The GOP's Tax Triumph

future of talk radio. Buck Sexton Team, Welcome to the Freedom Hunt Free Style Friday is honest. We're in hype of the holiday season right now. Last minute gift preparations going on. People going to check out the Big Tree here in New York City at Rockfeller Center and do whatever other Christmas stuff they like to do. And I got some news for you, those who care about these things that I'm willing to bet a lot of you do.

Taxes are going down in this country. The latest and most breaking of news today just can't just hit the airwaves. Uh hit the airwaves just before I came on air, and that is that the GOP is well gup. Has the votes, right, I mean, they they still could mess it up, but they're probably not going to. It looks like it is happening. It would be a one point

five trillion dollar tax cut over the next decade. It would have some pretty important impacts on the US economy, could spur a whole lot of hiring and investment and good thing. In fact, you even had Bob Corker, who for those of you who care, which I'm assuming it's probably very few of you, but Bob Corker came along for this one. He was initially a no. Maybe he just wanted to get a little attention. He was initially a no. But he has said, Bob Corker Tennessee that

he will come on board here. And Senator Marco Rubio also known as Little Marco, which Tyron and I were discussing, probably doesn't like to be called Little Marco. I've just you know it. You know, they're the nicknames like Bush would give people nicknames the White House that they liked, you know, you know, be like you know, you're you're you're You're my pal. I'm gonna call you pal, you know what I mean. But Little Marco, I don't know about that. I think maybe maybe I should drop that

one from the description. Yeah, I think so, Yeah, that's it. Yes, okay, fine, fair enough. Well the little Marco got I mean, pardon me, Senator Rubio got his way. He is in fact Yese now it's stuck in my head. He got his way. They made the child tax credit higher. Um, it will now instead of being eleven, he wanted two thousand from one thousand, with even that refundable. I'm sorry, it already did that. Rubio wanted the amount of refundability to be

fourteen hundred dollars, and looks like he got it. It made some adjustments here and there, but more or less, it is a done deal. Um. So there you go. You have taxes. Uh, you have taxes. It's gonna be better for the economy than what we have right now. It's gonna be better for the economy than the current tax regime. So it looks like I can't keep making fun of Republicans for not getting anything done. It looks to me like there will be something for them to

celebrate going into the new year. So the biggest things here though, really have to do with the corporate tax rate. As you know, Uh, it ended up being dropped from thirty five. Big multinationals are gonna be getting a special one time tax on money that they repatriate from overseas, which is a good thing. And yeah, there's some other stuff they did for s corporations and partnerships. I mean, now I sound like a tax guy, like I work at you know, H and R Block are one of

those places. But and I don't otherwise I know more about this stuff. But yeah, a lot of taxes going down. It is a big tax. Rick Trump said that it would be a Christmas present, right, there will be a Christmas present for America. It looks like that is going going to happen. Oh on Tyrone reminded me that there are now seven brackets down from how many were there before. I mean, as seven seems like a lot to me. Ten twelve percent, twent two, thirty five, and thirty seven.

So there you have it. Um. Oh, and there's an exemption on the state tax. So now it's more than eleven million per person, So if you only if you're more than eleven million dollars in terms of inheritance, does the death tax apply. So there you go. So this could be great. I Look, the economy is already in a lot of ways doing very very well. Uh, the economy is strong right now, and I think this will

make it stronger. Um. The only people that get, uh kind of a rough end of the deal here are those who live in high tax states who lose the ability to fully deduct state and local taxes. They're gonna be paying a little more in that, but a lot of other folks are gonna be getting a getting less, getting less in terms of taxation. So there you go. All right, Republicans, you got some stuff. You're man edged to get something done. And uh, I have to stop

making fun of the Congress. Well, I were celebrating a little early, and as a general rule, I hate celebrating early. But at this point, I don't know how they could backtrack on it. Speaking of backtracking, do we know yet when frankin stepping down? Because I said he's got to step down and you agree with me time. But it was supposed to be January all along. It was always gonna be January, okay, because people were calling me, you remember, they were skeptical. I'm like, come on, he can't not

step down. But I I still I stamped with my initial analysis, there's no way he can't step down. But every time I see a report that he hasn't given a date yet, I'm like, uh, maybe there's maybe that would be a problem. So we'll see. Okay, other things we're gonna get into this. I can't spend that much more time talking about taxes. Just want to tell you guys, uh corkers in. Rubio is in and they got fifty two votes as of now in the Senate. It's going

to clearly pass in the House. Should happen Monday or Tuesday. A Merry Christmas, everybody. Uncle Sam is gonna take less of your private property away from you. That's that's what we're celebrating here. Yea. I mean, I guess it's a good thing. But there you have it. Well, we've got some new stuff on the Russia investigation we'll talk about this hour. Also the uh sexual harassment stories and the the the political movement, and that's there's some new stuff

there that I want to talk to you about. I think we might have finally started to see that this is this is now becoming. We're gonna need to rain this in a little bit. You know, there's a lot a lot of bad people. There was a lot that need to be cleared out right. The the sexual harassment swamp had to be drained. I think a lot of it. I think a lot of that's been done. And now, at least in the very high profile cases, I know sexual harassment is gonna be It's gonna be a problem forever.

By the way, I mean, this is not anything that anyone's figured out how to stop. But now we're starting to see cases that are a little more well, at least people are saying one and they didn't do it. So you gotta start with that, as opposed to a lot of the other stuff we've seen the accuser saying no, I didn't do it, and then also some of what's being reported as a story that should go along with

all these others. Um I find myself as trying to be a very honest and thoughtful, impartial observer of this. I'm saying, I'm not sure this is this is this is not in the same category. This doesn't go in the same column as like the Weinstein spacey cosby all that stuff doesn't go in the same same place. So we'll get into a bit of that in the next and ESPN has gotten dragged into this now, the very

public ESPN spat underway right now, so we'll talk. We'll talk about that with Tyrone and and oh, I mean it's Friday and it's the holiday season, so we're all in a good mood, right, Let's do some action movie quotes to hit it. Tyrone, the marine calls like a day on the falls a banquet full mason of parade. I love the movie. It's a matter to see you got your pushing committed pencils quote. You know what old Jack Burton always says it in time likeness Jack Burton

me Fridays. Thanks for the advice. Action movie quote Fridays. You guys have had a lot of time to watch some action movies since we started this show. And I we're going on our one year anniversary coming up in all over a month or so, maybe two months, So let's see what you got because I think I still have the belt, you know, I think I still have

the action movie crown. And this is me trying to uh, trying to get some of you to see if you can bring it eight four four nine to eight to five eight four four nine hundred buck, We'll come back talking about Russia collusion. Maybe do some action movie quotes. We're just gonna have a really fun but information dense show, as we always do. Stay with me. So I am here not only to congratulate you, but to honor you

for your courage and for your devotion. And I want you to know that with me as your president, America's police, we'll have a true friend and loyal champion in the White House, more loyal than anyone else can be. I tell you, President Trump was speaking at the FBI National Academy graduation today, a lot of supportive and encouraging words for America's police. Now that's not FBI agents in that room. It is local police that are training at Quantico as

part of this academy. But President was, I was doing this thing there. I got my favorite part, or my favorite Trump stuff today was the impromptu press conference. We'll get into that. Um he's got That's that's when Trump is really at his at his best. I think the Trump sweet spot is just talking for five minutes to a whole group of reporters that think that they're gonna have to get one, you know, get one up on him, and He's just like, bring it. We got a bunch

of quotes though, let's do it. Tim in Ohio. W h l oh, what's up? Tim? Hey? How's it going? Buck? Hey? Before I get to my quote, I've got a question for you. I was watching, uh, Patriot Games the other day, which one. Oh I'm sorry Patrioch if not the Patriot Yeah, the Harrison Ford movie. Yes, yeah, no, I don't do NFL we're boycotting. But anyway, Yeah, so with Harrison Ford and there's Buck the Anna Les's somewhere in that building

and uh, my question is that? And then of course following with the Enemy of the State and so forth. Uh was the technology that good back then? Really? What they were showing us bits and pieces? Was it that good?

Or even better? Oh? You mean back in Patriot Games, like when they saw the the feed of when they go into the satellites and uh, you know, I don't know, man, I mean I was alive in the eighties and I just kind of remember, like dost dis was like, yeah, okay, maybe it was really ninties, but I remember, you know, a CD then was like whoa, you know, it was like Caveman discovering fire. When you had a CD in

your hand. So I doubt that all this stuff. I can't remember everything that's in there, but I doubt that it's it was an accurate depiction of what the technology available was at the time. I mean, as you know everything that My favorite thing in movies is whenever somebody has to hack something, it looks like they're in the matrix and there's all these big cool screens and they're just like typing away furiously on a computer, and I'm like, that's that's not what it That's actually not what it

looks like. That's they're like sitting there going through code and it's really painstaking. And you know, it is not, in fact the situation where you get to be like, uh, you know, standing up and doing a dance routine and you're hacking into the Pentagon. That's not how it works from what I understand. Uh. I had my phone tap back in the nineties by the f d I, and I just wondered if it was that good. But that was another story. Apparently that's another story. Is that is

that is that family safer? Can you can you tell us that one family friendly or not? Oh? Sure? I wrote a scathing editory about Bill Clinton selling out our missile technology of the Chinese and getting all that loot for it, and uh, next thing, you know, my phone started making funny noises and my father, who worked for a Bell telephone for thirty some years, said, one night, hey, that sounds like an outside line, Pap. And I proceeded telling the story and he said, he's dumb nut. They're

gonna watch you forever. So now when I go to buy a gun, I gotta go through FBI checks, you know, like the dealers they've never heard of such things. But that's another story. Alright, Well, Merry Christmas, I'm sorry. You gotta quote, you gotta quote, go ahead, go ahead, Okay. The other night, for the couple dozens time, I know you know this one. Well she I've been a one little keep me in the rodeo And that's the stupidest thing I ever heard of. I have no idea what

that mome on. Oh, that's Slim, that's Slim. Picking two. I still don't even know we're talking about Dr Strangelove. Never see Is that an action movie? No, that's not an action movie. Jam Mary Christmas, and we love you buddy, but that's not an action movie. No, No, Tyrone's Tyrone and Amy are both waving you off the island. No, not an action movie. We we guys, we gotta have standards here. Okay, we we gotta have standards. Its gotta

be an it's gotta be an action movie. I feel like the dude in The Big Lebowski and he's like, this is not It wasn't a dude. It was Walter Walter who's like, this is not nom dude. There are rules, right, that's there are rules here, folks. There are rules. John in Georgia, Good to have you, sir, Hey Atlanta Podcast,

Minion checking in. Oh nice, thank you? Yeah baby. Um. By the way, before I get into my movie quote, so last caller brought up Patriot Games and you talked about that scene with the feed, which is just absolutely awesome. And uh, James Earl Jones goes as got any one of those camps, kill everyone and be gone before the bullets, before the echoes fade. No, that's a good scene. James Earl Jones was great as the well, he was an admiral, right, yeah, yeah,

he's the admiral and Admiral Greer I think was his name. Yeah, I believe so did you ever read a Debt of Honor? Oh? Yeah, I did about about Mr Clark and how he's got the the lady that he saves from like the human trafficking prostitution ring. I was very young when I read that. I was like, what is this? Do you remember how? Oh? No, no, that's not Debt of Honor. I'm sorry. I'm thinking of a different Clancy novel which was a Debt of Honor.

Is the one where he drives a into the White House in the joint session of Congress at the end, right with the Japanese. Yeah, I was on a different way. What's interesting about that is that Debt of Honor came out in like nineties three oh yeah, before I know, before planes were being weaponized. That it happened. Then people were like, who could have ever thought this could happen? I immediately was like, Tom Clancy, this could happen apparently,

you know, yeah, I know, he wrote all about it. Yeah. For those who don't know Debt of Honor, it's a joint it's well, it's a movie where the Japanese essentially orchestrate a way to retake their laws, some of their lost territories from what they initially token and World War two and including Guam, and then they basically said, look, we took this stuff, we don't want to fight anymore. We've got nukes now. But this other guy, well, I

guess we've already kind of spoil it. But they end up running a plane into a joint session of Congress and just basically taken out the entire US government. So yeah, and there's a there's a part in the book where CNN is actually helping the U. S military and they go, well, we're in a mary can broadcast company, so we want to help the American military. Can you imagine that ever happening in the universe we live in, um but that

CNN would take sides and try to help our military. No. In fact, I I worry sometimes, and thank you for calling in, John Shields Hide podcast listener, I worry sometimes that the meat I mean, I think the media does actually take the side of not our country. Sometimes the media decides that they will do things that they should not and that are harmful, harmful to us so not never mind, do they not necessarily help out the United States government. I think they actually sometimes are willing to

hurt the United States government. And now I'm trying to find the Tom Clancy novel that I was thinking of where Mr Clark is I remember I read in like the fifth grade. I just picked it up somewhere and now I can't find it. The Debt of Honor is a great one though, that's one of his most famous ones.

Highly recommend. This is actually good for me to start thinking about this because as I'm going to be on vacation after the Christmas break, uh, there will be a good opportunity to finally read some books that are just like, read some novels for fun, something I don't usually something I don't usually get an opportunity to do. So there is that um alright eight four four n eight to five eight four four nine buck. By the way you go through Tom Clancy's novelist, it's insane that guy wrote

so much and did it's it's incredible anyway. Alright, alright, eight four four to five, calling with your action movie quotes. We're gonna talking about their latest on Russia, FBI collusion stuff. It's incredible. FBI has got big problems. There is rot that goes deep at the d o J. We'll talk about the latest on that and now, as if it wasn't clear enough, this is all just a partisan exercise

and nonsense. Got the Democrats are piling on Rosenstein. You know, it's just they just shift with the with the news cycle, you know, whatever is useful to them on one day, and then the next it's not no principles, no scruples, what you gain. This is the party of the Party of Pelosi and Schumer and others. I just realized John, John want John had an action movie quote from me. Well, we'll let him do it on the other side of the break, and then we'll talk about this Russia collusion nonsense.

I will be back with much more. Stay with me, all right, it's action movie quote Friday. We're in freestyle mode, so there are things I want to talk to you about. But we also have every line lit. So let's get into a couple of calls here, and then I'll tell you about how the Russia investigation here, here's the here's the teasers. You gotta wait with me through the calls, and then we'll get to this. The Russia investigations just fallen apart. It may continue on, but this thing is

now a sham. I mean, I thought it was nonsense all long, and now we have proof. We have proof this. It's just the the shrill, delusional pro Hillary trying to find some way to justify their hatred for Trump, their whole not my President thing, which started even before this investigation. They're looking for some way to intellectually excuse being such a bunch of babies. All right, John from Georgia. Sorry, we didn't let you get to your quote. I cut you out before. So what is the quote you got

for me for action movie quote? Friday? Hi Buck, long time to speak. Yeah, hey we miss you, buddy. Yeah. Thanks, my friends, Okay, you ready? All right? If you have any influence over your young friend, I suggest you exert it now. Otherwise I'll send you both to the hell where people are skinned alive. That's that simple. Oh dude, big trouble, little China. Thank you. I knew you'd get it. Thank you. Well, of course, I mean that's that. That's there's a quote from that in our action movie quote

Friday intro. But you know they were thinking about making that remaking that movie, and then they bailed and then because yeah, because I don't think you could make it anymore. I think that movie would have would offend people today if you made it today, which is drive a lot of movies. By the way, thank you John for calling him man. I appreciate you being patient. Hold Tyrone, could you make Mrs doubtfire today? I say no, on numerous levels. I don't think you could have a man dressing up

that way. I mean that's one of I think it's Robin Williams. I mean it's up there with certainly his like top five most financially successful. It might be number one. It was a big box. He's number one. At one time it was top three grossing, highest grossing comedies in the history of Hollywood. Yeah. I don't think you could do a man dressed up as a woman like that anymore. And I also don't think even a lot of he does a lot of different accents of different ethnicities and

stuff over the court. Nope, no way, no no way. I just like on on the TV side, you could not do All in the Family today, no way. The seventies you can get, you could not do All in the Family Archie Bunker to Jefferson's. You could not do that anything. I got one that's even more, you could not well not even more. But but also up there with uh, the not being able to Missus Doltfire and it will say the parodies of Mrs Doubtfire where they make it a horror movie on YouTube is actually pretty funny.

If you haven't seen that, I would recommend you check that out. But there's something about Mary. No way you could make that movie now, no way. I actually like, I wonder when it comes on I'm like, do they get complaints about this because it's it's it's uh, there's some not just raunchy stuff. There's some like edgy stuff in there. And that's the most current. That's late nineties, isn't it. Yeah, but we think it was twenty years ago. Now it's a twenty year isn't that crazy thing? I

hold where it's a twenty year old movie. But that movie there's stuff in there that I'm like, oh no, that would not that would not any of your Look if you haven't seen it, or you did see it, go back and watch it again. You'll be like, oh my gosh, what is acceptable in this country has changed a lot? Uh? Kelly from Mississippi, Welcome to Freedom Hunt The Evening, Merry Christmas, good evening, A merry Christmas to you.

I don't have an action movie quote, but I believe the Tom Clancy novel that you're thinking of is Without Remorse. You are correct, sir, that is the movie. I mean, that is the book that I was thinking of. It came out in ninety three, so I was like thirteen or twelve when I read that. I was younger. I read that there's some stuff in that book. I was like, whoa, it's a it's a great novel, is it. It's a very well it's very well done. I mean, look, Tom

Clancy was was the master of that genre. I don't think anybody else has ever reached quite the same. You know. He is the uh, the Michael Jordans, the the undisputed king of the espionage international affairs thriller at least I think so, oh yes, it'd be one that I would love to see a movie of. Oh yeah, actually they never made a movie of that one. Anyway, Kelly, thank you very much, my Merry Christmas. Appreciate the the assist, and you were correct. It was Without Remorse, which was

one of the first Tom Clancy novels I've ever read. Actually, I think it might have been the first, uh John in Tennessee. Yes, John, Welcome the Hut. Hello Buck, thank you for inviting me to the Freedom Hunt. Thank you for calling. Great to have you. I got a quote for you. It's an oldie, but goody. I think me and you were raised around the same time, watching the same movie. So here it goes. What are you some kind of special forces guy or something? No, just a cook,

just a lowly, lowly cook under siege. Oh my god, we're gonna die. Absolutely Stephen Steven's finest work. When I was in New Orleans, I actually drove past a house that he rented for a while and was living in while he did the show Lawman. Side note, which was

in Jefferson, Jefferson coun Jefferson Parish or whatever it's called. Uh. Side note, The show that came to be called Justified was initially initially written to be called law Man, but because uh Steven Seagal's show launched first, they changed the name of the other show from law Man to Justify, which actually people like Justified. Got one more for you? Oh you want? I mean it is Christmas, so I'm in a generous mood. Go ahead. Welcome to the party, pal.

Oh yeah, of course, Bruce willis Dieheart. But but I like at least we're staying in the action genre. John, Hey, buddy, have a great I have a great Christmas within your family. Thanks for joining us here in the Hot keep list in the next week. Will be on air until Friday. She'll tie you, buddy. Uh. Chris in California, welcome, hey, Buck Shield time. Merry Christmas time, Merry Christmas to you. Okay, a couple of things. First action movie quote for you.

All right, let's do it here we do. Hey, you want to be a farmer, Here's a couple of acres and hit the buzzer. I don't know. It's actually a little funny. It's a Last Action Hero right before it kicked somebody in the junk. I have seen Last Action Hero. That does count as an action movie, clearly. I'm not sure that is the most uh timeless line from what was Remember that that movie was trashed by their critics. I didn't think it was that bad. I mean, it's a little hokey, and oh it came out at the

same time as Jurassic Park, so it got annihilated. Then I didn't it's the same weekend. Yeah, I went up against Jurassic Park. That was not smart. Um, But oh you got something on corporate tax rates as well, Chris, let's talk some policy. Let's do. I was just curious and I've been listening to you for a number of years now, and it's always been a big proponent of text cuts. But it seems like you're pretty held up

with this corporate tax rate cut. Maybe that's only in contrast to the individual income tax rax, but it just seems to be harping on it quite a bit, like why are we focusing so much attention on lowering the corporate tax rate? Well, yeah, thing, it's a good thing for everybody. I'm not sure what your hang up is. Well, my my hang up has been that they keep talking

about So here's the thing. They're selling it as a middle class tax cut, but it is not actually a middle class meaning that they're selling this whole tax cut as a general proposition. You go back, you listen to what they've been saying, Oh, the middle class needs help, the middle class needs help. We're gonna cut the corporate

tax rate. Now. I understand that there will be benefits for middle class working families that come from the corporate rate, but it's just to me from a purely political angle, never mind the economics for a second. I think it sends a weird message when the overall focus and you're saying that when the overall focus is supposed to be on middle class families, you're saying, at some middle class families, but it is actually on the corporate tax rate. You

see what I'm saying. There's a disconnect there, and it also makes me a little bit. I just I'm on guard. I have been on guard for the reality of the donor class, which is very still has a lot of leverage, very important and powerful in the Republican Party, and how they're kind of getting you know, people say, oh, it helps everybody, and corporations don't pay taxes people to write.

Trust me, a lot of very big, wealthy corporations want to corporate tax cut and they're going to feel the effects of that long before people who were showing up and making uh, you know, an an hourly wage at a at a you know, the local general store. So we need to stay with in reality here. There's only so much quoting of Reagan and Reagan's economic advisors we can do before it's a problem. I think from the optics of how the tax. But look, I think it's good.

I've just been saying I don't think it's as good as it well, because I remember when I said this yesterday, Chris. We were told flat tax, we were told tax on one page. We have the House, we have the Senate, we have the presidency. Why can't we do that. This is not what we were promised, right, we can at least do on that. I'm sorry because I don't recall Donald Trump specifically stating that he was going to get

into OPS into a flat tax. I recall him saying he was going to get into aftin reduced tax rates for everybody, including the corporate tax rate. But you made a point that I think is extremely worth looking at, and that is the politics of the optics of it. That is the only reason liberals ever when anything is because the optics of it. Being conservative is hard. It's easy to be a liberal. Yeah, always going to be.

But that's but optics. But optics do matter, right, And so when you the average American who is who is a persuadable voter, sees Republican members of Congress going on TV saying we're gonna we're gonna help the middle class with their tax cuts, and yeah, they're they're doing a little bit here and there, the child tax credit, which is really actually the way they've structured it, it's kind of like the people aren't paying any taxes, so it's

not a welfare payment, but it is redistributive. It is just the government sending you a check now because you're not paying any income tax. You're just getting a check the government. But people that are, you know, if you were paying, I mean I saw what the brackets were a second ago in this this latest version of the bill. You know, if you're paying right now or you're not really paying a lot less. And in fact, some people that own at homes will be paying more, and those

are middle class working families. So when they see Republicans saying, oh, we're helping the middle class, but we're gonna cut the corporate tax rate dramatically, by the way, and oh, we're gonna shift around some deductions that individuals take in order to make it budget neutral so we can get it through without it having to go through sixty vote process, right because they only need fifty through reconciliation. So it

doesn't look good and not looking good. You could say, oh, it doesn't matter because growth, growth, growth, will their Democrats win the House or the Senate next year. Guess what, it matters a lot because now you're never getting those great tax cuts for the middle class, or the flat tax or anything else you said you want. So that's why you have to get that's you have to get through what you can when you can. Though, if we simply don't do anything because politically it might hurt us,

well that's everything. And we come out and we say we're gonna put forward this tax bill, and the let's says it's literally the end of the world. I believe that's a Nanci Pelosi clust you know, I know well she would say that about I mean, they could cut the corporate rate from thirty five to thirty four, and she would say that it was the end of the world. I mean, so we could I think we can all safely agree to ignore Nancy Pelosi. And look, I've never I mean Chris to Chris, to be fair, I've never

said this is a fisty discussion about taxes. I've never said I don't want the tax cutter. I've just said I feel like it could be better. It could be better politically for sure, and I also think it could be better on an individual rate because they could cut spending. Chris, That's the reality here, is that they won't touch spending, which is why they create the artificial constraint of we have to spend this money automatically. We're the Congress. We

have to spend this money automatically. So we're only operating in this little subset of spending and we're gonna shift it around that way and give you a tax cut there. But the reality is that most of the money is on autopilot, and that's why we have all these budgetary constraints, right, So they can't Are they going to get sixty votes to cut spending. If they're not going to get sixty votes to cut spending, then they can't cut the spending. They have to work within the cost. You need sixty

votes to raise spending. You do not need sixty votes to cut spending. That's what I'm saying to you, that they will not cut They will not. They're not dealing with the other side of the balloon here. We're just squeezing one side of the bloom. We're not talking about the other side. Of the bloom, which is spending. We're spending too much money, Chris as a country, so telling us all how great this tax cut is is all well and good, but at some point the music is

gonna stop. We are heading towards that, and in the meantime, corporations get their cut. I mean, we'll see. Look, I would love to, you know, call me back in well, call any time you're welcome, but call me back in like a year and tell me has this is this better for you? Or do you feel like you're getting Are your wages going up? Or I don't know where you work or what you do, but I think a lot of Chris. No, I actually I would love to continue with that, but we have literally seven phone calls

or seven lines that are all going at on. So I gotta I gotta move on. And in Virginia, welcome. Good evening, Mr Sexton, Good evening, Miss Anne Um. Blazing Saddles, try making that again. I don't remember what, Tyrone. What are you saying about this one, Blazing Saddles? You were talking about movie? Oh yeah, no, I know, but ty Tye wants to win. I don't remember that movie very well. It's very good it's there's a lot of racist things, but because the black person wins in the end, I

think they allow it to happen. Okay, I don't remember the movie at all. I saw it. I was like, I think they let him say it as long as the black guy's gonna win. Tyre Tyrone is later on this one and I you're you're kind of weight on hold. I'm sorry. We have to go into a break here else we're gonna blow through our station break and we can't do that. Run into a break. We'll be right back. We've got more. Having talked about Russia collusion FBI, we

will do that. Stay with me. Look, one of the great things that Trump accomplished his first year, as we know, is appointing Neil Gorst to the Supreme Court. And he's got a lot of other excellent constitutionalists and conservative uh conservative minds that are up on the bench now and and in process of putting more. But I should note that, Look, we're having a little fun. It's a Friday, all right. We're trying to lose them up for the holidays a

little bit. One of Trump's nominees to the Circuit Court, this would be the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He did not have the best day ever. He did not have a stellar performance when asked by

a Republican. Remember as the Republican asking the questions on the Judiciary Committee, and the Republican is trying to figure out, you know, uh, Senator John Kennedy is trying to figure out, Okay, does this guy Peterson does he know the stuff you'd want somebody to know if they're going to be a federal judge, which is a thing that matters. And this went viral today, so I'll let you listen to it. It's enjoy. You can just raise your hand on this one if you will, to save a little time. Have

any of you not tried a case to verdict? Here was the only one of I think five that UM jury trial. I have not civil, no criminal, no bitch. I'll stay at our federal court. I have not Have you ever taken a deposition? I was involved in taking depositions when I was associate at Wiley Ryan when I first came out of law school. Um, but that that was do you ever have how many? How many depositions?

I would um, I'd be struggling to to remember messing ten probably somewhere you ever tried to take a deposition by yourself? I believe. No. Have you ever argued emotion in state court? I have not. Have you ever argued emotion in federal court? No? Uh, when's the last time you read the Federal rules of civil procedure? The Federal Rules of Civil procedure? Um? I have in my current position,

I obviously don't need to stay as um um. By the way, he hadn't answer more specific and pointed legal questions, to which the answers were No, I don't know. I don't have it for you right now. I mean, it was a pretty brutal session there. I mean, this would be the equivalent of me, I'm just gonna say, me sitting there up for some post at NASA and they're like, so, what are your credentials? Like, well, I I got like

a C minus in trigonometry and yeah. This guy was not blowing anyone's socks off with his answers to these legal questions, and it just went viral today. It was kind of funny, have you ever tried a case in court? No? Have you've done this? No? Have you done that? No, this guy's gonna be a federal judge. Everybody. I look, you know, they can't all be winners. They can't all be gorcerches. So this one was not. But it'll all be okay. Russia, Russia, Russia got that coming up. FBI

is well, it was in Hillary's pocket. We'll talk about it. Stay, women, I'm gonna rebuild the FBI. It'll be bigger and better than ever. But it is very sad when you look at those documents and how they've done that is really really disgraceful, and you have a lot of very angry people that are seeing it. It's a very sad thing to watch. I will tell you that. And I'm going

today on behalf of the FBI their new building. And you know, but when I when everybody, not me, when everybody the level of anger as I safe and with this thing with respect to the FBI is certainly very sad. Trump calling out the FBI, at least the part of the FBI that has been involved, those individuals at the bureau who have had a hand in the Russia collusion investigation,

the Muller probe and all of that stuff. It was a very bad week for the Muller probe for anybody who is being honest about what's out there and what we found out, And increasingly I think it's going to be difficult for the left to continue this unless they have some real new information they can bring to light. And I don't believe they do or because if they did,

we already know. But I also wanted to say that it isn't it interesting This entire Russia Trump collusion narrative is based on and people in the press remember as a government and many Americans believe it to be true. Hasn't yet been proven, but they believe it to be true. It would require an international conspiracy to throw an election involving Russian secret intelligence and cyber hacking, and somehow they've kept the conspiracy quiet up to this point. They'll believe that,

but they don't believe. They won't believe it is a conspiracy that is completely beyond the pale. When you say, well, hold on a second, maybe some pro Hillary d o J and FBI officials saw an opening to investigate the Trump campaign and to create problems with the Trump campaign, and they went where they went for it, and they had the power to do it, and they did it. Why is that crazy? What about that doesn't add up?

You know, you think about this. You look at people that look at you if you bring this up with them, like you're crazy because you don't believe that the Kremlin was working with Trump to beat Hillary, which even if Trump wanted to do that, how that would work is think about the risk reward there too. All right, we're going back to basics here. Trump is going to collude with Russia to throw an election that a multibillion dollar US media complex can't figure out how to, you know,

make it go one way or the other. Come on, it just doesn't make any sense. But what we're seeing now with Strock and Lisa Page and McCabe and all these other senior d o J officials and FBI officials and that stuff right at FBI is within the d o J, so it can kind of use them somewhat interchangeably, is that there were people who hated Trump, I mean

really hated him. And the Democrats are scrambling right now for a way to explain this to fair minded Americans, you know, right, people that are looking at this and saying themselves, a hold on a second, we're supposed to believe that this just all happened that this is some big coincidence that you had the person who was exonerating Hillary, and as we know now, they just bailed Hillary out. Okay,

Hillary broke the law. Hillary is a federal There should be a federal convict should be legitimately, that's not an overstatement. That's now what she have gone to prison. She probably would have taken a plea deal and you know what it would have been. They would have let it scale down to a misdemeanor, I would guess. But anybody who's not Hillary Clinton to do what she did would be facing charges of some kind full stop. Okay, And that's

just any discussion otherwise is is nonsense. So they bailed Hillary out, and somebody who was at the helm, all right, who's basically driving the car to bail out Hillary, also was involved in the Mueller probe and also talked about an insurance policy in case Trump one. That's a weird thing to say, right, weird thing to say if you're in the acting FBI director's office for sure, right, very very strange. And as I've been saying, do you have

to remember the full context here? These are people who thought they'd be working for Hillary. They all want to get millions of dollars for their memoirs, probably after after the Hillary administration is done. They they had a very clear motive for trying to help Hillary and then even to perhaps undo the Trump presidency afterwards, at least for spite for vengeance, if not for some personal gain. And there's no good response to this. They say, oh, Bernie,

they said mean things about Bernie Sanders too. Yeah, but there's not there's not all the other stuff with Bernie Sanders. That's that's irrelevant. This only matters in the context of an endless and completely open investigation that was start it based on nonsense. And oh we find out the people who started it also happened to hate Trump. That they hate other people doesn't matter because they didn't start huge investigations of those other politicians. But it's just distraction from

the media. It's look at the shiny object over here. Don't get close to the truth. Don't believe what you already know. Believe us fake news. We'll tell you the truth. You have Democrats actually going after Rod Rosenstein. Now, I mean, this is this is astonishing. You got you gotta hear

some of this that the Department of Justice itself. Not Mueller, not his team, but the Department of Justice, the formal Public Affairs channel had actually orchestrated this dump of text messages that were revealed in the course of an ongoing Department of Justice investigation. That strikes me, it's very odd that there are people in the Department of Justice who apparently are cooperating with this effort to undermine the integrity and the strength of the Special Council investigation. Is an

irrelevant distraction. What you have there is a Democrat member of Congress who's now claiming that they are basically deep state pro Trump elements at the FBI. Now we've been hearing all along that go ahead, Tyrone. That particular democrat was the one who just made up a crazy number for the number of mass shootings. There's been nine d shootings with ten or more people this year, according to that was the same guy last week. But this is

what you're hearing. Oh, you know, how could they release these texts? They were on government They're they're using government property as in their phones, their devices. Those are official devices, those are official records. These senior FBI people must think they're really untouchable. To be using official records and talking all kinds of stuff about the president or soon to

be president. Not smart, by the way. Like I worked in the federal government, I never would have dreamed of sending an email or a text message on government property that was like the commander in chief is an idiot, a moron, or you know whatever. All the stuff that was being said, it's just you know, because you never know, and that stuff's gonna get called the new an investigation. We all this is all one oh one. This is not surprising at all, but others in the media have

been trying this too. Oh. I feel bad for the FBI agents whose privacy has been violated. Here. No one set up a camera in their bedroom. This is on their official work computers, smartphones, whatever it may be. And it's relevant, and you know the FBI, you know, you don't get to play that game. And the FBI wants your records. Let me have it be known. If they're doing investigation and they think that whatever you've got is relevant, it's theirs. They gotta play by the same rules, folks.

I've gotta play by the same rules. And you can just tell there's a desperation right now. Oh yeah, as I said, the Bernie Sanders thing, there are text messages about other politicians irrelevant. That doesn't mean anything. Because we're working backwards from there's a huge, massive investigation that never should have been started. And the juxtaposition of the Hillary case versus the Hillary investigation versus Trump investigation is just

appalling and how clear the politicization is. And you know not you got Adam Schiff who's now whining about Oh, they might try to shut this down. Yeah, because they want to continue this forever. This is the hashtag resistance. This is it Russia collusion nonsense. That's what they're trying to go for here. That's what they think will be the difference maker. It might not stop the administration, it'll

slow it down enough to make it ineffective. They want to make sure that Trump can make America great again. That's what the investigation is all about. I gonna find any Russian collusion anyway. It's Oh but Schiff here is telling us all that. I'll let him say. This is the Democrat who who people believe is also the source of a lot of interesting information for the press that is anti Trump that is not supposed to be getting

out there. When you look at the context of the allegations that the d o J Inspector generals investigating, they were very selective in what they released. There were multiple reports last year that the FBI was heavily predisposed against Hillary Clinton and in favor of Donald Trump. If there are text messages that run in the other direction, why have they not also been released? Once they have been released,

are very anti Trump? The ones that they've released are all, to the degree they bear at all, as far as I can tell, are anti Trump. Um. Does that mean they're not investigating the same allegation running in the opposite direction? What's the allegation the opposite direction? What Democrat Committee membership is saying doesn't make any sense. What's he saying that that people that they are anti anti Hillary people started

the Russia investigation against Trump. It's irrelevant. Hillary got bailed out, Hillary got got the sweet deal one. Trump's the one that's getting all those people dragged through the mud and the nonsense of this Mueller probe, which is feted by the way it is putrid, rotten to the core. But well, we're gonna find anti Hillary text. I mean, they don't even have coherent arguments if they found some FBI. First of all the people that are at the top of

these investigations, McCabe, Muller, comey struck. All Hillary partisans. What's her name? The one who was the acting Attorney general? Uh d o J. I can't remember name off that may head, but you know I'm talking about member. She was the one that wouldn't do the job with the the travel band, you know what I mean. I'm forgetting name,

Sally Ate. Sally Ate. There we go. These are all Hillary partisans, and they're all the ones that have their fingerprints all over the email investigation, the Russia collusion, the Muller probe, Hillary partisans. Who's gonna w when are we gonna see the anti Hillary text? You're not gonna see the anti Hillary text, you idiot, because they're all Hillary partisans. So that's why they don't have anti Hillary text. You know, figure it out. Guy's an idiot. But I mean he

doesn't have a good argument to make. That's that's a part of this too. Maybe he's not dumb, he just has nothing else to say, because what's he gonna say? People are figuring this out? You're really gonna tell me, this is a coincidence, you really? I mean, I was on Fox News. I was getting yelled over earlier in the week by somebody who doesn't know anything, who was trying to tell me that, well, the Russia collusion has already been proven because of the meeting with Donald Trump Jr.

And I'm like, we're back to that now. That's pathetic. And also, yeah, he kept saying Wikipedia instead of Wiki leaks pretty different things. By the way, colluding with Wikipedia wouldn't get you very far unless you had an interest in random things and knowledge. But you didn't even have an argument to make. I'm I'm here looking at Fusion EPs.

You have a Fusion GPS researcher married to a top Muller probe guy who got demoted from the Mueller probe because he was trying to work Fusion GPS stuff into what the FBI was doing. This is a coincidence. Come on, this stuff is now. This is now bright red Neon signs uh. And the media is in a bit of a panic, but that the Christmas holiday can't come soon enough for most of the mainstream because they need to regroup after this. This week has been terrible for them.

I mean, the Republicans have been more focused on tax reform. But this has been a very, very damaging, a few days damaging series of news cycles for the whole Russia collusion thing, and Trump knows it. Trump was smacking them around to on that one. Alright, eight four or four to five. We'll take some calls. We'll be right back. Welcome back, saying lines. Let let's get to it on in New York. Welcome sir, Hello buck. I got a little bit of dialogue from a mid nineteen fifties movie. Okay,

I'll give it a shot. Fifties is old, but let's go for it. Okay, Uh, start, you've lived too long? What about you? Gunfighter? But I know it, have no idea? What is that? That was Alan Ladd was the star in the movie was Shane, which is like, yeah, it's a really good one if you if you ever get a chance. I read the book on the novel. I yeah, I'll check it out. I mean, I will say Western's action movie. It's it's borderline for me. It's one of

Jack Pallence's early screol He's a Jack Pallence plays a gunfighter. Uh, the guy at your cannon from Pettico Junction has a small part, the one that played the secretary on Beverly Hillbilly's Nancy Coulp was in it in a small part. On you're on the list, I'll put on the list. John, have a very merry Christisan. Thank you for calling her from New York. Robert and alab Amma, what do you got for me? Sir? Hey, I'm good. I speaking of Shane. Did you watch the last Um Wolverine movie? I did

see Logan right there was It was very violent. I will say there was like a thirteen year old girl with with crazy claws lopping dude's heads off left and right. Well, they probably deserve it. I like your attitude. Robert, what do you got question for you? And this is not a quote but just a theoretical question. Is die Hard a Christmas movie? Not only is it a Christmas movie, it features some Christmas dialogue and takes place on I believe on Christmas Eve. Right, it actually has him right

on a guy's chest. Ho ho ho Now I have a machine gun to a clear reference to Santa Claus. It is, in fact a Christmas movie. I don't even think this is when we have to turn over to the judges. Well, you know, if you actually, if you think about it, could die Hard be a remake of It's a Wonderful Life Because in a wonderful life there's family troubles and a third party reunite the family. I mean, isn't that just the basis of die Hard. I think we're stretching here a little bit, but but I like

the affon to stretch. I like the effort. Man Robert Schilkes, high buddy, thank you for calling in, and have a merry Christmas. Lines little everyone likes to call it on Friday. I love it. Chris California, welcome, good to talk to you you too. Um multi pass uh, Lulu Dallas multi pass the Fifth Element. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. I will just put out there that you just said one word and I was able to name the movie. Amy is freaking out over there. She's like, that's incredible. I know, Amy,

I am. It's a gift. It's hard to control. It's a gift. Screener. Remember the movie called The Cooler, Yes, the Cooler I don't know that one. That's William H. Macy movie where he plays a bad luck Joe who stays in a casino all the time, and if there's too much luck going on, he's called in by Alec Baldwin to go hang around the people and make him lose. Okay, And I don't know that one. He's sort of like

a bad luck chill. And it made me think of the shooting in Air in Las Vegas and how it would be relatively inexpensive for a casino to keep a guy around who was, you know, a loner who had guns and throw him in wherever there would be a possibility of actual Uh no, we're done, We're done. This has gotten too weird. He's done. What What the heck was he talking about? That movie was literally about if

the guy came by, you would have bad luck. So if you're in a casino and you got a hot streak at the craps table, he comes stand next to you and all of a sudden, you crap out. I don't know where he how he got to where he got. I was trying to let him get to a conclusion, because it was I was trying to give him the benefit of not just rambling into into we went off.

That train was way off the rails. That train, That train was you know, running over huts in the village, and livestock was fleeing and it was bad that train. That train got way loose. Sorry about that, everybody. It's gonna happen sometimes. Um anyway, all right, Uh, we gotta talk about some of the latest sextual harassment stuff. Um do we how long is it we might talk about? Well, do we have any updates on the time round? Well that's okay, So that's too long. Well we'll get to

in a few minutes. Oh, we have something. We have some things to discuss. I believe the first high profile case of a woman getting in trouble for sexual harassment has happened now, right, A lady stepped down from a what was this? Uh yeah, Democrat woman accused of sexual harassment. I'm talking with this new This is in Kansas. We've got some new sexual harassment stories to discussed together. Um, there's a lot of them today. I don't we have time to get to all them. We'll get to some

of them next week. We're getting more of the holiday cheers stuff. Don't worry. Play some Christmas music and all that. Today we're just gonna talk about the news and some other things. Sexual harassment stories coming up after the break, you want to hear him. Here's a story that you won't see the media spend a lot of time on.

You've got some of the A couple of the women that were making that we're considering making sexual miss conduct allegations against Donald Trump in the final months of the presidential race had their lawyer California California lawyer Lisa Bloom making efforts to get them a whole lot of money, including one woman being offered as much as seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Now that leaves a whole lot

of unanswered questions, doesn't it. I should note that any time in recent history a Republican has been acute, Donald Trump most specifically, has been accused of any kind of sexual misconduct. And someone raised the possibility of anyone coming out and saying this not just for political reasons but also for payment, that has been slapped down right away. That's uh, that's a slander, completely untrue. Would never happen.

Women need to be believed no woman would ever do that. Well, now we have a report that two women were very close to doing that, getting paid to say that Donald true. Now you could say that what there was gonna they

were gonna tell the truth. But I should note, whether you believe that or not, that for an encounter that may have been in a gray area where Trump thought that he had full consent to touch or grab or whatever it may have been, and a woman did not feel that way, the economic incentive to add to the story is certainly there, right The economics said up to

make it sound even worse. You're talking about seven dred and fifty thousand dollars substantial if you were giving testimony in a court and somebody said, well, there you know, are you? Are you swear to tell the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Did someone pay you seven or fifty grand to say this? And you said yes, that would look bad. That would look bad. So I would just note that we've gotten used to brushing all that

aside right away out of hand. Oh no, No, no woman would ever level allegation against Donald Trump, against the president of sexual misconduct because somebody paid them to say such a thing as a disgrace, except it looks like it was, if not true, very close to being true. Um. The Hill dot Com broke the story today, and well done in doing so, So I think that that's not worthy.

A couple of other things here, because there's a lot of this sexual harassment stuff, sexual miss I think sexual misconduct is probably a better term because it's more all inclusive. But we'll talk about what should be included and what shouldn't. Matt Damon got in some trouble with that. I mentioned

this before. There is a woman who is the first high profile female politician, or maybe she's not high profile, but Kansas Democrat Andrea Ramsey has been accused of sexual harassment and is dropping out of a congressional race US House race. They have a woman who it is said was harassing and retaliated against a male subordinate who rejected her advances. This is still overwhelmingly going to be a

problem where men are the aggressors. But I did think it was noteworthy that we did have one case here that has become something of a national news story where a woman will no longer run for Congress because she It's a power dynamic thing, right, If a woman is in a place where she holds a man's job in her hands, Uh, that could influence the you know, the the that and that would influence the sexual dynamic very strongly. And a man could feel coerce not fit. It's different,

not physically coerce. We're not talking about the criminal kind of sexual coersion, but professional co sexual harassment, professional coercion that absolutely can and and has happened, so as we see from this story, just want to put that in there. And then we get into the Matt Damon thing, which I mean, I've always thought Matt Damon was very overrated. I know some of you've already written to me in the past and said you disagree with me on that.

That's fine. I don't know why the guy. I feel like I could walk through any mall in America and find a better guy to play a lot of roles than Matt Damon. But anyway, that's neither here nor there. I just like to hate on Matt Damon for some reason, for a lot of reasons. Matt Damon sat down for an interview with Variety or one of these was a Variety of one of these publications, and he said a lot of things, and they were asking kind of do

you believe do you not believe about individual cases? And I don't really I don't have you know, that's he can say what he wants to say about that, right, he can say I do believe it, don't believe, and that's on him. But he also tried to make a point about how we are in this habit right now of and I've been warning you about this four weeks now.

Those you listen to the show, no where anything that is in the sexual harassment category is spoken about in the same general, vain, same general context as grotesque, predatory, criminal stuff. Because of this movement right now that me too, women are to be believed no more sexual harassment movement that's going on in the country, and that's going to create problems. I think it already is create We're seeing it happening right now. It's beginning to be an issue.

I mentioned Matt Lowry yesterday again because I like to hate on Matt lower I'm usually a very nice and generous person, especially about other people, but there's some people that need to be cut down a few sizes. Uh. But Matt lower I just had a piece come out where a woman who was twenty four had a consensual

affair with him. Right, affairs are bad, shouldn't do it, but she did it, and she this whole long story about how he was the power dynamic, and she was so taken in by him and he was so compelling and everything else. That's like, look, you know, you got involved with the merried guy and it didn't well and you were mostly traumatized by it. But that's not that's not a Weinstein like situation. That's just a you made a bad choice in Matt Lower's a creep situation. But

that's not the same thing. There was no force, there were no threats, there was no coercion, and people are speaking about it like, Okay, well, this is all very similar, and we need to be very clear. The biggest distinction is are we talking civil or criminal? Right, civil is go out on a date with me or you're fired. That person should the person who does that should be fired and they should be sued for a lot of money. Right.

What the criminal side would be the Weinstein of come back to my hotel and to talk about the role, and then Weinstein like grabs and doesn't take no for an answer and is molesting and all that stuff. But this is a distinction in law that should also be reflected in our discussions about all this. Matt Damon in this interview was trying to say this trying to make that point, of course, not as precisely or eloquently as I just have. He's Matt Damon. But people were piling on.

I mean, they are all over Matt Damon on this one. Oh how could you? And it just goes to show that the political winds are blowing so strongly behind this whole movement right now that anyone who stands up, even for a moment, it says, hold on a second, Maybe this one we should we should think a little bit more about her. Maybe we shouldn't rush to judgment on every case as though they're all the same case. That person is not part of the problem. This is what's

that issue with movements. Movements rely on the mentality of a mob. Now, movements can be good, but movements can also be bad, and good movements can turn bad quickly because the mentality of a group, the psychology of a mass, is different and has different moral tendencies and traits than that of an individual. And that's my concern right now, is all this is and has been my concern is all this is happening. So Matt Damon just got on

the hot seat for this one. Uh. And then there's the ESPN as a whole mess over there MSNBC with Sports All Center as ESPN is having some trouble and I don't know that much about it because I'm focused on some of the other things here. Tyrone does know about it, Tyrone, what the heck is going on ESPN? There's people, there's a lot of stuff going on. Well,

it was um Adrian Lawrence, a former ESPN staffers. She was on Sports Center different different shows, went to the Boston Globe and told her story, and from that other people sort of were asked about the culture they're ESPN, and this particular culture isn't just sexual harassment like some of the other places. It's sort of also a boys club, I think would be the best way to describe it.

And while ESPN has made a lot of strides compare, you know, as far as a lot of they made a lot of strides with women being you know, for you know, front and center, but they still have ways to go if you believe what's come out in the Boston Globe article. So what what was in what was some of what's in the article? Well, well, first let's take the boys club part of it. There was a

woman Sarah Walsh. Waxley was a big fan of and she was having her and her husband were having a lot of trouble having a baby, multiple miscarriages, and it was kind of she kind of was told according to other people because she refused to speak on it, but she has kind through social media. She came to work the day she had a miscarriage and was literally bleeding on set in Alabama for college game day because she's not supposed to miss work, but men could miss work

for much less. So if you're a woman there, you're asked to do things that men, at least that's what the story says, and people have corroborated. You're asked to do things that men aren't asked to do. It isn't an interesting that assuming that that is an accurate reflection of the culture there, that that is apparently what's going on ESPN in terms of male female relations. And meanwhile, ESPN is like very progressive, left wing, anti gone all

that stuff. Yes, that but that that's more complicated. That's a lawger playing, that's more complicated. I'm just saying that you got a lot of liberals over the ESPN, and I think you have a lot of city people and cities tend to be more liberal. They cover teams locally, they end up ESPN nationally and they take their politics with them. But there isn't there also a highlight like an anchor and a former employee, and there's text messages.

That's the that's the that's the sexual harassment part. Adrian Lawrence claims that John Bucharage, who has been there for a long time, and he's I think he's a solid guy, he claimed. She claimed that he's sexually harassed her. He came out and said, listen, if she thought that, I'm sorry. I thought we were friends. But he went to step further. He went to his bosses when those allegations came out

and showed his bosses all the text messages. And they have since published those text messages and I read them and it sounds like Adrian Lawrence. This is the first time because I've actually always side. I tend to side with the women because I think they have a lot to lose when they come forward on this one. I have to side with the with the man, she said,

he said things like corner long legs. Well, they went to dinner together and he was talking about adjusting the seat in the car for her long legs, So that's not him really referring to her legs in a This is this where, this is the beginning. This is why I want to ask you about it because I've been worried that this is where we're heading now. People are seeing this as it's leverage. It's a way to get

a payday. You know, little things are gonna be the people are gonna try to magnify them for their own purposes, for their own advancement, right. And I will say most of the current ESPN staffers have been supportive of her she's no longer there, and think that they need to make changes. But all of them have said ESPN is better with this particular issue than other workplaces, So they're saying, maybe her complaints with this individual are true, but compared

all the places they worked, this place is awesome. And looking at the text messages, I just don't see a case. He tried to show around the area for people who don't know, you go to Bristol, Connecticut, that is not a a metro as, not a as a not a diverse urban metropolitan ecosystem. No, so if you and you kind of have to move there, and you're moving over again from Boston, from Miami, from Colorado, different cities where you get picked up. Now you you kind of get

to the big time. The big time is the middle of nowhere. He offered to show around, she accepted. She said, hey, when are you available? Hey, I'm only on the campus because they set up a whole campus for the staff. They went out to different dinners. It just seems like maybe he said something out of line along the way, but it seems like buying lards. This was a friendship where he may have thought he could say something and maybe she was offended, but he definitely was not a

predator who had power over her. Yeah, well, the power dynamic is also very important. A period of peer relationships in the workplace should be treated very dead friendly. Then when somebody has power over your future, you're firing or hiring or any of that kind of stuff. Well, before we run in a break here, Tyrone. The Russell Simmons thing I saw three accusers was four accusing, four accusers, now kind of saying out flat out rape. So, I mean he's he's like a billionaire right or close to it.

I mean, he's an incredibly wealthy hip hop and persorio and really important to the black community in that a lot of the comedians that we know, Martin Lawrence, Chris Tucker, Kevin Hart came he with Deaf Comedy Jam, which he created, and without him, there's no them. So he's really important. And not to mention everything like with the music run DMC, L cool J, on and on and on. He's flat out there night. He's the first person in one of these major cases where came out and flat out said nope,

no way, didn't happen. I didn't do it. But it's a lot of tests, right yep. And it's no longer Deaf Comedy Jam though it's now like you know, it's no longer Russell Simmons Deaf Comedy Jam. It's just deaf jam comedy. Oh so they already it's the Kevin Spacey thing now where they you know, they erased h They literally erased his face from a movie in post production, right, so yes, and and now they're saying, oh, well, him bettering himself now he does a lot of yoga and meditation.

This is him running away from his past. When he's saying, no, I'm just trying to live longer. So it's like everything he does now is under a tremendous amount of scrutiny. But he is flat out that night. He's the first person to come out this strongly into this is here we are. You're getting minor things that are being inflated in the case of this ESPN situation, and we've got

to keep an eye out for that. And you also have now the first really high profile case of somebody who's like, Nope, this is this is not me, right, that's what he said. This is a not me situation instead of you know me too, is what the accusers I've been saying. All right, we have to run to a break. Team will be back. We'll take your calls, and then we've got immigration in the next hour. We'll talk about that. Emily is a not he joining some team Bucks speaks and I'm gonna tell you about sharks

and killer whales because that'll be fun. Stay with me. Chef Chef Mario Vitali has gotten into into hot water for some sexual harassment stuff, and he sent out an email I just saw this or somebody on his behalfs o an email and it says, as many of you know, this week there's been some news coverage about my past behavior. I made any mistakes. I'm very sorry. I work every day to regain your trust. And then, in the same note bs, in case you're searching for a holiday inspired breakfast,

these pizza dough cinnamon rolls are favorite. It's like, no, no, the apology is separate from the pizza dough cinnamon roll holidays thing. You don't put them together. Chef Batali, whoever his PR crisis PR firm is he should fire them. That's not how you do this. It's like, you know, sorry about all of my misbehavior in the past, but let's talk about a spice. Is like no, Chef Batali, that is not how you do this. Oh um, all right, Robert and Mississippi. What do you got for me? Yes, sir?

How are you? Mr? Sixton? I'm good, sir. How are you doing? I'm doing outstanding. My fellow brother at HARMS I retired least I'm the does. Oh well, thank you for your service, sir, Thank you, sir. My quote. I'm not a big movie person. I own one movie and one movie. Oh with my kitchen that long but ridge over the river quiet? Good guess though, right what's there? I said, it was a good guess. Yes, Oh, I wanted to mention the story you told a couple of

weeks ago, which one the boss story about the orphans? Oh, I don't remember what am I telling? Was that the wrong anyway? I don't you admit? No, that was somebody else. That wasn't me, that was a different host. Go ahead, movie here, yep, uh, Well we have here is a case of so until tell me everything, but you show me nothing. Heat. I don't know what is it? True romance Christian Slater, all right, legit, legit action movie and

you got me. All right, sir, you have out foxed the Sexton tonight, but next time I will get you. Thank you so much for calling and Robert, Merry Christmas and Shields High. I got a couple of calls that were I'm sorry, a couple of guests. Rather, we're gonna

get you. Here in a few moments, we have someone from the Justic Vaughan from the Center for Immigration Studies talking about immigration year in review and also what we can look forward to next year with the Trump administration, So stay with me for that and more terrorists substruct in the streets and subways of New York City twice.

It's in a few months. Both terrorists came to our country through the dysfunctional immigration system that we are correcting and rapidly, and one came through chain migration, chain migration to the other visa lottery. They have a lottery, you pick people. Do you think the country has given us their best people? Know? What kind of a system is that they come in by a lottery? They give us their worst people. They put them in a bin. But in his hand when he's picking him, is the really

the worst of the worst. Congratulations you're going to the United States? Okay, water system, lottery system. We're calling for Congress to end chain migration and to end the visa lottery system and replace it with a merit based system of immigration. That was President Trump earlier today talking about where he stands on immigration. Nothing's really happened on it in seen. In fact, there's been some reporting that there are more illegals now at the border than in previous quarters,

or more have been captured. What is going on here? What can we expect in or can we at least hope for in? We have Jessica Vaughan with us now. She is Director of Policy Studies at the Center for

Immigration Studies. Jessica, thanks for making the time, glad to be with you all Right, First, before I get into the absolute latest news here, I just want to know what could we say about the Trump administration on immigration year one, you know, the the good, the bad, and the man Well, I they've accomplished a lot, really and and clearly immigration has been one of the most important issues that this administration wants to tackle, and they have a lot of clean up to do after eight years

of the Obama administration, not only dismantling in the relation enforcement, but also opening up and creating programs that that we're uh, you know, illegal for them to create because only Congress can do that. So they're doing a lot of cleanup. But Interior enforcement is up um almost over the Obama administration.

We saw an initial drop historic laws of apprehensions at the border, but there's the courts have imposed a catch and relief policy for unaccompanied miners and families who come from Central America, so their hands are kind of tied there. But they've also cleaned up the legal system by reinstituting programs to correct fraud. They are holding you know, they're arresting people for crimes like identity fraud and immigration fraud

that we're ignored by the Obama administration. So the returning integrity to our immigration system and tightening up loopholes as they find them. But really with the President can't do

it all all by himself. There are things that Congress has to do, and those are the things like UH ending chain migration, UM, it's doing something about sanctuary cities, UM, ending the visa lottery, and a number of other areas like you know, UM superseding the courts on this issue of catch and release, fixing our asylum system that's so abused by people now and by immigration lawyers. So it really has to be a team effort, and I think

the President has made really great progress. He's set out an agenda, he's starting to accomplish things, but at a certain point he needs resources from Congress and also a few tweaks to the law from Congress, and of course only Congress, as I said, can be the major reforms to our legal immigration system, so that are immigration system works for Americans and for the United States of America, not us for the people who want to come here.

Jessica what can you tell me about this piece in the Washington Examiner that says Trump administration rolls out global campaign to combat those who overstay their visas in the US.

But this is a huge problem. In the last couple of years, the Department of Homeland Security has estimated that more than half a million people who came in on visitor visas or other types of temporary non immigrant visas did not leave when it was time for them to do so, and they stayed on and make up a very large share of the illegal immigrant population in the United States. And part of it is because there has been some little interior enforcement in the country, so they

don't fear getting caught or feel getting deported. But the other part of it is that the state Department has had has been, you know, really too lenient and who qualifies for these visas to come here. So the approaching it from both angles to try to address this problem. But you know, it's something that the wall that it fits.

Speaking of a wall, we had Kirsten Nielsen just earlier this week say the following we're gonna have a law, we're gonna have border security, and we're gonna protect homeland and would the President, tell you when we've got the job. What did you say from me, build a wall attacked our country? You support the men and women. You see the reality of this wall and how effective it is as a bother when people in Washington or playing politics when it comes to the implementation of the technology needed

to be successful. Of course it does, because this is key to our security of our of our homeland. I also find it very confusing. Is as you know, in two thousand six, we had a bill, the Secure Fence Act, that was largely bipartisan that would have done just this. So it is politics. It's easy for fix in Washington talk about the benefits of the law and not a wall. They're not working here, they're not facing the threat sentence

of surfacing every day. All right, Jessica, that's the DHS, newly installed DHS chief saying that there's gonna be a wall. We need a wall. Walls great, But are we actually gonna get a wall? If all I want for Christmas is a border wall? Am I going to be happy next year? Um? You will be if Congress does its job and passes a spending bill like they're supposed to do every year, with the resources that the president is asked for to get this done. Um, Secretary Neilson is right.

Congress asked for this back in two thousand six, and here eleven years later, it's still not finished. And we need it now more than ever because of the continued influx of people trying to get here over our southwest border, but also because of the drugs and other amiss it smuggling that is going on over the border. Um. It's so most of the illegal drugs that come into this country come over the border. So that's the other thing that the wall would help address. So but you know, again, Um,

you're saying, it's Congress and there's only so much. It sounds like from what I'm gathering here, Jessica, that the Trump administration, the executive branch, has been good on immigration this year. Actually, the Trump has been keeping promises to degree that it's in his power to a Congress needs to get its button gear. That's right, and they need to remember why Trump was elected that in part it was because of the promises to address the immigration problems.

And some of these can only be done that you know. They they's got a lot on their plate right now, and I don't expect to see any immigration legislation before the end of the year, but it better be at the top of the list for early in eighteen, because, uh, you know, these problems are festering and they need to be resolved, and we don't you want to go through uh, you know, another terrorist attack or more another influx of people from Central America or people of using the asylumces

them before this gets fixed. They know what to do, they just need to do it, and the bills are there. The House of Representatives has passed a series of bills that would address sanctuaries, gangs, um eitherify for h to help employers avoid hiring illegal aliens, and a number of other good legislation. It's sitting before the Senate right now, and all we need to see some boats on these builds. Jessica Vaughan is Director of Policy Studies at the Center

for Immigration Studies c i S dot org. For all of their research, Jessica, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, glad to glad to be with you, and have a good weekend you too. Merry Christmas. Christmas. Alright, teams, so we're gonna roll into a whole slew of stories next the we should come up with, like, I don't know, a segment where you do like grab bag or something. You know, we just like throw a whole bunch of

things together. Sometimes Emily's Nadi will be doing in the next but Tyrone and I kind of do that on a regular basis anyway, just to come up with a cool intro because we're doing a whole bunch of new stuff with the show starting in eighteen, there's gonna be a lot of uh, revamping and you know, redoing and making stuff cooler whatever. The best way of saying that is, we're gonna be making stuff cooler here on the show.

So with all that, we've got Emily Zanati from Daily Wire next on Chicago and to bar from the President, what the heck is going on there? She'll answer it stay with me, but a very busy week in the news. But there are some stories we have not yet gotten to. But that's what we're gonna do now with the help of our friend Emily Zanati is Nati, Tom everybody. She is a writer for the Daily Wire. Trick out what she's got up there at the Daily wire dot com.

Mrs Nati, good to have you, Thanks for having me all right, let's talk first about how Los Angeles wants to put shelter animals on a vegan diet. I think feeding dogs vegan food is a former of animal cruelty. It basically is dogs need protein. They can't manufacture their own vitamin D. They have so many dietary requirements that it really is basically animal abuse to put them on

a vegan diet. But apparently l A wants to leave the nation in being progressive in their pet treatment, So they're asking all of their shelters to ditch the regular kibble and put everybody on it all vegan diet because animals eating animals just isn't right? Are They just gonna blast NPR podcast into the kennel and also make all the dogs meet with their life coaches, right like they're all going to be assessed for their cultural appropriation on

the way in their way out. They all need to hear cereal, you know, like I was gonna say, what's the other one? I was gonna say, the other one with that guy is not doing NPR anymore anyway, um, and I would also know that you know, I this is a complete random note, but it's the third hour at least, I feel like we can say whatever we want here. I did some reach search into a fox as a pet because there's a really cool do you know this Instagram account Juniper Fox? Yes, I am familiar. Oh,

I mean, I'm all about Juniper Fox. And I'm like, this is amazing because foxes are so cute and it's kind of like a cross between a cat and a dog because foxes have retractable claws, and plus they just look really cute. Turns out they mark all their territory and it smells like skunk and you can't get them to stop doing it. And oh, by the way, there's a certain chemical I forget what it is, something that's in a certain kind of food that you have to give them or else they'll go blind and die and

you have to be very rigorous about it. And I was like, that doesn't sound like a good pet for me to have. Some of these exotic animals turn out to be a lot more work. Like I I have a friend who wanted for years to have a wallaby, and now she has sounds amazing. I want a wallaby? Who's your from with the wallaby? Does she have an Instagram account? The wallaby I'm legitimately writing this down right now, and I want to follow, Well, be the wallaby. That

sounds amazing. How's it working out for It's working out okay, but's basically I adopted a baby kangaroo and now I just have a baby kangaroo. Like it didn't turn out as wonderful as she had hoped, but I think it turned out as adorable as she had hoped. That is amazing, Okay. I mean, I'm excited about this. And another day we'll talk about how one day I hope to adopt a wombat. But that's a whole separate discussion. So l a vegan diet. We got that on our list here. Oh what is

this about? So you're a Chicago in right, Chicago right? Because I and I actually got to see you in Chicago, and event was that was exciting. I actually saw Emily live and in person. And uh Ram Emmanuel, though has declared Chicago at Trump Free city. I feel like there's a I feel like there's a you know, a separation of powers issues here, or or like the mayor can't just banned an American citizen, particularly the president. No, no,

he can't actually just say that. Donald can't spend a night like in his own hotel because we actually have a Trump tower in Chicago. Trump on the size, it's very prominent, but he mayor und Emmanuel went on Colbert's show and was like, oh, we have Chicago is the first Trump free city, as though this was going to be some sort of selling point for living in Chicago. It's the first Trump free city. We're banning him from our city limits. No, I mean, alright, fine, but it's

not exactly like all of Chicago's problems are solved. We have a billion dollar budget crisis, we have a where the number one city for losing population, so we have six hundred homicides. Like I think, we've got bigger things to worry about than whether Donald Trump fronts the hotel room in Chicago. Trump mentioned in his speech here. He mentioned Chicago in the speech play that please Tyrone. Now more than ever, we must support the men and women in blue. In the last two years, America has seen

a tragic rise in violent crime. In two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen, we witnessed the steepest two year consecutive increase in murders in nearly half a century and you look at what's going on in Chicago. What the hell is going on in Chicago? What the hell is happening there? Uh so, what is going on there? Emily,

you're there, you're a journalist. He's not wrong. In the Times and prom Emmanuel has been mayor, which is just a little over four years, we have actually doubled our homicide rate and astonishing. So this is it's astonishing and it's mostly from game warfare on the South and West sides,

but we just can't control it. In fact, the actual chief of the Police Union went to the White House asking for the White House to interfere to do something, to offer some sort of federal aid, and Chicago refused it. So we're looking at a more than six hundred homicide year. Last year, we ended the year with just a little over five hundred, So this is a big jump from seventeen and something's got to give here soon. We got Emily's Nati in the line of the Daily Wire or

she Chicago Bay. So speaking of all things Chicago and Rama Manuel and and his terrible nous. Uh he is going to give out I Chicago I d s for the quote undocumented and those on the sidelines. What is that This is a weird plan on the part of Chicago to try to recognize the illegal immigrants who live

within the city. It's not just enough, apparently that we're a sanctuary city that we can take in everybody and ICE is not able to ask them their immigration status when they're applying for a job or when an ICE person knocks on their door. Now we're actually going to give them packs I D numbers so they can pay city and state and federal taxes and also receive benefits.

So of course this is going over very well with people in Chicago, considering that the city is dead broke and not able to pay for its actual school system. Now we're talking about potentially extending benefits to people who do not have legal status. But I mean, we don't want Trump, so obviously that's that's something I guess. So all right, so it's Trump free city, but he's given

out free ideas for all the illegals. One more thing I wanted to touch on here because I know you've probably got exciting holiday plans in the in the Zanati household. Come up, you gotta do you have a last minute shopping You've got to get to I have finished my shopping, but I'm sure that there's going to be somebody I forgot, so I definitely have some last minute shopping. I got you all right. Well, one more thing though, just update me on Blake Fahrenholt. We didn't get to talk about

him earlier. We've been talking about some of the sketchy and bad dudes out there, uh, and the allegations and all that stuff. But what's going on Blake Farrenhold, another guy in Congress is in some trouble. Yeah, So Blake Farrenhold ended up having to announce his retirement earlier this week. He was the subject of an eighty four thousand dollar lawsuit that Congress settled on his behalf. It's not necessarily sexual harassment. What it really is is a unsafe and

intimidating work environment. So he's been accused of making dirty jokes, of making his employees feel kind of achy when they're in his office, making things very difficult for them, and one employee actually approached Congress, threatened to sue, and settled

for eighty four thousand dollars. This past week, another employee, former communications director at Farenhold's office, approached the House House Ethics Committee and said that he was in an unsafe for environment, that he wanted to make a four normal complaint. And it was at that point that Fahrenholt just said, I think probably more is coming down the line, so

I'm going to step aside. And he's the first Republican we've had, aside from Trent Frank's who also had some issues with his staff, to take l Frankins sort of lead and leave Congress. So we're looking at perhaps another dozen or so accusations like this, so he could only be the first of many. Emily's Naughty is at the Daily Wire. She's a writer. Check out the Daily wire dot com. Emily having Mary Christmas in a happy New Year. We're excited to talk to you. Get sounds good, Happy,

Happy Christmas. Happy Christmas to you. All right, team, We're going to roll into a break. We'll be back in just a few minutes. Here, I'm going to talk to you about I'm gonna talk to you about great white sharks and killer whales. But it's gonna make sense, trust me. That's coming up. So I want to share a totally random story with you for a few minutes. If I can. And my little brother is traveling the world right now. He's down in on vacation in South Africa, and he's

just posting all of these incredible photos. South Africa's I've heard it's an amazing place. I've never been, but he's he's having a great time. He's posting all these photos and he's, you know, seeing baby cheetahs in the wild, lions and I was gonna say tigers and bears, but that's actually not true. He's seeing neither tigers nor bears where he is, but lions and giraffes and gazelles and all that stuff that you would think, um, you know ward Hog, Like, was Pumba Tim own Amy the ward Hog?

Do we know Tim the lion King? Come on? One of them was oh gosh, yeah, you this is your generation. You're supposed to know this one. All right. I'll let I'll let it slide this time. But anyway, there's a there's a ward that she's sent ward Hog photos. And but I'm one thing that I thought, and my little brother is a very intrepid fellow. I've always wanted to do that thing where you get into a cage. I know there's some people like, that's so dumb, buck, what's

wrong with you? But I think it sounds cool to get into one of those cages where you have the great white sharks that come up close to the cage, Like, I just figure that looks pretty cool, right, What is you think of? And people will say to car carroden carcarious Latin name for the great white sharks, scientific name, uh, it's the apex predator, like nothing could ever match the the might and fury in the sea of of the

great white. And it turns out that's not true, and that actually affects whether or not you can go see great whites anymore in South Africa. So so the biggest whites they call them white pointers, I believe, in either South Africa or Australia, but the biggest ones tend to be off of Australia and also actually off the coast of California, some really big great white sharks out there. I have a little sister, by the way, who's like an amateur shark expert, a lawyer, yes, but also an

amateur shark expert. And the great whites off South Africa tend to be more aerial and acrobatic, and there was a very well established population of them, and people could get in those in the dive cage. You do any much experience, he basically just had to be able to breathe through the apparatus. You get in there, you're in a big steel cage, and you see the white sharks, right, and it sounds really cool. But but my brother can't

do it. And he he thought about doing it. But it turns out that the whole notion of the great white shark as the absolute apex predator of the seed is not true. In fact, there's a big problem right now off of South Africa because as crazy as this is,

white sharks are being killed off. White sharks are being killed off by killer whales, and in fact, not only are the killer whales uh killing the gray white sharks, they are almost with it's been described as with surge in like precision, removing the shark's liver because that is the most nutrient dense part of the shark. People have been saying that that, you know, there have been some researchers that are are seeing this and they've never seen

anything like this before. I mean that The New York Post describe some of the theories of how this is how this has happening. Where they find the bodies, they find the washed up carcasses, and it's clearly the only thing that could be doing this, and it's also different bite marks, and uh, you know, they they have ways, you know, hashtag science, right, They've got ways through marine biology stuff of figuring this out. But here's the theory. This from the New York Post a couple of days ago.

One theory is that Orca's shut down all communication, sneak up and stun the shark by slapping it with its massive, powerful tail. Then it flips the shark on its back, causing momentary paralysis, and pushes the shark through the water until it suffocates. The orca finishes off the attack by carefully tearing open a hole in the shark to remove the liver, the largest and most nutrient rich oregan. Uh So they've only had a hand that's the end of

the quote there. But they've only had a few white sharks wash up on the beach with the liver removed in this way. But they can't they're not seeing as many sharks out there, which means that white shark tourism is way down too. And it's because they think that there's like a pot of killer whales out there that just the the baddest dudes in the ocean, and they're just killing white sharks, which is pretty incredible when you

think about it. Um. I will note that there was actually a really really bad horror movie that I saw here in New York on like the local I think it was w P I X eleven, which used to have all these uh kind of B level movies that would run all the time, and I would watch them, and the Orca. The movie was called Orca, and it was about a killer whale that goes rogue and and it's eating It's sort of like Jaws, but with a

killer whale. And what's that that doesn't happen really? I mean, there have been some incidents with people in whales, but when they're in captivity, and that's a whole other discussion. But what you find out when you actually do a little research on these guys is that they're a lot bigger, heavier, and more powerful than sharks and a whole lot smarter.

And that's pretty crazy. So anyway, my little brother is not diving with white sharks because they in South Africa can't find them because killer whales are like snipers in the ocean, knocking them out and taking their livers. That's pretty intent stuff I know has nothing to do with Christmas. And you're like, Buck, what is this story? I just thought it was really interesting. I still think it's really interesting. Man. I guess I won't get a chance to swim with

white sharks anytime soon. If I go down to South Africa anyway. They travel sweeter, that's what we call them. And Uh, I'll be back with some team, Buck speaks in just a few minutes. Stay with me. Well, Team, it's a snowy night here in New York City, so I'm getting ready to close up shop in the Freedom Hut and trudge through the accumulation of UH sludge that will be on the streets, no doubt waiting for me. Tyrone and I were talking Amy too. We didn't see

this one coming. I usually when there's major weather that's gonna hit the East Coast, the media is like, oh my gosh, there's gotta be weather. But this time around, there was no. I didn't see any warning on anything. I guess there was enough actual news to fill the news cycle this week, so I was caught surprised. Anyway, it's gonna be a nice weekend to be snowed in. I'm gonna get into some team buck speaks in just

a moment here. I wanted to tell you though, that we have been putting in motion some pieces on the History podcast. First episode will drop of shield Ye. First episode will drop on January eight, barring any unforeseen technical difficulties. So that'll be the first one, and I can tell you it'll be the battle of two French Charles Martel the Hammer dropping the Hammer against the conquest by the Islamic Empire. So we'll talk about that. That'll be fun.

That'll be remember. That'll be separate from the show. So those of you who like history, you just have to subscribe to this show. However you listen to podcasts, iTunes is a great one. There are others Google Play and Stitcher, and I don't know if we're on so we're not on SoundCloud, right, We're only on Stitcher, is that right? I know we're on Google Play, and I know we're

on iTunes, so those are good ones. And of course the I Heart app that allows you to listen to anything we do here in the hut, but that'll be exciting. It's a lot of a lot of work in the new year, but I'm looking forward to It's kind of work. I like, I'm gonna be on the beach with Molly in a couple of weeks and she's given like, are you reading stuff that's like for vacation, and I'll be like yes, and it'll be like and then the janissaries ripped the heads off of the nights templar blah blah,

and be like, whoa, It's crazy. That actually would have never happened to some of you know, but you know what I'm saying. So uh, let's get into Oh wait, no, one more thing. I have a house guest this weekend. A friend of Ms Molly's is staying with us, a friend of hers from for many, many years ago, and I am uh looking forward to it. I yeah, right, you gotta be just the one thing. I never liked being a house guest. This is just a weird idiosyncrasy

about me. I've never been comfortable really staying in other people's homes, no matter how nice they are, no matter what they try to do to make me feel comfortable. I'm always polite and I try to be a good house guest. But I just I just always I like to be in my own space, or i'd like to be in my space or paying people for the space. I mean, I I don't generally like to be a house guest. It's just not something that some people love it.

You know, they want to crash with their buddies. I've got friends my age thirty five, and over the holidays they'll still go crash out on somebody's couch somewhere and they love that. They like that, you know, adult sleep over, Netflix, binge vibe you get from just staying at your buddy's place out in the living room. I don't like to even with a guest bedroom, even if I have a guest shellet waiting for me or a little guest cottage, whatever fancy terms are the people used for this stuff.

Um still, I don't know being a house guest. And I agree, what's that? What's the old thing about how house guests are like fish? They start to stink after is it three days or four days? I think it's three days, but that sounds about right to me. Amy, it's a three days. You've never heard this my old man wisdom really just because it's like a generational she

doesn't want to say it. There's a generational gap here, so I know, you know, I use words like an income poop, and that's just not part of the jargon of of Amy's part of the younger generation. So that doesn't really doesn't really happy much. Sometimes I do have to yell get off my lawn in here, just to remind everybody that you know, I'm technically but I feel

I feel sixty. Sometimes Tyrone and I are about the same age though, so Tyrone, but Tyrone's wisdom comes through all the time, so that's not surprising to any of you. All Right, here we go. Um, we got some team Buck speaks coming in. Michael with the following, you've never been skiing, I think you do live under a rock in the Bronx Zoo. You want a real workout, try cross country skiing. You want to learn it, go to the Waterville Valley Resort in New Hampshire. Uh, my son

is there. He runs the Nordic Center and he'll hook it up. Other than perhaps a pulled muscler to you're way less likely to get hurt doing Nordic alpine. You can actually get seriously hurt. Yeah, I will tell you that. For those of you who are like, oh, have you've never been skiing? I saw because I grew up in New York, and I think it was a bigger thing in my youth for people from Manhattan to go skiing. I I don't know. I don't see it as much now. Um,

I don't see as people around me. I don't know. Maybe it's because I don't ski. I don't know skiers. But I saw so many people that would have a giant cast on their leg when they come back from vacation from a skiing accident. So maybe cross country is the way to go. I'd be willing to check that out. I have been doing. You know, one thing that I've worked into my routine that people say is so good and I'm I kind of don't buy it yet, but they say it's is kettle bell swings. Do you ever

do your kettle bell swings? They say, it's uh, from a from a metabolic perspective, it's almost as good as doing wind sprints, and with wind sprints is basically number one. The kettle bells is like right below jump rope. And I mean in terms of your metabolic. It's really good. Yeah, Tyrone's giving me the thumbs up on that one. It's hard, but I just kind of feel like, I don't know

how could this. I gotta do it more. I gotta do it more, all right, So maybe I'll add some cross country skiing into the mix, or what about snowshoeing. There we go to note that some of you took my advice and saw a wind River and liked it very much. I got those notes as well. Wind River very good movie. Intense and disturbing, but very very good. I think well done for what it is. Uh, let's get to the latest, Stanton. Right, So if you come to Utah, I'll teach you how to snowboard buck. We've

got the greatest snow on Earth. Well, Stanton, I can tell you that is a very compelling offer. The one place I've been in the United States where it felt like, wow, there's a whole lot of consolidated, congregated team buck with Salt Lake City, Utah. I was like walking around the streets, people like back and I was like, hey, they're like back. I was like, what's going on? You know? That was that was fun because obviously working at the blaze uh

and with Glenn there with Glenn as the the guy. Uh. Salt Lake City was a very friendly venue for us. I remember went out there for the Man on the Moon event and I was in. I would just go to like a little random cafe or something to get a coffee and they're nice ladies, like hello, and I was like, oh, hello, nice ladies and we're having a good time. All right. Anyway, Yeah, I'd love to come out to Utah at some point, but I'm going to

the beach in a few weeks, so that's good. I'm gonna be off the grid at the beach reading history books so that I can do my history podcast really well. All right, Uh, here we have Alan writing in. You were saying that Today's shows ratings were up, and I think it's because everyone loves a train wreck. Now at the ratings stay up, then you'll have a point. But right now, I think it's too early to tell. Uh. And I will say Tyrone yesterday made the same point.

I think you guys are probably right at this. Right now, it's kind of like, oh wow, the Today's show is it gonna fall apart? And so people tune in to see if it's gonna fall apart when Laur leaves. But I still guy's not worth twenty five million dollars. Maybe he's worth five million dollars. He's not worth twenty five million dollars. That's just nonsense. Um. And then Alan also wrote in OMG, buck uh you got he man's castle is Castle Gray Skill. You're killing me. Yeah, that's right.

I got My parents got me a long time ago. They got me Castle Gray Skull. I still remember it. I was like, oh my gosh, cash all my life has called played. I thought it was amazing because like when you're a kid too, even though now I feel like the best presidents are small, right, the best presence would be electronics stuff for you. I don't know. Some of the ladies like handbags. I guess that's for people who are not little kids. But I don't know. I

don't know. I don't know what kids like. The point is, I just remember the bigger the present, and the more you had to like get in there and get up to your elbows and wrapping paper and just like wow, just go crazy and take it take it all off. The present that was like the ones you're really excited about, right, you needed one big present, even if it wasn't the

most awesome thing that you were actually gonna use. I remember the biggest president I ever saw under the Sexton family tree was my mom got my sister at Dollhouse. That was gigantic. Anyway, what else do we have in here? Jeffrey rights in. You were talking on spices on the show I was listening to this morning. I recently discovered a new one Weaver's Dutch Country Farm dust seasoning. Okay, thank you, Jeffrey. I will check out this new spice.

That is Ah, that is exciting. I'm looking forward to it. Uh, let's see we got here next. One Bow, Bow and Buck. Sounds like a sounds like a show where we get out there and hang out in America. Do some bass fishing? I did. I will tell you I did a lot of bass fishing growing up. My dad used to take me and my brothers and we would go out and just hit little ponds all around upstate New York and bass was like that was the exciting fish. Usually it was uh, perch and bluegill and you know, a little

and a little kind of junk fish. But they're fun too. When you're a little kid, man, you get it. You get like a a quarter pound perch on that on your little rod, and you're like, oh man, it's amazing. You know you're fighting that thing. I'm talking like when you're seven eight years old. I could post some photos of this. We still have photos of us all going

fishing with these these tiny little fish. But occasion my dad would pull up like a four or five pound, you know, small mouth bass or something, and that was like a monster. I was like, is it gonna eat me? It was like so big to me, because you know, that's yeah, is the opposite effect of what happened when I went as alligator not hunting, but alligator sit seeing with Molly, and I was like, that's the that's the alligator. I I feel like I could pick it up and put it in a put it in my bathtub at

home and it would have plenty of room. I was expecting something a little more dinosaur like. Anyway, Bow, Bow, and Buck pardon me for the digression. Bow, I'm with you, Buck. I never like laur or Kuric either, for that matter. They're both disingenuous phonies. And the reason I haven't watched any so called morning news program in years. Thanks for

keeping it real Shields high well bow. Clearly you are correct, and clearly they are disingenuous phonies, and I I have it on good authority not nice as well, which I always think is such a yeah, such a an important indicator of everything. Is somebody really nice or not a lot of people say that there are folks in media they dealt with or nice, But you got to really spend time around them, you know, can't just be all I met them once in the green room for two seconds. Uh.

You know, there's one day maybe I'll tell you. I wouldn't tell you who's mean in media necessarily, though maybe I would, but I would definitely tell you who's like really really nice, like a truly there's some really truly decent people in the world of media. So maybe one day, maybe it's like a little Christmas thing. Next week, I'll be like, you know, who's on my super nice list, and Santa should bring them all the presence in the world. Um, all right, I'm gonna close it up shop here in

the Freedom Hut. Have a great weekend, everybody. Next week we'll have some fun and some holiday theme stuff. To be sure to tune in shields, high