1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back in our number two Monday edition, 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Hope all of you guys 4 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 1: had fantastic weekends. Thanks for hanging out with us in Houston. 5 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 1: For the twelve hundred or so of you who did 6 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: phenomenal time, they are encourage you to go download the 7 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: podcast make sure you don't miss a single moment. Top 8 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:24,280 Speaker 1: of the next hour, we're going to be joined by 9 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: Trish Reagan to talk about the specifics surrounding a surging 10 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: price of oil and how that is impacting the war 11 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:38,480 Speaker 1: in Ukraine in particular. However, we likely this week, based 12 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,160 Speaker 1: on the trend lines, are going to set an all 13 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: time high for the cost of gas over four dollars 14 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 1: a gallon now in most parts of the country. If 15 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:51,239 Speaker 1: you were listening in the last segment, you heard that 16 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 1: in the San Diego area even at Costco over five 17 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:58,279 Speaker 1: dollars a gallon right now. It's a real tax on 18 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: the vast majority of a mayor Americans, White, Black, Asian 19 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,559 Speaker 1: Hispanic out there who are living paycheck to paycheck and 20 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: the bite that comes out of having to fill up 21 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: your gas tank is a substantial one. So there is 22 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: a solution out there of swords. And by the way, 23 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 1: it's produced more gas in the United States. Drill, baby, drill. 24 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: But in the short term, what we are doing, Buck 25 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: is we are paying for Ukraine to fight against Russia 26 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: billions of dollars, and we are simultaneously putting billions of 27 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:39,559 Speaker 1: dollars into the pockets of the Russian regime of Vladimir Putin, 28 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: because we are paying for the resistance of Ukraine while 29 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: still buying to a large extent, Russian oil. And that 30 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: is true for many different Western democracies. And so there 31 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: has become the discussion and the decision how do we 32 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: replace Russian oils so that we're not effectively paying both 33 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: ends of this conflict, both Ukraine and Russia. And there 34 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: appear to be you tell me if you can think 35 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: of additional ones. But there appear to be five primary 36 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: ways in which we could increase the amount of oil 37 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: that we are able to get from supplier nations. The 38 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: best option is for the United States to go into overdrive. 39 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 1: I would argue that there's probably even a strong argument 40 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: to be made that we should be incentivizing the oil 41 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: production in the United States because we would rather incentivize 42 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: US corporations and US dollars than we would give them 43 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: to other places. So the United States to me, is 44 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 1: a clear number one, maybe a clear number two. And 45 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: the Biden administration, unlike the Trump administration, has tried to 46 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: isolate Saudi Arabia in many ways. Of the petrol states 47 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: that can produce a ton of oil and gas, Saudi 48 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 1: Arabia seems to be the second best option, but the 49 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: Biden administration has had a poor relationship. I think it's 50 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: fair to say with Saudi Arabia third best option, and 51 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: it drops off significantly here. To me, Venezuela, fourth is 52 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,239 Speaker 1: a run and the fifth best option is Russia, So 53 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: we can't do Russia. Would you agree in general, Buck, 54 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: that those are the five major options that we have. 55 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: And we're driven to a situation now because the Biden 56 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: administration will not embrace the fulsome production of oil and 57 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: gas in the United States, such that we are going 58 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: to other countries and trying to amend repair relationships that 59 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:32,839 Speaker 1: have been poor in order to try to drive down 60 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: the price of oil. Let's think about the implication. Yes, 61 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: I mean, you're the ranking of how this will go 62 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: play and what states have additional capacity. You know, traditionally 63 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: we've always gone to the Saudiast and OPEX saying please 64 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: use more of your capacity, right. You know, OPEC is 65 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: a cartel, we all know it, so they can they 66 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: control the price, but we also sometimes ask them to 67 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: do things to help bring the price down. Venezuela was 68 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: producing at it at a height I think it was, well, 69 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: it's essentially producing ten percent now. I think it was 70 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: about three or four million barrels a day back in 71 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 1: the nineties and now it's three or four hundred that 72 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: between three and four hundred thousand barrels a day something 73 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: like that. So Venezuelan production is down substantially, and there 74 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 1: are sanctions on Venezuela because it is a well it's 75 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: a it's actually not even just a petro state, it's 76 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 1: a narco state. If you look at the Treasury sanctions 77 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: against senior Venezuelan officials for drug trafficking, it's it's a 78 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,560 Speaker 1: socialist hell hole, as we all know. But now we're 79 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: in a situation where we're going to turn to them 80 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: perhaps or even recognized the president by the way, Maduro, 81 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: we've tried to argue he's not the legitimate president for years, 82 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:43,039 Speaker 1: and now we're showing up in Venezuela and we're like, hey, oh, 83 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: by the way, hey Maduro, yes, sorry about that hole. 84 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:49,160 Speaker 1: You didn't deserve to be president. Thing we need, we 85 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 1: need your gas, right Like, that's where we are with Venezuela, 86 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 1: which is a mess in and of itself. Here he goes, 87 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 1: here's Pete Buddha judge last week when he's asked specifically 88 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: about Iranian oil, which might even get people's attention. Yes, 89 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: more than oil coming, you know, asking for a change 90 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: in the sanctions regime with Venezuela so we can start 91 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: buying Venezuelan crude. Here's what the Transportation secretary said. Could 92 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: the President possibly consider authorizing the Keystone pipeline working something 93 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 1: out with Iran? Look, the President has said that all 94 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: options are on the table, but we also need to 95 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: make sure that we're not galloping after permanent solutions to 96 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: immediate short term problems, where more strategic and tactical actions 97 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:34,919 Speaker 1: in the short term can make a difference, like what 98 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: you have with the Strategic Preserve, which exists partly in 99 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: order to respond to situations like this. So we have 100 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: him not saying no because they are thinking perhaps about 101 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 1: this as a possibility. Because mind you play, while all 102 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 1: this is going on, Bid administration is trying to push 103 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 1: for a new Iran nuclear deal because the Obama Ron 104 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: nuclear deal was so great, They're going to do a 105 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,799 Speaker 1: deal that gives even more of what it wants. Meantime, 106 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: this just actually broke on the Washington Examine or website 107 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: Washington zamer dot com. At least two Iranians belonging to 108 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Covert Action Could's force have been 109 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: plotting to assassinate former National Security Advisor John Bolton, according 110 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: to a Justice Department official with direct knowledge of the investigation. 111 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 1: The source tells the Washington Examiner the Department possesses indictable 112 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:28,240 Speaker 1: evidence against Iranians, but the Biden administration officials are resisting 113 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: publicly indicting the men for fear it could derail their 114 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: drive for a nuclear deal with Iran, currently nearing completion 115 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: in negotiations in Vienna, Austria. So, I mean, just to 116 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: give everyone a full sense there, you've got that that 117 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: story breaking a Washington Examiner right now. Give everyone John 118 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: Bolton even have security I mean, I'm like, if I'm 119 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: John Bolton, I'm like, Iran's trying to kill me. I mean, 120 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: it's not like he has Secret Service protection. I mean, 121 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: that's that's not a guy. You know, you're talking about 122 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:00,479 Speaker 1: assassinating any American former official. That is obviously should be 123 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: I think a red line of I mean, we were 124 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: just talking about this last week when Lindsey Graham said 125 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: somebody needs to kill Vladimir Putin, and we actually said, 126 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: what if our allies or if our adversaries were trying 127 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: to kill government officials of America. The fact that they're 128 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: trying to cover this up is not good. But John 129 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: Bolton I wouldn't think would have even that much security 130 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: around him, which is alarming too, meaning it could be 131 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: somewhat successful. It's not like he's followed by a cadre 132 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: of Secret Service agents and yet just goes to show 133 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: you this whole situation. The Biden view on and the 134 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: Democrats forget the Biden view. Biden doesn't know where he 135 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: is sometimes. The Democrat administration, the Democrat general view on 136 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: all this stuff is somehow oil from more oil from America. Bad, Yes, 137 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 1: oil from Venezuela, Iran wherever right now. Good because our 138 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: oil there's something there's something wrong, the same same carbon 139 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: emission folks, same stuff going into the air, which it's 140 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: not a problem anyway, but put that aside for a second, 141 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: save CO two emissions. But they would just rather us 142 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: not because we have to lead on climate change, Clay, 143 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: I want them to remember that when they're filling their 144 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: tank with five five fifty six dollars a gallon gasoline. Oh, 145 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: it's for leading on climate change. And let's not understate 146 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: what's happening here. We are taking American dollars and we 147 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: are giving them to authoritarian petrol state people buy and 148 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:36,199 Speaker 1: large who hate America. So we are enabling them to 149 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: be more effective in their governance because they have more 150 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:43,199 Speaker 1: money to distribute. And it is American dollars that are 151 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 1: being distributed. And this is infuriating I know too many 152 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: of you, because we should have created an opportunity for 153 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: ourselves to be producing the full amount that we possibly 154 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: can in the United States. But as you point out, Buck, 155 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: this is where Democrats have played themselves right. They've painted 156 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: themselves into a corner where they're in order to continue 157 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: to make their climate change in lunatics happy they have 158 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: to now give money to Venezuela, Iran, Russia. Saudi Arabia 159 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 1: is the best of the bad options. But over their 160 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: relationship with MBS Mohammed Ben Salmon, I believe relating to 161 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 1: the killing of a Washington Post journalists, they basically have 162 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 1: isolated Saudi Arabias. So Saudi Arabia has not been inclined 163 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: even though Saudi Arabia's traditionally had decent relationships. Of all 164 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:39,960 Speaker 1: of these countries that we're talking about with the United States, 165 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,080 Speaker 1: they haven't been inclined to increase production at all. So 166 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: as oil skyrockets to one hundred and thirty dollars, as 167 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: people are paying closer and closer to five dollars a 168 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: gallon for gas everywhere, that money is going directly into 169 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: America's enemy's pockets because we're making the conscious decision not 170 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: to produce as much as possible in the United States. 171 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,679 Speaker 1: And this all comes from a belief. Just remember this 172 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: that the Green New Deal is not insane. That the 173 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: world is going to end unless we have a massive 174 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: reduction not just in carbon emissions, but in modern lifestyles, folks, 175 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 1: I mean the amount of wealth destruction that it would 176 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: entail to actually meet the targets that we're never going 177 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:22,559 Speaker 1: to meet. But they're going to whine about it anyway. 178 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: What because Greta Thunberg said, how dare you? We're all 179 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 1: supposed to change how trillions of dollars of economic economic 180 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:36,559 Speaker 1: activity occur. This is completely insane, it's absolutely absurd. But 181 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,320 Speaker 1: the Biden base won't allow him to go back on this. 182 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: I mean, here's even Chris Christie who's saying that straight up, 183 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 1: this is domestic. Domestic Democrat politics are what's making this 184 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: energy issue so incoherent. Do two things at the same time, 185 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:53,959 Speaker 1: and you should be able to. You have to ban 186 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 1: Russian oil and you have to increase domestic production. And 187 00:10:57,480 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: that is where Joe Biden's gonna have the problem because 188 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 1: he's held captive by the environmental left. Perry his guy, 189 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:08,560 Speaker 1: said last week that the real tragedy of Ukraine is 190 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:12,439 Speaker 1: it's slowing our efforts on climate change. That will summarize 191 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: what the far left view is about domestic oil production. 192 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:19,319 Speaker 1: He's right, claiman these people are hardliners, They're like climate Bolsheviks. 193 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: They're not a majority, not even close. There may be 194 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: five to ten percent of the country, but they're incredibly loud, 195 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:29,560 Speaker 1: they're well funded, and they're very influential, and they're absolutely nuts. Well, 196 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,079 Speaker 1: what this shows us too, and we probably should continue 197 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: to talk about this during the course of the show, 198 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: is so much of what week are concerned about in 199 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: the United States on a day to day basis really 200 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 1: doesn't matter when you look at what's going on in Ukraine, 201 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 1: when you look at the threats of Russia. We get 202 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 1: obsessed with things that aren't actually helpful in any way. 203 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 1: And one of these is the idea of a hoped 204 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 1: for future where fossil fuels have a smaller and smaller 205 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,839 Speaker 1: role in the world world versus a reality right now 206 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: where every single person who's filling up their car or 207 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: a truck or suv is paying a default massive tax 208 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:13,439 Speaker 1: increase because of our American energy policy, which is broken 209 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 1: right now. When we come back, we got Tris Regan 210 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: at the top of the third hour. 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We are now in 237 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: very active discussions with our European partners about banning the 238 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 1: import for Russian oil to our countries, while of course, 239 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: at the same time maintaining a steady global supply of oil. 240 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 1: The actions we've taken to date have already had a 241 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: devastating impact on the Russian economy. We see the google 242 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: and freefall, we see the economy heading into a deep recession. 243 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:02,319 Speaker 1: We've order had a major impact. But we are looking 244 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 1: again as we speak, in coordination with allies and partners 245 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: at this process banning oil imports, US and NATO banning 246 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: Russian oil imports. This will be interesting. Welcome back to 247 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 1: Clay and Buck understand. First off, is it oil and 248 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 1: gas or is it just oil that actually makes a difference. 249 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: The European states, notably Germany gets i think ten percent 250 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: of its gas from Russia, but I'm sorry, oil from Russia, 251 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 1: but something like thirty to forty percent of its natural 252 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 1: gas from Russia. So the devil is in the details 253 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: as always. But Clay, I think we could be in 254 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: a remarkable situation in a sense here because they're talking 255 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: about doing this. I mean, if they pull the trigger 256 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: on that so to speak, if they actually sanction the 257 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 1: Russian energy sector. But we're talking about here with almost 258 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: all time record. Now I know it's not a I 259 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: don't think that's adjusted for inflation. Still, I mean, the 260 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 1: fact that we're at an all time near an all 261 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: time high for national level gas prices is pretty remarkable 262 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: for this moment. But here they are saying they might 263 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: actually take the next step of sanctioning the Russian energy sector. 264 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 1: And if they go after banks that do business with 265 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: the Russian Russian energy sector, that's the real nuclear option, 266 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: so to speak. The economy is going to get really 267 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: ugly in this country, and it does. I think it 268 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: makes us sit around and ask this question, is that something? 269 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: Is that something the American people really want? I mean, 270 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: are they willing to do? The American people want those 271 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: who represent them in government right now to drive the 272 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: price of oil up to one eighty two hundred whatever. 273 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: Who knows two hundred plus dollars a barrel. This is 274 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: the question we asked that I thought was so fascinating. 275 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: In general, what is the amount where Americans are willing 276 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: to pay in order to fight effectively in economic war 277 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: in Ukraine? I remember Joe Mansion came out Senator from 278 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: West Virginia and said, oh, I'm willing to pay an 279 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: extra dime in order to be able to help Ukraine well. 280 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: According to the gas Buddy website, Greg Our, one of 281 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: our researchers here and workers on the show, said that 282 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 1: last week's rise in gas prices was the second largest 283 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 1: weekly jump ever. It rose nearly forty one cents across 284 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: the nation in the last seven days, the only time 285 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 1: that it has been a more rapid increase in a week, 286 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 1: forty nine cent per gallon increase. And some of you 287 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 1: will remember this that happened back when Hurricane Katrina in 288 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 1: two thousand and five shut down oil production in Gulf 289 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: of in the Gulf of Mexico. So what we have 290 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 1: seen in the last seven days, it's not your imagination. 291 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: It is one of the largest increases in gas prices 292 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: in a week that has ever occurred in the history 293 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: of the United States. Forty one cents. Only one higher 294 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 1: forty nine cents. And we'll talk to Trishaagan here in 295 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 1: about what a half hour to find out what the 296 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 1: latest is from her perspective on this. But the question 297 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:11,200 Speaker 1: is bucket, I think it's a good one. How much 298 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:14,919 Speaker 1: higher will the price of gas go and to what 299 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 1: extent are the American public willing to pay these increased 300 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: costs based on an economic war between Ukraine and Russian 301 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 1: Biden has no political capital to spend on this issue 302 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:30,320 Speaker 1: right now at all, and that's something that's going to 303 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 1: make a big challenge of Democrats. 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Welcome back in Clay, Travis Buck 333 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: Sex did show appreciate all of you hanging out with 334 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:12,719 Speaker 1: us while there's tons of chaos still going on surrounding 335 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: Ukraine and Russia and all of that which has been 336 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: soaking up much of the oxygen of the American political discussion. 337 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: It's important to recognize that the COVID story is still 338 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:32,240 Speaker 1: not going away, and we'll see whether or not the 339 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: rollback and buck I was going to mention in New 340 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: York City, you guys now have done away today with 341 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,640 Speaker 1: a COVID vaccine passport as well as the indoor mask 342 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:44,920 Speaker 1: mandate for school children. Right, so that is at least 343 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 1: done away for now. It could still come back, but 344 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 1: that is at least a sign of somewhat normalcy returning 345 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: in America's biggest city. Right, does it feel different at 346 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:56,920 Speaker 1: all to you? I know it's soon. I've only been 347 00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: a day, but can you tell the difference. I think 348 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 1: that you're seeing it's interesting, you're seeing people. It's also 349 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,439 Speaker 1: warm here. It's in the seventies today, so that's a 350 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:09,199 Speaker 1: big change. And because it's one thing to wear a 351 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:11,919 Speaker 1: mask outside when it's thirty degrees or something. You know, 352 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,439 Speaker 1: some people don't, you know, but it doesn't even sometimes 353 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,359 Speaker 1: it's not even that bad when you're cold, right, I 354 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: mean that's what people says. One of those gators or 355 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: one of those things you pull up around anyway, I 356 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,439 Speaker 1: think they're yeah, there is a sense of most people 357 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:29,640 Speaker 1: now are are calming down quite a bit about this, 358 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:31,640 Speaker 1: and you're gonna be able to go into restaurants, are 359 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: not going to ask you for for vaccine passports anymore. 360 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: I haven't had that experience that I'll let you know 361 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 1: what it is like to because we were just in Houston, right, 362 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,199 Speaker 1: We're just in Texas. Where you walk in is the 363 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 1: only thing that requires that your day to day. If 364 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: you're take an uber in Houston, the drivers are masked 365 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 1: and technically you're supposed to be masked too. Same thing 366 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: with lyft um. These unfortunately left wing you know, tech 367 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,359 Speaker 1: rideshare platforms are still insane when it comes to COVID. 368 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: Don't pay attention to the science, don't pay attention to 369 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 1: the data. But you know, I get to this point 370 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: now where I want to point. I want to tell 371 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 1: everybody to go check out the Carol Marcowitz post in 372 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: the in the New York Post, or her piece in 373 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 1: the New York Post where she says we needed demand apologies. 374 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 1: This is not enough. This is not okay to just say, 375 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:21,880 Speaker 1: all right, they'll finally stop being so crazy and tyrannical 376 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: about all this, because it's impossible. I would love the 377 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 1: opportunity to debate any of the people who have been 378 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: going on TV for two years saying mask up vaccines 379 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: will stop the spread, social distance, all this stuff, And 380 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,479 Speaker 1: of course we've made a joke of it, but it 381 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 1: is remarkable how quickly Fauci has just disappeared. Disappeared. No, 382 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 1: no lessons learn to share with us, HF fouch, you know, 383 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: no more lectures about taking the virus seriously, and it's 384 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: too soon. We don't want to go too fast. You 385 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 1: sit around, you wonder at what point do people transition 386 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: from relief that their captors no longer torment them to 387 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 1: rage at the fact that the Democrat captors here did 388 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: this to us in the first place for so long. 389 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 1: And I'm I'm furious about it. You know, I walk 390 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: around New York. I'm not I don't feel this sense 391 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: of oh, it's great, we're normal now. I'm filled with 392 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 1: rage at having to get I mean, clay. They made 393 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 1: me get a shot so that I could just live 394 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 1: normal life here and you could go to your brother's wedding, 395 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 1: so I could go to my brother's wedding. And people 396 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,439 Speaker 1: were saying, oh, but do you really have to Yeah, 397 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 1: they were going to bar people from the door unless 398 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: you want a vaccine passed wort, they say, oh, well, 399 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 1: you should have gotten a fake one. People told me 400 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: that it's a felony. You think they're gonna make an 401 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:40,879 Speaker 1: example of somebody faster than they will me if they 402 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: figure out that, you know, a vocal anti mandate person 403 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:46,920 Speaker 1: has a fake on them. So of course I didn't 404 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: want to do that. They made me get a shot 405 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: clay that did nothing that I didn't need, and they 406 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,120 Speaker 1: think that they're gonna tell me to do shots again 407 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: in the future. That's why I am. I am cracking 408 00:22:57,840 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 1: knuckles here, folks. I'm ready for the next round. I 409 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 1: have not done with these loons. It's why there needs 410 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: to be a reckoning and why we are going to 411 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: continue to argue throughout the course of this year that 412 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:13,840 Speaker 1: you can't let your captors suddenly give you freedom and 413 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,640 Speaker 1: forget about the time they kept you in captivity. There 414 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 1: needs to be a reckoning. There need to be consequences. 415 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:23,120 Speaker 1: And I got to give credit to Florida's surgeon general, who, 416 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:25,400 Speaker 1: by the way, is doing an incredible job. His name's 417 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: Joseph Latipo. He is a Harvard Med School graduate. He 418 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: is the Florida Surgeon General. And Florida today became the 419 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:41,200 Speaker 1: first state to recommend against the COVID nineteen vaccine for 420 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 1: healthy children. Now, Buck, I've talked about it on this show. 421 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: I'm not getting the COVID vaccine for a vaccine as 422 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 1: in quotation marks. By the way, every time I use it, 423 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:55,200 Speaker 1: the COVID shot, I should say for my kids, there's 424 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,439 Speaker 1: probably a good chance they've had it. They never showed 425 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,199 Speaker 1: any symptoms of any sort of substit angel degree, but 426 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 1: both my wife and I have had it. I've had 427 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: it twice we know of, and there's no we know 428 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 1: now that the five two eleven year olds who got 429 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: the COVID shot got limited protection. At best. It didn't 430 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,920 Speaker 1: make it anymore likely that you weren't going to get COVID. 431 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 1: The rates of COVID seriousness four young kids remain virtually zero. 432 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,360 Speaker 1: And this is a big deal. I think that Florida 433 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: has become the first state to say, hey, we're recommending 434 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 1: that your kids don't need to get the COVID shot 435 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 1: because California at least as there are other states, maybe Buck, 436 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 1: I can't remember, but I know California has said this fall, 437 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: we're going to mandate that your kids have the COVID 438 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: shot in order to attend school here. And this is 439 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,240 Speaker 1: going to turn into another battleground because Florida's right based 440 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: on the data, there's no way that your kids should 441 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,359 Speaker 1: be forced to get the COVID shot. But this is 442 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,880 Speaker 1: going the next step and saying, hey, actually the science 443 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: and the data don't support your kid getting the COVID 444 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 1: shot at all. And yet are they ever going to 445 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: say sorry Florida for politicizing all this all along? You're right, 446 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 1: Florida opening schools was the right move. Letting people go 447 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,119 Speaker 1: to school without masks if they chose to do so, 448 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: was the right move. There are no one somehow Clay 449 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 1: this is. This is a remarkable situation we're seeing in 450 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 1: America today. There were so many people who were so provably, 451 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:32,399 Speaker 1: demonstrably and catastrophically wrong on a whole range of fronts. 452 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 1: No one apologizes, ever, No one ever comes forward, it seems, 453 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: and says I'm sorry that I acted in such an 454 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 1: emotionally charged, politicized, tribal fashion. No one says that, how 455 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,679 Speaker 1: is that possible? How is it that that that Rachelle 456 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 1: will Lenski the best that she can do? Here? You 457 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 1: go yeah, we need to play this. She says. Yeah, 458 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 1: there is like maybe a little too much optimism about vaccines. 459 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 1: I can tell you where I was when the CNN 460 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:08,439 Speaker 1: became that it was nine percent effective the vaccine. So 461 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,679 Speaker 1: many of us wanted to be helpful. So many of 462 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 1: us wanted to say, okay, this is our ticket out right, 463 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 1: now we're done. So I think we have perhaps too 464 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 1: little caution and too much optimism for some good things 465 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,160 Speaker 1: that came our way. I really do. I think all 466 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:29,120 Speaker 1: of us wanted this to be done. Nobody said waning 467 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 1: when you know all this vaccine's gonna work. Oh well, 468 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 1: maybe it'll work. It all were off. Nobody said well 469 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 1: what if the next variant doesn't. It doesn't, it's not 470 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: as potlic and against the next variant. Lots of people 471 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: said that Buck when she said nobody said it was waning. 472 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: We had Alex Barnson on and we had a lot 473 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: of other doctors who said this is a concern. Early 474 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: on Twitter bandoned, lots of people said this data is 475 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 1: very short lived. It isn't likely to stand up. Look 476 00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 1: at what's going on in Israel, look at what's going 477 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 1: on in England. There was only about six weeks or 478 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 1: two months where people really thought, oh, this thing is 479 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 1: gonna work at a high level. Can we also just 480 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 1: note that that's the CDC director saying, I mean actually 481 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 1: saying out loud, and I have to see where that 482 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 1: where she was, where she was, you know, saying this thing. 483 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,439 Speaker 1: But she sang out loud in front of people the 484 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: vaccines wear off yep, and didn't really work against the 485 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,360 Speaker 1: new variant. That is what she is saying, everybody, This 486 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,880 Speaker 1: is the CDC director admitting that what we have been 487 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 1: telling you here for seven months something like that. Now, 488 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 1: I mean, look you go July, August, September, October, November, December, January. Yeah, 489 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 1: about seven months or so. She's finally saying it. Is 490 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 1: she apologizing, Is she's saying, Wow, I'm embarrassed to be 491 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:54,120 Speaker 1: the head of this massive cluster of an organization known 492 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: as the CDC, and that we met, we fired people 493 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: from their jobs. We had the President of the United 494 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 1: States referring to the unvaccinated like a barbarian horde that 495 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,920 Speaker 1: was burning down our society, and that that was madness, 496 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: and that we were wrong and we're idiots. None of 497 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: that has been said, Clay, not even a little bit 498 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: of an apology, not at all. Welcome back in. We 499 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 1: want to tell you about our buddy, Mike Lindell. He's 500 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 1: the inventor of My Pillow, and my goodness, do they 501 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 1: get you hooked up. 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We've got a lot of 518 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,040 Speaker 1: people who want to weigh in, not surprisingly right now 519 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 1: in the phone universe, and we got Jim. Let's start 520 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 1: in Jim and West Melbourne, Florida. What do you think 521 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 1: you want to weigh in on these gas prices and 522 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 1: how it impacts the Ukrainian situation? Yeah, I just want 523 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 1: to say. The question was was America willing to pay 524 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 1: the price? And I think, hand guess we're willing to 525 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: fade the price. We'll pay the price. Where a nation 526 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 1: that stands up for the little guy. We've fought for 527 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 1: freedom forever and for us, we got any character left 528 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 1: at all if we're just not give you in completely 529 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 1: to the Democratic a ranch and rave the cowardice and 530 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,200 Speaker 1: the one world order stuff. Let's stand up to these people. 531 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 1: Let's stand up and what the Republicans would demand that 532 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 1: the Democrats should produce gas and oil. It wouldn't be 533 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 1: much of a battle. I tell you what I'm willing 534 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: to pay. I'm willing to pay more for gas to 535 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 1: protect those people. How high? All right? What's the dollar Jim? 536 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 1: Where you would say, you know what price has gotten 537 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:20,959 Speaker 1: too high for me? That's the question. I'm asking a 538 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: lot of people say, hey, I'm willing to pay the price. No, 539 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 1: there would not get I've got friends in Ukraine. I'm I'm, 540 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,120 Speaker 1: I'm I'll fight for him if I could. I'm seventy 541 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,680 Speaker 1: six years old for caring out loud. Don't put a gun, So, 542 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 1: Jim to Clay's question, two hundred dollars a barrel gasoline, 543 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 1: because we've got Russian energy sanctions in place, full full 544 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: scale ones. You say, worth it worth Republicans? Are they 545 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 1: not going to get us to pump gas? Are they 546 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 1: not going to get that? That's gonna take a while. 547 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: Even if even if we put in charge the most 548 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 1: drill baby drill administration possible right now, Jim, it would 549 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,200 Speaker 1: take some time to get that production online end of 550 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 1: this year. To make up the full shortfall from Russia 551 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 1: and gas or Russian oil would be possible. But it's 552 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 1: gonna take some time. So in the meantime, two hundred 553 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 1: dollars a barrel, you say, you go for it, I'll 554 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 1: go for it. I'm walking to the store if I 555 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 1: have to. We're gonna protect these people. They're real here. 556 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 1: I I appreciate that perspective. I think there's a lot 557 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 1: of people who if you told them, hey, it's gonna 558 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 1: be eight dollar a gallon oil, h you know, to 559 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 1: fill up your gas tank is gonna be eight dollars 560 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 1: nine dollars Ukraine, I think a lot of people start 561 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 1: to ask the question. I mean, you know, Ukrainians have 562 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 1: got a lot of people in this country who are 563 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 1: really fired up on their behalf. Isn't so fascinating Clay 564 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:39,120 Speaker 1: that we've gone through now decades of particularly European countries, 565 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 1: talking about America as this as this wayward leviathan that 566 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 1: will stomp on, you know, stomp on countries and do 567 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,280 Speaker 1: all this bad stuff. At the moment some real threat 568 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 1: appears on the world stage, it's where's America? Where's America? 569 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 1: Right away? That that's always you know, this is in France, 570 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,800 Speaker 1: in Germany. It's really what does America want to do 571 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,040 Speaker 1: about this? We all know that, right'. That's what the 572 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: Europeans who love to lecture us on not being multilateral enough, 573 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 1: have to say when things get scary, When actual danger arises, 574 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:15,240 Speaker 1: we also see how quickly so much of this shenanigans vanishes, 575 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 1: at least in the minds of I think reasonable people 576 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,200 Speaker 1: and the vast majority of people are reasonable. For instance, 577 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 1: if we have to go to war, do you think 578 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 1: anybody is going to care about the diversity and inclusion 579 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: in our military? Or do you plan it trying to 580 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,240 Speaker 1: wreck as many people as they can. You know, this 581 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,600 Speaker 1: is where rubber meets the road. I said this on 582 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:41,200 Speaker 1: Tucker last week. When you need open heart surgery, do 583 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 1: you say, hey, I wonder what the diversity and inclusion 584 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,120 Speaker 1: is like at this hospital? Do you say, hey, I 585 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:55,680 Speaker 1: wonder whether or not this doctor was a good dad 586 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 1: or a good mom or whatever it is. No, you 587 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 1: want the baddest ass open heart surgeon ever. And when 588 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,760 Speaker 1: push comes to shove, when there are lives on the line, 589 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,840 Speaker 1: I don't care about anything, but I want the baddest 590 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:16,160 Speaker 1: ass dudes on the planet representing the United States of America. 591 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 1: And I think this is the kind of crucible moment 592 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,880 Speaker 1: where a lot of this BS that the Democrats have 593 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:27,040 Speaker 1: been selling really goes up in smoke. Aren't in Oregon art? 594 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:32,520 Speaker 1: What have you got for us? Clay Buck oil is 595 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:35,800 Speaker 1: more than just gas, guys, I said this last week. 596 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 1: It's about goes into products. Well, yeah, plastic bottles, etc. 597 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 1: I mean this gas thing is killing my vending business, 598 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 1: the gas is but also the plastic bottles that have 599 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:55,240 Speaker 1: pop in it, the packaging that wraps my products and everything. 600 00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:01,360 Speaker 1: It's just astronomical. It's killing all our businesses. These Democrats 601 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 1: and these climate looney guys don't care about us, but 602 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:11,280 Speaker 1: we're destroying the country and these We got to put 603 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:15,920 Speaker 1: the pressure on because we have to be energy independent, 604 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:20,280 Speaker 1: not only for gas but also for all this stuff 605 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,680 Speaker 1: that we're paying lots more for. And it's going to 606 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 1: continue if we allow the dang Democrats to do their 607 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,880 Speaker 1: climate art art. To your point here, it's one I 608 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,040 Speaker 1: think people are almost thinking of, thank you for calling 609 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:37,320 Speaker 1: in from Oregon, Clay. People are thinking about It's almost 610 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,799 Speaker 1: like it's you know, when you're at a CVS or 611 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,319 Speaker 1: something and you do, you know, donate a dollar for 612 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:43,840 Speaker 1: a good cause, and a lot of people will do that, 613 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:45,880 Speaker 1: whatever the cause may be. You know, I've donate a 614 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,680 Speaker 1: dollar to Ukraine. Okay, what about a prolonged recession? What 615 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,640 Speaker 1: about the American economy suffering real damage for months and 616 00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,920 Speaker 1: months on end, People unable to pay their bills, people 617 00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:00,920 Speaker 1: who become depressed to become suicidal because the American economy 618 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,880 Speaker 1: has taken a nosedive. You know, that's what we could 619 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,160 Speaker 1: be when we're talking about paying a higher price. This 620 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,320 Speaker 1: isn't just you know, take a penny, give a penny. 621 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,799 Speaker 1: It's also a higher price for everything, which you talked 622 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:13,919 Speaker 1: about last week, and our caller aren't there was trying 623 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,279 Speaker 1: to make that point as well. When the cost of 624 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:21,280 Speaker 1: oil and gas goes up for products everywhere, for transportation, 625 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,160 Speaker 1: not just the individual person who's standing there trying to 626 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,040 Speaker 1: fill up their car, are they paying the price? And 627 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,839 Speaker 1: buck by the way, to your point, you know, we 628 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:34,640 Speaker 1: still have two point one million fewer people working than 629 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,040 Speaker 1: we're working in February of twenty twenty before we did 630 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:42,200 Speaker 1: the initial shutdown, lockdown fifteen days to slow the spread business. 631 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 1: Still two point one million people. How much is this 632 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,960 Speaker 1: going to slow down the overall recovery of our economy 633 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,120 Speaker 1: with these energy prices? I think pretty substantially. We're gonna 634 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:56,000 Speaker 1: coming back here in just a few moments with Trish Reagan, folks, 635 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,200 Speaker 1: she is of the Trish Reagan Podcast formerly a Fox 636 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,800 Speaker 1: Business Network and Bloomberg talking about where does the economy 637 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,760 Speaker 1: go from here? How does this affect your checkbook? Price 638 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,040 Speaker 1: of gas obviously a big part of it's also the 639 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,040 Speaker 1: latest on the negotiations between Ukraine and Putin, and there's 640 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:17,040 Speaker 1: a convoy making its way toward DC, a trucker convoy. 641 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:18,600 Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about it the next hour.