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

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show. We hope all of you had fantastic weekends

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Speaker 1: and you are ready to fight for sanity and justice

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Speaker 1: in an insane and often unjust world with us all

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Speaker 1: week long. We have got a ton to discuss with you.

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Speaker 1: Among what will be on tap today, Shanghai. This is

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Speaker 1: a mess. The lockdowns in China zero COVID is turning

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Speaker 1: into an albatross for the Chinese government, title forty two

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Speaker 1: down at the border, mask mandates on airlines. Potentially, it

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Speaker 1: seems going to be extended. Hillary still out there viral clips,

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Speaker 1: even if it's a couple of years old, talking about

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Speaker 1: the election being stolen from her. Elon Musk turns down

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Speaker 1: a Twitter board seat. But also the Wall Street Journal

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Speaker 1: had a great piece on New Jersey parents and how

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Speaker 1: they are a ending the Democratic Party over COVID. But Buck,

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Speaker 1: I started off the morning old man style as I

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Speaker 1: often do, reading the New York Times the Wall Street Journal,

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Speaker 1: trying to make sure that I'm on top of all

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Speaker 1: the stories. Wait, but the actual, the actual physical news,

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Speaker 1: like you're a newsman back from the nineteen twenties, flipping

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Speaker 1: through the paper. Yeah, and by the way, I assume

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Speaker 1: it's associated with the fact that nobody can hire decent employees.

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Speaker 1: But my paper delivery guy or girl, whoever, it is

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Speaker 1: just a disaster. I don't know when it's gonna show up.

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Speaker 1: It used to always be there at like five am,

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Speaker 1: so I'm up early in the morning. I can walk outside,

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Speaker 1: i can grab it. I can see what the news

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Speaker 1: story is gonna be. I like reading the old school newspaper,

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Speaker 1: because buck in this era we live in now, so

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Speaker 1: much of tech is going to feed you what they

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Speaker 1: know that you're already gonna like. What I enjoy is

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Speaker 1: sort of the serendipity of turning a page in a

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Speaker 1: newspaper and reading a story that I otherwise wouldn't have seen.

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Speaker 1: That is really intriguing to me. And you're probably like

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Speaker 1: my dad, who can be drinking coffee and having a

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Speaker 1: Danish and somehow flipping the page she seventeen with two fingers.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I take out a newspaper, it looks like

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Speaker 1: I'm drowning in it. Yeah, that's my kids. Like I'm

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Speaker 1: something everybody knows. Every kid is different. Some of your

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Speaker 1: kids probably will read everything. I try to find sports

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Speaker 1: articles for my eleven year old to read, and he's

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Speaker 1: always like, when I'll have the newspaper, I'll give it

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Speaker 1: to him, like the physical article, and he's always like,

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Speaker 1: to turn the pages and figure out how to continue

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Speaker 1: to read it? But so I think probably turning newspaper

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Speaker 1: pages is going to be insanely antiquated for younger generations

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Speaker 1: if it isn't already. But there is oftentimes to pay out.

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Speaker 1: And I want to give credit because I went and

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Speaker 1: read this study after I saw it linked in the

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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal. You can also go read about it

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Speaker 1: at OutKick three Guys University of Chicago economist K. C.

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Speaker 1: Mulligan and Stephen Moore, as well as Phil Kirpin of

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Speaker 1: the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. They decided buck You know,

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Speaker 1: for so much of this COVID discussion over the past

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Speaker 1: that is becoming more paramount now. But when you shut

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Speaker 1: down schools, that is going to have long lasting impacts,

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Speaker 1: have long lasting impacts in health as well. In other words,

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Speaker 1: COVID doesn't exist in a vacuum. And so they said,

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Speaker 1: let's analyze how the individual states responded. We're fortunate, thanks

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Speaker 1: And they said, okay, let's look at it. They completely

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Speaker 1: fair because of age analysis and everything else. So they

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Speaker 1: analyzed everything, evened it all out, and gave all fifty

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Speaker 1: this was intriguing. The best state, the best state in

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Speaker 1: the nation by their metric, Utah. Utah did a better

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Speaker 1: and it's we shouldn't put a dollar value on lives,

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Speaker 1: save just one wife. Remember all those tweets we got

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Speaker 1: when everybody was shutting. That theory, by the way, is

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Speaker 1: being put to the test in Shanghai, which we will

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Speaker 1: be talking about as well. Yes, true fauciism. If it

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Speaker 1: That is on display right now in Shanghai where they

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Speaker 1: essentially a mass mental and emotional breakdown, and an understandable one.

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Speaker 1: Just to give you a vision of why this fight

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Speaker 1: about the states that did really well, they are, with

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Speaker 1: it's much easier to deal with a respiratory virus in

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Speaker 1: repudiation because remember, a lot of these other states didn't

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Speaker 1: an answer. And people say, yeah, try try that sometime.

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Speaker 1: the Florida approach for major population states was the right approach.

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Speaker 1: They opened it was fine, they didn't have all this

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Speaker 1: Maybe we could play like a fun throwback clip from it,

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Speaker 1: forget what the exactly the date was, because for two

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Speaker 1: those with comorbidities are at risk. Everybody else. This is

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Speaker 1: bad Democrat governors and mayors who were dominating New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: Murphy almost lost over this. And there's a fascinating article

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Speaker 1: measles are so contagious that if you are in close

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Speaker 1: contact with somebody, nine out of ten people that immunity

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Speaker 1: will get it if you're in close contact for fifteen

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Speaker 1: minutes by the way, meaning just in a room with somebody,

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Speaker 1: and it can spread from four days before symptoms till

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Speaker 1: four days after symptoms. Now, measles is different from COVID.

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Speaker 1: I get that, but oh, macron is basically as contagious.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know you're starting to see that if

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Speaker 1: you don't have immunity to omicron and you're near somebody

437
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Speaker 1: with it, you're getting it. And governments think they're going

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Speaker 1: to stop this by Clay the airline stewardess at Delta

439
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Speaker 1: who was yelling at everybody on my plane on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: to mask up between bites. I almost lost my mind. Well,

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Speaker 1: and we'll see, we played you the clip on the

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Speaker 1: last segment that they may extend that mask mandate and

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Speaker 1: allow that power to continue going forward. But if you

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Speaker 1: are in and buck, we saw I think we were

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Speaker 1: texting over the weekend, some of these New York City

446
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Speaker 1: private schools are going to reimplement COVID masking and restrictions.

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Speaker 1: And did I see there even going to allow kids

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Speaker 1: to swim in the swimming pool. Now this is not

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Speaker 1: going away. And so early on China tried to use

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Speaker 1: their response to COVID as evidence of why their government

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Speaker 1: was better than all the Western democracies. What I would say,

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Speaker 1: as you hear all of those people in Shanghai yelling

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Speaker 1: out their windows as they have been locked up for

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Speaker 1: a full week. Right now, there's no way to stop this.

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Speaker 1: It's going to spread. And actually China is going to

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Speaker 1: be way more susceptible than almost any other country in

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Speaker 1: the world because they haven't had a widespread, at least

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Speaker 1: that we know of, a widespread natural immunity. Their vaccines

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Speaker 1: work even less effectively than the vaccines that are being

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Speaker 1: distributed in the United States. So I don't see any

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Speaker 1: way that China is ever going to be able to

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Speaker 1: open up given what we know about COVID in the

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Speaker 1: way it spreads. There was a big study that just

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Speaker 1: came out. I'm not sure if it's a preprint or

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Speaker 1: if it's officially published, but those the fourth booster is

466
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Speaker 1: it gives people a nice boost of protection for about

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Speaker 1: four to six weeks. Yep, there you go, folks. That's

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Speaker 1: that's a great a great vaccine, isn't it get boosted

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Speaker 1: and you're less likely to get severely ill for about

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Speaker 1: six weeks. Oh okay, yeah, line up for that shot.

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Speaker 1: By the way, even Fouci now let this slip in.

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Speaker 1: He's talked about natural immunity play he never did before,

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Speaker 1: and now he's first of all he's saying, don't poop

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Speaker 1: pooh getting COVID. You should be terrified. It's super scary.

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Speaker 1: But if the andy says something interesting, we don't want

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Speaker 1: to poop poo getting infected. I think people sometimes say, well,

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Speaker 1: it's okay to get infected. No, it's not. Because there

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Speaker 1: were things like long COVID, and there are sometimes people

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Speaker 1: even though they don't require a hospitalization, they get significantly ill.

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Speaker 1: They may be at home, they may require a doctor consultation,

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Speaker 1: but they don't get hospitalized. That's not something to poop poo. Again,

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Speaker 1: each individual will have to take their own determination of risk.

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Speaker 1: Each remember put aside that don't pooh pooh it. And

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Speaker 1: this whole thing is absurd, because what is it. It's

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Speaker 1: not okay to get infectable, then don't live your life

486
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Speaker 1: because you're gonna get COVID. Everybody you're gonna get. It's

487
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Speaker 1: basically impossible not to get it unless you're gonna live

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Speaker 1: in a cabin by yourself and see no one ever.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, maybe they're listening on the radio

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Speaker 1: right now, a couple of folks, but generally speaking, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna get COVID. And but notice how he says you

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Speaker 1: got to determine your own risk at the end, and

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Speaker 1: almost it almost sounds like he's finally conceding with some

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Speaker 1: of us have been arguing for two years. Yeah, finally

495
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Speaker 1: when we come back. There's a ton still to dive into,

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Speaker 1: by the way, including buck I saw this, Remember Kmart,

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Speaker 1: They almost don't exist anywhere. That is one of those

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Speaker 1: great battles member Netflix against Blockbuster. H Sometimes companies win,

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Speaker 1: so utterly that the other company ceases to exist. I

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Speaker 1: remember nineteen eighties, early nineties, probably a lot of you

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Speaker 1: guys do too, when Kmart versus Walmart was a battle

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Speaker 1: for the is not so much anymore and six states

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Speaker 1: that are going to decide twenty twenty two and twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four. Interesting discussion there. Elon must turning down Twitter.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, this is a play buck show. We do

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Speaker 1: have to announce it to everybody so they know. Did

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Speaker 1: you have a good weekend down in Florida? Did you

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Speaker 1: make you even more likely to want to move to Florida?

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Speaker 1: It was so I left New York City and I look,

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Speaker 1: I love my NYC wour listener family, and they're but

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Speaker 1: the think most a lot of them aren't really in

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Speaker 1: the five birth I'm them in the five rows with me.

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Speaker 1: And actually I had a very nice couple come up

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Speaker 1: to me. I was buying milk, as I do because

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Speaker 1: I drink whole milk, not that soy milk or almond

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Speaker 1: milk stuff. By the way, make a joke about this

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Speaker 1: and the entire left just internet, It's like, why do

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Speaker 1: you hate capitalism? I just I saw that I just

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Speaker 1: prefer cow milk. I don't know, everyone needs to calm down.

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Speaker 1: But a very nice couple came up with me their

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Speaker 1: WR listeners, you're in New York City. And I appreciated

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Speaker 1: it because you know, it's like we're behind enemy lines

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Speaker 1: and we should have like secret hand signals or a

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Speaker 1: secret handshake or something. But they came over and said something,

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Speaker 1: but it's mostly in the New York area. I say that,

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Speaker 1: you know, greater New York area is where we have

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Speaker 1: our folks. But I say that clay because I left

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Speaker 1: New York it was pouring rain and freezing and people

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Speaker 1: are wearing masks all over the streets. And you go

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Speaker 1: down to Florida and it's eighty degrees and basically not

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Speaker 1: a mask in site. It's a nice change. It's it's

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00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: been a weird spring for a lot of people. I

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Speaker 1: saw in Portland that they got snow for like the

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Speaker 1: first time in eighty years right now, and there's a

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Speaker 1: big snowstorm I think, moving across the country right now.

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Speaker 1: And it just feels like Joe Biden's Winner of Death

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Speaker 1: will not end, and like the warmth really hasn't started

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Speaker 1: to permeate throughout the rest of the country, even in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: It hasn't been that good. Where I live in Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: we haven't had like a normal warm spring, at least

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Speaker 1: not so far. And you know, I got Little League

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Speaker 1: baseball running everywhere, and so it's one of those things

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Speaker 1: where it feels like every single day that it rains,

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Speaker 1: you have a baseball game. I know there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of parents out there who do Little League and know

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Speaker 1: this feeling. Every time it rains. Uh, you have a

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Speaker 1: game scheduled. Every time it's actually sunny and fairly nice,

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Speaker 1: they're no game scheduled at all. So that is where

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Speaker 1: we are. By the way, the Masters looked incredible. Did

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Speaker 1: you watch one moment of the Masters over the weekend?

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Speaker 1: This is golf clay, Yes, you know watch golf? Oh yes, watch,

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Speaker 1: I mean I do watch golf. Yeah, golf is I

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Speaker 1: think golf is pretty Does your dad watched? Surely your

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Speaker 1: dad watch. My dad loves golf, he watches golf, he

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Speaker 1: lives golf, he dreams about golf. Yeah, sure, so, Uh,

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Speaker 1: the Masters, I thought, what was what was interesting? Do

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Speaker 1: you know what state the Masters are in? Augusta, Georgia?

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Speaker 1: Why do I know that, though, Clay, why do I

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Speaker 1: know that? There's a very very precise, very specific reason.

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Speaker 1: Do we have any affiliate there? Like, it's well, yes,

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Speaker 1: we have wonderful affiliate there. But also it's from the

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Speaker 1: Bill Murray speech in Caddyshack, who's like August the Masters

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Speaker 1: the whole thing. Yes, that's why I know where the

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Speaker 1: Masters is because of Caddy. My son with his eighth

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Speaker 1: grade class went down to Atlanta over the weekend and

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Speaker 1: you mentioned Caddy Shack. He had never seen Happy Gilmore,

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Speaker 1: which is one of the funniest movies that's been made

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Speaker 1: in the last twenty five years. I think it's been

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Speaker 1: made in the last twenty five You would like, this

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Speaker 1: does not surprise me. Oh, it's amazing. Billy Madison too.

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Speaker 1: I think those are the two peak of Adam sandloy.

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Speaker 1: I do think Happy Gilmore is the best Adam Sandler movie.

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Speaker 1: I would say that I think Happy Gilmore and Billy

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Speaker 1: Madison are near comedic perfection. I mean, producer Mark told

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Speaker 1: me to watch uncut Gems and I basically had a

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Speaker 1: tannic attack the whole time. I was like, this is

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Speaker 1: the most anxious movie I've ever seen in my life.

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Speaker 1: It's not bad from a gambling perspective. He's gambling on

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Speaker 1: things that you can't actually gamble on, so at least

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Speaker 1: not in a normal way, Like you can't set a

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Speaker 1: parlay up for what he was gambling on. So the

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Speaker 1: gambler in me was upset over what he was gambling on.

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Speaker 1: But actually, Kevin Garnett puts forward one of the best

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Speaker 1: athlete acting jobs, right athlete acting jobs, because a lot

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Speaker 1: of athletes are bad actors. I'm an awful actor. We

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Speaker 1: would do promos to try to promote the sports shows.

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Speaker 1: And if i'm if, I'm not just saying whatever I

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Speaker 1: think without a script, I can't act. I can't fake anything.

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Speaker 1: So that was there. And speaking of fake do you

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Speaker 1: are there kmarts and walmarts in Manhattan? Do you know

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Speaker 1: there's not a There's not a kmart in Manhattan and

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Speaker 1: there hasn't been for I don't know a very long time.

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Speaker 1: I don't When you were a kid, were there kmarts?

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Speaker 1: Like are you familiar with the idea? Of course? So

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Speaker 1: I used to Clay, I used to go to Mind.

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Speaker 1: I spend summers my grandparents place upstate, and we used

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Speaker 1: to go to a place called Ames. Ames was like,

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Speaker 1: if you know, Ames is like a little more humble

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Speaker 1: version of Kmart. I don't even have you ever even

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Speaker 1: seen an Ames department store? Are Yeah, I've heard of it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I've ever been in one. Well,

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Speaker 1: this was one of the great battles in business of

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Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties, the nineteen seventies, the early nineties. Who

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Speaker 1: was gonna win Walmart this? You know, Bentonville, Arkansas redneck

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Speaker 1: Let's be honest, I can say that I'm from the

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Speaker 1: southeast redneck store or Kmart and Kmart had an early lead.

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Speaker 1: They were like super Midwest and Northeast based. There are

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Speaker 1: now buck now I think there's one Blockbuster video. I

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Speaker 1: was gonna say they go on full Blockbuster. Yeah. There

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Speaker 1: are now only three Kmart's left in the entire United States.

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Speaker 1: I bet that is mind blowing stat for anybody out

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Speaker 1: there who remembers the or the battle, the business battle

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Speaker 1: between Kmart and Walmart. Do we have a consensus as

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Speaker 1: is Target fancier than Kmart or basically the same as Kmart? Target?

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Speaker 1: I've heard Target fancier than Walmart. People say it's Targets

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Speaker 1: way fancier than Walmart. Target managed to survive. They weren't

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Speaker 1: the fringe. And now I think they're thriving as a

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Speaker 1: fancier version of Walmart. Like you're they have a little

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Speaker 1: bit more of an upscale mindset than Walmart does. Not

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Speaker 1: that there's anything wrong with Walmart, but that's the target brand.

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Speaker 1: I still remember going to Ames. They actually had a

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Speaker 1: little place for like the tractor supply stuff, and they

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Speaker 1: had little baby chicks, and we'd always want to buy

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Speaker 1: baby chicks and my parents have to be like, no,

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Speaker 1: that's so you can raise chickens for they're not pets.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, we had a different we had a different

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Speaker 1: vibe with the baby chicks. Anyway, we have a lot

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Speaker 1: to talk about with inflation coming up here and other things.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's gonna be good. We're gonna go. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be an amazing fil for the second hour. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna do better than table slat. Travis and Buck Sexton

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Speaker 1: on the front lines of truth