1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and buck 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Friday edition Clay Travis buck 3 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:12,400 Speaker 1: Sexton Show. We appreciate all of you hanging out with 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,439 Speaker 1: us as we are taking you into the weekend. We 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: have got a ton to discuss with all of you. 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,760 Speaker 1: Most importantly that the economic information and indicators that are 7 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:31,639 Speaker 1: out there continue to be quite strong. Friday a morning, 8 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: just about two hours ago, the latest inflation read for 9 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: January came in at two point four percent inflation. That 10 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: is the lowest core inflation number that has existed since 11 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 1: March I believe, of twenty twenty one. That is the 12 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: very beginning of the Joe Biden administration, before the disastrous 13 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: rise to nine point one percent in inflation began, which 14 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: I believe peaked in around June of twenty twenty two. 15 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: If I remember off the top of my head, some 16 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: of you out there might be saying, Okay, well, what 17 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: does that mean in a real terms? It means that 18 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 1: the Fed's target inflation rate of two percent is easily 19 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: within targeted. It means that all of the historyonics surrounding 20 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: Trump's decision to implement tariffs have not led to soaring inflation, 21 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: and it means that overall the economy is moving in 22 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 1: a very very good direction. And as we sit here 23 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 1: midway through February, Buck, what jumps out to me is 24 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 1: the most recent GDP rating that we got, the most 25 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 1: recent reading that we got on the GDP was four 26 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: point four percent growth. Wages have now begun to outpace 27 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: the growth of inflation in a fairly substantial way. What 28 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: you're seeing as all of this kind of works together 29 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: is the secured southern border is helping to result in 30 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: significant declines in rent And I know many of you 31 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: may be starting to see this as your rent bills 32 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 1: come up, as your leases come up, and you're looking around, 33 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 1: and whereas in the past the landlords have been able 34 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:21,519 Speaker 1: to just jack rates up at a really rapid pace, 35 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: that is no longer occurring. In fact, rents have begun 36 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 1: to come down. That is the basic law of supply 37 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 1: and demand. Buck. What happens when two million plus illegals 38 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: leave the country is the overall demand for rental properties 39 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,799 Speaker 1: in general begins to decline. So if you pair two 40 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 1: point four percent inflation again the lowest since March of 41 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one at the core number, and you pair 42 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: it with a four point four percent GDP growth rate, 43 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: and you add in that we're at the lowest murder 44 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: rates since nineteen hundred, that we have the most secure 45 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:58,239 Speaker 1: border in any of our lives, and that the stock 46 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:02,119 Speaker 1: market is at record highs. Starting to think that things 47 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:05,799 Speaker 1: are pretty great now Again, I understand it might take 48 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: a little while for all of this to start to 49 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: pull in a direction and everybody feels it across the nation. 50 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: But the metrics, they are really really good. 51 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:17,519 Speaker 2: It's looking fantastic. Some people are saying the greatest economy 52 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 2: of all economies, and I think it's only going. 53 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 1: To get better from here. Quite honestly. 54 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 2: One of the really important data points here one of 55 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 2: the indicators that you're not going to hear enough about 56 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 2: because it's not only good for the economy, but it 57 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 2: very much goes to the ideological differences between Democrat and 58 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 2: Republican governance, and that has to do with job creation, 59 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 2: that is, actual jobs in the economy versus just creating 60 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 2: more slots for bureaucrats in the government. And that's something 61 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 2: that democrats. Democrats did this and there was a huge 62 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 2: surge of this during COVID. These what I call low 63 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 2: show jobs, where you don't really do anything. You've just 64 00:03:57,800 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 2: got to be there, but you don't do anything. There's 65 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 2: no show jobs, which those are generally illegal, or you 66 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 2: know those are if you're in the government, those are illegal. 67 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 2: There's low show jobs, though, where you have no actual productivity, 68 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 2: no real metrics, and you're just a drain on the 69 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 2: actual productive economy. It's got bess In spoke about this player. 70 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 2: This is cut too, where he's just saying we're not 71 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 2: just creating jobs in general. These are private sector jobs 72 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 2: while government jobs are going down. 73 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: Play two. 74 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 3: What was even more impressive about the numbers is the 75 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 3: private sector numbers were more than one hundred and seventy thousand, 76 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 3: and government jobs were induced by more than forty thousand. 77 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 3: More than thirty thirty thousand of that was federal jobs. 78 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 3: We're at the lowest ratio of government jobs to total 79 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 3: jobs since nineteen sixty six. And this is part of 80 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 3: President's Trump's plan to reprivatize our economy. And I think, 81 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 3: as I've said many times, twenty twenty five is about 82 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,840 Speaker 3: setting the table. Twenty twenty six is going to be 83 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 3: a banquet for the American people. The economy is taking off. 84 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: Clay. 85 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 2: This is so critical. This is the midterm election. Really, 86 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 2: this is run up the scoreboard. So it's clear if 87 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 2: you want a strong economy, forget about every Trump tweet 88 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 2: that you were told with so mean or whatever. You 89 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:19,720 Speaker 2: want a strong US economy, you got to keep the 90 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:20,880 Speaker 2: Republicans in charge. 91 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:25,000 Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, and I'm building on what Secretary of Treasury 92 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: Scott Bessen said there, and I think we mentioned this 93 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: earlier in the week, but I want to hammer it 94 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: home again. We added one hundred and thirty thousand private 95 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: sector jobs. That's after we take away the fact that 96 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: we declined government jobs substantially. In fact, Buck, the number 97 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 1: of government employees is down over ten percent since Donald 98 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 1: Trump came into office. We have eliminated roughly three hundred 99 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: and fifty thousand jobs from people who are funded by taxpayers. 100 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: So it's not I think this is really important because 101 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: people look at the overall jobs and the growth for 102 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 1: everybody out there that's paying taxes that we have eliminated 103 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: ten percent of the people that we are required to 104 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: pay for on the federal government's dole. And ideally what 105 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 1: appears to be happening is those people are actually going 106 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: into the private sector and getting jobs that don't require 107 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: the federal government to be paying their salaries. So this 108 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: is a huge net positive for everyone out there. And again, 109 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: I know it takes a little while for all of 110 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:38,840 Speaker 1: the larger macro, big picture economic issues to translate all 111 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: the way through the entire economy. One thing I would 112 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,679 Speaker 1: say that a lot of people notice every single day 113 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: is the price of gas is down substantially, and overall 114 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: again gas and rent are actually declining, which is a 115 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 1: pretty transformative change. And one other thing we should mention 116 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:00,839 Speaker 1: is a lot of times January inflation comes in hot. 117 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 1: It comes in higher than people expected because during the holidays, 118 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: expending is sometimes tough to measure. In January, it sometimes 119 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: comes in hot. We're actually set up for as we 120 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: move into the spring. I think inflation to be back 121 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: down to two percent, which is the Fed's target. And 122 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: when that happens, then you're gonna get more interest rate cuts, 123 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: which means your mortgages, which means your car payments, which 124 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:31,400 Speaker 1: means everything out there, your credit cards. In theory, everything 125 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,679 Speaker 1: is going to get cheaper because the economy is starting 126 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,679 Speaker 1: to fire on all cylinders again, and that will free 127 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: up the housing market, which has been essentially frozen because 128 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: so many people got three percent mortgages and are just 129 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: not gonna move, even if it would make sense to 130 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: move because rates are so much higher than what they got. 131 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 2: Here is on that point, Clay, because there's the numbers 132 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 2: and then there's what people feel. Yeah, and in politics 133 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 2: you got to make them both lines up. There's the 134 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 2: good data, which we were just talking about the jobs, 135 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 2: but then it's how expensive does gas feel? How's your rent? 136 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 2: How are the things that matter to you day today? 137 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 2: The paycheck, kitchen table. Issues that are really at the 138 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 2: heart of American politics and always will be because this 139 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 2: is something that people feel and they know, and no 140 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 2: matter what the TV tells them, their reality is their reality. 141 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 2: Scott Besson's pointing out that we saw real wage growth 142 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 2: last year, but it could be great and this will 143 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 2: really go to this point. If you get really substantial 144 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 2: wage growth and low inflation in twenty six, people are 145 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 2: going to feel that this has cut three play it 146 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 2: the two ways to fix affordability. 147 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 3: There is bringing down prices and things like energy. Energy 148 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 3: is coming down. Energy is a core component of everything 149 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 3: for consumers, so as that comes down, we will see 150 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 3: the inflation levels come down, but on the other side, 151 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 3: it's real income increases, and we've seen real we saw 152 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 3: real way growth in twenty twenty five. I think it 153 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 3: could be very strong in twenty twenty six, and I 154 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,439 Speaker 3: think the American people are going to start feeling. 155 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 1: There we go Clay, yeah, look, and again, I think 156 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 1: the big challenge of twenty twenty six is going to 157 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:22,479 Speaker 1: be is and are the average voters going to recognize 158 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: that the trajectory of the economy is very positive or 159 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 1: is it still going to feel bad because of the 160 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: Biden hangover. I think that is the number one question 161 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 1: for twenty twenty six. And in fact, if you go 162 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: back and you look, and I like to go back 163 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 1: and look at modern recent history presidential it took a 164 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: while for Reagan's economic bonafides to start to hit. Nineteen 165 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: eighty four We've talked about it was an all time landslide. 166 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty two wasn't great. And so the beneficiary, ironically, 167 00:09:56,520 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 1: of the policies that Trump has put in place because 168 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: Trump can't run again, is not going to be Donald Trump. 169 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: It's going to be JD. Vance or whomever the presumptive 170 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: Republican candidate is going to be because I think it's 171 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 1: going to be impossible to argue by twenty twenty eight 172 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: that everyone can't see that the economy is firing on 173 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 1: all cylinders. The tough thing for Trump is he doesn't 174 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: get to run on that. And we talked about this 175 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: earlier in the week. Everybody forgets we had the best 176 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: economy in the history of the country in February of 177 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: twenty twenty and then COVID happened. If COVID doesn't exist, 178 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: then Trump wins I think a very comfortable election win 179 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: over Joe Biden, and he's already out of office. I 180 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,559 Speaker 1: don't know who would be in office right now, and 181 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 1: I think our economy would be in a much better place. Obviously, 182 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,959 Speaker 1: now Trump is having to rebuild the mess that is Biden. 183 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: He's going to fix it again, and then somebody else 184 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: is going to be benefiting going forward. 185 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 2: Take your calls, take your talkbacks, get into all of it. 186 00:10:57,920 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 2: But I got to say, another good week in the 187 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 2: books for this Trump administration, and staying the course right 188 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 2: now with a lot of these policies is the smart move, 189 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 2: and it is amazing. We'll start to go back twelve 190 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:13,079 Speaker 2: months in time to pull what was being said a 191 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:19,439 Speaker 2: year ago by the so called financial intelligentsia reporters and 192 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 2: you know, the CNBC commentariat. The economists quote economists like 193 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 2: which economists the ones that hate Trump? Those are the 194 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:30,559 Speaker 2: only ones that find their way into most major newspapers 195 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 2: and all the rest. They said that this was going 196 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 2: to crash out the economy, and the economy is kicking ass. 197 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: That's the truth. 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First of all, look at the 231 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 2: broad thirty thousand foot view data points that you could 232 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 2: bring to bear Clay. For example, Okay, Trump's first term, 233 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:31,199 Speaker 2: how did the economy look then? 234 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 4: Oh? 235 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: It was really good, wasn't it all right? Cool? Who's 236 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: been in charge the last four years? 237 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 2: A bunch of lightweights pretending to be Joe Biden and 238 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 2: like move his flaccid wrist around or use the auto 239 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 2: pen so that they can get policies through. 240 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 1: And it's not even really the guy that. 241 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 2: Quote won the twenty election, twenty twenty election, that's not 242 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 2: even as in charge. Of course, things are going to 243 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 2: be better now, like it would actually be bizarre. It 244 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 2: would shake my economic foundation or shake my sense of 245 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 2: economics to its foundation if things weren't going much better 246 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 2: now than they were under Joe Biden. So this is 247 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 2: as we expected it would be. But with all this 248 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 2: going on, you still have the nonsense on Capitol Hill. 249 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 2: Here's White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt Clay. We're heading 250 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 2: to a partial government shutdown now play six. 251 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 5: President Trump has been and always will be on the 252 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 5: side of the American people. He wants our government to 253 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 5: remain open, and unfortunately it appears that Democrats are barreling 254 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 5: our government towards another shutdown. For political and partisan reasons. 255 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 5: The White House has been very much engaged with Democrats 256 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 5: in serious discussions and negotiations over immigration enforcement policy. In fact, 257 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 5: we have not only sent counter proposals, but actual legislative 258 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 5: text to Capitol Hill in the hopes of coming to 259 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 5: an agreement to avoid this shutdown. But Democrats have left Washington. 260 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 2: This is where they are making their standplay. This economy, 261 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 2: this all ties together. This economy is too good for 262 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 2: it to be the centerpiece of Democrats attack on the 263 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 2: Republicans right now. So it's all the pretty shooting and 264 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 2: ice and you know, the thesty agitators of the Democrat Party. 265 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: They are distracting, and they're relying on the fact again 266 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: that a lot of people haven't felt the work that 267 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: has been done yet. And trust me, I get it. 268 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 1: I was having a conversation with friends the other day 269 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: about just how frustrating cost of goods is, and I 270 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: went through the dairy Queen line recently and I was 271 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: buying food for I think it was like six kids. 272 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: We had a bunch of kids over at the house. 273 00:15:55,960 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: Everybody's getting ice cream, everything else. Eighty four dollars. I 274 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,640 Speaker 1: spent eighty four dollars Queen at the Dairy Queen. Now again, 275 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: Dairy Queen now has like they have hamburgers, so it 276 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:11,280 Speaker 1: was not just ice cream on Bellini's. Now, I mean, 277 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: this seems a little excessive. This is This is what 278 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Every time you go through the drive through 279 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: at a fast food restaurant, if you're a mom, or 280 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: you're a dad, or your grandma or your grandpa, and 281 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 1: you're buying for multiple people, things cost too much. And 282 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 1: this is the nasty part of Joe Biden's inflation. Inflation 283 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: doesn't ever go negative. It The best you can do 284 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: is go back to where you were before Joe Biden 285 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 1: came into office. Think about this, Buck. When Joe Biden 286 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 1: came into office, inflation was one point nine percent. Inflation 287 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: is now back down to two point four percent. If 288 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: we just eliminated the Joe Biden and the Joe Biden era, right, 289 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: and we never went to nine point one percent, my 290 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: eighty four dollars or whatever that it was that I 291 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 1: just spent at Dairy Queen wouldn't have happened because the 292 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:07,399 Speaker 1: difference between one point nine percent inflation and two point 293 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 1: four percent inflation is largely negligible and Your average person 294 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 1: is not going to notice on a year to year 295 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,960 Speaker 1: basis that change. But you notice when it went to 296 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: nine and the multi years that it has taken to 297 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 1: get back to where we were when Joe Biden came 298 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:25,639 Speaker 1: into office. Remember back in Men in Black Buck, Remember 299 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 1: the memory stick that they had where they could just erase. 300 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:31,399 Speaker 1: For those of you out there that remember the movie, 301 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 1: they basically had a stick though, so that you didn't 302 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:35,679 Speaker 1: know that aliens existed. They would hit you with the 303 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,399 Speaker 1: memory stick and your brain memory of all of it 304 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: would be washed. 305 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 2: It's like a form of technological brainwashing, the kind of 306 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 2: thing that's addressed in my book Manufacturing Delusion how the 307 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,440 Speaker 2: Left uses brainwashing and doctrination and propaganagainst you, which. 308 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: Comes out on Tuesday. Everybody, by the buck we needed 309 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 1: for the entire Biden era. We needed all erased. Everything 310 00:17:56,359 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 1: would be infinitely better. 311 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 2: A gold medal this year is it's worth roughly twenty 312 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 2: one hundred dollars in the Olympics. By comparison, in twenty 313 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,639 Speaker 2: twenty two, they're worth about seven hundred dollars. That shows 314 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 2: you how much gold's value has increased in four years. Now, 315 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 2: imagine you own your own gold in an ira or 316 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 2: four oh one k account. If you bought it four 317 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 2: years ago, it would have gone up by three hundred 318 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 2: percent in value. That's why you want gold as part 319 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 2: of your retirement savings. I rely on Birch Gold Group 320 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 2: for my gold purchases and transactions. 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Fuck his guy because trust me on hour 331 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 2: three is going to be fun. Our three is gonna 332 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 2: be fun. We got some great audio. 333 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Buck, but this is actually 334 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:13,920 Speaker 1: a not that this is a bit of a sad aspect. 335 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: We mentioned that James Vanderbeek, forty eight years old, star 336 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: of Dawson's Creek and Varsity Blues died and somebody shared 337 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: with me it was you, and then I shared it 338 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,400 Speaker 1: and so many people were reacting to it. Varsity Blues 339 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:36,399 Speaker 1: was a all time team and football movie and I 340 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: bet a lot of you saw it and had a 341 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 1: large number of at that time, people in their late 342 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 1: teens or early twenties that were stars in that era. 343 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 1: It's for people who grew up in the nineties. Was 344 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 1: a big movie. I don't think our parents saw it, 345 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: but yeah, but that three of the icons of that 346 00:19:55,480 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 1: movie are all now dead. What Paul Walker, that's the 347 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 1: guy from Fast and the Furious, but he was in 348 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 1: this movie. He and the start Fast and Furious movies, 349 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 1: who died in a high speed car accident, and then 350 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 1: the Billy Bob character. All three of them have passed. 351 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: And James Vanderbeek had six young kids, forty eight years old, 352 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 1: and this was his final message. And this has gone 353 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:24,520 Speaker 1: viral and I don't know how many people have heard this. 354 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 1: But James Vanderbeek, as you mentioned, Buck, was on Team Sanity. 355 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: It would not stun me if he sometimes listened to 356 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:37,199 Speaker 1: this show. And again, he had six kids. And I 357 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 1: think it was colon cancer, which has become very deadly. 358 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 1: It seems like for a lot of younger men that 359 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:47,240 Speaker 1: you wouldn't anticipate. Chadwick Boseman, who played the Black Panther 360 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 1: among other roles, also I believe, died of colon cancer. 361 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: But here was James Vanderbeek's final message. I thought maybe 362 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: it would resonate with some of you like it resonated 363 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: with me when I heard this yesterday, cut twenty one. 364 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,199 Speaker 6: When I was younger, I used to define myself as 365 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 6: an actor, right, which was never really all that fulfilling. 366 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 6: And then it became a husband and that was much better. 367 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,680 Speaker 6: And then it became a father, and that was the ultimate. 368 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 6: I could define myself then as a loving, capable, strong, 369 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 6: supportive husband, father, provider, steward of the land that were 370 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 6: so lucky to live on. And for a long time 371 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:29,440 Speaker 6: that felt like a really good definition to the question 372 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 6: who am I? 373 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 1: What am I? 374 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 6: And then this year I had to look my own 375 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 6: mortality in the eye. I had become nose to nose 376 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,080 Speaker 6: with death, and all of those definitions that I cared 377 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 6: so deeply about were stripped for me. I was away 378 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 6: for treatment, so I could no longer be a husband. 379 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 6: That was helpful to my wife. I could no longer 380 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 6: be a father who could pick up his kids and 381 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 6: put them to bed and be there for them. I 382 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 6: could not be a provider because I wasn't working. I 383 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 6: couldn't even be a steward of a land because times 384 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 6: I was too weak to prune all the trees during 385 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 6: the window that you're supposed to prune them. And so 386 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 6: I was faced with the question, if I am just 387 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:15,000 Speaker 6: a too skinny, weak guy alone in an apartment with cancer, 388 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 6: what am I? And I meditated and the answer came through, 389 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 6: I am worthy of God's love simply because I exist. 390 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,000 Speaker 6: And if I'm worthy of God's love, shouldn't I also 391 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 6: be worthy of my own? And the same is true 392 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 6: for you. 393 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: I just thought that was really very well said for 394 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,879 Speaker 1: a forty eight year old, And again, he has a 395 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:44,880 Speaker 1: left behind six very young children. They're the lovely family, 396 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 1: but just a I think for a lot of people 397 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: out there, because he's relatively young. You don't expect people 398 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 1: in their forties to pass with young families that they're 399 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 1: taking care of. And I think a lot of people 400 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,720 Speaker 1: have been sharing that because it did feel like a 401 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:06,159 Speaker 1: very profound revelation from him. And I think a lot 402 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,680 Speaker 1: of people find purpose, particularly men. I think this is 403 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 1: one of the biggest challenges that exists in our society today, Buck, 404 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,880 Speaker 1: is when you tell men that they shouldn't be providers 405 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 1: and that they shouldn't be fathers, and they don't have 406 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,120 Speaker 1: people that rely on them, most men are not at 407 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: their best. I think that's fair to say. When men 408 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:31,120 Speaker 1: act entirely in their own self interest and they do 409 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 1: not have people to provide for, protect and basically be 410 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:40,159 Speaker 1: the strong backbone of a household, I think most men 411 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:44,200 Speaker 1: are at their worst. And I thought that evolution in 412 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,239 Speaker 1: James Vanderbeek's perspective on a lot of people say, oh, 413 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:51,639 Speaker 1: I'd love to be in a movie. I've done a 414 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:57,120 Speaker 1: couple of things in film. Honestly, seems really boring to me, Buck, 415 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,439 Speaker 1: You do the same scene over and over again, like this, 416 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: going back for your IMDb here, Clay Well, I mean, 417 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 1: I just I think a lot of people think, oh, 418 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 1: being an actor would be cool. And if you've ever 419 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,200 Speaker 1: been in one of those trailers, and you've ever done 420 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: a scene in a movie, or you've ever filmed anything. 421 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,159 Speaker 1: I like live television. I like live radio because I 422 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,199 Speaker 1: imagine I probably would like live theater because there is 423 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: no safety net, but the idea of doing the same 424 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,479 Speaker 1: scene forty different times from every angle, it's miserable. Like 425 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 1: I did not enjoy it at all, And I think 426 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 1: a lot of people, you know, he had a great 427 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,400 Speaker 1: deal of success there, but I think what he's recognizing 428 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,680 Speaker 1: is something much more profound than personal success. 429 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,399 Speaker 2: Yes, I just clay drawing upon his time as a 430 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 2: thespian straight in on this one is very clay, And 431 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 2: I appreciate that his speech here or his message here, 432 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 2: which I even share it with my own with my family. 433 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 2: I just thought it was really worth hearing, worth watching 434 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 2: and listening to. I'm very glad you played it on 435 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 2: the air. Reminds me of a of a memoir that 436 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 2: was written by Paul Kallaneathy, which you can get. 437 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 1: It's short. 438 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 2: It's called When Breath Becomes Air, and it's about this 439 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 2: absolute top neurosurgeon who finds out right when he's about 440 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 2: to sort of hit his peak of saving lives and 441 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 2: you know, operating on too, you know, tumors that are 442 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,399 Speaker 2: the hardest to operate on, all this kind of stuff, 443 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 2: that he has terminal cancer. And then the book is 444 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 2: really a meditation on being. 445 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,919 Speaker 1: Being a dad, being a. 446 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:39,400 Speaker 2: You know, a man, everything, you know, father, And it's 447 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:41,960 Speaker 2: just really beautifully written. And I think that if you're 448 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 2: ever looking for something that's I mean, you will read 449 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:45,400 Speaker 2: it in a weekend. 450 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:45,879 Speaker 1: For sure. 451 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 2: Get Manufacturing Delusion first, which comes out on Tuesday. 452 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: But I can't be selling other people's books right now. 453 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 2: But no, it's a really if you haven't read When 454 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 2: Breath Becomes Their it's a really beautiful memoir and it 455 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,359 Speaker 2: goes into a lot of these things about it. He 456 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 2: was he was a man of faith, Paul Kalan Eathy. 457 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,119 Speaker 2: So I think a lot of you would, you know, 458 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 2: you love being a dad, loved being a husband. But 459 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,920 Speaker 2: he's very honest. He's also wildly brilliant. That comes across 460 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 2: from you know, he was just he was like the Clay. 461 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:17,399 Speaker 2: He was like the Stanford neurosurgeon guy, you know that 462 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 2: was the up and coming in California at his at 463 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 2: the hospital and everything else. You know, he's like, he's 464 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 2: the guy that you would make the doctor like soap 465 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 2: opera or you know, Gray's anatomy around is like the superdoctor. 466 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 1: He was that guy. 467 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 2: And so I think it's it's really powerful to sort 468 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,159 Speaker 2: of go through his thoughts. He knew he had a 469 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,120 Speaker 2: year to live and he wrote this book and that's 470 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 2: that's what he did for the year. So I would 471 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,679 Speaker 2: I would recommend that to you. You can get it 472 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 2: bundled with Manufacturing Delusion, which is out on Tuesday. So okay, 473 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,479 Speaker 2: there we have that. But I'm glad you played James Vanderbeg. 474 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 2: And I'm gonna tell you something people used to say 475 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 2: all the time when I was in high school that 476 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:58,000 Speaker 2: I looked like pacey Ah. Constantly I was told that 477 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 2: I looked like Joshua Jackson, and right now I might 478 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:06,119 Speaker 2: look more like signor Joshua Jackson. My hair cut is 479 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:10,159 Speaker 2: little Miami. But Joshua Jackson and I Pacey from Dawson's 480 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 2: people see me a party to yo, it's pacy. So 481 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 2: Dawson's Creek had had a really profound effect on my youth. 482 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,360 Speaker 1: It was a great show entertaining show back in the day. 483 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 1: All right, we will take your calls. It is the 484 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 1: Friday edition of the program eight hundred and two two 485 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,880 Speaker 1: eight a two. Our friend Senator Ron Johnson will join 486 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 1: us again. A lot of different news stories out there 487 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 1: that we will continue to track, including and it doesn't 488 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: seem like there has been very much of an update 489 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: at all as as it pertains to this, but we 490 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:49,879 Speaker 1: are continuing to monitor, and that is the Nancy Guthrie case, 491 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 1: so we will keep you updated on that. But I 492 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: want to let you know self protection inside of your 493 00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: home can make a tremendous difference, especially if you've got 494 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: kids around and you want to have non lethal ways 495 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 1: to protect yourself. That's what Saber Home Defense is all about. 496 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,359 Speaker 1: They've got a Saber Home Defense launcher that will deliver 497 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:16,520 Speaker 1: seven powerful pepper projectiles on impact, two more than most competitors. 498 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: When fear hits and you have to defend yourself, having 499 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: extra stopping power can change everything. But protection doesn't stop 500 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,159 Speaker 1: at your front door when you're on the move. Saber 501 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 1: pepper sprays, pepper gels, and stun guns give you compact, 502 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 1: reliable protection. Again, if you've got kids or grandkids around 503 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 1: your house and you want non lethal protection, that's what 504 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: Saber is made for. Saber Radio dot Com s A 505 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:45,040 Speaker 1: B R E Radio dot Com eight four four eight 506 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: two four s A f E. That's Saber Radio dot 507 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 1: Com eight four four eight two four s A f e. 508 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,959 Speaker 2: Crash as the DJ is fascinating. Crash, what was this 509 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 2: music that you were just playing a second ago? Because 510 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 2: it sounded a bit like music from the movie Sucker Punch, 511 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:14,239 Speaker 2: which I don't know who else has seen that movie? 512 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:15,160 Speaker 1: Yeah? Wherever? 513 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 2: I think that actually is from the movie Sucker Punch. Clay, 514 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:21,840 Speaker 2: have you not seen Sucker No? 515 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:23,320 Speaker 1: I don't know anything about Soccer. 516 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 2: It is a weird movie. It is a weird movie 517 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 2: with some memorable scenes and sequences in it. I would 518 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 2: actually go so far as that I think you would 519 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 2: enjoy the movie. Perhaps I will send you a clip, 520 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 2: but that I think it is in that movie. What's 521 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 2: the name of that band again, Crash, you're educating us here? 522 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 2: B York Clay, did have you ever heard of Borke? 523 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,240 Speaker 2: I think she's from Iceland. Yeah, I've heard it. I've 524 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 2: heard of b York before. 525 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 1: I mean, I think she was popular in like nineteen 526 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 1: ninety eight or something. Am I right about that, like 527 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: when the world basically peaked, when everything was perfect? I 528 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 1: think that was that was probably the time when I 529 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,480 Speaker 1: remember her being super popular back in the day. I'm 530 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 1: learning something learning something new about this is she was pop. 531 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:10,479 Speaker 1: She was popular and from Iceland. Before Iceland was a 532 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,880 Speaker 1: popular place to go. Now people want to take vacations 533 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 1: all the time to Iceland and uh, and it's super 534 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 1: interesting to uh to see how that place is exploded. 535 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 7: Uh. 536 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 1: But but yeah, she was popular back in the day. 537 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,840 Speaker 2: And do we have anybody up on the on the 538 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 2: call screen of the vip clay because my call screen 539 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 2: just disappeared for some reason, I'm not seeing it. 540 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: What do you have? Do you just want to talk? 541 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: We can just have a we can just we can 542 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: just talk there. We'll open up the film lines. By 543 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 1: the way, eight hundred and a two two eight A two. 544 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: I'm in Florida, so I don't. 545 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 2: Have Oh yeah, you don't have the call screen either. Okay, Tim, 546 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 2: Tim there there? 547 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:46,000 Speaker 4: You on? 548 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 1: I just Tim You're on? 549 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 4: Hey you guys, Hey Tim from Minneapolis. Say can you 550 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:57,600 Speaker 4: guys hear me? Okay, yes, yeah, So I was driving 551 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 4: down the road. I've never I listened to you guys periodically. 552 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 4: But the actor you had on who made a comment 553 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:09,920 Speaker 4: about you know, he got diagnosed with cancer and obviously 554 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 4: passed away. But that hit home with me, and I 555 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 4: just got to say that what it really sums up 556 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 4: or comes down to is the fact that if you 557 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 4: don't have your health, none of it matters. So he 558 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 4: came to this revelation. I've been through it. I lost 559 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 4: a wife to cancer. I raised two kids on my own, 560 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 4: So I just get choked up hearing about stuff like that. 561 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 4: So it really hit home with me when I heard that. 562 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was powerful, it was powerful. We're glad you're here. 563 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,040 Speaker 1: How are the kids. 564 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 4: The kids are good, they're growing now. So they lost 565 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 4: their mom about ten eleven years ago, so last one 566 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:54,080 Speaker 4: is just graduating from college, so that's good. But yeah, 567 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,920 Speaker 4: that just like hit home so well. Like I say, 568 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 4: I tell people this all the time, you have health, 569 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 4: you don't have you don't have anything. Nothing else matters. 570 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 1: Thank you you became cancer. And congrats to getting those 571 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: kids through college. Thank you so much. 572 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,440 Speaker 2: I was gonna say, there's a saying that the healthy 573 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 2: person has a thousand wants, the sick person has one, 574 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 2: and I think it is very true. It's a very 575 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 2: tough thing to deal with when you have really serious illness. 576 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,720 Speaker 2: And uh, and you know, our our thoughts and prayers 577 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 2: about to anybody out there right now who's dealing with 578 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 2: an illness of any kind Amy and Greenville, North Carolina. 579 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 7: Hey, guys, I just wanted to mention that I'm a mom, 580 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 7: I have two kids. I'm in the grocery store two 581 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:48,440 Speaker 7: three times a week, and the prices keep going up 582 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 7: and up and up. They're up over where they were 583 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 7: two years ago, and Clay your one hundred percent right 584 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 7: when you go to the fast food restaurants. It's just crazy. 585 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:03,000 Speaker 7: And I just wanted to I'm really really concerned that 586 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:06,160 Speaker 7: if we don't do something. I know Trump can't work miracles, 587 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:10,840 Speaker 7: but if we don't address this in a significant way 588 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,880 Speaker 7: before November, I am very very concerned. 589 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,200 Speaker 1: Thank you for the call. This is this is the challenge. 590 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: I understand it because I feel it, and I know 591 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:25,760 Speaker 1: everybody out there feels it. You're angry when you see 592 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,240 Speaker 1: what things cost. The challenge and this is why, you know, 593 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 1: we talked about this historically, and I think we took 594 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,680 Speaker 1: some calls on it back in the day. For those 595 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 1: of you who are old enough to remember what the 596 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,280 Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter era was like, this is why I go 597 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,600 Speaker 1: to Reagan and I use it as somewhat of a 598 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 1: proxy for what's going on with Trump right now. If 599 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,719 Speaker 1: you go back in time, and you and I've had 600 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:52,040 Speaker 1: to study it because obviously I don't remember it, but 601 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,800 Speaker 1: inflation went to I think it was fifteen sixteen seventeen 602 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,000 Speaker 1: percent in Jimmy Carter in the one term that he got. 603 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,960 Speaker 1: The Reagan gets elected in eighty and everything starts to 604 00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,200 Speaker 1: get better. But if you go look at and guys 605 00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,440 Speaker 1: pull up the data on this, because I do think 606 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,840 Speaker 1: it's interesting, you go look to what happened to Reagan 607 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:16,840 Speaker 1: in eighty two. People didn't feel yet in their lives 608 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,200 Speaker 1: the changes that Reagan had put in place to resolve 609 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,520 Speaker 1: the problems of Jimmy Carter. And if we accept Biden 610 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,480 Speaker 1: as a echo of the Jimmy Carter era, which I 611 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:32,840 Speaker 1: think is a fair approximation, it unfortunately took until nineteen 612 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,760 Speaker 1: eighty four for everybody to realize, oh my goodness, Ronald 613 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,560 Speaker 1: Reagan has put the right economic policies in place, and 614 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,319 Speaker 1: I'm benefiting. And he won a landslide election then. But 615 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,799 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty two, if I'm remembering correctly, I think 616 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 1: Democrats punch back in one races. And so again that's 617 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,160 Speaker 1: my concern about twenty twenty six is it's so soon. 618 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:58,560 Speaker 1: The anger is still there of Biden and Trump is 619 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,080 Speaker 1: getting tarred with some of that abs we had. Courtney 620 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,200 Speaker 1: was on the line and she dropped, and I just 621 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,360 Speaker 1: wanted to note that what she was apparently going to 622 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,800 Speaker 1: say is she's excited for Trump's lower interest rates to 623 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,760 Speaker 1: kick in Slash. She absolutely loves the show and listens 624 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,200 Speaker 1: every day. Thanks you so, Courtney. I'm going to share 625 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,080 Speaker 1: that message with America. Where'd you go? Courtney? 626 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 2: I should probably had like kids or a job or 627 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,800 Speaker 2: something she had to do, but we appreciated the sentiment 628 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 2: and we will take compliments all day here, never too 629 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:26,319 Speaker 2: many compliments, So thank you. 630 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:32,319 Speaker 1: And now. But I do think that what they are 631 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:38,120 Speaker 1: saying in essence, Reagan administration in eighty two suffered from 632 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,279 Speaker 1: high interest rates and as a result, the outcomes were 633 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 1: not good. And Mark and Sholwano Wisconsin really fast. Mark, Yeah, I. 634 00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,239 Speaker 8: Just wanted to talk about the economy a little bit. 635 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:58,160 Speaker 8: Everybody's complaining about prices grocery stores, and like you went 636 00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,399 Speaker 8: out to fast food, you're gonna pay pretty good price 637 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,160 Speaker 8: because you got to realize these kids are getting seventeen, eighteen, 638 00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,600 Speaker 8: nineteen twenty bucks an hour now. But if you go 639 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,680 Speaker 8: to a S grocery store. I'm just talking about my 640 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,359 Speaker 8: little Midwest towns. I can get eggs for a buck 641 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,040 Speaker 8: a dozen. I can get a ham for ninety nine 642 00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:16,160 Speaker 8: cents a pound. I can get butter for two fifty 643 00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,719 Speaker 8: a pounds. I mean, prices now are cheaper than they were, 644 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,040 Speaker 8: you know, three years ago. 645 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:27,120 Speaker 1: Thank you for the call. Look, prices are down, They're 646 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,799 Speaker 1: starting to go around two percent a year. People are 647 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,880 Speaker 1: gonna get used to it. The impact of Biden, thankfully, 648 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,719 Speaker 1: is being wiped out. We'll talk about that and more 649 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,120 Speaker 1: when we come back. Thanks for hanging on, clay Buck.