1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Later on this hour, we'll be talking 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 1: about the primaries in California today. You could see also 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: a recall of Chesap Budan, who is a top contender 5 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: for worst Prosecutor in a major city in America, which 6 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: is a very crowded field. I might ain't an award 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: you want to get, not award you want to get 8 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:28,960 Speaker 1: these days, but that's one that he may in fact win, 9 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: so to speak. We'll see. Plus, I told you some 10 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: stuff going on at our southern border. We will not 11 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: forget that story, will not just let that slide. Of course, 12 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: the Democrat media doesn't want to talk about it. We'll 13 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 1: get to that in just a moment. First up, though, 14 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,479 Speaker 1: this is quite a headline. Goldman Sachs predicts one hundred 15 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: and forty dollars oil as gas prices spiked near five 16 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: dollars a gallon. I think just one, that's twenty four hours. 17 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: What's it up a nationally? Five cents. It's tough to 18 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: keep up five cents a gallon, tough to keep up 19 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: with how many records you got to give credit to 20 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: the Biden administration Clay, they do set a lot of 21 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: records just for things like inflation and the price of 22 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 1: gas and general awfulness and incompetence, but they are illegal 23 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 1: people streaming across the illegal streaming across the border. I mean, basically, 24 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: whatever number you don't want to be setting a record 25 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,839 Speaker 1: in the Biden administration is setting records there. And there's 26 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: something that's going on that I just wanted to highlight 27 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:31,839 Speaker 1: before maybe we transitioned a little bit of a border 28 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 1: discussion coming up here, because there are things happening to 29 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 1: the border that people don't know and need to know about. 30 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,960 Speaker 1: I've been talking to contacts down there and researching this 31 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: once and more. But first off, Clay, you know, while 32 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: we have the price of gas obviously spiking, and this 33 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: does really talking about things that move the needle price 34 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: of gas, people get upset that don't like it. And 35 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 1: Democrats know this is a problem for their power. So 36 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: this does matter to them too. They know that this 37 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: could be a huge vole nobility going into the midterms. Okay, 38 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: they also they'll want us to believe that this has 39 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: nothing to do with Biden canceling Keystone, Excel or just 40 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: the general regulatory environment from the federal government for new exploration, 41 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: for leases for oil. The hostility of the Democrat Party, 42 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: they promise you they're lying, by the way, has nothing 43 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: to do with the price of gas, with domestic production, etc. 44 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 1: The willingness to even buy it from Saudi Arabia or Venezuela, 45 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,639 Speaker 1: anything other than make it ourselves because of the climate. Meanwhile, 46 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 1: you see Biden has has called for the Defense Production 47 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 1: Acts to be invoked for solar panels. Strange, so they 48 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: clearly think that they can really handle this situation, the 49 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,959 Speaker 1: energy crisis, the Jimmy Carter style heading for not just 50 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: shortages but maybe gas lines. Who knows. They think they 51 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 1: can handle this by invoking a this is supposed to 52 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: be either wartime or pandemic time. Essentially, federal government all 53 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 1: hands on deck. They're doing that with solar panels. Jean Pierre, 54 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,840 Speaker 1: the White House Press Secretary, was asked about it. Here's 55 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: actually respond President. You know, when he takes the Defense 56 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: Production Act is to make sure that he's delivering for 57 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 1: the American people. So for this particular clean energy Defense 58 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: Production Act, he is invoking the Defense Production Act to 59 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:32,119 Speaker 1: rapidly expand domestic production of solar panel parts. Building, insulation, 60 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,839 Speaker 1: heat pumps, and more. The emergency in the solar industry, Well, 61 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: this is just a step to get to a place 62 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: where we do have a clean energy arsenal. And so 63 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: this is a very important part of the President's This 64 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: is a very important part of the president's agenda. I 65 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 1: just first of all, that was a good question fromever 66 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: that reporter is great the emergency, there is none when 67 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: it comes to solar. There's a gas and fossil fuel emergency. 68 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: But notice how quickly they go to the Defense Production 69 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: Act for solar panels, Clay, not so fast to pull 70 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: that trigger for baby formula. In fact, Buck, they tried 71 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: to avoid having to do it for baby formula. And 72 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: I think it's probably for an optics related reason, because 73 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 1: when you are trying admitting that you need this Act 74 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 1: to be enacted, it's because there's a crisis, right, And 75 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: a lot of people discussed this surrounding the early days 76 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: of COVID when Buck, you remember this, Every question that 77 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: Donald Trump got it felt like in early March was 78 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 1: are we going to have enough ventilators? Can you guarantee 79 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 1: that we're going to have enough ventilators? Because remember early 80 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 1: on the idea was people who were COVID hospitalized should 81 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: be treated with ventilators. Since then, it's later emerged that 82 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:51,359 Speaker 1: ventilators are not the appropriate treatment for most people. I 83 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 1: don't even know what happened to all those ventilators that 84 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: we produced, the vast majority of which, as Donald Trump predicted, 85 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: we would not need. And I think we've just got 86 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: basically warehouses full of ventilators now, which are mostly unnecessary. 87 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: Now the baby formula we're going to need. But these 88 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 1: climate people, they've lost their mind. Buck. They're tweeting all 89 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: this week about whether they should have kids or not 90 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 1: because of the climate impact that kids have. And I 91 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: gotta be honest with you, if you are deciding not 92 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 1: to have children because you're worried about climate change, you 93 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:38,840 Speaker 1: are next level crazy. Did you see, Buck, the woman 94 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:42,280 Speaker 1: who tied herself to the French open net and said 95 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: we only have like a thousand and eighty three days 96 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: or whatever. They keep giving us these dates into the future, 97 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:52,479 Speaker 1: and they keep saying, oh, it's gonna be impossible to 98 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: live fifteen years from now, twenty years from now. AOC said, 99 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 1: you know, basically the country's going to be one. Yet 100 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:08,279 Speaker 1: these same rich people are not selling their beachside colossal 101 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 1: mansions for losses in Malibu, which is probably as close 102 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: to La climate change activism central as we have in 103 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: this country. You know what mansions on the beach and 104 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 1: Malibu were going for right now, Buck, They ain't going down. 105 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: They're going for record all time rates. They're not putting 106 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: any actual credence. Any of these supposed left wing climate 107 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 1: change obsessives are not living their own lives to reflect 108 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: that they're in any way concerned about rising seas or 109 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,599 Speaker 1: their own property. But really, break it down, wasn't an 110 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 1: awesome to see global eco preachers, the the truly sanctimonious 111 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: and utterly worthless Harry and Meghan. They took a two 112 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars private jet fight back from the Jubilee 113 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 1: to La and what the Daily Mail describes as a 114 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: Russian oligarch style private jet for people who don't care 115 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: about the planet. So not even like a small they 116 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: took like a big private jet all the way from 117 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: the UK to LA Is it crazy to me? By 118 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:21,200 Speaker 1: the way, that doesn't even seem like it. It seems 119 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,119 Speaker 1: like it should cost more if you've got a big jet. 120 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: I mean, think about I don't gonna have to pay 121 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: about what you have to pay to me in first 122 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: class to fly to Europe. Two hundred thousand dollars doesn't 123 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 1: even seem I mean, first of all, of course it's crazy. Uh, 124 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: what I'm saying is I think they got a deal 125 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: on that two hundred thousand. I think it's probably like 126 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 1: a five hundred thousand dollars flight. Well. Nonetheless, to leave 127 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: the Juwbilee as the as the Great Eco Warriors megan 128 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: and they got booed too, did you see that? But 129 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 1: they were making public appearances. They're they're like a less 130 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 1: They're like a less classy version of the Kardashian phenomenon. 131 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:00,040 Speaker 1: It's horrible. I don't understand why anybody likes this. Do 132 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 1: you think they get divorced? Probably other than I don't 133 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: like the Kardashian thing either, So don't even what I'm saying. 134 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: I'm just trying to find I wonder on some level, 135 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 1: and I obviously you I think to test the Royal 136 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: family in general, right, But so I'm an American, I'm 137 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: kind of fascinated by the Royal family. It seems to 138 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: me like Harry was a fairly normal dude and He's 139 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: gone completely off the rail since he got married, which 140 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: is emblematic. Everybody out there listening knows somebody who buck 141 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: You've been to a lot of weddings over the years. 142 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 1: Everybody out there, just like I have, knows people who 143 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: have gotten married and gone off the rails in their marriage. 144 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: And it feels like Harry's emblematic of that, which happens 145 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: to a lot of people. Marrying the wrong person can 146 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: ruin you no matter who you are. That is reality. Unfortunately, 147 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 1: I've seen it, Amber Heard. I mean, Johnny Depp is 148 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: like the most successful actor of his generation in terms 149 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: of beloved nature. He marries Amber Heard. Now, he ended 150 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: up winning the defamation trial, but his whole life, it appears, 151 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 1: completely fell apart in that marriage. I'm gonna bring this 152 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 1: now full circle back to the Defense Production Act, because 153 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: I don't want if they're talking to Johnny dep trawler 154 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,839 Speaker 1: Defense Production Act. Rick Perry, who was the Energy Energy 155 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: Secretary under the Trump administration, pointed out that you're you're 156 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: invoking the Defense Production Act. The Biden regime is doing 157 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:23,320 Speaker 1: that for something that is at maximum twenty percent of 158 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: our energy needs in the first place. The question I 159 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:31,439 Speaker 1: have for the Transportation Secretary is what's the emergency in 160 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: the renewable industry that you would put the DPA to work. 161 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 1: Then this is a section of our power industry that 162 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 1: produces at max about twenty percent. So the idea that 163 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: they're going to go use the DPA in the solar 164 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: and in the wind side of things is just beyond me. 165 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: If you don't support fossil fuels, and if you don't 166 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 1: support nuclear energy, you are going to be in a 167 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:03,319 Speaker 1: full's air and to try to fuel this country and 168 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: certainly the world. He's one hundred percent right, by the way. 169 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: And one of the parts of the enviro Lacko theology 170 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 1: that doesn't ever get enough attention is that this this 171 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 1: green New Deal stuff that's pushed and that's sort of 172 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 1: now a catch all for these you know, climate change activists, mentality, 173 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 1: all the rest of it, which which runs the Democrat 174 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 1: Party on the environment. Now, it's really damaging for developing countries. 175 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: It's really damaging for countries that need to increase their 176 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,959 Speaker 1: ability to produce energy, which is why then it always 177 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 1: transitions it, well, we should subsidize them, right, we should 178 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:45,319 Speaker 1: subsidize them, But that's just now global socialism using energy 179 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: as the excuse. Rick Perry, good dude, his family big 180 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,120 Speaker 1: by the way. I think we're about to be on 181 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: in College Station, Texas a and m Aggy fans, so 182 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:57,680 Speaker 1: I've gotten to hang out with them in the sports context. 183 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: Really good group. But what he's hitting on is a 184 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 1: big issue that doesn't get enough discussion, which is, you 185 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: can be in favor of Green New Deal energy and 186 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 1: as you said, it's kind of a catch all. But 187 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: let's just say you're in favor of wind power, and 188 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: you're in favor of solar power, and you're in favor 189 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: of electric vehicles and all those things. We don't have 190 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: the capacity to utilize that form of energy to replace 191 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 1: the energy that we are producing now using traditional methods 192 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 1: of energy, whether it's gas, whether it's coal, whether it's 193 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: whether it's nuclear, right, we don't have the ability to 194 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: do that. And Buck, they're talking about rolling blackouts all 195 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: over the country this summer as a result of not 196 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 1: having the energy infrastructure to be able to cool down 197 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: people's homes. And I don't think this is getting enough discussion. 198 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 1: I mean, we're kind of if you were sketching out 199 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: apocalyptic scenarios in the United States that seem like they 200 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: would never actually her having to have Australia and Europe 201 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:07,319 Speaker 1: bring us baby formula is an apocalyptic scenario, right, that 202 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 1: things have gone so bad here that we are the 203 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,400 Speaker 1: country that needs the largess of other countries in order 204 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 1: to feed our babies, and that we are a country 205 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 1: where we're gonna tell people, Hey, you may not have 206 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: the electricity that you need, and so we're going to 207 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 1: ask people to turn down, to turn up the temperature 208 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,680 Speaker 1: gauges and everything else so that we can monitor the 209 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: electricity needs in this country. I mean, that is something 210 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: that occurs buck. I've lived in the Caribbean for a while. 211 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: Every now and then their electric circuit would just get 212 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 1: overloaded and it would just get shut down, and you 213 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: would just get used to the fact that you're working. 214 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: You're working, and if you don't have a generator, boom, 215 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: you lose electricity in your house. We're gonna be doing 216 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: that all over the United States. Is a third world 217 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:54,680 Speaker 1: country in the Caribbean where that's become commonplace. I've never 218 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 1: even heard of it happening in the United States on 219 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 1: a regular basis. Boom, that's where we're headed. And I 220 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: think a lot of it is because we're trying to 221 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,959 Speaker 1: make this transition to the Green New Deal ideals while 222 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:09,000 Speaker 1: not having the infrastructure to support our electric and energy needs. 223 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 1: Come back in a little bit talk about the situation 224 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 1: of the border. I know we got a little more 225 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: fired up about energy there than I had anticipated, but 226 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: it's super important, so that's going to happen. We also 227 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: have a special guest who will be joining us at 228 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour, John Phillips. 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We're going to 252 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: dive into some of the big decisions having to be 253 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: made in California as it is primary day on the 254 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: left coast there, also in New Jersey all over the country. 255 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 1: John Philip's going to join us next. I think that 256 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 1: will be an interesting discussion as LA is potentially picking 257 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: a mayor, as San Francisco decides what kind of policing 258 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 1: they want to embrace through their district attorney recall votes, 259 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: all of those things are going to be pretty fascinating, 260 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 1: and we will discuss that coming up in a moment. 261 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: But we were just talking about energy and we got 262 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 1: fired up about it, and a lot of the Democrats 263 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 1: right now their strategy as it pertains to high gas 264 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 1: prices is tell people you should go buy an electric vehicle. 265 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: I can't. Can't. By the way, average electric vehicle nearly 266 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: sixty thousand dollars a year. So if you are concerned 267 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: about five dollars a gallon gas, and I've told this 268 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 1: story before, but it's incredibly emblematic to me of where 269 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: we are. Person in front of me could only afford 270 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: to buy one gallon of gas recently, as we're getting 271 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: close to five dollars, there are a lot of people 272 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 1: out there struggling to be able to get to work, 273 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 1: to be able to drive around and make the trips 274 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 1: that they need to in a day to day basis, 275 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 1: and thousands of dollars is being added basically a gas 276 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: tax on their purchase. Well, when you're the Democrat senator 277 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: in Michigan, which is going to be a big battleground state, 278 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 1: one of them, Debbie stab Now and your decision here 279 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 1: is Hey, I just want to let everybody know I 280 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:08,560 Speaker 1: bought a brand new electric vehicle and I didn't even 281 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: have to worry as I was driving past all the 282 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: gas stations and how expensive they are. This ain't exactly 283 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: the message that's going to resonate with swing voters. Listen, 284 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 1: I'd have to say, just on the issue of gas prices. 285 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 1: After waiting for a long time to have enough chips 286 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: in this country to finally get my electric vehicle, I 287 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 1: got it and drove it from Michigan to hear this 288 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: last weekend and went by every single gas station and 289 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 1: didn't matter how high it was. And so I'm looking 290 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 1: forward to the opportunity for us to move to vehicles 291 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 1: that I aren't going to be dependent on the whims 292 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 1: of the oil companies and the international markets. This is great. 293 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: This is the Democrats encapsulated all in one moment, Vote 294 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 1: Democrat twenty twenty two because gas is for peasants. It 295 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 1: really is a Marie Ant moment when you are wealthy 296 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: enough to be able to buy a sixty thousand dollars 297 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: brand new vehicle and you bragg in open forum in 298 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 1: the Senate about the fact that you don't even have 299 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: to be concerned about the price of gas. That is 300 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,919 Speaker 1: not something that the average Michigander. My wife is from Michigan. 301 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:19,640 Speaker 1: I've got quite a bit of family up there now 302 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:21,960 Speaker 1: through marriage. That ain't something that's going to play very 303 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,199 Speaker 1: well all over the state of Michigan. When one of 304 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,959 Speaker 1: your senators is bragging about being able to buy an 305 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,440 Speaker 1: electric vehicle, so the price of gas doesn't matter. By 306 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 1: the way, is Elon is still going to buy Twitter? 307 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,399 Speaker 1: Speaking of electric car question, I think he's trying to 308 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 1: negotiate to get a lower price. Would be my guests, 309 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 1: if I were trying to analyze the markets right now, 310 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:41,399 Speaker 1: I was just looking at the price of Twitter. It 311 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: hasn't really moved very much in the past several days. 312 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: It was about fourteen dollars below with offer price that 313 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: he's made, So that debate is ongoing exactly how that's 314 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 1: going to shake out. Elon used to be in California 315 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: and now he's not moved to Texas. We'll talk with 316 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:58,400 Speaker 1: John Phillips about the latest in California here in a moment, 317 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: But first we get lots of messages from people in 318 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: this audience who found success taking Relief Factor to reduce 319 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: every a pains and aches in their joints. Nancy's one 320 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:11,840 Speaker 1: of them. She's a riding instructor from Texas. 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You can also call eight 331 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,919 Speaker 1: hundred the number four relief move More lived more, just 332 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 1: enjoy your life more with relief Factor. You have a 333 00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 1: philosophy behind the BLM, behind clear the jails, behind I'll 334 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 1: defund the police movements would basically say the system is 335 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 1: so corrupt, the system is so racist, that you act justified. 336 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 1: When you do it, you're actually sticking it to the system. 337 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 1: You're actually doing the right thing. And I think the 338 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:07,160 Speaker 1: reason a lot of criminals don't steal isn't just because 339 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 1: they're gonna get put in jail. It's because they feel 340 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 1: like they're doing something wrong. But if they feel like 341 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 1: they're the heroes and doing something right, that's what's actually 342 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: going on in cities across the country is you feel 343 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 1: like you have these heroes that are actually carrying out 344 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 1: a justified cause. It's just another form and redistribution of wealth. 345 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 1: I guess that's what the progressive prosecutor seemed to think. 346 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,760 Speaker 1: Their friend Ramaswami there for a second, weighing in on 347 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:32,159 Speaker 1: this mentality that has taken over in cities and has 348 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,399 Speaker 1: led to huge spikes and not only violent crime, but 349 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: just crime across the board. Places like San Francisco, Los Angeles, 350 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 1: New York increasingly unlivable. But there is a glimmer of 351 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:46,960 Speaker 1: hope today. There is a recall vote on the distric 352 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: attorney in San Francisco, Chessa bou Dan, who is a 353 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: radical progressive prosecutor. What's going to happen there? And also 354 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:56,640 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles there's some election stuff going on today. 355 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:58,639 Speaker 1: We have John Phillips with us now. He is a 356 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 1: Los Angeles space radio host. Columnus at the OC Register 357 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: you often see him on Fox News and he's got 358 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 1: some thoughts for us on this. Thanks for being with us, Hey, 359 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 1: thanks for having me so John Boo, Dan is he 360 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 1: gonna be out? What's going on here? Was? What was 361 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:20,040 Speaker 1: the momentum or how did the momentum it created that 362 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 1: led up to this recall in the first place of 363 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 1: San Francisco's District Attorney. Well, I'll say this, Chase A. 364 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 1: Boudin did one thing that I never thought an individual 365 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: would be able to do, which is to see the 366 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,760 Speaker 1: raiders leave the Bay area and have the crime rate 367 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 1: go up. But that's what he managed to do. If 368 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: you ever get bored, look at the local news in 369 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: San Francisco, it looks like the latest edition of the part. 370 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:50,679 Speaker 1: It is crime running rampant all over the place, violent crime, 371 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:54,160 Speaker 1: property crime, you name it. Criminals know they can get 372 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: away with whatever it is that they want to do. 373 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: So even in liberal San Francisco, they were able to 374 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: get all the required signatures to put this thing on 375 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:07,360 Speaker 1: the ballot. And the way these recalls work typically here 376 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,920 Speaker 1: in California is if you want to beat it, you 377 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 1: beat it in the signature gathering phase because if it 378 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,359 Speaker 1: makes the ballot. The framing is you did something wrong 379 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: and is your offense wrong enough to get kicked out 380 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:23,719 Speaker 1: of office? I believe he was absolutely post the minute 381 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:27,639 Speaker 1: this thing qualified for the ballot. They're voting today, But 382 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: the writing has been on the wall for a long time. 383 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,520 Speaker 1: In just a couple of weeks, this guy's not going 384 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: to be the prosecutor in San Francisco. He's gonna be 385 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 1: parking cars with the double tree by the airport. Well, 386 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 1: that's gonna be fun to see, by the way, And 387 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 1: there's a couple of other races that I'm intrigued to see. 388 00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:48,600 Speaker 1: What happens in California. The LA mayor. You've got a 389 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:52,119 Speaker 1: former Republican who flipped three years ago to become a Democrat. 390 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 1: There are he's a billionaire. Analogies they are being drawn 391 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 1: with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and what happened in New York City. 392 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,640 Speaker 1: You also have I know we had the governor Knewsome 393 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: recall and that he managed to overcome Larry Elder, But 394 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,320 Speaker 1: can you talk a little bit about the way that 395 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:11,440 Speaker 1: the California voting works. I understand that there is an 396 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:15,359 Speaker 1: independent who still identifies as a Democrat who is making 397 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: a real run there and maybe that Gavin Knewsome walk 398 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,399 Speaker 1: cakewalk to re election will not end up being quite 399 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,920 Speaker 1: what was anticipated. Can you break down both of those 400 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: big races for us, Well, let's start with the l 401 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,920 Speaker 1: A marriage race. So you have a Democratic congresswoman Karen 402 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 1: bass who is a longtime congresswoman, was on the shortlist 403 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: to be vice president for Joe Biden, and after he 404 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 1: did all the vetting in the research, he determined that 405 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: she was less qualified than Kalla. So that tells you 406 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: everything you need to know about any good. Then you 407 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 1: have Rick Caruso, who's the Republican tern Democrat who you mentioned, 408 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,120 Speaker 1: who whenever you see a politician do that, you don't 409 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 1: know because sometimes when someone switches their party affiliation the 410 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: recent convert, they can be some of the most partisan 411 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 1: Democrats if they go from R to D. And what 412 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,359 Speaker 1: he did was really a strategic move. He changed his 413 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 1: party affiliation, but he didn't change any of his politics 414 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:16,640 Speaker 1: at all. He is essentially running on two issues, crime 415 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 1: and homelessness. And up until the most recent poll, which 416 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: I would throw in the trash can because the La 417 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 1: Times assume that sixty some odd percent of the people 418 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 1: would turn out so far we have fourteen percent turnout 419 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: on election day, that he would end up coming in 420 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: second and Karen Bass would be finishing first. I fully 421 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: expect Rick Caruso would finish first. And let me tell you, 422 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: just beyond the partisan and political aspects of this, LA 423 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,880 Speaker 1: needs Rick Carushow to be in that office to avoid 424 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:50,880 Speaker 1: going off the cliff the city. I'm from here. I'm 425 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: a fourth generation Angelino. I love it out here. It 426 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: is completely unrecognizable. It looks like a zombie apocalypse movie. 427 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 1: We're hearing about that line of LA people. John, Sorry 428 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: to cut you off, but if he got over fifty 429 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 1: percent Caruso of the vote, it's over right. He's mayor 430 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:11,679 Speaker 1: and he could be sworn in really soon. Is there 431 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,360 Speaker 1: any possibility, based on what you're hearing, that this thing 432 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,919 Speaker 1: could be decided in terms of LA mayor and that 433 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:21,959 Speaker 1: Caruso could win it today. There's a chance. There's certainly 434 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,920 Speaker 1: a chance. I fully expect him to finish first. Whether 435 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: or not it's over fifty I don't know. That would 436 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,360 Speaker 1: be very hard to do because there are still other 437 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,159 Speaker 1: candidates on the ballot, so he would really have to 438 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 1: crush the entire field for that to happen, and then 439 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 1: the governor's race I mentioned, do we feel like Newsom 440 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 1: might actually get a challenge at this point. No, he 441 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 1: has almost universal name id, he has all the money 442 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: in the race. The other candidates haven't been able to 443 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:53,679 Speaker 1: raise any money. And Michael Schellenberger, who's the author of 444 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 1: San Francico, who you mentioned, really doesn't have the resources 445 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 1: to get his name out there, which in California is very, 446 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: very very expensive to do. If he's doing a lot 447 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 1: of earned media. He was just done Bill Maher this 448 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 1: last week. But that's not enough. You gotta buy radio, 449 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: you gotta buy television. Being a John Phillips, LA based 450 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:17,120 Speaker 1: radio host columnist at the OC Register, John, are you 451 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: coming across more you know, because often in talk radio, 452 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 1: you know, general, we're talking to a lot of people 453 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: who are right of center, share a lot of our politics, obviously, 454 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,880 Speaker 1: but just as somebody who lives in the state of California, 455 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:34,120 Speaker 1: we have big audiences across that state. Here in syndication, 456 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 1: are you coming across more and more Democrats who recognize, 457 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 1: essentially that the Chessi Boudin recall is just a symptom 458 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 1: of a broader realization or it's just evidence of a 459 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 1: broader realization that this super soft on crime, don't prosecute people, 460 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: let them steal stuff idea is really bad. Irrespective of politics. 461 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 1: I mean, are people seeing the light from the Democrats side? Yeah, 462 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 1: Because you may have your ideology, you may have your 463 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,160 Speaker 1: part as an affiliation, but no one wants to get stabbed. 464 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 1: And when you have just complete chaos going on all 465 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,800 Speaker 1: around you, and you can't take the boss, you can't 466 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,360 Speaker 1: take the subway, you can't use the libraries, you can't 467 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,120 Speaker 1: use the parks, the beaches have been taken over by 468 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 1: crime and the homeless, you pretty much have to stay 469 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 1: inside your house. And people don't live here. People don't 470 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 1: move here for that kind of lifestyle. You live here 471 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 1: because you want to enjoy all of those things. And 472 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,439 Speaker 1: I'll say this, if and when the California Republican Party 473 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 1: ever comes back here on the West Coast, it'll happen 474 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: because Democrats have done everything they possibly can to alienate 475 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 1: blue collar Hispanics. Every time you get in an uber, 476 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 1: every time you talk to a bartender, every time you 477 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,719 Speaker 1: go to a diner, you talk to blue collar Hispanics 478 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 1: who may not be ready to vote Republican. But they're 479 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 1: absolutely furious with Bodine, They're furious with gets Going, They're 480 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:02,320 Speaker 1: furious with Darsetti and with Newsom. This is a really 481 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:06,399 Speaker 1: interesting situation because all this you just have discussed is 482 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 1: basically internest in warfare in the Democrat Party. To your point, 483 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 1: the Republicans still haven't risen up as a valid opposition. 484 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 1: What would it have to happen? You just said, if 485 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,920 Speaker 1: they ever rise up again? What would it take for 486 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: a Republican to win again in a major electoral vote 487 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: anywhere in a popular place in California? Right? And I 488 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: know you can maybe say, well, when you flip and 489 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 1: you're basically running as a Democrat but you're running on 490 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:40,320 Speaker 1: Republican platforms, that's a Bloombergean esque move. But do you 491 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 1: think there is a future where the Republicans are a 492 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,080 Speaker 1: viable option in California? Or are all those people who 493 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:50,080 Speaker 1: are leaving who are overwhelmingly Republican voters just basically flipping 494 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 1: out the lights and saying California is going to be 495 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:58,400 Speaker 1: a left wing cesspool for as far as we can imagine. Well, 496 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:02,359 Speaker 1: I'm not Pollyanna and think that it's going to happen tomorrow. However, 497 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 1: when it does happen, it's going to happen the same 498 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,280 Speaker 1: way that you're seeing shifting voting patterns in places like 499 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 1: Texas and Florida, where the Latino vote is moving from 500 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 1: safely in the Democratic column to the Republican Party. And 501 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,800 Speaker 1: the other thing I would add is that elections are 502 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: popularity contests. You don't like to think of them that way, 503 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 1: but that's exactly what they are. You have to get 504 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,720 Speaker 1: more votes than the other person, and you have to 505 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 1: pick your candidates the same way you cast a movie. 506 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,440 Speaker 1: And we have a lot of people who can read 507 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: the script, but we don't have a lot of people 508 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 1: who can draw up a box office. And even though 509 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 1: he went bad and he turned out not to be 510 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: a good idea, the Arnold Schwarzenegger sort of candidate is 511 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 1: definitely the way to go. And to find someone who 512 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: certainly has conservative ideas, but who has likability, who has 513 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 1: the ability to raise money, who is well known by 514 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 1: the public. That's the type of candidate date that you 515 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: need to win an election. I was wishing that Elon 516 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: Musk would run here when he was here, but yeah, 517 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,400 Speaker 1: to texts John Phillips John, Thanks so much for being 518 00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 1: with us. Appreciate it. Hey, thanks for having me. 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We've been talking some 544 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 1: about electric vehicles and charging related decisions, and energy prices 545 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: and gas prices, certainly on a big level as we 546 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 1: approach five dollars, some people, I mean, I think it's 547 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 1: fair to say who have substantial resources are looking at 548 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 1: the electric vehicle model more so. There was a great 549 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,960 Speaker 1: piece in the Saturday Wall Street Journal for one of 550 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 1: their reporters drove from New Orleans to Chicago and back 551 00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,160 Speaker 1: and they plotted it out. It was incredibly detailed. We're 552 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 1: going to show up at this charging location. It's supposed 553 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:07,760 Speaker 1: to be fast, and it was an abject failure. And 554 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of people out there. It's 555 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 1: one thing if you're driving around, you're not driving your 556 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,760 Speaker 1: car that many miles and you can plug it into 557 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:18,280 Speaker 1: your house, into your garage every night. But I read 558 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:23,360 Speaker 1: that piece and I thought, this sounds utterly miserable if 559 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: you were trying to drive any kind of substantial distance 560 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 1: at all. Again, I believe she was going New Orleans 561 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:32,520 Speaker 1: to Chicago and she had to wait some places because 562 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,640 Speaker 1: the charging speeds are so slow, for three hours for 563 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:41,320 Speaker 1: her car to charge back up. Buck, I am super impatient. 564 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,480 Speaker 1: That's one of my flaws. Like I hate getting caught 565 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: in traffic. I hate not being efficient. I would lose 566 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 1: my mind if I had to wait three hours to 567 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 1: charge my car up so I could keep driving on 568 00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 1: a trip. You know, Clay, I didn't choose the scooter life, 569 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,680 Speaker 1: but the scooter life chose me. Because here in New 570 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 1: York City, way to get around in midtown is to 571 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 1: basically be in the bike lane. So I'm riding a 572 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 1: miniature electric vehicle all day. But I'll tell you a 573 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:13,400 Speaker 1: charge on this thing over here, which you know, when 574 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 1: it hits speeds fifteen sixteen miles an hour, it's not 575 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,520 Speaker 1: exactly street legal. But you know, have you ever had 576 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,520 Speaker 1: a girl hang onto your back on the scooter like 577 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 1: like a motorcycle rider would? Have you ever had multiple 578 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,480 Speaker 1: people on the scooter? I can tell you that some 579 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 1: years ago in DC, when I was living in DC 580 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,840 Speaker 1: and they had those share scooters. Ye, those disappeared by 581 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 1: the way, they were everywhere and now they vanished. I 582 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:40,120 Speaker 1: offered to give a female friend a ride home on 583 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 1: my electric scooter that I was. It wasn't mine, it was, 584 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 1: you know, one of these rideshare ones. Yeah. What I 585 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,000 Speaker 1: didn't think about is that there's apparently like a two 586 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty pound weight limit on these things. Not 587 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 1: that they'll break, but that they have not enough juice. 588 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 1: So we I'm not kidding. We got on this thing 589 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: and it went like we're and went about three miles 590 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 1: an hour. I mean I don't mean like theoret I 591 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 1: mean actually two or three miles. Did you have? Did 592 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 1: you have major hill related issues to have to deal 593 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,760 Speaker 1: with as well? We we got off after about two blocks. 594 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 1: It did not you know, it did not exactly work. 595 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 1: Your gallant, your gallant attempt to provide scooter home, just 596 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,920 Speaker 1: trying to make sure lady got home safe and sound, 597 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:20,640 Speaker 1: you know. But I got I gotta tell you something. 598 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 1: These electric scooters you gotta charge him for it's a 599 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,720 Speaker 1: little some of you gotta charge him for almost four 600 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,360 Speaker 1: hours to get a full charge, so or can you 601 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:31,320 Speaker 1: go on a charge? I have no earthly ideas, you know, 602 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,120 Speaker 1: they say, I don't know, this is scooters not but 603 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,560 Speaker 1: it's similar of it's battery technology and it's electric vehicle. Uh. 604 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,160 Speaker 1: They say you can go I think between fifteen and 605 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 1: twenty miles, but that's a lot pre pandemic Buck might 606 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 1: have been able to get fifteen or twenty miles. Which 607 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 1: you find out is that there's a weight issue, and 608 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,840 Speaker 1: so post pandemic Buck, it's probably more like a you know, 609 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,240 Speaker 1: ten to twelve miles. A lot of people out there 610 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:59,440 Speaker 1: with some post post pandemic pounds, which is honestly like 611 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,640 Speaker 1: Joe about it. But every health decision that we told 612 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 1: people to undertake was wrong. Basically was the worst possible 613 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: decision we could tell people. Tell no. I mean, I 614 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 1: really believe that the CDC should be destroyed down to 615 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:13,680 Speaker 1: the studs and they should try to build something in 616 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,200 Speaker 1: its place that actually has some intelligence and some accountability 617 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,080 Speaker 1: to the public. For many for many reasons betting back 618 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 1: on the electric vehicle front. I mean, I've been thinking 619 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,640 Speaker 1: for a while about, oh, well, you know, what about 620 00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,279 Speaker 1: getting a car here in New York and what if 621 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,640 Speaker 1: I got a Tesla. What does it cost, by the way, 622 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: for someone to people, I don't think a lot of 623 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,040 Speaker 1: people understand this. What what a parking place cost you 624 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,920 Speaker 1: in New York City? Well, I could just say, like 625 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,560 Speaker 1: like a garage on the block where their studio is. 626 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,120 Speaker 1: Here in New York City, you're looking at seven hundred 627 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:46,040 Speaker 1: a month just for a yes, for a parking spot 628 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,560 Speaker 1: in a garage, that's about six fifty to eight hundred 629 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,160 Speaker 1: is what it runs. So it's very, very expensive to 630 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,040 Speaker 1: have a car here in New York City. And the 631 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,440 Speaker 1: truth is, just like democrats and a lot of things, 632 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,080 Speaker 1: by the way, they don't really want you to have 633 00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,480 Speaker 1: a car. They make it as annoying and expensive, and 634 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:03,919 Speaker 1: they don't care that much about congestion. They say, yeah, whatever, 635 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:05,799 Speaker 1: what are you get? You know, you shouldn't be in 636 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:07,719 Speaker 1: a car in the first place. I will tell you 637 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,719 Speaker 1: the bike lanes they have made wide and luxurious there. 638 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,360 Speaker 1: It's like the Chanslse of bike lanes. Here, it's like 639 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,319 Speaker 1: the broad boulevards of Paris. They've cleared out. You could 640 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,680 Speaker 1: ride four bikes across in the bike lanes. Meanwhile, I 641 00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,880 Speaker 1: look at the poor suckers in traffic in their actual cars, 642 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,279 Speaker 1: and they're bumper to bumper the whole way, and you're 643 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,200 Speaker 1: just like, this is this is you know, the city 644 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:33,080 Speaker 1: planning when it goes wrong underway. But you know what 645 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: I was just talking about, because I'm coming up what 646 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,239 Speaker 1: next week? My wife is also coming up. We're getting 647 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,839 Speaker 1: you an electric scooter when you come here, buddy, I said, 648 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,480 Speaker 1: I might have to try an electric scooter. But I 649 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,920 Speaker 1: actually told her, I said, you because usually we've been 650 00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,040 Speaker 1: to New York before, like she'll go shopping, she'll hop 651 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 1: on the subway. I have said, you cannot ride the 652 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,800 Speaker 1: subway when you are I don't trust it to be safe. 653 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,560 Speaker 1: You will get you, you know, you'll travel in other ways. 654 00:35:58,560 --> 00:35:59,880 Speaker 1: Maybe you have to get it. It's not even just 655 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,799 Speaker 1: the So that's that's a broader conversation. And I'm I 656 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,520 Speaker 1: was a subway rider for a very long time, right 657 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,240 Speaker 1: before the pandemic. I was on the subway four times 658 00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:11,040 Speaker 1: a day, so I really know the subway. Well, it's 659 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,520 Speaker 1: not just the crimes you read about. It's the unpleasantness 660 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:18,319 Speaker 1: of having a completely insane person in you know, their 661 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,760 Speaker 1: tidy Whitey's run up and scream in your face. Some 662 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,000 Speaker 1: some gibbersh you have noted it. That happens all the time. 663 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:24,880 Speaker 1: I mean, you don't need crazy. That stuff happens all 664 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,879 Speaker 1: the time. Early crazy. Yeah, when don't we come back, 665 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,960 Speaker 1: by the way, diving into this, uh, this craziness. Did 666 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,359 Speaker 1: you see that? On ESPN they've been calling Tampa bay 667 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,680 Speaker 1: Rays players who decided not to wear a Pride flag bigots. 668 00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 1: It really happened. We'll talk about it more. Sleet Travis 669 00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,800 Speaker 1: and Buck Sexton on the front lines.