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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: All right, third hour of Clay and Buck kicks off now.

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Speaker 2: Phenomenal guests joining us in this moment. Kevin O'Leary, mister

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Speaker 2: wonderful from Shark Tank, entrepreneur, investor and the guy who

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Speaker 2: says often the most amusing stuff on the Shark Tank Show. Kevin,

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Speaker 2: thanks for being here, great to beer.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. Let's start.

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Speaker 2: I know you're up on Capitol Hill. You're trying to

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Speaker 2: advocate for the small business men and women of America,

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Speaker 2: which is super important obviously, really the engine of economic

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Speaker 2: growth in so many ways. What headwinds are they running

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Speaker 2: into right now under this administration?

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Speaker 3: Like what are they doing?

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Speaker 2: What is this White House or this Congress doing wrong

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Speaker 2: when it comes to the small businesses of America.

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Speaker 1: Well, let me paint the picture, because I deal with

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Speaker 1: this every day. I've got over thirty portfolio companies, primarily

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Speaker 1: FIRSTUS second generation families in America. You know, we think

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Speaker 1: about our economy. A lot of people don't know this.

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Speaker 1: The S and P five hundred massive companies, biggest index

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Speaker 1: in the world, but they only represent forty percent of employers.

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Speaker 1: And many of the people at work for the S

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Speaker 1: and P five hundred, those giant companies, those employees are

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Speaker 1: outside of the United States, almost in some cases half

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Speaker 1: of them, depending on the company. So domestically, who employs

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Speaker 1: all of us? It's small business. And so what I'm

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Speaker 1: frustrated about is right now, you remember the beginning of

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Speaker 1: this latest banking crisis when Silicon Valley Bank and unfortunately

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Speaker 1: run by idiots, went to zero, but that caused a

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Speaker 1: ripple effect, and what's occurring now is the regulators of

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Speaker 1: small regional banks there's about four thousand, one hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty of them, which really bank and provide credit for

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Speaker 1: small business in America, are under tremendous pressure. They're being

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Speaker 1: required to change how much capital they have liquid on

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Speaker 1: their balance sheets, and basically what that means is they're

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Speaker 1: closing their loan books, so it's very, very hard to

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Speaker 1: borrow money anymore. This is happening at the same time

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Speaker 1: that Congress has done a trillion dollars with a paper

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Speaker 1: printing which even hasn't gone off the door yet, and

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Speaker 1: it's called the Inflation Reduction Act the IRA, and the

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Speaker 1: other one is the Chips and Science Act. All of

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Speaker 1: that money is one of the big guys, all of it,

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Speaker 1: not some of it, all of it, one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: of it to S and P five hundred companies. So

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Speaker 1: he asked me why the stock market's doing so well.

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Speaker 1: It's because it's got this unlimited lift of printed paper

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Speaker 1: to go to them for free. It's basically free money,

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Speaker 1: and yet nothing for the small guy, nothing, absolutely nothing.

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Speaker 1: Now that is totally screwed up, imbalanced, not fair. And

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Speaker 1: I'd argue on American.

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Speaker 4: Am I crazy? And the answer may well be yes,

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Speaker 4: So don't be afraid to say that. People out there like, yes,

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Speaker 4: you're crazy. It seems to me that we have never

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Speaker 4: had a more financially illiterate group of leaders, both Republicans

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Speaker 4: and Democrats, but in particular the Democrat Party has totally

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Speaker 4: lost its way when it comes to business. As a

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Speaker 4: guy who is focused primarily on business, do we have

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Speaker 4: good representatives from a financial perspective at all in your mind?

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a great question. And my answer is,

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Speaker 1: having now spent almost a year and a half going

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Speaker 1: to Congress and sometimes twice a month, it's a mixed bag.

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Speaker 1: And it's really about executional skills at the state level,

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Speaker 1: and where I look at states, I look at the governor.

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Speaker 1: You can consider the governor of state as the CEO.

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Speaker 1: A lot of the policy around what happens. So I've

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Speaker 1: stopped investing in states like New York, for example, or

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Speaker 1: Massachusetts or California. I don't put a diame in those places.

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Speaker 1: They're not open for business and their taxes are too high.

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Speaker 1: My new focus is on places like North Dakota, West Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas, Florida.

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Speaker 3: Those let's call.

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Speaker 1: The managers, governors, senators, whatever you want. They're executing towards

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Speaker 1: pro business, whether it be big or small, and they've

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Speaker 1: made it that. There's a very interesting dynamic occurred after

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Speaker 1: the pandemic. We have competition between states. Now, why would

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Speaker 1: you ever put money in Massachusetts where Elizabeth Warren wants

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Speaker 1: to take it from you if you're successful, or where

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Speaker 1: AOC make sure that no new jobs come to her jurisdiction.

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Speaker 1: Why would you even go there? Why fight with those people?

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Speaker 1: If they want to destroy their states, let them do that.

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Speaker 1: I'll take my money and go to where I welcomed,

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Speaker 1: where I can sit now with the Governor Bergham, who's

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Speaker 1: same with Texas. So I want to encourage people to

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Speaker 1: people that vote for these individuals. And I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren isn't a very successful politician.

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Speaker 3: She is.

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Speaker 1: I just hate her policies, and I think that's a

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Speaker 1: fair debate to have. I'm going to be going to

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Speaker 1: the legislature in Massachusetts in October. I do some work

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Speaker 1: at Harvard where teach you, you know, young entrepreneurs and engineers,

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Speaker 1: and I want to make sure that we can get

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Speaker 1: into a solid debate about good policy investcy.

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Speaker 2: If we could get you and some of their staffs

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Speaker 2: actually listen to the show, Kevin, we're speaking of Kevin o'liary,

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Speaker 2: mister wonderful of Shark Tank. For anybody who's joining us

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Speaker 2: in progress here, if we can get you to sit

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Speaker 2: down with all of the Republican candidates right now at once,

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Speaker 2: and you could give them one thing that you believe

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Speaker 2: would be most important, useful, powerful for helping small business

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Speaker 2: and really with it, just the broader economy. I mean,

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Speaker 2: if you could get one thing right in front of them.

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Speaker 2: So whether it's Trump or whomever, if they end up

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Speaker 2: beating Biden, they could pursue it. What would it be

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Speaker 2: Right now?

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Speaker 1: I see this trum. I'd call it imbalance between the

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Speaker 1: support that the SMP is getting the big companies in

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Speaker 1: America and what we're not doing for small business. And

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Speaker 1: so we have programs, we have two big ones right now,

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Speaker 1: and I want to be very specific about this, and

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Speaker 1: I've actually done this with both Republicans and Democrats. Set

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Speaker 1: fourtthenth they'll take a meeting and their staff just as

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Speaker 1: importantly and say, okay, let me get this right. You

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Speaker 1: have authorized a trillion dollars for the S and P

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Speaker 1: five hundred and two specific acts, the Chips and Science Act,

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Speaker 1: and the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRA. Where in those bills,

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Speaker 1: because I've looked at them, you show me anywhere where

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Speaker 1: you're supporting small business, your own constituents, in your own geography,

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Speaker 1: that represents sixty percent of the jobs created in your state.

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Speaker 1: Where's the support for them? And there isn't a single

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Speaker 1: it more than the big guys, the big guys have

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Speaker 1: no trouble raising money right now. The cost of capital

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Speaker 1: act I know that's active, and I know you guys

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Speaker 1: promote this quite a bit on your platform, the Employee

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Speaker 1: Retention Credit.

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Speaker 3: I also do that.

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Speaker 1: I've got a business called Wondertrust dot com and all

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Speaker 1: of my companies have applied for this and hundreds more.

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Speaker 1: And I go out of my way to say to

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Speaker 1: for twenty four months for everybody in America that deserves

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Speaker 1: to get access to this capital that they actually paid into.

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Speaker 1: Because what's going on here is my companies and many

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Speaker 1: even though they couldn't work, We kept them on payroll,

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Speaker 1: We invested in them, our businesses and America. And now

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Speaker 1: you give us nothing. I don't get it, and that

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Speaker 1: has not fallen on deaf years. I've even gone all

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Speaker 1: things get worse in the months ahead. Meanwhile at the

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Speaker 1: Extend this act for twenty four months.

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Speaker 4: We've talked a lot on this program about red getting

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Speaker 4: redder and blue getting bluer. You just kind of hinted

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Speaker 4: at this about the importance of federalism. The governor, the

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Speaker 4: because I'd be curious. But if you were advising someone

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Speaker 4: starting a small business, and I could base that small

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Speaker 4: business anywhere in the country, where would you tell them

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Speaker 4: it would make sense to go, And how much of

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Speaker 4: that I feel fortunate bucks now in Florida. I'm in Tennessee.

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Speaker 4: We have no state income tax. The idea that I

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Speaker 4: I'm curious. We get a lot of questions Buck and

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Speaker 4: I do. Hey, let's say you're twenty years old and

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Speaker 4: you're about to graduate from college and you're interested, or

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Speaker 4: you're just twenty years old and you've got an entrepreneurship bug.

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Speaker 4: Where would you tell them if they could go anywhere

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you know that's you've hit the nail

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Speaker 1: you can run a business today from anywhere, because forty

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Speaker 1: your headquarters. That's post pandemic. That's what's occurred. That's our

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Speaker 1: new economy America two point zero digital. And that means,

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Speaker 1: don't stick it in a place where they hate you,

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Speaker 1: where they put regulation on you, where they overtax you,

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Speaker 1: don't want any jobs. Don't put it anywhere near AOC

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Speaker 1: for example. And why would you ever do it in

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Speaker 1: Massachusetts where Elizabeth ware wants to tax you if you're successful.

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Speaker 1: What built this country and makes it great is entrepreneurs,

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Speaker 1: and that's who apploys sixty percent of the people. We

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Speaker 1: now have this fantastic dynamic of states competing with each other.

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Speaker 1: Reward the good managers, the good governors, the senators with

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Speaker 1: your vote and your business, and make sure that you're

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Speaker 1: not doing their job and not carrying forward the American dream.

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Speaker 1: Anytime you tax someone into oblivion and you just take

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Speaker 1: the government and overregulate rules, you are forcing those businesses

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Speaker 1: to do the right thing. And that's simply move that's

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Speaker 1: how it works.

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Speaker 2: Kevin, How worried are you about a major downturn in

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Speaker 2: the economy over the next call it year or so.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we've been told for many months. I used

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Speaker 2: to see the Goldman Sachs projection, oh sixty percent likelihood

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Speaker 2: of our recession in the next quarter whatever. Going back

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Speaker 2: now for a while under the Biden administration's tenure, are

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Speaker 2: do you feel like we're out of the woods or

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Speaker 2: are we still just hoping and praying?

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Speaker 1: You know? That's that is the question for every investor

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Speaker 4: many other also connected to that, aspects of our history,

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Speaker 4: this idea that America is an awful racist place and

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Speaker 4: as a result, nothing that was created by our founders

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Speaker 4: can be justified. That's really what this is about. And

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Speaker 4: make no mistake, I think trying to police this kid

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Speaker 4: from having the Gadsden flag, pulling down monuments, tearing down

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Speaker 4: historical records, that's what this is all about. The idea

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Speaker 4: is to delegitimize the foundational documents of the United States,

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Speaker 4: because if you do that, then why does anybody have

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Speaker 4: to care what's said in the Constitution. Why does anybody

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Speaker 4: have to care about any aspect of our nation's founding documents.

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Speaker 3: If the people who were involved in creating those founding documents.

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Speaker 4: Were awful, hypocritical slave owners who didn't understand basic human rights,

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Speaker 4: and therefore everything that they tried to bring to bear

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Speaker 4: in this country is not rooted in pursuit of justice

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Speaker 4: and the last best hope of free government in the world.

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Speaker 4: It's actually just a collection of awful racists who bear

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Speaker 4: no semblance of connection to this country today, and therefore

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Speaker 4: we don't have to be bound by any ideas they

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Speaker 4: put out. That's what they're trying to do, that's the essence.

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Speaker 4: That's why they're trying to tear down all the statues.

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Speaker 4: And that's one of the things that I think Trump

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Speaker 4: got one hundred percent right, because while Joe Biden told

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Speaker 4: the fundamental lie that the reason he ran for president

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Speaker 4: was because of Donald Trump's response to Charlottesville, Trump's response

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Speaker 4: to Charlottesville was actually one hundred percent correct. You go

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Speaker 4: back and look at the transcript of everything he said.

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Speaker 4: Trump said, they're not going to stop with tearing down

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Speaker 4: statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson and everybody

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Speaker 4: else who was connected to the Civil War. To these

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Speaker 4: Confederate generals, They're going to take the next step, and

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Speaker 4: they are then, as you well saw happen, They're then

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Speaker 4: going to say, oh, Abraham Lincoln's unacceptable. What did they

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Speaker 4: do in San Francisco? They tried to rename every school

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Speaker 4: that had a white guy on it. They tore down

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Speaker 4: statues of Ulysses S. Grant, who actually fought against the

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Speaker 4: Confederate generals. Because in an absence of historical knowledge, you

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Speaker 4: can convince people that anything is the truth, and there

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Speaker 4: is no precedent and there is no foundation. And if

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Speaker 4: you're constantly shifting what is allowed to be celebrated in

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Speaker 4: this country, then ultimately you create no foundational historical agreement.

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Speaker 4: And I say, this is a history nerd. Buck's a

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Speaker 4: history nerd too. We both have spent much of our

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Speaker 4: life studying history. And that's why I have ultimately a

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Speaker 4: lot of faith that we're going to end up in

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Speaker 4: a better place than we are right now. Because ultimately

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Speaker 4: I believe that we are going to come through this

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Speaker 4: difficulty and end up in a better place than we

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Speaker 4: are right now. And I think that's why it's so

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Speaker 4: important for everybody out there to have this historical knowledge

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Speaker 4: and understand that when they attack, you might say, why

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Speaker 4: do you care about a kid who's going to school

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Speaker 4: in Colorado State and what the school district says he

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Speaker 4: can and cannot do? Because this is emblematic of what's

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Speaker 4: happening all over the country and they will do this

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Speaker 4: to anyone if they have the ability.

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Speaker 3: To do so.

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Speaker 4: And so this is a big part of what is

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Speaker 4: actually taking place. All Right, we'll see if bucks fire

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Speaker 4: alarm has gone off, We'll see if he can come

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Speaker 4: back and finish up the program with us. In the meantime,

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Speaker 4: some Americans are starting to speculate there's a government plan

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Speaker 4: to change our currency system. The same people speculating believe

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Speaker 4: we'll hear about it sooner than later. Two According to

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Speaker 4: former Wall Street inside Tika Tawari, the government could soon

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Speaker 4: make such an announcement. The speculation is our printed currency

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Speaker 4: would be replaced with a new digital version. Tika Tawari's

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Speaker 4: warning that the official announcement could come in the next

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Speaker 4: few months he's exposing the government plan in a video

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Speaker 4: and showing you the three steps you need to take

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Speaker 4: to prepare. Go to Dollar Recall dot Com to watch

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Speaker 4: the video and further inform yourself that website again, Dollar

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Speaker 4: Recall dot Com paid for by the Palm.

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Speaker 3: Beach Research Group. Clay and Buck twenty four to seven

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Speaker 3: and subscribe today.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Buck has

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Speaker 4: had a fire alarm go off in his studio, so

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Speaker 4: he may or may not be able to rejoin us.

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Speaker 4: Do you ever wonder what live radio is like? This

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Speaker 4: is why the podcast guys can make a lot of money.

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Speaker 4: There's no doubt about it. Doing a podcast way easier

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Speaker 4: than doing a live radio show. I like both, by

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Speaker 4: the way, lots of good podcasts out there. But if

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Speaker 4: an alarm goes off during podcast taping, you just say, Okay,

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Speaker 4: we'll wait till the alarm goes off. Alarm goes off

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Speaker 4: during a live radio show, boom, you just keep rolling.

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Speaker 4: Big story that is going to I think continue to

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Speaker 4: build is surrounding Mitch McConnell. I think we have some

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Speaker 4: audio of Mitch McConnell and it's uncomfortable. It's unfortunate. It's

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Speaker 4: not just Mitch McConnell. Dianne Feinstein has a power of attorney.

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Speaker 4: She can't actually make choices in her own life. Her

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Speaker 4: family is able to obligate her contractually, yet she is

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Speaker 4: still representing the Senate in California. You've got John Fetterman,

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Speaker 4: who anybody who watched that debate immediately checked himself into

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Speaker 4: a hospital as soon as he got to Washington, DC.

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Speaker 4: He's still not physically able to do the job of senator.

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Speaker 4: And you've got Joe Biden, who it's reckless that he's

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Speaker 4: president now, and the idea that he would try to

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Speaker 4: be president for years longer is also unacceptable. We have

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Speaker 4: a minimum age for president of thirty five, and obviously

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Speaker 4: people have different mental capabilities. Donald Trump is far more

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Speaker 4: mentally sharp than Joe Biden is heck, Bernie Sanders is

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Speaker 4: a year older than Joe Biden.

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Speaker 3: He's way sharper.

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Speaker 4: And I saw today Warren Buffett turned ninety three and

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Speaker 4: he's still making elite investment decisions on behalf of Berkshire Hathaway.

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Speaker 4: So everybody has different mental faculties. I think most people

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Speaker 4: out there, if they're being honest, would say that in general,

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Speaker 4: mental ability peaks in the forties or fifties in terms

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Speaker 4: of your ability to make decisions. I was reading in

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Speaker 4: the Wall Street Journal yesterday. If you've ever wondered, hey,

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Speaker 4: when is the peak ability to make financial decisions on average?

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Speaker 4: According to the Wall Street Journal, fifty four years old.

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Speaker 4: When you are fifty four years old, you are at

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Speaker 4: your peak to make intelligent financial decisions because you've had

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Speaker 4: enough experience as an adult to learn.

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Speaker 3: But that's so called wisdom.

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Speaker 4: But you haven't moved past your cognitive abilities beginning to decline.

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Speaker 3: I think about this all the time. For radio, I

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Speaker 3: don't know what you know.

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Speaker 4: An athlete might peak at twenty seven or twenty eight

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Speaker 4: years old. When do you peak in terms of being

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Speaker 4: able to process information and speak on the radio? I

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Speaker 4: think everybody's different. I would like to think that it's

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Speaker 4: in the fifties or sixties.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: People think about this all the time. For instance, if

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Speaker 4: you're an attorney, you can't fly an airplane after the

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Speaker 4: age of sixty five commercial airplane because airlines think that

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Speaker 4: you don't have the physical ability after the age of

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Speaker 4: sixty five on average to be entrusted with the entire

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Speaker 4: life of everybody that's on a commercial airline flight.

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Speaker 3: And again I said.

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Speaker 4: When this the clip initially went public with Mitch McConnell

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Speaker 4: just in the last hour or so, how would you

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Speaker 4: feel if you walked onto an airline and Joe Biden

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Speaker 4: was the pilot of your airplane. Would you feel as

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Speaker 4: you stepped foot onto that airline? Would you think to yourself, boy,

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Speaker 4: I'm really glad Joe Biden is flying this airplane.

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Speaker 3: Of course you wouldn't.

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Speaker 4: Well, how in the world, then, can we justify Joe

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Speaker 4: Biden being able to be in charge of every aspect

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Speaker 4: of American life. It's crazy. He couldn't run a gas station.

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Speaker 4: Maybe he could be a Walmart greeter. But just about

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Speaker 4: every single one of you who run a small business

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Speaker 4: or work at a major business, I think you would

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Speaker 4: be challenged to find a job that Joe Biden could

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Speaker 4: have and do successfully. And yet he's in charge of

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Speaker 4: the whole nation. And certainly there are different mental and

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Speaker 4: physical capacities. But if you can't be president until thirty five,

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Speaker 4: how in the world are we talking about a guy

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Speaker 4: who's eighty two running and clearly has the mental and

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Speaker 4: physical faculty. The decline of Joe Biden running to be president.

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Speaker 4: It's reckless. Well, it's not just on the Republican side,

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Speaker 4: it's not just on the Democrat side. This is sadly

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Speaker 4: an issue everywhere. Here is a clip. I think you'll

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Speaker 4: be able to hear it, a bit of Mitch McConnell's.

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Speaker 2: Talks about what running for re election in twenty five six?

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Speaker 1: That's true.

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Speaker 5: Did you hear the question senator running for reelection in

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty six? All right, I'm sorry you are running

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Speaker 5: you in a minute, Okay, somebody else have a question,

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Speaker 5: please speak up?

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 4: So it went bad, And for those of you, again,

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Speaker 4: I would encourage you can go watch the video if

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Speaker 4: you want to see it for yourself.

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Speaker 3: It's not a.

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Speaker 4: Video that anybody's happy to see. Certainly, we don't want

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Speaker 4: anybody in their eighties or any age to be losing

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Speaker 4: their mental and physical capacity. But interestingly, the question was

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Speaker 4: in twenty twenty six, which feels reckless, just as it

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Speaker 4: feels reckless to me for Joe Biden to run for

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Speaker 4: reelection in twenty twenty four. Hecke's reckless for Joe Biden

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Speaker 4: to be in office right now, given all the difficult

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Speaker 4: decisions he has to make on a daily basis. And

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Speaker 4: remember everybody out there listening to us right now in

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Speaker 4: the Bluegrass State. We've got the number one show in Louisville.

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Speaker 4: We've got a massive audience in Lexington. I know many

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Speaker 4: of you are listening all over the state of Kentucky

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Speaker 4: right now. If you're saying, okay, well, Mitch McConnell, I

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Speaker 4: know he's a Senate majority leader. I don't know how

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Speaker 4: this is going to be a major issue going forward.

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Speaker 4: We're basically in a fifty to fifty Senate and there

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Speaker 4: is a governor's race going on this fall. Daniel Cameron,

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Speaker 4: all of you need to vote for him because there's

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Speaker 4: and if that Democrat wins, he has said that he's

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Speaker 4: McConnell we're not able to serve out the rest of

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Speaker 4: his term. Now, a bunch of you in Kentucky are saying,

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Speaker 4: wait a minute, Clay, we passed the bill. Yeah, I

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Speaker 4: understand there's a bill passed where the Kentucky legislature, which

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Speaker 4: is majority Republican, is saying we get to pick three

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Speaker 4: and he has to pick one of those three names.

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Speaker 4: But Andy Basheer has said he doesn't think that's constitutional,

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Speaker 4: and so we're going to end up in a major

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Speaker 4: court battle where Kentucky could end up with either a

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Speaker 4: Democrat senator who's appointed by Andy Basheer, and then there's

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Speaker 4: a court battle over whether that senator can take office,

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Speaker 4: or it may be the case that Kentucky doesn't have

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Speaker 4: a sitting senator, both of which could end up in

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Speaker 4: the wake of the twenty twenty four election. Think about this, now,

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Speaker 4: you could end up in a situation where Republicans have

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Speaker 4: a small majority. Let's say Trump wins or a Republican wins,

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Speaker 4: and it's a fifty to fifty Senate and the VP

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Speaker 4: is breaking the tie. Well, if Mitch McConnell's not there

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Speaker 4: and Kentucky either has a Democrat senator or they have

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Speaker 4: no senator, then Democrats would take back control of the Senate.

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Speaker 3: It's a big deal.

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Speaker 4: And obviously, if Joe Biden somehow gets elected again or

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Speaker 4: another Democrat does, then Democrats would have the tie break,

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Speaker 4: and that Senate seat could also be massively significant in

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Speaker 4: terms of their ability to pass legislation or put.

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Speaker 3: Somebody on the Supreme Court.

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Speaker 4: It's a really big deal, and it is a mess

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Speaker 4: right now in the state of Kentucky if you care

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Speaker 4: about this. Regardless of everything else, Andy Msheer has been

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Speaker 4: wrong on everything COVID. I couldn't believe how much more

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Speaker 4: locked down Kentucky was than my home state of Tennessee,

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Speaker 4: and I know many of you out there experienced it

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Speaker 4: in the state of Kentucky. That by itself is a

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Speaker 4: reason why you should be voting for Daniel Cameron.

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Speaker 3: But even if you.

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Speaker 4: Don't particularly care, think about what they will do. They

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Speaker 4: will appoint a Democrat senator if Andy Basheer wins and

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Speaker 4: Kentucky sticks with a Democrat governor, a Democrat governor who

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Speaker 4: failed on all things COVID and actually made things far

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Speaker 4: worse for most of the residents of the state of Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: Kentucky's a red state, it should have a red governor,

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Speaker 4: and Daniel Cameron is the right choice there. It matters

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Speaker 4: a great deal regardless. But when you consider Mitch McConnell's

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Speaker 4: health and the court battle looming over any potential replacement

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Speaker 4: in the event that that were necessary toccur between now

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Speaker 4: and twenty twenty six. This, by itself is why it

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Speaker 4: is so important that Daniel Cameron be elected this fall.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate all of you.

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Speaker 4: Buck, with the fire alarm going off in his studio,

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Speaker 4: he'll be back with us tomorrow. We'll be back with

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Speaker 4: you on Thursday. Should be a lot of fun. Appreciate

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Speaker 4: all the time you spend with us every single day.

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Speaker 4: This has been playing, Buck,