1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. The third hour of The Clay Travis 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton Show gets going right now. Thanks everybody 4 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: for rolling with us. Oh, it is midterm season and 5 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 1: this cycle has a lot riding on it. The response 6 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: to COVID should be, I think one of the top issues, 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: but we got to keep focusing in on what happened 8 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: there because there's also a lot to go around. We've 9 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: got inflation, we've got the wide open border, we've got 10 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: a staggering economy right now, stumbling, fumbling economy, as well 11 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: as the crime issue, which we were just discussing with you. 12 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: And it's clear that Democrats really want to make this 13 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 1: about Trump and semi fascism, which is what they refer 14 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: to Trump supporters, what Biden and his top advisor is 15 00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: referred to this as, and also election issues, that our 16 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 1: sacred democracy is under assault. These these ideas really more 17 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: memes even than ideas, These these uh phrases about our 18 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: sacred democracy, questioning elections, Donald Trump and all those running 19 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 1: with question elections. There was just an interesting exchange that 20 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: occurred between Clay's favorite ever White House Press Secretary Karain, 21 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:28,040 Speaker 1: Jean Pierre, and mister Doucey of Fox News. Listen to 22 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: this one, the new attention on the MAGA Republicans. You 23 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: tweeted election. I was waeting Peter when you were going 24 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: to ask me that question. Well, here, you tweeted Trump 25 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: stole an election. You tweeted Brian Kemp stole an election. 26 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: If denying election results is extreme, now wow, So let's 27 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: let's be really clear that that comparison that you made 28 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: is just ridiculous. I have been I have been, Well, 29 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: you're asking me, you're asking me a question, let me 30 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: answer it. Ridiculous. I was. I was talking specifically at 31 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: the time of what was happening with voting rights and 32 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: the what was in danger of voting rights. That's what 33 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: I was speaking to at the time. I can we 34 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: just be clear here, Clay, She's caught. She knows it. 35 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 1: Democrats in general have spent years Hillary Clinton still says 36 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 1: the election was stolen from her. In twenty sixteen, Stacy 37 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,959 Speaker 1: Abrahams goes around as the fake governor of Georgia telling 38 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: him everybody that she won that election. It was just 39 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 1: stolen from her. They do this all the time, and 40 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: the fact that we're not supposed to notice. I think 41 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: for some people is becoming a little too much to bear. 42 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: They spent four years not just saying that Trump was 43 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: the illegitimate president, but that Russia collusion put him in office, 44 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:54,239 Speaker 1: and that he was the Manchurian candidate, that Russia had 45 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: so much compromising material on him that he wasn't even 46 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: an honest American president. And I love this question from 47 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:09,519 Speaker 1: Peter Doucy, and look, it wasn't even just twenty sixteen. 48 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 1: Corinne Jean Pierre in her own tweets also accused Brian Kemp, 49 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: who is going to destroy I believe Stacy Abrams in 50 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 1: a little over sixty days to eliminate any doubt in 51 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 1: their rematch. He's gonna win, I think by five or 52 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: six points. I think that is going to be a 53 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 1: very comfortable win for Brian Kemp down in Georgia. But 54 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: that's going to eliminate any doubt. Buck He won by, 55 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, fifty thousand votes in Georgia. So 56 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: everybody talks about how close that election was the state 57 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:49,839 Speaker 1: of Georgia. Stacy Abrams lost the state of Georgia by 58 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: more votes than Donald Trump lost under our tally that 59 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: we accept as the truth the twenty twenty election. By 60 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: so Trump was closed to winning nationwide in twenty twenty 61 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: than Stacy Abrams was to winning Georgia alone in twenty eighteen. 62 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: And it just goes to the route hypocrisy here. You 63 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: should be able to question anything in America in fact, Buck, 64 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 1: and you correct me if I'm wrong here. I think 65 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: the only election we've had in the twenty first century 66 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: where both sides said, you know what, we accept the 67 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: result was Obama over McCain in O eight. I think 68 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: that you go back and look, I think everyone probably 69 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: Obama over Romney too. I don't think people were claiming 70 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: that election was stolen either. I think in twelve some 71 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 1: people did say something looks fishy in Ohio. Am I 72 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: correct in twelve? Okay, there was a little bit, but 73 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: it wasn't okay if there wasn't anything like this. But 74 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 1: but my point is the elections have been so close 75 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: for much of the twenty first century that every time 76 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:01,919 Speaker 1: there's been an election, the side that loses almost always 77 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: says the other side cheated. So to act like suddenly 78 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, this is an unprecedented situation, particularly coming 79 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: as it does, buck off the most aggressively questioned election 80 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: of my life in twenty sixteen, where Hillary Clinton has 81 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: gone around for years arguing that the election was stolen 82 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 1: from her. Why in the world would it suddenly be 83 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: unacceptable to argue that the twenty twenty election was stolen, which, 84 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:36,240 Speaker 1: by the way, it was, if only you focus buck 85 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: on the mail in balloting laws being changed, on the 86 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: rig job between big tech, you want to talk about 87 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:46,919 Speaker 1: collusion between big Tech and everybody else out there in 88 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:51,039 Speaker 1: the media to cover up the Hunter Biden's story and 89 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: using COVID as a cudgel, as if somehow Trump was 90 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 1: to blame for COVID happening, that was a rigged election. 91 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:02,359 Speaker 1: Beyond a shadow of a doubt Trump would have won 92 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 1: if the media had been honest in covering merely the 93 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden's story just by itself. And they've convinced their 94 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:13,559 Speaker 1: their supporters, the Democrat base, that there should be really 95 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: two two sets of rules about this, meaning that not 96 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:19,239 Speaker 1: only can they can question elections, they can support riots 97 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: when when it suits them, like BLM. You know, there's 98 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: there's a two tiered system of justice in this country 99 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 1: that we really need to address, but also a two 100 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: tiered system for what is considered acceptable speech. And that's why, Uh, 101 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: the Biden speech last week, which I know I was 102 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: out and you were talking about it on Friday, was 103 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: bizarre unless you think about how they really have convinced 104 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: themselves that Donald Trump is a white supremacist, will try 105 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: to coup, try to destroy the country, try to destroy 106 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: the United States of America. I mean, they they repeat 107 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: this stuff all the time. There are enough Libs unfortunately, 108 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: who actually believe it. But it was a blunder I 109 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: think politically, which is why they're trying to walk it 110 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: back a little bit. Here's Biden doing decision or not 111 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: may be clearer. Clear. Got to be very clear upfront. 112 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 1: Not every Republican as a MAGA Republican. Not every Republican 113 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: embraces that extreme Alley ideology. I know because I've been 114 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: able to work with mainstream Republicans in my whole career. 115 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 1: But the extreme Maga Republicans in Congress have chosen to 116 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division. But 117 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: together we can and we must choose a different path forward. No, 118 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: I really mean it. We have to a future of unity, 119 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: of hope, of optimism. We're going to choose to build 120 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 1: a better America. No, not a joke. Not a joke, friend, 121 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: I mean Clay. He just gave a speech that even 122 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,239 Speaker 1: his supporters realized, oh my god, this looks awful last 123 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: week where he's what is it. He's talking about republic 124 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: maga Republicans who support violence. This is just not true. 125 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: There's no maga movement that's saying we're gonna, you know, 126 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: overthrow the federal government through use of arms and get 127 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: rid of all this. But I guess at this point 128 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: it just doesn't matter. Democrats just want to hear what 129 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: they want to hear. Because here's the problem. Their guy 130 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: stinks at his job. The country's not doing well. All 131 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 1: the polls show it. So instead of looking at that reality, 132 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 1: it's your semi fascists. It's a little emotional safe space 133 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: they create for themselves. Unfortunately it's delusional. Well, it makes 134 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: total sense to me, sadly, because we've been talking about 135 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: what is Biden gonna run on. He's gonna run on 136 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: I'm not Trump. That is Biden's mid term message. And frankly, 137 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:40,959 Speaker 1: if Biden is the nominee at eighty two years old 138 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. His message then is going to 139 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: be I'm not Trump too, because they look at the 140 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: data and there are independent voters who are turned off 141 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: by Donald Trump, and they believe that they can move 142 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: some of those independent voters who otherwise are recognizing inflation, 143 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,319 Speaker 1: who see that crime is of control, who see that 144 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 1: the southern border is an unmitigated disaster, who recognized that 145 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: things are not going well in Europe based on the 146 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 1: war in Ukraine, everything that Biden has touched as a disaster. 147 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,760 Speaker 1: So he can't run on what he's actually done. He 148 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: has to run against Trump. And this is the same 149 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: campaign that they ran in twenty twenty. Joe Biden didn't 150 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: run for election. He ran against Trump. That's what Biden's 151 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: entire campaign was in twenty twenty. And he had such 152 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 1: a rig job and effect behind him that they could 153 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 1: hide him in the basement and they could weekend at 154 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 1: Bernie's style drag him across the finish line. And that's 155 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: what happened, and he's going to try to now do that, 156 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: which is why buckets not a coincidence that they waited 157 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: eighteen months and suddenly Donald Trump's documents at Mara Lago 158 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 1: were such a huge threat to American democracy that they 159 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:57,319 Speaker 1: had to raid Mara Lago in early August, getting ready 160 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: for the mid term. Fundament kidding, it's a clear pivot 161 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: to that is the storyline. The fundamental promises of the 162 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: Biden presidency. Unity, normalcy, optimism, strong economy, jobs, you know, 163 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: jobs forever. All this stuff, it's all been a failure. 164 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: I mean, all of the promises based or or gauged 165 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: against the reality have been a failure. So this is 166 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 1: why they want to talk about all this other stuff. 167 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:26,079 Speaker 1: This is why they move the discussion too, the threat 168 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 1: to our democracy. And they've got all these pundits on 169 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 1: MSNBC and on CNN. Al though, let's so at CNN 170 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: these days they're doing a bit of a house cleaning 171 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 1: over there, but saying, you know, oh, it's all about 172 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: Trump's not even on any ballot. I mean, it's amazing 173 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 1: when you think about it. But they'd much rather us 174 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: all be talking or talking about Trump and defending Trump 175 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: against their their lunacy. Then looking at I mean this 176 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 1: guy Fetterman, for example, that doctor oz is up against 177 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: doctor Rozz is a smart, self made guy who would 178 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: do a good job in the role as Senator from 179 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania for a lot of folks. Okay, he doesn't have 180 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 1: to do this. He wants to do this because he 181 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: thinks that he would be a good representative for those people. 182 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,680 Speaker 1: Pediment is a buffoon who isn't even healthy enough to 183 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 1: be senator. He might not be healthy enough really for 184 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: any taxing job right now, and they don't want us 185 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: talking about that. You know that the people that are 186 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 1: pushing the agenda, it's just out in California. The people 187 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: that are pushing the agenda in the media and in 188 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: Hollywood include folks like if you see this, Clay. Jennifer 189 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: Lawrence reveals she has recurring nightmares about Tucker Carlson and 190 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: says that she's still trying to forgive her conservative family 191 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: for supporting Trump in twenty sixteen. Like the Libs are 192 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 1: not okay, there's something wrong with them. If I'm Tucker Carlson, 193 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 1: I have a lot of fun with the fact that 194 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: Jennifer Lawrence is dreaming about me in anyway, yep, I 195 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:51,680 Speaker 1: mean that seems like a big win for for Tucker Carlson. 196 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: Nightmares or not. The fact that she's laying in bed 197 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,960 Speaker 1: dreaming about him. I would, I would I might open 198 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 1: with that if I were Tucker. I mean, I mean, 199 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:01,719 Speaker 1: that seems like a big win for him. I used 200 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:03,719 Speaker 1: think Jennifer Lawrence did some good work. Not gonna lie, 201 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:06,439 Speaker 1: but you know she's crazy. 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In Georgia, Brian 230 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 1: Kemp is going to I believe trounce Stacy Abrahams if 231 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: all of you and Georgia get out to the polls, 232 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 1: do your job. I think herschel Walker is going to 233 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 1: end up beating the Reverend Raphael Warnock as a result, 234 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: because I think Brian Kemp's gonna be so strong. I 235 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: don't think there's gonna be a lot of split tickets. 236 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: But we've talked a lot about Pennsylvania so that would 237 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 1: be a Senate pickup for Republicans, which would give them 238 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: control of the Senate. The challenge now the battleground of Pennsylvania. 239 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 1: You had Joe Biden going in, you had Donald Trump 240 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:10,559 Speaker 1: going in, each doing their own rallies. This is significant 241 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 1: and I want all of you to pay attention. We 242 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: talked about how Biden ran a campaign from his basement 243 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Fetterman is trying to run the same campaign, 244 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: except they're trying to flip a Senate seat and take 245 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: control of the United States through the Senate by running 246 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: a guy who is a Bernie Sanders clone, believes all 247 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: sorts of crazy left wing lies. But maybe most importantly, 248 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 1: regardless of the political realm, he's so unhealthy as he 249 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: returns or recovers from a stroke. And we certainly wish 250 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: him well. I want everybody to get healthy, but Buck, 251 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: he is unable to go to any of the debates 252 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: that doctor Oz is trying to have with him, and 253 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 1: this is starting to register in a big way in Pennsylvania. 254 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh Post Gazette said in an editorial today, if 255 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: mister Fetterman is not well enough to debate his opponent 256 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: that raises serious concerns about his ability to serve as 257 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 1: a United States senator. All senators do is talk, They debate. 258 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 1: That's the job. If he can't do that, now, why 259 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: do you think he's suddenly going to be able to 260 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: do it in January for six years. Pennsylvanians have a 261 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 1: real choice here. They can have a Republican and doctor 262 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: Oz who's healthy and able to advocate for the state, 263 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 1: or they can have a Bernie Sanders clone who may 264 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:42,520 Speaker 1: not even be capable of doing the job. Buck, I 265 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: think that the choice should be very clear. I know 266 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 1: the media is deeply invested in propping up Fetterman in 267 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 1: every way that they possibly can. We've also seen some 268 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: good numbers for Herschel Walker down in Georgia. You've been 269 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: a believer, You've been cheerleading hard on you. You've been saying, 270 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: let's let Herschel run run down the middle. Let's give him, 271 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 1: let's give him the ball. Let's not worry we'd all 272 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 1: have to throw into double coverage. We're gonna get it. 273 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: We're gonna get it. He was running. He was a 274 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: running back, right running back, and they have run tens 275 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 1: of millions of dollars trying to destroy him in Georgia. 276 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: I think people in Georgia know him well enough. He's 277 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 1: gonna be on the road shaking hands, kissing babies during 278 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:27,120 Speaker 1: football season. And I really think Brian Kemp is going 279 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: to be so successful as the incumbent governor that he's 280 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 1: gonna get herschel Walker across the goal line for a 281 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: for a win in Georgia. It also if I were 282 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 1: a resident of the state of Georgia, I would find 283 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 1: it offensive just as a general matter that essentially wealthy 284 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: coastal residents of California and some in New York want 285 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 1: to pick the senator from Georgia want to pick the 286 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 1: governor of Georgia. It's like, well, if you live in 287 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 1: Malibu or Beverly Hill, great point, why do you care 288 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:06,479 Speaker 1: so much about who the governor of Georgia is? For example? Right? 289 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is something that when you 290 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: look at where Stacy Abrams money comes from, When you 291 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: when you look at where Raphael Warnock money political money 292 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 1: comes from, a lot of it is very wealthy people 293 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 1: in blue states far away from actual Georgia. So and 294 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 1: I think that tells you a lot, right, I mean, 295 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: for them. This is about the the the sort of 296 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:35,400 Speaker 1: nationalization of a state election for you know, the purposes 297 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 1: of virtue signaling and people at fancy cocktail parties in 298 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 1: Santa Monica telling their buddies, well, I helped get Stacy 299 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 1: Abrams elected. So that's what's going on. Yeah, I think 300 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: you're a percent right, And that's why everybody in Pennsylvania 301 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,880 Speaker 1: really needs to rally brutal primary. But we need everybody 302 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: lining up behind doctor Oz. Five six states going to 303 00:17:55,920 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: decide everything that needs to be in our favor. Inflation, 304 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: it's eroding all of our money's purchase powers until we 305 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 1: vote and see a change in the Senate. As we 306 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 1: were just talking about, we're going to continue endless spending 307 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: as the Fed keeps printing more money. You know what 308 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:14,360 Speaker 1: the Fed is? How inflation works? Have you been able 309 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: to explain it to your family, particularly your kids? In 310 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 1: the last few years, we've seen the value of the 311 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,360 Speaker 1: dollar go down so much that now sly worth eighty 312 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: eight cents on the dollar. How do you explain inflation 313 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,080 Speaker 1: to your kids in a way that you can understand. 314 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you I've been doing this with my 315 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 1: own kids. The Tuttle Twins team has a kid's book 316 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:38,120 Speaker 1: all about money and inflation. Great book, and that explains 317 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 1: what the feed is, how it creates inflation. This book 318 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: explains everything so kids and adults can understand, and they're 319 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 1: giving it away for free right now. All you pay 320 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 1: for is shipping. Go to Tuttle radio dot com. That's 321 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: Tuttle radio dot com to get your own free copy. 322 00:18:54,920 --> 00:19:00,440 Speaker 1: You just pay shipping Tuttle radio dot com. Weeks away 323 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: from a massive midterm election, the fight is underway to 324 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:11,680 Speaker 1: convince people to vote rationally, intelligently, and for Republicans. These 325 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: all go together. Our friend Molly Hemingway is with us now. 326 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,640 Speaker 1: She's a senior editor at the Federalist, of Fox's contributors. 327 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,160 Speaker 1: She's got an amazing book, Rigged, How the media, Big Tech, 328 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 1: and the Democrats seized our elections. Molly, great to have 329 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 1: you back. It is great to be here with you. 330 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,920 Speaker 1: How are we looking at this stage right now going 331 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:33,879 Speaker 1: into this midterm for control of the House, control the Senate. 332 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: What's top line for you? Just want to say, it's 333 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 1: an excellent day to ask me this question, because I, 334 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 1: as a rule, do not pay attention to any of 335 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: the prognostications about what's going to happen until Labor Day. 336 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 1: And We've hit Labor Day, and so now now I'm 337 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:52,679 Speaker 1: joining the fray and discussing what I think is going 338 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: to happen. So I think that the fundamentals of this 339 00:19:56,119 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 1: election have been pretty constant. You have the Democrat Party 340 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: in control of everything in Washington, DC, the presidency, both houses. 341 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:10,880 Speaker 1: You have people really upset with the policies that Democrats 342 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:12,719 Speaker 1: have put in place, and so all the polls are 343 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:16,400 Speaker 1: very consistently showing that people have very negative views about 344 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,120 Speaker 1: the direction of the country and they don't have much 345 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 1: reason to go for Joe Biden and so or his party. 346 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,360 Speaker 1: So I think it's going to be a pretty good 347 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: year for Republicans. I do have a few caveats on that, though. 348 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:31,680 Speaker 1: What are those caveats? Molly, Thanks for coming on. You 349 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:33,119 Speaker 1: want to give a shout out to your mom, who 350 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: I understand as a big listener in Colorado. We would 351 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: certainly love for her to receive a claim that she 352 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 1: well deserves for producing you at minimum, But yeah, what 353 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: are those caveats? And give a shout out to your mom. Yeah, 354 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:48,719 Speaker 1: Hi to Caroline, who is not even a big radio listener, 355 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 1: but loves your show and so taste the time about 356 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 1: the brilliance that you guys have shared and what she's learned. 357 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: But yeah, the caveats are that I don't think the 358 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:02,360 Speaker 1: Republican Party is doing a good job of arguing for anything. 359 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 1: They think it's sufficient to just let Democrats be the 360 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: bad guys that that will carry them to victory. And 361 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 1: it's actually probably true. That's actually so much less than 362 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,200 Speaker 1: they could accomplish by being very vigorous about what they're 363 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: for and how they're going to fight against some of 364 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 1: these things that have people throughout the country is so 365 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:22,920 Speaker 1: upset about the direction of the country. Speaking of Molly Hemingway, 366 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,159 Speaker 1: senior editor at The Federalist, The Federalist dot com is 367 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 1: a great website covering politics, news, everything you need to know, Molly, 368 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: race by race or yeah, we'll do what that was 369 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: because they state by state Pennsylvania. We were just talking 370 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: about doctor Oz Fetterman. How do you see that one? 371 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 1: So I got to kick out of hell. Like a 372 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 1: month ago, everyone just decided that race was over and 373 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: in favor of Fetterman. It reminds you of why you 374 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 1: need to see what's happening in an actual state where 375 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:57,159 Speaker 1: Fetterman is unable to campaign. Essentially he's unable to speak. 376 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: His campaign admitted to The Washington Post that he has 377 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: trouble in complicated auditory environments, which is kind of the 378 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: definition of being a senator. And so and meanwhile, them 379 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 1: at Oz, who hadn't really been doing much campaigning, is 380 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 1: now barnstorming throughout the state. And so Sederman's obviously ahead 381 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 1: according to most polling, but I think that's definitely going 382 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:24,560 Speaker 1: to tighten up in AZ's favor. Molly, what did you 383 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,639 Speaker 1: think of Biden's speech Thursday night. I'm still having trouble 384 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: processing that that actually happened. I couldn't believe how dark 385 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 1: and dangerous it was. And I am not one of 386 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,920 Speaker 1: these people who gets really upset about heated political rhetoric on, 387 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 1: you know, no matter who's doing it. I kind of 388 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: think all's fair in love and politics, and you've got 389 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 1: to get out there and punch. I just am mildly 390 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:52,639 Speaker 1: horrified that he went to war against the entire Republican 391 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,160 Speaker 1: Party ten you know, basically, anyone who didn't vote for him, 392 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 1: he's putting in the enemy camp. It's or who doesn't 393 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 1: and to support him in the upcoming elections for his party. 394 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,639 Speaker 1: It just is a really dangerous line to cross at 395 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: a time when we're experiencing such political division. And I've 396 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,959 Speaker 1: never been a Joe Biden fan particularly, but if there 397 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,159 Speaker 1: was something to be said for him so that he 398 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 1: said that his administration, the media that ran his campaign 399 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: claimed this would be a competent, unifying, moderate administration. It's 400 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:29,680 Speaker 1: completely incompetent. It is the furthest thing from moderate, and 401 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 1: it's very divisive. And so if you had to get 402 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 1: rid of Trump, and because of all those because of 403 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,920 Speaker 1: the drama of his presidency, even if people liked the 404 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 1: direction of the country, it makes no sense to replace 405 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 1: Trump with someone who is much more corrosive in his 406 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: rhetoric and much more divisive and far less competent. It's 407 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,479 Speaker 1: the opposite direction of what we were prom I mean, 408 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: how much molly of what we're seeing right now. I 409 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:56,679 Speaker 1: think there's some poll that says, you know, generic ballot 410 00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 1: Democrats now have the advantage over Republicans. How do you 411 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:09,120 Speaker 1: separate out what seems to be likely suppression of Republican enthusiasm? Essentially, 412 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 1: dare I say disinformation when it comes to assessments of 413 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:16,160 Speaker 1: polling and the sweeping analysis. You'll hear on a lot 414 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 1: of the other networks out there about how all Republicans 415 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: are getting clobbered on this issue, or oh it's looking 416 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: bad from them on that issue. Feels at some level 417 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:29,360 Speaker 1: like that's meant to depress turnout. It's obviously the case 418 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 1: that people are trying to influence influence the perceptions about 419 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 1: races through some polling that just frankly doesn't make any sense. 420 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: I did see someone last week going through and commenting 421 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 1: on how in previous election years where Republicans had very 422 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 1: good years, say twenty ten, they would show the headline 423 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 1: from Politico at this point of the campaign cycle saying 424 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 1: that Republicans were in a very bad situation and it 425 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 1: was going to go horribly, And of course by November 426 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: it was they picked up sixty three seats. And so 427 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: it does affect way people talk about it. And obviously 428 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 1: corporate media are very much in the political camp of 429 00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,920 Speaker 1: the Democrats that it's evidenced by nearly everything they do, 430 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,960 Speaker 1: and so you saw that throughout August they were trying 431 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 1: to convince people that Biden was back, and he was 432 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: wearing aviator sunglasses, and everything was going great. The thing is, 433 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: though it obviously isn't going great, and as much as 434 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: they were trying to make something happen, it seems like 435 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 1: they couldn't quite do it polling wise. But these polls 436 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,439 Speaker 1: do have an effect on people, and like in twenty twenty, 437 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 1: the polls were so horrible for Republicans that I think 438 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: it did affect the mood of people even in the 439 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,119 Speaker 1: Trump administration. You know, you heard Bill Barr say you 440 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: really didn't think Trump had a chance. He was shocked 441 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: that the race was as close as it was. Well, 442 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 1: that's a function of the polling narrative that people put 443 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: out there, and you have to kind of step back 444 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:52,159 Speaker 1: and think through what are the fundamentals, what's really going on, 445 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,919 Speaker 1: Talk to real people who are livid with the direction 446 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: of the country, even if everyone in DC, in New 447 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 1: York or trying to convince everybody that things are actually 448 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,399 Speaker 1: going better. Molly Bluck and I have been arguing, just 449 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:09,119 Speaker 1: based on COVID alone, if democracy really works, then blue 450 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: state governors, blue state congressmen and senators, certainly mayors, they 451 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 1: all failed kids, and suddenly it's like everybody is looking 452 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,200 Speaker 1: around and saying, hey, wait a minute, we had generational 453 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,120 Speaker 1: learning loss, and the people who lost the most were 454 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:28,119 Speaker 1: minority kids whose families didn't have the same resources to 455 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,880 Speaker 1: be able to handle when they suddenly weren't in schools. 456 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 1: Is there going to ever be a reckoning for this failure? 457 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 1: In your mind? Will we get it this fall? Well? 458 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,640 Speaker 1: I think I live in Virginia, and it was fascinating 459 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 1: to see what happened in our off your elections when 460 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,439 Speaker 1: in Virginia is the pretty blue state and you had 461 00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: all three statewide offic disco Republican and it was one 462 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: hundred percent what was going on in the schools, the shutdowns, 463 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,439 Speaker 1: and then also that they have been like pushing actual 464 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 1: racist curriculum in the form of critical race theory in 465 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,120 Speaker 1: school districts across Virginia, and so I think that you'll 466 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 1: still see parents revolting against this. However, I do find 467 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:13,359 Speaker 1: it passing. There's no question that Democrats and their base, 468 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:15,880 Speaker 1: like the teachers unions, were pushing really hard to keep 469 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: schools closed, to keep masks on children, and they's had 470 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,119 Speaker 1: very bad outcomes on the students learning. You've seen in 471 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,959 Speaker 1: recent weeks where you have again major media just kind 472 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 1: of gas lighting the country and claiming that it was 473 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 1: the teachers unions who pushed to open the schools. That's 474 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: just it's amazing true in any way. That's a level 475 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:37,479 Speaker 1: of gaslighting that's very disturbing to experience. And it's happening 476 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:41,200 Speaker 1: right now because they know it's so bad electorally, so 477 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: they're just going for the We will completely lie about 478 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 1: who shut down the schools and who kept them shut down. 479 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 1: Speaking of Molly Hemingway of the Federalists right now, Molly, 480 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:53,160 Speaker 1: we do have some campaigns, folks from campaigns who listen, 481 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 1: people's staffs who are up for reelection to listen to 482 00:27:56,080 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: the show. If there was one area where you would 483 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: like to see Republicans between now and that big election 484 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 1: day really go on offense, what would it be and 485 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 1: how would you want them to do it? I think 486 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 1: there are many ways that they should, but there's one 487 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 1: that they absolutely have to according to polling, which is 488 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:19,639 Speaker 1: being accurate and honest about what the situation is with 489 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:23,159 Speaker 1: abortion law in states throughout the country. The DABS decision 490 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 1: overturns Roby Wade. This actually makes for a very moderate 491 00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 1: approach to abortion law instead of having it where nobody 492 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 1: can have any say in it, even though the vast 493 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,400 Speaker 1: majority of the country would like to see at least 494 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 1: some restrictions. DABS enables people through their representatives to put 495 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 1: in place some protection for women and children in the 496 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: pregnancy situation. And yet, because again the media are so 497 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: crazy lefty, they have basically lied about what that ruling 498 00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 1: is and what it does. They said it's anti democratic, 499 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 1: when that's exactly what it is is. It is democratic, 500 00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 1: and the vast majority of Americans support at least some 501 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 1: restrictions on abortion to protect unborn human life. So they 502 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 1: can't just let the media and Democrats run that conversation, 503 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 1: particularly when there's so much misinformation and disinformation about what 504 00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 1: is in play with dobs. And people love life, people 505 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 1: love babies, people love mothers, people love family formation, and 506 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: so it's a very strong issue. But you can't do 507 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 1: it defensively. You have to explain proactively what you're for 508 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 1: and why it benefits society. Molly Hemingway, everybody the Federalist 509 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 1: dot com go check out our latest Molly, come back 510 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 1: talk to us again soon. We got to see how 511 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 1: the selection goes. Take sure. Thanks. We have a question 512 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: for business owners in this audience. Are you feeling boxed 513 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: in by the pressures of running your business, managing remote workforces, 514 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 1: keeping up with changing regulations and HR compliance, plus finding 515 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 1: and retaining top talent payroll. I mean it's a long list, 516 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 1: a lot of headaches. There's a limit to what you 517 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 1: can do to keep employees engage while running your business smoothly. 518 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 1: That's why you need Insparity. They've put thirty plus years 519 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 1: of HR experience to work to help you develop a 520 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: people strategy that supports your business strategy. What if your 521 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,960 Speaker 1: HR strategy included access to better benefits to help you 522 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 1: keep the employees you have and attract new ones. Or 523 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 1: you could offer training for employees to increase their skills 524 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: so they become more productive. There will always be challenges 525 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,000 Speaker 1: to face in business, no matter where they come from. 526 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,400 Speaker 1: Insparity is ready to help you move past them by 527 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 1: providing the HR solutions you need. With Insparity, nothing seems impossible. 528 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 1: Insparity HR that makes a difference. Welcome back in play 529 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 1: Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out 530 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,320 Speaker 1: with us. Punch people reached out. I meant to mention 531 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 1: this Buck not very serious in the grand scheme of things. 532 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 1: Really disappointed that you didn't see the Fred Savage movie 533 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: from nineteen eighty nine. No, no, no, no, hold on, dude, 534 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 1: I saw it. I just forgot where he's like the 535 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: video game champ. He's playing Mario Brothers. No, no, I 536 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 1: know that one Super Mario three. I think was when 537 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,960 Speaker 1: they were actually releasing. That was like the advertisement for that. 538 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 1: I was really disappointed. I was kind of stunned that 539 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 1: you you didn't immediately I had for I had forgotten it. 540 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: I had forgotten it. I remember there was yes in retrospect. 541 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: I mean, there are people who play video games for 542 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 1: a living who have massive social media followings. Um they 543 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,720 Speaker 1: have like, you know, lots of fans. You know this, 544 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 1: There's there's a whole gamer culture out there. These guys 545 00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 1: make tons of make crazy money and are like famous 546 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 1: in the gamer world. I didn't know this is really 547 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,120 Speaker 1: a thing until a couple of years ago. My kids 548 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 1: watch people play video games all the time and on Twitch. 549 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,000 Speaker 1: Is that where they is that on Twitch? But also 550 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 1: a lot of these guys have YouTube channels that are 551 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:46,560 Speaker 1: really popular too. You know, my boys play Minecraft, Maddened FIFA, 552 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: u MLB, the show I mean, all of the Fortnite, 553 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 1: all of these are wildly popular with my kids. And 554 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:58,920 Speaker 1: there are guys making seven figure salaries just for instance 555 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:03,720 Speaker 1: playing fort Some guys I think making eight eight figure salaries, 556 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 1: you know, ten million dollars a year to sit around 557 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 1: to play video games. It's pretty awesome. Really not a 558 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,720 Speaker 1: bad life, I would say, it's not bad. It's tough 559 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 1: when you say to your kids, hey, why don't you 560 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 1: stop playing video games and go read a book instead? 561 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 1: You can't make a you know, like when I was 562 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 1: a kid, do you remember this, Like your parents would 563 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: be like, you're not gonna be able to play video 564 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:24,560 Speaker 1: games for a living. And then it was like, you 565 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: know what, They're true, Like we're gonna have to find 566 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 1: something else to do. Now the kids are like, dad, 567 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 1: there's tons of people who play video games for a living, 568 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 1: and it's kind of like as a parent, you step 569 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,960 Speaker 1: up and you're like, they're right. I had a while ago. 570 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 1: I had a lunch. It was set up through through 571 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 1: It's a long story, but I had lunch with a 572 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:44,080 Speaker 1: guy who was the CEO of one of the really 573 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 1: big gaming companies make some of these games, and he 574 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 1: told me, like, some of these franchises for these video 575 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:55,600 Speaker 1: games are billion dollars franchise billion with a B. Yeah, 576 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 1: as in that's what they're bringing in in sales in 577 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,760 Speaker 1: a year for a video game. Yes, I was, and 578 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,320 Speaker 1: it's amazing. What blows my mind too, bucks. They got 579 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 1: in the business now where you pay for different upgraded 580 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 1: things in the game itself. Right, Like you're building let's 581 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 1: say you're maddened franchise. Well, you can get better quality 582 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 1: players on your team based on the tokens that you 583 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,320 Speaker 1: get both from playing and or buying. You want a 584 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 1: new skin, they call it, right, like a body that 585 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 1: you're playing in if you're playing Fortnite. These these individual 586 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 1: games become so popular that they're basically ATMs. They're constantly 587 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 1: churning out cash and money, not just you know, back 588 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 1: in the day, you used to pay fifty dollars for 589 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,600 Speaker 1: a video game or whatever it was, and you owned it. 590 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:44,360 Speaker 1: And by the way, you'd have to get the video 591 00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: game cartridge on blow on it. Do you remember that? 592 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,480 Speaker 1: How was it? The blowing on Nintendo cartridges somehow worked? 593 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:54,320 Speaker 1: I never it was the dust I remember, like slipping 594 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:58,040 Speaker 1: the video game cartriges. Anybody who's roughly within ten years 595 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: of our age, we'll remember this. And you put it 596 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 1: in and you want to play like Double Dragon, or 597 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 1: you want to play Mike Tyson's Punch Out some of 598 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 1: these great original Nintendo games, And it was like you 599 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 1: had to touch it and like close it perfectly, and 600 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,919 Speaker 1: it was a whole thing just to get the game 601 00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,279 Speaker 1: to work. That's right. And and for some reason, for 602 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,400 Speaker 1: people out there who are around our age, if you 603 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,480 Speaker 1: grabbed the cartridge and literally where like the cartridge went in, 604 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:24,759 Speaker 1: you just would. I don't know why it worked, but 605 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,879 Speaker 1: it did. And it may be the dust. I don't 606 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,760 Speaker 1: know what it did. But if you blew like literally 607 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 1: just like you know, expelled the air on it, blew 608 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:33,400 Speaker 1: out a herd it like you were blowing out a 609 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:38,520 Speaker 1: birthday cake candle, it would somehow work and and then 610 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:39,719 Speaker 1: you put it back in it and it'd be like 611 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,919 Speaker 1: good to go. What was your favorite original Nintendo game? Well, 612 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,360 Speaker 1: the original original Nintendo, no Super Nintendo, Super Mario Brothers, 613 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 1: but Techmobowl is the greatest in my opinion, and then 614 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,160 Speaker 1: Techmo super Bowl or super Techmobowl depending on where you lived, 615 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,719 Speaker 1: are the two in my op Indian greatest sports video 616 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 1: games of all time. I loved both and Super Tech 617 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,840 Speaker 1: Mobile was my favorite video game of all time on 618 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,960 Speaker 1: the eight bit Nintendo. I'm maybe a double dragon guy, 619 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:15,040 Speaker 1: be honest with Original Street Fighter. I love the fighting games, 620 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:20,759 Speaker 1: Mike Tyson, uh RBI Baseball, Uh oh man, I loved 621 00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,360 Speaker 1: all those games. And there was the there was Blades 622 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,839 Speaker 1: of Steel where you were. It was a hockey game 623 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,840 Speaker 1: where you could fight a lot of number blades of Steel. 624 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,520 Speaker 1: That was great. It's a great game. Yes see, there's 625 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,080 Speaker 1: a tremendous scene remember in Swingers, the movie back in 626 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,640 Speaker 1: the day where they're playing Blades of Steel and uh, 627 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,880 Speaker 1: and you know you could make the guy bleed if 628 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,879 Speaker 1: you really beat him in the fight. Like it wasn't 629 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,480 Speaker 1: like very graphic, but it was like, oh, you really 630 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:44,319 Speaker 1: won that fight, the guy would like bleed a little 631 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,200 Speaker 1: bit on the ice. I also wanted to bring up 632 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,000 Speaker 1: of all the nightmare scenarios you have from an event 633 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 1: I've never have. You've never been a burning man, right? 634 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:54,759 Speaker 1: You don't strike me as a burning man kind of guy. 635 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,120 Speaker 1: I've been. I've been to the one in Nashville, like 636 00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,719 Speaker 1: outside of Nashville, what's it called? Like? Uh, I don't know. 637 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:05,520 Speaker 1: Bonnaro because a burning man out in the desert. People 638 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,479 Speaker 1: got stuck in an eight hour traffic jam. To leave 639 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:12,600 Speaker 1: not hell for me, is a traffic jam that's more 640 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,680 Speaker 1: than an hour, and I honestly start to lose my 641 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,120 Speaker 1: mind eight hours in a traffic jam. You can't move, 642 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,040 Speaker 1: you can't go anywhere I might. I don't know. Things 643 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,960 Speaker 1: we get ugly. There's probably a lot of illicit substances involved, 644 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,560 Speaker 1: and you probably don't feel that good. Leaving burning Man 645 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,840 Speaker 1: would be a lot of hangovers. In other words, in 646 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,480 Speaker 1: an eight hour traffic to leave would be awful. They 647 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,680 Speaker 1: have helicopters that'll fly you in and out. I think 648 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,680 Speaker 1: I'd probably be a helicopter guy. No tell them what 649 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,600 Speaker 1: that costs, but I would rather pay than sit in 650 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,439 Speaker 1: an eight hour traffic jam. Definitely the way to go. Team. 651 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,359 Speaker 1: We got more for all of you tomorrow. Make sure 652 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,880 Speaker 1: you subscribe to Clay and Buck podcast. Tell somebody about it, 653 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,160 Speaker 1: Tell your independent neighbor. Hey, listen to these guys, clam Buck. 654 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:52,879 Speaker 1: They're pretty good.