February 9, 2025 • 13 mins
Buck Sexton discusses the controversy surrounding Big Balls, an employee with Doge who made headlines after old online comments resurfaced. While Big Balls was removed from the team amid the backlash, there are now calls to bring him back, including support from JD Vance and Donald Trump. Buck argues that people should not be held accountable for past mistakes, especially when they have apologized. He also dives into the broader issue of political attacks and the current state of the U.S. government, criticizing wasteful spending and the control the establishment holds over the nation.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get your podcasts. Journalists swarm Elon's Big Balls
employee who has been removed from the Doge team, and
now there are calls to bring him back. In fact,
(00:33):
there was a call from no less than Well the
Vice President, JD. Vance and Donald Trump himself cutting effort.
One of the other engineers was fired for some inappropriate posts.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
The Vice president says, bring him back. What do you say, Well,
I don't know about the particular thing. But if the
Vice President said that, did you say that, I'm with
the Vice President? Thank you, Peter, So.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Big Balls may return. What happened here? You may be
wondering what the heck is going on? Big Balls is
the pseudonym, perhaps the online nom de guerre of a
fellow who was working for Doge. A young man who,
under another or under that pseudonym online years ago said
some very dumb things, as people sometimes can do, and
(01:21):
the journals dug this up and created a whole stir
about it. And now Elon has removed him from the team.
But he's saying he might bring him back. Well, I
think he absolutely should bring him back. And here's why
we should no longer live in a country where the journals,
the left, the apparatus can just dig through everything that
(01:45):
someone has ever written online and get them fired from
their job. I know, yes, there will be exceptions to
this where someone did something so bad that we'll say okay,
but the standard should really be if he said something dumb,
you apologize for it now it was years ago. You
should be able to continue in life as a human
being without the consequences of the Left coming after you.
(02:07):
Keep in mind there are a lot of people that
say all kinds of crazy things that are horrible things
that the Left never goes after because this is just
a political weapon for them. They'll find something you said
at some point. It can be ten, twenty years ago.
They don't care whatever it is. They'll find something and
they will use it to destroy you. What's much more
important here is that Elon is exposing what the Democrat
(02:30):
apparatus really is, which is the self licking ice cream
cone of DC. It's the swamp funding itself and its
buddies via your tax dollars. It's wasting money while think
about this Joe Biden's America was wasting all this money,
didn't care at all, thought it was a great thing
to waste all this money, you know, trans puppet shows
(02:51):
in Mongolia, et cetera. And also hired seventy eighty thousand
new IRS agents, so a lot more people to harass
you and take your money with the threat of imprisonment
against you while they're lighting money on fire. That's your money, right,
That's the America that we're supposed to live in and
think is okay. And we're just at the beginning of this.
(03:12):
Doge he's doing incredible work. I mean, this is something
that everybody should want. Somebody who is an organizational and
entrepreneurial genius, Elon Musk looking at what is being done
by the federal government in our name that is pointless,
that is wasteful, that is corrupt, and showing it to
us and taking action on it. I mean, I think
(03:33):
it is absolutely incredible. And the fact that they're attacking
these I mean, you know, here's CNN attacking this guy.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yes, so this is a nineteen year old high school
graduate who has used the unfortunate nickname big Balls online.
So that would be one way that we could refer
to him. He is now working at Musk's behest inside
Doge and we looked into his background and so we found,
you know, several notable things erin, one of which is
(04:04):
that this individual has founded multiple companies, including one with
another unfortunate name, Tesla dot SEXYLLC, which he established in
twenty twenty one. He would have been around sixteen years old.
Now this LLC controls dozens of web.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Domain And you say, why the heck is is the
fact that these guys are young such a big thing
that either the founders a lot of the founders are
in their twenties and thirties when the Constitution was written.
We don't actually have to be in a society where
people who can't make it up the stairs anymore make
all the big decisions, which is really, unfortunately what American
(04:41):
politics has turned into. The boomers. These boomers never want
to never want to just spend time with the grandkids,
always want to be in power. Look at Pelosi, look
at Shumer, look look at Biden. You know you got
what is her name? Feinstein? Feinstein couldn't even brush her
own hair. She was still a sitting center. Think about that.
We got a real problem here. But it's so interesting
(05:03):
to me. And you know, we had a caller on
Clay and Buck show, so I want to give credit
omer the caller's name, but he was a caller of
millions of p hurt him, so he definitely gets the
credit there. That the Democrats thought that we should all
listen to Greta Thunberg on climate change. It was an
incredibly complicated issue, of course, not a crisis at all.
She was sixteen years old giving lectures at the UN.
You have started my dreams. You remember that, and that's okay.
(05:27):
She's sixteen we should listen to. And if you criticize her,
you were a monster. I remember even somebody when I
was on TV at Fox yelled at me because I
said that nobody should listen to Greta Thunberg said, don't
pick on a kid. I'm not picking on a kid.
I'm picking on the adults who listened to a kid.
I was right, the person was wrong. No longer there,
it doesn't matter. But do you see this stuff. It
(05:48):
happens right. The desire to go with your side, no
matter what the principle is that you may have established
in some other context, the rules changing as you need
them to change, when you need them to change. How
the Democrats play the game all the time. So we
have to change these rules. Elon's DOGE team. Unless some
(06:10):
Boddy does something unprofessional or you know, violates the expectations
of what DOGE is, they should be able to continue
in this work. I don't care what somebody wrote online
ten years ago or whatever it is. I don't care.
They're doing incredibly important stuff. They're not harming anybody, they
are helping all of us, and they should be supported
(06:30):
in this process. There's no question about it. I think
it's essential Trump. By the way, I had some really
funny moments. But during the press conference today with the
Prime Minister of Japan, we'll get into this. But also
on the point about education costs the left. You think
the left is upset about USAID, just wait till we
start looking at Department of Education and all the money
(06:51):
that's flowing through there and just the whole education dysfunction
in this country. But first, our sponsor here is the
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. The ceasefire between Defense
forces and Hamas has removed Israel from the daily headlines,
but that doesn't mean there aren't tens of thousands of
Israeli citizens still displaced and still suffering from the fifteen months.
Between what we've witnessed in Israel and the rise in
(07:12):
global anti Semitism and the constant attacks on Israel shows
us that it's more important than ever to remember the
atrocities of the Holocaust to ensure it never happens again.
That's why I've partnered with the International Fellowship of Christians
and Jews. They provide food, shelter, and safety to Jews
in Israel and around the world, including those remaining Holocaust survivors.
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(07:33):
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Here's Trump on education and Maxine Waters. He speaks about
her as well. The Department of sp wants can be
(07:53):
side democratic long angers trying to get the Department of Earlier.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Day, Oh, I see the same ones. I see Maxine
Waters a low life. I see you know all these people.
They don't they don't love our country. They don't love
our country. We want great education. So they rank forty
countries in education. We're ranked dead last, dead last. But
the good news is we're number one in one category,
you know, that is costs per pupil. We spend more
(08:21):
per pupil than any other country in the world. You
look at Norway, Denmark, Sweden, various countries all up and down, Finland,
China does very well in education, and then you look
at us. We spend much more money than they do
per pupil or any other way. But we spend much
more money than they do, and yet we're ranked this
(08:42):
year Biden's last year, congratulations show we're ranked dead last.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Okay, so, first of all, I think it's funny Colls
maxim water is low life, so Trump. But beyond that,
let's take a look. Why do we spend so much money?
Why do we spend so much money on education in
this country and get results that are clearly not what
(09:12):
they should be based upon the dollars and dollars out
I'm telling you, yeah, there's a lot. There's a big conversation.
I will admit that it's a big conversation. But a
part of it is, do you know that administrative personnel
have increased something like six times the rate of actual
teachers in the public school system in this country. So
just the way that they've done with these NGOs and
(09:34):
USAID and this money, there's sloshing around for people who
don't really do anything. That's what the education system in
this country has become, especially in the Blue states, but
they even in red states. There are Blue staters, if
you will, there are Democrats who control the education system.
And it doesn't have to be this way. The Department
(09:57):
of Education. It's so funny people say, all the schools
are going to shut down if you defund the Department
of Education. What does deue even do. The funds for
your local public school come from the state overwhelmingly so,
so it's not that the federal government funds local public schools.
This is why you pay your property taxes, and a
huge part of your property taxes and a lot of
places goes toward the public schools in your district. So
(10:21):
Doe could go away tomorrow, it wouldn't make It wouldn't
make a darn bit of difference, except there'd be one
less DEI obsessed, a communist nest inside of the government,
which is which sounds like a great thing to me.
But you're talking about so much money being spent and
it never gets better. We just spend more and more
and more money. No one ever thinks about how to
(10:42):
make it better. You know who might be able to
make things better. Somebody like Elon Musk, somebody who looks
at dollars and cents, inputs, outputs, what's actually happening, what
the product is, what the what the expenditures are, and
makes determinations to improve it, make it better, and do
it better than anybody else. Now I'm not saying, you know,
Elon doesn't have a background education. First of all, most
(11:03):
people have background education don't really know anything, all right,
meaning people at study education. Yeah, there are exceptions, there
are great teachers like all that, but people who are
administrators who like have it, like Jill doctor, Jill Biden
with her PhD in education. Do you think she knows anything.
She's a total ignoramus. The whole degree was a joke.
But it's meant to give you access into the system.
(11:26):
So then you're a doctor, you're a PhD. You have
to be treated seriously, you have to be given perks
and certain kind of pay and the whole thing, scam, scam,
whole thing. So this should be changed as well. If
you start to pull apart and the education system of
this country is because of the public sector of public
public school teachers unions, which are public sector unions. Because
(11:49):
of them, there's so much funding and money that goes
to Democrats from the local all the way up to
the federal level for political races. A huge source of donations,
a huge source of street muscle, getting votes out protests.
All this are the teachers unions. If you can start
to just start to tap on the outer shell of
(12:10):
that a little bit, you start to go after them
a little bit, Democrats will lose their minds. These are
the systems. These are the things that are in place
that allow them to get their way and to effectively
be in charge even after they lose elections. So if
you can begin to change this, you're in a much
better place. Sponsors Birch Gold, you know, I think things
are going to be great under Trump with the economy,
(12:32):
but he's only going to be present for four years.
We've got thirty six trillion dollars a debt, and I
want you to think about where your saving is going
to be in five years, ten years, fifteen years, and
diversifying in a gold just makes sense. Look at the
track record of gold over the last thirty years and
look where the price is today with a dollar that
is still in decline and being inflated away. Gold makes
(12:54):
sense and I trust the Birch Gold Group. This is
the company that's released the all new Ultimate Guide for
Gold in the Trump Era with a four by Donald
Trump Junior. Get your free copy along with Birch Gold's
free information kit on gold by texting my name Buck
to ninety eight ninety eight ninety eight, or go online
to Birch Gold dot com slash buck. That's text my
name Buck to the number ninety eight ninety eight ninety eight,
(13:14):
or go online to Birch Gold dot com slash buck
for your free copy of the Ultimate Guide for Gold
and the Trump Era. No obligation, only information. All right,
Hope you have a great weekend. I'll talk to you
after the Super Bowl, which I'm predicting the Eagles will win.
I know people are gonna yell at me for that,
but I'd like to be a contrarian sometimes. Have a
great one. Shields High
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get your podcasts. Journalists swarm Elon's Big Balls
employee who has been removed from the Doge team, and
now there are calls to bring him back. In fact,
(00:33):
there was a call from no less than Well the
Vice President, JD. Vance and Donald Trump himself cutting effort.
One of the other engineers was fired for some inappropriate posts.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
The Vice president says, bring him back. What do you say, Well,
I don't know about the particular thing. But if the
Vice President said that, did you say that, I'm with
the Vice President? Thank you, Peter, So.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Big Balls may return. What happened here? You may be
wondering what the heck is going on? Big Balls is
the pseudonym, perhaps the online nom de guerre of a
fellow who was working for Doge. A young man who,
under another or under that pseudonym online years ago said
some very dumb things, as people sometimes can do, and
(01:21):
the journals dug this up and created a whole stir
about it. And now Elon has removed him from the team.
But he's saying he might bring him back. Well, I
think he absolutely should bring him back. And here's why
we should no longer live in a country where the journals,
the left, the apparatus can just dig through everything that
(01:45):
someone has ever written online and get them fired from
their job. I know, yes, there will be exceptions to
this where someone did something so bad that we'll say okay,
but the standard should really be if he said something dumb,
you apologize for it now it was years ago. You
should be able to continue in life as a human
being without the consequences of the Left coming after you.
(02:07):
Keep in mind there are a lot of people that
say all kinds of crazy things that are horrible things
that the Left never goes after because this is just
a political weapon for them. They'll find something you said
at some point. It can be ten, twenty years ago.
They don't care whatever it is. They'll find something and
they will use it to destroy you. What's much more
important here is that Elon is exposing what the Democrat
(02:30):
apparatus really is, which is the self licking ice cream
cone of DC. It's the swamp funding itself and its
buddies via your tax dollars. It's wasting money while think
about this Joe Biden's America was wasting all this money,
didn't care at all, thought it was a great thing
to waste all this money, you know, trans puppet shows
(02:51):
in Mongolia, et cetera. And also hired seventy eighty thousand
new IRS agents, so a lot more people to harass
you and take your money with the threat of imprisonment
against you while they're lighting money on fire. That's your money, right,
That's the America that we're supposed to live in and
think is okay. And we're just at the beginning of this.
(03:12):
Doge he's doing incredible work. I mean, this is something
that everybody should want. Somebody who is an organizational and
entrepreneurial genius, Elon Musk looking at what is being done
by the federal government in our name that is pointless,
that is wasteful, that is corrupt, and showing it to
us and taking action on it. I mean, I think
(03:33):
it is absolutely incredible. And the fact that they're attacking
these I mean, you know, here's CNN attacking this guy.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yes, so this is a nineteen year old high school
graduate who has used the unfortunate nickname big Balls online.
So that would be one way that we could refer
to him. He is now working at Musk's behest inside
Doge and we looked into his background and so we found,
you know, several notable things erin, one of which is
(04:04):
that this individual has founded multiple companies, including one with
another unfortunate name, Tesla dot SEXYLLC, which he established in
twenty twenty one. He would have been around sixteen years old.
Now this LLC controls dozens of web.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Domain And you say, why the heck is is the
fact that these guys are young such a big thing
that either the founders a lot of the founders are
in their twenties and thirties when the Constitution was written.
We don't actually have to be in a society where
people who can't make it up the stairs anymore make
all the big decisions, which is really, unfortunately what American
(04:41):
politics has turned into. The boomers. These boomers never want
to never want to just spend time with the grandkids,
always want to be in power. Look at Pelosi, look
at Shumer, look look at Biden. You know you got
what is her name? Feinstein? Feinstein couldn't even brush her
own hair. She was still a sitting center. Think about that.
We got a real problem here. But it's so interesting
(05:03):
to me. And you know, we had a caller on
Clay and Buck show, so I want to give credit
omer the caller's name, but he was a caller of
millions of p hurt him, so he definitely gets the
credit there. That the Democrats thought that we should all
listen to Greta Thunberg on climate change. It was an
incredibly complicated issue, of course, not a crisis at all.
She was sixteen years old giving lectures at the UN.
You have started my dreams. You remember that, and that's okay.
(05:27):
She's sixteen we should listen to. And if you criticize her,
you were a monster. I remember even somebody when I
was on TV at Fox yelled at me because I
said that nobody should listen to Greta Thunberg said, don't
pick on a kid. I'm not picking on a kid.
I'm picking on the adults who listened to a kid.
I was right, the person was wrong. No longer there,
it doesn't matter. But do you see this stuff. It
(05:48):
happens right. The desire to go with your side, no
matter what the principle is that you may have established
in some other context, the rules changing as you need
them to change, when you need them to change. How
the Democrats play the game all the time. So we
have to change these rules. Elon's DOGE team. Unless some
(06:10):
Boddy does something unprofessional or you know, violates the expectations
of what DOGE is, they should be able to continue
in this work. I don't care what somebody wrote online
ten years ago or whatever it is. I don't care.
They're doing incredibly important stuff. They're not harming anybody, they
are helping all of us, and they should be supported
(06:30):
in this process. There's no question about it. I think
it's essential Trump. By the way, I had some really
funny moments. But during the press conference today with the
Prime Minister of Japan, we'll get into this. But also
on the point about education costs the left. You think
the left is upset about USAID, just wait till we
start looking at Department of Education and all the money
(06:51):
that's flowing through there and just the whole education dysfunction
in this country. But first, our sponsor here is the
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. The ceasefire between Defense
forces and Hamas has removed Israel from the daily headlines,
but that doesn't mean there aren't tens of thousands of
Israeli citizens still displaced and still suffering from the fifteen months.
Between what we've witnessed in Israel and the rise in
(07:12):
global anti Semitism and the constant attacks on Israel shows
us that it's more important than ever to remember the
atrocities of the Holocaust to ensure it never happens again.
That's why I've partnered with the International Fellowship of Christians
and Jews. They provide food, shelter, and safety to Jews
in Israel and around the world, including those remaining Holocaust survivors.
Please give a gift today to show your support of
(07:33):
the Jewish people. Got to support IFCJ dot org. That's
one word, support IFCJ dot org or call eight eight
eight four eight eight IFCJ eighty eight four eight eight IFCJ.
Here's Trump on education and Maxine Waters. He speaks about
her as well. The Department of sp wants can be
(07:53):
side democratic long angers trying to get the Department of Earlier.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Day, Oh, I see the same ones. I see Maxine
Waters a low life. I see you know all these people.
They don't they don't love our country. They don't love
our country. We want great education. So they rank forty
countries in education. We're ranked dead last, dead last. But
the good news is we're number one in one category,
you know, that is costs per pupil. We spend more
(08:21):
per pupil than any other country in the world. You
look at Norway, Denmark, Sweden, various countries all up and down, Finland,
China does very well in education, and then you look
at us. We spend much more money than they do
per pupil or any other way. But we spend much
more money than they do, and yet we're ranked this
(08:42):
year Biden's last year, congratulations show we're ranked dead last.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Okay, so, first of all, I think it's funny Colls
maxim water is low life, so Trump. But beyond that,
let's take a look. Why do we spend so much money?
Why do we spend so much money on education in
this country and get results that are clearly not what
(09:12):
they should be based upon the dollars and dollars out
I'm telling you, yeah, there's a lot. There's a big conversation.
I will admit that it's a big conversation. But a
part of it is, do you know that administrative personnel
have increased something like six times the rate of actual
teachers in the public school system in this country. So
just the way that they've done with these NGOs and
(09:34):
USAID and this money, there's sloshing around for people who
don't really do anything. That's what the education system in
this country has become, especially in the Blue states, but
they even in red states. There are Blue staters, if
you will, there are Democrats who control the education system.
And it doesn't have to be this way. The Department
(09:57):
of Education. It's so funny people say, all the schools
are going to shut down if you defund the Department
of Education. What does deue even do. The funds for
your local public school come from the state overwhelmingly so,
so it's not that the federal government funds local public schools.
This is why you pay your property taxes, and a
huge part of your property taxes and a lot of
places goes toward the public schools in your district. So
(10:21):
Doe could go away tomorrow, it wouldn't make It wouldn't
make a darn bit of difference, except there'd be one
less DEI obsessed, a communist nest inside of the government,
which is which sounds like a great thing to me.
But you're talking about so much money being spent and
it never gets better. We just spend more and more
and more money. No one ever thinks about how to
(10:42):
make it better. You know who might be able to
make things better. Somebody like Elon Musk, somebody who looks
at dollars and cents, inputs, outputs, what's actually happening, what
the product is, what the what the expenditures are, and
makes determinations to improve it, make it better, and do
it better than anybody else. Now I'm not saying, you know,
Elon doesn't have a background education. First of all, most
(11:03):
people have background education don't really know anything, all right,
meaning people at study education. Yeah, there are exceptions, there
are great teachers like all that, but people who are
administrators who like have it, like Jill doctor, Jill Biden
with her PhD in education. Do you think she knows anything.
She's a total ignoramus. The whole degree was a joke.
But it's meant to give you access into the system.
(11:26):
So then you're a doctor, you're a PhD. You have
to be treated seriously, you have to be given perks
and certain kind of pay and the whole thing, scam, scam,
whole thing. So this should be changed as well. If
you start to pull apart and the education system of
this country is because of the public sector of public
public school teachers unions, which are public sector unions. Because
(11:49):
of them, there's so much funding and money that goes
to Democrats from the local all the way up to
the federal level for political races. A huge source of donations,
a huge source of street muscle, getting votes out protests.
All this are the teachers unions. If you can start
to just start to tap on the outer shell of
(12:10):
that a little bit, you start to go after them
a little bit, Democrats will lose their minds. These are
the systems. These are the things that are in place
that allow them to get their way and to effectively
be in charge even after they lose elections. So if
you can begin to change this, you're in a much
better place. Sponsors Birch Gold, you know, I think things
are going to be great under Trump with the economy,
(12:32):
but he's only going to be present for four years.
We've got thirty six trillion dollars a debt, and I
want you to think about where your saving is going
to be in five years, ten years, fifteen years, and
diversifying in a gold just makes sense. Look at the
track record of gold over the last thirty years and
look where the price is today with a dollar that
is still in decline and being inflated away. Gold makes
(12:54):
sense and I trust the Birch Gold Group. This is
the company that's released the all new Ultimate Guide for
Gold in the Trump Era with a four by Donald
Trump Junior. Get your free copy along with Birch Gold's
free information kit on gold by texting my name Buck
to ninety eight ninety eight ninety eight, or go online
to Birch Gold dot com slash buck. That's text my
name Buck to the number ninety eight ninety eight ninety eight,
(13:14):
or go online to Birch Gold dot com slash buck
for your free copy of the Ultimate Guide for Gold
and the Trump Era. No obligation, only information. All right,
Hope you have a great weekend. I'll talk to you
after the Super Bowl, which I'm predicting the Eagles will win.
I know people are gonna yell at me for that,
but I'd like to be a contrarian sometimes. Have a
great one. Shields High
Host
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!