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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening.

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Speaker 2: This is the best of with Klay Travis and Buck Sexton.

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Speaker 3: Buck, I wanted to talk about this because we mentioned

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Speaker 3: it yesterday. The Senate has passed a ninety five point

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Speaker 3: the border and protect the border of Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel.

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Speaker 3: Twenty two, I believe, is the number Republican senators supported

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Speaker 3: this bill. It's now moving on to the House. Yesterday

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Speaker 3: I was reading and I just want to ask you.

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Speaker 3: I want all of you to think about this as

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Speaker 3: a broad idea. We are now thirty five trillion roughly

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Speaker 1: When the Tea Party started.

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Speaker 3: And became an issue, we were at ten trillion dollars

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Speaker 3: school and he's just starting to study economics. And we

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Speaker 3: were having this conversation recently, the dollar is the default

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Speaker 3: adversaries who own trillions of dollars in American debt, what

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Speaker 4: What you're talking about, that is the death of the dollars,

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Speaker 4: the global reserve currency, and the end of American dominance

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Speaker 4: in all respects, including our quality of life that we

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Speaker 4: it doesn't really affect things for us. I mean, part

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Speaker 4: of the problem is, yes, we complain the economy is

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Speaker 4: not as good now as it should be, But you've

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Speaker 4: spent some time in countries I'm sure where you see

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Speaker 4: what real economic deformation looks like or real economic reversal

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Speaker 4: a devastating thing to that nation. And I think that unfortunately,

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Speaker 4: This is a function of math isn't an interesting There

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Speaker 4: are so many people who are much more concerned about climate,

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Speaker 4: them is a real thing that is not a real problem,

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Speaker 4: meaning climate is changing, it has always changing, Yes, of

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Speaker 4: course it changes. There's no real threat to humanity into

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Speaker 4: the debt burden will become so heavy that it will

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Speaker 4: crowd out other spending and it will change the lives

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Speaker 4: we would really hate to see, and that can of

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Speaker 4: course lead to social unrest, civil unrest, all kinds of

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Speaker 4: other problems as well. But I can sit here and

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Speaker 1: We've had five trillion in debt since the Tea Party.

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Speaker 4: So, you know, we talk about this, and look, you

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Speaker 4: know one way that one way that Trump hit Ron

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Speaker 4: to cut entitlements. Even among Republicans. This is some real

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Speaker 4: the problem with this is once you start to feel

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Speaker 1: Is too late, too late. It's all too late.

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Speaker 4: And this is where we are. You know, think about that.

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Speaker 4: Ivan Trump has said, I won't touch your your social security,

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Speaker 4: I won't touch your Medicare, I won't touch you know,

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Speaker 4: always say, Clay, I've paid into this my whole life.

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Speaker 4: Medic social security is fixable, and that's doable. You just

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Speaker 4: You know at some point we're gonna want medicare too.

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Speaker 4: we sit here, we talk about it. Look at this

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Speaker 1: Why are we giving?

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Speaker 3: That's why it ties in.

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Speaker 1: Give me any of these countries.

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Speaker 4: And notice, is there anyone who has been more vocally

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Speaker 1: I don't think yesterday.

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Speaker 4: I tell there's a look what do you mean you're talking?

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Speaker 4: Israel's a wealthy country. Why are we giving Israel sixteen

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Speaker 3: Look if you want to give to charity, because let's

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Speaker 3: One of the biggest issues in life, this is me

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Speaker 3: most people fear things which in reality are not threats

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Speaker 1: Oh, there's a new threat from China today.

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Speaker 3: The big looming asteroid that is aimed right for America

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Speaker 4: There's a long history, there's a long history of this

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Speaker 4: Oh, we can't. We can't blame Trump for anything. Look,

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Speaker 4: But if we're talking about the debt, you know, this

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Speaker 3: I just I think it ties in so much with

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Speaker 1: Is wide open.

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Speaker 3: And this to a large extent, and the Senate is bipartisan,

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Speaker 4: Your analogy is is actually people are saying, hey, let's

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Speaker 4: It's actually our credit card. It's the credit, the faith

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Speaker 4: what else do I have here for you? Clay, I

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Speaker 2: Buck Sexton.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. I got

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Speaker 3: an angry email for you, Buck. So gay Travis. He

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Speaker 3: I get a lot of very positive emails from you guys,

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Speaker 4: So, I swear I knew that was coming. I knew

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Speaker 3: So gay Travis and Cuck Sexton are against recreational cannabis

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Speaker 3: because then people will be smoking in places they aren't

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Speaker 1: All about alcohol.

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Speaker 3: If alcohol is legal, no reason all drugs shouldn't be. Now,

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Speaker 3: go be a hypocrite and sip a glass of whiskey

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Speaker 3: like I know you will. You guys are a fn joke. Okay,

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Speaker 4: Just talking and I'll tell you you know why. First

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Speaker 4: the motive to write a full email to us who

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Speaker 3: We can't allow people even to smoke cigarettes outside of

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Speaker 3: buildings in particular places. You almost never see My kids

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Speaker 3: react to somebody smoking cigarettes like like somebody might as

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Speaker 3: well shoot it up heroin. They're like, oh my god, Dad,

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Speaker 3: did you see that person smoking a cigarettes? It's relatively

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Speaker 3: rare now, and we simultaneously have put it in a

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Speaker 3: situation where people smoke weed.

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Speaker 1: All the time everywhere.

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Speaker 3: And the other thing I would add is we did

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Speaker 3: prohibit alcohol and it didn't go very well at all

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Speaker 3: in this country. And we balance in all facets of life.

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Speaker 3: This is what we used to do pre COVID. We

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Speaker 3: balance equities. I'm teaching my sixteen year old how to dry.

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Speaker 3: We could make the speed limit in the United States

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Speaker 3: fifteen miles.

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Speaker 1: An hour and no one would ever die in a

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Speaker 1: car accident.

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Speaker 4: This was my COVID argument. They are trying to get

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Speaker 4: down to zero deaths. From COVID. I was like, this

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Speaker 4: is insane. All cars should be limited, you know, governed

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Speaker 4: at five miles an hour. Can't go blow you know

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Speaker 4: you'll get there. What's the big deal? You'll get there

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Speaker 4: at five miles an hour. Why don't you get there

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Speaker 4: so much faster? No Clay. I think also you could

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Speaker 4: make kind of a civilizational argument. Maybe this is going

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Speaker 4: too far, but Western civilization and all the prosperity and

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Speaker 4: the advances and everything was built in societies that, let's

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Speaker 4: be honest, flourished with booze, nicotine, and caffeine. Okay, weed

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Speaker 4: was not a part of the There was not a

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Speaker 4: helpful part of the equation. All right, this is not

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Speaker 4: like something that has existed while we've been flourishing and

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Speaker 4: growing and building. So again, I've just experiencing in a

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Speaker 4: New York city. You know what happened to play in

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Speaker 4: this happened in my neighborhood. A weed store pops up,

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Speaker 4: and in New York I think it's decriminalized. It's not

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Speaker 4: really legal, by the way, it's all illegal under federal law. Still,

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Speaker 4: so there's a huge issue with nullification of federal law

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Speaker 4: that comes to all of this. But what happens is

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Speaker 4: the store moves into your neighborhood and then all of

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Speaker 4: a sudden you find yourself saying, well, who's going to

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Speaker 4: that store? And what kind of people are gathered around?

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Speaker 4: And now they're smoking weed on your block. And now

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Speaker 4: they start dealing outside the store because they've got other store.

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Speaker 4: It's just spirals. It's bad. It's like, why, why do

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Speaker 4: you not want a porn shop on your corner, same

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Speaker 4: reason you don't want a weed shop on your corner.

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Speaker 3: I think it's interesting too. They to your point, because

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Speaker 3: of federal law, these companies. I was reading about this

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Speaker 3: this morning, and I've heard about this from several law firms.

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Speaker 3: The weed companies can't have access to banking, so they

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Speaker 3: just trapped. They almost entirely are moving money via cash,

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Speaker 3: and they have to have these I think there was

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Speaker 3: a big article in the New York Times I was

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Speaker 3: reading this morning where in order to pay out employees,

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Speaker 3: they don't have payroll processing. They have to give them

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Speaker 3: all cash, and so they have to have these massive

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Speaker 3: implements of security to move everything around because unlike much

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Speaker 3: of modern commerce, they still aren't all set up. Now

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Speaker 3: I wanted, yeah, I was gonna play.

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Speaker 1: Should I play Scarborough here? Let me play Scarboro.

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Speaker 4: Let's pray Scarborough minute? Because we want to talk you

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Speaker 4: mentioned commerce. Let's play Scarborough when we come back. So

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Speaker 4: we talk a lot here about the need to align

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Speaker 4: with conservative values and to spend money with companies that

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Speaker 4: share your values, right, all of our sponsors, for example,

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Speaker 4: but we also want to be a part of this

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Speaker 4: movement and building a parallel economy that is all about

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Speaker 4: patriotism America and shares the values of this audience was paramount.

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Speaker 4: So Clay and I came together and we decided, you

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Speaker 4: know what, let's start a company. Let's start a company

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Speaker 4: where we're going to sell a premium product to this audience,

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Speaker 4: to all of you, that embodies the spirit of America

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Speaker 4: and Clay. That's how we came up with Crockett Coffee,

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Speaker 4: which we are launching today here on the show. We're

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Speaker 4: excited about it. You get to Crocketcoffee dot com. But

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Speaker 4: Clay talk a little bit why Davy Crockett, right, that

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Speaker 4: was the inspiration for this coffee brand. Then I'll tell

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Speaker 4: everybody how delicious it is.

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Speaker 1: I'm drinking right here.

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Speaker 3: You're history nerds, as you all know, and Buck's holding

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Speaker 3: up the mug. And one of my childhood heroes was

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Speaker 3: Davy Crockett, and his motto was be sure you're right

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Speaker 3: and then go ahead. And there have been so many

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Speaker 3: companies out there, and I know you guys have experienced

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Speaker 3: this that are afraid to own what many of you

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Speaker 3: out there listening right now believe in at least half.

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of times the stuff we're saying

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Speaker 3: as seventy five or eighty percent of the marketplace. And

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Speaker 3: we didn't have a coffee on this show, and you

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Speaker 3: and I both like coffee. I stopped drinking soda for

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Speaker 3: the most part because my wife was on me, Hey,

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Speaker 3: you got to get healthier, and gotta get healthier.

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Speaker 1: So I drink coffee every day. I'm drinking coffee right now.

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Speaker 3: I've got Crockett coffee in my mug in my glass here,

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Speaker 3: and I think you guys are gonna love it, and

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Speaker 3: I think you're gonna love everything the brand stands for.

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Speaker 3: We're going to donate profits proceeds to Tunnel the Towers

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Speaker 3: as a part of giving back, and we want to

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Speaker 3: build something in this universe where we don't all we

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Speaker 3: love our advertisers, but we don't want to always have

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Speaker 3: to rely on an advertiser to give us the ability

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Speaker 3: to say everything that we want to say every day.

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Speaker 4: Well, and the other thing is we're going to be

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Speaker 4: building out with some of our favorite people in this space.

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Speaker 4: We will Crockett Coffee. First of all, you know, the

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Speaker 4: Tunnel to Towers Foundation connection is so important to us

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Speaker 4: because we just love what that organization does and stands for.

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Speaker 4: In a portion of the proceeds will go to Tunnel

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Speaker 4: to Towers. You set this up with them, they couldn't

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Speaker 4: be more excited about the partnership as well. Another thing

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Speaker 4: is we wanted this to be a top tier coffee,

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Speaker 4: meaning the actual roast, the actual beans. Is I'm a

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Speaker 4: coffee fanatic, maybe even a little snobby about having to

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Speaker 4: have good coffee. I don't like coffee that isn't high quality.

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Speaker 4: And that's what we took months and months and months

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Speaker 4: to find the best beans, the best roaster, the best

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Speaker 4: coffee we possibly could. And that's why you go to

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Speaker 4: Crocketcoffee dot com and you can have it ship to you.

552
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 4: Please join up a lot of you can subscribe and

553
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Speaker 4: then it will be shipped to you every month. But

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Speaker 4: another thing Clay. A part of the mission here is

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Speaker 4: we're going to have other folks that we know friends

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Speaker 4: of ours in the space, who are also going to

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Speaker 4: be partners of ours, to be selling Crockett down the line.

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Speaker 4: We will never abandon the conservative space. We will never

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Speaker 4: abandon patriotism. This will always be there for those who

560
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Speaker 4: share our values to drink and those who want to

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Speaker 4: become down the line evangelist for the brand can do

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Speaker 4: so so. Crocketcoffee dot Com, Crockett Coffee dot Com, please

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Speaker 4: go sign up. I'm drinking out every day. I have

564
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Speaker 4: been drinking out every day for weeks. It's absolutely delicious.

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Speaker 4: But we want to help build and this is the

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Speaker 4: first and many projects we're going to be involved in

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Speaker 4: that help build a parallel economy, a conservative patriotic.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the best of Claytrapvis and Buck Sexton.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back in to Clay and Buck. I really appreciate

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Speaker 4: all of you who are already checking out Crocketcoffee dot Com.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for that. I drink it every day,

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Speaker 4: Clay drinks it every day. Our friends and family already

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Speaker 4: have been tasting it and making sure it's perfection, and

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Speaker 4: we are hoping that as many of as possible please

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Speaker 4: this is I mean, it's us, it is of us,

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Speaker 4: it is aligned with your values. And the story of

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Speaker 4: Davy Crockett's amazing. You know, it had a big resurgence.

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Speaker 4: Clay just the history of Davy Crockett about seventy years

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Speaker 4: ago when Disney became really interested in it. And he's

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Speaker 4: a fascinating guy in his life. I don't even realize

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Speaker 4: there was a time when Davy Crockett was talked about.

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Speaker 4: Not not only did he run for Congress and became a

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Speaker 4: member of Congress, there were some people in Tennessee who

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Speaker 4: approached him to be a possible presidential candidate. That was

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Speaker 4: talked about. I mean, he was a guy who came

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Speaker 4: from a cabin in the woods and moved from one

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Speaker 4: cabin to another and had some very hard breaks in

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Speaker 4: his life and was just had such a force of

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Speaker 4: personality and really became a frontier legend. And we just

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Speaker 4: thought the spirit of Davy Crockett was so exceptional that

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Speaker 4: it was a perfect embodiment of the brand and what

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Speaker 4: we wanted to represent, and.

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Speaker 3: Also just believing in American exceptionalism, in American greatness. There's

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Speaker 3: so many brands out there that would be afraid to

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Speaker 3: even have an association with someone from American history because

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Speaker 3: they're like, oh, my goodness, Davy Crockett, he was in

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Speaker 3: the eighteen hundreds.

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Speaker 1: He's a white guy. He must be awful.

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Speaker 3: We want everybody out there with the pioneer spirit, with

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Speaker 3: an embrace of risk taking and a frontier mindset to

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Speaker 3: really kind of We've talked about the show a lot,

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Speaker 3: Lewis and Clark, how I still think the Lewis and

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00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 3: Clark Expedition would become the most popular show ever. We've

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Speaker 3: talked about Yellowstone. I think there's still very much of

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Speaker 3: a frontier mindset in many parts of this country that's

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Speaker 3: having its back turned on.

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Speaker 4: And taking risks and building it yourself. I mean, that's

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Speaker 4: another part of this. We have so much admiratio you

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Speaker 4: guys all know. I even talked about Elon Musk, admire

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Speaker 4: what he has done and what he chose to do

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Speaker 4: for the good of the country. With X it wasn't

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Speaker 4: to make money formerly Twitter, but also whether it's Rumble

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Speaker 4: or truth, Social and these and all of our brands

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Speaker 4: that we work with here on the show that we

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Speaker 4: do advertisements for, they are doing this. They are building

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Speaker 4: this economy because we will never have true freedom, we

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Speaker 4: will never have constitutional, constitutional governance in this country if

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Speaker 4: the people with the purse strings are basically lunatic leftists

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Speaker 4: who can just shut you down at the prop of

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Speaker 4: a hat. And that's what we've seen for a lot

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Speaker 4: of different people and a lot of different brands out there,

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Speaker 4: and you know, a lot of different brands out there

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Speaker 4: in the world. We all know about the wokeness canceling people.

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Speaker 4: So we are creating an unsinkable aircraft carrier of patriotism

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Speaker 4: and free speech with this company and hopefully embodying that

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Speaker 4: build it yourself FRONTI your spirit. So that's how we

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Speaker 4: came together with it.

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Speaker 3: And this audience knows better than anybody what they did

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Speaker 3: to Rush, because really he was the first person that

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Speaker 3: they tried to cancel by coming after him for the

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Speaker 3: opinions that he shared. And we love the advertisers that

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Speaker 3: we have, but this is not bucket me taking a

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Speaker 3: licensing deal. We started this company from zero, uh, and

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Speaker 3: it we are you, me and your brother, like we're

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Speaker 3: running it so like this is legit our company. This

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Speaker 3: is not some crazy shadow thing where we're taking money

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Speaker 3: like this is we we have the equity, we have

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Speaker 3: the company, and we want to build a great American

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Speaker 3: coffee brand. Yea.

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Speaker 4: And I hope that other top conservative voices will want

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Speaker 4: to be a part of what we're doing as well.

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Speaker 4: And what you know, that they'll be able to look

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Speaker 4: at us as as a possible sponsor for them as

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Speaker 4: we grow that will never say, oh someone wrote an

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Speaker 4: angry tweeted us, And we don't know. We don't know

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Speaker 4: if really the Constitution is something we can support with

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Speaker 4: our you know. So that's and this is the for

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Speaker 4: We have other projects in mind as well, you know

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Speaker 4: that we want to be a part of, but for

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Speaker 4: right now, this is the centerpiece. And like I said,

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Speaker 4: also raising money for Tonta Towers. So it's it's it's phenomenal.

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Speaker 4: We're really looking forward to it and you know, appreciate

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Speaker 4: all of you are who are subscribing at Crockotcoffee dot com.

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Speaker 4: So with all that said, Clay and will remind some

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Speaker 4: folks later on the show about all this speaking of

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Speaker 4: the parallel economy, or rather needing money to keep the

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Speaker 4: fight going. You see, Trump posted the full one hundred

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Speaker 4: and seventy five million dollar bond did while he's appealing

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Speaker 4: the civil fraud penalty against him from the state of

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Speaker 4: New York. The you know you brought up Rush before.

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Speaker 4: I don't think the left has ever mounted such a

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Speaker 4: all of the above like economic warfare campaign against one individual.

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Speaker 4: The closest thing would be when they were trying to

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Speaker 4: attack Rush Limbaugh for so many years, you know, trying

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Speaker 4: to attack his advertisers, and Rush, because he was superhuman

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Speaker 4: in his own way, was able to just keep pushing through,

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Speaker 4: keep building the movement. But what Trump is pushing through

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Speaker 4: right now is just he's running for president. He's got

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Speaker 4: the four criminal trials outstanding, and one hundred and seventy

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Speaker 4: five million dollars he's had to put up for bail.

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Speaker 4: Who has one hundred and seventy five million dollar bond.

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Speaker 1: They have to post, and how about Buck.

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Speaker 3: In thirteen days, the trial in New York City starts,

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Speaker 3: so that is going to be up on us very quickly.

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Speaker 3: We'll see whether that's going to have any substantial impact

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Speaker 3: or not. We'll break all that down for you. Thanks

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