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Speaker 1: Hut Tuesday, January third edition, the first the first podcast
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Speaker 1: very excited to chat with all of you about everything
Speaker 1: that's going on. We have, for example, this fight playing
Speaker 1: out on the floor of Congress right now with who
Speaker 1: will be the next Speaker of the House. We will
Speaker 1: discuss that, plus more and more people recognizing that the
Speaker 1: COVID vaccine shots or whatever you want to call them,
Speaker 1: not working as planned, and the DeSantis inauguration. I'm here
Speaker 1: today in Tallahassee, Florida, which is why you're not seeing
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Speaker 1: it's a very happy day here in Tallahassee as descantists
Speaker 1: gets ready for four more years as governor. Will discuss that,
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Speaker 1: resolutions and other things coming up here in just a second.
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Speaker 1: I've got such big plans here in twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: for the Buck Sexton Show, the expanded version of a
Speaker 1: video and having guests on this longer form, interviews with guests,
Speaker 1: all that. But today, because I'm in Tallahassee, we're not
Speaker 1: quite doing the two point zero version of the Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton Show. But because I'm in Tallahassee at the Desantists
Speaker 1: inauguration celebration, I thought I would speak a little bit
Speaker 1: about what this has meant, what Florida means going forward.
Speaker 1: For anybody that feels like it is impossible, that the
Speaker 1: Commies are winning, that there's nothing that we can do
Speaker 1: to win back the culture, that politics is pointless, remember
Speaker 1: that the states are supposed to be laboratories of what
Speaker 1: our Republic can achieve at the national level. The states
Speaker 1: are the proving grounds their areas yes of constitutionally declared
Speaker 1: autonomy in many matters, in most matters, but they also
Speaker 1: show people what happens as different policies play out. So
Speaker 1: you have the experiment of each and every state and
Speaker 1: the results that are produces. Why does that matter so much?
Speaker 1: You just look at what's happening in Florida and for
Speaker 1: the rest of the nation. I would say, one, don't despair.
Speaker 1: If you live in New York or California, you can
Speaker 1: always consider moving to another state. But even if you can't,
Speaker 1: it got pretty close in New York and in California.
Speaker 1: I think there will be a turning point at some
Speaker 1: point in the future. But you do want to ask
Speaker 1: yourself questions, why is it that New York, for example,
Speaker 1: New York State has fewer people but double the state
Speaker 1: budget of the state of Florida. What are you really
Speaker 1: getting as a New Yorker for that? And the answer
Speaker 1: is a massive, massive welfare state and a massive bureaucracy
Speaker 1: that is largely funded to administer that welfare state in
Speaker 1: one form or another. That's it. Do you want that?
Speaker 1: Do you want your state taxes to go to that?
Speaker 1: What happens when you have leadership as they do here
Speaker 1: in Florida that pursues sensible policy goals, that tries to
Speaker 1: just get things done that make people's lives easier, that
Speaker 1: make their life day to day a little better. Well,
Speaker 1: we see those results and keeping Florida open during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: being the most open state, which was clearly without any
Speaker 1: doubt with the right decision, and so few states unfortunately
Speaker 1: made it. That required a lot political courage. But we
Speaker 1: also see this with the war on wokeness, which is
Speaker 1: really just a war on a new version of the
Speaker 1: communist ethos that has destroyed so many countries. That's something
Speaker 1: that you can do at the state level, state and
Speaker 1: local matters, state and local matters, and I think Florida
Speaker 1: is a really important reminder of that. And also in
Speaker 1: terms of having a strategy. You know, I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: what can be accomplished in this new year for me personally,
Speaker 1: and I've really I've thought about this a lot. Cutting
Speaker 1: down drinking was easy. I'm not anti having a drink ever,
Speaker 1: because I will have wine or really I just drink
Speaker 1: wine and tequila. I'll drink those two things. But I've
Speaker 1: cut it down to the point where it is I
Speaker 1: drink about as frequently as I have you know, cake
Speaker 1: or something like that, so you know you're not having
Speaker 1: cake every day. I'm certainly a drinking every day. I
Speaker 1: probably have cake once or twice a month, and that's
Speaker 1: probably where I am on the drinking front, and I
Speaker 1: really only have one or two. Now, I don't say
Speaker 1: this to judge. I just say that it was easy
Speaker 1: for me to make the choice to cut it back
Speaker 1: and to do so. But man, if twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: we're talking resolutions cutting back on my sugar intake, I'm
Speaker 1: sure a lot of you have the same feeling. Cutting
Speaker 1: back on sugar is so hard to do, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people think that it's not hard. Have never
Speaker 1: actually really done the math and looked at how much
Speaker 1: stuff has a lot of sugar. You have some really
Speaker 1: delicious beef jerky. Some beef jerky's got twenty grams of
Speaker 1: sugar in it. You have some ketchup loaded with sugar.
Speaker 1: You things that you would not anticipate. Fruit juice, don't
Speaker 1: even get me started. Might as well have a Coca cola, right.
Speaker 1: Fruit juice very different from fruit in the way it
Speaker 1: enters your body and your bloodstream because of the fiber
Speaker 1: content of fruit. Eating fruit is great, all about that,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna allow myself to eat plenty of fruit.
Speaker 1: But drinking straight orange juice, for example, a lot of
Speaker 1: sugar in these things. And it's it's interesting that there
Speaker 1: still seems to be some debate as whether your body
Speaker 1: can develop a degree of addiction to sugar. So I
Speaker 1: don't have. There are no other addictions that I struggle with.
Speaker 1: I'm very fortunate in that sense. But if I had
Speaker 1: to pick one thing, and if twenty twenty three is
Speaker 1: a year for improving oneself, there's a lot of things
Speaker 1: that I want to do. Watch even less television of
Speaker 1: any kind than I do, read more, sleep more, work
Speaker 1: out more, spend more time with family and close friends,
Speaker 1: spend less time worrying about you know, am I doing
Speaker 1: this at the absolute the absolute pinnacle of whatever is
Speaker 1: possible in this professionally or you know? I mean, you
Speaker 1: try to do the best you can. You got to
Speaker 1: sleep at night. You can't just second guess yourself all
Speaker 1: the time. But cutting back on sugar, as somebody who
Speaker 1: has spent a let me see, I really started getting
Speaker 1: serious for me about strength training to where I consistently
Speaker 1: have done it four or five times a week, almost
Speaker 1: without exception, although this past week was an exception. For
Speaker 1: nine months now, so not even quite a year. But
Speaker 1: it's helpful, it's working. But cutting back on the sugar
Speaker 1: would be something that I would really like to try
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Speaker 1: All right, So we got to talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about this as I speak to you. It's now two
Speaker 1: votes have already happened for the Speaker of the House.
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy has lost on both votes. So this is
Speaker 1: going into another realm. And this is a situation that
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody really knows exactly how it's going
Speaker 1: to play out, including the people who are, in this
Speaker 1: case the rebels from the GOP establishment. Kevin McCarthy here
Speaker 1: said that this is when you know things are getting rough,
Speaker 1: Things are getting a little rough and tumble. Kevin McCarthy
Speaker 1: saying that as of last night, there were some GOP
Speaker 1: members of Congress who would be okay with Hakim Jeffries,
Speaker 1: a Democrat, as Speaker of the House instead of Kevin
Speaker 1: McCarthy playclib one. Last night, I was presented the only
Speaker 1: way to have two hundred and eighteen votes if I
Speaker 1: provided certain members with certain positions, certain gavels, to take
Speaker 1: over the Church Committee, to have certain budgets. And they
Speaker 1: even came to the position where one Matt Gates said,
Speaker 1: I don't care if we go to polarity and we
Speaker 1: elect Hakeem Jeffries that it hurts the new frontline members
Speaker 1: not to get reelected. Well, that's not about America. And
Speaker 1: I will always fight to put the American people first,
Speaker 1: not a few individuals that want something for themselves. So
Speaker 1: we may have a battle on the floor, but the
Speaker 1: battle is for the conference and the country. And that's
Speaker 1: fine with me fighting words to be sure. But you
Speaker 1: know one thing that I did do over the over
Speaker 1: the Christmas break was I spent spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time reading just what I felt like reading. I just
Speaker 1: finished a book, The Last Founding Father, James Monroe and
Speaker 1: a Nation's called The Greatness by Harlowe Unger very good,
Speaker 1: by the way, very very good book, and I give
Speaker 1: it an effort for the genre solid B plus. I
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. And I'm actually about one hundred pages into
Speaker 1: George Washington's biography by Churnow and which is excellent. I've heard,
Speaker 1: you know, he's the one who wrote the super famous
Speaker 1: Hamilton's biography that then was the inspiration for the Broadway play,
Speaker 1: which I thought was just atrociously boring and I didn't
Speaker 1: like it at all, but I a lot of other
Speaker 1: people liked it. It became, I think, the one of
Speaker 1: the first billion dollars Broadway enterprises ever. But The Last
Speaker 1: Founding Father is really good. And one aspect of reading
Speaker 1: about that period in history that I think is so
Speaker 1: useful in moments like this where you have the speakers
Speaker 1: or the speakers gabble being fought over in this way
Speaker 1: and people say it's some pretty rough stuff. You know, Oh,
Speaker 1: they want to help the Democrats and they don't want
Speaker 1: to help the country. Is this is the nature of politics.
Speaker 1: It's always been the way things are in this country.
Speaker 1: I think that we get into this mindset of we
Speaker 1: are the only ones who are having this kind of acrimony.
Speaker 1: Who have these politicians slamming each other in this way.
Speaker 1: It's just not the case. The stuff that the founders
Speaker 1: thought and said about each other and the regional politics
Speaker 1: that played out. I mean in the War of eighteen well,
Speaker 1: at one point, New Englanders we're kind of like, I know,
Speaker 1: I like the British, we should do more trade with them.
Speaker 1: You know, you're on your own states that are to
Speaker 1: the south of New England and fighting against the British.
Speaker 1: You know, you're on your own. You want navigation rights
Speaker 1: for the Mississippi River. Bostonians were like, man, not our problem.
Speaker 1: You know, this is this is the nature of how
Speaker 1: it is and how it always has been. Politics is
Speaker 1: about conflict and disagreement as much as it's about consensus
Speaker 1: and finding a way forward. And so that's why I
Speaker 1: don't get overly worried about what's gonna happen if they
Speaker 1: have this fight. What's gonna happen to the Congress if
Speaker 1: they don't have Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. Look,
Speaker 1: if they allow a Democrat to become a Speaker of
Speaker 1: the House, it's a massive blunder. And you know it's
Speaker 1: hard to fathom that they would let it go to
Speaker 1: that point. I don't think they will, but they may
Speaker 1: decide to hold this out for a few weeks, who knows,
Speaker 1: maybe longer. They may decide that they would really want
Speaker 1: to make a point over this. But I want to
Speaker 1: know what their end goal is. And I say that
Speaker 1: with total earnestness. I'm not suggesting cynically that they have
Speaker 1: that that that I know they don't have one. It
Speaker 1: seems to me they may be lacking one. But I
Speaker 1: don't know for a fact, and I want to know.
Speaker 1: I want to know what the plan is here. So
Speaker 1: this is a major issue that is going to continue
Speaker 1: to I think this is going to go on for days,
Speaker 1: if not, if not weeks, so we shall see. Um
Speaker 1: what is the economic outlook for this year? One thing
Speaker 1: I thought about a lot also over the break is
Speaker 1: I'm over the holiday, I should say, as considering you know,
Speaker 1: am I gonna put money in some investments and how
Speaker 1: am I going to move my my meager savings around
Speaker 1: and try to build more for the future future generations
Speaker 1: of of of you know, buck and Buck junior. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the female equivalent of a buck would
Speaker 1: be if I have five kids, which I'm hoping to
Speaker 1: have soon. But anyway, here is Cudlow, Larry Cudlow with
Speaker 1: a twenty twenty three economic outlook I want to share
Speaker 1: for second play five. The best news I think is
Speaker 1: the inflation rate is coming down. Was clearly evidence. So
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna run a three to four percent
Speaker 1: inflation rate. Okay, that's still above their two percent target,
Speaker 1: but that's a big help from nine or ten percent.
Speaker 1: All right, that's good. Here's the point, my friend, Iris
Speaker 1: Stall is a great column the Starris Stall makes a
Speaker 1: conservative Supreme Court and a Republican House will stop the
Speaker 1: worst of the Biden's lop sided anti growth, big government
Speaker 1: spending in central planning policies. So that's on the bright side.
Speaker 1: So let's see how this plays out. So this is
Speaker 1: the paradox that I have talked about now for a year,
Speaker 1: which is the Biden administration. And I know this sounds crazy,
Speaker 1: but I really like to hit this because I this
Speaker 1: is how I see it. The Biden administration is in
Speaker 1: a better position for his reelection because Republicans have the
Speaker 1: House then they would have been if Democrats had had everything.
Speaker 1: Because now I know the narrative wouldn't necessarily support that,
Speaker 1: because if they're all Democrats won, they must have won
Speaker 1: because Biden's great. No, no no, no, because the damage that
Speaker 1: they will be able to do to the economy that
Speaker 1: they were doing for the first two years obviously and
Speaker 1: then had to back off, the damage that they will
Speaker 1: do to the economy will be limited, and therefore there
Speaker 1: will be some resetting and some healing, if you will,
Speaker 1: of the economy going forward because they won't be able
Speaker 1: to mess things up the way they would want to
Speaker 1: if they had total control and were completely in charge.
Speaker 1: That's how I see this playing out. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it's very likely, which also why I believe Joe
Speaker 1: Biden's gonna run again, because why wouldn't he. With Republicans
Speaker 1: in the House. Guess what they're gonna say. They're stopping
Speaker 1: They're gonna tell the progressives they're stopping us from getting
Speaker 1: our agenda through. That's what they're going to say. And
Speaker 1: there's some truth to that, because the Republicans do have
Speaker 1: the House. But to the swing voters, to the persuadables,
Speaker 1: to the people that are in the middle, however you
Speaker 1: wanted to define that, they'll say, look, the economy is
Speaker 1: getting better. Things are improving. It's not as bad as
Speaker 1: the Republicans said. It was going to be vote for
Speaker 1: what you know, vote for the Biden. You know, that's
Speaker 1: really going to be the pitch. This is why I
Speaker 1: think the economic outlook is so interesting unless you have
Speaker 1: a massive brutal recession this year, which I know some
Speaker 1: people think could happen. I just want to know what
Speaker 1: the what the indicators are that it is happening, right.
Speaker 1: We need to establish that upfront because as you've seen,
Speaker 1: what is the recession? And there's some questions Democrats really
Speaker 1: don't answer. What does a woman? Democrats don't have an
Speaker 1: answer hat tip Matt Walsh and his excellent documentary. They
Speaker 1: don't really have an answer to that. What is a recession? Well,
Speaker 1: they change the definition of recession as it fits their
Speaker 1: political needs, as you know. So we should probably get
Speaker 1: ahead of this now and say, if the following occurs,
Speaker 1: we're in a really we're in a really bad economy,
Speaker 1: because I if it happens, they're not going to admit it,
Speaker 1: and they're going to shift blame around. Because the one
Speaker 1: thing that I believe delivers a smashing victory to Republicans
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four with more certainty than anything else
Speaker 1: is we have a two thousand and eight style recession,
Speaker 1: a big nasty correction in the housing market and the
Speaker 1: job market, and you name it. That's the one thing
Speaker 1: where and look, I'm gonna say it. You know, people
Speaker 1: people are talking about Trump's electability going forward, Trump's economy
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen to twenty twenty as a pitch laid against
Speaker 1: or put up against a massive decline in the economy Underbiden.
Speaker 1: You can start to see how that narrative fits together.
Speaker 1: It might feel, oh, that's crazy right now to some people,
Speaker 1: but things change very dramatically. So you know, these are
Speaker 1: the ways I see the economy affecting politics, and of
Speaker 1: course politics affecting the economy in twenty twenty three. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to cut back on my sugar. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if there's gonna be a huge recession. I
Speaker 1: don't know who the Speaker of the House is going
Speaker 1: to be. And the COVID lunacy is continuing on too,
Speaker 1: with people now bringing back mask in some places. I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, I see this and it's remarkable to me.
Speaker 1: I really mean this I think now the dead end maskers,
Speaker 1: the ones who just don't care, they're going to keep
Speaker 1: doing it increasingly. You see them with the tightly fitting mask,
Speaker 1: and now this is the this is the term that
Speaker 1: it's always a well fitting or tightly fitting mask, and
Speaker 1: they take this to be quite literal. The tightly fitting
Speaker 1: mask idea comes from the N ninety five mask, which
Speaker 1: has to be for medical purposes fitted onto your face.
Speaker 1: The seal must not be broken. Rust the mask obviously loses.
Speaker 1: You know, it's like if a condom breaks, right, doesn't
Speaker 1: really work if it breaks. If the seal is broken,
Speaker 1: then you're not getting protection. But the I mean beyond that.
Speaker 1: What you see now are people who are wearing these
Speaker 1: masks with these two rubber straps, and you can see
Speaker 1: based on the way it's pulling into their head and
Speaker 1: their hair, they're making it really tight because that is there.
Speaker 1: This is their their hair shirt. And if you understand
Speaker 1: the medieval Catholic reference, this is their their way of
Speaker 1: proving to everybody how seriously they take the virus. And
Speaker 1: they brought back in New Jersey public schools and Patterson
Speaker 1: masking for kids or other school systems. Now they're bringing
Speaker 1: back masking. So we have a commie lunacy here in
Speaker 1: the COVID era that is lingering, and the fight against
Speaker 1: this is not over because they have to admit that
Speaker 1: they are wrong, or else they will try to do
Speaker 1: it to you. And that is my my mantra on
Speaker 1: this for twenty twenty three. As long as they do
Speaker 1: it to themselves and they don't have to admit that
Speaker 1: it's wrong, their long term plan is to make you
Speaker 1: and your children do it too, Not on my watch.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna let this go down without a fight.
Speaker 1: All right, twenty twenty three is underway. I'll be back
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