1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:04,200 Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to the Friday edition of the Clay Travis 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton Show. We are racked and stacked on 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: this Friday. That's right. It is time, my friends, to 4 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 1: dive into all of it. It is September, so no 5 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: more afternoon nap time because it's summer. Everybody. We got 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: a nation to save, we got a world to solve. 7 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: We got things to do, and we're doing it right now. 8 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: Florida Surgeon General, Joseph doctor, real doctor, not a Joe 9 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 1: Biden doctor, Doctor Joseph Ladipae, will be with us talk 10 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:36,520 Speaker 1: about Florida's vaccine mandate situation. It's a little more complicated 11 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: than someone with the headline suggests. We want to hear 12 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 1: from the man himself, doctor Latipo, Florida Surgeon General. And 13 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 1: I think somebody that you may very well see somewhere 14 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: in the Trump administration over the course of the four years. 15 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: We'll see if we can ask them about that. Our 16 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 1: buddy Denisse Desuza has another film, that Dragon's Prophecy. He'll 17 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: talk to us about that in the third hour. Remember 18 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:00,120 Speaker 1: yesterday I said they'll make good films anymore. Well, well, 19 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: there are some independent films conservative filmmakers out there are 20 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: doing cool stuff. So we'll talk to Denesh about his 21 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: movie just in the realm of We got to cover 22 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 1: it because it's out and news today. Not a whole 23 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: lot to say about it. You got hiring stalled, uish 24 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: economy out of twenty two thousand jobs in August, a 25 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: little bit of a summer slow down, but no big deal. 26 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:27,400 Speaker 1: Don't panic. It's all gonna be fine. No pannikins, Clay allowed. 27 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 1: We have a no Panikins policy. I might have to 28 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: get a no panicins sign whenever we talk about the economy. 29 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: You surely don't panic. Mister Clay over there telling everybody 30 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: when the market was getting shell ACKed earlier this year, 31 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: don't don't run for the lifeboats, stay on the icon 32 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: of the seas or whatever your preferred vessel is, and 33 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: you'll be fine. So Clay, do you do you see 34 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: any I got something else we're going to dive into 35 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: in a second, but just your quick reaction to jobs report. 36 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 1: Where the economy is heading right now, how it's all looking. 37 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 2: Jerome was laid again and they're going to cut rates 38 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 2: in September. He was wrong in allowing the overall in 39 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:11,320 Speaker 2: the overall inflation rate to get to nine point one, 40 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 2: sorry one percent during Biden. And I think the biggest 41 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 2: issue that Trump faces in terms of sort of vibe 42 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:21,920 Speaker 2: for lack of a better way to describe it, is 43 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 2: people are still angry because prices went up so fast 44 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 2: under Biden. I mean to me, that is a lot 45 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 2: of people are out there and they're saying, well, prices 46 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 2: haven't come back down, and I think the challenge is 47 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 2: prices never come back down. 48 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: Ever. 49 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:42,359 Speaker 2: This is the pernicious nature of inflation. Once prices go up, 50 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,119 Speaker 2: they are inflated, and the new normal becomes whatever those 51 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 2: prices are. The best you can do is try to 52 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 2: get back to normalcy. And we are back to normalcy. 53 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 2: But trust me, I've been saying this for years. Every 54 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 2: time I go through a fast food restaurant drive through 55 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 2: with my kids, Chick fil A is usually our preferred place. 56 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 2: The amount of money that it costs me makes me 57 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 2: shake my head. It doesn't feel right, and people have 58 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 2: sort of internal calculators in their head for what something 59 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 2: should cost. Coffee in the morning, a trip to a 60 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 2: fast food restaurant with your kids, a pizza, and all 61 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 2: of it is wildly out of sorts. With what it 62 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 2: should have been if Biden hadn't gotten elected and screwed 63 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,519 Speaker 2: up everything. So I think there's a lingering hangover effect, 64 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 2: for lack of a better way of describing it, for 65 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 2: the massive run up and inflation that we saw, and 66 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 2: it's going to take years for people to recognize that 67 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 2: things start to feel normal again. 68 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: Does that make sense? And so I think that's going 69 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: to be going on. Even if what you say, and 70 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: I think what you say on this is correct, even 71 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: if it's economically true, it can still be politically a problem. 72 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 3: Right. 73 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: It is Trump's economy now, So the Democrats are going 74 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: to try to pounce on this. They don't care that Biden. 75 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 1: It's like blaming that like Republicans are good blame when 76 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: the debts thirty seven trillion dollars, but when it was 77 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: thirty six point five trillion, Democrats had no problem. 78 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 2: Right. 79 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: I mean, there's going to be some of that gamesmanship 80 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: going on here. But bottom line is, I think the 81 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: economy is still very strong, going to better places, and 82 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: I am I am optimistic. Although I will say we 83 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: didn't discuss this. The Trump team looking at tariffs, or 84 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: rather the Supreme Court is supposed to look at tariff's. 85 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: Trump team had an appeals decision that went against them, 86 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 1: and now there's the possibility that this tariff stuff may 87 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 1: be undone by judges saying the president doesn't have the authority. 88 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: That's a mess. That's a mess. So I don't know 89 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 1: what that's going to do. But this is in the 90 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: are we really we really want to see what happens 91 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 1: if almost a trillion dollars in collected money, what are 92 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: we going to give it back to these countries? It's crazy. 93 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: So we'll see two other stories, by the way, that 94 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:52,840 Speaker 1: are high up on the radar for US, just to 95 00:04:52,839 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: put a pin in them. The mayor of DC, it's 96 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 1: like I told you all from the beginning, kind of 97 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: likes Trump's crime crackdown, kind of likes it. We got 98 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 1: a story on that, want to scoop on that. And 99 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: the US is deploying ten fire jets jets to Puerto Rico, 100 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 1: I think to maybe blow up more cartel drug ships, 101 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 1: which is uh, they're serious about this, And Pete Heggs 102 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: at the Secretary of Defense spoke directly about it, but 103 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:20,840 Speaker 1: Clay had had to go to this one. We had 104 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: quite a robust discussion yesterday about Malcolm Gladwell, and we 105 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: discussed that he has come out and said and he 106 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: admitted that he was too cowardly to say the truth. 107 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: That's not saying that he believed it and now has 108 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: learned more new facts of facts have come in. He 109 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: just said, look, I'm too much of I was too 110 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: much of a wimp about trans men competing against women 111 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:44,280 Speaker 1: in sports. And I said to you, well, do we 112 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 1: give credit, Clay or do we have to look at 113 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,599 Speaker 1: this as pure opportunism? Right? JK. Rowling, who you and 114 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 1: I both hold in high regard. The Harry Potter author 115 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: wrote this about the situation. I want to get Clay's reaction. 116 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: Gladwell's career wouldn't have been destroyed if he spoke out 117 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:05,479 Speaker 1: against the glaring unfairness, not to mention dangers of allowing 118 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: men to compete in women's sports. He'd have faced the 119 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: loss of approval from the cultural elite and received activist blowback, 120 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: and even that wouldn't have come with the tsunami of 121 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: death and rape threats women face when they speak out. 122 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 1: Non famous people, mostly women, girls, and gay people, have 123 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 1: genuinely had their careers and lives destroyed for saying what 124 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: Gladwell was too pusillanimous to say, and he didn't lift 125 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: a finger in their defense. She goes on and on. 126 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: He hasn't changed. He merely sends to shift in what 127 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: is acceptable to say and feels safe to align himself 128 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 1: with a new consensus excusing his previous behavior. He isn't 129 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: an ally, He's a weather vein clay off the top rope. 130 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 2: We talked about this, I believe with Vin Shapiro and 131 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 2: I think one of the most challenging things out there 132 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 2: is when do you get grace and when do you not? 133 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: And I love JK. 134 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 2: Rowling because, as we said and have said for some time, 135 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 2: she had no reason to need to do this. She 136 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 2: is publishing royalty she could have after she wrote the 137 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 2: Harry Potter books, which are fantastic. My ten year old 138 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 2: is reading them now. I bet a lot of your 139 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 2: kids and grandkids may have not been readers, and if 140 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 2: they do become readers later in life, it's often because 141 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 2: you get them started at an early age with the 142 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 2: gift of learning what books can bring to their lives. 143 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 2: And you and I were both huge readers at young ages. 144 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 2: I would say, if I can give any advice on 145 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 2: education at all, it's get your kids to read. I 146 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 2: think it's going to become even more important in an 147 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 2: AI era, where having the ability to distinguish truth from 148 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 2: fiction and real from fake is going to become maybe 149 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 2: the most important skill set that a child can have 150 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 2: and that a young adult can have. And I would 151 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 2: say that exists. 152 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: Now. 153 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 2: Look, I live to this, and all I can tell 154 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 2: you is, I don't think the full story on the 155 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 2: power of the left to take over advertising marketing and 156 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 2: recognize it as a area that they can control and 157 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 2: dominate all this discourses. It's a cultural and economic choke point, 158 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 2: a huge one. I don't think most people will even 159 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 2: still understand it. And so I live this. I told 160 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 2: you guys, I was I had a. 161 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: Multi million fan and you would think would be about 162 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,400 Speaker 1: beer drinking sports fans, But apparently they're about transgender guys, 163 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: you know, smashing volleyballs in the girl's faces. But Clay, 164 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:51,959 Speaker 1: what do you think about this assessment from J K. 165 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,199 Speaker 1: Rowling because she kind of she kind of ripped Gladwell's 166 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: face off with this one. Let's be honest. I mean, 167 00:08:57,840 --> 00:08:59,719 Speaker 1: she went she went for the juggular here. She was 168 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 1: not and around well. 169 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 2: I think it's particularly interesting because I would see them 170 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 2: as in many ways contemporaries, by which I mean I 171 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 2: would bet JK. Rowing is basically the best selling fiction 172 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:12,960 Speaker 2: author of her generation. 173 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 1: I think she's the first author billionaire from actual works 174 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: created as an author. I think she is that has 175 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:21,560 Speaker 1: that title, and I would submit, you, said Michael Lewis. 176 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: But I would bet Malcolm Gladwell has sold more copies 177 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: of nonfiction books than almost anybody of his generation. Certainly 178 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 1: he's worth I would bet hundreds of millions of dollars 179 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: because of his books. When I read this you sent 180 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 1: it to me this morning, I hadn't seen it yet. 181 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: It actually to me read as she knows that he's 182 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: a fraud on a personal level. Yes, yes, we been 183 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: talking about this beforehand, but I think she knows stuff. 184 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:52,120 Speaker 1: Go ahead, So I just thunder. You're right when. 185 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 2: When sometimes if you see a particular venom from people 186 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 2: in public life, it's because, Hey, I'm not going there 187 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 2: fully about what I know about you, but I'm not 188 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 2: going to give you grace because I know you're full 189 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 2: of it. I've never met Malcolm Gladwell, I have no 190 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 2: relationship with him. I have no knowledge of him on 191 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 2: a personal level. I've enjoyed several of his books. That's 192 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 2: my full scope. I've never met jk Rowling. I don't 193 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 2: know anything about her. I find it hard to believe 194 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 2: that the two of them, given their prominence in the 195 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 2: writing communities, would not have cross paths and or be 196 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:31,600 Speaker 2: in some way knowledgeable of each other's personal as well 197 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 2: as professional wives. And so this feels to me like 198 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 2: she knows or has felt for some time that he's 199 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 2: a fraud, different in public than in private, because it's 200 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 2: such a takedown to me. It doesn't read as someone 201 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,079 Speaker 2: just has a different political opinion than me. It reads 202 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 2: as this guy's a total fraud who is truly a 203 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:55,559 Speaker 2: weather vein, and you can't trust him, and she's basically 204 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 2: coming after him for that reason. So I think it's 205 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 2: bigger than the disagreement, right, And. 206 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,559 Speaker 1: So that the thing that I totally agree with here 207 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 1: in your assessment is that she was on a panel 208 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,319 Speaker 1: or saw him with someone on a panel. I mean, 209 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,920 Speaker 1: I even saw Matt Tayibe, who was a man solidly 210 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: of the left as a writer, but because he has 211 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:24,199 Speaker 1: approached things with some journalistic objectivity and honesty, he has 212 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: found himself in agreement with the right more and more, 213 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: a little bit like Glenn Greenwald for example. Like Glenn 214 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: is I completely disagree with him on some things, Israel 215 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: being one of them. But when you talk about First 216 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: Amendment and free speech stuff and government transparency, he agrees 217 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: with a lot of people on the right about a 218 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 1: lot of stuff and the deep state. But Tayeebee also 219 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:49,559 Speaker 1: went after Gladwell, which I thought was interesting for basically 220 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 1: calling Matt Tayebe a racist. So the knives are out 221 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:56,559 Speaker 1: a bit here. It was interesting to see. By the way, 222 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: to your point, I checked this out. Michael Lewis has 223 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: sold about ten million copies, which is for an author, unbelievable. 224 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: That's a lot. Gladwell has sold almost twenty five million, 225 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: so a lot. The guys sold a lot of books. Yeah, 226 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 1: so do you get me? 227 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:19,559 Speaker 2: They definitely. And by the way, sometimes this stuff happens 228 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 2: behind the scenes where whatever you think about both you 229 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 2: and me, I've never been an anonymous source like I 230 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 2: tell you basically for better or words, exactly what I think. Yeah, 231 00:12:30,280 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 2: there are people like and I'm saying I don't think JK. 232 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 2: Rowling is tiptoeing up to anything. I think she's saying 233 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 2: exactly what she believes to be true. Sometimes people like 234 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 2: Gladwell are very political behind the scenes and they're pulling 235 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 2: levers and they're trying to say. 236 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't have any idea that was going to happen. 237 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 2: Really, everybody knows these people who are They present one 238 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 2: way face to face, but then you find out you've 239 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,760 Speaker 2: been getting stabbed in the back by them secretly sort of. 240 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 1: In the it's called working in the media. It's called 241 00:12:59,080 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 1: working in the media. 242 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,680 Speaker 2: Yes, So to me, I read this and I thought, 243 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 2: she's not giving him grace because she knows he is 244 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 2: unworthy of receiving grace. And uh and so I read that, 245 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:14,199 Speaker 2: and I gotta tell you. 246 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: A JK. 247 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 2: Rowley, I never would have expected that a British lady 248 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 2: who wrote books about sorcerers and wizards and you know, 249 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 2: child children's fantasy would ever be the savage that she 250 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:30,080 Speaker 2: is in the world of of of of consumer culture 251 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 2: and political opinion. But my goodness, I love her. I'd 252 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 2: love to meet her at some pome you have her 253 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 2: on the show. I think that would be amazing. We'll 254 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:40,719 Speaker 2: reach out. I mean, she's a billionaire, so her time 255 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 2: is probably pretty valuable. We'll try, but I would say, 256 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 2: think Drum's a billionaire. He calls any anx outles, so 257 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 2: maybe maybe JK, we'll call in. I would say, though, 258 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 2: she sees what this brain virus which and I don't 259 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 2: mean just transgenderism, I mean the brain virus of of 260 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 2: forced lying and forced falsification in society. She sees what 261 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 2: it's doing to the UK, and I think it makes 262 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 2: her deeply sad for her home country because it's winning 263 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 2: over there. You see, it's a different context. Everyone here, 264 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 2: we still are on the air. Trump is in charge, 265 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 2: Conservatism is ascendant right now, or the right. Let's just 266 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 2: say the right is ascendant in this country in this moment. 267 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 2: In the UK, it's turning into a route, a route 268 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 2: against free speech, a route against secure borders, a route 269 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 2: against basic truth. And I think she's very concerned because 270 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 2: she sees that that's happening. 271 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: I think that's one hundred percent right. 272 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 2: And honestly, if you read her books, which I have 273 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 2: and which I would encourage you to buy for your 274 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 2: kids and grandkids, much of the book honestly is focused 275 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 2: with what happens when freedom of speech vanishes, when the 276 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 2: media can't be trusted. I mean if you read this 277 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 2: in the context in which she is living in England. 278 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 2: She addressed this as part of her books in a 279 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 2: fairly substantial away. 280 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: It's not a matter of whether you're going to have 281 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: a cell phone for the rest of your life. It's 282 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: a matter of which company you're going to rely on 283 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: for great service. I choose to rely on Puretalk, not 284 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 1: AT and T, Verizon or T Mobile, but Puretalk. Their 285 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 1: service is on the same towers and network as the others, 286 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 1: but at a much better price point. 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A lot of people 306 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 2: weighing in and discussing so many of these different topic 307 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 2: I think what is compelling here is and this is 308 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 2: where I think there needs to be a real commitment 309 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 2: going forward. And Elon Musk has started to file these 310 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 2: lawsuits and those of you who listened to Rush went 311 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 2: through this for a long time. There has never been 312 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,520 Speaker 2: an equivalent attempt to shut down money making ability on 313 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 2: the left like the left tried to shut down money 314 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 2: making ability on the right. And we have to construct 315 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 2: businesses like Crockett Coffee. I mean, this is the way 316 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 2: to protect yourself. You have to construct businesses that are 317 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 2: going to stand the test of time and actually stand 318 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 2: for what you believe in. This is why we created 319 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 2: Crocket Coffee, why we're working on additional businesses. Why I 320 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:11,040 Speaker 2: think it's so important. The so called conservative space, which 321 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:14,959 Speaker 2: is really just America is awesome and capitalism is good. 322 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 2: Why we need to create these spaces. And that's what 323 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 2: we're trying to do directly. I mean, Crocket Coffee. If 324 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,399 Speaker 2: you love America, it should be the coffee that you drink, 325 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 2: that you buy for your friends. We're up on Amazon now. 326 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 2: You can find us everywhere you use codebook right now 327 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 2: and you can try out the coffee for yourself. Please 328 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 2: go give us reviews on Amazon. I'm told that that 329 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 2: is important. We want to be everywhere. We want to 330 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 2: be supporting as a flagship for freedom, not only on 331 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:43,919 Speaker 2: this program, but also buying ads elsewhere and building a 332 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 2: great indestructible force for the innate goodness of American life. 333 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:52,160 Speaker 2: And that requires supporting companies that love you as much 334 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 2: as we can. 335 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: AI is a big deal, as you know, and leadership 336 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:00,879 Speaker 1: in AI is going to mean leadership in economics and 337 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: even national security in the future. This is why the 338 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 1: Trump administration is absolutely dead set on making sure that 339 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 1: we gain and maintain a lead over rivals like China, India, 340 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:14,679 Speaker 1: and Russia when it comes to artificial intelligence. It's a 341 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 1: crucial tool for America for our future, and this administration, 342 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 1: President Trump is preparing an estimated trillion plus dollars investment 343 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 1: in bringing in multiple partners to do it. It's what 344 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 1: I call Manhattan Project too, and it's to take back 345 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,240 Speaker 1: our lead in the AI arms race. It could trigger 346 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: a handful of US companies to skyrocket, and it could 347 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,159 Speaker 1: happen as soon as October fifteenth. I break it all 348 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: down in a brand new interview that you've got to watch. 349 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: Check it out and see all the details. We're taking 350 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,679 Speaker 1: this one off air, so to speak. The website is 351 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:48,879 Speaker 1: off air twenty five dot com. Go watch this interview today, 352 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,840 Speaker 1: off air twenty five dot com, paid for by Paradigm Press. 353 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:54,639 Speaker 1: All right, welcome back into clay In. But I've got 354 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 1: a lot of talkbacks, a lot of emails. Let's have 355 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: a discussion about it, my friends. Remember the talk back 356 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:02,920 Speaker 1: is on the iHeartRadio app. All you should have that 357 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 1: app on your phone. That it's fantastic, And you can 358 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: go to the Clay and Buck page and you press 359 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 1: the microphone and you can send us a talkback. You 360 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 1: can also call in live, you know, old school. We 361 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 1: like that too, and you know the phone number eight 362 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: hundred two A two two eight A two. Let's take 363 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 1: a w j NO listener. This is Talkback AA Rob 364 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 1: from Florida. 365 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 3: Hey, Clay and Buck, this is Rob from West Palm. 366 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:32,120 Speaker 3: I know that Buck will be following mister Pickles this weekend. 367 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 3: But Clay, I have a question for you. Is it 368 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:38,440 Speaker 3: right for the NFL to give out all of these 369 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 3: games to these different streaming services? You have to watch 370 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 3: one game on YouTube, one game on Paramount, and another 371 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 3: streaming service. I don't think it's right on us. 372 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 1: I appreciate first. 373 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:54,359 Speaker 2: First of all, I bet that huge majorities of you 374 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:59,360 Speaker 2: listening right now watched last night the Philadelphia Eagles beat 375 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 2: the Dallas cow Boys. But two thirds of our prize 376 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 2: Picks Week one pick Saquon Barkley touchdown as Buck likes 377 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 2: to call him, Sequan got the touchdown for us, and. 378 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 1: Sequan always comes through for me, as does mister Pickles. 379 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,240 Speaker 1: Mister Pickles was on the field last night. George Pickens 380 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: for those of you who missed when Buck tried to 381 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 1: give out a prize Picks pick when I was out 382 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:25,880 Speaker 1: and said George Pickles instead of George Pickens, and then 383 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 1: we got the over the more on yardage for ceedee lamb. 384 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: So if Josh Allen passes for more than one and 385 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 1: a half touchdowns, which I think you will on Sunday 386 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:41,119 Speaker 1: Night four to one, boom winner to start the season, 387 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 1: good start, all right. So I hope you guys used 388 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: price picks co Clay. I don't know if you're like this, Buck, 389 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,479 Speaker 1: I am getting. I know I'm getting to be somewhat 390 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 1: of a grumpy old man. I want to have one 391 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 1: remote control that is automatically allowing me to watch whatever 392 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 1: I want to watch on or the sun and when 393 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 1: I have to go walk in to multiple different devices, 394 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:10,040 Speaker 1: multiple different streaming services. They sold us on this idea 395 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 1: that when cable vanished, it would save you money. Right, 396 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,200 Speaker 1: But now, I don't know how many things you subscribe to, Bluck, 397 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 1: just off the top of my head, and I've got 398 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,640 Speaker 1: three boys, and I think my wife subscribes to every 399 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: subscription service on the planet. I have Netflix. We have 400 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 1: in the household, Netflix, Amazon, Peacock, whatever the other paramount. 401 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:35,640 Speaker 1: We have Amazon Prime. I don't think we have Apple TV. 402 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:37,920 Speaker 1: I think that's the only one we haven't subscribed yet. 403 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: Plus I still have Comcast and so I sit down 404 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 1: and one of the things I have to do now 405 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: is yell for one of my kids to be like, hey, 406 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:48,359 Speaker 1: how do I get the game? Can you just figure 407 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:49,919 Speaker 1: out how to put the game on? Please? 408 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,439 Speaker 2: And they know how to do it because their just 409 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:54,919 Speaker 2: has to wave the white flag in front of the kids. 410 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,199 Speaker 2: So I agree with our tuckback guy there. It has 411 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 2: gotten way too complicated. And it's not just sports, it's 412 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 2: just streaming in general. I don't feel like we're saving money. 413 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 2: I don't feel like we're benefiting. They're charging us more 414 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 2: and giving us less and moreover, it is not an 415 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 2: ease of product issue. So I bet most of you 416 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 2: out there agree with me, to say nothing of the 417 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 2: fact that if you just go streaming, you're like a 418 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 2: minute behind the actual game. So I have buddies texting 419 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:27,200 Speaker 2: me sometimes a minute ahead, two or three plays ahead. 420 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:31,399 Speaker 2: I can follow on an app the score cast and 421 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 2: be behind. So anyway, I'm fired up about this. We 422 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 2: got a lot of talkbacks. This is Neil in North 423 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 2: Carolina talking let's see bb Hey guys. 424 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 5: Neil in North Carolina. 425 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:43,840 Speaker 1: I just wanted to say I agree with Clay completely. 426 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 5: I think it's time for everyone who's even a little 427 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:52,959 Speaker 5: bit sane to abandon these moronic, idiot Democrat run cities 428 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 5: and states, Let them make their bad decisions and earn 429 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 5: so that we can come back later and rebuild something 430 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 5: that they destroyed. 431 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,280 Speaker 1: Look, this is not arguing, Buck w R. 432 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 2: Not happy, not happy with me some of them, although 433 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 2: some of them agree with me when I say, you 434 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,920 Speaker 2: just got to let the Democrats stew in their stupidity, 435 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 2: and we're trying to fight so hard to save them 436 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 2: from themselves when they're making the choices. 437 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 1: That what ends up happening. First of all, Neil is 438 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:27,159 Speaker 1: calling in from North Carolina, which is very on the 439 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,439 Speaker 1: edge as a red state. Okay, it's I know, I 440 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: know Trump has made it solidly red, but North Carolina 441 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:38,639 Speaker 1: is not exactly a sure thing for for the you know, 442 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 1: for the rest of our time as a red state. 443 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 1: So that's part one of this. Okay, So you got 444 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:44,879 Speaker 1: problems in North Carolina that you got to deal with 445 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,480 Speaker 1: politically speaking, I'm just saying I love North Carolina, but 446 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:49,680 Speaker 1: you got a lot of Democrats there. And then the 447 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 1: other part of this, Clay is allowing consolidation of Democrat 448 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 1: control completely unopposed in cities and even worse in blue states. 449 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 1: Just mean, it's like it's like seating your fortresses or 450 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 1: your castles to the other side and then wondering why 451 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 1: you can't win the war. Why why do Democrats? Why 452 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 1: are they able to be as insane as they are? Well, 453 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,919 Speaker 1: big part of it is they flip California blue, and 454 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 1: now they start out with a state with forty million 455 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 1: people in it voting entirely blue in national elections. So 456 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but you know, it's a 457 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 1: little bit like saying, just keep dropping back and punting. Eventually, Clay, 458 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: you're gonna get tackled for a safety. 459 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 2: That is a analogy. By the way, this is pretty cool. 460 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 2: We're talking about culture. 461 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: By the way, can I say Clay watched me doing 462 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 1: that one? He's like he was watching a hippopotamus on 463 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 1: a unicycle. He's like, is he gonna say he's running 464 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,840 Speaker 1: a pick six? Like, what's gonna happen here? I didn't 465 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: know how that was gonna end. Ah. 466 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:48,920 Speaker 2: There they are saying this is gonna be so cool, 467 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,239 Speaker 2: you know the US literally this just dropped as we 468 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,880 Speaker 2: were talking about culture in the impact Trump is having 469 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,800 Speaker 2: the UFC fight on the south one of the White House. 470 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,400 Speaker 2: You know, they are now firming up the details of this. 471 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 2: They're doing the way ends at the Lincoln Memorial. They 472 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 2: are going to have a huge on the steps of 473 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,639 Speaker 2: the Lincoln. Buck is gonna lose it UFC. This is 474 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,320 Speaker 2: according to the Hill. They are going to do weigh 475 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 2: ends for the UFC fight at the Lincoln Memorial. In 476 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 2: the fight's gonna be in June of twenty twenty six. Fireworks, 477 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:31,440 Speaker 2: light shows, fire weigh ends at the Lincoln Memorial. Fan 478 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:36,679 Speaker 2: activities spread out across the National Mall for what may 479 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 2: be the most secure sporting event in the history of 480 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 2: maybe American sports, and the octagon cage is going to 481 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 2: be on the South Lawn. I just I understand some 482 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,879 Speaker 2: of you out there say, hey, this is crazy. What 483 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 2: young men generations of young men are going to see 484 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 2: this and be They're gonna vote Republican for the next 485 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 2: twenty years. They're gonna be like, this is awesome, this 486 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,360 Speaker 2: is incredible. And I understand some of you out there, 487 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 2: including potentially Buck sex than himself, are gonna say this 488 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:13,919 Speaker 2: is this is ridiculous. 489 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:19,160 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I think it's kind of genius. Okay, 490 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 1: I'm willing to let this one play out. I would 491 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 1: say that's where I am to see what we're going 492 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,359 Speaker 1: for here, because keep in mind, there will be a 493 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 1: time at which there's Democrat president again, and and now 494 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,639 Speaker 1: we're we're kicking the door wide open for you know, 495 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 1: Taylor Swift on the on the White House lawn, you 496 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,879 Speaker 1: know concert as part. I mean this just this is 497 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 1: gonna the line between entertainment and politics, I think is 498 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:47,400 Speaker 1: essentially obliterated already maybe, but it's gonna get even more 499 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: linked together. And unfortunately, there are a lot of annoying 500 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,159 Speaker 1: celebrities on the left, So just just get ready for that. 501 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 1: It's gonna happen down the line. I'm just saying there's 502 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,359 Speaker 1: a precedent here. I'm not saying anything bad about the UFC. 503 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 1: Idea here could be amazing, could be great. But the 504 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:02,680 Speaker 1: other side is going to do this stuff at some 505 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 1: point too. I hope that Clay's right in that this 506 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 1: will have long term political implications for us. I'm not 507 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 1: quite as sure. I just feel like at the way 508 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 1: and maybe they should dress you know, like powdered wigs 509 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 1: and uh and breeches, you know. Thomas Jefferson and uh 510 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,639 Speaker 1: and uh George Washington style or something like that. The 511 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 1: whole hure of powdered wigs, you know about this is 512 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 1: like a really this is kind of a weird. But 513 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,160 Speaker 1: but you know, the why they started wearing powdered wigs, 514 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,160 Speaker 1: they it was because there was so much baldness because 515 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 1: of uh there's what's the venereal disease that cause syphilis? 516 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,680 Speaker 1: I think, yeah, causes baldness, and so a lot of 517 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,240 Speaker 1: men started wearing powdered wigs as a way of covering 518 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 1: up the baldness they had from long term syphilis. And 519 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:48,120 Speaker 1: then it just became a fashion. 520 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:49,080 Speaker 3: Uh. 521 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,119 Speaker 1: Now if I'm if I just read that on the 522 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 1: internet and that's wrong, let me know, but I believe 523 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 1: that is in fact the case, which is I mean, 524 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 1: you know, you'll never look at those powdered wigs the 525 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 1: same way. You're like, wow, that's how that happened. 526 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:04,159 Speaker 2: Okay, Well, syphilis eventually made you insane, So that's a 527 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 2: tough one to deal with. 528 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 1: It's not that everybody who wore a powdered wig hat syphilis, 529 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: but it's that it became fashionable, I believe in France first, 530 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: but of course but it became fashionable because you had 531 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,119 Speaker 1: enough men who were wearing these things to cover up 532 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,119 Speaker 1: their baldness that they turned it into a trend. 533 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,880 Speaker 2: One of my favorites. So this is also a baldness 534 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:31,360 Speaker 2: trend that became popular. Michael Jordan made shaving bald head right. 535 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 2: How popular was Michael Jordan For those of you out 536 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 2: there that do not remember this, Michael Jordan had really 537 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 2: bad balding and so he could have gone old school 538 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 2: like black man with like half an afro, which was 539 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 2: not a good look. I think, sorry bald black men, 540 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 2: but who may still have I don't even think anybody 541 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 2: has the half the afro, you know, that's the receding hairline. 542 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 2: He shaved his head bald because he was going bald. Hey, 543 00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 2: lebron maybe would have been a good move by the 544 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 2: and it was so popular Michael Jordan was that guys 545 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 2: with full heads of hair started to shave off all 546 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 2: of their hair so they could have a bald head 547 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 2: like Michael Jordan. Think about how amazing that is. This 548 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 2: guy made mel pattern baldness the preferred choice. Jesse Kelly, 549 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 2: he just need it needs to be the Michael Jordan 550 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,959 Speaker 2: and I knew Jesse Kelly, all seven feet of him. 551 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 2: We're about to get thrown on the bost By playoffs. 552 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 2: So a tall, balding man much like Michael Jordan, maybe 553 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 2: if he just went full shaved head dome, he could 554 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 2: for white men, dude, for bald men what Michael Jordan 555 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 2: did for black men, which was black guys who had 556 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:43,040 Speaker 2: otherwise perfect hair decided to take it off because Jordan's 557 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:46,320 Speaker 2: male pattern baldness of going bald. That's how cool Michael 558 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 2: Jordan was. He made baldness cool. 559 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's coolness is the memory for me other than 560 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 1: being a long suffering Knicks fan who just watched all 561 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 1: of our hopes and dreams get ripped from us by 562 00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: Michael Jordan time and time again, usually in the Eastern 563 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:03,960 Speaker 1: Conference NBA Finals. But John Starks just couldn't get it done. 564 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 6: For me. 565 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 1: I was such a John Starks fan, just couldn't get 566 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 1: it done. I remember that the Air Jordans were so 567 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 1: such a cultural icon, and I always wanted and they 568 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: would come out with a new one every year. And 569 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 1: I played basketball in grammar school. I was not a 570 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 1: good basketball player. You don't have to send me all 571 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 1: of your like I played d you won basketball like 572 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,240 Speaker 1: I played like eighth grade basketball. Okay, but I remember 573 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: in those years, if you showed up play to my 574 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 1: little Catholic school and you didn't have the new Air Jordans, 575 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: oh yeah, people were gonna like people are gonna you 576 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 1: had to have them. If you didn't have them, it's 577 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: like you weren't a serious basketball player, even at age 578 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 1: thirteen or fourteen. And of course my dad was very thrifty, 579 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 1: and so we would go into foot locker and his 580 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 1: favorite thing to ask the staff was what's on sale? 581 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,120 Speaker 1: And we'd go to like the sale bin, and I 582 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 1: would show up with like Neon pink, Neon green, like 583 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,520 Speaker 1: off brand basketball sneakers because we had to get the uh, 584 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 1: you know, the the off brand variety. 585 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 3: Yeah. 586 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: Unfortunately, I had a decent jump shot. 587 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 2: But Michael Jordan's still out sore of a favorite stats, 588 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:05,480 Speaker 2: Michael Jordan's Air Jordan's sneakers still out sell every current 589 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,080 Speaker 2: NBA player combined. That's how popular Jordan is. He also 590 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,479 Speaker 2: went from the short short era. Remember when everybody used 591 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 2: to wear the like the what's the ball huggers, the 592 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:20,000 Speaker 2: john stock back in the day, the John stocktons short shorts. 593 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 2: Then they went to the big baggy shorts. Now the 594 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 2: short shorts are starting to come back. I don't know 595 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 2: you young kids out there, young boys like I don't 596 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:27,800 Speaker 2: know how they wear. And my son's one of them. 597 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 2: By the way, my wife texted me, she says, I 598 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 2: am responsible for all of our streaming services for cable. 599 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 2: This is probably true because I to the point of 600 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 2: the email or initially or the Tuckbacker. You have to 601 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 2: have all of these different services, and I just layer 602 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,640 Speaker 2: them on. By the way, you just got recently married. 603 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 2: Buck suggestion, don't do what I did when we forgot 604 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 2: our Amazon Prime subscription and just say just open a 605 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,280 Speaker 2: new account. You know, it doesn't matter how much time 606 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 2: it takes. That is not a that is not a 607 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,720 Speaker 2: smart argument to make. But that's trying to track down 608 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 2: your passwords. I don't know how many different accounts we 609 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:07,239 Speaker 2: have for a lot of time. 610 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,040 Speaker 1: I love Clay. Also just throw you know, Clay's very 611 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 1: twenty years. So you just got married as a Clay 612 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,080 Speaker 1: it's they're almost three years, buddy. That's just very like 613 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 1: Buck just got married yesterday. It's like I'm going on 614 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 1: year three here. But yes, yes, indeed, that is that's 615 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 1: still you're a new You're a newly weed. 616 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 2: In the mind of it. 617 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,480 Speaker 1: I've learned a lot. But as as I tweeted this morning, 618 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,840 Speaker 1: you know, a wife, you had to do. I had 619 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 1: to ask me to get something off the top shelf 620 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,360 Speaker 1: for no better feeling as a man. I just come 621 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,960 Speaker 1: over there. I just stretch out my del toy, just 622 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 1: reach up there, grab it for her, you know, all 623 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 1: five foot three of her standing there, and I'm just like, 624 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:39,760 Speaker 1: I got you, honey, I can get that thing off 625 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 1: the high shelf for you. Feel like a man. 626 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 2: Also, though, have you had the situation where because she 627 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 2: is small, she just assumes that you can reach up 628 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 2: and get anything and You're like, that's actually on the ceiling. 629 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,200 Speaker 1: And then I am and then I am sadness because 630 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 1: I'm like, honey, I need a stool two for that, 631 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,560 Speaker 1: and she's like, wow, I thought you could get that 632 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 1: one too. It hurts hurt. 633 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 2: Look, many dedicated first responders out there. Service members like 634 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,200 Speaker 2: Austin Reese have paid a huge price for the safety 635 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:11,040 Speaker 2: and freedom we all enjoy. 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That's 651 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,120 Speaker 2: t the number two T dot org. 652 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,520 Speaker 4: Peek out with the guys on the Sunday Hang with 653 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,080 Speaker 4: Clay and Buck podcast a new episode every Sunday. 654 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,640 Speaker 2: Find it on the iHeart app or wherever you get 655 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:16,399 Speaker 2: your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show 656 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,040 Speaker 2: rolling through the Friday edition of the program. I don't 657 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,000 Speaker 2: know if we mentioned, by the way, the Surgeon General 658 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:25,920 Speaker 2: of the State of Florida, doctor Latipo, made a lot 659 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,800 Speaker 2: of news with his decisions on vaccines. He's going to 660 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,080 Speaker 2: join us in the next hour at one thirty to 661 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:37,200 Speaker 2: have a discussion about that. We already talked with doctor Sapphire, 662 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,120 Speaker 2: was it earlier this week a couple of days ago 663 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,520 Speaker 2: about that story as well. And then in the third 664 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 2: hour Denesh Desuzo will join us at two thirty has 665 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:46,879 Speaker 2: a new movie that he has made. 666 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,240 Speaker 1: So that is where we are headed. 667 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 2: You can talk back, and we have got a ton 668 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:57,279 Speaker 2: of you jumping in and giving us feedback on a 669 00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:03,360 Speaker 2: variety of different topics. Let's go to see in Toledo, Ohio. 670 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:07,239 Speaker 2: He's talking about the issue which is looming out there, 671 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,120 Speaker 2: which is cost of goods CC. 672 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,440 Speaker 6: Yeah, but not only is the problem Biden. I'm a 673 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,959 Speaker 6: little irritated with Trump right now, and I'm a huge 674 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:19,080 Speaker 6: supporter of his, but even my local Walmart is jacking 675 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,879 Speaker 6: the prices of stuff up because of the tariffs right 676 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,160 Speaker 6: now and the cost and it's getting to the point 677 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,719 Speaker 6: where it's ridiculous. The price of flea treatment for my 678 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:31,520 Speaker 6: cat just doubled in the past week. It's just it's 679 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:33,400 Speaker 6: getting outrageous and he needs. 680 00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:33,920 Speaker 3: To do something. 681 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,400 Speaker 1: Okay, how's your how's your cat flea treatment coming along? 682 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:42,960 Speaker 1: I don't get me started on these stupid cats. Clay's cats. Well, 683 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,799 Speaker 1: I swear that Clay's house that I see a cat. 684 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:46,360 Speaker 1: I'm like, which one's that. He's like, I don't even know. 685 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,680 Speaker 1: I don't even know they're still here. 686 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,239 Speaker 2: They leave, they flee the house every now and then, 687 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:53,960 Speaker 2: and I'm like, I don't care if they come back. 688 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:58,160 Speaker 2: I mean, they've torn up everything in the house. The data, 689 00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,920 Speaker 2: I appreciate that feedback the day. I think what he's 690 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:05,640 Speaker 2: reflecting does not actually suggest that there has been I mean, look, 691 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,920 Speaker 2: the most recent numbers on tariffs and on inflation, we're 692 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,879 Speaker 2: talking about round a two and a half percent inflation rate. 693 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:16,399 Speaker 2: Ish it was nine point one during Biden. I can't 694 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,960 Speaker 2: speak to what flea powder costs or how the price 695 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,120 Speaker 2: of flea powder has changed, but the overall prices at 696 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:25,920 Speaker 2: Walmart have not changed substantially, and overall grocery prices have 697 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,880 Speaker 2: not gone up substantially. Gas is actually down, but the 698 00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,759 Speaker 2: embedded cost of goods is not coming back down. That's 699 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:38,959 Speaker 2: the pernicious nature of inflation. What Biden did never gets 700 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,080 Speaker 2: a race. It is a cost that is now embedded 701 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,800 Speaker 2: for all time, and people, unfortunately are going to be 702 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,279 Speaker 2: grappling with Biden's economic failures for years and years to come, 703 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:50,319 Speaker 2: beyond the Trump term.