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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody. Thursday edition of The Clay Travis and Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show kicks off. Now. Biggest story of the day

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Speaker 1: still the wildfires tearing through the Los Angeles area. Some

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Speaker 1: are somewhat contained, some are not very well contained at all.

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Speaker 1: More damage going on, Scenes of apocalyptic devastation in a

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Speaker 1: whole range of areas kind of north of West Hollywood area,

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Speaker 1: and this is north of Beverly Hills. It's stunning, it's

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Speaker 1: heartbreaking to see what's going on. And already you can

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Speaker 1: tell that there's an outrage that is only growing with

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Speaker 1: time as they begin to see the full extent. I

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Speaker 1: think not just of the damage, but of the ineptitude

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Speaker 1: in the response. Play La Mayor Karen Bass has returned

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Speaker 1: from her trip to Ghana, and she is getting a

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Speaker 1: lot of attention right now. First of all, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you saw this, but there's at least well

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Speaker 1: she's trying right now to tell everybody that she's on

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Speaker 1: it and she's doing a great job, and that's not

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Speaker 1: working out for her very well. This is cut one

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Speaker 1: here she is explaining that this was a perfect storm.

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Speaker 1: Play it.

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Speaker 2: Angelino's cooperated, the community stood together. They evacuated and Angelinos

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Speaker 2: should continue to proceed with caution. Air operations are continuing

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Speaker 2: rapidly in the Palisades, in Silmar and across our region.

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Speaker 2: We continue to see our heroes from our LA firefighters

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Speaker 2: and from personnel families' neighbors from across the county and

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Speaker 2: the state.

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Speaker 1: We thank you.

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Speaker 2: However we can to confront a big, one level firestorm.

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Speaker 2: Historic winds and extensive drought have created a perfect storm

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Speaker 2: that has driven people from their homes and have taken

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Speaker 2: people's homes, and that has taken people's lives.

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Speaker 1: Now, one thing we can know for sure, Clay, there

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Speaker 1: will be no accountability whatsoever offered by the people that

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Speaker 1: are in charge of this response, including Mayor Karen Bass.

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Speaker 1: There's also been a lot of focus on the very

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Speaker 1: Dei Heavy Fire Department recruiting efforts of recent years. They

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Speaker 1: don't have enough firefighters, they don't have enough in the

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Speaker 1: budget for the firefighting they need to do. Karen Bass cut.

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Speaker 1: You don't ever think about Democrats in a place like

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Speaker 1: California doing a lot of budget cutting, but they somehow

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Speaker 1: managed to cut one thing that you really don't want

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Speaker 1: cut over twenty million dollars from the fire budget. Now

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Speaker 1: they're effectively clay just turning around and saying saying, well,

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Speaker 1: it's a really rough set of circumstances. The water has

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Speaker 1: run out because people need so much water. Not much

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Speaker 1: we can do about that. And our firefighters are brave,

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Speaker 1: and you know that's the way this is supposed to go.

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Speaker 1: People are outraged all over LA and all over the

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Speaker 1: country about this. You had Donald Trump, for one, soon

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Speaker 1: to be President Trump once again. This is what he

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Speaker 1: wrote on truth Social One of the best and most

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Speaker 1: beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning

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Speaker 1: down to the ground. It's ashes and Gavin Nouscomb should resign.

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Speaker 1: This is all his fault. And then there's more here

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Speaker 1: Sarah Foster, who is the daughter like a Hollywood producer,

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Speaker 1: mogul or something. I don't really know this lady, but

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Speaker 1: we pay the highest taxes in California, she wrote. Our

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Speaker 1: fire hydrants were empty, our vegetation was overgrown, brush not cleared.

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Speaker 1: Reservoirs were emptied by our governor because tribal leaders wanted

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Speaker 1: to save fish. Our fire department budget was cut by

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Speaker 1: our mayor. But thank god, drug addicts are getting their

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Speaker 1: drug kits. Mayor of la and Gavin Newsom resign. Your

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Speaker 1: policies have ruined our state.

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Speaker 3: People are upset, Clay, no doubt, and they should be

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Speaker 3: because they made the poor choice. Aid Mayor Rick Caruso,

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Speaker 3: whose shopping center is still standing in Pacific Palisades like

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Speaker 3: the only thing that's still standing because he's competent enough

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Speaker 3: to figure out how to protect his assets from the

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Speaker 3: fire even while they can't get water in the fire hydrants.

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Speaker 3: And I want to play just a couple of cuts.

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Speaker 3: And I think this is important because this is where

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Speaker 3: DEI and a consequence free election cycle leads you. It

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Speaker 3: leads to people who cannot do the job, and it

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Speaker 3: reveals itself that they cannot do the job in times

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Speaker 3: of crisis when there's actual decisions to be made, and

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Speaker 3: they're complex in nature and they're multifaceted. I want you

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Speaker 3: to listen to a couple of these things that have

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Speaker 3: gone viral. First of all, this was before that statement.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna come back to the statement that we played

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Speaker 3: a second ago. But Karen bass Is asked by a

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Speaker 3: Sky News reporter after she finally lands back from Ghana

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Speaker 3: a series of questions. This has gone megaviral. Listen to

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Speaker 3: cut three.

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Speaker 4: Do you owe citizens and apology for being absent while

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Speaker 4: their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire

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Speaker 4: department budget by millions of dollars? Madamlare have you nothing

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Speaker 4: to say today? Have you absolutely nothing to say to

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Speaker 4: the citizens today? Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent.

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Speaker 4: Are you considering your position, Madam Mayor? Have you absolutely

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Speaker 4: nothing to say to the citizens today? You're dealing with

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Speaker 4: this disaster, no apollo for them? Do you think you

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Speaker 4: should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding? Back home,

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Speaker 4: Madam Mayor, just a few words for the citizens today

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Speaker 4: as you returned to deal.

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Speaker 3: With fantastaphy that you can hear the door opening box.

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Speaker 3: She's refusing to answer any questions as this reporter is

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Speaker 3: following along asking her questions. Now, this is to me

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Speaker 3: indicative of her inability to handle the job. Listen to

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Speaker 3: cut two. She's reading off of a prepared statement. Buck,

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Speaker 3: you haven't seen this yet. I want you to be

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Speaker 3: able to hear it. I bet most of our audience

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Speaker 3: has neither seen nor heard this. Listen to Karen Bass

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Speaker 3: try to address what citizens of Los Angeles should be

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Speaker 3: doing both with a website and just I mean she

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Speaker 3: could barely read.

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Speaker 5: Listen to this right now.

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Speaker 2: If you need help, emergency information, resources and shelter is available.

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Speaker 2: All of this can be found at URL Los Angeles Together.

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Speaker 2: Is how we will get through this through the heroicism

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Speaker 2: of our firefighters.

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Speaker 3: Okay, she doesn't seem to know, Buck, what a freaking

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Speaker 3: web address is. I don't even remember the last time

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Speaker 3: I heard someone say you can go to URL. I mean,

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Speaker 3: come on, is httpwww?

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Speaker 5: Like? Come on?

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Speaker 3: And then has she never seen the word heroism in print?

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's not a super complicated word to read,

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Speaker 3: and yet it's like, play that one more time, just

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Speaker 3: for the utter incompetence. Here, listen closely. This is she's

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Speaker 3: trying to tell people who are in need where they

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Speaker 3: need to go. This is important info. This is what

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Speaker 3: it sounded like.

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Speaker 2: Right now, If you need help, emergency information, resources and

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Speaker 2: shelter is available. All of this can be found at

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Speaker 2: URL Los Angeles Together. Is how we will get through

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Speaker 2: this through the heroicism of our firefighters.

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Speaker 5: Buck, I mean, come on.

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Speaker 3: This is in addition to being in Ghana, which look,

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Speaker 3: I'll give her a pass on Ghana. She should never

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Speaker 3: have been there. It didn't make any sense. Presumably she

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Speaker 3: is indicative of just like this sort of celebrity nature

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Speaker 3: of her tenure, that she's going to things that don't

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Speaker 3: that do matter. And then she finally has a crucible

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Speaker 3: situation where information and communication is that it's utmost important,

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Speaker 3: and she says you need to go to URL to

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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, you know she was a big

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Speaker 1: fan of Castro, Fidel Castro just a few years back.

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Speaker 1: And I think she even travels.

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Speaker 3: She's traveled to Cuba, she has deep ties to No

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Speaker 3: It's amazing how often this happens, isn't it? Where these

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Speaker 3: people have been to like Russia, it's for their honeymoons

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Speaker 3: and like Gonna, I was just gonna say, man, whenever

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Speaker 3: you're looking at the worst mayors, the worst senators, the

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Speaker 3: people that choose to spend their.

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Speaker 1: Time in in truly communist countries, right, I mean people

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Speaker 1: that people like like build a Blasio who went to

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Speaker 3: Tim Wall spent to China like nineteen times or whatever.

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Speaker 1: The heck was Communist China, Bernie Sanders honeymoon in the

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Speaker 1: Soviet Union. Who honeymoon's in the Soviet Union? You can't

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Speaker 3: But even married in Russia want want a honeymoon in

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Speaker 6: But you'll notice this though, that these these lunatic leftists,

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Speaker 6: they all have this in their past, or not all

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Speaker 6: it's such a it's such a giveaway of what they

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Speaker 6: really think and how they how they really are, I mean,

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Speaker 6: what their their baseline ideology is.

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Speaker 1: She's not somebody who is competent. But you have to

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Speaker 1: remember California is the state that gave us Kamala Harris

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Speaker 1: as the presidential nominee for the Democrats, but also as

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Speaker 1: a state attorney general and as a center. It's a

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Speaker 1: one party state. And so if Democrat decide that they're

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Speaker 1: only going to elect for a certain position a black female, uh,

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Speaker 1: there's they can do it. And they do, and and

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Speaker 1: I think that their qualifications for the job are often

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Speaker 1: a secondary at best consideration. They view the Dei victory

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Speaker 1: some of these roles and people are paying the priceless nun.

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Speaker 1: We haven't gotten into the head of the fire department, right,

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Speaker 1: it isn't the head of the.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's a lesbian, which is appears to be her

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Speaker 3: only qualification according to all the media coverage I've seen.

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Speaker 3: But remember Buck as bad as that Karen Bass. She

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Speaker 3: was a finalist for VP ye. Remember because Biden so

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Speaker 3: boxed himself in by effectively letting it be known one

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Speaker 3: secondly that he was going to take a black woman.

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Speaker 3: There were like three black women that he was considering, Kamala,

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Speaker 3: Of course governor is in quotation marks the fake governor

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Speaker 3: of Georgia. Those are like the only three people she

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Speaker 3: She was a congress person, I think. But Karen Bass

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Speaker 3: was a finalist to be Vice President of the United States.

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Speaker 3: As bad as Kamala is, Karen Bass may be worse.

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Speaker 3: And look when you combine Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom,

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Speaker 3: you have maybe the worst mayor governor combo that any

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Speaker 1: Are you telling me that you don't buy Gavin Newsom's

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Speaker 1: this is about more than politics the politics.

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Speaker 3: I think Gavin Newsom would not be a bad guy

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Speaker 3: to have a glass of a rose with and look

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Speaker 3: out over the vineyard, maybe even watch a football game with.

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Speaker 3: I think every decision he has made as governor just

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Speaker 3: about has been wrong and made California worse than it

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Speaker 3: would have been if he had gone full Costanza buck

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Speaker 3: and just done the opposite of everything that he actually did.

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Speaker 1: It's all part of a pattern too. Remember when there

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Speaker 1: were those photos of all the Amazon packages that were

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Speaker 1: being stolen off of trains and Gavin Newsom showed up

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Speaker 1: and he's like, what the heck is going on in

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Speaker 1: this state? Huh, who's in charge here? All these It

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Speaker 1: was like a giant field of theft by the trains.

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Speaker 1: And he's showing up now at this devastation from these fires,

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Speaker 1: and he doesn't have a whole lot to add too

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Speaker 1: much of anything other than just we shouldn't make this

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Speaker 1: about politics. Should make this about politics anytime some you know,

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Speaker 1: lacko is shoots somebody somewhere in the country, Gavin Newsom

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Speaker 1: wants to confiscate everybody's ar fifteens. I mean, what do

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Speaker 3: Also, well, you might not want to politicize the fires.

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Speaker 3: Fires happen, but how you respond to the fires is

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Speaker 5: You ain't imagining it. The world has gone insane.

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. One thing

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Speaker 1: was it twenty three million? Clay, I've seen different numbers

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Speaker 2: So I think it's most important to understand that we

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Speaker 1: Okay Clay, she's basically saying, the wind is so crazy.

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Speaker 1: Nobody could have prepared for this. We were as well

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Speaker 3: Nobody wants to hear there's nothing we could do. And

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Speaker 3: It's imminently foreseeable exactly what has happened could have happened.

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Speaker 3: And I'll just point this out. Yesterday we talk to

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, Clay, hold on a second. Have we all

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Speaker 1: seen David Muir If you've missed this and we see this,

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Speaker 1: Is it cinched at the waist? Is it showing that

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Speaker 1: v taper? David Muir ABC News is key guy for

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Speaker 3: The whole idea of these Prima Donna newscasters showing up

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Speaker 8: I graduated North Hollow at high with the one point

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Speaker 1: I mean, how ridiculous, amazing, How ridiculous is that story?

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Speaker 1: you had to. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: And also let me just say this.

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Speaker 3: If I had to choose, like, Hey, who do you

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Speaker 5: A call, it is a crisis.

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Speaker 3: Right, You're showing up at legitimately a burning building, kicking indoors,

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Speaker 1: dealing with this on the DEI Fire Department, excuse me, guys,

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Speaker 1: fire department side of things. I think I get a

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Speaker 1: gold star just for fighting through the cold this week.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you that right now. It has been brutal.

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00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:53,439
Speaker 1: Clay's been propping me up a bit, but let me

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Speaker 1: tell you, my whole head feels like it's gonna fall

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Speaker 1: off sometimes. Anyway, back to DEI. You know, New York

444
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Speaker 1: City Claim has had a huge, a huge problem with this,

445
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Speaker 1: stretching back for many years because they said that the

446
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Speaker 1: written exam that they used for the FDNY was racist. Yeah,

447
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 1: does anyone want to guess why the written exam for

448
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Speaker 1: the FDNY was racist? Not enough in the FDNYS Fire

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Speaker 1: Department in New York just agin everyone knows NYPD FDNY

450
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Speaker 1: is the fire department not enough black and Hispanic applicants passed?

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Speaker 1: That's it. It was an eighty five. This was in

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Speaker 1: use until two thousand and seven. Eighty five. Multiple choice

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Speaker 1: questions about firefighting, Okay, it would ask you questions like,

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Speaker 1: you know, when to say may day, when to say

455
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Speaker 1: urgent over the walkie talkie, what kind of tool to

456
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 1: bring a car by tip missing, a car by blade,

457
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,960
Speaker 1: a car by tip blade, aluminum oxide like firefighting stuff.

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Speaker 1: And they said it was rae. And not only did

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Speaker 1: they say it was racist, they had to appoint a

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Speaker 1: chief diversity officer for the FDNY. They paid back pay

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Speaker 1: millions of dollars to people who were never even firefighters

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Speaker 1: because they failed the exam. And now they've gotten you know,

463
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Speaker 1: they've replaced the exam with something that's probably like you know,

464
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Speaker 1: sign your name here. I mean, it's crazy, it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: This the the the doctrine of DEI and and you know, really,

466
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Speaker 1: what we've seen play out in so many places has

467
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Speaker 1: been so destructive, and and that's where I think people

468
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,720
Speaker 1: are finally they've just everyone just had enough. It's like

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Speaker 1: I I promise you, it's not no one cares to

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Speaker 1: your point clay, what the color is of the firefighter

471
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Speaker 1: who is coming through the door when their house is

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Speaker 1: on fire to save them and their cat or their

473
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Speaker 1: kids or whatever. They're just they want the best, they

474
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,280
Speaker 1: want the fastest response. They want them most competent fire

475
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 1: suppression tactics. They want you know, this is all like

476
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Speaker 1: and this is really central to the ethos of America

477
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Speaker 1: now in the Trump era. We want this back. We

478
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Speaker 1: just want the best people to do the things that

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00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: they have to be doing. I don't care if you

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Speaker 1: know my airline pilot is a one legged Eskimo, Like,

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Speaker 1: I don't care.

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Speaker 3: I just don't want the plane to crash. This is

483
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Speaker 3: from Pride website. The headline their coverage of the LA

484
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Speaker 3: fire headline, amid Palisades Fire, Los Angeles. His first LGBTQ

485
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Speaker 3: plus fire chief is proving lesbians get it done. Is

486
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Speaker 3: anybody out there in LA right now? I mean, this

487
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Speaker 3: is their headline Pride Amid I'm reading amid Palisades Fire,

488
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Speaker 3: Los Angeles. His first LGBTQ plus fire chief is proving

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Speaker 3: lesbians get it done. There's zero percent containment of the

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Speaker 3: fires right now. Is anyone in elking around, even lesbians

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Speaker 3: or even lesbians in LA walking around right now given

492
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Speaker 3: high fives like yeah, we put those fires out. Nobody

493
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Speaker 3: puts fires out like lesbians. Not one person in LA,

494
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Speaker 3: even the lesbians, is bragging about the lesbian fire chiefs.

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Speaker 5: Performance so far.

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Speaker 3: This is what DEI gets us in competence and also

497
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Speaker 3: media praise of the incompetence, which is how DEI happens

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Speaker 3: in the first place. And thank the Lord that Kamala

499
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Speaker 3: Harris lost, because otherwise we would have had the next

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Speaker 3: four years of any time you criticize Kamala Harris, Oh

501
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 3: you're a sexist, Oh you're a racist. Maybe Kamala Harris

502
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 3: just can't do the job, would never actually have risen

503
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Speaker 3: to the level of these people's thoughts.

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Speaker 1: You want to put out the ask play for calls.

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Speaker 1: I bet we have people who are either current or

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Speaker 1: former firefighters who have seen this stuff in action or

507
00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: were denied becoming a firefighter, becoming a firefighter in New York

508
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: because actually, really, you know, really hard by the numbers,

509
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Speaker 1: and if you have any experience of how these processes

510
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: have been skewed so that it's not about who's the

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Speaker 1: best at putting putting out the fire, it's like the

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Speaker 1: real the really straightforward job. How do we get the

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Speaker 1: best people for putting out fires, carrying people out of

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Speaker 1: burning buildings? You know, there's like a you gotta be

515
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Speaker 1: able to lift heavy things, got to move fast, and

516
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff. Take some of your calls

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Speaker 1: on that. If we got you, we got we go

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Speaker 1: on five fighters. Give us a ring look. Every time

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Speaker 9: Sometimes all you can do is laugh, and they do

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Speaker 9: a lot of it with the Sunday Hang. Join Clay

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Speaker 9: and Buck as they laugh it up in the Klay

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Speaker 9: and Buck podcast feed on the iHeartRadio app or wherever

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Speaker 9: you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 1: We don't usually expect that we will get in depth

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Speaker 1: first Amendment or any amendment analysis on the View. Not

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Speaker 1: usually something I'd go to for my constitutional assessments. But

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Speaker 1: they had quite a squabble on the side of the

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Speaker 1: view yesterday which I wanted to return to for a moment.

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Speaker 1: But let me just set up why. First off, they

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Speaker 1: were they were talking about Facebook getting rid of the

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Speaker 1: regime of censorship that it had built over years, which

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Speaker 1: included the number that I saw, Clay was a total

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Speaker 1: of forty thousand. Did you see that forty thousand different

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Speaker 1: people involved in fact checking at Facebook?

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Speaker 3: No, I didn't see that number, but that is an

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Speaker 3: insane number of people.

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Speaker 1: That's what I saw. I mean to me, it seems

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Speaker 1: like that's how was that. But but now that's not

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Speaker 1: full time jobs. Those are people that would do it

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Speaker 1: for a period of time. But I think it's fair

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Speaker 1: to say that's a lot of fact checkers, or they

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Speaker 1: had a lot of fact checkers. Maybe that that was

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Speaker 1: on you know, that was online. I don't know, maybe

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Speaker 1: it was less than that, but they used a lot

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Speaker 1: of third party problem with X people write these great things,

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Speaker 1: they go viral. I'll check and see how many facts,

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Speaker 1: how many fact checkers they had over at Facebook and

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Speaker 1: get your real number. I mean, it was definitely thousands.

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Speaker 1: I think that's that's for sure, just based on the

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Speaker 1: size of the program that they were running, and they

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Speaker 1: would work with these different partner entities and stuff. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: the left is very upset about this. Democrats are very

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Speaker 1: upset about this. They've gotten used to operating in a

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Speaker 1: world where they can pretend that they care about the

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Speaker 1: First Amendment but also that the First Amendment protects feelings.

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Speaker 1: And I am quite certain the First Amendment does not

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Speaker 1: protect feelings, because if it did, it would protect nothing

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Speaker 1: and this is something I don't know if they just

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Speaker 1: don't teach this at school anymore, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: it is. The Democrats have almost a collective amnesia Clay,

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Speaker 1: or a collective ignorance that's mandatory about the First Amendment. Specifically,

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Speaker 1: they pretend like they don't get that the First Amendment

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Speaker 1: has to be for speech that is unpopular, for speech

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Speaker 1: that bothers people or else there's no need, right you know, Yes,

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Speaker 1: if the First Amendment just covers me talking about how

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Speaker 1: much I like ice cream, I mean, no one really cares.

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Speaker 1: That's not going to be a problem. The view things

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Speaker 1: got a little testy. I want you to hear that,

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Speaker 1: but also try to pick out some of the ways

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Speaker 1: that they're making these arguments, or some of the keys

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Speaker 1: to their argument. Play it well.

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Speaker 8: Every person at that table gets speech directed at them.

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Speaker 2: Everything.

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Speaker 1: No one is I guess, has.

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Speaker 2: To finish the sentence here anymore.

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Speaker 3: Okay, No, I think I think the point Lissa is

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Speaker 3: making here is she is a free speech.

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Speaker 2: Speak for her.

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Speaker 1: She speaks very well for hers.

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Speaker 2: No, but and I'm not doing.

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Speaker 1: It acts like her.

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Speaker 2: First Street free speech when it's the things we like.

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Speaker 2: When somebody wants.

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Speaker 7: To defend.

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Speaker 5: That isn't I don't want.

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Speaker 9: You call I don't want people to be able to

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Speaker 9: push limits.

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Speaker 2: Comedy does push limits, but be smarter in your comedy.

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Speaker 1: You don't need to offend me to be funny.

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Speaker 2: I don't need to offend you to be fine.

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Speaker 9: And so the.

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Speaker 5: Actually not necessarily.

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Speaker 1: To Okay Clay a couple a couple of things. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to push this to you because I know you're

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Speaker 1: a big First Amendment guy.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: You have Whoopy Goldberg, who's basically built her career as

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Speaker 1: a as a comedian and actress. First before she was

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Speaker 1: doing the view saying that, you know, comedy shouldn't make

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Speaker 1: fun of like it shouldn't be offensive to anybody, which

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Speaker 1: is quite aligned. And then you have Sunny Houston in

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Speaker 1: her usual bitter tone. And she and I watched this

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Speaker 1: whole debate. It was about eight or ten minutes long

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Speaker 1: of a segment she she keeps taking the perspective hate

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Speaker 1: speech is not free speech, or hate speech is not covered.

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Speaker 1: And to me, this is where we just run into

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Speaker 1: this constant like brick wall of the left and their

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Speaker 1: lack of understanding here. No, actually, words that are mean

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Speaker 1: are protected under the First Amendment, like things that are

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Speaker 1: mean or whether they're you know, something that I would

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Speaker 1: support or not, or you would support or not, that

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. That is actually free speech and they just

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Speaker 1: don't want I mean here, the example they gave was

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Speaker 1: you're now allowed to say that if somebody is transgender,

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Speaker 1: you think they have mental illness on Facebook. That was

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Speaker 1: one of the things they talked about. Why shouldn't you

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Speaker 1: be able to make that argument? If you believe that

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Speaker 1: argument is true, you should be able to make that argument.

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Speaker 1: Facebook used to ban that, and they think that that's

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Speaker 1: free speech.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Look what I think Sonny Hostin, who is incredibly dumb,

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Speaker 3: is trying to argue and doing it poorly, is you

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Speaker 3: don't have the right to threaten to kill someone.

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 5: That is not protected speech. Right. There are certain limits.

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Speaker 3: To free speech, even for someone like me who is

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Speaker 3: a free speech absolutist. When death threats came to my house,

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Speaker 3: I want the person making those death threats to me

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Speaker 3: to be prosecuted. And if you threaten to kill my

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Speaker 3: kids or you threaten to kill my wife, I want

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Speaker 3: you to be prosecuted.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: There are limits to free speech, but offense as Woopi

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Speaker 3: Goldberg tries to argue cannot be the limit because who

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Speaker 3: decides what the line is for being offended? And I'm

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Speaker 3: really disappointed in woop be Golder. I can't believe I

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Speaker 3: have to say this. I'm really disappointed in Woopy Goldberg

658
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Speaker 3: as a comedian because comedy sometimes hurts. The best jokes

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Speaker 3: sometimes offend people in the community. And often, and I'll

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Speaker 3: use Dave Chappelle as an example, often comedians are able

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Speaker 3: to further national discourse by using satire, hyperbole, ridicule, and yes,

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Speaker 3: sometimes by being offensive in a way that a traditional

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Speaker 3: argument might not. And so Woopi Goldberg should know that

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Speaker 3: and the argument of you best comedians should never have

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Speaker 3: to offend. Okay, Look, I love my friend Nate BARGATSI.

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Speaker 3: I think he's one of the most talented comedians working

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Speaker 3: right now. I told you recently you and Carrie should

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Speaker 3: watch him. He's a clean comedian. His goal is to

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Speaker 3: appeal to everybody. That's great. But I also really like

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Speaker 3: watching Dave Chappelle, and I wouldn't let my ten year

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Speaker 3: old watch it. I go back and watch Raw with

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Speaker 3: Eddie Murphy. Oh my goodness, I mean that's one of

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Speaker 3: the greatest stand up acts Richard Pryor, there are a

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Speaker 3: lot George Carlin, There are a lot of people who

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Speaker 3: have said what is considered to be offensive things in

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Speaker 3: the furtherance of comedy. And I'll defend the Lissa Fara

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Speaker 3: Griffin here because she's right on the edges of free

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Speaker 3: speech is often where some of the best arguments are made.

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Speaker 3: So this actually ties in buck with tomorrow. The TikTok

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Speaker 3: case is being heard in front of the Supreme Court,

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Speaker 3: and I actually think it's gotten very little attention, but

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Speaker 3: it is to me one of the most fascinating cases

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Speaker 3: of Supreme Court has taken in some time because of

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Speaker 3: the inherent contradictions here. Your position, and I think I'm

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Speaker 3: synthesizing it pretty well, is TikTok shouldn't be restricted, it

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Speaker 3: should exist. And you point out like you're not going

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Speaker 3: on for political opinions, like you're learning how to see

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Speaker 3: our stake better and you enjoy TikTok. My position is

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Speaker 3: somewhere in the middle here. I don't think TikTok should

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Speaker 3: be banned, but I think it should be treated as

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Speaker 3: a major media company in the United States would, And

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Speaker 3: so my positions a little. If I were on the

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Speaker 3: Supreme Court, this is the way I would analyze it.

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Speaker 3: We wouldn't allow a foreign China. A Chinese billionaire couldn't

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Speaker 3: buy The New York Times, we wouldn't allow that to happen.

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Speaker 3: A Chinese billionaire couldn't buy Fox News, we wouldn't allow

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Speaker 3: that to happen. We require media companies that are based

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Speaker 3: in the United States typically to be owned by American

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Speaker 3: media American citizens. That's not uncommon, that exists all over

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Speaker 3: the world. So that's point one. I think this TikTok

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Speaker 3: should be owned. TikTok America should be owned by an

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Speaker 3: American entity. My point two would be, in particular, will

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Speaker 3: not allow Twitter or Facebook or Google or YouTube to

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Speaker 3: compete in their country? Why should we allow Chinese companies

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Speaker 3: to compete in our country. Now that's complicated because it's

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Speaker 3: kind of a nuanced take on it, in between the

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Speaker 3: ban and in between the forced sell or complete free speech.

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Speaker 3: But that's where I would come down on this. I

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Speaker 3: have no idea what Supreme Court's going to do, but

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Speaker 3: it's going to be an incredibly compelling and important decision

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Speaker 3: that they render. My concern is that a lot of

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Speaker 3: people on the Supreme Court have no idea how modern

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Speaker 3: media works, and so asking a seventy five year old

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Speaker 3: who doesn't understand social media to try to make a

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Speaker 3: ruling on TikTok is complicated. And I'll give you an

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Speaker 3: example on this buck. When I was in law school,

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Speaker 3: one of my law school professors, actually my con law professor,

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Speaker 3: was a former Supreme Court clerk, and she used to

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Speaker 3: tell a story about the judge that she worked for.

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Speaker 3: They were working late night and they ordered pizza and

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Speaker 3: they were all sitting around eating the pizza, and the

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Speaker 3: Supreme Court justice walked in and said, my goodness, what

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Speaker 3: is on the pizza here? And the clerks were like,

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Speaker 3: that's a Pepperoni Like the judge had never seen a

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Speaker 3: Pepperoni pizza in his life, And she just remembered thinking

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Speaker 3: life experience when you got a seventy five or an

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Speaker 3: eighty year old guy who's sitting around trying to judge

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Speaker 3: what's going on in the culture and he's never even

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Speaker 3: seen a Pepperoni pizza in his life. I don't know

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Speaker 3: that any of these judges really understand social media. So

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Speaker 3: I'm nervous and apprehensive about their ability to really understand

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Speaker 3: the nuances of this case in a detailed way, if

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Speaker 3: that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Is pepperoni the king of all pizza toppings. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go super off the board here.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna go on to.

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Speaker 1: These pineapple and head.

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Speaker 5: No, no, I'm not gonna go pineapple.

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Speaker 3: First of all, to your general question, if you have

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Speaker 3: a kid party to throw, Pepperoni and chi are the

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Speaker 3: only options that should be available for every kid party.

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Speaker 3: Anybody listening to me right now knows that I am correct.

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Speaker 3: Those are the two options. Having said that my go

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Speaker 3: to and I might be the only person in America

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Speaker 3: who's got I'm gonna sound like you when it comes

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Speaker 3: to the pistachio ice cream here, I'm ready for the

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Speaker 3: slings and arrows of the listening audience. I go jalapeno mushroom.

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Speaker 3: That is my favorite type of Oh. I know, I

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Speaker 3: see your face, and I know I know a lot

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Speaker 3: of people don't trust me anymore. I know a lot

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Speaker 3: of you are nodding as long as I analyze TikTok,

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Speaker 3: and you're like, yeah, that's really it, and now I

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Speaker 3: just said it, and now you don't trust me at all.

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Speaker 1: Haven't you been to an office party. Jalapeno mushroom is

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Speaker 1: the pie that's always got plenty of slices at the end.

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Speaker 3: I'm saying for myself personally. You asked if I order,

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Speaker 3: and my family hates it. It's the only my pizza

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Speaker 3: by itself. I think the premiere pizza is jalipino and

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Speaker 3: mushroom on the as the toppings on the pizza.

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Speaker 1: Guys, I don't even know what to tell you here.

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Speaker 5: I know, I know I've lost America.

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Speaker 1: I did. I tried to guide him into the into

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Speaker 1: the shining lights of uh, pepperoni, perhaps sausage, you know,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of sausage on there, very nice. I'd

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Speaker 1: even take some people like a little bit of broccoli,

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Speaker 1: extra cheese. There's a bunch of things you could do here.

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Speaker 1: You can start getting into the buffalo chicken. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you get in the fancy.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of like super fancy, like buck Sexton

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Speaker 3: style pizzas I understand are out there. You're like, well,

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Speaker 3: lobster pizza is the greatest pizza of all. You put

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Speaker 3: a little bit of uh, you know what I like

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Speaker 3: is truffles on top of my pizza. But you know,

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Speaker 3: in the in the general like option ordering. Uh, I

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Speaker 3: understand that I'm in the extreme minority with hallopeen Year.

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Speaker 1: Are saying pistachi is New York saying pistachio pizzas that's

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Speaker 1: not a thing. They don't put pistachio nuts on pizza today. No, Oh,

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Speaker 1: they're saying I should make it a thing. You guys

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Speaker 1: are nuts. Just saying you guys are nuts, no pun intended.

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Speaker 1: Look what I did that.

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Speaker 5: Hey, that's very good, very good.

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Speaker 1: We're going to get back into news and important things

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Speaker 1: here in a second. I just thought that the view

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Speaker 1: the discussion of it was kind of No, that's great,

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Speaker 1: and I think it ties in with TikTok. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, you're gonna win every discussion for the rest

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Speaker 1: of the show. Because I've alienated the entire American listening audience.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that there's anybody else out there who's like,

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Speaker 1: it's maybe five percent of the population. A family friend

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Speaker 1: reached out to me over the holidays to say that

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Speaker 1: he really enjoys the show, but he's very mad at

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Speaker 1: me for all the criticism that I do. And then

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Speaker 1: he names some football program and I had absolutely no

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Speaker 1: idea what he was talking about, and so I had

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Speaker 1: the family respond and he goes, oh, you're the other one.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I assure.

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Speaker 5: You're the other one.

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Speaker 1: I think it was Florida Central or whatever. There was

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Speaker 1: like something you were saying something bad about a Florida team.

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Speaker 1: You were trashing some Florida football team. I just thought

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Speaker 1: it was funny because I was getting He was like

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Speaker 1: kind of upset. He's like, you're being really unfair to

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Speaker 1: my Have you been bashing some Florida team.

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Speaker 3: Well, I want to state basically had the worst year. Sorry,

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Speaker 3: Semino Seminole fans driving around, they're having a good Seminal

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Speaker 3: fan see this as a Seminal fan. He said, you're

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Speaker 3: being too rough on his seminals while they went to

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Speaker 3: and ten. I mean, I don't know how what you

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Speaker 3: know when you go to and ten, it's tough to

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Speaker 3: be very favorable. Also, I have been critical of the Dolphins,

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Speaker 3: but more in the sense that I just feel sad

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Speaker 3: for everyone who's a Miami Dolphin fan because basically, since

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Speaker 3: Dan Marino retired like twenty five years ago, whatever the math,

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Speaker 3: thirty years ago, basically your franchise hasn't mattered. So Dolphin

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Speaker 3: fans actually understand it. It's why they're still running around

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Speaker 3: in those number thirteen jerseys. But that could I think

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Speaker 3: I've taken shots in both directions, North Florida and South

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Speaker 3: Florida at those two teams.

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Speaker 1: It was it was seminoles and it was funny because I,

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Speaker 1: you know, I was like, I'm definitely not too hard

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Speaker 1: on the seminoles O line. I have no idea what

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Speaker 7: Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back into Clay Anne Buck. More and

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Speaker 1: more information coming out about how things have been run

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Speaker 1: in recent years at the La City Fire Department. Christopher

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Speaker 1: Rufo sharing this. The La City Fire Department has an

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Speaker 1: entire Equity Bureau which hopes to advance DEI within the

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Speaker 1: fire service, and last year LAFD cut seven million dollars

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Speaker 1: from the overtime budget, which impacted air operations and disaster response,

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Speaker 1: but kept the DEI department. And then John Lefevre, who's

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Speaker 1: also formerly of Goldman Sachs Elevator and he's an author.

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Speaker 1: He's an interesting guy. He shared that the because this

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Speaker 1: stuff is all public, Like even when I was the MPD,

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Speaker 1: my salary you could look it up online. These things are,

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Speaker 1: you know, public record. The fire Assistant Chief for Diversity,

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Speaker 1: Equity and Inclusion in twenty twenty three, for total pay

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Speaker 1: and benefits, made four hundred and forty seven thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: So you know, you got people that are getting paid

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Speaker 1: really well to do really worthless things in the name

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Speaker 1: of DEI in that department.

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Speaker 3: F one hundred and forty k buck for a dude

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Speaker 3: who's in charge of DEI at the fire department.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I understand now why some people are so

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Speaker 1: devoted to DEI within the system. That's great money for

870
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: a make believe job, you know what I'm saying. That's

871
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 1: a job that you could sit there.

872
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 3: That's insane taxpayer funded job.

873
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 5: That's more tho. You know you're out there right now.

874
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,320
Speaker 3: And there have been a lot of criticism of senators

875
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:57,439
Speaker 3: and congress people for wanting a pay raise buck that's

876
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 3: almost triple what a congressman makes, or a senator.

877
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: To oh my god, you know, Michelle Obama back in

878
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: like two thousand and six was making close to three

879
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:14,760
Speaker 1: hundred grand as a diversity educator at a hospital in Chicago.

880
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 1: If I remember correctly, I'm going to the memory banks here,

881
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 1: but making really good money to do something that isn't

882
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:26,400
Speaker 1: needing to be done. But yeah, you know again, play's

883
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 1: just still upset that she didn't go to the funeral

884
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: so well.

885
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 3: In his bonnet. Bonnet, that's right, I'm still fired up.

886
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 3: But we got the clip Karen Bass.

887
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Karen Bass, well, the Karen Bass here and

888
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 1: here she is getting a little testy because she realizes

889
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 1: the heat is on. People feel like this has not

890
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: been an acceptable response. Here she is battling it out

891
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 1: with the with the the journals, play thirty two. What

892
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: explains this lack of preparation and rapid response.

893
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 2: Let me just say, first and foremost, number one focus,

894
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 2: and I think the focus of all of us here

895
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 2: with one voice, is that we have to protect lives.

896
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 2: We have to save lives, and we have to save homes.

897
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 2: Rest assured that when that rest assured, let me finish,

898
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 2: when that is done, When we are safe, when lives

899
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 2: have been saved and homes have been saved. We will

900
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 2: absolutely do an evaluation to look at what worked, what

901
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 2: didn't work, and to correct or to hold accountable any body, department, individual, etc.

902
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 2: But my focus right now is on the lives and

903
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:37,760
Speaker 2: on the homes.

904
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: Do you think your leadership was effective while responding to

905
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:42,000
Speaker 1: this disaster?

906
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 2: I just said what I believe is the most important

907
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 2: thing for us to do right now, and that is

908
00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:48,840
Speaker 2: going to continue to be my focus.

909
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:55,800
Speaker 5: Okay, I get a look what she said.

910
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 3: Yes, like we want to save lives, we want to

911
00:49:57,960 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 3: protect homes.

912
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:00,360
Speaker 5: That should be the goal.

913
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:04,799
Speaker 3: It's also very fair for her to be asked in

914
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 3: the real time, do you think that your leadership has

915
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:11,399
Speaker 3: been effective? My answer is no. The answer of most

916
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 3: Los Angelinos would also be no. And Buck, I come

917
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 3: back to this. Remember the phrase, which I think applies

918
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Speaker 3: to so many different facets, and we talk about it

919
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:25,880
Speaker 3: sometimes on the show. Rumsfeld talking about the things the

920
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:28,320
Speaker 3: known knowns. Remember, he got ridiculed for the way that

921
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:30,920
Speaker 3: he broke down the things you know and the things

922
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,919
Speaker 3: that you don't know. And what basically he was analyzing

923
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 3: is how do you deal with expected outcomes and or

924
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 3: expected scenarios. The idea that Los Angeles could have a

925
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 3: calamitous wildfire issue was well known. I've spent a lot

926
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 3: of time in La I've been out there when they

927
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 3: have had wildfire issues. This was imminently foreseeable. This was

928
00:50:56,719 --> 00:51:00,440
Speaker 3: not nine to eleven when nineteen terrorists got on an

929
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 3: airplane with box cutters and decided they were going to

930
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:08,959
Speaker 3: fly airplanes into buildings. That was totally unexpected. Right, there

931
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 3: are things that occurred that are totally unexpected. This is

932
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:15,920
Speaker 3: the equivalent of a hurricane hitting Florida. Florida is prepared

933
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Speaker 3: to respond to hurricanes, they cannot control when hurricanes happen.

934
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Speaker 3: I don't see how anybody watching this response from Gavin Newsom,

935
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Speaker 3: Karen Bass the leadership of California can think that the

936
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 3: city of Los Angeles has been well served by their

937
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:32,240
Speaker 3: leadership during this crisis.

938
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Speaker 5: I just I don't see how it's possible.

939
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 3: And I don't think you have to wait till the

940
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,760
Speaker 3: crisis is over to see whether or not you've gotten

941
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 3: an adequate response and gauge how you're doing well.

942
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Speaker 1: We understand why they want that to be the case,

943
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: because they are hoping that by the time they get

944
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: around to their own version of the accountability hot wash

945
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 1: that you know, people will have not been focused on

946
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 1: it the same way. The delay is the bureaucrats best

947
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 1: friend most of the time, and that's what they'll do.

948
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: They'll make sure that they'll they'll point some commission and

949
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: in about three years there'll be some big report that

950
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 1: comes out that nobody reads about. Oh, yeah, we should

951
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:19,319
Speaker 1: have done this, that and the other thing. We all

952
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 1: know this, right, this is the classic way that this

953
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 1: sort of thing will be handled. Right now, the public

954
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 1: is focused on it and seeing it happen, and of

955
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 1: course there's outrage and I just say this too the

956
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:35,360
Speaker 1: whole all, but don't politicize. Look everything is political now, okay,

957
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 1: And so they make everything political as soon as it happens.

958
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: Like I said, every time there's a shooting, it's band

959
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 1: guns unless it involves like you know, gang members, and

960
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:46,759
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, we don't care about the

961
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: shooting as much. Right there's always or.

962
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 3: It's a se or it's a CEO gig shot in

963
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 3: the street, and then nobody calls for banning guns at all,

964
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:54,360
Speaker 3: or there's.

965
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 1: Like a trans terrorist running around somewhere. Anyway, they they

966
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 1: do this right away, and Noose him is as guilty

967
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: of it as anybody. I mean, he immediately will and

968
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:07,239
Speaker 1: right now, look if Ron DeSantis, I mean, this is

969
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:09,319
Speaker 1: this I think is a good, a good you know,

970
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:12,319
Speaker 1: example of what we're talking about. There have been some

971
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 1: big hurricanes that have hit while Ron DeSantis has been governored,

972
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:19,319
Speaker 1: while I've been here in Florida, and they tried to

973
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 1: do the oh he wasn't ready, or oh he you know,

974
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:25,280
Speaker 1: for about a hot second, that's right, and then it

975
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 1: is apparent to everybody, No, he actually had all the

976
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 1: resources in place, and the preparations and the and everything

977
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 1: that could reasonably and and professionally be expected to be there,

978
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: and done was done. And that's why Ron doesn't get

979
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,680
Speaker 1: hit by people on hurricane preparation stuff. No one's saying,

980
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: you know, he can't stop hurricanes, but he can have

981
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:50,720
Speaker 1: the right pieces in place to mitigate and to mitigate

982
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 1: the damage into save lives. They clearly didn't have that

983
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, right, This is the you know, this

984
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 1: is not it's not just oh there was a fire,

985
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 1: fires happen, it's they have gotten there's way out of control.

986
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:08,799
Speaker 1: They have no emergency plan to speak of, to escalate

987
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 1: and to you know, expand on whatever footprint they have

988
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:16,560
Speaker 1: for fire suppression and fire safety. And they got you know,

989
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: they got caught here. I mean, they just got they

990
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:20,799
Speaker 1: got caught napping in a sense, and now they don't

991
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: want to take the blame or the fall for it.

992
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, and frankly, the bureaucrat recognizes, as you said,

993
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 3: that eventually people's attention moves on, and the amount of

994
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:35,719
Speaker 3: attention that is given in the aftermath of a crisis

995
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 3: is far less than in the midst of the crisis.

996
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 3: And I think it's fair to say, even though it's

997
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 3: still ongoing, the mayor and the leadership of Los Angeles,

998
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 3: as well as the governor, they failed the people of

999
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 3: Los Angeles. The question that I have already and certainly,

1000
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 3: we want everybody to be safe, we want everybody's property

1001
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 3: to survive these fires, We want everything to be done,

1002
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 3: want the firemen to deserve as much praise as possible

1003
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 3: for putting their lives on the line for multiple days

1004
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 3: to save as many people as possible.

1005
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:08,040
Speaker 5: All of that can be true.

1006
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:11,120
Speaker 3: The question that I ultimately have, buck is is this

1007
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:14,839
Speaker 3: an event that is so bad that people in Los

1008
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:19,359
Speaker 3: Angeles start looking around and saying, boy, who we pick

1009
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:22,920
Speaker 3: as leaders really matters and instead of being focused on

1010
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 3: the DEI cosmetic identity politics associated with elections. I think

1011
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:34,719
Speaker 3: the evidence suggests Rick Caruso, who is also a Democrat,

1012
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 3: I might add, would have done a far better job

1013
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:42,840
Speaker 3: of handling this catastrophe than Mayor Karen Bass has done.

1014
00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 3: I think there are many other politicians that would have

1015
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:48,880
Speaker 3: done a far better job of thinking about these catastrophes

1016
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:52,160
Speaker 3: than Gavin Newsom has done. What's my evidence for that.

1017
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 3: I don't think any major state governor handled COVID worse

1018
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 3: than Gavin Newsom did. What is evidence that would suggest

1019
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 3: many agree? Five straight years California has led the nation

1020
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:04,840
Speaker 3: in people fleeing the state. Eventually, people get upset. To

1021
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 3: your point, I think a lot of people hopefully they

1022
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 3: have insurance in this context, because I know there's going

1023
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 3: to be major insurance related issues here too. Given how

1024
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:14,319
Speaker 3: much this is going to cost. I think a lot

1025
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 3: of people are going to take their money that they

1026
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 3: got for their homes, they're not going to rebuild, and

1027
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 3: they're going to move to other parts of the country

1028
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 3: because they're just fed up.

1029
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:25,400
Speaker 1: You might have some new neighbors outside of Tennessee there, buddy,

1030
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:25,880
Speaker 1: it's not.

1031
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:28,280
Speaker 3: I think that that is very likely to be true.

1032
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 3: And by the way, you're going to have a lot

1033
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 3: of them in Miami too, Because the data reflects Tennessee, Texas,

1034
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 3: and Florida, alongside of North Carolina and South Carolina added

1035
00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:40,479
Speaker 3: the most people of any state in twenty twenty four.

1036
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 5: Those three that I just mentioned.

1037
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 3: The lack of state income tax bringing a lot of

1038
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:45,359
Speaker 3: people here.

1039
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 1: I got to think that some of these other states

1040
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:52,799
Speaker 1: are are considering what it would mean if they were

1041
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:56,880
Speaker 1: to be able to get down to a zero zero

1042
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: state income tax, yes, for their economy, for it, because

1043
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:04,200
Speaker 1: I get it in for the annual budget, it's, oh

1044
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: my gosh, how are we going to fund this? We

1045
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 1: need to have a state income tax. But when you

1046
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: think about all of the money that has moved specifically

1047
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 1: from California and New York businesses, personal income tax, just

1048
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 1: the productivity, the economic vitality that has moved to Texas,

1049
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 1: to Tennessee, to Florida, and look at a lot of

1050
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 1: people have moved to the Carolinas, even though they have

1051
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: from the northeast at least even though ever listening from

1052
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:35,960
Speaker 1: the Carolinas knows this, even though they've got pretty high taxes.

1053
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 1: I think five six percent for North Carolina. I think

1054
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 1: it's about the same in South Carolina. I know because

1055
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:44,720
Speaker 1: I've looked. I was like, I might I would consider living.

1056
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: I love both of those states. But I would think

1057
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 1: that some others would consider it cly because the long

1058
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 1: term wealth transfer that is occurring now for people who

1059
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 1: have capital and are mobile to states that aren't going

1060
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:01,720
Speaker 1: to penalize them with the state income tax. It's uh,

1061
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:03,840
Speaker 1: people will look back on this and it's gonna it's

1062
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:06,439
Speaker 1: changing the future of Texas, Tennessee, and Florida for sure,

1063
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 1: into becoming even more so economic powerhouses and and really

1064
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: states that are havens of a lot of high earners too,

1065
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 1: which then you got people there that are are running

1066
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 1: businesses that pay for everything and that you know, make

1067
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 1: it all work. You know we didn't address this before, Clay,

1068
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: When do you did you already take down all of

1069
00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 1: your all of your holiday stuff? Brucer Greg said this

1070
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:37,800
Speaker 1: one around and I had to carry the tree down

1071
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:41,000
Speaker 1: to the dumpster yesterday, and I know this is a

1072
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 1: husband's job. You got to carry the tree down and

1073
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 1: it seems like it'd be an easy thing to do,

1074
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 1: but you know, you got to keep your balance. It's

1075
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:49,680
Speaker 1: not that easy. But Carrie wants to keep the garlands

1076
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:51,520
Speaker 1: because they look very pretty. That she she did a

1077
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 1: great job decorating for Christmas. How long can you keep

1078
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 1: this stuff up before you start to look like somebody

1079
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 1: who can't let it go. You need time to think,

1080
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 1: think about maybe Easter instead.

1081
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:04,240
Speaker 3: Well, I understand that no one trusts me after my

1082
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 3: pizza topping discussion, but I think you are.

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Speaker 1: Getting You're getting. It's fun funny rule light.

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Speaker 3: People are lighting me up because I was honest. It's

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Speaker 3: an honest show. Jalapenos and pen mushrooms, greatest pizza toppings, combo.

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Speaker 3: I'll give you my answer.

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Speaker 5: We come back.

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Speaker 3: But in meantime, you know what I got, Buck winners.

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Speaker 3: I have got winners NFL playoffs, NFL playoffs coming up

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Speaker 3: more or less on these players. I've got a ten

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Speaker 3: to one payout that I feel really good about.

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Speaker 5: Buck.

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Speaker 3: I feel really good about winning on this one. It's simple,

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Speaker 3: it's easy. Prize picks dot Com. My name Clay, all right,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna start buck with your boy pickles.

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Speaker 5: Oh George George.

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Speaker 3: Pickens, as Buck Membery called him Pickles, He's gonna have

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Speaker 3: more than fifty four and a half receiving yards in

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Speaker 3: the Steelers game. He's been awful. I think they're gonna

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Speaker 3: go to in freak often. I think you'll have more

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Speaker 3: than fifty four and a half. And then these are

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Speaker 3: three easy ones. Mike Evans, Jalen Hurts, and Justin Jefferson.

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Speaker 3: All three are going to score a touchdown receiving or rushing.

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Speaker 3: Mike Evans Tampa Bay buccaneer wide receiver stud Jalen Hurts

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Speaker 3: the uh tush push touchdown coming, I'm telling you. And

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Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson also maybe the best receiver in the NFL

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Speaker 3: right now. More than one half touchdown that it pays

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Speaker 3: out at ten to one. If you go to prizpicks

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Speaker 3: dot com, use my name, Clay, that's George Pickens, more

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Speaker 3: unreceiving yards, Mike Evans, Jalen Hurts, and Justin Jefferson all

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Speaker 3: more than one half touchdowns that pays out ten to one.

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Speaker 3: You get fifty dollars when you play five dollars. Pricepicks

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Speaker 3: dot com. My name Clay, pricepicks dot com. My name Clay,

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Speaker 3: this is almost as good as my pizza topping suggestion.

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Speaker 3: Pricepicks dot com code Clay.

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Speaker 9: Sometimes all you can do is laugh, and they do

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Speaker 9: a lot of it with the Sunday Hang Join Clay

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Speaker 9: and Buck as they laugh it up

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Speaker 7: In the Clay and Buck podcast feed, on the iHeartRadio app,

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