Radio Show Hour 2 – 12/04/2024

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[00:00:24] All right, back with you live, ladies and gentlemen, Sam Bushman on your radio.

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[00:00:54] Last hour, James Edwards and I are breaking down immigration,

[00:00:58] talking about move over Pete Henseth,

[00:01:01] Trump considering Ron DeSantis to fill the position.

[00:01:04] Pete is under fire big time.

[00:01:07] You know, it's hard to say.

[00:01:08] You know, there's sexual allegations about him, but there is about everybody,

[00:01:11] so you've got to take that with a grain of salt these days.

[00:01:13] Because they've overplayed their hand.

[00:01:14] Everybody's a racist, and everybody's made the moves on everybody everywhere all the time,

[00:01:18] and it's just not true.

[00:01:20] Pete Henseth's mother, though, has accused the son of mistreating women for years.

[00:01:25] So that, in my opinion, I mean, I don't know why your mom would say that.

[00:01:31] There you go.

[00:01:31] That's a little bit of a kind of an up the ante in that one, to say the least.

[00:01:35] And now they say Pete Henseth's wife is under attack.

[00:01:40] Anyway, the bottom line is Pete probably will not be acceptable,

[00:01:43] and that's why they're putting a second plan in place with Ron DeSantis.

[00:01:46] I think we've got to reject Pete, and I think we've got to go for Ron.

[00:01:48] That's my humble opinion.

[00:01:49] James?

[00:01:51] I wouldn't consider that to be trading down at all, perhaps even leveling up.

[00:01:57] But with regards to some of these accusations, and I'm not –

[00:02:01] I haven't looked into this as much as some in the past,

[00:02:06] because frankly after the last decade or so,

[00:02:10] my eyes just glaze over when I hear accusations about some sort of sexual impropriety,

[00:02:19] because so many times it's just false.

[00:02:23] It's just either a figment of imagination.

[00:02:27] I sort of liken it to abortion, really, in a way.

[00:02:32] It's, you know, women have a choice whether or not to engage in sex

[00:02:42] that is not God-ordained relations between a man and a woman.

[00:02:45] And if you do that, and, you know, sometimes there are consequences.

[00:02:50] For instance, if it leads to a pregnancy, it's not your body anymore.

[00:02:54] I think I heard you say that, Sam, and it's a great line.

[00:02:56] It's a child's body at that point.

[00:02:58] You had your choice, and you made it.

[00:03:00] And sometimes when you engage in promiscuous sexual relations and you get scorned,

[00:03:06] then you have so many examples of women withdrawing consent after the fact,

[00:03:11] and then all of a sudden it becomes some sort of rape or something.

[00:03:17] And we saw that, I think, really with –

[00:03:19] they almost perfected it as a political art form with the great and good Judge Roy Moore,

[00:03:25] where there was some action, you know, all of these completely fantastic allegations of sexual abuse or whatever.

[00:03:36] And all of these women came, and they alleged that he had, you know, engaged in some inappropriate behavior.

[00:03:43] After 30 and 40 years, these people came out of the woodwork.

[00:03:47] Nobody had ever heard any of these stories before.

[00:03:49] You remember this so famously, and it was when, of course, he had won the Republicans.

[00:03:52] He even came back and won some cases against some of these women and everything else,

[00:03:56] showing that it's false.

[00:03:58] And that's the problem is how can these women just come out of the woodwork against Kavanaugh,

[00:04:02] against, you know, some of these different people.

[00:04:04] And, you know, some of it may be true.

[00:04:05] Some of it's not true.

[00:04:06] The problem is you don't know when and what.

[00:04:07] And how do these women come out of the woodwork?

[00:04:09] They'll make these allegations, destroy somebody's career,

[00:04:11] or put, you know, a cloud over their character for –

[00:04:15] and then they just vanish, and there's no accountability for these people.

[00:04:18] We need accountability there as well, James.

[00:04:20] If you're going to make these claims, you better be prepared to make them stick

[00:04:23] and stick with it all the way to the end.

[00:04:25] You can't just vanish and be like, ha-ha, whatever.

[00:04:28] This is a problem.

[00:04:30] Any – listen, any person who makes an allegation that is entirely false

[00:04:37] should receive whatever punishment the perpetrator would have gotten had it been true.

[00:04:42] I think it's just that serious.

[00:04:44] I think it is absolutely that serious.

[00:04:45] I'm not saying that sexual abuse doesn't happen, sexual assault doesn't happen.

[00:04:50] Obviously it does, and those men need to be dealt with accordingly.

[00:04:54] But you see so oftentimes, again, the withdrawal of consent after the fact,

[00:04:59] after things go south in a relationship.

[00:05:00] Oh, he raped me.

[00:05:02] He sexually assaulted me because they're bitter.

[00:05:05] But when it applies to political figures, I mean, the whole thing with Roy Moore, none of that –

[00:05:11] all of this stuff supposedly happened 30, 40 years in the past, but it all came out,

[00:05:16] wouldn't you know, after he became the Republican nominee for United States Senate.

[00:05:21] Yeah, or these girls say this kind of stuff.

[00:05:24] You know, I got drunk with him.

[00:05:25] I went to his hotel room with him.

[00:05:27] I took off my pants, but I didn't say it was okay.

[00:05:29] Yeah, exactly.

[00:05:30] And I'm not justifying any abuse of anyone.

[00:05:34] But I am making the statement that, you know, every one of these women are like,

[00:05:38] you know, I know I went to his room and this happened, but then I had these interactions with him.

[00:05:44] I went back several weeks later, all right?

[00:05:46] You know, I communicated with him after in a very positive light.

[00:05:49] How come there's all these text messages or this or that?

[00:05:52] And they're like, well, you know, I felt like I had to.

[00:05:54] Or, you know, at some point there needs to be joint responsibility here.

[00:05:57] Is it wrong?

[00:05:59] Any abuse?

[00:05:59] Absolutely.

[00:06:00] But at the same time, there's got to be accountability for women.

[00:06:03] And if I say, hey, women, you need to not put yourself in those situations.

[00:06:06] Don't go to a hotel room with a man.

[00:06:08] Okay.

[00:06:09] Don't get drunk and go to a hotel room with a man.

[00:06:11] That's just a recipe for disaster.

[00:06:13] Then they're like, oh, are you saying that it's okay?

[00:06:15] Are you saying that?

[00:06:16] No, I'm just honestly, intelligently discussing this and saying, look, you know what?

[00:06:21] I don't go out at night very much because I know at night greater problems occur than in the day.

[00:06:26] Okay.

[00:06:27] So am I afraid to go out at night?

[00:06:28] No.

[00:06:28] If I have to go, I will.

[00:06:29] But I certainly don't look for opportunities to.

[00:06:31] Okay.

[00:06:32] That doesn't mean I think it's okay for somebody to basically stab me and kill me and take my money or whatever.

[00:06:36] Okay.

[00:06:37] But we need to be wise about this.

[00:06:38] We need to take ownership of this on both sides here, James.

[00:06:42] Well, what are you supposed to do?

[00:06:44] Now, again, if you get married and have God-ordained relationships, that's going to cut down a lot of the problems.

[00:06:49] But it still would not, and I go back to the case of Roy Moore, it still would not shield you from complete fabrications of inappropriate behavior.

[00:07:00] And I know this sounds extreme, but you want to know how I shield myself from this, James?

[00:07:04] What's that?

[00:07:05] I take somebody with me everywhere I go.

[00:07:07] Yeah, that's it.

[00:07:09] And I know you can say, well, Sam, that's just crazy.

[00:07:11] Come on.

[00:07:11] We can't do that.

[00:07:12] You can, and people do, and I do it.

[00:07:14] And so, you know, if there's allegations against me, I've got somebody with me that says, you know what?

[00:07:18] That's not true.

[00:07:19] We weren't there.

[00:07:20] The other thing I do, I know a lot of people are like, hey, you know what?

[00:07:23] I don't want to be tracked everywhere I go.

[00:07:25] Yes, it can be used against you, but it can also be used in your favor.

[00:07:28] I don't mind tracking myself wherever I go.

[00:07:30] If you claim I was somewhere that I wasn't, I can prove to you that I wasn't there.

[00:07:36] Well, it's all smart in this day and age where you have this happen, and I think people, the whole question was Pete Hegseth.

[00:07:43] This is one of the things that's dogging him now that sort of got him wobbly on whether or not he'll be Trump's pick or if it's DeSantis.

[00:07:49] And again, I wouldn't mind DeSantis under any circumstances.

[00:07:52] Depending on who we would discuss for the governor.

[00:07:54] See, I'm convinced that what they'll do is draft DeSantis and put Matt Gaetz to the governor of Florida.

[00:07:59] Wouldn't that be something?

[00:08:00] Now, would that not be just almost – talk about 4-D chess.

[00:08:05] That was a joke because Trump just got outmaneuvered at every turn in his first administration.

[00:08:09] He's coming back as a pro this time if something like that happens.

[00:08:13] Yeah, what do they call that?

[00:08:15] This is just rich?

[00:08:16] Is that what they say?

[00:08:19] I mean, it's just something, right?

[00:08:21] But anyway, so if that's what's going on with Hegseth, if this is in fact fabricated – I think people almost assume now.

[00:08:29] That was the whole thing with the Me Too woke-ism.

[00:08:31] If a woman says it, you've got to believe her.

[00:08:34] Well, why?

[00:08:34] I mean, especially when it turns out to be false.

[00:08:36] And I think, you know, it's not that people are endorsing sexual assault, but I think most people know.

[00:08:41] I mean, it certainly wasn't Trump now.

[00:08:43] Isn't he a convicted sex offender now?

[00:08:45] And he got elected president.

[00:08:46] I think not because people are just turning a blind eye to sexual assault, but I think they're turning a blind eye to baseless accusations where there's no proof.

[00:08:54] Where, again, this woman, E. Jean Carroll, this was something that happened decades ago when it comes out.

[00:08:58] And a left-wing jury in New York says he's guilty, so now he's guilty.

[00:09:02] I think people are seeing through that now.

[00:09:05] And, again, you know, most of these cases – now, I agree if you just blatantly rape someone and attack someone or whatever.

[00:09:11] Yes, of course.

[00:09:11] It's a brutal crime.

[00:09:12] We all agree with that, okay?

[00:09:13] That's not even –

[00:09:14] There needs to be some evidence, though.

[00:09:15] But in these cases, though, what happens is these women – and Donald Trump highlighted this before he even got elected.

[00:09:22] And it was locker room talk, and it was whatever Bush – what was that guy's name that was with him?

[00:09:25] And he said, hey, you can just grab women by the whatever, and they'll let you in.

[00:09:28] It's fine.

[00:09:29] If you're a celebrity, you can do anything you want.

[00:09:31] Now, don't get me wrong.

[00:09:32] I'm not endorsing a statement like that at all.

[00:09:34] Don't misunderstand my point.

[00:09:36] However, here's my point.

[00:09:37] If Donald says that that blatantly and women have that – women do have that attitude.

[00:09:44] If you are a rock star or you are a famous person or you're a very wealthy person or whatever the case may be that puts you in this, quote, coveted status or whatever, I mean, you'll see women literally throw themselves at these men.

[00:09:57] And is it wrong for these men to take actions in ways that – yes, but I think all sexual activity outside of the marriage covenant that God set forth is wrong.

[00:10:07] That's my view.

[00:10:08] And then they say, oh, Sam, you're crazy.

[00:10:09] How dare you say that?

[00:10:10] Then I say, I don't get with any women alone either.

[00:10:13] That's not my wife or my daughters, okay?

[00:10:16] And then they say, oh, Sam, you're just too extreme.

[00:10:18] You're crazy.

[00:10:19] Okay, but yet on the other token, then they say, hey, when they throw themselves at these men, somehow they have no responsibility in this at all.

[00:10:26] And so what Donald said is true, though.

[00:10:28] I believe if you are Donald Trump, how many women – let's ask this question.

[00:10:32] How many women would just literally throw their bodies at Donald and be fine with anything he wants to do?

[00:10:38] A lot.

[00:10:39] Or other men like, you know, Jay-Z or any other pop star, rock star, whatever.

[00:10:44] Hang tight.

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[00:13:04] So I'm not at all defending any, any, let me say that again.

[00:13:10] I'm not defending any type of inappropriate sexual behavior by anyone, especially if force or against someone's will is involved.

[00:13:17] Okay, don't misunderstand me one bit.

[00:13:19] However, this idea that all these girls and all these women just go after men as if they're always the perpetrators and it's always hostile and they didn't agree to any of it.

[00:13:27] But then, you know, hey, when Donald Trump says, hey, these women, I mean, you can literally do anything you want to.

[00:13:31] You can grab them by, you know, you can this, you can that.

[00:13:34] And they're all into it.

[00:13:35] They're all for it.

[00:13:36] They're all good with it.

[00:13:36] And they're all good with it until they think that they can get a cash cow out of it.

[00:13:40] Or they're all good with it until they, you know, somehow want to get famous from it.

[00:13:43] Or they're all good until whatever.

[00:13:45] But Donald Trump's statement, everybody wants to condemn the statement.

[00:13:48] And I agree with condemning the point.

[00:13:50] But at the same time, you've got to give that point some credence, James, and say, hey, is he telling the truth?

[00:13:56] And I submit to you that you ask any super famous person and they will tell you that it's true.

[00:14:01] There's a lot of truth to that.

[00:14:02] Yeah, that's not a universal statement.

[00:14:04] Not every woman would do that.

[00:14:05] But you certainly, if you have, you're a powerful celebrity, you're rich, you have status, then, you know, you're going to have an easier time of it than some people.

[00:14:15] But going back to the whole.

[00:14:17] Well, and you can take Gene Simmons of Kiss to make the point.

[00:14:19] Listen carefully to this because this is really interesting.

[00:14:21] In interviews, Gene Simmons, he's now supposedly faithful to his spouse, which is, you know, a good thing.

[00:14:27] But he kind of tells about his old rock days.

[00:14:29] And he said when he was a kid and when he was a young man, no girls were interested in him.

[00:14:34] He was kind of awkward and nobody was interested in him at all.

[00:14:36] But the second he cranked up the rock band stuff and he was now a celebrity and a singer and a this and that, boom, women would just throw themselves at him left and right.

[00:14:46] And so Donald's making the same point.

[00:14:48] And so I'm saying we have got to, in our society, put God back in and say, look, there's moral laws.

[00:14:53] And there's laws relating to this, you know, sexual reality.

[00:14:59] You know what?

[00:15:00] Sex is designed for children to come to the earth to create families.

[00:15:04] Sex is also designed to draw a husband and wife closer together.

[00:15:08] And to be used outside of that is absolutely against God's laws.

[00:15:12] And so whenever you violate God's laws, this is going to go super south every time, people.

[00:15:16] Just write that down.

[00:15:17] And when you use it within the Lord, the bounds the Lord has set all goes well, James, with rare exception.

[00:15:24] That is the truth.

[00:15:26] And we've gotten off base a little bit, but this has been an important conversation.

[00:15:29] I think this is this is something that is is important and people need to hear it.

[00:15:35] The point of it was Pete Hegseth and why he's facing this trouble now.

[00:15:41] Now, if there is just in general, we're not talking about Hegseth here now, but the entire conversation we've been having, an incident of sexual assault.

[00:15:51] Now, I would like for there.

[00:15:53] I understand sometimes women are going to be scared.

[00:15:57] They're going to be ashamed.

[00:15:57] They're not going to go to the hospital or call the police, although that would certainly help.

[00:16:04] Would it not?

[00:16:04] If, you know, in the immediate after of a sexual assault or, you know, God forbid, a rape, you you go to the hospital, you call the police, you get something on the record.

[00:16:14] What we're talking about here now is.

[00:16:15] And let me stop you there really quick.

[00:16:17] We need to really educate women about that, too.

[00:16:19] If you've really been wronged and you really in your heart of hearts say this is wrong and this should not have happened and you really truly feel, you know, you really are violated and you have the evidence to prove it.

[00:16:29] It's time to deliver that immediately.

[00:16:32] And even if you do that, be in your defense.

[00:16:34] Right.

[00:16:35] Even if you do that, it's still not necessarily proof of rape.

[00:16:38] I mean, again, who knows?

[00:16:41] Maybe there was interaction and it was consented at the time.

[00:16:46] Whatever.

[00:16:47] It's not even that's not entirely provable.

[00:16:49] But at least there's something on the record.

[00:16:51] What I what the point of this conversation is, I just find it very suspicious when there's no allegations of sexual assault levied against a person or inappropriate sexual behavior levied against a person until they become a political power broker.

[00:17:06] And then all of a sudden something from 30 years ago comes back and we have to treat it as if, you know, it's incontrovertible evidence that some woman.

[00:17:14] And this is true, whether it's related to sexual issues or any other issues, too.

[00:17:17] I mean, half the people that are good, honest Americans have made a mistake in their past.

[00:17:21] And so now they're just like, pod, never run for president.

[00:17:23] I know that would come out.

[00:17:25] It wouldn't be good.

[00:17:25] And, you know, we've got to learn not to just destroy somebody from there.

[00:17:28] You know, any any mistake someone might have made in their past as well, whether it be, you know, with with with the opposite sex.

[00:17:35] Or whether it be whatever.

[00:17:37] We need to kind of start to learn and not try to attack everybody and destroy everybody before they ever get out of the gate.

[00:17:43] All right.

[00:17:43] But Vakramaswamy earlier in the year invested in BuzzFeed, James.

[00:17:48] And I think he's got eight or nine percent stake in BuzzFeed now.

[00:17:52] Here's what I find fascinating.

[00:17:54] How much do you think BuzzFeed's worth?

[00:17:56] Do you have any idea?

[00:17:57] I couldn't imagine it actually being.

[00:17:59] I don't know what inflated value is going to be, but I don't know what you would do with it.

[00:18:03] I'm going to be shocked.

[00:18:04] I'm sure.

[00:18:05] Well, find out what their share is right now and how many shares there are.

[00:18:08] While you do that really quick, as far as I understand, it's anywhere from, you know, a half a billion to a billion and a half dollars.

[00:18:17] And I just find that number staggering.

[00:18:19] Yeah, I see it.

[00:18:20] I find that number staggering.

[00:18:23] So there are different places that you look and it depends on the quarter that you look at.

[00:18:27] It's a publicly traded company.

[00:18:28] It's hard for me to get an absolute latest whatever value kind of a thing.

[00:18:34] Now, some are saying it's millions.

[00:18:36] Some are saying it's close to a billion.

[00:18:38] You know, the numbers are all over the map.

[00:18:39] But while James looks that up, I don't understand one why Vivek Ramaswamy would invest in it.

[00:18:46] But he did.

[00:18:46] He's got about an 8% or 9% stake right now from what we understand.

[00:18:50] But I want to give you some headlines from BuzzFeed's main page to kind of get an idea.

[00:18:56] This is the kind of stuff they dabble in.

[00:18:58] All right?

[00:18:59] These 34 items are so mesmerizing and beautiful that they might haunt your dreams until you get them.

[00:19:07] That's the first headline.

[00:19:08] The second headline, this Northern Lights projector will transform your space into a universe of swirling greens and purples.

[00:19:18] Okay.

[00:19:19] They're selling a projector, I guess.

[00:19:22] 37 unique gifts that feel personal, but you don't actually have to get personalized.

[00:19:28] Okay.

[00:19:28] Okay.

[00:19:28] If I want to give a gift that's personal, but I don't want it too personalized.

[00:19:31] Okay.

[00:19:33] You know, that's what you give a guy when you want to lead him on, but not really commit to anything.

[00:19:37] Right?

[00:19:38] Wow.

[00:19:39] Okay.

[00:19:40] This next one.

[00:19:42] This next $7 Colt Fave lipstick will literally adapt its shade based on the pH of your skin.

[00:19:52] Munch your way through a fast food order.

[00:19:55] And we'll review your Spotify top artists.

[00:20:00] Some way, somehow.

[00:20:03] Drake.

[00:20:04] That's one of this famous, you know, guys that I'm talking about.

[00:20:07] Women throw themselves at the Drake, right?

[00:20:09] Some way, somehow.

[00:20:12] Drake will find his way into the top five.

[00:20:16] I can't stop laughing.

[00:20:18] At these 41 poor souls mishaps.

[00:20:23] Okay.

[00:20:24] Laugh at poor souls mishaps.

[00:20:27] Please double check that you're not texting your boss when you're sending explicit texts.

[00:20:34] 25 skincare products from Amazon that basically work just like magic.

[00:20:43] Alexa.

[00:20:45] Play just.

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[00:20:54] American.

[00:20:55] Americans are sharing all the ways.

[00:20:57] That they can't readjust to American culture after they've left the country, but they're coming back.

[00:21:02] Well, don't come back then.

[00:21:04] Okay.

[00:21:04] But anyway.

[00:21:06] Depending on where you live.

[00:21:08] Abroad.

[00:21:10] This is probably going to be the biggest shock.

[00:21:14] In other words, coming back.

[00:21:16] 33.

[00:21:17] Retro inspired gifts.

[00:21:20] If they live in a.

[00:21:21] For a nostalgic vibe.

[00:21:24] They're going to get so many compliments about this.

[00:21:28] 36 products that will help you achieve simple.

[00:21:31] Anyway, it goes on and on and on.

[00:21:33] Dude, it's nothing but a propaganda sales, you know, promotion site for products and everything else.

[00:21:38] How do these people become worth so much money with that kind of dribble, James?

[00:21:42] There's no value in it.

[00:21:43] There's no how to improve your life really in it.

[00:21:46] There's just negative stuff.

[00:21:48] And oh man, when you're sending sexually explicit texts, make sure that it's not your boss.

[00:21:52] See?

[00:21:53] Okay.

[00:21:54] All right.

[00:21:54] It's just clown show.

[00:21:55] And Vivek decides he's going to put a ton of money into this thing.

[00:21:59] And this thing's worth like a billion some number.

[00:22:02] What's it worth, James?

[00:22:03] Okay.

[00:22:04] Again, how did it become worth anything with that sort of the content they're leading with compared to things like this network it's putting forth?

[00:22:12] But not as much as we feared, I guess.

[00:22:15] According to stockanalysis.com, it is worth.

[00:22:22] Now, this is an interesting way to put it.

[00:22:25] 0.14 billion.

[00:22:27] I don't know why they would list it like that.

[00:22:28] It's a dollar sign, a zero, a decimal point.

[00:22:30] Yes.

[00:22:31] And let me tell you why.

[00:22:31] Because if you say billion, then it gets more credibility than if you say the real number.

[00:22:36] That is interesting.

[00:22:37] See, that's why Sam is at the top of the game here.

[00:22:40] But 0.14 billion is what it's worth.

[00:22:43] And what's that really then?

[00:22:44] That is actually as of November 29, 2024, so last week, 0.14 billion is actually $173 million.

[00:22:55] Okay.

[00:22:56] So not cheap.

[00:22:57] I mean, that's still quite a bit.

[00:23:00] Yeah.

[00:23:00] Now, let's say that you own 8%, 9% of it.

[00:23:03] How much did Vivek have to put in to get that?

[00:23:07] Oh, let me get out.

[00:23:08] You know, again, our research team here.

[00:23:10] Well, it's $173 million, right?

[00:23:13] Yeah, that's basic math.

[00:23:14] That's not my strong suit.

[00:23:16] What, 10% of $173 million?

[00:23:18] But that's $17 million, right?

[00:23:19] I think I can do that.

[00:23:20] Yeah, that's right.

[00:23:21] But he doesn't have that much.

[00:23:23] And he probably got a good deal.

[00:23:24] He probably watched when it dipped or whatever he did.

[00:23:26] So I'm guessing he put in somewhere $5, $10 million?

[00:23:30] I mean, imagine what we could do.

[00:23:33] I get it.

[00:23:34] But here's my point, though.

[00:23:35] And so I'm not here to debate the dribble that these guys put out.

[00:23:38] Obviously, if it's entertainment and if people like it,

[00:23:41] it's going to bring in a bunch of money, and that's fine.

[00:23:42] Okay?

[00:23:43] I'm not here to attack that necessarily.

[00:23:44] But what does Vivek have benefit to be in BuzzFeed, number one?

[00:23:48] Number two, what about all this dribble?

[00:23:50] He's literally put $5 to $10 million into this sucker?

[00:23:53] Well, you know, Elon, unless it's just buying out your enemies

[00:23:56] and shuttering them, Elon Musk was joking, I guess.

[00:23:59] I don't know.

[00:24:00] He bought Twitter.

[00:24:01] He was talking about buying MSNBC because it's a...

[00:24:04] Well, there's fear that he's going to do that.

[00:24:05] Let's come back and talk about all this

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[00:30:26] We're talking about Vakramaswamy.

[00:30:29] Has a big stake in BuzzFeed.

[00:30:30] He bought 7.7% of the company based on shares,

[00:30:34] and it's about 3 million shares, they claim,

[00:30:36] and then he upped his ante in that.

[00:30:38] Now, here's what's fascinating about this, ladies and gentlemen.

[00:30:40] Listen, according to the filing, that's the FCC filing or whatever,

[00:30:46] because it's a public company, so you got to, you know, this is all documented.

[00:30:49] It's easy to find.

[00:30:50] It just takes work and time.

[00:30:51] According to the filing, Vavakramaswamy bought the shares for just under $4 million total.

[00:30:58] Okay, so you can find out what you think BuzzFeed is worth.

[00:31:01] If he bought 7.7% at $4 million, what's the company worth, you know?

[00:31:06] 4 million times 10 is 40 million, right?

[00:31:11] So, you know, 60, 70 million.

[00:31:13] Well, the shares bumped up in value big time,

[00:31:17] almost doubled after Vavak's investment, which is interesting.

[00:31:20] Now, here's what's interesting.

[00:31:21] Are you ready, James?

[00:31:24] NBCUniversal sold a ton of BuzzFeed shares after Vavak's purchase.

[00:31:32] So isn't that interesting?

[00:31:35] You get these big boys that build these companies that are way, way, way overvalued.

[00:31:39] You get a smart investor like a Vavak who buys this sucker on pennies on the dollar.

[00:31:43] The stock doubles.

[00:31:44] The other people panic.

[00:31:45] They bail because the stock's doubled.

[00:31:47] And so now, if you're not – all I can tell you is, is this a takeover?

[00:31:52] Is this a control play?

[00:31:53] Is this a – he's biding his time?

[00:31:55] What happens if now Elon Musk buys MSNBC like we're talking about?

[00:32:01] The joke was about that he'd buy Twitter.

[00:32:02] And he goes, how much?

[00:32:04] What's the cost?

[00:32:04] And then somebody told him, and he's like, okay, and he really did it.

[00:32:07] Now, will he do that with this?

[00:32:08] What will happen?

[00:32:09] Will the next move be, hey, let's drive the price down of BuzzFeed,

[00:32:13] and let's have a bunch of people help Vavak take it?

[00:32:15] What's going to happen?

[00:32:16] I don't know.

[00:32:17] What do you think about that?

[00:32:18] What do you think about that?

[00:32:18] Well, according to their third quarter, first of all, I would say if Vavak – or excuse me,

[00:32:27] Elon did buy MSNBC, could we get Al Sharpton's slot?

[00:32:32] That would be one thing I'd be interested to find out.

[00:32:36] Yeah, that would be all right, wouldn't it, now?

[00:32:39] You know, it was interesting, too.

[00:32:40] Did you see that Kamala Harris paid Al Sharpton's – you know, his –

[00:32:46] civil rights hustle, $500,000 for some favorable –

[00:32:50] And now even Democrats are saying we've got to somehow do an audit on her spending.

[00:32:56] I mean, but he would have given her free coverage because – I don't understand why –

[00:33:03] Well, I'll tell you why, because the liberals love to support each other.

[00:33:05] If we add a little bit of that, you and I actually might take this thing to the stars, James,

[00:33:09] but right now it's just Sam and James' thin dime.

[00:33:11] That's exactly right.

[00:33:12] It's exactly right, and it's just the way it is.

[00:33:15] But that is interesting, isn't it?

[00:33:16] Because, I mean, it wasn't as if he wasn't already in the tank for her or she for him

[00:33:20] or they didn't see eye to eye.

[00:33:21] And, you know, they always scratch each other's back, I mean, otherwise you'd be poor.

[00:33:24] You can't be having that.

[00:33:25] You've got to have Al Sharpton roll out in a nice suit, buddy, and cruise around like a rock star.

[00:33:29] Three pieces all the time with the vest.

[00:33:30] And then, of course, women throw themselves at Al Sharpton, but yet, hey, Al never gets in trouble, you see.

[00:33:35] Well, I did look up the –

[00:33:37] I'll never get in trouble either, isn't it, Greg?

[00:33:39] I'll never get in trouble.

[00:33:40] President Clinton.

[00:33:40] I did.

[00:33:41] The intrepid Liberty News Radio Research Department did – we didn't have time to do a forensic audit during the break.

[00:33:48] But according to BuzzFeed, it is one of the seven fat years over there for them.

[00:33:57] So this is their third quarter 2024, the most recent financial report.

[00:34:03] And now this is BuzzFeed's own press release announcing this, so we'll take their word for it.

[00:34:08] But BuzzFeed reports that it delivered third quarter revenues of $64.3 million,

[00:34:16] which represented a 7% growth compared to the third quarter of 2023.

[00:34:21] So listen, the longer we talk, the less that thing has any value, huh, James?

[00:34:26] Well, I mean, they're saying that they're growing, though.

[00:34:29] I know.

[00:34:30] That's how you do it, buddy.

[00:34:32] So how much does it work now, $65 million?

[00:34:35] Well, it delivered revenues of – it said it delivered revenues of $64.3 million in the third quarter.

[00:34:45] Now, remember, overall, it's supposedly worth $0.14 billion, which is $173 million.

[00:34:50] Now, you take that $65 million they made in a quarter, though, and you times that by four, and you get $260 million.

[00:34:56] And usually they say one times revenue is what a company's worth oftentimes, depending on the details.

[00:35:01] And so that kind of jives pretty well.

[00:35:03] So, you know, hey, it's worth a couple of hundred billion.

[00:35:05] If you take Vivek's $4 million spend and you times that, I mean, if you got 7.7%, you times that.

[00:35:11] Times 10, it would be $40 million.

[00:35:13] Times it by, you know, what's 7% for $4 million?

[00:35:18] You'd have to figure that out.

[00:35:21] 14% would be $8 million, right?

[00:35:23] That's 15 times the 8.

[00:35:25] You know, it's worth $60 million as a loan number, what he got in at, so to speak.

[00:35:30] So he was smart.

[00:35:31] He bought well.

[00:35:33] But anyway, it's worth from $60 to $200 million.

[00:35:35] My whole point with all this is, folks, they're playing serious games in the social media space right now.

[00:35:40] And with Vivek investing in that, why would he invest in that dribble, though?

[00:35:44] And what if I all of a sudden just created a site that said, man, here's how you get in bed with someone.

[00:35:49] Here's how this is incredible Sam Bushman lip smacker, you know, kind of thing.

[00:35:53] And, you know, hey, can I just get rich?

[00:35:56] How do these people even fund this and sustain this, James?

[00:35:58] I don't really even understand it.

[00:36:01] Yeah, because exactly.

[00:36:04] I mean, there are so many of these flippant, celebrity-driven, clickbait media entities that's not political, it's not entirely.

[00:36:14] I mean, it's just, I mean, BuzzFeed, well, all right, well, here's what BuzzFeed, how it describes itself.

[00:36:20] Breaking news, vital journalism, Sam, not just the regular journalism, but vital journalism, as you just reported.

[00:36:26] That was an example of that.

[00:36:27] Quizzes, videos, celeb news, tasty food videos, recipes, do-it-yourself hacks, and all the trending news you'll want to know.

[00:36:35] So that's how they describe themselves.

[00:36:37] Let me stop you there for a second.

[00:36:38] Basically a little bit of everything.

[00:36:38] And I went to their RSS feed for their U.S. news, if they're going to talk about legitimate journalism,

[00:36:43] and their RSS feed for their legitimate U.S. news feed is broken, James.

[00:36:47] It doesn't even work.

[00:36:49] Well, I mean, you know, how about the celeb news and the recipes?

[00:36:56] So how would you even describe a website like this?

[00:36:58] It's basically a little bit of something for all kinds of content anybody would want.

[00:37:04] I mean, is that what they're...

[00:37:05] No, dude, because if you're a conservative, you don't want to do this dribble, this garbage.

[00:37:08] Well, that's right.

[00:37:09] You know, 47 GIFs of how to be personal but not too personal?

[00:37:14] How to let someone grab you by that but not give permission for it?

[00:37:17] I mean, I don't understand all this.

[00:37:19] It's just clown show stuff.

[00:37:20] And they're literally worth like $200 million.

[00:37:24] That's the claim at least.

[00:37:28] Here's their trending article right now.

[00:37:30] Number one on their chain of popular articles, people are revealing examples of pretty privilege and thin privilege,

[00:37:38] and it's a real thing.

[00:37:39] So it kind of comes up.

[00:37:41] And, of course, I'm familiar with BuzzFeed for years.

[00:37:43] So, dude, if you have pretty thin privilege, buddy, you're going somewhere.

[00:37:45] That's why you are on CNN, James.

[00:37:46] It's because you're pretty privileged, bro.

[00:37:50] It's sort of like a supermarket tabloid, I guess, right?

[00:37:53] I mean, that's how you...

[00:37:53] It's like an online supermarket tabloid.

[00:37:56] And Vivek invested.

[00:37:58] And NBC's panicking and they bailed.

[00:38:01] Well, I mean, but again, what would he want with this just to take them off the block or...

[00:38:06] Does he see this as like a...

[00:38:07] Well, the question is that they trend towards more and more.

[00:38:09] Read what they say they do again.

[00:38:10] What was that real journalism part, James?

[00:38:13] Read that again.

[00:38:13] We pull that back up.

[00:38:14] Very smart.

[00:38:14] This is their basic, their mission statement.

[00:38:16] BuzzFeed has breaking news, vital journalism, quizzes, videos, celebrity news, tasty food videos.

[00:38:22] Stop.

[00:38:22] So read the first two.

[00:38:24] Maybe Vivek's saying I can make it that.

[00:38:26] Breaking news and vital journalism?

[00:38:28] That's right.

[00:38:29] Well...

[00:38:30] I mean, listen, I'm all for taking over the enemy and reconstituting it.

[00:38:39] Here's my question.

[00:38:40] Here's my question for Vivek.

[00:38:42] But why this one and why now?

[00:38:43] Yeah.

[00:38:43] Would you be better off buying that clown thing, trying to eventually rat out all those people

[00:38:47] and do whatever and take it over?

[00:38:49] Or would you be better putting your...

[00:38:51] Okay, so he put $4 million in the first time, according to the filings, and then he upped

[00:38:54] his ante a little bit.

[00:38:55] Now he's got almost 9% for whatever.

[00:38:57] So, I mean, he's into it probably a little above $5 million or maybe $5 or $6 million by

[00:39:00] now.

[00:39:01] Just say.

[00:39:01] I don't have the facts numbers, but I'm pretty close.

[00:39:04] And the company's worth anywhere from $60 to $200 million, depending on, you know...

[00:39:08] The stock price is $5.28 a share, by the way.

[00:39:13] Times how many shares are out there?

[00:39:15] I gotta look that up.

[00:39:16] But it's $5.

[00:39:17] Hell, I could buy in at that rate, at least for a couple of stocks.

[00:39:20] Yeah.

[00:39:21] So, but here's my point, though.

[00:39:23] If you're Vivek and you put $6 million into that,

[00:39:26] wouldn't you be better off either, one, starting from scratch and building your own

[00:39:30] company?

[00:39:32] And or, two, wouldn't you be better off investing in, say, a Liberty News Radio or

[00:39:36] I don't know what group?

[00:39:38] It doesn't have to be me.

[00:39:39] Me isn't the point.

[00:39:41] But the point is some kind of a group that could gain you much more support,

[00:39:45] faster, easier, better.

[00:39:47] I don't know.

[00:39:47] It just seems to me like I'd be interested to know what the goals or the thinking of

[00:39:51] of Vivek is on this thing.

[00:39:52] And let me tell you why I'm bringing this all up, James.

[00:39:55] I just very quickly answer your question.

[00:39:58] $38 million.

[00:39:59] The total number of shares outstanding for BuzzFeed is $38 million.

[00:40:02] All right.

[00:40:02] So times $38 million times that five-something.

[00:40:05] Yeah.

[00:40:06] Yeah.

[00:40:07] Just say $5.

[00:40:09] So that's going to give you $190 million.

[00:40:12] Okay.

[00:40:13] So anyway, we look at it, it's now worth $200 million.

[00:40:17] But when Vivek bought it, he bought it on basically a $60, $70 kind of million

[00:40:21] range scenario.

[00:40:22] So he's already done very well for himself, even if he backed out now.

[00:40:26] Anyway, but NBC bailed.

[00:40:28] And hey, getting those guys out of there would be good no matter what.

[00:40:32] Go ahead and skip the break.

[00:40:34] But here's the deal.

[00:40:35] AOC.

[00:40:36] I know everybody's in love with AOC.

[00:40:38] All the conservative men are just absolutely beside themselves, just drooling at the mouth

[00:40:42] over her.

[00:40:43] Now, that's her own words, by the way, people.

[00:40:46] So if you've got...

[00:40:47] She looks better than Kamala.

[00:40:48] I'll give her that.

[00:40:49] Okay.

[00:40:50] If you've got pretty luxury or whatever you want to call it, thin luxury, that's the

[00:40:53] girl, right?

[00:40:54] She's got it.

[00:40:54] Yeah.

[00:40:55] Well, she's got it.

[00:40:55] That's right.

[00:40:56] Okay.

[00:40:56] Anyway, AOC now claims that she's the first on the new service called Blue Sky.

[00:41:04] It's been around for a little bit, but it's new in that it's coming out of the ranks.

[00:41:08] She's the first to gather a million followers on the new social media platform.

[00:41:13] Now, when I say new, remember, it's not brand new.

[00:41:15] It's been around for a little bit, but it's having a spike.

[00:41:19] And all the liberals are bailing off of X and going to Blue Sky.

[00:41:22] Blue Sky and AOC is the lead as she prepares for her 28th presidency bid, James.

[00:41:29] All right.

[00:41:29] So Blue Sky, I heard about this recently.

[00:41:31] So this is basically, you know, blue is the color of the Democrats.

[00:41:34] Red is Republicans.

[00:41:36] You get that.

[00:41:37] So, folks, I guess Blue Sky is...

[00:41:39] Yeah, sadly, Red's communism, too, by the way.

[00:41:40] That's right.

[00:41:41] But I guess Blue Sky is basically the, what, the liberal alternative social media, the new liberal alternative social media platform?

[00:41:53] That's right.

[00:41:54] Yes, sir.

[00:41:55] They actually did...

[00:41:57] There was some local journalist in Nashville that did a hit piece on Jared Taylor a couple of weeks ago.

[00:42:06] And he listed in this local report his Blue Sky account.

[00:42:10] And I'm like, what is Blue Sky?

[00:42:12] Well, now I get it.

[00:42:13] That's why I laughed when you mentioned that.

[00:42:15] So I get it now.

[00:42:17] But, okay, so I can't remember what the point was.

[00:42:21] I got sidetracked.

[00:42:23] So AOC...

[00:42:23] Well, so the bottom line is this new platform.

[00:42:25] So here's the deal.

[00:42:25] They didn't go buy something else.

[00:42:27] Oh, I see.

[00:42:28] They just created their new Blue Sky thing.

[00:42:30] So I'm kind of asking, what's the strategy in this?

[00:42:33] And how come we can't get any real investors to double down and support some of the things we're doing?

[00:42:37] Or have us help them build something new or whatever?

[00:42:39] How come we got to go around and spend $44 billion...

[00:42:42] What was it?

[00:42:43] Billion?

[00:42:43] $44 billion on Twitter.

[00:42:46] What was the number back in the day?

[00:42:47] No, I'll find that up, too.

[00:42:49] Hang on.

[00:42:49] Was it $44 billion?

[00:42:51] I'm interested in that, so hang on.

[00:42:52] It's hard for me to kind of know.

[00:42:53] And then you're going to go ahead and invest in this $200 million BuzzFeed, which is nothing but dribble.

[00:42:58] And then they start their new Blue Sky.

[00:42:59] I said, how come all the liberals start businesses?

[00:43:02] Okay, how come all the liberals start all these businesses and we can't seem to start one if we try?

[00:43:06] Now, Liberty Roundtable, Liberty News Radio has been around for a long time.

[00:43:09] You could take that network.

[00:43:10] There's a bunch of good conservative groups you could get involved with.

[00:43:14] Or you could start your own or you could take a few of us who have been entrepreneurs and startup experts for a long time and build something.

[00:43:20] But see, none of those guys reach out to us at all.

[00:43:22] Veit just goes and invests $6 million in this dribble.

[00:43:25] Elon goes and puts $44 billion into his thing.

[00:43:28] How much did Donald Trump put into his truth social?

[00:43:31] And now you kind of go, wow, truth social and X and BuzzFeed.

[00:43:35] Maybe they ought to just take their stakes and merge them all.

[00:43:38] But they're all small compared to some of these companies.

[00:43:40] And the liberals are the ones that are the entrepreneurs here.

[00:43:43] James, I don't get it.

[00:43:44] Well, they have always put their money where their mouth is.

[00:43:48] Whereas conservatives, and this is just the human nature, I don't know what it is about liberals that, of course, they have a lot more to spread around.

[00:43:55] But they do not.

[00:43:56] They are not covetous.

[00:43:57] They do not covet their fiefdoms as much as our guys do when it comes to spreading the wealth around or helping out like-minded entities and programs and networks.

[00:44:10] They have always been.

[00:44:12] Maybe it's because they're communists, each according to their needs.

[00:44:14] I don't know what it is, but conservatives just don't have a wiring in the brain that facilitates that sort of community.

[00:44:26] And I think in this way, in this one particular instance, they have a leg up on us when it comes to that.

[00:44:34] But I would say this, too, folks.

[00:44:37] Again, LibertyRoundtable.com, we're talking about this openly, but not out of a sense of spite or jealousy.

[00:44:45] I know Sam, as I am, very proud of the work that this network has done.

[00:44:50] And I think dollar for dollar, and this is not an exaggeration, if you look at the media coverage, you look at where Sam and this network has been and the impact it's had,

[00:44:58] I think dollar for dollar, you're getting a lot more bang for your buck.

[00:45:01] Oh, there's no question.

[00:45:02] There hasn't been a lot of these bequests or any of these bequests or grant money.

[00:45:06] So, again, I just got to say this while we're on the topic.

[00:45:08] Go to LibertyRoundtable.com, and there's a donate button there.

[00:45:12] You should consider it, especially at Christmastime.

[00:45:15] Amen to that.

[00:45:16] By the way, George Tacky is second on this blue thing.

[00:45:20] Mark Hamill is third.

[00:45:23] Is it Mark Hamill?

[00:45:24] I guess he's third.

[00:45:25] Yeah, radical left-wing Luke Skywalker from the Star Wars movie.

[00:45:29] Onion, the New York Times, they're all up there.

[00:45:32] But I wonder how many people are on there.

[00:45:35] I don't know.

[00:45:35] They say 775,000 for the New York Times, for example, on there.

[00:45:39] But, again, it's interesting.

[00:45:40] They start this thing up.

[00:45:41] Now, they say the Blue Sky original feed has 17 million on it.

[00:45:45] So I don't know what the number is on the whole platform, but I find that quite interesting.

[00:45:49] So you see who's on there.

[00:45:50] You've got the New York Times.

[00:45:51] You've got The Onion.

[00:45:53] You've got Ocasio-Cortez.

[00:45:55] You've got ALC has posted hundreds of times on Blue Sky since becoming an early joiner.

[00:46:04] Right?

[00:46:06] Of these alternatives to Twitter that just didn't make it.

[00:46:10] And, you know, Parler.

[00:46:11] And I can't even remember them all.

[00:46:13] There was about a dozen of them back, you know, five, ten years ago.

[00:46:18] Maybe some of them are still there.

[00:46:19] I don't know.

[00:46:20] I didn't even know about this one until a few days ago.

[00:46:23] But it is interesting that they've abandoned Twitter like, you know, in an escape shuttle from the mothership.

[00:46:30] But here's what's interesting, though.

[00:46:31] We can mock them for that.

[00:46:32] But here's what they do.

[00:46:33] They build something.

[00:46:34] How come we don't build our own things?

[00:46:36] Why would you buy?

[00:46:37] You certainly have.

[00:46:38] Why would you buy Twitter for $44 billion from Jack Dorsey so he can start Blue Sky?

[00:46:44] Well, listen, you've certainly built something.

[00:46:47] Why would you do that?

[00:46:48] You need to.

[00:46:49] I mean, Twitter was such a flagship.

[00:46:51] And I will say this in Musk's defense on that.

[00:46:55] That was more than any social media platform, even more than Facebook.

[00:47:01] That is where the debate was happening.

[00:47:02] Elon Musk started something and funded it and put $10 billion instead of $44 billion, $10 billion into promoting it and everything else.

[00:47:09] You could take users from Twitter.

[00:47:12] That's what they're doing now.

[00:47:13] So here's what my point is.

[00:47:14] Every playbook they do makes something valuable.

[00:47:16] And then all we do is follow them around.

[00:47:18] Durr.

[00:47:19] Spend billions of dollars and then complain.

[00:47:21] Now we're mocking them for going to Blue Sky, and they're laughing at us.

[00:47:24] Hey, you funded our next project, people.

[00:47:27] Twitter's still where the action is, or at least where it has been.

[00:47:30] And I don't know where it will be going forward.

[00:47:32] But at the time of Musk's purchase, that was – if you were engaged in social media political discourse, Twitter was the place.

[00:47:38] I agree.

[00:47:39] I understand.

[00:47:40] That's what you had to be.

[00:47:42] But now it's going to be half Blue Sky and half Twitter.

[00:47:45] We were getting like a million views on some of these things before I got banned from Twitter.

[00:47:51] But anyway, so yeah, you were definitely going to reach more people there than at a startup.

[00:47:55] There's no guarantee a start, you know, a new enterprise is ever going to make it.

[00:47:58] Now here's the next question.

[00:48:00] And here's a concern question for you, James.

[00:48:02] Ready?

[00:48:03] X gets involved in the Infowars scandal.

[00:48:07] I saw that, yeah.

[00:48:08] At first you think that's awesome, and you go, yeah, good for, you know, Elon Musk defending Alex Jones.

[00:48:13] And thank heavens they stopped the sale so the Indian doesn't get it and mock Alex Jones and all that kind of stuff.

[00:48:20] At first glance, it's good news.

[00:48:21] But here's what they said in court.

[00:48:23] The reason that you can't transfer the social media accounts for Alex Jones is because Alex doesn't own them.

[00:48:31] In other words, Elon Musk owns Alex Jones's accounts.

[00:48:34] Therefore, since they're not Alex's, you can't transfer them, which sounds great because it stops him.

[00:48:39] But now you've got to ask the question is this.

[00:48:42] Any account that I build on X or anywhere else?

[00:48:45] Elon owns it, not me.

[00:48:47] You don't own yours.

[00:48:48] He shuts yours down, buddy.

[00:48:49] So we need to be very savvy about this and understand.

[00:48:52] Even our friends aren't our friends here, James.

[00:48:55] Well, that's right.

[00:48:56] I guess you could liken it to the bank owns your house while you have a mortgage, except there's no way to pay off your X account.

[00:49:05] But I guess it's something similar to that.

[00:49:07] Of course, they can always pull the plug from you.

[00:49:09] You're just there as a user, and they can pull the plug any time.

[00:49:13] Not when you build it yourself.

[00:49:14] And this is my whole point.

[00:49:15] Not when you build it yourself, they can't.

[00:49:17] No one will take blue sky from Jack Dorsey unless he gets a pretty penny for it, just like Twitter.

[00:49:22] It seems like everything we do, we fund the enemy.

[00:49:24] Ron Paul got a ton of money, literally $100 million, and he funded the mainstream press with it.

[00:49:29] It's what he did back in 2008 and 2012.

[00:49:30] Now you've got Elon Musk getting $44 billion to the enemies.

[00:49:35] And now they're starting blue sky and mocking us.

[00:49:37] And then we go ahead and we invest in BuzzFeed, $6 million in BuzzFeed.

[00:49:41] And they just put out this dribble.

[00:49:42] And we don't invest in our people, and we don't start our own projects, and we don't maintain control of any of this kind of stuff.

[00:49:47] We're just stupid.

[00:49:48] And we continue to do it over and over, and I bring it up, and everybody's like,

[00:49:51] Der, Sam, you're right.

[00:49:52] I guess we'll just do the same thing we've always done, and then you're going to get what you've always got.

[00:49:56] And then I'm going to complain, and people are going to go,

[00:49:58] Yeah, Sam, you're right.

[00:50:00] It's just I don't even understand it.

[00:50:02] Brain dead James.

[00:50:03] It's taking theory to practice.

[00:50:05] How do you get these lavishly...

[00:50:08] You do Liberty Roundtable live and with literally hardly any money.

[00:50:12] How much have I spent on Liberty News Radio total?

[00:50:16] Well, a ton of money.

[00:50:16] You know, if you think about it accumulatively.

[00:50:19] But how do you get these big media barons like Elon and Vivek to invest in the good guys?

[00:50:25] That's the thing.

[00:50:26] I mean, how do you take it?

[00:50:26] Now, I understand how you took it from theory to practice, Sam.

[00:50:29] God knows.

[00:50:29] I know all too well.

[00:50:31] And you're a legend for it.

[00:50:32] But how do you get investors to come in?

[00:50:33] You know how much I put in total?

[00:50:36] Millions.

[00:50:38] I put in about $2 million total since the beginning of Liberty News Radio.

[00:50:42] Yeah.

[00:50:44] Well, I should say more my career because I own a radio station and all that kind of stuff.

[00:50:47] It's around $2 million that I've personally put in.

[00:50:49] It's going back about 30 years, but that's still a lot of money.

[00:50:52] Well, I agree.

[00:50:52] But here's what I'm saying.

[00:50:53] It's a third of what Vivek put into the other.

[00:50:55] And you could say, well, his impact rate greater than yours, Sam.

[00:50:58] And my response is, what?

[00:50:59] By peddling lip smacker or what?

[00:51:03] What's the return on investment that we're going for here?

[00:51:07] Okay.

[00:51:07] And I'm just telling you right now, we just shut down Chad Chronister, the sheriff.

[00:51:12] So you can say that our impact is none if you want to, people.

[00:51:15] But I'm telling you right now, we have a huge hand in that.

[00:51:17] Let's be very clear.

[00:51:19] This other poverty law center went to Congress and said Sam Bushman was the nexus of the whole thing.

[00:51:24] So, look, the point is, though, how do you get our guys or people who are ostensibly on our side to behave as the left does that supports one another?

[00:51:36] That's a big-time question.

[00:51:39] And certainly I've been waiting for a while.

[00:51:42] I don't know, but you need to go on Blue Sky and follow your girlfriend.

[00:51:44] I'm telling you that right now.

[00:51:46] You should have a million and one people.

[00:51:48] Listen, I will say, it's amazing how something that ugly things are.

[00:51:53] Yeah, are you going to start mocking her for pretty privilege, James?

[00:51:55] I do think she's not bad looking.

[00:51:56] Because that's what BuzzFeed's saying.

[00:51:58] She's not bad looking.

[00:52:00] All right.

[00:52:00] Anyway, I find that interesting, though.

[00:52:02] So, you know, you don't even own your own accounts that you build on some of these platforms.

[00:52:06] That's what the court is now basically letting you know.

[00:52:10] Denver, this is a whacked-out place, man, has spent $356 million, James, on migrants.

[00:52:16] As Mayor Mike Johnston doubles down and defends his sanctuary city policies.

[00:52:21] He has doubled down, but I think, you know, if push comes to shove, I think he's not going to be ahead.

[00:52:27] I don't think he's going to win.

[00:52:28] If they're serious about making push come to shove.

[00:52:31] Now, that's the thing.

[00:52:32] Hey, let's arrest that sucker.

[00:52:33] Normally conservatives don't.

[00:52:34] Exactly.

[00:52:35] I think he'll back down if they do.

[00:52:39] And it's a much clearer case for the federal government sending in the National Guard to states like this that are actually violating real laws compared to, you know, in the 60s in the South when they were not violating laws and they still did it.

[00:52:55] It's certainly not violating their own state laws.

[00:52:57] But speaking of that, you know, I think the J6ers got a blessing with Hunter Biden getting pardoned.

[00:53:04] How can – I know the media can and will, but –

[00:53:06] Well, Trump promised Jan Sixers will be pardoned, but now we hear nothing.

[00:53:09] So what's the plan, Donald?

[00:53:11] Come on.

[00:53:11] Well, we'll see.

[00:53:12] We've been talking about the plans for everything else.

[00:53:13] Let's talk about the plans for this.

[00:53:15] Let's get it done.

[00:53:16] But you also got to ask, is Mark Zuckerberg joining Team MAGA, James?

[00:53:20] I saw a little bit about that, too.

[00:53:21] Facebook founder meets president, sits down at Mar-a-Lago.

[00:53:24] No one knows what they talked about there.

[00:53:27] Politics makes strange bedfellows, has always been the old saying, so.

[00:53:32] Does that mean what?

[00:53:32] Instagram and Facebook might be taken over by the Donald?

[00:53:35] Donald and Mark teaming up?

[00:53:38] This guy put $400 million into making sure you didn't get elected in 20, Donald.

[00:53:42] Well, he also banned him from social media.

[00:53:44] He banned him from social media without any laws to do so, and now you sit down with that guy and we can't get a meeting with you?

[00:53:50] Donald, I don't know what to say about this guy.

[00:53:52] This is insanity.

[00:53:53] Insanity.

[00:53:53] Well, hey, listen, according to Media Matters, we were one of the top 20 fixtures that got him the nomination in 16.

[00:54:01] I started with this and I'll end with this.

[00:54:03] They say we're nobody where they want to, but the fact is we make a bigger difference with little money than you could possibly imagine.

[00:54:08] We absolutely changed the direction of the national political discourse and more.

[00:54:13] Don't you ever underestimate us.

[00:54:15] Congress says Sam Bushman and James Edwards are the nexus in America.

[00:54:20] They claim for hate and anti-government.

[00:54:21] I reject that and say I'm talking about mercy and constitutionality and the rule of law and the proper rule of government and God, family, and country.

[00:54:28] That's what we're talking about.

[00:54:30] It's a love fest.

[00:54:31] Hey, there you have it.

[00:54:32] All right.

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