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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. Welcome and everybody to the Friday edition

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Speaker 1: of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. This is Buck.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be solo today. My main man, Clay out

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Speaker 1: on a vacation day. We'll have a lot to talk

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Speaker 1: about here, the future of the GOP obviously in the

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Speaker 1: aftermath of the midterm election, House investigations looming, the immigration

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Speaker 1: illegal immigration disaster from her wide open border continues. We

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Speaker 1: shall discuss some troubling indicators in the economy, inflation, The

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Speaker 1: cult of Nancy Pelosi. Will it actually become creepier and

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Speaker 1: weirder than the cult of Ruth Vader Ginsburg was? If

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Speaker 1: you recall, and I'm sure some of you do, because

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Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi's we know, is no longer going to be

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Speaker 1: Speaker of the House. She's not even going to run

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Speaker 1: for leadership, and she's basically eighty years old, so I

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Speaker 1: don't think she's likely to be Speaker again. I don't

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Speaker 1: think she's going to run for leadership again. And you

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Speaker 1: will remember that there was a time when Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

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Speaker 1: who was at that time, May she rest in peace.

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Speaker 1: She was a tiny and frail old lady, and there

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Speaker 1: were people who were doing videos of her amazing workout routine,

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Speaker 1: and there were little Ruth Bader Ginsberg dolls being sold

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Speaker 1: and people talking about how she could do you know,

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Speaker 1: a thousand chin ups with one arm or whatever. No,

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Speaker 1: but there was a cult that built around her because

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Speaker 1: it was about the power of the Democrat Party, and

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Speaker 1: there will be a cult built around Nancy Pelosi as well.

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Speaker 1: In fact, what's funny is here you have MSNBC's Mika

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Speaker 1: of Mika and Joe Infamy saying that unless you were

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Speaker 1: in a cult, you better Unless you're in a cult,

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Speaker 1: you recognize that Nancy Pelosi is worthy of a cult

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Speaker 1: because she is so amazing play clip two. It's the

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Speaker 1: end of an era and an incredible one. And I mean,

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Speaker 1: whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, it's sort of

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Speaker 1: hard not to be in awe of what she has

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Speaker 1: so you better join the cult of Pelosi, or else

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Speaker 1: you're in the non Pelosi cult or something like that.

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Speaker 1: It makes absolutely no sense. But Nancy Pelosi, if we're

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Speaker 1: looking at her legacy and leadership drag the Democrat Party

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Speaker 1: to the hard left. We all know this. It's obvious

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Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi was somebody who was an extremist just on

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Speaker 1: the issue of abortion, for example, any reason, all nine months,

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Speaker 1: taxpayer funding for it, all of the above, everything, and

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Speaker 1: would describe herself as extremely Catholic. So yes, Nancy Pelosi

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Speaker 1: was in so many ways a huge fraud, but she

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Speaker 1: did wield power ruthlessly, as essentially the quintessential San Francisco

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Speaker 1: liberal right lives in a super fancy, multi multimillion dollar

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Speaker 1: mansion worth tens of millions of dollars. The good news, though,

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Speaker 1: is that Nancy Pelosi, no longer in leadership, will focus

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Speaker 1: her time on I'm sure a number of things, but

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Speaker 1: the pursuit of using non public information to make as

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Speaker 1: much money in the stock market as possible, because she's

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Speaker 1: been They've been great at that. If you look at

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Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi's returns, and members of Congress have access to

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Speaker 1: non public information. Somehow, Pelosi, if you were mirroring the

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Speaker 1: Pelosi family trades, you've done very well in the stock market.

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Speaker 1: It's fascinating how that happens. She's like a genius. She's

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Speaker 1: like Warren Buffett with longer hair. But this is what

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Speaker 1: we're told anyway, The big the big thing for me

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Speaker 1: last night though, And we'll talk more about Pelosi a

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Speaker 1: little bit later. And also if you have any if

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Speaker 1: thing else going on right now, the phone lines are

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Speaker 1: The meltdown at Twitter is utterly fascinating. And I understand

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Speaker 1: a very small percentage over all of you that are

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Speaker 1: active on Twitter. But Twitter is really the single most

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Speaker 1: is the most interactive, and it's really the only place

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Speaker 1: where the two sides of the ideological battlefield meet in

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Speaker 1: any meaningful way. It doesn't really happen on cable news anymore.

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Speaker 1: I remember growing up watching cable news shows like Crossfire

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Speaker 1: and you know, on Fox they have great debates, you know,

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Speaker 1: This just doesn't happen anymore. And so one of the

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Speaker 1: intentional suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story with the

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Speaker 1: We're telling you that's Russian disinformation. And people all across

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Speaker 1: the country who are honest and capable of independent thought

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Speaker 1: you know, Oleg and Yuri FSB guys in a basement

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Speaker 1: Hunter and wheel doctor to them. So he's almost in

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Speaker 1: the tide. Whitey's all the time with the handguns, sometimes

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Speaker 1: actually what happened, as we all know, as as good

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Speaker 1: as anybody may think. The Russian Domestic Intelligence Service may

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Speaker 1: be at its mischief, the FSB, the Federal Nayaz Nasty

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Speaker 1: In fact, it was not Russian disinformation as we know,

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Speaker 1: and that itself may very well have made the difference

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Speaker 1: more than ever to the reality of what the American

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Speaker 1: political electorate looks like, which is, you've got, you know,

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Speaker 1: and then this tiny, tiny sliver of people who can

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Speaker 1: much of an echo chamber effect, because especially on the left,

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Speaker 1: are now looking at Twitter, a place where they've had

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Speaker 1: unfair dominance, not through their actual ideas. And there are

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Speaker 1: more libs on Twitter than there are on than there

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Speaker 1: they've had active measures taken on their side to make

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Speaker 1: The news cycle is often driven, so if you're a

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Speaker 1: I've been doing, you know, the website since I was

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Speaker 1: cable news, it often comes from that platform. That's one

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Speaker 1: enormously important. It has been called the assignment editor for

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Speaker 1: The New York Times by many in the past. Twitter

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Speaker 1: the day from this website started by a bunch of

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Speaker 1: amazing to watch what is going on here. Mass resignations yesterday.

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Speaker 1: lecturing Elon Musk, who's worth two hundred billion dollars roughly

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Speaker 1: They're good cars. Now, there's a lot that needs to

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Speaker 1: socialists talking about how Elon Musk doesn't know how to

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Speaker 1: Oh actually, here's a perfect example. A CNN media reporter

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Speaker 1: But in this case, he is just, you know, destroying

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Speaker 1: the platform, seemingly from the inside. Yes, let's let's take

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Speaker 1: Let's hear what they have to say about this social

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Speaker 1: People always forget this Twitter became the center of the

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Speaker 1: So Trump ironically push this platform into into the stratosphere

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Speaker 1: that sells five thousand dollars handbags. But when they go

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Speaker 1: into even a Rite Aid with a bag and they

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Speaker 1: just full it full of everything they can, they are

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Speaker 1: stealing for profit. They're not stealing to just feed themselves,

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Speaker 1: because if they just wanted to feed themselves, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of other options that aren't illegal. This has is

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Speaker 1: such an effect on the psychology of the people in

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Speaker 1: these communities. This is so damaging. You know, it's the

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Speaker 1: same thing when you go into if you're in a

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Speaker 1: really bad neighborhood. So I spent a year and a

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Speaker 1: half at the NYPD Intelligence Division, and part of this

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Speaker 1: was we did some we did some surveillance in some

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Speaker 1: of our cases, and I would go into the neighborhoods

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Speaker 1: in New York that very few New Yorkers that I

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Speaker 1: grew up with in Manhattan and the western part of

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Speaker 1: Brooklyn would ever ever spend any time on their feet

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Speaker 1: walking around in And I would go to these neighborhoods,

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Speaker 1: and I would see some of the local stores there

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Speaker 1: and it looked like the local store, depending especially if

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Speaker 1: it was a liquor store, but even some of the

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Speaker 1: convenience stores were locked down like you were in a

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Speaker 1: prison because they had, you know, the gatedown and they

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Speaker 1: have maybe bulletproof glass. They have. These things exist in

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Speaker 1: different places. That is so damaging for people in a

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Speaker 1: community to see. It is a reminder all the time,

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Speaker 1: you are not safe here, and people don't feel safe

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Speaker 1: working here. And the business owner, as soon as he

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Speaker 1: can afford a more expensive lease is gonna leave. Now

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Speaker 1: that's in. That was in the most by the numbers,

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Speaker 1: most dangerous neighborhoods in New York City, But even in

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Speaker 1: Midtown Manhattan, where I've spent a ton of time. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm a guy who grew up in Manhattan and have

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Speaker 1: lived in Midtown. Even there that they had to shut

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Speaker 1: down this store, I would walk in and I would

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Speaker 1: see and I know the story they talked with this

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Speaker 1: Nearer Post article very well. And I've been in targets,

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Speaker 1: you know, I see the kind of stuff that goes

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Speaker 1: on there too. People steal and they know they won't

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Speaker 1: be punished. That makes people who are around them who

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Speaker 1: see this, who see everything under lock and key, who

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Speaker 1: see the sense of siege that these store clerks are

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Speaker 1: under because a lot of times they'll go people go

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Speaker 1: in there, they'll steal, and maybe they won't try to

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Speaker 1: confront them physically, but there'll be some verbal exchange that

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Speaker 1: often will just evolve into four letter word shouts at

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Speaker 1: each other. And they see all this and they say,

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Speaker 1: why don't I don't want to be here anymore. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to operate a business here anymore. There have

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Speaker 1: to be consequence of this. And I'm also gonna say this, peep,

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Speaker 1: it's bad. This is something that people don't often think about.

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Speaker 1: It's bad for the psychology, it's bad for the emotional health.

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Speaker 1: If you want, I really mean this, of the person

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Speaker 1: doing the stealing, you're now a thief. And when you

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Speaker 1: make a habit of this, you're a criminal. You're a

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Speaker 1: person who is a criminal, and you're profiting from this.

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Speaker 1: This creates a momentum that goes often beyond just I'm

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Speaker 1: filling a bag full of raisers from the right aid.

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Speaker 1: It gets worse from there. And this is why in

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Speaker 1: New York. Eventually when someone's arrested for a carjacking that

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Speaker 1: you know, they they shoot someone in or they anything

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Speaker 1: like you find out, oh yeah, they've been arrested, you know,

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Speaker 1: twenty times before this. We're not doing people any favors

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Speaker 1: by letting them think that crime pays and they can

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Speaker 1: get away with it. This is a national plague. This

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Speaker 1: needs to stop. Everybody needs to get on the same

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Speaker 1: page with stop people from stealing. There must be consequences.

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Speaker 1: Hundreds of millions of dollars for target, millions and millions

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Speaker 1: of dollars for other businesses and sources. You can't even

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Speaker 1: calculate this. It destroys neighborhoods, It brings with it more crime.

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Speaker 1: And this is because Democrats live in this fantasy land

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Speaker 1: where you know, this is not Les Miserab and people

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Speaker 1: are on the streets just wanting a slice of bread

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Speaker 1: or they're going to die of you know, TB or whatever.

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Speaker 1: That's not what's happening. So it's so frustrating because I've

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Speaker 1: seen this and I see the reality of it, and

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Speaker 1: it is just it has become fashionable for Libs, fashionable

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Speaker 1: for Democrats to ignore this. It is destroying neighborhoods. It

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Clay and Buck. Next hour, we'll be

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Speaker 1: talking about the border of bits. Plus. The American Bar

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Speaker 1: Association is considering today whether to allow law schools to

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Speaker 1: drop the lsat the l S at requirement. Why does

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Speaker 1: just a few minutes. First up, we got Martin in

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Speaker 1: New York. Mister Martin, how are you, sir? Hey? How

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Speaker 1: are you? Um? I was the couple of months back

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Speaker 1: in the Brewster home depot. I ended up speaking to

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Speaker 1: a couple of the managers and sales associates there. They

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Speaker 1: have a one million dollar loss prevention per year in

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Speaker 1: loss in set. They're not allowed to chase anyone to

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Speaker 1: let everyone walk out. They steal sermer stats from a

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars at a clip. They put them into bags

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Speaker 1: and walk right out. Yeah, now I know Bruster pretty well. Actually,

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Speaker 1: my grandparents used to have a house up in the

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Speaker 1: Hudson Valley. I'd go visit them in the summer, so

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Speaker 1: I've been through that town many times. And this is

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Speaker 1: thanks for calling in Martin. I'm sure all of you

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Speaker 1: have similar stories at stores that you know, if you

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Speaker 1: talk to the clerks at these places, if they think

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Speaker 1: about it, think about the incentives here. I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: really something. This is the the self degradation of a

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Speaker 1: society at work. When people are incentivized to steal, you

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Speaker 1: can make much more walking into a home depot, let's say,

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Speaker 1: with a bag and filling it full of stolen goods

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Speaker 1: then you will in a week of actually working at

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Speaker 1: that store and adding to your community and providing a

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Speaker 1: service and being a law abiding, decent person. And so

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Speaker 1: what do we do about this? Well, we're told, oh,

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Speaker 1: but we don't want people to have, you know, a

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Speaker 1: bad record. You know, we don't want people. Isn't it

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Speaker 1: fascinating Our society now thinks that people should be fired

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Speaker 1: from their jobs in the you know, in their thirties

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Speaker 1: if they had a homophobic or a racist tweet when

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Speaker 1: they were fourteen. But we are worried about ruining people's

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Speaker 1: lives who are repeat criminal offenders by actually letting them

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Speaker 1: have a criminal record that it stretches back for years.

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Speaker 1: But we just don't want people to know. We don't

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Speaker 1: want anybody all to find out, oh look at the

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Speaker 1: look at the criminality that's in this person's background. Maybe

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Speaker 1: I don't really think that they'd be a great a

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Speaker 1: great hiring option for me right now, or whatever the

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Speaker 1: case may be. Always trying to make sure that criminality

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Speaker 1: is punished as lightly as possible. This is what the

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Speaker 1: left believes, and they've gotten their way. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: remember growing up in and thinking about how and seeing

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Speaker 1: in different shows, you know, people people would be arrested

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Speaker 1: for theft. Think about the case at Oberlin College with

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Speaker 1: Gibson's Gibson's Bakery. A couple of Oberlin's students tried to steal.

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Speaker 1: They just figured we'll walk in, we'll just steal bottles

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Speaker 1: of wine and they won't do anything. Well that Stot's

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Speaker 1: family owned business. They had a problem with that. So

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Speaker 1: they locked the door and they said, we're calling the police,

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Speaker 1: and then the college students got physical with them, and

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Speaker 1: you know what the college did, instead of being horrified

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Speaker 1: that they would have students at a I'm guessing fifty

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Speaker 1: five thousand dollars a year private university or university stealing

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Speaker 1: from a local business that actually provided catering services to

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Speaker 1: the university. Instead of being horrified at that because one

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Speaker 1: of the students involved was a minority, they immediately this

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Speaker 1: university immediately declared that this small business was racist. Racist.

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Speaker 1: How dare you stop people from stealing from you and

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Speaker 1: one of them happens to be a minority, therefore you

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Speaker 1: are racist? Now, Gibson's I think, got a thirty million

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Speaker 1: dollar check completely justified in that, I might add from

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Speaker 1: Oberlin University. But you see, this just keeps playing out.

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Speaker 1: You know, where are the basics here? Where's right and wrong?

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Speaker 1: Where's the most straightforward reality with all of this. Randy

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Speaker 1: in Madison, Wisconsin wants to weigh in. Hey, Randy, how

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Speaker 1: you doing? Calling from the People's Republic of Dane County

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Speaker 1: here real quick. Back in twenty twenty, I find it

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Speaker 1: ironic that the Biden administration is pushing for the student

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Speaker 1: loan forgiveness, But yet the Biden administration put the moratorium

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Speaker 1: in place in twenty twenty, which for landlords, it hurt

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Speaker 1: us big time for the fact that if the tenant

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Speaker 1: did not apply for the peach pp money, the landlord

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Speaker 1: without the landlord could not apply for that PPP money.

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Speaker 1: Here in the state of Wisconsin, Governor Evers announcing all

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Speaker 1: this money available for PPP for landlords and tenants, and

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Speaker 1: it's not it was just for the tenants. Same thing

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Speaker 1: with our Dane County executive here. Yeah. No, look, it's

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Speaker 1: they just decide they try to unconstitutionally extend this as well.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. You know, they're trying to extend the

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Speaker 1: emergency still. The emergency powers were not in a COVID emergency,

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Speaker 1: but that bid administration doesn't want to give up the power,

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Speaker 1: which some of us been warning about it all along.

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Speaker 1: Here I was talking more about that, and also the

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Speaker 1: New York Times saying something really fascinating. Hey, maybe the

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Speaker 1: vaccines aren't going to stop this next wave. Guys just

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Speaker 1: putting that out there. Oh, we know it won't