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Speaker 1: Welcome in Wednesday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. I

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Speaker 1: hope all of you are having fabulous weeks so far.

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Speaker 1: We are here hopefully to make that a bit better

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Speaker 1: than it otherwise would be. The government is shut down,

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Speaker 1: what is the impact we will discuss. Buck is not

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Speaker 1: shut down, but he is in Taiwan right now and

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Speaker 1: he is continuing to travel around over there. He'll be

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Speaker 1: back Monday on the program, just to FYI, so you

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Speaker 1: have got me as you have on Monday and Tuesday

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Speaker 1: solo for the rest of this week, we will take

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Speaker 1: your calls, we will take your talkbacks. We will dive

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Speaker 1: into a variety of different pertinent subjects. We're going to

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Speaker 1: be joined by Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett. He was listening

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Speaker 1: to our discussion about why congressional stock trading is not

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Speaker 1: banned and he has some strong thoughts on that. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure we'll talk about the shutdown as well. And then

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Speaker 1: at two o'clock our friend Tutor Dixon. I just saw

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Speaker 1: her last week speaking when I was speaking up in Michigan.

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Speaker 1: She will join us. She's part of the Clay and

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Speaker 1: Buck podcast network. We had a really good time hanging

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Speaker 1: out up at mckinaw Island where the Michigan Republican Party

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Speaker 1: was having there by annual event at the Grand Hotel

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Speaker 1: up there. So that was a lot of fun, and

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Speaker 1: I was there last week. I think I was there

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Speaker 1: last week. Everything runs together, but I guess it was

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Speaker 1: two weeks ago. We will dive into a lot of topics,

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Speaker 1: but off the top, the shutdown is underway, and I

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Speaker 1: got to be honest with y'all. You know, and I

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Speaker 1: think Buck and I have talked about this quite a

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Speaker 1: bit on the program. We are not of the opinion

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Speaker 1: that the shutdown is ultimately that big of a story,

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Speaker 1: because eventually it will get resolved and we'll just add

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Speaker 1: on more debt. But I do want to give you

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Speaker 1: some historical analogy of where we are. Since nineteen seventy six,

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Speaker 1: the US government has shut down twenty times. So if

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Speaker 1: you were out there and you're thinking, this just feels

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Speaker 1: like the same plot over and over again, Groundhog Day,

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Speaker 1: in many ways it is. There were no shutdowns between

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five and twenty thirteen, but three have occurred

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Speaker 1: in the twelve years since. The longest one was in

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Speaker 1: Trump one point zero and that lasted thirty four days

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Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen. Really, the essence of this shutdown,

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Speaker 1: just so you know, is a battle over whether there

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Speaker 1: should be an extension of COVID healthcare policies, which were

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Speaker 1: put in place by Democrats as part of their massive blockbuster,

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Speaker 1: out of control spending bills that they forced through in

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Speaker 1: the COVID era. And the reason why this spending cost

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Speaker 1: is up now is because they pegged it for a

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Speaker 1: relatively short period of time so that it did not

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Speaker 1: continue to cost money going forward. Now, this is me,

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Speaker 1: and you have heard me go off on this quite

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Speaker 1: a lot. The healthcare system in the United States is broken.

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Speaker 1: Every single one of you listening to me right now

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Speaker 1: is nodding along because it is just a broken marketplace.

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Speaker 1: It makes no sense the way we have designed it.

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Speaker 1: It is the most inefficient and the least effective part

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Speaker 1: of I would argue the American economic system. It is

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Speaker 1: anti capitalistic in many ways. It is profoundly broken. This

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Speaker 1: spending package that the Democrats are insisting on continuing would

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Speaker 1: add up over the next decade, according to the Wall

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Speaker 1: Street Journal editorial page, to a round four hundred and

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Speaker 1: that is in a large extent unnecessary. And so this

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Speaker 1: So we begin with the foundational point that the healthcare

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Speaker 1: system in this country is broken, and anybody who's ever

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Speaker 1: knows exactly what I'm talking about. Studies suggest that one

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Speaker 1: reason our healthcare system is broken, probably the primary one,

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Speaker 1: is nobody has any idea what anything costs, and so

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Speaker 1: you can't make a rational decision in your life about

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Speaker 1: whether or not you need an MRI, or whether you

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Speaker 1: because a lot of times you don't have the information

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Speaker 1: as you're not a doctor, as necessary. And what has

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Speaker 1: How many people actually make that choice? How many people

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Speaker 1: on the ball, knew where our healthcare card was, knew

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Speaker 1: when we checked in, when she checked in, I didn't

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Speaker 1: we had health insurance. It's all broken. All of it

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Speaker 1: is broken, and I could get on a pedestal and

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Speaker 1: As someone who has owned a business and has had

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Speaker 1: never use, and the entire insurance industry is totally broken.

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Speaker 1: In conjunction with health care, we spend way more than

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Speaker 1: the best results. And the data reflects that you could

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Speaker 1: general proposition is, I don't want to take anything. I

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Speaker 1: I don't want to take any drugs. I don't want

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Speaker 1: And yet simultaneously, the people who actually do need health care,

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Speaker 1: people who don't need it don't feel like we're getting

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Speaker 1: So that's where we really are, and in essence, much

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Speaker 1: They're both so fundamentally broken that you would actually do

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Speaker 1: a functional, rational healthcare system. And tax policy. Instead, we

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Speaker 1: no So go hey, happy optimistic Wednesday, everybody. We've got

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Speaker 1: And one of the real unfortunate aspects of our democratic

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Speaker 1: the ledger as a cost long into the future. And

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Speaker 1: Democrats want to provide healthcare for as many people as possible,

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Speaker 1: including many different illegal immigrants, and ultimately this is paid

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Speaker 1: giving insurance companies more money, and the entire concept of

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Speaker 1: the essence of why we have a government shut down,

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Speaker 1: that is the essence of what is going on, and

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Speaker 1: the government has shut down. In fact, a lot of

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Speaker 1: for a long time. First time I heard the stat

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Speaker 1: State of Tennessee. Government is shut down. We're going to

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Speaker 3: I agree with one hundred percent, and thank you so

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Speaker 3: much for letting me come on with you. It's an honor.

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Speaker 3: Congress is broke, and it is crooked as a dog's leg.

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Speaker 3: There is no other explanation when a congressman can make

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Speaker 3: It is unbelievable. And we can't even get the bill

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Speaker 3: My buddy Tommy Siler managed. Everybody needs a bad gum

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Speaker 3: I'm sacrificing so much, Well that gum it go home

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Speaker 3: America is tired of this garbage. It is broke. You've

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Speaker 3: It just says no stop trading, you know, for members

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Speaker 3: That should be it, you know, make the dad gum sacrifice.

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Speaker 3: It's crazy, you know. I make skateboards. It's and I'm

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Speaker 3: I made one for Telca Gabbard a couple of weeks

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Speaker 3: I went to the ethics people and I literally have

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Speaker 3: But dad, gummut, if I want to do insider trading,

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Speaker 3: just become a member of Congress. And it rains on you.

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Speaker 1: It is wild. And you know, I was going off

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Speaker 1: And it's crazy to me that, first of all, your

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Speaker 3: Well, some of them do hundreds of hundreds, I know,

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Speaker 1: How does this shutdown end up ending? Congressman? Like, where

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Speaker 3: When Schumer sees his polling numbers declining, I think what's

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Speaker 3: And all he's doing is watching that New York mayor's race,

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Speaker 1: By the way, God shining favor on the poor folks

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Speaker 3: You know, he was he wasn't a moderate, but he

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Congressman Tim Burchett at Tennessee. How did

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Speaker 1: Nico going to UCLA transferring from Tennessee going to UCLA.

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Speaker 1: UCLA is now lost every game. His head coach has

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Speaker 1: fans out there catching astray. You didn't expect this. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Nico to UCLA? That choice or Kamala Harris picking Tim

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Speaker 1: Walls as her vice president? Who made the worst decision?

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Speaker 1: Who made the better decision? You're on the floor.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna say Kamala because she was a train wreck anyway,

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Speaker 3: and she just picked a bigger train wreck. I almost.

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Speaker 3: You know, they always pick somebody who I always feel

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Speaker 3: like somebody that's not going to overshadow him a lot

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Speaker 3: of times. But I the JD Vance, as we say

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Speaker 3: He's strong, and he's a kind of a buddy of mine,

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Speaker 3: I guess. But yeah, that gum when they call him

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Speaker 3: tampon tim or something, I don't like saying it, but

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Speaker 3: he is just a he's a knucklehead man. He just

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Speaker 3: can't get out of his own way. I don't know

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Speaker 3: who he was running against to get elected governor out there,

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Speaker 3: but that gum must have been a convicted fella and

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure the Republicans put up against him, But yeah, Nico,

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Speaker 3: I mean, he just took some mad advibes. But he's

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Speaker 3: he'll get a little bit of a paycheck. And if

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Speaker 3: he's he can just get all his groupies and family

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Speaker 3: away from him, he might be okay. He might be

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Speaker 3: able to salvage something in the Canadian Football League. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's where I'm at be where I get myself in

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Speaker 3: any more trouble.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm already thinking the headline for the New York

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Speaker 1: Times is going to be Tennessee Congressman Tim Burchett praises

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Speaker 1: Nico for his move to UCLA. Hey, this is this

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Speaker 1: love the Tim Walls. You may have seen the meme

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Speaker 1: Congressman where it shows Barack Obama and he says I

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Speaker 1: need someone dumber than me as VP Joe Biden. Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden says I need someone dumber than me as VP

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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris says, I need someone dumber than me,

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Speaker 1: and it's Tim Walls. There's a lot of truth to that,

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Speaker 1: and we have seen a rapid descent and intelligence across

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Speaker 1: the board there. We appreciate the time. If people want

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Speaker 1: to get the skateboard, by the way, where do they go?

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Speaker 3: Well, nowhere yet.

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Speaker 1: I'm okay, I.

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Speaker 3: Got a business plan. I got to put it on

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Speaker 3: ethics and and so they can approve it or not.

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Speaker 1: Hey, if Hunter can sell paintings for five hundred thousand dollars,

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Speaker 1: I would think you could probably sell a skateboard for

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Speaker 1: a couple one hundred bucks. But what do I know.

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Speaker 3: Well, the Biden family couldn't spell ethics. So I got it.

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Speaker 3: I just want to be the man my little girl

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Speaker 3: the rules here. I get my lawyers involved and we'll

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Speaker 3: get it all worked out eventually, hope the end of

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Speaker 3: the year, hopefully in time for Christmas.

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Speaker 1: That's the goal, just in time for Christmas. Hey, we

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Speaker 1: appreciate the time. Go big Orange and we'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you again soon.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, brother, appreciate y'all. Man.

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Speaker 1: He is great Congressman Tem Burchett of Tennessee. Let me

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Speaker 1: Today with Birch Gold. Want to begin to know when

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Speaker 2: Team forty seven podcast Trump highlights from the week some

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. A lot

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Speaker 1: of reaction rolling in to Tim Burchett, who was awesome

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Speaker 1: congressman from Tennessee. And I put up a poll question

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Speaker 1: that for those of you who are big college football

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Speaker 1: think is a I know actually is a huge, huge

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Speaker 1: number of you. Which was the worst decision Nico to UCLA,

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Speaker 1: Sorry to the UCLA fans out there, or Kamala Harris

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Speaker 1: picking Tim Walls. It is up on my Twitter page

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Speaker 1: at Clay Travis You can go vote there. Also, want

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Speaker 1: to thank you guys here as we start off our

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Speaker 1: number two. The numbers on the YouTube page were through

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Speaker 1: the roof. Now partly this is because we're finally starting

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Speaker 1: to get somewhat treated fairly. We got banned from YouTube

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Speaker 1: all the time. We've talked about the fact that they

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Speaker 1: took down our interview with Rand Paul with President Trump.

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Speaker 1: President Trump just settled for twenty four point six million dollars.

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Speaker 1: I think over YouTube banning him. He's going to use

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Speaker 1: the money to build the new dining room that he's

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Speaker 1: building off the patio there at the White House, which

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Speaker 1: a digital summary and we added a lot of YouTube.

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Speaker 1: This is just in September. I saw this. Our total

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Speaker 1: views on YouTube basically triple in the month of September.

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Speaker 1: So that's a credit to you guys. Again, I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's coincidental. The algorithm is I got so many

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Speaker 1: thoughts on algorithms in general. The algorithm gives you whatever

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Speaker 1: you want the algorithm to give you. So YouTube could decide, hey,

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Speaker 1: Clay and Buck videos are the most popular thing on

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Speaker 1: the planet, and it would feed those videos to you

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Speaker 1: over and over and over again. Or they can say, hey,

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Speaker 1: Clay and Buck are the worst people on the planet

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Speaker 1: and you would never be able to find us. So

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Speaker 1: when people say well the algorithm, yeah, a person programs

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Speaker 1: the algorithm. You can create an algorithm to do anything.

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Speaker 1: This is my fear in many ways. By the way,

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Speaker 1: about AI, everybody says, well, the AI is doing. The

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Speaker 1: AI is going to be a reflection of whatever is

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Speaker 1: what I suspect will end up seeing this is my

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Speaker 1: AI prediction, is it looks like XAI, which is Elon

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Speaker 1: Musk's AI company, is going to be the Fox News

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Speaker 1: of AI, and then everybody else is going to be

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Speaker 1: left wing AI. So I suspect that, like many other

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Speaker 1: actually lead the AI to becoming even more polarized because

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Speaker 1: I gotta be honest. I didn't watch a lot of news.

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Speaker 1: I'm a sports guy. I didn't watch a lot of

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Speaker 1: but I've always known that it's hard to get great

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Speaker 1: Television is a SoundBite era. And I always thought it

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Speaker 1: what's the difference between writing, which is where I started.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, please go buy my new book Balls.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about this a little bit more later

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Speaker 1: Writing for me is just me in front of a

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Speaker 1: So for better or worse, I have complete control of

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Speaker 1: that is why, in many ways writing is still my

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Speaker 1: and for better or worse, it's on me to make

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Speaker 1: three hours every day. Over time, we become in some

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Speaker 1: a lot of CNN. I've never watched MSNBC. But I

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Speaker 1: didn't really pay much attention to Fox News. I now

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Speaker 1: think it's funny. Fox News is the most I now

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Speaker 1: be crazy to watch MSNBC. I'm not like I watch MSNBC.

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Speaker 1: I read the New York Times, the Washington Post, so

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Speaker 1: They live in a crazy world. People say, oh, Fox News,

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Speaker 1: this is what they did to me, and this is

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Speaker 1: talked about this before. They try to always label me controversial.

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Speaker 1: If you read any article about me or somebody's talking

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Speaker 1: don't think I'm controversial at all. I say this. I've

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Speaker 1: with controversy, but when you are on the side of

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Speaker 1: took over the culture. Is they label anyone, anyone at

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Speaker 1: all who is just not left wing. You're considered to

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Speaker 1: and it has an impact. I give tremendous credit to

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Speaker 1: iHeart for hosting this show, but the most left wing

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Speaker 1: massive across all five hundred and fifty five stations right now.

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Speaker 1: There are millions of you that will listen to me

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Speaker 1: today on this program. Y'all ever think about the fact

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Speaker 1: that we've never had a car advertisement on this program.

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Speaker 1: Flip on MSNBC. Every car brand in a Mayor, Erica

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Speaker 1: advertises on MSNBC. We've never had a restaurant on this program.

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Speaker 1: Flip on CNN. Every restaurant in America advertises on those brands.

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Speaker 1: And I'm thinking about this a lot because I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be potentially starting a new media company, and when

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Speaker 1: you rely on media companies being founded and funded and

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Speaker 1: existing or even having success based on advertising dollars, the

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Speaker 1: left has been brilliant in going after anybody who advertises

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Speaker 1: on anything other than far left wing and labeling them

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Speaker 1: controversial to try to create the idea that brands can't

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Speaker 1: be associated with people like me, or people like Buck

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Speaker 1: or frankly, people like you. Think about that never a

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Speaker 1: car never a restaurant in the entire history of us

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Speaker 1: being on this program. It's crazy, right, Well, I think

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Speaker 1: it ties in with this story that I want to

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Speaker 1: talk about this morning. I'm reading an American Eagle headline.

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Speaker 1: American Eagle gained customers after their Sydney Sweeney ads. Stock

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Speaker 1: price has also skyrocketed. It's nearly doubled since they debuted

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Speaker 1: this ad. So if you had just said, hey, that's

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Speaker 1: a pretty girl in jeans, that's probably gonna work, and

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Speaker 1: you went and bought American Eagle stock, you've doubled your

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Speaker 1: money just in the last few months, nearly over this.

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Speaker 1: But I thought this was interesting. This is again from

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Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal. They said that they have added

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Speaker 1: nearly a million customers since they debuted the Sydney Sweeney ads.

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Speaker 1: And not only that, they have immediately sold out. And

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what these things are. I'm not

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Speaker 1: exactly the hippest person on the planet. When it comes

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Speaker 1: to close. As many of you know, the Sweeney Cinched

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Speaker 1: waste denim jacket sold out in one day, and the

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Speaker 1: Sydney Jane. And I'm reading from the Wall Street Journal.

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Speaker 1: This is not my description. An ultra wide leg with

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Speaker 1: a butterfly on the back pocket sold out in a week.

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Speaker 1: They added a million customers, and they immediately sold out

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Speaker 1: of everything that she was wearing in the ads. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here's something else. The owner CEO Jy Schottenstein, big Ohio

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Speaker 1: state guy. By the way, Ohio State, Buckeye. He is

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Speaker 1: seventy one years old, and he said he is also

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Speaker 1: an Orthodox Jew, and he said, quote according to the

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Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal, he was perplexed at the criticism of

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Speaker 1: Sidney Jeanie. Sidney Sweeney has good genes, because remember they

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Speaker 1: said that was oh, this is a NOI ad, this

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Speaker 1: is about eugenics. This guy, an Orthodox Jew, actually said

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Speaker 1: watched as the synagogue across the street from her home

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Speaker 1: was burned to the ground. Quote I'm very conscious of

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Speaker 1: that term. He said. He felt that the team had

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Speaker 1: would have done it. Orthodox Jew whose mother in law

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Speaker 1: crazy idea that you would try to brand this a

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Speaker 1: Nazi advertising campaign because we put a pretty girl in denim,

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Speaker 1: and the denim immediately sold out. Do you know why,

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Speaker 1: because pretty girls sell products. Sexy products sell I was

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Speaker 1: laughing about this the day Victoria's Secret has a new CEO.

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Speaker 1: She's having a lot of success. Do you know the

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Speaker 1: new Victoria's Secret CEO's plan make lingerie sexy again? It

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Speaker 1: turns out putting unattractive models in panties and bras doesn't

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Speaker 1: make anyone want to buy more panties than bras. I'm fat.

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Speaker 1: They don't want to put me in a male underwear campaign.

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Speaker 1: It will be the least successful underwear on the planet.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna see me in underwear and be like, I

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Speaker 1: want to look like that guy. I want to look

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Speaker 1: like that forty six year old dad of three. They

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Speaker 1: need a super ripped guy who's at least gonna make

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Speaker 1: you think, hey, maybe I'll be more attractive if I

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Speaker 1: wear this underwear. This is people want to look better

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Speaker 1: than they actually are. They want the fantasy of hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put this on and I'm gonna look like

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Speaker 1: a supermodel. This is not you know, they don't sell

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Speaker 1: athletics shoes by putting fat guys in in sneakers and saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: look at this guy's eighteen inch vertical They have a

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Speaker 1: and they make you think you're gonna jump over the

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Speaker 1: moon too. I should start an advertising agency. I've actually

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Speaker 1: thought about this. I would sell everything better than what

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Speaker 1: these morons at these advertising agencies do. But I want

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Speaker 1: to give credit because American Eagle said basically screw you

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Speaker 1: to all their critics. Stock price has nearly doubled. They're

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Speaker 1: selling out like crazy. They got a million extra customers

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Speaker 1: and all they did was go back to the old

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Speaker 1: adage of sex cells put a pretty girl in denim

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Speaker 1: instead of some ridiculous androgynous you know, miss, I don't

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Speaker 1: even know what the unigender. I don't even know what

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Speaker 1: that nobody wants to be. They just put a pretty

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Speaker 1: girl in jeans and they immediately sold out. Maybe America

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Speaker 1: is going to be fine. And speaking of selling out,

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Speaker 1: Cozy Earth is selling out of their products on a

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Speaker 1: crazy idea, Hey, we just want to have awesome products

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Speaker 1: selling out because when they came on as an advertiser.

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Speaker 1: They said, hey, Laura Travis, you can go on the

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Speaker 1: website and you can order what you want. What was

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Speaker 1: the number, Allie, ten boxes of stuff. They were like,

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Speaker 1: we've never actually we always did seventeen boxes. My wife

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Speaker 1: bought seventeen boxes of their stuff. They always say this like, hey,

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Speaker 1: new advertiser, you can go on the website, just tell

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Speaker 1: us what you want. They may stop doing this now

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Speaker 1: because my wife went on and she was like, I'll

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Speaker 1: get seventeen boxes of the stuff. That's how much she

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Speaker 1: loves this product. They got everything bamboo sheets, amazing comforters. Basically,

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Speaker 1: the Cozy Earth website. They will get give you one

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Speaker 1: hundred day Herndred Night Sleep trial to see if the

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Speaker 1: Cozy earthsheets are right for you. Use my name Clay,

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Speaker 1: you get twenty percent off everything. Please go to this

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Speaker 1: website because I think I almost bankrupted the company by

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Speaker 1: letting my wife go and buy whatever she wanted. So

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Speaker 1: we've got to make sure the company doesn't go bankrupt

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Speaker 1: because Laura Travis went on the website and took advantage

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Speaker 1: of it. On a level I don't know we've ever

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Speaker 1: had it. So I need this company to actually make

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Speaker 1: took from them. Cozyearth dot com, my name Clay. That's

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Speaker 1: Clay and Bucks sent you. If you get a post

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Speaker 2: You don't know what you don't know right, but you

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Speaker 2: could on the Sunday Hang with Clay and Buck podcast.

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Speaker 1: People ask us all the time how we can save

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Speaker 1: the next generation.

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Speaker 4: We've got our show and the info is an antidote.

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Speaker 4: But we also have a couple of books coming out

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Speaker 4: Clay that's right, and you can pre order both of

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Speaker 4: and mine is manufacturing delusion how the Left uses brainwashing,

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Speaker 4: indoctrination and propaganda against you.

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Speaker 1: Both are great reads. One might even say they would

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Speaker 1: Welcome back in Clay Travis bock Sexton Show. Uh this,

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Speaker 1: I got a couple of clips that are fun for you.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I thought, and I'm gonna be just

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Speaker 1: have to out myself here. I thought that after covering

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Speaker 1: for Joe Biden and his clear cognitive decline for years,

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Speaker 1: that on MSNBC they would have to say, you know what,

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Speaker 1: We're not going to try to rerun Trump one point

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Speaker 1: zero when we argued all the time for the twenty

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Speaker 1: fifth Amendment and then Joe Biden was cognitively and mentally

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Speaker 1: and physically incapable of being president and instead so we

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Speaker 1: ignored all that, So we can't go back to the

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Speaker 1: same Trump's not able to be president. I was wrong.

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Speaker 1: Rachel Mattout, Lawrence O'Donnell bashed Trump over his issues, and

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Speaker 1: they say Trump is not intellectually capable basically of being president.

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Speaker 1: He's got cognitive decline. This is what they really are

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Speaker 1: selling their audience. After not saying anything about Biden four

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Speaker 1: years cut twenty four.

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Speaker 5: We are watching publicly a very dramatic mental decline in

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Speaker 5: Donald Trump. This is a sharp cliff that he's just

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Speaker 5: fallen off within the last fortnight, especially over this particular

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Speaker 5: weekend of social media posting.

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Speaker 4: And it's not just like transgressive or offensive or bad,

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Speaker 4: it's also just weird.

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Speaker 1: It's really weird stuff, like there's something weird going on

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Speaker 1: up there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's inexplicable, and it is absolutely worthy of a

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Speaker 5: family intervention. There's no other family in America that would

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Speaker 5: let a seventy nine year old do things like this publicly.

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Speaker 5: They would absolutely intervene. It would be the only thing

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Speaker 5: every family member wanted to do. They would do it urgently.

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Speaker 1: You got to share that clip from the Clay and

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Speaker 1: Buck account team. If you're watching on video, you could

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Speaker 1: see my jaw drop. Trump does all day long basically

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Speaker 1: rolling press conferences well where he will answer any question

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Speaker 1: under the sun. Biden couldn't even be out after dark

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Speaker 1: because his cognitive decline was so real, they never talked

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Speaker 1: about it on MSNBC. Now they're suddenly saying, oh, Trump,

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Speaker 1: his behavior is unacceptable in public. No one would ever

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Speaker 1: led a seventy nine year old behave in this way.

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Speaker 1: But I it was eighty one, all right, I think

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Speaker 1: I'm correct, and they let him do all sorts of things,

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Speaker 1: clearly demonstrating that his brain didn't work. An MSNBC didn't

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Speaker 1: say anything. And now Trump, who has basically a rolling

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Speaker 1: press conference all day long every day, Oh wow, look

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Speaker 1: what's going on here. Let me play a couple of

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Speaker 1: cuts for you as well. This interview that I did

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Speaker 1: with Paul Feinbaum has gone everywhere, and some people say,

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Speaker 1: I've talked about how to me the goal of talking

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Speaker 1: about current events politics should be persuading people that you're right,

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Speaker 1: because I believe that there are a lot of people

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Speaker 1: out there who will change their opinions on things if

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Speaker 1: you make the argument in a way that they can

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Speaker 1: understand it. And there are lots of different ways to

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Speaker 1: make those arguments. But basically, politics is the art of

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Speaker 1: communication and decision making, and a huge part of any

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Speaker 1: political decision is the decision, what are you going to do?

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Speaker 1: But you also have to explain why you're doing it

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Speaker 1: and why it matters. And Paul Feinbaum talked with me

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Speaker 1: about the fact that he was raised in New York

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Speaker 1: City by a family from New York City Jewish family.

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Speaker 1: They moved to Memphis, they were died in the warl Liberals,

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Speaker 1: and what happened in nineteen ninety four when he called

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Speaker 1: his mom for the first time and said, I voted Republican. Mom,

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Speaker 1: listen to this. What do you think the reaction to

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Speaker 1: this process will be like for you?

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Speaker 3: Clai?

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Speaker 6: There might be some surprise because I don't think anybody

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Speaker 6: knows what I am.

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Speaker 7: Claire.

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Speaker 6: I grew up the son to liberal New York Jews.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, who came down south.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, my sister was born in New York in long

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Speaker 6: before my mother died in nineteen ninety four. I called

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Speaker 6: her on election day and she said, well, who did

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Speaker 6: you vote for? And I said, I voted for This

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Speaker 6: was an off year election.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the ninety four was the Republican red wave.

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Speaker 6: I told her I'd voted for the Republican and my mother,

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Speaker 6: who I loved dearly, one of the most important people.

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Speaker 6: Maybe the most important person in my life because my

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Speaker 6: dad died at fifteen. She hung up the phone. I

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Speaker 6: have one of my best friends I grew up with.

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Speaker 6: I told a number of years ago I was going

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Speaker 6: to be on Fox News. It was a story in Birmingham.

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Speaker 6: You may remember Natalie Hollway.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah.

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Speaker 6: I called him and I said, I'm going to be

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Speaker 6: on Greta's show tonight on Fox. He said, I refuse

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Speaker 6: to watch it. So, I mean I grew up around

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Speaker 6: a lot of this. My mother hanging up on me

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Speaker 6: still stings, and she might hang up if she.

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Speaker 1: If she knew you were going to run for the

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Speaker 1: Senate in Alabama.

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Speaker 3: But that's okay.

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Speaker 6: I mean you you come from. I mean Donald Trump

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Speaker 6: was a Democrat too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was a Democrat.

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Speaker 6: I'm not running away from that. Yeah, I understand when

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Speaker 6: you're when you're a journalist, there's a perception. But there's

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Speaker 6: also such a thing as growing up, uh and uh

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Speaker 6: maturing and moving past the ideals that you were taught

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Speaker 6: as a as a young person and believed in as

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Speaker 6: a teenager, and that I've evolved. My wife is a Republican.

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Speaker 6: Her family are Republicans, and so am I. But It's

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Speaker 6: not something I talk about, and a lot of my

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Speaker 6: friends wouldn't probably even know that because I have until

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Speaker 6: this moment, I've never discussed it.

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Speaker 1: So people change their minds. How do people change their minds?

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Speaker 1: You convince them that the things that they used to

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Speaker 1: believe are no longer true. There are tons of you

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Speaker 1: out there right now with friends and family that still

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Speaker 1: think this is Bill Clinton's Democrat Party. They still think

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Speaker 1: this is Jimmy Carter's Democrat Party. They don't pay attention

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Speaker 1: to what Democrats actually say. They picked the team and

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Speaker 1: they turned their brain off, and they've continued to hit

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Speaker 1: that button because they haven't really paid attention to the

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Speaker 1: fact that the Democrat Party of the seventies and the

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Speaker 1: eighties and the nineties and even the early two thousands,

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Speaker 1: all of the people that believed what those guys believe

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Speaker 1: would be Republicans. Now you'll go back and look Bill

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Speaker 1: Clinton ninety two, Bill Clinton ninety six. Heck, look at

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Speaker 1: the clips of Chuck Schumer back then, look at the

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Speaker 1: clips of Joe Biden back then. They're saying everything Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump is saying now. A lot of us, and I

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Speaker 1: would put myself in this camp, haven't moved very much

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Speaker 1: on issues. It's the Democrat Party's gone insane, and we

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Speaker 1: weren't willing to hop on the train to crazy town.

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Speaker 1: And so I believe there are tens of millions of people,

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Speaker 1: a lot of them. You guys are listening to me

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Speaker 1: right now that in nineteen nineties may not have listened

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Speaker 1: to Russian Inball, in the early two thousands, may not

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Speaker 1: have listened to Russian Inball. But over time and COVID

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Speaker 1: was for many people. I think that push point where

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Speaker 1: it radicalized a lot of us, and where it demonstrated

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Speaker 1: how lost the Democrat Party has become in many ways.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've made this argument for a long time.

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Speaker 1: I think it's the best argument you can make, other

928
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Speaker 1: than the fact that clearly it's not true. But when

929
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Speaker 1: somebody says Trump's a fascist, Trump wants to be a dictator,

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Speaker 1: we all know that's a laughable argument. But you can

931
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Speaker 1: actually push back with this simple question that they won't

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Speaker 1: have an answer to if that were actually true, why

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Speaker 1: didn't Trump take over everything? During the early days of

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Speaker 1: COVID in twenty twenty, Trump could have said, under my

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Speaker 1: national authority, I'm mandating all the What did Trump do

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Speaker 1: then a lot of you are upset with the choices

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Speaker 1: Trump made in the early days of COVID, But most

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Speaker 1: of it was just deferring to local state politicians. He

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Speaker 1: let every state and every mayor make their own determinations

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Speaker 1: about what the best decisions were for their communities. Democrats

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Speaker 1: were begging to be regulated, then, they were begging to

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Speaker 1: be dictated to. They were demanding that a guy on

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Speaker 1: a paddle board on the ocean be arrested. They were

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Speaker 1: demanding that kids on hiking trails be handcuffed. They were

945
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Speaker 1: begging for federal authority, for big government to come in

946
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Speaker 1: and weigh down its heavy hand. Never in most of

947
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Speaker 1: our lives, with the possible exception of the immediate aftermath

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Speaker 1: of nine to eleven, has a president had a time

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Speaker 1: when he could have taken more power and more authority

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Speaker 1: than right in the immediate aftermath of COVID in the

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Speaker 1: spring and summer of twenty twenty. What did Trump do

952
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Speaker 1: when he had that opportunity to take almost complete and

953
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Speaker 1: total power in the United States? He deferred to state

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Speaker 1: and local authorities. In fact, to such an extent that

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Speaker 1: I think you can criticize him not for being a

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Speaker 1: dictator but for being too committed to the principles of

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Speaker 1: federalism such that he did not take over all of

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Speaker 1: the power that was waiting to be grabbed. There you

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Speaker 1: know who did, Joe Biden. So anybody out there who says, oh,

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Speaker 1: Trump's going to be a dictator, just ask well, why

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Speaker 1: didn't he dictate when for basically the time in American

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Speaker 1: history when a president could have taken more power than

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Speaker 1: almost ever before in the history of this republic, Trump

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Speaker 1: actually deferred and said let's let local governments and local

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Speaker 1: leaders make decisions instead of federalizing. His leadership stuff one

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Speaker 1: to respond to. We got to cut government shutdowns going on.

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Speaker 1: This is what happens. This is what you hear. Press

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Speaker 1: Secretary Caroline Levitt has recorded a message. They can't answer

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Speaker 1: the phones. Federal workers can't do their jobs because of

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Speaker 1: the Chuck Schumer shutdown. This is what it sounds like

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Speaker 1: if you call the White House.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for.

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Speaker 7: Calling the White House commentary, Hello America, this is White

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Speaker 7: House Press Secretary Caroline Lovitt. Democrats and Congress have shut

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Speaker 7: down the federal government because they care more about funding

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Speaker 7: health care for illegal immigrants than they care about serving you,

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Speaker 7: the American people until Democrats vote for the Clean Republican

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Speaker 7: fact Continuing Resolution to reopen the government.

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Speaker 8: The White House is unable to answer your call or

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Speaker 8: respond to your questions. We look forward to hearing from

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Speaker 8: you again very soon, and in the meantime, please know

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Speaker 8: President Trump will never stop fighting for you. Thank you,

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Speaker 8: and God bless you.

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Speaker 1: That's Caroline Levit. That's what you get when you call

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Speaker 1: the White House Comment line. Boy, can you imagine some

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Speaker 1: of the comments that line gets, Probably even crazier than

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Speaker 1: some of the comments we get. We come back, we'll

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Speaker 1: have some fun. We'll close up shop on the Wednesday

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Speaker 1: edition of the program. But I want to tell you

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Speaker 1: last weekend in New York City, the Tunnel to Towers

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Speaker 1: Foundation had their annual Tunnel to Towers five K Run

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Speaker 1: and Walk, held each year on the last Sunday of September.

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Speaker 1: What began with fifteen hundred people in two thousand and

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Speaker 1: two as now one of the top five K runs

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Speaker 1: in the country, drawing forty thousand people. It retraces firefighter

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Speaker 1: Steven Siller's final footsteps that day after abandoning his car.

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Speaker 1: He ran with sixty pounds of gear from the foot

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Speaker 1: of the battery Tunnel to the Twin Towers. He never

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Speaker 1: made it out. The five K pays homage to the

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Speaker 1: three hundred and forty three FDNY firefighters, law enforcement officers,

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Speaker 1: Producer Ali and Cash Bettel, among others, have done this

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Speaker 1: event and said it's one of the most powerful and

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Speaker 1: of the tunnel, there are firefighters service members lining the

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Speaker 1: road holding photos of all those we lost. You can

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