Trump Forces The Left's Hand

Make no mistake American, You're a great American. Again. This is the buck Sexton Show. Analysts, I can speak for three hours without a phone call. Try doing that sometime. It is buck Sexton. No, this is a manufactured crisis because cruelty, because the cruelty is manufactured. This is a manufactured crisis because there is no need for us to do this. There's no need for us to overcrowd and

to detain and under resource. There is no need for us to arrest innocent people and treat them no differently than criminals when they are pursuing their basic human rights. Welcome to the buck Sexton Show. The efforts of the Democrats to make the crisis at the southern border that they denied until what feels like about five minutes ago, that they lied about for months and months. There's no crisis, no problem. Oh, it's just the asylum process plying out,

why are you so mean, Republicans. That's been the storyline. Now they can't ignore the numbers. Now, the facilities are overwhelmed, overflowing. Now it is clear that the systematic violation of our immigration laws is underway, and that Democrats have no interest in enforcement at any stage of this process anymore. They want to make it not a crime to cross illegal illegally. They want to make it not a crime to lie

in order to gain the asylum system. They want to make it not a crime to stay even if you don't get asylum. After you're hearing, at no point, at no point in this process, do they give us anything that indicates they really want to do what they have been saying for years they want to do, which is a secure the border. Okazio Cortez has become the spokesperson for this narrative on the left. She's become the most prominent of the Democrats to stand to stand in front

of us and browbeat us. The American people, because we're not doing enough for the people that have heard. Hey, here's the deal. Pay a trafficker to take you to the border with a kid, say you're fleeing violence even though you're not, and you'll be led into the United States, and then just don't show up for your hearing because they won't. And you're in America. You're home free, you're good to go. And we're not doing enough for those people,

you see. That's what that's what a Kasia Cortez is saying. And it's our fault. We didn't ask these people to show up. We didn't we didn't put out some call to hey, if you're from Central America, please flood the US Mexico border at various sectors. No, they're choosing to do this. They're choosing to exploit loopholes in our system. And we're the bad people. We're the bad guys. She also said that there's nothing criminal what they've done. That's

that's not true. Stepping onto US soil across the border, not at a point of entry, is a violation of criminal law. It's a crime because it is a serious enough offense against the Ed States government and its sovereignty that it has to be more than just a parking ticket. They are breaking the law when they do that. And you could say, oh, but that seems so harsh. All right, Well, if someone wants to go and just walk through your front law and every day that they're not hurting you, right,

they're not. They're not doing anything bad to you. They're just gonna walk across your lawn every morning. Why is that a problem. It's just a foot on grass, right, It's just a foot foot foot grass walking past you. They want to do it every day. That's not trespassing, that's just taking a shortcut. Oh you mean that. If we're going to live in a society with rules and laws, we have to enforce those laws. We can't just have them and say, well, we're not going to take any

of that. Seriously, why is it just why is it just the case that immigration law gets pushed to the side. Why do we not enforce laws about lying because we know that people come to the border and they say that they're fleeing gang violence, and then when they get into further detail, turns out that no, they're not fleeing gang violence. They're actually economic migrants. They just forgot to stay on message. If you lie to a federal law

enforcement officer, you're gonna go to prison. If you're an illegal alien, you lie, You're just a person fleeing a desperate circumstance. I mean, Central America is not in the midst of a massive famine or an ethnic cleansing or repressive political violence that's killing thousands and thousands of people. That that's not happening right now. So what is the

asylum claim really all about. They're getting ahead of people, by the way, who are claiming from other countries refugee status and have to go through a process in this country who are trying to who are fleeing persecution and violence. So they're skipping them in the line. And they're skipping millions of people that have been waiting for years and paid thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of dollars to come to the country illegally. They're all violating this process. Democrats

have no problem with this whatsoever. They see, They see no downside about this. They are now the pro illegal immigration party, as they say pro undocumented. They won't even say legal immigrant. It's too offensive, you see, to refer to these individuals by the legal designation of their conduct is somehow morally offensive to Democrats. You know, you're not You're not a tax cheat. You're just a delayed government funder.

We'll get the money from you at some point, but we just can't call you a tax cheat if you just refuse to ever pay your taxes. Right, delayed government funder. That sounds like fun to me. AOC, though, saw this as an opportunity to grandstand her favorite thing, get attention for herself. I mean, she does strike me as quite quite self obsessed and braddy, and I'm not the only one. I think Nancy Pelosi would probably agree with me these days.

She said, it's a manufactured crisis, not manufactured by us. What does she want poor to patrol to do. We didn't know that a million people over the course of this year we're going to show up and say that they have to claim asylum when they don't need asylum and they don't meet this asylum requirements. We did not know that. So it's our fault that we don't have

the facilities in place. I mean, if ten people show up at your house for dinner and you weren't expecting them, and you don't have enough food, to make them all feel like they were really getting a great meal. Is that your fault, because that's what this whole asylum process, folks,

is based on the goodheartedness of the American people. This is us as a political community saying, you know what, we are going to take in some people that you know, we need to be a beacon of light to the world, and we need to be a refuge for people that are fleeing oppression. Put in limited numbers, and people have to do it legally. But because of that, because the charity of the American people, because that's what this is, the charity is not indulgent enough for the likes of AOC.

We're bad people. Now, It's our fault. It's always our fault. People send their children to through coyotes, trafficking. God knows what's happening to these kids in the way they show up on a company, they show up alone to the board. It's our fault. It's all our fault. What about the Honduran government, About the government of El Salvador, What about

the Mexican government? Does does does anyone else ever get to say, you know, maybe we could get things together a little bit more here and be a little less dysfunctional as a country. I don't know's you can't say that it's always America's fault. I mean, AOC here doesn't mind at all demonizing border patrol, which is what she's doing, reminds me of what happened when it was convenient, when it

was politically convenient. Under the Obama administration, there were plenty of Democrats and public officials who would go forward and throw our cops, local law enforcement under the bus. Their racists, their systemic racism. Young black men need to be afraid of cops. These are all things that were being said. I was at the rallies covering them. I saw what I heard myself. What was being said. Pigs in a blanket,

fry him like bacon. Those were chants at rallies. Right when the left decides that it's good to rabble rows and mobilize for the cause, they'll say horrible things about cops, terrible things about law enforcement. Now I'm saying that about those who are involved in law enforcement at our border, namely customs and border patrol, immigrations and customs enforcement. AOC just slandering them, slandering them left and right. But does it while cloaking herself in the in the trappings of

the ultimate humanitarian, the only one who cares. Yes, she's the only one who carries about children. The border patrol members who were changing the diapers and feeding them and bringing them bottles and taking them to their doctor's appointments that are paid for by the taxpayer. By the way, the border patrol people doing all that, they're they're the

bad people. AOC who stands for these kids in her super emotional moment, that she's the real hero, not the people that are on the front lines taking care of them, making sure that they aren't in jeopardy, make sure they aren't sick, making sure they aren't being human traffic. They're not the people that we should be thankful. We should be thankful to AOC because you know she tweets about it and she voted against funding for them. Can we

just throw that in the mix for a second. The biggest problem they have is they don't have money for all the baby formula and the diapers and the food and the clothing and the soccer balls and the TVs and the other stuff that they need at these facilities. And there's an opportunity to get the money, and AOC goes no. She wants to make a point. She doesn't vote for it. As a member of Congress. The one thing, the power of the purse, what Congress has she votes

against giving them the money. And then we all realized what this is. It's all about her, It's all about grandstanding. But here you can hear the kind of stuff that she had to say today. When these women tell me that they were put into a cell and that their sink was not working, and we tested the sink ourselves and the sink was not working, and they were told to drink out of a toilet bowl, I believed them.

I believe these women, don't I believe the canker sores that I saw in their mouths because they were only allowed to be fed unnutritious food. I believed them. When they said they were sleeping on concrete floors for two months, I believed them. And what was worse about this, mister Chairman, was the fact that there were American flags hanging all over these facilities, That children being separated from their parents in front of an American flag, that women were being

called these names under an American flag. I'm not allowed for this I don't believe it border Patrol told women to drink out of toilet. I think that there's there are two options here. She as an AOC is lying or there might have been a miscommunication ooks. I've talked to Border Patrol about this. Even if you're a fluent Spanish speaker, particularly in Honduras, the dialect can be so different that it's very hard for fluent Spanish speakers to be able to communicate with some of the people from

the outlying villages of Honduras. So when you have a contraption that is both a toilet and the bottom and then at the top is water, does anyone think that it might have been possible that the women from Honduras that have showed up here may have misunderstood what Border Patrol told them instead of telling them to drink from a toilet, does anyone really think that they were told to drink from that A member of Border patrols, yeah,

drink from a toilet. They wouldn't say that. People that work in the worst prisons wouldn't say that the prison inmates. You're gonna tell me that, you think Border Patrol would just say that the women that are there with kids I'm sorry, I just it's not I can't tell. Oh, yeah, I wasn't there. It doesn't sound impossible, but doesn't doesn't wash for me at all. I don't buy it. And the whole thing about the canker stores and unnutritious food.

No one even knows what causes canker sores. Not to get into you Buck's Murk Manual of Health here, but canker stores, there's a whole there's like a hundred different theories for what they are, and they go away after a few days. So I don't know where she came up with that, but to me, that's just indicative of the fact that she's stretching to find. Oh look at the horrible conduct. Are they sleeping directly on concrete for

two months? Are they sleeping on a mattress on concrete if it's a mattress on concrete, Yeah, that's what a attention facility is going to be like. Is it supposed to be a hotel? What is the acceptable standard? I would like to ask the Democrats this too, based on everything we've seen. For members of Congress who have been down there, who are not pushing a political agenda, there is fresh water provided, food provided. I've seen the medical facilities.

We have DoD setting up medical facilities now at the border to help out with this what exactly you know? And it's so horrifying. You should see the people that show up. They know the whole scam. They show up. I've seen them do this. You know, Hey, I mean they're saying it in Spanish, but hey, I'm here, I want to I want to claim my asylum now. And then they basically order around border patrol like all right, let's you know, I'm hungry, get me a sandwich. This happens.

I'm not imagining this. I've been there. They've because they've all been told the routine by the Coyotes. They know what this is. And yeah, though they're making this trade off, you know why. Okay, maybe it's you know, it's not great to be in a detention facility for and two months is very rare these days. Usually it's a few days if you have if you have a kid with you, they're just processing you through. But that's really fast compared to the people that have waited years and years and

years in order to come to America. I legally, how many people would would take that trade off a few days of sleeping on a mattress on the floor and having unnutritious food, but medical care and you know, US government responsible for your upkeep in order to get into the United States forever and never have to go through the legal immigration process. I think a lot of people, I know a lot of people make that trade off

because they are making that trade off. So if it were concentration camps, as Occasio Cortez says, and yeah, I mean, does Border Patrol like her? I'm sure they don't because Border Patrol has basically been accused of being SS guards by her, and she's a disgrace and an idiot. But the left loves it. I think this is fantastic. There's

a political cause here. It doesn't matter what the men and women of law enforcement have to go through as a result of It doesn't matter if their reputations are ruined. If you have people writing about how they should be dosed in major newspapers, they should be docs, they should

be shamed for doing their jobs. Well, I'm here to make sure that we know that if anyone's going to be shamed, it's the Democrats, it's the left, it's the open borders, zealous who don't care about the rule of law, and they will lie about the men and women who are doing a very tough job on our border right now because of people who are making a choice and active affirmative choice to violate our laws and to eradicate our sovereignty. I've got a lot more. I'll be right back.

I think Portes is being very disrespectful to somebody that's been there a long time. A group of people is being very disrespectful to her. And you know what, I don't think that Nancy can let that go on. I'm looking at this omar from Minnesota, and if one half of the things they're saying about her are true, she shouldn't even be an offense. But Cortez should treat Nancy Pelosi with respect. She should not be doing what she's doing. And I'll tell you something about Nancy Pelosi that you

know better than I do. She is not a racist. Okay, she is not a racist. For them to call her a racist is a disgrace. Trump standing up for Pelosi's is that's does he standing for her? There? As well? Is that to stand for someone who's done the internet? When you stand up for them. I don't know if you're like her, if you're really defending them standing up for Pelosi deciding that AOC is out of line, which

she clearly is. But I think it is important that Democrats once in a while, I get a little taste of their own medicine too. If anyone can be called a racist without any provocation or cause, then guess what anybody can be called a racist? Maybe we want to rain that in a little bit as a society. Maybe we don't want people just taking upon themselves to slander reputations, to ruin people publicly because they can't beat them in

a real argument. So they say, well, it's because racist Pelosi will be fine everyone, because, as we know, Democrats, even if they are being racist, which I don't think Pelosi is, they are judged by a very different set of standards, and they will always be allowed to come back into the community of the of the acceptable, of the fancy, of the elites. But Trumps standing up for Pelosi is it is something you wouldn't have expected this week,

But sure enough, here we are. He understands that if there's one thing that Democrats, well, there's a lot of things about Trump that drives them completely insane. But when he's just being rational and he's right, and they're acting like a bunch of total lunatics, and that's what that just aggravates them even more. They get even Crazier's when that's the case. Got more on the border and also on the census question. Why is it they're fighting the

senses so hard. We'll get into that later on. We'll talk about single payer, why it's a bad idea. SHO always stacked my friends. Stick with me. You're fur decriminalizing border crossings or one of the people are working hands at the debate. Do you agree with AOC that we should get rid of DHS altogether. That is not correct. I'm not in favor of decriminalizing or not having consequence for it. We have to keep let me just be

very clear. We have to have a secure border. But I am in favor of saying that we're not going to treat people who are undocumented across the border as criminals. That's correct, That is correct. Um. So, she was really clear in that she seemed like she was figuring out her position in real time on air. There Producer Mike I wasn't she was she was sure about how unsure she was. Yeah, that's for sure. That was That was a pretty amazing moment because she knows here's here's what

that really was. Democrats are so set on the talking points they can't discuss what this issue really means because if people found out what the Democrats were for, there would be a political revolt against them. So they have to just stick with things like, we believe in a secure border. Okay, well, what what are you willing to do to secure the border? They got nothing on that. We believe in a secure border, but we don't want

to separate families. We don't believe families should be separated. Okay, well then does that mean? What does that mean that everybody who could brought into these facilities has to be released right away because they can't process them fast enough. The system is overwhelmed. So that just means that they're being led into the country. If you show up with a kid, you get let it. Oh no, no no, we believe in not separating families. There has to be more

than that. That's not a substantial enough explanation of what they want. It's not even close to being substantial enough. But unfortunately, that's that's really the point, it's that they don't want it to be clear what they are pushing for. They don't want it to be understood what they have in mind. They wanted to be about the talking points. They wanted to be vague. And that's why Kamala Harris

here saying, well, you know, no, that's not correct. I'm actually for, but I'm kind of not for, but maybe i'm a little bit for. They want to decriminalize border crossings, why wouldn't someone come here. They want to decriminalize border crossings. They don't want anyone to be to be deported. So everybody knows that means right, It means that this problem is only going to get worse. It's only gonna get worse,

more people coming from all over the world. This is not They also, you know AOC today and her testimony as I was watching it, said that it's it's horrible that these people get kept in Mexico. I'm sorry, is Mexico some kind of a you know, mad Max hellscape? People people from Honduras can't hang out in Mexico for a few months waiting for their their court date. I mean, they speak the same language. It's why is it so terrible. There are a lot of people, I think one hundred

and thirty million live in Mexico. They're not all claiming refugee status. That seems to me to be just a bizarre thing to say, is that it's some it's a terrible punishment. You see, according to the Democrats, if you're from Central America and you come to the US Mexico border and you have to stay in Mexico for a while, well, if you're if you're a true asylum seeker, you should just be happy that you're safe from the make believe threat of violence that they're all claiming to have from

Honduras or Al Salvador. They're scamming folks, they're scamming the system, and I understand there's huge incentive for them to do it. But they're lying. They're not fleeing violence. Unless we want to claim that all of Honduras and all of Al Salvador qualifies for asylum, in which case, welcome to the fifty first and fifty second state and throw Guatemalan they're two fifty third, because that means the whole country gets

to be a part of America. Then that means there's absolutely nothing nothing that we can do to stop this. So which is it? Do you qualify for salami from Mexico? But that's why if you're from a Central America rather, this is why the raids that are planned are so very, very contentious. This is why the raids that are planned or I'm concerned going to be a band ended. Once again, I'm not sure the president is really willing to really willing to follow through on this one. There'll just be

so many people of the folks, there are Republicans. There are Republicans. You can't trust on this stuff. They've they just they want to be the nice guy. It's so much easier to say, just let everyone come, just let everyone be in the country. Come on, we got a lot of space. You've ever been you've ever been driving around Wyoming, There's space everywhere, right, That's what they'll say. What we'll be told, go go driver on Arizona. There's a lot of open territory. Yeah, it's open territory. But

guess what migrants. Migrants aren't aren't they're not pioneers in the nineteenth century. They're not showing up in the woods and hacking a house out of you know, clearing brush they're gonna show up and say, where's my where's my Obamacare? Where are my food stamps? Where's my Section eight housing? And the Democrats are gonna say, you're right, we owe that all to you, taxpayer. Pay more. These people need more stuff. You owe it to them because your foreign

policy ruined their countries. This is this is the narrative. This is what is happening right now. Well, I don't know Trump. Trump says that they're going to go through with these ICE rates. He says it's going to happen. There's nothing to be secret about ICE's law enforcements. They're great patriots. They have a tough job. Nothing to be secret about. If the word gets out, it gets out. It starts on Sunday, and they're gonna take people out

and they're gonna bring them back to their countries. When people come into our country, we take those people out and we take them out very legally. They all have papers and it's a process, and I have an obligation to do it. They came in illegally, they go out legally. What the Democrats should be doing now is they should be changing the loopholes. They should be changing asylum that's if they were serious about fixing the situation. I do not believe. I do not believe they are serious about

fixing it. I think that they very much want this to continue. But the approach of the Trump administration of upping the deportations and having a more aggressive approach going forward, that's what has to be done here. Because what you're gonna do. And one of the great things about Trump is that he forces the other side to make errors. He forces them out of their their comfortable, little little little hole, and all of a sudden, you can see them for what they are. And that's what he does

to the left day in and day out. Right. They freak out at everything he says. He's wait a second, what he said wasn't even not only was it not crazy? That's what I think the left now is going to tell him that he's that he's hitler. Because of this, he forces them to show us. He forces the left

to show us who they really are. And when he starts deporting, when the administration is going specifically after individuals who have been adjudicated, been through their process, had it all done, when he goes through all of them, and the Democrats still claim that that is, you know, they can't be deported. That's not right. The Democrats still are opposing deportation. How can anyone be watching that? How can anyone pay attention to it and not think, Oh, the

Democrats are for open borders. They do not believe what they say with the talking points about secure border. They don't believe in the rule of law. When it comes to immigration. They are kicking the doors open. They want the country flooded with migrants from the Third World because they want people to be Democrat voters. That's what this is all about. I think he was a great labor secretary, not a good laborage secretary. He's done a fantastic job.

He's a friend of everybody in the administration. And I got a call this morning early from Alex and I think he did a very good job yesterday under a lot of pressure. He did a fantastic job, and he explained it, and he made a deal that people were happy with him. Then twelve years later than I'm happy with it. You'll have to figure all of that out, but the fact is he has been a fantastic secretary

of Labor. And Alex called me this morning and he wanted to see me, and I actually said, well, we have to press right out here, so perhaps you just want to say it to the press, but I just want to let you know this was him, not me, because I'm with him. He was a he's a tremendous talent, he's a Hispanic man, he went to Harvard, a great student, and in so many ways I just hate what he's

saying now because we're gonna miss him. There you have the announcement of the well from Trump of the resignation of Acosto. I think i'd said earlier with hh's he was the labor Secretary. I might have said that wrong in the radio before, so sorry if I got that one messed up. Order on the week. Always like to be be factual here on the show, accurate here on the show, zero pinocchios on the Bucks Act and show.

That is what we strive for. But I gotta I've got a little bit of mixed emotions about this one. I know it's radio, so I'm supposed to say I have the answer, and I have the perfect answer, and I'm better than all the other radio hosts. Whatever are there are other people who do that. I just prefer to talk to you like like friends and equals, because that's what you are. But you know, this is what happened. You gotta the Democrats and the media, I know, I

repeat myself there. They see this as an opportunity to take down a member of the administration's cabinet. Right. They see this as Okay, no one really cares who the Labor secretary is. But this Epstein story because the Miami Herald Investigative reporting on it, they couldn't suppress it anymore. So how can they get the most narrow narrative mileage out of it? And the way they the way they came up with or the answer to that question for them was that they would Oh my gosh, I'm seeing

this now. By the way, the hidden workforce undocumented in America, CNN. This is just propaganda, folks, This is this is a CNN's running ads for this now. Undocumented is a made up, nonsense term. There is a proper term for people who are in the country illegally, and it is either a legal alien or legal immigrant. They're in violation of a law is not called undocumented. A burglar is not an

unwanted shopper. That's not what we call that you don't get to just make up new things because you like something. And I'm sorry, you know, we do have to draw some lines here. If they want to change the federal statutes and have it say undocumented, fine, then I'll start saying undocumented. The laws the law, the law says a legal alien. But I digress, all right, So Acosta, here here's why I feel a little mixed about this. They went after the as they went after the story, and

this is all because of Trump, right, That's why. Or they're they're trying to as much as they can hang this on the Trump administration, even though Trump comes out of this whole situation. Of all the celebrities who hung out with them, is there any other celebrity, any other because remember at the time, he wasn't a politician, he was a celebrity. Is there anyone else who called out Epstein and stood up to him and said that, you know, you're you're a gross monster, get out of my face.

Bill Clinton never did that, you know, Woody Allen never did that. Prince whatever his name is, the other guy, that's which one of them? Andrew? Is it Andrew or it's one of the princes. I can't I don't know who can keep it all straight. One of the princes used to hang, yeah, I think it is. But the list of celebrities and super long list long. Yeah, it's a very long list. But of all of that whole list,

producer might correct me if I'm wrong. The only one who called out Epstein for being a weirdo was Trump, So I think that that should at least be a prominent part of what we all think of here. I mean, Trump was like, get out of here, your your band, you're a jerk. I mean, he's not a prosecutor. He's not. It's not on him to bring charges or whatever. You know, he doesn't. He doesn't know what's going on. But that

can't be said for Acosta. So as much as as much as I know that they really just wanted to scalp them administration and they got one. Now we can't. We can't defend everybody all the time. There has to there has to be accountability. And I know this was a long time ago, but I think a Costa makes the right move here. He I do believe that he

probably chose to do this himself. But they were just going to keep hammering this and hammering this and hammering this, and you know, Labor secretary, this is not the Secretary of State. This is not the Secretary of Defense. We don't need it. We don't need the distraction. The movement, the Trump movement, the Trump White House does not need this distraction. And you know, we had ann on yesterday and I always have fun, always have fun. It was

top top five favorite guests for your producer, Mike. Would you say, Yeah, She's hilarious. He's the best. She's so funny when we're not on radio either, and she generally enjoys it. You know, she really does, dude. She's a happy warrior. She's she's I'm ever. Everyone knows. I can't hide it. I think Coulter's the best. Um. But the the truth is, and I was talking about this yesterday with a Costa, is that you know, it needed to

be more. He needed to bring the full indictment. If you're going to be a federal prosecutor and you got some guy that is engaged in systematic, repeated and egregious predation against against young girls, against kids, if you're not going to use the full weight of your office against that, what what are you going to use the full weight of your office against You know, if if you're not gonna go for the wo would anyone really have blamed well, I was gonna say when anyone blamed a Costa, not

normal people, but clearly the fact that he was a Democrat donor that Epstein was a Democrat donor. You know, if he had taken it, you know, if you if you take a shout the king, you must not miss if he had gone after Epstein with a big indictment and for some reason, you know, Epstein had a very very sophisticated, very expensive legal team. If that had fallen apart,

you know, Acosta would have paid the price professionally. But that's where I always say, you know, whenever one of these bureaucrats is like, yeah, but I couldn't you know, if I taking the risk, it would have Yeah. I mean tell that to all the all the members of the US militarist saw on a Rock and Afghanistan, you know, walking around the streets of these dusty villages, trying to keep people safe and trying to keep maniacs from song

people's heads off on video. You know, if they can take that risk, A Costa could have taken the risk of bringing heavier charges against a big Democrat donor and just deal with the consequences. You know. I don't think it's too much to expect some degree of professional ethics and maybe even a little professional courage from people that I've been given a tremendous amount of power to defend the defense list. And that's really what would have been

going on here. These young girls were defenseless. They were relying on somebody like Alex Acosta that had come along and get some measure of justice for them, and he failed. So in that, in that, I think this is the right outcome, and I the President, I think handled it with class. I think this was that he said that Alex did a great job, and you know, this was his decision. But it's it has become a distraction. This

has been handled well. I think the good news is that we'll all be able to move past this very soon. But I don't want us to move beyond this. There's a difference. I want more answers. I don't believe that a Costa didn't receive, you know, some pressure to give it to give a lenient deal here. I just don't believe that. I don't think that that's possible. I think that there were people that were pushing for Epstein. I

know that the Palm Beach District attorney was. I mean, you can just tell he cared about the fact that this guy was a big Democrat tone or writing big checks to people. You know, he still don't know how he made his money, and you know, how hard can this be to figure out there's something going on here. I worry that now that the Democrat media has tried to they've tried to sully Trump with this, they haven't

really succeeded. But I do worry that their next move, their next trick, is going to be, well, they're gonna move past this and bury it because they don't want a situation in which this could blow back on a Democrat. I mean, we're Bill Clinton already lied, his office already lied about this. No one seems to care. I guess because Bill just likes to law about things. He just

you know, can't remember. Now, He's just you know, wants to hang out with all the different ladies and not have to ask any questions and you know all that stuff. They still kind of protect him. I think that's what's going on here. So we will not let this slide. Can you believe are you a citizen of the United States of America? Sir? You can't ask that question? Why because the courts said you can't. We have three very unfriendly courts. They fight us all the way. The judges

don't like us too much, I guess. But think of that, herman, Think of that question, are you a citizen? We spend This is another thing that's so crazy. Twenty billion dollars on a census, twenty billion. They spend twenty billion. They said twenty billion. What twenty billion dollars or the census. They go through houses, they go up, they ring doorbells, they talk to people. How many toilets do they have? How many desks do they have? Many beds? What's their

roof made of? The only thing we can't ask is are you a citizen of the United States? No? Is this the craziest thing. This is where Trump's real genius comes in, because you know, there's there's all these different ways to talk about the census question. To talk about the census issue, you can make You can make a very eloquent case about how it's necessary for the apportionment of members that are representatives and maybe for enforcing the

Voting Rights Act. And there's all these different things that you can point to and say, Okay, well this is this is yet another reason why we should have the citizenship question, or you can just point out how completely bonkers, crazy, absurd. This whole situation is where you have a census that can ask basically anything. I mean, they ask you know, as you say, you know what kind of tile do you have in your bathroom? You know how much fruit

juice do you drink in the morning. They can ask any questions they want and all kinds of random government just wants data stuff. The government's just asking you to tell them stuff about you, so the government knows more about the American people and hopefully can govern us better. Right, that's what this is all about. And this goes back to the founding and it's been around for a long time. Some of you probably like, yeah, buck, census, that's right,

didn't didn't you know Jesus Mary. And if there was a sense that's going on, then too, Right, this is stuff that that's been around for a very long time. Governments want to know how many people are within their borders. It's very important for them, so that it's very important if you're going to have a real government. So but Trump's point here is just think about this. You can ask Democrats are okay with really any question other than

are you a citizen? And this is all about governing and about understanding who's in the country, because citizenship doesn't really matter to Democrats. It's just bodies. Now, who's here. That's all that they care about. They don't really want to treat any person differently based on citizenship. But you see that that starts to erode the very foundations of our polity, That starts to pull apart the American the

American state, big s state. They got no issues with that though, because they figure even if they pull it apart, they'll be the ones that have to put it back together and they'll be in charge then, and so there's no big problem. So you know ag Barr, who's also Attorney General, Bill Barr, he's a very straightforward, no nonsense kind of guy, and he even says, yeah, look, how can anybody really argue with I mean, Democrats are arguing

to get this against us all over the place. The question used to be on the census, but they're still arguing against it. It's racist now. I guess it wasn't racist until nineteen fifty, but now it's a racist question. Congratulations on today's executive order, which will ensure that we finally have an accurate understanding of how many citizens and

non citizens live in our country. As the Supreme Court recognized, it would be perfectly lawful for the federal government to ask on the census whether individuals are citizens of the United States, and it's entirely reasonable to want to know how many citizens and non citizens there are in the United States. In fact, the federal government has routinely asked questions relating to citizens ship ever since the eighteen twenties, so this has been around for a very long time.

Oh but you may be saying, Buck, what executive order? Ah see that would like to keep it a little bit of suspense. Sometimes we sometimes we switch things around a little bit just to see if we can keep you on your toes. That's right. Trump issued an executive order. Here's here's what's happened. Instead of instead of I mean, I'm an extremely stable genius, it's true, extremely stable genius.

Yep uh. Instead of deciding that he was going to use the or that the census will be the vehicle for finding out about citizenship status and the number of illegal aliens in the country, which we really do want to know. We need to know this that that's especially if we're going to start making determinations about about who to put on a pathway to citizenship, who to give

ambsty to ambisty to all these things. Don't we need to know where we already are in terms of the number, because I think it would affect a lot of people if they found out that, oh, no, there's not eleven million, there's twenty or twenty five million, and we're going to add now you know, a few more million a year because of our current policies at the southern border. I

think people should know what they're getting into. I think they should know what's really happening and what's happening to this country because of the now I would say overt assistance of the Democratic Party in the illegal immigration scam. But Trump is issuing an executive order that's telling all the different government agencies out there, you know what, you have to do everything you can to collect information to

find out who is in this country legally and illegally. Okay, I will be issuing an executive order to put this very plan into effect immediately. I am here by ordering every department and agency in the federal government to provide the Department of Commerce with all requested records regarding the number of citizens and non citizens in our We will be able to ensure the twenty twenty census generates an accurate account of how many citizens, non citizens, and illegal

aliens are in the United States of America. How could anyone really have a problem with that? Why would anyone oppose that? You know that. You know, Democrats don't like this. They're they're very upset at this. Why don't they want to know how many legals are in the country. You're going to find out that the number is well beyond what we've been told in the past. I mean that much. I'm quite certain about. And I think that the American

people will be really, really angry about this. I think that there will be a sense that we've been lied to by both parties for a long time, because, if nothing else, there is a massive failure to enforce the law here and a lot of people that deal with onerous regulation and taxation and all this different up the laws. The law got to do this. The laws the law. They look around, they say, hold on a second, why is the law not the law when it comes to immigration.

Why why are we supposed to accept that there's there's no issue here, there's nothing, nothing to be concerned about, even though there is a massive and systematic and flagrant violation of our laws going on on a regular basis. But it's not just illegal status. By the way, if people really dug into this, and they won't, and because so few really want to know, at least no one

in the government bureaucracy wants to know. It's illegal, it's illegal crossing, it's illegal status, it's um document fraud, social security fraud, benefits fraud, tax fraud, all this, all of the different additional violations and crimes that come from or come as an attendant to, in addition to illegal status. That that's and this is going on now across the

country and has been for decades. And you have people that do have the power to vote, as I've said, who are legally in total to vote, because we've we have a Supreme Court opinion that says, if you're born in this country and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, it's not even really an opinion. I think it's a footnote. In a Supreme Court case, we say, if you're born in this country, you're a US you're a US national.

It's really not supposed to be that simple. It's not supposed to be if you are born here, because if you're a foreign diplomat and you're born here, you're not a citizen. If you are born in a foreign country and you are a US citizen and you're the children of diplomats, for example, you're stationed in Beijing, you're not a Chinese citizen. You're a US citizen, and you're born abroad, it's not just about the location of where you're born. That has That has not been that has not been

the case. But now you have entire generations who feel like their families, in fact, the their story of America starts with an illegal crossing. And you have one political party that says, that's great, that's wonderful, congratulations on being here illegally. Another that says, well, hold on, if nothing else, we got to stop this from continuing to happen. It's a violation of US sovereignty, and it is undermining the processes of immigration and assimilation that we've had in the past.

The party that's going to tell all those people, hey, I know your parents came here illegally, but that's great, that's fine. And it's just those mean racist Republicans that have a problem with with future illegal crossing. I'm talking about the legal crossings that have already happened. They're going to vote for the Democrats. They know that this is all about power, all about power. It's been about power

all along. That's what's really happening, that's what's unfolding in front of us, and that's why there's such a fight over every aspect of immigrations. Democrats don't agree with Republicans on anything other than we need bigger, nicer, cleaner facilities for the people that are being detained at the border.

They don't even agree they should be detained, but they want bigger, cleaner, nicer facilities courtesy at the US taxpayer, more healthcare, you know, more just more resources down there, which as we know, they also don't want to add any enforcement mechanisms to this, so they're just making it increasingly enticing to come into the country illegally. That's that is a that's just what is happening right now at the border. I don't want us to know how many

people are here illegally. They don't want to have any enforcement mechanism. And this is just now where we are. It's it's it's stunning, folks, it really is. The Democrats have gone so far left, so hard left on this issue, and the next election is going to on immigration that I think the next election really is going to be the be all end all of whether we have a border or not. We will defend the right of the American people to know the full facts about the population

size of citizens and non citizens in America. The Department of Commerce sensibly decided to include a citizenship question in the twenty twenty census, as has been done many, many times throughout the history of the United States. Unfortunately, this effort was delayed by meritless litigation. As shocking as it may be, far left democrats in our country are determined to conceal the number of illegal aliens in our midst They probably know the number is far greater, much higher

than anyone would have ever believed before. Maybe that's why they fight so hard. This is part of a broader left wing effort to erode the rights of the American citizen and is very unfair to our country. There you have the president who's he sound like, folks. I'm just saying it sounds like somebody you all listen to on the radio. This is the point, this is what's going on here. They do not want us to have the numbers.

If the number was accurate, if it was eleven million, which they always say, what's all the fuss about, that's not the number. There's no way, there's no rational way to add this all up numerically or otherwise and think, oh, yeah, sure that's the number. And I don't think so. Speaking of of the meritless lawsuits, I'd also note that the president, you know, won a lawsuit earlier this week where the states of Maryland and what was it? Was it Maryland

and I can't remember which other state it was. I think it was Maryland, And then probably the District of Columbia sued the president under the emoluments clause. And here here's what the media doesn't want to tell you, doesn't want to get into. Not only was this shut down, but this was shut down by the by the federal judge overseeing it with some degree of prejudice, who was like, I don't even think this is a good usage of the courts, as in, this is some crap you guys

are trying to pull here against the president. There is no pre there's no precedent for saying that somebody who owns a public accommodation is being unduly influenced by foreign governments because there are foreign people or members of foreign governments who go through that hotel. To put this in plain English, you had this, You had the state's attorney

in Maryland bringing the lawsuit here. Look, this is all grandstanding legal nonsense, bringing the lawsuit against President Trump at administration saying that because you know, the the US ambassador or a Kazakh stand or something or sorry, the Kazack ambassador of the United States, that's the direction we're talking about, because because the Kazack ambassador might go to the Trump Hotel, and you know, Bora may have a glass or two a wind at Trump Hotel, and that money, after all

expenses and everything could pay it does go into the general fund of of revenue that the Trump Hotel International Hotel, which is a fine establishment where I'm known to have a drink myself from time to time that that's unduly influencing the president. Now, the same people that are bringing these lawsuits, and I mean this, there's the same individuals that that support this lawsuit and that are publicly talking

about all this. Those same folks will look you straight in the eye and say that there is no problem whatsoever. There is nothing wrong with Bill Clinton getting paid half a million dollars for a single speech by a Russian state backed bank, which is really the same thing. A Russian bank is a state backed bank, right by a Russian state bank. While his wife is Secretary of State specifically dealing with foreign policy, Bill Clinton got paid half

a million dollars by a Russian bank. And did you see was anyone suing the State Department records and trying to cause big to do about what was? The Clintons were so corrupt that we were overwhelmed by it. But this is not what about is, And that's all that's intellectually lazy. This is this is looking at two issues and saying, do we have one standard? This is not a this is some other thing that I'm trying to change the subject to. These are okay, we have two

similar circumstances. Foreign involved payment to prominent individuals on the left and the right. How does the media treat it? What is the you know, what is the outcome here? And the Clintons were allowed to get away with just mind boggling corruption. No one did you? Did you even hear of the emoluments clause during the Obama administration when

Hillary was was Secretary of State? Of course not most people learn that the emoluments clause was now because a bunch of anti Trump lawyers were like, I've got it. I know how he could take up down the emoluments clause. Yeah, that's right, guys, just violated the Constitution. I'm also going to bring suit against him for treason, iracy, and counterfeitings. That's also in the constitution. Did he do any of those things? No? But why not just bring the lawsuit?

It's all Trump arrangement syndrome, folks. A lot of people, a lot of people unfortunately in America today have j d's and also have TDS. They're lawyers with Trump derangement syndrome. So that was you know, you hurl us up about the emolument's clause. Those states were basically laughed out of the courtroom by the judge, like, you guys have got to be kidding me. This is not what the founders had in mind. So you know, you own a hotel and somebody from a foreign country buys a beer there.

That doesn't mean that they're calling the shots on us foreign policy. Not everybody is for sale the way the Clintons were. The wall is being built. The wall is being built. We had a couple of very good decisions. We had one bad decision. It's very tough. Again. Paul Ryan let us down. Paul Ryan was a terrible speaker. Frankly, he was a baby. He didn't know what the hell he was doing. Wow, President Trump not messing around. Do

we have a do we have a Trump slab? We gotta come up with like the biggest slab, the most luxurious, the most incredible slab, because that was a Trump slab that wasn't even a buck slab. He called him, He called the forward speaker of the House a baby. I guess it's because Paul Ryan has a has a book that's coming out where he says things about the things about Trump. Um, oh there, oh no, this is I'm sorry. In a book. In the book American Carnage This is

because what happened here. This is the book that's written. Tim Alberta of Politico has written this book, and Ryan condemns Trump. In the book, says he could not stand the idea of another two years the Republican President's our retirement as an escape patch. Wow. Ryan's quote is saying, I'm telling you he didn't know anything about government. I wanted to scold him all the time. Okay, so let's let's just play this out for a minute, shall we. Team Here's the basics of it, because I think this

is a very instructive Trump versus the establishment moment. Paul Ryan was and I remember this because he was a tea party darling for a little while. Everyone said, oh, he's the guy. And he did not do very well on a debate against Joe Biden back in twenty twelve or twenty eleven, whatever he was not that was twenty twelve. He was not able to do the things that we were all told he was going to do. Now he was, he was Speaker of the House. What really is Paul

Ryan's legacy. You know, he's supposed to be the big budget guy. He's going to turn things around with the budget When do you think of Paul Ryan? Now, what do you think of what was accomplished when he was Speaker of the House. You know you talk about nuke Gegrich. Yeah, there's some stuff when he was Speaker of the House. Right, do you think of nuke Genggrich? What do he had a balanced trying to balance budget actually went into a surplus. I mean, what do we have here? And getting Trump

to work with him? And triangle I mean to starry about Trump Clinton and triangulation and all this stuff. Paul Ryan brought what to the table? What did he manage to accomment? Now, I've heard, I will say, I've heard he's a very nice guy. I don't have any I don't have any problem with Paul Ryan. I actually have not interviewed him. He's one of the few very senior Republican figures, well former Republican figures on the scene whom I've never interviewed. But you know, I hear he's a

good dude. But I think he's way out of line here, or at least I think he's out of line in this book when he's talking about Trump doesn't know nay about government. Okay, let's assume then what Ryan says is true, and Trump doesn't know anything about government, Why is Trump able to do such a good job. Why is Trump clearly a more effective vessel for conservatism than Ryan or Romney or any of these guys have been. And how do they answer? Do we really care about who would

win a think knowledge contest? Or do we care about who has the policies that do the most for this country and that affect you the most in your in your life, often by being policies that leave you alone more so you can enjoy your life. And the government's backing off a little bit. But you know, where where does it fall on that? On that spectrum? I mean, that's what you really have to look at. Here. Oh, we also have the President explaining today in a press

conference he was Trump was in Fuego today. By the way, Mike, you see this, he was, I did. He was in using forman was one of his form It was one of his days where I was like, we brought presidents not messing around. Uh. Here is here is what he said about Paul Ryan though during his in Fuego press conference. I'm just gonna let the president have a go at it. Paul Ryan it's not a talent. He wasn't a leader.

When the people in Freedom and Great Congressman wanted to go after the Dems the things that they did very badly, he wouldn't give hippe whereas Nancy Pelous he hands him out like their cookies. Paul Ryan was a lamed up for a long time as speaker. He was unable to raise money, he lost control of the House. The only success Paul Ryan had was the time that he was with me, because we got taxes cut, I got regulation cuts. I did that mostly without him. But for Paul Ryan

to be complaining is pretty amazing. I remember a day in Wisconsin, the state that I won, where I stood up and made his speech and then I introduced him and they bowed him off the stage ten thousand people. So for him to be going out and opening his mouth is pretty incredible. But maybe he gets paid for that, who knows. I just can't imagine being Paul Ryan and speaking to a political journalist. I'm assuming that's what happened here, speaking badly about the president. I just what purpose of

the Politico is a left wing site? The guy's a left wing journalist writing a book that just meant to track Trump. Why feed into that? Why help you know? It's It's a little bit like you can criticize a family from within the family, but everybody knows the difference between talking to a family member in a way where you want them to shape up or be a little bit better, or be a little more considerate, versus going outside the family and trashing a member of your family

to people are that are outside that circle. These are different things. I'm fine with criticizing Trump. I criticize Trump. I think that there's plenty of room in this administration for improvement. There'll always be room in any administration for improvement. That said, I don't understand its mentality. All these former Republican officials or even some current ones, not as many of these days have of Yeah, let me help the cause of conservatism by assisting the enemies of conservatism. This

is the never Trump mantra. In taking down the administration in some way, in undermining administration in some way, you do not help your army get better at fighting by helping the enemy destroy your army, right, this is this logic does not work. And let me also say this, Paul Ryan on the border, we're lucky he's not around now. Ryan the border, he was terrible on the border. He was like a guest worker. The more the merrier, No one needs to be deported. Let's create amnesty. They'll pay

a back pay fine thing or whatever. I mean, it was all nonsense. He was basically Marco Rubio in the house with the Gang of Gang of eight amnesty. So Ryan on the board he's actually worse than that. And Ryan on the border was he's really like out of the Cato libertarian think tank world, very close to where the Democrats are now, and just if you want to come in here, you should be able to come in here. So at least it's good that Ryan's not messing things

up with that. It's Friday Team, So sometimes I like to just have one of our dear friends, one of our team buck insiders, just come and hang out and talk about the news of the week and tell us what's going on in the world. And I can think of few better men, if any, to do exactly that. Then the one and only s On Parnell folks, you know him because he's in general American badass guy. Was in Afghanistan. Army ranger wrote a fantastic book Outlaw Platoon.

I've read a cover to cover, really enjoyed it. Man of War is his latest, and there's a special sale on it this week two dollars you want to buy electronically on Amazon. Man of War is about well, I don't know, Sean, you tell me what it's about. This one. I haven't gotten to yet. Well, it's a military thriller, you know, so I got I got back from Afghanistan. I'm like, what if there was a unit that didn't

have any bureaucratic red tape to adhere to? And what if, just what if we could go after high value targets and not be encumbered by you know, higher level chains of command. And so that is sort of the nucleus of this book. And Eric Steele is the operative that the book follows. But hopefully there's hopefully there's a reliable, loyal, but somewhat nerdy analyst back at Langley name Buck Sexton, who is there to make sure that all the memos are written. The cough is hot, you know, right, I mean,

you work be in there somewhere. I'm hoping, Well, first of all, I've been granted access to be a Buck Sexton insider for the show. So in Steel three, which I'm writing right now, there is going to be that analyt you're you, You're gonna get You're gonna get a cameo with your own little special character name in book three. Fantastic, That's what I'm talking. You better have a full swoop of hair, Sean Parnell. That's all I've got to say

on that one. All right, So, man of Wars coming, I want to ask you, you know a few things this week, because you know you're a man who doesn't mind showing your patriotism standing up for patriotic causes. What do you what do you make and also doesn't mind to do it a little bit of mansplaining. What do you make of the UH women's national teams or so I should say, some players, not all some players and the women's national team in the wake of their victory.

Does it bother you? Do you just ignore it? Do you find it? What do you find? I think? Okay, so I think that they embody, you know, all all of them. Just picture in your mind, just for a second, all the male athletes over the last twenty years that are the most annoying, the ones that win and rub those victories in your faces. They're braggettocious, they're in your faith,

they're cocky. Uh And to me, some on the women's soccer team embody literally all of the worst qualities of our least favorite male athletes over the last twenty years. And so you know you're watching them, you know how they act during this ticker tape parade. I think it was in New York City, right buck. They did this ticker tape parade for them in New York City with the Blasio and stuff, and they're dropping f bombs and

stuff and swearing and putting this stuff on Instagram. And you know, I've got a daughter, an eight year old daughter, and I just think to myself, like, well, of course I want her to be a champion, and I want her to compete intentionally, and I want her to to to live the life that she wants with the freedom, all the freedom in the world. But I don't want her to act like that, because I think that being

humble is an important quality of any champion. You know, it doesn't mean that you can't be confident, it doesn't mean you can't like her to be in your face a little bit um but I also think that being humble and self effacing is part of being a champion, and so I think that that's a quality right now that the women's soccer team lacks a little bit. I gotta say, I agree with your a student analysis, and

I think that's I think it's very fair minded of you. Well, I mean, you know, I want look, I mean, I want them to be. I want them to be. I wanted them to win, you know. But I think I think a perfect microcosum of the point that I'm trying to make is that when they were when they when they won the World Cup, and they're holding the American flag and then they drop it. Now, of course, she probably like she was, she's probably worked up. They had

just one. She probably wasn't making straight. She was excited. I give her the grace. I give her the benefit of the doubt to give her grace on that. But they dropped the flag to do some dance in front of the crowd. I mean, thankfully, another US women's soccer player ran and scooped it up and up off the ground. But to me, like, while I'm happy that they won, right, I'm happy that the US is a champion in that game.

But it also saddens me to see them treat the flag like that, you know, so so happy today, won I think they could be a little more classy, I think. I think that's for sure. I also think that this uh Repino who is saying, you know who's not a Rapino fan as producer Mike by the way, he does not cuts her, no black, no way, not into it. And she makes it all about her all the time. She does she and so, so here's what drives me crazy that you want to you want to be mainstream,

but yet you alienate fifty percent of your audience. And so no, they're not going to go to the Trump White House, but yes they'll they'll hang out with Chuck Chummer. So right there shows you that what she's doing is politically motivated. It's it's about Democrats for versus Republicans somehow now and so, as an athlete, part of your job, especially when you're representing the country on a global stage,

you're representing America to the world. Part of your job, I think it's ante and part of your mission in charge is to try to be a unifying force for the country. That's what sports are. I mean it's escapism from politics, I think. And now you've got this sort of divisive political culture bleeding into our sports and embodied by someone like Rapponent, and it's just I just don't want I just think. I just think her actions are a repugnant. It's not necessarily what she stands for. It's

not even her political views that bother me. It's it's how he acts when she wins. Now, I'll tell you to think about it like this. Think about it like this. If the US, if there was a national men's sports team, a US men's sports team that was competing globally, and they were acting like the US women's soccer team, people all over the national media would be saying would be saying, this team is out there globally making America look bad,

but the women's team doesn't have that problem. I also think that beating a team fourteen to nothing or whatever they did, I think I actually think that was gross. And I know some pop will disagree with you. They say that the point differential, that that no, that's I'm sorry, yeah, they say the point the point differential can be an important factor with regards to like breaking ties or playoffs spots or seating or whatever. But I agree, I think a fourteen goal victory is a little bit is a

little bit excessive. Um, it just didn't. Just didn't. The US women's soccer team lose to a bunch of fourteen year olds. That is correct, the under fifteen US national team for under under fifteen, there were fourteen year olds and thirteen year olds. But Sean, let me let me switch to politics here for a second. I'm just wondering, who's if you had to, this is gonna be a this You're not gonna like this question. If you had to pick a Democrat to be your next commander in chief,

you have no choice. Donald Trump is on another planet. Aliens have taken our president, and we have to have a Democrat. Who do you pick? This is this is an easy one. In fact, you have me nervous there for a second when you were asking this question. But then it just dawned on me that the answer to that question would be Joe Biden. I think, really, I

think that, well, yeah, I don't. I think that he's, in his heart of hearts, a blue dog Democrat that really can't find his play, you know, I mean, he's on these he's on the stage right now. I don't know some of Team Buck is there there, man man where they're about to click buy on that Man of War book and out there now their fingers hovering over them. Somebody he had to think, I'm not like a Biden. I'm just saying, like I feel like if I went into a bar and I had a beer with Biden.

You're saying he's the least awful. He's the least awful objections, by far, the least awful. And I think in his heart of hearts he's a blue dog Democrat. He doesn't know where the heck he stands among these far left uh by the way, these crazy Democratic candidates that are all running, all fifty of them. He has no idea where he stands. He has no idea, you know. But I think in his political heart of hearts he's he's

a blue dog. You know, he's a conservative. I think, I mean conservative as far as Democrats are concerned nowadays. All right, we'll take it. Joan Bay, what are the chances that you know, you don't decide to write Man of War seven and run for office instead? I mean, you know, Parnell twenty twenty eight, is this going to happen. There's no chance. There's no chance I would, you know, the great Andrew Bright parts that you know, politics is

downstream from culture. You know. Part of writing these books, Buck, is to affect culture, right. Part part of writing these books is to give you know, American kids a pro American hero, a pro American protagonist. You know, loves America and his value system is such that he believes America is worth nying for. He believes in freedom, He's selfless,

he believes in the sense of duty. And I feel like we have to give our kids fictional characters to aspire to in order to affect cultural change, mainstream cultural change. And it's extraordinarily challenging with some of the stuff that Hollywood is putting out right now, but we have to take a stab at it. We have to give our kids something to aspire aspire too, that is good, that is pro American, that is freedom loving. And that's the whole I mean, that's the re and why part of

the reason why I'm writing this book. I'm with you on the cultural change, man. That's why I just remember Buck Sexton, analyst counter terrorism, working against al Qaeda and getting all the ladies just muck Blexton. There you gotta go back and forth with a name. Fantastic. Everybody listened to Sean Parnell. You should you should really pick up Man of War Becaus on this great sale. You should also pick up Outlaw Platoon. If you have not already,

it is on Amazon. Go check it out. Thank you so much, team, and thank you so much Sean, my friend. Have a great weekend. We'll see you soon. Okay, thanks Buck, talk you later. All right, we got a big hour three on the way. I'm gonna talk to somebody about healthcare. WHOA I'm calling nine Bombacare. Think about this. Remember this one. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, y'all. Remember that one. How about the one? If you like

your plan, you can keep your plan. We were told by the President of the United States premiums were gonna go down. You then got more specifics. Premiums will go down on average fifteen hundred dollars. He said, deductibles would decline. Five false statements right there. Oh, remember this one. They told us the website was gonna work. They told us the website was secure. Your information would be secure. There. They told us that these co ops were wonderful, end

all be all creations. Twenty three were created. Guess how many are still in existence? Four the other nineteen went bankrupt? Oh, the other ninth fly They told us. First they told us it's not attacked. Then they went to court and said it is attack. Now they're saying, no, it's not really attacked at all, because you can't at tax hi out because individual man dates going and there's no penalty. Nine different lies. We were told about Obamacare, and the

hearing is titled how Trump's efforts? How can you undermine something that's already failed? And yet Obamacare still lives? My friends, and it's going to be healthcare in general, but Obamacare more specifically a central point of debate in the re election fight for Trump as well as just Democrats and Republicans battling it out. We got an expert on all us what the heck is going on, not just with Obamacare, but with single payer, which is the way they're now

saying that it should be fixed. Chris Jacobs with us now. He's the founder and CEO of Juniper Research Group, an author of the book The Case Against Single Payer. Chris, great to have you on, Thanks so much, great to be with you, all right, So let's and also, you're right for the federalist right. I love the Federalists, I love I love giving them a plug. Yeah, give give Ben and Shawn and the boys my best. So let's let's get to this. The Democrats seem to think that Okay,

Obamacare's got problems. They've got this far left Bernie Sanders wing within their own party that seems to be pushing very openly now for single payer as the fixed to Obamacare or or the next step beyond Obamacare. People tell me it's popular, Chris, but I have a feeling you're gonna tell me it's not such a great idea. No, it's not such a great idea, Buck, And I think you're right. Government failed, so the solution is obviously more government. Right.

That's that's the logic you're you're getting from the left. And Congressman Jordan's lead in was actually perfect on this because why is is single payer in theory supported by the public, Because it's premise on the same false premises that were used to sell Obamacare. Bernie Sanders says this is Medicare for all. In reality, his single payer bill abolishes Medicare. It abolishes the current Medicare program. It's Medicare

for none. Bernie Sanders goes around saying everybody will save money. Yes, you'll pay a little bit more in taxes, but you'll save in premiums and cost sharing, etc. There's a study three years ago that said under Bernie Sanders plan, seventy one percent of people will pay more in taxes. Even after eliminating cost sharing. People will pay more. Now how

much more? I mean? This is and we're speaking in such abstract which I know that Democrats Sanders love because then it's very hard to pin them down on where they're wrong. But my understanding is that if we want a Nordic style healthcare system, that we would have not just tax increases on the wealthy as a necessity, but we would have to if we were going to stay somewhere within the realm of our current budgetary realities, we'd have to have the middle class pay almost double in taxes.

I mean, do we have some sense of if we did this single payer thing, if they abolish the Medicare system and really with it, if they abolish the private medical system as it stands in this country, of employer provided health insurance. How much more would people will be paying as a percentage or do we just have no idea? I think you're right, Buck, in terms of a good rule of thumb. We've seen multiple studies come out that have said that you would have to more than double

current corporate and individual income tax rates. So whatever your listeners are paying to the irs April fifteenth, double it. Okay, that's that's some sense of what you would be paying in greater taxes under single payer. The other irony of this, as you point out, Bernie Sanders is the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee. If he wanted to get the Congressional Budget Office to score his bill to say how much it would cost, they would prioritize his request.

Funny that he hasn't requested an estimate of how much is bill would cost. Now, let's just the cost piece. That's the first thing. And every time Sanders and the Sandernistas and AOC and you know, or whoever else. I think a lot of the Democrat nominees right now or you know contenders, have said that they're in favor of some form of single payer. This has become a pretty pretty much the Democratic Party's position at least going into the twenty twenty election. But put aside the costs for

a moment, because that's what always comes up. What happens to the healthcare system? Chris, what can you tell me if we go to single payer? What does that do to access to doctors and access to hospital and people wanted to go into those positions, and you know what, what other than the cost piece do we need to be aware of? Right, the quality of healthcare would would deteriorate significantly. You've seen this week. Um, I had a piece at the Federalist actually yesterday that your your listeners

can can can pull up the idea. The premise behind single payer is that doctors will perform more work for less money. I don't know about you. I think that's a hard sell the most physicians. And so they're gonna end up performing more work because everybody's gonna want to go to the doctor when it's free, Right, it's free and you don't have to pay anything. They're gonna do perform more work, they're gonna have less money, and then they're going to have more more government red tape to

deal with. So those doctors that are in their late fifties or sixties, they'll say, the heck with this, I'm going off fishing. I'm I'm I'm retiring to turn in the towel, throwing the towel. Young young people may just not going to medicine as a profession. So you're going to see very quickly a deterioration of the quality of care providing we're speaking of Chris Jacob's, author of the new book The Case Against Single Payer. Okay, Chris, Now

the other part of this. You know, if I were debating some of the lefty comic types in the media world, they would say, oh, yeah, well, look at the United Kingdom. People aren't all dying in the street there and they get their healthcare. Look at Canada. What do you say to that? Actually, I would say, look at Canada and look at the United Kingdom. The quality of care in

the United Kingdom is very poor. You've had year after year lower caps on budget payments to hospital Even the Congressional Budget Office, when they released a report on single payer earlier this year, didn't include a lot of specifics, but the one thing they've said is that the Britain has underfunded its health system and as a result, operations have gotten canceled a hospitals are overcrowded. Every year, it seems there's a winter crisis because Britain doesn't have extra

hospital beds to deal with the flu. Now we all know that the flu comes every winter time. But the idea that Britain would have to cancel fifty thousand operations, which they canceled in January twenty eighteen. They had to cancel fifty thousand operations, postpone them for weeks or months because they didn't have beds to put people suffering from the flu. We knew that would happen every year, and this is what happens when you have chronic underfunding of

health systems. Canada is the same way. Canada has over one million people waiting on lists an average of five months to start their treatment. And that's in a popular in a country with the population of thirty millions, you're talking about three percent of the population of Canada is on a waiting list for treatment. That's not healthcare. How do the Democrats get us to the point where we

might actually jump into single payer? Would it have to be Did you foresee that there would have to be an economic recession and then maybe people would get more scared. I mean, what's the mechanism or do you think if we had a Democrat administration that came in right now and a Democrat controlled Congress, that would they even be willing to go for it if they had the legislative and executive ability to do it. I think they would. I think the other thing is it's just a matter

of time. Buck. It's not a question from most folks on the left do not believe in a private marketplace, They do not believe in choice or competition, and say that's that's a policy objective that we should pursue. When folks like Joe Biden say I don't want to go to single payer, what they they're worried about is essentially, we can't throw all of these people off their health coverage in one fell swoop. That's not to say they don't want to throw people off of coverage over time.

So it's really a tactical debate on the Democratic side in terms of how many people can we afford to throw off their coverage in one fell swoop, or should we do it over time. So what you're going to see is, even if they don't put in a single payer system right away. They would put in a government run plan and then they would sabotage the private marketplace to push everybody toward that single payer system over time.

What can the Republicans do or anybody who believes that there should still be something of a free market and healthcare, Although obviously, with sixty percent of healthcare spending already coming from the government in one form or another, it's increasingly feeling like we don't have much of a free market a healthcare, but we're holding on to what we've got. Chris, what can the Republican Party do? What can conservatives do to offer an alternative that people will actually want? Sure?

And I think that's very important as well. The last chapter of my book I outline important principles behind an alternative. I think the first thing we need to do is reform the insurance markets. We need to come up with better solutions for folks with pre existing conditions because the status quo is pricing people out of the millions of people out of the marketplace. I think we need to

come up with a more sustainable safety net. You've seen the tens of millions of people who are signing up for Medicaid expansion, and in many cases they're dropping their private coverage to go on the government dime. We have to reform the safety net and make it's sustainable for the long term. And then the third thing is just reforming incentives. Everybody's great at spending somebody else's money, and frankly, that's the problem in healthcare. Everybody spends everybody else's money.

It's why our healthcare costs are out of control. I think Congress should do some things to reform those incentives, along with the states, to reform our healthcare system and get it to something that's more sustainable and more patient friendly as opposed to giving more and more power to government bureaucrats in the feral government. All right, Chris Jacobs, author of the case against Single pay or really appreciate your time, sir. Let us know how this all goes.

Thanks very much for having me team. We'll be right back. Do you think that a bagel shop is really the place to take out all of this anger with all of these strangers public innocent people around, Why not? What do you mean take it out and you acteel like I committed miss shooting or something. That guy twice my size that women love the bullies attack me. You know what, I don't really no offense. I don't really like you

that much. So this interview is over. I should just say that sometime Bruce and Mike be like, hey, I don't really like you that much? Does interviews ov? Yeah, Donzo explain this to me, sir. So this is an update to our very important bagel rage story, which for those of you who like your bagel, when you get up there and there's no bagels left, the rage can happen. Brucer Mark knows what I'm talking about, but Mike, what's yeah, Yeah,

you could, that's right. Oh, I'd start screaming right, especially after a long line on Long Island. I remember when I used to eat gluten because I didn't know that I had Celiac disease. When I was a kid. It was after church. My grandparents used to take us to this this place that made warm like fresh out of the oven bagels, which I feel like it's hard to find that in a lot of places. We go to warm up and we let some person because we're feeling

very you know, we were feeling very Christian. We just come out of church as a family, and someone was kind of like in line, and we're kind of like, oh, you go ahead. The guy goes up there, he's like, all right, I'll take two dozen of the cinnamon raising, two dozen of the onion, two dozen, clean them out. Dude, no bagel, zero bagels left. But we're next in line. Zero bagels left. That's what. That's what being a good Christian will get you on bagel day. Sometimes rude. Yeah,

it's just rude. But Mike, what's what's the story. So this guy's now doing interviews bagel bagel rage man? Yeah, so what what did he do? What happened? So his name is Chris Morrigan. Um, he got tracked down by an Inside Edition and they found him in a parking lot because he lives he literally lives in the van down by the river. He has a minivan and he

stays in the of a Delhi in Ba Shore. So the Inside Edition found him there, interviewed him and apparently has a history of doing these online videos and losing his temper. But you know, he was at it again today. So but is this now performance theater for this guy? Then it's you know, it's because it seemed a little too it seemed a little bit great at the time, like could anyone really be this wacko? But I don't know.

He's crazy for sure. How how much thought he's put into this to promote himself, I don't know, but he's definitely making a name for himself now he's gone viral and he's getting interviewed by inside editions. So really, if if I want to get a more stations, I just see the walk in somewhere just wearing like tidy Whitey's and just starts screaming something crazy, be like, oh, I'm Vince lowthor Key, Master of Gozer, and just challenge anyone in there to a wrestling carriage. People to watch the

video because it's really funny. The lady interviewing him, he literally comes up to her waist. The visual is quite funny. Yeah, I mean there's there's that all right in a band down by the river. There you go, dude. SNL SNL

used to be used to be pretty great. I mean I remember when I was like when I was younger, and it was a Saturday night and if I wasn't out and about getting into trouble, SNL will come on like in the in the Chris Farley, Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Era ESNL was fantastic, Yeah, because it was actually a comedy show that was amazing you and you know there there's there's a story today on on Drudge. I'm trying to find where it is. It's saying, oh, yeah, that

that comedy movies. Did you see this comedy movies are disappearing, that there's no more because I've been saying on the show for a while that comedy is dead. And here's this story. There are those who worry about all blah blah blah. In December, I saw he's talking about all these different movies. You see he says there there there's terrible comedies accounted for appalling and appalling eight percent of

box office revenue. There are no funny movies being made anymore, dude, that's the that's the statistic I was trying to find there. I'm sorry about the stumball. I'm like there was a play I was trying to read as I was eight percent of box That means they're not making comedies. You know why because people don't want to be funny anymore. They want to be woke. Yeah, I have why because people who write comedy movies in Hollywood are liberals, and

liberals having this sense of humor. So when you're having this sense of humor, you really can't write something that's funny. I tell people this all the time, and they're like, come on, that's just because you like you know, you share the idea. The funniest people I know, all of them are some form of right of center. They're not necessarily Some of the funniest people I know aren't Trump people at all, but they're still kind of conservative contrarian types,

you know, some of them are. It's not it's not a Trump thing, although I know some very funny people like Trump. But it's just you've become part of the counterculture now. You've you know, if you're if you're somebody who's in the left, on the left, you you have such you have a straight jacket on all the time about what you're allowed to say, what you allowed to make fun of so and you know that that political cress is completely absurd, and they're not afraid to cross

the line. Yeah, that's right exactly. We're used to saying things that are gonna get us in trouble. That's why, you know, The really funny show would be if we could just establish the like if we could establish a show called safe space, but it was a play on words where it's like, okay, guys, this is the conservative safe space. I can make any jokes that I want and I can't get in trouble for it because it's

the safe space. I like it. This would be an amazing show, by the way, would because the funniest stuff that I say, unfortunately, is all stuff that I say off air that I could never repeat to anybody or else I'd get in trouble. So that's the funniest stuff. If we could actually just create a show where you could do that and call it safe space, which would be great. I think I think we're on at other bruser Mike even Mark likes that's called curb your Enthusiasm. Yeah, yeah,

all right, I'll allow it. I'll allow it. But we could do an updated version. Larry David, he's getting he's getting up there. We'll be right back. The show ain't over yet, folks, keeping it real. It's time for roll call. That's right, baby, roll call Tom is the fun time. You know how we roll, So all good things, all the fun stuff going on in the world right now? What is there? What is there to say on this Friday, middle of summer, folks, that's right, middle of the summer. Mark,

What do you got anything exciting going on? Producer Mike, Which one of the ladies in Mike's Wheel of Fortune came up the lucky winner this weekend? I don't know. Yeah, it's still it's it's still early on Fridays. Mark. We call this op SEC or infosec depending operational security. Uh. He doesn't, he doesn't throw the names out of the radio. He's too he's too sly for that. It doesn't want to give the other girls information. Can't leave a trail

this day of Instagram and Facebook, you can't. You can't start even even first names too much. You know, Yeah, my name it might not even be Mike. I don't think that hasn't occurred to me before. Their chief you're you're, you're a very he's a smooth international man of mystery, that producer Mike. All right, so I promised you all, I promised you all. Roll call. I will deliver the

role call. Uh, let's see what we have here to kick us off, to get this hardy krak Alakin as I said, Facebook dot com, slash Buck Sex and Mike. Do we have an email addressed at the website that we can set up, by the way, can I'm gonna keep just saying it on live radio until we actually do that, as we don't have a set up yet. But um, we're sort of in between that stuff right now. But it'll it'll be happening soon. Men at work, Yeah, producer Buck and host Mike. Men at work. You get

a sign and put it on the door. It's what we do, all right, um, Nicolai Nikolai, I like it. I must break you shirtless, Jim Freudian slip much. We can actually hear your brain realize what you said. Thank you for a great laugh. You're the best in the business, sir, Well, Nikolai, you have the best taste in the business. So thank you so much. I do really appreciate it. It sends me off in the weekend with a smile on my face. So that's so there you go. That's that's all you need.

It's all you need to know, all you need to do. Michael Buck. I'm now working toward a graduate degree in engineering, but I was once an IVY heroin addict and even spent time locked up. My story is great. Anyway, my experiences have caused me to have what some would say are extreme views on the criminal justice system. If it were up to me, the inmate population will be reduced by a large number and many laws would change. How However, even I can see that would biden Buddha judge are

saying is crazy. They make me seem like a moderate on the subject now more than ever. Shields High, Well, Michael's thank you first of all for sharing your your personal and inspiring story, and good for you for you know, people love redemption for a whole bunch of reasons, not even just in the whole Christian everlasting life way, but that's obviously very important, but in the general comeback story

sense too. I mean, we all we all know that we are flawed, we fail, we stumble, and so anyone who dust themselves off and gets back up there and gets back into the fight with their shields high is somebody that is that should be should be praised for that for that act, and should be encouraged and others

should be encouraged to do the same. As for your point on criminal justice reform and letting out, Well, you said half of the people in prison I used to do and there was a much greater in in this, I must say, in the Tea Party years. For whatever reason, people seem to have ceased to care, or at least there's not as much medium. Maybe people care as much, but there's not as much media attention as there used

to be on this. On the issue of over criminalization, I mean, I think it's a very fair question to ask, should people who have only committed a crime that is an administrative offense against the government, right so the only victim in a sense is the government and their first time offender, should they face prison time? Now I'm speaking

very broad terms. I know that we'd have to drill down into some of this, but there have been people who have done studies of our criminal justices and what they find is that there are so many criminal statutes on the books right now. They're in fact so many criminal statutes that no one even knows how many there are because it depends on interpretation. It depends on how some of the different administrative agencies will use regulative will

interpret regulatory law that can have criminal penalty. So the answer to how many criminal laws are there in America is nobody knows, and that's not an acceptable answer. There are too many people, too many people out there who I think are in prison for things that honestly they shouldn't be in prison for at all. That that and for me, one person who's in prison who shouldn't be

in prisons. Too many the more complicated. So these are things like people that are that wander onto an Indian reservation and try to get looking for arrowheads, not realizing where they are, and now all of a suddeny're facing two years in federal prison. That was a well known case. Or there was snowmobiling, I think, and they went on

native land by accident. I mean, things like things like that, or you know, a Native American reservation, pardon me, things like that can sometimes and send people to prison, so that's not good. Or I believe in one case, somebody was packing they were in the Gulf of Mexico, a US fisherman and they packed fish in plastic instead of paper or something like that. I mean, it's so absurd that you honestly you wouldn't believe it if you read it.

And now they didn't end up going to prison, but they faced criminal penalties with prison time that could have been attached to it, So that's too much. The question gets much more complicated on drugs because there are there are two big parts of the drug debate that I think that there's not nearly enough of a focus on. Okay, there's a there's a big two big parts of it. One I mean in terms of incarceration for people who

are involved in the illegal drug trade. One is that usually if you have a very long drug sentence attached to somebody, they're not a first it's usually not always,

but usually not a first time offender. And also sometimes the possession penalty is just the easiest and most readily provable felony, so that's what they give them, even though they may have been part of a distribution network of a drug gang that, let's say, is responsible for a whole lot of a whole lot of homicides, murders, bad things. So sometimes, you know, so they could have gotten them with a racketeering charge. Maybe they could have even got

them with an attempted murder charge. But if they've got enough weight on you, as they say, if they find even enough drugs, they just charge the drugs because they know that they'll be able to prove that and you're going to take a plea deal. So that's one part of it, is that so non violent drug offenders, just because the offense that they went away for is what's listed, it doesn't mean that that's actually the only thing the

person did. And then the other part of this is, folks, we've got an opioid epidemic that's killing seventy thousand Americans a year. When you're selling illegal drugs to somebody, especially drugs that are as powerful as opioids, and I do think that there's a difference, right, There's just like there's a difference between selling somebody a beer illegally and selling them you know, an eight ball of coke? Um? Isn't that what they call it? An eight ball? I don't know.

I'm not really good on these things. So yeah, that's what I was trying to do. A little street lingo there, you know, some some yeo, some some snow. Now you're over my head? Some china white? Is that? Is that what? I think? That's from breaking bed? Isn't that what they call a breaking bead? Or? Is it is that heroin? Though? No, that's heroin, right, don't, yes, but I think China white was one of the terms. Yeah, that's a thing, that's a thank you. I remember from the some MOLLI that's

that's ecstasy. That's different. Yes, yeah, I know, I see, I'm up on some of the street lingo. But anyway, back to the seriousness of this conversation. Um, we have a very real epidemic in this country, and people who are contributing to that epidemic and and are involved in the sale of illegal drugs that can kill people. I don't know, I don't know how much we consider that

to be. It's certainly not a victimless crime. They've started to charge people, including those who weren't even involved really in commercial, large scale commercial sale of drugs. If someone overdoses and you sold them the drugs they overdosed on, They've charged people with murder for that. They've even I think brought charges again certain doctors for overprescribing drugs. So

that's where it gets more complicated too. I think if you're selling marijuana illegally, especially considering some states now have legal I mean, yeah, it is not possible to die from marijuana. Believe it or not. It is a fat soluble. THHC is a fat soluble drug and no one has ever It's not possible to smoke enough of it to die from it. And this is not just something that a bunch of hippies and Vermont told me. This is science that is not true if some of these other drugs.

So I think that you can work into this a schedule that deals with they have, you know, Schedule one, Schedule two, that they should redo the drug schedule and look at it in terms of seriousness of the substance that's being sold and the amount of it. Sorry, I got a little deep into the criminal justice debate there for a second, but I think it's very important and it's one that Republicans can make some headway on going into the into the reelection. I'm hoping they ken because

Trump has done good stuff on this. We'll have a moment to catch our breath. We got more amazing role Call your fantastic thoughts when we come back, you know, Team, I missed some of the some of the original Saturday Squad these days. I was thinking about it because I used to do the show for the Blaze on Saturday, and that was amazing because I it was the whole week I was just all pent up with wanting to

do radio. And then Saturday it was like three hours of just unleashed Buck on the radio, and we talked about all kinds of stuff, history and philosophy, and a lot of it was very in depth and less news cycle based. But we had all these great callers. And I remember we used to have this lady named Irma, who I think told me she was I think she said she was eighty either eighty five or eighty eight,

I can't remember. And Irma I used to call in and she h, you know, her family had fled the Holocaust in World War Two, and she would get on these rants about fascism and it was incredible, and I'm just I'm just wondering. I hope Irma's okay and she's if she's out there listening. I just want to send you a big team buck hug, and there are many others out there as well. You know, if you're still on the team and I haven't heard from you in a while, i'd like to. I'd like to hear what's

going on. You don't have to call in if you don't want to, because we don't do calls as much, but send me and send me an email, send me a Facebook message, and let me know how things are going. So I was just thinking. I was thinking about Irma. Some of you who are original Saturday Squad will remember she was a fantastic, fantastic lady with a lot of wisdom. Um also Laurie from New Jersey, and I'm Laurie from New Jersey. Like knew more about the stock market than

anybody on CNBC. She used to call in. And what happened to Laurie from New Jersey? Missing some of the old squad? You know these people who are your real uh you know og as they said, original original Squad oss listeners. They they're they're your friends, and so you wonder how they're doing. So I'm wondering how some of my original Saturday friends are doing out there. Stoats Unofficial Team Buck Wrangler of all Things Stoats. All right, we got tim up here. I've been following you since the

Real News days and I'm a regular podcast listener. I hate to be that guy, but the audio levels and the podcast are out of control. The levels on your Buck's remote feed are almost always extremely low, with everything from the studio at a good level. This may not be noticed on traditional broadcast stations because they have processing to compensate, but it's very bad on the podcast. You need some processing either than bucks feed or the whole feed to go to the podcast recorder. I'm a broadcast

engineer willing to offer advice. Shields high, Tim, Well, thank you Tim. One of my is is this a thing I disagree? You disagree? Yes, Producer Mark disagrees with this. I mean he's our he's our engineer. I don't know. This is like, well, producer Mark's praying mentis style defeat Tim's shoo. I don't know. I don't like people questioning my craft. I say, dude, I defer to you all this. If you're telling me that the audio on the podcast is good, the audio on the podcast is good, I'm

just saying, um, let's see here. But Tim, thank you nonetheless, man, And look, I will I will listen to the podcast. It's kind of funny. I'm gonna listen to myself. I will listen to the podcast myself, and uh yeah, we will get we will get going on that, for sure. M Dwayne. I'm among many who believe that Rapino, Omar and all those who believe America is such a bad play should pack up and find somewhere that's a little bit more to their liking. But I guarantee one thing,

America will forget them long before they forget America. Well, Dwayne, I don't think they're going anywhere, but I understand, I understand where your head's at. So thank you very much, very much for that. Let's see, Irene, I so enjoy your program. We don't get you here to seven pm. At ten pm. You still seem to always be on

top of the news though. Thank you for all your service. Well, Irene, thank you so much for listening in some of our wonderful affiliate markets because they have some local programming or there's we can be a little bit delayed, but we are doing this show. I mean, when you were hearing me at six o'clock every night, I'm at six o'clock Eastern. Rather those of you that hear me at six eastern, or you can listen on the stream on iHeart Radio on the app at six eastern. When you hear me

on that, that is live. But in some markets it's delayed, and then sometimes there's also some catchup or we'll do an interview, because for me, getting some people on the show is the most important thing. So we'll do an interview earlier in the day and we will then air it later on. All right, we got another one here, we got we got a live one. Kristen rights, Well, that is true that many women care about height. I've seen very short men with very attractive women. It's all

about confidence and women are attracted to that. Well, Kristen Darnett, I agree, because I always date up. I don't mean up is in like I have to scurry up the tree because I'm shorter than the lady. I mean date up is in. I feel like I date, you know, beyond my station in life, at least physically. And it's because one thing I do not lack is a tremendous

a tremendous confidence infused with a perfection of humility. I might add, because that's the thing that you can do, But no, you're right about confidence though, in all seriousness, it is a very important thing. It's very appealing and it's very much what I think a lot of when people discuss the masculine virtues, which I know the feminists and the left now pretend aren't really a thing. Masculine

virtues are a thing, things like honor, integrity, courage. When when people talk about an alpha, I don't think that being an alpha means that you have washboard abs and you know, have made sure that you have no body hair on your chest so all your muscles can show, and you go around saying, you know, who wants the fight? Do you even lift? Bro? You know, that's that's not what I think the masculine virtues are, at least not

the ones we should pursue in society. But honor, decency, integrity, life competence, and with life competence comes a great degree of confidence in general, right, Mike, If you want to be a guy who's good at life, yeah, man, yeah, you gotta win it life. You gotta win it life. That doesn't just that's not That's not the same thing as saying some us to be financially successful or whatever, or I mean to make a lot of money or anything.

No, no no, no. Life competence is good at dealing with the challenges of life and treating people well and doing so and conducting oneself honorably. That's life competence. So yeah, basically, if you're on an amtrak train, all the lights go out and some you know terrorists storm that. You know you want bucks X in there. That's all I gotta tell you. And he's gonna be in Sean Parnell's novel WHOA.

All Right, everybody, have a fantastic weekend. Wish who's your mic luck on all of his shenanigans, And uh, well, Mark's getting married, so he's just gonna have a nice pot roast made for him this weekend. He's gonna be fine. But that's gonna be That's gonna be it for us here in the Hut. We'll see you on Monday.