Buck Sexton

But again, I wasn't, I was doing thinking analysis stuff, had some interesting meetings, saw stuff, um, but wasn't, you know, obviously kicking in doors or doing any crazy stuff or having a super secret squirrel missions that, uh, you know, still will be classified forever.

Um, so yeah, I mean, they, they were actually pretty, pretty easy with me on, on that stuff.

Although they took a while, but yeah, no, they were reasonable.

This book, there's some cool stories about CIA stuff, which Mike and I are talking about, which is just fun because I never got to talk about it before because I hadn't cleared it.

So now I've cleared the stuff that's in there.

So just some stuff about what it's like to be a little preppy analyst in the height of the global war on terror running around some of these countries doing my thing.

um in terms of the book though that's not what the book is about that's just thrown in there to be entertaining in some places what the book is about is what are the things things like isolation things like uh confusion and degradation false confession i mean i really get into the science of how you break people down this works in a totalitarian society it works in a cult it works in

college campus DEI indoctrination, right?

It's degrees, it's levels of extreme, but it's a similar process to bring people into believing delusions.

And I would argue that when a society falls into manufactured mass delusion, that that's the worst thing that could happen because anything is possible.

And the 20th century certainly showed us

that a society in the grips of mass delusion can do the worst things in history.

So, you got to fight against this stuff and it's really just a quest for constant truth and understanding how people can try to get in there and mess with your mind.

Welcome, everybody, to the second hour of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show.

And we are joined by Stephen Yates.

He's a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a former White House national security official.

Our friend, Mr. Yates.

Great to have you, sir.

What's going on?

Buck, great to join you.