 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 1: friend Shields I um yeah, Schumer, Oh gosh. We'll talk 548 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 1: a little bit about the Party of Pelosi and Schumer 549 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:40,800 Speaker 1: and how this wind that Lamb had in Pennsylvania's eighteenth 550 00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:45,800 Speaker 1: district is not indicative of some big wave coming for 551 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,160 Speaker 1: the Democrats. Unless all the Democrats can get away with 552 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,920 Speaker 1: pretending to basically not be Democrats in the midternal election, 553 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,399 Speaker 1: then they'll have something special. But to that, and then 554 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:58,640 Speaker 1: also some rumblings out of the FBI and some possible 555 00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,960 Speaker 1: retribution against the deep state. What am I talking about? 556 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 1: You gotta stay with me. I start every day the 557 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:09,120 Speaker 1: same way I get my Black Rifle coffee and I 558 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: chug it. Black Rifle is absolutely delicious, and unlike other 559 00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:18,399 Speaker 1: coffee companies. 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But scone cicone. 578 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:40,480 Speaker 1: I like to say, I like the like the old 579 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:45,360 Speaker 1: country saccone, not the seccone americanized stuff. You know what 580 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,160 Speaker 1: do he was hen order spaghetti with red sauce. Next, 581 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:53,120 Speaker 1: next it's spaghetti manda nata. But nonetheless yet scone against Lamb. 582 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,120 Speaker 1: I have nothing fun and what bad? I got nothing 583 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,560 Speaker 1: to say about Lamb's You know, I can't think of 584 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,319 Speaker 1: anything clever about that one, but Lamb one, or as 585 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,080 Speaker 1: I'm seeing some of the various female pundits I know, 586 00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,720 Speaker 1: say the cute one one, Oh well, isn't that nice? 587 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,680 Speaker 1: Or at least he's declared victory and he's six hundred 588 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,200 Speaker 1: votes or so ahead, and and we have some audio 589 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:19,840 Speaker 1: from the cute one. Lay it. Lamb is a political unicorn. Essentially, 590 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:28,200 Speaker 1: he's running prone pro fracking. We were over stops ups up. 591 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:32,040 Speaker 1: Let's let's play Mr Connor Lamb. What what he said? 592 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,560 Speaker 1: Not that Mark theeson is not great? But do we 593 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,919 Speaker 1: not have I thought we had some Lamb talking. Oh, 594 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,280 Speaker 1: Paul Ryan talking about Lamb. I miss read the cutsheet 595 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,759 Speaker 1: my friends live radio is a crazy thing. Let's hear 596 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,880 Speaker 1: from Paul Ryant. I think the candidate that's going to 597 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,799 Speaker 1: win this race is the candidate that ran is a 598 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:55,040 Speaker 1: pro life, pro gun, anti anti Nancy Pelosi conservative, that's 599 00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:58,720 Speaker 1: the candidate's gonna win this race. So this is something 600 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,480 Speaker 1: that you're not going to see repeated. Because they didn't 601 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,280 Speaker 1: have a primary, they were able to pick a candidate 602 00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:07,080 Speaker 1: who could run as a conservative, who ran against the 603 00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:10,600 Speaker 1: minority leader who ran on a conservative agenda. Um, you 604 00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:12,600 Speaker 1: will have primaries and all these other races, and the 605 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,880 Speaker 1: primaries bring bring them to the left. So I just 606 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:16,279 Speaker 1: don't think that this is something they're gonna be able 607 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,520 Speaker 1: to see a repeat of. I agree with Paul Ryan's 608 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:22,480 Speaker 1: analysis here. You can't you can't pull a limb in 609 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,680 Speaker 1: all these other districts because you're gonna be running people 610 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:28,719 Speaker 1: that are essentially saying me too, I'm just a Republican too, 611 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,640 Speaker 1: I'm I'm close to this other guy. It's not gonna 612 00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:35,680 Speaker 1: be enough. There's just no way. And then you added 613 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,360 Speaker 1: the whole thing that people in the political chattering class 614 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,680 Speaker 1: like to talk about mid terms, the year of the 615 00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,560 Speaker 1: mid term, like the whole year. But so much is 616 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,920 Speaker 1: going to change between now and then, things like how's 617 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,200 Speaker 1: the economy doing. People are saying, this is a referenum 618 00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,480 Speaker 1: on Trumpell. What's Trump is? I'm looking like in five 619 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:57,720 Speaker 1: or six months, right, that'll be very very different. Or yeah, 620 00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,000 Speaker 1: five or six months, so that will all change. So 621 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,840 Speaker 1: this is not a referendum on anything. It just shows that. 622 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:05,960 Speaker 1: Oh I would note yesterday I was a little confused. 623 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,360 Speaker 1: We're talking to Selena Zito, who is from the district 624 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,000 Speaker 1: and knows this district p A eighteen very very well. 625 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:12,960 Speaker 1: I was like, wait, why did I think that Lamb 626 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:17,239 Speaker 1: was a Lamb is one of these politicians who says 627 00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:21,000 Speaker 1: he is personally pro life but will always vote pro choice. 628 00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:25,719 Speaker 1: See that's how far he's willing to go. Uh, that's 629 00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:30,840 Speaker 1: how far he's willing to go in order to appeal 630 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:36,440 Speaker 1: to Republican centrist voters. Right, that's what he's willing to do, 631 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:40,319 Speaker 1: or sorry, Democrat centrist voters is to say, oh, well, 632 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,640 Speaker 1: I'm with you. I mean, you know, I'm life is sacred, 633 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,680 Speaker 1: but I'm gonna vote for abortion. This is the head fake. 634 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,520 Speaker 1: This is exactly what Democrats do time and again. It's 635 00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,520 Speaker 1: not new, it's not a surprise. And the fact that 636 00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,879 Speaker 1: this guy was able to, you know, with a good 637 00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:57,160 Speaker 1: resume and a square jaw and a good TV appearance 638 00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,600 Speaker 1: and all that was able to defeat us a cone 639 00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:05,800 Speaker 1: is not not a huge shock. Um, not a huge shock. 640 00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:11,840 Speaker 1: Uh So that's I don't think there's any major national 641 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,120 Speaker 1: level anything to take out of this. So I just 642 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:16,840 Speaker 1: want to put that. I want to put that aside 643 00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,080 Speaker 1: for a moment, or not put it aside for a moment. 644 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:20,680 Speaker 1: I want to put it aside. I think it's just 645 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,840 Speaker 1: the local. It's gonna be a different district in the fall. 646 00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,160 Speaker 1: He's literally gonna be running in a different district. So 647 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:30,400 Speaker 1: how's it gonna look? Who knows? Who knows? The biggest 648 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,520 Speaker 1: thing I had from all this, or the biggest takeaway 649 00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:35,480 Speaker 1: from me, is that hundreds of votes can change an election. 650 00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:40,239 Speaker 1: It is not hard to think of a situation where 651 00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:44,400 Speaker 1: there might be hundreds of either intentionally or unintentionally illegally 652 00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:46,680 Speaker 1: cast votes. Not hard to think of that at all, right, 653 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,560 Speaker 1: not something. It doesn't require a huge elaborate fraud to 654 00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:53,719 Speaker 1: have a few hundred votes go one way or the other. 655 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:56,680 Speaker 1: In fact, there have been elections where that was the 656 00:41:56,719 --> 00:42:00,400 Speaker 1: margin of the margin of victory, and your reason to 657 00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,040 Speaker 1: believe that there was there were shenanigans all right. Now, 658 00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:05,919 Speaker 1: switching gears for a moment here, because this is gonna 659 00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:10,600 Speaker 1: be It's gonna be something that really sets the media 660 00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:16,080 Speaker 1: a light. They are going to freak out about this. 661 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:22,080 Speaker 1: NBC News reporting Sessions, the Attorney General, whom I will 662 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,960 Speaker 1: note we had calling into the show this week because he's, uh, 663 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:28,080 Speaker 1: he likes the freedom hunting. You know. The guy's very smart, 664 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:31,239 Speaker 1: individual's patriot, likes how we roll in the hut, you 665 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:33,120 Speaker 1: know what I mean. I get so I give Sessions 666 00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:37,200 Speaker 1: credit for that. On top of it, he may fire 667 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:44,440 Speaker 1: top FBI official Andrew McCabe before his pension eligibility. So 668 00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,000 Speaker 1: people who think that McCay retiring early, oh, there's nothing 669 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:50,080 Speaker 1: they can do now, Nope, there's something they can do 670 00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:54,960 Speaker 1: that would sting pretty bad, pretty badly. I know, advert 671 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,080 Speaker 1: people are gonna get mad at me. No improper grammar 672 00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:01,120 Speaker 1: on AIRBUK. The FBI's Office of Profession and Responsibility has 673 00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,879 Speaker 1: recommended the firing of former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who 674 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:08,200 Speaker 1: remains on the payroll, a move that could put his 675 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:11,839 Speaker 1: pension at risk. According to officials familiar with the process, 676 00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:17,560 Speaker 1: it is now up to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, our friend, 677 00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:24,520 Speaker 1: whether to reverse that recommendation or to accept it. Why 678 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:28,160 Speaker 1: would McCabe get fired after a long and distinguished career 679 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:33,000 Speaker 1: at the d j OH for leaking information to reporters 680 00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:40,440 Speaker 1: and for lying to investigators about doing so. Now, let's 681 00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,440 Speaker 1: just take a moment, shall we. If you are a 682 00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:48,239 Speaker 1: senior Department of Justice official, you know the law pretty well, 683 00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,560 Speaker 1: I'd assume, at least with regard. I'm not saying you 684 00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,200 Speaker 1: uphold it all the time, but you at least know 685 00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,040 Speaker 1: what the law is. You should know what the law is, 686 00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,359 Speaker 1: and you would also know what would put you in 687 00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:03,759 Speaker 1: professional and ethical jeopardy. Why why, oh why would you 688 00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,520 Speaker 1: If you are Andy McCabe, Acting Director of the Federal 689 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:14,440 Speaker 1: Bureau of Investigation, why would you take this risk and 690 00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,319 Speaker 1: leak to reporters unless one of two things were true, 691 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,120 Speaker 1: both of which are very important for our discussions going 692 00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:26,480 Speaker 1: forward of all the Russia collusion investigation stuff. One, you 693 00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:31,440 Speaker 1: are sure that you will not get into trouble because 694 00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,120 Speaker 1: the rest of the people around you will have your 695 00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:37,640 Speaker 1: back because they're with you, they agree with you, they're 696 00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:41,920 Speaker 1: anti Trumpers, and so they you're gonna be okay. And maybe, 697 00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:44,719 Speaker 1: depending on what the timeline is here, maybe you figured 698 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:48,719 Speaker 1: Hillary was gonna win, and so that's why you we're 699 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:50,239 Speaker 1: willing to engage in all this because you knew of 700 00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,440 Speaker 1: Hillary Wan and you were part of helping her win. 701 00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:55,880 Speaker 1: Everything was gonna be cool, right. The other option is 702 00:44:55,920 --> 00:45:00,000 Speaker 1: you are so ideologically rabid in your opposition to Trump 703 00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:05,439 Speaker 1: that you would risk your career and your pension in 704 00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:10,200 Speaker 1: order to try and take Trump down. When we're talking 705 00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:12,800 Speaker 1: about the deep state, my friends, when we discussed former 706 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:19,200 Speaker 1: Obama administration officials or just senior government officials and their 707 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:25,239 Speaker 1: willingness to go above and beyond to stop Trump and 708 00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:31,200 Speaker 1: help Hillary, this goes right in to that box. This 709 00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,400 Speaker 1: is what we are just, this is what we're talking about. 710 00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:38,880 Speaker 1: Someone who has spent decades working for the FBI putting 711 00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:42,879 Speaker 1: bad guys away, knows the law backwards affords, and would 712 00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,439 Speaker 1: get in trouble for a leaking to reporters at the very, 713 00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:50,040 Speaker 1: very very end of his career. This gives you a 714 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,959 Speaker 1: sense of the severity of the problem of the deep 715 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,160 Speaker 1: state at d o J and FBI. It also proves 716 00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:01,440 Speaker 1: that it was very, very real, and I have to 717 00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,759 Speaker 1: wonder if he's in trouble for this, what would happen 718 00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:08,680 Speaker 1: if there was an independent investigation looking at say Sally Yates, 719 00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:13,560 Speaker 1: looking at Peter struck looking at Bruce or all these 720 00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,240 Speaker 1: different figures that we've become familiar with in the Russia 721 00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:22,800 Speaker 1: collusion investigation. FBI side, d o J, lawyer side, someone 722 00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:28,640 Speaker 1: leaked information to the newspapers to get General Flynn and 723 00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:31,640 Speaker 1: committed a felony in doing so. I think we have 724 00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:36,280 Speaker 1: a pretty small list of people that are likely suspects. 725 00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:41,400 Speaker 1: And if you can see the acting FBI director putting 726 00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:44,880 Speaker 1: so much on the line for the pro Hillary anti 727 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:50,320 Speaker 1: Trump cause, what can you not see some of his compatriots, 728 00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,360 Speaker 1: some of his fellow travelers, and the f beyond the 729 00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:58,080 Speaker 1: d o J doing for the same end. Remember this 730 00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:01,239 Speaker 1: one and keep an eye on what happens with Sessions 731 00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,759 Speaker 1: and this decision. We'll be back in a few The 732 00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:09,640 Speaker 1: United Kingdom will now expel twenty three Russian diplomats who 733 00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:14,520 Speaker 1: have been identified as undeclared intelligence officers. They have just 734 00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,960 Speaker 1: one week to leave. This will be the single biggest 735 00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,800 Speaker 1: expulsion for over thirty years. We're here today to discuss 736 00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:25,600 Speaker 1: the use of a chemical weapon by one Council member 737 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:30,120 Speaker 1: in the territory of another Council member. Let me make 738 00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:34,520 Speaker 1: one thing clear from the very beginning, the United States 739 00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:40,440 Speaker 1: stands in absolute solidarity with Great Britain. The United States 740 00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:43,799 Speaker 1: believes that Russia is responsible for the attack on two 741 00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:47,320 Speaker 1: people in the United Kingdom using a military grade nerve agent. 742 00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:53,279 Speaker 1: Dozens of civilians and first responders were also exposed. There 743 00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:57,759 Speaker 1: you have US Ambassador United Nations Nicki Haley, and someone 744 00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:01,000 Speaker 1: who are actually thought was a likely replacement at one 745 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,680 Speaker 1: point for Rex Tillerson, but maybe that'll wait till term two. 746 00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:10,279 Speaker 1: But Nikki Haley calling Russia out for the poisoning of 747 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:15,200 Speaker 1: a former Russian intelligence officer who had defected. We don't 748 00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:16,839 Speaker 1: really use that term anymore. I don't know why when 749 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,040 Speaker 1: you leave your country and take up residents in another, 750 00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,399 Speaker 1: because you've you've been a turn coat, you've traded one 751 00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,080 Speaker 1: country for the other. I feel like defection is the 752 00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:26,319 Speaker 1: right term. But in this case, like he defected from 753 00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:28,120 Speaker 1: the bad guys to the good guys, so we'll take 754 00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:31,759 Speaker 1: it right. That's good, um. But the Russians tried to 755 00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:37,400 Speaker 1: poison him with Novachuk, and they did this so that 756 00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:40,200 Speaker 1: we would know Scree Paul is the name of the 757 00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,920 Speaker 1: individual they tried to poison and his daughter, and it's 758 00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:46,640 Speaker 1: now believed that the the chemical was wiped on the 759 00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:50,640 Speaker 1: handle of his car door, and there are let me 760 00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:54,080 Speaker 1: just say, there are much easier and more effective ways 761 00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:59,200 Speaker 1: to eliminate someone if if that was in fact the goal. 762 00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:04,960 Speaker 1: This reminds me of the poisoning of Litvinenko, who was 763 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:10,799 Speaker 1: given a UM radio active isotope years ago. If you 764 00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:14,920 Speaker 1: remember UM, he was another person who was in a 765 00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:19,680 Speaker 1: very similar fashion in two thousand and six was poisoned 766 00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:26,320 Speaker 1: with polonium radiation syndrome or acute radiation polonium induced acute 767 00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:30,680 Speaker 1: radiation syndrome. So the Russians do this, they'll go after people. 768 00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:33,359 Speaker 1: We know this all over the world, and now it's 769 00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:36,359 Speaker 1: a question of what will we do in response the UK. 770 00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:42,480 Speaker 1: The UK has banished I believe it's twenty three was 771 00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:45,759 Speaker 1: a number, that's right, twenty three Russian diplomats suspected of 772 00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:49,880 Speaker 1: intelligence activities. There's a lot of like what countries know 773 00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:51,879 Speaker 1: and what they pretend not to know, and what they'll 774 00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:55,080 Speaker 1: turn a blind eye too. And this is all you know, 775 00:49:55,120 --> 00:50:00,480 Speaker 1: diplomatic and spook and spy stuff that gets wrapped into 776 00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:04,279 Speaker 1: these conversations. But we've expelled twenty three Russian diplomats, and 777 00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:07,719 Speaker 1: there's some other things that are being done. You know, 778 00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,239 Speaker 1: they're gonna seize any assets in the UK that they 779 00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:16,279 Speaker 1: think maybe used for the purposes of UH elicit activities. 780 00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:20,239 Speaker 1: There are things like that, but it's not really gonna 781 00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:23,279 Speaker 1: strike fear into the hearts of Putin and his his 782 00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:26,719 Speaker 1: top folks, right, we all know that, um. And it's 783 00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,879 Speaker 1: because at a at some level, and I'm just gonna 784 00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:31,480 Speaker 1: say it. I don't know if you've heard anyone else 785 00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:33,000 Speaker 1: say it, but I'm just gonna come out and say it. 786 00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:39,439 Speaker 1: At some level, it is the case that you can't 787 00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:42,080 Speaker 1: touch one of ours, and you know, the UK you 788 00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:45,960 Speaker 1: can't touch one of theirs. But we have a different 789 00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:49,520 Speaker 1: set of rules for how we deal with the Russians 790 00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:53,760 Speaker 1: when they deal with their former you know, their former folks. 791 00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:56,560 Speaker 1: Which is weird when you think about it, right, because 792 00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:59,000 Speaker 1: if you're in the UK and you have residency, you 793 00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:02,600 Speaker 1: should be treated as a as a UK national for 794 00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:06,400 Speaker 1: all intents and purposes. But here we we look at 795 00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,239 Speaker 1: a little differently. I will say this, if, for example, 796 00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:14,560 Speaker 1: the Russians had uh smeared this nova chuck on the 797 00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:21,840 Speaker 1: door handle of a prominent American critic of Putin, we'd 798 00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:26,080 Speaker 1: have we'd have a big problem right, we would have 799 00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:31,919 Speaker 1: reprisals in mind that would go well beyond I think 800 00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,800 Speaker 1: the expulsion of three diplomats, which is the most diplomats 801 00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:38,920 Speaker 1: the uk IS has kicked out in in decades. But 802 00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:40,840 Speaker 1: we think of these things a little bit differently. And 803 00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:42,320 Speaker 1: I just want to know that there these are the 804 00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:47,040 Speaker 1: kind of the unspoken rules in international diplomacy and international espionage, 805 00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:51,000 Speaker 1: that they exist, and we kind of know they exist, 806 00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:52,680 Speaker 1: but we don't talk about them all that much. I mean, 807 00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:56,879 Speaker 1: Nicki Haley uh spoke more about this, and like I said, 808 00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:01,800 Speaker 1: she's calling the Russians out for sure. The Russians complained 809 00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:06,960 Speaker 1: recently that we criticize them too much. If the Russian 810 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:11,719 Speaker 1: government stopped using chemical weapons to assassinate its enemies, and 811 00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:15,400 Speaker 1: if the Russian government stopped helping it's Syrian ally to 812 00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:19,720 Speaker 1: use chemical weapons to kill Syrian children, and if Russia 813 00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:23,280 Speaker 1: cooperated with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons 814 00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:27,520 Speaker 1: by turning over all information related to this nerve agent, 815 00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:31,440 Speaker 1: we would stop talking about them. We take no pleasure 816 00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:35,280 Speaker 1: and having to constantly criticize Russia, but we need Russia 817 00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:37,919 Speaker 1: to stop giving us so many reasons to do so. 818 00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:44,239 Speaker 1: And here's a little more unconventional thinking these days, Maybe, 819 00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:50,680 Speaker 1: just maybe we should consider reserving criticism for Russia for 820 00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:55,640 Speaker 1: things like this and not running around having our media 821 00:52:55,800 --> 00:53:00,520 Speaker 1: and one of our two political parties pretending that Russians 822 00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:04,640 Speaker 1: through the last election and creating all this fearmongering and 823 00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:10,200 Speaker 1: scare mongering and paranoia around Putin and his plans to 824 00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:14,839 Speaker 1: intervene in our next election. I'm not saying it's not 825 00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:17,440 Speaker 1: a problem, just saying it's not the big problem that 826 00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:19,799 Speaker 1: people have been pretending it is, and they've been doing 827 00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:24,040 Speaker 1: it for very obvious partisan reasons, But it doesn't start 828 00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,200 Speaker 1: to sound a bit like noise coming from us. The 829 00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:29,360 Speaker 1: Russians do have a point. We do complain about them 830 00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:32,959 Speaker 1: a lot and a lot more than we should have 831 00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:39,719 Speaker 1: over the last eighteen months or so because we're complaining about, 832 00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:42,400 Speaker 1: or rather people in this country are complaining about how 833 00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:45,160 Speaker 1: Hillary lost the election, and Russia has been pulled in 834 00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:48,399 Speaker 1: as a scapegoat on that, and that's embarrassing. And if 835 00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:50,279 Speaker 1: I were Russia, I'd be mocking us too for that. 836 00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:52,000 Speaker 1: They have every right to be like, you know what, 837 00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:58,360 Speaker 1: you know what, this is this slope, So in that sense, 838 00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:03,239 Speaker 1: they are making some sense and we look at what's 839 00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,960 Speaker 1: going on here, and we have to remember that, you know, 840 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:09,400 Speaker 1: there's only so many different diplomatic levels. There's only so 841 00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:11,680 Speaker 1: many things, so many options you have at any point 842 00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:15,200 Speaker 1: in time to hit back at a bully like Russia, 843 00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:18,600 Speaker 1: and you do yourself no favors when you become the 844 00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,839 Speaker 1: country that cried wolf. And when we're looking at what's 845 00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:27,040 Speaker 1: going on with Russia and they're machinations in Ukraine and 846 00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:33,600 Speaker 1: Crimea in Syria as well as there social media meddling 847 00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:37,279 Speaker 1: and needling of us, I think that we need to 848 00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:40,800 Speaker 1: pick our battles. I mean, the nova chuk thing is serious, 849 00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:42,480 Speaker 1: all right, This is a big deal because, like I 850 00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:44,719 Speaker 1: was saying, originally, you know, they could have just had 851 00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:48,120 Speaker 1: somebody with a silence pistol or something. Not that that's 852 00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:51,520 Speaker 1: morally really any different, although it wouldn't have put a 853 00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:55,000 Speaker 1: lot of other people in jeopardy as this did. But 854 00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,760 Speaker 1: they use nova chalk the same reason they use polonium. 855 00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:03,080 Speaker 1: It's messy, it's it's making an example of someone. And 856 00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,200 Speaker 1: if the Russians keep doing this kind of stuff, you know, 857 00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:06,960 Speaker 1: we have to we might have to find a way 858 00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,719 Speaker 1: to make an example, so to speak, of the Russians, 859 00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:13,759 Speaker 1: and that could get very dangerous. I'll be back with 860 00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:18,080 Speaker 1: much more. Stay with me Team I inherit nothing from 861 00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:21,240 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. Some people stayed home and some people 862 00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:26,279 Speaker 1: went third party. The tech revolution really weaponized. If you 863 00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:30,560 Speaker 1: look at Facebook news, items posted were fake, the Russians, 864 00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:36,320 Speaker 1: one thousand Russian agents, the bots, millions of bots, Citizens United. 865 00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,840 Speaker 1: Then you've got Cambridge analytic of the Mercer's and Brexit, 866 00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:43,520 Speaker 1: the bright Bart operation, Steve Bannon, Kelly Ann Conway, the 867 00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:47,040 Speaker 1: John Podesta emails, Wiki leaks, in bed with Goosefer, in 868 00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:49,759 Speaker 1: bed with DC leaks, vast right wing conspiracy. Now it's 869 00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:53,560 Speaker 1: a vast Russian conspiracy and at some point it sort 870 00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:58,279 Speaker 1: of bleeds over into misogyny. Oh man, I had to 871 00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:01,359 Speaker 1: producer Mike for an amazing montage there. I love it, dude. 872 00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:04,960 Speaker 1: It's just there are so many excuses that it's amazing 873 00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:06,799 Speaker 1: she can rattle them all off over the course of 874 00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:09,080 Speaker 1: one speech. But she's clearly done a lot of thinking 875 00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:12,880 Speaker 1: about it. Because Hillary just like she's just wandering the 876 00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:16,520 Speaker 1: woods of Chappaqua, just trying to find herself, just drinking 877 00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:20,719 Speaker 1: glass after glass of rose. Because you know, Hillary is 878 00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:23,360 Speaker 1: the kind of savage who drinks rose year round. You 879 00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:28,640 Speaker 1: know that it's totally true. So Hillary is the gift 880 00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:31,279 Speaker 1: that keeps on getting for the GOP. I really do 881 00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:35,719 Speaker 1: hope that we are treated to all kinds of of 882 00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:39,120 Speaker 1: Hillaryisms in the run up to the mid terms, because 883 00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:42,839 Speaker 1: I think it's a great reminder for folks of what 884 00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:46,960 Speaker 1: they avoided. It really is. She's just gonna be showing 885 00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:49,880 Speaker 1: up and saying it could have had me, and everyone's 886 00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:52,839 Speaker 1: gonna be like, oh my gosh. You know, I feel 887 00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:54,560 Speaker 1: like sometimes when I do the Hillary now, it's almost 888 00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:57,480 Speaker 1: like I'm an Aprica, you know it is. It is 889 00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:01,120 Speaker 1: that time of year my friends St Patrick's Day. I'm 890 00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:03,000 Speaker 1: thinking about how that was a movie that I found 891 00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:05,000 Speaker 1: terrifying when I was a kid. By the way, I 892 00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:06,719 Speaker 1: used to I'm gonna tell you the true story right now. 893 00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:08,960 Speaker 1: I used to go into one of my favorite things 894 00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:10,960 Speaker 1: when my parents were shopping, because before I knew how 895 00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:12,759 Speaker 1: to cook or cared about food other than you know, 896 00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:16,200 Speaker 1: I loved oreos and things like that. I would go 897 00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:21,600 Speaker 1: into a video rental store next to the grocery store 898 00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:23,040 Speaker 1: while my parents were in the group with my older 899 00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:25,840 Speaker 1: brother and and my little brother. There's like the three 900 00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:27,919 Speaker 1: section boys were going and we spent a lot of time, 901 00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:31,400 Speaker 1: no surprise in the action movie section. And that's how 902 00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:34,800 Speaker 1: you get into like the sea level Dolph Longren movies 903 00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:36,800 Speaker 1: that I would watch, you know, show Down a Little 904 00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:40,280 Speaker 1: Tokyo for example. Oh, I've seen it and it's bad. 905 00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:42,120 Speaker 1: You know, you got dout of the whole list. There's 906 00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:44,840 Speaker 1: another one where Dolph Longren stays behind with a bunch 907 00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:48,760 Speaker 1: of mercenaries. Uh, and they like helped defend a village 908 00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:50,680 Speaker 1: and they want mineral rights or something. I mean, it's 909 00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,000 Speaker 1: really I don't even remember what it was, but I've 910 00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:56,400 Speaker 1: seen it. If there's a c oh um, I come 911 00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:59,040 Speaker 1: in peace and if you're familiar with that one, it's 912 00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:02,840 Speaker 1: about an alien who shows up and uh yeah, it's 913 00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:06,800 Speaker 1: also really really bad movie. I'm pretty sure Dolf Lungern's 914 00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:10,200 Speaker 1: in that one. So anyway, occasionally, though, I would wander 915 00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:13,600 Speaker 1: into the horror movie, which I was always very scared 916 00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:15,520 Speaker 1: of horror movies growing up. I remember I saw Bram 917 00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:18,960 Speaker 1: Stoker's Dracula and it was a little freaked out for 918 00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:20,920 Speaker 1: a while. I was like tan Or Levin. That one 919 00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:22,840 Speaker 1: freaked me out for a while. You know, the Wolfman 920 00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:24,800 Speaker 1: that he turns into and stuff. I was a little scary. 921 00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:27,400 Speaker 1: I think it's pretty good rendition. It's one of Keanu 922 00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:30,880 Speaker 1: Reeves kind of it's lost in the Kianu repertoire, Oh 923 00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:34,240 Speaker 1: no kung Fu. But it's actually a pretty decent movie 924 00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:37,479 Speaker 1: for what it was, very uh true to the book, 925 00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:40,680 Speaker 1: very true to Bram Stoker's novel, which is still I'm 926 00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:44,080 Speaker 1: a big fan of, big proponent of uh. But anyway, 927 00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:48,200 Speaker 1: I remember going in and the leprechn movies. I always 928 00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:49,800 Speaker 1: wanted to rent one, but I never could bring myself 929 00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:51,160 Speaker 1: to do it when I was a kid because I 930 00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:55,320 Speaker 1: was just too freaked out. Because Warwick Davis who plays 931 00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:59,240 Speaker 1: Willow in the movie Willow is the same guy who 932 00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:00,880 Speaker 1: which is a movie we kind of a rip off 933 00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:02,600 Speaker 1: The Lord of the Rings that Disney did in the 934 00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:06,439 Speaker 1: nineties without paying Tolkien anything, I'm sure, and or maybe 935 00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:09,760 Speaker 1: they did. And then he had Warwick Davis playing the 936 00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:12,160 Speaker 1: Lepric and he's like, I'm the Leprica and he like 937 00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:15,000 Speaker 1: shows up and he cuts people with his long nails. 938 00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:18,040 Speaker 1: He's really scary looking, and it just freaked me out. Man. 939 00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:19,520 Speaker 1: And then what I found out later on was that 940 00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:22,040 Speaker 1: who I want you guys, by show of hands, how 941 00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:26,280 Speaker 1: many Leprecn movies do you think Warwick Davis made taking 942 00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:31,920 Speaker 1: guess that's right. Five they made five lepre Con movies. 943 00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:35,240 Speaker 1: There's that's right. There is a lepre Con in the 944 00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:38,400 Speaker 1: Hood movie. I have seen some of it. You literally 945 00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:41,840 Speaker 1: have Warwick Davis dressed as a Leprecn, little green hat, 946 00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:45,439 Speaker 1: little little buckle shoes on, looks like a pilgrim, and 947 00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:48,280 Speaker 1: he's smoking a blunt in a bathroom of a hip 948 00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:52,280 Speaker 1: hop club in New York City. Yeah, yes, that's a 949 00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:56,400 Speaker 1: real thing. There's LEPrecon in space. Yeah, that's another one. 950 00:59:57,360 --> 01:00:00,000 Speaker 1: So that's what I'm thinking about as we get closer 951 01:00:00,200 --> 01:00:03,520 Speaker 1: to St. Patty's Day. How I never I've never seen 952 01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:04,760 Speaker 1: one of the movies to this day. I don't think 953 01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:06,960 Speaker 1: I can. I think it might, you know, it might 954 01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:08,720 Speaker 1: still rattle me a little. It's like I can't watch 955 01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:11,520 Speaker 1: the I've told you before, I can't watch all the 956 01:00:11,560 --> 01:00:14,880 Speaker 1: way through the Exorcist. And then I lived right next 957 01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:17,040 Speaker 1: to the Exorcist steps in d C, which whirled me out. 958 01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:18,880 Speaker 1: This was supposed to be a segment where I was 959 01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:21,200 Speaker 1: gonna just make fun of Hillary for the whole time. Instead, 960 01:00:21,240 --> 01:00:25,880 Speaker 1: I started talking about wandering around the bootleg version of 961 01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:29,160 Speaker 1: Blockbuster when I was a kid, And uh, at least 962 01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:31,520 Speaker 1: you learned that there were five lepre Con movies. And 963 01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:34,560 Speaker 1: fun fact, Jennifer Aniston was see. I spent a lot 964 01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:36,439 Speaker 1: of time reading the jacket covers of these things, because 965 01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:37,720 Speaker 1: that's I'd go in the video store and read the 966 01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:41,160 Speaker 1: jacket covers. Jennifer Anniston was in the first leper Con movie, 967 01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:45,160 Speaker 1: So it's got that going for it, which is nice. 968 01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:48,479 Speaker 1: I'm a Jennifer Aniston. I'm a Jennifer Anston. And although 969 01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:51,920 Speaker 1: Courtney Cox in the early in the early seasons of Friends, 970 01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:55,960 Speaker 1: I was actually more Monica person than a Rachel person. 971 01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:58,320 Speaker 1: But that's a conversation for another time. All Right, we're 972 01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:00,280 Speaker 1: gonna hit a quick break here. We come back. Even 973 01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:02,800 Speaker 1: Hawking passed away. I'll have some thoughts on that for 974 01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:07,600 Speaker 1: you in just a few Stephen Hawking passed away today. 975 01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:11,440 Speaker 1: You're all familiar with him. He is a world famous 976 01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:16,760 Speaker 1: astrophysicist and somebody who is considered one of the great 977 01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:21,840 Speaker 1: geniuses of our time. And I should tell you right 978 01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:27,000 Speaker 1: at the start that I have tremendous respect for two things. 979 01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:32,440 Speaker 1: One is that Stephen Hawking was able to overcome you know, 980 01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:34,200 Speaker 1: he was seventy six years old when he when he 981 01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:38,360 Speaker 1: passed away earlier today, he was able to overcome in 982 01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:45,520 Speaker 1: unbelievable disability. I mean a tremendous burden where he essentially 983 01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:49,720 Speaker 1: it's a rare disease. He essentially became almost entirely paralyzed. 984 01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:56,240 Speaker 1: So looking at this now you have to first take 985 01:01:56,280 --> 01:02:01,919 Speaker 1: into account that this this individual got over tremendous hurdles 986 01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:04,440 Speaker 1: of his health, and then you add to that that 987 01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:06,280 Speaker 1: he is able to do. Look, I'm a guy who's 988 01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:09,040 Speaker 1: impressed by people who can do calculus. Pretty well, you're 989 01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:12,200 Speaker 1: looking at somebody here who is in a whole other 990 01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:17,880 Speaker 1: level of mathematical and uh as a physicist, a whole 991 01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:22,480 Speaker 1: other level of ability and genius, complete respect for that. 992 01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:25,640 Speaker 1: And I am not somebody who's a math guy. So 993 01:02:25,880 --> 01:02:27,720 Speaker 1: for me, people who can do math, I feel like 994 01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:32,840 Speaker 1: anybody can sit around and argue stuff matth you have 995 01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:36,160 Speaker 1: to actually know some stuff math. You have to be 996 01:02:37,160 --> 01:02:39,120 Speaker 1: able to do it, and there's a right and wrong answer, 997 01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:42,920 Speaker 1: and so Hawking is very very impressive on those two levels. 998 01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:45,840 Speaker 1: But now I'm gonna tell you what I really think 999 01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:51,040 Speaker 1: about the whole Hawking phenomenon, and this came out. I 1000 01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:55,200 Speaker 1: saw the movie The Theory of Everything, UH with some 1001 01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:57,240 Speaker 1: some other folks years ago, and I remember thinking that, 1002 01:02:57,280 --> 01:03:00,920 Speaker 1: one of this movie is really boring, and two it 1003 01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:04,800 Speaker 1: it presents Stephen Hawking as somebody who is the great 1004 01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:10,800 Speaker 1: genius of our time and has done tremendous things for humanity, 1005 01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:14,320 Speaker 1: when if you look at the record, if you look 1006 01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:17,560 Speaker 1: at what really happened as a result of Hawkings research 1007 01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:24,480 Speaker 1: and theories, it's it's impressive without being all that important 1008 01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:28,240 Speaker 1: to humanity. Now, I know that's controversial. I know, but 1009 01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:31,320 Speaker 1: let's understand the company in which we are talking about 1010 01:03:31,360 --> 01:03:33,440 Speaker 1: Stephen Hawking. You know, people will will kind of go 1011 01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:36,240 Speaker 1: through this timeline and they'll say something like, you know, 1012 01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:39,240 Speaker 1: there's Isaac Newton, and then there's and I'm just skipping 1013 01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:42,400 Speaker 1: around here, you know, Isaac Newton and then Einstein and 1014 01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:46,320 Speaker 1: then Hawking. I mean, these are the great mathematical minds 1015 01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:52,439 Speaker 1: and the great theoretical minds of all time. Hawking never 1016 01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:57,200 Speaker 1: wanna Nobel Prize, Hawking never won a Fields Medal, and 1017 01:03:57,320 --> 01:04:02,600 Speaker 1: Hawkings theories we're about things that don't have any effect 1018 01:04:02,600 --> 01:04:06,040 Speaker 1: on your day to day life really, and in fact, 1019 01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:08,200 Speaker 1: Hawking was wrong on a number of his theories that 1020 01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:11,960 Speaker 1: had to revise them. Now, I understand even the most 1021 01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:15,840 Speaker 1: brilliant mind is going to get things wrong sometimes, but 1022 01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:21,440 Speaker 1: he's by no means infallible. And among astrophysicists this is 1023 01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:23,560 Speaker 1: one of the little secrets out there. He's not even 1024 01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:27,200 Speaker 1: considered best in class. Of the astrophysicists of the last 1025 01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:31,240 Speaker 1: fifty years or so. You won't study a lot of 1026 01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:34,720 Speaker 1: Hawking if you become a higher Now this is from 1027 01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:37,560 Speaker 1: the I do research, not I'm a mathematician, file right, 1028 01:04:37,640 --> 01:04:39,240 Speaker 1: I read about these things. I'm not saying that I 1029 01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:42,960 Speaker 1: understand the math at all. My brother is laughing right now. 1030 01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:45,000 Speaker 1: Who knows that he had to help me with my 1031 01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:47,840 Speaker 1: math over the years. So but I do do a 1032 01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:51,000 Speaker 1: lot of research, and I'm somebody who also isn't afraid 1033 01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:54,640 Speaker 1: of taking a contrarian view of things like this. Hawking 1034 01:04:54,720 --> 01:05:02,080 Speaker 1: became a celebrity scientist. That was the overwhelming perception of 1035 01:05:02,080 --> 01:05:04,080 Speaker 1: this guy. When you look at the body of work 1036 01:05:04,120 --> 01:05:06,720 Speaker 1: that he left behind, things like the Big Bang theory, 1037 01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:10,320 Speaker 1: for example, and all of the work on black holes. 1038 01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:14,160 Speaker 1: This may be really impressive when it's on a chalkboard, 1039 01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:17,240 Speaker 1: or it may be really amazing to mathematically be able 1040 01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:20,520 Speaker 1: to map this stuff out. And it is how much 1041 01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:23,760 Speaker 1: do black holes affect you? How much has that changed 1042 01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:26,800 Speaker 1: the world around you? The answer is it has not. 1043 01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:32,960 Speaker 1: Some scientists discover cures for diseases that save millions of lives, 1044 01:05:33,120 --> 01:05:37,040 Speaker 1: right I think you You could argue that the the 1045 01:05:37,080 --> 01:05:40,400 Speaker 1: polio vaccine, for example, or the initial Jonas Salk and 1046 01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:47,360 Speaker 1: the initial vaccination trials, different cures for disease that come 1047 01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:50,520 Speaker 1: from antibiotics, all those are much more important. You know, 1048 01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:54,320 Speaker 1: einstein theory of relativity, what that did for the world, 1049 01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:58,000 Speaker 1: for nuclear power, for nuclear weapons. You can look at 1050 01:05:58,040 --> 01:06:04,240 Speaker 1: these things understand the impact the Big Bang theory. It 1051 01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:06,840 Speaker 1: starts with a lot of assumptions and has a lot 1052 01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:10,040 Speaker 1: of questions that it can answer. It really crosses over 1053 01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:13,320 Speaker 1: from being science into being philosophy. And this is part 1054 01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:18,480 Speaker 1: of why Hawking was so popular around the world. He 1055 01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:24,120 Speaker 1: was supposed to be the genius who was able to 1056 01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:27,880 Speaker 1: explain the origins of life and the world and the 1057 01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:33,320 Speaker 1: universe without taking a deity into account. Hawking is so 1058 01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:35,600 Speaker 1: very popular around the world that has been so celebrated 1059 01:06:35,600 --> 01:06:37,480 Speaker 1: the media. As I said in part because of his 1060 01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:44,160 Speaker 1: tremendous ability and and his overcoming a physical infirmity, that 1061 01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:48,000 Speaker 1: that is inspiring, no question about it. But why was 1062 01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:51,040 Speaker 1: he so beloved? Why is he considered by most people? 1063 01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:52,680 Speaker 1: And I think that's a fair thing to say. If if 1064 01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:55,280 Speaker 1: if somebody had asked folks on the street who were 1065 01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:58,320 Speaker 1: reasonably well informed about the world, who's the smartest person 1066 01:06:58,640 --> 01:07:01,760 Speaker 1: on planet Earth, they would say, if they were Democrats, 1067 01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:04,200 Speaker 1: Barack Obama. But if you ask them for the next 1068 01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:09,520 Speaker 1: smartest person on planet Earth, they would probably say Stephen Hawking, right, 1069 01:07:09,560 --> 01:07:13,760 Speaker 1: the most brilliant man on the planet, the smartest scientists alive. 1070 01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:18,400 Speaker 1: Those are the ideas we have about Hawckey, and they 1071 01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:20,480 Speaker 1: really don't stand up when you look at the record. 1072 01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:28,720 Speaker 1: They really exaggerate the contributions of Hawkings research, and you 1073 01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:32,360 Speaker 1: know when he starts getting into artificial intelligence and climate 1074 01:07:32,440 --> 01:07:36,280 Speaker 1: change and colonizing other planets and all this stuff getting 1075 01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:39,880 Speaker 1: beyond his knowledge set. My friends, one of the reasons 1076 01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:41,880 Speaker 1: why he was so beloved was that he was also 1077 01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:44,080 Speaker 1: a reliable and this is in the media. I mean, 1078 01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:50,120 Speaker 1: he was a reliable leftist atheist voice backed up by oh, 1079 01:07:50,200 --> 01:07:54,400 Speaker 1: he's the smartest person on the planet. Now, we don't 1080 01:07:54,440 --> 01:07:56,439 Speaker 1: know who the smartest person the planet is. How would 1081 01:07:56,440 --> 01:07:58,960 Speaker 1: you even quantify or measure that? But I would just 1082 01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:02,000 Speaker 1: note that if going to start throwing that title around, 1083 01:08:02,040 --> 01:08:06,360 Speaker 1: I think it should probably go to someone who did 1084 01:08:06,440 --> 01:08:09,840 Speaker 1: things that changed the world that we live in. And 1085 01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:14,280 Speaker 1: there are people like that. There are people who changed 1086 01:08:14,440 --> 01:08:17,599 Speaker 1: our understanding of how we are interacting in our day 1087 01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:19,679 Speaker 1: to day lives, changed the world around us in ways 1088 01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:24,800 Speaker 1: that matter. I don't think Hawking talking about whether or 1089 01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:27,920 Speaker 1: not the singularity essentially that in a black hole everything 1090 01:08:27,960 --> 01:08:30,760 Speaker 1: could come down and be compressed into one tiny little 1091 01:08:31,080 --> 01:08:39,320 Speaker 1: center of everything. I no, we can't explain the vastness 1092 01:08:39,360 --> 01:08:42,040 Speaker 1: of the universe, and we can't. We can't really comprehend 1093 01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:44,200 Speaker 1: what a black hole is. We can, we think we can, 1094 01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:47,800 Speaker 1: but we can't. The whole notion of of of a 1095 01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:55,120 Speaker 1: universe that is infinite defies mathematical explanation, and the beginning 1096 01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:58,040 Speaker 1: of existence starting with just a whole bunch of things 1097 01:08:58,040 --> 01:09:00,519 Speaker 1: all compressed down and then going boom or just no 1098 01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:06,559 Speaker 1: reason doesn't make any sense. But this is why he 1099 01:09:06,680 --> 01:09:09,719 Speaker 1: is so beloved, the same reason that Darwin, for all 1100 01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:13,680 Speaker 1: of the flaws and all of the problems in Darwinian theory, 1101 01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:15,160 Speaker 1: which now he was like, oh, do you believe that 1102 01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:17,280 Speaker 1: the Earth is two thousand years old? And they know, 1103 01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:20,040 Speaker 1: But if you read Darwin, there's there's we've learned a 1104 01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:25,640 Speaker 1: lot since Darwin was, you know, hanging out in the Galapagos. 1105 01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:28,960 Speaker 1: It's a while ago, folks, we've learned a lot since then. 1106 01:09:29,280 --> 01:09:31,240 Speaker 1: People look at Darwin as though we had all the answers. 1107 01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:35,559 Speaker 1: Did Darwin know what DNA even was? Could Darwin map 1108 01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:40,000 Speaker 1: the human genome? No? No. In fact, the more we 1109 01:09:40,040 --> 01:09:44,360 Speaker 1: look at Darwin's theories, they're convenient for a lot of 1110 01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:48,400 Speaker 1: what the left believes. But we're talking nine century here, 1111 01:09:48,439 --> 01:09:50,880 Speaker 1: mid nineteenth century. Darwin's doing all this stuff. That was 1112 01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:57,120 Speaker 1: the guy was born over two hundred years ago, but 1113 01:09:57,200 --> 01:10:02,920 Speaker 1: he's very useful for certain narratives in present day. So 1114 01:10:03,040 --> 01:10:05,719 Speaker 1: I don't mean that I'm not speaking ill of the dead, 1115 01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:08,559 Speaker 1: by the way, And I started off by saying that 1116 01:10:09,240 --> 01:10:12,400 Speaker 1: Hawking is a genius of a level that I would 1117 01:10:12,439 --> 01:10:15,400 Speaker 1: never even aspire to. And in terms of his ability 1118 01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:18,839 Speaker 1: and his the most impressive thing about him, in my opinion, 1119 01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:23,920 Speaker 1: is that he overcame such a debilitating disease. But if 1120 01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:26,559 Speaker 1: you watch The Theory of Everything, it's kind of boring. 1121 01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:28,840 Speaker 1: It's kind of a boring movie. It's a movie about 1122 01:10:28,880 --> 01:10:33,400 Speaker 1: Stephen Hawking. And you know, why, what what pressing world 1123 01:10:33,439 --> 01:10:38,160 Speaker 1: problem does he solve? What change in the world around 1124 01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:41,640 Speaker 1: us did he bring about? Oh, we we think we 1125 01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:46,080 Speaker 1: know how the universe started because of Stephen Hawking. No, 1126 01:10:46,280 --> 01:10:48,479 Speaker 1: we just have a theory about how the universe started 1127 01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:51,720 Speaker 1: because of Stephen Hawking. And then once you get into 1128 01:10:51,760 --> 01:10:54,040 Speaker 1: all the stuff about black holes, sometimes he was right, 1129 01:10:54,120 --> 01:10:57,880 Speaker 1: sometimes he was wrong. Sometimes we don't even know. So 1130 01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:00,840 Speaker 1: I think that this is an or instance of the 1131 01:11:00,920 --> 01:11:07,519 Speaker 1: left having a tendency to elevate people of science when 1132 01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:09,880 Speaker 1: they are useful, as though they are they are the 1133 01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:14,800 Speaker 1: ultimate experts. They are unassailable with their opinions. And so 1134 01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:16,680 Speaker 1: that's why you get Stephen Hawking weighing in and all 1135 01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:20,880 Speaker 1: these things. It doesn't know anything more than the next guy. 1136 01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:23,000 Speaker 1: And you know, you have you have this with the 1137 01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:25,160 Speaker 1: Neil de grass Tyson as well. It's the same idea 1138 01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:27,720 Speaker 1: Neil de grass Tyson. Yeah, it knows knows a lot 1139 01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:32,720 Speaker 1: about astronomy. Yeah, Hayden Planetarium here in New York City 1140 01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:35,360 Speaker 1: don't knows. But I don't care what Neil de grass 1141 01:11:35,400 --> 01:11:39,160 Speaker 1: Tyson has to say about gun control knows less than 1142 01:11:39,200 --> 01:11:40,519 Speaker 1: I do. Why do I care what he has to 1143 01:11:40,520 --> 01:11:43,839 Speaker 1: say about it? So this is where I think Hawking 1144 01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:48,360 Speaker 1: also was elevated and was used for a political narrative. So, 1145 01:11:49,880 --> 01:11:51,800 Speaker 1: and like I said, just go back if it's a 1146 01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:54,160 Speaker 1: boring movie. In my opinion, the theory of everything, it's boring. 1147 01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:56,639 Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to watch. It's not fun. And 1148 01:11:57,000 --> 01:11:59,080 Speaker 1: you watch it, you're like, Okay, so this guy overcame 1149 01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:02,000 Speaker 1: some life obstacles. It's very interesting. But what's the great 1150 01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:07,719 Speaker 1: scientific discovery. What's the aha moment? The universe started because 1151 01:12:08,080 --> 01:12:11,320 Speaker 1: of nothing and we're all going back to nothing. I'm 1152 01:12:11,360 --> 01:12:14,519 Speaker 1: not sure that's really a legacy that is helpful or 1153 01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:17,639 Speaker 1: one that I'd particularly want to celebrate, because I also 1154 01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:21,519 Speaker 1: don't think that it's true. I'm not a genius, but 1155 01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:24,559 Speaker 1: I think I'm right on this one. We'll be back 1156 01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:29,080 Speaker 1: in a few the buck is back for our three 1157 01:12:29,240 --> 01:12:34,160 Speaker 1: here in the Freedom Hud. I am ticked off, my friends. 1158 01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:37,000 Speaker 1: I just want to get that out there right away. 1159 01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:42,200 Speaker 1: I got more details on this story about a mother 1160 01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:45,920 Speaker 1: and her two children flying from Houston to LaGuardia here 1161 01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:50,120 Speaker 1: in New York City, and they were forced to put 1162 01:12:51,080 --> 01:12:56,320 Speaker 1: their French bulldog in the overhead been where it was 1163 01:12:56,360 --> 01:13:02,040 Speaker 1: whimpering and slowly suffocated to death. There aren't a lot 1164 01:13:02,120 --> 01:13:05,200 Speaker 1: of news stories that I read when I find myself 1165 01:13:05,200 --> 01:13:10,200 Speaker 1: wanting to punch something or just show my my displeasure 1166 01:13:10,240 --> 01:13:14,519 Speaker 1: by destroying property, but this one really sets me off. 1167 01:13:14,880 --> 01:13:19,360 Speaker 1: And it's because it's part of a larger mentality within 1168 01:13:19,479 --> 01:13:22,920 Speaker 1: the airline industry that I think we have to pay 1169 01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:26,600 Speaker 1: some attention to it. Now. First, on the specifics of 1170 01:13:26,640 --> 01:13:29,320 Speaker 1: this incident. If you didn't read about it, that the 1171 01:13:29,520 --> 01:13:32,559 Speaker 1: mother and her two children were carrying on in a 1172 01:13:32,640 --> 01:13:37,120 Speaker 1: dog carrier, as you're allowed to do, an adorable little 1173 01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:40,680 Speaker 1: French bulldog, and you can bring them with you on 1174 01:13:40,680 --> 01:13:42,679 Speaker 1: the plane. It's allowed as long as stay in the carrier, 1175 01:13:42,760 --> 01:13:44,479 Speaker 1: and usually they go in the seat in front of you. 1176 01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:51,120 Speaker 1: For some reason as yet not really clarified, the the 1177 01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:55,160 Speaker 1: French bulldog was sticking out the carrier was sticking out 1178 01:13:55,160 --> 01:13:59,960 Speaker 1: a little bit into the aisle, and the stewardess or 1179 01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:04,880 Speaker 1: uh an airline attendant, whatever the proper terminology is. Gosh buck, 1180 01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:08,320 Speaker 1: with all your microaggressions the stewart has said that the 1181 01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:13,240 Speaker 1: dog has to go in the overhead compartment. And I 1182 01:14:13,280 --> 01:14:15,679 Speaker 1: saw this, or read this story, and thought to myself, 1183 01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:20,400 Speaker 1: something's wrong here. And I don't just mean the insanely 1184 01:14:20,840 --> 01:14:25,599 Speaker 1: aggravating and gut punching feeling you get when you read 1185 01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:27,680 Speaker 1: the story of a French bulldog that was suffocated to 1186 01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:31,080 Speaker 1: death on a plane for no reason, which is horrible enough. 1187 01:14:31,120 --> 01:14:33,760 Speaker 1: I mean, well, look one thing about Americans that really 1188 01:14:33,800 --> 01:14:35,320 Speaker 1: separates us from a lot of other people in the 1189 01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:38,960 Speaker 1: rest of the world. We love our dogs. We're not like, oh, 1190 01:14:39,320 --> 01:14:43,280 Speaker 1: dogs are okay, and they have uses. We love our 1191 01:14:43,360 --> 01:14:47,880 Speaker 1: dogs full stop. My family here in New York City 1192 01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:51,920 Speaker 1: has My parents have a French bulldog, so this one 1193 01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:54,360 Speaker 1: really hits home. I mean, I I love French shees, 1194 01:14:54,479 --> 01:14:58,960 Speaker 1: all dogs I'm quite fond of, but any squashy faced 1195 01:14:58,960 --> 01:15:03,920 Speaker 1: dog is part particular. I'm particularly fond of them. But 1196 01:15:04,439 --> 01:15:08,760 Speaker 1: something was not conveyed properly about this story. Either the 1197 01:15:08,880 --> 01:15:14,000 Speaker 1: stewardess is lying or there was some miscommunication. Something had 1198 01:15:14,040 --> 01:15:18,040 Speaker 1: to happen here, because people around her say that it 1199 01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:20,439 Speaker 1: was made quite clear that there was a dog in 1200 01:15:20,479 --> 01:15:24,960 Speaker 1: this carrier. And I have a hard time believing that 1201 01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:28,960 Speaker 1: this stewardess would put a dog in a carrier in 1202 01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:32,679 Speaker 1: the overhead been It's so stupid and reckless and cruel 1203 01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:35,200 Speaker 1: that I have a hard time believing that she would 1204 01:15:35,439 --> 01:15:37,880 Speaker 1: knowingly do it. But then again, how could she not 1205 01:15:38,040 --> 01:15:40,759 Speaker 1: know there was a dog in this bag. I'm sure 1206 01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:44,080 Speaker 1: the woman who's the owner of the dog said there's 1207 01:15:44,080 --> 01:15:48,160 Speaker 1: a dog in the bag. There's just no way. And 1208 01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:50,519 Speaker 1: so what I think happened here and the reason why 1209 01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:55,680 Speaker 1: United is now just realizing what a p R nightmare 1210 01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:59,120 Speaker 1: they have on their hands. What I think they're realizing 1211 01:15:59,280 --> 01:16:05,080 Speaker 1: is that, or we're realizing, is that the mentality on 1212 01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:10,160 Speaker 1: airplanes and the mentality that the airlines have in general, 1213 01:16:10,840 --> 01:16:17,000 Speaker 1: is of brainless authoritarian monopolies. You know, we've gotten used 1214 01:16:17,040 --> 01:16:20,280 Speaker 1: to this, but we don't have to this notion that 1215 01:16:20,320 --> 01:16:24,280 Speaker 1: when you're up in the sky, or even on the tarmac, 1216 01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:27,880 Speaker 1: or even in the terminal waiting for your flight, any 1217 01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:34,360 Speaker 1: level of crappy treatment is somehow okay, it's acceptable. Airlines 1218 01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:40,400 Speaker 1: are the most grotesquely run American business that I can 1219 01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:43,720 Speaker 1: think of, and it's really a disgrace. You know, it 1220 01:16:43,840 --> 01:16:46,160 Speaker 1: used to be the cable companies were really terrible. The 1221 01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:49,839 Speaker 1: Netflix came along in Amazon, and now all of a sudden, 1222 01:16:50,120 --> 01:16:54,000 Speaker 1: cable companies don't say, you know, we'll show up between 1223 01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:58,400 Speaker 1: the hours of between the hours of twelve pm and 1224 01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:01,559 Speaker 1: nine pm. At some point, we'll take a thirty minute 1225 01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:04,519 Speaker 1: lunch during the appointment. The appointment may not be on it, 1226 01:17:04,600 --> 01:17:07,040 Speaker 1: and we may not reschedule it on site for you. 1227 01:17:07,680 --> 01:17:10,360 Speaker 1: And you're like, I just want to get my cable 1228 01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:12,639 Speaker 1: fix that you're still charging me for even though it's out. 1229 01:17:12,960 --> 01:17:16,479 Speaker 1: That's gone away mostly and cable companies have had to 1230 01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:20,640 Speaker 1: shape up, and they generally have, but it's in response 1231 01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:26,440 Speaker 1: to their entire business model being threatened. Right with airlines, 1232 01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:31,519 Speaker 1: we need improved technology, we need disruptors in the space. 1233 01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:34,400 Speaker 1: We need this to get better because it's just outrageous. 1234 01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:39,800 Speaker 1: You really get a little taste of totalitarianism being on 1235 01:17:39,840 --> 01:17:42,439 Speaker 1: a plane. You know, you sit where they tell you 1236 01:17:42,479 --> 01:17:47,240 Speaker 1: to sit. It's uncomfortable, You have no choice. Your physical 1237 01:17:47,320 --> 01:17:51,200 Speaker 1: comfort is in fact, not a concern of theirs. The 1238 01:17:51,280 --> 01:17:54,800 Speaker 1: biggest concern, by far is their bottom line. They tell 1239 01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:57,360 Speaker 1: you where to sit, they tell you how to sit, 1240 01:17:57,600 --> 01:17:59,599 Speaker 1: they tell you when you can get up, they tell 1241 01:17:59,640 --> 01:18:01,519 Speaker 1: you when you can go to the bathroom. They tell 1242 01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:04,200 Speaker 1: you to look at me. They tell you stupid things 1243 01:18:04,240 --> 01:18:07,240 Speaker 1: you already know. They tell you things that are not true, 1244 01:18:07,280 --> 01:18:09,599 Speaker 1: like turn off the electronic device. It might be problems 1245 01:18:09,640 --> 01:18:12,320 Speaker 1: for us during takeoff. It's a lie. All this stuff, 1246 01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:19,880 Speaker 1: garbage upon garbage upon garbage, and even minor transgressions on 1247 01:18:20,120 --> 01:18:23,680 Speaker 1: airplanes are investigated by the FBI. Actually, you know, if 1248 01:18:23,680 --> 01:18:26,080 Speaker 1: you get into a fight on an airplane, and I 1249 01:18:26,120 --> 01:18:27,840 Speaker 1: know about this from talking to my friends on the 1250 01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:31,320 Speaker 1: prosecutorial side, guess what it is most likely going to 1251 01:18:31,439 --> 01:18:34,080 Speaker 1: be the FBI that's waiting for you at the airport. 1252 01:18:34,520 --> 01:18:37,000 Speaker 1: You know, if you do anything that's really bad on 1253 01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:39,120 Speaker 1: an airplane, the FBI is gonna be waiting for you. 1254 01:18:39,600 --> 01:18:42,519 Speaker 1: So I'm not suggesting that airplanes should be some wild 1255 01:18:42,600 --> 01:18:45,000 Speaker 1: West where everyone can just get up, smoke cigarettes, do 1256 01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:47,400 Speaker 1: whatever it is they want to do. But I am 1257 01:18:47,439 --> 01:18:51,320 Speaker 1: suggesting that there's a mentality on the air with the 1258 01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:54,120 Speaker 1: airlines across the board, from the from the way they 1259 01:18:54,160 --> 01:18:57,320 Speaker 1: priced tickets, the booking of tickets, the way they construct 1260 01:18:57,360 --> 01:18:59,800 Speaker 1: the seats and the planes and everything. It is just 1261 01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:05,880 Speaker 1: done with maximum exploitation of the customer and minimum redress 1262 01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:09,080 Speaker 1: for anything that they do to you. You know, they 1263 01:19:09,080 --> 01:19:11,280 Speaker 1: can lose your bags, you know, that's your problem. They 1264 01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:13,240 Speaker 1: can delay you six hours, it's your problem. They can 1265 01:19:13,240 --> 01:19:14,960 Speaker 1: hold you in the tarmac for hours at a time, 1266 01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:19,080 Speaker 1: it's your problem. It is a little taste of totalitarianism 1267 01:19:19,120 --> 01:19:21,360 Speaker 1: every time you get on a plane, and it just 1268 01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:24,600 Speaker 1: doesn't have to be that way. And it's only because 1269 01:19:24,680 --> 01:19:27,960 Speaker 1: of that culture, in my opinion, that you could have 1270 01:19:28,880 --> 01:19:33,640 Speaker 1: a a functioning adult take a dog and put it 1271 01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:36,639 Speaker 1: into a compartment where it is sure to suffocate slowly 1272 01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:40,679 Speaker 1: to death. It's only because the airlines have this idea 1273 01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:42,080 Speaker 1: of you know, you do what we say when we 1274 01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:44,360 Speaker 1: say it, or else. You know, no one's saying you 1275 01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:46,200 Speaker 1: can go in there and hang out with the pilots 1276 01:19:46,200 --> 01:19:48,719 Speaker 1: in the cockpit and steer the plane for a bit yourself. 1277 01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:54,720 Speaker 1: But some semblance of common sense and normalcy and reality 1278 01:19:55,040 --> 01:19:59,280 Speaker 1: would be nice. It doesn't have to be a flying 1279 01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:02,519 Speaker 1: penal colony up there all the time, where you're told 1280 01:20:02,560 --> 01:20:04,639 Speaker 1: exactly what you can do, what you can eat, where 1281 01:20:04,720 --> 01:20:07,840 Speaker 1: you can go. I mean, it's just it's crazy the 1282 01:20:07,920 --> 01:20:10,639 Speaker 1: regulations they have in place. And there was a time 1283 01:20:10,760 --> 01:20:13,479 Speaker 1: until recently my friends when they were saying that you 1284 01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:17,760 Speaker 1: couldn't have a kindle and read it because maybe the 1285 01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:21,679 Speaker 1: elector the electronic device would interfere with their communications. That's 1286 01:20:21,760 --> 01:20:24,920 Speaker 1: that's insane. By the way, it's not like they pat 1287 01:20:25,000 --> 01:20:26,720 Speaker 1: you down and check you for kindles when you go 1288 01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:28,680 Speaker 1: on the plane, So if you left it on or 1289 01:20:28,760 --> 01:20:31,080 Speaker 1: left it off, they have no idea. That's what I mean. 1290 01:20:31,280 --> 01:20:35,080 Speaker 1: The rules are dumb. The rules are dumb. Not all 1291 01:20:35,080 --> 01:20:39,280 Speaker 1: of them, but a lot of them are really really stupid. 1292 01:20:39,960 --> 01:20:42,680 Speaker 1: And the way that the airlines act is with a 1293 01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:46,880 Speaker 1: tremendous degree of arrogance because they're just unaccountable. They know 1294 01:20:46,960 --> 01:20:49,200 Speaker 1: that people go on you know, price Line or Expedi 1295 01:20:49,280 --> 01:20:51,880 Speaker 1: or one of these sites. They want the cheapest, easiest 1296 01:20:51,920 --> 01:20:54,679 Speaker 1: flight that they can get, and they'll try to cram 1297 01:20:54,760 --> 01:20:59,160 Speaker 1: themselves into these horrifically uncomfortable little seats. Think of another 1298 01:20:59,240 --> 01:21:03,919 Speaker 1: business that over the last thirty years has gotten worse 1299 01:21:04,160 --> 01:21:08,799 Speaker 1: in basically every regard. I don't think you can. Maybe 1300 01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:10,920 Speaker 1: you could already, well, no, because health care advances. I mean, 1301 01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:13,479 Speaker 1: it's gotten a lot more expensive, but I don't think 1302 01:21:13,520 --> 01:21:16,360 Speaker 1: you can find one where you are paying a lot. 1303 01:21:17,280 --> 01:21:20,200 Speaker 1: You know, airline tickets feel as expensive today as they 1304 01:21:20,240 --> 01:21:22,400 Speaker 1: felt when I was a kid. So you're paying a 1305 01:21:22,400 --> 01:21:26,919 Speaker 1: lot of money. The seats are crap and uncomfortable. Legram 1306 01:21:27,040 --> 01:21:30,200 Speaker 1: has This is actually a fact. Legram has actually gotten 1307 01:21:30,320 --> 01:21:33,160 Speaker 1: less on many of the major carriers than it was 1308 01:21:33,640 --> 01:21:37,200 Speaker 1: decades ago. So they are squeezing you in there like sardines. 1309 01:21:37,840 --> 01:21:40,400 Speaker 1: And the staff is trained to think that they're all 1310 01:21:40,439 --> 01:21:42,479 Speaker 1: a bunch of air marshals out there. You know, you 1311 01:21:42,520 --> 01:21:44,720 Speaker 1: cannot go to the bathroom. The pilots have the thing, 1312 01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:48,519 Speaker 1: you know. You know, I'll sign something if we do 1313 01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:51,000 Speaker 1: happen to hit some terrible pocket of turbulence and I 1314 01:21:51,080 --> 01:21:52,559 Speaker 1: hit my head on the ceiling. You know, I'll sign 1315 01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:54,639 Speaker 1: something that's on me. All right, I want to get 1316 01:21:54,680 --> 01:21:56,000 Speaker 1: up and go to the bathroom. When I want to 1317 01:21:56,000 --> 01:21:57,720 Speaker 1: get up and go to the bathroom, I just think 1318 01:21:57,760 --> 01:21:59,720 Speaker 1: we've all had it, you know, we've all had it 1319 01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:03,240 Speaker 1: with all the airline personnel or first and foremost concerned 1320 01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:06,639 Speaker 1: with their safety. There's just a lot of a lot 1321 01:22:06,640 --> 01:22:10,000 Speaker 1: of disregarding of what it feels like to be strapped 1322 01:22:10,040 --> 01:22:14,280 Speaker 1: into one of these giant metal flying prisons that they 1323 01:22:14,280 --> 01:22:16,080 Speaker 1: put us in for a few hours at a time. 1324 01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:19,040 Speaker 1: And I'm sick of it, and I you know, United 1325 01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:21,840 Speaker 1: had the problem last year with dragging the guy off 1326 01:22:21,880 --> 01:22:24,599 Speaker 1: the plane. Remember he paid for his seat, but they said, no, 1327 01:22:24,640 --> 01:22:26,080 Speaker 1: we want to give it to one of our people. 1328 01:22:26,640 --> 01:22:28,840 Speaker 1: So you don't actually have any real rights. We're just 1329 01:22:28,840 --> 01:22:31,200 Speaker 1: gonna take that seat away. You know, maybe that guy 1330 01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:33,800 Speaker 1: was heading for a job interview. I mean he wasn't, 1331 01:22:33,880 --> 01:22:37,599 Speaker 1: but maybe he was on a really important trip for him. 1332 01:22:37,640 --> 01:22:40,680 Speaker 1: For whatever reason, United just saying sorry, we we have 1333 01:22:40,760 --> 01:22:42,640 Speaker 1: the right to just take you off the plane that 1334 01:22:42,680 --> 01:22:45,040 Speaker 1: you paid for because we want someone else to ride 1335 01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:48,000 Speaker 1: on your seat. I mean, that's United Airlines. And don't 1336 01:22:48,040 --> 01:22:49,720 Speaker 1: tell me this is what the market will allow with 1337 01:22:49,760 --> 01:22:53,040 Speaker 1: the market will say or the market speaks. Uh, these 1338 01:22:53,080 --> 01:22:57,280 Speaker 1: things operate with a tremendous amount of regulation in place. 1339 01:22:57,320 --> 01:22:59,320 Speaker 1: It's all f A A and all this other crap. 1340 01:23:00,120 --> 01:23:02,439 Speaker 1: I think it's time for a change. I think we 1341 01:23:02,439 --> 01:23:07,479 Speaker 1: should maybe consider putting aside petty partisan differences and threatening 1342 01:23:07,520 --> 01:23:09,479 Speaker 1: to boycott. It's always the left that does this, but 1343 01:23:09,479 --> 01:23:11,960 Speaker 1: the left threatening to boycott companies all the time. You know, 1344 01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:15,720 Speaker 1: we should both sides of the aisle say, you know what, Airlines, 1345 01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:18,679 Speaker 1: enough is enough. The next time you step out of line, 1346 01:23:18,720 --> 01:23:21,000 Speaker 1: we are going to boycott. This is gonna hurt your 1347 01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:22,880 Speaker 1: bottom line and you're gonna have to come up with 1348 01:23:22,920 --> 01:23:26,639 Speaker 1: more customer friendly policies and stop treating us like short 1349 01:23:26,760 --> 01:23:29,920 Speaker 1: term prisoners in the sky. Oh and one more thing. 1350 01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:33,479 Speaker 1: I know that people don't like it when we all 1351 01:23:34,120 --> 01:23:35,720 Speaker 1: look at an event and say, well, I would have 1352 01:23:35,760 --> 01:23:37,880 Speaker 1: been a hero or whatever. I would have run in 1353 01:23:37,920 --> 01:23:41,559 Speaker 1: there and you know, save the day. But if someone 1354 01:23:41,640 --> 01:23:44,960 Speaker 1: told me, I don't care who it is, take your dog, 1355 01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:47,320 Speaker 1: I'll for in this case is as one of my 1356 01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:50,639 Speaker 1: family dogs. Take take your take the family dog and 1357 01:23:50,680 --> 01:23:52,720 Speaker 1: put it in a place where it's going to suffocate. 1358 01:23:53,560 --> 01:23:56,880 Speaker 1: They could taser me, they could pepper spray me, they 1359 01:23:56,880 --> 01:24:00,519 Speaker 1: could night stick me. Unless somebody was actually going to 1360 01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:04,000 Speaker 1: take a firearm and threatened to shoot me with it, 1361 01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:06,679 Speaker 1: it's not happening, and I'd have to think about whether 1362 01:24:06,720 --> 01:24:09,120 Speaker 1: I would do it even with a firearm trained on me. 1363 01:24:10,120 --> 01:24:12,760 Speaker 1: That's how I feel about dogs. So that's why this 1364 01:24:12,800 --> 01:24:15,720 Speaker 1: whole story just doesn't add up to me. And it's 1365 01:24:15,760 --> 01:24:19,120 Speaker 1: also just horrific and tragic. All right, We'll be right back. 1366 01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:22,000 Speaker 1: One of the things I like to do on this 1367 01:24:22,120 --> 01:24:25,960 Speaker 1: show is talk to you about stories that are important 1368 01:24:26,560 --> 01:24:28,759 Speaker 1: and should be of high interest, but that you're unlikely 1369 01:24:28,800 --> 01:24:32,280 Speaker 1: to hear much of anything about elsewhere. I know that 1370 01:24:32,320 --> 01:24:34,599 Speaker 1: by the time I'm on air with you or you're 1371 01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:38,880 Speaker 1: listening to the podcast, you've had plenty of news programs 1372 01:24:38,920 --> 01:24:40,840 Speaker 1: blaring at you in the lunch room or maybe at 1373 01:24:40,880 --> 01:24:43,880 Speaker 1: home if you go and watch TV. So I like 1374 01:24:43,960 --> 01:24:45,680 Speaker 1: to talk to you about things that I think you 1375 01:24:45,800 --> 01:24:50,280 Speaker 1: haven't already been exposed to whenever possible, especially when they 1376 01:24:50,320 --> 01:24:54,280 Speaker 1: deal with US national security. In this case, I want 1377 01:24:54,280 --> 01:24:59,720 Speaker 1: to tell you about Trump and national security as it 1378 01:24:59,800 --> 01:25:03,719 Speaker 1: if fects a chip maker. Here's what's going on. President 1379 01:25:03,760 --> 01:25:07,280 Speaker 1: Trump blocked a tech deal that a lot of people 1380 01:25:07,280 --> 01:25:12,200 Speaker 1: are saying is really unusual. This just happened yesterday, I'm sorry. 1381 01:25:12,200 --> 01:25:17,920 Speaker 1: On Monday, Trump ordered the Singapore based company known as 1382 01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:23,120 Speaker 1: broad Calm to abandon it's a hundred and seventeen billion 1383 01:25:23,200 --> 01:25:27,360 Speaker 1: dollar bid for qual Calm. This would have been one 1384 01:25:27,360 --> 01:25:32,280 Speaker 1: of the biggest technology deals in history, and the President 1385 01:25:32,439 --> 01:25:36,200 Speaker 1: just queshed it. He's like, this is done zo. You 1386 01:25:36,320 --> 01:25:40,000 Speaker 1: think that this would get a bit more attention now. 1387 01:25:40,240 --> 01:25:44,040 Speaker 1: It's not being blocked on antitrust grounds. It's being blocked 1388 01:25:44,080 --> 01:25:48,759 Speaker 1: on quote credible evidence that the takeover threatens to impair 1389 01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:53,479 Speaker 1: the national security of the United States. Here's what's really 1390 01:25:53,479 --> 01:25:56,320 Speaker 1: going on, or at least what's being reported. I think 1391 01:25:56,360 --> 01:25:58,680 Speaker 1: there's a lot that we don't know that's not yet 1392 01:25:58,720 --> 01:26:01,040 Speaker 1: out there in the public sphere that may well have 1393 01:26:01,120 --> 01:26:06,719 Speaker 1: affected this decision. But the administration put the kai bosh 1394 01:26:06,800 --> 01:26:09,880 Speaker 1: on this whole thing because the Committee on Foreign Investment 1395 01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:13,560 Speaker 1: in the United States uh CE fus ce f i 1396 01:26:13,880 --> 01:26:16,680 Speaker 1: u S, which is an inter agency panel that the 1397 01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:22,879 Speaker 1: Treasury Department leads, recommended or or had several more weeks 1398 01:26:23,439 --> 01:26:28,280 Speaker 1: to make its recommendation here. And that's why this is 1399 01:26:28,600 --> 01:26:30,560 Speaker 1: such a surprise for people. Trump just swooped in and 1400 01:26:30,640 --> 01:26:36,920 Speaker 1: said no. Now, the big issue is that the chips 1401 01:26:37,120 --> 01:26:39,679 Speaker 1: of the future are going to be an increasingly important 1402 01:26:39,680 --> 01:26:41,599 Speaker 1: part of our everyday life. And of course don't mean 1403 01:26:41,840 --> 01:26:43,960 Speaker 1: to Rito's or those kind of chips. I'm talking about 1404 01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:46,800 Speaker 1: the chips that are in your smartphone or in your 1405 01:26:48,120 --> 01:26:54,120 Speaker 1: smart devices at home, and they are looking to build 1406 01:26:54,200 --> 01:26:57,040 Speaker 1: a five G network for all those chips to run on. 1407 01:26:57,120 --> 01:27:00,760 Speaker 1: Five G would be a hundred times master than the 1408 01:27:00,840 --> 01:27:03,960 Speaker 1: high speed Internet that you're currently used to. It would 1409 01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:10,000 Speaker 1: mean that you could download a high definition movie in seconds. 1410 01:27:10,240 --> 01:27:11,479 Speaker 1: I know a lot of you right now. If you're 1411 01:27:11,520 --> 01:27:15,320 Speaker 1: like me, you maybe download on iTunes a movie and 1412 01:27:15,360 --> 01:27:17,799 Speaker 1: it can take especially if you're download if your upload 1413 01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:21,120 Speaker 1: speeds or no, your download speeds sorry is a little 1414 01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:24,080 Speaker 1: a little lagging, can take an hour, It can take 1415 01:27:24,080 --> 01:27:29,360 Speaker 1: a long time. But the problem is that qual Calm 1416 01:27:29,720 --> 01:27:37,919 Speaker 1: UM is essential in these processes, and as you can imagine, 1417 01:27:37,920 --> 01:27:41,639 Speaker 1: there will be a lot of national security just general 1418 01:27:41,680 --> 01:27:46,280 Speaker 1: security implications of this. Now, usually a Singapore based company 1419 01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:52,479 Speaker 1: in this case, broad Calm wouldn't raise such red flags. Um. 1420 01:27:52,520 --> 01:27:55,840 Speaker 1: But it may have been the determination of the Trump 1421 01:27:55,840 --> 01:27:59,720 Speaker 1: administration and President Trump himself that when it comes to 1422 01:28:00,120 --> 01:28:04,759 Speaker 1: chip making going forward, especially these kinds of of chips 1423 01:28:04,800 --> 01:28:07,280 Speaker 1: that will go into the electronic devices that are all 1424 01:28:07,320 --> 01:28:11,080 Speaker 1: around us, and also the race to be the pre 1425 01:28:11,200 --> 01:28:18,479 Speaker 1: eminent digital digital era innovation country, which is what America 1426 01:28:18,680 --> 01:28:21,519 Speaker 1: is now, but China is clearly trying to catch up 1427 01:28:21,560 --> 01:28:24,840 Speaker 1: to us. UM. That's where we had that, that's where 1428 01:28:24,840 --> 01:28:29,479 Speaker 1: there were clear concerns here. UM. If, for example, broad Calm, 1429 01:28:29,600 --> 01:28:33,200 Speaker 1: the Singapore based company, acquired qual Calm with this hundred 1430 01:28:33,200 --> 01:28:36,479 Speaker 1: and seventeen billion dollar bid, what if all of a 1431 01:28:36,560 --> 01:28:38,519 Speaker 1: sudden we didn't like the way that they were running 1432 01:28:38,560 --> 01:28:42,120 Speaker 1: the company. What if they were lagging behind and then 1433 01:28:42,840 --> 01:28:50,200 Speaker 1: major Chinese competitors like Huawei, Um, we're getting a leg 1434 01:28:50,280 --> 01:28:54,040 Speaker 1: up on us. If they became too dominant in that 1435 01:28:54,120 --> 01:28:57,560 Speaker 1: market place, all of a sudden, you would have Chinese 1436 01:28:57,800 --> 01:29:01,599 Speaker 1: enabled smart chips all over the world. Now you can 1437 01:29:01,640 --> 01:29:05,320 Speaker 1: start to piece together even without being somebody who goes 1438 01:29:05,400 --> 01:29:08,040 Speaker 1: too deep on the technology, and I put myself in 1439 01:29:08,080 --> 01:29:11,920 Speaker 1: that category. I'm not a technology guy, but you can 1440 01:29:11,960 --> 01:29:16,960 Speaker 1: figure out quite quickly why having Chinese high tech microchips 1441 01:29:17,320 --> 01:29:20,639 Speaker 1: all over the world, making them dominant in this space, 1442 01:29:20,840 --> 01:29:25,120 Speaker 1: and also all the applications that come with that, including 1443 01:29:25,120 --> 01:29:28,840 Speaker 1: military and security applications, would be a major concern for US. 1444 01:29:29,280 --> 01:29:31,559 Speaker 1: I have been saying this for a while, and I'm 1445 01:29:31,600 --> 01:29:33,960 Speaker 1: telling you I will be proven right, but it will 1446 01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:37,840 Speaker 1: just be in years before everyone realizes that what I 1447 01:29:37,880 --> 01:29:41,599 Speaker 1: was saying was right. The theft of intellectual property that 1448 01:29:41,720 --> 01:29:45,519 Speaker 1: China has engaged in against the United States over the 1449 01:29:45,600 --> 01:29:50,200 Speaker 1: last couple of decades will have a civilization changing effect. 1450 01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:53,720 Speaker 1: There will come a day when China thinks it is 1451 01:29:53,760 --> 01:29:58,280 Speaker 1: able to stare US down as a military and technology equal, 1452 01:29:58,560 --> 01:30:02,559 Speaker 1: and it will largely be because of all the gains 1453 01:30:02,600 --> 01:30:08,720 Speaker 1: they have made through theft and deception and hacking. By 1454 01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:11,120 Speaker 1: the time we all realize that's true, unfortunately, it's going 1455 01:30:11,160 --> 01:30:13,920 Speaker 1: to be too late, and we're gonna be staring down 1456 01:30:13,960 --> 01:30:18,960 Speaker 1: the dragon across the table, so to speak, will be 1457 01:30:19,640 --> 01:30:23,160 Speaker 1: right back. You know. I'm a big supporter of President Trump. 1458 01:30:23,240 --> 01:30:24,960 Speaker 1: One of the things I really liked about him as 1459 01:30:24,960 --> 01:30:27,720 Speaker 1: a candidate was his vocal opposition to the Iraq War, 1460 01:30:28,120 --> 01:30:30,680 Speaker 1: the idea that regime change in Iraq actually led to 1461 01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:34,000 Speaker 1: unintended consequences, it made a rand stronger and tip the 1462 01:30:34,040 --> 01:30:37,160 Speaker 1: balance of power in the Middle East. He's appointing people 1463 01:30:37,160 --> 01:30:39,280 Speaker 1: around him who actually still think the Iraq War was 1464 01:30:39,280 --> 01:30:40,960 Speaker 1: a good idea and actually think that we should have 1465 01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:43,800 Speaker 1: a new war with Iran. So I think he's actually 1466 01:30:43,840 --> 01:30:47,200 Speaker 1: appointing people who don't understand American first policy and who 1467 01:30:47,240 --> 01:30:49,760 Speaker 1: happened to be more from the neo conservative camp that 1468 01:30:49,920 --> 01:30:52,400 Speaker 1: all we other war or always think America should be 1469 01:30:52,400 --> 01:30:55,840 Speaker 1: involved in another war. Specifically, on the CIA director, I 1470 01:30:55,840 --> 01:30:59,320 Speaker 1: oppose her because she believes that water boarding should be 1471 01:30:59,400 --> 01:31:02,000 Speaker 1: something that we use, and I think America shouldn't be 1472 01:31:02,040 --> 01:31:04,439 Speaker 1: known for torture and I have members of my family 1473 01:31:04,439 --> 01:31:06,960 Speaker 1: in the military. I don't want, if they're ever captured, 1474 01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:10,840 Speaker 1: for foreign countries to think tortures. Okay. Senator Ram Paul 1475 01:31:10,880 --> 01:31:15,519 Speaker 1: really opposed to Trump's recent picks. We we've talked here 1476 01:31:15,560 --> 01:31:19,479 Speaker 1: about the ouster of Rex Tillerson. I'm gonna miss Rex 1477 01:31:19,520 --> 01:31:22,160 Speaker 1: a little bit. I was kind of pro Rex. First 1478 01:31:22,160 --> 01:31:24,960 Speaker 1: of all, the guy's name is Rex. Second of all, 1479 01:31:25,160 --> 01:31:28,040 Speaker 1: he looks tough as nails, so I kind of liked him. Plus, 1480 01:31:28,080 --> 01:31:30,519 Speaker 1: he was the CEO of XI Mobile. Guys super rich. 1481 01:31:30,560 --> 01:31:32,519 Speaker 1: He's doing it because he thinks he can help the country. 1482 01:31:32,520 --> 01:31:34,320 Speaker 1: He's not doing it because he's trying to sell books, 1483 01:31:34,760 --> 01:31:37,200 Speaker 1: which I think is always a good thing. But then 1484 01:31:37,240 --> 01:31:42,280 Speaker 1: you go to these other picks, the new CIA director 1485 01:31:42,439 --> 01:31:45,479 Speaker 1: and the new Secretary of State. I want to focus 1486 01:31:45,520 --> 01:31:48,120 Speaker 1: more on the Secretary of State first, and let me 1487 01:31:48,160 --> 01:31:50,240 Speaker 1: say that I have a piece which I hope you 1488 01:31:50,280 --> 01:31:54,559 Speaker 1: will all read up on the Hill. Uh. It's on 1489 01:31:54,600 --> 01:31:58,080 Speaker 1: the Hill dot com and it's Pompeo will clear the 1490 01:31:58,160 --> 01:32:01,160 Speaker 1: air in foggy Bottom, That's right. I like to think 1491 01:32:01,200 --> 01:32:04,120 Speaker 1: of myself as a word smith, so it's it's a 1492 01:32:04,200 --> 01:32:06,280 Speaker 1: piece that you should check out. I make the case 1493 01:32:06,640 --> 01:32:08,880 Speaker 1: about why I think Pompeo is a good choice. I mean, 1494 01:32:08,920 --> 01:32:11,600 Speaker 1: it's nothing that's going to blow your socks off, but 1495 01:32:11,640 --> 01:32:15,360 Speaker 1: it's a pretty well developed argument, I think from his 1496 01:32:15,439 --> 01:32:19,760 Speaker 1: background and resume to being in alignment with Trump on 1497 01:32:19,960 --> 01:32:24,920 Speaker 1: key policy issues. So my my biggest thing is that 1498 01:32:25,280 --> 01:32:28,599 Speaker 1: you've got a guy who needs to be alongside Trump 1499 01:32:28,640 --> 01:32:32,360 Speaker 1: for some very high stakes diplomacy, and you can have 1500 01:32:32,439 --> 01:32:34,840 Speaker 1: somebody you can't have a Secretary of State if you're 1501 01:32:34,880 --> 01:32:39,639 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, who's gonna be going, perhaps in the next 1502 01:32:39,680 --> 01:32:46,160 Speaker 1: few months, to sit down across from people out of 1503 01:32:46,160 --> 01:32:51,920 Speaker 1: the North Korean delegates, people who are representing iranny and 1504 01:32:52,000 --> 01:32:54,000 Speaker 1: interest you know, whatever the case may be. Whatever Secretary 1505 01:32:54,040 --> 01:32:55,960 Speaker 1: of State meetings, you know, out in the open or 1506 01:32:56,000 --> 01:32:58,839 Speaker 1: behind closed doors, he's gonna have. You need someone who 1507 01:32:58,880 --> 01:33:03,040 Speaker 1: believes in the mission. You need someone who is in 1508 01:33:03,120 --> 01:33:09,080 Speaker 1: fact on board for this view of America and its 1509 01:33:09,160 --> 01:33:11,000 Speaker 1: role in the world, and I think Pompeio is there. Plus, 1510 01:33:11,040 --> 01:33:13,320 Speaker 1: you got a guy who went to West Point Harvard 1511 01:33:13,400 --> 01:33:17,519 Speaker 1: Law School, ran a successful congressional campaign, was a well 1512 01:33:17,600 --> 01:33:23,519 Speaker 1: liked c I a director, was well regarded in the building, 1513 01:33:23,520 --> 01:33:28,160 Speaker 1: even by people who politically did not align with him. 1514 01:33:28,240 --> 01:33:30,040 Speaker 1: And is also able to roll up his sleeves and 1515 01:33:30,040 --> 01:33:32,439 Speaker 1: be a bit of a brawler when necessary. With all 1516 01:33:32,520 --> 01:33:34,800 Speaker 1: that DC and fightings, I think you've got a really 1517 01:33:34,840 --> 01:33:43,960 Speaker 1: good secretary of State here. I also think that the 1518 01:33:44,000 --> 01:33:47,880 Speaker 1: recent history of the Obama administration has shown us that 1519 01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:53,719 Speaker 1: there is not a whole lot to being a subpar 1520 01:33:53,880 --> 01:33:57,519 Speaker 1: secretary of State. John Kerry was one. Hillary Clinton was one. 1521 01:33:57,560 --> 01:34:00,920 Speaker 1: In fact, Hillary Clinton, I would argue, was even worse 1522 01:34:00,960 --> 01:34:05,920 Speaker 1: than subpart. She was terrible because she was no. Yes, 1523 01:34:06,320 --> 01:34:07,640 Speaker 1: now it sounds like I'm having some kind of an 1524 01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:10,640 Speaker 1: episode here on radio, but I like Hillary to have 1525 01:34:10,720 --> 01:34:14,439 Speaker 1: some representation. It's fair, you know. She likes to appear, 1526 01:34:14,520 --> 01:34:17,120 Speaker 1: and it's been great for the news cycle this week 1527 01:34:17,160 --> 01:34:19,000 Speaker 1: just to have a little bit of Hillary popping up here. 1528 01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:20,960 Speaker 1: And they're fun for me in the freedom hunt, but 1529 01:34:21,080 --> 01:34:24,480 Speaker 1: also just good for all my conservative brethren. It reminds 1530 01:34:24,600 --> 01:34:27,200 Speaker 1: us of what could have been and what would have 1531 01:34:27,280 --> 01:34:32,320 Speaker 1: been had Trump not arrived and chanted lock her up, 1532 01:34:32,720 --> 01:34:37,240 Speaker 1: Lock her up. Nonetheless, the Pompeio pointent I think is 1533 01:34:37,280 --> 01:34:41,760 Speaker 1: good on the CI director. You know, I want to 1534 01:34:41,800 --> 01:34:43,160 Speaker 1: look into this one a little bit more. I'm gonna 1535 01:34:43,200 --> 01:34:45,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be straight up with you guys. I tend 1536 01:34:45,240 --> 01:34:49,360 Speaker 1: not to weigh in that much on some of the 1537 01:34:49,439 --> 01:34:53,800 Speaker 1: upper level politics in the Intel community, just because I 1538 01:34:53,840 --> 01:34:58,280 Speaker 1: don't want to have the eye of Soroon come my way. Uh. 1539 01:34:58,400 --> 01:35:00,720 Speaker 1: The moment that you start being in he was like, well, 1540 01:35:00,800 --> 01:35:03,680 Speaker 1: I hate the director is the moment that you're on 1541 01:35:03,720 --> 01:35:05,840 Speaker 1: their radar in a way that you just don't really 1542 01:35:05,880 --> 01:35:08,479 Speaker 1: want to be, you know. I mean there's people who 1543 01:35:08,520 --> 01:35:11,120 Speaker 1: say funny stuff to me, like well, they said, you know, 1544 01:35:11,200 --> 01:35:12,680 Speaker 1: you could told me what you'd hope to kill me, 1545 01:35:12,720 --> 01:35:15,639 Speaker 1: and I'm like, no, that's not a thing. Or they'll say, 1546 01:35:15,720 --> 01:35:18,040 Speaker 1: you know, well, once you're in, you're never really out right, 1547 01:35:18,080 --> 01:35:22,080 Speaker 1: and I'm like, don't be ridiculous, except you know, you 1548 01:35:22,120 --> 01:35:26,160 Speaker 1: sign papers and things that are binding for your whole life, 1549 01:35:26,200 --> 01:35:28,720 Speaker 1: and and there is actually something to that. You know, 1550 01:35:29,320 --> 01:35:31,240 Speaker 1: you really don't want to get a call if you're 1551 01:35:31,360 --> 01:35:32,880 Speaker 1: me from Langley and they're like, you know, we just 1552 01:35:32,880 --> 01:35:34,519 Speaker 1: want to we want to talk to you about some stuff, 1553 01:35:34,560 --> 01:35:36,920 Speaker 1: some of the things you've said recently. So I tend 1554 01:35:36,960 --> 01:35:40,040 Speaker 1: to stay out of that. I don't know anything about 1555 01:35:40,680 --> 01:35:42,719 Speaker 1: I've never met and don't know what I'm being honest 1556 01:35:42,720 --> 01:35:46,000 Speaker 1: with you don't know anything about the the new director 1557 01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:48,519 Speaker 1: of the CIA other than what I have read. Rand 1558 01:35:48,600 --> 01:35:52,880 Speaker 1: Paul is very opposed to her because of her alleged 1559 01:35:53,040 --> 01:35:57,559 Speaker 1: role in water boarding. It's tough for me to weigh 1560 01:35:57,560 --> 01:35:59,679 Speaker 1: in on that one way or the other because I'm 1561 01:35:59,720 --> 01:36:04,280 Speaker 1: not sure that it's being characterized accurately, and I get 1562 01:36:04,280 --> 01:36:09,040 Speaker 1: the sense that it's probably being very negatively and unfairly characterized. 1563 01:36:09,080 --> 01:36:12,479 Speaker 1: So that's why I would I'm witholding some judgment on that. 1564 01:36:12,560 --> 01:36:15,519 Speaker 1: I'm when it comes to some agency things, I can 1565 01:36:15,560 --> 01:36:18,840 Speaker 1: be a little whimpy. Well that's because I kind of 1566 01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:22,200 Speaker 1: have to be. So there's that. But I think Pompeia 1567 01:36:22,240 --> 01:36:24,720 Speaker 1: has a good choice. And I usually really like Rand 1568 01:36:24,800 --> 01:36:28,719 Speaker 1: Paul and and support a lot of what he says, 1569 01:36:28,760 --> 01:36:31,120 Speaker 1: and I think he's an important voice not just for 1570 01:36:31,120 --> 01:36:34,280 Speaker 1: the GOP but for the whole country. On this one, 1571 01:36:34,360 --> 01:36:36,439 Speaker 1: I think he's wrong on POMPEII. I think he's being 1572 01:36:36,439 --> 01:36:41,000 Speaker 1: a little harsh on the new CIA director. But one 1573 01:36:41,000 --> 01:36:44,639 Speaker 1: thing is for sure, my friends Democrats and Confirmation hearings 1574 01:36:44,680 --> 01:36:46,800 Speaker 1: are gonna have a field day with this. They're just 1575 01:36:46,800 --> 01:36:48,880 Speaker 1: gonna use it as a as a fundraising tool. I mean, 1576 01:36:49,040 --> 01:36:51,840 Speaker 1: I'm willing to bet you'll actually see congressional emails going 1577 01:36:51,880 --> 01:36:56,000 Speaker 1: out the days of those hearings, specifically citing, you know, 1578 01:36:56,040 --> 01:36:59,360 Speaker 1: we need to stop this evil Trump is um because 1579 01:36:59,360 --> 01:37:02,280 Speaker 1: Trump is like Himmler, you know, something like that. That's 1580 01:37:02,280 --> 01:37:04,280 Speaker 1: what Hillary would say. All right, we'll be back in 1581 01:37:04,320 --> 01:37:08,040 Speaker 1: a few teams. Stay with me, you know, I'm getting 1582 01:37:08,040 --> 01:37:11,680 Speaker 1: my taxes ready. It is not the most exciting conversation, 1583 01:37:11,800 --> 01:37:14,240 Speaker 1: I know, but it's close to the show. I just 1584 01:37:14,280 --> 01:37:19,200 Speaker 1: want to share with you that my inner Patrick Henry 1585 01:37:19,439 --> 01:37:22,040 Speaker 1: really comes out when I have to just go through 1586 01:37:22,120 --> 01:37:25,960 Speaker 1: receipts and all this paperwork, and does this go in 1587 01:37:26,000 --> 01:37:29,719 Speaker 1: this column? Where does this go? Can I write this off? 1588 01:37:30,000 --> 01:37:34,960 Speaker 1: All this stuff? It is such crap. And I know 1589 01:37:35,040 --> 01:37:38,040 Speaker 1: that we've gotten this tax cut, and we're all supposed 1590 01:37:38,080 --> 01:37:42,240 Speaker 1: to be so incredibly happy and grateful even that our 1591 01:37:42,280 --> 01:37:45,120 Speaker 1: government is giving us back a little more of our stuff. 1592 01:37:45,600 --> 01:37:49,320 Speaker 1: I'm somebody who, because of the various gigs and side 1593 01:37:49,360 --> 01:37:53,599 Speaker 1: hustles that I've got going on, ends up sending the 1594 01:37:53,640 --> 01:37:57,960 Speaker 1: government check around tax time. And I think that's an 1595 01:37:58,000 --> 01:38:01,640 Speaker 1: experience that everybody should have, because when you send the 1596 01:38:01,680 --> 01:38:05,960 Speaker 1: government to check, it's a reminder that they are taking 1597 01:38:06,000 --> 01:38:09,080 Speaker 1: your money, And I think one of the biggest scams 1598 01:38:09,120 --> 01:38:13,840 Speaker 1: going is automatic withholding and the notion that someone like 1599 01:38:13,920 --> 01:38:18,479 Speaker 1: me I owe the government money before tax day. And 1600 01:38:18,760 --> 01:38:22,480 Speaker 1: I just also resent the notion that I am forced 1601 01:38:22,520 --> 01:38:28,400 Speaker 1: by law to engage with a system that is inherently 1602 01:38:29,120 --> 01:38:33,160 Speaker 1: unfair and flawed and subject to interpretation, and for which 1603 01:38:33,200 --> 01:38:36,200 Speaker 1: there are criminal sanctions. You know, if you, if you 1604 01:38:36,240 --> 01:38:39,600 Speaker 1: pay your taxes, which I do. You know, all of 1605 01:38:39,640 --> 01:38:42,160 Speaker 1: you listening to as well, you should never have to think, 1606 01:38:42,160 --> 01:38:44,400 Speaker 1: oh gosh, what am I gonna do if I get 1607 01:38:44,439 --> 01:38:47,519 Speaker 1: an audit. But anyone I know and everyone I know 1608 01:38:47,560 --> 01:38:50,800 Speaker 1: who's ever been through an audit is like it is 1609 01:38:51,000 --> 01:38:54,040 Speaker 1: a painful experience, and at the end of it, you 1610 01:38:54,080 --> 01:38:55,960 Speaker 1: don't get a high five and a gold star and 1611 01:38:56,000 --> 01:38:58,920 Speaker 1: a good job. It's just, well, I guess we're not 1612 01:38:58,960 --> 01:39:01,320 Speaker 1: going to take even more of your money or lock 1613 01:39:01,439 --> 01:39:04,760 Speaker 1: you up this time. I would like to be a 1614 01:39:04,880 --> 01:39:08,200 Speaker 1: tax radical, my friends. I want a flat tax, a 1615 01:39:08,320 --> 01:39:13,280 Speaker 1: fair tax, anything but the nonsense progressive taxation system we 1616 01:39:13,360 --> 01:39:16,599 Speaker 1: have right now, which as you know, is abused all 1617 01:39:16,640 --> 01:39:19,200 Speaker 1: the time. And the reason the tax code is over 1618 01:39:19,240 --> 01:39:24,040 Speaker 1: seventy thousand pages long is because of special interests and 1619 01:39:24,120 --> 01:39:27,680 Speaker 1: carve outs and political favors. And there's a word for 1620 01:39:27,720 --> 01:39:31,599 Speaker 1: that that we would use in foreign countries. Corruption. That's 1621 01:39:31,640 --> 01:39:34,240 Speaker 1: why the tax code is over seventy thousand pages. I'm 1622 01:39:34,280 --> 01:39:37,519 Speaker 1: gonna keep hammering this until we actually get to tax day. 1623 01:39:37,600 --> 01:39:40,800 Speaker 1: But basically, the I R S should be dissolved. I 1624 01:39:40,840 --> 01:39:43,519 Speaker 1: asked Ted Cruz once he said if he could, he 1625 01:39:43,560 --> 01:39:49,120 Speaker 1: would dissolve it. And the tax code should be one page. 1626 01:39:49,160 --> 01:39:53,760 Speaker 1: That's it. One maybe two rates, that's it. This is 1627 01:39:53,760 --> 01:39:58,440 Speaker 1: all just garbage. It's a social justice warrior, redistributive nonsense 1628 01:39:58,560 --> 01:40:03,360 Speaker 1: dressed up as something else. And with that, let's get 1629 01:40:03,400 --> 01:40:14,519 Speaker 1: into some roll call. Hey, Team Buck, it's time for 1630 01:40:14,680 --> 01:40:24,240 Speaker 1: roll call. You can't see me, but I'm dancing up 1631 01:40:24,240 --> 01:40:34,559 Speaker 1: a funking storm in here, all right. First up in 1632 01:40:34,920 --> 01:40:38,559 Speaker 1: roll call, and by the way, Facebook dot com slash 1633 01:40:38,600 --> 01:40:41,360 Speaker 1: buck sex and please follow the page and you can 1634 01:40:41,400 --> 01:40:46,080 Speaker 1: send me on the team here messages. Um. First up, Matthew, 1635 01:40:46,720 --> 01:40:49,600 Speaker 1: great show. You and your crew are putting out some 1636 01:40:49,720 --> 01:40:52,679 Speaker 1: amazing content. When are you going to be in Austin. 1637 01:40:52,880 --> 01:40:55,920 Speaker 1: I just moved out here from California last year. Love 1638 01:40:56,000 --> 01:40:58,920 Speaker 1: the area. If I can, would like to see meet 1639 01:40:59,040 --> 01:41:02,519 Speaker 1: you and your staff Shields High. Well, Matthew, thank you 1640 01:41:02,600 --> 01:41:05,040 Speaker 1: so much for the very kind note. I'd love to 1641 01:41:05,080 --> 01:41:08,559 Speaker 1: meet you and your crew as well. Austin trip is 1642 01:41:08,600 --> 01:41:11,639 Speaker 1: being planned, but I don't have a firm date yet, 1643 01:41:12,200 --> 01:41:14,320 Speaker 1: and I will be for those of you who are 1644 01:41:14,600 --> 01:41:18,200 Speaker 1: WHOA Whoa lend listeners out in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1645 01:41:18,640 --> 01:41:22,960 Speaker 1: just a few short weeks March thirty one. Saturday, March 1646 01:41:23,080 --> 01:41:27,080 Speaker 1: thirty one, I will be at Talk Tank at WHOA 1647 01:41:27,080 --> 01:41:30,160 Speaker 1: WOA Radio in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Be there for the 1648 01:41:30,200 --> 01:41:34,040 Speaker 1: whole day. I'll be hanging out, chatting folks, maybe eating 1649 01:41:34,120 --> 01:41:36,439 Speaker 1: some barbecue, some kind of meat. I don't know what 1650 01:41:36,479 --> 01:41:39,120 Speaker 1: it will be, but I'll be there, so do turn out. 1651 01:41:39,160 --> 01:41:40,840 Speaker 1: I'd love to see as much of the team as 1652 01:41:40,840 --> 01:41:46,360 Speaker 1: I can. Newcomers especially welcome at the Talk Tank event 1653 01:41:46,520 --> 01:41:49,760 Speaker 1: in Fort Wayne, Indiana March thirty one. You can check 1654 01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:54,240 Speaker 1: it out online. All right, Next up, Uh, here we go, 1655 01:41:54,400 --> 01:41:56,519 Speaker 1: Daniel here right, Hey, Buck, I wanted to talk to 1656 01:41:56,520 --> 01:41:59,599 Speaker 1: you for a minute about the school walks today. At 1657 01:41:59,600 --> 01:42:02,400 Speaker 1: my school, they told us it was done in honor 1658 01:42:02,439 --> 01:42:05,120 Speaker 1: of the students who lost their lives. But just a 1659 01:42:05,120 --> 01:42:08,000 Speaker 1: few minutes ago I got a notification from my news 1660 01:42:08,040 --> 01:42:13,120 Speaker 1: app which unfortunately for unfortunately has all news companies. It 1661 01:42:13,200 --> 01:42:16,280 Speaker 1: was from CBS and it said hundreds of students in 1662 01:42:16,320 --> 01:42:19,759 Speaker 1: schools are supposed to walk today to protest gun violence. 1663 01:42:20,320 --> 01:42:22,920 Speaker 1: I'd love to walk for those students. But the second 1664 01:42:22,920 --> 01:42:25,960 Speaker 1: they made this political I was out. So either my 1665 01:42:26,000 --> 01:42:29,080 Speaker 1: school was doing it for a different reason or they 1666 01:42:29,080 --> 01:42:31,760 Speaker 1: were lying to us. I'm proud to say that most 1667 01:42:31,800 --> 01:42:34,280 Speaker 1: of the students in my current classroom didn't leave, but 1668 01:42:34,360 --> 01:42:37,840 Speaker 1: a few did. I personally think that the teachers should 1669 01:42:37,840 --> 01:42:40,960 Speaker 1: be allowed to have a concealed carry, but unknown to 1670 01:42:41,000 --> 01:42:45,160 Speaker 1: the students. If not guns, then certainly tasers. It's something 1671 01:42:45,240 --> 01:42:48,040 Speaker 1: that can quickly and effectively stop and out of control gunman. 1672 01:42:48,360 --> 01:42:50,760 Speaker 1: If you ever want insight from a fifteen year old perspective, 1673 01:42:50,840 --> 01:42:53,280 Speaker 1: you can just message me. Well, Daniel, thank you so 1674 01:42:53,400 --> 01:42:55,920 Speaker 1: much for your note and for giving us a perspective 1675 01:42:55,960 --> 01:43:00,160 Speaker 1: that we really need today, which is uh that we 1676 01:43:00,240 --> 01:43:02,840 Speaker 1: have to hear from folks who are seeing this with 1677 01:43:02,880 --> 01:43:06,320 Speaker 1: their own eyes. So thank you Daniel for sharing your perspective. 1678 01:43:06,360 --> 01:43:08,519 Speaker 1: Great to have a fifteen year old member of Team 1679 01:43:08,520 --> 01:43:13,400 Speaker 1: Buck in the house. Jason, next up here, thank you 1680 01:43:13,439 --> 01:43:17,080 Speaker 1: so much for talking about South Africa yesterday. My wife's 1681 01:43:17,160 --> 01:43:20,960 Speaker 1: uncle was brutally killed three months ago. It seems the 1682 01:43:21,000 --> 01:43:23,839 Speaker 1: world has been silent as we have watched it increase 1683 01:43:23,920 --> 01:43:28,400 Speaker 1: in violence and numbers on his neighbors, and now as 1684 01:43:28,439 --> 01:43:30,800 Speaker 1: his children, who are now orphaned, are looking at the 1685 01:43:30,840 --> 01:43:33,280 Speaker 1: government taking the only thing they have left because they 1686 01:43:33,280 --> 01:43:38,720 Speaker 1: are quote privileged, semperfy and shields high O s s 1687 01:43:38,800 --> 01:43:43,240 Speaker 1: forever from Jason, shout out to the rest of Oss Well, Jason, 1688 01:43:43,280 --> 01:43:47,040 Speaker 1: thank you and thank you for sharing that really tragic, 1689 01:43:47,280 --> 01:43:52,800 Speaker 1: uh and and difficult personal story. The media are absolutely 1690 01:43:53,040 --> 01:43:56,479 Speaker 1: not as interested as they should be in covering what 1691 01:43:56,640 --> 01:43:58,760 Speaker 1: is going on in South Africa, and we know it's 1692 01:43:58,800 --> 01:44:04,200 Speaker 1: because social justice warriors in this country take and transpose 1693 01:44:04,360 --> 01:44:09,240 Speaker 1: their own political beliefs onto social, political, and cultural situations 1694 01:44:09,560 --> 01:44:12,720 Speaker 1: around the rest of the world. Hence, in Iraq, for example, 1695 01:44:13,000 --> 01:44:15,879 Speaker 1: Iraqi Christians who are a minority that is being targeted 1696 01:44:15,920 --> 01:44:22,000 Speaker 1: for extermination are still Christian. Therefore they're not really targeted minorities. 1697 01:44:22,160 --> 01:44:25,240 Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense, but it's just the way that 1698 01:44:25,360 --> 01:44:28,800 Speaker 1: they have trained themselves as ideologues to view the rest 1699 01:44:28,840 --> 01:44:31,639 Speaker 1: of the world as well. We'll keep watching South Africa though, 1700 01:44:31,640 --> 01:44:34,639 Speaker 1: because it's a story that I think unfortunately, is only 1701 01:44:34,640 --> 01:44:37,519 Speaker 1: going to get worse. All right, now, we have a 1702 01:44:37,600 --> 01:44:42,280 Speaker 1: note from Angela and remember Facebook dot com slash Buck 1703 01:44:42,360 --> 01:44:46,080 Speaker 1: Sexton to send us your thoughts. Angela rights, Uh hi, 1704 01:44:46,840 --> 01:44:49,679 Speaker 1: last week you mentioned that you had a trapper keeper 1705 01:44:49,720 --> 01:44:52,200 Speaker 1: when in high school. Not trying to make you feel 1706 01:44:52,200 --> 01:44:56,520 Speaker 1: old or anything, but original trapper keepers are now collectibles, 1707 01:44:56,840 --> 01:45:00,960 Speaker 1: no kidding. They are considered vintage. Well, welcome to the AM. 1708 01:45:01,000 --> 01:45:05,280 Speaker 1: I really that old club, well, Angela, I'm a proud 1709 01:45:05,360 --> 01:45:07,880 Speaker 1: member of the AM. I really that old club and 1710 01:45:08,479 --> 01:45:12,240 Speaker 1: the Get Off my Lawn Society. But I can imagine 1711 01:45:12,240 --> 01:45:14,920 Speaker 1: the trapper keepers are collectibles. Now what people would do 1712 01:45:14,920 --> 01:45:17,600 Speaker 1: with them other than collect them, I have no idea, 1713 01:45:18,000 --> 01:45:19,639 Speaker 1: but I remember that was what you had to have 1714 01:45:20,400 --> 01:45:22,920 Speaker 1: because if you didn't have the hand out for your 1715 01:45:22,920 --> 01:45:25,880 Speaker 1: geography class and you had to go down and ask 1716 01:45:25,960 --> 01:45:29,280 Speaker 1: a teacher to give you a xerox, quite an ordeal. 1717 01:45:29,320 --> 01:45:31,320 Speaker 1: You don't want to lose those papers. That's where trapper 1718 01:45:31,360 --> 01:45:35,800 Speaker 1: keepers came in, all right, Next up here, uh bo, 1719 01:45:36,080 --> 01:45:38,600 Speaker 1: he writes. I'm with you, Buck. I hate the airlines. 1720 01:45:38,800 --> 01:45:41,880 Speaker 1: I flew frequently during the eighties and nineties with very 1721 01:45:41,880 --> 01:45:45,040 Speaker 1: few issues, but after nine eleven, I have only flown 1722 01:45:45,040 --> 01:45:49,599 Speaker 1: a handful of times completely miserable experiences every time. I 1723 01:45:49,600 --> 01:45:52,799 Speaker 1: only fly now if forced to do so. I drove 1724 01:45:52,840 --> 01:45:56,559 Speaker 1: all the way to California in four thousand and eight 1725 01:45:56,560 --> 01:45:59,479 Speaker 1: miles round trip just to see my son. Well worth 1726 01:45:59,520 --> 01:46:03,280 Speaker 1: the extra time spent, plus I was able to carry 1727 01:46:03,640 --> 01:46:07,040 Speaker 1: a weapon. Uh. Well, both, thank you so much for 1728 01:46:07,160 --> 01:46:10,000 Speaker 1: calling in, and I really appreciate hearing from you on 1729 01:46:10,000 --> 01:46:14,320 Speaker 1: this one. And I hate the airlines as well. Um, 1730 01:46:14,320 --> 01:46:17,479 Speaker 1: and I generally try not to pick on any one business, 1731 01:46:17,800 --> 01:46:21,479 Speaker 1: but I've just had too many days ruined, and you know, 1732 01:46:21,960 --> 01:46:24,280 Speaker 1: there's just not a culture of like, we're sorry, we're 1733 01:46:24,320 --> 01:46:26,120 Speaker 1: ruining your day. They're like that, you know, that's tough. 1734 01:46:26,760 --> 01:46:29,080 Speaker 1: Oh we didn't We didn't put enough fuel in the 1735 01:46:29,160 --> 01:46:31,519 Speaker 1: plane to get you to your destination. So we're gonna 1736 01:46:31,560 --> 01:46:35,000 Speaker 1: have to have an additional unplanned stop just because we 1737 01:46:35,000 --> 01:46:37,720 Speaker 1: were trying to, you know, scrape around the edges and 1738 01:46:37,760 --> 01:46:41,679 Speaker 1: make a little extra cash at your expense. Sorry, yeah, 1739 01:46:41,680 --> 01:46:43,760 Speaker 1: that actually happened to me. These are the things that 1740 01:46:43,800 --> 01:46:46,479 Speaker 1: airlines do, and it's just a disgrace. It's because they 1741 01:46:46,520 --> 01:46:49,559 Speaker 1: don't feel the real impact from the market. For a 1742 01:46:49,560 --> 01:46:52,920 Speaker 1: whole bunch of reasons, and yes, airlines are the worst. 1743 01:46:53,240 --> 01:46:55,639 Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna close it up there for today, Team, 1744 01:46:55,760 --> 01:46:58,599 Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to joining you tomorrow Friday. I will 1745 01:46:58,640 --> 01:47:01,679 Speaker 1: be on the show out Number Bird at twelve Eastern 1746 01:47:01,720 --> 01:47:05,320 Speaker 1: twelve pm Eastern on Fox News. So a do tune 1747 01:47:05,360 --> 01:47:08,280 Speaker 1: in or set your DVR now for Friday Outnumbered on 1748 01:47:08,320 --> 01:47:11,400 Speaker 1: Fox News. That'll be a whole lot of fun and uh. 1749 01:47:11,479 --> 01:47:14,280 Speaker 1: Until then, my friends, you have your mission, you have 1750 01:47:14,400 --> 01:47:19,880 Speaker 1: your orders, no matter what comes your way. Shields high,