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Aug. 31, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 31, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Third hour here on the EIB, Buck Sexton in for Rush in the big chair today.
Thank you so much for joining me.
Thank you for staying with me if you've been listening through.
Phone lines open 800-28282.
So there's an argument that you'll hear out there from the pro-Trumpers, the maybe Trumpers, the quasi Trumpers, the half Trumpers, as I call them, those are the ones that'll say, well, I mean, I might personally vote for him.
I'm just not going to advocate publicly.
And of course, the never Trumpers and I don't know.
It's a lot of fun we can have with all these different all these different terms.
But one of the big arguments that keeps getting batted back and forth between them.
And by the way, we're about to turn this into a discussion about what President Obama has done, not about what you or anyone else should do for the election, because I said we'd move on.
One of the big points is, well, the Supreme Court.
What about the Supreme Court?
Hillary's going to get at least one and more like a couple of picks on the Supreme Court, and that will change the balance of the court, as you know.
Uh tragically, uh Supreme Court Justice Scalia died earlier this year.
Uh you have Merrick Garland's nomination sort of sitting in uh confirmation limbo.
It's doesn't look like it's going to happen.
Republicans have said it's not going to happen, as is their prerogative, despite all of the gnashing of teeth in the media, all the sadness about Merrick Garland, he's so qualified.
Oh no, what will we do?
Uh there's a problem already.
And this should factor into your thinking about uh whether a Clint whether a Clinton presidency is something from which conservatism, the Republican Party, some of you might even say the country could bounce back from.
Uh or from which it could bounce back.
And that is that President Obama has already done a tremendous amount to change the judiciary.
And this has gotten not that much reporting.
I see Fox is running a big story on it today on Fox News.com.
I've been talking about it for many, many months because as you see, some of the biggest impediments that or really the only impediments that Obama has come up against when it comes to his uh executive actions, right?
Those things that he has instituted, because he says so, more or less, uh, including on immigration, most notably, it's gotten jammed up in the courts.
And the federal courts look at this, and they are a check on the executive branch, or at least on executive branch actions.
And so those federal, those lower federal courts really matter.
Matter a lot.
They uh have a big impact on what the executive branch of the federal government can get away with, what it can do.
And what this piece on Fox is pointing out, and what I've been trying to sort of ring the alarm bell about for quite some time, is that Obama has already transformed the judiciary in the image of a leftist.
He has already created a much more left-leaning federal judiciary.
And as you know, because of the federal government's interpretation of, well, you could take it all the way back to Wickard v.
Philburn and the Interstate Commerce Clause.
The federal government more or less thinks that everything of any importance falls under its purview now.
States don't really get to deter.
There's nothing that states are left to determine for themselves of any consequence that the federal government wishes it could determine for them.
I think that's a pretty fair way of putting this.
There might be some exceptions, but more or less.
The federal government always finds a way to put its finger into things, to get involved in things, to tip the balance one way or the other, and in some cases to completely dominate an issue that you would think otherwise would be left to the states.
I know this is sounding a little kind of getting down into the wonkier side maybe of the judiciary, but here's why it matters so much.
329 federal judges appointed during Obama's term.
All of them are lifetime appointments.
So these judges will be with us for a long time.
They'll be passing down decisions from the bench for uh decades, in some cases, decades to come.
And the shift has been dramatic, right?
When Obama took office, There were three appellate courts that had more Democrat appointed judges than Republican appointed judges.
Now nine of the thirteen circuits do.
So Democrats were three for thirteen after Obama, they're nine for thirteen on the very courts that get first crack at executive overreach.
Oh, wait a second.
You mean that if there's a Hillary presidency and she does stuff that she doesn't have the authority to do under the Constitution, the very courts that are really the only stopgap between those executive actions and being implemented, those courts have already been politicized deeply.
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying here.
And she might then, of course, get to have the ultimate stopgap of having the Supreme Court side with her on all of these issues.
So the judiciary effectively as a break on Hillary's power will be gone by the time once she gets uh a couple of Supreme Court nominees in there, it's completely gone.
And even before then, Obama has handed over to her a federal court system that is packed and stacked.
It is racked and ready to go with leftists, with progressives, with people who will side with the Democrats who will politicize their decisions.
And you can say, oh, well, how do you know?
Don't Republicans play the same game?
Okay, a couple things.
First of all, no.
That's the short answer to it.
Because Republicans mess up.
Republic look at Supreme Court nominees.
Uh look at some of the people that the Republican Republic Republican presidents have put on the bench.
You know, they're they sometimes end up being leftists.
You're like, wait a second.
Find me a uh find me a Democrat in recent uh recent Democrat president who has put a a real a real conservative on the bench, or even a sort of a centrist conservative on the bench.
Doesn't happen, right?
Democrats give you Sotomayor and Ginsburg and Kagan and they don't Democrats don't mess around, right?
On judges, they go all in on the left.
Republicans are, oh, well, you know, it's we don't want to politicize the bench, and you know, they they get all wimpy on this stuff sometimes.
You know, some are even saying, oh, maybe Merrick Garland's the best we can get.
Maybe we should go with it.
Yeah, that's great.
Just go with Merrick Garland now and hope.
That see, that's the but that's a Republican point of view, right?
That's the sort of surrender, you know, we we only we only advance in reverse.
That's a problem that goes well beyond their judicial appointments.
But so we know that the left and the right doesn't play this game the same way, and that GOP will put forward and a Republican president, because we know history.
We've seen we see who they put on the bench.
Um we know that there's a very good chance that Republicans will mess up on this.
But then there's a more important uh then there's a more important side of it.
So yeah, President George H. W. Bush.
He gave a suitor.
Thanks for that.
Well, well played HW.
So, yeah, they a leftist just decided to put him in there.
And you also hear conservatives sometimes talk about the balance of the court.
The left doesn't care about the balance of the court, they want dominance of the court.
That's what they're going for.
But see, so you have the different mentality aspect of it.
That's one thing.
And if you maybe you don't buy that argument.
And I don't know why you wouldn't, but let's just say you don't, for whatever reason.
Maybe we're like, who is this crazy kid in New York spouting all this stuff about the judiciary and I I believe the Supreme Court's non-politicized.
Can't even I I actually can't even say it with a straight face, but let's assume that's what you think.
You'll notice something else that happened that got attention at the time, and then it sort of slipped out of the media's uh sort of the media's attention span.
It just it fell off the radar.
People didn't seem to really care quite as much.
Remember the whole thing about the nuclear option?
Remember that, right?
Harry Reid decided that judges, not for the Supreme Court, but judges, lower court judges, appellate court judges, would get the would just be a straight up or down vote and 51 gets it done, right?
Change the rules of the Senate to do this.
So you'd say to yourself, oh yeah, that's right.
So not only does the left understand that they play hardball with judicial nominees and the right plays T ball, which can be fun, even for adults after a few beers, I'm just saying.
But on top of that, the the kind of judges that the Obama administration has been able to get through.
It's just been rubber stamp for federal courts.
Right?
Because they just know it's they they've been able to force through some of these nominees.
They changed the rules of the Senate to force through some of these nominees.
So they understand the stakes.
They understand what's at play here.
And they've, as I've said, they've even altered the very rules of the game itself because they're so dedicated to making sure they can get certain judges appointed who, and depending on, of course, there's the uh DC Court of Appeals, very important.
It's the considered the most important one below the Supreme Court.
If they have the judiciary on their side, and Hillary's in charge of the executive branch.
She's gonna say, of course, she has a mandate.
I mean, I I'm holding right here in my hand a uh the that that Clinton is just as unpopular as Trump with voters.
This is from Politico, which tends to obviously be favorable to Hillary, that's putting it mildly.
But uh, she has terrible negatives.
A lot of people don't like her.
Even people who favor her policies don't trust her.
Because how could you?
I could sit here, we could do a whole hour of just playing audio of Hillary being like, oh, I'm lying about this, and I'm lying about that, and blah, blah.
We could do that for an entire hour, but I've got other things I want to talk to you about.
I don't no one can disagree with that, by the way.
That that there's plenty of audio out there.
We could just have discussions about all the many, many lies of Hillary Clinton.
You know, whether it's about the emails or about uh landing under sniper fire in Bosnia or any other number of things I could sit here and talk about.
In fact, the late great Christopher Hitchens even wrote a book, No One Left to Lie to About the Clintons.
Still very worthwhile read today, I might add.
They just lie.
They just lie all the time.
And no people who like them don't seem to really care.
Whatever they have to lie about is fine.
Depends on the meaning of the word is.
I mean, they are so the Clinton's getting me upset.
But you think Hillary is going to pretend that she has to reach out to the center and that she has to moderate her positions on things?
No, of course not.
Despite the very high negatives, despite the poll numbers, all of that.
She's going to claim that she has a mandate.
She's going to be telling the American people, well, you know, I won.
I believe it was Obama who said elections have consequences.
I won.
And she's going to do whatever she wants to do, and there'll be a judiciary.
Fine.
I mean, right now there's only eight, and she needs to get one appointed, but once the co once the Supreme Court leans left, given what's happened at the lower courts as well.
Well, who's going to stand in the way of what what happens when the Congress passes a law that says one thing and Hillary says another?
Who wins?
Will she force a constitutional crisis on the country?
I'm sure she will at some point, and then it just turns into, well, what is the me the media convinces everybody that the executive branch should get its way because, well, you know, the president man, or in this case, woman, um, that's what they'll do.
This is pretty scary stuff.
This is the slow but sure erosion of uh checks and balances that are supposed to make the whole thing work.
And it's taking the progressives about a hundred years to get here.
They must be pretty excited about the whole thing.
Hillary doesn't seem as progressive these days as she used to because it doesn't benefit her, but she was in a Linskyite disciple.
So there's that.
Keep that in mind.
800-282-2882.
Buck Sexton in for Rush.
We will be right back.
Buck Sexton here in on the EIB.
I promise we would take some calls, and so we shall.
Ronnie in North Carolina, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
You're speaking to Buck.
What's up?
Hello.
Hello.
Hello?
Yes, Ronnie, you're on National Radio.
What's on your mind?
Um, Buck, thank you very much for taking my call.
I will appreciate it.
I'm gonna get right from the point because I know there's other people behind me, so I'm gonna talk a little fast.
When when I lived in Boston, Massachusetts, and I worked at a restaurant.
Uh we had a lot of Chinese kitchen help, not actually Chinese, of all sorts of Asians.
And that was in mid-70s to the late 70s uh during and after the Uh there would be a call to the manager of the restaurant when you know INS was coming through.
Uh the manager would walk in the back, you know, for a green card, those hold up a green card.
You can go grab the jacket and he would write them a check, they would be back in the kitchen in three days.
I moved to North Carolina in eighty two.
I couldn't see in the restaurant business anymore.
I went to a horse farm.
I became manager of the horse farm in four months.
At the horse farm here in North Carolina.
I learned that the uh manufacturers, the farms, the chicken houses.
INS would show up.
Go through, get all the illegals that did not have green cards.
They were immediately put in handcuffs, and we're taking a RDU airport, and they even showed it on TV and they would send them back home.
I just think it's absolutely amazing that the people that came to Ellis Island worked very hard with pen and paper and we're able to get those that came in.
Those people that came in work very hard to become what they their families are now and have the rights that they have now.
Those great grandchildren think they're um they're entitled.
I don't understand.
Right and Carter put it through that it was depending on which state that wanted to deport could deport.
And they actually had it on TV here.
Now, the modern Democratic Party believes, or at least they act as though immigration to the United States is a right.
And the moment you take that to its end conclusion...
Uh well then does that mean everybody does that mean everybody from anywhere gets to come here?
Because if that happens, uh this place can cease to be what we think of as America pretty quickly, right?
There has to be an immigration system in place that has limitations that also uh has expectations.
We can't get these people vetted.
Come on.
Seriously.
And other than that, with Hillary Clinton, I've lost I thought they were friends, but they aren't friends, they were just associations.
They were going to vote for Hillary because she's our woman.
We need a Roman president.
Well, I'll tell you what, I told them we need to go back in the history when she was still a hitting Hillary Rodham, nineteen seventy-five rape case.
You can look it up on the internet.
Twelve year old girl got raped by a forty year old man.
They made the twelve year old girl look like a fool in that court.
The forty year old man only did two months of county jail.
Is this the case where Hillary laughed about it?
Hillary got him off, and then she laughed about it.
That child, 12-year-old child, it's now 50-somethings.
And if you look it up towards the end, she contacted TV, newspapers, magazines, radio, and she gave her speech.
It ruined her life for the rest of her life by saying a twelve years old sheep was enamorated by an older man in the world.
Look, I I I uh the the media is covering for Hillary, we know it, and on the immigration issue.
There's so much dishonesty still and the Democrats are are just talking out of both sides of their mouths all the time on this.
Ronnie, thank you for calling in from North Carolina.
I uh I appreciate it.
Um look, they they talk up there was a time when you will remember the Obama administration was pretending that they were so harsh on deportations, and then we found out actually that they were just pretending things were deportations that were not.
Uh and all of a sudden in his second term uh the tune changed very rapidly and we found out that there were really a few areas where the administration uh s was seeking to transform the country and most dramatically, I mean we know from the first term it was health care and with Obamacare and that happened.
And in the second term you had both the sort of efforts of the EPA to turn into a sort of hyper regulatory body that could do all kinds of things, uh including regulating amount of CO two in the air and um and immigration.
Um if they win on uh I think the Democrats figure this out.
I always do get the sense that they're playing the long game and Republicans are just too busy in their you know, intramural squabbles and trying to keep the donor class happy and all the rest of it.
Democrats see that if they get health care and then they get the immigration policy that they want, or rather the lack of a policy, really, just sort of the more the merrier, that becomes the policy.
Um it's all over and they win.
And then they can get everything else they want, because once you have the electorate that you need, well, you don't have to win people over anymore.
They'll just vote for what you tell them to vote for.
All right, Buck Sexton and for Rush.
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Stay with me.
Buck here in for Rush.
I I know uh L. Rushbow himself was here yesterday talking about the movie Greatest, uh, which you can go to uh or sorry, Greater, which you can go to GreaterTheMovie dot com.
It is the greatest.
It's awesome.
Uh but greater the movie.com to see more of it.
It's in theaters now.
Uh it's the story of Brandon Burlsworth, who uh made his way onto the Arkansas Razorbacks football team.
It's it's an incredible story of dedication and hard work and uh and faith in God.
And I was up late last night uh watching it, it's fantastic, and I would really uh recommend it to all of you.
I know Rush loves it and is telling people to go out and see it now, and you can learn more about it at GreaterTheMovie dot com.
We're actually joined now by star of the movie, Neil McDonough.
Neil, uh thank you very much for calling in the Rush Limbaugh program.
Oh, thanks, Buck.
Thanks for having me on the show.
I really appreciate it.
Uh Neil, you uh you were part of this film, it's it's a great movie.
What do you want to tell people listening about why, you know, what was important about this project to you?
Well, you know, people who know me, most of the films that I do, I'm generally playing a not so nice of a character in most of the films that I do.
Uh and once in a while I get a shot, you know, like you know, Banner Brothers with Buck Compton or you know, Captain America, I get my shot at the good guy.
And and this, you know, I've said it before and I'll say it till I'm blue in the face.
This is my favorite character that I've ever played, because it's probably closest to me.
You know, it's uh you know, a real human story and and a human character, and and to have the opportunity to play Marty Burlsworth was was such an amazing event in my life, and you know, for Revee, my kids and myself, my wife Reve, you know, we we really loved being part of this and getting to meet the Burlsworth family and getting to, you know, to step into the shoes of Marty Burlsworth.
You know, here's a guy who went through so much, you know, his little brother, who's really kind of like his son, 17-year-old, 17-year, you know, gap in age.
You know, when it when his little brother says who's this chubby little kid who says, I want to you know, play for the Arkansas Razorbacks and go to college, no one in his family had ever gone to college in the first place.
And to have this kid who was so faith-based, he believed in himself so much, but also you know, like myself, a devout Catholic, believing God so deeply that he knew that if he if he if he stayed the path, great things would happen.
And great thing happened for for Brandon, you know, and obviously he you know was a walk on to the Razorbacks, became a captain of the Razorbacks, all American, and then was signed by the Colts and you know, eleven days later died in that car crash.
And the movie opens up with me dealing with you know, people coming up to me saying, you know, he's in a better place.
And as as as we all are as humans are when we deal with death, it's what do you mean in a better place?
I I miss my little brother.
And by the end of the film to realize that he is in fact in a better place, because that's what our faith is about, it's an uplifting, amazing journey.
And for the audience, we we saw it the other night in Los Angeles, and and the audience just th they loved it.
I mean, there wasn't a dry eye in the house, and by the end, everyone's just cheering because it's such an amazing uplifting story.
And nowadays, and in you know, you go to the movie theaters and it's not so much like that anymore.
And I miss the days of films where I can bring, you know, Morgan, my oldest, and Catherine, London and Clover and James, although he's only two, to the theater and and watch that in a really great film, and for other families to bring their kids, you know, they can sit there and watch a film and actually have a discussion about okay, what's this film about?
How d what what does it mean to you?
And everyone that I talked to takes something so differently from the film and and and makes it their own.
And it's it's you know, it's it's it's such an amazing part of my life, and I'm so proud to be part of this film.
And the director, David Hunt, you know, what David did was, you know, we didn't have a ton of money, but what we had was faith in this project, and and the people from Arkansas backed us a hundred percent.
When we said we need actress in the in the stands, they came out and tens of thousands of people would show up and and be there for us because Brennan is such a great story for Arkansas, but now it's such a great story for the world to watch and and I'm just so blessed you have been part of something like this.
I'm saying, you know, I initially thought, oh, this will be somewhat similar in the storyline.
I didn't know about Brandon Burlsworth until this movie came out until Rush was talking about it on air.
Uh I I I thought it was oh it sounds a little bit like Rudy and then I realized, well no, actually not only did he make his way on the team in a sort of under very difficult circumstances, he became a leader of the team.
He became an all American and also throughout the film it's clear that not only did he have to have a lot of faith in God and and himself, but that faith spills over and inspires the people around him.
That seems to be kind of a centerpiece of what the film is trying to convey to audiences.
Yeah, exactly.
You know, with my kids I I you know Rivay and I try to instill you know if you believe in yourself and you have confidence, great things can happen.
And with Brandon, you know, there's no way no way he should have made the team.
You know, and for him to not only make the Razorbacks but to be the captain of the team.
And the first day I went filming, you know uh Brian the producer was an amazing guy who put all his money behind this and his faith behind this, took me into the Razorback locker room and showed me Brandon's locker that is you know plexiglassed up and you know all the stuff is still in there.
It's just this shrine to Brandon.
And all the other kids who play, you know, in the last twenty years have gone through that stadium, sit in that locker room and they see Brandon's locker and they know that something amazing is in that room and it's Brandon Burlsworth and and this film exemplifies what happens if you have faith in yourself, faith in God and and work hard.
That's the other thing.
You gotta work hard and boy did he work hard and uh everyone in this film, you know, David and Brian myself and you know Chris and Nick Searcy, Nick I mean when you see the film and you look at Nick, gosh he was so perfect.
You know, he he was he was so great.
But everyone everyone was was was really dialed into it because we knew we were doing something important.
Not just you know your regular ordinary films that or T V shows that we do a lot of the times.
This was important and and everyone from catering to the grips to the actors to everyone involved knew that something special was happening and and uh you look at all the you know how we sold out all over the place in Arkansas and in the in the you know in the SEC country it was uh it's pretty awesome yeah we're certainly hoping that the that the rest of the country will get a chance uh and we'll go out and and and see it as well.
I mean I think the storyline certainly is is inspirational across the board and also to your your point about hard work, it seems like these days, you know you have a lot of you have a lot of professional athletes who uh are are are acting in a fashion don't well it depends on who we're talking about, but some of them act like uh act like they're a bunch of brats sometimes and you professional athletes where it feels like some of them are just gifted, right?
I mean, yeah they work hard but they're just gifted.
In the case of Brandon Burlsworth, this guy was athletically speaking in the opposite category of gifted, but through hard work and dedication was able to become n not just a top college athlete but to go pro.
I mean this is the kind of story that if it wasn't true people would have a hard time believing it.
No if if you if you if this wasn't a true story you'd you'd look at this film and say that's impossible.
There's no way some chubby little kid from Arkansas is going to go that far in life and by the time he was twenty two years old, what he had accomplished by twenty two years old if he if he had just made the Razorbacks that's one thing.
You know to be a captain of the Razorback that's another thing.
To get two degrees while you're at school that's a whole nother thing.
You know and then to to make the Colts and to have that that faith the whole way through that you know any one of those would be an amazing achievement.
But Brandon achieved so many of them you know and when he you know in all rights he shouldn't have but he did and and and that's what makes this film so special.
And you know for Rush to go out on the limb and really speak so highly of it yesterday and you buck today doing the same thing.
It means so much to the community of Arkansas, you know, to everyone who made this film and to the whole and to to Marty and his family and the Burlsworth Foundation what you guys have done by giving it that stamp of approval has been such an amazing thing for us so I can't tell you how much I appreciate it.
Well Neil you did a great job in the film.
It's a fantastic project a very worthy one.
I know that everyone here at the EIB is hoping as many of those listening as possible go out and see it.
They can go to greater the movie dot com to look at a trailer for more information and also to find uh tickets, right?
That's right, yeah.
Good go go out and see it.
If you know if you know of the the millions of listeners that are listening to you today.
If we and and again it's not about you know this isn't a film about oh, let's go out there and let's make as much money as possible.
That's not it.
It's let's go out and spread the word of this great film so people can actually learn when they go to the theater and and and talk about issues and families can go and see a film together and and that that that's the most important thing.
So uh I hope that everyone listening today just goes out there this weekend and and and goes and sees the film because it is one of those films that I've never been this proud of a film in my life, and and it's it's just fantastic I get choked up every time I talk about it.
The movie is greater.
We're speaking to Neil McDonough who stars in it.
Neil, thank you very much for your time.
Buck, thanks so much.
Love you, Baba.
Talk to you soon.
All right, take care.
Uh all right, team.
We've got more coming.
Uh I'll be back in a few.
Buck Sexton and for Rush on the EIB.
We were just talking about a movie that first of all, you can go see with the whole family.
It's a great film.
That's greater is the name of the movie, and it promotes the sort of values that I think you'd all like to see reflected in entertainment, in the arts, and the creative endeavors that are out there.
We want to bring on a guest now who's going to talk about efforts to have more of these films to get more of them made and TV shows and other creative projects as well.
We're joined by Patrick Reasonover.
He heads up the Talison Nexus, which he's going to tell us about now.
Patrick, thank you for calling in.
Thank you for having me, Buck.
And uh one of my uh team members of Tele S and Nexus is a member of Teen Buck and told me to or and told me to tell you uh Shields High.
Oh, Shields High, yeah, that's what we say on the Bucks Action Show.
Look at that.
Hey.
All right.
Thank you very much for that.
So uh tell you um we're a five oh one C three based in Los Angeles, Tel E S and Nexus, and what we do is exactly what you said.
We're we're focused on talent development.
So when it comes to films like Greater, uh, you know, that really explore the values uh of our culture, those kind of deep human values, uh, you know, and as they relate to liberty, we want to support filmmakers through our internships, workshops, film labs, uh, to help them develop so that we can see hundreds of these films made, you know, every year.
And wh uh can you tell us about some of the projects that you're either involved in now or are hoping to do, or what's in the pipeline?
How can people uh w if they want to see some of the work that the Tallius and Nexus has been involved in, where where can they go?
Yeah, well, you can go to talnexus.com, T A L Nexus.com slash Liberty, and for a limited time we have some of the films that have been made in our film lab or short films, short narrative films, comedy, drama, sci-fi, uh that explore the ideas of liberty and the practice of liberty through narrative.
And so you can go on there and see those now.
They're they're out at film festivals all across the country, so they're not online yet.
Um so you can kind of get a sneak peek.
And uh and actually that uh program, our film lab is open right now for the second season.
So if there's filmmakers out there who are interested in you know in getting involved, it's uh it's a really cool program and the details of it are available on there as well as the application.
And just the name is interesting to me, by the way.
Talia Sin, as you s as uh as I've been able to find out here on your site, was a sixth century Welsh bard who was credited with preserving the art of storytelling through the dark ages.
Yeah, exactly.
You know, Tele S Nexus, Tele S you know, is the father of storytelling.
And so we felt that, you know, that really kind of describes what we are as a nexus or network of storytellers who you know share a belief in the importance of of uh of the practice of liberty and the ideas of liberty and want to explore it in narrative.
And so that that's uh that's that describes us and it describes the kind of filmmakers that we want to bring into our programs and develop.
Are there more people hear this?
I think their first reaction is I mean, other than the ones who are like, Oh, great, I want to get involved.
A lot of other folks might say they're gonna run up into all kinds of opposition here.
Hollywood's so left, Hollywood so anti-liberty, so progressive that they're gonna come into all kinds of roadblocks.
Have you been surprised by how many people in the industry in one capacity or another actually like things like a free society and liberty?
Yeah, you know, I think that uh you know, I think part of the problem is this.
You know, for folks who who really care about these ideas, over the past several decades, we've kind of invested in expressing them in the form of like arguments and policy and empirical studies.
And and for a lot of folks, you know, while that's great work, you know, it doesn't really resonate with the great body of people out there, you know, um, who who really, you know, they they think in terms of story and character and heroes, and you know, that's how they live their life.
And you know, and and I believe, you know, these ideas are true and universal and human.
And so I think, yes, even in, you know, in Hollywood, uh, where it may seem kind of dark right now, um, if we invest in talented filmmakers and you know, and just get more people who share these ideas, expressing them in the form of story and making an emotional connection as opposed to just purely an intellectual one.
I mean, I think that that absolutely they can find a home in in Hollywood, because you know, unlike academia, there's no tenure in Hollywood, and Olliewood's a for-profit business.
And so, you know, we we believe that you know, filmmakers who create who are creating content that you know are really about heroes, heroes' journey and you know, individuals overcoming, uh, and not about like a victim complex or you know, problems with society.
Um we think that those films will resonate with audiences and you know, and also be profitable.
Yeah.
So yes, there are there are good guys, there are bad guys, and people like to see the good guys win.
That's a good thing.
Exactly.
I'm with you.
All right.
Well, people should go check out talnexus.com.
Italiason Nexus, I'm talking to Patrick Reasonover, who uh runs this very interesting enterprise.
Sir, I wish you all the best of luck with this and uh I might have to send you guys a screenplay.
I've got some cool ideas.
I've got all kinds of ideas.
Fantastic.
Well, thank you again for having me on.
I appreciate it.
Thanks a lot, Patrick.
Notice how notice how he wasn't like, yeah, I'll be waiting for it.
Patrick, come on, buddy.
Just had you on the radio.
I got I got a screenplay or two in me, I'm telling you.
Make it happen.
Got cool stuff.
I was, you know, doing all the counter-terrorism stuff back in the day.
Maybe Lang will let me tell you a couple of stories.
Probably not.
Um there's that.
Hey, actually, no, I can't I was gonna say I've got what?
Like he's just assumed because I'm a radio, because I'm a news guy, I can't be a creative as well.
I'm very creative.
I do all kinds of like weird voices and stuff, but just not here on yeah, like Kaiser Wilhelm de Blasio.
That's a great series of shorts right there.
It's like clean up all your trash from the streets of New York City.
I'm Kaiser Wilhelm, because Mayor Bill de Blasi of New York City's real name is Warren Wilhelm, for those of you who didn't know that.
Side note.
We do a whole spoof on Bernie Sanders.
I got oh, these are political ideas though.
We just need good guys and bad guys, I suppose.
I got stories about that too, though.
I'm gonna go home now and start writing a screenplay.
We're gonna have Italian Nexus back on when they're making uh a Buck Sexton original screenplay into a movie.
That's right, cool.
We're gonna call it Shield High.
That's actually a pretty awesome name for a project.
All right, I'll be back in a few.
Stay with me.
Buck Sexton here closing and out for Rush on the EIB.
I know, tears all around, sadness.
There is there there's a sadness.
But there's this awesome guy tomorrow that you're totally gonna want to hang out with for three hours from twelve to three Eastern across the country, uh named Buck Sexton, who's gonna be on the EIB.
So if you if you were like today's show, you're like, I don't know about this guy.
Tomorrow's guy, you're really gonna like tomorrow's guy's got it locked down.
He's he's crazy.
He's a wild man.
He cannot be they cannot contain him.
They can only or no, they cannot control him, they can only hope to contain him.
Whatever that old remember that back in the nineties when people had like when people had rebach pumps and those were cool.
They should bring those back, by the way.
I this is a big enough audience that we wanted to rebock pumps.
Remember you like the pump the top of the shoe?
Those things were awesome.
All right.
Well, this is Bucks Acts you didn't for rush.
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