1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Third hour of Clay and Buck starts 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:09,119 Speaker 1: right now. Everybody, Thank you for being here with us. 4 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. If you're just tuning in or 5 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: staying with us for the whole show today, Remember you 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: can download the Clay and Buck podcast. Please subscribe to 7 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: it on the iHeart app. And we've got a whole 8 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: bunch of things going into that feed that aren't even 9 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: available during our live three hour day show. So go subscribe. 10 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 1: You know, if you're a radio listener, now, I want 11 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 1: to tell you a tale of well I suppose yes. 12 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: It is a tale of two cities in a sense, 13 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 1: one being sorry, one being Clay just gave me the 14 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: look like come on, buddy, no, no, no, I was laughing. 15 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 2: I was just laughing because my kids have been have 16 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 2: been talking about having to read some Charles Dickens lately. 17 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 2: So a reference to begin the show here, Yeah. 18 00:00:55,960 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: Freshman, you know high school English? So you san Francisco. 19 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: What's going on in San Francisco and what's going on 20 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: in Minneapolis? And how I want to tie these two 21 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: things together. You will note it's always remarkable to me 22 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: how democrat Minnesota has become. I used to go fishing 23 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: and camping with my dad in the summer, and my 24 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: brother's up in Eli ely Eely, Minnesota. I always forget 25 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:26,400 Speaker 1: it's Eli right on the border with Canada, and Minnesota's 26 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 1: are always so nice. They do have their reputation very similar 27 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: to the reputation of Canadians. Very democrat state, though Minneapolis 28 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: is a super Democrat stronghold. And we'll get into obviously 29 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:41,639 Speaker 1: the George Floyd aftermath situation there what happened to that city. 30 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: But I just want to start with San Francisco, which is, 31 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: for a city over a half a million, I think 32 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: the highest percentage of Democrats in all of America for 33 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: a city of that size. DC is really close now, 34 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: but I still think San Francisco comes in at number one. 35 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: So you have a one part city, a true one 36 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:07,360 Speaker 1: party city. And they opened just last year a Whole 37 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: Foods in downtown San Francisco, a giant, flagship Whole Foods. 38 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: For those of you who have never experienced this, I mean, 39 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 1: it's just endless, fancy gluten free brands and organic and 40 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: sustainable and all that. All that a. 41 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 2: White woman's paradise let's be honest and white liberal woman's paradise. 42 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 2: Whole Foods, I bet the absolute apex for white women liberals. 43 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: So they had a problem though, actually a lot of problems. 44 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: This is from a New York Times piece earlier this week. 45 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: The store was confronted head on with many of the 46 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 1: problems plaguing the area. People threatened employees with guns, knives 47 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: and sticks. They flung food, screamed, fought, and tried to 48 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: defecate on the floor. This is according to records of 49 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: five hundred and sixty eight emergency calls over thirteen months 50 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 1: from the Whole Foods. Five hundred and sixty eight emergency 51 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 1: calls in basically a year. Everybody do the math on 52 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 1: how many emergency calls are coming from Whole Foods. What 53 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: kind of stuff clay was? All these emergency calls in 54 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: this fancy, fancy grocery store in a super elite you know, 55 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi style liberal city. Things like quote, mail with 56 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 1: machete is back. Another security guard was just assaulted. A 57 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,839 Speaker 1: man with a four inch knife attacked security guards, then 58 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: sprayed employees with foam from a fire extinguisher. These are 59 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: all separate incidents. A thirty year old man died in 60 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: the bathroom from a fentanyl overdose, and they closed this store. 61 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: They announced it last month because of the safety of employees, 62 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: property crimes like shoplifting, car break ins for people shopping there, 63 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: and trend network of dealers selling fentanyl and other illicit drugs, 64 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: and people suffering from extreme mental illness wandering around out front, 65 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: a total scene of daily bedlam, anarchy, and you know, 66 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: public urination and other things at this Whole Foods. And 67 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: finally San Franciscans are starting to say no, this is 68 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: a bad look. Clay. I just want to juxtapose this 69 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,840 Speaker 1: with because think about all this people with machetes, threatening 70 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: people stealing, doing all this stuff. How many of them 71 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 1: do you think got a four year prison sentence for 72 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: any of the things they did. I would bet almost done. Yeah, 73 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: I think probably zero. I think zero. Now change that 74 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: up with what we just found out in Minneapolis again, 75 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: another Democrat city to thou who is a former Minneapolis 76 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: PD officer who was charged in George Floyd's killing by 77 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: officer Chauvin. He never touched Chauvin. He had no part 78 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 1: of what was done to Chauvin. He was doing crowd 79 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: control because a crowd gathered while Chauvin had his knee 80 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: on Floyd. They just sentenced him to four years in prison. Now, 81 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: I know people say these are separate incidents, and they're 82 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 1: know there's something broader at work here. When the politics 83 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: demand it, we will throw law enforcement, or in these 84 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: Democrat cities, they will throw law enforcement under the bus 85 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: without a second thought. Meanwhile, people who are just repeat 86 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: criminals and a menace to individuals and constant threats to 87 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: everybody around them, given chance after chance, fifty arrests and 88 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: we don't want to come down too hard on them. 89 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 1: There's something wrong here, Clay with this mindset. 90 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, and Buck, I want to go back to San 91 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:45,280 Speaker 2: Francisco for a moment, But I think it's emblematic of 92 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:49,720 Speaker 2: what happens when it's a Democrat controlled city. Seven percent 93 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 2: of voters in San Francisco identify as Republicans seven percent, 94 00:05:55,440 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 2: So there's that ninety three percent Democrat stronghold. We're talking 95 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 2: about that whole Foods front page New York Times. I 96 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 2: read an article over the weekend about the commercial real 97 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 2: estate market in San Francisco, and it continues to set 98 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 2: off alarm bells that almost no one is talking about 99 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 2: California Street. Some of you will know it. It's, according 100 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 2: to this Wall Street Journal article, home to some of 101 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,919 Speaker 2: the world's most valuable commercial real estate. Before COVID runs 102 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 2: through the heart of the city's financial district, banks, other companies. 103 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 2: One building there, Buck to twenty two story glass stone 104 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 2: tower at three point fifty California Street. In twenty nineteen, 105 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:48,239 Speaker 2: this building was worth three hundred million dollars. Three hundred 106 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 2: million dollars. It's now going for sale and they are 107 00:06:53,240 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 2: expecting it to get about sixty million dollars on the bill. Now, 108 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:03,919 Speaker 2: I just want you to use that what this is 109 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 2: prime real estate in California. It was on the market 110 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen with evaluation of three hundred million dollars. 111 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 2: It's now going to be worth sixty million. Why does 112 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 2: that happen? Interest rates are all factoring in, but California, 113 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 2: San Francisco in particular. 114 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: Nobody's going back to work. 115 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 2: Buck and you talk about what happened with that Whole 116 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 2: Foods they were that's right down the street from where 117 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 2: Twitter headquarters is. These are elite level shopping employees and 118 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 2: shoppers they wanted. They made that start coming for those employees, 119 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 2: by the way, that was the whole point of it. Yeah, 120 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 2: these people aren't coming back to the center of the city. 121 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 2: They're not going into these office buildings. The market is 122 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 2: collapsing all around. And what I am fascinated to see, 123 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 2: buck is I think we're only seeing the beginnings of it, 124 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 2: because when these buildings you're we're talking about a three 125 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 2: hundred million dollar building that they're expecting to sell for 126 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 2: sixty loses eighty percent of its value. The reason is 127 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 2: there's nobody who wants to buy the tendency, and they're 128 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 2: going to have to rehab this building and everything else. 129 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:18,240 Speaker 2: This is starting to feed on itself very rapidly. If 130 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 2: you don't have businesses because there's nobody coming into the 131 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 2: city center to use them anymore, the city centers can 132 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 2: fall apart really fast, and you almost get this post 133 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 2: apocalyptic landscape of San Francisco where you've got drug addled 134 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 2: people defecating all over the streets and the actual people 135 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 2: who are paying taxes are fleeing. And there now are 136 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 2: going to be major holes in every city budget. And 137 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 2: I'm worried this commercial real estate mess is going to 138 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 2: start to spiral everywhere because people aren't going into these 139 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:59,319 Speaker 2: office buildings anymore, and that means the businesses that support 140 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 2: the office go down. And all of a sudden, a 141 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 2: lot of these places that used to be jewels of 142 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 2: American commerce are falling apart, and they're doing it really fast, 143 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 2: all under the auspices of almost one hundred percent Democrat control. 144 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: I think it's going to get ugly, buck, I think 145 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: it's going to get really ugly. Yes. And the problem 146 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: that you have with whether it's San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Yeah, 147 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: Los Angeles is so spread out that it's different. Los 148 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: Angeles is really many cities that go under the name 149 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, right, But you know, if you're in downtown 150 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, you might as well be in a different 151 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:40,079 Speaker 1: country than if you're in Santa Monica in terms of 152 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 1: the traffic and everything else. But it's very hard for 153 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: them to do what's necessary to change these situations. And 154 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: this is true in some other cities as well. You 155 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: could say it's happening on what is it, Millennium Mile 156 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: in Chicago and New York City and Times Square. But 157 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: the people that made the bad decisions that led to 158 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 1: the decay and the flight from these areas. In addition 159 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: to the work from home reality and the changes of 160 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 1: COVID that have stayed with us. Those people don't really 161 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: want to because if they were to change their directives 162 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: and their policies at some level, it's an admission that 163 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:21,840 Speaker 1: what they did in the first place to liberalize all 164 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: this stuff, to stop enforcing these laws, to allow fentinal 165 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:27,559 Speaker 1: use to the open air. I mean, when you think 166 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,560 Speaker 1: about this, and we've talked about it before, here the 167 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 1: moment that you say people can live on the street 168 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:38,079 Speaker 1: without you know, they cannot be removed. They can live 169 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 1: on the street, they can camp on the street, you're 170 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 1: also saying that you're effectively legalizing public urination, defecation, and 171 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: you're also going to at the same time put a, 172 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: if not legalization, a decriminalization of drugs like fentanyl and 173 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: very very serious drugs. So you're creating these open air 174 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 1: drug markets with people that are soverely addicted, who are 175 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: living in filth and who are going to need to 176 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: feed their drug habit by breaking the law and stealing 177 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: things and committing crimes. In addition to having extreme mental 178 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 1: illness that goes unaddressed because they're living on the streets. 179 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:18,319 Speaker 1: If you were trying to concoct a potion to destroy 180 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: the downtowns of any city, it's hard to oh and 181 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: then just stop enforcing the criminal lawtogether, right then, just 182 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 1: say you know, okay, I mean, so the guy at 183 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:28,320 Speaker 1: Whole Food threatened you with a machete after he came 184 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 1: out of the bathroom naked, Like, let's give him another chance. 185 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: We don't want to come down too hard on this individual. 186 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: If you were trying to destroy these places, this would 187 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 1: be a brilliant plan. And this is what the Democrats 188 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 1: have done in city after city, and I think there's 189 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:45,319 Speaker 1: this intransigence because they don't want to say, okay, fine, 190 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: Republicans were right, so they keep they have up to 191 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: this point, kept doubling down. I do think though, maybe 192 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: it's starting to your point about the commercial real estate collapse, 193 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,599 Speaker 1: and you know, these places could start to look like 194 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: they're on the brink of heading toward a Detroit situation, 195 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:03,680 Speaker 1: which was a city, you know, once the greatest jewel 196 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,599 Speaker 1: of the Midwest, tremendous wealth and then rapid deterioration and 197 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 1: despair and violence. Right, so that can happen in other places. 198 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: It's amazing you know Ted Wheeler. Do you see he 199 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,840 Speaker 1: was He was on with with Lawrence last night on Fox, 200 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 1: Lawrence Jones, and he's trying to say, oh, well, crime 201 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,960 Speaker 1: is you know, violent crime is so low where we are. 202 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: What about all the other crime? Ted? What about theft 203 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 1: and property destruction and vandalism and drug abuse and drug selling. 204 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: These places have effectively legalized crime and we're seeing the 205 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:34,079 Speaker 1: results of it. 206 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 2: And by the way, it may be low, but it's 207 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 2: way higher than it used to be. Portland, for instance, 208 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:44,360 Speaker 2: averaged twenty murders a year for most of the twenty 209 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,359 Speaker 2: first century, and then in the wake of the BLM protests, 210 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 2: it spiked, I believe, up to nearly eighty now. I 211 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:53,079 Speaker 2: don't know what it's on Pace two here, but most places, 212 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 2: if you quadrupled the murder rate, which is what for instance, 213 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 2: Portland did, it's a big deal. It may still be 214 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:04,319 Speaker 2: low murder rate compared to Chicago, or compared to Houston 215 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,439 Speaker 2: or Atlanta. I don't know how it will compare to 216 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 2: those cities, but yes, like the commercial real estate, I 217 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 2: just want all of you to put it in your 218 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:14,560 Speaker 2: head and think about it. It's a potential disaster. 219 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: I mean, you're just you're talking about Portland again for 220 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: a second. Here they had I just pulled up the statistic. 221 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, according here to Oregon Live, police 222 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:34,319 Speaker 1: logged thirteen hundred shootings. Yeah, thirteen hundred shootings in Portland. 223 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,960 Speaker 1: I don't even know how that's how that's possible. That 224 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: sounds like that's not even theoretically a capability. But you know, 225 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 1: as of July in twenty twenty two, there were six 226 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy. So these are the numbers we're talking 227 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:50,599 Speaker 1: about now. You could say, well, there's only eighty homicides 228 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: or something. Yeah, but people are shooting off a lot 229 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 1: of guns at each other. What is going on here? 230 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 1: But they don't. They don't want to face the reality, 231 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,559 Speaker 1: which is the destruction. That's where this is. In some ways, 232 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: that's the best way to describe this. When I read 233 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 1: some of the crime stats in some of these cities, 234 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:08,079 Speaker 1: places I've been and seen and been in the downtowns, 235 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: I think the numbers have to be wrong and I'm 236 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: gonna have to issue a correction. But they're not. That's 237 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,359 Speaker 1: really where things are right now, and that's maders of quadruple. 238 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 2: It's not good and san Francisco again, this commercial real 239 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 2: estate thing. Nobody's talking about it. I just want all 240 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 2: of you, in the back of your minds to be 241 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 2: thinking about it as they are potentially going to raise 242 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 2: rates another quarter point. A lot of these businesses that 243 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 2: own these commercial buildings, they bought them at two and 244 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 2: three percent interest. The math doesn't work at five and 245 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 2: a half. 246 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: What happens I was gonna say, what happens with some 247 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: of these buildings play if they they're you're talking about 248 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: an office building. There's a lot of debt involved, you know, 249 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 1: the real estate developers or the real estate you know, 250 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 1: ownership firms, a lot of debt involved. What happens if 251 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 1: it becomes clear that these buildings are worth a fraction 252 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 1: of what they used to be. So now the company 253 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: is underwater and the banks are t their lending, and 254 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: any money they would give out is at double the 255 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 1: mortgage rates that they could have expected, especially for commercial 256 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: a few years ago. Now the banks say, sorry, we're 257 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: not gonna We're gonna have to call it. We can 258 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: We're not going to extend your loan on this when 259 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 1: we can't, you know, we're not gonna. 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From the front Lines of Truth, 287 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 1: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. 288 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 2: Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show. 289 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:46,280 Speaker 1: Buck. 290 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 2: I want to just reiterate what we mentioned yesterday because 291 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 2: almost no one is talking about it. Three of the 292 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 2: four biggest bank collapses in the history of the United 293 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 2: States have had happened in the last six weeks, including 294 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 2: the second biggest ever happened yesterday. Stock prices right now 295 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:10,880 Speaker 2: for many banks are collapsing. The expectation is the Fed 296 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 2: is going to raise rates again tomorrow. We have a 297 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 2: slow moving disaster on our hands associated with the highest 298 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 2: rate of interest rate increases in forty years. And I'm 299 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,959 Speaker 2: just telling everybody you better buckle up because I think 300 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:31,919 Speaker 2: it's going to get nasty. 301 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 1: If these aren't recession indicators, what are recession indicators? This 302 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 1: is the way I like to frame the question. If 303 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 1: this doesn't feel like it's going south for the economy. Remember, 304 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:45,199 Speaker 1: we spent well how many trillions of dollars during COVID 305 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:48,679 Speaker 1: just decided to go for it. 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This will 332 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:18,400 Speaker 1: affect this show not at all, because we are the writers, 333 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: as in, we just sit here and come up with 334 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 1: the content and talk to you. We've got a great 335 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:26,199 Speaker 1: staff that's making sure we have audio and callers and 336 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,280 Speaker 1: everything else, but no one's writing scripts for us. Obviously, 337 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: we're doing radio here extemporaneously and on the fly, and 338 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:41,679 Speaker 1: our favorite Democrat talk show out there, Clay the View. 339 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 1: They're a little worried that. Okay, wait, before I even 340 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 1: get into this, were you even I mean this? I 341 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 1: knew they had producers. Sure, producers, you know, they book guests, 342 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: they pull segments, they kind of make things. They produce, 343 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: they make things happen behind the scenes. Apparently the Ladies 344 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 1: of the View have a staff of writers as well 345 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 1: as in people creating content for them to say on 346 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 1: the air. Did you know that? Because I've stunned me. 347 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 2: It stuns me for people out there who have not 348 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 2: spent time in television. 349 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: The television's very produced. So you have producers who will say. 350 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 2: Hey, the topic is going to be this, and we'll 351 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:27,199 Speaker 2: have you know, b role meaning video running behind you, 352 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,120 Speaker 2: or we're going to play this audio and we want 353 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 2: you to react to it. Television very scripted. The idea 354 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 2: that there are legitimate writers. I knew that Jimmy Kimmel 355 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 2: and Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert, their shows are written 356 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:46,919 Speaker 2: because they're making jokes and they have scripted commentary. I 357 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 2: until you played this audio clip during our last commercial break, 358 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,880 Speaker 2: I had no earthly idea that in addition to being 359 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:57,399 Speaker 2: the dumbest show on daily television, they not only have 360 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:01,920 Speaker 2: massive amounts of producers working on this program, they also 361 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:03,639 Speaker 2: have a lot of writers. Buck and I'll give you 362 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 2: this fact I couldn't believe it. Do you know what 363 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:10,160 Speaker 2: the Late Late Show budget was? This is all show 364 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:14,120 Speaker 2: that James Corden James Corden Show. I mean I would 365 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:17,119 Speaker 2: guess the budget for the show. Yeah, like what the 366 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:21,639 Speaker 2: whole show costs for a year? Ten million, sixty five 367 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 2: million dollars. Now, that didn't include Cordon's salary, to be clear, 368 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 2: because that's usually the biggest that's but that's out. That's 369 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 2: outrageous to me. So they were losing. CBS was according 370 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 2: to a recent Variety article that I read, they made 371 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 2: forty five million a year in revenue on that show, 372 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:42,440 Speaker 2: which to their credit seems crazy high. They lost twenty 373 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 2: million a year because the cost of that show was 374 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,159 Speaker 2: sixty five million. I bet a lot of it. I 375 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 2: bet a lot of it is. And this is true 376 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:50,919 Speaker 2: for a lot of media companies out there. Is the 377 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 2: marketing costs, right, They probably had, you know, billboards everywhere 378 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 2: and commercials. 379 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,560 Speaker 1: They're buying other markets and everything else to get to 380 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 1: that forty five million. But you know it's the h 381 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,480 Speaker 1: another graand Pad Joe. We're gonna we're gonna lose it 382 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,120 Speaker 1: on units, but make it up on volume, you know. Yeah, 383 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:05,919 Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna lose on price, but make it 384 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,440 Speaker 1: up on volume. So sorry, there's two Grandpa jokes in 385 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 1: one day for me, but I think that they were 386 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:15,440 Speaker 1: they were apropos in both cases. Here, though, is the 387 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 1: clip that we had mentioned. I think everyone should hear 388 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 1: it if you wanted you to know that the usual 389 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 1: brilliance that you can expect from them maybe slightly dampened 390 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:26,879 Speaker 1: by the fact that they're writers writing their comments and 391 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,159 Speaker 1: jokes aren't there play it. 392 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:31,640 Speaker 3: You know how we're always talking about how we're very different, 393 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 3: uh than most other shows. Well, as you know, there 394 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:39,679 Speaker 3: is a writers' strike on and so we don't have writers. Okay, 395 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:44,120 Speaker 3: so you're gonna hear how it would be when. 396 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:48,879 Speaker 1: It's not you know, slicked up. Okay, we don't have 397 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,639 Speaker 1: writers today. We usually do have writers. It sounded like 398 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 1: we never have writers. 399 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 3: That's because you're not listening now. 400 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: You know interesting, because what you realize on those little 401 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 1: que cards they have in front of them, they don't 402 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: just have guest names or that's producer stuff. They've got 403 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 1: you know, one liners, They've got comments they're supposed to make. 404 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: I mean, they're really it's all it's not fully scripted, 405 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: but there's a scripting that goes into that show, which 406 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,960 Speaker 1: is amazing when you think about the stuff they are 407 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,440 Speaker 1: saying on that program on a daily basis. Yeah, and 408 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 1: that's what I've kind of hammered the view. 409 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 2: And we appreciate them existing because we need thatch great content. 410 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 2: But when you get something wrong on a show of 411 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 2: that magnitude, as they all often do, it's a failure 412 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:43,920 Speaker 2: across multiple people because there's a huge staff that would 413 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 2: exist to ensure that you never get anything wrong. And 414 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 2: so when they come out with willfully ignorant and incredibly 415 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 2: factually inaccurate takes, it's really extraordinary that that could even 416 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 2: be allowed to occur. And the fact fact that they 417 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 2: have jokes being written for them, and the fact that 418 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 2: they have a scripted program going on and they are 419 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 2: still so bad, it makes me even more certain in 420 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 2: my argument that it's the dumbest daily show that exists 421 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 2: anywhere in media. 422 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:18,160 Speaker 1: But if the writers strike also extends to the late 423 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 1: night comedy shows too, that the Steward shows, all right, 424 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 1: so they're doing they're on okay, they're on tape, because 425 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:26,679 Speaker 1: I guess they would realize that their shows are so bad. 426 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 1: I mean, there shows to be so bad without the writers, 427 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 1: even though you remember John Stewart used to get all 428 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: this credit for having and look, he was good at 429 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,159 Speaker 1: what he did at the time and really was the 430 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: he was the tent pole at Comedy Central during the 431 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 1: entire Bush administration. But he had like fifteen or twenty writers. Yeah, 432 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 1: everybody so think of So that's a fascinating thing, isn't that. 433 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: You think all this John Stewart's come up with all 434 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: this because if you see him now doing podcasting, he's 435 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: kind of mean. He's not that smart, he's not that funny. 436 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,640 Speaker 1: And you see it actually because these people are much 437 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 1: closer to actors than they are to commentators and and 438 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,640 Speaker 1: you know, opinion guys out there in that they've had 439 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:08,200 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff given to them and fed to 440 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: them in terms of content. So it'll be interesting to 441 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: see who keeps up and who drops away. The late 442 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 1: night comedians not doing such a great job. Well they're 443 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: not even trying. Yeah, And Colbert reminds me as well. Buck. 444 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,639 Speaker 2: You know who used to be the lead producer for 445 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 2: Colbert Show, Chris Lickt, who took the job to run CNN. 446 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 2: Now I give him credit because I think he diagnosed 447 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:36,640 Speaker 2: that Colbert is not very funny and not particularly interesting, 448 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 2: and he said, Okay, the only way we're going to 449 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 2: succeed is if we have a massive pivot, and that 450 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 2: massive pivot went to Trump is the devil, and he 451 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,360 Speaker 2: basically did a propaganda show every night about how much 452 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 2: of a devil Trump was, and that resonated, and then 453 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 2: everybody else followed him down that rabbit hole. They now 454 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 2: Wicked is in a spot at CNN buck where he's 455 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 2: now put a Trump on the town hall and he's 456 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 2: trying to pivot and create a different dynamic, which makes 457 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 2: me wonder whether he's the right guy based on what 458 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 2: he did with Colbert. 459 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 1: Well, you could say that by turning Trump into the 460 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 1: devil over there, he made a Faustian bargain. Clay oh Man, 461 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: you are tripling up on the Grandpa jokes today, going 462 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:21,280 Speaker 1: for it, no doubt. 463 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 2: And look the play there was a good one in 464 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 2: late night television. I mean much like I give credit 465 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,679 Speaker 2: to Fox News because they said, hey, late night television 466 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:36,360 Speaker 2: is now such a disaster. They've pivoted also left wing. Well, 467 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 2: you open up a market based opportunity for Greg Guttfeld, 468 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,920 Speaker 2: who now outrates all of those guys. And I would 469 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 2: imagine Gutfeld is still live because he has producers, but 470 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,680 Speaker 2: he doesn't have Hollywood writers producing his show. 471 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 1: Right to my knowledge, No, yeah, he's going to be 472 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: able to continue to do a show. And that's one 473 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,360 Speaker 1: of the more remarkable stories in media. Do you think 474 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:04,159 Speaker 1: about the dethroning that has occurred from the platforms that 475 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,120 Speaker 1: I've been look So, I used to do Red Eye. 476 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 1: Red Eye was actually the first cable show that I 477 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: was ever on in my life. I was on Fox News. 478 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 1: Show was and how it was creative? I believe I 479 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 1: never watched it when it aired because it was on 480 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,160 Speaker 1: at either two or three. I think it was three 481 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:22,879 Speaker 1: AM for a while, maybe it was two am. I 482 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 1: can't remember exactly, but it was it was the dead 483 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 1: to night. Basically, it was really really late. But because well, 484 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 1: first of all, West Coast versus East Coast, so on 485 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 1: the West Coast you had people that were able to 486 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: watch it, you know, closer to midnight eleven PM timeframe, 487 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 1: and beyond that, DVR meant that people would watch it 488 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:43,919 Speaker 1: the next day whenever they wanted. It was early. That 489 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,400 Speaker 1: was you know, the mid early two thousands. But that 490 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 1: show was a lot of fun and Greg just totally 491 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,800 Speaker 1: built it up over many years, built really a cult 492 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: following by giving an opportunity to people to be on 493 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,199 Speaker 1: TV who had honestly never been on TV before, some 494 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 1: big name comedians who were getting their start. You know, 495 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: Amy Schumer was on that show back in the day. 496 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,239 Speaker 1: I mean, there were people who I don't actually think 497 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 1: is very funny, but that's beside the point. There are 498 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,640 Speaker 1: people who are now I can't evenmember all them household names. 499 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: And they did that show. But that was pure audience 500 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 1: growth through talent and perseverance. Colbert and Kim On they 501 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,360 Speaker 1: were given it was oh you, we shall give you 502 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 1: this platform, not based on great ratings on similar shows 503 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 1: or beating out the competition you know in other markets, 504 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 1: like you've dealt this, I've dealt with this in radio. 505 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 1: It's very how do you do in this market? How 506 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: do you do visa via radio competition? That's how it goes. 507 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 1: It's like it's like being on a tennis ladder, right, 508 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: or it's you know, it's like boxing, you know, stepping 509 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 1: stones or making a way to the title a bout. 510 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 1: They just gave those late night comedians their own massive platforms, 511 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 1: and I think they've really kind of destroyed them. They 512 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 1: turned them into partisan, whiny, angry and maybe the worst 513 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 1: defense of all, not very creative, repetitive. It's all the 514 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 1: same joke every night at those places. 515 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think it's a sign of the insecurity. 516 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 2: To their credit, and again I give him credit purely 517 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 2: from a marketing based decision, Colbert decided, because he was 518 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 2: in last place, we have to really shake up things 519 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 2: and change the way we do the show aggressively. And 520 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 2: they branded themselves as the Anti Trump Show during the 521 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,479 Speaker 2: Trump era, and that worked, but it was a sugar 522 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 2: high and crazily. Instead of just continuing to do the 523 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 2: same kind of show they had always done and trying 524 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 2: to ride out the Trump era, everybody followed them down 525 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 2: into the rabbit hole of anti Trump doom, destroying the 526 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 2: industry in the process. 527 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 1: Whatever happened to that was a scotsman. It was on 528 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:51,960 Speaker 1: late night, you know what I'm talking about. There was 529 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 1: Craig Ferguson. Yeah, Craig Ferguson. I actually liked that guy. 530 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 1: I thought he was pretty funny. He didn't stick around 531 00:29:58,280 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 1: that long. 532 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:00,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, I don't know what happened to him, 533 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 2: and I don't know what who knows what's gonna end 534 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:03,720 Speaker 2: up happening. 535 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:05,800 Speaker 1: It was like it was like his chubby or little 536 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: brother took over on the Late Late Show whatever. 537 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 2: Cordon Yes, and then complained about his eggs. And then 538 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 2: Trevor Noah took over for John Stewart and lost eighty 539 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 2: percent of the audience, basically destroyed that entire show, and 540 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 2: now has decided that he's going to retire. 541 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 1: But that was a pure of these guys. That was 542 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,959 Speaker 1: a pure wokeness decision, by the way, And what in 543 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 1: what world does Trevor like? How did Trevor Noah prove 544 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 1: himself for that platform? He didn't. The executives in charge 545 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: of Comedy Central were like, you know, what will make 546 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: us look like we're really on the cutting edge if 547 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: we put this guy in the John Stuart John Stuart 548 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: role based on I never even heard of the guy before. 549 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 1: I mean I never heard any. 550 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 2: Hardly anybody will point out that he lost eighty percent 551 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,320 Speaker 2: of his lead. That's hard to do, you know, if 552 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 2: you take over something that success, I mean, can you'd 553 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 2: have been fired six months in. 554 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: If we had lost eighty percent of this audience. Yeah, 555 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 1: what do you ever know? It gets multi years. Do 556 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 1: you remember crank Yankors, Oh yeah, back in the day. Yeah, 557 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,040 Speaker 1: Comedy Central, that was a show they had. Yeah, I 558 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,600 Speaker 1: mean that's the baseline of Comedy Central. Is still the 559 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 1: most successful show of South Park, right, I mean they 560 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 1: basically own that network. I think trace Terry Parker and 561 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 1: Matt Stone. Ah, yeah, that's a right point. 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They are there. 611 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,040 Speaker 2: I have been talking to our outkit crew Buck like crazy. 612 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:02,480 Speaker 2: I want to dominate on YouTube because I want to 613 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,760 Speaker 2: talk to everybody out there who is you know, fifteen, 614 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 2: sixteen years old, college age. It's where they all are, 615 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 2: even younger. My kids spend all their time there. If 616 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,160 Speaker 2: you enjoy this show, we love you. We appreciate you 617 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,440 Speaker 2: listening on podcasts. We appreciate you listening on the five 618 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:20,719 Speaker 2: hundred some odd stations. But your kids also probably will 619 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,800 Speaker 2: enjoy some of the arguments that we make some of 620 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,200 Speaker 2: the discussions we get into. You go subscribe on YouTube. 621 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,279 Speaker 2: You share them a link. First of all, they'll be impressed. 622 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:31,880 Speaker 2: My kids anytime I share them a link on YouTube, 623 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,480 Speaker 2: they're like, wow, Dad, this is not from Twitter. You 624 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,480 Speaker 2: actually went on YouTube. Yeah, share them the link. Go subscribe. 625 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,920 Speaker 2: You can search us out Klay, Travis, Buck Sexton and 626 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,319 Speaker 2: make sure that you subscribe there as well. 627 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:43,840 Speaker 1: And Buck. 628 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:48,000 Speaker 2: This story just came down, So Tucker. We don't know 629 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:49,839 Speaker 2: what's going to happen with Tucker right, and I work 630 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,799 Speaker 2: at Fox News. I am so far down the flow 631 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,720 Speaker 2: chart of knowledge that I have no idea what happened. 632 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,279 Speaker 2: I did I say on this show, Tucker is going 633 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,560 Speaker 2: to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars on the market. 634 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 2: We don't know what sort of private, behind the scenes 635 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,520 Speaker 2: conversations are going on. But our friend Patrick Bett David, 636 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,600 Speaker 2: we did his pot We did his YouTube show. Tons 637 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 2: of people watch that interview that we did with him 638 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:14,960 Speaker 2: down in South Florida. 639 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 1: He posted a. 640 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:21,400 Speaker 2: Public offer one hundred million dollars to Tucker, twenty million 641 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,360 Speaker 2: a year, guaranteed for each of the next five years. 642 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:26,960 Speaker 1: Look, I've been checking in with Tucker and I can 643 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:30,240 Speaker 1: tell you he's good, he's doing He's doing fine. Tucker's 644 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:34,000 Speaker 1: doing fine, and he might be uh, great things coming 645 00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,279 Speaker 1: to him down the line, I'm sure. So you know, 646 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:40,880 Speaker 1: when when you created that level of brand value and 647 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,319 Speaker 1: brand loyalty with an audience, yep, you're you're always going 648 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:45,840 Speaker 1: to have a lot of options. 649 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,200 Speaker 2: So when that news came down last Monday, shocking thirty 650 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,080 Speaker 2: minutes four, we went on the air. What we said. 651 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:53,960 Speaker 2: What I said, was this the best thing from a 652 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,840 Speaker 2: pure dollars perspective that could happen to Tucker, because I 653 00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,319 Speaker 2: think he's one hundred million dollars a year guy to 654 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:00,840 Speaker 2: the extending one to pursue money. 655 00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:06,759 Speaker 1: But your dream scenario for Tucker free speech and America, 656 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:12,280 Speaker 1: given the situation, would be Tucker elon combo Yah Tucker 657 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,040 Speaker 1: elon eight pm on Twitter. 658 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:18,040 Speaker 2: If I were advising Elon Musk, I would say, go 659 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:22,319 Speaker 2: get Tucker. Find someone else equivalent on the left. If 660 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,040 Speaker 2: you want to count don lemon as that give them 661 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,800 Speaker 2: absolutely free reign, tell them that they can say anything, 662 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,560 Speaker 2: say that you represent the marketplace of ideas, and then 663 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,319 Speaker 2: help distribute that show and monetize it. 664 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:36,319 Speaker 1: I think it. 665 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 2: Would be a new paradigm, a dynamic shift in the 666 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 2: way conversation happens, and a monster win for Elon Musk 667 00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,279 Speaker 2: in terms of turning Twitter not just into a platform 668 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,400 Speaker 2: where people react, but to where people watch. 669 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,400 Speaker 1: And I think that's what he needs to do. It 670 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 1: could be soon, I think, the most impactful social media 671 00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,200 Speaker 1: platform in the world, and Tucker could be a part 672 00:36:59,239 --> 00:36:59,480 Speaker 1: of it.