Pardon PALOOZA

Historic North Korea summit just days away. More pardons to come. Should Russia be included in the G7? Buck interviews Michael Malice.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
You are entering the freedom hunt. We are days away
from the historic summit with Kim Jong Un and President Trump.
What can we expect will happen and what should we
be looking for? Also a another look at whether Russia
should be included once again in the G seven and

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some fresh pardons that Trump is considering. What will we
make of that? And what is the left gonna say
if he keeps on making the right moves there? That
are more coming up. This is the Buck Sexton Show,
where the mission or mission is to decode what really
matters with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake American, You're a

(00:55):
great American Again The Buck Sexton Show begins much no,
Welcome to the Buck Sex and Show. We are here
on Friday together. Thank you so much for being here.
Great to uh have a chance to chat with you.
It is a is a Friday, so eight four four

(01:17):
to eight to five, eight four four nine, Buck. I
I have to say, I really like, I really like
the the Trump approach so far on pardons. I've been
discussing this with you all for a while, but I
think that the President understands that it's yet again one

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of these opportunities where he has the chance to clarify.
He has the chance to show that no matter what
action he takes, there are people with platforms in the
media who will try to tear him down for it.

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Trump can pardon people that the left has been raging
about their incarceration for years. Trump can do very clear
outreach to UH minority groups or whatever it may be.
They will try to tear him down for it. And
I saw day there was the possibility of a uh. Well,

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here we have the president talking about play clip seven.
There will be more parts. I thought Alice yesterday was beautiful.
I thought Jack Johnson, which was recommended by Silvestis Loan
and some great boxers. I'm thinking about somebody that you
all know very well, and he went through a lot

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and he wasn't very popular. Then he's circuly his memory
is very popular. Now I'm thinking about Muhammad Ali. Muhammad
Ali may in fact be the next the next pardon.
Now it would be a posthumous pardon. It would be

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obviously after Muhammad les passed away. And there is also
the fact that he has covered under I believe a
larger amnesty. He didn't register for selective service and so
but it's a gesture Now people could say that the
gesture is I don't know. Some will say that it's

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the right thing to do, other those say it's an
empty gesture. But notice how the battle lines here are
drawn specifically by those who like Trump and those who
don't like Trump. The battle lines will not be about
whether this was something that at a previous point in
time the left would have said, you know what's that's

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something that needs to happen, something that needs to get done.
So he shows us once once again that this is
all about opposing Trump, no matter what the cost, no
matter what the issue, And on pardon specifically, it is
a way to remind all of us that what we've

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been told for last year over the Russia Trump collusion situation,
what we've been told for the last year is that
the FBI is infallible. Okay, I'm i overstate. The FBI
is largely beyond reproach the media, the media trash cops,
but FBI leadership in d C. They deserve nothing but

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the utmost respect total patriots like James Comey. Although let's
remember that when that IG report comes out, above blame
and above reproach um, the IG report is going to
I think put many large holes in that notion. But
they've been relying on Trump is undermining our institutions. He's

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undermining our institutions, and that's also part of the drumbeat
of those institutions have functions. Those functions results in decisions,
and and those decisions must be respected. Right that the
process gives us an outcome, and the outcome is something
that we have to accept. So whether they decide to

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indict Hillary or not, it's that's the way it is,
right because they have the right. We shouldn't think about
whether this is just, whether it's politicized, whether there were
other indicators, here are other things that should be brought
into our consideration of the issue. The process is all

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we need to know with pardons, though, all of a
sudden you hear them say, whoa Trump shouldn't know you
can't do that, Well, yeah, he can do that, and
he is doing it. And this is yet another moment
where you see that the executive as emperor that was
when into overdrive under them administration, and people like me

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on record, all conservatives that I know who do this
for a living, we're saying, you know, guys, this stuff
with the executive orders and with the remember Obama would
say things out loud like you know, and I've got
to put a phone and and he would say that
he's gonna go around Congress, and the left would cheer
for this. Right, the left would cheer. They would say,

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oh my gosh, you know, he's not going to allow
obstruction to stand away. Well, that's actually the function of
that's actually the function of those different bodies, right, that's
the the purpose of Congress is to make decisions about
whether or not Congress is gonna pass certain laws. It's
not to say, hey, hey, President, what law should we pass?

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Oh cool that law, sign me up. That's not the
way it's supposed to go. That is not the way
that this should be looked at. But they dispensed with
all when it came to Obama, and now with Trump,
all of a Suddeny're like, whoa executive power? There's a
lot of a lot of parent the executive and you know,

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we we warned them, but they didn't care. Because power
is the ultimate end goal. It's the single most important
desire of progressivism is the attainment of power and wielding power.
That's it. Everything else the ill they'll shoehorn other things

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into it, but it is all about the state and
what the state can do. And so that it's with
that in mind that I see these pardons in the
discussion of them and how they are opposed to it.
But they can't say that. It's this is so clear cut, right.
The president can pardon people. He has that power. They say, oh, well,
he went outside the normal channels, or they're complaining that

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celebrities are getting pardon the arbitrary folks. It always has
been who gets a pardon whoever the president wants, kind
of like firing people. Who can the president fire the
executive branch that is answerable to him in the chain
of command. Well, you can fire James Comey as he
did for any reason or no reason. That is his right.

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Just like he can decide that he wants to pardon
somebody because he likes their boat shoes, you know what
I mean. You can pardon somebody for any reason. And
and they still try to find ways to oppose this.
There's this this pathetic clawing at the UH at the
last yeah, you know, their last effort here trying to

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find something with with Trump that is unconstitutional is gone.
But no, it's all there he's done what he's supposed
to do. He's been doing what he should do all along.
But he also threw an interesting, an interesting uh addition
into things today and had to produce your Mike for
bring this one of my attention. You got people ask

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him questions on his way to uh. He's got a
press gagle, he's on his way to a meeting, and
he put this out there. And this time is in
protests with the NFL and pardons, the pardons that could
be coming in the future. Play Cliff ten instead of talk.
It's all talk, talk talk. We have a great country.
You should stand for our national anthem. You shouldn't go

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in a locker room when our national anthem is played.
I'm gonna ask all of those people to recommend to me,
because that's what they're protesting. People that they think we're
unfairly treated by the justice system. And I'm gonna take
a look at those applications and if I find and
my committee finds that they're unfairly treated, then we will

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pardon them or at least let them out. The President
is now turning to NFL players and saying, look, you know,
bring it to my attention, who who has been, who
has been unfairly treated, who has been over incarcerated or
perhaps even incarcerated unjustly. Who you there is, we'll see.

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But are they not willing to engage because I saw
that earlier in the week, Kim Kardashian shows up with
a specific request in mind and and put it put
aside for the moment, whether you agree. And I read
that uh note yesterday during roll call from somebody who
disagrees with the pardon that Trump signed for that woman
who had been in prison for twenty years for drug conspiracy.

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I'll put that aside for a moment. Kardashian had an ask.
She's a citizen, she's petitioning her government. She's gonna talk.
And it's at least it's a request for clemency, right,
it's not a request for some green energy boon doggle
or throw more funds my way courtesy of the taxpayer.
And we'll call it something else, stimulus or something. So

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they were willing to criticize that. They won't even make
the allowance there of Hey, we're against him on most stuff,
but on this we will finally, we'll finally stop. And
I just believe that the the Trump's arrangement syndrome has
gotten to a point now are the only way the
only way forward is to just keep hammering them, just

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keep pushing them. Keeps forced them to come out and
say things that expose how unfair the medias treatment the
president is, how unfair they're framing their narrative of this
entire administration has been and will continue to be and
hopefully bring about some change in that behavior, change in

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those attitudes. I don't know if it's possible, but I
also know there's really not much of an alternative. There's
not much an alternative, and and the power of pardons
is something that President Trump has wielded very very effectively
so far. You know, he's not letting people out that
everyone goes, oh my gosh, that guy's that guy's an
axe murderer. We can't let him out of prison. Nope.

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He is picking cases that bring to mind, not just
the specific injustices of those cases, but he's reminding us all,
don't put too much faith in this system, folks. I mean, yeah,
it's the system we've got. We're trying to make it better,
and but let's not act like it's infallible. And certainly
not act that way because of a partisan impulse. And

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that's what's been happening here. That's what's been happening. Oh,
I have to say, there was much more scrutiny of
Trump's pardon of uh, Mike, the name is Alice. Her
name is escaping. What's her last name, Alice Marie Johnson.
Thank you, Alice Marie Johnson. Much more scrutiny of that

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decision that then I recall, Okay, this is my recollection
when Obama community the sentence of Oscar Lopez Rivera, who
was had blood on his hands, was a terrorist, a
a Puerto Rican separatist terrorists. So I think that the
president's in the right things here. I think that he's

(13:01):
showing us all what's really going on. Um, it is Friday,
so you know what, and I've been working some movie
quotes into the show in the week, so John pulled
us all together for us. Actually movie quote Friday hit it.
Have you seen you here? I hope not? Sporadically. Three,

(13:23):
for lack of a better word, is good Fridays. It's
like people only do things because they get paid Fridays.
And that's just truly sad. Yeah, that's right. Awesome movie
quote Friday, not actually a quote Friday. I got this
confused for a second. So I think a lot of
you will be able to remember those different lines that
I share with you during over the course of the show.

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So there you have it. UM eight four four n
eight to five. You want to chat, We've got lines open.
I'm here in the swamp. I love the every team.
I really do look forward to this part of my
day every day, this opportunity to chat with all of you,
and especially I'm in a new place, surrounded by a
lot of swamp creatures. Unfortunately our people are in charge, right,

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but surrounded by a lot of swamp creatures. It's good
that you guys are my or my lifeline to the
real world here every day on the on the radio waves.
We even sent out way, Yeah, that's the waves, because right,
that's how that's how radio works. Uh. And with that,
we'll be right back Where aware is Milannia Trump. She

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was last seen in public on May ten, That was
eighteen days ago. One thing that the President in the
White House has been quite quiet about is Malannia Trump
and her status. There's been a lot of questions about
her surgery, her time at Walter Read and now her invisibility.
The last time we caught a glimpse of her was
on May twenty four days, more than three weeks. One

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thing we did not see was First Lady Annie A. Trump.
The First Lady has not been seen in public for
twenty five days, twenty six days without being in the
public eye. She's doing stuff in the White House. Isn't
there a picture? She didn't go to Camp David with
the weekend and he took some of his children and
now his young son. You know, where's the picture? David Frum,

(15:19):
who's the Atlantic senior editor to your eyes last weekend
of tweets some basically saying uh that President Trump could
have possibly beaten his wife and covered it up. The
tweet says closed President Trump punched the First Lady in
the White House and then ordered the Secret Service to
conceal the assaulting. A lot of questions being asked about
something that there shouldn't be any question over. First Lady

(15:43):
had to have a kidney procedure. She had to have surgery.
It's has been known, it's been known all along. But
you will also note that in that series that we
played for you, of of questions there there's meant to
be a kind of yeah, maybe there's something sinister going
on here. Vibe to it all there, there's they're supposed

(16:06):
to be a well, you know, maybe something's being covered
up or we're not being told something, because otherwise, how
is this even a story? How is this even something
that anyone needs to ask about? Well, I can tell
you that when you dig into this a little more,
you find and Trump responded. Trump wrote about this. He
wrote that the fake news media has been so unfair

(16:27):
and vicious to my wife and our great first Lady,
Milania during her recovery from surgery. They reported everything from
near death to facelift, to left the White House for
New York or Virginia, to abuse, all fakes. She's doing
really well now. Of course, the peddlers of fake news
came and said, that's not true. The media, you know,
they always think the media means them. That's a tough

(16:48):
thing to speak for the media. But he had the
New York Times, and I had to brief Hayton of
the federals who pulled all these togethers. New York Times
implied the timing of milannis kidney surgery was suspect. You
had the Roots say that Milania uh a, Milannia had
a body double at an event. You had rolling a

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Rolling Stone writer Jamille Smith suggest that Milanni's absence was
due to physical abuse. You had Politico uh blaming the
White House for stoking conspiracy theories and then proceeding to
do just that about this whole Milannia situation. And the
situation isn't the first lady had to have surgery. I

(17:32):
just hope she's doing well. You know, it's also someone's
wife and a mom and someone's daughter, right, I mean,
these journals journalists are savages. I think one of the
problems that I have in d C. They're just all
these these just puff shirt you know, clownish journalists running
all over the place who are not nice people, very petty,
very vindictive and really distasteful. And I do not like them.

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And that's a problem. You know, in New York can
kind of ignore people a little bit more because it's
such a big city that you just kind of you do.
Everyone's ignoring everybody, so you actually have it in a
weird way in New York a tremendous amount of privacy
because nobody cares there's so many people and so much
going on that nobody cares, you know, in d C.
I walk around. I gotta walk past the Washington Post
all the time, and I'm like, uh, yeah, it feels

(18:22):
so it feels so swampy. I just don't like how
swampy it all feels. And eight four four nine Buck,
eight four four to eight to five, you like to chat.
We've got some lines late. We could take a couple
more calls, um, kind of talk to you about some
breaking news that on the clip side. I don't know
how else to say, though, And it's look, it's really

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it's really sad. It's a couple of really sad news stories.
But I don't think we're gonna spend some time on
He's holding the line for America. Buck Sexton his back.

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All right, we've got some calls here, let's get to it.
And now I knew this, I knew this day would come.
This is a question to when. But here we are.
I am not the only Buck in the universe. There
is in fact another Buck out there. He is calling
in right now from Mobile, Alabama. But great to have
you on. How's it going? Man? Your name is awesome.

(19:30):
Other than that I'm good. Yeah, I've been listening to
you for quite a while now. Thank you for two
years every Yeah, they just put you on the radio
about two years ago. I'm gonna listen to you ever since.
Thank you so much. What I'm calling about is any
media is is reacting to Milania not being out in
the public showing her face this and that. I mean,

(19:51):
for conal laws, you just had surgery. That's pretty major
surgery from what I hear, and she's having a hard
time of covering from it, you know, And it just
doesn't make any kind of sense of how the media
wants to focus on why is she not showing her
face whenever they should be focused on what's going on
into this country and what's going on you know out

(20:12):
and abroad and the immigration and all this kind of stuff.
It just doesn't make any sense to me about why
do they focus on her not being you know, well
right now they should be wishing that she gets the
feeling better, you know, hoping for you know, good health
and all that, instead of just trying to Yeah, it's
really nasty, I mean, it's it's very It just shows

(20:35):
such a lack of of kindness quite honestly and just
a lack of consideration. Yeah, it's common decency. I mean
I was dealing with something like this the other day
at work about you know, how can people be so
rude and in considerate of others? And because whenever I
don't whenever I'm in public or even when I met

(20:55):
the house my wife and kids, I always trying to
think about their well being before or do my own.
And then once I know that they're okay, I'm worried
about myself. And it's the same thing with me. They
don't care about nobody else with themselves and their agenda.
That's yeah, that's true, man, Buck, thank you so much
for calling in. It feels a little like I was

(21:17):
speaking to myself there as a little Freudian. It's like Bucks,
so tell me all of your dreams, you know. It's
like Buck speaking of Buck. I'd probably do a segment
with that. I get to ask me the questions that
if I were you, i'd ask me. That makes some sense,
I think John in Cincinnati, Ohio? What up? John? So

(21:40):
Buck a long time with a long time listener, first
multiple time caller, Actually, thank you back, called you back
while you're on the Blaze and I've been listening to
you Saturdays since you were on Saturdays. Yes, well, thank
you so much half the time. Um, I got a
movie quote for you. All right, let's jim. Oh okay, well, Jim,

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since you are my guest and I am your host,
what is your pleasure? What do you like to do? Oh?
I don't know, play chess? Screw well, let's play chess.
Mm hmm, I got nothing. Saddles one of the most
awesome movies ever. I'm gonna tell you something, John, and

(22:29):
it's just between you and me. Okay, I don't want
you to judge, man, I want't even else to know this.
I've never seen Blazing Saddles and producer Mike looked like
he like he just had an a video show without
knowing it. Oh wait, you haven't seen it either. Woo. Yeah,
it's it's one of the best movies of all time.
I've probably been watching it off and on since I

(22:51):
was like five. I can tell you only understanding the
jokes because I grow up. I feel like there aren't
that man. There are very few movies for me that
are funny when I was a kid that I still
think are funny when I'm older. Ghostbusters falls into that category,
but if you say Blazing Saddles is also in that category,

(23:12):
I will certainly I'll certainly give it a give it
a watch. So thank you very much, John for being
a listener for calling in. I appreciate it, and uh
like from you, Um yeah, what's uh trying to think
of my favorite western? I'm not that well. I want
to see the Hostiles movie that came out. It didn't

(23:33):
last that long to people told him it was very good,
like a little bleak, a little intense, but it was
very well made and it didn't do the whole I mean,
I just this thing of like, you know, like everyone's
every society has got their problems, right, but you notice
this trend of like the you know, Native Americans are
either you know, they're they're like all the all the

(23:53):
good guys in more content contemporary movies. I know they
used to be all the bad guys, right, but now
it's all the good guys. And I'm always like, why
do we have to politicize everything? Apparently in Hostiles, you've
got you know, you know, US cavalry doing some bad things.
You've got Native tribes doing some bad things. It's like

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like the way it was like the world. But I
want to see that one. I mean, Tombstone is my
favorite Western, but it also is kind of an action movie.
But the bottom line is that it's really to him Stone.
I feel like I'm kind of stalling because I don't
even want to have to dive into our next topic
because it's it's it's a bummer. But I want to
share some thoughts with you about two two pieces of
news that came in today. One has to do with

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the suicide of Anthony Bourdain, which you know that when
people say it's a shock, I think suicide if someone
you don't know, is always a shock because how could you.
But occasionally there'll be some precursors. You know, somebody will
have been, you know, maybe institutionalized, or have terrible bouts
of depression, and that will be public as you have
some idea Bourdaine just I would never have thought. But

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then again with you know, with Robin Williams, I would
have never have thought, so he had the Bourdaine. And
then also a note today that I saw from a
personal letter from Charles crot Hammer. We'll talk about both
these on the other side of the breaks. So stay
with me. The Anthony Bourdain UH is dead an apparent suicide,

(25:39):
and I'll do we'll deal with this story and then
we have another very sad story, UM talk about today,
another media figure. I tend to be somebody who doesn't
over over personalized people that I don't know. And I

(25:59):
never I never met boor Day. I have no personal
connection whatsoever. But I do remember times when I was
just all I wanted was to watch something that wasn't
going to be political or at least overly political, annoyingly political,
something that you could just sit back and enjoy. And

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it was. It was a story, it was a journey,
you know. The Well. Then when I went to Vietnam
some years ago, I had planned to do all this
research before I went, but I one thing I did
do because I didn't really have time to do all
that research, was I downloaded Anthony Bourdain's UH. I downloaded

(26:42):
his episode on iTunes of him in Vietnam, and I
remember I watched it and I then went to at
least one of the places he went. It was this
little and I'm with my little brother, and it was
really tough to find and in in this show, you
had seen this being, you know, elderly Vietnamese women with

(27:04):
a little soupcart making this, what he said, was one
of the most of course, right, but one of the
most delicious soups he's ever had ever. And we went
to find this. It's just a cart in an alley
way and we managed to, which I'm impressed to this
day that we actually found it, because it wasn't a restaurant,
it wasn't really marked. You had to kind of go

(27:25):
to the neighborhood and look around. It wasn't an easy thing.
And we got there. It was a motto brother. And
what it was clear to me was that they had
done a little bit of staging for the episode before um,
before they actually filmed it, because when we got there,
there was around this cart, this in this whole alleyway.
There's just trash and dogs wandering everywhere and like little

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kind of rickety looking tiny plastic chairs for people to
sit in. So it was a little like almost like
a trash dump, is what it really looked like. But
there was the car. I mean, when we had the soup,
and you know what, the soup was incredible, and I
only had it and only knew about it because of
Bourdain show. So it's just, you know, I bring that
up because for me, it's an example of how people
you don't know, through their through their work, through their

(28:12):
their craft, there art, there, creative endeavors can can affect
your life. And some of my my favorite moments all
time of doing this media thing, which I never sought
out to do and was not my plan and just
kind of happened. Or when people tell me that, you know,
they when they were undergoing chemo, they listened to the

(28:35):
Battle of Lepanto over and over and it gave them comfort.
Or it's just which is a story that one of
my beloved members of Team Buck told or sent to
me some some years ago, that stuff really that can
really matter, can really help people. And so Bourdain is
one of those rare individuals who um really changed my

(28:57):
thinking about the whole area of life, which is food
and cooking in the culinary world. I read Kitchen Confidential long,
I mean not a long, long, long time ago. I
want to say, maybe I was in college. Yeah, I
think I was in college. And if you haven't read
about it's a great book. It's very very readable. It's
a really really it's a fun read, but he also

(29:20):
learned some things about it, and he has it. He
had a very good storytelling voice, and clearly was was
incredibly successful. And I think it's just hard first to
process that somebody who comes across that way. And I know,
I know that mental illness is something that people often
hide very well, hid for very long periods of time,
um or you know what I mean, mental illness, severe depression, alcoholism.

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But when someone's whole job is to find joy and
adventure and spread that to other people, it's just hard
to imagine the darkness that they carry with themselves. It's
it's hard to it's hard to imagine, really is so
that part of it I found And I know that
this week also you had Kate Spade. I wasn't familiar
with with her at all except through the name from

(30:04):
her massive, a massive clothing brand. And then you had
one more. But and I'm just gonna bring it in here,
even though I can talk about it longer, because you know,
it's a Friday, and I don't. I am always wary
of bringing us down before the weekend, though sometimes it's

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just the nature of this business. But this letter that
was put out, it's just heartbreaking from Charles Crodhammer, who
has I'm sure all of you are familiar with his
work regular on Brett Brett Bears Panel on Fox News,
one of the most prolific conservative columnists, if not the
most prolific conservative columnists of the last thirty or forty years.

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And from everyone that I ever heard who interacted with
the guy, and I know a lot of people that
work at and have worked at Fox, was top to
bottom in every way, a class act and a really
kind person. And that's for for people who are prominent

(31:09):
in national media discussions. I'll be honest, it's really in
short supply these days. People are people are nasty. And
one thing that I find that is troubling is that
those who are in you know, those who are consumers
of media, those who you know, watch certain shows, listen
to certain shows. I'm always amazing like you that the

(31:31):
choice with me that they'll listen to somebody, they won't
listen to somebody who's kind and who's brilliant. Although Charles
was very, very successful, but there are other people I
know of what I feel like I've never really gotten
their due and are really good people on top of that,
but they will listen to people who are jerks, more nasty,
who are debasing who, And Charles was just the antithesis

(31:52):
of that in all of his work. Again, I can
only value it and professionally, I never I never met Charles,
but he wrote in this letter that he has weeks
to live after a very long battle with cancer in
which he had a large tumor removed from his abdomen.
And here here's another time when it feels like there
is there is a loss that even for those of

(32:14):
us like me who never met Charles Krodhammer Uh, the
loss will be will be made real for us because
his was a voice that I think was was truly
valuable in the national conversation about all kinds of things.
I never once saw him, and I watched I've watched
Brett Bear Show. I can't even count. They can't even

(32:35):
begin to estimate the number of times I never once
saw him Uh be belittle people or belittle anyone, be nasty,
be snied, be undermining, be And it feels to me
like that's actually just the direction of media now. It's
all like twitter burns and nastiness and people acting in

(32:57):
the worst spot, acting ways they would never do in person.
But the truth is most most like journalists out there
who are constantly walking around talking about how they're speaking
through the power, kind of cowards in person. They are
very very little personal courage on display from And I
don't just mean like taking risks to their own personal safety.

(33:20):
I just mean they don't do things that are risky
for them. They do what is best for them all
the time and then pretend to be taking the risks.
But but Charles was a really important voice in the
in the conversation, and and it's it's just very sad.
It's very sad for his family. And I know for
a lot of my friends are Fox who know Charles
and worked with them for years and years. It's I
don't know what else to say. It's been a rough

(33:40):
been a rough week for news stories of of beloved
figures who have had a major impact on a lot
of lives around the world. And two suicides and uh
kind of losing battle against cancer. It's tough, you know.
I'm I'm just gonna I want to leave it there
for now. I can't spend much more time on it

(34:02):
because it's gonna bring me down to And I am
cognizant of you spending your time with me here. And
I don't want us to. I don't want us to
get you down, but I had to note and you know,
prayers to the families of Bourdain and cry Well Krawdheimer
still with us. And look, I don't want to be
naive or anything, but you know, he said he's losing

(34:24):
his battle in all his weeks to live. But you
never know, you never know. So there there is that
you never know, Kenny from Boston. Maybe you can cheer
me up a little bit, my friend. What's up? Yes,
let's hope for a miracle cure for Charles Crowdehammer. I
always loved him, and I never knew that he was
actually a quartriplegic. And he was in the um. You know,

(34:47):
he was in a wheel chair. I watched him so
many times and I so oh he always sits so erect.
I never figured it out, you know, and he was
he was really good all the time. And uh so
I don't know, I've and say this, you know, Kenny,
I don't know anybody else at that level of the
punditry game who I've never seen step out of line
with anybody or ack like a jerk. I mean in
the way that he you know, to be the absolute peak,

(35:11):
the absolute top and never getting nasty. It was pretty amazing,
old school civility best. And anyway, so I got a question,
and um and I also have a movie quote. So
what I wanted to know is, what are you postulating
on what Mula or Mueller is going to be dropping
when Trump has this uh nuclear thing, because he always

(35:35):
in the timing is always uncanny, you know, you always
kind of dropped something at a moment when something is
either good for Trump or you know, it's it's not
by accident, and so that's uh that And um, so
I was just wondering what you think. I don't know.
I mean, I can't read into Mueller's you know, Ruller's

(35:55):
thinking on this. And unfortunately, I don't think we have
time for the movie quote, Kenny, because we've got to
go into ah our next hour here. But thank you
thanks for calling her brother. I appreciate it. Good to
hear from you and just just hear your voice from
up in Boston. Kenny. It uh, it's giving us a
little boost here, which is great. So we're gonna be
joined by our friend of Michael Malice here shortly, we'll
be talking to us about North Korea. He's got some

(36:17):
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first one, the first alleged alleged leaker of classified information
tied to the Russia collusion. Nonsense? A former Senate Intelligence
Committee aid was arrested, James Wolfe. But he was arrested

(38:06):
for lying to investigators about his contacts with three reporters.
They said that he made false statements to the FBI
providing them, Uh, well about providing classified information or just
even just talking to Oh no, yeah, he never ever
gave classified information to journalists. Uh, Mr Wolfe, According to

(38:28):
this the Intelligence Committee's director of security, Oh wow, look
at that. The director of securities later to appear before
a federal jury today. And his case is interesting because
the seizure was disclosed in a letter to Ali Watkins,
a New York Times reporter who had been in a
three year long relationship with Mr Wolfe. Now there's a

(38:52):
lot going on here. There's a lot happening here, and
I will just say this. Uh. First of all, I
I do not like I I am very uncomfortable with,
as a general matter, any seizure of journalists records for

(39:14):
the purpose of finding leaks. I think that it is
a slippery slope. I think it is dangerous unless there's
a very clear um national security safety rationale behind it.
You know. I think you have to balance out because
when once the government can start seizing your all your
communications and tracking down your sources, I mean, there's really
no such thing as sources anymore, right for for journalists,

(39:36):
So that becomes an issue except in the most extreme circumstances.
So I do want to say that. I will also
say that one of the problems that the media has
here is that they had a a moderated response, a
a kind of muted response, shall we say, to the

(39:59):
fact that the Obama administration use the Espionage Act more
than every administration before it combined, listed James Rosen a
Fox News as an unindicted co conspirator in one League case,
and that Obama was the worst, the worst president when

(40:19):
it came to press freedom, since at least Woodrow Wilson,
who was really bad. I wanted to lock people up
for say anything you didn't like. So Obama was terrible
in this issue. Yes, they would write some editorials here
and they're saying, you know, we are uncomfortable with whatever.
But they didn't say attorney general needs to step it,

(40:41):
needs to resign. They didn't uh scream about police state
tactics or tyranny. And because they allowed Obama largely to
get away with it without any political consequences, which is true,
and it was really the fault of the DOJ and
the federal government. It wasn't really Obama's fault that this happened,
even though it would have gone directly up to hold her.

(41:02):
His attorney general and holder would have signed off on it.
But you will see the double standard in action to
be sure, um, and they're aware of the fact that
we are aware that Obama did exactly this kind of
thing where he would see his reporters communications records looking
for leaks. Uh. And so that means that there will

(41:27):
be a hypocrisy here, But it also means that they
don't really care because they will often they will often
tell stories that are incongruous with objective and objective view
of the situation. So remember that one and then another
part of this that I think, you know, I'm not
spending much on the Watkins New York Times. She's sleeping

(41:49):
with somebody who is allegedly a source and also is
writing stuff on Twitter about how she she was trying
to throw people off the scent by lying and accusing
Trump lawyers. I think it was of you know, the league,
for which she was responded or she was around with

(42:11):
the league, but for publishing the league she knew the
leaguer was. It wasn't troub lawyers. So she's engaged in propaganda.
I mean that is straight. She is engaged in in
peddling falsehoods two tell the public, you know, to create
a an untrue perception in the public's mind. For a reporter,
I think that's a pretty big deal. You know, when

(42:33):
you know something is untrue and you tell people as
a reporter that it is true, that should be an issue.
So that's That's one but the single most important part
of all this for me, because like I said, there's
a lot of different angles of this, is that Trump's

(42:54):
arrangement syndrome is so strong and the hatred of this
president is so strong that and I'm saying that they
think that this was about the Uh, here we go.
This is what they write, and this is a New
York Times piece. Court documents described Mr Wolf's communications with
four reporters, including Miss Watkins, using encrypted messaging applications. It

(43:14):
appeared that the FBI was investigating how Miss Watkins learned
that Russian spies in had tried to recruit Carter Page,
a former Trump foreign policy adviser. She published an article
for BuzzFeed News on April seventeen about the attempted recruitment
of Mr Page, in which he confirmed the contacts. So

(43:35):
this is all about the Carter Page Russell conspiracy theory,
conspiracy theory. Thank folks, Now we found the first one.
We found the first person who was willing to risk
prison time assuming he's guilty. It's alleged. It's alleged, right,
we don't know, We don't know. We gotta keep that,
keep that out there. But here we likely have our

(43:57):
first of many leak, the first of many leakers who
looking at this, we have to assume there'll be a
lot more. We'll have to guess that at some point
they'll figure out who told the press about the Kisliak

(44:18):
Flynn call. Never mind all that, so many of these
stories and these these journalists look, oh, we're doing such
great work. No, they just get somebody to break the law,
tell them something're not supposed to do, and then they
run a story with it. A lot of times. Consequences
be damned. I don't care, but people are leaking against

(44:38):
this president in a way that puts them in criminal jeopardy.
That just shows you the depth of the hatred. And
it shows you also how committed some of these deep
staters really are to the notion of stopping this Trump presidency.
They'll risk go into prison. Some of them are going
to go to prison over this. Was it worth it?

(45:01):
Was it worth running a story in BuzzFeed? You know,
being the source for the story in BuzzFeed that put
it out there, the carter Page, who is is harmless
by virtue of nothing else but his ineptitude. The Carter
Page was gonna be recruited by the by Russia. You know,

(45:22):
I really think that people are gonna have a lot
of regrets about this. But Jeff Sessions, that's right, and
the d o J they're on it. They're gonna find
more people, and we are going to find some swamp
figures that I think you've heard of before involved in
this mark my words. I would take some guesses right now,
but that might be a little unfair. But their names

(45:43):
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an allerging nuclear power. He is not merely being cavalier
with a threat about nuclear war. He's being cavalier in
a way that it makes him seem demented. These are
the messages from a person who is not well, from
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(47:20):
we are. This is not an exaggeration, probably closer to
an outright war with North Korea. Got a chance of war,
I'd say from where I sit right now, easily construe
what he's been saying as a declaration or at least
a threat of war. What is the ignition point for
Kim and Moon's fuse with this provrocative rhetoric. Trump's comments
about nuclear weapons have experts worried he could literally inadvertently

(47:44):
trigger a catastrophe. You have reason to be scared of
a war that could wipe out five thousand people. Now
I just think he wants to use nukes. That's what
I think he feels. Dylan ever, accused the media of
being lazy when it comes to fearmongering. That's incredible. I
think he wants to use nukes, Thanks, Mika. Yeah, that's what.
He just wants to start nuking people. That's the President

(48:05):
Trump wants. We got a summit coming up next week,
as you know, folks, a big summit, and we may
be closer to a deal with North Korea than at
at any time and certainly recent memory. Um. But I
want to get someone else's perspective on this, as we
are literally days away from finding out if there's an
opening or not for the US and North Korea. We've

(48:27):
got Michael Malice with us on the line. He is
the host of Your Welcome and also the author of
Dear Reader, the unauthorized biography of Kim Jong Michael. Great
to have you back, sir. Thanks. What do you make
of this going into the summit? What are your expectations?
How do you think it's going so far that the

(48:49):
American media is just as accurate in their provocations as
the North Korean media. Yeah, it's it's almost like they're
cheering for nuclear war in a lot of those clips.
It's amazing, isn't it. Like as long as Trump looks bad,
they're like, yeah, so we lose a few million people
in North Korea. How are you supposed to get a
regime that has dug in its heels for literally over

(49:10):
seventy years, that has no problems executing its own citizens,
starving its own citizens, uh, killing members of the ruling elite.
How are you supposed to get them to change their
entire system without some brinksmanship? How are you you know,
it's let's let's look at it this way in terms
that anyone can understand. Buck, you and I are buddies.

(49:31):
Let's suppose I had an issue with you. If I
brought it up and escalated situations, there's a possibility it's
going to get heated. But if you want things to
change in a relationship, that's the risk anyone has to take,
whether it's selling a car or there's a problem with
your landlord. I mean, these people are living in the
world where they've never really had to take risks other

(49:53):
than running their mouths, and there's never any consequences for them.
And that's why it upsets them when President Trump is
actually forcing change of some kind on the Korean peninsula.
And here's the other thing. They're acting like he's you know,
like like in some kind of weird simulation and he's
in the front of computer and not getting in for anyone.
He's having regular public meetings with China, Japan, and South Korea.

(50:18):
We're flying they're they're flying here, but they're acting as if,
you know, he's some kind of toddler who is not
talking to anyone and it's just making decisions on his own,
and yet somehows all working out. It's astonishing to hear
how many people who have no particular insight into the
president's daily schedule, phone calls, preparation meetings with aids, and
and officials around him who are saying he hasn't prepped enough.

(50:42):
Hearing that a lot he hasn't prepped it up, what
does it even mean, Michael, I mean, yeah, he doesn't
speak Korean and he's not going to before the meeting.
Like it just seems to me like this is something
that people say when they have nothing else to say
but they hate the president. Well, it's also the kind
of thing where it's like, do they really think that
as soon as the Singapore summit ends, President Trump's gonna
join Kim Jong un on a flight to Pyongyang and

(51:04):
they personally are going to start taking apart this nuclear site.
I mean that that's not how it works. I mean
the preparation he's had, by all accounts, a great deal
of preparation. Uh, he's been first of all, as he's
been president for almost two years at this point, do
they expect only someone who has been a North Korean
scholar to engage with the North Korean regime? Do we

(51:26):
really think that the Chinese President g and Prime Minister
Abbe from Japan didn't sit him down and say these
are the important points? Are they stupid too? I mean,
this makes no sense in any level because and here's
why I wrote the book, and this is you know,
I'm glad you have me on in this issue. North
Korea is a very very complicated subject. No one denies this.

(51:46):
So maybe because they feel unprepared to talk about it,
they're they're projecting to some extent. And my rule of
thumb is if someone doesn't know how to pronounce Kim
Jong UN's name, they shouldn't be running them out. Now,
do just just one I should I wanted to throw
by you, Michael, what should we know about one of
the differences between Kim Jong n as it affects his

(52:09):
persona and the ability to you know, our our ability
in the past to try and negotiate with him versus
Kim Jong Il. I'm sorry, Kim Jong il in the
past versus Kim Jong owen today? You know, what should
we What are the differences that maybe either leave us
more of an opening here or less of an opening.
That's a very, very long and nuanced question. I'll answer

(52:32):
it as distinctly as possible. Kim Jong il took over
for his father, the great leader, Kim Il sung. They've
only been three leaders of North Korea since its founding,
and Kim Jong il was very much a function of
the Cold War, and he also very much had to
fight to maintain his hold on power because in the
idea of in the ideology of communism, the idea that

(52:54):
a son would succeed his father in this kind of
monarchist fashion is complete nathema to mark societyology. But again,
with the falling of the Soviet Union in the late
eighties early nineties and the collapse of the Second World Uh,
Kim Jong un has to deal with none of that.
You know, he took power in the Soviet Union was

(53:14):
long gone. North Korea was already at that point highly isolated,
so he with any young person, there is that possibility
to do things differently. And he also has this kind
of leeway under North Korean law. And I'm using the
word law or broadly because there's no real legality. It's
whatever the government decides at a whim. He can do

(53:36):
whatever he wants, and he can spin it however he wants. So,
for example, North Korea has these black markets in every
town where because people are no longer getting food reliably
from the government. And this is you know, capitalism and
its purist but and capitalism is anathema to the duchy
idea of the North Korean ideology, but they pretend it's
not capitalism. So when you get to define terms however

(53:57):
where you want, that really does give you some freedom.
On the other hand, as we have seen in other
such regimes which are nowhere nearest that is North Korea,
but I'm thinking of places like Romania as a classic example,
Iraq and Libya. When these regimes fall, the people at
the top are often personally executed. He had a rough end,

(54:18):
yes he did, So that is a big and they're
very very very painfully aware of this in North Korea.
So this is a very big you know, North Korea
as a prison even for the people the very top,
because if he does want to liberalize and make it
kind of like a Singapore, people are going to very
quickly find out the population that they've been brainwashed lives
too and starved intentionally for decades, and they're not going

(54:40):
to think, oh, you're a great guy. You know, They're
going to want to exact vengeance, and fairly they're not
gonna look at him like a Gelsten. How then, do
do we set up a framework? I mean, what is
the what does a deal with North Korea that can
actually work in the broadest strokes, Michael, what is it
look like? I The way I think in the broadest

(55:03):
strokes should be sort of a relay race where we're
handing over the baton to China, because North Korea will
always be primarily China's problem there, they're geographically approximate. Historically,
there's long strong bonds between Korea and China UM, and
China doesn't want a US allied right on their border,
UM and so on and so forth. It says they

(55:24):
have a very strong relationship, So a lot of it
has to be also this kind of good cop bad cop,
which I think President Trump and President are playing very well,
which is China gets to be the reasonable statesman, Trump
gets to be the unreliable blow hard and that drives
Kim Jong un for there's the China's arms. So that
is a good mechanism to move forward. And listen, if

(55:47):
they want us to remove our troops from the Korean
peninsula and in exchange they you know, they have the
fourth largest army in the world, even though they're South Pennsylvania.
If in exchange they demilitarized and denuclearized, spend less money
on the army, spend more money on food and infrastructure
and things like that, I think that would be a
win win all across. And my biggest concern always is

(56:08):
liberating these peacefully, liberating these twenty five million slaves. Absolutely
I agree, and that's why I find it so honestly
discussing that people in the in the media in particular,
seem to be rooting for failure here quite openly, I
think rooting for failure and and buck How are human
rights a partisan issue? It is mind boggling to me

(56:31):
when we have literal concentration camps where people are dismembered
men are sent into minds and they never see sunlight again,
and their skin starts to slough off. These are things
that are unimaginable to us in the West. Any kind
of sliver of hope we have to hold onto. If
you want to hear President Trump, go ahead, pay President Trump.

(56:53):
Pretend he's the puppet of the Japanese and the Chinese
in the South Koreans. If that's what it takes for
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(59:55):
being said, Rush here should be in this stated. Why
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but Russia should be in the meeting, it should be
part of it. Oh my, they're very upset at Trump
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(01:00:17):
a as a means to try and further create this
narrative of you know, Trump is in Russia's pocket. Uh,
Russia has something on Trump. And you keep hearing this stuff,
I'm like, what what are they talking about? You mean
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even Obama would not do, like give anti tank missiles,
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the Ukrainian military as they can fight against Russian separatists
or Russian backed separatists. That that in the pocket Trump.
It's amazing how much the shift has occurred. It used

(01:01:04):
to be pretty clear most folks had an understanding of
the fact that if you you know, there's certain countries
that you can try and just isolate and cut off.
And for example, we've tried that with North Korea, although
we've had limited success, because cutting off an entire country
from the rest of the world and preventing it from
being a problem is a lot easier said than done.

(01:01:26):
But do we try that to some extent with Iran.
Russia is too big to ignore, and the purpose of
the sanctions that have put and put been put in play,
stretching back to Russia's annexation of crime is to get
a change in Russian behavior. The additional sanctions that have
to do with the election interference is also supposed to

(01:01:48):
be a change in Russian behavior. Although I would note,
how are the Russians I'm just playing devil's advocate here
for a second, how are the Russians exactly supposed to
get the election interference related sanction is turned off? How
does that happen? Really? Think about that one for a second.
People will say, oh, buck, they're still interfering. Really, we

(01:02:08):
know that top down, the Kremlin is telling people to
interfere in our upcoming midterms. We you know, we we
might have seen some preparations somewhere. There could be some
you know, intelligence collection that leads us to believe that
they want to do that, But we have sanctions in
place against them for the election interference before. And I
would just note that it doesn't seem to me like

(01:02:31):
that's an easy thing for them, even if they wanted
to to turn around, because all it takes is some
Russian hackers or some skilled Russian you know, cyber warriors
of one kind or another, to decide that they're going
to engage in some kind of hack of the election,
that they are going to make our lives more difficult

(01:02:52):
come election time. And it could very easily be blamed
on Russia because the media has created this environment where
Russia is somehow a much bigger concern for US than China,
even though the Russian economy is much smaller than the
Chinese economy, the Russian military is much smaller than Chinese military,
and our geo, our long term geo political, uh near

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pure rival is China. It is not Russia that said Russia, Well,
it isn't our our primary challenger on the global stage.
It is too big to ignore. And that's why when
Trump says that they should bring Russia back into the
fold on this um, I just think it's I think

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it's a cheap shot, and a lot of people haven't
taken it's a cheap shot to say, oh, it's because
the Russians have something on him. I think it's a
cheap shot to say, oh, well, the reason that Trump
would bring the Russians back into the G seven, which
is just a way of having countries meet and a
lot of these summits. And I'll tell you this. Other

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people was say, oh no, these summits are so important,
and a lot of these summits. It's just an excuse
for government bureaucrats. And you know the entourages of the
various premiers to get together and spend a lot of
their their subjects money and hang out with other important
government bureaucrats and make decisions about your life. But general,

(01:04:24):
how often do they come back from someone you're like, Wow,
they got that deal going. That's going to really change
my life. Answers is not. It doesn't really happen that way.
But Trump wanted to bring them back into the G seven.
Is also, by the way he spoke a little bit
about trade and terrorists play clip nine. All of these
countries have been taking advantage of the United States un trade.

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You're so ware Canada, Georgia, Gerry farmers two hundred and
seventy terris. We don't judge them, or if we do
it like a tiny percentage. We have massive trade deficit
with almost every country. We will straighten that out. I
don't forget, and I'll tell you what it's what I do.

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It won't even be hard, and in the end we'll
all get along. But they understand that, you know, they're
trying to act like, well, we fought with you in
the wars, which they don't mention the fact that they
have trade barriers against our farmers. They don't mention the
fact that they're charging almost tariffs. You know, it's it's

(01:05:32):
just a function of logic at this point. Everyone they
tell us the conventional wisdom is tariffs are bad, tariffs
are attacks, and then there is a pass, a pass
of expenses on the consumer. That that's true. But tariffs
are attacks, they're they're a bad idea, but other countries

(01:05:52):
have them, but we shouldn't respond to the other countries
that have them. No one ever stops to say, well,
why do other countries have them if they're such an
obviously bad idea, If there's no purpose to tariffs, if
it's just self defeating, then why and how are we
supposed to respond to the countries that's that decide that
they're going to have tariffs. Despite the fact that we're

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always told, oh, it's such a bad idea. You don't
have tariffs. You don't have tariffs. Yeah, I just want
to answer that simple question. Yeah, I'm just sitting here
asking questions. I just want to know I do. I do, indeed,
But the media is full of jerk's clowns and imbeciles
and a lot of very nasty people with very sharp
elbows and very high self regard. We'll talk a bit

(01:06:33):
about where things stand with the M s M, the
mainstream media these days when it comes to Trump, and
then even when it comes to yours. Truly, that and
more is coming up in just a moment, so that

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he hadn't been really preparing for the summit with Kim
Jong own, and then he defended that by saying to
reporters as he was leaving the White House earlier today,
while I've been preparing for this all my life. Of course, Wolf,
as we know, before Donald Trump became President of the
United States, he was in the real estate business. So
it's difficult to imagine how much preparation he was doing
during his real estate days for pulling off some kind

(01:07:21):
of agreement that would denuclearize North Korea. I'll tell you
a couple of things. First, of all the hypocrisy is
astounding because I know someone who spoke to Donald Trump
recently about life in the White House, and Donald Trump's
biggest complaint was that he's not allowed to watch porn
in the White House. So there you go, there's a

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little bit of news for you. He's upset that he
can't watch porn in the White House and they have
those you know, numbers blocked to, which must be a disappointment.
I'm not really sure, but that's it just sort of
flies in the face of all of this journalists everybody there.
You go, a couple, a couple of a couple of
big je journalists letting loose on air. There a Costa

(01:08:07):
from CNN among among the worst defenders of the pseudo
journalists out there, And uh, I love to We're just
bringing the facts. Like they all sit around, they get
to ask some questions and then they try to get
some gossip from sources that will tell us some about
the White House. They act like there, you know, uh,
publishing the Pentagon papers all the time, which the whole

(01:08:27):
other conversations whether that was a good idea or not,
Oh man, it's pretty funny. Um, you know, A Costa here.
His whole thing is he's saying he's engaged in a
form of up to literalism. That will come up again
in a few minutes. And I tell you about another
exchange to have with one of the revered elitist journalists
today on the twitters. Not that I wanted to, but

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you know, people come after the book. I don't know,
people like to hate on the buck sometimes from the
elite media. Such a nice guy, and I don't really understand,
and I really don't say like super inflammatory stuff I
probably should. Like if I just showed up every day,
I was just like, the tyranny is here, Like the
deep state media is destroying the country, like every day.
I feel like, you know that has an audience for sure. Um.

(01:09:12):
I mean, I do think that the deep state is dangerous,
is damaged in the country, and I think the media
has has essentially engaged in self immolation, at least when
it comes to its credibility. But I try to put
a little nuance into some things. But what a constant
of there is. He goes, oh, Trump, Sis, he's been
preparing for this his whole life. He's like, I don't
see how he could be preparing Forby, It's like, dude,

(01:09:36):
he means that he's been preparing for this moment his life.
Like the same way that when somebody says to you,
you know, are you ready before you go out to
give a big speech or something. If you turn to
them and say, you know, I was born ready, you
don't actually mean that you came out and like, you know,
the placenta and the birth and all that stuff, and
you were you were ready for this. That's not what

(01:09:58):
you're saying. You're saying, know, yeah, like I'm I'm ready
to go, or you know, are you ready for you know,
I've been waiting for this my whole life. No, you were, not,
in fact waiting for that moment for the entirety of
your life. You are someone who you know is excited
about the opportunity you're about to have. Right, But I mean,

(01:10:19):
so is a Costa Is he just is he not smart?
Or is he just being a jerk? I don't you
can answer that for me. I don't know. It could
go either way. And then with Mika, I won't even
pose that question. I'll just leave it. I'll just yeah,
I'll just put it this way. She says, he's upset
he can't watch point of White House. You know, she's

(01:10:39):
so smug and smarmy about Trump now a year ago, no,
make that two years ago, when she could have you
been taking a determined stand against Trump, stand for journalistic ethics, ethics,
you know, stand for truth or you know whatever. All
all these things and all these journalists are there are

(01:11:00):
martyrs in the era of Trump. It's such a joke.
It's such a such a complete the buckle. But she
was very cozy within that, Mika and Trump and I'm sorry,
Mica and Joe and troll buddies, and then they had
kind of a falling out. And now you know, it's
a lot of like you know, high school kids stuff
with oh, what gossip can we tell about Trump? And

(01:11:22):
how he's so he's so grotesque, he's so clownish. He
can't watch porn in the White House, they're saying now,
and that's that's a big thing for him. You know,
Trump may have said that, I'm gonna say that, Trump
may have said that, He's I guarantee you it was
a joke, folks. But this, uh, you know, this this
extreme literalism now because they're, oh, we're the truth tellers,

(01:11:44):
were the truth tellers. This has become a thing. This
is a trend I have noticed now. So now they
fact check opinions as though their facts. Now they fact check. Uh,
you know people that are are are making jokes. Look
what they did, I mean Mike with Sean Hannity earlier
in the week. Yes, technically Sean said that, you know,

(01:12:07):
they should destroy into that people should destroy evidence like Hillary.
He was laughing and it was a joke to anybody
with you know, ten i Q points to put together.
But there were correct me if I'm wrong. A lot
of media outlets, a lot of people in the media
who were like Hannity, you're giving you know, advice to
He wasn't giving it. Am I missing something? Now you'reright

(01:12:29):
on point? And how many of those people do you
actually think heard him say that or just read a headline. Well, see,
that's the other part of it, right. They are literalists
on our side. Every word has to be parsed, every
word in anything that they're trying to get down in. Dude,
oh you said this, but it's really this, you know,
you said red and it's chartreuse liar whoa settle down? Right?

(01:12:52):
Sean is actually making a joke. That is that no
one who listens to it could look any of the
face and says anything other than a joke. And still
they still jump they jump on his case. I mean
a few people do, some of the media. It's just
it's just ridiculous. But with Miki here, what I bet
happened is Trump made a joke because you know, he's
a guy's guy and he says things a certain way.

(01:13:13):
I bet he made a joke about how he can't
watch porn in the White House, and somebody relayed that
as a joke, and Mika is like, well I heard
that Trump says that he's upset that he can't watch
porn in the White House? Well was he? Was he
serious about it? That's one part of this, And then
the other part of it is why are you telling

(01:13:34):
us this? I mean, you know what, what? What is that?
The thing? What? The percentage of American adult males who
watched pornography is very high. I will tell you that
actually years ago. I made the conscious decision A long
time ago. Now I don't know, it's been a while.
I'm gonna say to to a shoe porn. I'm not

(01:13:54):
saying like when the when the boobies come out on
Game of Thrones, I run and high or something. I'm not.
I'm not you know, I'm not a monk, you know.
I I mean, I am the guy who is somewhat
disappointed about the Miss America bathing suit competition decision. Like,
I'm not pretending that I don't you know, I'm not
somebody who will occasionally ogl what is on the TV screen.

(01:14:15):
But I do think that. Then this is a a
whole other part of the conversation. But as a guy,
I can tell you you appreciate, uh, you appreciate your
intimate life more. You appreciate female beauty around you, especially
the female beauty of the person that you are romantically with.

(01:14:37):
You appreciate that more. If you are not watching five
hours of porn today, you I'm you. It is a
desensitization that occurs over time. I'm telling you, guys who
are listening. If you're like, you know, well, whatever age
you may be, if if this is something that you
if porn is laying a role in your life, get

(01:14:58):
rid of it. Get rid of it the way you'd
get rid of like a bad of a bad habit.
You won't look back I'm telling you you won't look
back and you will realize that it has it has
a negative effect. I don't. I'm not somebody's Oh, pornography
is the reason that we like the society is coming apart.
Although I know some very smart people who make who

(01:15:19):
makes some pretty compelling arguments about that. I'm just saying,
for your own, for your own day to day purposes. Uh.
You know, it's kind of like if you had if
you know, if you have access to let let's say
you have access to an entire to a store just
full of sugary candy, right, just like a candy also
known as a candy store, and you're just eating, eating,

(01:15:42):
eating candy, candy, candy all the time, right, and then
somebody shows up and you have a chocolate cake that
is like homemade and delicious and perfect. If you have
been every day leading up to that three meals a
day stuffing your face with starbursts and you know what else?
Did you know? Twizzlers and all this junk I used
to eat sometimes when my parents weren't looking as a kid,

(01:16:04):
you will appreciate that chocolate cake glass. I think, Mike,
is this analogy? Am I am? My is this making
sense or is it too weird? Okay, I'm making sense,
thank you. So Mika does not have to tell us
about the president's alleged desire to watch adults entertainment in
the White House. I bet it was a joke that
if she heard this at all, if it isn't actually
just fake news, I bet it's a joke. And it's

(01:16:26):
quite clear that when it comes to Trump, the media
cannot take a joke. Speaking of which, uh so, I
had a little bit of a little Twitter exchange a lot.
I know a lot of you are on Twitter, but
I'll kind of explain to you how it went today.
I mean, this is just the stuff when I say
to myself, maybe I just want Twitter where I can
talk to all of you. You know, I don't want annoying,
self righteous, entitled, overpaid TV journalists like just annoying me.

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three folks. It's a three stoff punct that is for sure.
And you know I try to. I try to approach
my my business with a certain degree of of decorum
and responsibility and respect and and even friendliness whenever possible.

(01:18:47):
I really try to do my best too, even when
I disagree strongly with people, not make it personal, not
getting nasty, not be uh you know, not just actually
not not be a jerk. But not everybody else really
takes that approach. Some people like to be very and
I mean media folks, right. I'm not talking about just

(01:19:09):
whoever can get a Twitter account. I mean people that
are blue the blue check Twitter, right, the public person Twitter.
Sometimes people can be a bit snappy, a bit rude,
a little bit unfair, and honestly just just kind of nasty.
So you know, this is where I have to tell
you that I had a yet another It's so interesting.

(01:19:31):
Mr Tapper over at CNN seems to like to uh
goad me on Twitter uh and and never just debate
back and forth the issue, but always likes to remember
this is just about tweets, right, Say someone's lying, say
that I I someone's being dishonest and I'm being dishonest.
I'm like, and I'm like, the tweets stand for themselves. Man.

(01:19:53):
It's a. It's a public It's essentially a public record
of somebody's thoughts in real time that they decided to
share with with who, you know, whomever wants to get
on the internet. But I just think this was this
was very instructive about why why does the media um
turned so many people off? Why are they so distrusted?
Why are they more distrusted now than ever before? Why
does Donald Trump's statement about fake news not only resonate

(01:20:17):
with so many people, but also, uh, why is it
that they're so sensitive about it? And I have to say, Uh,
this I think is a pretty good version of it.
I think this, this gives you a sense to a
sense of what the problems are here. So the New
York Times wrote that the Justice Department seized a as

(01:20:41):
we've been discussing, right, they seized a reporter's phone and
email records. It's first known use of such an aggressive
tactic under President Trump. And I just fired after this one.
Obama did this. The press was willing to overlook it.
They made it okay for Obama because he was so perfect.
Press won't overlook it now. But guess what, too late now.
I am obviously, as somebody who works in media and

(01:21:03):
also used to work in the intelligence community aware of
the media's coverage, meaning that there was coverage of the
various spying iterations by the Obama administration that specifically targeted journalists. Right,
I am obviously very aware of that. Now it's Twitter,

(01:21:25):
at shorthand at short form. I get all that, But
immediately I got a a very a very nasty response
by I wasn't tweeting at Jake Taber. I don't care,
you know, to me, I mean, Jake Tapper. You could
replace him with fifteen other guys at CNN tomorrow. The
ratings wouldn't change, and and I wouldn't care what I mean,

(01:21:45):
it's his his opinion is not relevant to me, but
his opinion of me. It's something he decided to to
share in a particularly aggressive fashion. I'm trying to actually
pull up the whole because this made it on the media.
I'd folks, this this guy picked up as a separate story.
So I said that, and then you get, yeah, Jake Tapper,

(01:22:07):
Jake Tapper correct CI analysts proclaiming media ignored Obama press crackdown.
So sick of the lying, that's what, so Jake said,
So sick of the lying in response to me, and
then shared a bunch of his own because he's the
media apparently, I mean, the media is a lot, right,
it's a very sweeping judgment. I understand there's really you
could be engaged in a bit of sophistry and say

(01:22:29):
there's no such thing as the media position on anything,
which is kind of technically true but also useless, right,
because there's clearly a a focus, a preponderance on or
a focus, and a tendency preponders the wrong word for
the media to take things a certain way. Um, So

(01:22:50):
I have to say, I think this is so fascinating
because you know, then I get so he's called it
a lie. I responded to him, and this was all
in in in real time. I responded to him by overlook,
I'm making a judgment about the intensity of the coverage
and the outrage over the tactic. I'm obviously not saying
nobody covered it. How would I have known about it

(01:23:11):
if it wasn't through the news? But by all means
use up too literalism is an opening to call it
a lie. And then Jake says that's not how words work,
and I said, that's really cute. Jake or that's really
you know, funny or whatever. Uh, he's very nasty to
people on Twitter. He has this reputation. He does this
all the time, and I think it's because fundamentally he's
a part of a lie. Do you want to talk
about lying? And the lie is that CNN is an

(01:23:33):
objective news source, which if he was asked he would
say it is. So he is living a lie every day.
He is fundamentally a part of a lie by being
a part of an organization that claims to be unbiased
and fair. Now, on the merits of this specific issue

(01:23:54):
of whether they were willing to overlook Obama and this
buying that occurdenter has watched, I want to make it
very clear that, yeah, I could have said largely overlooked.
There's some way, you know, if I was trying to
be focused in on precision where nobody could quibble with me,
I could do that. But is the position that the

(01:24:16):
medium By the way, I got a whole pile on
people in New York Times, Washington Post. Oh, we covered it,
we covered it. Yeah, Really, where are the editorials asking
for Eric Holder's resignation for seizing the phone records of
journalists for listing James Rosen of Fox News as an
unindicted co conspirator. Oh, that's right, it was Fox. Do
we think they were as upset about it when it
was at Fox? And they would have been in other places,

(01:24:36):
because you know journalism. They point me to all these
editorials they say, a troubling precedent for the obamaministration. The
Obama administration was was effectively preparing to gut or in
the process of gutting national security reporting overall. You'd think
that people who make a living doing that would be

(01:24:57):
more than just like publishing an editorial here and there. Yeah,
we don't think. We don't think Obama should do this.
Do you think one journalist changed his mind about Obama
and the abaministration based on this? No? But you see,
my my problem is, folks, and I appreciate Tapper trying
to correct me on that correct me as media it says,
by the way, media, I also just makes it even

(01:25:19):
worse by saying that I I ignored. I never said ignored.
I said overlook. But oh, overlook doesn't mean that you're
unaware of it, right, I mean overlook in the context
that I was using it is to say, you know,
they were like, Yeah, it's not that big a deal.
I'm not saying they never mentioned it, because that's crazy

(01:25:40):
because obviously I could only know about the story for
media coverage. So it's a it's a nonsensical point. But
it brings me back to the center of the wheelhouse here,
which is but see, CNN is just peddling a falsehood
every day by pretending that they are not in an
organization devoted to the distry auction of the Trump administration too. Hopefully,

(01:26:03):
if they have their way making Donald Trump lose his
presidency and also maybe go to prison people around him
go to prison, they would cheer. I'm sure if they
could get you know, Jared or Vonka or somebody brought
up on some kind of uh lame mickey mouse muller,
go into the mat kind of charges, they'd be very

(01:26:23):
happy with that. And so that's why I think there's
this heightened sensitivity because people realize, Okay, let's quibble with
my language over the double standard of Obama versus Trump
when it comes to the media's coverage of their spying.
Let's do that. By the way, it's not just the
spying that Obama did that they glossed over. There we go.

(01:26:47):
That's what I said. That that they that they briefly
touched on in some news stories that they quickly forgot about.
There wasn't some big narrative. There were no journalists who
were saying, oh, you know, we we really need to
rethink this whole oba I'm a love fest that we've
been having. Come on, right, that's that's not what happened.
We all know that's what happened. But even beyond that,

(01:27:07):
you've got journalists that are running stories every day now
about how US citizens like Carter Page can, with the
discretion of the national security industry, lose all their all
their Fourth Amendment rights. Right, they can just pick up
their emails, listen whatever they want. Journalists are fine with

(01:27:28):
that because it's against Trump. I mean, the double standard
is so glaring. It's laughable that anybody would try to
say otherwise. But instead of that, call someone a liar.
By the way, very strong, I was sharing an opinion.
Mr Tapper is unfamiliar with the difference in an opinion
and a fact. It's not a fact to say that
the the media, which is not an individual, it's a
general conception of organizations. The media overlooking something is not

(01:27:53):
a factual statement. I didn't say they actually never covered it.
But you'll notice they that they'd rather play this game
of well, we're the ones that are calling facts because
Trump world is awful of lies. And also, I've actually
never met Tapper, never spoken a word to him, don't
don't know much about him. I know he's nasty to
people on a regular basis on Twitter, and I can
tell you kind of funny stories about how this is

(01:28:14):
the way that he operates right he can, he won't
let things go. He and he demands retractions, demands retractions
like who do you think you are? Thinks he's very important.
That much is clear, very very full of himself. But
on the on the the underlying substance here, and you know,
as I said, this guy, different journalists are all away
and they're all dog piling me. Oh you're look at

(01:28:35):
this article. Look at this article. Yeah, yeah, idiots. I
know that you wrote articles about the Obama spuying. The
point is you were willing to move on past it
and not make it a major issue because Obama. And
I'm just saying that I doubt they'll be the same
tendency with Trump and his administration and using national security
powers to spy on journalists. This shouldn't be controversial. Actually

(01:28:56):
this should be a pretty obvious thing to say, but
you get heat for it will because when you point
out the double standard, they get upset. The same way
when you call them fake news, they get upset because
they do rome with fake news. Oh no, I'm so
you're right, Stormy Daniels, night after night after night. That's
not fake news. What well, what is that? They're creating
news out of a non news story? So what what

(01:29:18):
do they want us to call that? Anyway? Look, I
mean this is why I think some days, you know,
just retreat to the woods. Write some novels nobody will read.
Learn how to like trap some fish, you know, get
like some some of those gloves and the thing you
need to the mask and everything for the honey, you know,

(01:29:41):
I mean, you gotta have honey, Gotta have sweetener. I'm
not I'm not a barbarian, right and live out in
the woods. Get some honey, just kind of keep it
all going, you know, Get an old record player because
that just feels a little more old timey. Put on
the cat Stevens. Let the cat pur some days. Man,
I just feel like that's the way to go. You know,
this this whole trying trying to be out there fighting

(01:30:01):
the fight, you know, taking it just just trying to
spread spread knowledge and truth to the best of my ability.
You know, your days, You're just like, Man, it should
have been like, yeah, set up like a tiki bar somewhere,
real nice. You know, I had some like live music
that would play. I'm getting myself all excited here. Some
of you're probably gonna send me recommendations. Move to this city.

(01:30:23):
You can order this town. You know, you can just
hang out by the beach, just chill one day. It
would be also be fun to just have a Twitter
account that, like it is not like I have no
professional involvement in in the media anymore, and I can
actually just tell people what I think of them. That
would be fun and really tell them, like just say it,
not care. But I would get in trouble. And profanity

(01:30:44):
is a problem, you know stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know people will say, you know, buck, technically you
shouldn't call person that, even if they are a terrible
CNN jerk. Uh so you know it is what it is.
Um anyway, Yes, this is why I just hate Twitter,
because it's it's useful to a point, but as a

(01:31:04):
means of conversation, it's no. No one's actually trying to engage.
They're really just and they're they're seeing who can come
up with the sickest burn and who can create the
biggest dog pile effect to silence, you know, the the
people that they don't like. And I just find it,
uh find a childish finds pretty annoying. And yeah, anyway,

(01:31:24):
my last thing with Tapper was when I when he
said that Scooter Libby leaked the name of a covert
CIA officer and I'm like, I think he actually said
agent because he doesn't know the difference in an agent
and an officer. And although don't quote me on that,
oh my gosh, I could be wrong. Um I'm willing
to bet that was correct. And I'm just like, well,
that's actually not what happened. But okay, all right, you

(01:31:47):
know I got all the other scene and they all
come they're all like a team, like like a big
it's like a clown car of of well of clowns,
the clown News network, and they all come after you,
yelling at you and stuff. So few people that go
on are there now and share opinions. Uh, I have
really any respect for at this point. I mean professionally.

(01:32:09):
Personally I can't speak to it, but professionally it's who
who's who's the down the middle person you can trust
over there. That's not skewing, that's not feeding into the
Russia collusion fantasy. Anyway. Some people just need a bucks laugh,
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So here we go. Now we can put some some
facts and figures into what we already know about the
whole u NFL flag kneeling controversy. You have here that
a majority of US voters say that the National Football

(01:34:04):
League players who neil and protests are are not unpatriotic,
according to new poll by a fifty eight percent to
thirty five percent margin. Those surveying at the Quinnipiac University
poll voice disagreement with the notion that players who during
games uh protests police shootings of unarmed black men are
disrespectful of America. A majority of voters also offered support

(01:34:28):
for athletes right to protest on their playing fields and
courts at expressed opposition. Now, first of all, calling them
unpatriotic is very strong, So I feel like the poll
is automatically skewing, uh and making it likely or to
get a certain outcome. To to to ask do you agree

(01:34:49):
with their choice to do it? To call them unpatriotic
is to pass judgment on the individuals themselves. It's I
think a much better way to approach this would be
to say, what do you think of the decision to
do that? Um? So that's one part of this. And
then also having the right to protest on the on

(01:35:10):
the playing field, that's you know, I think that's just
that's only fift so it's pretty evenly split. But I
think a lot of that is just people who don't
understand that, you know, sure enough, Uh. The owners are
allowed to set rules and regulations for their for their businesses.

(01:35:31):
So it's not a right issue, it's a what is
the owner one issue? But this was the most interesting
part of this, you because we're talking about all his
NFL knealing stuff these days. This most an interesting part
of it that sevent of Republicans called NFL players kneeling
unpatriotic and said they did not have a right to

(01:35:52):
protest during games. Well eight five and eight two of
Democrats disagreed, So the NFL kneeling issue which brings in
all different kinds of complexities, and you know it's just
a free speech thing. Is it a police relations with
minority communities? There's so many ways you can slice this

(01:36:13):
and look at this, but this has become just like guns,
a straight up polarized partisan issue. Whatever you know, whatever
you are, as party affiliation goes, is what you think
about this issue, according to this poll. With obviously with
some exceptions because eighty five percent, there's some some some

(01:36:36):
were left out of this, but it is overwhelmingly the
case now that just like if you support gun rights,
you are almost certainly a Republican. If you support the
right to life instead of the right to an abortion,
you're almost certainly a Republican. Now we can put NFL

(01:36:56):
kneeling during the anthem on this list of issues that
separate people out from each other and that are very
much part of the the the political proxy fight that's
going on all the time. So I think I think
you are gonna have some more neil and come to fall,
that's for sure. I can't I don't know enough to

(01:37:17):
say which teams and who's the most likely with it,
but you know, I'm just amazed to these Democrats who
say they don't find it on patriotic when somebody does that.
You know, the flag is also a cultural thing. Now,
I guess Democrats have this notion that there's no you know,
don't no need to respect the flag. I guess, Uh,

(01:37:38):
We'll be right back. Stay with me. He's holding the
line for America. Buck Sexton his back. Hey, team Buck,

(01:38:14):
it's time for roll Call, Roll Call Friday. Let me
we're gonna have a little extended session here in the
Freedom public. Get into a little bit more of the
roll call then we do on an average day, although
lately I've been trying to extend it, uh, just because
I enjoyed doing it so much, because I like hearing

(01:38:34):
from all of you. Or I suppose technically it is
reading from all of you, but it's certainly something that
is that it's fun to do. So with that in mind,
let's get into it. We have hold on one second,
let's see we got here. It's it's coming up, it's coming.
There we go. Lannie, Hey buck Heart the show. Thank you,

(01:38:58):
Lannie shields Hie from errors ownA. Oh my god, you
were talking about impersonations yesterday and I swear you have
the best I've ever heard, the best Alex Jones impersonation.
That is hands down. Enjoy your weekend with miss Molly. Oh.
By the way, it is produced producing gosh buck speak
English pronounced Lonnie, not Landing. Okay, Lonnie, thank you so much. Lanny.

(01:39:22):
You you're obviously not tooled to build a bird's and
Illuminati google it. Um. So there you have it, David,
But I've realized that there you have it is my
uh is my latest and greatest filler for when I
can't get a segment to pop up as quickly as

(01:39:42):
I want. Brian rites, I thought this was funny. High
capacity magazines turn regular firearms into fully automatic weapons. Uh.
And he's it's a letter, Brian. I don't know who
this letter is from, but it looks great, So I
don't know. I can't. I can't. I literally can't read
any of it. But clearly fully I don't know, I

(01:40:04):
don't know what it says. That's all I got for you, buddy.
Next up is Adam never wrestle with pigs. You both
get dirty and the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw. Yes,
that's the full quote that I referenced in passing, So
thank you very much Adam for that. I get uh

(01:40:25):
Donka with the next message here, Hello, um Derka, how
are you? Um? I'm good, dom Ca. What is Derka?
And why are you ready to be on Facebook? That
would be the That would be the question that I
want to post you straight away. And next up is

(01:40:48):
Hannah And by the way, if you want to be
a part of roll Call Facebook dot com slash buck
Sexton and uh, here we go. We have Hannah who writes,
hey man, love the show. Thanks for all you do
so as I commission a Men of the Blaze calendar.
Uh if I get this done, can we get you

(01:41:08):
for an October surprise? Also? I would go fund me
Hillary is what happened in your impression of her? I
listened for the impressions millennial and Hillary are the best. Wow.
Thank you Hannah Oss Homie Shields High great great to
hear from you. I got the Hillary impersonation. It's so

(01:41:31):
funny that people like it because I always think to myself,
is anyone gonna be mad at me? Because this doesn't
actually sound at all like Hillary Clinton? But it, as
I say, it captures her essence in a way that
I think very few other impersonators are able to. I
think that there's there's a particular resonance with folks when

(01:41:53):
they hear me do the Hillary impersonation, because they're like,
you know what, it doesn't sound like Hillary, but I
know anyway that it is in fact Hillary. Uh. Next
up is Matt buck You've been lamenting the lack of
proper email address for the show. Have you thought about
having a contest fliti just for choose the address. I'd

(01:42:15):
go for buck Topia at an email address, as always
loved the show Shields High. Matt, that's actually a great idea.
I like, I like buck Topia. We're gonna have a
new email address. We're gonna have it soon. I'm just
waiting to get more information on our website redesign, which
is happening as we speak, and once that is up,

(01:42:35):
we will be able to go from there. Uh. Next
up here, William. I know your generation needs to have
your hero, but when you put it under the microscope,
Lebron is just a distant second best from his area,
nows Michael Jordan's I know that Michael has more uh

(01:42:58):
more rings. I know that right, and I know that
um Jordan is an icon that is really timeless. But
I gotta say, Lebron, he's so dominant, so dominant, you
know what the truth is, guys, I don't watch enough
basketball to have all that much of an informed opinion
on this. Lebron has been the eight finals in a row.

(01:43:23):
That's a very good point. That's impressive as heck. And
Jordan never did that. But that's because Jordan left to
play baseball. Just just saying, there you go. Yeah, you know,
I I was last night. I was moving into my
apartment and down here and I spent you know, I
spent some time and I had to go out on
the street in the neighborhood and I walked and I

(01:43:45):
remember thinking, oh my gosh, I thought New York was loud.
This city is crazy, Like it's so loud to hear.
There's so much noise and commotion, so many things going
on in the street. But sure enough, of what I
didn't realize until I went out and saw the oceans
of people running around everywhere with red jerseys on, is

(01:44:08):
that the Capitals were in the Stanley Cup Finals. Did
you know this, Producer, Mike, I was unaware of this,
and I'm here in d C. I'm in the swamp.
It turns out a swamp team is in the is
in the Stanley Cup finals and and in fact one,
so everybody was was getting really uh you know, amped
up over this obviously, all these people walking around these

(01:44:30):
red capitals jerseys in the street. I was looking for
paper products. I won't get any worse specificity than that.
It was kind of it was towards the later part
of the evening. I was looking for paper products, because
truth be told, when you move into a place sometimes
you forget things like I don't have paper products there.
And I went into a a Walgreens. And when I

(01:44:53):
was in the wall Greens, it was wall to wall
people in these red jersey ease and you know, they
were all um excited about the capitals. But my favorite
thing was that there was a real commotion at one
point by the coolers, and I could see what was
going on. These guys were just looking around this One

(01:45:14):
guy goes, you, guys, oh no, they only have one
kind of beer left, and it's oh duels, and the
whole crowds like no. They all got so upset because
there was a fair amount of drinking going on, and uh,
pretty much every store within I'd say a ten block
radius of this downtown d C Stanley Cup party had

(01:45:38):
had been ransacked. I mean people paid for it, but
but they were out of booze, and so when the
only thing they had left was oh duels, that did
not sit well with the folks who had assembled there.
They were not they were not happy about it. Uh,
next up here? Oh yeah, So that was my story
about the Stanley Cup. I also thought it was a
playoff game. I didn't realize it was a Stanley Cup finals.

(01:45:59):
So I need to become well better verse, I suppose
in DC based teams. Willie writes Buck legal aliens can
lose their citizenship when committing a felony. Once lost, they
are classed as illegal aliens. Um well, Willie, good to know.

(01:46:20):
Thank you very much for for the tip. I know,
if you're here on a visa, you can certainly be
deported if you do anything bad. But is you know, Mike,
can you check that? Can you you can? Really? If
you're a permanent resident, you can lose your citizenship. That's
an interesting thing to throw into the mix. Uh. That

(01:46:41):
is something that might have escaped the Buck wisdom such
as it is here we go, Aries writes, I'm sick
and tired. Uh, I'm sick and tired of these stupid
conservatives getting their butts kicked on TV. As a concerns
illegal immigration, the leftists always say that immigrants cammit less
crime than most of the native population, which is exactly

(01:47:04):
true for every non Islamic immigrant population in the world. However,
close to six of illegal aliens are criminals. If an
uneducated white male like me knows this, why don't more
people speaking up for our movement? No? Are they just
brain lazy or stupid? Um hmm? Interesting? Alright? Aries? So

(01:47:26):
Arias thrown out something I don't know if I've never
seen that statistic before. So there you there you go? Aris? Uh,
roll call. I just I read what the people say.
Joseph next up here here it's trying to get to
your sponsor. Is it nine lives apparel dot com? Okay? Uh?
From Joe here, Joe, I'm sorry if my my addiction

(01:47:47):
was insufficient here, which can often often be the case.
It is nine line apparel dot com. Nine line because
it's a specific reference to a nine line is when
there is a soldier who makes a MEDIVAC request for
someone injured on the battlefield, so that the nine line

(01:48:08):
is to get somebody off the battlefield. Uh. And that's
where nine line apparel comes from. So think of it
like nine like the number nine, and line like draw
a line in the sand. Conservatives on one side, evil
liberals on the other. Uh. Well, I want to get
into more roll call, but you know what, let me

(01:48:29):
let me take a quick policy or take a little beat,
and when we come back, we'll hear more of your
thoughts and we'll kick it off right for the weekend.
So stay with yeah, come on, you know better than
both those things. And uh, this this was into the

(01:48:52):
psychology of Donald Trump? Is who is he? And what
does he think? And why does he think so normally?
Why does he excell abnormal? He's as dismissive of truth
as he is. It's you we go on with it.
I just want to say the most disturbing part of
the news to me today with this notion that he's

(01:49:12):
he wants to now send troops to the border. Um,
you know it's true that. Okay, come on, like Michael
Ken lead to the uh, the diminishment of democracy. Come on, democracy.
My only word for it is you you outdid yourself

(01:49:33):
without montage. Man, that was amazing. I asked for a gurgling.
That was amazing. You get you get it straight up,
destroyer Mark River. I love it. And the thing is,
that's the guy they bring out when Senn wants to
get serious. That's the guy who comes out. And it's
just like it's like, everybody, wait, be quiet, everyone be quiet.

(01:49:54):
Gurgan wants to wants to gurgle for asdiction for democracy
and you look, you heard I'm not it's a good impersonation.
You you know, you could be a big Gurgen fan
or not. And you know, I'm just saying the impersonation.
I think it's it's pretty jet democracy. That's what all

(01:50:17):
My favorite was to do X. I used to have
to sit there sometimes. I used to have to sit
there and be like, oh now I get to get
lectured by this guy or a young whipper snapper over here,
or northing about another thing or uh good times, good times.
Let's see what we have next year, um boom we have.

(01:50:39):
I'm sorry I made my I made it. I made
it disappear the messages, which I should not do team
because I've got limited time here to get to all
the rest of the roll call. Oh man, this weekend,
I'm I'm gonna drink some mescal. That's what I'm gonna do.
That's what That's what I've got on. That's the only
thing I know for sure. There will be there will

(01:51:00):
be mescal. You've seen there will be blood. Well, we
drink up the oil. That was actually pretty good too
for Thank you for On the Fly. I haven't watched
that movie in a while, and Daniel day Lewis is
like creepy good in that. It's like, did you actually
just become that that person? Because it doesn't seem very
much like there's much Daniel Lewis left as you're watching that.

(01:51:21):
All right, Um, we have Taylor next in our roll
call here, Taylor Rights, don't beat me up too bad, bro.
The t bones were on sale. These stuff Portobello mushrooms. Though,
oh my look, I don't hate on vegetables when vegetables
are used as either an accompaniment to or a vehicle

(01:51:45):
for the ingestion of meat or cheese or dairy. So
those are my rules. Veggies are great as long as
there is meat, and there's more meat than veggies and
veggies that are used so that you can either eat
a form of cheese or any form of meat that
is a completely acceptable choice, as well as to your

(01:52:07):
t bone. In this photo you've sent me Taylor instead
of ribby. I will say this, Ribby is very fatty.
I know that it's fatty and it's delicious, but sometimes
you want to mix it up. You know, steak is
a steak. I'll go flank steak, I'll go ribby, I'll
go butcher cut steak. I like all of the above
as long as you get a good seer on it,

(01:52:28):
and you cook that meat well, then you season in
a bit too much. You know, it's a little bit,
and then I think you're Then I think you're all good.
Then I think you're good to go. So thank you
for sharing that with me, my friend. I would like
to get to get some cooking going this weekend, but
you know, we'll see if that ends up happening. John,
Next up here, do you want to get someone from
the boy Scouts on? There are a ton of misconceptions

(01:52:51):
about the changes recently, Mike, Do we have something for
the for the boy Scout situation? Here? Maybe? I mean,
is there Well, we'll talk about maybe there's like a
National Boy Scout expert uh or or troop leader or
something whatever. We wouldn't want an expert. We wanted somebody
party organization. But I'll give it some thought, my friend.
I'm feeling very inclusive today, uh like salad minus the egg,

(01:53:17):
because I wanted to be vegan inclusive. Bill right, Hey Buck,
I've been seeing some news lately about the guy that
did the Las Vegas shooting, regarding his motives, but I
questioned the sources. The fact that we also haven't heard
very much follow up on this gives me pause. What
have you heard? Bill? Great question? And the truth is
I have heard very little on this. I don't have

(01:53:39):
any outside sources or any particular insight into what happened
in Las Vegas. All I can really say to you is, um,
I would like there to be more answers. I've said
from the beginning, if you recall, if you've ben listen
to the show for a long time, that my expectation
was that we would not find out really de finitively

(01:54:00):
what this guy's motive was. That there would never really
come a time when we would be able to say
to ourselves, UM, okay, we acent know what was going
on here, so that that's where I am on that
uh next up here, Tom writes, Oss can't even remember
where I was when you made the announcement. You've been

(01:54:20):
on air five days a week. Buck, Seriously, wouldn't eating
less vegetables be better for the planet? Killing and eating
the animals that relentlessly murder our precious oxygen? Providing plants
is the only way to be green. Don't these vegans
care about the planet? Tom, I appreciate the sarcasm, and
also thank you for being with me from the very

(01:54:42):
earliest days. It is a great honor and is very
much appreciated. And you're a good man. He spells Tom
with an h I've never I've only seen that once before.
It's with the guy from Radiohead. That's right, Yeah, I
know I know some things about some stuff. That's gonna
be it for the freedom and for today, my friends.
Next week I'll have a podcast up speaking of freedom.

(01:55:04):
Hut the Freedom up with Buck Sexton. So I get
ready for that one. This week we got pushed for
some other stuff. It will be up next week. And
uh that also means that you've got a great weekend
ahead of you, Because I say so see you all
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