1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,639 Speaker 1: Second hour of the Clay Travis end Buck Sexton Show 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: is here. Everybody, thank you for rolling with us. Independence 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 1: Day weekend for the July weekend is here. And I 4 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:12,639 Speaker 1: really hope for many of you who are going to 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: be flying, including myself here, that everything goes smoothly with 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 1: staffing and it's not. It's spoiler Alerte. I hate to 7 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,639 Speaker 1: ruin for everybody else. I'm hoping our people happen to 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: be all okay and that it's just none of our 9 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: people listen to the show are the ones that are 10 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:33,559 Speaker 1: gonna have their flights canceled or rerouted or you know, 11 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: Heaven knows. I feel like one of the worst ones 12 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: these days is I've had I think this happens now 13 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,480 Speaker 1: almost every time I fly, even when everything goes smoothly, 14 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: waiting thirty minutes for a gate agent, slash team whatever 15 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: it is. So your plane is landed and stopped, but 16 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: you're about fifty yards from being home free and the 17 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: pilot whos comes on. I'm sorry, we have to wait 18 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: for about forty minutes here. Sorry, folks, you know you're 19 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: just sitting here like it's infuriating to wait for a 20 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:09,119 Speaker 1: gate to open in all seriousness. I know these January 21 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 1: sixth investigations are never going to end, but we gave 22 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 1: a lot of taxpayer money to airlines during COVID to 23 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 1: try and make sure that the airlines didn't shut down. 24 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: I want Congress to investigate what's going on with the 25 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:28,119 Speaker 1: airline industry right now. I mean, I mean this honestly. 26 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: They're going to be doing investigations. Why is it that 27 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: it feels as if every airline doesn't have enough employees? 28 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 1: Is it related to COVID shots? Is it that there 29 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: were suddenly just a lot of people who decided to 30 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:46,400 Speaker 1: leave pilots and staff during COVID and have never come back. 31 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: Why is it that the airline industry cannot function like 32 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: it did pre COVID? And I don't understand the argument 33 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,559 Speaker 1: that COVID would have really changed that much in terms 34 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: of how their business is done. Does that make sense 35 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 1: to you? I mean does it? For a long time, 36 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: I was willing to give airlines a pass because of 37 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 1: all the ravaging of their industry that happened with COVID 38 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: when there were a lot less flights and they were 39 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: having to not use them. But how is that occurring 40 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: now when we're it sort of feels like record travel levels. 41 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: That's such a good question, you know. I see that 42 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 1: over four hundred flights for this weekend I've already been canceled. 43 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: And this was as if I think this morning and 44 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: seventeen hundred were delayed. And I always have this thing 45 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,839 Speaker 1: in my mind where you can usually when you get 46 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:41,079 Speaker 1: one delay, you might it might only be that, but 47 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: once you get to delay number two and three, now 48 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 1: now you're like in the matrix and there's no escape. 49 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: You know, they're just going to keep you there as 50 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 1: long as they want, and you'll be delayed for hours 51 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 1: and hours, you know. I spoke to Carrie's dad, who 52 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: was the came on the show. Him on the show, 53 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: who's a retired top gun on uh you know, instructor 54 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 1: he and he's his role was he was actually like 55 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: the the playing the role of of enemy fighter trying 56 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: to train the guys. Like I think that's so that's 57 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,799 Speaker 1: what he was again not wait, I got it wrong. 58 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,919 Speaker 1: He was Viper. He was not not Merlin, right, Viper 59 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 1: not Merlin. Sorry about that one, guys, um, But you know, 60 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: he's in the airline industry, and I was trying to 61 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,920 Speaker 1: ask about this and and you know, it's just apparently 62 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 1: they didn't. They haven't really. They had a lot of 63 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: pilots retired during COVID. Yeah, that's one of the excuses. 64 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: They said, a lot of pilots retired then because they 65 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: didn't know how long it was going to go. They 66 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: know what was going on, and they haven't really. Uh, 67 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: the pipeline takes a while to fill up. But I 68 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure that's all true. But I also, 69 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: why is it that, you know, Delta Airlines, for example, 70 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: just to give just to give one um Delta Airlines 71 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: before the pandemic was I think the stock was that, 72 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: if not an all time high, close to it, and 73 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: there was some big dividend for employees of the company too, 74 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: like it was doing really well. So it felt like 75 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: the airline industry was working very well as of twenty nineteen. 76 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: What happened, I mean, the pandemic happened, I know, but 77 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: why can't they bring it back again? I gave them 78 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: a lot of space, and you and I probably we 79 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: travel a lot. So what was the first time you 80 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 1: were on a plane post COVID, Like COVID hits in March, 81 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,559 Speaker 1: when were you remember the first flight you took after 82 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: COVID hit. Such a good question. I think it was 83 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 1: to Miami. Yeah, and I can't remember exactly when it was. 84 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: I mean, I've now, I've been in Florida so many 85 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: times in the last two years that it all blends 86 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 1: together in my head. I mean I've flown that. I 87 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: mean I was flying up to before they even put 88 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,160 Speaker 1: the mask mandates back. You know, Airlines Southwest in May 89 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 1: of twenty instituted the mask mandate for the first time, 90 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: and that was when it was still early enough that 91 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 1: they were passing out masks for you to get on 92 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: the airplane. So I was flying within I don't know, 93 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 1: seven weeks of six weeks of everything shutting down. Can 94 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: we also get them to stop with the little hand 95 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: sanitizer thing? Didn't we like this was never required? But 96 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:14,000 Speaker 1: didn't we all learn the hand sanitizer if you're concerned 97 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: about COVID it does nothing. It does nothing. There's zero 98 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 1: efficacy to the hands because I still get on play 99 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 1: and they want to give me the little hand sanitizer. 100 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,159 Speaker 1: And I understand for the weirdo that's you know, three 101 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,679 Speaker 1: people behind me in line, who's got the two masks 102 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:31,479 Speaker 1: in the face shield. That looks like it's a really 103 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: important thing to have the hand sanitizer, But for the 104 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:37,039 Speaker 1: rest of us, what are they doing? It was it smells. 105 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,359 Speaker 1: I don't like it. Buck. I took my kids to 106 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that we were I'm trying to remember exactly. 107 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 1: I think it was December of twenty twenty. We went 108 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 1: to Universal Studios and this is one of the craziest 109 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 1: things I've ever seen. Every time you got on a ride, 110 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 1: they insisted that you hand sanitize. No, come on, I 111 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 1: swear they had somebody standing there with a monster tub 112 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 1: basically of hand sanitizer, and every time you went and 113 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 1: got on a ride, they made you use hand sanitizer. 114 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: And I tried at one point to walk past to 115 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: get on one of the Harry Potter rides, and they 116 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: were like, sir, sir, you must hand sanitize. You had 117 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:22,239 Speaker 1: to wear a mask. I was just glad they were open. 118 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: But they had some poor, some poor seventeen year old 119 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 1: standing there squirting hand sanitizer in every single person who 120 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: was getting on the ride. And you had to do 121 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 1: it every single time you got on a ride, and 122 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: you could only take your mask off when you were 123 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: sitting down eating if if you were moving like sipping 124 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 1: out of a drink or something, they would chase you down, 125 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 1: stop you and make you pull your mask up. What 126 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 1: was your do you have a memory of what you're 127 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: all time? Like when you really thought during the entirety 128 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,799 Speaker 1: the pandemic, with all the airline rules, everything, the moment 129 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: for you that was the most You've got to be 130 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 1: bleeping kidding me? Well, so yes, because my wife was 131 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: like very nervous about it. We were on an airplane 132 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 1: and I could tell this is I don't know, relatively 133 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,160 Speaker 1: early in COVID, probably like January before we did the 134 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: show together. And uh, and there was a you know, 135 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: sort of a hawkish flight attendant obsessed with masks and 136 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: like making sure that everybody had their mask, you know, 137 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: fully up, and uh and mine had dipped down a 138 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: bit below my nose at some point, and it happened 139 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 1: a couple of times. Can you the stupid mask Like 140 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe I have a bigger nose than 141 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: most people, but like they didn't stay on right. So 142 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: you're sitting in a chair on an airplane and they 143 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:49,239 Speaker 1: would slide down a little bit and uh and she 144 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: she I think she corrected me like five or six times. Right, 145 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: It was like a cross country flight or something, and 146 00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 1: she's walking by and uh. And at one point I 147 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: was like, sorry, you know, sorry for endangering the whole airplane, 148 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,720 Speaker 1: you know, like I just kind of said that after 149 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: like the fifth or sixth time, and my wife just 150 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: hit me like an elbow because you eric concerned. Was 151 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: because I was so anti MASK that I was going 152 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: to get us banned from the airline just by being sarcastic. 153 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 1: But that was that was close to a breaking point. 154 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: If we made me dictator of the universe, hyper aggressive 155 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: Mask vigilant airline attendance would all be sent to GIDMO. 156 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: I mean, I have not forgiven or forgotten what went 157 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: on there. There were the ones who were like, I 158 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: have to do like it's cool, like I'm not about 159 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: to call the FEDS on you or something. The others 160 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: who were like, I saw a nostril, sir, do you 161 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 1: want to be expelled from this plane at thirty thousand 162 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:48,359 Speaker 1: feet like? There were some of them who were completely 163 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: out of their minds. For me, it was actually one 164 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: It wasn't what because with the plane thing, they could 165 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: always fall back on this is the you know, it's 166 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: the government. It's not our fault. I was in a 167 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 1: in my neighborhood in New York, in Midtown, sitting down 168 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 1: at a very kind of well known, cute little wine 169 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: bar with a friend and this is, like, you know, 170 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 1: pretty early on the pandemic. And I was told, actually, 171 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: I can't even remember when I was. I don't know. 172 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: Maybe it was last summer, maybe it was about a 173 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:21,079 Speaker 1: year ago. Anyway, I was told, though that I sat down, 174 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: I had to put the mask on to sit at 175 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,960 Speaker 1: the table, to walk to the table. I mean, so 176 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 1: I had to mask up for the walk, which a 177 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: lot that was everywhere, which was the dumbest thing on 178 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:32,439 Speaker 1: the planet, and everybody who thought it wasn't dumb should 179 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 1: be ashamed of the lack of cognitive ability. But you 180 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: I walked, sat down, and then I was told, no, 181 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: you have to keep the mask on sitting down. I'm like, well, guys, 182 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 1: come on, like like now is when we eat. So 183 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: I don't understand how he things is good work like 184 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:47,839 Speaker 1: no, no no, no, you have to keep it on until 185 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:51,079 Speaker 1: you get your first food or drink brought to the table. 186 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 1: And I said, is that really your policy? And they 187 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: said yes, and then I said, there's a glass of 188 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 1: water on the table, why doesn't that count? And it 189 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: was like I had crossed the streams and Gozer was 190 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:08,679 Speaker 1: about to explode. I was so excited that we had 191 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 1: NFL football games taking place in college football games, but 192 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: they limited capacity to twenty five percent, and they made 193 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 1: employees walk around outdoor football stadiums and you were socially distanced, 194 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: like they had the Titan Stadium, for instance, in Nashville, 195 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: where I live. They had zip tied all of the 196 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:33,600 Speaker 1: other chairs that were anywhere near you so that no 197 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: one could sit next to you. So you had like 198 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 1: three seats and then there was like twelve around you 199 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:42,319 Speaker 1: that weren't occupied, and they had people walk around and 200 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: still say to you, sir, you're not wearing your mask correctly. 201 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 1: And that was also another brand, like literally, you zip 202 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:53,719 Speaker 1: tied all of the chairs around me. I'm here with 203 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: my family, I'm gonna be in a car with them 204 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 1: driving to and from the stadium were outdoors, and you're 205 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 1: concerned about whether or not my mask is fully up 206 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 1: or not. I mean, it really was the closest thing 207 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: that we've experienced in America to our society being transformed 208 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 1: into a bio fascist state or a medical fascism state 209 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: very quickly, and so I just as we go into 210 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 1: the independence day, we can I'd say this for everybody, 211 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: because Democrats love power more than anything else. The good 212 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: news is that we're pretty much out of the worst 213 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: of this now with regard to all that craziness. But 214 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: how much out of it we are and whether the 215 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:36,959 Speaker 1: mask come back on planes and all that stuff is 216 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 1: going to be determined by I think, how this midterm 217 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 1: election goes. Right. So that's because they're not they're not 218 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 1: entirely psychologically done with it. But at least now we 219 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: can breathe a little bit easier, literally and figuratively, knowing 220 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: that we are away from the grip of the fauciite madness. 221 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: In the meantime, we just have to keep it that way, 222 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 1: and that's why we'll keep saying it. November has to 223 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 1: be a red tsunami. 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We are 247 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 1: rolling through the Friday edition headed into a holiday weekend, 248 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: and Buck, I, you know, I feel like we're jinxing it. 249 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 1: But the headline on Fox News is Twitter account flightmare, 250 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: which is not bad not a bad play on words. 251 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: Airlines canceled delay hundreds of flights heading into the holiday weekend, 252 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 1: so so that in and of itself has got a 253 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 1: lot of people nervous. But we were talking about the 254 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 1: sort of celebration for July fourth in general, and I 255 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 1: was looking also at this headline from Fox News, and 256 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: we talked a little bit about this earlier in the week. Buck. 257 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: Pride in the US down significantly, Murber. We were talking about, Hey, 258 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: how much do people like really kind of embrace America 259 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 1: right now? This was a Fox News poll. The percentage 260 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 1: of people who are proud of their country is down 261 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 1: twelve points since two thousand and seventeen, down thirty points 262 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: since two thousand and eleven, and only thirty nine percent 263 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: are proud of the country today. In June of two eleven, 264 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: sixty nine we're proud. So this is kind of a 265 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: in the space of a decade, it's kind of a 266 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: seismic shift that we've seen in the direction of the country. 267 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: I think a big part of it is actually the 268 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 1: changing of the narrative of our history that the media 269 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 1: has engaged in, or I should say, the the focus 270 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: on a particularly negative portrayal of America's history, right the 271 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 1: hyper focus on It sixteen nineteen project from the New 272 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 1: York Times, but just many other many other parts of 273 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: the media apparatus have tried to do everything they can 274 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 1: to make it seem like America should be sorry, America 275 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 1: should apologize constantly, be making amends for all the victimization 276 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 1: that it has engaged in in the past. And I 277 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: kind of sit here and say, okay, I mean, there's 278 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: some historical basis for the criticisms obviously of America, just 279 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 1: like there there's basis for the criticism of any country 280 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: that has had existing for hundreds of years. But beyond that, 281 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: if we're gonna take the criticism, how about the saving 282 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: the world from totalitarianism and fascism thing? I'm just wondering 283 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: kind of a big deal, kind of a big one. 284 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: You know, if you read a little bit about what 285 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: the Germans and the Japanese had planned for everybody if 286 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 1: they were able to take over everywhere else, and I 287 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: think you feel like America's a bit of a debt 288 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: of gratitude the world should field to this place and 289 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: to you know, our grandparents generation. I think also there's 290 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 1: a general anger probably that's at a higher level than 291 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: I've ever seen before. And you and I were talking 292 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: about off air everything is bad in the Biden administration. 293 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: It really does legitimately feel that way. I started off 294 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 1: this morning and first one of the first tweets I 295 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: saw was it's the worst six months in the stock 296 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 1: market since nineteen seventy two years. Yeah, fifty two years 297 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 1: we have not seen. I'm sorry to bring that up 298 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: for everybody out there who has been paying attention to 299 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: their four oh one K or has investments, but fifty 300 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 1: two years, many of many of our audience have not 301 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: been born in an era where the stock market has 302 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:13,120 Speaker 1: been this bad to start off a year before, and 303 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: so you know, we know the stock market is down 304 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 1: effectively the whole time that Biden's there, before we even 305 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: get the inflation impact and everything else. It just it 306 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: feels like every day in the Biden administration, there's something 307 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: else going wrong. It's a it's a car that has 308 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,679 Speaker 1: a flat tire, and the flat tire is throwing everything 309 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,200 Speaker 1: else in the car. And this is I think is 310 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 1: a part of why the frustration grows too. Clay and 311 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 1: we started out there. We started out the show talking 312 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 1: about this some of what is really making people upset, 313 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: anxious and feeling like they can't get ahead, gas prices, etc. 314 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:49,920 Speaker 1: Deep down, the people in charge and this Biden White 315 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 1: House are like, sorry, it's the price of saving the 316 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 1: planet and defending democracy. That's what they actually think. Yeah, 317 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 1: and it's incredibly frustrating. We're gonna open up phone lines 318 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: have some fun. Last hour and a half of the week. 319 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 1: One of our listeners in California, Dan let us know 320 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 1: he's having success with our sponsor Relief Factor. Three weeks 321 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: into using it, He's already felt a significant reduction in 322 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 1: his back pain. He's gone on to order two months 323 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: worth of a relief Factor to make things even better 324 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: for him. 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Eight 334 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:57,680 Speaker 1: hundred the number four Relief Relief Factor dot Com. Sleet 335 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:10,680 Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton The Front Lines of Truth Play Travis, 336 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 1: buck Sexton Show, Independence Day, Weekend Show Today. Obviously we're 337 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 1: not going to be on the year tomorrow, but we 338 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,479 Speaker 1: appreciate you hanging with us phone lines. We're gonna get 339 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:23,199 Speaker 1: to them in a second here. Clay just sent this 340 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 1: to me though, really interesting that we have Trump five. 341 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 1: This is Emerson College polling and a head to head 342 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 1: Trump is opening a five percent lead against Biden. There's 343 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:39,440 Speaker 1: a lot of other numbers and data in here, Clay, 344 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:43,200 Speaker 1: anything else that jumps out to you that, I mean, 345 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 1: it's Trump holds forty four percent support, Biden thirty nine 346 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,879 Speaker 1: percent support. Yeah, what jumps out of me, Buck is 347 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: I've never seen Donald Trump with a five point lead 348 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 1: in any presidential poll nationwide in his entire political career. 349 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 1: And you may have seen one. I just haven't. Obviously, 350 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 1: the polling in twenty sixteen wildly underestimated Trump. The same 351 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: thing happened in twenty twenty when people expected it to 352 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 1: be a total landslide election, and obviously it was not. 353 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:18,160 Speaker 1: And I've just never seen Trump with a five point 354 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:22,640 Speaker 1: lead in a national poll, ever against Hillary, or ever 355 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:28,560 Speaker 1: against Biden. So this to me is symptomatic of how 356 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:33,400 Speaker 1: much Trump is increasing in stature as Biden is decreasing. 357 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 1: If that makes sense, The best strategy for Trump almost 358 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 1: is just a lay back and let Biden implode. The 359 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 1: other one is we've talked some about the twenty twenty 360 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: four Republican primary. Who's gonna run? We had Christy Noum 361 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,400 Speaker 1: on yesterday, governor of South Dakota, said she wouldn't run 362 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 1: basically if Trump is running, right, but VP candidate potentially. Yeah. 363 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:02,640 Speaker 1: But in this Emerson poll, Trump gets fifty five percent 364 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 1: of Republican presidential support. DeSantis gets twenty. Now, this is 365 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 1: a nationwide pole and nationwide primary polling can be a mess, 366 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 1: But fifty five to twenty, Mike Pence nine nine points 367 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:22,400 Speaker 1: here and Nicky Hayley three, and then you got Cruz, Rubio, Cotton, Pompeio, 368 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 1: Scott Holly All at around one. So Trump right now 369 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: prohibitive favorite in this poll in twenty twenty four. Obviously 370 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 1: we don't even know who exactly is going to be running. 371 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 1: But what jumped out to me primarily here Buck is 372 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: a five point lead for Trump over Biden for people 373 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: who are in Texas. By the way, Pole also came 374 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:48,959 Speaker 1: out today CBS poll Greg Abbott, who we had on 375 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 1: earlier this week, the governor of Texas eight point lead 376 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:56,360 Speaker 1: over Beto O'Rourke. I don't think that race is going 377 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 1: to be very close at all, certainly hope not. Mike 378 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: in Alabama on the line right now, he's a pilot. Mike, 379 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 1: you got some thoughts for us on anyone's frustration out 380 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: there about why they've had some I've had flights canceled. 381 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 1: What's going on? Yes, sir, wow, is I was going 382 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 1: to say, is doing Is he doing a halo jump 383 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 1: as he calls in? That's that's what it sounded like. 384 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 1: All right, buddy, we'll come back to you. That's a 385 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 1: We just that that phone call just crashed in the 386 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 1: side of the mountain. That was not what we were 387 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 1: looking for. Laurie in uh In, where's Laurie in a 388 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: brad city. Oh, somewhere in Kansas, Bird City, Kansas. Cool. 389 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 1: What's up, Lorie? Well, yeah, for traditions, and so we're 390 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: farmers out here, and it is sweet harvest times, so 391 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,159 Speaker 1: we work very long hours and we can't stop for 392 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,960 Speaker 1: too much celebrating. So what's really neat is we can 393 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 1: watch fireworks from several different area towns from the cab 394 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 1: of the combines and trucks, and so we can see 395 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: the patriot patriotism going on all around us. Marie, what 396 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 1: do you do? And I've heard a lot of these 397 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 1: these weed farmers, and depending on how up to date 398 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 1: or how new, I guess I should say some of 399 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: these farm apparatus are can you sit in there and 400 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: just watch like movies? And I mean, obviously it sounds 401 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 1: like you may listen to us. Do you entertain yourself 402 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:32,760 Speaker 1: inside of the threshing vehicle there? Well? Some do I 403 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:34,879 Speaker 1: They can watch things on their phones and stuff. But 404 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: do you want to We have a podcast we'd highly 405 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: recommend for you, Laurie, if for some reason your local 406 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 1: station isn't reaching you inside the thresher. Yeah, the combine 407 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,119 Speaker 1: pretty much guides itself that you kind of have to 408 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,440 Speaker 1: watch all the other conditions and things going on. There's 409 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts. So yeah, a lot of 410 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 1: people listen to things, but I don't think watching movies 411 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 1: would be too right audio though, Like the Clay Travis 412 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 1: and Box Section show, Laura, that's that's the way to 413 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,920 Speaker 1: get it done. Yeah, thanks so much, Laurie. Calvin, Calvin's 414 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: calling in. I'm sorry, Clay. My screen copper Candy in 415 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,679 Speaker 1: Texas is where Calvin is calling in, Calvin, what you 416 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:16,360 Speaker 1: got for us? Well, thank you, gentlemen. If you take 417 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 1: a look at the financial considerations from the executives point 418 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 1: of view, they make tens of millions of dollars each 419 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,359 Speaker 1: if they can take an airline close to bankruptcy or 420 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: in bankruptcy, and then at the point of a gun 421 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: forced the employees to recapitalize if they grabbed the stock 422 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,400 Speaker 1: at a low price, up she goes and they make 423 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: tens of millions several pens over. So that's what they 424 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 1: did over the past twenty years employees obviously, I mean 425 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: for me it was like a two million dollar career 426 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 1: hit on that. So yeah, a little bit surtily now, 427 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 1: by the way, for people who don't know you're calling. 428 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: We were asking about airplane pilot shortages and staffing shortages 429 00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: and everything else. That's what you're addressed. And Calvin is 430 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 1: a commercial airline pilot. Yes, So in terms of shortages 431 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:11,640 Speaker 1: and things of that nature, the airline executives are well 432 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: behind the times in terms of what they want to offer. 433 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,360 Speaker 1: They don't have the compensation packages in place because they 434 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,439 Speaker 1: desperately want to hold onto the bankruptcy gains that they 435 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 1: got over the past twenty years, So there's not a 436 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 1: lot of incentive for people to want to fly over time, 437 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 1: or if they do, the airlines have got everything what 438 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,440 Speaker 1: they called blue sky scheduling. They assume every day can 439 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 1: be perfect, and when it's not perfect, they don't have 440 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: the resources to back up on it. So that's in 441 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 1: terms of But so why the big change, Calvin from 442 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 1: what we saw even in twenty nineteen versus now, I 443 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: know the pandemic, But what were the changes made during 444 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: the pandemic that have led us to where we are now? 445 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: Because we're not even saying, you know, why are the 446 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 1: airline seats like little torture devices meant for you know, 447 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 1: ten year olds instead of full grown adults and all 448 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 1: the others. Why now it's just peanuts. There's no food 449 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 1: on these things. Forget about all that. We just want 450 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: to get from point A to point B. At least 451 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,680 Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen it felt like that was a pretty 452 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 1: reliable thing. Not anymore. Why did that change that? I 453 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: wish I had a great answer for you. The good 454 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,439 Speaker 1: answers it's death by a thousand cuts is that they 455 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:23,800 Speaker 1: just the airlines are crumbling on the fringe and they 456 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,919 Speaker 1: need perfection to carry out the schedule that they have, 457 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: so they have to cut back. Also, yes, the pilot shortage. Again, 458 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 1: it takes ten years to build a pilots So if 459 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,120 Speaker 1: things are really awful ten years ago, the young kids 460 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:38,879 Speaker 1: going into it aren't going to want to do it. 461 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,359 Speaker 1: So now all of a sudden they don't have anybody, 462 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: and when time comes, they're cannibalizing their smaller regional feeds, 463 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,399 Speaker 1: if you will. They're hiring out of there just to 464 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 1: find somebody to sitting. Right, Ask Calvin, what is I 465 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: have no idea? What is a starting out? You know, 466 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 1: if you're flying for the one the airlines people know, right, American, United, Delta, etc. 467 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,040 Speaker 1: If you're starting out as a pilot, Well, what's the 468 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:10,159 Speaker 1: salary range? Roughly, So, if you're like you don't go 469 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,679 Speaker 1: through say the regionals, you come like out of the 470 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: military directly to say Delta or whatever, you're gonna be 471 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:18,879 Speaker 1: on the first year, it's not so good. You're going 472 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,399 Speaker 1: to be in the in the sixties or whatever. But 473 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,159 Speaker 1: then you're up into six figures and within a year 474 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: or two, So it's not bad. But I think in 475 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,439 Speaker 1: the sacrifices that they made in order to get to 476 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: that point, it's pretty substantial. Like I said, it takes 477 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:34,679 Speaker 1: ten years to build a pilot, and if you go 478 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,480 Speaker 1: through the military, you've got all of the incumbrances that 479 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 1: say the Navy or the air Force does on you. 480 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,920 Speaker 1: And you know, it's harder if we don't have a 481 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 1: Cold War anymore. So it's very difficult define pilots coming 482 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 1: out of it. Is it gonna get Here's the question 483 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 1: that I think a lot of people have based on 484 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,399 Speaker 1: your experience, Do you think that flying is going to 485 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 1: get any better anytime soon? I don't see how, because 486 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:02,439 Speaker 1: even at things were somewhat beyond the airline's control, like 487 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:07,360 Speaker 1: sourcing of new airplanes. The airplane manufacturers have got their 488 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 1: own supply chain issues. Big airplane big airlines. Now if 489 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,199 Speaker 1: they miss say a dozen seven eighty seven that are 490 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 1: supposed to be on the property in being used. They 491 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:18,639 Speaker 1: built the schedule thinking they're going to have that to 492 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:22,919 Speaker 1: pass soon and they don't. So that's one of the issues. 493 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 1: So it's a lot of different things. Sounds like a 494 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: Calvin appreciate you calling in. It doesn't sound like anything's 495 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 1: gonna get better. Yeah, I know that that did not. 496 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 1: I was not inspired by the the fixes that are 497 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,160 Speaker 1: coming based on what we're here and there. I think 498 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 1: that's getting ready for every Look, the good news is 499 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 1: that if you find yourself waiting for hours and hours 500 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 1: for a flight that's canceled, or maybe you've got to drive, 501 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: you know, eight hours instead of your quick flight because 502 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: you had to change at the last minute, all of 503 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 1: you have smartphones, and there's this amazing thing called the 504 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 1: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast at your leisure. 505 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 1: At your leisure, you know, go back listening to an 506 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 1: old episode if you like, or catch up on all 507 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 1: the latest and subscribing to it is such a good plan. 508 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 1: That way, when people have their flights canceled. Clay they go, oh, man, 509 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 1: now I just have more time to really focus on 510 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 1: my favorite podcast, the Clay and buckshow So just putting 511 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 1: that out there, so we're doing our part. Given the 512 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 1: airline situation. A few weeks ago, I was telling you 513 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: I'm worried where these financial markets are going. And look 514 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,920 Speaker 1: what's happened. The stock market, worst six months in the 515 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 1: stock market in fifty two years, Commodity markets going sky high, 516 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 1: housing markets starting to look like at shaky in places. 517 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 1: It's a scary time. 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Fleet Travis and Buck Sexton on the front 535 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 1: lines of Welcome Back in closing out the second hour 536 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 1: of the Friday edition, rolling into the July fourth weekend, 537 00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 1: and I believe that our talented aff has put together 538 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:05,959 Speaker 1: a parody for all of you to be able to 539 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 1: listen to surrounding What exactly is this? This is about 540 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 1: how to get away with a show trial? Like the 541 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 1: January six Shenanigans playing out before the Very Small and 542 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 1: Dwinlinksy and an audience enjoy on this week's episode of 543 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 1: How to Get Away with a Show Trial? Creating fake 544 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:32,240 Speaker 1: news Exhibit A. Find a witness loosely described to pedal 545 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 1: a salacious story. Exhibit B. Report the story in the 546 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 1: media using phrases like explosive testimony, bombshell report, shocking revelation, 547 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 1: damaging account. You get the idea, then sit back and 548 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 1: watch the Left devour it like in all you can 549 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 1: eat buffet in Vegas. After all, it's not about proving 550 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 1: a truth, it's about creating a narrative hearsay schmersay, because remember, 551 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 1: this isn't for a court of law, it's for the 552 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: court of public. On next week's episode of How to 553 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: Get Away with a Show Trial, if we bring you 554 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,040 Speaker 1: the walk back. Okay, so nothing was true, but here's 555 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 1: what you say. It's entirely possible for real truth. Tune 556 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,760 Speaker 1: in to Clay and Buck Voices of Sanity in an 557 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: Insane World. You can watch those on Clay and Buck 558 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: dot com. That's good work by Ali, our producer who 559 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:29,760 Speaker 1: put that, by and large together. And it is still 560 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 1: astounding to me that we had the Cassidy Hutchinson testimony Buck, 561 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 1: that that occurred, that she just didn't witness anything basically 562 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 1: that she testified to and everybody grabbed it and ran 563 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 1: with it. And now even still it's basically done, and 564 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 1: it leaves me wondering, is there anything that lasts? This 565 00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 1: was to me one of Trump's true genius idea is 566 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,640 Speaker 1: almost nothing lasts more than twenty four hours. So if 567 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: you just ride out whatever you truly think, and this 568 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 1: is good advice for anyone out there that gets caught 569 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 1: up oftentimes in the cancel culture mob, if you can 570 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 1: just wait twenty four hours, there's almost always something else 571 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:23,120 Speaker 1: that is going to get everybody's attention. And even all 572 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:27,680 Speaker 1: of these show trial details on January sixth, I would 573 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 1: love to know if there is anyone whose opinion has 574 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 1: been changed by anything that has happened with all the 575 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 1: time spent on January in the whole country. Yeah. And 576 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,760 Speaker 1: by the way, the latest polling, the latest data from 577 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 1: the polls on how much of the situation has changed 578 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:51,240 Speaker 1: nationally politically after the Row reversal also shows a minimal, minimal, 579 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,239 Speaker 1: you know, a couple of percentage points maybe, and then 580 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 1: some of the national some of the national polling, nothing 581 00:33:56,560 --> 00:34:00,280 Speaker 1: that is showing any real momentum. No, but it's man, 582 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,640 Speaker 1: I really believe that it's about just creating the safe 583 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 1: space for libs to watch something that's not the continued implosion, 584 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,760 Speaker 1: the slow motion train wreck that is the Biden presidency. 585 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:12,600 Speaker 1: Can I can I switch gears for one second? CLA, 586 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:14,520 Speaker 1: do you have something else on this one? No? No, no, 587 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:18,840 Speaker 1: I I I'm you know, I'm enjoying our parodies. But yeah, 588 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,120 Speaker 1: just just because um, you know, earlier the week, we 589 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:26,799 Speaker 1: talked about how to stay safe in national parks when 590 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,560 Speaker 1: there are bison present. We had a conversation about how 591 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 1: they're large, very powerful animals. Don't get close to them. 592 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,440 Speaker 1: They are not cuddly. They are large animals. You would not, 593 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,600 Speaker 1: you know, if you saw one of those bulls that 594 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:46,360 Speaker 1: the PBR guys professional bull riding. You wouldn't wander up 595 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 1: to that outside of a paddock and be like, hey, 596 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:49,759 Speaker 1: I'm gonna like take a photo ride next to it 597 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,920 Speaker 1: and play with it, unless you know you happen to 598 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:56,760 Speaker 1: be a rodeo guy. Um, there's the third bison attack 599 00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:01,000 Speaker 1: this month, a second one this week. We talked about 600 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,719 Speaker 1: it earlier in this week, and now another person I 601 00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:09,920 Speaker 1: believe the individual is alive. Okay, so that's the good news. 602 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:15,120 Speaker 1: But another bison attack because people are getting too close 603 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,279 Speaker 1: to the bison. So for anybody, I know, it's a 604 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:22,480 Speaker 1: big weekend for travel guys. Wild animals, keep your distance. 605 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,080 Speaker 1: They're cool to look at from afar. You could always 606 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,279 Speaker 1: just flip open your phone and watch lots of like 607 00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,640 Speaker 1: videos of these things. You don't have to get super 608 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,319 Speaker 1: close to them. The Animal Thunderdome, we used to do 609 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 1: all the time on my old show, my sports talk 610 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,280 Speaker 1: radio show. Maybe we need to bring back the animal 611 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,480 Speaker 1: Thunderdome for some of these attack stories. I mean, because 612 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:47,239 Speaker 1: it does feel like people are just making lots of 613 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:51,239 Speaker 1: irrational choices and animals are attacking people, maybe more than 614 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,480 Speaker 1: they have in the past. You get that sense. Well, 615 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,680 Speaker 1: I think people want to get closer to them. And 616 00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,880 Speaker 1: I don't know about these specific incidents, but generally people 617 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:02,160 Speaker 1: want to get closer to them because I think they 618 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,600 Speaker 1: want to take video and photo right so be able 619 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:05,880 Speaker 1: to post it on They want to be able to 620 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:07,719 Speaker 1: post it on social and so you get this thing 621 00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,400 Speaker 1: of you know you're gonna see it. Look, I get it. 622 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,600 Speaker 1: I still remember Carrie makes fun of me when I 623 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,399 Speaker 1: was When I saw a manatee for the first time 624 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:15,719 Speaker 1: in the whild, I was like a little kid. I 625 00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,359 Speaker 1: thought it was so cool. Floridians are like whatever, it's 626 00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,879 Speaker 1: like a cow, but I thought it was really cool. 627 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,719 Speaker 1: Stay away from the bison and the bears, folks. That's 628 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,960 Speaker 1: that's the safety tip we have for you. And also, 629 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:31,000 Speaker 1: if you're taking a July fourth vacation, don't risk your 630 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,880 Speaker 1: life for an Instagram photo. You've seen all these headlines 631 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,040 Speaker 1: about Instagram influencers like on edges of cliffs trying to 632 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:40,520 Speaker 1: get cool shots and falling to their deaths. Oh man, 633 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,719 Speaker 1: there's just a lot of bad choices being made. And 634 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,640 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's America, Yeah, which want to stay safe this weekend. 635 00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,320 Speaker 1: Everyone's gonna stay safe this weekend. You're gonna celebrate this weekend. 636 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,640 Speaker 1: But but speaking of bad choices, why do people put 637 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 1: relish on hotdogs at Hamburgers? I am so anti relish. 638 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,480 Speaker 1: I do not understand it puts relish on hand burgers? 639 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,040 Speaker 1: Do they yes? Relish on burgers? I want to start 640 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,200 Speaker 1: a fight. We'll talk more about this in the next hour. 641 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:13,560 Speaker 1: I just hope we don't rune out of mustard play. 642 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:17,800 Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.