Hour 2 - How to Stay Positive in a Negative News Cycle
4/22/202637 mincomplete
0:00This is an iHeart Podcast.
0:02Guaranteed human. Welcome in. Hour number two.
0:06Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
0:08We are continuing to follow the absolute latest on Iran.
0:12We will keep you updated there.
0:14Also, the fallout of Virginia.
0:17Voting to flip to 10 Democrat seats, one Republican seat.
0:22What will Florida do to respond?
0:24We will discuss all that and more.
0:26Southern Poverty Law Center paying for racism, $3 million, going to racist organizations.
0:34Got to get into what's going to happen with Spirit Airlines.
0:38Sheridan Gorman also, her parents have spoken out the awful young college student who was
0:44murdered in Chicago and Yale.
0:48There's actually an interesting investigation.
0:50I bet Dana Perino has read about this, who is going to join us now.
0:53She is, of course, on Fox News during the day with Bill Hemmer and then
0:57a part of the most successful show in all of television right now, The Five.
1:03She's got a brand new book out, which we will get to, Purple State, which
1:07is the timing interesting given what just happened in an actual purple state, Virginia.
1:12But Dana, let's just start here.
1:14You are a super optimistic person.
1:16You are you've been involved in politics in a significant and high level way.
1:22And now you are one of the most successful people on television in the country.
1:27And I bet let's just start here.
1:29I think a lot of listeners and we have a lot of unfortunately all over
1:33the nation. They struggle with staying optimistic on a day to day basis.
1:37You talk about a lot of stories that are not very positive.
1:41In fact, oftentimes very negative, yet you maintain what I would say is a very
1:46sunny disposition. I know you both on television and also privately.
1:50That's not fake. That is really you.
1:52How do you do it?
1:55Thank you for having me.
1:57I love being on your show.
1:58I love you. And I love it when you're on my show, America's Newsroom.
2:02And one of these days on The Five is going to be a blast with
2:04you. It'll be a lot of fun.
2:08I do sort of wake up on the sunny side of the street.
2:12I think in a way it's a little bit natural.
2:15I think I drive some people a little crazy because I'm very much a morning
2:20person. I wake up ready to go.
2:22I have 20 ideas. I'm going to tell you everything that's on my mind.
2:25And my husband just needs a minute.
2:28You know, he's that kind of guy.
2:29It's not that he's a pessimist.
2:31It's just a little bit.
2:32He's very pragmatic. I, there are times, I will say, when after a while, like
2:41a heavy week of news, like on a Saturday, I'll say, my gosh, you know,
2:45it weighs heavy, especially we cover a lot of horrible crimes.
2:49Yep. I worry about a lot of things, though.
2:52I do have a strong faith.
2:54And when I wrote the book, Everything Will Be Okay, I truly believe that if
3:00you have faith in God and you can figure out a way to let go
3:07of your plan and to trust in his, then you do believe that ultimately, yes,
3:13everything will be okay. So I kind of start there.
3:17I think it's so, so I tend to be a very optimistic person and I
3:22understand, and you certainly understand.
3:24I say it on the show all the time.
3:25Negative news often makes headlines.
3:27Good news because it isn't necessarily blaring or creating a great deal of attention doesn't
3:33always do it. And one of the things I like to do on this show,
3:36we've been doing a lot of this year saying, hey, you know, the all time
3:39low murder rate being hit in 2025.
3:422025, that's kind of a big deal.
3:45You know, when you constantly are talking about negativity, sometimes the positivity gets snowed under.
3:51Do you feel like that?
3:52How do you consciously keep that in mind?
3:54Not only given your individual life, but also given that we're in media.
3:59Are you conscious to say, hey, every show, let's try to find a couple of
4:03things that are at least a little positive?
4:05Because Buck and I definitely consciously make that choice because you can just marinate in
4:10negativity in the news cycle almost every day.
4:13Yes. And even if I go back to my press secretary days, you know, every
4:17single day when you work at the White House, I would have a to -do
4:20list and I'd have all the things that I wanted to do that were proactive
4:24that day to say, isn't this great?
4:26Isn't this wonderful? And I used to get to the office at 630.
4:30And by about 720, my plan was out the window because other things were happening.
4:35So there's that. But if you think about the five, at the very end of
4:39our show, we have a segment called One More Thing.
4:41It's short, usually about two or three minutes.
4:44It's amongst, I believe that's the highest rated part of the show.
4:48Like we build through the hour, but that part really has a spike up.
4:52And I think it's because people want just a quick laugh before they go into
4:57the next news hour with Brett Baer.
4:59So we have funny animal videos.
5:01You'll see something crazy or like, I loved it when Judge Jeanine had stupid criminals
5:07and we'd have these short little things.
5:09So we added that also to America's newsroom at the end.
5:12It's called Before We Go.
5:13Let us show you something that's a little bit lighter.
5:16And many shows do that.
5:17And I think that it's good to have a little bit of a mix.
5:20And now people get most of their news online.
5:24And. on social media and it depends on your algorithm what you're seeing right like
5:29i get news but i also get a heck of a lot of dog content
5:33i bet you get a ton of sports content i don't get any sports content
5:37yeah sports for me is is where i go to escape the serious things in
5:43life and speaking of good news i would have to classify this as good news
5:46uh president trump just sent the message very good news uh i've just been informed
5:51the eight women protesters who were going to be executed tonight in iran will no
5:56longer be killed four will be released immediately and four will be sentenced to one
6:01month in prison i very much appreciate that iran and its leaders respected my request
6:06as president of the united states and terminated the planned execution thank you for your
6:10attention to this matter uh president trump that came out eight minutes ago uh and
6:16the trump team actually just texted me to make sure that we knew on the
6:19program so there you go there's some good news you mentioned it is good news
6:22and um he he he does keep the human condition in mind as he deals
6:31with all the other things that he has to deal with the fact that even
6:34if you go back a month or two ago before this even started they were
6:37about to hang a young man just because he had protested and he said i
6:42think it was a wrestler he said don't do that and they didn't do that
6:45unfortunately what they did do is they killed 30 to 40 000 people is the
6:49estimate right after that so yes maybe this is a little bit of progress and
6:53i would certainly consider that a bit of good news especially for the four who
6:56are getting released how do you contemplate now because you used to be white house
7:00press secretary the world in which you operated at that time i imagine you could
7:05call people that made the so -called news back in the day and you could
7:09talk to them and you could make the argument about why a story should or
7:12should not be covered in a certain way now as you reference social media occur
7:17so rapidly it's almost impossible to even track back where stories started and so we're
7:23all reacting to them after they're already out into the public as opposed to before
7:28um i think that's a transformative difference in the way the news has evolved how
7:33has that changed what you do and how much more challenging do you think it
7:37makes it instead of this top -down world everything bottoms up and comes from the
7:42bottom up and you can think about it whether it's nick shirley you know the
7:45the investigation that he did in minneapolis um you know that's a perfect example of
7:51a story that originates online and then percolates its way up to impact everything which
7:56is i would imagine very different from the way the media environment worked when you
8:00were in the white house yeah so in the white house when i was there
8:04we twitter and facebook were sort of becoming a thing towards the end of 2008
8:09um and then it took off so as a press secretary i never really had
8:12to deal with it but i came to fox not long after that and i've
8:16been here for the transition for where what was happening on cable news and other
8:21tv was driving what was happening on social media and around i would say 2013
8:28really i think about isis when uh those lunatic radicals were executing people in the
8:36middle east it was almost as if the social media at that point all started
8:40to drive the news and you can look at almost anything nick shirley is a
8:45is a great example nobody said that the new york times the wall street journal
8:49the washington post couldn't have gone and done what he was doing but now it
8:54has flipped and that's not necessarily a bad thing at all but do you remember
8:59clay when you hosted fox and friends weekend and there's a you have a rundown
9:04and there will be a soundbite that you could call for like you might say
9:10well that's an interesting point let's listen to president trump because he said something similar
9:14yesterday and then they play the soundbite for you well this morning i had to
9:19tell our producers like i need time stamps not just the date i need the
9:27actual time with which this president trump soundbite or truth social was posted because it's
9:34changing so quickly yeah that if that if he said that at three o 'clock
9:38yesterday but that's been superseded by something that was said at 8 p .m but
9:42actually maybe even now at 9 0 3 a .m so yes it's completely different
9:47now during the biden administration you could go hours days without even needing to check
9:53for news yes no now i can't take a nap i can't take a nap
9:59you can't take a nap you're gonna miss like five news cycles if you take
10:03a nap we're talking to dana perino fox news all right tell me about this
10:07book and by the way this is exactly right dana when we sit down to
10:10start this show buck and i have an idea and buck's on his way to
10:14new york so he wanted me to tell you hi when we sit down to
10:17start this show we have a rough idea of what we're going to talk about
10:20one minute before we start the show the president might send out a message and
10:25it completely alters the entire trajectory of anything that we were going to talk about
10:29on the program even now while i'm talking to you some people watching on video
10:33notice i'm on my phone the whole show going through making sure that there's not
10:37some news story i've got a quad box but to your point i've got msnbc
10:42cnn fox news and fox business up right now in studio but the news breaks
10:47on social media five to ten minutes oftentimes before it actually is on television so
10:51i want to make sure everybody he's informed now you have written a new book
10:54it's called purple straight uh purple state it is a romantic comedy uh we sell
10:59a lot of books on this program a couple of things for you here uh
11:03how did you find the time because you're on television uh a lot of hours
11:07every day how did you find the time to write this story what motivated you
11:11to write it and what would you hope that people will take from it if
11:15they are out there in the marketplace as we come into summer and want a
11:18romantic comedy beach style read which i imagine this is designed for that time frame
11:24thank you so much for letting me talk about it on your show um you
11:27know i as i say clay real men read rom -coms but um if you're
11:32not reading them you're watching them with your wife and you're secretly enjoying them um
11:35i think that it's also a little more than a romantic comedy it's um kind
11:42of a current literary fiction how did i find the time i actually had to
11:46make the time i had to be very disciplined and i only wrote between 11
11:51and 4 11 a .m and 4 p .m on saturday and sunday oh wow
11:56so i would get up early walk the dog with my husband do a little
12:00exercise read the wall street journal have breakfast make a big thing of green tea
12:04and then say i'll see you in a few hours and i went upstairs my
12:07husband was so supportive and i would just take notes or thoughts through the week
12:11and then i would just start to write this story i had this idea because
12:15i am concerned i know you talk about it all the time too i think
12:18americans believe that we're more polarized than we actually are i think once you get
12:24off your phones and you meet people where they are there is more commonality more
12:28neighborliness more american patriotism that supersedes ideology i know that's a little bit night i'm
12:37not naive i know that there is polarization but in this story i take three
12:41young women who live in new york and they're always going to live in new
12:44york and they love new york but they're going through their quarter life crisis which
12:47is 25 26 27 years old and any of your listeners who are that age
12:53or have daughters or granddaughters that age they know what i'm talking about it's when
12:57your plan starts to fall apart you're not achieving the goals that you thought you
13:01would you're not even sure you went into the right profession and it just feels
13:04stuck these girls take an opportunity and they follow doc clark the main one main
13:09character to wisconsin the ultimate purple state they're going to work on the election to
13:13try to turn it blue for the democrats and then they find this community of
13:18cedar falls wisconsin is quite lovely and sweet and fun and easier and they meet
13:24these three guys who happen to be republicans but the politics takes a back seat
13:29and romance ensues that is very well said so i saw you on the five
13:35say that you had a quarter life crisis you've obviously had a tremendous amount of
13:38success i had a quarter life crisis when i was practicing law as a 25
13:43year old you know you do everything right and then you sit there and you
13:47look around and you say boy this job is not what i thought it was
13:50going to be i don't know that i want to be in this place we
13:54get calls all the time dana and i don't know i'm just gonna be honest
13:58i don't know that there's ever been a time when women have said you know
14:02what there's too many good men out there right like i think in 1860 women
14:07were like hey men stink in 1960 you know i think that women in general
14:12have tended to not be that happy with the men that surround them but you
14:16told the story that you were not finding a guy that you were super bothered
14:20by it and that something happened to you i i saw you talk about it
14:25on the five we talk about this quite a bit on the program what would
14:28you say to young single women or the parents uh or uh or whatnot of
14:33young single women that are struggling to find a guy they want to have a
14:36family but they can't quite make it happen you were in that position i was
14:41i was in washington dc a terrible place to date i mean am i right
14:45ladies in dc it's tough and i think the guys agree but in dc i
14:50hadn't dated anyone in like two years my year my 23rd year 24 i'm about
14:54to turn 25 and i was like what is going i don't know i don't
14:57see any of my goals being met at the time frame that i had laid
15:00out and i went to my singles group at my church on a wednesday night
15:04and this woman said she's a little older than us she took me aside and
15:08she said you know what god says all throughout the bible he says fear not
15:13he says your name is written on the palm of his hand so everything will
15:18be okay you're an educated american woman everything's going to be fine just relax so
15:24i tried and then i ended up having a pretty good summer and then i
15:28got on this plane in 1997 august 17th 97 and i sat next to a
15:34guy british guy older than me a hundred reasons why we shouldn't have ever been
15:38seating together or for me to fall in love with him on that plane but
15:42i did and we'll have been together 29 years this year the ultimate lesson for
15:46me in this book is for young people to read it or not maybe not
15:50even young people but for people to read it and to have that sense that
15:55i had which is choosing to be loved is not a career limiting decision it
16:01can make all the difference the book is purple state dana perino encourage you all
16:07to go buy it she's fantastic many of you watch her many hours of every
16:11single day i can vouch she's the real deal i think you guys will like
16:15it dana we appreciate the time claire come see us sometime soon okay I will.
16:21I'll be in studio before you know it.
16:22I need to know about the draft.
16:23The draft is going on.
16:25Dana, read sports. You need to do a little bit of research.
16:29Thursday night, it will be definitely on your program Friday.
16:34You need to be plugged in.
16:36Here, I'll give you a tip, Dana.
16:38I'll give you a tip.
16:39Don't tell Bill that I gave it to you.
16:43That Fernando Mendoza, your mind's going to be blown.
16:47Write this down. He has a great center.
16:50That is the guy who snaps him the ball.
16:52The Raiders signed an all -time center, the highest -paid center of all time, who
16:57calls the blocking patterns and everything else.
17:00You should tell Bill that you think the combination of this great new center the
17:04Raiders have with a great new quarterback is going to lead them to good outcome.
17:09He'll be blown away that you know that they signed the top center free agent
17:13to help with Fernando Mendoza.
17:15I did do a little research with my new friend, Mason Rudolph.
17:18Yes, I introduced you to Mason.
17:19I have his text. Yes.
17:22Yeah. I'm going to keep it to myself so I can use it.
17:26Yes. Save it. Make it happen.
17:28Dana, we appreciate the time.
17:29Go buy Purple State. Play.
17:32And hide a buck. There you go.
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18:03friends. Clay and Buck. Owning the airwaves.
18:06Welcome back in. Clay, Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
18:09My thanks to Dana Perino.
18:11A lot of you with talkbacks.
18:12We will get to many of those.
18:14But up next, I know many of you are frustrated by what you've seen when
18:19it comes to Democrat redistricting.
18:2110 to 1 advantage now in Virginia instead of 6 to 5.
18:26We told you this was going to happen.
18:28That Democrats were going to be insanely committed to this.
18:32A state that was not.
18:34Indiana. What should happen? Remember, Indiana chose not to redistrict because they said they didn't
18:40want to violate norms, even though Trump won Indiana by 20 points.
18:45Kamala only won Virginia by 5.
18:47Democrats way more committed than Republicans.
18:50Senator Jim Banks from Indiana will join us next to react.
18:55Welcome back in. Clay, Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
18:58Buck on his way to New York City for a book event.
19:01Joined now by Indiana Senator Jim Banks.
19:05We were talking about your state, Senator.
19:08Appreciate you coming on. In relationship to the Virginia decision, Purple State, Virginia, going from
19:166 to 5 in favor of Democrats to 10 to 1.
19:20Meanwhile, the state of Indiana, which you represent now, this is in the state legislature,
19:25not your decision, but basically said that they didn't want to violate norms by redistricting
19:32in Indiana. A lot of people connecting what the Democrat Party was willing to do
19:37in a purple state, Virginia, with what the Republican Party was not willing to do
19:41in a deep red state that President Trump won by about 20 points.
19:45Indiana. Do you see the connection there?
19:47If so, what was your reaction as you saw these results come in?
19:52Well, I'm still disappointed about the weakness of the Indiana State Senate.
19:57The Indiana State House did pass redistricting.
20:00The Speaker of the House, Todd Houston, led that through the House.
20:04But in the Senate, you had 21 Republican state senators join the Democrats to literally
20:11thumb their nose at President Trump and and really the Republicans all over the country
20:16who are begging Republicans to fight back against radical Democrats and all of the games
20:22that Democrats play. And in this case, you had a group of very weak Republicans.
20:27For some reason, we have this still have this bastion of anti -Trump Republicanism in
20:34the state of Indiana. And I'm trying to lead the way to fix that.
20:37In fact, we're spending millions of dollars to oust some of these anti -Trump Republican
20:43state senators in the in the midterm election, which is just two weeks from it
20:48isn't two weeks, less than two weeks in May.
20:52And I think we're going to I think we're going to be all of these
20:54anti -Trump Republicans state senators who are running again and replace them with strong conservative
21:01pro -Trump Republicans. I spent a lot of time thinking about the Republican Party and
21:05where do we go from here?
21:06Donald Trump's not going to be on the ballot again.
21:09But how do we keep the Trump voters in our party?
21:12Voters like my dad, retired union factory workers, blue collar voters that used to vote
21:18a Democrat who are now Trump Republicans.
21:21We got to keep them in our party.
21:23And we still have in Indiana yet a Mitch Daniels led effort to oppose redistricting.
21:29And this has a lot to do with with their distaste and dislike of Donald
21:34Trump. And in this case, I think they I think they really let us down.
21:37They screwed they screwed the country and let the Democrats get away with the games
21:41that they're playing. Florida still has the opportunity to act.
21:45I know you're in the Senate different state than the.
21:47If you're in the Senate 20thiers, then it's no big problems.
21:47I don't know. you represent but in general uh i've said i think florida needs
21:52to act do republicans need to get tougher for sure and donald trump has shown
21:57us for the last 10 years how to how to be tougher how to fight
22:01back and um i i i expect that uh governor de santis and republicans in
22:06florida will now virginia has motivated them to to do their part to make up
22:11for it and and you go all the way back to the beginning of this
22:14when when i traveled to back home to indiana with vice president vance to make
22:19this case to indiana legislators you look at what the democrats did to rig literally
22:24rig the 2020 census they used a shady uh formula and how they counted illegals
22:31and how they reshuffled the census data and that what the what the democrats did
22:36that even that even though the 2020 census happened when donald trump was in office
22:41the first uh the first time he left biden took office they took over the
22:47census and that effort and they used these shady privacy formulas to count illegals and
22:53reshuffle the deck and you you had now it's now been proven a fact i
22:57mean the the census has come out and said this is true that they undercounted
23:01in red states they overcounted in blue states florida for example you're talking about florida
23:08florida if the census wouldn't have used this shady formula and counted illegals around the
23:12country florida would have two more congressional seats today than what they do right now
23:18and and states like um and texas would have one more than what they have
23:22right now and states like blue states like minnesota rhode island and colorado they would
23:27all have one less congressional district in a blue state and you see how that
23:33you see how the democrats rigged the process back then this mid mid cycle redistricting
23:39there was a real case to make that we were uh drawing these maps in
23:43a more fair way using using uh the data the way that it's supposed to
23:48be used from the last census and unfortunately indiana uh the indiana state senate uh
23:54let us down but i think florida can can do a lot here to help
23:58make up for it um how optimistic are you about the scene in uh in
24:02the senate and i always want to before i get your take i always want
24:06to try to make sure that people understand what's going on here georgia new hampshire
24:11michigan we just talked yesterday to michelle to foyer minnesota are all democrat seats guys
24:17if we could take one of those four the chances of losing the senate become
24:21zero uh and then we've got states that we have to defend like maine north
24:26carolina where if we win one of those states probably the chances go to zero
24:31next door to you in ohio what do you see you're privy to a lot
24:35of details what should people know from your perspective uh as we get ready for
24:40the midterm battleground fight well we can't take anything for granted but the best thing
24:45that we have going for us is the the crazy democrats i mean look at
24:49michigan just just uh next door to us up up north from uh uh in
24:53indiana mike rogers is a strong candidate ran last cycle and almost pulled it off
24:58this cycle the democrats are going to literally nominate the craziest person they could find
25:03to put on the ballot on their side and that you see the contrast between
25:08a reasonable republican and a out of touch uh lunatic uh uh democrat so you
25:14you look around the country you gotta you have a guy with a nazi tattoo
25:18that's likely to win the primary in maine against susan collins and susan collins and
25:23i are very different politically uh but i i could there's no way i could
25:27get elected in maine there's no way she could get elected in indiana um and
25:31she's a you know she's a she's a fighter and and wins these elections it's
25:35the toughest election she's ever been in but she's running against a guy who has
25:39a nazi tattoo so i i have a feeling uh uh she's going to be
25:44end up uh winning that john housted in ohio my my freshman colleague um ohio
25:50is a state that has has trended our direction it's a tough race against uh
25:55a former senator but he's working really hard and bringing those blue collar trump voters
26:01home to vote for our side versus the other side when donald trump's not on
26:06the ballot we do uh we struggle when he's on the ballot we do better
26:10but we got to bring those trump voters our side to win these senate seats
26:15to keep the senate majority and go out and make the case that that's that's
26:18what matters what what matters is is uh putting our workers first our trade deals
26:24that everything president trump is fighting for and doing is good for those voters and
26:28and and make sure that they vote for us this time if we do that
26:31we'll we'll keep the senate majority i think you know we can you know the
26:35house is a toss -up it's really it's really hard especially with this redistricting stuff
26:39and the democrats doing what they did in in uh virginia and other states in
26:42california but um we have we have better candidates we have the issues on our
26:47side and uh if if we bring those trump voters home on election day we'll
26:52keep the majorities you invited me to come up to your one of your big
26:56events coming up i'm sorry i'm gonna miss it but obviously uh i'm a big
27:00fan of yours and um i have to ask you this what is it like
27:05living in a football state now indiana everybody used to you know dan dockage works
27:10with me at outkick former player bobby night used to be the ultimate basketball state
27:16now you guys are the defending national champions uh in football if i had told
27:22you just to be clear you you doubted us and um i'm never gonna i'm
27:27never gonna let you live that down but i i have a feeling uh signetti
27:31and the hoosiers are going to be just as tough next season we also have
27:35the you know i went i'm an iu alum and um one of the reasons
27:39i went there was to go to bobby knight uh coach basketball games assembly hall
27:44i mean those were those were the glory days and we've we've uh kind of
27:48sucked since then but we have the best transfer class in college basketball coming to
27:53bloomington uh next basketball season too so uh there's a lot lot lot going on
27:58in our state but but uh uh signetti's turned us into indiana university into a
28:04football school and i couldn't be prouder if i had told you five years ago
28:08indiana is going to be a national championship football team would you have thought that
28:13i was on some sort of illicit substance i i might have i mean when
28:17i was a student um we had we had antoine randall l as our quarterback
28:22and he was a lot of fun and and we had you know five five
28:26wins six win uh seasons with with antoine but uh not exactly uh not a
28:33school you go to to go to football games until now i mean it's just
28:36that the magic that signetti has brought the attitude that he's brought uh it's so
28:40much fun for who's your fans i mean we've got we've got the fighting irish
28:44up north as well they're they're going to be tough this season and um you
28:49know we in in college basketball we got the the boilermakers are always tough and
28:54it's a lot of fun to be in the hoosier state we just got to
28:57make sure that our republicans that represent our state are fighters that they're fighting for
29:03our values and the cause of this great country and as the new senator from
29:08our state i'm i'm focused in this primary election in less than two weeks in
29:12getting a better a better uh majority in the indiana state senate and uh fighters
29:18elected across the board to represent indiana um and president trump loves indiana he talks
29:25about indiana all the time and what what indiana means to him he wins our
29:28state by 20 points every time he's on the ballot because indiana loves president trump
29:32but in this redistricting fight back to that i mean we we i think we
29:37let the country down but we can make up for it and elect better people
29:41uh so we don't do it again good stuff uh senator we appreciate the time
29:45and uh again for everybody out there in indiana when is the primary date what
29:50would you encourage people to do well it's in two tuesdays so what is that
29:55it's um it's uh the the tuesday after next tuesday may the first the first
30:00may the fifth so may may may 5th um is election day remember indiana our
30:06polls close at six o 'clock eastern time that's why when there's a presidential election
30:11we're always the first on the board because we our polls close so early so
30:16tune in and and i think you'll see the results of a lot of pro
30:20-trump republicans beating anti -trump uh republican incumbents and it's going to tell a big
30:26i think it's going to tell a big story to the country that this is
30:29donald trump's republican party and we're bigger and stronger because of it and uh it's
30:33going to forecast i think where the party goes from here outstanding stuff senator jim
30:38banks we'll talk to you again soon appreciate the time have a good day we're
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33:07ahead and let's get to some of these talkbacks a lot of good talkbacks rolling
33:11in from you guys on a variety of different topics we'll open up phone lines
33:14by the way 800 -282 -2882 buck traveling i've got you for the final hour
33:19uh by myself we'll dive into iran and more uh but cindy in arizona said
33:26she was a trojan swam at usc back in the day uh she's talking about
33:30some of the conversation we had yesterday cut a went to usc as a swimmer
33:35back in the day and reggie bush happened to be playing for the football team
33:39go trojans but look what happened to him he got his heisman taken away because
33:44of this nil stuff and he wasn't even doing that it's crazy i don't i
33:49don't agree with it and it something needs to change because college football college sports
33:53in general it's just over um good question cat from our fight on for the
34:00for the trojan fans out there in uh in la but yes college sports is
34:04broken i told you this um i'm scheduled to testify for jim jordan's committee on
34:09capitol hill right now in june about trying to fix college athletics um i've been
34:15working with jim jordan and a lot of other people to try to fix this
34:19thing for a while in addition to everything else going on cat in my hometown
34:22of nashville 98 3 15 10 w lac is talking about buck and i having
34:29the discussion about the way phrases are used and can tell people where you're from
34:34one of them how do you wait when you're in line or online cut see
34:39clay that is the dumbest thing i've ever heard i'm waiting online that isn't a
34:46thing nobody would believe that it's waiting in line really i'm telling you it's waiting
34:52in line for most of the country but there are wor listeners right now who
34:57when they wait online they wait online they don't wait in line it's one of
35:01the crazy things i learned it when i went away to college um bill talking
35:05about dana perino says her faith keeps her positive cut f what do you got
35:10for us yes dana what heard how she stayed so positive and she pretty much
35:15said it was her faith that kept her positive i haven't really heard you i
35:20heard buck talk about being catholic and i really haven't heard you talk too much
35:24about your faith is that something that's important in your life is that what helps
35:30keep you so optimistic so i was raised southern baptist and we have been with
35:36our kids uh going to sunday church service for a while now um so i
35:42think that's part of it the other thing is i i think positivity is a
35:46choice and i think it's often rooted in gratitude um no matter what position you
35:52are in in life listening to us right now if you are fortunate enough to
35:56be a united states citizen today we are more fortunate than 99 .9 percent of
36:04people that have lived in the history of the world we have more wealth more
36:09prosperity more safety uh more health uh than has ever existed for the vast majority
36:15of humans in the history of the world and so the perspective i think is
36:21really very key uh warren buffett summed it up this way if every human there
36:25are eight billion of us was a pebble in a vase and you had to
36:30choose would you trade your pebble that is your life right now with one you
36:34would randomly draw out of that vase no american should make that trade because we
36:41live much better than anybody else in the world