1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay, Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. What happened here is simple and straightforward terrorism. Terrorism, 3 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: domestic terrorism, violence, inflicting in the service of hate. You 4 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: can't prevent people from me radicalized to violence. We can't 5 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: address the relentless exploitation of the Internet to recruit and 6 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:27,360 Speaker 1: mobilize terrorism. You just need to have the curries to 7 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: do that to stand up. Welcome back to the Clay 8 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: and Buck Show. There you had yesterday Joe Biden addressing 9 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: the country about Buffalo. We've we've discussed the aftermath of 10 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 1: that attack here on the show, and it's the most 11 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 1: straightforward and morally obvious thing you could ever imagine that 12 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 1: what happened in Buffalo is a horrific, awful crime and 13 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: act of pure evil. And there is agreement across America 14 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: about that. Any any American who wouldn't think so would 15 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:04,479 Speaker 1: be also a psychopath in need of probably being taken 16 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 1: out of society and kept in some kind of of 17 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,479 Speaker 1: a facility. Right. I mean, this is the worst kind 18 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: of mass murder. So we're all we have clarity on 19 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:14,680 Speaker 1: that point. There's there's no disagreement on that point at 20 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: all now we talk about what can you do to 21 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,919 Speaker 1: stop this sort of thing. It's it's interesting to watch 22 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: how the Democrats mobilize against very specific individuals, naming people 23 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: even that they say create a climate of a climate 24 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 1: of hate. Now, you know, I recall I remember, for example, 25 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: very clearly during the BLM era and during some of 26 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: the anti cop some of the anti cop rhetoric that occurred, 27 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: there were people who would chant pigs in a blanket 28 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: FRYI like bacon racist murdering cops need to stop now, 29 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: I mean, all you know, the cops are racist murderers. Constantly. 30 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: This was a pro I saw this at protest. Then eventually, 31 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: I think it was in twenty fifteen, there was a 32 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: there was a ass murder of police officers, six officers 33 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: killed in Dallas by a BLM anti cop believer, and 34 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: there was a discussion that lasted a very short period 35 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,079 Speaker 1: of time about we'll hold on a second. This person 36 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: is acting in specific response to a narrative that wasn't 37 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 1: some fringe thing on the internet. It wasn't some theory 38 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 1: that came out of nowhere. It was actually the mainstream 39 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: talking points of a major movement with the Democrat party. 40 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: That was a discussion that should have had It should 41 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: have occurred, I think longer, Clay, but it also didn't 42 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: turn into Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Rachel Maddow, they're responsible 43 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 1: for what that shooter did in Dallas, because that's just 44 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: that's just bad faith, that's just slander, that's just people 45 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: trying to attack individuals. That is what the Democrats are 46 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: doing here. Just by way of comparison, and we could 47 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: you mentioned the Bernie Sanders support that James Perfect, James Hodgkinson, 48 00:02:54,840 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: he said this is for healthcare, pure political ideology, citing 49 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: a politician, and I have never said, nor I'm sure 50 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: have you ever said, Clay, and you're before we joined 51 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: up here, that it was Bernie sanders fault that there 52 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: was an attempted mass assassination. Steve Scalise almost bled to 53 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: death on a baseball field. The sitting member of Congress 54 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: didn't blame individuals for that. Now we could talk about 55 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: a little bit of overheated rhetor. The Democrats, meanwhile, are 56 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: discussing mobilizing government resources to silence broadly, an ideology that 57 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: has no act when you look at the actual manifesto 58 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: of the shooter. There's no clear tie whatsoever to actual 59 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: Republican party doctrine, dogma, talking points, you name it. So 60 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: they're fabricating this. The guy is a psychopath, he talks 61 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: about communism, he's an eco terrorist. He's an eighteen year 62 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: old with a diseased and demented brain that needed to 63 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: be locked up, and now they want to have greater 64 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: monitoring online. Clay, here's one of the Democrat sort of strategists. 65 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 1: You on MSNBC said exactly what's going on here out loud. 66 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: Make the Republicans owner. Every Republican politician, every Republican candidate 67 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: asked them about it. Make it because they can't run 68 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: from it, because it's part of who they are at 69 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: this point, as disgusting as that is. But make it 70 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 1: the Republican replacement theory. Main Stream it because if this 71 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,599 Speaker 1: is the way you have to scare, we don't have 72 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 1: the economy on our side of the Democrats, so you 73 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 1: have to scare the Bejesus out of people. The way 74 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: to scare it and say, you know, this replacement theory, 75 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 1: this is not just coming from some dark corner of 76 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: the web. This is the Republican platform. Make them owner 77 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:38,119 Speaker 1: Democrats run from the spisfire. You talked about the president 78 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: not wanting to call out names, Quaaluf Tucker Carlson, qual 79 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: out the politicians and make this, make them own it. 80 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 1: This is a Republican platform. It is the racist Republican 81 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: replacement theory, pure propaganda, Clay Buck. All they have is 82 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 1: to call everyone who disagrees with them racist or sexist, 83 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: or homophobic or trans phobic. And what they are finding, 84 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,599 Speaker 1: I think, and I want to talk more about this 85 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: this kid, because I do think there are some interesting stories. 86 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: Maybe at the top of the next hour dive into 87 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,479 Speaker 1: that because I I really I don't want to say 88 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:18,200 Speaker 1: his name, because I hate giving credence to these these 89 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 1: lunatic shooters, no matter what their motivations are. But what 90 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: is going on here, Buck, is you've got the boy 91 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 1: who cried Wolf scenario. Every time Democrats scream that's racist, 92 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: every single time it happens, fewer people turn their head 93 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:42,119 Speaker 1: and look. And that's where we are right now. There 94 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: is a massive tidal wave building of people who recognize 95 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 1: that that is their entire party platform right now. It 96 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: is to label everything is racist and then to try 97 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: to cancel people. That's basically the entirety of the Democrat 98 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: Party platform right now, and every single time they scream it, 99 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: fewer people, white, Black, Asian, and Hispanic are turning their head. 100 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: And they are so desperate because by far the biggest 101 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: story for every voter out there is the economy. The economy, 102 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: the economy, and we're at a forty year high in inflation, 103 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: and all they have is to try to distract from 104 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 1: what is going on. I'm reading this morning, buck Walmart 105 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:29,799 Speaker 1: missed their earnings because they can't even manage to raise 106 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: prices fast enough to be able to create profits like 107 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: they normally would, and because many people are already starting 108 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: to transition and buy lower price products. So this is 109 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: hitting people right in their pocketbooks. And what they need 110 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,719 Speaker 1: to have happen is for distraction, to take people away 111 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: from what's the reality is. They're telling us that they're 112 00:06:55,960 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 1: openly politicizing this because of exactly what you just because 113 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: they know they're about to lose power, and so anything 114 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:08,359 Speaker 1: even politicizing the deaths of those from a mass shooting 115 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: that just happened right away and politicizing it by attacking 116 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: named individuals. Chuck Schumer sent a letter to Fox News 117 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: they wanted Mandy, he'd be pulled off the air. It's 118 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: a disgrace. This is a federal official who's saying that 119 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson Show should be pulled off of the air 120 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: because of what exactly, Well, the single mention of Tucker 121 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: Carlson in this entire kids one hundred and eighty page 122 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: manifestoto it was huge. I mean, it's very very long, rambling, 123 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: insane and and just for anyone's wondering the fact that 124 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: they're citing, oh, we need to respond to this like, no, 125 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: it's a nine to eleven style threat. You're hearing some 126 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: people say this because they're just going with the most 127 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: overheated rhetoric possible. On nine to eleven, we had almost 128 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: three thousand people killed in one day in what was 129 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: the first of many planned terror attacks from a terrorist 130 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:05,239 Speaker 1: group that had access funding, ideology, disbursement around the world. 131 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: It had some level of nation States support. Okay, it 132 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: was an existential threat to the United States. A psychopathic 133 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 1: eighteen year old kid who was a mass murderer and 134 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: who decapitated the family cat. Because he's an evil person. 135 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 1: There are just evil people in the world as awful 136 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: as he is. 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Think about the reaction 143 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: if after that shooting happened at the softball field, when 144 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 1: Steve Scalie almost lost his life, and that was a 145 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: Bernie support Rand Paul had r fifteen rounds flying past 146 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 1: him literally that day, has did many other members of Congress. 147 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:11,959 Speaker 1: If the reaction had been we need to ban Rachel Maddow. 148 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: If somebody inside of the Republican Party had written a 149 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: letter to NBC and said, you have to pull Rachel 150 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: Maddall off the air because this was a left wing 151 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: attacker and many of the crazy ideas that he had 152 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: also obviously a Bernie supporter. 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You can literally be switched 178 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: over to pure talk in less than ten minutes. Here's 179 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 1: how you do it. Grab those phones in your hand, 180 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 1: dial pound two five zero. Say welcome back in Clay, Travis, 181 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. 182 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: We roll through the Wednesday edition of the program. We're 183 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: joined now by Elbridge Colby, co founder and principle of 184 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 1: the Marathon Initiative, formerly US Assistant Deputy Secretary of Defense 185 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: for Strategy and Force Deployment. He has a book out. 186 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:30,840 Speaker 1: It is called The Strategy of Denial American Defense in 187 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: an Age of Great Power Conflict. And I believe Bridge 188 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: that you are also in Hawaii right now. So I 189 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 1: think it's like seven thirty or so in the morning 190 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: out there. Hopefully you're having your coffee, hopefully it's black 191 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: Rifle coffee, and you are hanging out with us as 192 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 1: you start your morning out there. So appreciate you doing that, 193 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 1: especially on vacation out in Hawaii. What's the latest so 194 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 1: far as you can update us on the situation on 195 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:01,960 Speaker 1: the ground in Ukraine where we headed. Great, well, great 196 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: to be with you, Clay and Buck. And actually I'm 197 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: here in Hawaii on work, so don't be too jealous, 198 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: but it's always a pleasure to be with you guys. 199 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:14,440 Speaker 1: I mean the situation in Ukraine. I think it's clearly 200 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: the Russians have failed in their kind of main advance 201 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: towards Kiev, and now they looks like they've been pushed 202 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 1: out of some of the areas in the northeast as well. 203 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: They're concentrating in the southeast and the south. Seems like 204 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: it's hard to tell. Seems like they have made some 205 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: gains that they now seem to have consolidated control over 206 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: the city of Mariopol, but they're having it does seem 207 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: they're having a limited success. I think the biggest issue 208 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: right now that I've been concerned about is, you know, 209 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: it's it's fantastic that the Ukrainians are being successful, but 210 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: you know, there's increasing warnings, including from our own intelligence community, 211 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: that we may be running up into the possibility of 212 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: Russian escalation, and that is something that we need to 213 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: take seriously. Obviously doesn't mean just cowtowing to him, but 214 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: it is. You know, the guy's got five thousand nuclear 215 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 1: weapons and we have very little we can do to 216 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 1: stop him. So we have to take that seriously. What 217 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: do you think about the joining of Finland and Sweden 218 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: to NATO? And you know, this seems to be in 219 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 1: process right now on the point about possible escalation from Russia, 220 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:17,760 Speaker 1: who put aside all the usual caveats, Putin's a very 221 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: bad guy. What he's doing is wrong and horrible and 222 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: all that. Of course, yes true, he at least for 223 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: a big, a big part of his belief in why 224 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: this invasion was something that benefited his national security interests 225 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: in Russia had to do with the expansion of NATO. Right, 226 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: That was the big that was the big point of 227 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 1: friction stretching back for a long time. So this is 228 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: this the right move for Sweden and Finland? Does this 229 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:45,120 Speaker 1: risk escalation? What do you think we look First of all, 230 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: I think I think very highly of Finland and Sweden. 231 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: It's not about them. But I'm thinking about this from 232 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 1: the American people's interests, and I think this requires very careful, 233 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 1: deliberate review and a spirit of kind of cost benefit. 234 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 1: NATO is not a charity, it's not a political organization. 235 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: It's a military alliance. And the end of the day, 236 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 1: it's more or less, you know, primarily underwritten by Americans, 237 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: and that's yeah, the people in the Beltway, but ultimately 238 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:09,199 Speaker 1: the people in the military and their families are in 239 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: you know, our country as a whole. So it should 240 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: make sense from a security perspective, from our self interests, 241 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 1: you know broadly can see, but it should make sense. 242 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: And I don't see a lot of that happening yet. 243 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: I do think it's going to be very important for 244 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 1: our Congress to look at it in that spirit. I mean, 245 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 1: I would just say, as a bottom line, adding Sweden 246 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: and Finland to NATO should increase rather than decrease, our security, 247 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: and it should enable us to focus on what now 248 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: the by administration following the Trump administration has set as 249 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 1: our priority, which is China and Asia. I'm out here, 250 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: I'm at a conference out here, and it's a very 251 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 1: serious situation. I think those those questions can be answered. 252 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: There are a couple of opportunities. There's a big NATO 253 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: summit coming up. The Europeans can spend more on defense, 254 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: The Swedes and Finns can spend more on defense. Europeans 255 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: can volunteer to take up a much bigger role and responsibility. 256 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: But I think I don't think they should just be 257 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 1: waved in. I think we should actually ask tough questions 258 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: and make sure this makes sense. Because look, Finland, it 259 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: is a great country. It's got an eight hundred mile 260 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: border with Russia. And you know that the points that 261 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 1: you guys mentioned where yes, they're the Russians may feel 262 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: more more threatened or not, but also it's going to 263 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 1: give them more opportunity. You know, if NATO is a 264 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: kind of quote unquote indivisible to alliance and you add 265 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 1: eight hundred miles a territory, that's a lot more territory 266 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: to Fin's. That's a serious problem. And I think the 267 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 1: American people deserve serious answers those questions. And I haven't 268 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:31,680 Speaker 1: really seen people talking in this way, which is disturbing. 269 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 1: Bridge What do we think about Vladimir Putin's health. There's 270 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 1: been a lot of rumors that potentially he has got 271 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: a very severe form of cancer. One of the big 272 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: questions has been why now Maybe he's behaving irrationally, Maybe 273 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 1: he doesn't feel like he has that much more time 274 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 1: to live, and that could have been an impetus for 275 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: why he wanted to try to expand Russians Russia's borders 276 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 1: as a legacy move what do you attribute based on 277 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 1: what you're reading, hearing and seeing about Vladimir Putin's health 278 00:15:59,320 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 1: and how is at playing into the overall geopolitical landscape 279 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: so far as you can tell, I mean, it's hard 280 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: to tell. He was apparently, you know, he's wearing a 281 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: blanket in early May at the V Day victory in 282 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: Europe Day Parade, so I mean I think, and there's 283 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:15,560 Speaker 1: been rumors about doctor's visits and so forth, so it's possible. 284 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: And look, I mean, yes, countries behave you know, as 285 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: big actors, you know, blocks on the on the board 286 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: or whatever. But at the end of the day, especially 287 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: in a centralized system like Russia, Vladimir Putin's personal view 288 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: and perspective of his life and legacy make a big difference. 289 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:30,560 Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's been pretty clear on the 290 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: Ukraine issue over the last few years that he did 291 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: want to he was fundamentally upset about it, not fairly 292 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: or reason necessarily justly, of course, but that's the you know, 293 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 1: the perspective that he's looking at. I mean, what I 294 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 1: will say about this, I don't think we can reckon 295 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 1: on it, and we don't know even if he does 296 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: you know, die, it's not clear that his successor would 297 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: be better or not. You know, so we even know 298 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: by the way I started to cut you off. But 299 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 1: do we know who Vladimir Putin's successor would be likely 300 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 1: to be if he died? I don't think so. Rumors 301 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: about the head of the intelligence. I think the spr 302 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 1: guy to foreign intelligence is one. It possible might be 303 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:09,359 Speaker 1: the internal guy. But I think a lot of that speculation, frankly, 304 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,239 Speaker 1: even the designated succession. I mean, if we look back 305 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:13,400 Speaker 1: to the Soviet period, there were guys who were sort 306 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 1: of in the lead, but they don't necessarily survive the 307 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: Internet scene nicely, literally or figuratively. That can happen, That's 308 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:21,120 Speaker 1: what I would say. I think our hope, like this 309 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: regime change talk from the president of others is deeply 310 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,920 Speaker 1: irresponsible and it's kind of crazy, frankly, because I mean, 311 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 1: in a sense, Vladim Reputin himself proves that regime change 312 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: doesn't solve your problems because we did regime change the 313 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 1: Soviet Union, are they self regime change and we end 314 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,639 Speaker 1: up with Adimputin? So Russia is likely to act in 315 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:41,200 Speaker 1: a certain way, but it can act more or less responsible. 316 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 1: If we look historically cruise Chev pushed Kennedy over Berlin 317 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,159 Speaker 1: and then the cub Missile crisis, and he failed. A 318 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 1: couple of years later, he was basically overthrown. He ended 319 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: up with Bregna, which is not that much better, but 320 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 1: you know that did lead to day Tan and stuff. 321 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: So I think that's what we could hope for over time, 322 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:58,520 Speaker 1: is that somebody comes in and says, this isn't really working. 323 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna stay strong Russian nationalists, but I'm 324 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 1: gonna play it more quietly, and that could give us 325 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 1: an opening over time. Speaking of Bridge Colby, co founder 326 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 1: and principle of the Marathon Initiative, his book The Strategy 327 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: of Denial American Defense at an Age of Great Power Conflict, Bridge, 328 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: where does this conflict in Ukraine go from here? I mean, look, 329 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:23,719 Speaker 1: I mean I find it kind of surprising that this 330 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,639 Speaker 1: is controversial, but I think we want this conflict to 331 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: end in the sense that I mean there's a humanitarian 332 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:32,880 Speaker 1: basis for that, but also that I mean, Russia's got 333 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 1: five that's nuclear weapons. It's an enormous country. It has leverage. 334 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: They have to agree to stop fighting, and I think 335 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:42,439 Speaker 1: the Ukrainians are being very successful, and that's great and 336 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:44,240 Speaker 1: we should help them be as successful as they can 337 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:48,440 Speaker 1: within reason. But you know, these people who are saying 338 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 1: that we need kind of like total victory or something 339 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: against Russia, as if like we're going to march to 340 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 1: Moscow or something. Implicitly, I don't think this is how 341 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: it goes. So I think it's really going to be, 342 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,200 Speaker 1: you know, to the extent that we can encourage, were 343 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,399 Speaker 1: open the possibility of an end to the conflict on 344 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 1: reasonably advantageous terms for Ukraine. That's good for us, that's 345 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 1: good for the Ukrainians. I think it's probably good for 346 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 1: the Russians. That's not our primary interests, but that's where 347 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 1: I think we want to end up. And that's you know, 348 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: that's probably going to mean some degree of armed neutrality 349 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:20,400 Speaker 1: for Ukraine. 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Just a quick update 385 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 1: on some facts figures I gave you before, so I 386 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 1: think this is important to get right and I hate 387 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:23,560 Speaker 1: getting anything wrong. India is the tenth biggest exporter the 388 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: tenth biggest exporter of wheat in the world. Number one, 389 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:31,920 Speaker 1: though is Russia. Number five is Ukraine. In the US, Australia, 390 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 1: Canada take up the two, three and four spots this 391 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: online here. So about twenty percent of global grain exports 392 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:41,040 Speaker 1: from Russia and Ukraine. Hence, we are heading for some 393 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: real supply chain problems and very expensive food stuff. Senator 394 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: Ron Johnson is with us now from a great state 395 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 1: of Wisconsin. Senator, thanks for being here. Well, guys, hope 396 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 1: you're doing well. Actually, can you give me your thoughts 397 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,959 Speaker 1: pardon me, sir, give me your thoughts on that issue 398 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: of just the cost of of everything right now. Food 399 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:07,000 Speaker 1: obviously very getting more and more expensive. Baby formulas shortage 400 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: is a huge stressor for young parents, you know, for 401 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 1: parents with young children rather across the country, and now 402 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: there are some looming broader supply chain issues. I mean, 403 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: how much of a concern is this. It's a huge concern, 404 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: and your listeners need to understand this didn't just happen. 405 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 1: You know, inflation, record gas prices, those are the direct 406 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:34,639 Speaker 1: result of Democrat governance and Democrat policies, you know Warren 407 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:37,159 Speaker 1: fossil fuel driving up the price now and gasling, but 408 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:41,399 Speaker 1: energy in general, which contributes to inflation. Printing troons dollars, 409 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: We don't have too many dollars chasing too few goods 410 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,920 Speaker 1: in the spangles dollars on programs that make it possible 411 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: for people to the sidelines, so manufacturers can't fill the shifts. 412 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: You can't meet the demand. Yet you have fewer products, 413 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: and no doubt about it that the warren Ukraine is 414 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,560 Speaker 1: icy on the cake. But all this inflationary trend, all 415 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: the gasoline price rise that was well underway before Vladimir 416 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:10,400 Speaker 1: Poodin never decided because of Biden's weakness to invade the Ukraine. Senator, 417 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 1: you're fighting the good fight, trying to keep Biden from 418 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:17,440 Speaker 1: accelerating inflation. Thankfully, build back Better didn't pass. How much 419 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 1: more time do we need to run out the clock 420 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 1: before we have to worry about more disastrous decisions being 421 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,959 Speaker 1: made by the Biden administration given that you guys are 422 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: going to leave meaning Congress and go back on the 423 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,399 Speaker 1: campaign trail, and the hope is that the House and 424 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: the Senate are both going to flip back to Republican control. 425 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: So how much strategizing? How much time do you guys 426 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 1: actually have to avoid tax increases, massive governmental spending increases. 427 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:46,840 Speaker 1: What do we need to be paying attention to in 428 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:52,440 Speaker 1: terms of your calendar? Well, I mean, obviously the big 429 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,640 Speaker 1: got until the end of the year to do these things. Okay, 430 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: so even after election, you know, you got to be 431 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: careful of a lame duck session, so you always have 432 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:01,919 Speaker 1: to be on guard, but they are running out of 433 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 1: time and quite honestly, they're running out of votes. There 434 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,440 Speaker 1: are members of their party there are a little concern, 435 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,160 Speaker 1: particularly before the election, of feeling the flames of inflation 436 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 1: because even though even though they wan't admit it publicly, 437 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,480 Speaker 1: you know, certainly people like Joe Manson realized that the 438 00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: auto controlled depths of suspending his contributed to inflation. And 439 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,640 Speaker 1: people like Larry Summers, the you know, Obama's the economic advisor, 440 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: they were predicting this. So there is public pressure coming 441 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,760 Speaker 1: to bear, even on Democrats. So I've got my fingers crossed. 442 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 1: But you need to always be wary as being a senator. 443 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 1: Ron Johnson of Wisconsin Senator, they are going after you. 444 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,639 Speaker 1: I'm sure you've seen this in the in the Washington Post. 445 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 1: They've got a photo of you saying during a Senate 446 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,680 Speaker 1: Foreign Relations Committee hearing on fiscally you're twenty twenty three. 447 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: Um there that some ow they're tying you into replacement theory. 448 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: Clay and I've been discussing a lot that the immediate 449 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:02,159 Speaker 1: political attack um that they're using as a as a 450 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: it is a means of leveraging for political purposes. This 451 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 1: attack in Buffalo is something that is reprehensible. What do 452 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: you say to those who at the Washington Post and 453 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:15,960 Speaker 1: the Democrat Party are going after you talker a whole 454 00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: range of of well known Republican figures, well like the 455 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,919 Speaker 1: Wallstreet Journal set. Is despicable, It truly is. I mean, 456 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 1: these guys have no shame whatsoever. It's it's a diversionary operation. 457 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: They refuse to admit that the radical left policies that 458 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 1: they're promoting, you know, for example, open borders, you know, 459 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 1: flooding this country with illegal immigrants, so one in a 460 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,240 Speaker 1: quarter million people last year. That's that's a number larger 461 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: than the population of eight states. They refuse to acknowledge 462 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: how that, you know, threatens this country, that the national 463 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: security threat that is. And so they got to divert 464 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,439 Speaker 1: people's attention, and that's what they're doing. In course, they 465 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 1: will always go on the offense with eyes and distortions 466 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 1: because they want to stay in power. This is all 467 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: about power for the Democrats. So, you know, I get 468 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:11,679 Speaker 1: accused of talking about something I've never even heard of. Okay, 469 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:13,920 Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever even said the word, and 470 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,480 Speaker 1: I'm not going to say it now. Okay, about this theory. 471 00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: All I've ever done is parted exactly what democrats have 472 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:26,640 Speaker 1: said about you know, for example, Julian Castro said it's 473 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,119 Speaker 1: going to become a purple state, talking about Texas that 474 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 1: a blue state because of demographics, because of the population 475 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 1: growth of folks from outside the state. The Center for 476 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: American Progress said that we need to get behind a 477 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:42,160 Speaker 1: pathway to citizenship for the eleven million undocumented immigrants living 478 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: in our country is the only way to maintain the 479 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: electoral strength in the future. So, I mean, this has 480 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,159 Speaker 1: been their game plan. So just a guy like me 481 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: kind of just talks about what they've actually said. Or 482 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 1: now the fact that I've talked about how President Obama 483 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: five days before he got elected, said he's gonna fundamentally 484 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 1: transform America. Joe Biden said the exact same thing, and 485 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,240 Speaker 1: I'm putting out we're seeing what they meant by fundamentally 486 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 1: transforming this nation, open borders for to your high inflation record, 487 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:15,119 Speaker 1: gasoline prices, rising crime, They're fundamentally destroying this country. Now, 488 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 1: the Left doesn't like hearing the truth about their policies 489 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,680 Speaker 1: and how they're fundamentally destroying this country, so they take 490 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 1: it and twist it, of course, then their allies and 491 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 1: the media run with it. That's we're up against. We 492 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 1: are up against now a Democrat party, but we have 493 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 1: their advocates, their allies in the media that are willing 494 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: to carry their water and do everything they can to 495 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,920 Speaker 1: destroy somebody like me. Senator Johnson, you've been one of 496 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,359 Speaker 1: the truth tellers when it comes to COVID. Buck and 497 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 1: I were talking about earlier in the show. You may 498 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:44,720 Speaker 1: have heard it, or you may have heard us earlier 499 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 1: in this week talking about what the data is showing now. 500 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,159 Speaker 1: And I'm curious. I know you've been paying a lot 501 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 1: of attention to the data coming out of England and 502 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 1: other countries. What is going on that the places that 503 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 1: are the most vaccinated right now, the people who have 504 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: gotten the most COVID booster shots, people are being hospitalized 505 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,879 Speaker 1: there at highest rates. And also we've got the highest 506 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 1: rates of cases going on. What's the data telling us 507 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,320 Speaker 1: based on what you're seeing? Well, listen, I'm not a 508 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 1: doctor medical researcher, but this is basically what a lot 509 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 1: of the doctors and mecal researches I was talking to 510 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,920 Speaker 1: back even in twenty twenty were predicting. You know, we 511 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,639 Speaker 1: all hoped and prayed it wouldn't come true. But you know, 512 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 1: what we are seeing. What is undeniable is that the 513 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 1: federal health agencies, the COVID cartel, the administration, the agency's 514 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,680 Speaker 1: big pharma, the legacy media, and the big tech social 515 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 1: media giants, the COVID cartel, they're not going to tell 516 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 1: us the truth. They're not going to give us the data. 517 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 1: At this point, with the body count over a million, 518 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 1: over six million globally, a million in the US, the 519 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,960 Speaker 1: human told, the economic devastation of the ill advised widespread 520 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 1: shutdowns that didn't work well, we've done to our children. 521 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 1: At this point, they can't afford to be proven wrong. 522 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,200 Speaker 1: And here's what we're up again, asked, you can can't 523 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 1: apply this to any one of these issues. They have 524 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 1: the power to make it almost impossible for us to 525 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: prove them wrong. And we got the truth on our site. 526 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 1: It has its own power. We have, you know, some 527 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 1: news outlets like talk radio, but buy and large the 528 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:19,400 Speaker 1: the real bulk of the media. They're they're radical leftist, 529 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 1: they're advocates, and it's a real challenge for us to 530 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 1: get the truth out. Senator Ron Johnson, everybody of Wisconsin 531 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 1: Center appreciate you making the time for us, Sir, appreciate it. 532 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 1: To ron Jo dot com, you want to help me 533 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 1: get re elected? Yeah, everybody want to do They definitely 534 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,640 Speaker 1: want to do that. So we should do an event 535 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,440 Speaker 1: with the Senator up in Milwaukee. Cent can you can 536 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 1: you pick a fun place where they have good beer 537 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: and cheese. I have a few I have, I've heard stories. Oh, 538 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 1: there's all kinds of fun places. I'd love to have you. 539 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 1: Let's let's plan out. Okay, Rantic. Look, there are a 540 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:54,959 Speaker 1: lot of debates going on in our nation right now. 541 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 1: They're not just over what policies will improve our nation. 542 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 1: There's actually debate of whether America is great at all, 543 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 1: believe it or not. 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Encourage you to go subscribe to the podcast. 561 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 1: Make sure you don't miss a moment. I'd like to 562 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 1: get up to Milwaukee, especially in the summer, and help 563 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,520 Speaker 1: Senator Ron Johnson get reelected. That's a big battle um 564 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 1: that he's gonna be fighting. And I know many of 565 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,920 Speaker 1: you are listening to us in Wisconsin. If we're going 566 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 1: to Milwaukee, though, we're going, you know before the election. 567 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 1: Obviously weather I don't do cold weather, Buck, I don't, 568 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 1: I don't do. I want to go to Milwaukee in 569 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 1: like August or September, had a great, amazing town. Great town. Um. 570 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,280 Speaker 1: By the way, during the in the last couple of minutes, 571 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 1: Elon Mussko obviously is continuing his pursuit of Twitter, and 572 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:45,680 Speaker 1: we don't know exactly how that's gonna go. By the way, 573 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 1: stock market sorry down eleven hundred points, one of the 574 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:54,720 Speaker 1: biggest drops on record in modern era. Um, so that 575 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,320 Speaker 1: is not good. But Elon Musk tweets as follows. In 576 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 1: the past, I voted Demo crat because they were mostly 577 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 1: the kindness party, but they have become the party of 578 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,000 Speaker 1: division and hate, so I can no longer support them 579 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 1: and will vote Republican. Now watch their dirty tricks campaign 580 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 1: against me unfold popcorn emoji. I agree with a lot 581 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 1: of what Elon must says, and I've talked about this before. 582 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:27,240 Speaker 1: My evolution, um from a political process has been somewhat 583 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:31,800 Speaker 1: simil Yeah, I was ahead of him, and that I changed, 584 00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:34,480 Speaker 1: you know, four or five years ago, really uh in 585 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 1: a in a significant way. But yeah, I think what 586 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 1: he has seen is what I saw, and uh and 587 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,640 Speaker 1: and I think there are and that's why I always 588 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: am conscious of this when I'm when I'm talking to 589 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 1: everybody out there. I got asked over the weekend, Buck, 590 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:52,640 Speaker 1: um oh, I met a lot of our listeners. We 591 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,880 Speaker 1: did an event, uh, a music event. It was really fun. 592 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 1: I was m seeing it, uh, and a bunch of 593 00:32:58,200 --> 00:32:59,720 Speaker 1: people said, Man, I don't know how you do it. 594 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 1: How do you put on the gloves and kind of 595 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,160 Speaker 1: go in to fight every day? Given how crazy things 596 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,760 Speaker 1: are in the country. And to me, I'm always thinking, Buck, 597 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 1: about the possibility of just adding one or more, two 598 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,280 Speaker 1: or more, three or more people to Team Sanity every day. 599 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,160 Speaker 1: And if you keep doing that, if you keep winning 600 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 1: on a day to day basis, you stack up those numbers. 601 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,520 Speaker 1: Eventually they become significant. And I think they're really going 602 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 1: to become significant in the midterms in twenty twenty two 603 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,280 Speaker 1: and then as we roll ahead into twenty twenty four. 604 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,760 Speaker 1: So in my mind, that's what I'm thinking. Every day 605 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,080 Speaker 1: is a battle. We were talking about this off air. 606 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,680 Speaker 1: There's constantly punches flying in every direction. But it's really 607 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,360 Speaker 1: a privilege to be able to say every day exactly 608 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 1: what you think, which is what we do on this show. 609 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,440 Speaker 1: And we know we are speaking for many of you 610 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,680 Speaker 1: who don't feel like you have that ability to say 611 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 1: what you really think. And also because we're speaking every 612 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 1: day to a little bit bigger audience of people like 613 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,680 Speaker 1: Elon Musk or me who are sort of having their 614 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:06,040 Speaker 1: red Pill moment and recognizing what's going on in this country. Yeah, 615 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,880 Speaker 1: there's a great comfort that we take in speaking not 616 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,520 Speaker 1: just our minds, but what I think is honestly on 617 00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,239 Speaker 1: so many of these issues, just the objective truth every 618 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,800 Speaker 1: day in a time period when you can hear you 619 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,399 Speaker 1: know that the Democrat Party has and I think it's 620 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,040 Speaker 1: a combination of things. I do believe that their dominance 621 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:32,720 Speaker 1: of institutions, corporate institutions, government, social media platforms has allowed 622 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,799 Speaker 1: for an echo chamber effect where reality is no longer 623 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:41,920 Speaker 1: allowed to intrude on the cause, the moment, the striving 624 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,600 Speaker 1: for power, whatever that may be. By the way, I'm 625 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 1: also seeing on Fox Clay record diesel prices putting pressure 626 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:53,240 Speaker 1: on farmers. Food is going to get a lot more expensive, 627 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,840 Speaker 1: not just because of inflation, because I think we already 628 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,640 Speaker 1: have the inflation issue, but also when you have supply 629 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,759 Speaker 1: chain issues and and just supply overall, it's gonna get 630 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 1: you know, I don't think we're gonna have starvation in 631 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,840 Speaker 1: America or anything like that. Thank God. But I do 632 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 1: think food's gonna get a lot more expensive. But also 633 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,279 Speaker 1: we sit here, and you know, we have to be 634 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,680 Speaker 1: honest about this. We've just been right about the Biden 635 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 1: administration the entire time. There's not and I would look, 636 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:20,839 Speaker 1: I just corrected myself before because I got a stat 637 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,239 Speaker 1: wrong on something. If Biden, if they had rolled out 638 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,960 Speaker 1: a plan that had worked really well, I'd give their 639 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:27,839 Speaker 1: version of you know, why that was the right choice 640 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,799 Speaker 1: for them, and I'd say why I thought it was wrong. 641 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 1: But hey, here are the good results. They've got nothing. 642 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,600 Speaker 1: They've got nothing to point to that actually has made 643 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,960 Speaker 1: americans lives substantially better that is attributable to a decision 644 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:46,279 Speaker 1: that they have made that we disagreed with. And I mean, 645 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 1: I'm sitting here looking at the stock market buck and 646 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,839 Speaker 1: people say, oh, you know, that's a rich person thing 647 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,319 Speaker 1: to be concerned about. No, A huge percentage of our 648 00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,320 Speaker 1: listeners have four or one case and maybe some of 649 00:35:58,360 --> 00:35:59,880 Speaker 1: you are thinking, hey, I'm going to retire and then 650 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,440 Speaker 1: five ten years. I mean, when you're talking about the 651 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,480 Speaker 1: daw being down eleven hundred points and on a percentage 652 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:11,600 Speaker 1: basis the SMP five hundred being down four points, four 653 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:15,879 Speaker 1: percentage points. I mean, these are drops that just don't 654 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:21,040 Speaker 1: happen very often. And we've almost erased the entire rise 655 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,000 Speaker 1: that we've seen in the stock market over the last 656 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:28,240 Speaker 1: eighteen months in the space of five months to start 657 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:30,719 Speaker 1: this year. And I think a big part of it, 658 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:35,840 Speaker 1: Buck is a lot of corporate CEOs who may have 659 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,880 Speaker 1: quietly been backing Joe Biden are throwing up their hands 660 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:47,520 Speaker 1: and saying this administration's economic policy is not just controversial, 661 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:55,200 Speaker 1: it's so ill informed and riddled with idiocies that you 662 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:59,480 Speaker 1: can't even interact with these people and persuade them of 663 00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:05,880 Speaker 1: their stupidity. I mean Jake Sullivan, who um, he reminds 664 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,360 Speaker 1: me of one of the characters from the Office. I 665 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,800 Speaker 1: actually can't remember his name, but he's the one who's 666 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:13,480 Speaker 1: dating the Redhead for a while. Remember do you watch 667 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,360 Speaker 1: The Office? Oh? I love The Office? You know the 668 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,040 Speaker 1: guy he's kind of obsessed with Japan. Remember this character? Yea, yeah, 669 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,600 Speaker 1: there's a fleece vest all the time. Jake Sullivan reminds 670 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,560 Speaker 1: me of that guy. Yes, but Jake sun Bard, No, 671 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,920 Speaker 1: not any Bernard. No, it's the guy that's Andy Bernard's 672 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 1: rival for the redness something you're talking about, you know 673 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,520 Speaker 1: what I'm talking about that he's like what's his name? 674 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:39,040 Speaker 1: Not Dwight Joe, not Dwight Shreut. That's another great one though, Dwight. 675 00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,080 Speaker 1: He's the other guy. He's like kind of brought in 676 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,960 Speaker 1: as figure for a while. Anyway, Um, see, because The 677 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,920 Speaker 1: Office isn't on Netflix anymore, I'm running. I'm running on memory, 678 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:49,759 Speaker 1: and Tyler, don't watch it as much. I'm gonna look 679 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,440 Speaker 1: this up while you continue to finish your Now we 680 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,759 Speaker 1: just just what I'm saying about about this guy is 681 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:58,120 Speaker 1: that he's the National Security Advisor. He's a Russia collusion truther. 682 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:02,680 Speaker 1: That should be disqualifying. Just if you were dumb enough 683 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:06,120 Speaker 1: to believe and spout for months, if not years, on 684 00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,560 Speaker 1: end Russia collusion, you should not be in any position 685 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:13,960 Speaker 1: of authority in any federal government ever. And this I 686 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,239 Speaker 1: don't even It's like, I can't even respect these people. 687 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,120 Speaker 1: They got imbeciles calling the shots here. I can't believe you, Gabe, 688 00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,400 Speaker 1: Thank you Gabe from the Office. He reminds me of 689 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:27,840 Speaker 1: such a great show. Could they even make The Office today? No? No, 690 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,719 Speaker 1: Netflix has turned into largely trash. Other than the f 691 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:34,320 Speaker 1: one show, Netflix is now just woke garbage being spewed 692 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,040 Speaker 1: all the time. I don't know. I mean The Office 693 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:37,960 Speaker 1: is one of the funniest shows ever. I don't think 694 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,320 Speaker 1: they could make The Office today because so much of 695 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:46,239 Speaker 1: it pokes fun at the idiocy of sort of politically culture. Yeah, 696 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,560 Speaker 1: that's the Michael Scott character in essence, all day long, 697 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,680 Speaker 1: every day. This has been a lot of fun. Encourage 698 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,399 Speaker 1: you to go download the podcast, make sure you don't 699 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,000 Speaker 1: miss a moment of our show. We want to set 700 00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:00,520 Speaker 1: a record in May, and we really do thank you 701 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,160 Speaker 1: for giving us the opportunity. We don't necessarily say it 702 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,680 Speaker 1: enough to be able to interact with you for three 703 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,120 Speaker 1: hours every day and be voices of sanity in an 704 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:15,360 Speaker 1: insade world. Thank you, Fleet, Travis and Buck Sexton on 705 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,360 Speaker 1: the front lines of truth.