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

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back to the Clay Travis and

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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. This is Buck with me Clay. It's

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Speaker 1: had a nice chat with the minority leader Kevin McCarthy.

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Speaker 1: If you want to hear we got into there. Remember

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Speaker 1: you can always go to Clay and Buck dot com.

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Speaker 1: Got clips from the show there, and also subscribe to

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Speaker 1: the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast. And I've

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Speaker 1: got to say I wanted to bring us into a

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Speaker 1: discussion here about the Department of Justice as a weapon

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Speaker 1: of Democrat politics, which that always happens with are Democrat

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Speaker 1: administrations and Merrick Garland, who is who is supposed to

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Speaker 1: be Supreme Court Justice Garland. We all remember that, and

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Speaker 1: then then the seat was stolen if by stolen you

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Speaker 1: mean the rules of the Senate were used and Democrats

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Speaker 1: didn't get their way. Now Garland is d o J

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Speaker 1: and he's executing on a very obvious policy on behalf

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Speaker 1: of the Democrats. And we'll get into that second. But

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Speaker 1: I just Clay, as you were up perhaps eating a

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Speaker 1: ham sandwich or what turkey and cheese. To be honest,

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Speaker 1: every day during the show, I have a turkey and

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Speaker 1: tea sandwich. Are you a wonderbread guy? By the way,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't even know what type of bread

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Speaker 1: this house in the last decade. Um, I'm not the

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Speaker 1: official official bread guy. Usually I've had a turkey and

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Speaker 1: cheese sandwich for lunch for about twenty years in a row. Wow,

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Speaker 1: turkey and cheese is really the go to. We don't

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Speaker 1: we don't really go to go to staple. Don't mix

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Speaker 1: wild every now and then. Got gotta get that blood

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Speaker 1: sugar right where it needs to be to do this

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Speaker 1: amazing radio show. I would also tell everybody though, this

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Speaker 1: is why as Clay was was was hydrating and getting

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Speaker 1: getting a nibble. Um, I saw this come across the

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Speaker 1: come across the screen. They're announcing, just in te for

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Speaker 1: mister Travis's visit to NYC. They are announcing a mask policy.

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Speaker 1: Now they have not said what it will be, but

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Speaker 1: the Deblasio Mayor's office is going to be announcing a

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Speaker 1: mask policy response next week, probably Monday or Tuesday, right

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Speaker 1: in time Friday's Io Land on the ground play to

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Speaker 1: be here here. So basically, Clay, wherever you go in

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Speaker 1: the country, they get a mask mandate in place. I

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Speaker 1: am the mask mandate super spreader because I went to

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Speaker 1: like it's kind of spreading all over the state of

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Speaker 1: and it spreads rapidly. If you're just getting in your car,

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Speaker 1: just starting your day with us. Washington DC has now

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Speaker 1: announced a mask mandate, so we said in the last hour,

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Speaker 1: So it's only a matter of time until New York

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Speaker 1: City does it. And this is all a fundamental repudiation

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Speaker 1: I think schools are starting soon right, schools start back.

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Speaker 1: the fall, as everyone who has ever taken any sort

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Speaker 1: And that is what faucisum is. But you know, the

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Speaker 1: experienced the obvious benefits for making it much harder to

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Speaker 1: prove fraud, much harder to avoid fraud in an election, Clay,

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Speaker 1: the DOJ is gonna bring all these lawsuits. This is

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Speaker 1: all part of the Biden administration narrative that if you

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Speaker 1: believe in voter ID, if you believe that mail in

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Speaker 1: Which we all should have expected. Thankfully, we have a

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Speaker 1: gave great deference to individual states as it pertains to

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Speaker 1: And I want to give credit to the State of Georgia,

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Speaker 1: Georgia's response to that lawsuit, they asked why the Department

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Speaker 1: is an impressive, I think, CounterPunch. But also the law

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Speaker 1: it's bound to fail, and I think the Department of

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Speaker 1: and that the DOJ is bringing the suits essentially is used,

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Speaker 1: that these suits probably won't work, but it is a reminder,

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Speaker 1: meaning that they won't actually win in the end, but

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Speaker 1: And it won't work in this sense that they'll get

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Speaker 1: that's what you threw. They've thrown a few of those.

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Speaker 1: With these guidance documents about states doing audits, the DOJ

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Speaker 1: if something happened to it. You know, we might have

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Speaker 1: also reflects how little power Merret Garland actually has an

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Speaker 1: Apartment of Justice. He's an old white guy and anytime

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Speaker 1: the revolutionaries, the younger, probably more diverse underlings that are

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Speaker 1: at all this evidence that he would bring these lawsuits

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Speaker 1: on the wrong say, you don't want to be an insurrectionist, Clay.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to be one of those people. So

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Speaker 1: Russia collusion was a giant lie and it didn't actually

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Speaker 1: Russia collusion was incredibly useful as a tool for Democrats

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Speaker 1: we worked a little bit on it together. But the

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Speaker 1: what we have to have play is we have to

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Speaker 1: have equality in terms of everybody doing it the same way.

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna have a rule and you're gonna compete

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Speaker 1: for championships, everybody has to go but the same rules.

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Speaker 1: And this is a rule that scares me. I think

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Speaker 1: it's more of an experiment than anything. I think they're

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Speaker 1: looking at this. And I was a coach for years

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Speaker 1: that I wanted to give us much money to every player,

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Speaker 1: man and woman, every sports we possibly could, but it's

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Speaker 1: almost impossible. I mean, there might be a half a

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Speaker 1: dozen to a dozen teams that can really afford the

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Speaker 1: things that's coming down the pipe, but there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of teams that can't. And you know, we can't ruin

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Speaker 1: athletics in this country, especially high school and college. If

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Speaker 1: we do that, that's one of the true things that

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Speaker 1: we're holding onto where people learn discipline, they learn values,

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Speaker 1: they learn how to work together. And we've got to

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Speaker 1: be able to hold onto that. And when we get

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Speaker 1: politics involve, things started to disintegrate a little bit. But

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Speaker 1: you know, when you look at this, going, my goodness,

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Speaker 1: this is just an opportunity to do things that we

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Speaker 1: couldn't do. We couldn't even come closer doing some of

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Speaker 1: these things that they're allowed to do. Now, Senator pivoting

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Speaker 1: back to politics for a second, are you concerned that,

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Speaker 1: given the inability, it seems the of the Biden White

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Speaker 1: House to get their their agenda through on Capitol Hill,

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Speaker 1: that there may be some of the more extreme measures

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Speaker 1: that have been talked about all along here, like, for example,

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Speaker 1: getting rid of the filibuster so that then they could

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Speaker 1: ram through the agenda. How confident should we be that

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Speaker 1: the handful of or really just a couple of Democrats

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Speaker 1: that have been a bulwark against elimitating the filibuster will

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Speaker 1: hold the line on that. Yeah, I don't think that

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Speaker 1: will ever happen. I don't And again, talking to Mansion

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Speaker 1: in cinema invisible with them about what they believe about

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Speaker 1: this country and about the process. Both have said to me,

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Speaker 1: you know, quite consistently that they want to keep the process.

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Speaker 1: They do not want to cross that line and allow

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Speaker 1: the Senate to turn into the House where a system majority.

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Speaker 1: And if we do that, there's gonna be some huge problems.

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Speaker 1: There'll be some chains back and force, you know, sent

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Speaker 1: or later Republics are gonna get football back, and and

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Speaker 1: if you break the the filibuster, then it's just going

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Speaker 1: to be total chaos, you know, when the Republicans take over.

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Speaker 1: And American people don't deserve that they need, They deserve

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Speaker 1: less government, less decisions made up here. You know, we'd

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Speaker 1: go home for about three months. It wouldn't hurt my

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Speaker 1: feelings because it would save the American taxpayers money. And

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Speaker 1: all we want to do up here is spend money.

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Speaker 1: And that's not what we're up here for. We're up

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Speaker 1: here to help, and we've done very little help with

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Speaker 1: the pandemic, with the borders, with crime, all those things

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Speaker 1: that are going on. That's what we should be talking about,

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Speaker 1: that's what we should be working on. Well, we're boarded

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Speaker 1: by spending money and that's not what we need to

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Speaker 1: do right now. On Inflation is getting ready to hit

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Speaker 1: us right between the eyes. It's already started and it's

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Speaker 1: gonna get worse. There's no way we can stop it.

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Speaker 1: You got your own pal out there spending one hundred

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Speaker 1: one hundred billion dollars a day or a week on

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Speaker 1: all these treasury bills and things are going to go

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Speaker 1: sideways on us. And when it does, we're not we're

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Speaker 1: zero interest rates. Where we go from there? We got

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Speaker 1: nowhere to go. Europe tried that and it didn't work.

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Speaker 1: And we've got to be very careful with what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: And inflation keeps going, we're all gonna be in trouble.

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Speaker 1: Last question for you, Center, I want to know more

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Speaker 1: anger in the state of Alabama. When you were coaching

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Speaker 1: college football or now that you're a politician, how would

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Speaker 1: you compare the vibe as those two different jobs. Well,

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Speaker 1: they're dividing in both of that, and you know, coaching

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Speaker 1: college football, but at the end of the day, you

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Speaker 1: know you can look at each other and I and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: you did the best for what you were supposed to

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Speaker 1: be doing. Your teams up here it is two separate teams,

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Speaker 1: and it's two separate Americas. I mean, we're not fighting

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Speaker 1: for the flag, we're not fighting for the anthem, we're

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Speaker 1: not fighting for the constitution up here. We're fighting each

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Speaker 1: other on a different type of America. And that's not

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Speaker 1: how this country is supposed to be. And we start

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Speaker 1: divide and that we continue to keep dividing it, you

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Speaker 1: know where we're headed and it's not going to be pretty.

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Speaker 1: And we have got to all come together, quit dividing

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Speaker 1: each other, get away from this stuff that we're teaching

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Speaker 1: in these schools to the kids. That's one reason I'm

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Speaker 1: up here is because of education. Because I've seen how

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Speaker 1: we've downgraded thirty seventh in the world in math. Now

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Speaker 1: that makes a lot of sense the United States of

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Speaker 1: America China number one. Education is what put us here,

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Speaker 1: and education is what's going to ruin us if we

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Speaker 1: continue down this path of teaching kids something about division

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Speaker 1: and about hate. Senator thanks so much for joining us

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Speaker 1: from the great state of Alabama. We appreciate it. Thank

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Speaker 1: We're gonna make sense of the madness right now with

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Speaker 1: the masks and everything else. But we've been talking to

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Speaker 1: you about the Olympic situation, and the big story of

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Speaker 1: the week from the Olympics had been although there's another

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Speaker 1: very good story. We'll get into it a second. You're

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Speaker 1: kind of an uplifting and happy story. But there were

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Speaker 1: some back and forth over Simone Biles stepping aside Michael Phelps.

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Speaker 1: Who is Is he the most decorated Olympian of all time?

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Speaker 1: Certainly close to us? I think the answer is yes, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that he has more medals than anybody in

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Speaker 1: a empics history. Weighed in on the Simone Biles with

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Speaker 1: drawing issue, and here's what he said, for humans, right,

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Speaker 1: for human beings, nobody is perfect. So yes, it is

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Speaker 1: okay to not be okay, it is okay to do good,

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Speaker 1: to go through ups and downs and emotional roller coasters,

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Speaker 1: you know. But I think the biggest thing is we

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Speaker 1: all need to ask for help sometimes too, when we

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Speaker 1: go through those times. You know, for me, I can

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Speaker 1: say personally, it was something that's very challenging. It was

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Speaker 1: hard for me to ask for help. I felt like

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Speaker 1: I was carrying, as Simone said, the weight of the

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Speaker 1: I got mixed feelings on this play because yeah, of

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Speaker 1: course you need help, go get help, and there should

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Speaker 1: be no stigma for anybody ever who wants to seek

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Speaker 1: mental health. Mental health assistants are counseling in any capacity. Right,

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Speaker 1: you need help, go get help. You know, the same

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Speaker 1: way you'd you had a broken leg, you got to

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Speaker 1: go see someone to help you fix it. If you're

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Speaker 1: having mental health issues, you gotta go fix it. But

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Speaker 1: as I mean, we can't talk about world champion level

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Speaker 1: I've got mixed feelings about some of the messaging on that. No.

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Speaker 1: We talked about it yesterday with wil Kaine and I

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Speaker 1: check it out on the podcast if you didn't already.

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Speaker 1: And obviously we've talked. There's been a big debate about

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Speaker 1: he said, mental health is important, but so is so

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Speaker 1: is how every one of her teammates, with really no

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Speaker 1: And last night in Tokyo, early this morning in the

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Speaker 1: the all round gold. She came in behind Simone Biles

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Speaker 1: in the qualifying and she's only eighteen years old, and

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Speaker 1: she absolutely dominated early this morning for those of you

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Speaker 1: round champion. So this is what you want to see

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Speaker 1: in athletics, right, someone steps down, can the next man

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Speaker 1: By the way, we talked to Tommy Tubberville just a

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Speaker 1: I would think off name, image and likeness. Now that

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Speaker 1: she is the greatest Olympic gymnast in the world, gold

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Speaker 1: medal winner, I think we need to give as many

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Speaker 1: simone vials. She stepped up and got it done when

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Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's been an interesting week in

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Speaker 1: that regard Clay, and I think that people can at

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Speaker 1: been watching the Olympics pretty closely, this was a storyline

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Speaker 1: that may actually be one of the more memorable ones

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Speaker 1: for some time to come. I'm very concerned about what's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen here with the libs completely losing their minds

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Speaker 1: about masks all over a good play. So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to dive deep going away, dive deep into those

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Speaker 1: numbers and look at what's gonna be. I mean, we've

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Speaker 1: been pretty prophetic on this show. I'm just gonna say it,

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Speaker 1: say that it's gonna get bad. It's gonna get worse,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna continue to hold the line here for

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Speaker 1: the truth. To make sure everyone knows that they're not

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Speaker 1: alone by being sane and that you can stand up

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Speaker 1: against these crazy mask mandates yourselves. That's what we all need.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate all of you. Should be a fun show

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Speaker 1: tomorrow on Friday. See you. Then you're listening to Clay

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Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sexton fund the EIB network, but no