1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Monday edition. It's Valentine's Day, 3 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: it's the day after the super Bowl. There's probably some 4 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,119 Speaker 1: people out there that are either hungover or we'll be 5 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:22,319 Speaker 1: hungover soon after your Valentine's Day dinners and celebrations. We 6 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: appreciate all of you hanging out with The Clay Travis 7 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:29,000 Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton Show as we embark upon another week, 8 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: another fifteen hours with all of you and so Buck. 9 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:38,160 Speaker 1: I watched the Super Bowl, and congratulations to the La 10 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: Rams and Matthew Stafford. But the biggest takeaway I had 11 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,959 Speaker 1: from the super Bowl is you had seventy five thousand 12 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: ish people inside of Sofi Stadium. There was a mask 13 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: mandate in place. And when they showed all the celebrities 14 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: on television, whether it was Jay Z, whether it was 15 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 1: Ben Affleck and j Lo, Charlie's Tyrone, Lebron James again 16 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 1: with La Mayor Garcetti getting caught without his mask on, 17 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 1: no one in the entire stadium wore masks, and so 18 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: for every American out there who watched, and something like 19 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: a hundred million ish Americans on average, watched the Super 20 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: Bowl every year, which is twice as many people as 21 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 1: virtually watch any other televised event anymore in this country. 22 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: I don't understand how you could watch that game, which 23 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: was played in an utterly normal fashion, and then be 24 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: forced after seeing all those tens of thousands of people 25 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: inside of the stadium, after seeing football players tackle each 26 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 1: other left and right. And I know a lot of 27 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: people don't watch football every weekend, so it's a little 28 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: bit of a jarring moment to see that big of 29 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: a crowd, depending on where you live, all unmasked. I 30 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: don't understand how any parent in America had to this 31 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: morning put their kids in a mask and send them 32 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: off to school. It is child abuse. There is no 33 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:13,799 Speaker 1: way to defend it. It is without any basis in reality. 34 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: And when you see something as normal as the Super 35 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: Bowl that went on in LA, and I can speak 36 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: to the scene in La all week buck because I 37 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 1: was there, I was asked for a vaccine passport to 38 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: show proof of vaccination, which I didn't have one time. 39 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: Otherwise I could go into any bar, I could go 40 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: into any restaurant that I wanted to all throughout LA. 41 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: How in the world are the kids who are at 42 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:45,959 Speaker 1: the least danger from COVID based on scientific data, the 43 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: only people that are still being required in many parts 44 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: of the country to wear masks. There is a final 45 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: recognition that's coming upon so many people, I think now 46 00:02:55,639 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: Clay that mandates, mandates and restrictions were arbitrary and useless, 47 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: and that's going to be a hard thing for many 48 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: people to swallow over time when they realize this. That's 49 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: a different thing from saying that for some people, getting 50 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: the shot, as we've said all along, lowers their individual risk, 51 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: but as a means of stopping the virus. Remember Biden 52 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:27,080 Speaker 1: didn't say his promise wasn't I'm going to give you 53 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 1: the ability to protect yourself from the virus. It was 54 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: shut down the virus and not shut down the economy. 55 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: That was the big line, right, shut down the virus 56 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 1: means it's done, it's not spreading, it's gone. That didn't 57 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: happen even a little bit, despite all the mandates and 58 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: all the madness that they put everybody through, and in 59 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: the case of schools and children and the mask mandates 60 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: that continue on to this day, you have to ask yourself, 61 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: how could this even be possible? Anybody with even a 62 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: passing familiarity with the risk data know and would tell 63 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: you right away, adults are it much higher risk from this, 64 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: you know, ten x maybe a hundred x than it's 65 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: been tending on. You know, the age of the adult, 66 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: you know, twenties, thirties, forties is different than fifty sixties, seventies. 67 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: But I'm sure there were plenty of people that were 68 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,239 Speaker 1: in the high risk category who were in that Super 69 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: Bowl event last night. And our point is not to 70 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: say everybody should be massed up, of course, it's to 71 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: point out that this is all just arbitrary and capricious 72 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 1: and stupid. And there are more and more people, I think, 73 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 1: that are recognizing this, and it's just turned into even 74 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: there's a few there's different mindsets, right, and so we 75 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: can't say there's one thing. I mean, of the people 76 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: that were at the super Bowl last night, some of 77 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: them maybe go home and mask their kids today for school, thinking, well, 78 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 1: you know, I just children can't make decisions for themselves, 79 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: so we have to do this for them. Others maybe 80 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,200 Speaker 1: go home and say I'm an adult, I'm you know, 81 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:58,359 Speaker 1: I'm important, so I don't have to go through this. 82 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 1: But for a lot of them play. I think it's 83 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: just they don't want to They don't want to take 84 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: a step that would make them recognize that what they've 85 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: been doing all along was just a joke and what 86 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: they've been yelling at people for and shaming people for. 87 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,359 Speaker 1: You know, I told you that there's a there's talks 88 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 1: about the no fly list now being expanded maybe to 89 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 1: include people that get rowdy on planes, you know, get 90 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: get a little bit violent on planes. People are getting 91 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 1: violent on planes because they're in a very stressful, uncomfortable, 92 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 1: hyper vigilant environment in so many ways, you know, do 93 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: this can't sit, must stand, must sit, and they can't 94 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: breathe normally. And there's no scientific basis for this, even 95 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: the sea. So we're all we're seeing it all. It's 96 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 1: all slowly falling away. But Clay, they don't want it 97 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 1: to fall away on anything except their own terms. And 98 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: they also don't want it to be permanent. That's the 99 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: big problem I see. I think the challenge here, and look, 100 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: you're right, if you want to send you your kid 101 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 1: in a mask to school for the rest of this 102 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: year and you want to start off next year doing it, 103 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 1: I think you should have the right to do so, 104 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: but what is ridiculous is the idea that you should 105 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: be mandating it. And I just I can't even imagine. 106 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,559 Speaker 1: I was just in California all last week. I can't 107 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 1: even imagine being a California parent who just watched the 108 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: Super Bowl take place in my city, who just saw 109 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 1: that there were virtually no masks present inside that entire stadium. 110 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 1: And then you're going to make me put my kid, 111 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: my five year old, in a mask and send them 112 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: off to kindergarten. I mean, it is the definition of 113 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 1: child abuse. And what we're essentially saying when you look 114 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:47,440 Speaker 1: and see what adults are able to get away with 115 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: is adults are able to make their own decisions and 116 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 1: flout rules that they feel don't apply to them or 117 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,159 Speaker 1: shouldn't apply to them, And we don't have any issue 118 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 1: with it. But kids, if your child refuses to wear 119 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 1: a mask, I mean, in Northern Virginia, they don't get 120 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: allowed into the school. If your kid refuses to wear 121 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 1: a mask in California, the parents get called and eventually 122 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: it turns into a major issue. And I just don't understand. 123 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: To me, I don't understand how every Republican in the 124 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: country right now, is it standing up It's past time 125 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 1: to have done so, but aggressively against the idea of 126 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: masking kids. And that particularly is the case when you 127 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 1: consider it in the context of the larger issues that 128 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: are at play out here, where I think it's spenning 129 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: quickly in the opposite direction. But you know, people say, 130 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: what's the impact of the super Bowl? The reason why 131 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: people pay seven million dollars for an advertisement? Even though 132 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: by the way, the ads have become increasingly woke and 133 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: boring and not that good because I think the brands 134 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: are afraid of offending anybody out there, and so humor 135 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 1: is mostly gone and there they're sort of antiseptic. But 136 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: it's impossible to reach this big of an audience. And 137 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: and at one point in time anywhere else in America, 138 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: I mean, even the debates, even the debates which were 139 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: as popular and and and and and and and sought 140 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: after and and and excited for, exciting for so many people, 141 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: have a fraction oftentimes of the audience of the super Bowl. 142 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: So this, seeing all these people in California flouting the 143 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: mask rules, it should be a moment in time, I 144 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: think for Republicans to say masking is done. It shouldn't 145 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 1: exist anywhere in this country. And it should be a drumbeat. 146 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 1: It should happen every day, every moment, all the time. Now, 147 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: you know, it has been more than five minutes since 148 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: I've seen Faucia on TV too. I would love I 149 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: would love it. You know, all of a sudden he was. 150 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: He was kind of like a ten a day guy 151 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:53,920 Speaker 1: on the TV screens, it felt like. And now, all 152 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 1: of a sudden, you know he was doing he was 153 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,839 Speaker 1: doing some podcasts from the from the woodshed or the 154 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: baseman and you know wherever. You know, he's popping up 155 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:03,959 Speaker 1: on some stuff. I haven't seen him in a while 156 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,800 Speaker 1: because I would love to get an answer from him 157 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 1: about what we see going on here, and you know, 158 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,679 Speaker 1: on the masking kids issue, because this is really their 159 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 1: last And I have talked to doctors recently, you know, 160 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: friends of mine who are mds about this, and they 161 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 1: agree until we get them to say that this didn't work. 162 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: It's all just suspended. It will come back. And particularly 163 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 1: in schools, this has become a fixation. It's like a 164 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:31,839 Speaker 1: virtue signaling fixation for the left. We mask our kids 165 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 1: because we care, you know, it's like people who think 166 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: they're better than you because they recycle. Now people who 167 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: think that advocating for mask mandates for children are better 168 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 1: than you because they're protecting the children. De Santis points 169 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 1: out no other country in the world that we're aware 170 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: of at least is as crazy about this as new 171 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 1: as America is. If you look at what CDC and 172 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 1: Biden's administration did, they are outliers in the rest of 173 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,200 Speaker 1: the world. You look at all the other industrialized countries, 174 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:06,560 Speaker 1: not one country was as absolutely insane about force masking 175 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: kids as the United States government was. And I'm proud 176 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 1: to say in Florida, you know, we stood up to 177 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: the Biden administration. We stood with the parents, and we 178 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: stood with the well being of the kids. And I 179 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: can tell you these kids are so much happier being 180 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:25,199 Speaker 1: able to go to school without having to wear masks 181 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 1: for eight hours a day. So when you start to 182 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: see them kind of reevaluate or say all this just 183 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 1: to understand this. The science didn't change, well, the medical 184 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:39,840 Speaker 1: science didn't change, the political science change. They feel the 185 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: heat they have to fight against this realization play because 186 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: every one of these decisions was actually rooted in politics. 187 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 1: Every one of these decisions privileged politics over what the science, 188 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 1: the science was actually saying about risk and about reality. 189 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,559 Speaker 1: I think we had a call or either last week 190 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:02,240 Speaker 1: or the week before, who said that Biden wanted to 191 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: make a grand pronouncement about COVID again in his State 192 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: of the Union address, And it feels to me like 193 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 1: he's waiting and now going to be behind in terms 194 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: of making a grand pronouncement. And the population, the public 195 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: in general has moved on, and to a large extent, 196 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: it is signature events such as these that are back 197 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: to one hundred percent normal. So you remember last year's 198 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: Super Bowl wasn't really that normal, even though we started 199 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,319 Speaker 1: to have crowds present again, they were making sure they 200 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: were vaccinated, healthcare workers, all these things. This year, it 201 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:42,840 Speaker 1: felt normal if you were in a football stadium, and look, 202 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 1: the reality is February in LA. I didn't need to 203 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: see the Super Bowl be normal because I was on 204 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,199 Speaker 1: the road. Buck, you were with me for one of 205 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: those games. But every SEC football stadium was packed throughout 206 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: the entire fall, and many NFL stadiums were packed as well, 207 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:00,120 Speaker 1: And there was no requirement that you had to have 208 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 1: a COVID shot or something like that in order to 209 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: get in. I mean, let's just look at some really 210 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:07,200 Speaker 1: obvious things that never get talked about because doesn't go 211 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 1: with the narrative, and the apparatus hates it when people 212 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:13,720 Speaker 1: just think for themselves. If what Ronda, they haven't had 213 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: masks in schools all year in Florida. Okay, we're now, 214 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 1: it's mid February, we're getting into March. No masks in schools. 215 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: If that was dangerous, if children were at substantial risk 216 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 1: and spreading it everywhere and everything else, don't you think 217 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: that the almost fifty percent of Florida Democrats out there 218 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 1: would be making constant reference to the failed policy of 219 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: it's not even you can't wear a mask, it's just 220 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 1: choice masking. If you write, wouldn't we be hearing all 221 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 1: the time Clay about what a massive failure that was? 222 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: And remember when they used to do that. Georgia reopening 223 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 1: too early back in twenty twenty was an experiment in 224 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: human sacrifice. That was the headline. That we never hear 225 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: about it from Florida, from Democrats in Florida, from anybody, 226 00:12:54,400 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: because it didn't happen, Because it doesn't matter. They totally 227 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:00,319 Speaker 1: have a band in that argument. We gotta lot to 228 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 1: get into, by the way, today monster revelations from an 229 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: indictment in the Durham investigation surrounding the alleged I still 230 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: have to say because we haven't had any official proving 231 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: of this yet in a court of law in terms 232 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 1: of a conviction, but pretty strong allegations about hacking into 233 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: the Trump campaign and the early part of the Trump 234 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 1: presidency by Hillary Clinton and her operatives. We're going to 235 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 1: talk about that. 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That should not be 264 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: a problem in the United States Congress, and I really 265 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 1: believe that our colleagues who refuse to even adhere to 266 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: the basic norms of civility are undermining our democracy. And 267 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: of course we're seeing it in all kinds of even 268 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: more serious ways, like the January sixth insurrection is just 269 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 1: part of that and part of the attempt to take 270 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: down a legitimate democracy from functioning in the way it 271 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 1: should function. Not working a mask with me and the 272 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 1: elevator is just like the January sixth insurrection. That was 273 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:33,720 Speaker 1: a member of Congress, that Congresswoman Jaya Paul. Just you 274 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 1: understand that they these are the things that democrats say. 275 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 1: Now when you refuse to mask up, you're destroying this democracy. 276 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 1: You heard her there, which is fascinating on so many 277 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: levels because this is, as I've said so many times, 278 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: all evidence of a serious anxiety disorder. And anxiety disorders 279 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 1: are you know, very difficult, very difficult, but you need 280 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 1: to deal with them and not expect everybody else to 281 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: cater to your anxiety disorder. You have to deal with 282 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 1: your anxiety disorder, even if you remember a Congress. But 283 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: this is fashionating as well, because Clay, the member of Congress, 284 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 1: you're saying, if you don't mask up when you get 285 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 1: on an elevator with somebody, you're a I mean, just 286 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: to be clear, undermining our democracy is what she said. 287 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: Don't mask up on the elevator. She's going two restaurants 288 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: and bars and I'm sure parties and whatever else no 289 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: one's got masks on. But when you step on an 290 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 1: elevator with me, sir, without a mask on for that 291 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: twenty second ride, you're undermining our democracy. Meanwhile, Washington DC 292 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 1: has announced just today they are getting rid of the 293 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 1: indoor mask mandate in two weeks. They're getting rid of 294 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 1: it everywhere except get ready for this, schools and some 295 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: other you know location. So is that March March first 296 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: they're doing away with it? What about this? What about 297 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: the vaccine like the COVID vaccine card or whatever thing 298 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: you have to show to get into places there? So 299 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: on March first, mask will still be required to let 300 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:06,200 Speaker 1: me see schools, childcare facilities and libraries. I mean, I 301 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 1: mean schools and childcare facilities. Buck, I mean, this is 302 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 1: crazy because they have the largest group of people who 303 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: have the lowest risk. I mean, if anything, we should 304 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: be reversing it, like you should. If you look, there 305 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: should be no masks. There's more though, by the way, 306 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 1: the public transit I'm reading from the mayor's order right now, 307 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 1: public transit taxis and ride share of course, Uber DC 308 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: government facilities, so you keep basically businesses, houses, of Worship 309 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:34,919 Speaker 1: Jim's restaurants, masks will no longer be required, and I 310 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 1: think they're also dropping the vaccine requirement there too, but 311 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: I have to check on that. I have to check 312 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,679 Speaker 1: on that. They're definitely dilling back the mask thing. But 313 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 1: in schools, Clay, they're keeping it in schools. If you 314 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:49,879 Speaker 1: were actually look there should be no masks rule one. 315 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 1: But if you were going to actually look at the 316 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: data and science, the very first place you would remove 317 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: the mask mandating childcare and schools be on the shadow 318 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 1: of a doubt based on low risk factors. Our friends 319 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,439 Speaker 1: at the Oxford Gold Group are doing something really smart 320 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: for investors in gold and other precious metals. They've made 321 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 1: it so you can have real gold and silver delivered 322 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 1: to your door. 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I 340 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: feel like I should say this multiple times because I 341 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 1: guarantee you when I just said I guarantee you Buck, 342 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 1: when I just said that. Every time I'm gonna say it, 343 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,679 Speaker 1: there's gonna be thousands of guys out there that are like, 344 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:28,400 Speaker 1: oh oh no, oh no, I blew it. You're focused 345 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: on the super Bowl. Valentine's Day is a Monday kind 346 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 1: of a tough spot to be in. You're coming out 347 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 1: of the weekend, and yeah, you could be in for it. 348 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: You could be in for it. I mean, some people 349 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,159 Speaker 1: remember some people probably have some new Tommy John drinking 350 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:46,040 Speaker 1: some black Rifle coffee and sitting back with the savings 351 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 1: they have from pure talk while they're getting more money 352 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 1: because they're paying less for their mortgage because they're American finance. 353 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know, we gave people a lot 354 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 1: of Valentine's Day options here, no doubt, buck. I want 355 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:57,879 Speaker 1: to talk about the Canadian truckers here for a moment. 356 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 1: CBC News, which is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, they have 357 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: a headline that they put up yesterday, the headline I'm 358 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 1: not making this up. You can go check it out 359 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:12,640 Speaker 1: on my Twitter feed right now. The word this word 360 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: has become common among far right groups. Experts say this word. 361 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:21,600 Speaker 1: Oh my, lot of you out there thinking, oh my goodness, 362 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: what could the word be. This word has become common 363 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 1: among far right groups. Experts say the word freedom, the 364 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 1: F word, the F word. The new F word in 365 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,679 Speaker 1: Canada is freedom. Now some positive news here and then 366 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 1: we're gonna unpack. Bill Maher just destroying Justin Jurneau. But 367 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 1: I saw right before we came on, you were giving 368 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:50,879 Speaker 1: us an update on Washington, DC, Ontario, which I believe. Again, 369 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,439 Speaker 1: my Canadian knowledge is not very good. I apologize to 370 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,199 Speaker 1: all of our Canadian listeners. I believe Ontario is the 371 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 1: most populous of the Canadian thirteen Canadian provinces. Look at 372 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 1: you with the Canadian I could be totally wrong on that, 373 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: dub look that up and see if I'm correct. But 374 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 1: Ontario has announced that they are going to be removing 375 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 1: many of the restrictions that exist. I am correct on that, 376 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:18,440 Speaker 1: all right, that exist in Canada, which is yet another 377 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 1: win for these Canadian truckers as they continue to fight 378 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 1: for the big F word freedom. Before we dive in, yeah, 379 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: I just wanted to go back to the the F 380 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 1: word freedom for a second here and how the CBC 381 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: un ironically is like they're all these bad people using 382 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 1: the freedom word. This is not new one of the 383 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 1: things that the left does very well and people on 384 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:45,720 Speaker 1: the right, because we believe in an individual agency and 385 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,480 Speaker 1: choice and dare I say freedom, we're much less likely 386 00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: to try to police the language that others use. They 387 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:54,640 Speaker 1: police language all the time, and they'll even get to extremes. Well, 388 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 1: they'll take terms that are entirely innocuous and try to 389 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 1: make them problematic, try to make them something so they'll 390 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,880 Speaker 1: not only change their language to hide. You know, this 391 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,160 Speaker 1: is what we from a legal alien to a legal 392 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 1: immigrant to undocumented, right. I mean, that's one of the 393 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 1: most the most clear examples of this. There are tons 394 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 1: of political speech examples, but you remember Clay when they 395 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 1: were doing the targeting, and this was a real thing. 396 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 1: Everybody try to try to remind folks of this when 397 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 1: the IRS was targeting opponents of the Obama regime. Do 398 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: you know what one of the primary things they looked 399 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 1: for when they were doing their you know, stopping of 400 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 1: essentially the tea party groups Patriot. If you had the 401 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:41,120 Speaker 1: word patriot anywhere in your nonprofit application, you were getting dinged, 402 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 1: you were getting held up, you were getting audited. So 403 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 1: patriot became a signifier for bad people. And now in Canada, 404 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: freedom is become isn't it so fascinating? Freedom is becoming 405 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 1: a signifier for bad people. Just like by the way, 406 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:59,119 Speaker 1: anyone who uses the term undermining our democracy ever also 407 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: puts their pronounds in their email signature and also walks 408 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: around with two masks on outside alone. Like these things 409 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 1: all go together unless they're at the super Bowl, in 410 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,680 Speaker 1: which case they don't wear mask at all Bill Maher. 411 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 1: Did you see also Buck By the way, Bill Maher 412 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 1: went out I think it was in San Francisco to 413 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 1: do a comedy routine and got heckled by the crowd. 414 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:27,320 Speaker 1: Because because he's willing to challenge prevailing left wing orthodoxies, 415 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 1: I would just say he's really a liberty He's kind 416 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 1: of a libertine. If we're going to game, he's like 417 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 1: a maximum liberty guy on a lot of issues. Not 418 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 1: on everything, but a lot of issues. Here he is 419 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: blasting Justin Trudeau. This is from Real Time his or 420 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 1: Polite whatever that I think Real Time right his show 421 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 1: on HBO blasting Justin Trudeau for sounding like Hitler. This 422 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 1: is a couple of weeks ago he was or maybe 423 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 1: this is September, but he was talking about people who 424 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,719 Speaker 1: are not vaccinated. He said, they don't believe in science, 425 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 1: they're often misogynistic, often racist. No they're not, he said, 426 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: but they take up space and with that we have 427 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,679 Speaker 1: to make a choice in terms of a leader as 428 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 1: a country. Do we tolerate these people. It's like, tolerate dude. Now, 429 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 1: you do sound like him, And recently he talked about 430 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: them holding holding unacceptable views. You're surprised to hear that 431 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,360 Speaker 1: two had those things. You didn't see the black face. 432 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm kidding, I'm not. I mean, I was 433 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: not a good luck for but I mean, come on, 434 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 1: I mean, that's I think what gets under people's skin. 435 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 1: We just, first of all, what he's saying is so 436 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: it's so obviously true that that's crazy. And that was 437 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,160 Speaker 1: Mary and Williamson. Remember she ran for president. Actually she's 438 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: gonna run for president again. I think I just did 439 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: Greg Gottfeld Show with her, which was which was oh 440 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,360 Speaker 1: really she she went she did Fox and she went 441 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 1: in there and she said she is a nice lady 442 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 1: with some loony ideas. She's got some looney ideas, but 443 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: she's a nice lady. And we we I am cordial 444 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 1: to her and she's cordial to me. And that's how 445 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 1: we're credit for doing Fox News because look, I mean, 446 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,920 Speaker 1: it's the biggest audience out there. So late night TV, 447 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,040 Speaker 1: which is a mean crush on the Coal Bear Show 448 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: and a lot of a lot of nights, a lot 449 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 1: of the demo. But Clay on the point about about Trudeau, 450 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 1: can we just take a step back from we know 451 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: we had doctor Marty McCarry on the show last week. 452 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: They've been making people take the shot in this country 453 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 1: and in other countries like Canada, irrespective of natural immunity, 454 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,160 Speaker 1: which means that in millions of cases, they have been 455 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,720 Speaker 1: forcing people to do something for which there is literally 456 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,679 Speaker 1: no good faith medical argument whatsoever to do none. I mean, 457 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:39,159 Speaker 1: put aside the individual agency and freedom from vaccine argument 458 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 1: as a separate argument. I just mean making people who 459 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 1: already had COVID, like making people who just had omicron 460 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: get get another shot or get a booster, is outrageous. Yes, 461 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: you know, it is totally crazy and there's no scientific 462 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,160 Speaker 1: basis to support it at all, which is why when 463 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:59,160 Speaker 1: we're talking about Ontario lifting its restrictions many of them, 464 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: and why Shington DC doing it as well. Starting on 465 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 1: March first, my question is how quickly is the idea 466 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: that you have to show a vaccine passport to, for instance, 467 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 1: take your kids to get chicken McNuggets and McDonald's going 468 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: to vanish? And I say that because for all the 469 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: people out there who are arguing this is necessary, never 470 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 1: in any of our lives have we ever had to 471 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 1: show proof of vaccination to my knowledge, buck for anything 472 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 1: other than maybe maybe going to school, right, and or 473 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: maybe going to college, but to enter a business, the 474 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 1: idea that you would have to show that you had 475 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:41,439 Speaker 1: been vaccinated has never existed. Like that very idea itself. 476 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 1: It's radical, and we need to talk about it as 477 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 1: being a radical proposition and a personal imposition on so 478 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 1: many different people as it pertains to their individual freedoms 479 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:56,719 Speaker 1: and their health rights. Like, regardless of what you think 480 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 1: about COVID, the idea that you have to show your 481 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: vaccines to go to McDonalds is crazy. They've also never 482 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,600 Speaker 1: wrestled with a concept that I think is really important. 483 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,639 Speaker 1: And this is where you get into, you know, the epidemiology. 484 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,879 Speaker 1: And I rely on doctors just like you do that 485 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 1: I know, to bring me up to speed on these things. Right, 486 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 1: I have no medical training and I just sit here 487 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 1: and I want to ever understand now when you're talking 488 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 1: about measles and mumps and rubella and smallpox and these 489 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:26,359 Speaker 1: other vaccination campaigns in the past, those are stable viruses. 490 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: They do not mutate, and they do not mutate with 491 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,959 Speaker 1: this anywhere near the speed that we've seen with COVID 492 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 1: to try to get to herd immunity for a virus 493 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 1: that seems to mutate about every what, at least every 494 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: six months. So far, we're just gonna be You're gonna 495 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,880 Speaker 1: be playing catch up forever because the last version of 496 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,199 Speaker 1: the vaccine doesn't protect you from at least getting it 497 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,679 Speaker 1: may help your body fight it off, but from getting 498 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,919 Speaker 1: the most recent variate variant. So this was wrong headed 499 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 1: from the very beginning. And there's animal reservoirs for this 500 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:58,879 Speaker 1: virus too, which means that it can mutate and spread 501 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: from the animal population to the American sorry, to the 502 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 1: human hand American population. We're never going to get rid 503 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: of it, right and and that's why anybody who's trying 504 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: to compare this two measles or months, I mean, it 505 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: is more akin, frankly to the flu shot. Have you 506 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,440 Speaker 1: been saying this for about eighteen months? I feel like 507 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 1: I've been saying this for about eighteen months, and here 508 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,720 Speaker 1: we are now. Well, if you ever mentioned COVID in 509 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,399 Speaker 1: relationship with the flu, they would censor you back in 510 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,880 Speaker 1: the day, and the crazy idea that you could even 511 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: compare the two was completely unacceptable. That's where we are. 512 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 1: COVID has become a new flu and it's never going away, 513 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: and sooner or later, we have to get used to 514 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 1: living with it. Nine to eleven, two thousand, nine hundred 515 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 1: seventy seven people were killed in terror attacks on American 516 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 1: soil just over twenty years ago. Shortly thereafter, Tunnel of 517 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 1: the Tower started supporting America's heroes and their families, and 518 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: they have continued that effort ever since. 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The former d and I Ratcliffe saying during 537 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: the investigation from the Durham Probe that there are a 538 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,360 Speaker 1: whole lot of indictments coming and that Hillary may have 539 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,920 Speaker 1: known the allegations that she may have known about an 540 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 1: effort to hack into servers tied directly to President Trump 541 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,920 Speaker 1: during the election. This is bombshell stuff. I know that 542 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 1: word gets abused a lot, but this qualifies before we 543 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 1: dive into that though, And we also will be getting 544 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: to your calls later on in the next hour when 545 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: we can for sure, so please be patient with us. 546 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 1: But we wanted to talk to you for a second 547 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 1: about the culture. And there are two things. One thing 548 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:39,000 Speaker 1: we could talk about is the the Super Bowl show 549 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,160 Speaker 1: from halftime show, I should say, from last night. And 550 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,920 Speaker 1: the other one is the Oscars have been announced, right 551 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 1: and Clay, First of all, have you seen any of 552 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: these movies so far that are nominated for Best I 553 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,719 Speaker 1: haven't even seen who denominees are so just to give 554 00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 1: your unless Spider Man or Incanto or on that, then 555 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,240 Speaker 1: there's probably no this blew my mind Spider Man. What 556 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 1: is it called the new one? I haven't seen it. 557 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 1: It's oh no way. Home has grossed wait, oh gross 558 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 1: nine million over the weekend, but is the fourth highest 559 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 1: grossing movie ever ever all time up there, you know, 560 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 1: that's up there with like Jurassic Park and et An Avatar. 561 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: And now, one thing they managed to do buck is 562 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 1: they don't index for inflation, so they're always going to 563 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 1: be an advantage on the newer move especially now with 564 00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 1: seven point five percent inflation. Totally valid. But isn't this 565 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,680 Speaker 1: like the tenth Spider Like literally I think they have 566 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 1: been seven or eight Spider Man movies at least at 567 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,600 Speaker 1: this point. Anyway, Yeah, we took the boys and and 568 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: of course because love it. Oh yes, great. I mean 569 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,680 Speaker 1: I go see every just about superhero movie because I've 570 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 1: got three young boys and they love all of them, right, 571 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 1: my fourteen, my eleven seven year old. Um, so as 572 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 1: a family, we often go watch these sore that these 573 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 1: are wheelhouse movies for me, so it doesn't surprise me 574 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 1: at all. Now, all these Oscar films that are not nominated. 575 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: Last year was the first I used to go see everything. 576 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 1: I used to love the movies. Last year was the 577 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 1: first year I think that I've never seen any of 578 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 1: the Oscar movies. I guarantee you I haven't seen any 579 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 1: of them this year, just all of these movies together, 580 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: which includes Don't Look Up, which is isn't that like 581 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 1: a climate change? I actually saw that one that's on net. 582 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 1: Oh see you have seated? Yeah, liquorice pizza. Had never 583 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 1: heard of this, Belfast. I have a feeling that's a 584 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 1: sad one. Yeah, I mean not a happy one. Coda. 585 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: What else do we have here? I can't even read 586 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,200 Speaker 1: some of these. Drive my Car. I've never even heard 587 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:36,719 Speaker 1: of that one. And Okay, Dune. I saw Dune, and 588 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: if you read the Frank Herbert classic, I will say 589 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,440 Speaker 1: it is an excellent film adaptation of it. So so 590 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 1: Don's a good movie. I don't know if it made 591 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 1: a lot of money or not. Doing is actually a 592 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 1: good movie. But we bring this up just because of 593 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,600 Speaker 1: all of the Oscar nominated films. Usually they get talked 594 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,120 Speaker 1: about again less than less than a million dollar gross 595 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:58,280 Speaker 1: over the week, and now COVID obviously playing a big 596 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 1: part of this. But the bigger thing for me, Clay 597 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 1: than the receipts for this, so to speak, is I've 598 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 1: I've never heard of of the what are we had 599 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 1: ten movies nominated, I've heard of two of them before. 600 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,520 Speaker 1: Now just to go show like, what is Hollywood doing 601 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 1: these days? They have lost their ability to speak to 602 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 1: the masses? Right, they speak to an elite subset and 603 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,800 Speaker 1: they've lost their ability to speak to the masses. And like, 604 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 1: I gotta give credit. I mean, you and I are 605 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 1: around the same age. I understand some people out there 606 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,960 Speaker 1: did not like the super Bowl halftime show, but I 607 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 1: grew up on Snoop Dog, Doctor dre Eminem. In many ways, 608 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,160 Speaker 1: that was a nineteen nineties era a halftime show. Right. 609 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,880 Speaker 1: If you were in bars, restaurants, college, high school in 610 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:47,320 Speaker 1: the nineteen nineties, you probably really liked Last Day. That 611 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 1: whole halftime show was a throwback to people who were 612 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 1: in high school, college, and maybe recent grads circa nineteen 613 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 1: ninety five. You know, that's maybe ninety four ninety five, 614 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:02,000 Speaker 1: that's when all those songs were really popular. Um, you 615 00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 1: know I didn't. I'm somebody who grew up listening to 616 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: that music. I will say I don't really listen too 617 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:12,160 Speaker 1: much hip hop anymore. Um, I haven't insisten too much 618 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,440 Speaker 1: music at all anymore. Now my kids listen to everything 619 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,839 Speaker 1: that's current, so I hear a lot of it from them. 620 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,880 Speaker 1: What I would say in general is I would like 621 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 1: to go back to the nineteen nineties and early two 622 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:29,160 Speaker 1: thousands era when we embraced creative freedom for everyone, because 623 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:32,040 Speaker 1: if you go look at rap lyrics as you as 624 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 1: if you look at many lyrics in music of all 625 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:39,960 Speaker 1: different types, very borderline sometimes in what is being said, 626 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 1: but we give them the creative freedom sometimes borderline. I 627 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,640 Speaker 1: think I think you could actually make a strong case 628 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,640 Speaker 1: for gosh, I'm gonna use the word misogyny and not 629 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:51,839 Speaker 1: be making fun of the people using it. I think 630 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:57,320 Speaker 1: I would. I would rather have too much that's going 631 00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,520 Speaker 1: on in terms of creative freedom, which is why I 632 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:03,320 Speaker 1: think this whole cancel culture era is so awful because 633 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,280 Speaker 1: if you use Joe Rogan for instance, as an example, 634 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:11,520 Speaker 1: we've got artists trying to cancel other artists right, whether 635 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,279 Speaker 1: you like whatever's name is Neil Young or not. When 636 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,359 Speaker 1: he comes out and says what Joe Rogan is doing 637 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,200 Speaker 1: is an art form, right, A long podcast interview as 638 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,239 Speaker 1: an art form. What we're doing in radio is an 639 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,959 Speaker 1: art form of sorts. Right. We are artists, Yeah, we've 640 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,480 Speaker 1: been soon. I don't remember an era in my life 641 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,600 Speaker 1: when artists who are supposed to, through their nuance an 642 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:39,320 Speaker 1: exploration of larger issues, advance our cultural understanding and conversation 643 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,960 Speaker 1: surrounding so many complex issues. When they are trying to 644 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:47,800 Speaker 1: get things canceled, it represents a fundamental attack upon art itself. 645 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:52,040 Speaker 1: And I just find it hard to believe that they 646 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,440 Speaker 1: even understand, like they're they're swept up in the cancel 647 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,080 Speaker 1: culture mob, just like so many other idiots. But this 648 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,120 Speaker 1: is about power dynamics, right, It's not really about principle 649 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,920 Speaker 1: for these different groups that want to cancel people. And 650 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:08,320 Speaker 1: this is why the building of alternative platforms and the understanding. 651 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,480 Speaker 1: I mean, one thing we'll be talking about when we 652 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:14,759 Speaker 1: look at the deep state Russia collusion narrative is a 653 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,560 Speaker 1: lot of those people got taken care of. They get 654 00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,879 Speaker 1: book deals, they get speaking engagements. The ones who are 655 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 1: the most involved in the lies about Trump and Russia 656 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:24,360 Speaker 1: and all the rest of it. You see this in 657 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,160 Speaker 1: a cultural sense too. You know, if you're a good 658 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,680 Speaker 1: soldier for the left, so to speak, you get away 659 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,880 Speaker 1: with more. You can always come back, you can, and 660 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,320 Speaker 1: people on the right off and go. You know, someone 661 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,839 Speaker 1: got canceled. They'll figure it out. You know, maybe they'll 662 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,440 Speaker 1: maybe they'll go open an auto body shop somewhere or something, 663 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,160 Speaker 1: you know, which is hard to do actually, but you 664 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,640 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, and you know, it's it's it's 665 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,680 Speaker 1: time that people actually see this for what it is. 666 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,080 Speaker 1: They're gonna keep canceling less while they have the power 667 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:50,719 Speaker 1: to do it. We're not going to convince them through 668 00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:52,840 Speaker 1: our arguments to make them stop. So we have to 669 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,920 Speaker 1: create some artillery, so to speak, in the free speech 670 00:36:55,920 --> 00:37:08,600 Speaker 1: battle on our side. Flat Travis and Buck Sexton on 671 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,480 Speaker 1: the front lines of truth.