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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome and everybody to the Clay Travis

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Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton Show on this Wednesday, January nineteen. Great

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Speaker 1: to have you with us. We've got a lot to

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Speaker 1: talk to you about today. The Biden presidency in free

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Speaker 1: fall in terms of the poll numbers, Biden not able

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Speaker 1: to get a grip on things. It seems he's going

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Speaker 1: to have a press conference this after yo, I think

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Speaker 1: unfortunately after our show, so we won't be able to

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Speaker 1: bring it to you live or bring you our immediate reaction.

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Speaker 1: Because Clay and I would have a lot of fun

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Speaker 1: with a kind of like mystery science theater back in

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Speaker 1: the day, we could jump in and out of the

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Speaker 1: press conference one day. But here we are with a

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Speaker 1: Biden regime that seems not just out of its depth,

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Speaker 1: but in transigent unwilling to adjust to the new information.

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Speaker 1: Let me just give you a quick sense of some

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Speaker 1: of the places we're gonna go today. First of all,

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Speaker 1: you have that horrific story out of Los Angeles where

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Speaker 1: This Brianna Kupfer just murdered in a totally random, senseless,

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Speaker 1: horrific crime by a career criminal in a city that

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Speaker 1: has a DA who bends over backwards. He's a lib

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Speaker 1: of course bends over backwards. This is Gascone doing everything

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Speaker 1: he can to not punish criminals very severely. Clayton'll talked

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Speaker 1: about the criminal justice realities of America over the course

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Speaker 1: of the show today, and how where's Biden on this? Well,

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Speaker 1: why not give a speech. I want to give a

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Speaker 1: speech where he actually discusses how he's going to have

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Speaker 1: federal law enforcement working with local law enforcement to take

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Speaker 1: violent crime down, to take the bad guys off the streets,

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Speaker 1: and to tell das to punish the no. No No. Instead,

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna have today is a push for voting rights,

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Speaker 1: which even using that term, it's not voting rights, it's

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Speaker 1: tilting the scale toward Democrats in elections. Because you know

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Speaker 1: what matters to the more than inflation, skyrocketing crime, a

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Speaker 1: horace southern border, the most illegal immigration we've had in memory.

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Speaker 1: You know what matters the more than all these things

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Speaker 1: and a weak economy and the omicron surge that has

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Speaker 1: made a mockery of Fauciism. Staying in power. Nothing matters

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Speaker 1: to the more clay than staying in power, and this

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Speaker 1: is where I think we have to not overestimate the

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Speaker 1: abilities of the other side Strategically. They know that they

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Speaker 1: have nothing really to stand on right now, and so

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Speaker 1: it seems to me like because they know they can't

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Speaker 1: actually win in a contest coming up of the American

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Speaker 1: people casting their votes in the midterms, the plan is

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Speaker 1: just to and I think it's a desperate plan. I

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Speaker 1: don't think there's a lot of sound strategy behind this.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned to me that people are starting to say

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Speaker 1: maybe some of Biden's top advisors, even the stealth president

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Speaker 1: so to speak, is in a position where he Ron

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Speaker 1: Klaine should take some of the blame. I don't think

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Speaker 1: that there is a grand Street TGIC vision motivating Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden right now. I don't think that Joe Biden would

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Speaker 1: Biden is not capable to sit down and map out

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Speaker 1: a grand strategic game plan. There just isn't that ability

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Speaker 1: Playing chess against Joe Biden would be a destruction like

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Speaker 1: I'm confident my fourteen year old would wipe the board

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Speaker 1: with him if they played a chess match, like he's

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Speaker 1: not able to think strategically. But Buck, what you and

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Speaker 1: I have believed is that there is a grand strategic

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Speaker 1: design behind many of the moves that Joe Biden has

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Speaker 1: made from whatever you want to describe as the Biden regime,

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Speaker 1: and Ron Klaine, who is his chief of staff, would

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden were cognitively aware of what's going on around him,

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Speaker 1: he would recognize that he has been not only led astray,

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Speaker 1: he's been embarrassed. And I don't know that we talked

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Speaker 1: enough about what a slap in the face Kirsten Cinema's

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Speaker 1: be for Biden. He was going to Capitol Hill, Buck,

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Speaker 1: after he made that speech on Tuesday of last week,

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Speaker 1: Kursten Cinema Buck didn't even wait for him to get

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Speaker 1: And that's a level of disrespect that his own party

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Speaker 1: in that position to fail like that, In my opinion,

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Speaker 1: and I mean the general we ever went across the country,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is brainwashing level in insanity that you're

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Speaker 1: maybe I'll get this guy a shot. Those people are

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Speaker 1: already saying, oh my god, what have we done? What

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Speaker 1: These are top of the top of the heap of concerns.

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Speaker 1: They're doing this whole voting rights thing and they can't

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Speaker 1: This isn't a real thing to people who aren't essentially

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Speaker 1: how do we the Democrats and the regime, which is

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Speaker 1: I honestly was saying this frequently because I don't believe

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Speaker 1: this is America is prosperous, peaceful, we're kicking butt. Things

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Speaker 1: Trump under normal circumstances. It was really an amazing three

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Speaker 1: everybody is suddenly saying wear masks and test, as if

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Speaker 1: that's going to lead us out of the COVID experience.

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Speaker 1: The vast majority of people out there are not suddenly

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Speaker 1: going to solve their issues in the country by having

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Speaker 1: masks that they have access to in ninety fives or

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Speaker 1: by being able to test for whether or not they

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Speaker 1: have COVID. And by the way, the most anxious among

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Speaker 1: us for tests, they're going to go through in the

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Speaker 1: first day that they get them, and then they're gonna

440
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Speaker 1: have to go back out and buy another twenty because

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Speaker 1: testing that you don't have COVID on one day it

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean that you don't have it on the next day.

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Speaker 1: Here's speaking to this issue. Remember, I mean, how is

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Speaker 1: it play that in June twenty twenty, people like you

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Speaker 1: and me are going around saying that Test and Trace,

446
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Speaker 1: which was an official program in New York City, was

447
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Speaker 1: a joke. And I knew it was a joke because

448
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Speaker 1: they kept saying, and I'm being serious, folks, I want

449
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Speaker 1: you to think about this. The city health authorities in

450
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Speaker 1: New York were suggesting that test and trace for COVID

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Speaker 1: in starting in June of twenty twenty. So I meaning,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna find everyone you've been in contact with with

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Speaker 1: an aerosolized virus, track them down and get them to test,

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Speaker 1: and this is how we're gonna stop the virus. Their precursor,

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Speaker 1: if you will, or the analogous situation they used was

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Speaker 1: STD tracing. Yeah, for which a lot of us said,

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Speaker 1: are you public health authorities a bunch of morons? And

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Speaker 1: of course the answer to that question was yes. But

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Speaker 1: here is doctor Jonathan Reiner, who he's probably some you know,

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Speaker 1: blah blah, was part of some you know, FDA CDs

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Speaker 1: he or something. He's going on TV one of these

462
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Speaker 1: Blue check MD types. Who's saying that testing is critical

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Speaker 1: for a return to normal? Play fourteen going forward. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I think tests are critical tool to help us get

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Speaker 1: back to normal. It's how we are going to be

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Speaker 1: able to understand whether that tickle in your throat is

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Speaker 1: just a tickle in your throat or whether it's it's COVID,

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Speaker 1: and whether you need to stay home. It's a tool

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Speaker 1: to allow you to go visit your friends on Saturday night,

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Speaker 1: which is what we and our friends did before we

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Speaker 1: met this past weekend. So I think it's going to

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Speaker 1: be critical to have tested in every home. It would

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Speaker 1: have been wonderful for us to have had this months ago,

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Speaker 1: but here we are, and I'm glad the administration is

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Speaker 1: doing this. Okay, So just first of all, the kissing

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Speaker 1: up the administration. That's an abject failure on testing. And

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Speaker 1: we all know it is a joke. Yeah, this guy

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Speaker 1: is a CNN medical analyst, professor of surgery at oh Clay.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say, I think it's gw oh now's

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Speaker 1: gone off the rails for a while. So so is amorous.

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Speaker 1: They're overwhelming commy, So we got that in common. But

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Speaker 1: here's the point, man, They got to be kidding me.

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Speaker 1: They really think that's going to be a return to normal.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be testing every week. It's four tests. So

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Speaker 1: even the example he uses, first of all, if you

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Speaker 1: are testing yourself to see whether you can hang out

487
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Speaker 1: with a friend, you are such a huge loser that

488
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Speaker 1: you need to actually examine many different aspects of your life. Okay,

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Speaker 1: if you feel well enough to hang out with a friend,

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Speaker 1: go hang out with a friend. The idea that you're

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Speaker 1: showing up and swabbing your nostrils and checking to see

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Speaker 1: whether or not you can hang out with a buddy

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Speaker 1: or not, I mean, be a bigger loser. I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure that it's possible. But even if you want to

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Speaker 1: do that, buck, it's four tests. So if you and

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Speaker 1: your wife are going to hang out with somebody else

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Speaker 1: and their wife, you're using two tests on that one trip, right.

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Speaker 1: And then if you're gonna go hang out with somebody

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Speaker 1: else and go watch a movie or go have a beer,

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Speaker 1: that's another test, and then you're done. So are you

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Speaker 1: saying that you need to buy hundreds of tests to

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Speaker 1: be able to determine whether you can go out into

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Speaker 1: the public in any kind of way. Because that's the

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Speaker 1: precedent that he's setting, which is, when you do anything social,

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Speaker 1: you need to be testing yourself beforehand. Are you going

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show. Going to take a couple of your calls.

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Speaker 1: We get ready to roll into the second hour. People

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Speaker 1: want to wag in. Let's go to Patty in Ventura, California.

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Speaker 1: What's up, Patty? Thanks for calling Hi, guys, thanks for

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Speaker 1: being there. Um. I just I heard a comment the

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Speaker 1: other day that was just excellent. I thought, how if

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Speaker 1: we're all if it's all supposed to be easy for

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Speaker 1: all of us to go on Google and order those

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Speaker 1: COVID tests and masks or whatever, then why is it

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Speaker 1: so difficult for everyone to go on a register to

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Speaker 1: vote or give an ID. It's a great point. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a great point, Patty. I mean, bucket is funny

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Speaker 1: how much faith democrats have in everyone's ability to go

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Speaker 1: order there and quotation marks, free masks and or their

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Speaker 1: free tests. But the idea that you could find a

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Speaker 1: way to register to vote is almost impossible, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: first of all, they're selling such a false bill of

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Speaker 1: goods on the idea that anyone who wants to vote

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Speaker 1: is having difficulty voting in this country that it's not true,

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Speaker 1: and they can't even find someone to be the outlier

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Speaker 1: anecdotal story that they've trot out to try to be

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Speaker 1: the person who is unable to vote in this country.

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Speaker 1: Because if you want to vote, it's never been easier

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Speaker 1: to vote. We've never had more people in most of

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Speaker 1: our lives be able to vote, and the entire narrative

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00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: that they are peddling as a falsehood. But it is

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00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 1: interesting what they have faith in people's ability to do,

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Speaker 1: which is figure out how to get masks and uh

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Speaker 1: and test, but you can't figure out how to get registered.

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's be honest. If voter suppression is the

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Speaker 1: goal here, then the Republicans are really really bad the goal.

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Speaker 1: But just notice that you have all time highs of

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Speaker 1: voter involvement in states where some of these laws are changed.

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Speaker 1: And also, let's all remember the quote racist voter id

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Speaker 1: policy that Democrats are always railing against has supermajority level

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Speaker 1: support across all. Yeah, it is, it is, Yes, it is.

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Speaker 1: You were kind of cutting in and out there. I

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Speaker 1: think then omicron version of the Buck studio is not

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent flawless so far. But I do think

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Speaker 1: that you're hitting on something that is that is really

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Speaker 1: pretty significant there, which is the larger context of the

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Speaker 1: argument that is being made today in the Senate is

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Speaker 1: a total why And Philip in Duluth, Minnesota wants to

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Speaker 1: weigh in as well on this voting rights discussion. Philip,

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Speaker 1: what you got for us? So if mansion in cinema,

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Speaker 1: both holder positions. Like you said, the Democrats are going

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Speaker 1: to get increasingly more desperate, So what's to prevent one

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Speaker 1: of them from pulling Murkowski aside insane? Luckily, so everyone

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00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: knows you're not going to get reelected. Here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: You give us your vote on this one time filibuster exemption. You,

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Speaker 1: your kids, your grandkids. You're going to be taken care

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Speaker 1: of for life. You can do the THOUCHUTV tour. The

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Speaker 1: media is going to herald you as a maverick like

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Speaker 1: John McKean, and you're not gonna have anything to worry

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Speaker 1: about for the rest of your life. I mean, what

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Speaker 1: does she have to lose? Well, it's an interesting point,

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Speaker 1: and there has been the argument buck that the Democrats

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Speaker 1: should stop trying to get Cinema and Mansion and they

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Speaker 1: should try to flip a couple of Republicans. So, first

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Speaker 1: of all, Markowski is one vote, so that would still

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Speaker 1: leave them one vote shy of the votes that they

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Speaker 1: need in order to change the filibuster rules. And I

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Speaker 1: just don't think there are two Republicans out there. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, this also presumes that all of the

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Speaker 1: other Democrats are going to be willing to vote in

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Speaker 1: favor of changing the filibuster rules too, which I don't

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Speaker 1: know is necessarily true. You've got a big red state

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Speaker 1: in Montana with a senator there that seems a bit

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Speaker 1: wobbly on this idea. Jean Shaheen in New Hampshire. For

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Speaker 1: people up there who are listening, she's going to be

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Speaker 1: in a tough reelection battle. Mark Kelly and Arizona just

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Speaker 1: came out and said he supports the idea, but he's

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Speaker 1: in a tough reelection battle. I think there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of Democrats when you really look at the overall

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Speaker 1: math here, that are not that excited about being put

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Speaker 1: on the record, and they actually favor Cinema and Mansion

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Speaker 1: taking this heat because then it takes the pressure off

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Speaker 1: of them. You buy into any the idea of any

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Speaker 1: Republicans being soft enough on the idea of the filibuster

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Speaker 1: change that they could be flipped if you can't get

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Speaker 1: Mansion in cinema. No, I don't think so. And here's

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Speaker 1: why they all know that we're not far away from

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Speaker 1: a likely Republican majority in the Senate. And everybody right

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Speaker 1: now who is making the argument, who's a Democrat? The

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Speaker 1: filibuster is a relic of Jim Crow and all these

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Speaker 1: things that they're saying. You know, it's a relic of

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Speaker 1: the worst parts of our past, ahistorical, but put that

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Speaker 1: aside for a moment. Those same people, in the case

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Speaker 1: of Chuck Schumer and others, we're saying the filibuster is

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Speaker 1: necessary for the Senate, important part of the institution, and

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Speaker 1: we'll be saying it again starting all around January of

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Speaker 1: next year, and they will be completely without shame because

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Speaker 1: they are shameless. And so any Republican that would even

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Speaker 1: consider going along with this is begging for the end

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Speaker 1: of his or her political career. And I don't really

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Speaker 1: see that happening. Mean, let's remember I think cinema more

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Speaker 1: than a thing else, and the same thing with mansion. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're standing on principle at some level, they're also standing

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Speaker 1: on their own reelection. Right, this is good for them

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Speaker 1: in the states that they are are in, right, Arizona

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Speaker 1: and clearly West Virginia. It's kind of amazing if you

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Speaker 1: even have a Democrat senator in West Virginia given the

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Speaker 1: Republican Republican majority that's there by voters. And so I

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Speaker 1: think that the self interest component of it Clay. I'm

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Speaker 1: a big believer and understand the incentives and you'll understand

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Speaker 1: the outcome. The self interest component for all here aligns

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Speaker 1: with This is just much ado about nothing from the

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Speaker 1: Democrats who are flailing and have really nothing else to

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Speaker 1: offer the American people right now? What are they going

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Speaker 1: to say? Our COVID response is so effective? Speaking of

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Speaker 1: the COVID response, Lester in Hickory, North Carolina, what you got? Hey, God,

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Speaker 1: a great show, long time listeners since Rush was there,

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Speaker 1: and glad you guys are taking it on. My question

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Speaker 1: is is there any information on people getting tested day

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Speaker 1: after day after day and showing multiple they can be

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Speaker 1: there for I think it's a smart point, Lester, And yes,

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Speaker 1: the numbers that we are getting are skewed. They're not

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Speaker 1: only skewed because some people might be testing positive multiple

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Speaker 1: times and be counted that way, but also because a

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Speaker 1: huge number of people out there, everybody who test positive

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Speaker 1: on these home tests, they're not going to show up

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Speaker 1: by and large in the overall test positivity rates because

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Speaker 1: the government never gets it. When we come back, we're

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Speaker 1: going to dive into this voting Rights bill and more.

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Speaker 1: This the Clay and Buckshow you're listening to Clay Travis,

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Speaker 1: said Buck Sextons on the EIB network. He had