Elite's Immigration Campaign

the Future of talk radio. Buck Sexton, Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show. Everybody, great to have you here with me, very much, appreciate it, honor approved edge and a pleasure. You want to chat with me eight four or four eight to five eight four four nine d buck. We should definitely have a talk about all of all of the things that are going on right now in the world, whatever is on your mind, whatever particularly catches your fancy. Um, So, the biggest thing going on right now is the march

to the wall. Now, when I say that, you could think of two things. One, this caravan that has decided that it is it is no longer going do we have the caravan has stopped for now? Right but I would not take that to the bank, folks. Cart caravans, stop, caravans go. It's the nature of these things. It might just be laying low until the political winds shift a little bit. They may decide to go to a different area, try and cross. We shall see. We will delve into that.

But we could also be talking about the march to our border from the north by members of the National Guard. President Trump has sent the National Guard to the border to help with border security in response to the unacceptable flow of drugs, criminal activity, and illegal immigrants. Before I go much deeper into what all this means, let's just ask a very basic question. I want to focus on immigration, the basics of it in some ways, because we have

to deprogram ourselves. Much of what we believe, much of what we think when it comes to immigration, is in fact not true, because there has been a concerted campaign, a collaboration, if you will, between the Democrats and the left wing mainstream media and the elite establishment in this country, and and a by bipartisan fashion. Folks, a lot of a publicans get blame on this one too. But to convince us all that immigration doesn't really need to be

enforced immigration is always good. The more the merrier, in fact, not just the more of the marrier. We have an obligation to take in as many people from the third world as possible, as many people who can come into the country who are in desperate need of assistance. That would because we have an obligation, because we've done bad things in the rest of the world. You see, it is in some ways an expansion or an addendum to

the post colonial thinking of the academic elite. Right. They think America did all these bad things all over the world, and that's why there are problems. Why is the midiast so messed up? Oh, it's America's fault, right. Why is South America Central America? Why do they have all these problems they've got depending on the country. Uh, it's America's fault. So what should we do to make up for it?

Just bring them in. The more of the merrier, right, the more people we can bring into this country, the better. Why is why does Mexico have the problems that it tells? They'll say it's America's fault. In fact, on the very issue of the opioid epidemic, of of the drugs that are flooding into this country from Mexico. You will notice

that there are there are Mexican politicians. I have heard them say it, and there are certainly a lot of journalists as well who blame the problems of Mexico's police and governmental corruption on the United States, because you see, we're the market for the drugs. Therefore, it's our fault that cartel's run parts of that country the way they do. It's our fault that there is endemic corruption across the

Mexican government and security forces. Right What most people don't ever get to stop and think is, hold on a second, what is it due to our country we have? You know, we have a country right next door that is turning a blind eye to vast illegal immigration that has been

going on for decades. And that is a necessary component of the strategy of setting up uh coyotes, smugglers, setting up these smuggling networks, establishing forward operating positions for the drug cartels in America for the distribution distribution of substances that are now killing over sixty thousand of US a year. And as I've said to you, and it should not have been hard to figure this out, but it's taken some time, some number crunching, and finally the truth is

getting out. It's not mostly oxycon that people are overdosing on. It's not mostly drugs that you can actually get a prescription for and for which there are real medical needs. That's a component of the problem, but it is a much smaller piece of this puzzle, and we've been led

to leave Why is that all? Because if Americans actually started to think, hold on a second, having an unsecure border, having vast, uncontrolled, near unrestricted illegal immigration into the country for years and years and years, isn't just a problem for the economy. It isn't just a problem for cultural cohesion. It's a security problem that is costing thousands of lives each year. You do not have, You flatly do not have the heroin overdoses and fentanyl overdoses that have been

occurring in this country. If they weren't growing heroin now in the highlands of Mexico, a lot harder to get the stuff here from Afghanistan, folks, if you didn't have cartels both making their own illegal fentanyl and bringing in from vast labs in China, so it moves from the Chinese labs into Mexico and then across our border via the Mexican cartel pipelines, which are the same pipelines as illegal and it's the same pipelines that use human smuggling.

In fact, the human smuggling networks provide money for these organizations that are also moving to drugs. The same thing, right, if you're if you know where, if you're moving people across the board, if you're doing illegal things, why would you stop it? Moving people who as we know also we'll sometimes get killed in the process. A lot of

women are are raped by this, the smugglers. The terrible things happen due to the human smuggling involving we call them coyotes, you know, but the human smugglers tied to the cartels. And we're having this this change in perception about what this all means for us. You know that we have a multibillion dollar media apparatus in this country.

We have I can't even count how many different I can't even name all the different organizations that have investigative reporters, that's what they call them, investigative reporters on their staffs. How many of them have been investigating what's going on with MS thirteen, last couple of years, last ten years,

even very few, There are some, but very few. How many of them are looking into the opioid epidemic and tying it to illegal immigrant communities because it is necessary for the cartels to have illegal immigrants in an area that they can use for cover for the actions are taken, which is selling the drugs that are killing so many of us, and looking at what's going on across the border, and also any complicity on the part of the Mexican government. The answer is very very few. Why is that because

they're not interested in it. Why it's a fascinating story, isn't it. And you've got you've got life and death issues, drugs, cartels, violence, government corruption, nation changing stuff here over the long run, with the flow of illegals into the country, what that does to our political climate, what it does to our economy over time, and and and then the drug drug epidemic worse than it's ever been, hitting hearts of the country that aren't used to thinking about any kind of

criminal threat that could be mortal. Really right, it's hitting areas that otherwise would be quite safe and quite peaceful, and we're it's just all now coming out, and why because we have a president that we have been told by that same media is a liar, is allowed, is grotesque, doesn't know anything. And here we are finally having the discussion. The truth is coming out. It's taken quite a while.

It's becoming acceptable to discuss these issues in public and not worry you're gonna lose your job, lose your reputation because the left can't change the facts. They can hide them, but they can't really change them. They can come up with fake news, but the truth is in fact to borrow from. Um, what's the show with the aliens? With the FBI guys, you know what I'm talking about, the X files. The truth is out there. The truth is out there. It's out there own immigration. So I think

the Trump sending a national guard is essential. And the I don't even know if I ask you this basic question. This is where I was going initially, and then I got a little bit of a rant, a little of a tear. Why didn't other presidents do this? This is a national security issue. Why hasn't the national Guard? And I know what people say, it's been done, but bomb administration, I didn't want to do this. Why and why is it so strange to the media that this is happening

such a shock to them? Right now, we'll get into this and and much more. I have updates for you or it won't be all that much. But an update on the the YouTube shooting yesterday that was just because that was the whole thing is just bizarre. Only the shooter was killed, so that's very fortunate. Um. Well, we've got information on her, which I'm sure some of you have seen, but whoa, UM also discuss uh the latest of the Mother probe. Dershuitz will weigh in later on

the show as a sound bite, not a guest. That makes it sounds like I was gonna have. We got Emily Compania, who honestly I'd much rather have than Dershwitz. So there's that. Um. We'll talk to her about what's going on with the Mother investigation at this point in time, and uh oh and Amazon and Trump and all the fighting over Amazon. Will get into that too, and Chinese tariffs. Man, I got we gotta packed. It's a good thing. I've got three hours. See I'm not I'm not, damn. Rather,

I don't do a thirty minute show here. We'll talk about that as well. I just laid out a whole laundry list. Folks will hit it. I'll be right back. Stay with me. Word security is home in security, which is national security. It's not a partisan issue. It's not something we can separate out. It's core to being a sovereign nation. The President has reiterated this many times. In fact, he has specifically said that a sovereign nation that cannot or worse not chooses not to defend it supporters will

soon seize, in fact, to be a savereign nation. The threat is real. D h S Secretary Kirsty Nielsen. They're saying that this is a security issue top to bottom, and it's time to do something about about the border. And this president has finally decided to be as proactive as he can on this issue. I think that he also recognized that the Omnibus bill upset a lot of us in his in his corner, myself included you know that I told you about that what had happened. I

felt like the President did not give us. You know, it was not as promised. That is for sure. The Omnibus bill was not good enough. And the big part of it that was a miss. The fact that there was not really wall fund. There was a little wall funding, but nothing, nothing significant, not enough. And so now we're seeing a president who's taking all the actions that he can from a purely executive authority. Standpoint to here the

border and who's who's the guests eating. The media is like, wow, the president that is going to go with the rule of law. Here, this we should really encourage. This is great, you know. Oh no, oh no, they think this is some kind of terrible human rights abuse. They hate this idea of securing the border. They absolutely hate it. I'm not sure to understand what the emergency for this is. It seems like it ramped up interest over the last several days and since the weekend. In fact, the House

is not here, the Senate is not here. Um, why is this such an urgent priority right now for the president to sign? We are seeing more and more advertising and very unfortunately by the traffickers and smugglers to ourselves, specific to how to get around our system and enter our country and stay. We have documented cases of borrowing children, of carrying out the border as a family unit in a fraudulent way. So, oh, you mean people abuse our immigration laws and lie and commit fraud so they can

exploit the loopholes. What a shock. I've been telling you how many times some I've been saying to you. You know, we got a lot of unaccompanied seventeen year olds at the border who are actually twenty five. A lot of people who are like, yeah, that's my kid, Take me in and then let me let me go inside the US. And there's there's never going to be accountability for this. Our border security system is a joke. If foreigners can show up, lie and no, there's a ninety chance they're

gonna get to stay. Another thing, by the way, do you really think that the border, the border patrol is able to determine on the spot without any papers or identification. Of course they don't have that right there on documented tell the difference in whether someone's coming from Honduras or Else Salvador or you know, Mexico, Bolivia, who knows and even who shows up who it seems like they can

pass for coming from Latin America. Heck, I mean they're probably guys are showing up who weren't even from Latin America, were saying, yeah, I'm from El Salvador, Take me in. You know, you don't even speak Spanish. Details I'm fleeing violence. You say, buck, No, there's a court system, and they they don't even show up for court. We don't enforce the laws. We don't tell people that that's what's going on, or the media does tell people that's what's going on.

But it's the truth. Once you're here, you get to stay. I mean, heck, do you even had Democrats? Until Democrats recently, I have been willing to stand up for keeping everyone in this country is here illegally up to an including criminals, as long as they weren't really dangerous, violent criminals. And even then you get the sense there's some Democrats who are like, no, there there are problem. Now. Yeah, it's not it's not a U. S. Citizen and it's not

somebody who's league allowed to be here. And it's a gang member who's got blood on his hands. Let's not send let's not be mean, deport him, send him back to his home country. What kind of kind of savages are we if we do such a thing, right, you get the sense that, I mean, the Democrats have completely

lost it on this one. But this is what I keep saying, If they could only be normal and pose as a party that cared about a party that really just cared about health care and all, let's give more money to the teachers unions or for quote education, and we we want to help the work in man and we were all that stuff. They might have it, they might have a real shot in the mid terms, but

the problem is they're actually a far left party. Now there is no more there's no more constituency or or there's no more representation of a constituency that would have been in line with you know, the Democrats of thirty fourty years ago. That's why people keep talking about what Reagan was facing. There were there were pretty normal, reasonable

Democrats in the Congress that that Reagan could work with. Right, there are actually people who could be counted on to see things with a rational with a rational ie from the other party. You don't have a lot of that, now, do you. No, you do not. I mean, look at who runs Look at who runs things for the Democrats.

It's the far left. And on immigration, the far left means that they are a party of amnesty, the party of lawlessness, and the party of you better pay your taxes to the letter so that we can just increase access for illegal and access is just a nice way of saying welfare, uh, to illegal aliens in this country, for health care, for for school, for everything else and

the stuff that people say. You know, I've actually had some pretty uncomfortable exchanges with folks from the libertarian side on this too, some of these libertarian think tanks that will not remain that will remain unnamed. Where though, so you know, no, everything that every every immigrant just could just contribute to the economy, well yeah, I'm sure, but what do they take from the economy? What's the cost? And also what is the cost to a rule of law?

You know, I'm gonna have to write a very painful check to the I R S this week. I'm actually gonna do it probably tomorrow. I don't get to say, you know, I just I'm gonna do really good things on the money. I'm gonna give a lot more of it to charity. If I just don't have to pay my taxes, and it also doesn't matter, It doesn't matter any of you. Right, if I didn't pay my tax doesn't matter any of you. It is irrational to think that one person's taxes matter. Oh but it's the law.

So I'm a citizen. I respect the law and I obey it even on our own agree with it. Why does something not seem right? Then with our immigration enforcement, he's holding the line for America, buck Sexton his back. We stepped up the targeting of dangerous criminal gangs such as MS thirteen. We removed thousands more criminal aliens than the year prior. We no longer exempt entire classes of illegal aliens from the consequences of breaking our immigration laws.

We began the first new border while system construction in close to a decade. We modified our asylum system processing to more quickly adjudicate claims. And we ended so called temporary immigration programs that were either constitutionally dubious or were administered in a manner that was inconsistent with the purpose of the law or contrary to the intent of Congress. Despite these actions, we've recently seen the numbers of illegal border crossings rise from forty year low's last April to

pre back to previous levels. Our current border security and immigration laws failed the American people. Really good rundown there from DHS Secretary Nielsen about what they're doing and what they're facing right now. My friends, this has been going on for decades. As you mentioned three in that same speech, three hundred thousand legal alien crossers each year, three hundred

thousand a year. There's a lot of people coming into a country who are completely unvetted who you know, We don't We don't know what they're gonna do when they get here. We don't know if we can count on them to contribute to the economy or if there'll be a net drain on the economy. We don't know if they're going to act in ways that are in compliance with the rest of our laws. And most importantly, we're bringing them into our polity, into our political tribe, if

you will, this thing called America without being invited. Now there are responsibility. Now, this is an imposition on all the American people. As you're you know, getting ready, if you're having if you haven't already done it, you pay your taxes this week. Just remember that this is theft that is going on. It is theft the Democrats, just like how China steals their intellectual property. You can come up with a lot of different ways. Oh, no, they're

just it's a program and we're information sharing. No, they're stealing. Chinese government is stealing. And if you start to break this down into information as dollars and dollars as time. People that are doing a lot of R and D for high tech US companies and that see that gets

siphoned off to China through illicit means. It's like their time is being stolen from them, right, their money is being stolen because now you're gonna have Chinese companies that are able to use those same those that same information, those proprietary secrets for their own benefits. So when you pay your taxes, now understand the Democrats are complicit. I

shouldn't even say complicit. Democrats are masterminding a vast scheme two under my eye, the rule of law, but also to redistribute your wealth to people that aren't even allowed to be in the country. People who say illegal aliens don't get federal ben are lying to you. There are all kinds of ways they get benefits. The biggest benefit I would note is to be in America and to work here and to enjoy our rule of law, our systems, our day to day life. That's the biggest benefit of

being here. I mean, yeah, there's also a whole lot of federal welfare programs. But what people want more than anything else is they would like to be in this country. And so if they just take that there is a value there, there was value in it. Um, how just one more thing here, I don't I don't buy that the caravan is done, this caravan of a thousands Central Americans marching through Mexico on their way to the knowing that they're just going to turn themselves in an undercurrent

law because the Democrats. Remember if if the Republican Congress, you know, as I say this, why the heck isn't the Republican Congress trying to do this at least force the Democrats hand on it, make them filibuster. I I thought, you, we can't trust Republicans on this. I think Trump is serious about it, but you can't trust Paul Ryan on immigration.

Paul Ryan is terrible on immigration, terrible. He's right along, right along with the you know, let's do get let's do lots of guessworker programs, and let's do a mass amnesty. And he'd give Nancy Pelosi pretty much everything she wants for her you know, the the Pelosi preferred immigration program.

Because right now is the time for the Republican Congress to pass measures to address exactly what DHS Secretary Nielsen was talking about, to restore sovereignty and rule of law when it comes to our immigration system and our border. Make the Democrats filibuster, make them stand up and state their case that they don't really believe that we are allowed to have borders. We can, we can have administration

at the borders. Oh yeah, we'll know who's coming in, but we can't really turn anyone away, and we certainly can't expel anyone once they've gotten into this country. That's but but I don't believe that this caravan is done. Um. I have a feeling that Okay, right now Trump is mentioning or as Trump has decided to activate National Guard, that's gonna be under the control of the governors in various states. And I know, before people start calling in, yeah,

the Bush administration did this too. I'm not saying it's unprecedented, but it shouldn't be surprised. The media's are, oh my god, you're militarized border are freaking out about it. What's the alternative to continue as we are right now? To continue as is? That's really no alternative in the long run, it just leads to disaster. Tim and Rhode Island. You've got thoughts on this, we want to hear him. Yes, sir, you're on radio. Hey, how's it going. It's good? What's up? Hey?

Thanks for having thanks for having me on. So let's not get this twisted. The Democrats want these people in this country because they want votes. Absolutely, I say that all the time. I just I can't, for the life of me figure it out why people that our public figures aren't calling them out for this. It's it's obvious, it's clear as day. Why are they not doing anything about it? Why are they not calling them out? I just are you. Politics is just run by money. It's

all about money. So why aren't there enough people like us that think like us getting together and trying to get rid of this political system? Okay, well a couple of things your Tim. One is that the position of greatest virtue signaling on immigration is the you know, give me you're tired, your poor, your meek, you're hungry, or whatever.

I mean. The position that celebrities, Democrat politicians, persons of note with money, influence and followings and platforms, the position they look to take is Oh no, we want you know, the more the merrier, and legal, illegal doesn't doesn't matter. We just want the more the merrier. Because immigrants, we we have been brainwashed in this country to think that immigrants are actually better than Americans. That we are we are at the same time a country of immigrants, but

immigrants are also better than us. So we're all immigrants, but immigrants are better than us. And it's it's convoluted, it's self contradictory, it makes no sense. But this is what they've been feeding us over time. And I have to laugh. I just talked to somebody to said, you know, occasionally I even I rail against using the term undocumented because it's so dishonest, But I occasionally I'll even go, yeah, you know, what are we gonna do with all these undocumented?

Oh my gosh, it just happens. It's the effect of the propaganda, it's the effect of the messaging and on on immigration. We've just had a wake up call as a country that we have been lied to, not just by one administration, not just by one news network. We have been lied to as a people. All Americans, whether they've realized it or not. On the left, on the right about what's really going on here with the policies of the government are and what the long term impact

will be for all of us. But Tim, the really, you know, the answer to why don't more people stand up? Because you don't want to be called racist, because you don't be called mean, and all these different phrases are deployed so that it seems like you're just being unfair. You know, most illegal immigrants in this country are non white, so there's a racial issue, a racial component that gets brought into it. That's why, Well, I think Buck that more people need to stand up for each other that

believe like we do. You see it all over the place, just with Laura Ingram So this uh, this hot kid says that everyone should boycott her. Why aren't people that think like her trying to defend her? I think, to be honest with you him, I think people did. I think there are a lot of people that came to Laura's defense, and and we're saying, you know, I stand with Laura, and and Fox did the right thing, and it's an important precedent they set because otherwise it's all over.

I mean, this whole business just just is going to disintegrate. So you know, I think that there's people are waking up to this, Tim, thank you for calling in from Rhode Island. People are waking up this a bit more now and they are taking action and they are understanding what's at stake here. So you know, I find the immigration it should be very very important. Will continue to watch it closely here in the Freedom hunt. And uh, I also want to talk to you about trade China. Uh.

More stuff on Facebook. Oh my, We've got more stuff to talking about with Facebook and Cambridge Analytic. Oh my gosh, people are very very spun up about that one. We've got a lot a lot coming up here, folks. If you want to chat with me eight four or four buck, We've got some folks on the lines. We'll try to get some calls as long as I can remember to do so I do get caught in buck rants. Buccalogs, Oh we can, you know, we can make that thing bucalogue.

He'd come down from the mountain for a buccalog quick break. We'll be right back. Well, the freak out over Facebook continues. I'm kind of confused. I was talking to the guys in the break who doesn't understand that Facebook is not your buddy. It's not it's not your friend. Facebook is a massive corporation that makes a lot of money. Facebook is a very capital efficient business. It's one of the

most powerful corporations financially speaking otherwise on the planet. Right now, people are like, oh, but the community standards and the terms of service and we're protected. Nope, you're or not. Um. So Zuckerberg was on a phone call the CEO, who is I think a couple of a year or two younger than me. He's a billionaire whatever, I'm worth like hundreds of dollars. So Zuckerberg was on this conference call

and he said, quote, we've seen some scraping. I would assume that if you had that setting turned on, that someone at some point has access to your public information in some way. Just kind of kind of break down what he's saying here. I mean, I don't even really need do you know what? You know what it is? Because he said it public information, stuff that you are sharing with the general public that anyone has a right to see, can be grabbed by online entities in order

to market stuff to you. Why does this get everyone all, Oh my gosh, what's going on here? People have this notion that Facebook owes them something. No, no, no, oh, we have we have the Zuckerberg call. We know people

play it. Over the period of time that this feature has been has been around, people have been able to um, have been able to scrape public information, right, I mean the the information that you can if you have someone's phone number, you can put that in and then you can get you know, a link to their profile which

pulls up public information. So I certainly think that that, um, it is reasonable to expect that if you had that setting turned on, that at some point in the last several years, UM, someone has probably accessed, um, your public information in this way. This is a big scandal, big story. This should be like me saying, oh my gosh, things that I say over the radio people across the country

can hear. Yes, that is correct. Stuff that you put on your Facebook profile that is set to public is public, and you should always assume that stuff you have in your Facebook profile that's not public might as well be. Privacy is a very different concept that we have now. Uh, Privacy is changing very rapidly, and we need to understand that there are trade off and I think we do

what you do I do. This is largely coming from people who either are are deluded about what these social media companies are really up to, right, they want to believe that there's some that that they're all about. Social media is about social good, you know, doing good things for people, just connecting the world and all that stuff. Now, social media is a tool, just like any number of other things. Can be used for good, can we use

for bad things? But this got all this attention because of Cambridge Analytica and Hillary and so they've kept running with this story. And I sit around here and I'm like, what is the what is the surprise? Exactly? I don't even understand dand at this point how anyone could believe anything other than yeah, it's Facebook and these other companies. You know, they they have access to your stuff. They know, you know, if you put male or female where you live.

And they have said now we're being told that they might be scanning your private messages. Okay, so they may scan your private messages. So what they say they're doing it to avoid because of terms of service violations or something. But I don't even know what what they're really looking for, because I mean, I'm assuming that some people on their Facebook messages. You know, things got a little spicy probably sometimes you know, hey, are you an angel? Because you

look like you just fell from heaven? You know what I mean. I will say from some friends of mine who have you know, who have who have deep experience, uh considerable experience on the on the dating apps, that they hear stories from some of their lady friends that occasionally the photos that are sent are, um are what's the world? What's the way to say this? Because I know there's young young ones listening. Um so I was there, there, there there and what did you say? Oh no, I

was gonna say. Are very anatomically specific? Different? Yeah, we're looking we're talking about different things here. That's a common thing. Is that a violation the terms of service? I don't know. Maybe it's in the confines of a loving, loving adult relationship, you know what husbands and wives want to send each other on Facebook as their own business. So I don't know why they're looking at that data for possible terms of service violation. But the other thing is the Internet

can only know what you put on the Internet. So you know, the Internet may know that you uh, you know, the Internet may know that that that me for example, they may know that I I like Republican stuff and dogs and you know, going to the beach or something, you know, but they don't necessarily know, you know, afraid of clowns and doesn't always think that, you know, if you're particularly relax while you're taking a shower, that you need to step out of the shower to attend to

all your business, you know, whatever it may be. You know, that's only stuff that that the internet knows. If you put it out there on the internet, it doesn't know it. Because you know, everyone just needs to just take a deep breath on this one. I just don't see where the the freak out continues to be here. You have Facebook has all this information, they are gathering all this stuff. I try to tell people this all the time. They ask me, oh, you know, well what about that? They think?

And I understand it too, because you know, I come from a CIA background, and so I was like, no, it's not really what I did. But they'll say it, Oh, can people you know, can people uh hack into your computer and see you v a camera? And I say, you know, yeah they can, and don't I don't know how to stop that. Listen, do you do the do you guys do the tape on the at home the tape on the the camera. You know what I'm saying. I know people who do that. I think it's a

little I think that's a little bit paranoid. What are they gonna see. You're gonna see me sitting there my You know, I'm not like doing interpretive dances in front of my computer when I go home, Or maybe i am, but at least if I'm going to do that, I would cover the you know, the cover of the camera. But I don't know what people are thinking about this stuff. The Facebook story, It's just not that interesting to me right now, but everyone else has really worked up about it.

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Welcome back to the buck Sex and show everyone. Uh, yesterday we went on air right in the aftermath of that shooting at YouTube's headquarters in California, and I gotta say I was here in the hut with the guys, with my team, and we were looking at this and thinking, oh gosh, this is you know, you see parts of lots of many shots fired, and law enforcement confirmed there was an active shooter situation, and it was a a relief that no one was killed other than the shooter,

which seems very unlikely. I mean, if somebody had gone in there trying to cause maximum casualties had a firearm and was able to get off a lot of rounds. You would think that you could be in a there could be much higher casualt account. But the initial reporting on it was that there was a woman and that's I'm sorry, a white woman with a head scarf who was shooting her boyfriend. I remember that. And sometime last night the story went from this is remember this is

about the shooting it at YouTube. White woman shoots boyfriend at YouTube headquarters to Iranian Muslim vegan video blogger Active engaged in rage shooting of YouTube because it demonetized her videos. That is that is quite a quite a change in

the storyline or an addition to the storyline. It turns out that the the YouTube shooter spoke with police just hours before the attack and they saw she was sleeping in a car in Mounteview, California, and they thought that she might be a missing person, so they just talked to her and they had no reason to detain her or to suspect anything, so they let her go. Some people saying that's a they misred flags. There's nothing they did.

I don't know what they were supposed to see in that this woman uh Ne seem Agdam has lots of videos. I saw clips and they are making the rounds last night. It looks at very clearly a a a bizarre, a czarre person. She was. She she killed herself here and I think we can assume had some very serious mental illness. She would make these videos that were parody music videos. She was a a well, it was well established that she was an animal rights activist, was always railing against

animal cruelty, was a vegan, and was Iranian. And that's that's kind of what we know. She was angry at at YouTube, angry because I kept changing the terms of service on her, or they kept demonetizing her videos, and she said that they were restricting and this is from the other videos she posted, right, Or they're restricting people's ability to watch her videos, putting age restrictions on them. And so she thought that she was a victim of

some kind of YouTube censorship. She may have been I don't know, paranoid, schizophrenic or something that I can't do a medical diagnosis from a far her once amount of medical doctor. And two we don't have enough information just yet, but certainly seems like there was something. Well we know there's something very wrong where there just turned into a a the YouTube shooter. But it seems like there was something clinically quite wrong with her. Just one thing I

would note. You know, yesterday I asked you, I said,

how is it? This is one of the questions that why if she's if you're just going to shoot her, if you're just going to shoot a boyfriend, if it's a lover's quarrel that goes that turns into violence, you probably not going to shoot three other people, right, So this was an attempt at mass shooting, and I thought it was strange that initially we were getting these law enforced reports about how or the initial reports, I should say from contact with law enforcement was that it was, uh,

she was targeting her boyfriend. There was no boy She just went in and started shooting some people, which in the context of the situation, if you play it on your head, well yeah, it was a mass shooting. She was trying to get revenge on YouTube for the perceived slights of demonetizing her videos. Um had nothing new with her boyfriend, nothing, There was no This wasn't a crime of passion, lover squirrel, any of that, Which makes sense

now when you think about Okay. You know, if if you're really angry your boyfriend or your girlfriend, and you'd make the horrible decision you're gonna be violent about it, you would think you wouldn't shoot a few people that just happened to be standing nearby. So just in our in our analysis of this afters I say we raised that question. I think it was an important one to raise. That just didn't make sense. This didn't make sense, and now we know she was trying to kill as many

people as possible. It is um something of a miracle, I think, given that she got into the facility, had a loaded weapon. Actually never it was a handgun, right, I never saw I mean I'm assuming it's a handgun, uh so, and managed to get off a whole bunch of rounds, didn't kill anybody, and shot herself. This this is one of these times where you can say this could have been a lot worse. It could have been a lot worse. Um, But there is also an this is just from the media coverage angle this and that

way we can move past this. I don't think there's a lot to say on this. I just wanted to follow up and close a loop from yesterday. The interest. The interest level from the media kept changing depending on what they thought. You know what was it? Was it an assault rifle? Though it was a pistol. Okay, well that's not as there are a whole bunch of different outlets that that doesn't fit into the narrative that they could run with, right, I say, it's a it was

a white woman. I saw that being reported a lot, as though I don't know is that that that's an important detail for some media outlets. But then we find out, well, she's Iranian, and then you get into well is that now is that now considered? Do we not distinguished? Because I'm pretty sure that there will be lots of folks of Middle Eastern descent which is Irani. Now remember it's not Arab, Persian or you know, Farsi speaking Iran. I saw some of that on Twitter. People say, well, she's

actually Arab, No, no, not that's not true. Um she's Persian,

or you can says she's Iranian of Iranian descent. But you just see the way that there was It was like all in coverage for a little bit from something, and then it kind of went away, and then a lot of coverage and then it kind of went away, and at the end of the day, it's it was it's tough for the left to make much of a of a narrative storyline that pushes an agenda out of vegan amateur bodybuilder, YouTube video maker of Iranian extraction who

is angry for her movie, her movies being demonetized on YouTube that that doesn't really and they don't really know what to how to package that one to push an agendas. I'll trying to say, that's kind of it's kind of wacko stuff. And so that's what I got for you on the youth, wacko stuff. That's really the the bottom line up front here. And with that, I want to come back to you and talk a bit more about I'll talk a bit about, uh, the spat between Well,

you got a couple of spats, multiple spats. You've got the US and China, which is putting some people on edge. We'll get into that over tariffs and what we're gonna do on trade and what a responses should be. And and then also what was the other spat. I'm I'm totally blanking what was it? Yeah, I can't remember, no, what Amazon? Thank you? I completely space there for a second. See you got your like my you guys are like my Alexa, you know, my my freedom HUT team. You're like,

you know, fuck, you should not forget things. That's right, I should not eight four four to five. You want to chat, let's do it and uh, we'll be back in a few We're going through the review period. We're very lucky that we have the best negotiator at the table, in the pre resident, and we're gonna go through that process. It will be a couple of months before tariffs on either side would go into effect and be implemented, and we're hopeful that China will do the right thing. Look,

China created this problem, not President Trump. But we finally actually have a president who's willing to stand up and say enough is enough. We're gonna stop the unfair trade practices. We're asking China to stop unfair trade practices, and we're gonna work through that process over the next couple of months. Lame China, not President Trump, because they've been going on for many years. Trump is really the first president to fight back and to put a shot across the bow.

It's still in intellectual property rights, technology transfers high barriers investment limitations, high tariffs. This stuff is really um not just unfair, it's unlawful. It's outside the boundaries of the w t O. Every country in the world knows this, Every analyst knows this is the case. Somebody's got to deal with that. President Trump is going to deal with it. I'm not a fan of tariffs. I'm a free trader by large, but I think the President is completely right

to take these actions. I gotta say, the thinking on this is changing, folks, isn't it. I'm not saying everybody, I'm not saying entirely, but remember when just a few weeks, oh my gosh, tariffs terrible. Okay, Well, he's not putting tariffs up just because he thinks that it's going to create some flourishing domestic industrial capacity that we didn't have before, although that might happen in some industries a little bit

in some ways. But this is a means of dealing with Chinese malfeasance in the area of trade, and I just it's such a you know, you the same way on immigration. I try to ask very basic questions and then get into the details. You start with the very basic questions of dealing with China, and why we would put tariffs in place like okay, so is the answer that China gets to do whatever it wants. China can do anything that it thinks is in its economic interest

visa e. The United States. If China wants to steal our stuff, go for it. China wants to steal a intelectual property, have at it. They want to they want to protect certain industries that they're trying to give a bigger market share too by putting in their own tariffs. Fine, and what do we do nothing? We just go, oh, gosh, you're not China. Yeah that really Yeah, there taking taking a rough flame with this on this stuff. You know,

it's just shame Trump is doing something. He's taking action the administration to saying that they are going to put in place more te specifically targeting the theft of an electoral property, which is, as I have been telling you, is among the biggest problems we face going forward, not just economically speaking, but also it's it's good we're as

it's a problem militarily. That see's a problem militarily. There's been all kinds of Remember there's the theft that there there are different tiers of of espionage and intellectual property theft that go on. There's what you hear about and the government knows about. Right, those are the things that make their way into the headlines. You know, those Chinese company it is UH suspected of having stolen sensitive US not or you know, individual and custody for passing secrets

to China. You'll have that. There's what happens that the public doesn't know about, but the government knows about. And that's gonna be a lot of that in the cyber realm. I don't really want to tell people what's going on there. You don't, but we don't really get to know what the government knows, especially in the realm of cyber and and that's a lot. And then you add to that another whole level of what we don't know and our

government doesn't know. And once you put all those layers to other, there's a lot of stuff that has been taken from this country and used for the advantage of the Chinese state and the Chinese economy and the Chinese military. And what have we done? You know, you'll notice how the same press courts that's always saying all he's not

doing enough about Russia. Why doesn't he do more about Russia, more sanctions, more And I'm just saying there's reports out as we went on air that there may be sanctions for um Russian oligarchs coming up to the administration might do even more against Russia that it's already done, which is much more than Obama did. But they're so willing to antagonize the Russian state for doing things that, while

we don't like, don't really affect us. It doesn't really matter all that much to you and me and what happens in our lives and our kids lives, your kids lives, but you know our American kids lives. What China is doing affects you. You may work for, In fact, you very well uh do work for a company that at least competes with Chinese companies. You may you may be working for a company that you know or you don't know, has been this subject of hacking efforts from China steal

your data, steal information, steal even more. Who knows that really affects you and and any actions taken that address that are considered to be reckless and irresponsible And how could Trump do this? And it's so terrible. Well, the other option is just to let the Chinese do whatever they want, continue to flout the fun word. You know, you really you say that if you say flout, you feel a little fancy. But it's different than being say

a floutist. You see, you see what I did there, But you know you you see how the global opinion is all quite settled on China. There's really no such thing as global opinion, right, but the international communities leadership there you go, that's a term that we can use, is settled on China engaged in bad behavior. And what do we do in response? Nothing. China is the top

trading partner for uh tons of countries. I mean, I think if you if you actually look at a list of countries, China is at least in the top ten trading partners for almost every country on Earth. I don't I don't know where micro Nesia is getting most of its stuff these days. But like all the major countries out there, you know, sorry San Marino um, but all the major companies out there, companies countries, uh, they're doing a lot of business with China. So that also affects

this too. The China there's a little bit of a of an implied bullying here for a lot, or not even just implied. There's a little bit of bullying that goes on from the Chinese government against countries that don't have the ability to push back. So if we don't do it, who's going to? But like I said, you start with the very simple questions, what if if not tariffs? What's the response suffering silence? Let the Chinese government do what it wants. That seems to be a bad idea.

It seems to me like we should probably find ways to at least go beyond expressing the occasional bit of displeasure. Here. We've got some calls in and I haven't taken many today, and I'd like to hear from all of you. So let's go to Karen in Michigan. What's up, Karen, Hey Box, how are you? I'm good? Thank you for your call. So I don't have anything like profound to say, like a lot of these guys are calling about, you know, the strategies in China or anything. But um, I had

two things. The quick thing is, the issue with the immigrants has the making of a really great seventies movies. The military goes down there too. The bad guys you know all those movies were like that. And the other thing I wanted to say quick was the story of this woman. The shooter Um reminds me so much of that story about the Lady Um and it's done a

while back. I think she worked for NASA. She was like an astronaut and she drove with a diaper on like for eight hours to uh with the woman or because she had like a lover's quarrel and yeah right, and she had she had like duct tape in the trunk of the car and weapons. It's just like I said, Okay, these are accomplished, intelligent people. What is going on even this one. I don't know if this woman was accomplished.

I but but I hear what you're saying. I think that might be given her a little I've been too much credit. I think the slope dips after a while. But she was educated. And it just strikes me so odd that somebody would go to school and work so hard for a job and you know, get a career, and then drive eight hours and the diaper to kill your lover's fat person. It just seems bizarre, and it is definitely bizarre. Karen, I ap appreciate you shields. I thank you for calling her from a sign. Oh, there's

no doubt about it. When you just I don't care what line of work you're in. If you decide it's time to strap on a diaper because you're not gonna you don't want to waste time and you don't want to go to the bathroom, that's dedication. So whatever the task at hand, maybe when you're like, you know what I'm gonna Yeah, I mean, like, how many of us? How many of us have you gonna long long drive? You know, maybe maybe you had a bottle of a bottle of sanka. Do they still make that, by the way,

Yeah they do. There's really And then I always yelled because I say, it's what do they they call it pop in the south or that you know, you got all these weird terms the rest of the country. We just call it soda here in New York, But I think pop, right, But you know, you got an empty bottle. You know, what what are you gonna do with that bottle?

Long car? Drive? You you really want to have to pull over into the I'm just saying, people become you know, this necessity is the mother of invention, and people become very uh what's the word of looking in there's ingineusite tea at work in long rides, sometimes involving empty bottles and whatever else you got. So let's talk about Amazon. Coming right up, he's holding the line for America buck

sex in his back. The post Office is losing billions of dollars and the taxpayers are paying for them money because it delivers packages for Amazon at a very below cost. And that's not fair to the United States. It's not fair to our taxpayers. And Amazon has the money to pay the fair rate at the post Office, which would be much more than their paying right now. But if you look at the cost that we're subsidizing, we're giving a subsidy to Amazon, and we're talking about billions of

dollars a year the real costs. And a report just came out they said a dollar forty seven, I believe, or about that for every time they deliver a package. The United States government, meaning the Post Office, loses a dollar forty seven. So Amazon is gonna have to pay much more money to the Post Office. There's no doubt about that. President Trump going after Amazon big lee. And you know, I'm a little I'm a little torn here.

Because Amazon does so much for me, it has made me so lazy that now the thought of actually like having to go to the corner to buy toilet paper, milk, toothpaste, I just expect it all to be waiting for me now, and a little box when I get home to my h to my home, I just expected to be there. And whenever I actually have to go to a store now to get something, I find myself thinking, can I just get this on Amazon? If the answer is yes,

I can order it with my phone it is. It makes me, uh well, supremely lazy, but also the conveniences is incredible. Now. When I moved into an apartment this this year, what was it a year ago? Almost a year ago? Now, I think I bought of what was in the apartment, including furniture and everything on it. Now. Obviously I'm not much of an interior decorator. I'moun a fancy guy, but it all came from Amazon. Amazon amazing,

you get anything. I love Amazon also because you can even type in things that aren't a thing and will find it for you. You're like, I need the thing that attaches to the bottom of the table where I can put the thing that looks at the and you're like, oh, it's a it's a thing. I'm a Bob and I can get it from and it'll be delivered in a day. I love getting a Thingamabob's. I've had that experience many tests. So Amazon is incredible. Is the reason that Jeff Bezos

is worth eighty billion dollars. But you know, if Trump, if what Trump is saying is true, that they're getting a ride on the post Office's coattails, that's something that certainly needs to be looked at. And I've seen Pete. Look, I don't know enough. The Post Office loses money, as we all know, so would it would it surprise any of us if the Post Office was doing all this stuff for Amazon They're like, well, we'll lose money per package, but we'll make it up on volume. Um, it wouldn't

surprise me at all. That said, you know, that's something that Post Office, federal government they should probably handle that, right. Speaking of the federal government, on the tax side of the equation, truth here is that I I'm sure that Amazon has all kinds of cool tax breaks and loopholes, probably along the lines of what General Electric, which is the company that's in rough shape. General Electric had some years ago where it paid think it was zero zero

and zero tax on its on its revenue. Zero. How is that? Oh? A lot, a lot of very complicated financial engineering by the accountants. But by the way, I would like to get I would like to get a team of accounts that could help me somehow have zero in pay zero taxes. Right, A company can do it, Why can't an individual? I thought corporations are people? Aren't people corporations? Uh so, I agree that's a problem. But this is also a bigger problem, and that is we've

got some tax cuts. Great, and they're a good thing. They're also very standard for the GOP. There's nothing about these tax cuts that's really ah blowing my mind. But I would like to see Trump, while he still has the time to push issues like this, talk about a fair tax or a flat tax. I'll take either. People say, buck, do you have a preference? I don't really just give

me one or the other. As long as the tax code and this is probably a pretty good time to talking about this, folks, considering that tax days, you know, in a week and change. As long as the I R. S Code is seventy thousand plus pages. There will be all kinds of chicanery. Do you like that good good word I use? He uses the good words he does. He does. Doesn't know how many presidents are from Ohio, but I'll get to that later. Yeah, I know I

mess that. People were like Buck, come on, man, weak sauce. It was very It's Jay either three hours of live radio at the time. You gotta gusual you're gonna run into some some stuff. You know you're gonna step in it. And with that one, my bad, Ohio you got you gotta got lots of presidents. I'll talk about that then later on. There's so many messages came in on that in the roll call. Trust me, we'll get to it. Um.

So on Amazon. If it's a tax issue, that's where the Congress has to step in and actually do something. But Congress doesn't want to. I'll let you in a secret that you already know. Congress doesn't want to make a tax code that's transparent, that's fair, that's clear. Now, how are they gonna how are they gonna be powerful?

How are they going to keep their jobs their prerogatives? Um, what are they going to do if they can't create carve outs in the tax code for people in the answer is, that's why they don't want to do it. That's why we're not going to get a fair tax of flat tax. And that's a great frustration because if you have powerful interests that are able to lobby Congress for their own giveaways and tax brace everything else, it's

going to continue and continue. Is Amazon a problem, We'll see. Look, Walmart's getting very big in the digital space now too. You know that there's there's competition, right, it's just Amazon's. Amazon's also annoying to Trump, I think because it is, as he calls it, the Amazon Washington Post. There's a reason that Mr Bezos wanted what is I think the second favorite paper of liberals in this country. You pay two U fifty million dollars for it, which Bezos has

in his couch cushions. And we can't think for a second that that doesn't influence There's no way, right, people say, oh, but buck, then no one at Amazon actually gives directives the Washington Post that they should cover things. Yeah, but people at the Washington Post certainly no Amazon writes the checks here. The Washington Post is, for all intents and purposes, when it comes to the way they cover things related

to Amazon and Business a subsidiary of Amazon. Okay, I know that freak out if they heard me say that, or they'd be like, who is this guy with the poofy hair and the big voice and a huge head um. But that's that's the reality of it, that's the truth. So well, I's about to see. We'll see if Trump can continue, and I'm most surprised. But I do love it when I can get my thing of a bob delivered free of charge in twenty four hours and I don't have to get I just stay in sweats all day.

All my consumer needs basically met via via Amazon these days, so that's kind of fun. I like that part of it. Oh, we've got to talk about Mueller and the probe. We are joined by a legal expert, our friend and the Campania with that up next. The biggest development I thought in the last couple of days is that it's now obvious that Mueller thinks and he's wrong, that he thinks collusion is a crime. In his memo, he talks about colluding with the Russians or collusion as a crime against

the federal government. I want to issue a challenge to him right now, I challenge Special Counsel Mueller to cite the statute or the case, or the source or any legal information that would make collusion or colluding with Russia a crime. He's not going to be able to find, are you? Why do you there? He had Professor Dershowitz, the dirsh he was on actually right before me today

over at Fox News. I was answered, I was hanging out with my my main man hammer and uh, we had a good time talking about spying stuff in d C. But before that, sure enough, we had uh, we had Professor dirsch Woods and he was saying, collusion is not a crime. But we have our own legal expert here, our freedom Hunt legal expert. That's right. Emily Campanio is with us now. You can follow her on Twitter at Emily Campanio, and she's a lawyer, legal analyst. She knows

about all these things, and she's with us. Emily, thank you so much for calling in, Thanks for having appreciate it. So, uh, what do you think about this collusion issue raised or that that dirsch Witz is addressing here, we're saying that Mueller now it seems to be acting under the premise that collusion is a crime, and as Professor Dirshwoods points out, this is pretty straightforward. It either exists in criminal statute or does it right, He's absolutely correct, and you know

what it is. You could argue semantics, but obviously in the eyes of the law, semantics matters. What is against the law is conspiracy, right, or concerted activity towards violating a federal statute. That's what you can prove, and that is what we can find in the federal in criminal law right, federal antitate. Um, So there's no there's no collusion against the law. And so I think what what Alander's wits is sing rightly so is just get your

facts straight, get your words straight. And unfortunately, what that does is create this currency and this narrative that now everyone is talking about. But really it's inaccurate and it doesn't do anyone good to think that they know either what is the point of the investigation or what he's really looking for. When frankly, again jurch Wiz is right, there's no such thing as collusion being against the law.

So again it's conspiracy or concerted activity towards violating a federal statute, and that federal statute would not be quote unquote, Emily, why is it that you? Why do you think and I'm asking you to surmise here because you can't know, But why do you think that they don't just say that they're investigating conspiracy? Right? Wouldn't that be much more clear and much more straightforward, because to me, it suggests that collusion could be just whatever people wanted to be.

It could be essentially a political charge without it actually being a criminal charge. Do you do you have any sense of why not you say the look at a conspiracy? The only argument I could make for that as a strategy is goes back to actually the issue with it, which is the fact that it's kind of this colloquial

umbrella term that has no actual legal definition. And so perhaps that is purposeful in that it enables the investigation to from under that rubric of quote unquote collusion, find specific charges or statutes that alleged behavior has um has infringed upon ours, has been done toward right, Meaning it basically says, look, we are investigating this big broad term under which a lot of specific crimes could fall under,

or specific target could fall under. And that's why it creates a broader stroke that we can then paint with. So that would be the only argument strategically that I see, because definitely it's inaccurate, overbroad, and again not in the criminal system. I want to continue with our trend here of having an Emily Campanio analyze the dirshes analysis. So please play clip two. He has to be a subject, not a target before the Justice Department can ask him

to uh testify. Generally, the Justice Department does not ask targets to testify because if you're a target, that means you're going to be prosecuted. And uh so telling him he's a subject is just another way of saying, we want you to testify. We're gonna subpoenea you in front of the grand jury if we can't make a deal with you. Um it's it's a magic cold word. It's just a way of saying, you have no excuse not to testify because you're not a target. You're just a subjection.

So what can you tell us about this a target, person of interest, subject, witness, suspect, all these different terms, target and subject? What's the difference here that we need

to know about? Right? First of all, I agree with the dirt as you call them, just so funny, and I think of it as a spectrum, dear listeners, and it's a target is on one end, and again is correct where it's it's someone that investigators have substantial evidence that ties them to a crime and who is a putative defendant, which means they are likely to face charges.

So that's one end of the spectrum. And then on the other end of the spectrum would be you know, you just mentioned a witness, right, so that would be someone that an investigator wants to talk to, you know, likely has information, maybe doesn't UM, but they are not specifically investigating that particular person. That's why they would be a witnessed. And then in the middle, it's would be the subject, and that is someone whose conduct is within

the scope of that investigation. You know, it's it's basically someone UM who's under scrutiny. And it also means that someone who is a subject can very easily become a target after said interview that you just mentioned, or after uncovering you know, more evidence, or they can be put up the spectrum back to simple witness. If look, here's here's what they told us, and it all checks out and they're they're simply a witness. May has given us investigation.

They're no longer a subject. So to me, ay, I agree with that distinction. And the it wasn't a surprise. I mean, that's that's been the whole point of the smaller investigation to begin with, right, is that we knew the president was a subject of it. So to me, this just reinforced what we already knew and then brought to light again these terms so that the public could educate themselves as to what they mean legally. Family, you've worked on a lot of a lot of cases, including

a federal federal criminal cases in your career. Tell me about whether you can we get a sense as is the Mueller probe based on what we're hearing and seeing and these announcements, is it getting in the final phases here? Or do we have any idea about the timeline? I will say no amount of experience could could enable me to accurately gauge that, because everything is different. But I will say, clinically, looking at this from the beginning, we

thought it would be wrapped up within three months. Right, That's what Mueller has teemed specifically said, And now we're stretching towards a year, and it would behoove everyone involved in that investigation and especially in the public if it were wrapped up soon for a multitude of reasons, one being our faith in the effectiveness of the investigation and our tex dollars that are paying for it, and also so that we make sure that it's far away from

the mid term elections. Right we want to make sure that there there isn't any more that can be brought to the table as arguing against election integrity or arguing that things have been changed or affected in some way. And I also feel that there's a measure of fatigue associated with it. Right. Um, but I will say, you know, going back again, it's just my experience. Oh no, I've seen investigations last forever and then some that wrap up quickly.

So um, just for listeners, I think it could be anything. But again for the reasons why I stated, it would behoove them to wrap this up as soon as possible, and also to prevent the argument that, look, is this has just become or with this always a fishing expedition, like you know you have at some point you have to surrender rather than keep digging and digging digging. Emily compon You everyone legal analysts follow her on Twitter at Emily compon You and also Emily compon You dot Com

is her site. Emily always great to have you. Thank you so much for the time. We'll talk to you soon. Thanks Buck, talk soon. All right, team, we got our three coming up. I'm gonna tell you a little bit about fake news. You've got some new new folks weighing in on the fake news or one guy in particular. We're gonna have some fun with it because, wow, among the worst people ever to be giving tutorials on what is and is not fake news. You can't even make this stuff up. I can't make it up, and I'm

a pretty creative guy. So we'll be talking about that also. Zombie raccoons. M hm. You want to know about that. You gotta stay and keep listening because that's gonna be the next hour and uh hug a newsman day. We'll discuss we'll discuss our three coming up. Welcome to our three team. Great to have you here with me. So a lot of a lot of debates, a lot of discussions out there, as you all know, about fake news.

People keep talking about it. Trump has more than any figure in recent memory, held the media to account by saying, you know what, fake news is a real problem, and some of the biggest news outlets in the country are in fact guilty of it, either from time to time or sometimes some places, some organizations guilty of it a lot. But who should we turn to? What wise sage in the news space could we count on to let us know the truth fake news and how to avoid it.

Here is a guide to protecting yourself against fake news from Dan Rather, the King of Fake News. If you're really interested in identifying fake news and figuring out what to believe, if you're truly invested in the work of being a good informed citizen, May I respectfully all for a short number one? Lets let's pause it for a second. Let's pause it for a second. Here you have a man who belongs to an era of TV news and

TV journalism that is is rapidly going away. And he's someone who didn't have the competition you have to deal with today, certainly didn't have the Internet, didn't have all this different stuff. He was really a glorified actor. He would go on television none sound like this on how does hair a certain way and would stare into the camera a certain way. Now I actually this is random but true. Was an intern at CBS Evening News with

Dan Rather when I was eighteen years old. My first ever internship, even though I didn't think I ever wanted to work in media, was in media because the executive producer at the time was a graduate of my high school, and his name just was on one of these lists of people you reach out to if you want an internship, right, so I checked it out. So I was there for for Dan Rather, and I remember showing up and and

doing all the little intern things, you know. I was xeroxing and running scripts, which is a fancy way of saying taking things off a printer and handing them the people. It was good at that job. I did it with with Gusto. But I remember thinking, this guy Dan Rather, he shows up every day for his I forget was it five thirty or I guess six thirty, Broad asked.

He shows up every day at like three o'clock in the afternoon, spends about forty minutes in the makeup chair, making sure that everything is just so, and kind of just gathering and talking. Yeah, and then he sits there and reads the words that someone else has written for him off of a prompter and goes home. And he was making seven million dollars a year to do that half hour show. Folks, I sit here, unscripted, doing the

three hour radio show for you. So let me tell you when I say that a half hour show is really really not hard on TV. I mean it, especially when you're not even going extemporaneous. You're not just flying off the cuff. You're actually just reading off of the teleprompter what they tell you to. But John rather sounded the part, looked the part. But then yeah, a little

little boo boo, little little snaffoo. Remember the whole National Guard document thing with Bush where he went on air with forged documents that could have changed the course of a presidential election. That was in fact fake news. And I would argue among the fakest of fake news moments

that our media has ever dealt with. And I think there's just a particular hubris of having the king of fake news himself trying to tell this just was went out today, right, I'm not pulling something from the vault from years ago. He's out there trying to inform Americans about fake news out And since he's doing that, why don't we hear a little more saying that trusting a news outlet does not mean they're perfect. No one's perfect. It means they tell you when they screw up. Number two.

Don't rely on just one news outlet. Number three, don't rely on just the news to understand an issue. Read books, find the experts, find out how issues are discussed outside of news. All right, So what do you have here is essentially condescending pompous Mr Rogers, That's what's going on. Condescending pompous Mr Rogers. No offense to Mr Rogers, But you're gonna read books. Don't just rely on one source for your news. Uh? And also no news sources perfect.

We know everyone knows all of this. Literally, no one needs to be told any of this. Why Dan rather who got Look he's very lucky. He's a very lucky guy. There were forty other dudes with you know, nondescript coastal accents and side parted hair. I can say it because that's how I rock the side part Obviously that could have had that job. But he had that job and became incredibly wealthy, And you know, he's had a great run, right,

he's a very lucky guy. But you know what it is the ego that people develop when they achieve any degree of notoriety in this business, especially when they have fame and wealth. A lot of people get overcome by their own ego. It just the ego monster is uncontrollable. I think with someone like Dan Rather, he really believes that he needs to set things right and that he's still a necessary part of the national conversation. Reminds me Larry Kings. I was like, hey, I'll come back on,

you know, I'll interview anyone. Let's get it go. And it's like, we don't need we don't need him, We don't we don't need Larry King. It's okay, he had a great run. He had a great run, very lucky guy. But there are other people that will do these jobs. Now. It's okay to you know, focus on other things, focus on your private life, your personal life, your family, charity, whatever it may be. But journalists just don't want to give it up. And particular TV journalist and particularly do

not ever want to step aside, never want to. They unlike when you think about other careers, you know, with everything from a small family business in all the way up to corporate America. People at some point generally want to stop, you know, they generally want to retire. These people in the in the media business who are from the old school of journalism, people like Dan Rather, Larry King and others, they never want to stop and never want to step aside. They think they should have the

big job forever. Well, you know, that's not how it works the circle of life, my friends. It's time for some new stuff. But rather, I'm gonna try to have a play on words using his name there, I'm gonna avoid that. Rather would rather, I guess I just did it tell us all that we need to read books. He would rather lecture us on fake news. And there's something particularly galling about this is what he thinks he should be focusing on. I we think about the delusion.

The guy who lost his job, and it was a hard thing to for him to get fired from CBS. It wasn't a me too, sexual harassment thing or anything like that. It was for the failure to perform the basic due diligence of a journalist in a presidential election when there could have been very real consequence I mean, it's so funny. We talked about Russia collusion and oh the and and he'll call me, and the email and

everything else. You had the very media that now breathlessly reports on all the excuses that he has for why she didn't win the election. That very same media was the one that supported and really coddled and revered based on nothing. I never and I don't think the guy's not gonna be funny. He's not insightful. Uh you know, I don't get it, folks. He's just really really lucky. But that same media tried to throw the election back

in two thousand four. That same media figured that they could come up with a way to completely destroy the chances of the Bush administration or destroy the chances of a Bush victory. And now here they're a lecture. Let's look a little more from from condescending Mr Rogers want to be rather here go ahead. Number four. If you find yourself agreeing with everything you use, outlet says you're doing it wrong. If your news doesn't challenge you, challenge

your news, all right, pause it for a second. It's a little thing you're doing it wrong. Is a contemporary phrase that I promise you. Dan Rather does not use in his day to day He didn't write this, he didn't write it. No way, you're doing it wrong. That's what a couple of generations below him would say. You know if blah, but blah, you're doing it wrong. You know this is almost it is an internet mean ah.

So Dan Rather is now lecturing you on fake news by reading the words that others wrote for him about fake news, and doesn't see the irony in any of this. Really thinks that we need to hear from him on it a little more, a little more. Number five, find a commentator whose politics differ from yours, intellection honest, even though their value is different from yours. If you can't find such a person, maybe the media is not the problem.

And number six, remember that what the news tells you is far less important than what they decide to talk about in the first place. If they focus on personal, selacious and speculative stories. Find a new outlet. So he's basically saying that CNN stinks and you shouldn't watch it. So thanks for that, Dan Rather. Uh. I just it's as a guy who got into this business really by accident or kind of fell into it, I find it amazing that you still have these these They don't understand

that the game has changed. This is a different world we're living in now, um, and we don't need we we don't need to have Dan Rather lecturing us about the news anymore. We really don't. A guy who tried to throw a presidential election for the Democrat against the Republican does not have to weigh in here. He's very rich. I'm sure there's a lot of beautiful golf courses he should be hanging out on, and I wish him all the best on them. I wish he would just leave

the rest of us alone. He wouldn't be able to get to first base in today's media environment. That's just the truth. And I mean if he were thirty years younger, doesn't matter. Alright, we're rolling a quick break. We come back. Zombie raccoons are a real thing. Can you defend yourself against them? I will tell you when we come back. Now, I gotta tell you all about something. It's very serious. There have been sightings in Youngstown, Ohio, according to various

news sources, of zombie raccoons. May be seeing yourself. What the heck is a zombie raccoon? Well, according to locals, it is quote raccoons that stand up on hind legs, which raccoons don't usually do, and they show their teeth and then they fall over backwards, and then they go into a comatose condition. End quote. This is quite a thing, my friends. This is happening. Numerous cases of zombie raccoon

sightings in Youngstown, Ohio. I'm not sure the raccoon apocalypse is upon us quite yet, but I will tell you that raccoons from a distance look kind of cute. You get up close to them, though, and they are the stuff of nightmares. And in fact, if you've ever seen and don't ask you why, I've seen this, a photo of a completely shaved or furless raccoon, they look like some kind of giant mutant rat sent to destroy us all. So they're actually quite terrifying. I'm gonna tell you right now.

It's a little story time with Buck. I had my own, my own encounter some years ago with a zombie raccoon. So I was going out to visit Dom, who was my program director at the Blaze. I was heading out to his house, lovely place. It's really a cabin. In the cabin in the woods, right next to a lake, and we had a great time. We went out a t ving and did all kinds of cool stuff. But it was it was rural, you know, it was a

rural area. And I arrived at the at the house, at the cabin, and look, I'm I'm a guy who comes from the city, and I don't want people to think, oh, you know, I can't it can't handle all the scary animals and all. Although maybe that sometimes is how I feel, but you know, I'm I've been on the woods, been out in the desert, been out in war zones. Right, I should be able to handle anything. So I'm trying to be cool. I got a little little backpack on

my three day pack, if you will. I'm walking up to the front door, and sure enough, a A and and Dom is being so hospitable. He's one of the nicest guys on the planet, he really is. And he's he brought me into radio years ago, taught me, worked with me, listen to my air checks, you know, gave me pointers in the earliest days of the Buck Sexton Show.

The first time out of this house, and I'm so excited, and a black lab it comes running out the door to greet me, and this is I'm like, this is perfect, right, It's this beautiful, uh you know, quiet cabin overlooking the lake. You know, uh, Mrs Doms has come out to say hi. But but first, this black lab comes out. And I love labs. I mean I love all dogs, but labs are in like my top ten. Your labs are a top ten dog for me. You know, I have my favorites.

All canines are great for me, but I have my favorites. And so this black lab comes out and we're just rucal to black lab, and I'm you know, rubbing it around the years and you know, or the black lab is show cute and I'm I'm thinking it's gonna be my buddy for the next few days. Then all of a sudden, you know, I mean, a real growl comes out of this black lab, and I can see the fur on the back kind of staying out there, the whole thing, and the whole this dog is now very unhappy.

And I turned around and this is broad daylight, folks. I mean it's it's maybe noon. I mean it's as bright and sunny days you can get. And I turned around and out from this wood pile that was right next to the front door. Scurries the scariest looking zombie raccoon I've ever seen. I have never seen this in myfore before in my life. My friends and the guys the students there talking about it went back on its hind legs like a bear, except those little raccoon hind legs.

And then you saw it's like nasty, little creepy claw, you know, has these little creepy claw hands and baring its teeth at the dog. And I'm standing there, I'm just like, oh God, I'm thinking doesn't have rabies. And now we've got the black Lab and I'm not gonna lie. The city slicker here did not exactly jump into action. I was just like, oh no, what through it was, everything's kind of slow motion because I got this beloved

black Lab facing off against zombie raccoon. First two minutes of my then boss, I'm visiting his house, hanging out with his family, and we we got a we got a zombie raccoon going up against the family pet. This is like an old yellow situation, folks, I mean, this is this is high stakes. It's intense. And then sure enough I stand there frozen and do nothing. Dumb runs into you know, God, God blessed Michigan, uh, you know, runs into his house. He is a a lawful second

Amendment second Amendment proponent of the United States. And sure enough he had a I forget what it was. I think it was. I think he pulled out a thirty eight. And he comes out, and then about this all happened to span of about ten seconds. He just comes out and the zombie raccoon is on its back legs, it's a little claws and everything. And I'm standing there. I'm like, and the dog is or and they're about to square off, and tob comes out and just boom boom boom. And

I mean that raccoon, zombie raccoon, not much left. I couldn't even make a hat out of it. It's just done. So so I just want to tell you about that because it's really a public safety announcement. If in fact, you see a zombie raccoon where you are, do not approach, do not let Fido or Muffie the poodle go anywhere

near it. Get yourself to the nearest location where you have a firearm, or or however you prefer to deal with raccoons, and some of you are probably like, I'll use a bow whatever, bow and arrow works too, whatever you got and handle the situation appropriately in a manner worthy of the Walking Dead. Zombie raccoon was toast. I felt like it was important to share that story because this is a this is happening in Youngstown, Ohio. People.

They think for those of you who are wondering, like, why is Buck telling you this crazy story, they don't believe that it's rabies um. They think that it actually comes from a disease called distemper, which can affect raccoons. It's not contagious to humans, though, but it can make them do crazy things and the Brandon spinal quarter affected. So maybe there's a scientific reason for this, or they're

just zombie raccoons. Folks, be on the lookout. You never know when one of them is gonna come flying out of the woodpile when you're trying to impress the boss and his wife for a weekend away. And with that, I'm going to go into a break. I'll be right back. Brothers, don't shake hands, Brothers gotta hug. I don't know how many of you know this, and uh, I definitely don't know how many of you care. I'm guessing not very many. But today today is in fact National Hug a news

Person Day. That's right, every April four, it is National Hugging news Person Day. It was formerly National Hugging new news Man Day. And this gives people the opportunity to say thank you and hug their local news person. Uh So, the way you're supposed to this is so dumb. I know. The way you're supposed to observe this is if you aren't able to hug your news person, you can send them a virtual one. Use hashtag hug a news person

data post on social media. So those of you who feel like I don't know, maybe you have maybe you have a favorite news person who does radio every night for Premier Networks from six to nine Eastern uh and has a really widely downloaded podcast that you think is great. And I mean, maybe there's somebody who fits that description and you want to send them a virtual hug with hashtag hug a news person. This is the This is like the lamest call out I think I've ever done.

All this show. I think it's really funny, it's ridiculous. You don't have to do it. I'm just kidding. I swear mostly, but I'd also say that we've we've entured in an era now where I don't know if I'm allowed to hug colleagues because of all the stuff that's happened in the last year, I now am in this awkward position of uh, I ask for permission. I asked for permission to hug. People can hug me, I don't care. I mean pretty much anyone, a stranger on the street

could hug me. It doesn't bother me. But I asked for permission before I hug even people that I know really well. So maybe you get kind of a pass on national hug a newsperson day. I wouldn't I wouldn't necessarily bet on that. But we have reached a period now where, oh, even when I do a live event

somewhere like I did recently out in Indiana. When I do a live event, you know how you take a photo of somebody, usually want to do the like hand on the back, you know, because you're you're presenting a friendly a friendly picture, and I male, female, doesn't matter. I gotta you know, is it okay if I put my hand on your back? And sometimes even just do the hand that is raised that looks like my hands on the person's back, but I actually don't touch them

because I feel like that's okay. But the whole thing is just so weird. You know. You look at other cultures, they do the whole kiss on the cheek thing. Some of you that you know what I'm talking about. In uh, you know, some Middle Eastern countries and European countries, you get guys kiss each other on both cheeks and there's all kinds of stuff going on there. Um, so you know, in terms of hugging, and of course there's well I'm just saying the hug stuff has gotten weird. The hug

stuff has gotten weird. And now I don't really know, but huggy is important everyone, you know. So how about this instead of do hashtag hug your favorite newsperson day, which you can do if you want, because some other people that I know in the business, they had their followers and listeners and such on social media. Give them hashtag hugs anyway, But give a hug to somebody who actually means a lot to you, you know, not just

in the in the sense of entertaining you. I mean, give a hug to somebody that you really love in your life. How about that? So go give someone a big hug. We call it freedom hut hug day. Go go hug someone really matters to you, a big one. You're you got orders team. Find someone that matters to you right now or right when the show's over. Don't don't stop listening and give him a big hug. All right, we'll be right back. Show ain't over yet, folks. It's

time for roll call rock and roll. You can't see it, but I'm doing crazy air guitar in here, all right. First up with a roll call. Here we have uh Lauren, who writes, I love that movie. That's in response to me saying, did you catch my movie reference when I said savor the flavor because it won't happen again? A Tommy Boy reference. She now responded Lauren on face book, I'm embarrassed to say that I had to google the Tommy Boy quote, and even worse, I've never even seen

Tommy Boy. I'll remedy that soon, Lauren. You have homework, all right. You need to see some Tommy Boy. It is a fantastic and fun film. I think it's Chris Farley's best movie, so you should take my word for it and check it out. I've got such a long list now of all I gotta watch, chap Atquittic, Last Man Standing, Home Improvement, I got all these things now I gotta watch and Ms. Molly is always like, you know, we we could also just do activities outside. I'm like,

you know, honey, You're right. I don't just have to watch things and read things and do media all the time. Must have a life, must figure out my life. I mean, I don't want to become one of these weird media robot types. Next up, we got Phil who writes buck Love the show I'm catching up on Monday's podcast, and you mentioned during your discussion of McKinley he was the

only president from the Great State of Ohio. As a native of the Great State of Ohio, I take umbradge with that Ohio is actually tied with Virginia of states with the most presidents at eight. William Henry Harrison ninth, President Ulysses S. Grant eighteen, Rutherford Behayes nineteen, James Garfield twenty, Benjamin Harrison twenty three, William McKinley twenty five, William Taft, William Hardy. Sorry we're in Harding twenty nine. Just the

general bucks Lap. Keep up the great work, Phil You're totally right. I was totally wrong. I can't remember. So here's why that was stuck in my head. When they renamed Mount McKinley Denali officially under President Obama. You you will recall that happened. Uh, there was Ohio was was upset about it, and I can't And I thought it was because McKinley was the only something and from having to do with Ohio. And now I can't remember what

the statistic or what the factoid was. Clearly though, I stand thoroughly buck slapped, and you are in fact correct. Eight presidents tied to Ohio. And I would note that, Philly, you weren't the only one. I got lit up on this. But you know what, I liked that all of you actually listen and you pay attention, and you call me out when I make a mistake. So definitely, I I can't pass the buck on that one. I I got caught. I got caught up and I stand corrected. Uh. Next up,

will writes, tell Bill Hammer his hairs out of place. Oh, that must have been during my hit today on Fox News. Hammer is one of the greats. He's a really talented broadcaster, a super nice guy, and very very skilled on camera. I know people watch some of the news shows they think, well, you know, how hard, how hard can this be? To be good at It is actually really hard. Anyone can do it. But it's kind of like soccer. Well maybe this's a bad Now you're like, Buck, you're a communist.

Why are you talking about soccer or in Europe football? Uh, but soccer is a simple game made hard by the people playing it. Alright, to kick a ball and to kick it into a big net not hard. It's just the other folks around you and all the other things that get added into it make it hard anything. It's true at TV. Anyone can speak into a camera on TV, especially if they're reading some stuff off the prompter, but to do it well, to do it better than other people,

becomes very difficult. Next up here we have Mike, who writes, Hey, Buck, great show. I'm always a day late when listening, curious what the reality of using the military defend our borders is. I find it funny to hear people say we need to bring our military back home to defend our country. But we'll freak out when the talk of preventing this convoy of entering our country happens. As they are sitting on and defending a lot of borders of other countries.

But the thought of using to protect our own borders makes progressives lose their minds. Look, Mike, I think you're raising a very good point here. It's the national guard for this nation, not for other nations. Why wouldn't we

defend our borders? Isn't it interesting to note how successful and widespread the propaganda has been that we are now in a situation where the notion of defending borders at all, and I just mean enforcing borders is tied in with thoughts of racism, xenophobia, fear of foreigners, all this stuff. When every other country in the world defends its borders, maintains its borders, has laws about who comes and who goes,

it is true. I know people try to dismiss it as some kind of talking point, But if you don't have borders, you don't have a country. Is that straightforward? Next up, we've got Kevin who whoa quite a note here from Kevin Buck. I catched the show every morning via podcast. On Tuesday, you mentioned there's a high percentage of Americans who, uh I haven't read a book in the last year. This hit me for some reason as another division of the population. Am I being too sensitive? Maybe?

But here's a short rundown explanation of why I may fall in this category. Household minimum since I was twenty seven of two children, two adults, three children, one dog, one cat. Today six adults, two grandchildren, three dogs, two cats, and one hamster. Occupation, fifty five year old truck driver and thirty seven years four plus million miles. The current schedule up at oh three fifty back at the house at seventeen thirty ish. Chores, chores, chores, lots of stuff. Point,

I'm not unique. Most Americans are busy. I do read, as you mentioned, articles, news, etcetera, and audio books. I do read Bible versus daily. I do read the Heritage Guide to the Constitution. I do have ten books I'll eventually get to but lately no love your show and Shields hies amazing. Keep it up, Kevin. Ps. I have a granddaughter named Molly. Well Kevin, that's great and Ms Monley will get a kick out of that, so thank you and Kevin, I hear you. I admitted this yesterday

on the show. I've gone through periods where I realized I haven't read a book in a while. Yeah. For me, though, it's kind of like the gym, you know, or or when I say the gym, whatever your activity, your physical activity is, and I've gone through periods or I'm just begging to get pre Dad Dad bond, right, I'm just I'm scarf and chocolate left, and that's really chocolate and

French fries. I always say my weakness. I mean, if if anyone ever comes up with French fries dipped in chocolate, I'm gonna I'm gonna end up having a heart attack in a couple of weeks. So you know, I've gone through periods where I've I've been injured, I've been too tired of been too stressed. I've you know, gotten a little unhealthy, and you just you fight back and you do what you can to get back in a good rhythm. The same thing is true reading, and you should really

think of it that way. You know, it's not oh, I haven't read a book in last year. That says something about me. As you point out Kevin. It just says you're busy. I get that. I'm just trying to encourage myself and everyone listening to the show. Have a book that you are reading. Don't worry about how quickly you're going through it. Read two or three pages at

a time. But keep it on your keep it within reach of your favorite chair, keep it next to your bed if you're like me and you like to read at night before you go to sleep, or just have it out on the coffee table. Not a coffee table book, right, not you know, paintings from seventeenth century France. No, like a book you're actually like, I want to read it. You know. Maybe it's, uh, maybe it's the latest brad Thor novel, or maybe you picked up my friend Sean

Parnell's novel that that's just come out now. Um, I just finished Outlaw Platoon recently and it's a phenomenal book. And Shawn such a great dude, and as you know, we have him here on the show whenever we can. But whatever it is, you know, if it's the great big book of the history of of knitting, you know, knitting is cool. Everyone needs sweaters, right, you do? You? Whatever it is, just make time to read. Make it a habit. It's reading is a habit, just like health

and fitness. It's a habit. And just because you're busy for a while and you've fallen out of it, doesn't mean you don't go back to it. Right, So I think that's important. And as I say this, I'm going, yeah, Buck, you know what was? Although, actually, if I've been on a good tear recently, um and when I first started the media business, I was reading stacks and stacks. Now I spend more time preparing for the day to day of my shows, but I want to make sure that

I'm getting enough time to read. And it's something I'm gonna work on. Next up here, Sarah rights, Hey, Buck, I would like to see some more or if you would like to see some more a flyover Country, come check out the Memphis Bell on display at the US Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. She debuts on Maen. I took two days off to be at the museum for all the events. Well, Sarah, thank you for the heads up, and that's really cool. I didn't know that

that was a thing that was happening. So it turns out Memphis Bell which for those of you who haven't seen it, it's just a really good World War two movie, you know, no agenda, no nothing, just showing you the reality of aerial combat and a B seventeen bomber at the time. So but thank you, Sarah. I would love to get out to Ohio. I was. I swear I'm

not just making this up. I uh just yesterday had launch with a friend who's Ohio base and he was saying, you gotta come out and see us, and I said, oh, I'll come visit some of the affiliates, and it is absolutely on my list. Uh we got Joe up next year. I was listening to your to your podcast from four three and you were talking about allowing yourself time for a novel. I hear you man have a kid, Not to be a jerk, more of a romantic comedy comment.

Those are probably the adults who are shoveling food on their kids tummies. Huh. I love the show. I work from home and have office time in the evenings where I look forward to my time with Buck. Thanks Buddy, Shields high Joe, Oh, thank you Joe, and uh yeah, look, make time make time for a novel. If I could some unsolicited, but I think pretty good advice. Always have not a fiction book and a nonfiction book that are in your orbit. I'm not saying you gotta read one

a week. I'm not saying you gotta read one a month. Have a fiction book, have a non action book. And when every whenever you have a thought in your mind, what am I gonna do with my time right now? Or you know I'm a little bored, read you never you never be bored. Read Next, up here we have Steven, who writes listening to yesterday's podcast, you definitely should see Last Man Standing. Well, thank you, Steve. I'm on it,

looking forward to it, and I will do it. Uh. Mike writes, I can't get through on the phone ever, You're so popular. It's weird, though I can get through to Rush and Beck and kill Mead. You're my favorite though. Well, Mike, you're the man do Thank you so much. That's very kind of you. I'm in very rarefied company there with the great Rush and Beck and Uh and Mr kill Mead and you wrote also another great show. We love you in North Carolina. Well, Mike, we in the Freedom Hunt.

We love you up here in New York City. So thank you very much, sir for your kind words and your support. It really does mean a lot and I appreciate it. Um Jen rites great show today. Have you read The Lord of the Rings yet? I try to read the Hobbit once a year. Jen, I'll tell you, I actually, uh did read The Lord of the Rings many years ago. And I also had The Lord of the Rings read to me, and it's one of the

things I most remember from grammar school. I had a fourth grade teacher and Mr Bill Ryan, who was just a magnificent educator and a lot of you know what I'm talking about. I mean, he he created an environment where he was he was telling great stories, and he loved baseball and told us about his childhood and the

Bronx and playing stickball in the streets. But also would have us listen to the Vivaldi Four Seasons and it would play all this incredible classical music in the classroom all the time, would and and he would just read to us also. He'd be like, all right, everybody, we're gonna take a little break here, and he would read to us for you know, fifteen or twenty minutes at

a time. Everybody just relax, and I'm gonna read you when you're a fourth grader, so I forget old that is I don't know, um, you know, ten eleven, twelve years old, something like that. When you're a fourth grader and someone's reading to you and they really and they love it and you know it and it's a great book like the Well Trilogy, like The Lord of the Rings stays with you. Uh. I would just put it out.

I don't have kids, so you guys are all uh experts in raising young young men, young women, you know, boys and girls. UM, I have not done that yet. I'm looking forward to it though hopefully soon. But I would just say, if you're ever looking for someone to read to your kids, starve with the Hobbit, make your way in the Lord of the Rings. It's something I'll never forget. And Bill Ryan passed away some years ago,

but he had a really big impact on me. Um. And without my friends, I'm gonna close up the hut for the day. Excited me back with you tomorrow. As always, Shields High