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with Bolton straight away, Mustache Bolton. Right, isn't there a Beatles song? I am the Walrus? Right? Isn't that? Or is a line? A line from a Beatles song? Because the must the Bolton mustache is Walrus like, and I respect that the guy's willing to go out on a limb in this way and be so devoted to a particular style of facial hair. Somebody who is newer to the facial hair game respect for Bolton on that, but some disrespect on some other things should come mister Bolton's way.

And I guess that's where we start this today. Why would a former senior adviser to any president, never mind this president, think it is appropriate to write down everything that was said in meetings and then use some of that, at least to publish a book so that the public can know what was going through the president's mind and how he reaches the decisions that he reaches. Notice how

this is very much out of the Komi playbook. You see these bureaucratic infighters, people who have spent a long time in the corridors of power and government often have competing emotions. And this comes from my time in the CIA, dealing with not just the most senior CIA folks, but also other people throughout the government all the way up to the President. I had briefings in the Oval Office with the President, the Vice President, national Security Advisor, and

so on and so forth. And when you spend some time in those policy circles, you get the sense very quickly that you have people who are both frustrated. They feel frustrated and underappreciated because their genius has not been fully embraced by the rest of their government peers. And then there's also quite a bit of arrogance because they've had this power and they think, they really know, they're

the one that is best suited for this job. They're the one that needs to maintain the perception in government circles and even more importantly, in many ways outside of government, that they have a wisdom insight that other people would not bring to the same role. What is that really based in I don't know. I don't think you could

really point to anything in particular. In fact, I have popularized what I believe now many people understand to be a truism about these government agencies and these government positions, which is that they're very hard jobs to get. That doesn't mean that the people who get them are impressive, highly skilled, and worthwhile. Just because it's hard to get, you know, it's hard to win the lottery. It doesn't mean a lottery winner as a genius. Right, that's a

simplification of this principle. But you understand where I'm going with it, So I'm Bashador Bolton. You look at him and you ask, well, what exactly are the big foreign policy successes that this individual has. Does he feel any even a little bit chastened over the Iraq War? No?

Does he feel like there has been a really now multidecade failure in the war in Afghanistan to even understand what we are doing there other than prevent the Taliban from taking over the country and defeating the allies that we have spent billions and billions and billions of dollars training, equipping, and trying to assist. Perhaps maybe people feel that that's enough of a mission, but then we should at least

be honest about it. There is no future in which a stable and democratic and worthwhile from a nation state perspective, Afghanistan exists. It's always going to be this difficult, violent backwater of a country. That's just something that we may have to step I would prefer there was honesty from policy circles though about this. Why is Bolton someone who has this job of National Security Advisor? Well, it's in no small part because he was making the rounds as

a pundit on Fox News. He had visibility to this president. To Trump did not come from the left wing media swamp. And as we see with Trump, if you were good enough on Fox and known in those conservative circles, it's very it was a very useful springboard to some of the most powerful positions in government. And this this didn't always result in a good outcome. Just look at the mooch. Hey, a mooch sennor Scaramouchi, who is really reveling in his

turn coode status against the president. I mean, this was a fellow who I remember. I sat on a panel on Maria Bardaromo's show once and we had we had the Mooch come in, and he was almost the Trump whisperer. He was an individual who came in to tell us what was really going on in Trump's mind, in his heart, and all of it was that Trump is a genius, He's amazing, He's fantastic. And then when the mooch really

self destructed, it wasn't deep. You can't blame Trump for the mooch calling a reporter and going on some really shockingly profane I mean, I do use salty language in private life, but not like the Mooch does shockingly profane tirade and got himself fired from the White House. Speaking of people getting very important, very senior jobs, White House Communications Directors, Karamuchi, Special Advisor to the President, Amorrossa. I mean,

you go down this list the presidents. I mean, I'm amazed at actually how successful he has been given some of the quite honestly unforced errors that have been made. Right, I mean, the fact that he withstood the Russia collusion ambush, which is what it was. It was a coordinated ambush from the deep state, the left of Democrats trying to undermine this present. The fact that he was able to do that is remarkable, and I think it would have

broken a lesser man. I don't know. I don't know if I would have been able to handle in Trump shoes, all that pressure, people going after trying to use the weaponize the Department of Justice, to go after your children, to go after your family, to go after anybody who's close to you. That's intimidating, even when you're the President of the United States. But on the personnel choices he has made, I can make no defense of Trump in that in that realm, I mean, he just he's I

don't know who he's listening to. I don't know why he can't figure this out, and people who Sometimes people get mad at me or Trump supporters, and I say, or really, are we gonna you get? Some of Trump's most senior people turn on him after he's given them the opportunity of a lifetime to serve their country. And that's what brings me back to Bolton here. What's most important?

When I was talking to you about these bureaucrats and their egos and the frustration insecurity and arrogance that all combines in this Knox just stew I'm so amazing, but people don't think I'm amazing enough. And I'm the one

who needs this job. But it's really about the mission, this ping ponging back and forth psychologically, what is really important using that position to advance the interests of the United States, the American people, or making sure that you get a two million dollar book advance and get really big fees on the speaking circuit afterwards, and that your policy chums, your buddies think that you did great work and maybe you'll get pulled into another administration, or you'll

be made the president of some very cash you know, coffers full to the brim think tank, or maybe you'll get pulled in to be on the board of some company, not Barisma, because you've got to be a real superstar to get on the board of Barisma. As we know, apparently Hunter Biden actually is going to pay the child support videos for the child he fathered with a stripper that he initially denied paternity of. And I believe he's also married and his wife is expecting, so he's got

his handsful. But he is going to be writing some checks, it seems, before having to go to court to have them force him to do so. I go back to my premise on this of could you imagine if one of the Trump children had this story? Never mind, I mean there's the BURISMUS staff and the doing crack and getting kicked out of a military post. He only got his dad was a senator, is a public affairs post, gets kicked out of that for failing a drug I mean, what a mess. But remember nothing he did was in

any way illicit. Hunter Biden has fantastic judgment. How could you question his judgment with the crack and the strippers and the out of wedlock lying about birth thing and all that, And I mean, who could really think that Hunter Biden would make such a mistake, make an air of course not, it's malarkey, utter malarkey. But then that

brings me to Bolton again. This is another reason why the Senate, the Republican senators that are currently in the seventh day of what is a stunningly boring trial, because it's there's not even no normal person hears about what the allegations are and says, oh my gosh, the president did that. First of all, he didn't do anything, because nothing happened at Second of all, even if he tried to do the thing they say he wanted to do,

who cares he has the right to do it. They're impeaching the president over nothing, or they have impeached him mother over nothing. They're trying to remove him even that step further over absolutely nothing. And that's why with the exception of about you know, three or four million superlibs who watched this coverage on TV, and I mean, I

know how many of them are super libs. That's who watches the coverage probab about half Superlibs and half people who just care to know really followed politics closely, Conservatives, and there are other people, but you know, there is this core of left wing base that finds all these speeches by Adams and I think it's journalists. For example, they think every Adam Shifts speech is the combination of you know, the funeral oration by Pericles, you know, the

Gettysburg address. I mean, you name him, the greatest speeches in history. You know, Eisenhower talking about the military industrial complex and all this stuff, all the greatest speeches in history. And they think that Adam Shift is just doing that all the time when he's talking about this obstruction and

corruption and all the rest of it. Mustache Bolton should feel, honestly, his loyalty should be to the people of the United States, and in that means not going along with the ambush that Democrats are running against the duly elected president of the United States on false slash, trumped up pardon the phrase pretenses, that's where we are. His book is not as important as not playing into the Democrats hands here. But again, the president brings in someone of questionable judgment,

questionable history, and loyalty. On top of all of that, I have never been a Boltonist. He is definitely showing us shades of James Comy here. Who was the single most important person in the whole James Coomy fiasco we know is Comy himself. That's what really mattered. It was never about Trump or the American people or anything else. First and foremost, it was about Comey. Why does Bolton think he's so important that this book needs to drop

now at this point? And why should he profit so handsomely off of betraying the very commander in chief whom he was entrusted with the sacred obligation to advise on matter of war and peace? Do we ever get an answer for that? Now? Every everybody just gets to cash out. Now, everybody in DC, all the swamp dwellers, get to do whatever they want on either side of the aisle when it's time to fill up their bank account and get their face on television. It's distressing. It's also why I

sit here and tell you I do believe. I believe Mitch McConnell will keep the senators in line here. I won't go as far to say that I can predict because Mitt Romney. You know when MIT's in it, you never know with friends like Mitt, who needs enemies in politics. But I do think that they're going to vote to end this thing, that they should just have the vote.

Have the vote. Let's see. If they don't, they will not have learned a fundamental lesson of the Trump era, which is that if you if you insist on taking good faith actions to try to make the other side like you, when all they've done is bad faith action and show you how much they hate you, you're not going to win them over and you're not gonna win. I've got a better idea. Hey, Republicans in the Senate, let's win. Shut it down, take the vote. America needs

to move on. You're in the Freedom Hut. This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast. Well, it's kind of ironic. It's coming from the New York Times. Someone telling the New York Times about a book deal about somebody wants to sell a lawyer or lawyer kind of confirmed. Regardless regardless of all that, you go to the fact Ukraine got the money. They did nothing to get the money. Zelenski, the president said, there was nothing held up. If you based upon that, you have the transcripts to which the

whole world does. If you stick to the facts, there's no reason why this carry on beyond Friday. If you look at what the Democrats said in Adler when he was in Congress proposing this impeachment, that they proved to beyond a shadow of a doubt, it is not the Senate's rule to have witnesses come in. I do not think they made the case. I think they repeated the same thing. I think they went overboard when you saw Nadler and you also saw Adam Shifts and they're going

to put people's heads on a spike and others. I think they did everything in their case to make sure that this is ended. By this. The Republicans have been operating in good faith this whole time. I think too much good faith, and I think that they have allowed the Democrats to gain too much ground for their underhanded messaging efforts. But here you are. You know, the draft of the of the Bolton book seems to have been or at least parts of it have been leaked to

the New York Times. This is Kavanaugh two point oh, this is the playbook all over again. They've decided that they're not they haven't won. Everyone knows this now. I mean the desperate Dems that go on TV and say, oh my gosh, it was an amazing speech. Look with the no no sorry if Nadler, no serious person finds them to be compelling truth tellers. No honest observer in this whole process would turn around and say, yeah, Adam

Schiff and Nadler, they really convinced me. I was on the I was on the fence before, but I've changed my mind because of what they have said. You know, there's there's some different areas they keep trying to find. What will the same way than the earliest days after the whistle blower we still don't know the whistle blower is. Why is that because the media is complicit in this? Well A, you're gonna tell me the media can't figure this out. They've all got sources, the national security apparatus

they can't figure out. And we already we've it's already been reported it's Eric Scaramella. Can we find out if that's actually true or not? You know, can we verify this that's what's been reported? No, no one. When was the last time you even heard that name? And it matters? A whole lot who he is and what his motivations were.

It certainly does because we're in this game of perception, perception of were these charges brought against the president because of outrage against crimes, against against constitution or were a bunch of left wing activists in the government conspiring to find some excuse because the Mueller probe failed to bring this president down. That's a very important distinction. That's one we should have all the facts we can to answer

one way or the other. But they pretend that that's not the present, that's that's not the case, that's not going to happen. Um. You have also the severity of this is now getting you know that they keep moving. What the ground is that they want to have this fight on the Democrats are going to? Where are they really going to focus in? One area is as is

this even is this conduct even impeachable? Which from the very beginning, so this should just be I mean, this is where Trump and his defenders should have should have made the this is where the fortress should have been set up. And this is ridiculous. It's utterly clearly not impeachable conduct. They happened, and he's allowed to have the conversation he had and that's it. That's it. But sometimes this White House doesn't have the best messaging strategy. Thanks

for listening to The bus Essen Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. And So, the appropriate question for crimes alleged in the articles and the common law of presidential impeachment and Nixon yes, in Clinton yes, here no a factor to be considered as the judges in the High Court come as you will individually to your judgment.

What's a way to gauge the severity of this? You get into this argument about about whether there are whether you have to commit an actual criminal offense to be impeached, and I think that in fairness and in honesty, no, of course there are. There are circumstances under which you could be impeached without violating the law. But when we talk about high crimes and misdemeanors, right, I mean the language used, the perception of why would this be set

up in this way? You look at the history of this process when it has been used before, and the fact that it has never been successfully for example used, meaning that a president's ever been removed should tell us something. It's a very high bar, a very high bar. It was FDR impeached and removed for violating the constitutional rights of Japanese Americans who were put into internment camps. Now, of course not. I mean you look at all these other times in history. I mean you look at Wilson,

look at FDR. You could look at a whole bunch of presidents and say, well, I mean they they violated people's rights. They did things that would be far more egregious, far more egregious when President Trump has done so. Really, this becomes a the reason this is not a criminal proceeding. Okay, this is not in the hands that are partner of justice. It is assessing whether or not this is an outrage without politics. Can you take political inclination out of this?

And would a normal American be outrage to hear about this? And I know we're in a culture we're outrage is so cheap, and the media thrives off of it, and they're, oh my gosh, they pretend to be freaked out all the time. But when someone sits down and says to you, this is what happened. The President United States have this phone call raised the issue of whether he could get some answers in an area of corruption involving somebody who, yes,

is a Democratic contender for the presidency. Does anyone say, oh, that's just too far. The only people who say that are the same people who think the president is a traitor because of Russia, which was a lie. The president is a rapist, including this woman who came forward with the allegation from thirty five years ago at a department store, went on Anderson Cooper TV. Made a mockery of Anderson Cooper's journalism. You know said, quote, this is the woman

who accused him. You know quote, I think rapist. Sexy end quote, that is what the accuser of Donald Trump. That everyone now is just pretended like that didn't happen. What she said. So, the same people who believe that Trump is out of his mind crazy has to be replaced through the exercise of a constitutional amendment to remove a crazy president. The same people think the president was a trader with Russia. The same people who think the

president should be removed for the emolument's clause. The same people who think the president should be removed because of the Billy Bush tape. I mean just whatever it is. Those are the only people who hear about this story and say, yeah, yeah, he should be impeached and removed

from office for it. If you don't fit into that category, if you're not somebody who has thought the president should be removed from office for a dozen other things, none of which he should have been removed from removed for, then you hear this and you say no. So when they talk about how there's no crime, I mean, there's there's no crime against against dignity, ethics, and morality worthy of being removed from office, I mean, forget about it

actually being a criminal statute. There's just no They're there, but they'll they'll try on this and they're hoping to focus in on something that will just give them a little more a little more leeway. Look, it's pretty straightforward. If you want to take a sports analogy. This is the this is the fourth quarter. And now you know, now the two teams in this impeachment and removal proceeding, Republicans and Democrats. You know, they're calling timeouts, they're throwing

the ball. You know, they're throwing the ball, making sure that it gets out of bounds so that the clock stops I mean there there's time management going on here because one side just wants to do anything to extend this and that's the Democrats because they've lost, and they know it. They've lost. They did not they did not make the case, they did not win the perception battle. And Republicans it's in their hands now. All Republicans have to do. Producing Mark's gonna be proud of me. I'm

gonna use some sports here. All Republicans in the Senate have to do is take a knee. That's all they have to do. They have the ball, the clock is running down. They can take a knee. Why when the other side has been cheating it every way and on the other side is doing everything they can to make sure that it hasn't been a fair game, and you have the ball in your hands and you're the Republican party, why would you not say we're ending this thing. That's

what justice would be, That's what justice demands here. And I worry that there are some Republicans so in love the same way that John Bolton is so in love with his own greatness and wisdom that his story and his book is more important than this presidency. Clearly there are Republican senators, where I think are more in love with the perception of themselves as the good, ethical, honest people.

They find Trump still so unseemly. Oh, Trump is such a such an odious character that they just want to create some separation with him because they're not like Trump. They're better and Trump. That's clearly what Mitt Romney thinks. Mitt Romney who Donald Trump brought back into the fold and was willing to help again and was willing to

play ball with And that's one thing about Trump. I will say, Yes, you know, people come and go in his good graces, but if you extend your hand to Trump, he seems to me willing to take it, even in cases where he shouldn't. But that is that is the reality of this president, for better or for worse. And this is the reality of Mitt Romney prousition mark playclip nine. I've said for some time, but I hope to be

able to hear from John Bolton. I think with a story that came out yesterday's increasingly apparent that it would be important to hear from John Bolton. I of course will make a final decision on witnesses after we've heard from not only the prosecution, but also the defense. But I think at this stage it's pretty fair to say that John Bolton has a relevant testimony to provide to those of us who are sitting in impartial justice. John

Bolton's testimony is relevant. Why isn't Hunter Biden's testimony relevant? How come Mitt Romney won't come out? I mean, if Mitt was really standing on principle and not the greatness of MIT, sounds like the worst sitcom ever Mitt Romney, you know, just walking around following Mitt Romney, how awesome he is. But if it wasn't about the greatness of MIT, wouldn't you line this up and say, hold on a second. Okay, look, I want to hear from Bolden, but I also want

to hear from Hunter Biden. And then when people say it's not relevant, that's a joke, that's preposterous. Of course it's relevant. The entire Democrat case rests on. It was completely illegitimate, unfounded to ask any questions about an investigation involving Hunter Biden in barisma, when any normal, any federal corruption prosecutor, knowing these facts in the situation, would say, yeah, no, that's worthy of a probe, that's worthy of it's worth

looking into what happened there. We should know, we should know, So how can that not be relevant. It's not relevant because that doesn't look good for the Democrats, and they just think that they will win the public perception battle. They can shout, they can outshout the Republicans in this propaganda fight, and that's that's what they're we're banking on. Which again it's why I say, Republicans, you have the ball. The clock is running down to take their knee. This

is done. It's done. They're gonna say Trump is impeach They're gonna try to stain him. They have stained him. I don't know, not to anybody who not to anyone who has ever supported Trump or thought about supporting Trump, we all know what a joke this thing is. But they have put this mark on Trump's record forever that he has been impeached. So okay, they got that. They abuse their power, They abuse the faith the American people put in them by giving them power to do this.

The Senate wants to give them what why why show good faith? All because of the greatness of the Senate. This is this is simply absurd. And we also know this is absurd because there was not a single member of the opposing party, as ken ken Starr, a man who knows a thing or two about impeachment play clip five. To the contrary, for the first time in America's modern history, not a single House member of the presidence parties supported either of the two articles of impeachment, not one, not

in committee, not on the House floor. And that pivotal fact puts in bold relief the Peter Redino principle, call it the Redino rule. Impeachment must be bipartisan in nature. Against sitting as a courtin this body should signal to the nation the return to our traditions bipartisan impeachments. This is an entirely partisan process, and a part is an impeachment process. There's no Republican who's gone along with this,

no Republican who says, yes, you're right. Finally, this is this is too much, that Trump has gone too far. And underneath all of this there's an assumption, an assumption that I think is pretty offensive, but it's also being made by emotionally unstable libs. So how upset can you really be that there's nothing that Trump could do that

would make people turn them. That's just not true. If during that whole Russian collusion fiasco, they had found real proof that the Trump campaign, on the direction of the President, had tried to engage in a program of stealing of emails and at the direction of the president and coordination with the Russians about when to release them. If the initial allegation but that were true and they could prove it, well, yeah,

of course, you know, you can't have that. You can't have a president working with a foreign power open, you know, intentionally trying to skew an election. I mean, that's why they use that narrative because it was so. But it was of course all a lie. It was all a lie. You can notice how that the storyline there wasn't well, even if President Trump did that, that's fine, it was well,

he didn't do it. He's innocent on this. The storyline is even more bizarre in a sense because it's not even the president is innocent, it's that there's nothing, there's really no violation. I don't even if John Bolden comes forward, and I know that I'm not entirely alone on this, but they're not that many people who agree with me, even on the right, either if John Bolden came forward and said, yeah, he was conditioning the AID on getting

investigations of what was going on with Barisma. He's the commander in chief, he's allowed to do that. If you think that's too much bare knuckle politics, few that's a little bit too And remember Obama had the IRS investigating political opponents. We're supposed to pretend like that wasn't a big deal. After the Tea Party had completely crushed Democrats in a midterm election, all of a sudden, going to the twenty twelve election, the IRS is using is weaponized

against conservative groups, patriot conservative America. That's like who they're going after and the IRS. That tells you a lot, doesn't it. But you know, there was no there's no impeachment move against Obama. There people weren't. Oh, you know Obama needs to be removed from office for this. No, he said there was not a smidgeon of corruption, and he lied to the American people. He got away with

lying all the time, didn't matter he was Obama. Trump lies and they tell you Trump lies about his shoe sizes. You know, Trump lies about who cares Obama lies about. You can keep your plan if you want to keep your plan, your healthcare plan. That seems to matter to me quite a bit more. I am hoping, friends, that this will end soon. I am hoping that we are not foolish enough to go through what we went through with Kavin. I remember that, Oh, the FBI needs to

investigate the allegations of crazy people who are lying. No. I don't think the FBI should have had to investigate the allegations of crazy people who are lying. That was absurd. Oh, we're going to extend this now because John Bolton wants to say something. If John, if what John Bolton says is true, I don't care. Republicans should still say Nope,

no removal, see you later, doesn't matter. There's nothing John Bolton can say at this point that would change anyone's mind who understands the full dynamics of what's really going on here, So who cares, don't fall into the trap this is. This is where the left uses the underlying, the underlying desire for decency that conservatism fosters, and I don't. Oh, Trump is so India. Whatever the reality is, the Conservatives are much more likely to play by rules that hurt

their own side than Democrats. Are, and you can think of countless examples of this. We cannot let that be used as a weapon against us in intelection year when the American people should get this, should get the choice I give you. I mean, I give you my word. You know this. If we have an election and Donald Trump loses, I'm going to say, okay, I mean, unless there's something that really happened, that's an irregularity. And so

unless there really was cheating, which I don't think. I don't think they're unlike democrats, I'm not saying that that's going to happen. They're already saying that's opening. I'll say, Okay, Trump lost, you know, perhaps Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren or Joe Biden's a president. Now we got to deal with this. This is our new reality. I'm not gonna cry and say that they stole it and he cheated to do That's what democrats do. You're in the Freedom hunt.

This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. The articles of impeachment before you have been passed on a purely partisan basis for the first time in history. In fact, there was bipartisan opposition to the articles of impeachment. They have been trying to impeach the president from the moment of his inauguration for no reason, just because he won. That is why they are impeaching that. That's why they have impeached a president. That's why they're trying to remove the president.

It's because he won and he was not supposed to. It's because that is the violation, and people are still very upset about it, and they're even more terrified in a sense, the ratification, the consolidation, the stamp of approval of the American people, not just of Trump winning the first time, but he's been in office for four years. They've all told us, they say, he's so dumb, he doesn't know anything. He's going to be a disaster. He's better than Obama, and he's better than Bush as president.

So far, he just is. They can try to tell us otherwise. There was actually some polling that came out, I think it was yesterday on what do people think of where the economy is now versus where it was before Trump took office? And on every major metric, in every area where you can try to measure this, it's better.

It's objectively better, it's subjectively better. People understand there, you know, they know based on the numbers that things are going really well, but they also feel like things are going better than they were. Like, it's never perfect. There's no such thing as economic security. You know, Producer Mark needs to build a when he gets the house for him and the new missus, he's got to build a little like poolhouse or something for the Buckster because it's too

expensive here in New York City. I don't want him go to do. You know, there's no such thing as economic security, really, but you do the best you can with what you have, and you hope that there's an economy that fosters your talents and makes things easier for you instead of harder for you to succeed. That's where we are, and they want they want the American people. They want the will of the American people to be thwarted to use a process once. I mean, we've already

had a special counsel. When you really think about this, it's just so absurd. And they've been punishing us by putting this through, this this worthless spectacle of Schiff And now they're in Pelosi just lying to our faces all the time. Oh, they're so sad, that's why they're giving out pens when they're signing the article of appeachment. Oh, it's so grave, and they don't want to do it, lying to us like we're all a bunch of idiots. We all know what they're doing, we all understand what

this process has been about from the beginning. And it's also just boring now it's just gotten to the boing where I don't want to hear more of their same arguments over and over again. We've all been through this enough. The country should have other things too focus on. There are other more worthwhile areas of our attention. Pretty much anything is more worthwhile of our attention. This is the seventh day of the Senate trial. It should be the last day of the Senate trial. They should vote, they

should be done. That's it. Anything else and the buckster is going to be very upset. Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. My friends, let's do a quick review, shall we. Why did the president win? Why did he beat Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen? There are a lot of reasons we could put forward. Some reasons as being more compelling than others.

Hillary's inability to find Wisconsin on a map, for example, might have been part of the problem. There are tons of things that you could point to, but one that was a consistent, a consistent theme. And I remember this because I was, for the twenty fifteen twenty sixteen election cycle a political analyst at CNN, a conservative political analyst. They always would call me that by a conservative commentator, and then they'd bring on political analyst so and so.

You know, conservative political commentator Buck Sexton. You can just hear the audience booing, poo, conservative, boo, Republican, and they'd bring on, Ah, yes, let's hear from Maria Cardona or Van Jones or Anna Navarro allegedly a Republican. By the way, all she does is trash Republicans, but she's allegedly a Republican. That's of the dishonest people and media, of the people that I really I feel both sort of sorry for them, and I find it humorous and also disgusting all at

the same time. Are those who fall into the Jennifer Rubin and a Navarro, Tom Nichols who unfollowed me on Twitter. Oh so sad, oh so, sad. I was always I was always very fair and good to Tom back in the day when he wanted to have adult conversations. But he's lost his mind and so now he doesn't follow me on Twitter anymore. It it brings a tear to my eye. If anything, I'm I'm too polite, I'm too gallant for this industry. But sometimes you got to call it out where it is. Max Boot another loon on

the right. But all he does is say what the left wants him to. Doesn't understand or doesn't care that he's being used as a prop against his former ideological allies. And I guess these people never really cared about these policy matters, never cared about these public debates, even if they devoted decades of their lives to it, their their professional lives, even if they were giving speeches and writing

books about how conservatism is. This is the way, as they say on The Mandalorian Great Show, highly recommend Baby Yoda worth the price of admission right then and there. But then you have the reality of what CNN has become. People ask, how could you ever have worked there? And I tell them all it's because it has always been liberal. But it used to be liberal and we're gonna bring on Republicans, and we got to treat the Republican with

some basic decorum and respect. We've we've got to be willing to show the Republican that, you know, we're not just going to ambush them on air. And that wasn't always true, and there was always but you know, I used to do Brook Baldwin show, and she was fair to me at least when I was talking about terrorism stuff. You know, I did other peoples shows and there were a reasonable but you know, Don Lemon Show was always just a mess. Don Lemon Show is always where the

CNN got to really be CNN. They they dropped the facade of Oerward journalists, and they thought they made this calculation that they could show Trump rallies, that they would show the American people who Donald Trump was and that it would hurt Trump. And they were always really mocking him. They're like, aha, look at Trump, look at hout dumb. This is look at all these people that are so

foolish they think Trump can win the presidency. And it was too late, you know, when Zucker and company finally figured out that, oh no, people like a politician who speaks like a normal person. People like someone who embraces the fact that he's imperfect but wants to represent the will of a forgotten constituency of American voters, particularly white working class voters in this country. I mean people like that.

CNN didn't figure that out. And there was also always this elitist contempt, but it's an unearned elitism, not just a sn at MSNBC to. I mean Joe Scarborough. Joe Scarborough passes judgment all the time on people who are far more intelligent, courageous, ethical, and worthwhile than he is.

That that's really part of that. That's his shick. He's like the mean dumb guy in high school who's always wearing the you know, the varsity letterman Jack or whatever it was, Like, Yeah, I mean that guy, oh excuse me, mister, like valedictorian, who's gonna go ROTC because you're just so cool.

That's Joe Scarborough. I mean, this is who these are people that their their stick is appealing to insecure elitists because one of the one of the one of the factors, one of the realities of the trump eras you got a guy who calls out journalist calls out a lot of people says, why, why exactly are you so spectacular? Why should you be able to look down your nose

and other people? Why should you be able to put others who have made different choices, who have perhaps you know either you know, whether we're talking about women who have focused on building families and staying home and taking care of families. Oh, you know, the elitists on the coast look down on that. Oh, it's like a it's like a form of servitude to be a mom who

takes care of kids. It's ridiculous. And people who don't go to fancy or any four year college and instead sign up voluntarily for the military because they want to serve their country. People who learn to be skilled welders or electricians, or plumbers or carpenters or you know, to make the stuff that we need to make our lives safe and better and easier. You know, there are people that go on TV. They're effectively glorified actors. They don't

know anything, they have no particular skills. They look down on all those people and they think that those people also aren't as good as illegal aliens. Those people are idiots because they don't understand that there are thirty seven genders. Now, those people, you know, need need to learn a whole lot from the huff Post, Vox dot Com, New York Times, left wing pseudo intelligentsia. That was a big underlying theme

of the entire Trump campaign and continues throughout the Trump presidency. Well, we have now one of the most if you're trying to distill that smugness, that unearned arrogance, which is a key characteristic of the modern liberal and unearned arrogance. And I really see this too, and it even comes up among the people that I know in media. Conservatives tend to be not all of them summer I'm the greatest, I do the greatest show, and I'm you know, that's fine,

that's their own thing. But generally speaking, conservatives are more willing to say, look, you know, all the stuff I still have to learn. There's there's a humility of liberals are, oh, I'm a genius. Oh that I've never seen so many people of my life. You go, oh, you turn out TV and all these liberals pose is the true intellectual and then they say stupid things. You know, they all think Laurence tribe is some kind of brilliant legal mind. And then you see what this guy tweets out. You go,

this guy's in Harvard law school. This guy's an idiot, doesn't know doesn't understand things that just a person who thinks things through and has not polluted his mind with the greatness of my every thought. I mean, arrogance can actually be a hindrance to good decision making. Libs, guess what. It's true. You can be trapped in your own composity. Wait, it's a danger on the right end on the left.

But there is no class of people in this country with a great I say this, okay, other than actors, but actors have to usually be pretty good at acting, although some of them are. There is no class of people in this country with a greater degree of unearned arrogance and contempt for normal Americans than your standard lib TV news anchor. They're famous, they're highly paid, and they're

good at basically nothing. It's amazing. It's a great gig if you can get it, But usually gig is a commodation being really lucky and sucking up to the right people. That's how most of the people that you see on TV that get these jobs get them. Speaking of which we have the distillation of the contempt that the lib TV news anchors and their analysts feel for the American people in this unforgettable and I really hope I mean

that word very literally, unforgettable. Do not forget this. Here is how a multi millionaire TV news anchor at CNN and his guests talk about Trump voters. Would you please play producer Mark. He also knows, deep in his heart that Donald Trump couldn't find U crane in a map if you had the letter you and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it. He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world. And so that's partly him playing to their

bass and playing to their audience. You know, the credulous boomer rub demo that backs Donald Trump, that wants to think that that Donald Trump's a smorrow one And there are y'all. Y'all will elite us or them? You elite us with your geography and your maps and your spelling, even though my math you're reading, yeah, you're reading. You know your geography. Know in other countries see from your latte all those lines on the map. Only them elite us.

Know where Ukraine is. Sorry, I apologize, but but it was Rick's fault. I blame Ric but at all honestly, but not sorry. Hold on, wait tell you the second hold on, hold on them. That was good. Sorry, that was a good one. I needed that. Yeah, that was

a good one. Hilarious. I just wonder, I mean, they say this, and I would I would want to know what would what would the reaction have been if on Fox newsample, which I think does have some very earnest journalists who try to try to present the facts as best they can. I'm not saying that no one's perfect that, but I think they make a good faith effort. I

think there are people that try there. And then there's a whole lot of opinion that is to the right, no question, right, it's a it's a conservative leaning network. I don't live in a fantasy where all, of course it is CNN though doesn't say it's a liberal leading network. CNN thinks it's objective. Right, it's a joke, it's ridiculous,

it's absurd. But can you imagine for a second if Fox News had had a couple of it's and by the way, that one guy, Rick Wilson's one of the one of the guys who just all you have to do is go and see the things that he said. I I mean, I'm still amazed that the fact that he goes on TV given what he said about Ann Coulter on Twitter publicly once, which I cannot I could not even begin to repeat on air. It was absolutely

disgusting and heinous. And you know, Anne is amazing, and I think Ann's one of the one of the best contemporary polemicists alive. I make no make no secret of that. And you know, Rick Wilson, He's never been a problem to me. I've met him a few times. I don't have anything personally against him. I just think that his stick is kind of disgusting, and sometimes it is quite clearly disgusting. But you know, he's there and this is

this thing. He's a Republican that just he just dances to the two and the Libs play for him all the time. That's right, you know, come on, Rick Wilson, go in the corner, dance, bear dance. Do what we tell you, Rick Wilson, and they do, and he does it right. This has become the way I guess that

he puts, you know, food on the table. It's how he gets the paycheck, whatever, and the other the other individuals a New York Times writer, and I just have to say, could you imagine if Fox News had one of its main anchors, all right, this isn't some little

late night weekend show or something. I mean, this is one of its main anchors, have on two guests and laughing hysterically while they're essentially saying that, you know, the base of the opposing party, that that Barack Obama's bass can't read, doesn't have have maps, can't spell, you know, and and uh, you know, drinks lattes or whatever, whatever the stuff, all the stuff that they were saying, just

flip it. There would be outrage for all my outrage from the media, you know, especially if they if these conservative commentators in this sense, if they focused in I mean, he went after you know what was it rue? Essentially what they're making fun of here we all know this are rural uh you know, rural senior citizen Trump voters who are white. That's what that's what they're making fun of.

Could you imagine if there was a similar moment where they went after some of the more favorable demographics for the Democratic Party and made fun of a lack of maps and reading and literally, could you imagine the outrage that you would see, Oh, Mike, it would be you know, we would be told that the country was being pulled apart of the scene. There would probably be riots. Actually, I mean there would be real problems if that ever happened.

And you know, it's amazing here CNN thinks that they're the victims. I see this one of the the fellow mister Ali who was not RICKI you know, the other one than Rick Wilson. He's saying, oh, you know, my family's worried about my safety and everything now and look and no, no person, there's never an excuse for threatening anybody because of what they say on TV. And if you do that, you're a moron. I don't care what your politics are, what part of your or anything else.

If you do that, you're a bad person. Okay, so let's just establish that. But this is this is just the way CNN really, This is who that This is who CNN is, This is what that network's all about. And this is what and the reason that you know, I want to bring it up is that they haven't learned anything. It hasn't changed, nothing is different from twenty sixteen four. Them, they don't, they don't feel any sense of Wow, maybe we were wrong to trash Trump so

much because he's actually been a pretty good president. You know, maybe we could try to come up with better ideas to the American people instead of just saying a bunch of you know, toothless hillbilly racists, or the reason that Donald Trump won the election. They still live, you know, they would say that we live though the Conservatives live

in a bubble. No lives live in a bubble. They don't understand that there are a whole lot of people, millions and millions of millions of them, who vote for Donald Trump who just think that it's a guy who is going to do good things for the country and doesn't look even though he's a billionaire and you know

he's married to supermodels and all this stuff. You know, he doesn't look on people who make a living, do the right thing, treat their families well, try to support their try to support their wife and children or you know, their husband and children, whichever way, doesn't look down on them with contempt. On white working class voters in particularly doesn't look at them with contempt, and the Democratic Party really does have a contempt for that demographic. You know,

move aside, you're a problem. You're not educated, up, you're you're not sophisticated. Up. You don't drink enough lattas with almond milk or actually a hazel on milk, which I'm I'm a latte drinker, so there's that. I actually make a pretty mean latte. CNN shows you who they are. They've learned nothing. Just remember this. The New York Times, the Washington Post, all these other major news out that they all view the same way. They all view their

fellow Americans with contempt. You know, I don't view the Democrat constituency the same the same way that the Democrats view the Republican constituency. And that I don't. I don't hate them at all. I don't. I don't have hatred for them. I think they're wrong, I think they're misguided. I think that there are a lot of things that history shows us that they don't yet understand or are unwilling to unwilling to take into account with their analysis. But I still do hope. And that's why when I

hear from Democrats who listen to this show. It makes me happy. I want more Democrats to listen to this show because I do think that there are people who the more they think about their beliefs and the more they think about being Democrats and what that really means, and get and get an unbiased or shouldn't unbiased? Pardon me, get an unfiltered sense of it from somebody that opposes

that ideology, who understands that he's talking about. The more likely is we can bring people over to our side and our way of thinking, which I do think is better for the country. But CNN, folks, when people show you who they are, listen to them, let them tell you. CNN showed you what it's all about. Don't forget it. You're in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Basically, wonder Biden got a job? Stab place president? If that's a crime my name, shouldn't half of your

children be in prison? My children are nine and eleven. I'm sorry that you want to throw a nine year old in prison, but at this point, my third grader plays basketball and softball at her school, so so stop playing the nasty No, no, stop playing the nasty Washington Game. I'm sorry games attacking a nine year old. Get him, get him ted, don't don't let don't let up on Brian Carram of CNN. Oh, that's right, and Playboy go get him ted? Absolutely. Oh aren't your kids you know,

Hunter Biden? Look at these Look at these psycho libs. They're defending the hundred Biden arrangement. Oh it doesn't everybody, No, not everybody's kids get fifty thousand dollars a month because daddy, your mommy is a politician to sit on a board they have no business on while daddy or mommy are supposed to be investigating that company. No, not everybody gets it.

That's not a normal thing. But this is this is what they have to do libs for their positions, to hold the positions they do in this whole hundred Biden thing, they have to pretend to be complete idiots. Thanks for listening to The bus Esson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. The typical board number of these Fortune one hundred companies, we know their titans of their industry. They're

highly qualified and as such they're well compensated. Even so, Hunter Biden was paid Sidney efficently more. This is how well he was compensated. So Hunter Biden has paid over eighty three thousand dollars a month, while the average American family of four during that time each year made less than fifty four thousand dollars. And that's according to us since his bureau during that time. And this is what's

been reported about his work on the board. The Washington Post said, quote, what specific duties Hunter Biden carried out for Barisma are not fully known end quote. Then New Yorker reported, quote once or twice a year, he attended Barisma board meetings and energy forums that took place in Europe end quote. When speaking with ABC News about his qualifications to be on Barisma's board, Hunter Biden didn't point to any of the usual qualify stations of a board member.

Hunter Biden had no experience in natural gas, no experience in the energy sector, no experience with Ukrainian regulatory affairs. As far as we know, he doesn't speak Ukrainian. Pretty sure he doesn't. Pretty sure, Hunter Biden doesn't speak any Ukrainian. Notice, how there's still a defensiveness that was Pambondi talking about how this whole Hunter Biden on the board of Arhism is completely absurd, and liberals just pretend like it's not. The Libs act like there's nothing to see here. There's

everything to see here. This is now the standard. Remember they also have spent so much time and you know this is important context for this raising how dare and this is a real thing. How there are diplomats who buy food at Trump Hotel, a place where I've hung out a lot, where they have fantastic hanging bacon strips where they take a little flame gun out I guess a flamethrower. I don't know what, a little whatever you call it. It looks like it's a little fiery thing

that comes out of a can and a blowtorch. There we go, a flame thingy. So yeah, they take a blowtorch and they do The bacon strip's very much worth it. If you ever go down there. That's that's the best the food. Other than that, I'm gonna tell you it is pretty mediocre, but the bacon's excellent. I actually saw a recipe last night that uses interwoven strips of crispy bacon instead of a bun bam, hashtag paleo, hashtag gluten free. But there were all these stories. The Washingtonost run them.

Other places would run them about how there were diplomats who were buying cheeseburgers at Trump Hotel or whatever and having a beer, having glass of wine, and how that's a violation of the Emolument's clause because by spending money, and these are real stories, by spending money. The Washington Post ran this at Trump Hotel, they were perhaps currying favor with the president, and you'd say, to yourself, hold

on a second. They spend a few hundred thousand dollars from twenty different countries on product at a commercial enterprise that has food costs, that has labor costs, and they think that they're gonna sway Trump on foreign policy or something with this. This would this would be like someone saying, Hey, I'm really worried that someone walked up to the president gave him five bucks and was like, I need I need you to, you know, stop backing Ukraine against Russia.

You know, But they gave him five bucks, So I think he's probably gonna I think he's probably gonna come up to my side of this. Thing. It's it's it's again. It's preposterous. They keep making all these preposterous arguments, and then they expect us to take them seriously when they make a new preposterous argument. No, I'd rather not have that approach. I'd rather not accept that. I refuse in the fact to to accept it. But the Hunter Biden thing is not going away anytime soon, because it also

is an issue of corruption. Corruption. The Democrats pretend they give all these speeches, all this oh my gosh, all these speeches about how sad they are about money and politics and how unfair it is that there's all these special interests, and then their kids all just get completely Democrat politicians. Kids get the complete white glove treatment from

the media in with whatever things that they do. I mean, the fact that I'm supposed to listen to Hillary in the starting out, Hillary hollow, the fact that I'm supposed to listen to Chelsea Clinton. Chelsea Clinton has never had a real job. It's never had a real job, never showed up to a job where she could realistically be fired for underperformance or not showing up because of who

mommy and daddy is. Now I'm online. If you know if my mommy and daddy were so rich and powerful that I could just like move from one place to another, can't get fired, get paid a lot of money. You know, NBC paid Chelsea Clinton for I think it was twenty minutes of actual on air work, and she was horrible at it, by the way, as somebody who's also in the business. I think they paid her almost seven hundred

thousand dollars. Yeah, that's good. That's good work. If for twenty minutes of work on air, that's good work if you can get it. You know, NBC News, they really, they're really watching every penny over there. Huh. No, again, that's not illegal. It's gross, though, And I don't have to listen. I don't have to accept the narrative being pushed by the rest of the liberal media that, oh, now, because she's a Clinton, this is somebody who I should have to listen to. Right, we can push back against

these says. No, I'm sorry, it's it's it's gross. It's gross. I don't like nepotism. Not gonna lie. That could be a problem for me down the line with some other things going on in the Republican Party as we know. But I do not like nepotism. I do not approve of it. I do not defend it is not something that and you know our side people like it sometimes when it's on our side. And no, no, no, if we're going to talk principles, we got to keep those

principles clear, gotta keep them consistent. I'll leave that one for now. Then we just get to does Mazie Horono really know anything? That's a that's a fair question, I ask. I think I've told you before, and I don't don't. I don't say it out of not trying to be mean, but does Mazie Horono know anything? Because when she talks on television, I find myself asking a question, how is

this person of the United States Senator? And I really I just and not that I think the other senators are so impressive, and I think Schumer is calculating and cunning. I think sam could be said of Pelosi. But you know, none of them are great intellectuals, and certainly none of them have any moral fiber or character worth talking about. But the people of Hawaii, I just I don't know, whis such a beautiful place the people of Hawaii? What is it that makes them think yeah, I want this

person to represent my state. Would you play clip sixteen please, producer Mark. They're making the argument, basically, especially Josh Wish, that an abusive power is not in teachable offense. I don't know of any other real constitutional scholar who agrees with Josh Wits, But that kind of argument says that you think that this president truly can do anything he wants under Article two of the Constitution, which is the president's position, and these kinds of arguments enable him to

hold to that position. It's really what I call the he did it, so what? Defense, and that's what the Republicans may ultimately hang their hats on. Even if they're they hear from Bolton, which is pretty damning testimony, they just alike to all the things that the President has been saying and pushing out what I call big cya arguments about his explanation for the whole then I think that you know, they're going to be left with, yeah, he did it so what. I don't think the country

is going to buy that. What the heck was that? Anybody know? What was that all about? Huh? The president says he can do anything. The President's defense is very specific on things he did or did not do. The president's defense is not he can do anything, and I just who knows more about constitutional law? Alan Dershowitz or Amazing Herono. I think we could all make a pretty good determination of that one. Ah, it's amazing by the way Joe Biden is. I know, I'm not going to

get too much more into the Hunter Biden thing. I got other things I want to talk to you about as well today. But Joe Biden kind of let everyone know exactly what's going on here when he says that, you know, the press, the press corps, the press has got my back in this whole process. We know they do, Joe.

We're not surprised to hear that, because one would think that Hunter Biden, who I think it was the Waldorf in New York by the way, I'd said the Waldorf in Beverly Hills, but it's the Waldorf in New York in a very fancy places. He's driving around in a Porsche and initially was saying that he wasn't going to pay paternity hey, because he had a child with a

stripper and exotic answer. Perhaps if you prefer that nomenclature, you know that you would think that this would be kind of a bigger deal because we have not just the wayward son of Joe Biden here, who is at the center of this now conspiracy, This this whole issue of whether or not the president should be impeached removed from office. A Hunter Biden judgment would seem to matter a whole lot. You know, Hunter Biden is not is not a smooth operator. He's not a guy that you

can count on to make the right decision. That's putting it mildly. But the press is not interested at all. I mean, they're not interested in really tracking down what did or did not happen in Ukraine. They don't want to run stories on the corruption that seemed to be happening not just at Barisma, but more generally in the in the energy sector in Ukraine. Here's what Here's what Joe Biden says though, about his buddies in the press who have got his back play twenty Presidents can't hold gredges.

These guys are attacking me and my fa get it, and the press corps with me. They're all good people. Follow me. They keep asking me, you know, they just brought up your son Hunter, and they're doing this and that. The other thing. Well, guess what, I don't hold grudges because presidents can't hold grudges. Presidents have to be fighters, but they also have to be healers. Yeah, that's what the Democrats want to do. They want to heal the country.

They want to heal the country by undoing the twenty sixteen vote before we can have another vote to ratify that. Those of us who voted for Trump in twenty sixteen feel even better about it now than we ever have. That's certainly the case with me. With each passing year it's been it's been an even better investment decision to vote for Donald Trump with each passing year. I don't

mean investment financial, if that's true too. I just mean you're even more certain all that decision with each passing year. You're in the freedom hunt. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Do you you have a celebrity crush? Yes, Prince the Rock. Come on, just look at that man. He's eye candy. I'm a happily married man. I think my wife's a star and I've got a big crush on her. Do you have a celebrity crush? Not for The New York Times to know about my favorite actor and actress?

Who want to Dern and William Macy who starred in a movie that I produce. Alicia Keys is a fantastic artist and a really good person. Crushing on you. Evelyn the Rock, He's eye candy. Look at those pack muscles. Look at that gloodyous Maximus hizzled with hours of sweaty work in the gym Owlishaputh Warren wishes she had been right there on the treadmill going at least two point two miles from an hour. Wow, the Rock was doing

his thing. WHOA, I gotta tell you that was like, that was a real moment when the New York Times asks all these different um all these different Democrat contenders, who their celebrity crush is. At first of all, I like that Bloomberg is like Laura Gern, She's great, you know, you know, I think she does a great job. Like who is is that the actress from the Jurassic Park? Is that Laura Dern? Or like I think he said, Laura Dern, is that the same par I don't even

know who he's talking about. Bloomberg ag ainswers it that way. High five to may Or Pete and to Andrew Yang for being like, no, no, sorry, not doing this. I'm like, you know, Yank says it's his wife. That's cute, And I think that's the you know, a good answer to the circumstances. Mayor Pete, you give a good answer. I say, it's a good answer, and he's like, yeah, I'm not gonna play this game either. Um, who is the who's the first one? Who? Who's who? Said? Prince? Who? Producer? Mark?

Who was that? That was Amy Klobuchar. Oh, that's why I couldn't tell from that, Prince you don't really have a cloba char impression. Yeah, I don't have a cloth of char impression. That's true. I gotta work. When I heard the Warren part, I was like that that's what I'm gonna hear later in Buck's voice, Yeah, oh yeah, the rock. Have you ever he ever seen the way that he just deadlifts like five thousand pounds. Give us a lady, give us a lady. The vapors? Oh good, heavens,

I love you how much? Man? Meeting one, I was gonna ask a question, but I don't. I don't think I can go on from here. Just I was gonna say Bernie wasn't in that video. What's his celebrity crush? Oh my gosh, that's a good one. Um, I gotta think who would be Who would be the Bernie Sanders crush. Perhaps the early Soviet slash communist Rosa Luxembourg. I don't know. We'd have to think, could that be it? Maybe the marvelous missus maizel Um. She's beautiful. Yeah, that sounds like

that's that says she's incredible. I mean, I'm a I like, what's her name? But I don't know her actual name. I just trying to think of an old lady communist, and Rosa Luxembourg was the first one who came. Now. I think she's technically I just think any old lady would work in this situation. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know who. I don't know who Bernie Sanders would go for. I would be curious to see who he

comes up with, though. Um, And for those who are wondering at Rosa Luxemburg was a libertarian Marxist from eighteen seventy one to nineteen nineteen. And she's a socialist. Yeah, there you go. So that was the only socialist I could think of from back in the day, who's a lady off the top? I had not a lot of really famous female socialists, so that's all I had on that one. Yeah, I feel like females weren't in power when socialism was a big thing. That's probably true. Yeah, yeah,

that's a good point. I didn't even have the vote in this country really, so at least when socialism is getting started. So anyway, UM, celebrity crushes. Uh, let's see what we have here, Um celebrity crushes. I think the best one was clearly The Rock um Laurena der I mean the best in terms of, like, what was the most amusing for us here in the studio. Uh. Yeah, I gotta tell you, I think The Rock did a

The Rock probably should reach out. He's occasionally active on Twitter and has something to say to us, something to say to those who reach out to him. People always talking about The Rock maybe running for president, if you remember, that was a thing that came up for a while. I think i'd vote for him. I don't know. He's a very charismatic fellow. He's a very I'm thinking right now about all that, you know, I could talk about

how Elizabeth Warren finds him so charismatic too. But I think the other one, the other one that the other one that I had was was Alicia Keys from Tom Steyer. I just thought that's a random like, like, I mean, fine, yeah, but it's just like Tom Steyer who goes with Alicia Keys. I don't know, yeah, I just he's such a he's such a nerd, that guy. And it turns out, you know, you look more into his past financially and like he founded a bank that's been really rough on low income people.

And I think that this whole climate change thing is he's a billionaire who's trying to trying to pay off, you know, the sins of the past of how he became a billionaire. He's a very guilty conscience billionaire for whatever reason. But now I have to ask Producer Mark, does Missus Mark allow you to answer the question who the celebrity crushes? Oh, it's my wife, obviously, Producer Mark. That is the only correct? Was there one before she

was missus Producer Mark? I always for some reason said me, Lacunas, Okay, yeah, respectable, Ye, who's mine? Jessica Beale? We all already know that correct correct, even though there was that whole anti vax thing that came up out there. Hey yeah, I didn't see. Hey, nobody, nobody's perfect. Nobody's perfect. Jessica call me. I know her and I was very married. Yeah, I know. I know. He's super rich and famous whatever and the rich famous attractive. Yeah,

I run the freedom. Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. There's continued investigation about just what happened and what went wrong. It led to the tragedy over the weekend of that helicopter going down and killing nine people, Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, another husband, wife, and daughter. I think, I mean, the

whole thing, it's just is absolutely horrific. And I didn't want to on the first day we talked about I didn't want to get into this. Although it did happen right away, there is the media reaction to this, and there were some very well, let's just say noteworthy for now, media reactions to what happened. First of all, that that TMZ, which is a gossip site, a celebrity gossip site, broke the news before Bryant's family or other families were able to be notified. Is that raises some very very clear

questions about, you know, journalistic ethics. Does anyone really think that it's right for someone to find out that their father, their brother, their mother, their sister, husband, wife, etc. Died suddenly by seeing it on Twitter. That's a part of this discussion that I didn't get into quite yet. And then there's also how do journalists respond when something like

this happened? How do people who claim that their their job, their life's work, their profession which gets them up every day is about bringing information to people, how do they react when this kind of a tragedy occurs. Well, we have one one instance that certainly has gotten a lot of attention. A Washington Post reporter right after Kobe Bryant, right after the news broth that Kobe Bryant died, she shared the following tweet, Kobe Bryant's disturbing rape case, The

DNA evidenced the accuser story and the half confession. It was a piece from the Daily Beast, and she shared it right as this man was. I mean, they have they had quite literally not retrieved the bodies yet and given the reality here of what occurred, they believe that helicopter was going I heard today up to one hundred and eighty miles an hour and it collided into the

side of a mountain. There were much more pressing, much more important things for people to be considering at that moment of extreme grief than sharing an old story about Kobe Bryant that was clearly going to set off a lot of people under the circumstances. Now, I'm not saying that you can, ever you should wipe a figures background

clean just because they die. That's not that's not the standard that we're trying to set up here, but it is I think understandable for people to want to have some space for grieving when you when a figure like this who did a lot of good for a lot of people and inspired a lot of people. And that was why I wanted to focus on that in the first day. And I will say, there's a video that's going around right now of a reporter, of a sports reporter or a female journalist sports journalist about the one

time she met Kobe Bryant. I have to tell you, usually when people have the after a death of a figure, like this. I mean, I remember after Andrew Breitbart very suddenly passed away, I was on TV and I was asked, you know, do you have you know, everyone was going around the table. I was with a bunch of people. This is back in the real news days, and they were all telling stories about their experiences with Andrew Britbart.

And I had never met Andrew Breitbart, so I just said, I wish, you know, I thoughts and prayers for his family. I mean, but I don't have a story to share. And I think that sometimes people get dragged into or that they feel a pressure to tell some kind of a personal anecdote about a person like this, a public figure like this, because everyone is doing it. This woman told the story but the one time she met Kobe Bryant,

and it's really touching, actually it was. It was incredibly earnest and well done and worth hearing about how he was a girl dad. That's how Kobe Bryant described himself, because he was so proud of being a dad of I think three girls and wish that he could have

five more. And you know, it was just a It's a really inspiring message and it's something that I think if you get the chance on we don't have it here almost show today, but if you get the chance, it's worth it's worth hearing to rush out there when someone has when there's been a tragedy like this, and to share a new story that first of all, he was never a gami. It was never adjudicated in criminal court.

We do believe still somewhat in the presumption of innocence as certainly as a legal matter, but also as it affects people's public reputations, and I think that that has to be taken into account. Felicious Omez was in a whole lot of hot water after tweeting that because of the outrage on the internet. Here's what she responded to. Here's how she responded thirty nine minutes after sharing this. So, so Kobe Bryant and his daughter die, seven other people dead,

fire wreckage of a helicopter crash. People are just processing this and she says, oh, yeah, I remember that story about Kobe Bryant being a rapists. That's effectively what this Washington Post reporter decided to do. And then when she got the backlash, which I think anybody would expect would happen,

she wrote, well, that was eye opening. To the ten thousand people literally who have commented and emailed me with abuse and death threats, please take a moment and read the story, which was written three plus years ago and not by me. Any public figure is worth remembering in their totality. Yeah, it was a three plus year old story.

So the first Kobe Bryant dies, the first thing this Washington Post reporter does is find the most, the most you know, damning, the worst moment effectively of Kobe Bryant's public life and share that. And it just felt like this is an incredibly poor judgment from this reporter, She continued, even if that public figure is beloved, and that's totally unsettling. The folks are responding with rage and threats toward me.

Someone who didn't even write the piece but found it well reported, speaks volumes about the pressure people come under to stay silent in these cases. Well, the rape allegation was not the news story the day that he died

with his daughter in a helicopter crash. Right, The rape allegation had been the story over I think over fifteen over fifteen years ago, and it did seem too many people understandably that that Felicia Sunmez of the Washington Post was unwilling to extend even a little bit of just considered a little a little bit of good faith leeway to Kobe Bryant family members, fans, friends, to grieve a bit before we have to go into the you know, we can have this referendum or we have not referendum.

Have this referencing back to Kobe Bryant's life and you know, the ups and the ups and downs and all the things that people can and will discuss about about a public figure like this. I think it's interesting that the Washington Post suspended her because of this. They suspended her, but I don't think the Washington Post suspended her because that they would extend this sense of basic decency from reporters in the immediate aftermath. I mean, I'm just gonna

say it. I think that if a Republican of any anyone who's associated with the with the right and Republicanism died in a in a plane crash, helicopter crash, car crash, you name it, that a Washington Post reporter would be able to say, well, look at how this person was really you know, supporting white nationalists with this legislation or in a right away just just bash the person. Kobe Bryant, international superstar, beloved by you know, hundreds of millions of

people really around the world. There's a special protection that has afforded his legacy by the Washington Post. And also I think a response to market forces here where people look at the Post and they say, really, these are the kind of people that you employ. You employ people who are willing to trash a man as his body and his daughter's body have not even been retrieved from the crash site. And you know that's and then you

also get into when is a public figure? How does a public figure receive any any grace or forgiveness after they pass away for incidents where there is still a dispute as to what happened like this, you know, I you know, the circumstances of this, I don't remember all and I could go back and read it. I haven't yet all of the details of the case, but I do remember when it first happened, and you know, the

circumstances of it were certainly in dispute. Kobe Bryant never never admitted to knowingly sexually assaulting someone, this young woman at this employee of a Now he was a married man at the time. I mean, there's this whole other component of why was he having sex, even if it was consensual sex with a nineteen year old girl when he's got a wife and several children at home. That's

another part of the story. But you know, this is this is where we have to as a society start to understand what the boundaries are, what the acceptable you know, where does discourse go about a public figure like this after he is gone? Could be he or she depending on the circumstances. But this is obviously Kobe Bryant's life we're discussing, and do we you know, what happens is does this person always live with the asterisk of what it's just effectively an accusation. It's one thing, I mean,

if it's proven in court. I mean, but Mike Tyson, for example, another sports hero who has a who has a rape conviction, not just a rape allegation, rape conviction on his record. He's gone around and tried to make public amends for this and what he says he served his debt to society. He's tried to make public amends. He's tried to be a better person, a better father, you know, is that what what becomes? You know what?

The day you know, I hope Mike Tyson has a rest of long, long and happy life and all that. But the day that Mike Tyson passes is the first thing is the first thing that reporters are going to say, this guy was it was a rape. Was somebody who was credibly accused of and prosecuted for and convicted for a rape. How do we view public figures in their totality after the fact. It's a complicated question. I don't

have an answer for you today on this. I just know that this one Washington Post reporter found out that if nothing else, give the family twenty four or forty eight hours degree before you say, oh, yeah, this guy was accused of rape. That seems to me to be a basic decency. Not that not that it's silenced forever and we can't have the discussion, But how about just how about a little bit of space for the family and space for friends and other people who who come along.

And I just say that just you wait and see the Washington Post would not extend it. This is a protection for Kobe Bryant, for people that are in good standing with not just it's not even a left wing thing. It's just in good standing with the general culture. And Kobe Bryant is a cultural icon and not just a sports icon. Some Republican, though, meets an end and associated with Trump. You know, at some point the future, you know someone who's in the Trump orbit or just a Republican.

It doesn't even matter if it's in the Trump orbit. No, no, whatever the worst thing is they can say about him, You'll see Washington Post reporters saying it right away. You're in the freedom Hud. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. You are self proclaimed socialist democrotic. Put in the please thank you. Your agenda has promised free healthcare for everybody, free college tuition, and to pay off people's college loans. The price tag for that is estimated to be sixty

trillion dollars over ten years. Correct. Well, look, we have political opponents. You don't know. You don't know how much you're planning, don't know, nobody knows. This is impossible. You're going to propose a plan to the American people. You're not gonna tell how much a cost? Of course, will you know exactly what healthcare costs will be women in the next I don't know what the costs saw who knows the costs. It's gonna be really expensive, but it's

gonna be great. A few things here about Bernie Sanders. One is that we have to take very seriously that Bernie Sanders can in fact become the Democrat nominee for president. I think that we're getting really close to that. Look, he was second place in twenty sixteen. It kind of makes sense when you think about it. And I would also tell you that I think the election that America should see here, I mean the real matchup, the one that would have meaning about the direction of this country,

is Donald Trump versus Bernie Sanders. And I'm not saying that that would be better for Trump or better for Sanding. I'm not even just the matchup. If you're looking at what would really be significant about the direction of the United States of America in twenty twenty, I can't believe it's twenty twenty. Keep running twenty nineteen on everything, it would be it would be Bernie Sanders versus Donald Trump,

and I think Trump wins on that one. I think Bernie Sanders is in a lot of ways somewhat untested. I think that he hasn't received the kind of criticism from Democrats that he would receive from Trump along the way. The Bernie Bros, the Bernie fans are are psychotically devoted to this guy. I mean they Bernie does have a cult like status around him. Not for all of his supporters, but there's definitely a group of them who really believe that he's a Look, he's a political revolutionary in a

sense who wants to dramatically change this country. Okay, well, if that's the case, then we should really understand what today is that he's going to transform the country into. And that's why when he's asked questions about what will your plan cost, and he goes through the court, whatever cost. It's very expensive. But the millionaires and the billionaires don'll pay for it. No, we're all going to pay for it. It's going to be incredibly expensive to do what he

wants to do. Expensive on a scale that we have never seen before. And we're talking about spending money at least in overall numbers, in just raw numbers that I don't know if it's ever been done before. And he's just suggesting that this is going to be the way that we move forward. I mean, look, Bernie Sanders been a senator from Vermont, a state with a population of like a couple of million, not a very big place, not a place of tremendous economic dynamism. No offensive Vermont.

I'll actually really like it as a place to visit. But Bernie Sanders taken over the country as the leader of the executive branch is something that we need to really understand. Could happen. This could happen, and that would be something that the folks who are generally thinking that politics does not really move the needle all that much

for your life one way or the other. You know, I believe there's there's a general sense among many of us who either care a little bit or a lot about politics that you know, it's kind of just we kind of just muddle along. We kind of just it's all gonna happen the way that it happens, and you know, some good decisions and bad decisions, but America's American will

all be fine. I mean, for America to elect someone who claims to be a democratic, who is a democratic socialist, and notice how he hones in on that the Democratic socialist democratic socialist. Well, okay, so what mister Maduro is a democratic socialist. You know, the the socialists of the Soviet Union all they all thought, I mean, they didn't have elections, but they all thought that they were representing

the will of the people. The whole point is that there is socialism which centralized planning and state control and state direction of not just you know, when you can direct the economy and all economic activity, you're also going to be involved in people's lives and ways where you have far too much authority, where the state has far too much power, And that's ultimately the problem that we're

going to face with a Bernie Sanders presidency. You know that socialism at its core has to have an authoritarian streak, if not be outright authoritarian, because it's not individuals making free it's not individuals with the freedom to make their own decisions engage in a market of conduct where they will they make their own determinations about what's going to happen. In socialism, it's we think, we the people in charge, we the people that have the power, think that this

is what should happen. Therefore it will happen the way we wanted to That is their approach, and that's markedly different than what we've seen in this country for a very long time. This would be a leap into these socialist abyss. Make no mistake about it. A Bernie Sanders presidency would not be something that you can just say, all right, item's going to hunker down and wait four years. You know, what will it mean to your four oh

one k, your healthcare, your retirement, your home value. You know? A Bernie Sanders presidency would be a dramatic shift in a way that I'll be honest with you, I don't think a Biden presidency poses the same risks. I think that Biden gives us incremental traditional incremental democrat socialism. Bernie Sanders is like jumping into the deep end of the pool right away. On democratic socialism, Bernie Sanders is let's

go all. And for those who say, oh buck, but the Congress, the Congress has to go along with this too, well, let's remember Elizabeth Warren's already saying that student loans will just be forgiven as an executive order through the Department of Education. Think of the ways that Bernie Sanders, especially given the reluctance of conservative judges to do universal junctions and tie up a Democrat president. Look look at Obama tie up a Democrat president the way they'll tie up

President Trump. Think about what Bernie Sanders, just as as president, can do that would damage the economy and would have a real effect on your life, regardless of who controls Congress. Thanks for listening to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, team Buck, it's time for roll call. Whatever happened to dubstep producer Mark? Remember

when that was? Really? Remember that guy scrill X with like half of a shaved head and a long hair and the cigarette dangling out of his mouth was considered a world famous musician. It's involved aroun Just now it's just like house and tech name music. I think I think edm is what the cool kids call it, right? Yes? Yeah, who's Marshmallow? Marshmallows a newer artist, someone who could never hurt us? He actually his face a stay puff marshmallow man.

He wears like a big marshmallow head. Nobody's ever seen his face? Are you serious? But I'm completely serious? Do you remember who's the guy who wore the big mouse helmet. I think that was a VICI. Now it wasn't a VICI, but you're close. It was another There was another guy who had the mouse help. Um, you know what I'm talking. You know what I'm talking dead mouse, dead man dead. That makes sense, Yeah, yeah, dead mouse. Um, so yeah, I remember that was a big That was a big thing.

Every every I feel like every five years or so, people discover they rediscover like super beat, heavy electric music and everyone goes, oh, it's amazing. But anyway, I digress. Speaking of things. You know what I watched last night, I'm gonna tell you. Watch a little bit of it. What Buck the Bachelor. I was curious. Look, I'm figuring maybe I gotta pick up some tips or something, because I actually have a lot em on like male friends. Yeah,

the wife is very big into it. This is my thing, and I wish maybe, you know, I think we'll have we might have a couple of our colleagues from the first some of our new female contributors, and maybe we'll ask some of them about this, because I really do I don't understand why women like the show because it's a guy who's got all these women who are competing for his attention in a way that is completely absurd compared to the way things going really, which is yeah,

I don't I don't even mess with that. I don't even know what that is. I can't. I mean watching like fifty dudes trying to get the same thing the opposite. Yeah, you know, I get it. But I'm saying when you watch women love The Bachelor, they love this show that I understand why they would love The Bachelor Rex. It's all these guys buying. I don't understand why women like a show about and then but you know what, I like Reality Tell there's so much drama though, they just

they just make it. Everard's crying. I've heard of watch like it's a sitcom. I've been hilarious. It's been on for like twenty years, and so it's this thing and I've never really and so I watched a little bit last X. I was just trying to turn my brain off and it worked, by the way, and He's there's like I just like, I just talk a why, Like you don't like we're on this journey together. I'm like, lady,

you've known this guy for like two weeks. And he's making out with ten different girls at night, Like, I don't understand how you're so attached. Yeah, watch you just sitdown. It's hilarious. Just like we're just like you don't know me, like the way that I know you, and like we're on this journey and I just like I just want to trust in my heart and trust in your heart. And like these girls for these girls like twenty four, twenty five, they're all on it so they can get famous.

I get money, and they hear I am talking about it. I know people like bucks, stop talking about the Bachelor. I like I've made the argument. Trying to take up some tips. Remember Jersey Shore, Yeah, best sitcome ever made on television. That was a phenomenon for a while. No, Yeah, speaking of DJ's remember that guy he made He made like twenty million a year for a couple of years. He still does. He still tours are maybe not that much money, but like he was me, he was just one.

That's one of the best. By the way, I always say, being a TV news anchor, or, if you're like in the right market and have the right setup, you're like an overpaid you know, overpaid in person. But the best job in the world is to be one of these DJs that makes half a million dollars a night to show up and press press play on their iTunes. That that's not exactly what they do. It's kind of what they do. What do they what do they do? Well,

they're mixing that. They're like making it live in real time. They don't like. But no, but there's no mix table anymore. I'm not talking about old school DJs scratches and stuff. I'm talking to DJs that get paid, like DJ pauly D or like those guys. They're still doing that. Yeah, I thought they just show up and it's not like you know, you go to a wedding or a bar mitzvah and and it's just a guy playing, pressing play

and changing the songs. That's what I thought they did. Yeah, I made all this money, all right, Well, I learned something new every day, Chuck writes in Team Bucket. iHeartMedia dot Com. But you guys have let us know. I I feel like if we get the audience to to push him on this one. I told Producer Mark that we got to create a little thing called like you know Marks. You know Producer Mark's corner or something where he ever day he tells us what's on his muck.

We literally had this conversation. I said, yes, and then you've forgotten to do it for a week. Well, I mean you're supposed to remind me of things. Otherwise I don't even remember when we have like shows unless you tell me. This is part of your job. What I have to text you every morning? Hey, come to work. Yeah, come to work. So we're gonna have you come up with a cool name for the Producer Mark Corner. You didn't tell me to come up, and we'll come up

with a cool name for Producer Marks Corner. And then every day we just started came up with We're just a Producer Marks quarter and we're just because you are in a corner over there. I believe in the text you said we would call it the Curmudgeonly Millennial something like that. Yeah, but we could do that. What should we just call it? Nobody puts mark in a corner? I mean, if that's what you would like, technically dirty corner,

dirty dancing refforts. Um, all right, we'll come up with a cool name because we want to be able to bring bring in the voice of producer Mark official. I mean he's in every day, but officially in some capacity towards the end of the show so you can hear what he's thinking about. Um, you know, he can give marital advice, hockey tips, things like that, hockey tips, you know, like you need like kind of good to win. Oh yeah, you know that's They've got a ranger's hat on as

I'm talking you. We've also got to get a little camera for at least just just a little box. We get producer Marks right above. Yeah, we throw on a little GoPro. We'll make it happen. All right, Now we get to roll call because I know we already played it and we haven't done it yet. Team Bucket, iheartmat dot com. If you want to send us emails. We

love emails, We love Facebook messages. The thing I love the most is when you get new people to listen to the show on Apple podcasts or on the iHeartRadio app. That's the thing that makes me the happiest for those of you listening. But another thing it makes me happy is when you send in Facebook messages and emails and we get to as many of them as we can on the show. All Right, Chuck not to be confused with Buck Buck. I know you say so much that

that is right. It is hard to keep track. Your comment on retained titles is spot on and a worthwhile reminder of the basis of Americanism. One of the best virtues of the American Revolution is all titles were eliminated, not just of royalty. We avoid it ridiculously pompous revolutionary terms. No comrade, citizen, etc. Simple, straightforward civil language is the American way. It underlines our principle of being created equal

before the law and each other. So for us, in a room full of Americans, everyone's properly greeted as mister or miss Chuck from Grand Rapids Chuck, thanks so much, man. Yeah, obviously I agree with you. I think that we need to stop doing this. I don't know why we still think that it's appropriate. Soul ambassador or soul and so, No, you're not an ambassador. If you're so, ambassador or fine, that's your title. And keep titles. We don't have them anymore,

you know. I just I don't get that. I don't get that, Mark Buck. Regarding AOC's assertion that Trump is an authoritarian, remember when Trump said that if Congress didn't act, he would remember when he said he had a pen and a phone. That is authoritarian defined, that is tyrannical. But that wasn't Trump, that was Obama. Never mind, she tie, thanks Mark, Yeah, I mean there's clearly a different standard media applies to what Trump does and what Obama does.

We've known that all along. That's certainly the case, and I just wish that they would give me some examples of how Trump is an authoritarian and not just that they hate Trump and call them an authoritarian because it sounds scary. Yeah, there should be a little bit more honest, but this is a little more honest about that. Hold on a second. Next up here, Noah, hey Buck, I heard you say that it's sad that Americans who do not know geography. Sad that American do not know geography.

I would like to say that memorizing geography is so fun. I memorize every state and capital. Then I went and memorize every country and cap in the world, and I am fifteen. And it's just sad that politicians are so stupid. Love your show, All right, cool, there we go, Thanks so much, Noah. Well the man Noah's fifteen and he's learned every every state capital and every country and every

country capital. I will say that there was this great game that I used to play with my really my little brother who's super smart um and and a fantastic fellow in every regard. And we used to play this game. Though we had a globe and it will be like dude, lu lu lu and then you'd have to it would say like, you know, Papua New Guinea and you'd have to poke it on the globe with a little pan. You I'm talking about, dude lu lu Oh. I just just wanted to clarify that. Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean.

It's I do impressions of a lot of things, including including globes, including computer noises from the early two thousands. So but it would say like it would say a country, you'd have to poke it on the globe, and there was different levels of difficulty and it was a speed thing. So how many could you poke in? Uh? You know that too? Yeah, that's fun. I mean it's geography. Look, we all should You should know geography because you don't want to not know because you don't have maps like

such as the Iraq. You know what I mean, do we have we don't. We should have that clip ready at all times. It's still the greatest. I don't know about the girl from the Paget with Mario Lopez where she's like, you know, the iraqis and South Africa and they don't have maps like such as I get it. She got a lot, you know somengimes. You're speaking, you're tired, or you're nervous. You know, you kind of get a disconnect with your national television. Yeah, yeah, exactly, you get nervous, man,

you get nervous sometimes. Um, so that can actually happen. Um. But they don't have maps like such as that is that is the thing, Uh, the Iraq. That's one of my favorite clips of all time. Jen Buck, What is your book list on books one should read on about communism? Books one should read about communism? Uh? Oh, well, you

should start with some of the source material. So if you're going to talk about communism socialism, you must read the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marks in eighteen forty eight. It's not very long. You must read it. That is an absolute, absolute most you have to read the Communist Manifesto. That's kind of the the ultimates and look, Mark, there's a whole a huge host of writings from Marks and

Angles and then other socialists. But I would start there if you've never read that, if you're looking for something fun, Animal Farm is absolutely fantastic for description. It really is a very spot on description of the early days of the Soviet Union in a lot of ways, in terms of the factionalism and the changing of the rules and everything. I mean, it's really you can read Animal Farm as a child and get a lot out of it, and then you read Animal Farm as an adult and you

get even more out of it. But again, that's a that's not a serious that's not a scholarly work, but it is a very powerful novel for what it is. And I do think that you can make the case that Orwell is the greatest English language author of the last hundred years. I think that's a that's a there's a strong case to be made for that. So yeah, that would be that I would And more on communist only Whittaker Chambers Witness from the American perspective, you should read.

That's absolutely essential reading on communism and really about communist penetration of the United States and the way that there were government officials who were Communist sympathizers in this country. I would also say read The God That Failed, which is a compilation of seven different former communists socialists who saw who saw the failures of the system and flipped ideologically and realize what a disaster it was. So yeah, I would say the Communist Manifesto of the God That Failed.

I think the God That Failed you can just download a pdf online. I mean not that I always want authors to get money for what they do, but I think it's right there on If you type in Google the God That Failed, it'll show up. That's excellent reading. Um. Yeah, I would start there. Commistnifesto God that Failed Animal Farm. There's more stuff on the Soviet Union I could talk to you about, but I would begin there, and that's

a pretty good place. I'm probably leaving some out that I'm gonna punch myself later for leaving off this list, but that's a good start. You're in the Freedom Hut. This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. All right, Now we'll get into the Facebook inbox. Adam Buck on yoga, were you able to master the yoga flame from street Fighter being a human human flamethrower would be awesome. Shieldsi yoga flame. I know he's talking about. Street Fighter was a great game. I played a lot of Street Fighter

back in the day. There was a character whose name I actually cannot remember, who was an Indian yoga like you know, yoga guru, I guess, or yogi I don't know, whatever. You'd call somebody who's like the best at yoga and he could extend body parts to like kick you with a foot from ten away. It's pretty pretty creative character in that in that game, procer Mark, were you a street Fighter player? And if so, who was your who is your go to character? I miss that era? You ear? Yeah?

Have you ever played? It's actually pretty good. I mean I have, of course, like in arcades and stuff. Yeah, I mean I'm a traditionalist. I like Ryu the most. I thought Ryu was the best. Ken was like a rip off of Ryu. I'm like, why do we need too of the Sega or Nintendo both. I played a lot of video games. You tried a book about like the Battle Fantastic what. I'll have to get the name for you, but there was a battle between Segon and Nintendo. Really it was an amazing book. I never knew all

the backstory to it. I didn't know any of that. I don't know anything backstory. Yeah, and I'm suppy to be curious because I played both of those systems. But I will get the name of it and announced to the audience tomorrow. Two little kids play the view games. I feel like when I think of vide games now, I think of adults playing deo games, I think of like I think of thirty year old dudes playing Call of Duty. Back then, it was really Nintendo was for kids.

Kids was for adults. Oh okay, yeah, because because there was a time when video games were a kids and now I mean you walk into these video game outlet stores and things that they have all they forget what they're called. But you know, like game Stop, I think is one of them, and everyone in there is like in their forties. Oh yeah, video games are a major league adult thing. But they still make video games for

kids as well. Yeah, but I remember my parents never played video games, right, so when they saw us playing video games, it was like we were playing with g I. Joe's. But it was like the same kind of thing. And now you have all these people that are adults that are that are playing these Well, that's because we grew up with it. Yeah, And that's why people got mad at me when I said that The Witcher was a bad TV show because they love the video games so much.

They didn't want to hear that reality. But you know what, producer, Mark, I'm here. I'm here to share reality with people. I never played the game either. I'm more of a sports game kind of guy. What is the greatest sports video game of all time? It's hard to say, because they make a new vision in the time that you played it, you know, for it's time. I mean I grew up playing like NHL ninety nine and those kind of games, and the early Maddens when you were a kid, they're

like so much better. Madden two thousand and four. For me, it was the most amazing thing ever Tommy Football actually from playing that game. Madden was O three when Vic was on the cover and victors That's what I'm thinking about. Yeah, yeah, that was amazing. Yeah, I was the best. Michael Vick was super human in that video game. Yeah. It was like all the old people say Bo Jackson in techmoball, oh yeah, yeah, Bo Jackson was an incredible athlete. Dare

I used to see this thing. I kind of like stop paying attention to professional sports in the last decade or so. But growing up, actually, when I used to go to Knix games all the time, I knew the only one I don't know anything about hockey, which I producer, Marquets is taking me to a hockey game. But the other sports I actually actually know him. I used to watch a cartoon with Wayne Gretzky bo jackson of Michael Jordan. I don't even remember what it's called. There was a

cartoon where they were like superheroes. It was the three of them, and that was pre internet, when you had it to like do stuff like that to get kids interested in sports. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember watching that. It was pretty good. It's better than Captain Planet. That cartoon stunk. What does Captain Even before I knew that, even before I knew that climate change was a hoax, Captain Planet. He's the hero gonna bring pollution down to zero?

That was the show. Show suck. I guess it's a nice way to make kids not throw their garbage on the I'm against littering. I think, you know, I think littering is for barbarians. That said climate changes, the hoax, and Captain Planet was always like trying to stop commerce from happening. I'm like, it's commerce, yo. Obviously you never watched Captain America. Captain America is great. Why is he's a Marvel Yeah you did, but you hate Marvel movies.

I hate Marvel movies. I love Marvel comics. I'm a purist producer and so is Team Buck, which is why they gonna send us more messages for tomorrow. Until then, my friends, Shields High