1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: The Team forty seven podcast is sponsored by Good Ranchers. 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 2: Making the American Farm Strong Again. 3 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 3: Team forty seven with Clay and Buck, starts now, the 4 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 3: shutdown is underway, and I gotta be honest with y'all, 5 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 3: you know, and I think Buck and I have talked 6 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 3: about this quite a bit on the program. 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: We are not of the opinion that the shutdown is 8 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 1: ultimately that big of a story, because eventually it will 9 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 1: get resolved and we'll just add on more debt. But 10 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,639 Speaker 1: I do want to give you some historical analogy of. 11 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:40,279 Speaker 2: Where we are. 12 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 1: Since nineteen seventy six, the US government has shut down 13 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,880 Speaker 1: twenty times. So if you are out there and you're 14 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:51,839 Speaker 1: thinking this just feels like the same plot over and 15 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: over again, Groundhog Day, in many ways it is. There 16 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: were no shutdowns between nineteen ninety five and twenty thirty, 17 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: but three have occurred in the twelve years since. The 18 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:09,759 Speaker 1: longest one was in Trump one point zero and that 19 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: lasted thirty four days back in twenty eighteen. Really, the 20 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: essence of this shutdown, just so you know, is a 21 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: battle over whether there should be an extension of COVID 22 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: healthcare policies which were put in place by Democrats as 23 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: part of their massive blockbuster, out of control spending bills 24 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: that they forced through in the COVID era. And the 25 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: reason why this spending cost is up now is because 26 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 1: they pegged it for a relatively short period of time 27 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: so that it did not continue to cost money going forward. Now, 28 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: this is me, and you have heard me go off 29 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: on this quite a lot. The healthcare system in the 30 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: United States is broken. Every single one of you listening 31 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: to me right now is nodding along because it is 32 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: just a broken marketplace. It makes no sense the way 33 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: we have designed it. It is the most inefficient and 34 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: the least effective part of I would argue the American 35 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 1: economic system. 36 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 2: It is anti capitalistic in many ways. It is profoundly broken. 37 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 1: This spending package that the Democrats are insisting on continuing 38 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: would add up over the next decade, according to the 39 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal editorial page, to around four hundred and 40 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 1: fifty billion dollars. And much of it is a subsidy 41 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 1: that is in a large extent unnecessary. And so this 42 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:50,959 Speaker 1: let me give you a little bit of a background 43 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: of exactly what's going on. Try to simplify this for you. 44 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: So we begin with the foundational point that the healthcare 45 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: system in this country is broken, and anybody who's ever 46 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: had to get on the phone with their insurance provider 47 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: knows exactly what I'm talking about. Studies suggest that one 48 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: reason our healthcare system is broken, probably the primary one, 49 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 1: is nobody has any idea what anything costs, and so 50 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: you can't make a rational decision in your life about 51 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: whether or not you need an MRI, or whether you 52 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: need a need to go to the hospital or not 53 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: because a lot of times you don't have the information 54 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: as you're not a doctor, as necessary. And what has 55 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: happened is doctors wildly over prescribe because much of this 56 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: is paid for by insurance and patience to a large extent, 57 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: are not making choices that are rational. I'll give you 58 00:03:55,040 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: an example that happened recently in my family. I think 59 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: it was a few years ago. My wife was in 60 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: a car accident. She was fine, She was able to 61 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: get to the hospital and make sure everything was okay 62 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: without needing an ambulance. But the ambulance the police officer 63 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: told her, Hey, the ambulance can take you, but it 64 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 1: will end up costing you thousands and thousands of dollars. 65 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 1: Or you can take yourself to the hospital on your own. 66 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: How many people actually make that choice? How many people 67 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 1: actually in much of your life? And I've talked about 68 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 1: this in my own life. When it came to having 69 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: our kids, we went to go tour the hospitals. Nobody 70 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: could tell me what a delivery cost. Went to all 71 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: these different hospitals. They're competing to see who has the 72 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: fastest WiFi. They're competing to see who has bamboo floors, 73 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: who has the best flat screen televisions in the delivery area, 74 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: what sort of security there is to make sure that 75 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: your babies are safe. All those things are fine. They 76 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: don't compete on price. I just said to each of them, Hey, 77 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: what's this going to cost me? None of them could 78 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: tell me. I mentioned to you, I think last week, 79 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: because I think it's a really instructive analogy that I 80 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: went and took one of our kids when he had 81 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: strapped throat. My wife took the other one. She was 82 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: on the ball, knew where our healthcare card was, knew 83 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: exactly who our health care provider was, turned it over. 84 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 2: When we checked in. 85 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 1: When she checked in, I didn't have any idea where 86 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: the healthcare card was somehow I couldn't find it in 87 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:52,479 Speaker 1: my wallet. I think we had switched, and my incompetence 88 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: meant that we were billed as not having healthcare, and 89 00:05:56,640 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 1: we paid a fraction of what my wife paid for 90 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,479 Speaker 1: the exact same medical treatment because we had health insurance. 91 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 2: It's all broken. All of it is broken. 92 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 1: And I could get on a pedestal and talk about 93 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: this forever. The fact that we run healthcare. As someone 94 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,360 Speaker 1: who has owned a business and has had to pay 95 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: for health care, the fact that healthcare is connected to 96 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: employment is crazy. I have been a freelancer who was 97 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:34,039 Speaker 1: not an employee, and the fact that I had to 98 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,919 Speaker 1: go out into the healthcare marketplace and figure out what 99 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: policy was the right one for me was incredibly complicated. 100 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 2: Too. Insurance is the. 101 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: Only thing all of us have to pay for that 102 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 1: we hope to never use, and the entire insurance industry 103 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: is totally broken. In conjunction with health care, we spend 104 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: way more than any country in the world, and we 105 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 1: do not get the best results. And the data reflects 106 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: that you could eliminate half of all medical treatments and 107 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: there wouldn't be any change in life expectancy in this country. 108 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: So My general proposition is I don't want to take anything. 109 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: I know Tilan Alway was in the news, I get 110 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: made fun of. I don't want to take any drugs. 111 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: I don't want to take anything. I feel fortunate. I've 112 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: been pretty healthy in the grand scheme of things, and 113 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 1: I think that they wildly overprescribe and over medicate us 114 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: as a whole. And yet simultaneously, the people who actually 115 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: do need health care, the people who are actually sick, 116 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 1: the people who are in desperate need of health care, 117 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: cannot get it, and the people who don't need it 118 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 1: don't feel like we're getting any kind of rational health 119 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: care that makes common sense. Okay, So that's where we 120 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: really are, and in essence, much like our tax code, 121 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: because I would say number one unbroken system in America's 122 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: healthcare Number two is tax code. They're both so fundamentally 123 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: broken that you would actually do better if you just 124 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: tore them both down and built a functional, rational health 125 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 1: care system and tax policy. Instead, we have just continued 126 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: to add layer upon layer of a broken foundation. And 127 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: as a result, if you want to use sort of 128 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: a building metaphor, we have constantly shifting in the winds. 129 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: Tall buildings with no structural stability, and they'll fall over 130 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: all the time and they make absolutely no sense. So 131 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: got hey, happy optimistic Wednesday, everybody. We've got two hugely 132 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: broken systems that threaten the very fabric of our democratic 133 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: republic because as we have an aging population, the costs 134 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: that we're going to have to put out for healthcare 135 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: is going to be borne increasingly by a dwindling number 136 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:03,440 Speaker 1: of young people in America, and the budget and the 137 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 1: math just doesn't add up. So all of that is 138 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: the foundational issue that is in play here. And one 139 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:18,440 Speaker 1: of the real unfortunate aspects of our democratic republic is 140 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:24,599 Speaker 1: once something is created, once the government creates a project, 141 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 1: it almost never leaves. It just goes on the ledger 142 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 1: as a cost long into the future. And Democrats want 143 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:37,959 Speaker 1: to provide healthcare for as many people as possible, including 144 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 1: many different illegal immigrants. And ultimately this is paid for 145 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 1: by all of you out there that are working hard. 146 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 1: Every single day, they're reaching into your pocket, they're taking 147 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: your money out, and they're giving it to someone very 148 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: often who is not even an American citizen. But this 149 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: is all part and parcel of a broken healthcare system. 150 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:03,840 Speaker 1: Obamacare is collapsed, by the way, because it's predicated on 151 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: giving insurance companies more money. And the entire concept of 152 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 1: insurance is they have to get tons of people who 153 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: are never going to need it in order to pay 154 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: for the people that actually do need it, and young, 155 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: healthy people, a lot of them just say I don't 156 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: need health insurance, and as a result, the insurance companies 157 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,839 Speaker 1: don't get that money. And as we have an aging society, 158 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 1: the profit margins of insurance companies going down in the future. 159 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 1: But I just come back to that analogy. I would 160 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: be paying far less for health care if I had 161 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 1: no insurance at all, so would most of you. That 162 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 1: is a broken system. And my analogy there of walking 163 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: in with a kid who has strep throat one day 164 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: after we got insurance for the kid who did have 165 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 1: a strep throat. 166 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 2: I paid. 167 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 1: My wife knows the exact dollars because she's still fed 168 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 1: up about it, because my incompetence actually been fitted the 169 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 1: family because we had to pay less money, but we 170 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: paid a fraction as uninsured walking into a clinic patience 171 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: of what a health care insured family would pay. So 172 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,560 Speaker 1: it's not only that the system is broken, it's that 173 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: people who are actually trying to do the right thing 174 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: are getting gouged, and people who have no interest whatsoever 175 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 1: in buying in at all, they're essentially getting free health care. 176 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 1: You pay a lot, many people pay virtually nothing at all. Okay, 177 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: So that is the essence of why we have a 178 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: government shut down, because Democrats want to give more people 179 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: who do not pay taxes free health care, and Republicans 180 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: are saying, wait, that was a COVID era policy that 181 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: we put in place. It should expire, thankfully now that 182 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 1: COVID is over. So that is the essence of what 183 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: is going on, and we will see exactly how long 184 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 1: it takes for this to be resolved. I suspect that 185 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 1: many of you out there will be like me, and 186 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,319 Speaker 1: there will be absolutely no impact to your life whatsoever 187 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: by the fact that the government has shut down. In fact, 188 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 1: a lot of you are saying, I wouldn't mind the 189 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: government shutting down for a long time. 190 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 2: You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck. 191 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: You know, things aren't going well for Chuck Schumer when 192 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: he's on the Senate floor, And the New York Times 193 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 1: had a huge poll that said voters will overwhelmingly and 194 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 1: correctly blame Democrats for shutting down the government because Democrats 195 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: are the ones voting to shut down government. Chuck Schumer 196 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: doesn't believe it, though, he says the New York Times 197 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:49,280 Speaker 1: poll is biased against Democrats. This is the argument he's 198 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 1: having to make. Let's listen, now, I know. 199 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 4: The leader is going to show a poll that says 200 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 4: that Democrats will be blamed for the shutdown. There are 201 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 4: many more polls that show Republicans are The question in 202 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 4: that call is biased, biased in the New York Times. 203 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 4: But it's biased if you turned the quick. 204 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 2: That's true. 205 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:14,319 Speaker 4: I don't always believe the New York Times. 206 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 2: You can be sure of that. 207 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 4: Neither do you. 208 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:21,560 Speaker 1: So it's so bad that Chuck Schumer is having to 209 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 1: resort to saying the New York Times is biased against 210 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: Democrats when it comes to this situation relating to the shutdown. 211 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 1: But we got a couple of you, several of you, 212 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: in fact, lots of you. Let me pull it up 213 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:38,439 Speaker 1: asking the question because there is a lot of discussion 214 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: about how exactly is this debate now over whether or 215 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,439 Speaker 1: not illegal immigrants get healthcare. In fact, here is one 216 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: that synthesizes this VIP email from Ryan. First off, I 217 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 1: absolutely love you guys. Good way to start. Always like 218 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: we get a positive start to the email gets even better. 219 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 1: Thanks for being the voice of reason and speaking the truth. 220 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: I could go on and on and get all mushy, 221 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 1: but you get the point. 222 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 2: America. Thanks you. 223 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:08,559 Speaker 3: Ah. 224 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 2: I love all this question. 225 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:15,119 Speaker 1: Is there actual rhetoric and documented text in the Democrat 226 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: dirty cr continuing resolution there that states or proves they 227 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 1: are pushing for illegals healthcare? I cannot seem to find it. 228 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 1: Any help would be appreciated. God bless and stay the course. 229 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: Here's what they're doing, and this is why you have 230 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: to dive into the nitty gritty and intricacy of the 231 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: language which with they are using. Okay, they are saying 232 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: the federal government is not paying for illegal immigrant healthcare. 233 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: That is nowhere in this bill. That is not occurring 234 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: at all. Here's the reality. The money goes to the states. 235 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: So the federal government cuts a big check, here's a 236 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 1: billion dollars, and they send it to California, They send 237 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: it to Illinois, they send it to New York state 238 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: government officials there then take those dollars and allocate many 239 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 1: of them to illegal immigrant healthcare. So the argument that 240 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer is making is, oh, the federal government isn't 241 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: doing that at all, but that's because they are allocating 242 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 1: the resources to the states. And then all these blue 243 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 1: states take your tax payer money and they are using 244 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 1: it to fund illegal immigrant health care. And by the way, 245 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: the other part of this is this particular part of 246 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 1: the dollars that are being fought about bought over was 247 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: directly related to COVID. And if you remember, and there 248 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 1: were relatively few of us at the time, Buck was 249 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: one of them. 250 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 2: I was one of them. 251 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 1: If you remember when everybody said, oh, we don't need 252 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 1: to work anymore, the government will just give everybody money. 253 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: Just go home, don't leave your house house, don't even 254 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: think about going to the gym. Don't you dare go 255 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: outside and walk in a park. God forbid you go 256 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 1: to the beach. Hey, kids, we're taking the rims off 257 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 1: your basketball hoops. Hey, we're taking down nets so you 258 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: can't go play tennis. I know everybody wants to forget 259 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 1: all of this, but much of the spending is embedded 260 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 1: from COVID. So Democrats and there were a lot of 261 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:32,400 Speaker 1: Republicans that went along saw the crisis of COVID, and 262 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: they said, this is the best opportunity we have had 263 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: in a long time, maybe for much of our political careers, 264 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: to increase federal spending by a tremendously huge amount, and 265 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: we are going to do that. We're going to implement 266 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 1: all these argantuan cost increases and it's going to become 267 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 1: very difficult to ever dial them back. And I think 268 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: we're not given enough credit to guys like Senator Johnson 269 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: for end of this program. We had him in studio 270 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:05,440 Speaker 1: and we were in DC just to explain all this. 271 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:10,439 Speaker 1: The budget plan that makes the most sense is go 272 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: back to all the pre COVID spending and just increase 273 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:17,439 Speaker 1: it on a rate of inflation. If we had just 274 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 1: done that, we'd all have a balanced budget right now. 275 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 2: But Democrats are smart. 276 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 1: They recognize that all their allies in the legacy media 277 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: that nobody trusts anymore, they will label this a cut. 278 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 1: Anytime you reduce spending, they say, oh, this is a cut. 279 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:45,680 Speaker 1: You're cutting childcare, you're cutting pregnant women are going to die. 280 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:50,159 Speaker 1: That's immediately what they say. And you go back and say, well, 281 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:56,399 Speaker 1: that wasn't happening before twenty twenty COVID's over, thankfully. Everybody's like, yeah, Now, 282 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:58,360 Speaker 1: you might get a sniffle, and you don't know whether 283 00:17:58,400 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 1: it's a cold. You don't know if it's the flu, 284 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: you don't know if it's COVID. I mean, I'm not 285 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:08,119 Speaker 1: trying to make light of it, but that's the reality. 286 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: You get a little bit of a light fever, you 287 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: don't feel great. Who knows what it is. Might be COVID, 288 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: might be any of the other innumerable ways that you 289 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:23,120 Speaker 1: could have gotten sick before COVID. All we're doing here 290 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 1: is saying, hey, this healthcare spending doesn't make sense going forward. 291 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 1: Much of it that is going to a legal immigrant 292 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:37,160 Speaker 1: healthcare should certainly not be spent. But in general, this 293 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:41,120 Speaker 1: is an expense that was directly connected to COVID. COVID 294 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:46,240 Speaker 1: is over, finally, mercifully, why would we embed that cost 295 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: into the overall federal budget. Humor's wrong. Democrats are wrong 296 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 1: on this, and Trump and Republicans are just saying, hey, 297 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,879 Speaker 1: we funded the government, We're not going to continue to 298 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 1: fun this. We're not going to bend to your will. 299 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,239 Speaker 1: Let's keep the government open. Democrats said no, we're going 300 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 1: to shut down the government and if you're out there 301 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: and you're saying, okay, well, hold on a minute, Democrats 302 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:19,639 Speaker 1: don't really support illegal illegal immigrants getting healthcare. Here is 303 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,199 Speaker 1: a flashback. You may remember this. I remember watching this 304 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 1: debate and thinking, boy, these people are crazy. On June 305 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: twenty seventh, twenty nineteen, in Miami, Second Democrat debate, every 306 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 1: Democrat raised their hand when asked if their healthcare plan 307 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:39,440 Speaker 1: would cover illegal immigrants. Listen to this, just to take 308 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 1: you back in time. The Democrats on the stage at 309 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:46,919 Speaker 1: that point in time, Joe Biden, Mayor, Pete Kamala Harris, 310 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: Julian Castro, Amy Klobashar, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Andrew Yang, 311 00:19:53,840 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: Corey Booker, Beto Beto, Beto O'Rourke. Everyone applause, odds inside 312 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,920 Speaker 1: of the audience. But just a flashback cut three. 313 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 5: A lot of you have been talking tonight about these 314 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 5: government healthcare plans that you've proposed in one form or another. 315 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 5: This is a show of hands's question and hold them 316 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 5: up for a moment so people can see, raise your handed, 317 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 5: government if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants. 318 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 1: Every hand went up, Every single hand went up. All 319 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:35,360 Speaker 1: of these people. All of these Democrats support this, and 320 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 1: it's impossible to argue otherwise. Now this is I want 321 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 1: to hit one more, one more hit here, Jasmine Crockett. 322 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: I know, I just I can't believe that this is real, 323 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: that the Democrat Party thinks that she is somehow an 324 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: eloquent voice on all of this. Jasmine Crockett says the 325 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: White Houses messaging on shutdown is illegal Cut twelve. 326 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 6: I think they're being a lot more illegal in their messaging. 327 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 6: The first thing that I wanted to know was how 328 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:13,199 Speaker 6: can this not be a violation of the hashag in 329 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 6: some way? 330 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:14,160 Speaker 5: Right? 331 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 6: Because we are not allowed to politic on official sites period, right, 332 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 6: And that's what they're doing. They literally changed official government 333 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 6: websites to put out their propaganda. Instead of just saying 334 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,720 Speaker 6: we're currently in a shutdown, you decided to play partisan 335 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 6: politics on an official website. 336 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:34,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's illegal. 337 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 1: It's illegal to point out that the reason that the 338 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 1: government is shut down is because Democrats voted to shut 339 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: down the government. 340 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 2: You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and. 341 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 1: Buck, all right, I got a request for you guys, 342 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: all right, and I'm open to where you would like 343 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 1: for me to make a donation too. So where's the 344 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 1: best place to go with this? I have got If 345 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,359 Speaker 1: you're watching on video, my new book is coming out. 346 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: It is one month away from being released. It's called Balls. 347 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 1: I will post the link on my Twitter feed. It'll 348 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:14,919 Speaker 1: be up short certainly at Clay and buck, but you 349 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 1: can just type in Clay Travis on Amazon, Barnes and 350 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 1: Noble on any of the sites and it will take 351 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,919 Speaker 1: you there. I'm in a good spot where there have 352 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 1: been times in the past where I wrote books and 353 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:30,800 Speaker 1: I needed to sell copies of my book to be 354 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,160 Speaker 1: able to feed my kids, to be able to pay 355 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 1: my mortgage. I'm in a good spot now where I 356 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that. So I am going 357 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 1: to donate all of the money that is made from 358 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: this book to charity. But here's what I want. I 359 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: want you guys to give me good idea on what 360 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: that charity should be. Second part of this, I want 361 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 1: you to go please buy the book because I want 362 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 1: the arguments that I make in this book to get 363 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: out as widely as they possibly can. You guys know 364 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,639 Speaker 1: that I believe best arguments win, but we got to 365 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,960 Speaker 1: get the best arguments in front of the largest possible audience. 366 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: The way you do that, this is just full disclosure, 367 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,239 Speaker 1: is you sell a bunch of books in advance of 368 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 1: the book actually being released. So they print a ton 369 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: of them and they put them in the front of stores. 370 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,479 Speaker 1: I want this book to be in Hudson bookstores if 371 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: you're walking through an airport. I want this thing to 372 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 1: be in Costco. I want this thing to be in Walmart. 373 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 1: The way that happens is we have to sell a 374 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: ton of them before it's even released. So I'm asking 375 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 1: you for a favor, and again, all the proceeds are 376 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 1: going to charity. I'm in a great spot. I'm going 377 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: to post the link on Amazon. Please go buy the book. 378 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: The book is balls. It's easy, you just type in 379 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 1: my name, Klay Travis. It's a fun read, but I 380 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 1: think it's an important one. It's about how young men, 381 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 1: sports fans and President Trump won the election, and how 382 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: we keep the momentum of that win going forward. Your sons, 383 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,199 Speaker 1: your grand sons, your granddaughters, your grand your daughters. I 384 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,440 Speaker 1: think they would enjoy it. They might not have been 385 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: exposed to the arguments that I'm making. I'm asking you 386 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,399 Speaker 1: to buy them give it to people. Just type in 387 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 1: my name, Clay Travis. I'm going to share it. I 388 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: want this book to be as widely distributed as possible 389 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: because I think the arguments are important and I think 390 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 1: we are correct. The Team forty seven podcast is sponsored 391 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:26,040 Speaker 1: by Good Ranchers. 392 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 2: Making the American farm strong Again. You're listening to Team 393 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:32,679 Speaker 2: forty seven with Clay and Buck. 394 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 1: If you have simply held onto your stocks and not 395 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: done anything at all, you have never had more money 396 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 1: in the stock market than you have right now. So 397 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:47,360 Speaker 1: congratulations on that. Several other stories that are out there 398 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 1: that I believe are actually very positive. If you voted 399 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:54,120 Speaker 1: for Donald Trump, you're having more babies. That is according 400 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: to Ryan Gerdski, the Cracker Barrel has fired. I don't 401 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: think I mentioned this yet, marketing agency that nearly destroyed 402 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:07,399 Speaker 1: the fifty year old brand of the of the stock 403 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: market there sorry of the Cracker Barrel and led to 404 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:16,399 Speaker 1: a huge stock market collapse. American Eagle sold out of 405 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 1: all of the Sydney Sweeney jeans and the Sydney Sweeney coat, 406 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,520 Speaker 1: and the stock price has soared simply because they said, hey, 407 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: let's put a pretty girl in denim instead of an androgynist, 408 00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: dude with an almost curse, dude with a penis who 409 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 1: is pretending to be a chick. And we are in 410 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 1: the midst of a lockdown that is having almost no impact, 411 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:42,119 Speaker 1: and many people nationwide are realizing that the Democrats stand 412 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:47,639 Speaker 1: for absolutely nothing that is actually in any way a positive. Now, 413 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,159 Speaker 1: those are all things that are stringing together. I am 414 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 1: asking you guys to do something for me. I mentioned 415 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,919 Speaker 1: this yesterday. My book is out in exactly one month. 416 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,479 Speaker 1: It's it's called Balls. A ton of you went and 417 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,920 Speaker 1: bought this yesterday. I'm telling you that I want this 418 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 1: book to be out there everywhere. I want you to 419 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,640 Speaker 1: give it to your grandson. I want you to give 420 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: it to your granddaughter. I want you to give it 421 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,919 Speaker 1: to your son or daughter because I think they are 422 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: going to respond favorably to many of the arguments that 423 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 1: I make, because I'm making them from a cultural perspective 424 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: that they will understand. 425 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 2: We have to win young people. 426 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 1: This is the great genius of Charlie Kirk going into 427 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,919 Speaker 1: college campuses. This is something that I think about all 428 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,119 Speaker 1: the time. I'm going to be on another college campus 429 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,679 Speaker 1: this weekend. I'm going to be a Florida State. I 430 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,479 Speaker 1: have for the last twenty years basically been on college 431 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:40,359 Speaker 1: campuses every weekend for big college football games, talking to 432 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:40,879 Speaker 1: a lot. 433 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 2: Of young people. 434 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 1: Some of you listening to me right now are now 435 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: no longer young, because I'm now no longer young. But 436 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: when I started doing this, I was very young, twenty 437 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 1: five years old. Now I'm forty six. You now have 438 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 1: raised your own kids. Heck, I'm going to have a 439 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:55,320 Speaker 1: kid in college next year as well. I'm writing this 440 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,879 Speaker 1: book to try to influence the next generation. I have 441 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: written books in the past, and I've told you about 442 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,400 Speaker 1: this Dixie Land Delight on Rocky Top, when I didn't 443 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 1: have any money, when I had a super negative net worth, 444 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,840 Speaker 1: when I had tons of law school loans out there, 445 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 1: when I had a big mortgage. 446 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:12,399 Speaker 2: I have lived. 447 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: When you're looking around, you're like, man, is gonna be 448 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 1: a tough month, It's gonna be a tough year. 449 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:17,919 Speaker 2: I've been through it. 450 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: I'm now in a spot where I am not having 451 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 1: to struggle financially. That's a credit to the fact that 452 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: the market has responded very well to the messages that 453 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,920 Speaker 1: I put out there, and that's a credit to you guys. 454 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:35,120 Speaker 1: Listening every day and how the last twenty years is gone. 455 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,400 Speaker 1: So I am donating one hundred percent of the money 456 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 1: that I make from this book to charity. And I 457 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,440 Speaker 1: have decided that based on some of the arguments a 458 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 1: ton of you sent me emails, a lot of that's 459 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,399 Speaker 1: going to go to Turning Point because I think Charlie 460 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: has done tremendous work and I want to give back 461 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: to the organization that he supported, and the arguments that 462 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 1: I'm making in this book he helped to popularize out 463 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,959 Speaker 1: there going around to college kids. We all have to 464 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,439 Speaker 1: lift up, we all have to make arguments better. I 465 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 1: want this book in the front of bookstores. You wonder 466 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,760 Speaker 1: how do you change hearts and minds? Sometimes you have 467 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 1: to find people when they're not looking for you. The 468 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 1: argument that I made that I talked about was the 469 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 1: older I get, the more I see it. My grandparents, 470 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: Richard K. Fox and Ruth Fox, eight Trenton Street, red Bank, Tennessee, 471 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,959 Speaker 1: just outside of Chattanooga. House is still there near the 472 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:32,360 Speaker 1: Bojangles near the Red Bank High School. Super specific could 473 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 1: be any community out there in America because there's lots 474 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,800 Speaker 1: of people doing what they did. My grandfather worked combustion engineering, 475 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 1: worked in a factory much of his life. My grandmother 476 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: was a school teacher in Georgia. She drove into Georgia 477 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 1: because they paid a little bit better than Tennessee. Grandfather 478 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: played football at the University of Tennessee. Wouldn't buy gas 479 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: in the state of Georgia because there were too many 480 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 1: Georgia Bulldog fans and he didn't want to support him. 481 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: This is where I come from. They retired and spent 482 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 1: the rest of their life ministering to people in prison 483 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: and trying to get them to become Christians. They didn't 484 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 1: go and preach to the choir. There's nothing wrong with 485 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 1: preaching to the choir. But the reason that phrase exists 486 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 1: is it's easy to convince people who already agree with 487 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 1: you that they should agree with you. That's not how 488 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:27,959 Speaker 1: you win, and there's a role for that. I'm not 489 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,719 Speaker 1: disparaging the importance of preaching to the choir. You can 490 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 1: make the diehards more die hard. You can deliver for 491 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:37,840 Speaker 1: the diehards, as many of you out there that are 492 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 1: part of congregations have seen ministers, preachers, priests do for generations. 493 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 1: It's not how you win. I think about winning all 494 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 1: the time, way too much. The only way you win 495 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 1: is by convincing people that you've got the best arguments, 496 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: and that means I was talking about earlier. That means 497 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 1: you have to find Zorn Mondami is doing it. 498 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:03,840 Speaker 2: Guys. 499 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 1: He bought a freaking ad during the Bachelor and stands 500 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 1: there with a rose. Every one of his arguments is wrong, 501 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 1: but he's going to where people are and convincing him 502 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 1: that he has the answer for them, and a lot 503 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:19,480 Speaker 1: of people are responding. We have to take the fight 504 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 1: to people who don't even understand that we're in a battle. 505 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: Yet we have to win hearts and minds. That's how 506 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 1: you convert people. And Donald Trump I think the math 507 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 1: is I write about this a lot in the book. 508 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 1: Got sixty four million votes roughly the first time he 509 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 1: ran for president in twenty sixteen. He just got over 510 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 1: seventy seven million in twenty twenty four. How that happen 511 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 1: some of you, God bless you Trump people. Sixteen twenty 512 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 1: twenty four. That's great, But that means at a minimum, 513 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:57,720 Speaker 1: thirteen million people who weren't willing to vote Trump in 514 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen showed up and voted Trump in twenty twenty four, 515 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 1: Probably more than that, because the reality is a decent 516 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 1: number of the sixty four million that voted Trump in 517 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, they weren't with us by twenty twenty four. 518 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 1: So probably twenty million new voters showed up and somehow 519 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 1: pushed that button, wrote down that name, pulled that lever 520 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: for Donald Trump. How did that happen? Convincing people of 521 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: the rightness of the arguments, going to people who are 522 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:33,200 Speaker 1: not already in the congregation and saying, hey, it's the 523 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,440 Speaker 1: right choice for you. How do you get a majority 524 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,240 Speaker 1: of Hispanic men? How do you get twenty one percent 525 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 1: of Black men? How does Asian support skyrocket? You know, 526 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 1: the only group Kamala Harris did better with in twenty 527 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 1: twenty four than she did twenty twenty. 528 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:48,360 Speaker 2: White women. 529 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 1: This book, I'd like to think a lot of young 530 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 1: white women are going to read and they're going to say, 531 00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,600 Speaker 1: you know what, these are good arguments. I'm asking you 532 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,640 Speaker 1: to help me get this book out to as many 533 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:05,080 Speaker 1: people as can possibly see it, And I'm donating all 534 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 1: the proceeds. Arguments I make here I think are really important. 535 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,880 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to make money off this. In fact, 536 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 1: I'm going to donate all the money that I make 537 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 1: to a variety of worthy charitable causes. 538 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:18,200 Speaker 2: Right now. 539 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: Books a Million they heard me talking about this yesterday. 540 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 1: They said, Hey, we're going to give you a thirty 541 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,479 Speaker 1: percent discount if you go on the Books a Million 542 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,959 Speaker 1: website and you use the code Travis. It's nine dollars off. 543 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: The thing's twenty bucks. If you've got somebody in your 544 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 1: life that maybe you think could be influenced, maybe they're 545 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 1: a reader, they're not a video watcher, maybe they're a 546 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:43,600 Speaker 1: thinker and they're open to persuasion. I'm asking you to 547 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: get this book in their hands, and I want people 548 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 1: to see this if they're walking through an airport. That's 549 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,840 Speaker 1: why the cover has two big balls on it, because 550 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,160 Speaker 1: a lot of people do judge a book by its cover, 551 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:56,840 Speaker 1: and the first thing you have to do is sometimes 552 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 1: punch them in the mouth and make them think, Wait 553 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: a minute, is he really saying that. Yeah, Yeah, that's 554 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,840 Speaker 1: exactly what I'm saying. The Republican Party has balls, Democrats don't. 555 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 1: It's a metaphor somewhat figuratively accurate if you've watched Tim 556 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 1: Wallas walk around with spirit fingers. But I think I 557 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 1: can cut through the noise and convince a lot of 558 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: people of the importance of being engaged. And we all 559 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:22,280 Speaker 1: have to do more in the wake of what happened 560 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,400 Speaker 1: to Charlie. And so I'm willing to do as much 561 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: as it can possibly take, and I'm willing to put 562 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: my money where my mouth is. Certainly I've been willing 563 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 1: to put my time down. I write the whole book. 564 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,720 Speaker 1: I don't have ghostwriters sitting there and front of my 565 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 1: laptop by myself after I finished the show. Every day 566 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 1: grinding trying to make arguments that I think matter. So 567 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:40,920 Speaker 1: you go to Books a Million, use code Travis my 568 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,479 Speaker 1: last name, nine dollars off Books a million website. If 569 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 1: you just want to go to Amazon, I would love 570 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,920 Speaker 1: you to go there, two tons of you. My publisher 571 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,960 Speaker 1: called me yesterday. He was like, this is incredible. Thousands 572 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,800 Speaker 1: of people went and bought the book yesterday after you 573 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 1: asked him to do on the show. So I'm asking 574 00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,719 Speaker 1: you favor to me, but I'm donating all the proceeds 575 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:04,560 Speaker 1: for me, but for more importantly the arguments in this book. 576 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,320 Speaker 1: Please go get it. The reason why I'm saying it 577 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,560 Speaker 1: now a month before publication is I hope people go 578 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,520 Speaker 1: out to bookstores and get it in a month. This 579 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,040 Speaker 1: is when they decide where to put your book. Do 580 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:15,840 Speaker 1: you get to be on the front tables. Do you 581 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 1: get to be in the airport when you're walking down 582 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,200 Speaker 1: the aisle and there's a Hudson Bookstores there? Do you 583 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:21,480 Speaker 1: get to be in Costco? Do you get to be 584 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,840 Speaker 1: in Walmart? Do you get to go to where people 585 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,239 Speaker 1: are get the book in front of them and have 586 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,480 Speaker 1: them think, oh, what is this? Let me pick this 587 00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,160 Speaker 1: up and see whether or not I'm going to buy in? 588 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:38,239 Speaker 1: And so that is my request for you would mean 589 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,279 Speaker 1: a ton to me personally. One month out, show up 590 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 1: on your doorstep on the Tuesday. If you read it, 591 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,480 Speaker 1: pass it on to somebody else. Word of mouth is valuable. 592 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,719 Speaker 1: But please, I'm asking you go buy a copy nine 593 00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:52,759 Speaker 1: dollars off right now at Books a Million. You can 594 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:54,840 Speaker 1: get them in Amazon free shipping if you're part of 595 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,600 Speaker 1: Amazon Prime. As I know a lot of you are. 596 00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 1: Mark in Salt Lake City listening on one oh five 597 00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:01,720 Speaker 1: point nine k n R s GG. 598 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 2: What you got for us? 599 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,439 Speaker 7: Mister Kay Travis. This is Mark in Salt Lake. 600 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,600 Speaker 8: Just wanted to tell you when I first started hearing 601 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:12,759 Speaker 8: you on the radio. 602 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:14,600 Speaker 2: You drove me absolutely nuts. 603 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:17,239 Speaker 8: But I've come to find out that you and I 604 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:21,319 Speaker 8: are a lot more alike than we are not, And 605 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,239 Speaker 8: I absolutely love that you're such a family man and 606 00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:27,239 Speaker 8: that you talk about your kids and the things that 607 00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:29,600 Speaker 8: they're doing and how involved you are with them. 608 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:31,040 Speaker 7: Keep up the good work. 609 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,160 Speaker 2: Well, thanks for the look. 610 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,040 Speaker 1: There is no difference between what I say on the 611 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 1: mic and what I will see if I ever see 612 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:42,200 Speaker 1: you in person. Some people are great performers, some people 613 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,280 Speaker 1: are incredible actors. 614 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:45,000 Speaker 2: That is not me. 615 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,879 Speaker 1: I sit down in front of a mic and same 616 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,880 Speaker 1: thing when I sit down and write and say exactly 617 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,719 Speaker 1: what I think. That's rare because most people tiptoe up 618 00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,880 Speaker 1: to their opinions. They're afraid of what other people might think. 619 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:01,560 Speaker 1: They're sensitive about the responses to what they say. That's normal. 620 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,960 Speaker 1: I don't have those genes for whatever reason. Sometimes it's good, 621 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,560 Speaker 1: sometimes it's bad. But I like to think, and certainly 622 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,880 Speaker 1: my radio career is reflected. The more you listen, the 623 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,480 Speaker 1: more people start to think, hey, you know, I kind 624 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,040 Speaker 1: of agree with a lot of what this guy says, 625 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:21,400 Speaker 1: or at least somewhat entertained Moses, Moses from western Montana. 626 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:22,840 Speaker 2: He's going to lead us to the Promised Land. What 627 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:23,440 Speaker 2: you got for us? 628 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:28,640 Speaker 7: Look, I've got a son, two sons, one daughter, and 629 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:34,120 Speaker 7: five grandchildren that live in the Greater Portland area, and 630 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:39,080 Speaker 7: I am telling you what martial law needs to get imposed. 631 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,920 Speaker 7: My last two visits there, it gets worse and worse. 632 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,960 Speaker 7: It's the smell, it's the scudge, it's the homeless, and 633 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,240 Speaker 7: the cops do nothing. 634 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,200 Speaker 1: I think he what he said is actually so important. 635 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:57,960 Speaker 1: They're the Left is not beautiful. And I don't mean 636 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:02,960 Speaker 1: that necessarily physically beautiful. I mean the things that they embrace. 637 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,520 Speaker 1: Look at what they do to their body, look at 638 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:12,399 Speaker 1: the lack of beauty and buildings. There's something rotten at 639 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,960 Speaker 1: the core of the Left that manifests itself physically in 640 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:22,160 Speaker 1: the structures, in the bodies. I do think that it 641 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:26,719 Speaker 1: then also certainly degrades the streets. They're dirty, they're disgusting, 642 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:34,160 Speaker 1: they're filthy. It's a physical manifestation. I think of a 643 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,800 Speaker 1: hole in the soul that many in the left don't 644 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:41,960 Speaker 1: even realize that they have. And again, I think this 645 00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,120 Speaker 1: is where you come back to arguments. You just hope 646 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,200 Speaker 1: that you can convince people these are not good choices 647 00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,680 Speaker 1: being made for you or your families. And I do 648 00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:52,840 Speaker 1: think over time we're winning this argument. But it's going 649 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:54,279 Speaker 1: to be a long battle, and it's not going to 650 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,200 Speaker 1: end when Donald Trump leaves off. It's not going to 651 00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,880 Speaker 1: end in twenty twenty six or twenty twenty eight. We 652 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,640 Speaker 1: need a generation of healing, I think, in this country, 653 00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,920 Speaker 1: and it's going to take a lot of us fighting 654 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:04,960 Speaker 1: for a long time to come