1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis and 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. I am Clay Travis and we are 4 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 1: off and running. We hope you're having a great Monday 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:18,479 Speaker 1: wherever you may be across this great country or this 6 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 1: great land. We have got a lot to dive into 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 1: as we begin another week. Thanks for all the great 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 1: feedback that we got over the course of last week. 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: Want to tell you phone lines will be open eight 10 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: hundred two eight two two eight eight two. Can go 11 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: check out the website of the show Clay and Buck 12 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: dot com. You can follow me at Clay Travis on Twitter. 13 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 1: You can follow Buck Sexton at buck Sexton and Buck. 14 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: I had an interesting experience on Sunday that to me 15 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:53,160 Speaker 1: really kind of ties in with the failures of a 16 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: return to normalcy in this country. We have nine point 17 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: three million open jobs right now. That is the most 18 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 1: open jobs that have ever existed in the history of 19 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: this country. That is more open jobs than there are 20 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: people seeking work. These unemployment benefits which are being levied 21 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: mostly now in blue states. The Wall Street Journal last 22 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 1: week said in nineteen states, if you have a couple 23 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 1: in a household. They can make over a hundred thousand 24 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: dollars a year right now, not working at all, And 25 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,399 Speaker 1: this all kind of crystallized for me, Buck, when I 26 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 1: walked in. My kids love Buffalo wild Wings. They'd like 27 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: to eat the wings. They like to watch no free advertise. 28 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 1: It is a free advertisement on some level of Buffalo 29 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: wild Wings here. I'd like to sit down, watch the games, 30 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: eat the wings. They wanted to go out there Sunday, 31 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: so I took a carload of kids, pulled up Buffalo 32 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: Wild Wings near my house, walked in and there was 33 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: a girl standing right there in the front. She said, 34 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: we have no Buffalo Wings year because drivers are not 35 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: willing to deliver work to deliver our product. Also, same time, 36 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: same weekend, Chick fil A, which is a Southern delicacy. 37 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: I know it's also popular in New York City. I 38 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: see the lines every time I'm around there. Buck, Chick 39 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: fil A not open because they also couldn't get product 40 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: delivered to their stores. Drove to another restaurant that we 41 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 1: usually love to go to, not open now on Sundays 42 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: because they can't get enough weight staff. This is an 43 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: issue everywhere. I want to open up the phone lines 44 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: because I'm curious for a lot of small business owners 45 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: out there to be able to react. This is going 46 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:44,839 Speaker 1: to go all the way up until September right now. 47 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 1: In many states? Are you seeing the same thing, Buck Sexton? 48 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,959 Speaker 1: As it pertains to these scenarios. It's absolutely happening in 49 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: a bunch of the big blue states. It's happening in 50 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: New York, which has been hit really badly by a 51 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: lot a lot of these policies. And what's happened as 52 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: a result of look Biden coming to office and deciding 53 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: to get us close to modern monetary theory and just 54 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 1: using the federal government pretending like the federal government's purse 55 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: doesn't have any end. I mean, you just spend the 56 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: money you want to spend. But but I also think 57 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 1: that what you're seeing this is true on the economic 58 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 1: front with the jobs. It's true in so many different 59 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: places right now where Democrats have control, either at the 60 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: federal level or in states where they're in charge, they 61 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: act like they have no understanding of cause and effect. 62 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: We sit here and we say, of course, somebody who's 63 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: going to be able to make a certain income staying 64 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: and doing whatever they want with their time. Right, they're 65 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: being paid for their time, particularly these hourly waged jobs 66 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: that we are predominantly talking about. They're being paid for 67 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: their time and if they can stay home and make 68 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: a solid salary. It's not just a question of what 69 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: that money is. What's the value of not having to 70 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: deal with any job? Right, So people who say will 71 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: pay them more, you're going to pay them a lot 72 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: more getting paid to do nothing versus getting paid to 73 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,119 Speaker 1: actually have to show up and do a job. There's 74 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 1: a valued proposition that I think they have them worked 75 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:18,039 Speaker 1: into it. But I think we just see this across 76 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: the board clay where on whether it's on law enforcement 77 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:26,360 Speaker 1: issues or it's on these incentive structures for going back 78 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: to work. There's an unwillingness to see what is obvious. 79 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 1: Because democrats elevate emotion over reason. They disassociate cause and effect. 80 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:42,239 Speaker 1: They believe that their plans, their central planning, will result 81 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: in better outcomes. But what they're planning actually results in 82 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: is you and your kids for not having wings. I 83 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,159 Speaker 1: think that's what actually happened. It is funny because it 84 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:52,600 Speaker 1: crystallized and my kids we're like, wait a minute, what 85 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 1: do you mean? Buffalo Wild Wings doesn't have wings, and 86 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:58,719 Speaker 1: what do you mean Chick fil a doesn't have chicken 87 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: sandwiches because and some people out there. I think you're 88 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 1: made a good point there. Immediately when I tweeted about this, 89 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,840 Speaker 1: people said, we'll just pay the workers more and you'll 90 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: solve it. But that's not what's going on. It's not 91 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: as if some competitor of Buffalo Wild Wings out there 92 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: is paying a dollar more and everybody is deciding to 93 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 1: work there instead, which would be the capitalistic or response 94 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 1: here right, build a better mousetrap. What you're doing is 95 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 1: you're competing with government paying for people to do nothing. 96 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 1: And I think it's not only people not wanting to 97 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,719 Speaker 1: work Buck, I think it's also they've terrified a certain 98 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: segment of the population that they're going to die of 99 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:38,840 Speaker 1: COVID right if they go out and they try to 100 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: go to work. And then I think also, even though 101 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: we're now moving into the summer, the childcare issue for 102 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 1: many women, one of the most underreported stories has been 103 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: that we're to thirty year high for women's unemployment rate, 104 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 1: because I think a lot of women bear most of 105 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: the childcare responsibilities. But to me, it's pretty transparently. We 106 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 1: talked about this off airbuck there's a difference between somebody 107 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 1: who has to work in order to live and basically 108 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 1: the career versus job, right, And if you've ever had 109 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: a situation where you had to go to a crappy 110 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: job that you didn't love because you have to pay bills, 111 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: which a huge percentage of the population has, there's a 112 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 1: lot of people out there that are making more money 113 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: than they ever have before without having to do a 114 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: single thing. Nineteen states you can make one hundred thousand 115 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,280 Speaker 1: dollars a year without working at all. A couple can. 116 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,799 Speaker 1: I think everyone has to also remember that we act 117 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:34,479 Speaker 1: under the assumption right now that Democrats want things to 118 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 1: go back to normal at some level, with the economy 119 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 1: in particular, but but in general, they want to go 120 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 1: back to pre COVID normal. I think that's a misunderstanding 121 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 1: of what the actual goal is here. I don't think 122 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:50,039 Speaker 1: they're done. I don't think that they want the emergency 123 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 1: to end. I think they've transformed at some level the 124 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: relationship between citizen and state in their minds. Think about 125 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: what's happened here. The government, for the first time ever 126 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,559 Speaker 1: told people you can't do your job. We will send 127 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: you a check. You must stay home. We will tell 128 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: you when you can do your job again, and will 129 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: spend whatever we decide is necessary in the meantime to 130 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 1: keep things going. You had a lot of people who 131 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: were economically not only unaffected by this, oh, but the 132 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: elites who are pushing. I'm sure you saw people got 133 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 1: wealth here over the course of COVID. If you had assets, 134 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 1: if you own stocks, if you owned a house, if 135 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: you were in pretty good final you have the stats, right, Yeah, 136 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: I got it right in front of me. I mean 137 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 1: my jaw dropped when I saw this. This is from 138 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal today, Buck. The headline is most 139 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: Americans got richer during the pandemic, And I mean you 140 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: look at the overall data and this, this to me, 141 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: kind of crystallized it. The last time we had a 142 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 1: recession in this country, a serious one in two thousand 143 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 1: and eight, US households lost eight trillion dollars that stock 144 00:07:54,920 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: market decline, the subprime mortgage crisis, everything else. This crisis 145 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: in quotation marks, US households added thirteen point five trillion 146 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: dollars in wealth last year. So we didn't have a 147 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: real recession. We had. Basically, we put the economy on 148 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: ice right in a coma and continue to flood the 149 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 1: marketplace with money, and now we're trying to figure out 150 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: how to come out of that coma. But everybody suddenly, 151 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 1: after being put in a deep sleep, added thirteen and 152 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 1: a half million dollars in wealth. And also there are 153 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 1: many lies that were told about this whole COVID lockdown 154 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: situation all along. One of the biggest ones and one 155 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: of the most obvious ones from the very beginning, was 156 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: that we're all in this together, because we really weren't 157 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 1: all on this together, certainly economically. There are a lot 158 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: of people who were able to just continue on of 159 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 1: people I know in media actually often preferred their work 160 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,880 Speaker 1: schedule of being able to be at home. A lot 161 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: of people that work as journalists now never had to 162 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 1: go back into a newsroom. And that's you play that 163 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: out across the work from home community, which is tens 164 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,679 Speaker 1: of millions of Americans. They saw this as an opportunity 165 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: to essentially order in more food and spend more time 166 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: on Amazon, while it was actually a lot of the 167 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 1: frontline workers, the hourly wage workers, who had to keep 168 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 1: doing their jobs. And this is and this is pre 169 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 1: vaccine too. They were showing up, they were doing everything. 170 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 1: And the people that have been hurt by this, largely economically, 171 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: are the ones who the government said you can't do 172 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: your job anymore. They're the ones that have actually been 173 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 1: hit by this. But think about also how this changes 174 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 1: the mentality and changes the relationship I think going forward 175 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 1: between the vast bulk of hourly workers and people that 176 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: are you know, are are trying to pay their bills, 177 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: are struggling to get it done, or small business owners. 178 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,679 Speaker 1: Now they recognize and the Democrats see this, I think 179 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: as an opportunity. They talk about fundamental transformation. Right, they 180 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:59,840 Speaker 1: can continue on now with COVID restrictions in the background 181 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 1: that will come, I believe, and we'll be talking more 182 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 1: about this, are going to return. They can decide that 183 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: they're going to just write checks to people to stay home. 184 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 1: I remember when Andrew Yang was running for Democratic president 185 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:14,959 Speaker 1: and Democratic presidential primary instead of a governor of New York, 186 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: which is not going to happen, and the big idea 187 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: was that he was going to have effectively universal basic income. 188 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: I think he was calling it like freedom cash or 189 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 1: whatever it was at the time. We created a form 190 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 1: of basic income right now, and we've run up trillions 191 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 1: of dollars of dead and we're telling people to stay home, 192 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: and we're wondering, why aren't we getting back to normal 193 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 1: with the economy more quickly? Clay, It's because people want control. 194 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: They don't want it to go back to what it was. 195 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,319 Speaker 1: There's no doubt. And to your point, I think it's 196 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: been one of the great underreported and underdiscussed. People who 197 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: have information type jobs were overwhelmingly able to work from 198 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: home and continue to have better lifestyles. Like you said, 199 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: they just get to order from Amazon and sit around 200 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 1: and watch Netflix, and they have more flexibility because they 201 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: don't have to spend two hours a day commuting Financial 202 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: activities seventy eight percent can work remote, information tech seventy 203 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: one percent, Professional and business services seventy percent. All the 204 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 1: way down to leisure in hospitality, only thirteen percent of 205 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 1: people in leisure in hospitality industry can actually work or remote. 206 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: Seventeen percent of construction workers can work remote. We took 207 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:22,600 Speaker 1: and taxed basically the richest people. We gave them an 208 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: unbelievable stimulus again, thirteen and a half trillion dollars in 209 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 1: wealth added in the last year. Compare that with the 210 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: Great Recession when households lost eight trillion dollars and so 211 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,320 Speaker 1: people are flushed with cash and that has tangible impact 212 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:42,840 Speaker 1: when it comes to being willing to actually take a job. 213 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 1: And how do you sort of, for lack of a 214 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 1: better term, take these people off of the government teat 215 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 1: Remember when Gavin Newsom came out and said we can't 216 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 1: ever go back to normal and his speech that he 217 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: gave inside a Dodger stadium because normal wasn't good enough. 218 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: They are seeking a trans formative nature of change, which 219 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 1: the government is going to have an unbelievable part of. 220 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: They have not taken full advantage of the crisis yet. 221 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:12,599 Speaker 1: That's really I think a very widespread mindset at the 222 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: very top of the Democrat Party. They are not done. Obviously, 223 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 1: the infrastructure back and forth we've seen is a part 224 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 1: of this. They're trying to get things they would not 225 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 1: be able to otherwise. And I think that you know, 226 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: what we've seen all along is that the reality of 227 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 1: the economic divide of the pandemic was you had you know, 228 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: management consultants who live in Santa Monica and Brooklyn who 229 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,439 Speaker 1: are watching MSNBC and tweeting out about how they double 230 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 1: mask and believe the science. While truck drivers and hospitality 231 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: workers and people at restaurants and things were actually having 232 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 1: to deal with store workers, smass stations, people that have 233 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 1: to be there, small business owners. They were being told sorry, 234 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: your life's work is up and spoken by the way 235 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:56,839 Speaker 1: you asked how things are. Because I was back in 236 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 1: New York City over the weekend. One thing that you 237 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: do see there are businesses, there are restaurants that now 238 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 1: everyone's finally realizing what some of us were saying all along. 239 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 1: They're never coming back. They're gone now. And what does 240 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 1: that actually mean economically for not just the families who 241 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: own them or working them and others, but for the 242 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: comeback of some of these cities that I think is anticipated. 243 00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:20,560 Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be much more difficult than folks realize. 244 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 1: Let's we're gonna take some of your calls when we 245 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,680 Speaker 1: come back. I'm curious. I want to direct the calls. 246 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:27,319 Speaker 1: Do you run a small business? Do you run a business? 247 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:30,760 Speaker 1: Are you having difficulty finding workers? You can call us. 248 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 1: That's what I want to hear from. 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As you see somebody drop off, 278 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: you can hop on. But I was curious to hear 279 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 1: from a lot of you who may own business as 280 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: small businesses, the difficulties that you may have in finding 281 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: your ability to fill those jobs. Phil is up first 282 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 1: in Lakewood, Colorado. Phil, you own a fitness equipment repair business. 283 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 1: What's it like trying to hire employees for you in Colorado? 284 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: Right now? Oh? Hey, there, Clay in books. It's really rough. 285 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: I can't find hardly anybody. I advertise on all the 286 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:40,640 Speaker 1: major job boards and send a lot of money to 287 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: do it. And I gave very few resumes that come in. 288 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 1: The few that I do contact don't show up for 289 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: their interviews. And you know, I was able to bring 290 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 1: one guy on, but within a month he said, I'm 291 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 1: not paying enough. I'm offering twenty five dollars an hour 292 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 1: company vehicle, which is above industry standard for the position 293 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 1: I'm hiring. It's about seventeen fifty is average nationwide. And 294 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: it's it's just, um, even at twenty five dollars an hour, 295 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: you can't find people who will work. And do you 296 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: attribute that to people just making money to sit and 297 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: not work? I mean, what do you attribute your inability 298 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: to be able to find people? In Colorado? Oh? Geez? Um, 299 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 1: you know there are there are some pretty generous benefits. 300 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: I know Colorado. I believe they added another extra three 301 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:31,520 Speaker 1: hundred dollars to the federal unemployment if if I'm correct 302 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 1: on that, And um, so that's that's part of it. Um, 303 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 1: the job market in general. You know, I look everywhere 304 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 1: and there are hiring signs. So I mean, there's no 305 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 1: shortage of open jobs. As far as why the workers 306 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: aren't there, you know, I don't know. I mean I 307 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: feel like I'm paying good money, offering good benefits, will 308 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: train you know, I'm not asking people to show up 309 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: already knowing the job. I'm saying, let me teach you 310 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 1: how to do it for good money. And if has 311 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 1: COVID feared. Has COVID fear been been a part of it? 312 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 1: By the way, have you heard from anybody? I don't. 313 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,959 Speaker 1: I don't want to do this because of COVID. You know, 314 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:10,160 Speaker 1: I have not heard that we are in and out 315 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:14,159 Speaker 1: of people's homes, so um, certainly that could be it, 316 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,199 Speaker 1: but I've not I've not heard a single person say, well, 317 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 1: I'm not comfortable with that. Phil. We appreciate you calling 318 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:21,400 Speaker 1: into to share your perspective on this one man, Thank 319 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: you so much. In Colorado. Grant in Bismarck, North Dakota. 320 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:27,920 Speaker 1: I want to take a bunch of these calls here, Grant, 321 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 1: what's going on? Hey, I'm just hitting on the exact 322 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: same thing You're color and Colorado saying it's a hard 323 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: thing to do. But up in our state, we have 324 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: eliminated the three hundred dollar bonus, so hopefully we start 325 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 1: seeing more guys apply, guys or gals. Really, I run 326 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 1: a small business, being a custom framing contractor, and there's 327 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:57,200 Speaker 1: this no no, no one showing up. We have four 328 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:00,160 Speaker 1: solid guys right now, including myself. We would be five, 329 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 1: but I just see more guys in the construction industry. 330 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: It's very hard to find skilled labor right now. Thank you, 331 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: Thank you for the call grant. We're going to continue 332 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 1: to take your calls. Eight hundred two A two to 333 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 1: eight A two. 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So what 352 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:23,199 Speaker 1: we have got to do is now invest in making 353 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 1: sure that we have affordable housing in this country, that 354 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 1: we have home healthcare for an aging population, that we're 355 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 1: able to expand Medicare so that we finally can covet 356 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:38,160 Speaker 1: dental care and hearing aids and eyeglasses. That we deal 357 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 1: with the crisis in childcare where so many families, working 358 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 1: families cannot afford childcare, and that in addition to all 359 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 1: of that, it's absolutely impartive that we deal with the 360 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: I would say existential threat to this planet of climate change. 361 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: And when we do all that, when we invest in 362 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 1: healthcare and an education, making your education affordable, when we 363 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 1: invest in transforming our energy system, we're going to create 364 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: millions more good paying jobs. So that's what the President wants, 365 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 1: that's what all I want, and I think that's what 366 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: we're going to see. Welcome back to the Clay Travis 367 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,359 Speaker 1: and Buck Saxton show on Buck Saxton and there you 368 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:21,719 Speaker 1: have Bernie Sanders, the socialist from Vermont, talking about creating 369 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:25,640 Speaker 1: millions of jobs. Does anybody think Bernie Sanders is would 370 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:29,200 Speaker 1: you good at this? Would you let Bernie Sanders run 371 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:32,120 Speaker 1: your popsicle stand? Would you let him run your Ben 372 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:34,880 Speaker 1: and Jerry's outlet? For that matter, I think the answer 373 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 1: is no. The clay here we are being led to 374 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,720 Speaker 1: believe that that Bernie, It's never enough. But this is 375 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,120 Speaker 1: what everyone needs to understand right now. There's never enough money. 376 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,159 Speaker 1: They call it investment. What they mean by that is 377 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,719 Speaker 1: really spending your children, your grandchildren's money and putting it 378 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:50,679 Speaker 1: on the federal tab which is now going to be 379 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:54,200 Speaker 1: thirty trillion dollars. It feels like any moment now it's 380 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,840 Speaker 1: never enough spending, never enough government intervention in the markets. 381 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: There's always more that they think should be done. Whenever 382 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 1: the program fails. What's the reason they didn't spend enough money? 383 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: Right It's very straightforward. When we should be thinking about 384 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:09,920 Speaker 1: how we get back to the dynamism of the American 385 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:15,120 Speaker 1: economy and the leaning harder on capitalism, what's the response 386 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: of those who are supposed to be in charge of 387 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 1: leading the economy out of this artificial recession. As we've 388 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,439 Speaker 1: been discussing the COVID recession, which wasn't even really a 389 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 1: recession in all your ways. Yeah, it ended up just 390 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 1: being a pause in some economic activity while a lot 391 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:34,640 Speaker 1: of other stuff continued on. But look, Bertie Sanders, Joe Biden, 392 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: these are the people, this is the brain trust at 393 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,159 Speaker 1: the top of the Democrat Party. And that's why we're 394 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 1: limping out of this COVID period. In terms of the economy, 395 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 1: it's not as fast, not as robust as it should be. 396 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: And it's what is the yogi barra deja vu all 397 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: over again. It's coming all back to us now after 398 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,160 Speaker 1: what happened with Obama and the recession two thousand and nine, 399 00:21:56,200 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 1: a slow recovery because of government heavy handed social nonsense. Yeah. 400 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: And I think also, Buckle, we have to factor in 401 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: here is this is not, I think you said, a 402 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: traditional recession. Never before have we intentionally stopped all economic 403 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 1: activity and effectively paid people not to work. And so 404 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,680 Speaker 1: how do you come out of that? Again, the data 405 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 1: that I keep going to is households added thirteen and 406 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:26,480 Speaker 1: a half trillion dollars in wealth last year. I don't 407 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: even think we can call this a recession when the 408 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,679 Speaker 1: overall wealth goes up like that. A couple of stats 409 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 1: for you. The SMP five hundred up twenty nine percent 410 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,960 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, and in the Great Recession it was 411 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,479 Speaker 1: down thirty eight and a half percent. This is not 412 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:48,680 Speaker 1: a traditional recession. And remember Donald Trump had set up 413 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 1: the greatest economy in the history of our country when 414 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 1: suddenly in February and March of twenty twenty last year, 415 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: we hit pause and everything came undone. Just only some 416 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,399 Speaker 1: work actually stopped, right. That's so important to remember about this. 417 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: While stay home for some people meant you no longer 418 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 1: have a job. For small business owners, that meant your 419 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,679 Speaker 1: life's work may go up and smoke because of government. 420 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: Because I know they say there are PPP loans, and 421 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: there were these government assistance programs for a lot of 422 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,959 Speaker 1: folks that didn't pay enough. It didn't cover everything it 423 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: had to cover, and they just said, I can't wait 424 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:27,160 Speaker 1: this out. But for all those different professions you talked about, 425 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: it actually just meant getting rid of a commute and 426 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 1: watching Fauci tell you to wear six masks on TV 427 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: or else you're a bad person. So let's let's get 428 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 1: We've got a bunch of folks we want to bring 429 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: you in here on this from all over, telling us 430 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,439 Speaker 1: what you think, what you're seeing in your industry, your business, 431 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 1: because this is this is going to be a big, 432 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 1: big factor in in the midterms and in power. Who's 433 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 1: going to have power going forward. I don't think there's 434 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: any doubt. And this is a massive decision that has 435 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,639 Speaker 1: to be made, and a lot of the Red states 436 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: are effectively saying we've got to end this unemployment subsidy. 437 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 1: I think twenty six states now, but what you're seeing 438 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,239 Speaker 1: in many of the Blue states now is and this 439 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: is part of the infrastructure bill that we're talking about. 440 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: Part of the money that is being used in the 441 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: infrastructure bill is money that is being rejected by Red 442 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 1: states to try to fuel their economy get people back 443 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,160 Speaker 1: to work. I almost think Buck, we need an employment 444 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: subsidy where if you have a job, you're getting an 445 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: added benefit as opposed to if you don't have a job. 446 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: We need to flip the incentive structure in many ways. 447 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: Matt in Saratoga Springs, New York. Lovely place. Matt, How 448 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: are you doing doing well? Thank you being I'm a 449 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,880 Speaker 1: farm worker on a large dairy farm, and I gotta 450 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 1: tell you being a farm worker, Cole, but did not 451 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: change our life one iota. You know, we had to 452 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 1: be here every day on your outside, and you're on 453 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,199 Speaker 1: a tractor or you're in some kind of equipment. You 454 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:51,919 Speaker 1: were on your own anyway, so it didn't didn't it 455 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,359 Speaker 1: didn't affect us. So that was a good thing. Oh, 456 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 1: we might have lost him there. Let's go to one 457 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 1: of the arguments here is that people buck are making 458 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: rational decision and not seeking their jobs because they're taking 459 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,199 Speaker 1: advantage of the government incentives. And let's be honest. If 460 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,639 Speaker 1: you can make between you and your wife one hundred 461 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year not to work and he gets 462 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,919 Speaker 1: kicked back and watch Netflix, I mean, that's not a 463 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,879 Speaker 1: bad lifestyle, right, And we're creating that incentive. And we 464 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,879 Speaker 1: also have the possibility of more and more online side 465 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,360 Speaker 1: hustles and things that people can do, so you can 466 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 1: do a little bit of work for yourself and not 467 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:27,560 Speaker 1: you're you're not supposed to do this, of course, but 468 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:29,520 Speaker 1: there are people. I know that there are people who 469 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,359 Speaker 1: do this and they're getting the check from the government. 470 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 1: And you say, well, this is what the system is 471 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:36,679 Speaker 1: telling them to do, right, I mean, when the system 472 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,679 Speaker 1: says you can stay home and get this money, and 473 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: at some point in the future. I mean, this will 474 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 1: all come clear, I think to everybody who's being honest 475 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,840 Speaker 1: about it. When this money ends in September, is there 476 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,719 Speaker 1: is there a huge surge of job seeking because right 477 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: now what you've had are people for months Democrats saying, oh, 478 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 1: it doesn't disincentivize work again. This is like getting rid 479 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,120 Speaker 1: of cops and the crime goes up. These are very 480 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: right to incentivizes people not to work. It's cause and effect, 481 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: and yet we have to still pretend like we can 482 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: all see exactly what's going on. Jeffrey in hiram Utah, Jeffrey, 483 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: you want to play Travis and Buck Sexton show, Thank 484 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: you so very much. Before do me, let me tell 485 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 1: you about my acquaintances who I catch out fishing, and 486 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 1: I asked them, why don't you find another job now 487 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 1: that things are coming back, And they said, I get 488 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,480 Speaker 1: more money to stay here and go fishing on unemployment 489 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,679 Speaker 1: than if I went back to work. I mean, just 490 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,120 Speaker 1: validating what you're saying, It's absolutely true people spend their 491 00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:40,439 Speaker 1: time with a fishing pole because it's worth more money 492 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 1: than going back to work. And related to myself. I'm 493 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,360 Speaker 1: seventy seven, but I'm awful healthy, I'm pretty well educated. 494 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,160 Speaker 1: And one of the things I've done in my life 495 00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:54,159 Speaker 1: was forklift driving. There was a box store in my 496 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: area that opened up a forklift job. I applied for it. 497 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: I was calling for the interview. I was in the job, 498 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:05,680 Speaker 1: except at seventy seven, I'm on Social Security. At seventy seven, 499 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: I get a little bit of food stamps and I 500 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: get subsidized housing. I pay about two sixty a month 501 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 1: for my housing. Had I taken the job, my rent 502 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 1: would have gone to nine hundred and seventy dollars. I 503 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 1: would have lost food stamps, I would have lost medical insurance, 504 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,639 Speaker 1: and I didn't have medical insurance with that operation for 505 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 1: the hours they were given you. In other words, eventually, 506 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: it would have cost me everything I made to take 507 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 1: the job. I realized that so security at my age, 508 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 1: I can keep my Social Security, but everything I would 509 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:44,560 Speaker 1: have earned would have replaced everything I'm getting now. Plus 510 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 1: I would have donated my gasoline to get to work. 511 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 1: I got a minor in math. I was able to 512 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 1: do the arithmetic. Jeffrey, you're just responding. Plus, yeah, you 513 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,439 Speaker 1: go to your responding to these to these incentive Jeffrey, 514 00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:00,360 Speaker 1: thanks for calling it from Utah Clay, this is old 515 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,679 Speaker 1: the old truth. You know. You get more of you 516 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 1: get more of what your subsidize, you get more of 517 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 1: what you encourage. And this is what the government's doing. 518 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 1: There's no surprise here. None of this should be even 519 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 1: a little bit of a what do you mean? People 520 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,400 Speaker 1: are going to make the It's an entire They are 521 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 1: being rational actors. That's what we have to remember. We 522 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: could say, oh no, come on, let's everyone get back 523 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,720 Speaker 1: to work. It's America. But they're responding to them the 524 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: artificial market incentive of the government sending them these checks. 525 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: If we're going to incentivize unemployment like this, am I 526 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,879 Speaker 1: crazy buck for asking the question? Why don't we flip 527 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 1: that and incentivize employment? What if we took payroll taxes? 528 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: We're rolling all this money that we're spending anyway, What 529 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 1: if we encouraged people who were actually working, as opposed 530 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: to encourage people to not work? I mean, am I? 531 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 1: I know I'm not a politician and I certainly don't 532 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 1: have an MBA, but I did turn a non existent 533 00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 1: business into one hundred million dollar business. Which is kind 534 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: of the American dream out there. So I know a 535 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: little bit about business. Wouldn't that make a lot more 536 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 1: sense to provide the incentive structure for people to be 537 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: working as opposed to providing the incentive structure for people 538 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: not to be working. Now, Look, I understand in early 539 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 1: days of COVID when you're telling people, hey, you can't work. 540 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: But right now, Buck, we're sitting on nine point three 541 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 1: million open jobs, and I think you asked a good question. 542 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: Come September when we end this, are people going to 543 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,520 Speaker 1: go flooding back into work. I think a lot of 544 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 1: people have got so much money saved up this thirteen 545 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: and a half trillion dollars in income. I think people 546 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 1: are going to be able to go all the way 547 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 1: through the holidays. I think there will be a multi 548 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 1: month lag because a lot of people will say, I've 549 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,360 Speaker 1: got savings now, and you know a lot of people 550 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,240 Speaker 1: don't want to go to work so they don't have savings. 551 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: So I think we're going to talk about having difficulty 552 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 1: hiring all the way through the holiday season, and then 553 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: come the start of the year, people will start to 554 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 1: go out and look aggressively. Again, if you're talking about 555 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,680 Speaker 1: getting an employment unemployment subsidy all the way up until September. 556 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: And there's gonna be a lot of spending though, that's 557 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 1: for sure, from individuals. I'm never I've never heard so 558 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 1: many people talk about taking that big vacation to Hawaii, 559 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: or gotta go visit the relatives across the country, or 560 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: you know this is gotta get that boat. You know, 561 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 1: you've got to buy the boat you've been hoping to 562 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 1: get for a lot, whatever it may be. There's a 563 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,400 Speaker 1: lot of spending that's you already see it happening. But 564 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: people people have a have a zest for writing the 565 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 1: checks using their credit card now getting after which look 566 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: at this is I want economic activity. I mean this 567 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 1: is a good thing in that sense, but I just 568 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 1: hope that we also have a return of more employment 569 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 1: in economic normalcy because over the long run that's going 570 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 1: to be really really critical for us. You know, let's 571 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 1: we'll come back and get a little bit more into this. 572 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: Remember Clay and Buck dot com is the website. 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Open jobs nine point three 621 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,200 Speaker 1: million of them people not being willing to fill them. 622 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:19,320 Speaker 1: And meanwhile, buck Sexton, we have also got the continued 623 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: fallout Kamala Harris. We're going to have the President of 624 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 1: the United States forty five himself, Donald Trump on the 625 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,240 Speaker 1: show with us in the second hour tomorrow. He will 626 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,960 Speaker 1: be the first guest ever on the Clay Travis and 627 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,320 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. Can I just say that Kamala's trip 628 00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 1: to the border didn't exactly change the narrative about how 629 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,480 Speaker 1: well she is handling all this stuff or how the 630 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,520 Speaker 1: Biden administration is doing it in general. In a classic moment, 631 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 1: what's the move. You're a Democrat, you have the media 632 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 1: in your back pocket. They're never going to be honest 633 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 1: no matter how apparent the failure is of the Biden 634 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 1: policies at the border. So what does she do? She says, Well, 635 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:01,760 Speaker 1: it's Trump's fault. Play clip eight. Our administration, it is 636 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,640 Speaker 1: important to be clear, is working to build a fair 637 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,799 Speaker 1: and a functional and a humane immigration system. We feel 638 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,600 Speaker 1: very strongly about that, and as you know, we inherited 639 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:16,360 Speaker 1: a tough situation. In fact, right here in our pasto 640 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 1: was the launch of the tough separation policy. You thought 641 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,959 Speaker 1: as it rolled out on the ground in real time, 642 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:27,920 Speaker 1: we have looked at a system where people have been 643 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 1: impoused and inhumane conditions over the last many years, an 644 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,279 Speaker 1: a silent system that has been broken and that needs 645 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:40,360 Speaker 1: to be reconstructed. I just want to say that she's 646 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:46,200 Speaker 1: she's showing emotion or trying to and it's about platitudes. 647 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,680 Speaker 1: It's about how Trump was so bad on the border. 648 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,960 Speaker 1: What you don't get from the borders are and I 649 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:56,040 Speaker 1: think this is what the absolutely essential takeaway is, what 650 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,480 Speaker 1: are you going to do to fix it? Saying you're 651 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,400 Speaker 1: going to call a meeting and then you're going to 652 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,919 Speaker 1: call another meeting about the meeting you called, and maybe 653 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:08,760 Speaker 1: you'll fly down to Guatemala or Honduras for a bilateral 654 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:12,840 Speaker 1: diplomatic You know who cares. That's not going to fix anything. 655 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 1: She has no fix, Clay, because they don't want to 656 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:17,839 Speaker 1: fix it. This is the key point. They don't want 657 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,719 Speaker 1: to fix the border. Yeah, and we're going to talk 658 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,719 Speaker 1: to Trump a lot about this tomorrow, Buck, because to me, 659 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,440 Speaker 1: what she was trying to do is head off the 660 00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,960 Speaker 1: storyline of Trump going to the border. But what she 661 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:33,560 Speaker 1: did was basically avoid all of the controversy, all of 662 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:38,160 Speaker 1: the chaos, all of the facilities that are presently overrun 663 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:42,640 Speaker 1: by effectively pretending that she was giving attention to this story. 664 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,400 Speaker 1: And again, I think you have to give Trump credit 665 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:46,520 Speaker 1: for this, because I think if he weren't going to 666 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,640 Speaker 1: the border on Wednesday, and again we're talking to him 667 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,279 Speaker 1: tomorrow in advance of that trip, there's no way she 668 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,120 Speaker 1: goes right. The entire purpose of her trip was to 669 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,640 Speaker 1: take away some of the pop of Trump's trip on Wednesday, 670 00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:01,720 Speaker 1: totally perfunctory performance, not based in a desire to actually 671 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,680 Speaker 1: make things better down there, because she won't. And we'll 672 00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,239 Speaker 1: continue to follow this story closely because once you see 673 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,920 Speaker 1: those numbers for the year for twenty twenty one, it's 674 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,399 Speaker 1: gonna end up being probably the most open the border 675 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,720 Speaker 1: has ever been, at least in modern modern history modern memory. 676 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:22,080 Speaker 1: But we will talk coming back here about the situation 677 00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:28,000 Speaker 1: of crime across the country and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, your 678 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:32,520 Speaker 1: favorite socialist from Queens. She has some thoughts on how 679 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,680 Speaker 1: we the American people who are concerned about the rising 680 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:40,719 Speaker 1: crime are engaged in hysteria. We'll explain why this is 681 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,640 Speaker 1: crazy and it's nonsense and more coming back on The 682 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:50,160 Speaker 1: Clay Travison Buck Sexton Show. You're listening to Clay Travis 683 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,240 Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton fund the EIB Network