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Buck Sexton
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show podcast. Welcome at everybody. Friday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show kicks off right now. Much to discuss, my friends. Latest updates on the economy looking good and trade working out more like Trump said it would than the experts. Remember the experts, quote, unquote. I don't know, what was it about a month ago? The sky is falling. Trump has ruined everything. No, not true. The sky is not falling. And in fact, things are looking great. So probably the greatest. We'll talk about more of that here coming up shortly. Some other things to put on your radar. Supreme Court. You know what? I'm going to dive into this, too. Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration's request to revoke humanitarian parole for over 530,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. And let me say, I think there was a hint about where this was supposed to go and the fact that it's not forever, it's parole, it's not backdoor to status, it's, hey, cuz, we're a nice country. We're gonna let you chill here for a bit because things back home are rough. But eventually you're supposed to go back home, you know, so that's a big, a big part of this. And I think we'll, we'll discuss the, the university fight, by the way, is very much taking, you know, day in and day out. New headlines here, Trump fighting with the schools. And the State Department is now going to be reviewing social media of students at Harvard for anti Semitism. So that's gonna, that's gonna get interesting. And look, some of these things, I want to discuss a strategy that I call, I call skirmishing. And so I'll get back to this in a little bit. Some of these things, I think Trump will prevail at the court. And some of them are also a little more. We'll see. And the ones that are a little more, we'll see, maybe he wins, maybe he doesn't. But it's worth a shot. It's worth a shot. You know, the Democrats, Democrats will do things, and I mean the president, when it's a Democrat Congress, when Democrats have control, they will do things that they have themselves explicitly admitted as unconstitutional. They'll just do it. All right? Because if it, if it's pursuing their agenda, if it's more, you know, statist lunacy, they're like, let's go for it. You know, how many, how many divisions do you have? Is the attitude right? Or if you are a fan of ancient Rome, what was it, Pompeii saying, don't quote laws to men with swords. That's kind of the Democrats attitude when they're in charge, like we've got the sword. So guess what? We'll talk about the skirmishing strategy from the Trump side of things later on. We got the Harvard stuff. We've also got Dean Cain joining third hour. You know him from being Superman. And many, I certainly know many of the ladies out there know many of the ladies out there, know who this guy is from back in the day when he was Superman. We'll, we'll talk about this. Kash Patel, also on the FBI stuff. Look, we have so much show that you just, you're gonna have to strap in cuz we got a lot of ground to cover. I'm dive into this economy thing. One second. Just want to put out a, a shout out. I did a little deep dive on North Korean infiltration of your laptop, meaning any American's laptop and what they can do. Wall Street Journal had a fascinating piece. I go into a deep dive and also some of the background and context on how North Korea operates globally. This one I'm not going to do on the air today. You got to subscribe to the Clay and Buck podcast network where you have all these great podcast shows. You also have the Buck brief, which is where I put some deep dives now or guests that we have that aren't on the radio show because we have more, you know, we have 20, 30 minutes with them on the podcast side. So go subscribe to Clay and Buck podcast network. We are growing every month because of you. And we have great hosts on there. Carol Markowitz, Tudor Dixon. I always want to say Sean Parnell, he's busy like being a big, big deal at the Pentagon now, our friend Dave Rutherford, former Navy seal. So go and check that out. You will love that podcast network and look for that North Korea episode to drop later today. All right, let's do the economy. Just I want to set the table with this one. And then we'll get into the immigration situation. We'll take a lot of your calls too. And Talk Back is working again. I love talkbacks. I love calls, too. I love calls too. But talkback's a lot of fun. So you can. And if you send a talk back that's funny and pokes fun at Clay, we can play it on the air and I can send it to him while he's on vacation with his family. As you know, he's on vacation for the next week. So if you say something funny about flute playing or something like that, we can play it on the air and I can just text it to him, be like, hey, big guy, they're still thinking about you. They miss you. Here we go. CNBC's Rick Santelli on the. This is really interesting on trade deficit numbers. This is cut one. Let's hear what Santelli has to say. This is the trade balance which is a deficit expecting -143 billion. Wow. It comes in much, much smaller. -87 billion. And now this follows a 163 that gets converted to 162 billion with a minus sign. The worst since record keeping 1989. Then we cut it in half to 87.6. 87.6 would be the lightest. Now you have to really go back. 87.6 would be the lightest since, wow, September of 23. And this really does underscore how the movement of goods and services really change due to a variety of tariff related issues. This is a rebalancing of our trade deficit and it is exactly what Donald Trump has been pushing for all along. And what we've been told is going to lead to catastrophe. Even trying to change it up a little bit. Why is that? Notice how there's a built in assumption. And I'm not just talking about the Trump haters because with the Trump haters it is, you know, Donald Trump says, hey, what a beautiful day. It's 75 with a nice breeze. And they're like, it's a horrible day. People will die because of the day. You know, they just doesn't matter. They hate him so much. Their identity, part of the problem of the opposition to Trump is that anti Trumpism is now and has been for a long time an identity that people have. You know, the same way that being concerned about climate change is an identity, it's. Oh, I'm a person who's concerned about climate. Do you know anything about it?
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Unknown Speaker
No.
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Buck Sexton
Have you thought about it? Really? No. But it's an identity. Being anti Trump is an identity and it's very hard to get people to separate from that because they like all the things that they think it tells others. Right. They like the things that it says about them in the eyes of their peer group. So I'm not just talking though about those people because that's, you know, anti. It's Trump Derangement Syndrome. I mean they're really. This should be added. I think we'd be on the DSM 6 now, right? The Diagnostic Manual for Psychiatric Disorders. I think we'd be on six. I don't know. Some of you listening? Are psychiatrists, maybe a couple of you. Most psychiatrists are incredible. It's the most left wing medical profession. Isn't that interesting number by far psychiatry, Most left wing. You get some great right wing psychiatrists, I'm sure out there, but it's like a 90. It's like being a Republican in Washington D.C. but I think that the Trump derangement syndrome should be added to it because it is impossible to reason with people about anything Trump related. Once they have fallen victim to it, maybe we should feel sorry for them because there's like Trump, it's so horrible. Trump is going to do all the horrible things. Really? What are the horrible things that are happening right now? What is the thing that is happening in this country that we're all supposed to be so horrified about? Immigration laws are being enforced. If they're so horrible, why are they laws? And why have they been supported in a bipartisan fashion for decades and decades? Why didn't the Obama regime get rid of these laws? Because they knew it would be deeply unpopular. So they have to pretend they agree with the law while not enforcing it. That's a whole different thing. But what the economy, economy's looking great. You know, I feel like Warren Buffett right now because I bought into the dip and I believed, I believed in Elon, I believed in Trump, I believed in the economy when everyone was, oh, it's so terrible. So you sit here though, and you look specifically on tariffs. And this is an area where even people who are more pro Trump on most things but have their, let's say, their misgivings about some things have been saying this is where it's all going to fall apart. This is where he's going to screw up the whole administration. And now it's, hold on a second. The economy's doing well and the trade deficit is shrinking. The thinking around this has somehow become so zero sum, meaning it's one, it is just the one thing and then that's it. There's no nuance, there's no somehow. We are to believe that the trade deficit that we have is either perfect or does not matter at all. And those things cannot be true. That's not possible. Or it's the same way that when you try to cut any government spending, even though government spending increases year after year. I know, big, beautiful bill. We'll talk more about that as it continues to make its way through the Senate side. But we're led to believe by the forever regime, by the narrative that the amount of government spending that is occurring Right now is the perfect amount. Unless it's more. If it's. If there's more spending, then that's the perfect amount. But if you try to cut that spending even a little bit, it is dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria cannot have it. Right. So you're familiar with this thinking that is. Is very. A very big part of the narrative, the propaganda that is out there. And of course, you know, logically it's untrue with our trade deficit issue. Somehow we are led to believe that all these other countries that have tariffs against us, which is all of the countries, are doing something that does not benefit them. It is clearly of no benefit to them, and that the way things have shaken out so far is the perfect way for things to be when it comes to trade. Don't touch it. It's like a Swiss watch. It's working exactly as it is supposed to. But that makes no sense. Why is it. Why is it perfect? And why are these other people doing tariffs if it's so dumb and so bad? And why is it such a terrible idea that we would at least match them to some degree on the tariffs that they already have in place so that we can get to more of an equilibrium where we don't just buy stuff, we make stuff? Eventually, if you only buy stuff, you know what happens? You have to just print and print and print and print more money to buy the things, because your productivity isn't based in real market action of productivity. You're just, you know, you're printing, you're running there. You know, the money machine goes, brr. You're. That's not a good place for you to be. It's how you get to $37 trillion in debt, I might add, at some level, handling these things in that way. Oh, we're the reserve currency. We'll just spend more money. Oh, somebody else will make all of our stuff. Okay. But they have to buy our debt, and they have to keep wanting to buy our debt. And then the tendency is going to be on our side for us to print more money to pay down that debt without the underlying productivity of the making stuff and doing stuff and manufacturing base that we need to sustain the quality of life that our dollars have gotten us used to. So Trump comes along and he sees this, and I mean, there's. I know, you know, Warren Buffett now is like, trade deficits are terrible. There's a fascinating video. I mean, I could probably find it from years, maybe 20 years ago, so not that long ago, but like 20 years ago. Where he talks about, okay, well, if trade deficits mean nothing, what happens if we have one island that makes all the stuff that lives next to one island that buys all the stuff? And one island just makes stuff. One island just buys stuff. Eventually, the Makestuf island owns the buy Stuff island, because the only way that they can afford to keep being the buy stuff island is essentially a giant series of IOUs to the makestuff island. Now, I know this is, oh, it's all so simple. And it's more complicated than that. We have a bunch. We could put a bunch of econ nerds or trade. The trade people actually are much better. The people who really follow trade are much closer to Trump on this than a lot of the people who are. I'm an economist from such and such, and let me tell you what's going on. Trump understands these basic market forces in the way that somebody who has had to live his life with the ups and downs of them can, and somebody who just wants to be considered smart by the faculty lounge and has never really done this stuff can't. And you're already seeing this start to come to fruition. And I want to also talk about the income number. Something that gets left out of this discussion so often is what, what? We get money from the tariffs. Right. People say, oh, tariffs are a tax. Yeah. But also we get money from them. And the United States was funded almost exclusively by tariffs until the 21st century with the passage of a constitutional amendment for an income tax, which is a whole other conversation that's a constitutional amendment. Might want to take another look at, at some point. But we've got, we've got plans. We've got plans. So we'll come back here and talk about the income numbers and then also dive into the end of parole, which is supposed to be temporary, the end of temporary protected status for some foreigners here. And the media hates this, of course, and wants you to be upset about it. But why is it temporary if it's not going to be temporary, meaning not forever? We'll discuss that coming up here. But I was just talking about how we're $36 trillion in debt and Trump is giving us the opportunity to build a great economy or build an even greater economy than we currently have. And he's making a lot of great moves. But I want to think about where your finances are and how you protect your wealth over the next 10 years, the next 20 years. And I was just talking to you about the money machines going, you know, and all that. That's going to continue to happen. I hope we can stop this. I don't think we're going to be able to stop this anytime soon. 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Let's dive into the immigration situation. Immigration situation at the. Well, interior enforcement's a big thing. And we have the Supreme Court weighing in today, saying that it is, in fact, okay for the Trump administration to revoke humanitarian parole for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. And this is. It's amazing. The Supreme Court had to weigh in. I want. I want to start from this perspective. This is quite straightforward. This is something that is really good for anybody who believes in the rule of law, which is we say, hey, you can stay here, but at some point, you got to go home. And that a court said at any. At any level, a lower court blocked the administration on this. So. So let's just understand what's really going on here. If you want to see where the. How. How intense the lawfare really is, which is what this. And I guess it's maybe. Is it judge, Judge fair? Doesn't sound as cool, but it's judges now, right? It's not just people bringing lawsuits, which is generally. Or bringing charges, which is generally what you think of as lawfare, you know, warfare by law. This is judicial stuff. So, yeah, also lawfare, but it's a. It's a particular flavor of it, you know, because it's really the judges. Because I don't think prosecutors. I don't think you're gonna have a rogue U.S. attorney right now. Be like, I'm gonna lock up the president. I mean, he could try. Good luck with that one, buddy. I don't. I don't think Trump is gonna. Gonna brook that nonsense for very long. But the judges, obviously, I. Lifetime tenure. Starting to notice a trend. People that have lifetime job security, whether it's a professor or a judge, causes problems. Causes problems. You know, it's good to have to live in the market reality a little bit and have to, you know, earn your keep. So this is what's going on here. A judge came in and said that the administration, which has the discretion to offer temporary. Temporary safe haven. The administration was overruled. Overruled by a lower court judge who said, you're not allowed to end this. So this is. Again, I really. I like the simple analogies, and I like to boil things down as much as possible because I think it gives clarity. And I'm just going to tell you, that's what Trump does with these things. He, Trump is the guy who's in the meeting who says, what is really going on here and how do we make this annoying problem go away? How do we fix it now? Doesn't like to say, oh, well, like to piggyback off my, off my associate and like, let's have another meeting tomorrow about the meeting. And like, oh, this is a challenging problem. So maybe we could have a study committee, you know, committee on the. No. He says, you know, what is going on here and let's get this thing solved. And to do that, I think you have to break things down to their. Their essence. And this is a bit like if you. If there was a storm, you know, if there was a. If there was like a, you know, if there were, you know, hurricane in your area, I'm in Miami. So that's something that, you know, is something we think about. There's a hurricane in your area, and there's somebody out in the street and they're getting blown around. And you say, hey, hey, you know what? Come. Come off the street. Come off the street. I got you. I got you. You know, you got caught in this here, you know, and I'll, I'll give you, you know, some, Some food, some water, some safe harbor. And person, let's say the person stays for a few hours, and then the. And then the storm passes and you go, okay, you're safe. There you go, you know, you know, good luck to you. Go about your way. And the guy goes, no, I don't think so. I don't like this temporary thing. I think I'm gonna stay. You have a guest bedroom. I think I'm just gonna make myself cozy here forever. That is what we're talking about here. On an immigration level, the United States says, hey, Venezuela's a mess. We get it. Nicaragua got big problems. We get it. We're going to let you stay here for a while, but you are going to go home at some point. This is not a forever thing. This is not a forever thing. And they're also particularly upset about this right now because we took in 50, 50 white people from South Africa. Oh, my gosh. So ABC, I'm reading the ABC News right up of this. Do you want to know who? Remember what I said yesterday about how Sotomayor, as much as she is dumb, she knows the only thing she's supposed to know. And she. She is. She's not a smart woman as much as she is supposed to know, or I should say, she's not a smart lawyer. Okay, maybe she's like, you know, smarter than the average person. But she is not a talented or smart lawyer and not a, not, certainly not wise. And I think, you know, pretty limited. But she knows the one thing that the Democrats want her to know, which is deliver wins for the team. You're a left wing activist in a judicial robe. Give us what we want. That's why you are there. The law does not matter. And, but I think, I think that Ketanji Brown Jackson, now you know who the two are voted against is Ketanji Brown Jackson also knows that, that her job is not fidelity to the Constitution. And I truly mean this. Her job is whatever it takes to come up with some way to pretend the Constitution matters. Deliver for the left, Deliver for, for the left. On anything that matters. People say, oh, what about this 90 decision? Or what about that 90 decision? At some level they ha. You know, first of all, those are things where I think there's even a recognition that the facade of judicial interpretation would be entirely gone. They wouldn't even be able to have their defenders in the media with a straight face say, oh, yeah, you know, I mean, for example, when Colorado is, Doesn't it feel like such a long time ago when Colorado tried to just take Trump off the ballot? And I think that was a 90 in the Supreme Court. They're like, no, you can't, you can't actually just do that. You can't just decide, he did a bad thing, he can't run for president anymore. There's no, there was no basis in law. People in these states did this. It was Colorado.
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Clay Travis
Right?
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Buck Sexton
I'm remembering this right. God, so much information has to go through my brain. And then Maine was considering it. Like Maine played footsie with the idea, but I think didn't fully go through with it. To take Trump off the ballot. That was a thing. It was 90 but one they would realize that actually looks. That is too much. That's too much. They can't play the game. They can't deliver the long term wins. They need to. If it's clear that they're not even pretending. Right. They got to keep, it's like the media with, with objective, you know, with being objective neutrality. Everyone knows CNN's left wing. Everyone knows CNN is a Democrat propaganda outlet. But they got to keep the pretense going a little bit. A little bit. And then with the Biden dementia Cover up. No pretense, full on propagandists. You know, some people are watching. This is, it's a joke. If I was a leftist. Wow, this is an alternate universe. If I was a leftist, I would watch one of these like online maniacs, whatever, who's like, I'm a socialist, I'm a communist. At least there's honesty there. I mean, at least there's honesty there. So I think in this case, here's Katanji Brown Jackson, by the way, writing on this case, Remember, it's an executive power. It is something that the administration, the Biden administration did and had the authority to do. Half million people is a lot of people. It's a lot of people to just let hang out in America. Right? Half million people. And Trump comes in and what you see, and this is a consistent pattern with Democrats, what a Democrat has the power as president to do or his advisors because he's sputtering and you know, drooling his applesauce. But what a Democrat president has the right to do, a Republican president does not have the right to undo even if it falls within executive discretion. Right. So if, if Joe Biden has the, has the right to say yes, Donald Trump doesn't have the right to say no. And you go, well, hold on a second, that's not how this works. Oh, according to Katanji Brown Jackson and Sona Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor, that is how it works. Jackson writing an opposition. I love this too. How ABC News, they notice. Let me see if they actually cite anything from the. Nope, nope. These are the tells you always have. You have a Supreme Court decision, you have ABC News, a corporate Democrat news outlet that in their write up of this pick nothing from the majority opinion, there's nothing there because they can't have an explanation present in this news article that shows you that only a moron truly could think that this isn't something that the Trump administration's allowed to do. There's, there's no argument here. Jackson writing an opposition, accused the court's majority of quote, callously undervaluing the devastating consequences of allowing the government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million non citizens while their legal claims are pending. If even if the government is likely to win on the merits in our legal system, success takes time. Jackson wrote, and the stay standards require more than anticipated victory. I would have denied the government's application because its harm related showing is patently insufficient. What, let me tell you, let me break down what's going on here. These people have a temporary right, at the discretion of the executive branch to be in the country on humanitarian grounds. They have all these, you know, open borders, ACLU type, left wing lunatic legal groups that are trying to find every way possible to keep them here. And they want anchor babies happening and they want people, you know, trying whatever, however they can work the system, keep them here as long as they can. File some frivolous claim, file some. This is what they do. And what you see is the Trump administration's like, no, we're done here. No mas. You have to go. And Katanji Brown Jackson realizes that the scam is up. And so what she says is, it's just so mean. What you're doing is so mean because they have other claims, but, well, they don't have other claims. If the executive branch has the power to say, you're going home now, that's the only claim that matters. And by seven, two, let's be clear, seven to the Supreme Court was like, yeah, sorry, you got. She even admits, she even admits that it's likely the government is going to succeed on the merits. But you see, delay is the whole point. Trump and his team see through, through this. They see the way that the Democrats abused the system and abused good faith. And on immigration, they do it more than anywhere else. Oh, these are asylum seekers. No, they're. I mean, by the way, maybe some of these might be, but I'm talking about in general, the southern border. Oh, these are asylum seekers. No, they are not. Oh, this is about humanitarian concerns. No, it is not. And then on this issue, well, I just don't like what you're doing and so I don't want you to be able to do it. That's not how the law works. Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, that's how left wing activists work, which is exactly what they are. And it could not be more clear. Now after this, your home is your sanctuary and you want to make sure it is protected from the elements. If your gutters are clogged, water can overflow and find its way into your walls, your foundation, and lead to costly renovation work. In wildfire prone areas, gutters can also trap dry flammable debris, creating a fire hazard. 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Unknown Speaker
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
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Unknown Speaker
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Buck Sexton
Do it for clay. Do it for freedom. And get great content while you're there. The Clay Travis and buck Sexton Show YouTube channel. What's going on at the FBI, Theo? You ask for miracles, I give you the F B I. Well, other miracles needed over there. And do all of you love die hard as much as I do and as much as clay does? Let's talk to Nicole Parker. She is formerly an FBI special agent of many, many years and a Fox news contributor. Nicole, great to have you back on.
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Dean Cain
Thank you so much. I always love to join y' all. Happy Friday.
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Buck Sexton
Happy Friday, Chef. Fellow. Miami and too, which is very exciting. Very exciting. Some people are saying, Nicole, one of the greatest places. One of the greatest places in America, Miami. We're loving it.
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Dean Cain
I'm very blessed or grateful.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, no, it's fantastic. You get a little soft here, though, right? Like you. Because you can just. You just walk around in flip flops and a T shirt all the time. I gotta sometimes go up to places where they actually have to dress for the seasons now just to remember what it's like. So tell me this first up here, something that I'm a little surprised at. And I'll just tell you this. I was on Fox yesterday and they asked me. I forget they asked me a couple things, but one of the things they asked though, about was Director Patel and Deputy director Bongino. I'm just gonna say, you know, Cash and Dan from. From here on out, just because that's how I think of them and I'm gonna mess up otherwise. Right. But Cash and Dan are running the. The FBI. Your old outfit of many years, your career FBI agent. And I was saying they asked Me, they said, how do you think it's going with these two? And I said, look, I know both of these guys. I know that they're serious people and they're patriots and they're fighters and they're all on board with the Trump agenda. And I think they just should get what they're asking for, which is more time to make the reforms needed. I'm gonna tell you, Nicole, I got a lot of pushback from our side. I mean, from our people. Not forget about, like, we're not even talking. We try not to waste too much time on the, on the Trump deranged. Right? No, I'm talking about our team. I'm talking about people that voted for Trump and they are like, wondering if everything's going the way it should with the reforms. Can I, can I pass this off to you? Because I have a lot of faith in Dan and I have a lot of faith in Cash.
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Dean Cain
Right. I do too. I do too. And I can tell you, having worked there and I've seen things firsthand and I've talked to you about it on your program, There really were two FBIs. There was FBI. One, the people that were just trying to do honest, good, hard work protecting the American people, uphold the Constitution in a fair and unbiased manner. And then there was FBI too. Those that politically and socially weaponized the FBI, starting at the very top in high level positions at the Bureau, and it trickled down all the way down to support staff level members in different field offices. So I'm telling you straight up, there are such good people, I work shoulder to shoulder with them, and they are sacrificing a lot to serve our country. But there are a lot of not good people that were at the FBI as well. And I have to tell you that a problem like that, it did not start overnight, and it's not going to be solved overnight either. And so for Dan and Cash to get in there and work as hard as they have in just a few months, I am impressed. And I understand that people like to see results. We're in a world where we want immediate satisfaction, we want to see things now. But the reality of the situation is it takes time. And if you're going to solve the problem properly, there's a lot to dig into and it does take time. What you don't see on the outside and having worked there, Personnel matters, for example, at the FBI are kept very confidential. HR matters, personnel matters, movements of individuals, accountability, tangible consequences. Very rarely do you hear about that in the public eye. Doesn't mean that it's not happening behind the scenes. And so to give them full credit for their efforts, I do want to say that we're going to need to be patient, but it doesn't mean because we're not seeing immediate results that it's not happening. And I think it is fair to give them some time to fix a problem, in my opinion. I saw it start in 2016. So we're talking almost 10 years of things that never were resolved. Jim Comey was fired.
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Buck Sexton
No, go ahead, go ahead. Sorry.
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Dean Cain
So Jim Comey was fired, obviously, in May of 2017. Christopher Wray came in as the next director. And I can tell you his FBI agents were hoping, please, Director Wray, please clean up this place. He did not. He did not clean up that place. So it festered for that many more years, and now they're coming in trying to clean up stuff that happened over 10 years ago.
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Buck Sexton
Well, I was going to say, I know, and I haven't been the agency, CIA for now, 15 years, Devin, doing media, but just based on my five years there and what I saw during the war on terror, which was, I would say, the absolute peak of the agency's sense of mission cohesion and everything else. But already, because I stayed through the beginning of the Obama administration, you could see some of these pieces coming into place where, oh, this is getting real political. The notion that as much faith as I have in Tulsi as dni, and as much I don't, I don't really know Ratcliffe at all, I'm not going to pretend like I do. I've never met him. I don't know what his deal is. But Trump has faith in him. So that's a good, you know, that's a good start, I think. But I know Tulsi, and as much faith as I have in her in the dni, the notion that she'd be able to fix the intel community by May of 2025, taking the job two, three months ago is. I mean, it's preposterous, right? So that, that's kind of my. For anyone's like, well, how would you know what's going on with the FBI speaking to me? Not speaking to you? I just say, well, I know that you can't fix the CIA in 90 days, guys. So my sense is the FBI, it might even be a little bit worse. I don't know, to compare these two. You know, it's like comparing Foushee and Comey is the worst public servants ever.
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Dean Cain
Right. So let me give you One example of, you know, things that you may not have seen on the outside, but as an internal FBI employee, the social weaponization at the FBI was completely off the rails. I support all different people from all different backgrounds. That is not the issue. The issue that I had at the FBI is that it seemed that they were more focused on social issues than they were of the core mission of fighting crime. And so just yesterday, and this is on Fox News, there is an article out that an email was sent out to FBI employees yesterday regarding upcoming Pride Month. And under the Biden administration, it was constant. The social discussions, the clubs, the meetings, the groups, There were like 19 different social type of clubs at the FBI. That is not the mission of the FBI. When I signed up to be an FBI agent, that's not what I signed on to do. That was not part of upholding the Constitution and protecting the American people. So, for example, this year, they are saying, look, we respect people of all different walks of life, but we will not be having official Pride Month activities at the FBI. We respect whatever your decisions in life are, but you can do that on your own time, not on FBI time and not on taxpayer dollars. That in and of itself is a huge shift from what I saw, especially in my last several years at the FBI. So, again, it might seem smaller, insignificant to the American people, but I can tell you, as an FBI agent, when you were constantly getting emails about all these social justice warrior clubs at the agency, instead of the actual mission and fighting crime, it became overwhelming. Anything other than the core mission is a dangerous distraction, in my opinion. And that move in and of itself saying, going forward, we are going to focus on the core mission and you can do your social justice stuff in your own time. That in and of itself is huge. So that's just one small example, but there are many examples. And one other thing that I really love about what Cash and Dan are doing, Transparency. They are telling the American people as much as they possibly can. And there was nothing more frustrating to me when I would watch Christopher Wray testify before Congress. And every answer, he just never answered anything. And same with Jim Comey. These guys, they're out there saying as much as they possibly can to inform the American people. And again, we have to respect that. There are confidential things at the FBI and investigations that are ongoing that would jeopardize the case to discuss. But the fact that they're releasing constantly new documentation to Congress, they're putting it out there. You know, this Epstein question, they both came out very frankly and said, you know, Epstein committed suicide. We have video he was by himself. You know, things like that that Americans have wondered that no other FBI director has come out and said as blatantly and directly as they have.
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Buck Sexton
Can I give you some of these? Can I get you to react to some of the specifics? Because we have some cash. Recent cash statements made on Fox. Director, Director Patel. This is cut. Nine guys specifically, I think people want to know about FBI informants. This has been talked about. Tucker's been pounding this drum for years because there's a lot of smoke. FBI informants in that crowd. On January 6th, this is what Cash said. Play nine.
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Unknown Speaker
Former FBI director Chris Wray eventually admitted to Congress There were 26 FBI confidential human sources in around the Capitol January 6, but not actual agents. Can you say that's true? Are there more than that, what you're learning from that?
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Buck Sexton
I can say that that is definitely a piece of the truth.
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Unknown Speaker
And eventually everybody's gonna know the whole picture.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, because the American people deserve that. He says the American people deserve the whole picture. Now, my question for you. I've known Cash for years. You know, I know Cash. Right. I have no doubt that that is his desire to get to that place where we know the full picture. My question for you, Nicole, is knowing the infrastructure and the internal workings of the FBI, could they have already kind of made stuff disappear? You know, a lot goes on in the CIA that's spoken written down on a piece of paper, especially in the abroad places. You know, is it within his. Is it within his power at this point to get us the whole picture about what the FBI in January 6, what the involvement was?
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Dean Cain
Based on that quote, I believe that he is going to give you as much information as he possibly can. And it sounds like there is information coming. So people talk about things disappearing. One thing I did find very interesting is in the interview that Dan did on Fox and Friends, he talked about a room that, you know, all of this information that had not been known to anybody was presented to them and they're going through it now. And there were certain things that hadn't been digitized, things like that. I think again, they always say, don't trust us. Just watch the results. But I'm going to tell you, things move slowly and not because they want it to move slowly, because it has to be done perfectly and articulately and properly. And that is the way that they're going to gain the trust of the American people. Just saying whatever they can say whenever. No, no, no, no. It's got to be Proper. But again, I think it takes time. And I don't blame the American people. I can tell you, as an FBI employee, I myself didn't always trust the FBI. There were a lot of people in what I refer to as FBI one that really didn't trust the FBI. The FBI has to regain the trust of the employees first and foremost and the American people. Because at the end of the day, the FBI is for the American people. The American people. You are the boss. The taxpayers are the boss to the FBI. And there was a little bit of a culture there that they always talked about needs of the bureau. No, it's not needs of the bureau. It's needs of the American people and the needs of the victims. And I really love that Cash and Dan have that mentality where they're shifting the culture and the mindset of the FBI from needs of the bureaucracy to needs of the American people.
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Buck Sexton
Give me a sense. Give me a sense, Nicole. If somebody asked me in the CIA during the war on terror years, I know you were at the bureau during the g wat too, right? But during the war on terror years, what percentage of case officers, politically, what I asked, and this is obviously just perception, right? What I estimate, I feel like it would be 70% or, you know, 70% of them right of center, maybe 75% right of center, at least on the G WAT issues. And then if it was analysts, I would say it was 75% in the other direction, meaning 75% more left wing, more Democrat, you know, and so there was very clear, even within the agency, different cultures. I want to know from you, for FBI. For the FBI. You know, field agents who are actually the ones putting the cuffs on people and everything else. What percentage of them were about serving the people versus serving the bureau?
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Dean Cain
Okay, so again, I'm going to just say FBI 1 versus FBI 2. FBI 1. The people that are there to serve the people, uphold the constitution in a fair and unbiased manner. Again, I don't know every single FBI agent. I can just tell you the overarching general thought. When I first joined the Bureau in 2010, I would definitely say it was more conservative. As time went on and the FBI was shifting their recruiting efforts and shifting what they were looking for. Even in.
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Buck Sexton
It's always hr. All the communism starts in hr.
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Dean Cain
Well, it's really the shift in focus on the diversity program that Obama really started heavy in the federal government, and that definitely trickled into the FBI. I would say that the. The culture definitely did change from the time that I had joined Till the time that I left. But I would agree that, you know, just in my experience, the agents, those that are actually putting the handcuffs on enforcing laws, you know, doing the arrests, they tend to be more right leaning, maybe. And again, that's a generalization.
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Buck Sexton
Okay.
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Dean Cain
And you're right. Support staff, analysts, things like that. I mean, to me.
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Buck Sexton
To me, the FBI should be. And Nicole, we got. We got to leave it here. But I mean, the FBI, in my mind, given the reality of the left and the right these days, if it's not 80, 20, right, left, like, we got a big problem. So we got a lot of work to do over at the FBI. We need a lot of people to make sure they see the Constitution, the rule of law, law and order as their priority. And not trans day of visibility, which is celebrated at the CIA, by the way. I might say it's like an actual celebration.
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Dean Cain
Yeah. Those days at the FBI are over. But you know what I want? I want lady justice to be blind, and I just want the truth. I don't really care who you vote for. I want you to leave your political persuasions at the front door. I want you to walk into the door of the FBI and do your job in a fair and unbiased manner. Protect the American people and uphold the Constitution. And I believe that is the goal of Cash and Dan as well. And I think that they are working diligently and working hard. Let's give them some time. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt. They are cleaning up a huge mess and.
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Buck Sexton
Sorry. Yes. Nicole Parker, formerly of the FBI and Fox News. Nicole, thank you so much.
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Dean Cain
Thank you. Y' all have a good one.
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Buck Sexton
We'll get to Dean Cain. He's got an exciting new movie, Little Angels. We'll talk about it. But Trump and Elon just went live from the White House. Let's join them in progress.
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I
He's really not leaving. He's going to be back and forth, I think. I have a feeling it's, it's his baby and I think he's going to be doing a lot of things. But Elon's service to America has been without comparison in modern history. He's already running one of the most innovative car companies in the world. You look at his factories and compare them with some of the old factories we have, and it's a big difference. Difference and the most successful space company and I guess in history, you would have to say the largest free speech platform on the Internet, etcetera, Yet Elon, willingly, with all of the success, he willingly accepted the outrageous abuse and slander and lies and attacks because he does love our country. I know that very much. He loves our country, comes from another country, a country that's going to, through trials and tribulations, I would say. But he's all about the USA and Americans owe him a great debt of gratitude. So I just want to thank Elon for his time as a special government employee. Can you imagine they call him an employee, but it's a special government employee and for coming and helping us. And he really has changed the mindset.
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Buck Sexton
Of a lot of people.
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I
A lot of, of people thought, you know, maybe we'll cut 1% or 2% or 3%. Then they said, well, we can cut a lot more than that and we're going to do it very surgically. We're going to continue on the march. We're making America great again. When I was in Saudi Arabia and we were in, as you know, three really great countries, predominantly the three. Qatar was great, UAE was great. Saudi Arabia, incredible. What like such an incredible experience to be in those three countries. But the crown prince of Saudi Arabia and I must tell you, the leaders, the great leaders of the other two that we just mentioned, they all said the same thing, that the United States is the hottest country right now anywhere in the world. And six months ago, we thought it was dead. It was like a dead country. And it would have been a dead country if we didn't have the right result on November 5th. It would have been a horrible.
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Buck Sexton
All right, so there we have it. This is really just a send off for Elon after which is what we thought, special government service. And I think Elon did a great job. We're joined now by actor Dean Cain. You remember him from back in the day as Superman, but still doing great projects out there. His new movie out next week is Little Angels. We'll get to that in a moment. But Dean, I just wanted to. Because I know you also are a guy who follows politics. You're a conservative commentator in your own right. What do you think about Elon's tenure in the government? You hopeful for how this goes in the future?
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Unknown Speaker
Oh, yeah, Extremely hopeful and super happy about what he did to expose a lot of waste, fraud and abuse and to modernize our systems. I mean, I've been around those government computers. I know you've seen a government computer or two in your day, sir. And just to step.
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Buck Sexton
They're still operating on DOS systems in some places. You have to blow on the floppy disk to get it to work.
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Unknown Speaker
It's insane. It shouldn't be. It shouldn't be that way. And so I think we're going to modernize a lot of that. And I think his. His impact will be studied for a long time. I think it's a sort of an inflection point, a tipping point. And I am super grateful and thankful to Elon Musk for the service to this nation. It's been unbelievable.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. Isn't it amazing as well, though, that there was such. Such opposition to him that people were even suggesting that his companies. I mean, we go back now, it. All right, Dean? It all seems. Well, of course people are saying they're lighting. Tesla's on fire. He's destroyed his brand. The markets have spoken. It's like, well, now Tesla has gone through the roof and Elon's going back to his amazing companies and he exposed waste, fraud and abuse and it looks like Lex Luthor has been defeated.
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Unknown Speaker
Absolutely true. I mean they, they opposed him there for, for trying to point out waste, fraud and abuse in our government. The most insane thing I've ever seen. He's, and he is phenomenal. And, and during all this time where they were firebombing Tesla's doing that stuff. I did my little part and my son did his part. We both got new Teslas to support him because at first I didn't realize how good those cars were and I was against the EV mandate. Don't tell me what I have to do. But then all of a sudden, you know, they started firebombing his companies and his Tesla. I was like, this is insane. Let me take a look at the Tesla. I sort of did it as a lark and then I got in that thing and it's insane. So it's the fastest car I've ever been in. Love it. Love his, his look forward. I mean his, he's a groundbreaking man. And like I said, I think we're gonna look back forever in history and go, thank you, Mr. Musk.
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Buck Sexton
I agree with that, by the way. And I think that everyone should be thankful that we had somebody with his skill set. If he couldn't do it, nobody could do it. I really mean that. You know, I agree. This was a job for somebody of his ability, his specific abilities, you know.
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Unknown Speaker
Which is different than the way the linear thinking of everybody in Washington.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, of course. Well, for them it's just, well, this is how the machine operates. And the machine is so big we can never change it. Right. He's almost.
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Unknown Speaker
This machine doesn't work.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. Which you would think would be a big deal, right? You say, hold on a second. I think the machine's supposed to work. No, no, no, no. If you're in D.C. long enough, Dean, the machine is, is defined by dysfunction. That's the way it's supposed to be.
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Unknown Speaker
And it's too big and it's awful.
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Buck Sexton
So let's, let's transition here and do into more of the entertainment side of things and your work. First up, I do want to give you a chance to tell everybody at the movie coming out next week, Little Angels.
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Unknown Speaker
Yes.
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Buck Sexton
What do you need to know?
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Unknown Speaker
Okay, so Little Angels go tolittle angels movie.com and then press theaters and demand it be in your area. If it's not in your area. It's a very family friendly film. But it deals with sports. Because I'm a sports guy through and through and through. I played every sport under the Sun. Growing up in college, I was a three sport guy. And then I went to the NFL for the Buffalo Bills for a short time before I got injured. Then I had to just go find something else to do. So I, I decided to take a lesser role, be an actor and play Superman. So it was a great thing. So this movie, I wrote it, I produced it, I directed it, I did everything. If you don't like it, it's my fault 100%. But it deals. I mean you have a six month old or something like that, right? So your kid won't watch.
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Buck Sexton
Six weeks. Six weeks. He's just a little chunk man. He's just starting to smile now. Yeah, that's.
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Unknown Speaker
Congratulations. Best thing in the entire world. I'm a single father. My son's 20, almost 25 years old. He's my best friend. He's my favorite human being. So you got your little, your little mini me there. Congratulations. If he has anywhere near the thickness of your hair, he's going to be just fine.
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Buck Sexton
You know what, can I just say this, Dean? We think he does, except he's a redhead. So he's going to, he's. We got to. My dog's name is Ginger. I don't know how this is going to work out, but my son's got red hair for sure.
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Unknown Speaker
He's going to be Ginger the second.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah.
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Unknown Speaker
Wow. Well done. My son had blonde hair and I'm. And it's gotten darker, but yeah, you never know what you're gonna get in that genetic lottery. You never know what's gonna happen. But as far as family entertainment goes, Little Angels is all about that. But it's also about, you know, I, I learned so much playing football and sports and. And you learned that you can't do it by yourself. You learned that you got to be part of a team. You have to learn how to deal with losing, you gotta how to deal with people picking on you, judging you. It's all life lessons. And I learned more playing football than I could ever explain. And I try to get a life lessons through in this film. And the kids are great and you really fall in love with the girls. It's a story of a college football coach who like a Nick Saban, wins national championship. Again, very cocky and cocksure and full of himself. And then he gets in trouble for saying something stupid about a woman kicker on his own team and he ends up having to go coach under 13 year old girls soccer. And he doesn't like kids and he doesn't like soccer. So he has to adjust his world to do this. It's a bit like Mighty Ducks. And if it has one iota of the success of Mighty Ducks, then I'll be a happy man.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, well, I mean, my producer Mark, who's, who's on vacation right now, on leave right now, who's one of our guys on the show. I've worked in them for many years. I believe Mighty Ducks is his favorite movie of all time.
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Unknown Speaker
So it's an underdog story. It's a story of coming together as a team. So he's got good taste. Hopefully he'll switch over and like Little Angels more.
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Buck Sexton
Well, I was going to say I got to get him to watch Little Angels and give the full review. Speaking of reviews, you know. Yeah, this is getting a little too chummy on this interview. I want to, I want to create a little, a little heat. Mr. Dean Cain. All right, you're on the hot seat now, Superman. Let's might be pulling out a little kryptonite, my friend.
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Unknown Speaker
My kryptonite is women. My kryptonite is women. Unless you're pulling out a beautiful lady.
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Buck Sexton
Whoa.
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Unknown Speaker
I'm in good shape.
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Buck Sexton
This just got Freudian.
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Unknown Speaker
This is what my dad say.
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Buck Sexton
Let's, let's, let's, let's look at the movie review for a second.
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Unknown Speaker
Okay.
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Buck Sexton
Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning. Okay. And let me just say this. I am a overall, a Tom Cruise, maybe, you know, the most successful actor financially of all time. I love, I mean, Top Gun is an absolute epic. I love it. I love Top Gun, Maverick. I'm not anti Tom Cruise at all. And I think the first Mission Impossible movie is a lot of fun. I haven't really seen some of my other ones. So I jumped in on the 2023 movie, which is now on. I think Amazon prime is where I was watching it because my wife is gone. I got a little time. So now I can watch the movies. I think she like, probably wouldn't like, you know, so. Yeah, so there's the thing, like I binge the movies. Anything sci fi, you know, she's not in any of that. But I was like, I'll try this. Dead Reckoning, Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning. I think it is just trash.
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Unknown Speaker
It's the new one in the theaters.
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Buck Sexton
No, no, no. The second. It's the one that's you can watch at home now. I don't go to theaters. You know, it's too.
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Unknown Speaker
A lot of people don't.
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Buck Sexton
People talk. I get too frustrated. But you know, I like to be in My home. I'm a. I'm a. I'm the grump, the curmudgeon. Clay is like the more out out in the world people person. I'm very. I can be a little introverted, but here we go. Mission Impossible. Dead Reckoning. I think it's trash. Everyone jumps on me. I didn't even know this. Clay apparently loved this movie. And in fact, he loves it so much that he weighed in from his vacation with a talk back. You guys have it ready to go? And here's what he says about this Mission Impossible movie. Play it.
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Unknown Speaker
Hey, everybody, I'm here at Universal Studios, AKA a place where people who like to have fun go to have even more fun. It's Buck's miserable place. Much like his review of the first Mission Impossible Part 1, which he said was unwatchable. Excuse me. The greatest, greatest movie star of all time is confronted by the greatest obstacle of his career. An entity of AI intent on destruction of the world. And only Tom Cruise can save us from being destroyed. That's why everybody loved it. The greatest actor of all time against the greatest obstacle of his career. Tons of Pratt Fall suspense and incredible, incredible action. And you could only hate it if you hate fun. I'm going to get on a roller coaster like all good red blooded Americans. And when I get off, I'll probably say, thank you, America, for Tom Cruise.
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Buck Sexton
I'm just gonna say this, Dean, before I have you weigh in, before Superman picks a side here. Okay? Which is what's going on? I just wish they had hired like a script writer who knew how to write a movie. I don't know, I. I just wish that there was something that made sense. You don't have to agree 100% with either side. Who's more right on this one? And I promise, even if you agree with Clay, we'll have you back on the show.
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Unknown Speaker
I appreciate that. Well, Clay sounds overly enthusiastic about it, let's put it that way. And so I would probably fall somewhere in the middle. I like Tom Cruise a lot. I like him as a person. I know him. He is the hardest worker that I've seen ever in this business. He's. He works crazy hard. He's a perfectionist. But sometimes when you're making a movie, you can't be perfect.
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Buck Sexton
No, this is, this is first. First of all, I'm gonna let it go that Superman just split the baby. Fine, whatever, Superman. You're supposed to save the day. You're not supposed to fly down the middle. But okay, I'm gonna let it go. Because you know Tom Cruise, I find that really interesting. What's he like?
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Unknown Speaker
He's intense. He's as intense as he is when he's acting, but he's got a great smiley friendly side to him too. He's. I mean, I don't know him super.
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Buck Sexton
Well, but you met him, you've interacted with him. I mean, I played basketball with him. You could argue he's. Isn't he like five, seven?
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Unknown Speaker
Yeah. What I would do is I would drive the lane, draw everybody in and literally shield them off with my body and this sort of hand.
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Buck Sexton
Can you pop. Can he pop the J? Is he pretty good from the perimeter?
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Unknown Speaker
I like his movies.
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Buck Sexton
Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I don't know.
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Unknown Speaker
I'd rather have Michael B. Jordan take that shot or especially Michael Jordan.
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Buck Sexton
Well, Michael. Either one of them particularly good. Interesting. No, because I respect Tom Cruise's body of work tremendously and I do think he's made a lot of great. It's not like George Clooney, who I just think is wildly overrated. I'm not even going to try to get you in trouble with that. Although he's a communist, so maybe jump in. But I don't. I think Clooney, like you think about his actual roles and his. In the movies. Yeah. Ocean's Eleven. They could have replaced him with 15 people and nobody. They could have replaced him with 11 other people. Nobody would even replace it with me.
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Unknown Speaker
I would have been okay with it.
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Buck Sexton
I think Dean came. Would have been way better. Yes. Personally. And you don't hate America, which is also.
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Unknown Speaker
I love America. Good point.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. So. So that's a, that's a really strong vote in your favor. But yeah, I just thought with Tom Cruise. Here's the thing, Dean, I need your help because we're. We're in a vibe shift now.
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Unknown Speaker
Yes.
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Buck Sexton
As the kids say, we're in a vibe shift now where conservative. Everything is on the march. More in the culture than it has been. Are you seeing that for independent filmmaking and. Or can you and I sit down and I will write a badass pro American script. I'm not saying I'm an actor script. And you could star and we'll do some, some cool. You know, we'll do like Mission Impossible for right wingers.
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Unknown Speaker
Yes, let's do it. Listen, with your knowledge. Oh my gosh. Yeah. It would be too close to reality probably. But. But I. But I give you the green light. I would love that. I would love to do a film like that that is pro America. Because I am supremely pro America. I travel the world, I get to go everywhere. I've.
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Buck Sexton
Well, this is, this is my thing is that. Is that, you know, there's not enough content that we're America. So many of these movies, it's like, oh, we have a superhero. Oh, we have like a super spy. But actually the real enemy is internal. And I'm like, no, that's actually not always the case. Okay. Sometimes it's like Crimson Jihad and they want to detonate a nuke in the Florida Keys like back in the day. Sometimes it is the. Is the shift though. Is it easier now? I mean, really. First of all, thank you. Vote of confidence. Maybe you and I'll be talking about this. But, but, but is there a shift now where you can get conservative and I don't even forget traditional Americana style movies made now. Or is it closer to being that? At least I know it's not there yet, but is it moving there or is that just still, unfortunately too far to make it happen?
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Unknown Speaker
I think it's too far for Hollywood, but I think there are so many independent people, independent filmmakers who are pushing it that way. And I think the audiences are way more receptive because of the inauthenticity of this last administration. They're seeing the ridiculous lies and the things that were put out during the past four years, and it's all being exposed now, slowly but surely. And then you see this pro Americana push going through. And I think the. I think the culture is going to change tremendously within the next couple of years. And so we got to get our movie out soon.
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Buck Sexton
Buck.
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Unknown Speaker
You got to get right and starting tomorrow, because I do think there's time.
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Buck Sexton
I'm not writing a book anymore, so I gotta start writing a screenplay. Like, let's go. You, me, Kevin, Sorbo, Mel, we gotta have a dinner. Be like a meeting of the. Of the four families, and we'll get this thing in motion.
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Unknown Speaker
Great meeting. I'll do it anytime. You tell me when. I know those guys both very well. So let's go.
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Buck Sexton
Like, I like where your head's at. Tell me this, sir, where can people go for Little Angels again?
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Unknown Speaker
Little Angels movie dot com. And then you hit theaters and it'll show where it's playing in your area. And if it's not in your area, demand it. And we'll put it over there if I have anything to say about it.
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Buck Sexton
Dean Cain, the Superman for people who love America. Thank you so much, sir. Good to have you.
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Unknown Speaker
Appreciate it. Thank you, sir.
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Buck Sexton
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Unknown Speaker
Of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States. Recipients have done the improbable, the unexpected, showing immense bravery and sacrifice in the name of something much bigger than themselves.
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Buck Sexton
This medal is for the men who went down that day on Medal of.
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Unknown Speaker
Honor Stories of Courage. You'll hear about these heroes and what their stories tell us about the nature of bravery. Listen to Medal of Honor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
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Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand?
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Buck Sexton
We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that.
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Unknown Speaker
Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.
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Buck Sexton
He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy modern world. How about something about a comedic tone? We have a winner. Yes. Listen to Armstrong. You get it on Demand on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency. It became known as the Iran Contra Affair. The things that happened were so bizarre and insane, I can't begin to tell you. Please do to hear the whole story. Listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an iHeart podcast.