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 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. 3 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: I appreciate all of you hanging out with us Wednesday 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: edition of the program as we continue to fight for truth, justice, 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:20,280 Speaker 1: and the American way all over this country and around 6 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: the world. We appreciate all of you listening and encourage 7 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: you as always go subscribe to the podcast, make sure 8 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: you don't miss a moment. We are in an intriguing 9 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 1: time right now. Obviously, we've got the Herschel Walker race 10 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: still on Monday against Tuesday against the reven Rafael Warnuck. 11 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be down speaking for Herschel on Monday, so 12 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 1: I'll be down in the Cobb County area for that 13 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:51,519 Speaker 1: final sprint. But basically, the two twenty twenty two midterms 14 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: are over and the pivot almost immediately to twenty twenty 15 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: four has begun. But until we get there, it feels 16 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: as if Elon Musk and sort of the wokeification of 17 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: the media and big business is under siege in a 18 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: way that we have not seen in a long time. 19 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: Disney Buck came out with a brand new movie that 20 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: bombed in a way that a Disney animated film has 21 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 1: not bombed in a really, really long time. As we 22 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: are speaking, CNN is in the process of firing tons 23 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: of employees. They are going to continue those firings into tomorrow. 24 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: There are starting to be woke consequences. Disney has instituted 25 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: a hiring freeze. They also have told people, hey, stop 26 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:46,479 Speaker 1: taking trips for purposes of business meetings. They are trying 27 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: to cut costs in a big way. This idea. I 28 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: saw AMC come out and say, and you may watch 29 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: AMC for Breaking Bad or Walking Dead or mad Men 30 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: back in the day. They've had a lot of very 31 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: successful shows. AMC is cutting twenty percent of its overall employees. 32 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: And they said something interesting in their earnings release yesterday. 33 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: They said, Hey, we expected for streaming, that is the 34 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: new streaming services, to in some way create opportunities to 35 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 1: make up for the money that we're losing on the 36 00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: cable and satellite bundle. As so many of you, I 37 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: would imagine, have cut your cable and satellite packages, including 38 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 1: you Buck. You were saying you've got YouTube television now 39 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: like you don't have a satellite or cable subscription. And 40 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: there's a lot of people out there making similar choices 41 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: to go straight streaming and basically give up on a 42 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,359 Speaker 1: traditional cable package. I have one hundred percent cut the 43 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: cord and I'm never going I'm never going back. It's 44 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: just something that once, once you make that that change, 45 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: maybe one day I'll go back to my roots Clay 46 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: and not even have a TV, but carry would have 47 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: to sign off on that. So there are people everywhere 48 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: making the same choice that you are, and it's accelerating 49 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: in a big way, and it's putting business pressures on 50 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: media companies at a very high level. Segue to the 51 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: conflict that has been occurring in the state of Florida 52 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 1: between Disney Rhonda Santis, and that has spiraled into the 53 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,799 Speaker 1: larger culture wars of this country. Bob Chapick, the former 54 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: CEO of Disney, was fired effectively and replaced by his 55 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 1: former boss, Bob Iger. Now that controversy over the parents' 56 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: rights bill, the one that the left tried to brand 57 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: as don't say gay. Rhonda Santis won it, he wanted 58 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: on a major level because most parents said, wait a minute, kindergarten, first, second, 59 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: third grade kids, why in the world are we teaching 60 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: them anything at all about sexuality. Let's teach them the 61 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: most basic things that we all learned in kindergarten, first, second, 62 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: and third grade. I think Bill Maher said, it's basically 63 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: a bill that says, let's keep doing what we did 64 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: five years ago until we went crazy. Well, yesterday and 65 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: our friend Chris Rufo shared these video clips and I 66 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: want to play it for you. Bob Iger basically is 67 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: waiving the white flag and letting it be known that 68 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,160 Speaker 1: he doesn't want Disney to be getting involved in culture 69 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: wars and politics anymore, as they are now starting to 70 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 1: bear the brunt over these business challenges, and as many 71 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: of you out there frankly are choosing not to support 72 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 1: their woke moviedom where they suddenly decide that every character 73 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: has to have LGBTQ background in some way totally out 74 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 1: of left field, crazy little plot editions that don't have 75 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 1: anything to do that are just woke in nature. Even 76 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 1: the Black Panther two has not performed at the level 77 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: that I think Disney expected it to perform at. And 78 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: so listen to Bob Iger. I believe this is from 79 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: yesterday or the day before yesterday, dressing many different high 80 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 1: ranking Disney employees about Disney's culture wars and politics going forward. 81 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:10,359 Speaker 1: I think there's a misperception here about what politics is, 82 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: and I think that some of the subjects that have 83 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: proven to be controversial as it relates to Disney have 84 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: been branded political, and I don't necessarily believe they are. 85 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: I don't think when you are telling stories and attempting 86 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:28,359 Speaker 1: to be a good citizen of the world that that's political. 87 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: Just not how I view it. Do I like the 88 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: company being embroiled in controversy, of course not. It can 89 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: be distracting and it can have a negative impact on 90 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: the company, and to the extent that I can work 91 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:42,039 Speaker 1: to kind of quiet things down, I'm going to do that. 92 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: But I think it's important to put in perspective what 93 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 1: some of these subjects are and not just simply brand 94 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: them political. Well, they're deeply political. Obviously, when you have 95 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:56,039 Speaker 1: the head of content at Disney on video saying we 96 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: need more pan sexual character as we all remember that 97 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: there was a thing that really happened everybody, we need 98 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: more pan sexual cartoon characters for your kids to see. 99 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,359 Speaker 1: I had to google and Clay and I have pretty 100 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: good vocabularies. I was like, wait, a second, I know 101 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: what pan means from Greek pan sexual. Yeah, it means 102 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,039 Speaker 1: you think of sexuality as a buffet and maybe you 103 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: like the mac and cheese the most, but you're also 104 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: going to try the salad bar. You're all over the place, 105 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 1: like you do all kinds of stuff. And here we 106 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 1: are with Disney's new chief telling us these things are 107 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:32,599 Speaker 1: not political. They're deeply but see this is them in 108 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: this is their version of retreat. Yeah. It's never to 109 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 1: actually engage with the facts as they are. It's to say, hey, 110 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 1: we're going to just pretend like this isn't even a thing. 111 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 1: They did this with CRT, remember the phases of CRT. 112 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 1: There is no CRT being taught in schools. You don't 113 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 1: know what CRT actually is. Okay, maybe there is some 114 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: CRT being taught, but it's not that big a deal. 115 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: They're doing the same thing with the Disney content shift here, 116 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: which is they had a They had a number of 117 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: people who were almost messianic in their transagenda and expansive 118 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: sexuality identification. I don't even know how we refer to it. 119 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: For cartoon characters for children, we had them on video 120 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: because of Chris Rufo and now they want to act like, oh, 121 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 1: it wasn't a big deal. Why why are you making 122 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: it so political? Man? Gaslighting? I don't think we talked 123 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 1: about this yesterday. Number one word of the year last year. 124 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: There's a lot of political gaslighting that goes on from 125 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: these companies. Here's what we've seen in Clay. The companies, 126 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: just like sports, just like newsrooms, just like college campuses, 127 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: are now political battlegrounds. And we can either understand that 128 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: reality and engage when they overstep, pay attention to when 129 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: they shut down our ideas or our beliefs, or we 130 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: just get trampled. And now we're gonna see does Apple 131 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: think that it could even trample the richest man in 132 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: the world who just acquired Twitter? Right? These are the 133 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: stakes right now. And where does Disney fall on this. 134 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 1: Disney's hoping to go back to its old ways by 135 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: pretending it wasn't doing what it was doing. That's what 136 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: I think they're doing. Yeah, I think you're right, Buck, 137 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: And let me just tell people out there about this 138 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: new movie that has totally bombed what. Let me start 139 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: with this, and I'll speak personally as a parent. I 140 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: don't care about anything other than is the story good 141 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:19,560 Speaker 1: and does it uplift in some way in a positive 142 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: fashion such that I want to share it with my 143 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: young kids. Right, That's why I think most parents are 144 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: when it comes to movies. So this new movie is 145 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 1: called Strange World. Disney's gonna lose one hundred and fifty 146 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: million dollars on it, and I'm reading from the reviews. 147 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: Strange World is about an explorer family and in the movie, 148 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 1: a young teenager talks to his grandfather about his same 149 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: sex crush on another boy. And they sold it basically 150 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: as this is the first Disney animated film with a 151 00:08:53,280 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: openly gay character. And my thought is most parents don't 152 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: want to worry about anything other than is this an 153 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 1: age appropriate movie that my kids would enjoy? And this 154 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 1: idea that you're gonna brand a movie. And we saw 155 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: the same thing buck happen. What was the romantic comedy 156 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: that featured two gay men, I think and totally bombed 157 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 1: at the box office and people said, oh, this is homophobia. No, 158 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 1: the reality is most people who go to watch romantic 159 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 1: comedies are straight, and they get dragged the man. Generally speaking, 160 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: the man goes for the comedy, the woman goes for 161 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: the romance. You meld them together and they end up 162 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: as successful box office films. But most people don't want 163 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: to go. Frankly, heterosexual couples don't want to go watch 164 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 1: a movie about a two gay dudes. They just don't. 165 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 1: And that's not homophobic. It's because most people want to 166 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:56,199 Speaker 1: see a reflection of their relationship and a romantic comedy. 167 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: And I think a lot of parents gay is that's 168 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: not even I mean when we're talking about Disney, yeah, 169 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: I mean there's much more um on the edge left 170 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 1: wing agenda stuff than just like a than than you know, 171 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 1: trying to have more. They're talking about pan sexuality and 172 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 1: animated film. They tried to sell, hey, this is gonna 173 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:23,559 Speaker 1: be a movie that has a gay character in it. 174 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 1: It's and I think most parents are just like I 175 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: don't want to get involved in the culture wars if 176 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 1: it comes to an antim point is for the left 177 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: and for Disney. I mean we all know this, of course, 178 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 1: that the marketplace speaks on these things. You're a bad 179 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: person if you think that way. That's what they want 180 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:40,959 Speaker 1: you to believe. You're a bigot if you don't want 181 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: to see um other kinds of relationships reflected it, and 182 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,839 Speaker 1: particularly we're talking about kids. I thought sexuality was something 183 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: that heterosexuals everybody. You know, you wait, kids go through puberty, 184 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: they get older, right, you got the birds and the 185 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: bees talk. There's a reason people wait until they're more 186 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 1: they're more, they're more adult. Yes, yeah, And what we 187 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: see happening here is they want to expose children to 188 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 1: all kinds of sexuality. And I mean we haven't even 189 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:16,320 Speaker 1: talked about the I mean the horrific Balenciaga stuff, which 190 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 1: is we should probably get to that at some point today. 191 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:22,679 Speaker 1: But to tell, you know, little children, well, you could 192 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 1: be trans, or you could be non binary, or all 193 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: these things. They want to do this because they view 194 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:30,320 Speaker 1: it as an indoctrination tactic to make everyone think, well, 195 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:31,760 Speaker 1: of course I've known about this since I was a 196 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: little kid. Therefore it has to be not only normalized 197 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 1: but celebrated. And Disney's a very powerful platform for that stuff. 198 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: And I'm just saying I don't think Disney is going 199 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:43,439 Speaker 1: to stop doing it. And the problem is that as 200 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: long as Disney is able to make enough money in 201 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: other things, there's going to be internal considerations about, oh, 202 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: I don't want to get I don't want there to 203 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 1: be a woke revolt against my leadership. So they'll make 204 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:58,079 Speaker 1: these box office bombs. They'll make these movies that are 205 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: not going to do very well as long as they 206 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: can make enough money, you know, reruns of the stuff 207 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: that actually works. That's where I think it gets interesting, Buck, 208 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 1: because I think what Bob Iger is sort of signaling here, 209 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 1: do you know how Disney's making their money now? They 210 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: are gouging everybody to be able to go to Disney World. 211 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: You know it costs. This is crazy. I don't know 212 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 1: if you saw this. Up to one hundred and ninety 213 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:24,080 Speaker 1: dollars per person to go to Disney World right now 214 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: on the busiest days. One hundred and eighty nine dollars, 215 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 1: I think is the new Apex price point. That means 216 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: for me and my family, Buck, it would cost us 217 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 1: on the most popular day, Like if I wanted to 218 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: try to take my kids during Christmas break, probably it 219 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,559 Speaker 1: would cost us a thousand dollars, nearly before we had 220 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: to pay for lodging, before we had to pay for transportation, 221 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: before we had to pay for anything that we're going 222 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 1: to buy inside of that family park, a thousand dollars. 223 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: So their business model is collapsing, and it's collapsing because 224 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 1: the cable and satellite bundle is collapsing at the same 225 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:00,079 Speaker 1: time that they're losing billions of dollars on this new 226 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: Disney Plus streaming service. And so what I would say 227 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: here is I think they're starting to be some desperation 228 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: setting in and I think that in general, you're right. 229 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 1: Sometimes companies will lose hundreds of millions of dollars because 230 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: they're making money elsewhere. I think Disney is in severe 231 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 1: straits business wise. They've taken as much money out of 232 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 1: these theme parks as they can and now they're getting 233 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: this woke blowback and it actually is starting to have 234 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: more significant impact on their business than it has in 235 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 1: the past. So then the last year that we have 236 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,080 Speaker 1: data for, Disney made sixteen billion dollars off of parks 237 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:38,719 Speaker 1: and experiences and fifty billion dollars off of media and entertainment. 238 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:43,319 Speaker 1: But that number keeps going down. The problem is that 239 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:46,680 Speaker 1: number drops enough and the rest of the business starts 240 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: to collapse. They're at an eight year low effectively on 241 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: their stock price. So if you had bought Disney stock 242 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, by and large, you have lost money 243 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: in the last eight years, and so they are in 244 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: a really challenging spot. They lost I believe eight billion 245 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 1: dollars on their streaming service, and they've tried to balance 246 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:08,680 Speaker 1: it out with all the money that they've made their 247 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: hemorrhaging cash now on the cable and satellite bundle. So 248 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: what I'm saying is, if you want to put pressure 249 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,880 Speaker 1: on Disney, now is the best time to put pressure 250 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: on Disney over their woke content that maybe has ever 251 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 1: existed in the twenty first century, because this company is 252 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: on the ropes in a way that they haven't been before. 253 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: If you're a business owner, you know all too well 254 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 1: how difficult the last several years have been. 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You've probably seen 273 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: some folks including well last night Tucker dealt with this 274 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: on Fox, but also Ron de Santis, governor of Florida, 275 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 1: talking about how Tim Cook of Apple, who has obviously 276 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: threatened to shut down Twitter from the app store, which 277 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 1: would which would be a huge blow to Twitter's business. 278 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: Wouldn't be the end of it, but it would be 279 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: a massive problem for them. That same come, Apple is 280 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: fine doing all kinds of business in China and fine 281 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: making sure that the Chinese can even do their suppression 282 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 1: of protests. I mean, here is governor of Santa saying 283 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: that Apple is using their authority to protect the CCP, 284 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 1: while in fact making it harder for us to enjoy 285 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: any first event rights. Here a play sixteen. If you 286 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: look what's going on in China now, the CCP they 287 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 1: have imposing the zero COVID lockdown policies. They've been doing 288 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: it on and off for three years. And you have 289 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: people in China that are really engaged in a noble 290 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 1: effort to protests, which is basically Leninist rule. So what 291 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 1: is Apple doing with that? They are limiting the air 292 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 1: drop function of the protesters, so they are serving basically 293 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: as a vassal to the Chinese Communist Party. Then, on 294 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 1: the other hand, here in the United States, what are 295 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 1: they doing. They are trying to get Elon must Twitter 296 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: off the app store potentially, which would be a huge 297 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: blow for free speech. I would say that there's a 298 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: couple of things here. At one clay is the profit 299 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:08,400 Speaker 1: motive oblacy of operating in China, and also Apple believes 300 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: that nothing will happen to it. For this hypocrisy, I 301 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:15,719 Speaker 1: think a lot of these big companies think they're effectively untouchable. Yeah, 302 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: there's an untenable nature to woke corporatism. If you want 303 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 1: to describe it because they pretend that they are woke 304 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:30,400 Speaker 1: in the United States while bending the knee to China overseas. 305 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: And we talked about this a little bit yesterday. The 306 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: World Cup is a perfect example of this. All of 307 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 1: those big brands are in the Middle East, in a 308 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 1: country where gay people can be beheaded, literally beheaded all 309 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: over the Middle East for being gay. 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That's going to be going 337 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 1: on today and tomorrow. That's a lot of people. When 338 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,640 Speaker 1: you consider that while the Don Lemons of the world 339 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 1: and the Anderson Coopers of the world maybe making seven, eight, 340 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 1: ten million dollars, whatever the heck they're crazy salaries are 341 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: they're not losing their jobs, but a lot of people 342 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:30,360 Speaker 1: making seventy or eighty thousand dollars behind the scenes are 343 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:34,679 Speaker 1: going to be getting cut, and we're talking about the 344 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: big picture structural battle that's going on for free speech 345 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 1: between Amazon and Twitter. I think it's worth considering what 346 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 1: the overall media environment looks like right now, and it is, 347 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: I think going to be a real mess for many 348 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:55,919 Speaker 1: companies over the next couple of years. Apple buying large 349 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: buck other than Ron descansis we just played a clip 350 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:04,400 Speaker 1: other than an occasional politician most of the time escapes 351 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:10,400 Speaker 1: criticism for its hypocrisy. The actual best version of ridicule 352 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 1: for Apple and their CEO, Tim Cook occurred at the 353 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 1: twenty twenty Golden Globes. This was maybe the most blistering 354 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,919 Speaker 1: and hysterical and funny speaking truth to power example that 355 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 1: we've seen in a very long time. If you have 356 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 1: forgotten about it, here was Ricky Gervais going after Hollywood 357 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: and after Apple and all the hypocrisy in la. Apple 358 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 1: rolled into the TV game with a morning show, A 359 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:43,040 Speaker 1: superb drama. Yeah, a superb drama about the importance of 360 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: dignity and doing the right thing, made by a company 361 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: that runs sweatshops in China. So well, you say you 362 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: woke for the companies you work for I mean, unbelievable, Apple, Amazon, Disney. 363 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: If Isis started a streaming service, you'd call your agent, 364 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,200 Speaker 1: wouldn't you. So if you do win an award tonight, 365 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,959 Speaker 1: don't use it as a platform to make a political speech. Right. 366 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: You're in no position to lecture the public about anything. 367 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 1: You know nothing about the real world. So if you win, right, 368 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,439 Speaker 1: come up except your little awards, thank your agent and 369 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:19,919 Speaker 1: your God. I'm okay. And that was one of the 370 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: best comedic performances that I can remember, certainly the best 371 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 1: at an award show that I could ever remember, and 372 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: just in a more general sense, Ricky Gervais because some 373 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: of those actors were upset about it too. It was 374 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: not this with people, you know. This is like initially 375 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:40,440 Speaker 1: when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock and I was like, whoa, 376 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:42,400 Speaker 1: he hit him pretty hard, as people, he didn't really 377 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 1: hit him, like, no, he really hit him like that 378 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,200 Speaker 1: actually was a thing, you know, And then everyone figured 379 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 1: that out about within twenty four hours. Ricky Gervais was 380 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: going after them, and some of them really didn't like 381 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,160 Speaker 1: it because they're actually not used to people pointing out 382 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 1: I mean what he said there is funny but true, right, 383 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 1: And you have all of these companies. I mean that 384 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 1: that abide by these same woke hypocritical I mean that 385 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:09,760 Speaker 1: the principles are effectively hypocritical from the outset. I mean 386 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 1: the notion that, for example, right now there's such a 387 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:19,880 Speaker 1: concern over safety safety on Twitter, what does that even mean? Clay. 388 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 1: There's been people have been posting death threats and horrible 389 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,879 Speaker 1: stuff on Twitter for as long as as it has existed. 390 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 1: And the Mullahs and then of Iran and the Taliban, 391 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 1: and we've talked about this. They all get to keep 392 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: their accounts, but Jordan Peterson didn't until Lelan took over, right, 393 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:34,919 Speaker 1: I mean there are others. I can't even think of 394 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: the battle on b wasn't allowed to have their account. 395 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's absurd. But I do think that 396 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 1: while there's there's the dynamic of the of the mega corporations, 397 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:47,399 Speaker 1: so that's Disney, and it's Apple and you know, go 398 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 1: down the list, right Facebook, I think that they believe 399 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,640 Speaker 1: that the Amazon got to throw Amazon in there. They 400 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 1: are insulated from whatever wokeness that they engage in or 401 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,679 Speaker 1: their subsidiaries because they're so massive and so powerful. But 402 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,880 Speaker 1: also they don't really care about what's happening in China. 403 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,160 Speaker 1: They care about what's happening in America, meaning they don't 404 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:11,200 Speaker 1: want political opposition here. You know, when they used to say, oh, 405 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 1: if you don't like Twitter, it's a private company, you 406 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: can build your own. Well, when Ron de Santists, for example, 407 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:20,679 Speaker 1: starts talking about monopoly issues and brings up Apple, you 408 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 1: want to say to them, Hey, it's a nice country 409 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 1: we've got here. If you don't like it, you can 410 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,639 Speaker 1: go build your own, buddy. There are laws about monopolies, 411 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 1: there are legal issues that come into play, and some 412 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 1: of these companies realize that if the politics goes against 413 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: them here, their power and their profits are actually at risk. 414 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 1: Whereas you know China, they don't care. Yeah, and well, 415 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:47,159 Speaker 1: they actually fear the Chinese government, right Apple. The reason 416 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: why they won't say a word about China is they're 417 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:53,360 Speaker 1: afraid of what the Chinese government. Well, they still shut 418 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 1: them out. I mean, I mean they don't care about 419 00:23:54,960 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: the abuses or whatever they look. They care about about 420 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: appearing to be woke. And that's why I think that 421 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 1: Ricky Gervai's statement is so perfect. If Isis had a 422 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 1: streaming service, you'd be calling your agents to try to 423 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,919 Speaker 1: try to get on, you know, get the biggest paycheck 424 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: you can. And that's where the inherent hypocrisy becomes very 425 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:21,119 Speaker 1: very difficult to reconcile because you have and I'll give 426 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:23,159 Speaker 1: you an example, Buck from the world of sports. Up 427 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,199 Speaker 1: in New York. You have Joe si right, who is 428 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:31,200 Speaker 1: the owner of the Brooklyn Nets, and they have gone 429 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 1: after Kyrie Irving for sharing a link to a video 430 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: that is on Amazon about Hebrew black individuals like whatever 431 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: the content is. They didn't go after Amazon for hosting 432 00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 1: the video. They went after Kyrie Irving for tweeting a 433 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: link to the video, and they made him apologize and 434 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,120 Speaker 1: they said, you're anti Semitic and this is unacceptable. They 435 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 1: didn't go after Amazon. They also didn't go after Joe's I, 436 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:05,440 Speaker 1: who has refused to ever condemn anything that's happened in China, 437 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 1: because I believe he made all of his money off Alababa, 438 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,199 Speaker 1: the big Chinese conglomerate. That's how he became a billionaire. 439 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 1: So he's lecturing his employee, Kyrie Irving, saying you aren't 440 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:21,439 Speaker 1: allowed to say this, while simultaneously he's carrying water for 441 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:25,159 Speaker 1: the Chinese Communist Party and refusing to criticize anything that 442 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,760 Speaker 1: they do. And that's true for the NBA, that's true 443 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 1: for Apple, that's true for Disney. They have one standard 444 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,439 Speaker 1: in America and another standard around the world, and they 445 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 1: don't in any way stand for basic human rights. And 446 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,479 Speaker 1: now I'm also gonna I'm also gonna say this, And 447 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: because this applies to Republicans right now, I think everybody 448 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,679 Speaker 1: should keep this in mind because there's this thing now 449 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: of oh TikTok, like we're gonna take on TikTok. TikTok 450 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 1: even yes, it is Chinese owned, although it's operated here 451 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: in the States, and they say their servers are here. 452 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 1: But then people say, well the servers, you know, the 453 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,919 Speaker 1: information can be transited to China. Whatever. TikTok is much 454 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 1: less of a threat to you or speech and to 455 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: free speech, to the integrity of elections. Then the social 456 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 1: media platforms that operate based largely in Silicon Valley, right, 457 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 1: the ones that are a threat to us here are 458 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,119 Speaker 1: the ones that are here. And I think what you 459 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,680 Speaker 1: see with Republicans is a lot of them like to 460 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 1: stand big and tall. Oh, look at what's going on 461 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: in China, and look at what big tech in China 462 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 1: and all this stuff. Yeah, that's worthwhile, it's worth talking about. 463 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: But for Republican politicians a lot easier. You can't get 464 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 1: money from Ali Baba. You can't get camp I mean 465 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 1: not legally. You can't get campaign donations legally from the 466 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party unless you're Joe Biden. So people look 467 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:39,679 Speaker 1: at this and they realize that American politicians get a 468 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,440 Speaker 1: lot of money, a lot of members of Congress getting 469 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 1: money from the facebooks and the Amazons and the Googles 470 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 1: and whatever they're bought and paid for. Folks are just 471 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,120 Speaker 1: I think everyone needs to be aware of the Oh, 472 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,360 Speaker 1: look what's going on in China, and TikTok is such 473 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 1: a threat. I'm not saying it's not a threat. We 474 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 1: talk about China, that's fine. But the real bravery is 475 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:01,400 Speaker 1: when you're saying you're gonna take on companies that are here, right, 476 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,679 Speaker 1: So taking on a fight with Apple, for example, Apple's 477 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 1: based here. Yeah, I would argue that Apple and Google 478 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,919 Speaker 1: have become so big and so powerful that they are 479 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 1: monopolies and that they should be investigated for significant antitrust violations. 480 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:20,080 Speaker 1: But you're right because in particular, when everybody wants to 481 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: talk about democracy and rigging and everything else. And I 482 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 1: said this when it happened when every big tech company 483 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 1: simultaneously decided to suspend Donald Trump buck he couldn't get 484 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 1: on pentteriest pretend that he suddenly wanted to have like 485 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 1: you know that Donald Trump got into knitting and he 486 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:40,880 Speaker 1: wanted to make mintance Pinterest. They can deperson you from 487 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 1: the Internet, and they did it to a sitting president. 488 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: I mean that that was the crossing of the Rubicon 489 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,399 Speaker 1: moment with big tech, and people had been warning about this. 490 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 1: And of course they start out with, you know, the 491 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,919 Speaker 1: the undesirables, right, they start out with the most provocative, flashpoint, 492 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,720 Speaker 1: lunatic whatever people. They go after them in the early phases. 493 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,359 Speaker 1: Oh it's about safety, and they took it all the 494 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 1: way up to a president. I mean, they're just basically 495 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 1: deep person Andrew Tape, which is part of why I 496 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 1: think this guy's become so famous. Now he was getting 497 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,159 Speaker 1: really famous. Then they deep person them and it's like 498 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: this guy's not allowed to be on the Internet anymore. 499 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:19,480 Speaker 1: And all the companies decide together it's like the Domino's fall. 500 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,040 Speaker 1: And if they can do that to people who are 501 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: powerful and have reach. Imagine the influence they have on 502 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 1: your you know, imagine trying to make a case these days, 503 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 1: Clay that you have meaningful First Amendment rights If you 504 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 1: can't use the Internet, Oh, you're gonna take out a 505 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 1: printing press. Good luck with that one. No, you're one 506 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 1: hundred percent right. And that's one reason that I ended 507 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 1: up selling out Kick to Fox, because you have to 508 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 1: have big enough advocates in order to make sure that 509 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 1: your voice can be heard. 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That's 519 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 1: super woke in left wing. That's not a good idea. 520 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 1: You know, you've got a cell phone company right now, 521 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,960 Speaker 1: the big cell phone companies guess what they're woke. They 522 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 1: give money to left wing causes, Democrat politicians, and they're 523 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 1: charging you more than they need to. That's why you 524 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,560 Speaker 1: should do what I did. Choose pure Talk. Choose pure 525 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 1: Talk over Verizon AT and t r T Mobile. You'll 526 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 1: get a better deal. You're very likely to cut the 527 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 1: cost of your monthly cell phone service by more than 528 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: fifty percent. 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Isn't about wokeness. 538 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 1: In fact, it's about patriotism, love of country and free speech. 539 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 1: So right now you can do something. You can save 540 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:13,560 Speaker 1: money and put your money where your values are. With 541 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 1: pure Talk dial pound two five zero from your cell phone, 542 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 1: say Clay and Buck to say fifty percent off your 543 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 1: first month. That's pound two five zero, say Clay and 544 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 1: Buck and make the switch to pure talk. We're gonna 545 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 1: talk about hypocrisy. This one certainly deserves a mention Justin Trudeau, 546 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:40,000 Speaker 1: but I think is the most annoying premiere of any 547 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 1: Western country on the planet. I think Justin Trudeau is 548 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 1: the most annoying, woke national leader on the scene. And 549 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:56,320 Speaker 1: here we all recall he sent in police with nightsticks 550 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 1: with batons to go bludgeon the trucker protests. Remember they 551 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 1: were protesting a vaccine mandate. Oh how effective was that 552 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 1: vaccine mandate? It was moronic. It did nothing except harass 553 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 1: people and force them to bend the knee. As we 554 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,719 Speaker 1: all know. You know, Rochelle Wilenski still wants it. By 555 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 1: the way, they're still talking about how vaccine mandates are good. 556 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 1: They just don't care, folks. This is we see what's 557 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,400 Speaker 1: going on in China, and I want everyone to understand 558 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,280 Speaker 1: the same mentality exists in the Democrat Party here. They 559 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 1: just don't have that amount of power concentrated in their 560 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: hands yet, but they like a lot of the same 561 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 1: They have a lot of the same attitudes, certainly about COVID, 562 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: about a whole range of issues. But here is Trudeau 563 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 1: saying that everyone in China should be allowed to protest 564 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 1: Play twenty one. Canadians are watching very closely. Obviously, everyone 565 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,800 Speaker 1: in China should be allowed to express themselves, should be 566 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 1: allowed to be a share their perspectives, and indeed protests. 567 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 1: We're going to continue to ensure that China knows will 568 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,440 Speaker 1: stand up for human rights, will stand with people who 569 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 1: are expressing themselves. We also need to make sure that 570 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 1: China and places around the world are respecting journalists and 571 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 1: their ability to do their job. Will continue to make 572 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,720 Speaker 1: that very fun. Oh okay, First of all, hijin Ping, 573 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:19,400 Speaker 1: as you know, recently slap down Trudeau because Trudeau leaked 574 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,440 Speaker 1: the conversation you have with them to media and he 575 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 1: called them out, knowing that there were cameras on stuff. 576 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,800 Speaker 1: He was like, Hey, what you did gross? You You're 577 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,719 Speaker 1: like you're gross. So that's that. He didn't say that, 578 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 1: but that was basically what he was saying. But beyond that, Clay, 579 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 1: this is something that that people love to virtue signal about. Oh, 580 00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,520 Speaker 1: people in China, they should be able to protest freely. Yeah, 581 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,320 Speaker 1: of course they should, Clay. I couldn't even bring my 582 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,840 Speaker 1: phone with me to China. Yeah, you know, because they 583 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,120 Speaker 1: were gonna be surveiling me and doing all kinds of 584 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,000 Speaker 1: crazy stuff. There is no freedom in China. So when 585 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 1: there's a protest, it's being cracked down on. Having some 586 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 1: meek statement from Justin Trudeau, having Biden on the zero 587 00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 1: COVID and you'll be like, well, that's not our policy. 588 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: They're all worthless, man, They're worthless. They just want to 589 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 1: get a paddle the head from a cocktail party circuit. Well, 590 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:09,240 Speaker 1: and if we had an honest media in Canada, they 591 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:13,480 Speaker 1: would point out the hypocrisy there and say, and frankly, 592 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 1: this is why Chinese propaganda works in their country. Because 593 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: if you were right now advising China, do you remember 594 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 1: when China lectured the United States early meeting that Biden had, 595 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,320 Speaker 1: if I remember correctly about all the failures that have 596 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,680 Speaker 1: gone on in the United States, I mean, heck, we 597 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,959 Speaker 1: played for you yesterday, I believe, or the day before 598 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:36,959 Speaker 1: the Iranian I guess it was a day before the 599 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 1: Iranian journalists trying to hector the Americans. But if we 600 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,320 Speaker 1: had over issues in America, despite the fact that Iran 601 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:50,120 Speaker 1: clearly is one of the least least human rights embracing 602 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 1: countries in the entire world. But if we had a 603 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: real honest media, they would immediately call up Justin Trudeaux 604 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 1: on this hypocrisy. So you want the Chinese people to 605 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: be able to protest freely against COVID lockdowns. This is 606 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 1: the irony of it, Buck, He's legitimately encouraging It's not 607 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 1: even that they're just protesting for democracy. They are specifically 608 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,719 Speaker 1: protesting the jaconian nature of COVID lockdowns that exist in 609 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:25,600 Speaker 1: China still because of zero COVID. That's exactly basically what 610 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,799 Speaker 1: the truckers were protesting. So it's not even that he's 611 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 1: encouraging protest. And you could argue, Okay, they're protesting for democracy, 612 00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,520 Speaker 1: and he could argue, Hey, I'm supporting this protest because 613 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:41,080 Speaker 1: I agree with their their goals. He's now encouraging Chinese 614 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:46,360 Speaker 1: people to protest against draconian COVID policies while using the 615 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,839 Speaker 1: unheard of powers, right, the powers that he broke out 616 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:55,279 Speaker 1: to shut down the Chinese basically the insurrections. It's the Canadians, Yeah, 617 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,320 Speaker 1: it's the Canadian version of the Insurrection Act. It's this 618 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,520 Speaker 1: is a threat to the nation and I can It's 619 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,439 Speaker 1: almost like a like a quasi declaration of martial law. 620 00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,239 Speaker 1: And they went in and all they had to think 621 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:10,360 Speaker 1: about how important it was to them that everyone comply. 622 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:11,759 Speaker 1: All they had to do was say we're not going 623 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:13,960 Speaker 1: to have a vaccine mandate for truckers who were crossing 624 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,440 Speaker 1: the border anymore, which was insane and pointless to begin with. 625 00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:20,319 Speaker 1: And they and they knew that this was a big 626 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,719 Speaker 1: deal for the truckers. They didn't want to they showed up. 627 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,120 Speaker 1: All they to do was ben why didn't they bend 628 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,480 Speaker 1: on that one? Because the other side had to bend. 629 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 1: It was just about power dynamics, because if it was 630 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,320 Speaker 1: about the policy, the policy is idiotic. And then anyone 631 00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,920 Speaker 1: who tells me at this point that vaccine mandates or 632 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:39,480 Speaker 1: anything other than completely insane and really kind of vicious 633 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,960 Speaker 1: just isn't very smart. This is nobody still have a 634 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:47,000 Speaker 1: policy requiring that anybody who is not a citizen in 635 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,359 Speaker 1: the United States has to have had the COVID shot 636 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,920 Speaker 1: to enter our country unless you go to the southern 637 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,760 Speaker 1: border and just walk across, and then there's no requirement whatsoever. 638 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,480 Speaker 1: But Buck, if you get on a plane you're flying 639 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 1: in from London, or you're flying in from Rome, or 640 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:06,520 Speaker 1: you're flying in from somewhere in Japan, anywhere outside of 641 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:10,960 Speaker 1: our country, you can't enter the United States still unless 642 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,680 Speaker 1: you have had the COVID shot. We still have that requirement. 643 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,000 Speaker 1: A lot of people have forgotten about it. I haven't 644 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,520 Speaker 1: because it's still so crazy. At least Canada has done 645 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,480 Speaker 1: away with that requirement. You can go into Canada now 646 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:23,759 Speaker 1: without having had the COVID shot, which is why all 647 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,839 Speaker 1: those Canadian truckers have now been proven correct. They were right. 648 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,560 Speaker 1: The COVID shot didn't work. It was unnecessary, and it 649 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,920 Speaker 1: was certainly not needed in order for the health status 650 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,080 Speaker 1: there to get better. So there's a case that's playing 651 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,879 Speaker 1: out in New York City that'll actually take us back 652 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,520 Speaker 1: to BLM. In twenty twenty, some mother of three was 653 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,719 Speaker 1: facing seven years in prison for defending herself which she 654 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,279 Speaker 1: was surrounded by a mob. I want to talk to 655 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,560 Speaker 1: you about that, and also, Eric Adams, is new policy 656 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,240 Speaker 1: in NYC about what to do with the severely mentally 657 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 1: ill on the streets.