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The Buck Sexton Show joined the conversation called Buck toll Free at eight four four nine hundred Buck, that's eight four four nine hundred to eight to five the Future of talk radio. Buck Sexton, Welcome to the Buck Saxton Show. Everybody, Thank you so much for joining, and honor and a privilege to have you with me here in the Freedom Huh. We have much to discuss, much to get into today.

I want to first create, if I could, a h a breakdown of where we'll go in the whole gun control discussion here, because to me, there's really two movements going on in the country. There are two simultaneous you

could say, conversations. On the one hand, you have an effort at the White House is engaged in as well, you have an effort to listen, to hear people out, to exchange ideas and to Also, I think heal one of the reasons why President Trump gathered together for a listening session with students and parents, including parents of those who had lost their children in school recent school shootings,

at the White House. He's doing a listening session, I believe he's actually just just doing it while we're on air, and doing it a bit before. So he's hearing out people that want to share their views on this issue. And he's also expressed that this time it will not

just be a knee jerk response out of partisanship. He'll at least listen to what is going on and be doing very strong background checks, very strong emplusis on the mental health with somebody, and that we are going to do plenty of other things again next week, the governors are coming in from most of the stakes and avery serious talk about what's going on, the schools safety, very good, and the covered every aspect of the many ideas that I have to have, many ideas that other people have,

and we're gonna pick out the strongest ideas, the most important idea of the ideas that are gonna work, and we're gonna get him done. It's not going to be taught like it has been in the best. It's been going on too long, too many instances. We're gonna get it done. The President is saying this time is going to be different in that there will be action taken. This is not just a situation that we've seen in the past where there's a temporary surge of interest and

and passion over the issue of violence in school. School shooting, specifically mass shootings is really what we're talking about here. He's saying that there will be This is a time for us to listen to all the different ideas that are out there. Now. I think this is, from the President's point of view, a smart move. I think it's the right move. I think it's a smart move. Listen to the other side. No harm in listening. A lot of people should just be heard so that the American

people know their stories. Um, I I agree with that. I agree that we should be um that we should be hearing stories, For example, from from this father who was at the listening session. Play because my daughter has no voice. She was murdered last week and she was taken from us, shot nine times on the third floor. Now, we as a country failed our children. This shouldn't happen. We go to the airport. I can't get on a

plane with a bottled water, but we leave it. Some animal could walk into a school and shoot our children, and so it's just not right and we need to come together as a country and work on what's important, and that's protecting our children in the schools. I think everything that father says, and you know, it's it's heartbreaking. You can just hear the painters voice. He just lost his is as a little girl last week in that shooting. But I think everything he says is completely reasonable, and

I agree with him. We should come together and find a way to protect our kids. We should hear out all the different proposed, if not solutions, at least means of addressing this problem, lessening the threat, doing whatever they can so that there are fewer of these I want to hear all of that, but that doesn't mean that we will cast aside judgment of the proposals. It would be fantastic. It's certainly a praiseworthy goal to try and find a way to protect our kids in schools, and

to do so with a success. I think it's almost impossible. It is impossible, actually to do it at a hundred percent success, and with each proposal that they put forward, we will have to think, well, what is the counterbalance of this, what comes out of this that we may not want to give up, What are the unintended consequences of this action? And that's where you when you push a little harder on this issue, when you dig a little deeper, that's when you start to run into the

other side of this conversation. Right now, as I said, there are those who want to talk about solutions and and I also believe that President Trump sitting with parents and and students, teachers and others who want to discuss this issue is part of a national healing that is something we should do right now. But on the other side of it, there's also a clearly partisan and deeply politicized effort to make this yet another part of the hashtag resistance, to make this a partisan battle that is

very very comfortable smearring. It's its opponents, defaming people, saying terrible things. As I mentioned, you know the billboard in Louisville kill the n r A. I mean, that's just one example. But this refrain you're here, you're with the children,

you're against them. That's not helpful. That's not constructive. So we should and will talk about the other side of this, which is that there are people out there right now, many of them across the country, who see this as an opportunity not to save kids, but to help the Democrat Party and to harm the Trump administration and the Republican Party's political fortunes. That level of opportunism should make

us all feel like we need a long shower. It is gross, but it is happening, and you are seeing this now with the talking points that are out there. We the way that uh, some of the networks are choosing to go about this, um, choosing to to cover this issue, it is an absolute disgrace. Do we have the woman who was approached by CNN on the front lawn, which h this is this is astonishing, folks. I mean, yeah, you have a woman who well that's on I'm sorry,

that's on Russia. We'll get to this in a little bit. You have a whole bunch of different media outlets though that's a rush up component. I was looking on my list here for a second. You have a whole bunch of different media outlets that can't seem to find an articulate and uh, well versed defender of the Second Amendment to put on TV. You can't seem to find, you know,

I know, a whole bunch. I could sit here and rattle dozens of them off the top of my head, one after another, to have a really serious discussion about this. But instead there's a lot out of let's find the most inept Republican congressmen possible and put him on TV and bash him and say that he's, you know, he's being disingenuous on the issue, that he doesn't stand with

the with the kids. And this, I think is where we start to see that there's just no real bipartisan good faith and not at the congressional level that goes into this whole issue trying to fix gun control. It just doesn't It just doesn't really exist. Um. I think it is troubling to see. And you've got oh, here's here's CNN weighing in that they've been. They've been just as bad on this as I've seen has seen them

on anything. I mean, they're they're weighing in. They're using kids and the questions they asked them to make this explicitly about Trump children are dying. Did you hear from any leaders. Did you hear from anybody in power after that? Yesterday? President Troup has been known to watch cable news on occasion. If he were watching right now, what would you want to say to him? I want to read one of the President's tweets from over the weekend. Do you have

a message for the lawmakers? Do you have a message for Congress? For the president? You know, President Trump made some statements about this, uh yesterday he spoke about it, but he didn't mention gun Look, and we have examples of other countries that have done more and have passed the national gun control laws. And guess what gun violence wept down. There's someone the right that they're attacking students personally. They're saying that you're tools of the anti gun lobby.

How do you respond to that kind of poisonous environment. You'll notice with a lot of those questions, it's you know, so so those evil Republicans have they Have they done what you want them to do? Yet? You know, this is if we were in a court, you could say they were they were leading the witness, leading the witness. And it's quite clear what many of the journalists out there think about the n R a about the gun control issue. And in case you needed any additional refresher.

You know, for a lot of people, even those who are grieving with these kids in this community, when they hear, oh, well, you know, the n r A is a terrorist organization, you know what they're going to hear that There was a lot of people who don't believe that that was that was one upset teenager who was speaking there, and that that's relatively I think they're allowed to use those kinds of I mean, I think it actually might be effective. Yeah, it might be effective to call the n r a

terrorist organization. It's wildly unfair and irresponsible and inaccurate, but you know, maybe it's effective. You'll notice though that was actually a that was something of a revelation there from a Camarado over at CNN. That's the point of this. What's effective, what gets the message across. It's not about what's reasonable, what's fair, what's honest. It is to force the right in this case, to bend the kneel on

this issue. That's what's motivating somebody, the journalists and everyone else. That's what is this world they really think they're gonna be living in where there's something that the President of the United States could do to stop kids from getting shot in school, and he just doesn't want to do it, just doesn't care. How how do they really formulate that in their minds? I know that's a belief that a lot of leftists have that Republicans, the n RA, etcetera,

they don't care about this. It's a really terrible thing to believe about a fellow human being, never mind a fellow American. And yet this is the rhetoric, this is what's out there you're either with. I don't even know what the policy is they're advocating, yet it's in some ways it reminds me in that sense of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, I mean, groups that came together left wing political activism of the moment and they had a

rallying cry, but not a specific policy platform. Maybe that will change, And I don't know if that will be from the grassroots level or if that's going to be handed to these protests groups that are popping up now all across the country. Um, but as I was saying, there's the administration willing to listen on this issue. The administration is trying to do what it can in order to hear out both the people affected by this and give them a national platform, and I think it is

a helpful part of the nation healing um. But then there's also the well, what are we actually gonna do what comes from this that we'll have impact in it's worthwhile? And why is there so much animosity against the president who's been in office. I mean, you know the answer to this, but it's worth asking anyway, so much animosity on this issue against Trump. He's been in office for a year, and it's like the gun problem is his

fault and his doing. And on the in the real world, when we're listening to what the president says and what the White House is up to, we know that this is actually a president who's not shutting down discussion, who's not dismissing any of this out of hand. I think, to the surprise maybe of some on the right, he's really considering some restrictions on firearms. He's really considering some

of these proposals. And Harris Faulkner over at at Fox was speaking to uh, one of the most well known of the student protesters as student activists, and I think she asked me a very important question President Trump right now, and and in fact, one of his early tweets because about mental health. So he is now putting a plan into action that he would like to see lawmakers and act. Of course, he can't do it all himself, so he has come some distance where other presidents have not. I

want to get your thought on that. So the way that I think President trym might do things differently, if at all, is I don't know, honestly, I really don't. It's kind of it's a similar situation as to where it was a few years ago, where his party is in control of about the House and Senate. It's a question of whether or not they can actually get something done because we're sick and tired of the promises of politicians that they're gonna send up their prayers and their

condolences when we have no action. And that's why you're hearing those cheers behind me no action. What is the action supposed to be? I would also note, and some of you listening, I just want to I want to put this out there. You're listening, probably thinking this and feeling this right now. Why is it different this time?

What's different now? When we're talking about policy what's different now than after San Bernardino, the Pult nightclub shooting, New Town, any number of other school shootings that we can talk about them that have occurred in recent years. Why not? I think some of you are asking that question. I know I've seen people asking it, and I don't have a good answer. Seems like the emotional import of the moment is pushing the conversation. Well, is that the way

we want to make national policy? Mhm? What do you think? Folks? Do you do you think that Trump's making the right move here by sounding like he's got I mean, I think he already said bump stocks, he wants something in bump stocks. You think he's making the right move? Or is this just bound to be another politicized moment where the left doesn't want to actually get anything that makes anything better. They just want to make the right bend

the knee. We'll see eight four, four to five. Let up those lines of my friends will be back with more in second hour. We'll get into some of the latest on Russia stuff, because there's a lot to stay with me. He want to learn everything we can learn, and we're going to go starting about two minutes after this meeting. We're going to work because this is a long term situation that we have to solve. We'll solve

it together. And you've gone through extraordinary pain and we don't want others to go through the kind of pain that you've gone through. President Trump is coming across in every way with this discussion as open minded, reasonable, wanting to solve problems, not just throw them one at the other side or throw up a wall and be obstinate. But he wants to find ways to make things better. We have been discussing on this show here what some

of those proposals involved. But there's another component of all this too, and that is that you have a lot of activism now going on. You have people who are marching who aren't from the high school, and question, do we have the audio of the kids in dcen to marching Montgomery County schools. Uh, there was a bunch of a bunch of students. They're doing walkouts demanding yeah, yeah, play it, go for it. If our government is not

protecting us, what is he doing? You You get the idea. Hey, look, we live in a culture now that there's really a subculture of activist hashtag activism and the YouTube and twitterification of all political ideas. You know, everyone now is everyone now is a pundit, everyone now is building a following. And you've got kids now from all across the country. So not kids that were nearer shooting, involved in a shooting, or anything like that, just kids who want their opinions

to be heard making demands. And you know, this is where we run into some trouble with just listening and not responding, because the truth is they're talking about gun control. They're not talking about just what goes on in schools. This is just about schools at all. This is about guns everywhere and every for everyone else across the country. If they get their way, I'm sorry, but there is no other issue that anybody would say. Let's listen to

what all of the marching, screaming teenagers say. He's holding the line for America Bucks. Next thing is back welcome back teams. So, as I was saying, there's a uh, there is a lot of cultural back and forth that comes into play with the gun controlled debate. Most of the reason that you see journalists so uniformly opposed to the Second Amendment and gun rights comes from their disdain for people who they think generally owned guns in in

civilian private life. Right. There's a tweet here from a blue check, which means they're one of those verified you know, real people on Twitter, or you know they've said you're real, not that there are other real people. And I'm not gonna name him because I don't want to give them the free publicity he's got like seventy thousand Twitter followers. Though, this is the kind of stuf off as you expect from commentary and common commentators and journalists on the left.

Everyone has fantasies, this is this guy. Leftist journalists who will remain unnamed. Quote. Everyone has fantasies. Some of mine involve ripping guns from the hands of pathetic bubba's who think firepower equals manhood. I want to rip their guns from them in front of their children while they scream and wail about their freedoms and evil government. Sorry not sorry. End quote. That's a pretty accurate description of how a

lot of national journalists feel about this issue. They don't like people who own guns, and this is an opportunity to stick their thumb in the eyes of those who do own guns. Um, and that's what this is really about. There's that. There's also the sense of a political mobilization against Trump. I played some of the I played some of the students that have been marching and yelling for gun control, gun changed. Still not clearing what they want exactly.

As I said, there's not a specific policy. They just want something to be done. But when the other side, in this case, the I guess we could say broadly termed the right the second amend and crowd when they come back with okay, here's an idea, well she here here, here's the president himself saying it concealed carey for teachers and for people of talent, of that type of talent. So let's say you had of your teaching force, because that's pretty much the number, and you said it. Uh.

An attack has lasted, on average about three minutes. It takes five to eight minutes for responders for the police to come in, so the attack is over. If you had a teacher with who's adept at firearms, they could very well end the attack very quickly. This is the present working through reality as to what it means to be dealing with a school shooting. Is the present saying okay, look, you want to be able to stop an active shooter in a school first responder times, I mean, to get

it under five minutes. You basically have to have an armed guard in every hallway, on every floor of every school. That's just and at that point, well, why not arm all the teachers. You've you've got people in and practically every classroom who are armed anyway. But now you see whether they're being serious on the other side of this argument or not when you put forward arming teachers as a an action to take, not a solution. We're not talking here because they're not gonna solve this, and I

gonna go away when you talk about arming teachers. Sure enough, the other side goes, no, they don't want that. That's not what they want. That's not what they're calling for. It makes some monk. I just saw one of the CNN UH anchors sharing some tweet about how you know students don't want teachers to be armed. Well, you know, this is a complicated issue, and it's one thing for students to mobilize and say we want to be protected. It's an nothing to say we want to be protected.

And here's how it has to be done. Because there's a reason we have a government we have a legislature, we have elected representatives, we have federal law enforcement, local law enforcement, people that are paid and that have expertise in these matters trying to come up with ideas and solutions. There are reasons for that. It's not just what did the kids think that they need in this case? Now that's this is now also a big game on the

left where they're trying to tempt people into overstepping. And I will say there have been some conservatives, one or two in particularly come to mind, who are very publicly uh debased their reputations by personally attacking these kids. It's not it's not. This is not personal. It is not about mocking individuals who are stepping forward to say to say that they believe that this is a necessary gun control policy, or that's necessary, whatever the case may be.

It's not about that. But it's also not we're gonna sit here while national laws are ching, you know, while federal laws are changed, national policy is shifted, and do all that in silence, just because because we feel bad. I wonder there is a part of me that thinks that the Trump administration here, you know, he's hearing everything out, but bump stocks Okay, that was a post Las Vegas shooting concession, to which I will note will stop no

shootings whatsoever. And the bump stock thing is, it's such a it's such a non action in the sense that it's hard to be opposed to it because it's it falls into the well, it's minutia of the of even the gun control debate, which often gets bogged down in the minutia. But that's really way down the scale. I know a lot of people that own firearms and around farms our whole lives, never used a bump stock, don't

know about bump stocks. Yeah, whatever, no interest. It's actually a much more interesting discussion when we start to talk about suppressors and laws around suppressors. I anybody who watches too many movies thinks that suppressors mean that you can get away with you know, makes a pew pew noise. That's not you fire an a are or the suppressor, and it just means that you're not doing permanent hearing

damage to yourself. But it's still real loud anyway. That's that's some arteresting discussion and form for my end, and that would be a lessening of the laws that are in place, not a That would be a loosening of them, not a a strengthening of them. So Trump is raising the issue of arming teachers. Why is the left so opposed to that, because it's really about not liking guns, if it they say, it's about saving kids in schools. But then when you propose something that may in fact

save kids in schools, it's not good enough. They say, take action, we want to save kids in schools. And we come back with, Okay, let's think about concealed Carrie. Let's arm teachers. Let's increase armed security at schools. They say, no, we want to ban and we say, well, hold on a second. I thought you just wanted action, You wanted the kids to be safer. In what way would arming teachers and having more security at schools not at least be a good faith attempt to address those primary concerns.

This is where you see, This is where it all comes together. It's not about just keeping kids safe. It is about being opposed to guns. Guns are a cultural signifier in this country. If you say that you believe in the Second Amendment, if you say that you believe in a right to bear arms and individuals right to own firearms to defend himself or herself and as a collective American defense against tyranny. Yes, that is still real,

and yes we still believe that. If you say that, then there are a whole bunch of other things that generally but not always come along with that and have a more traditional religious view. Um you know, you know all they basically tend to be a Republican. You go down the whole slew of different issues, more likely to be pro life, more likely to any number of things. And so that's why the gun issue just becomes a

signifier for everything else. And that's why solutions to school shootings that aren't explicitly anti gun, anti firearm ownership, or unacceptable to the left. Even though they're screaming do something, do something, we come back and say, Okay, here's something. They say, no, no, not that thing. Do this other thing that we really insist on. But that won't work and it's not a good idea. And also it's an infringement on freedoms. Why do you not care about dead children?

They yell, Well, hold on a second, I thought we were having an adult discussion. There's that term I mean, but I thought we were having a responsible exchange of ideas on what to do here. I mean, I think if you get a chance, you go back and you see some of and we played some of the clips for you, some of the listening, the listening session that the President had with these families. This is important for the country to see and people should be heard, and

they are being heard. I've also noticed though, that there are complaints among some of the media that their favorite students are not being heard from. They've already picked favorites, you know, the ones that are saying the n r A are child murderers. Those are the ones that we should be hearing from all the time. Well, there are a lot of students, as I said, three thousand in the Douglas High School in Parkland, close to three thousands, something like over hundred. I've seen a handful on TV

many times already. I don't think that's an accident. I don't think they're the only ones who have opinions. And I've already seen. So I'm going back to the blue check Twitter, which is a journalist. It's like a big chat session among all the different journalists on Twitter. I mean, I know a lot of you, like who cares about Twitter. But it's just the way that we keep keep tabs on each other and see what everyone's saying. A lot of them are already complaining that they're not hearing from

the voices they want to hear from. Well, is it about hearing from the kids that the high school in Parkland? Or is it just about hearing from kids that pushing agenda that some adult one. This is where we we have to be very careful with what comes out of this and what the direction is after this tragedy. It's clear it's a very emotional moments, very difficult for the country. I understand all of that. I want to band bump stocks, fine, I mean, I'm not about to fall on my sword

for bump stocks. I don't really care. But once we start talking about assault rifle band we've already been there, wouldn't stop anything. What is what is an assault rifle under the context of a federal law? Anyway? Didn't didn't help when Bill Clinton did it back in the nineties. In fact, gun violence went up a little bit. Less than two percent of all firearms related deaths involve a

long gun of any kind. Gun violence is almost entirely a function of handguns which are not even under discussion right now, and handguns which were used two of them in the biggest single mass school shooting of all time, which was at Virginia Tech. So we're skipping over are a lot of facts and figures here to do what feels good to one side of the political spectrum so that that the other side in this case, conservatives don't feel bad,

don't feel like they're unwilling to budge on this. But I do come back, and I'm not trying to just take a hard line for its own sake here. I come back to, is anything really different this time We've we have been here before, the same. I almost want to go back and I don't know, listen to my

own show. That'd be kind of weird. But you can go back to some of the previous news cycles after large scale shootings, school shootings and other shootings where the gun debate became fierce and it's nasty, it's vicious, as you know, these are all these are all things I've heard before. The only thing that has gone attention. I will say that is different this time around in terms of policy solution or possible legal remedy for what's going on.

Is the temporary street any order based on a mental you know, essentially a mental illness that would make you dangerous. So temporary restraining order from buying guns. That's the only one that I've heard that I'm like, Okay, that's kind of new, or that's getting a little more and all right, that that that strikes me as reasonable. That strikes me depending on how it's worded and what the legislation is. But here's what I'm Here's what I'm offering up to you.

I don't think that's that wouldn't be acceptable either. They won't. They the movement such as it is right now. They want a band. They want no guns. Which guns, They'll figure that out. They want a ban on guns though guns equal bad. That's what this comes down to. It's not about safety and schools first and foremost. It is about a political position and an entire cultural backdrop to all that as well. Eight four four, eight to five. My friends, phone lines open, will take some calls. We

will be right back. What is your message to the President Unites States? Here are voices, and take what we say and put that into action, because um, we're dying. Kids are dying, and it's it's a lot of this is a life or death situation, and I think at this point we really have to focus on the fact that it's way too easy for teenagers to buy guns, and it's ridiculous that nothing is being actively done for that. I mean, here, we that was another one of the

students just speaking to press there. You know, when they say things like it's too easy for teenagers to buy guns, do they mean it's too easy for a while biding adult with no criminal background to buy a gun. Because once you're eighteen, you are an adult. You can say, this is something that happens a lot. Right When is it when do we refer to someone as a teenager and when we refer to them as an adult? A eighteen if you're nineteen, is in the case of the shooter,

you are an adult. If we want to start having a whole nation wide discussion about changing that, that's one thing. But I don't think we're there, and I think that this is not a place where we're fine. We're not gonna find a lot of solutions in Oh, let's let's just raise the age of people to buy firearms. I don't see that being being a way to handle this either, especially because we had Sean Davison yesterday. A lot of mass shooters are in their mid thirties, So what what's

what's the age? What's the age limn gonna be for somebody to buy a firearm? You know, I don't. I don't think that's gonna work. And at some point we also have lost sight of the fact this is a constitutionally protected right. There is a process for removing it. It's not like it could never change. If this was such a terrible thing the founding Dollars have done. There

is a government mechanism for changing it. It It would just take a lot of people do agree, and they don't, a lot of elected representatives to go in the same direction, and they're not. But it is a constituently protected right, has been for a very long time, and we're talking about it like it's this or the media is trying to get us to talk about it like it's this irritation, This this anachronism that just results in unnecessary bloodshed. Charlie

and Ocean, Ocean City, Maryland. Hey, Charlie, Hey Buck, thanks for taking my call. I've been I've been listening to a lot of different people talking about this gun issue, and they bring me to the point of Israel. I haven't heard any mass shootings in schools in Israel, and I would venture to say that that's for per population, that's probably the biggest gun owners in the world, because there have been attack every day forever, and they have

concealed carry people in schools, they protect their children. Yeah, the look Israeli security is often looked at as a model for US counterparts, whether we're talking about airport and airline security. So it certainly is worth looking at what

the Israelis are doing in schools. They have a particular threat though, and that is that, on top of just the possibility of a psychopath going into a school, Charlie, they have had numerous terrorist entities uh Islamic jihadists who have who would very much like to go into a school and engage in a mass shooting for the purposes of a political violence, for terrorism. So they have an

additional layer that they have to consider. But you'll notice, Charlie, they the moment that people start talking about armoring, arming war folks in schools, maybe concealed cary for teachers, more training for teachers, and dealing with active shooters that involved the teachers being able to shoot back. Now it's not just do something, it's oh no, no, I didn't mean just do something. I meant do the thing I want you to do. Well, that's not the same, right, that's

a that's shifting the goalpost. But thank you for calling, and Charlie appreciate it. Folks. I'm sorry there's you've been holding. I've gone a little along here and we're gonna get into the next hour talking about Russia collusion. So apologies for my my rambles. We're gonna change up topics here and discuss the latest on the troll farms. He's back with you now, because when it comes to the fight for truth, the fuck never stops. Welcome back to the

buck Sex and show everybody our two. We are gonna get into some Russia investigation, Russia collusion, all that good stuff. That's what we're gonna talk about now. Uh as a as a an appetizer for this discussion, maybe as a way of and textualizing where we're gonna go what's coming up next here. I just want to take a little trip down memory lane with you. You wouldn't mind you recall this whole thing happened back back a few years ago,

different president at a different time in this country. Remember this, this is my last les Basel. Yes, and that's not my muntion that I have more poxibleyn't understand. Let's just make this pumission to Lisima unless ever l t runsmit disinformation to Vladimir I must break you. I mean, you know, really, that was President Obama who is talking to Medvedev there, and he's just saying, yeah, look, you know, don't worry, I got more leeway to do stuff that will make

you guys happy after my next election. And that's for the the same Russia folks that has been were all kind of Russian hacking and Ukraine and Syria and putting deep cover agents into the US and all kinds of stuff. That same Russia. Obama's caught right there saying, you know, yeah, well that's and literally you've got Putin's at the time, right ahead, man med Videav being like able thruns mideast of Lathermere, I will pass the information of your willingness

to sell out principles for the greatness of Russia. I mean, no one really freaked out about it at the time. Some conservatives like me, We're like, we've got a problem with this. This is troubling to me. I see some issues here. It was a little strange, and in light of what we know now, it's particularly problematic because not a lot of tough guy talk when it kind of when it came to Russia when Obama was in office.

It's certainly not when Hillary was trying to become the next president United States, and they wanted to keep things cool, keep things quiet. And now they're saying, or some say, it's the biggest attack in the US and it's not eleven, which strikes me as crazy. But this has become a mass hysteria. This has become a delusion. As I have

told you, the Russia collusion delusion is powerful. It has spread far and wide across the country, and it has forced journalists to act in ways that not only destroy any pretense of objectivity they may have, but also makes some of them act like jerks. A lot of them act like jerks because of the Russia collusion fairy tale. Now, remember, Russian interference is not the same as Russian collusion. But

they're so desperate to keep Russian collusion alive. But they're willing to magnify the Russian interference, which, as I've said, was sure Facebook and Twitter campaign to tell people some stuff about the election, as well as a whole bunch of other things. That's all. That's what we're really that's what we're really talking about here. I was aghast when I first saw this clip, and I'm about to play

for you. You've got a woman who is down in Florida and she was involved in uh in organizing for Trump, and she's an ardent Trump supporter, but she's just a private citizen. Her name is Floorine Goldfarv and she's a Team Trump Broward County Facebook page I guess Facebook page founder, or she set up a Facebook page for Trump. Completely legitimate, audible very you know, yea civic doing or civic not her civic duty, but engaging in her right as a

citizen to express her ideas and support of candidates. She's a woman. I don't want to engage any agism here, but she looks to me to be probably of retire as she's a retiree age and she's just living at her home in Florida. And CNN decides to send journalists that she's a private citizen. Right, she just did some

hey like my Facebook group for Trump. This could literally happen to any of you across the country, alright, anyone who shares their views on Facebook, anyone who is on Twitter, which I know not that many of you are, but I'm sure most of you, by the numbers, are on Facebook. It's gonna happen to you all of a sudden. You've got some smug CNN reporter literally standing on your front lawn and doing this. We're gonna play this clip, play

what part of it? And this is the cover up what you're saying that's not true or what the Russians. I don't care if they were involved or not. That's that to me is the least important things. But they were involved with you. Did you guys know that they weren't involved with us? You know? Just make sure that you reported correctly that you know what you guys were involved with being patriotic, right, very very patriotic, but not

being patriotic? Was the group that contacted and helped organize some of these activities that you posted on your own Facebook account. Those were legitimate. Those were Russians. They were not Russians. I don't go with the Russians. That group was Russians. I have nothing to do with the Russians. Well apparently you did. Now maybe you didn't know it did. When you're talking like this, I don't want to have

anything to do with you. Well, I'm talking what Those people that were with me were all Trump's supporters, very very much so, and all apparently following the direction of groups that were associated with Russians who were actually infiltrating. And please please report that. I don't believe that that's both. I know all the people that were with me, Okay, they were at my meetings. They're all Trump's supporters. Okay, but did you realize that you guys were in communication

electronically with Russian You were posting stuff on Facebook. Hillary Clinton was, and so was all horror bandits some of the stuff that you were in charge of the Facebook coup, right, You were posting and reposting almost word for word, the information that was coming out of this internet research agency in St. Petersburg. You don't believe that you, First of all, this is just mean spirited. The whole thing is I think a breach. I don't even think there's such a

thing as journalistic ethics anymore. They're just all ativists there there. You know, it's just let's stop with the games and and the lies and and act like there's some this is some this is some honorable profession of big j journalism. You know, just tell people where you're coming from and present them with the facts and let them decide this is nasty. This woman was just trying to organize her fellow Trump supporters in her area. She's just sharing things

and posting things on Facebook. And there's just nothing about this that in any way is unethical or problematic or anything else. And what really this turns into is it's like the it's like a person and an older person, which we're talking about social media usage also, I think does come into the discussion. But you know, look, anyone can be trolled, anyone can be uh, you know, catfish,

and this was kind of political cat fishing. And you know, would it be nice if somebody showed up to a retirees home who was just trying to share thoughts about politics and and said, well, you know, you thought you were talking to your friend who supports Trump, but it was really someone named you know, Igor, who's in st Petersburg and is just pretending to be a Trump supporter. Who what does that have to do with anything? And it's just it's a nasty thing to do. And put

this woman the spot. Just show up at her home two docks her. I mean, her name is already out there. I'm only using because I want to defend her. You know, Oh, look at this woman. The implication here is that this nice old lady is somehow a part of the Russia conspiracy because there was some Russian bots that were on her Facebook page, or because you know, they were sharing. I mean, keep in mind the stuff that the Russians were dumping into the election, where things like you know,

maga and vote Trump. So who the heck cares where it comes from. It doesn't really matter. It doesn't undermine the beliefs of this woman or any of the other people that were part of her Facebook page. You know,

think about it this way. If you're at a protest and you're holding up a sign that says, you know, Hillary Clinton is the worst, which would be a great sign, by the way, and you're surrounded a bunch of your friends they all have signs that say Hillary Clinton is the worst, then you find out that some other people showed up were actually Democrat operatives and they had Hillary is the worst signs too? Does that mean that your

message is now invalid? That you're a stooge of of Democrat operatives now means that they're playing dirty, But you're still there with your message. There's nothing about this that first of all, requires a CNN camera crew to go up to her home. And I gotta tell you, if you know, if this were like my grandma or something I and I had been there, I would have been

very uh what is the word? Very aggressive with this guy who wants to harass somebody for their completely legitimate and in every way fine, And I would even say commendable political activity, just trying to be a good member of our community, trying to get people to support Trump. And this is this was meant to be a swipe. This was meant to be mean spirited. It's look at you, you foolish Trump supporting Rube. The Russians tricked you, ha

ha ha. What do they expect her to say? Yeah, you're right, some guy you know, Igor and an old leg and the whole squad. You know, I was, I was in on the whole thing. And what's she supposed to say? It's just an ambush, it's meaningless, it's some nasty thing to do. You know, are they gonna what's next? By the way, they're gonna show up and ask people, hey, you know you shared this tweet from the election. You know that turned out out to be true. Do you

know that you're a purveyor of fake news? Like well, just a private citizen. You know, people make mistakes, back off, so you know how to investigate of team. But here's the even better question. So now that we're establishing harassing, semi stalking, and doxing private citizens because they were engaged in political activity on the internet that the Russians intentionally involved themselves in through subterfuge and in very few places

and with very with no real success. But anyway, did happen somewhat a couple of people whatever, If that's the new standard, though, I want to know when CNN shows up on James Comes lawn and says, excuse me, former FBI director, did you know that a foreign agent Christopher Steele fed you Russian disinformation to affect the outcome of an election, lied to you in the FBI about it. We think and almost changed the course of American history through this foreign scheme paid for by the d n

C and Hillary Clinton. Do you have a comment on that, sir. They could wait outside at Comby's home. I'm sure they could find him really easy, ask him, did you know you were being duped? They could do the same thing with McCabe, with Yates, all these fancy d o J folks who thought they were doing the country a big favor by making sure that they turned the screws as tight as they could on the Trump team. No, Sena is not going to do that. I'm not gonna do

that at all. Oh. These these are the kind of journalists that that can really they really stir, stir the emotions, you know, they really make you feel make you feel proud of big J journalism in this country. They are afflicting the afflicted and comforting the comfortable. That's what CNN likes to do, go after people harassed. It was gross. I watched it a couple of times. I just thought, I just will what what are they trying? You know,

he's trying to humiliate this woman. She didn't do anything wrong. What are they trying to prove? What was the purpose of that segment, you know. And by the way, do we think that she now has also had people writing her saying terrible things to her, targeting her, because of course she does, right, We all can expect that every left wing idiot out there is gonna be writing her nasty stuff. And you know, you old blah blah blah.

Thanks CNN really doing your part to enlighten the conversation, really really doing your part to make sure that people act responsibly and in a decent fashion to each other. You know, if we're gonna get all these lectures about how we need how we need to be treating each other with with particular dignity in the aftermath of the shooting from CNN, I would also like seeing then to extend that beyond just the issue where they really mean

silence from the opposition. That's what they think dignity that, that's what they think being respectful is. You know, just be quiet while we lecture you. We got more on the rush the thing too, because it's been quite a week for that eight four four to five, eight four four nine, much more coming. I'll be right back. We think that there's a bit of a revision of history going on about how this president has confronted Russia and dealt with Russia, and how the last administration dealt and

confronted Russia. Remember the Obama administration uh implemented the Russia Reset policy, a failure of making concession and concession after concession to putin with very little in return. Um, you know, this president has confronted Russia when appropriate. He has stepped forward and authorized the sale of offensive weapons in Ukraine. He did authorize air strikes in Syria over Russian objections. Just last week, the White House called out Russia for

the largest cyber attack in global history. We have been tough, we have been measured, We have been smart and appropriate and dealing with Russia. You know, what you had from the administration is a lot of hot rhetoric with very

little results. That's Ron Shaw, who's the White House Deputy Press Secretary, and he raises some very important points when you look at actions not words, the Trump administration has done many things that are not in Russia's interest that you would not expect someone who is overly friendly towards Russia to do. Perhaps most notable of all, You know,

if you really want to curtail Putin's power. If you want to put Russia in a tough spot, among the very best ways for America to do that that does not involve, obviously anything crazy and military, would be what the Trump administration is doing, which is just trying to open the floodgates of US energy exports onto the global market. That has a much bigger influence on Russia's future and

Putin's power than anything else that they're talking about. You want to talk about sanctions, Russia with the price of a barrel of oil where it is now is a very different place than Russia with soil at a twenty dollars a barrel, and that affects their military spending, that affects their everything. It affects their ability to project power

by supporting regimes that do their bidding right. And so some of what Trump does has the added effect of annoying Russia, but just also happens to be good for the United States. So it's not a nice thing. He doesn't go around picking on necessary fights with the Russian government, and he's not full of all this anti Putin bluster. I would also note that you know you had I played the audio for you of Obama with Medvedev when

he was the Russian premier. You know, Obama is like holding his hand and saying, tell Putin that I've got his you know, we're gonna be able to work more together and everything else. Putin was just as bad then than he is now. This is just a complete historical rewrite they're engaged in. It's a you right on how seriously they took the election interference. It's a rewrite on the Russia reset of Hillary Clinton. Did she have the dumb button for that one or was that the Asia?

But yeah, it was the Russia reset button, right, she had like this is She's like, oh the button, I'm gonna press the button. And she pressed it and nothing happened except corruption because she's Hillary. So you know, Hillary sneezes and foreign despots throw money at her. But you know, I'm seriously, there was nothing that came of that that was notable from the whole Obama period in power. And

this isn't what about isn't this is just history. This is just understanding the context of the discussion that we're currently trying to have. It just seems to me to be so clearly one sided and unfair to take this view of trumpus so pro putin win his actions. He also is as a put through under the Trump administration, the Pentagon is sending lethal the Ukraine to fight against Russian paramilitaries, largely in Eastern Ukraine. That's a big deal.

Didn't get a lot of media coverage because they don't want to talk about it, but that's something that means that, that's something that could actually result in Russian casualties. And the Obama administration explicitly chose not to do that. They did not want to do that because they didn't want antagonize Russia too much. So Trump is willing to do things in Ukraine that Obama and his team was not willing to do because they thought it would be too antagonistic.

But Trump is the Russia patsy. I just does somebody who want to try to explain this other than just to call me and tell me, well, yeah, they're lying, which yet correct they are. They're being dishonest about all this. So that's what I think it port to keep mind. By the way, we will, I think we're gonna have to have a little Nancy Pelosi discussion coming up here because she said some stuff recently that will be worth our time. Uh, and we'll have a lot more also

come up the next hour. We'll talk about jerrymandering. Whoa you like that? Back in just a few other shows, just talk at you in the Freedom Mud. We have a mission. We fight for the truth in a team effort and buck us back with our next play. When did politics and money from the n r I become

more important than our lives? We're doing it so that our legislators, so that our lawmakers will make a change, so that they will take us seriously, so that they will not dismiss us any longer, so they won't reschedule, so they won't push us into another room if they dance around our questions. But we will not be silenced. It has gone on long enough. Those in power have not taken action. They've been using their words. They have

used political double talk as much as they can. The laws of our beloved country allowed for the range gunmen to purchase a gun legally. The law has failed us. All students, maybe some are a voting age, I don't know, but some are certainly not. All students are talking about what they want right now, which is gun control, and how they want action and I wanted to return to the gun control issue for a moment here. I thought we had left it behind for the show. But there's

a there's a reason, not just because I want to. No, I've in it with you once again. Just saw this piece. You remember what I said to you yesterday. I remember I said, you know, it doesn't really some of the signs you see at protests, you kind of get a sense that this isn't just some spontaneous thing. And also, why are other schools involved in this if it's just about the traumatized students from what is it Marjorie Douglas

High School? What's what's with now? The school? In the DC suburbs people are marching, And I would note, so there's one school. I just saw this here. A school district down in Florida will actually suspend kids who leave I'm seeing here. This is from CBS local affiliate in Florida district will suspend kids who leave class to protest Florida shooting. Quote. We are here for an education and

not a political protest. Yeah, you don't say true. By the way you want to protest, you actually should be protesting on your own time, should not be school walkouts for this. What about the students that actually want to have class and learn. They're deprived of an education because some people wanna go petition their legislators. You do that on your own time. What about the adults are with them? By the way, they're paid by the state, They're they're

holding placards and signs on school time. I wonder if you poked around, I bet you'd see plenty of it. But here's the bigger, the bigger thing right now. As I said to yesterday, because this is this was an fitable and they were trying to fight against it until they really had it all in place. Well, here's the big story on the Washington Post just went up as we're on air. Students take charge of gun safety movement

with some help from existing groups. Mm hmm, Wait a second, what do you mean help from existing I thought this was just spontaneous. I thought we if you listened to the kids, help from groups like like what groups? Oh, like every Town for Gun Safety, the Michael Bloomberg group. Bloomberg the billionaires started this group and just goes all over the country advocating against the Second Amendment in every

possible way, at every and every time. So like the single biggest opponent of Second Amendment rights in the country as an organization, right, the anti n r A, if you will, is is connected to this already, these are they're they're already ready. And now, by the way, what they're telling you in this in this story, I'm sure it's just the beginning of the reality here. A lot of these students found their way very quickly to see an n Anchors and to national news coverage, and all

of this wasn't an accident. These are decisions, editorial decisions being made by the networking about which students get put on TV H. And also you have these upcoming marches which they're saying is going to be like the Women's March, These upcoming marches that have received money, I think did they get money from Oprah and Cluney too? I think so.

So now we're in that phase of this where they're gonna Now now they've got em talking about it and we're all focused on it, they want to move into the part of this where they can't hide entirely that anti gun groups are very much involved in this whole thing. That adults who have raised money, who have a political agenda are involved in the organization, behind the scenes and all that other stuff. This is the beginning of us coming to that realization, which you and I have known

now for a couple of days, but maybe longer. It wasn't okay to say it until now. Oh you're you're you're undermining their message. You know, you're I've seen a few people that are because someone somewhere said something nasty about one of these kids. Now, any conservative that questions the message comes under fire. I also know that there was a a video I forget the name of the you never the name of the guy he went into buy an A R fifteen, and it went totally viral.

And in fact, one of the students from the Parkland High School who was at the Trump listening session in the White House mentioned because I was watching it before we came under mentions mentioned this activists, you know, anti gun activists, who went into a store, a gun store in Florida and he says, you know, I haven't expired, I d and I'm twenty and I bought in an A R fifteen in five minutes or something like that. You know what I'm talking about. That this got a

lot of play. Um uh, it's got a lot of play. And here's the problem with it. He didn't buy the gun. I mean he walked in I was able to see and unloaded, you know, a R fifteen, and they looked at his idea, you know, they looked at his I D. But they didn't process any paperwork, they didn't do a background check. Nothing happened. He didn't walk out of there with a rifle. But the story became I could go in there as a twenty year old with with an I D that's expired, not fake, and buy a rifle

in five minutes. This is not what happens. Not true. He didn't go through the background check. He didn't. He didn't actually buy it, and the press were running around with well it doesn't matter, right, It just shows you how easy it would be had he tried to buy it. I'm like, well, there's a pretty big difference here. It's

a pretty big difference. If somebody walks into a liquor store, let's say, and they're underage, and they walk around and they look and they see some peach snaps, and they see some soco and lime and you know all that other stuff that I used to drink when I was in college. Not really. Peach snaps with the other stuff and they walk and they look around and they and they say, you know, hey, you've got a great selection

of alcohol here. And then they walk out and say I could have bought booze in two minutes in there, or they said I bought booze in two minutes. You'd say, well, no, you didn't. You didn't actually purchase it. You didn't go through the process here, and that's a lie. That's just not true. You did not purchase They did not check your I D which they probably would have rejected. But the narrative is too important for facts to get in the way. That's what it really all comes down to.

Jake in Hawaii, what's up, Jake? Fuck? Wow, it's really cool to be uh thought into you. Um So, first of all, I love your show. I'm not oss but pretty close, and uh yeah, it's a great show, all right. So the reason I wanted to call in though, is, uh so, I'm listen. I'm a podcast listener. I'm listening to the Yesterdays and you're you're talking about the reasons why you think there's so many of these kids are on the news right now and uh, and I do

think you're you're right that um there. You know, maybe somebody's kind of pushing that agenda. But I mean, I've got little kids, and I think little kids are the same as the old kids. The thing that kids want more than anything is attention. And so somebody has given him a microphone and put them in front of a camera. And and so you somebody, you know, one kid sees somebody get put in front of a microphone. Well now they've got a big opinion that they want to share

it too. I think it's we're just sort of getting them fired up because it gets some attention. I mean, look, I I don't I I understand what you're saying, Jacob. I would just say that I don't want to automatically out of hand, you know, in Pune, the earnestness or the motives of any of the kids who are speaking out of you know, look, they're not only allowed to share their opinions. I understand why they would want to.

That said, if somebody says that the n r A is full of child murderers, I have a problem with that. I don't care what's happened to them, right, I don't care what their backstory is that's not a true statement, that's not a fair statement, that's not something that should go unchallenged. And you've seen that the media has given

a particular amount of attention and platform. I should say to those who take that approach, right, who take the scorched earth, there's one side here that's good, the gun controllers, and there's one side that's evil, the Second Amendment crowd, and that that's not helpful. It's it's a distortion. And also, you know, when you really look at all this stuff, yeah, I mean, I think that we're not hearing from the full spectrum of opinions. And you've got these organizations, these

anti gun organizations that are behind this stuff. How much we don't know yet, but we'll find out more and more. This was that they swooped in and were very much involved in choreographing some of these marches and everything else. There's just no way. And then why why do we see the Washington Post writing the story today? Yeah, you know that the students are in the lead, but they're actually established groups that are involved here too. We weren't

hearing that yesterday. It was just the students. Yeah, the organized port portion of it. I couldn't agree with you more. And uh. And the thing that I don't I don't know if the other side realizes, is that the more that you, you uh, project bad intentions on someone who doesn't have bad intentions, the more you sort of infuriate, infuriate that group of people and that person because you know,

we don't we don't want kids to get shot. I mean, legal, lawful, responsible gun owners are the people you want protecting your kid, not the ones you want to take guns away from. Yeah, and you know, and events set a thousand times. Lawbreakers don't care about laws against guns. They're going to figure

out a way to get them. But the way that they impugne you or whatever it is that you believe in, it's a detailed belief and then they throw it in your face and say that that actually makes you that person. The more that happens, the more it creates this animosity in it in any way. I don't know about you, but driving me crazy now. And look, I appreciate you

calling in Jake from Hawaii, Thank you. Uh, And I just say that, yeah, without any good faith in the discussion, it just breaks down into uh, it just breaks down into a nastiness and it doesn't go anywhere. And if one side is really going to keep saying that the other side doesn't care about dead kids, which is a common refrain and the left, this is going nowhere. Um, I want to we'll talk about this clearance issue, with this feud in the White House. I don't know how

much you guys care about that or not. I'm seeing a lot of news coverage of it. I could offer maybe some insight on it from the perspective of somebody who's had actually, uh, you know, top secret clearance, So maybe we could talk about that for a little bit. After this, we will get Selina Zito on the line in just a little bit, which we'll talk to us about the jerrymandering situation in Pennsylvania and how that has implications for the midterms and the rest of the country.

And uh, I'm gonna tell you a nice story in the third hour through some roll call. It's gonna be fun, So stay with me and we'll be right back. I was gonna talk about cleanerance issues in the White House. I don't know who cares. It's not really that big a deal. I don't know. The media seems to care more than I do. Uh. I thought it'd be more fun to do a buck slap. Y. Yeah, we should probably get like a non karate chop noise for that one.

But I've actually started to embrace the old school karate karate South Also, we really think about a karate chop, not a not a particularly effective you know, it used to be in movies like the guy would do the karate chop and if you hit the person in the right place, they'd like pass out. False, It's not how

it goes I've seen. I've seen my fair share of fights, and uh, I have never seen somebody pull the karate chop at exactly the right time and make the other guy just yeah, like the vulcan isn't the vulcan grip or whatever? Yeah, doesn't really doesn't really work that way, But up up for a buck slop? Are we gotta get into this now first? Just because it's fun. Uh See Nancy Pelosi, she got she got heckled a little bit, and I just want to play it because I enjoy

the heckling of Pelosi. I really didn't intend, never intended one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth while others live in abject, deadening poverty. Most people have to struggle to make make ends meet. So now we're not talking about that. So in any event, I don't know if you can hear about there. But somebody at the back of the meeting, Pelosi's droning on about the usual. You know, people are subtract thing and I want to

have that everything else. Someone's like, you know, Nancy, how much do you really ever she really care about the working folks? You know, what are you? What are you worth? Nancy? It's just a little to preachy. Look, I know there are a lot of wealthy politicians on both sides. Everyone says they care about the working folks because most folks have to work. So that's a smart thing to do if you want to be a politician who gets votes.

But Pelosi is a particularly odious private jet progressive. I mean, she is among the if you're gonna talk about limousine limousine liberals, Pelosi's limousine has got like a hot tub in it. I mean it's really also with like the the neon lights, you know, like on the undercarriage, the purple neon and the hot tub. That's her limousine liberalness. But she's also got some policy proposals. As she once said,

he is a master legislator. A master legislator, I believe, was the the the particular term of art that she used to describe herself, which was none too humble of her. I was, wow, Nancy, that's how she decided to go with that. She what was the context of the other It just I don't even know. I just I love the sound bites. I wanted to play it. But with the mowing the grass, Where was this that she decided to talk about this? I'm not just actly sure where she was, but was in the context of it was

it was immigration alright, immigration alright? So she got she's got a new idea to help on the issue of immigration. This idea is worthy of a buck slab. And here it is like, let's talk about where that a more serious structure might be necessary, where fencing will do. We're mowing the grass so that people can't be smuggled through the grass, and that's something levies technology personnel. You guys

all catch that. I mean, I guess maybe there's I don't know, I don't know what she meant there, but it's kind of funny, you know, mow the grass so that illegals can't sneak through the grass. I don't know how how she thinks that really goes. But that's gonna be some really tall grass, and you're gonna have to use a really big more for the Southern Porter if you're going to prevent people from sneaking in the country because of that one. But there, that's that's Pelosi for you.

So she's in for a bucks last and she's not the only one. Uh, there's others as well. On here. Oh I didn't I was gonna get to Michael Moore, but I guess that was yesterday over at MSNBC. That's right, MSNBC. This is what she's a former Republican strategist or something. Does she wh does she work for the Bush White House? I forget what she did. Nicole Wallace over there, here's here's her nugget of wisdom over at MSNBC on Obama

versus Trump when it comes to the media. I guess one of the differences between UM any any stipulated UM lack of of fulsomeness in the Obama era response was it didn't have a network. UM distorting the truth for it, Donald Trump, does Fox News existed as an echo chamber for the politicians they supported. You don't have the politician himself echoing the echo chamber. So it's I don't know what you call it, stereo in in in three for

it could not be more ironic. It couldn't be any funnier then a conservative who's been or actions to conserve a former Republican who's been brought over to MSNBC to bash the current Republican administration talking about the echo chamber effect of Fox versus Oh, nothing else like that exists, She says, Oh, hold on a second, I'm pretty sure MSNBC was effectively state news for all eight years of

the obaministration. In fact, their numbers, their ratings dropped considerably because they were so uh in the tank for Obama. They were so willing to bend over backwards and do any of the obamais ration that even people on the left we're like, oh, gosh, stop too much, too much with the hugging and the p d A, and you know, there's too much and that's what was going on over there.

So there's a lack of self awareness that is pervasive in in the media about why we just don't want to hear it when it comes to how it was better or more transparent under the obamabistration or any of that stuff we've got. Oh, I do have some additional Winter Olympics thoughts that I wanted to share with you my my follow up to my little screen about the Winter Olympics from yesterday. Selena Zito will be joining. She can talk about jerry mandering. Is gonna be fascinating. Stay

for that. Hey, all right, welcome to our three of the buck Sucks and show everybody. We will be joined by Selena Zito here shortly. She'll be talking to us about should be talking to us about what's going on with redistricting, which doesn't sound necessarily like, oh wow, redistricting, but actually it could be the difference between control of the House for the Republicans and the loss of the House. It has implications across the whole country. So it's one

of those things that's really important. Even though it's not a shouting match with a dumb Hollywood celebrity, we don't we can all just kind of laugh at them, right, This is actually something that's down in the policy reads a little bit. We will have Selina joining because Pennsylvania is becoming a bell weather. It is a bell weather for how this is all going to shake out. And there's the country. You also have a special election coming

up there. We'll get to that. I just had some other thoughts I want to throw in here, like, for example, I'm not the only one who is, let's just say, not deeply impressed by the whole Winter Olympics thing. There was a piece up on that was this PJ media

that I found that I found particularly of music. It tells you about how you know some of these sports it's really not that impressive when you look at the background and what's going on here with some of them, right, I know, downhill skiing is incredible and super competitive and all this stuff, But you know, I've always looked at, for example, the guys who are on the ice luge, and I'm like, I know there's I'm sure that there's

you know, talent and ability here. And this is where someone's gonna yell at me for comparing it to being a race car driver. But being a race car driver is an incredible skill, but I don't know if it is an athletics skill. Because what are you saying now, I'm saying, like you could bob slid like that, I could be up. I could do a bob slid, all right, And that's not saying much when you look at some of this stuff. I'm not trying to hate on the Winter Olympics. I'm just trying to keep it real when

you look at some of this stuff you have. For example, for example, and this is pointed out p J Media's piece here, German Madrazo, who is across country skier from Mexico and German from Mexico, finished dead last a hundred and fifteen out of a hundred and fifteen. But he took up skiing. Let's just be clear. He took up skiing. He's forty three years old, he started skiing last year,

and he's in the Olympics now. I people, you can tell me as much as you want that it requires all this skill and everything else, but I can't even tell you about this from my own experience. So you know, when I when I was in college, what they used to like to do, or they would pick up all the walk on athletes or people that were gonna walk onto sports that weren't recruited, they wanted to pick them up for either crew or or rugby. Now, crew was

competing at the intercollegiate level. Rugby did, but also I think rugby was was a lot of it was in her mural. So it was did you want to get up at five o'clock in the morning or did you want to have some two pound dude squashing you and like stabbing you through the heart with his cleats. Uh, you know that was kind of the that was the

choice that you had. But the truth is that neither of those sports at the college level required much more than basic basic athletic ability and willingness to endure pain of different kinds. And I'm somebody who wrote cruise, I can tell you that's what crewis. Just it's it's endurance,

but not just like physical endurance. It's you've gotta get up at four thirty in the morning and you gotta get out there, and it's freezing cold, and you're you chew up your hands on the wooden oar, and if you wear gloves you get made fun of so much you're not allowed to wear gloves. So there's like there's some stuff that goes into it that has nothing to do with being a good athlete. It's just do you want to do this? So this is kind of how

I feel about the you know, winner limit. Whereas, for example, the you know, the amerst basketball team, there were guys who are trying out, who are walk on. Never mind, the recruits were like really good and they were way more really good basketball players than there were slots on the team, many of whom had played at a high level in high school, etcetera, etcetera. You know. It's whereas in rugby was like do you like to run people over? Yeah, that's right. I didn't like Yeah, rugby. I wasn't a

fan of rugby folks. Really, I'm just gonna be honest with you. The Crew people were a little like we wrote Crew, you know, there's some of that going on. But rugby was all like we ran out of keg bis, so now we're going to run over each other. It was a lot of that. Rugby was unimpressive at amirs. I'm just saying, uh anyway, but with this Winter Olympic stuff, I look at it and I see some of these sports, I'm like, you know, how good do you really have

to be? Just saying if you could pick up a sport for the first time and make it to the Olympics. There's really only a couple of options here. One, you're competing from a country where potentially not all countries qualify, right, So that's the thing, Right, So you're competing in a country to begin with, though, where there's not a lot of competition and a lot of folks trying to do it. You know, at some point, being the best bullfighter in Alaska,

for example, would not be all that impressive. I think we could say that it is in fact possible that if I were to study bullfighting in Spain or Mexico and then go up to Alaska, I may be the most talented bullfighter in Alaska. But that wouldn't mean that I was a good bullfighter. Also, by the way, I'm very opposed to bullfighting. I think it's gross. But that's a whole other discussion. Uh, this is kind of how

I feel about somebod these winter winter Olympic sports. The competition is just not the same as it as for other things. If you're the fastest human being on land on the planet, that's incredible, right, And if you're even close to one of the fastest human because everybody can run, I mean pretty much right, everybody is able to you know, is able to do some form of UH track and field sport in one way or another. And so if

you're the fastest, that's really really impressive. But if you're the best person at getting into a kind of year snow space shuttle like thing and going real fast down a hill, aren't you kind of just the best letter

among the people that are using sleds. I know that this is sacrilege to some people and they would yell at me and win or you know, but I just the moment you introduce that you need to have snow and elevation for a sport to to go on, you're cutting out like a huge, popular, huge part of the world population. There's a reason why if you're in one of the most competitive soccer leagues on the planet, and

a lot of you are like boo soccer. But I'm just saying it's because kids whether they are in the UH you know, in the the inner city of Guadalajara, all the way out to Spain, Italy to Germany, China to Japan. I mean, you know, they can play soccer anywhere all across the African content. They can play soccer anywhere, So if you're really good at it, it it means you're

better than a whole lot of people. I feel with some of this Winter Olympics stuff, I'm just saying there's some of these sports where it's like, well, do you want to do it? Because if you want to do it, you're already like top five hundred in the world. You know, this is this is uh. This kind of reminds me of a guy that I work with some years ago who used to tell me that, you know, he was a professional lacrosse player, and I was like, how can

you be a professional lacrosse player? We we work together, and he's like, well, you know, it's it's like a it's a part time thing. And I'm like, well, is that the only league. Who's yeah, yeah, it's the only it's the only professional across Because I said, it's so you're a professional in that this is not your full time job. I feel like that's saying something about the level of interest and competition in lacrosse across the across

the country. I think that's telling us something. I think the market is speaking there in some way, and that factor is into then why is it that a professional across player maybe makes I don't know, I have no idea, but a salary that a person makes to do another kind a job, whereas if you're a baseball, basketball, football, et cetera player, you're making crazy money at the professional level. It has to do at some levels supply and demand. Yes, the the audience sets supply to mend with what they

want to see, but also the athletes. You know, this is what I'm saying. You know, this is also how they try to game the system with college admissions. People say that I want my kid to learn the obo because I want them to get into the school of their dreams. Nobody really wants to play the obo, But if you play the violin, there are other people that are gonna be playing the violin. If you play the obo,

they're like, oh my gosh, we have an obo player. Like, you know, you might be the best oboist, and you know, best oboist in southern Louisiana. All actually, Louisiana's got great music, so that wouldn't be easy. But you know what I mean, you might be the best oboist and northern South Dakota, you know, I mean, it probably wouldn't be that hard. I don't know how many oboists are running around up there. So this is this is kind of my feeling about

the Winter Olympic. Others are noticing it too. Yes, I know, come at me, you can tell me I'm wrong, But I just think that it's it's not the same as the Olympics, where it's incredible feats of strength and skill and speed on land. All right, I'm just saying that's my thought. That's the last I'm gonna say about the Wind Olympics. I promised. We've got Selena Zito on some

politics coming up now, stay with me. You know, we're already thinking about the mid terms, but we are seeing some things in the political landscape shift in advance of those mid terms, particularly in Pennsylvania, which right now is at the heart of fights over jerrymandering. There's also a special election coming up there. This has given us a sense of what to expect going forward, and a whole

bunch of other congressional races has national implications. But let's drill down into the Pennsylvania political scene for a moment so we can understand those lessons. To do it, We've got Selena Zito with us now. She is a national political reporter. Selena, great to have you back. Thanks so much for having me. So tell me about, first off, the jerrymandering situation in Pennsylvania, which which has gotten pretty

gotten pretty interesting. Yeah. So, about to two and a half weeks ago, the State Supreme Court UH ruled that the the redistricting, the jereman daring done here in Pennsylvania in two thousand eleven after the two census was was They said it was constitutional, unconstitutional because it's partisans Well,

by definition, jerrymandering is partisan. But anyways, so through a fight back and forth, as the state constitution or the state Supreme Court said that the state, the state legislature, which is majority Republican, had to redraw a map and have it approved by a Democratic governor. Tom Wolf, Well, that's not gonna happen. They can't even do a budget every year, let alone agree on a map. And it's

been you know, just a span of days now. But so that you will understand what the court system, state Supreme court system is like here in Pennsylvania. It is elected and it is partisan. And in two thousand and fifteen, the Republicans did not have their eyes on the ball in the state. Despite being flushed with money, the National Party did not invest in the State Supreme Court um elections,

which I found. I remember writing about it at the time, thinking this is really foolish, because you know is the redistrict gen will come up in twenty one. Nonetheless, they didn't invest. Democrats invested heavily. The Trial Lawyers Association and the unions spent millions and millions of dollars double digit at Democrats one. So this is a partisan court. The

parties of court made the decision. And now they because both the state legislative body which they directed to draw the map, and the governor could not decide and or agree on the map that the Republicans gave the figure um of the States Supreme Court, which is Democrat, drew their own map, and shockingly, they drew a partisan map, the exact opposite of what their ruling said, which was to draw a non partisan that they put the thumb

on the scale. The district's now favor the Democrats, and it gives the um Democrats a a larger than fifty percent chance of at least splitting the eighteen congressional seat majority if not perhaps winning it. Now, why does this matter anywhere else outside of Pennsylvania, Well, for a couple of reasons. First of all, this is a really creepy precedent.

And I I don't usually weigh down heavy on on on partisan thing, but this is really bad to have the courts decide um to get into politics in this way. It's just it's just really bad. And and second of all, Pennsylvania is a bell weather for this for this country. So, as I've written this several times, over as goes Pennsylvania, so goes the best the rest of the country. So the impact of the Republicans losing possibly eight seats in this state could impact the majority in the House for

the Republicans. Speaking of Selena Zito, she is a columnist for the DC Examiner and the New York Post, also senn contributor. Tell me what is this? Uh? What is this going to tell us? You think, Selena, about what the Democrat plans are for jerrymandering elsewhere? I mean, is it just going to go into the courts? Then? How is this supposed to because what is a non partisan juryman or? I don't really understand how this is supposed to work. Right. I mean, by definition, to the winners

go the spoils. I mean, if you win the state legislative racists in the year before a census, it is your turn. You have earned the right through winning to draw the lines. We have done this since for over two hundred and forty years. It's not like we just started doing this. And for four years the Democrats had the power in doing this. They held the state legislative majorities in almost every state from from f DR up until the late nineties. It just started to flip in

in this century. Uh and and as of two thousand and nine, the Republicans held the majority of state legislative bodies across the country, which meant they held the majorities of um uh the or they held the ability to redraw the line. There are Democrats in frustration, unable to win down ballance seats, have um have taken to the courts. If there's successful in Pennsylvania in doing this, Katie har um bar the door. This is going to happen everywhere.

What can you tell us about the upcoming special election in Pennsylvania that gets a little copy, So the state legist state um special or the House special election in Pennsylvania in the district that I live in is to

replace um uh Congressman Kim Murphy. He left in a bit of a scandal UH in in October, and the two candidates, Connor Lamb and Rix con Democrat and Republicans, they have been redistricted out of the seat that they'll be running for, so they will no longer be in the district UH come November after the election, or I'm sorry, come come March thirteenth, that district will cease to exist. So sort of takes the wind out of the sale

of this election because it doesn't really matter. Neither man will live in that district they have been the Democrats placed the Democrats and mcconnor Lamb into a much more favorable district for him, and they placed Rick Scone in a horribly unfavorable district for him, placing him in the city of Pittsburgh. It actually should be the opposite. Um Lamb should actually be in the city of Pittsburgh. But there's another Democrat there, so you know which, how does it?

How can they be how can they be German and outside the district? What does this mean? Again? Just so I'm trying to follow this right, it's so goofy. So the special election is March eighteen, but by the I'm sorry, March thirteenth, but they that that district will no longer exist any more. Are It's done, It's gone. So whoever wins that special election, what happens to them? Well, well,

they'll hold that seat until November. But you know that beings, both of them have to go out not not only do I have to do get out the vote um effort, they also have to do petitioning in a district they don't live in anymore, or don't live in yet. So I see, so they're gonna be interim congress whoever wins will be an interim congressman for not very long. And oh, by the way, all their efforts will be in a district that they will not then be running for the

next time around. It's like it's like they're switching schools and they can't transfer all their credits over right. It's it's it's a terrible decision. And can I just reinforce the fact that this really creeps me out? But the courts have gotten involved in this, I just I just find it fundamentally wrong. Yeah, because it shows an obvious partisan hand from the judicial side of things, which is

always that should always make us uncomfortable. And it's one thing for Congress to have a winner, to take winner, take all of you of of what's going to be a partisan and somewhat arbitrary process anyway, But for judges to get involved, it's like, oh, so, what kind of judge are you? Yeah, it's really it's it's just completely unnerving. I really don't like the precedents this sets, and I don't care who holds power. I don't care if it

was helping the Republicans in this stake. I just think it's a wrong direction for us to go and and I never like governing by this by the corps. Selena Zito, everybody read her ladies at the Washington Examine or the New York Post, check her out on CNN. Selna, thank you as always for making the time great to talk to you. Thanks so much for having me, Dame. We're going to roll into a quick break and we come back. I'm gonna just tell you a story because that'll be fun.

You know. Occasionally, even though I'm deep behind liberal lines here in New York City, once in a while I find myself getting to bump into a member of Team Buck out there, I get to chat with one of the one of the our own. Usually it starts as I passed on the street. You know, somebody will be like, hey, that's everyone just says hey, you know, once in a while the yell Buck, which I always really appreciate to.

But hey, it's fine because you know, I'm a roughly six ft tall, five eleven and three quarters, uh, white dude with a side part brown hair. New York City. I'm not exactly you know, uh standing out from the crowd necessarily, especially walking in the the dense thicket of

humanity that is New York City. But last night I was on my way home from the show and it was a great show obviously because that's the only kind of show we have here in the Freedom Hunt, and the guys walking past me and he pointed at me and he goes TV Guy, and I was kind of like, you know, I was on my way home, and you know, you know, I gave him, I gave him the friendly wave smile, right, but but still walking because you never know if in New York City, TV Guy is going

to turn into TV guy. I hate what you stand for jerk blah blah blah. You know what I mean? Like you you never know, uh that hasn't knock on would really happen in New York. I've gotten some people. There was a guy on the subway once who was like, uh, he had seen me on CNN and he started off with you know you make you make very very good arguments on TV. And I said, well, thank you, and then he said, but all of your arguments are wrong, and then he started asking me why do you think

this and why? And I'm like stuck on the subway, I was really crowded, like, uh, I don't know about this. I didn't really sign up for this subway ride. So anyway, I passed this guy on the street last night and uh, you know, it's happened to be a a really warm night in New York City as it is today, it's gorgeous. I'm walking around in a T shirt today here in New York, which for February is pretty great. I think it's gonna start getting cold and raining in a day.

But nonetheless, you can just tell everyone's in a better mood. It's kind of amazing to think about it. We're ah, yes, it's human beings. We are simple creatures. If we have great weather out of nowhere all of a sudden, we're like, I like the world. Things are good, things are okay after all. And I so I stopped and this guy and he's like, he's like Fox News, right, And so I realized, all right, this guy kind of wants to chat. So I kind of turned around and he extended his hand.

He kind of walked towards the extended hand to shake my hand, and I was like, all right, you know, this is a friendly gesture. You know, I'm gonna watch what his other hands doing. You know, it's a friendly gesture. So he shook my He's actually the guy turned out to be really nice and he he says, you know, I'm a I'm a Democrat. So he told me that, which is all right. You know, it's just let me

know what I'm dealing with. I appreciate that He's like, I'm a Democrat, and I just want to say that I saw you a few times on CNN in and I thought this is really interesting to hear from a democratic perspective. He's like, those those guys were being really unfair to you, were trying to ambush you, and and once or twice I really saw you like slice and dice them, even though they were clearly coming at you. And he's like, and they came at you for no reason.

I was like, yeah, that's how it happens over there. That's the that's the way it goes. And he's like, well, you did a really good job. And he's like, and you know what, as a matter of fact, just you know, I happened to be the manager of a very swanky nightclub in New York City. He's like, do you have

a girlfriend? I said yes, in fact I do. Says, well, anytime you would like to come by the very swanky nightclub, you are invited here, and he gave me his card and I was like, look at this hook up for the Freedom Hunt. This never happens in New York City. I told him. I told Miss Molly. I texted her. I was like, hey, honey, guess what happened. And then I wrote I'm a cool cat and I I sure were back, Yeah so hip, and I'm like see and then she went back I was being sarcastic, um, but yeah,

so it was. It was a nice It was a nice little exchange so that happened. I got I got that going for me, which is nice. You know, you never know people in New York they'll uh will surprise you. You know, there's there's a lot of nice folks here. This gentleman was very was very friendly, very kind. Will you actually get me into a nightclub if I ever call him? I don't know. Will I be the oldest

dude in there? Actually tell you the truth? In New York City nightclubs, there's a lot of finance guys in their forties who are trying to go on dates with girls in their mid twenties. There's a lot of that. And by forties, I mean fifties and sixties too. But that's a pretty standard dynamic you'll see out at the swanky nightclubs here in New York City. I haven't really been out like that to a nightclub where it's like I haven't been to one of those places. Oh my gosh,

I don't even know. It's been years, man, it's been years. Like early thirties. I started to check out of that and I was never into that scene. But I definitely am not somebody who could tell you what the the coolest places to go are. I always like that SNL character Stephen with I can't do a good impression of it. But with the different nightclubs, New York's Hottest club is and then he would do all the weird stuff. I definitely am not up on what the cool places to

go are. Producer Mike is And and Brandon Brandon can tell me where all the all the tunes are, but I do not know these things. I am somebody who really enjoys quiet time, which is pretty much the exact opposite of nightclub time nightclub very loud. And I realized also as a as a youth out on the scene, I realized that nightclubs nullified one of my you know, I'm not. I wasn't a guy that could walk up to the lady and just expected to talk to him

because I was so dashing and well dressed at everything. No, I usually need to say something self deprecating, a little funny maybe, and you're going to use use a little wit, maybe a little buck wisdom on the fly. And a nightclub, there's no way to be cool when you have to get so close to somebody that you're yelling in her ear. It's like, are you having a good night, and it does a thing where it tickles the inside of her ear drumlow but not in a good way, you know,

And then she yells back to you. It's like, why are you talking to me? I don't know you. It's amazing to me. It's really the worst possible environment two meet people. It's the worst place to try and meet people. And and there's this whole industry. You know, these clubs make millions of dollars. Not so much anymore. I feel like the internet and apps have really changed this scene. But it used to be they would sell here in New York City and then they do this. They replicated

this model. Obviously they had an in l A, but now it's in every city across the country. They got the nightclub. They sell you a bottle of vodka that costs like four or five bucks to them wholesale. They sell it to you for literally five bucks. That's like baseline. And but they're selling you real estate. So then you get to sit at a little table and you get

to look cool. And the whole idea is that you're really buying social status at the nightclub so that you can bring women over to sit at your tiny and when I mean tiny, I mean like it looks like a table for toddlers. Like it's a really small little table, and you've got your eight hundred dollar bottle of Absolute vodka, which you all know it is not a steel, that is not a good value for you. And then you're supposed to be like, hey, yeah, sure, calm do my

t It's the whole thing. I mean, I've I've been there before, I've been through it. I've I am a veteran of the New York City, uh nightclub scene, but well in small doses, only a few times. But I will go, I'll go check this place out because it's cool and uh, you know, Ms Molly, I want to. I want her to know that I'm a hip I'm a hip cat, daddio, I'm hip. So uh that's that's my plan with with all that. I'm not somebody though, who usually likes to find the place that's loud. I'm

actually people are always amazed that I'll do this. I actually did this. Uh you know Sean Parnell and I you guys know from the show we're out grabbing, grabbing beers after the show. What was it last week or the week before and we're in a place. It just happened really loud. There were a lot of people in there, and I just asked. It was like, hey, you know, can you guys just maybe like turn them it's super loud in here for no reason. There's no one like

can we turn the music down a little bit? They're like, yeah, I think we could probably do that, and Sharon's like really like yeah, asking did so. If I can't talk to you, dude, and you're sitting right across the table from me, what are we doing here? Dwo dudes trying to talk about freedom in America? I don't want to be yelling across the table. So I'm that guy. I will even if I'm the only person at the borrow. Though.

This has got me into trouble. I've been like, hey, that giant flat screen that you've got like right next to my face? Do we really need that on? I will tell you that the bar owner tends to not I tend to not get my way with that one. I've gotten, uh gotten told once or twice. Any buddy, why don't you why don't you check yourself before you wreck yourself? But you know, hey, you don't ask, you don't get you know, you know, the customer is not

always right, but the customer can always ask. It's had a nice little nice look exchange and we'll see how it goes. If I do venture out, I'll do kind of an after action report of bucking ms Molly out at a nightclub. Although also as a guy who's got a very serious lady in his life. You know what, what do you even doing a nightclub? Most of it, I feel like for guys is to and you know, the girls are there to dance, and the guys are

there to be around girls who are dancing. For the most part, that's mine or that that's my understanding of the business model. But it's been a while and I'm getting a little old for this stuff, so let you know how it goes. Oh, I didn't even get to some role calls. So why don't we do some role call coming up right after the break? All right, it's that time in the hut when we get to hear from all of you, which is a great way to top things off and close things out. Closing Tom on

the Bucks acton show. I know that was not in key, but that's all right, It's all right. Producer Mike I'm getting better, all right. If I don't, if I don't share my music with people, they'll never know I don't show them my creative side. People are changing the dial right now. Okay, let's get to it. We've got roll call. Pardon me there, it's time for roll call. Uh So, first up on the roll we'll go to some of the emails roll call emails, because usually we go mostly

to the Facebook stuff. But I want to mix it up. If you want to write us an email, official Team Buck at gmail dot com, thoughts, comments, questions, suggestions, uh sonnets, any kind of rhyming verse. Actually, we love that stuff and just just keep it clean. That's the only that's the only real proviso, because Mike gets to read them first, and producer Mike, we don't want to. We don't want to scar his his psyche with meme comments that are meant for me, but he'll see them first and he'll

feel bad for me. So be nice because on Mike's behalf. All right, we have first here. Uh we got Alex Alex from South Carolina. Here he writes, Hey, Buck, my father and I are both original Saturday Squad. That's O s S. He is a Navy veteran and I uh and we are both active duty. My wife and I rather are both active duty. Thank you for being one of the few hobs to talk about the abhorrent budget deal. But unfortunately is much worse than just a deficit increase.

An increase in military spending is not more money than the troops. And instead we'll just mostly go to contractors. Since there'll be a rush to incorporate that budget increase with little negotiations and more profit uh, we will instead get very little for this trillion dollar increase. Thanks and shields high from Alex Wallox. Thank you very much. And I can't say that I know that much about the specifics of d D and military budgeting, only what I would know from being a pundit who reads a lot

of stuff. I've never been a part of that process, but I I believe it, man. I mean, there's the amount of waste in the government. I did tell you guys that there had never been until now a full audit of the military's budget until this year, and it's gonna cost like tens of millions of dollars. They've never done it before. That's that's pretty crazy. You think about it like now we don't need to We didn't audit the budget of the military, Well, we want to do that.

I want to know how we're spending money. Wouldn't work for a private company, probably shouldn't work for the military either. We should probably know where the money's going. But all right, here we go. Next up is Carrie Shield tie Buck. I enjoy your radio show very much, especially when you do your Hillary voice that happens to sound exactly what

I imagine her voice sounds like it does. I just wanted to say that from time to time, I can remember I was told constantly that anyone could grow up to be president, and I believe that my whole life, and Donald Trump just proved it. Proved it. I can't begin to express how much I've thoroughly enjoyed every single second of the Trump presidency. I'm so thankful to Trump for having the willingness to take them all on and win. I feel like even the people that weren't too keen

in him are impressed. Take care, Buck, and remember, Miss Molly is always right, Carrie. We'll carry You're absolutely correct. Miss Molly is always right. And yes, I am impressed with Trump as well. I think it has gone very very is it has gone? It's been great so far. I can say that. Next, we got some Oh, Anthony wants to share share some Netflix suggestions. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. You guys know this one. I am unfamiliar. Really great

art deco and quite entertaining. I've never even heard of that. Ms Fisher's motor mries. I have no idea what that is. If you have Amazon pri the marvelous Mrs Maisie. Yeah, I watched that. It was good. Um and I'm original Saturday Squad. And if you ever if I could ever give you computer help, just ask all right, Anthony, thank you so much. I appreciate that, buddy. That is very kind of you. And with that, I think, yep, we'll go into some of the Facebook now. Now, now we

get into the Facebook stuff. We have Chris up first here politicians. Oh and if you want to send me something Facebook dot com slash buck Sexton, Chris writes politicians. And now the high school students keep calling for common sense gun laws. I've tried searching for what these might be, but I can't really find a clear answer. Could you briefly discussed during tonight's show what they mean by common

sense gun laws? Well, Chris, I hope you've gotten what I mean, or what they mean and how I analyze what they mean from recent shows. Obviously, we've only got a couple of minutes here before I've got a close up shop for the night, so I won't get into too much more about the gun control issue right now.

But it's not going away anywhere. This is this has become the focal point of the left's organizing efforts, of their get out the vote efforts that are gonna come out for the mid terms, all that stuff, right, this is gonna be the center of political gravity. Well, the vote stuff is early, but you know what I mean. This is they're raising money off of this and uh they're they're planning to use this as much as they

possibly can. Uh. So, thank you though very much. Uh, Levi, You've probably been asked a thousand times, but are there going to be any more podcasts of Shields High? The work you've done on Shieldsy is really spot all on. I like what you have to say in your history is right on. It's outstanding, and appreciate your hard work. Levi. Thank you so much. Yeah, I'm gonna do it. You know why I'm gonna do because I love all of you.

Because right now, it's just a labor of love. There is no it's just a it's just something that I do. Right We're not h We would love to get a sponsor for her. By the way, if there's somebody out there who would like to sponsor the podcast, that would allow me to turn them out master, because I could devote time that I'm supposed to be devoted to the radio show in the day to day of preparation to

actually putting that podcast together. So if you're listening and you love history and you want to sponsor podcast, I know a guy, get you a get you a good price. But Shields High is is it's coming. There'll be more. Uh. And this is also, keep in mind, kind of a test run for what will eventually be a history series on the Barbary Wars. I think that's where I'm heading with all this, because I think you all enjoy that

very much. Uh. And now we have Joshua who rights Hey, buck, I don't see why we have to knuckle under and stay silent when the left screams, when kids are yelling that if you aren't for gun control, then you like child murder. Why do we have to just take it? Why doesn't the right respond with if you want gun control, you are allowing child murder by making schools gun free zones and disarming the only people who may be able to help. The point is we don't have to be

the silent majority. We could be the loud majority. And I'm not sure why the rights stays so silent. Shields high Josh, Well, Josh, hopefully, Uh. I'm part of of the not being silent side of all this. Hopefully, you know. We feel like the the other the counter message and the other part of the argument, other side of the argument gets out there. Certainly one of the things that I try to do here on the show, and I do find as you know, from listening to this show,

I find it really distasteful. I find it grotesque, but not surprising that this issue has now been it has been packaged and and formulated and weaponized as just a pure partisan play. It's really not about saving lives, it's really not about gun control. It's just about the left finding ways to bash the right with impunity. Are we gonna leave it there for today? My friends, back tomorrow. Shields high