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

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back in our number two Clay

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Speaker 1: Travis buck Sexton Show, about to be joined by Senator

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Speaker 1: Bill Haggerty of Tennessee. And I've never had to say

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Speaker 1: this before ever on radio, so i just wanna hit

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Speaker 1: you guys with this. It is so cold right now

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Speaker 1: in the state of Tennessee that they have had a

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Speaker 1: massive and Senator Haggerty may know something about this and

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Speaker 1: be able to share for those of you in this

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Speaker 1: TVA region, they are potentially going to have to shut

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Speaker 1: down power all over the TVA region in the state

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Speaker 1: of Tennessee. And I'm reading directly from the Nashville Electric

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Speaker 1: Service here, but this may be happening in many different

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Speaker 1: parts of the country. I'm just sharing it with you

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Speaker 1: because it's possible this show is going to go to black.

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Speaker 1: And I'm reading right now ANYS customers and this is

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Speaker 1: Nashville area will be experiencing rotating intermittent power outages in

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Speaker 1: roughly ten minute increments every one and a half to

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Speaker 1: amount of electricity and power that is needed right now

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Speaker 1: due to these low temperatures. So my point on this

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Speaker 1: is if you are driving around and suddenly, in mid

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Speaker 1: sentence I vanish, it is not because your radios has

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Speaker 1: ceased to work or your radio station is now working. Also,

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Speaker 1: it's not because I have been captured and dragged off

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Speaker 1: the air. I should be fine, but the power may

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Speaker 1: be going out all over my area where I am

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Speaker 1: doing this live show from in New York. They have

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Speaker 1: got it set up so that there will be programming.

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Speaker 1: But if we're in the middle of live programming and

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Speaker 1: suddenly you hear something else, everything is fine. That's just

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Speaker 1: the default that we are having to go to. I'm

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Speaker 1: being honest. I'm never to say that on live radio before,

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Speaker 1: but I just got that notification. We bring in now,

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Speaker 1: Senator Bill Haggerty. We got a lot to talk about

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Speaker 1: with you, Senator, But have you heard anything about this

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Speaker 1: potential power shortage or the rotating power outages that might

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Speaker 1: be necessary in the state of Tennessee the TVA authority, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I certainly have play. Two generators are down. They're working

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Speaker 1: on it right now. They're trying to reduce the TVA

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Speaker 1: is trying to reduce its power load by about five percent.

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Speaker 1: But these incredibly low temperatures right right now, it's five

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Speaker 1: temperatures are putting, I think, a big strain. They've asked

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Speaker 1: people to lower their temperatures to sixty eight degrees to

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Speaker 1: avoid using major appliances right now so they can get

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Speaker 1: we may expect all over the country. We've got a

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Speaker 1: reliance now on a variety of fuel sources. Some of

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Speaker 1: you think about when solar that sort of thing that

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Speaker 1: only work when the sun shining. If you think about

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Speaker 1: the fact that we've got coal fire plants that are

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Speaker 1: in a position of vulnerability that we should never be in.

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Speaker 1: America has the ability, the capability to be fully energy independent,

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Speaker 1: and that capability is being frittered away as we make

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Speaker 1: ourselves more and more dependent on countries like China, and

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Speaker 1: we continue to shift. And look, I'm not against any

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Speaker 1: all should be deeply concerned, no doubt. And I mean,

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Speaker 1: using my particular location to tell this story right now,

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Speaker 1: So you and I were texting during all this craziness

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Speaker 1: you a know? What's the story there? First, just from

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Speaker 1: only necessary bill in order to make it pass. That

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Speaker 1: the spending, most of this crazy spending has been done

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Speaker 1: precisely the way you describe it. You know, go back

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Speaker 1: As you say, there are Republicans voted for it. There

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Speaker 1: At this point in time, everybody's got to vote their conscience,

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Speaker 1: but it split our conference. I would have certainly preferred

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Speaker 1: To begin to undo that, that will not be an

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Speaker 1: this bill has passed yesterday, and again Chuck Schumer knew

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Speaker 1: bipartisan support for addressing Title forty two. You know, a

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Speaker 1: You didn't have to do this. You care about the country,

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Speaker 1: And they're they're pursuing this Green New Deal again, the

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Speaker 1: at the same pace, God knows what's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: With inflation and overall borrowing costs going up, that just

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Speaker 1: a year to year basis. How does this change? What happens? Well,

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Speaker 1: the vigilanties used to call them the bond vigilantes, you know,

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Speaker 1: rise because they weren't printing money, and that would rain

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Speaker 1: in the spending somewhat. Well. Now since really Bill Clinton,

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Speaker 1: have all that Fiat money and the FED is just

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Speaker 1: putting a credit on the Treasury's checkbook, then soon you'll

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Speaker 1: of tools. So this is the problem with printing money.

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Speaker 1: It takes off the guard rails of spending Clay. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you didn't print the money, interest rates with either

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Speaker 1: But if you're printing the money, it's it's the worst

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Speaker 1: way to debauch a currency. It's the worst way to

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Speaker 1: raise taxes on the next generation. And I think the

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Speaker 1: a trillion dollars in the federal budget. Yep, and so

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Speaker 1: no one is unsustainable. You're quite right, yeah, And it's

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Speaker 1: But you know, when you have a low interest rate environment,

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Speaker 1: have to be you know, five and six percent interest rates,

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Speaker 1: And then if you get you know, if the Chinese

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Speaker 1: We are flirting with disaster, we really are, and I

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Speaker 1: of you hanging out with us as we power through

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Speaker 1: you joining us. Thanks Foreremy. I mean, I do feel

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Speaker 1: like twenty twenty two is the year, you know, the

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Speaker 1: world sort of started to catch up to you and

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Speaker 1: me and keep reality. I mean, it's it's it's definitely

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Speaker 1: started to happen. Amen. Okay, So you had an interesting

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Speaker 1: this is important because I hope that this holiday season

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Speaker 1: for many of you out there, even if you have

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Speaker 1: crazy left wing family members like maybe you're not wearing

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Speaker 1: masks asking you about your COVID shot status, but their

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Speaker 1: studies out there now saying that if you get the

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Speaker 1: COVID shot, you may be more likely to get COVID

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Speaker 1: A couple of them that you wrote about, Um, what

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Speaker 1: is the latest data on these COVID shots? Sure so

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Speaker 1: U so, yeah, so I wrote about this in my

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Speaker 1: sub stack. I think it was Tuesday. There two studies,

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Speaker 1: a few days ago, and it's from the Cleveland Clinic.

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Speaker 1: And what the Cleveland Clinic did was look at you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a very large workforce, a very large hospital system.

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Speaker 1: It's not just one hospital in Ohio, say about fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand employees, and about ten thousand of those employees had

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Speaker 1: received the by valent booster and others, the fall booster

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Speaker 1: that you know everyone's talked about or that the government

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Speaker 1: is you know, pushing as the great thing that's going

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Speaker 1: to stop you from getting COVID. And of course a

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Speaker 1: lot of us I think, no, anecdotally, that this is

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Speaker 1: not true. That you know, we know lots of people

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Speaker 1: who got boosted and got COVID um, you know, including

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Speaker 1: including Rochelle Wileski, you know, a few weeks ago, the

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Speaker 1: head of the CDC. So so we intuitively know this

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Speaker 1: isn't true. But what this but what the Cleveland Clinic

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Speaker 1: a half times more likely to be infected with the

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Speaker 1: new newest variant, with the new omicron variants if you'd

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Speaker 1: if you hadn't been vaccinated at all. And the other

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Speaker 1: thing about this was one shot was riscued than two.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, One shot was rescued then none, two was

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Speaker 1: riscued than one, three was riscued than two. So it

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Speaker 1: Dost response curve, which is exactly the opposite of the

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Speaker 1: vaccine working. The more doses you got, the more likely

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Speaker 1: you were to be infected with this spirus. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: this is a big revelation. You were one of the

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Speaker 1: it that even people who claim that they love the

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Speaker 1: getting the shots for their kids because the intake rate,

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Speaker 1: thankfully for young children is wildly low. Right, So where

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Speaker 1: does this go? What percent is that below ten percent

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Speaker 1: for kids under five? And the other thing that's amazing

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Speaker 1: So people who ran out in July and August and

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Speaker 1: got their kid the first shot didn't get the second. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So so even the true believers woke up at some

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Speaker 1: anybody out there who has done this knows that is

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Speaker 1: getting themselves. So where does this leave us Alex in particular,

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Speaker 1: now that even China, Now that even China has said, hey,

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Speaker 1: it is not a viable option going forward. Essentially, they

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Speaker 1: finally said in China, everybody's going to get this and

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Speaker 1: the overall impact this is significant, they said, is unlikely

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Speaker 1: to be very substantial because the omicron variant is so mild.

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Speaker 1: Where does this leave us as we enter into twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three as it pertains to COVID. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: so I think, I mean, I think the mr and

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Speaker 1: are effectively dead. The covivctes are effective to be dead. Right,

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Speaker 1: it's as you said, their kids are not getting them,

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Speaker 1: and beyond that to buy valid boosters again, these small boosters.

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Speaker 1: A majority of adults over sixty five haven't gotten those,

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Speaker 1: which is pretty incredible. Yeah, and you know, and so

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Speaker 1: there's been all kinds of excuses though people didn't know

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Speaker 1: that these shots existed or or you know, it's harder

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Speaker 1: for them to get it. It's it's all lies. People

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Speaker 1: know that these shots are out there and they're being

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Speaker 1: pushed to get them, and they're just rejecting them. Um

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Speaker 1: So so I think they're dead. Okay, So if they're dead,

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Speaker 1: do you think the significance Oh sorry, what do you

645
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Speaker 1: think about China and the zero COVID basically being abandoned

646
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Speaker 1: there too? Yeah? Something you mentioned China because that's gonna

647
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Speaker 1: be my next subsett by the way. Um, and I'm

648
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Speaker 1: glad to have you as a reader because you do

649
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: seem to read most of them, which is pretty cool. Um.

650
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Speaker 1: But so, so you know, I think you know what

651
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: there is to say about China is that China is

652
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 1: they are First of all, they're not going to go

653
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Speaker 1: with the mrnis or they don't want our vaccines. That's

654
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: one hundred percent clear. They are just going to open

655
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: up and they're gonna have a few bad weeks and

656
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: then it's probably gonna be like Hong Kong where they're done. Okay,

657
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 1: and for people who have being so what you and

658
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: I used to call Team Apocalypse, China is a real problem,

659
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: right because if things open up and go badly, it

660
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: means that the lockdowns were useless. Okay, If things open

661
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 1: up and go well, it means they're vaccines are actually

662
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:16,240
Speaker 1: better than our vaccine. Because guess what, Australia Taiwan. Countries

663
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: that opened this year after locking down and used the

664
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Speaker 1: Western vaccines have had a lot of problems with COVID

665
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: this year. So if you're the New York Times and

666
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 1: the one of your kind of rooting for, you know,

667
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: things to be terrible in China, which is an awful

668
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,320
Speaker 1: thing to say, but it is how the coverage reads.

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, you you know, that means the

670
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:37,359
Speaker 1: lockdowns were useless. So whatever happens in China, it will

671
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: be a failure for the covidians, right, it will be

672
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: more proof that the Swedish strategy with the correct one. Now,

673
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: I do think I think they're going to have a wave.

674
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,319
Speaker 1: I think there's going to be significant number of deaths

675
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: which they're gonna lie about. They're already clearly lying about those,

676
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: and then and then it will be done. Because that's

677
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Speaker 1: what happened in Hong Kong, which is the most like

678
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Speaker 1: China in terms of you know, age of population, obviously ethnicity,

679
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: population density, and the vaccines they use. So Hong Kong

680
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,720
Speaker 1: had a bad spring and now it's done with COVID.

681
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: The countries that are not done with COVID and are

682
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 1: going to seemingly have to live with this for a

683
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,920
Speaker 1: while longer. Our countries like US and countries in Europe

684
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: that use the super fancy new vaccines, those vaccines just

685
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: look worse and worse and worse as time goes on.

686
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: I mean, clearly they did some good in early twenty

687
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Speaker 1: twenty one, but ever since then they looked like a

688
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: worse and worse det So this is why I'm really

689
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: intrigued by what's going on in Florida and the fact

690
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: that they are essentially opening a grand jury in the

691
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 1: state of Florida RHNDO. Santis is so look at whether

692
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:43,359
Speaker 1: there was fraud from Maderna and Fizer. Now I know,

693
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,280
Speaker 1: and this is me putting on my lawyer, had Alex.

694
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: I know that there was immunity given to rush these

695
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: COVID shots out and I'm not even calling them vaccines

696
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: and haven't been for a long time. There's a shot, right,

697
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Speaker 1: And so are you at all intrigued to see whether

698
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: there may be some states start to pursue fraud charges,

699
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 1: you know, try to get some of this taxpayer funded

700
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 1: profits back from Maderna and Fizer over effectively a shot

701
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: they sold to us on a fraudulent basis, Because as

702
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: you have pointed out, and we pointed on this show

703
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 1: for a long time, Alex, they told you, if you

704
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: get these shots, you will neither get nor spread COVID.

705
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: It'll basically end. That didn't happen. And most of the time,

706
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 1: when you are sold a product and that product is

707
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 1: sold for profit and it doesn't do what they told

708
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: you it would do, that is called fraud. And the

709
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: company that produces that would be sold to say nothing

710
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Speaker 1: of the deletarious impact that might be coming from the

711
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 1: COVID shot, which I may want to hold you on

712
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: to ask, but that first question, do you think there

713
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: are lawsuits that should be filed to bring back the

714
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 1: profits over these shots? Well, I mean I think. Look,

715
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 1: I'm glad Rhonda Santas has really been in the lead

716
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: and this from you know, late March twenty twenty, early

717
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: April twenty and I'm old enough to remember, where as

718
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: you are clay people at the Washington Post and elsewhere

719
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 1: saying that Rondes Santis should be tried for manslaughter. Oh yeah,

720
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: because he didn't lock down slaughter quickly enough. Rondes Santas

721
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 1: understands the science and has followed this better than any

722
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Speaker 1: other politician in the United States. And look, I think

723
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 1: it's a long shot. I don't think I think it's

724
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 1: gonna be very hard because fither is gonna say. First

725
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 1: of all, they're gonna say we have immunity. The second

726
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,439
Speaker 1: while they're gonna say we you know, we were under

727
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: enormous pressure. Society wanted these We did the trials as

728
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Speaker 1: best we could and as fast as we could, and

729
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: this is what they found. And yeah, the protection didn't last,

730
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,720
Speaker 1: but we didn't know that. So proving that they didn't

731
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: know that, you know, that's where you know, that's where

732
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to see what the documents show. But

733
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Speaker 1: they have a strong defense. But am I glad to

734
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: say this is doing this? I'm absolutely glad he's doing this.

735
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Speaker 1: Can you come back for a couple of minutes to

736
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Speaker 1: close out the hour, because I want to ask you

737
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:55,320
Speaker 1: this question. Should people be concerned about the all cause

738
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,760
Speaker 1: mortality rates that are going up? Is there any evidence

739
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,359
Speaker 1: to reflect that that is really connected in any way

740
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: to the shots? Can you come back and help us

741
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,240
Speaker 1: break that day. I'd love to start about that. Okay, perfect,

742
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: We're gonna ask Alex about that when we come back,

743
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,359
Speaker 1: because that's data and analysis that I'm curious what he's

744
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Speaker 1: should on the Sunday Hang Withy Buck podcast Welcome back

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Speaker 1: in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you

764
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Speaker 1: hanging out with us. Going to take your calls to

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Speaker 1: eight hundred two A two two eight A two, But

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Speaker 1: I want to just take a moment here to also

767
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Speaker 1: just thank you all so much for spending twenty twenty

768
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: two with both Buck and myself. We've had a tremendous

769
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: time talking with you, hanging out with you. We've been

770
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 1: all over the country, will continue to travel all over

771
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: the country and be meeting you guys. And the response

772
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: and the overwhelming warmth that you have shown for both

773
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 1: of us as we have rolled through this twenty twenty

774
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 1: two year has been nothing short of incredible. And I

775
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,879
Speaker 1: think one of the things that's important to remember is

776
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: we all have a relatively short period of time on

777
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: this planet, and thankfully we get to spend it as Americans.

778
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: But the legacy that we live leave behind is something

779
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: that at some point all of us start to contemplate,

780
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: and I know for me it started in earnest having kids,

781
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 1: because before you have kids, everything in your life is

782
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: kind of your own focus. Once you have kids, and grandkids.

783
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: As I know many of you out there, do you

784
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:44,479
Speaker 1: start to think about the life that you are going

785
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: to leave and the legacy that you're going to leave.

786
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Speaker 1: And to me, the Christmas season is a big part

787
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: of that because we get the opportunity to impact people

788
00:41:56,640 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: in so many important ways and don't take that for granted.

789
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: It's a privilege to talk to you guys every single day,

790
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: and I was thinking about that some this morning. I

791
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: saw a clip shared from Alabama head football coach Nick Saban,

792
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 1: and I thought it was so interesting because one of

793
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: the things that I spend a lot of time with

794
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: now is talking to my kids and also younger kids

795
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 1: out there about their ability to make a difference and

796
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: about while it's easy to focus on external factors, ultimately

797
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 1: what determines your success or failure in America is you.

798
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: It really is. It's the choices that you individually make.

799
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Speaker 1: And I'm going to keep beating this home. I'm writing

800
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 1: about it in my book right now, but I want

801
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 1: to make sure that I use it and mention it

802
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,920
Speaker 1: as often as I can on this show because this

803
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: show can be such a force for good and there's

804
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 1: so many of you that can take what you learn

805
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 1: on this show and put it to work in your

806
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: own lives and your own social circles with your friends

807
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: and family. And it's this. This is what I would

808
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 1: like for every young person to be told right now.

809
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: If I could speak to every eight year old in America.

810
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 1: I've got an eight year old in my house right now,

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Speaker 1: he's in second grade. I'm fortunate to get to talk

812
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: to him. But if I could talk to every eight

813
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: year old, because I think that's when they start getting

814
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,760
Speaker 1: old enough to understand this, and just drill this into

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00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:23,320
Speaker 1: them over and over and over again about the power

816
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 1: of their own individual decision making. Look, we can't in

817
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: America guarantee that every single one of you is going

818
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Speaker 1: to be rich. We just can't do it. Right. I

819
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: wish we could can give you the opportunity to become rich.

820
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: There are a lot of different ways to count's wealth

821
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: as well, as we all know, not just physical and monetary.

822
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Speaker 1: One of the biggest obstacles we have in America is

823
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: an absence of hope. A lot of people out there,

824
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 1: certainly COVID has accelerated this, have lost hope. They've lost

825
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:04,320
Speaker 1: the ability to believe in themselves. So we got to

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Speaker 1: talk to young people and what I would ask for you,

827
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Speaker 1: And you're to tell your kids and your grandkids out there.

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Speaker 1: You can't guarantee that your kids are going to be

829
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Speaker 1: rich unless you happen to be super wealthy and you'll

830
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 1: leave money to them. And even that's fraught with peril

831
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Speaker 1: because doesn't necessarily teach kids the best life practices to

832
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 1: suddenly be given a lot of money without having to

833
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: work for it. But every kid out there growing up

834
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:36,320
Speaker 1: in America today, boy or girl, white, Black, Asian, Hispanic,

835
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Speaker 1: whatever race they may be, whatever gender they may be,

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Speaker 1: they do three things, you can guarantee them that they're

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Speaker 1: not going to be poor. Guaranteed you're not going to

838
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Speaker 1: be poor in America today. If you can do these

839
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Speaker 1: three things. Graduate from high school. Every single kid in

840
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: America should be able to graduate from high school. Get

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Speaker 1: married one day. Like to think that everybody out there

842
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: in America could get married. Don't have a kid until

843
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Speaker 1: you are twenty five years old. Now listen, some of

844
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Speaker 1: you had kids before twenty five. Nothing wrong with that.

845
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Speaker 1: But if you do those three things, you will one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent not be poor in America. No matter how

847
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 1: poor you are starting off, graduate from high school, get married,

848
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Speaker 1: don't have a kid until you are twenty five years old.

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Speaker 1: If you can just do those three things, you are

850
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Speaker 1: guaranteed not to fail in America. How remarkable is that

851
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter where you're starting, doesn't matter what your

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00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:03,360
Speaker 1: life circumstances are. Tell young kids, graduate from high school,

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00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 1: get married, don't have a kid until you are twenty

854
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Speaker 1: five years old. There is a zero percent poverty rate

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Speaker 1: in America. If you do those three things, it's a

856
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:21,439
Speaker 1: pretty good Christmas gift. Self reliance one of the best

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00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: things that I've ever heard sayings you can only rely

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Speaker 1: on the hand at the end of your sleeve. It's

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Speaker 1: great if you have the opportunity to lift people up.

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Speaker 1: It's great if you have the opportunity to put people

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Speaker 1: in a better life position than they otherwise would be.

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Speaker 1: And that's a tremendous goal. But ultimately, every single one

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Speaker 1: of us can only rely on the hand at the

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Speaker 1: end of our sleeve, and those three things. Graduate from

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Speaker 1: high school, get married, don't have a kid till you're

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Speaker 1: twenty five years old. Now, people can make different choices.

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Speaker 1: Some of you out there have been very successful having

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Speaker 1: done some of those things. That I'm telling you now

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Speaker 1: to do. But every kid out there, that's powerful to me.

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Speaker 1: If you're a teacher. Three things. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: focus on how to get rich. That's important. One of

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Speaker 1: the things that I've learned is lifting the floor can

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Speaker 1: be as important as worrying about the ceiling. A lot

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Speaker 1: of people want to have a lot of success in life,

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Speaker 1: and they look only towards the sky, towards the ceiling.

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Speaker 1: That's fantastic. Aspiration is great, But one of the things

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Speaker 1: you can do that is most beneficial in life is

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Speaker 1: lift your floor. Limit how far you can fall. Something

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Speaker 1: to think about. Want to play this clip for you

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Speaker 1: of Nick Saban, who is probably the best college football

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Speaker 1: coach ever, talking about a young freshman that he was

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Speaker 1: having to mentor inside of the University of Alabama program

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Speaker 1: who was responding being emotionally to other kids. And I

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Speaker 1: think this is so well said. Just listen. One a

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Speaker 1: story I like to tell that happened to a player here.

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Speaker 1: He got in a little trouble when he was a freshman.

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Speaker 1: Some guys called him a bunch of names. They were drinking,

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Speaker 1: and he got really upset, so he went over and

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Speaker 1: grabbed When I'm by the nap of the neck. Police

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Speaker 1: came and he could have got arrested. I called him

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Speaker 1: in my office and I said, man, you just can't

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Speaker 1: do those kinds of things. You can't expect me to

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Speaker 1: let people call me those kind of names, do those

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Speaker 1: kinds of things and not do something about it. And

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Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I agree with you, but

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Speaker 1: you know you're gonna be a first round draft pick

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Speaker 1: some day. You're gonna make thirty million dollars if your

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Speaker 1: first round draft pick, If that cop would have given

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Speaker 1: you in the soul charge, you would be a third

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Speaker 1: round draft pick and you would make two million dollars.

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Speaker 1: For twenty eight million dollars, is it worth it to

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Speaker 1: be right? You know what? His response to that was,

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Speaker 1: You'll never have any more trouble with me, coach, And

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Speaker 1: he never did, and he really became a first round

905
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Speaker 1: draft pick. I signed for forty. Mate, I'm missed it

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Speaker 1: by ten. Sometimes you have to be able to realize

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Speaker 1: what the consequences of your beha here is, regardless of

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Speaker 1: what your emotional commitment might be to it. So well said,

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Speaker 1: sometimes I think we wasted Nick Saban on football because

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Speaker 1: he's such a good life coach in general. And he's

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Speaker 1: obviously had a lot of impact on eighteen and nineteen

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Speaker 1: and twenty year old kids, but I wonder if he

913
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Speaker 1: could have had a more substantial impact on the country

914
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Speaker 1: sharing advice like that. And so I want all of

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Speaker 1: you listening right now so we get ready for Christmas.

916
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Speaker 1: You're gonna be around your families. Boys, in particular, young

917
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Speaker 1: men are messes in this country. There are far too

918
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Speaker 1: few father figures. But I want all of you to

919
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Speaker 1: think about that. Boys and girls, your grandkids, you can

920
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Speaker 1: tell them those three things. Graduate high school, get married,

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Speaker 1: and don't have any kids until you are twenty five

922
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Speaker 1: years old. You will not be poor and a huge

923
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Speaker 1: part of success. This is why this matters so much

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Speaker 1: to me. In particular, my grandfather, I was named after

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Speaker 1: Clay Travis. He had an eighth grade education. He worked

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Speaker 1: in a DuPont factory in Old Hickory, Tennessee, his entire life.

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Speaker 1: The reason why I was able to have the success

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Speaker 1: that I did was because of the sacrifices that he made.

929
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Speaker 1: He never flew on an airplane in his entire life.

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Speaker 1: He barely left the state of Kentucky where he was born,

931
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Speaker 1: or the state of Tennessee. But his grandson, myself, I've

932
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Speaker 1: had tremendous opportunities because of what he did, because he

933
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Speaker 1: lifted the floor. It's great to have huge aspirations and

934
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Speaker 1: to shoot for the moon and try to do everything.

935
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Speaker 1: But everybody can lift the floor. And if you lift

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Speaker 1: the floor, your kids or grandkids have opportunities that you

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Speaker 1: yourself may not have had. It's a big idea called

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Speaker 1: the adjacent possible. Everybody's life has an adjacent possible. In

939
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Speaker 1: other words, you have to achieve something in order to

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Speaker 1: be able to grow right, and science is really about

941
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Speaker 1: the adjacent possible. Right, the idea of you stood on shoulders.

942
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Speaker 1: It's a great quote from Newton, Isaac Newton. If I've

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Speaker 1: seen far, and I'm paraphrasing this quote, but if I've

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Speaker 1: seen far, it's because I've stood on the shoulders of giants.

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Speaker 1: All of us can raise that floor just by making

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Speaker 1: basic choices of individual responsibility. And I think a lot

947
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Speaker 1: of times what Nick Saban's talking about there is kids

948
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Speaker 1: don't see the hope, they don't see the future. You

949
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Speaker 1: might have grand aspiration. So I want to be a millionaire.

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Speaker 1: I want to live in that neighborhood. I want to

951
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Speaker 1: go get a graduate degree. I want to go to college.

952
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Speaker 1: Whatever your dreams may be, you have to take steps

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Speaker 1: to get there. Lifting the floor, graduate high school, get married,

954
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Speaker 1: don't have a kid until you're twenty five. Lifting the

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Speaker 1: floor is oftentimes more valuable than shooting for the moon

956
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Speaker 1: in terms of what you can do for your family

957
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Speaker 1: and what your kids can do for their families, regardless

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Speaker 1: of what your background is. That to me is the

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Speaker 1: American dream, lifting the floor for your entire family. I'll

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Speaker 1: close out the show with some calls from all of

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Speaker 1: you as we sit here on Christmas Eve eve. But

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Speaker 1: it's a privilege, as it always is, to hang out

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Speaker 1: with you guys, and I want to tell you feeling

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Speaker 1: good comes from having oftentimes great energy. How do you

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Speaker 1: achieve a lot of success? Oftentimes it's by relying on

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Speaker 1: your innate energy. How many of you are having trouble

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Speaker 1: getting out of bed right now? You don't have the

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's because your testosteronees declining, Maybe because your natural

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Speaker 1: body is not producing what it could be in order

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