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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 in our number two Clay Travis

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Speaker 1: buck Sexton Show. Encourage you to go subscribe to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: for the OutKick Podcast Today. Lots to discuss first hour

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Speaker 1: in the books. As we are speaking to you right now,

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Speaker 1: the closing arguments are occurring in the Murdoch murder trial

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Speaker 1: in South Carolina that has captivated so many of you,

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Speaker 1: including our own buck Sexton, who got sucked into this

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Speaker 1: show last week. You basically show this murder trial last week.

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Speaker 1: You basically knew nothing about this case right when we

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Speaker 1: first started talking about it. Then you watch the Netflix

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Speaker 1: documentary over the weekend, and now you are following it

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Speaker 1: aggressively as many people are all over the country. It

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Speaker 1: is one of those cases that you know is going

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Speaker 1: to be the subject of a lot of after case analysis.

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Speaker 1: There's going to be shows and books written, and already

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Speaker 1: is a show the Netflix shows I mentioned closing arguments

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Speaker 1: underway right now. Look, we won't know until the jury

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Speaker 1: comes back. I would assume you're getting a guilty verdict here, Yes,

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Speaker 1: and they took the death penalty off the table. So

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Speaker 1: assuming he is guilty, Alec Murdoch will be very luckily

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Speaker 1: lucky to get away here without his life ending with

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Speaker 1: the state putting a needle in his arm. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's that's what looks likely in this situation based on

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Speaker 1: all the evidence. But you know, you know, as every

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Speaker 1: I've heard enough criminal defense attorneys say this on TV

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Speaker 1: to know this is a thing that they say, you

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Speaker 1: don't know what that jury's gonna do until you see

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Speaker 1: what that jury's done, no doubt. And so and look,

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Speaker 1: especially in a community, let's be honest, in that South

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Speaker 1: Carolina area where his family has dominated for generations, it

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Speaker 1: only takes one person on a jury who's committed to

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Speaker 1: the idea that he's not or she's not going to

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Speaker 1: find the defendant guilty for there to be a mistrial,

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Speaker 1: for there to be a hung jury, for this thing

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Speaker 1: to go to another trial. And that seems like the

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Speaker 1: twist that would be par for the course, given all

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Speaker 1: of the crazy turns that this family's life has had

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Speaker 1: in the last seven or eight years. So we'll keep

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Speaker 1: you updated on that. Other big picture story here, the

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Speaker 1: FBI seems to have recognized that overwhelming majorities of Americans

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Speaker 1: are turning against them and believing that they are effectively

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Speaker 1: the state police for the Joe Biden Department of Justice,

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Speaker 1: that they are out doing the bidding of Biden no

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Speaker 1: matter what justice may demand otherwise. And so FBI Director

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Speaker 1: Christopher Ray set down for an incredibly rare interview with

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Speaker 1: Brett Baar of Fox News. I don't remember Christopher Ray

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Speaker 1: doing very many media interviews in general over the past

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Speaker 1: several years. Headlines that have come out of this. I

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Speaker 1: want to go ahead and play this, and I think

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Speaker 1: we mentioned it earlier. He officially said that the FBI

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Speaker 1: has considered the lab leak from China to be the

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Speaker 1: most likely outcome for some time. Let's play cut six.

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Speaker 1: The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that

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Speaker 1: the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential

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Speaker 1: lab incident in Wuhan. We step back for a second.

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Speaker 1: You know, the FBI has folks, agents, professionals, analysts, virologists, microbiologists, etc.

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Speaker 1: Who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so that now is not a coincidence in my opinion, Buck,

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Speaker 1: now we've got both of those organizations officially on the

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Speaker 1: record in many ways, as the House, which is now

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Speaker 1: in Republican control, prepares in depth investigation surrounding the origins

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Speaker 1: of COVID. But it's not just that you sent me

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Speaker 1: believe and sign off on the rate of Mara lago

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Speaker 1: as you read? And for people who haven't read it,

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Speaker 1: we shared the link. It's out on our Twitter feeds.

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Speaker 1: It'll be up at Clay and Buck. What did you

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Speaker 1: think as you read that Washington Post story in conjunction

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Speaker 1: And I think this is the beginning of them both

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Speaker 1: you don't you know what this really shows, Clay, there

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Speaker 1: the retention of classified documents. That was the goal. We

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Speaker 1: did not mistake the goal at all. They have been

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Speaker 1: completely subverted in that by Joe Biden being like, all right,

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Speaker 1: classified next to the corvette. Classified in the end, it

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Speaker 1: That's been a problem for them. But I do think

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Speaker 1: they weren't involved at all of that. Let me read

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Speaker 1: They said he didn't refuse to do it, but argued

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Speaker 1: I mean it was. It was a big broad daylight raid,

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Speaker 1: That is not how this works. In fact, if anybody,

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Speaker 1: for COVID. Right now, what should the consequences to China

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Speaker 1: be for what they did with COVID, presuming that it

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Speaker 1: did in fact leak from a Chinese lab well, which

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Speaker 1: we now know to be true. I mean, it's incredible

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Speaker 1: what they told us two and a half years ago

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Speaker 1: was trafficking in conspiracy theories and dangerous rhetoric and foreign propaganda.

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Speaker 1: Now they're admitting was true all along, Even though Tom

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Speaker 1: Cotton and myself and Donald Trump a lot of other

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Speaker 1: people talked about this early on in the in the

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Speaker 1: coronavirus outbreak, the likelihood of it coming from there. Now

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Speaker 1: now we know it's true, So now we have to

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Speaker 1: do something about it. We have a moral obligation in

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Speaker 1: Congress to hold China accountable for their what they did

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Speaker 1: their negligence on their part, whether it was intentional or not,

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Speaker 1: to allow coronavirus to spread around the world, killing so

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Speaker 1: many Americans, but also wrecking havoc on the American economy

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Speaker 1: and the global economy. So for the first starters, I mean,

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Speaker 1: let's let's allow let's pass something they will allow for

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Speaker 1: reparations or for an avenue for Americans who lost to

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Speaker 1: love one to suit China to hold them accountable for it.

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Speaker 1: I mean that that's common sense to me. That's what

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Speaker 1: they would do to us. And and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: with the president like Joe Biden, I can't imagine he

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Speaker 1: would fight back if a foreign country was trying to

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Speaker 1: do that to America. I don't know why we wouldn't

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Speaker 1: do that to China to hold them accountable for it too.

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Speaker 1: Speaking to Congressman Banks of Indiana, Congressmen, how concerned are

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Speaker 1: you about China supporting Russia in Ukraine? Something that got

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Speaker 1: a lot of attention in the last week or so. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is a deep, deeply troubling We had a we

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Speaker 1: the role that the Russians were playing in US negotiating

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Speaker 1: itself a different subject, but it just goes to show

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Speaker 1: how back and forth, how the different the mixed signals

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Speaker 1: all along. So now we have the the axis of

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Speaker 1: deeply troubling situation that just goes to show when you

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Speaker 1: when you put the weakest president that you can possibly

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Speaker 1: find in the White House is the commander in chief,

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Speaker 1: it invites the aggression of our biggest enemies. And that's

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Speaker 1: why the world, if it feels like the world's been

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Speaker 1: turned upside down because of American weakness, is because it

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Speaker 1: has been turned upside down. So this is the opposite

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Speaker 1: of peace through strength. And what we came to appreciate

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Speaker 1: about President Trump in the office, who projected strength that

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Speaker 1: that deterred our enemies. We have the exact opposite today,

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Speaker 1: and and China's rolling all of it is something that

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Speaker 1: we can't ignore. Again, hold China accountable. We have we

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Speaker 1: we finally at Democrats come to the table last night

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Speaker 1: at the at a congressional hearing. But the president is

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Speaker 1: he's not. It's not just that he's missing an action

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Speaker 1: on China, it's that he's on their side. We already

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Speaker 1: know that that the Biden family took millions of dollars

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Speaker 1: from Chinese Communist Party interests, and the big guy with

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Speaker 1: skimming ten percent off the top. You know this. We're

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Speaker 1: talking about corruption at the highest levels. That it's hard,

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Speaker 1: you know, I would, I would categorize liberal as different

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Speaker 1: But it became sort of an eye roll because they

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Speaker 1: look very bad ideas. I would think at wokeness they

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Speaker 1: do have a trail of very bad ideas. That was

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Speaker 1: Bill Maher on his show, who again is a climate

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Speaker 1: change catastrophist and a man of a left on many

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Speaker 1: many issues, but does sometimes break with the lunatic left

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Speaker 1: on some very key issues, speak some truth even to

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Speaker 1: But also another thing he brings up is how we

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Speaker 1: still live in an environment, Clay where anyone can get

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Speaker 1: canceled at any time. Play twenty two my audience, who

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Speaker 1: comes to my show. Now understand me. They think like me,

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Speaker 1: they have open minds, they're not woke. They're generally liberal,

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Speaker 1: but they can be conservative too. And we have a

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Speaker 1: But look, any comic in this error, anybody in this error,

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Speaker 1: can absolutely fall off the ledge at any moment. It

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Speaker 1: just makes me laugh when people say to me, you

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Speaker 1: know you're uncancellable, Are you kidding? In two seconds, I

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Speaker 1: could get canceled. Anybody could. Now, there are different standards play,

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Speaker 1: as we know. You know, people have more or less

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Speaker 1: protection from cancelation depending on their politics, their identity, identity, politics,

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Speaker 1: their race, their gender, all of that. But there is

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Speaker 1: there is obviously even a risk for people on the

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Speaker 1: left who speak out and speak the truth of getting canceled.

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Speaker 1: We've seen that before. I get the sense that there's

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Speaker 1: more national fatigue with this than a lot of Democrats

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Speaker 1: even realize. I think people are getting real tired of it. Well,

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Speaker 1: I agree, and I think whoever their Republican nominee in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four is And I've spent a lot of

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Speaker 1: time thinking about this because I'm writing a book that's

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Speaker 1: going to be out in September. I think being opposed

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Speaker 1: to cancel culture in all facets has to be a

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Speaker 1: big part of the Republican platform, and I would even

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Speaker 1: expand it and say, be in favor of jokes, be

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Speaker 1: in favor sometimes of offensive jokes, Be in favor of

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Speaker 1: jokes that might sting and make people uncomfortable. I think

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Speaker 1: the Republican Party should become the party that embraces humor,

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Speaker 1: because I think there is this idea that is out

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Speaker 1: there that you tell a joke and the wrong person

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Speaker 1: gets offended and suddenly you aren't able to make a

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Speaker 1: living anymore, is universally reviled by black, white, Asian and

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Speaker 1: Hispanic people. Out there, people enjoy laughing, and I would

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Speaker 1: build on this further. You probably get asked this question sometimes, Bucket,

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Speaker 1: I certainly do. What would you do if you wanted

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Speaker 1: to be Clay Travis or Buck Sexton and you are

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Speaker 1: listening right now, and you are fifteen or sixteen years

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Speaker 1: end up in media? How do I end up getting

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Speaker 1: to say exactly what I think I would encourage all

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Speaker 1: of you to get interested in owning your own business

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Speaker 1: I've been able to survive through cancel culture to a

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Speaker 1: large extent, buck was because I own Doubt Kick and

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Speaker 1: because I had the ability to control my message and

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Speaker 1: my platform. And it doesn't mean that you have to

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Speaker 1: be in the content business. But if you want to

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Speaker 1: unless you control that business, you're always going to be

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Speaker 1: potentially cancellable. So you got to own the business. You

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Speaker 1: got to own your content. You have to control your

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Speaker 1: ability to speak to the larger public, because otherwise you

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Speaker 1: may well run into challenges when you actually say exactly

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Speaker 1: what you think. And successful business owners out there who

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Speaker 1: share the values of this show, others who share our

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Speaker 1: values out there, they need to partner up with them.

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Speaker 1: You know, this isn't all hands on deck situation. Everybody.

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Speaker 1: If you believe in the Bill of Rights, if you

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Speaker 1: believe in constitutional liberty and a truly free society, it's

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Speaker 1: not enough to just say that and every four years.

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Speaker 1: There are things that everybody can do. I always say this,

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Speaker 1: For example, every sponsor we have on this show. I've

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Speaker 1: never been shy about this now or in the past.

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Speaker 1: They're standing with us for principles we talk about. They've

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Speaker 1: made an affirmative decision that they believe at least they

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Speaker 1: don't agree with us and everything, but they believe in

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Speaker 1: free speech, they believe in diversity of ideas. They think

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Speaker 1: that a free society of free America is a better one,

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Speaker 1: and so there's a partnership there. There's something we really appreciate.

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Speaker 1: I would also note Clay that you know dictionary dot

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Speaker 1: Com has added on the whole wokeness thing. This is

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Speaker 1: amazing the new words that have been I've learned some

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Speaker 1: I guess that means that they are official at some level.

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Speaker 1: They've added rage farming, pinkwashing, latina, and a couple other things.

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Speaker 1: Let me just take you through these. First of all,

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Speaker 1: rage farming is my favorite. You know what rage farming is?

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Speaker 1: You ever heard this one before. It's where you post

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Speaker 1: So it kind of funny to me. I kind of

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Speaker 1: like rage farming. I might actually use that one. This

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Speaker 1: was a new one that was this is they added

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Speaker 1: three hundred and thirteen words for this year. And pinkwashing,

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Speaker 1: which I had never heard of before. That is when

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Speaker 1: companies disingenuously try to appease the LGBTQ plus community. So

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Speaker 1: adding like the ideas out there, Oh, the Saudis are

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming that's where this kind of all came from,

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Speaker 1: and now they're just applying it to a variety of

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Speaker 1: In some ways, they're replacing latin X. They're replacing latin X.

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Speaker 1: Now wokeness has realized latin X massive fail because you

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Speaker 1: what the heck is that you know that this becomes

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Speaker 1: a tough thing for them to get. So now it

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Speaker 1: is latin I guess. I don't know if it's Latin,

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Speaker 1: I guess lati ne so that's a gender neutral version.

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Speaker 1: They're saying of Latino or Latina Latin with an e

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Speaker 1: at the end. I mean, it's not it doesn't have

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Speaker 1: to make sense, Clay right, It's just this is what

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Speaker 1: they're doing. I haven't spent obviously, I took French in

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Speaker 1: high school and speak it very poorly. But what are

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Speaker 1: they doing about all these languages? Were basically every word

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Speaker 1: is gendered, like we're you're male or feminine. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they haven't thought, they haven't thought that far yet. Um,

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Speaker 1: we've thought far enough to tell you that. Next hour,

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Speaker 1: we got Betsy Devost. We also got fiery Ted Cruz

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Speaker 1: on Capitol Hell, you're gonna want to hear it. Stick

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Speaker 1: around with us