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Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Oh welcome In Tuesday edition, Clay, j're havings,

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Speaker 1: Buck Sex to Joy almost started us off on a

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Speaker 1: rough note there, bucking about exactly what day it was.

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Speaker 1: And it's crazy in the Travis household every morning, to

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Speaker 1: the boys off to school. I'd never have any idea

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Speaker 1: what's going on in terms of the day of the week.

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Speaker 1: They're all chaotic. But we have got a loaded show

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Speaker 1: for all of you out there, and we hope that

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Speaker 1: you are having fantastic Tuesdays wherever you may be across

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Speaker 1: the streat country, around the world. We are here for

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Speaker 1: you for the next three hours. Next hour, right off

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Speaker 1: the top of hour two, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is

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Speaker 1: going to join us. He has a brand new book out.

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Speaker 1: Is he going to run for president? We will ask him.

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Speaker 1: Probably won't break that news on this show, but we

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Speaker 1: So that is coming in the next hour. But a

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Speaker 1: couple of different stories that are underway that we will

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Speaker 1: be following today. Arguments at the Supreme Court over whether

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden has the authority to cancel four hundred billion

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Speaker 1: dollars plus in student loan debt with the stroke of

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Speaker 1: a pen and outlet without legislative authority. Spoiler alert, he

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Speaker 1: does not. I suspect this will be a six three

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Speaker 1: ruling against him, but we will discuss also we will

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Speaker 1: continue to follow what I believe is this crazy idea bluck.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that it's ever happened before, but Whoopie

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Speaker 1: And when you manage to get Whoopee and me on

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Speaker 1: the same side of a story, you know that somebody

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Speaker 1: has screwed up in a big way. And in particular,

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Speaker 1: it's about this concept of book editing. We talked about

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Speaker 1: it yesterday or last week, sorry, with Charlie and the

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Speaker 1: chocolate factory rolled doll. I believe is how you pronounce

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Speaker 1: the name the legendary children's book author. Now they're doing

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Speaker 1: it to James Bond books, Ian Flemings, legendary James Bond books.

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Speaker 1: They are knocking out sexist, which having read those books,

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixties compared to today when it comes to super

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Speaker 1: those books are great. By the way, they are now

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Speaker 1: editing those How many different books is happening to do?

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Speaker 1: We really have to go buy paper copies of every

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Speaker 1: original intent was. It's a really interesting discussion. But we

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Speaker 1: begin with the continued fallout. I would call it almost

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Speaker 1: a panic that has set in on the left wing

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Speaker 1: in this country as they have recognized, oh wait, all

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Speaker 1: those people that we accused of misinformation. The Clay Travis

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Speaker 1: is the Buck Sextons of the world that we've been

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Speaker 1: going to war with for years. They're actually right about everything.

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Speaker 1: And we're of course referring to the Department of Energy

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Speaker 1: But I saw an interesting interplay book between Medi Hassan

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Speaker 1: instead of this zoonotic doctor fauci led idea that it

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Speaker 1: That is unfalsifiable doctrine at work. How do you know

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Speaker 1: This is a fundamentally unfalsifiable belief, as in it cannot

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Speaker 1: John Stewart's point to the clip you just played, what

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Speaker 1: Turravis buck Sexton Show. We play you off the top

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Speaker 1: That's cute. These institutions have actually destroyed themselves. There are

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Speaker 1: that shot number eight is the one that's going to

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Speaker 1: keep them safe from COVID. They're the people that cannot

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Speaker 1: be reasoned with. But everyone who can be reasoned with

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Speaker 1: and can look at everyone who can see things is

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Speaker 1: either falsifiable or not Clay. They can see what's happened

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Speaker 1: with Stephen Colbert's show, and see what's happened with the

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Speaker 1: left wing cable news networks. They can see the reality

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Speaker 1: of the Washington Post the New York Times and realize

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Speaker 1: these places destroyed themselves because they abandoned all even the

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Speaker 1: pretense of principle in order to get Trump. So, in

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Speaker 1: a sense, what are the great accomplishments of Trump? I

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Speaker 1: must say he really did make the left wing media

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Speaker 1: just consume itself. I still get the New York Times

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Speaker 1: and the Wall Street Journal delivered hard copy, physical newspaper,

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Speaker 1: and I'm a subscriber to the Washington Post because I

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Speaker 1: want to make sure that I am reading, in particular

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Speaker 1: the Times in the Post to know what they're saying,

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Speaker 1: so that we can make as good or better arguments

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Speaker 1: than they are attempting to make. I also wanted to

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Speaker 1: play this the Daily Show. I don't even know who's

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Speaker 1: hosting The Daily Show now because they have rotating host buck.

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Speaker 1: Trevor Noah never really caught fire in any way replacing

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Speaker 1: had a declining show. Now they've got I don't. Chelsea

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Speaker 1: Handlers hosted a few. They've got like a rotating cadre

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Speaker 1: of guests last night. Here was their response to the

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Speaker 1: Department of Energy determining that COVID likely came from a

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Speaker 1: Chinese lab. This is key detail everybody's forgetting while they

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Speaker 1: got the Twitter fingers. The Energy Department is one of

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Speaker 1: nine intelligence groups that have assessed COVID's origins. Two have

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Speaker 1: said lab week, five say it came out of natural

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Speaker 1: causes in two say they don't know, and you know what,

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Speaker 1: I personally signed with them. I don't know what the

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Speaker 1: fuck is going on. FBI says this, and I see

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Speaker 1: Mehdi Hassan, I believe is actually hosting the Daily Show there.

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Speaker 1: I think that's who that was. I had them pulling it.

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Speaker 1: But the point on it is, there is buck already,

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Speaker 1: even in the comedy war world, a calculated goal of

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Speaker 1: diminishing whatever was uncovered in this classified report that was

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Speaker 1: leaked to the Wall Street Journal. I wonder if it

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Speaker 1: was leaked to the Wall Street Journal buck because they

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Speaker 1: it counteracts so much of their narrative surrounding COVID. Well,

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Speaker 1: I also think that there's there's a I'm not a comedian,

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Speaker 1: betrayed their audiences. They went along as part of a

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Speaker 1: way that makes the powerful uncomfortable. They were the they

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Speaker 1: were the quizzlings and the toadies of those who wanted

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Speaker 1: some people there's this desire of, oh, well, we should

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Speaker 1: move past it, we should move past it. The president

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Speaker 1: but the worst of this stuff is still in office.

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Speaker 1: All these politicians that did this, they have not been

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Speaker 1: yet they want to move on. I don't think so. Also,

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Speaker 1: it's funny, isn't that we're being told let's just move

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Clay and Buck. We were talking before

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Speaker 1: about how some people certainly saw the reality of what

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Speaker 1: happened in China and the lab leaue theory and everything

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Speaker 1: else as we know, and one of them early on

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Speaker 1: was President Trump. Here he is in response to a

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Speaker 1: question about the lab league theory. Have you seen anything

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Speaker 1: at this point that gives you a high degree of

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Speaker 1: confidence that the Wuhan Institute of Horology was the origin

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Speaker 1: of this virus? Yes, yes they have, and I think

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Speaker 1: And what gives you a high degree of confidence that

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Speaker 1: this originated from the Wuhan Institute of Horology. I can't

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Speaker 1: tell you that. I'm not allowed to tell you that,

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Speaker 1: can I just say, Clay, A big part of this

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Speaker 1: as well was certainly in this country and in the

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Speaker 1: in the Democrat or leftist west more broadly, there wasn't

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Speaker 1: there was an idea here in twenty twenty that it

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Speaker 1: couldn't be China's fault, the virus couldn't be China's fault

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Speaker 1: because it was Trump's fault. That that was always in

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Speaker 1: the background of all of this too, right, It was

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Speaker 1: so important to make it about so they could elect

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Speaker 1: this doddering buffoon Joe Biden. It will is let's make

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Speaker 1: this about how Trump failed. I remember, you know, I

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Speaker 1: did the Bill mar Show the weekend before shutdown, and

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Speaker 1: everything was about how Trump is going to be so

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Speaker 1: awful and everyone's going to die because Trump is so awful.

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Speaker 1: Not a single American at that point had died of COVID,

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Speaker 1: not one in the entire country, but the entire show,

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Speaker 1: the entire mood of the audience was, Oh, my gosh,

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Speaker 1: We're all going to die because Trump. It's all Trump's fault.

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Speaker 1: It's Trump's fault that this virus came from China's infecting

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Speaker 1: people all over the world. And by the way, we

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Speaker 1: have a People will say we had some things, but

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Speaker 1: you know, the government certainly said we had no treatments

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Speaker 1: for it. So what we're supposed to do. Ultimately it

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Speaker 1: was about pinning the whole thing on Trump for political purposes.

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Speaker 1: I think that has to be taken into the accounting

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Speaker 1: of what happened as well. No, it's one of the

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Speaker 1: most interesting parts of this if there had been a

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Speaker 1: Democrat president in office in twenty twenty, how would it

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Speaker 1: have played out. What would have happened if COVID hit

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, as opposed to six months basically

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Speaker 1: before an election, And how would this all be playing

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Speaker 1: out now if Trump were still in office. I think

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Speaker 1: tease out media bias. And I mean, for everybody out

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Speaker 1: there listening, you should constantly be aggressive in the way

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Speaker 1: that you consume media. If Trump were still in office,

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Speaker 1: I would submit to you that MSNBC, CNN, New York Times,

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Speaker 1: Washington Post would be covering the fallout of the COVID shot,

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Speaker 1: that is, the failure of the COVID shot to do

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Speaker 1: everything that it was promised, and they would be saying

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Speaker 1: the people who didn't get the COVID shot were the heroes, right.

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Speaker 1: It would be a total difference in terms of the

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Speaker 1: way that they would cover this story. And Democrats basically

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Speaker 1: saw COVID as an opportunity to get Trump out of office,

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Speaker 1: because if you go back to February, fuck Trump was

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Speaker 1: a monster favorite to be reelected. February economic numbers of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty are the greatest economic numbers that have ever

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Speaker 1: existed in the history of the United States. The Trump

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Speaker 1: economy was a freight train, and he would have used

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Speaker 1: to go comfortably. I used to go on on airplay.

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Speaker 1: I went in my old six to nine slot and

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Speaker 1: tell the audience, you know, and I was just sharing

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Speaker 1: with them my honest to god feeling, which was you know,

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Speaker 1: the summer before COVID, the fall before COVID, I was

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Speaker 1: saying to them, guys, it doesn't it doesn't really get

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Speaker 1: better than this right now as a general matter, total piece,

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Speaker 1: roaring economy. You know, well, total pieces maybe an overstatement,

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Speaker 1: but you know, we weren't in major combat, apparate operations

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Speaker 1: in any war. We were not loot. We hadn't lost

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Speaker 1: in that year, didn't lose a single US combat soldier

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Speaker 1: we we're at peace and the economy was booming, and

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Speaker 1: largely responsible for you know, because New York City government

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Speaker 1: now from Governor Ron de Santis, where he is just

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Speaker 1: have time. It's better to just have him on. He'll

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Speaker 1: new book and about Clay the Freedom Blueprint from Florida.

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Speaker 1: want to clean something up, Colbert Obviously on CBS, Hassan

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Speaker 1: Manage is the guest host on The Daily Show. Right now,

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Speaker 1: I guess this Hassan Manage, the comedian who was on

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Speaker 1: the Daily Show. But yes, when we come back, Ron

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Speaker 1: de Santis will join us. Maybe he'll give us a

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Speaker 1: We'll discuss that book, and we'll get you ready for

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