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very special issues like the vaccine and the virus. And I'm focused on next week and the electoral certification, and I'm focused on China and what the heck is going on with China, because China senses weakness, at least I think they do. So I've reached out to our buddy, Gordon Chang, my go to on all things China, to find out what the heck we should be paying attention to and what if anything, Donald Trump can do or should do in the remaining four weeks before January twentieth.

So he is here with us and we appreciate it. Gordon Chang, my friend. Welcome back to the Buck Sexton Show, and I hope you had to marry Christmas. Oh well, thank you so much, Mike, and merry Christmas and everything to you and your listeners. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Now, if you guys are not following Gordon Chang on Twitter, I don't know what's wrong with you. It's Gordon G.

Chang on Twitter. Gordon G. Chang. It is just one of the best feeds in terms of volume and importance, in terms of impact and information, especially as it relates to things going on in China and the entire Asian peninsula. Gordon. I am hyper focused on China because I'm nervous about what could happen with a coming Biden administration, and so I'm wondering if we have four weeks left or four years left, if there's a miracle for Trump. Do you have a list of priorities you would like to see

addressed with US and China? Oh, I mean, it's just everything. The most important thing, Mike is at the United States cut contacts with China, trade, investment, diplomatic contacts, technology sharing, cultural exchanges. And the reason is that Beijing exploits all of those to overthrow our society, and so we have not been able to manage that, so we have no choice if we want to remain sovereign and free to basically get China's regime out of our country. That's going

to be difficult. I understand a lot of people won't agree to that, but we have not been able to manage the China relationship on any satisfactory basis, So there's no alternative. So you're an advocate of a pretty extreme answer, and that is just cut the chord completely with China, trade, manufacturing, everything, and that would be a gigantic, multi billion dollars deal. It would mean a lot of businesses, a lot of high profile businesses like sports like the NBA. How likely

is that to happen? Gordon? Well, right now it's not. But if China were to do something tragic, then yes, it would happen almost immediately. You know, we have seen China's dangerous intercepts of the US Navy and Air Force in the global comments, and we've been very fortunate that we haven't lost anybody. But we know that China is continuing to provoke US, and we have seen these attempts, for instance, to injure our diplomats with OO sonic attacks

that happened in twenty eighteen in Guangzo, southern China. But also remember, China deliberately took steps to spread the coronavirus beyond its borders, which means that we have what three hundred thirty thousand Americans have died from a disease that China maliciously made sure came to America. And you're a believer that China has already got a vaccine for the coronavirus that they have developed and are giving to their

own people. Well, China is administering a vaccine, but the vaccine has not completed phase three trials, and there are some indications that it might not be as effective as Beijing says. Chinese propaganda says that there are absolutely no instances of side effects, but that's really difficult to believe. And this really shows you know, Biden, for instance, has said recently that the United States has no leverage over China, or insufficient leverage. But let's just take a look at

this question of a vaccine. China had a head start on developing a vaccine and it is nowhere near the United State. We've got two very sophisticated vaccines Fiser in Maderna. China is way behind us on this. Well, I'm with you on that. I think our example is easy to see. I'm just curious about China and what their next move is. I know Xi Xing Ping has been saying that their ultimate goal is to be the dominant economy in the world, and it seems like they would need the West and

the West to be complicit for that to happen. Why don't we get some sort of coalition going together, Gordon? Why hasn't the United States said to other nations, the friendly nations that we do serious business with, Hey, we all need to cut the chord with China. Well, I think it's because there's Wall Street and very powerful interests in the United States that maintain that we should cooperate with China, and so that has worked, i think, to

maintain relations. But we have seen, actually the Trump administration makes some significant advances in developing cooperative relationships with allies, partners and friends. So, for instance, there's the Quad, which is the United States along with Japan, Australia, and India. Because we all feel threatened by China. We're starting to operationalize that grouping and we're working very closely, so we

are moving forward on that. Also, in the Middle East, effectively you've got well you have the Abraham Accords, and that's effectively a coalition against Iran and by implication, against China as well. So the Trump administration has done a lot in this regard, but obviously we need to do a lot more. Yeah, and we only have four weeks left on the short end of the Trump administration unless some sort of miracle happens on January sixth, which is

a very very slim possibility. So in four weeks, what would you tell Donald Trump to really focus on. I think he should focus on Huawei Technologies, which is the Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer. They've done a lot in the last couple of weeks on making sure that US chip technology does not get to China. We should be doing

even more. We should be making more vigorous efforts to get Chinese apps out of our society, like TikTok for instance, which I think Beijing is used to inflame violent protests in the US. But in any event, China doesn't allow our apps in China, so why do we allow Chinese apps in our society? This seems to me to be fundamentally wrong on so many different levels. And I think that President Trump should acknowledge that the Phase one trade deal,

which was signed on January fifteenth, was a mistake. China has not been living up to its commitments to buy US goods and services. So I think that President Trump should just cancel the deal and further impose more tariffs Undersection three or one of the Trade Act of nineteen seventy four. There are so many other things that Trump

can do in those four weeks. Four weeks, there's a lot of time, especially because the administration has been thinking about these things for months and months and months, So they can do this if they want to. Yeah, well I hope they would want to because time. Time is moving pretty darn quickly, Gordon, and we're not seeing any real bending from China. China seems to be very patient, and that always seems to be what we've been told.

They're willing to wait us out because we look for instant gratification in the West, but China is very comfortable with a slow, patient turn. So how do you deal with someone who's patient. Well, there's a number of ways to deal with China, because it is extraordinarily dependent on the US, and so we need to take advantage of

that leverage. You know, there's one other thing. Just a few hours ago, China sentenced a citizen journalist for four years in prison, John John, which shows that China fews fears that the truth about the coronavirus epidemic is a mortal threat to communist rule. Well, we should be taking advantage of that. We should be talking about this in a much more vigorous way. We should be demanding independent investigations of the source of the coronavirus. Some of the

steam is going out of that effort. So these are things that the Trump administration can do to make a fundamental difference in a very short period of time, I hope. So we're talking with Gordon Chang. Follow him on Twitter, Gordon g Chang, Gordon, I have one last question that's been bugging me. A couple of weeks ago, there was a breaking news report overnight that there were something like one point seven million Chinese spies deployed in various locations

in the West, in companies and in governments. And this was on the heels of the Eric Swalwell's story about the honeypot that he had an alleged relationship with. We've heard nothing about that list of one point seven million

Chinese spies. Did that thing just get shredded? Well, yeah, that was interesting because that was a list of Communist Party members one point nine five million, which was and what we learned was that we have Communist Party members not only in companies, which we knew because Beijing insists on Communist Party seals in large foreign businesses, but also in ten consulates in Shanghai, including hours, including Britain's, including Australia's,

including New Zealand's. That's four of the Five Eyes. The five Eyes is the Intelligence Sharing Consortium. So yeah, this was quite stunning, and as you say, it came right on the heels of the Eric Swalwell revelations, which that has yet to be resolved because Swalwell has yet to say in public whether he had a personal relationship with a suspected Ministry of State Security agent, Christine fog So there's a lot more that needs to be done on this. This is slow, patient work and it has to be

you know, the Trump administration is working on it. It has to be continued by the Biden team, which I'm sure they will because this is so fundamental. I hope so from your lips to the next administrations ears, whether it's Secretary of State or the intelligence community, I hope they all keep pushing on this, and we'll keep pushing as well. Gordon Chang is his name. He is might go to source on everything it relates to China and the Asian Peninsula. He's just a good guy. Follow him

at Gordon g. Chang on Twitter. Thank you my friend. Well, thank you so much, Mike, and have a happy and healthy New Year. Thank you Gordon. And there he goes, and here I go. Michael Pelka sitting in for my friend Buck Sexton on The Buck Sexton Show. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back to the Buck Sexton Show. Michael Pelka sitting in for my friend Buck Sexton. Appreciate the opportunity to

be here. You can follow what I'm up to on social media at stunt Brain is my Twitter handle, or just look up Michael Pelka. It'll turn up there and we can exchange thoughts on many topics. I am not saying the name of the bomber from Nashville. The Christmas day, Bomber. I will not give any kind of publicity to people

like that. So, while I am very pleased that the men and women of Lawnment were able to put this exploded puzzle together in under forty eight hours, figure out who this guy was, where he lived, etc. I'm not going to say this guy's name. I will salute the men and win a law enforcement, especially those who were working on Christmas Day, because you know, if you're working on Christmas Day, guess what you're low man on the totem poll. You are the person who newest to the staff.

Let's just say so, those cops who were there, the men and women who were on the scene in Nashville and bravely, bravely dealt with that situation, they deserve all the thanks we can possibly give them, so brilliant Good for you, Bomber. While I'm kind of glad we saved the money, you know, we won't have to have a trial, we won't have to incarcerate this person, we won't have to pay for them. And God knows that this person could have easily said, well, I suddenly feel like I'm

not a man, I'm a woman. I would like gender reassignment surgery, and some judge would allow it to happen. So I'm glad that didn't have to happen. And to the jack Wagon, the copycat idiot in the box truck who was driving around Nashville twenty four hours later playing the same kind of message, Yeah, I'm glad you're going to have a hard time too. I'm really happy about that.

These are the kind of people who deserve extra time in prison, copycat idiots who think it's funny to drive a box truck playing the same kind of message on the streets and causing shutdowns of highways, etc. While the entire town is on edge. So to that idiot, enjoy your time behind bars. Now someone's going to say, no, we can't lock them up. Yes you can, and you should. I'm just hoping there are no other foolish people out there.

I did like the fact that the mainstream media actually kept its powder dry, and yes, I'm using specifically that Analogy kept its powder dry the hours after this explosion happened and didn't start placing blame. Maybe we all learned our lesson from Richard Jewell, but they weren't looking to put this on a Trump supporter. They weren't leaping to conclusions. It was all very good. So good job, mainstream media.

Maybe you got one right. We have a lot of other things to cover from the mainstream media tonight, a lot of stories to get to, not just the Nashville story, but we will have to get to the vaccine and the virus. And I'm going to track down my buddy from the Cleveland Clinic, doctor Michael Royson, will talk to him about what he sees in the world of health. I know there are a lot of people are questioning the vaccine, and there are a lot of people who are saying, oh, I just want to wait until a

couple hundred million people have taken it. I don't know if you're going to have that option. I really don't know. We'll also get a hold of Eddie Scary from the Washington Examiner. Eddie's a friend of mine. I worked with Eddie at the Blaze Full Disclosure and Eddie Wright's opinion columns. And it's a pretty good one out that relates to whether or not we'll ever go back to working in an office. There are some people who say we shouldn't.

And even if your company allows you to go back to work in an office that if people show up every day, they have an unfair advantage. I love these people who think, well, they're the office Karen's, aren't they. So we'll get into that and some of the other unfolding stories. Plus I'm obset asked with January sixth, what is going to happen in the joint session of Congress

on January sixth? So I'll tell you what. Why don't Why don't we get Fred Lucas from the Daily Signal on the phone when we get back, we will break down what is going to happen? What might happen in Washington, DC? Could Donald Trump pull off the ultimate Hail Mary play? Can the contesting of the electors actually make headway? I don't know, but it's already built into the constitution for people to protest it, and we'll get Fred Lucas to

break it down for us. That's just around the corner on The Buck Sexton Show with me Michael Pelkins sitting in for my friend Buck Sexton. Thanks for listening to The bus Eston Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Michael Helca sitting it for Buck Sexton on the Buck Sexton Show. Glad to be here, And as I mentioned, January sixth

is going to be an interesting day. It's the day that the Electoral College votes are certified in the Joint Session of Congress, and something weird, amazing, crazy could happen. And so in order to understand what weird, crazy and amazing things could happen, I brought in a guy who I think understands it all. Fred Lucas from the Daily Signal, the chief national correspondent. This guy's an expert on crazy stuff happening in elections. His book Taken by suspicion As

details all of the madness from the past. Fred, I'm glad you're here to help us out. Welcome back, my friend. Yeah, thanks for having me on. I'm glad you're here because everything in my world is pointing for me to get my tale to Washington, d C. On January sixth because of all of the the anticipation of what's going to happen around the certification of the Electoral College count. Um, am, I right to be there. Do you think is there

really going to be some fireworks possibly happening? Well? Well, there will be fireworks. UM. Historically this has been a sort of a very procedural situation in which the Congress simply certifies what the Electoral College already did UM, going back to basically an eighteen eighties a law that establishes how to do this. However, there have been it's very typical.

What is very difficult about this year is that, UM, there have always every time, I should say every time a Republican wins, practically democratic lawmakers and make objections during the during the proceedings, and during these certification of the electoral college vote usually goes nowhere. However, they usually need

a Senate sponsor or. They didn't get a Senate sponsor. Notably, last time there were a number of members that made believe eleven members who made objections to certifying Trump's electoral college win. In two thousand and there were I think something like twenty objections from House Democrats, and in those cases none had a Senate sponsor. So UM. In two thousand and five, actually or January two thousand and five, there were objections to Bush's victory in Ohio, which is

what led to defeating John Kerry. That year, there was Barbara Boxer. She was kind of not the brightest bulb in the Senate, but but she did step forward to um to make a sponsor of that objection, and they forced a vote on that debate and a vote on that that was just simply one state. So it is going to it's while it's it's not unprecedented by any means. This has happened before, this type of thing. This year, it's going to be a lot different than previous years.

I think you're going to see at least one Senator join in sponsoring an objection from probably several House members. Okay, and I think you're going to see maybe I am two hours debate on each of the six states in question here. So we've got a joint session the House and the Senator gathered. The Vice President at the time, Mike Pencil, will be there, and what they normally would

do was a ceremonial certification of the Electoral College vote. However, in instances in the past, as you mentioned, we have seen people stand up and say I object, I protest, and if it's a House member who protests, they need a member of the Senate to kind of co sign their their stuff, right right, right, right, yeah, Yeah, has one member from each House, at least one member from each hour co sponsor in this and then then if that's the case, at that point, it would go to

both the joint session adjourns. The House goes in the session, the Senate goes in the session to debate that objection. And is that debate a minimum of two hours or a maximum of two hours? Oh, it's it's a maximum of two hours. Okay, so they could which is odd in Washington. I wish we could do more of that in Washington. Yeah, that's a great point, Fred Lucas, that

is an excellent point. So as somebody stands up, they're they're trying to certify the electors from one state, and a member of the House stands up and says I object to this, and then a senator stands up and says I'll second that, and they break and they go to their various chambers they were cospective chambers, and they have then up to two hours to debate this, right right, yeah, and it'll be um, it'll be open debate. So c

SPAN will probably be an interesting network that day. Um yea that they will be uh yeah, they'll be debating, uh, I believe that they will be debating each state separately, so this can go on for a long time, UM debate if they this to the twelve states, so this could go past the actual day, This might bleed over into the seventh Yeah, yeah, quite likely, am I or end of the wee hours? Yes, yeah, maybe midnight that

they'll make a decision. Now in your article, I noticed I know Mo Brooks, Senator Mo Brooks or Congressman Mo Books has has been one of the people who stepped forward. Are there a number of senators who've actually said I'll raise my hand and support any of these objects? Well? Uh, Tommy Tuberville, the senator elect from Alabama, which is also where whole Books is from, has recently like gave the

strongest indication that he's going to do it. That would probably be one of his first acts as a senator. M rand Paul out of Kentucky. UM. I'll get to why that's interesting in a minute, but rand Paul says he he's open to h sponsoring a challenge. Also, Ron Johnson out of Wisconsin UH is also open to sponsoring a challenge. Rand Paul is interesting because being from Kentucky, that's the same state as Cinemajority leader Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell is doing all he can to avoid this. He

doesn't want any of his members sponsoring uh this. He would rather this, you know. He he's an old school guy. He would rather listen to just kind of formula league go on through um um. So, well, we'll see how that works. I mean, we've seen Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell split on some things in the past. There they're pretty different types of Republicans, those two. But I yeah, I mean that that's going to be a maybe a

problem between the leader and some of his troops on that. Okay, so we've got these states, possibly six states, seven states, I don't know how many states who could have a challenge. If any challenge is then debated and supported, what happens when they come back from the debate. Do they vote on whether or not to accept the challenge? And does

that then negate those electors? Well, yeah, the most that could happen here is that a being of course unlikely, But the most that could happen would be that the Senate and the House, the poland controlled Senate, the democratically controlled House, would determine that certain state or states the

third electoral votes don't count. What would happen then is that it would go to the House of Representatives to decide who the president is, because that would that would mean neither Biden nor Trump had a majority of Electoral College votes of two seventy So that would go to the House of Representatives to decide the president. The Senate would decide the vice president. This could be crazy, but this is so far on the outside. This is the law.

That's that's that this is if if it really goes up far, the most likely scenario I think is that you will have probably several House members make a challenge to this. I'm talking about probably in the um as many as well. One hundred and twenty six House Republicans

signed them to the Texas lawsuits. So you can have challenges or objections at least co sponsored by as many years one hundred or more House members with their name on it to these various states, probably all six contested states that are being litigated and so forth, and then probably at least one Senator and you'll have debate. But after those debates, I think the Joint Session will reconvene and then it will go to Biden, it appears, But I'm just putting out the scenarios of what could happen.

And you know, twenty has been a highly unpredictable year or so, yes it has. Well, fred the law of averages says anything will happen that can even though it is a rare occasion and a rare occurrence. You know, if Biden could lose a couple of states, that they might debate other states and say, you know those are okay? Or do they have to debate them in a package all of the states that are in question. Yeah. Yeah, it's my understanding that they would they well, they could

probably opt to do either. I think that could probably we could in the probably seeing there another procedural vote, maybe in the joint session as to whether they'll vote on them as a joint package or whether they'll vote on them independently. I would think Trump would have a better shot if they voted on them independently, because Trump he could flip. He doesn't have to flip all six states. He could flip Pennsylvania and one or two other states

and then he could win. Huh so um. And yet the Senate, which will pick the vice president, and the House, which will pick the president. But what if the House, Well, we know how the House could vote because it's controlled Republicans, be careful about how the House would vote. The Democrats have a majority in the House. But remember, if it were to go to the House is decided by state. Each state delegation in the House gets one vote, so

Republicans control the majority of House state delegations. Okay, who votes first? Fred? If this, if this happens, who votes first? I think they probably If this happens, the House will probably vote first, and they'd probably just go down by like a um alphabetical list Alabama, Arizona. No, but I mean, does the House vote before the Senate? I believe so. Ok, the House will vote before the Senate. So then, so

let's say the House decides. Okay, nobody's got enough electoral votes, but we want to vote for Biden, and they end up making Biden the president and they make Trump the vice president, and in the Senate they could do that. I would think they would probably go with a or they couldn't make that's the vice president. Who who have a problem for Biden. I'm just saying there, they're they're all kinds of I know. I'm married to a soap opera writer, so I see these kinds of crazy scenarios.

You know, this is I mean, yeah, this would be yeah, I mean life is imitating House of Cards now, it is? It? Sure is. Well. I hope we don't have flying dragons, although that could happen this year, certainly could. Fred Lucas, thank you for trying to explain all this. It is very wonky, but it is fascinating to me. It is um it is the ultimate Washington three D chess and it's all been in the Constitution all these years, all these hundreds of years. So I'm I'm hoping we get

to see some political theater on the sixth. And I sure appreciate you for explaining it to us. Yeah, and and please check out the article. It's just got three things to know as twenty twenty election moves to Congress on Daily Signal dot com and I'll I'll tweet out a link to it as well. Thank you, Fred, Thank you Fred Lucas of the Daily Signal. There he goes and here I go. Michael Palka's stepping aside on the Buck Sexton Show. Thanks for listening to The bus Sexton

Show podcast. Remember to subscribe on Apple Podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the Buck Sexton Show. Michael Palka here sitting in for my friend Buck Sexton as we wrap up twenty twenty and hope that twenty twenty one is not a crazy year

like this past year was. And you know, last year, we started the year with the assassination of Kastam Solamani with the president taking out a deadly terrorist, and then he gets impeached, and it just went kind of sideways from there, not totally downhill, but it did go sideways. I'm looking over some of the stories of the day

that nobody's talking about. Nobody's really talking about the fact that Hunter Biden is finally, finally now divesting himself from the investment firm, the Chinese investment firm that he has apparently been making money from for years. How was that allowed to go on throughout the entire campaign. I'll tell you how the mainstream media didn't care. They look the other way the whole time. That's how it works when you have a D after your name. It's maddening. It's

absolutely maddening. And speaking of maddening, how about this happy holidays everyone. I wanted to take a moment to send my warmest wishes to everyone celebrating Quanza. Like so many other holidays, we will be celebrating Quanza a little differently this season. In our home. We'll be doing it over zoom. You know, my sister and I, we grew up celebrating Quanza every year. Our family would in our ended family, we would gather around, across multiple generations, and we tell stories.

The kids would sit on the carpet and the elders would sit in chairs, and we would like the candles, and of course afterwards have a beautiful meal. And of course there was always the discussion of the seven principles. How about the principle of truth. I don't think there is a personal life who actually believes that this woman celebrated Quanza. She was two when quanza was invented, invented

by a college professor. Yeah, I'm sorry, Kamala Harris. I don't think any of us believe any of this is true. All you have to do is just read the comment section. She looks like she's laughing through the whole thing. So I'm sorry, Kamala. Your quanza declaration sounds like Bravo Sierra to me. But you know, I'm just opining. I have no proof. Although I would like to see some family photos that show you all sitting on the carpet with the elders in the chairs discussing the seven principles. Maybe

you'll post those on the Transition Team website. All right, I'm stepping aside. Second hour coming up on the Buck Sexton Show. We have to talk to my buddy, doctor Michael Royson from the Cleveland Clinic, and so much more to get to on The Buck Sexton Show with me. Michael pel you're in the Freedom Hende. This is the buck Sexton Show podcast. It's Michael Pelca filling in for my friend Buck Sexton on the Buck Sexton Show. Thrilled to be here. I hope you had a great Christmas.

We're gonna hang out until the new year gets here pretty much, and we'll try and cover all the news of the day plus some of the other stories that interest me. Cyphically, I'm trying to figure out what the heck is going on with the COVID, with the vaccine with the herd immunity. And that's why I brought in my friend from the Cleveland clinic, doctor Michael Royson. He's the guy behind the What to Eat When cookbook and

the What to Eat When book. The guy is all about living healthier, living younger, so we can live better in twenty twenty one. Let's hope twenty one is going to be a great year. Welcome doctor Roysen my privilege. Hopefully it'll be a great start to the new year. I hope, So, I really do hope. So I'm trying to think that we've knocked off all the weirdness in twenty twenty and we've cleared the decks and all the

craziness can be pushed aside. So before I get into this week's medical research, I have to ask you a question about over the weekend, doctor Fauci, who got his own day. By the way, in Washington, DC, they name Christmas Day doctor Fauci Day. And I don't know if you have a day or your own, but not yet, not yet, okay, well, doctor projeck out one and then he went on TV and Dan a bash Over at CNN lived up to her name and kind of bashed him around a little bit and said, hey, you keep

moving the gold posts on herd immunity. He ducked the question a little bit, But how do you feel about this herd immunity thing. I know you've had you've had discussions with me about it. I thought you always said it was around seventy percent. It depends on the infectiousness of the organism. For example, with measles, which has an urn,

that's how many people one person will infect. Of seventeen, you have to have about ninety nine percent to get herd immunity, that is ninety nine percent and have to be infected. We've seen that because about ninety eight percent and infected, we still have these outbreaks. With a FU which has a infectiousness of the one and a half or two, then you only need about sixty fifty to sixty percent to get made to stop major outbreaks. The problem we have with this is it's mutating and getting

a little more infective. That is the newer strain is. In fact, I think what he's doing is he's hedging on the newer strain being here without actually saying that, meaning with the older strain where chat on our nod of someplace between two and three, meaning one person would usually infect two or three people. Then you'd need about sixty to seventy percent protected to get hurt immunity. But with a new with the new mutant in Great Britain, which may well be here already people think it's here.

In fact, since it was really first there in September, it means that we need and that may be the cause of this increase in outbreaks. We're seeing that we need at least eighty percent herd immunity to get to stop major outbreaks. And so that's what he may be saying now as they are not changes, as the effectivity changes with new mutations, we need more. All right, Well, that makes sense and also it makes sense now you've

got me thinking, doctor Royson. With the these latest surges in cases, they appear to be on the East coast and the West coast. New York and California appear to be getting hit the hardest, and those would be the places that you would most likely expect travelers from Europe from England to be going first. And so that does make sense because I wondered, why are these states which have some of the most strict regulations on lockdowns, etc. Why are they having these outbreaks while if the most

infectious type of this COVID is in those states. First, I guess you're going to see that, so that may explain it. Now, I'm I'm waiting for somebody to boil down the data for me. I'm sure they'll have it soon. Can we talk about some of the health research stuff that you sent me, because absolutely this is very cool. And now the second one on your list is one that my wife and I were talking about yesterday. Does

your dog have diabetes? We're wondering if our dog is diabetic, she's drinking a lot of water and she's peeing a whole lot, and how would that make me at higher risk for diabetes? Well, too, we don't know the real transmission. It may be that you're sharing some of your dog's bacteria. It may be that you're feeding her and yourself more sugared food. It may be that you both are not

doing as much exercise. Now, I know you get out and do a lot of exercise, especially with the record number of hole and ones you've had, so that zero is not a record, doctor, Zero zero is not actually a number. Zero is a number, I know, a bad one, But the point I'm bringing out is you get a fair bit of exercise, but your dog isn't walking the

golf course with you. So one of the things that most people get is their dog and they get the same amount of exercise that ten thousand steps a day that we and that got propagated as the right number is it really helps break down insulin resistance, and that's the key. So what we know now is that the first place insulin resistance shows up is fat in your muscle, and then once you get fat in your muscle, in the next place is fat in your liver, and then

you get overall insulin resistance. But the fat in your muscle makes it much worse for everything else in your body. So let's go back. So what diabetes is a is an insulin resistance state, meaning the insulin that you got can't do its job. And the job of insulin is like a mailman whose job is to take the mail and take it the glucose from your blood and into

your cells. When glucose, when sugars in your blood, or when fructose is in your blood, it does harm, It deterior it causes the proteins that you have to not function as well when it gets in the cell. When it gets the glucos in the cell, that glucos gets to be metabolized and used for energy. So insulin resistance means you keep more in your blood that damages your proteins and lets you function less well, causing accumulation of fat,

causing the muscles don't function as well. And that includes your heart muscle, and it also includes all the other organs like you liver and kidney. Wow, I know it's dangerous, and that explanation makes great sense because nobody ever explains it like that. They just have commercials advertising drugs when we should be getting out and walking and walking our dogs and all that stuff. As we're in the food area here, doctors, we're talking about the things we take in.

I wanted to ask this question. I've asked chefs this question. Sea salt, kosher saw and pink salt. Are they any different than table salt? Are they any better or worse? Force Well, they may not be as good because the

value of table salt is it's iodonized. Now, it used to be that much sea salt would accumulate some iodine from the sea as well, but the iodonation helps youre is needed for thyroid function, especially when you start growing up, so when you're young, and we don't tend to get enough iodine when we're young, So having regular sea salt when you're young and when salt isn't a problem may

be a good thing. The kosher salt and the pink salts generally are just sodium chloride and no iodine, none of the small things that come with it, small minerals and other and even vitamins that attached to it. Okay, I know my chef friends say it's just they're just selling you expensive salt. That Yeah, the pinks it's not only expensive, but it's not as good. Well, that's that's good to know. While we're on this and talking about things we put in our bodies, you're always talking about

omega threes. Why are omega threes good for us? Well, we need omega threes as they are important in the cell membrane of almost every cell, but especially your brain. And they're not storage fats, but they're structural fats. What that means is they're important at conducting nerve transmission, so they're they're important in what the cell does, and we

don't get enough of them. They come from we know it is salmon and ocean trout and sardines fish like that have them, and they get them from plankton, which are both if you will, in the sea largely. The other places avocados walnuts are the only nut with appreciable omega three. Chia seeds can oil. There's there are a few other places you get them flax seed when they're ground that are helpful. And what those do is fifty percent of your brain is fat, so it's good to

be called a fat head. And sixty percent of the fat is omega three, so it's a structural fat there that helps your brain process. Getting eleven hundred milligrams a day decreases your risk of heart disease and stroke. And it should be not just any old fat. It should be DHA and epa. Those are the the what you want to see on the label of fish oils is eleven hundred milligrams a DHA or epa when you combine them. So that's what you need for your heart and preventing stroke.

You need nine hundred milligrams, So just figure eleven hundred milligrams a day for preventing brain dysfunction and for keeping your brain young. How much is that? That's three six ounce portions a week of wild salmon. That's a fair bit. So that's why most of us take a supplement vitamin of omega three in addition to trying to get salmon an ocean trout. So it's got to be the wild salmon. It can't be the farm salmon that has less of that omega three. Well, it can be, but it's got

to be. Then instead of getting eighteen ounces three six ounce portions, you need six six ounce portions because you only get about half as much from that. So the fish that have most of it in it that don't have other contaminants, wild salmon and ocean trout. Sardines also are a good source. Yeah, but sardines, that's just a nasty sandwich. Doc, I'm sorry. I can't do the sardines. I can do me. I can't either, So that's why I love salmon. I'm with you on the salmon. His

name is doctor Michael Royson. He is my go to guy on all issues. Medical, Doc, I appreciate you being there so much. I'm looking forward to the new year and the healthier year for all of us. Thank you, my friend, Thank you. I'm looking forward to it too, Michael. And there he goes, and here I go. Michael Pelka stepping aside on the Buck Sexton Show. You're in the Freedom Hunt. This is the buck Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back to the buck Secon Exton Show. Michael Pelca filling

in for backing. I need to check in on Nashville. So I've got my friend Pamela Fur on the phone. Pamela is with super Talk ninety nine in Nashville afternoon host newscaster. Hello, Pamela, Yeah, Super Talk ninety ninety seven. All right, we got the ninety nine seven in there. Thanks Pamela. I'm glad you're here. We need to talk about your town. How is Nashville doing well? I mean, truthfully, we're strong, we are resilient. But this has been a

tough year for Nashville all around. First, we had tornadoes that ripped through Nashville and took out a lot of businesses, a lot of buildings on the East side of Music City. Then, of course COVID shut everything down, and because Nashville is run by liberals Democrats, a lot of people are out of work, Musicians aren't playing anymore, there's no tours going on, and so we've been hit really hard with that. And then to just top it off for twenty twenty, you

have this bomb that explodes in downtown Nashville. It's but we're again, we're strong, But boy, this has been a tough one, Mike's it really has. Yeah, but the people in Nashville, everybody I've met from Nashville is just rock solid. And you knock them down, they look at you as they're getting up and go, oh, yeah, yeah, it really is true that that is a very good assessment. Well,

and they're also wonderful people. Except I'm kind of concerned about your mayor, who seemed to be chuckling through some of the early interviews right after the bomb went off. You know, I have to wonder, and I've been asking this for a couple of days. You know, everybody got the call early in the morning. No one was expecting

to have to face cameras in the morning. I have to wonder if his Christmas morning ritual is a little bit of Christmas cheer, you know, because he was not he was very a little too gig Gale, you know, for this particular situation, he was too jovial. He's smiling, he's laughing. He said, it's just a bunch of glass blown out a lot more than that. And so I have to wonder if he if he had a bloody

marry or a mimosa or two. Well, maybe he went to midnight Mass the night before, and you know there's always a brunch after midnight Mass, so before you know it, the sun's coming up and maybe maybe just gotten home. I'm just saying that might have been it happened to somebody you're talking to at this point in time in the past, just throwing that out there. We're talking with Pamela for her she is in Nashville, and give another

Sun an update. What a remarkable story that in forty eight hours, law enforcement, the combined law enforcement, could reassemble the jigsaw puzzle that was all the debris and figure out what happened. And thank god, nobody died. But your law enforcement really stepped it up. I have to tell you that. Yeah. Absolutely. And here's what I find amazing. There are six police officers that we're calling heroes today and with the exception of the sergeant that's in the group.

You're looking at people although they've been with the department for a little bit, we're not talking twenty years. We're talking these are three year veterans or two year veterans. These are young law enforcement officers. And so to have the wherewithal to know, you know what, we need to evacuate people, and we need to evacuate them now, get them out of this area. To run into the situation like that, not panicked, relying on their training, I think

is absolutely remarkable. Yeah, it is a tribute to the city and the people of Nashville. And wow, you nailed it. Because the people work on Christmas morning, they're usually the people with the least seniority. They I cannot look at the boss and go now, I'm not working at Christmas, right, They're the ones that have to do it. And so the you know, thank God that these guys and girls were all on duty when they were These were the right people at the right time, and and nobody died

except for the alleged bomber. Yeah, and I'm sorry for saying this. People, we won't have to pay to put them up in prison for the rest of its life. Yeah, We're just going to put him in a little urn and put them away somewhere, and that's a good thing. Pamela fur I'm so appreciative of you taking the time out of your day. I know you're busy. Please give Nashville our regards. We love music city and we hope to be back soon to celebrate with you. Absolutely. Thank you, Mike.

Have a good day, you too, Pamela. We'll be right back on The Buck Sexton Show. Thanks for listening to the buses and show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to The Buck Sexton Show. Michael Pelca, the Godfather, sitting in for Buck for a few days while he relaxes in Florida, and I think he's trying to take a Twitter time out. Actually, if you've been following Buck's feed,

you know what I'm talking about. But I have things I need to talk about, questions I need answered, especially when we look at the crazy stories of the week and the one about Alec Baldwin's wife, his latest wife, Hilaria, whose real name is Hillary, and she has been passing herself off as Latina or is it Latin X. We'll have to figure that out. The topic of cultural appropriation is one that I need help understanding. Are their penalties, are their liabilities? What goes on with that? And some

other crazy legal questions. So I've invited our friend, attorney author Wendy Patrick to join us. Wendy is with us. Welcome my friend to this final Monday of twenty twenty, the weirdest year ever, and I'm wishing it farewell. Let's help twenty one gives us better. Mondays, Oh, it's always a pleasure, and it's going to be a great Monday next year, isn't it. I hope? So I hope we

start the next year and a much better footing. But I have to tell you, ending the year, we are full of crazy legal stories, and I have a couple of things I want to pull on your sleeve about and ask your questions. Is there a penalty anywhere that you know, a legal penalty for cultural appropriation? You know?

My first instinct was to say not yet, because it is one of the really trends that we've seen over the last decade where many people at least are accused of perpetuating at least a belief let's say that they immigrated here from elsewhere, or that they wholesale are of the different nationality than they really are. And that's been something that we've seen more and more. Now, how often

would it done before? We really don't know. It really wasn't a thing but cultural appropriation into something that's very very much objected to by people that actually are from other places and did go to the challenge of immigrating here legally, assimilating, learning the language. They're very offended by people who pretend to have done it all but actually

grew up in the US. Yeah, it's really wild. And the one that comes to mind, the biggest one that made the biggest splash was, of course, a few years ago Rachel Dolizal, the daughter of two white parents who pretended that she was African American. She got to the point where she was an executive with the NAACP, a chapter I think in the Northwest, and then the story

came out and she went underground. But we've since found there were professors, professors who were at university, had tenure and were professors of like black cultural studies programs, and they went, nah, I'm really not I don't have any black blood in me. And I better admit at this now because the story's coming out and there has been no legal penalty, no law against what they did. But they paid a price in their careers, in their professions

being ostracized. So is that enough or is there something here that the law could actually be written because it seems like there's a whole lot of squishy turf that's right. And remember, I mean remember Elizabeth Warren and the Indian nationality. I mean, we have so many high profile examples of people who have been called out for allegedly proclaiming to be of some ethnicity that they're not. The Rachel Dolisol that was a huge example. But what did it do.

It really opened the floodgates for a lot of other people to do exactly what you said, Mike, I better fess up now. I'm fascinated by this culture. I've spent a lot of time there maybe not correcting people that falsely claimed they were born there. We see more and

more of that. It's one thing to have an affirmative misrepresentation, your check boxes on some sort of a form and you know you're lying, versus simply sort of going with the flow, and people are saying, well, what was it like to grow up in Spain, what was it like to be this nationality? What are your experiences growing up African American where you're really not but you kind of go with it? And is there a legal line where

you can actually get into trouble well criminally civili. I mean, there's going to be a different answer for each but I think you mentioned one of the most practical aspects of that question. Who are we going to make an example of? And how many other people are we going to sweep in to this active or passive misrepresentation. What we're learning over the last at least five years is that it happens all the time, far more often than

we realize it does. And I guess the case that's most irritating or most frustrating to me is when somebody culturally appropriates the life of a person who's in the military, and we actually do have a crime for that. It's called stolen valor. And if that's right, that's very different. Yep, good example. So that's out there. There actually is something that protects the reputation of the men and women who

serve this country. And if someone's faking the funk and saying that they were in the service and they did do service to this or for this country and they didn't. They can get in a heap of trouble. But not so if you said, you know, well, I grew up a poor black child and so I know the experience here and you didn't. In the case of Rachel Dola's all that's right. Well, here's the difference is you can

say whatever you say, that's one thing. But to apply for benefits because you're claiming to belong to a protected class or a privileged class or whatever type of class is going to get you the benefits, then you have fraud crimes. And so that's the big difference. Many people at cocktail parties say all kinds of things, and you know, we don't go home and google everybody that we've met, but tell you what, if we did, we might found out.

There are some people that are embellishing, that are exaggerating some of it, are flat out and making things up. It's sort of like people lying on dating websites about their height, their way sometimes to rage not one whole category, right, I think we could go on and on about that one, but that you wouldn't say, well, we're going to charge

those people with crimes. But if you're claiming to be a veteran in order to avail yourself the benefits that are only available to veterans, well, then that's a front crime. And we see this type of thing all the time. There are lots of different types of criminal laws that penalize lying about qualifying for different kinds of benefits, including

the stolen valotype laws. But most of the time we're talking about getting pummeled in the court of public opinion, where you're arrested and tried and convicted simply by claiming to be of an ancestry you're not. Now here's an interesting thing about that, Mike that I've noticed in the last five years, because you and I have been talking about this, is what if you really do believe you

are of a different nationality. I mean, remember that Elizabeth Warren was one of those people that said, look, this is the heritage I grew up with, and this is what we were told. You know, maybe that's all true, and if it is, you can't very well be guilty of affirmative misrepresentation if you've never done twenty three and me or whatever the latest test is, and then how do you prove that somebody didn't honestly believe that they were of some particular nationality. So, I you know, it's

like squishy is your word. I'm going to say that's a good word. I always like slippery slopes because you remember what we talked about around the time that Rachel Dole is always making the news, is well, what if you say you're of a different gender or of a different orientation sexually or I mean, you could go on and on about the things that people come up with because they would like to belong to a class that

they really don't belong to. Where do we draw the line saying this is your culpable here, but you're not here. So it's a very interesting conversation that we're going to keep having. We are and watched the case of Alec Baldwin's latest wife, Hilaria as he always calls her Hilaria or Hilaria. She's really named Hilary and she was born in Boston, and she's been misrepresenting that for a long time.

She been telling people she's Hilaria and she's from Majorca, Spain, when in fact she's a Boston girl and now she's going to take a break from social media. If that were somebody who was related to a popular conservative entertainer, there would be no rest, There would only be attention.

I want to get to this one other topic, Wendy, Are we going to need more time to talk about the New York Times story about the fifteen year old girl who posted a three second video years ago and she used the N word and it was I don't know how to describe what she was doing, but someone hung on to that clip for years, and when she finally got into college, that clip was made public and now she has lost access to her college entrances and many other things. Can we hold a fifteen year old

a minor responsible for what they did? Can our past misgivings and our past stupid sayings, can they come back to haunt us legally? Well, it sounds like the answer is yes. And that's unfortunate because many teens and sometimes even preteens, I mean, you have these everybody's got phones in their hands, will say and do things that they will very much regret, sometimes only a couple of years later.

Is it then fair that we hold on to what they didn't said when they were fifteen years old and use it to ruin their life, to use it to ruin their chances it's succeeding when they've matured, when they've grown up. You know, this is the type of thing that strikes fear into every pa parent that knows that their kids have a cell phone. It's what are they going to record? What are they going to do? Are they going to take photographs of themselves in compromising positions?

Are they going to use spoul language or racially insensitive language? And if they do, are we going to bring it back years later to try to ruin their life. This is everybody's I say, every parent's worst fear, because unfortunately, when you're fifteen, sometimes you don't recognize the trouble you could be getting yourself into by what you do and say at that young age. I only hope that people take into consideration that a fifteen year old doesn't have

the mind of an adult. That's why we have the whole juvenile system of treating criminals that commit crimes when they're young. So too, the court of public opinion, I think should recognize the same, and I think they do to some extent. Her name is Wendy Patrick. She is our legal genius that hangs out with us on a regular basis and we're going to have to get her back here soon. And if you want to know more, go to Wendypatrick PhD dot com. Thank you, my friend.

Oh it's a pleasure, Mike, thanks for having me. And there she goes. Michael Pelca with you on the buck Sexton Show. We will be right back. Thanks for listening to The bus Sexton Show podcast. Remember to subscribe on Apple Podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the buck Sexton Show Michael Pelca and from my friend Buck Sexton, and we're going to try and take you all the way to the end of

twenty twenty. We're going to drag the year up to the cliff and the I'm going to shove it off and hope it goes all the way to the bottom of the canyon and never comes back again. Has that a little too rough? It's my language concerning to you. If it is, then you might be part of the Words Matter task Force that I would take exception to. The Words Matter task Force is actually something that exists

on a college campus. Yes, the University of Michigan has the WMTF, which sounds like it's an abbreviation for someone cursing. But the Words Matter Task Force is out to level the playing field in language. This is one of the most ridiculous things of twenty twenty. It was established by the Information and Technology Services Department at Michigan State. I'm sorry the University of Michigan. I'm sorry Michigan State people. Your group couldn't possibly come up with something this dumb,

could it? Maybe it could. So the more than two dozen words that are listed on the blacklist, which actually is one of the words on the list blacklist, So we can't even say it's a blacklist because that would be racist, right, That's how ridiculous this is. But some of the words on the list are picnic and brown bag. Now I carried my lunch in a brown bag? Am I not allowed to say I'm brown bagging it anymore? While at Michigan they want you to say it's lunch

and learn time. What is wrong with people? And we can't say picnic anymore, we have to say gathering. Well, a gathering could be many things. A picnic might be a gathering, but not all gatherings are picnics. These people are idiots. They said that picnic is racist, then where did they get this idea from idiots on the internet, of course, And despite the fact that in July Reuters a news agency actually published a piece headline saying fact check,

the word picnic does not originate from racist lynchings. It does not. Somebody put out a bunch of image is on social media claiming that picnic originates from extra judicial killings of African Americans. And this is false, This is not even close to being true. We're also not allowed to use the word dummy anymore. That should be replaced by the word sample. What a bunch of samples these people are. And we can't use the word crippled. We have to use weakened. We're not allowed to say something

is crazy, we have to say it's unthinkable. And the term off the reservation, you're not allowed to use that anymore either because that's racist. Apparently, you have to replace that with out of the norms or rogue the language police. They are everywhere and they're not going to give up until we all have just generic words for things. They're doing it with genders. They're doing it with language. I think this is just insane. You remember when the low

hanging fruit term was decided that that was racist. A college professor said it's racist for African Americans. He said, low hanging fruit, we think of lynching. Not everything's racist. May Hicks Jones, a faculty member at the Elgin Community College in Illinois. Grandfathered is also racist. Remember that we're now let's say something is grandfathered in anymore. That's racist. And the master's golf tournament, yeah, we can't use that anymore. And I guess we're not allowed to use the term

master bedroom either, because that's racist. If you're saying that you have a master bedroom in your home, you must be a slave owner. This is madness, people, And the sooner we stop the madness, the better our country will be, the better America will be, the better the world will be. Language is something we have to fight for every single day,

and I, for one, am committed to do it. That's why I broadcast from the constitutionally protected free speech bunker in the woods of Arden, Delaware, where the language you should fight hardest for is the language that offends you the most, and that's exactly what I'm committed to do. Michael Pelka in for Buck Sexton on the Buck Sexton Show. Come on back, you're in the freedom mind. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back to the Buck Sexton Show. I am in for Buck Sexton. My name

is Michael Pelka. You guys know me. I've been here before and I'll be here again, God willing. And also joining us on the phone is somebody I work with during my time at the Blaze, my brief time at the Blaze, and his brief time at the Blaze. Eddie Scary is his name. He is one of the more entertaining writers you will encounter, and he's over at the Washington Examiner, but he's on the phone with us right now. Hello Eddie. I'm Mike Mayor Christmas heading into the new year.

Happy New Year in advance, Yeah, thank you, I'm you know it's gonna be a weird new Year. I spent twenty three years in Midtown Manhattan, and they're still preparing to drop the ball. But there's gonna be nobody there. Why why are they even bothering? Well, I guess there's some people who watch it on TV, but no I think the atmosphere won't quite as won't quite be the same. Yeah, there's gonna be a hundred people there, the first responders,

one hundred lucky first responders. The last time we did it, there were I think just under a million people gathered. At least they won't have to fight for a bathroom. That's to be the only good thing. But it just doesn't make any sense to me what happens in the scary household on New Year's Eve? Where will you be? Well? Right now, I'm in South Carolina visiting family. I came for the holidays. Yes, I actually traveled. I'm sorry. I'm

sorry to the CDC. I actually did travel. But I will return the head of New Year's two where I actually live in Washington, GC, And I don't know yet. I don't have any plans yet. Usually I figured something out to do last minute. You know, everything in DC is very very restricted. I think they're actually they've actually shut down indoor indoor dining. They did on the twenty third. They shut it down and it'll be that way through the fifteenth of January, so there's no where you can

really go anyway. I'll probably just see I might go head over to a couple of friends house or something like that. Socially distanced New Year's of course, I'm sure right you're gonna be mask and spending time away from everyone. I'm a socially distanced person anyway. I kind of like it that way. And the big crowds really have never

been for me. While I'm with you on that, even though I've a regular Marty Gras in the past, it's never been enjoyable when you can lift your feet up and you won't fall to the ground, that's how dense the crowds are. Some of those not a good place. Let's talk about DC because DC is a very strange place these days. As you said, indoor dining closed, and I think some of the outdoor dining joints even have restrictions.

You left town to go to South Carolina to be with family, so you missed doctor Fauci Day in Washington, DC. That's try he got his own day and wasn't it on Christmas Eve? Yes, I'm sorry to miss it. I'm sure I'm sure they weren't sorry to see me go, But yeah, I did unfortunately miss that very very special day. Yeah, well, I'm sure that next year, he'll get even he may get a week. Who knows he is Uh Saint Fauci. At this point traveling Um in the airport? What was

that like? I have not traveled either by train or by plane, which is something I used to do monthly since the pandemic. Was it um socially distanced? Was the plane full? Empty? Mask? The whole way? The plane was full? UM? I know that I know Delta. I think it is still doing empty middle seats. This was not Delta. It was a full flight. UM. The airport itself. I had a morning flight. This is in Washington, DC's at DCA Airport. UM,

that was very dead. It was very good. There was not most of the places that even were closed, restaurants or anything. They were all closed other than one. UM. But yeah, there weren't. There weren't too many travelers day I flew into Charlotte. UM, that one was a lot busier, but that's always that's always a busier airport. But yeah, there wasn't wasn't too much in DC. Interesting. Okay, I'm

curious because I am not. I'm dying to go somewhere anywhere, you know, I'd like to travel internationally, preferably, And now we're hearing that all the very slippery viruses are in England and all over the EU. So I'm screwed that way. Eddie. You wrote a piece, an opinion piece in the Washington Examiner that I found to be pretty interesting, and it's all about working from home or not working from home.

And I think you've stepped in something here that the left is going to try and force people not to go into the office anymore because it's unfair. Yeah, that's I read an article that said there's there's a lot of companies that and they talk about this as if

there were new there. This has been I remember when I was coming into the workforce, there was a whole push as I was in college and moving into the again graduating and moving into the workforce, there was a push and it was kind of in vote for big companies, especially to allow a lot of flexibility for people to work from home as they could. Um, and you know what did that? What was the productivity like? And a lot of the you know, it raised the satisfaction of

a lot of workers. They enjoyed it. They enjoyed the flexibility, which, of course, I mean, if it's nice to have flexibility. I don't know why they talk about this as if it were new or as if it's never been tried before. Um. But there's a lot of companies I think that are that are of saying, you know, even even post pandemic, um, we're just going to allow people to stay home. But some people that this is a New York Times UM writer yesterday or this maybe it was last week, maybe

or this week. I forget when they're all blurring together now, um, but this New York Times writers said, well, no, we should actually make it to where if you're going to have an office and did not allowed for workers to even voluntarily go in every day if they wanted to, they should They should not be allowed to go in because all that does is for the people who then decide they want to stay home for whatever reason it created, it creates a disadvantage for the person who wants to

stay home, a professional disadvantage because well, the person who's going to the office, they look more more dedicated, more committed to the job than the people who choose to stay home. So that just shouldn't be allowed. Well, I'm sorry, I mean this is something I've noticed l I would say, within my own my own life, is that there are many people who want to stay home. I prefer going

into my office. But I know that in many cases it's going to be that when bosses, supervisors, in my case its editors, when they see you and they see you every day going into the office, I mean, and then there's people who are staying at home. You have the opportunity to build personal relationships but also build on your professional relationship with your supervisors, with your direct colleagues who are going into the office. And one it is I do find it to just be better to have

in person physical interaction. But it also is just that there are people who by and large are going to determine what your path is professionally, whether you get it risks, whether you get a promotion. And it's just like cons that if you're in the office, you you have that advantage versus somebody who decides the not wants at home. I love the way these people, they're like the central

Planning committee of the old Soviet Union. They decide what's best for everyone because they understand fairness better than anyone. So they're gonna tell you, no, you cannot show up for work if you want to, we don't care. If you are more efficient in doing that, you must it's fair foot And they don't want they don't want anyone outperforming them as the thing. And they want they want things with their way. Even if people say, well, you know, you can have it your way. You are allowed to

do what you want to do. But everyone else is not going to live by that word. They said no because that puts to mean a disadvantage and that's not fair. Well, if it's only fair, whenever you have the advantage off, it's only fair because it's nor way of life. That's the definition of fair. Yeah, you nailed it. Though you nailed it when you said they don't want people showing up because they'll get ahead of them. That's truly what

this is about. It's all about maintaining their own turf while they say no one else should have better turf than me. It's such a good piece. Eddie Scary is our guest here. He is with the Washington Examiner and writes great commentary stuff. He also had a book out, The Privileged Victims, How America's culture fascist hijacked the country and elevated its worst people. Eddie the Longest title in the history of mankind. We need to work on some book title editing for you. I'm just saying yes, but

that is it is a long tile. Thank you for saying it all in one breath. But it's timely. It's more timely than ever. It only came out I think, I think in March or April, and it still has such a life, and it's still everything we saw happen over the summer with the George Floyd rioting. Everywhere we're seeing it. There's a new example every day. I'm writing on one right now for the Washington Examiner. All go

up today. But just the social justice movement they like to call it, but I call them social justice monsters, social justice mob um. The way they operate as scaring, intimidating, harassing innocent people. You know what you're seeing. You see the videos online with the Black Lives Matter riders walking up down, walking up and down the streets and getting in the faces of people who are simply sitting outside eating dinner, um, demanding that they raise their fists in

the air. Otherwise they're going to continue screaming in their face. When it was the the RNC was going on the Republican Convention over the summer in Washington, DC. People trying to senators, sitting senators, trying to walk home, otherwise just completely innocent, random pedestrians on the street, walking trying to get back to their hotels. And these black lives matter months there's just in their face, screaming at them, scaring them. And they do this, by the way, while claiming to

have the moral high ground. They have their harassing people, while claiming this is all this is all in the name of justice and and where are the inherently moral ones? While while scaring people. It's really bizarre. But that's what my book touches on. It touches on all of that. The social justice monsters, social justice mob more timely than ever. His name is Eddie Scary. Follow him on Twitter. I guarantee you you will enjoy the ride and hopefully I'll get to see you next time. I'm in d C.

Eddie sounds good. Mike, You're in the Freedom Heart. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back to The Buck Sexton Show. Michael Pelka introducing you to a friend of mine. Jim Stovall is his name. He was going to be an Olympic weightlifter, but he lost his sight, so instead of lifting weights for a living, he turned to motivation. He became one of the most prolific motivational speakers and writers ever, and he invented a channel for people who don't have vision to be able to enjoy

movies in television. It's called the Narrative Television Network. So it's got over fifty books to his credit, and he writes a motivational column every week. And I hang out with him and talk to him on the radio all the time. Jim Stove, all, welcome, my friend. I'm so happy you are here. Well, it is great to be with you. A wonderful holiday season. And when you talk about half work and half play, that you and me, buddy, I'm working and you're always playing, so it's always great.

And before we kick off the shameless plug, is anybody interested in holiday movies, Christmas movies, whatever, or just family stuff when you're after the big feast and you're looking for something to do. All of My Ultimate Gifts series, the trilogy is running on Hallmark Drama Channel multiple times. On the twenty nine that they're going to run all three back to back to back you could get so sick of Jim Stovall all in one sitting right there

on the December twenty ninth. But we're excited, and we've had a great relationship with them and continue to appreciate that. But anyway, well we're excited. This time of year they always bring him. And why they decided these were Christmas movies is really beyond me. But I remember Frank Capra being bewildered why people thought It's a Wonderful Life was a Christmas show and you know, they had one scene or you know, we're surrounding Christmas, and it was kind

of a mystery to him as well. Well, you know, there are people who claim that die Hard is not a Christmas movie, and I challenged them to watch it and not see die Hard as one of the great Christmas films of all time. Diehard is appropriate for any holiday. There is no holiday that doesn't hit perfect perfect Jim, Well, what are we putting down and picking up this week with you? Well, I thought for the holiday season. This one is called a romantic comedy and it's about a

late great Jack Benny. And you know, for those of your audience who were in the bloom of their youth, I will sell Jack Benny was a great comedian radio television movies, and you know, the best I ever was at what he did. And he had this kind of stick he did as his act. He acted like he was really really cheap and stingy, and then he would always come out and play the violin and he played

it horribly well. Later in life we found out from reading his biography that he was a great philanthropist and gave away millions of dollars. And during the Great Depression, when the symphonies across the country were suffering and destitute as they are now, he went out on tour and played with them. And he was actually quite accomplished as a violinist, so he was able to do that and

draw a crowd and do that. But the fascinating thing, you know, on radio and on TV, his wife, Mary Livingston played his girlfriend, and he was always trying to get her to marry him on the shows, and she never did, but she was actually his wife. And when he died in nineteen seventy four, that right after his funeral, a florist came to the house and delivered her one perfect rose from Jack, and she thought, wow, this is a great thing, and she said it aside, and you know,

this was something to remember him by. And the next day she was trying to think should I have this preserved or dipped in gold leave, or what should I do with this rose? When the doorbell rang in it was another perfect rose. And for the next eleven years she lived every day a perfect rose came to her

delivered from Jack all those years. And you know, when I think about this time of year and what we can give people and what really matters, it's the simple creative things that we bring to evil that you know, really say who we are and how we feel about them, And those are the things that really matter. And I always have that lingering memory of Jack Benny as this comedian and whatever, but more than that, just an amazing soul meet and life companion he was with his wife.

That story is just so inspiring and irritating at the same time, because so many of our spouses will hear it and look at us and say, well, what have you done? And I guess that's the point, is that we need to be thinking about those people in our lives who really matter to us, and what can we do in terms of a simple gesture that will let them know how we feel about them, and especially at

this time of year, that seems to be it. Well, the great gifts are not you know, where did you give me for Christmas or Valentine's or Birthday or anniversary. The great gifts are the unexpected things that happen for no reason other than I cared and I wanted you to know that. And those of the things that matter.

So as we come out of the holiday season and you know, and look to Christmas, a new year and beyond, you know, just always be in that spirit of giving, and you know what can you do a little extra that will make a huge difference for somebody down the road. I appreciate all of the lessons you gave us this year. I'd be hard pressed to say which one was my favorite, because each one always gives me a little bit of a Hey, you got to work on that a little

bit more. And it's all about being better, you know, you talk about job security. If it comes down to what does Michael Pelka need to work on, you know, we'll be here forever. So it's a great thing. And I always appreciate our weekly visit we shoe an amazing holiday season, and I will look forward to continuing the self improvement of Michael Pelka in the new year. I want everybody go to Jim Stowall dot com. Check out

Jim's columns each and every week. He's truly the best at what he does, and we're blessed to have you here. We will see you in the new year. I look forward to be well and we'll be right back. Thanks for listening to The Bus Seston Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the Buck Sexton Show. Michael Pelka, the Godfather sitting in for my friend Buck Sexton.

I'll be here tonight, tomorrow and Wednesday evening, and we'll say goodbye to twenty twenty. We'll look back at some of the insanity of the past year, and we will look forward to some of the hopeful stuff happening in twenty twenty one. We still have a shot, you know, Donald Trump still has a shot. It's a diminishing opportunity, but he has a shot. So we will see what happens. January sixth, Washington, DC, Joint Session of Congress and we'll dive into that. You know what else I need to

dive into. I need to introduce you to a friend of mine. She's a member of the media. She's a film critic, somebody that I talked to almost teaching every week about the new movies, new TV shows. Her name is Nancy Jay and I think she's been on this show with me before. But I want to get Nancy in here to talk about the Alec Baldwin thing, because I have to tell you had a little bit of a schaden for a moment when I saw Alec Baldwin's

current wife got caught culturally appropriating. She's pretended to be Spanish when she's not. She's an American woman born in Boston. Her name is Hillary. Well, let's get Nancy in here. Nancy Ja, my buddy, my pal, film critic extraordinaire. You've seen the story about Hilaria, haven't you. Indeed I have, and I thought it was hilarious, very good, very good. One of us had to get to that before the

other did, and I'm glad it was you. And now I was just looking back at some of the videotapes of Alec Baldwin's current wife because he's had a few and the mother of four of his children the last time I counted, and she had presented herself on occasion as being a person of Hispanic heritage and the name Hilaria, despite the fact she was born in Boston and her real name is Hilary, which I find hilarious, as you mentioned.

But here's a little snippet of Hilaria on the Today Show talking about getting in shape after having their fourth baby. It's not easy, and I think part of it is that I'm in shape before I have a baby, and then I stay active when I'm pregnant and I'm not trying to stay thin. I'm just trying to keep my

circulation going and stretching and keep my muscle trying. And then when I have a baby, I've been so lucky to have pretty good labor and deliver, so then I can kind of hit the road right out of doors. But I don't think I exercise as much as everybody thinks I do. So I know a lot of women are not happy with her just because her body snapped back instantly after she had this child. But that sounds like a valley girl from La to me. I thought it was Jessica Simpson there for a moment. Well, here's

what here's what Hilaria sounded like on another occasion. Hey guys, it's the final season of thirty Rock, which means big guest stars. And I guess that you're going to be home a lot more often. You're going to be home a lot more often. Yeah, well she was did She says she was raised in Spain, Majorca. She said her family is in MYRCA. But the difference from the Today Show and she sounds more like she's got the Ricky Ricardo's school of accents. Here. Only one woman could make

this giant, extra exclusive happen. Alex Wife, this is what it looks like home. This is what it looks like at home. Well, I'll tell you what. Alec Baldwin knows how to pick him him. That is his second one, Kimball. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, I thought he had another one before that. Okay, no, no no, that's okay, because yeah, but anyway, yeah, I mean,

what are you going to do? I mean, it's it's interesting how we see these stars now that we're really watching them closely because we don't have anything else to do. I guess, well, nothing's going to happen because he's got a D after his name. Okay, he's got the free pats. He played Donald Trump, and he's a Democrat, so he oh,

Hollywood will not exact a penalty on him. Had this been Kelsey Grammer or someone who is an outspoken Democrat, had this been Pat say Jack if you will, and it turns out that Pat Say Jack's wife was faking the funk, they would demand he'd be tied to the wheel and spun repeatedly until he asked away. I'm just saying, mmmmmmm, you're probably right. The crazy world out there, it is a crazy world. And speaking of crazy world, we're now

starting to see movies go back to theaters. There was this big release on Christmas Day of Wonder Woman nineteen eighty four, whatever it was. I didn't go seeing. You've seen it already, correct, yes, yes, but I was able to stream it on HBO Max on Christmas Day as well.

But here's what's interesting. Wonder Woman nineteen eighty four. They're calling it a robust a robust opening at least for a pandemic sixteen point seven million dollars at about twenty one hundred locations, the first wonder Woman open to one hundred and three million dollars over the first week into

June twenty seventeen. But what's interesting is nearly half of HBO Max's subscribers nearly half viewed Wonder Woman eight nineteen eighty four when it became available on Christmas Day, three times three times the viewing than HBO Max has had, and that stills relatively new. And of course, in true Hollywood fashion, Mike now Warners has announced a three quel.

Patty Jenkins will write and direct again Galga Dot returning, but no word on whether that will also be a simultaneous HBO Max and we don't know when or where it's going to be opening. So here's what I found interesting. Where do you think which Americans, which American cities braved this Christmas Day movie in the theaters during this pandemic? Where would you say? I would think it would be the number one theater. I would think it'd be the coast,

like Los Angeles or New York. No, because the ten major movie going markets, so many of them remain off limits. New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. No. No, No, the number one grossing theater for World War World War. Keep looking at WW eighty four is how they're making it,

wonder them in nineteen eighty four. Salt Lake City, really Salt Lake City in fact, like like Utah, Florida and Texas have also been a haven for the indoor cinema and cinemas in recent months because they have been you know, they're they're down to so x amount capacity and you have to wear masks unless you're eating popcorn or drinking a soda. But it was Dallas, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Houston,

and it did um. Now New Jersey, Connecticut, and upstate New York theaters were able to see the movie and they did pretty well. But also Orlando, Atlanta, Tampa, Miami, and Austin, Texas. So Salt Lake City, I mean, Utah and Texas were the big East. How about that? And I love this. There were more than ten thousand private watch parties across the country, according to Warner Brothers. You know that's where you can you buy out the whole theater and you let your you know, your your select

family and friends come see the movie. Ten thousand private watch parties, So ten thousand, like two hundred and fifty bucks a screening. Maybe more. Maybe it's five hundred bucks and you get twenty people there. That's a pretty good deal. I would do that. I would do that to see it, absolutely absolutely, But no, it's it's personally. I still prefer streaming it on HBO Max, which you know. It's just it really makes my life a lot easier, to tell you the truth, to be able to see all these movies.

I can watch one on my laptop. I can do it in bed, I can do it in the kitchen, I can do it all i'm meeting, you know, I can basically watch a movie while I'm taking a walk if I wanted to do it that way. Well, I like the giant screen experience, the thundering sound of the bass that shakes the theater beneath me. I love the experience of sound and light and the darkness around me. And I guess I'm just going to have to buy a bigger TV. You know. I don't miss that. I

don't miss that at all. I can understand, Oh, it would look good, but I always thought the movies had gotten weight too loud, much too loud, And I don't want my seat, my seat to shake. Um. Here's one I have you watched George Clooney on Netflix just opened The Midnight Sky. I had a director star I have not. Okay, well I've I've got a sneaking suspicion. You talked to George Clooney, I did. I can't resist George Clooney. He is by far the best interview He is always giving,

He'll answer your questions. He has the record for the most junk at interviews where you know where they fly the press and I think one one movie he did like ninety in an eight hour day, which means like every five minute someone was going in and coming out, someone going in and coming out. And he never loses his cool or acts like he's tired. So that, yes, I mean. And unfortunately though I talked to gorgeous George still look he's actually he's aging really well. At fifty six.

George had not heard about we hadn't heard about Tom Cruise's mess, you know, on the Mission Impossible set. Oh yeah, so I wasn't able. I wasn't able to ask him about that, but he later he later came out and said, you know, I agree with what I agree with the sentiment, but not the way Tom Cruise said it. So, I mean even George, you know, he wasn't real happy with Tom's use of the really bad language to his crew. In the closing seconds here, Nancy, you talked to George,

but would you recommend the movie? I felt like I've seen it before. It's about the end of the world and the last scientist in the Arctic, and there's a bit of a mysterious global catastrophe, and so George is going to try to stop the astronauts from returning home to it. So it's it's it's you know what if you don't have anything else to watch, but you know, it's like less than two hours. But one thing I do want to say, because I've been dying to say this,

and it's apropos of nothing. But it's why I brought up Tom Cruise, you know, he was his rants were on the set of Mission Impossible. You know what we're calling it now, Yeah, bitch and impossible. I love that, And on that, thank you, Nancy Jay brilliant Bitch and Impossible, the Newtim Cruise film. Well done, my friend, Well done, and here's to a wonderful, much needed new year. My dear friend, Mike, Thank you, Nancy. We'll talk again soon about the movies and I need to take a break.

But when we get back, you know what we haven't done. We haven't played the Trump Train today, and we may not have too many more opportunities to do so, so let's line up the Trump Train and we'll wrap up with any final thoughts for the evening. Michael Pelca in for Buck on the Buck Sexton Show. Thanks for listening to The bus Sexton Show podcast. Remember to subscribe on Apple Podcast, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome back to the Buck Sexton Show. Michael Pelca sitting in for Buck today Tomorrow Wednesday. We'll basically wrap up twenty twenty here with you, and we'll go over some of the craziest stuff we saw this year, some of the dumbest things we saw this year, and maybe some hopeful indicators for twenty twenty one. I mentioned that we may not have that many opportunities to play the Trump

Train again. The parody song we created before Trump was elected, and we've kept it alive, so let's give it another spin. Ladies and gentlemen, Climb on board train. Rumin cha it really is a disgrace. It's called the COVID Relief Bill, but it has almost nothing to do with nine hundred billion dollar package provides hard working taxpayers with only six hundred dollars each in relief famis and not enough money

is given to small business. I am asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low six hundred dollars to two thousand dollars or four thousand dollars for a couple. Sh sh man, I'm gonna miss that song. If we have to retire it, we will. But I tell all of my Democrat friends who are gloating about what appears to be a Biden victory, I said, would you rather have Donald Trump for four more years or

eight more years? And their eyes cross and glaze over, and they say, well, well, well, what do you mean eight more years? I said, well, if Joe Biden ends up being the president, Donald Trump isn't going away. In fact, he'll probably be a louder voice than he is right now, and you're gonna have to deal with that for four years, and then he'll be back and probably be reelected as long as you guys haven't screwed up the voting system

the way you did this year. And yes, I do believe this election is fraudulent if they don't straighten it out. So just my opinion, you can have Donald Trump for four more years or you can have him for eight more years. The choice is yours Democrats. And you know what, Joe Biden's just not going to be as much fun

as Donald Trump. Aside from the fact that we're gonna have to fight off the socialism, he just doesn't deliver the sound bites unless they're embarrassing, like when he answered Peter Doocey the other day, man a horse pony, you're a one horse pony. We all know he meant one trick pony. But the wires don't seem to connect upstairs in Joe's head. And now he's starting to tell the

quiet part out loud. Joe is starting to tell his supporter is that he's not going to be able to live up to his campaign promises like the one on immigration. The last thing we need is to say we're going to stop immediately, you know, the access to asylum the way he's been run now and end up with two million people on our border. It will get done. And it will get done quickly, but it's not going to

be able to be done on day one. Yeah, it'll get done quickly, says the guy who was in Washington for forty seven years and really didn't get anything done anything. And Biden's also said the quiet part out loud when he told people he wasn't going to be able to waive his executive Order Penn and just wipe away fifty thousand dollars in student loans per student. He said he

can't do that. That's going to be a problem. Two of the biggest campaign promises made by Joe Biden and the Democrats dealt with student loans being forgiven and immigration. And he's not even sworn in and he's already walking away from those, backing away from those. It's going to be very interesting to see just how these people are going to be able to govern if they can't live up to their campaign promises. And what he think's going to happen in twenty twenty two, it's going to be

a Bloodbeth for Democrats. We'll get into all that this week. Michael Pelka in for Buck Sexton, Thank you for being here. Tonight, we'll do it again. Tomorrow night. Till then, test studo, my friends, Test studo. You're in the Freedom Hut. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast