Appalling Media

four four nine hundred. Buck that's eight four four nine hundred to eight to five The Future of talk radio. Buck Sexton. Welcome to Buck Sexton Show. Everybody. Great to have you with me in the Freedom Hunt. Much to discuss today, a lot of actionable intelligence to present, many things that I'm excited to get into here in the Hut. First off, the Senate has opened debate on immigration, so we'll see how that goes. I don't want to make any cynical predictions right off the bat, but I suppose

I will. The Democrats will not budge on this. They're going to go into their whole purpose here is to go into the mid terms as the great defenders of non Americans, the legal aliens, and they think that that's going to rally their base and that they will win and when the mid terms and then they won't have to negotiate with Republicans, or at least they'll be able to completely stymy them if they win the Senate or

the House or who knows. Is it a good plan? No, but I think that may in fact be the plan, especially when you look at some of the folks who involved Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and all the rest. So we'll talk about that Senate immigration debate as much as we we can, really, not just today, but this week.

It's going to be a big policy issue. I'm gonna spend a good portion of time today on the complete and utter debacle that has been mainstream media coverage of North Korea's presence at the Winter Olympics in pyeong Chang in South Korea. I wrote about this for The Hill dot Com today. Um I referred to the media's uh, north Korea's appalling American media boosters thanks you can read on the Hill. I think that that says a lot of what I'm gonna get into the headline carries a

fair amount of it. But it's important that we look at why they would all of a sudden turn into cheerleaders for the most vile and brutal dictatorship on the planet. Why is that the case. Here's a hint. Has to do with what they think of Trump. Here's an even better hint. How's to do with how they viewed Trump versus Kim Jong un. And you know, they think it's pretty close in terms of how awful one is to the other. And I'm talking about the New York Times,

I'm talking about CNN. This is not left wing crazy sites. This is well maybe, but this is basically the the the heart of the hashtag resistance in the media. So we'll get into all things going on in North Korea. Um with well in South Korea, but regarding the North, because it's chilling. I mean, they're celebrating, they're given the celebrity star treatment to Kim Jong LUN's sister. Utterly appalling, utterly appalling, And they are favorably comparing Kim Jong UN's sister.

And she is not just some person who happens to be related to perhaps the most evil dictator on the planet. She is a member of the polite Borrow. She is, in fact, in charge of the literally in charge of the propaganda apparatus of the Communist Party of North Korea. She is the chief propagandist, and she is at the Winter Olympics. And I understand South Korea is trying to be as constructive as it can with its neighbors to

the north and all of that. But to say that she is winning a diplomacy gold medal that is a quote, or that she has outshined Mike Pence, our vice president. They did that too, is completely beyond the pale. I mean, it is bonkers, bonkers level crazy. But the media is they've got Trump. When when I say Trump derangement syndrome, I'm not trying to overstate it for effect. I'm not trying to say, oh, yeah, it's like they're crazy, man. No, No,

I mean they're actually something's wrong. They've had a break with reality. They need they need some assistance, they need some help, they need to talk it through. So that will all be coming up later, as well as the the show that was put on today at the White House Press conference with a series of questions about now resigned White House aid Rob Porter. It's as though that's the and I'm not exaggerating. I watched twenty minutes of the White House Press conference today, maybe it was fifteen.

I didn't I wasn't watching the clock, but I watched a good chunk of it. And it's just one Rob Porter question after another. Now, I think that domestic abusers are scum, and I don't think that any man with any honor integrity whatsoever would either hit a woman or defend somebody who does hit a woman. That said, Rob Porter is not the most important news story on planet Earth.

I would go so far as to say, Israel blowing up a bunch of a bunch of bad guys in Syria and saying, yeah, we know they're Iranians there too. Maybe that's a bigger story, which we will talk about here on this show. Yeah, that's right, these really air force launching strikes in Syria everyone and making it clear they know that, Yeah there's Iranians that are involved there too. That's a big deal. But no media only wants to ask about Rob Porter. It's only only White White House. Well,

I mean one question to question five questions. Fine, I think I heard about twenty questions that are up from the press corps about Rob Porter. I follow politics for a living. I mean, I do follow other things too, but it is part of my job. And I will tell you I did not know who Rob Porter was until this. He's a guy who carries papers to and from the president. He's in He's in the White House. He's part of the White House. How is this such

an important story to the media. Well, it falls into the narrative of Trump is a Trump protects abusers, Trump is in abuser. They'll even tell you they think Trump is a serial sexual assaulter. I mean, that's that's what this is all really about. It It's not about them taking us down on this issue for the sake of women's rights or anything else. It's it's to bash Trump. This is a This is all about trying to bash Trump.

So we'll discuss that in in a little bit. But first I have to say I wanted to get into the latest on the hashtag memo or the memos that are out there, the Russia collusion story, all this stuff that's going on right now, and maybe later we'll talk about budget and infrastructure. Infrastructure is not going anywhere. That's gonna be a topic we've got for a long time. So I don't think we have to spend too much in infrastructure today. I know Trump gave a speech on it.

I wanted to get into something else first, also an area where I can bring a little little special something, a little little extra sizzle to the analysis in that I actually know what I'm talking about with this because I used to do analysis inside the intelligence community with the security clearance, So I know when the clowns are lying to us. I know when they're saying things that are just patently false. And that's helpful because a lot of stuff is not adding up on the whole Russia

collusion investigation. And we've got a big report out right now, just broke before I came on air about an hour or two before um about what the Obama administration was doing in those early days of transferring power over to the Trump administration on Russia collusion specifically, let me give you a little bit of details here. This courtesy of Fox News dot com X National Security Advisor Susan Rice. Remember Susan Rice, Remember all the unmasking talk around Susan Rice.

We never really found out what was going on there? Did we keep that in mind? Susan Rice sent an unusual by the way. I was out at Stanford like six months ago, and I passed her on the stairs, and I'm telling she looked at me and as one of those things were like, She's not supposed to know who I am, but I've trashed Obama enough on CNN's air waves that she knew who I was. And she just looked right down. Yeah, that's right, I know, Susan. Right, you're she's too important to know who I am. But

I'm telling you, she gave me a look. She knew who I was. We did not talk. There was no friendly there was no friendly banter like, Yeah, what's up. I'm here at Stanford two, sus what's going on? Anyway? Back to Susan Rice, former National security advisor, an unusual email. She sent an unusual email to herself the day President Trump was sworn into office, documenting former President Barack Obama's guidance at a high level meeting about how law enforcement

should investigate Russian interference in the presidential race. According to two Republican senators earlier today, Senator or Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Lindsey Graham Um said that the partially unclassified email was sent partially unclassified, was sent by Rice on January inauguration day everybody and appears to document a January five meeting that included Obama, then FBI Director James Comey, then Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, then

Vice President Joe Biden, and Rice, also known as a meeting of the Five Families of the Existance. Who's going up? What territory? What a Russia collusion narrative? Uh? Turns out this is an email that doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. I don't know if my godfather impression there even really came through. It just sounded like I was having some kind of an event over here.

But uh, here's what's going on in this email. Rice wrote that quote, Obama wants to be sure that as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there's any reason we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia. Now this goes in the excuse me, that's not your call, That's not how it works, right. Yeah.

For for example, you can't have one president who's like, well, we've got some super secret covert action thing we're doing, and like, you know, the new president doesn't get to know about it. Nope, that that that's not how this game goes, or maybe they think it does. But that's not legitimate, that's not that's not ethical or legal. Um. They don't have the right to do that. And yet she seemed to think that they did, which is quite strange. Isn't it for a national security advisor? Um? And then

there's more. And this is the part of it that is in fact the weirdest. And this this falls into the category of and remember Susan Rice very close to Barack Obama personally as well. She wrote the following President Obama began the conversation, this is about her meeting with Comy, Yates, Biden Rice. Okay, this is all all those yeah, all those names, right, Yates hates Trump, Comy hates Trump, Biden

is Biden, Rice hates Trump? Right, m hmm. Isn't an interesting that they would have all had a meeting about Russia collusion where they're trying it's almost like they're trying to get on the same sheet of music about you

know what, what what what's going to happen now? Because they maybe we're assuming they were going to be in charge and so now not only they're not in charge of that investigation with a Hillary presidency, but also what do they do about the stuff that was done before when they were assuming Hillary was going to be president. How do you cover the tracks, my friends? How do you make all the all the sketchy stuff you did go away? It's tough to cover your tracks. It's tough

to you know. You gotta do things like delete thirty emails and use bleach bit on a server and set up a home server and send emails with such reckless disregard for what's contained in them that they end up on a convicted pedophiles laptop that is married to you, you know, who's married to your top eide. I mean, those are the sorts of things, and one does one is trying to cover up something. But so we have this email that that she writes to herself, mind you,

which I would not. It is a way of establishing a record. It's almost like establishing an alibi. Right. This to me strikes me as this strikes me as the equivalent of, you know, showing up to the bar at midnight like, hey, everybody, my name is Buck Sexton. I'm in this bar. Note the time. Note the time it

is midnight. It is midnight, and I will not be on the other side of town in fifteen minutes or so committing a heinous crime, because we're just going to assume that I've established my alibi and you know, there you have it. Here's what Rice writes in this email. President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue, Russia collusion everybody is handled by the intelligence and law enforcement communities

by the book. The President's stress that he is not asking about initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book. You repeated by the book twice. I think I think you guys are all seeing what I'm putting down here. It's a little convenient,

isn't it a little strange. It's almost like she's trying to create a trail that would support the case if in fact, things started to go awry, if the d o J could no longer run interference for the anti trumpers, if we started to get to the truth, like say, if we found out that the Fusion GPS dossier was in fact paid for by Hillary Clinton and the d n C. If it became increasingly clear that James Comey is really first and foremost concerned with himself and his power,

and he was willing to break the rules in favor of Hillary and break the rules against Trump. It's almost like she's trying to establish here that if everything started to fall apart. Look at this email President Obama on his last day in office, folks, or last days. This was on the last day. She wrote this in the last day in reference to an earlier meeting, but in the very final moments of this administration after eight years, Obama just wanted everyone to know it's all done by

the book. There's been no political bias here at all. Oh, I think we all know that Susan Rice doth protest the by the book too much. This is as we would say on in my next there was this strikes me as quite shady, my friends. This is very weird. And when you added into everything else that we're finding out, everything else that is going on around this Russia collusion narrative, it is increasingly clear to me that what we are facing is in fact, the most sweeping, egregious, and corrupt

political hit ever in modern American history. That's what This was cooked up by people with power and influence who did not want to see either of those things go away of Hillary lost, and who hate Trump and everything he stands for. And we are getting closer, We're getting closer to be able to prove all of this. So at very injuring piece up on Fox news dot com eight four eight four buck, we have much more coming up,

my friends. We will be right back. Absolutely, James Comey should be back to give answers to the Congress about why his prior testimony was not truthful. He was making claims about the dossier before Congress that now through the investigation and discovery of evidence, we know may not have been accurate regarding what he was doing. The House of Representatives has subpoena power, and we absolutely got subpoena James Comey.

He's sort of gone from the hero of the left to the demon of the left now to like, you know, the greatest troll on Twitter. So I suspect that it would be better to have him before the Congress answering questions about what in the world was going on that allowed cash at a political party to be convertible into a government sponsored warrant to spy on Donald Trump's transition to I want to hear Comey answer some questions under oath about all this stuff too, now that we have

more information. I want to see smug Comey sit there and simmer a bit. I'd like to see what that's like, a bit of a bit of sizzling Comey on the hot seat. It would be. You know, although the smugness may overtake the whole room, like Comy's cloud of smug may just may cause an evacuation. They just can't handle it. It's just too much for them. I was just noting

with the guys before we got into a break. I said, you know this old Susan Rice email where you know Obama said, by the book, just by the book, totally by the book, which was written, as I said, which was written on sent written and sent on January so and documenting a January five meeting. But on the very last day where where she would be, you know, where the transition has happened with That was an inauguration day, right, or it was close to it. It was than a

day or two of them. This would be the equivalent of all of a sudden, if I were out with let's say, Mike and John. Neither of you guys like me. You're unmarried, right, unmarried as of yet. Okay, we're working out the guys, all three of us. So if we were out and but we had wives, and all of us all of a sudden, had all these text messages about how we had a guy's night, but you know, we weren't. We weren't at the casino or anything. I'm so glad, And all the text messages said the same

thing to each other. So glad guys that we didn't go to the casino, uh or or the you know, gentlemen's club afterwards, because that would have been so bad. Yeah, I'm so glad we didn't make that decision. It would have been such a bad decision to make to do that thing. We just hung out in eight cheeseburgers. You know, some of the I assume are our theoretical wives would find that a bit suspicious. Why are you guys just

writing yourself? Why are you creating this strange record, this this archive, if you will, of of how great and righteous you were? Allowed to night. That doesn't really seem necessary unless you're hiding something. See what I mean, Susan Rice writing to herself. You know, Oh Obama wanted everything by the book. Oh it has to be so by the book. And by the way, Comey was in that meeting. We know how by the book Comey really is right.

Comey was Mr America's greatest g man. And then he decided to like leak some stuff to the New York Times and get an investigation started on a sitting president out of spite. So maybe we should start rethinking all these h wonderful and decent public servants like Rice and Comey and others. The President doesn't want the public to see the underlying facts what is revealed in our memo or quotations from the very fast application that really demonstrate

just how misleading the Republicans have been. Their goal here is to put the FBI on trial, to put Bob Mueller's investigation on trial, and the President is only too happy to accommodate. Republicans voted in the Congress to at least both the publican and Democrat memo. Democrats only vote release their memos. There is enormous hypocrisy here, because this

is all political. What this really is is they intentionally put sources and methods in the document knowing that the White House wouldn't be able to release it, and then they could. They could basically go on TV and say that we were adding the document. I think the President made the right decision to say, look, if that's the game you're gonna play, I'm gonna send it back to you. You clean it up, and you work with the FBI, send it back to us, and we'll be happy to

release it. I believe I said exactly that would happen here on the show, that the Democrats would see their memo with intentionally classified. Remember we had this whole conversation. They'll just write so then this guy super Secret Squirrel did this super secret Squirrel thing, and then more super secret Squirrel, and they'd have to block out all of that. That would be redacted, it would be classified, or there be a need to redact it. You could not release

that out there as it was. And that's a way of making it seem as the Republicans don't want the facts to come out, they don't want the truth to be shared with the American people. When as was pointed out there, that was Shift versus Short, Adam Schiff, whom you all know, of course, the Democrats. It's tough to call him an attack dog, you know, it's more like, uh, he seems a bit more reptilian, right, so he's more

like an attack iguana. Perhaps I don't know. Um, I like dogs, so I don't like say Adam Shift is an attack dog. But Mark Short, the White House Legislative Director, was one responding there, and he's just saying, look, they wouldn't even vote to release the original memo, which had nothing classified and which the FBI at the senior level, and the Democrats just flat outlide. Remember I told you

it's good to know when there's lies there. There's no way, there's no way that that meant that anybody who had any familiarity with the laws and regulations around classified information would have thought that the Republican memo was a problem. So everyone who saw it and said otherwise a liar, there's lying to you, right, I would know it. Also, you live the FBI, you go to prison. FBI lies to all the American people. You know, stuff barely not a big deal. So will we see this Democrat memo

or not. I think we clearly will um. But the game has already been put into place here, and they're going to say, no matter what's in this memo now, if it's not potent enough, and I think it really won't be, they're gonna say, well, the really good stuff, the really juicy stuff, was removed by those big, bad, mean Republicans who don't want to know the truth about the pies application on Carter Page. As I've said to you, if they had really strong stuff on Carter Page, two

things would be true. One, they wouldn't have needed to include the dossier at all. Two, it would have leaked. We would know if there were some guys somewhere who was tight with Putin, who was, you know, a senior FSB officer or something who was talking to Carter Page. We would have heard I'm sorry, they can get the never Trump hashtag resistance squad inside of the Department of

Justice or the FBI or maybe even the CIA. Some very interesting stuff coming out about former Agency director Brennan recently. He said some very some quite strange stuff. I know it's been forgotten that Brennan is very tight with Obama and he wasn't just a SEI director. He's a political infighter and is known to be a very partisan guy and has a reputation for leak and stuff to the media too, by the way, and not a reputation just from people in the media. Some other folks I know

are like, yeah, Brennan leaks. But here's the thing, as we continue to look at the carter page fives a warrant, as we see what's around it. If there was good information, as I said, they wouldn't needed the dossier. And if there was good information, we would have already heard because they would have leaked it to the Washington Post or somewhere else. Even more than that, though, and then we

got a whole another level that comes into play here. Okay, So let's say they did have some good reason to or some reasonable reason to monitor carter pages communications. What

does that say about the FISA process? Because I could come up with a hundred different reasons why a lot of people I know in the press could fall under a FISA could fall under a fis a warrant, you know, I can think of a lot of different reasons why different people I know in the media that talked to have you know, foreign sources or try to talk to even openly or not openly, but try to approach you know, foreign military, foreign intelligence to get information for their stories.

Are they all subjectifies a because from what I'm seeing Carter pay establish as a press didn't hear everybody that if the federal government and by that I really mean the deep state Democrats who like to abuse the federal government's powers for stuff like this, if they decide that they want to monitor your communications and therefore the communications of really everyone you're in touch with, because that's what it means, they can find a pretext to do it.

It's not hard. What does the fourth demon really even mean? That? This is a very important concept that uh, I want to bring into our discussion in the show. It's something I want you to keep in mind, and that is that that mass surveillance is unsettling, but ruthless individual surveillance, right, individual surveillance that is really targeted, that breaks down Fourth

Amendment protection. That's what's that's what's actually terrifying. Yeah, Okay, if they if they're getting all of your stuff and they're they're getting the metadata and all that, that's that's bad. But if they can target people for political reasons and look at all their communications. I mean, foreign federal government can do that. I mean folks founding fathers went to war over general warrants, right, they were like going through the customs house looking for stuff and trying to tax

you more. We we're we're gonna be okay with a situation where the federal government can decide that that literally a presidential candidate can be surveilled by finding someone near him for whom they can create some pretext for that surveillance, and we're supposed to be okay with that. Think about this, Carter Page is the way of getting to everybody on the Trump campaign. I know, I've read the the reports.

At least you know Steve Bannon was caught up in that surveillance, and I mean, yeah, I really want to know. I want to know who. I don't know what If I'm carter Page, by the way, I mean, this is another way to go. I don't know if he'd be willing to do this I'm carter Page, then maybe I would say, you know what, I want the federal government to release all of the surveillance information on me because I don't believe he does have anything to hide. I

don't I think that. You know, he could say, show all the communication, show everything gets out there, you know all the different contacts that I had, and you'll see it's all Nothing's Nothingsville, it's who cares. But it would matter to us a lot because it would show us that this was, like I said, a political hit. And the Democrats know that if the American people really figure this out, they will hold it against the Democrat Party

as they should for a very very long time. And you know, I just see what's going on here with this Carter Page thing. Adam Ship's defense right now, the Democrats defense is, oh no, there's other stuff that made it okay for us to target this Carter Page guy who was on the FBI's radar, And that was the big thing they were saying. Yeah, he's on the FBI's radar before, and he worked with the FBI to help

them track down some some shady Russians. So apparently the thanks he gets for that is that the FBI later on is miking him up, so to speak. But if he's such a bad guy, if he was doing shady things, can I just see one criminal charge even mentioned never mind brought just the basis of an indictment maybe against Carter Page if they can target his communications and everyone who talked to him there for indirectly surveilling them too. That's the way this works, based on on suspicion. With

there's no charges. What what does this mean? Folks? Where are the limits? Really? Were the lines the boundaries that prevent the federal government from doing this the next time around? And here's a really scary thought. All this stuff we're talking about here, it's all kind of jammed up in the world that classified and everything else. This might have happened in other cases we don't even know about. I don't know that's they'll they'll do it to a presidential campaign.

But they would no, they'd never do it. Just come on, let's really think about this one. You don't think that maybe some senior folks at d o J you want

to keep an eye on somebody else somewhere. Now you start getting into some you know, we'd like to think that we're beyond the realm of police state tactics and the surveillance state and using that for you know, the Russians are the ones to do comproma the Russians are the ones who put video cameras in people's hotel rooms just to catch them doing what people do, and then you know, threatened to release that to embarrass them. Right, that's like the Russians. We wouldn't I mean, we don't

do that in this country. I mean, the d O j FBI, it wouldn't do that. Are you sure. I'm a lot less shure now than I used to be, and I used to work on the inside, So that does not speak well about this whole situation. Eight four or four n eight to five. You've got thoughts on this? We are going to get into the whole North Korea media debacle. Wow, that's gonna be quite a discussion, so stick around for that. Will be right back. Welcome back team.

Let's take a call from Tom in Youngstown, Ohio. Hey, Tom, alright, block, good afternoon. Uh. Two things. Number One, you mentioned Carter Page, and you were supposing that as a result of using the FIS warrant against him, they could do it against different groups and included the press. They did it against the press. Remember James Rosen and his parents, they used the fives A warrant to monitor them. I think that was the title. Uh. I think that was a criminal

I think that was a criminal ward. I don't think they used I don't believe that was I don't believe that was a fisor warrant. From what I know, I think it was a criminal war but they but they went after the press anyway, based on the press doing their job. They as they also seized the Associate im

Presses records. So the the Obama administration had to pass to do uh, to break down that wall, which look, it's always a little bit murky, but they just shattered it of you don't go after journalists for doing their jobs. Obama's folks did it, and people did not care. I mean when I mean people, the media did not remember. Uh. The Attorney General tone uh Sheryl Atkinson that she could no longer go to the into the Justice Department. Uh and and uh that was her job. So she was

basically out of a job. CBS, what did she do? The Justice Department under Eric Holder? Remember remember she was the Justice Department corresponded first and Eric Holder, Yeah, she was exposing Yeah, Sharyl Atkinson was exposing some of the stuff that the the Holder d o J was up to and they did not like that over and she

was like a career. CBS report that she'd been there a very long time, it was very well regarded, and all of a sudden she's gone, yeah, hey, one other thing you mentioned Susan Rice, and that Obama's said to go by Susan Right, she's by the book. He's all by the book. Only by the book. The book happened to be rules for radicals, that that he wanted them to go by. I like what you I like what you did there, Tom Shields high and thank you very much for the call my friend speaking about like what

you did there. We got our friend, uh representative Louis Gohmert. I am shocked, really shocked that no fight sad judge has put anybody in jail yet. Yet we have found total disregard for a propriety before the fight of courts, and somebody should have been in jail long before now over the over the improprieties that were submitted to the court. Somebody's got to go to jail or our system is over. It is done. Louis Colmert. Congresson Goman, I like cogreson

going by the way. I've been a bunch of fives and Funny's fun dude. I like him, but I think he's wrong here. No one's going No one's go to prison. And I know I say that, and I can already people like click, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go listen to somebody who's like, they're all going to jail. Everybody, it's all coming down. Colly's gonna get frog marks. Nope, it's not gonna happen, folks. I'm not saying we won't

get to the truth. I'm not saying there won't be any consequences, but it is overwhelmingly likely, in my opinion, it will be political consequences. Understand who we're talking about here, who we're dealing with, people that know what you can do that's unethical versus what you can do or what

you would do that it's prosecutable. Right, Although I will say that James call me with the classified thing to me, I don't know how he's getting to pass on that one, meaning Comey had notes for meeting with the White House that at least one senator I think it was grassly, but I forget now. One senator has said the information was classified, called me linked to the press. That's a that's a crime. You're not allowed to do that. But somehowever,

it's like, yeah, it's it's Comy. You know, Comey's out there. I stare across the Crystal Clear Lake, fine ending that truth, justice in the American way grows with each beat of my heart. Comey is such a weirdo. I mean, if you look at this, if you're not on Twitter, you should get on Twitter just to see what I'm talking about. With Comy, You're gonna be like, who is this guy? He's like six nine. I bet he can't even dunk. I bet he never could dunk. That's right, I said it.

So he's like six eleven. If you're six eleven, you should be able to dunk, darn it. But yeah, Comey is a big weirdo. Oh by the way, the literally a large weirdo. Uh. Top Justice Department official that quit, Like I I can understand this one. She quit over quote fear she might be asked to oversee Russia probe. Rachel Brand was her name, Associate Attorney General. And I gotta tell you, you know what, I'm sure she's probably a Democrat. You know, she's probably standing with Hillary so

to speak, the whole thing. But apart from all that, for a moment, you gotta assume you really don't want

that job. You really don't want to be the person oversee sing the d J investigation at this at this point of Russia, because you're gonna be at a rough spot no matter what, unless you're a true ideologue who wants to use this to continue to use this as the primary means of going after the Trump administration, and you're gonna take the heat that comes along with that because we're finding out now much more of what's true and what really happened and what was really going on

with all this. But yeah, that's not a job that I would be like running to sign up for. Yes I would. I would love to be the person who, depending on the day, is gonna get trashed by one network or the other based on whatever moves she makes. So I'm thinking this memo, do we have we we don't know you read this week? Maybe? Yeah, I'm not talking to producer. Mike is telling me maybe this week, but we're not sure yet. Um it looks like it

the some version, but be released. As I said to you, they've already played the classification games, which I knew it happened. I think the memo is going to be underwhelming. I mean the fact that it's ten pages also just seems strange to me. Why do you need a ten page memo to a fete the four pages of what was already released. Uh, but it's not gonna stop. It's not gonna stop anything. We need to find more information anyway.

I get kind of radical on this one, and people get mad at me, like Buck, do you understand the sensitivity of sources and methods. Yeah, I know I do. I get it, But I get radical in so far as I want I want the president to just put it. I wanted to be put out there. What are we really gonna find out? Carter Page talk to some shady Russian dudes, you know? Okay, and unless we're really worried about the safety of those specific Russians, by the way, could we just do block out their last names, give

them pseudonyms, you know, give them fake names. Who cares, But just let's see what they're really working with here, you know, that would be it, you know called one uh, you know person a and the other person be you know, person a spoke a carter Page person b met with them here, you know, you can still protect the identities and the safety of individuals that maybe, and I'm assuming there are people. I'm not even sure there is anybody.

I think it's like the dossier and then some news reports and then oh yeah, the FBI knew that he talked to some Russians years ago and he helped them, But maybe he was still shady. You know, I don't know. Not a lot, not a lot here that I think could be a big, a big problem, you know. I mean, Carter Page wasn't like, you know, an agent living in deep cover in Bin Lawden's house or something, and if anyone finds out, you know, like, that's not what was

happening here, folks. So anyway, we're gonna get into the North Korea thing here, because this is you're gonna enjoy this one. I mean, it's on the one hand, kind of terrifying how delusional the media really is in that they seem to believe that Trump is pretty much on the same plane as Kim Jong own. I mean, there's reason that I'll make the case as to why I think they think that. Stay with me. Kim Jong's sister Kim Yo jong sitting near directly behind the Vice president

of the United States. It provides legitimacy. Oh, it's absolutely significant, the symbolism. She's about to emerge on the world's largest television stage. Her star has risen meteorically over the past four years. Kim Yo jong is the real power just under her brother. With the world watching the Olympics, she will put a young, telegenic face on the regime. It's a way to showcase North Korea on a world stage.

Kim is the perfect counterpart to this, and it also is a signal that North Korea is not um, you know, this crazy, weird former Cold War state, but that it too has young women that are capable and are the future leadership. Welcome to ours here. The Buck Sexon show. That was a whole bunch of reporting. I think it's from CNN, but from mostly yes CNN, about about a regime that is in fact a ghoulish like of the Soviet era. Um that is the most totalitarian and brutal

and repressive government on the planet. And yet the press coverage of a woman who is directly involved in that apparatus is like, yeah, look at her, She's telegenic and great and what a moment for North Korea. Uh, there is no way two make sense of how the media could be so foolish in their coverage of North Korea and North Korea without understanding that really this is at least in part about Trump. And I'm not just coming

up with that. It's quite clear there were comparisons in the media between Kim Yo jung and remember that's the that's the sister of Kim Jong un. Kim Yo Jung is also in the polite borrow the scene, your communist senior communist entity that runs North Korea. She is the head of propaganda for the North Korean regime. She is personally technical title is director of the Propaganda and Agitation

Department of the Workers Party of Korea. That sounds like a fun place to show up to work, and she is overseeing the brainwashing and psychological terror apparatus of the North Korean state. That's who this woman is. That they're all like, Oh, she's amazing. What are you wearing that door?

That's Chanel. Well, when she goes back home, there will still be the multigenerational concentration camps where North Korean intelligence and military agents forced children to inform on their parents political beliefs inside these camps, and then the parents are mutilated and tortured to death on the evidence provided by their own children. That's North Korea. He didn't really get that sense of it though, from CNN's media coverage of it.

And in fact, they were all too quick, and let's just see it as New York Times to their number of them, they were all too quick to talk about how North Korea was winning a gold medal for diplomacy. To compare Kim Yo jung when I just gave you some stats on sanctioned by the Treasury Department, by the way, hattle, that gets everybody excited at the dinner party. I just got my Treasure Department sanction for crimes against humanity. How's your day going? Compared to Ivanka Trump saying she's the

Avanca of North Korea, which is quite a slight. If you don't think that's a slight, imagine for one moment that it was not the Trump administration. We were talking about the Obama administration, and any member of the press had ever, even for a moment, made a comparison between an active member of North Korea's apparatus of terror, repression, and murder with a member of Barack Obama's family. Right.

You know, if someone had said Kim Yo Jong has any similarity to Michelle Obama, for example, in any way, I think people would have lost their minds. And I would agree with that actually, but you'll just note that with Ivanka, it's like, yeah, you know, young telogenic one's

a part of a homicidal, maniacal regime. And you know, the other is Warden Grad who is an advisor to her dad in the White House and has like a you know, some nice kids and is a nice person trying to be a part of the U. S administration. You know, I'm sort of where's the comparison exactly? But they were saying that, oh, yeah, she's the Avanka of

of North Korea. Uh. They're also was it particularly particularly annoying thing done by I think it was that they think this one was the New York Times where they they compared Pence's diplomacy to Kim Yo Jung's diplomacy in order to make it seem like Kim Yo Jung, Kim Jong Lund's sister is the one who you know, really gets it, you know, she's the savvy diplomat. Pence is just some rube, some you know, some hay seed, some hillbilly.

He doesn't he doesn't get it. Yeah, they thought that she came off better in the comparison of the two. We're trying to find the I mean, I'm just so you get a sense of exactly whether or not I'm I mean, I'm exaggerating here anything else. The press is called North Korea's uh, north North Korea's efforts at the Olympics at charm offensive. Okay, fine, But they've also written headlines like this one from the New York Times, Kim Jong Own's sister turns on the charm, taking Pence's spotlight.

Mm hmm. And as I said that the Times referred to North Korea's Ivanka, Uh, this is some pretty heinous stuff, folks. When you get into what North Korea is really like, what the regime is all about. You can complain about the Trump administration, you can think they're terrible. You know, this is America. You're allowed to have You're allowed to have dumb political opinions. Many millions of our fellow Americans do.

But if you think that there is any moral equivalency or any comparison to be drawn between any member of the Trump administration of the Republican Party and what is going on in North Korea. You are, in fact, a a dangerous moron. Um it is, it is aggressively stupid to draw any comparisons or parallel between our our government, our administration, Donald Trump, and North Korea. And people were

doing it. I mean, I'm giving you the big newspapers and news sites out there, I mean some of the largest, the most mainstream of the mainstream media. But once you get into the opinion level, the opinion sections and you know, the commentary at on Twitter and elsewhere that the blue check peanut gallery, they're all, oh, yeah, you know, it's well Trump, North Korea is better at this diplomacy thing than Trump. You know, Trump is so terrible, He's the worst.

Trump's guilty of American fascist and North Korea just has its own version of People say communism, but it's really more like a more like a religious cult than communism, but that's a different discussion. They were delusional. And then there was just some other little aspects of how they approached North Korea, like, for example, the North Korean cheer squad. So they all were addressed exactly the same and moving in complete at unison. And here's what it sounded like.

They were the North Korean cheerleaders who were going, I mean, I've never seen anything like that. First they started, they were cheering one Korea. Then they were cheering when when when it was a remarkable scene, they really look a sports commentator, I guess that was Mary Carell and NBC. Look, she's allowed to say whatever she wants, and she's also just saying that it was a remarkable cy and that's fine.

I have no problem with that. It's the political press, it's the newspapers out there that are talking about the diplomacy and the effectiveness of North North Korean diplomacy here

that I inc was particularly egregious. And I think it's only they're blind spots on this issue, or there the obtuse nature of the media's coverage such that they wouldn't seem or they wouldn't decide it was necessary to point out that, yes, the North Korea cheer squad at the Olympics moved in with tremendous precision and everything else, probably because they were threatened with constant beatings at home, and

that's not an exaggeration. If they didn't get it exactly right, maybe worse than beatings, maybe the starvation of their families. If you haven't seen it. I mean, there are a series of documentaries on North Korea that are all that are actually quite good. There's one in particular where they bring in doctors from the outside outside North koreas borders

I forget. I saw it many years ago, and they bring in all these doctors and they're fixing I problems, a lot of cataracts, I believe, which is a pretty straightforward surgery. But if you don't get the surgery, you

go blind. And so they're they're actually restoring sight to North Koreans and their foreign doctors that are doing this because North Korean medicine is obviously garbage, barely exists, and but they're just trying to bring in as many of these uh as many of these doctors or as many patients these doctors as possible, and they're literally people have been blind, some of them for years, and now they're able to see again because their eyes are fine. They're

just covered because of the counteracts. And what's remarkable. And then and I'm kind of giving away. Where the documentary goes here is that you have people whose site has been restored by the doctor, and they all know. They all know right away once they can see again. They don't say thank you to the doctor. They don't hug the doctor. They turn, they kneel, they grovel, they cry, and they beg for thanks. From a portrait of it was at the time Kim Jong Ilk, Kim Jong N's

father on the wall. Yeah, I forget about the doctor that actually like changed my life. Thank you, dear leader. Oh, dear leader, You're so amazing. And here's what's even more

sick about it. I can't blame them at all. Not only they brainwashed, they know that if they give insufficient thanks, especially because their foreigners present, it might be off to the might be off to the concentration camp for them for insufficient thanks, for insufficiently saying thank you to the dear leader who has created this environment in the country where you know, the Kim dynasty, where people are unable to get medical care or starving or living under complete

tyranny and oppression. And you would think that this context would inform some of the way that season Journalists in New York Times CNN et cetera. Would discuss the North Korean propaganda offensive at the Olympics, because that's what it is. Nothing has changed, folks. This is not a big thaw in relations. They're not gonna be buddies after this. North Korea is not going to give up its nuclear program. They're not gonna stop testing missiles. Okay, I'm not gonna happen.

In fact, the ignorance of the media out in North Korea was particularly on display when it came to the signature of Kim Joe young or Kim Yo jong rather, who was making some you know, write writing down some remarks about a unified Korea, looking forward to a unified Korea in the future, and a lot of press were like, see it's this is great. This is like the unified Korea and they're marching under unified flag every well, for decades now, North Korea has been talking about a unified Korea.

It will come through either submission or conquest. That is it. It's going to be unified under the North Korean model, not the South Korean model, and the North Koreans would be all too happy if they could to do that

by force. In fact, I think you can make a very convincing argument that the entire structure of the North Korean state exists so that it can take over South Korea, it's just at some point in the future, and that it's nuclear program is not just an external deterrent but to blackmail the South into eventually being subsumed into the North. But the journalis done. They're like, oh the warm greeting she wrote, it was so nice about a unified Korea. H They they are, but they are uncurious about this.

Why because they view it as in some ways an opportunity to take cheap shots at Trump, which is what happened um. And also, whenever the current administration is evolved, whatever, there's a question of foreign policy, anything like, that's an issue. It has to be taken the the issue must be put in the context of, well, Trump is really bad too, you see, So we can't really blame this country for

acting only that it does. Because Trump trumps arrangement syndrome is a very real thing, and it has infected the minds of the media more so than even many of our you know, everyday American leftists that are around us, especially in places like New York City, where I'm doing this show right now, So it was disconcerting to see it. Um, it's not something that we should excuse or allow. I mean, it's fine to report on North Korea's Olympic cheer squads,

as weird and unsettling as they are. But no matter how much they hate Trump, the media never has an excuse to be a North Korean cheer squad. And that's what we saw over the weekend. And it was pathetic that they will slam the vice president of the United States while praising the sister and enabler of the worst dictator on the planet, and think that somehow that's normal. We don't pick up on this. They are an embarrassment.

We will be right back. We have supported regimes like this, like Russia for many many that are still doing it. And so it's very interesting that he didn't take a knee, because you wouldn't have known if he was paying homage, because taking a knee is not disrespectful, you know, because you can. You can take a knee to propose to somebody, take anit to to to pray to somebody. So I think him not taking a knee, what him sitting down

was more of the nonverbal spit in your face. It's interestingly that Donald Trump revers Russia so much over the United States very often, and so it's kind of hypocritical for Pence. All I hear from Trump is how great Russia is. He never says a bad word about Putin. That really is on American I mean, those are something. Those are the different opinions you get on on the view,

uh about about North Korea and Russia. And look, to be fair, it's a little bit like you know, asking the Kardashians for their their thesis on nuclear physics in the twenty one century. I mean, it's it's a little beyond, you know, this is the this is a little beyond I think the wheelhouse you could say of joy Beha. You know, Trump reves Russia, and you know Alwa's it's just un American and you've got I don't know who the host was, but saying that Pence sitting down was

a non verbal spit on your face. Let's just look at the other side of this. If Pence was walking up to North Korea's emissary to the Olympics being all chummy, what do we think what do we think the media is response to that? Would be, Oh, he's being the bigger man. He's really taking the long view. It's really amazing the kind of diplomatic acumen that Mike Pence brings to the scene. Here, look at look at what he's doing.

He's a great statesman. You know, he's looks like a like a leading man in Hollywood and has the diplomatic tact of Henry Kissinger. They'd be like, oh, my gosh, Mike Pence is like loves North Korea and he's like so evil and I'm like sad. I'm like literally shaking right now because of what Mike Pence just did with North Korea. That is what they would do. I mean, maybe not in those exact words or telling, but pretty

close to that. And we know they're just looking for a chance to take take shots at Pence, but let's understand that this is in the context of some really serious stuff. Um and you know, the the media's fan girling over North Korea's so called charm offensive is a real embarrassment for this country. And I would say it's embarrassing for places like seeing in the New York Times, but I don't know if they're even capable of it anymore.

I don't know if if if they're capable of feeling ashamed of the way that they cover issues and the way that they are so skewed in their approach to all this. Trump has thrown them so Trump has made them so unhinged that nothing is uh for them. There's no issue you can look at and say, well, you know, we can all agree that that's worse. You know that guy,

That guy's worse than Trump. They act like they have discovered with this Kim Jong un emissary, the sister of Kim Jong and Kim Yo jung, they have discovered some new opening with North Korea. It's just all a line. It's all crap. North Korea is the most evil despotism on the planet, and that they don't understand this and that they would allow Remember, they are enabling you want to talk about being complicit, they are enabling North Korea's

propaganda to be more effective. What message is this sending to our South Korean allies who are looking at this like, I mean, I guess they're allowed to be at the Olympics, but you know, let's not let's not all take a knee for them, right, Let's not all kneel in front of them. What are the messages that are being sent here? Well, first and foremost, the media hates Trump more than Kim Jong un. Other shows just talk at you in the

Freedom Hud. We have a mission. We fight for the truth in a team effort, and buck us back with our next play. That's some lines. Let let's take Steve in New York Casety, Hey, shield side Buck. Thanks for taking my call, shield Tide buddy, appreciate it. I just

had a quick question for you. I wanted to get your perspective as a former member that on YPD about you believe the Trump administration has started to prepare some of the damage has done between UM American law enforcement and uh, the American public, some of the stuff that was done under the the Obama administration. Or is that an issue that's yet to have been tackled. I think absolutely.

I mean I think if nothing else, Trump has verbalized a restoration of respect for law enforcement that was very much needed. Look, we were and I remember seeing the rallies, and I remember hearing President Obama the way he would speak but law enforcement, it was, you know, he'd say, yeah, we'd like law enforce and but you know, there's a lot of bad stuff and distrust, and there's a lot

of racism. And it was always whoa you know, a whole a whole lot of second and that was the the media narrative was that police forces across the country were full of of of of systematically racist procedures and racist officers, and it was very damaging. And I mean, I will never forget the night of the well the conflagrations in in Ferguson, and I also remember the nights of the riots in Baltimore and the way the media

was covering it. There was a lot of like, yeah, you know, this is this is because law enforcement does bad stuff. I'm like, no, people aren't looting a CVS because of what law enforcement did. And I think it was very damaging. And the obaministration played really, uh, really dirty politics with this issue. And Trump is restoring. And now there is one little wrinkle here, or one in a sting unanticipated shift, and that is that the press is now I mean, they still think the cops are basically,

you know, a lot of them are racist. That's what the media thinks. They think a lot of cops are racists. And by the way, including officers who are black and Latino themselves, right, they're part of the racist problems too. It's not just oh, the white cops are racist, it's just cops in general are racist. That's one of the media narratives. But the thing with the FBI is really funny because now all of a sudden, you've got the major media outlets who are like, oh, FBI beyond suspicion.

You know, the FBI would never do anything wrong on I didn't realize the FBI was was basically perfect, you know. Is some of the FBI guys must be feeling like, hey, CNN likes us all of a sudden, but they know because their FBI guys, that CNN is gonna hate them as soon as it's they go back to their usual right. But so that's the only thing I think, Steve, that

people weren't expecting. Absolutely absolutely, I couldn't agree more. And just as as a Fox enforcement officer, I see it's nice to have have kind of bounced back from that, you know, the five officers down in the last five days. As money, I mean, it's it's it's becoming a problem. But it definitely seems like I think Trump's on the right track and thoughts and prayers the families those offers who were lost in a line of duty, and Steve

Shields High thank you very much for calling in. So you know, I here's where I am on the on the Rob Porter issue, and I'm not gonna take a much time with this. We've got our friend Sean Parnell, who's an Army ranger, author, public speaker. It's all around great, great dude. He's gonna be he's in studio with us, he's gonna be joining us here in just a second. But I did need to address really the way people in the press are so focused on this issue of

of of Rob Porter. So this was a guy who, as I said, and maybe I'm not paying close enough attention to what's going on inside the White House day in the day out, I don't even know he was. I mean, I think I had seen him before and photos in on tip, but like it was not. He's not somebody with a job that you're like, oh my gosh, is he qualified. I think it's basically handing folders to people. And I know that he has access and he's in the White House and he had an in terms of

security clearance and all that. But I was and look, if he's a if he's a spouse abuser, if he beat his wives, I mean, it's one of the most grotesque things any human being can do. And you know, the the guy should yeah, he should be gone. And if they knew, they never should have hired him. But they're saying they didn't know. And he's also saying he's not guilty. So and I that's the situation we're in right now. Uh, but the press has made this into

a a huge national story. Um, and today during the White House Press conference, I was, it was it was pretty remarkable. Folks, if you didn't want, I know, mostly have jobs in lives, so you don't sit around like I do watching the White House press conferences. But uh, you figure that with all things going on in the world, there's a lot of stuff to talk about, a lot of questions that they might want to pose the administration,

many many things happening in this universe of ours. Here is what it was like during the White House Press conference today. It seems like the President who was believing Mr Porter as opposed to his alleged victims, he rob Porter as accusers or are they lying still wish Rob Porter well, prime candidate for blackmail and you have someone like Rob Porter who didn't have permident security there and what kind of We heard the President say that he

takes domestic violence very seriously. I spoke with the president. Those are actually directly his works that he gave me. Mills's. That was just a smattering a selection of the various members of the White House Press Corps who just all they want to do is ask more questions. But Rob Porter, Rob Porter, Rob Porter, the guy resigned, He's gone. He wasn't important. Who cares at this point? Right? I don't know why does the press care so much? Oh, that's right,

because they have a narrative. They have a storyline that Donald Trump is the abuser in chief. That's what they say. They actually had a guy or MSNBC. I saw this over the weekend. He referred to I mean, this was this was disrespectful and gross, even for MSNBC, which is saying a lot. But one of their analysts in MSNBC referred to Trump as the commander in chief of rape culture. Let that let that one just sinking there for a second.

I mean, really unfounded, disrespectful and messed up stuff to say. You know, someone who says that tells you a lot more about themselves than they do the president or anything else that's going on. That's just just an offsides things to say. Man, it was crazy, but that's the narrative. That's the storyline that Trump is the is the you know, the commander in chief of the sexual abusers or whatever.

It's really heinous, but the media believes it. I'm not just picking up random stuff from the blogs or from a Twitter or something. The media believes it. They think that this is true, and that's why they run with the story. They also then because they have some awareness that they are really digging into this story a lot. The White House is said over and over again, abuse, you know, in domestic abuse is disgusting, It's disgraceful. Trump says,

it's disgusting and disgraceful. This guy's gone, and he keeps saying, well, you know he said he wished him, Well, what is he? Is it now? The situation is is it now the expectation that when someone is accused of something, they are to be without proof or rather without a proceeding. I should say, because I know there was proof, without a proceeding. Uh there, what is he never allowed to work again?

Does he? Everyone has to say that this person is disgusting, they can't talk to him, irrespective of Rob Porter's innocence or guilty here that that strikes me as a very trouble blink standard we're setting up in the public sphere. But they knew they were digging into this story too much, so that's when they started to turn it into oh, the security clearance, he had an interm security clearance? What's

going on with the security clearance all stuff? Look, the security clearance process is it is not great, all right. It's not controlled by the White House either. It's a very very imperfect system. And you know, there's only so much they're gonna be able to do and find out anyway. They can usually find the really big red flags. Maybe this time they miss something. But trying to blame the White House for security clearance process is like blaming the White House for the slow speeds at the d m

V or something. It just has nothing to do with anything. The White House is not in charge of security clearances. So they're running with that story because they just want to talk about this more. And I just find the overwhelming disrespect that the media and look, the Democrat Party quite honestly has for this president to be yet another reason to just get alongside him in the trench and be like, all right, you know, well, I'm on this team because I just can't take what they're doing on

the other side anymore. If they're gonna put people on TV that call our president the commander in chief of rape culture, I am going to disregard and or fight against all the other stuff those same people are saying because they're dishonest and they're destructive in their commentary and their thoughts and in what they're trying to spread on the airwaves across the country. So as for the Rob Porter thing, yeah, I don't know. The guy looks bad to me. He resigned, he's gone, and he has been

publicly shamed, that is for sure. Why did the White The number one issue today at the White House Press Conference was Rob Porter? Beyond everything else, Beyond a trillion dollars of infrastructure spending, Beyond the millions of illegal aliens who may be legalized if Congress actually gets together with the Democrats and Republicans have a deal in place, right for Dreamers, beyond the difficulties facing our veterans and the v A system, beyond the U. S. Troops in Iraq

and Afghanistan. And no, no, let's let's talk about Rob Porter for about twenty or thirty minutes. Let's focus on that. You know, we remember this stuff, folks. This is why when they want to be all serious, big ja journalism tomorrow, we'll be like, now, I think we know who you are. We're gonna be back with my buddy Sean Parnell here in just a second. He is going to talk to us about his new book as well as we're gonna discuss the issue about Afghanistan, what we're doing over there.

So stay with me. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Freedom How everybody. We've got Sean Parnell with us here in studio in New York City. He is a former U. S. Army Airborne ranger who served in the tenth Mountain Division for six years, retiring as account happen. He received two Bronze Stars and the Purple Heart. He's a pastiorate supporter of Americans military. He's the author of the bestseller Outlaw Platoon, which I have on my kindle and have read on in its entirety. I did not

know that most toasts do not irk. This is a gift. I'm one of these rare hosts who actually reads a lot. You gave me a gift tonight. There. I should have brought my kindle to really prove it, just to sort of bring if you haven't, Guys, Outlaw Platoon is actually a great book, and I would really recommend it to all of you. You've got a new book coming out, I do, Yes, Why at we talking about that. We're gonna keep you through at the top of the hour.

We're talking about some policy stuff too, but for now, just tell me about the new book. Yes, So I made the jump from nonfiction to fiction and I wrote, you know, and what I think is uh a military thriller about a guy named Eric Steele. It's faction, right. So the whole plot is centered around the disaster Serrani and nuclear deal, which is of course not just a not just a disaster for US, but a disaster for

the entire world. Uh. And and the basic premises is that what would happen if they if they developed a man portable nuclear weapon and a vacuum CEO, and that weapon just so happened to fall into the wrong hands. How would the United States stop it? Track the weapon, defeat the threat. And Eric Steele, he's a guy that cut his teeth in Afghanistan fighting jihadis for fifteen years in the Special Forces and transition to a secret colandestine program called the Alpha Program. Or he tracks down and

and neutralizes America's threats on behalf of the president. So it's a guy that that obviously will will eliminate the enemies of America with extreme prejudice, but also believes deeply in the war ethos and protecting the innocent. And so man of War is the title, and that's what the book is about, which is also by the way, I believe a very large, stingy jellyfish. Yes it is. It is delicious seafood if you're into that sort of thing, right or or a in the era of great wooden ships,

I know, a man of war. But but it's also for people like me that get scared at the beach. You know, it's I I get scared. I want to get entangled up in a man of war. You don't, you don't, But in this case it refers to a man that was weren't of wars his entire adult life, just like me. The only profession I've known has been warrior because we've be don't We've been at war for over a third of my whole life. I was gonna ask you, what is the highest number of deployments at

this point that you have heard of? Oh, I mean, it really depends what unit you're talking about, but twelve. Like, there are guys that are in ranger units that do three to six month deployments that do I mean, no'll come back say they have eighteen deployments, you know. But guys in the conventional infantry, that's where you really want to talk about. Guys that are in a conventional infantry.

Asked him how many deployments they have If they if they say seven or eight deployments a year and a half a year to a year and a half each, that that is like where the rubber meets the road. Stuff. Like those old grizzled twenty plus year noncommission officers to spend their entire career in the light infantry. Those those are the guys that the army rides hard and puts away wet. These guys are are living a good portion

of their lives in downrange. Man, my Peltoon sergeant, his name is Greg Greenson, was the best non commission officer that you could ever imagine. Was in Panama with the seventh Infantry Division. The seventhy Infantry Division is not a thing anymore, like they did the activity the Union a long time ago. I think they still have a headquarters element somewhere. But he was in Panama, you know, I mean in the early nineties. He was my patoon sergeant.

He was forty two, forty three years old around was the twenty four year old, brand new lieutenant. So just to give you a sense of how many deployments this guy has gone through a career noncommission officer. And of course the non commission officers are really the backbone of our military. They're the guys that really make things happen. But yeah, these guys have done a lot. They've been there, done that, and they've got the stories, and um, these

are the kind of guys that I served with. We're gonna do a first here in the Freedom Hub where we actually have somebody in studio. But we also have a caller that I think is a particularly good fit for our guest here, So we're gonna bring Steve in from Charlotte, North Carolina. Steve, how you doing great? But thanks for having me. Thank you. So you wanted to tell us about the fort anniversary of POW release out

of Hanoi. That is correct. My dad was like, I think the third one off the plane, right behind the guy with the crutches. That's an amazing story. So tell me about tell us more about this. I mean, what how long was he? How long was he in captivity? And what happened? Seven years, ten months and nine days? Oh my gosh, shut down sixty five April three, came

back to day seventy three. Wow, Steve. Uh. I gotta tell you, guys, guys like your dad are are the reason why I joined in the in the legacy that we inherited from men like that who never got the welcome home that they deserve. Um. I'm so blessed to be able to inherit, inherit the inherit the uniform from guys like that. And so please, I mean, is your is your dad still around? Yeah? I still around? Please please tell him welcome home from me? Great? Yeah. Colonel Morgan,

Scotty Morgan Uh, let's see. Quincy Collins was a cellmate to his, as was Norm McDaniel, and uh yeah, pretty exciting. Does he doesn't talk about his son was born? Does he talked about Uh yeah, he talks about it, um um, you know, not every day. But you know, it's funny if I have a cousin that served in de Nang in six and they have a conversation. I learned more by listening, then Uh yeah. I mean, isn't that isn't that an interesting commentary on America too? I feel like

this country would learn more by listening to our veterans. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah. So he Uh, let's see, at one point he was under a hundred pounds and they actually moved him out of the Hilton to another place because I thought he might die and they didn't want to die around the other prisoners. He actually lived and they brought him back. How's this today? Pilot shot down? Second one captured? Wow, So how's this help today? Is he doing okay? Pretty good?

Pretty tough? You know, survived to days? Oh my god. One they worked on at books Army Medical Center before it first and then uh he didn't monitors blood pressure too good and had one rup. You know, that's one of those things where you you're walking by the e R and you know about folks live and h let he survived two of them. Well, Steve, I appreciate you calling in to remind us of the anniversary of the POW release from Hanoi, and also thank you, thank your

dad please for a for a service. Absolutely thanks Steve, Thank you very much. Wow. Amazing. You know, there're there are the things you hear about and you try to run through and look, I know you are a frontline soldier in combat, um, but the notion of spending years in captivity in the enemy's hands, it's something that I I feel like if you haven't done that, you don't know what that's like. It's it's truly unbelievable. I'm still reeling a little bit from just the brief time that

we were on the phone with him. But I mean, guys like that, I mean, they are the guys who built this country, and I just feel so grateful to be in the even talked about in the same sentence as them. We're gonna come back with Sean Parnell, author of Outlaw Platoon. We're gonna talk to him about what's going on now in Afghanistan. And also if you got any calls, you can talk to me, talk to Sean eight four eight to five eight four four buck our three in effect, stay with me. Other shows just talk

at you in the Freedom Hud. We have a mission. We fight for the truth in a team effort, and buck us back with our next play. Welcome to our three team Quick Freeview. This hour, we'll be talking with Sean Parnell here in just a moment, more on Afghanistan and just what's going on in the world around us. And then we'll discuss the two portraits that were unveiled today of the Obama's maybe even get Shawn's take on some of that for a bit of a lighter fare.

And then I've got the top five dogs of Instagram and talk to you about that's right. We've we've compiled the numbers, we've done the research one of the most popular dogs on Instagram. And then we'll get into some roll call. So I'm looking forward to all of that. I might even have a little bit of a shark carpet shark story for you later on too, so you

gotta stay tuned. But we've got our friend with a Sean Parnell, former Army ranger, author of Outlaw Platoon, which is a great book you should all read, and also upcoming Man of War which is outer or soon to be out. It's out on Patriots Day. So we did a little So we did a little something that was not customary. We did an exclusive title and cover cover launch today, uh, and trying to rack up those pre

orders prior to the book actually going on sale. And the reason we're doing is because we're going to donate a significant portion of the proceeds of the sales to my charity, the American War Or Initiative, where we turn around and give service dogs to vets. So, um, it's a good mission. We like it. There's a dire need for service dogs and we like to fulfill it. Service dogs are incredible, totally serious question. What's the primary breed?

Is it mostly Belgian melon wall? It? Totally? It totally depends on what you need the dog for. I mean this program, first of all, it's in dire need. The v A doesn't really support it. Uh. There are veterans that set on wait lists for six years to get a service dog. But that's the program is so much more sophisticated now than it was in years past. The

breed is dependent on what the ailment is. So um they found for example that black labs are great for post traumatic stress and trauma, and other dogs are different for brain injury. And then see some some dogs can smell seizures and the chemicals in the body. I mean, it's just it's very very sophisticated. But also what comes with that is that these dogs are very expensive as well.

So you know, what do they run? What's what's I mean there are organizations out there that will charge about for a dog just because of the training that has to go in and you're talking like for a full legitimately service dog trained and certified dog, I mean two years of training, uh, constant supervision. It's just expensive. And so what we do is we come in and we fund it fully. My organization is is not top heavy, so we have very little red tape. We see a need,

we fill it, and it's it's easy, you know. It's it's not like some of these other big organizations who would all do a lot of great work. Um, but we just we see a need, we fill it. We don't need much recognition. But in this case with Man of War and the launch of it. We want to give ourselves time to raise some serious money to do some serious good in the lives of vets. Fantastic um. Moving to the policy side of things for a second, or by the American Warrior Initiative dot org. Yes, yes,

American Warrior Initiative dot com, dot org. It's all there, all directly the same spot. Now I want to ask you about this, and I share this with you before I I write columns for the Hill Um And I saw one, obviously not one that I wrote that that got me thinking. I thought you'd be a particularly good person to talk to about this one. And the title is America has done all it ken in Afghanistan. More

troops won't win us anything. And in the opening paragraph and this is it's written by a Vett, written by an Army major, I believe uh. And he writes, falling there reports the US Armies read readying about a thousand additional troops for deployment to Afghanistan, where they will link up with some fourteen thousand or other U S service members.

Tasks with an unachievable mission, and he goes on to say the persistence of violence after sixteen years of US intervention, raises serious questions about the need for and ability of the United States military to address what is at root an internal Afghan security problem increasingly disconnected from core American security interests. Sean, I'm very sympathetic to a lot of his argument. In fact, I say I agree with a

lot of what he is getting at here. If the idea is that we're gonna we're gonna win, the Taliban will be done, there's gonna be some surrender, and it's gonna be a happy place in Afghanistan, I don't see that ever happening. But you, as a guy who was out there doing this work, and what provilence. By the way, I forget from the book you were. I was in Burmel District, Pactica Province, right in the border. We controlled about a hundred and thirty five mile a border area

between Afghanistan and Pakistan. What do you what do you think about? I mean, it's hard to disagree with this with his his his policy argument is substantive. I mean, you know this. I have been saying things like this for a long time, that it is not about politicians get this wrong all the time. It is not about how many soldiers you have in Afghanistan. It is about

the mission that they are performing in Afghanistan. Back in two thousand and six and two thousand and seven, the eyes of the nation were whole hearted, wholeheartedly focused on Iraq. You remember the surge was happening around that time. Wasn't going to be successful, wasn't going to be an abject failure? We didn't know, um. I mean around the clock news media coverage on it. But at that time in Afghanistan, the war was particularly deadly and we were in direct

fire contact with the enemy every day. But war fighters were making decisions at the lowest level possible when we were doing it's a great effect. And at the end of two thousand and seven, we were getting intelligence from the State Department passed down through the chain of command to us on the ground where they were monitoring Taliban and Alqairic communications on the border, saying hey, look, we are broken. We are no longer going to commit our sons to this fight. It's just not worth it for

us anymore. Let's go fight the Americans somewhere else. And then we change strategy from counter terroritor counter insurgaency we try to basically take a cookie cutter solution that worked in Iraq transplanted to Afghanistan and it did not work off. And we've talked about this before, Buck, It's you know, nation building in Afghanistan is fundamentally flawed. There never really has been a nation been trying to reconstitute a nation exact and you're trying to build it from them from

the start, from scratch. Yeah, it's like Joe bat you you I mean that the Romans were more advanced than the Afghans are right now. I mean, if you talk to Afghans on the border in the country of Afghanistan, they don't even know that their country is called Afghanistan. It's crazy. So um, circling back to the point that I made initially, it's not about how many troops are there,

is about what mission they're performing. If if I am making the decisions in the White House right now, what we do is we go back to a counter terror strategy. We put we rotate ranger battalion's in augmented by special forces so they can work with some of the special ops Afghan guys on the ground, and all we do is target the worst of the worse, and that way we secure the Republic of Afghanistan. They can do business the way that they want, like we're not building their nation.

They can be as corrupt as they want. But we are conducting and planning missions Kinnectic missions in Afghanistan to kill terrorists to keep that country from going back to being a Petri dish for you know, and a global Islamic Hottest All Star team from where they can plan and attack the United States. That's the goal should be to keep it from going back to that. One of the troubling legacies of the Obama administration on foreign policy.

And that's just a fun way to start a lot of different sentences, but one of the ones that really comes to mind is the idea. And I know that. Look, people the immediate the Democrats who know enough to know this would jump back at me with oh, but Petraeus is on board with this. I think MC crystals on

board this. The notion of a negotiated settlement with the Taliban and this conflict that can happen, and maybe that's the only way we leave in which there is a lull in the conflict, but that is actually going to

end in an abject failure. There is no way the Taliban became something other than what it is once they are left in charge of some portion of the country, and they will march on cobble and we will have the Taliban again in six months after we strike a quote unquote piece deal with the Taliban or whatever deal you want to cut, the the Afghan government as it stands right now will all be hanging from lamp posts and cobble. There is no there is no question that

the Taliban retake that country. And I don't care what generals say about this. I don't and most of them are center left for some inexplicable reason. Anyway, I don't know why we could we just delve into that for a second. I've I've recently been explaining to folks that there needs to be in all, in all of the minds of of my fellow Americans, here a separation between people who have been doing the job and often people who are in charge of those doing the job within

the federal government. From my side of things, when you get people like James Colemy, for example, head of the FBI, people think of them like, oh, he's an FBI guy. He's put in the time, and I'm like, James Comey is a rich lawyer. Everybody he has. He is not an FBI. He's not a law enforcement kicking the door, wrestling the crackhead to save Grahama from a terrible fate. Like, that's not who he is. He's a very political guy.

Brendan at the c i A, you go through a whole list of previous ci directors, a lot of them very political. And I just think it's interestingly because people see what's done day in and day out, and I look, I see this with the military too. I never serve, but with the generals, people see what the rank and file, what they accomplish, and what their mission is and what their ethos is, and they feel like whoever runs the place is the pinnacle of that. And that's not always

the case. A lot of times they're politicians. It's true, and it's so true. Generals have to be politicians. Um, but if you also think about and I'm not specifically referring to M. A. Crystal or Portrays here, right, these guys are unbelievably accomplished guys. A lot of these guys have combat experience on the ground, and our ack Afghanistan

in other places. But the vast majority of generals for a long time in the military came up during and a largely peace time, right, and so for me, I almost a hundred percent of my experience in the terry has been combat, boots on the ground combat, And so you can imagine it's almost like if you spent your whole life as an infantry officer coming up in the ranks and never had a bullet cracked by your head. It's almost like being a painter and never having painted

a painting. You can imagine the divide that exists between someone that's been there and someone that hasn't. But the people that haven't been there for the longest time in our military, we're the ones calling all the shots, and to our discussion, before much of the metro of the rank and file, they're going on decades of combatics in the military. Is hemorrhaging those people precisely because almost their entire career they served under commanders who had zero combat

experience ever, and they had a bad experience. Seriously, the military in general is hemorrhaging small unit leaders that are saying, like, Okay, I don't want to live my life on a constant rotation to Iraq or Afghanistan year on year off. I'm never gonna have a lot. I'm gonna go through five different wives, six different divorces. I'm gonna have five different kids that are never gonna see me. I'm gonna say, hey, I'll see you have a good first grade year in

second grade, and so on and so forth. They don't want to do that, So they're getting out in large numbers and and in large part of the military suffered because of it. What can be done to make this better? Well, I mean, at this point, I think that the army really needs to focus on building up the ranks with

quality soldiers. I mean, in two thousand and six and two thousand seven, the army was, the military in general, was so strapped for people that we opened our arms to everybody, and so we got a lot of people in that should have never been involved in the military in the first place. And what ended up happening is they'd spent two or three years in and we chaptered them out in the military for some disciplinary action, or they just didn't they just couldn't carry their own weight.

So I think we just there just needs to be a hyper focus on like, as we pour money into the military to recruit more soldiers, those soldiers need to be the cream of the crop that absolutely want to raise the right hand to serve this country. They believe in the mission. They're not just doing it. I don't know. I mean, who knows. I mean who knows. I mean there are a lot of There are a lot of people that join the military in two thousand and six

and two thousand seven that had no other option. It's just I hate to say it. It's it's not it's a stereotype that's too often used. But it did happen, it um and so I think we just need to focus on the best of the best as we bring these guys in and rebuild our military. Rebuild. Rebuilding our military doesn't simply just mean the infrastructure and equipment. It means bringing in good quality soldiers that can perform a a high speed mission. And that's really where the focus

needs to be on recruiting good people. Sean Parnell is author of Outlaw Platoon, which you can get on Amazon right now download on Kindle. Some of you have listened to me on that one already and said, wow, Buck it's a great recommendation. So some of the team is I am so grateful to the Team Buck. We need more militarized name for you. What we do do roll call at the end of the show on their suggestion when they get to read their we read them is you got that on lockdown? That's a great name. Team

Buck is great. But I think I am going to personally come up with a militarized name for you. I love it all right, Well, if he passes it on to us, then it's like it's like when when my Southern Team Buck brothers and sisters say I can say y'all, I'm like, well, now I have permission, right, so then then I'm okay, I've been blessed. Good um. Also his book Man of War Amazon and bookstores. Yeah, it's it's anywhere books are sold. It's out right now for pre order. Now,

help us buy the book. I'm donating to to buy service dogs. So help us help us accomplish that mission. And Sean and I are going to go and talk about solving all the world's problems over some well for me, tequila for him, beer and some burgers here in a few minutes. Sean great to have you in studiento ment. Thank you so much to hang out here. And we're

gonna roll in a quick break. Now. We're in the third hour, friends, and that means sometimes I'm gonna talk to you about things that are not exactly at the at the top of the list of solving world problems or anything like that. I am, in fact going to tell you about the top dogs of Instagram coming up here at you just because I want to talk to you about dogs. I went and visit some puppies over the weekend. Ms Molly's We're we're revisiting that issue about dogs.

I know I've talked to you about it before. Um, but this is the third hour. We get into some other topics, right, That's what we like to do. This is a news topic. I don't know how much I have to add to the currents conversation other than just my my take. Right, there's not in depth analysis of this. I am not somebody who has a particular eye for

portraiture or or the the the arts in that way. Um. But today the the two official portraits for the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery of former President Barack Obama and uh former First Lady Michelle Obama were unveiled I guess kind of literally, right, they had them covered up and then they took them, they unveiled them. Uh, so we got to see them, and there was quite an interruption of

responses about them. The biggest issue was why is it that the portrait of um Michelle Obama does too many of us, I think, not especially uh look like Michelle Obama. You know, in in an era of of constant photography and image retrieval and everything, we have, our minds, I think are also much more attuned to someone's facial likeness.

We really know what people look like now, right. It's not like this is America and you know a couple of hundred years ago where you'd like read you'd read a news story and maybe they have some kind of an an etching, a drawing of a political figure we all we all have in our minds. I think a picture of what Michelle Obama looks like, certainly what Barack Obama looks like as well. And now the Barack painting

looks looks just like Barack Obama. Right, Fine, so no I should We'll talk about the other interesting part of that artistic project in a moment. But the Michelle Obama panting didn't particularly look like her. And what I think was interesting was that this then turned into an issue of whether or not people were supportive of Michelle Obamas as a public figure. Like if you say the portrait doesn't look like her, it's somehow you know, not like

on team Obama. And I just want to say that I have got no particular felix one way or the other about about Michelle Obama at this point, i just don't think it looks like her. And I'm not trying to make some political statement. I'm just sitting here like a portrait doesn't really look like her. I mean, does

anyone really care? I don't know. But it turned into a big thing today and there was a lot of of back and forth between Obama supporters and Obama detractors and and if if you generally speaking, oh no, not everyone. If you were a Democrat and you support the obamaistration, you're like, it looks just like Michelle Obama. And if you're a critic, or maybe just somebody who calls it like you see it, you're like, it doesn't really look

like Michelle Obama. So anyway, that got a lot of attention today for me, and maybe there's I will plead some degree of ignorance on this. I don't know what the official symbolism is of of Barack Obama's painting. If you haven't seen these, by the way, you should. You should really go check them out, because you'll go and then you can listen to the segment again back on the podcast, and you'll really be able to follow along

with what I'm saying more more clearly. Barack Obama sitting in a chair, arms crossed, looked, spitting image of Obama, right, it looks just like him. Um, it's totally him. And the the backdrop is a bunch of his leaves, but like a lot of leaves. It looks like this is the portrait that you would expect if somebody was the president of the National Florists Association or something like this is uh, it is hard to fathom, at least from again,

maybe there's some symbolism here that I don't understand. Hard to fathom from an outsider's point of view, somebody who doesn't know what the the official storyline is. Why you'd have a president that is surrounded with with lee with all these leaves just just because maybe it's some part of the maybe the White House provided the backdrop or something. I don't know, but it looks a little bit, it

looks a little bit unusual. So you've got some You've got some portraits today of the President of the President, the first Lady, and uh, you know, it was it was the thing that people were talking about. Like I said, I don't have a lot to add to it other than I just felt like this was the biggest news story of the day this morning. I was, oh, my gosh, you know that the portraits. Everybody was spending a lot

of time on them. Um. I will say the the dress that Michelle Obama was wearing, it is very elegant, so that's nice. And the the likeness of Barack Obama is quite good. So there's that. But you know, here we are art, my friends. You know, it's it's in the eye of the eye of the beholder, I guess. And it was interesting to see how politics influenced so clearly the way that people were responding to these paintings.

I would just like to think that we're beyond the point where if you if you criticize anything having to do with the Obama's you will come under attack for being a hateful, mean, bad person because, like I said, I mean Brock's painting, you know, other than the weird backdrop, I thought was pretty good. But Michelle Obama's painting was just it's just not good. You know. It's just not a good painting of her. I think it doesn't I think it doesn't do her justice. I will say, I

think it did not do Michelle Obama justice. Um, and that's this is one of the very rare times where I'm gonna be a makeshift art critic here on the show. I promise you all except for Netflix, and like that, I'm I am a ninth degree black belt in Netflix. But portraiture is not really not really my jam um,

But dogs are. And I'm gonna talk to you about the top dogs of Instagram and then we'll do some Team buck roll call coming up, and I will all so make a brief apology for not having a Shields High episode up for today soon soon, I promise Malta and the good guys win that one, so you'll want to hear that Shield High episode. We'll be right back. So over the weekend, Team I managed to actually relax a bit I pretty much stayed off of social media for the weekend, or at least I didn't write any

tweets on Saturday. I'm gonna try to get to a point where I at least don't don't create or or or do any content on social media Facebook and Twitter and this stuff on the weekends. It's such a psychological uh drag, I think, after all, to feel like you always have to be, you know, getting in there, getting in there, getting in there. I feel like for my profession in particular commentary and analysis of the news, and just in general, it's like we're all being forced to

be street performers. Not that there's anything wrong with being a street performer, but you know, instead of focusing on doing uh uh Shakespeare or a Broadway play, we're all constantly running around in the street trying to do whatever it is, you know, our mime routine, or dressed in some kind of a big furry suit and passing the hat around and not even passing the hat around because social media is really for free on the commentary side, So I just try to get away from a little

bit more now, and I think I think rules. You know, I used to think things like limiting yourself to a certain amount of TV watching. When I was a kid, that just sounded like a prison sentence. But now I think it's good to have some of those As an adult, I'm trying to force these guidelines on myself. I had the situation of being at a at a dinner recently, and sure enough, I was a dinner and uh, a friend of mine was across table from me, and he

he left his phone out. We're we're in a pretty nice not a fancy, but a nice sit down restaurant, and he puts his phone down on the table and it goes on. Uh uh, I mean his phone is you know, someone's emailing him or texting him or whatever it is, but it's it's it's on the table, lighting up and and vibrating i'd say about every every two minutes or so. And I'm looking at I'm just like, you know, can I And he doesn't like this other thing.

He doesn't like to have his phone in his pocket because he doesn't like the radiation, which I people have been reading about this, and I know there's radiation, but I had to say, hey, I'll keep your phone in my pocket. How about that. I just don't want it on the table. I'd like to be having a meal on a conversation and not seeing a from I mean, I just get this drives me insane. Everywhere you go

now you cannot escape the devices. I really want to start a restaurant chain that is that is device free. I see people that are pulling out iPads at restaurants. Give them the kid. Look, that's that's what you want to do. Fine, but you gotta have headphones. Okay, you can't have like SpongeBob square Pants blasting over the iPad at a at a restaurant where people are actually trying to have a some kind of an experience, right, I'm not talking about Chuck E Cheese. That's a different kind

of experience anyway. So I managed to pretty much stay off the social media this weekend and hang out and um is Molly and I we had really big plans to cook on Saturday because she's been just cooking up a storm recently. I mean, I told her though, she has to lay off, like she can't make gluten free. I don't know if we technically call it ZD or lasagna. It was kind of a combination because I just ate all of it, and then it's like, why am I even trying to go to the gym or be healthy? Right,

I'm just gonna eat all of Molly's lasagna's um. But anyway, we we ordered an Indian food, which I hadn't had a long time, which was great, a little spicy, but great. And that night, Saturday night, we're sure enough, we're we're outside for second, we're actually gonna drop something off for her parents downstairs in our building, and I see an ancient looking carpet shark, also known as a docks in. And as you know, I've had my experiences with carpet

sharks in recent months. And this one has long hair and has cataracts over both eyes, and very reminiscent of the carpet shark that like a little great white tried to take a chunk out of my face when I was just trying to gently lift it up in the air. And get to know the little guy at a at a party in New Jersey and ms Molly and makes jokes about it. She says, you know, you're scared of the carpet shark. I said, no, it's all right, you know, I understand now, you just gotta give a carpet shark,

it's space. But this stocks and I mean the woman has to carry it because it has We actually talked to her a little bit. It's a nice lady who lives in our building, and she has arthritis in its legs and it has cataracts on both eyes. And I mean this, you know when it when it moves, it kind of shuffles, it doesn't move very and she carries it in and out of the building because it's so harvard to So, you know, I feel for a little little furry guy, but I'm still you know, I still

gotta be careful. You know, even a even an aged carpet shark could be could be a problem, you know, all of a sudden gets one last bite out on you. And so the next day, sure enough, we're walking around, we're looking for a place to go to brunch, and and we we pass there's really only a couple of them now in the city, but we passed one of

those stores. And I know everyone says adopts don't shop the New York City codes though, because there's been so much pressure on puppy mills, and they're they're actually very strict laws. I've I've read about this now in the city where they have to do the City of New York. If you're going to sell a dog in New York has to send inspectors to the breeder and has to license the breeder and make sure that you know that it's a well run operation where the dogs aren't in

duress or distress and everything else. So that all said, whether you buy that or not. We weren't going in

there to buy a dog. It's just because there happened to be two baby carpet sharks in the window, a little little almost like little minnows, but with teeth, you know, a little baby carpet trucks, and Miss Molly happens to kind of like Dockxin's I'll use their real name badger Hounds docks homes, and sure enough for and people have yelled at me and they've said that it's not badger hound, it's badger dog, because hound in German is dog, hound, dog, tomato,

tomato whatever. So we we go in there and we we play with the little docksins for a while. I gotta tell you, they're actually pretty cute. So the carpet sharks when their babies they're fine. When they get older, you gotta watch out. You gotta look for the the dorsal fin moving around the cocktail party. If it comes directly at you, you could be in some trouble. But the carpet sharks were cute, and I'm not I'm not getting one, but you know, I'm I'm opening my mind

a little bit too. At least now maybe I'll say hi to them on the street. You know, I've I've been a little anti anti docks that ever since my incident haunts me to this day. Well, you know what got me thinking about this now I've gone on way too long about my my docks in story, is that there's a New York Times Beast the five most popular dogs on Instagram drum roll. And I thought this was this was really funny because it tells you a lot. This is a real commentary on what's going on in

the country right now. So you have the five most commonly uh posted pooches, five dogs that are top five, and so think right now and let's get the drum roll. Going. Number five is the husky, which I'm was surprised because huskies are big dogs that need a lot of exercise.

Generally and their work dogs. But I suppose the husky is the one representative of dogs outside of of urban centers in terms of you know, people that if you if you live in an area where you've got trees and grass and a lot of you are like, yeah, buck, it's called America. If you live in a place where there's trees and grass, you might have a husky. And that's number five on the list of it's the scientific stuff that they crunched all the numbers on Instagram, and

that's the fifth most popular dog, the husky. Number four, no surprise here is the chihuahua. Now, I think that is in part because Chihuahuas are incredibly common in cities right there, They're among the most common dogs and cities. They are actually among the most common shelter dogs too. Chihuahuas and pit bulls of all kinds, pitball mixes and just any kind of pit bull. Uh, those are the

two most common shelter dogs. With chihuahuas, it's generally because people think that because they're small, there'll be a lot less work. But you still gotta walk them, you still gotta take them to the vet, you still gotta get them the shots. They're easier in some ways, but the responsibility of this little furry friend is still very much the same as if you had a Saint Bernard, Right, you gotta walk it, you gotta feed it, you gotta

be there, you gotta take care of it. So a lot of people get over their heads with a chihuahua and they give it to the shelter. Very sad. But the good news is that chihuahuas and shelters get get usually picked up right away. They don't last very long from a reputable shelter, they get picked up. Number three on the most Popular Dogs of Instagram. Oh and also with chihuahuas, by the way, because there's a lot of

like bedazzling of chihuahuas that goes on. A lot of little put your little gold chains and earrings, and you know, people like to dress up their chihuahua. So that's why they're so Instagram friendly. Remember, these aren the most popular dogs in the country. These are the most posted dogs in the country. Number three is the terrier. And first

of all, terrier is is a type. It's not really you know, not really a specific so I don't know what I don't have much to say on this other than I don't know which terrier they're really referring to the Karen Terrier. Is it a you know, white terrier? Is that? Who knows? But they say number three is a terrier here, So whatever. Number two my personal favorite, the bulldog. Bulldogs are the second most posted dogs on Instagram. And it's because their droopy faces are adorable. And we

all know that that is just a fact. And one day I will get a bulldog. And I already have five different names in my head for the bulldog and that's gonna happen. It's been a constant negotiation with Miss Milly. She wants to adopt. I want to get a bulldog from a breeder, and we're going back and forth on this. Maybe we'll do both, but there's a whole lot of there's a lot of territory that we need to work

through before we get two dogs. Iwout one and then the number one most popular dog posted on Instagram is, in fact, the pug. I followed Doug the Pug on Instagram. He's very cute. He's a dapper little fellow. You know. One moment they've got him, you know, dressed up like a surfer dude another moment, he's like snowshoes and out on the slopes, Doug. You know the pug and pugs are are very cute, very friendly little fellows, and they

make great companions and apparently great Instagram post dogs. So that's number one. So with that, my friends, I've told you about pups. Let's get into what you think. Let's talk about some well, let's get into some team buck roll call coming up right after the break. So before we get into roll call, everybody, I just wanted to say I've I have seen and read the messages, and I promise I will soon come up with the next

episode of Shields High. It's just a heavy lift, and I've enjoyed having a weekend or two of I'm still doing the research, I'm reading, I'm taking notes, but I have not been able to bring myself to just spend the better part of a weekend pulling together the history show for last week or two. But it's happening. It's happening. We're gonna get one coming up here. I'm shooting for Monday.

I've been thinking, is it going to be the gonna jump right to Malta or do I need to do the Siege of Vienna nine as a preamble of sorts, as a as A as a getting ready for pre heating the oven, if you will, for the Battle of of Malta. So that's that's what's you know. I'm thinking about that stuff. And then let's get into some Oh wait, here we go roll call please, sir. Oh yeah, Team Buck, it's for roll calls. Oh, Paul, we'll get some history stuff soon. Let's see what we have here in the

mailbag via roll call. Um M David with the filling. Uh, I have a huge favor to ask. Uh. My wife and I are huge fans. And oh no, this is a shout out request for February third up. I gotta hold this one. I gotta hold this one. There's a shout out request for tomorrow. Producer, Mike, can you please remind me that we have a we have a shout at request for the thirtieth wedding anniversary tomorrow via via roll call. We will make that one tomorrow. So I'm

gonna whoop. We're gonna put a hole on that one. We're gonna let that one simmer overnight and then we'll get back to it tomorrow. I think that's our first. That's the first request for a wedding anniversary shoutout. I've had birthday request before, and I've always tried to honor those because, hey, team, if it's your birthday, I'm happy for you. Hey, team, it's your birthday. Your going a party like it's your your birthday. You know how it goes? Um Brad writes in Buck, where I knew these were

gonna start coming? In Buck, where are you on the Shields High series? You tell a good story, my friend, and I already know the history, and I'm joining your take on these events. Well, Brad, Um, thank you for the kind words. And it's it's coming back. It's just in a little tempor little temporary hiatus right now, a little a little bit of a Hey, you know, Buck needs to tend to some other things in life before

he gets more. Look, I I'm gonna finish. I'm gonna get to ten episodes of Cross Versus Crescent and and then what's gonna end up happening is we're gonna figure out where the best home should be for the Shields High podcasts going forward, because I already have I have some American history ideas for the podcast that will be a whole lot, and I think that will be a even more uh resounding success with all you folks who like history. So we're gonna move into that realm Um,

that's the plan at least. I think the only question is do I do Ancient Greece and Rome those battles first, or American stuff? And I feel like you'll all tell me American history. So that's that's the plan. But I gotta finish Cross versus Christ and first, all right, here we go. Um, hold on a second, I'm trying to pull him up. And I swear my computer always freezes whenever I want to do a roll call with you guys live radio. It's it's a it's a thing that

can be difficult. Jeff writes, just listening to the show from Friday. Oh man, it's about the hamster, and I was sad about the hamster. Dude, this woman. First of all, if my hamster is my pet, I'm going down with the hamster. If the ship is sinking or if the plane is crashing or whatever, like, the hamster does not get flushed down the Toilet's your little buddy, your tiny little it's like half the size of a Chihuahua. I'm gonna get some angry emails from chihuahua owners out there,

but it really is. Hamster is a good little fella, you know, And I feel bad anyway. So Jeff writes, I wonder if that poor hamster that was flushed at the air sport knows any sweet martial arts skills and could maybe round up a gang of teenage mutant ninja turtles down in the airport sewer shields. Ye, well well played, Jeff, well played Splinter. The sense of the teenage mutant ninja turtles was very wise and very very skilled in the

martial arts. Um. And that's where I'm just gonna And for those of you who don't wrote teenage muntja Turtles, I don't know what to say. Um. That's it's a weird It's a really in retrospect, very weird show, very weird show. Taylor writes the falling buck your backup deeper noise is the same voice as Hillary, and for dan good reason, both are equally as wretched. Well, thank you very much, Taylor. I appreciate that as long as we get the basics of it, basically, I think that's good.

Uh t j writes in Buck I enjoyed the Buck Peeve segment about air dryers. Maybe make it a weekly segment. I kind of like the idea of on Friday just doing this agrament on something that annoys me. I'm thinking about this. I'm gonna talk to producer Mike and John

about it. But I feel like it could be a thing we do right Like, for example, right now, just off top of my head, people that on the subway decide that they're gonna walk to the top of the subway steps, stop and then look at their phone with about a hundred people behind them trying to walk up the stairs just and and there are people that just

do this. They're like, oh my gosh, I finally have WiFi or you know, I have signal, and you know, unless you're like it like an e er doc and you can't find the hospital or something, which would be a whole other set of problems. I feel like you can wait the extra three seconds, move to the side, and let pc I'm already doing one of them. Now. We gotta find a uh, you know, Bucks grumble cast

or something like that we'll do like a Friday. I think that'd be fun on the Friday's, so then people will know that I'm you know, it's like get off my lawn kind of stuff, which is good. Let's see what else we got here. I think it timefully. One more show is flown by today as it up, Jeff Holland, what's with the following? Quit slacking, Sexton. We need those

history podcasts. Hope you have a blessed and find someday, Jeff, I know, I'm sorry I've created I've created a situation where the only way through shields high is to do shields high, and that is what will happen. That's what's I've I've been putting them out there, but I've taken a little break. He's just been a little quality time with Ms Molly, And now that we've had a couple of good weekends together, I'm gonna have to tell her, Honey, this weekend you can go do fun, normal person things.

I'm going to uh lock myself to the desk with a bunch of old dusty books and write about how the Sultan was trying to invade the heart of Christianity and destroy the Western world. You know, as one does with that, my friends, it's gonna be it for our freedom Hut Extravaganta today. I'm excited about each day with you this week, so please do uh tune in, tell friends, share the podcast, and she'll tie