1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: Sunday Hang is brought to you by Chalk Natural Supplements 2 00:00:03,279 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: for guys, gals, and nothing in between. Fuel your day 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:12,560 Speaker 1: at Chalk dot com, bold reverence, and occasionally random. The 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: Sunday Hang with Playing Buck podcast starts. Now, what I 5 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: will say about Trump talking about Canada becoming a fifty 6 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:25,959 Speaker 1: first state. First of all, logically not a great idea 7 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: because it probably would give Let's just talk about the law. 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: Let's pretend that Canada wanted to be. 9 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 2: A fifty first state. 10 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,520 Speaker 1: Both of those Senate seats are going left wing every year, 11 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:41,840 Speaker 1: you're basically getting two more Vermont Senators, right. I don't 12 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: think that aids and abets the overall American political process, 13 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: and so I think that the idea is not necessarily 14 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: one that has a beneficial long range future. I understand 15 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: the concept of hey, inside of the federalism framework, we 16 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: don't have to worry about the trade disputes and issues 17 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 1: in tariffs that exist in North America. I also understand 18 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: the argument that basically Canada is around the size a 19 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: little bit smaller I believe of than California, and so 20 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: the concept of it being one state. Now, if you 21 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 1: wanted to pick a rural part of Canada and make 22 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 1: it the fifty first state and then a you know, 23 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: very cosmopolitan city based fifty second state, and so the 24 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: Senate seats canceled off. I actually think that would be 25 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 1: the more rational way to handle it personally, But that's 26 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: a dispute that what's happened back in the day. We 27 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: have an idea, and I think what Trump has challenged 28 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: on it that borders and territory are basically fixed in place, 29 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: because for much of North America, in most of our lives, 30 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: the map has been set. But if you are a 31 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: history nerd Bucky, I love old maps because you can see, oh, 32 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: here is the here is the Louisiana purchase, like this 33 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: is the French territory. Like there are maps that kids 34 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 1: were taught in America about that being in existence. I 35 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: have the only things of value hanging on my walls 36 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 1: are really old maps. I have a John Speed map 37 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: from the seventeenth century, so it's really a page from 38 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: an at list. I have that framed here. I also 39 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 1: have David Burr map. David Burr was New York State's 40 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: cartographer and in eighteen twenty nine, if to remember this 41 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: is before this is when there was no Google Earth, right, 42 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: so cartographers were really necessary, and it's important for business, 43 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 1: important for development, important for getting you know, to great 44 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: on Ethel's house up in Buffalo, like you needed to 45 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: know where the roads were and what was going on. 46 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,359 Speaker 1: So he did a map of actually Manhattan in eighteen 47 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: twenty nine. That was part of the campaign and token 48 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: and make New York the Great American City over Philadelphia, 49 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 1: which had been the Great American city up until about 50 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: you know, eighteen twenty nine. That's right around when the 51 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: shifts started to happen for the commercial center and everything else. 52 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: So yeah, I haven't anyway, Sorry, you got me excited 53 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: with your nerd map talk. I got the only thing 54 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: that I spend money on that's like a sort of 55 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: a keepsake other than firearms, but I guess those are 56 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 1: not really well, yeah they're keepsakes. Is I have antique 57 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: maps on my walls, hundreds of years old. So what 58 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: I love about them is that they show you that 59 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: history isn't fixed, and that much of what we contemplate 60 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: as decided was at one point very undecided about what 61 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: the countries would look like, about where the borders would be. 62 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: And obviously many times that comes about as a result 63 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:51,119 Speaker 1: of war, but it can also come from land purchases, treaties, 64 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 1: all these things. I mention Canada because if you go 65 00:03:55,840 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: back and look at the Revolutionary War, it was very, 66 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 1: very much possible at that point in time that much 67 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: of Canada, Quebec in particular, could have ended up a 68 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: part of the United States. And maybe buck should have 69 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: ended up a part of the United States from a 70 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: purely economic perspective. But the war ended up moving south 71 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: the Revolutionary War, and so the major battlegrounds again for 72 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:27,480 Speaker 1: the history nerds out there, that started off when we 73 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 1: were fighting. Remember before Benedict Arnold was the greatest turncote. 74 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: He was one of the great American heroes of the 75 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 1: early parts of the war. We moved very much from 76 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 1: the northern border in our battles all the way down south, 77 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: and so we ended up walking away from the idea 78 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: of Canada being part of the American Revolution. But there 79 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: is a subtle twist of the historical record that would 80 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 1: have had Canada as a part of the United States 81 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: for all this time. I have an excellent book here 82 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: on my shelf. This is the Klay and buck Nerdouer 83 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 1: brought to you by Nerds all over Crucible of War 84 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: by Fred Anderson, which is about the Seven Years War, 85 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: also known as the French and Indian War, and it 86 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 1: goes into just a fascinating detail about you know, people 87 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: don't think of this really clay, but the French had forts, 88 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,479 Speaker 1: you know, they had built forts in and around the 89 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: trading post. But that became really the frontier and British 90 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: and the French smacked together there and that led to 91 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 1: and the French and Indian War, and of course the 92 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: Indian allies of the French and then the British as 93 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: well played a critical role miss and then things didn't 94 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: go so well for them after. But you know, we 95 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 1: don't think of this as a a an area, a 96 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 1: land mass that was being fought over by imperial powers 97 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 1: at the time, and that it really was quite arbitrary 98 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 1: and things could have been quite different at the time, 99 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: you know, afterwards, based upon a few battles and a 100 00:05:53,839 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: few relatively uh you know, fortuitous happenstance situations. Okay, let 101 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 1: me give you my craziest decision any states ever made 102 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: when it came to territory. The state of Alabama was 103 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: offered before anybody knew that the sandy white beaches of 104 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 1: the Gulf of America would become some of the most 105 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: valuable real estate in all of America the state of Alabama, 106 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,479 Speaker 1: because if you look at it, it doesn't really make 107 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,279 Speaker 1: sense geographically, right, you have Florida, which extends as a 108 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,720 Speaker 1: peninsula down and then you have the so called Panhandle, 109 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: which if you think about, you know, like a typical 110 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,159 Speaker 1: pan like a small little strip of land that runs 111 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: essentially directly south of Alabama all the way down to 112 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:43,359 Speaker 1: where it meets Alabama. Buck they offered Florida, did the 113 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 1: state of Alabama the right to take that land? 114 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:48,840 Speaker 2: Alabama, some of. 115 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 1: You might say, this is just what Alabama politicians have 116 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 1: been doing for a long time. Totally bungled that offer, 117 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 1: didn't take advantage of it, and now that is is 118 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:03,839 Speaker 1: the most conservative part of Florida. Now, no one knew 119 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: this in the eighteen hundreds when they were making that choice. 120 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: But if you go back and look at elections in 121 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: two thousand, certainly in two thousand, but in many of 122 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 1: the close elections that have occurred in our country where 123 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: Florida was sort of the tipping point, if all of 124 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: those votes had gone to Alabama. It wouldn't really have 125 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: changed the overall outcome of the state of Alabama. It's 126 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: a very conservative, Republican leaning state. Also, it would have 127 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 1: made the state of Alabama infinitely wealthier because the property 128 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: along the Gulf Coast is again some of the most 129 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: valuable in our entire nation. Now, instead they have a 130 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: tiny little pinprick Alabama does. If you look at the 131 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 1: way the map works of the Gulf Coast, and the 132 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: state of Florida has the most conservative ribbon running right 133 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: along the Gulf coast. That is the Panhandle from basically 134 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: the Florida Bama. For those of you who know that 135 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: bar which is a fabulous bar buck. Half of it's 136 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 1: in Alabama, half of it's in Florida. It's right on 137 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: the on the beautiful the Gulf of America. It's an 138 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: amazing spot. All the way down, all the way to 139 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: the Atlantic Ocean. You can be in the state of Florida. 140 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 2: Didn't. Nobody knows this story. Didn't. It's funny. 141 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: It would have been living on the Alabama coast. Clay West, 142 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: Virginia split off from Virginia right before the Civil War 143 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 1: during the Civil War. During the Civil War, the West Virginia. 144 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,319 Speaker 1: The because it was a supremely mountainous region of Virginia. 145 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: They never had big crops and uh and uh and 146 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: and farms and slavery in the same way, and so 147 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: it broke off and became an independent state during the 148 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,400 Speaker 1: Civil War eighteen sixty. Right, they refused, Yeah, I thought 149 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: they refused to recee. 150 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 2: Yeah. 151 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 1: And you know that's interesting because people laugh at the idea, 152 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:01,839 Speaker 1: and you know, we sit here, we talk about how 153 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 1: many listeners we have in California and how we're you know, 154 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: we feel a strong bond with you Republicans in California 155 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: and in New York, you know, in these big blue states, 156 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: because we are the voice behind enemy lines for you, right, 157 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: you know, you're not alone. We're like the transmission on 158 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:21,199 Speaker 1: the on the Ham radio after the zombie Apocalypse that says, 159 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: don't worry, like there is civilization. You can come to 160 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:26,440 Speaker 1: these coordinates and we'll keep you safe from the zombies. 161 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: Every zombie apocalyst movie has that. But the truth is, 162 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 1: every time there's a conversation about a state splitting up, 163 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: people always dismissed it out of him. We've actually had 164 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 1: states split up into other states never mind no states 165 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: being admitted into the Union. Buck. You talk about old 166 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: maps back in the day, they had north and south. 167 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:50,319 Speaker 1: I think that would be longitudinal lines, right, But the 168 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: initial colonies just continued west. They didn't really know where 169 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: the boundary of the states ended. So there are some 170 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: maps like you'll North carol it's not a it's not 171 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: a crazy thing that North Carolina and Tennessee are basically 172 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 1: on the same latitude longitude, not obviously, but you look 173 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,839 Speaker 1: right across like that was the state of North Carolina 174 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 1: that just kept extending on into infinity until enough people 175 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 1: went into Tennessee and decided they were going to create 176 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: their own state. And you know, to bring it into 177 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: the current context, I think clay. First of all, Trump's 178 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: got a lot of negotiating going on right now regarding 179 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,120 Speaker 1: the Panama Canal. There's been talk about Greenland too, and 180 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 1: the US having by contract, and obviously there's a whole 181 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:39,199 Speaker 1: deep history here. We built the Panama Canal. We lost 182 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 1: a lot of people doing it. It was a hellish thing, 183 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: people dying of malaria and typhus and you know, yellow 184 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,120 Speaker 1: fever and all kinds of stuff. But we built the 185 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,719 Speaker 1: Panama Canal. And then Jimmy Carter right decided, you know what, 186 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: it's all, it's all Panama. And but the same way 187 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,560 Speaker 1: that you know, why is Guama US territory? Well it 188 00:10:57,600 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: is because it is because we made it that way, 189 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: and everyone's seems kind of happy with it. There's no 190 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: reason why you can't have negotiations over some of these things, 191 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:09,520 Speaker 1: because a nation is not just a land mass defined 192 00:11:09,559 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: by rivers, oceans, or mountains, right, I mean, there's always 193 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: there's always borders that are arbitrary that are drawn, and 194 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 1: there's competing polities, competing nation states that make determinations about 195 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,040 Speaker 1: who should be in charge of what. In the context 196 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 1: of Greenland, you know what, it's it's Oh, it's been 197 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 1: a part of Denmark for such a long time. Why now, look, 198 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: if the people of Greenland don't want to be a 199 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:37,959 Speaker 1: part of America, that's up to them, fine. But if 200 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 1: they wanted to vote in favor of joining US as there, 201 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: why is that such a there's nothing crazy about that. 202 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 2: It's funny, we think that's crazy. Why is that? Or 203 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,200 Speaker 2: rather people say that's crazy? Why is that crazy? 204 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: This is because in most of our lives, maps have 205 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: remained relatively fixed in our geographic arena. And so that's 206 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: this is why I think is so important about this. 207 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:02,679 Speaker 1: Trump is basically signaling the country isn't settled right, we 208 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: still have more growth and opportunity ahead of us, both 209 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 1: economically but also maybe geographically. And talking about it. Remember 210 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,959 Speaker 1: when he first started talking about Greenland, everybody thought it 211 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 1: was crazy. Now I think there's a decent number of 212 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: people out there that are like, yeah, you know what, 213 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: they may vote to leave Denmark, stop being a colony 214 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 1: of Denmark, and maybe they would like to be supported 215 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,559 Speaker 1: by the United States. We've had a new country, uh, 216 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 1: just over the last decade or so. Clay on the spot, 217 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 1: what is the new country? 218 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 2: TikTok, TikTok? 219 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:36,079 Speaker 1: We got a million dollar question for Clay. I don't 220 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 1: know who the million is coming from. I'm just saying 221 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: it would. 222 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:38,560 Speaker 2: Be I have nowhere. 223 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 1: I mean in Africa, it seems like they were coming 224 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 1: up with new countries all the time. So I'm very 225 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: close in Africa. 226 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 2: You're close. 227 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 1: South Sudan, South Sudan, South Sudan, the newest not not 228 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: doing well these days, I might add, By the way, 229 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:54,559 Speaker 1: no one pays any attention speaking of not Big Rock 230 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 1: concerts about it. Speaking of Africa, Buck, only fifty percent 231 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 1: of Africa has a electricity. 232 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 2: Do you know this? 233 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 1: Only fifty percent of there's a big graphic about It's 234 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: like ninety percent of some African countries still don't have electricity. Well, 235 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: when you say electricity, you mean wait, are we talking 236 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 1: about twenty four to seven access to it? 237 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 2: Or are we talking about. 238 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: I think just like it's wired and you have, you know, 239 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 1: reliable access to Are we talking about by land mass? 240 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:26,319 Speaker 1: But like the population centers in Africa overwhelmingly have electricity 241 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: in terms of from the New York Times that I 242 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: took a photo of over the weekend that I was 243 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: staggered maybe considered to be Yeah, that showed the percentage 244 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:37,839 Speaker 1: of many of these countries that still do not have electricity. 245 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 1: When I was in Afghanistan, I think the estimate was 246 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 1: that roughly twenty percent of the country had access to 247 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: reliable Like this is the thing, right, reliable electricity because 248 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: you can always travel and get to a place as 249 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:52,199 Speaker 1: a generator. So I think, you know, I want to 250 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 1: see what the New York Times is saying, how you 251 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:57,959 Speaker 1: kind of frame it really matters, But about twenty percent 252 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 1: of the country had real electric access and twenty percent 253 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:01,559 Speaker 1: of the country could read. 254 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 2: That was the statistic they had. 255 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 1: So here's a stat for you, Buck, forty five percent 256 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 1: of Nigeria doesn't have electricity. I just sent it to you. 257 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 1: This is this is nerd out stuff. We'll talk about 258 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:11,440 Speaker 1: it when we come back. This was in the New 259 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 1: York Times over the weekend because I took a picture 260 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: of it Sunday hang with Clay and Buck. AOC has said, 261 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: and I couldn't believe this when I listened to it, 262 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 1: that Elon Musk is an unintelligent billionaire, in fact, one 263 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: of the least intelligent billionaires that she's ever met or seen. 264 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 2: This is real. 265 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: We're gonna play the audio for you, Buck. I have 266 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: offered up that I will host a quiz bowl, which 267 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: would be Can you imagine Elon versus AOC in a 268 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 1: quiz bowl? I think Ao Ao AOC's entire career would 269 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 1: be over. There are lots of things you can attack 270 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: people on. Elon Being dumb is maybe the worst front 271 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: I've seen in a long time. The thing about being 272 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: a very dumb democrat is you can be so dumb 273 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: that you think you're smarter than the smartest people on 274 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: the planet, which is an amazing thing. I mean, he's 275 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: better at sending spaces to rockets to space than NASA much. Oh, 276 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 1: he's not very intelligent, is unbelievable. Aoc She's like really smart, 277 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: and like she does not think that like Elon mister 278 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: like ooh space rockets like silly little bumper cars man. 279 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 1: She does not think that Elon Musk is impressive. And 280 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: here is the great future hope of the Democrat Party, 281 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 1: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortes. 282 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 3: This dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires 283 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 3: I have ever met or seen are witnessed. 284 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 4: Which you know, you can. 285 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 3: Probably even glean that from watching these people on TV. Anyways, 286 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,720 Speaker 3: all of that is to say is that they don't 287 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 3: do their homework. They're putting nineteen year olds in at 288 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 3: the Treasury. This dude is not smart. And the danger 289 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 3: in the lack of intelligence and the lack of expertise 290 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 3: that Elon has. I mean, this guy is one of 291 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 3: the most morally vacant but also just least knowledgeable about 292 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 3: these systems that we really know of. 293 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 1: Clay, how dumb do you have to be to go 294 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: in public and say that Elon Musk is dumb. You 295 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 1: could say a lot of things, but dumb is just 296 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,480 Speaker 1: not one of the things you can say. I kind 297 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 1: of blown away by it. I mean, AOC, this might 298 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: be there's a lot. We got a bunch of clips 299 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: of people saying really stupid things on the Democrat side. 300 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: But to argue that the guy who is We talked 301 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 1: about this a little bit yesterday, Buck, but if anything, 302 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 1: I think it's being underanalyzed and discussed. We talked about 303 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: the historical record. Somebody called in I think or sent 304 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: us an email and said he's a modern day Benjamin Frank. 305 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 1: I don't think that's a crazy idea. You can make 306 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:09,360 Speaker 1: the argument that Elon Musk is the most accomplished American 307 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 1: of all time right now, and some of you out 308 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: there are going to say, wow, that's I mean. He's 309 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 1: sending rocket ships to space more efficiently than NASA. He 310 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:25,239 Speaker 1: has redesigned the way that a car is propelled. He 311 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 1: is people don't even talk about it. He's building tunnels, Buck, 312 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,160 Speaker 1: that are like the greatest tunnels that have ever been built. 313 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 2: The Boring Company, which is a clever name. 314 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:39,959 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, he has bought Twitter and committed it 315 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: to First Amendment principles while also building a brand new 316 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,120 Speaker 1: AI company that is built to some extent off of 317 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 1: the data coming from that. And he now is deciding, Hey, 318 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 1: I'm going to look at the books on the federal government. 319 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,399 Speaker 1: And it reminds me a little bit wi you them. 320 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 1: And I read the book and I also watched it 321 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:06,360 Speaker 1: the movie The Big Short, and the way that those 322 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: guys made money was they were like, well, what are 323 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,440 Speaker 1: these mortgage backed securities? And they're like, well, they're actually 324 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 1: just a collection of, you know, hundreds or thousands of mortgages. 325 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:21,199 Speaker 1: Michael Burry, who is the kind of the central figure 326 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 1: really in The Big Short, has Aspergers, Yes, and you 327 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 1: know Asperger's as part of that condition. I remember reading 328 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,880 Speaker 1: about this in the book. You can often have people 329 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:34,439 Speaker 1: who will become very fixated, and it could be like 330 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:37,919 Speaker 1: a specific card game, or it could be I don't know, 331 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:42,439 Speaker 1: any number of different things. But he became fixated on 332 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 1: mortgage backed securities and actually read the things that nobody 333 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 1: else would read. Literally, no one else would read it. 334 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: He's sitting there looking at Okay, well, they're like, the 335 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: risk is lower because it's a mortgage back security. We're 336 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 1: putting hundreds or thousands of them into these offerings and 337 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 1: nobody's actually looking and seeing like, Okay, what are these 338 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:03,440 Speaker 1: actual mortgages? How connected are they? And his big bet, 339 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 1: which panned out, was that they were all connected and 340 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:09,600 Speaker 1: there was going to be a mortgage crash. Can I 341 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 1: also point out that he has been unbelievably wrong about 342 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 1: the stock market constantly, it seems, in public, since the 343 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: Big since the big short, since his incredible moment of genius, 344 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 1: he has basically been horribly wrong on a lot of 345 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:26,880 Speaker 1: big things, which which actually makes sense because pessimists can 346 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 1: be wrong about one big thing very often, but optimists 347 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 1: tend to win. And basically, what when you short something, 348 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 1: you are saying, hey, I am pessimistic. 349 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:39,400 Speaker 2: There is not. 350 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 1: That that mindset, that contrarian mindset often ends up being wrong. 351 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 2: You are borrowing. 352 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 1: Shares to sell with the idea that it will go down, 353 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:51,760 Speaker 1: the stock will go down, or the market will go down, 354 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 1: and you can buy it back at a later date 355 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:56,679 Speaker 1: under a contract. Yes, and so he made a ton 356 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,439 Speaker 1: of money there, He's lost a lot since. But my 357 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: point on using that as an example is he actually 358 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,879 Speaker 1: went into the mortgage securities and looked and said, okay, 359 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: what are these made up of? And that, in essence 360 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 1: is what Elon is doing right now in the government, 361 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 1: because a lot of people just say, okay, well, the 362 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 1: budget is nine hundred and sixty four billion dollars for 363 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:21,640 Speaker 1: this company and then they break it or this part 364 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:23,640 Speaker 1: of the government, and then they break it out by 365 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 1: saying twenty four percent goes here, and Elon actually said, okay, 366 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 1: where are the actual ledgers, what is the accounting of 367 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:34,399 Speaker 1: the nine hundred and sixty four billion dollars? Who's signing 368 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 1: off on these checks? Where is the money actually going? 369 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: And most people have ever even asked buck USAID has 370 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: a forty three billion dollar budget, everybody, forty three billion dollars. 371 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: It is operating as though it is entirely unaccountable to 372 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 1: the rest of the executive branch. It is not a 373 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:05,400 Speaker 1: congressionally constant, tutored agency. It is a Jimmy Carter idea 374 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 1: as if anything else needs to be said, and we 375 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: just operate in this world. 376 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 2: Oh well, because it now exists, it exists forever. 377 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,880 Speaker 1: I mean, Clay, forty forty billion dollars is a lot 378 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 1: of money. I mean, you know, this is no matter 379 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:24,919 Speaker 1: who you are, that is an astonishing amount of funds 380 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 1: to be wasting. I mean, I'm just taking a look 381 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: right now. Anyoneant to guess what Border Patrol's budget is? 382 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: Border Patrol? I want you to just think in your head. 383 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 1: USAID gets forty billion, Clay, what do you think border 384 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: patrol gets? 385 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:40,440 Speaker 2: Oh? 386 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 1: Man, I do a legitimate sixty billion, one hundred billion, 387 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: seven seven billion. That's pretty crazy for border patrol. The FDNY, 388 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 1: the Fire Department of New York, has like a two 389 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 1: or three billion dollar budget. Our entire border patrol gets 390 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:03,360 Speaker 1: seven billion dollars. This is the twenty twenty four budget. Everybody, 391 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 1: and and USAID gets forty billion dollars. 392 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's crazy. World, there's a big place. But what 393 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:12,199 Speaker 2: matters to us more everyone? 394 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 1: Seven billion dollars is crazy buck Roughly, that would mean 395 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 1: I think I'm correct in this that basically a lot 396 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: of like the NFL teams spend more money to pay 397 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 1: NFL players than we do to actually secure the border. 398 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 1: Like that kind of the entire NFL payroll may be 399 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 1: bigger than what we pay for the border. 400 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's doesn't that sound crazy to you? 401 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,920 Speaker 1: Like, I mean, when you think about the the that 402 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 1: that is, it is staggeringly woe to me some to 403 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: be I mean that that is, especially when you consider 404 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 1: what the cost of the failure to do it is right, 405 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:58,359 Speaker 1: because whatever you spend on the protection of the border, 406 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,879 Speaker 1: that I'm in disbelief. I have been very impressed with 407 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,360 Speaker 1: mister Sequan Barkley's runs lately, though, to be fair, he's 408 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,640 Speaker 1: been doing a phenomenal job. So those those those gentlemen 409 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 1: on the NFL are earning their earning, their their their money. 410 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:18,120 Speaker 1: I am drinking my Crocket Coffee, the greatest coffee on 411 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 1: the planet. I am soon going to be signing my books, 412 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:25,199 Speaker 1: one hundred of them stacked up downstairs. You can go 413 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: get hooked up at Crocketcoffee dot com and we are 414 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,040 Speaker 1: gonna do at some point. 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I hate being wrong, so I 444 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: just have to take this one on the chin, I said, 445 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 1: I'm running off the cuffe here getting fired up that 446 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter started usaid, it was Kennedy who started usaid, 447 00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: But as far as I'm concerned, that's not any better. 448 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:06,040 Speaker 1: So just a quick ombudsman note there. Sorry, not always right. 449 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,439 Speaker 1: So Clay, when we come back, Buck, I've got a 450 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: fun one that I'm gonna I don't know if anybody 451 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 1: else ever done this. I've been trying to get my 452 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: seventeen year old junior in high school to study for 453 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 1: the act and the sat I challenged him to a 454 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:29,120 Speaker 1: head to head act challenge, which I believe we are 455 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 1: doing tonight. I'm getting a little nervous about how cooked 456 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,879 Speaker 1: I might get. I have not taken a standardized test 457 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 1: in as you would well imagine, a very very long 458 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: time Sundays with Clay and Bus. I mentioned I didn't 459 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,679 Speaker 1: watch the Oscars. I barely saw any of the movies 460 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:51,040 Speaker 1: that were nominated for anything. I'm betting Buck, you did 461 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: not watch the Oscars either. But I did see this 462 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:59,680 Speaker 1: come across my Twitter timeline during the Oscars last night, 463 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 1: and it's pretty awesome. Karen Coulkin, who is the brother 464 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,400 Speaker 1: of Macaulay Culkin was a star in the show Succession 465 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: most recently and I believe won an award last night. 466 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 1: An Oscar got up on the stage and he had 467 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 1: a message for his wife, who made a bet that 468 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,639 Speaker 1: she probably didn't expect to get cash this quickly. 469 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 4: Listen after the show, we're walking through a parking lot. 470 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 4: She's holding the Emmy. We're trying to find her car. Emily, 471 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 4: you were there, so your witness, And she goes, oh god, 472 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 4: I did say that. I guess I owe you a 473 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,160 Speaker 4: third kid. And I turned to her and I said, really, 474 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 4: I want four, and she turned me. I swear to 475 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 4: God this habitage just over a year ago. She said, 476 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 4: I will give you four when you win an Oscar. 477 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 1: I held my. 478 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,880 Speaker 4: Hand out, she took it, and I have now brought 479 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,200 Speaker 4: it up once until just now. You remember that, honey, 480 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 4: you do okay? Then I just have this to say 481 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 4: to you, Jazz, love of my life, Eve, little Faith, 482 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 4: no pressure. 483 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:57,920 Speaker 2: I love you. 484 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 4: I'm really sorry I did this again. And let's get 485 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,160 Speaker 4: cracking on those kids. What do you saying? 486 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 1: So this is great, Buck, You've got your first coming soon. 487 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 1: He won a third kid with his wife betting he 488 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: would win an Emmy. She said, okay, I'll give you 489 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 1: four if you win an Oscar. Back to back years, 490 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,439 Speaker 1: he won Best Supporting Actor last night. I thought that 491 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: was pretty great.