9/11: An Attack on Civilization

matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American, grant You're a great American Again. The buck Sexton Show begins. No Courage and strength answered amid the fire and smoke in New York City, over a Pennsylvania meadow, and in this very building, as innocent people from nine countries were murdered on our soil. We remember the bravery and sacrifice of those who fell here in America and then on far

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America safe. Welcome to the Box Action Show, Everybody, nine eleven anniversary today. I know that this affects all of us. This is something that we all remember um and it changed the world. When we look at where we are now versus where we were then. It was an uncertain thing, my friends, and in those hours after the towers got hit, we did not know how many wars we would have

to fight. We did not know how many more attacks were coming, perhaps imminent attacks just a matter of hours away, and it was a wake up for many of us that we have enemies, that we have people who have embraced ideologies around the globe of of hatred and destruction. And it is in fact true that there are people who hate us for who we are, and yes, a

part of that is our freedom. There are people who hate us for our way of life and our role in the world and how we view ourselves in terms of human progress and development, I mean the role that America plays um And while we had many difficult year is ahead and counter terrorism operations at Rock Afghanistan, two countries where you know, the greatest honor of my life to this day was showing up and trying to do some small part to help as a civilian, to help

United States military and their mission taking the fight to al Qaida and iractaing the fight to al Qaeda in UH South Asia and the Taliban and all of their affiliates and SIA militias in Iraq and all the rest of it UH. We also saw much of what was best and strongest in America after that period. I mean, you know, my generation as much as we get a

hard time, and people make a lot of jokes about millennials. Look, I make jokes about millennials, but my generation and those who are you know, twenty years older than me and you know, a decade younger than me. So many of them showed up and answered the call. So many of them were incredibly brave, and many thousands of laid down their lives for this country as a result of what happened on nine eleven. So I will talk to you a bit more about it during this hour. Some just

some memories that come back. One of them is just walking around the streets of Manhattan where I'm from, and of course where the where the towers were, uh, and seeing all the American flags everywhere afterwards, And it was such a reminder for all of us of what what is at stake And these slogans, these things you hear when people say things like freedom is and free and you know we we we need a rough men who stand ready at night to do violence on our behalf

so we sleep soundly. I mean, all these things that you might hear growing up. It it brought that all together in a way that you you had to take notice, certainly changed my life. And it's the only Without Not eleven, I don't go to the CIA. And I know for so many of you listening, without Not eleven, you didn't do three combat tours in Afghanistan and two in a rock and you know, who knows where else you've you've

been sent in the defense of this country. But it's also a day today when I think we should note that, you know, we have managed to suppress, not to defeat or annihilate, but to suppress the jihadiest menace. The global jihad is a small piece of what it once was, and and al Qaeda certainly is greatly diminished from what it was, and that is because of all those efforts. You know, it's a it's a multi decade struggle that

we are engaged in. But if you were to look at our fight against radical Islam right now, you would have to say that we are winning. We have not one It is not over, and there can be a reversal in this whole, in this whole battle, but we are we are winning. And I don't think people hear that enough. I don't think those who serve and those who have come back and veterans get told that enough.

That you know, the reason we don't have more planes flying into buildings is because of the efforts of people for this country and in the defense of this country. So I'll have some more on nine eleven and just the differing philosophy that exists in the fight against radical Islam between say Trump and Barack Obama before him. And we'll also discuss whether the International Criminal Court is gonna get any jurisdiction over our soldiers. That will be coming

up later on in this hour. And then if we'll get into SMAR news of the day, the latest on the machinations of the deep state, and the big news coming up on that. By the way, I'll give you a preview of it in the next hour. But there's gonna be a pretty big revelation from what I'm told here. My sources are telling me, we're gonna find out a whole lot about how deep the deep state targeting really was.

Uh And and just one note here, some breaking news right as I came on air that Trump is going to order sanctions on He's gonna he's going to create an executive order and sign it that allows sanctions on

foreigners who medal in US elections. So gonna gonna make sure that you know there there's even greater tools at the federal government's disposal for punishing election meddling, and hopefully start to push back on this lie that you know Trump doesn't care about election meddling, or that there's it is of no interest to him, or even he was supportive of it. That's what you'll hear from Democrats. So

that's some breaking news. Trump is taking action to allow sanctioning of foreigners for election Meddling's talking about Obama's view of radical Islam and how that factors into the fight we're talking about today with nine eleven, when we come back as a gold star mother, my son gave his life for acts of terrorism. Um, do you still believe that the acts of terrorism are done with a self proclaim Islamic religious motives? And if you do, why do

you still refuse to use the term racially? I'm sorry, Islamic terrorists. What I have been careful about when I describe these issues is to make sure that we do not lump these murderers into the billion Muslims that exist around the world, including in this country, who are peaceful, who are responsible, who in this country are our fellow troops and police officers and firefighters and teachers and neighbors

and friends. And what I learned from listening to some of these Muslim families, both in the United States and overseas, is that when you start calling these organizations Islamic terrorists, the way it's heard, the way it's received by our friends and allies are on the world is that somehow Islam is terroristic, and that then makes them feel as if they're under attack. In some cases, it makes it harder for us to get their cooperation in fighting terrorism.

So so we're getting a very long answer here from the former president on his thinking, which is not new and has not changed, on why he will not say radical Islam or Islamic terrorism. And this became kind of doctrine liberalism. This became doctrinaire on the left that you don't say radical Islam or Islamic terrorism because one it

hurts our allies. And I always say to this, what kind of allied do we have really with anybody if us describing an organization as it describes itself is somehow an affront to them, you know, as as we're here on nine eleven and and thinking about our counter terrorism and just general security and military UH partnerships all over the world, but particularly in the Islamic world. Is it's worth noting that most the majority of casualties from these

heinous terroristacks is is actually Muslims. And so I don't think that anyone that we would consider to be a good person and an ally in this which is a lot of folks all over the Muslim world, would be put off by a saying the Islamic State, because that's what the Islamic State calls itself. That that is the name. You know, we can call them something else if we want, maybe something that's a pejorative or uh. But but this tendency to play games with language instead of facing up

to the reality is very common with liberals. This is why you see them always or with with the left, with progressives. Some of you have taken issue recently with me saying liberal more frequently. It's a useful shorthand. It's it's such a common shorthand for the left that I

end up using it sometimes too. But trust me, I years ago on this show I used to say that I think that liberal is an intentional misnomer and that the people who want to be called liberals who call themselves liberals are in fact leftists and statists and really have an authoritarian streak within uh, you know, anti anti traditional religion, very militant secularist view of life. And and that's you know that that the the notion of liberals as anything based in liberty is wrong headed. But I

digress on that one. Obama is just wrong on this whole notion radical Islam. And I think that it was always a problem as well. For every time that they can say, oh, well, we didn't want to upset some of our allies, I would always say, well, what about the moderates that we always talk about, What about the run of the mill Muslims who would say that their religion has been hijacked in many cases by terrorists. So

hijack seems like an appropriate term. Hijacked by these radicals and these and these extremists and used in terrible ways that they disagree with. It sounds to me like when we won't refer to them the way that they refer to themselves, meaning we won't refer to these groups as they are in fact named, uh, that it shows a degree of weakness, that it shows that we aren't willing to call out this evil for for what it is. We have to find euphemisms and other names for it.

So now I know there's there's different schools of thought on this one. But I also think that Obama, well, well he was not a He was not a secret Muslim, and people I've gotten a lot of emails, no, he was not. I believe Obama is a secularist. I believe he is an atheist actually, and that you know, now I don't know. I just based it on his policies, and you know, I don't know the man personally, so this isn't like I have some inside information on it.

But I do believe that he views religion much more as a political means to an end and maybe as community building in the early stage of his career as a politician, instead of something that he you know, fervently believes in. You know, I I don't believe, for example, that you can be a Christian and be uh be one of these radical pro choice leftists like in the in the Nancy Pelosi mold. I just don't believe that.

I don't know what else to say. I mean, people can argue with me as much as they want um. But you know, Obama is somebody who on on a whole bunch of issues, has shown a hostility toward religion, whether it's suing the little sisters of the poor when you know he was implementing the monstrosity known as Obamacare, but also on the issue of Islam, there was clearly an affinity. I mean, he he did have um special place in his heart. And he lived in Indonesia for

a number of years as a youth. And that's not controversial or anything. That's that's stated fact that we all know. It's in his biographies. But he lived in Indonesia for a number of years, and I do think that he developed a an affinity for Islam. And it's interesting that he lived in Indonesia, which has traditionally been a place

held up by the left in this country. I see, you can't have a pluralistic and peaceful but actually things in Indonesia in some places are going going in the wrong direction right now on the whole radicalism and Gehodism thing. But it was just strategically wrong and it was a bad It was a bad look, it was it was

bad thought process. Everything about Obama's approach. This stuff. I just think I think it was just wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong when it came to dealing with radical Islam, and it started with an inability or an unwillingness to say radical Islam. I've also always thought, by the way, that there was a a kind of uh, what's the a, A a showy nous, a kind of pedantic thing that Obama always had that I do not miss that we're

not subjected to this anymore. Where he wanted, he wanted to always be signaling to people that thought of themselves as really well informed as you know, I'm one of I'm one of you. And how he would talk about these issues literally, how he would talk about it, meaning the words and the pronunciations, which is why he would say, uh, Bakistan and alban and had this affect when he would speak about some of these It wasn't an accent, it was an effect. It was he he thinks that this

is how you know. It's like somebody who's not a Spanish speaker, who whenever they see a Spanish name likes to really just lean in Martinez. It's like, no, you can just say Martinez. You know, you don't have to get Martinez. You know, he say, if you're a Spanish speaker, say whatever you want. But I'm just saying it's some some liberal Americans see a Latin n aim and they over enunciated because because I think that that's a signaling

mechanism for how sophisticated they are. I think Obama would do that with some of the discussions about terrorism radical Islam, trying to show it's also why I would note this. Uh, you know, they were the only ones, the only ones, and it went away. And I used to make fun of friends of mine in the administration that they would say eisl because Obama eisl eisl and everyone else was saying isis And you'll notice that it did not last beyond Obama's time in office because they said isissel because

they thought that that's it sounded fancy. It's the lavant, it's the more accurate version of it. No, it's not. It was just kind of annoying. I want to hear from America's mayor here in just a moment. I want to hear from Rudolph Giuliani himself. I mean, he's not calling in we've got some I wish well I'm calling another time he's called I think we've had him on

the show before. I've had him on other shows before. Um. He but I want to hear from him on on nine eleven and get his to things, and I'll tell you a little bit about what I remember from that day. Um. We'll move on into the second hour. I've got an editorial that I need to tear apart with you. We've got Sean Parnell joining the show, would be great conversation. I'm also going to talk to you about the Jack Ryan Amazon which I just happened to watch it this week.

I know it's nine eleven. They talk a lot about nine eleven in the show, the Jack Ryan Amazon Series, which I watched in full. I'll give you my my entire review of that coming up in the third hour of the show tonight. And so we've got any more coming up eight four eight to five, eight four four nine, Buck, we'll be right back. The first couple of days, We're

just gruesome. The realization that we lost that many people, the realization we weren't gonna discover bodies, which that well everyone into a hospital waited was a shock that was absolutely shocked to me. Um. I thought I saw it the first day. We were going to save a lot of people. We ended up saving whatever we saved in

US first couple hours. That was it. But the people coming forward throughout the United States throughout the world, that is a particularly memorable experience that that you're talking about because it was kids, but it happened with firefighters from Chicago and Philadelphia and Florida and Texas. It happened with school school classes all over the country. It happened with a bunch of Canadians five thousand coming to New York

in November, Canada, to New York, Canada to help New York. UM. So that that got you through that said to you, oh my gosh, we have a whole country behind us, if not a lot of decent people throughout the world. It was that that coming together of so many different people from all over the world as as a result of nine eleven that I think is one of the great um positive after effects. It didn't last forever, and

it wasn't certainly everyone there. There were people, as heinous as it is to even just have to repeat this, there were people who were celebrating, as you know, on eleven UM. And I actually have been told stories from friends of mine in foreign countries that you wouldn't necessarily expect, like Brazil. I had a friend in Brazil who said people were cheering and celebrating on nine eleven. I had a friend in Egypt who said people were cheering and

celebrating on nine eleven. I mean, I've had friends that you know, they've this this somehow didn't really you know, there's the stories about the kids in and the West Bank were given candy. I think they said to celebrate in front of cameras or something. But it was it was not a completely uh isolated incident to see people

that were cheering. But anyway, most of the world came together and it was an instance of us all seeing or or for once at least taking a step back to to remember that America is a true global superpower in the sense that the world is a better place

with America as it is. And I do think that somewhere in the minds of a lot of folks who were expressing their their sympathy for what had happened to us, and and those who felt like an attack on America was really an attack on civilization, which is what it was. This was nine eleven was an attack on civilization. Uh, that's because they realized that we are in the vanguard of civilization, that we make the world a better, safer, more advanced, more just honestly more joyful place. And that

is that is America's role on this planet. I'm not saying we're perfect. I'm not saying we do that all the time. I'm not saying we're the only ones. But there is something very special about this nation. And that specialness for a moment wasn't called into question, but it was threatened to be extinguished. Because you know, this is one of the big things when you go back and do it in any any remembrance of what it was

like in nine eleven. We didn't know how many planes, we didn't know how many other plots, we didn't know what else was was in the works. I remember I was walking to my Shakespeare class with a professor so Field. Uh, and I was groggy. I was really tired and someone out of it. And I will tell you this, I don't think I ever mentioned this before on the show, And this was I had a I was taking Arabic

at the time. I just started. I was in I think my second week of Arabic class when nine eleven happened, and I had this day and it was the day before nine eleven when I had gotten up and for some reason, I had thought that I had missed class and I had missed a quiz, and I got up and ran and now why would I even have a quiz so soon the semester? I it wasn't. I'm not saying it was. It was rational, it was it was

essentially a dream. But I got up and I ran across campus at six o'clock or something like that in the morning, was very which for a college kid is no one's up at six o'clock. I mean, I rode crew, and other than that, we never got up early. But I ran across the campus and got to an empty classroom and realized the whole campus was asleep. Now that that's it's nothing I know, and I'm not say but

it was the day before the nine eleven attack. And there's always been this part of me that felt like there was something that was coming, there was something that was going to happen. And I'm sure other people have their own and you know, that might be my mind playing tricks in me that in retrospect, you know, you have. You know, it's easy to look at any little thing once you know how a story ends, and say, oh, well that you know that was a signpost for that

other thing. But I just always remember that. I remember it was the only time it ever happened to me in all four years of being a college student, that I woke up without an alarm, ran across the campus and thought that something, you know, thought that I had I had missed class, that I was in this kind of panic. And it turned out that I had just I had gotten up early, early and had a weird dream.

And I remember the next day, on on nine eleven UM, going into the class room and being told to turn around and and go back because we were going to cancel the class because a plane had hit one of

the World Trade Center buildings. And I as everybody everyone who heard that had the same or not everybody, but everyone that I can think of UM who has told their version of what it was like that day for them, had the same thought, which was, you know, a prop plane, maybe two or three people killed, which is a tragedy for them and their families, But it had it had certainly not occurred to any of us, although I had read the books State of Fear, in which Michael Crichton,

whom I mentioned yesterday, has a kind of kama Kaze revenge plot where the Japanese to get revenge for Japanese hype ultra nationalists to get revenge World War two, fly a plane a like a Boeing seven forty seven into the into the Congress with a joint session of com was going on, so that that it wasn't unthought of that somebody could use or you know, it wasn't beyond anyone's imagination somebody could use a plane as a missile

like that. But I remember I was one of the few people on my floor who had a TV because we were sophomores in college, and I turned on the cable box and sat there watching it, and people congregated in my room. So it was right after that, you know, I still this day don't really understand how the professor knew that it was serious enough that he should cancel class.

I suppose I guess people were rather look the World Trade Center had been bombed years before, maybe, But I remember walking back to my room thinking that this was not going to be um. This was not some huge deal. It was maybe a tragedy, but it wasn't. I had no idea that it was a mass casualty terror attack that would change not just the trajectory of the country and the world, but my life. I knew ever thought of going to the c I A until after Not eleven.

I mean, that was just not something I would have considered. I was, honestly, I was trying to head straight to Wall Street. I wanted to have a a comfortable life where I would be rewarded as as best as I could get rewarded for you know, my my work in the in the well, in the office. Um. And after not eleven, I I made a lifestyle change or two so that I would be a very attractive candidate for the CIA. Then it was the first job I applied

for my senior year, all on my own. I mean, my parents have no government connection or no you know, neither my parents was in the military or an intelligence community. So it just all came to me that this is what I wanted to do. So, I mean not eleven and that that is the day that changed so many lives, changed my life for sure. But I remember going back and watching the uh, the gaping hole inside of the building and then also seeing that second plane hit I uh,

and that was that's just one of those moments. It's one of the most you will absolutely never forget. I UM, I remember it very clearly, that part of it. And I remember I turned to some of my friends in the room and I said, oh my, oh my god, we're going to war um and this will you know. I didn't know any of that, but Lodon or any

I mean, I didn't know any of this stuff. I just knew that this that when you were attacked in that way, that there was going to be a a serious, uh and prolonged military response, as we know there was. So it changed the world, folks, changed our our whole, our whole way of thinking. And it is really the most single formative event, which is is uh sant a lot, considering we almost had a great depression just a few years ago, But it is the most single formative event

in in geopolitics in my lifetime. And I think that that's or certainly in my adult lifetime. People might say the fall of the fall of the Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union would be right up there, which I think, yes, that's that's certainly true, um, but that had been coming a long time, so I think there was more of an ability to psychologically pivot to it.

Uh nine eleven. We we went to bed the night before thinking that America, the pox Americana would continue forever, and we're just gonna get richer and happier and everything's gonna be great. And then twenty four hours later we realized we have some really serious enemies and we're gonna have to take the fight to them. And a lot of you listening, I know ended up in a rock and Afghanistan. I never would have thought, but I ended

up there, So that's what happened. The United States will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court. We will not cooperate with the i c C. We will let the i c C I on its own. After all, for all intents and purposes, the i c C is already dead to us. The i c C prosecutor has requested to investigate these Americans for alleged detainee

abuse and utterly unfounded, unjustifiable investigation. Folks, isn't it great to have an administration that doesn't think that foreign countries and foreign entities should have the right to nullify US sovereignty.

Isn't it great to have an administration, to have a White House, a president and president's top national security advisors like Ambassador Bolton there or now National Security Advisor Bolton, who just say, you know what, No, no, We've seen the ridiculousness that is the u n We We've seen this notion play out that all countries are roughly equivalent, that all countries should have a somewhat equal say, or

close to it. And I'm sorry, but we don't really care what the rest of the world thinks about a whole lot of things, and we certainly should not care. And this is one of these ideological dividing lines between democrats and Republicans. We certainly don't care about a court constituted in two thousand and two with the Hague that's supposed to, you know, investigate and prosecute war crimes that we are not a signatory to were we we do

not recognize it. We're not saying, yeah, that's how we're gonna do things, because you know, folks, the reality of what would happen here is that you would have countries that uh, you know, we have to operate in for any of our any any military covert actions that take place, any black ops that go down, any number of things.

Never mind also the more uh open operations that are ongoing in places like rock in Afghanistan, where I know we have agreements with the host countries, but you know, there's always this possibility that a new government will come in or there'll be some push for us to hand over to the International Criminal Court Americans, and you know, we we police our own And this is where you get into the whole well that sounds like something Vladimir

Putin would say, right, You get these internationalists, the self righteous leftists who immediately take this pose and take this position of oh, well, you know you want other countries to be subject to international law, but not America. And to that I say no, no, we're saying that our military will not be subject to foreign entities. We hold our own military subject to US law, which is much more just and comprehensive than any international law, and is

also all right as a sovereign nation. And they will say, well, buck again. This is where you could have you know, the Russians or the Iranians or any number of different countries who would say, well, we would do that too, And in response to that is sorry, this is the U n thinking that the left has that comes back and we don't active. We are not on our government, despite all of its flaws and problems, are not on an equivalent moral plane to the Russians. We're not on

an equivalent equivalent moral plane. Put honestly, do a lot of Muslim majority countries. Uh, We're certainly not on the same moral plane as any of our opposition countries around the world, any of our our enemies or near and close to being enemies. H And that's why I think that that Bolton just drawing a firm line here. It's

absolutely the move, Absolutely what should happen. And I just have to note that, you know, with with Obama, Yes, I know we didn't become a signatory under Obama, but there was always this desire to play kate international opinion. You know, Obama always had this idea that we need to be concerned with what the editorial team at the Guardian, you know, the British paper has to say about something.

I don't care. I just don't and I don't want my elected representatives to care when it comes to international relations. I care about two things that our governments involved in. Really. I care about trade, and I care about keeping us safe. That's it. Beyond that, it's mostly it's really details, sure, democracy, promotion and trying to do you know, good things human rights, clean water, and countries of No, we we do all that stuff, but that's never what's that's never what's that issue?

The problem comes up when all of a sudden you have this obama Ist position on international institutions that we should allow other countries to have a say in our affairs, and I mean the idea that we who would enforce that. By the way, you know that they're gonna put out what an arrest warrant for one of our soldiers or one of our generals. How how long do we think it would be before a dream of many liberals would occur where you have, for example, you know, Dick Cheney

being prosecuted for war crimes in the Hague. As some liberals expressed at the time that that that's their desire. You know, we're gonna hand over a former US premier, former US president. Now we we have our own core processes. You know, anybody who violates rules of engagement or violence uniform Code of Military Justice can be held and is held accountable under our laws, and we're not We're not

going to surrender that sovereignty to anybody. So I really think that that, you know, Bolton took the right step today. It's good to see and it's just a reminder of why I am so happy that we have Trump and Trump's people calling the shots instead of what we have before, because it was it was always so honestly depressing to hear American leadership that was acting like they should be at the at the beck and call of the so

called international community. I mean, what is international opinion? People talk about this like it's a thing like they're pulling all over the world. And when we say international opinion, what we really tend to mean is, you know, the primary, the the UH opinion that we have a sense of from major media outlets in industrialized and and western countries. UH. And that's kind of it, that that's international international opinion.

You know, I think most folks, whether it's in Argentina or Botswana or Myanmar, are of the mind that they'd rather just worry about their own stuff. And they don't have too much in the way of opinions on what America is doing, and and and vice versa. Babe, you know that's the way we feel too. So good job for Bolton, well done today. Another good issue for the Trump administration when I think they came down the right

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No censorship, no agenda. Joined snippy dot com to get the discussion rolling buck sextons decoding the news and disseminating information to its actionable intelligence make no mistakes a credit Great American again. This is the Buck Sexton show. CIA analysts no the retweeting of neo Nazi videos Charlotte's fille. I mean, I could go on and on what he said about a majority black countries. Um, that is tearing more at the fabric of America than attacks on the

Twin Towers. Did we rebuilt from that? We became stronger because of that. But this seems to me a far graver, graver threat to the idea of America. That's multi millionaire pundit at MSNBC Joe Scarborough in reference to a column that was published in the on the Washington Post, and they should be a shame, but they have no shame. I keep returning to this notion of well, the left must finally have learned some kind of lesson here from just being grotesque. But no, no, they wallow in grotesque.

They like it. They they like to just eliminate any sense of decency, fair play, or honor in their dealings with the other side and their dealings with conservatives. That's they take a certain pleasure I think in being as as underhanded and as as unfair as possible to too conservatives and to the right to Trump. Obviously. Uh, this column that was written by Scarborough, which I mean, I would just note first of all, it starts off I mean it starts off with with this, and this is

always a bad sign. This is like somebody who's writing for their high school newspaper who's trying really hard to impress people. Here's here's how its column starts off. Cataclysmic events often bring with them violent and abrupt endings to settled ages and long established norms. Those absorbing the impact of these historical aftershocks rarely grasp the apocal changes in

real time. Yeah, when huge things happen, people don't necessarily understand the full context of them when they have and thanks Joe for for the really bombastic and and pretty clownish opening of this editorial. And then he goes on to talk about you know, nine eleven of World War Two, and he talks about some of the greatest challenges, the greatest challenges in the history of this country, challenges that involved the threat of life and death to the United

States as well as millions of its people. Right, I mean to to the end of us as a nation and the end of us individually as as human beings, depending on how it all went. And I just can't help but but note that, you know, Scarborough has gotten crushed for this idiot editorial today because he says that that Trump is more dangerous to the fabric of American

than Bin Laden. Now, Joe Scarborough doesn't really know anything about terrorism or Gehot or gehotism, right, He just knows what he has read here or there in the newspaper and what his research team tells him to say. And you know, I'm sure he probably changes his position on

jihadism the same way he did on Trump. That's why I mean Scarborough as the anti Trumper is particularly self serving and gross because when he thought that he was going to have this great relationship with scar with with Trump and then it was going to advance advances already.

I mean, Scarborough's advanced well beyond the wildest dreams of anybody that would look at him and say, yeah, that's a guy who should have his have his own And don't know, somebody think buck, you know, don't you sound like you're no. Look, I'm trying to be honest with you. I mean, there are some people who are really really good at what they do. If you want a a very leftist point of view, you know, Rachel Maddow shows a great place to go. I mean she is, she

is good at what she does. I I respectability, I respect talent. I think Joe Scarborough just happens to have some of the right friends in the right places. I just I find nothing about him as a broadcaster or in any other respect impressive, sir. Only not his writing. But he sat down to write this, this editorial, and it's that's the thing. It's it's worse than a an utterance, right, I mean, like I do radio three hours a day, I say, thinks sometimes I think that's not really how

I meant that. And while I'm pretty cautious or careful and not wildly overstating things or getting into a place where I'm gonna have to say sorry about that, you know, I know that it's going to happen. It's just the reality of my business. But an editorial is something else. I mean to publish an opinion column in the Washington Post. If you're Scarborough who is from I won't get into that. And I've I've heard things that he's not a particularly

nice guy either, which I just can't. I can't drop that from my mind because I've heard it from people who who would know. But you know, maybe they just have some personal people them. I don't know. I've never met him, I've never interacted them, never worked with him. I'm just judging, basing all this, judging this on his on his work. But he wrote this editorial and to convinced or try to convince people that Trump is worse than nine eleven when it comes to an attack on

the fabric of this country. This is something that only a person who is crazy or has Trump derangement syndrome could say. And that's why we call it a syndrome, because, as I have told you. It is pathological. This is beyond just you know, we don't agree on an issue of politics, you know, Joe Scarborough and I don't see

this the same way. This is I think that he would have a hard time accepting the reality of you know, the real implications of the words and the things that he's saying, because he's so wrapped up in this notion of Trump as an existential threat to the country, existential

threat house folks. You know, if Trump did any of these things that they say he's talked about, or you know that that the Woodward Book, which I would note today even more people what Rob Portman came out and Mike who was the other one, Rob Portman and someone else came out today to say that the Woodword Book is not a fair representation of things that were said

or meetings is not accurate. Uh And what Word has had plenty of problems in the past with people claiming that he's you know, is his ability to string together these events are let's just say it's questionable at times, and it is certainly questionable. But you know, I I sit here and and I'm trying to wrap my mind

around why somebody like Joe Scarborough. Uh would would say this, and he must believe that Trump is on the on the precipice or or Trump is is just a bad day away from starting a military conflict with North Korea, which is a stupid thing to believe. I mean, there's no real basis for this. And on top of that, I would offer to you that, yeah, then then we would have a discussion about, you know, removing the president

right then. I mean, if he did these things that they always say he's just about to do, well, then I think there could be a discussion about is this man fit to be president? But all we see is a president who's getting great results, who's implementing some very conservative policies, who is remaking the judiciary in a way that would make Scalia proud looking down from on high, and you know, goes after the media in a way that some find a little bit aggressive or vulgar or whatever.

But I think it's great. I think the media needs to get slapped around a little bit by by the The only person who can really do it right now is Trump. I mean, the only person who really gets their attention quite this way is is Donald Trump. And and they act like that at any moment. Now, there's gonna be some crisis that uh just unravels in front of us, because Trump is, you know, not of sound mind.

You know, That's the the gray irony here, folks, is that I think that the people that think that Trump is crazy are the ones who are crazy. I think that the Joe scarbor Rows, I mean, Trump is living rent free in their heads. Man. I mean, he's gotten so deep into their world, he is, he has pushed so far into you know, how they view themselves and how they view their role in America that there they've lost it. They've lost it because this editorial, this is

this is sheer idiocy. This is not this is not an easy mistake that anybody could make. This is not some one off. It's not oh well, you know, no big deal man, Like I just thought we would, you know, talk about something, and I got a little bit messed up,

or I got a little ahead of myself. No, this is an editorial submitted to the Washington Post where a prominent cable news so called conservative by the way, is saying that Trump is a greater danger to the fabric of him and now I know he's like, well, the fabric of America is more about ideas and every but you know, as we've been discussing, I mean nine eleven, we look back at it now and think that we had it in hand and we were gonna, you know,

meaning the threat again, the threat of Gehodism and the war on terror at the time, folks, as we all can remember, if we think back to it, none of that was nearly as clear. And geodis m for a short period time was a real threat to our way of life and will be again if we are not vigilant, and that includes vigilance against stupidity like what we see here from Scarborough. The FBI calls home title theft one

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evident that President Trump there's a coupe. I mean, there's a coupe like to the same there was a coup by General McClellan in the senior leadership in the Union Army to try to thwart what Abraham Lincoln wanted to do in the Civil War. You have an exact type of coup right now. What was said in that anonymous letter was absolutely outrageous, and I think the President will take immediate and direct action to defind out who the conspirators are. I don't think there's any one author. I

think there's an author that. I think there's a somebody that drafted it. There are many voices in there. I think you can tell the way it's written. I think that's a much broader conspiracy than people think. I think it's probably six to a dozen people. And I think you would immediately start to do what Andrew Jackson did, do what Abraham Lincoln did, find out who's responsible and

fire him. Steve Bannon breathing fire on this issue of the hunt for a non September as we call it yesterday, but the hunt for the anonymous editorialist or editorial contributor or whatever who has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that there is in fact a deep state, that that's what's

going on here. And while the the effort was was made to try and make the deep state component of this sound like they're acting responsibly and ethically and that they're they're really doing something we should all be thankful for, at the end of the day, most folks who read this, and we're being honest with themselves, said this is terrible um for our government and it's really actually very damaging for those who are quite anti Trump, because there's no

more discussion, folks, whether there is a deep state. There is only questions or how large and how active is it, how much is it trying to undermine the president of the United States. I just, you know, I want to put this in the context here. Imagine for a moment that there was a group of people at the FBI and the Department of Justice who had tried to open, or had opened rather a criminal investigation of a sitting

president under very very dubious at best circumstances. Imagine that there were people who worked for the government who had been described as crying at their desks because they were so upset at the prospect of working for that president. And then somebody who is described as being a senior official in the actual White House said that the president was having his will thwarted by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who

think they know better than the president. Imagine all of that, which is what's going on right now, but the president is Obama. And just think for a moment, what would the reaction be in the press if if put aside all the things that I just said, if you just had a solitary editorial, forget about all the Russia inclusion

stuff everything else. If you would have had one person in the White House who had published an editorial saying, I think Barack Obama is so incompetent that I refused to let him read documents that he should be able to read. US President State said, I work to prevent his decision making from being enacted. You know that the media would be screaming and freaking out over this in every possible way. And here we are. That's the reality

of Donald Trump. And it's on the one hand, the New York Times is clearly very proud of itself, there's no about that. They think that they've done some great service here. Uh. And and on the other I think my more recent revelation that they're not going to try to find this editorial columnists, I think that's true. I think that they feel like it's served its purpose and that's that and there's nothing else that they really need to spend any other time or energy on um. And

it's just crazy, folks, It's just crazy. I mean, you know nothing in terms of finding out who wrote this thing. Uh, it is bizarre to me how self satisfied the media is with this whole thing. But you got to remember that that the New York Times and others they have to appeal to. What you could say is the Maxine Waters viewpoint, the Maxine Waters wing of the Democrat Party,

And it sounds something like this play clip one. I wake up in the middle of the night, and all I can think about is I'm going to get him. This deployable, despicable human being that occupied as the White House should not be there. We should not be comfortable with it. We should not think about how somebody else is gonna deal with This is all of our fight. And every day I say I'm in this fight, they say, Maxine, please don't say impeachment anymore. And when they say that,

I say, impeachment. Impeachment, impeachment, intenpeach. Someone who disrespects the Constitution, who disrespects human beings period, who's self centered, who does not care about the Constitution, who's alienated our allies, who's tied when booting won't condemn them in bed with the oligarchs of Russia. If you cannot talk about impeachment, given what we have learned about him and the way that he's defined himself. Then impeachment means nothing. Someone asked, but

what about Pence? If you were able to impeach Pence will be worse? And I said, look one at a time. If God made the bet pas, well tell him. You know, she's she's not alone in this thinking, folks, that's a pretty all the things she said there. As much as I know you're here in maximum water, She's like, Buck, why are you making me listen to this again? Because it's it's a pretty good overview of what Democrat thinking

is right now. They're not making some big case, but this in fact here, uh we got We got Obama himself saying that you know you better, you better bring back sanity to the country. Play clip two. There's a consequential moment in our history. Yeah, And the fact is that, uh, if we don't step up, things can't get worse. Where there's a vacuum in our democracy when we are not participating, we're not paying attention, when we're not stepping up. Other

voices filled the board. But good news is in two months we have a chance to restore some sanity in our politics. What is insane exactly about our politics? Right? Now that that Trump tweets things about how Jim Acosta acts like a clown at the at the White House, I mean he does. What is there that is insane right now? I mean that's that's what is it? Insane? Like insanely awesome, bro, Like we've got the lowest unemployment rate.

It's insane that they use these words and they're trying to scare people, and they can't really point to anything. I keep getting this this uh, repetitive series of talking points from people, including conservatives who hate Trump, which, as you know, there are a lot of them. Whether they're still conservatives or not, we can leave that discussion for

another time. But they keep repeating the same things about you know, Trump said this or he said that, and I don't like this, and I like that, and I see it, and I say to myself, this should not matter to me. Why why do they think it's going to matter to me what they say about what Trump said. This is just punditry in place of policy. It's just offering up prognostications about the way the country is going about the future of the country without saying what the

real nuts and bolts shortcomings are. And I sit here and I think to myself, well, okay, the same things, Like the country is insane right now? Country feels very sane to me. What because we've had a lot of departures in the White House, because Trump doesn't necessarily always bring in the best people. Maybe he sometimes puts too high a premium on loyalty over competence. Okay, nobody's perfect. I've never said Trump is perfect, and you know that

I don't. I don't think he's perfect. I think he is for his time and what he's trying to accomplish remarkable. But that doesn't mean that I think everything he does is great. But I certainly don't think that he's crazy. Uh. That brings up the whole twenty fifmenment discussion. I don't buy that. I don't believe that our politics are insane

right now. You know. I just think the Democrats really want to go back to an era when they could handle Republicans the way they handled Romney and McCain and uh, you know others before them, where it's just we're always on defense, we're always slowly losing, and they only say nice things about you while you're losing on an issue. And then once you've lost, They trash you again. That's how the Left deals with the Republicans. So uh, and that's not That's not the game that I think we

should be playing. That's not the way that we should be involved here. We've got much more team. Stay with me. We will experience power atages. We will have infrastructure damage that will be homes damage, that will be uh, debris on the roads. Uh. This is a dangerous storm, the storm wheel and has the potential to uh cause loss of life, and we cannot you know, uh emphasize the

importance to take action now. I've received a briefing from Secretary Nils and administrat along and my senior staff regarding Hurricane Florence and other tropical systems that will soon impact the United States and its territories. The safety of American people is my absolute highest priority. We are sparing no expense. We are totally prepared. We're ready. We're as ready as

anybody's ever been. And it looks to me, and it looks to all of a lot of very talented people to do this for a living like this is going to be a storm that's going to be a very large one, far larger than we've seen in perhaps decades. I've spoken with the governors of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. They're prepared, We're prepared. We're working very well

in conjunction with the governors. So you've got this category for hurricane Hurricane Florence that is likely to make landfall. What in the next forty eight hours or so, people are expecting massive flooding. I'm actually here in the path of this thing in the swamp in d C. Where I think flooding is going to be the primary concern. Mike,

are we are we at the phase yet? Are people sure enough this is gonna be bad that you know, the whole foods all of a sudden is running out of you know, bread on the shelves kind of thing. Are you seeing any of that stuff? Yeah, that's what they're talent. Everybody, Um, it's it's get out now. It's um. You know, you have a great deal obviously, have great deal empathy r anybody in its pathway, but you know, everything on it is I'm seeing right now is get out. Well, right,

that's if you're in the direct pathway. But I even mean for you know, people, something I remember in New York City some years ago, Remember there was Sandy, which was really but Sandy was really bad because of the flooding. The actual storm didn't seem because I was in Manhattan when that happened, didn't seem like it was quite that bad until you realize that the flooding and then the

power outage that came from the flooding happened. UH in this want to I think they'll be flooding and it's the coast of the Carolina is is gonna get hammer But I assume the whole Eastern Seaboard is pretty much gonna turn into one big wet mess. Yeah, that's what it looks like. They said it's UH slowing down and that that could mean more rain droppage in UH on the entire Eastern seaboard. What's where where were you during Sandy?

I was. I was here in New York. I was in UH, I was in Brooklyn and John, where were you during Sandy? I was at home here in New York. And did did you guys lose did you guys lose power? No? Not me, Yeah, I hadle I feel like I got out I escaped with nothing. I didn't lose power for a minute, and I didn't think it was that bad until I actually walked out. At the time, I lived near Prospect Park, and I'm I walked out the next day and it was like there was trees down everywhere.

So I was in a building when that happened. I was a building in just north of Madison Square Park and and uh at the time, I was living just south of of Madison Square Park. But I was with a with a friend at the time, and uh, I was able to get up to the roof and see and at one point I remember going up there at night and you could see the whole southern part of Manhattan blacked out, and that was a really just an

eerie thing to see. I remember at the time people were all like, well, you know, we know not how long this is gonna last. I mean, in the hindsight being everyone's like, well, you know, it wasn't gonna be that bad, and you know, they got the power back on pretty quickly. But when you have a big blackout like that in a city like New York City, it

was it was pretty unnerving. Man. And I remember the next morning, the night after the or the morning after the storm, which you know, really hit hard at night uh, people were walking in droves. I mean just just people walking north in Manhattan looking on They're all in the street and it was like you could tell everybody had been through a rough night, and you know, uh, and it was because they were looking for a power outlet

to plug their phone is into. Because you know, we just take this for granted now, but if you don't have access to your phone, right you think about your job and what you're going on, you feel very disconnected from everything that's going on. So all these people were just looking for outlets in the power zone to get to their phone. But I tell you, Mike and John, it's civilization hangs by a pretty thin thread. You see this in some of these in some of these disaster

storm scenarios. Yeah. Absolutely, well anyway, but we hope that everybody, you know, is everyone's listening, as I know, we've got a lot of people in the Carolinas. Uh. So you know, if you're in a zone, please please, you know, heed the warning. It's it's always better to come back after the fact and feel like you know it was you were being overly cautious. I do remember, I forget what

the storm was. Was another time when everybody in New York was filling their bathtubs full of watercause they thought we weren't gonna have any water. And that storm it wasn't sandy, it was a different storm. That storm was totally nothing. I mean, was that Irene? Yeah, John, you remember that, right? Every I mean, and there were stories about people getting into fight to grocery stores over food,

and I mean, it was crazy and nothing happened. It's kind of amazing that the that at that stage and at that level of sophistication, the Weather Service could get something so wrong. But you know one thing that I found frustrating that I too, is you can tell there's some people that seemed to be uh waiting for this to turn into a a political political thing. You know,

if this is they they've already tried to make. And I just had a team from the Hill come back from Puerto Rico where they were doing reporting on the ground there about the about the effort to rebuild, and the media was was trying to push to make Puerto Rico Trump's Katrina. That's been the big effort. That's been what they were saying all along. But I mean, I spoke to the one delegate from Puerto Rico. Remember they have somebody who's in Congress but doesn't have voting rights

in Congress. I spoke to their delegate and she said, look, you know, it's not that we were Yes, it was terrorrble and the island was was really badly beat up and the relief efforts couldn't get to us fast enough. But it wasn't that there was any mouthfeasance or recklessness in the part of the government. It's that they were prepared for, you know, like a Category one or something, and it was a Category four. I mean it was

they got hit really hard. Um, so so that was that was a big you know, there was no there you could tell they were setting up to make it. Oh well Trump Trump fell asleep on the job here. No, Actually they they had preparations they made on it just wasn't enough. The preparations weren't enough. So in this case, I think flooding is the big thing. Everyone's and flooding and high winds, I think, or what I'm seeing, everybody needs to be very careful and stay away from that stuff.

That's my that's my sense of it. I wish I don't have much that And also you're gonna see a lot of discussion of how they sees about climate It's like clockwork. It's like it's climate change. And even if the storm doesn't, because it can change very quickly. And if we had somebody who act you understood, you know, atmospheric and oceanic pressure and all that stuff. I don't know about any of that stuff, they could explain to

you how it happens. You know, once it makes landfall, the storm starts to run out of energy very quickly. But it could it could slow down considerably before then. But I guarantee you, just because there's so much attention on the issue right now, there will be people probably from vox dot com and others who jumped to see climate change. You know, once again it turns into a climate change story. It's it's always if if the storm

is huge, it proves climate change. If the storm is not a big deal at all, well it's an opportunity to talk about how the next storm will be huge because of climate change. These people, it's their their belief because it is like a religious belief for them. It is unfalsifiable. They do not care what the you know,

what's going to happen. And I am hearing, by the way, this is just gonna side that my sources here in d C. Are telling me that there's gonna be a big announcment from the White House that has to do with the UH classified information and the FISA requests and Carter Page. I'm hearing that this is gonna happen, and

it's probably gonna happen next week. And one of the reasons that it has been put off is because President Trump wants to make sure that the focus right now is on this storm, that the federal government, all of its efforts that should be focused on the storm are and that nobody can make the claim that there was any kind of you know, taking taking an eye off

the ball here. And because if the people, if there's misery and all that, they they will turn that immediately, no matter how much it's really Mother Nature's fault, they'll turn it into an opportunity to try to try to bash Trump. But but I I am hearing that you're gonna see a big announcement, a big release of information from the White House. And and look, this is kind of a a version of the October Surprise, but it's

an October surprise from the good guy eyes. In this case, it would be that we would finally get the information that we need, finally get access to the data. Or in this case, I guess the words about what really was the basis for the fives A warn against Carter Page. If it's as bad as everyone I know is saying, if it's as bad as we have been led to believe, think about what this could do going into the mid terms.

I mean, it would just prove to everybody that there was a very real effort to try and and take down the Trump administration. So anything that that is as it should be, that is taking a far back seat too right now to making sure everybody's safe and gets out of the path of this of of Hurricane Florence. By the way, if we if any of you are able to listen and call in tomorrow who are in the Carolina as we want to hear from you for sure, know how it's going, how you're doing. So we've got

more show coming up. Team stay with me. You can't repeal history, and almost every election two years into any new administration, the party of the presidency loses seats. They don't always lose the body, but almost always loses seats, and so we know this is going to be a very challenging election on the Senate side. I'll just list you a bunch of races that are dead, even Arizona, Nevada, Tennessee, Montana, North Dakota, Missouri, Indiana, West Virginia, and Florida, all of

them too close to call. And every one of them um like a knife fight in an alley. I mean, just a brawl in every one of those uh places. I hopen the smoke clears that will still have a majority in the Senate. And this is a really big one for the group. The n f IB is out with its monthly read on Optimism showing a new all time high for the month of August of one oh eight point eight. This is nearly a one point increase from last month. This also breaks the previous record of

one oh eight set back in ninth three. This is optimism for the full year. It's holding well above The index is historical average of the biggest gains this month contributing to the jump or plans to increase inventories, plans to make capital outlays, and plans to increase employment. So someone needs to explain to the left. Dare I say to the haters out there, how it is that this

is the quote Obama economy that we're enjoying right now. Meanwhile, we are setting records that stretched back to the Reagan administration on things like the Small Business Optimism Index. I need somebody to look me in the eye and explain to me why is it that we are setting all time records when it comes to unemployment in UH having such low unemployment in minority communities. Folks. They have no

answer for this. You know, I didn't spend a lot of time today talking to you about the mid terms, because trust me, once we get into octope over, it's gonna be all the terms, all the time, at least in the news cycle. I mean, I'm not going to be like that. We got we got other things to focus on too. But they they have no answer on the economy. It's if there's any X factor here that could lead to a different, different end result in the mid terms. And what we've been led to believe, which

is essentially that it's all over for UH. For Republicans in the House, that they're gonna lose the majority, no question about it, And and this is the way it's gonna go. Um. I just think that they have not made a compelling case the American people about this and and Trump hatred is just not enough. It's enough for the looney left, it's enough for people that just despise Trump, no matter, no matter what. But that's not enough of

the country. You know, I saw these polls today. Oh my gosh, these poles are so they're they're so useless. This pull out about you know how thirty one percent of Americans think Trump is is honest. And I look at this and they do this with this whole ha ha, but look at this time, Trump didn't tell the truth. To look at that time, Trump didn't tell the truth. And this is just a waste of everyone's time. Because the people who think that Trump is honest mean that

he's honest about what matters. Nobody is uh completely in the dark about how Trump has a braggadocious quality, how how he has perhaps a tad of a of a hyperbolic streak when he talks about things. He can be loose with language. We all get that, But the media runs these poles, They run these polls about things like you know what, not just your support for Trump, but also, you know, what do you think of Trump's trustworthiness and how do you think he's handling this issue or that issue.

To try and put a number on their case, which is that Trump is unpopular and he's not doing a good job and all the rest of it, and it's just I think that it's not going to work the way they think it is. Um. My belief is that a lot of folks, especially if you're in the kind of now it's base midterms are all about base turnout.

And I get all that stuff and the conventional wisdom, but if if anyone's showing up to the polls and they're like, you know, I haven't yet figured out, you know, if I'm happy with my particular representative or not, so I'm gonna vote party line, They're gonna look at what's going on in the country right now, and they're gonna find all these different reasons why the economy is so strong that probably worth just riding this out a little

bit more. And I've been saying this. My my feeling is that Trump is essentially politically invulnerable unless or until there is a major recession. When we see a major pullback in the markets, when when all of a sudden people have a drop of the stock market, their four oh one case have gotten hammered, and you see a big, big push in or a big spike in unemployment, then a lot of these other criticisms matter, But things like

do you think Trump is honest? I just don't believe the American people are going to focus in enough on that one that it makes any difference really in in the midterms. And and beyond that, you have each individual candidate running their own race. And the Democrats, I I can say this for them, they've at least noticed that they probably shouldn't run far left candidates in places like like Texas. They shouldn't run far left candidates in places where they're gonna have to work really hard to fool

some Americans who are kind of in the center. And you think the Democrats in their center because they're not Democrats are party of of the extreme left now at least that's ideologically where they are, and they they vote in lockstep, folks. So just because somebody who's a Democrat shows up and starts saying, you know, well, I like guns and I like hunting, and you know, in some cases they'll say you know, I'm a veteran and you're like, Okay, well it sounds kind of Republican to me, but I

guess you're a Democrat. I'll vote for you. Keep in mind that that Democrat who likes guns in the Second Amendment and is pro union and likes the military is going to vote with Nancy Pelosi on basically everything. So that's what people need to remember. That that that's the message that has to get that has to get through. By the coming up, we've got a great third hour. I'm gonna talk to you about the Jack Ryan series on Amazon. I watched the whole season. I ripped through it.

Molly and I watched it together. And then we'll have right after that, a a real door kicking superhero. Sean Parnell will be joining us. A. Sean Parnell has got a new book out. We'll talk to about that and just spend some time hanging with Sean because we always like it when he comes by the Freedom Hut. And then how do they Miss America pageant work out without the swimsuit competition. I'm gonna do a very thorough, deep dive analysis of the no swimsuit Miss America situation coming up.

Buck Sexton decoding the news and disseminating information with actionable intelligence. Magnor mistake, American ring, You're a great American again. This is the Buck Sexton Show. Analysts Sexton, No, I can't go to Yemen. I'm an analyst. I don't interrogate people. I write reports. Get on the plane. We gotta figure out a way to get inside of his head. Must have been slay man. Is my husband? He don't know where I am. My son is with him. Is he

planning something here? Harry, it was only at the beginning. Just follow him all watch to learn. We have to chase this down, my son, get him back. Prom I can't go to Yemen. I'm an analyst. I write reports. Ah, Yes, brings back memories. So that's from the new Jack Ryan series on Amazon Prime, which many of you have been asking me about, brought to my attention and emailing about and such, And I gotta tell you that I like it. I think it's good. I think that they did a

good job. There's some stuff that's a little perfunctory, and the writing is a little too cute in some places. In terms of the storyline, I'll give you my my full sense of it. I mean, it's entertaining, it's well done, the production values are good. It moves quickly, so I really like it. I'll probably give it an a minus. Uh. The language that they use and the terminology and the way they talk about things, a lot of the uh, the different acronyms that come up. They did their research.

They actually use real lingo and and look, not all of it, but but a fair amount of it, which I like because it's just laziness for a lot of writers, a lot of writers otherwise. And I like the scene where he says we're not agents, were officers, meaning you know people say CIA agent. That's always the big tell for us, especially when somebody says, you know, well my my uncle was a former CIA agent. It's like, well, if you really knew him, and if he really was one,

he would have told you. It's c I a officer. It is. It is not a you're a CIA agent if you're an an asset being run by a CIA officer, a one who works for a CI officer in getting espionage information. So you know that that's an important distinction that make I mean, there's a lot of things that are good look, John John Krasinski is a very charismatic leading guy. Who would have thought Jim from the Office, you know, you put on twenty pounds of muscle, and uh,

all of a sudden, he's an action here. It's kind of like the other guy that I really like from Parks and Wreck, who also what's his name, Pratt, Chris Pratt, who put on a whole bunch of muscle and now he's an action star too. Man. I wish I could take off six months and just just work out, eat chicken breast and cruciferous vegetables all day and then just see what happens. That'd be fun. But I don't think I've got that in the schedule anytime soon. I barely

have time to sleep. But Jack Ryan back the show. Some of the things I like. It's contemporary, so it's kind of the Jack Ryan architecture set up by Tom Clancy in terms of characters and basic storyline. Fast forwardage it today, so you've got Isis and Syria and Yemen and the Muslim suburbs of Paris, and you know, there's just there's a lot of stuff they work in it that's good. There's some good footage of Langley and it I like that, Uh Krasinski lives in Georgetown. Look, I

can't help but feel a little nostalgic. I watched this show and it's about a C I a analyst, and he lives in Georgetown, and he works on Mid East issues, and I think at one point he walks into the CTC he's working with CTC. Well, I was a CIA analyst in CTC who lived in Georgetown. So now I did not get air lifted by the Coast Guard from a fancy party on the Maryland shore in front of my soon to be girlfriend. Nothing that cool happened to me.

But I was in the room in some big briefing rooms full of a lot of big han schos at the in the intelligence community. Overall, I did sit down with director Mike Hayden at different times and and brief him on things and so so just it brought back some memories. Um, I would really be curious to hear from some friends in the special operations community what they think of the scenes where they use Jaysack guys or

when they are playing Jaysack guys. I should say, Uh, to do different raids and the military component of it, I mean, on the if I'm going to analyze how realistic the analyst stuff is, the basics of it are correct, and that yeah, you look at you know, look at phone records and email records, and it's a lot of investigative work. Uh. It does not move, of course, anywhere near the universe of his you know, as quickly as

it does in the show. Krasinski sits there and he goes, you know what, and he all of a sudden just knows the whole plan and would look, you gotta suspend disbelief with these things. If they made a show about being a CI analyst that was real, it would involve a lot of uh, long arduous treks to the Starbucks. You know, it's not what people think that it is. There's some other cool stuff, you know, there's some undisclosed locations and things where you get to do some really

interesting training and other stuff. But you know, overall, I think that it's it's a good series, a good show. And here's the big part of it, the part of it that I think a lot of you will really like if you haven't seen it already. Uh, it was advertised to me because I saw this making the rounds on social media as oh, this is a show that celebrates toxic masculinity and white male privilege, and I was like, sold,

sign me up. This sounds great. You know, we're not gonna have to watch a show that is constantly jamming some kind of an agenda down our throats. You know, I really don't need a show about a a a tri sexual uh you know, non gender binary Eskimo who I'm sorry Inuit who happens to be a super special covert agent or something who also knows lots of karate. I don't need that. I just want I just want

good characters. And I also would like the recognition of the reality that America is in right now, which is that some of our most dangerous and implacable foes are in fact jihadists. That doesn't mean that we're at war with the Muslim world. All that stuff still applies of worse. It's it's embarrassing that we feel the need to say that. But you know, if media Matters is listening to this, I gotta make sure that I cover myself because we all know that already, and we have many Muslim allies

in that fight. But you know, radical Islam is a real threat or real danger to us, and at least so far, in this show on Amazon Prime, The Jack Ryan Show, they do not uh go down the road of well, the real threat isn't gee hottests, it's you know, white nationalists who have overtaken the US government or something.

It's you see so much of this from Hollywood, and it's just annoying and it doesn't resonate with us because when you're worried about a biochem weapon going off, biological chemical weapon going off somewhere, the chances are that you think it's gonna be from a guy who's gonna yell a lahaak bar right before he detonates it. That's just reality and our arch in this case, you know, our entertainment with a show like this should reflect at some level what are our reality is. It just makes it

much more interesting and enjoyable experience. By the way that the character who's kind of the the well he's really a supervisor's gonna say the right hand. But the buddy cop element of the show, and it's obviously a c I A show, not a cop show, but that actor who plays he's the the black uh kind of grizzled veteran supervisor of Krazinski's character is Bunk from the Wire for those of you who are fans of the Wire. So that's kind of fun for me because I really

enjoyed that show. But you know, the Jack Ryan Show is good and it's just going to it just goes to show folks with all of the different espionage thrillers and all that, you know, you just need a story that is compelling with good characters, where there's good guys and bad guys and stuff happens and you care it doesn't. You don't have to reinvent the wheel. You just have to execute on the straightforward aspects, on on the straightforward

elements of good story and good storytelling. And I think that the Amazon Prime show Pretty which does that. If you have any specific questions, by the way, about something that you think is well, if you want to ask me if something is real or how you know, I'm happy to tell you you know my my sense of it.

But just understand this. You would not go from being analyst to field operative to which they referred to as case officers, which is the proper terminology to UH interrogator back to and then essentially door kicker you know, no, no, no, it doesn't work that way. That's you don't get to cover all that ground. But if you have any other questions about it, if I can answer it, I will. If I can, I'll just tell you you can another

confirm nor deny. But I will recommend that any of you that have the chance, if you if you have Amazon Prime, or if you thought about watching it, two thumbs way up. I really thought it was a good series. I'm looking forward to the next I hope they make the next season of it. Krasinski was was pretty excellent. I thought, you know, he's a very charming actor. And I okay, now my one criticism. I don't know her name, but I don't like the female lead. I just don't.

I think she's a little I don't know, there's something vaguely European about maybe she's a European actress. But it's just it doesn't strike me as a good I don't like the chemistry between the two leads. It just didn't work for me. It just didn't work for me. But I'm I'm very picky about these things. You always did, you always do this? Yeah, back everybody, we we got with us a special guest. I wanted to get him, you know, on the hot seat right away. We have

with us the one, the only, Sean Parnell. Everybody you know, we all love Sean. Sean is a former army ranger, author of one of my favorite and I'm gonna give him a swelled head. Although he doesn't need any help today because everyone's just everyone just wants to tell Sean how awesome he is. But one of my favorite military memoirs of all time, which is Outlaw Platoon, which I have read cover to cover where I guess kindall start

to finish. Uh. He's the author of Outlaw Platoon, but he has a new book and we are lucky enough to have him joining us today to discuss it, A Man of War, which is a novel and and we're have shown on Shawn. Great great to have you. I just want to ask you first, what's it like to basically have all of all of the elite news media fight over your time and want to talk to you about your novel? You realize, how you realize how rare

this is. That's not a thing, that's not that's I don't I don't know why people are like me or support me but that's not in your exaggerating. That's not famous famous news anchors and and correspondence and multi millionaires are like, I need me some Sean Parnell. I want to talk about I want to talk about man of war.

So so let's let's do that for a moment before we get into the latest of of of your exploits out on the West Coast and and selling the rights the movie rights to all this tell us a bit Sean about man of war. Yeah, okay, so a man of war. You know, I joined to serve the military after nine eleven, you know, and I was inspired to join the military after witnessing the sacrifice of so many great Americans who, instead of running away from the flames, ran into the flames to try to say people that

they didn't even know. And you know, I remember sitting there. I was a college kid, and I remember nursing. I was nursing a pretty terrible hangover that morning, um, and I just remember thinking, how can I sit here and do nothing when ordinary Americans are sacrificing everything in many cases for people that they didn't even know. And so that in that moment, I decided to serve my country. You know. I mean, I think all of us are presented with moments in our life where we have such

tremendous clarity. In the wake of the most horrific terrorist attack on our nation's history, that I had clarity, and it was, you know, I wanted to join the military service, something greater than myself, getting the fight against the people that attacked us on September eleven, and be on the front lines. And I got my opportunity to do that. I went to war for four five days, and I came back. A lot of my guys were wounded, some of which came home in body bags and flag drape coffins.

And I remember there was a one profound moment where I was I was reflecting on uh, looking at one of the waves of my soldiers, and I said, you know what, like I have got to live a life worthy of their sacrifice and earn it every single day. And so writing a novel for me was always a

bucket list item. But one of the things that that I wanted to make sure that I that came through in this book was making sure that my main character, Eric Steele, embodied the greatness of what it means to be an American and the greatness of the American warrior ethos, and you know the selflessness, uh, the heroism, the the loyalty, the duty, respect and honor that every single person that ran into the flames that day on nine eleven exhibited. I wanted to make sure it was crammed all in

my main character. And Eric Steele is that guy. He's the main character and man of war. He's a franchise character. You'll see a book from him every year, but he is a mainstream fiction character that loves America uh and believes it's worth fighting for and worth dying for. Because I just I think it's important that our kids have mainstream fiction character to look up to in this country and inspire to be like. Well, I just hope that in Eric Steele's uh trials and travails or and travels

and tribulations. I don't know why something over this world always with the words words. If you have any any room for a a a cynical CIA analyst named Buck Sexton, you throw him in there, baby, Because if Eric Steele, if he needs somebody to tell him, we're the best places to get a latte in South Asia, let me tell you Cia analyst Buck has got at steals back. Hey man, you know what, you know, I think I might be able to make that happen in book two. I think I might. I think I might. I think

I can do it. You know, one of the one of the main characters in my book tease me, this is like offering the name your first born after me. It's not that it's not like that, but I think it's Actually that's a pretty awesome idea, you know. So one of my main characters in this book is an x CIA analyst. It's it's a woman. She's a female protagonist, and she is she is just she's awesome in every way. But I think that there could be a very easy way to tie Buck the CIA analyst into the story.

And he's gonna have a big head, you know, physically physically big head. Uh. And he's gonna be a little dorky with a really deep, awesome radio voice exactly. And by the way, when when they don't have a charge to do a breach properly, they can just use that head like Bonk from Bonk's Adventure, just knock that puppied right down. Man. That's that's what it's like. A battering Ramma. Who needs to ballistic breach? Who needs C four when they have Buck Sexton's head exactly, That's all you need.

So so A Man of War is out today. People can get it on Amazon, they can get it on Kindle. What's some of the stuff you got planned? By the way, because you know you're you're getting I really do mean this man. So few people get other people to be happy for them when they have a book that comes out or something in the way that I'm seeing with you, people just want your book to succeed. Sean Parnell, what are you gonna run for office? By the way, Never

love Sean, never, but never. But I'll tell you, I'll tell you. You know, I think they're There's so thing in this in this literary world or a public figure world, where it's a zero sum game for a lot of people, like the idea that just because you know Buck Sexton

is successful, it means that I can't be successful. And so a lot of people in the media and a lot of people in the literary world in public figure space are constantly trying to cut your knees out from under you to make sure that they're that they climb that ladder first, and and I'm here to tell you that I I have a very different view on that. I'm a I believe that you know, a rising tide lifts all ships. If and you know, a guy that buys Brad Thor's thriller does not mean that he's not

going to buy my thriller. And my experience with Brad Thor is that he's actually always a very generous right right. And I'm just saying though, Buck, but I know that's why your mind went because he's amazing. Actually, in fact, I try to structure and write my stories just like Brad does because he's been such an inspiration to me. But but like the in fact, my point was, Buck, is that like if someone buys Brad Thor's book and reads Brad Thor's book, it makes it more likely for

them to buy my book. So there's no need to compete. This is not a zero sum game. A rising tide lifts all ships. And so for the last six years since Outlaw Between came out book, I have really dedicated my life to try to help people to get their stories told, lend a helping hand anywhere that I can, And so I hope that The support that I'm receiving right now and Man of War from some mainstream media outlets and people comes from them recognizing that and and

the help that I've given. When you're when you're rolling down Sunset Boulevard out in l a In in a Lamborghini, I just want you to remember when Man of War is going into season three of syndication uh with Netflix, just remember who your friends were shot early days. You can hook us up with a consulting gig to be on set to look cool for our significant others than whoever else is there. Let's be come on, you know

I'm gonna be rolling down Sunset in the Lamborghini. It's gonna be an old there we go, and I will you know, you'll be You'll be in the bed of the truck right that gets ready to play the CIA analysts on the show. That's right. I was gonna say, manning the fifty cow or the cappuccino. You have to have a special camera to capture your head, but you can do on the show. That is that is It would be worth every it would be worth every penny. You've heard the man himself, Sean Parnell, Man of War

I'm buying it. You should buy it. It's on Amazon on kindle, but get the hard copy, get the full get the full she bang if you can. Sean Parnell, former Army Ranger author, good friend. Great to have you on, sir Buck. Thanks so much, man, I really do appreciate your friendship. Thank you absolutely anytime. Best of luck with the book. Okay. Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the US on a world map. Why

do you think this is? I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because sama people out there and our nation don't have bounced. And I believe that our education like such as a South Africa and Iraq everywhere like such US, and I believe that they should Our education over here in the US should help the US, or should help South Africa, and should help DIRAC in the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for Thank you very much.

So it never gets old, folks, It never gets old. I know it was a long time ago. I know it's not necessarily representative of all pageants and all the rest of it, but come on, it was amazing. I

might have said this even on this show before. But really my favorite part of the whole thing is it's when Mario Lopez, whom I remember well from being a c slater in his Saved by the Bell days, but when Mariel Lopez goes, thank you very much, and it's very solicited to after she's been like you know, the education, like such as South Africa and the Iraq and like such as, oh man, you know, it is possible, especially

when I'm doing really long days. I've had the experience befour being on live TV and for a moment, and it's a momentary panic where you realize that you've kind of lost your train of thought and you need words right away and you don't want to do the uh or you don't want to start Yeah, but you know, it starts kind of babbling something. She got a little

caught up there, but look, she rebounded. Why am I telling you about beauty pageants other than some of you accused me of having some kind of expertise in these matters. I do not claim to have any beauty pageant expertise. I do not think that the celebration of superficiality is something that we should all uh push for even more. But I also recognize that in life. Look, it's life is unfair. You know. I wish I were six four.

I wish a lot of things, and I wish that people weren't judged at all at all at all on whether they are considered attractive. But that's not reality, unfortunately. And I think that everybody should, you know, make the most of We should all make the most of our appearance. I mean, we all have the choice to make the most of of what God gave us. And I think

that that's a I think that's a positive message. It reminds me also of you know, one of my more I don't think it's a radical theory, but all this stuff you see about fitness and the fitness industry is premised on people. You know, everybody can have a six pack and look like some kind of Adonis, or if you're a lady, you know, you can look like some kind of swimsuit model or something. And genetics plays a

huge role in all this stuff. Folks. Everyone that I know who's really smart on the subject of uh, fitness and health will tell you that, yes, I mean, you should all. We should all strive to be the best version of ourselves that we can be. But genetics plays a big role and some people do have a different metabolism than others. On people put on muscle more easily

than others, and and so on and so forth. But back to beauty path I just feel like people should be told that instead of you know, when I was in grammar school, it was like, lifts some freeweights and you look like Schwarzenegger if you're dedicated enough. No, there's really a there's a genetic advantage that some people have in terms of their body types and how quickly they put on muscle and all the rest of it. So

on the beauty pageants. The Miss America Beauty Pageant happened and it was you know, you've got Gretchen Carlson, whom I find pretty annoying just in general. But she's out there as she's like the head of the Miss America Pageant now. And they decided, because we're in the error of me too, to get rid of the swimsuit portion of the Miss America Pageant, which I know producer Mike

very much opposed to this one. Me because I'm a century man, I know enough to just try to not comment on this because I just get myself in trubble. But producer Mike is fearless. He has no problem with saying that he thought that the from a business perspective, keeping the UH swimsuit competition in the beauty pageant was

probably a good idea. Turns out that there was a twenty three percent drop in ratings from last year's broadcast, And if you look in the demo, which is all that advertisers care about, so that's people twenty two to fifty four or fifty five, whatever it is. If you look in the demo, it was down almost which from a rating standpoint is pretty much catastrophic. Now here's my thing. Um, I I just I understand the arguments for and against beauty pageants. I understand that it sends a bad message

to women that they're judging their parents. But I would just know that men are judged on their appearance too, in a lot of different ways, not to the same extent as women. I'm not you know, I know are the world is a cruel place, and it's unfair and all that, But what we're all superficially judged in a lot of ways. For men, a lot of the superficial judgment revolves around the size of our bank accounts, and that's like that has anything to do with, you know,

how good or worthy of a person you are. But people say, well, it has to do with how good of a provider you are, And I say, ah, you know, there's a lot of guys inherit a lot of money. It doesn't mean that they're a good provider. It just means they're good at providing for someone what somebody else provided for them. So there are a lot of ways

to slice this down. But here here's my thing, my my simple sense of all this without getting a too many jokes about how the Miss America pageant without the swimsuits is just like watching a bunch of third tier pundits get on a stage in evening gowns. Um, I just say this, We should all be honest about what it is that we're doing, what it is that we're seeing, what we're supporting. A beauty pageant is inherently superficial. It's about physical beauty. You can add some other things into it,

but first and foremost, it is about physical beauty. And we should either say, Okay, that's what we're going to be judging here with some other factors, or we should find something else to call it. I I just always prefer honesty about these things, and I wish that people wouldn't dance around the subject matter in quite the same way. So maybe it's time to put pageants away, or it's time to just say, you know what, We're going to be superficial in this endeavor, you know, and that's the

way it's going to be. Otherwise you just have huge ratings drops and people all make fun of it, as they should. We got roll call up next. Stay with me like soft butter on warm toast. Time to spread some freedom coast to coast. It's time for roll call. Alright, roll call time. Everybody wanted to get into it right away, Let's do it. Facebook dot com, slash buck Sex and

if you wish to be included. Um, we have Erica, who writes, I listened to your uh podcast on Monday, but Monday evening radio show is an appearing the available episodes list. Um, Erica, we are going to make sure that the full episode, that the full radio show episode is up in the feed, So just look for the Buck Sexton Show and we might we were tweaking some things, but it's gonna be up. We're gonna put up the full show because I everybody whoa everybody wants the full show.

They do not want a partial do not want a partial show in in the feed. So we're gonna figure out a way to do that. Um. It might mean that you have an early kind of sneak peak of some of the show and then the full show later on, but we're gonna go with the full show up there. So just if you're used to listening to the podcast, folks, listen to it. Uh, just just do it. What do it? Exactly what you've been doing, and just look forward a

little earlier. We're gonna try to at least get the podcast up earlier on in the day as early as we can. Uh. Jason writes, Um, so we're not going to get the three hours show. Okay, No, No, Jason, same thing, same thing we are. We're we're making sure that the full podcast is up. I see, I asked for feedback, I get feedback. There we go. Um. Cheryl rightes, Hi Buck, you keep me sane in California about the female form of Brethren from English for Students dot Com.

There is a word sister and, though it has a somewhat different history from its male parallel. Both words were used in Middle English twelve to fifteen centuries simply as the plural forms of brother and sister. From about sixteen hundred, brothers began to take over from brethren. Shakespeare used both except in referring to fellow members of a religious community or a society or profession. Even this use now is rather archaic, although such groups as the Plymouth Brethren keep

it in use. Sister and meanwhile had fallen completely the out of use by the middle of the sixteenth century, but it has been revived and used almost exclusively by feminist writers. Oh, Cheryl, very interesting, Thank you for your take on that. And um, yes, indeed, I will certainly, I will certainly add that into the memory banks here.

Sister and yeah, I'd never hear anybody use the term sister and but I do remember in PCU, I think it's the womenists spelled w O M Y N I S T S. Michael writes, I actually clicked on I accidentally clicked on Rachel Mattow's show last night. She was talking about the Trump visa D classification, saying he was doing it to cloud up the Russia investigation. Then she cited the great accomplishments of Bruce or in the d o J. It's a different world there, Michael. It absolutely is.

They believe what they want to believe over at MSNBC, and they like to think that the President of the United States is a traitor, that he has done terrible things, and that we should all be outraged about it. I'm here to tell you that they're wrong, and a lot of them are lying, and you really can't make a good faith case anymore about the Russia coclusion investigation. I mean it, it is a It is a sham. It is a scam. Uh. It should not have happened. It

just flatly should not have been something that occurred. But here we are, Lisa right chields high Buck. I don't mind the new format, but I love my three hours a day. Um, Lisa, we're going back. We're going back to the podcast. Even if you get an early sneak peek throughout the day, the podcast will be in full three hour format. So don't worry about that. It's gonna be there. It's gonna be there. But do me a favor, spread it around. We gotta guys, I can tell you

this right now. I just checked today in what is it now? In uh less than a year, I think it's about over the course of ten months, we have doubled, just the doubled the podcast size of a podcast audience for this show. And I came into it bringing off bringing along with me a substantial podcast crew from the Blaze radio days because it was all digital. So your efforts really really do help. But whenever you tell somebody

about this show, I mean, there are two things. Look at this a little bit of a shameless plug, but hey, commerce baby, there are two things you can do that really helped me out, and it's in all of your power to do it. Number one is anytime I do a call out for a product, check it out at least go to the U r L. For our sponsors, they're really partners with the show. By the way, some of you in the past have said that you didn't like or you know that there was a sponsor here.

They're very early on in the show's history. I want to know. I take that into account. And there have been a couple of cases where I've said I I'm not going to work with a particular product going forward because my audience didn't like it. The people that I sponsored with I know them, or rather that sponsor this show that I partner with, I know them. I like their product. I use their product that matters to me.

So whenever you can, if you buy one of those products, or at least go check it out on the U r L that I call out, that helps. But the easier way for a lot of you um or rather the the completely cost free way you know off to buy anything is just to tell somebody, hey, check out this guy. Go on iTunes and check out the Buck Sexton Show. Uh. You know, I don't have a PR budget. You are my PR budget, so to speak. You guys are my eyes and ears out there in the rest

of the world. And you know, nothing makes me happier than when I got a message from somebody who's downrange who's like, hey, I got I got ten of my buddies in my unit to listen to your podcasts and now and now they're they're constantly, you know, they're downloading it every day. Like there's honestly that I get messages like that on a fairly regular basis. And I'm being

serious with you guys, it makes my day. Like I could be having a terrible day, you know, a little bit of a squabble with Miss Molly over something dumb or whatever it may be. Right, I could be dealing with all kinds of nonsense from libs who are saying crazy things to me because of the show rising that I do. Uh. And as long as I get one of those emails from somebody in Team back, it makes everything, every little thing gonna be all right. Um, So thank

you all for that. And uh. With that little digression, John writes, Hey Buck, Um, I okay another one about the the full episodes, full episode this full episodes that don't worry. We're we're back. We're back. It was just one day. It was just one day. Um, it was just one day, Alan, right, hey Buck, I love the new format. Okay, another one. Al Right, guys, the people have spoken. I swear that people have spoken. It will be the full show every day in the podcast stream.

That was this is But this is why I want to ask you for feedback. I really mean it. And that's why I go to my inbox and I read what you have to say. And you know you guys, Make and Giles of course make the show what it is. I mean, you are my my, my, not my focus group. You're you're the team. I mean, this is the team. You gotta tell me, you know what you think needs to happen. Um meliss So writes or more on the pot pretty much every message I'm I'm trying to find message.

It's not about the podcast and how you guys want the full podcast up? Uh. Karen writes Buck, I think you should have called your new show Buck Naked. And my husband and I would both love a shirt or two. But since he has a dad Bob and I have an old lady Bob, there's no size extra large. Are you getting some more in we'd love to advertise for you and show our support. Can you look into that, Karen? I can look into it, and I'll tell produce your

Mike to look into it. Quite a bit, I'm a little behind in terms of how I how I put this. I'm a little behind in terms of merch right now, it's on my list. I'm it's behind getting another Shield's high out. I mean, Malta is probably my among my favorites. Lepanto's number one, Malta's number two, and Malta's the one that's next in the queue for me to do. It's just a time and energy issue. So and T shirts. I want to do more T shirts. I'm working on it.

I'm working on it. But Karen, and obviously there should be XL. You know, I like I like having a wide range of sizes because you know, people like to be comfy in their T shirt. You know, if a T shirt's not comfy, it's not a T shirt as far as I'm concerned, It's a COMI shirt. Hannah writes, Dude, it worried me that you hadn't heard of Joe Versus the Volcano. It shattered me when you brushed it off. You have to watch it. It is pinnacle in nerd culture.

Just saying, I bet you haven't seen Cabin Boy either, Hannah, I have no idea what Joe versus the Volcano is and no idea what cabin Boy is. So you have exposed a a flaw in my pop culture knowledge. Um, so, there you have it. I will have to check this out. Page rights. Is this where we can send topic requests? Yes? It is? Page if so. Can you cover South Africa and retell that story about a ship captain who claimed the privilege of being American. I really can't remember more

of it, so I'm sorry. I've also got my husband, Darren hooked on your podcast page. See page just made my day. Everybody. She got somebody else, in this case, her husband to start listening to the show. If everybody listening to this right now got one other person to listen to the show, you know, I would be, you know, well on my way to Uncle Rush Limbaugh's pool house or something, you know what I mean. That's my my

budget would be getting bigger for the show. Um, so please do tell somebody about this when when you get a chance, and it does it does really help, It does really matter. And um the ship captain is uh the about the U. S. S Ingram And I will tell that story another time, and so thank you for the reminder. And on South Africa, I've done a little bit of research on this page. Let me look into it some more and I'll come back to it. That's gonna be it for today. Friends. The whole show is

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