Can Mini Mike Buy the Presidency?

American again. The Buck Sexton Show begins analyst. He's a great guy now, But I tell you what people were hurting viciously and badly by these corrupt people. And I want to thank if you look at what happened. I want to thank the Justice Department for seeing this horrible thing. And I didn't speak to him, by the way, just so you understand, they saw the horribleness of a nine year sentence for doing nothing. You have murders and drug addicts.

They'll get nine years, nine years for doing something that nobody even can define what he did. The Germany said he put out a tweet, and the tweet you're based on that we have killers We have murders all over the place, nothing happens, and then they put a man in jail and destroy his life, his family, his wife, his children, nine years in jail. It's a disgrace. In the meantime, Komey walks around making book deals. The people that launched the scam investigation and what they did is

a disgrace and hopefully it'll be treated fairly. Everything else would be treated him. Welcome to the buck Section show the President and Fuego telling the truth about what has really been going on here. Let's just step back for a moment before I dig into the details of the Rogerstone sentencing issue and how there's more unfairness there than

you've probably even heard of yet. How are we supposed to feel about a justice system in this country that somehow allowed for the investigation of a presidential campaign using highly sensitive counter espionage tools at the very top reaches of the federal law enforcement and intelligence bureaucracy, to lie about that investigation, to continue it, as we know they did with the Fizer renewals on carter Page, to use fake information which we know the dossier is paid for

by an opposition political campaign, the Hillary Clinton DNC using foreign sources, that we're probably running what the Russians called disinvormatzia disinformation. How is it that the only people in this process when you stretch out Russia collusion, this great conspiracy, the biggest political scandal of my lifetime, and the scandal is in the other guys were wrong all along. The other guys, the Democrats, the anti Trumpers, they got the

whole thing wrong. They lied, cheated, and stole whatever they had to do to keep this thing going. They thought they were going to topple a presidency with this, It's gonna be Watergate. But they're the burglars in this tale. They don't yet recognize that that's the way history will view them, although we always know the Libs like to

rewrite history. That's what's going on here. And the only people, somehow in all of us who get in trouble, the only individuals who find themselves on the wrong side of a federal prosecutor in all this are Republicans, people close to Trump. That's it. Coomy, no charges, McCabe, light under oath as black and white. A criminal issue is you're going to find anywhere Roger Stone's in trouble for lying to Congress. McCabe led under oath, same principle, same kind

of law. CABE's not going to prison. As a former acting FBI director of Friends, Peter Struck fired no charges against him, no official misconduct. They could they could absolutely slam that guy with an official misconduct charge. And keep in mind the left sometimes pushes prosecutions for political reasons that they know they can't win. But to prosecute is

to attack. To prosecute is to destroy, maybe not fully, because you may not get the verdict you want, as we just saw with the Democrat Congress going after Donald Trump, but it was still an assault. It was still an ongoing ambush trying to slow down, trying to harm this presidency. So then you have to ask yourself, huh, why is it that on our side we only prosecute if we know there's no escape. For the other side, there's no way they'd be able to mount any kind of successful defense.

And even then sometimes we back away from it because on the right we like to think that we show good faith and there are bigger considerations sometimes than punishing wrongdoers who are Democrats. I don't know why we continue to live in that fantasy lend, but we do on the right, we don't seem to really ever prosecute. To keep in mind, there's nothing stopping I know that this is going to sound crazy to people, but I am correct.

There's nothing stopping the Department of Justice from reopening the Hillary Clinton email case if they wanted to. I mean, there's nothing statutorially that prevents them from doing that. They certainly could have done it over the last three years. But we don't do that. Why Because we're Republicans, we're conservatives. We want the country to continue functioning. We don't want to rip it apart at the seams. Whether you agree

with this or not, I'm just saying this is the mentality. Meanwhile, the left is like, hey, can we lie and get stuff into a FISA application to mic up somebody who touches on the Trump campaign. Maybe see if there's anybody else talking to someone else that we can look at their emails too. Shameless, shameless, unrepentant. To this day, they act like that was all justified. They spied on a presidential campaign. They keep saying that Attorney General bar is

Trump's hatchet man. He's a bad guy. Attorney General bar was already the attorney general under the George HW. Bush administration. He's already had this job. Was anyone saying that he was, Oh, he was a total you know, a bad man for Bush then, and he can't be trusted and he's corrupt and he's been bought and all this stuff. No, but suddenly he's just Trump's lackey and has no credibility. They've

tried to say he's dumb, which is hilarious. He's a better lawyer than every psycho lib lawyer they've put forward to make cases against Trump, whether it's impeachment or Russia collusion. He'd crush any of them in open debate. But yeah, they also didn't realize that he was the head of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice, which makes policy for the rest of the Department of Justice.

That was before he was Attorney general. You cannot get more gold standard for a government legal resume than the city attorney General does not exist. You know what Eric Holder was most famous for it before he became Attorney general, overseeing the disgraceful but legal pardon of Democrat financier Mark Rich who was doing business with Iran when it was

or was it Libya. I think it was a Ron or Libya, one of those two countries when it was under sanction and fled the country, never faced justice, but his super rich wife wrote big checks to Democrats, so he basically bought a pardon. Eric Holder signed off on that. Even Eric Holder today says, yeah, that was pretty gross. So that was Obama's attorney general for most of his term.

And then you had Lauretta Lynch, who, as we know, just had the fortuitous circumstance of right before the decision was going to be made about what was going to happen to then Democrat nominee for the president and expected next president in the United States, Hillary Clinton, would she faced criminal charges, by the way, any criminal charge of any kind would have sunk her presidential hopes. We know

that didn't have to go to prison for decades. Even if she took a guilty plea, she probably would have been done and no jail time probation. I've said you, I'm honest. Everyone else is, oh, she'd go to prison forever for the Espionage Act. That's not true. But she should have had to take a guilty plea for mishandling classified and probably get, you know, a six month suspended sentence and probation. But she should have had to take

a criminal charge for mishandling classified. That's reality. But we're supposed to believe that Loretta Lynch had a meeting on a tarmac with Bill Clinton, that their private planes just happened to line up on a lot of airports, a lot of planes in the sky, right before the determination is going to be made, right before Cam goes forward and gives his speech. Yeah, uh, Democrats must think we're all really stupid, don't they Like, we can't figure out

what's going on here? My friends, this is all absurd, and we know that we understand that we see what's going on here. They keep playing dirty and then accusing us of playing dirty when the biggest problem that we have when it comes to the justice system as conservatives, as Trump supporters is we still have principles, and that means that we don't have the same latitude of operation that the other side does. They'll just do whatever, no,

it doesn't matter how blatant is. And that now brings me to this Roger Stone issue, and we might have my friend Annie McCarthy on to fill in some of the some of the blanks on this one. Tomorrow give us a little bit more of his analysis. I mean, you know, he's always he's somebody who is fair to this system but also sees things for what they are.

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This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast. So now we're at the stage of what happened with the Rogerstone the Rogerstone sentencing. Now, the guidelines that were given, the guidelines that were given by the federal prosecutors were technically allowed, but it also was very clear that they took the most negative interpretation possible and applied the most negative interpretation to get the you know, a very extreme end of the range. Now that judge is the one who determines,

not the prosecutors. The federal judge presiding over the case determines what the actual sentence would be. But I do think that it's I've been very clear about this. It is absurd. I don't even care what the guidelines say. I don't care what the statutes say that Roger Stone could even theoretically go to prison for nine years federal prison. By the way, no parole, you serve the sentence you

get in federal prison. People have always forget that. They're like, oh, well they'll be out and no, no, no. If you get five years in federal prison, you go to federal prison for five years. It's not like state prisons where you know, you can get a seven year sentence, and you know, with two years could behavior all of a sudden you're walking around the street. The reality is that

it's it's an affront to our conscience. That Stone, who you guys all know, I think is a pretty entertaining character. I've talked to him a bunch of times. He's very amusing. He's fund to exchange startorial tips with him. But Stone is I asked him once if you if you need to wear a belt with a suit, and he said, absolutely are what are we sat? Iages you must wear a belt with a suit. You know, It's like, oh yes, sir, of course. I thought you could kind of get away

with no belt with the suit. But Roger Stone set me straight. Set me straight a long time ago on that one. So Rogers facing nine years in federal prison according to whatever the well, based on what the judge decides to do with it. And people get upset about this. Trump tweets about it, and now he's been very public. We started out the show with him saying the DJ did the right thing by saying, okay, that's this was crazy. The perception here does matter, the perception of whether Stone

is being treated fairly matters. And you have to also remember in this whole process that there is the left and the anti trumpers are invested in as many prosecutions and as long a sentence as they can get for two reasons. One spite, if you work for Trump, if you're near Trump, they hate you, and that's the main reason. But the second reason is that then they do this thing you've seen the Mattaw's show on MSNBC on c AU. They'll have people that'll just rack and stack all the

criminal prosecutions. This became a big talking point, Oh, look at all the criminal prosecutions out of the Russia collusion probe, as though that justifies that the probe was all based in a lie. The probe was a farce, The probe was wrong. It never should have happened. Without the dossier,

they don't even get to the probe stage. But they rack up all these different names of people that are going to prison for line to investigators and some form of personal financial fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, etc. But it has nothing to do with Russia collusion. So they want yet another person, oh, Trump associate Roger Stone linked to the Russia collusion that didn't happen linked to the Russia collusion case, gets you know, six years, seven years

whatever it is in federal prison. See, we were right all along to be doing that investigation. No, they're they're fined process crimes and relentlessly hounding people, ruining them, bankrupting them because Libs have completely lost their minds. So that's a big part of this. And then when you see the federal prosecutors who pulled the Sally Yates maneuver. Oh, I'm I'm leaving the government because I'm so ethical. Give me a CNN contract. I want to go work for MSNBC.

I mean, this is what they do now. Oh Trump is such a monster. Where's my book deal? This is what the hashtag resistance does. This is how they conduct themselves. We all know this. But you have these prosecutors who have all well, they've they've resigned from the case. I think a few of them have resigned entirely from the DOJ. So some of them have resigned from the DOJ. And you look at their resumes and these are people who, first of all, and I note this, three of the

four I think clerked for Supreme Court judges. Guess which Supreme Court judges. They clerked for huge libs Stevens suitor yoh yeah, oh yeah, big big surprise there, right, no Scalia clerking going on, no Thomas clerking on the resume. Nope, they clerked for big libs. We know they're huge libs. One of them was a senior DJ appointing under the

Obama administration. Another one was very involved in prosecuting the Muller was part of the Muller pro part of the Muller team, and one of them was involved with going after Papadopolis. Essentially oversaw that, Yeah, that's really that. That was justice send Papadopolis to fourteen days in prison for lying about something that he might have misremembered and that meant nothing. That seems fair, right. That's that's what the

left does. They've convinced themselves that they're the good guys, and whoever they can destroy on the other side, that's justified. That's why. Yeah, is Trump is Trump kind of you know, talking out of turn here a little bit on the DOJ.

Shouldn't do this, Yeah, But all the people that are crying to you right now about how Trump shouldn't speak about the DOJ and he's he's affecting the impartiality of the institution and that this is so wrong, and all those other all of those people, you should ask the question, where were they when Obama said on National TV that Hillary didn't didn't actually endanger national security with her emails. She didn't mean to do it, and basically she didn't

do anything wrong. There's nothing to see here. His Department of Justice was then investigating a case of a Secretary of State who was sending highly classified and including Special Access program data on an open email server, not a classified server. Any other person who's work in the government would tell you this would be you would assume you're gonna you You're gonna end up in federal prison for a while if you did this. But she was Secretary of State and the Democrats needed her to try to

win the presidency. So Obama can speak out about that, and that's fine. Why is that fine? Oh, because he's Obama and because they're Democrats, and because they have no principles,

they only have double standards. Okay, I'm glad that we can establish that right away, because the people that are all upset now about Trump's saying that the dj needed to reiin this thing in they were not upset when the Obama administration, in fact President Obama himself publicly weighed in on how there should be no charges against Hillary Clinton. You could call that undue election interference, couldn't you. Well,

this is where this is where we are. And so now they've created yet they need another outrage story because they're done with Rush a collusion right now, they're trying to find how to resurrect it. Acquittal in the Senate trial. Then they didn't remove Trump from office. Impeachment helped Trump, you know, the idiots and the Democrats side I thought that was going to ruin him. Didn't know what they

were talking about. So now what they do, Oh, they got to remove bar The Department of Justice is under so much assault. Can't handle the strain from a guy who is a gold standard d J longtimer who just happens to be hated by the left. In Attorney General bar hated, viciously despised by the Democrats and the left because he knows this game. They can't scare him and

he's not going to back down. The could you imagine, by the way, if I'm just gonna say, if we had if you would have had Attorney General Bar instead of Jeff Sessions. And I do not dislike Jeff Sessions. He's a nice man, and I think he's an honorable guy. He's just not a fighter. He's just not a street fighter, you know. You know, let's say about people you got, like a friend who you know, say he's a lover, not a fighter, and just means he's not the guy

you wanted. You're back in a bar when things get ugly. You know, Sessions is a nice guy. If Barr had been Trump's Attorney general from from day one, there wouldn't have been a Russia collusion probe wouldn't have happened. There would have been it would have been an investigation of Russian online in or you know, online propaganda efforts in an interference. Sure wouldn't have been this whole Trump collusion lie on all the obstruction garbage piled on top of it.

So personnel, personnel is policy. People say personnel mattered. Trump's gotten a few of the right ones in the in the right places now, but took way too long to get there. You're in the freedom hud. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Last night, I think I said on air that you know, the Washington Post says democracy dies in darkness. It actually doesn't. It dies some television. It dies right under the lights of you know, the

bright of day. Um. I mean, this is an institutions and justice that's right and with people not doing something. And understand, right now we should all be called for the Attorney General to resign. What bar has done should mean that we are demanding a resignation and if that guy won't resign, then the House should start impeachment proceedings against him. Impeach Bar. Oh, here we go. What did

I folk? What did I tell you? You You know, I W've been saying all week, they're looking they're looking for another They're looking for another removal proceeding, another weaponization of the process. And here we are, here, we are now with them doing what they do, which is to say, they've come up with some looney tunes explanation of why the Attorney General of the United States needs to be

removed from office. They've decided that the Attorney General here is a guy that they should go and have a you know, have a removal proceeding with the House calling witnesses. The whole thing. The whole thing all because any distraction from the disarray of the Democratic Party right now is a good thing. Any distraction from what the Democrats are really trying to do and trying to accomplish in terms of the people they have running for elected office, that's

just that's great. They should be very happy about that. They should be very very pleased because they don't really have that. They want just the Democrat primary voters to be figuring this thing out while the rest of the country swing voters independents are focused on the removed. By

the way, this is not going to happen. I mean, this is ridiculous, and I would just note that it would be entertaining to watch them try to explain why Attorney General bar should be removed, because he's just going to say, I didn't I didn't make this. You know, I didn't violate any law. What's I didn't violate any

any DJ policy. The president spouts off, that's not my problem, but why you're going to remove the attorney general, and that they would claim that you have Democrats now saying that you should have Attorney General bar consider removing himself, but you you did not have the even recusal, never mind removal proceedings initiated against Lauretta Lynch just goes to show you that this is all they just they view all of this as scoring points for their team against

the other team. Whenever they talk about institutions and our sacred democracy and all this other stuff, you can just just just cast that aside. That's just nonsense. It doesn't mean, it doesn't mean anything to them. It doesn't mean anything to them. They're they're saying that as a distraction and as a smoke screens, as a tactic of weaponizing process against the other. In this case, as we know, the

other would be Democrats. I'm sorry, Republicans. Rather, I want to talk to you about the situation here with Mike Bloomberg, because I do find this fascinating. So let's dive into that. Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm very concerned that the independence of prosecutors, the ability of judges at just weigh

the facts and the evidence is erotium. That the president has taken a wrecking ball to that, and he was just impeached for that. We're not going to stop holding him accountable. We've learned when you hold him accountable, you can actually stop the corruption, whether he's removed or not. And ultimately it's going to be for the voters to judge in November. Might you impeach him over this? Over Roger Stone in the sentence, You know, we're not going to take our options off the table. We don't wake

up in the morning wanting to impeach him. You know, we want to work with him on primperships and drugs, background checks and infrastructure. But we're not going to let him just, you know, torch this democracy because he thinks that he's been let off once and we're not going to do something about him. Oh yeah, maybe they'll impeach him about this thing too. They'll impeach the president. Never mind bar you know, impeachment, impeachment. Impeachment has a replaced Russia, Russia, Russia.

They just can't make a good argument. Their argument right now is, oh, yeah, let's put a crazy socialist in charge. Even Democrats realize that's probably not a winning strategy. I think they know this. I think they have They've started to come to this on understanding but I want to just switch gears here for a moment and tell you about what I'm reading about the Bloomberg campaign. Now here's

the thing. Bloomberg is not an exciting politician. No one sits around and they're like, you know, Mayor Bloomberg is really good to save the country. No one thinks that Mayor Bloomberg is dynamic, is charismatic or charming or any of those things. A lot of the president keeps making fun of his height. I think he's like five eight, which is like normal height, like standard average height. So yeah, Producer Brandon is like telling me, he's for you five eight,

How tall are you? Five six? Okay, but you know, like five eight five six, this is this is how tall people are fun size. Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know why Trump's gotta go go go with the height thing all the time. I don't know. There's other you know, low energy, crooked. These are things that I you know, I don't know, I think. But calling him little Marco, I know it was about hype, but

it was about more than height. It was about his lack of real political stature more than his physical stature. When he remember with Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio tried to go after Trump and tried to try to take the gloves off, and it was did not go well for little Marco. But now you have Trump facing off against Bloomberg, and here's what they're getting. They're saying nasty stuff about each other. Which the egos here, Let's be honest, These egos are titanic, and both guys Titanic egos. And you

have Trump who's saying this about Bloomberg. Play seventeen. Please, he's practically crying, saying what a horrible thing he did. I think that's so disingenuous. You know what I'm talking about, Fellas, that was so a Bloomberg. Look, he's a lightweight. He's a lightweight. You're going to find that out. He's also one of the worst debaters I've ever seen, and his presence is zero. So he'll spend his three, four or

five hundred million dollars maybe they will take it away. Frankly, I'd rather run against Bloomberg than Bernie Sanders because Sanders has real followers. Whether you like him or not, whether you agree with him or not. I happen to think it's terrible what he says, but he has followers. Bloomberg's just buying his way in. But we're going to find

out what happens. We're going to find out. But when you watch, go back to the chair where he apologized for everything he ever did practically, and he looked pathetic. Our country doesn't need that kind of leadership. A president's assaults here on Bloomberg, I think is spot on. There were some conservatives, including some whom I like very much, who immediately I think maybe they got caught up in attacking Bloomberg is helpful to Trump, so they just attacked

without really thinking through that. Bloomberg's tape, the one that I played for you, played for you on the air, that's just someone speaking honestly about criminal justice in New York City, and as I told you, ended up saving hundreds, if not thousands of predominantly minority lives in this city. And you shouldn't back down from that. You could say, maybe tonally I was a little bit off, but I stand behind you. Know, yeah, you should put more police

in higher crime neighborhoods. And when more police are in higher crime neighborhoods, and those higher crime neighborhoods are overwhelmingly minority. That means there'll be more minorities arrested, it means there'll be more minority con with law enforcement. But it also means more minorities can go to work and stay in their homes and run their businesses in safety and security. And that's the ultimate purpose of that police presence. That's

what you say. You don't you don't run away from the woke, the woke squad right away, which is what Bloomberg did. All of a sudden, He's gonna, oh, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done it, and you know, I'm trying to I sound a little bit like Bloomberg, but he's

you know, he's almost like too boring to impersonate. It's kind of all it's sort of all you know, he has like a little bit of this, and it's like he's he doesn't really want to have to talk to you, but like, all right, fine, Like can I just pay someone else to talk to you? Please? Like I'm worth like a hundred bajillion dollars and I just I don't really you know that that's kind of Bloomberg. That's kind of what you get. This smart guy. He's not a

charismatic guy. But when Trump says that he's trying to buy his way in usually this is a talking point or from for mostly from Democrats, who say, oh, money in politics and remember sorroast money good, coke money bad? Right? Uh, the way the way the Libs frame it, you know, Bezos owning the Washington Post good, murroc owning Fox News bad. This This is the way. This is the formulation. It's not rooted in anything other than they like their team.

They don't like the other team. It's just true. You know, some billionaires are great because they fund far left calls. You know Tom Stier pushing all that money for impeachment. By the way, Trump should send him a nice fruit basket, you know, a nice bottle of sustainably farmed organic you know, non sulfate free trade wine or something, if that's I don't know if that's a thing, but it probably could be now. By the way, I might start a fight later with all of you about whether or not is

dry age really worth the extra price. I don't know, for for for red meat. I've been going back and forth on this. I don't know that'll come up. I got to talk about the perfect Valentine's Day stake. That'll be a fun part of the show. So all right, So Bloomberg is being accused of buying his way in or that that's what people are saying. And here's the thing about that, it's true. He is he actually is buying his way in. He's not a rich guy who uses some of his own money and is raising a

lot of them. He's not taking any to it. He's just he's just writing checks. And he has a pretty substantial media apparatus, Bloomberg News behind him, pushing him and pushing other Democrats, and the stories I'm reading about this, I gotta say, it's pretty amazing, you know, one of the one of the I wouldn't say it's a regret. It would have been fun if I when I were younger, I went in the CIA, and you can't work in

the CIA and be in a campaign. So there really wasn't a time in my life as an adult when I realistically could have been doing m campaign work. I mean, I think maybe you can do it on your own. I don't know what the hatch Ack rules say about it, but I mean I was busy trying to kill terrorists, and by kill terrorists. I mean, write the memos about how they bad and how the elite military that I was working with would actually go get the bad guys.

But nonetheless I didn't really have time or the or the ability to work on you to meaningful to do full time campaign work. That's really what I'm talking about. And you see these people out there who are very young, who are doing they're doing these interviews about the Bloomberg campaign. You're finding twenty three and twenty four year old campaign staffers who expect to make on an annual basis about thirty thousand dollars a year maybe, And keep in mind

that that's if it goes for twelve months. So you gotta do the math on what they're actually making month to month, because the moment your campaign ends, you're done, right, the money stops. Bloomberg is paying twenty some odd year old political organizers like people that are very very much the grunts, you know, the ground forces of his ground game in politics, six seventh, six or seven thousand dollars a month, yeah, and is guaranteeing people that and this is a big point that I want to go on

and return to. It is guarantee that they will be able to do this through the election. So if you go work for Bloomberg right now, you not only get about double or really a little over double what you would expect to make in the course of working on a political campaign, you are guaranteed that until November, so basically close to through the you know, through almost the end of the year, and they'll I'm sure they'll pay those people through November and December, and they'll give them

some severance or something because it's Bloomberg. I mean, the guy's walking around just you know, just just ripping one hundred dollar bills at everybody. It's crazy. This means that he's able to buy a ground game, he's able to buy an army, a political army. That's what that is what he's doing. He's actually doing it. This is not just a you know, Democrats all money in politics and all this stuff. No, no, this is this is a

real thing that's happening. I mean, produce your brand that if someone came up to you and said, hey, we want we want to pay you six thousand dollars a month guaranteed from now till November, they'll be basically no oversight over what you're doing whatsoever. Just do your best

to do some political organizing. And you get to work in a super fancy headquarters right in Times Square, and they're going to bring in catered food every day for you, three meals a day, including they spent I think forty thousand dollars in one month on I think that was what it was on sushi. I would highly consider it. You would consider it, right, I mean you prefer the

Freedom Hut, of course. But you know this is a lot of money you had sold halfway, right, I mean, this is a good this is a good setup, is a good deal. Let's imagine you didn't have a gig at all, right now, right, someone says to you, Look, imagine I didn't have a gig. Someone says, go work in the Bluebird campaign. We'll pay you six g's a month, cover all your food expenses throughout the day. And basically no one expects you to win. So just like, do

whatever you want. It sounds great, right, sounds like a free ride. Look, this is no one's ever done this. This is an experiment that's never been run before. You know you had you know, Jeb Bush, please clap raised or spent one hundred million dollars. That's a lot of money. One hundred million dollars of other people's money. Now he's a rich guy, but he's probably like, I don't know

what the bushes are really worth. You know, tens of millions, I think, I don't think they're ultra rich, right, they're rich. You know, he's spent one hundred million dollars of other people's money and got a delegate. I think, I mean just was a total The campaign was a total bust. So, yeah, people have spent massive sums of money in politics, but raising it from other people changes the game. Bloomberg is like, who wants to get Mike Bloomberg? Help Mike Bloomberg get

elected president? And what is it? What do I have to pay you to get you to do it? No political campaign? Political campaigns have long hours. So many of my friends have worked on them, long hours, grueling work. A lot of it is grunt work. It's it's not sexy, it's boring stuff. But if they're gonna bring in catered sushi, and I'm a sweet green man myself, like some of these fancy salad places, but or maybe perhaps they don't have in and out Burger in New York. Why don't

want But they do have shake shack. You're gonna bring me free shake shack every day in a gluten free bun. I mean, I'm not saying I'm not saying that I would have gone to work on the Bedo campaign if he had offered these kind of benefits, But I am saying I might have considered it. Let folks, this is

no one's ever done this before. No one's ever been able to spend these kinds of resources to make working for Mike Bloomberg, really really, and look, this is a guy who understands, understands the free market, understands how to run a business, understands incentives. He's horrible on national level policy. He's horrible on climate change and guns and nanny stata.

I get all of that, But if you're getting the opportunity to go work for the Bloomberg campaign and versus all the other Democrat campaigns right now, gotta tell you, he's bringing in a lot of talent and a lot of people are trying to get get in the door and get on the Bloomberg gravy train. This has never happened before. But there's one way that I think this could be really meaningful for who becomes next president United States. I don't think it will be Bloomberg. But there's something

else that we have to remember. I'll get to that in just a second. All right, just before we continue on with our ken Bloomberg actually buy the presidency, which I think the answer is no. But who knows. Morning Consult has a new poll out today, and look, I know, poles changed, YadA YadA. Pundits love to talk about poles, but I'm much more interested in the micro analysis that we can take here or the this snapshot in time of what what is happening in the Democratic primary that

we think is happening. It is happening. Here's there. This is the poll was a question was Democratic primary voters were asked whom they would vote for if the primary or caucus were held in their state today. Bernie Sanders was before New Hampshire getting twenty five percent of that vote. Now he's at twenty nine percent, up four points. Joe Biden was at twenty two percent, drop three points to nineteen percent. So now you got Bernie at twenty nine

Biden at nineteen. It's a pretty healthy, healthy gap. Mike Bloomberg my friends number three in this national poll. This is asking all Democrats all across the country. Mike Bloomberg is now eighteen percent. Bloomberg just showed up and has bought himself into almost third place. I'm sorry, almost second place. He isn't third place nationally in this poll based on Democrat reception across the country. And then Pete Buddha Judge is at eleven, Elizabeth Warren is down to ten, she

dropped one. Booda Judge is pretty much standing constant, and Kloba char is down to the bottom round five percent. Now she's got a little bump out of New Hampshire, but not much, I mean according to this. Now you have to see how it plays out in Nevada, South Carolina. I think Biden's gonna You're gonna see Biden's numbers jump, you know, three, four five points after South Carolina because people can say, oh he wants at Carolina. Gotta see how he does in Nevada. Not sure how that's gonna

shake out. But Bernie is clearly right now the front runner. But we're talking Bloomberg, Maya Bloeberg and he producer brand it thinks of my Blueberg is actually pretty good for the record, So you know, it's kind of like it's like he's just he doesn't want to have to address all the stupid people in the room, and he's just why do you want to drink you giant soda? It's so much sugar, It's so bad for you, right, I mean, that's that's kind of uh. It just reminds me of

more Goldman from Family Guy. I don't know if he's just sort of like jury boys, Fine, you're gonna ask me, You're gonna ask me questions. Can I just can I just throw Like if I gave you a million dollars? Would you stop asking me annoying questions? Press? Like? Could I just give you all? Like how about that? We'll come up with some kind of a deal. Oh Man Bloomberg Bloomberg guito for those of you who remember when

he was mayor in New York City. All right, so this morning Console Pole shows what we all thought happened, which is Biden is Biden is almost on the ropes here. Bloomberg is third place nationally, so clearly he's been able to buy something, he's been able to throw money. And by the way, it's not fair to say, just that he's buying, and I mean the money is a huge part of it. But it's also interesting that he gets to skip you know, he's gonna have this narrative and

I think Republicans need to be prepared for this. He's going to skip past all these all these people that have to do the oh, I'm gonna have to kiss the babies ds and then go and talk to this union and talk to that constituency trying to raise money. He just gets to focus on messaging and has an

army of people doing messaging for him. I mean, he's paying like Instagram influencers that some of you listening, I mean your kids might be really into, or those of you who are Team buck gen Z might be falling into the category. But you know a guy, I don't know how else to say it. His name is Blank Jerry, who's a well known I can't That's all I can say. Blank Jerry's a well known Instagram influencer. He's doing Bloomberg stuff. I mean they're they're going out. And there's another there's

another well known Instagram influencer. I don't know if he's gone gone after him yet or Bloomberg has paid him yet, but his name is In fact, he goes by the moniker, the Fat Jewish, Bruster Brandon familiar with he. You know, they're going for people like that, Instagram influencers who are thought of as being very edgy and culturally relevant, and they're taking wads of cash. Although I don't think mister mister Jewish has done that yet, or mister mister the

Fat Jewish whatever. I don't know his real name, but I just know that's his stage name, um right, I mean, do you know do you know his real name? Producer Brandon might know his real name. I don't. I may have known at a certain point, but I just don't like what he's about as a member, as a member of the Jewish community, Brandon, how do we feel about a gentleman calling himself of the Fat Jewish all the time? It's a it's a poor stick, it's get old. Yeah,

it's a it's a funny. He's got oh like a couple of million Instagram followers, right, he's big on Instagram. It's offensive to real brilliant Jewish comedians like mel Brooks. That's how I look at it. It's like, it's so lazy, you know that's you think, it's like almost it's almost exploitation of Jewish culture that does not elevate the humorous aspects of it the way that it has been by

the great luminaries of humor in the past. If you remember the Brian Franstein character on Seinfeld when he converted just for the jokes. According to the Jerry, he's he wanted a stickle Florid. He starts using these I mean and he wasn't Jewish, you know, according to jew Did you ever did you ever see the uh the Larry David episode where he finds out that this lawyer isn't Jewish. Yeah, but he says like shalom and he's, you know, masl and all this stuff. Larry David's like, I don't I'm

not okay with this whatever. He's like, what do you mean, Larry, I'm just trying to be culturally, you know, culturally sensitive. And he's like, no, you're not trying to make people think you're a Jewish lawyer. You had to earn it it. Yeah. So anyway, so there's all these Instagram influencers who are getting paid all this money because they're not only is Bloomberger will get his messaging out. He's messaging is being

made kind of cool. There's this story the New York Times about the waterfall of Bloomberg money talking about a pro Bloomberg for President. I was gonna say, for mayor for President party that he threw in Miami with they were handing out like, uh, you know, breed drizzled in honey and fancy canopay and the waite staff was wearing all black, you know, black suits except for red, white and blue Bloomberg T shirts. And you know, I don't know if there were like go go dancers and cages

or anything that that's probably off brand. But I'm just saying it was like a fancy Miami party. And if I got invited to that Bloomberg party, I'm not saying I'm voting from Mike. I'm going for Trump all the way. Am I gonna go eat some breed drizzled and honey? Though it is a weakness that I have, you know, it is something that I can't say I would I would quickly, I would quickly turn down. So there's that. So that's a thing that that's a thing that's real. Um,

what else did I have for you? On Bloomberg. There are a few more. Oh, well, how is he how is he positioning himself in this? Please play Procure brand and please play fourteen. Even though Donald and I are both from New York, the truth is we could not be more different. In fact, I build myself as the Untrump is a selection is too important for our party to have the kind of too important, that kind of divisions we sat we saw back in twenty sixteen, too

important to have. Yeah, I got it. That's that's I'm right in there. I'm in the I'm close to getting the Bloomberg, the Bloomer voice down right. But he's saying he's the un Trump. Well, if he were to win the nomination, you would have two white male uh boomer billionaires from New York City vying for the presidency. It's pretty amazing in a country at three hundred and twenty million people with a tremendous actual diversity, that it would be two guys who basically have lived ten blocks from

each other for the last forty years. I mean, I mean, yet, I don't know, I don't know exact Bloomberg's I guess in his places out there side. Okay, he lived like twenty blocks from each other. But yeah, trust me, they've been going to the same restaurants. I could I could rattle off the top of my head the restaurants that Bloomberg and Trump have been going through for a long time. Well,

then again, Trump is probably Mickey D's. He likes Mickey D's. Um, maybe Chick Filo these days, but he's definitely in the Mickey D's. So we've got that here. Here's how I think that this could really matter, or this could really change change things in a significant way. Bloomberg has also vowed to use the apparatus that he is I wouldn't say building the apparatus that he has bought and paid for for the presidency to help whoever is the nominee.

So there's this talk of broker convention and everyone says that and no one even people say this, and I'll be honest, they don't even really understands how that works. I mean, the people that are talking about it on TV. But you know, maybe there's a broker convention and Bloomberg becomes the you know, the the savior of the Democratic Party or the guy who unites it. I think that's unlikely that Bernie bros will completely flip out. He's literally

a billionaire oligock. I mean, let's be real, he is a billionaire oligarc right, So Bernie's run around thing the billionaires, the billionaires, the oli Cocks, all the millionaires. Now that's the Bernie's millionaire, so they can't really the billionaires and the oligos. And then he can point the Bloomberg and be like, say, I told you, and he's right, he did tell us it looks like he can buy it.

Looks like you can buy our democracy. But if he takes the apparatus that he's bought and paid for, if Bloomberg takes that and leverages it to assist someone else in the you know, the Democrat field, that will be that will be a thing that we can't really factor in. How does that work out? What happens when you have

Bernie to just just follow me on this. When what happens when you have Bernie level enthusiasm, let's say, meaning his people that are all Bernie's gonna save America by making everything free, and we hate the corporations, and you know, Bernie people are intense, man. You know they're the only ones that line up in terms of their fervor for their candidate. With Trump supporters, you know, please, did you see the Buddha Judge supporters. They're like, they're like, I

can't even do the song. They had some horrible song they were doing for a while. Do you know what I'm talking about? The Budda Judge song where they were like apping and stuff. Whatever. It wasn't it wasn't good.

It wasn't good. So anyway, the Bernie people can line up against the Trump people, and now you have to think what happens if those Bernie people then are also able to say, Hey, at the Bernie rally courtesy of Mayor Bloomberg, we're gonna have breed drizzled in honey and people passing out, you know, Toro, Fatty Tuna, big fan

of it and things like that. It's all free. Just show up at the rally and also stay and we're going to give out like really high quality organic cotton T shirts with Bernie for President on them, courtesy of Mayor Bloomberg. You start to see how that could be a thing. But now, would would Bloomberg do that for Bernie? I think Bloomberg stepping in because he understands what Burnie would mean for the country. I think he would do it for He'd do it for Klobaschar. He would do it,

you know. I think he's promised that he'll support the nominee, but will he use the resources at his disposal to help that nomine with the apparatus he's currently paying for and saying he's going to pay for it through the election. He'd do it for Mayor Pete. He'd do it for Kloba Schar. He'd definitely do it for Biden. I don't know if he would do it for Bernie. And think about the message that that would say. Think about the civil war that could be ignited with the Democratic Party

if that happens to be the case. So I'm telling you Bloomberg is an X factor. I don't mean that doesn't mean that we that mean we don't know. But Bloomberg is an X factor in all of this. When you have that much money to spend and that much organizational savvy who knows. Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, the

iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, just before we continue on with our Ken Bloomberg actually buy the presidency, which I think the answer is no. But who knows. Morning Consult has a new pole out today, and look, I know, polls changed, YadA YadA. Pundits love to talk about polls, but I'm much more interested in the micro analysis that we can take here or the this snapshot in time of what what is happening in

the Democratic primary that we think is happening. It is happening, here's there. This is the poll was a question was Democratic primary voters were asked whom they would vote for if the primary or caucus were held in their state today. Bernie Sanders was before New Hampshire getting twenty five percent of that vote. Now he's at twenty nine percent, up four points. Joe Biden was at twenty two percent, dropped three points to nineteen percent. So now you got Bernie

at twenty nine Biden at nineteen. That's a that's a pretty healthy, healthy gap. Mike Bloomberg, my friends, number three in this national poll. This is asking all Democrats all across the country. Mike Bloomberg is now eighteen percent. Bloomberg just showed up and has bought himself into almost third place. I'm sorry, almost second place. He isn't third place nationally in this poll based on Democrat perception across the country.

And then Pete Buddha Judge is at eleven, Elizabeth Warren's down to ten, she dropped one, Booda Judge is pretty much staying constant, and Klobaschar is down to the bottom round five percent. Now she's got a little bump out of New Hampshire, but not much, I mean, according to this Now you have to see how it plays out in Nevada, South Carolina. I think Biden's gonna You're gonna see Biden's numbers jump, you know, three four, five points after South Carolina because people can say, oh he wants

at Carolina. Gotta see how he does in Nevada. Not sure how that's gonna shake out. But Bernie is clearly right now the front runner. But we're talking Bloomberg Mayor Bloomberg and he producer brand It thinks of my Bloomberg is actually pretty good for record, So you know, it's kind of like it's like he's just he doesn't want to have to address all the stupid people in the room, and he's just why do you want to drink your

giant soda. It's so much sugar, It's so bad for you, right, I mean, that's that's kind of It just reminds me of more Goldman from Family Guy. I don't know if he's just sort of like jerky boys. Fine, you're gonna ask me, You're gonna ask me questions. Can I just can I just throw? Like if I gave you a million dollars? Would you stop asking me annoying questions? Press? Like? Could I just give you all? Like? How about that?

We'll come up with some kind of a deal. Oh Man Bloomberg Bloomberg Ghito for those of you who remember when he was mayor in New York City. All right, so this morning Console Pole shows what we all thought happened, which is Biden is Biden is almost on the ropes here. Bloomberg is third place nationally. So clearly he's been able

to buy something, he's been able to throw money. And by way, it's not fair to say just that he buying and I mean the money is a huge part of it, but it's also interesting that he gets to skip. You know, he's going to have this narrative and I think Republicans need to be prepared for this. He's going to skip past all these all these people that have to do the Oh I'm gonna have to kiss the baby's heads and then go and talk to this union

and talk to that constituency trying to raise money. He just gets to focus on messaging and has an army of people doing messaging for him. I mean, he's paying like Instagram influencers that some of you listening, I mean your kids might be really into or those of you who are Team buck gen Z might be falling into the category. But you know a guy, I don't know how else to say it. His name is Blank Jerry, who's a well known I can't That's all I can say.

Blank Jerry is a well known Instagram influencer. He's doing Bloomberg stuff. I mean they're they're going out. And there's another there's another well known Instagram influencer. I don't know if he's gone gone after him yet or Bloomberg has paid him yet, but his name is In fact, he goes by the Moniker, the fat Jewish Bruster Brandon familiar

with he. You know, they're going for people like that, Instagram influencers who are thought of as being very edgy and culturally relevant, and they're taking wads of cash, although I don't think mister mister Jewish has done that yet, or mister mister the Fat Jewish whatever. I don't know his real name, but I just know that's his stage name. Um right, I mean, do you know do you know his real name? Bruce Brandon might might know his real name.

I don't, because I may have known at a certain point, but I just don't like what he's about as a member, as a member of the Jewish community, Brandon, how do we feel about a gentleman calling himself the fat Jewish all the time? It's a it's a poor stick, it's a gets old, Yeah, it's a it's a he's got oh like a couple million Instagram followers, right, he's big on Instagram. It's offensive to real brilliant Jewish comedians like mel Brooks. That's how I look at it. I might

it's so lazy, you know, that's you think. It's like almost it's almost exploitation of Jewish culture that does not elevate the humorous aspects of it the way that it has been by the great luminaries of humor in the past. If you remember the Brian Kranstein character on Seinfeld when he converted just for the jokes. According to the Jerry,

he's he wanted a stickle of flooride. He starts using these I mean and he wasn't Jewish, you know, according to jew Did you ever did you ever see the the Larry David episode where he finds out that this lawyer isn't Jewish. Yeah, but he says like shalom and he's you know, mozl and all this stuff. Larry David's like, I don't I'm not okay with this whatever. He's like, what do you mean, Larry, I'm just trying to be culturally, you know, culturally sensitive. And he's like, no, you're not

trying to make people think you're a Jewish lawyer. You had to earn it it. Yeah. So anyway, so there's all these Instagram influencers who are getting paid all this money because they're not only is Bloomberger will get his messaging out. He's messaging is being made kind of cool. There is this story the New York Times about the waterfall of Bloomberg money talking about a pro Bloomberg for president.

I was gonna say, for Mayor for President party that he threw in Miami with they were handing out like, uh, you know, breed drizzled in honey and fancy canopey and the wait staff was wearing all black, you know, black suits except for red, white and blue Bloomberg T shirts. And you know, I don't know if there were like go go dancers and cages or anything that that's probably off brand. But I'm just saying it was like a fancy Miami party. And if I got invited to that

Bloomberg party, I'm not saying I'm voting from Mike. I'm going for Trump all the way. Am I gonna go eat some breed drizzled in honey? Though it is a weakness that I have, you know, it is something that I can't say I would, I would quickly, I would quickly turn down. So there's that. So that's a thing that that's a thing that's real. Um what else did I have for you on on Bloomberg? There are a few more? Oh well, how is he? How is he

positioning himself in this? Please play PreCure Brandon, Please play fourteen. Even though Donald and I are both from New York, the truth is we could not be more different. In fact, I build myself as the Untrump is this selection is too important for our party to have the kind of too important that the kind of divisions we sat we saw back in twenty sixteen, too important to have that. Yeah, I got it. That's that's I'm right in there. I'm in the I'm close to getting the Bloomberg the Bloomer

voice down right. But he's saying he's the Untrump. Well, if you were to win the nomination, you would have two white male boomer billionaires from New York City vying for the presidency. It's pretty amazing in a country at three hundred and twenty million people with a tremendous actual diversity. That facts, it would be two guys who basically have lived ten blocks from each other for the last forty years. I mean, I mean yet, I don't know. I don't

know exactly Bloomberg's I guess in his places out there side. Okay, he lived like twenty blocks from each other. But you know, trust me, they've been going to the same restaurants. I could I could rattle off the top of my head the restaurants that Bloomberg and Trump have been going through for a long time. Well, then again, Trump is probably Mickey D's. He likes Mickey D's. Um, maybe Chick fil A these days, but he's definitely in the Mickey D's.

So we've got that here. Here's how I think that this could really matter, or this could really change change things in a significant way. Bloomberg has also vowed to use the apparatus that he is I wouldn't say building the apparatus that he has bought and paid for for the presidency to help whoever is the nominee. So there's this talk of broker convention and everyone says that and no one even people say this, and I'll be honest, they don't even really understand how that works. I mean

the people that are talking about it on TV. But you know, maybe there's a broker convention and Bloomberg becomes the you know, the the savior of the Democratic Party or the guy who unites it. I think that's unlikely. Bernie bros. Will completely flip out. He's literally a billionaire Oligock. I mean, let's be real, he is a billionaire oligarc right, So Berni's went around saying the billionaires, the billionaires, the oli cocks all the millionaires. Now that's the Bernie's the millionaires,

so they can't really the billionaires and the oligos. And then he can point the Bloomberg and be like, say, I told you, and he's right, he did tell us. It looks like he can buy it. Looks like you can buy our democracy. But if he takes the apparatus that he's bought and paid for, if Bloomberg takes that and leverages it to assist someone else in the you know, the Democrat field, that will be that will be a thing that we can't really factor in. How does that

work out? What happens when you have Bernie to just just follow me on this, When what happens when you have Bernie level enthusiasm, let's say, meaning his people that are all Perni's gonna save America by making everything free and we hate the corporations. And you know, Bernie people are intense, man. You know, they're the only ones that line up in terms of their fervor for their candidate with Trump supporters. You know, please, did you see the

Buddha Judge supporters. They're like, they're like, I can't even do the song. They had some horrible song they were doing for a while, do you know what I'm talking about? The Buddha Judge song where they were like clapping and stuff. Whatever.

It wasn't it wasn't good. It wasn't good. So anyway, the Bernie people can line up against the Trump people, and now you have to think what happens if those Bernie people then are also able to say, Hey, at the Bernie rally courtesy of Mayor Bloomberg, we're gonna have breed drizzled in honey and people passing out, you know, Toro, Fatty Tuna, big fan of it and things like that.

It's all free. Just show up at the rally and also stay and we're gonna give out like really high quality organic cotton t shirts with Bernie for President on them, courtesy of Mayor Bloomberg. You start to see how that could be a thing. But now, would would Bloomberg do that for Bernie? I think Bloomberg stepping in because he understands what Burnie would mean for the country. I think he would do it for He'd do it for Cloba

Shar He would do it. You know. I think he's promised that he'll support the nominee, But will he use the resources at his disposal to help that nominee with the apparatus he's currently paying for and saying he's going to pay for it through the election. He'd do it for Mayor Pete, he'd do it for Cloba Shar, He'd definitely do it for Biden. I don't know if he would do it for Bernie. And think about the message

that that would say. Think about the civil war that could be ignited within the Democratic Party if that happens to be the case. So I'm telling you Bloomberg is an X factor. I don't mean that doesn't mean that we that mean we don't know, But Bloomberg is an X factor in all of this. When you have that much money to spend and that much organizational savvy, who knows you're in the freedom This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast. All right, I want to move on

from mayor Mike. But this, this is a broader thing. This isn't really about the election. Get the guy's worth tens of billions of dollars forty to fifty billions. What you just see is the estimate. And he's asked, how do you become super successful? Sometimes sometimes people give advice on how to become successful, and I hear it and I go, oh, that's really good. That really that is

something that will stay with me. And I don't know, and one day, maybe, if you want, I'll tell you the things that I've I've learned from experience I think are important and I wish I had known when I was younger. But maybe you have to experience it to really appreciate how important certain things are. But here's Bloomberg's advice to workers on how to become successful. Play nineteen smarter than anybody else, but I can out work you.

And my key to success for you or for anybody else's make sure you're the first one in there every day and the last one. Believe, don't ever take a lunch break or go to the bathroom. You keep work, and you never know when that opportunity is going to come along. Now you might say, Buck, how could you argue with Boomberg? You're not worth you know, forty billion dollars whatever. But I got a few reasons. I think that's horrible advice he's giving it. I think that's absolutely

garbage advice. And I could also point to a lot of other people who would say, yeah, no, that are very successful, that are that are self made, were a ton of money. You know, I can tell you. I

can tell you this. You know, Elon Musk isn't worth what he's worth because he never leaves his desk and never goes for a potty break and has sandwiches brought to him and has no human interaction like no, no, no, no no. This is a little bit of the self indulgent boomer fantasy work ethic that comes out sometimes where it's oh, I'm the I'm the president this company because all right, I went to work in the snow up

to my neck. You know, I had no shoes and I wear bala Okay, I mean still like some people have amazing stories of success and going through trials and tribulations, But the truth is that in a lot of positions, you don't need to show up and just be there all the time and never do anything but work. You want to be thinking about your next move. You want to be thinking about are you growing, are you becoming more valuable in this role? Should you find another role

in the company, should you find another job? How are you expending your energy? Is what you're doing useful or is it easy for anyone else to replicate it. If it's easy for anyone else to replicate it, just doing that repetition does not actually advance your career or your value.

I've said before on this show that some of the best advice I was given when I was thinking about transitioning out of government work was by a long time, very smart guy in the government who said, no one to go all out of no one to do the minimum, meaning no one. You know, when the smart thing to do. It's never smart to shirk work. Look bad, not me,

trouble again. It's never a good idea. But there are times when what you want to do is do exactly what is required of you and nothing else, because you need to be thinking about other things, conserving your energy for other things. That's a reality, especially in the modern workplace, where you know, companies come and go, you got startups. I mean, the culture has entirely changed. There's so much more dynamism and necessary flexibility in careers of people that

are still building today. You know, to show up and just be at a place and be there for thirty years. That that doesn't really exist anymore because a lot of places that you're going to show up and aren't gonna exist in thirty years. There are you know, they're boom and bus cycles. You've got companies that are valued at billions of dollars that don't even make a profit. I mean a lot of stuff going on here. But I gotta say, I mean, far be it for me to

give you different advice than than Mike Bloomberg. But I am doing that because he's wrong. The secret to success is not never take a potty break and never never go to lunch with anybody and be Yeah, I mean, you gotta put in long hours, but okay, you can put a long hour. If you put in long hours at the factory assembly line, and that's all you ever think about is putting in long hours, you'll get some mot But are you going to become a manager? Are you going to be Are you gonna become the guy

that runs the factory one day? Probably not. You got to think about how you become that person. You have to be smart about your labor, As I said, no one to do the minimum and be strategic about your time. Time is the one thing you have that you can never get more of. You have to be thinking about maximizing your usage of time, and that also means energy and effort. If you go all out at everything you're going, you're not going to be successful and the most important things.

So I mean, this is one reason why I always appreciate, for example, when people will even ask me, hey, you know, can you yeah, I just started, I just started a podcast. I'd love to have you on as a guest the answers. I would love to be a guest off anybody who's ever listened to me, and I really appreciate it, and it's very sweet and it means a lot. But if I said yes to every one of those requests, I would be doing that all the time, and that then takes up energy and time that I need to be

spending on doing this show for all of you. I mean, that's just a small personal exam but that's this is why I just can't do. I can't people ask me to come speak at at a at a group or a club, and if I could, I'd love to. But you know, by the time I got into plane and I go and you know, this is why there has to be a business proposition attached to it. You know, this is why people have speaker honorariums and things like that, because otherwise you're just flying around on your own time

for free talking to people. And I love the people that I got to talk to, But I gotta keep the Freedom Hunt running. We gotta, you know, producer Brandon needs a new pair of shoes. We can't. We gotta run a business over here. So protecting your time is

very important. And there are too many places where you can waste time in endeavors that are not advancing you, and especially if they're ground If you're getting ground down to the point where you're burning out, that's not that does not make you stronger, that's making you less effective in what you're doing. So I just think Bloomberg's it's just such a simplistic Oh I'm a billionaire now and I worked harder than everybody else. Bloomberg used leverage, he

used connections, and he used savvy. Okay, he wasn't making iPhones with his fingers faster than everybody else, you know what I mean. I mean, obviously wasn't making iPhones at all, But you see what I'm saying. It wasn't like, oh he just outworked everybody, No, he had he was in the right place at the right time. He leveraged connections and he thought about the big picture. You should be doing the same in your own life with whatever you do.

Don't take Bloomberg's just work until you pass out advice, bad advice. You're in the freedom hud. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. I don't know. I was disciplinary actions being considered to guess Colonel Vaneman, and they'd have to be based on the conduct. But I do believe that it is appropriate to find out who can whistle glory is if you have a very concerned but there are people who basically having political agenda and acted on it.

And we'll see holt me until we find out. Lindsey Graham talks a good game and a lot of things. I think that Lindsey Graham, though, has become a little too focused on punditry on some of the cable shows and not focused enough on follow through as a powerful member of the United States Senate. I think he has gotten a little a little too addicted to the cameras and not enough. You know, you think of someone like Cocaine, Mitch. Cocaine Mitch is getting the job done. Yeah, he gives

speeches and stuff too. But you don't see Cocaine Mitch on TV. You know, it feels like every night Lindsey Graham, and I feel like he's on It does a lot of TV where he said where he says things that I like. It's not that, although not always but generally saying things I agree with. But then when he says things like, Okay, we gotta find out who whistle blowers are? What are you doing to find out who the whistle blowers you call on for hearing? You're gonna do anything

about this? Rand Paul is one of the very few who has been willing to really take action on this. Do we have by the way, do we have rand speech on the So I want to play this streak because I remember Rampaul wanted to ask during the Senate trial, and this matters on a bunch of levels. This is a much bigger story than I think people recognize right now because the media, for a whole bunch of reasons,

I doesn't want to touch it. Rand Paul wanted to ask a question as we all remember if you watch, and I shouldn't say we all remember, it was really boring and who remembers really any of it. At this point, I told you everyone's going to forget the Senate trial even happened, and we basically have. But Rampaul wanted to ask a question, and Chief Justice Roberts refused to read off the question, which was bizarre. I mean, we're living in this very Orwellian or perhaps kafka esque, or maybe

it's Orwellian Kafka askue. I mean, we're living in this bizarre world of we can all kind of know something, but we can't admit that we know it or talk about that we know it, even though it is of major public concern. It's about as weird as when I remember for a while, and the federal government probably still

holds this ass as its rule. But the federal government's position on classified information was, even if something was in the public domain and universally believed to be accurate, you could theoretically be held legally liable if you had a clearance for speaking about it or sharing it with anybody. Right. So there was a time when the drone program very

very secret, where drone strikes and strikes happening. The New York Times was running graphics with, you know, pictures of drones talking about their how far they can fly, the hell fire missiles they follow, where the strikes are occurring, and all this stuff, and we all would talk about it, and Obama would make jokes about it about drones, but

it was still the official position of the United States government. Well, if you if you have a clearance and you know about drones, you talk about drones, you get in trouble. What Now, that doesn't really generally happen because it's so dumb, But it's a weird policy that they have, and that was the official policy. I can tell you that it

still is. I believe the official policy that even if something is in the public domain and universally believed to be true, if it is classified information and the government has not officially declassified it, you could be considered to be in violation of a law merely for sharing it. If it's on the front page of the newspaper, but you send it to somebody and you have a clearance, you might be in trouble. So that reminds me of what's going on with the whistleblower, which is we're living

in this it's just inexcusable. It's unsettling. Really, we all know Eric Sharamella is the name of the guy that, according to major media outlets, is the whistleblower. And it all lines up and we all understand that this is what probably happened, but news organizations act like there is a statutory protection for this guy that does not exist. And I also want to know why is why the Inspector General has not received pressure and just he's allowed

to release the name. We are we've already heard a name, release the name or say that this is not the person. Then so at least we have some clarity. But we should not be in this. Oh we know, but we can't know place. Why don't I bring this up now? Well?

Because rand Paul asked that question or the Senate trial, Supreme Court Justice Roberts refused to read that question, and Rand Paul then took to the floor of the Senate where he has there's just immunity for what you say on the floor of the Senate, like you can set you cannot be sued, you can you can say what you want to say on the floor of the Senate's why when you know Harry Reid said Mitt Romney hadn't paid taxes in ten years, just a blatant lie, a

slander sat on the floor of the Senate. He used the floor of the Senate as an invincible slander machine. That's that's Harry read. That's the old Democrats Senate majority leader. While they tell you to care so much about institutions, laughable garbage. But here is what rand Paul said on the floor of the Senate. Please play at producer Brandon

my exact question. We'll put it up here. Are you aware that the House Intelligence Committee staffer Sean Misco had a close relationship with Eric Chieramella while at the National Security Council together. Are you aware and how would you respond to reports that Chieramella and Misco may have worked together to plot impeaching the president before there were formal

House impeachment proceedings. That is now banned from YouTube YouTube which is owned by Google, which is owned by parent company Alphabet, one of the most powerful institutions in the world. Now there are private companies, many of them now that have larger that would be if they were a national economy, are larger than any but like the top fifty, you know, global economies of countries. I mean, there are a whole

bunch of companies that have reached that point. So in a sense, financially, they're almost countries unto themselves and Google people. It's technically Alphabet owns Google, but it's just a whole. It's Google is Google. Good job, Buck, Google is Google. Google it. They have decided internally that they will not allow any mention of the whistleblower. Now that's important because

people use YouTube for information increasingly. In fact, we're going to be building out for this show a YouTube a YouTube channel, so those of you that are used to watching it on well, those you rather that are used to listening, you'll be able to watch it on video on playback whenever you want, because we videotape the show now every day on Pluto channel to forty eight, the first which you should also be watching live download the

Pluto TV app. You'll see me giving quizzical looks to producer Mark when he starts to yell at me for being quote late. I keep explaining to him that talent is not late. Talent arrives. When it arrives, Producer Mark, and then he says, who calls you talent? I'm like, wow, you know, he's so salty. He's so salty that producer Mark, you know, sometimes sometimes he makes me sad. I'm just kidding. He's great, but he keeps me in check, which is always important. Not that I really need that. Though he

makes fun of me for having a big head. Brandon. Then he's like, no, no, no, no, I don't mean like your ego. I just mean you have a big head. And I'm like, oh, okay, thank you. It's true. I do have a very a very large cranium. So YouTube banned the mention of Eric Scharamela and there's no real explanation as to why they say it violates their terms of service or something. What is going on here, my friends?

And it makes me think that there must be a belief and among people who are powerful and connected that somehow they've got something else. There's some next act here of this stage of the soft coup against Trump where they're gonna you know, I don't know. I can't tell you what it is. I'm not in on the conspiracy. But why are they still so hell bent on making sure that Charamela's name is not on major digital platforms

and banning it. What is that there's no statutory protection whatsoever any news outlet can say his name whenever they want. It's he's now a limited limited interest or limited usage public figure. He was central to one of the biggest news stories in the country, and we can't say his name.

They're gonna, they're gonna. This is like in the Soviet Union when they would disappear people and then they'd go back in the official records and they would use a razorblade to remove to actually physically remove the name from records, like to cut it out of pages. What are we doing here? And the fact that journalists do not see this as an outrage just goes to show you they're activists.

They're activists, they want an outcome. They show up to work every day, they look at all these facts and all this information that's coming in, and they try to think of this as how do how do we tell people's stories that will interest them that bash or hurt Trump. That is the mission at CNN, that is the mission at the New York Times, it is the mission at

the Washington Post. All this information coming in, great, Let's tell people stuff, but let's make sure at the end of the day that they get a steady dosage of Trump is terrible. He needs to be out of office, and anything we do to get him out of office is justified. Okay, well, let's just understand right now that that's not what they say they're doing. This is a departure from what journalists actually believe that they're up to

on any given day. But more than that, how could they suppress the basic mission that they say they're doing, which is presenting information in the public and not chase down whether or not this guy is the whistleblower. They're treating him. They're treating the whistleblower as though he is a some kind of like an employee who would be in danger. This is what they all The person would be in danger? How in danger? How from who? We

already think it's this guy. And if that's going to be the standard, then any public figure or sorry, any person who becomes a public figure through the news, you could say you're putting them in danger. They didn't worry about the danger they put the Commington High School kids in when they splashed their photo and call them racists and worry about that at all. These people are frauds, absolute frauds. It's also one of the reasons I would note people have picked up on this. You don't really

see debate anymore on television, You really don't. And it's because, I mean, this is look, the left dominates media, news media in particular. Still the left still has about a ninety percent share of platforms, and it's it's outrageous, but that's the way that it is. But they also know that they've gone too far, and a lot of leftists, a lot of these different shows have just gotten kind of fat, happy and lazy with feeding a steady diet

of lib propaganda to their audiences. And the people feeding that propaganda, they just want this cycle to continue because they agree with it. But also they're making money off of it, and it's fine, and you know, they know. You know, Rachel Mattaw, who's a leading left wing commentator, would not be able against somebody who understands the Russia collusion, the truth about the Russia collusion situation and watched a few of her monologue, wouldn't be able to defend what

her show is done. She would look bad. It would really damage her brand. It would look like she's a fraud. So they can't have the in same with Joe Scarborough. Joe Scarboro, s oh is you're going to rust to Joe Scarboroughs and moron. They can't actually engage the other

side anymore. People keep talking about the polarization, But I understand the polarization the media from the perspective of there are so many rich cash cows at these different organizations who if they subjected themselves to scrutiny from someone who's adept on the right, they would end up looking foolish and then the mythology of the brilliance of this person would disappear. Have you have you ever seen have you ever seen Anderson Cooper debate somebody who knows what they're

talking about on any of this? Have you ever seen Jake Tapper get smoked by somebody who actually knows what they're talking about on this a volunteer for that anytime? By the way, any of any of these people at MSNBC or at ABC News which is really just ABC News, at NBC News team, at Chuck Todd, he's there, big political guy. Do you ever see them debate people? No, they do the whole like, oh, I'm just an anchor asking questions, and they try to skew the questions to

please their audience. But they'd never really say this is what I believe. Let's argue about this and it's me. It's not I'm I'm just a journalist, man, I'm just asking questions. It's no I will defend this position. They're frauds. They're just frauds. Thanks for listening The bus Essen Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or

wherever you get your podcasts. This morning, the President congratulated the Attorney General amazingly enough for taking charge of the case. The President ran against the swamp in Washington, a place where the game is rigged by the powerful to benefit them personally, I asked, my fellow Americans, what is more swampy, What is more feted? What is more stinking than the most powerful person in the country literally changing the rules

to benefit a crony guilty of breaking the law. As a result, I have formally requested that the Inspector General of the Justice Department investigate this matter immediately, and this morning I call on Judiciary Committee Chairman Graham to convene an emergency hearing of the Judiciary to do the same, to conduct oversight and hold hearings. Oh yes, Schumer is so serious about defending the Constitution. They found their new point of hysteria. Oh we need more investigations, more investigations.

That this is the only thing they ever say, Oh, you got to investigate this thing that Trump did. We got to investigate that thing that Trump did. And if Trump opposed it, he's obstructing Congress. Is people are They're just it's absurd, it really is, And you know it's I worry sometimes that their plan is just their mania, their psychosis gives them a kind of superhuman focus and energy on things that aren't true, and that they're just

gonna wear us down, that that's really the plan. They're just going to grind us down with their lunacy to the point where like, fine, anything, investigate them, do whatever you gotta do. Just stop. I mean, I'm not gonna get to that point. Don't worry. I like fighting libs. But President Trump certainly understands what's gone on here, and he's taken all the right lessons from this. Prouce Brandon play twelves. Did you learn from impeachment? That the Democrats

are crooked? They've got to let of crooked things going, that they're vicious, that they shouldn't have brought impeachment anything that by Paul, numbers are ten points higher because of fake news like NBC, which reports the news very inaccurately, probably more inaccurately than CNN, if that's possible, MSDNC and you're MS and if you take a look at NBC now, I think they're among the most dishonest reporters of the news. Yep, they are dishonest. And it's good that the President says it.

I think that his quote war on the media is one of the best things, one of the best features of this presidency. I completely agree with him. I think he's spot on with this stuff. And this is the this is the lesson of the impeachment. That the Democrats

are are filthy. They'll just play as dirty as they can and they never change, and they don't care, and it's all just it's all just a Paul, It's something that we should really look at and going forward and remind ourselves, remind ourselves of whenever we start to think, why are we being too hard on the crazy dams? Are we being too hard on them? Which I don't think any of you really stay up late at night worried about that, but it's certainly a possibility. We've got

some other things that I wanted to get into. We've got a story out of UVA that it's just a reminder of what's going on in these college campuses that you're gonna have to you're gonna have to hear it, and then well then we'll talk about it. Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Maybe a while since you've been on a college campus, or perhaps you're listening to the show

on a college campus. Maybe you're actually just finding out what do they give? When do they get the I guess earlier decision letters went back to people who are seniors in high school last month or in January, I mean if December January, but anyway, I don't know when

the last time was you're on a college campus. But there's a lot of stuff going on that I think would surprise some of the older generations, some of the boomers, And one of them is that there are these well I don't know if they have this at every school. At Amirs, we had something called an affinity house, and we had houses that were considered cultural houses, but there

were cultural houses based on a certain ethnicity. So there was like the Black Student Union House or the Latino Students Association House, and there was this I don't know how to really describe it other than in the Black the Black Student Union House. Everybody except for I think one person when I was in college in that house

was black, and it was one of the nicest. It was actually the nicest dorm because it was really only on campus housing Roman school on campus, and you know, there was a Latino house, and there's some other I forget, there's some others too, and there's like an International student's house. So it's not just racial this racial separation that we could discuss, but it's a thing that goes on in

these campuses. And it also, you know, you also have conversations about safe space and how it creates a safe space for people who feel like maybe they're you know, not as included in campus activities, who come from certain backgrounds. And there's all the usual social justice rhetoric and multiculturalism

and all this stuff. Okay, fine to me. I think that when you have a campus of people that is inherently already a very diverse place, and you're all sitting in the same lunch rooms, going to the same parties, going to going to the same classes. And then to have your living quarters separated by ethnicity in any way, even if it's not ironclad rule, but it's kind of

the rule. I think that's odd. I think that that's counter the purposes that the college says that it's supposed to be engaged in, which is bringing people together and inclusiveness. And well, here's an example of what happens when that when that rhetoric and that mentality is able to continue and grow on campuses. You have a female African American student at UVA who is in a multiculturalism center at UVA, and she gets up and gives this speech that I

think you should all here. Please play clip five Public service announcement. Excuse me if y'all didn't know this is the MSc, And frankly, there's just too many white people in here, and this is a space for people of color, So just be really cognizant of the space that you're taking up, because it does make some of us POC's uncomfortable when you see too many white people in here. It's only been open for four days. And frankly, there's the whole university for a lot he ought to be at,

and there's very few spaces for us. So keep that in mind. Thank you. People are clapping for that, by the way. You fing so you're of an African American female at UVA, in elite school that feels she feels comfortable telling a room full of people that there are too many white people in here, and you white people have many other places on campus to be and we meaning I suppose African Americans have very few places that are for us. I don't know what she's because they

can go anywhere on campus. Right, there's there's no separation on campus. But now we've reached a point where and this is a real thing, and it was true when I was in college, and it's I'm sure even more true now where inclusiveness means everyone means that non white students are allowed and welcome, of course, anywhere on campus, in any club, in any house and anything. I mean, if you try to challenge that, you'd be branded a racist.

Some kicked off campus immediately. But there are places on campus where white students are not welcome or even not really allowed to be or go. And people would say, oh, well that's not true, and I'd say, okay, well, I remember I was an Airmhurst. It was called the Charles Drew House and you had to apply, and somehow the Charles Drew House, which was also the like Black student Union meeting house, was almost entirely, if not entirely black

students when I was there. I mean there might have been one or two students who were not black, but it was very it was very, very few, and I just okay, so are here. Here's a better way to put it. Would I have been welcomed and felt comfortable applying to live in this house which was campus housing? It's not a private association off camp campus housing. Would I have been welcome applying to that house? People would this is where they also get They would say, oh,

of course, this book, this is whatever's college is. Of course you were well, no, no, I am not okay, I was there. People would have been like, why are you? They would have taken the opinion, many students would have taken the opinion that this young woman has, which is why you know you have so many places on campus? Why are you trying to take us a space meant for she says a POC, a person of color. The

left defends this stuff. You know they you know, if you try to to nail them down on something and say, well, hold on a second, is this okay? Oh, but that's not really what But ultimately it is what happens, and they are okay with it, and they can pretend not to be when people are shining a light on the situation.

But we all know at the end of the day that this is somehow wokeness and social justice means that it's a problem for white students to be in certain places on campus that are not meant for white students, or where there can't be too many, as this woman says, white students. And here's how we can prove this, this theory out. Do you think that this student at UV received any kind of even a disciplinary warning. Do you think that the deans or any the administrators or anyone

brought her aside. I was like, hey, probably not a cool thing to say. There are just too many white people in this college, in this college structure, the multiculturalism center. Probably not the way you really want a fraid, No, I be willing to bet that no one said anything to her about this. Now, is there a double standard work? Okay,

let's play out the experiment. What would happen if a student stood up and said, hey, guys, there are too many you know, if a white student stood up and said that there were too many Pacific Islanders here, and we feel like the Pacific Islander population in this multiculturalism center is crowding out the rest of the people that we want here, so we need less Pacific Islanders in

the multiculturalism center. What do you think would be the response, assuming there are a lot of Pacific houndors in the center. I'm obviously trying to, you know, take some of the take some of the heat out of this analogy, this conversation. What do you think would happen to the white students? Do you think people would say that's great, Yeah, yeah, you're you're allowed. You're allowed to say there's too many

of X ethnicity in this place. Good call. That that white student would be run off campus so fast they wouldn't even have to wait for the dean to bring any discipline. We all know this. Now we have to get into why is the one okay and the other not? Why does the campus allow one and the other would be would be strictly forbidden. We know the answer, right. We know that the left now has adopted different rules

for different people based upon skin color. We know this also because Elizabeth Warren even says that explicitly running for president the United States, she said, quote, we need race conscious laws. Well, on college campus is they have what you could consider race conscious expectations of conduct. There are things that white students cannot say that minority students can say,

and we're constantly told. I would note that the opposite is true, that you know, white students have all this privilege on campus, the only privileges that I'm aware of any students having. And it's not even just about racial or ethnic minorities, but just in general, it's true about gender issues. There's a lot of stuff. The only people on a college campus who have no special privilege as a matter of administrative rule or administrative ruling, white male students.

It's just on a college campus, your white male students, you are you. You know there is nothing you're allowed to say that nobody else is allowed to say. That much is for sure, so I think worth keeping them in mind. And also is true about gender situations as well. Right, there are certain gender specific that there are up there are resources set up for, um, you know, transgender students on campus that are specifically the transgender community. They're resources

set up for you know. And you could say, all right, well there are resources, but also does that affect the way the school administers let's say justice during disciplinary hearings? And the answer, by the way, is yes, does it administer.

Here's here's a thing that that I had a friend who was a student advisor for these these trials in college, and chief said that there was oh, this is just this is what I was told by a female fellow classmate that the disciplinary the disciplinary hearings for any allegation of sexual misconduct that was heterosexual, we're always more severe. The consequences were more severe everyone took than disciplinary hearings where there was the same sex conduct involved. Which does which?

Which does happen to? You know? There are these biases that come up, which I think it's very interesting that this doesn't really get much talked about. But anyway, back to the UVA the UVA speech here, this is there the end result of where we are on campuses now, where we now have we now have a sense that a self selection process, to have students in some ways segregate themselves as minorities from other students is somehow positive

and empowering. And I think that's a huge mistake. And I think that the Left is very wrong on this, just like they are on pretty much everything else. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast. It's a huge fight breaking out online right now. It's an intense, no holds barred discussion, one that I'm sure many of you have a strong opinions about. I think we always have to maintain our respect for one another because we need to be able to have the

tough discussions here in the Freedom Hunt. We need to be able to share our thoughts and ideas without thinking that we are alienating our brothers and sisters in freedom here in the Hut. Which brings me to the debate over reclining in an airline seat. There's a video that has gone viral, and this video shows a man who so it's a woman in the front seat and a man behind her in a seat that cannot recline because it's the last seat on the plane, which is the

worst seat on the plan. As we all know, so he can't recline. The woman in front of in front of him has reclined fully, and he has decided to sit there and punch just sort of not gently but not fiercely, just just sort of repeatedly punch the back of her seat. Just punch, punch, punch, punch. She's just gonna keep punching her seat. And she takes out of video camera and just put this online. And people are fierce in their decision about whether this whether should you

be reclining or not? Does reclining make you a bad person on an airline seat? Or should everyone just accept where they are on accept the reality that seats that can recline will recline, and that you're allowed to do this, the airlines allow you to do it. And if it's you know, if you happen to be seven feet tall and you're flying economy, you know tough. I want to know, first and foremost, what does producer Brandon think about this? Are you a recliner or not? I want to know

what the preliminary conversation was. Did he just start punching? Did he ask her first? Because that's that's a big So you want to go from you want to go for the manners component of this first to see I think it's all about manners. Yeah, because you are aware that the person behind you can't recline, but at the same time, you want to feel comfortable. I know I can't go all they can't go all the way back, but maybe just a couple of centimeters you can negotiate.

So you're you're like, I'm a third way guy on this one. You think you think that reclining if you are considered about how much you recline and take into consideration the possibility that you maybe don't recline if the person behind you really ask you politely, that's kind of where you are. Yeah, so so you're an ad hoc You're an ad hoc recliner. Yes, yeah, you know you're an a la cart like sometimes you recline, sometimes you won't agreed. Yes, yes, see, I just think I I

look at a No. I hate when someone reclines on I've been there. I don't like when someone reclines on the airline seat because I fly, I fly coach. I don't have any money. Uh, you know, I don't like it when they when they recline and I'm I got the scene in and it's really no one likes that, especially on a short domestic flight. It's like, do you really need to recline for the forty minutes from the for the flight from you know, Topeka to tally well, you know a lot of very Topeka to what will

be a forty minute flight from there. This is a fun geography test Oklahoma City. That's probably about right, probably less than a forty minute flight. But anyway, do you really need to recline for a short flight the one hour flight from New York to DC that one? I know the answers, no, okay, So I do think that we should be reasonable about these things. You know, there's there's nuance here, there's many layers. But people get into huge fights about this. On planes, people get very upset.

Airline airplane travel is designed almost to bring out the worst in human beings and put us on edge and make it so uncomfortable. And I just wish plane you know, I wish airlines weren't making money off of our discomfort, but they are. These airlines, these these low cost carriers in particular, they make money off of giving you the bare minimum, and people generally all the studies have shown this. People look at what is the cheapest air fare I

can get. They want to pay the least amount of money, and because that tends to be the overwhelming choice that the consumer makes, they you know, we end up flying in very uncomfortable circumstances. I mean planes have actually airline travels one of the few parts of modern American life that it's gotten worse now. Seats have gotten smaller and narrower, the cushioning has gotten thinner. The only improvement really is that now you have a lot of planes where they

have your own entertainment system. But I rarely even use that thing. And I'm reading a book because I'm a civilized fellow who likes to learn, you know, I'm not somebody sits there like, hey, I'm gonna you know, it's actually not true. I watched like two movies last time went to California. I watched Hustlers, which was I'm appalled by. And then there was another one that I watched I can't remember it is now. Oh, I watched Angel Has Fallen, which is kind of like White House Down, I think,

but it's the really, really bad movie. People are gonna get bad at me because it's an action movie and there's Gerard Butler. Gerard Butler was like, Hey, I'm a Secret Service guy. I'm British, but I think the Secret Service guys talk like this, so I'm gonna have kind of an accent like that too. I'm like, he's a you know, apparently if you're in the Secret Service, you're you know, like a New York gangster from the twenties or something. I don't know. I always I don't think

British people good do good do good American accents. I think they always stink at it. But the only thing that drives me crazier than the well, there are a lot of things drive me crazy is you know, whistle some proucer Mark likes to turn on a whistling noise to just set me off. Thank you, Brandon Forcy Brandon if producer Marcus salty, producer Brandon is sweet. You know, he doesn't he doesn't, he doesn't turn on the whistling noise.

He doesn't do that to me. But the only thing that you know, I ride the subway so much here in New York City, and you know, I'm trying to do last minute prep for the show and pay attention to what's going on. Why do people think in crowded public places there is any setting for your phones notifications that is acceptable other than vibrate. I do not want to hear the ding ding ding. I don't want to hear it, not when you get text messages, not when

you get emails. A long time ago in the government, actually I shared an office of somebody who left on a ding noise on her computer for emails, and I had to tell her. I was like, I'm going to throw us both out the window unless you turn that. You know, ding ding drove me nuts. Noise pollutions very very bad. You know, all people the way that people feel about climate change, I feel the way about noise pollution.

I hate unnecessary excessive notes. Don't even get me started on the backup beeping noise that doesn't save any lives and drives us all crazy. It's from the seventies people. It's a stupid technology. It's a dumb idea. Thanks for listening to The bus Essen Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app for wherever you get your podcasts. Team Bucking. It's time for Roll Call, Roll call time. Yes, indeed, thank you so much. Team.

Let's get to it. Let's make it all happen. Here we go. I'm just stalling because I lost the page. There we go, all right, Dennis writes in Buck, your segment on the uninformed, low information voter was absolutely brilliant. I know. DEM's just as you described, and it's mind boggling, frustrating, if not downright infuriating, to know they will go vote for someone for one reason, and one reason only, because that candidate has D behind their name, not realizing what

negative effect it could potentially have on their lives. I've often said the most critical issue in the United States is the uninformed voter and citizen. If only we could get them all to tune into you shields high. Dennis, you are a wise man and I appreciate your note for Roll Call very much. Yeah. Look, you know, the biggest problem with democracy is you get a lot of dumb people get to vote. So that's not a good thing.

This is why, if I remember back in Plato's Republic, right, the best form of government would be to have a philosopher king, essentially a person of a perfect a person of the highest wisdom who can make all the decisions, because just saying everybody gets to make decisions doesn't really mean that the decisions are going to be good. So we see that all the time. Hello New York City, Martin. I can't say I'm truly a religious oss listener, though I did hit about a third of the weekend shows.

I I find your show much more entertaining and informative as a single host than when you are fighting for your voice within a group. I am now and have been a consistent podcast listener. You had a guest speaker about Tesla and the stock on your February eleventh podcast. Investor enthusiasm driving up the Tesla stock price is reacting only to the company turning a profit for the first quarter ever. Elon Musk and his companies have been given two point five times as much as the Iranian Mullah's

in terms of government support four point nine billion. The average household income of a Tesla Model X owner is five hundred and three thousand dollars and the Tesla X model rather sorry, and the average household income of a Tesla Model S owner is two hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars. Do Tesla and Tesla buyers really need subsidies. I'd like to see what would happened to the E vehicle industry, and specifically Tesla if the government piggybank stopped

shaking out quarters. The gentleman guest, his name is Whitney. Tilson, by the way, also made a remark about GM employees preferring to work at Tesla. He's obviously an investment manager and not an automotive engineer. Take a look on LinkedIn and see how many Big three four GMFCA engineers work at Tesla. Tesla is not the draw that an industry

outsider might think. If I'm going to purchase an e vehicle, I'll wait for the company with a sales and service center down the street to sell me one shields high Wow. Martin Martin had thoughts on this one. Martin was not messing around, you know, Martin. I'll try to get I'll try to get your note to Whitney and see if he has any response comments on this. Yeah, he is

an investment manager, he's not an engineer. Glenn. I am thinking limiting federal employment to fifteen years might be a good way to set the mood for congressional term limits. You have to term limit the bureaucracy if you intend to term limit elected officials anyway. UM, I don't know how that would really change anything, my friend. I appreciate you thinking on this one, But why would making a fifteen fifteen year limit for and by the way, they

get full pensions at that point. Um, I don't really I don't really see the benefit in saying you could only if you've already worked for the civil service for fifteen years. Why not let them finish out their twenty I don't know. I don't really see that, but I appreciate the thought. Um, maybe I'm missing something. See, I like to admit that maybe I'm missing something, because it's always possible. It's rare, but it is possible. Oh, I

told you. I told you, guys. I talked to you about steak because some of you probably are going to be making steak for Valentine's Day, for that significant other, for that wife, boyfriend, husband, girlfriend, all that stuff. A few things about about steak. Um, First of all, you gotta get a good cut of meat. You gotta get a good cut of meat. You can make a good

steak with bad meat. So those of you that are thinking, oh, I'm gonna go get the go to the bargain basement bin at the local grocery store and pull out the steak that only has a little bit of like blue fuzz around. No no, no, no, get good meat. Okay, start with that. If you have a butcher near you go to butcher's. Butcher's will they love meat? Because they're butchers,

they will man seeyeh, I got I got thoughts. You go to them and you say, hey, I want to I want a special cut, you know, ask them for a butcher's steak. By the way, butchers steak they call it that because the butcher usually keeps it for himself because it's so delicious, but you don't. It's not that expensive, so that they don't care as much about selling it so they can. The butchers will keep them for themselves. Butchers steak is a great cut. I'm a ribby person.

You could always do Porterhouse if you want, and you know, a porterhouse Porterhouse also comes with a filet in it with the t bone. You got the part of it that's kind of a filet, which is always nice. I've never really been a New York strip person, but if you want to go that route, you certainly can and Filet mignon. If you're gonna do bear Filet mignon you really want, that's the meat that you really want to go rare on in my opinion, to medium rare, but

air more on the rare side with filet mignon. If you're going for internal temperature, get him meat thermometer. I thought, like, who use a who uses a meat thermometer? I was very Get a meat thermometer? You know, you're you're you're not special, you're not able. You don't have like some X men's skill where you can tell by touching the meat what three inches below your finger the temperature is internally you don't know. Get a meat thermometer. That would

be the most boring X men ever. It's like everyone stand aside. I will tell you if this is rare or medium rare. Although he would be the most useful X men in a realistic sense, even sounds like maybe a villain's name. The meat thermometer. The meat thermometer. Uh that I have thoughts. So what else I need to tell you about steak? Salt it right before you put it on the grill, or know or before you sear it or salt it well before, and then you always want to pat it dry as well because the moisture

hurts the searing. Trying to think what else is based with butter at the end you think you don't need it, it'll make it better based. And also throw a little bit of herbs in that butter as it's kind of boiling. As it's essentially boiling up because you're throw in a hot pan, it's gonna cook really quickly, tilt the pan a little the side, and then and use the basting. Use a spoon to baste that butter. Rover, it's very very good. Trying to think what else needs to happen

here for you to resting. Every abways says you gotta let it rest for at least five to ten minutes afterwards, I'm just gonna say it. I've done the rest steak and not resting, and I don't notice as much of a difference as some other people. Apparently, maybe it depends on the cut of meat, and that's sacrilege. Everyone will tell you let it rest for five to ten minutes. I feel like my steak after ten minutes is not

always as hot as I want it. To be, so I'm not sure that I'm I like the sizzling steak. I mean I and you know, I don't know. I'm not a big let Let the steak come down in temperature for about thirty to forty minutes. It'll still be cold. You don't want it room temperature. That means you've left it out probably too long. But leave it out of the fridge for at least thirty I'd say forty minutes before you see her. I think the reverse your method is the best. A lot of you like suvied cooking.

Something about cooking my steak in like hot water, though, just doesn't really appeal to me. It's like a science experiment and you gotta have special equipment for it. The only special equipment you need to have for the perfect steak is a cast iron pan. Get a cast iron you can do you know, a steel well, let's the other. You know it's not a cast iron, but at whatever. But don't use like a non stick. Don't use the pan that you're cooking your eggs in the morning for

your steak. Bad idea. Get a cast iron lodge. We should get Lodge as a sponsor because I have like four Lodge pans in my home and I use like all their different products. Lodge is a very good one. Get a cast iron pan, and uh wow, I really should I actually we should get the spot. I probably just sold a bunch of cast iron pants for them because it just makes a big difference, cooks more evenly, it conducts heat better, and also it either you'll just see real red meat cooking you want to do with

the cast iron. So that's if you want to do the perfect steak. I'm telling you, though, those are really the only things you need to know how to do. I think reverse here is a good way to go if the stick is thin. So if you have, say a flank steak, you could definitely or a skirt steak, you can cook it on a stovetop without having to

go in the oven and do the heere thing. So I just I'm just here to be helpful team for Valentine's steak, because everyone knows if you give someone a perfectly cook piece of red meat on Valentine's Day, you clearly love them all right. Roll call continues here Rick writes in do you remember ravishing Rick Rude? By the way, and just the name Rick just made me remember that because I used to watch a lot of WWF before.

I guess they had to change the name because of the World Wildlife Federation, Right, that's what happened, because you know, you know professional wrestling, right, Yeah, No, I mean not so much now. I mean not as much as I was as a kid, but I still watched raw and smack Down. What happened was what happened to super Fly

Jimmy Snooker. He was accused I think of murder, murder right, yeah, his girlfriend, I don't and they caught him like they like prosecuted him thirty years later or something, right, Yeah, yeah, it was one of those cold cases. I believe super Fly Jimmy Snooker because I remember he was. He was great back in the day. He get on the top top turn buckle and he did his like leap thing. Yeah. I was always Who are your favorites back in the day? Brett the Headman Heart okay, Sean Michaels okay, Big Fan

Stone Cold, Steve Auston. Did you see the Rocks daughter now just signed to the WWE. I did not see that. She is the first fourth generation a wrestler. It was a Rock the Rocks Dad and then the Rocks Grandpa. I didn't know the Rock came from a family to wrestler. Oh yeah, the Johnson's really yeah, big Simowen culture. I like very much the the Iron the Iron Shake versus versus Hulk Hogan, Like that's how far back I go? Do you follow? Then? And Sergeant Slaughter, Remember Sergeant Slaughter

made the crossover. He became a g I. Joe figure for a while. Yeah, but have you do you follow um the Iron Cheek on Twitter? Is that a thing? Yeah? I didn't know that. If you want to, if you want to laugh, follow the Iron Cheek on Twitter. I used to think was so awesome and so like so like all America. And and he's had a tough go. Man, he's been through some stuff. He shouldn't have done the reality show. Well you were exposed to his awkwardness. Yeah,

I know, it's never really the same. And those guys, but like the oldtim Warriors, some of these guys took so much. I mean they were like human test tubes. Man, they took so much drugs to get Warrior died a few years ago. Do you have a heart problems? Right? And they thought it was from Uh wasn't it from? I mean a lot of us from steroid usage or not a lot of abuse. I mean so many of them you've got looked back in their fifties or even earlier. Yeah, I dude, I used to watch it. I used to

watch Royal Rumble. That was the best. I remember. Also with they made a movie about Zeus, who is a very large African American fellow, and Hulk Hogan. There was a movie. Do you remember this? Yeah? I think it was called No Holds Barred, correct. I saw that move Devo Friday, I remember, I remember that one. Yeah, so that was his like you know, it's like all he said in the whole movie. He was a large, strong fellow. Yeah, yeah, all right. Anyway, Rick is not a professional wrestler for

what we said here, writes book. I listened as often as possible and enjoy your outlook and observation, which I find most refreshing. When I was eighteen, I joined the army and learned quickly that if I didn't have a plan for myself, some other clan would be a clown would be planning my life. I don't hear any of the dem candidates encouraging young people to take stock of themselves and engage in a plan for personal improvement. Minimum

wage is not a destination. I agree with you that we live in the best country at the best time, with the most opportunity in history. Well, Rick, you seem like a very wise fellow. Thank you for your service, and thank you so much for writing in. And yeah, people need to understand a minimum wage. I mean, you shouldn't ever feel like you're stuck at the minimum wage forever. I mean, your labors should become more valuable over time, if nothing else, due to the loyalty to a company,

the ability to take on additional tasks. But minimum wage sound it sounds more fair to people to have a higher minimum wage. And so that's it's emotion. It's emotion over economics, which is so often and look, this is

a thing that is not just about minimum wage. I've read a very interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal a couple of days ago about how active investors, so people who think they can pick stocks, are generally wrong when they compare it to what they would make if they just put their money in index funds and ETFs essentially just get as the broadest market exposure they can and grow their wealth slowly and conscientiously over time. That

that Now, this isn't true for everybody. They're obviously people that are great investors, and that's why. And you can educate yourself in certain sectors and become But for them, for most people that are going to invest any money, by the numbers, it's instead of reading all these prospectuses and doing all this stuff and trying to learn so

much about a specific industry. If you're if you're an amateur investor who's just doing this with money you've made doing something else, unless you're going to spend a lot of time on self education. For most people, it's better to engage in just index funds and ETFs. But some people want to invest because they just like the process. They like to be in that game, so to speak. So even if they're losing money, they'd rather do it that way. Eric, Right, Hey, Buck, love the show so much.

I have to look out for you. I heard this Seth McFarland comparison and it made my stomach turn. He's a crazy lib and has donated over four million dollars to the Democratic Party. Your voices are good except the yodeling, So just be you and definitely don't be like Seth McFarland. Shields high from so Kyle. Thanks Eric, I appreciate that. Obviously, Producer Mark wasn't saying that I am like Seth McFarland. I think he was just getting at that I sound

sometimes like Seth McFarlane, which you know. I just I don't want to sound or be like Seth McFarland. I just want his bank account. That would be nice. I will take I will swap bank accounts with Seth McFarlane. That would be a good deal for me. I think it'd be more fun. Kelly buck Oss from the Blaze days just want to drop a quick note to thank you for the reverse seer tip. After being married seventeen years and together for twenty two, it's fun to still

have firsts. This was the first time I ever made my hobbyist steak, as there is no way I could grill it. Medium Rare, I took your reverse I took your advice and did the reverse seer and he loved it. Thank you for giving us another first. Your podcast is a daily must and I look forward to your fresh insight and fun impersonations. Producer Mark does a great job keeping you in line. I laugh because he and I sometimes say the same thing at the same time, which

is also a bit alarming. Keep up the amazing workbox shields high. Thank you so much, Kelly. I appreciate that. And look see I told you cook a perfect steak for your man. No better way to show some of or for your lady guys. I'm reverse here. I'm telling YouTube. I'm gonna you know what, I'll do, reverse your video on YouTube and I'll put it up. How about that? Then people can see me do it, and once you see how it's done he'd do it, probably you'll be like,

oh my gosh, it's amazing. That's Sexton kid. I'm gonna make sure I get a lot of people listening to his podcast and a lot of people watching him on Pluto TV's channel two forty eight the first because I want to support what he does, because he has now changed my red meat eating for all Eternity team. I also hope some of you get a chance to listen to me on wo R where I'm live six to seven Eastern. You can listen to the iHeart app anywhere

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