1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travison buck Sexton 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: Show Podcast. Welcome in Friday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. 3 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 1: I hope all of you are ready for us to 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: power you right into the weekend. We're gonna make you smarter, 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 1: hopefully more sane than you otherwise would be, and entertain you. 6 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: That is the goal. Joe Biden is focused now on guns, 7 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:27,319 Speaker 1: as he's sort of sleepwalking from one rationale for why 8 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: the mid term should not be a route after another. 9 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: We'll talk about at masks. You thought they were gone, 10 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: They're back in Oakland, They're coming to La soon. Will 11 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: New York City hold the line on adults or just 12 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: continue to have two to four year olds wear them. 13 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: Our buddy Alex Barnson will be with us next hour 14 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 1: to discuss Joe Biden so desperate to get oil that 15 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: he's now going to Pariah State, Saudi Arabia, Ronda Santis 16 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 1: winning on all fronts, Tampa Bay Rays. We'll talk about 17 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 1: a special Olympics transgender surgeries. And there's a great piece 18 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 1: out Buck laying out why there was such an abject 19 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: failure when it came to keeping schools closed. But we 20 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 1: begin with Joe Biden's prime time address last night, where 21 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: he declared that they're needed to be sweeping gun control 22 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:27,119 Speaker 1: measures put in place after the mass shooting in Yuval Day, Texas. 23 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: Here is Joe Biden saying, enough, listen, we need to 24 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 1: ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. And if we 25 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: can't ban assault weapons, then we should raise the age 26 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 1: to purchase them from eighteen to twenty one. Strengthen the 27 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: background checks and acts, safe storage law and red flag laws. 28 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: Repeal the immunity to protect gun manufactures, some liability, address 29 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: the mental health crisis deeping me the trauma of gun 30 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: violence and as a consequence of that violence. These are rational, 31 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: common sense measures. Here's what it all means. It all 32 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: means this. We should reinstate the Sullivan's van and high 33 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 1: capacity magazines that we passed in nineteen ninety four bipartisan support. 34 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: All right, here's the deal. Buck that entire address, and 35 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: I watched it all as nearly twenty minutes. I know 36 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: you reacted to it on Tucker right after that speech ended. 37 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: He didn't mention police once and increasing the number of police. 38 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:32,079 Speaker 1: He didn't discuss where ninety nine percent of the violence 39 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: is occurring, which is outside of mass shootings, and it 40 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: felt to me like a continued desperate attempt to find 41 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: something that can motivate Democrats to come out and support 42 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,519 Speaker 1: the Biden administration. We've seen abortion right, they're going to 43 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: take away your contraceptions. Not just abortion, they're gonna take 44 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: away your contraception that seems to have faded as an 45 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: issue and hasn't resonated. It was that we had to 46 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: have voting right legislation or we were gonna have Jim 47 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: Crow two point zero, and then we had record turnout 48 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: in Georgia. Every rationale that they try to advance seems 49 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 1: to be failing, and even the rationals that they are 50 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: advancing are a small pen prick of what the number 51 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: one way to solve these issues would be, which is, 52 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: particularly with guns, put more police on the streets and 53 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 1: allow them to do their jobs. Biden is in a 54 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: tough spot right now. His whole party is reminds me 55 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: of Godfather Part two when Michael Corleone says, my final 56 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: offer is this nothing. What does he offer the Democrats 57 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 1: going forward based on what he's accomplished so far? The 58 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: answer is nothing. So to your point, Clay there's a 59 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: desperate need for Democrats who look at this an economy 60 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: that people are deeply unhappy with, Failures all around, on 61 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: the whole COVID, Oh the science, and we're gonna be 62 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: in charge. We're gonna be all gonna be fine. Really, 63 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 1: more people died under Biden in his first year than 64 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: Trump in his last year of his presidency, first year 65 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: of the pandemic. We all know that that's not what 66 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: was promised. There are so many failures. So on this 67 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: issue they think they get to be the good guys. 68 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: Here's the problem. Their arguments are garbage. Their arguments are 69 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: no better now than they were after Sandy Hook, when 70 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: there was no massive federal legislation that was passed under 71 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 1: the Obama administration that was going to stop all of this. 72 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:26,280 Speaker 1: Everything they talked about here, everything that they said, whether 73 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: it's red flag laws, he just sort of threw in there. 74 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: Tackling the mental health crisis, Oh gee, that's kind of 75 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: like saying we're just gonna end poverty. Good luck with that. 76 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 1: There's a lot that goes into it. It's not as 77 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: easy as waving your hand and muttering some things that 78 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 1: you're reading off a screen. Let's look at the number 79 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: of red flag laws, much more complicated and wouldn't stop it. 80 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,359 Speaker 1: Safe storage laws, how are you going to even enforce 81 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: that and what's that really going to stop? And also, 82 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 1: by the way, to your point on safe storage, it 83 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: also reflects buck the reason why people have guns is 84 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: to protect themselves. So now you're going to make them 85 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,160 Speaker 1: have to spend ten minutes to go get a gun 86 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 1: in order to protect themselves. It's the same mentality as 87 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 1: people who double or triple mask, but in this case, 88 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: it's why not have in New York? As I told you, 89 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 1: and I remind people of this because one of the 90 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: most absurd talking points that Biden really leans in on 91 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: is no right is absolute. The Second Amendment is full 92 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 1: of restrictions and regulations and criminal statutes. And you know 93 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: you prohibited possessor laws. You have to go to a 94 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 1: federally licensed firearms deal to go buy a gun. I 95 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: mean you could sit here. You have to be a 96 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: legal specialist in places like New York and California to 97 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: even know the gun laws, and they're going to act 98 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: like there's oh, it's all unrestricted. So that's a totally 99 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 1: bogus it's a lie. It's a totally bogus talking point. 100 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:47,599 Speaker 1: In New York, you have to have, as I've said, 101 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: your handgun in a lockbox with a trigger lock on 102 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: it inside the lockbox. McClay, why not put it in 103 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: a lock trunk and then put a lockbox around that. 104 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 1: Why not go with four layers of protection? How long 105 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: would it take you you in New York, for with 106 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 1: those restrictions, if you needed a gun and you were 107 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: following all of the restrictions and guidelines, how long would 108 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: it take you to be able to use that gun 109 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 1: if you were if you were doing what the City 110 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: of New York requires for a licensed handgun premise permit owner. Legitimately, 111 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: you you hear someone break down your front door, you're 112 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: looking at most. I mean, you probably can have fingerprint locks, 113 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 1: but I don't know if everybody would trust that. You 114 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 1: might want to have a key lock because that fingerprint reader. 115 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:28,640 Speaker 1: You know, if you're U and I know because I 116 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: have friends that have these, So I'm curious. Yeah, you're 117 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 1: you're probably looking at doing one lock, another lock, trigger guard. 118 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: You know, they'll take you about sixty to ninety seconds legitimately, 119 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: But if someone's if you're something to bump in the night. 120 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 1: You want to wait ninety seconds before you actually have 121 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: even have the ability to have nineties The reason you 122 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,039 Speaker 1: have it is so you have immediate protection, not protection 123 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: in ninety seconds. And it's ninety seconds probably after you 124 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:52,840 Speaker 1: get it. So I don't know if you're keeping it 125 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:54,280 Speaker 1: under your bed or your close with it. But these 126 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: are all things that the left doesn't care about. It 127 00:06:56,520 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: it's too antagonize gun owners. It's to make people who 128 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: own guns annoyed, frustrated. And remember these laws, whether it's 129 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 1: magazine limitations, assault rifles, it's not a law of theyn't 130 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: enforce it, Clay. So they're going to have people that 131 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,239 Speaker 1: they're going to bring criminal charges against who've done nothing 132 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: other than being violation of these laws that they want 133 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: to change. Where you're lawfully owned magazine, you're lawfully owned 134 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: a R fifteen or whatever is now all of a 135 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: sudden band. So they're willing to lock. They're willing to 136 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: send men with guns paid by the state to take 137 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: away your guns that are legal today, but they'll say 138 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: they're illegal tomorrow and act like they're the good guys. 139 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: My biggest problem with I can't even say my biggest 140 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: problem because there's so many clay they're ignoring when they 141 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: talk about assault rifles. They are de facto by the 142 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: numbers bide in the Democrats ignoring ninety five percent, literally 143 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: ninety five percent or more of gun violence. When they're 144 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: talking about mass shootings and legislation for mass shootings, they 145 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: are ignoring ninety nine percent correct of gun violence. And 146 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: so at some point you have to say, hold on 147 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: a second, why is all the other gun violence not 148 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: even addressed with this whole Oh, we have to stop 149 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: all the gun violence out there, because most gun violence 150 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: occurs in cities with handguns, and it disproportionately affects the 151 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: minority community disproportionately. The people that will be arrested by 152 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 1: the laws that are already on the books in places 153 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: like New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, you name it, 154 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: are young African American men. The ending of the mass 155 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: incarceration state that these district attorneys promised they would do 156 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: has resulted in reductions in the enforcement of the very 157 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: laws that would deal with much more of the actual 158 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 1: gun violence, and as a result of that, more minority 159 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 1: men are being law abiding minority men. Grandma's walking you know, 160 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: in their neighborhood to go to the store. They're being robbed, 161 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: they're being shot, they're being carjacked. That's the actual gun 162 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 1: violence their load right there in cities. People with criminal 163 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: records who DA's like Krasner and Kim Fox and you 164 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 1: name it, won't actually enforce the laws against because social justice, 165 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 1: and that's actually blowing up in the Democrats faces. There's 166 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: a front page article today talking about the civil war 167 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: that's going on inside of the Democrats party right now 168 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 1: over how do you respond to gun violence? And it's 169 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: easy to blame the guns, but a lot of minority Black, 170 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 1: Asian Hispanic people out there who have traditionally been a 171 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: part of the Democrat coalition are looking around and saying, 172 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: wait a minute, we've got an epic failure on our 173 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: hands when it comes to rates of violence in this country, which, 174 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 1: as we have been pointing out on this show for 175 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:55,319 Speaker 1: a year now, exploded in the wake of George Floyd. Right, 176 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: you can go look now, there's no argument to the 177 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: contrary that Black Lives Matter didn't lead to rampant lawlessness 178 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 1: in our streets, and the fact that Democrats won't take 179 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: responsibility for defund the police and the legitimate consequences. The 180 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: more active BLM was in a city, by and large, 181 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 1: the higher the rates of violent crime are in that 182 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: city right now, the more difficult it's become to hire 183 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,840 Speaker 1: police officers. We were talking yesterday to start the show 184 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 1: Buck about the disastrous situation in Seattle where they can't 185 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: even investigate rapes. Minneapolis is maybe of every city, all 186 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 1: cities in America, they can't even hire anybody now to 187 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 1: work on their police force. The rates of violent crime 188 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:39,439 Speaker 1: are through the roof. If we got people in the 189 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:42,960 Speaker 1: Minneapolis area listening right now, most of the media, as 190 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 1: rushed like to call them, the drive by media, disappeared 191 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,679 Speaker 1: in the wake of the George Floyd verdicts, and they 192 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: aren't covering the lawlessness which now exists in many parts 193 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: of Minneapolis and the total and complete collapse that their 194 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:59,839 Speaker 1: police force has also had befall them in the wake 195 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: of all this. That's the story that should be told. 196 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: George Floyd. The convictions happened, everybody bailed, and thousands and 197 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: thousands of people who would otherwise be alive are dead. 198 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 1: Now there was a project stretching back, I mean very openly. 199 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:17,559 Speaker 1: Now you could say, it stretches back for decades, and 200 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: it depends on how you want to trace it. But 201 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: you started to hear a lot about progressive prosecutors who 202 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: were backed by George Soros. And this is a matter 203 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: of financial record, This is not some conspiracy theory backed 204 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 1: financially heavily by George Soros in America's major cities. Right 205 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: around twenty seventeen twenty eighteen, during the Trump administration, because 206 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:42,199 Speaker 1: the media had also created a social justice and racial 207 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: justice panic because oh my gosh, Donald Trump's they were 208 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: saying he's a white nationalist, he's evil, he's racist. Meanwhile, 209 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 1: as we know, did better with more minorities voting for 210 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 1: Trump than previous Republicans, and you know they used to 211 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: Trump wages substantially. I mean, if COVID doesn't happen, Trump 212 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: is probably from an economic perspective, the best thing to 213 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:04,839 Speaker 1: ever happened to black Americans in the twenty first century. 214 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,480 Speaker 1: But right around twenty seventeen twenty eighteen, you started to 215 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 1: have a lot of these district attorneys who were saying, 216 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: we need to end the mass incarceration state. You go back, 217 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 1: you look at these interviews, and they were proud of it. Oh, 218 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: we have too many people in the Philadelphia area. They 219 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: went from over the course of twenty eighteen to president 220 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:25,200 Speaker 1: eight thousand people in the county jails to five thousand 221 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: people in the county jails. Now you may say, oh, 222 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 1: that's great, Well who are they letting out? I mean, 223 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,679 Speaker 1: let's really think about that. That's a huge reduction. And 224 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 1: they hide what's going on. They take plea bargains for 225 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 1: somebody who's a gangbanger with a gun. They say, oh, no, 226 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 1: it's just a it's a simple possession crime for drugs. 227 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: We don't want to put somebody away for drug cruns 228 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: or are they pleading to So they've played all these games. 229 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 1: DA District Attorney Gascone in Los Angeles is a perfect 230 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: example of this. He just was slapped down by an 231 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: appeals court today. And this has just happened. Who says, 232 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:01,760 Speaker 1: you know, you actually, as an elected official, have to 233 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 1: enforce the three strikes law. It was passed by the 234 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 1: state legislature. You don't get to say this habitual offender, 235 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 1: I don't like that the law says they actually have 236 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: to do prison time. I want to just let them out. 237 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: But that's the extreme that has gotten to in places 238 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 1: like Los Angeles and New York. We're an appeals court 239 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 1: in the state of California. Mind you has to say, hey, buddy, 240 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 1: you're the district attorney. You're not God. You actually have 241 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: to enforce the law against criminals. This is the foundation 242 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 1: of it all, Clay. While they're doing this whole shiny 243 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 1: object thing about magazine limitations and private sales at gun 244 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 1: shows or whatever, they're not that they won't take any 245 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: accountability for the violence in cities. And this has been 246 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:47,320 Speaker 1: a direct result of a leftist program to go easy 247 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: on criminals, to change how many people are actually being 248 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 1: punished for the crimes they commit. And we're seeing the 249 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: anarchy as a result of it. And Joe Biden wants 250 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: to lecturist anyway, there's no doubt. And by the way, 251 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: big elections coming up in San Francisco directly on that 252 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 1: da front. Chesa Budin is on the recall this week, 253 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: and there's an expectation he was one of the leaders 254 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: of this soft on crime policy and San Francisco's overwhelmingly 255 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: rejecting him. 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From the front Lines of Truth, 283 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 1: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Welcome back to Clay and Buck. 284 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 1: The dominoes of reality are falling all across the countries 285 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 1: we are just discussing. You want to deal with violence, gun, violence, 286 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: all violence. You're want to deal with crime. Look at 287 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 1: where it's happening, Look at who's in charge, look at 288 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 1: what the ideology is behind their decisions and why it's failing. 289 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 1: I wasn't even looking for this one, Clay, but are 290 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: just popped up on the screen. We're talking about Seattle 291 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 1: yesterday where they can't even assign detectives to new sexual 292 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 1: assault and rape cases, which I mean, it's horrific. Do 293 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: we even think about this, right? I mean, it's such 294 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: a hat as serious crimes. I can't even asign detectives 295 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: because they don't have the resources, they don't have the 296 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 1: manpower so you're in a queue waiting for the detective 297 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: to actually be assigned to you. And Oregon as if today, 298 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: Oregon has admitted that it's drug decriminalization program is a 299 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 1: massive failure. Overdoses. Remember it's supposed to all people. If 300 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 1: we just give them needles and we just don't arrest anybody, 301 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: they're not gonna overdoses are up seven hundred percent Clay 302 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: since they instituted their decriminalization program in downtown, and it's 303 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 1: it's de chronization across the board. People camping out on 304 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 1: the streets, open air urination, doing drugs, selling drugs, whatever. 305 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: Now it's just misery, property values dropping, more assaults, more crime, 306 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: more theft, more people dying, nice work. I mean, this 307 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:20,399 Speaker 1: is what probably the least covered story that should be 308 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:25,680 Speaker 1: massively covered is the extraordinary increase we've seen in drug 309 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:30,640 Speaker 1: overdose deaths since COVID. Because it's not a shock too 310 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 1: many people out there, but when you took people away 311 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: from their social safety nets, when you took them away 312 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,640 Speaker 1: from church, when you took them away from their their 313 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 1: groups where they could go and discuss challenges that they 314 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 1: may have of drug related nature, over one hundred thousand 315 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 1: people most of them young right twenties, thirties and forties, 316 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: relatively speaking, died in the last year with fentonyl and 317 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: it's the likes of which we haven't seen since the 318 00:17:55,880 --> 00:18:00,959 Speaker 1: crack cocaine epidemic, and they're numbing out of that. It's 319 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,119 Speaker 1: actually much worse in terms of overall numbers of deaths. 320 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: And I don't know how it is going to get resolved, 321 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 1: but it's obviously the open border is tying in with that, 322 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: the COVID mess. It's a toxic stew and cocktail that 323 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:19,159 Speaker 1: has created this scenario. We come back Ronda Santa's big 324 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 1: battles that he is fighting in the budget Florida that 325 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: he signed. Will share some of those with you. 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Say nine hundred dollars dial pound 336 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 1: two fifty say Clay and Buck an additional fifty percent 337 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: off your first month. You can be switched over in 338 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:02,520 Speaker 1: less than ten minute, same phone number, same phone, pound 339 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 1: two five zero say Clay and Buck. Sleet Travis and 340 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton on the front lines. Welcome back in Clay Travis, 341 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton show Ronda Santas down in Florida. Still does it? 342 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 1: By the way, have an opponent yet in the Florida 343 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: governor's race. It's coming up in November. I think both 344 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 1: you and I Buck believe that he's going to set 345 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 1: potentially an all time record for a Republican win in 346 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 1: what was for most of the twenty first century. Let's 347 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:50,360 Speaker 1: be honest, the state that everybody pointed to as one 348 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,639 Speaker 1: that was going to be decided on the margins. Trump 349 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:56,120 Speaker 1: won the state of Florida by three and a half points, 350 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: stunning a lot of people with his overwhelming support that 351 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:03,399 Speaker 1: he gained in South Florida between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty. 352 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 1: I think DeSantis is going to win by seven or 353 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:10,400 Speaker 1: eight points, which is going to set off shockwaves throughout 354 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 1: much of the country. And a big part of that 355 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 1: is because so many people have not only validated his 356 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: governorship during the COVID response, but they'd moved there. And 357 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: now there's a for the first time ever more Republicans 358 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: registered in the state of Florida than Democrats, and they're 359 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: probably gonna have two hundred and fifty thousand or so 360 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 1: registered more than Democrats and this is going to be 361 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,479 Speaker 1: the equivalent of a Florida landslide election. The reason why 362 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:40,159 Speaker 1: I bring that up DeSantis keeps playing offense buck and 363 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,560 Speaker 1: he's done three things in the most recent budget bill. 364 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: This is in the last four hours, and a lot 365 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,920 Speaker 1: of people still aren't talking about them, but they're growing, 366 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 1: and I think as you head into the weekend, more 367 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:53,239 Speaker 1: and more of you out there listening are going to 368 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: hear about all these things. Let me give you three 369 00:20:55,359 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 1: big wins in my opinion. First, Tampa Bay Rays baseball 370 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 1: team decided, along with the Yankees, to spend one entire 371 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 1: game tweeting and instagramming from their social media accounts just 372 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 1: about gun violence. They didn't even mention the game against 373 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 1: the Yankees. They went as full boor into politics as 374 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 1: you can possibly go. They wanted to get thirty five 375 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 1: million dollars buck in state funds to be able to 376 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: build a spring training facility there. Ron de Santas vetoed 377 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 1: it as a part of his new bill. A couple 378 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: of different rationales. One, you can argue state governments shouldn't 379 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 1: necessarily be involved in providing funds for stadiums. You can 380 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 1: argue that I disagree, agree variety of perspectives. But this 381 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: was motivated to a large extent by the Tampa Bay 382 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:52,159 Speaker 1: Rays deciding to go full bore into politics and virtue 383 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,679 Speaker 1: signaling on social media cost them thirty five million dollars 384 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 1: in State of Florida funds. Who broke that story. By 385 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: the way, Bobby Barack did at OutKick. He does great 386 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: work for us. Encourage you to read those stories. Special 387 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: Olympics was demanding Buck that every single participant in the 388 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 1: Special Olympics, which is taking place in Florida, have a 389 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:15,200 Speaker 1: COVID shot. Florida said that violates our law to require 390 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 1: COVID shots in order to participate. Special Olympics dropped its 391 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 1: COVID requirement when the State of Florida stood up to 392 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 1: them and finally state of Florida has said if you're 393 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,400 Speaker 1: under eighteen, state funds are not going to be expended 394 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:33,880 Speaker 1: to allow you in any way to be getting transgender surgeries. 395 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:39,640 Speaker 1: Those are three massive wins standing up. We saw already 396 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 1: the response to Florida over the grooming bill, the parental 397 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:49,119 Speaker 1: rights bill with Disney, and now he's throwing more haymakers. 398 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:53,040 Speaker 1: This guy isn't just saying that he's going to take action. 399 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: He's doing a buck. Rhonda Santis is really continuing what 400 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:00,440 Speaker 1: I would say is an awakening on the right. He 401 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: has taken the torch. He is pushing forward now with 402 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,439 Speaker 1: the awakening among conservatives that we have to be willing 403 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 1: to wield power in defense of our principles. It's not 404 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: enough to just talk about the principles and then say, well, 405 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 1: maybe we'll find a moderate path or a neutral space. 406 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,920 Speaker 1: We love the idea of the neutral space, right, Let's 407 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: just let the market decide. Then we find out, well, 408 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 1: in blue states, they're making all kinds of decisions to 409 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,360 Speaker 1: shape and direct the market, to pick winners and losers, 410 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,879 Speaker 1: and based on politics, and we sit around and say, 411 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: oh no, we just want this neutral space to exist. 412 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,920 Speaker 1: Disney wasn't operating in a neutral space, it was operating 413 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,120 Speaker 1: with favoritism. So Ronda Santis said, look, if you're going 414 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 1: to come at us for politics, if you're going to 415 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,880 Speaker 1: play in that arena, we are going to fight back. 416 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 1: I think Trump was really a big part of this 417 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,400 Speaker 1: awakening too, yes, and that he was the one who 418 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,639 Speaker 1: said no, no, not only are we going to fight back, 419 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 1: we're going to punch back back harder and begin this 420 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:06,959 Speaker 1: process of ideological offense. And now governed Assantists. Obviously Trump's 421 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 1: not an office now, doesn't have political power right now, 422 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,160 Speaker 1: but Governor Desantists comes in and says, oh, we're gonna 423 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 1: keep going with this. I mean, just even some of 424 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:19,200 Speaker 1: the basic perceptions that have existed in this country. Honestly, 425 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: my entire adult life, it was just accepted that the 426 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 1: left boycotts, Democrats boycott, you upset some you know, some 427 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:31,680 Speaker 1: liberal sacred cow issue, and you're going to face the 428 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 1: wrath of an organized activist base. And so that made 429 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:37,920 Speaker 1: it and people wonder, well, how did they take over 430 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,359 Speaker 1: not just the HR departments, but now that how are 431 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: all these CEOs so woke? Well, they got their people, 432 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: so to speak, their ideological line people into these places 433 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 1: because otherwise these companies were in the early stage, is 434 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 1: worried about their bottom line. Now they're run by true believers, 435 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,719 Speaker 1: So we moved into this other phase. Rond de Santist 436 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,360 Speaker 1: is saying, we either fight back or we keep losing. 437 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: Is it worth taking the wrath of CNN and the 438 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:09,439 Speaker 1: New York Times to protect children from transition surgery? We 439 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,919 Speaker 1: know there's an ideological indoctrination program going on in a 440 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 1: lot of places for kids to go trans That trans 441 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 1: ideology is something that is being taught in schools in 442 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: different ways. Now, should we protect kids or should we 443 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: just say, hey, stop indoctrinating our kids. No, he goes 444 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,880 Speaker 1: beyond the asking politely, Clay. It's a huge, huge move 445 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,919 Speaker 1: in the right direction. Yeah. Look, I mean, people listening 446 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 1: to us right now know what manufactured what I call 447 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: faux rage is like. Because it happened to Rush all 448 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 1: the time. Right you guys lived through this show being 449 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:49,880 Speaker 1: under attack all the time, and it was manufactured, made up, 450 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,120 Speaker 1: not real representative of the larger American population. I actually 451 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,480 Speaker 1: think Buck, that a lot of these CEOs are not 452 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 1: woke at all. I think they're afraid of losing their jobs. 453 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,680 Speaker 1: If they don't appear woke, and what DeSantis is doing. 454 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: It's an interesting question, right because to your point, for 455 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 1: a long time, I'll use the world of sports, people 456 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: would walk up and just slap a sports fan in 457 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,800 Speaker 1: the face, and they would say, for instance, US women's 458 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 1: soccer team Megan Rapino basically saying America is an awful place. 459 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,680 Speaker 1: We refuse to stand for the national anthem. You got 460 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick, Now you got Gabe Kapler, Steve Kerr, Greg Popovich, 461 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 1: all these guys you like sports. They would constantly walk 462 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: up and slap you in the face metaphorically by sharing 463 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,120 Speaker 1: their political opinions, and a lot of people would just say, well, 464 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,359 Speaker 1: just turn the other cheek, just pretend it's not happening. 465 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,760 Speaker 1: And then I think a place like OutKick, we started 466 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,439 Speaker 1: throwing punches back, saying no, no no, no, you need to 467 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,280 Speaker 1: respond in kind. If somebody punches you in the face, 468 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 1: punch them back, And I think, what happened. Look what 469 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: happened to Disney. They've been bullying. They've been bullying, they've 470 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: been bullying. Have they issued a single response since ron 471 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 1: Antis took away their access status in the state of Florida. 472 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,400 Speaker 1: I don't think they've said a single thing politically since then, 473 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 1: and the race so far haven't responded to get and 474 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: slapped back sooner or later. And I think Trump, you're right, 475 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 1: was a big part of this. You throw a punch back, 476 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 1: what it actually could create is a neutral space because 477 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:18,960 Speaker 1: eventually people say, well, I don't just want to be 478 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 1: throwing haymakers at back and forth all the time. Let's 479 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,399 Speaker 1: just get back to doing whatever our business is. You 480 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: can only have the neutral space for commerce when you 481 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: have what would be politically mutually assured destruction. Yes, in 482 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:37,919 Speaker 1: we've got nukes on this side, that's exactly got nukes 483 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 1: on your side. Let's just do business here, folks. What 484 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,879 Speaker 1: the right unfortunately had allowed to really happen over the 485 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,159 Speaker 1: last twenty years particularly, And I would say, I think 486 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 1: you're right. I think it was pressure on the CEOs. 487 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,880 Speaker 1: But I mean the head of Twitter woke, the head 488 00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: of Google woke, Yeah, the head I mean, these people 489 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 1: are true believers now in a lot of these places. 490 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 1: I do. I do think you're right about so many companies. 491 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,239 Speaker 1: But they'll hurt their bottom line, right, but they'll hurt 492 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,199 Speaker 1: their bottom line is the point based on ideology, like 493 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 1: they will antagonize their customers in the service of left 494 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:14,920 Speaker 1: of leftism and wokeism. And over the over twenty years, 495 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,360 Speaker 1: what we got to was it became the rational response 496 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 1: we saw this happen. The rational response for companies was oh, gosh, 497 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: you know, we we better do whatever, you know, we 498 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,399 Speaker 1: better play Kate, we better you know. And and on 499 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 1: the right we were saying, oh, you know, come on, 500 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 1: and some people would write some uh, you know, some 501 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 1: essays about how the free market will eventually yeah, I 502 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 1: mean the long run, we're all dead right. The free 503 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 1: market in thirty years might correct this. But give me 504 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: a break. Desantists takes it. Trump took the deposition of 505 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 1: you punch me, I punched back, and now de Santist 506 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 1: is taking the position of, oh no, I'm gonna keep 507 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 1: punching until until you're not a threat to punch me anymore, 508 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 1: until until we agree that we're going to start to 509 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: have the neutral space, so to speak, that we can 510 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,520 Speaker 1: have until both sides realize you want to fight, you 511 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: want to keep just going. And by the way, if 512 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 1: we can have a neutral space, I'd rather have conservative 513 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 1: principles in companies reflected in day to day life than 514 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,040 Speaker 1: what they have on the other side. So yeah, I 515 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 1: mean one answer to this is we just have blue 516 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: companies and we have red companies, right, And there certainly 517 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 1: is an element of that that is going on in 518 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 1: the country. I mean I found that. I mean, I 519 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 1: think we have more of that than we already. You know, 520 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: ESPN Blue Sports Company, OutKick red Sports Company. I mean, 521 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,920 Speaker 1: let's be honest, Yeah, we're covering. And by the way, 522 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: what is also becoming a reality is and this is 523 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 1: where I think the market based reality becomes becomes an 524 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,479 Speaker 1: incredible business opportunity for a lot of people out there listening, 525 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 1: like eighty percent of people or maybe ninety percent or 526 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 1: not woke, right, So you know, you can be a 527 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:49,360 Speaker 1: red company and also appeal to a lot of blue 528 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: people who are just normal, right, who aren't sitting around 529 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:57,720 Speaker 1: looking for systemic racism in every cup of coffee, right, 530 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: and don't feel like they're their shampoo company needs to 531 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 1: have an opinion on global warming, right. 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Just 549 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 1: go to get refunds dot Com, click on qualifying me 550 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 1: and answer a few questions. That's get refunds dot Com. 551 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 1: That's right. Just go to that website. Get refunds dot Com. 552 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 1: No risk, high reward. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton voices 553 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:30,480 Speaker 1: of Sanity and the sane world. Today's numbers the jobs 554 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 1: over the last three months, I've averaged about four hundred 555 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 1: thousand jobs per month. That's historically robust and assign we're 556 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 1: beginning to shift to steady growth after rapidly recovering six 557 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 1: hundred thousand jobs from month over the prior six months, 558 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 1: and as we moved to a new period of stable, 559 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:51,720 Speaker 1: steady growth, we should expect to see more moderation. We 560 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 1: aren't likely to see the kind of blockbuster job reports 561 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 1: month after month like we had over this past year. 562 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 1: But that's a good thing. That's a sign of a 563 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,800 Speaker 1: healthy economy. Here's Biden telling you lower your expectations, peasants. 564 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 1: It's not going to be that great. Sorry, I created 565 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 1: Keep in mind when they say created jobs where they 566 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 1: just mean our jobs that came back online because the 567 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 1: psychotic Democrat Fauci worshipers weren't able to continue to shut 568 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:22,760 Speaker 1: down whole sectors of the economy endlessly. So yeah, there 569 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 1: were jobs that came back, But no one's looking at 570 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 1: this economy right now and thinking to themselves, yeah, they've 571 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,440 Speaker 1: done a really good job. In fact, quite the opposite, 572 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,200 Speaker 1: and Biden is just living in an alternate universe where 573 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: he reads whatever the advisors around him put on the screen. 574 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,000 Speaker 1: He has no idea what's going on. This is a 575 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 1: man who has never run a business. The only job 576 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 1: he knows how to create is for Hunter with Barisma 577 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 1: and corrupt Chinese companies. And here we are Clay being 578 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,880 Speaker 1: told we kind of knew this was going to happen. 579 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 1: The economy is great, it's doing really well. I've done 580 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 1: a great job. I mean, this is the kid who 581 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:00,920 Speaker 1: shows up to class not having done the homework, deserves 582 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 1: a zero, not even an F, and wants to tell 583 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:07,720 Speaker 1: everybody that they're the valedictorian. We still haven't regained the 584 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,600 Speaker 1: jobs that all existed when we shut down the country 585 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 1: in March of twenty twenty. That's the talking point that 586 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 1: needs to be hammered home over and over and over again. 587 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:21,440 Speaker 1: We still are under the number of people that were employed. Then. 588 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,840 Speaker 1: I hope by the time we get to November that 589 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 1: maybe we'll be back to the employment level we were 590 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 1: at in March of twenty twenty. But that's how bad 591 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,760 Speaker 1: of a decision this was, to shut down and bragging 592 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,560 Speaker 1: about people who were forced not to be able to 593 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,560 Speaker 1: work being able to come back to work as a 594 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: recovery is not what into recovery actually is. And by 595 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: the way, I don't know how much you see it 596 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:48,440 Speaker 1: in New York City. They're over eleven million open jobs 597 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 1: right now in this country, over eleven million. I went 598 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,960 Speaker 1: to fill up with my gas tank yesterday that was 599 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 1: not again, setting a record high for how much I've 600 00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: ever had to pay to fill up my gas tank. 601 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:04,600 Speaker 1: And in the window of the gas station they said, basically, 602 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 1: and I'm paraphrasing, please be kind to us, we can't 603 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:13,120 Speaker 1: find enough people to work at our business gas station. 604 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:18,000 Speaker 1: The gas station has a sign in the window saying, effectively, 605 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,840 Speaker 1: please be kind to us. We can't find enough people 606 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 1: to work here. Now. You know I live in the 607 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:27,040 Speaker 1: Nashville area. If there are eleven million open jobs, I 608 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,719 Speaker 1: know a lot of people driving around all over the 609 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,560 Speaker 1: country listening to us right now are seeing that in 610 00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,640 Speaker 1: their own communities. So not only have we not rebuilt 611 00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,680 Speaker 1: the jobs that we had in March, there are people 612 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 1: won't work. There are eleven million jobs open, which is 613 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:47,920 Speaker 1: creating more and more of an issue in terms of businesses, 614 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,840 Speaker 1: particularly small businesses, being able to function. I went to 615 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,320 Speaker 1: Zaxby's the other day with my kid. They had a 616 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,799 Speaker 1: handwritten note in the window Bucks saying we're closing early today. 617 00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,320 Speaker 1: Zaxby's a fast food restaurant. Great chicken tenders, by the way, 618 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,839 Speaker 1: free plug they are great. Zaxby Sauce Zack Sauce, one 619 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 1: of the great sauces and fast food restaurants. They shut 620 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,279 Speaker 1: down because they didn't have enough people to work in 621 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 1: the evening. They just had a handwritten note in the 622 00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,799 Speaker 1: drive through we had to shut down today. We didn't 623 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 1: have enough employees. Can you ever remember in your entire 624 00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,279 Speaker 1: life going to a fast food restaurant and having a 625 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:21,839 Speaker 1: sign in the window that said we had to shut 626 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,160 Speaker 1: down because we didn't have enough employees. Nope, but this 627 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,920 Speaker 1: is crazy. Stephen Moore has a different take. You know, 628 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:30,200 Speaker 1: he was an economic advisor to President Trump. We've had 629 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,759 Speaker 1: him on the show. I've known Steve for years. He's 630 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,800 Speaker 1: basically telling everybody, Yep, get ready for the recession that's coming. 631 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:39,080 Speaker 1: I don't want to be a chicken little but I 632 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:40,880 Speaker 1: am worried about this economy. And this was a very 633 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,959 Speaker 1: strong jobs report, and we do have a surplus number 634 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,719 Speaker 1: of jobs over the people who are filling jobs. But boy, 635 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,120 Speaker 1: you look at some of these other indicators right now 636 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,319 Speaker 1: on the economy, and they're all pointing south right now. 637 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 1: The latest report from Gallup shows that only twenty percent 638 00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,960 Speaker 1: of Americans one in five believe the economy is good 639 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,759 Speaker 1: are great. Seventy five percent think the economy is head 640 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,759 Speaker 1: in the wrong direction. And so I just worry with 641 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,840 Speaker 1: all of this inflation out there and the higher prices 642 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:12,160 Speaker 1: are not keeping pace with wages, this may be the 643 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,040 Speaker 1: last good jobs report we have for a while. We 644 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,200 Speaker 1: are skating right on the edge of a recession right now. 645 00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,800 Speaker 1: I think we're heading for a recession. Clay Oh, I 646 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,200 Speaker 1: think we're headed for a recession too. And I just 647 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,920 Speaker 1: don't know. When you're driving around in your towns and 648 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,240 Speaker 1: you can't find like they bucked. They can't find people 649 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,080 Speaker 1: to work as lifeguards. People are not able to open 650 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,200 Speaker 1: pools right now, even in LA where apparently lifeguards can 651 00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:39,319 Speaker 1: make five hundred thousand dollars in starget story, I think 652 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,560 Speaker 1: you work on my ten and my abs and make 653 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,719 Speaker 1: five hundred cam and the bigness one of the great 654 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,640 Speaker 1: jobs of all time is if you are a teenager 655 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:51,120 Speaker 1: working as a lifeguard. But I mean, they can't have 656 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 1: people to work anywhere, and I think one of the 657 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,399 Speaker 1: reasons is we set the precedent that the government will 658 00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,520 Speaker 1: pay you to do nothing. And there are a lot 659 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,840 Speaker 1: of people that bought into the idea that the government 660 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:02,680 Speaker 1: will pay them to do nothing. And a lot of 661 00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,400 Speaker 1: those people aren't willing to go back to work, and 662 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,640 Speaker 1: I think we drove a lot of people into early retirement. 663 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,319 Speaker 1: And this whole situation is just a mess. Lockdowns are 664 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:14,480 Speaker 1: the most disastrous decision our country has ever made, probably 665 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,760 Speaker 1: in our lives. Let's talk about some of that next 666 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:24,560 Speaker 1: stick around. Sleet Travis and Buck Sexton on the front 667 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:25,920 Speaker 1: lines of truth.