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Speaker 1: Welcome back in our number three Clay Travis buck Sexton Show.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Buck, We'll

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Speaker 1: be back with me on Monday. He is right now

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Speaker 1: on a baby moon with his lovely wife Carrie as

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Speaker 1: scheduled to be in April. Looking forward to that, looking

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Speaker 1: forward to him being back with me on Monday. Just FYI,

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Speaker 1: I'll be with you for this hour and throughout this

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Speaker 1: matter where you are across the country. I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of you still traveling for Christmas and the New Year,

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Speaker 1: and I'll be with you tomorrow as well. Was expecting

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Speaker 1: for this to be a fun, festive post New Year's

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Speaker 1: Day show. Instead, we have spent most of it talking

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Speaker 1: about the terror attack in New Orleans on New Year's

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Speaker 1: Eve into New Year's morning. Fifteen people dead according to reports.

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Speaker 1: Terrorists dead as well also at Tiber cyber truck exploding

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Speaker 1: in the driveway the main lobby area valet area of

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Speaker 1: the Trump Tower in Las Vegas. We are joined now

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Speaker 1: by Nicole Parker, who is a former FBI agent. She

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Speaker 1: is with us now and Nicole, imagine a lot of

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Speaker 1: people have seen you on Fox News in the past

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Speaker 1: several days. You've been spending a lot of time talking

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Speaker 1: about what has occurred in both New Orleans and Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: But as a preliminary this is the first time for

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Speaker 1: you coming on the show. Thank you. You and I

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Speaker 1: met at mar A Lago about a month or so ago.

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Speaker 1: But for people who don't know your background, introduce yourself

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Speaker 1: to the audience. Happy New Year, thanks for being with us.

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 2: It's my pleasure, and Happy New Year to you as well.

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Speaker 2: Fortunately we're speaking under these circumstances. But just by way

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Speaker 2: of background, Yes, I was an FBI special agent for

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Speaker 2: and focused originally on white collar crime and then transferred

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Speaker 2: career on violent crime. SOFTLOWRED is the Violent Crime Fugitive

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Speaker 2: Task Force and you know, responded to some pretty large

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Speaker 2: investigations that the FBI conducted to include you know, the

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Speaker 2: is not something new to me. Prior to my career

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Speaker 2: nine to eleven terist attacks in New York City. I

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Speaker 2: So here we are discussing a terrorist attack that occurred,

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Speaker 2: unfortunately on New Year's Day. I think that all of

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Speaker 2: us were very hopeful and optimistic for twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 2: and health and success. I know when I got the

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Speaker 1: All Right, we're talking to Nicole Parker. I want to

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Speaker 1: go back to your joining the FBI in the wake

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Speaker 2: No, it was not the same organization. When I originally joined,

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Speaker 2: And it was during the Trump administration that I actually

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Speaker 2: debacles that occurred behind the scenes, Clay, it was in

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Speaker 2: But again, that was all happening in DC and then headquarters,

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Speaker 2: that's not what happened. Raty has not proven to be

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Speaker 2: Aside from the politicization, I think it's also important to

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Speaker 2: that was particularly bad under the Biden administration. My closest

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Speaker 2: But yet I get an email every day about diversity

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Speaker 2: the social weaponization and the political weaponization, we just saw

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Speaker 2: how clearly they were going after Republicans, conservative Trump Trump

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Speaker 2: I think I can make a stronger impact outside of

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Speaker 2: I worked tirelessly and I did work with some amazing people,

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Speaker 2: So if you can't acknowledge that there's a problem, there's

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Speaker 2: And that was why I made the decision to walk away.

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Speaker 1: How much do you think the FBI's lack of focus

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Speaker 2: So you know, I always am very fair. I am

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Speaker 2: them out. I can tell you that terrorism counter terrorism

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Speaker 2: cases are very complex and difficult to work, right, especially

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Speaker 2: those that involve ISIS, foreign terroists, organization groups. The FBI

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Speaker 2: but until they make an action and they act out

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Speaker 2: arrest people that might be on their radar. From what

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Speaker 2: I understand based on the press conference today by the FBI,

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Speaker 1: The agent who got up and said there's no terrorism here,

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Speaker 1: it's not a terrorism incident, despite the fact you have

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Speaker 1: an ISIS flag, they took photos of it, all of

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Speaker 1: those things. How does that happen? Like, what do you

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Speaker 1: think is going on? The difference they had a new

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm just going to be blunt and honest. I

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Speaker 2: say is that when you are put in a position

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Speaker 1: That's Nicole Parker. We'll talk about that more and a

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Speaker 5: Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We come back.

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Speaker 1: Joined by Senator from the Great State of Louisiana to

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Speaker 1: Welcome in Thursday edition Clays buck Sexton Show. First one

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Speaker 3: Right, there is no place safer to be right now

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Speaker 1: And I know it's going to be an electric scene

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Speaker 3: and there should be. We'll still have a great time,

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Speaker 3: but there's going to be extra precautions because, as you know,

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Speaker 1: How important Tomorrow the new Congress gets sworn in. You're

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Speaker 1: a part of a fifty three vote majority in the

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Speaker 1: United States, Senate for Republican Party. How important is it

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Speaker 1: to get Trump's team, Cash, Ptel and others into positions

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Speaker 1: to be able to defend the United States as quickly

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Speaker 3: We got to have the leaders of our Intelligence Committee competent,

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Speaker 3: I think it'll be a little bit like after in

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Speaker 3: and he put up good people. So we need good

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Speaker 5: Decide Senator, who's going to win today, Georgia or Notre Dame.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm an FCC guy, so normally I wrote

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Speaker 3: Root Root for Georgia. I'm a little tired of the

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Speaker 3: dogs that gotten a little arrogant with their success. I'm

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Speaker 3: telling it before them, But i gotta admit the dogs

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Speaker 3: that had you, I've had you up to hear.

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Speaker 1: Who's gonna have a better year, Donald Trump or Brian

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Speaker 1: Kelly in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, they're both gonna have good years. I

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Speaker 3: up with success. I want the president to be successful.

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Speaker 3: It's important for our country that Donald Trump is successful.

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Speaker 3: And as a Senator from Louisiana, I'm gonna do what

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Senator Bill Cassidy. What else should people

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Speaker 1: know about what happened in New Orleans? From your perspective?

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Speaker 1: A little over an hour from the big game kicking

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Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl in the Superdome, they are the

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Speaker 1: Sugar Bowl. What else should our audience know?

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Speaker 3: Our audience should know that the most important thing we

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Speaker 3: gonna do, we need to support the people who are injured,

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Speaker 3: the family the most we were killed when he to

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Speaker 3: honor the police and the first responders. And then we've

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Speaker 3: got to live at liberty and freedom. The terrorists win

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Speaker 3: if we begin to live in fear. I wasn't planning

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Speaker 3: to go to the game, and I'm saying, thank God,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to the game. We cannot let the terrorists

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Speaker 3: They feel as if they have a victory. If we

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Speaker 3: The most important thing for us right now is to

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Speaker 1: Amen, Senator, enjoy the game. Thank you for taking the time,

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Speaker 1: and good luck getting sworn in tomorrow and helping implement

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Speaker 1: the Trump agenda beginning tomorrow. Thanks Uley that Center, Bill Cassidy,

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Speaker 1: great State of Louisiana. Absolute latest from down there. In

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Speaker 1: the wake of the terror attack, Sugar Bowl scheduled to

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Speaker 5: And Notre Dame in a little bit over an hour.

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Speaker 1: as they always do. Tate says regarding Nicole who was

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Speaker 1: with us Nicole Parker, former FBI agent at the top

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Speaker 1: of the last hour, that's the type of truth sharing

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Speaker 1: we need. She takes risks to get it to us.

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Speaker 1: We need more people like this throughout the government, sharing

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Speaker 5: Excellent. I agree, she's fantastic. And I will tell you

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Speaker 5: she didn't tell you.

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Speaker 1: We were at mar A Lago at dinner about ten

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Speaker 5: We're walking past. Trump calls her over and talks to

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Speaker 1: A half hour about what needs to happen in the

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Speaker 1: FBI to make it the kind of FBI that we

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Speaker 1: all need and deserve in this country. So she's not

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Speaker 1: just talking to you, and she's not just talking to

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Speaker 1: the Fox News audience. I can tell you at mar

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Speaker 1: I need to know what we need to do to

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Speaker 1: with Cash Pttel, who is now going to be the

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Speaker 1: new head of the FBI. So Nicole isn't just yelling

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Speaker 1: the people who are going to be leading our country,

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Speaker 1: including Donald Trump, listening to what she says. She's one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent right. Who cares who you vote for. Your

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Speaker 1: job should be to protect America, not to worry about

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Speaker 1: what color you are or whether or not you believe

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Speaker 1: that white supremacy is the biggest threat to the nation. Again,

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Speaker 1: we got to get back to just letting the FBI

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Speaker 1: Pete heggset two. Pete, what is Pete hegsays saying that's

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Speaker 1: Pete now, and Pete's been on the show several times.

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Speaker 5: I've done a lot of shows with him. I like him.

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Speaker 1: All Pete's saying is we need badasses who are actually

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Speaker 1: The job of the military is to kick ass anything

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Speaker 1: possible is time wasted. Our enemies aren't spent time worried

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Speaker 1: about trans surgery. I'm sorry, they just aren't. They aren't

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Speaker 5: They're not.

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Speaker 1: They're trying to figure out ways to beat our asses,

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Speaker 1: serious show. I'm sorry when you start off the New

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Speaker 1: year with a terror attack that kills fifteen innocent people.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately that's going to be the story. But there is

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Speaker 1: still humor out there, and I like to bring you

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Speaker 1: day with a little bit of a smile on your face.

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Speaker 1: This was CNN's New Year's Eve special. Whitney Cummings, who

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Speaker 1: I've actually seen in person, really funny comedian. I just

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Speaker 1: saw her respond to my friend Riley Gaines. Riley shared

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Speaker 1: by what you say.

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Speaker 5: It's really true.

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Speaker 1: I think for anybody out there with kids and your

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Speaker 1: You stop worrying as much about what other people think

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Speaker 1: Here was Whitney Cummings Live on CNN with Anderson Cooper

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Speaker 4: Twenty twenty four election Frida our brains. The Democrats couldn't

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Speaker 5: Are we still rolling on my off? Go for it?

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Speaker 5: It was amazing that.

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Speaker 5: Wortraying a pretty great and I'm playing.

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Speaker 4: Bigger and bigger venues now. I thought being a mom

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Speaker 4: I'm not playing, you know, like three thousand. Zeke Peter

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Speaker 1: I know all that was kind of run together really quickly.

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Speaker 5: Again, pretty good.

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Speaker 1: And she said she wasn't allowed right after the ball dropped,

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Speaker 1: you know, happy New Year, it's twenty twenty five, that

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Speaker 5: And you guys claim it's whatever year they want it

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Speaker 1: That's good stuff again, Comedy getting back to being comedy.

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Speaker 1: See it in getting ridiculed on the air, see it

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Speaker 1: in viewers out there taking that one on the chin.

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Speaker 5: Props to Whitney Cummings. That was really well said.

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Speaker 1: And I do think you're starting to see comedy return

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Speaker 1: most recent book, I said, Hey, let's just actually be

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Speaker 1: butt of the joke. That's okay, it's good to laugh.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of laughing, I hope I can make you

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Speaker 1: laugh in my most recent book. And if you get

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Speaker 1: out there, I'm drinking Crocketcoffee dot com right now, I

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Speaker 1: want you to go subscribe.

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Speaker 5: We love all of you. We sold this as crazy over.

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Speaker 1: A million different coffee products to the audience and beyond

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Speaker 1: because we're advertising a lot of places now.

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Speaker 5: In twenty twenty four, we are going to.

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Speaker 1: Skyrocket the audience for Crockett Coffee and be buying ads

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Speaker 1: all over media that many of you consume. Because you

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Speaker 1: that company. Crocketcoffee dot Com. Good start to your year.

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Speaker 1: If you need a little caffeine to be getting out

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Speaker 1: three hours of fun. I'm also going to be doing

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Speaker 1: a lot of television on Fox News next couple of days.

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Speaker 1: You may catch me there and I do an outkickshow,

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Speaker 1: which I will go live on in just a moment.

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Speaker 1: To get you ready, You guys know I love college

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Speaker 1: football and I'm looking forward to watching this Georgia Notre

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Speaker 5: Thank you for supporting Clay and Buck. Happy New Year.