Roasting their Golden Globes

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are entering the freedom hunt. The Golden Globes get
roasted and toasted. Iran retaliation is on the minds of
everyone across the country right now. Pelosi's real enemy will

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find out who that is. Also the wildfires in Australia,
and so much more coming up. This is the Buck
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It was quite a weekend, quite a day to get to.
I know. The most important, the biggest story in the
world is certainly the anticipation of what is going to
come from Iran. Will spend some time on that today,
but I didn't want to lead off with that. There's
going to be plenty of time in the days ahead.
Right now, it seems like it's just mostly speculation as well.
There's not a whole lot that people really know. How

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could anyone know? So instead, I want to talk to
you about the Golden Clubs for a moment. I, like
many of you, i'm sure, do not care at all
to sit and watch people in Hollywood talk about how
amazing they are get awards, discuss their courage. But I
do like watching a very talented comedian who I would

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not It is no particular friend of conservatives. It's not
like he is someone who, for ideological read decided to
make a big thing of making fun of Hollywood. It's
not like he's a conservative who finally got a chance. No. No,
he makes fun of Christianity constantly in his stand up.
He makes fun of everybody. But I can respect that

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because he's a comedian and he'll go after whomever. He's
making fun of things. He's not pandering, he's not bending
the knee. Ricky Gervais is one of it feels like
the very few comedians left these days, and so that's
why what he did last night was so entertaining. And
I think there's more than just the entertainment factor, which

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is why I wanted to talk to you about it today.
Although his Epstein joke was pretty fantastic. There were some
other moments as well. Harvey Weinstein, as you may see,
is his trial begins today, and there was a great
Ricky Gervais joke specifically about Harvey Weinstein, saying that the

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movie Bird Boxes about people who pretend not to see
anything so they can survive, kind of like working for
Harvey Weinstein. That was his joke that I thought was
among the very best. He did a fantastic job, but
it was amazing to see because they panned around the room.
This is the fifth time this guy has done this.
This is the fifth time he's hosted the Golden Globes.

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The Hollywood Foreign Correspondence or Foreign Press Association or whatever
it's called. Who even knows who these people are. I mean,
I guess it's just foreign journalists that cover media, but
they've created this Golden Globes awards ceremony that is their
most well known. I guess it's the reason this association
even exists. And I would I would just point out

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that you would think these different luminaries of our entertainment industry,
you would think that they would be in a place
that they would understand they're going to get made fun of.
That's why they bring this guy in because people like me,
Because people across the country. The day after you have
one of these Ricky Gervase monologues, people talk about it.

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It's great press. People care all of a sudden because
he's a war Awards ceremonies are ridiculous. Look, I don't
go to the Washington Correspondence dinner. I don't care to
go to the Correspondence dinner. I will not go to
the Correspondence dinner. It's boring mostly, but also I think
the whole thing is kind of bizarre. Well, what's with
giving out giving out awards like we're all in grammar

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school and need a little plastic trophy to put on
the shelf? Who cares? That makes no sense at all
of me, especially as our cultural elites have gotten so
divorced in their taste from the rest of the country.
This is how you have movies that get nominated and
win Oscars. I've even heard of these movies. I'm not pretending.
I mean producer Mark has more of his finger on

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the pulse of pop culture than I do. And he
would tell you that he's probably not the most pop
culture immersed guy around by a long shot. He is
shaking his head vigorously right now, side to side. But
the fact that I haven't even heard of these movies
just goes to show you that they're is no question
that the people that are making these decisions do not share,

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broadly speaking, the sentiments and the sense of what's good.
In fact, now it's become a point of mockery if
you say, why is it that twenty years ago movies
that one best picture were universally generally beloved? You know,
movies like I Don't Know Shakespeare and Love Saving Private

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Ryan the Pianist. I mean, these are great movies. They
used to win Oscars I'm talking about now. But you
look at the goal, you look at the golden globes
the Oscars today, and it's all this wokeness. It's just wokeness.
It's all just self performance, even outside of the performative
acts of being a Hollywood celebrity. And because social media

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has created a circumstance for us where we can see
who these people are and what they really think, we
recognize that a bunch of big Aramises and so Ricky
Gervais standing up there and marking them he also offend out.
I mean, we didn't pull that many of his joke
do we pull any other sprucer mark of his jokes
specifically because I mean, he's going to deliver them better

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than I do. But it's all right if we don't
want to just yeah, but play, they'll play that one.
Apple rolled into the TV game with a morning show,
a superb drama. Yeah, a superb drama about the importance
of dignity and doing the right thing, made by a
company that runs sweatshops in China. So well, you say

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you woke, But the companies you work for, I mean unbelievable. Apple, Amazon, Disney.
If Isis started a streaming service, you'd call your agent,
wouldn't you. So if you do win an award tonight,
it don't use it as a platform to make a
political speech. Right, You're in no position to lecture the
public about anything. You know nothing about the real world.

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Most of you spend less time in school than Greta Thumberg.
So if you win, right, come up except a little awards,
thank your agent and your gods. Second best joke of
the night for me after Everstein right there, Many of
them have spent less time in school than young Greta Thundberg,
who is sixteen maybe now seventeen. Many of them left

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to be full time actress were thirteen or fourteen years old. Now,
I'm not somebody who believes that you have to have
formal education of any kind to be an educated person.
It's clearly not the case. In fact, we have the
democratization of information in a way now that would have
been unthinkable for autodidacts even what one hundred years ago,
fifty years ago. And you can give yourself as long

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as you have someone to guide you along with the
basic skills. You have to learn how to read, and
probably can't just do that without you can just flip
on a computer and although maybe we'll get to the
point where it's all automated, but you have the skill
set now. If you have the basic skill set now
rather to operate the information machinery around you, you you can
teach yourself almost anything. That all said, Hollywood stars and
celebrities are not an intellectually curious bunch. They generally speaking,

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the very very well known ones have actually made it
where they are largely by winning the genetics lottery in
a sense, by being really, really good looking, we're talking
about this room of people. They're all, you know, physically,
some of them have gotten, you know, considerably older now,
but you know, the ladies were bombshells and the guys
were you know, leading men, handsome you know whatever we

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call the handsome leading men of today, I don't know.
But the point is they've done nothing to get where
they are other than be very lucky in a lot
of ways starting at birth, and then happen to operate
within a Hollywood machinery that is as left wing as
the faculty lounge of Wesleyan University. I mean, that's that's
what is the reality of Hollywood today, and unfortunately, it

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has already made its way into that wokeness has made
its way into these major digital b emits places like
Amazon and Netflix and although Disney Plus I gotta give
a little credit, Man Lauran is awesome, and Baby Yoda,
this is the way. It's amazing. Man Laurian's an excellent show.
If you haven't seen it any The Witcher is trash.

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If you want to just avoid that, I'm trying to
help you out here, save your time. But we already
know there's a left wing tilt to these places. I mean,
Jake Karney got hired by Amazon Content as though like
he knows something about doing scripted content. He got hired
right of the Obama administration. The Obamas have this Netflix deal.
So it's not like it's getting better because the studio system,
the Hollywood movie studio system, has broken down and is

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not what it used to be. I mean they use
that used to be the top of the entertainment pyramid.
You'd go to Universal Studios, you go to I guess MGM,
I don't even know what. They're all called Warner Brothers.
So you go to these places, and you know they
could they could write a check effectively to spend one
hundred million dollars on a movie. Well, Netflix and Amazon,

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they'll spend one hundred million dollars on a brand new
TV show no one's ever heard of. So that's or
a movie. And I saw this movie with Will Smith
called Bright. It was very strange movie. It spent one
hundred million dollars on that. Many of you have probably
most of you, I'm sure I've never even heard of it.
It's on Netflix. Watch it your own risk. My little
brother hated it. I think that it was had its moments.

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It wasn't terrible. I mean it was bad, but it
wasn't like the word. It wasn't the witcher bad. The
witcher should not now be an epithet like yo, man,
that that thing you just did that was worse than
the Witcher. You should just be able to say that
to people. But why does this also have a broader
How does this tie into things that matter more to
us than just trashing Hollywood. Well, for one, I think

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that what we've seen is that the cultural elites in
this country, just like just like it has been the
case with news media elites, we are now more aware
than ever because they exposed themselves to us. And I
don't mean that in like a whoa kind of way,
although they do that too. They exposed themselves to us
more than they have and so we're more aware of

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the politics the beliefs of the people that make entertainment.
And this is why even those of you who you know,
you read a ton, you read books all the time,
you care about the constitution, and you listen to talk radio.
If you listen to this, even if you ignore pop culture,
pop culture doesn't ignore you. This has a tremendous effect

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a tremendous effect on perceptions of tens of millions of people,
hundreds of millions of people across the country. It affects
the way they think. And you live in this country
with those people, so it should it has to matter
to you at some level what's going on with these individuals.
They are incredibly sanctimonious but also deeply insecure, which you

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tend to see among elites who are largely unearned in
their placement in society. This is true of TV journalists
that I talked to you about a lot of the time.
I mean people like Chuck Time What's what's impressive? People
like Jake Tapper or or what was his name? The
guy that was there in a rock except he wasn't,
you know, on the plane that got or the helicopter

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hit by Always I always forget his name, but you
know he's the was the biggest newsman at NBC News
producer Nick is going to send me the name in
a second. I'm just blanking on it. But those individuals
either just sucked up to the right people in the
news media chain of command. Todd Tapper. I was gonna
say Jennings, but he passed away a long time and

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I'm trying to think of the guy. Who's the guy
Brian Williams. Brian Williams. That guy looks and sounds like
a news anchor supposed to and I think I might.
I've be sure the guy again. Being an autodidact is fun.
I've taught myself much more than I learned in college
as an adult, no question about it. I learned not
a whole lot in college, and I actually tried to study.
But it's one thing if you leave, you know, if

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you don't finish high school, you don't finish the tenth grade,
and then you spend the rest of your life going
to cocktail parties and try to tell everybody how brilliant
you are, but you haven't done the work. And these
people in the news media and these people in Hollywood
who want to lecture us on women's rights and diversity
and climate change and all this stuff, they haven't done
the work. And it used to be that we had

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to take that from we had to be able to
extrapolate that on our own, from watching, from being a
viewer of the product that they put out there. But now,
because of social media and they like to put out
their tweets, and like to do little FaceTime or Facebook
videos or videos on Instagram. TikTok, this Chinese site that
I still don't really understand what it is, but I

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have seen it, but I don't really get why people
like it so much. I was right, by the way
about Snapchat, that normal adults don't want to put fake
cat faces on themselves and have their vices go really high,
like that's not cool or cute if you're a teenager.
If you're twelve, fine, But that that's why I knew
Snapchat was toast years ago, so I feel good about that.
I also knew that the Huffington Post was basically built

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on a foundation of sand, and that it wasn't going
to grow, and that wasn't making money, that BuzzFeed wasn't
glorified cat blog, which we've all been calling it for years.
I mean, you can see what these things are, but
if they raise enough venture capital funds that they have
enough money, they can just force feed themselves to you,
so you have no way to escape, no way to
get away from whatever it is that they're trying to

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present to you. Mike dot Com I remember that Mike
dot Com actually try to hire me years ago, believe
it or not, Yeah, I know. And then I saw
the front page of their website right before I went
down for a meeting, and it was like the most
anti cop, absurd Black Lives Matter is saving the country

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kind of stuff I've ever seen in my life. And
I was like, I can't. I was supposed to be
an opposition sort of columnists from anyone. I was like,
this site isn't gonna work either. But the media that
we have now, especially the entertainment medium, is going through
a phase that I would say is somewhat similar to
the dissolution of monarchy, which now I think they're about

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a dozen or so monarchy still technically in existence in Europe.
But up until World War One you had all you
had monarchies that had real power, and then eventually over
those serious It really took a couple of centuries, but
people started saying, hold on a minute, why are these
people in charge, what's so what's so good about them?
Why should we listen to them? Why should they be

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able to determine my future or my fate. Now I'm
not saying that, you know, Salmahiac or Brad pitt Or,
and I actually kind of like those two. I'm sure
I should think of someone ones that I hate off
the top of my head, or I shouldn't say hate
too strong a word that I that are worthy of
particular ridicule. Jennifer Anderson looking like she was going to
cry talking about, uh, you know, Russell Crowe and the

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climate change problem. I mean, yeah, the brush fires in Australia.
We'll talk about that. That's incredibly serious. It's deeply saddening
that there's all these animals that are burning there. But
claiming that we all have that that Hollywood is going
to lead the charge to change the world and climate
change in the economy, and that's really what Russell crow wants.
These people are such blowhearts, and they must know it
at some level too, which is why they stand up

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there and say the things that they do in the
way that they do. I don't mean it might be subconscious,
but most of them have been revered for the most
superficial of things imaginable, and yet they have much more
sway among superficial and I think you could say low
information audiences, and so they use that, they wield that.

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But the monarchy of Hollywood, the monarchy of the Hollywood
studio system is breaking down and movies aren't what they
used to be, as Ricky Gervais said, and we are
entering into a phase here where as long as we
can start to wrestle control back from some of the
major digital the online, the internet gatekeepers, maybe we won't

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have to be force fed this garbage by the Hollywood
media anymore. Anyway, that was what I took from Ricky
Gervases each last side you're in the Freedom Hunt. This
is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Just to know that
there's a there's a part of me that still feels

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a little sad for people who I can't tell. I
don't know if they're really brainwash or not. But the
La Times media critic wrote this whole piece in the
La Times after Golden Globes about how those celebrities it's
it's been really hard for them because of all the
issues because of Trump and climate change in the Australia, uh,
you know, wildfires and all this stuff. That it was

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really a solemn night actually, and that Ricky Gervais would
go in there and be disrespectful, he missed the mark
and everyone else is like nope, it was amazing. But
I think for a lot of people still. Unfortunately, you know,
while monarchies are crumbling, there's so a lot of court jesters,
and some people like this La Times columnist still have
to bend the knee. It's one of the things I
love about this show and never have to bend the knee.

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Thanks for listening to The bus Sexton Show podcasts. Remember
just scribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever
you get your podcasts. What the United States did yesterday
should have been done long ago. A lot of lives
would have been saved. Just recently, Soloman he led the
brutal repression of protesters in Iran, were more than a

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thousand innocent civilians were tortured and killed by their own government.
We took action last night to stop a war. We
did not take action to start a war. I was
President Trump On Friday after the show, he gave a
little speech, and I wanted to share it with you

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because there's so much bad analysis out there right now,
and so much stupidity and recklessness and dishonesty among those
who are supposed to bring clarity and facts and necessary
context to a moment like this. Because the stakes are
quite high, I don't think we are heading to war
with Iran. I would put the percentage at less than

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ten that we are going to get into any kind
of protracted escalation with Iran that involves US military use
of force on a consistent basis and large numbers numbers
of casualties. You see, we have to start to define
this because one aspect of this whole exchange, and this

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does get into some of the most important it's among
the most important things we as a people. We the
American people, can consider and think about war, but also
cannot allow to be exaggerated. It can't just be well,
we do nothing or we have all out war. That's
not the reality of the situation Iran. It's almost never
the reality that we face anywhere. But a part of

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the context that gets lost here is that the Iranians
have been doing things for such a long time that
would be in other circumstances with another country, an act
of war that would lead to open military hostilities that
we've almost become numb to it. We just take it.
We're sort of like Gulliver being you know, tied down

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by the little Aputians. With the Iranians, well, of course
they were able to time down for a while. But
you know, they're just throwing things at us and trying
to agitate us, and because we're so much more powerful
than they are, we always say, okay, well, you know,
we don't want to we don't want to overreact, we
don't want to miscalculate. People who have been talking a
lot about the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps the Kud's Force,

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which is just the external operations arm right IRGC internally,
is part of the repression machinery the Iranian people. It's
very much, very similar to what you would have had,
say in the Soviet era with the KGB, and the
KGB was an intelligence service, was also really a paramilitary service,
and it was it was just the action arm the

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concentrated violence and brutality of the state, that's really the
purpose of it. And so the KOODS Force is an
extension of that beyond Iranian boundaries and territory and has
been spreading misery and destruction across the region for quite
some time, for decades. Really, remember Iran seized our embassy

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and took our people hostage. Did we engage in massive
military retaliation as a result of that? When that happened
to the Carter administration, go all the way back to
nineteen seventy nine. No, no, we did not. Iran was
involved in the Khobar Towers attack in Saudi Arabia against

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US military person. Was there anything done major in response
to that? No, there was not. Now, there have been
some moments in time where we have taken action against
the Iranians. I mentioned the tank award you before, and
there was a very unfortunate incident where a US guided
missile destroyer shot Iranian civilian jetliner out of the sky

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thinking that it was an enemy fighter plane killed I
think almost two hundred people. Very a very tragic day.
So I'm not saying that there has not been use
of force and that have not been miscalculations. Clearly that
was a major miscalculation. But this has been going on
for a very long time. At what point do we

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decide that just sanctions and just terse words are not enough.
At what point do we turn around and say, you know,
this is not going to stand anymore. I mean, Kasam
Salamani was a designated terrorist, a designated terrorist by the
United States government. He was openly plotting against American and

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it's now You could say that our government is lying
to us about this, and to that I would say,
you know, there are lies that you could excuse, or
rather you could understand how somebody in the apparatus could
excuse for reasons of politics or things that somebody might
push aside and say there's something bigger here, there's something
greater here. In this case, I'm not saying this is impossible.

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The government has lied to us about things before, and
the government has been wrong before and sometimes wrong and
lies are a very close call which one you're really
dealing with. We were wrong about the weapons of mass
destruction as presented by Colin Powett, the United Nations, etc. Etc.
Under the Bush administration. We were wrong. And we have

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to look at the Iraq War now and wonder what
exactly has been accomplished here. When you have the Iraqi Parliament,
it's a non binding resolution they voted on but saying
they want the United States to leave. Understand this a
shift in US national security posture that is meaningful would
result in the United States taking an approach where not

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only are we not going to rebuild other countries, We're
not going to do Afghanistan anymore. We're not going to
do Iraq anymore. Starting to get a little bit of
that serious situation. Oh, remember when we abandoned the curds
and it was the worst thing ever, you know it.
It was the most most depraved act by a US
president in history. And all this crazy stuff they were saying,

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it seems like everything's kind of just continuing on. Life
has gone on. There has not been some mass genocide
that Turks haven't, you know, dropped gas all over Syria
to kill all the curds. I mean that this has
not happened. Remember when people were all historical about this
and there was oh, there was so much rending of
garments and gnashing of teeth by the Democrats over there

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were so very, very upset. Did they really care about
the curds? I was telling you. The answer was no.
Do we think that I was probably right about that.
If we have to look at it at this point,
you probably have to say, well, I think it's clear
that that was all done as a as a show

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against President Trump. That was all meant to just be
an opportunity to attack him domestically. But if we and
I'll get into the politics of this morning moment, because
it look there's a lot of moving pieces here, and
I'm trying to avoid just the there's always all the people,
the speculation I see we're in Oh, you know, they
might hit us here. The mine is there. We've done
a little bit of that just to fill out our

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conversation here. But until they do something, we don't know
what the Iranians have done. It's the most simple, straightforward
it's so blatant, it's so obvious. It feels weird even
saying it. But sometimes you have to repeat and you
have to be very clear with statements like that, because
people are getting way ahead of themselves, racking like we're

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already in some elevated state of hostilities. Kasam Solamani is
one man the Iranians when they were fighting the Iraqis
in the Iran Iraq War of the nineteen eighties went
on for nine years, they trained Iranian youth to run
across mine fields to try to clear them. How do

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you things that worked out? It's effectively telling people it's
it's a suicide bomber. We're not taking anyone out but yourself.
Effectively using human beings to clear mind fields, because that
was the mentality. That's the truth of what's in the
heart of these mullahs, these theocrats, right, these they're religious fanatics,

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which is frightening. Now, religious fanatics, you know, they still
deal with some of the same day to day They
deal with many of the same day to day constraints
the rest of us do if they if they want
to live. But a true religious fanatic along the lines
of the Iranian mulas, who believe that they are in
a protracted war with non Muslims, with the West, with Israel,

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with America, they're willing to do effectively anything. And that's
why we have this big problem of course of Iran
possibly getting nuclear weapons and what would it mean and
what would happen after that. But if we're going to
change the policy, and this is where this is where
the Trumps disrupt or fact has to come into the conversation.

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If we're going to change the policy of the United
States when it comes to foreign relations, national security, international affairs,
however you want to put it, that means not only
are we going to avoid the reconstruction of these other
countries trying to create flower essentially the neo Khan approach
on the right done can't do that anymore. But that's

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going to mean something else as well. There will be
countries where terrible things happen. There will be countries where
we will be quite aware. I mean, this was certainly
the case for almost all of Obama's time in office.
The Syrian Civil War turned into the eighth circle of
how how much worse could it really have been? Hundreds

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of thousands dead, mass rapes, mass murders, gas attacks, whole
cities leveled. I mean, how much worse could the Syrian
Civil War have been? And keep in mind that we
took this under the obaministration. We took this position that
our leadership was going to try to bring this to
a close sooner, and that there would be a UN mandate.
There was a UN mandate to make sure the violence
would end a political settlement. This was the stuff they're

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talking about now. It seems preposterous because they didn't do
a thing. And then Obama's Pentagon Plan they spent I
think it was five hundred million dollars to put five
actual fighters into the conflict. And then there are people
who still talk about the running of weapons from Libya
to Syria or try to help the anti assad Syrian
forces geehotists under the Obamaster. I mean, it's just a

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complete mess, a nightmare. Here's the part of this that
gets complex, that gets difficult for a lot of people,
because we just have the Iraqi problem, a non binding
vote for us to leave Iraq. If we leave Iraq,
things You're going to get very very ugly there. It's
going to get very messy. If we leave Afghanistan things.
I will tell you the truth about this. A lot
of people will, you know, thump their chests, especially a

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lot of the think tankers out there. They'll thump their
chests and say, you know, no, no, we should say
forever and or they'll say we should pull out and
everything will be fine. I'm here to tell you know,
we should pull out, and everything's not going to be
fine because we no longer I mean, this was this
was a promise that Trump was making. No more endless war,
no more wars that are unnecessary in the first place,

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an endless occupation of these foreign countries. I remember, occupation
is different from having a base. I hate when people
do this so well, we have troops. We have troops
in South Korea. Yeah, because South Korea is a stable
nation state under threat from an external regime. I understand that,
but no one's really worried that South Korea is going
to dissolve anytime soon, or that our troops are going

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to come under assault, you know, driving down the streets
of Seoul. They are worried about that. In Kabble, in
Jalalabad and coast, in different parts of Afghanistan, they are
concerned about that is that is a problem. So I
think that this is where we have to say, you're

(29:52):
going to see you're going to see a decision point
here for the up administration in Afghanistan and for Iroq.
This is forcing our hand that we will have to
be willing to leave these places and leave them knowing
that very bad things will happen, and that yes, eighty
second Airborne, Yes a marine expeditionary force. Our soldiers are

(30:15):
troops who are good people, who do good things, who
are the most talented, exceptional and humane fighting force the
world has ever known. We could stop it, but we
would have to take responsibility again and we would have
to lose our people, and we don't want to do
it anymore. Maybe other countries need to start figuring out
some stuff on their own. They're going to be messy,

(30:36):
messy places, and maybe all of a sudden Trump has
brought to the fore the possibility that we won't be
building these countries anymore, we won't be responsible for their elections,
and they're no done with that. And by the way,
if anybody in those countries then, or if those countries
are used as launch pads for attacks, or even if
the national government decides to wage war in the United States,

(30:58):
as Iran has been doing, we will go back at
them in a way that right now feels perhaps excessive
to some of us, but that excess may bring about
a new reality where countries know that will no longer
cross us. Or the idea of a Kassams Solimani, a
very senior government official from a foreign nation state, wouldn't

(31:23):
dream of taking selfies and smiling while he's thinking about
the next operation against US interests US troops, that somebody
with the blood of so many hundreds of American soldiers,
soldiers who never made it home to this country, because
Kassams Solimani wanted to do the bidding of the mulas
in a country that is not Iran, that nobody would

(31:45):
ever consider doing that again, because they understand if you
harm us like this, we will come after you, we
will kill you. We don't care what bureaucrats in Europe say.
We don't care what the so called international consensus of
media elites, unfortunately overwhelmingly staffed with vain cowards. We don't
care what they say. The country is going to take

(32:07):
a different approach because the approach we have been taking
on a bipartisan basis for the last twenty years has
not worked, I would say for last seventy years. But
a different conversation. So what I think comes next, Well
for that, I might as will turn to what some
of the Democrats are saying. You're in the freedom hunt.

(32:28):
This is the Buck Sexton Show podcast. As president, would
you not prioritize the US military killing the leaders of
organizations designated terrorist organizations? Look, the job as the president
is to keep us safe. And we know in this

(32:49):
circumstance that Donald Trump was presented with a range of
options by way of response. But the point is not
to try to move us closer toward the point is
to move away from nim. Well. You see, if NIFF,
if Donald Trump is for something, I have to be
against it, even if that means taking out terrorists. Who

(33:12):
have done terrible things. Elizabeth Warren's commander in chief. Folks.
That's that's what a lot of Democrats, at least about
getting up on around twenty percent of them, give for take,
that's what they think should happen. You see this with
all these different Democrats coming out now saying things that
are simply absurd. They don't care. They don't care about

(33:38):
what the reality is of the strike so much as
they care about what the politics of the moment demand
of them. To say that is the simple truth. That's
what really motivates them one way or the other. Here is,
for example, Senator Chris Murphy, who does confer upon Kastam
Solomani a kind of special immunity play clip twenty eight place.

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It is an assassination. I mean, this is a top
official of a foreign government, is in the head of
a non state terrorist group. No matter how bad a
guy he is, how evil he was, he was a
commanding general of a sovereign foreign nation and we executed him.

(34:23):
So I don't think you can call it anything other
than an assassination. It's not the first time that America
has been involved in assassinating a foreign official, but it's
probably the most high profile foreign official that the United
States military has ever executed. He seems to forget that
when we declared warren Sadam Hussein, we blew up all
of his palaces, not just because we wanted to see

(34:45):
them glow in the dark. We were trying to kill him.
This is the reality. This is why, in fact, even
if we're talking about civilian control of a military, when
you are the commander in chief of a foreign nation
and you are in a state of war, guess what
you are in jeopardy. That is the truth. We can

(35:06):
persue that there's international law that prevents this and all
the rest of it. But does anyone really believe if
Kim Jong un was about to tell his you know,
missile brigades to launch on South Korea, and we knew
that taking him out would prevent that launch, does anyone
really think that we'd beginning lectures about how it's a
war crime to take out Kim Jong on. I just

(35:30):
pose this to you. First of all, he's wrong on
the merits as well about calling this, or just wrong
technically about calling this an assassination. This was a military
figure in a declared war zone, engaged in active hostilities
against the United States. Do you think that we could, like,
you know, we could deploy a three star general just
you know, air drop him into into Iran and have

(35:52):
him walk around and try to start calling in air
strikes on targets in Tehran, and then if someone you
know took him out, we'd say, whoa hold on, that's
a three star general. You can't do that. That's actually
not how it works, But Chris Murphy doesn't care. It's
all about trashing Trump. Thanks for listening to The Bus
Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the
iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Iran announced

(36:17):
today that is accelerating this nuclear program. Guests, who loses
that America and its allies. There was an airtight agreement
we had with inspectors on the ground, the most intrusive
inspection and all of human history, not hyperbole. We knew
exactly We're in every single facility the International Toomic Energy Agency,

(36:43):
and they were not violated. They're not good guys, but
they were not moving toward a nuclear weapon and there
was no chance they could get there without us knowing it.
At least a year to two years in advance, giving
us plenty of options. Joe Biden's delusional. But remember, Joe
Biden has been liably and in this way he's actually
very useful on foreign policy. He has been reliably wrong

(37:04):
on every foreign policy issue of any importance for forty years.
Whatever Joe Biden wanted to do or didn't want to do,
the opposite of that thing was the good idea. So
Joe Biden's great in this way. Just make sure you
oppose Joe Biden on any foreign policy issue and you'll
be in good shape. And here he is saying this
irandeal was ironclad and air tight. And well, hold on

(37:27):
a second. What happens when the Iranians want to just
decide to restart their nuclear program. It's just like, okay,
let the assembly line start going again. We're supposed to
live with that as the reality of the Iranian state.
We're supposed to let the Iranians. And by the way,
they always leave this out, there were sunset provisions in

(37:48):
this process. No sunset on the Iranian nuclear program. Mind
you just if you obey. If you do, you know
what we've outlined in this agreement, which allows them to
keep their nuclear program, keep sending aid to terrorist regimes
all across the Middle East, threatening our people, taking our
navy sailors hostage, making a mockery of them. All the
stuff that they've done, all the things, all the provocations

(38:09):
from Iran, and with all of that, they could still
at any point in time do exactly what they're now
threatening to do, which is just start spinning the center
fugues again. And they think this was a good agreement.
Why should we live within Iranian state that is already there,
that is at that point. Oh, I'm sorry, We're gonna

(38:31):
wait five or ten years till Costam Solomani, for example, Well,
this isn't a problem anymore because he's he's taking a
very long nap. But while Kastam Solomani, he was going
to come off this sanctions list. They were saying at
one point come off a nuclear sanctions list. Other individuals
are going to get removed from it in time. And
there were all these inducements and all along Iran gets
to keep the essential infrastructure for its nuclear program, and

(38:55):
eventually the agreement just sort of isn't an agreement anymore.
Oh so that's great, So let's Iran develop much more
of its critical military infrastructure, become much wealthier, become entrenched
in the international financial system, find all kinds of ways
to hide assets, to build up its coffers, to modernize
its military. Let's give her on a decade of no

(39:18):
worries of external strikes, keeping their military, I mean, keeping
their nuclear program in place, while their military gets stronger,
their government gets richer. And then at the end of that,
we'll just come up with some other idea of what
we're going to tell them. You see, no at the
end of that, and then we have to say, hold
on a second. A bigger, wealthier iron with better weapon systems,
a better military could just decide, you know what, we're

(39:38):
going nuclear now, what are you going to do about it?
So here's the other problem. Rogue states that get nuclear weapons,
then we're in the North Korea situation where it becomes
very very different. You know, we're ever going to get
her on to give up its nukes once they have them,
It's never going to happen. So all they have to
do is get to that place. And if they raised

(40:00):
the calculation, if they make it hard enough for us
to be able to eradicate their nuclear program because their
military advances because they become a much stronger country. They
were greatly weakened when Obama came in. Their economy was
in free fall. Things are not good in Iran. There's
all kinds of tumult. They just had to execute in
the streets hundreds of protesters, right, so there is real

(40:22):
instability in this country the young people. I mean, this
is often forgotten. There were such great losses from the
Iran Iraq and keep bringing this up, but it's important
to understand where we are now with Iran. There were
such great losses from the Iran Iraq civil War that
the Molas decided that they needed to pay major state
subsidies so that Iranian women would have more children. And

(40:44):
so what you have is post the horrific war, I
mean over a million casualties killed wounded, is a horrific war.
In the eighties in Iran, with Iran and Iraq, they
lost so many young people. They were actually using them
as cannon fodder, I mean, using them as landmine fodder.
They lost so many young people that they've moment said, okay,

(41:04):
we're going to start subsidizing children to be women to
have children, families to have children. And now you have
this this youth bulge, which is why we keep talking
about the young in Iran. You have this youth bulge
a lot of people in Iran, you know, demographically, there's this,
you know, there's the fat end of the wedge demographically
for the Iranians is you have all these young people

(41:25):
in their twenties and their thirties and they're like, what
is this regime stinks? Your dam's terrible? What are we
doing here now? Can they say that openly? Of course not.
You know, the Iranian security and military apparatus is very
invested and has become unfortunately quite adept at suppressing those voices.

(41:47):
But they got a problem because eventually enough young people
have no real future, no economic mobility, no freedom. You
know what, exactly does a twenty year old Irani today
really have to look forward to under the current circumstance.
So we had there are these pieces in play that

(42:08):
would make it harder for the regime to continue doing
what it does. Now. Maybe the regime isn't topple, maybe
the regime just changes internally. Who knows what ends up happening.
And we've been waiting for this now for over thirty years,
over forty years going on fifty years, but by throwing
them a lifeline. Because Obama and the Democrats and the

(42:28):
left in this country really still have a guilt complex
over Mosadek. They really feel like everything bad that's happened
in Iran is somehow really the fault of the United States.
You'll see some leftists who think this, it's the fault
of the United States because we were involved in the
coude to remove Mosadek, because we were still playing great
game politics with the Soviet Union and we did not

(42:49):
want Mosadek to be in charge in Iran. But they
never then explain how it is that when the Shaw,
who we helped keep in or who was a bad guy,
although of course the Moullas are much worse guys, the
Mola is effectively hijacked, hijack the revolution against the Shaw

(43:10):
for their own purposes. And this so often happens in
countries where a regime is ousted with force. Right that
there's a legitimate grievance, of course, because that's how you
have popular mobilization against a government for government's doing really well.
I mean, you know, there's a reason why I'm not
seeing popular mobilization against the Swiss or against Singapore against
Norway or something people like, Yeah, things are pretty good.

(43:32):
A government has to be inept, decrepid, ineffectual, oppressive, but
that doesn't mean that the people that end up in
power once that government is gone are in any way
really an improvement. And that's what you have in Iran.
So it is in effect the fault of the Iranian
it is, you know, Iran is an Iran problem ultimately,

(43:53):
and again we're going to some pretty basic as some
truisms here, some things that are self evident, but sometimes
self evident truth need to be repeated. It is the
Iranian people who have or it is Iranians who hijack
the Iranian revolution against the Shah and have made this
country into a place that is an abysmal failure in

(44:13):
so many ways as a state. After you know, millennia
of withstanding cultural onslaught dealing with I mean, you go
back through through Persian history and the fact that Persians
even just maintain their language and this cultural distinctiveness from

(44:34):
the huge surge of what was effectively Arab Muslim expansionism'm
starting in the seventh century with the Propah Muhammad and
then going all the way the fact that the Persians
were able to maintain this Persian identity, and that Persia
as a polity, as a as some form of state,
has existed for so long, in fact, that predates Islam.
Right there's and dealt with a Mongol invasion. Some really

(44:57):
crazy stuff happened back then. They have main attained this,
and yet they continue on. Thanks for listening to the
Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcast,
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We will defend American in the strikes we took over
this past week, including killing the terrorist Solomoni. We will

(45:20):
continue to take if we need to. The American people
should know we will always defend them, and we'll do
so in a way that is consistent with the international
rule of law. You can always tell who you should
like in this administration based on how much Democrats hate
that person. Very important. It's an ironclad rule at this point.
The more they despise a member of Trump's cabinet, inner

(45:42):
circle and advise or anybody, the more effective that person
is and the more a threat that person is to
the progressive left wing agenda. And so that's why I
can tell you that Pompeo is good at what he
does and is a good choice, has been a good
choice for the administration because man who lives hate him
almost as much as they hate Bill Barr, who is
probably the single biggest threat to left wing attempts to

(46:06):
ouse this president using the weaponization of the bureaucracy and
the abuse of congressional power and the dj and all
the rest of it. Russia, Russia, all that stuff. But
the strike that was taken here has obviously set up
a situation where we could see a major retaliation. I

(46:27):
don't know what exactly is going to happen, as I've
been telling you, I do know that there are hundreds
of thousands of protesters that are going on the streets
in Iran, and from that we are supposed to take
take the Democrats word that this is representative of the
broad opinion of the Iranian people, which I don't think

(46:48):
is true. And we're also supposed to believe that this
is somehow a marked departure from what existed before. Oh
and also you have to I didn't get to this before.
They say that Trump is lying. That is of course
a part of this, that there was no imminent attack
of this is all all a fraud. Here here is
the President just speaking his mind on what exactly pushed

(47:11):
him to take this very decisive action. Clay Clip forty two. Please,
Salomany was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats
and military personnel, but we caught him in the act
and terminated him. Under my leadership, America's policy is unambiguous.

(47:34):
To terrorists who harm or intend to harm any Americans,
we will find you, we will eliminate you. We will
always protect our diplomats, service members, all Americans and our allies.
For years, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and it's ruthless

(47:55):
kud's force under Solomoni's leadership, has targeted, injured, and murdered
hundreds of American civilians and servicemen. The recent attacks on
US targets in Iraq, including rocket strikes that killed an
American and injured for American servicemen very badly, as well
as a violence assault on our embassy in Baghdad, were

(48:19):
carried out at the direction of Solomny. Solomny made the
death of innocent people his sick passion, and yet the
Democrats seem to mourn his passing. They will say, we
don't mourn his passing. But then they'll say, this is
a terrible decision. We're now close to war. Trump never

(48:40):
should have done this. And some of the media referred
to him was what was it, the most revered military
figure in Iran. That was how they referred to him.
Oh wow. And then you have, of course, the conspiracy
theories wagged the dog. Perhaps they say, here is Elizabeth

(49:03):
Warren trying to pull this all together in one perfect
little package for insane Trump deranged Democrats play thirty eight.
The question is why now? Why not a month ago?
Why not a month from now? And the administration simply
can't keep its story straight. It points in all different directions.

(49:25):
The last time we saw this was this past summer
over Ukraine, when people started asking questions about what had
happened on the phone call between Donald Trump and the
President of Ukraine and why a to Ukraine had been stopped.
The administration did the same thing. They pointed all different
directions and give a whole lot of different answers. And
of course what it turned out to be is that

(49:47):
Donald Trump was doing what Donald Trump does, and that
is he was advancing his own personal political interests. And
I think the questioning reasonably question people reasonably ask is
next week Donald Trump faces the shark potentially of an

(50:08):
impeachment trial, and all why Now, that's Elizabeth Warren in
the most slimy, dishonest, passive, aggressive way possible, saying that
Trump killed Custom Solimani because of the impeachment trial. Yeah,

(50:30):
the impeachment that, by the way, makes Democrats unless you're
unless you're somebody who's just delusional. This whole impeachment thing
is ridiculous. Nancy Pelosi saying there's urgency. Now they're saying,
whoa wha, we don't get the witnesses we want. We're
not even going to hand over the articles of impeachment.
I'm also seeing that they might add a third article
of impeachment, probably killing Cosum Solimani. Well, first, first, the
Democrats are waiting for the Ninth Circuit of Appeals to

(50:55):
rule the Kossum Solimani strike unconstitutional, I'm sure. And then
Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, will you know, add add on
to this right then she'll make it another article of impeachment.
They'll stack what they already have with the third article impeachment,
and he killed Kasum Solamani, a revered military leader and

(51:18):
austere religious scholar. According to Libs, we could see something
like that happened. In fact, Nancy Pelosi is as if
we haven't seen enough just ridiculous politics from the Democrats. Recently,
Pelosi has announced that she and the Democrats are going

(51:38):
to pass a war Powers Resolute or have I should say,
a Warpowers resolution vote because the Democrats who march in lockstep.
You gotta give Democrats credit. They're like the borg from
Star Trek. I mean, they're just like a machine that
is always unified and in lockstep on these issues. We
have all these fights. You know, in the Republican sign

(52:00):
people that are, oh, I know, but this I know
about that? Democrats, it's oh, is that? What is that? What?
The status the socialist, the progressives, the wokeness is that
what they want? Boom, everybody does it, Obamacare, everybody on
board for it, getting rid of Trump or you know,
impeaching him, which they know won't really get rid of him.

(52:20):
But almost all of them were I think what there
was one Tulsie Gavard was a voted presence. Right. Then
there's that one Democrat who switch sides, but people have
already kind of mean. Look, I forgot the guy's name.
People have already forgotten his name. Maybe he'll do more stuff.
Point here being that the Warpowers resolution is this is
just a this is for show, this is theater. No
serious person thinks otherwise, Oh yeah, we're Pelos. The Democrats

(52:44):
so worried about the Warpowers Act and the thirty days
of military action for a president before having to actually
cease it unless Congress continues it. Were they worried about
that during oh, I don't know, Libya. Were they worried
about that during the Clinton administration and in the Balkans?

(53:05):
I just want to know where does the principle begin
and the politics and the Democrats we all know the
answer is that there is no place where principle exceeds politics.
Politics always dictates everything that they care about, everything that
they do. This is simply utterly absurd, It is dishonest.
I do think that the Secretary of State Pompey would

(53:28):
bring it back to him for a moment. Here is
correct when he says, play a clip twenty four if
you're an American in the region days and weeks. This
is not something that's relevant. We have to prepare, we
have to be ready, and we took a bad guy
off the battlefield. We made the right decision. There is
a less risk today to American forces in the region
as a result of that tech. I'm proud of the
effort the President Trump undertook and the execution while our

(53:51):
military was phenomenal, and the work that's been done by
our diplomats in the region to prepare and to work
diplomatically in the region has been powerful, important and effective. Indeed,
Democrats say all of that is essentially a lie, that
it's not We're not better off, We're not safer. We'll
see in the days and weeks ahead. Thanks for listening

(54:12):
to The Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember to subscribe on
Apple podcast, the iHeart Radio app, or wherever you get
your podcasts. Well, here's a headline that will certainly excite
many many of those on the left who are hoping
that President Trump crashes on the rocks of this impeachment fiasco.

(54:34):
Former National Security Advisor Bolton is willing to testify in
the Senate impeachment trial if he has subpoenaed reference. Wondering
who always Bolton going to be the one who Finally,
Here's where I have to say, We've been so consistent
here for a long time on this. I don't care

(54:55):
if the President did have a quid pro quo for
the aid to Ukraine. I don't. I don't see this
as the problem that so many other people see it as.
I think the President had a legitimate interest in corruption.
I think the Bidens are a legitimate target of inquiry.
And you know it's interesting is that the Democrats will
just aside some people are off limits, like all of
a sudden, Kosam Solomoni is off limits for a military strike,

(55:16):
for investigations, the Bidens are off limits just based on
what they want. I mean, what's really the principle here,
what's the separating you know, that the definitional difference between
why somebody should be subject to investigation or to military
strike in the case of Kasum Solomany versus somebody who
isn't just the whims of the Democratic Party. It seems

(55:40):
that is the single most important thing that we're all
supposed to believe determines everything everything else. So we might
have boltin test, fine, but we also don't know if
there's ever going to I still have that bat with
my man, Jesse Kelly, my buddy. I got to see if,
in fact I'm right that Nancy Pelosi does transmit Remember
I said that she would. She has to transmit them

(56:02):
at some point otherwise it's just becomes too ridiculous. Now
we're saying they're trying to maneuver after doing it. You know,
they wanted the impeachment done, and now they're maneuvering to
bolster the case around impeachment. Now they're maneuvering so that
they can try to come up with some rationale, some
explanation beyond what they've already offered for why the President

(56:24):
of the United States should be removed from office. But
they know that it's weak. They have to know at
this point because it's in their interest to know that
this is absurd. This is bizarre in fact, that Democrats
have presented this to the American people thinking if they

(56:47):
do think that it's going to make anyone safer, I mean, sorry,
it's going to make anyone change in their mind. It
will not. I saw a clip that had to do
with gun safety, and all of a sudden got jumbled
in my brain for a second now shift, shifty, shift.
We have not heard the last of him when it

(57:07):
comes to this impeachment fiasco. Now, Democrats still believe it.
They're in a position to dictate the way the Senate
is going to conduct the Senate trial. Now, So Democrats,
when they're in the majority, it's their way or the highway.
When Democrats are in the minority, it's oh no, but
you have to do what we want because a bunch

(57:27):
of stuff we say. But wait a second, I thought
we'd already no, no no, no, because a bunch of things
that we've said, Oh okay, here's Adam shift. And by
the way, they also like to talk about how the
election can't have any there's no election integrity going forward.
If Trump wins. They're setting the groundwork for this right now.

(57:49):
Make no mistake about it. Trump, I do believe is going.
I'm gonna stop saying Trump's Look, here's my prediction. Brusen
Margaret Market. Trump's gonna get re elected. Okay. I have
confidence he's gonna get it done. We got four more years. Okay,
I'm not gonna say anymore because you know what, I
don't want us to be overconfident. I don't want people
to stay home. I don't want people to think that
they don't have a voice that matters in this process
because Trump's got it. No. In fact, I'm worried that

(58:12):
that will lead to Trump losing. So I'm not no
more no more. I think Trump's gonna win. But now
we're all in. You gotta win it. We can celebrate
the victory as long as you want. After right, we
can celebrate the four more years for forty years after it.
I mean, looking out, we still talking about Reagan. But
we got to get there first. And I do have
my concerns that, look at Trump. If the wall isn't built,

(58:36):
you know, people might get a little complacence. Democrats were
caught napping in twenty sixteen, no question, and that's why
they were such a outrage, such an outrage and a
freak out about this. It's also why you know, all
this Russia stuff that they concocted. Yeah, they knew some
of them beforehand, a little you know, the Internet stuff
that was going on. They didn't freak out about it, though.
Why didn't they freak out because Russian interference wasn't such

(58:59):
a big well, it wasn't such a big deal in
the sense that it didn't change anything. But well, because
I assumed Hillary was gonna win, so it didn't really matter.
Russian interference would not have mattered. Keep this in mind,
Democrats would not have cared about Russian interference in the election.
Off Hillary Clinton had won, it wouldn't have mattered, Okay,
because that's the right outcome. How can you be upset
about the right outcome? Right? If you have a binary
event one of two things, one is good, one is bad.

(59:22):
You know if I told if I told you, you
know you have a terminal disease, and you know I
gave you the antidote to save you. But turns out
that I stole that antidote, but you're still saved. Do
you care? No, If you do not, You're just happy
that you're saved. That's the way the Democrats viewed the
Russian interference. The election didn't matter because Hillary was gonna win.

(59:43):
Ohop snope, turns out Hillary didn't win. They still think
she did, but she did not win. And then you
have you have Shift running around being as just disingenuous
and dishonest as he ever has. I mean, Shift is
Shift is an abject to grace. I mean he is
the worst of the worst as far as I'm concerned

(01:00:03):
when it comes to any Democrat on I mean, I
know he's a leading Democrat in this impeachment thing, but
the guy will say anything and his whole like, oh,
I'm just so upset about this, and oh, I don't
want to do this. Nancy Pelosi's prayerful except when she's
waving her hand to people like this, app don't do that,
don't cheer. Kind a fool the remaining five morons in
this country who don't realize that this is all a

(01:00:24):
sham that Democrats are running against the president because the
president has been so effective. There's a part of me
that feels a little bit of I mean, I'm not
gonna say sympathy, but I kind of get where some
of the Democrats are coming from on this stuff, because
what they're gonna say, we hate all this economic prosperity,
relative peace and effective governance. We hate all the deregulation,

(01:00:46):
the rising wages, the low unemployment, the booming stock market,
the no new wars, we hate it. Securing the border,
we hate it. Well, the Democrats do hate that, But
the other stuff they're supposed to at least pretend, pretend
that they don't hate. Although economic misery, as you know,
is the most fertile ground for socialists. So economic misery

(01:01:09):
if it were to continue, or rather misery if it
were to arise all of a sudden in this country,
if we were to have people that were really out
of work, big unemployment search, then Democrats would have some
kind of a case to make about how they should
be in power. And that would also then allow the
socialists within the Democrat ranks, although I think increasingly it's
hard to tell the difference between a Democrat and a socialist,
if there is any difference at all, it's just a

(01:01:32):
question of degree maybe. But they don't have a case
to make on the merits. So that's why they've relied
on all this other stuff, the process weaponized against the president,
the bureaucracy used as a check on the president of
the United States. And that's also why Adam Schiff has

(01:01:55):
been given all of us leeway by Democrats to run
around just saying all kinds of absurd and stuff. I
mentioned that he's not willing to let the election play
out without first undermining election. For Mark, please play clip
fifteen if you would, But what the House Council is
saying is we have been trying to get testimony from
people like Don McGann. We've been trying to get the

(01:02:17):
grand jury material as part of the appeachment inquiry. And
for those Senators who say, well, why didn't the House
wait on the Ukraine articles until you exhausted the court remedies,
the reason is because on those articles the president was
trying to seek foreign help in the election. Is not
sufficient to say let's wait another year or two years

(01:02:37):
to get these witnesses in if the president is trying
to cheat in the next election, So we move forward
with those articles that had the greatest sense of urgency.
We continue to press the case with McGann, with gran
jury material, with those that weren't as urgent. And I
think that makes all the sense in the world. That's

(01:02:58):
a stunning, wildly dishonest charge from chef presidents trying to
cheat in the next election. That's what he's That's what
he's saying here. I mean, you heard him cheat. How
exactly what was the cheating? Get me an answer about
a thing if you can, if you have the time.
At some point, thanks, Oh, no answer was given, nothing

(01:03:19):
was done that's cheating an election. This is absurd. But
they know Chief knows that the case was weak. This
is a repeat, isn't it? These people? You know, what
is the Yogi bearrah deja vu all over again? Right?
Who Yogi Yogi bearra? Was? I mean he was the

(01:03:41):
baseball What was the Yankee? Yes? Yeah yankee? Was he
a player or manager? Is a player and he managed
the Mets both, that's why Yankees. Yeah, yeah, okay, he
recently passed away a couple of years ago. Oh is
that so? Yeah? I was not aware of that. Maybe
when its nice weather, we'll have to go you and
produce a brand then also a baseball game. So yeah,
I love to see you what a basic would experience America?

(01:04:02):
Have you ever been to city field or arrange they serve?
Do they serve rose in the stands or just beer?
They have wine and stuff city field. I will say
I got food and may beverages that can make it happen.
That's food in baseball city field level. It's really is fantastic.
It's not just ballpark hot dogs and shading fingers anymore.
It's that's other stuff, fun things. A little digression here

(01:04:22):
from from shift being gross. No, no no, no, no, I
was gonna say. I actually went because I'm a real American.
I'm wanted my family to PBR on Friday. You know
what PBR is, Yeah, professional bullwriting. Yeah, why, it's amazing.
How how can you add proustark thinking of anything more?
I mean, you're You're grumpiness is legendary at this point.
But you get to watch this amazing animal like contored

(01:04:43):
and jump and do all this crazy stuff. And you
got some dude who's just there with like a kevlar
vestall and a cowboy hat. Try not to get him paled,
trying to protect you know, his ability to have future
generations of cowboys if you will. It's not an easy thing.
I just worry about the mental health of these people
that are doing why. I mean, it's awesome, it's so fun. Sure,
it's fun to watch the super as a person who's

(01:05:06):
doing it doing it. I mean, why do people jump
out of planes? Man? Because it's awesome? I guess that's true.
Yeah exactly, so you know, you know, I was, I
like the guys that do the they wear the suit,
you know, and they like fly through the air with
their arms out inside wear what that's what that's called.
Like the human flying sing no, no, no no, no, human
flying squirrel thing. That's super dangerous. But people definitely die

(01:05:26):
doing that, and there was like, oh well it's very
danger I jumping out of planes. PBR is awesome for
a bunch of reasons. One is it's everyone's there just
have a good time. And there's no there's no like
one team hating the other team thing. There's no like,
oh well we can't we can't be friends because you're
an island as fan, for example, and I'm a a
Maple Leafs. Are they still a team? They are? They

(01:05:49):
want to be a Leaf fan? A How many of
the original six hockey teams? Can you name the original
six National Hockey League teams? The Maple Leafs, Yeah that ball,
I just gave you one. The Kings, No, LA did
not get hockey till the seventies. The New York Rangers, Yes,
that is one of them. The Red Wings. Wow. Yeah

(01:06:10):
you know I know this. By the way, why because
I used to relay Nintendo hockey game back and like
the Ladies when there were like only a few teams.
Remember that. I'm trying to remember the team that was
right after expansion. Yeah, but I'm but I'm just saying
like it was. You know, so I just remember some
of those teams. The Oilers. No, no, that's wait, no,
what am I trying to think? I'm not the Oilers.
There's a team that's they were they? Honey? The Oilers
are a hockey Yeah, they are not an original Okay,

(01:06:32):
I was Oilers. You're missing the Montreal Canadians. That's a team, yes,
Boston Bruins. Okay, the Bruins. I should have gotten the Bruins. Okay,
and the Chicago Blackhawks. That's the last one. I never
I didn't even know that was it. I've never even
heard of that. Wow. Yeah, I thought that was like
a Triple A baseball team. Wait, anyway, learning learning new
things that we go. I'm just telling you all, PBR

(01:06:54):
is really fun. I had a great time. Family was there.
You get to see the bulls, and you know, you
also you kind of like if you want to get
up and go get a drink, it's one of these
things too. Were like, you're not missing that much because
like there'll be another bull ride in a a minute, you know,
so it's not like you've missed a big touchdown or something.
How long does that take? Like? How long is a
whole event? It's like it's like a two hour, hour

(01:07:14):
forty five it's not in the long it's not long.
It's not like a football game. When you arrived for
the tailgating, you're there all day, you know, it's like
it's like an hour and forty five whatever. It's like
a quick entertainment. A question for you, though, this is
one that I talked to my family members about. Um,
how much would I have to pay you without any training?
But you got it and you gotta get on the
bull and you have to try your very best to

(01:07:35):
stay on for eight seconds. That's gonna be on for
eight seconds to score? How long would I How much
would I have to pay you to get you to
get on that bull? Did you ask your family about
me specific No, I have them about themselves. One of
their individual price point for this it had it would
have to be in the six figures. Oh yeah, that's
oh yeah, because you're risking correct terrible injury exactly. That's

(01:07:58):
what I'm not to pay my medical bills plus something.
That's what I'm saying. I was like, I was like, yeah,
I mean you think you do it for like a
couple of thousand bucks. I'll think you're like, except if
I separated my shoulder, I had like a lifelong injury
from it. So have you ever done one at a bar? Like, oh, yeah,
there's one in Dallas. There's a place in Dallas on
McKinney Street where I am legendary for both my buck
hunter skills as well as being able to ride the

(01:08:20):
mechanical bowl like a superstar. Before we're after alcohol only after.
I'm great at both only after all right, shifty Shift
is coming back. You're in the freedom hud. This is
the Buck Sexton Show podcast. But that's not what the
American people want. It's not what the founders contemplated. And

(01:08:43):
if you ask even a majority of Republicans around the country,
they want the evidence to come out. And so I
think that withholding the articles has thus far flushed out
where Mitch McConnell's coming from. It's required senators go on record,
and it's my hope that that pressure will result in
a real trial fairly American people. That's right. You've got

(01:09:03):
Adam Schiff here telling you that everyone wants the evidence
to come out, which is such a dishonest way of
framing the issue, because yeah, of course, of course everyone
wants the evidence to come out, but they don't want Democrats,
if they were asked this question in a way that
was more honest, the situation. No, they don't want a
situation where Democrats get to determine what evidence has presented,

(01:09:25):
what evidence is suppressed, what witnesses get call, what witnesses don't.
We've already gone through this. Democrats got to do exactly
what they wanted, exactly the way they wanted to do
in the House, and now in the Senate they're doing
everything that they can to try and gain this process too,
even though they don't have the votes. They are not
in charge, but they think they can still act like

(01:09:47):
they are in charge. These people are all right, disgrace.
I still think that Nancy Pelosi is going to transmit
the articles of impeachment, but now I'm thinking that and
this might be a way that we'll have to see
how the judges would rule on this. In my little
wager here or their friend Jesse Kelly, they may add something,

(01:10:07):
so they may kind of hold it and then add
to it and then transmit it, which is a middle
way path between transmitting it as is, or just not
transmitting the articles of impeachment at all. And this is
also you have more evidence of this, bind them claiming
that there's more evidence. Play a sixteen here, here's more
shifty shift. But we also start out by having the

(01:10:29):
documents come out. And the documents that have been coming
out lately are increasingly incriminating of the president. You can
see why they want to cover those up. Those documents
ought to be provided as well. Just fantasy land stuff.
Just make up whatever you have to make up now
to try to increase the political pressure, to try to
create a change in perception that's advantageous to democrats. That's

(01:10:52):
what is, That's what's underwear. That's what they are trying
to do. And I've got to tell you, folks, if
we start an app it on this one, there's nothing
these Democrats are There's nothing that is too shameful for
them to do if it's going to hurt Trump in
this selection year. I mean, they are completely insane with

(01:11:13):
their hatred of this president and his supporters, and they
really do. I think that a lot of them have
convinced themselves. I never know who is being cynical as
a Democrat and who is a true believer. I think
there are enough true believers who really think that the
country is at stake here unless they cheat to win.
Thanks for listening to the Bus Sesson Show podcasts. Remember
to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the iHeartRadio app, or wherever

(01:11:36):
you get your podcasts. They're raging bushfires all over Australia
right now. It has been getting a lot of international attention.
And this is a moment, a moment in time when
I think we could all try to learn a few
things about what is useful conversation and situation like this

(01:12:00):
and what is just more virtue signaling by leftists. There's
certainly no shortage event going on these days. Here's the
latest update. I mean, you've got the death toll from
Australia's bush fires at twenty five. The Prime Minister of
Australia has said that there'll be an additional one point

(01:12:22):
four billion dollars in recovery efforts. And so you have
these little horrible fires all across Australia. Keep in mind
the landmass of Australia is absolutely enormous, but the destruction
I think is already double in terms of acres burned
it's double what you had in the worst fire season
in recent years in California. So these are really out
of control of bush fires and it's clearly a major problem.

(01:12:46):
It is terrible what's going on because of wildlife can't
escape this stuff. Now there is an environmental, major environmental
factor here. You have a particularly dry season, not a
lot of rain, and it's hot, very hot, very dry,
and so yes, you are having a number of fires.
And this even came up in the Golden Globes when
you had Russell Crowe got an award in absentia and

(01:13:10):
I was gonna say, Rachel from Friends Jennifer Aniston also
known as Rachel from Friends, which is no longer on
Netflix by the way, which is a bummer. She stood
up and she took read a statement from him about
how he's defending his family, which of course respect and
appreciate that in Australia, making sure they're safe during the
bush fire, what the bushfires going, and but that we
need to take dramatic action, of course, to come back line,

(01:13:32):
here we go climate change once again, it's climate change.
You have green Peace. I'm trying to find this statement
they put out. You know, here we go the fires
are still burning. This is green Peace Australia and they'll
be burning for months to come. That's why I outlined
this is an initial investment of two billion dollars. The

(01:13:55):
more is needed, the more is needed, and the cost
is higher, they'll be provided. I'm sorry, that's Prime Ministers Morrison.
Green Peace responded to that, saying every single sense of
that money should be contributed by the coal, gas and
oil companies whose carbon pollution has caused the climate crisis
that has created these extreme fire conditions right across the country.

(01:14:18):
Slugging everyday taxpayers with the bill for this just adds
insult to injury. These big polluters have become rich by
trashing our climate and it's time they start coughing up
for the repair bill. Now. I want to get into
this because this is now part of the global collectivist

(01:14:41):
and socialist surge that we are seeing of all these
different people that want there to be massive transfers of
wealth determined by massive transfers of wealth determined by these
environmentalist bodies, by government agencies and bureaucracy. These and the

(01:15:02):
consequence of this, of course will be severe. But I
want to put something else out because you have to really,
you have to really look to find this because right
now you might say just a hold on second, buck,
I mean, if we're really and look, I saw, and
I'll be honest with you, there are a few things.
I was actually just talking to friend about this over
the week, and there a few things that get me
choked up as quickly as any anything that's bad that's
happened to an animal, particularly a cute animal like not

(01:15:23):
you know, snakes, I can't get that, you know, emotional about,
but anything involving dogs, I completely lose it. And Koala's
I'm also quite fond of bears, so anything anything with
those you know, furry animals that are are mammalian cousins,
including marsupials, which are very widespread across Australia as we know,

(01:15:46):
any even a million cousins out there, and bad things
are happening with them, and that makes me, That makes
me very very sad. That's sad what's causing all of this?
Because if we want, if we're upset about it, we
want to stop it, shouldn't we understand what the And
this is the same thing samesation we've had recently about California.
We're just seeing this now in the context of Australia. Now,
Australia is like eight thousand miles away from California. It's

(01:16:07):
a long I think that's about right, maybe seventy five
something like that, But it's a long, long flight. I
haven't made the flight, but I know it's a very
long flight. But we're having the mirror image discussion on
Australia what we've already had in California. By the way,
crazy California Lass. We will have to get to that soon.
But here you have a situation where you could say,

(01:16:29):
hold on, we're hearing about climate change all the time.
We have these environmentalist groups. All they do is think
about this issue and related issues. Right, this is, this
is right in their wheelhouse. So they must know what's
going on here, right, they must be in the know
about this circumstance, this situation and be honest with the public,
because if they're going to try to help us prevent

(01:16:52):
this from continuing on as is, we have to know
what the real cause is. Right. We can't be placed
in a circumstance where we are trying to stop something
by doing a thing that isn't related to the cause
of the thing we're trying to stop. It's a very
complicated way of saying, to waste your time, waste your effort.
But here's what I was able to find from poking

(01:17:14):
around a little bit of the most recent studies. There
are over fifty thousand bushfires in Australia every year. The
Australian National Center for Research in bush Fire and Arson
I want to repeat that for Australia has a thing

(01:17:34):
you probably haven't heard of this before, called the National
Center for Research in Bushfire and Arson ARSON the intentional
creation of or intentional lighting of fires a crime. Why
would those two things be related, Well, because when you

(01:17:56):
look at the numbers, you look at what's really going
on in Australian hasn't been going on for years. Here's
what you find out. At least according to the Institute
in Australia, all they do is look at this issue.
At least thirteen percent are one hundred percent, meaning at
least we know for a for sure because of prosecutions

(01:18:18):
and because of the evidence that thirteen percent of the
fifty thousand plus fires in Australia every year. Remember Australia's
a continent, it's huge, so it would be like fifty
thousand fires in the entirety of the continental United States,
right roughly speaking. Same, So it's not we think of
it as a country, but it's a huge service. You
can actually fit really all of I saw map Mo

(01:18:38):
Strong as the weekend. You can fit effectively all of
Western Europe, the landmass of it in Australia pretty close,
not including Russia obviously, which is not really Western Europe.
That's another conversation for another time. Thirteen percent of these
fires are definitely thirty seven percent are suspicious, which means

(01:18:59):
probably started by human beings. Right, Why would a fire
be suspicious, Well, you'd have to have some reason for suspicion.
If you have reason for suspicion, there's evidence that it
wasn't just you know, a lightning strike or something along
those lines. And that means that you add those two
things together and you have half about half of the

(01:19:24):
bushfires in Australia every year are deliberately set by human beings.
So by the way, you might be saying, well, hold
on a second buck, that's that's got to be What
about people who you know they are camping and they

(01:19:44):
have a camp fire and an ember goes you know,
I mean that must happen all the time. Oh yeah, no,
that does happen all the time. And you do have
a very dangerous environment where you have, you know, a
lot of dry tinder, you've got a tremendous amount of heat.
Not a lot of boys, sure, because there hasn't been
a lot of rain. So that happens. But guess what
all of those cases for everybody who leaves a campfire burning,

(01:20:07):
or who burns some brusher, who does something that are
not intentionally setting a fire, that's not even included in
the fifty percent figure according to the Australian National Center
for Research in bush Fire and Arson. So and they
don't even know, by the way, I mean, they can't
even you gotta assume. I think it's just fair to

(01:20:30):
say that if if roughly half of the bush fires
are either certainly or most likely intentionally set in Australia,
which is what this boy, this is from how to
Dig Deep in the BBC. I mean, this is like
it's out there. If you want to find this information,
you're not being reported on very much. Why you come
here because I actually look for suff So I'm like,
this just seems weird that many fires. Huh, they're just

(01:20:52):
popping up all of a sudden. So you cut the
number in half right away based on people not setting fires,
and get in a discussion why would people set fire?
What we'll get to that maybe in a moment. But
then you add to it accidental not arson, accidental fires
a safe estimate. They don't even know what the stimo

(01:21:12):
a safe estimate is going to be. That's gotta be
half of the remaining right, half of the half that's left.
So I feel like I'm back in grammar school doing
fractions here. But that would mean that based on my
back of the envelope, I'm just you know, but back
of the envelope calculation of the using the very real

(01:21:34):
number of about fifty percent are intention People are setting
fires in Australia on purpose. That is what this research
body that all they do is look at this issue.
That's what they're telling you. When you add on to
that accidental fires, you're looking at roughly let's say seventy
five percent of all these fires are nan caused in

(01:21:55):
one way or another, meaning human beings are responsible. We're
just like setting these fires because they either meant to
or accidentally messed up. Have you seen that reporter anywhere? No?
You know why, because they would so much rather show you. Look,
I saw the video of the koala that was like
singe and I like choked up as horrible and I

(01:22:16):
feel terrible about it. But they show you the koala
that has gotten badly burned. They show you people giving
water to ke mean, there's video of this all over
the place in the Internet. They show people giving little
bottles of water to a kangaroo that's parched and has
been burned from the flames and trying to escape them.
They'll show you this stuff and then they'll immediately turn

(01:22:38):
around and say it's because of climate change. And if
you don't see that, you're a bad person and you
don't care about the burning koalas and kangaroos. It's emotional blackmail.
It's probably this is propaganda. It's very effective techniques of
propaganda being deployed by libs on all of this stuff.
This is what they are doing. This is the way

(01:22:59):
they approach all of this. And I would just say
to you, you've got us. This is why it's so
important to have alternative sources of information. Do your own,
do your own thinking about this come to places like
this where I do, and it's just me and Proson Mark.
I mean, we're just doing our own thing in here,
doing our own research, pulling our own information and presenting
it to you so that you can be informed in

(01:23:21):
a way that you won't be if you rely on,
certainly the Golden Globes, which is really just a like
a you know, special society of self indulgent idiots, And
you won't be if you rely on the mainstream media either,
because they think, Remember, the baseline assumption that they're operating
from is that climate change is going to destroy the world,

(01:23:43):
and so how they respond they're feeling on this is
that anything that they have to do then in order
to stop climate change, including lying to you about the
reality of the bush fires youeple want to say brush
fires bush fires in Australia is entirely is moral. The

(01:24:06):
lie becomes moral, the propaganda becomes self justifying. I mean,
it isn't that stunning. I mean, sitting here and just
you actually look at this, it's this terrifying thing. The
countries inflame. People are dying, animals are being some species
they say in Australia are being wiped out. This is
all very sad, and then you have to get to okay, well,
what's really causing this in the answer is human being

(01:24:27):
setting fires. That's what's really causing the setting fires in
a in a situation where the weather is conducive to
particularly conducive. It is dry and hot there right now,
unseasonably dry and hot. It is not because you know,
you aren't riding a tricycle to work every day. That's
not what's causing the bush fires in Australia. People need

(01:24:49):
to understand this. Okay, The soupid libs at the Golden
Globes don't want to wrestle with the facts here, but trying,
you know, giving gaseous speeches about trying to stop COO
two gas from getting into the atmosphere is helping nobody.
And then you have on top of this the socialist
agenda of these different environmentalist groups that really want major

(01:25:10):
corporations to fund them and then they'll leave them alone.
It's it's like a protection racket they're running. You know, Exonmobile,
You've got to fund our wacko environmentalist green energy you know,
advocacy group, or else we're gonna tell everybody how terrible
you are, but if you fund us, you know, we'll
probably leave you alone a little bit. Nice capitalism you got,
there be a shame if something happened to it. This

(01:25:30):
is what these green groups are doing all over the world,
not just here. They're doing in Australia, any any developed country,
any places where there's like the fatted cow of capitalism
to be slaughtered. These green groups find a way to
pretend that the answer is to turn it into hamburgers,
right ruin. What has been working so well for us,

(01:25:51):
has made us all so much more prosperous and comfortable
and live longer and all these other things. This is
the truth of the situation us. Rather, it's just something
and then and then I just just briefly, I mean,
I don't know. I think you'd have to be a
a psychologist to understand this, or I mean I'm not
even Also a lot of psychologists I see them on TV,
I'm like, well, that guy didn't tell me anything I

(01:26:11):
didn't already know. It's really yeah, you know, not particularly
impressive a lot of time with the diagnoses of different
psychoses and such. But here's what I would say. There
are remember the scene in Batman Begins where Michael Caine.
I's got that really like you know Cookney accent, Like

(01:26:32):
no one actually talks like that, but except for Michael
Caine and the movie talks like this, excuse me, excuse me, governor,
you know the whole thing. Um. He's like, you know,
when I was always in the Imperial Service in Burma
and there was there was this bloke who was running
a rebel group who had a ruby the size of

(01:26:54):
a tangerine. Some people just want to see the word burn.
That's pretty much it, folks. Some people see an opportunity
to destroy, and for very deep seated reasons, they seize
upon it. And for some individuals that is through fire.
This is why there are people who are arsonists. They

(01:27:16):
like that momentary sense or that continuing sense of power
they get from being the originator, from being the cause
of tremendous destruction. There is perhaps a hole in their soul.
I can't begin to understand why anybody would do this,
especially given the danger it puts fellow human beings in

(01:27:36):
the destruction of property and the animals that will all
be burned are being burned as a result of this.
But there are some very bad people out there, and
there are people who have various kinds of sickness of soul.
I'm not sure we call it even mental illness, just
a sickness of soul. And that's the only explanation I

(01:27:58):
can come up with for why anybody would set a
fire like this, especially under these conditions and circumstances. It's
so obviously dangerous. But that's what's really happening here. For
all the all the stuff about how we have to
combat climate change, which now I no longer can take
the intelligence of any person seriously, who really thinks that
combating climate change is something we have to do. I
just I just don't think it's possible to be I

(01:28:20):
don't think it's possible to have good judgment. You may
you may be someone who has ability in other areas,
you do not have good judgment. If you believe that
combating climate change is something we all have to do,
you're in the freedom hud. This is the Buck Sex
and Show podcast. Now we have really we have great support,

(01:28:43):
but we have tremendous views and much of it so
much of it is just honest on the other side.
But we're plowing through it, and I really do believe
we have got on US side. I believe that. I
believe that. You know, first of all, I love that
just because when Trump says, if we have got on
our side, you know that the drive's liberals completely insane,

(01:29:05):
which is an exciting thing for me. So let's begin there.
That's great. I mean, it triggers the Libs for Trump
to say we have got on our side. And I'm
not going to pretend that Trump is. It would be absurd,
It would be it would be ridiculous to pretend that
Trump's life pre president was the Christian ideal. But none

(01:29:30):
of us are the Christian ideal. It's also true I
am not the Christian ideal. I doubt any of you
listening would claim to be. And increasingly, when I see
the opposition to US, I have to say. Trump maybe
meant it a bit as a job, but I think
he also meant it because it's true. I do think
that if God is picking sides in this election, he's

(01:29:50):
hoping to keep America great. Thanks for listening to The
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Team Buck, It's time for roll call Facebook dot COM's

(01:30:20):
Last Buck Sexton if you want to send it on
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is team buck at iHeartMedia dot com. That is how
we get this party roll and wanted to do a
little double roll call today. And by the way, you
will be able to see me at least unless there's
a cancelation or change, which there always can be in

(01:30:42):
TV world. But I'm supposed to be on Outnumbered on
Fox News tomorrow at twelve pm Eastern for the full
hour with the four lad I don't know who the
four ladies are of Fox News who will be on
the couch and have me as their as their esteemed
guest or hopefully esteemed, but definitely their guest. But that
be tomorrow at twelve pm EASTERNS. So there we have

(01:31:04):
it now, just like you, I appreciate. Also, whenever you
get a chance, you can check out we put a
I did a hit on Howard Kurtz's show on Sunday
on Media Buzz and we'll put that up on the
website buckxxon dot com and also on Facebook dot com
slash buck Sexton. Okay, sorry, I've gotten you know, there's

(01:31:24):
a lot of a lot of stuff to get through
a lot of stuff to say and see and do.
And there we go. We have wait where did the
where did it go? We have the inbox with the team. Ah,
there we go, the team bucking box. I was trying
to find it. Here we go. We have somebody who
just calls himself Nebraska. Nebraska. Okay, buck big fan? Here?

(01:31:49):
Quick question? Why do you refer to cocaine Mitch? I'm
sorry that just happened. Why do you refer to Mitch
McConnell as cocaine Mitch? I can't stop scratching my head. Please,
I need to know my scalp is getting a rash um. Okay,
So this is this is because of a fellow name
and I know I call him, I just it's such
a fun nickname. But it's a guy named Don Blankenship

(01:32:15):
who ran the series of ads, and he's just trying
to I guess he's trying to primary Mitch McConnell. And
he referred to Mitch McConnell's wife has some ownership interest
or you know, owns a piece of a shipping company.
I believe it was the backstory here. She's she's Chinese

(01:32:36):
or her family she is of Chinese background, and there
was some somebody on the ship was arrested for like
on one of these ships for this global shipping company
was arrest for cocaine I think or something. Anyway, Don
Blankenship came up with this thing that Mitch McConnell it's
like part of this international cocaine distribution conspiracy, and he
ransom ad on it and referred to him as Cocaine Mitch.

(01:32:58):
And in this campaign ad which producer mark we should
find this the original the original blankets ship. Not for now,
well maybe later this week. It's kind of a little
fun I'd like to give the team someone to look
forward to, you know what I mean. But we will, Yeah,
we will do a update on all things Cocaine Mitch
for for your listening enjoyment. But that's where it comes from.

(01:33:20):
Don Blanketship referred to him as Cocaine Mitch, and it's
a nickname that kind of stuck. And I heard from
somebody who was very close to Mitch McConnell that he
actually thinks the nickname is pretty funny. So because if
there's anybody who's involved in the international international cocaine distribution,
Mitch McConnell will be very very very low on that list.

(01:33:43):
But that's why, so totally legitimate question, and it's from
Don Blanketship running ads against Mitch McConnell where he called
him cocaine. Mitch, Zach, who is oss Buck? You're the best? Well, Zach,
I think you're the best, no surprise. Your analysis on
current around Iraq, Iran and Sulimani has been spot on.

(01:34:04):
I think you should bring Joe Kent on your show
to discuss further. He's a retired Green Beret Chief Warrant
Officer out of Fifth Group with extensive experience in the
Iraqi Shia. He's also a gold star husband. He lost
his wife shan And in Syria last year. He brings
a very sober and realistic perspective of this situation. He's
done some quick hits on Fox. I think your show'd

(01:34:26):
be a better format shieldside. Zach, thank you so much
for the suggestion. I'm not familiar with Joe Kent, but
we will take a look and we'd love to have
him on the show to talk about this, given the
background that you've presented that he has. So anytime you
guys have somebody that you particularly think would be good
for this format. We are going to start doing more

(01:34:46):
long form interviews in the future and we're gonna put
them up on podcast. But also we're going to have
a YouTube going. And so we're getting all these things moving.
I've been telling many of you for you know, it
always happens. It just takes me to time because we
it's just a team of two in here in the
hot right now, and it is not easy to get
all these things. And I got a book, I gotta right,

(01:35:07):
I got a YouTube channel, like a lot of things
I got to do all the time. So, um, I
did tell you that, for example, we would start getting
the podcast of a show out earlier, and now we do.
Now it's out every day by three eastern so those
of you who want can listen much earlier, which has
been a plan of mine all along. So yeah, But
you can always send along any any guests suggestion that

(01:35:30):
you have. We are happy to have you present that
to us here, So just send it presented to us.
By sending it to present it to us, you don't
have to give it to us on like a you know,
silver platter or anything like that. Just send us into
the thing. Loll loll. The email is taken way too
long to load. I don't really know. While there we

(01:35:51):
go book I know people always ask for recommendations of
books or movies. I have one. The TV series murder
In is a British fantasy adventure drama television program BBC
drama series between two thousand and eight and twenty twelve.
I'm assuming it aired then not takes place. Then I
like it because it has basic humor, swordplay and magic.

(01:36:14):
Plus it is clean and the whole family can watch.
This program helps when you want to turn the brain
off for a while. Well, oh, thank you for that.
That's certainly sounds pretty cool. I like all that you know,
medieval magic, sword, dungeons and dragon stuff, usually as a genre,
not the Witcher, which is the worst thing ever. But

(01:36:36):
I'm gonna stop. I'm gonna stop. Some of you like
it and you get mad at me. Fine, you're allowed
to like it. You're allowed to look team. I love
all of you. You're allowed to be wrong. Sometimes you
can be wrong about the Witcher. That's cool, Marina Rights,
I trust you in Producer Mark kind a lovely holiday
season and you had a fun birthday celebration. Well, Marina,
I was a little sick, but thank you. Nonetheless, I've

(01:36:58):
been watching some of the comments the Democratic already presidential
hope pols and ridiculous celebrities have made regarding Trump's decision
to take out Sulimani with that drone strike, and I
couldn't help but recall Hillary Clinton's glib comments and giggles
about the death of Muamar Kaddafi. We came, we saw
he died. That's the thing about lying. It's very hard

(01:37:18):
to keep track of what you said previously. Love life
and freedom to you both. In twenty twenty, Marina of
the esteemed group of Patriots known as OSS, the original
Saturday Squad people that have been with me, now, gosh,
it's going on with going on eight years Marina, Yeah,
I mean they have a different This is one of

(01:37:39):
the main things that we have to call out and
talk about here on the show, as the Democrats have
different standards of what's acceptable for Democrats versus what is
acceptable for Republicans. That's true all the time. I mean,
variety of context is true all the time. Really, they
do not have a universal standard because if there was
a universal standard that could be held to account, they

(01:37:59):
do not want to be held to account. They want
to be able to do whatever they want to do,
pursue power, get away with things. Double standards are fun,
being a hypocrites fun get away with a lot. And
it's certainly true about Hillary and the intervention in Libya
and what was the point and what were we doing there?
And where was the congressional boabbli blah. I don't know,
None of that matters. It's all about how Democrats absolutely

(01:38:25):
want power. Guyle writes, Hey, Buck, if Sean Parnell was
listening good luck on your run for office, Buck, you
asked Sean about the best flavor of ice cream? You
know what? I found it out producer Mark. To just
have a little diversion here from this for one second,
you know, my parents told me, and like they kind
of had to tell me this solemnly because I was
over there obviously for the holidays hanging out with them. Now,

(01:38:45):
you know what, Buck, we like strawberry ice cream. I
don't know, man, I was then. I just I thought
everybody understood the strawberry ice cream is the worst. But
my own family there are strawberry, all of them. They're strawberry.
And my parents, my siblings understand my parents are strawberry
ice cream eaters, though I don't just know, Like my
dad respects, and so there's my mom a good pistachio.

(01:39:07):
Like they know the real ice cream flavors too, but
they'll eat strawberry ice cream, and I just think at
some point it's actually my wife's favorite. Like there's a
very famous ice cream plates we go to where where
we live. Give it a sacio. What's it called Marvel
Marvell ice cream in Long Beach, New York. Not a
play on Carvel. No, No, it's just itch called Marvin.
It's like Carvel with an m oh, it's much better.

(01:39:28):
What is the best flavor of ice cream there? I
like chocolate, but my wife goes pistachio. I see, I
think pistachio is just like it's a special thing. I
get very excited about it. But anyway, you asked Sean
about the best flavor of ice cream. Thank God he
did not say strawberry. I add that in his cookies
and cream is almost a perfect answer. I have a
local dairy queen trained to add bacon to the blizzards.

(01:39:50):
What all I have to do is say, will you
guile that for me? And they blend in bacon bits.
I do prefer it with carmel chunks, but it works
with any thing. I'm serious. If you try it, you
won't be disappointed. Also, you've got two more dedicated listeners
already for you this year Shieldside Gyle, Well Gyle, thank you.
Gyle gave me a birthday present and a Christmas present
by bringing more people into Team Buck. I don't know

(01:40:13):
about the rest of you haven't and I haven't gotten
you know, A notification of a day or two about
it makes me sad. Would you what do you think
about bacon ice cream? I would try it. I'm not
much of a sweet and savory guy together. I have
had chocolate cover bacon that is delicious. There is a
bacon bar in Midtown and Midtown Manhattan that's a thing. Yes,
I haven't been to it yet, but I really want

(01:40:34):
to go. I really want to go to I'm actually going.
I don't have to go check that. I literally just
started a diet today too, so we really shouldn't be
talking about this stuff. Yeah, I gotta I gotta get
healthy too. Man, December was a bad month for me
man eating wise. Yeah, from a honeymoon on it just
I just don't understand why they can't figure out a
way to make Bree a health food, Like, like cheese,
My weaknesses are cheese and chocolate. Cheese. Isn't that bad

(01:40:57):
for you? This protein? Yeah, a little fatty color, it's
you know, sure, you eat like a wedge of You
eat a wedge of any cheese, and you've pretty much
done your damage for the whole in moderation. Yeah, that's
what they tell me about everything. So you've talked have
you talked to people want to be healthy? They'll say
you can eat anything, just eat it in moderation. Like,
where's the fun I want to stuff my face? Yeah?
I love We got Jesse Kelly's a Keto diet expert.

(01:41:19):
Do you ever see his Twitter account with that? Yes,
it's amazing, all right, it's funny. We actually have somebody
just wrote this in I did not pick this out
headline cheese don't worry buck, you aren't the only one
with a cheese problem. And they send me huge cheese
platter photos. You see. This is amazing. It's a real thing.
I did see that one. Yeah, yeah, I like it.
So perfect timing on that one. All right, Now, we

(01:41:40):
got for roll call Robert, who writes in deer Buck
on your show Thursday afternoon, as you said you were
not feeling well. To help prevent the colds and flu
of winter, I take two natural remedies which I can recommend.
The first is Echinatia, which is an over the counter
remedy that helps strengthen the immune system. I take it

(01:42:01):
if I start to feel run down. Its value was
confirmed when I was speaking with Congressman Andy Harris, a
practicing anesthesiologist, who said it's the first thing he takes
when he starts feeling bad. The second item of value
for specifically helping to prevent influenza is an Elderberry and
black current preparation. The product which I buy is Immune

(01:42:23):
take Care by New Chapter, a very reputable nutraceutical company.
About ten years ago, I had the flu, began recovering,
and then had a relapse. Elderberry was recommended, and I
took the product and the next day had no flu symptoms.
While I am no longer employed, I do take it
when I'm out among people and had not had the
flu since that episode. Keep talking, Robert, Robert, thank you.
I've certainly heard a lot about echinatia over the years,

(01:42:46):
I have never heard of taking elderberry and black current.
Though I've heard of elderberry. I don't know what it does,
but I've definitely heard the term. Did you see, by
the way, do you look when you're in CVS or
something of the weekend? The oslaccana? But what Ossilla coconham again,
that sounds like something I'm telling you. It's I'm telling
you it's a thing as I'm looking it up right. Yeah,

(01:43:09):
here it's type it O S C I L L
O O C C I n U M. What does
this do for me? Is you know, protects your Assla coconham?
What do you mean? It's just it's it's it's a
it's an important immune component. Sure that has you know

(01:43:32):
you gotta it's I'm telling you it's a product. They
sell it all the time, homeopathic remedy. I've never never
think we need this behind us. Okay, fair enough, fine,
I'm just a conversation. I'm just trying to tell you, man,
it's an important you gotta have enough Assila coconham in
your immune system or else bad things happen. You're getting
good at saying yeah, I'm well, it's it's a long word.

(01:43:54):
It's out of the fact that I could actually read it.
Producer producer Nick. I mean, she's got kids. He knows
all the cold remedies out there that you've got. I'm
sure he could send us some of his homeopathic best
which were probably about chicken soup, Jewish staple. Yeah, well,
now some of the matzo ball is the real thing.
Producer Nick takes Elderberry. We got Nick, he takes Elderberry's

(01:44:15):
a real thing. Yeah. By the way, I keep saying
it's too I mean, we got producer Nick too, but
he's he's not in the studio. So yeah, he doesn't
have a microphone. But there's actually three of us that
are always on this, on this little express train to
insanity here. All right, anyway, enough about that, Andrew, enough
about I'm not eve gonna saying at homeopathic flu flu medicine.
There you go, Can I say it right? You did? Wow,

(01:44:36):
well done, Andrew writes Buck. Okay, before we start, I
am pre og team Buck, going back to twenty thirteen. Oh,
so he's he's making me. He knows that I love him. Now,
he knows he's like family. Now he knows my og
my oss. These people have been with me forever, he says,
before we start on po Okay, your review of The
Witcher on Netflix was harsh. It is a respected of

(01:45:00):
someone who is unfamiliar with the source material, So I
don't blame you anyway. The Witcher on Netflix is absolutely
amazing when you came from the gamer or book reader's perspective.
Without going too deep, Eastern European folklore is a very
strange thing compared to what we think of with monsters
and magic fantasy. But when you are familiar with what

(01:45:21):
The Witcher is, the show is so great. Andrew, your
bro from Indiana. PS. If you get to a point
in your life where there is time for video games,
play which or three on PlayStation four? Okay, I mean Andrew,
Because I have not I have no knowledge of this
video game. I can't say that, well, you're wrong. I

(01:45:45):
just I think that you have to when you present
a show on Netflix, it has to be a good
product for what it is. It can't just be a
good product for some very small subset of the population
that is familiar. But I don't know. I guess they
make some things for the fans out there. I'm not
gonna lie to you guys. I hate when I say
that because I never lied to you, but it's a
phrase that people use. I watched Doom. I forget what

(01:46:07):
it was like the New Doom movie, which was so
bad but like so brainless that it was kind of
okay to watch. It's like a bad rip off of
the movie Aliens. But you know, Doom was a video game.
It is like they opened ah it's like futuristic, but
they opened a portatal hell. It's the first person shooter.
I think it was one of the original reminds me
of Wolfenstein. Another did you ever play Wolfenstein? That was great.

(01:46:30):
That was a fun game. You just ran around shooting Nazis.
It was pre inglorious bastards, which I feel I kind
of just stole the basic idea from Wolfenstein was the
name of the video game. Okay, we ran into some
interesting stuff today on the show. Tomorrow show is going
to be amazing. If you can tune out at twelve
pm Eastern or tape it with your DVR. I guess
you don't tape, then you you record record with your

(01:46:52):
DVR out number tomorrow, Jill. Then Shields High

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