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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. Third hour of The Clay Travis and

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Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show gets going right now, and we are

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Speaker 1: a week away from the expiration of Title forty two,

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Speaker 1: which is a big deal because, as you know, they've

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Speaker 1: extended this and Title forty two is a CDC pandemic

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Speaker 1: authority that allows for the expulsion of certain illegal migrants

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Speaker 1: under certain circumstances, even after they cross into America. And

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Speaker 1: it has not been obviously super effective because there have

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Speaker 1: been millions, let's remind ourselves of this, over five million

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Speaker 1: illegals crossing into America while Joe Biden as president. But

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Speaker 1: it has been a tool that has at least prevented

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Speaker 1: some single adult males from being able to come into

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Speaker 1: the country if you're a unaccompanied miner, if you are

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Speaker 1: a family member. I'll never forget. When I was at

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Speaker 1: the US border crossing of San Diego, they told me

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Speaker 1: that they had had I think it was a thirty

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Speaker 1: two year old claiming to be a seventeen year old

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Speaker 1: to get get through under the unaccompanied miner loophole. So

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Speaker 1: just people are gaming the system left and right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thirty two said he was seventeen. They didn't buy that one,

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Speaker 1: by the way, they thought, I don't think so. But

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Speaker 1: maybe he just should have said he was trans age.

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Speaker 1: Democrats would have had to be all in on it,

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Speaker 1: still waiting for someone to explain why trans age isn't

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Speaker 1: a thing if transgender is a thing. But I gotta

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Speaker 1: tell you, the border situation is something we have to

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Speaker 1: look at much more closely because Democrats are beginning to

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Speaker 1: seize a narrative on this one. Gavin Newsom, Yes he's

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Speaker 1: slippery and odious, but he is also formidable in his

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Speaker 1: own way. This guy escaped a recall election and actually

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Speaker 1: increased his support from election in the recall. Clearly he

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Speaker 1: should have lost his job he did not. Isn't amazing

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Speaker 1: In California they keep having these governors that are disastrous,

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Speaker 1: and then they keep electing disastrous governors with the same

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Speaker 1: basic policies to replace them. Maybe don't have Democrats ruin

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Speaker 1: your state anymore, California. That would just be one idea.

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Speaker 1: But here's Newsome talking about how, oh man, it's going

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Speaker 1: to be really difficult when we get to a post

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Speaker 1: forty two world Plate twelve. The fact is what we've

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Speaker 1: got right now is not working and is about to

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Speaker 1: break in a post forty two world unless we take

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Speaker 1: some responsibility ownership. And I'm saying that as a Democrat.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that the point fingers. I'm saying that

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Speaker 1: as a bother. I'm saying that as someone that feels

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Speaker 1: responsible for being part of the solution. And I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to do my best here. So I want everyone to

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Speaker 1: understand this right up front. Right now. We talk about

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Speaker 1: the border a lot, and we're trying because it matters

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Speaker 1: a lot. And when once you start to see the calculations,

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Speaker 1: the media won't do this what it means to the taxpayer,

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Speaker 1: or what it means to public resources, to public schools,

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Speaker 1: to hospitals, to just have and it's always specific to

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Speaker 1: certain communities. One of the challenges when you elevate this

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Speaker 1: to the national level, they say it doesn't affect wages.

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Speaker 1: Really look at some of the border communities that have

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Speaker 1: been I think it's professor Borjas at Harvard who's done

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Speaker 1: the most specific analysis of this. You look like it

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Speaker 1: at certain communities when they have a huge influx of

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Speaker 1: illegal migrants. Guess what happens. Wages go down people and

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Speaker 1: public services deteriorate. But if that's happening in El Paso, sure,

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Speaker 1: maybe you don't feel it in San Francisco. So you

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Speaker 1: have to look at the problem with some specificity. My

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Speaker 1: point here, Clay, is merely they're saying, oh, yeah, the

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Speaker 1: border is a problem. It's a problem, all right, we

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Speaker 1: fix it through amnesty. That's what they're going to say.

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Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you right now, one voice that

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Speaker 1: Trump provided that we don't really have right now is

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Speaker 1: shutting down all the illegal crossings and deporting people who

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Speaker 1: are not supposed to be in this country anymore, who

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Speaker 1: fall into the fall into specific categories. We're not hearing

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Speaker 1: that from the GOP. I don't even know if anyone

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Speaker 1: knows where the GOP stands right now on this issue.

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Speaker 1: It's a concern. Gavin Knewsom the trip to the border

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Speaker 1: to embarrass Joe Biden. He went to the White House,

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Speaker 1: and I'm never going to forget it when Joe Biden

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Speaker 1: Now he made a big show of saying, hey, I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna run if you run in twenty four. But

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Speaker 1: if Joe Biden were not running, I think Gavin Knewsom

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Speaker 1: he would be formidable because he's smart. He's an incredible liar.

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Speaker 1: He presents well, meaning that when he stands in front

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Speaker 1: would be. Reportedly, he and Kamala Harris don't get along

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Speaker 1: threading the needle of how it's not racist and sexist

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Speaker 1: for him, as a white man to be leading the

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Speaker 1: Democrat Party. And if you question that, keep in mind

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden is the oldest, whitest guy possible and he

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Speaker 1: ended up the nominee in twenty twenty and so I

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Speaker 1: don't think this is coincidental that he made his trip

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Speaker 1: down to the border. I agree with you Buck that

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Speaker 1: they think the solution is amnesty. Of course it's not

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Speaker 1: the solution, and the fact that Joe Biden won't go

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Speaker 1: to the border. When does the title forty two end

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Speaker 1: next week week? Right? Yep, So if it officially ends,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be right around Christmas, which is a gift,

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Speaker 1: it will be virtually impossible for it not to be

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Speaker 1: the number one story in America. There is a deep

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Speaker 1: incoherence when you start to ask people who want to

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Speaker 1: But you ask them some very basic questions, and this

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Speaker 1: You start to ask this, well, if there's no downside,

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Speaker 1: why not just let everyone come whenever they want? Because

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Speaker 1: they'll tell you there's no downside, and the argument gets

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Speaker 1: very interesting. You'll say, you know, if I point out,

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Speaker 1: I say, well, it's lawless, lack of sovereignty. You know,

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Speaker 1: respect for our laws is important. It's a drain on resources.

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Speaker 1: It overwhelms our ability as an a to assimilate people properly,

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Speaker 1: overwhelms the assimilation processes. It creates fractures in our society

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Speaker 1: because people feel like there are different sets of laws

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Speaker 1: for different people. You go through these they'll reject all

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Speaker 1: We're a nation of immigrants. They work harder than Americans.

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Speaker 1: They're there, I'm talking illegal immigrants. Now, they work harder

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Speaker 1: the country right now, Clay, these drugs are more potent,

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Speaker 1: It is all coming across the US Mexico border, and

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Speaker 1: people don't you're so you're you're losing one hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: So the argument should be either we secure the border

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Speaker 1: what we want, which is basically what the Democrats have done.

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Speaker 1: But what we have right now is just untenable. Which

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Speaker 1: No they don't. The Democrats want an open border, and

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Speaker 1: the cartel controls the southern border, which ties in with

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Speaker 1: buck I talked to my kids. Now, it used to

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Speaker 1: which is different than in the eighties and nineties. Five

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Speaker 1: the individual. But look at the focus that the White

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Speaker 1: function of White House policy. Not only that, the people

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Speaker 1: still like the idea of a movie being made for

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Speaker 1: someone who's five years old that they can watch also

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Speaker 1: with a twenty five year old and enjoy it equally.

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Speaker 1: And because I've got three young kids, so I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't dislike Superhero. I'm actually okay with I like

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Speaker 1: superhero movies, like I think the first Iron Man movies

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Speaker 1: a really good movie. I think The Batman Begins and

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Speaker 1: that whole Christopher Nolan franchise. So some people are just

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Speaker 1: you know, hate antihero as a as a as a genre.

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Speaker 1: I'm I grew up reading comics. I like superhero movies.

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Speaker 1: You like the Avengers trilogy then, right, I mean that

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Speaker 1: was really good in game, Like, you can't that that

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Speaker 1: was well done. You didn't like those, So this is

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Speaker 1: where we're splitting. I mean, do you have you seen

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Speaker 1: some of the thor like Love and Thunder stuff. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they've really just gone off. It's just oh yeah, look

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Speaker 1: they're just running the back truck into the wall. I

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Speaker 1: think there's a wide variety of quality of a lot

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Speaker 1: of these movies. I don't dispute that at all. But

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Speaker 1: like the Avengers in Game trilogy, Uh was amazing, Like,

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Speaker 1: I thought, it was really well done. My favorite movie

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Speaker 1: for being able to take I'll give you a guess.

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Speaker 1: This movie came out in the early two thousands, I believe,

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Speaker 1: and I loved it for being able to take as

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Speaker 1: many different ages as possible. They've made many sequels of

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Speaker 1: it since, but the original I loved um. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean Pirates the Pirates. I'm gonna give it to you.

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Speaker 1: I loved it. Yeah, the first Pirates of the Caribbean

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Speaker 1: has is cleverer and has has some It's very well produced.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I I get I'm not hit on that one.

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Speaker 1: I just think that I've seen some of these Marvel

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Speaker 1: you know, multiverse movies or whatever, and it you're just

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Speaker 1: it's just more and more aliens running through buildings and

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Speaker 1: blowing them up in lasers everywhere, and you're like, what

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Speaker 1: is even happening here? Like this? Well, the reason why

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Speaker 1: I loved Top Gun Mavericks so much, Buck was it

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Speaker 1: took me back to our childhood. Although you're much younger

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Speaker 1: than me, it took me back to our childhood, your generate,

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Speaker 1: your millennial. I'm a gen X, but it took me

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Speaker 1: back to the eighties and nineties when it felt like

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Speaker 1: almost every movie was made for a broad audience. And

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that it was perfect, but Top Gun

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Speaker 1: Maverick was. It was like being in nineteen eighty six

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Speaker 1: or nineteen ninety two all over again. So so can

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Speaker 1: I I'll tell you this. I think I think that

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Speaker 1: what we've seen is that it became the primary focus

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Speaker 1: of anyone seeking to make a movie went from what

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Speaker 1: will be the biggest impact for audience, I mean, to

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Speaker 1: your point, what will be what will get the most

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Speaker 1: butts in seats in movie theaters. That was a huge

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Speaker 1: consideration the major studios. Now for the people green lighting movies,

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Speaker 1: it's what will get me praise from my peers that

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Speaker 1: run this studio and other studios, and so I get

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Speaker 1: invited to fancy cocktil parties in Malibu. That's that's why

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Speaker 1: they green light certain movies. Now, it's very clear to

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Speaker 1: me based on the content that they're producing. I think

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Speaker 1: that's true. I also think streaming factors in here, buck

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Speaker 1: and I think there is something to trying to define

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Speaker 1: a niche as opposed to trying to hit a mass market,

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Speaker 1: if that makes any sense. And so if you are,

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Speaker 1: you know, sixteen years old and you have an interest

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Speaker 1: in you know, like I don't know, like the Werewolves,

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Speaker 1: like there's a movie made for you. And that might

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Speaker 1: be a bad example, because the Twilight movies did really well.

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Speaker 1: I never watched them. Mike Leach, who died recently, had

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Speaker 1: a great take on that. Mississippi State former head coach.

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Speaker 1: He said that he liked his vampires to be mean

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Speaker 1: and angry and not like Mopi adolescence, and I was like,

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Speaker 1: I totally get that right. But so I feel like

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Speaker 1: the intent of making a mass success story is changed

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Speaker 1: in streaming, where the intent is not the same thing,

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Speaker 1: if that makes sense. And I think it's a subtle shift,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's a pretty substantial one. There just

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Speaker 1: aren't very many movies made like Top Gun Maverick anymore.

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Speaker 1: And I think in fact that it's unapologetically pro America

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Speaker 1: and just a feel good movie that you could take

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Speaker 1: your kids too. Was pretty fantastic. Not the best movie,

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Speaker 1: but movie watching experience, either when you were a kid

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Speaker 1: or with your family as a dad, your best in

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Speaker 1: theater movie watching experience in memory is what movie for.

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Speaker 1: When I was a kid, Return of the Jedi in

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Speaker 1: the movie theater, I remember going to see it and

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Speaker 1: just being blown away. What about you? What movie did

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Speaker 1: you guys too? And just think I remember my parents

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Speaker 1: taking the whole family to see Jurassic Park the original

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Speaker 1: when I was in the third grade. That was amazing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was really good. It's a good question. Let me

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Speaker 1: think on it. I'll give you an answer for the

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Speaker 1: best family going to the movie experience that we have

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Speaker 1: had where everybody enjoyed it and left and was like,

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Speaker 1: that's a great feeling when you're the dad and you

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Speaker 1: leave the theater and your kids, your boys or your

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Speaker 1: girls are jumping around like in a great mood. You

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Speaker 1: can't stop talking about how awesome it was, And hopefully

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Speaker 1: also simultaneously you enjoyed it. We take all the three boys.

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Speaker 1: My wife and I still really liked the movies, so

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Speaker 1: we take all the whole family two movies fairly frequently

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Speaker 1: if we can. And that's why the Marvel movies to

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Speaker 1: me have some appeal because it's just something we can

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Speaker 1: go do as a full family. Let me think on

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Speaker 1: the best reaction coming out of one of those movies.

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Speaker 1: But for me as a kid, it was Return of

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Speaker 1: the Jedi Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt. I still

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Speaker 1: remember how awesome that movie was. Also, the other one

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Speaker 1: not going to surprise you, Indiana Jones and the Temple

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Speaker 1: of Doom. I think that, you know, when they leave

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Speaker 1: the movies on for the whole summer, buck, I think

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Speaker 1: every single family member I had took me to go

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Speaker 1: see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom as like

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Speaker 1: a seven or eight year old, Like my cousins took me,

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Speaker 1: and then my you know, my grandparents took me, and

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Speaker 1: my aunt's uncles took me. Everybody. You see, they're saying

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Speaker 1: that the new Indiana Jones is gonna be all about

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Speaker 1: having a woman lead, and she's the new Indiana Jones.

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Speaker 1: It's like the Ghostbusters. I hope not. They're gonna ruin it, Clay.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna just you're gonna have to hold me as

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Speaker 1: I cry, because they're gonna ruin Indiana Jones, just like

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Speaker 1: they ruined Ghostbusters. They did bring back Ghostbusters Resurrection, which

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Speaker 1: twenty four seven Walking Back in Clay Travis buck Sexton

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Speaker 1: show closing out the Wednesday edition of the program eleven

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Speaker 1: days out from Christmas. For those of you keeven score

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Speaker 1: out there, Buck, I told you I thought about it

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Speaker 1: during the break. I think the most fun my kids

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Speaker 1: have had leaving a movie. And this also ties in

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Speaker 1: the Avenger's end Game. That's all three of them. The

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Speaker 1: first the Force awakens was that what it was called

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Speaker 1: the first Star Wars movie would be the one that

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Speaker 1: my two oldest were excited for, But we didn't have

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Speaker 1: the third boy there yet, so I'll go Avengers End

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Speaker 1: Game for all three. The first Star Wars that they

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Speaker 1: one that they were They were huge my kids Star Wars.

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Speaker 1: Kids like to dress up, like to have fun with it.

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Speaker 1: So they were super excited to go in theater and

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Speaker 1: see that first Star Wars movie return being super excited

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Speaker 1: to go see the Tim Burton Batman movie. Do you

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Speaker 1: remember that the first time? Yeah, nineteen eighty nine, Michael

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Speaker 1: Keaton and uh and Jack Nicholson and that was that

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Speaker 1: was like at the time, that was the big movie.

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Speaker 1: That's Superman movies are pretty great too. I think those

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Speaker 1: get a little overlooked these days, better honestly than the

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Speaker 1: more recent superhero I mean more recent Superman efforts, some

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Speaker 1: of the recent super mean, isn't Ben Affleck a Superman

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Speaker 1: in one of the movies? Yeah, the d the other

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Speaker 1: one he's Batman Batman versus Superman. Yeah, that was bad.

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Speaker 1: It was a bad movie. It was a bad movie. Um,

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Speaker 1: but do you remember also, uh, like there was this

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Speaker 1: whole cult mall call. I was talking to Carry about

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Speaker 1: this the other day, how mall culture was a thing

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Speaker 1: for a while. Oh yeah, where people would just go.

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Speaker 1: There was that movie Mall Rats, which I do not

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Speaker 1: recommend for anybody, but you know there there are these

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Speaker 1: and that would you would have a mall that you

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Speaker 1: would go to as a New York City kid, Like,

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Speaker 1: was there something that even mall culture would reflect that

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Speaker 1: you grew up with the city of New York? Was

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Speaker 1: my mall Clay? Um No, not not really, we didn't.

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Speaker 1: I used to go visit my relatives in Charlottesville down

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Speaker 1: that's where my starting jobs were. So like that whole

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Speaker 1: also just this notion of I always thought that going

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Speaker 1: still think, by the way, that movie as a date

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Speaker 1: is not really a good idea because you sit there

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Speaker 1: in silence and it's it's not really a not an

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Speaker 1: effective usage of time. You know, meals activities, even going

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Speaker 1: for a nice walk way better than sitting quietly in

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Speaker 1: you could make out with the prom queen when you're

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Speaker 1: were not a particularly smart date option. But also people

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Speaker 1: used to like camp out to go to see the

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Speaker 1: Star Wars movie. At least they would wait in line

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Speaker 1: to buy the tickets for six hours. You think about

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Speaker 1: the things we used to do back in the nineties, Clay,

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Speaker 1: it was a simpler time. Also, camp out to buy

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Speaker 1: the street from the Tower Records. Remember the Tower Records.

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Speaker 1: Like how big those shops were. They had every CD

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Speaker 1: all camp out on the street in Northwest DC to

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Speaker 1: be able to get in line to go to the

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Speaker 1: ticketmaster to buy tickets. I never wanted to see anything

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Speaker 1: so badly that I brought a lawn chair and hung

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Speaker 1: out on the sidewalk for hours to buy tickets. I've

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Speaker 1: never done that before. I don't know. Maybe I just

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Speaker 1: lack a certain passion for the arts. Well, it used

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Speaker 1: to be that you could. You know, there are always

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Speaker 1: people scalping tickets outside, at least in Tennessee where I

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Speaker 1: grew up. And now with StubHub and you know, ce

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Speaker 1: Can all these different companies, there's literally not anything that

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Speaker 1: has ever existed that has public tickets that you can't

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Speaker 1: buy one for now. It might be expensive, but I

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Speaker 1: loved one on those apps. If I've got a sporting

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Speaker 1: event that I want to go to, we'll can see

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Speaker 1: what it costs. Boom, You're in. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: worry about walking around outside the stadium having hundreds of

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Speaker 1: dollars or maybe even a thousand dollars in cash. It's

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Speaker 1: a big difference, makes a tremendous more fun to be

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Speaker 1: able to go to those events. People paying like twenty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars go to this Taylor Swift concert. Have you

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Speaker 1: seen this? I mean, I didn't think you were going

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Speaker 1: to tell everybody how much I love Taylor Swift. Clay

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Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollars feels like a small price to pay

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Speaker 1: for some tea. Swift Time for the buckster over here,

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Speaker 1: just kidding thousand dollars to go to a concert. I

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Speaker 1: don't even know what her music really is. I think

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Speaker 1: I can think of two songs, but her politics also

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Speaker 1: Clay not good. I like her, but Chiefs