1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Joe Biden 4 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: has done it again. The man who everything he touches 5 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: turns to crap, has made one of the worst trades 6 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: in the history of trades, giving up the merchant of Death, 7 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:32,160 Speaker 1: Victor Boot, a man who was If you talk and Buck, 8 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: you can probably speak to this very well about exactly 9 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: what this guy did, given your CIA background. But a 10 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: man who spread Russian weaponry around the globe to allow 11 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: internal and external conflicts to be far more violent and 12 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 1: deadly than they might have otherwise been without the heavy 13 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:53,160 Speaker 1: armament that he was able to sell in the wake 14 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 1: of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Is released from 15 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: American prison and on his way back to Russia, where 16 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 1: he will probably immediately again. I would bet Buck working 17 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: to get as much men and material as he possibly 18 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 1: can to help the Ukraine invasion, and also to continue 19 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: to fament global instability by allowing war lords to buy 20 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: the biggest possible weapons that he can provide for them, 21 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 1: and in exchange, the United States has got Brittany Griner, 22 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:28,120 Speaker 1: a w NBA player who was arrested for breaking Russian 23 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: law as it pertains to drugs, and who famously has 24 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: said that America basically is an awful place, refused to 25 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: stand for the national anthem, denigrated her home country, and 26 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: yet Joe Biden has made this trade. Left behind former 27 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: Marine Paul Whalen, whose family has put out multiple statements, 28 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: but Whalin himself. To the credit of CNN, they actually 29 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: managed to do some journalism NG and they have a 30 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: quote from Paul Whalen, who is still He's been four 31 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: years now. Let me just read the direct quote. I'm 32 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 1: greatly disappointed more hasn't been done to secure my release, 33 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: especially as the four year anniversary of my arrest is 34 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: coming up. I was arrested for a crime that never occurred. 35 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: I don't understand while I'm still sitting here back, Brittany 36 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 1: Griner admitted that she had violated Russian law by having 37 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: a small residue I believe of cannabis in a vape 38 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 1: pen if I'm hashish oil in a vape pen that 39 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: she says she inadvertently packed on her trip to go 40 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 1: to Russia to play for a professional team in Russia 41 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: before the outbreak of the Russia Ukraine War. All right, 42 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: so Victor Boot, you were in the CIA. This is 43 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,400 Speaker 1: a guy that sixty minutes ran stories on at the time. 44 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: I believe I'm correcting this. He was alongside of Osama 45 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 1: bin Laden as one of the most wanted criminals in 46 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: the world. From an American perspective, we arrested him, we 47 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 1: convicted him, we had him in prison, and now Russia 48 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: has got him back in exchange for the release of 49 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 1: Brittany Griner. For people out there who may not know 50 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: Victor Boot, what would you say about his reputation? I mean, 51 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: when you're when you're your signifier, when your nickname is 52 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 1: the merchant of death. That and for those of you 53 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: out there, what was the Nicholas Cage movie Lord of War? 54 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 1: So it's actually one of the better Nicholas Cage movies. 55 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: It's pretty straightforward how this guy, Victor Boot did what 56 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: he did. I also hear people pronounced it about by 57 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: the way, But whatever, we'll just go with Boot for now. 58 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: And somebody could yell at us and tell us that 59 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: our Russian proreunciation is terrible. But after the fall of 60 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: the Soviet Union, you had a massive military apparatus that 61 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: no longer had a place really to go and didn't 62 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: know what to do, and he had some connections and 63 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: this is pretty well laid out in the Nicholas Cage movie, 64 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: which I will say is as I think worth the watch. 65 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: And he just said, effectively, I'm going to take the 66 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: old tanks, kalasnikov smissile launchers, whatever we got here, sell 67 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: them on the open market. Now, the reason that's such 68 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: a that's such a problem from the US and Western 69 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: perspective is, I mean he would sell it to anybody, right, 70 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: I mean, if you were running a militia that was 71 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: lopping off prisoners heads and murdering you know, women and 72 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: children in parts of Africa that were in the midst 73 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: of a civil war, Victor Bout would sell you your weapons, right, 74 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: he would sell you guns. And so that was why 75 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: he got so high up on the radar in the US. 76 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: He was arrested. And I do think this is relevant 77 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: because on the one hand, you look at the scale 78 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: of the trade here Brittany Griner vape pen cannabis oil residue. 79 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 1: You know, people keep saying she broke Russian law. They 80 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: grabbed her as a piece of leverage to use against 81 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: the United States. It was not a she wasn't caught 82 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: with a kilo of cocaine. Which, by the way, some 83 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 1: travelers we see these shows, you know, I always talking 84 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,039 Speaker 1: about this. It's the same thing where he's like I 85 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: was on all the day in Spain and some bloke 86 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,599 Speaker 1: gave me a keynote of cocaine and I thought, oh, 87 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: I'll make so much money. And then all of a sudden, 88 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 1: the guys in some prison in Pakistan and like we're 89 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: supposed to you know, Rock Down the Palace another good 90 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:19,600 Speaker 1: movie starring Claire Danes. Basically same same, same idea where 91 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 1: they have the death penalty for for drug smuggling. So 92 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: you know there's some complexity there. But about was does 93 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: every knew you hear say, boot, I should have gotten 94 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,679 Speaker 1: we should have squared this way beforehand, um whatever point. 95 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:35,559 Speaker 1: Being Victor the Merchant of Dead, Merchant of Death, which 96 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 1: was his name, he was caught in a sting operation 97 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: set up by the US to sell shoulder fired missiles. 98 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 1: I believe there were Stinger missiles, made famous by the 99 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: US provision of them to the Afghan Mujahideen and the 100 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: Soviet Afghan War, the heat seeking shoulder fired manpad Man 101 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,279 Speaker 1: portable air defense system that can bring down planes very easily, 102 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: especially on takeoff and landing. He was caught in a 103 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:05,679 Speaker 1: stay selling them to a Marxist group in Columbia, the FARC, 104 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: and I won't try to do that in Spanish, but 105 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 1: it's the Spanish acronism. It's something fuerza revolution arras or whatever. 106 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: And he talked about in the DA sting of DA 107 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: officers posing as FARC members USDA officers obviously that they're 108 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 1: going to shoot down some planes that have Colombian and 109 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: US officials. Jerry didn't like that in the US understandably, 110 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:33,280 Speaker 1: and he got twenty five years for essentially aiding a 111 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 1: terrorist organization delivering these anti intend to deliver these anti 112 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:41,720 Speaker 1: aircraft missiles, and conspiracy to kill Americans. So the trade 113 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:46,720 Speaker 1: here is w NBA player has less than a graham 114 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 1: of hashish oil deep in her baggage on a trip 115 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: to Russia for guy who made civil wars with massive 116 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:59,720 Speaker 1: carnage much worse and was trying to sell missile launchers 117 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: to bring down planes full of Americans and Colombians. And 118 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:06,840 Speaker 1: that is the trade. The Biden administration has made, some 119 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: are pointing out already probably not as bad actually as 120 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: the Obama trade of bo Bergdahl for the five senior 121 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: Taliban officials, some of whom went straight into running the 122 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: Taliban again. By the way, Yeah, but a bad deal, 123 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: a bad deal. Here's Randy Weingarten, our good friend, the 124 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: idiot teachers union head who kept your kids out of 125 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: school for multiple years. She tweets, and she said the 126 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: quiet part out loud, as she often does because she's 127 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: an imbeccile. What a great relief, extraordinary news. A basketball star. 128 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: And let me just say, calling Brittany Grinder a basketball 129 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: star is an exaggerated version of basketball. I still don't 130 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: know what team she plays for. I'm not nobody. Like 131 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 1: I'm sitting here. I don't believe there is hardly a 132 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: w NBA star period. She is not a basketball star. 133 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: She is probably the twelve hundred the most famous person 134 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: who plays bad basketball. That puts you pretty far down 135 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,240 Speaker 1: the list. But but listen to this tweet, buck, What 136 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: a great relief, extraordinary news, a basketball star but also 137 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: a gay black woman is released. She actually, and really, 138 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 1: this is what the Biden administration's identity politics leads us 139 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: to the reason why Britney Griner is out and such, 140 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: in my opinion, an awful trade. Russia is getting someone 141 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: who is probably going to lead to many people who 142 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: would otherwise be a lie dying because of his arms dealing, 143 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: and we are getting back somebody who's a mediocre w 144 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: NBA player at this point, but she's back because she's 145 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: a black lesbian. People are pointing out right away, what 146 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: about Paul Whalen, And I always, you know, when I've 147 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: done I've done Fox hits for example on the Britney 148 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 1: Griner arrest an issue, and I always bring up Paul Whalen, 149 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: and I never forget to bring up his name because 150 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 1: we have to keep his name out there. It's a 151 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 1: former marine who is held on totally bogus espionage charges 152 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 1: by the Russians. That starts to look, we get they're 153 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: gonna say that. So the complexity here is the Russians say, oh, 154 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: that's a totally different universe. There's so much more serious 155 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: what he did, and of course we're saying, no, you 156 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,839 Speaker 1: are just holding this guy as a tool to use 157 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: for a trade for real Russian spies in the US. Basically, 158 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: this is their get out of jail free card for 159 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: an actual Russian committing espionage, or rather committing real espionage 160 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:35,079 Speaker 1: in the US. But when you look at this negotiation, 161 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 1: it's hard not to feel like there was so much 162 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 1: more interest from the Biden administration to free Brittany Grinder 163 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 1: and Paul Whalen I think has gotten a fifteen or 164 00:09:46,520 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: twenty year sentence and he's already several years into it 165 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: now his family got to give all the facts here. Understandably, 166 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: Clay has said they support the release of Brittany Grinder 167 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: and they hope people remember what's going on with Paul 168 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: Whale and what else can they say? It's fair? I 169 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: mean that, this is what I mean. But I'm just 170 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 1: anybody that you point this out to this well, the family, 171 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: the family supports it. Of course they want you know, 172 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 1: their father, their husband. They want Paul Whale. You're not 173 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 1: gonna Blastrie Joe Biden at this point because the best 174 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:16,319 Speaker 1: way to get him back is to is to say 175 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,079 Speaker 1: exactly what they were saying, as you know. But but 176 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: but the focus, I'm just gonna say this, this administration 177 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: was more motivated to get Britney Grinder out than Paul 178 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 1: Whalen full stuff. I mean, that is the truth of 179 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:29,640 Speaker 1: this administration. Let's be honest. We've got a cut. We'll 180 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,439 Speaker 1: find out how sixty minutes is pronouncing his name Buck. 181 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 1: If you don't know who Victor, I think it's about 182 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:36,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go bout You're gonna go. They were rolling 183 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 1: the dice here. I don't remember. I actually watched this 184 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: clip earlier today because I wanted to familiarize myself, and 185 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: I shared it on social So if I'm wrong, I 186 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: not only watched it but then mispronounced it after watching it. 187 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: But this is sixty minutes. This is a cut explaining 188 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: who exactly this guy is. This is from several years ago. 189 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 1: But listen, Victor Bid, in my eyes, is one of 190 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: the most dan juris men on the face of the earth, 191 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: on the face of the earth, without a doubt. Mike Braun, 192 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:08,559 Speaker 1: the former chief of operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, 193 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 1: told US boot first exploded on the scene in war 194 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:16,959 Speaker 1: torn West Africa in the late nineteen eighties, elevating bloody 195 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: conflicts from machetes and single shot rifles to AK forty sevens. 196 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:24,679 Speaker 1: Not by the thousands, but by the tens of thousands, 197 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: so he weaponizes civil war in Africa. He transformed these 198 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:35,839 Speaker 1: young adolescent warriors into insidious, mindless, maniacally driven killing machines 199 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:40,079 Speaker 1: that operated with assembly line efficiencies. There you go. That's 200 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: that's where boots. But that is where he is. Golf 201 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: clap for Clay on the pronunciation, not on the show. 202 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be fancy with pronunciations over here, especially 203 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,320 Speaker 1: of the foreigners. And I missed. I whiffed on this 204 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: when it happens. So the larger I think question that 205 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:01,719 Speaker 1: is that play here, Buck and I would just let 206 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 1: everybody think about this. If Joe Biden actually thought Americans 207 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: were going to support this trade, he would have made 208 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: it before the midterms. Just think about this. If they 209 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 1: I mean, if it can happen in December, three weeks 210 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: after the mid terms, if it can happen a couple 211 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 1: of days after the Herschel Walker versus Raphael Warnock runoff, 212 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 1: he would have made this trade if he thought Americans 213 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 1: were going to respond to it in a favorable way. 214 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: Because I'm feeling kind of cynical about a lot of 215 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,719 Speaker 1: things in politics these days. Anyone really going to change 216 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: their vote? But you know what, I mean, based on that, 217 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 1: I don't think this White House really cares. I get it, 218 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: but I think the reaction I've been actually encouraged that 219 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: so many people have said, you know, this is ridiculous. 220 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: We're giving them a violent murderer effectively, and we're getting 221 00:12:56,040 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: back a mediocre w NBA basketball players. Russia has balance. Now, 222 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 1: I'll also point this out because you will come across 223 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 1: this argument that at different times the Israelis with the 224 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: Palestinians have traded hundreds to one, you know, for an 225 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:18,679 Speaker 1: Israeli soldier for example, or an Israeli citizen. And now, 226 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:21,959 Speaker 1: but they do that for very purposefully, to suggest to 227 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: show they value the life. You know, they want their 228 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 1: people back, and they value life at a very high level, 229 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: so they're willing to make that trade to get back 230 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 1: for example. And I may also, I don't know, you 231 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 1: may know better than me. I would bet that Israelis 232 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: have far more Palestinians in prison than Palestinians do Israelis. 233 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 1: That's an interesting question. Actually, I haven't you know, I 234 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: haven't looked at the numbers terrorists, but they have a 235 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 1: long history of prisoner swaps, and the Israelis make a 236 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 1: point of Okay, you know, if you know you want 237 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: to you want fifty terrorists back, but you're gonna give 238 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: us back our IDF soldier unharmed that you have in captivity. 239 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 1: You know, this is dealing with Hamas and dealing with 240 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 1: you know, is that you had the Israelis say fine, 241 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 1: so I just I tell you this, just so everybody. 242 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 1: You know, your your liberal neighbor Bob may come up 243 00:14:08,559 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: to you and be like, well, you know the Asraelies 244 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 1: and you know, I just want ever to be aware 245 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: of how these arguments about prisoner swaps go. We remember 246 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: the Bou Birddall thing where they had Bou bird Doll 247 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 1: to the White House Obama administration and they were all saying, oh, 248 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: look a look at how great this is. And then 249 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 1: you had all these soldiers come out who are like, 250 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 1: this guy walked off posts. Yeah, he deserted, and and 251 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 1: we we you know, we're risking other people's lives trying 252 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 1: to find him, and now you trade five Taliban members 253 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: for him. He's other question. We'll talk about this a 254 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: little bit more. I'm curious what you would say about this. Buck. 255 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: My concern is we've now emboldened every foreign adversary. We 256 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: have to hold any American who commits a minor violation, 257 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: or maybe he doesn't even commit a violation at all, 258 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: as a bargaining chip because they know that Biden, under 259 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: political pressure, will make a move like this. Certainly, that's 260 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 1: the argum. While we don't negotiate with terrorists over the stuff, 261 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: although Taliban we do actually negotiate with terrorists. 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I was kind of 335 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 1: laughing about the idea of there being a w NBA 336 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:06,480 Speaker 1: star in the first place, because the WNBA is so 337 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: wildly unpopular in the country at large. It basically exists 338 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: entirely as a function of the NBA being woke enough 339 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,199 Speaker 1: to claim that there is a marketplace that is substantial 340 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 1: enough to pay w NBA players. But I thought this 341 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:29,160 Speaker 1: was funny. Buck Van Jones was on CNN already breaking 342 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:33,080 Speaker 1: down what a huge win Brittany Griner is to get 343 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 1: back to the United States, and she's and he says 344 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: that she is a black female icon. I just want 345 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,439 Speaker 1: you to hear this. This president got it done. He 346 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 1: cared enough about this individual person to get her home. 347 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 1: It was shocking, I think for young Americans to see 348 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: an icon like that snatched, locked up, treated like garbage 349 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 1: and just nine years, ten years for bringing some cannabis 350 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 1: oil either decade defining images. I guarantee you they're going 351 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 1: to be young people ten years from now, twenty years 352 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,120 Speaker 1: from now, thirty years from now who will remember this 353 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:07,880 Speaker 1: moment because she is an icon. It's really really extraordinary. 354 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: People got talking about, Oh, well, this other guy, he's 355 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:11,760 Speaker 1: so terrible. Now, there's a lot of terrible people in 356 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 1: the world. There's a lot of terrible people in Russia. 357 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:15,879 Speaker 1: But what you don't have and which you can't allow 358 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 1: to happen, to have a black female icon treated like 359 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 1: garbage and American do nothing about it. Okay, So there's 360 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: there's a lot. There's a lot to unpack here. First 361 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:29,720 Speaker 1: of all, this is about at its core, right, Britney 362 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 1: Grinder is an American. That's it. She's an American should 363 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 1: be That's what I'm saying that this should be. We 364 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: have an American who we believe is being unjustly held 365 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: the federal government, the White House is trying to get 366 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 1: back one of ours, an American. All this other stuff 367 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,199 Speaker 1: that he's bringing up here that Van Jo's bringing up 368 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 1: should not factor into the thinking of the government at all. Yes, 369 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 1: you have an American person. You have a US citizen, 370 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 1: full stop. That's why this matters, right, It's not about oh, 371 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 1: this person, this, that or the other thing. And if 372 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:08,399 Speaker 1: we're going to start talking about other characteristics, we do 373 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 1: have to talk about the fact that we have a 374 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 1: former marine who is still rotting away in prison. Paul 375 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: Whalen and I brought up that his family is obviously 376 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:21,640 Speaker 1: not being critical, you know, because they're what can they 377 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:24,920 Speaker 1: do Biden's president. I know it's crazy for two more years. 378 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,200 Speaker 1: So they're saying, well, we're glad Brittany's home. Let's get 379 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 1: the focus onto Paul here to bring him home. But 380 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 1: you know, the Daily Mail, it's heartbreaking. They have a 381 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,600 Speaker 1: piece up and there's photos of Paul Whalen in prison 382 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:40,199 Speaker 1: holding up a note, and he says that he is 383 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 1: he doesn't understand this is Paul Whalen. Now, I don't 384 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,400 Speaker 1: understand why I'm still sitting here. My bags are packed, 385 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: and he says it is catastrophic that he has been 386 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:58,440 Speaker 1: excluded from the Brittany Grinder prisoner swap. And he's obviously 387 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: deeply disappointed and says he's serving a I said fifteen 388 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: to twenty sixteen year sentence for what he says is quote, 389 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,199 Speaker 1: I was arrested for a crime that never occurred. I 390 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:14,160 Speaker 1: don't understand why I'm still sitting here. My bags are packed. 391 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 1: I'm ready to go home. I just need an airplane 392 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: to come and get me. It's quite obvious that I'm 393 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:24,400 Speaker 1: being held hostage. Now here's gonna be the real test. 394 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 1: Is the Biden administration going to use the same degree 395 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:33,439 Speaker 1: of focus and energy in trying to get this former marine. 396 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,880 Speaker 1: Remember Britney Grinder broke the law. She did. She didn't 397 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,120 Speaker 1: even fight it. She said, I broke the She's like, yeah, 398 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: I messed up. I broke the law. She says that, 399 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:44,640 Speaker 1: so she broke the law. Okay. Paul Willen, by all 400 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: claims on the US side, including Paul Willen's own claims, 401 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:53,879 Speaker 1: did nothing wrong, did nothing illegal whatsoever. And you'd have 402 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 1: to wonder, while why is it that this administration would 403 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,440 Speaker 1: be less focused on bringing you know, it's either Americans 404 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:03,119 Speaker 1: or Americans. And if that's the case, by the way, 405 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 1: isn't shouldn't it be a first in, first out policy? 406 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 1: You would think, you would think. And if we're going 407 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 1: to start doing the who should the government focus on more? 408 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,919 Speaker 1: I think the marine should get you know that the 409 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: person who served his country and was willing to put 410 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: his life on the line first country should get extra points. 411 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: I don't think that there should be extra points awarded 412 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 1: for famous, you know, kind of athletes. I don't think 413 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: that that really should qualify. So we are seeing some 414 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:31,159 Speaker 1: decisions being made here by the Biden administration that you know, 415 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,639 Speaker 1: obviously we're criticizing it, and I think you're going to 416 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 1: see that Paul Whalen starts slipping through the cracks again, 417 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,640 Speaker 1: and it's just wrong, man, It's just wrong. I'll also 418 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 1: point out Van Jones on CNN said that Britney Griner 419 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: was a black female icon. Okay, Beyonce is a black 420 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:52,520 Speaker 1: female icon. Okay, you might even shay Michelle Obama is 421 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:56,160 Speaker 1: a black female icon. Michelle Obama, oprah. I mean there 422 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,679 Speaker 1: are you know, these are people you couldn't describe as 423 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:03,920 Speaker 1: that Britney Grinder is not one. But to justify Joe 424 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 1: Biden making this decision by saying Brittany Griner is a 425 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:12,720 Speaker 1: black female icon, if you said on CNN, Buck, Joe 426 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 1: Biden had to go do this because this guy is 427 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: a white male icon. First of all, you wouldn't be 428 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 1: allowed to say it, and it would be considered super 429 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,200 Speaker 1: racist to even mentioned, right, Like, so, who's a white 430 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: male icon? Uh? Brad Pitt? All right, look at you. 431 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:33,880 Speaker 1: I don't think I'm not on the icon level, Brad Pitt. 432 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 1: Let's say is that fair? Would you agree, Brad Pitt? 433 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: Brad Pitt would be a white male icon? I mean, 434 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 1: this conversation is gonna get really interesting. Yeah, sure, all right, 435 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,680 Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Tom Brady, if you want to say athlete, 436 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: white male icon, if you said that on CNN, you 437 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 1: might get canceled. They'd be like, this is totally unacceptable. 438 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,920 Speaker 1: And also if that person got out, they would say, oh, 439 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 1: this is an example of white privilege. Well, being just 440 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,639 Speaker 1: scribed as a black female icon is an awful lot 441 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 1: of black privilege. I think for Britney Grinder here, and 442 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 1: building on your point which we've talked touched on a 443 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,720 Speaker 1: little bit to start the show here, Buck, I mean, 444 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 1: she denigrated America, refused to stand for the anthem, has 445 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 1: taken shot pot shots at the country for years, and 446 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 1: we left, got her out within a year. And the 447 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 1: guy who actually served his country as a marine and 448 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 1: didn't even commit a crime, at least not a crime 449 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,880 Speaker 1: that he's admitted to, Whereas she committed a crime, and 450 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 1: yet Britney Griner gets out and Paul Whalen does not. 451 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 1: I think that strikes a lot of people as flat 452 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 1: out wrong. And that doesn't even contemplate the trade itself 453 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,320 Speaker 1: that was made. You know, this is like back in 454 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 1: the day when the Minnesota Vikings fleeced got fleeced by 455 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys for herschel Walker. I'm sorry to bring 456 00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 1: it up for all of our Minnesota listeners, but Jimmy 457 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:03,879 Speaker 1: Johnson built an entire, an entire dynasty around to the 458 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: picks that he got for herschel Walker back in the 459 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: day in the Minnesota Vikings. Well, you know, sorry, the 460 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,159 Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings have still not one. And I feel sorry 461 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 1: for all my Viking fans out there because Minneapoli is 462 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 1: a great city, and I know you guys are driving 463 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,719 Speaker 1: around and you're like, hey, we're having a pretty good 464 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: year this year, and then out of nowhere, boom, I'm 465 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 1: off the top rope, just wiping out Viking fans. But 466 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 1: you well, remember that trade back in the early nineties. 467 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 1: That's how Russia feels right now. They just fleece the country. 468 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 1: And I'll point out two other things here, Buck, if 469 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,880 Speaker 1: you truly care about gun control, maybe don't release the 470 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:43,880 Speaker 1: largest gun dealer in the entire world criminal drug deal 471 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,360 Speaker 1: I mean, how does this trade look? By the way, yeah, 472 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,920 Speaker 1: how does this trade look? I mean take a step 473 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,399 Speaker 1: back for a second of the Taliban five release for 474 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,119 Speaker 1: bo Bergdahl by Obama, right and then and then they 475 00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 1: had a whole ceremony too, they were like, look at us, 476 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 1: We're amazing, Bob administration gets it done. A couple of 477 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,480 Speaker 1: those Taliban scene these are some One of them was 478 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 1: basically the equivalent of the minister of Defense for the Taliban. Okay, 479 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,119 Speaker 1: it's like the secretary of defense for the Taliban was 480 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,920 Speaker 1: in custody. Let him go, went right back into the battlefield, 481 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,400 Speaker 1: right back into helping the Taliban. In this context, this 482 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 1: trade looks bad right now. What does this trade look 483 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: like if in the next three years an airplane comes 484 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 1: down somewhere around the world, shot down with a manpad 485 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,000 Speaker 1: provided to them by Victor Boot who still has the 486 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,879 Speaker 1: same connections and the same same modus operandi that he 487 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: had in the past. I'm just saying it could get 488 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:40,600 Speaker 1: even worse as a well. And by the way, how 489 00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 1: about just contemplating it in the larger context of Ukraine. 490 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 1: Right now, Russia is having a great deal of difficulty 491 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 1: supplying its armed forces because of all the casualties that 492 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,640 Speaker 1: they have incurred as a part of this Ukrainian invasion. 493 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 1: Are you really telling me that they're not going to 494 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 1: put Victor Boot back out in his global network of 495 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 1: trade to try to add his may supplies this guy 496 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 1: is gonna be He's gonna be flying C one thirties 497 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: full of heavy machine guns and rocket launchers and you 498 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 1: name it, probably from you know, North Korea right to 499 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 1: the Ukraine battlefield in the blink of an eye. This 500 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 1: is what this guy does, It's who he is. I mean. So, 501 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 1: not only is it a bad trade in terms of 502 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,240 Speaker 1: what this guy can do, when you look at the 503 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 1: specific aspects of probably no one puts more guns into 504 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,479 Speaker 1: the overall global arsenal than this guy. And in the 505 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 1: middle of a war, we are giving back to Russia 506 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 1: potentially the greatest asset to the Russian army that we 507 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 1: could find on the global marketplace. And look, it also 508 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,719 Speaker 1: shows you the the imbalance of this trade shows you 509 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 1: that the all the bluster from the Biden administration, let's 510 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 1: not forget it, it it was earlier this year, still all 511 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 1: the bluster about We're going to cripple their economy and 512 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 1: our sanctions and you know it, Yeah, well, apparently we 513 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:04,120 Speaker 1: like beg for a totally imbalanced trade from the Russians 514 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 1: almost almost a year into this war, and all the 515 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 1: sanctions and all the diplomacy and all the things that 516 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 1: we were going to use to bring the Biden administration 517 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: was going to use to bring Russia to its knees. 518 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 1: Not so much, not so much. 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You want 555 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 1: to come chair, get an X chair x chairbuck dot com. 556 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: There are some areas Clay where I can assert a 557 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 1: degree of uncredential but absolute expertise. I have the equivalent 558 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 1: in my mind at least of a PhD in action movies. 559 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,520 Speaker 1: I grew up. I had VHS tapes that I watched 560 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: until they were falling. Apart of all the Schwarzenegger movies, 561 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 1: all the all the the Stallone movies, I was more 562 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 1: of a Schwarzeneger guy. I'm gonna be honest, um, But 563 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: you know, Young Guns with him, I find Emilio esteves 564 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,719 Speaker 1: finest movies of the eighties. His finest a very underrated 565 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: western for what it is, also really good, both of those. Yes, 566 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,040 Speaker 1: Young Guns was an excellent franchise. I think there was 567 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: there a third one I remember now, but remember if 568 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,960 Speaker 1: there was a third. But also all the all the 569 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 1: various martial arts action movies. You know Van Dam. I 570 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:02,000 Speaker 1: celebrated Van Dam's whole analogue, and he's a very interesting character, 571 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 1: as we see later on in life. I bring all 572 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 1: of this up because Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence has come 573 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:14,920 Speaker 1: out to say that she was the first, and you know, like, 574 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: isn't she from Is she from Nashville? What's with all 575 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,840 Speaker 1: these believe Oh Louisville. Okay, I thought she she's a Kentuckian. Yeah, 576 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,120 Speaker 1: so he's a Kentucky So close close by, so you know, 577 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,600 Speaker 1: you have to take you and your folks here in 578 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:31,080 Speaker 1: that region have to take responsibility, all responsibility for sec state. 579 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 1: She manigans. I think that's fair. Yeah, she you know, 580 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 1: because she's lovely, but her politics not so good. She 581 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,520 Speaker 1: spoke out in an interview in Variety and she said 582 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 1: that she will nobody ever put this is the quote, 583 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 1: nobody ever put a woman in the lead of an 584 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 1: action movie because it wouldn't work, because we were told 585 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 1: girls and boys can both identify with the male lead, 586 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 1: but boys cannot identify with a female lead. I'm sorry, 587 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: but Ripley from Alien and Aliens would like to have 588 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: a word among other female Actually, I'm sorry Linda Hamilton 589 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 1: in Terminating one. In Terminator two. You know, if you're 590 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,640 Speaker 1: gonna mouth off and try to get social justice points 591 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:16,040 Speaker 1: or whatever wokeness points, don't don't make it so easy 592 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 1: for us, you know what I mean. Come on, it's 593 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 1: also disappointing. I would say only in the context of 594 00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 1: if you are a movie buff, to say nothing of 595 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:27,480 Speaker 1: a movie star, you would think you would have seen 596 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:31,600 Speaker 1: Aliens in Terminator because they're two of the most iconic 597 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,240 Speaker 1: films of that of the set I think Aliens is 598 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 1: one of the one of the ten best action movies 599 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,880 Speaker 1: of that of that period. Honestly, I think Aliens Aliens 600 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:43,040 Speaker 1: come out like eighty one. Oh and no Alien came out. 601 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 1: I think idiot. I think Aliens was later, like eighty 602 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,160 Speaker 1: five or eighty six. But the team can check for us. 603 00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,720 Speaker 1: But yeah, Sigourney Weaver was phenomenal nineteen. I was thinking 604 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 1: even maybe maybe late seventies. But both of those are 605 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 1: nineteen eighties or late seventies iconic films, right, and to 606 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 1: not be familiar with those is embarrassing for Jennifer Lawrence, 607 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:09,799 Speaker 1: who seems totally normal. And also simultaneously, oh, Alien didn't 608 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,480 Speaker 1: come out until nineteen eighty six, okay, so that was 609 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,480 Speaker 1: like later than I thought. I mean, I'm not a 610 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,239 Speaker 1: I'm not a Quentin Tarantino fan, for example, like I 611 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:22,359 Speaker 1: don't like most of Yes. Uma Thurman in Kill Bill, 612 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,960 Speaker 1: Kill Bill, I think is actually his most watchable movie 613 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,879 Speaker 1: for what it is, and uh, and Kill Bill Uma 614 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:32,680 Speaker 1: Thurman is excellent. That Laura Croft Laura as in Missus 615 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:36,560 Speaker 1: Travis Laura Croft, the tomb Raider movies. I mean, there's 616 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,239 Speaker 1: so many, it's just but this thing even she's made clay, 617 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,680 Speaker 1: she's made tens of millions of dollars, and you know, 618 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,480 Speaker 1: she's won she won the Genetics Lottery. She's quite lovely 619 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:51,320 Speaker 1: and you know, physically, and she's got a whine and 620 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,279 Speaker 1: complaint and make it seem like women have it so 621 00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,600 Speaker 1: hard in films. Really, that's where we're going. Now, give 622 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 1: me a break, let me clarify this, because we're gonna 623 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:02,799 Speaker 1: get blown up. Alien came out nineteen seventy nine. Aliens 624 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,560 Speaker 1: came out in nineteen eighty six, which I believe was 625 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:09,799 Speaker 1: the sequel, right, so so Ripley nineteen eighty nine the 626 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:13,840 Speaker 1: original Alien, and I think also Aliens one of the 627 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,839 Speaker 1: best sequels of all time, up there with Terminator two 628 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:21,080 Speaker 1: The Godfather too. Aliens is an enhancement to the franchise. 629 00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:25,399 Speaker 1: Unfortunately it went substantially downhill from there. I'm still trying 630 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,120 Speaker 1: to think about all the different women action leads. They've 631 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,400 Speaker 1: actually been so many of them. It's a willful ignorance. 632 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,879 Speaker 1: And also, I would say this, I don't know who 633 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 1: did the interview and who did the story, but this 634 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:41,280 Speaker 1: is also an example of just totally if you're writing 635 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:45,200 Speaker 1: about movies. When she said that as the interviewer. There 636 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,640 Speaker 1: should have been some pushback, and there should have been like, well, 637 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:51,719 Speaker 1: you know, Sigourney Weaver, pretty big deal, and and you're 638 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,680 Speaker 1: kind of stepping on Linda Hamilton and what she did 639 00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:58,759 Speaker 1: an terminator. Those are big female led action movies. I mean, 640 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,880 Speaker 1: for some folks may remember from the Conan the Barbarian 641 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 1: era Red Sonja, which I think was a B movie, 642 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,840 Speaker 1: but she's swinging a sword around and stuff. Hey, I 643 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,480 Speaker 1: was a big he man guy. They did bring out 644 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,359 Speaker 1: Shira to try to appeal to all and they made 645 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,320 Speaker 1: a movie about it too. I think wasn't there was 646 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,239 Speaker 1: it the Bionic Man or the Bionic Woman? Or was 647 00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,359 Speaker 1: there both? I think they did both. I think they 648 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,840 Speaker 1: did both too. So this this is dato. It's ridiculous. 649 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,760 Speaker 1: But every Clay, it's not enough to be rich and famous. 650 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,280 Speaker 1: You have to also be beloved for your political stances 651 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,359 Speaker 1: these days, which is just a shame. Do your kids, 652 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,160 Speaker 1: by the way they did boys? Do they like the 653 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 1: Hunger Games? Is that a thing still? The people read 654 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,279 Speaker 1: we haven't watched any of the Hunger Games. I think 655 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:40,919 Speaker 1: those are to be fair like kind of r rated, 656 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:42,960 Speaker 1: aren't they. I mean they're pretty I think so. I'm 657 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,759 Speaker 1: having The Hunger Games right now. I'm pretty hungry. I'm 658 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:46,560 Speaker 1: gonna get a sandwich. That's not a bad move. And 659 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:48,400 Speaker 1: it's pretty good movie, by the way, The Hunger Games. 660 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,680 Speaker 1: That this disappointing because I like Jennifer Lawrence in that film.