1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: Third hour of Clay and Buckets going right now, and 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: we're also at tickoff for the US men's national team 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: against Iran. The game underway. Clay going to be hiding 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,840 Speaker 1: his facial expressions as he has a monitor on. We 5 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: usually just have news on in our respective studios, but 6 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:20,479 Speaker 1: that's obviously a big game, and we'll be watching it 7 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: after this radio program. In the meantime, I had mentioned 8 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: this duo. I thought this was so interesting that the 9 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: timing of it, and and it brings up some broader, 10 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 1: broader issues and concerns. I think energy is one of 11 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: the weak points of the Biden regime. There's no question 12 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: about that energy policy, fossil fuels. They have an ideological 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:52,599 Speaker 1: obsession with limiting and pushing back as much as possible 14 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: fossil fuel development in favor of renewables, even when they're 15 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:01,320 Speaker 1: more expensive, even when it has mat of geopolitical implications. 16 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: I mean, look at how the Russian economy has collapsed. 17 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: Oh wait, no, it hasn't. But that was what was 18 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: going to happen right when we started. Oh but we 19 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: actually can't stop them from selling their oil, and that's 20 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: not even hasn't even been shut down by the sanctions. Venezuela, though, 21 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: is a country that the Left does not want to 22 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:20,400 Speaker 1: talk to you about very much. You know, I spent 23 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: a lot of time in Florida and South florid in 24 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: particular in Clay. The Venezuela refugee population in the United 25 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:35,279 Speaker 1: States is very, very considerable, very large, especially in South Florida, 26 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: and Venezuela has been You've had about six million people 27 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:43,279 Speaker 1: in the last decade fleeing Venezuela. You have six million 28 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 1: people who are just couldn't deal with it anymore. They've 29 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: seen the every aspect of life in Venezuela economically, socially, politically. 30 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: There's not enough food on the shelves, the economy is destroyed, 31 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 1: hyper inflation is happening. All this is going on, and 32 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: it's because you have the Maduro socialist regime of thugs 33 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 1: who are very quick to talk about social justice and 34 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: redistribution of wealth. They've destroyed what was the second wealthiest 35 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: country in Latin in South America. Yes, I've lived a 36 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: second wealthiest country, and even per capita when you add 37 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: in the oil revenues. It was a place that was 38 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 1: doing quite well up through the nineties, but then the 39 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: socialists took over. This is interesting because you have the 40 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: Biden administration right before Thanksgiving cutting back on the sanctions 41 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: that we have on Venezuela, and we do. We could 42 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: do a whole deep dive into you have the Venezuela 43 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: in some of the top government officials are actually officially 44 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: sanctioned as narco traffickers. To give you a sense of 45 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 1: how things are going there. I think the vice president 46 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,839 Speaker 1: of Venezuela, he certainly was at one point a sanctioned 47 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: narco trafficker by the US Treasury Department. These are people 48 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: that are making millions, perhaps even billions over the long haul, 49 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: selling cocaine heroin into the US, poisoning our cities and 50 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: our people. The Biden administration decided that they were going 51 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 1: to take more oil from Venezuela, and what's fascinating, they 52 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: did this right before Thanksgiving to nobody would pay attention. 53 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: There's also a country right next to Venezuela, Guiana. My 54 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: sister's husband's family is from Guiana, and Guiana just had 55 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 1: the discovery of a considerable I think it's eleven billion 56 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: barrels they estimate, offshore. So this is a huge boon, 57 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: a huge economic game changer for the country of Guiana, 58 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: which is a US ally aligned with our aligned with 59 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: US ideologically capitalist in its approach. And at the same time, 60 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: the Biden administration saying more oil from Venezuela. That sounds good. 61 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: They vetoed a loan that the US government, the US 62 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: government was in a position through a public private one 63 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: of his public private vehicles, to make so that Guiana 64 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: can't develop its offshore reserves. So we'd rather buy oil 65 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: right now from the evil commies running Venezuela, then help 66 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:21,799 Speaker 1: an ally and Guiana develop considerable resources natural fossil fuel 67 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 1: resources over the next ten years. Because Clay, why the 68 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 1: Green New Deal, and also the Biden regime les commies. 69 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: Let's be honest, they totally slid this under the radar. Look, 70 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,919 Speaker 1: they begged Saudi Arabia to increase oil production, and Saudi Arabia, 71 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,599 Speaker 1: Mohammed bin Salman in particular, basically gave him the back 72 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: of the hand. Remember Biden traveled all the way to 73 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia. They didn't want to shake hands, so instead 74 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: he did a fist bump and they also kind of 75 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: slid late at night the story, by the way, after 76 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,160 Speaker 1: saying oh, they're a pariah state. We're not going to 77 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,359 Speaker 1: treat Saudi Arabia well. In the wake of the Jamal 78 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: Kashogi murder, they then said, oh, yeah, Mohammed bin Salman, 79 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: he has diplomatic community, which feels to me like Buck 80 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 1: even more of an attempt to try to get oil 81 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,720 Speaker 1: out of Saudi Arabia. And so given what's going on 82 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:18,840 Speaker 1: with Russia, they have made the calculated decision we are 83 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: not going to increase production in the United States because 84 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 1: we don't want to upset all these crazy environmentalist Green 85 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: New Deal people. But instead we're going to allow Venezuela 86 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,839 Speaker 1: to increase its production and we're going to give more 87 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: money to them instead of putting more money into our 88 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 1: own countries coffers. So this is just infuriating because it presumes, 89 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: first of all, that somehow the economy, sorry the overall 90 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: environment is better off because we're getting oil from those 91 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: places as opposed to the United States, when in reality, Buck, 92 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: it's actually worse for the environment because they don't have 93 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 1: the same safeguards for oil and gas pumping that we 94 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: do here, and most in the media just totally don't 95 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: pay attention to it. And as you mentioned they dropped 96 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 1: the news right in going into a holiday weekend, know 97 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 1: that most people are not going to focus on it, 98 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: and it just completely vanishes. It's to me emblematic of 99 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: how broken American energy policy is under the Biden administration. 100 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 1: But I think it's significant. I think it needs to 101 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 1: be talked about, and you don't have to do it 102 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: is just so transparently wrong. You don't have to go 103 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: that far back to read editorials in places like the 104 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 1: New York Times that were really optimistic and very defensive 105 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 1: even of Chavez. And now now obviously it's the Maduro 106 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 1: regime took over for Chavez. Because this had all the 107 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 1: makings of the usual social justice narrative. Oh, there's the 108 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: rich elites and they have access to the oil wealth, 109 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 1: and if only we had a government that was more consider, 110 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,599 Speaker 1: more consider about sharing the wealth and spreading it around 111 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,479 Speaker 1: the lift everybody out of poverty. And what they did 112 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 1: is they then seized. They nationalized a lot of assets. 113 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: They seize the factories, they seized obviously the oil assets. 114 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: First a socialist regime, they effectively destroyed private property and 115 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: also started instituting price controls and the price controls mechanism 116 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: is what really drives things into the dumpster because they say, oh, 117 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: well we can't get washing machines made, or you can't 118 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: find any washing machines in the store, you can't find 119 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: name any consumer good. We're just going to set the 120 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: price lower. Well, that creates a death spiral in the markets, 121 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: that creates massive shortages. It is an economic case study 122 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: in why you don't actually have people who are so 123 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 1: concerned with ending poverty and social justice making determinations about 124 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: capital flows, making determinations about supply and demand because they 125 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: ruined this country. And I mean I speak to I 126 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: actually have some friends who are Venezuelan in the Miami area, 127 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: and you talk to them and they say, why doesn't 128 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,560 Speaker 1: r why does an ar crisis ever? I mean, obviously 129 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: the Cubans in the Miami area have been living this 130 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: situation for many decades now. But six million people had 131 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: to flee Venezuela, many of them just with the clothing 132 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: on their backs because of what has been done in 133 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: that country and because of idiotic policy decisions both internally 134 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: and externally. I just feel like there's a much bigger 135 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: story here. But we'd rather get the oil from the 136 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: evil Madua regime that help Guiana with its eleven The 137 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 1: only country in the world cli per Kappa that they 138 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: think has more oil than Guiana is Quait. To give 139 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 1: everyone a sense of it, that's what a massive find 140 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: it is. But it'll take some time, and that'll be 141 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: a big new source of nearby secure energy for the 142 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 1: global market, for the US market, they don't want it. 143 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,679 Speaker 1: They'd rather make the evil dictators in Venezuela rich than 144 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: actually have a capitalist ally with a longer term horizon 145 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 1: of fossil fuel production. Because they're crazy. I don't know 146 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: what else to because they think the earth is gonna melt, 147 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 1: and you know, we're gonna be undersea and the polar 148 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: bears are Remember when the polar bears were all gonna 149 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: drown with al gore. You know, Now you talk to people, 150 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 1: we have people live in an anchorage listening to us 151 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:20,199 Speaker 1: right now. Polar bears are everywhere. They're like squirrels. The 152 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: other aspect of this book that is so important, and 153 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:28,199 Speaker 1: you're talking about it from South Florida. Venezuelans are overwhelmingly 154 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: Republican voters. Now, I love it because they more than 155 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: anybody else. You have all these Americans who are on 156 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,040 Speaker 1: the left in this country saying no, you just don't 157 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 1: really understand what socialism is, and the Venezuelans say, actually, 158 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 1: that's why we're here. We've seen what happens when a 159 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:50,199 Speaker 1: country goes to socialism. Because to your point, Venezuela was 160 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: a very wealthy country. They were doing fantastically well in 161 00:09:55,080 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: the Latin American overall economic rankings. And now the other 162 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: thing about the inflation book is it's been so bad 163 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: that as soon as you get any money, you feel 164 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: like you need to run out and spend it because 165 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: the next day the value is going to be so diminished. 166 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 1: You kind of get into that inflation death spiral where 167 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: you feel compelled to get as much value for your 168 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: money as you can, which means you have to spend 169 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,199 Speaker 1: it immediately because whatever you're going to try to buy 170 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: its going to cost more the decks day or the 171 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 1: day after. So the last thing you want to be 172 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: doing is sitting around with that money as it continues 173 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 1: to depreciate. Based on collapsing inflation. And what is among 174 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 1: Venezuela's closest allies Iran, How is the Iranian regime able 175 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: to pay its security services in military? The oil revenue. 176 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: How is Venezuela's Maduro regime of thugs and imbeciles, how 177 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: are they able to pay their bills and continue to 178 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: steal from the people and oppress the You know, Venezuela, man, 179 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: it was like you talk to people. I haven't been 180 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:59,440 Speaker 1: obviously because it's been a mess for the last fifteen 181 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: years or so. But it was a beautiful place with 182 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 1: tremendous natural resources and great people, and it has been 183 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: ruined by socialist idiocy. And if you were to ask 184 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 1: most kids these days who think they're really politically active 185 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: and savvy, college, high school, you name it, they have 186 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 1: no idea what is going on in that country, because 187 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: ultimately there's a sensitivity about it. The Biden administration. There 188 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: are two things that collide in the Venezuela story that 189 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 1: mean that the regime, our regime doesn't want us to 190 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 1: know the truth, the fossil fuel climate change narrative, but 191 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: then also the socialism and social justice component. So it 192 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: never really get it, neverly gets attention. Cuba has been 193 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:44,319 Speaker 1: ruined by these things. Venezuela has been ruined by these things, 194 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: and the Iranian regime, the Venezuelan regime, the Russians. 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I know there are a lot 233 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 1: of people in the running for worst elected official in 234 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: America and if you specify mayors in particular, I think 235 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: the worst mayor in America right now, and I'm curious 236 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: if Buck would agree with me. Probably Lori Lightfoot in Chicago. 237 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 1: I don't know of anyone that has been more consistently 238 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 1: wrong on more things. Bill de Blasio is gone, London 239 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: Breed in San Francisco has not been good. But at 240 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 1: least occasionally she'll put out some clip and I'll be like, 241 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: all right, that's not the worst thing that's ever been said. 242 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: And certainly LA's got a brand new mayor and Karen Bass, 243 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: so we'll see how she ends up doing. I'm not optimistic, 244 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: but we know that Lori Lightfoot is awful, and Buck 245 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 1: I thought maybe we should just give a nod to 246 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: everybody out having to deal with her in Chicago, because 247 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 1: she has officially announced that she is running for reelection, 248 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,920 Speaker 1: and she says that she is the only only rational 249 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 1: choice to be returned to office, and unfortunately an awful 250 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 1: lot of incumbents that was maybe the number one story 251 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: coming out of twenty twenty two, almost no one got replaced. 252 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 1: I'm concerned she's gonna win again. But here's Lorie Lightfoot 253 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: announcing her reelection bid breach voters all across the city 254 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: to remind them not only what we've done over the 255 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: last three and a half years, but what our vision 256 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: is for the next four and why the only rational 257 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: choice is to return me to office. Lorie Lightfoot, the 258 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: only rational choice. Buck. You went to Chicago recently, I 259 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: believe you narrowly missed a shooting if I remember correctly, 260 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: when you were visiting one of the big parks there. 261 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 1: How crazy is it that I feel like she's probably 262 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 1: going to get reelected. I was at the Bean with 263 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: Carrie in Millennium Park, my first ever weekend in Chicago, 264 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: and there was a fatal shooting right there about an 265 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 1: hour and a half after we left, on a gorgeous 266 00:15:56,360 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: weekend otherwise, like the weather was perfect, and that's probably 267 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: the one of the best known tourist locations in all 268 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: of Chicago. Look, I don't know Chicago politics super well 269 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 1: because I have never lived there, but I do know Democrats. 270 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: Lawyer Lifefoot's probably gonna win. Yeah, I don't care. It's 271 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 1: just at this point, which you have to realize, is 272 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: they they have Unfortunately, they would rather live in disorder, decay, lawlessness, 273 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: and fear, but feel good about themselves when they vote. 274 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 1: You know that that matters more to Democrats than what 275 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: their day to day living is. That's what we saw. 276 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: Unfortunately in New York City, for sure. No one makes 277 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: the argument of New York City who knows anything? Oh yeah, 278 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 1: this place is being run well, this is this is 279 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 1: going great. But they still voted for Hocal for governor, 280 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 1: and they would vote for mayor Eric Adams again, who 281 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: honestly is no better than the Blasio. This is this 282 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 1: is the challenge you face in some of these ultra 283 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: blue cities. They don't actually want it to change. They 284 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: haven't suffered enough yet to the point where their politics 285 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: will take a back seat to being safe, having good schools, 286 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 1: having the streets be cleaned. That doesn't matter as much 287 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:09,680 Speaker 1: as I stand with our democracy and I'm not a bigot, 288 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:11,639 Speaker 1: and I'm you know, those kinds of things. That matters 289 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: much more to them, And that's what disturbs me the most. 290 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: I think about twenty twenty two, now that we know 291 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,959 Speaker 1: all the numbers have come in, there's around a you know, 292 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:24,680 Speaker 1: eleven million vote swing. Republicans went from losing by seven 293 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: or eight million to win in by three or four, 294 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 1: and that's pretty significant in obviously the numbers. But what 295 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:35,360 Speaker 1: we saw was all these awful incumbents, the Gretchen Whitners 296 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 1: of the world, they all won. And so I'm looking 297 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 1: when I see that Lorie Lightfoot is announcing she's running 298 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: for reelection. There's no way on earth that she should win. 299 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: She's done everything wrong buck yet there are no consequences. 300 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 1: It would appear to being wrong. And so I think 301 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:54,440 Speaker 1: that she's likely to get supported again. Oh yeah, no, 302 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 1: she's gonna she's gonna win. I think that's as crazy 303 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: as that may sound to outsiders. Because of the crime 304 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: and decay in Chicago, my friends, sooner or later this 305 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:07,439 Speaker 1: holiday season, you're going to ask yourself what gift to 306 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:09,919 Speaker 1: get up? Snope, that's not what you're gonna ask yourself. 307 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:13,120 Speaker 1: You're going to be asking yourself something else. 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And we've got a 327 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 1: lot going on here, including obviously US men's national team 328 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: playing because it is happening live here Clay. So far, 329 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,399 Speaker 1: we're doing well against Iran, but it looks like Iran 330 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: is stacking the back and making it very hard for 331 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:32,399 Speaker 1: there to be a whole lot of action. So and 332 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of you know, sports networks. 333 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:35,920 Speaker 1: We'll be covering this lot and stuff We've got other 334 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: things to attend to as well, but Clay, you're you're 335 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 1: gonna keep an eye and if I hear you shout 336 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 1: into the microphone, we will know that something has happened 337 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,119 Speaker 1: that is that is noteworthy. We also want to make 338 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,800 Speaker 1: sure you're subscribing to Clay and Buck our VIP to 339 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:51,600 Speaker 1: our Clay and Buck website. Go to Clay and Buck 340 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: dot com. You can subscribe there. We do video of 341 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:56,439 Speaker 1: the show every day, so you can hang out with 342 00:19:56,520 --> 00:19:59,640 Speaker 1: us in our in our studios. And also the Clay, 343 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 1: Travis and Buck Sex and Show podcast, which is great 344 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 1: for your listening pleasure, and the I heart apps a 345 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 1: great place to go for it. But wherever you listen 346 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:11,520 Speaker 1: to your podcasts emails from some VIPs, I have some 347 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 1: right here, Ernest rights. Not only is imported oil dirtier 348 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:20,920 Speaker 1: than ours, but it's transported by tanker, a huge emitter 349 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 1: of carbon and CO two, and it risks oil spills. 350 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: You know, Clay, this is this is the thing that 351 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:33,920 Speaker 1: the people who are so very opposed to fossil fuels 352 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,400 Speaker 1: often come up with ways, or at least domestic production 353 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: of fossil fuels in particular, come up with ways that 354 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: if you really do the math, create more CO two emissions, 355 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 1: But they don't care because it's someone else's right. It's 356 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 1: it's all about the virtue signaling of I'm not emitting 357 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: a whole lot of CO two? Do you agree, sir? 358 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 1: I do? And it's why. I mean, that's a great 359 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 1: email from Earnest. It's why it's so transparently the opposite 360 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 1: of caring about the environment. But they have recognized that 361 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,360 Speaker 1: as long as it's not taking place in the United States, 362 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 1: it's as if it doesn't exist. The demand for oil 363 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 1: is not changing in the United States, really not in 364 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: a significant way, at least not so far. What used 365 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: to be the theory was, let's get energy independent, so 366 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 1: we don't give all of this money to these awful 367 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,640 Speaker 1: places that it's very hard to defend, you know, these 368 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 1: petro dictatorships. Instead, in the last few years, the Biden administration, 369 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:45,399 Speaker 1: bending to the will of the aocs of the world, 370 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:49,640 Speaker 1: this Green New Deal nonsense, has essentially made the decision, 371 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,879 Speaker 1: if it's not happening in the United States, it doesn't count, 372 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: even though the emissions and the impact on the environment 373 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 1: are arguably worse. When we get our oil in this method. 374 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: This is a I think a big change in American 375 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: politics from from even recent eras you know, I think 376 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 1: back if you if you want to see what the 377 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: idealized version of liberal America was in pop culture, right, 378 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 1: the West Wing, which I know you've seen, the West 379 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 1: Way was the it was the pseudo or the the 380 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 1: shadow presidency of Democrats starting in the Bush years. I 381 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:26,639 Speaker 1: think I think the show began a two thousand and 382 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,159 Speaker 1: two thousand and one right around there. Um, maybe it 383 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: was late, very late nineties, but they're the the issues 384 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 1: that people focused in on generally, not entirely, but generally 385 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 1: you know, guns and abortion, and you know, jobs and 386 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,919 Speaker 1: things like this. It tending to be things that everyone 387 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 1: can agree. This is something that is an issue. One 388 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 1: of the challenges that I think we come up against 389 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 1: with the left these days is it's not that we 390 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:55,680 Speaker 1: have competing visions for how to deal with climate change. 391 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 1: I don't think it's a problem at all. Like I 392 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 1: don't even I don't even know what they think they're 393 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: talking about. And all of recent history suggests that I'm 394 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: right and they're wrong, but they're they're maniacally fixated on this. 395 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 1: I mean the same way that I think they've created this, 396 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 1: this issue of um, of the sort of gender spectrum 397 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:20,040 Speaker 1: that is never ending and constantly expanding. This this feels 398 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,119 Speaker 1: like it wasn't a thing until five minutes ago, and 399 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: now they're obsessed with it. Now they're pushing it all 400 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 1: the time. So we're not even in a place where 401 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 1: we're trying to figure out better ways to get where 402 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 1: we're trying to. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. I'm Chris. 403 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: I believe it's Christian pulistic. They haven't shown a replay 404 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 1: of it yet. We just scored right at the end 405 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,120 Speaker 1: of the first half against Iran. Here people are going crazy. 406 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: It is pulistic. He was injured on the play. He's 407 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,639 Speaker 1: currently lying in the goal. Uh. If you know, he 408 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: looks like he may have taken one in the in 409 00:23:56,080 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 1: the nether regions would be my analysis here, great into him, 410 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,359 Speaker 1: he finishes it off and then goes colliding into the 411 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 1: goalie right after he makes his shot. Uh. And he 412 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: is rolling around holding what appears to be again his 413 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,280 Speaker 1: abdomen area. I'm watching a close up, and my student 414 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 1: analysis here is he took a knee to the groin. 415 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 1: It's probably the best need of the groin he's ever 416 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 1: taken in his career because he scored a goal as 417 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 1: he took that need of the groin, beautiful goal. Christian Pulistic, 418 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 1: who we were just talking about in the off uh 419 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 1: in the off air moments to give the US a 420 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:38,440 Speaker 1: one to nothing lead, uh thirty eight minutes in again Iran, 421 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: that is that has definitely taken one for the team. 422 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,159 Speaker 1: He's for the team. You know, you don't play you 423 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,360 Speaker 1: don't play soccer with a cup on, so things things 424 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:53,119 Speaker 1: can happen the golden ball. There no pun intended for 425 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 1: for the UH for Christian Pulistic, who is the best 426 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,160 Speaker 1: goal scorer we hope in uh In and maybe before 427 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: his careers over in American soccer history. That's the high 428 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 1: end hope for him. But he gets the goal here. 429 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:07,920 Speaker 1: And if you're out there and you don't care at all, 430 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:13,640 Speaker 1: Iran right now they are. They are furious because they've 431 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 1: been trying to just play for a tie to see 432 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:17,159 Speaker 1: if they can advance, and now this is going to 433 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 1: open up the game quite a bit because the US 434 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 1: has gotten the goal on the board. Lisa in Utah, 435 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,400 Speaker 1: she's still whether she's got a question, wants to throw 436 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: it our way, Lisa, what's going on? Well, it's kind 437 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 1: of a weird question. I just this is mainly for Clay. 438 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 1: I know in Arizona they don't want to talk about 439 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,400 Speaker 1: it because it's old and done. But I'm wondering, does 440 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,880 Speaker 1: Carry Lake have any chance that the courts to get 441 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 1: anything going on on the obvious stomal election that you 442 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 1: think the courts will do anything about it? Or is 443 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: she just basically screwed and nothing will happen. Yeah, I mean, 444 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 1: you don't need a legal degree, I can tell you. 445 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 1: I mean Clay Clay can handle this with his law schoolness. 446 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 1: But the answer is no, they're not going to She's 447 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 1: fifteen thousand votes, I think behind I looked at the 448 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:10,200 Speaker 1: numbers in the last couple of days. She losing as 449 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:14,400 Speaker 1: it were, and John Fetterman winning is why I think 450 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,399 Speaker 1: we have to as a party. So my answer to Lisa, 451 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 1: it's a fantastic question. I don't think any kind why 452 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 1: people say, what do you mean? A judge is a 453 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:31,399 Speaker 1: person like other people who have pressures and fears, hopes 454 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:35,160 Speaker 1: and dreams, etc. You are not going to find a 455 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:39,720 Speaker 1: judge who is going to change the course of an election, 456 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 1: even if there are irregularities, like voting machines were down. 457 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 1: It's almost like asking a referee after the game is 458 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 1: over to say, well, the other team actually won. They're 459 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 1: not going to They didn't do it in Pennsylvania in 460 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, even though they should have. They won't do it. 461 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: And this is in twenty twenty. We were screwed. I'll 462 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,360 Speaker 1: give you I'm glad you brought up because I wasn't 463 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:08,680 Speaker 1: even there, but I lost buck unfortunately, much to my chagrin, 464 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars in one game betting in the NFC 465 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: Championship game. I'm sorry to have to bring it up 466 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: to New Orleans Saints fans, but the Rams won the 467 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:27,040 Speaker 1: NFC Championship game because officials missed an egregious penalty call 468 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 1: on a past interference play, and as a result of 469 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,600 Speaker 1: that misscall, there was a lawsuit filed and they said, hey, 470 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 1: this should have been the right call made. It would 471 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: have changed the outcome of the game, and they obviously 472 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:47,120 Speaker 1: were not willing to change anything. And it's it's similar right. 473 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: They're not going to change the outcome of an election, 474 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,880 Speaker 1: even if there are irregularities. And I think you said 475 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: the same thing I said the same thing in the 476 00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,919 Speaker 1: wake of the twenty twenty election. They were not going 477 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 1: to accede to Donald Trump's legal arguments in order to 478 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,159 Speaker 1: change the outBut I mean a perfect example in Pennsylvania 479 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,640 Speaker 1: they've in twenty twenty. Just to give you a more 480 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 1: concrete example, And if my details are a little off, 481 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:16,439 Speaker 1: look it's not twenty twenty anymore. And I don't live 482 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania, but I was reading about this extensively at 483 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 1: the time. They didn't adhere to the state constitution in 484 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: some of the vote change measures they took because of COVID. Effectively, 485 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,080 Speaker 1: I think it was the Secretary of state there, who's 486 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: a Democrat, said we're just gonna if it's postmarked by 487 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: the date it will take it, or will expand the 488 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,440 Speaker 1: voting hours. I forget what specific changes they made, but 489 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 1: they changed voting procedures without actually having the state legislature 490 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: do it. They just decided we're doing it, which was 491 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 1: a clear violation the Pennsylvania state constitution. People said, well, 492 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 1: that was the state where it seem you had the 493 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 1: most likely chance of getting a judge to say, hold 494 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 1: on a second, you guys changed the rules. You know, 495 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: illegally effectively. And the problem is there were a few, 496 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 1: you know, let's call it a half a million, a 497 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: million votes cast with those operating as though those are 498 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: the rules in the state. So those are votes cast 499 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 1: in good faith, put aside whether anybody was cheating one 500 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: way or the other. You were not going to find 501 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 1: a judge who says, well, yeah, but this interpretation by 502 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 1: the state government is wrong. Therefore I'm going to throw 503 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: out a half a million votes. It just wasn't gonna Well, 504 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: you can argue that that's frustrating, and that's what the 505 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 1: law says. I get all that, but you will not 506 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,600 Speaker 1: find a judge, Republican or Democrat appointed who was going 507 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 1: to do that. And the closest thing you could point 508 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: to of a court really getting involved was actually two thousand, 509 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: where finally the Supreme Court said, yeah, we can't continue 510 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 1: to count forever in Florida, right, And you can only 511 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 1: imagine in today's day and age, Buck, what it would 512 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: be like if we had that voting continue for as 513 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: long as it was going on and counting I guess 514 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 1: maybe more accurate than voting in Florida. And finally the 515 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 1: Supreme Court just stepped in and you know, basically basically 516 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: ended account in Florida. My concern, and I think there 517 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 1: are a lot of people out there who would say 518 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 1: the same, is that at some point we're going to 519 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 1: have a Florida like situation again in twenty twenty four 520 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 1: where you can point to one particular state where it 521 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 1: truly is being decided by a couple hundred votes. And 522 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:28,239 Speaker 1: just to be clear, what happened in Arizona, I mean, 523 00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 1: Kerry Lake is right that what happened in Arizona is 524 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 1: both unacceptable and definitely suspicious. Right, yes, And here's an 525 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: Arizona here's just a montage of residents of Maricopa County 526 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 1: saying or you're basically calling out the Board of Supervisor 527 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,600 Speaker 1: of the election saying, what the heck was this? Play 528 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:50,760 Speaker 1: clip fourteen. I came here today to get an up 529 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: close and personal look at the seven Traders to the 530 00:30:54,640 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 1: United States Constitution again sleeping at that desk. This whole 531 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: thing was a sham. You're violating the Constitution, you're violating 532 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: or rights dominion machine. You guys know they're dangerous, you 533 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 1: know they're corrupt. If you certify today, the only thing 534 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 1: you'll be certifying is your corruption and the way that 535 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 1: you guys can just sit there. It's disgusting. Watching you 536 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: pledge allegiance to my flag was disgusting. So, yes, Clay, 537 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 1: there are Arizona residents, many of them who are very upset. Yeah, 538 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,720 Speaker 1: the printers didn't work and they couldn't cast the ballots, 539 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 1: and the lines suddenly were hours and hours long in 540 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: a place where Carrie Lake need to pick up a 541 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 1: lot of votes. We are very aware of all of this, 542 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 1: and we'll continue to follow it closely. 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Subscribe to cn V twenty four seven Welcome 570 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 1: Back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Encourage you to 571 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,520 Speaker 1: go subscribe to the podcast. Make sure you don't miss 572 00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 1: a single moment. You can search out my name Clay Travis. 573 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 1: You can search out buck Sexton. You've also heard us 574 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 1: talking a lot about the battle that Elon Musk is 575 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 1: fighting for free speech on Twitter. I understand why a 576 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,520 Speaker 1: lot of you have been frustrated by what's happened on 577 00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,680 Speaker 1: social media, but I think that you need to be 578 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:39,280 Speaker 1: looking up and contemplating getting involved in the fight yourself. 579 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,480 Speaker 1: And the best thing you can do is to hop 580 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,240 Speaker 1: on Twitter. Go follow Clay, Travis, Buck Sexton, easy names 581 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,720 Speaker 1: to search out. Plus yes at Clay and Buck on 582 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,920 Speaker 1: Twitter as well, and you can come to our aid. 583 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 1: Like when someone says Clay Travis is no good vol 584 00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,360 Speaker 1: supporter or whatever, you can be like, I love my 585 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,880 Speaker 1: Tennessee voles. Clay's the best. You know, that's so we're 586 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 1: not all alone up there. Or when someone accuses me 587 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,279 Speaker 1: of having a wig, which seems to happen, like every 588 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,160 Speaker 1: time I go on TV, there's somebody I'm not even 589 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 1: kidding Clay the last time I went on Fox. And 590 00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:15,160 Speaker 1: I don't usually look at my mention, but this is 591 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:18,200 Speaker 1: kind of funny. Someone tweeted at me, get a haircut. 592 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,279 Speaker 1: Your hair is so distracting. I am not kidding. I 593 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 1: got a haircut the day before. Like I just you 594 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 1: can't please all the people all the time. I don't 595 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:31,000 Speaker 1: know what to tell you, yeah, no doubt, and speaking 596 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,160 Speaker 1: of not pleasing all the people or hardly any of 597 00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 1: the people, Mitch McConnell is currently having a press conference, 598 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,560 Speaker 1: and I'm reading some of the quotes from that press conference, 599 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:42,000 Speaker 1: and he declined to say Mitch McConnell did buck if 600 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,759 Speaker 1: he would support Donald Trump in the event that he 601 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,719 Speaker 1: is the nominee in twenty twenty four for the presidency. 602 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,200 Speaker 1: So this story is not going to go away, and 603 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,479 Speaker 1: the feud certainly between Trump and McConnell is not being 604 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,400 Speaker 1: dialed down. So that literally has just happened. McConnell is 605 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,560 Speaker 1: also condemning Trump for the dinner that he had with 606 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:05,960 Speaker 1: this individual at Marlago alongside of Kanye West. So uh, 607 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:07,840 Speaker 1: that story probably will get a lot of play the 608 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,560 Speaker 1: rest of the day and into tomorrow. I know, I know, 609 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 1: that's kind of that's like, wow, I don't even I 610 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,880 Speaker 1: don't know the people, Oh, I condemned. Libs love this 611 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 1: when Republicans run around, Oh I have to condemn this 612 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,320 Speaker 1: epicdemns you condemn something that you did that is not 613 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,920 Speaker 1: to your ethical and moral standards. We don't have to 614 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:26,799 Speaker 1: play this game of running around be like, oh, look, 615 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 1: I'm sorry that some other person did something that has 616 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:30,440 Speaker 1: nothing to do with me, and I don't even know 617 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,279 Speaker 1: the full circumstances of it, because then they run that 618 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,520 Speaker 1: clip of us. Oh we're also anyway? You know what 619 00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,920 Speaker 1: I mean? I know you know that I just get sorry. 620 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,880 Speaker 1: Is the way that it happens is something happens, and 621 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,840 Speaker 1: then the whole news cycle is are you going to 622 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:46,600 Speaker 1: condemn that thing that just happened when you didn't do 623 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,960 Speaker 1: it yourself? And like, why do we get in the 624 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,200 Speaker 1: world of share Tell me what you think. I'm not 625 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:56,160 Speaker 1: as interested in your opinion of what somebody else has 626 00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,880 Speaker 1: done who's also on the same political side as you. 627 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:05,520 Speaker 1: But I'm glad that we have destroyed intolerance by having 628 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:12,799 Speaker 1: monkey pox renamed officially m pox. Now I'm wondering does 629 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,160 Speaker 1: the M and I merely mean this? Does the M 630 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,400 Speaker 1: actually just stand for monkey? Like? Why are they calling 631 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:22,440 Speaker 1: it mpox at all? This just came out today? And 632 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:27,080 Speaker 1: also does this mean that avan flu is something? Like? 633 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:31,840 Speaker 1: Have I been? Have I been been maligning running people 634 00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,799 Speaker 1: in the world by calling it a van flu? I 635 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,759 Speaker 1: don't get it. I don't even think we have time 636 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,520 Speaker 1: to play the cut. Maybe we'll save it for tomorrow 637 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,440 Speaker 1: for laughing knowledge. Here we are into halftime, by the way, 638 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 1: the United States up one nothing. We scored a second goal, 639 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,960 Speaker 1: but it was called off for being off sides Buck, 640 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,800 Speaker 1: and that's a frustrating rule in soccer. He was off side, 641 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,120 Speaker 1: maybe by just a little bit based on the replay 642 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,640 Speaker 1: that I saw. But we are up one zis one nil, 643 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,399 Speaker 1: as they might say in the world, and we'll see 644 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,880 Speaker 1: what happened in the second half. So if obviously you 645 00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,120 Speaker 1: missed any part of the show, go back and listen 646 00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,840 Speaker 1: to play on Buck podcast or else we'll give you 647 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:12,839 Speaker 1: a red card and send you off the pitch. Yeah, 648 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,600 Speaker 1: that's all I mean, you're getting better and better with 649 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,680 Speaker 1: the sports analogies. I have to say the influence and 650 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,280 Speaker 1: that was a dad joke sports analogy, but I'll still 651 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:26,080 Speaker 1: I'll own it dad joke for sure. Fleet, Travis and 652 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,680 Speaker 1: Buck Sextons on the front lines.