1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:08,639 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show, Friday, 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: the thirteenth edition. We may have a little bit of 4 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 1: fun with that before all is said and done. As 5 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: an old school horror movie fan myself, I'm sure many 6 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,479 Speaker 1: of you out there are as well, I hope that 7 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 1: this is not a terrifying day. However, for you guys, 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: as you get ready to roll into the weekend with 9 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: warm weather everywhere, this is going to feel much like 10 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: summer to a lot of you. My co host Buck 11 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: Sex that is, in Chicago, there was a massive kids 12 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 1: party in downtown Chicago, perhaps to welcome Buck to Chicago City. 13 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: He'd never been to before. So if you see him 14 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 1: walking around the streets there with his girlfriend, he is 15 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: likely going to be having a fantastic time. Weather seems 16 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: good there. I asked him if he was going to 17 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: go see a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field, and 18 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: he said he hadn't even thought about it, and I 19 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: at least encouraged him to go check out rig Gleeville, 20 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 1: which is a phenomenal if you just want to go 21 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: have a few beers and enjoy the fact that baseball 22 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:08,119 Speaker 1: is going on. But we've got a lot to get 23 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,240 Speaker 1: into throughout the course of today's program, I want to 24 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 1: let you know where we're headed. Alex Barrenson is going 25 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: to be with us at one o'clock Eastern. One of 26 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: my writers who's been doing a fabulous job, Bobby Barak, 27 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: he writes an OutKick. Encourage you guys to be paying 28 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:25,680 Speaker 1: attention to his work, and also if you just want 29 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: to bookmark OutKick dot com, it's one of the only 30 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: places that's saying in the world of sports and beyond. 31 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 1: And then Rand Paul Senator, who has provoked a great 32 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: deal of discussion over his refusal to sign on to 33 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: a forty billion dollar aid package for Ukraine, which, by 34 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: the way, I think we should be complimenting him for 35 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: because all he's asking for is for there to be 36 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: an inspector general connected to that forty billion dollars. And 37 00:01:55,720 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: given how much of a kleptocracy Ukraine has been and 38 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: our own government's failure oftentimes to track massive amounts of 39 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: money that we are spending, look at what happened with 40 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 1: the PPP program. But that will be an interesting discussion 41 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: with him. All of that and more coming your direction, 42 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: but I wanted to start with what has become readily apparent, 43 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: the information arbitrage war that is going on every single 44 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: day on Twitter, and there are a couple of breaking 45 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: news stories. Woke up this morning to see that Elon 46 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: Musk is potentially not going to buy Twitter. Although he 47 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: says he remains committed to the purchase of the company, 48 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: he is concerned about how many bots in other words, 49 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,919 Speaker 1: not real accounts there are on Twitter, and he has 50 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 1: therefore put a pause on his potential purchase of Twitter. Now. 51 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 1: To be fair, he is saying that he still intends 52 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: to purchase Twitter, but the stock as we are speaking 53 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: right now has dropped nearly nine percent. It's trading at 54 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 1: forty one dollars and change. The company was supposed to 55 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 1: be sold for fifty four twenty, so there's a massive 56 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: discount going on right now. Now. Some of you out 57 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: there are like, Okay, what could be going on here? 58 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: I think what maybe at play here is Elon Musk 59 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: lowering his potential purchase price for Twitter because he's aware 60 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: that with the massive stock market sell off, we have 61 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 1: seen trillions of dollars in value erased almost to the 62 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: point where Joe Biden's entire tenure seventeen months now, the 63 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: stock market is not far from going negative over that 64 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: seventeen month period, and so as a result, tech company 65 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: stocks have collapsed. And I happen to think that Elon 66 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: Musk may be thinking to himself, fifty four dollars and 67 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 1: twenty cents a share is way too much to be paying, 68 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: when if I weren't buying this company, Twitter might be 69 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: twenty five dollars a share, So he could walk away, 70 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: allow the stock price to collapse, and then potentially come 71 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 1: back and try to make a play for that. But 72 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: this is important, and it is such a win for 73 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: sane people in an insane world if Elon Musk buys Twitter, 74 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: because right now the White House is still using Twitter 75 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: to spread direct wise while accusing people like you and 76 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: me and many of your coworkers who start to raise 77 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 1: questions about the Biden administration of spreading disinformation. This morning, 78 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 1: sorry this was yesterday afternoon. The White House tweeted out 79 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 1: when President Biden took office, millions were unemployed and there 80 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: was no vaccine available. That first sentence is a direct lie. 81 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 1: In fact, Joe Biden got his COVID shot in December 82 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:57,840 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty, a full month before he took the 83 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: oath of office. So that sentence from the White House, 84 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: which has been lecturing all of us about the perils 85 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: of disinformation, is a lie. And then the next sentence, 86 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: in the last fifteen months, the economy has created eight 87 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: point three million jobs and the unemployment rate stands at 88 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: three point six percent, the fastest decline in unemployment to 89 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: start a president's term ever recorded. This is direct disinformation. 90 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: This is direct a direct lack of truth as well. 91 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 1: And so what's at stake here? What is at play? 92 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:37,479 Speaker 1: The White House is asking for the power to determine 93 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: what is truth and false in social media, in modern 94 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 1: media today, while using those same platforms to directly spread 95 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: lies and misinformation themselves. Now this is important because there's 96 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 1: going to be a lot of discussion about this as 97 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 1: we get closer to the midterms. The Biden administration is 98 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: going to claim that they have created all these millions 99 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: of jobs and that they have created a strong economy. 100 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: We know that's not true because we're all struggling every 101 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: single day with nearly double digit inflation. But when they 102 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: claim that they have created as they did in this tweet, 103 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,360 Speaker 1: eight point three million new jobs, and it's the fastest 104 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: decline in unemployment to start a president's term ever recorded. 105 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: What you need to understand is this, we still have 106 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 1: not regained all of the jobs that existed in March 107 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty, when we had fifteen days to slow 108 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 1: the spread. We still have not regained. We're still, i believe, 109 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: over a million jobs behind. We had the greatest economy 110 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:44,159 Speaker 1: in the history of the United States in February of 111 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:49,239 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, everybody's overall wages were growing, 112 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 1: We had hit an unbelievable fifty plus year low in 113 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 1: the unemployment rate, and we were just starting to hit 114 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:02,039 Speaker 1: full steam ahead thanks to all of the economic policies 115 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump and the Republican Party put in place 116 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: to unlock the full growth of our economic potential. And 117 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: then what happened COVID. COVID happens. We make the disastrous 118 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: decision to shut down our economy and start to send 119 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: trillions of dollars into the marketplace. That is only going 120 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: to be exacerbated when Joe Biden becomes president in twenty 121 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: twenty one and immediately adds another one point nine trillion 122 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: in COVID spending that was unnecessary, and immediately adds another 123 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: over one trillion dollars in the infrastructure bill, which you'll 124 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: remember Buck and I saying also further created the apparatus 125 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: here for nearly double digit inflation. And recall that we 126 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: also were absolutely poised for another five plus trillion dollars 127 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 1: in spending as a part of the Build Back Better Bill. 128 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: If that had ended up happening, then we would be 129 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: well into double digit inflation fifteen twenty percent. Who knows 130 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: where the inflation rate might be if Joe Biden had 131 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: gotten everything you wanted. So I start here talking with 132 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: you about the information wars that are taking place every 133 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 1: single day, and you guys listening know what I'm talking about. 134 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:18,720 Speaker 1: Whether or not you feel comfortable being able to share 135 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: your opinion on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. There are 136 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: people who want to be able to investigate you, to 137 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 1: pay attention to what you are saying in terms of 138 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:32,440 Speaker 1: whether they believe it's true or false. And this idiot 139 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: ministry of truth individual Nina Jankowitz, who has been hired 140 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: by the Biden administration to be their Czar of misinformation. 141 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: She now is saying, this is crazy that she wants 142 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 1: people to be able to edit your own tweets and 143 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: change what is said in those tweets if they decide 144 00:08:55,520 --> 00:09:00,680 Speaker 1: that it is misinformation. Listen to this incredibly eatic idea. 145 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 1: So verified people can essentially start to edit Twitter the 146 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: same sort of way that Wikipedia is, so they can 147 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: add context to certain tweets. So, just as an easy example, 148 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: not from any political standpoint, if President Trump were still 149 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: on Twitter and tweeted a claim about voter fraud, someone 150 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: could add context from one of the sixty lawsuits that 151 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: went through the court, or something that an election official 152 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 1: in one of the states said, perhaps your own secretary 153 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: of State and his news conference is something like that, 154 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: adding context so that people have a fuller picture rather 155 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 1: than just an individual claim on it a tweet. This 156 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 1: is madness. First of all, if you disagree with something 157 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 1: that people tweet, you can dispute it, you can argue 158 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:58,079 Speaker 1: with it on Facebook, you can respond to a comment 159 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 1: that you disagree with already and further contextualize what is 160 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:05,439 Speaker 1: being said. But what's going on here is we got 161 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: a rigged system, and Elon Musk buying Twitter is a 162 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 1: big part of ending that rig game, because guess what 163 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,559 Speaker 1: hasn't happened at all. It's not uncommon when I share 164 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: a COVID detail, a COVID fact, that there's an appended 165 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 1: statement underneath it about whether or not they consider it 166 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 1: to be true or false. The Biden White House Live yesterday, 167 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 1: this is a direct lie. When President Biden took off 168 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:36,679 Speaker 1: as millions were unemployed and there was no vaccine available. 169 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:41,559 Speaker 1: Twitter has not done anything to label that tweet. There's 170 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: no further context provided for this claim that Joe Biden 171 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 1: has been the most successful economic president ever. That's what 172 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: he's claiming. Yet every single one of you out there 173 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: that is seeing shortages in baby formula, dealing with the 174 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 1: highest gas prices in United States history, dealing with the 175 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: highest inflation in forty plus years, every single one of 176 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 1: you knows this is a lie. There is no response 177 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: at all providing further context on these lies. And here 178 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: direct quote. Biden receives the first dose of coronavirus vaccine publicly. 179 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: He got it on December twenty first, twenty twenty. At 180 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 1: the time that he took office, the Trump administration was 181 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 1: administering one million COVID shots a day over a million 182 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: COVID shot today, and for the first several months of 183 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: the Biden White House, they didn't accelerate that rate very 184 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 1: substantially at all. They were implementing the existing policies and 185 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: procedures that had already been put in place by the 186 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 1: Trump White House. This is a lie. It's important to 187 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: call out lies, particularly when the people who are lying 188 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: to you are claiming that they are the ones telling 189 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,319 Speaker 1: the truth. That is a straight up nineteen eighty four 190 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: George orwell, big government authoritarian move from the Biden White House. 191 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: Nothing is being said at all. So that is the 192 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,640 Speaker 1: context on what's going on right now with Twitter, the 193 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:18,840 Speaker 1: battle for truth and for fairness, content neutral policies that 194 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 1: should hopefully be put in place in the event that 195 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 1: Elon Musk is able to complete this acquisition of Twitter. 196 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 1: Now we got a lot to discuss. I will open 197 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:31,440 Speaker 1: up the phone lines, take some of your calls today here, 198 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: given the fact that it is Friday, and we try 199 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:37,960 Speaker 1: to take calls fairly regularly when Friday's arrived two eight 200 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: two two eight eight eight two two eight A two, 201 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: encourage you to call in. Load up the lines. We'll 202 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: take some of your calls today as well. 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Speaking of lies, do you remember 224 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: all of the tension that Joe Biden and the Democrat 225 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: Party put on the idea that there was going to 226 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:10,560 Speaker 1: be Jim Crow two point zero in the state of Georgia. 227 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:14,360 Speaker 1: Stacy Abraham's running for governor right now, all of the 228 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: attention that they rained down on Georgia over this election 229 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 1: integrity bill that was passed, and it got so bad. 230 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of you still fired up 231 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: about this. That they pulled the All Star game Major 232 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: League Baseball did out of Atlanta. They were going to 233 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 1: honor Hank Aaron. Now the Braves ended up getting the 234 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: last laugh because they won the World Series and they 235 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 1: got to have three World Series games instead. But this 236 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: was absolutely indefensible to anyone who actually read the bill 237 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: or looked at Georgia's law compared to other places. Well, 238 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: right now, we've got a primary that is coming up 239 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 1: soon in Georgia, May the twenty fourth, I believe, about 240 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: eleven days from now, and Gabriel Sterling has been sharing 241 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: the data on what is going on in terms of voting, 242 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: and not surprisingly, the same media that told you how 243 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: racist and unacceptable. This Georgia bill was how it represented 244 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: Jim Crow two point zero. Nobody's talking about the fact 245 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 1: that records are being set in terms of the number 246 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: of people voting, and the number here this was yesterday 247 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 1: that Gabriel Sterling shared were at two hundred and twenty 248 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: three percent of the turnout for two eighteen, the last 249 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: mid term election. Nearly three hundred thousand voters had cast 250 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 1: ballots on the primary election, with way more Republicans coming 251 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: out to vote than Democrats so far and almost no 252 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 1: ballots are being rejected. And just five minutes ago, Gabriel 253 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: Sterling tweeted out, we're on pace for a record day 254 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 1: of early voting in Georgia again SB two O two, 255 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: the Election Integrity Act is law, and we're continuing to 256 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: see record votes cast. These are simple facts. Over three 257 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty thousand people in fact, one hundred and 258 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: eighty thousand voting in the Republican primary, one hundred and 259 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: twenty thousand voting in the Democrat primary, record numbers of 260 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: legal votes coming in in the state of Georgia. We 261 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 1: were all told this was impossible. Joe Biden went to 262 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: Georgia and told everyone that This was Jim Crow two 263 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: point zero. He said, there was a direct attempt to 264 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: keep people from being able to cast their ballots in Georgia. 265 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: This is all a lie. They lied to you. Jim 266 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 1: Crow two point zero was complete and total fiction. And 267 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: what should happen is everybody who bought into this lie, 268 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: in particular Major League Baseball, they should apologize to every 269 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,959 Speaker 1: baseball fan, to the entire state of Georgia, and they 270 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 1: should bring the All Star Game back to Atlanta to 271 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:24,879 Speaker 1: make up for the fact that they lied to you, 272 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: and that many big corporations got full on woke and 273 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 1: they listened to those lies and they bought into them. 274 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:37,520 Speaker 1: Wasn't just Major League Baseball. By the way, Delta Airlines 275 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: did it, one of the biggest employers in the state 276 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: of Georgia. Totally unacceptable. Again, a lie. Has anybody called 277 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: this misinformation? Has anybody out there been willing to call 278 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,639 Speaker 1: out Joe Biden and the Democrat Party for all the 279 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,919 Speaker 1: lies they spread about Georgia. Of course, not the data 280 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 1: is in their lies are readily parent. Talk to anybody 281 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 1: that has a car shield protection plan and they'll tell 282 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 1: you how much money they've saved. That's what car shield does. 283 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: They protect you and your budget from the unexpected and 284 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 1: costly repairs of your vehicle. 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Alex Berenson is going 301 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 1: to be with us at the top of the hour. 302 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: Twitter band Alex Berenson for the latest on COVID as 303 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 1: the Biden administration is now arguing that a mid term 304 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: variant may emerge just in time for potentially more arguments 305 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: that they could make for changes in the way that 306 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: people are voting. You just heard me say that there, 307 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 1: Jim Crow two point zero argument has fallen flat on 308 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: its face based on the numbers that are coming out 309 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: of the state of Georgia in the twenty twenty two midterms, 310 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:38,160 Speaker 1: and they are up massively compared to the people who 311 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 1: were voting in the twenty eighteen midterms. So just keep 312 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,160 Speaker 1: that in mind. I'm going to be joined by Bobby Barak, 313 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: who is one of the writers at OutKick, the site 314 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 1: that I sold the Fox but continue to run that 315 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,800 Speaker 1: I believe you guys will really enjoy. And then Ran 316 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:54,640 Speaker 1: Paul Senator from Kentucky is going to join us in 317 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:57,639 Speaker 1: the third hour of the program to talk about his 318 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:01,120 Speaker 1: decision to withhold his vote to allow forty billion dollars 319 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: to be spent in Ukraine. But I want to make 320 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: sure we don't miss this story because I don't think 321 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: we've talked about it so far this week. I know 322 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: Buck and I talked about it off air, and by 323 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 1: the way, Buck is in Chicago today, So if you 324 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 1: are in the Windy City and you are walking around 325 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,439 Speaker 1: and you think to yourself, man, that does appear to 326 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 1: be Buck Sexton. It is probably going to be him, 327 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,479 Speaker 1: so you can say hi to him. So there is 328 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 1: a great deal of disinformation that is being spread right 329 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: now by Democrats. We started off the show today talking 330 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: about the White House Twitter account, even claiming that there 331 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: were no COVID shots to be given when Joe Biden 332 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:40,719 Speaker 1: came into office and trying to take credit frankly for 333 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 1: the Donald Trump economy created by Republicans that we still 334 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,879 Speaker 1: have not gotten back to. And I think this is 335 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 1: a significant fact that deserves to be mentioned all the time. 336 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: We still have not returned everyone to work that was 337 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: working in February and March of twenty twenty. We haven't 338 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: gained that employment level. Yet Democrats are trying to argue, well, 339 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 1: we have created all these new jobs. They're not new jobs. 340 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:09,400 Speaker 1: They are oftentimes the jobs that people were not allowed 341 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: to do because we tried to create this ridiculous essential 342 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 1: and non essential business categories, and because we decided to 343 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: put our economy into deep freeze, which we're now reaping. 344 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:25,439 Speaker 1: Unfortunately the punishments for now this also has tied in 345 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 1: with people like me. The most important job that I 346 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:30,880 Speaker 1: have is you guys know, I'm a dad. I've got 347 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 1: a fourteen year old, I've got an eleven year old, 348 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 1: and I've got a seven year old, and my two 349 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: youngest boys go to public school in Williamson County, which 350 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 1: is right outside of Nashville in Tennessee. Back in August, 351 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 1: some of you will remember I went and spoke at 352 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 1: my local school board, as I encouraged a lot of 353 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 1: moms and dads out there to do, and as lots 354 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:57,120 Speaker 1: of you did, to argue against kids having to wear masks, 355 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 1: because there is absolutely no benefit fit whatsoever to kids 356 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: wearing masks, none at all in school. The fact that 357 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 1: any kid is still having to wear a mask is frankly, 358 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:14,239 Speaker 1: it should be a criminal failure on our part. The 359 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:18,800 Speaker 1: biggest public policy failure of any of our lives is 360 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 1: our response to COVID, particularly as it pertains to kids. 361 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: So you'll remember that Democrats got really angry because suddenly 362 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: parents were showing up at school boards and they were 363 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:35,199 Speaker 1: holding their school boards accountable, and as a result, the 364 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 1: Department of Justice decided that they were going to label 365 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: some of these parents domestic terrorists and that they were 366 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: going to conduct investigations. And then our good friend, Congressman 367 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 1: Jim Jordan in Ohio got wind of this, and he 368 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: decided that he was going to ensure that Attorney General 369 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 1: Merrick Garland answer for these letters that have been put 370 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: out from the Department of Justice calling American parents domestic terrorists. 371 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: And we have a couple of flashback audio bites here 372 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,400 Speaker 1: from that conversation, and then I'm going to update you 373 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 1: with the new information that we have. But first listen 374 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: to Merrick Garland testifying in front of Congressman Jim Jordan 375 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 1: and other House Republicans who were holding him accountable for 376 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: that domestic terrorist allegation. I can't imagine any circumstance in 377 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:31,159 Speaker 1: which the Patriot Act would be used in the circumstances 378 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 1: of parents complaining about their children. Nor can I imagine 379 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 1: the circumstance where they would be labeled as domestic terrorism. Okay, 380 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: that was one statement. Okay, this is significant because there 381 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:48,920 Speaker 1: now are whistleblowers inside of the FBI that have gone 382 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,160 Speaker 1: back to Congressman Jordan and have said that we now 383 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: have smoking gun evidence that the FBI has labeled dozens 384 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: of investigation into parents with a threat tag created by 385 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: the Counter Terrorism Division. Okay, I can't believe this hasn't 386 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:13,360 Speaker 1: gotten more attention. We are investigating our FBI is parents 387 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:17,639 Speaker 1: for things that they said at school board meetings the 388 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 1: FBI entered. This is directly from the letter that was 389 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:26,119 Speaker 1: released by Jim Jordan and his crew. In one investigation 390 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:33,640 Speaker 1: the FBI, the FBI investigated a mom for allegedly telling 391 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: a local school board we are coming for you, meaning 392 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 1: we're going to move you, remove you from office. The 393 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:48,400 Speaker 1: complaint came into the FBI through a snitch line alleged 394 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: the mom was a threat because she belonged This is 395 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 1: I'm reading directly from the letter to a right wing 396 00:24:55,880 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 1: mom's group known as Moms for Liberty and also was 397 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: a threat because quote, she is a gun owner. The 398 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:11,439 Speaker 1: FBI investigated a mom for telling a school board member 399 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,399 Speaker 1: We're coming for you on the basis that she was 400 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: a right wing moms group member, Moms for Liberty. By 401 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: the way, a lot of Moms for Liberty out there 402 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,399 Speaker 1: listening to us right now all over the country, and 403 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,960 Speaker 1: thank you for standing up for your kids and fighting 404 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 1: for them in the school board. And by the way, 405 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 1: I don't mean literally fighting. When you tell a politician 406 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 1: we're coming for you, you're letting them know that you 407 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:42,640 Speaker 1: are going to be providing opposition to their idiotic choices. Okay, 408 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 1: So the FBI interviewed the mom. She told them she 409 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: was upset about the school boards mask mandates, and her 410 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: statement was a warning that they would seek to replace 411 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: the school board with new members. A mom was investing 412 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,920 Speaker 1: aided by the FBI on the grounds that she was 413 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: a member of Moms for Liberty, that she owned a gun, 414 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: and that she didn't believe that her kid or kids 415 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 1: and by the way, she was right, should have to 416 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 1: wear masks in school. This happened the Department of Justice 417 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:25,119 Speaker 1: had the FBI investigate a mom. On another investigation, a 418 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:29,360 Speaker 1: dad was opposed to mask mandates. A complaint said that 419 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 1: the dad quote fit the profile of an insurrectionist because 420 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,919 Speaker 1: he rails against the government and has a lot of 421 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:42,160 Speaker 1: guns and threatens to use them. When the FBI interviewed 422 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 1: this dad, he said that sorry. They interviewed the complainer, 423 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 1: They said they contacted the FBI because the Justice Department 424 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: had a website to submit tips to the FBI anytime 425 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:04,479 Speaker 1: there is concerning behavior a dad investigated. The FBI also 426 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 1: opened an investigation over allegations that Republicans quote, incited violence 427 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 1: by expressing public displeasure with school district vaccine mandates. These 428 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 1: are actual investigations. Again, I am reading from a letter 429 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:27,439 Speaker 1: that was sent to Merrick Garland that says you basically 430 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 1: have lied when you said on October four, twenty twenty one, 431 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,159 Speaker 1: that counter terrorism tools tools were not going to be 432 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 1: used against parents who spoke out at school board meetings. 433 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: And this letter, which was written by the Committee on 434 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,600 Speaker 1: the Judiciary from the House of Representatives, from Jim Jordan, 435 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 1: by the way, he's going to come on and talk 436 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:52,920 Speaker 1: about this letter specifically with us next week, directly proves 437 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:57,160 Speaker 1: that Merrick Garland was lying to us, and that if 438 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: you are a dad or mom, I mean, heck, they 439 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,080 Speaker 1: may have a file on me because I spoke out 440 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: and I was angry at my local school board for 441 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,879 Speaker 1: requiring my kids to wear masks. There may be a 442 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: Clay Travis file. There's a lot of moms and dads 443 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 1: out there listening right now who may have also been 444 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 1: investigated by the FBI. Think about where we are in 445 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:20,119 Speaker 1: the Biden administration, that they are investigating parents who had 446 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:24,200 Speaker 1: the gall to speak out against masks inside of schools, 447 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:28,399 Speaker 1: which all of the evidence now proves was essentially worthless. 448 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: It's absolutely absurd. We'll continue to break all this down. 449 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 1: But thanks to a Congressman Jim Jordan and his crew 450 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 1: for getting that letter out, and thanks to the whistleblowers 451 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 1: inside the FBI who are letting us know about actual 452 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: investigations that were opened into moms and dads for their 453 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 1: political opinions that were being expressed at a school board. 454 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 1: Not a surprise right now. Masculinity's under assault in America. Culturally, 455 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 1: it's under the microscope. 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If you 478 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: use my name, you get thirty percent off sitewide. Right now, 479 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: that is Clay talking back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show, 480 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 1: hope all of you are having a fantastic Friday. We're 481 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 1: gonna be joined by the way top of the next hour. 482 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:56,040 Speaker 1: Alex Berenson, who wrote a great book and has got 483 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 1: a fantastic substack basically sharing all the data and you 484 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,959 Speaker 1: know what I saw a data point that is not 485 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: getting very much attention, but CNN itself actually shared it. 486 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 1: Do you know that almost fifty percent of the people 487 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 1: who died with COVID in January were double vaxed. CNN 488 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 1: had a huge article that they had written basically saying 489 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 1: everybody has to go out and get a booster. But 490 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: for a long time, the argument was, oh, you know. Initially, 491 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 1: Joe Biden told us, and continuing our misinformation theme here, 492 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 1: he said, if you get the COVID shot wasn't very 493 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: long ago, you will neither get nor spread COVID ever anymore. 494 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:44,480 Speaker 1: CDC head, Rachelle will Lyinski, everybody, doctor Fauci, they all 495 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 1: spread that. They all said this is the story with 496 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 1: the COVID shot. And then a few months later they 497 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: suddenly came out and they said, well, if you get 498 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 1: the COVID shot, then you can still get and spread COVID, 499 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 1: but the odds are that you're not going to have 500 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,520 Speaker 1: any kind of severe reaction. In fact, Joe Biden in 501 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 1: July of last year specifically said, if you get the 502 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 1: COVID shot, you're not going to die of COVID. Well, 503 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 1: now CNN is coming out and saying, well, the data 504 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 1: now in January actually shows that nearly fifty percent of 505 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: the people that were dying with COVID had been double vaccinated. 506 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 1: And so now they're saying you need to get a 507 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:34,360 Speaker 1: booster shot in order to be protected. But the booster 508 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,560 Speaker 1: shot waynes too, which is why they're now saying you 509 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,880 Speaker 1: need a fifth shot if you're over fifty years old now. 510 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 1: And so we're going to talk about that with Alex 511 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,760 Speaker 1: Barrenson because I'm genuinely curious what the latest data is 512 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:52,080 Speaker 1: showing him as it pertains to these COVID shots and 513 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,720 Speaker 1: the overall rates of COVID, as the Biden White House 514 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,600 Speaker 1: has now come out and said, hey, we may go 515 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 1: one hundred million more cases of COVID could happen this 516 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:04,960 Speaker 1: fall and winter. Kind of what I'm calling the mid 517 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: term variant, because it could give Democrats an opportunity to 518 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 1: argue that they need the changed voting bills in all 519 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,800 Speaker 1: the different states so that they can rig another election 520 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 1: to avoid what might otherwise be a red tide that 521 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,320 Speaker 1: is going to sweep over them. We got open phone 522 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 1: lines we typically do on Friday. We're gonna have some 523 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:28,840 Speaker 1: fun with that is certainly in the third hour, but 524 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,600 Speaker 1: I'll take a couple of your calls here right now. 525 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:35,959 Speaker 1: I believe we have Steven in Allentown, Pennsylvania. You had 526 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:40,080 Speaker 1: a question for me about the overall impact of social media. 527 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,400 Speaker 1: We started the show also talking about the latest drama 528 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,640 Speaker 1: surrounding Elon Musk's potential purchase of Twitter. What have you 529 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:54,640 Speaker 1: got for me, Steven? Appreciate you calling in. I thought 530 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:56,920 Speaker 1: Stephen was there. Potentially he is not. We'll see if 531 00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,240 Speaker 1: he pops up. Okay, we got him. Thanks Steven, What 532 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 1: you got for us? I have a question for you. 533 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,360 Speaker 1: I'm a little bit older than you are, and but 534 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,560 Speaker 1: I have nephews and I'm just curious as far as 535 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:16,160 Speaker 1: a social media goes, how do you how would you 536 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 1: rate people making like important length decisions based on opinions 537 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:28,040 Speaker 1: they receive off social media. I think thanks for the call. 538 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,839 Speaker 1: I understand there's a generational divide in some ways on 539 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,280 Speaker 1: social media, and a lot of times I think younger 540 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,920 Speaker 1: people who are listening to us right now are probably 541 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:37,839 Speaker 1: thinking to themselves. I don't know why I ever paid 542 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 1: as much attention, or do pay as much attention to 543 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,359 Speaker 1: what's going on on Instagram, to what's going on on 544 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,960 Speaker 1: Twitter to what's going on on Facebook. I think a 545 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:49,920 Speaker 1: huge percentage of people make decisions based on social media, 546 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,160 Speaker 1: and I think it's not a surprise that we constantly 547 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:59,080 Speaker 1: see whatever the new trendy topic is surging and becoming 548 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 1: a major issue. For instance, early days of COVID, putting 549 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:09,240 Speaker 1: yourself in a COVID mask was the king of virtue. Signally, 550 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 1: that was the thing that you could do to prove 551 00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,239 Speaker 1: how seriously you were taking COVID compared to everybody else. 552 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,560 Speaker 1: What happened just a couple of months ago, everybody started 553 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 1: bumping out the masks and replacing it with the Ukraine flag. Initially, 554 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,880 Speaker 1: I was of the opinion that we were going to 555 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:32,200 Speaker 1: have a robust and uninhibited, massive marketplace of ideas thanks 556 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,560 Speaker 1: to social media, and in the early days we kind 557 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:38,840 Speaker 1: of did. Unfortunately, what has ended up happening is social 558 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:43,480 Speaker 1: media has become a proxy for one mob after another 559 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:51,480 Speaker 1: to trend and become wildly popular without any real substance 560 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,319 Speaker 1: behind it. So, look, there may be people out there 561 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,520 Speaker 1: right now who are listening, who are teenagers listening on 562 00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:00,280 Speaker 1: a podcast. I would say spend less time worried about 563 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,279 Speaker 1: what people are saying on social media. My advice in 564 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:08,000 Speaker 1: general is why should you care one iota what someone 565 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:11,959 Speaker 1: you doesn't don't know think? So, I mean, I care 566 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,840 Speaker 1: really about the opinion of four people in my life, 567 00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,920 Speaker 1: my wife and my three kids. They're in my house 568 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,960 Speaker 1: all day. I'm responsible for helping to make sure that 569 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,600 Speaker 1: they grow up as kids and also that I provide 570 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:28,000 Speaker 1: for them, and so I care deeply what they think. 571 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,600 Speaker 1: But if you don't live in my house, might care 572 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:35,440 Speaker 1: for what you think of me? Declines precipitously. I think 573 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:40,200 Speaker 1: if everybody did, that becomes a lot better country, because 574 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:43,239 Speaker 1: you're all standing on your individual selves as opposed to 575 00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:46,479 Speaker 1: worrying about what people you never know are thinking about 576 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,000 Speaker 1: you on a day to day basis. Of course, that 577 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,279 Speaker 1: doesn't directly impact being able to say what you think 578 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,239 Speaker 1: every single day, which we do. Sleeve Travis and Buck 579 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,480 Speaker 1: Sexton on the front lines of truth.