1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in everybody to the Friday edition 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. The Buck 4 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:13,400 Speaker 1: is back, at least vocally, Clay, Thank heavens, I appreciate 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:17,159 Speaker 1: everybody's patience with that earlier in this week. We have 6 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: so much to talk to you all about. First off, 7 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: the guests we have lined up for today, our friend 8 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: Ben Dominicch. He is the publisher of The Federalist, a 9 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: great website, honestly one of my favorite conservative opinion sites 10 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: out there, and he has news to break on this show. 11 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 1: Big court case came down that he's involved in, so 12 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 1: we're talking to Beat about that and also politics. He's 13 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: a very astute observer. I'm sure you've seen him on 14 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: Brett Bear's panel during the six o'clock hour on Fox 15 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,160 Speaker 1: many times. And we've got, oh gosh, so much more. 16 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 1: We also have Josh Holly, who voted against the forty 17 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: billion for Ukraine and had quite you know, Senator Holly 18 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: of course, quite a throw down with Graholm, the Secretary, 19 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: the Secretary of Energy on the price of gas. We'll 20 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: discuss that and then Jonathan Isaac of The Orlando Magic 21 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 1: in the third hour about him standing for freedom and 22 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 1: refusing to bend the knee. So that's all coming up. 23 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: And then in terms of stories, a lot going on 24 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: here in the Wampwamp file, Clay build up. Blasio was 25 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: running for Congress. I wanted to ask you about this 26 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: because is Build the Blasi like heid he wanted to 27 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:38,759 Speaker 1: run for governor, he wanted to run for president. Didn't 28 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,119 Speaker 1: he run for I can't even get ran for president? Right? 29 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: His superpower, Clay is being completely unself aware, at a 30 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: superhuman level. He is unself aware. Is there anyone out there? 31 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: Does he have any fan base? Like I've never heard 32 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: anybody be like, hey, you know who I really like 33 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: Build the Blasi? I mean, anywhere on any level of 34 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: the political spectrum. It's really arkable to be to be 35 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: the mayor of New York City and have note twice 36 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: and have no one actually like you, and and and 37 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: to your point, to be so unself aware. There's nobody 38 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 1: clamoring for him to ever be involved in politics. Again, 39 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: he has no fan base, it seems to me. So 40 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: we'll come back to Billy to Blasio in a little bit. Also, 41 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: known as Warren Wilhelm, which was his name until his twenties. 42 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 1: By the way, he changed his name in his twenties, 43 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 1: which I always think is such a little known fact, 44 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,919 Speaker 1: changed his name entirely. But first off, Elon Musk, everybody, 45 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: I mean, Claire and I are both. Look what Elon's 46 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: trying to do is so important, not just for our business, 47 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: I think for the country. We've talked to you about 48 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:47,920 Speaker 1: why Twitter is so important for the media narrative. It 49 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: is the closest thing to a town square that exists 50 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: right now in the digital realm. And Elon said, Clay, 51 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: he said, they're coming for me. I mean, he's been 52 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:00,519 Speaker 1: putting out tweets for weeks saying that there's going to 53 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: be some hit job against him, and here you go 54 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 1: from the Daily Mail. Elon Musk says he claims, says claims. Rather, 55 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: he paid two hundred fifty two hundred fifty thousand dollars 56 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: to silence space X flight attendants twenty sixteen sexual harassment 57 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:21,799 Speaker 1: claims are from a far left activist slash actress with 58 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: a political acts to grind to stop him from buying Twitter. 59 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: He challenged openly the liar to describe his naked body 60 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: on Twitter, which is so que a quiet, a challenge, 61 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: it's quite a gauntlet to throw down, so to speak. 62 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: And you know what, my men, this is just this 63 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: is blasi. I mean, I'm sorry, I'm not buying it. 64 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:47,119 Speaker 1: Blasi four two point zero. It's so clearly timed, it's 65 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: so desperate, and I think Elon's gonna keep on pushing, 66 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: pushing past this nonsense. Okay, So let's break this down 67 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: for just a moment. Elon Musk announces that he's going 68 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: to vote Republican for the first time in his life, 69 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 1: and within twenty four hours there is a story accusing 70 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: him of sexual assault. That they're trying to say a 71 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:11,960 Speaker 1: sexual assault. So I read this story and here's how 72 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: I would break it down. I'm gonna put my law 73 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 1: your hat on for you. First of all, Buck and 74 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: not a lot of people noticed this, but the story 75 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: is hearsay. The woman who allegedly is saying that she 76 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: was mistreated is not the source of the story. It's 77 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 1: a friend of the woman who is alleging that she 78 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: was mistreated. So the person who is telling the story 79 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:39,479 Speaker 1: to this news outlet is not the actual woman who 80 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: was even involved in this story, it's a level removed. 81 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: Her comments may not even be admissible in a court 82 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: of law, because again, it's hearsay. There are certain hearsay 83 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: exceptions that we could run through. Okay, so let's start there. Two, 84 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: the allegations in the story are not sexual assault, So 85 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 1: even if you take them as trueful, this is not 86 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 1: any way sexual assault. Three, the allegations are ridiculous. It 87 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: sounds like a joke. Elon Musk said he would buy 88 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 1: a woman a horse, a horse if she was interested 89 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: in engaging in some sort of amorous activity with him. Now, 90 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: I think this is just like I read that and 91 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: I kind of spit out my drink when I was 92 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 1: reading it because I don't know. I mean, we've got 93 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:30,559 Speaker 1: a lot of women who are listening to us right now. Buck, 94 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,479 Speaker 1: has there ever been a time where a man has 95 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: won your heart by offering to buy you a horse? 96 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds like such a ridiculous joke to make, 97 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 1: right Like, And also what kind of horse are we 98 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,119 Speaker 1: talking about? This story doesn't specify, but my first thought 99 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 1: is there's a wide range of horses, right, Pony an 100 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: Arabian thoroughbred. That's right, That's right. There's a big difference 101 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:54,480 Speaker 1: in the value of the horse. But I can't imagine 102 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 1: there ever being any woman who I have ever met 103 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 1: that they would be empressed if I offered to buy 104 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:03,840 Speaker 1: them a horse. It sounds like a joke, particularly because 105 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: she used to ride horses. And then the payment here 106 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: is two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which two people 107 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: out there who are who are maybe not involved in 108 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: the legal process, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars might 109 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: sound like a light like a lot. You cannot even 110 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: combat a sexual harassment allegation without paying far in excess 111 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: at a major corporation like this, or for a major 112 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: individual like Elon Musk, far in excess of two hundred 113 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars. So a lot of times people 114 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:41,039 Speaker 1: just say, hey, this is a rounding air. Is this 115 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 1: a nuisance pain? That's exactly right. The amount of time 116 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: that Elon Musk would have to spend on this two 117 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,600 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars to Elon Musk is like 118 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: buck you or me paying twenty dollars right just to 119 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 1: be the I mean, it's like going for coffee for 120 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: him because of his wealth, and when you're paying and 121 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 1: you know this, but a lot of people out there 122 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:03,159 Speaker 1: and don't realize it. Every lawyer that Elon Musk ever 123 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: pays is probably a fifteen hundred dollars or more dollar 124 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: an hour lawyer for people out there. So you know, 125 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: if you have them work on a case for you know, 126 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: twenty or thirty hours, which I used to do sexual 127 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: harassment investigations, it's almost impossible not to spend that amount 128 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: of time on these cases. At a minimum, this is 129 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: a total nuisance case. And I would just say this. 130 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: He's been a public figure, Elon Musk has for twenty 131 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: five years now. It took him twenty four hours of 132 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 1: being a Republican for somebody to come out and accuse 133 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: and be published him as being inappropriate when it comes 134 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: to women. It's just so obvious what's going on here. 135 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 1: I mean it's obvious because Elon said, hey, guys, you 136 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: know what's gonna be obvious when they come at me 137 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 1: with something, when someone dredges up something in order to 138 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 1: stop me from approaching Twitter. Look at the fear. I've 139 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 1: said this in the beginning Clay. It's so illuminated just 140 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 1: to watch how terrified the Democrat apparatus overall politicians, media figures, newspeople. 141 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: They're terrified at not having their hand on the scale 142 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: of the digital public square. It sends them into a frenzy. 143 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 1: Elon has never said there's gonna be reprisals against the left. 144 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: We're gonna balance things out. We're gonna take a look 145 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 1: at the historical inequities of Twitter and decide that we're 146 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: going to silence the other side. He's just said, look, 147 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: we're not going to play games anymore and pretend that 148 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,280 Speaker 1: we're doing free speech when we're not. And they are 149 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 1: in a frenzy over this right. And I think you're 150 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: going to see even though it's obvious they will go forward, 151 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 1: not only with this kind of an accusation. Federal regulators 152 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: are thinking about how they can get involved. The Biden 153 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: administration I'm sure has people at DOJ and looking at 154 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:52,839 Speaker 1: this as some kind of an antitrust possibility. I mean, 155 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 1: there's all sorts of tricks they're going to try to pull, 156 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 1: all to prevent the richest man on the plan. I mean, 157 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:02,559 Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos buys the Washington Post. Fantastic, A great journalism 158 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 1: is gonna be done. Elon wants to buy Twitter, make 159 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 1: it free speech. It is def con one for these lunatics. Yeah, 160 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:13,320 Speaker 1: and I think the one positive is everybody knows the 161 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: game and how it's played now, So this accusation seems 162 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: to have landed with just kind of a thud, and 163 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: nobody really cared, right And I think because of obviously, 164 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 1: people who listen to this show know what Rush went 165 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: through over the years with people coming after him on 166 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: a personal level. But to your point, government and the 167 00:09:34,559 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 1: irs and everybody else. And we talked about the fact 168 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: that when we took this show at some point I'm 169 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 1: kind of stunned. Buck. I don't know about you, given 170 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: the influence this show has and the audience that you 171 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 1: guys tune in every single day. I expected in the 172 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:53,199 Speaker 1: first year that somebody would come after us and guns blazing. 173 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: I mean, I talk to you about this once our 174 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: names were announced, that somebody was gonna try to come 175 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: after us and do hit pieces. So far or a 176 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 1: year in and nobody's really come after us. But this 177 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 1: is the game they play. This is the way that 178 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:11,760 Speaker 1: they try to destroy you if you don't sign up. 179 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: I mean, think about this. Elon Musk has gone from 180 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:19,319 Speaker 1: a hero of the left to someone that they are 181 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 1: trying to destroy based on simply believing in content neutral policies. 182 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 1: That's all he's done. He hasn't said like, hey, I'm 183 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: a far right ideologue. He's just saying I want Twitter 184 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 1: to treat everybody evenly, regardless of what their political opinions are. 185 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: And this is such a rigged game at Twitter that 186 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:44,959 Speaker 1: they are terrified of just content neutral policy. And I 187 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 1: think there's another component of this that everyone should be 188 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 1: aware of in the background. They're so terrified of free 189 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 1: speech as a general principle. Now as we know, the 190 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: left no longer there is no longer foundational agreement between 191 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: Democrats and Republicans, between left and right on free speech 192 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: as a value as a good that we can agree 193 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: on what it is, because they'll say, oh, well, hate 194 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 1: speech is not and then you say, well, if I'm 195 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 1: opposed to illegal immigration, is that hate speech? Yeah, it 196 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: sounds like hate speech to me. Right, they do not 197 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 1: believe in And there's of course much worse hate speech 198 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 1: or actual hate speech that is protective under the first mind, 199 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:24,439 Speaker 1: should be able to say that men should compete against 200 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 1: men and women that's hate speech. They're completely insane, but 201 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:30,640 Speaker 1: in the background of this. Also, they say that the 202 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:33,439 Speaker 1: world is going to melt down because of climate change 203 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,880 Speaker 1: and it's an existential threat. That is their freeze. Obama 204 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 1: has said it, Biden has said it. Elon Musk is 205 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:43,959 Speaker 1: doing more in a sense to combat climate change than 206 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: any other individual, Not that I think climate change needs 207 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: to be combated, but put that aside. He is doing 208 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 1: more with Tesla. It's impossible for any individual to have 209 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 1: done more than you have done more than he is, 210 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: and they will destroy him if they can to protect 211 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 1: their speech advantage online. That's how much they care about this. 212 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: Forget about the fact he's done more than any other 213 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 1: human being on the planet for the issue that they 214 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,839 Speaker 1: say is existential to fight against. That they will ruin 215 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: this guy's life and reputation so that they can run 216 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,440 Speaker 1: around pretending like they're more popular online and their ideas 217 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 1: aren't insane. That's how they are hundred percent right, and 218 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 1: that's why there are a lot of Elon Musk's out there. 219 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: I'm about six or seven years ahead of where Elon 220 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:30,600 Speaker 1: Musk is in terms of my political evolution. But this 221 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: is why every single day I get out of bed 222 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: so excited to talk to this audience because I see 223 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 1: the results. I see the buck There's going to be 224 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 1: more people voting Republican in twenty twenty two that have 225 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: never voted Republican for I really believe that before. I 226 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: really believe this in most of our lives, because they 227 00:12:50,679 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 1: are tired of the insanity that they are seeing, drumbeat 228 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: of crazy every single day that Democrats are putting out there. 229 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: You see what they're doing to this Princeton Professor two, 230 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: by the way, Yeah, I saw that. This is another 231 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: it's another we'll tell everybody about this one, another example 232 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: of it doesn't matter if you're right. 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Can also find us on iTunes, Spotify, 269 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: you name it, and can go make sure that you 270 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: never miss a moment of the program. We're joined now 271 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: by Ben ben Dominic, host of his own podcast by 272 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 1: the same name. You can get his newsletter at the 273 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: transom dot com. And Ben, I'll start off here. First 274 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 1: of all, I think this is the first time we've 275 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 1: had you on. You also do a lot of great 276 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: work with Fox News, so thanks for making the time 277 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: for us. But I believe you have actual breaking news 278 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: surrounding a ridiculous situation that arose when you were at 279 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 1: the Federalist, which is another fantastic website out there, and 280 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,800 Speaker 1: what you said and what happened kind of fill in 281 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 1: our audience because we tease that a little bit earlier 282 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 1: in the Probe's It's fantastic to be on with you 283 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 1: and congratulations on all your success. Look, as it turns out, 284 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 1: today as a fortuitous day to be talking to you 285 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 1: because a decision has come down from the Third Circuit 286 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: Court of Appeals that has been a long time coming. 287 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: Several years ago, in response to a you know, a 288 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:54,440 Speaker 1: unionization effort at leftist publication known as Vox, I put 289 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: out just a joke tweak that said, you know, to 290 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 1: the you know folks at the Federalists, I said, hey, 291 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 1: if the first one of you two who tries to unionize, 292 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: I'll send you back to the salt mines. Now, I 293 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: thought of this as being a fairly mediocre joke, but 294 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: you know, it was just one of those shouted out things. 295 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: It turns out that a couple of leftist trolls used 296 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 1: this tweet to start a federal case against me using 297 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: the National Labor Relations Board, which is the people who 298 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 1: target folks who are trying to do anti union activities 299 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 1: or things like that. A whole mess of faithless bureaucrats 300 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 1: who came after me over the course of several years, 301 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 1: and thanks to a group called the NCLA, the New 302 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: Civil Liberties Alliance, this group of lawyers basically came to 303 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 1: me and said, you know, hey, we'd be happy to 304 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: defend you because we believe in free speech. We believe 305 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 1: in the ability of people to tell a joke, and 306 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:50,840 Speaker 1: we don't think that random people on the Internet should 307 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: be able to make a federal case out of it. 308 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:55,960 Speaker 1: And today we won. We won unanimously. At the Third Circuit. 309 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: They dismissed, you know, basically every argument that the that 310 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 1: the NLRB and their bureaucrats had put forward. And I 311 00:17:04,960 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: got official legal information from the Third Circuit that my 312 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: humor is both bizarre and comical officially, and no one 313 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 1: could possibly interpret it as anything other than a joke 314 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:22,399 Speaker 1: if they were reasonable. So a big vindication for people 315 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 1: who want to send out joke tweets and uh, and 316 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 1: a big loss for those who want to weaponize bureaucrats 317 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 1: to go after you for for just expressing your sense 318 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:33,080 Speaker 1: of humor. Hey, Bennet's buck. I just want to be 319 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: clear on this was the position of these NLRB folks 320 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 1: and these trolls that came after you, that it wasn't 321 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,159 Speaker 1: a joke. I mean, or is it wasn't that jokes 322 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: are not allowed when there's labor at stake. It's it 323 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 1: was essentially both of those things. Both that my thing 324 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 1: was not a joke, that a reasonable person would construe 325 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: it as an actual threat against unionization. Where are your 326 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: salt minds? Then I'm just wondering, well, this is the thing. 327 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:03,120 Speaker 1: What I know, what I really thought is that I'm 328 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:05,439 Speaker 1: missing out on a business plan. Now, you know, I 329 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: really needed to start investing in salt mining as as 330 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: a new pursuit. But at the end of the day, uh, 331 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:14,440 Speaker 1: you know, the fact is that they basically said, when 332 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,720 Speaker 1: when it comes to uh unionization, or when it comes 333 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 1: to unions generally, uh, you can't tell any jokes. You 334 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 1: can't say these types of things, which is of course ridiculous. 335 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 1: I mean, and the thing that really, you know, made 336 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 1: me angry and was the reason that I took the 337 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:30,919 Speaker 1: stand on this. And we've seen you know, I mean 338 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:34,160 Speaker 1: other places, you know, at Dave Portnoy for instance, over 339 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 1: at Barstool had a similar incidence to this, where he 340 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,520 Speaker 1: ultimately settled and and you know, deleted the tweets and 341 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 1: stuff like that. And the and the reason is that 342 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 1: these bureaucrats come after you and they basically say, we 343 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: are just going to bankrupt you. And you know, uh, 344 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,480 Speaker 1: there were seven lawyers on the sides of the of 345 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: the NLRV. You all signed this onto this case that 346 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 1: you know, really could have done damage to me and 347 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,880 Speaker 1: would have really been very costly. And that's the way 348 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 1: that they pursue these things. It's not even that they 349 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 1: want to get to a court and have to win 350 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:05,920 Speaker 1: an argument there. They just want the threat to force 351 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 1: you to abide by their will. And so that's why 352 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: I felt it was important to stand up. And thankfully 353 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,880 Speaker 1: now we've been vindicated unanimously, and I have to say, 354 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:17,679 Speaker 1: I honestly hope that they appeal. I hope that they 355 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:20,640 Speaker 1: appeal as the Supreme Court so that I can have 356 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 1: that level of vindication that yes, you can tell a 357 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:29,879 Speaker 1: joke on Twitter, even about things like unionization. Ben The 358 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 1: stock market has now gone negative under Joe Biden. We've 359 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:37,360 Speaker 1: got forty year high inflation, We've got murderate sky skyrocketing 360 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 1: all over the country. The border is a sieve. As 361 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 1: Title forty two is about to be repealed. We all 362 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 1: knew that Joe Biden was probably going to be an 363 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: ineffectual and poor leader. Did you ever think it would 364 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 1: get this bad this quickly, and what are we in 365 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:58,119 Speaker 1: store for over the next couple of years with this 366 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:02,960 Speaker 1: guy's presidency continuing. This is gonna be so much worse 367 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,640 Speaker 1: than even I thought it could be, And it has 368 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: gotten so much worse than I thought it could get 369 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: so much faster. And I think a big part of 370 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 1: that has to do with the fact clay that we 371 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,199 Speaker 1: are dealing with, you know, not just the you know, 372 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: the Obama team, but kind of the the C and 373 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 1: D level staffers from the Obama team, you know, the 374 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,000 Speaker 1: people who were in these lower ranks positions who have 375 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:29,639 Speaker 1: now all come back and are now in key roles 376 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 1: in the government. And what that, you know, has ended 377 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,439 Speaker 1: up with is a situation where these people are just 378 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:38,679 Speaker 1: out of their depth. Their policies are incoherent, they're beholden 379 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 1: to the left on their flank. Otherwise they'd be considering, 380 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: you know, all the kind of things that we were 381 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 1: really promised from this administration by a media that you know, 382 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 1: lied to get this, get Joe Biden and Kamala Harris elected. 383 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 1: You know, they said that they would represent a return 384 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,159 Speaker 1: to normalcy, that they would take down the temperature of 385 00:20:56,240 --> 00:21:00,679 Speaker 1: the culture war, that they would stabilize things. It turns 386 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: out that that was really just total spin. It was 387 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,120 Speaker 1: a lie, and instead they've ramped up the culture war, 388 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:11,200 Speaker 1: They've made things even more divisive. They've and they frankly 389 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 1: have engaged in incoherence when it comes to their policy priorities. 390 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: Look look at just the single issue of the pain 391 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,760 Speaker 1: at the pump. They look at, you know, Joe Mansion flabbergasted. 392 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 1: You know that the Democratic Party seems to have the 393 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 1: position officially now that it's good to have expensive gas, 394 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 1: and that's something that you know, frankly, a lot of 395 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 1: us knew that the people on the Obama team believed 396 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 1: in Obama himself even gave indications of that at various points, 397 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 1: but we never really thought that they would go down 398 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,399 Speaker 1: the road so far that they wouldn't be willing to 399 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 1: compromise in any respect. When people are just paying out 400 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 1: the nose for any kind of of you know, summer 401 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 1: vacation travel and things like that, in the coming months, 402 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 1: they're going to be thinking of the Democratic Party and 403 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 1: all they've got is leaning into the idea that, oh, well, 404 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,919 Speaker 1: it's it's Republicans who are crazy, it's Republicans who are racist. 405 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,439 Speaker 1: At the same time that the latest Quinnipiac poll shows 406 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:11,119 Speaker 1: Joe Biden just crazing among Hispanic voters. You know, the 407 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:14,359 Speaker 1: lowest ratings that we've seen for Democrat presidents ever in 408 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 1: terms of some of the historical comparisons, Ben, Ben, can 409 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: I ask you something before before that you go? Because 410 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 1: everything you said, First of all, I've known Ben for 411 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:24,159 Speaker 1: ten years. He's a very ausstute isn't an amazing Ben. 412 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: It's been ten years, buddy, a very astute political observer. 413 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:33,719 Speaker 1: And are Republicans positioning themselves? Is the messaging? And just 414 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,120 Speaker 1: is your general sense that the momentum is building here 415 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:41,160 Speaker 1: for the red wave wipe out that it's not even 416 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,119 Speaker 1: just something the Clay and I want, it's necessary for 417 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 1: the country to sort of restore balance to the force 418 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,439 Speaker 1: of you will. Do you think they're in the right place? 419 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: Are you seeing what you need to see? Or do 420 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,919 Speaker 1: we need to kick in the pants on our side? 421 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,879 Speaker 1: The thing that I think Republicans can't afford to do 422 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: at this juncture is just to assume that if there's 423 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: been arm after a name, they're going to win. They 424 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: need to deserve the victory. And I think that that 425 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,159 Speaker 1: requires them to really lay out what they're going to 426 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 1: do if they get if they get back in power, 427 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: and frankly, people like Mitch McConnell would really like to 428 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 1: just sit back on their laurels and be fine with 429 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,440 Speaker 1: sort of will be in charge of committees? Now, oh great, Well, 430 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 1: what are you going to actually do when it comes 431 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: to changing the border policy? Are you willing to go 432 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 1: to the mattresses and hold onto those purse springs, the 433 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: purse strings and not let taxpayer dollars flow into various 434 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 1: programs and things that Joe Biden wants in order to 435 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,879 Speaker 1: get a change in policy. Are you willing to go 436 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:38,919 Speaker 1: after Alejandro Myorchis and actually impeach him, possibly over the 437 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 1: things that he's done and the lies that he's told. Look, 438 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:44,160 Speaker 1: I think that Republicans need to lean into this agenda. 439 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,159 Speaker 1: I don't think they can sit back and just let 440 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,360 Speaker 1: it come to them. I think that would be a mistake. 441 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,680 Speaker 1: They need to tell the country what they will do 442 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 1: if they get back the reins of power in Washington. 443 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,160 Speaker 1: For more of Ben's analysis, go subscribe to his newsletter 444 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:00,679 Speaker 1: at ztransom dot com. Dominic's great to have you, sir, 445 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,520 Speaker 1: We'll talk to you soon. Great to be with you both. Look, 446 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 1: do you ever wish you had more energy and focus 447 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 1: throughout the day? Do you find yourself dragging after lunch? 448 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:11,439 Speaker 1: If that's a double yes, I want to tell you 449 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: about Chalk. It's spelled c h o Q. 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We played a bit of 475 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: your exchange with Energy Secretary grand Home before, and it 476 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 1: seems like her talking points run right in line with 477 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 1: what we hear from all all Biden top officials these days, 478 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: which is some version of it's not our fault, it's 479 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 1: Putin's fault, and the Republicans are evil. Why have the Democrats, 480 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 1: I mean, explain to everybody listening, because I think you 481 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,119 Speaker 1: laid this out very well. Why have Biden policies really 482 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,959 Speaker 1: affected the price of energy and affected it not just 483 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,400 Speaker 1: for what you see right now, but in a way 484 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 1: that could drive it up even going forward. Yeah, if 485 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,880 Speaker 1: you enjoy paying four and five dollars a gallon of gas, 486 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 1: lanes and congratulations, it's going to get a lot worse 487 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 1: because TRIPLEA was telling it's just yesterday, it could be 488 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 1: six dollars by August. And if you vote for Joe 489 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,160 Speaker 1: Biden and vote for Democrats in November, because they're responsible. 490 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 1: And here's why. When Biden came into office, the first 491 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:46,880 Speaker 1: thing he did was to cancel oil and gas drilling leases. 492 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: It was to impost new regulations on American energy, it 493 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,919 Speaker 1: was to cancel the Keystone pipeline, to rejoin the Paris 494 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,200 Speaker 1: Climate Accords. He did all of that with a stroke 495 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,439 Speaker 1: of a pen. And then he wondered why gas prices 496 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,439 Speaker 1: started going up, you know Missouri when he took off 497 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,120 Speaker 1: us in Missouri, our average price of gas is about 498 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,679 Speaker 1: two bucks by August of his first year, August of 499 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 1: last year, it had gone up over thirty percent. And 500 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 1: now Missouri, the average in our state is about four 501 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 1: thirteen statewide, and that's actually a little bit below the 502 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 1: national average. So that is because of Joe Biden and 503 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 1: his policies. And he just won't take any responsibility. Senator 504 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 1: appreciate you coming on with us. This news is only 505 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,879 Speaker 1: broken in the last hour or so, but you're pretty 506 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:32,880 Speaker 1: familiar with the Russia collusion hoax. Hillary Clinton's campaign manager 507 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:38,200 Speaker 1: just testified under oath there in DC that Hillary okayed 508 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,919 Speaker 1: the release to the media, the leak to the media 509 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 1: of this fake Russia collusion narrative that we've been talking 510 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,639 Speaker 1: about now four years. How significant do you think it 511 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 1: is to finally have a campaign manager under oath in 512 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: part of this trial directly implicate Hillary Clinton with beginning 513 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:02,120 Speaker 1: the Russia collusion. Wise, very big deal, very very big deal. 514 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 1: And also because I think part of this testimony, Clay, 515 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 1: was that they didn't think it was necessarily true, that 516 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,919 Speaker 1: weren't They weren't sure about it, you know, So this 517 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:12,639 Speaker 1: was Betsy guy, Oh, let's go ahead and get it 518 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,399 Speaker 1: out there anyway. It may be false. Of course, as 519 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 1: we now know, it was all made up and her own. 520 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: She was paying lawyers who lied to the FBI, who 521 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,680 Speaker 1: tried to leverage the FBI against Trump and succeeded. I mean, 522 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: this was it's got to be the only time in 523 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 1: American history that a presidential campaign has been able to 524 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:36,159 Speaker 1: use the FBI against another candidate and succeed at it. 525 00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's extraordinary to have Hillary now at 526 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 1: the center of this. Really, this conspiracy is really, really something. 527 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: So I think we're going to hear a lot more 528 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 1: from the special prosecutor, and certainly we need to learn 529 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 1: a lot more. I'd like to know who else in 530 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: her campaign knew about it. I mean, obviously she had 531 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 1: a running mate, she had lots of other officials. Jake Sullivan, 532 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 1: who's now the National security adviser to Joe By, he 533 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 1: was involved in this. What did he know? I mean, 534 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,480 Speaker 1: I think we need to find out. Speaking to Senator 535 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: Josh Holley of Missouri right now, and Senator I asked 536 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 1: you before about the energy price situation, which obviously anybody 537 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 1: who's filled up a gas tank recently is all too 538 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: familiar with. But we've also been talking a lot about 539 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 1: the baby formula shortage on shelves across America. CBS News 540 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 1: just reported in the last twenty four hours that in 541 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 1: forty three states, more than forty percent of baby formula 542 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: is out of stock. It seems that the more we 543 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 1: dig into this, the more there is an understanding that 544 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 1: the Biden administration was slow to act on this, but 545 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 1: also the federal regulators have made this situation worse. What 546 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: can you tell us about where the responsibility lies here 547 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 1: is you've got a lot of anxious parents that are listening. Yeah, 548 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 1: you know, in Missouri, it's really really bad. We're over 549 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,200 Speaker 1: fifty percent out of stock in Missouri, one of the 550 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,959 Speaker 1: five hardest hit states. So you better believe that this 551 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 1: is a problem, and you better believe that we need answers. 552 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: And I tell you what the FDA. Biden's FDA shut 553 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 1: down biggest lab that produced maybe formula in this country 554 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 1: back in February and kept it shut down for months, 555 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 1: and we still don't know exactly why. We know that 556 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: they were helped in safety inspection issues, you know, that's fine, 557 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 1: But what did the FDA do to get those addressed 558 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 1: and to get this plant back online? Apparently nothing, And 559 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: so far we're getting nothing from the FDA in terms 560 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 1: of answers. So we need to find out what was 561 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,440 Speaker 1: the FDA doing. I mean, what were they doing in 562 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 1: February when they shut it down, Why didn't they get 563 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 1: it fixed? What took them so long to get it 564 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 1: back up and running, and what was the Biden administration 565 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 1: doing this whole time. It looks like the answer is 566 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 1: what they usually do, sit around. They're not doing anything 567 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 1: that helps Americans. They're busy trying to police speech and 568 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 1: trying to punish their political opponents, but they're not doing 569 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 1: anything that would actually help working people in this country. 570 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 1: And you know that's something else is going to have 571 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 1: to answer for. But we need answers on the SASAP 572 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,040 Speaker 1: center of the stock markets now going negative, Lots of 573 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 1: people's four oh one ks down since Joe Biden took office. 574 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,840 Speaker 1: We've got a disaster at the southern border. We've got 575 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: murder rate skyrocketing all over the country. We've got inflation 576 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: at forty year highs, basically the war in Europe, everything 577 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 1: that Joe Biden has touched in the seventeen months that 578 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 1: he has been in office has gotten worse. We knew 579 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 1: it was going to be bad. Did you ever believe 580 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: it could be this bad? I mean, Buck, just ask 581 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: you about the baby formulas shortage. Would you ever believed 582 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 1: if you had said, Senator, think about this, if you'd 583 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 1: come out and said, hey, you know, I'm really nervous 584 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,479 Speaker 1: about what the Biden administration is going to be like 585 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,520 Speaker 1: I'm afraid that moms and dads are not going to 586 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 1: be able to find baby formula because he's going to 587 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 1: be so incompetent. You would have gotten absolutely castigated and 588 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 1: destroyed for making that statement. Yet here we are. Where 589 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 1: do we go from here? Can you guys in the 590 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,880 Speaker 1: Senate hold the line? Can we stop Joe Biden from 591 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 1: passing any more bills? Because Senator, as you know, if 592 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: he had gotten his Build Back Better bill through, we'd 593 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:56,959 Speaker 1: be in double digit inflation right now. Not only has 594 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:02,400 Speaker 1: things worse, things been protected from making them even worse. 595 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 1: I just I'm incredibly frustrated about where we are. Oh, 596 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 1: I mean, I am with you one hundred percent. And 597 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 1: we've got to turn the direction of the country around. 598 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:14,480 Speaker 1: And I could say we'll have the chance to start 599 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,760 Speaker 1: doing that come November if we can get a majority 600 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 1: in the Senate. I believe we can a majority in 601 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: the House. And we've got to get Republicans are going 602 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 1: to be tough. I mean, that's the thing, you know. 603 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:25,800 Speaker 1: We've got to get Republicans who are willing to stand 604 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,440 Speaker 1: up and to be tough and to say, listen, we're 605 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 1: not going to go along to get along. We're going 606 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,680 Speaker 1: to say no to this radical agenda. You know, how 607 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 1: about stagflation, just to throw something else on the list there, 608 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,040 Speaker 1: But I mean, who would have thought in our lifetimes 609 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 1: that we would see Jimmy Carter style stag free point back. 610 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 1: And now you've got you know, the Treasury Secretary Janny 611 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,280 Speaker 1: Yellen saying that we could see that in the next year. 612 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 1: It is just it is unbelievable. But we've got to 613 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 1: change direction, There's no doubt about it. And Republicans have 614 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:55,560 Speaker 1: got to lead the way. And we can start by 615 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 1: saying no more of this socialist spending. Let's get American 616 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:03,160 Speaker 1: energy production opened back up, and let's stop the nation 617 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 1: building abroad by the way too, and let's look to 618 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,760 Speaker 1: America's critical interests in the secure our border. We want 619 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 1: to ask you about that, Senator Holly, you voted against 620 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 1: the forty billion dollar package to Ukraine. This obviously is 621 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 1: at a time when we have the high price of gas, 622 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 1: we got the Baby formula shortage, you got a stock 623 00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:25,560 Speaker 1: market that's really going in the wrong direction for people's 624 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:29,240 Speaker 1: four oh one ks and pensions, etc. Sending forty billion 625 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 1: dollars to Ukraine feels like a pretty big check to 626 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:36,240 Speaker 1: just put out there. You voted against it. Why because 627 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 1: it's really nation building and not national security. And that's 628 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,920 Speaker 1: what really gets me about this thing. I mean, listen, 629 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,960 Speaker 1: Ukraine's entire national budget a year or two ago was 630 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,640 Speaker 1: forty billion dollars. I mean this also, this bill includes 631 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:52,480 Speaker 1: direct money, billions and billions of dollars in direct cash 632 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:56,000 Speaker 1: to Ukraine's government. So now we're literally just writing them checks, 633 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 1: basically turning them into a client state. We tried that 634 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 1: in irac Aghanistan, as I recall, it didn't end too well. 635 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 1: So my view is this is that we ought to 636 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,760 Speaker 1: be pursuing America's national interest. I'm all for giving targeted 637 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 1: military assistance to Ukrainians help them defend themselves, sure you bet, 638 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,279 Speaker 1: but nation building direct checks to their government no, I 639 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,040 Speaker 1: mean no, no, no. I think it's a huge mistake. 640 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,840 Speaker 1: I think we will regret it later at you. I 641 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:23,759 Speaker 1: regret it now. And I think in terms of when 642 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,400 Speaker 1: you look at our pressing priorities at home, the southern border, 643 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,400 Speaker 1: we could build a wall on the border twice over 644 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,840 Speaker 1: for forty billion dollars. We could give our own servicemen 645 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,399 Speaker 1: and women a rate that keeps pace with inquation for 646 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,640 Speaker 1: forty billion dollars, and we haven't even talked about China, 647 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:43,080 Speaker 1: which is our long term, short term, our biggest foreign 648 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:48,000 Speaker 1: policy challenge is China. It's actually not Russia. So there's 649 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,480 Speaker 1: all kinds of problems with forty billion to Ukraine, and 650 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,160 Speaker 1: I'm worried, guys. It's just the beginning. The administration says 651 00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,799 Speaker 1: this isn't done. They want to come back for more. 652 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,880 Speaker 1: They want there to be a reconstruction of the country. 653 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,879 Speaker 1: Marshal Plan style was the Aunted States they want to lead. 654 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,160 Speaker 1: So I think we're at the beginning of this thing, 655 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,879 Speaker 1: and I think it's the wrong direction. Senator, you wrote 656 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,319 Speaker 1: a book on big tech and the power that all 657 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:15,759 Speaker 1: of these massive corporations have established for themselves. Right now, 658 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,120 Speaker 1: Elon Musk is trying to buy Twitter, and there's obviously 659 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,279 Speaker 1: been a lot of twist and turns in that potential acquisition, 660 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,760 Speaker 1: But one of the things he's investigating is the idea 661 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:28,360 Speaker 1: that bots represent a much more substantial percentage of the 662 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:32,720 Speaker 1: overall Twitter landscape than was acknowledged by Twitter. You've also 663 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,000 Speaker 1: got dirty, it appears attacks now coming out against him 664 00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,080 Speaker 1: in the wake of him saying that he's going to 665 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,480 Speaker 1: vote Republican because of the direction of the Democrat Party, 666 00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:46,799 Speaker 1: the FCC, the FTC. It seems like the Biden administration 667 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:48,960 Speaker 1: is trying to put as many roadblocks as they can 668 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,759 Speaker 1: in the front of his potential acquisition. What do you 669 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,319 Speaker 1: think of this potential acquisition? What can and should the 670 00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:01,640 Speaker 1: Senate's role be in potentially helping or at least keeping 671 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,400 Speaker 1: the process fair for Emon Musk going forward when it 672 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 1: appears the Biden administration is trying to put as many 673 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,120 Speaker 1: different obstacles in front of him as possible. I'm all 674 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,680 Speaker 1: for the acquisition. I hope that Musk will do what 675 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:15,480 Speaker 1: he says he wants to do at Twitter, which is 676 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,640 Speaker 1: to make it a free speech platform. I mean, what 677 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,960 Speaker 1: a concept to have a social media platform that would 678 00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,920 Speaker 1: actually be for speech, as opposed to being a propaganda 679 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,480 Speaker 1: platform for the left, which is of course what it 680 00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,200 Speaker 1: has been and what they want, which is why you 681 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,840 Speaker 1: see all these lefty influencers and media type just melting 682 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,239 Speaker 1: down at the idea that you might have a pro 683 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,359 Speaker 1: free speech individual helming the company. I mean, how about that? 684 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,319 Speaker 1: So I wouldn't be surprised at anything the left tries 685 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,879 Speaker 1: to do, including the Biden administration. Can I just say, 686 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,560 Speaker 1: when Joe Biden was Vice president, the Barack Obama government 687 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,759 Speaker 1: allowed Google to acquire all kinds of smaller companies, to 688 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,080 Speaker 1: engage in all kinds of what I think is basically 689 00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,680 Speaker 1: antitrust activity, and they did nothing about it. They signed 690 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 1: off on it. So it would be the ultimate irony 691 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,680 Speaker 1: for Biden and his people now to come in and say, oh, 692 00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 1: we can't allow you on Musk to buy Twitter. But 693 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,359 Speaker 1: I would say nothing is impossible. The Left is hell 694 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:14,480 Speaker 1: bent on keeping control of all of these platforms and 695 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,200 Speaker 1: hell bent on trying to shut down three speechs in 696 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,640 Speaker 1: this country. And I see this Twitter fight with Musk 697 00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,680 Speaker 1: as part of that. Senator Josh Holley of Missouri, Senator, 698 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,880 Speaker 1: great to have you as always, Thanks for coming by. Hey, 699 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,319 Speaker 1: thanks so much. Guys. Folks, people living with pain every 700 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,200 Speaker 1: day are held back from living a full life. Finding 701 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,239 Speaker 1: a solution can occupy your every moment. 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I 723 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,239 Speaker 1: just want to make sure you know at Clay and 724 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,400 Speaker 1: Buck dot com we have transcripts of the show. You 725 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,680 Speaker 1: can also listen to podcast of the show there, and 726 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,080 Speaker 1: we have a full explanation up of the change in 727 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,279 Speaker 1: theme music. If you want to hear our full explanation, 728 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,200 Speaker 1: you can go to Clay and Buck dot com. Because 729 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,279 Speaker 1: I know some people be tuning in, they'll be hearing 730 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,239 Speaker 1: something different. They want to know what's going on here. 731 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,520 Speaker 1: We've explained it, laid it out at Clay Enbuck dot com. 732 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,799 Speaker 1: That way everybody can know we're all on the same 733 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:14,000 Speaker 1: page and know exactly what's going on here. I'm looking 734 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:18,160 Speaker 1: forward to speaking to Jonathan Isaac here shortly NBA star 735 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,799 Speaker 1: Jonathan Isaac, and then I also have some some fascinating 736 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:27,360 Speaker 1: movie trivia to run by Clay later on in the show, 737 00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:30,200 Speaker 1: which we tend to close out the week. Yeah, close 738 00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,480 Speaker 1: out the week with it. I also hear that the 739 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:36,480 Speaker 1: Maverick Top Gun movie is being very well received, which 740 00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,200 Speaker 1: I'm excited about. I can't wait. I'm a once a 741 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,560 Speaker 1: year and because I'm Clay, I'm i gotta. I have 742 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,640 Speaker 1: some deficiencies, like I have some things where I my 743 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,719 Speaker 1: fuse is maybe a little more short than I should be. 744 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,720 Speaker 1: People who talk in movie theaters make me want to 745 00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,359 Speaker 1: throw popcorn at the wall. I'll just so you don't 746 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,239 Speaker 1: even go to movie theaters like you hate going. I 747 00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,680 Speaker 1: basically will go to the movies once a year, and 748 00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:00,399 Speaker 1: I try to go at a time and there won't 749 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:02,239 Speaker 1: be that. The problem though, when you go and there's 750 00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:04,120 Speaker 1: not that many people is sometimes when there's only a 751 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,200 Speaker 1: handful of people in the theater, they think they're in 752 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,440 Speaker 1: their living room, so they're actually more likely to talk 753 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:10,080 Speaker 1: to when it's a pack theater, so I don't really 754 00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:13,919 Speaker 1: know which. And people with their cell phones, I would 755 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:15,880 Speaker 1: take the job of walking around. Everybody should get a 756 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,160 Speaker 1: warning and then I would pour out a bucket of 757 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,440 Speaker 1: popcorn on those who use their cell phones out for 758 00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,320 Speaker 1: everyone to see during a movie. But obviously I'm pretty 759 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,360 Speaker 1: intense about this. I love it. I take the boys 760 00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,680 Speaker 1: to tons of movies, but I can't wait to go 761 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:31,960 Speaker 1: see the new Top Gun and debuted it can and 762 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,839 Speaker 1: Tom Cruise got a five minute standing ovation. We've got 763 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,319 Speaker 1: Jonathan Isaac with us now, He's got Isaac with us. Now, 764 00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:42,120 Speaker 1: he's got a new book out Why I Stand, And 765 00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:44,839 Speaker 1: here's what we want you to know. On July thirty first, 766 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,880 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, the Orlando Magic starting forward Jonathan Isaac was 767 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:52,720 Speaker 1: the loan NBA player not to kneel for the national 768 00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:56,720 Speaker 1: anthem amid a league wide demonstration in supportive Black Lives Matter. 769 00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,200 Speaker 1: Standing alone, knowing the scrutiny to come, Jonathan had a 770 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:04,960 Speaker 1: peace that he at one time never could have imagined possible. 771 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,959 Speaker 1: In Why I Stand, Jonathan shares the journey of how 772 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,560 Speaker 1: through a series of divine connections and a willingness to 773 00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:14,400 Speaker 1: follow Christ, his fear and insecurity driven life was transformed 774 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:18,160 Speaker 1: in one of pure confidence and purpose. Jonathan Isaac with 775 00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,360 Speaker 1: us now. Jonathan, thanks so much, he looks, thank you 776 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,880 Speaker 1: so much for having me. Please start, if you would, Jonathan, 777 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,799 Speaker 1: with that decision, that momentous decision at a time when 778 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,680 Speaker 1: there was so much pressure on so many people to 779 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,520 Speaker 1: take a knee during the national anthem, tell us about 780 00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:39,040 Speaker 1: your decision process there, what that was like, Well, what 781 00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:40,759 Speaker 1: I tried my best to do at the time, and 782 00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:44,040 Speaker 1: obviously seeing that what happened to Joyce Floyd was tragic 783 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,320 Speaker 1: and awful and wrong, what I tried my best to 784 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:47,960 Speaker 1: do is take a step back and say, what is 785 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,280 Speaker 1: the right way for me to respond in this moment 786 00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,920 Speaker 1: that would bring change? And looking out and seeing you know, 787 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,120 Speaker 1: there was a lot of pressure on NBA players to 788 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:56,800 Speaker 1: have to kneel for the national anthem and where the 789 00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:00,000 Speaker 1: black lives matter teacher, But just knowing from my life experience, 790 00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:02,120 Speaker 1: I knew that that wasn't going to be the answer. 791 00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:04,400 Speaker 1: And I couldn't think of a better message or and 792 00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,279 Speaker 1: a dope for the times that we see other than 793 00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,520 Speaker 1: the Gospel. And so I decided that that was the 794 00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,960 Speaker 1: right message that needed that needed to be spreaded, about 795 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,400 Speaker 1: love and loving your enemy, and loving your neighbor, and 796 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,280 Speaker 1: loving the way God loves us, which has passed our failures, 797 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:19,560 Speaker 1: past our faults. And I've experienced that love in my 798 00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:21,600 Speaker 1: own life. And I said, you know what, I'm not 799 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:23,239 Speaker 1: going to go with anybody's narrative. I'm not going to 800 00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:24,920 Speaker 1: go with the pressure. I'm going to stand up and 801 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,000 Speaker 1: share what I feel to be the answer for the world. 802 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,839 Speaker 1: How much pressure do you think you've kind of hinted 803 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:34,120 Speaker 1: at it Guys felt, even if they didn't necessarily agree 804 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:37,000 Speaker 1: with it, they didn't want to take the attention that 805 00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:40,839 Speaker 1: you were willing to for making a different choice. How 806 00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,319 Speaker 1: many guys do you think just went along because they 807 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,359 Speaker 1: didn't want the pressure of not going along on their 808 00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:51,879 Speaker 1: shoulders A ton and honestly, It just speaks to how 809 00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,840 Speaker 1: polarizing the moment was. And it shouldn't be like that. 810 00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:56,640 Speaker 1: You know, we should be free to make decisions based 811 00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:59,440 Speaker 1: on how we feel. But because of just how the 812 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,080 Speaker 1: society pressure at the moment of the moment, I'm sure 813 00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:03,640 Speaker 1: there were plenty of guys who said, you know what, 814 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:05,359 Speaker 1: you know, this is just something that I'm gonna do. 815 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:09,280 Speaker 1: And I honestly had conversations after the fact with different 816 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:10,920 Speaker 1: you know, players in different sports, and you know, I 817 00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,399 Speaker 1: had a conversation with a baseball a soccer player after 818 00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,239 Speaker 1: I stood. He said, you know what, I agree with 819 00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,880 Speaker 1: you and your stance, but I'm afraid to stand. And 820 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:19,279 Speaker 1: this was a this was a white guy, so he 821 00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:20,920 Speaker 1: was the game. It kind of might have been a 822 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,239 Speaker 1: little bit harder for him, but I was able to 823 00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:24,480 Speaker 1: talk to him and kind of let him know the 824 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:26,319 Speaker 1: same thing that you know, my pastor told me before 825 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,719 Speaker 1: I stood, which was, you cannot stand for God and 826 00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,440 Speaker 1: God not stand for you. And so that the times 827 00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:33,480 Speaker 1: were crazy. There's a lot of pressure, but you know, 828 00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:37,160 Speaker 1: I decided to do it anyway. Jonathan wondering if you 829 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:41,000 Speaker 1: think that there's a greater awareness among some of your 830 00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:46,120 Speaker 1: fellow players in the NBA that the divisiveness, that the 831 00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:50,560 Speaker 1: politicization that has really been much big, much bigger part 832 00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,440 Speaker 1: of the sport than I mean, certainly, I grew up 833 00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,840 Speaker 1: being a huge New York Knicks fan, going to Knicks 834 00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:58,080 Speaker 1: games all the time, and in recent years a lot 835 00:43:58,120 --> 00:43:59,840 Speaker 1: of us to the NBA, and we say, there's just 836 00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:03,879 Speaker 1: so much politics involved. Do some of the players recognize 837 00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:08,600 Speaker 1: that this is maybe a distraction from the really what 838 00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,080 Speaker 1: should be the purpose of the game and that it's 839 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,479 Speaker 1: inclusive for everybody and that it's meant to bring people 840 00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,080 Speaker 1: together and inspire them. Or are we still a long 841 00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:22,319 Speaker 1: way from having that recognition more widespread among players. I 842 00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,600 Speaker 1: would say that we're still a long way from having 843 00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:27,680 Speaker 1: that recognition, Like overall, I'm sure that you know, some 844 00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,799 Speaker 1: players recognize that. I recognize that in the sense of 845 00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:35,240 Speaker 1: it should be about an individual and an individual deciding 846 00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:36,799 Speaker 1: what's the best for hamm or a decision to make. 847 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:38,839 Speaker 1: And I think I think COVID and the vaccine really 848 00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,160 Speaker 1: brought that to life, that it's really about, you know, 849 00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:43,520 Speaker 1: group think and going along with what everybody. You know, 850 00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:47,600 Speaker 1: what's what's the mainstream position on a situation, and so 851 00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,840 Speaker 1: it's unfortunate, but you know, hopefully we can kind of 852 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:51,680 Speaker 1: get to that place that we're talking about of just 853 00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,520 Speaker 1: playing basketball and it being about you know, you're you 854 00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:56,080 Speaker 1: being for you to stand up for what it is 855 00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,239 Speaker 1: that you believe in. Jonathan, why do you think you 856 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,239 Speaker 1: had all so not only the bravery to refuse to 857 00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,320 Speaker 1: do what everybody else was doing during the anthem, but also, 858 00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:07,640 Speaker 1: as you just mentioned, you didn't get the COVID shot 859 00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:10,480 Speaker 1: and it has been proven since. And I bet you 860 00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:12,640 Speaker 1: hear from a lot of athletes about this, because I 861 00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,319 Speaker 1: know I do that. You know, get the COVID shot. 862 00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:18,560 Speaker 1: It doesn't stop you from getting or spreading COVID, and 863 00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,520 Speaker 1: it doesn't last very long. And guys like you and 864 00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:26,040 Speaker 1: other athletes who are in absolute peak physical condition have 865 00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:30,160 Speaker 1: zero risk really from COVID at all. When you made 866 00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,600 Speaker 1: that initial decision not to get the shot, you got 867 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:36,200 Speaker 1: criticized heavily, I'm sure, like a lot of other athletes did. 868 00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:38,440 Speaker 1: But how many guys have come back to you since 869 00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,319 Speaker 1: and said, hey, man, you know what, you were right? 870 00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,200 Speaker 1: I wish I also had not gotten this COVID shot. 871 00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,319 Speaker 1: There's been plenty of guys who shared that sentiment. And 872 00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:49,080 Speaker 1: even more so that said, you know what, if this 873 00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:53,560 Speaker 1: thing happens again, I won't be so easily convinced or 874 00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:55,640 Speaker 1: I won't so easily go along with the narrative. But 875 00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:58,480 Speaker 1: I would say definitely standing in the bubble made it 876 00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:00,440 Speaker 1: easier for me to just kind of go with what 877 00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:02,520 Speaker 1: I felt about, you know, COVID and the vaccine and 878 00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,400 Speaker 1: all that stuff. And what I do love about the 879 00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,400 Speaker 1: book is it takes you through the journey of me 880 00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,000 Speaker 1: getting to the place to even be willing to stand 881 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,799 Speaker 1: because I wasn't that person. I grew up and I 882 00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,800 Speaker 1: really struggled with anxiety and fear and self and security. 883 00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,759 Speaker 1: And it's only through developing a relationship with christ where 884 00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:19,160 Speaker 1: I've come to the point to say, you know what, 885 00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,560 Speaker 1: I know this is true through experience, and I'm going 886 00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,080 Speaker 1: to be willing to stand up and say it. And 887 00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,440 Speaker 1: so when everything started to break with COVID, I pretty 888 00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:26,879 Speaker 1: much just said I'm going to take a step back 889 00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:30,480 Speaker 1: and look and just watching. There was so much pressure 890 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,040 Speaker 1: with it being you know, kind of forced on everyone 891 00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:35,279 Speaker 1: everyone's throats, and it was made to seem like it 892 00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:37,120 Speaker 1: was a moral decision that if you took the shot, 893 00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,040 Speaker 1: you were this good person, and if you didn't, you 894 00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:42,200 Speaker 1: were evil. But again, like you said, I was in 895 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,520 Speaker 1: the best shape of my life. I already had COVID, 896 00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:46,400 Speaker 1: so I had a level of natural immunity, something that 897 00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:48,879 Speaker 1: was not being talked about much at all. I saw 898 00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:52,640 Speaker 1: people's religious and medical exemptions being denied, and I really 899 00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:54,319 Speaker 1: just wanted to stand with those people and you know, 900 00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,319 Speaker 1: lend them a voice. We're speaking to Jonathan Isaac. He's 901 00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:00,760 Speaker 1: got a new book out Why I Stand. And Jonathan 902 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,279 Speaker 1: on that point about COVID and the vaccines and the 903 00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,840 Speaker 1: pressure to get them, the mandate really professionally for a 904 00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,440 Speaker 1: lot of people to get them. You weren't alone on 905 00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:13,960 Speaker 1: that one. You also had fellow NBA star Kyrie Irving 906 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,960 Speaker 1: refusing to get the shot. Have you sensed a change 907 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:21,440 Speaker 1: in perception among a lot of the players about how 908 00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,480 Speaker 1: necessary the vaccine was? I mean, I'm just I've got 909 00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,239 Speaker 1: a different version of the question I asked you before. 910 00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:30,719 Speaker 1: Are people within the league seeing things differently now? As 911 00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,040 Speaker 1: we spend more time being told ooh, it's time to 912 00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:37,239 Speaker 1: get the fourth shot. Maybe the fifth shot. Well, I 913 00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:39,440 Speaker 1: think not even just in the league, but in the 914 00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,040 Speaker 1: entire country, in world. For that matter. I think people 915 00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:43,759 Speaker 1: are kind of starting to see through the weeds and 916 00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:45,719 Speaker 1: just relax a bit and kind of get back to 917 00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,200 Speaker 1: just living their lives. But again, it was such a 918 00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,960 Speaker 1: polarizing time, and you know that the death told that 919 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,920 Speaker 1: everyone was toting around and you know, as terrible as 920 00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,839 Speaker 1: it is, but yeah, I think people are just starting 921 00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:58,239 Speaker 1: to breathe a little bit to see, you know what, 922 00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,680 Speaker 1: you know, the vaccine, you're still getting covid people are 923 00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:03,319 Speaker 1: still passing it on whether you have it or not. 924 00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:06,279 Speaker 1: But the overall survival rate of covid is ninety nine 925 00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,120 Speaker 1: point nine seven percent. So I think I think just 926 00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,080 Speaker 1: people are starting to breathe, and I think that will 927 00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,399 Speaker 1: be you know, better moving forward. Jonathan, we appreciate the time. 928 00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,719 Speaker 1: We appreciate your bravery, being willing to stand as an 929 00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:18,440 Speaker 1: individual for what you believe. Encourage everybody out there to 930 00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:20,719 Speaker 1: check it out. The book is why I stand. He's 931 00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:25,040 Speaker 1: Jonathan Isaac Orlando, Magic Forward and congratulations man, it was 932 00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:26,640 Speaker 1: with this one of your goals, by the way, to 933 00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:28,080 Speaker 1: write a book one day. It has to be a 934 00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:30,120 Speaker 1: really cool experience to see a book coming out with 935 00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:34,960 Speaker 1: your name on it. Yeah, absolutely not, And so the book, 936 00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:36,839 Speaker 1: you know, also takes you through the journey of how 937 00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,000 Speaker 1: the book came to be, but definitely not something that 938 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,239 Speaker 1: I thought I would, you know ever, you know, be 939 00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:43,799 Speaker 1: an author, and just to see people have it in 940 00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:47,080 Speaker 1: their hands, people saying that they're inspired, encouraged by the story, 941 00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,279 Speaker 1: not just to stand. So the book isn't just about 942 00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:51,600 Speaker 1: standing in the bubble. It's really about my journey and 943 00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:53,399 Speaker 1: how I got to that place in the first place, 944 00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:55,560 Speaker 1: and how a relationship with christ helped me get there. 945 00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:57,680 Speaker 1: And so I would just encourage people to get it. 946 00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:00,960 Speaker 1: But again, to see people excited about going on Amazon 947 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:03,320 Speaker 1: and bind it, it makes me, you know, feel special. 948 00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:07,120 Speaker 1: Congratulations my man. Hope you have a great offseason. Yeah, 949 00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,399 Speaker 1: thank you guys so much. I really appreciate it. Thank you. 950 00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,640 Speaker 1: That's Jonathan Isaac. I'm going to tell you right now, Hey, 951 00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:16,040 Speaker 1: it's Friday. Maybe you got a dinner date, Maybe you 952 00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,200 Speaker 1: got kids, you're going to the Little League field. Hey, 953 00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,879 Speaker 1: that's me. Maybe you got a lot of activities still 954 00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,319 Speaker 1: planning to roll into the weekend. And there might be 955 00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:24,839 Speaker 1: a lot of you right now who need a little 956 00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:26,680 Speaker 1: bit of a coffee break. And if you're gonna do that, 957 00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:30,680 Speaker 1: our friends at Black Rifle Coffee will hook you up. Man, 958 00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,359 Speaker 1: this is a coffee. Buck and I both drink and 959 00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:36,560 Speaker 1: we've been doing it for a while now. I love 960 00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:39,920 Speaker 1: the black cold brewmocha right in a can. All I 961 00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:42,719 Speaker 1: gotta do is pop a top and boom. I'm on 962 00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:43,960 Speaker 1: the way to get in a little bit of a 963 00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:46,200 Speaker 1: jolt of energy to help me chase around those young 964 00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,080 Speaker 1: boys that I have, my fourteen, eleven, and seven year olds. 965 00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:50,759 Speaker 1: They got a lot of energy. 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