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that matters in our world today. The Pompeo hearing is what I wanted to want to get into first, and I gotta tell you I think this Pompeo guys really solid. I wrote a piece today on the On the Hill dot com about the confirmation marks. By the way, I was I even picked. It was published before the hearing started and by name. I was able to say, well, here's the playbook, and you know, Booker is gonna is

gonna Senator Booker is gonna make noise about Islamophobia. And it's so when I say things are predictable, it's always fun when I've actually predicted it. And I'm sure many of you had the same thought, right, those of you and by the way, those of you even care about watching a Senate confirmation hearing. You know how many people have ever been thumbs down in the entire history of the Senate. There have been nine people who have gotten that map. So it's not exactly high stakes poker for

most folks. It's pretty pretty straightforward. And there have been a lot more who have withdrawn. So there's that right, can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen situation. But it's never been a secretary of state. I mean, usually someone who's gonna get up in the Secretary of State role is is vetted, ready to rock, sign sealed and delivered. It's generally not someone you're gonna go, well, we don't really know this guy is or gal um

and that's certainly the case with Pompeo. In a sane world, let me just say, it's not even a close vote. In the sane world, all the Democrats would vote for this guy too. Um And, and look, it hasn't gone to a floor vote yet. It's it actually is gonna be close. It's gonna be tight. You have Rand Paul saying that he's not going to vote to confirm Pompeio, which I think is you know, it's I go back

and forth with Senator Paul, have interviewed many times. I like the guy's ideas, and I also like his low key, kind of Kentucky surfer dude demeanor. I dig, I dig all that, but I think sometimes it's it can be a little self serving on the I'm the only sane voice on presidential uh, you know, war powers and congressional authorization. So we'll see, we'll see if we can come around to to my side of it on this one. I

doubt it though. And then there's just some Democrats who were engaged in the most shameless of of shameless grandstanding today. But we expected, we expected that to be the case. Um And And Senator Corey Booker really lad the charge. He was the head of the Democrat ambush against Pompeio. Today, so I think it's likely he'll get through, but the fact that it's even gonna be tight. They I think

the vote was sixty six thirty three. I think. Don't quote me on that one, but I'm probably right because they tend to be right. Um sixty six and like I said, go to the Hill dot com you can see my latest piece, or we actually put it up on Facebook dot com to piece. Some of the folks in d C were like, wow, it's like you understand Pompeio. I'm like, obviously, uh, but sixty six thirty three was the vote with the Senate the last time, almost a

year ago to the day. I mean it was pretty close or to the month of six thirty three to make him the most powerful spy in the world. I know, we don't say spy, we say CIA direct here, but you get what I'm saying, right, Spy master, if you want to be a little more technical, chief bureaucrat of an intelligence agency, if you want to be a little more accurate, because that's actually what the job is. You're a bureaucrat. You're a politician who does a lot of

managing down That's what the CIA director does. No karate chops, no exploding cuff links, no lasers coming out of your car, or even if you have those, you'd have to install them yourself. I don't know, it's probably possible now, but they voted sixty six thirty three for him. Now people are saying, well, is it is it gonna is it gonna happen? Is he gonna go through or not? It's

gonna be close. You got Senator McCain who's uh fighting, uh, fighting bravely against cancer right now, but he's not gonna be there for for the vote you've ran, Paul. Remember, we only got what is not a lot of leeway here. But I think that you'll get some I think that you'll get some Democrats who realized that sanity is the better option here. As much as hash hashtag resistance is fun, remember all they can do with what they're gonna they're

gonna knock down this secretary of state. You know, the next secretary of State should be if they don't make if they don't put Pompeo through, you know, woman is banning just to bathe in liberal tears. It would be incredible. Do I think Bannon should be Secretary of State? I don't know the guy, probably not. The point is it should always you always want to have the the the ace up to sleeve, be like, hey, you guys don't want to vote for Pompeo. I give you Steve Bannon

for Scretary of State, who wants a piece. So that's what I that's what I think about all that. But I mentioned Corey Booker, who I you know, I'm always are Why are they not thinking about him? More? For you? Hear Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, I know, both females, So maybe for the Democrat identity politics machinery, that's obviously really important, But you don't hear people talking about Corey Booker for and I wonder why that is? Right He's

you think he's senator. You know, there's a lot of stuff that Democrats would get excited about. So anyway, but Corey Booker was not getting me excited to that. He was really going after it. He was. And keep in mind Pompeo has been on a charm tour and he reached out even to Hillary Clinton herself just to say, hey, any advice you can give. He wants advice from wherever he can get it. As long as it's the best advice. He reached out to every living Secretary of State in

advance of the hearing. Today, he has had the State Department, at his request, reach out to departed senior state employees in order to say, hey, we'd love We know you left and you didn't you weren't happy, unertiller soon we'd love to have you back. And how much of this have you seen reported of the media, By the way, you know it's there, but you're not getting a lot

of focus on this. And how many of you know, just off the top of you heard this guy that was being skewered today by some Democrats, I mean mostly Booker. I think there were a couple others. I got a

little bit. Booker was really going after him. How many know that he was a an army captain Harvard log Rad, number one in his class at West Point, very well liked within the agency and Langley folks are not shy about letting their thoughts be known about who runs the so called seventh floor, the executive level, so he was very well like there. You don't get any of that. Instead,

you get treated to questions like this one about Islamophobia. Basically, when it comes to making sure that we don't have a terrorists brewing in in places that where Muslims congregated. There's a special place, right, they have a they have an opportunity. It's more than a duty, more than a require. It's an opportunity. Right to be treated as when someone

from another face says it, it can get characterized. Do you think that Muslims in America who are in positions of leadership have a different category of obligation because of their religion? That's what I'm hearing you saying. I don't see it. It's not an obligation, it's an opportunity. So can we just back up for one second here, So Corey Bookers basically so, so are you trying to tell me that Muslims have some special place in preventing Islamic terrorism? Yeah,

the answer is yeah. Actually, it's not saying that every Muslim is an obligation to Most Muslims just want to go about their lives and do what they do and just be normal folks. But any Muslim who is either in a leadership position in a community where there are some radicals, are they're aware of radicalization, or any Muslim who happens to know that someone has radicalized, Yeah, it may be there. They're in a better position to one

know about it and to do something about it. So yeah, but it was just an effort to try to get

him on Islamophobia. That's just always remember this. The left will go to the match not just in favor of the civil rights of Muslim Americans and you know, we we defend those and we support those two, but they'll go to the match in order to make sure that no one says anything that's a little too terse, even about Islamists, people that believe in political Islam, that believe in Sharia, you know, and they don't care about the hypocrisy of selling out by doing so right, by soft

pedaling radical Islam, by pretending that there's not something specific at this time in the world and a raise among all religions. Islam has a unique problem set that unfortunately affects all of us, even well outside of the Islamic faith. That's just a fact. But whenever you try to talk about it, they want to shout you down and yell

that you're a bigot in islamophobe. And also, I can't help but notice that there pro pro LGBT and uh feminist and pro transgender agenda kind of gets lost by the wayside when they're like, yeah, the Muslim Brotherhood not so bad. It's no big deal. It's just in a side, But I think it's a worthwhile one. Oh, speaking of the pro LGBT agenda, Corey Booker followed up with this one. When I was a politician, I had a very clear view on whether it was appropriate for two same sex

persons to marry. I stand by that. So so you do not believe it's appropriate for two gay people to marry, Center, I continue to hold that view. It's the same view, and so people in the State Department. I met some in Africa that are married under your leadership, you do not believe that that should be allowed that I believe it's the case. We have married gay couples at the say you should know I treated them with the exact same set of right believe. Do you believe that gay

sex is a perversion? Yes? Or no? If I if I can, if you yes, if you believe that gay sex is a perversion, because this is what you sent here Center one of your speeches. Yes or no? Do you believe gay sex is a perversions and I'm gonna give you the same answer I just gave you previously. My my respect for every individual, regardless of the sexual orientation is the same. Now, Pompeo is a pro and he handled all this very well today. But I got a bunch of thoughts after the line of questioning from

from Booker. First of all, what does any of that have to do What is his previous position on what was called traditional marriage until about a year ago? Uh, what does that have to do with being Secretary of State exactly? And if we were also now I mean, remember this is these are the rules the left of

the left are creating here. If we are going to drum people out of public life, and we're gonna push people out of positions of authority and government based on previous positions on social issues that the left has gotten the courts to agree with them, on the Supreme Court to agree with them on on some of these issues, then that means that find me, a a prominent democrat of the last ten years, can't be in office, can't

be a part of the conversation. Barack Obama traditional marriage candidate in two thousand and eight, Hillary Clinton, traditional marriage candidate until it was no longer politically until it became politically inconvenient for then she switched of course. So it's just a cheap shot that Booker is taking your just a cheap shot. They knows the cameras are on and this is gonna do. This is gonna get him on the MSNBC highlight reel. He'll probably be on Maddow's show tonight.

I'm actually gonn I'm gonna put that. I'm gonna guess, let's see, probably be on one of the MSNB She's see shows tonight, just to take a few bows. Yeah, pummeling that that big at Pompeo who served in uniform, served as country honorably, was a great CIA director and now wants to help the country actually be better off around the world. Yeah that guy, go get him. This is what we're up against with Democrats. This is the way they play the game, as you know. Uh, so

we'll see Pompeo isn't through. He's not through the gauntlet yet. I think he will get through. But this is just classical. But they should leak that. But I really this is you can call it buck foo, you know, instead of kung fu they should, uh, you know, every every battle is won before it's ever fought. That's Sun Sue. I could do this all day. They should, uh, they should

leak that that Bannon is the next one. If you don't, if you don't give me Pompeo, we're great and they and I want I want like vintage band and I want big military jacket, hair down to like the small of his back. You know, guy looks like he has it showered in like a month, just came off a park bench. I want him coming into the Senate hearing room covered in old newspapers. I want that Bannon and he's a street prowl. I look. The guys really interesting

and compelling when he talks. But that that's who they should offer up as the replacement for Pompeio. If he does not get through, that'll that'll get some folks in line, I think. So that's a little more on the Pompeio.

Here a couple other things I wanted to get to with this, because there's something about we haven't touched yet on Russia and what came up today with regard to Russia, important confirmation, important new information from the former CI director about Russia, that that is relevant to our discussions here. So we'll talk Russia, we come back and uh, and then we've got to get into this. It's almost like

a countdown clock. I mean, some of the news news organizations might have might as well as put down like countdown to launch, because they're they're assuming, although I think they're backing off it a little bit right now, they are assuming that there will be a strike against Syria. I don't know any hour or any moment, I'll get into more of why I think that's I hope that's not the case. Uh, and we'll discuss some of all

the latest on Syria. So as always, we've got a lot my friends on our docket here in the Freedom Hunt will be right back. Well, I'm just saying. Michael Weinstein, who is a former Air Force officer who founded the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, says that he has been seeing increasing complaints from those inside the intelligence community under your leadership. So, um, I think there have been a number of concerns raised, man, ma'am, If I might please the number the number of we

call them no fear complaints. The statutory requirement decreased from two thousand sixteen to two thousand seventeen by Buck Slab. I'm proud of that. That was like you never s even to get John's actually very simple down under Pompeo's watch. Is that like a throwing star sound that we have nothing? The buck slap is getting crazy, guys. It's like none chucks in there. But it was a no, that's not a boomerang. It's not Australians. No, no kung fu Australian movies.

Uh or buck Foo that's a thing. I'm gonna stay with that for a while. That's what we do on radio buck fou um. So anyway, Pompeo, they tried to come at him with that stuff, and they came with the weak sauce and sure enough he slapped it down. That was Senator A. Jean Sheheen uh rhyming name is always kind of a bold thing, you know. But Jean Sheheen, who was saying that there were more complainty Intel Community's like, actually down, but you're close, you're close, um and uh yeah,

there's that. To keep in mind, I mentioned that we would talk more about what is going on with the Russia situation, and I definitely, definitely I want to do that real quick. Let's get John from Atlanta in and then we'll talk Russia and the hearing today on the other side. Hey John, Hey Buck, I'm your podcast minion from Atlanti. So I'm usually a day behind my podcast. What's up, John? Yeah? Oh brother, I've been upgraded. Nice. Now.

I was thinking about, um, the case with Cohen and the mission creep for lack of a better term, with this investigation, and it would be really cool if Trump just did a press conference and just said, look, this has been going on for thirteen months, nothing has come of it, and now it's going in every possible little direction and it's getting in the way. And then he pulls something out of the Clinton playbook and says, I've got to get back to doing the job for the

American people. So from this moment right now, you have forty eight hours to come up with physical evidence or computer evidence or anything linking my campaign to Russian collusion in forty eight hours time. Everyone aspired, do you think Trump should just go? You think Trump should pull the nuclear option here on the Mother probe. Yeah, And then think about all like MSNBC, CB, CNN and Fox would all have like these countdown clocks tours. I mean people

would actually be crying on air at MSNBC. There'll be There'll be no shame over there. They would just there would be like straight up lamentations and rending of garments, gnashing of teeth on air at MSNBC. People. We I think we'd actually see we'd actually see Chris Matthews just like you know, a fifth of Johnny Walker, like right there on air, like just just gone. He would freak out. Um. Anyway, thank you for calling in John Russia. What's going on

with it? We'll tell you after the break. He's holding line for America. Buck Sexton is back. So this administration has taken a series of actions to push back. That's not my question. Let's start with My question is what what behavior has the Kremlin shown that it indicates it wants to get along with the United States. Is there any gift shell? Please share it with Senator. I take a backseat to no one with my views of the

threat that is presented to America from Russia. And if I am confirmed as a Secretary State, I can assure you this administration will continue, as it has for the past fifteen month, to take real actions to push back to reset the deterrence relationship with respect to Russia. Don't let the media just slither away from this one, because I think they're going to in the next few months. They're still going to pretend that Trump did something terrible

in the election and all. I'm not saying they're gonna abandon that. But the notion that the Trump administration is soft on Russia is increas saconly a talking point for loons and loons only it's nuts. It is not just an exaggeration of the facts, it is a denial of the facts. In the other direction, Trump has gone after Russia in his first twelve months in ways that matter.

Not trying to you know, not trying to arm wrestle Putin what he sees him at some international conference, not going on TV and getting a panel of you know, the fifteen analysts they have on at the same time at sea and all go, oh, look at a strong statement against Putin he just made. That's irrelevant, That doesn't really matter. On what matters, Trump has been doing much more than his predecessor did, much more. And looking at Pompeo's role in all this, Pompeo is a Russia hawk.

This is a guy who thinks Putin's bad news wants to counteract and trust me, he was running the c i A. He he knows that Russia has got gotten into all kinds of bad stuff all over the world. There's a particular and it's one that I have in my own little now uh much lower down the food chain way, but there's a particular uh sensibility and and approach the world you get from being an intelligence officer, military or civilian. You know, you see things a different

way because you're always looking at the underbelly. You're and you're always looking for the underbelly, and you develop a healthy cynicism and a useful skepticism in your approach to international relationship. Everything. You know, all all kinds of stuff, and Pompeio is well aware, I assure you of all

the the problems Russia's causing for US abroad. And I mean, once you start, if you dig into what the FSB and the Federal Neus losbo bizo plas nasty, I know that's cool, right, It's fun to say what the FSB is up to. Uh, then you know even more that these guys are very, very aggressive and that they are working against us. All over the world in all kinds of ways, including here at home. It's kind of amazing.

I remember when they broke up that that spy ring and there was the really like the really attractive Russian spy, and I just yeah, Producer Mike's eyes just got like like saucers over there. He was like, ah, but yeah, yeah, but that turned into like a tabloid story. That was actually a real thing, right that that was a real you know, this was a serious I know you know that, but I just mean everyone's like they were just running pictures of the of that one redhead spy all the time,

the Russian in all the newspapers. But the Russians are up to very shady stuff. So are the Chinese in this country. But the Russians are up to all kinds of shady stuff, um and and have been for a very long time. Pompeo is aware of it. He knows we have to counter and he knows how to counter it. And I think it's interesting you you haven't had someone go from being ci director of Secretary of State. I

think it's actually a very natural transition. I think before you go into the world of diplomacy, it's really helpful to have a true sense of what goes on in the intelligence world. Right, So whether you're military intelligence or civilian intelligence. Um, I think that's actually a very helpful perspective. So you can tell I. I don't get too excited about a lot of the Trump a lot of the

Trump picks for the cabinet. I'm a Maddis fan. We're all Madis fans, right, you know anyone who when when reporters ask him, like, what do you think about like the Kardashian and he's like, I'm a Secretary of Defense, I defend the country. We like that guy. But you know, Pompeo I think is one of the one of the more inspired picks the administration has had so far. And he's he's risen with the challenge on Russia. He's a hawk, which is gonna make it harder for the media to

keep saying Trump is soft on Russia. Trumps. I mean, they'll try, but they're just gonna sound crazier and crazier. Not that that will stop them. And then one more thing, very important, and this because it will tie into our Syria discussion a little bit, very important confirmation of what I had talked to you about before here and what the news media was almost. Uh, they were a little shy in reporting it because it seemed like it was such a big story. They didn't want to get it wrong.

But here's what he said. Remember back a while ago, I said there were some Russian mercenaries and we may have taken a lot of them out on the battlefield in Syria. Here's the former CI director, Vladimir Putin has not yet received the message sufficiently, and we need to continue to work at that. But it hasn't just been sanctions. The largest expulsion sixty folks was from this administration. This administration announced a nuclear posture review that has put Russia

on notice that we're gonna recapitalize our deterrence force in Syria. Now. A handful of weeks ago, the Russians met their match and a couple hundred Russians were killed. A couple of hundred Russians were killed by air strikes from US. Those Russians were helping USA. They thought they were gonna rush no pun intended, sorry, they thought they were going to make an assault on some Kurds who are are our allies, are buddies, Those Kurds called in air strikes, those Russians

were annihilated. But that's also something that I remember here we think of what's going on in Syria. I think it's natural to think of it as well. You know, there's there's guys on different sides of this battlefield, but we're deconflicting with Russia and we're gonna keep it. Oh, no, things can go south. Things can go bad very quickly

in any number of ways. And the moment that you realize that you could have two hundred people killed who are Russian citizens and we didn't even really, we didn't mean for that to be the case. We're just protecting the Kurds. Now, you can see how any US military action in Syria, Uh, we need to be aware of the fact that there's some other big players in that neighborhood.

And that then factors into my thinking about what are the Russians, What are the Russians believe they could get away with without a major reprisal and say, you know, oops, sorry, keep that in mind as we're talking about the possibility coming up here of air strikes, which I know people are still very much of the mind that Trump should do something. We'll do something. I'm hoping that's not the case.

So why why don't we actually discuss. We'll update on Syria and then we can get it the latest on the Mueller Cohen uh situation, Russia collusion pro and so we can't even call it the Russia collusion probe anymore. It's just the get get Trump probe. That's what it is. We should just call it that, to get Trump probe. That is what they are doing. It is a target or it is a target operation against an individual. It is not looking for the violation of a specific crime

or even vague crimes. So let's all be on the same page with that. Eight four four five. If you would like to chat my friends eight Buck. Oh my gosh, they're already leaking the COMI books. Good thing. I'm not trying to eat right now. Comy he's among my least favorite. He really is, you know. And I think I could take him in one on one. By the way, he's got some inches on me, John, I have great handle. I played a lot of basketball as a kid. I think I think I could take him. You know, I

can go left. That's right. There are all kinds of things about the Buck that people don't know. We'll hait a quick break. We'll be back. What worries you most about any military action we might take, given the very highly complex um landscape, and sire you the many many actors that are engaged there. Well, there's uh, there's a tactical concern, uh ma'am that civilian innocent people. We don't add to any civilian deaths and do everything humanly possible

to avoid that. We're trying to stop the murder of innocent people. But on a strategic level, it's how do we keep this from escalating out of control? Uh? If you get my drift on that, there's Secretary Defense Mattis saying, Look, it's never as simple as just you know, oh look at that stuff on the map. Pew pu, it's gone. That's not the way this works. It certainly wasn't the way the work last time, when, as I mentioned to you a year ago, the air strikes didn't do a

darn thing. Really, they were symbolic. But I think we all need to be very careful when our symbolism requires Tomahawk missiles because as we've seen, remember two hund Russians are so killed and okay, Putin can make too much of a stink about it because he doesn't want his own people back home in Russia to realize the extent of Russian involvement in Syria. And they weren't uniform Russian soldiers.

They were paramilitaries who I'm sure we're contracted by the Assad regime, probably getting you know, probably getting paid his mercenaries. Two help USAD out. But what happens if, in response to say, a US missile strike on some kind of regime facilities and ASAD regime facility and fortifications what have, all of a sudden we find that, you know, uh, a US plane gets shot out of the sky by something that seems really sophisticated. Assad says, oh, no, it

was that the rebels stole that from us. How do we respond to that, say, oh, buck, we're gonna We're gonna then bomb some more Assauds stuff. Okay, Well, then all of a sudden, you know, we got the U s M beds with some curve and uh, they get hit with with air strikes from Assad directly, and you know that time, Asad's like, well, we didn't know, we thought it was something else. I mean, I'm this is like your war gaming you do with with a couple

of buddies after work. But you understand you're catching my drift here, as Secretary Defense said, which is this stuff is never clean and easy. And when you when you look at what could go wrong, I think you see that the costs greatly outweigh the benefits of anything meaningful. And if we're not going to do anything meaningful in Syria, then why would we do anything at all to show the world as you can't get away with chemical weapons usage.

I've noticed people saying in the argument last few days, we'll look at North Korea used chemical weapons in an assassination plot that was successful against Kim Jong uns half brother, King Jong Nam uh in what I think was Malaysia in the airport where some female assassage is rubbed VX on his face, which, by the way, yikes, not a good way to go uh. And then also we had this Russian defector in the UK who was also hit

with the Novu chuk Russian nerve agent. But I bring those up because I think it illustrates a different point from what some of the more hawkish let's bomb Syria folks. I think it makes a different point than they think which is that, yeah, exactly, those the chemical weapons got used in those two places. We're taking we got sanctions. I don't even know if we could sanction North Korea

anymore than we are. The only way to sanction North kree or more is it starts sanctioning other people like China more and then things get a little little rocky, and we have sanctions in in Russia and response to what they did, what the Russian government did with nova Chuk that nerve agent um. Show your learners, we didn't bomb them. So we we don't have some consistent policy of well, if you're behind a chemical weapons attack, we're gonna bomb you. That's not our policy. So what is

the policy that people are pushing for? Here? Assade is really really bad and does does really miserable, terrible, awful things, and so we just want to show him that we dislike him and think that he's wrong. He's been doing this for years everyone. As I've mentioned, half a million people have been killed in the Syrian Civil War in the most brutal ways imaginable in many cases. So this

is where we draw the line. Um. As I've said to you people, now now I know that this is where I could push back, buck, but you said Obama didn't enforce his red line. That was bad. Yeah, Obama was the one who created the red line. Trump is now in a business where okay, well I'll enforce it. But now we realize, okay, it didn't work last time. So are you gonna You're gonna do more? You're gonna drop more bombs or has send more missiles to what end?

I also, I just think that there's a higher level narrative battle that's playing out right now, a battle of narratives. There are those of us who see what's gone on in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the lesson we take away from it is, uh, no more trying to rebuild societies or or no, no more trying to free societies in the grip of Islamic totalitarianism. They it's not worth it too our lives, and it's not worth the loss of

lives and treasure over here and there. There's way too little gratitude from those countries and from the international community for what we've done. Uh. You know, it's it's a thankless job to eliminate vicious despots, or, in the case of the Taliban, a vicious organization, you know, bloodthirsty tyrants, and and then try to free people because ultimately they don't like us because we're non Muslim Westerners and we're

in their country. And when I say that, I see, I know this is unfair, because actually the case of Iraq and Afghanistan, a lot of the people there are and I would say strong majorities are, are very thankful that they no longer have those regimes in place. But it only takes you know, ten twenty of a population to basically make a country ungovernable, ungovernable, and make your life miserable trying to trying to make it governable. We're just not doing it anymore. We shouldn't do it anymore.

It's also amazing, isn't it to watch so many people in the national level media who take the position that we should do something about Syria and Assad But any militarization or additional federal effort at our southern border, that's that's not even a national security issue. How is that possible to think that way? I mean, it's based on either ignorance or ignorance, stupidity or dishonesty. But it's a

commonplace among the media elites. They really think that this is that Syria is a bigger nash security issue than our own southern border is, with all the drug trafficking, human trafficking, illegal crossing, and just the vulnerability that it creates for this country. So we'll see. I'm really hoping that there is not a I'm hoping that there's not gonna be military action. But I mentioned Rand Paul before here here's he was doing the Rand Paul thing today.

But I think that there are still a great deal of potential for hostilities. That's what some call it. That's when they don't want to use the word war. But yeah, I think we're I think something's gonna happen in Syria. And I've been very clear that the constitution doesn't allow the president to do this without first asking Congress. I wish everyone would just get consistent on this one. I know plenty of Republicans who hated hated the idea of

Obama taking a strike, and now they're pro trumpeting. You know, we we need to be consistent here. This is not time for petty partisan squad us um, but it it is. It is my hope that Trump is just going to condemn and work harder with allies in the region to put more pressure on the Assad regime and not not make this our military's problem isis became our problem. Let's not make a Solder problem too. That's all I feel about this. We gotta talk about Muller probe guys coming off.

It's just keeps getting crazier. We'll hit that more. Stay with me. Welcome to our two of the buck Section show. My friends. I want to talk to you about Lion James Comey. That's what Trump calls them. I think there's they actually have a website now going to right Lion Comey Got something or other. So his book is coming out now and the first excerpts have been given to friendly anti Trump Get Trump publications. No surprise there, and we have, for example, the following This is the best

woman I've seen so far. This one comes courtesy of my friend Ben Dominic from The Federalist. This is an exerpt from Comy's book, which is called No Higher Loyalty and can be yours for the discount price of like forty for the hardcover or something. You know, Comy, just stop stop stop being greedy. You know it's really expensive for a book. Um, I'm just kidding about all that. Well, not really, but here's what Comy writes in this new memoir, which is just an assault on Trump. And look, he

he sees what the market wants. Comy is, you know, you know, he actually reminds me of for those of you who are a Game of Thrones people, he's very much Little fingeresque. He reminds me a little Finger. I mean, sometimes he's with the good guys, sometimes he's with the bad guys, but it's really just all about him at the end of the day. The Little Finger doesn't even pretend to have principles, and Comy does so in a way, Comy is actually worse than little Finger from Game of Thrones.

I'm just saying any kind even doesn't really look like him. Okay, that's a stretch, buck, You're off, all right. The The excerpt I want to talking about, though, is as follows. I want to give you the full dramatic interpretation of this one. This is all a quote from his book that just came out. Comey writes that Obama sat alone with him in the Oval office in late November and told him I picked you to be FBI director because

of your integrity and your ability. I want you to know that nothing, nothing has happened in the last year change my view. That's Obama speaking on the verge of tears. Comey told Obama, boy, were those words I needed to hear. I'm just trying to do the right thing, I know, Obama said, I know. Oh, man, Yeah. If he's so sure he's doing the right thing, if he's ethics, why

does he care about Obama things? Are we really going to pretend that Obama is Obama is an uninto or a disinterested party here common it's all a full scale assault on Trump. You know that's coming up. And I just wanted to know there was a time when when people who were senior public officials would have thought it was unseemly to just roll up their sleeves, cash in and get into the middle of the political scrum right away.

And I do think it's unseemly. How can any of us have any faith that people that are leave behind some o previous administration of a different party aren't Maybe just like James Coby, pretending not to be manipulating things behind the scenes for their own political and partisan ends, when that's what they're doing left and right? How how can we believe that now it would be foolish not to believe that there were deep state elements, not just now,

but in previous administrations too. They We are waking up to this reality as a country now, as I've been saying the same way, we finally figure out, oh wow, the media is all left wing bias all the time, right, and that the academy, colleges, universities left wing bias. A lot of judges, although not all of them, but a lot of the judiciary activist left wing judges. Now we're

seeing it's true with federal bureaucracy too. He's so called fourth branch of government, the unelected branch of government, the federal bureaucracy. And now we see who Comey really is. Who is you will recall held up as being America's last truly honest cop for a long time, right, even though he's really just a lawyer, the politically connected lawyer. He's a d o J lawyer. Every people think that Comey was like wrestling crack dealers and you know, like

part of you know, there's crocketting tubs and comy. No, this guy is a a boardroom brawler. He is not someone who has been doing the work on the front lines. So whenever he starts to wrap himself into oh, the FBI, I am the FBI, and the FBI is me, don't let him get away with that. He wasn't a special agent for two decades who was having to worry about some serial killer trying to bury a screwdriver into his

neck when he came in through the back door. You know, I mean, no, there's a guy who's been basically a politician his whole life. Really, another thing that we're realizing, and this is gonna trans This will come up again in our conversation about Dershowitz when the mother probe is

we'll go there in just a moment together. Another thing that shows you is prosecutors are political actors too, and that's why we have to demand such high ethics and and we should create much greater accountability for them than we currently have. Um But prosecutors determine the outcome of the host election by not charging Hillary Clinton. So here's what Comey says in this memoir, and this according to the Washington Post quote. The Washington Post obtained a copy

of the book before its scheduled release. In his memoir, Comey paints a devastating portrait of a president who built a cocoon of alternative reality that he was busy rapping around all of us. Comey describes Trump as a congenital liar and unethical leader, devoid of human emotion and driven by personal ego. End quote. I think psychologists call this projection. This is Comey seeing in someone else what I think a lot of us would in fact see in Comey.

Devoid a human emotion and driven by personal legal That sounds like James called me to me, the guy who thinks he's giving a constant ethics lecture to the entire country, as well as the president United States, right before he decides that he's gonna take notes that we've been told by somebody with a clearance. Remember the Senate were classified. I just linked them to a newspaper. We have the Special Counsel Nightmare because of James Comey. Don't forget it.

That's how important James Comey thinks he is. That's how self centered and narcissistic this lanky maniac actually is. That his own bruised ego. Because Trump didn't want him around anymore and fired him, which is completely the president's prerogative. Because Comey had his feeldage hurt. He was looking for a way and look, he's a he is a talented

bureaucratic infighter. I'm sure there are few people that you could have ever come across the federal government who could throw you under the bus as fast as James Comey could. Go back and look at the story of how he with the author reauthorization of a surveillance program. I'm the Bush administration. Comey was just so self serving and so sanctimonious. I can't stand people like this. I mean, if it's coming across that I don't know this guy, but I

dislike him. You're you're picking up what I'm putting down. But he wanted the special Counsel because he knew that the bureaucratic process that it would put in place is just going to grind away and be vengeance against his enemies. So they think about this. Comey thinks that it was unfair that he didn't get to finish his term as

FBI director. He felt slighted, so he a senior former FBI bureaucrat the director of the Federal Bureer of Investigation took action based on his power and access given to him by the American people. Mind you right, he's doing He is supposed to serve the American people. He's supposed

to use those powers for our benefit. He took that power and used it illicitly and very likely illegally in order to get the process going that would hobble this president and his presidency for over a year, slow down the agenda, waste countless billions of hours at this point of media time on this. I mean, you know, CNN, it's it's like they've all had some kind of a

nervous breakdown over at CNN. Every night it's like, oh my gosh, the call me on the moller on the Russia, and you know, they have no idea what's going on in the real world. They're just all fixated on this. They are fixated on it, and we we have this nightmare because of James Coby, and I think also because there are some people in the Trump administration who just are not we're not seasoned enough, did not have a deep enough understanding of who they were really up against.

Maybe some of them thought that after Trump won the election that there would be some kind of honeymoon period or oh no, I don't know. They they wanted at that point, they were more angry than ever. No good faith, only bile and hatred toward the president. That's what they were, That's what they were in for. But the Comey Memoir is gonna producer, Mike, Do I have to read this? I have to read this, don't I? I think I have to read the John I have to read this,

don't I? Yeah? What do you think the Comey Memoir? The things I the things I do for the Freedom Hunt, to make sure that I bring only the best information. There you go like it on John's on Fire? Uh? Yeah, I think there is some stuff in this that's probably made up. I gotta go in and read it. Not quite as uh, not quite as much a fantasy as Fire and Fury. But oh, here we go more excerpts. I should have focused more answers. This is what call me.

Comy describes a February four meeting in the Oval Office. Meeting in the Oval Office, where he asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions, our boy, we love Jeff to clear the room so he could bring up the FBI investigation of former National Security advisor Michael Flynn directly with Comy, a key event in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation whether Trump

sought to obstruct justice. Quope, I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go, Trump said, according to Comy's account of the meeting, some of which he first shared and sent it testimony last year. He's a good guy. I hope you can let this go. Comy writes that he regrets not interrupting Trump to explain that this plea was wrong. He recalls later confronting Sessions, whom he describes as both overwhelmed and overmatched by the job.

You mean, the job that Comy thinks that he should have, because that's what's going on there. Forget lion, Comey. It's bitter Comy. He is a bitter, bitter man. And not just because when he flies and coach it's really uncomfortable. But I'm sure that's true. I mean, I'm not that's odd. It's uncomfortable for me right like I sit there. And but not just because Comy hits his head in hallway sometimes by accident. He's bitter about a lot of things.

And he's trying to take it out of the administration. So this is gonna be a story for the weeks they had my friends, We're gonna have to see what they do with it. Um. I'm just wondering, can we get confirmation if Comey actually lead classified information to the press, because that's a big deal, and we know, I forget who the senator was who went on record and said that that that the memos that Comy leaked were classified, but you can certainly make the case that they are.

All right, Uh, Mueller probe do we want to do? Facebook? I love? By the way, what is the data from Star Trek? Is whatever I's saying? Data is the one that is the data, the one who's just like no sunlight Android the whole thing. Yeah. Uh, Zuckerberg not a charming guy, very lucky, not charming uh and and really really unimpressive. I guess it. It's amazing that guy managed to stay in as CEO as long as he has. Ah,

So I give him credit for that. You know, maybe he's got sort of Comey's sense of of completely outrageous self regard. Oh former special assistant to former FBI Director James Comey. Oh I just so, this is why I see this young f former FBI guy on CN all the time. He was literally Comey's little buddy. I didn't know that he was Comey's assistant. That's why this guy's on TV all the time. I'm like, when did they When did they make Pajama boy like their chief legal

analysts over there? And now it's because I see, it's because it's called me. If you guys don't know, I don't think guy's Josh Campbell. I see up on CN on CNN right now. So he worked directly for Comey. I see he's part of the Comy Amen chorus. I was like, where where did this guy come from? Alright, good talk, good talk. We gotta come back and discuss the Dirsh making an appearance on the show via sound bite.

We should get on to come hang. And he likes me actually true story, has no idea who I am, but every time he sees me him like Professor Dirsh, He's like, hell, just like that special for me. We'll be right back, you know. Right as we were in the break there, I got some news courtesy of producer Mike that I wanted to share with all of you Mike,

let him know when you're talking about the DIRSH. I had let it be known that I was listening to l. Rush Bow earlier today and he was referring to Alan dersh Was as the I mean, I'm sure Rush has been calling that for twenty years, but I'm just excited about the only one. I like it. It's it's catching on now if Russia's doing and everyone's doing it, although he probably did it for the first time in like

seven but anyway, UM, I like it me. You know, when when I'm on the same on the same side of the issue was Rush, I know him in good company, the DIRSH. But the DIRSH is making some very important points, including this one, and I want to deconstru ruck this with you in just a secondary right, Here's what the good professor had to say. You can find evidence to create or manufacture crimes against anybody if you're determined to

do it. That's what's wrong with the Special Counsel because they come in with targets painted on people's back, and people like Comey and people like Mueller are gonna find crimes whether they have to go and try to find a technical violation of banking laws. On which they can hook plography, stars or things of that kind. And even your account, which was obviously metaphorical in part, proves again if you're determined to find crimes against anybody, you can

do it. That's why we have to restrict and limit the application of the criminal law to clear unequivocal crimes, and don't use it against political enemies unless the evidence is just overwhelming. I've been trying to tell you and the dirtes spot all of this one, and it really is an addendum to the process, is the punishment. But also they'll find a crime to punish too, as he said,

they'll manufacture one. I remember when I was working on a counter terrorism case and we're looking at a guy bad Uh had some let's just say, some very bad positions about U. S troops abroad in US foreign policy. He happened to be of the Islamic faith, Uh, and there were some real concerns about him. And you know that. I remember I was sitting there and there was a discussion with all the different investigators that were involved where

I was involved. I was running the case actually, and Uh, sure enough, somebody said, well, you know, so we we can't get him but we thought he was maybe involved with some essentially some material support terrorism, but no, we did didn't them on that. And then someone's like, well, you know, I think we get him on a mortgage fraud. And I was like, come on, man, like I didn't.

I didn't leave I didn't leave Langley to come up here and do work here in New York to get some guy who legitimately, uh had has trouble speaking or reading English, to get him on a mortgage like if he if he's doing terrorism, stuff, lock him up. But like, I'm not sitting here saying let's try to put him away for years in federal prison, by the way, for a mortgage fraud that wasn't where the bank had lost

no money. It was one of those It was like, uh, I mean I I obviously also can't really get into specifics here because this end up not being prosecuted, but I remember, you know, and it was a lot of O t hours in that case. A lot of people wanted to make it into something and I sat there and I said, no, nope, I want no part of that. You guys want to if you guys wanted me to

be part of the mortgage fraud task Force. That's a whole other discussion, okay, And and then we have to have a talk about why is it that you know, if the credit card companies lie to you about your rate switching or moving, which they've all done by the way, They've moved their their dates around so they can check your APR up and they just get found out and maybe they pay a fine if that. But if you misstate your income or something on it, it's ten years, folks,

federal prison for mortgage fraud. I mean, usually don't people take a plea, they don't get the ten but you can get ten years from mortgage fraud. If you watch the wire, you you know that that's actually how they go after one of the very corrupt politicians. I don't get them on corruption and try to get them a mortgage fraud. But the point is, somebody really goes through all your finances. I guarantee you they could find tax

violations guaranteed of some kind you didn't pay. You didn't pay taxes on things you bought on the internet that are from out of state. And I know there's guidelines for how much. You know, if you're not gonna usually get jail time for that. But the point, oh, that's, you know, a tax evasion. Now they've got a tax evasion probe open on you, and a lot of you are like, gosh, buck, you have to pay Oh yeah, you buy stuff online from out of state, you have

to pay sales tax on it. Who knew? Right, This is the point that they're just making. That's why it's so unethical, so corrupt, so disgraceful that Mueller and all the rest aren't looking for crimes. They're going after people. And it just so happens that they are going after the sitting president of the United States of America right now. He's back with you now, because when it comes to

the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Facebook has been served as a pianis from the Special council Owner's Office. Is that correct? Yes? Have you or anyone at Facebook been interviewed by the Special Counsel's Office? Yes? Have you been interviewed? I have not. I have not, others have.

I believe so. And I want to be careful here because that our work with the Special Counsel is confidential, and I want to make sure that in an open session I'm not feeling something that's confidential That's why I made clear that you have been contented. You have fan subpoenas. Actually, let me clarify that I actually am not aware of of a subpoena. I believe that there maybe, but I know we're working with them. The Zuckerberg robot almost had

a malfunction. I don't know if I got to talk about that at all, beds Adegh Zuckerberg S. I'm just bitter because the guy could buy me ninety billion times over or whatever. That's man. I should have been on that hallway and Harvard. My My hallway at Amherst was like it's like a zoo. It was crazy. We we

had the only twenty true story. We had the only twenty one year old freshman on campus, so we were lit that we were the Florida party with because we're the only We had the only twenty one year old freshman. He had served in a foreign militarium, so it was quite a bit older than his year. And we actually turned his room into a We would move a desk in front of the doorway and turn his room into a full service bar or or other people did that, and I happen to be in the vicinity when they

did that. I did not actually publicize and throw those parties and get involved in logistics of getting alcohol for like five people or anything. I just happened to be in the vicinity when that happened occasionally. So I'm told that's the story. Back to Zuckerberg, Um, he is uh, he's doing a good job of trying to of why is he talking to people? I want to boil this down for a second. Let's distill what matters a lot

of your like buck this Facebook thing. I know, I don't find it nearly as interesting as most of my media peers do. You're giving them a lot of information, They're taking your information, they're monetizing it. This is this is the reality of what's going on. And I don't know how anyone doesn't understand that that's what's going on here. Do you think Facebook is doing this to be nice? But there's a very important point to be me just in that alone. What Mark Zuckerberg is doing is a

big pr move here. It's convincing people that Facebook cares what you think about their privacy practices, cares about your privacy. Facebook doesn't care about your privacy. Facebook makes money off of violating your privacy, it's the whole point. And they make their they literally make the rules, they get to determine what shared, who sees it, what, and all that stuff. You think they're really sitting around like, oh, we have an ethical responsib blah blah blah blah blah. Please, it's

total nonsense. It really is. Um But there's obviously a lot of a lot of folks who are clinging to this belief that the progressive platforms, which is what all social media platforms are right now, aren't actually just rapacious machines of capitalism, which they are absolutely are. And you know what, I'm okay with that. I get it all right. You know, there's there's nothing on there's nothing you're putting on Facebook that you should care if anyone knows your

sees you know what I'm saying. So there you go. H oh, Well there was one other thing that he uh, okay, So so he said they're working special counsel. I think that's significant issue. It just shows you how far this special council monster extends. Now, it's just the tentacles of the octopus are touching on everything these days, right all

they're all over the place. Remember, comey, got that special counsel going, and now you've got Facebook executives or lawyers or whomever they have sitting now with them, all because Hillary lost the election. Because oh, it's just so unthinkable that Hillary lost the election. You know, you know what's amazing, This is an aside. This isn't even the first time in my life that Democrats have essentially refused to believe that their candidate lost the election and cried like little babies.

I remember Bush v. Gore. Oh, you know Bush one because of the Supreme Court. They didn't believe that he won that election. I remember being in college and seeing people put up posters on their on their walls, another college dorm story of the popular vote of Bush v. Gore, because I I just started in school then. So you know, this isn't the first time. They're not they're not even first time offenders on the delusion of our candidate didn't

actually lose, like a bunch of crying babies. And they'll they'll tank the whole country, they'll tank whatever they have to to make them feel better about this one. So that is so many we're going to special council, that's happening. And I also noticed that Zuckerberg is like, I don't know if we're under subpoena, but we are working with

the Special Council. Well, what does that mean. I thought that these companies, and I thought that's because they've said in the past they will only respond to subpoenas about their information, they won't just share it freely with law enforcement. Kind of sounded to me like he's said, yeah, we'll like give them whatever they need right working with not you know, under subpoena, we will because of the power

of the judiciary. YadA, YadA, will give you no no, no. It was just like, oh, y ask me, We'll get them out anything they want. Please change my battery. Well that's that. And then there's also the the issue that came up before about the usage of data in the Cambridge Analytica thing. Again, I think if not a non story, a hyperventilated story, like, oh my gosh, it's just not

that important, it's not that big. But remember when the Obama people said in twenty twelve that they did essentially exactly what Cambridge Analytica had done, and people pointed this out, they said, wow, this seems like quite a bit of hypocrisy here Obama's people do it. It's amazing, it's groundbreaking. Trump's campaign maybe does it via third party Cambridge. Everyone's like, oh my gosh, they're all freaking out about it. So Zuckerberg dealt with this as well. During the hearing today.

There's been a lot of talk about UH Cambridge and what they've done in the last campaign. In two thousand and eight and two thousand and twelve, there was also a lot of this done. UH of the lead digital heads of the Obama campaign said recently, Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn't stop us once they realized that was

what we were doing. They came to the office in the days following the election recruiting, and we're very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn't have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side. That's a direct quote from one of the heads of the Obama digital team. What what would she mean by they Facebook, we're on our side, Congressman. We didn't allow the Obama campaign to do anything that any developer on

the platform wouldn't have otherwise been able to do. So she was just making an inaccurate statement in your point of view, Yes, they saying she lied. That strikes me as kind of convenient, doesn't it. Why would you lie about that? It doesn't seem like a smart thing to do, you know what I mean. If it's always good to think about the motivations for a lie, why would somebody

say that they just want some attention. Clearly, if it wasn't true, that that person could have been risking their reputation, maybe their job. So that strikes me as a little simple. Someone's lying, either l Garberg is not talligged that truth or somebody else. But there's somebody who's needs needs to come clean on the whole situation. I'm not sure what

it is. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. By the way, we uh in the third hour, I want to give you a little bit of a preview where where we're going. I'm talking about the opioid epidemic. I have some information about the pharma big farmer companies that are going to be testifying soon, and we want to talk about that component of the opioid crisis. Also, we're gonna be joined by an entrepreneur from the Midwest, from Indiana, UM and talk to him about one town in Indiana Wall Street

Journal profile where they're just crushing it. They're doing really well economically, so well that they actually can't even fill all the jobs they have. We'll discuss that in that sector of that industry, and then I'll share some thoughts with you on hip hop, the current state of hip hop. That's gonna be interesting. Uh, and coming up here in just a moment, The most beloved people in the world are Oh, we have data, my friends, we are going

to get into it. Unfortunately, it's not the most beloved person in the Freedom Hunt, because that would be either John or producer Mike. But it's the world. We'll talk about it. Stay with me. Who is the most admired person in the world? Well, we know this list is a sham because I'm not even in the top twenty, which makes me very sad. It's a big bummer. But it is quite a list. This according to you gov,

which is at what a polling company. I don't know much about you gov, but anyway, it's some very interesting bits of information on this one worlds most admired Who wants to guess at number one? I know some of you are like Barack Obama. False, wrong, It is in fact Bill Gates in the number one slot. Barack Obama is number two. The number two most admired person on planet Earth is Barack Obama. Who wants to guess? At number three? This was way out of left field for me.

Jackie Chan the actor, how why? I have absolutely no idea. I cannot even begin to tell you why that is. But then you can listen Jack ma who is the founder of Ali Baba. He is China's um equivalent of Jeff Bezos. You know, he's he is the guy right now in the digital space. Vladimir Putin comes it at number six. La uh, Christiano Ronaldo that's just sports. Oh, he's so good at sports. Soccer is the world sport. Whatever. And then Lionel Messi, who's like the other best soccer

player in the world. Warren Buffett, America's financial Grahampa comes into twelve, and then you get David Beckham Elon Musk. Michael Jordan's m j still on the list, number fifteen. Most amount, he's ahead of the pope. Everybody literally one space ahead of the pope is Michael Jordan's seventeen is Donald Trump. Hey, nineteen is riscip Rowan and yeah, there you got it. So in the twenties, Imran Khan not

only supposing. I guess Bill Gates is so admired because of the charitable work that he does, which is nice um, which is nice. He's got that going for him. And you look at these other names. The Dolly Lama is on there by the way. I would have thought that Dali Wi will be honest, I thought the Dalai Lama would probably come in at number one. Does anyone know anything about the Dalai Lama? Big hit the lama? But no, people have no, they don't know anything. Is who's gonna

catch that reference? Probably all of you. But no one knows anything of the dial Lama. All they know is that when you die, youchief full consciousness. No, you don't know anything with the lama. I don't know any about the llama, flowing rubs, the whole thing. Right. People just know that they're supposed to like the Dalai Lama. The dial Llama is the human equivalent of the muse of museums. Did you like the museum? You always have to say yes. Did you even go to the museum in that foreign

country that you were in that foreign city. You have to say you like the museum anyway. You're not allowed to say you don't like a museum. And you're not allowed to except for maybe the Museum of Sex, which is actually not far from me in New York City, which I will tell you I've never been to, and I've heard it is not good. I've heard it's disappointing. Um there's that. It's actually true story and it was

not me. Whenever I tell these stories, I know Mike is looking at me like he thinks that this is me, the true story, but not my story. I had a friend who took a girl there on it yet yeah, right, a friend who took a girl there on a first date, took a young lady to the Museum of Sex on date one? Who want it is a bold move? Who wants to guess if there was a date number two? That? Yeah, that that was not the That was not the way

to go apparently. So anyway, it's tough when you're in the gift shop and you're like, do you want the whip in chain or do you want the chocolate in the shape of um So, anyway, um, where was all this? Yeah? You have to say you like the Llama even if you know nothing about the Llama. Oh, but the women, Gosh, I don't want to be I don't want to be all about the patriot. I will just a note here because there's some there's some b roll making the rounds on CE and then now of young Trump, and people

say that I have young Trump hair. False. My hair is far superior to Young Trump. Okay, I I mine, just mine just grows in in proportion, like a like a chia pet, like a thick bush. It just grows out and out and out. I don't need to like swirl it around or anything. The poof, as I call it, is all natural or the swoop. I actually prefer the swoop, although to be fair, Trump has more of a swoop, had and still has more of a swoop than I do.

I digress. So the most admired women in the world that's also part of this list you have, okay, the producer, Mike, did you see this list? No? No, don't know cheating Who's the most Who's the most admired woman in the world? Come on, you gotta tell me. I want a name. Michelle Obama Very good guests Number two look at you though, producer Mike's on his game, I will tell you I would have guest Oprah Winfrey, which I thought would be

a pretty safe guest. It turns out Michelle Obama's number two, Oprah win threes, number three, so you're silver medal on bronze medal, respectively. Number one Angelina Jolie, which to me is like, I don't get it right. I mean, her English accent in the tomb Raider movies was laughable. You know, she she's been, she's did she broight? Did she break up Brad and Jennifer? Or did Jennifer break up her? And I forget how that went. Ms Molly will yell at me if I get the she broke up Brat

and Jenneral she that's right. She's the home wrecker. Home wrecker. Number one on the Oh his love yet, John? I like John always takes the positive point of view. All right, John, I'll let you. I'll let you get away with it today on that one, by the way, Number five on the list. Hello, it's Hillary. Oh yeah, Mike just spit out his water. That's I was looking for that all day. Um.

Number six Emma Watson, the chick from the Harry Potter movies. Right, the the young lady from the Harry Potter movie is not right? Right? Yeah, that's who. I don't even know she was that famous. I'm learning something new every day. Malta usef sid that that I can that I can understand. I'm gla merk yah Angula for wearing non gender distinguishing suits at all times. And uh, Taylor Swift on here. I love t Swift. You guys all know that. So respect Madonna. And it's it's gotten weird. That's all I

have to say. I'man donna. It's gotten weird. You know. That's that's it. You don't need to say anything else. I don't need. I don't want to say anything that's gonna get me in trouble. Gal Gadot is on here. And then there' a whole bunch of women like I don't even know who they are, so I can't even tell you who they Who's a shwari a rai, you know, I no, I don't know who that is. I think

it's an actress, a Bollywood actress. But if that's like the first woman to discover a cure for cancer in South Asia, apologies, I think it's a Bollywood actress though, um, and then Yangne don't know who that is, fan Bingbing don't know who that is, Zooway, don't know who that is. And then Elizabeth Warren just sneaking in under the wire because they needed some diversity on this list. So that's what Elizabeth Warren provides. So that's the good news. This

was pretty interesting, folks. I don't know how how accurate this is and how much people Um, I don't know how much people will look at this and say that's scientific. But I just weren't share with you. So some very interesting stuff on here, very interesting stuff. Brock and Michelle Obamba are basically the two most admired people in the world, though it's really what it comes down to, according to this poll on the internet. Uh so there's that. Um some other names on the list that I was kind

of excited to see, Clint Eastwood high Marks. Uh who else we've got here? Net and Yahoo makes the list, but they're they're not in the top twenty. All right, we gotta come back into uh some other stuff here. I had a quick break. Stay with me. He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton is back thy Welcome to our three of the Buck Sexton Show. Um, you probably noticed this from listening to me for a while. I I'd like to use our three to talk about

whatever it is just on my mind. I guess this is lately I've been I've been thinking about the structure. People have been asking me, what's the structure of your show? And I always say, well, the first hour is what's happening, what's big, what do we need to talk about. The second hour is usually more tends to be more national security, also just maybe more of a drill down, a deep dive into something that I think matters. In the third

hours just whatever is on my mind right Uh. This though, is a topic that crosses all of those different areas. The opioid epidemic massive urgent national issue, very news worthy though not really all that much in the news right now. Uh, and and also something that I've been exploring and learning a lot more about. It's just a fascinating story. The quick US hooke on this. What got me thinking about it today is that opioid distributors are going to testify

before a House committee coming up soon. Five. This is from the Hill dot com. Five executives of opioid distribution companies will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in May about how millions of pain pills found their way to small West Virginia towns, and I would know that there's a there's a lot of backlash and anger at these different hill companies, different pharmaceutical companies for the

opioid epidemic. You look at some of the numbers here, you see things like Miami luken Uh sent four thousand that's a that's one of the corporations that sent four thousand, sorry, four million pain pills to Oceania, which is a town of one thousand people from two thousand, four million opioid pills seven years people. It's a lot of pills, right you you worked that out per person per day, that's

a lot of pills. And so this is the other the other side of I've been talking a lot about the cartels, which the media is just straight up suppressing because Big Pharma is corporation there they the media is okay with pharma being bad guys. They're not okay with illegal immigrants being the bad guys even when they are.

And the cartels have had a huge hand in and I'm wondering when someone will really catch onto the fact that it is a true statement to say that illegal immigrants from Mexico are responsible for tens of thousands of preventable deaths in this country. So and that's not to say they're directly causing them, as though they're murdering people. That's just to say that tens of thousands of people

are dead. And I mean, I think the number, if you added up, would really be in the hundreds of thousands since about the year two thousand because of what the cartels have been doing. But the pharmaceutical companies have also been up to some really shady stuff. And I would direct you to a book that I'm actually in the middle of right now. Um it's called dream Land, and it's the true tale of of America's opiate epidemic by Sam Canones, who is a who is an l

A Times journalist. But it's one of the best books I've read in a long time. It's, like I said, Dreamland by Sam Canonas, because it takes you through the whole story of how did we get to this point where you have sixty four thousand people of the year dying from opioid overdoses. That's a lot of people. You

start thinking about how many of those those people. You look at this as not just the deaths, but also the lives shattered from their family members, and just the lost futures and the lost productivity, and you realize that this is affecting millions of people. Sixty sixty three thousand dead in one year is affecting at a minimum hundreds of thousands of people, really millions of people in very

direct ways. But one of the big parts of this that the book Dreamland goes into, which I'm I read it at night before I go to sleep these days.

I'm halfway through it, is that there was a revolution in the thinking of pain doctors in about the nineteen nineties and there were some, uh, there were some pharmaceutical companies, one in particular, but I won't name it because I don't want to say the wrong one, uh, that decided that they were going to run with a statistic that only one percent of people would become addicted to opioids if prescribed them, and it's it's hard to believe. You.

You read the backstory to that in the book, and it turns out it's a letter that somebody wrote to a Journal of Medicine that suggested that in a small sample size of end of end of life cancer patients, only one percent of them were addicted to opioids. And you can imagine all the different reasons that that's not a sufficient study for anything. And that was seized upon by a big fire. And they were just they were

selling pills. It was a bonanza. And then it became if you didn't treat pain, it became one of the the vital signs. You know, you go in, they gotta do your your pulse and uh, you're what was a pulse? And then um, you know, heartbeat or is that the same thing. I can't whatever the four or five vital signs are. I'm not a doctor, right, it doesn't matter. Uh.

The things that doctors always do. They put on the pressure, cough, They take your pulse, and then they add and making no, but that's not with the tongue to press or whatever. They they added pain as one of the as one of the markers that they have to measure every time you go to a doctor's office. And that's where some

of you may have seen this. They created this. This was all done in the nineties, they created this scale of like really unhappy face to kind of unhappy face for children so they could point with their pain was, and then they had the arbitrary one to ten pain scale for adults. Well, somebody who was addicted to OxyContin in particular, which has a large dose of oxycodone in it, which is time release. Guess what drug addicts figured out?

What you know, what you wanna do? You break up the oxy contin and then you can snort it and instead of it being time release, it all goes into your system at once. So these are things, whether we'll find out from this book is fascinating story. But farmer companies were running around selling this stuff saying it was non addictive, and it's incredibly addictive anything that affects your brain. Based on the way the way that opiates do opioids opiates,

people kind of use these a little bit interchangeably. Has to do with the chemical structure and compound. I think that the opioid is similar chemical compound. Opiate is actually derived from the opium poppy. So I'm just telling you, if you get a chance. Dreamline it's an of a book and it explains how it happened that you had all of these uh opioid epidemics popping up, many opioid epidemics popping up in towns that didn't have a lot

of crime, didn't have a lot of gangs. It was a combination of abuse from pharmaceutical companies and the change and the doctor thinking. Was one of the things that I thought was so amazing. All of a sudden, if you went into a doctor and you said you were in pain, the doctor was worried that if he didn't he or she didn't give you a script for pain pills, they might be negligent, and even you could sue them for failing to treat your pain. Think about what that does.

Every junkie now who goes into a doctor has the has the upper hand, has a leverage. Every addictude goes in. People would get and and they they they decided to expand what they would treat with. Originally opioids. They realized very very dangerous. I mean back in the sixties and seventies, a like incredibly addictive. You gotta stay away and this stuff. Then going into the eighties, especially in the nineties, it was we're not just gonna use this for terminal cancer,

patients to literally ease their pain. Palliative care. We're gonna use it for back pain, We're gonna use it for chronic pelvic pain. What hurts. They started deciding to u to write people's scripts for uh oxycon and purpose that there's a whole bunch of them. Um, you know, people are familiar with them right then. Then they became kind of a part of pop culture and people would talk

about abusing them. And but it's a remarkable story. You know, the cartel component I've usually focused on, but the way that medicine was really turned upside down on this issue of pain and pain pills and the consequences. I mean, it is hollowed out. Some of these small towns, you know, they're never going to be the same. And now they're looking Now they're looking for this is what this hell

story is about. Opioid distributors are gonna be testifying that they look for criminal charges against some of these pharmaceutical companies and some of these doctors, you know, pill mills, They go after them, They go after them hard. Now d e A gets involved with people who are writing scripts for too many pain pills or and I'll tell you actually because the doctors figure out what the and this is a conversation actually had with the d A

agent once. Because of the way the doctors write the script, they're always trying to make it a little bit more like they're hedging toward less drugs is invested. They can investigate even less drugs because then the doctors just structure so they stay below it. So it's a cat and mouse game. Anyway, check out if you're looking for a book to read about all this, check out Dreamline. I'm

it's so well written. It's a fantastic, fantastic book. We'll be back with a story about a Midwest town that is booming right now in the industry that are supporting it. It's in Indiana, I'll tell you that. But for more, you gotta stay with me. I owe one more thing. I also saw, uh it's it's in the headlines now all the violence in Mexico. So don't think that I'm I'm not gonna be following that very closely. What was the port of Varta now had something where when something

went down, producer Mike, where was it? Oh? No, Cancoon? It was Cancoon. It was like some fourteen murders in twenty four hours, I think was the in Cancoon, Mexico, an all time record. So this is people talk about this plague, this pandemic of opioids in this country. It's a massive problem and we really as a country need

to educate ourselves more on how this is happening. Yeah, it's some somewhat the farmer companies being irresponsible, but and and the medical community having a lot of bad advice and regulations for a long time. But it's really the cartels and illegal immigration all right. Now, with that, we'll come back and talk about r V sharing just a few Welcome back everybody to the Buck Sexton Show. I wanted to tell you a good news story from the

employment side. You know that we've talked about how employments are incredibly low, but people also say that manufacturing needs to make a comeback. There's one place in the country right now that was just highlight in the Wall Street Journal where there's not just a healthy manufacturing sector, there's a manufacturing boom going on, and it's a very specific part of the economy. This Wall Street Journal piece was titled the future of America's economy looks a lot like Elkhart, Indiana.

Here's what it says. The self proclaimed RV Capital of the World gives a glimpse of what the American economy looks like when operating at full tilt. High school students around here skip college for factory jobs that offer great pay and benefits for higher signed sprout like roadside weeds, and workers are so flush that car dealers can't keep new pickups on the lot. At the same time, the strands are showing, employers can't hang on to employees, and

house prices are zooming. The worker shortage prompt of local Kentuck You Fried Chicken restaurant to offer a hundred and fifty dollars and signing bonus. McDonald's failed to open for lunch last fall because managers couldn't corral enough hands at eight dollars an hour. So you've got a really big boom going on in r vs in elk Card, Indiana,

which is having all kinds of interesting economic implications. Let's bring out somebody who knows this sector backwards and forwards, and also just knows the Midwest and the economy out there. We have Joel Clark with us now. He is the founder and president of r V share Joel, great to have you joining us, Buck, thanks for having me. It's a pleasure. So you are an entrepreneur and you're specifically

dealing in the r V sector. If we just tell me first about why is the RV sector recreational vehicles? Why are they booming right now? And elk cart is just one example of this. Yeah, that's a great question. So a lot of the boom if you look at the RV sales industry in in particular, and you can kind of break the RV industry into a few kind of a few different parts. One is r V sales, but then another part is r V rental, which I've overlaps a lot, but it's different too, and that's where

I largely focus um with r V share. But you know, the RV sales kind of the the boom bust cycle of RV sales, if you look at it, is very largely a function of the economy as a whole, and very much a function of oil prices, which makes sense if gas goes up to four dollars a gallon all of a sudden, taking the family across country to go check out Yellowstone becomes uh, you know, less of a budget vacation and all of a sudden, the cost really goes to the roof. So it was a great piece.

I love seeing the Wall Street Journal give um give el cars the love it deserves. El cards an amazing place. Obviously, the RV industry is just, you know, fantastic. It's it's a joy to be a part of, to help people. Really, at the end of the day, what everyone in the r V industry cells is family time, which is like, there's hard to be you know, more excited about a

product in an industry that you're you're in. So I think it was a great piece, but I think that it actually kind of in a way missed the mark on what the kind of I think the real story is. I think the real story is actually buried a little further down in that article, and I think it really gets pulled out by a quote from Shelley Moore, who's the urban planner of Elkhart, and she kind of talks about kind of that boom bust cycle of RV sales

in itself. Uh, there's a quote where it says, uh, Shelley Moore, the Elkhart urban planner, said that the city is in a race against the clock unquote to build a more diverse and sustainable economy. Um, you know, really what you have and what I think the article kind of misses the mark on is that, you know, the Midwest and the Middle American economy is at the end of the day, so much bigger than these these boom bus cycles and RV sales are just one part of

the r V industry as a whole. And that it's you know, if you watch the video that a company that article, there's kind of this feeling there of it's a it's a gravy train now in RV sales, but everyone's kind of waiting for the next bust for the sales article when that all all change. Just UM and r V shure, we're kind of uniquely positioned to see a different angle because we are in the r V

rental space and one thing in the r V rental space. Uh. They say that r V reynalds are good in a good economy and great in a bad economy because an RV rental, unlike RV ownership, this becomes an asset for people, right, It's not just something to have fun and hang out

with the family. In absolutely, and that's that's book. What we see as kind of the real story is if you you can look historically at the whole RV sales industry and it goes up down, up, down, and if you lay oil prices over that, up down, up down, it makes sense. So what we're building in r V Show, and what I'm really focused on, is like, hey, let's build Middle American economics that work in a downturn. Let's help these eleven million families that have bought this RV

and in good times it's a vacation machine. But what we're really focused on is we're getting ready for the next bad time and how do we help families turn that into a cash generating asset when the next market correction happens. So you've basically created Airbnb for r vs, Right, that's a fair way to describe what I know. The platform is different in specific and proprietary, but in terms of how it functions. This is a way for people to make money off the RV that sits in their backyard.

For a lot of folks, right, forty eight weeks of the year, they're not using this thing. Yeah, yeah, you know, you hit the nail on the head or more in our our mission that's up on the wall all over here is we create entrepreneurs. You know. We we do that by helping folks rent r vs all over the country. But our focus is you know these families too, they've got that RV sitting in their driveway forty eight fifty

weeks a year. Let's help you take that RV and turn into an extra forty grand a year in income. So you know this, Like I said that, the piece is fantastic. I love, you know, seeing the industry get Wall Street Journal attention. You know, Indiana getting a high five for booming economy is pretty cool, right, you don't see that every day. But like I said, I think the real story underneath it is, you know, even the people in the article are openly talking about you know,

this is a boom bust cycle. The bust is coming. And that's where me and my team are are really focused on. Where we think the real story is is the way that we brace for the next bus is we create tools and infrastructure that empower the middle American entrepreneur. And there's way more Middle American entrepreneurs than you know you ever see on the news or read about online. Joel Clark is founder and president of r v share.

To see more what they're doing, you can go to r v share dot com and you can find the perfect rv rental that way as well. Joel, great to have you, my friend. Thank you so much for joining us. Buck always the pleasure. Thank you, sir, our team. We're gonna roll into a quick break when we come back. I'm gonna share some thoughts. Get ready for brace. Brace yourself, my friends. When you come back, I'm gonna tell you about hip hop bucks. Take on, John, don't be friend,

It's gonna be okay. I'm gonna get through it. We're gonna talk about some hip hop music and how I think some of it is that there's a little too much, a little too much profanity. We'll be right back. He's back with you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Team. I'm Curmudgein Lee, but I'm not prudish. But I gotta tell you today, as I was still waging my losing campaign against Dad Bob, I am Hans, Am I Awn Hans and we just

want you. I found myself trying to get motivated to do some burpies, which I'm convinced only exists to make us all feel weak and pathetic and lame. Oh they're so good for your metabolic rate. Yeah, that's right. I really want to flop around on the ground like a fish and fling flop sweat from my poofy hair across the room every time I jump up in the air. Or then there's kettle bell swings, which, for those of you who are familiar, you know what I'm talking about.

Every time I do one of those swings, I'm like, is this the end of future generations of bucks? It's a scary thing, you know. It's a It's a close fought ordeal every time you swing one of those kettlebells between your knees as hard and fast as you can. But I was trying to get motivated for the workout, and I was looking around on Spotify, because I'm cool,

like as the kids are. I'm pretty sure, like such as I believe that are at education, like such as a South Africa and a Diraq everywhere like such as. And there was a time when I would talk some smack about Spotify, how it was just for the music hipsters. Now I use it all the time anyway, I was trying to get a and by the way, you guys can follow me on Spotify and then make fun of all of the Creed and Taylor Swift that I have in my music playlists there there I have public playlists,

so you can just find me there. Yeah, that's right. T Swift gets me fired up. Okay, that's just how I roll. I can just feel all the emails cascading in telling me my man card is revoked forever. But anyway, I was thinking about or trying to find a good playlist, and I found some that were, you know, for workout specifically, and some of them were hip hop specific Now, I grew up listening, to believe it or not, a lot of hip hop here in New York City in the

early nineties. It was all Notorious b I G. And Tupac and Nas and Cypress Hill and House of Pain, and these were the music acts that my peers all listened to all across the city. It was there was really a hip hop explosion across the country. But I'm a little older and wiser about all things in life now, and I was listening to one of these hip hop mixes in parts so I can sound cool when I talked to Miss Molly because she's a bit younger. She's

not even thirty yet, so she's bit younger than me. Uh, and and I can be like, yeah, today, I was listening to Cardi B and Gucci Maine and Little Wayne and Geezy on my music playlist. That's right, But I was listening to it, and I have to tell you, those were some of the artists on this playlist I was listening to today, and I I called a lot

of the lyrics. And I'm not somebody who is particularly squeamish, and I'm very anti censorship, but I gotta tell you there's a little part of it that's like, why is it that, in this day and age of me too, when there's so much uh discussion of the need for equality among women and and treating women with greater respect and ending sexual harassment, hip hop is considered a completely separate space. In that whole conversation, there were things that

were being wrapped about. And these are new rap songs, right or we call it hip hop now, but when I was a kid, we called it rap. But these are new hip hop songs that are out that are topping the charts. Uh. Though those are big apparently Gucci Maine and Little Wayne and these are big. These are big music acts. I know about Little Wayne because in fact, I know the NYPD detective who arrested him and sent him to prison for a weapon's possession. Story for another time.

But the lyrics in these songs, I mean, there was one title of a song, for example, that really caught my eye. It was bottles and be the second word is also a term for a female dog, and I was like, you know, that seems to me to be pretty offensive. And I'm not somebody who talks a lot about what's offensive and what's not. I I like a live in the live kind of world. And then I'm gonna tell you, I really felt like I'm out of it because there were terms that were used and I

was like, what is that word? I know, I sound like a huge nerd right now, but I was unfamili It was some of the slang, and so I did a little poking around, and sure enough I found out that it is very graphic sexual commentary using slang terms that is just all over And these are big songs right now, and sure enough, today I'm thinking that I'm in the gym and then I see news Busters here has a piece it got it got linked today in the Drudge reports. So it feels like there's some synchronicity here.

Hateful hip hop. The top us R and B hip hop songs objectify women fifty five times. So I'm not I'm not alone here. I'm not crazy and thinking that this stuff is uh a little bit, uh a little bit too much. And I'm not saying that should be illegal or should be censored. I'm just saying, why is this not part of the social discussion, the social commentary we have? Why does me too not touch hip hop? It's a question I would like someone else maybe to answer.

But I did wonder today myself when I was in the gym burpies and kettle bell swings and other terrible things that I know are good for you and YadA YadA, But I was really taken aback by how graphic some of the language was. And it's not not a lot of stuff about like, you know, love and romance. And I can handle double entendres in these hip hop songs if you know the words that are being used. It's just clinical graphic terminology. I know I sound I sound like I'm a little bit of a of a nerd,

but it's the way it is. We're going to roll into uh roll call. Stay with me. The show ain't over yet, folks keeping it real. It's time for roll call, and we got some cool cats in Freedom Hunt daddy O. Now let's get into some old calling. If you want to be a part of it, Facebook dot Com, slash buck Sexton and uh, let's get into a Bill Rights. Hey, Bucket, was great meeting you a few weeks ago back in Savannah. Well, great to meet you too, Bill, Thank you very much

for the note. Really enjoyed my trip down in Savannah, hanging out with our friends at Black Rifle Coffee and nine Line Apparel. Uh, let's see what's here, Steven Rights. Bad movie adaptations of books, Starship Troopers. You know, Stephen, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to diverge with you here. I thought that Starship Troopers as corny as it was, And it was corny, I make I make no bones about that. Pretty watchable in its own weird way. I thought it was. It was campy, but I kind

of enjoyed it. I thought it was actually a pretty good, pretty good thing. Check out um. Paul writes, Hey, Buck two things. Keep thinking, why don't we set up our own air base on Kurdish territory. It will give us the ability to supply air power and a base of operations in the area. Your emergency I experience, Oh, your emergency, I experienced with the e ER loaded with illegal sounds mild. Try visiting the e r s in California. I was a medical rep for years and saw firsthand how many

people abuse this privilege. It's appalling, uh from Paul Paul, I totally agree. And people who talk about illegal immigration and just dismiss things like what happens when remember, I'm not saying that the illegal that the the emergency room was full of illegal aliens who had emergencies and we're no, no, they go for the first line of care because they wanted up paying for it. You have to be treated, and so there there will be no bill, they'll be they will not pay. And so I'm they're saying, I

need someone to operate on my eye. And there are other people there who, according to one of the nurses, were a lot of them were illegal. Uh. And that that's a pretty fair guest considering I'm here in New York City, and what the demographic profile is for New York. Uh, and the emergency room usage that goes on here, and you get people that are taking vision tests and getting eyeglasses.

And I'm not begrudging that people want eyeglasses or that they need basic vision tests in a you know, because they are illegals, I get it. I'm just saying, it's the emergency room, and there are a whole lot of people who did not have anything even in the universe of an emergency. And Paul is telling me he saw the same thing in California when he was working as

a medical wrap. I totally believe it. Um William writes, uh Buck, Why isn't there a special prosecutor to find out who tortured and killed Deputy federal Prosecutor Jonathan Luna in two thousand and three. He worked out of the Federal courthouse in Baltimore. There's a massive cover up regarding this case. I'm now investigating this terrible crime myself. Um Well William, I have no idea about this case at all. So I'm gonna have to take a look at this one.

And I can't give you anything beyond thanks for the note, and I'll take a look. Next up here, Alex writes, Hey, Buck, love this show Shields High. Fairly new listener, and you've got yourself a new regular listener. Now I'm told that Irish gypsies are called tinkers. I thought they were called travelers. Maybe they're called tinkers. I know they don't like gypsy and they definitely don't like being called pikers, which I

think is quite an insult over there. So yeah, and thank you very much Alex for being a new part of the team. Uh. Next here, got a lot of notes this week appreciated of course. I love your show and I can't wait for more Shields High episodes. I agree that tossing a few sun dried tomatoes into a dish is not very appetizing, but sun dried tomatoes blended like a pesto makes the best pizza sauce ever. M Sharon, I will give that one some thought. Um, you you may be able to convert me. I do have an

irrational hatred of sun dried tomatoes. Or maybe it's quite rational actually, but there might be ways that you could bring me over your side of things. Mary. Al Right, Hey Buck, if you're looking for a way to get rid of any physical books, check out paperback swap dot com. Also, thank you for all that you say and do. You're a blessing. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and opinions and really enjoy your history lessons too well. Thank

you very much, Mary. And also a note that Mary wrote office Space, Uh, just yesterday when I was on air, in reference to what I said about Staeper three ninth Staper and Adam three ninth Staper, Milt, we're gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage. B We some new people coming in and we need all this space we can get. So if you could just go ahead and you pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific. It excuse me,

I believe you hit my stapler. I believe I love him. In Office Spaces, it is a timeless classic of Mike Judges entire catalog of work. Office Space maybe my very favorite. Although Silicon Valley was really good, I think it's gone a little downhill in the last couple of seasons. I'll be honest, it's not nearly The writing is just not as funny and as clever as it was before, but Mary, you are correct, that was office space. Thank you very much.

Great to hear from you. Uh William writes book, You don't know how tired I am of talking heads who have never been in harm's way banging the war drum. Well, will William, I I understand, and I agree. I think it's far too easy to always talk about how we just need to go over there and kick butt. Man. I know what kicking butt entails. I've seen others do it up close and personal, and there's nothing that is more serious in terms of a national discussion than when

we put our own in harm's way. And I think that staying out of Syria is an absolutely essential, essential policy goal for the Trump administration. I really do. And when I say staying out, I mean no land invasion, no massive occupation, none of that. We should be doing things. We just don't have to do everything. Brian is next up. He rights buck Love the show I'm fifty five, but was definitely able to relate to all of the John Hughes films. I truly believe John Hughes was the Shakespeare

of that generation. I'm tired of the rewriting of history. Well, Brian, I like John Hughes films too, and I think they're really important in my in my formative years. And I just would note that there's really very little now that Disney films, John Hughes films, I mean Disney cartoons. Back from my youth, nothing is able to stand up to the new regime of political correctness. And we just need to stop, you know, we need to stop that from

overtaking the arts, from overtaking our conversations. It's just too much. Uh. Next up we have Roger, who writes Buck for confessing to having creed on your iPod, you are now charged with crimes against humanity shields high. Well, all I have to say to you, Roger is I'm six feet from derege and I'm thinking, baby six feet all right, I'll stop, but that's my response to you, Roger. Uh. Next up is Eric, who writes about nine minutes into Tuesday's podcast,

you're killing me with the not my President thing. Well, Eric, I hope you enjoyed that not my president, not my president. They thought that was a really clever chat here on the streets of New York City. They were wrong, but that did not stop them. We got Philip here rights again, the affirmative action culture segment was great. Uh and that and that's artificially segregates our society. Great spot on Wednesday confirming concerning affirmative action at Penn Law too. Well, thank

you very much, Philip, I appreciate that. Um. Next up, we got Matthew, who writes love your show and was awesome to meet you a talk tank in Fort Wayne. About fifty and twenty years ago, the Springfield, Illinois Police Department had to turn down white applicants in order to hire less qualified minority applicants in the name of diversity. I've been mad about that ever since. And I've even put Native American on my job applications, even though only

one sixteenth Native American shields high. Matthew, Matthew, look, I understand. You know, there's been a lot of big fights here in New York City over the f D and y the Fire Department, which is much more or homogeneous, much more white than any social justice warriors are okay with. And so they've done all these things where they try to change the tests, but then they run a foul of well are people taking different tests for the same fire department job? Because that would seem on its face

to be discriminatory. Uh So it happens all over the country, and it's something we need to keep our eye on and uh and keep fighting this fight. I think it's very important. Are one more here, Earnest right, it's too deep, too deep dive requests from a long time fan back in the reel from back in the real news days. Number One, symbolism of the U. S. Flag and flag etiquette. I doubt youngsters have heard that the red and white

stripes signify the blood soaked bandages of continental soldiers. Number Two bigger government as a result of revenue sharing post Vietnam War. Instead of cutting taxes without war expense, taxes remained up and government grants grew. I'm seventy one and I remember these things. Please share them with your younger listeners. From earn in Yuma. Well, Ernest, thank you so much for being with me from way back when Ernest and Becky appreciated. And without my friends, I'm gonna have to

clear out the Freedom Hut for the rest of the night. Uh. I got guys here, I got Mike and John that they need to go home, so I can't just keep on going otherwise I would thank you as always for joining me. Please do spread word about the show. Check out some of our advertisers that we've mentioned throughout the program. It's a way to support them and us and get some great gear for yourself. Until next time, my friends, Shields High