1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:10,639 Speaker 1: We appreciate all of you hanging out with us all 4 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: over the country and around the world. Encourage you as 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: always as we come up on the holiday season. You 6 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 1: want to make sure you don't miss a moment of 7 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 1: the show, you can search out my name Clay Travis, 8 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:25,279 Speaker 1: You can search out Buck Sexton subscribe to the podcast. Also, 9 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: we have spent a great deal of time in the 10 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: first hour of the program talking about the release of 11 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: documents from inside of Twitter surrounding the Hunter Biden laptop 12 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:41,160 Speaker 1: and the censorship that occurred at Twitter, certainly also at Facebook, 13 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:45,560 Speaker 1: at Instagram, all over the place. And as a part 14 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: of that discussion, we have also been focusing on the 15 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: internal individuals who are implementing the rules on a day 16 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: to day basis. One of the things that comes out 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: of the release of the information from Twitter is how 18 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: little Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, was actually involved 19 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:09,960 Speaker 1: in the decisions surrounding the Hunter Biden laptop. And this 20 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: is I think significant in the context of you. Oftentimes, Buck, 21 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 1: have leaders of companies who are big risk takers who 22 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: are fearless, who have built companies out of nothing into 23 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: really successful enterprises, and then you end up with these 24 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: diversity and inclusion losers that are faced and tasked with 25 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,680 Speaker 1: day to day management of the company, and they're destroying 26 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 1: internally everything that you built as the leader. And this 27 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 1: is why I like the fact that Evon Musk has 28 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: bought Twitter, because ultimately, Musk is a guy who says, 29 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: I am the decider, and this is on me if 30 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: it fails or if it doesn't. And we talked Buck 31 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: about the fact that the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, 32 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: by and large that they haven't covered these revelations coming 33 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: out of Twitter of the biggest corporate censorship that has 34 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: occurred in most of our lives associated with political campaigns. 35 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 1: And I look around and I think to myself, how 36 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: in the world is Jeff Bezos. I'm gonna take a 37 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: shot at Bezos here Washington Post. He's fearless, Buck right, 38 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: Whether you like or dislike Jeff Bezos, he made the 39 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: decision to risk his everything to build Amazon, and he 40 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: built a highly successful capitalist enterprise at Amazon that made 41 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: him one of the wealthiest people in the world. And 42 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 1: then he buys The Washington Post for two hundred and 43 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: fifty million dollars, and the newspaper now is run by 44 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: triple maskers obsessed with diversity and inclusion, and they don't 45 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: even really like capitalism. So I wonder on some level 46 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 1: why you would be an Elon Usk or a Jeff Bezos, 47 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 1: And I think they're they're different roads taken because they're 48 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: both fearless entrepreneurs who have had wild success, but with 49 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: the media companies that they've bought. The Elon Musk is 50 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: a hard, hard strongly committed to the First Amendment and 51 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 1: the right of everyone to express their opinions. And meanwhile 52 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 1: you've got Jeff Bezos, who is allowing people who are 53 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 1: curled up in the fetal position, wearing triple masks, convinced 54 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: that America is an awful place anti capital is to 55 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: run his media company. And my thought process is, just 56 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: why would you allow your media company? And I say 57 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: this as somebody who has a much smaller media company 58 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: that I ran an OutKick, but to become a representation 59 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,839 Speaker 1: of things that you yourself hate, because if you're a capitalist, 60 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: you can't like the way that the Washington Post is 61 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: being run. And does that make sense to you, Buck? Like, 62 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: I mean the thing about Jeff Bezos. The thing about 63 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: Jef Bezos is two hundred dollars means nothing to him, right, 64 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: So it's it's really a it's a vanity play, it's 65 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: a toy. It's well, I can own the Washington Post 66 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 1: and then I get more, more credits and more high fives, 67 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: although probably not touching hands because COVID, you know, scary. 68 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: But at no shaking hands either. Remember that no shaking hands. 69 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: That was a thing. Little fouch was going around saying 70 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: your hands are covered in germs. Um. I think for 71 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 1: him it's it's largely a virtue signaling play. I mean, 72 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: look at what Steve jobs widow. She she owns the Atlantic, Yes, 73 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: she owns a number. This this becomes almost like the 74 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: way some billionaires buy paintings. They'll buy media companies. It's again, 75 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: but but you you would buy a painting in theory 76 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,479 Speaker 1: because it speaks to you. And if I buy a 77 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: media company for two hundred and fifty million dollars and 78 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: then I run it as the antithesis of everything that 79 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: has led to me being successful as a as a businessman. 80 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: To me, it's just pathetic. Yet mindset is never that 81 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: is never that the individual. First of all, there's always 82 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 1: a sense if you're a leftist and you and you're 83 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 1: hyper successful, which there obviously are financially hyper successful leftist, 84 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: they start telling themselves one that they should feel guilty. 85 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: They generally suffer from some form of guilt for their 86 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 1: acquisition of wealth. And also they start telling themselves and 87 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 1: maybe they believed all along, oh, it was a collective. 88 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 1: It took a village for us to get here. So 89 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: now that mentality of the collective overall should be something 90 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 1: that I use my influence to propagate all across the country. 91 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: I think that when you're looking at someone like a 92 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 1: Neilon Musk versus a Jeff Bezos, I think Bezos believes 93 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: at some level, honestly believes at some level that what 94 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: the Washington Post is doing is in a very different 95 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: way saving the country because they think that if Republicans 96 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: have a voice, our democracy will end. I mean they've 97 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: they've convinced themselves of their own hysteria to a point 98 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: now or absolutism is their only goal. They're not seeking balance. 99 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: The Democrats seek a one party state. They seek totalitarian 100 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: control under the rubric of democratic elections and liberty. They 101 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: are anti liberal, as we know. That's why we try 102 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: not to refer them as liberals. I'll call them lives 103 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: as a pejorative intentionally so. But the reality is they 104 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,799 Speaker 1: think that they're in an existential struggle for this country, 105 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,599 Speaker 1: and that the freedom of the right to even make 106 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:31,720 Speaker 1: arguments on anything clay because it harms their overall power, 107 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 1: is a threat to the entire country. This is the 108 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:39,720 Speaker 1: grounds or the foundation of absolutism. And you see it 109 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: with everybody who buys into that ideology, whether they're a 110 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: billionaire or they're an activist marching in the streets. They've 111 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: convinced themselves of this. And this is also why they 112 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: bought into COVID so much too, because COVID gave them 113 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,320 Speaker 1: the initial excuse, or it gave them a tremendous excuse 114 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: for the absolutism based on medical tyranny that they had 115 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:01,039 Speaker 1: always sought through political means. Yeah, I just I guess 116 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: my thing is, I don't think Jeff Bezos is an 117 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: ardent leftist because I don't think you could be as 118 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: good of a business person as he has been in 119 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: building Amazon. I think he's been handcuffed by the company 120 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: that he bought and been unwilling to engage in the 121 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 1: necessary hand to hand combat that would have to occur 122 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 1: in order to put the Washington Post back in an 123 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: area where it is a representative paper of American democracy. 124 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: And I feel like he's being a coward. Whereas Elon 125 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: Musk came in and said, look, seventy five percent of 126 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: these people here are awful, They're unnecessary. I think Bezos 127 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 1: has not been willing to take that step at the 128 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: Washington Post. And the reason why I think both those 129 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: guys are in such divergent positions. Obviously, Musk paid far 130 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 1: more for Twitter than to your point, Jeff Bezos two 131 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million dollars a rounding air for him 132 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: in terms of what he bought with the Washington Post. 133 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: But let me just play this Yoel or Yoel Wroth, 134 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: however you pronounce his name, trying to explain why the 135 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: Babylon be which is a satirical online kind of the 136 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 1: Onion style newspaper for those of you who are not 137 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 1: familiar with it, I think we've had set the Dylan 138 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 1: on the program to talk about this before the Babylon 139 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 1: Bee was banned, was locked, had its account locked based 140 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: on saying that Rachel Levine, who is a man that 141 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: decided to identify as a woman, is an admiral, that 142 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: Rachel Levine was the man of the year. It was 143 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: a satirical headlines, a little bit funny, but also pointing 144 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: out the ridiculousness of our decisions as a society, which 145 00:08:43,160 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: is what satire does, and the lack of humor in 146 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: left wing ideology now cannot be underrated. Listen to this 147 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: discussion about why it was necessary to ban the babylon be. 148 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,439 Speaker 1: This is Joel Roth, who used to in charge basically 149 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: of Twitter content moderation. Listen Babylon Bee, which is what 150 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 1: got him to buy the thing. I think the Babylon 151 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: Bee's Man of the Year is Rachel Levine. Let's start 152 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:13,680 Speaker 1: from a premise that it's fucked up, but then again, 153 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: let's look at what Twitter's written policies are. Twitter's written 154 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 1: policies prohibit misgendering full stop. And the Babylon Bee, in 155 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:28,479 Speaker 1: the name of satire, misgendered Admiral Rachel Levine. Twitter rare nominally, 156 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 1: but it's still misgendering okay, and there can be a 157 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 1: very long and academic discussion of satire and sort of 158 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: the lines there, you know, we landed on the side 159 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:43,680 Speaker 1: of enforcing our rules. As written. He is humorless. He 160 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: actually reminds me of some kids that I grew up with, 161 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: where you know, if you hit them too hard during dodgeball, 162 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:53,679 Speaker 1: they'd be like, my daddy will sue you. You know, 163 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: he's just really a stickler for the rules, no sense 164 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: of fun, no sense of just like roll with it 165 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 1: and there's something bigger than your own little petty emotions 166 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: and feelings. But even at what was a Caress Swisher, 167 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:12,160 Speaker 1: she even feels looks she's a high IQ leftist and 168 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,959 Speaker 1: she's sitting there and she's like, I mean, you realize 169 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: how this sounds right, and he's just sticking right to it. 170 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 1: Are the worst caricatures that you could come up with 171 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: in your mind of who is making the decisions at Twitter, 172 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:27,080 Speaker 1: and as I've said, it's the same people at Facebook, 173 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:29,680 Speaker 1: at YouTube, at TikTok, at all of them. The worst 174 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: people that you can imagine to make these decisions were 175 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:35,280 Speaker 1: the ones making them, because they're the kind of people 176 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: I mean think about who even seeks out this job. 177 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: Who wants to work in trust and safety at Twitter? 178 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 1: Right now? And you know, eighty five percent of Twitter 179 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 1: has been fired and it's better than I love. Twitter 180 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: is the best that has ever been right now. Now 181 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:49,839 Speaker 1: he is awesome. It is the wild West. It is 182 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: free speech. Now, there's still some rules. Some people will 183 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 1: get suspended. You can't make death threats. There are things, 184 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 1: of course, and there should be, but man, it's it's 185 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,679 Speaker 1: amazing to see how much deadweight there was at that 186 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,839 Speaker 1: company and so many other companies too. You could basically 187 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 1: like the DNI office and the Trust and Safety Office people, 188 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: all they do is harass people they don't agree with 189 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:16,079 Speaker 1: through the court, through corporate mechanism, an easy test out there. 190 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: Totalitarianism is the opposite of humor. Authoritarianism does not like 191 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: being made fun of. And all of these people that 192 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: are in the censorship brigades over remember oftentimes jokes. They 193 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 1: lack the ability to laugh at themselves. They lack the 194 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:43,320 Speaker 1: ability to enjoy humor because they really do buy into 195 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: the idea that words are violence. And if you believe 196 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: that words are violence, then jokes are a threat to 197 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:55,320 Speaker 1: your worldview, and that is why I've been arguing that 198 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:00,839 Speaker 1: people in the Republican Party should as a aggressively as 199 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: you can, embrace humor, embrace comics if you're getting made 200 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 1: fun of. This is important if you're making a really 201 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 1: important point here, because one thing that has been true 202 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 1: for really all along about those and those who are 203 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: in power and have too much power, but particularly you've 204 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 1: seen this with the woke left in recent years. They 205 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 1: cannot abide mockery. Mockery is the one more than anything else, 206 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: more than a sound argument against them. If you ridicule them, 207 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: it really harms their power in a way that drives 208 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: them completely insane. So they they are constantly policing satire, mockery, ridicule. 209 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 1: They cannot allow it because their ideas are so worthy 210 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 1: of ridicule that it's actually the weak point, you know. 211 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:50,440 Speaker 1: It's it's the place on the Death Star where if 212 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: you drop in the missiles, the whole thing goes up. 213 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: I've been arguing for a long time buck that I 214 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:58,719 Speaker 1: seriously doubt whether they're really funny terrorists, right, it's kind 215 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,319 Speaker 1: of funny to think about, like you're around trying to plot, 216 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: you know, to be a terrorist. Do they laugh does 217 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 1: anybody really funny in the terrorist community, Like, is there 218 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 1: somebody everybody be like, oh, you know that abdul he 219 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,200 Speaker 1: always makes us laugh. My argument would be no, because 220 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: authoritarianism demands that you lose your sense of humor, because 221 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,480 Speaker 1: you can't abide by satire, mockery, any of it. And 222 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 1: that's where the left in this country is that are 223 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: all losers like this guy who we used to moderate 224 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: content at Twitter. 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Your donation can save a baby's life. 247 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: Sponsored by Preborn. Welcome back to Clay an Buck. You know, 248 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 1: Clay and I agree on a lot of things, not 249 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: all things. Sometimes you see things a little differently, and 250 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: one of them has to do with the royal family, 251 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: which I never want to hear the rest of my life. 252 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: I maybe have been swindled by my fiance and to 253 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: watching a little bit of the Crown on Netflix. But 254 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: you know, I will say the costuming and dialogue are exceptional. 255 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 1: Next but they I know, Buck, You're gonna be standing 256 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: outside of Buckingham Garden, Buckingham Palace for the new coordination, 257 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 1: like You're gonna be there like with your with your 258 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: Union Jack flag waving it. So I think the actual 259 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 1: royal family is like the biggest waste of time, especially 260 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: as an American. Honestly for anybody, but certainly for Americans. 261 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 1: Do we even care? And you can't escape it. The 262 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 1: Royals now they're all over the media, well Megan Markle 263 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 1: and her husband and the other one who's actually gonna 264 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: be the king or whatever the whole thing is. He 265 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 1: already the king. I can't even keep it to no, no no, 266 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: that's that William will eventually take over for Charles King 267 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: exactly right succession. Who cares poitier being I got a 268 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:53,080 Speaker 1: little backup from an unexpected source here that crosses over 269 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: into mister Clay Travis's world, the Boston Celtics. This is 270 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 1: now my new favorite head coach. Have a very astute, 271 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: very sound thinking head coach by the name of Joe Missoula. 272 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 1: I think that's right, and I'm not actually an expert 273 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 1: on his pronunciation. And he was asked about meeting the 274 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 1: royal family and Clay, I want you to hear how 275 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 1: this This amazing mind in sports and in general, responded 276 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 1: to the question about the British Royal family. Did you 277 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 1: get a chance to meet with the Royal family and 278 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 1: if not, how was it like having them there in 279 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: the building Jesus, Mary and Joseph, the Prince and Princess 280 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: of Wales. Oh no, I did not. I'm only familiar 281 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 1: with one royal family. I don't know too much about 282 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: that one, but I'm glad they're hopefully their Celtic fans. Boom. 283 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:47,560 Speaker 1: I thought only one royal family, and that's Jesus. Take 284 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 1: take that Royal family watchers they set courtside. I'm embarrassed 285 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 1: to admit how much I know about this. But Prince 286 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: William and Princess Kate have visited Boston. I think they 287 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: were in town over the weekend and they went and 288 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:06,120 Speaker 1: set courtside for the Celtics. Which is where that question 289 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:10,879 Speaker 1: came from. And sounds like that questioner much like me, 290 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: very interested in the royal family. How many episodes of 291 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: The Crown have you watched now? I'm on like three 292 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: or four. I think at this point we're making You're 293 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 1: in season one. Oh, yeah, Oh, you're gonna be watching 294 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: this for like the next year. I know, I know 295 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: ten minutes of me turning it on, so it's nice. 296 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 1: I actually haven't watched it, but I understand that I 297 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:36,119 Speaker 1: would love it, of course. And my wife, who is 298 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: a stude observer of the royal family, as most women, 299 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say fair to say women 300 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: do care more about the Royal Family than men. Carrie 301 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 1: caught me watching a movie about giant trolls in Norway 302 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 1: that was actually in Norwegian subtitled and there's like guys 303 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,439 Speaker 1: firing machine guns at these giant, angry trolls, and I 304 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: was like, I'm sorry, honey, let's watch the Crown. That 305 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: is an amazing plot. By the way, I'm actually intrigued 306 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: by the giant trolls. 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Obviously we're playing Christmas music there in 326 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:09,120 Speaker 1: the background. I hope all of you are having a 327 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 1: good holiday season as you get ready for Christmas and 328 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: the New year. No matter where you be across the country. 329 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: It's also a good recommendation to go subscribe to the 330 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: podcast because many of you are going to be traveling. 331 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 1: You might need to have some sanity in your life, 332 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,680 Speaker 1: particularly during the holidays, which can be stressful. Search out 333 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 1: my name Clay Travis search out Buck Sexton, Boom, you 334 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: will be good to go there. So, Buck, we've talked 335 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 1: a lot about the twenty twenty election and the New 336 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,360 Speaker 1: York Post, and I would encourage all of you who 337 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,720 Speaker 1: are just tuning in now if you missed the first hour. 338 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: Miranda Divine was great and the details about the New 339 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 1: York Post story why it matters, all of that very important. 340 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: Tomorrow we have a runoff election in Georgia, which will 341 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:58,639 Speaker 1: be the final part of the mid terms. But Buck, 342 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,199 Speaker 1: I believe that there was clearly a rig job in 343 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election. The data also reflects that if 344 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: you want to win elections, you cannot spend a lot 345 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 1: of time focused on the twenty twenty election. You have 346 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 1: to be looking forward. I understand it's frustrating to many 347 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: people out there, but the people who focused the most 348 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 1: ardently on twenty twenty almost overwhelmingly ended up losing in 349 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:32,119 Speaker 1: their elections. The people right, I'm talking about Republicans. The 350 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: Republicans who focused more on the future and less on 351 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:43,439 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one oftentimes landslides Trump. I'm afraid when I 352 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:47,719 Speaker 1: read his comments on truth social Buck, I just I 353 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:51,120 Speaker 1: don't think he's going to be able to leave twenty 354 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: twenty behind. And if he doesn't leave twenty twenty behind, 355 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: I don't think there's any way possible that he's going 356 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:04,159 Speaker 1: to get elected in twenty twenty four. I understand a 357 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,440 Speaker 1: lot of you out there listening right now are ardent 358 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 1: Trump supporters. That just because you support someone doesn't mean, 359 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 1: in my opinion, that you should blindly support everything that 360 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:20,120 Speaker 1: they do. We've talked on this program. We think Trump 361 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: should have fired Fauci. We think that the initial decision 362 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: to lockdown was wrong. You can think somebody did a 363 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: good job as president and not support every decision that 364 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:32,879 Speaker 1: they made. And buck As I watched the fallout of 365 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 1: this Twitter report over the weekend and read Trump's tweets, 366 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: and I say tweets their truth socials, but they're basically tweets, 367 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 1: I just said to myself, this guy cannot let go 368 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty. He didn't mention twenty twenty in his announcement, 369 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: but it's clear that that is still completely in his mind. 370 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 1: And I don't believe he can win in twenty four. 371 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,679 Speaker 1: And I don't even think he can get the nomination 372 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,679 Speaker 1: in twenty four he's going to focus on twenty twenty 373 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: as much as he has, including just throwing out crazy things, right, Like, 374 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 1: we can't just suddenly install Donald Trump in the presidency, right, 375 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,199 Speaker 1: I mean, that's not going to happen. He would have 376 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: to win in twenty four What did you think about 377 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 1: Trump's reaction to the Twitter story? In general, nobody who 378 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 1: is persuadable about where their vote will go wants to 379 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 1: hear about twenty twenty. The data on that is rock solid. 380 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 1: There's not a single person who looks at any of 381 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 1: the exit polling, any of the current polling, any of 382 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 1: the election outcomes and will say, you know what, you 383 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,560 Speaker 1: know what, Independence and swing voters are really into some 384 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: of that sweet sweet twenty twenty magic. They didn't want 385 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 1: to hear it. They didn't want to hear it and 386 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 1: talk and now people are saying, whoa, but what there's 387 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 1: no going back in a time machine. Okay, Biden is 388 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 1: now two years into his presidency. I can assure or 389 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,639 Speaker 1: everyone listening and they already know this. He's gonna have 390 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: two more years. Okay, he's gonna finish out his first term. 391 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 1: There's there's not gonna be any undoing of twenty twenty. 392 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,480 Speaker 1: They cheated. Yeah, okay, they cheat on a lot of things. 393 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: We have to win. Winning is all that matters, right, 394 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,879 Speaker 1: The winning is not what is it? Uh? You know 395 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,120 Speaker 1: there's a good I had a good sports quote. It's 396 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,680 Speaker 1: winning is not a good thing. It's the only thing 397 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 1: is not my clothes. Yes, I think that's right. Yes, yes, 398 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,920 Speaker 1: And Al Davis famously said, the former owner of the Raiders, 399 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:31,200 Speaker 1: what I've always said, just win baby. That was his line, 400 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,440 Speaker 1: Just win baby, And that's the what we've got to 401 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 1: do in twenty four. And you and I both look 402 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: at the data, and the data reflects that if Trump 403 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 1: cannot stop talking about twenty twenty, he's not gonna win 404 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: in twenty four. I don't even think he's gonna be 405 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,440 Speaker 1: the nominee. It's not helpful, right if if Clan I 406 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 1: or let's say Trump is the nominal, let's just say 407 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:50,680 Speaker 1: he's the nominee for a second. It's very possible. Still, 408 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 1: he's a nominee. We're gonna be with this show, and 409 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,000 Speaker 1: with all of you backing us trying to run I'm 410 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,879 Speaker 1: really going with the sports thing here today, trying to 411 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 1: run blocks for him. But if you're running back is 412 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 1: fumbling the ball. You know, over and over again, that's 413 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:05,959 Speaker 1: a problem. You have to deal with that when you're 414 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:07,520 Speaker 1: in the huddle. You got to talk about that, and 415 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,919 Speaker 1: twenty twenty as oh, we're going to fix it. The 416 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 1: only way to fix it is to win the next one. 417 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,639 Speaker 1: That's it. There's no there's no other, And I know 418 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: that's a Look what the Libs did in twenty sixteen. 419 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 1: They spent four years on Russia collusion. Now, the thing 420 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 1: about that was that not only did that play to 421 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: their their fantasy that Trump didn't actually win and Hillary did, 422 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: but just going along with that narrative was a weapon 423 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,960 Speaker 1: against the Trump presidency in real time. We're not doing that. 424 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 1: The people that are talking about twenty twenty, they're not 425 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: able to use that effectively as a means of opposing 426 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 1: the Biden administration. If anything, it's actually been shown to 427 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 1: be a political liability. They get special counsels based on 428 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,879 Speaker 1: their lie, They use the machinery of the lie, They 429 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 1: use the machinery rather of government based on the lie 430 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:59,400 Speaker 1: against Trump. So we need a whole rethink on how 431 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,520 Speaker 1: this is going to down and what I think the 432 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 1: best strategy will be going forward. Everybody needs to be 433 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 1: honest with our own team about what works and what doesn't. Hear. 434 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,199 Speaker 1: What works for Trump is taking on the media, is 435 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:18,640 Speaker 1: talking about illegal immigration, is talking about a strong economy, 436 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 1: is taking on China. Is speaking for the forgotten men 437 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: and men and women of America, speaking for the working 438 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,359 Speaker 1: class individuals who feel like the elitist Democrat Party spits 439 00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 1: on them because it does. That's what works for Trump. 440 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,879 Speaker 1: All this stuff about how, yeah, let's just redo the 441 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,440 Speaker 1: election or make me the that's it's just not helpful. 442 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 1: And we say this from a place of love. I 443 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,479 Speaker 1: don't know what else to say. We're saying it from 444 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:45,680 Speaker 1: a place of love. Yeah, and again, criticism does not 445 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: mean you're not going to support somebody. You're you're talking 446 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: about sports and how you sports analogies. If you have 447 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: a coach who is down two touchdowns and there's four 448 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 1: minutes to go and he's running the football, the crowd 449 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 1: may very well boo. It doesn't mean that they don't 450 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,920 Speaker 1: want the team to win. It's expressly because they want 451 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,680 Speaker 1: the team to win, and because the choices being made 452 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: are not calculated to make the team more likely to win. 453 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:21,119 Speaker 1: So people are so sensitive and I see this because 454 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 1: coming from the world of sports, I've done it for 455 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 1: a long time. If you say anything critical of a team, 456 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 1: they're like, oh my goodness, how dare you? You know? 457 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: But the reality is you gotta win, and criticism that 458 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,440 Speaker 1: helps your side be more likely to win is not 459 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: only the best possible use I think of this platform, 460 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 1: I think it's absolutely integral. So I'll say this, and 461 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 1: you and I both have many friends and had a 462 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 1: lot of connectivity with people in the Trump lighthouse, people 463 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 1: around Trump. We've had them on the show, but also offline. 464 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:57,920 Speaker 1: You know, We've been talked to them for years. We 465 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,359 Speaker 1: know these folks. One of the biggest problems Trump had 466 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 1: in office was that there was there was nobody who 467 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:10,679 Speaker 1: was trusted by him, in connection with and connected enough 468 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,160 Speaker 1: to the base to say to mister President, this isn't 469 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: this isn't the way you want to take this, take 470 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,440 Speaker 1: it down this pathway. And anybody who tried to recommend 471 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,959 Speaker 1: that from the outside was shouting down as a doubter, 472 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: who didn't want to play four D, who didn't know 473 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 1: how to play four D chats and everything else. Trump 474 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: has since admitted that his personnel decisions were very lacking 475 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 1: and a lot of the people. He's admitted that a 476 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: lot of people around him did not serve him well. 477 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,120 Speaker 1: So we just don't want that to be similar. If 478 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: there's going to be obviously a major push here for 479 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 1: him to be the Republican nominee. And and that's the 480 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 1: stuff on truth Social it's a reminder everybody the twenty 481 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,719 Speaker 1: sixteen playbook doesn't work. The twenty sixteen playbook isn't going 482 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,239 Speaker 1: to get it done this time around the media. He 483 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,679 Speaker 1: caught them all napping. It was like a sneak attack 484 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen. They didn't see him coming. They thought 485 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 1: it was a big joke. Now there they battened down 486 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 1: the hat the mension of Trump. It's like the mention 487 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 1: of Voldemort or something. Right, they all completely or sauron, 488 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: they all freak out. Look. You also mentioned that the 489 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: Democrats argued to twenty sixteen election was illegitimate all the 490 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: way they would have lost in twenty twenty if COVID 491 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 1: hadn't happened, Right, I think COVID was like an asteroid 492 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 1: that struck I mean, and even with the numbers that 493 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: were out there, Trump came within about twenty thousand people 494 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,879 Speaker 1: out of whatever it was, how many people voted. One 495 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million plus twenty thousand people in Wisconsin, 496 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 1: Georgia and Arizona needed to change their mind, and Trump 497 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: would have still won. Okay, forty thousand total votes, twenty 498 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 1: thousand people changed their mind, but that was COVID right. 499 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 1: The argument of they cheated and therefore we should win 500 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 1: doesn't work. I mean, Democrats tried it in two thousand 501 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,000 Speaker 1: after Bush one, and then he won a commanding victory 502 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 1: in two thousand and four. Every campaign is about the future, 503 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 1: and if you are focused on the past like Trump 504 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 1: is right now, you're going to lose. And so as 505 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 1: much of a rig job as there was, and I 506 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: think all this information is super important to come out, 507 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 1: and certainly we can talk about it, contextualize it, make 508 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,880 Speaker 1: sure that it never happens again, but you can't talk 509 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 1: about it as the guiding force for your campaign. You 510 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: and I we totally get it. I mean, if I'm 511 00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:34,960 Speaker 1: Carrie Lake, I'm super ticked off about what happened in 512 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 1: Arizona with the voting machines and everything else. And you 513 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:39,600 Speaker 1: do what you can, you bring the suits you can, 514 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: but it's not going to change, you know they I 515 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: mean like if the refs were bought off and the 516 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: game is over, the game is over. You got to 517 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 1: think about the next game. You learn from what happened 518 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: in the game that you think was rigged or they 519 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,800 Speaker 1: cheated or whatever it may be, and you move on 520 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: to the next one, because otherwise you're ensuring another loss. 521 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 1: And I think that's really what we're trying to trying 522 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: to get here. I mean, it's so it's amazing to me. 523 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 1: You know how they do those those media like focus 524 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 1: group they'll show uh, you know, oh, if someone's talking, 525 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,160 Speaker 1: you know, negative versus positive sentiment, they'll try to show 526 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 1: it in real time. Yes, And I can tell you 527 00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 1: when Trump is talking about the issues, the sentiment from republic, 528 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,959 Speaker 1: from voters in general, not including Democrats who hate him, 529 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 1: but voters in general, it's just going up and up 530 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 1: and up. When he's taken the fight to the other 531 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:27,239 Speaker 1: side and doing what he does so well. When when 532 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 1: the talk is about twenty twenty, the sentiment turns negative 533 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 1: very quickly because people, you know, we're gonna be four 534 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 1: years out from that. Now. Look, if you disagree with this, 535 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: let us know this is ongoing conversations called all of 536 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 1: you as well, and I know it's it's there's some 537 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,320 Speaker 1: frustrations here, but we gotta be happy warriors. We've got 538 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: to stay in the fight. 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I 563 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: think you had mentioned recently what the word of the 564 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: year was according to what was a Miriam webster. I 565 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 1: think that's right. Yeah, so this is now a good 566 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 1: way for these various they used to be dictionary books 567 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:22,840 Speaker 1: now their websites. Basically, the Oxford English Dictionary and Online 568 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:26,240 Speaker 1: has picked its word of the year for twenty twenty two. 569 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 1: And I will tell you I did not know what 570 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 1: this was. So I am learning something new. I think 571 00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 1: a lot of our audience will be learning something new 572 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,040 Speaker 1: as well. The terms that it now it's also sometimes 573 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,160 Speaker 1: a term more than a word. The terms or words 574 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 1: that it beat out were number two and number three. 575 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,520 Speaker 1: This is all based on public polling by the way 576 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: hashtag I stand with, which I don't even know. That's like, 577 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,520 Speaker 1: I don't get why that's even in the running here, 578 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 1: but there must have been something that I missed and 579 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,360 Speaker 1: I don't know. But then everybody understands that though that's 580 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 1: not very complicated, that's not complicated, and also that's not 581 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:02,000 Speaker 1: particularly in the zeit geist. Another fun word, another fun word, 582 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:07,040 Speaker 1: metaverse was number two in this one, which we've all 583 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: we kind of you know, you think of like Zuckerberg 584 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 1: being a nerd with a headset on virtual reality or 585 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,680 Speaker 1: buy into this metaverse stuff. I don't no, noyeah, well, 586 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 1: I don't think anyone does. Look at Facebook. Facebook stock 587 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,920 Speaker 1: is tanked, but I just don't buy in that this 588 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,240 Speaker 1: metaverse is that big of a thing. Sometimes I see 589 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,680 Speaker 1: things like HD television, for instance. First time I saw 590 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 1: HD television, I was like, everybody's got to have this 591 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,200 Speaker 1: put on three D television. I was like, I never 592 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:37,800 Speaker 1: want to. So Carrie got for our home here, she 593 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:43,640 Speaker 1: got a new TV that is it can turn into 594 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,920 Speaker 1: artwork on the wall. This is amazing, Like it turns 595 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 1: into a painting and it actually kind of looks like 596 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 1: you get a frame for it. Now, but then it's 597 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 1: a super high quality televisions. I remember in college having 598 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 1: to get three of my friends to help me lug 599 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 1: one of those TVs. Remember TV's used to be like 600 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,240 Speaker 1: three feet deep. Yeah you know, I mean never mind 601 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 1: how big the screen was. And you'd go to some like, 602 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 1: you know, Bob's TV Store or whatever, and you'd need 603 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,239 Speaker 1: like a couple of your frat brow buddies from the 604 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,640 Speaker 1: football team to come over and help you. That thing 605 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,319 Speaker 1: weighed like two hundred pounds and you carry it up 606 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,560 Speaker 1: the stairs in your dorm room. And it was super 607 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,080 Speaker 1: most expensive thing I ever bought in college was my TV. 608 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 1: I think, I think, you know, it was probably I 609 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,120 Speaker 1: can't remember now, maybe you've spent five hundred bucks on 610 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,359 Speaker 1: a team. I think got about screen something like that. 611 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 1: So that was my biggest purchase. And the thing was huge. 612 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:35,880 Speaker 1: I mean you could use it as a weapon in 613 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,200 Speaker 1: a pinch, if you could just sort of roll it 614 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 1: down the stairs at somebody. Now you get these flat 615 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,320 Speaker 1: screen TVs. They're seventy inches and it's like, oh yeah, doorstop, 616 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 1: I mean a you know Doorbuster on Black Friday. It's 617 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 1: like a hundred bucks a TV that looks like it's 618 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 1: from Star Trek. Anyway, It's been amazing the change in 619 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,279 Speaker 1: television quality over the years, and it just shows you 620 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 1: when the market is allowed to do what it does, 621 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,799 Speaker 1: it can do profit a lot on the boards. Yeah. 622 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:02,680 Speaker 1: The word of the year though, is goblin mode. Had 623 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,799 Speaker 1: you ever heard of goblin mode before? This is the 624 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,319 Speaker 1: word of the year according to the Oxford English Dictionary. 625 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:10,880 Speaker 1: The only thing I can think of is that it 626 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:15,879 Speaker 1: is a you know, video game phrase, right, is that right? 627 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,239 Speaker 1: It's a term that refers to a type of behavior 628 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:25,719 Speaker 1: which is unapologetically self indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy. It 629 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 1: goes back to Beast mode, which is from the nineteen 630 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,239 Speaker 1: eighty eight Sega video game Altered Beast, which I gotta 631 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:36,560 Speaker 1: say I loved that game. That game back in the 632 00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,600 Speaker 1: arcade Remember when arcades were a thing. You'd go to 633 00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:44,600 Speaker 1: arcade and pump coins in an Altered Beast instead. There is, Yeah, 634 00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:46,759 Speaker 1: there's some connection to video gaming. I'm not even really 635 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,640 Speaker 1: sure it is, but goblin mode is basically, you know, 636 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:51,080 Speaker 1: you didn't really have this because you lived in the 637 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,480 Speaker 1: Free State of Tennessee during the pandemic. I mean, there 638 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,879 Speaker 1: were times Clay when I would sort of like wake 639 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,880 Speaker 1: up in a haze on the couch during lockdown, and 640 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,840 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, maybe I'm gonna take some cheetos 641 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:03,879 Speaker 1: and mix them in with the pad tie that's on 642 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,799 Speaker 1: my chest, you know, like you just that's goblin mode. 643 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,359 Speaker 1: I think, yeah, we didn't have goblin mode. The word 644 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:11,760 Speaker 1: that I have heard and I don't know it's a word. 645 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:17,959 Speaker 1: Have you heard the phrase NPC. It's a video game 646 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:24,680 Speaker 1: related phrase, nonplayable character. It's like somebody in the background 647 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,680 Speaker 1: who was moving around like as part of the video game. 648 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,279 Speaker 1: My boys used like Joe Biden, like he's there but 649 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,040 Speaker 1: not doing a Joe Biden would be an NPC president. 650 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,879 Speaker 1: Nonplayable character, I think is what it stands for. They 651 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,480 Speaker 1: use the phrase NPC all the time to describe like 652 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 1: things that are going on video game world that I 653 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,759 Speaker 1: would I've never heard of that before. Nonplayable character. It's 654 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,160 Speaker 1: a big deal now for the kid though, that