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 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back in our number three Clay 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: Travis Buck Sexton Show Reminder, Buck, I'll be back on Tuesday. 4 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: He's been on his honeymoon with the Lovely Carry somewhere 5 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,600 Speaker 1: out in the South Pacific. I don't even know how 6 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 1: much he's been checking his phone. I've tried not to 7 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: send any emails, any texts, tried to just allow him 8 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: to vanish into the awesomeness that is beautiful beach weather 9 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: in the South Pacific. But he will be back on Tuesday, 10 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 1: and we'll be together for the next several weeks and 11 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 1: then on spring break. I can't wait for this. I'm 12 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: taking my family to Italy. I've never been there. My 13 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: wife is Italian, her family background, she's never been. So 14 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: I'll be out for a little bit in March during 15 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 1: spring break and buckle Man the ship. It's one of 16 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: the good things about being a duo is basically one 17 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: of us is always going to be here. And I 18 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: haven't really talked a great deal I don't think either 19 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: Buck or I have on this show about Rush's legacy 20 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: and how we came to come together on this show. 21 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,759 Speaker 1: So I thought, on the two year anniversary of Russia 22 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: Limbaugh's death, I tell you a little bit behind the 23 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 1: scenes of how I ended up on this program. So 24 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 1: she doesn't get enough credit, and she tries to hide 25 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: behind the scenes. But Julie Talbot, who is our boss 26 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:32,320 Speaker 1: at Premier and was Russia's boss at Premier Networks, is 27 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:35,400 Speaker 1: one of the most talented people to ever work in radio. 28 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: And she's probably blushing right now and she's like, oh 29 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,479 Speaker 1: my dear, what in the world. Don't talk about me? 30 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: She put buck an Eye together. But she also was 31 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: instrumental in all of the success that Russia Limbaugh had 32 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 1: for many years as part of Premier and iHeart And 33 00:01:55,400 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: when Rush died, Julie came to me and she said, 34 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: no one's ever going to replace Rush. That's true. When 35 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: you are an iconic original, there is never going to 36 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: be a replacement. But she said, you've been doing sports 37 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 1: talker radio morning, blowing up all over the country from 38 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 1: six to nine am Eastern. Some of you may be 39 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 1: listening to me now because you used to listen to 40 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:28,359 Speaker 1: that show. And when Sports shut down in March, April, 41 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: May and June of twenty twenty, there were literally no sports. 42 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: I came on every day and did three hours of 43 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: sports talker radio. To a large degree that was focused 44 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: on the fact that we had to return to normalcy 45 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: in this country. I didn't take a single day off 46 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,519 Speaker 1: because I felt like there was so much chaos and 47 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: uncertainty out there that it was important for there to 48 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: be some consistency. And I know that a lot of 49 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: you still had to work. Many of you out there 50 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: driving trucks right now, your actual essential workers. To me, 51 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 1: if you didn't have to work, that is a sign 52 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: that your job in the grand scheme of things didn't 53 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 1: matter that much to many people. Your stock and grocery shelves, 54 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: you had to work. You worked at a gas station, 55 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: you had to work. Many of you out there that 56 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:27,639 Speaker 1: are the heartbeat of American commerce and keep this country 57 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: running didn't have the luxury of going and hiding inside 58 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: of your apartments or homes and ordering food takeout delivery 59 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: and sitting around getting full paychecks watching Netflix while you 60 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: lectured everybody else who was out there actually making sure 61 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: that the country kept running, police fireman. So many of 62 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: you out there had to keep working, and so I 63 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: kept doing my show and something crazy happened. The number 64 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: of people listening skyrocketed. Wasn't a single sporting event going on. 65 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: There was nothing to react to, nobody to say, oh 66 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: my goodness, did you see that officiating call. This guy 67 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: has to be fired, this guy has to be hired, 68 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: give this player a max contract. None of that was 69 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 1: going on. Numbers kept going up. Julie came to me 70 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: and she said, people don't want your sports opinion. They 71 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: want your opinion. And the impact that Rush had is 72 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 1: so massive that you can't say no to this opportunity 73 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: to be put alongside a buck sexton. I didn't seek 74 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: this job. I'm maybe a little bit unique in the 75 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: context of there's never been a job out there where 76 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: when I started writing and talking as a practicing attorney, 77 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: I never thought, oh my goodness, I hope one day 78 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: I can have this job or that job. I never 79 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: was trying to take over any job or try to 80 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:58,560 Speaker 1: aspire to take any job. I just wanted to get 81 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: better at writing radio and and so when this opportunity came, 82 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time sitting around thinking about it. 83 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: And you guys know that I love sports, and I 84 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 1: fought hard to try to make sports an American culture 85 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: look more like sports because I believe in capitalism and 86 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 1: the meritocracy and the best man or best woman winning 87 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 1: in competition in general, in the innate, extraordinary nature of 88 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 1: American freedom in life. And the more and more I 89 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: thought about it as a dad, things change, right. And 90 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 1: I know many of you out there who are parents 91 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 1: and grandparents know what I talk what I'm talking about. 92 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 1: But you reach a point in your life, and it's 93 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: different for everybody where you start thinking more about what 94 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 1: the future is going to be for your kids than 95 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,919 Speaker 1: what the present day is for you. And that pivot 96 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 1: happens at different ages for different people. But COVID was 97 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: a massive alarm bell for me where I looked around 98 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:10,920 Speaker 1: at my kids, who are still all three young boys, 99 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: and thought to myself, my goodness, what world are we 100 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 1: leaving for them? Where suddenly you have to worry not 101 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: about tax policy. Right. We can sit around and have 102 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: reasoned arguments about what the top one percent tax rate 103 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 1: should be, and we can have reasoned arguments about what 104 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: percentage of our national budget every year should be directed 105 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: towards medicare and social security and defense. But what we 106 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: can argue about and what unfortunately has become an argument 107 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 1: is the innate goodness of this country and of the 108 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 1: people here, and of the fact that this is the 109 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: greatest country to ever exist in the history of the world. 110 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 1: And when the argument shifts from all I think it 111 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: should be a forty two percent tax, or I think 112 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: it should be a twenty eight percent tax on corporate 113 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: profits or individual tax codes to America is a fundamentally awful, 114 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: racist place and therefore nothing in American history is legitimate 115 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: or worth discussing or celebrating. That's a big difference, because 116 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: when you attack the foundation of American excellence, you're attempting 117 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: to destroy the country, and you are no longer country 118 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 1: was founded on. I was thinking about that a lot 119 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: when I decided to come over here and start spending 120 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 1: three hours every day with you guys. Buck was already 121 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: in this battle. But for me, I'd always been in 122 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: the toy chest of life, sports, things that people like, 123 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: and I couldn't continue to see the country that I 124 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: loved denigrated and attacked and destroyed on a day to 125 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: day basis by forces frankly that I think are absolutely insane, 126 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:17,679 Speaker 1: and I certainly couldn't in good faith as a father 127 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 1: of three, think to myself, what are you gonna say 128 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 1: when you're seventy five and you're a grandpa thirty years 129 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,880 Speaker 1: from now, if the country continues on the course that 130 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: it's on right now. That you set around and talked 131 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 1: about who the best quarterback was in the NFL, and 132 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: that's your legacy that you talked about whether Michael Jordan 133 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,559 Speaker 1: or Lebron James was better, and that's what you spent 134 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: your time making arguments about. I just couldn't do it anymore. 135 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: And Julie Talbot, when she brought Buck an Eye together, 136 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: said I didn't want one person to sit behind the 137 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: golden microphone because you'd immediately be compared to Rush and that, 138 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: no matter who you are, is a I see, it's 139 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: very hard to even comprehend, much less live up to. 140 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: And so the show was going to sound different, but 141 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: the battles would be the same. And two years after 142 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:15,559 Speaker 1: Russia's passing, as we started off this third hour, on 143 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: this anniversary day that many of you are holding in 144 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 1: your hearts, I thought, let's play a clip that is 145 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: particularly apropos, that is timeless, and that speaks to the 146 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: unique and brilliant freedoms of American life and why this 147 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:39,319 Speaker 1: country that we all live in were so incredibly fortunate 148 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: to be here. And that is why we picked this 149 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: clip from November twenty eighth of two thousand and seven 150 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:52,800 Speaker 1: for Rush Limbaugh talking about freedom and the greatness of 151 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: the United States. Listen, the one true and pure ideal 152 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: this country was started with was the idea of freedom. 153 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: It has been our north star for decades upon decades, 154 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 1: over centuries. It is the vision that drove mento this 155 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 1: country against all odds in the fifteen hundreds, and it 156 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: still does today. It's the reason they fought in the 157 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:20,719 Speaker 1: cold with no shoes with Washington at Delaware. It is 158 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: the Delaware rich, the reason we are the one society 159 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: to get rid of slavery, or the first to do it. 160 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 1: The Brits did a pretty good job of it as well. 161 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 1: But the point is freedom. Is you ever asked yourself, 162 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 1: and I've asked you this before, how is it that 163 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: in two hundred and sixty years, less than two hundred 164 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: and sixty years, a population of three hundred million people 165 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: has established the single greatest, most powerful force for good 166 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: nation in the history of sibilitation versus civilizations. And societies 167 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: and countries have been around thousands of years longer. They answer, 168 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: in simple form, is freedom. It is fundamental, So Well 169 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 1: said on the two year anniversary of his passing, he 170 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: will never be forgotten. But what Buck and I are 171 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 1: trying to do every single day is continue to fight 172 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 1: the battles that Rush would be fighting if he were 173 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: still here. And hopefully my thought is helping to pass 174 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,680 Speaker 1: that baton on to the next generation, because I know 175 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:26,680 Speaker 1: every single day many of you out there who listened 176 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: to Rush for thirty plus years, you might be in 177 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: your sixties, seventies, eighties, a year old now, and to 178 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 1: the extent that I'm forty three and troubled about what 179 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: I'm seeing, I know that many of you are even 180 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: more troubled. 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And I 212 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: told you guys on Wednesday that I wanted to discuss 213 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 1: this clip, and we played it for you near the 214 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:47,680 Speaker 1: end of the show, but we haven't had a discussion 215 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 1: about it yet, and I wanted to make sure that 216 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 1: I did that here. So we have a situation where 217 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 1: they're contemplating putting up a statue to Clarence Thomas outside 218 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 1: of the state of Georgia capital. Clarence Thomas grew up 219 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: in Georgia coastal communities and obviously has risen to be 220 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: one of the esteemed legal scholars of his generation. Been 221 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 1: on the Supreme Court for thirty plus years now. And 222 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 1: it's become somewhat controversial because Democrats don't like the idea 223 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: that Rush Russia limbos certainly, but that Clarence Thomas doesn't 224 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: espouse the talking points that they want him to about 225 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: being a victim, about America being an awful place. And 226 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: so this was Georgia State Senator Emmanuel Jones explaining why 227 00:14:36,040 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: he opposed the idea of this statue and calling Clarence 228 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: Thomas and Uncle Tom, listen, place the statue of Clarence 229 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: Thomas on this ground. We cannot avoid that conversation. So 230 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: I'm not going to avoid it either. In the Black community, 231 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 1: we have an expression, and I don't want to use 232 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: this label too deeply here because I'm just trying to 233 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: tell you what we have in African American community. When 234 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 1: we talk about a person of color that goes back 235 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: historically the days of slavery and that person betraying his 236 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: own community, we have a term in the Black community. 237 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: That term that we use is called Uncle Tom. And 238 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: Uncle Tom is a either fictional or non fictional character. 239 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 1: I don't really know the origin of Uncle Tom, but 240 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: it talks about a person who back doing the days 241 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: of slavery, sold his soul to the slave masters. So 242 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas is an Uncle Tom. And that's just trotted 243 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 1: out on the Senate floor in the Georgia chambers there, 244 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 1: and it's left and no one that I've seen the 245 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: Democrat Party as even remotely commented on it, and I 246 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: would tell you this identity politics, and I've been thinking 247 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: about it a great deal as I'm writing my most 248 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: recent book is Leave. The single most toxic thing that 249 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: exists in America today, the idea that based on what 250 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 1: you look like, you are supposed to vote a certain way. 251 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:15,359 Speaker 1: And it's most toxic as it pertains to the Black community, 252 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 1: where it's worth mentioning, around twenty percent of Black men 253 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 1: vote Republican, and that number is growing rapidly. And in 254 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 1: the Asian community, the support for Republicans is growing rapidly, 255 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 1: and in the Hispanic community, support for Republicans is growing rapidly. 256 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 1: And I think what you're going to see in twenty 257 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:42,119 Speaker 1: twenty four with the right candidate running the right campaign, 258 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: I think that Democrats are going to lose in a 259 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: big way. And I think the reason is going to 260 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 1: be because once and for all, identity politics is going 261 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: to blow up in their face. I really do. And 262 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: if we get to a point in the Black community, 263 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: that's why they attack Clarence Thomas so aggressively, by the way, 264 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 1: because if we ever get to a point in the 265 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:08,720 Speaker 1: Black community where twenty percent of Black people, men and 266 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 1: women are willing to vote Republican, then the Democrat Party 267 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 1: as it is constituted today does not work. The math 268 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 1: is impossible to allow them to win nationwide elections. We 269 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 1: don't have to get the fifty fifty, we don't have 270 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:25,959 Speaker 1: to get to seventy thirty, we don't have to get 271 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:29,000 Speaker 1: to sixty forty. All we got to do is get 272 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 1: to eighty twenty. And Democrats see it happening and they 273 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 1: are terrified, and that is why they aggressively attack people 274 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:39,640 Speaker 1: like Clarence Thomas who are willing to think for themselves. 275 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 1: Make no mistake, it's a message. If you don't follow 276 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:50,360 Speaker 1: the mainstream idea, we will label you as a as 277 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:54,120 Speaker 1: an attacker against your race. That's the message that they're 278 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 1: trying to send. That is why we are seeing those 279 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: attacks happen, and that's why Democrats won't even mention him, 280 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,640 Speaker 1: despite the fact that that was on the floor of 281 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:08,200 Speaker 1: the Georgia Senate. 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Go to get refunds dot Com. No risk, 292 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 1: high reward. Get refunds dot Com. Slee, Travis and buck 293 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Speaker 1: Sexton on the front Lines Welcome back, ed Clay Travis 294 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:47,360 Speaker 1: buck Sexton Show. Politico, by the way, has picked up 295 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 1: on the story we discussed earlier about the possibility that 296 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:58,680 Speaker 1: Joe Biden shot down one of these small hobbyist balloons 297 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: and tried to treat it as if it were a 298 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:06,879 Speaker 1: major threat from Russia. And the fact that they are 299 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 1: saying less and less about what exactly was shot down 300 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 1: makes me believe no figure go figure that this is 301 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: more and more likely to have been true. And I 302 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: just want to read you the Politico headline again. They're 303 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:24,479 Speaker 1: building on the story that we already shared with you 304 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 1: about the fact that this was unlikely to have been 305 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 1: a serious threat at all. This is from Politico new 306 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:39,719 Speaker 1: The Northern Illinois Bottle Cap Balloon Brigade tells Politico it 307 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 1: believes one of the balloons shot down by the military 308 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: was theirs. Cost of that balloon ten to fifteen dollars, 309 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: cost of the missile to shoot it down four hundred 310 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,960 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. We had a good discussion about this story already, 311 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: but I wanted to make sure that you guys heard 312 00:19:57,720 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 1: that because one of the questions that has been out 313 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:02,439 Speaker 1: there is what were the three objects that Joe Biden 314 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 1: shut down? In fact, it's how we finished the show 315 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: last week with the news that we were shooting these down. 316 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 1: John Kirby, Pentagon spokesperson, was just asked about this in 317 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,159 Speaker 1: his briefing. I believe we have the audio for you listen. 318 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 1: Knowing everything he knows, now, would he take the exact 319 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 1: same steps and shoot off these expensive missiles at these 320 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 1: benign objects. We're gonna to put some more policy parameters 321 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 1: in place, James, to govern the way we handle these 322 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 1: going forward. You make the best decisions you can with 323 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 1: the information you have at the recommendation of military leaders 324 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 1: that can't say it any more than that. So the 325 00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: fact that they aren't telling you what they shot down. 326 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,680 Speaker 1: And the fact that you now have people who are 327 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: able to track these things coming out and saying, hey, 328 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 1: that was our ten or fifteen dollars balloon off the 329 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,760 Speaker 1: coast of Alaska that got shot down also would reflect 330 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 1: why it's hard to recover the remainder of this because 331 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:55,960 Speaker 1: I would imagine one of these four hundred thousand dollars 332 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: missiles being shot at a ten or fifteen balloon would 333 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:05,160 Speaker 1: create major refuse. I mean, how is there anything at 334 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 1: all left? It feels like it would basically be disintegrated 335 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 1: by this missile in general, and so what a humiliating 336 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 1: But what a humiliating situation this is for the Biden administration, 337 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,879 Speaker 1: not just to allow a Chinese spy ball balloon to 338 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,199 Speaker 1: have come across the entire nation, but then to end 339 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 1: up shooting down hobbyist balloons a because you believe that 340 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:31,639 Speaker 1: they might be Chinese spy balloons. Just humiliating. But that 341 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:33,239 Speaker 1: is the latest. I wanted to make sure we hit 342 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:37,919 Speaker 1: you with that as we roll into the weekend. I 343 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 1: also wanted to make sure that we talked about this 344 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,159 Speaker 1: data point that came out recently. I'm reading from the 345 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 1: La Times. They had a story up about the population 346 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 1: in California plummeting since April of twenty twenty, and I 347 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:59,160 Speaker 1: think this deserves a lot of discussion and contemplation. These 348 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 1: are the latest numbers from the Census Bureau from April 349 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: twentieth through July twentieth of twenty twenty two. Sorry, July 350 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,000 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, so basically a little bit over 351 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: two years from the point when COVID really began, roughly 352 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 1: April of twenty twenty, right after all the draconian restrictions 353 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,400 Speaker 1: began in March of twenty twenty. All the way through 354 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: July of twenty twenty two, California has lost. Gavin Newsom, 355 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 1: governor of California, has lost nearly seven hundred thousand residents. Okay, 356 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 1: this is a big deal because from the moment California 357 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 1: became a state for the first time in eighteen fifty, 358 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:47,560 Speaker 1: all the way up to twenty twenty, California had never 359 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:52,159 Speaker 1: lost population. Think about how crazy that is. California becomes 360 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:58,399 Speaker 1: a state eighteen fifty. Every year since eighteen fifty, all 361 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 1: the way up to twenty two, California had gained population. 362 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: COVID happens, Gavin Knewsom institutes all these draconian COVID policies, 363 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 1: and since that point, California has lost seven hundred thousand residents. 364 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 1: Now there's something over thirty million people who live in California. 365 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:23,680 Speaker 1: It's a big state. More people, I believe live in California, 366 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 1: for instance, than all of Canada. So it's a big state. 367 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 1: But seven hundred thousand people have voluntarily said I can't 368 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:36,919 Speaker 1: live in California anywhere else anymore, and I'm moving. And 369 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,160 Speaker 1: I thought it was just so instructive because in that 370 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:44,359 Speaker 1: same time period, so California has lost more state residents 371 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:48,439 Speaker 1: than anyone since COVID started. That is people deciding to 372 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,159 Speaker 1: flee the state of California. Do you know what state 373 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:56,959 Speaker 1: has added more people? Florida. Almost eight hundred thousand people 374 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:01,639 Speaker 1: have moved to Florida. These are almost mirror images of 375 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:06,400 Speaker 1: each other. Gavin Newsom takes over the state of Florida 376 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,399 Speaker 1: and seven hundred thousand people say, I can't live here anymore. 377 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: I'm no longer interested in remaining in this place. Meanwhile, 378 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 1: Rhonda Santis takes over Florida and eight hundred thousand people 379 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: moved to Florida. Isn't that a perfect market based representation 380 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: of who handled COVID better. The fact that California would 381 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,560 Speaker 1: lose seven hundred thousand people in Florida would add eight 382 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:43,359 Speaker 1: hundred thousand. Two different places, Newsome and to Santis telling 383 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:48,919 Speaker 1: two different stories, two different policies, and people overwhelmingly vote 384 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:53,120 Speaker 1: with their feet. I've told you before. I went down 385 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,479 Speaker 1: to Florida and spent the month of May twenty twenty 386 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: at our Florida place because my kids, we're out of school, 387 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: and I said, screw it, let's go to the beach. 388 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,359 Speaker 1: I'll work from there. We'll be there in May of 389 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I care more about my kids than anything 390 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,640 Speaker 1: on the planet. That's my north star. That's the thing 391 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:18,439 Speaker 1: that matters the most to me. Chances are, if you 392 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: have kids, same thing as true for you. You have grandkids, 393 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,639 Speaker 1: probably true for you as well. If you really thought 394 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:31,879 Speaker 1: that your family was under danger because of COVID, wouldn't 395 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 1: that be reversed. Wouldn't people have voted with their feet 396 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:40,160 Speaker 1: and said, oh my goodness, I'm terrified we're gonna die 397 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: of COVID. Based on RHN DE Santis's policies in Florida. 398 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 1: Let's move to California. Let's move to a state that 399 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 1: is going to restrict movement more, make us wear masks, 400 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 1: keep us in quotation marks safer. Listen to those experts. 401 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 1: Yet it didn't happen. And most in the media aren't 402 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 1: talking about this because they all got it wrong too. 403 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,880 Speaker 1: But people voted with their feet and they moved to Florida, 404 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:12,120 Speaker 1: eight hundred thousand of them did. And they moved out 405 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 1: of California, seven hundred thousand of them did. It's a 406 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 1: big story now. Partly to be fair, this is also 407 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 1: the story of people learning that they could work remotely. 408 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,199 Speaker 1: And I think that's why you're seeing population skyrocket in 409 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 1: Texas and Florida and Tennessee. And I think this is 410 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 1: a big threat to blue states in general. People have 411 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: this and living communities that were way happier to live in. 412 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: I see this in my own neck of the woods 413 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: here in Franklin, Tennessee, just south of Nashville. The amount 414 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:48,680 Speaker 1: of people who have moved here from Illinois, from California, 415 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 1: from New York is staggering. And what I want all 416 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,959 Speaker 1: of you to think about is how far behind is 417 00:26:55,040 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 1: census data going to be in reallocating population, we're gonna 418 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 1: win red states by massive numbers in twenty twenty four. 419 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: Texas and Florida, for instance, are gonna be landslide wins 420 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: for whoever the presidential candidate is in twenty twenty four. 421 00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,360 Speaker 1: But it's gonna take us until twenty thirty or longer 422 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:24,360 Speaker 1: until we adjust the populations so that the House in 423 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: particular reflects where people have moved. And in the process, 424 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 1: it's probably made the Blue states bluer, which is even 425 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 1: going to accelerate the number of people who are fleeing 426 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: the Blue States because they're saying this place was already 427 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 1: crazy under the left wing Democrat uniparty. Gavin Newsom is bonkers. 428 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:50,119 Speaker 1: In fact, Gavin Newsom's own in laws are among the 429 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,919 Speaker 1: people who have left the state of California since he 430 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 1: took over. Not only did Gavin Newsom's own in laws 431 00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 1: leave California, they moved to Florida and they donated to 432 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 1: RHN de Santis. You want to talk about an interesting 433 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 1: Thanksgiving because Newsom's gone all off on RHN to Santus. 434 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 1: I was sitting down in Florida recently, turn on the 435 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: television and it's an advertisement from Gavin Newsom talking about 436 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:18,320 Speaker 1: how Florida is not free. Yes, what people are certainly 437 00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,639 Speaker 1: voting with their feet. The market is it as it 438 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,359 Speaker 1: should is telling you where to move. And I think 439 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,159 Speaker 1: we have seen a resurgence and federalism the likes of 440 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,679 Speaker 1: which we haven't seen on a state by state basis 441 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,439 Speaker 1: maybe in my life, where people are recognizing the power 442 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 1: of a governor and they are deciding to vote with 443 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 1: their feet, and they are overwhelmingly moving to red states. 444 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: And I know there's nervousness out there about the people 445 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 1: who are moving to red states coming and changing the 446 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: dynamic of those red states. I actually think the people 447 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 1: that are moving to those red states are more conservative 448 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,040 Speaker 1: than the people who lived there already, and they're going 449 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: to make red redder and blue bluer. And one of 450 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 1: the big stories and legacies I believe of COVID, based 451 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 1: on the numbers that you are seeing right now, is 452 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 1: we're really creating two different Americas, Blue state America, Red 453 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 1: state America, and that divergence between the two is going 454 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,480 Speaker 1: to grow in a rapid fashion and I think be 455 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 1: a huge part of the story of twenty twenty four. 456 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: Just think about it. What the impact might be, how 457 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 1: it's all going to shake down, and how long it's 458 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 1: going to take for all of that to come into play. 459 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 1: Close up shop next segment eight hundred two eight two 460 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,960 Speaker 1: two eight eight two. If you want to weigh in 461 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,360 Speaker 1: on anything that we have discussed as we head into 462 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 1: the weekend, I'll take some of your calls to close 463 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 1: out this program. It's been a fabulous week. 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Welcome back in Clay, 490 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 1: Travis Buck Sexton show Close Enough Shop on the Friday 491 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 1: edition of the program. Encourage you, as always go subscribe 492 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 1: to the podcast. We appreciate all the support that you 493 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,000 Speaker 1: are showing. There tens of millions of you downloading the 494 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 1: podcast every single month. That is pretty phenomenal. And one 495 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,440 Speaker 1: of the things that's interesting is we found ninety percent 496 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 1: of you who are listening to me right now on 497 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 1: the podcast are typically not overlapping with radio. So one 498 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,520 Speaker 1: of the cool things about the audio universe is people 499 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 1: choose to consume this show in a variety of different directions, 500 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 1: and they don't cannibalize each other. So we've got monsters, 501 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 1: numbers of you monstrous in a good way. Numbers of 502 00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,440 Speaker 1: you out there listening all over the country. We're number 503 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 1: one and whatever is fifteen twenty different markets over the 504 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:06,440 Speaker 1: course of the year, and you guys are all showing 505 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 1: up and supporting this show on what is the two 506 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,720 Speaker 1: year anniversary of Russian Limbaugh's passing, and his legacy certainly 507 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 1: lives on through this show every single day. That is 508 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 1: certainly the goal of both Buck and myself, and also 509 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 1: his legacy lives through his producer Ali and many of 510 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,400 Speaker 1: the people who work on this show, but in particular 511 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 1: Ali same age as Nicky Haley. She is the executive 512 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 1: producer of this program. Earlier I gave shoutouts to Julie 513 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 1: Talbot who put this show together and does such an 514 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,600 Speaker 1: amazing job running all of Premier Networks. Ali, we think 515 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 1: she is still in her prime. She is about to 516 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,960 Speaker 1: be fifty one years old, which is almost the exact 517 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 1: same age as Nicki Haley. She is fifty right now. 518 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,239 Speaker 1: She has been with Rush for over twenty years, I 519 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 1: believe now, and she helps to organize and ensure that 520 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 1: all of our guests are here and to roll. So 521 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 1: there was a certain irony in Ali getting Nicky Hayley 522 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:09,080 Speaker 1: booked given the fact that our good friend Don Lemon 523 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 1: at CNN says that women who are outside of their twenties, 524 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 1: thirties and forties or past their prime. And I was 525 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,760 Speaker 1: talking about this with my wife, who is still in 526 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 1: her forties, and to be fair, we'll still be in 527 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,920 Speaker 1: her prime in her fifties, I well believe. But she 528 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,320 Speaker 1: was saying, like she listened to the Don Lemon clip 529 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,000 Speaker 1: and she was like her jaw drops. She was like, 530 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,600 Speaker 1: oh man, it was really bad. Look, we don't believe 531 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 1: in cancel culture on this show. I don't want Don 532 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,800 Speaker 1: Lemon to lose his job for the stupid things that 533 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,200 Speaker 1: he says anymore than I want the women on the 534 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,719 Speaker 1: view to lose their jobs for the stupid things that 535 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:43,320 Speaker 1: they say. But I do believe that they should keep 536 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 1: their jobs because it allows us to mock and ridicule 537 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 1: and point out the absurdity and frankly the lack of 538 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,800 Speaker 1: intelligence of many people that are flag carrying members of 539 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 1: the left wing in this country. Eddie in Outer Banks, 540 00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 1: North Carolina, you wanted to weigh in. Appreciate your Listen 541 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,640 Speaker 1: then what you got for us? Yes, greetings from the 542 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,120 Speaker 1: outer Banks of North Carolina, your neighbor where. There's never 543 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:12,320 Speaker 1: a bad day here, Clay, It's fantastic, beautiful place. One 544 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,760 Speaker 1: hundred thousand people moving to my home state of North 545 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,799 Speaker 1: Carolina last year in twenty twenty two. Every one of 546 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,239 Speaker 1: them are from New Jersey, and they all bring their 547 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,759 Speaker 1: crap problems and their crap politics with them, and I 548 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,680 Speaker 1: spend all day telling them that Number one, remember there's 549 00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,160 Speaker 1: the reason you move from New Jersey to North Carolina. 550 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:37,239 Speaker 1: Number two, don't ever forget rule number one and rule 551 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,560 Speaker 1: number three. You are not chosen person to change the 552 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,600 Speaker 1: backward way of the Southerner. We've got that one covered. 553 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,040 Speaker 1: God bless you, Clay, Thank you, thank you for the call. Now, 554 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,480 Speaker 1: I would hope. Look, North Carolina wasn't that close in 555 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:54,959 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two in terms of the big Senate race. 556 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,200 Speaker 1: I think that North Carolina is actually getting redder with 557 00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:02,799 Speaker 1: the migration. Now I understand I understand that fear if 558 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,719 Speaker 1: you live in a red state and you love the 559 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,719 Speaker 1: way that your red state exists right now. I think, though, 560 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,480 Speaker 1: if you look at the voting patterns in Florida, for instance, 561 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,880 Speaker 1: those eight hundred thousand people that are moving into Florida 562 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,919 Speaker 1: since April of twenty twenty, they're voting red, and they're 563 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,879 Speaker 1: coming to Florida to vote red. And so again, I 564 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:24,000 Speaker 1: think the legacy, and we'll see certainly got a preview 565 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 1: of it in twenty two, is that red's getting redder 566 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,080 Speaker 1: and blue is getting bluer, and that is going to 567 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,080 Speaker 1: continue even more. Scott in New York City needs you 568 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,680 Speaker 1: to be quick, my man, what you got for us 569 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,719 Speaker 1: real quick? I just have to stay to rush that 570 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:40,439 Speaker 1: I missed him and I love him, and I think 571 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,480 Speaker 1: him from making me the man that I am. As 572 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:48,360 Speaker 1: far as the Pico balloon, I think that anyone that 573 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,799 Speaker 1: believes that we couldn't tract this with a telescope from 574 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 1: the ground and see that it was a Pico balloon 575 00:35:55,560 --> 00:36:00,399 Speaker 1: rather than it's something that's spying on us or something 576 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,960 Speaker 1: get you would have to be really ignorant. You have 577 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,560 Speaker 1: to be really dumb to make that mistake. The problem 578 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,600 Speaker 1: is the Biden administration is really dumb, and I think 579 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,680 Speaker 1: they could make that mistake. And I think they were 580 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,919 Speaker 1: so humiliated by not shooting down the original Chinese five 581 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,719 Speaker 1: balloon that they may well have overreacted and shot down 582 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:22,160 Speaker 1: ten dollars five balloons actually hobbyist balloons. Thanks for hanging