1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: All right, second hour, Clay and Buck of course coming 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: to you live and speaking alive. Over at the White House. 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: They're still going with this cabinet meeting. Clay's buddy, he's 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: golf buddy. Perhaps soon Doug Bergham's laying it down right now, 5 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: Dougie B. I don't know if we've called him that yet, 6 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 1: but I think that's kind of a fun one for him. 7 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 1: He's the Interior Secretary, very important job, a lot that 8 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: goes under the umbrella of responsibility for the Interior Secretary. 9 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: Senator Mark I keep doing that. I've just known him 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 1: as Senator Rubio for the whole time I've been in 11 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: media pretty much. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sitting there 12 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:40,239 Speaker 1: as well with Donald Trump. We want to bring you 13 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:43,560 Speaker 1: some of the highlights of what has gone on so far. 14 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 1: And i'd say RFK Junior also sitting next to Doug 15 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: ee b Secretary Burgham, and he's doing his thing. I'm 16 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: surprised not a lot of controversy around RFK Junior. I 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: don't mean on the personal side, but on the policy side. 18 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: I would have thought by now they would be in 19 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: a full fledged freak out over him. But it hasn't 20 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: really happened. Let's dive into what has been going on 21 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 1: here and what they've been saying. As you know, Elon 22 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: Musk is also present at this cabinet meeting, and his 23 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,559 Speaker 1: time with DOJE is as was planned. Don't forget, because 24 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: he's a special government employee or whatever they call it. 25 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: As was planned. He's going to be rotating out and 26 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:32,479 Speaker 1: going back to running his companies. This is cut twenty three. 27 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: Elon says, well, Elon has some high praise for the 28 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 1: Trump administration thus far. Play it. Yeah, the American. 29 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 2: People voted for secure borders, safe cities, and. 30 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: Sensible spending, and that's what they've gotten. 31 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 3: A tremendous fountain has been accomplished in the first hundred days, 32 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 3: and as everyone has said, it's more than an that's 33 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 3: been accomplished. 34 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: In any administration before ever period. 35 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 2: So this pretend very well for what happened for the 36 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 2: rest of the administration. 37 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 3: I think this could be the greatest administration. 38 00:01:59,280 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: On their company. 39 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 2: I've been treated unfairly, but the vast majority of people 40 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 2: in this country really respect and appreciate Youame, and this 41 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 2: whole room can say they're very structured, really been a 42 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 2: tremendous health. He opened up a lot of eyes as 43 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 2: to what could be done, and we just want to 44 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 2: thank you very much, and you know you're invited to 45 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,799 Speaker 2: stay as long as you want. At some point, he 46 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 2: wants to get back. 47 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: Home to his car, Yeah, and his rockets and all 48 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: the other good stuff. Clake, I think it's important context 49 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 1: because Elon is not a guy who accepts less than 50 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: the best. It's been one hundred days. Trump's doing the 51 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: things he said he would do. There has been some 52 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: excellent progress, but you can't slay all the dragons the 53 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,079 Speaker 1: first time you pick up the sword. Yeah, and again, 54 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: I think the biggest story of Trump's hundred days is 55 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: that he tried. He is trying to fix things that 56 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: most politicians would not touch. And this is important because 57 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,359 Speaker 1: it's what you should want. I want politicians to do, 58 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: but most of them are so concerned with getting re 59 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: elected that they aren't willing to actually get that far 60 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 1: out in front of making substantial change. And you and 61 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: I have talked about this a lot, and I think 62 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: it comes up frequently. What Elon has done is what 63 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: we should want incredibly talented people from a wide variety 64 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: of backgrounds to be willing to do. It's what Pete 65 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: Hegseth did, It's what Sean Duffy did. If you are 66 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 1: having and this is my opinion, some of you may disagree, 67 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: but if you are fortunate enough to have success in 68 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: whatever your private endeavor is, Elon is the most successful 69 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: capitalist maybe in the history of the world. I want 70 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 1: to reiterate that because I think sometimes it gets lost. 71 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 1: Elon may well be the most successful capitalist in the 72 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: history of the world. 73 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 3: Buck. 74 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: I mean, certainly on a dollar value, no one has 75 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: been wealthier. Now you can argue hey, historically on inflation 76 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: adjusted Bassis, John D. Rockefeller, some of the people in 77 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: the late nineteenth century early twentieth century may have had 78 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: higher share of wealth, the Stanfords, the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers, 79 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: the people who endowed so many different institutions. But when 80 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: you think about Tesla, SpaceX XAAI, Twitter, and the Boring Company, 81 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 1: among many others, I don't know that there is anyone 82 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: in the history of American capitalism or world capitalism that 83 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:35,159 Speaker 1: has been more successful than Elon Is. He had no reason, Buck, 84 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 1: other than his belief that he had an incredible ability 85 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,359 Speaker 1: of talent to bring the bear at the government to 86 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 1: leave what he was doing and making money into it. 87 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: Look at Hegseth and people are coming after Hegseth like crazy. 88 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,719 Speaker 1: He was making several million dollars a year doing Fox 89 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 1: and Friends' weekend hits as a host and also then 90 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: doing lots of different hits on Fox News, and he 91 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: gave that up to make a couple hundred thousand dollars 92 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: to be Defense Secretary. Sean Duffy was making really good 93 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: money hosting a show on Fox Business. He gave that 94 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: up to go be Transportation Secretary. Donald Trump himself was 95 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: rolling in billions of dollars, had an easy lifestyle. Everyone 96 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 1: loved him. He was one of the most popular entrepreneurs 97 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 1: and capitalists in the entire world. And he decided that 98 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: he didn't like the way America was going and he 99 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 1: was willing to put his hat in the ring and 100 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: take the slings and arrows from other people. There are 101 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 1: tons of those people, Lutnick Besant, people who were wildly 102 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:39,119 Speaker 1: successful outside of the government that have decided to bring 103 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,280 Speaker 1: their talents to bear at the government. I think it's 104 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 1: probably the most underreported, underdiscussed aspect of Trump cabinet. Two 105 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 1: point zero. I'm not sure we've ever seen a more 106 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: successful gathering of people from outside the government than what 107 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,279 Speaker 1: Trump has brought to bear so far in this group 108 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 1: that was meeting right now in the last couple of hours. 109 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,919 Speaker 1: Now I met will bring more of the highlights to 110 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,719 Speaker 1: you as it continues to unfold. But a couple of 111 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: things that have come up. One is you may have 112 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: seen that the US economy had a zero point three 113 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 1: percent decline in GDP in the first quarter. Now remember 114 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: two Remember when two quarters of negative of negative growth 115 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 1: under Biden was a recession. But then they said, well 116 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: is that really a recession? And we all had to 117 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: debate what the definition of a recession was. They're going 118 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:29,159 Speaker 1: to seize on this. They're trying to seize on this 119 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 1: to say that Trump, his economy is actually not going 120 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: to be strong with the American people. You all know, 121 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: we all understand where this is going. But Trump had 122 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,919 Speaker 1: this to say about the GDP number, and he's not 123 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: mincing words. This is twenty four core GDP and this is. 124 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 2: You know, you've probably said some numbers today and have 125 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 2: to start up. 126 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: I say, and that's Biden, that's not Trump. 127 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 2: Because we came in on January, just quarterly numbers, and 128 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 2: we came in and I was very against everything that 129 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 2: Biden was doing in terms of the eccount. I mean, 130 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 2: destroying our country in so many ways, not only at 131 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 2: the border. The border was more obvious, but we took 132 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 2: over his mess in so many different ways. Cored GDP, 133 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 2: removing distortions from imports, inventories, and government spending was up 134 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 2: plus three percent when you edit. We had numbers that 135 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 2: despite what we were handed, we turned them around, that 136 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 2: we were getting them really turned around. 137 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: Now, I would just say I think it is it 138 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: is fair that Donald Trump is well, he's saying, look, 139 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: we came in in the middle of in the middle 140 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: of the quarter, which is true, or you know, early 141 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: mid to the quarter, and he's only been president for 142 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: one hundred days. So we have to see how a 143 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: lot of this plays out. If Trump could snap it 144 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: because he's snapped, I would say this glay because he 145 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: snapped his fingers in essence. And the border has been fixed, 146 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: not immigration. We still have all the deportations and illegal 147 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: immigration issue, but the border issue, border security has been 148 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: largely ninety five percent is pretty much fixed. I almost 149 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: feel like he's a victim of his own success. Because 150 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 1: he snaps his finger and fixes the border, he can't 151 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: snap his fingers and fix the economy. And especially when 152 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: you look at the dead and spending in these things 153 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: that have been built up over decades, it's gonna take 154 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: a little time. I do think that's fair context for 155 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: this number that has just come out. 156 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 3: I don't think there's any doubt at all. 157 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: And I just think overall the battle out there as 158 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 1: they are trying to attack Trump. You know, we talked 159 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: about the polling numbers yesterday, Buck, and I do think 160 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:37,199 Speaker 1: this is important. Is there anybody within twenty points popularity 161 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: wise in the Democrat Party that is eligible to run 162 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 1: for office with Trump? Because historically, with Biden, we knew 163 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 1: Trump was gonna run, so you could always kind of 164 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: compare with Biden, and then with Kamala, there was somebody 165 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 1: that you could put up head to head. I'm not 166 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 1: even sure right now who you would point to in 167 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: the Democrat Party and say this person is even on 168 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: an even remotely close to an even playing field with 169 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:09,319 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's popularity. And so the attack now is, Oh, 170 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: the things that Trump is doing are unpopular, and I 171 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 1: think they've had some success going after Elon and I 172 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: hope it doesn't discourage other highly successful businessmen from coming 173 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:24,200 Speaker 1: into government, but unfortunately, I think it probably will, and 174 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: I think that's part of the intent. But I don't 175 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 1: know who you would even point to and say, in 176 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 1: these hundred days, this person has been elevated as the 177 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 1: foil for Trump. District court judges, but there's hundreds of them. 178 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 1: There isn't really any challenger of Trump, even if his 179 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: agenda is not wildly popular in the marketplace right now. 180 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 3: Does that make sense? 181 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: Like I don't even see a conflict of ideas that's 182 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 1: possible because Democrats, it sort of feels, are drunkenly jumping 183 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 1: from oh, we're gonna go with a Breo Garcia, Oh 184 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 1: we're gonna go with the cost of eggs. Oh the 185 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: stock market is not in an ideal position, and they 186 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: just kind of drunkenly move swerve from one argument to another, 187 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: and there is no uniting coalition of opposition behind it. 188 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 3: Does that make sense? 189 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 1: Which I think is only fracturing even more, And I 190 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 1: think it's gonna get worse because I think the economy 191 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 1: is going to be getting better in the months ahead. 192 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: Now China obviously looms large in all of this, with 193 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: the economy, with the tariffs, and this is really I 194 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:36,200 Speaker 1: think for in my view, i'd be interesting. This would 195 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: be an interesting question to ask Trump. I'd love to hear. Well, 196 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: we'll talk to him. I think we're gonna go see 197 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 1: the big guy in June. Clay and I've been talking 198 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:43,319 Speaker 1: about this. We were going to see them and see 199 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 1: him sooner and his team. But you know, I've got 200 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: a little human who is very dependent on mom and 201 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 1: dad to be around, well, particularly mom, let's be honest, 202 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 1: but I try to help out. So Clay has graciously 203 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: agreed to let us push this back to probably June. 204 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: I think we'll do our time with the President and 205 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 1: some of his team, but I would want to ask him. 206 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: I think that in Trump's mind, he has defeated the 207 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 1: fake news media, which is which I think is a 208 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: totally fair assessment. I think he has defeated the Democrat Party, right, 209 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:14,720 Speaker 1: He's not running again. He won twice. He I know 210 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: some of you're saying he won three times, but he 211 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:20,599 Speaker 1: won twice officially. And now I think he views his 212 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 1: primary challenge as China. I don't think he thinks the 213 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: Democrats are who he really has to focus on as 214 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: much anymore. I think he's really viewing China and the 215 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 1: future of the China US relationship and our ability to 216 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 1: compete and continue to be the dominant global force that 217 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 1: we are is a huge part of Trump's legacy, so 218 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 1: he sees this as important. I don't think he wants 219 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:48,400 Speaker 1: to have an unnecessarily bellakos relationship with China. He just 220 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: wants us to be well positioned and he wants things 221 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: to be fair. He spoke about this in this cabinet meeting. 222 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 1: This is cut twenty five. 223 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 2: I know that China is doing very poorly right now. 224 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 2: I just saw some reports coming out and I don't. 225 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:00,559 Speaker 1: Want that to happen into China. 226 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 2: I like the president a lot, Presidentcy I don't want 227 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:06,440 Speaker 2: it to happen. I was. I was actually sanden to 228 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 2: hear it. But they are getting absolutely hammered in China. 229 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 2: And you know, they're sending boats, the biggest boats in 230 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:16,959 Speaker 2: the world, carrying cargo like nobody's ever seen before. These 231 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 2: are the biggest boats in the world, the biggest cargo 232 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,079 Speaker 2: ships in the world, and they're coming and they're turning 233 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:23,559 Speaker 2: around in the Pacific ocean. They're doing a big view 234 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:25,839 Speaker 2: turn and going back because they don't want to do 235 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 2: this because one hundred and forty five percent TARA. But 236 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 2: at a certain point, I hope we're going to make 237 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 2: a deal with China. We're talking to China, but their 238 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:35,720 Speaker 2: factories are closing all over China because we're not taking 239 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 2: their product. We don't want their product unless they're going 240 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 2: to be fair with us, and that includes intellectual property 241 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 2: and other things. There are a lot of things far 242 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,679 Speaker 2: beyond just by seal Clay. 243 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:47,680 Speaker 1: He said, Look, he doesn't want to get into a 244 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: bare knuckle brawl for the foreseeable future with China over trade. 245 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: All they have to do is change some behavior and 246 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: we can all be nice. As Trump would say, I 247 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: will be very surprised if by August this isn't all right. 248 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 1: You can put me down on the prediction market. By August, 249 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: I think we'll get through the summer. I think what 250 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:08,000 Speaker 1: you will start to see in the next few days 251 00:13:08,240 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 1: is a lot of these new trade agreements will be 252 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:14,120 Speaker 1: rolled out, and they'll be better, and they'll be more efficient, 253 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,319 Speaker 1: and the market is going to come to realize that 254 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 1: this is not the end of the world, and I 255 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 1: think by August China and the United States will have 256 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 1: in some way come to an agreement. 257 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 3: That's my bet. 258 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,319 Speaker 1: I think they want to get this thing resolved before 259 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: we get into the holiday season, because you need some 260 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:36,960 Speaker 1: finality and certainty as you are getting retail set up 261 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 1: for the holiday season, which now buck by September, there 262 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: Christmas tree showing up in costcos you know, the Christmas 263 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:47,679 Speaker 1: creep gets here sooner and sooner, and I think that 264 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,679 Speaker 1: will be a time when we will have some resolution. 265 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 1: So I don't think this thing is going to stretch 266 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: on forever. I think both sides are going to sit 267 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: down at the table. I think we'll get a better 268 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: deal than we have right now, and by this summer, 269 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:04,319 Speaker 1: I think you will start to see the larger marketplace 270 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:08,199 Speaker 1: start to fire. I also think our boy Jerome Powell, 271 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 1: inflation is coming down. He needs to cut rates, and 272 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,079 Speaker 1: there's now a prediction of four rate cuts before the end. 273 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: I think Goldman's newest forecast is that four rate cuts, 274 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: a total point rate cut that will also start to 275 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: juice the economy, maybe free up the housing market or 276 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 1: so many of you out there sitting on those two 277 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: and a half or three percent mortgages. Congrats, but it's 278 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: been a while now and the marketplace needs to kind 279 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,480 Speaker 1: of start to work through the housing inventory. It's still frozen. 280 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 1: A point change and interest rates I think could start 281 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: to loosen that some many dedicated first responders and service members, 282 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: like Austin Reese have paid a high price for the 283 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: safety and freedom we enjoy. Austin served three deployments to 284 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: a rock, spending thirteen years with the Navy Explosive Ordnance 285 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 1: Disposal Unit. He learned a skydive on the job and 286 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: became a military free fall instructor. 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People 303 00:15:57,440 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 1: are fired up because I said nobody would live there 304 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 1: if we had settled west to east. How dare you, 305 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 1: Southern fellow? How dare you? I'm just saying the West 306 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 1: Coast is better than the East Coast geographically, weather wise, 307 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 1: weather wise Northeast. I like, well, anyway, here is Henry, Syracuse, 308 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 1: New York. 309 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 3: He's upset. BB Let's hear. 310 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:19,520 Speaker 1: What he says. 311 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 4: Hey, I gotta tell you, as someone who lives in 312 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 4: upstate New York, your theory and the least populated place 313 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 4: in the Northeast would not withstand. The reason is why 314 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 4: is because of the amount of freshwater we have here. 315 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 4: They don't have any water out west. They would go 316 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 4: and look and find water and end up here. 317 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: You don't don't mess with my upstate New York fan 318 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: and think that you're gonna get away with that. Mister Tennessee, 319 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: all right, you leave us northeasterners alone. I think there 320 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: would have been plenty of water for the early settlers 321 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: who were on the West. Like I don't remember people 322 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 1: dying of lack of water in San Francisco or Los 323 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: Angeles back in the day. Now the cities have grown 324 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: so much that there is a massive demand for water now, 325 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: and that's actually a huge issue. It's certain, let's sake, 326 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: let's get James and Houston in real quick. 327 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 4: Here. 328 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: He also takes issue with Clay's offhand comment, go ahead, James, 329 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:20,640 Speaker 1: do we have James? 330 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 5: Through history? Yeah? Through history, commerce in trade has determined 331 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 5: where population cities are. If we were still trading with Europe, 332 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 5: East would be the place people would live. I mean, 333 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 5: if you look at cities like Chicago and Houston, what 334 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:39,640 Speaker 5: has made them it's trade, Their access to the waterways. 335 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,920 Speaker 5: New Orleans is the same way you can go back 336 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 5: in history. Jerusalem was founded as a trade posting with Damascus. 337 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,639 Speaker 5: That is where people settle. It has nothing to do 338 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:52,919 Speaker 5: with weather. If it did, Houston would not have the 339 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:53,919 Speaker 5: population they did. 340 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: James, James, I love it. I'm just gonna say, what 341 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: what rivers does Clay have in Tennessee, not the cool 342 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 1: ones that we do in the Northeast. I love James's call. 343 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,920 Speaker 1: I might have to respond to James's argument on why 344 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:08,679 Speaker 1: I think I'm right when we come back. But in 345 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:10,439 Speaker 1: the meantime, I don't know how many of you out 346 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: there love Major League Baseball. 347 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 3: I do. 348 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:16,160 Speaker 1: My Atlanta Braves started off oh to seven, not ideal, 349 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: not ideal, But thanks to the fact that Denver has 350 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,119 Speaker 1: maybe with the Colorado Rockies, the worst baseball team of 351 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 1: all time, my Braves are about to be back to 352 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 1: five hundred. 353 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:28,680 Speaker 3: Sorry Colorado Rocky fans out there, and a. 354 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: Lot of you out there, big NBA fans, big NHL fans, 355 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,760 Speaker 1: whatever the local team that you follow, MLB, NHL, Major 356 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 1: League Baseball, NBA, whatever you like. You can get hooked 357 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 1: up right now with price Picks. Go to pricepicks dot 358 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 1: com code Clay. You get fifty bucks when you play 359 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 1: five dollars. California would have been the most settled state 360 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,520 Speaker 1: if we'd gone west to East Texas, Georgia. All of 361 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: you can play along prize picks dot Com Code Clay, 362 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,240 Speaker 1: Welcome back into Clay and Buck. Trump still going strong 363 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 1: here with the cab meetings, so we'll continue to watch 364 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:06,399 Speaker 1: that for notable moments. Right now, he's taking questions from reporters. 365 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: He's got the whole team around him, Secretary of State, 366 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: Secretary of Defense, Interior, go down the line, everybody is 367 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:16,919 Speaker 1: there and they're taking questions in real time from reporter. 368 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,639 Speaker 1: So we'll continue to follow bring you those highlights. But 369 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 1: we are monitoring now. The team is keeping an eye 370 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 1: on everything, and we've got, you know, a great radio team, 371 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:27,120 Speaker 1: so they'll make sure that anything that you need to hear, 372 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 1: we will bring to you. I have a couple of 373 00:19:29,359 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 1: things here. One is Clay wants to respond. I thought 374 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 1: our caller, James from Houston was erudite. I thought he 375 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 1: was on point and describing how despite what Clay may think. 376 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:43,719 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna let you guys on a little secret. 377 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:47,400 Speaker 1: Clay wears flip flops like all the time, Okay, all 378 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:50,359 Speaker 1: the time. Now, if you were to wear flip flops constantly, 379 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,439 Speaker 1: you too would probably think that weather was the most 380 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: important determination for where you would live. He also wears 381 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 1: shorts a lot. I'm just gonna say it. He's a 382 00:19:58,880 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 1: shorts and flip flops. 383 00:19:59,800 --> 00:19:59,919 Speaker 5: God. 384 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: I live in Miami, and I'm gonna say I think 385 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:03,160 Speaker 1: I wear pants more than Clay does. 386 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 3: Probably true. 387 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: Probably true. But our caller says that commerce, waterways, proximity 388 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 1: to Europe and the and the trading relationship there more 389 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: important than sunny California weather. If the set if we 390 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 1: could have settled differently, Clay, you want to respond to 391 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:26,840 Speaker 1: this scholarly, I will say scholarly phone call. 392 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,360 Speaker 3: Receive very good call from Houston. Here is my argument. 393 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:36,199 Speaker 1: If we had settled west to east, then their relationships 394 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 1: with Asia would have been more paramount than our relationships 395 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 1: with Europe ended up being. 396 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 3: Now that becomes Competifi's. 397 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 1: A lot, a lot bigger, a lot more time to traverse, 398 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 1: so that would have been far more complicated. But okay, 399 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: I'll let you keep rolling on this second part of this. 400 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:55,679 Speaker 1: He is correct. I am a nerd about transportation. There 401 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:57,439 Speaker 1: are a lot of things that I care way too 402 00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 1: much about that embarrass my kids and my wife. 403 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 3: When it comes to just nerdy things. 404 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: I am like James, where I will drive through a 405 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: city and I will regularly talk to my kids about 406 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:12,159 Speaker 1: two things that drive them crazy. One is transportation and 407 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 1: why cities exist where they are. And it is correct. 408 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 1: The rivers and streams were the initial highways of America 409 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 1: and typically many of our cities now which people don't 410 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 1: think about, were located in places where ships could easily 411 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: pull up and disgorge their goods. Right, So I lived 412 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,639 Speaker 1: in the Caribbean for instance. For any of you that 413 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,640 Speaker 1: have ever been to Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands, I'm 414 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,640 Speaker 1: still a licensed attorney there as well. If you get 415 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 1: into trouble place, to be your first call at Saint Thomas, 416 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: I would be an amazing Saint Thomas lawyer. Uh if 417 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: you pull in and uh you pull in there at 418 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,160 Speaker 1: a cruise ship, it's kind of crazy. The reason why 419 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 1: Saint Thomas is a popular Caribbean destination to this day 420 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:05,399 Speaker 1: is because it has a natural deep water port. That is, 421 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 1: you're able to pull in a ship and go right 422 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: up to the water and take off all of the 423 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: goods on that ship. 424 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 3: It's actually very rare if you think about it. 425 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: Most places like the land slopes down very gradually. It's 426 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,520 Speaker 1: how a beach would work, right like you come in 427 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 1: or it's right up against a rock formation in Saint Thomas. 428 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:28,639 Speaker 1: The reason why it's still a popular port in the 429 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 1: Caribbeans to this day for carnival cruise ships, Royal Caribbean, 430 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 1: whatever else, is because you can pull a huge cruise 431 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 1: ship up and actually disembark right on the land. 432 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 3: Very rare. Doesn't exist very many places. 433 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 1: That is also why New York City is popular today 434 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: as it is as a harbor. That is why Charleston 435 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: is popular. These places along the coast had more access 436 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 1: to ships. So our caller this is probably again I 437 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 1: think about this a great deal embarrassingly such the caller 438 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,719 Speaker 1: is not wrong. However, if you think about when we 439 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:05,200 Speaker 1: finally got to the West, it was not until basically 440 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 1: the railroad era. Really you needed trains, you needed trains. 441 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,120 Speaker 1: This but this goes to I think his first of all, 442 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 1: I like, how excited about geography nerdom you're getting here 443 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 1: because I transportation and shipping costs and all of these things. 444 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,400 Speaker 1: Love the love the geography. The issue that you would 445 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,359 Speaker 1: have if California and the West Coast had been settled first, 446 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 1: I think is first starting off Asia, the Pacific, far bigger, 447 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: more complicated, more time consuming, just in terms of transport 448 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,880 Speaker 1: than getting from Europe to hear right, But put put 449 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,199 Speaker 1: that aside. Now we're talking about the land mass the 450 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: and I know some of you are like, Buck, why 451 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 1: are you taking shots at Tennessee's river? We had the 452 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,080 Speaker 1: Tennessee River, the Cumberland River, I know, but I just 453 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: wanted to poke at Clay for a second because he 454 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: was talking smack about the great river network in the 455 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: state of Tennessee. Quite quite fond of our river network, 456 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:56,239 Speaker 1: the original before the before the locomotive comes along. Right, 457 00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 1: the most important things for commerce by far, not even close. 458 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 1: Really all commerce in essence, I mean all meaningful tonnage 459 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,919 Speaker 1: of commerce. When you're looking at tonnage, it has to 460 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,480 Speaker 1: be via rivers. This is why the Hudson River, which 461 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: is now just a place that people think is pretty 462 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 1: in New York, in the Hudson Valley, Hudson River was 463 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 1: the most important waterway in the early era of this 464 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 1: of North America by far, right, Which is why West 465 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: Point and Bennet mcdarnold and all that was so important 466 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:26,919 Speaker 1: as well, because if you could have cut off access 467 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 1: to the Hudson River, you would have maybe been able 468 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: to end the and the War, the war, the insurrection 469 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 1: if you will, against the British, and then you get 470 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 1: into the Great Lakes, the Great Lakes which because of 471 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 1: the canal Canal Erie Canal, and then gets us into Chicago, 472 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:46,120 Speaker 1: Chicago named for I think in Algonquin word for stinky onion, Chicaqua, 473 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 1: and the Mississippi River base and a lot I don't 474 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 1: I was gonna get there, and you get the Louisiana Purchase, 475 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:57,160 Speaker 1: and the Mississippi River Basin is probably the most impressive. 476 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,560 Speaker 1: It's like God's or you know, God slash Nature's same 477 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:05,560 Speaker 1: thing highway system that we inherited with the Louisiana Purchase, 478 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 1: which is the most impressive system of rivers. I mean, 479 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 1: you've got some pretty good stuff in Europe too, but 480 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 1: our navigable rivers, because of the Mississippi River Basin, were 481 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 1: incredible for commerce and allowed for the phase settlement of 482 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 1: this country to be as successful as it was. And 483 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 1: the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which I have argued should 484 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,120 Speaker 1: be a program and would immediately become the most popular 485 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,199 Speaker 1: show in America if they would make it, and I've 486 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 1: been arguing that for four years on this program. Buck 487 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 1: the entire purpose of the Lewis and Clark expedition from 488 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:40,159 Speaker 1: a business perspective, other than mapping and checking floora at 489 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 1: fauna and different animals, was to see if there was 490 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,680 Speaker 1: a way to go across the entire continent and access 491 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 1: the Pacific Ocean. Was there a major river that could 492 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,880 Speaker 1: act as a highway? Now back to James's point, Yeah, wait, 493 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 1: wait minute, I got something on James's point too, though, 494 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: Clay to your theory though, I'm just throwing it out there, 495 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 1: mister flip flops. California so nice. You're an early settler, 496 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: pre railroad for railroads changed the game, right, You're a 497 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 1: pre railroad. You're in California. It's all beautiful and nice. 498 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,360 Speaker 1: What happens when you find yourself in Nevada, no offense, Nevada, 499 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 1: not throwing shade. What happens when you're in the desert 500 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:20,119 Speaker 1: surrounded by rattle snakes in HeLa, monsters in Arizona. You know, 501 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,240 Speaker 1: like this is would have been This would have been tough, 502 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 1: not sledding, because it's not sledding, you know what I mean. 503 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 3: This would have been to go That's my argument. 504 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 1: You would turn back and be like, why would I 505 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 1: leave the Garden of Eden, you would stay on the 506 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,920 Speaker 1: West coast. But by the time we got to settling 507 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: the West coast, and I'm leaving aside the Oregon Trail 508 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,360 Speaker 1: and all of that era, we had moved, to call 509 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 1: her James's point, from a predominantly ocean and ship based 510 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 1: commerce system to the trans Continental Railroad, which then became 511 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:56,159 Speaker 1: at that point in time around you know, the eighteen sixties, 512 00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: during the Civil War, the railroad system took over to 513 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,360 Speaker 1: such an extent that whether you had a railroad stop 514 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:08,159 Speaker 1: became the foundation of your city's success, such that we 515 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 1: have a lot of cities then that grew up that 516 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:15,640 Speaker 1: were not necessarily located on rivers and streams that were 517 00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: the primary source of distribution. So you end up with 518 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 1: a lot of different cities that have blown up in 519 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:27,159 Speaker 1: an era where the railroad was the primary transportation and 520 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 1: communication hub. So I think by the time we got 521 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,159 Speaker 1: all the way to the east coast, my point is, 522 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 1: it would have been a situation where the railroad. 523 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 3: Would have become more predominant than the rivers and streams. 524 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 1: Well, I agree with James from Houston. So now I'm 525 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 1: going to throw something else your way and we just 526 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:45,920 Speaker 1: want to get some of you fired up over this. 527 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,440 Speaker 1: I remember there was a conversation we had on this show. Well, Clint, 528 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 1: I actually agreed. I like it when I got to 529 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,240 Speaker 1: disagree with them and we get to fight it out 530 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 1: on the air. But I actually agree with them that 531 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 1: the expectation that most people have that you should be 532 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 1: picked up from the airport in the era of Uber, 533 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,960 Speaker 1: especially in major metropolitan area, it up over this. 534 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 3: This is a little bit. 535 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,399 Speaker 1: I agreed. Yeah, I agree with Clay. I'm like, this 536 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: is you know, my family just came to visit. I 537 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 1: was like, great, take an uber. I'm happy to send 538 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,400 Speaker 1: the uber for anyone, happy to set it up. It's 539 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 1: not that, but don't make me drive in rush hour 540 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: traffic in Miami to the airport and then drive in 541 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,439 Speaker 1: rush hour because there's nothing but traffic here when it's 542 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 1: rush hour. Just like a lot of other you want 543 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,119 Speaker 1: to go to JFK Airport in New York at the 544 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 1: wrong time. You know, I hope you brought some snacks 545 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: because you're going to be on that highway trying to 546 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,880 Speaker 1: get yourself to the airport for about two hours. Okay, 547 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,440 Speaker 1: it's a nightmare, all right. That was something that a 548 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 1: lot of you disagree with us on. That's fine. That 549 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 1: was Anyone who agreed with us was right, who disagree 550 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: was wrong, Clay, more than a third of people, according 551 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 1: to the New York Post here and new data that 552 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: has been put out of a poll of two thousand adults. 553 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 1: So they really they decided to really go after this 554 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 1: with a new study. A third of people thirty eight 555 00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:01,960 Speaker 1: percent hate being asked to move right so moving by 556 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: either family or friends, to move your residence, to move 557 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 1: your domicile thirty eight percent. I just want to throw 558 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 1: this out there, Clay. If I had a choice between 559 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 1: you calling me and saying, hey, buddy, I need help moving, 560 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: or Hey buddy, don't tell Laura, I'm stuck in Tijuana 561 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 1: and I need you to come and bribe the police 562 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 1: to get me out of here before anyone finds out. 563 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 1: I think I'm taking door number two. Moving is the 564 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,960 Speaker 1: absolute worst, and unless you are an immediate family member 565 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 1: or romantically involved with somebody, I think asking them to 566 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 1: help you move is just going way too far. I 567 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 1: think there's reasons why we got moving companies. This is 568 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 1: a good test for how pretty the girl is or 569 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 1: how much the guy likes you, because there's no guy 570 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,200 Speaker 1: who's like, yeah, you know what I want to spend 571 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: Saturday Sunday doing moving a bunch of stuff from one 572 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 1: apartment to another in a city. I have been in 573 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,720 Speaker 1: this situation college age. A lot of you have where 574 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 1: you're in your twenties and your moving from one place 575 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: to another. Juez just carry stuff across Washington, d C. 576 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 1: Because it's so expensive to rent moving vans that we 577 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: would just I remember carrying multiple mattresses just from one 578 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: side of DC to another on the street with like 579 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:19,960 Speaker 1: just a couple of guys like, hey, we're just gonna 580 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 1: throw this in the you know, like we're literally gonna 581 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 1: carry this rather than try to move it. I agree 582 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: completely that this is bad. I think it's probably the 583 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 1: number one thing that people ask for you to do, 584 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 1: and you're like, you probably have you ever been asked 585 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 1: to help somebody move and you were just like, sorry, 586 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 1: hard pass, can't do it. 587 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 3: I haven't been asked since. 588 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,400 Speaker 1: You know. What's funny is we're in the process of 589 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: moving and it's gonna take like eight months. I have 590 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,040 Speaker 1: no idea when the new house is gonna be done, 591 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 1: but I am already thinking my boys, my two oldest, 592 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: seventeen and fourteen year old. I'm like, these guys should 593 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 1: be carrying everything now. They're the ones who are always 594 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 1: doing push ups. They're trying to impress girls by getting 595 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 1: in shape. I've been married twenty one years. I'm getting 596 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 1: to be an old guy. They should be in charge 597 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,959 Speaker 1: between the two of them now of moving everything. I'm 598 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 1: starting to feel a little bit like a farmer buck. 599 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 1: Remember back in the day, you had a lot of 600 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,600 Speaker 1: kids because you just needed labor at the farm. We 601 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 1: don't have a farm, but for the move process, I 602 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 1: think I'm gonna put the Travis boys to work and 603 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,600 Speaker 1: dear boys do daily chores or daily chores, something that 604 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:29,640 Speaker 1: you assign them or not really they so to their credit, 605 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 1: they are really good kids, and they spend way more 606 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: time at school than we ever. 607 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 3: I don't know about you. 608 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 1: They leave at six am and they do not get 609 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 1: home at the end of the day some days till 610 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,880 Speaker 1: like six thirty or seven o'clock at night because they 611 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 1: have so many different obligations at school. I think we 612 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 1: layer more stuff on kids now than we did then. 613 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,280 Speaker 1: So they have obligations around the house, but they're not 614 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 1: massively substantial. And my wife would say, if she were 615 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,480 Speaker 1: listening right now, that the miss of being a mom 616 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 1: of three boys who are two teenagers and me, who 617 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 1: was probably the one that she would say is the 618 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 1: most difficult is she basically lives in a frat house. 619 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:15,240 Speaker 1: And like all frat houses, my boys basically live in 620 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,280 Speaker 1: a pig style all the time. So there is pizza 621 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:23,160 Speaker 1: boxes everywhere, there are potato chip bags. The beer obviously 622 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 1: is not started. But I told my wife's joking with 623 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,680 Speaker 1: my wife the other day, I was like, you never 624 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 1: wanted to. You know, no girl ever once when she 625 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:32,719 Speaker 1: walked into a frat house. They're never like, oh, this 626 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,280 Speaker 1: is amazing. You know, sorority house is really nice, pretty 627 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:39,160 Speaker 1: well kept. Frat houses are all just dee dumps. She 628 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 1: now lives in a frat house because the boys are messes. 629 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 1: And then you layer it on with me. I'll put 630 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 1: this out there for any of you. What are the 631 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,320 Speaker 1: rules for who you can or you should or should 632 00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,880 Speaker 1: not ask to help you move? Do you agree with 633 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 1: me that it is immediate family love interest and that 634 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 1: is it? Or would you ask a good buddy? Okay? 635 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,160 Speaker 1: Like I said, Clay tells me that he's in prison 636 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,440 Speaker 1: in Beijing. He's a tourist over there, and he needs 637 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,480 Speaker 1: me to make calls to State department, fly over, do 638 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: a little you know, hostage trade fine Clay says, I 639 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 1: need you to help me move buck. I don't know Jesse. 640 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 1: Kelly's tall, He's probably got good leverage. Call him like 641 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,360 Speaker 1: I just think the rules here need to be pretty clear. 642 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 1: But what do you think eight hundred two two eight 643 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 1: a two will take it. I think you have to 644 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,360 Speaker 1: be friends with somebody for a long time in order 645 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,880 Speaker 1: to ask them to help you move. I gotta tell 646 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,920 Speaker 1: you a lot of challenges going on right now in 647 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:37,080 Speaker 1: the Middle East. As many of you know right now, 648 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:41,120 Speaker 1: every single day there is a new story about missiles 649 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,160 Speaker 1: being fired, about the need for bomb shelters. 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Welcome back 672 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,319 Speaker 1: in great email here from Jennings. 673 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:12,959 Speaker 3: Jennings says Buck. 674 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:17,240 Speaker 1: Friends help you move real friends, help you move bodies. 675 00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,440 Speaker 3: Oh whoa Okay. 676 00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,319 Speaker 1: That is when you know you got somebody who's in 677 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,640 Speaker 1: your proverbial foxhole. If you show up with the dead 678 00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,680 Speaker 1: body and you're like, hey, I got to move something 679 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:31,520 Speaker 1: and you're like, what you moving to a new apartment, 680 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,839 Speaker 1: no dead body and they grab a shovel. That's how 681 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:36,640 Speaker 1: you become accomplished. And it's been the rest of your life 682 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:40,319 Speaker 1: in prison too if you get caught. Just FYI, I 683 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:41,920 Speaker 1: wanted to play this for you. We'll have some more 684 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,479 Speaker 1: fun talking about this this moving ridiculousness. But I did 685 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 1: hear this last night, and I thought it was such 686 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,400 Speaker 1: a well said by Giannis out of Kimpo, who is 687 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,439 Speaker 1: a basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks. Buck you even 688 00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,040 Speaker 1: saw this. In fact, I don't know that we're gonna 689 00:35:58,040 --> 00:35:59,279 Speaker 1: have time to play it. We'll play it in the 690 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,560 Speaker 1: third hour because we've got a short turn here. Instead, 691 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,560 Speaker 1: I will tell you you're going to enjoy. Trust me what 692 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:07,840 Speaker 1: he said, and I think it's emblematic of sometimes a 693 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,719 Speaker 1: decision being made about who to put forward as your 694 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:15,080 Speaker 1: front facing brand. NBA would have done a lot better. 695 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:16,880 Speaker 1: I think if they've made Yannis the face of the 696 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,160 Speaker 1: league instead of Lebron. Talk about that a little bit 697 00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:21,800 Speaker 1: third hour. By the way, we're also going to be 698 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,600 Speaker 1: joined by Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. She is a big 699 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,480 Speaker 1: fan of the Cumberland River, Tennessee River and many other 700 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,719 Speaker 1: of the lakes and waterways in our fair state of 701 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,319 Speaker 1: Tennessee that I call home. We will talk to her 702 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,239 Speaker 1: at two thirty East coast time, and we've got a 703 00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:40,040 Speaker 1: couple of other stories that are out there. Hakeem Jefferies 704 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,200 Speaker 1: will update you that. But Tim Walls when we come 705 00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:46,560 Speaker 1: back Buck. Tim Walls says Kamala Harris picked him because 706 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:50,280 Speaker 1: she needed to speak to white guys who like football. 707 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,840 Speaker 1: This is real audio. I'm gonna play it for you 708 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:53,560 Speaker 1: and when we return