Welcome to another episode of The Chicks on the Right podcast. Very happy to have back with us. It's been way too long. Buck Sexton. You're probably the guest whose name is my favorite to say. Buck. Buck, Buck, Sex, and for those. My son's name is Speed, by the way. Oh, my gosh. What's really his name? And I'm like, no, it's Speed. It's a family name. And that is the truth. So he's Speed Section. Okay, that's even better. That's pretty good. That's really good. Now, for those in our audience who may not know you, which shame on them, honestly. What's wrong with him. But just a little background.

So Buck is a former CIA intelligence officer co-host of the Clay and Buck show.

And now New York Times bestselling author of a new book called Manufacturing Delusion.

Love it.

And of course, longtime friend of the chick.

So we got to know for our audience's sake, what is the preview?

Like, what kind of cool stuff can our audience expect to learn from this book?

I just say, the chicks, you guys are like original buck levers, buck leavers.

I think you had me on when I was at the blaze.

I was just a wee buck at the time.

Like a little sapling would not yet grown into the media tree.

And you were all so nice.

And I enjoyed talking you so much.

Our mutual friend, Michael Pelka, I think, who's also so nice and so great,

a media guide does his own podcast.

He connected us.

So thank you, ladies.

I don't want to say how long ago it was because, you know, it's been. We're old, Buck. It's fine. We're good. I think it's like a couple of years ago. I'd be like, uh, Reagan might have been president. Anyway, it was a while ago. It was a while ago. So in the meantime, manufacturing delusion. So here's the deal, ladies. As we know, people went nuts during COVID. There's not a COVID book. I'd say that because that's, you know, my publisher was very insistent. It's not a COVID book and it's not. But people went nuts and we all know that. I remember thinking like, okay, so we're going to have people cutting holes out of their masks so they can play the clarinet because that's going to keep them safe.

I mean, all these stupid things that we saw millions and millions of people.

Right.

But we were pushed to do this stuff.

I mean, there was a whole system, a whole apparatus that made people crazy.

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