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

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome and everybody to the Wednesday edition.

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Speaker 1: Always happy when I get the day right of the

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Speaker 1: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. So we have a

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Speaker 1: lot going on to talk to you all about today. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: we'll dive in just a second here to the gas

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Speaker 1: tax holiday situation. Is the Biden regime really gonna pull

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Speaker 1: this at the last minute and do everything that they

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Speaker 1: can to buy off the voters, which is really what

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Speaker 1: this is. It is it is a gimmick to borrow

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Speaker 1: a term from a Democrat administration. We'll dive into that

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Speaker 1: here in just a second. And we've also got more

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Speaker 1: updates on what happened at UV all day. We'll be

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Speaker 1: discussing that with you in a little bit. Just say,

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Speaker 1: the details keep getting worse for the law enforcement response.

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Speaker 1: With more information comes more outrage unfortunately about what happened there.

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Speaker 1: We will discuss that with you. Also, some major US

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Speaker 1: cities are having a particularly high year for violence right now,

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Speaker 1: including New York and Los Angeles, after all time records

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Speaker 1: in places like Philadelphia and other cities last year. So

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Speaker 1: you're seeing cities that are having their worst years of

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Speaker 1: violence in a long time, and even some that are

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Speaker 1: having their worst years ever. And when you look at

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Speaker 1: some of the Democrat policies that are being pushed by

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Speaker 1: progressive prosecutors like Gascone and Krasner, I would say Boudan,

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Speaker 1: but he just got recalled. There's others that we have

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Speaker 1: as well. That's an important story. We've also got Senator

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Speaker 1: legislation Senates pushed through here. I mean they call it bipartisan,

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Speaker 1: and it technically it is bipartisan. There's a whole lot

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Speaker 1: more to discuss here about how it's not really going

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Speaker 1: to do very much, if anything, I would say anything

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Speaker 1: that's good. It will also leave some open territory for

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Speaker 1: abuse of some of the regulations. And we've got our

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Speaker 1: friend Ian Miller, who is great on the topic of

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Speaker 1: masks not working and vaccines being overpromised. When it comes there,

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Speaker 1: he'll be joining us third hour two. So show is

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Speaker 1: racked and stacked, and I'm here, of course with my

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Speaker 1: main man, Clay. I'm still down in Key Largo, which

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Speaker 1: is quite a lovely place to be. Clay is in

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Speaker 1: Atlanta and Clay So the federal gas tax, Hollott, let's

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Speaker 1: just start with this. Even the gas CEOs who usually

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Speaker 1: you'll notice, they don't usually get into the political fray

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Speaker 1: because a lot of regulation. They just want to keep

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Speaker 1: pumping their oil, doing their business. I know there's obviously

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Speaker 1: that frequently. The Chevron CEO has said Biden basically doesn't

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Speaker 1: know what the heck he's talking about. Here is Biden's

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Speaker 1: response play clip one good question on the Chevron CEO's

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Speaker 1: complaint Today. He said that your administration has largely criticized

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Speaker 1: the oil and gas industry and at times has vilified it,

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Speaker 1: and that the administration would need to take a change

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Speaker 1: in approach in order to make progress. I'm reducing energy

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Speaker 1: prices and to increase supply. Do you have a reaction

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Speaker 1: to that, surf I didn't know if they shared that quickly.

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Speaker 1: I mean, does it really think it's a time for jokes?

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Speaker 1: Clay people can't afford gas. The gas CEO is saying

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Speaker 1: the Biden regime is clownish and he thinks it's funny

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Speaker 1: here's what's going on. The Democrats know that nothing else matters.

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Speaker 1: All the distractions they're trying to throw up surrounding January sixth,

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Speaker 1: the potential impact as we go forward, surrounding whatever the

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Speaker 1: from eight point six percent inflation and how angry every

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Speaker 1: and it's five dollars a gallon. That is every single time.

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Speaker 1: The essence of this, and the problem with the gas

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Speaker 1: the Biden administration has is all of the oil and

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Speaker 1: So take it outside of gas. If you knew that

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Speaker 1: And Biden is trying to make the oil and gas

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Speaker 1: At this point, it is down to gimmicks. You have

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Speaker 1: send Biden stimulus checks even though we're going through a

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Speaker 1: terrible period of inflation, to effectively buy off as many

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Speaker 1: can't have it both ways either. You can't have the

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Speaker 1: But it's not as fault that gas prices are high, right, Well,

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Speaker 1: no one's saying it's all his fault. Nothing at a

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Speaker 1: macroeconomic level is ever entirely the sitting president's fault. But

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Speaker 1: has he made it worse? Has he made the wrong moves? Yes,

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Speaker 1: clearly obviously, everybody, including the CEOs of all the fossil

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Speaker 1: you still, Clay, I love this. You've got like these.

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Speaker 1: The Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm can't help herself. John Kerry

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Speaker 1: Graholm saying, yeah, look, things are tough, but what a

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Speaker 1: great opportunity while you can't afford to drive to work,

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Speaker 1: to transition to green energy. Place seven. We've got obviously

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Speaker 1: is maybe the most Marie Antoinette esque move of any

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Speaker 1: Obama actually pointed this out some time ago, that everything

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Speaker 1: that has to be tackling. We are offering gimmicks when

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Speaker 1: do better than that. This time. It's a gimmick. It's

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Speaker 1: they also know Clay where this is all heading. A

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Speaker 1: and it's there's not going to be some long holiday.

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Speaker 1: that has emerged and is continuing to grow and is

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Speaker 1: probably going to lead to higher gas prices throughout the

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Speaker 1: course of the summer. And Buck, the discussion here is

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Speaker 1: November tenth, maybe through Thanksgiving. Oh, we're going to give

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Speaker 1: early as it did? I don't think so. Without Desantists,

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Speaker 1: does Texas start to move in the right directionals? I

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Speaker 1: think far too slowly. I don't think so. I think

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Speaker 1: some small states would have, but they would have had

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Speaker 1: such tiny populations and they would have been overwhelmingly rural

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Speaker 1: in nature such that it wouldn't have had the same impact.

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Speaker 1: And what happened was DeSantis trusted his data, his analysis

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Speaker 1: of all of the COVID related lockdown decisions, and he

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Speaker 1: the fire because when you followed in his wake, there

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Speaker 1: wasn't as much criticism for everyone else. And thirty three

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Speaker 1: a twenty eighteen governor's election that, let's be honest, nobody

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Speaker 1: thought was super important. I know, people cared, and whether

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Speaker 1: you're Republican or Democrat party rules in Florida is a

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Speaker 1: big deal, but no one thought that governors would become

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Speaker 1: as important as they did by twenty twenty. In the spring,

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Speaker 1: people in the state of Florida alone listening to this

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Speaker 1: right now, that's right, we have we have several times

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Speaker 1: over plus the margin of victors. Just so everyone when

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Speaker 1: So we're looking at every part of the country, because

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Speaker 1: we have stations in every part of the country and

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Speaker 1: we want to make sure that we're representing, you know,

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Speaker 1: state and even local level. When that becomes a prominent

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Speaker 1: enough issue for everyone to be hearing about it, and

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Speaker 1: I just don't want it. I don't want anyone leaving anything,

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Speaker 1: you know, anything on the table. Leave it all on

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Speaker 1: the field, so to speak, right, everyone's got this has

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Speaker 1: got to be all hands on deck, because even even

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Speaker 1: Think about this, folks, Millions and millions of people's jobs,

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Speaker 1: their mental health, their their physical health, all turned on

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Speaker 1: their kids offered up right, I mean the Republican Party

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Speaker 1: offered up Ronda Santists. So we were laughing yesterday. The

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Speaker 1: hit piece on him is this guy who goes to

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Speaker 1: He's way too focused. Not enough beer bonds for Ronda

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Speaker 1: Santists when he's in college. And then they wanted they

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Speaker 1: wanted Andrew Gillim who put aside to you know, the

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Speaker 1: personal scandal, but it was also there's illegal drugs and

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Speaker 1: other things involved. Put aside that for a moment. It's

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Speaker 1: basic a twenty one counts federal indictment that end. By

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Speaker 1: the way, the DeSantis is too serious angle is the

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Speaker 1: exact opposite of the George W. Bush story, which was

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Speaker 1: So if you're a fun loving, easygoing guy, I think

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Speaker 1: I think also W. Bush went to Yale, right, and

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Speaker 1: you don't take school that seriously, Oh you're not ready

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Speaker 1: you come from a middle class background, you're way too

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Speaker 1: Gonna tee off on all these crazy parents who are

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Speaker 1: COVID shot, which officially began yesterday. But we told you

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Speaker 1: on this show that we believe we're probably already in

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Speaker 1: a recession. The richest man in the world. Well, Elon Musk,

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Speaker 1: he says session is inevitable. Joe Biden claiming that recession

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Speaker 1: is not inevitable. Whose side are you going to take,

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Speaker 1: the guy who understands business and has built the largest

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Speaker 1: guy who's been in government for over forty years and

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Speaker 1: basically never accomplished anything. Here's Elon Musk responding to Biden.

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden has just come out and said that a

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Speaker 1: recession in America is not inevitable. How do you feel

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Speaker 1: about the economy? Well, I think a recession is inevitable

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Speaker 1: at some point. As to whether there is a recession

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Speaker 1: in the near tone, I think that is more likely

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Speaker 1: than not. Well, agree with the Elon Musk. If you

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Speaker 1: had to pick a side to be on, would you

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Speaker 1: either be on Joe Biden's opinion on the economy or

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk's opinion on the economy. So here's what's going on.

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Speaker 1: The Biden administration is hoping that they can bolster sentiment.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is really you know, fingers and toes

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Speaker 1: in the dam as. It's cracking kind of a policy, right,

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Speaker 1: But they're hoping that they in bolster sentiment just enough

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Speaker 1: being formally in a recession, because the only thing that

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Speaker 1: might drive their political hopes down into the dumps more

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Speaker 1: than the super high price of gas is when everybody

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Speaker 1: r word recession when you have people saying, because it's gonna,

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Speaker 1: you know what, it's gonna be called the Biden recession.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna try to call it, you know, the Trump recession,

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Speaker 1: or the Biden Transition to Greatness plan or some such lunacy.

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Speaker 1: But it's gonna be the Biden recession, and we all

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Speaker 1: know it. And I gotta tell you I talked to

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Speaker 1: a friend of mine. I'll just say it. I talked

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Speaker 1: to him. We talked on air about this yesterday on

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Speaker 1: TV side Ned Ryan, who's a super smart we've had

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Speaker 1: him most show many times, Great Guy, Super Squared Away

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Speaker 1: runs American Majority. And I said, so, what are we

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Speaker 1: really looking at here, Clay? He said, based on the numbers,

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Speaker 1: and he's plugged in with the consultants and he knows

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Speaker 1: how these races are going. Anything that Biden won by

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Speaker 1: twelve to fifteen points, in twenty twenty is in play,

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Speaker 1: and maybe some outliers of fifteen to twenty points that

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Speaker 1: meeting Biden won by fifteen or twenty points then could

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Speaker 1: be in play in this mid term, which means I

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Speaker 1: don't know if we've ever seen something like this. Well,

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Speaker 1: to put it in context, we just saw a Texas

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Speaker 1: thirty fourth congressional district that Myra flor Az won. It

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Speaker 1: by fourteen. She won by about seven So that's a

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Speaker 1: twenty one point swing. That kind of could put into

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Speaker 1: a rough outline some of these districts and how they

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Speaker 1: to think the specific markets that we have been number

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Speaker 1: one in. Are you ready during the course of this year?

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Speaker 1: You know it, I love it, I've got it. I

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Speaker 1: am ready to roll. We have been number one, and

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Speaker 1: this is in order of the market size, so I'm

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Speaker 1: not trying to favor one or the other. This is

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Speaker 1: market size, top one hundred markets. We have been number

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Speaker 1: one in Houston, in Phoenix, in San Diego, in Denver,

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Speaker 1: North Carolina, Memphis, Tennessee, Fort Myers and Naples, Louisville, Kentucky, Birmingham, Alabama, Tucson, Arizona, Albany,

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Speaker 1: New York, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Des Moines, Iowa, Omaha, Spokane

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Speaker 1: and Spokane, Washington, and Syracuse, New York. Now, those are

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Speaker 1: We rank highly in many of them. But Buck, that

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Speaker 1: all of you. Those are a lot of big cities

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Speaker 1: and a lot of unique areas all over the country

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Speaker 1: that are currently listening to us the most of any

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Speaker 1: radio show. And we want to use this platform, this

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Speaker 1: legendary platform built created by held up by Rush Lumbaugh

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Speaker 1: for decades. We want to know, take this platform and

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Speaker 1: make sure this audience feels focused, informed, entertained, and fired

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Speaker 1: up for our first full scale election together friends in

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Speaker 1: this mid term. So we are on a mission. You

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Speaker 1: are part of this mission. You are the mission to

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Speaker 1: save the country, my friends, That's the plan. Sleet, Travis

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