Syria Is Not Our Fight

no mistake American, You're a great American. Again, The buck Sexton Show begins. No, Welcome to the buck Sexton Show. Everyone. Great to have you here with me. I wanted to lead off with Syria today. I there's a whole bunch of other stuff that we've got to get to. The the Comy World media tour that's gonna be both a subject of a lot of discussion and mockery on the show and and a source of some some headaches for me. I'm sure, because, oh, comey, I understand Colly. That's the thing.

I know. I know the the cloth from which he comes. If you will, I I understand that kind of sanctimonious bureaucrat. Having worked with some very sanctimonious bureaucrats in my day. But that will have to wait for just a little bit. Plus some stuff coming out of the Mueller probe that you know here here the breaking news on CNN. I can always turn the the anti Trump resistance as presented

by the anti Drum resistance sponsored by CNN sources. FBI raid sought Trump's communications with his lawyer Michael Cohen regarding the Access Hollywood tape. You know, I see happening here. There's an effort underway to now look into UH politics as a criminal matter. I don't mean that they're trying to criminalize political differences. That's what the whole Muller probe

is all about. But this is about looking at the ins and outs of what people do in politics and try to find a way to put it into a statute or or find a statute that applies that they can bring criminal charges. But as I said, that will have to wait. That will have to wait a little bit. Um. I'm pretty frustrated on the serious situation. Frustrated for a number of reasons. The first is that there's a lot that demands our attention more so then than what's going

on in Syria in any given day. It's just the truth. And this has been the case for years now. I so rarely see any worthwhile discussion or analysis of Syria, especially on TV. You just have everyone doing a lot of moral preening and posturing over you know, yeah, a shot so bad and he's just terrible guy. We we know that, or this is not it's not an additive statement.

It's not helpful the conversation r It's like it's like people who go on TV and they want to talk about how Putin is a thug or it's all everyone says, Putin is a thug. Okay, well what does that? What do we do about that? What does that mean? What are the next steps? If the US was to have a more productive relationship with Russia, then we should do what the following? What is the following serious? I feel like we haven't somehow as a country. And it's at

least in the leadership class. It's a it's a bipartisan failing right now. Actually, the leadership class, I mean the people that are elected representatives. They seem to have this impulse to flex US military might abroad and make a statement in a part of the world where this is just it's for show. It's not going to be meaningful. And then I also have some questions about all the all the statements and the and the news reports that

we accept as fact. But have we not learned the problems of trying to rebuild someone else's country for them, or trying to hold it together, or trying to stop it from descending into civil war? My generation now and and the generation above me, but my generation has been engaged in active combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan now for over a decade, in the case of Afghanistan, going on two decades now, right, I mean, this is going on for a very long time. We are not about

to fix Afghanistan. In fact, Afghanistan is getting worse. Another thing that's not very much reported on, in part because nobody wants to hear it. I think really nobody. If the media can find a way to make it Trump's fault, they will. But Afghanistan is deteriorating and is getting worse. And we we don't even want to know how much Iranian and Russian and other influence there is in Afghanistan assisting the Taliban. It's a nightmare, Okay, Iraq right now

is quiet down a bit. They've managed to avoid the descent into hell that would come from a an open sectarian conflict between the Sunny Shia and kurd three primary ethno sectarian factions inside of Iraq, so that we've we've calmed that down. The Islamic state is suppressed. They're they're not completely eradicated, they're suppressed. And now we've got Syria where no one has a plan that's even worth listening to.

Right now, no one really knows anything other than, you know what, the Assad regime is better than the alternative, but no one wants to say it. They don't want to say it. They don't want that to be It just feels wrong because I saw it such a bad guy, because Asad is a is a genocidal dictator or murderer, all this stuff, which is all all true. But what do we really think is going to be accomplished by firing a bunch of missiles into a country with which we are not at war that we don't even know

who we want to to win the war? Right now? In Syria, we really don't. We don't have a faction that we think could run the country, and we also have a nuclear power Russia in this case that has troops there, and we have U S troops in harm's way. All of that together there and in response to a chemical weapons attack that killed for over forty people, made five hundred six was the latest I saw today. We're

gonna do what exactly, We're bombs some air fields. Why because we we have to draw a line at at the usage of chemical weapons. Uh, there have been plenty of times in our recent past. Word, by the way, we did not enforce that. And the last time we did this, this is quite obvious, it did not have

the intended effect. As in, if you believe that Asad use chemical weapons a year ago, somehow, almost exactly a year to the day, he's using chemical weapons now, I also would want to know what the motivation would be for the dictator of Damascus to do this. The regime has, despite all odds, managed to hold on, hold power and hold back the advance of what is primarily a g

Hottest uprising against him. Now. I know there was a time when it was protest movements and the Free Syrian Army, and but the reality is that right now the g hottests are the primary anti Assad coalition, And I'm not just and that by that, I don't just mean the Islamic State. There are all these other factions that are hard line Islamists, and the people of Syria that are still in a side controlled areas do not want those rebels to take over. They do not want them to

be in charge. So our firing off missiles is based upon an emotional response. I think it was a year ago that the president, the reports were at least that the president was swayed by by his daughter, by Ivanka, to to enforce the red line that Obama had not enforced. And I can understand the symbolism at the time of doing it, and I will not pretend I will not rewrite history. I thought that it was the right move at the time, under the circumstances. But we did it.

We drew a line, we enforced the line. Now we started asking the question, Okay, well, it clearly didn't deter future be future bad behavior. So the only way that you could even make a case that in what now it's been reported as I'm on air an imminent missile strike, the United States firing off probably a bunch of Tomahawk missiles, and you know, annihilating some air fields, maybe some other

military depots of the Assad regime. The only way you could justify it as a military maneuver would be if you went bigger, right, if you went for more here, if this was not just a show of force and a show of accountability against the Assad regime. But you're you're gonna really make it hurt you. You're gonna really hamper Assad capability, which means this means escalation. This means something a lot bigger. And we don't have enough of a read on what the aftermath of that would look

like in Syria. We don't know what would come two with the Assad regime, with the rebels if we were to go hard and heavy after Assad. And that's why when I heard Lindsay Graham said a um that Assan should be a target, I slop that down. I think that that's I think it's a bad idea. I think it's honestly reckless. I think Lindsay Graham has never been impressive to me. I just don't think he's an impressive guy. Maybe he's a really nice guy, I don't know. I

think his analysis is pretty crappy most of the time. UM, and I think that at some key points as well, he all of a sudden stops being particularly conservative. He's back out there though he really wants, he wants us to blow some stuff up. He needs to go big because the side has divided the president, and he has divided the international communities, divide human decency, and now is the time for this guy to pay a heavy, heavy price.

And anything short of that, I think will embolden him and others, anything short of going big after a son, right, I mean, isn't what Graham's on the Senate Form Relations Committee or the Senate which which committee's you don't even know. Let me know if you think he's on one of them. He fancies himself a foreign policy savant, go big. Anything

less than that would embolden him. Okay, so so proportional response to what happened there, which is what they tried the last time again almost exactly a year ago, that would make things worse. I don't know what world Lindsey Graham is living on. I don't know what recent US history is informing his decision making, but I think that's

a terrible idea. I think it's a terrible idea. Look, people will point to this, and I know they will General Maddis and they'll say, well, if you know Maddis, who's very well respected and like, I have a lot of respect for the guy too, but his job is to execute the orders given to him by the commander in chief, President Trump, who is I think still being swayed by people one way the other on this issue. Mean,

here's what Mattis said about this earlier today. We're still affesting the intelligence, ourselves and our allies were still working on this an we stand ready to provide military option tof they're appropriate, as the President determined. Yeah, it's up to the president. I hope that Trump just this time around, decides that they will condemn it in a statement. But it's just not worth the risk. Here. We've got it. We've had a larger U. S. Troop presence than we

did a year ago. The ground truth has changed from what it was a year ago. And we did this once, we enforced the red line. Once it didn't stop them. I know there are also people who will say, and I I am open to the argument, why would a sad even do this? Why would have sat to use chemical weapons? He's he's winning in this part of Eastern it's really the suburb east of Damascus. He's winning in this area, So why use chemical weapons at this point?

And and had the international community that had essential really decided, you know what, we're gonna let us Ode do his thing and he's better than the alternative. It's so reckless and so dumb for us odd to do this that it makes me think maybe we're missing something here. And you know me, I don't do conspiracies, although a lot

of folks find conspiracy very interesting. But if there were an opportunity for a false flag op, or rather if you were looking to do a false flag op, this would be a a compelling one to pull off, get the whole international community focus to get on Syria. And I mean, if you're the jihadest, or you're any of these Islamist militias. By the way, people, don't you see all these punts that they have no idea, they don't

understand when insertaincies, like they haven't been near this. A lot of these senators, honestly, they just read about this stuff in books. They show up like once a year in the green zone in the rock and they're like, look at me, I'm tough. I wore a flak jacket for five minutes. The truth here is that you have people that are actually gonna define that have been defecting continuously from Assan's forces to the other side. You've had a lot of of of attrition both ways. So who

knows who's got what? We have no idea. People say, oh, buck, we have great intelligence in the ground, what's going on in Syria? No, we don't. I can tell you that too. It's a lot that we don't know. So we're gonna do what. We're gonna fire off a bunch of missiles and calls the whole storm there. What if Russia said they're gonna shoo him down by the way, Now, we're gonna get into that. We're gonna get into a test of wills with Russia over Syria. Here's another truth that

no one wants to tell you. We care a lot less about what's going on in Syria than Russia does. That's just what's going on there. We don't like to say it, we don't like to hear it, but that's that's truth. Once again, I don't understand. We've had such a rough go of trying to put together a couple of Muslim majority of countries. I'm not even should Libya

to right Libya rock Afghanistan. We've been going through this and going through this and asking our our best fellow Americans to do all this actual work to put their lives online and suffer casualties and and PTSD, and we're gonna even tempt fate on this again for Syria. I'm sorry, we're too late for Syria. We are, and we shouldn't pretend we're not. And we shouldn't put our men and women in uniform in a position where they can't win this fight. It's not their fight and they shouldn't be

there in the first place. Now, I'm not talking about the special forces we already have there. Now, they're assistant ground forces that are are aligned with our objective, which was to destroy Isis. I'm talking about we're gonna get rid of a SAD if that's still the plan to get rid of ASAD. Now you're talking full scale invasion. Now you're talking about a big military force there. The terrible idea. It is a nightmare. We need to learn lessons, and we need to elect people in this country who

understand what the heck they're talking about. And we'll look at recent history and draw important conclusions about our national security from it. Do not get us dragged into Syria. All right, hit a quick break. Your team will be back with much more. I hope that the United States is going to move sufficient forces into the region that the Russians won't do anything fullish. The fact is, if we mass our power, they can't possibly compete with us

in the region. And we need to communicate very clearly the Putent that if the President has made the decision, if his British and French allies have made a decision to go along with him, uh, that we are not going to tolerate any Russian interference, and that we have far more power in that area than they do, and that, if necessary, will use it. I don't think we should allow Putin to have any illusion about trying to bluff us.

I think we, we Americans have got to get back to a habit that we're prepared to defend our civilization and defend our country. And that means if you come up against some dictator trained by the case GB and he thinks he can blush you, you want. I gotta say that a lot of TV tough guy talked there from Newton, whom I is a very smart guy and I respect, but he's wrong on this one. Move forces into the region over Syria. Russia has been there for years.

Russia has spet SNAs in place, Russia has intel officers in place in large numbers, my friends. And it's not just Russia. The Iranians are there too, Iranni and i r g C, the Revolutionary Guard Corps, they're they're they're working, they are embedded with and working with Assad's forces. What does he mean We're going to show them that, you know, we're in charge and Syria we're not, and we're not going to be. We are nowhere near as invested as the Russians or the Iranians are and what's going on

in Syria? Move sufficient forces into the region, I mean to do what exactly? This is what I mean. I you know, NW just fell into it. I'm sure that was probably a Fox News segment, I'm guessing, and it sounds good on Fox News. You know, forces in the region, confront Russia, show putin who's boss? What do you think has been going on in Syria for the last oh six years? They've been there? Right? We decided We're gonna go after ICE's, but we're gonna leave us sod alone.

That has been the policy. That is, that is the truth of what has happened. Uh, we're not about to decide that that's not the that's a terrible, terrible idea. And we do not want to get into some kind of you know, squaring off with squaring off with the Russians at Syria. We really don't. Um. They will play very dirty, and we just it's just not our fight. He's holding the line for America is back. I've got to talk to you about the latest on the uh

Mueller probe. It's just just it's outrageous stuff. Um swamp is thick and smelly and stanky and bad. It's it keeps getting worse. I came into this. I know the swamp. I lived in d C. I worked for the federal government. I got all kinds of friends and colleagues and politics. I know people on both sides of the aisle, and man, the swamp is bad news. But it's even it's even messier and deeper and worse than I thought. That's what

we're fine, especially on the government side. The deep state is h is a real thing that we have to contemt with. But before I move on all that, we got some calls coming. I want to take them because they want to discuss Syria. Uh So I wanted to hear from them. And we'll move on to the next stuff We've got to first. Kent in Greensboro, North Carolina. Hey, hey, Ken, how are you doing doing good? Buck? Thanks for taking call. Bad it's a bad day in uh in North Carolina.

Apparently we're gonna lose you on the local radio station down here sometime in May. I believe that's a shame. That's a shame. Uh an unwise decision, But folks are allowed to make their own decisions. What can I tell you? But anyway, go ahead, Kent. Yeah, I'm going about this

whole Syrian thing. And as you were, you were discussing earlier that it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever for Assad to use chemical weapons when he's basically won the war, and and Trump recently stated that we're gonna be pulling our forces out of Syria. It's not logical in any way. And even if that guy is an evil dictator or what have you, he's not a dumb man. He's an a surgeon who speaks multiple language and has been groomed

to run a country. He's not an idiot. And I read a report today I'm a lunch break from from zero Hedge, and while the source it came from a public statements made by some made by the Russians, and they had basically stated that they send inspectors in and they couldn't find anything. And they were basically claiming, I mean, it's a conspiratorial and put it into context as is coming from the Russians, so you know that needs to

be taken into account. But but they were basically claiming that some international uh like health organization, some some I can't remember exactly. They referred to him as white helmets, but people who do internet. There's actually a documentary on them. Well, anyway, they were saying they were basically creating the conspiracy that uh, these people basically staged the whole thing to create basically the propaganda to keep uh, the United States involved. And well,

I don't like to get too conspiratorial at times. That does make more sense than Assad doing a chemical weapons attack when everything's going in his favor. And a second point I would like to make is I read uh, more of a mainstream news article. I went and tried to find some mainstream news articles see what they were talking about. And there was an individual from one of these organizations who was quoted as saying that he smelled colorine after some barrel bombs were dropped. And and two

quick points about that couring gas. Whenever it was used in World War One, it was it was a It was a by product that the Germans had from the from I believe it was a die industry. Don't quote me on that, but basically they did not use it in explosives. They kept it in canisters, waited for the wind to be blowing in the right direction, they opened up these canisters and then there was this big green

cloud that came in the trenches of the enemy. And I recall one time I spent some time in the military and I was talking with an E. O. D guy who they know a thing or two about explosives, and he was saying that colorine cannot be used effectively in the explosives. But and it had something to do with the heat. Yeah, a lot of it burns off. I mean, some of the bad guys in the rock and and Syria have been trying to use chlorine bombs for a while. They did it an Anbar province years

and years ago. I remember the first time. But but basically the entire thing it smells extremely fishy. And while you know, I want to be headstant to believe, you know, a conspiracy that is created by some some guy from Russia, you know, part of the Russian government, it is more logical than what our media is saying. And I don't know, I'd just like to yeah, well, I'm trying to touch on a lot of the subject matter that that you're

bringing to the forefront here, can't. I would just say that the timing is very suspicious, very strange that there's been a pretty much an acceptance of a if not a US withdrawal entirely from Seraman. The president himself was like, yeah, we gotta get out of Syria. He's right on that, you know, we we we can't get pulled deeper into Syria. It's it's gonna go nowhere good, and we're gonna lose our people. It's a very it's gonna be very very

messy for years to come. And and the notion that a SAB would use why would a Sad use chemical weapons to kill forty people. Why would he do it? It doesn't make any sense. He can kill people with barrel bombs, artillery. He's got his Shabbiha militia going in there killing people all the time. I mean, why do that? It's just for the fear factor. It creates much bigger

this struke. Assuming Assad's people did this, Using that chemical weapon is militarily is counter productive, even from the perspective of a homicidal maniac who doesn't care about killing children, right Like, it doesn't matter whether Assad is the most immoral guy on the planet or not. Using those chemical weapons now puts him in the crosshairs of the only global superpower, which is US, So it seems very odd.

I'm not saying he didn't. I'm just saying it's worth it is worth questioning this um and especially because he did it last time we hit him, so now they're gonna do it again. Now, why would they do that? You know? I'm I'm all in favor of of of you know, accepting how and thank you for calling and Kent accepting as evil as the enemy is based on their own statements, I don't think that we should try to explain away their evil or find some way to

think they're less evil. But I also don't think that they're completely um idiotic and self defeating at all their actions. They've managed to hang on people forget now. In twelve there were there were suicide bombings that were directly targeted Asad himself. They almost took him out. They had penetrated his inner circle. Uh, it was real close to all. It was close to lights out for the Assad regime. It really was. And everyone thought, oh my gosh, the

rebels and the ISIS and the rising. Nope, they hung on. Never lost control of Damascus. Uh, never lost control the coastal areas. And they've managed it. They've done it through sheer brutality and and viciousness, but they know what they're doing. They also did it because of an enormous influx of help from Russia and in Iran. But the time you see, this is what And now this just sounds like I'm criticizing Obama, but this is true. The time to take a bigger role in Syria was five years ago if

we wanted to do that. But now, all right, this is showing up. You know, this should be like showing up at the at the end of a of a surgery where someone's you know, fighting for for his life and saying, yeah, well, you know, I'm a trained surgeon. Let me see if I can do something. When the person is already flatlined and they've been they've been operating for ten hours. Maybe you can come in and and

revive them and save them anything else. But the surgical team that's been there has been running things for hours and the patient's already flatlining. That's what we're dealing with in Syria. It is too little, too late. And what I'm worried about is that the Lindsay Graham's The World are out there make it sound like, well, maybe too late, but it won't be too little if we do a lot,

if we go big. No, let's not go big. You know, I do not want you know, those I know we've got a lot of military families listen to this show, a lot of active and former military listening to the show. I don't want any of you having to go over there on orders and try to piece back together Syria.

We've done enough of this, we really have. Um it's and and I would also note that I don't forget that in the in the post nine eleven era, you know that the world, particularly the Muslim world, is very much taken an attitude of you know, look what America has done in a raw Look what it's not in Afghanistan. Not a lot, not a lot of gratitude. Not let's just be honest about it. Not a lot of gratitude from uh, the Muslim world in the Middle East for

getting rid of dictators, fighting back the Taliban. Nope, a lot of Oh it's neo colonialism, it's imperialism. So all right, let's let's let other you know, let's let's let countries figure out their own affairs as much as we can. And we're already doing stuff in Syria. And I don't I don't disagree with of our actions in Syria with regard to the air strikes against but ISIS was a threat to us. I ISIS had cells set up specifically

to come after US. Okay, when people in Syria are training operatives to come to my hometown or your hometown, but they definitely were trying to come after New York City and blow up the subways or run us over with cars or whatever it was. It's now, it's now it is our problem. I gotta deal with it. Right, We dealt with that. ASSAD is not trying to send operatives into New York City to blow up the subway, to to kill as many of our people as possible. So,

you know what, not our problem. We've tried this. We're gonna you know, or they'll be a flowering of democracy and nope. Now what ends up happening is the Islamists takeover. We look like the big bad meanings because we're trying to you know, get the lights on and clean up the sewage on the streets. And you know, we're we're

the terrible occupier that is America. And we've had the ability of the United States military that has been shown both to defeat the enemy and to adapt and do incredible things that are well outside the what you think of is the standard war fighter, uh tool, kid, I mean, you know, building schools, building sewage, but doing all these things these countries, and it's just enough. I wouldn't look. I wouldn't go over there, and so I wouldn't ask

anyone else to go over there. And I've been over to rocket Afghanistan, as you know, I wouldn't I wouldn't want to go over to Syria right now and try to rebuild it. Right. It's different if I were high speed SF guy or something. I was working with the Kurds. That's cool, and they're doing a great job. But I'm not about to show up over there, So I'm not about to say that everyone else should go over there

and try to piece that place back together. We got our own problems here, we got our own things to worry about. Uh. Let's take Tim in Tuscarawas, Ohio. Did I get that right, Tim? Yeah? I bet I've been on there before. You know it. Listen. Number one, I hope the president understands that when Lindsey Graham and the golp eel cons who hate the President, along with the Dems and the mainstream media all are urging him take action, they're just maybe a problem with that, right, Okay, that's

number one. Point Number two, I'm glad Ken brought up those white helmets because I'll tell you what we've seen before where those guys have staged uh terrible events and then at the end when the victims are all standing up, hugging,

having picks with the rescuers, there's something wrong with that. Also, they're helping these radicals, okay, who want to overthrow a sad And we know that they have taken over control of some of the warehouses that Syrian uh military head excuse me, And they've taken over some of their warehouses and sock holds of also chemical weapons. So if there are we don't know that they ain't just releasing them to show that there's events there, but not that a

Sade used them like you said it would be. He's stupid on his part. But you know, the President said, We're not going in there and fights Syria. We're going in there to fight ISIS, and we sending our special forces. They hook up with the Curds and uh, they're just about done with Isis. We don't need this war with with Sharia and Russia. We needed to help the Kurds.

They've taken in Jews in the area. They've taken in the oldest group of Christians, the Coptics, who in turn are helping them fight against the radicals in the area. We should support the courage. But I'll tell you what. The President I think knows this, but he has got to understand. Man, when you've got all your enemies urging you on to do this. It's a big setup. Yeah, there there are some red flags here, Tim. I appreciate the call and thank you for the ring. There. There

are big there are some big issues here. But I also like that our caller brought off the Curds because I've been coming on this show saying, guys, the Curds are getting they're getting shell they're getting attacked by the Turks, supposedly our allies. The Turks are just lying their faces off about how they're all terror They're not all terrorists and not all p KK. That's that's malarkey. But you know, we don't want to deal with the oh and now we've got a crisis with the Turks and how we

gotta handle it. The Turks has been very unhelpful, by the way, we wouldn't be dealing with an ISIS if it wasn't for Turkey saying yeah, we'll just open our southern border and let all the crazies run across it, which is what happened. Turkey was the gateway for all the foreign fighters to get into Syria. They could have done a lot more to stop that. So Turkey has been a problem and the Kurds deserve a lot more of our attention and support than they have been getting.

They have been honorable allies of the United States in Iraq and in Syria, and we owe them a lot more than we've been given them recently. I can tell you that, and it is troubling. It's upsetting. H I do need to talk to you about the Muller probe. I thought we had a coomy SoundBite we could play from his interview, but what is that with with the with with you know, the you know, the guy who can't ride the amusement park rides because he's what's this Stephanopolis?

Do you mean? I'm just kidding. I saw him once. He's petite. He's petite. It's okay. You know he's got big hair. I respect the hair. But he does a he does an interview with with Comey. But it comes out when when producer Mike, do we know, I believe it's Sunday night, Oh song, we gotta wait till Sunday for sanctimonious comy. Darn it? Alright, A four or four to five Mueller probe and much more coming up. Stay

with me. I worry about a world where when you go from violent groups to hate speech in a hurry. In one of your responses to one of the opening questions, UM, you may decide or Facebook may decide it needs to police a whole bunch of speech. Um that I think America might be better off not having policed by one company that has a really big and powerful platform. Can you define hate speech? Senator? I think that this is a really hard question, and I think it's one of

the reasons why we struggle with it. There are certain definitions that that we that we have around um, you know, calling for for violence or UM, let's just agree on that. There are some really passionately held views about the abortion issue on this panel today. Can you imagine a world where you might decide that pro lifers are prohibited from speaking about their abortion views on your content on your platform.

I certainly would not want that to be the case, but it might really be unsettling to people who have had an abortion to have an open debate about that, wouldn't it? It might be, but I don't think that that would ye would fit any of the definitions of of of what we have very important questions getting asked, and that was Senator Ben sass posing to CEO of Facebook or love Facebook if you are in France? Uh, what is hate speech? And sure enough it doesn't really know.

They want to ban it, they want to make sure it doesn't get on their platform, But what is hate speech? I don't know that the Facebook is taking a different position than some of the other social media giants here because Facebook is essentially saying that they are taking some responsibility or the content that goes up on their website, and Twitter and others are like, well, we'll take stuff down, but we can't stop people, right, we can't do it. It's not like a pre What was the movie with

pre crime? I never even saw it. Maybe is it worth seeing the Tom Cruise where they do the you know what I'm talking about, they stop the crimes before they happen. I forget what that was? What was it? Come on, guys, we're all live radio. What's it called? The thing? People are all across the country right now? What minority report? Thank you for those of you who are yelling in your car wherever you are. I'm sorry

that took us a moment there um. But the truth is they don't know what hate speeches, but they're gonna try and I got news for you. If you have a pro life Facebook group that's a little too honest about what really goes on and planned parenthood and abortion clinics, Uh, you might just all of a sudden find yourself either shadow band or just outright band. That's what government regulation is going to allow. He's back with you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck

never stops. Mueller and the FBI and the d O j uh, they don't care about probable cars and they can always find a judge to give them a warrant. This is all about trying to get something on Cohen so they can say you're looking alive for a thousand years. I've seen them do it before. And you just to tell us true or not that Trump did something some crime, and then you won't be looking at an ending prison system.

They will do it. Mueller is corrupt enough, and people have got to come to the to the realization Mueller is not an honest, honorable man, that he is out to get his people that he doesn't like, and he will do anything to bring him down. So let's ask the President certainly has been clear that he has a very deep concern about the direction that the Special Council and other investigations have taken. UH. This investigation started off

as rush of collusion, of which there was none. UH. That has been very clear that nothing has come up over the last year, and the President has spoken at length on this topic. While the media continues to focus on this despite the fact that there's been no evidence after a year, We're going to continue to stay focused on the issue. Peter Strock and Lisa Page our enemies

of President Trump. They were spending time at work trying to figure out how to keep him from being president, and if you were president, trying to have some sort of insurance policy too, I guess, prevent him from acting as president. And so we asked the question of the FBI director, do they still have top secret of clearance? Can they search databases unrestricted without a warrant? And the answer we got was sort of a non answer, But it's an interesting non answer because they said all FBI

agents have top secret clearance and must keep that. So if they're still FBI agents, which apparently they are, he means the non answer specifically really is an answer. It says that they can search our databases. And our point is a broader one. Here we're concerned whether you don't

like Trump or you don't like the Democrats. If you work for the FBI, you should have the oversight of a judge, so you can't willy nearly search, you know, an enemies list that you might have at work, this special counsel and welcome to our two of the buck sex and show my friends a special counsel situation. The whole thing is an embarrassment. It's a farce, although it's also very destructive and dangerous things, so we can't just

laugh about it. But it's gone way beyond, way beyond what any reasonable person could think under the circumstances was ethical, allowable necessary. Uh, this is completely out of control. And as I've been saying to you, the Democrats that I Democrats I know, are like, yeah, it's it's unfair, it's terrible, but you know it's hurting Trump, so they're okay with it. It's always so disappointing to see how quickly the left will not just abandoned principles but admit didn't even have

any principles. Just about power. It's about any anything to win, anything to be able to bend the other side to your will into the will of the state. But there's some very important points come up recently about all this, So the Cohen seizure, we'll talk about that in just a moment, but here is the latest. And I we're gonna chew on this one together for a moment because most of the time I read something emmic odd, it's just I'm getting lashes of what I want to tell

you and what I think that is what's important. This one we're just gonna kind of marinate in together for a moment, all right. Courtesy of the hashtag Resistance Center, that is CNN, right, this is their p their their main story right now. FBI sought Trump's communications with his personal lawyer regarding Russia collusion investigation. Oh no, just kidding, that's not what it says. It says FBI sought Trump's communications with his personal lawyer regarding access Hollywood. I kid

you not this time. That's real. That's real. That is what the f So let's so let's just step back. The FBI went into they made attorney client privilege a joke. Remember we had any maccarthier yesterday, who's he calls balls and strikes. He's very fair minded. He's fair minded to Muller. He knows some of these guys, He knows Komy, so he tends to be a little nicer to them than I am, because he likes them as people, or knows them as people at least, whereas I'm just like these

guys are these guys are dangerous clowns. Ah. But I asked, remember, I said, well, you know, it reminds me of how there's a First Amendment that protects journalists just like obtects all citizens. And you could, whenever there's a leak, just pull all the phones of all the journalists and you'd find out really fast where the leak is. But that's you don't do that because there's attention there. He said, yeah, that's that's right. That's true. It's the same thing with

attorney client privilege. You can override it, but you better have a darn good reason to do that. He's better, and I'm telling you right now, they don't have one for this. I don't know if I brought this up with you, but technically, you know, technically the president can just drone somebody without trial, according to the Obama administration, at least, so are U S citizen without trial. So you know, there's really no such thing as legal protections

underserved and circumstances. The government is just gonna do what it's gonna do. If you take that point of view, you know, there's always some extreme circumstance that will allow them to trample on whatever right. So if we're not

going to protect these rights, they're meaningless. And if we're not gonna say, hold on a second, attorney client privilege has to be considered meaningful and has to be protected, then uh we we we are fundamentally damaging the justice system in this country and in a way that we will not be able to undo once it happens. So but so here's the CNNPS. Okay, I told you this is about FBI wanted communications between Cohen and Trump that

had to do with the Access Hollywood tape. Quote. FBI aids, who rated the home office and hotel of Donald Trump's personal lawyer, sought communications that Trump had with attorney Michael Cohen and others regarding the infamous Access Hollywood tape that captured Trump making lewd re marks about women a month for the election. According to sources familiar with the matter, the warrants. Specific reference to Trump is the first known direct mention of the President in the search Ward, and

sources said it appeared in connection with Access Hollywood. This is the part that I said, we're gonna have to just team Bucks, gonna have to crowdsource this one for a second. Here, what the heck do they need anything? I mean of the Access Hollywood tape. I mean, you know, I can fill in the blanks too, right, let's do this together for a moment. Okay, So maybe Cohen try, you know, maybe Cohen made an effort to suppress the tape.

Maybe he reached out and said, hey, you know NBC or the Washington Post, the ones that actually are originally ram with it. Maybe he said, hey, you know, you guys, please don't do that, or you don't whatever it may be, right, we went through some efforts. Worst case basis, although I can't imagine Cohen saying this to the Washington Post, But you know, how much, hey, how much no no Access Hollywood tape? How much that's not some huge crime against

the state. Maybe they're gonna say it's a a federal election committee violation or commission violation. But the warrant is the first indication your cornery seeing an investigators suspect there was any effort to suppress the tape. Can we just all all the sake of moment here? What a joke

this whole thing has turned into. Do you have a special counsel who is looking into communications surrounding a tape where Trump was talking about how he likes to be sexually aggressive towards women and you know, a little bit of locker room talking or not the stuff you'd want to say in front of your in front of your mom or your daughter. But you know, that's what this is all about. Now the Access Hollywood tape has become

a part of the Special Council. We have a multimillion dollar crack team of ferocious prosecutors and they're looking for information about a what was really just an October surprise that you know that that the media was hoping would cost Trump the election. And I would also note they had no problem just just Deep six and Billy Bush's career over that one too. You know, sorry, I gotta gotta ruin your life. But if it hurts Trump, that's the out of fude. But everything though, if it shreads

the constitution, but it hurts Trump. It's fine if it destroys due process, but it hurts Trump. It's fine if it shows that we have no morals, no ethics, no sense of fair player good faith, but it hurts Trump. You know, you can fill in the blank. This is where we are now. At least the dirsh is out there making the case and trying to tell folks that this is not this is not okay, it's not the way it's it's supposed to be. What we're seeing is

a bifurcation of the investigation. I think Mueller has now acknowledged that he doesn't have the authority to look into uh Mr Donald Trump's pre presidential activities, and so he's filtered that off and given that to the Southern District of New York, which is now going to investigate those

aspects because apparently they couldn't find anything substantial. When it comes to the president's exercise of his article to authority, the president had the right to fire a COMI, he had the right to determine what was to be investigated. He would have the right to pardon, though I don't think it would be a wise thing to do at

this time. But they're now moving some of the case over to the Southern District to look into some other matters regarding his lawyer, his private activities, uh, some negotiated settlements. That seems like a subterfuge by which Mueller uh doesn't have the authority, so he gives it to somebody else, gives them the information. It's like laundering information to another

prosecutor authority. Laundering information to prosecutorial authority. Professor jersh Wood says there, why would any special council do that unless they had a vendetta against the person who's a subject investigation. Keep in mind, and I do think this is this needs to be brought up. The special counsel's authority and a special council's basis is not to investigate Donald Trump.

I feel like we've just been uh the media has been trying to brainwash us or just create a climate where we all accept that this has just turned into an endless investigation of the sitting president by federal prosecutors. That's actually not what they were authorized to do. They're authorized to look into Russian interference in the election. That is their authorization. It is not just to investigate Trump

and anyone who's ever talked to him. I would also note that, you know, you you take this to the absurd lengths of what is possible, and then you understand better why people like me get so angry about these orguments, Like, well, they're allowed to do this. Well, yeah, you know, technically a a prosecutor could keep coming up with theory after theory of why they have to keep investigating you once

they've opened a case. Right, well, we have to look at this, We have to look at that, we have to look at They can drag this out for really as long as they want, even easier. Why aren't people more upset by the way about Tax Week producer Mike, I don't understand. I'm ready to take boxes of of t that I haven't paid the proper you know, excise taxes on or whatever, and throw them into the harbor. I do it in Philly, I do it in Boston. I do it here in New York. I'm very upset

about this whole tax situation. People don't get upset about it though, now, Like, yeah, we're all just like bleating sheep walking around paying our taxes, paying our taxes. I had I had a discussion with a friend recently I said, you know she's all and she's like, oh, I'm back my refund. No, you want to talk about Nancy Pelosi's crumbs your refund, My friends, those are the crumbs because it was your cake that they've already taken. They're just

giving you back the crumbs. Where's Pelosi when we need her busy making cake somewhere else? Ah, people should be much more upset about the tax situation there. But the I r S could basically investigate you forever. I know, I could probably have an I r S former I R S person call in or whatever and say, no, no, Buck, we can't I I I know stories they basically can. Okay, they can just keep it going. I need to see this year's receipts in that year, and this year and

that year. They go back for seven years. How long do you think that'll take if they wanted to. These people were saying, oh, well, Mueller has the authority to do this. You know, if you have someone who's a who's acting in bad faith and using the power that's given them by the state in bad faith, your protections

are a lot flimsier than you think they are. It's not that hard to get to get warrants for all kinds of stuff, and to look at it and then to look, we're talking about a world in which an opposition document that you or I could have written basically ended up being the basis for a fize a warrant against a presidential campaign during a U S election. This

is the world that we live in now. But they're all, oh, you know, we're gonna let's look at what the communications with Stormy Daniels were, Like we're now the Access Hollywood tape. Like I said, there's really no middle ground. You're either in the bunker with Trump. You're either in the in the Trump trench, or you're part of the hashtag resistance at this point, or you can just be completely you don't care about it and you know you live off

the grid and whatever. But there's not a middle ground in this political debate right now because people are just absolutely positively dedicated to ending this presidency anyway that they can. And it's it's really a shame. You know that there's a list of people that if I ever got the opportunity in a public forum, I would really verbally obviously, but I'd really go after them. Uh and and there are a bunch of a bunch of them are prosecutors.

I'll be honest with you, A bunch of them are high profile prosecutors because I think they I think that prosecutors who are politicized, particularly federal, but any prosecutors politicized and acting unethically are the single most dangerous government official to any American. So that's why, you know, Patrick Fitzgerald and Comey and Muller and and I'd like to have a real, a real robust public exchange of thoughts with

some of these folks about how they ruin lives. And they do so with a smile on their face because they're just partisan hitman. That's what they're doing, taking people out, taking them off the part, off the political field of battle. And that's what's motivating all this stuff with' from I mean, come on, everyone, the Access Hollywood tape, this is just a complete joke, SAP. It's not funny. We've got a lot more coming up. I will tell you about it

after this break. So, oh, we all have our Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan is gonna become a P nine d X instructor. Do you hear that? I just made that up? But that's actually a great rumor. I think we should go with that. He's not gonna be Speaker of the House after this fall, though, so maybe he will earn this isn't that? Isn't that p ninet x. We wear the T shirt that's like I earned this because you're like ripped.

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think it would be an enormous mistake. I think he's far better off to let Mueller continue to be frustrated. The truth is, Mueller has produced nothing about President Trump and Russia. If you just look at what his original assignment was, it is a bust. It's an absurdity. And instead they've gone off trying to find ways to create noise. But in terms of what he was originally hasked to look into, Uh, Robert Mueller has come up with a big trapp zero Uh. And we ought to be honest

about that. The president a relaxed focus on being president. Uh. Don't worry about Mueller. He's gonna go away. Uh. And in the end, this is gonna turn out to be a great deal of noise about nothing. So I disagree with new before I told you, But here I am actually bringing new back on in sound bite for him to agree with him. Yeah, fort House, I think he's right.

I think that the sacking. I know sometimes I get a little antsy about this when I'm like, you know what, it would be too much fun to bathe in liberal tears, fire him, fire Muller. But uh, fire Muller, fire Rosenstein. It's probably not a good idea at this point. I know, I know you could yell at me, throw some tomatoes at me. I I don't think that it's the right move at this at this juncture, at this stage, Uh, maybe me can be persuaded on Rosenstein, but not on

not on Mueller. And I also have to note, isn't fascinating of people who are think of themselves as constitutional scholars and lawyers and they know this stuff disagree on Can the president fire Muller? You'll read different analysis of this, right, have you've seen right people say oh he can't? These people say oh he can. Isn't this kind of a go no go thing? Shouldn't we be aware of whether or not Mueller is fireable by the President of the

United States? How can this be sort of Hey, and I'm not really sure, but then again, can the president fight a war in Syria without asking Congress? Or can he blow up everything in serious asking Congress? People say yes, people say no. I guess there's a lot of uncertainty. Doesn't really doesn't really inspire a lot of confidence in our our system these days, does it? So? Oh yeah, I've got to get to the Paul Ryan stuff coming up here? Are we even here? Were real quick? Today?

I'm announcing that this year will be my last one as a member of the House. To be clear, I am not resigning. I intend to fool my serve term as I was elected. You get it. We're gonna talk about this coming up here. What does that mean? Paul Ryan not not going for for another round? We'll talk about it. I want to be clear, I'm not done yet. I intend to run through the tape to finish the year. Some of you wonder why I can't just do the normal politician thing, and which is to run and then

retire after the election. That is what I'm told is the politically shrewd thing to do. I considered that, but just as my conscience is what got me to take this job in the first place, my conscience could not handle going out that way, I pledged to serve the people of Wisconsin the first District honorably. In order to serve the people on my district honorably, I have to show them honestly. And for me to ask them to vote to re elect me knowing that I wasn't gonna

stay is not being honest. So I simply we cannot do that. So that Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, you may have caught this from earlier today, but jump into it together, my friends, Paul Ryan saying he's not going to run for your life, Speak of the House, just siding, just gonna You're gonna hit the fifty dollars, maybe a hundred thousand dollars, No more than that, though, because he's not Hillary Clinton selling access. But he's gonna

hit the fifty dollar speech lecture circuit. Probably. Uh, I'm guessing either the chancellor of a right leaning university or the president of a major and very well funded think tank. That's what's in Paul Ryan's future. With probably some board seats at some companies, he's gonna be just fine. He's gonna be lighting his cigars with a hundred dollar bills pretty soon. Here, I think, but he's he's leaving, and

people are asking a whole lot of questions. They're saying, hold on a second, to speak of the House, right, we got the whole Trump wave, the Trump agenda. You're gonna leave now, You're you're gonna leave it. You've got a Republican president, You've got a Republican House and Senate. You I want to be a part of the second half of the first term of the Trump administration. I

think that strikes some people as a little m hmm. Now, I know there are a lot of people out there who are big Trump supporters who are overjoyed and and quite relieved at the notion that Paul Ryan is not going to be run anymore. Look, you know, I'll tell you this. I've heard from people who know who know Congressman Ryan. Well these there was a very nice guy, a little uptight, but very nice guy. So I'm sure

he's a good dude. And yeah, I can imagine that after a while being away from your family the way that he has been, being a weekend only dad, if you had the option not to be gets tiresome. I'm with all that, but it is public service, and you are the Speaker of the House. Right, You're you're not like deputy under Assistant Secretaries assistant of Deputy under at the Commerce Department. Right, I mean this is this is kind of a big deal sort of matters. And you

get Paul Ryan. Now, so we we've heard the reason, right, he's oh, I've got to be uh, I've got to be close to my family and all that stuff. Okay, what do we really think is happening here? Right? Well? What are the other what are the unspoken reason? And Trump has been very in the press conference that I know Sara Huckabee Sanders very favorable towards uh, towards Speaker Ryan, very willing to you know, to say that he's a good guy and all that other stuff, which is which

I've heard is true. Um, what else is going on here? Well, let's take a little look. Let's take a gander at what has happened, and then we can get a better since maybe of what might happen or what he thought would happen, and how that would affect the decision making process here. For Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, here's

what he said about his accomplishments. When I took this job one of my conditions was that we aim high, that we do big things, that we fashion agenda, uh, that we run on that agenda, that we win an election, and then we execute that agenda. I am so proud that that is exactly what we have done and what we are doing right now. We've accomplished so much since then. Probably the two biggest achievements for me our first the major reform of our tax code for the first time

in thirty six years. Second is to rebuild our nation's military, and after tax reform, addressing our military readiness crisis. That was a top priority that we got done last month as well. These I see as lasting victories that will make this country more prosperous and more secure for decades to come. Yeah about that. Few thinks here. The tax cut mostly so far still right, people have gotten their

bonus and stuff. But tax cuts gonna take a little while before we see what the full economic growth that comes from it is. But it's a good But that's about his mainstream down the center gops. You're gonna get on anything if the GOP has the House to center and the White House and they don't pass a tax cut. Uh, really, what are we doing? Here folks. Right, so it's tough for me to get too excited about that. Yeah, it's good,

but you kind of expect that, right. You know if if you invite someone over to uh to cook a meal in your house, you know, it's it's nice if they like, pour you a glass of wine first, but you're also hoping there's gonna be food, right, It's it's not just there's gonna be a little more to it than that first step. And I think that the tax guns, while they're good, it's easy to say that's great. Um.

And then the whole thing about the military readiness crisis? Uh, how do you say this without people starting to yell at you. I do get the sense that there it's military spending for some folks is never enough. Whatever it is not enough. There is a point in which it's more than we should be spending. Are we there? Are we close? We're probably close? But okay, Republicans also spend more in the military. Republicans are spending more in general.

What did Paul Ryan not tackle though, let's let's get on that, or what did the Republican Party, Because really, Speaker of the House, and he's supposed to be you know, hand in glove with Trump on the Trump agenda, what do they not really get done? Well, I mean, as was making the rounds today, they passed Obamacare repealing in place, didn't become law though, they passed Kate Kate's Law, and they went after sanctuary cities, but that's also still being

adjudicated in the courts, and didn't really do all that much. Um, school choice for d C. That's nice, but just DC not a lot of monumental legislative achievements in this term or you know, in the last eighteen months or so, when you finally had unified Republican government. I think it's get a little bit. I think it's a little too simplistic for Paul Ryan to walk off and say, yeah, it's been great. I already hit a couple of homers. No,

you got on base. You got on base a couple of times, which is nice, but that's not really why he's you know, it's not like he's done enough that now it's all over and everything's gonna be fine. Then you get into some of the other things, Um, well, you know here fine, before I get into the other side of this, there the more and some of you who are not Paul. My problem with Paul Ryan is on immigration. He's terrible, folks. If you don't know this,

he's awful. He's like, yeah, I guess like, let's just bring in the and as many guest workers as humanly possible. Let them stay here, work here, take jobs, because they're not gonna just like stay and have kids and then get benefits and they're just gonna come in, do work and leave, right. I mean, the Chamber of Commerce was

pulling the strings with Paul Ryan for a long time. Yeah, that's what was going on, whether it was directly through them or they just shared in ideology him and uh, you know, Dollar was king for a lot of the decision making about immigration. Not much I can tell you everybody. Here's here's Newt, another former speaker. I'll just I'll let him have his say about Ryan before I take the It's like the contrarian view here for the Republicans, We've

got lots of talent. I think either Scalie or McCarthy would be a very good speaker. Obviously, Paul is a unique person. He's a great policy person, but he's gotten the regulation. He has now gotten welfare reformed with the President statements this week. He helped pass the big tax cut he always wanted to help pass. I think from his perspective, he's gotten a lot of things done he believes in. I think we'll find somebody who will be a good speaker in our job thenal be to beat

the Democrats and make sure we have a majority. Okay, you know knew it was knew it was being generous there, which you should be when someone's now. Keep mind, it's not like he retired today or he's he's still gonna be speaking of the House until until the fall um or until early next year. But you notice there's a little bit of like, yeah, everybody's ducking out. We got other great people out. Don't worry, we got other great people. Why would Paul Ryan be ducking out here? Here's here's

one version. Ryan was gonna be the guy who got blamed when I'm just gonna say it, and this is not the happy talk moment, this is not we are all gonna love this. No something. You may not like to hear this, but I keep it real. I keep it one d in the freedom hud and I if the Republicans lose the House, which is a possibility, my friends could actually happen. Uh, then you'd have a Then he'd be in the minority. And a lot of a lot of those who think that the Trump agenda has stalled,

they're not gonna blame Trump for that. They would blame Paul Ryan. They would blame the establishment. And there are no there are no better emblems of the of the Republican establishment than Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. They are as establishment as it gets, right. So I think Ryan is like, you know what, I'm gonna get out while things are good. Uh. And I'm sure all this stuff he said about the family is true. I don't think

he was making any of that up or anything. But I just there's other things going on here too that we should pay attention to, not just because you know the speaker of the House. He's gonna be now his seat is up. By the way, I think only Paul Nilan am I right about this, is set to run for because Naylan was gonna run who from this, just from the stuff I've seen on Twitter, that guy is crazy. Naylan was gonna run against Ryan, and without any support from the GOP for when I said it all this

guy is like, whoa, he's way out there. Now, They've got to put it in another candidate. And I think they're actually gonna amount to pretty serious Democrat, uh contender for that seat to make a statement against whoever the actual or it's not gonna now and whoever the actual

Republican is that they that they put in there. But I think that Ryan realizes that, you know what better to remember when Michael Jordan's like left and he was at the top of his he was at the top of his game, right, and he's just like Michael Jordan's basic he was the sports equivalent of a superhero. In fact, he was even in a cartoon, a Saturday Morning cartoon that I remember with Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jordan, you know what I'm talking about and Bo Jackson. That's right, Brandon.

Uh what was it called the All Stars or something or it was the All Stars. Yeah, we're like they were I didn't even were they fighting crime or so, I don't know, but you know, basketball hockey stick and Bo Jackson in the baseball bat and they're just like being awesome. And Michael Jordan was basically a superhero. And then he decided to come back to the NBA after going to the and he was he was still still

a superhero. But then he started playing for the Wizards that it was kind of like, oh, like he's has one does he's getting older and everything. It's like he's not a superhero anymore. I'm not saying that Paul Ryan's superhero.

I'm just saying he doesn't want to be the guy who was at the kind of the top of the game and then all of a sudden is like coming off the bench in the fourth quarter for five minutes at a game that nobody cares about, you know what I mean, Like, he doesn't want to be that guy. And I think this is his avoidance of that possibility

that we see going. I think that's the primary reason that Paul Ryan decided, you know what, I'm gonna get out of here, because he doesn't want to be the establishment fall guy if the midterms go badly, and you know what, I think that would have happened if they had. So that's my that's my assessment of it. And all of you who are like boo, Paul Ryan, I know, I know, I get it. I get he's a nice guy, but I get it terrible on immigration, as I said,

I mean among the worst Republicans on it. I mean he's like, he's almost like fundamentalist open borders libertarian bad on immigration, because there's some fundamentalist libertarians and on immigration who are just wacko. Anyway, So that's my pol Those are my Paul Ryan thoughts. We'll be right back with all of his term oil, particularly this last week. Tests the President at any time about stepping down before or now? No, And I think that's an absolutely ridiculous questions. So that's

an April Ryan. Who is with NPR. Who's April Ryan with? I think she's with Let me sit here, let me check as as on on air, I need to make sure April Ryan is with? Uh who is she with? I don't even know. She's a journalist, well known. I'm just forgetting who exactly she whatever, doesn't matter, Okay. So she's a journalist for one of the big outlets, and and she asked at a press conference is the President

thinking about stepping down? Which I can tell you the answer is no. President is not thinking about stepping down. And I do think that there's a point at which the the questions from the media it's fair to ask, like, is this just blatantly disrespectful? You know, has this crossed over from asking tough questions to asking questions that are the equivalent of, you know, when did you stop eating

your wife? I mean, that's a question, but it's not something that posed in the West wing of the White House you would expect, right that that or that you would accept, I would think, But it is indicative I think of the Trump dearrangement syndrome in its total reach, that the the Overton window, you know, the Overton window is what is considered acceptable to discuss what the realm

of acceptable discussion is at any point in time. The Overton window on Trump is is constantly shifting and and it's always shifting negatively against Trump though, right, So, sometimes you can get away with a whole lot more Trump bashing in certain areas, but you can always essentially bash Trump all in all the time. And that's what you saw that Now. I would note that Ryan has gotten a lot of of pushback from this, and and even

some worse stuff too. The reason why I asked the question was not about Democratic Republican It was not a partisan thing. It was a reporter asking the question. But people have gone into their tribes and some are saying that was a great question. Mostly people who do not support this president, and those who supporting this president are outraged, are angry. I've been getting death threats and we've been calling the FBI. Now, yeah, I gotta I got a

couple of things to say on this, all right. First of all, anyone who ever threatens any journalist over what they say or their question is is an imbecile and and and should be a report of the authorities. But you don't make death threats against people, period, right, So I don't need to say that, but I just you know, in case media Matters is listening, let me see that. But then I also want to say this, Uh, I don't know many people who work in media who haven't

gotten terrible threats. I've gotten terrible threats. All my friends have gotten terrible death threats, threats of violence. I mean, really really bad stuff. I know plenty of people in media who have had threats against their families as well. I mean, don't you get me started. I used to work I was a colleague of Dana Lashes at the Blaze. What do you think that was like for Dana of and I can talk about a whole bunch of other people in the same category of of of threats and

they just thinks. I think it's a little you know, it's a little bit like, oh, I'm getting threats. And now, look, she asked a very it was a very dumb question. It was a very dumb question. Um. That doesn't make her a bad person, It doesn't mean that anyone should

be mean to her, but it's a dumb question. I think it's indicative of the press cores, lack of of um, you know, underpinnings, lack of a framework for what is reasonable and rational with Trump, right, So that's no one ever would asked Obama that question or or Bush that question before him, no matter what we're talking about, no matter what period. But also you always gotta be a little when journalists start to do the whole Oh you know,

I've been getting death threats. Death threats terrible, nobody should get them, but we all we all get that threats. Okay, So in this day of Twitter and Facebook, I can't even tell you know, oh my gosh, the stuff that's out there that if you're going to be in the public eye, you deal with so that that part of it I felt a little bit like, yeah, a report of the FBI, but it's not really germane to the

discussion of why would you ask the president that? And the answer is because the press believe that that's a legitimate question, which tells us a lot more about the press than it does about the President. I want to talk to you about parenting, schools and elitism and also many bats amazing lineup coming up for the next hour. Stay with me. Now, I am not a parent, so I have no expertise in this matter, but I do

like to pretend to know about these things. Maybe because I had very good parents, um, also just because I find the whole the battles over parenting are fascinating to analyze as an outsider. So so maybe in a sense, even though I have no firsthand experience, I'm an objective observer of how people parent their kids. Like for example, today, I may have, in my losing battle against dad bod gone to the gym and there was a woman there who this is not no, no no, it's not like that

kind of a story. It's not like, hey, I haven't seen you the gym in a while. No, no, it's not. It's not a fun gym story like that. She was, you know, clearly a mom with her baby. And uh, I will say that I could tell from hearing her speak that she was also foreign but irrelevant from where but mom with a baby in a foreign accent and brings the baby into a gym where people are doing like kettle bell swings and lifting bar bells with serious

weight on them, you know, a gym, Jim. And this woman had just decided to I don't know why she wanted it. And she's like putting the baby on the treadmill. I mean a baby like a toddler. Well maybe that's not a baby, but you know two years old, like has unsteady legs and needs to be kind of help, puts her on the te readmill. Like, and I'm sitting and watching this. They're like, whoa, I mean, technically there's an eighteen and over policy for the gym that I

happened to be it. And the mom comes over and she's turning on the baby on the treadmill. Hold, I'm like, no, no, treadmill not a toy. No, no, this is not and I but I'll tell you I was held back because I'm like, you know what, it's not my place, it's not my baby. I'm not a parent. You know, people will say I'm being curmudgeonly, which is always a daily struggle for me. So I'm just gonna let it go.

And sure, after a little while, you know, she she's scurried out of there, and everything was fine, The baby was fine. But I remember thinking to myself, like, this is not smart, right, Like this is dare I say, even as a non parent, it is bad parenting to bring your tiny toddler into a gym environment, let the tiny toddler walk around when people are swinging literally swinging heavy weights, Like I just think that's a bad move, right, I think so, and I think we can all agree

on that. But people can very sensitive about criticism of parents, particularly criticism of parents from people entrusted with the children of other parents, like teachers, for example. And that's why this particular post. I guess this is continuing. You know, I like to talk about education on the show higher education college stuff or fermtive action college admissions. Well here I'm talking to you about like kids that do fingerpainting

and stuff like that. Those kinds of kids and their teachers in Bastrop, Texas, which I'll admit i'd never heard of before today. Are you, gentlemen, familiar with Bastrop. It's lovely this time of year, you know, you know what a good thing about Texas is just be like, they're really into their football there. And you know what, even if it's not true, you haven't offended anybody. And there's like a chance they're like, damn right, let's see. I've

learned the tricks. I know things. So in Basstrop, Texas, there's a teacher. Oh it's a So it's suburban Dallas. Okay, So it's a suburb of Dallas. I thought it was its own town. That doesn't count. That's like a neighborhood. Um. She expressed her frustration, and and this has been shared more than four hundred thousand times on Facebook, so this has gone viral. This is a teacher named Julie, Julie Marburger.

She writes, I left work early today after an incident with a parent left me unable emotionally to continue for the day. I've already made the decision to leave teaching at the end of this year, and today I don't know if I will even make it that long. Parents have become far too disrespectful and their children are even worse. Administration always seems to air on the side of keeping the parent happy, which leaves me with no way to do the job I was hired to do teach kids.

I am including photos that I took in my classroom over the past two days. This is how my classroom regularly looks after students spend the day there. Heap in mind that many of the items damaged or destroyed by my students are my personal possessions or I purchased myself because I have no classroom budget. Uh. Report, she goes by the way, this goes on at length, so I won't read the whole thing. Report cards come out later this week, and I'm nearly half of my students failing

due to multiple missing assignments. I guess these aren't I guess they're not doing finger painting. Whoops, Wait a second, how old are these kids? Because the classroom is trashed. I gotta find out how old I assumed based on because I looked at the photos and it looks like a pack of wild animals are running around in there, and I'm trying to see Uh, I guess they're they're gotta be old enough to have homework, which means that

they're not toddlers. They're not finger painting level. Um. Although I know there's some colleges now where I think you can major in finger painting. I've never heard of a profession back to her viral post here where people put so much of their heart and soul into their job. Okay, teachers are amazing, right, I get it. We all agree, fun Um. It has been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember, to have a classroom of my own. People. Absolutely, here's where we go. Here's

back into the parenting stuff. Absolutely have to stop coddling and enabling their children. It's a problem that's going to spread through our society like wildfire. It's not fair to society, and more importantly, it's not fair to the cheach to the children to teach them. It's okay, it will not serve them towards a successful and happy life. All right. I'm gonna tell you this as an out from an outsider's perspective as a nonparent hoping to be a parent

in the next couple of years. But as a nonparent, I feel like kids are Bratti or now? I feel like, right, I mean, Brandon and Michael look at me, They're like absolutely kids are Bratti or now? They just are. Something has changed in our society. You know, things do change. It used to. You know, your technology changes, social more raise change. Things do change over time. And you know, when I'm in restaurants now it has become that's right, there's a little bit of get off my lawn coming

your way here. When I'm in restaurants now, it is it is now almost normal for a kid to be kept quiet with an iPad, that they have the volume on at a at a restaurant, at a place of of relaxation and culinary enjoyment. Right, I don't care if it's Le cirque or if it's low Wendy's kids should be able to sit there, enjoy their food, and if they're not older to engage in conversation, at least be quiet. I'm okay with the I got a little coloring book

or something because that doesn't bother me. Right, I'm not I'm not a monster, right, I'm not the demon from Frankenstein. I mean, I understand, but you can't have the noisies you can't have an iPad playing a movie SpongeBob spadrop. I'm like, I'm I'm on a date over here. Kid. You know, I know you're five or in some cases fifteen. I mean, some of these kids, no rules, no manners whatsoever. It's just too much. And I think it starts very young. And I think it's because there's a culture now of

you know, you do you when it comes to parenting. No. No, there are the grumpy single people out there like me who are not parents, who I think have a duty. I think we have an obligation when parenting is not is not up to up to par in in the public square to say, you know what, take you know, little little fauntal Roy over here. You know, by the way, they all they've all got their all name like Casper. Now you know, they all have these like these literary names.

It's just you know, Bartholomew Casper. You know, it's like, you know, what whatever happened? Like Mike and and Brandon and John and Tom. You know. Now all these kids have these names. It sounds like they pulled them out of a Harry Potter book, which they probably did, now that I'm saying it, out loud that that's probably how they got the name. But I think it will be better if we just all understood that it's a It is everyone's business when a kid is misbehaving in public.

And to those of you who have really well behaved kids, which I know is a vast majority, it's of the people who listen to this show have very well behaved kids. Those who are parents, congrats and thank you for what you were doing, because you're really contributing to civilization and you're really keeping the tour of civilization going by having kids that don't act like little screaming monsters who think that they can throw their French fries across the room

and yell and you know the whole thing. Yeah, I remember. I remember even when I was I was walking Ms. Molly's family dog, which is basically a pit bull, and like a parent came over and was like he is it friendly? And I was like, nah, I wouldn't, and like the kids were just like we're going in anyway. I was like, guys, it's not gonna end. Well, okay,

I tell you. The dog is not, you know, great with adults, but it's had experiences with kids who come in like poke you in the eyeballs, like that's not good. Dogs don't like that, right. Some dogs know they see somebody who's sub three ft five and they're like, back off because they know you're over. You know, you're over five feet or so. They the dog knows you're gonna They see the little people come over who are like

eight six for something like that. You know, they get a little growl and the parents go, and I'm like, I told you, don't bring the kids too close to stuff I deal with, right, you know, it's just I want to bring it back down the sun and bring it back down a neutral. Cool the jets for a second here, um, and we're gonna I'm sorry. The kid in the gym today was just too much. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it. And so I'm with this teacher who's freaking out. And you know, is she

a drama queen? I don't know. I don't know her personally, but I like her post where she's just like people spoil their kids, don't spoil your kids. That's the you know. And this is a this is a group effort, folks. There, I say, it takes a village like a Remember she wrote that book a long time. It takes a village. Takes a village to keep your kids from acting like little monsters. All right, we'll be back. Stay with me. I want to take on school eliteism here for a second.

I mean at the college and and graduate level. So there's a story out there about Michael Cohen, who who's pulse your poles? Who's poles? That guy? Because his office got rated by the FBI, And I think this whole thing is an absolute sham. I think it's a disgrace. He knows he listened to the show. No, I am very,

very fired up about it. But people have been poking around more to find out more about this Cohen fellow and Red State, which is a site um that is owned I believe, or was I think it was owned by Eric Ericson, who I know from from work stuff. Red State had a piece up that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen got his law degree from literally the worst law school in the country or the worst law school in the country is what was written here. And now I

understand that people are going to look at this. There's a little bit of a ha ha because he didn't get it from not a fancy school. They're not saying he didn't go to Harvard or Yale or you Michigated. There are some state schools that are phenomenal law schools, right, but you no, no, no, this is apparently the worst of the worst in terms of accredited law schools. Uh. And we're supposed to take from this. There's a little bit of just uh, you know, isn't this kind of funny?

The president's top lawyer is not exactly an intellectual heavyweight. But but I wanted to push back on this a little bit. And I'm getting actually a little help, uh to that degree, because I say this all the time. I came from a background where I went to a high school on a full scholarship. It's called Regious High School here in New York City, and it's a really amazing place. Everyone goes for free. It's a completely private school.

Everyone goes for free. They have their own test, standardized tests that they administer. It's their test, and then they have an interview portion as well, um, and and they just make their own decisions. It's run by an endowment and by people who give money who went there. That's it doesn't get any other funding, and it's a really

interesting place in a lot of ways. But one of the things that I saw there and came to know is that unlike some of the New York kids that I grew up around who had parents who went to fancy schools, because legacy is a very big thing even still, especially at these Ivy League schools and equivalents, but a lot of the kids that I knew were just a lot of my friends, my classmates, most of them, almost

all of them in high school. We're middle to what you'd call working class, middle to working class in terms of their their household income and all that. And they were brilliant kids, and they were really hard working, and they would go wherever they could get the most money to go. So I knew kids who were like on the same level as someone who could go to UH. I don't know, a swath More Cornell, which as we know, is like the fake IVY. But that's a whole other discussion.

That's right, Cornell. People at me, come at me. But you know, people could have gone to a schools of those caliber in terms of the admissions rate, but they went to UH State school instead, or they went to a Catholic university where they where they could get more money,

where they had more tuition helps. It was a financial decision, but they're every bit as smart and capable, and I think you could argue a lot of them probably got better educations at the state schools they went to, and they would have if they had paid forty thou dollars forty five thousand dollars year to go to school. So I had that experience of seeing because I knew who in my class was really smart and who was kind of just And some of the super smart kids went

to the not the fanciest schools. Some kids who went to the schools you'd be so impressed with weren't really that impressive, but they were like the world's best tuba player or something. Fun. Fact, my college roommate my first year was actually a tuba player, which that's that's something that you gotta lived with. So this pushback on Michael Cohen as a lawyer, Look, I'm not some big Cohen defender, but I saw something really interesting from Twitter account Thomas Crown.

He's a lawyer. I don't know his background, don't know the guys falling on Twitter, And here's here's the thread that he wrote on Twitter about this, and I think this is important. I think it's applicable way beyond uh just the case of Michael Cohen, right, or law school. I think there is applicable in general. I think everyone

should know this, he writes. As Rump shaker Sarah Rum, who wrote the piece on on Michael Cohen, notes Thomas Cooley, that's the law school is considered the worst of the worst with honors, sir, and it has been for decades. It accepts almost everyone has an eighty six percent exepence right, which for a law school is basically everyone. I mean, if you're not a convicted felon, you can pretty much go.

It means entry scores are miserable. All the indicators of success and the practice of law are not required to enter. This is all from Thomas Crown. Now quote law students and lawyers from other schools tend to mock it, and rightly so. For a few years I litigated against a guy who graduated towards the bottom of his class. There. Uh, he failed multiple times, and then he says he was unique. But Thomas Cooley has or had when I cared to look,

a brutal failure and dropout rate. This is largely driven by the skills and so much else brought by those who get in there, but it's driven by other things too, and one of them is or was, an academically brutal environment. Unlike many of the many, if not most, top tier law schools, exams are not open book. There is no curve at Thomas Cooley, and the school knows at churns and burns students. If you got an A in real property in my law at law school, this guy went

to a fancy one. You had a working grasp of a lot of theory and a well marked up book. If you've got an A and real property at Thomas Cooley, you not merely knew the rule against perapetuities. You could not merely apply it. You could generate a law school

question about it and write the rubric for it. A friend was top of his class at the end of his first year law school and promptly transferred to a top twenty five where he finished at the top of his class, from Thomas Cooley because he said, this is so much easier, uh, he said, and then he goes on. An old lawyer are sometimes meant who passed away a decade ago. Usually give all the polished, bright things at a m law A hundred firms headaches with this joke.

What's the difference to a trial lawyer and a litigator? A trial lawyer tries cases. A litigator has so much paper he can't get it up into the courtroom, so he has to settle on the courthouse steps. Point here is at the top of their class. Kids at Thomas Cooley are scrappers. They tend to be harder on neglive from school, not as polished, but much much more compelling on their feet in a courtroom. This guy is saying

is that the crucible, my friends, matters. Skills matter, great determination, that all matters a heck of a lot for professional success. And yes, it matters in your academic environment too. We have been put up, We've been putting this culture where all the obsession, the obsession with degrees and the fancy school and all did you get into this school? You're

into that school? Where do you go to school? It's I think we're finally moving away from it as we should some of and I mean this, and I am I am not in any way trying to you know, play play along here play game. Some of the smartest people I have ever worked with, uh in media, never graduated from college or even went to college. And some I mean I worked for Glenn Beck. Glenn never went to college. Guys, you know, practically was his own country for a while in terms of you know, his influence

and how much money he's making everything else. I mean Glenn's grade, right, never went to college. I go down a whole list of people and I never went to college and incredibly successful. And then I look at other people. I know, people I worked with in government, some of the smartest analysts I came across state school. But you know what, they had to make it in state school. They had to study hard, they had to get the grades. Couldn't just rely on mumsian daddy to make it all

happen for them. So I just don't you know, And I know where everyone's having a laugh at Cohen going to a crappy law school. But don't forget it that the school doesn't matter. You matter, and what you do there and what you learn, that's what really makes the difference. All Right, We'll be right back, team, stay with me. Look,

I'm all in favor of enabling people to defend themselves. Obviously, I'm a big advocate of and defender of the Second Amendment, and I just believe that that we all have an inherent right to self defense and that the government should never just take that away from us because it feels like it or on some kind of whim. But there are some things that are just not gonna cut it. There are some things that just aren't gonna aren't gonna

make it uh worth worth your while to try. We've seen recently when people have been talking about ways that we can have teachers prepared to defend their students. You had a few weeks ago buckets of rocks distributed, right, which you know you're you're counting on a lot there. First of all, uh, somebody having good aim with the rock that they're throwing, a good arm, and and also

being able to get to those rocks. I mean, unless you've got Nolan Ryan in his heyday as a teacher, I don't think the bucket of rocks option is all that useful a way to go. I think that's pretty clear right in fact that I think there's a whole bunch of things you could think of that would be much more effective than a bucket of rocks. But that's not even the dumbest. We should We could almost give

out awards for this. That's not the dumbest idea of school district has had um short of doing drills where they have the teacher throw their stapler. I mean you could do that, right, stapler's nine string nine stapler. Only some people will catch that reference. But you know what, the people who do, they're the real heroes. Heroes. Staper took me Staper. Yeah, I'm gonna have to anyway. Some people will catch it, and those are my Those are

my brothers and sisters for life. And the rest of you who don't catch it, you're also our brothers and sisters for life. But the worst idea of all, I think, and this is worse than rocks. Many baseball bats. They're getting out many baseball bats to teachers in Mill Creek Township in Pennsylvania. And they actually Fox News actually got the the superintendent to go. I was like, well, it's a last resort and it's a dangerous world we lived. But sure enough, it's like, okay, can we break this down?

There are several levels of wow here. Uh. First of all, the thing that strikes me is not is not just that this is idiotic, but also there's a specific idiocy with why not just a baseball bat? Why a mini baseball bat? And when I thought about this, because by the way, who has it? Do you have a mini baseball bat? He Actually, you're like a Phillies fan. Probably you probably have a collection of them. You and your Phillies friend weirdos probably have like a whole room with

just many Phillies bats. And with the Flyers, you probably got those like sticks from the Flyers. That's what they call it, right, a hockey stick. I never watched hockey. I've learned my lesson, though I don't talk smack about hockey on radio. I've gotten because we have the real big baseball bats and the real big hockey there you go. Don't do many, Yeah, they don't do many in Philly. They don't go miny in Philly. What do you think this is? It is crazy? Right? Gosh not, they didn't many.

They didn't many baseball bats. And like Quebec, you know that's something else, that's some foreign stuff. So in Philly they get the full bat. Plus they also put some nails into it. And you know, they spruce it up a little bit. That's a whole other discussion. But they

don't even go with real baseball bats. They think it's a better idea to armed teachers with many baseball bats, which unless they're gonna do a special training where they get like one bat in each hand, and then it kind of turns into the what is it the Filipino stick fighting. I believe it's called collie. I watched a lot of martial arts movies in my day. Yeah, yeah, that's right. You guys have no you don't even talk to yea. Yeah, it's Filipino martial arts, two sticks, same time.

It's actually pretty cool, and you see people doing it. I'm gonna get an email from somebody guarantee guaranteed any martial art that I give a call out to on this show. As long as I've been doing the show, someone's like, well, like, I'm a I'm a ninth degree black belt in Savat, the French art of kickboxing that combines ballet leg moves with Western style boxing. It's a

real thing. They've even made a couple of bad martial arts movies about it, which is why I know about it, because I saw there's a whole other there's a whole other genre folks will have to explore together, which is eighties circle early nineties, but really eighties action movies. Like if you want to talk about Jeff Speakman in The Perfect Weapon, I've seen that movie many times. Like that was one all of a sudden, all these kenpo karate schools or over together. It's like, it's not just karate,

it's kempo karate. It's like, oh, well, in that case, the spin kick is gonna work anyway. Mini bats not not a good not an effective tactic, not an effective technique. Uh. This funniest thing is they're not even giving him full bats. I mean a bat. Yeah, that'll work. You gotta get really close to somebody, at least a bat. You got a shot a mini bat. It's like ding stop it. Mini bad is for when somebody's like being naughty in detention. All right, we got roll call coming up? Stay with me.

What the heck happened with Connor McGregor. By the way, I saw the headline a few days ago and and now today I actually he was like, you know, what, what did this guy do? I figured that it must be some kind of UFC stunt, But no, he actually just like freaked out and threw a metal trolley or dolly dolly trolley would be really hard. That would be the hulk to do that, right, because that's a large it's like a train car. A dolly is what you

carry luggage. And he threw a metal dolly through the window of a van actually hurt some people, uh, injured a UFC fighter. Brandon did he was the guy able to fight the next day or not? He was not? Oh, you don't know. Okay, we're not sure. I should have found that out for went on air. But whatever, the point is, guys obviously got a bit of a bit of a screw loose. And on top of that, he does remind me the most, though, of the Brad Pitt

character from Snatch. It's almost like that character was made real with Connor McGregor. You know, I thank you fire, you know, like and you don't really understand what he's saying. I thought they made all that stuff up for the movie Snatch, by the way, where he's got this weird like Irish uh what do they call it? The traveler used to be called gypsy. They don't like that Irish traveler language. Uh, when in fact that is what they said.

They do sound like that. I've since seen documentaries where they speak that way and and underground boxing is a big thing for them. Connor McGregor though not exactly doing underground boxing because I think he's worth like a hundred million dollars now after his rather disappointing fight with Floyd Mayweather. So I just was surprised. I watched the video today, I was like, what is this guy doing? Why? Why

do that? That doesn't make sense. I remember many years ago, I knew I knew a guy who knew a guy who got a little mouthfie in a bar with someone and there was some kind of a scrap and he uh hit. I wasn't there, but as the stories told me, he hit somebody in the side of the head with the Heineken bottle and actually the bottle partially shattered and a piece of glass got in the guy's eye that he hit. He went to Rikers Island for eighteen months for that, which is a very notorious prison here in

New York City. So anytime you're because because that's what the dolly got thrown through the window and the glass shattered and actually hit this cut up this UFC fighter who's sitting there. Anytime you're assaulting someone and there's broken glass involved, very very bad idea. Also just a bad idea to assault people. Important safety tip with that, let's get into some rock call. It's time for roll call. Spring carts now swing swing dancing, isn't that with the

right What was zoot suit riot? That was a thing, Brandon, you're DJs. You know about these guys they Big Dad Voodo Daddy. But also what what was the one were they that be who was remember for a while like swing dancing, the movie Swingers that had swing dancing. There was one band was it was that? The one that was really popular for like six months in a It

was them y Big Bad Voda Daddy. Yeah. Yeah, all of a sudden, everybody who was wearing uh, you know, wearing the fedoras and zoot suits and there zoot suit right, that's right, that's right. So anyway, yeah, man, we could bring it back. Yeah, groovy tunes. Listen to my groovy tunes. Man, all right, into the Facebook box here speaking of important things.

Terrible transition, Buck, but it's late in the show. Uh oh, I want to get to the emails first, I would I would like to note that if you want to be a part of roll Call, all you have to do is send us an email, and you can do so rather easily by writ into official team Buck at gmail dot com. That is Official Team Buck at g mail dot com. Next up here or first up here? Rather we have uh Rain, cool name who writes, Hi Buck.

I love the show and I tell everyone to check it out at I heart Live or via your podcast on iTunes. Well, thank you, Rain, You're very kind and that is very much appreciated. You mentioned you just finished Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and you were wondering why the creatures always depicted as a mumbling monster in the movies that

you picture him reciting Shakespeare and holding conversations. And a show that depicted the monster beautifully, where he recited the great works and poetry, appreciated art and beauty, and engaged in conversation. Is Penny dreadful? The actor truly brings such depth and emotion to what has previously been a flat roll shields high Rain. Uh, well, Rain, let me say yes, I agree. I saw that Penny Dreadful and I thought it was excellent and also although the last season that

kind of got off the rail. But I do remember the character of the Frankenstein Monster, the demon as Dr Frankenstein calls him, is very eloquent and thoughtful and interesting and not you know, that's right, I mean Brandon. When you think of Frankenstein, it's a lot of like and he moves kind of slow, and he's got the bolts in the neck and that's just a somehow. What is Some people consider Mary Shelley's Frankenstein one of the greatest

novels of all time. I'm not in that category, but I have read that on those lists on the internet. Uh but what was a novel with with really beautiful writing, and it was early on in what would become the sci fi genre? Got you know, basically they made a bad movie adaptation of it. This would be saying, uh, you should go read the book. I'm trying to think of bad What is? What is the worst adaptation of

a book that you liked into a movie. I like the book Bonfire the Vanities because it captured a certain period here in New York City. They made a movie with Tom Hanks and Melanie Griffith that is unwatchable garbage from a best selling book, they made an unwatchably garbage movie. I'm sure if we thought about this, we could come up with a whole number of this is not an unusual thing to happen, But maybe I'll come up with that.

If you have any good if you have any great ones, and by that I mean terrible ones times when the the movie uh did not live up to the book at all, you can sell that to me on Facebook dot com slash buck Sexton. Oh buck Sexton's doing the row call. I like that. Other people start calling dershow it's the dirsh. By the way, I've seen that minon box a few times now. I'm like the dirsh. Hey, yeah, you're in a scrape. You're in a scrap. You need a little help. You know, the fuzz is coming after you.

The five oh called the call. It sounds like he'd have like a billboards, you know by the highway, you know, accident whiplash called a dirsh. I'm sure Professor Dorsh Wos, tenured professor of law at Harvard would not not not approve of such billboards, but nonetheless back into the email box Official Team Bucket, Gmail dot com if you want to send it to us. Buck, you are exactly correct on bands. For all those who think that crazy people should be forbidden guns. Remember in the Soviet Union, if

you disagreed with the government, you were considered crazy. Only a crazy person would not see the value of the commune. Nuts is in the definition, not in the head or the heart. Chuck from Grand Rapids. Uh, well, Chuck, I agree, good sir, that bands tend not to work the way they are advertised to work. So I am with you on that, and I think that I think that any time people think they're going to solve a problem by just outlawing it, they have to think a lot harder

about what the real implications will be. Um. Next up, we've got John who rides Hey Buck, big fan of your show, especially the wit and sense of humor. Well, thank you, my good man. That you combine so well with your expertise on history, geopolitics, national security, culture and the mess that is our current government. It is great listening. Well, you, sir,

have fantastic taste. I'm also finished with a manuscript called Joe Citizens Letter to Speaker Banter, which gives a Joe Citizens take on all the liberal insanity and the refusal of the Republican leaders to do anything about it. Being from Los Angeles, I get the overload of leftist utopianism every single day, and it burns me that the so called conservative leaders don't do enough to fight this plague we are seeing now. California sets the trends, however, insane

and the rest of the loose states follow. But I dig deep into all the real nuttiness that goes on in California, and it's even worse than whatever you might read about. This is an exerpt. Oh he sent me an exerpt. Okay, well, I can't read the whole excerpt on Artis's long but thank you John for sending me this. I appreciate it. And let's get whoops, I just I just lost my inbox? He lost it? Fuel are fuel Er, I'm finding I'm fine. There, give me one second? Where

did it go? One more? Here? This one from Cindy. She writes, I'm with you about cruise ships. Well, of course, and you're also a person of exquisite taste and understand that cruise ships are generally not a good idea in my opinion. Look, it's an opinion thing. Some people like picnics. I say, why do you want to eat on the ground and not have access to refrigeration? You know I'm not I'm not down with picnics whatever. I think very overrated. Right,

you carry all your food? What happens you forgot? Oh you forgot the mayo? Tough, no mayo for you. You're on a picnic. You walked all the wayut in the middle of that field, right, Not a picnic person. Not a cruise ship person. You're not a tent person either. I what do you mean like sleep in a tent? Oh? I grew up doing camping. Don't even get me started

on camping makes makes no sense to me. Makes not glamping I'm all about and yeah, you could say this is fru fruit buck coming out, but I don't care. Glamping I can get right. You go out staying in a cabin, log cabin, the woods. I love nature. I just don't like the feeling of waking up after sleeping on the ground and having had like a rock in the center of my back, because you know, that's just nature. Man, I don't like that part of it. So I'm no, that does not excite me. By the way, last night.

I was actually hanging out with Miss Molly and sitting on the couch, and all of a sudden, my knee just started to hurt for no reason, and out of nowhere, I'm just like, ah, my knee hurts. And we just looked at each other same time, and I was like, oh, man, I needed not I need to not let that just become a thing. My knee hurts, my back hurts, I follow it in my knee. You just care like me, all right? Um. Cindy wrote that about cruise ships. She

goes into some more details. She writes, as a conservative, it may seemed backwards to me, but we need the government, this government to investigate Twitter, Facebook, and Google about the algorithms and censorship and a knackt legislation to stop at Cindy, I appreciate the sentiment, but I gotta tell you, I think that almost always the government. It's gonna make the government's gonna make the problem worse. You can think it's gonna be better, but they're really gonna make it worse.

That's my opinion. So we will see. And he said, thank you for all you do. You thank you, Cindy for rutting me this kind note I greatly appreciated, So that's gonna be it. From the Freedom Hut Archives of a roll call today, thank you so much for hanging out, for being with me here in the Hut. All kinds of exciting programs, plans, fiestas. We've got things coming up, so I'll bring you up to speed on them in good time. In the meantime, you are the evangelists for

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