Speaker 1: M you are entering the freedom hunt. Today we commemorate
Speaker 1: nine eleven, my friends, a day that changed all of
Speaker 1: our lives in countless ways. We will look at where
Speaker 1: we have come to this point and where we're going
Speaker 1: in the future. Will discuss how this affects our foreign
Speaker 1: policy and domestic politics. Today will also dive into all
Speaker 1: of it is headlines and much more coming up on
Speaker 1: The buck Sexton Show. This is the buck Sexton Show,
Speaker 1: where the mission or mission is to decode what really
Speaker 1: matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American, grant You're
Speaker 1: a great American Again. The buck Sexton Show begins. No
Speaker 1: Courage and strength answered amid the fire and smoke in
Speaker 1: New York City, over a Pennsylvania meadow, and in this
Speaker 1: very building, as innocent people from nine countries were murdered
Speaker 1: on our soil. We remember the bravery and sacrifice of
Speaker 1: those who fell here in America and then on far
Speaker 1: flung battlefields. We salute the soldiers, sailors, airmen, coast guardsmen,
Speaker 1: and marines who nailed our colors to the mast, giving
Speaker 1: their last full measure of devotion, declaring proudly that Americans
Speaker 1: do not scare, and we followed to the end of
Speaker 1: the earth those who sought to break our spirit. Together
Speaker 1: with the families of the fallen, we remember all that
Speaker 1: is good, all that is true, and all that is
Speaker 1: beautiful about those we have lost. Today, all of America
Speaker 1: raps up and joins together. We close our arms to
Speaker 1: help you shoulder your pain and to carry your great,
Speaker 1: great sorrow. Your tears are not shed alone, for they
Speaker 1: are shared grief with an entire nation. We grieve together
Speaker 1: for every mother and father, sister and brother, son and
Speaker 1: daughter who was stolen from us at the Twin Towers
Speaker 1: the Pentagon, and here in this Pennsylvania field, we honor
Speaker 1: their sacrificed by pledging to never flinch in the face
Speaker 1: of evil and to do whatever it takes to keep
Speaker 1: America safe. Welcome to the Box Action Show, Everybody, nine
Speaker 1: eleven anniversary today. I know that this affects all of us.
Speaker 1: This is something that we all remember um and it
Speaker 1: changed the world. When we look at where we are
Speaker 1: now versus where we were then. It was an uncertain thing,
Speaker 1: my friends, and in those hours after the towers got hit,
Speaker 1: we did not know how many wars we would have
Speaker 1: to fight. We did not know how many more attacks
Speaker 1: were coming, perhaps imminent attacks just a matter of hours away,
Speaker 1: and it was a wake up for many of us
Speaker 1: that we have enemies, that we have people who have
Speaker 1: embraced ideologies around the globe of of hatred and destruction.
Speaker 1: And it is in fact true that there are people
Speaker 1: who hate us for who we are, and yes, a
Speaker 1: part of that is our freedom. There are people who
Speaker 1: hate us for our way of life and our role
Speaker 1: in the world and how we view ourselves in terms
Speaker 1: of human progress and development, I mean the role that
Speaker 1: America plays um And while we had many difficult year
Speaker 1: is ahead and counter terrorism operations at Rock Afghanistan, two
Speaker 1: countries where you know, the greatest honor of my life
Speaker 1: to this day was showing up and trying to do
Speaker 1: some small part to help as a civilian, to help
Speaker 1: United States military and their mission taking the fight to
Speaker 1: al Qaida and iractaing the fight to al Qaeda in
Speaker 1: UH South Asia and the Taliban and all of their
Speaker 1: affiliates and SIA militias in Iraq and all the rest
Speaker 1: of it UH. We also saw much of what was
Speaker 1: best and strongest in America after that period. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, my generation as much as we get a
Speaker 1: hard time, and people make a lot of jokes about millennials. Look,
Speaker 1: I make jokes about millennials, but my generation and those
Speaker 1: who are you know, twenty years older than me and
Speaker 1: you know, a decade younger than me. So many of
Speaker 1: them showed up and answered the call. So many of
Speaker 1: them were incredibly brave, and many thousands of laid down
Speaker 1: their lives for this country as a result of what
Speaker 1: happened on nine eleven. So I will talk to you
Speaker 1: a bit more about it during this hour. Some just
Speaker 1: some memories that come back. One of them is just
Speaker 1: walking around the streets of Manhattan where I'm from, and
Speaker 1: of course where the where the towers were, uh, and
Speaker 1: seeing all the American flags everywhere afterwards, And it was
Speaker 1: such a reminder for all of us of what what
Speaker 1: is at stake And these slogans, these things you hear
Speaker 1: when people say things like freedom is and free and
Speaker 1: you know we we we need a rough men who
Speaker 1: stand ready at night to do violence on our behalf
Speaker 1: so we sleep soundly. I mean, all these things that
Speaker 1: you might hear growing up. It it brought that all
Speaker 1: together in a way that you you had to take notice,
Speaker 1: certainly changed my life. And it's the only Without Not eleven,
Speaker 1: I don't go to the CIA. And I know for
Speaker 1: so many of you listening, without Not eleven, you didn't
Speaker 1: do three combat tours in Afghanistan and two in a
Speaker 1: rock and you know, who knows where else you've you've
Speaker 1: been sent in the defense of this country. But it's
Speaker 1: also a day today when I think we should note that,
Speaker 1: you know, we have managed to suppress, not to defeat
Speaker 1: or annihilate, but to suppress the jihadiest menace. The global
Speaker 1: jihad is a small piece of what it once was,
Speaker 1: and and al Qaeda certainly is greatly diminished from what
Speaker 1: it was, and that is because of all those efforts.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a it's a multi decade struggle that
Speaker 1: we are engaged in. But if you were to look
Speaker 1: at our fight against radical Islam right now, you would
Speaker 1: have to say that we are winning. We have not
Speaker 1: one It is not over, and there can be a
Speaker 1: reversal in this whole, in this whole battle, but we
Speaker 1: are we are winning. And I don't think people hear
Speaker 1: that enough. I don't think those who serve and those
Speaker 1: who have come back and veterans get told that enough.
Speaker 1: That you know, the reason we don't have more planes
Speaker 1: flying into buildings is because of the efforts of people
Speaker 1: for this country and in the defense of this country.
Speaker 1: So I'll have some more on nine eleven and just
Speaker 1: the differing philosophy that exists in the fight against radical
Speaker 1: Islam between say Trump and Barack Obama before him. And
Speaker 1: we'll also discuss whether the International Criminal Court is gonna
Speaker 1: get any jurisdiction over our soldiers. That will be coming
Speaker 1: up later on in this hour. And then if we'll
Speaker 1: get into SMAR news of the day, the latest on
Speaker 1: the machinations of the deep state, and the big news
Speaker 1: coming up on that. By the way, I'll give you
Speaker 1: a preview of it in the next hour. But there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a pretty big revelation from what I'm told here.
Speaker 1: My sources are telling me, we're gonna find out a
Speaker 1: whole lot about how deep the deep state targeting really was.
Speaker 1: Uh And and just one note here, some breaking news
Speaker 1: right as I came on air that Trump is going
Speaker 1: to order sanctions on He's gonna he's going to create
Speaker 1: an executive order and sign it that allows sanctions on
Speaker 1: foreigners who medal in US elections. So gonna gonna make
Speaker 1: sure that you know there there's even greater tools at
Speaker 1: the federal government's disposal for punishing election meddling, and hopefully
Speaker 1: start to push back on this lie that you know
Speaker 1: Trump doesn't care about election meddling, or that there's it
Speaker 1: is of no interest to him, or even he was
Speaker 1: supportive of it. That's what you'll hear from Democrats. So
Speaker 1: that's some breaking news. Trump is taking action to allow
Speaker 1: sanctioning of foreigners for election Meddling's talking about Obama's view
Speaker 1: of radical Islam and how that factors into the fight
Speaker 1: we're talking about today with nine eleven, when we come
Speaker 1: back as a gold star mother, my son gave his
Speaker 1: life for acts of terrorism. Um, do you still believe
Speaker 1: that the acts of terrorism are done with a self
Speaker 1: proclaim Islamic religious motives? And if you do, why do
Speaker 1: you still refuse to use the term racially? I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Islamic terrorists. What I have been careful about when I
Speaker 1: describe these issues is to make sure that we do
Speaker 1: not lump these murderers into the billion Muslims that exist
Speaker 1: around the world, including in this country, who are peaceful,
Speaker 1: who are responsible, who in this country are our fellow
Speaker 1: troops and police officers and firefighters and teachers and neighbors
Speaker 1: and friends. And what I learned from listening to some
Speaker 1: of these Muslim families, both in the United States and overseas,
Speaker 1: is that when you start calling these organizations Islamic terrorists,
Speaker 1: the way it's heard, the way it's received by our
Speaker 1: friends and allies are on the world is that somehow
Speaker 1: Islam is terroristic, and that then makes them feel as
Speaker 1: if they're under attack. In some cases, it makes it
Speaker 1: harder for us to get their cooperation in fighting terrorism.
Speaker 1: So so we're getting a very long answer here from
Speaker 1: the former president on his thinking, which is not new
Speaker 1: and has not changed, on why he will not say
Speaker 1: radical Islam or Islamic terrorism. And this became kind of
Speaker 1: doctrine liberalism. This became doctrinaire on the left that you
Speaker 1: don't say radical Islam or Islamic terrorism because one it
Speaker 1: hurts our allies. And I always say to this, what
Speaker 1: kind of allied do we have really with anybody if
Speaker 1: us describing an organization as it describes itself is somehow
Speaker 1: an affront to them, you know, as as we're here
Speaker 1: on nine eleven and and thinking about our counter terrorism
Speaker 1: and just general security and military UH partnerships all over
Speaker 1: the world, but particularly in the Islamic world. Is it's
Speaker 1: worth noting that most the majority of casualties from these
Speaker 1: heinous terroristacks is is actually Muslims. And so I don't
Speaker 1: think that anyone that we would consider to be a
Speaker 1: good person and an ally in this which is a
Speaker 1: lot of folks all over the Muslim world, would be
Speaker 1: put off by a saying the Islamic State, because that's
Speaker 1: what the Islamic State calls itself. That that is the name.
Speaker 1: You know, we can call them something else if we want,
Speaker 1: maybe something that's a pejorative or uh. But but this
Speaker 1: tendency to play games with language instead of facing up
Speaker 1: to the reality is very common with liberals. This is
Speaker 1: why you see them always or with with the left,
Speaker 1: with progressives. Some of you have taken issue recently with
Speaker 1: me saying liberal more frequently. It's a useful shorthand. It's
Speaker 1: it's such a common shorthand for the left that I
Speaker 1: end up using it sometimes too. But trust me, I
Speaker 1: years ago on this show I used to say that
Speaker 1: I think that liberal is an intentional misnomer and that
Speaker 1: the people who want to be called liberals who call
Speaker 1: themselves liberals are in fact leftists and statists and really
Speaker 1: have an authoritarian streak within uh, you know, anti anti
Speaker 1: traditional religion, very militant secularist view of life. And and
Speaker 1: that's you know that that the the notion of liberals
Speaker 1: as anything based in liberty is wrong headed. But I
Speaker 1: digress on that one. Obama is just wrong on this
Speaker 1: whole notion radical Islam. And I think that it was
Speaker 1: always a problem as well. For every time that they
Speaker 1: can say, oh, well, we didn't want to upset some
Speaker 1: of our allies, I would always say, well, what about
Speaker 1: the moderates that we always talk about, What about the
Speaker 1: run of the mill Muslims who would say that their
Speaker 1: religion has been hijacked in many cases by terrorists. So
Speaker 1: hijack seems like an appropriate term. Hijacked by these radicals
Speaker 1: and these and these extremists and used in terrible ways
Speaker 1: that they disagree with. It sounds to me like when
Speaker 1: we won't refer to them the way that they refer
Speaker 1: to themselves, meaning we won't refer to these groups as
Speaker 1: they are in fact named, uh, that it shows a
Speaker 1: degree of weakness, that it shows that we aren't willing
Speaker 1: to call out this evil for for what it is.
Speaker 1: We have to find euphemisms and other names for it.
Speaker 1: So now I know there's there's different schools of thought
Speaker 1: on this one. But I also think that Obama, well,
Speaker 1: well he was not a He was not a secret Muslim,
Speaker 1: and people I've gotten a lot of emails, no, he
Speaker 1: was not. I believe Obama is a secularist. I believe
Speaker 1: he is an atheist actually, and that you know, now
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just based it on his policies,
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't know the man personally, so
Speaker 1: this isn't like I have some inside information on it.
Speaker 1: But I do believe that he views religion much more
Speaker 1: as a political means to an end and maybe as
Speaker 1: community building in the early stage of his career as
Speaker 1: a politician, instead of something that he you know, fervently
Speaker 1: believes in. You know, I I don't believe, for example,
Speaker 1: that you can be a Christian and be uh be
Speaker 1: one of these radical pro choice leftists like in the
Speaker 1: in the Nancy Pelosi mold. I just don't believe that.
Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say. I mean, people
Speaker 1: can argue with me as much as they want um.
Speaker 1: But you know, Obama is somebody who on on a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of issues, has shown a hostility toward religion,
Speaker 1: whether it's suing the little sisters of the poor when
Speaker 1: you know he was implementing the monstrosity known as Obamacare,
Speaker 1: but also on the issue of Islam, there was clearly
Speaker 1: an affinity. I mean, he he did have um special
Speaker 1: place in his heart. And he lived in Indonesia for
Speaker 1: a number of years as a youth. And that's not
Speaker 1: controversial or anything. That's that's stated fact that we all know.
Speaker 1: It's in his biographies. But he lived in Indonesia for
Speaker 1: a number of years, and I do think that he
Speaker 1: developed a an affinity for Islam. And it's interesting that
Speaker 1: he lived in Indonesia, which has traditionally been a place
Speaker 1: held up by the left in this country. I see,
Speaker 1: you can't have a pluralistic and peaceful but actually things
Speaker 1: in Indonesia in some places are going going in the
Speaker 1: wrong direction right now on the whole radicalism and Gehodism thing.
Speaker 1: But it was just strategically wrong and it was a
Speaker 1: bad It was a bad look, it was it was
Speaker 1: bad thought process. Everything about Obama's approach. This stuff. I
Speaker 1: just think I think it was just wrong, wrong, wrong,
Speaker 1: wrong when it came to dealing with radical Islam, and
Speaker 1: it started with an inability or an unwillingness to say
Speaker 1: radical Islam. I've also always thought, by the way, that
Speaker 1: there was a a kind of uh, what's the a,
Speaker 1: A a showy nous, a kind of pedantic thing that
Speaker 1: Obama always had that I do not miss that we're
Speaker 1: not subjected to this anymore. Where he wanted, he wanted
Speaker 1: to always be signaling to people that thought of themselves
Speaker 1: as really well informed as you know, I'm one of
Speaker 1: I'm one of you. And how he would talk about
Speaker 1: these issues literally, how he would talk about it, meaning
Speaker 1: the words and the pronunciations, which is why he would say, uh,
Speaker 1: Bakistan and alban and had this affect when he would
Speaker 1: speak about some of these It wasn't an accent, it
Speaker 1: was an effect. It was he he thinks that this
Speaker 1: is how you know. It's like somebody who's not a
Speaker 1: Spanish speaker, who whenever they see a Spanish name likes
Speaker 1: to really just lean in Martinez. It's like, no, you
Speaker 1: can just say Martinez. You know, you don't have to
Speaker 1: get Martinez. You know, he say, if you're a Spanish speaker,
Speaker 1: say whatever you want. But I'm just saying it's some
Speaker 1: some liberal Americans see a Latin n aim and they
Speaker 1: over enunciated because because I think that that's a signaling
Speaker 1: mechanism for how sophisticated they are. I think Obama would
Speaker 1: do that with some of the discussions about terrorism radical Islam,
Speaker 1: trying to show it's also why I would note this. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, they were the only ones, the only ones,
Speaker 1: and it went away. And I used to make fun
Speaker 1: of friends of mine in the administration that they would
Speaker 1: say eisl because Obama eisl eisl and everyone else was
Speaker 1: saying isis And you'll notice that it did not last
Speaker 1: beyond Obama's time in office because they said isissel because
Speaker 1: they thought that that's it sounded fancy. It's the lavant,
Speaker 1: it's the more accurate version of it. No, it's not.
Speaker 1: It was just kind of annoying. I want to hear
Speaker 1: from America's mayor here in just a moment. I want
Speaker 1: to hear from Rudolph Giuliani himself. I mean, he's not
Speaker 1: calling in we've got some I wish well I'm calling
Speaker 1: another time he's called I think we've had him on
Speaker 1: the show before. I've had him on other shows before. Um.
Speaker 1: He but I want to hear from him on on
Speaker 1: nine eleven and get his to things, and I'll tell
Speaker 1: you a little bit about what I remember from that day. Um.
Speaker 1: We'll move on into the second hour. I've got an
Speaker 1: editorial that I need to tear apart with you. We've
Speaker 1: got Sean Parnell joining the show, would be great conversation.
Speaker 1: I'm also going to talk to you about the Jack
Speaker 1: Ryan Amazon which I just happened to watch it this week.
Speaker 1: I know it's nine eleven. They talk a lot about
Speaker 1: nine eleven in the show, the Jack Ryan Amazon Series,
Speaker 1: which I watched in full. I'll give you my my
Speaker 1: entire review of that coming up in the third hour
Speaker 1: of the show tonight. And so we've got any more
Speaker 1: coming up eight four eight to five, eight four four nine, Buck,
Speaker 1: we'll be right back. The first couple of days, We're
Speaker 1: just gruesome. The realization that we lost that many people,
Speaker 1: the realization we weren't gonna discover bodies, which that well
Speaker 1: everyone into a hospital waited was a shock that was
Speaker 1: absolutely shocked to me. Um. I thought I saw it
Speaker 1: the first day. We were going to save a lot
Speaker 1: of people. We ended up saving whatever we saved in
Speaker 1: US first couple hours. That was it. But the people
Speaker 1: coming forward throughout the United States throughout the world, that
Speaker 1: is a particularly memorable experience that that you're talking about
Speaker 1: because it was kids, but it happened with firefighters from
Speaker 1: Chicago and Philadelphia and Florida and Texas. It happened with
Speaker 1: school school classes all over the country. It happened with
Speaker 1: a bunch of Canadians five thousand coming to New York
Speaker 1: in November, Canada, to New York, Canada to help New York. UM.
Speaker 1: So that that got you through that said to you,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, we have a whole country behind us,
Speaker 1: if not a lot of decent people throughout the world.
Speaker 1: It was that that coming together of so many different
Speaker 1: people from all over the world as as a result
Speaker 1: of nine eleven that I think is one of the
Speaker 1: great um positive after effects. It didn't last forever, and
Speaker 1: it wasn't certainly everyone there. There were people, as heinous
Speaker 1: as it is to even just have to repeat this,
Speaker 1: there were people who were celebrating, as you know, on
Speaker 1: eleven UM. And I actually have been told stories from
Speaker 1: friends of mine in foreign countries that you wouldn't necessarily expect,
Speaker 1: like Brazil. I had a friend in Brazil who said
Speaker 1: people were cheering and celebrating on nine eleven. I had
Speaker 1: a friend in Egypt who said people were cheering and
Speaker 1: celebrating on nine eleven. I mean, I've had friends that
Speaker 1: you know, they've this this somehow didn't really you know,
Speaker 1: there's the stories about the kids in and the West
Speaker 1: Bank were given candy. I think they said to celebrate
Speaker 1: in front of cameras or something. But it was it
Speaker 1: was not a completely uh isolated incident to see people
Speaker 1: that were cheering. But anyway, most of the world came
Speaker 1: together and it was an instance of us all seeing
Speaker 1: or or for once at least taking a step back
Speaker 1: to to remember that America is a true global superpower
Speaker 1: in the sense that the world is a better place
Speaker 1: with America as it is. And I do think that
Speaker 1: somewhere in the minds of a lot of folks who
Speaker 1: were expressing their their sympathy for what had happened to us,
Speaker 1: and and those who felt like an attack on America
Speaker 1: was really an attack on civilization, which is what it was.
Speaker 1: This was nine eleven was an attack on civilization. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's because they realized that we are in the vanguard
Speaker 1: of civilization, that we make the world a better, safer,
Speaker 1: more advanced, more just honestly more joyful place. And that
Speaker 1: is that is America's role on this planet. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying we're perfect. I'm not saying we do that all
Speaker 1: the time. I'm not saying we're the only ones. But
Speaker 1: there is something very special about this nation. And that
Speaker 1: specialness for a moment wasn't called into question, but it
Speaker 1: was threatened to be extinguished. Because you know, this is
Speaker 1: one of the big things when you go back and
Speaker 1: do it in any any remembrance of what it was
Speaker 1: like in nine eleven. We didn't know how many planes,
Speaker 1: we didn't know how many other plots, we didn't know
Speaker 1: what else was was in the works. I remember I
Speaker 1: was walking to my Shakespeare class with a professor so Field. Uh,
Speaker 1: and I was groggy. I was really tired and someone
Speaker 1: out of it. And I will tell you this, I
Speaker 1: don't think I ever mentioned this before on the show,
Speaker 1: And this was I had a I was taking Arabic
Speaker 1: at the time. I just started. I was in I
Speaker 1: think my second week of Arabic class when nine eleven happened,
Speaker 1: and I had this day and it was the day
Speaker 1: before nine eleven when I had gotten up and for
Speaker 1: some reason, I had thought that I had missed class
Speaker 1: and I had missed a quiz, and I got up
Speaker 1: and ran and now why would I even have a
Speaker 1: quiz so soon the semester? I it wasn't. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it was. It was rational, it was it was
Speaker 1: essentially a dream. But I got up and I ran
Speaker 1: across campus at six o'clock or something like that in
Speaker 1: the morning, was very which for a college kid is
Speaker 1: no one's up at six o'clock. I mean, I rode crew,
Speaker 1: and other than that, we never got up early. But
Speaker 1: I ran across the campus and got to an empty
Speaker 1: classroom and realized the whole campus was asleep. Now that
Speaker 1: that's it's nothing I know, and I'm not say but
Speaker 1: it was the day before the nine eleven attack. And
Speaker 1: there's always been this part of me that felt like
Speaker 1: there was something that was coming, there was something that
Speaker 1: was going to happen. And I'm sure other people have
Speaker 1: their own and you know, that might be my mind
Speaker 1: playing tricks in me that in retrospect, you know, you have.
Speaker 1: You know, it's easy to look at any little thing
Speaker 1: once you know how a story ends, and say, oh,
Speaker 1: well that you know that was a signpost for that
Speaker 1: other thing. But I just always remember that. I remember
Speaker 1: it was the only time it ever happened to me
Speaker 1: in all four years of being a college student, that
Speaker 1: I woke up without an alarm, ran across the campus
Speaker 1: and thought that something, you know, thought that I had
Speaker 1: I had missed class, that I was in this kind
Speaker 1: of panic. And it turned out that I had just
Speaker 1: I had gotten up early, early and had a weird dream.
Speaker 1: And I remember the next day, on on nine eleven UM,
Speaker 1: going into the class room and being told to turn
Speaker 1: around and and go back because we were going to
Speaker 1: cancel the class because a plane had hit one of
Speaker 1: the World Trade Center buildings. And I as everybody everyone
Speaker 1: who heard that had the same or not everybody, but
Speaker 1: everyone that I can think of UM who has told
Speaker 1: their version of what it was like that day for them,
Speaker 1: had the same thought, which was, you know, a prop plane,
Speaker 1: maybe two or three people killed, which is a tragedy
Speaker 1: for them and their families, But it had it had
Speaker 1: certainly not occurred to any of us, although I had
Speaker 1: read the books State of Fear, in which Michael Crichton,
Speaker 1: whom I mentioned yesterday, has a kind of kama Kaze
Speaker 1: revenge plot where the Japanese to get revenge for Japanese
Speaker 1: hype ultra nationalists to get revenge World War two, fly
Speaker 1: a plane a like a Boeing seven forty seven into
Speaker 1: the into the Congress with a joint session of com
Speaker 1: was going on, so that that it wasn't unthought of
Speaker 1: that somebody could use or you know, it wasn't beyond
Speaker 1: anyone's imagination somebody could use a plane as a missile
Speaker 1: like that. But I remember I was one of the
Speaker 1: few people on my floor who had a TV because
Speaker 1: we were sophomores in college, and I turned on the
Speaker 1: cable box and sat there watching it, and people congregated
Speaker 1: in my room. So it was right after that, you know,
Speaker 1: I still this day don't really understand how the professor
Speaker 1: knew that it was serious enough that he should cancel class.
Speaker 1: I suppose I guess people were rather look the World
Speaker 1: Trade Center had been bombed years before, maybe, But I
Speaker 1: remember walking back to my room thinking that this was
Speaker 1: not going to be um. This was not some huge deal.
Speaker 1: It was maybe a tragedy, but it wasn't. I had
Speaker 1: no idea that it was a mass casualty terror attack
Speaker 1: that would change not just the trajectory of the country
Speaker 1: and the world, but my life. I knew ever thought
Speaker 1: of going to the c I A until after Not eleven.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was just not something I would have considered.
Speaker 1: I was, honestly, I was trying to head straight to
Speaker 1: Wall Street. I wanted to have a a comfortable life
Speaker 1: where I would be rewarded as as best as I
Speaker 1: could get rewarded for you know, my my work in
Speaker 1: the in the well, in the office. Um. And after
Speaker 1: not eleven, I I made a lifestyle change or two
Speaker 1: so that I would be a very attractive candidate for
Speaker 1: the CIA. Then it was the first job I applied
Speaker 1: for my senior year, all on my own. I mean,
Speaker 1: my parents have no government connection or no you know,
Speaker 1: neither my parents was in the military or an intelligence community.
Speaker 1: So it just all came to me that this is
Speaker 1: what I wanted to do. So, I mean not eleven
Speaker 1: and that that is the day that changed so many lives,
Speaker 1: changed my life for sure. But I remember going back
Speaker 1: and watching the uh, the gaping hole inside of the
Speaker 1: building and then also seeing that second plane hit I uh,
Speaker 1: and that was that's just one of those moments. It's
Speaker 1: one of the most you will absolutely never forget. I UM,
Speaker 1: I remember it very clearly, that part of it. And
Speaker 1: I remember I turned to some of my friends in
Speaker 1: the room and I said, oh my, oh my god,
Speaker 1: we're going to war um and this will you know.
Speaker 1: I didn't know any of that, but Lodon or any
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't know any of this stuff. I
Speaker 1: just knew that this that when you were attacked in
Speaker 1: that way, that there was going to be a a serious,
Speaker 1: uh and prolonged military response, as we know there was.
Speaker 1: So it changed the world, folks, changed our our whole,
Speaker 1: our whole way of thinking. And it is really the
Speaker 1: most single formative event, which is is uh sant a lot,
Speaker 1: considering we almost had a great depression just a few
Speaker 1: years ago, But it is the most single formative event
Speaker 1: in in geopolitics in my lifetime. And I think that
Speaker 1: that's or certainly in my adult lifetime. People might say
Speaker 1: the fall of the fall of the Wall and the
Speaker 1: collapse of the Soviet Union would be right up there,
Speaker 1: which I think, yes, that's that's certainly true, um, but
Speaker 1: that had been coming a long time, so I think
Speaker 1: there was more of an ability to psychologically pivot to it.
Speaker 1: Uh nine eleven. We we went to bed the night
Speaker 1: before thinking that America, the pox Americana would continue forever,
Speaker 1: and we're just gonna get richer and happier and everything's
Speaker 1: gonna be great. And then twenty four hours later we
Speaker 1: realized we have some really serious enemies and we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to take the fight to them. And a lot
Speaker 1: of you listening, I know ended up in a rock
Speaker 1: and Afghanistan. I never would have thought, but I ended
Speaker 1: up there, So that's what happened. The United States will
Speaker 1: use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those
Speaker 1: of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court.
Speaker 1: We will not cooperate with the i c C. We
Speaker 1: will let the i c C I on its own.
Speaker 1: After all, for all intents and purposes, the i c
Speaker 1: C is already dead to us. The i c C
Speaker 1: prosecutor has requested to investigate these Americans for alleged detainee
Speaker 1: abuse and utterly unfounded, unjustifiable investigation. Folks, isn't it great
Speaker 1: to have an administration that doesn't think that foreign countries
Speaker 1: and foreign entities should have the right to nullify US sovereignty.
Speaker 1: Isn't it great to have an administration, to have a
Speaker 1: White House, a president and president's top national security advisors
Speaker 1: like Ambassador Bolton there or now National Security Advisor Bolton,
Speaker 1: who just say, you know what, No, no, We've seen
Speaker 1: the ridiculousness that is the u n We We've seen
Speaker 1: this notion play out that all countries are roughly equivalent,
Speaker 1: that all countries should have a somewhat equal say, or
Speaker 1: close to it. And I'm sorry, but we don't really
Speaker 1: care what the rest of the world thinks about a
Speaker 1: whole lot of things, and we certainly should not care.
Speaker 1: And this is one of these ideological dividing lines between
Speaker 1: democrats and Republicans. We certainly don't care about a court
Speaker 1: constituted in two thousand and two with the Hague that's
Speaker 1: supposed to, you know, investigate and prosecute war crimes that
Speaker 1: we are not a signatory to were we we do
Speaker 1: not recognize it. We're not saying, yeah, that's how we're
Speaker 1: gonna do things, because you know, folks, the reality of
Speaker 1: what would happen here is that you would have countries
Speaker 1: that uh, you know, we have to operate in for
Speaker 1: any of our any any military covert actions that take place,
Speaker 1: any black ops that go down, any number of things.
Speaker 1: Never mind also the more uh open operations that are
Speaker 1: ongoing in places like rock in Afghanistan, where I know
Speaker 1: we have agreements with the host countries, but you know,
Speaker 1: there's always this possibility that a new government will come
Speaker 1: in or there'll be some push for us to hand
Speaker 1: over to the International Criminal Court Americans, and you know,
Speaker 1: we we police our own And this is where you
Speaker 1: get into the whole well that sounds like something Vladimir
Speaker 1: Putin would say, right, You get these internationalists, the self
Speaker 1: righteous leftists who immediately take this pose and take this
Speaker 1: position of oh, well, you know you want other countries
Speaker 1: to be subject to international law, but not America. And
Speaker 1: to that I say no, no, we're saying that our
Speaker 1: military will not be subject to foreign entities. We hold
Speaker 1: our own military subject to US law, which is much
Speaker 1: more just and comprehensive than any international law, and is
Speaker 1: also all right as a sovereign nation. And they will say, well,
Speaker 1: buck again. This is where you could have you know,
Speaker 1: the Russians or the Iranians or any number of different
Speaker 1: countries who would say, well, we would do that too,
Speaker 1: And in response to that is sorry, this is the
Speaker 1: U n thinking that the left has that comes back
Speaker 1: and we don't active. We are not on our government,
Speaker 1: despite all of its flaws and problems, are not on
Speaker 1: an equivalent moral plane to the Russians. We're not on
Speaker 1: an equivalent equivalent moral plane. Put honestly, do a lot
Speaker 1: of Muslim majority countries. Uh, We're certainly not on the
Speaker 1: same moral plane as any of our opposition countries around
Speaker 1: the world, any of our our enemies or near and
Speaker 1: close to being enemies. H And that's why I think
Speaker 1: that that Bolton just drawing a firm line here. It's
Speaker 1: absolutely the move, Absolutely what should happen. And I just
Speaker 1: have to note that, you know, with with Obama, Yes,
Speaker 1: I know we didn't become a signatory under Obama, but
Speaker 1: there was always this desire to play kate international opinion.
Speaker 1: You know, Obama always had this idea that we need
Speaker 1: to be concerned with what the editorial team at the Guardian,
Speaker 1: you know, the British paper has to say about something.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I just don't and I don't want
Speaker 1: my elected representatives to care when it comes to international relations.
Speaker 1: I care about two things that our governments involved in. Really.
Speaker 1: I care about trade, and I care about keeping us safe.
Speaker 1: That's it. Beyond that, it's mostly it's really details, sure, democracy,
Speaker 1: promotion and trying to do you know, good things human rights,
Speaker 1: clean water, and countries of No, we we do all
Speaker 1: that stuff, but that's never what's that's never what's that issue?
Speaker 1: The problem comes up when all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: have this obama Ist position on international institutions that we
Speaker 1: should allow other countries to have a say in our affairs,
Speaker 1: and I mean the idea that we who would enforce that.
Speaker 1: By the way, you know that they're gonna put out
Speaker 1: what an arrest warrant for one of our soldiers or
Speaker 1: one of our generals. How how long do we think
Speaker 1: it would be before a dream of many liberals would
Speaker 1: occur where you have, for example, you know, Dick Cheney
Speaker 1: being prosecuted for war crimes in the Hague. As some
Speaker 1: liberals expressed at the time that that that's their desire.
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna hand over a former US premier,
Speaker 1: former US president. Now we we have our own core processes.
Speaker 1: You know, anybody who violates rules of engagement or violence
Speaker 1: uniform Code of Military Justice can be held and is
Speaker 1: held accountable under our laws, and we're not We're not
Speaker 1: going to surrender that sovereignty to anybody. So I really
Speaker 1: think that that, you know, Bolton took the right step today.
Speaker 1: It's good to see and it's just a reminder of
Speaker 1: why I am so happy that we have Trump and
Speaker 1: Trump's people calling the shots instead of what we have before,
Speaker 1: because it was it was always so honestly depressing to
Speaker 1: hear American leadership that was acting like they should be
Speaker 1: at the at the beck and call of the so
Speaker 1: called international community. I mean, what is international opinion? People
Speaker 1: talk about this like it's a thing like they're pulling
Speaker 1: all over the world. And when we say international opinion,
Speaker 1: what we really tend to mean is, you know, the primary,
Speaker 1: the the UH opinion that we have a sense of
Speaker 1: from major media outlets in industrialized and and western countries. UH.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of it, that that's international international opinion.
Speaker 1: You know, I think most folks, whether it's in Argentina
Speaker 1: or Botswana or Myanmar, are of the mind that they'd
Speaker 1: rather just worry about their own stuff. And they don't
Speaker 1: have too much in the way of opinions on what
Speaker 1: America is doing, and and and vice versa. Babe, you
Speaker 1: know that's the way we feel too. So good job
Speaker 1: for Bolton, well done today. Another good issue for the
Speaker 1: Trump administration when I think they came down the right
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Speaker 1: analysts no the retweeting of neo Nazi videos Charlotte's fille.
Speaker 1: I mean, I could go on and on what he
Speaker 1: said about a majority black countries. Um, that is tearing
Speaker 1: more at the fabric of America than attacks on the
Speaker 1: Twin Towers. Did we rebuilt from that? We became stronger
Speaker 1: because of that. But this seems to me a far graver,
Speaker 1: graver threat to the idea of America. That's multi millionaire
Speaker 1: pundit at MSNBC Joe Scarborough in reference to a column
Speaker 1: that was published in the on the Washington Post, and
Speaker 1: they should be a shame, but they have no shame.
Speaker 1: I keep returning to this notion of well, the left
Speaker 1: must finally have learned some kind of lesson here from
Speaker 1: just being grotesque. But no, no, they wallow in grotesque.
Speaker 1: They like it. They they like to just eliminate any
Speaker 1: sense of decency, fair play, or honor in their dealings
Speaker 1: with the other side and their dealings with conservatives. That's
Speaker 1: they take a certain pleasure I think in being as
Speaker 1: as underhanded and as as unfair as possible to too
Speaker 1: conservatives and to the right to Trump. Obviously. Uh, this
Speaker 1: column that was written by Scarborough, which I mean, I
Speaker 1: would just note first of all, it starts off I
Speaker 1: mean it starts off with with this, and this is
Speaker 1: always a bad sign. This is like somebody who's writing
Speaker 1: for their high school newspaper who's trying really hard to
Speaker 1: impress people. Here's here's how its column starts off. Cataclysmic
Speaker 1: events often bring with them violent and abrupt endings to
Speaker 1: settled ages and long established norms. Those absorbing the impact
Speaker 1: of these historical aftershocks rarely grasp the apocal changes in
Speaker 1: real time. Yeah, when huge things happen, people don't necessarily
Speaker 1: understand the full context of them when they have and
Speaker 1: thanks Joe for for the really bombastic and and pretty
Speaker 1: clownish opening of this editorial. And then he goes on
Speaker 1: to talk about you know, nine eleven of World War Two,
Speaker 1: and he talks about some of the greatest challenges, the
Speaker 1: greatest challenges in the history of this country, challenges that
Speaker 1: involved the threat of life and death to the United
Speaker 1: States as well as millions of its people. Right, I
Speaker 1: mean to to the end of us as a nation
Speaker 1: and the end of us individually as as human beings,
Speaker 1: depending on how it all went. And I just can't
Speaker 1: help but but note that, you know, Scarborough has gotten
Speaker 1: crushed for this idiot editorial today because he says that
Speaker 1: that Trump is more dangerous to the fabric of American
Speaker 1: than Bin Laden. Now, Joe Scarborough doesn't really know anything
Speaker 1: about terrorism or Gehot or gehotism, right, He just knows
Speaker 1: what he has read here or there in the newspaper
Speaker 1: and what his research team tells him to say. And
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure he probably changes his position on
Speaker 1: jihadism the same way he did on Trump. That's why
Speaker 1: I mean Scarborough as the anti Trumper is particularly self
Speaker 1: serving and gross because when he thought that he was
Speaker 1: going to have this great relationship with scar with with
Speaker 1: Trump and then it was going to advance advances already.
Speaker 1: I mean, Scarborough's advanced well beyond the wildest dreams of
Speaker 1: anybody that would look at him and say, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a guy who should have his have his own And
Speaker 1: don't know, somebody think buck, you know, don't you sound
Speaker 1: like you're no. Look, I'm trying to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are some people who are really really
Speaker 1: good at what they do. If you want a a
Speaker 1: very leftist point of view, you know, Rachel Maddow shows
Speaker 1: a great place to go. I mean she is, she
Speaker 1: is good at what she does. I I respectability, I
Speaker 1: respect talent. I think Joe Scarborough just happens to have
Speaker 1: some of the right friends in the right places. I
Speaker 1: just I find nothing about him as a broadcaster or
Speaker 1: in any other respect impressive, sir. Only not his writing.
Speaker 1: But he sat down to write this, this editorial, and
Speaker 1: it's that's the thing. It's it's worse than a an utterance, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, like I do radio three hours a day,
Speaker 1: I say, thinks sometimes I think that's not really how
Speaker 1: I meant that. And while I'm pretty cautious or careful
Speaker 1: and not wildly overstating things or getting into a place
Speaker 1: where I'm gonna have to say sorry about that, you know,
Speaker 1: I know that it's going to happen. It's just the
Speaker 1: reality of my business. But an editorial is something else.
Speaker 1: I mean to publish an opinion column in the Washington Post.
Speaker 1: If you're Scarborough who is from I won't get into that.
Speaker 1: And I've I've heard things that he's not a particularly
Speaker 1: nice guy either, which I just can't. I can't drop
Speaker 1: that from my mind because I've heard it from people
Speaker 1: who who would know. But you know, maybe they just
Speaker 1: have some personal people them. I don't know. I've never
Speaker 1: met him, I've never interacted them, never worked with him.
Speaker 1: I'm just judging, basing all this, judging this on his
Speaker 1: on his work. But he wrote this editorial and to
Speaker 1: convinced or try to convince people that Trump is worse
Speaker 1: than nine eleven when it comes to an attack on
Speaker 1: the fabric of this country. This is something that only
Speaker 1: a person who is crazy or has Trump derangement syndrome
Speaker 1: could say. And that's why we call it a syndrome, because,
Speaker 1: as I have told you. It is pathological. This is
Speaker 1: beyond just you know, we don't agree on an issue
Speaker 1: of politics, you know, Joe Scarborough and I don't see
Speaker 1: this the same way. This is I think that he
Speaker 1: would have a hard time accepting the reality of you know,
Speaker 1: the real implications of the words and the things that
Speaker 1: he's saying, because he's so wrapped up in this notion
Speaker 1: of Trump as an existential threat to the country, existential
Speaker 1: threat house folks. You know, if Trump did any of
Speaker 1: these things that they say he's talked about, or you
Speaker 1: know that that the Woodward Book, which I would note
Speaker 1: today even more people what Rob Portman came out and
Speaker 1: Mike who was the other one, Rob Portman and someone
Speaker 1: else came out today to say that the Woodword Book
Speaker 1: is not a fair representation of things that were said
Speaker 1: or meetings is not accurate. Uh And what Word has
Speaker 1: had plenty of problems in the past with people claiming
Speaker 1: that he's you know, is his ability to string together
Speaker 1: these events are let's just say it's questionable at times,
Speaker 1: and it is certainly questionable. But you know, I I
Speaker 1: sit here and and I'm trying to wrap my mind
Speaker 1: around why somebody like Joe Scarborough. Uh would would say this,
Speaker 1: and he must believe that Trump is on the on
Speaker 1: the precipice or or Trump is is just a bad
Speaker 1: day away from starting a military conflict with North Korea,
Speaker 1: which is a stupid thing to believe. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: no real basis for this. And on top of that,
Speaker 1: I would offer to you that, yeah, then then we
Speaker 1: would have a discussion about, you know, removing the president
Speaker 1: right then. I mean, if he did these things that
Speaker 1: they always say he's just about to do, well, then
Speaker 1: I think there could be a discussion about is this
Speaker 1: man fit to be president? But all we see is
Speaker 1: a president who's getting great results, who's implementing some very
Speaker 1: conservative policies, who is remaking the judiciary in a way
Speaker 1: that would make Scalia proud looking down from on high,
Speaker 1: and you know, goes after the media in a way
Speaker 1: that some find a little bit aggressive or vulgar or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I think it's great. I think the media needs
Speaker 1: to get slapped around a little bit by by the
Speaker 1: The only person who can really do it right now
Speaker 1: is Trump. I mean, the only person who really gets
Speaker 1: their attention quite this way is is Donald Trump. And
Speaker 1: and they act like that at any moment. Now, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some crisis that uh just unravels in front
Speaker 1: of us, because Trump is, you know, not of sound mind.
Speaker 1: You know, That's the the gray irony here, folks, is
Speaker 1: that I think that the people that think that Trump
Speaker 1: is crazy are the ones who are crazy. I think
Speaker 1: that the Joe scarbor Rows, I mean, Trump is living
Speaker 1: rent free in their heads. Man. I mean, he's gotten
Speaker 1: so deep into their world, he is, he has pushed
Speaker 1: so far into you know, how they view themselves and
Speaker 1: how they view their role in America that there they've
Speaker 1: lost it. They've lost it because this editorial, this is
Speaker 1: this is sheer idiocy. This is not this is not
Speaker 1: an easy mistake that anybody could make. This is not
Speaker 1: some one off. It's not oh well, you know, no
Speaker 1: big deal man, Like I just thought we would, you know,
Speaker 1: talk about something, and I got a little bit messed up,
Speaker 1: or I got a little ahead of myself. No, this
Speaker 1: is an editorial submitted to the Washington Post where a
Speaker 1: prominent cable news so called conservative by the way, is
Speaker 1: saying that Trump is a greater danger to the fabric
Speaker 1: of him and now I know he's like, well, the
Speaker 1: fabric of America is more about ideas and every but
Speaker 1: you know, as we've been discussing, I mean nine eleven,
Speaker 1: we look back at it now and think that we
Speaker 1: had it in hand and we were gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: meaning the threat again, the threat of Gehodism and the
Speaker 1: war on terror at the time, folks, as we all
Speaker 1: can remember, if we think back to it, none of
Speaker 1: that was nearly as clear. And geodis m for a
Speaker 1: short period time was a real threat to our way
Speaker 1: of life and will be again if we are not vigilant,
Speaker 1: and that includes vigilance against stupidity like what we see
Speaker 1: here from Scarborough. The FBI calls home title theft one
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Speaker 1: having your credit card stolen is nothing compared to the
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Speaker 1: of your home's title. Folks, I've seen how this goes.
Speaker 1: I have sat through an entire online presentation about how
Speaker 1: easy it is to steal your home's title. It is
Speaker 1: shockingly simple. For the bad guys. All the need to
Speaker 1: do is get online, replace you with an alias on
Speaker 1: your home's title, and then they can borrow every penny
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Speaker 1: that book in the anonymous column, I mean, it's quite
Speaker 1: evident that President Trump there's a coupe. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a coupe like to the same there was a coup
Speaker 1: by General McClellan in the senior leadership in the Union
Speaker 1: Army to try to thwart what Abraham Lincoln wanted to
Speaker 1: do in the Civil War. You have an exact type
Speaker 1: of coup right now. What was said in that anonymous
Speaker 1: letter was absolutely outrageous, and I think the President will
Speaker 1: take immediate and direct action to defind out who the
Speaker 1: conspirators are. I don't think there's any one author. I
Speaker 1: think there's an author that. I think there's a somebody
Speaker 1: that drafted it. There are many voices in there. I
Speaker 1: think you can tell the way it's written. I think
Speaker 1: that's a much broader conspiracy than people think. I think
Speaker 1: it's probably six to a dozen people. And I think
Speaker 1: you would immediately start to do what Andrew Jackson did,
Speaker 1: do what Abraham Lincoln did, find out who's responsible and
Speaker 1: fire him. Steve Bannon breathing fire on this issue of
Speaker 1: the hunt for a non September as we call it yesterday,
Speaker 1: but the hunt for the anonymous editorialist or editorial contributor
Speaker 1: or whatever who has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that
Speaker 1: there is in fact a deep state, that that's what's
Speaker 1: going on here. And while the the effort was was
Speaker 1: made to try and make the deep state component of
Speaker 1: this sound like they're acting responsibly and ethically and that
Speaker 1: they're they're really doing something we should all be thankful for,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, most folks who read this,
Speaker 1: and we're being honest with themselves, said this is terrible
Speaker 1: um for our government and it's really actually very damaging
Speaker 1: for those who are quite anti Trump, because there's no
Speaker 1: more discussion, folks, whether there is a deep state. There
Speaker 1: is only questions or how large and how active is it,
Speaker 1: how much is it trying to undermine the president of
Speaker 1: the United States. I just, you know, I want to
Speaker 1: put this in the context here. Imagine for a moment
Speaker 1: that there was a group of people at the FBI
Speaker 1: and the Department of Justice who had tried to open,
Speaker 1: or had opened rather a criminal investigation of a sitting
Speaker 1: president under very very dubious at best circumstances. Imagine that
Speaker 1: there were people who worked for the government who had
Speaker 1: been described as crying at their desks because they were
Speaker 1: so upset at the prospect of working for that president.
Speaker 1: And then somebody who is described as being a senior
Speaker 1: official in the actual White House said that the president
Speaker 1: was having his will thwarted by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who
Speaker 1: think they know better than the president. Imagine all of that,
Speaker 1: which is what's going on right now, but the president
Speaker 1: is Obama. And just think for a moment, what would
Speaker 1: the reaction be in the press if if put aside
Speaker 1: all the things that I just said, if you just
Speaker 1: had a solitary editorial, forget about all the Russia inclusion
Speaker 1: stuff everything else. If you would have had one person
Speaker 1: in the White House who had published an editorial saying,
Speaker 1: I think Barack Obama is so incompetent that I refused
Speaker 1: to let him read documents that he should be able
Speaker 1: to read. US President State said, I work to prevent
Speaker 1: his decision making from being enacted. You know that the
Speaker 1: media would be screaming and freaking out over this in
Speaker 1: every possible way. And here we are. That's the reality
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump. And it's on the one hand, the
Speaker 1: New York Times is clearly very proud of itself, there's
Speaker 1: no about that. They think that they've done some great
Speaker 1: service here. Uh. And and on the other I think
Speaker 1: my more recent revelation that they're not going to try
Speaker 1: to find this editorial columnists, I think that's true. I
Speaker 1: think that they feel like it's served its purpose and
Speaker 1: that's that and there's nothing else that they really need
Speaker 1: to spend any other time or energy on um. And
Speaker 1: it's just crazy, folks, It's just crazy. I mean, you
Speaker 1: know nothing in terms of finding out who wrote this thing. Uh,
Speaker 1: it is bizarre to me how self satisfied the media
Speaker 1: is with this whole thing. But you got to remember
Speaker 1: that that the New York Times and others they have
Speaker 1: to appeal to. What you could say is the Maxine
Speaker 1: Waters viewpoint, the Maxine Waters wing of the Democrat Party,
Speaker 1: And it sounds something like this play clip one. I
Speaker 1: wake up in the middle of the night, and all
Speaker 1: I can think about is I'm going to get him.
Speaker 1: This deployable, despicable human being that occupied as the White
Speaker 1: House should not be there. We should not be comfortable
Speaker 1: with it. We should not think about how somebody else
Speaker 1: is gonna deal with This is all of our fight.
Speaker 1: And every day I say I'm in this fight, they say, Maxine,
Speaker 1: please don't say impeachment anymore. And when they say that,
Speaker 1: I say, impeachment. Impeachment, impeachment, intenpeach. Someone who disrespects the Constitution,
Speaker 1: who disrespects human beings period, who's self centered, who does
Speaker 1: not care about the Constitution, who's alienated our allies, who's
Speaker 1: tied when booting won't condemn them in bed with the
Speaker 1: oligarchs of Russia. If you cannot talk about impeachment, given
Speaker 1: what we have learned about him and the way that
Speaker 1: he's defined himself. Then impeachment means nothing. Someone asked, but
Speaker 1: what about Pence? If you were able to impeach Pence
Speaker 1: will be worse? And I said, look one at a time.
Speaker 1: If God made the bet pas, well tell him. You know,
Speaker 1: she's she's not alone in this thinking, folks, that's a
Speaker 1: pretty all the things she said there. As much as
Speaker 1: I know you're here in maximum water, She's like, Buck,
Speaker 1: why are you making me listen to this again? Because
Speaker 1: it's it's a pretty good overview of what Democrat thinking
Speaker 1: is right now. They're not making some big case, but
Speaker 1: this in fact here, uh we got We got Obama
Speaker 1: himself saying that you know you better, you better bring
Speaker 1: back sanity to the country. Play clip two. There's a
Speaker 1: consequential moment in our history. Yeah, And the fact is that, uh,
Speaker 1: if we don't step up, things can't get worse. Where
Speaker 1: there's a vacuum in our democracy when we are not participating,
Speaker 1: we're not paying attention, when we're not stepping up. Other
Speaker 1: voices filled the board. But good news is in two
Speaker 1: months we have a chance to restore some sanity in
Speaker 1: our politics. What is insane exactly about our politics? Right?
Speaker 1: Now that that Trump tweets things about how Jim Acosta
Speaker 1: acts like a clown at the at the White House,
Speaker 1: I mean he does. What is there that is insane
Speaker 1: right now? I mean that's that's what is it? Insane?
Speaker 1: Like insanely awesome, bro, Like we've got the lowest unemployment rate.
Speaker 1: It's insane that they use these words and they're trying
Speaker 1: to scare people, and they can't really point to anything.
Speaker 1: I keep getting this this uh, repetitive series of talking
Speaker 1: points from people, including conservatives who hate Trump, which, as
Speaker 1: you know, there are a lot of them. Whether they're
Speaker 1: still conservatives or not, we can leave that discussion for
Speaker 1: another time. But they keep repeating the same things about
Speaker 1: you know, Trump said this or he said that, and
Speaker 1: I don't like this, and I like that, and I
Speaker 1: see it, and I say to myself, this should not
Speaker 1: matter to me. Why why do they think it's going
Speaker 1: to matter to me what they say about what Trump said.
Speaker 1: This is just punditry in place of policy. It's just
Speaker 1: offering up prognostications about the way the country is going
Speaker 1: about the future of the country without saying what the
Speaker 1: real nuts and bolts shortcomings are. And I sit here
Speaker 1: and I think to myself, well, okay, the same things,
Speaker 1: Like the country is insane right now? Country feels very
Speaker 1: sane to me. What because we've had a lot of
Speaker 1: departures in the White House, because Trump doesn't necessarily always
Speaker 1: bring in the best people. Maybe he sometimes puts too
Speaker 1: high a premium on loyalty over competence. Okay, nobody's perfect.
Speaker 1: I've never said Trump is perfect, and you know that
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think he's perfect. I think he
Speaker 1: is for his time and what he's trying to accomplish remarkable.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean that I think everything he does
Speaker 1: is great. But I certainly don't think that he's crazy. Uh.
Speaker 1: That brings up the whole twenty fifmenment discussion. I don't
Speaker 1: buy that. I don't believe that our politics are insane
Speaker 1: right now. You know. I just think the Democrats really
Speaker 1: want to go back to an era when they could
Speaker 1: handle Republicans the way they handled Romney and McCain and uh,
Speaker 1: you know others before them, where it's just we're always
Speaker 1: on defense, we're always slowly losing, and they only say
Speaker 1: nice things about you while you're losing on an issue.
Speaker 1: And then once you've lost, They trash you again. That's
Speaker 1: how the Left deals with the Republicans. So uh, and
Speaker 1: that's not That's not the game that I think we
Speaker 1: should be playing. That's not the way that we should
Speaker 1: be involved here. We've got much more team. Stay with me.
Speaker 1: We will experience power atages. We will have infrastructure damage
Speaker 1: that will be homes damage, that will be uh, debris
Speaker 1: on the roads. Uh. This is a dangerous storm, the
Speaker 1: storm wheel and has the potential to uh cause loss
Speaker 1: of life, and we cannot you know, uh emphasize the
Speaker 1: importance to take action now. I've received a briefing from
Speaker 1: Secretary Nils and administrat along and my senior staff regarding
Speaker 1: Hurricane Florence and other tropical systems that will soon impact
Speaker 1: the United States and its territories. The safety of American
Speaker 1: people is my absolute highest priority. We are sparing no expense.
Speaker 1: We are totally prepared. We're ready. We're as ready as
Speaker 1: anybody's ever been. And it looks to me, and it
Speaker 1: looks to all of a lot of very talented people
Speaker 1: to do this for a living like this is going
Speaker 1: to be a storm that's going to be a very
Speaker 1: large one, far larger than we've seen in perhaps decades.
Speaker 1: I've spoken with the governors of South Carolina, North Carolina,
Speaker 1: and Virginia. They're prepared, We're prepared. We're working very well
Speaker 1: in conjunction with the governors. So you've got this category
Speaker 1: for hurricane Hurricane Florence that is likely to make landfall.
Speaker 1: What in the next forty eight hours or so, people
Speaker 1: are expecting massive flooding. I'm actually here in the path
Speaker 1: of this thing in the swamp in d C. Where
Speaker 1: I think flooding is going to be the primary concern. Mike,
Speaker 1: are we are we at the phase yet? Are people
Speaker 1: sure enough this is gonna be bad that you know,
Speaker 1: the whole foods all of a sudden is running out
Speaker 1: of you know, bread on the shelves kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Are you seeing any of that stuff? Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: they're talent. Everybody, Um, it's it's get out now. It's um.
Speaker 1: You know, you have a great deal obviously, have great
Speaker 1: deal empathy r anybody in its pathway, but you know,
Speaker 1: everything on it is I'm seeing right now is get out. Well, right,
Speaker 1: that's if you're in the direct pathway. But I even
Speaker 1: mean for you know, people, something I remember in New
Speaker 1: York City some years ago, Remember there was Sandy, which
Speaker 1: was really but Sandy was really bad because of the flooding.
Speaker 1: The actual storm didn't seem because I was in Manhattan
Speaker 1: when that happened, didn't seem like it was quite that
Speaker 1: bad until you realize that the flooding and then the
Speaker 1: power outage that came from the flooding happened. UH in
Speaker 1: this want to I think they'll be flooding and it's
Speaker 1: the coast of the Carolina is is gonna get hammer
Speaker 1: But I assume the whole Eastern Seaboard is pretty much
Speaker 1: gonna turn into one big wet mess. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: it looks like. They said it's UH slowing down and
Speaker 1: that that could mean more rain droppage in UH on
Speaker 1: the entire Eastern seaboard. What's where where were you during Sandy?
Speaker 1: I was. I was here in New York. I was
Speaker 1: in UH, I was in Brooklyn and John, where were
Speaker 1: you during Sandy? I was at home here in New York.
Speaker 1: And did did you guys lose did you guys lose power? No?
Speaker 1: Not me, Yeah, I hadle I feel like I got
Speaker 1: out I escaped with nothing. I didn't lose power for
Speaker 1: a minute, and I didn't think it was that bad
Speaker 1: until I actually walked out. At the time, I lived
Speaker 1: near Prospect Park, and I'm I walked out the next
Speaker 1: day and it was like there was trees down everywhere.
Speaker 1: So I was in a building when that happened. I
Speaker 1: was a building in just north of Madison Square Park
Speaker 1: and and uh at the time, I was living just
Speaker 1: south of of Madison Square Park. But I was with
Speaker 1: a with a friend at the time, and uh, I
Speaker 1: was able to get up to the roof and see
Speaker 1: and at one point I remember going up there at
Speaker 1: night and you could see the whole southern part of
Speaker 1: Manhattan blacked out, and that was a really just an
Speaker 1: eerie thing to see. I remember at the time people
Speaker 1: were all like, well, you know, we know not how
Speaker 1: long this is gonna last. I mean, in the hindsight
Speaker 1: being everyone's like, well, you know, it wasn't gonna be
Speaker 1: that bad, and you know, they got the power back
Speaker 1: on pretty quickly. But when you have a big blackout
Speaker 1: like that in a city like New York City, it
Speaker 1: was it was pretty unnerving. Man. And I remember the
Speaker 1: next morning, the night after the or the morning after
Speaker 1: the storm, which you know, really hit hard at night uh,
Speaker 1: people were walking in droves. I mean just just people
Speaker 1: walking north in Manhattan looking on They're all in the
Speaker 1: street and it was like you could tell everybody had
Speaker 1: been through a rough night, and you know, uh, and
Speaker 1: it was because they were looking for a power outlet
Speaker 1: to plug their phone is into. Because you know, we
Speaker 1: just take this for granted now, but if you don't
Speaker 1: have access to your phone, right you think about your
Speaker 1: job and what you're going on, you feel very disconnected
Speaker 1: from everything that's going on. So all these people were
Speaker 1: just looking for outlets in the power zone to get
Speaker 1: to their phone. But I tell you, Mike and John,
Speaker 1: it's civilization hangs by a pretty thin thread. You see
Speaker 1: this in some of these in some of these disaster
Speaker 1: storm scenarios. Yeah. Absolutely, well anyway, but we hope that everybody,
Speaker 1: you know, is everyone's listening, as I know, we've got
Speaker 1: a lot of people in the Carolinas. Uh. So you know,
Speaker 1: if you're in a zone, please please, you know, heed
Speaker 1: the warning. It's it's always better to come back after
Speaker 1: the fact and feel like you know it was you
Speaker 1: were being overly cautious. I do remember, I forget what
Speaker 1: the storm was. Was another time when everybody in New
Speaker 1: York was filling their bathtubs full of watercause they thought
Speaker 1: we weren't gonna have any water. And that storm it
Speaker 1: wasn't sandy, it was a different storm. That storm was
Speaker 1: totally nothing. I mean, was that Irene? Yeah, John, you
Speaker 1: remember that, right? Every I mean, and there were stories
Speaker 1: about people getting into fight to grocery stores over food,
Speaker 1: and I mean, it was crazy and nothing happened. It's
Speaker 1: kind of amazing that the that at that stage and
Speaker 1: at that level of sophistication, the Weather Service could get
Speaker 1: something so wrong. But you know one thing that I
Speaker 1: found frustrating that I too, is you can tell there's
Speaker 1: some people that seemed to be uh waiting for this
Speaker 1: to turn into a a political political thing. You know,
Speaker 1: if this is they they've already tried to make. And
Speaker 1: I just had a team from the Hill come back
Speaker 1: from Puerto Rico where they were doing reporting on the
Speaker 1: ground there about the about the effort to rebuild, and
Speaker 1: the media was was trying to push to make Puerto
Speaker 1: Rico Trump's Katrina. That's been the big effort. That's been
Speaker 1: what they were saying all along. But I mean, I
Speaker 1: spoke to the one delegate from Puerto Rico. Remember they
Speaker 1: have somebody who's in Congress but doesn't have voting rights
Speaker 1: in Congress. I spoke to their delegate and she said, look,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not that we were Yes, it was
Speaker 1: terrorrble and the island was was really badly beat up
Speaker 1: and the relief efforts couldn't get to us fast enough.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't that there was any mouthfeasance or recklessness
Speaker 1: in the part of the government. It's that they were
Speaker 1: prepared for, you know, like a Category one or something,
Speaker 1: and it was a Category four. I mean it was
Speaker 1: they got hit really hard. Um, so so that was
Speaker 1: that was a big you know, there was no there
Speaker 1: you could tell they were setting up to make it.
Speaker 1: Oh well Trump Trump fell asleep on the job here. No,
Speaker 1: Actually they they had preparations they made on it just
Speaker 1: wasn't enough. The preparations weren't enough. So in this case,
Speaker 1: I think flooding is the big thing. Everyone's and flooding
Speaker 1: and high winds, I think, or what I'm seeing, everybody
Speaker 1: needs to be very careful and stay away from that stuff.
Speaker 1: That's my that's my sense of it. I wish I
Speaker 1: don't have much that And also you're gonna see a
Speaker 1: lot of discussion of how they sees about climate It's
Speaker 1: like clockwork. It's like it's climate change. And even if
Speaker 1: the storm doesn't, because it can change very quickly. And
Speaker 1: if we had somebody who act you understood, you know,
Speaker 1: atmospheric and oceanic pressure and all that stuff. I don't
Speaker 1: know about any of that stuff, they could explain to
Speaker 1: you how it happens. You know, once it makes landfall,
Speaker 1: the storm starts to run out of energy very quickly.
Speaker 1: But it could it could slow down considerably before then.
Speaker 1: But I guarantee you, just because there's so much attention
Speaker 1: on the issue right now, there will be people probably
Speaker 1: from vox dot com and others who jumped to see
Speaker 1: climate change. You know, once again it turns into a
Speaker 1: climate change story. It's it's always if if the storm
Speaker 1: is huge, it proves climate change. If the storm is
Speaker 1: not a big deal at all, well it's an opportunity
Speaker 1: to talk about how the next storm will be huge
Speaker 1: because of climate change. These people, it's their their belief
Speaker 1: because it is like a religious belief for them. It
Speaker 1: is unfalsifiable. They do not care what the you know,
Speaker 1: what's going to happen. And I am hearing, by the way,
Speaker 1: this is just gonna side that my sources here in
Speaker 1: d C. Are telling me that there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: big announcment from the White House that has to do
Speaker 1: with the UH classified information and the FISA requests and
Speaker 1: Carter Page. I'm hearing that this is gonna happen, and
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna happen next week. And one of the
Speaker 1: reasons that it has been put off is because President
Speaker 1: Trump wants to make sure that the focus right now
Speaker 1: is on this storm, that the federal government, all of
Speaker 1: its efforts that should be focused on the storm are
Speaker 1: and that nobody can make the claim that there was
Speaker 1: any kind of you know, taking taking an eye off
Speaker 1: the ball here. And because if the people, if there's
Speaker 1: misery and all that, they they will turn that immediately,
Speaker 1: no matter how much it's really Mother Nature's fault, they'll
Speaker 1: turn it into an opportunity to try to try to
Speaker 1: bash Trump. But but I I am hearing that you're
Speaker 1: gonna see a big announcement, a big release of information
Speaker 1: from the White House. And and look, this is kind
Speaker 1: of a a version of the October Surprise, but it's
Speaker 1: an October surprise from the good guy eyes. In this case,
Speaker 1: it would be that we would finally get the information
Speaker 1: that we need, finally get access to the data. Or
Speaker 1: in this case, I guess the words about what really
Speaker 1: was the basis for the fives A warn against Carter Page.
Speaker 1: If it's as bad as everyone I know is saying,
Speaker 1: if it's as bad as we have been led to believe,
Speaker 1: think about what this could do going into the mid terms.
Speaker 1: I mean, it would just prove to everybody that there
Speaker 1: was a very real effort to try and and take
Speaker 1: down the Trump administration. So anything that that is as
Speaker 1: it should be, that is taking a far back seat
Speaker 1: too right now to making sure everybody's safe and gets
Speaker 1: out of the path of this of of Hurricane Florence.
Speaker 1: By the way, if we if any of you are
Speaker 1: able to listen and call in tomorrow who are in
Speaker 1: the Carolina as we want to hear from you for sure,
Speaker 1: know how it's going, how you're doing. So we've got
Speaker 1: more show coming up. Team stay with me. You can't
Speaker 1: repeal history, and almost every election two years into any
Speaker 1: new administration, the party of the presidency loses seats. They
Speaker 1: don't always lose the body, but almost always loses seats,
Speaker 1: and so we know this is going to be a
Speaker 1: very challenging election on the Senate side. I'll just list
Speaker 1: you a bunch of races that are dead, even Arizona, Nevada, Tennessee, Montana,
Speaker 1: North Dakota, Missouri, Indiana, West Virginia, and Florida, all of
Speaker 1: them too close to call. And every one of them
Speaker 1: um like a knife fight in an alley. I mean,
Speaker 1: just a brawl in every one of those uh places.
Speaker 1: I hopen the smoke clears that will still have a
Speaker 1: majority in the Senate. And this is a really big
Speaker 1: one for the group. The n f IB is out
Speaker 1: with its monthly read on Optimism showing a new all
Speaker 1: time high for the month of August of one oh
Speaker 1: eight point eight. This is nearly a one point increase
Speaker 1: from last month. This also breaks the previous record of
Speaker 1: one oh eight set back in ninth three. This is
Speaker 1: optimism for the full year. It's holding well above The
Speaker 1: index is historical average of the biggest gains this month
Speaker 1: contributing to the jump or plans to increase inventories, plans
Speaker 1: to make capital outlays, and plans to increase employment. So
Speaker 1: someone needs to explain to the left. Dare I say
Speaker 1: to the haters out there, how it is that this
Speaker 1: is the quote Obama economy that we're enjoying right now. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: we are setting records that stretched back to the Reagan
Speaker 1: administration on things like the Small Business Optimism Index. I
Speaker 1: need somebody to look me in the eye and explain
Speaker 1: to me why is it that we are setting all
Speaker 1: time records when it comes to unemployment in UH having
Speaker 1: such low unemployment in minority communities. Folks. They have no
Speaker 1: answer for this. You know, I didn't spend a lot
Speaker 1: of time today talking to you about the mid terms,
Speaker 1: because trust me, once we get into octope over, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be all the terms, all the time, at least
Speaker 1: in the news cycle. I mean, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: be like that. We got we got other things to
Speaker 1: focus on too. But they they have no answer on
Speaker 1: the economy. It's if there's any X factor here that
Speaker 1: could lead to a different, different end result in the
Speaker 1: mid terms. And what we've been led to believe, which
Speaker 1: is essentially that it's all over for UH. For Republicans
Speaker 1: in the House, that they're gonna lose the majority, no
Speaker 1: question about it, And and this is the way it's
Speaker 1: gonna go. Um. I just think that they have not
Speaker 1: made a compelling case the American people about this and
Speaker 1: and Trump hatred is just not enough. It's enough for
Speaker 1: the looney left, it's enough for people that just despise Trump,
Speaker 1: no matter, no matter what. But that's not enough of
Speaker 1: the country. You know, I saw these polls today. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, these poles are so they're they're so useless.
Speaker 1: This pull out about you know how thirty one percent
Speaker 1: of Americans think Trump is is honest. And I look
Speaker 1: at this and they do this with this whole ha ha,
Speaker 1: but look at this time, Trump didn't tell the truth.
Speaker 1: To look at that time, Trump didn't tell the truth.
Speaker 1: And this is just a waste of everyone's time. Because
Speaker 1: the people who think that Trump is honest mean that
Speaker 1: he's honest about what matters. Nobody is uh completely in
Speaker 1: the dark about how Trump has a braggadocious quality, how
Speaker 1: how he has perhaps a tad of a of a
Speaker 1: hyperbolic streak when he talks about things. He can be
Speaker 1: loose with language. We all get that, But the media
Speaker 1: runs these poles, They run these polls about things like
Speaker 1: you know what, not just your support for Trump, but also,
Speaker 1: you know, what do you think of Trump's trustworthiness and
Speaker 1: how do you think he's handling this issue or that issue.
Speaker 1: To try and put a number on their case, which
Speaker 1: is that Trump is unpopular and he's not doing a
Speaker 1: good job and all the rest of it, and it's
Speaker 1: just I think that it's not going to work the
Speaker 1: way they think it is. Um. My belief is that
Speaker 1: a lot of folks, especially if you're in the kind
Speaker 1: of now it's base midterms are all about base turnout.
Speaker 1: And I get all that stuff and the conventional wisdom,
Speaker 1: but if if anyone's showing up to the polls and
Speaker 1: they're like, you know, I haven't yet figured out, you know,
Speaker 1: if I'm happy with my particular representative or not, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna vote party line, They're gonna look at what's
Speaker 1: going on in the country right now, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: find all these different reasons why the economy is so
Speaker 1: strong that probably worth just riding this out a little
Speaker 1: bit more. And I've been saying this. My my feeling
Speaker 1: is that Trump is essentially politically invulnerable unless or until
Speaker 1: there is a major recession. When we see a major
Speaker 1: pullback in the markets, when when all of a sudden
Speaker 1: people have a drop of the stock market, their four
Speaker 1: oh one case have gotten hammered, and you see a big,
Speaker 1: big push in or a big spike in unemployment, then
Speaker 1: a lot of these other criticisms matter, But things like
Speaker 1: do you think Trump is honest? I just don't believe
Speaker 1: the American people are going to focus in enough on
Speaker 1: that one that it makes any difference really in in
Speaker 1: the midterms. And and beyond that, you have each individual
Speaker 1: candidate running their own race. And the Democrats, I I
Speaker 1: can say this for them, they've at least noticed that
Speaker 1: they probably shouldn't run far left candidates in places like
Speaker 1: like Texas. They shouldn't run far left candidates in places
Speaker 1: where they're gonna have to work really hard to fool
Speaker 1: some Americans who are kind of in the center. And
Speaker 1: you think the Democrats in their center because they're not
Speaker 1: Democrats are party of of the extreme left now at
Speaker 1: least that's ideologically where they are, and they they vote
Speaker 1: in lockstep, folks. So just because somebody who's a Democrat
Speaker 1: shows up and starts saying, you know, well, I like
Speaker 1: guns and I like hunting, and you know, in some
Speaker 1: cases they'll say you know, I'm a veteran and you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: well it sounds kind of Republican to me, but I
Speaker 1: guess you're a Democrat. I'll vote for you. Keep in
Speaker 1: mind that that Democrat who likes guns in the Second
Speaker 1: Amendment and is pro union and likes the military is
Speaker 1: going to vote with Nancy Pelosi on basically everything. So
Speaker 1: that's what people need to remember. That that that's the
Speaker 1: message that has to get that has to get through.
Speaker 1: By the coming up, we've got a great third hour.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to you about the Jack Ryan series
Speaker 1: on Amazon. I watched the whole season. I ripped through it.
Speaker 1: Molly and I watched it together. And then we'll have
Speaker 1: right after that, a a real door kicking superhero. Sean
Speaker 1: Parnell will be joining us. A. Sean Parnell has got
Speaker 1: a new book out. We'll talk to about that and
Speaker 1: just spend some time hanging with Sean because we always
Speaker 1: like it when he comes by the Freedom Hut. And
Speaker 1: then how do they Miss America pageant work out without
Speaker 1: the swimsuit competition. I'm gonna do a very thorough, deep
Speaker 1: dive analysis of the no swimsuit Miss America situation coming up.
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton decoding the news and disseminating information with actionable intelligence.
Speaker 1: Magnor mistake, American ring, You're a great American again. This
Speaker 1: is the Buck Sexton Show. Analysts Sexton, No, I can't
Speaker 1: go to Yemen. I'm an analyst. I don't interrogate people.
Speaker 1: I write reports. Get on the plane. We gotta figure
Speaker 1: out a way to get inside of his head. Must
Speaker 1: have been slay man. Is my husband? He don't know
Speaker 1: where I am. My son is with him. Is he
Speaker 1: planning something here? Harry, it was only at the beginning.
Speaker 1: Just follow him all watch to learn. We have to
Speaker 1: chase this down, my son, get him back. Prom I
Speaker 1: can't go to Yemen. I'm an analyst. I write reports. Ah, Yes,
Speaker 1: brings back memories. So that's from the new Jack Ryan
Speaker 1: series on Amazon Prime, which many of you have been
Speaker 1: asking me about, brought to my attention and emailing about
Speaker 1: and such, And I gotta tell you that I like it.
Speaker 1: I think it's good. I think that they did a
Speaker 1: good job. There's some stuff that's a little perfunctory, and
Speaker 1: the writing is a little too cute in some places.
Speaker 1: In terms of the storyline, I'll give you my my
Speaker 1: full sense of it. I mean, it's entertaining, it's well done,
Speaker 1: the production values are good. It moves quickly, so I
Speaker 1: really like it. I'll probably give it an a minus. Uh.
Speaker 1: The language that they use and the terminology and the
Speaker 1: way they talk about things, a lot of the uh,
Speaker 1: the different acronyms that come up. They did their research.
Speaker 1: They actually use real lingo and and look, not all
Speaker 1: of it, but but a fair amount of it, which
Speaker 1: I like because it's just laziness for a lot of writers,
Speaker 1: a lot of writers otherwise. And I like the scene
Speaker 1: where he says we're not agents, were officers, meaning you
Speaker 1: know people say CIA agent. That's always the big tell
Speaker 1: for us, especially when somebody says, you know, well my
Speaker 1: my uncle was a former CIA agent. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: if you really knew him, and if he really was one,
Speaker 1: he would have told you. It's c I a officer.
Speaker 1: It is. It is not a you're a CIA agent
Speaker 1: if you're an an asset being run by a CIA officer,
Speaker 1: a one who works for a CI officer in getting
Speaker 1: espionage information. So you know that that's an important distinction
Speaker 1: that make I mean, there's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: are good look, John John Krasinski is a very charismatic
Speaker 1: leading guy. Who would have thought Jim from the Office,
Speaker 1: you know, you put on twenty pounds of muscle, and uh,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's an action here. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like the other guy that I really like from
Speaker 1: Parks and Wreck, who also what's his name, Pratt, Chris Pratt,
Speaker 1: who put on a whole bunch of muscle and now
Speaker 1: he's an action star too. Man. I wish I could
Speaker 1: take off six months and just just work out, eat
Speaker 1: chicken breast and cruciferous vegetables all day and then just
Speaker 1: see what happens. That'd be fun. But I don't think
Speaker 1: I've got that in the schedule anytime soon. I barely
Speaker 1: have time to sleep. But Jack Ryan back the show.
Speaker 1: Some of the things I like. It's contemporary, so it's
Speaker 1: kind of the Jack Ryan architecture set up by Tom
Speaker 1: Clancy in terms of characters and basic storyline. Fast forwardage
Speaker 1: it today, so you've got Isis and Syria and Yemen
Speaker 1: and the Muslim suburbs of Paris, and you know, there's
Speaker 1: just there's a lot of stuff they work in it
Speaker 1: that's good. There's some good footage of Langley and it
Speaker 1: I like that, Uh Krasinski lives in Georgetown. Look, I
Speaker 1: can't help but feel a little nostalgic. I watched this
Speaker 1: show and it's about a C I a analyst, and
Speaker 1: he lives in Georgetown, and he works on Mid East issues,
Speaker 1: and I think at one point he walks into the
Speaker 1: CTC he's working with CTC. Well, I was a CIA
Speaker 1: analyst in CTC who lived in Georgetown. So now I
Speaker 1: did not get air lifted by the Coast Guard from
Speaker 1: a fancy party on the Maryland shore in front of
Speaker 1: my soon to be girlfriend. Nothing that cool happened to me.
Speaker 1: But I was in the room in some big briefing
Speaker 1: rooms full of a lot of big han schos at
Speaker 1: the in the intelligence community. Overall, I did sit down
Speaker 1: with director Mike Hayden at different times and and brief
Speaker 1: him on things and so so just it brought back
Speaker 1: some memories. Um, I would really be curious to hear
Speaker 1: from some friends in the special operations community what they
Speaker 1: think of the scenes where they use Jaysack guys or
Speaker 1: when they are playing Jaysack guys. I should say, Uh,
Speaker 1: to do different raids and the military component of it,
Speaker 1: I mean, on the if I'm going to analyze how
Speaker 1: realistic the analyst stuff is, the basics of it are correct,
Speaker 1: and that yeah, you look at you know, look at
Speaker 1: phone records and email records, and it's a lot of
Speaker 1: investigative work. Uh. It does not move, of course, anywhere
Speaker 1: near the universe of his you know, as quickly as
Speaker 1: it does in the show. Krasinski sits there and he goes,
Speaker 1: you know what, and he all of a sudden just
Speaker 1: knows the whole plan and would look, you gotta suspend
Speaker 1: disbelief with these things. If they made a show about
Speaker 1: being a CI analyst that was real, it would involve
Speaker 1: a lot of uh, long arduous treks to the Starbucks.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not what people think that it is.
Speaker 1: There's some other cool stuff, you know, there's some undisclosed
Speaker 1: locations and things where you get to do some really
Speaker 1: interesting training and other stuff. But you know, overall, I
Speaker 1: think that it's it's a good series, a good show.
Speaker 1: And here's the big part of it, the part of
Speaker 1: it that I think a lot of you will really
Speaker 1: like if you haven't seen it already. Uh, it was
Speaker 1: advertised to me because I saw this making the rounds
Speaker 1: on social media as oh, this is a show that
Speaker 1: celebrates toxic masculinity and white male privilege, and I was like, sold,
Speaker 1: sign me up. This sounds great. You know, we're not
Speaker 1: gonna have to watch a show that is constantly jamming
Speaker 1: some kind of an agenda down our throats. You know,
Speaker 1: I really don't need a show about a a a
Speaker 1: tri sexual uh you know, non gender binary Eskimo who
Speaker 1: I'm sorry Inuit who happens to be a super special
Speaker 1: covert agent or something who also knows lots of karate.
Speaker 1: I don't need that. I just want I just want
Speaker 1: good characters. And I also would like the recognition of
Speaker 1: the reality that America is in right now, which is
Speaker 1: that some of our most dangerous and implacable foes are
Speaker 1: in fact jihadists. That doesn't mean that we're at war
Speaker 1: with the Muslim world. All that stuff still applies of worse.
Speaker 1: It's it's embarrassing that we feel the need to say that.
Speaker 1: But you know, if media Matters is listening to this,
Speaker 1: I gotta make sure that I cover myself because we
Speaker 1: all know that already, and we have many Muslim allies
Speaker 1: in that fight. But you know, radical Islam is a
Speaker 1: real threat or real danger to us, and at least
Speaker 1: so far, in this show on Amazon Prime, The Jack
Speaker 1: Ryan Show, they do not uh go down the road
Speaker 1: of well, the real threat isn't gee hottests, it's you know,
Speaker 1: white nationalists who have overtaken the US government or something.
Speaker 1: It's you see so much of this from Hollywood, and
Speaker 1: it's just annoying and it doesn't resonate with us because
Speaker 1: when you're worried about a biochem weapon going off, biological
Speaker 1: chemical weapon going off somewhere, the chances are that you
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be from a guy who's gonna yell
Speaker 1: a lahaak bar right before he detonates it. That's just
Speaker 1: reality and our arch in this case, you know, our
Speaker 1: entertainment with a show like this should reflect at some
Speaker 1: level what are our reality is. It just makes it
Speaker 1: much more interesting and enjoyable experience. By the way that
Speaker 1: the character who's kind of the the well he's really
Speaker 1: a supervisor's gonna say the right hand. But the buddy
Speaker 1: cop element of the show, and it's obviously a c
Speaker 1: I A show, not a cop show, but that actor
Speaker 1: who plays he's the the black uh kind of grizzled
Speaker 1: veteran supervisor of Krazinski's character is Bunk from the Wire
Speaker 1: for those of you who are fans of the Wire.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of fun for me because I really
Speaker 1: enjoyed that show. But you know, the Jack Ryan Show
Speaker 1: is good and it's just going to it just goes
Speaker 1: to show folks with all of the different espionage thrillers
Speaker 1: and all that, you know, you just need a story
Speaker 1: that is compelling with good characters, where there's good guys
Speaker 1: and bad guys and stuff happens and you care it doesn't.
Speaker 1: You don't have to reinvent the wheel. You just have
Speaker 1: to execute on the straightforward aspects, on on the straightforward
Speaker 1: elements of good story and good storytelling. And I think
Speaker 1: that the Amazon Prime show Pretty which does that. If
Speaker 1: you have any specific questions, by the way, about something
Speaker 1: that you think is well, if you want to ask
Speaker 1: me if something is real or how you know, I'm
Speaker 1: happy to tell you you know my my sense of it.
Speaker 1: But just understand this. You would not go from being
Speaker 1: analyst to field operative to which they referred to as
Speaker 1: case officers, which is the proper terminology to UH interrogator
Speaker 1: back to and then essentially door kicker you know, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it doesn't work that way. That's you don't get to
Speaker 1: cover all that ground. But if you have any other
Speaker 1: questions about it, if I can answer it, I will.
Speaker 1: If I can, I'll just tell you you can another
Speaker 1: confirm nor deny. But I will recommend that any of
Speaker 1: you that have the chance, if you if you have
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime, or if you thought about watching it, two
Speaker 1: thumbs way up. I really thought it was a good series.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to the next I hope they make
Speaker 1: the next season of it. Krasinski was was pretty excellent.
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, he's a very charming actor. And
Speaker 1: I okay, now my one criticism. I don't know her name,
Speaker 1: but I don't like the female lead. I just don't.
Speaker 1: I think she's a little I don't know, there's something
Speaker 1: vaguely European about maybe she's a European actress. But it's
Speaker 1: just it doesn't strike me as a good I don't
Speaker 1: like the chemistry between the two leads. It just didn't
Speaker 1: work for me. It just didn't work for me. But
Speaker 1: I'm I'm very picky about these things. You always did,
Speaker 1: you always do this? Yeah, back everybody, we we got
Speaker 1: with us a special guest. I wanted to get him,
Speaker 1: you know, on the hot seat right away. We have
Speaker 1: with us the one, the only, Sean Parnell. Everybody you know,
Speaker 1: we all love Sean. Sean is a former army ranger,
Speaker 1: author of one of my favorite and I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: him a swelled head. Although he doesn't need any help
Speaker 1: today because everyone's just everyone just wants to tell Sean
Speaker 1: how awesome he is. But one of my favorite military
Speaker 1: memoirs of all time, which is Outlaw Platoon, which I
Speaker 1: have read cover to cover where I guess kindall start
Speaker 1: to finish. Uh. He's the author of Outlaw Platoon, but
Speaker 1: he has a new book and we are lucky enough
Speaker 1: to have him joining us today to discuss it, A
Speaker 1: Man of War, which is a novel and and we're
Speaker 1: have shown on Shawn. Great great to have you. I
Speaker 1: just want to ask you first, what's it like to
Speaker 1: basically have all of all of the elite news media
Speaker 1: fight over your time and want to talk to you
Speaker 1: about your novel? You realize, how you realize how rare
Speaker 1: this is. That's not a thing, that's not that's I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know why people are like me or
Speaker 1: support me but that's not in your exaggerating. That's not
Speaker 1: famous famous news anchors and and correspondence and multi millionaires
Speaker 1: are like, I need me some Sean Parnell. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about I want to talk about man of war.
Speaker 1: So so let's let's do that for a moment before
Speaker 1: we get into the latest of of of your exploits
Speaker 1: out on the West Coast and and selling the rights
Speaker 1: the movie rights to all this tell us a bit
Speaker 1: Sean about man of war. Yeah, okay, so a man
Speaker 1: of war. You know, I joined to serve the military
Speaker 1: after nine eleven, you know, and I was inspired to
Speaker 1: join the military after witnessing the sacrifice of so many
Speaker 1: great Americans who, instead of running away from the flames,
Speaker 1: ran into the flames to try to say people that
Speaker 1: they didn't even know. And you know, I remember sitting there.
Speaker 1: I was a college kid, and I remember nursing. I
Speaker 1: was nursing a pretty terrible hangover that morning, um, and
Speaker 1: I just remember thinking, how can I sit here and
Speaker 1: do nothing when ordinary Americans are sacrificing everything in many
Speaker 1: cases for people that they didn't even know. And so
Speaker 1: that in that moment, I decided to serve my country.
Speaker 1: You know. I mean, I think all of us are
Speaker 1: presented with moments in our life where we have such
Speaker 1: tremendous clarity. In the wake of the most horrific terrorist
Speaker 1: attack on our nation's history, that I had clarity, and
Speaker 1: it was, you know, I wanted to join the military service,
Speaker 1: something greater than myself, getting the fight against the people
Speaker 1: that attacked us on September eleven, and be on the
Speaker 1: front lines. And I got my opportunity to do that.
Speaker 1: I went to war for four five days, and I
Speaker 1: came back. A lot of my guys were wounded, some
Speaker 1: of which came home in body bags and flag drape coffins.
Speaker 1: And I remember there was a one profound moment where
Speaker 1: I was I was reflecting on uh, looking at one
Speaker 1: of the waves of my soldiers, and I said, you
Speaker 1: know what, like I have got to live a life
Speaker 1: worthy of their sacrifice and earn it every single day.
Speaker 1: And so writing a novel for me was always a
Speaker 1: bucket list item. But one of the things that that
Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure that I that came through
Speaker 1: in this book was making sure that my main character,
Speaker 1: Eric Steele, embodied the greatness of what it means to
Speaker 1: be an American and the greatness of the American warrior ethos,
Speaker 1: and you know the selflessness, uh, the heroism, the the loyalty,
Speaker 1: the duty, respect and honor that every single person that
Speaker 1: ran into the flames that day on nine eleven exhibited.
Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure it was crammed all in
Speaker 1: my main character. And Eric Steele is that guy. He's
Speaker 1: the main character and man of war. He's a franchise character.
Speaker 1: You'll see a book from him every year, but he
Speaker 1: is a mainstream fiction character that loves America uh and
Speaker 1: believes it's worth fighting for and worth dying for. Because
Speaker 1: I just I think it's important that our kids have
Speaker 1: mainstream fiction character to look up to in this country
Speaker 1: and inspire to be like. Well, I just hope that
Speaker 1: in Eric Steele's uh trials and travails or and travels
Speaker 1: and tribulations. I don't know why something over this world
Speaker 1: always with the words words. If you have any any
Speaker 1: room for a a a cynical CIA analyst named Buck Sexton,
Speaker 1: you throw him in there, baby, Because if Eric Steele,
Speaker 1: if he needs somebody to tell him, we're the best
Speaker 1: places to get a latte in South Asia, let me
Speaker 1: tell you Cia analyst Buck has got at steals back.
Speaker 1: Hey man, you know what, you know, I think I
Speaker 1: might be able to make that happen in book two.
Speaker 1: I think I might. I think I might. I think
Speaker 1: I can do it. You know, one of the one
Speaker 1: of the main characters in my book tease me, this
Speaker 1: is like offering the name your first born after me.
Speaker 1: It's not that it's not like that, but I think
Speaker 1: it's Actually that's a pretty awesome idea, you know. So
Speaker 1: one of my main characters in this book is an
Speaker 1: x CIA analyst. It's it's a woman. She's a female protagonist,
Speaker 1: and she is she is just she's awesome in every way.
Speaker 1: But I think that there could be a very easy
Speaker 1: way to tie Buck the CIA analyst into the story.
Speaker 1: And he's gonna have a big head, you know, physically
Speaker 1: physically big head. Uh. And he's gonna be a little
Speaker 1: dorky with a really deep, awesome radio voice exactly. And
Speaker 1: by the way, when when they don't have a charge
Speaker 1: to do a breach properly, they can just use that
Speaker 1: head like Bonk from Bonk's Adventure, just knock that puppied
Speaker 1: right down. Man. That's that's what it's like. A battering Ramma.
Speaker 1: Who needs to ballistic breach? Who needs C four when
Speaker 1: they have Buck Sexton's head exactly, That's all you need.
Speaker 1: So so A Man of War is out today. People
Speaker 1: can get it on Amazon, they can get it on Kindle.
Speaker 1: What's some of the stuff you got planned? By the way,
Speaker 1: because you know you're you're getting I really do mean
Speaker 1: this man. So few people get other people to be
Speaker 1: happy for them when they have a book that comes
Speaker 1: out or something in the way that I'm seeing with you,
Speaker 1: people just want your book to succeed. Sean Parnell, what
Speaker 1: are you gonna run for office? By the way, Never
Speaker 1: love Sean, never, but never. But I'll tell you, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you. You know, I think they're There's so thing
Speaker 1: in this in this literary world or a public figure world,
Speaker 1: where it's a zero sum game for a lot of people,
Speaker 1: like the idea that just because you know Buck Sexton
Speaker 1: is successful, it means that I can't be successful. And
Speaker 1: so a lot of people in the media and a
Speaker 1: lot of people in the literary world in public figure
Speaker 1: space are constantly trying to cut your knees out from
Speaker 1: under you to make sure that they're that they climb
Speaker 1: that ladder first, and and I'm here to tell you
Speaker 1: that I I have a very different view on that.
Speaker 1: I'm a I believe that you know, a rising tide
Speaker 1: lifts all ships. If and you know, a guy that
Speaker 1: buys Brad Thor's thriller does not mean that he's not
Speaker 1: going to buy my thriller. And my experience with Brad
Speaker 1: Thor is that he's actually always a very generous right right.
Speaker 1: And I'm just saying though, Buck, but I know that's
Speaker 1: why your mind went because he's amazing. Actually, in fact,
Speaker 1: I try to structure and write my stories just like
Speaker 1: Brad does because he's been such an inspiration to me.
Speaker 1: But but like the in fact, my point was, Buck,
Speaker 1: is that like if someone buys Brad Thor's book and
Speaker 1: reads Brad Thor's book, it makes it more likely for
Speaker 1: them to buy my book. So there's no need to compete.
Speaker 1: This is not a zero sum game. A rising tide
Speaker 1: lifts all ships. And so for the last six years
Speaker 1: since Outlaw Between came out book, I have really dedicated
Speaker 1: my life to try to help people to get their
Speaker 1: stories told, lend a helping hand anywhere that I can,
Speaker 1: And so I hope that The support that I'm receiving
Speaker 1: right now and Man of War from some mainstream media
Speaker 1: outlets and people comes from them recognizing that and and
Speaker 1: the help that I've given. When you're when you're rolling
Speaker 1: down Sunset Boulevard out in l a In in a Lamborghini,
Speaker 1: I just want you to remember when Man of War
Speaker 1: is going into season three of syndication uh with Netflix,
Speaker 1: just remember who your friends were shot early days. You
Speaker 1: can hook us up with a consulting gig to be
Speaker 1: on set to look cool for our significant others than
Speaker 1: whoever else is there. Let's be come on, you know
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be rolling down Sunset in the Lamborghini. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be an old there we go, and I will
Speaker 1: you know, you'll be You'll be in the bed of
Speaker 1: the truck right that gets ready to play the CIA
Speaker 1: analysts on the show. That's right. I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: manning the fifty cow or the cappuccino. You have to
Speaker 1: have a special camera to capture your head, but you
Speaker 1: can do on the show. That is that is It
Speaker 1: would be worth every it would be worth every penny.
Speaker 1: You've heard the man himself, Sean Parnell, Man of War
Speaker 1: I'm buying it. You should buy it. It's on Amazon
Speaker 1: on kindle, but get the hard copy, get the full
Speaker 1: get the full she bang if you can. Sean Parnell,
Speaker 1: former Army Ranger author, good friend. Great to have you on,
Speaker 1: sir Buck. Thanks so much, man, I really do appreciate
Speaker 1: your friendship. Thank you absolutely anytime. Best of luck with
Speaker 1: the book. Okay. Recent polls have shown a fifth of
Speaker 1: Americans can't locate the US on a world map. Why
Speaker 1: do you think this is? I personally believe that US
Speaker 1: Americans are unable to do so because sama people out
Speaker 1: there and our nation don't have bounced. And I believe
Speaker 1: that our education like such as a South Africa and
Speaker 1: Iraq everywhere like such US, and I believe that they
Speaker 1: should Our education over here in the US should help
Speaker 1: the US, or should help South Africa, and should help
Speaker 1: DIRAC in the Asian countries, so we will be able
Speaker 1: to build up our future for Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: So it never gets old, folks, It never gets old.
Speaker 1: I know it was a long time ago. I know
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily representative of all pageants and all the
Speaker 1: rest of it, but come on, it was amazing. I
Speaker 1: might have said this even on this show before. But
Speaker 1: really my favorite part of the whole thing is it's
Speaker 1: when Mario Lopez, whom I remember well from being a
Speaker 1: c slater in his Saved by the Bell days, but
Speaker 1: when Mariel Lopez goes, thank you very much, and it's
Speaker 1: very solicited to after she's been like you know, the education,
Speaker 1: like such as South Africa and the Iraq and like
Speaker 1: such as, oh man, you know, it is possible, especially
Speaker 1: when I'm doing really long days. I've had the experience
Speaker 1: befour being on live TV and for a moment, and
Speaker 1: it's a momentary panic where you realize that you've kind
Speaker 1: of lost your train of thought and you need words
Speaker 1: right away and you don't want to do the uh
Speaker 1: or you don't want to start Yeah, but you know,
Speaker 1: it starts kind of babbling something. She got a little
Speaker 1: caught up there, but look, she rebounded. Why am I
Speaker 1: telling you about beauty pageants other than some of you
Speaker 1: accused me of having some kind of expertise in these matters.
Speaker 1: I do not claim to have any beauty pageant expertise.
Speaker 1: I do not think that the celebration of superficiality is
Speaker 1: something that we should all uh push for even more.
Speaker 1: But I also recognize that in life. Look, it's life
Speaker 1: is unfair. You know. I wish I were six four.
Speaker 1: I wish a lot of things, and I wish that
Speaker 1: people weren't judged at all at all at all on
Speaker 1: whether they are considered attractive. But that's not reality, unfortunately.
Speaker 1: And I think that everybody should, you know, make the
Speaker 1: most of We should all make the most of our appearance.
Speaker 1: I mean, we all have the choice to make the
Speaker 1: most of of what God gave us. And I think
Speaker 1: that that's a I think that's a positive message. It
Speaker 1: reminds me also of you know, one of my more
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a radical theory, but all this
Speaker 1: stuff you see about fitness and the fitness industry is
Speaker 1: premised on people. You know, everybody can have a six
Speaker 1: pack and look like some kind of Adonis, or if
Speaker 1: you're a lady, you know, you can look like some
Speaker 1: kind of swimsuit model or something. And genetics plays a
Speaker 1: huge role in all this stuff. Folks. Everyone that I
Speaker 1: know who's really smart on the subject of uh, fitness
Speaker 1: and health will tell you that, yes, I mean, you
Speaker 1: should all. We should all strive to be the best
Speaker 1: version of ourselves that we can be. But genetics plays
Speaker 1: a big role and some people do have a different
Speaker 1: metabolism than others. On people put on muscle more easily
Speaker 1: than others, and and so on and so forth. But
Speaker 1: back to beauty path I just feel like people should
Speaker 1: be told that instead of you know, when I was
Speaker 1: in grammar school, it was like, lifts some freeweights and
Speaker 1: you look like Schwarzenegger if you're dedicated enough. No, there's
Speaker 1: really a there's a genetic advantage that some people have
Speaker 1: in terms of their body types and how quickly they
Speaker 1: put on muscle and all the rest of it. So
Speaker 1: on the beauty pageants. The Miss America Beauty Pageant happened
Speaker 1: and it was you know, you've got Gretchen Carlson, whom
Speaker 1: I find pretty annoying just in general. But she's out
Speaker 1: there as she's like the head of the Miss America
Speaker 1: Pageant now. And they decided, because we're in the error
Speaker 1: of me too, to get rid of the swimsuit portion
Speaker 1: of the Miss America Pageant, which I know producer Mike
Speaker 1: very much opposed to this one. Me because I'm a
Speaker 1: century man, I know enough to just try to not
Speaker 1: comment on this because I just get myself in trubble.
Speaker 1: But producer Mike is fearless. He has no problem with
Speaker 1: saying that he thought that the from a business perspective,
Speaker 1: keeping the UH swimsuit competition in the beauty pageant was
Speaker 1: probably a good idea. Turns out that there was a
Speaker 1: twenty three percent drop in ratings from last year's broadcast,
Speaker 1: And if you look in the demo, which is all
Speaker 1: that advertisers care about, so that's people twenty two to
Speaker 1: fifty four or fifty five, whatever it is. If you
Speaker 1: look in the demo, it was down almost which from
Speaker 1: a rating standpoint is pretty much catastrophic. Now here's my thing. Um,
Speaker 1: I I just I understand the arguments for and against
Speaker 1: beauty pageants. I understand that it sends a bad message
Speaker 1: to women that they're judging their parents. But I would
Speaker 1: just know that men are judged on their appearance too,
Speaker 1: in a lot of different ways, not to the same
Speaker 1: extent as women. I'm not you know, I know are
Speaker 1: the world is a cruel place, and it's unfair and
Speaker 1: all that, But what we're all superficially judged in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways. For men, a lot of the superficial
Speaker 1: judgment revolves around the size of our bank accounts, and
Speaker 1: that's like that has anything to do with, you know,
Speaker 1: how good or worthy of a person you are. But
Speaker 1: people say, well, it has to do with how good
Speaker 1: of a provider you are, And I say, ah, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys inherit a lot of money.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that they're a good provider. It just
Speaker 1: means they're good at providing for someone what somebody else
Speaker 1: provided for them. So there are a lot of ways
Speaker 1: to slice this down. But here here's my thing, my
Speaker 1: my simple sense of all this without getting a too
Speaker 1: many jokes about how the Miss America pageant without the
Speaker 1: swimsuits is just like watching a bunch of third tier
Speaker 1: pundits get on a stage in evening gowns. Um, I
Speaker 1: just say this, We should all be honest about what
Speaker 1: it is that we're doing, what it is that we're seeing,
Speaker 1: what we're supporting. A beauty pageant is inherently superficial. It's
Speaker 1: about physical beauty. You can add some other things into it,
Speaker 1: but first and foremost, it is about physical beauty. And
Speaker 1: we should either say, Okay, that's what we're going to
Speaker 1: be judging here with some other factors, or we should
Speaker 1: find something else to call it. I I just always
Speaker 1: prefer honesty about these things, and I wish that people
Speaker 1: wouldn't dance around the subject matter in quite the same way.
Speaker 1: So maybe it's time to put pageants away, or it's
Speaker 1: time to just say, you know what, We're going to
Speaker 1: be superficial in this endeavor, you know, and that's the
Speaker 1: way it's going to be. Otherwise you just have huge
Speaker 1: ratings drops and people all make fun of it, as
Speaker 1: they should. We got roll call up next. Stay with
Speaker 1: me like soft butter on warm toast. Time to spread
Speaker 1: some freedom coast to coast. It's time for roll call. Alright,
Speaker 1: roll call time. Everybody wanted to get into it right away,
Speaker 1: Let's do it. Facebook dot com, slash buck Sex and
Speaker 1: if you wish to be included. Um, we have Erica,
Speaker 1: who writes, I listened to your uh podcast on Monday,
Speaker 1: but Monday evening radio show is an appearing the available
Speaker 1: episodes list. Um, Erica, we are going to make sure
Speaker 1: that the full episode, that the full radio show episode
Speaker 1: is up in the feed, So just look for the
Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show and we might we were tweaking some things,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be up. We're gonna put up the
Speaker 1: full show because I everybody whoa everybody wants the full show.
Speaker 1: They do not want a partial do not want a
Speaker 1: partial show in in the feed. So we're gonna figure
Speaker 1: out a way to do that. Um. It might mean
Speaker 1: that you have an early kind of sneak peak of
Speaker 1: some of the show and then the full show later on,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna go with the full show up there.
Speaker 1: So just if you're used to listening to the podcast, folks,
Speaker 1: listen to it. Uh, just just do it. What do it?
Speaker 1: Exactly what you've been doing, and just look forward a
Speaker 1: little earlier. We're gonna try to at least get the
Speaker 1: podcast up earlier on in the day as early as
Speaker 1: we can. Uh. Jason writes, Um, so we're not going
Speaker 1: to get the three hours show. Okay, No, No, Jason,
Speaker 1: same thing, same thing we are. We're we're making sure
Speaker 1: that the full podcast is up. I see, I asked
Speaker 1: for feedback, I get feedback. There we go. Um. Cheryl rightes,
Speaker 1: Hi Buck, you keep me sane in California about the
Speaker 1: female form of Brethren from English for Students dot Com.
Speaker 1: There is a word sister and, though it has a
Speaker 1: somewhat different history from its male parallel. Both words were
Speaker 1: used in Middle English twelve to fifteen centuries simply as
Speaker 1: the plural forms of brother and sister. From about sixteen hundred,
Speaker 1: brothers began to take over from brethren. Shakespeare used both
Speaker 1: except in referring to fellow members of a religious community
Speaker 1: or a society or profession. Even this use now is
Speaker 1: rather archaic, although such groups as the Plymouth Brethren keep
Speaker 1: it in use. Sister and meanwhile had fallen completely the
Speaker 1: out of use by the middle of the sixteenth century,
Speaker 1: but it has been revived and used almost exclusively by
Speaker 1: feminist writers. Oh, Cheryl, very interesting, Thank you for your
Speaker 1: take on that. And um, yes, indeed, I will certainly,
Speaker 1: I will certainly add that into the memory banks here.
Speaker 1: Sister and yeah, I'd never hear anybody use the term
Speaker 1: sister and but I do remember in PCU, I think
Speaker 1: it's the womenists spelled w O M Y N I
Speaker 1: S T S. Michael writes, I actually clicked on I
Speaker 1: accidentally clicked on Rachel Mattow's show last night. She was
Speaker 1: talking about the Trump visa D classification, saying he was
Speaker 1: doing it to cloud up the Russia investigation. Then she
Speaker 1: cited the great accomplishments of Bruce or in the d
Speaker 1: o J. It's a different world there, Michael. It absolutely is.
Speaker 1: They believe what they want to believe over at MSNBC,
Speaker 1: and they like to think that the President of the
Speaker 1: United States is a traitor, that he has done terrible things,
Speaker 1: and that we should all be outraged about it. I'm
Speaker 1: here to tell you that they're wrong, and a lot
Speaker 1: of them are lying, and you really can't make a
Speaker 1: good faith case anymore about the Russia coclusion investigation. I
Speaker 1: mean it, it is a It is a sham. It
Speaker 1: is a scam. Uh. It should not have happened. It
Speaker 1: just flatly should not have been something that occurred. But
Speaker 1: here we are, Lisa right chields high Buck. I don't
Speaker 1: mind the new format, but I love my three hours
Speaker 1: a day. Um, Lisa, we're going back. We're going back
Speaker 1: to the podcast. Even if you get an early sneak
Speaker 1: peek throughout the day, the podcast will be in full
Speaker 1: three hour format. So don't worry about that. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be there. It's gonna be there. But do me a favor,
Speaker 1: spread it around. We gotta guys, I can tell you
Speaker 1: this right now. I just checked today in what is
Speaker 1: it now? In uh less than a year, I think
Speaker 1: it's about over the course of ten months, we have doubled,
Speaker 1: just the doubled the podcast size of a podcast audience
Speaker 1: for this show. And I came into it bringing off
Speaker 1: bringing along with me a substantial podcast crew from the
Speaker 1: Blaze radio days because it was all digital. So your
Speaker 1: efforts really really do help. But whenever you tell somebody
Speaker 1: about this show, I mean, there are two things. Look
Speaker 1: at this a little bit of a shameless plug, but hey,
Speaker 1: commerce baby, there are two things you can do that
Speaker 1: really helped me out, and it's in all of your
Speaker 1: power to do it. Number one is anytime I do
Speaker 1: a call out for a product, check it out at
Speaker 1: least go to the U r L. For our sponsors,
Speaker 1: they're really partners with the show. By the way, some
Speaker 1: of you in the past have said that you didn't
Speaker 1: like or you know that there was a sponsor here.
Speaker 1: They're very early on in the show's history. I want
Speaker 1: to know. I take that into account. And there have
Speaker 1: been a couple of cases where I've said I I'm
Speaker 1: not going to work with a particular product going forward
Speaker 1: because my audience didn't like it. The people that I
Speaker 1: sponsored with I know them, or rather that sponsor this
Speaker 1: show that I partner with, I know them. I like
Speaker 1: their product. I use their product that matters to me.
Speaker 1: So whenever you can, if you buy one of those products,
Speaker 1: or at least go check it out on the U
Speaker 1: r L that I call out, that helps. But the
Speaker 1: easier way for a lot of you um or rather
Speaker 1: the the completely cost free way you know off to
Speaker 1: buy anything is just to tell somebody, hey, check out
Speaker 1: this guy. Go on iTunes and check out the Buck
Speaker 1: Sexton Show. Uh. You know, I don't have a PR budget.
Speaker 1: You are my PR budget, so to speak. You guys
Speaker 1: are my eyes and ears out there in the rest
Speaker 1: of the world. And you know, nothing makes me happier
Speaker 1: than when I got a message from somebody who's downrange
Speaker 1: who's like, hey, I got I got ten of my
Speaker 1: buddies in my unit to listen to your podcasts and
Speaker 1: now and now they're they're constantly, you know, they're downloading
Speaker 1: it every day. Like there's honestly that I get messages
Speaker 1: like that on a fairly regular basis. And I'm being
Speaker 1: serious with you guys, it makes my day. Like I
Speaker 1: could be having a terrible day, you know, a little
Speaker 1: bit of a squabble with Miss Molly over something dumb
Speaker 1: or whatever it may be. Right, I could be dealing
Speaker 1: with all kinds of nonsense from libs who are saying
Speaker 1: crazy things to me because of the show rising that
Speaker 1: I do. Uh. And as long as I get one
Speaker 1: of those emails from somebody in Team back, it makes everything,
Speaker 1: every little thing gonna be all right. Um, So thank
Speaker 1: you all for that. And uh. With that little digression,
Speaker 1: John writes, Hey Buck, Um, I okay another one about
Speaker 1: the the full episodes, full episode this full episodes that
Speaker 1: don't worry. We're we're back. We're back. It was just
Speaker 1: one day. It was just one day. Um, it was
Speaker 1: just one day, Alan, right, hey Buck, I love the
Speaker 1: new format. Okay, another one. Al Right, guys, the people
Speaker 1: have spoken. I swear that people have spoken. It will
Speaker 1: be the full show every day in the podcast stream.
Speaker 1: That was this is But this is why I want
Speaker 1: to ask you for feedback. I really mean it. And
Speaker 1: that's why I go to my inbox and I read
Speaker 1: what you have to say. And you know you guys,
Speaker 1: Make and Giles of course make the show what it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, you are my my, my, not my focus group.
Speaker 1: You're you're the team. I mean, this is the team.
Speaker 1: You gotta tell me, you know what you think needs
Speaker 1: to happen. Um meliss So writes or more on the
Speaker 1: pot pretty much every message I'm I'm trying to find message.
Speaker 1: It's not about the podcast and how you guys want
Speaker 1: the full podcast up? Uh. Karen writes Buck, I think
Speaker 1: you should have called your new show Buck Naked. And
Speaker 1: my husband and I would both love a shirt or two.
Speaker 1: But since he has a dad Bob and I have
Speaker 1: an old lady Bob, there's no size extra large. Are
Speaker 1: you getting some more in we'd love to advertise for
Speaker 1: you and show our support. Can you look into that, Karen?
Speaker 1: I can look into it, and I'll tell produce your
Speaker 1: Mike to look into it. Quite a bit, I'm a
Speaker 1: little behind in terms of how I how I put this.
Speaker 1: I'm a little behind in terms of merch right now,
Speaker 1: it's on my list. I'm it's behind getting another Shield's
Speaker 1: high out. I mean, Malta is probably my among my favorites.
Speaker 1: Lepanto's number one, Malta's number two, and Malta's the one
Speaker 1: that's next in the queue for me to do. It's
Speaker 1: just a time and energy issue. So and T shirts.
Speaker 1: I want to do more T shirts. I'm working on it.
Speaker 1: I'm working on it. But Karen, and obviously there should
Speaker 1: be XL. You know, I like I like having a
Speaker 1: wide range of sizes because you know, people like to
Speaker 1: be comfy in their T shirt. You know, if a
Speaker 1: T shirt's not comfy, it's not a T shirt as
Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned, It's a COMI shirt. Hannah writes, Dude,
Speaker 1: it worried me that you hadn't heard of Joe Versus
Speaker 1: the Volcano. It shattered me when you brushed it off.
Speaker 1: You have to watch it. It is pinnacle in nerd culture.
Speaker 1: Just saying, I bet you haven't seen Cabin Boy either, Hannah,
Speaker 1: I have no idea what Joe versus the Volcano is
Speaker 1: and no idea what cabin Boy is. So you have
Speaker 1: exposed a a flaw in my pop culture knowledge. Um, so,
Speaker 1: there you have it. I will have to check this out.
Speaker 1: Page rights. Is this where we can send topic requests? Yes?
Speaker 1: It is? Page if so. Can you cover South Africa
Speaker 1: and retell that story about a ship captain who claimed
Speaker 1: the privilege of being American. I really can't remember more
Speaker 1: of it, so I'm sorry. I've also got my husband,
Speaker 1: Darren hooked on your podcast page. See page just made
Speaker 1: my day. Everybody. She got somebody else, in this case,
Speaker 1: her husband to start listening to the show. If everybody
Speaker 1: listening to this right now got one other person to
Speaker 1: listen to the show, you know, I would be, you know,
Speaker 1: well on my way to Uncle Rush Limbaugh's pool house
Speaker 1: or something, you know what I mean. That's my my
Speaker 1: budget would be getting bigger for the show. Um, so
Speaker 1: please do tell somebody about this when when you get
Speaker 1: a chance, and it does it does really help, It
Speaker 1: does really matter. And um the ship captain is uh
Speaker 1: the about the U. S. S Ingram And I will
Speaker 1: tell that story another time, and so thank you for
Speaker 1: the reminder. And on South Africa, I've done a little
Speaker 1: bit of research on this page. Let me look into
Speaker 1: it some more and I'll come back to it. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be it for today. Friends. The whole show is
Speaker 1: up on podcast. Be sure you tell everybody about it.
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