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President Trump's tactics continue to get results. The United States officially opens U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. Protests erupt in Gaza amid opening of embassy. Teen Vogue ponders Karl Marx's ideas. Buck interviews Dovid Efune and Emily Compagno. 

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freedom hunt. Big day in US Israel relations, as the
embassy has been moved from tel Aviv to Jerusalem. You've
also got violence at the border of Gaza and the
Israeli state. We'll talk about what all of that means.
Plus eighteen magazine that's celebrating Karl Marx seems pretty crazy

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Again the buck Sexton Show begins. What a day, my friends.

(01:59):
Welcome to the buck Sexton Show. Honor and a privilege
to have you here with me. As always, I am
really enjoying watching this Trump administration flummocks the critics just
to drive them up the wall. I'm not going to
say that that's the one and only thing that I

(02:19):
need to keep me happy with this administration. That's not true.
We need policy success, we need victories beyond just the rhetorical.
But man, it is fun to watch them squirm while
Trump does things on the world stage, the place where
he's supposed to be the least a death right. We
were told, Okay, maybe he'll be good at infrastructure. Maybe

(02:41):
maybe he'll be good, a little bit of dealing here
and there. But foreign policy, that's the preserve of the fanciest,
smartest people, kind of people who work for Democrat administrations,
not Trump, the ruffian, the billion they're barbarian. Not possible

(03:03):
for him to get further with some of these US
interests and some of these global policy matters than previous administrations.
Certainly not in eighteen months as opposed to the eight
years of his predecessor. And yet here we are President
President Trump getting a lot of gratitude, a very warm

(03:26):
his administration, the folks that are over there, Ivanka, Jared
Manuchin and others, warm reception in Israel today. Here is
what the Prime Minister had to say about this embassy
opening Playcliff nine. Dear friends, what a glorious day. Remember
this moment. This is history. President Trump. By recognizing history,

(03:53):
you have made history. There you go making history. Let's
be honest. Not in year one, tech, it's year two. Now.
That's still really early, isn't it. It's still rather impressive,
and it's just the beginning, isn't it. Now. I will
get into some of the violence going on in cause

(04:16):
I will talk about that as well. Because it's not
like this is going on without there being a a
I shouldn't say a downside to it necessarily, it's just
a an opposite reaction, right, it doesn't have to be
this way. So I mean by it that the downside
doesn't come along with this decision. There is no reasonable

(04:39):
expectation that anyone should have that because the United States
moves its embassy. By the way, who is that really
a decision for for us and for the are Israeli hosts?
That's it. It really isn't, in fact something that we
have to take a worldwide proxy vote. We don't have

(05:02):
to ask everyone's opinion on this. And yet you get
the sense there's this consideration of this as though this
is a vote by committee instead of a bilateral issue,
which is really what it turns out to be, or
turns out that it is. A few things. I want

(05:22):
to get into the Gaza situation. What's going on with
these so called protests. I mean, yeah, there's some protests,
but there's some violence and yes, dare I say, some
terrorist activity going on as well, and that has led
to a response from the idea from Israeli forces that
has resulted in the depths of over fifty people. But

(05:46):
I first want to look at the policy side of this,
and just note that this is an issue among the
very first issues that I ever looked at as a
policy matter. In fact, I am in the swamp right now,
not far away from my first DC job, where I
spent my first time in DC working at a Midi

(06:06):
stink tank as a research intern for the Clinton era
negotiator for the Arab Israeli peace process. So that takes
me back gosh, seventeen years, eighteen years something like that,
so I'm almost twenty years ago now, which, as I

(06:27):
say that out loud, it feels pretty crazy, but that
is the case. So this was an issue that I
went to very early on in my academic career, studied
in school, and I learned a few things, and this
will hopefully provide some context for discussion we're about to have.
I learned some things. One is that generally speaking in
this country on the issue of Israel and Palestine, it
quickly devolves into not, hey, how could we solve this?

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Everyone pretends that they want to solve it, but very
quickly you see that there is a polarization that occurs
because people feel the need to just to take a side.
They take a side and the pro Palestinian left. I
am I kid you not. I almost physically bumped into

(07:12):
and I don't mean that it would have been an accident.
We were both in the coming out of the train.
I saw Linda Sarsore today at the train station here
in DC. I just walked right past her and we
were we were a foot away from each other. Said, oh, interesting,
speaking of the anti Israeli pro Palestinian left, you have
Linda star Sore in the house. Part of me was like,

(07:35):
it would be fun to try to engage, But you
know what, I give people their private space, even public people.
I don't I see someone in public. I'm never gonna heckle.
I'm not one of those. I'm just it's just not
who I am. Linda sars it was at least thought about.
I thought about it, right, it would have been Hey,
so why do you say all those terrible things? Just
curious you want to try to have a discussion about that.

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But I'm sure profanity would have come my way and
why ruined her day? Ruined my morning? But you often
see that this gets turned into a highly politicized discussion
and so I tell you from the outset that I
want to solve the issue, but I also am allied
ideologically and otherwise with the Israeli state. So just to

(08:22):
be upfront about it doesn't mean I think everything Israel
does it's great. Doesn't mean that I don't think that
there's some difficulties on both sides that we could alleviate,
that we could do things to make less problematic. But
I just view right now, you have an Israeli state
that's trying to do the right thing, and that's trying

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to live in peace and has achieved a tremendous amount
of prosperity. You have Palestinian people who are suffering, granted,
but you have a Palestinian leadership that's a disgrace. And
Hamas is a disgraceful organization. It's a terrorist organization. So
I side with civilization against the terrorists. That's just a
shorthand way of saying I'm I'm with the Israeli people

(09:08):
in the Israeli state against Hamas. I don't view Palestinians
and Hamas is one and the same. Though would also
like to help, I would like the situation to be improved,
and America to play a role in that for Israelis
and Palestinians, and so with that or for Palestinians specifically,
with that in mind, a few things here that I

(09:29):
think have not gotten nearly enough attention with today, and
I'll also come back to the Trump component of all this.
But this is not the end of the US as
an arbor in this. In Middy's piece, this is not,
in any way, I think, something that we can look

(09:52):
at as even a huge it's interesting, it's tremendously significant
as is symbol. But in terms of where this takes
us with the actual peace process, right, the very elusive
now Palestinian Israeli peace process we've been trying to achieve,

(10:16):
I usually think this will be better. And here's why.
There was never going to be an Israeli state. It
just wasn't going to happen that did not have as
its end state Jerusalem as its capital. So then you
start to wonder, what's with the not having embassies in
the capital if there is there is absolutely positively no

(10:38):
way that there would be an Israel that would allow
Jerusalem to not be its capital. Right, it was never
going to be traded away, It was never going to
be placed under just a generalized international mandate or all that. No,
that was never going to happen. So why go through
these games, Why why go through these motions of well,

(11:01):
we're gonna wait on the embassy because we don't want
to make it seem like we've already decided. Well, they
have decided as they should, so it doesn't really change
very much in that regard. And people will talk about
a two state solution and that's been There are a
lot of their buzzwords. You'll hear about this and what

(11:22):
is it like? Un resolution? They'll talk about two four
two and three three eight and land for peace and
there's all. This has just been ongoing for decades and
decades now. No one's really gotten very far, although the
biggest improvement has just been the Israelis, that's right, building
a wall, building an actual physical border and creating security

(11:46):
for themselves and then saying okay, well now what And
the Palestinians, as they have done so many times, never
miss an opportunity, to miss an opportunity, and Mahmoudabas the
leader of the Palestinian authority, is a disgrace. And now
we get to finally see an administration coming along the

(12:07):
Trump administration that says this is just this is nonsense.
This holding off on the embassy. Why it's already US law.
What's the what's the point of pretending that there will
be any future where we don't put our embassy with
this Israeli state in Jerusalem. This isn't a carrot that
should be offered up right, This isn't an inducement to talks.

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This is just reality. So I think that that's that's
very important, and it also undermines a narrative here. You see,
the narrative from Hamas is that the Israelis don't actually
even that the Jews do not actually have ties to Jerusalem.

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They have they have no authentic relationship with Jerusalem. Their usurpers,
you know, all kinds of vitriol from Hamas specifically around
your Jerusalem. And this clearly undermines that narrative, right because
one of the problems that you have with the hardliners,
the radicals predominantly in Gaza, but there's some of the

(13:11):
West Bank too, is that they are told by their
leadership this is just temporary. This is just temporary, and
they don't mean it's temporary as in there'll be a
peace settlement. They mean the existence of the Jewish state
is temporary. So when the world's loan superpower says, actually,
our embassy with the Jewish State is going to go

(13:34):
in their capital of Jerusalem, it doesn't obliterate the notion
of a two state solution. Quite the contrary. And I'll
get into some of that in a moment, But what
it says is you've got to stop believing and telling.
In the case of the Hamas leadership, you gotta stop
believing these lies that this is going to change, that
there is a world in which a world that you

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should be waiting for, in which there is no Jews state,
there is no Jewish presence in Jerusalem. It's just not
going to happen. Because as long as people believe and
they've been fed a diet of anti Semitism and anti
Israeli rhetoric for a very long time. As I tell you,
I had a it's kind of a personal asside. I

(14:18):
had a girlfriend many years ago who instead of meeting
it was her choice. She was in grad school and
instead of meeting me in I forget where I was
going to meet her in Italy somewhere for you know,
a romantic week away with vacation, and instead of going
with me, she decided to go interview the families of
suicide bombers in the West Bank for a school project.

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It wasn't mandated, but she did it, and putting aside
for a moment the fact that I was disappointed that
that was not a good move for our relationship. When
she came back, she had a completely different view of
what the problem was over there, because you had women
who were celebrating the martyrdom of their children as suicide bombers.
It was as though they had you know, gotten into

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Harvard or something but obviously dead now and killed a
bunch of people in the process. This was a good thing,
and that was and this was now stretching back, gosh,
a decade ago, but that was a that was a
moment that I always remember because Palestinian society had been

(15:25):
so poisoned by this rhetoric from Hamas and these extremists
and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and you know, the alax On
Marter brigades, all these these different groups and factions within
the groups and militants, and that this had now taken
over even in some of the homes of people as
normal in their minds. That's how poisoned they had become

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against honestly any basic decency or humanity. So you have
to eradicate that. You have to take that narrative and
shatter it and get rid of it. It's bad for
the Palestinians, it's bad for it's bad for everyone. And
I think that moving the embassy works to that effect.
I do have to talk to you about Gaza. We've
got a lot here on this and also the Trump
administration getting credit for this. So we'll spend most of

(16:10):
this hour on this issue, and then next hour we'll
talk maybe a bit about where the latest is with Muller.
The White House still under siege, no surprise there, that's
like every day. And then I've got some interesting, an
interesting assortment of stories, including legalizing sports betting. Talk about that.
Karl Marx gets a shout out from teen Vogue, who

(16:32):
knew the crazy world. And if you stay through the
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I got a lot more comming teams, stay with me.

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Jerusalem is still the capital of Israel and must remain
an undivided city accessible to all. Soon as I take office,
I will begin the process of moving the United States
ambassador to the city Israel as children as its capital.
I continue to say that Jerusalem will be the capital
of Israel, and I have said that before and I

(17:14):
will say it again. Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel,
and it must remain undivided. It is time to officially
recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Oh, previous presidents
have made this a major campaign promise they failed to deliver.

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Today I am delivering, right. So the president there is
just doing what you would think any previous president that
we played the audio from right, we went through you know, Clinton, Bush, Obama,
all of them. They're all saying that Jerusalem capital of Israel. Okay,

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So why wouldn't we put our embassy where the capitalists?
What are we caving to? What sensibility are we trying
to plague Kate with this? And with Trump? The genius
and yeah, that's right, I said it. The genius of
some of his foreign policy moves thus far has been
to forget about the so called consensus, forget about what

(18:26):
the people that think they are also smart on these
issues have been telling each other about them for a
very long time without fixing anything, without even moving the
ball down field and say, what is the problem, Let's
do something about it. What are we saying about it? Well,
let's do something based on what we say. In this case,

(18:47):
that means if Jerusalem is the capital, that's where the
embassy will be. It's so simple. It's so simple, isn't it.
It's so straightforward. Trump takes kind of an comes raise
or approach to foreign policy. All Right, we got a
big problem with North Korea. Let's maximize our leverage. We'll
sit down and talk to North Korea, see if they'll

(19:08):
stop this crap. We've got an agreement with the State
of Israel that Jerusalem is their capital. We've said we
want to move our embassy there. Let's just move our
embassy there. There's no future in which we're not going
to put our embassy there, so why not just do
it now? And I think the messaging is very powerful
for why moving it is in fact the right, the

(19:30):
right thing to do now. David, if Fune will be
join us here in just a moment, he's a if
you listen to show you know, he's brilliant guy, editor
in chief of the Alga Miner knows the Israeli issue
backwards and forwards. So we'll talk to him about this
and then I've got a whole lot more stay tuned team.
Over a century ago, the Balford Declaration recognized the right

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of the Jewish people to a national home in this land.
And exactly seventy years ago today, President Truman became the
first world leader to recognize the newborn Jewish States. Last December,
President Trump became the first world leader to recognize Jerusalem

(20:12):
as our capital. And today the United States of America
is opening its embassy right here in Jerusalem. Thank you,
Thank you President Trump for having the courage to keep
your promises. Thank you President Trump, and thank you all

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for making the alliance between America and Israel stronger than ever.
Prime Minister net and Yahoo giving a heartfelt thanks to
the Trump administration in the United States of America today
because of what's going on with the embassy move We've
got somebody who can help us put all of this
into a context as well as some of the violence

(20:56):
going on in Gaza. We have David iffun on the line.
He is the editor in chief of the Alga Minor,
which is the fastest growing Jewish newspaper in the country. David,
great to have you back, always a pleasure, but I
just wanted to hear from you what the significance is
in your mind in terms of US Israel relations of today.

(21:20):
It's hugely significant. Not so much it's so far as
you know what is being said in and of itself.
I think it's along been the case to Jerusalem has
been the capital of Israel, of course historically, and of
course that the Israel has always viewed it and as
an act of congress back in nineteen ninety five, the
American people have recognizing that as well. What's important today

(21:43):
is really the symbolism of it. It's the celebration of it.
It's the fact that the world newspapers and media outlets
and headlines across the world are featuring the unveiling of
this embassy, the public celebration and announcement, the comments from
Benjamin Niahoo, and it's hard to to to really get

(22:05):
a cent of what this means to the Israeli people.
There's been some some imagery and of the streets of Jerusalem,
which are be deathed with flags thanking President Trump. Obviously
he played that clip. President Truman has a very special
place in the Israelian hearts as the first person to

(22:26):
recognize the Nason state of Israel while it was under siege,
and the Israeli certainly feels very strongly about President Trump.
I think, I mean a while ago he was he
was more popular there than in the United States, which
is one of only a couple of countries where he's
perceived in that way. Now, I'm sure if a Poe

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were to be taking it would be even higher. They
feel recognized, they feel that justice has been said up
and there's a great deal of credit for Presidents Trump
for really taking historic stand on the bucking the the
political correctness and this uh sense of fear and and

(23:07):
uh and insensitivity to the ready perspective and things, and
coming out and saying that we're going to accept this publicly.
We're going to move our industry and make a statement,
and nobody's going to stop us. One thing that I
read today, David, and I don't think this is getting
nearly enough attention to press. You and I could both

(23:30):
surmise as to why that is. But there are some
knowledgeable onlookers analysts of this situation who are saying that
this is actually better for a perspective peace process. Could
you give me your sense of that. Look, that's certainly
the the the perspective. Uh, And that's the narrative that

(23:50):
we've been hearing from the White House, and I think
there is there are certainly elements of truth to that.
I mean, this is this is I mean the age
old discussions of peacemaking, especially when you're when you're dealing
with an adversary that that doesn't really have any intention
to split hairs with you, to to reason and to divide.

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I mean, look, it's very very clear that the Palestine
in preference is the complete annig nation, eradication, and replacement
of the Jewish State of Israel as it stands today.
So when you're dealing with an adversary who has that
in goal, and the negotiating from a position of strength
actually leads to a greater opportunity for some form of concession,

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the first thing that's necessary is for them to understand
that the enterprise known as Israel is not up for
negotiation and it's eradication and removal it's not on the horizon,
and when that becomes a fact point, you can have
a real discussion as long as there is some hope
that eventually, piece by piece, in the long term, the

(25:00):
entity called era can be out maneuvered and bypassed and overrun.
Then dependency and the willingness to make real confessions and
to really come to terms with it are going to
be a lot less and I think, by the way,
that applies to lots of international discussions. There are echoes
of that line of thinking in the North Korean discussions,

(25:22):
of the Koinian discussions, and the end of the day,
as with everything in life, you know, the adversaries are
going to push as hard as as they can until
they meet resistance. And when facts are established, and when
resistance and when lines in the sand are drawn and
they're maintained, that's when you can start to have a
conversation which doesn't involve the demise of either party. Now

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I have to ask you, David, I'd have to ask
you about this violence in Gaza at the at the
border fence between Israel and Gaza. What do you make
of it? I mean, clearly, there's a there's an effort
you punch through the fence. You have these people referring
to this as a protest today in response to the

(26:07):
embassy move when we know that for six weeks now,
these so called protests that include molotov cocktails being thrown,
that include people carrying knives and chanting about how they
want to break into Israel and kill as many people
as possible. It's not really much of a protest, but
that has been going on here. What is behind this?
I mean, what do those showing up at the border

(26:28):
fence between Israel and Gaza think they will accomplish by
doing this. Look, at the end of the day, this
is just a repurposed suicide bombing campaign. It has all
of the same mechanics, mechanisms, motivations of your traditional terrorist
suicide bomber. I mean, these guys are being handed weaponry,

(26:54):
in some cases explosive to being sent down to the border.
They know what the result is going to be. They know,
and Hamas knows. And the recent studies the Mayor I
mean Intelligence Center that studied many of the recent counties
found that the vast majority of them were actually card
carrying members of terrorist groups. Today we published details of

(27:15):
a report that was put together by a group of
very very senior military people out in Europe headed by
Kindel Richard Camp, who is ahead of British forces in Afghanistan,
and a number of other very very senior military officials
who described this as an orchestrated military terrorist campaign by
the Hamas in Ghaza. But you know, that's something that

(27:38):
we've come to expect from Hamas. At the end of
the day, they are cut from the same cloth as
al Qaeda and as ISIS, and as other various sort
of barbaric terrorist groups that are across the globe. What
is most disturbing though, is the way that major media
outlets that are supposed to have some kind of journalistic

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guidelines or or benchmarks theoretical objectivity. I like to call it, yeah,
theoretical objectivity. So we're seeing the Huffington Post. I don't
know if they have the headlines still up now right,
but they had it a couple of hours ago that
the headline with embassy massacre. Encourage your listeners to go
and to check their website dictionary and see what the

(28:23):
word massaca means. That is actually a blood libel to
accuse Israel of a sovereign state of wantingly massacring unarmed
and defenses civilians from And this is from a major
Western media outlet. I don't know if it's still owned

(28:44):
by AOL or Time One or wherever it is. These
a major US company, You've got to have some sentlance
of responsibility. It's it's outrageous how the media, how the
major media outlets in the United States, certainly in Europe.
I mean, look at the b you see today and
I figured out and all of the nature the Afton
Blad Swedish media ads. I mean, they're leading on this

(29:08):
thing with the Hamus narrative that they have swallowed Tookla Center.
David Iffun is the editor in chief of the Alga Minor,
largest Jewish or fastest growing Jewish newspaper in the country.
You should check it out Alga Minor dot com. David.
Always great to have you, man, and a good day
in a lot of ways. Today. Always a pleasure book. Absolutely, team,

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We're rolling it a quick one. I've got a lot
more for you coming back in just a moment. One
thing I have to know it is the similarity between

(29:52):
the way the media reports on the so called protests
at the Israel gaza order and the way that some
protest movements in this country are described. Right, If you
have a large gathering and some people have placards, some

(30:12):
people have posters that they're walking around with slogans or chanting,
and there is also a group within that group that
is engaged in violence. Do you call it? Do you
call it a mostly peaceful protests or do you focus
on the violent actors? Right? You see this all the
time with the left in this country, whether it's Antifa

(30:34):
or Black Lives Matter or any number of political movements,
where there are some people who are violent, but then
there's this bigger group that's not engaged in violence. I'm
talking about the specific event, and they'll call it a
mostly peaceful protest. I mean Ferguson where buildings were burning down,
it was a mostly peaceful protest. These thousands and thousands

(30:55):
of Palestinians who have been gathered for six weeks at
the border with Israel are Yeah, they're engaged in protests, right,
that's part of it. But they're also engaged in a
form of it's kind of a passive assault. I mean,
I don't know what you really They're walking and walking
and daring the authorities to actually, in this case, the

(31:19):
Israeli is right the border patrol or the military to
do something about them. They're trying to run through the
fence or get get beyond the fence and get into
israel properties. Ralis aren't going to allow that. At some point,
the States mandates have to be enforced with force or
else they cease to exist. And that's what they're testing here, right.

(31:41):
They do this through a form of a kind of
aggressive activism. But then on top of that, they're the
people that are throwing molotov cocktails, which can kill people, right,
that's lethal. Throwing rocks a favorite of so called Palestinian protesters.
Someone throws a rock at me, and it's big enough,
and there's enough of them, I gotta think long and

(32:02):
hard of it whether I'm gonna draw my firearm and
draw it down on them, because if I get hit
in the head with that rock, I could die. I
could get knocked out. Then they come over and take
my gun and shoot me. I'm not gonna sit there
and get pelted with rocks. I don't have a great arm.
But if I threw a pretty good sized rock at
somebody and it hit them in the head, that's gonna
be lights out for them. So you know, there's no all.

(32:23):
They're just throwing rocks. They're just throwing rocks. That's a
big deal. Actually, would you say they're just punch Would
you rather have somebody throw a big piece of concrete
at you or take a swing at you, throw a
punch at you. I might actually take the punch over
the piece of concrete. But if a bunch of people
try to punch me and I had a firearm on me,
and I felt like my life was in danger, I
would probably draw it down. Many you are familiar with

(32:46):
the often taught rule about twenty feet. How quickly can
you actually get to your firearm? If someone has an
edged or even blunt weapon and they come at you,
if they're within twenty feet, there's a very good chance
they're now know a lot of you're like buck, I'm
much asked with that, But even folks with some training,
very unlikely they'd be able to get. If they're talking
about a side arm, Now get to their side arm,

(33:08):
draw their side arm, and fire it, or they could
be either stabbed or hit. Even if you get the
rounds off that person, the attackers for momentum and adrenaline
may allow them to complete the attack even after you've
gotten the shot off. I remember, especially if you've got
like a nine millimeter, it's probably gonna take more than

(33:28):
one round. You're going for center mass, might take a
few rounds. So you know, it's not as easy as
just well, you've got people with guns that are manning
this border fence, and then you've got a bunch of
innocent civilians who just want to protest. That's not what's
happening here. I've never seen this before. This is new. Actually,
fire kites are being deployed. So they have these kites
that they set on fire obviously, and then they try

(33:51):
to fly them over the fence, you know, catch a
gust of wind, and then have them land in Israelis
to basically start field fires or forest fires. As I said,
incendiary devices. That's a Molotov cocktail. That's something else they've
been throwing. People are showing up with knives saying they
want to stab Israelis. That they're chanting about how they

(34:12):
want to march all the way to Jerusalem. This isn't
peaceful protest, you know, this is this is like a
mob marching up to a police officer and all throwing
rocks at him. What's that cops supposed to do? Just
keep getting pelt with rocks. Oh, it's not it's non
lethal force they're using. Actually it's not true. So you know,

(34:34):
this is where you're seeing the media breakdown between how
they view That's amazing. You think a CNN, for example,
takes a very pro Palestinian point of view, and people
would say, oh, why is that. Oh, that's right. CNN
makes I believe most of it certainly makes a lot
of its money in the international market. That's why they

(34:55):
can have all these boring shows that nobody watches on
during the day and the ratings are garbage, and nobody
doesn't really matter all that much because CNN as an
organization makes a ton of money because in a lot
of countries it's considered, you know, this is the American
cable news channel of record, and so they'll just beam
it all over the world, so you know you've seen
international and it's an airports everywhere. It's kind of a

(35:17):
background channel, right for in a lot of countries, CNN
is the the airport or the elevator music of the
news industry. It's just kind of there and you can
kind of watch it or kind of not watch it.
But they I think that's why they take this particularly
pro Palestinian viewpoint a lot of things, and certainly with

(35:40):
the Trump administration, and I didn't get into that as
much this hour, but they view this as because Trump
did it, it has to be bad, breaking with tradition,
I think was the headline I saw I saw earlier today.
The Trump administration breaks with tradition. Oh no, don't break
with tradition, the tradition that has not exactly it worked
out so well considering that the peace process under the

(36:03):
Obama administration, the Israeli Palestinian peace process, did not get
to first base. I think you could argue that Obama
didn't even get up to the plate, didn't even get
a chance to bat because his administration was so inept
in bringing together the Israeli side with the Palestinian side
of that negotiation. So they have no wisdom to share here.

(36:25):
They have no perch from which they can cast aspersions
on what Trump is doing. And I think we will
see that this was a spark for discussions or if not,
guess what, at least they tried at least they did something.
They took action instead of sitting around thinking that the
status quo was what we want, because it is clearly not.

(36:52):
I want to switch gears because I know there's been
a lot of talk about what's going on with the
embassy today, and let's focus on some things here at home,
Immigration coming up in the next hour and all so
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(38:24):
Remember Sexton, No, just tell me what do you need
for this to all go away? A resignation here, right?
Being president is like doing porn. Once you do it,
it's hard to do anything else. He said, My poll
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(38:49):
we'll always have shock week. I solve North and South Korea.
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(39:09):
was from one of the cold opens and welcome back
to the Buck Saxons show. One are the cold opens
from Saturday Night Live recently. Now maybe saying Buck, there's
big policy matters to talk about. There's all kinds of well,
he spent the last hour in Israel in the embassy
move I want to look at the culture for a
few minutes here and what's going on. It has been
my contention on this show for quite some time, and

(39:31):
I believe it to be increasingly true and obvious that
culture is now a casualty of I'm sorry, comedy is
now well. Actually both of those things are true, but
comedy is a casualty of the left that progressive ideology

(39:51):
and intersectional politics are making it increasingly impossible to actually
be funny without risk to your career, ear to your reputation.
But also it has replaced comedy with propaganda. Right, Propaganda
can be funny, Propaganda can sometimes be you know, clever, humorous,

(40:14):
but it's for a purpose that you're having this stuff
told to you. It is meant to bring about a
certain mindset, to change people's positions on things. And what
you see from all the mainstream comedy shows these days,
with a few exceptions, but all the big platforms that

(40:35):
the late shows, SNL is just atrocious. It's not funny.
It's the same trumpet arrangement syndrome, snide commentary that dresses
dresses itself up as comedy somewhat, but is certainly not
actually first and foremost concerned with making people laugh. And

(40:57):
it's gotten so bad that I see even Vice, which
is a left wing hipster media organization, published a piece
on how these cold opens from SNL are just virtue
signaling political screeds from the left. They're not funny, they're elitists,
they're snide, they're nasty, and it just goes to show

(41:22):
you how much Trump has rattled the other side, that
this is what they have to do week in, week out.
They all they have all these different staff writers. They're
supposed to come up with with jokes that will make
the American people laugh. And I think there's a real
loss here because maybe it's just cowardice, right, they have
to make fun of Trump or else they're they worried

(41:44):
that they'll lose their privileged positions. They have to make
fun of conservatives, of white Christian males of the right
in general, because if they don't, then they're not woke enough,
you know. So there's a social pressure that comes into it.
But my big thing is they're just not funny. And

(42:04):
I find it so rare to actually have comedy that
is in, you know, wide circulation, that has a big platform.
I'm sure, Look, I'm sure they're a great stand up
people here that I saw stand up myself in New
York a couple of months ago. And you know, it
was it was good. It wasn't overly political. It's a
little political. Look, I'm gonna get a little political commentary.

(42:26):
I just think that there's a laziness that's at the
heart of so much of the commentary we're seeing these days.
And look, I used to like to trune into SNL
sometimes in the Dana Carvey Mike Myers age. You know,
you'd throw it on and there was some really good
to Chris Farley, I mean, and it was funny. And
you think back to the sketches that they would do,

(42:47):
and they weren't meant to make one side of the
political spectrum feel good about themselves and make the other
side feel bad about themselves. It was just meant to
make people laugh. You know, Wayne's World Celebrity Jeopardy another example,
just meant to make me That's one of my favorites.
Meant to make people laugh. Where's the equivalent today? You
just don't see it, and it's it's a function in

(43:10):
large part of the way the left does business now.
I do blame the Democrat Party. I blame progressive ideology.
I blame the Twitter outrage mobs, these newfound theories of
intersectionality and the victimology that is so pervasive and progressive thought. Right,
who's the biggest victim? That's the first thing you have

(43:32):
to determine before you can have any discussion about anything,
never mind make jokes. And I was actually happy to
see that Jerry Seinfeld when he was talking to David Letterman.
By the way, I've never thought Letterman was funny. And
everyone I ever know who's been around the guy says
he's mean. So why you know, he's just a construct
of the legacy media. There's just so much there are constructs, right,

(43:54):
They're the equivalent in comedy or in news of pop
stars right in sync. I was gonna say, justin Bieber, Gosh,
I'm losing him getting old? What's the guys, who's the
one who's married, dear Jessica whatever her name is, instead
of me? Damn it, Timberlake, thank you justin Timberlake. Yeah,
he's talented. But the rest of those guys, Yeah, they

(44:16):
were just kind of part of a machine, right Were
they so great? Were they so so talented? They kind
of got lucky. They're part of a machine. You have
that in comedy too. Some of the right guys or
some guys are just in the right place at the
right time. You're having a news for sure. What's the
difference see in like one anchor and another over at CNN.
I don't know how much Zucker and the executives like them.

(44:37):
That's really it not much of a difference in skill set,
and certainly not much of a difference in skill set
with people that are doing like, you know, local news
in Peoria. I mean, it's all the same thing, right,
So but I look at this and I think Letterman, Okay,
I'm sorry, I just go on my little rants. I
just don't like I've tried people like you're from New York, Buck,

(45:00):
I remember was based or should no, Letterman, It's just
not funny. Top ten lists are usually cheesy. You didn't
but I'm done. I mean the whole thing. It's just
not good at least in the last the last ten
years on air. I can't speak to what it was like,
you know, earlier on but Seinfeld was speaking to Letterman
and this issue came up. Play clip too. Do you
do Trump stuff when you go out? No, No, it

(45:20):
doesn't interest me. I do a lot of raisin stuff.
What raisins. I have a lot of raisin material because
you know, you have the sun Made company, and then
you have the raisin at people. That's right, and you're
gonna go with the Sun Made people. Well, I just
think it's interesting that after eighty years, sun Made finally went, hey,

(45:43):
why don't we put some chocolate on it? Like, imagine
not thinking of that for eighty years. Now. I like
this and for a number of reasons. One is it
you notice how Seinfeld he doesn't just deflect on that.
You can tell why antagonize half of your perspective audience.

(46:05):
It's one thing for me. And by the way, I
want Democrats to listen to this show. I think I'll
make converts out of them over time, and I want
smart democrats to write to me in good faith and
say you're wrong on this because of this, or I
disagree with you. I'm always trying to learn more too.
One of my favorite things about what I do is
that it is my mandate to learn more, to get

(46:26):
smarter on everything that I talk to you about each
and every time I come to this microphone, so that
I'm a better host. So this is what it pushes
me to keep reading and writing and diving into more
books and making the time to do more research. And
I love that part of what I do. But you know,
I also understand that you're generally going to have a

(46:48):
right of center audience. Listen to a conservative talk radio host.
If I were in comedy, I would want everybody to listen.
I'd want to make everyone laugh as much as humanly possible.
But they abandoned that as a mission. Even they're really
just trying to make the left laugh. And you see
this with the shows that are getting greenlit on Netflix

(47:10):
and these other platforms. I've been telling you we are
behind on the digital platforms we are getting. We're gonna
wake up and the younger generation is going to be
so much more interested in the news programming on YouTube
and Facebook Live and Netflix and Amazon everything than they

(47:32):
are in Like the old stagyrmal news anchor on CBS,
and I could pay ten million dollars a year, even
though you could pay somebody about a tenth of that,
and they'd be just as good and super excited for
the job. I mean, that's all going away, right. This
is why you have a lot of the big names
in media, in news media at the legacy networks, they're

(47:55):
really so insecure because I think they know that one
they're just lucky, but they're so lucky that to just
get through the day they have to think that there's
actually something special about them. But two, their whole business
model is disappearing. The notion of fight it out internally
to get some very rarefied news anchor job one of

(48:19):
these places. It's just not it's just not people say, oh,
bucking oh, it's just because you're not gonna do that.
It's not going to exist anymore it, trust me, in
twenty years, none of my peers, and you know who
all the good conservatives are right now, I have a
lot of them on the show. None of my peers
who are going to be big in the commentary and
news business are going to be vying for like an
ABC news position. It's just not reality. Maybe there'll be

(48:44):
some digital version of it, but there's not going to
be some channel that has this huge built in advantage
of advertising changing. It's all changing. Comedy, I think is
right for disruption. I mean, I'm not just here to
bemoan this. We need better platforms for comedy in general,
and yes conservative comedy too, but but as a more

(49:07):
broad spectrum thing, I just want to see people that
try to make people laugh. It's so, you know, there's
all these studies, but how it's good for you. And
it's one of the reason I try to joke around
here as much as I can on this show. Like
I'm not a comedian, I know that, but I do
try to. If I can't make you laugh, at least
I'll make myself laugh over the course of the show.
But this is something that it's just being stripped from

(49:28):
our from our culture. It really is. We are watching
the death of comedy and slow motion because of progressives.
Because and they're even starting to pick up on this.
No jokes are funny. Everything is offensive except you know,
you have the the the additive effect of or the

(49:50):
double whammy. That's what I was trying to think of of.
You know, you can't make any jokes unless they're about conservatives,
and then you can make all of your jokes as
mean as you want. That's the way that we're supposed
to go forward. Now it's just crazy. You know, I'm
really tired of it. I feel like a lot of
you are too, by the way, because I do take
your suggestions, folks, those who call in, those are who

(50:11):
write me. I did over the course the week and
watch a few episodes of Last Man Standing, and it
was a revelation. I'm like, oh, look at this, a
show about a family in America with a guy who's
being in a you know, kind of a red blooded
as salt of the earth guy. He's got a wife
and three daughters and they're just going through life. And

(50:31):
it's supposed to be funny. That's it doesn't have some
huge clawber you over the head. Agenda. Isn't supposed to
be making you change the way you view this or
that contentious social issue. It's just, hey, here's a show.
Let's like stuff that everyone deals with whatever race, whatever creed,
whatever color, whatever, you know, all of us deal with

(50:52):
these things. And I think that there's there's so much
more room for this now because we see the way
all of this is going. But last man's standing was good.
I think it's coming back too, which is I'm happy
about that. But my only thing, and this is just
a stylistic issue, and some of you are probably gonna
be mad at me for that, but that's all right.
I don't like laugh tracks. They have them the Big

(51:15):
Bang Theory. They have a lot of these big shows.
Still I prefer the just the comedy and you kind
of cut back and forth different scenes. I don't like
laugh tracks. It's just the thing for me. I know,
I'm you know. I also don't like when people talk
in the quiet car on amtrack, which happened recently and
I almost lost my coal. Because we're not barbarians. The

(51:37):
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(52:00):
mileage as possible out of this story about the bad
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(53:57):
really continuing to push on this issue of Kelly Sadler,
the White House official who look made a very very
bad comment about John McCain. Right, just a stupid, insensitive,
disrespectful thing to say. But my understanding was that, and

(54:18):
I could be wrong, but that she had called the
McCain family apologized to them, and yet this is still
a story. I was in the gym today here, I know, right,
fighting the dad bod. It's a losing battle. I was
in the gym today here in DC and they had
MSNBC on a locker room. First of all, there should
be no TV's in locker room. Second of all, why

(54:38):
is it MSNBC. Are they just trying to get me
angry before I work out? I mean, maybe that's some
form of motivation, but this is all a total aside.
But they're still trying to make this a a story,
a continuing story. I mean, we we covered this a
bit last week. Today, raw Shaw, who we've had here
on the show, took over the White House Press docker

(55:00):
Harry podium from Sarah Sanders. She was out for today.
I don't know why, and Roj had to just deal
with just one question after another. Remember we got the
embassy move today, still the whole Mueller probe, all that
situation going on, big immigration issues to deal with, reports
out that Trump wants a budget deal before the August

(55:22):
reassessed me, all kinds of stuff to really have the
media synk their teeth into and what do they really
want to talk about? How mean somebody in the White
House was, and that's what they want to talk about
play eleven. Senator Lindsey Graham said, I wish somebody from
the White House would tell the country that what Kelly
Sadler said was inappropriate, that that's not how we are

(55:44):
as a Trump administration. Why not just apologize? Kelly Sadler
told Megan McCain that she would apologize publicly, and that
has not yet happened. Why has that not happened, she explains,
You're always being addressed internally. She is still an employee
here at the White House. She came to work today.
Why had she publicly apologized, as she told Medima came

(56:05):
that she traded. Kelly Sadler is a little bit of
a victim here. Do you agree that she's a little
bit of a victim here? And why is there any
environment where that conveying that thought would be viewed as appropriate?
He said? It is dealt with internally. Has it anything
been dealt with since last week when she called the family?
We're leading the meeting where Kelly Sadler said what she said,
How did it strike you? Did you find to being inappropriate?

(56:26):
And how did what was the reaction in the room?
And that's that's just a smattering, that's just a selection
of the questions asked on this issue. A few things
on this They want her fire. The media will not
be satisfied until she's fired. Oh but keep this in
mind too, not only do they want her fired once

(56:48):
they get their way, if they get which they won't,
I think with this White House. And remember I don't,
in any way, shape or form think anything other than
that comment was completely unacceptable. But she apologized. She hasn't
publicly apologized, but maybe that's because the media keeps pushing
the issue with a very clear agenda. I think of

(57:09):
she needs to be fired for the comment to be fired.
You know this is this is also a moment where
I have to wonder, and they they will not be
satisfied even if she has fired, right then then it
will be yet another person fired for there for being
you know, grotesque and terrible in this White House, and
so it won't stop the stories. But another thing, and

(57:31):
this just comes from yeah, I was a CIA guy,
So discretion something that I kind of have a little
bit of a better understanding of than a lot of
other folks, but especially in the media. Um, who would
I mean, it's it's hurtful for this for the family,
for the McCain family to hear this. It's just hurtful
all around to spread this out there in the media.

(57:52):
Who is the turn Coode in that meeting that told
everybody about this terrible comment. He's back with you now
because when it comes to the fight for truth, the
fuck never stops. Big decision came down from the Supreme

(58:16):
Court earlier today. It's gonna change what is legal and
what is not what it comes to betting on sports.
I'm not somebody who watches a whole lot of professional sports,
but I do have interest in the government. It's regulation
and it's mandates when it comes to what is acceptable
and unacceptable commerce. We have somebody, though, who can answer

(58:37):
all these things for us and bring it all together
and make some sense of whether you can actually now
go and bet on the I was gonna say the
Crimson Tide or roll Tide or I don't know. I
don't know any of college sports at all. Emily Campanio
is with us. Yeah, she knows. Emily Campanio is with it.
She's a former federal attorney, also a legal analyst and
sports business analyst. Emily, great to have you back, Thanks

(59:01):
so much. But how are you all right to tell
me about this decision today? First of all, what led
to this, right, What led to this is the fact
that in nineteen ninety two a law was passed that
effectively prohibited states from enacting their own legislation to create
sports betting. Right A, New Jersey kept trying to get

(59:24):
around it, and so eventually the NCAA sued New Jersey
for trying to get around it. So in turn, New
Jersey sued back and said, this nineteen ninety two law
is unconstitutional, and finally the Supreme Court agreed to hear it.
And so what it boils down to is the fact
that if the if Congress had passed a law that

(59:44):
said we federally prohibit sports betting, then that would have
been constitutional. But instead the law said we prohibit states
from passing laws to that effect, and as we know,
that is prohibited via the commandeering exception in the Tenth Amendment.
And so that is why the Supreme Court struck it
down today. So essentially it opens the doors for states

(01:00:05):
to set their own laws to regulate and execute sports
betting within their own borders. Now, under this law, before today, right,
the situation was that you could I'm not somebody who
does any sports gambling because I don't watch much of
the way of sports, as you know, Emily. But you
could place a bet right, but you would have to
call Las Vegas or something wasn't there. So you could

(01:00:29):
be in a state, but you'd have to call a
place and they put the bet for you there. How
did that work? Right? Essentially, that original law carved out exceptions,
And here's the irony is that it actually carved out
an exception for New Jersey at the time also, and
New Jersey was sluggish and slow and fail to take

(01:00:49):
advantage of that. They failed to be timely. And so
Las Vegas and states that already have sports lottery, which
include states like organ they got in under that exception
of the Father clause. But New Jersey just failed at it.
So in a way, it's good for we didn't because
now the law has been one hundred percent overturn ruled unconstitutional.

(01:01:10):
But until then, in this past interim, you could only
again place bets under lottery systems if it was already
existing or in Vegas because of the Grandfather clause. Now
note as well, for listeners, this doesn't change online gambling.
This only has to do with state borders. And so
until it's you know, until something happens differently on the
federal level, when you see and hear people already talking

(01:01:33):
about oh, mobile apps and this and that, it has
to be tied to a house. It has to be
tied to a racetrack or a brick and mortar within
a state, so that you're not operating across state line. Okay,
see that's really important. So before you would have to
call a state that had the exception and they could
place the bet for you in that state. And now

(01:01:55):
states were any state based on the Supreme Court decision
that came. Now today any state could say, you know,
New York, they could say, okay, we're gonna set up
the New York Betting Authority or something, right, I mean,
just I know this is what they call these things.
But and anyone can show up and they can bet
on whether the Hoosiers are gonna beat the Hoyas. Right
there we go. I got a couple. I don't know

(01:02:17):
if they're even in the same conference or whatever, but
you know, there's something, there's something there. I'm close. But
so you could do that as long as you were
doing it at that authority in the state where you
reside or in the state where you're placing the bet.
But I couldn't say, as a New York resident, call
Ohio and say, hey, I want to bet on your

(01:02:37):
I want to bet on your game there right? I mean,
is that am I close? Um? Yeah, you're You're on
the right truck, absolutely, And again you you can't. You
can't cross state lines at this moment um until unless
you are tied directly to that house. So you're right
on that account. And I do want to point out
to you for listeners how complex this is in that

(01:03:00):
you mentioned, you know, the gaming commission or who would
oversee so certain states have been eyeing the fact that
this was in the works, and there are many states
that already have legislation approved and ready to go that
was contingent upon this being struck down, and they've proposed
that there existing gaming commissions or things of the like
will now be amended to oversee sports betting operations as well.

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There's obviously a lot of profit that is to be
made that goes to the state and those individual houses
and including sovereign tribes right and casinos in certain states
where that applies. I want to say around thirty of them.
And the biggest issue here, the biggest con was the
preservation or the potential for piercing of the integrity of
the game. And so when you hear a lot of

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kind of vernacular about this, people have been talking about
the propensity for addiction, and obviously there is that, but
really it had to do with preserving the game, because
that is why that nineteen ninety two while was passed
in the first place. And so that's why now everyone
is clamoring to ensure a portion a portion of the
profit goes toward what they're calling it's an integrity free

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And so the irony is that all of these big
league and professional sports organizations that have been protesting this
the whole time, they've actually been lobbying now for the
last six years undercover or I mean, you know, openly,
but on the side with the estates can make sure
that they get a cut, because they're saying, we are
now the ones that have to put the bill for
that integrity. Huh. So what's the interity thing? By the way,

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they think that if people are allowed to if people
are allowed to place bets on games, then people are
going to cheat in the games, Like, is that that's
what they say? Because can't you place it Ben right
now in Vegas? Exactly? Yes you can, and yes that
is that is the fear that you know that coaches
and players and officials and all of a sudden it

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will be one mass of corruption. And how much of this, Emily,
I gotta jump in this is important? How much of
this is really about Vegas, Atlantic City, a few other
places spending a lot of money on lobbying and trying
to protect their protect their own prerogatives here by being
places where you can actually gamble, you know what I mean?

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How much of this is actually gambling special interest driven
up until this point instead of actually about protecting the game.
Or do you think it really is primarily about just
people wanting to protect the game? I don't know, I'm asking.
I think that is the pure intent at the heart
of what obviously translates into money, So it all goes
to everyone wants to make sure that their best are

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based on pure principles and that their money will not
be rendered vulnerable by other people feeding and by corrupting
the game and correcting their gambling, you know, the enjoyment
of course, that's like a pure thing, that's the fan thing.
But how it relates becomes a lot more complicated. And
I want to point out, because we are all interested
in our tax dollars and how money has spent in

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what things we are obligated for, the states are already
taking firm positions over who splits that. See so West Virginia,
for example, they're like, absolutely not. Will There's no way
our states will folder one red sense of this integrity.
See like, absolutely not, that's going to be fully casinos.
A New Jersey says absolutely not. You spent the last

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six years, you know, bleeding us dry and screwing us
in courts, So absolutely not will you even see a
red scent at all from us? So it plays into
into account as well, like who foots the bill for
the preservation that then protects people's gambling dollars? As you
pointed out, how much money do we think is at
stake here if this were to go state by state

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and people and states rather are passing legislation to allow
sports betting, I've got a guess it's billions, right, And
there's billions of dollars that must be conceivably at play
here because of this ruling. Right, Okay, So the American
Gambling Association they have estimated one hundred and fifty billion
dollars was spent that spent annually illegally over you know,

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legally um outsourced because sports betting was illegal here. And
in twenty seventeen alone in Nevada, where it's legal, so
heart numbers of legal sports betting, we had four point
eight billion wagered and then the sports books themselves made
two hundred and forty nine a million. So that's one year,
one legal place, and that's you know, that's what we're

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looking at. You're absolutely right. The point is in the
billions and no two for people who aren't as versed
in gambling. But sports betting isn't really lucrative for the house.
It is more lucrative actually for the fans. So that's
an interesting thing too that um it, it pulls into
play more than just you know the kind of thing. Right.

(01:07:45):
I've got to assume though, that the same way that
states justify the lottery, which is really actually attacks on
many people in the working class. Uh, but they justify
by taking the proceeds of lottery. So wherever you are
across the country, folks listening. I mean, unless I'm missing it.
Maybe it's different in some states, but usually the proceeds
the state gets from loattering, at least in theory, goes
toward education, and I know they've done that. I think

(01:08:07):
also with taxes on marijuana in states that have de
facto legalized marijuana, it's supposed to go towards schools. I
got to assume that now that states have the green light,
based on this Supreme Court ruling today Emily, that they're
just going to tax the tax that you know what
out of sports bets in their states. Right, it's a
big source of revenue for the government. And you know

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that any opportunity for income for the FED or income
for the states. First of all, anything they don't get
they call quote lost income, which shows you that any money,
any money you bring home, they really consider it that's lost.
That's really their income that's lost. That's number one and
number two. Yes, and the states have already come out
many of them and said specifically, look, this is where

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all of that faufit dollars, this is where they're going.
And you're right, it includes education and it includes global benefits,
benefits for their citizens. So it's certainly not tied only
to uh sports or gambling. Um and I agree with you,
by the way, that the lottery is a tax on workers. Um. So, yes,
you are one hundred percent right. And a lot of
the legislation too, by the way, is not it's not

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set in stone. They say, look, you know this is
this is tentative, and then as soon as this small
was overturned, which it was today and the implementation, it'll
be put in stone and the actual percentage of tax
will be um uh conquertized at that time essentially. So
do you think we're going to see just last one
for your Emily or speaking to Emily Componu by the way,
everyone go to Emily Komponyu dot com for more of

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her a legal analysis. Are we going to see an
explosion of different states that are that are actually going
to pass laws here that allow this to become kind
of a new American tradition betting on sporting events. Yes,
in the last couple of years, we have states that
have already teed it up, ready and waiting to go.
So we have New Jersey obviously right away they even

(01:09:53):
fought kiosks already. I mean, everyone is poised and ready
to embark. And we have UM six that are ready
to go, an additional thirteen that are almost ready to go,
and then a couple more that have study bills in place.
So and there by the way, listeners can go online
to interactive map where they can see which states are
at what stages and yes, it's absolutely an explosion happening.

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Follow them, they compano on Twitter. Folks, Emily, great to
have you, come back soon, Thanks so much, Bucks, See
you again so eight four four nine two eight two five.
If you want to chat, we are here in the hut.
We are ready to rock. Take your calls whenever you like.
UM talk to you about liberal hypocrisy and immigration. That'll
be fun. It's always a good topic. We'll enjoy that one.

(01:10:39):
Maybe we'll make fun of college kids who don't know
about Obama's Nobel Peace Prize. But I don't know. Maybe
we'll see what kind of mood we're in. Then, team
and stay with me. Hey, team, We've got some calls

(01:11:03):
coming in. Hey John in Bucks County based on the
name clearly God's country, Pennsylvania. John, Great to have you,
Yes it is thanks Bucks. Uh. I just want to
say I've been listening to you for a long time
since the Blaze, and I'm basically proud that there's somebody
out there speaking truths of power like you're you're you're smart,
you're funny and andy, and you got a good objective

(01:11:25):
of pinion of stuff. You're very kind, sir, Thank you, well,
You're You're welcome. You deserve it. Um. What I wanted
to say was about voting. Um, We're a vote in
Pennsylvania tomorrow and I've been watching what's going on with
Trump and I hope people that you know, people listen.
Is it the primary? John give Can you give us

(01:11:45):
a little just a little primer. What's what's up for tomorrow?
You said you're voting. Who's who's running? Who's voting? Well,
there's all kinds of people running. But I'm I'm saying
what I'm telling the people that listen to Buck Sex
and there's they should get out and vote because I mean,
Trump showed that you can, you can get out and
you can put some of these people out that are
some of these deep state people. I mean, you gotta

(01:12:06):
you gotta start at the grass roots. You gotta earlier
might get out there, and you gotta vote, because I mean,
if you look at what's going on, if they can
do that to Trump, they can do that to anybody.
And well, what they're doing is is just dead ass wrong.
Some of the stuff's coming out with that in bed
in the in the in the campaign and stuff like that.
I mean, yeah, I want I'm gonna I'm gonna drill
down to that. People are probably like, Buck, why aren't

(01:12:26):
you hitting the more today. I'm I'm doing some my
deep dive research and you'll probably hit it more tomorrow
and the next day. But I do think that they
I think that there's a preponderance of the evidence now
pointing toward a penetration of the Trump campaign by somebody
working on behalf of the FBI and perhaps others in
the in the intelligence community. We don't know yet, but

(01:12:47):
we'll look into that. And uh and John, I appreciate
you calling in for Pennsylvania. Thank you, sir. H Yeah,
don't think that I've that's off my off my radar.
I will certainly be spending more time looking at and
thinking about the Muller probe. Be honest with you, folks,
I need to stop, as a preface to a sentence,

(01:13:08):
I need to not use that anymore because it makes
it sound like, well, unlike the other times, we're being
dishonest with you folks, right, let me let me be
straight with you here, unlike the other times. No, but
I get Muller fatigue here. And I know so many
shows spend so much time on it. I really look,
I feel like by the time you get to listen
to me, many you know, those you listening live or
many of you are listening on the podcast later on,

(01:13:32):
you know, I'm giving you stuff that you haven't heard elsewhere,
and hopefully stories you haven't even heard about elsewhere. It's
one of the one of the value addeds that I
like to have here on the show. So I try
to also mix it up. I mean, today, look, you
got to talk about Israel when it's the biggest story
in the country. I think you're right what it means
the Trump administration. So we certainly do a fair amount
of the big news of the day here, but I

(01:13:53):
try to bring other things into the mix as well.
That all set I just also get tired of Muller
the whole thing, right, all this and that, this and that,
and you know, it's it's certainly a marathon, not a sprint,
and it feels sometimes like it's a it's a marathon
in slow motion. Right, it's just watching paint dry here

(01:14:13):
with hoping this thing is gonna end sometime soon and
I'll look into you know, we wanted to have Kim
Strassel last week. She got super busy because her story
on this possible penetration of the Trump campaign became one
of the one of the main news narratives in the
country unless you're a Democrat, and then it's just Stormy
Daniels and you know Russia, or this guy Michael Avanati,

(01:14:36):
who her lawyer, the porn lawyer. This guy is sending
around some pretty crazy emails to people the media, threatening
them like you can't talk about this or I'm gonna
sue you and you better watch out or else. This
guy's a clown. This guy's a real joke. But notice,
you know, Cooper and Cuomo and Tapper and matt Ow,

(01:14:57):
and they're all, oh, let's treat this guy like he's
he's a real hero of the resistance. You know, they'll
they'll treat him with a lot of respect. The guy
who's you know, the poor lawyer guy of a Nati
and I think he's angling for a show. I really do.
I think he thinks he's got to get his own
table news show. I want to talk to you about

(01:15:17):
liberal hypocrisy when it comes to um homelessness, specifically in
California and what's going on there. That'll that'll be a
story coming up. And then also teen Vogue and Karl Marks,
we'll talk about that just a few minutes. Buck Sexton
remission to coding the news and disseminating information with actionable intelligence.

(01:15:39):
Make no mistake American, You're a great American. Again. This
is the Buck Sexton Show. CIA analysts. Remember, No, it's
about seventy five percent of geographical areas inhabited by twenty
five percent of lower income people buy and large so
people in this medieval society on the coast, they don't

(01:16:02):
believe in water transfers for agriculture and for poor people,
but they surely do for the artificial landscapes in the
Bay Area, whether it's het Chechi or the California Water Project.
So that attitude is it sort of reverberates throughout California,
and it's a dysfunctional state because of that. There's the
middle class about four or five million people have left.

(01:16:23):
We had about four or five million people come illegally
from southern Mexico, and we've had an enormous concentration of
global wealth in a very small geographical area. And you
put all that together and you get what you have now,
a dysfunctional state. That was Victor Davis Hansen, one of
my favorite contemporary writers, does a great job National View.

(01:16:47):
I really like his books too, And I had the
good fortune to be a wow who I was gonna say,
I was out on the West coast. Got that? Who
cares about that for now? But he's a really interesting guy,
and I really appreciate his analysis a California native of
what's going on out there because it is a window
into our future. And when I say that it is

(01:17:08):
turning into a stratified socioeconomic society like Latin America, I
don't mean in terms of the Latin American population in California.
I mean incredibly wealthy people, period and very very very
dependent on the state. Not wealthy people. Right. You have
that across much of Latin America. That's the status quo.

(01:17:32):
In Brazil, that's the status quo. In Argentina, that's just
the way that it is. And California doesn't have an
answer to this problem, really, and I think it's just
going to keep getting worse and worse. But apart from
the issue of illegals, where you have a lot of
hypocrisy because the liberals who have the money and have

(01:17:53):
a lot of say in what the government is doing
in California don't deal with illegals dept in ways that
benefit them right there. Their kids aren't going to schools
with a lot of illegal immigrants. Their kids aren't or
their their neighborhoods tend not to be places where you have,
you know, not a lot of illegals in Beverly Hills,
for example, at least not living there. But the homelessness issue,

(01:18:17):
which is separate from the issue of illegal immigrants, is
also a place where you see this stratification. I didn't
even know this, you know, I was in LA recently
a few weeks back, and I told you I love
San Diego. La has some great parts that some big drawbacks.
But I would drive past these encampments of homeless people

(01:18:39):
and and I mean I mean it looked like occupied
Wall Street. I mean tents that are clearly not going
anywhere set up for long term open air living. And
I knew that that LA had this problem, but I
didn't know until I read this article in the was
the Post at the Times that California has a quarter

(01:19:01):
of the entire country's homeless population. Okay, so twenty five
percent of all homeless people in the three twenty million
person United States are in California, which is pretty stunning.
But it's only now becoming an issue because you see
a lot of the liberals in the Bay Area, LA
and around really the coasts. The rich people in California

(01:19:24):
live in the coasts. The working class, poor people, legal immigrants,
they live more in the interior of California. But the
rich people along the coasts are starting to complain about
the homeless population because they're actually having It's gotten so
bad that they're actually having to deal with it. This
is the peace in the Washington Post. As gentrification escalates

(01:19:45):
in California, people wonder where can the homeless go. Well,
let me answer this question. I can't go to you
can't go to Malibu, can't go to Orange County, can't
go to you know the nicest you know, Santa Monica. Well,
actually there's a lot of Homelessessanta Monica. It's a problem
because of the beaches, but you know, can't go to

(01:20:09):
a lot of places where the wealthy or congregated. But
they don't understand that having the policies they do of
permissiveness for homelessness statewide cause problems for everybody else. Right,
Just now you're starting to see some pushback on this
because and this is by the way, you see this
with schools, You see this with a number of things.
These sanctimonious limousine liberals will be there's stands so tall,

(01:20:36):
they're so into the virtue signal on this stuff. The
moment that they actually have skin in the game, the
moment that it's hold on a second, you're gonna have
to deal with these policies you have advocate for everyone else.
They didn't even try to hide the hypocrisy. It just
jumps out at you. This is one in particular I'm
trying to find. This was in this piece on you know,

(01:20:58):
I think that Malibu is of the most beautiful places
in the whole country. But obviously it's incredibly wealthy liberal enclave, right,
But it's a very very beautiful place. If you haven't
been Pacific Coast Highway. There's it's worth a drive, It's
it's gorgeous. Obviously a very very expensive place to live
as well. But here's what this piece says about Malibu.

(01:21:20):
It's a city west of Los Angeles that includes a
neighborhood nicknamed Billionaires Beach. But residents have urged a church
to stop the weekly dinners at holds for the homeless.
Residents argue that offering charity just attracts more homeless people,
and the same thing has happened in other parts of

(01:21:42):
Los Angeles. Oh, you mean that if you if you
invite now, the church is different than the state. But
if you have state policies that invite in homeless people
and tell them that they can live on the streets
and they yeah, by the way, this to outbreaks of disease.
It's really unsanitary. I'm I'm all for helping the homeless.

(01:22:05):
I'm not for municipal policies that encourage the homeless to
just live out on the city streets, which is what
you have in places like la You have these big
encampments of tents everywhere, and that's been okay until they
want to set up shop in Malibu. Then all of
a sudden, liberals start complaining about it until they want
to start, you know, taking over parks. That's, by the way,

(01:22:28):
one of the things you see, park is supposed to
be a common space, a shared space right for all
people in a neighborhood, anyone even passing through the neighborhood
to enjoy. If a park turns into a giant, open
air latrine, it is much less enjoyable. I think, call
me crazy, but that's what ends up happening in a

(01:22:49):
lot of these. I've heard it's worse sin San Francisco
than any other place in the country. I have friends
and family members have been out of the West to
specifically a Bay area recently, and they say it's just
San Francisco is feeling more and more like a giant,
open air homeless shelter. It's not good for the homeless
people that are in these encampments, by the way, it's

(01:23:11):
not helpful to them to be in a in a
city that you know, gives them all kinds of free
services and it really encourages them. I think San Francisco
also gives a has a needle distribution programs. You've got
hy hypodermic needles all over the city too now, and
they're really ruining these places, folks. And by the way,

(01:23:32):
what is one unifying characteristic of all of these cities,
and of course the state of California, It is the
Democrat stronghold, the bluest of the blue, as left wing,
as progressive as it gets. At least New York City
progressivism has a bit there's a bit more of a
of an attachment to capitalism as a general concept, you know,

(01:23:53):
because the Wall Street and all that stuff out in
the progress out in the West Coast that progresses. Man,
it's there. They're even in a whole other level. I think. Oh,
here's another one. This is when all of a sudden,
the problem of mass homelessness. Liberals start to pay attention
when it is literally in their backyard. Right, when it's
your backyard, How could you be so mean? Why don't

(01:24:15):
you want to help the less fortunate? Oh? But when
all of a sudden it means that they're celebrated cultural
edifices are under assault, then there's a problem. Here's what
this piece says. There's a fire last fall that threatened
the Getty Museum because a fire started in a hillside

(01:24:36):
homeless encampment, which drew calls from some of the richest
Los Angeles neighborhoods for the government to do more to
address the issue. Downtown business is also burned as a
result of cooking fires that got out of control in
homeless enclaves. This stuff is dangerous. Let's you get a
homeless man walk into a steakhouse in Ventura in Los
Angeles and stab a thirty five year old man as

(01:24:58):
he ate dinner with his f five year old daughter
sitting in his lap. Folks, okay. Allowing for widespread systematic
homelessness on the streets without a city program to address
it and deal with it right away is a big problem.
I saw this in New York City. There was and
in my neighborhood on the East side of New York

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growing up as a kid, there was an open air
homeless shelter that was being operated right a block away
from my church, and not by the church, by the way,
by a bunch of Democrat politicians wanted to look like
they were being so nice. You know what. It was loud,
it was unsanitary, it was dangerous. Maybe now the liberals
are starting to wake up because the loudness and the
lack of sanitary conditions, and the danger is getting close

(01:25:42):
enough to them. But you know, maybe they should also
think there's some ideas we should revisit here about being
a bleeding hard progressive just maybe, just maybe we'll be
right back. So the left has some weird heroes. I

(01:26:13):
don't mean today. I don't mean like Sarah Silverman, who's
neither funny nor charming nor interesting. I mean historically too.
I mean you will see people walking down the street
progressives who think of themselves as very socially conscious, woke
in the parlance of our times. They're so woke, and

(01:26:36):
they will, whether they believe it or not, virtue signal
by tying themselves to symbols of the wicket. You see
this with Chekavara, for example, Ernesto Guivara. We all call
him cha Chay just means dude. It's the nickname like Buck.
Two points everybody, what's my real name? Some of your

(01:26:58):
yelling James, and you're correct, But Ernesto che Guevara, Buck
is my middle name, so that counts. Is somebody you'll
see emblazoned on T shirts and they they won't know
about his his authoritarianism, his brutality, his feelings towards what
should be done to uh to gaze. He was a

(01:27:22):
terrible fellow. I mean, Guivara was a really bad guy.
But he's a revolutionary. And there's a picture of him
where he looks like kind of a handsome Brooklyn hipster
and so bam his face is on things. But you
don't usually see a hipsterization of Karl Marx among the
pop culture set, but sometimes it happens, And now we've

(01:27:47):
got an example of that, courtesy of teen Vogue. So like,
am I got ask like whatever? Because like if I
just like listen to Aria Grande, like, I feel like
I'll get like the bath sense of like hopital and
like what's going on in the world because she like
south Thumb and a sad as. The usage, the the

(01:28:08):
overuse of like in speech is one of the things
that we should all work to eradicate. And I will
tell you I know some lots of very smart people
who like just like just like they'll like talk like
just like this like all like day. It needs to stop.
It is bad. It's a habit, it is learned, and

(01:28:30):
we need I know, this is a very get off
my long thing. But you all have to agree with
me as I said to you. Everyone should feel comfortable pausing.
I do it all the time here on the show.
I'm also speaking for three hours at a time. But
everyone should feel comfortable pausing as they speak and not
like feel like they have to like feel like every
like pause like because like oh my anyway, so like commrqus.

(01:28:54):
Back to teen Vogue, hairs an article and the title
as who is all Marks made the anti capitalist scholar?
That communist scholars ideas are more prevalent you might realize
in teen Vogue And they go on to say this,
this author in teen Vogue, which I didn't even really

(01:29:16):
know was a thing, goes on to actually give some
information about Marks. I'm like, you know, she has access
to Wikipedia. That's good, so talking about the communist manifesto
and socialism and labor and ye, there's a little bit
of information in here. So I can't say that it's
a total loss, because I'm sure there's some girls who

(01:29:36):
are like, oh my gosh, like why is Santa Claus
like writing about political things? It's like, it's not Santa Claus, honey,
it's Krawl Marks close enough, though, Like what I've heard
us he bring presents. Well, actually, in fact there's uh
that's that's kind of part of the appeal of socialism
is the promise that you're gonna get lots of free
goodies in presidents. But it doesn't work out that way.

(01:29:58):
So in a sense, all Marks is an evil Santa clause,
he's Santa, but there aren't any actual presence. He's Santa
who takes presence from you. But this piece goes on
to then, after laying out some of the very basics
about the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, goes in to say

(01:30:19):
things like like this quote. Some examples of violence that
aided in the establishment of capitalism in the United States
include stealing the land of indigenous people and trafficking Africans
through slavery end quote. So now we're gonna look at
capitalism as anything bad that has happened during the period

(01:30:42):
that capitalism has existed. Like, let's pick the worst stuff
and blame that on capitalism, even if it has nothing
to do per se with the economic system of capitalism.
And see, this is polluting the minds of the youth.
My friends. Socrates got in trouble for this. But teen
Vogue is actually doing it. You mean Socrates as an aside.

(01:31:06):
I saw over the weekend. I saw Bill and Ted's
excellent ADVENTURER Bogus excellent, And you know, Keanu Reeves is
one of my favorite actors. I'll say that. So I
have a particular place place in my heart for Bill
and Ted's excellent adventure Bogus. Journey was just like not

(01:31:28):
not good enough. It was it was. It was bogus. Obviously,
it's a well named movie in that the journey in
the second one was was bogus. But there's more in
this teen Vogue piece that I find troubling because I
assume that only I can't imagine anyone who's not a
teenage girl reads teen Vogue. I could be wrong, but

(01:31:51):
there are things like this in this piece. While you
may not necessarily identify as a Marxist, socialist or communist,
you can still use Karl Marx's ideas to use history
and class struggle to better understand how the current socio
political climate came to be. Instead of looking at President
Donald Trump's victory as a snapshot, we can turn to

(01:32:13):
the bigger picture of what led up to the current moment.
So Yeah, you can use Marx's ideas to better understand
the current socio political climate in America. I guess that's
somehow technically true, and that learning things means that you'll
know more about other things as you learn them. But

(01:32:33):
I don't think that Marx and his theories are particularly
useful for understanding this moment in time in this country. Plus,
like Marx, like if you give back and you look
at like the history of like mark them, like there's
not a lot of like really fancy designers in communist countries,
like kind of thing that communist countries have really bad

(01:32:55):
designers if you look at the photos. See, I want
to scare the youth away from communism, so I want
to tell them about things like that, like the cars
were like really ugly and like slow and not like
there were no beamers in like communist countries, like not
like fancy ones at least stuff like that. Yeah, So

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if teen Vogue is going to get in on this game,
I feel like we need to do our part and
disabuse the youth of thinking that that Marx is cool.
But what was it mark the two hundredth anniversary of
Yeah it's too I'm sorry. Yeah, the two hundredth birthday
of Karl Marx was May fifth. That was why this
is getting getting some traction. Oh and maybe it will

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be good just asn't a side, Maybe it will be
good to include in this piece about Marxism in teen
Vogue some discussion of the hundreds of millions who were
killed as a result of this guy's terrible ideas that
negate basic human nature and their for dignity, and the
billions of people throughout history who have been enslaved as

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a result of these terrible ideas. That also might be
nice to throw into this Team Vogue article on Karl Mark.
But like, happy birthday, Carl, you're like two hundred, that's
like foe all like lmg, he's back with you now,

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because when it comes to the fight for truth, the
fuck never stops. Team. Whenever I see something online and
I think is really worthwhile, I try and share it
with you, even if it's has nothing to do with

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the news. And I wanted to tell you about this one.
This was off of a Twitter thread. Usually you don't
find a lot of wisdom on Twitter, or a lot
of things that inspire you pull at your heart strength.
This one, though, I thought was worth sharing with you,
in particulars from a father. Goyo was a Catholic priest,

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and here's what he shared. Meet Estella and Nicholas today
they got married. For anyone else, this would just be
a picture of a normal wedding day. But for these
two there is much more than meets the eye. For them,
this is a story of the triumph of love and hope.
There's a nice photo of Nicholas and Estella looking very

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lovely on their wedding day. Father Goya writes, three weeks ago,
I was approached by someone at my parish. Father, there's
a couple who wants to get married. I'm glad to
hear it. I said, tell them to call me and
we will set up a meeting. Well, she said, this
is the thing. They're in the hospital. Could you come
see them please. I went to visit them, only to

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find out that Estella Abut, twenty six year old woman,
had cancer that had spread all over her body. Doctors
gave her a limited time of life. I saw her
husband to be by her side with a sad smile
in his eyes, asking me for hope and a miracle.
I didn't know what to say. I can't perform miracles.

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But I listened and I did what I do best.
I put a smile on Estella's face. Her smile brightened
the room like I've never seen before. Yes, I told
her when she asked me about her wedding, I will
do the wedding. I went back home very sad. I
never take the hard cases home with me in the hospitals,
but this was different. I couldn't shake it off. Plus,

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I've never done an emergency wedding, so the nerves were
pretty bad. Now I had to prepare for something I
myself wasn't ready for. We agreed we would do a
private wedding since she couldn't move much and had tons
of needles. I would come to the room along with
the witnesses and some family members. I'm not gonna lie.
I felt really nervous. This is something they don't teach

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in seminary. The day came, I took my alb stole
and ritual book, my holy water, of course, and I
decided to stop at the store to buy her some flowers,
since I didn't expect her to have many. I already
told friends to make her feel like a bride and
to put in a suit, I said for her groom.

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I drove to the hospital. When I got there, I
couldn't believe what I saw. Sixty people were waiting, including
doctors and her nurses. Estella felt so much better that
the wedding would take place in the chapel, and she
looked so beautiful and full of life. And there is
a photo that he attaches of Estella looking absolutely splendid

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on her wedding day. Father writes, I gave her the
biquet of white roses, and smiling timidly, she said, thank you, father,
this is the dream of my life. I never thought
I could do it before my life was over. I
am telling you. I had to summon all my strength
not to cry, so I just smiled back and helped
her up. I accompanied both groom and bride to the chapel,

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which was packed before we started. I'd never paid so
much attention to those vows. I take you for better
and worse in sickness and health, till death do us part.
At this point, the sniffles and the tears were louder
than music. Staff of the hospital were amazing. They prepared
a surprise reception in less than twenty four hours. Then

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the groom said to me, thank you Father. All I
wanted was for God to bless my love for her,
and it happened. I don't know what the future has
for Estella Nicholas. I don't know what will happen tomorrow.
But today they enjoyed the miracle of love that gives
strength to the sick. Today, hope, faith, and love. One

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and one more day, we all gave thanks to God
so they experience the love that conquers the hopeless heart,
sadness and suffering, the love that brings tears of joy
in health and illness, till death breaks the earthly bond.
My dear friends, I love being part of your witness,
Estella and Nicholas. God loves you. From Father Goya. Time

(01:39:44):
to spread some freedom coast to coast. He's a lean,
mean analysis machine. Team Buck, it's time for roll call.
I don't even know how I would characterize that music
we just played. It feels like it's it's multiple genres.

(01:40:07):
It's kind of like aggressive elevator music. You know, it's
it's the music where you're you're not supposed to hear it,
but for a second you might catch yourself like ooh,
I gotta sway those hips side to side with this
elevator music. I hope you all had a great Mother's Day.
I made my now world famous thanks to the Stephen

(01:40:28):
Colbert Show and my world famous eggs, which I will say,
we're delicious. The eggs I nailed because I make eggs
almost every day, and I can tell you that I'm
actually leaner and in better health now than I was
when I used to eat like a big bowl of
special K to start my day. That was also before
I knew I had Celiac disease. But I'm not gonna

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lie to you because I did not manage to nail everything.
We had a great Mother's Day brunch. I was with
my siblings, my two awesome brothers, my amazing little sis,
and my parents, Mom and Dad. And you know, we
made mom because we have a great mom a a
very nice Mother's Day brunch I nailed. I nailed the bacon.
I got thick cut bacon from Italy in New York City,

(01:41:13):
which is this Italian kind of a gourmet Italian mall
if it's like a big super food store. But I
got the thick cut bait. I mean, you can really
taste the pork. It's really phenomenal. And that came out
very well, and the eggs came out very well. And
I got some roast potatoes too. I thought I would
flash fry. This is where this is where I went wrong.

(01:41:34):
I thought I would flash fry the roast potatoes. And
sure enough they didn't get so much flash flash fried
as flash soggy. And yeah, it wasn't really the all
time best move that I've ever pulled off. What idiot?

(01:42:00):
Oh what a loser? Good good more for me and you.
But other than that, everything was great. We had a
really good time, really enjoyed ourselves. And there you have it,
and I hope you had a great time too. Let's
get into a roll call Facebook dot com slash Buck
Sexton if you want to send me your thoughts. Also
official Team Buck at gmail dot com. One bit of business,

(01:42:25):
I actually have to put off the announcement about why
I'm in the swamp for one more week. It's not
up to meet team. What can I tell you? One
more week and then we can announce and we will
be good to go. It's exciting stuff, that much, I
can tell you. All Right. First, up here we have Sterling,

(01:42:45):
who writes buck Love the show. Your analysis is the
best out there. Something I noticed when considering the differences
between the investigations of the Clintons her classified server and emails,
and the Trump investigation. Didn't they offer immunity to almost
everyone they talked to in the Hillary investigation, and their
justification was that they just wanted to get to the truth.

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Has anyone in the Trump campaign or administration been offered immunity?
You know, Sterling, this is a great point. It's one
I've made before on the show in different ways, and
I appreciate you raising it once again. And it's really
the disparity that we see from the prosecutors on the
investigators and prosecutors on the one side with the Clintons

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versus the way it's going on with Trump. They gave
not just every benefit of the doubt, but really bent
over backwards trying to make sure that there was no
way that anyone could run a foul of a process charge,
right of lying under oath, or obstruction or destruction of

(01:43:51):
evidence or any of that with the Hillary probe, And
on the Trump side of the equation, they are doing
everything in their power to make sure that they can
get people for those reasons. You know, the show Billions
is pretty good in a lot of ways. Some stuff
is a little over the top. It's a showtime show.
I was watching it this past weekend, and you know,

(01:44:12):
it's it's one of these shows where you finally see
that prosecutors. Prosecutors are not, in fact these paragons of
virtue who do not in any way have politics influencing
or thinking. You know, you see in Billions a guy

(01:44:34):
who is trying to become governor spoiler alert, sorry, but
who's doing all sorts of political machinations behind the scenes,
including those that benefit him specifically. Really interesting from a
recent episode, by the way, was this is a total asside.
But since I was talking about food and cooking before,
they eat something called an ortolan on the show, and

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I will be honest with you, I had never heard
of this before. So an ortolan is a delicacy. This
became popular in well they say it was popular even
an ancient Rome, but it certainly is still something that
is liked by a certain contingent in France. It's an

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ordolon is a songbird and what they do and by
the way, it's illegal to eat it, and it's considered
a great mark of elitism if you ever get the
chance to eat it. So an ordolon is this songbird.
And when you eat it, you cover your head, and
this was all on the show. You cover your head

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in a white napkin, a white cloth, the idea being
to shield yourself from God. That's kind of the the
lore behind it. Other people say it's actually just so
you have the vapors, the sense of the food, the
smells that come together, or it's you know, you enjoy
it more if you have this nap over your head.

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But so, this is just a song bird that they
keep in darkness and or they blind it. Actually it's
a little bird and then it gorges on grains and grapes.
It becomes incredibly fat, and then it is a thrown
alive into a vat of armagnac brandy, so it you

(01:46:26):
drown the bird in brandy, which then of course also
marinates the bird after you've made it insanely fat, and
then you eat the whole thing, kind of like a
soft shell crab. And it's called an ortolan. And this
is illegal everywhere. Now they're protected. In fact, the birds
are protected. They eat it on the show Billions, though,
because it's now considered a super secret elitist thing to

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do anyway, So I learned about ortolans from Billions. But
more importantly, with prosecutors, you see that they are very political,
and you get a sense of that from the show
we have. Next up here, Vicky, who writes Shield's Hi,
this is why God in Heaven chose Donald Trump to
become president, to clean house with all the lies and

(01:47:09):
corruption going on for decades. We all knew it, and
even some on the other side knew it, but we're
not able to speak, and probably because lives were in danger.
This is a great and scary time to be alive
and aware of the business in DC. Keep up the
good work, Vicky. Well, Vicky, thank you so much. Appreciate
the words of support, and thank you so much for
writing it on Roll Call. Next up, Ryan who writes, Hey, Buck,

(01:47:33):
I love your show listening in via podcast. Could you
post a list of your sponsors and associated codes somewhere
on your show site? Thanks and Shield's high Ryan. Ryan.
It's very kind of you, and it is really important. Folks.
Whenever you hear me talking about our sponsors, remember those
are companies that like my show, like what I'm doing,
appreciate the work and effort that goes into this, and

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so it really is a partnership. And when you use
that promo code, you get a discount, which is great,
but it's also a way of casting a vote for
the freedom hunt for this show. The Buck Sexton Show
is what it's actually called. But that's it's really important.
It really helps. It means a lot. And these are
when I tell you about my sponsors. I mean, I
drink black Rifle all the time. I'm actually gonna get

(01:48:16):
black Rifle sent to my new office here in DC
as well as at home. So I'm all about it.
If you're somebody who runs a company and you want
someone to do background investigation services for you, or just
background or just background and vetting in general, global verification,
I know the CEO, it's a company of great guys.
But when you call them, we don't have a promo code.
Just tell them you know, we learned about you in

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the Buck Sexton Show. That stuff makes all the difference,
it really does. And you know we do this show.
It's obviously free for all of the listeners. But if
you can see your way, see your way fit to
do so. Please check out our sponsors, use our promo code,
spread the word, tell people that you heard about it here.
It means a lot. It means a lot to me.
Thank you so much. So oh, Buck fifty for a

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black rifle. By the way, Buck one five. So next
up here. We have so many good callers, so much fun, Joshua.
When I say callers, I mean writers. Pardon me. Hey there, Buck,
big fan United States Marine Corps Active. I'm a fan
of yours. And Joe Rogans would like to see you
on his show or vice versa. He's got a really

(01:49:21):
negative opinion on Trump, and I get that Trump is
not perfect, but I'd like to see you set Rogan
straight and maybe help him see the light a little. Anyways,
take care and shields high ps. I love Rogan, but
his Trump bashing is over the line and just drives
me insane. Well, Joshua, first of all, thank you for
your service. I'm always especially honored to have such a

(01:49:44):
a fantastic contingent of active and former US military listening
into this program. We really have. It's a core look,
it's a core audience for US. I like to think
it's just because of the content. Maybe it's also because
I have a little bit of a richer understanding. I
think of what a lot of the military goes through,

(01:50:04):
having lived for long stretches of time on military basis
here and abroad, having spent a lot of time in
some of the diciers parts of the globe, a Rock
and Afghanistan notably. So that's one other place that I
think we or one other way that we can connect.
As to Rogan, I'd love to do a show. And

(01:50:27):
you know what's actually something that for those of you
who are so interested. I take guest singestions from all
of you. When you email me or you send me
a note on Facebook, you say, hey, check this guy
out or this gal out. I looked them up and
if we have a way of working them into the show.
I've brought on lots of guests because of audience request.
So if you want me to do the Joe Rogan Show,

(01:50:48):
and you're a constant listener or you know, a frequent
listener to the show, reach out to Joe say hey,
you should have bucks X, then on you'd be surprised.
You might be like, yeah, you know what that x
CIA analyst dude with the poofy hair. I'll give him
a shot. You know, we'll talk about some stuff, so
I'd be happy to do a show. I think Joe
does some really interesting work. And Joshua, thank you so
much for the suggestion. Let's see here. Bryce has been

(01:51:13):
writing here. He writes, I've been trying to think of
something worthwhile, but to no avail. I have a question
though in your opening sequence there are two most Morse
code letters. Is there some meaning to this? I would
have expected BS, not BG, Shields High, Bryce, Bryce, I
have no idea, man, I don't know Morse code. I'm
not gonna lie to you. So you caught me, my friend.

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That's gonna be it for the Hut today. Thank you
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