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 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. Tomorrow. 3 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton is getting married. I was just telling him 4 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:17,880 Speaker 1: off air. I think he is probably the first radio 5 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:20,520 Speaker 1: show host to do a show the day before he 6 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: gets married. And you'll be with us on Monday because 7 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: you don't leave for the honeymoon until Thursday. So I 8 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: can't imagine there are very many radio show hosts who 9 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,480 Speaker 1: are doing a show the day before marriage and effectively 10 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: the day after a marriage. What is it like on 11 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:40,239 Speaker 1: the eve of your forty one years old? You've been 12 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:43,159 Speaker 1: single your whole life? What does it feel like on 13 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: the eve of the big day? Very exciting, looking forward 14 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: to it, Just gonna be a great time down here. 15 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like this is when someone 16 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 1: asked somebody before, like the Super Bowl, what do you 17 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: think it's like? Obviously I'm excited. It's gonna be awesome. 18 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: There we go sou forty one years. I mean, that's again, 19 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 1: it's a long time to be a bachelor. Now, what's 20 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: the closest you ever got to marriage in those forty 21 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,680 Speaker 1: one years? You're there now, basically tomorrow. You never got engaged, 22 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 1: never liked dope, you ever buy a ring? Nope? Yeah, 23 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 1: all right, well I am we may you know you know, Clay, 24 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 1: when you know you know Carrie is fantastic. We may 25 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 1: have some wedding advice segments that could appear during the 26 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: course of today's show. Um from people you may know. 27 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,679 Speaker 1: Just tossing it out there, So keep your head on 28 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: a swivel. Never know what might happen in the day 29 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: before your wedding. Carrie, I understand when out last night 30 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 1: with a couple of her bridesmaids, you did what on 31 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: the Thursday before your wedding? Well, since I feel like 32 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 1: I'm put on the spot, I'm just gonna tell every 33 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: the truth. Carrie went out celebrated with her bridesmaids and 34 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: her closest friends. I found a gluten free pizzeria down 35 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: here in Florida, and I ordered a pizza and I 36 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: watched King Lear the adaptation starring Anthony Hopkins by myself 37 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,399 Speaker 1: and my pajamas. It was glorious. It was glorious. It 38 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: does sound like kind of an awesome knife. I'm not 39 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: gonna lie. My brothers asked me, like, should we should 40 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: we throw a bachelor party for you? I was like, 41 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: I'm it will be a bachelor party of one. It 42 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: was great. I guess that's one advantage too. Also when 43 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,239 Speaker 1: you get to, you know, forty one. I got married 44 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: when I was twenty five, so i took the bar 45 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 1: exam and immediately I'd never been to Vegas before, immediately 46 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: flew to Vegas. For people out there who remember, like 47 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 1: the two thousand and four era of Vegas, the place 48 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 1: you wanted to be was the hard Rock Hotel. It 49 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: doesn't even exist now, it's the Virgin Hotel. I believe 50 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: it's been bought and changed the name. But they had 51 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,919 Speaker 1: a Sandy Beach pool and they had a pool party 52 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: because the Vegas pool party scene was just kind of 53 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: starting off. If you haven't noticed this, people would rather 54 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 1: a lot of times go to an expensive pool party 55 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: in the middle of the day in Vegas now than 56 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: like the nightclub scene. Sometimes they're mixed together. It's it's 57 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: really kind of a crazy business that they built out there. 58 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: But that was first something I'd ever been to Vegas. 59 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: We had an awesome time. I can't believe it's been 60 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: almost nineteen years since I got married, but if I 61 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: was forty and I was getting married for the first time, 62 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 1: I don't think i'd be like, yeah, I have to 63 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: go to a bachelor party. You feel like you had 64 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: like basically a twenty year as an adult bachelor party, right, 65 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 1: I mean, when you've been like single for that long, 66 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: that's one way to put it. I mean, if you 67 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: get if you're a single guy from eighteen to forty one, 68 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 1: like you've you've you've had an opportunity you kind of 69 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: live the bachelor. I haven't. I have enjoyed a full 70 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: life up to this point and feel no need to 71 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: star in my own version of The Hangover if you 72 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: will for those movie all right, that's a fabulous movie. 73 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 1: I don't even know if they could make it today. 74 00:03:55,720 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: Um now, Joe Biden just one of many fabulous movies, 75 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: by the way that I questioned if they could make 76 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: it today, Old school like, such an incredible movie. I 77 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: don't know that they could make it today. They should, 78 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: by the way, the movie would be just as popular, 79 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: if not more so, today because I think people would 80 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: embrace it even more. Super Bad also another incredible movie. 81 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,479 Speaker 1: Not sure they could make it just in the last 82 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: twenty years. Those movies. Joe Biden just had a press availability, 83 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 1: hasn't really had a press conference. I don't think if 84 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 1: they'll allow him to have some questions screamed at him 85 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: and Buck. When Joe Biden came into the White House, 86 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: inflation was one point four percent. After his drunken sailor 87 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:44,239 Speaker 1: esque spending escapades and economic consequences setting in inflation surged 88 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: all the way to nine point one percent. Remember Joe 89 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 1: Biden said, the adults are going to be back in charge. 90 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 1: There also is a Chinese spy balloon that is currently 91 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: floating above Montana, I believe, which we will talk about 92 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: during the course of today's show. But I thought this 93 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: was revealing. Biden said, take responsibility. I'm going to be 94 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 1: the adult in charge. He was directly asked, hey, are 95 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:10,239 Speaker 1: you responsible for inflation? Here's what he said, I'm taking 96 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 1: blame inflation. No, why not? Because it was already there 97 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 1: when I got here. Man, Remember what the economy was 98 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: like when I got here. Jobs were a hemorrhage, inflation 99 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:24,160 Speaker 1: was rising. We weren't manufacturing and dance thing here. We 100 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 1: were in real economic difficulty. That's why I don't it's crazy. 101 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: The economic difficulty was self imposed at that point when 102 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: he took over, basically by Democrat states that refused to 103 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: act normally and open up. I mean, so, so start 104 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: with that, right. All the dislocations we saw in the economy, 105 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 1: unfortunately were a response and a completely unnecessary and wrong 106 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: response to COVID. We should never have locked down, We 107 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: should never have done PPP because we should have never 108 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: told people they couldn't go to their jobs. But you know, 109 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 1: all of this, all the things that happened that led 110 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: to I think it was six trillion of spending in 111 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,040 Speaker 1: twenty twenty when Trump was in office, and then the 112 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 1: additional two trillion plus it would have been five trillion 113 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 1: if they had gotten their way in Biden's first year 114 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: in office. This is like running an experiment to create inflation. 115 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: It was obviously something that people have now figured out 116 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: was a bad idea, or at least a lot of 117 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: people figured out it's a bad idea. And it should 118 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: be noted that the Democrats, there's a cognitive dissonance. There 119 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: are ideas they hold in their heads simultaneously that cannot coexist, 120 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: but yet they still hold them in their heads. Democrats 121 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: bid didn't think Democrats like bi didn't think that the 122 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: spending problem is somehow not related to the inflation problem, 123 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 1: that these are separate issues, which of course they are 124 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: not right. This is like that your house is burning 125 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 1: down because it is on fire. It is not burning 126 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 1: down separately from the fire that is engulfing the house. 127 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: They just don't care, though, Man, they'll they'll keep on 128 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:01,280 Speaker 1: telling people it's someone else's fall. It's the Remember when 129 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: it was the greedy corporations clay, Oh, yeah, there was 130 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: that price that hasn't come back up because obviously the 131 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: oil companies have made a lot of money. If you've 132 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: been paying attention to Exxon Chevron, they've had some of 133 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 1: the most profitable quarters they've ever had as public companies 134 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 1: because the price of oil and gas skyrocketed and they 135 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: aren't able to invest and produce more oil and gas 136 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: because the Biden administrations basically said, hey, we want to 137 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: destroy your business. So instead of spending more and more 138 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: money on infrastructure, they're just starting to rely and crank 139 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: up the profit wheel. And more power to them. But 140 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: the thing that's disappointing about this is it's a direct lie. 141 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's policies caused inflation to skyrocket. Again, It's important 142 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: to note when Biden came into office in January of 143 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:53,920 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, inflation was one point four percent. It 144 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 1: almost immediately started to skyrocket because one of the first 145 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: things he did, if I remember correctly, Buck was poor 146 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: one point nine trillion. Wasn't at one point nine trillion 147 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 1: that they spent on COVID relief, I mean entirely Democrat 148 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 1: by the way, not a single Republican vote for that 149 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: spending package. Then they came in and did infrastructure, and 150 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 1: then they were trying, as you said, Buck, to spend 151 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: five trillion dollars and Joe Mansion was basically the only 152 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: Democrat who kept that five trillion in spending from occurring. 153 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: And I got to give credit. I was reading this 154 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: morning in the New York Times, or maybe it was 155 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:28,840 Speaker 1: yesterday in the New York Times. It's a big profile 156 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: piece on Joe Mansion and what he's potentially going to 157 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 1: do in the Times, and Senator Mark Warner, who was 158 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 1: a Democrat governor from a Democrat senator from Virginia formerly 159 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: the governor as well, he came out and said, you 160 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: know what, we were wrong, And you rarely see a 161 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 1: politician say it. He said, in particular, I was wrong, 162 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: meaning Senator Warner of Virginia, Joe Mansion was right not 163 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,080 Speaker 1: to allow us to spend that five trillion dollars, because 164 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 1: if we had, we would have been in infinitely worse 165 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: shape as it pertained to I actually read it, and 166 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 1: it's so rare for a politician buck to say, you 167 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: know what, I was wrong, And more power to Warner 168 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: for saying he was wrong. But it further illustrates what 169 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: should be a huge part of this story. Not only 170 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 1: did Biden get us to nine point one buck, it 171 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 1: would have been infinitely worse if he had actually gotten 172 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:22,079 Speaker 1: what he wanted. And I do think it's fair to 173 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: start to look at these things in a context. What's 174 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: a bigger problem for the American people? You know, George 175 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: Santos saying that he invented electricity, or Joe Biden signing 176 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,319 Speaker 1: a bill passed by the Democrats called the Inflation Reduction 177 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:44,959 Speaker 1: Act that will do nothing, nothing to reduce inflation. They 178 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: are lying to people. Yes, they just created a talking 179 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 1: point and they went with it. It is a lie. 180 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: They know that it will not reduce inflation. No serious 181 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: human being will say it will reduce inflation. There's no 182 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 1: person you can find who would ever be able to 183 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: defend that. But they want you to get really upset 184 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 1: over you know, santos cure in cancer when he was twelve. Like, 185 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 1: this is not something that I think we should allow 186 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 1: to go unremarked upon. The Democrat Party embraces enormous and 187 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: obvious lies when it suits their political needs, and they're 188 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,679 Speaker 1: doing it. They're doing it obviously with inflation. They've done 189 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: it on a whole range of issues. The notion that 190 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 1: they don't want an open border, yes they do. They 191 00:10:25,240 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 1: want the border to be open. They're doing nothing to 192 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 1: stop this nothing, So we have to look at it honestly. Yeah, 193 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 1: and it's to your point, what are the consequences in 194 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: a large scale of what George Santos lied about. I 195 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:40,199 Speaker 1: think that people in his district should have the opportunity 196 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 1: to render a verdict on him next year in the 197 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: primary when they decide who is going to be the 198 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: representative for that community. But in the meantime, there are 199 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 1: almost no consequences in terms of larger national public policy 200 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: from his lies. There's huge consequences every time Joe Biden 201 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 1: comes out and lies about something like this, hey, inflation 202 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 1: is already surging. Or really, this is not a lie, 203 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: it's an it's a it's a truth that is not 204 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: directly responsible for the way that it's being applied. And 205 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: that's poorly phrase. But when Joe Biden says we've created 206 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 1: twelve million new jobs or whatever the number is, those 207 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: are not new jobs. Those are people that Democrats were 208 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 1: not allowing to work because of their COVID lockdowns to 209 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:28,560 Speaker 1: a large degree to punish Donald Trump in an election year, 210 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: and as soon as Joe Biden was in office, they 211 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: allowed those people. Many of those states, those blue states, Illinois, 212 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 1: New York, California chief among them. They said, oh, you 213 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:41,079 Speaker 1: can go back to work now. Well, when you get 214 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:43,560 Speaker 1: to go back to the job that you already had, 215 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: that's not a new job. When the government tells you 216 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 1: that you can't work and then you go back to 217 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: work because the government allows you to do it again, 218 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: taking credit for that as a new job is. It 219 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: may be true, you know, from a you know, sort 220 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 1: of basic fact, dual perspective, But everybody out there listening 221 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: right now understands the difference between creating thirteen million or 222 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 1: twelve million or whatever it is jobs that did not 223 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: exist and allowing people to go back and so taking 224 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 1: credit for that while also simultaneously saying I had nothing 225 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 1: to do with inflation is a combination. Why on the 226 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: economy that Joe Biden has been basically putting out there 227 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: ever since he came into office. I think everyone needs 228 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 1: to get ready though, for the reality that the inflation 229 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 1: issue is unlikely to be helpful in twenty twenty four 230 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 1: for Republicans because it wasn't helpful enough in twenty twenty 231 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: two when it was really it was really that's right. 232 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: It does remind me a lot of the situation that 233 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:50,479 Speaker 1: we faced in twenty two twelve with Barack Obama's reelection. 234 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 1: At that point, the evidence was all very clear that 235 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: it was the weakest recovery in the history in the 236 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: weakness economic recovery since World War Two. So you would 237 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:06,679 Speaker 1: think a super weak recovery would be no, actually not enough. 238 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: Barack Obama one beat mid Romney by a lot. So 239 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 1: you know, the inflation issue, it's it's affecting people, but 240 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 1: it's it's almost like when people vote about people despise 241 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:18,959 Speaker 1: Congress and don't trust Congress. Right, we all know that 242 00:13:19,040 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 1: they'll always say all the polls show Congress is, you know, 243 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 1: about as popular as strep throat. But then when you 244 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: ask somebody about their member of Congress, yeah, it's like, well, 245 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: my guy's good or my gal is good. She does 246 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:34,000 Speaker 1: the good things right, So it's never as simple as well, yeah, 247 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: inflations bothersome. But will they really vote on it? Will 248 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: they really care when when push comes to shove on it? 249 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 1: You know, I don't have answers to that, but I 250 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,200 Speaker 1: do know that they lie about it, and I do 251 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 1: think that calling a bill that was just a spending 252 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 1: bill the Inflation Reduction Act was was the most brave, 253 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:53,200 Speaker 1: one of the most brazen lies that Biden has told 254 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: since he's been in office, or that he's been a 255 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: part of since he became president. And the fact that 256 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:01,960 Speaker 1: every time the media references it buck they call it 257 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 1: that right, which is crazy branding in and of itself, 258 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 1: that they assist in the big lie that that actually 259 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: is the Inflation Reduction Act. You want to support companies 260 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 1: that see the world the way you do, I've got 261 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 1: a suggestion, consider switching to pure Talk for your cell 262 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 1: phone service. Pure Talk is the antidote to woke wireless. 263 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 1: It's every bit as good as T Mobile, AT and 264 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: T or Verizon. 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Do you ever 283 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: see that Clay when they have the spot when they 284 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 1: have the plane or the balloon that you know, like 285 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 1: a goodyear blamp or something, but it is not actually 286 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: here to congratulate me on my on my upcoming nuptials. 287 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: It is a spy balloon from China, China, and it 288 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: is it has been flying over the United States for 289 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 1: a couple of days. So you also have the backdrop 290 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: to this pretty interesting US Secretary of State Anthony blink 291 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 1: and supposed to go to Beijing in I think it 292 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: was it today. I mean, it was imminent his departure, 293 00:15:55,920 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: and it looks like they're they're pushing back the the trip. 294 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 1: He's postponing his trip to China. The bid administration, it 295 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 1: looks totally flummixed by this. There's this spy balloon that 296 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 1: was they said, Okay, so the Chinese government is claiming 297 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: this thing is a weather balloon. Sure that has blown 298 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: off course because of force mazure it is where where 299 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 1: would it? I mean, these are good questions that I 300 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 1: would love to know the answer. But it seems to 301 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: me that if you had a weather balloon in China 302 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: and it now is over the central United States, evidently 303 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: as it continues to just kind of float around like 304 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: that's a really wildly off course balloon the weather balloon, 305 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: isn't it. I mean, like, I where was it intended 306 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: to be? Yeah, that's a good question. I mean that 307 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: you know, we're we don't know, man. I look, I'll 308 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: tell you spy balloons was not in my AO at 309 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 1: the CIA, Like, this is not something I spent a 310 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 1: lot of time with. The closest thing I can think 311 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: of would be the you know, defensive sort of balloon 312 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: surveillance stuff that you had up on US military basis. 313 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: But these things operate at at higher than commercial air traffic, 314 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 1: so that's part of this too. It is way way 315 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 1: up there. So unless you've got like a U two 316 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 1: spy plane, which can go up to eighty thousand feet, 317 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 1: this is above commercial airline traffic level in the sky. 318 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 1: So it's not like people walking around Montana like, hey, 319 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,399 Speaker 1: look at the balloon. Apparently now it has even moved 320 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 1: a bit more right, I think it's in the central 321 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 1: part of the country. Now is the report? I mean, 322 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: they're saying they're afraid to shoot it down because of debris. 323 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: But if you're shooting it down over Montana, how much 324 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: debris we're really talking about here? Right. I mean, you know, 325 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:49,920 Speaker 1: just tell everybody in the area look duck and cover. 326 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 1: I don't know, like I think you gotta just I 327 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:54,280 Speaker 1: think you gotta shoot this thing down. Why wouldn't you 328 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: shoot this thing down? It's intelligence gathering. I think you 329 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:00,439 Speaker 1: got to shoot it down. And also, what would a 330 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 1: Republican governor from shooting it down? I want to talk 331 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 1: about that when we come back. If it's over the 332 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:09,199 Speaker 1: state airspace, would a governor of a red state not 333 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 1: have the authority to shoot this thing down himself. I'm 334 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: just wondering, if you're looking to improve your sleep at night, 335 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:19,679 Speaker 1: why not start with a new set of sheets, really 336 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:23,639 Speaker 1: comfortable sheets. How about the Geeza Dream sheets. They really 337 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 1: are phenomenal. I love climbing into bed every single night 338 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 1: with these. 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For those of you out there in the 358 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: in the country who did not hear the open of 359 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,399 Speaker 1: the show, Buck is getting married tomorrow, there may be 360 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:38,639 Speaker 1: marital advice that arrives occasionally during the course of the show. 361 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 1: The staff did a good job collating marriage advice. My 362 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: wife's marriage advice for you, Buck is, don't listen to 363 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 1: anything that I suggest at all. Um. So there there there, 364 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: happily married for for twenty some odd years. You're like 365 00:19:56,600 --> 00:20:00,480 Speaker 1: of marital advice, She says, that's because of her, because 366 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 1: of me, I guess. So you should listen to everything 367 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 1: she says and nothing I say, which frankly is a 368 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:08,919 Speaker 1: lot of what many wives would say about their marital 369 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 1: relationships as well. All right, so this shiny spy thing, 370 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 1: I've got so many questions about it, and we're gonna 371 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,239 Speaker 1: play a couple of audio clips because the Pentagon has 372 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: done a spokes spokesperson has come out and tried to 373 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 1: answer some of these questions. But my first question that 374 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: I just can't get over is how is it not 375 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 1: United States policy that the minute any foreign spycraft enters 376 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:40,120 Speaker 1: into our airspace, we immediately shoot it down. So initially 377 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 1: the reports are that this was in Montana, so I 378 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:48,120 Speaker 1: don't know if it came across Canada or if it 379 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:50,760 Speaker 1: came all the way across from you know, like it 380 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,119 Speaker 1: came across the Pacific and went across Washington and we 381 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:56,680 Speaker 1: didn't really notice or didn't go public until it got 382 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: to Montana. I haven't seen any story explanation of how 383 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: it came to be in Montana. Now it's in the 384 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 1: middle part of the country. But my first primary question 385 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: here is did we not know that this had entered 386 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:14,199 Speaker 1: United States airspace? And how is it not just straightforward 387 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 1: no questions asked American policy to immediately shoot down foreign 388 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 1: spy craft that enters into our airspace. That seems like 389 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: it should be like a basic rule of our policy. Well, 390 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,360 Speaker 1: this is unmanned, so that makes it a lot easier, right, 391 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,119 Speaker 1: So it's you know, you could think back to the 392 00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: Soviet Union and the shootdown of the of the U 393 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,679 Speaker 1: two spy plane, which created a huge international incident that 394 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,919 Speaker 1: only happened because the plane had a malfunction if I 395 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 1: recall and had to drop down to altitude where Soviet 396 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:53,440 Speaker 1: missiles could actually lock onto it. But this is unmanned, 397 00:21:54,080 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 1: and I don't know, I think the we're scared about 398 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 1: what would happen if we shot it down down falling debris. 399 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 1: I find that unpersuasive, especially when it's over. When it's 400 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: over Montana, I mean, no no events to Montana. But 401 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: like there's a lot of places you could shoot down 402 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: a balloon in Montana. It's not going to hit anybody, right, 403 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 1: I mean, this isn't You're not shooting it down over 404 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 1: downtown Los Angeles, So I would think you'd be able 405 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 1: to pick an area where it's you know, very very 406 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 1: very unlikely to pose a risk to anyone. I don't 407 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 1: know how much. I look, I'm not a spy balloon expert. 408 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: I'm say, yeah, this is not some things I know 409 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:32,160 Speaker 1: a lot about. This isn't one of them. I don't 410 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,679 Speaker 1: know how much actual machinery and how you know how 411 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: much dangerous debris would come from a shootdown. But I 412 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 1: gotta think you're shooting it down because the alternative is 413 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,200 Speaker 1: it just let it keep floating around in America taking 414 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 1: photos and sensors and whatever it wants of whatever it wants. Yeah, 415 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 1: and again, my point on this is just I don't 416 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 1: understand how American policy isn't to immediately shoot down any 417 00:22:54,680 --> 00:23:00,880 Speaker 1: spycraft that enters into our country. I mean, like, so, 418 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: I want to know how long this has been here 419 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,159 Speaker 1: and why we suddenly find out about it in Montana. 420 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: We got a couple of cuts here. I'm going to 421 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:10,920 Speaker 1: play for you. This is the Department of Defense Press 422 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 1: Secretary pat Ryder giving a balloon update this morning at 423 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,920 Speaker 1: the Pentagon List in regards to our announcement last night 424 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 1: regarding the high Altitude Surveillance balloon. I'm not going to 425 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 1: have much new information to provide other than to say 426 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 1: that the North American Aerospace Defense Command continues to monitor 427 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,360 Speaker 1: it closely. While we won't get into specifics in regards 428 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: to the exact location, I can tell you that the 429 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,879 Speaker 1: balloon continues to move eastward and is currently over the 430 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: center of the continental United States. Again, we currently assess 431 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 1: that the balloon does not present a military or physical 432 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:46,560 Speaker 1: threat to people on the ground at this time. Okay, 433 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,439 Speaker 1: we got one more here, because you can see by 434 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 1: the way, you can see according to Pentagon spokesman, the 435 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:54,919 Speaker 1: balloon from the ground, So I guess it can operate 436 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: at any thousand to sixty to eighty thousand feet, but 437 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 1: maybe it's lower because then another saying you can see this, 438 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,440 Speaker 1: I guess it would partly depend on cloud cover, right, 439 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 1: so depending on where you are. But my question, I 440 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: want to play one more cut for everybody out there 441 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,639 Speaker 1: who's getting informed about this. But my question is do 442 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 1: individual state governors if the Biden administration is saying we're 443 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 1: concerned about the debris falling or whatever else, why would 444 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 1: an individual state governor not have the authority to protect 445 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:33,880 Speaker 1: the airspace of his state using his own air National 446 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 1: Guard and shoot this thing down. I'm just asking that question. 447 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,879 Speaker 1: I don't know what state it's over right now, but 448 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 1: let's pretend it's over Nebraska right now. I would think 449 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 1: it would be popular politically in Nebraska for the governor 450 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:52,360 Speaker 1: of Nebraska to shoot down a Chinese spy balloon, right 451 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,639 Speaker 1: if it continues and it's in my state of Tennessee 452 00:24:55,840 --> 00:25:00,240 Speaker 1: or Alabama or any other clearly read state. And to 453 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 1: your point, Buck, there are lots of parts of any 454 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: state that are farmland right where there's not a great 455 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 1: deal of industry. I agree, you don't necessarily want to 456 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 1: shoot anything down over a major metropolitan area, but most 457 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,959 Speaker 1: of Montana, where we initially became aware of this, is farmland. 458 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:24,119 Speaker 1: And there's always the danger of falling debris right from 459 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:28,479 Speaker 1: a variety of different spacecraft and other objects. It's not 460 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: uncommon for things to fall, and most of the time 461 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,920 Speaker 1: it doesn't hit someone. Do you know that there was 462 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: According to the Smithsonian, which I'm looking at the backstory here, 463 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: in nineteen forty five, a Japanese balloon bomb killed six Americans, 464 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: including five children, in Oregon. Yeah, it came all the 465 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: way across the Pacific, where they brought like a submarine 466 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 1: or something. That's a good question. I gotta see what 467 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: the pathway is. But it was a Japanese balloon bomb. 468 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 1: And then it's actually another part of World War two 469 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,040 Speaker 1: history very few people know is that the Japanese just 470 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:12,440 Speaker 1: for pure really psychological gain on their part and to 471 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,880 Speaker 1: create anxiety in the US, they did seize US territory 472 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 1: at one point during the Second World War Atu Island, 473 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,479 Speaker 1: which is off the Aleutian Island chain of Alaska. The 474 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 1: Japanese had a specific mission to seize US territory and 475 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 1: they did for a short period that the Marines went 476 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:32,120 Speaker 1: in there and showed them, you know, who was really 477 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,680 Speaker 1: going to hold that territory. But apparently there was this incident. 478 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,199 Speaker 1: This is making the rounds now by the way online, 479 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: which is why it comes to mind of a balloon 480 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: bomb that killed six Americans back in nineteen forty five 481 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,399 Speaker 1: in Oregon. So, look, balloons have been obviously, the Germans 482 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,880 Speaker 1: were using them at one point. This notion of balloons 483 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: in warfare and for reconnaissance. In fact, I think you 484 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: can argue that some of the earliest usage, the earliest 485 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 1: air force reconnaissance vehicles were hot air balloons. Yeah, and 486 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:04,640 Speaker 1: used in the Civil War to become my nerdom here 487 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 1: to help survey the opposing uh you know lines and 488 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 1: also the topography of the defensive of the defensive terrain. 489 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,040 Speaker 1: Let me also, yeah, no, no no, I was gonna say, 490 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 1: I'm still sitting here thinking with the d ODA said 491 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 1: the balloon is gonna be over the US for a 492 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: few days. Shoot it down? Yeah, Well, what is shown? 493 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: I mean again, I'm just saying, imagine Buck that you 494 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: or I was the governor of Nebraska, right and I'm 495 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,879 Speaker 1: just using Nebraska because it's center part of the country. 496 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 1: We don't know what state it's exactly over. Could be Oklahoma, 497 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: it could be Missouri. All of these states have Republican 498 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 1: governors right now, right almost everywhere in the middle part 499 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: of the country has a Republican governor. Why would you 500 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,360 Speaker 1: not shoot it down? And then if the Biden administration 501 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 1: is angry, does that not play really well for you 502 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 1: politically in your state to shoot down a Chinese spy plane. Now, 503 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,880 Speaker 1: remember the Chinese, because they lie about everything said, oh, 504 00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,679 Speaker 1: this is a weather balloon. First of all, we are 505 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 1: where of the PRC's statement. However, the fact is we 506 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: know that it's a surveillance balloon, and I'm not gonna 507 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 1: be able to be more specific than that. We do 508 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 1: know that the balloon has violated US airspace and international law, 509 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: which is unacceptable, and so we've conveyed this directly to 510 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,120 Speaker 1: the PARC at multiple levels. Why are we such pussy willows? Buck, 511 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 1: We've conveyed that it's unacceptable to the PRC to violate 512 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 1: international law. I mean, why you think of a whimpier 513 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,199 Speaker 1: riding white house. I mean, this is it. You know, 514 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:35,199 Speaker 1: we're we're sitting here, I think everyone international norms and 515 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 1: we're really upset at you. How dare you? This is 516 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 1: something they entered our airspace to spy on us, and 517 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 1: we're like, well, we'll just wait. It's eventually going to 518 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 1: leave the country. I mean, this is pathetic shooting damn 519 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: thing down. I mean, I don't understand how this is 520 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: remotely difficult unless they think, hey, it's actually something more 521 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 1: sick serious, like hey, that they're concerned at the weather 522 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: that this balloon. I mean, to your point, Buck, it 523 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: exploded and killed six people. Is it potentially something where 524 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 1: if you shoot it down there's a massive explosion. Do 525 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 1: they actually think that it could be something that has 526 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 1: more serious consequences than just falling out of the sky. 527 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: But I mean the hutzpah here of China to just 528 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,360 Speaker 1: be like, hey, we're just gonna go ahead and send 529 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 1: in a spy balloon and fly it across the whole 530 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: United States and claim that it's a weather balloon and 531 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 1: they're not gonna All they're gonna do is wag their 532 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 1: finger at us and not send Anthony Blink into China. 533 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 1: I mean, this is to me an embarrassing sign of 534 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 1: weakness by the United States government, that's for sure. 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First, you followed the 562 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,400 Speaker 1: Clay Travis rule of finding the hottest woman you could 563 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,080 Speaker 1: possibly get and locking her down, and they seem really happy. 564 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,479 Speaker 1: Carrie is lucky to have you and you are lucky 565 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 1: to have her. And I will quote for you after 566 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:34,280 Speaker 1: thirty years of marriage, following my dad's advice of over 567 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:38,160 Speaker 1: fifty years of his marriage. He said, you know, when 568 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 1: your mom and I got married, we agreed that I 569 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: would make all the big decisions and your mom would 570 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 1: make all the small decisions. And after over fifty years, 571 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:54,080 Speaker 1: there haven't been any big decisions yet. Congratulations Buck and Carrie. 572 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,920 Speaker 1: Here's to many years of happiness to you both. Wise 573 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 1: words from the tsar of talk there much appreciated, mister 574 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 1: Michael Berry down in Houston. And I am I am 575 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 1: noticing a trend here, Clay, which is the wife is 576 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 1: always right. Yeah, if the wife is always right, apparently 577 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 1: you as the husband are in good shape. This is 578 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 1: what I'm I'm gathering from a lot of the advice 579 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 1: that I've seen and heard out there right now. So 580 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna implement that for sure. Yeah, I 581 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:31,080 Speaker 1: think that would be a very smart, implemented implementation policy 582 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 1: for you starting tomorrow when the wedding officially gets underway. 583 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 1: We're getting blown up, by the way, which is an 584 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 1: interesting que choose a choice of phrase. There so many 585 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 1: people reacting to this Chinese uh you know balloon spycraft 586 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 1: that is currently traversing the United States, And I think 587 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:52,720 Speaker 1: the overwhelming reaction out here is shoot the damn thing down, 588 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:57,080 Speaker 1: and I just buck. I don't know. Maybe there's somebody 589 00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 1: out there in our audience who would be knowledge of 590 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,240 Speaker 1: full enough about this. But I really am kind of 591 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: focused on the governor aspect of this because as the 592 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,520 Speaker 1: balloon is in the middle part of the country, tell 593 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,080 Speaker 1: me why, And I'm just working through it in my head. 594 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 1: A governor would not have the right to protect his 595 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 1: state's airspace from Chinese spycraft and have the authority as 596 00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 1: the governor of the state to shoot down this Chinese 597 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:32,840 Speaker 1: spycraft if he or she whoever the governor is, made 598 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 1: that choice. Does that make sense logically to you that 599 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,880 Speaker 1: you would have that ability? I mean, certainly the United 600 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 1: States should do it. Yeah, well they wouldn't. What are 601 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,360 Speaker 1: they gonna do if if someone did that, right Let's say, 602 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 1: let's say right now, I mean it was over Montana, 603 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 1: um maybe to bed. Maybe it's over South Dakota right now, right, So, 604 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:58,720 Speaker 1: so Governor Nome, for example, could order South Dacota National 605 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:02,840 Speaker 1: Guard to scramble some you know, f sixteens or whatever, 606 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,400 Speaker 1: and they go up there they shoot this thing down. 607 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,360 Speaker 1: Let's just I don't know if that's what would happen, 608 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,760 Speaker 1: But let's just say that happens. What is the federal 609 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 1: government going to do, right, I mean, are they going 610 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:12,960 Speaker 1: to say that you're not allowed to play in the 611 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 1: National Guard to address this issue? I don't know. I 612 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,720 Speaker 1: gotta say I think it is likely in my mind 613 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,160 Speaker 1: that the Biden administration is going to be forced to 614 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:27,160 Speaker 1: take this thing down otherwise it just floats in our airspace. 615 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:31,160 Speaker 1: For Again, it's a it's a strange concept of federalism 616 00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:35,840 Speaker 1: because national defense is typically obviously the responsibility of a 617 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:40,480 Speaker 1: national government. But you know, I'm using, for instance, the 618 00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:45,239 Speaker 1: border as an example. Governor Perry in Texas can call 619 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 1: out the Texas resources to try to deal with the 620 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:53,760 Speaker 1: mess at the border, even though the border is also 621 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,719 Speaker 1: a national issue, so there's both state and federal response 622 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:02,799 Speaker 1: on border related issue shoes. Again, I don't think there 623 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,399 Speaker 1: are they going to arrest Christy Noham for shooting down 624 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,440 Speaker 1: I'm just using Christinohum's example because again we know that 625 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:12,719 Speaker 1: she's up there in the vicinity of where this where 626 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 1: this Chinese balloon might be. And are you telling me 627 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 1: that any Republican governor who shot this down. This wouldn't 628 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:24,440 Speaker 1: be like the greatest political accomplishment of their tenure to 629 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:28,640 Speaker 1: then get in an argument with the Biden administration over 630 00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:32,200 Speaker 1: whether they were too tough on China. Like this seems 631 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,840 Speaker 1: to me like one of the most no brainer political 632 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,440 Speaker 1: winds of all time. I'm just trying to think through 633 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,319 Speaker 1: the legality of it, because it should be something that 634 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,800 Speaker 1: our federal government should have done. We should, I believe, 635 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,759 Speaker 1: shot this thing down the moment and entered our airspace. 636 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,200 Speaker 1: But if you're a governor, I like, if I'm the 637 00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,520 Speaker 1: governor of Tech Tennessee right now, I would shoot this 638 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,480 Speaker 1: thing down on a heartbeat. I mean, I mean, I 639 00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,480 Speaker 1: just would. I just would not be a tough call 640 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,759 Speaker 1: to me. China's not gonna spot on Tennessee. We're gonna 641 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,360 Speaker 1: shoot a problem. The problem clay that the Bide administration 642 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 1: runs into with all this is the longer they wait 643 00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:09,680 Speaker 1: to shoot it down. If they do end up shooting 644 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,560 Speaker 1: it down, it looks like they didert right, so they 645 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:18,040 Speaker 1: kind of the the momentum is for letting it letting 646 00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,440 Speaker 1: it continue to float. The longer it floats, because then 647 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,040 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to turn around and tell people, oh yeah, 648 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:24,759 Speaker 1: we just didn't know what we were doing. So, you know, 649 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,359 Speaker 1: they've they've postponed blink in the Secretary of State's trip 650 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,840 Speaker 1: to China over this. This is becoming a real diplomatic incident, 651 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,920 Speaker 1: and the Biden team just they have no idea what 652 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,080 Speaker 1: to do. I mean this, they're totally floundering. The only 653 00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,680 Speaker 1: thing I can think is if China has somehow actually 654 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,719 Speaker 1: made this spy plane loaded with a bomb and they're 655 00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,120 Speaker 1: concerned if they shoot it down that it could lead 656 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,959 Speaker 1: to some you know, much more substantial event. In other words, 657 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,920 Speaker 1: they're not telling us the full story. This doesn't have 658 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:54,640 Speaker 1: I don't I don't buy it.