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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to the Wednesday edition of The Clay and

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Speaker 1: Buck Show. My friends, it was the best State of

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Speaker 1: the Union speech I've ever seen. I'm just gonna come

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Speaker 1: right out and say it a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: mea culpa, actually, because I'm a little salty about State

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Speaker 1: of the Unions. Most of them are boring because they

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Speaker 1: go too long. I watched every minute of this one,

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Speaker 1: But it was not boring. It was soaring, it was majestic,

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Speaker 1: it was pageantry. It was fantastic. Honestly, I feel like

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Speaker 1: a movie reviewer. I laughed, I cried, I felt my

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Speaker 1: heart sore. It was fantastic. I mean, it was the best.

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Speaker 1: I could not say enough good things about Trump's State

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Speaker 1: of the Union. He was absolutely dialed in, locked in,

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Speaker 1: n fuego all of the above. Now we will dive

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Speaker 1: into some of the policy, of course, as well as

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Speaker 1: the very well deserved victory lap. That was the bulk

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Speaker 1: of the opening, certainly of the speech and the Democrat responses,

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this Democrat party is nuts. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I think one of the most powerful moments Clay of

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Speaker 1: the entire Now look before I get into the Democrats. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I want to focus on the positive here because many

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Speaker 1: of you are probably familiar with Internet terminology, and for example,

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Speaker 1: the red pill, which comes from the matrix, which I've

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Speaker 1: been saying for a long time. Actually, I used to

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Speaker 1: say this on my show Clay when I was doing

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Speaker 1: a Saturday show for like five people on the Internet.

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Speaker 1: I would say, guys, you know, we got to take

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Speaker 1: the red pill here, and it became very popular because

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Speaker 1: of the movie The Matrix, and it means to see

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Speaker 1: things as they truly are. But now there are different

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Speaker 1: pills with corresponding colors, and there are people on the red.

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Speaker 1: There are people that will say, you're taking a white

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Speaker 1: pill means you're seeing things in a very sort of

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Speaker 1: benevolent light. Red pills you're seeing things as they are.

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Speaker 1: Blue pill is you're part of the Norse or you

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Speaker 1: still have the world sort of shrouded and presented to

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Speaker 1: you without seeing with clarity, and which is from the matrix.

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Speaker 1: And then the black pill is I'm just everything is bad,

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Speaker 1: We're never gonna win, everything is terrible. There's some black

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Speaker 1: pilling that happened sometimes on the right where people just

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Speaker 1: want to get down and I saw a little this

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Speaker 1: in the commentary of but what about this? And Trump

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Speaker 1: didn't do that? Clay. I just want to set this

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Speaker 1: marker because I don't know. I don't say that every

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Speaker 1: State of the Union address is great. In fact, most

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Speaker 1: of them I think are a waste of time. Most

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Speaker 1: of them I do because it's my job. Not only

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Speaker 1: was this the best State of the Union speech, that

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Speaker 1: was a marker, a high point I think for looking

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Speaker 1: back at was at what has been, in its totality,

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Speaker 1: an unbelievable first year of Trump's second term. And I'm

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Speaker 1: somebody who was there in the trenches with the fighting

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Speaker 1: back against the Russia collusion stuff, which was totally messing

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Speaker 1: Trump up in the first term, and sandbagging and and

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Speaker 1: you know, undermining everything he was doing and dealing with

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Speaker 1: the bad picks that he had in that first administration.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a oh, Rose colored glasses guy. Everything is awesome, Clay.

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Speaker 1: Before we get anything else, I just I think it's

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Speaker 1: worth taking this moment of this administration has delivered an

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Speaker 1: enormously on securing the border, on bringing down the crime

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Speaker 1: rate nationally, on a booming economy. Tribe, we can go

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Speaker 1: through this piece by piece. The data speaks to it.

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Speaker 1: Everyone needs to take a moment, enjoy the win. Enjoy

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Speaker 1: the victory, because unfortunately, this too shall pass. He will

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Speaker 1: not be president forever. He might not even have the

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Speaker 1: House for more than another year. And the Democrats will

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Speaker 1: get into this clay. They're insane. They are a wacko party.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think that to me is everything

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Speaker 2: comes down to a couple of moments, even more so

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Speaker 2: in a social media aide which most people did not

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Speaker 2: watch a two hour speech and you loved it. I

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Speaker 2: gotta be honest with you, it would have been better

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Speaker 2: if it were an hour fifteen instead of nearly two hours.

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Speaker 2: So I was watching, I was also doing what a

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Speaker 1: This is the most clay thing ever. You're watching a

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Speaker 1: one that loved the movie, so to speak, and I

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Speaker 1: I mean, I look, I think all State of Union

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Speaker 2: I thought that it went on too long with that

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Speaker 2: I thought it was the most optimistic, patriotic speech that

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Speaker 2: Trump may have ever given. And if you were just

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Speaker 2: a reasonable person, right, not someone who is a Trump

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Speaker 2: results would be somewhat similar to what CNN actually showed,

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Speaker 2: which was sixty four percent of the speech of viewers

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Speaker 2: really liked it. I would say there's about thirty five

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Speaker 2: percent of people. Trump could have come out last night

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Speaker 2: and said I cured cancer. All of your grandmas and

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Speaker 2: grandpas are now going to be resurrected because of massive

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Speaker 1: And they still would complain.

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Speaker 2: Right, whatever the greatest thing and I balanced the budget

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Speaker 2: and whatever the greatest accomplishment that you think a president

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Speaker 2: And I thought there were two things that really stood out.

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Speaker 2: second one was when they're not willing to stand for

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Speaker 2: things that are completely non political in nature. And I

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Speaker 2: think this is going to bounce back in democrats disfavor

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Speaker 2: in a fairly substantial way because being retro sort of

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Speaker 2: retroactively opposed to whatever Trump is in favor of, it

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Speaker 2: is working against them. And I thought Trump did a

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Speaker 2: good job of making a case. If I were giving advice,

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Speaker 2: I would have said do it in one point fifteen

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Speaker 2: that speech could have been cleaned up, but so much

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Speaker 2: of it was just a spectacularly optimistic story about America

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Speaker 2: and how our lives intersect with the two hundred and

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Speaker 1: And in that way, I thought it was very well done.

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Speaker 2: In the most optimistic, probable speech that Trump has maybe

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Speaker 1: You noted two of the most important policy which I

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Speaker 1: think pretty universally people felt like the Democrats not standing

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Speaker 1: for we want to put citizens above foreigners. Basically, like

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Speaker 1: than other people. Democrats just fundamentally don't believe that. Actually,

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Speaker 1: You know, let's just start giving them welfare and turn

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Speaker 1: them into a voter. That's how they view that anyone

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Speaker 1: as long as that person is going to be on

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Speaker 1: I think is a huge vulnerability for them politically. It

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Speaker 1: is done. But Clay, the few moments for me that

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Speaker 2: I got so many thoughts on this too that we

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Speaker 2: can dive into eventually, but that moment was pure cinematic gold.

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Speaker 1: It was, you know, Ronald Reagan high fiving Hulk Hogan

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Speaker 1: like I mean, it was it was amazing, all right.

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Speaker 1: It was an absolutely beautiful moment, uh for for the country.

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Speaker 1: And it was just so cool all those young guys there,

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Speaker 1: And I think I would hope that even somebody that

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Speaker 1: despises every aspect of Trump's policy at least had their

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Speaker 1: and they did a great job. And our gals they weren't.

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Speaker 1: They weren't there last night, but you know, the gals

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Speaker 1: team did a great job too. And I just think

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Speaker 1: in everybody your respective of who they vote for. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: Democrats a lot of them, not all of them, it's

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Speaker 1: not fair to say all of them, but a lot

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Speaker 1: of them don't. And Clay, the other moment for me

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Speaker 1: continuing as a Chinook pilot to make sure that that

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Speaker 1: winners too, and they had amazing stories, but this it

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Speaker 1: just happened. I just that that wasn't about Trump, right,

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Speaker 1: this thing, No, totally. It's about the country truly. So

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Speaker 1: how can they not love that? How can how can

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Speaker 2: Eric Slover is his name, And what first of all,

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Speaker 2: he looked uncomfortable being there because I guarantee you if

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Speaker 2: they had given him a Mike he would say, well,

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Speaker 2: I was just one of insert number of gods, just

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Speaker 2: the highest level of the operators.

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Speaker 1: That's how they are. Uh.

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Speaker 2: But as he stood there and he was still, as

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Speaker 2: you said, recovering, he had aid I think crutches basically

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Speaker 2: to help him walk. He looked like an American badass

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Speaker 2: monster in a good way.

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Speaker 1: Right, just huge.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how many reps on three point fifteen

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Speaker 2: that guy could do, but I would go for a

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Speaker 2: high number. I mean, he looks like a guy who

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Speaker 2: had committed his heart and soul to defending amer to

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Speaker 2: America to touch such an extent that he was there

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Speaker 2: to get the utmost of his body and give the

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Speaker 2: that to your point, they had two hundred year old,

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Speaker 2: a World War Two veteran, a guy who flew missions

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Speaker 2: I think they said in World War two, Korea and Vietnam,

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Speaker 2: I mean, both of whom were getting the awards. I

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Speaker 2: thought it was the most patriotic pro American speech that

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Speaker 2: Trump may have ever given. And here's what stood out

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Speaker 2: to me, Buck, And I think this ties in with

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Speaker 2: the US men. And I've got so many thoughts on

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Speaker 2: a deep level about this. You can argue, as we

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Speaker 2: It's the day after a State of the Union that

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Speaker 2: H Now, Okay, So if you're out there and you're wondering, okay,

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Speaker 1: All those things are true.

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Speaker 2: But if you push back on that and you point

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Speaker 2: they circle back to Buck is Trump insulted the US

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Speaker 1: This is real. I don't know if you saw this.

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Speaker 1: I mean, how do they know he laughed at the joke?

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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 2: I didn't think about the larger context of the joke

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Speaker 1: What I felt, Oh, so please forgive me.

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Speaker 2: This is what they're saying. They're saying they want the

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Speaker 1: So here is the joke.

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Speaker 2: So Producer Greg, this was in the locker room cash

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Speaker 4: What would really be cool?

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Speaker 1: And we'll do the way how.

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Speaker 5: The next thing, we'll just have some fun. We have

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Speaker 2: Okay, So he's making a joke, but I want to

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Speaker 2: But when he says that, he says, otherwise I'll be impeached.

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Speaker 2: The joke is at the expense of Democrats and anti

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Speaker 2: an invitation was conveyed, when they would never want the

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Speaker 2: invitation to be accepted in the first place. And buck

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Speaker 2: I want to play this. This is ANBC. If you're

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Speaker 2: out there, maybe you're like me. Maybe you voted Democrat

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Speaker 2: in the past, and there's a ton of you out

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Speaker 2: there listening. Maybe you weren't like Bucket at nine years old.

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Speaker 2: You weren't reading William F.

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Speaker 1: Buckley and convinced Litto Tai Yes, drinking Earl Gray tea,

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Speaker 1: thinking about the future.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you weren't like buck Maybe you're a little bit

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Speaker 2: more like me. And if you're looking around at the society,

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Speaker 2: you think to yourself.

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Speaker 1: I haven't really changed that much.

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Speaker 2: And the world, as Truresident Trump said, has just gone

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Speaker 2: crazy around you. This is two thand and twelve. This

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Speaker 2: is twenty and twelve on MSNBC. A hockey player chose

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Speaker 2: not to visit Barack Obama's White House, and this was

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Speaker 2: how they covered it on MSNBC. This was left wing

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Speaker 2: orthodoxy just a few short years ago.

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Speaker 6: Listen Bussin Bruin's goalie Tim Thomas, RSVP. Thanks but no

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Speaker 6: thanks to a White House invitation?

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Speaker 2: What do we make of that?

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Speaker 6: Tim Thomas said, I exercised my free right right as

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Speaker 6: a free citizen and did not visit the White House.

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Speaker 6: This was not about politics or party as in my opinion,

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Speaker 6: both parties are responsible for the situation we are in

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Speaker 6: as a country.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I think this is kind of the hyperpartisanship

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Speaker 7: that just irritates everybody.

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Speaker 8: It's like, just go to the White House.

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Speaker 7: You don't have to run an ad or cut a

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Speaker 7: commercial or anything. Just go to the White House, take part, celebrate,

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Speaker 7: just like everybody else celebrates with Republicans or Democratic presidents.

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Speaker 6: Especially the ones you're getting honored. Obollow the specific mention

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Speaker 6: of him during his sixth minute address.

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Speaker 2: Buck not going to the White House was actually the insult. Now,

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Speaker 2: this is my position rit large. So if you want

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Speaker 2: to clip this in twenty years and I've got a

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Speaker 2: different opinion, you can play it. For twenty years, I've

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Speaker 2: been saying, if you're on a sports team and you

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Speaker 2: get invited to the White House, I think you should go.

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Speaker 2: I don't see it as an endorsement of the president.

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Speaker 2: I see it as a celebration of you and your

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Speaker 2: teammates accomplishments. Everybody in America basically had that opinion Democrats, Republicans,

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Speaker 2: Independence until a few short years ago. And this is

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Speaker 2: why this is important. The US men haven't said a

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Speaker 2: single thing about politics. They haven't told this what they

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Speaker 2: think about any issue under the political sun. And during

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Speaker 2: this entire attack that has been going on on them,

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Speaker 2: it's entirely based on the fact that they are patriotic,

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Speaker 2: that they respect the office of the presidency, and that

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Speaker 2: they are willing to celebrate the accomplishments of the country,

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Speaker 2: which they think is the best in the history.

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Speaker 8: Of the world.

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Speaker 1: Isn't this kind?

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Speaker 2: It's important to understand that their very patriotism is being

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Speaker 2: used against them by the left, because the left, I

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Speaker 2: really do believe this is important to slam Home hates

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Speaker 2: the country and the country's history, and they are using

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Speaker 2: these US men who are super popular, as a way

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Speaker 2: to attack all of this. And I think it's important

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Speaker 2: to put it into context just how illegitimate and unfair

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Speaker 2: all of this has been.

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Speaker 1: I also think that it highlights clay when you have

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Speaker 1: spam spam burger. I know it's spam burger, but I

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Speaker 1: think spam burger is more more apropos when you have her,

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Speaker 1: isn't an interesting Also you have Slotkin and Spamberger, both

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Speaker 1: former government analysts like yours truly, So what I tell

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Speaker 1: you guys, there are a lot of commis in the government.

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Speaker 1: That's that's for sure, you know, doing the civil servant thing.

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Speaker 1: But when she's the one giving the response, which I

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Speaker 1: watch some of it, I honestly at some point turned

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Speaker 1: it off. But when we're watching this thing, Democrats, to

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Speaker 1: attain power have to pretend that the soul and the

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Speaker 1: and the plan of their party is something other than

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Speaker 1: that which it is. The problem Republicans run into is

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Speaker 1: when they're in power, they can't get everything done that

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Speaker 1: they want to get done. And sometimes that's because of

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Speaker 1: some Republicans standing in the way, but it's not, Oh,

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Speaker 1: we're doing something totally different than what we sold you on.

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden ran as a calm unifier and then said

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Speaker 1: get the shot with your vaccine passport, or you can't

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Speaker 1: go to work and you can't go to school and

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Speaker 1: you can't do anything. Okay, these people run on a

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Speaker 1: mountain of lies to get power, and then they just

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Speaker 1: ran through as much crazy left wing nonsense as they can,

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Speaker 1: as fast as they can, and hope that through propaganda

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Speaker 1: and through manufactured delusions, they might be able to fool people,

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Speaker 1: or rather well to fool people, but also make people

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Speaker 1: forget what they've done in the past. The Democrats last night,

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Speaker 1: Clayton Brasida Cleeve had a you know, a profanity, you know,

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Speaker 1: like sounds a bit like my name, and then ice

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Speaker 1: on her button, and you're like, what, you're a member

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Speaker 1: of cong at a State of the Union address, You're

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Speaker 1: not part of the Marxist student Alliance at cuney at

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Speaker 1: City University of New York or stuff, like what are

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Speaker 1: you doing? But this is who they are. They're malcontents,

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Speaker 1: and the ones at the top, the ones that are

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Speaker 1: like the more sort of elevated than the street communist

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Speaker 1: types like Nancy Pelosi, they're so corrupt and so venal

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Speaker 1: and so self dealing and just soulless. This is who

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Speaker 1: they are, Amen.

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Speaker 2: And I do think that for people who watched last

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Speaker 2: night with persuadable minds, and I understand a lot of people,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't matter what happens. I said, Trump could have

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Speaker 2: come out and said he secured cancer and brought everybody's

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Speaker 2: Grandma and Grandpa back to life, and there'd be people

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Speaker 2: who are angry at him. But for the people who

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Speaker 2: are persuadable, the data reflects that there is still a

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Speaker 2: substantial majority of Americans that believes in the country's history

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Speaker 2: and greatness and that this is the best country in

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Speaker 2: the history of the world. And that is the reality

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Speaker 2: under which the Democrats are opposed. And I think that's significant.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, eight hundred and two to two

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Speaker 2: A A two will take your calls, get your talkbacks.

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Speaker 2: We only have one guest today, Marsha Blackburn, Senator from Tennessee,

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Speaker 2: is on next hour. Uh, but that is the only guest,

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Speaker 2: so you guys can weigh in and tell us what

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Speaker 2: you thought in addition to everything that we have already

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Speaker 2: broken down based on last night's State of the Union.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, so with that said, Puretalk, my friends, affordability is

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Speaker 1: You don't know what.

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Speaker 2: You don't know right, but you should on the Sunday

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Speaker 2: Hang with Clay and Buck podcast.

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Speaker 1: The right place. Well, welcome back in to Play and

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Speaker 1: Bucks and we got a bunch of calls, a bunch

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Speaker 1: of things to get to and discuss. Talk about it

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Speaker 1: if you want to talk for a second, to play

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Speaker 1: about the book situation here. Oh yeah, I tease that

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Speaker 1: I think this is important. I appreciate him calling.

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Speaker 2: You might think, oh, what is the impact of distribution

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Speaker 2: in bookstores.

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Speaker 1: It's huge.

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Speaker 2: They don't put by and large conservative books in the

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Speaker 2: front of bookstores. They intentionally underbuy them. So I mean,

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Speaker 2: what did the guys say, They were two copies of

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Speaker 2: your book and there were three copies of your book

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Speaker 2: in huge bookstores with a brand new release. That's been

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Speaker 2: the case with every one of my books too, they

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Speaker 2: which is why Amazon is actually where most of them

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Speaker 2: get sold. They said that ninety percent of conservative books

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Speaker 2: are sold is the number that I've heard on Amazon,

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Speaker 2: because you can go right to and it gets shipped

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Speaker 2: to your home, and that's great, but it means that

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Speaker 2: only people who know you exist get exposed to your ideas.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: They don't put it bet John Meacham in the front

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Speaker 2: and you walk in and you're just shopping, and you

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Speaker 2: think to yourself, oh, who is this guy? What's the

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Speaker 2: arguments that he or she is made. We don't get

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Speaker 2: any of those opportunities in the cultural landscape. They bury

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Speaker 2: the book in new releases. They've got two copies or

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Speaker 2: three copies, they sell them out immediately, and then this

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Speaker 2: guy's going in because he's a book buyer, and he

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Speaker 2: expects for the book to be widely distributed, and it's

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Speaker 2: just not it's not an even playing field in that respect.

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Speaker 1: If any of you see a copy of Manufacturing Delusion,

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Speaker 1: if you're happening to be going through an airport this

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Speaker 1: week and you see it on display, please take a

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Speaker 1: photo and tag me and let me know in any

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Speaker 1: of those because that's another big thing, is the airport

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Speaker 1: book buy situation. But I'm wondering if any of those

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Speaker 1: stores that carry those books whatever they're called the stores,

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Speaker 1: if they have Manufacturing Delusion, if they're trying to sell it,

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Speaker 1: because yeah, to your point, Clay, you don't get the

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Speaker 1: benefit of I mean, can you imagine if I walk

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Speaker 1: into a Barnes and Noble and there was a big

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Speaker 1: display of my book, maybe a dashing photo of me

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Speaker 1: with windswept hair and Manufacturing Delusion and both hands, you know,

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Speaker 1: just like letting it go. No, that's not what happens.

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Speaker 1: They they and to be clear, it's not about money.

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Speaker 1: They'd be making more money. They don't want to make

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Speaker 1: more money. They don't like us, That's what it comes

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Speaker 1: down to. Don't like, don't want to help, and Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: there are some of these industries still where the grip,

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Speaker 1: the political grip on the throat of the business is

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Speaker 1: very strong. Advertising still overall and ad buyers libs lib dominated,

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Speaker 1: totally lib dominated, and publishing now there are conservative imprints

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Speaker 1: at big publishing houses. Obviously one of them printed me.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it's entirely but in terms of

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Speaker 1: the distribution side of it, like who's buying the books

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Speaker 1: for the stores to put out totally lib dominated and

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Speaker 1: it's just, you know, I just wish we could do

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Speaker 1: something about this. I can't say, have Elon Bybarnes and Noble,

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Speaker 1: but maybe you could probably get us. You could probably

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Speaker 1: get it for a song.

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Speaker 2: It just matters a tremendous amount in the marketplace of ideas.

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Speaker 2: You can mention bookstores, and that's the perfect example, because

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Speaker 2: people theoretically going into bookstores are going there to buy books,

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Speaker 2: and one of the fun things about going to a

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Speaker 2: bookstore is the serendipity of finding a book that you

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Speaker 2: did not anticipate or know existed, and you think, oh,

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Speaker 2: this would.

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Speaker 1: Be a great read.

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Speaker 2: Book browsing is still a big deal. Here's the other

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Speaker 2: one that I think is even more significant book airports. Well,

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Speaker 2: that's what I was just saying. I want to see

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Speaker 2: books in the airports. Wait, the last time you saw

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Speaker 2: a conservative book walking through the terminals at a display

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Speaker 2: where you would see it when you're in an airport?

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Speaker 2: How many people buy books in airports? Huge percentages. They

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Speaker 2: don't exist, They do not exist in that way. So

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Speaker 2: the caller's right, I mean, this is a significant issue.

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Speaker 2: And we've got a bunch of callers, by the way, Yes, yeah, we.

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Speaker 1: Have a bunch of callers. If we'll get you know,

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Speaker 1: Andrew and Kentucky, you're up. What's going on?

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Speaker 3: Buck Love your show. Just wanted to call and mention

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Speaker 3: my favorite moment from the State of the Union last night.

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Speaker 3: It was when Trump was talking about the Save Act

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Speaker 3: and he was talking about the hypocrisy of the left

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Speaker 3: and mentioning the communist mayor of New York, Mondamie, and

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Speaker 3: talking about how he was asking for snow shovelers, but

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Speaker 3: those snow shovelers needed to bring in two forms of

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Speaker 3: ID and a social security guard.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, look, we hope everybody in w r Land is

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Speaker 2: doing well out there, and certainly on Long Island, where

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Speaker 2: they got over two feet of snow, and if you're

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Speaker 2: listening to us in Rhode Island, I think they got

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Speaker 2: three feet of snow. And by the way, mentioning Mam Donnie,

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Speaker 2: did you see the videos that have gone viral of.

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Speaker 1: The snow of the cops or the snow was getting.

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Speaker 1: I think it is absolutely despicable. I don't think it's funny.

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Speaker 1: I wish that those cops could have caught a few

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Speaker 1: of those guys with a nice trunching to, you know,

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Speaker 1: the side of the knee. I think it's it's horrible

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Speaker 1: because I know people, oh, it's a snowball fight. Actually,

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Speaker 1: first of all, if you don't want to be in

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Speaker 1: a snowball fight and you're getting hit from multiple side,

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Speaker 1: it's just as salt. It's actually a salt and battery.

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Speaker 1: And you know, some of these guys are throwing things

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Speaker 1: that are basically ice, So you're just throwing like a

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Speaker 1: handful of ice at a cop from close range, and

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Speaker 1: there's so many people that they can't do it. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're not able to do anything about it. I thought

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Speaker 1: it was grotesquely disrespectful. I hope people get arrested for it.

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Speaker 1: They won't get prosecuted in any meaningful way because it's brag.

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Speaker 1: But it just goes to show you how disrespectful the

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Speaker 1: some of the unfortunately some of the residents of New

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Speaker 1: York City and just the you know, these are all leftists.

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Speaker 1: The people that are saying it's not a big deal,

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Speaker 1: they're all leftists. They hate cops because cops force the

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Speaker 1: reality of accountability on people, and the whole game of

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Speaker 1: the left is no one's ever accountable. It's always you're

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Speaker 1: always a victim. It's always someone else's fault.

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Speaker 2: Also, I just can't even imagine if you are the

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Speaker 2: kind of person who's gonna run up and some of

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Speaker 2: these were. They've got some photos out of people trying

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Speaker 2: to arrest some people were running up with basically boulders

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Speaker 2: of ice to throw at.

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Speaker 1: Cops, smacking on the cops. Yeah, it was really really nasty.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they clearly were taking advantage of the situation.

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Speaker 1: And look, these people deserve a good swift punch in

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Speaker 1: the face. You know, I don't know what else to say.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they deserve to get an ass kicking.

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Speaker 2: And also, to your point, what do you think the

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Speaker 2: odds are that people who have been completely law abiding

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Speaker 2: their entire life decide to attack police officers with snowballs.

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Speaker 2: I would bet those people have records that are a

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Speaker 2: mile long, likely because it's such a moronic thing to

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Speaker 2: even think to do for most people. Look, and the

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Speaker 2: cops have a tough job day in and day out.

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Speaker 2: They do all over the country, and you know, it's

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Speaker 2: often a thankless job.

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Speaker 1: Not always. You know, they do sometimes perform the Heimlich

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Speaker 1: on a baby and save a life. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's there's obviously thanks with it too. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of communities, I said here in

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Speaker 1: Miami Beach were very supportive of our cops. And you know,

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Speaker 1: there's it's a very safe community. Cops are very well

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Speaker 1: respected here, which I really like that. And you know,

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Speaker 1: the NYPD went through a post nine to eleven period

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Speaker 1: where New Yorkers I think were particularly prone to show

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Speaker 1: gratitude toward the NYPD. That's of course faded though, And

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Speaker 1: when you see this kind of disorder where you have

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Speaker 1: these people doing this to police officers, like, what is

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Speaker 1: the mindset of somebody who thinks that this is funny,

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Speaker 1: Like that's someone's husband out there. Probably you know, those

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Speaker 1: cops probably are married, probably have some kids, and you're

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Speaker 1: all smacking them with ice in the face because they

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Speaker 1: wear a uniform and they're trying to keep the streets

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Speaker 1: safe and trying to keep bad things from happening to people.

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Speaker 1: What part of that is funny? What part of that

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Speaker 1: is amusing? So you know this, but this is Alvin

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Speaker 1: Bragg is a scumbag. He's a bad person. He's immoral,

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Speaker 1: he's a race hustler. He clearly has a tremendous amount

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Speaker 1: of animosity for certain people of certain backgrounds. And he

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Speaker 1: won't do anything about this. Guarantee you, even if they're arrested,

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Speaker 1: he'll do the bare minimum. And I think what you're

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Speaker 1: gonna to see is Jessica Tish uh. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I grew up knowing the Tish family a little bit

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Speaker 1: in New York and they're they're good people and they

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Speaker 1: love the city. I think you're gonna see jesse Tish

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Speaker 1: say I'm out because because there's not the back. If

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Speaker 1: you don't have the if you don't have the district

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Speaker 1: attorney and the mayor catching your back as the police

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Speaker 1: commissioner and doing the right thing for law and order,

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Speaker 1: your your hands are tied doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: This is one thing that Eric Adams got right. The

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Speaker 2: safety in New York City got far better during his

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Speaker 2: tenure than it was before. And I think the fact

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Speaker 2: that he is a former cop, it's not coincidental that

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Speaker 2: that was the that was the outcome he got it.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying he was perfect. Clearly he wasn't an

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Speaker 2: ideal leader, but you see his story.

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Speaker 1: He had he serious Yeah, he Eric Adams Clay had

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Speaker 1: serious managerial limitations, Like he just doesn't He's not a

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Speaker 1: guy you want running a hundred billion dollar city budget

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Speaker 1: operation and all the different He's just not up. He

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Speaker 1: wasn't up for that task. He doesn't have the ability

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Speaker 1: to experience, you know. But he was in over his head.

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Speaker 1: But he doesn't hate cops and he doesn't actually think

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Speaker 1: that like criminals are good people. And that was an

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Speaker 1: improvement over to Blasio, to be fair into what you're saying,

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Speaker 1: that was an improvement over to Blasio. Uh, you know, mom,

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Speaker 1: Donnie is much more of the Deblasio mold. And and

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Speaker 1: we're going to see, I think, more and more of this.

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Speaker 1: And just wait until you have your first major incident

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Speaker 1: with a cop in New York. It will happen. It's

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Speaker 1: inevitable at some point, and see which side of the

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Speaker 1: equation Mamdani falls on. But you know this statement could

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Speaker 1: guy's pull the statement that Mamdanni made about it. It

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Speaker 1: was very Oh it's wet here we have it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: play cut thirty seven. Here's Mom Donni speaking about these

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Speaker 1: cops who were they were being assaulted. I know, people, Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's just snowballs. Okay, you can watch the video yourself

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Speaker 1: and tell me if you think that the cops were

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Speaker 1: enjoying this. Play it.

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Speaker 5: I've said that what I saw was a snowball fight.

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Speaker 5: It should be treated accordingly. It was one that got

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Speaker 5: out of hand, but that's what it was. I'm not

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Speaker 5: going to be banning snowball fights or organized snowball fights.

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Speaker 5: I've shared my thoughts with New Yorkers.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what what if people just walk by cops

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Speaker 1: and just just smacked eggs in their faces? Is that funny?

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Speaker 1: Is that a joke? It's against the law. Mom Donnie

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Speaker 1: is also unfortunately, and by the way, Trump is too

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Speaker 1: nice about him. He was too and I know this

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Speaker 1: is sometimes Trump is he's funny because they all say

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00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 1: Clay that Trump is Trump's actually very nice as long

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Speaker 1: as you don't try to, you know, go toe to

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Speaker 1: toe with him. He's very charming.

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Speaker 8: Mam.

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Speaker 1: Donni's a bad guy. He's a bad guy. He's actually

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Speaker 1: not a nice guy. He's a bad guy. He just

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Speaker 1: smiles a lot and is you know, smooth with people.

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Speaker 1: The yes, I agree with all of that.

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Speaker 2: And he's falling rapidly on his face with a lot

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Speaker 2: of the different.

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Speaker 1: Decisions that he's made.

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Speaker 2: And one of them you were talking about, Jessica Tish,

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Speaker 2: is that New York City is basically deciding, due to

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Speaker 2: a budget crisis, to not fund five thousand police officers

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Speaker 2: that they had previously anticipated and expected to fund. That's

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Speaker 2: going to eventually blow up on them. There's no other

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Speaker 2: way this is going to go. And believing that you

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Speaker 2: can be kind to criminals is a luxury of a

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Speaker 2: low crime environment, and inevitably it leads to more violence.

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Speaker 2: And I would just come back. I mean, I guarantee

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Speaker 2: you if they arrest the people who were throwing cops,

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Speaker 2: throwing snowballs at cops aggressively, they will discover that those

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Speaker 2: guys have been arrested multiple times before. Because I just

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Speaker 2: don't buy We're not talking about like a fund if

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Speaker 2: the cops are actually engaged in the snowball fight. Two,

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Speaker 2: that's a snowball fight. Running up to somebody and pelting

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Speaker 2: them constantly with snowballs because they're wearing uniforms is not

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Speaker 2: a snowball fight. To your point, if it were eggs,

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Speaker 2: it would be an assault. These guys should be charged,

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Speaker 2: and I think when they're charged, you will find out

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Speaker 2: that they've been charged with multiple offenses before.

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 1: I mean I could walk up to someone and say

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Speaker 1: I'm patting them on the back and whack them as

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Speaker 1: hard as I can and do real damage and be like, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's just petting you on the back. I mean, right,

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Speaker 1: we all know these games, we all know that the

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Speaker 1: and this is of course a classic leftist thing. But

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Speaker 1: what Mamdannie said there is disgusting. What I saw was

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Speaker 1: a snowball fight, you sniveling little coward. Someone I don't want.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to go that. He's just the worst man.

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Speaker 1: He's just the worst. And it's a disgrace, a disgrace

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Speaker 1: that New York has this guy calling the shots.

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Speaker 2: No doubt, if you visit Israel and It's people, you

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Speaker 2: will be impressed on the visit. I was there about

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Speaker 2: a year ago to see the work being done by

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Speaker 2: the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. That also provided

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Speaker 2: me an opportunity to see the first hand evidence of

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Speaker 2: the attacks of October seventh, that what Hamas did to

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Speaker 2: innocent Israelis because they were Jewish. I'm gonna go to

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Speaker 2: Israel again. I was talking about this with my family recently.

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Speaker 2: I want to take them. I want them to be

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Speaker 2: able to see the Old City of Jerusalem. By the way,

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Speaker 2: I'd like to go to Egypt. I'd like to travel

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Speaker 2: all over ancient civilizations, areas that I haven't been to before.

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Speaker 2: As a nation, the United States cares a great deal

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Speaker 2: about Israel. Even if you don't get the chance to visit.

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Speaker 2: There are steadfast allies in the Middle East and the

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Speaker 2: only country where true freedom in the Middle East exists,

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Speaker 2: regardless of what religion you are. At a time when

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Speaker 2: Jewish communities are experiencing more hostility, more threats, more violence

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Speaker 2: than ever, Christians have a powerful opportunity to say you're

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Speaker 2: all the work they do for people all over Israel.

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Speaker 2: I have seen it. They make a tremendous difference. CJ

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Speaker 1: Welcome back into Clay and back. We are joined by

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Speaker 1: Senator Marsha Blackburn of the great State of Tennessee, which

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Speaker 1: has given us both a fantastic senator and a fantastic

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Speaker 1: Clay Travis. So we have so much to be thankful

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00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: for Tennessee, and thank you for being here.

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Speaker 9: Senator Well, I'm always so delighted to join you all.

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Speaker 8: Thanks for having me back.

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Speaker 1: It really was an incredible State of the Union. And

872
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Speaker 1: that comes Senator Blackburn from somebody who thinks even his

873
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Speaker 1: own team State of the Unions are usually kind of

874
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Speaker 1: boring and go too long. I thought last night was remarkable.

875
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to get your top line thoughts on

876
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,760
Speaker 1: it and how was it.

877
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 9: It was remark and the two hours absolutely flew by

878
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 9: because the President just kept rolling right on through all

879
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 9: the objections that the left side of the aisle was

880
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 9: throwing their way.

881
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 8: I was so pleased.

882
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 9: He laid out where we were a year and a

883
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Speaker 9: half ago, with nine percent inflation, with chaos in the world,

884
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 9: and then he drew it to today, where we're at

885
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 9: two point four percent inflation, the price of gas coming down,

886
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 9: the price of groceries beginning to normalize, wayes going up,

887
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 9: and job opportunities increasing, and our standing in the world

888
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 9: is restored. Our allies are working with us. Our adversaries

889
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:46,720
Speaker 9: and enemies fear of us. They know that President Trump

890
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 9: means the business, and that he has the backing of

891
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 9: Republicans in the House and the Senate.

892
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Speaker 2: Were you stunned, even as someone who has been involved

893
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Speaker 2: in politics for a long time, that when they had

894
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Speaker 2: the mom of a murdered innocent woman and they had

895
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 2: her stand, and when they had Charlie Kirk's wife eric

896
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Speaker 2: A stand, and when even on a much less serious front,

897
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:18,280
Speaker 2: they brought in the US men's Olympic team, that every

898
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 2: Democrat didn't stand up and clap. I wish there had

899
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 2: been even more of a camera on the larger viewing

900
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Speaker 2: area so you could see it. But I gotta admit

901
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 2: I was kind of staggered. I don't know who gave

902
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 2: Democrats that advice, but including, hey, do you think your

903
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 2: job is to take care of citizens or illegal immigrants?

904
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe the way they behaved.

905
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Speaker 8: Their behavior was appalling.

906
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 9: And the fact that they would stay sitting in their

907
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 9: seats and not stand to honor these who have lost

908
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 9: loved ones, to honor those that have served our country,

909
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 9: to honor the oath. Did they took to protect and

910
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 9: defend and honor the people who voted for them and

911
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 9: elected them, to make certain that they were there to

912
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 9: serve the people. It was absolutely astounding. But you know

913
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 9: what this is where the line of distinction is. What

914
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:27,399
Speaker 9: we have seen is the current Democrat Party, which is

915
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 9: led by the far left wing of the Democrat Party,

916
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:38,279
Speaker 9: the Democrat socialists. They would rather take care of illegal

917
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 9: immigrants than they would take care of the people that

918
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 9: voted for them. They would rather provide for illegal immigrants

919
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 9: than provide for the citizens of their states and the

920
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Speaker 9: citizens of this nation. It is astounding.

921
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Speaker 1: Enter Blackburn, you also wanted to talk to us today

922
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Speaker 1: about this case. Currently with the courts involving social media,

923
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Speaker 1: and there's the Kids Online Safety Act, there's a whole

924
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Speaker 1: range of issues coming together here. Can you just tell

925
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Speaker 1: us first what is going on right now? We've got

926
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Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg recently had to show up in Los Angeles

927
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Speaker 1: County Superior Court. He testified he's a CEO of Meta.

928
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Speaker 1: There's this whole court case going on. It's with the

929
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: jury right now. What are the items at issue and

930
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 1: what do you want to see from this case?

931
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Speaker 9: Yes, indeed, this case which I will say this Mark

932
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 9: Zuckerberg being on the stand in this case, I don't

933
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Speaker 9: know what the outcome, the legal ramifications of the case

934
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Speaker 9: are going to end up being. No one can tell

935
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Speaker 9: us exactly because there's a jury involved. What I do

936
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Speaker 9: know is this that Mark Zuckerberg lost in the court

937
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Speaker 9: of public opinion because he continued to say that social

938
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Speaker 9: media had nothing to do with the accelerated levels of

939
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Speaker 9: anxiety and depression, eating disorders, teen suicide, and this bucket

940
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Speaker 9: of mental health issues. When the research that Meta has

941
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Speaker 9: and whistleblowers have given that research to us, and of

942
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Speaker 9: course it was presented in court. And you know that

943
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Speaker 9: they know what they are doing to kids. You know

944
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Speaker 9: that they are designing programming to capture younger kids. We

945
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Speaker 9: all know that the valuation of Meta and Google. In

946
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 9: all of these big tech companies, it is based on

947
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Speaker 9: the number of eyeballs they draw to the page and

948
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Speaker 9: the amount of time they can keep those eyeballs focused

949
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Speaker 9: on the platform. So I think he lost in the

950
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 9: court of public opinion. It has brought forward the need

951
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Speaker 9: to pass the Kids Online Safety Act that came out of.

952
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Speaker 8: The Senate ninety one to three.

953
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Speaker 9: We have seventy five Senate co sponsors on it.

954
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Speaker 8: It is significant.

955
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 9: It would put in place a duty of care, a

956
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Speaker 9: product by design safety standard for the virtual space.

957
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Speaker 8: That is something at this point we do not have.

958
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 1: Your grandkids.

959
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 2: My sons go to a similar school in the Nashville

960
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Speaker 2: area that has a good technology policy, which is and

961
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:46,239
Speaker 2: I know they probably maybe cheating right now, but they're

962
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 2: not supposed to have their phones. They're not supposed to

963
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:50,719
Speaker 2: be able to text message during school, and if they're

964
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:54,800
Speaker 2: caught with cell phones during school hours, there are consequences.

965
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Speaker 2: Shouldn't this be the standard for every school basically in America?

966
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Speaker 2: Your grandma before that, you were a mom, As a dad,

967
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Speaker 2: I think it's a no brainer, and I think it's

968
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 2: super bipartisan.

969
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: Are you in favor of this? What more and more schools.

970
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:12,320
Speaker 2: Not allowing kids to be on phones during the day.

971
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Speaker 9: Oh yes, indeed, Bell to bel no Selle. That is

972
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 9: a very good policy for kids. And you know, there's

973
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:26,879
Speaker 9: a growing body of research that shows that children who

974
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 9: do not have a cell phone on their desk, in

975
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:35,959
Speaker 9: their backpack within reach, their test scores go up, their

976
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:41,600
Speaker 9: achievement goes up, their participation in class increases. And the

977
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 9: more you see this research, the more you know that

978
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 9: it does matter, and you realize what a massive distraction

979
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 9: it is to have that cell phone at the ready.

980
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 9: I think one of the things that is so interesting

981
00:53:56,080 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 9: about this also is talking to parents, teachers, and printrinciples.

982
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 9: Most of the behavioral issues that take place on school

983
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 9: campuses find their nexus at the cell phone, and the

984
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 9: bullying is twenty four to seven.

985
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 8: It never stops.

986
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 9: So putting those phones away for that period of the

987
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:26,360
Speaker 9: academic day forces kids to focus on what they are studying.

988
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 9: It means that kids that go to study hall are

989
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:35,720
Speaker 9: actually doing research work, they're writing papers, they're pulling books

990
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 9: out of the library shelves. And hearing from librarians about

991
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 9: the change in behavior during those study halls is something

992
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 9: that has not been lost on me.

993
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 1: Speaking the Centater of Marsha at Blackburn of Tennessee. When

994
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: you talk about I just want to bring us back

995
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:56,880
Speaker 1: to this for second, the social media issues for kids

996
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:59,959
Speaker 1: and online duty of care? Are the social media company?

997
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 1: Are they just saying that that's impossible, it's too expensive,

998
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:07,760
Speaker 1: it's not necessary. I mean, what's the counter argument? Because

999
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:11,400
Speaker 1: usually when it comes to any political issue about children,

1000
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:14,919
Speaker 1: everyone at least pretends that they care about the kids, right,

1001
00:55:14,960 --> 00:55:16,799
Speaker 1: I mean, even the big companies pretend. So what are

1002
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 1: they saying in response to this? Why why would they

1003
00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:24,279
Speaker 1: you know, not will they go along with it? I mean,

1004
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 1: why does it even require it an act by Congress?

1005
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 9: They have proven they cannot police themselves. They have also

1006
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 9: proven that when kids are on those phones, kids are

1007
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:38,840
Speaker 9: the product. And you know, one of the interesting things

1008
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:43,840
Speaker 9: is that every industrial sector in this country has product

1009
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 9: safety standards.

1010
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:48,359
Speaker 8: Whether it's an automobile, a toaster, a.

1011
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:55,239
Speaker 9: Mattress, a curling iron, everything has a safety standard, everything

1012
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:59,960
Speaker 9: except the virtual space. And the reason for that Big

1013
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 9: Tech has spent millions of dollars lobbying last year fourth

1014
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:10,359
Speaker 9: quarter of the year in order to take down the Kids.

1015
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:11,240
Speaker 8: Online Safety Act.

1016
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 9: Meta hired one lobbyist for every six members of Congress

1017
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 9: and spent twenty million dollars. I'm somebody that knows what

1018
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:27,440
Speaker 9: it feels like to have big tech come barreling after

1019
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 9: them with lots of lobbyist, lawyers and millions of dollars

1020
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 9: because they do not want to change their business model.

1021
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 9: They would have to change that business model if you

1022
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:45,800
Speaker 9: put in place a safety by design standard, if you

1023
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 9: delink the algorithm so that the algorithm can be controlled

1024
00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 9: by the parents and the kids and not controlled by

1025
00:56:58,680 --> 00:56:59,720
Speaker 9: the platform.

1026
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:01,440
Speaker 8: They don't want.

1027
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 1: That Center Blackburn.

1028
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 2: Last night, I was at a in the black is

1029
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:10,840
Speaker 2: what it's called event about trying to balance a budget.

1030
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,800
Speaker 2: A bunch of people you know were there. It was awesome.

1031
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:19,600
Speaker 2: I know you're running for governor, but the federal government

1032
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 2: inability to remotely make decisions that have to do. Let's

1033
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 2: use as an example right now, basic election integrity. You're

1034
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:32,560
Speaker 2: going to be on the ballot in November. Tennessee thankfully

1035
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 2: has really great election integrity. But the fact that white, black,

1036
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:40,080
Speaker 2: Asian Hispanic people overwhelmingly believe that you should have to

1037
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 2: show a photo ID in order to vote to prove

1038
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 2: your who you are. What's going to happen with that

1039
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 2: in the Senate, I think there might be a filibuster.

1040
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 2: How's that process going to play out? I still can't

1041
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 2: believe this is unpassable basically based on the Democrat response.

1042
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 9: You know, it's an eighty percent issue with the American

1043
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 9: people across all different demographic groups. And that's a thing

1044
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 9: that is so interesting, the fact that it has such

1045
00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 9: broad bipartisan support. I mean, Zora and Mundami wants you

1046
00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 9: to show two forms of ID in order to go

1047
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:20,520
Speaker 9: shovel snow in New York, but he doesn't want you

1048
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 9: to show an ID to vote. What they're trying to

1049
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 9: do is make it easy to cheat and hard to vote.

1050
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 9: We want to make it easy to vote and hard

1051
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 9: to cheat. And we have got to have photo YD

1052
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:39,360
Speaker 9: in the Senate. We are going to push the Save

1053
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 9: America Act forward. I look forward to having a vote

1054
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:48,360
Speaker 9: on the floor. It should be common sense standard practice

1055
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:52,080
Speaker 9: that you have to be a citizen of the United

1056
00:58:52,120 --> 00:58:56,160
Speaker 9: States in order to vote in our elections, and you

1057
00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 9: have to show an ID and prove who you are

1058
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 9: when it comes to the issue of the balanced budget.

1059
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 9: And I have supported a balanced budget amendment for the

1060
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 9: United States. We have that in Tennessee. We have to

1061
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:16,680
Speaker 9: balance our budget. We can't borrow money or print money.

1062
00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 9: We have to be very careful about that and be

1063
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 9: a good fiscal steward.

1064
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:26,200
Speaker 8: It means that some years, the leaner years, you cannot

1065
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 8: do some projects you want.

1066
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 9: To do, and then it means when you do have

1067
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 9: years where you have a surplus, you have to be

1068
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 9: wise about where you place those dollars. The federal government

1069
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 9: should do likewise, and they would be well served to

1070
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 9: do likewise.

1071
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,160
Speaker 1: Senator Blackburn, appreciate you being with us.

1072
00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 8: You got it. Take care.

1073
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:53,320
Speaker 1: There's a specific reason why the price of gold grew

1074
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 1: by sixty five percent last year, Economic uncertainty. When there's turmoil,

1075
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:02,480
Speaker 1: When there's uncertain the value of gold goes up. Investors

1076
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:05,880
Speaker 1: looking for safe havens is well, that makes a lot

1077
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 1: of sense, right, safe havens. Gold is just one of those,

1078
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 1: a solid, reliable investment. Over the last twenty years, gold's

1079
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 1: up over seven hundred percent in value. Think about that,

1080
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 1: over twenty years, up seven hundred percent. Now you don't

1081
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 1: have to trade in, trade out and play all kinds

1082
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:22,960
Speaker 1: of games. No, no, you just buy gold and hold gold.

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