March 7, 2022 • 36 mins
Former Fox and Bloomberg business anchor Trish Regan brings us the bad news on the economy and oil prices as well as some breaking news from Venezuela. Mayor Pete: If gas prices are high, buy an electric car. Andrew Cuomo claims he's a victim of cancel culture. Kamala Harris makes another vacuous statement, gets made fun of on SNL. Charlotte soccer crowd sings national anthem. Buck goes to rodeo, buys boots. Clay and Buck's favorite cereals.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. The third hour of The Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show is here. Everybody. Thanks for rolling
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show individually too. Great way to do it. We are
joy now as we have from by our friend Trish Reagan.
She is the host of The Trish Reagan Show podcast
and editor in chief of trish Intel dot com, formerly
of Fox Business and Bloomberg. Trish, great to see you, hey,
It's good to talk to you. Buck. So this is
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not a good moment for the American economy, particularly on
the issue of gas prices. We pointed out before that
as of this morning, we were just three cents off
the all time national gas average high from two thousand
and eight, and it looks like it's about to get
a lot high. Or what is this going to mean
for the broader economy? I mean, let's assume that this
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conflict continues on and the Biden administration decides that they're
going to sanction the Russian energy sector directly, which they're
certainly talking about doing. What does that look like for
everybody listening across the country, which, by the way, I
mean my view on this is absolutely they should. It's
kind of obvious that if a country is just massacring
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people like we're seeing right now, we shouldn't be doing
business with them. And we've certainly sanctioned plenty of other
countries that haven't done anything quite quite close to that.
Right So, we're looking at right now, in current trading
buck around one hundred and nineteen dollars a barrel and
oil that it's where it's trading. It was trading over
the weekend. On Sunday night we saw up to one thirty.
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I'm hearing that the administration is fearful it could go
to one eighty. I hear from traders it could go
to one eighty. You know what this is going to mean.
It's going to mean very quickly you're going to be
looking at nine dollars instead of four dollars for you know, gallon.
You could be looking at nine dollars or even upwards
of that on the gas bombs, I would say it
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doesn't have to be that way, and there are solutions
that we should employ, both in terms of drilling here
at home and also looking to our neighbors. I also
want to point out I'm really glad I'm coming on
with you guys right now because I'm getting some breaking
news that I just want to share some developments. You know,
I've covered Venezuela for some time and have a lot
of sources in Venezuela, both in terms of the opposition
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and within the Maduro government, and I'm hearing from sources
close to the government right now that there is an
effort underway to make sure that at least two, possibly
three of the detainees there, the American hostages, are released.
So that's just coming into me right now, and I
just wanted to share that with you guys. It's relevant
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as we talk about oil as well, because that would
be a part of Venezuela trying to get the sanctions lifted, right. Yeah, Yeah,
So the sanctions have been put on Venezuela, They've been
there what times. Twenty nineteen, there was hope, I think
that we were going to see a regime change in Venezuela,
and if that regime change came about, you could potentially
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open up those oil fields in the Orinocle region, which
I've been to. It is the most oil in the world.
It dwarfs it makes you know, Saudi Arabia's oil fields
cannot compare to what's in the ground in Venezuela. The
trick is it's super heavy, it's very tar like, and
you've got to refine this stuff, which our Texas refineries
can do. You could get this out of the ground
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and to Texas in you know, a few days. So
if if they were successful in relieving the sanctions, you
could see US energy companies like Chevron or Chronical Phillips
down there pumping all this stuff out and getting the
supply chain to the US. The problemal course, has been
the sanctions, and so I suspect that there is going
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to be some differ soblematic activity going on. The release
of and we'll see if this comes to fruition has
not been confirmed by the US State Department, but again
coming to me from sources close to the Maduro government,
they are looking to release some of these detainees. This
would be obviously a really really positive development. I think that,
you know, we should all hope for that, but also,
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you know, realistically, I think with everything that's going on
right now, we should be trying to find solutions to
work with people in our hemisphere. One of the things
that has frustrated me from the beginning is that the
Russians have been making efforts as well as the Chinese,
to have a present in Venezuela and to access that oil.
Oil that you know, honestly like, we ought to be
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able to realistically access ourselves with a country that theoretically
we should have more in common with than they do
with the Chinese. So there's a lot going on. I
think that we don't have to look at nine dollars
a gallon. We could be smart about this. We don't
have to go to Iran, I mean, of all places.
I saw the story that you tweeted out and I
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actually retweeted it Buck about the allegations now that there's
some kind of assassination attempt on John Bolton Um look
by iron there. This is a very sort of mixed
up world right now. But we ought to be very
precise and very thoughtful about how we ensure that our
economy doesn't get just you know, thrown into into a storm,
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into a total tornado, if you would, because of Russia.
We've got to find other solutions. I mean, the most
obvious one is that we should have had Keystone right, Like,
we absolutely should have allowed Keystone to go through. They've
made mistake after mistake after mistake, and I'm just hopeful
that on the policy front, on the international front, we
can think thoughtfully about this so that everyday Americans don't
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pay the price because you know what, Buck, that's that's
who it's going to hurt everyday Americans, Middle Americans that
are trying to you know, put food on the table
and pay their bills. What are they going to do
when it's nine dollars a gallon? And think about the
effect the ripple effect on the economy. Tricius Clay, I
appreciate you coming on with us. We started off last
hour talking about where this oil can come from, and
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the information you're sharing about Venezuela is fantastic. I said, basically,
there's five places, right, And I'm curious what you would
say in terms of an analyzing this, what's the best
case scenario? And I said, Obviously, US, we got to
increase the amount that we're producing. Saudi Arabia. It appears
that the United States, the Biden administration, has tried to
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isolate Saudi Arabia over the Washington Post journalist who was
killed and tried to say MBS and crew are not
great allies. It seems like that's changing. Venezuela I ranked third,
and then I said Iran, obviously that's not where we want,
and Russia is five. Are there other places out there that,
to you, we could go to avoid this possibility of
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nine dollars a gallon gas? And what would be the
best possible outcome. I mean, obviously Ukraine and Russia ending
their conflict, But I'm talking about if we have to
continue to use the oil in the gas in this
universe and we're not going to have a rapid cessation
of hostilities. So play to me, like first and most
obvious should be the US, right, But we almost have.
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If you look at the map of all the reserves
in the world, we actually don't have as much as
a place like you know, Venezuela or Saudi Arabia. Venezuela,
I mean, you're talking about probably the largest oil reserves
in the world. I mean, they've got like three hundred
and two billion, I believe, compared to Saudi Arabia's two
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hundred and sixty six billion. The US is looking around
thirty five billion. So in other words, you get ten
times on a mountain Venezuela. I just think that again
in the scheme of things. And by the way, Clay,
if you don't know, and Buck knows this, I have
been very critical of the Madual regime and that's that's
putting it very nice for me over the years. The
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last couple of years, I've started to see in part
because they didn't really have a choice. I mean, once
you had those sanctions slapped on you, you how do
you exist? You could have gone super Cuban like right,
and really tried to reign in your economy that way,
or you could have gotten more creative about it. They
brought in a guy to Ferricio Rivera, who was from Ecuador,
the finance minister there. They came in, they're trying to
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implement you very free market capitalists, some of these free
market capitalist ideas, in part because they just had to
and they had to figure out, like how can we
get our oil to China. Well, why are we letting
them send it to China? For goodness sakes, It's three
hours off the coast of Miami. And you know, there's
there's a lot more commonality I think that they have
that they have with us than we have, say with Iran,
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or they have with China. So I look at this
right now. We won't allow Venezuelan oil in, but we
allow Russian oil in. And I just think we've got
to kind of take a deep breath, and I say
this with you know, without again as someone who would
love to see free market capitalism and democracy and all
these good things in Venezuela. I think they've they've been trying.
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And I think instead of like just shunning them and saying,
you know, hey, forget about it, we're gonna you go
do business with the Chinese, you go to business with Iranians,
you go to business oppressions, Like, why aren't we actually
trying to think about what would make sense for us?
And it seems to make sense that we should have
a relationship. We can encourage democracy. Maduro has made it
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very clear, you know what you can bring in all
the people you want to look after our elections and
make sure that they're fair. There was a guy that
is the brother of Java's actually that ran for governor
in one of their states and he didn't win. And
I guess if they really wanted to manipulate the elections,
they could have made sure that he won, so we
can have a presence there in a productive way that
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is good for them but also good for us. Right,
I'd rather get my oil from the US and then
secondarily from Venezuela, then from Iran or Russia or frankly
even tell Arabia. Trishiantel dot com folks. For more from
Trish Regan, also check out the Trish Regan Show podcast. Trish,
thanks for the expertise. Great to have you on, great
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to be here. Thanks guys, fascinating. This is gonna be
a there's not gonna be great options, Buck, We're gonna
have to break some of these down because we're gonna
end up in a partnership with a country that ain't ideal,
and it should matter figuring out how exactly to do
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Clay Travis buck Sexton show rolling through the Monday edition
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of the program. Trish Regan, she was fantastic talking about
potentially the consequences of nine dollars gas and talking about
the reality that you may have to end up in
a partnership with a country that is not an ideal
partner because buying large countries that have large deposits of
oil are not traditional American allies. One reason is because
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the power that oil gives to these autocratic leaders. But
I want you to know that our Transportation Secretary, Mayor Pete,
he of them pity leaves. Are we sure that he's
back from paternity leave. He may have an eighteen month
paternity His whole term might be paternity leave. Mayor Pete,
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this is such a Marie Antoinette like quote. Mayor Pete
today said that he's gotten the solution, guys and girls,
for everybody out there, who's having to pay nearly the
highest price for gas in the history of the country.
He says, all of you should just go buy new
electric cars. That would solve the issue. Eat the cake,
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buy the brand new eighty thousand dollars electric car. Listen
to Mayor Pete. Last months, we announced a five billion
dollar investment clean transportation can bring significant cost savings for
the American people as well. Last months, we announced a
five billion dollar investment to build out a nationwide electric
vehicle charging network so the people from rural to suburban
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to urban communities can all benefit from the gas savings
of driving an ev Just buy a new car, buck,
That's all you have to do, just eighty thousand dollars
electric vehicle. The fact that you already have a car
and then you already have to pay to fill it
up with gas, all you have to do, according to
Mayor Pete, is sell that car and then go buy
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an eighty thousand And by the way, why don't the
homeless people just go buy houses too? Why did the
homeless people just go buy houses? Why are they homeless?
What an idiot? I think you're skipping something here, may
Or Pete would tell the peasants. Well, if you can't
get a full on evy, go get yourself a nice
golf cart, you know, walk a little bit more. That'll
that'll solve it. By the way, I always think it's
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fascinating where do they think the electricity comes from for
these things? It's not It's not a windmill in Mayor
Pete's backyard. I can assure you it's it's not wind
turbines all along the coast that are what you're actually
juicing up your vehicle with your your brand new U
T Tesla or I was gonna say, I actually I
saw in Texas over the weekend a Prius with a
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Betto for governor sticker, and I just realized it still
exists even in Texas. Well. Hopefully they've got the odds
for Beto winning, because I would put every dollar that
I have on Greg Abbott because that clip of Betos
saying he's gonna take away all your guns. Yeah you're done.
I don't even know how they I don't even know
what the game plan is for him. How many races
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in a row can he lose and still get the
opportunity to go lose again, because once he said I'm
gonna take all your guns away. I'm sorry, you're dead
in terms of being able to win an election in Texas.
You are finished as a politician there. And by the way,
speaking of finished as a politician. But oh, look at
that smooth that is. That is what you call a
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smooth radio transition. Your boy, your boy, Andrew Cuomo is
I mean, he is going full throttle back and he
now is saying he is the ultimate victim of cancel culture,
which is a hell of a pivot. But that is
the argument that he is trying to make. And he
came out with an ad. We played that ad. Was
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that last week that we played his thirty second ad
that he's running now is basically claiming vindication. Yeah, and
now he's given a speech, and listen to how fiery
he got. Remember it was only what seven eight months
ago that he was forced to resign and dishonor and
disgrace and now buddy, he's back. Listen. Yes, this is
a time for impatience, but constructive impatience. If you want
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to cancel something, cancel federal gridlocked, the incompetence, cancel the
in fight and cancel crime, Cancel homelessness, cancel education, inequality,
cancel poverty, cancel racism. Be outraged, but be outraged at
what really matters. And what really matters is what matters
to you. Can soul my cable subscription cad soul that
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thing where I think I'm gonna get free DVDs in
the mail, but it's actually all a big scab canceul.
I mean, this guy, you're one hund right by the way, man.
So here's the thing. He thinks he's coming back. I
don't think he's ever coming back at the national level
the way he thought he was. I also think it's
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probably impossible probably he could ever be governor, but attorney
general for the state of New York. Maybe maybe it's possible.
He has a much longer history in politics than Leticia
James does. He has a big war chest, and he
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is a mean, mean man. Can we just say everyone
he says, Cuomo is like the meanest guy in politics.
So he'll do it. Man, He's not done. Remember when
I said that he was resigning to try to preserve
his future political viability. I was like the only person
in America arguing that, And that was the only reason
that I could see that he would be willing to
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resign because these guys don't, because because otherwise he would
have gone down for the conventional westerm on him. Even
from New York state politicians that I talked to about
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I like that. The good news for all of us
as we're talking about a obviously very serious unstable world
situation right now, oil prices skyrocketing. What happens to the
US economy? How are they going to turn things around?
The Biden administration, it turns out, lay see, we're not
always we're not always thinking about every possibility in every detail.
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The Biden administration, it turns out, has a secret weapon
in their economic strategy, Arsenal, and that secret weapon is
the Vice President Kamala Harris. Imagine a future the freight
trucks that deliver bread and milk to our grocery store shelves,
and the buses that take children to school and parents
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to work. Imagine all the heavy duty vehicles that keep
our supply lines strong and allow our economy to grow.
Imagine that they produced zero emissions. Well, you all imagine it.
That's why we're here today, because we have the ability
to see what can be unburdened by what has been,
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and then to make the possible actually happen. Can you
just can we put her in church? I want her
solving all of our problems, because wow, it's amazing. We
have the ability to see what can be unburdened by
what has been and then make the possible actually happen. Boom,
that's all you need. Man, fixes the economy right there,
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fixes emissions, all of it. Who is writing her speeches,
whoever is writing her speeches is not doing her any favors.
But also the way she delivers them is infuriatingly annoying.
And it's important to remember that she dropped out of
the Democratic race for the presidency before there had even
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been a vote cast. That's how incompetent her presidential campaign was.
And the only time she even made real news in
her campaign was when she called Joe Biden a racist.
So her entire campaign was calling Joe Biden a racist
and then being so unlikable that she had to drop
out because nobody would vote for her. And then Joe
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Biden inexplicably rescued her from what would have been probably
electoral oblivion and made her as vice president. And honestly,
that may be the best choice Joe Biden has made,
if only because he picked someone who was so much
more awful at her job than he was. That she
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actually has lower approval ratings than he does, so that
might be the only saving grace. And by the way,
we're talking about the price of oil, buck, but you
and I were talking about off the air not too
long ago, a couple of segments ago. We're not far
from the stock market turning negative since Joe Biden became
president of the United States. So I don't even know
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what he's going to be able to point too, but
certainly Kamala, who is one of the biggest disasters out there,
is pretty unbelievable. I mean, even SNL is making fun
of her. Oh we're gonna, we're gonna play that in
a moment. And let's let's remember that somehow the vice
president here, who we thought the initial thinking on this,
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and I don't just mean Republican Democrat two was that
she was a same way it would be if Trump
runs his VP. As you said I think it was
last week, Clay, that's a particularly significant pick because he
would be in his second term. There is not going
to be a third term, and so you have the
air apparent vice president situation. Biden at one point said
he might be a one he would only run for
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one term. He changed on that early on, but he
did say it. But everyone assumed, given his age and
everything else, that Kamala would be a consequential vice presidential
pick in one way or another. And what we've actually
seen is they keep moving her responsibilities. She was the
borders are and then she was deployed to Europe to
fix the Ukraine situation, and now she's talking about the
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Green New Deal and we're not that specifically, but you know,
energy and how we can have no emissions from all
by the way, no emissions, I mean, think about why
is the current vice president even spewing such nonsense? As
I said, the best case this is decades away. But Clay,
it doesn't matter the media if they had something to
say that was positive about the way that she's being
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received by the American people as the vice president. They would,
I mean, they're they're dying to find positive things to
say about Kamala. The fact that they largely just go, oh,
another Kamala speech that tells you all you need to know.
She's the diversity and inclusion candidate in an era when
the mainstream media is desperate to make the diversity an
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inclusion candidate look like a hero, and she's so bad
at her job they can't even make her look like
a hero. And by the way, this is true of
most of the Biden administration. And we're making fun of
Mayor Pete earlier. But think about how out of touch
it is with the American public today to say, as
they are paying, potentially by this week, the highest price
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for a gallon of gas in the history of this country,
the way to solve this issue is for them to
go buy new electric cars. I mean that you would
even come up with the idea. I was making fun
of it. I mean it's a little bit like saying, hey,
I don't understand why homeless people don't just buy houses,
you know. I mean it's a fundamental lack of understanding
of economic reality. And by the way, this used to
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be the Democratic Party's selling point. We're the party of
the common man, the common man and woman out there
telling them to go buy electric vehicles. How much more
New York in la dominant base can your line of thought?
And remember, Mayor Pete was supposed to be the Midwestern guy,
the mayor of the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He
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knows what the American public is like. Yeah, go buy
an electric car after you take off months for your
paternity leave. This guy is as big of a disaster
as Kamala and both of them were supposed to be
the future of the Democratic Party. One thing we heard
a lot when Trump was president, and even in the
run up to his presidency, was Hey, maybe you'll be
a good idea to have somebody who has run a
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business and has an understanding of business to be in
such a prominent position, you know, to be the president.
What you have with this administration is the opposite of that.
You have basically faculty lounge hires mixed in with people
that are running diversity and inclusion seminars that major companies,
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mixed in with people who are just politicos who have
never actually had to run a real business with profit
and loss and products that have to be made for people.
And Joe Biden. I mean, as I've said, the only
jobs Joe Biden's ever created are for Hunter in China
and Ukraine. And so here we are. Is any of
this surprising? I mean, would you look at what's going
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on with the economy and everything else. It's kind of
like the big we told you so presidency to all
the people that voted for him, like, yeah, exactly, this
is what we said would happened. We have the anti
payroll right now party, right, and what I mean by
that the anti payroll party. If you have ever run
any kind of business, and I know a lot of
people who are listening to us right now, where you
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have had to make payroll right, that is an overwhelming
amount of stress on your shoulders. You have to not
only worry about your job security as the small business owner,
you know that you have countless people and their lives
depend on the success or failure of your business and
ie whether you turn a profit or not. And these
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people have no clue. They've never had to make a
payroll in their life. Ay, you're forgetting something and it
is that the time for the now is this time.
Whatever it was that Kamala said, play Cliff twenty nine, please,
we still sincerely hope that there is a plomatic path
out of this moment, and within the context then of
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the fact that that window is still opening, all the open,
although it is absolutely narrowing, but within the context of
a diplomatic path still being open. The Deterrens effect, we
believe has merit. That's the wrong clip. Sorry, that was
also that was also inbecilic, by the way, there is
a long litany of ridiculous, commalist statements. It was the
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this is the time we have for now, and the
time is now for what we have been doing, something
like that. That was the one that we were looking for.
But you know what else we're looking for Clay Travis's
favorite kind of cereal, and I think throw mine out
there too. But I have limitations because so much cereal
obviously has the gluten in it. Oh yeah, well, you're well,
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I don't have any limitations at all because I got
three boys. And if you have kids, you are a
serial expert. I mean, that's one of the benefits of
having kids. Every now and then you get to eat
food like I'll give you an example, Buck, I stop
eating peanut butter and jelly and mac and cheese. I
don't know why I ever stopped, because peanut butter and
jelly sandwiches and mac and cheese. When you have kids,
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every now and then, you'll be sitting there and you'll
be like, hey, I just ordered you know, this other food,
this adult food. But I'll be damned if that mac
and cheese doesn't look incredible or that peanut butter and
jelly and breakfast cereal is one of those things that
I kind of got out of the habit of. And
then I got three boys, and we go through breakfast
Cereal by the ton, and I got great answer here
for National Breakfast Cereal Day. By the way. We were
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in Houston last week and we had a great group
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you a fun little discussion here on National Serial Day.
But first, this was awesome. If you saw this, I
hope it made you feel a little bit better about
the state of our country. In Charlotte, North Carolina, they
debuted a new MLS Major League Soccer team first ever game.
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The audio went out as the girl was singing the
national anthem. This is what it sounded like as the
entire stadium because they could not hear her, began to
sing it in Unison. Listen, Buck. I don't know about you,
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but when I listened to this, first of all, it's incredible.
You can go listen to a longer version of that
if you would like. I almost think that every sporting
event should start with the fans instead of bringing in
a certain person to sing the national anthem. It's so
much more of a cool experience to me if the
stadium in Unison sings the national anthem together. I mean,
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I think that would be an incredible trend to start.
I think that's a great idea. I'd also note when
I was standing outside of what I believe was the
Astrodome in Houston. It's now where the Rodeo was the
livestock the Houston Livestock and Rodeo Show, which is where
I spent all day Saturday, and thanks to John Rudy
and Renee Perry who were hosting us there showing us around.
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They're on the Calf Scramble Committee. For those you don't
know what that is. It's like a mentorship program for youth,
getting them off iPads, giving them an opportunity to learn
about agriculture responsibility. This was the eightieth anniversary of it.
We got to be downplay on the floor of the
Rodeo Scramblers. I actually got to touch a little calf.
It ran past me. It was all you know, it
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was running past me. And the horse though, was quite smelly. Afterwards,
like the city guy I am. I was like, oh,
my hand is smelly, but the calf was very cute.
They wrestle the calves to the ground. I was like, well,
I could do this probably with a sheep, but the
calves are actually pretty sturdy. They said that I might
crush the sheep, and so I wasn't. There's apparently age
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and weight limits for the mutton busting component of it.
But I really I gotta say I loved I mean,
we had a great event in Houston, but I just
love Houston as a city. I'd never been down. There
be a great place. The rodeo was amazing. I got
a pair of boots. I got a pair of boots
my friend, courtesy of Republic Boots down in Houston, which
is amazing store, by the way, and they are ostrich,
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I will have you know. But that Ostrich I was
told was mean and it was asking for it. So
I've got Are you, by the way, more comfortable now
in the idea of wearing boots because you're joining the
boot brigade? Now have you been breaking these things in? Well?
I feel like now I can probably wear my cowboy
boots in get Away with saying y'all like it all
goes together, which is a great contraction that the whole
country should adopt. Otherwise, you know, you do it. You know,
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in New York and the Northeast, we go you guys. Yeah,
you guys. That's not y'all is way better than you guys.
So I'm with them on that. Anyway, it was I
love my new boots from Republic Boot Company. And I
love Houston. It was a great city and it was
so cool to see all of our people down there
and the rodeo. I asked, you know, I asked Jesse Kelly,
this is fun. I'm like, Jesse because the bull riding
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we're right down there on the dirt as they say
this the lingo clay, We're down there on the dirt
and and the bulls were throwing these guys around. They're
doing the bull riding thing. I asked Jesse what would
it take? He was like ten million dollars, he said,
no way, get at him to really get up on
that bull and try to get to eight seconds. He's like,
he's like lifetime of not working. That's what it would
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take me because he's like, breaking my back isn't worth it? Yeah, no,
and no kidding. Those guys are insanely brave. Yellowstone Jimmy
on Yellowstone. Obviously could it could reference that a couple
of things. Here we were saying it is National Cereal Day,
and as we went to break there, Buck I was
talking about the fact that if you have kids, you
become a cereal expert. Do you have cereal in your
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home right now. I have no cereal in my home
right now. I'll speak honestly because it's it's tough to
get cereal for me because I have celia. Oh, you've
got the gluten issues. While I was just talking with
Dub here in the studio in Nashville, and Dubb said
he had no cereal, I bet we have six different
types of cereal in the Travis household right now. So
I feel very confident in this. My number one draft
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pick is cinnamon toast Crunch. I think that cinnamon toast
Crunch is the greatest cereal out there now. Dub before
he left, said he would go with frosted Flakes, which
is also a solid cereal draft pick. Ali said she
was going with rice crispies. And then what is the
rest of the crew said you would go with what
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we well, Producer producer Mike said Great Grains, which I
don't even know that one. That sounds awful my life.
You know, fiber, he likes fiber, I mean four, I mean,
I don't know, Great Grains. That's an awful cereal. I
mean there's great in the name Clay unless unless Great
Grains is about to spend a lot of money with
the show, in which case I've been a huge great
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grains fan. That's true for me, Clay, because I used
to eat normal normal people cereal, hey okay, cheerios, and
and cinnamon cinnamon nutcrunch was the was producer Greg his pick. Clay.
I'll say this back in my normal people food eating days,
which existed until us about thirty years old, so I
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spent a lot of time eating pizza and drinking beer. Um,
normal beer, because gluten free beer is not so good
unless there's a great gluten free beer company that wants
in which case, boy, it's the greatest ever. Um. I
gotta tell you if you're just telling me, what was
the most delicious? Cinnamon toast crunch was my number two? Um,
I'm a frosted Lucky Charms. I love the little the
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little marshmallow Lucky Charms. Lucky Charm. That's a solid election.
I'm not gonna lie. It's a good selection because also
the color, the food coloring and the sugar would go
into the milk and then you have kind of like
this sloshy sweet milk with the frosted Lucky Charms. Plus
there's a little LEPrecon I feel like my Irish heritage
getting a shout out, although apparently that's not a thing anymore.
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You're a lot of talking about lepricons, so I go
with that one. Frosted miniwheats, by the way, underrated, honey
nut cheerios long at staple. My boys still love honey
nut cheerios. So I hope. I bet we just sold
a bunch of cereal out there, by the way, because
a lot of people who were cereal in a while,
we got a coffee sponsor. I think we need a
cereal sponsor. We'll talk about it everybody. Thanks for hanging
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with us today. Please check out the pod, tell somebody
about the clan Buck Show and big shout out in
a high five to Houston, Michael Berry and Jesse Kelly.
Thanks so much, amazing time.
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. The third hour of The Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show is here. Everybody. Thanks for rolling
with us, or thanks for joining us if you're just
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To go back to the podcast, play and Bucks show
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He'll check it out. But enough each hour of the
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show individually too. Great way to do it. We are
joy now as we have from by our friend Trish Reagan.
She is the host of The Trish Reagan Show podcast
and editor in chief of trish Intel dot com, formerly
of Fox Business and Bloomberg. Trish, great to see you, hey,
It's good to talk to you. Buck. So this is
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not a good moment for the American economy, particularly on
the issue of gas prices. We pointed out before that
as of this morning, we were just three cents off
the all time national gas average high from two thousand
and eight, and it looks like it's about to get
a lot high. Or what is this going to mean
for the broader economy? I mean, let's assume that this
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conflict continues on and the Biden administration decides that they're
going to sanction the Russian energy sector directly, which they're
certainly talking about doing. What does that look like for
everybody listening across the country, which, by the way, I
mean my view on this is absolutely they should. It's
kind of obvious that if a country is just massacring
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people like we're seeing right now, we shouldn't be doing
business with them. And we've certainly sanctioned plenty of other
countries that haven't done anything quite quite close to that.
Right So, we're looking at right now, in current trading
buck around one hundred and nineteen dollars a barrel and
oil that it's where it's trading. It was trading over
the weekend. On Sunday night we saw up to one thirty.
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I'm hearing that the administration is fearful it could go
to one eighty. I hear from traders it could go
to one eighty. You know what this is going to mean.
It's going to mean very quickly you're going to be
looking at nine dollars instead of four dollars for you know, gallon.
You could be looking at nine dollars or even upwards
of that on the gas bombs, I would say it
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doesn't have to be that way, and there are solutions
that we should employ, both in terms of drilling here
at home and also looking to our neighbors. I also
want to point out I'm really glad I'm coming on
with you guys right now because I'm getting some breaking
news that I just want to share some developments. You know,
I've covered Venezuela for some time and have a lot
of sources in Venezuela, both in terms of the opposition
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and within the Maduro government, and I'm hearing from sources
close to the government right now that there is an
effort underway to make sure that at least two, possibly
three of the detainees there, the American hostages, are released.
So that's just coming into me right now, and I
just wanted to share that with you guys. It's relevant
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as we talk about oil as well, because that would
be a part of Venezuela trying to get the sanctions lifted, right. Yeah, Yeah,
So the sanctions have been put on Venezuela, They've been
there what times. Twenty nineteen, there was hope, I think
that we were going to see a regime change in Venezuela,
and if that regime change came about, you could potentially
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open up those oil fields in the Orinocle region, which
I've been to. It is the most oil in the world.
It dwarfs it makes you know, Saudi Arabia's oil fields
cannot compare to what's in the ground in Venezuela. The
trick is it's super heavy, it's very tar like, and
you've got to refine this stuff, which our Texas refineries
can do. You could get this out of the ground
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and to Texas in you know, a few days. So
if if they were successful in relieving the sanctions, you
could see US energy companies like Chevron or Chronical Phillips
down there pumping all this stuff out and getting the
supply chain to the US. The problemal course, has been
the sanctions, and so I suspect that there is going
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to be some differ soblematic activity going on. The release
of and we'll see if this comes to fruition has
not been confirmed by the US State Department, but again
coming to me from sources close to the Maduro government,
they are looking to release some of these detainees. This
would be obviously a really really positive development. I think that,
you know, we should all hope for that, but also,
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you know, realistically, I think with everything that's going on
right now, we should be trying to find solutions to
work with people in our hemisphere. One of the things
that has frustrated me from the beginning is that the
Russians have been making efforts as well as the Chinese,
to have a present in Venezuela and to access that oil.
Oil that you know, honestly like, we ought to be
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able to realistically access ourselves with a country that theoretically
we should have more in common with than they do
with the Chinese. So there's a lot going on. I
think that we don't have to look at nine dollars
a gallon. We could be smart about this. We don't
have to go to Iran, I mean, of all places.
I saw the story that you tweeted out and I
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actually retweeted it Buck about the allegations now that there's
some kind of assassination attempt on John Bolton Um look
by iron there. This is a very sort of mixed
up world right now. But we ought to be very
precise and very thoughtful about how we ensure that our
economy doesn't get just you know, thrown into into a storm,
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into a total tornado, if you would, because of Russia.
We've got to find other solutions. I mean, the most
obvious one is that we should have had Keystone right, Like,
we absolutely should have allowed Keystone to go through. They've
made mistake after mistake after mistake, and I'm just hopeful
that on the policy front, on the international front, we
can think thoughtfully about this so that everyday Americans don't
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pay the price because you know what, Buck, that's that's
who it's going to hurt everyday Americans, Middle Americans that
are trying to you know, put food on the table
and pay their bills. What are they going to do
when it's nine dollars a gallon? And think about the
effect the ripple effect on the economy. Tricius Clay, I
appreciate you coming on with us. We started off last
hour talking about where this oil can come from, and
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the information you're sharing about Venezuela is fantastic. I said, basically,
there's five places, right, And I'm curious what you would
say in terms of an analyzing this, what's the best
case scenario? And I said, Obviously, US, we got to
increase the amount that we're producing. Saudi Arabia. It appears
that the United States, the Biden administration, has tried to
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isolate Saudi Arabia over the Washington Post journalist who was
killed and tried to say MBS and crew are not
great allies. It seems like that's changing. Venezuela I ranked third,
and then I said Iran, obviously that's not where we want,
and Russia is five. Are there other places out there that,
to you, we could go to avoid this possibility of
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nine dollars a gallon gas? And what would be the
best possible outcome. I mean, obviously Ukraine and Russia ending
their conflict, But I'm talking about if we have to
continue to use the oil in the gas in this
universe and we're not going to have a rapid cessation
of hostilities. So play to me, like first and most
obvious should be the US, right, But we almost have.
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If you look at the map of all the reserves
in the world, we actually don't have as much as
a place like you know, Venezuela or Saudi Arabia. Venezuela,
I mean, you're talking about probably the largest oil reserves
in the world. I mean, they've got like three hundred
and two billion, I believe, compared to Saudi Arabia's two
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hundred and sixty six billion. The US is looking around
thirty five billion. So in other words, you get ten
times on a mountain Venezuela. I just think that again
in the scheme of things. And by the way, Clay,
if you don't know, and Buck knows this, I have
been very critical of the Madual regime and that's that's
putting it very nice for me over the years. The
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last couple of years, I've started to see in part
because they didn't really have a choice. I mean, once
you had those sanctions slapped on you, you how do
you exist? You could have gone super Cuban like right,
and really tried to reign in your economy that way,
or you could have gotten more creative about it. They
brought in a guy to Ferricio Rivera, who was from Ecuador,
the finance minister there. They came in, they're trying to
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implement you very free market capitalists, some of these free
market capitalist ideas, in part because they just had to
and they had to figure out, like how can we
get our oil to China. Well, why are we letting
them send it to China? For goodness sakes, It's three
hours off the coast of Miami. And you know, there's
there's a lot more commonality I think that they have
that they have with us than we have, say with Iran,
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or they have with China. So I look at this
right now. We won't allow Venezuelan oil in, but we
allow Russian oil in. And I just think we've got
to kind of take a deep breath, and I say
this with you know, without again as someone who would
love to see free market capitalism and democracy and all
these good things in Venezuela. I think they've they've been trying.
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And I think instead of like just shunning them and saying,
you know, hey, forget about it, we're gonna you go
do business with the Chinese, you go to business with Iranians,
you go to business oppressions, Like, why aren't we actually
trying to think about what would make sense for us?
And it seems to make sense that we should have
a relationship. We can encourage democracy. Maduro has made it
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very clear, you know what you can bring in all
the people you want to look after our elections and
make sure that they're fair. There was a guy that
is the brother of Java's actually that ran for governor
in one of their states and he didn't win. And
I guess if they really wanted to manipulate the elections,
they could have made sure that he won, so we
can have a presence there in a productive way that
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is good for them but also good for us. Right,
I'd rather get my oil from the US and then
secondarily from Venezuela, then from Iran or Russia or frankly
even tell Arabia. Trishiantel dot com folks. For more from
Trish Regan, also check out the Trish Regan Show podcast. Trish,
thanks for the expertise. Great to have you on, great
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to be here. Thanks guys, fascinating. This is gonna be
a there's not gonna be great options, Buck, We're gonna
have to break some of these down because we're gonna
end up in a partnership with a country that ain't ideal,
and it should matter figuring out how exactly to do
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of the program. Trish Regan, she was fantastic talking about
potentially the consequences of nine dollars gas and talking about
the reality that you may have to end up in
a partnership with a country that is not an ideal
partner because buying large countries that have large deposits of
oil are not traditional American allies. One reason is because
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the power that oil gives to these autocratic leaders. But
I want you to know that our Transportation Secretary, Mayor Pete,
he of them pity leaves. Are we sure that he's
back from paternity leave. He may have an eighteen month
paternity His whole term might be paternity leave. Mayor Pete,
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this is such a Marie Antoinette like quote. Mayor Pete
today said that he's gotten the solution, guys and girls,
for everybody out there, who's having to pay nearly the
highest price for gas in the history of the country.
He says, all of you should just go buy new
electric cars. That would solve the issue. Eat the cake,
(13:09):
buy the brand new eighty thousand dollars electric car. Listen
to Mayor Pete. Last months, we announced a five billion
dollar investment clean transportation can bring significant cost savings for
the American people as well. Last months, we announced a
five billion dollar investment to build out a nationwide electric
vehicle charging network so the people from rural to suburban
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to urban communities can all benefit from the gas savings
of driving an ev Just buy a new car, buck,
That's all you have to do, just eighty thousand dollars
electric vehicle. The fact that you already have a car
and then you already have to pay to fill it
up with gas, all you have to do, according to
Mayor Pete, is sell that car and then go buy
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an eighty thousand And by the way, why don't the
homeless people just go buy houses too? Why did the
homeless people just go buy houses? Why are they homeless?
What an idiot? I think you're skipping something here, may
Or Pete would tell the peasants. Well, if you can't
get a full on evy, go get yourself a nice
golf cart, you know, walk a little bit more. That'll
that'll solve it. By the way, I always think it's
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fascinating where do they think the electricity comes from for
these things? It's not It's not a windmill in Mayor
Pete's backyard. I can assure you it's it's not wind
turbines all along the coast that are what you're actually
juicing up your vehicle with your your brand new U
T Tesla or I was gonna say, I actually I
saw in Texas over the weekend a Prius with a
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Betto for governor sticker, and I just realized it still
exists even in Texas. Well. Hopefully they've got the odds
for Beto winning, because I would put every dollar that
I have on Greg Abbott because that clip of Betos
saying he's gonna take away all your guns. Yeah you're done.
I don't even know how they I don't even know
what the game plan is for him. How many races
(14:57):
in a row can he lose and still get the
opportunity to go lose again, because once he said I'm
gonna take all your guns away. I'm sorry, you're dead
in terms of being able to win an election in Texas.
You are finished as a politician there. And by the way,
speaking of finished as a politician. But oh, look at
that smooth that is. That is what you call a
(15:20):
smooth radio transition. Your boy, your boy, Andrew Cuomo is
I mean, he is going full throttle back and he
now is saying he is the ultimate victim of cancel culture,
which is a hell of a pivot. But that is
the argument that he is trying to make. And he
came out with an ad. We played that ad. Was
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that last week that we played his thirty second ad
that he's running now is basically claiming vindication. Yeah, and
now he's given a speech, and listen to how fiery
he got. Remember it was only what seven eight months
ago that he was forced to resign and dishonor and
disgrace and now buddy, he's back. Listen. Yes, this is
a time for impatience, but constructive impatience. If you want
(16:05):
to cancel something, cancel federal gridlocked, the incompetence, cancel the
in fight and cancel crime, Cancel homelessness, cancel education, inequality,
cancel poverty, cancel racism. Be outraged, but be outraged at
what really matters. And what really matters is what matters
to you. Can soul my cable subscription cad soul that
(16:32):
thing where I think I'm gonna get free DVDs in
the mail, but it's actually all a big scab canceul.
I mean, this guy, you're one hund right by the way, man.
So here's the thing. He thinks he's coming back. I
don't think he's ever coming back at the national level
the way he thought he was. I also think it's
(16:54):
probably impossible probably he could ever be governor, but attorney
general for the state of New York. Maybe maybe it's possible.
He has a much longer history in politics than Leticia
James does. He has a big war chest, and he
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is a mean, mean man. Can we just say everyone
he says, Cuomo is like the meanest guy in politics.
So he'll do it. Man, He's not done. Remember when
I said that he was resigning to try to preserve
his future political viability. I was like the only person
in America arguing that, And that was the only reason
that I could see that he would be willing to
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resign because these guys don't, because because otherwise he would
have gone down for the conventional westerm on him. Even
from New York state politicians that I talked to about
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all he did is actually extend with the very end
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I like that. The good news for all of us
as we're talking about a obviously very serious unstable world
situation right now, oil prices skyrocketing. What happens to the
US economy? How are they going to turn things around?
The Biden administration, it turns out, lay see, we're not
always we're not always thinking about every possibility in every detail.
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The Biden administration, it turns out, has a secret weapon
in their economic strategy, Arsenal, and that secret weapon is
the Vice President Kamala Harris. Imagine a future the freight
trucks that deliver bread and milk to our grocery store shelves,
and the buses that take children to school and parents
(19:47):
to work. Imagine all the heavy duty vehicles that keep
our supply lines strong and allow our economy to grow.
Imagine that they produced zero emissions. Well, you all imagine it.
That's why we're here today, because we have the ability
to see what can be unburdened by what has been,
(20:09):
and then to make the possible actually happen. Can you
just can we put her in church? I want her
solving all of our problems, because wow, it's amazing. We
have the ability to see what can be unburdened by
what has been and then make the possible actually happen. Boom,
that's all you need. Man, fixes the economy right there,
(20:29):
fixes emissions, all of it. Who is writing her speeches,
whoever is writing her speeches is not doing her any favors.
But also the way she delivers them is infuriatingly annoying.
And it's important to remember that she dropped out of
the Democratic race for the presidency before there had even
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been a vote cast. That's how incompetent her presidential campaign was.
And the only time she even made real news in
her campaign was when she called Joe Biden a racist.
So her entire campaign was calling Joe Biden a racist
and then being so unlikable that she had to drop
out because nobody would vote for her. And then Joe
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Biden inexplicably rescued her from what would have been probably
electoral oblivion and made her as vice president. And honestly,
that may be the best choice Joe Biden has made,
if only because he picked someone who was so much
more awful at her job than he was. That she
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actually has lower approval ratings than he does, so that
might be the only saving grace. And by the way,
we're talking about the price of oil, buck, but you
and I were talking about off the air not too
long ago, a couple of segments ago. We're not far
from the stock market turning negative since Joe Biden became
president of the United States. So I don't even know
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what he's going to be able to point too, but
certainly Kamala, who is one of the biggest disasters out there,
is pretty unbelievable. I mean, even SNL is making fun
of her. Oh we're gonna, we're gonna play that in
a moment. And let's let's remember that somehow the vice
president here, who we thought the initial thinking on this,
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and I don't just mean Republican Democrat two was that
she was a same way it would be if Trump
runs his VP. As you said I think it was
last week, Clay, that's a particularly significant pick because he
would be in his second term. There is not going
to be a third term, and so you have the
air apparent vice president situation. Biden at one point said
he might be a one he would only run for
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one term. He changed on that early on, but he
did say it. But everyone assumed, given his age and
everything else, that Kamala would be a consequential vice presidential
pick in one way or another. And what we've actually
seen is they keep moving her responsibilities. She was the
borders are and then she was deployed to Europe to
fix the Ukraine situation, and now she's talking about the
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Green New Deal and we're not that specifically, but you know,
energy and how we can have no emissions from all
by the way, no emissions, I mean, think about why
is the current vice president even spewing such nonsense? As
I said, the best case this is decades away. But Clay,
it doesn't matter the media if they had something to
say that was positive about the way that she's being
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received by the American people as the vice president. They would,
I mean, they're they're dying to find positive things to
say about Kamala. The fact that they largely just go, oh,
another Kamala speech that tells you all you need to know.
She's the diversity and inclusion candidate in an era when
the mainstream media is desperate to make the diversity an
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inclusion candidate look like a hero, and she's so bad
at her job they can't even make her look like
a hero. And by the way, this is true of
most of the Biden administration. And we're making fun of
Mayor Pete earlier. But think about how out of touch
it is with the American public today to say, as
they are paying, potentially by this week, the highest price
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for a gallon of gas in the history of this country,
the way to solve this issue is for them to
go buy new electric cars. I mean that you would
even come up with the idea. I was making fun
of it. I mean it's a little bit like saying, hey,
I don't understand why homeless people don't just buy houses,
you know. I mean it's a fundamental lack of understanding
of economic reality. And by the way, this used to
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be the Democratic Party's selling point. We're the party of
the common man, the common man and woman out there
telling them to go buy electric vehicles. How much more
New York in la dominant base can your line of thought?
And remember, Mayor Pete was supposed to be the Midwestern guy,
the mayor of the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He
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knows what the American public is like. Yeah, go buy
an electric car after you take off months for your
paternity leave. This guy is as big of a disaster
as Kamala and both of them were supposed to be
the future of the Democratic Party. One thing we heard
a lot when Trump was president, and even in the
run up to his presidency, was Hey, maybe you'll be
a good idea to have somebody who has run a
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business and has an understanding of business to be in
such a prominent position, you know, to be the president.
What you have with this administration is the opposite of that.
You have basically faculty lounge hires mixed in with people
that are running diversity and inclusion seminars that major companies,
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mixed in with people who are just politicos who have
never actually had to run a real business with profit
and loss and products that have to be made for people.
And Joe Biden. I mean, as I've said, the only
jobs Joe Biden's ever created are for Hunter in China
and Ukraine. And so here we are. Is any of
this surprising? I mean, would you look at what's going
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on with the economy and everything else. It's kind of
like the big we told you so presidency to all
the people that voted for him, like, yeah, exactly, this
is what we said would happened. We have the anti
payroll right now party, right, and what I mean by
that the anti payroll party. If you have ever run
any kind of business, and I know a lot of
people who are listening to us right now, where you
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have had to make payroll right, that is an overwhelming
amount of stress on your shoulders. You have to not
only worry about your job security as the small business owner,
you know that you have countless people and their lives
depend on the success or failure of your business and
ie whether you turn a profit or not. And these
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people have no clue. They've never had to make a
payroll in their life. Ay, you're forgetting something and it
is that the time for the now is this time.
Whatever it was that Kamala said, play Cliff twenty nine, please,
we still sincerely hope that there is a plomatic path
out of this moment, and within the context then of
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the fact that that window is still opening, all the open,
although it is absolutely narrowing, but within the context of
a diplomatic path still being open. The Deterrens effect, we
believe has merit. That's the wrong clip. Sorry, that was
also that was also inbecilic, by the way, there is
a long litany of ridiculous, commalist statements. It was the
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this is the time we have for now, and the
time is now for what we have been doing, something
like that. That was the one that we were looking for.
But you know what else we're looking for Clay Travis's
favorite kind of cereal, and I think throw mine out
there too. But I have limitations because so much cereal
obviously has the gluten in it. Oh yeah, well, you're well,
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I don't have any limitations at all because I got
three boys. And if you have kids, you are a
serial expert. I mean, that's one of the benefits of
having kids. Every now and then you get to eat
food like I'll give you an example, Buck, I stop
eating peanut butter and jelly and mac and cheese. I
don't know why I ever stopped, because peanut butter and
jelly sandwiches and mac and cheese. When you have kids,
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every now and then, you'll be sitting there and you'll
be like, hey, I just ordered you know, this other food,
this adult food. But I'll be damned if that mac
and cheese doesn't look incredible or that peanut butter and
jelly and breakfast cereal is one of those things that
I kind of got out of the habit of. And
then I got three boys, and we go through breakfast
Cereal by the ton, and I got great answer here
for National Breakfast Cereal Day. By the way. We were
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back in Klay. Travis buck Sexton Show wanted to give
you a fun little discussion here on National Serial Day.
But first, this was awesome. If you saw this, I
hope it made you feel a little bit better about
the state of our country. In Charlotte, North Carolina, they
debuted a new MLS Major League Soccer team first ever game.
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The audio went out as the girl was singing the
national anthem. This is what it sounded like as the
entire stadium because they could not hear her, began to
sing it in Unison. Listen, Buck. I don't know about you,
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but when I listened to this, first of all, it's incredible.
You can go listen to a longer version of that
if you would like. I almost think that every sporting
event should start with the fans instead of bringing in
a certain person to sing the national anthem. It's so
much more of a cool experience to me if the
stadium in Unison sings the national anthem together. I mean,
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I think that would be an incredible trend to start.
I think that's a great idea. I'd also note when
I was standing outside of what I believe was the
Astrodome in Houston. It's now where the Rodeo was the
livestock the Houston Livestock and Rodeo Show, which is where
I spent all day Saturday, and thanks to John Rudy
and Renee Perry who were hosting us there showing us around.
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They're on the Calf Scramble Committee. For those you don't
know what that is. It's like a mentorship program for youth,
getting them off iPads, giving them an opportunity to learn
about agriculture responsibility. This was the eightieth anniversary of it.
We got to be downplay on the floor of the
Rodeo Scramblers. I actually got to touch a little calf.
It ran past me. It was all you know, it
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was running past me. And the horse though, was quite smelly. Afterwards,
like the city guy I am. I was like, oh,
my hand is smelly, but the calf was very cute.
They wrestle the calves to the ground. I was like, well,
I could do this probably with a sheep, but the
calves are actually pretty sturdy. They said that I might
crush the sheep, and so I wasn't. There's apparently age
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and weight limits for the mutton busting component of it.
But I really I gotta say I loved I mean,
we had a great event in Houston, but I just
love Houston as a city. I'd never been down. There
be a great place. The rodeo was amazing. I got
a pair of boots. I got a pair of boots
my friend, courtesy of Republic Boots down in Houston, which
is amazing store, by the way, and they are ostrich,
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I will have you know. But that Ostrich I was
told was mean and it was asking for it. So
I've got Are you, by the way, more comfortable now
in the idea of wearing boots because you're joining the
boot brigade? Now have you been breaking these things in? Well?
I feel like now I can probably wear my cowboy
boots in get Away with saying y'all like it all
goes together, which is a great contraction that the whole
country should adopt. Otherwise, you know, you do it. You know,
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in New York and the Northeast, we go you guys. Yeah,
you guys. That's not y'all is way better than you guys.
So I'm with them on that. Anyway, it was I
love my new boots from Republic Boot Company. And I
love Houston. It was a great city and it was
so cool to see all of our people down there
and the rodeo. I asked, you know, I asked Jesse Kelly,
this is fun. I'm like, Jesse because the bull riding
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we're right down there on the dirt as they say
this the lingo clay, We're down there on the dirt
and and the bulls were throwing these guys around. They're
doing the bull riding thing. I asked Jesse what would
it take? He was like ten million dollars, he said,
no way, get at him to really get up on
that bull and try to get to eight seconds. He's like,
he's like lifetime of not working. That's what it would
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take me because he's like, breaking my back isn't worth it? Yeah, no,
and no kidding. Those guys are insanely brave. Yellowstone Jimmy
on Yellowstone. Obviously could it could reference that a couple
of things. Here we were saying it is National Cereal Day,
and as we went to break there, Buck I was
talking about the fact that if you have kids, you
become a cereal expert. Do you have cereal in your
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home right now. I have no cereal in my home
right now. I'll speak honestly because it's it's tough to
get cereal for me because I have celia. Oh, you've
got the gluten issues. While I was just talking with
Dub here in the studio in Nashville, and Dubb said
he had no cereal, I bet we have six different
types of cereal in the Travis household right now. So
I feel very confident in this. My number one draft
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pick is cinnamon toast Crunch. I think that cinnamon toast
Crunch is the greatest cereal out there now. Dub before
he left, said he would go with frosted Flakes, which
is also a solid cereal draft pick. Ali said she
was going with rice crispies. And then what is the
rest of the crew said you would go with what
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we well, Producer producer Mike said Great Grains, which I
don't even know that one. That sounds awful my life.
You know, fiber, he likes fiber, I mean four, I mean,
I don't know, Great Grains. That's an awful cereal. I
mean there's great in the name Clay unless unless Great
Grains is about to spend a lot of money with
the show, in which case I've been a huge great
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grains fan. That's true for me, Clay, because I used
to eat normal normal people cereal, hey okay, cheerios, and
and cinnamon cinnamon nutcrunch was the was producer Greg his pick. Clay.
I'll say this back in my normal people food eating days,
which existed until us about thirty years old, so I
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spent a lot of time eating pizza and drinking beer. Um,
normal beer, because gluten free beer is not so good
unless there's a great gluten free beer company that wants
in which case, boy, it's the greatest ever. Um. I
gotta tell you if you're just telling me, what was
the most delicious? Cinnamon toast crunch was my number two? Um,
I'm a frosted Lucky Charms. I love the little the
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little marshmallow Lucky Charms. Lucky Charm. That's a solid election.
I'm not gonna lie. It's a good selection because also
the color, the food coloring and the sugar would go
into the milk and then you have kind of like
this sloshy sweet milk with the frosted Lucky Charms. Plus
there's a little LEPrecon I feel like my Irish heritage
getting a shout out, although apparently that's not a thing anymore.
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You're a lot of talking about lepricons, so I go
with that one. Frosted miniwheats, by the way, underrated, honey
nut cheerios long at staple. My boys still love honey
nut cheerios. So I hope. I bet we just sold
a bunch of cereal out there, by the way, because
a lot of people who were cereal in a while,
we got a coffee sponsor. I think we need a
cereal sponsor. We'll talk about it everybody. Thanks for hanging
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with us today. Please check out the pod, tell somebody
about the clan Buck Show and big shout out in
a high five to Houston, Michael Berry and Jesse Kelly.
Thanks so much, amazing time.
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